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 – 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
1928 Republican National Convention
1928 Republican National Convention
J. Roland Kinzer