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== Early life ==
Keatley was born in [[Boalsburg, Pennsylvania]], to John Gregg and Emily Hubler Keatley. After attending schools in [[Bellefonte, Pennsylvania]], he read law there with [[Andrew Gregg Curtin]], a relative of Keatley's father who was elected governor in 1860.<ref name=conference>{{cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0000940320&view=1up&seq=235&skin=2021|title=Judges of the United States|work=Judicial Conference of the United States|year=1978|access-date=2021-12-16}}</ref> Keatley was admitted to the bar that year. Soon after, he became the editor of ''The Blair County Whig'', a pro-Lincoln newspaper.<ref name=ia>{{cite journal|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/AIO/attachments/781173_955407.pdf|title=John H. Keatley|journal=The Annals of Iowa|volume=7|number=3|year=1905|access-date=2021-12-16}}</ref>
He joined the [[125th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment]] as an administrator, and was an assistant adjutant general on the staff of [[Jacob C. Higgins]] during the [[Gettysburg campaign]]. After working for [[Ulysses S. Grant|General Grant]] in the waning days of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Keatley worked with the [[Freedmen's Bureau]] in southeastern Virginia and was a judge in a military court in [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]].<ref name=ia/>
Keatley was elected as the district attorney for [[Blair County, Pennsylvania]], twice following the war.<ref name=newera>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90713794/weekly-new-era/|title=John H. Keatley|work=Weekly New Era (Norton, Kansas)|date=1888-08-08|access-date=2021-12-17}}</ref> He moved to [[Cedar Falls, Iowa]], in 1867, then to [[Council Bluffs, Iowa|Council Bluffs]] the next year. There, he served as the editor of ''[[The Daily Nonpareil|The Nonpareil]]'' from 1868 until 1870.
== Political career ==
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Keatley moved to Minnesota, and was editor of the ''[[Saint Paul Dispatch]]'' in the mid-1890s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90717597/the-gazette/|title=Keatley|work=The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)|date=1897-03-31|access-date=2021-12-17}}</ref> He then entered the civil service in the treasury department for several years.<ref name=ia/>
He died in [[Washington, D.C.]], on June 18, 1905.<!--Other sources state 19th or 20th; 18th is backed up by DC death index--><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90678281/the-washington-post/|title=Died|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1905-06-20|access-date=2021-12-16}}</ref>
==Electoral history==
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