Background
Snyder, John Buell was born on July 30, 1879 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Photograph (detail), 1941, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Snyder, John Buell was born on July 30, 1879 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended summer sessions of Harvard University, and Columbia University in New York City.
He graduated from the Lock Haven Teachers College in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
He worked as principal of schools at Stoyestown, Rockwood, and Berlin in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, from 1901 to 1906, and of Perry Township Union High School from 1906 to 1912
He was the western Pennsylvania manager for an educational publisher from 1912 to 1932, and a member of the board of education of Perry Township, Pennsylvania[disambiguation needed], from 1922 to 1932. He was legislative representative for Pennsylvania school directors during sessions of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1921 to 1923, and a member of the National Commission of One Hundred for Study and Survey of Rural Schools in the United States from 1922 to 1924.
Member 73d to 79th Congresses (1933-1946), 23d Dist. Member National Commn. Member Board of Edn; member Postwar Mil.