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  Lovejoy, Owen
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NameOwen Lovejoy
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Princeton, Illinois , United States
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Born January 06, 1811
DiedMarch 25, 1864 (53 years)
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Info(cousin of Nathan Allen Farwell), a Representative from Illinois; born in Albion, Maine, on January 6, 1811; attended the common schools and was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1832; studied law but never practiced; studied theology; moved to Alton, Madison County, Ill., in 1836; ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Princeton, Ill., 1839-1856; member of the State house of representatives in 1854; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, until his death in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 25, 1864; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-seventh Congress), Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-eighth Congress); interment in Oakland Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.


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  11/04/1862 IL District 05 Won 50.07% (+2.80%)
  11/06/1860 IL District 03 Won 60.01% (+21.81%)
  11/02/1858 IL District 03 Won 57.76% (+18.96%)
  11/04/1856 IL District 03 Won 59.45% (+18.90%)
  08/07/1848 IL District 04 Lost 13.55% (-37.30%)
  08/03/1846 IL Governor Lost 0.00% (-58.16%)
  08/03/1846 IL District 6 Lost 0.01% (-48.41%)
  08/03/1846 IL District 4 Lost 16.25% (-39.10%)
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