Elva R. Kendall
Elva Roscoe Kendall was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born near Carlisle, Kentucky, Kendall attended the public schools, YMCA School of Accountancy at New York City, and National University at Washington, D.C. He engaged as a public accountant and tax consultant, and was also interested in agricultural pursuits.
During the First World War, Kendall served in the personnel office of the Sixty-first Division.
He was employed as a field auditor for the United States Treasury Department 1922-1927.
Kendall was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress. He then resumed agricultural pursuits and his profession as a public accountant, as well as engaging in the real estate business. He was a resident of Carlisle, Kentucky, until his death on January 29, 1968.
