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  Evans, Lynden
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameLynden Evans
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Chicago, Illinois , United States
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Born June 28, 1858
DiedMay 06, 1926 (67 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Jul 30, 2015 02:04am
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InfoEVANS, Lynden, a Representative from Illinois; born in La Salle, La Salle County, Ill., June 28, 1858; attended the public schools and was graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1882; taught in the schools of La Salle and Evanston, Ill.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice at Chicago, Ill.; lecturer on corporation law in the John Marshall Law School in 1907 and 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill., until his death there on May 6, 1926; interment in Graceland Cemetery.


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