John L. Kennedy
John Lauderdale Kennedy (October 27, 1854 – August 30, 1946) was an American Republican Party politician.Born in Ayrshire, Scotland on October 27, 1854, he immigrated in 1874 to the United States and settled and farmed in LaSalle County, Illinois.He passed the bar and briefly set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska being elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth United States Congress.He ran unsuccessfully for election to the United States Senate from Nebraska in 1916.He retired in January 1933 and moved to Pacific Palisades, California, where he died August 30, 1946.