Jonas Kendall

Jonas Kendall was a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from Massachusetts, father of Joseph Gowing Kendall.
Born in Leominster in the Province of [Massachusetts Bay], Kendall pursued an academic course. He engaged in the manufacture of paper in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1796.
He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1800, 1801 from 1803 to 1807, and 1821, and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1808 to 1811. He served as a member of the school board in 1803, 1811, and 1814 and as a member of the executive council in 1822. He was a presidential elector on the Federalist ticket in 1816.
Kendall was elected as a Federalist to the 16th [United States Congress|Sixteenth] Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress. He resumed the manufacture of paper.
He died in Leominster, Massachusetts and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.