James Sloan Kuykendall
James Sloan Kuykendall was an American farmer, lawyer, and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Kuykendall was twice elected as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County . Kuykendall also served three terms as the mayor of Romney and later fulfilled the position of city attorney.
Kuykendall was born in 1878 in Hampshire County, West Virginia, into one of the oldest families in the county, which was of Dutch descent. He was raised on his familys farm, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. Kuykendall was educated in Hampshire Countys rural public schools and subsequently completed his postsecondary education at HampdenSydney College and Washington and Lee University. In 1901, he graduated from the Cumberland School of Law, then completed a course in jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
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