J. Roland Kinzer | |
Image Name: | JRolandKinzer.jpg |
State: | Pennsylvania |
District: | 9th |
Term Start: | January 3, 1945 |
Term End: | January 3, 1947 |
Preceded: | Charles L. Gerlach |
Succeeded: | Paul B. Dague |
State2: | Pennsylvania |
District2: | 10th |
Term Start2: | January 28, 1930 |
Term End2: | January 3, 1945 |
Preceded2: | William Walton Griest |
Succeeded2: | John W. Murphy |
Birth Date: | 28 March 1874 |
Birth Place: | Terre Hill, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Franklin & Marshall College |
John Roland Kinzer (March 28, 1874 – July 25, 1955) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
J. Roland Kinzer was born on a farm near Terre Hill, Pennsylvania in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1896. He served as county solicitor of Lancaster County from 1912 to 1923, and as a delegate to the 1928 Republican National Convention. He was elected as a Republican to the seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William W. Griest. He was reelected to the seventy-second Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946.