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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | John Thomas DeWeese |
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, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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June 04, 1835
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| Died | July 04, 1906
(71 years)
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| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | a Representative from North Carolina; born in Van Buren, Crawford County, Ark., June 4, 1835; educated at home; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Henderson, Ky.; resident of Denver, Colo., for some years; moved to Pike County, Ind., in 1860; entered the Union Army July 6, 1861, as second lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command until February 15, 1862, when he resigned; mustered in as captain of Company F, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, August 8, 1862; successively promoted to rank of colonel; moved to North Carolina; upon the reorganization of the Army was appointed second lieutenant, Eighth United States Infantry, July 24, 1866; resigned August 14, 1867.
U.S. House (NU-NC) [1866]
Register in bankruptcy for North Carolina in 1868
U.S. House (R-NC) 1868-1870, when he resigned, pending the investigation of certain appointments to the United States Military and Naval Academies; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Forty-first Congress); censured by the House of Representatives on March 1, 1870, for selling an appointment to the Naval Academy
Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876
Resumed the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C., July 4, 1906; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
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