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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Jonathan T. Updegraff |
| Address | Jefferson County
Mount Pleasant, Ohio , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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May 13, 1822
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| Died | November 30, 1882
(60 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 27, 2014 08:48pm |
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| Info | UPDEGRAFF, Jonathan Taylor, a Representative from Ohio; born near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, May 13, 1822; brother of infamous Quaker David B. Updegraff of Mount Pleasant. Attended private schools and Franklin College; studied medicine; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1845 and later from medical schools in Edinburgh and Paris; practiced his profession, but devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits; served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War.
OH Senate (R-Jefferson) 1872-1873.
Delegate to the Republican State convention in 1873 and to the Republican National Convention in 1876.
U.S. Representative (R-OH) 1879-1882; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress); had been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress; interment in Updegraff Family Cemetery, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio; reinterment in Short Creek Friends Burial Ground, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926.
Updegraff was a member of a Quaker splinter group called the "Gurneyites," which still exists in Mount Pleasant.
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