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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | John Irving Rinaker |
Address | Carlinville, Illinois , United States |
Email | None |
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November 01, 1830
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Died | January 15, 1915
(84 years)
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Contributor | ev |
Last Modifed | ev Aug 08, 2021 07:14pm |
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Info | a Representative from Illinois; born in Baltimore, Md., November 1, 1830; moved with his parents to Springfield, Ill., in December 1836; attended the Illinois College for one term and was graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., in 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Carlinville, Ill.; raised and organized the One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1862; commissioned colonel September 4, 1862; commanded a brigade in the Sixteenth Corps of the Army of the Tennessee, and was brevetted brigadier general February 13, 1865; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1876 and 1884; chairman of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois 1885-1889; successfully contested as a Republican the election of Finis E. Downing to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from June 5, 1896, to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; returned to Carlinville, Ill., and resumed the practice of law; died in Eustis, Lake County, Fla., January 15, 1915; interment in the City Cemetery, Carlinville, Ill.
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