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SLOAN, Ithamar Conkey (1822-1898)

Republican of Wisconsin

2nd congressional district

Served in House 1863-1867

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Biography

A Representative from Wisconsin; born in Morrisville, Madison County, N.Y., May 9, 1822; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Oneida County, N.Y. in 1848 and commenced practice; moved to Janesville, Wis., in 1854 and resumed the practice of his profession; district attorney of Rock County, Wis., 1858-1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); moved to Madison, Wis., in 1875; dean of the law department of the University of Wisconsin; special counsel for the State of Wisconsin 1874-1879 in the Granger law cases; died in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., December 24, 1898; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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