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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Hugh Reid Belknap |
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Chicago, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 01, 1860
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| Died | November 12, 1901
(41 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
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| Info | Born at Keokuk, Iowa,on September 1, 1860, the son of William Worth Belknap, he served as a Member of Congress from Illinois and was serving in the Philippine Insurrection when he died at Calamba, Philippines, on November 12, 1901.
He was buried in his father's gravesite in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery.
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Courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives:
BELKNAP, Hugh Reid, a Representative from Illinois; born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, September 1, 1860; attended the public schools, Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; at the age of eighteen entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. and worked in various capacities until he retired in 1892 to become superintendent of the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad of Chicago; successfully contested as a Republican the election of Lawrence E. McGann to the Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from December 27, 1895, to March 3, 1899; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resided in Chicago, Ill., until 1901; appointed a paymaster in the United States Army with the rank of major and served from February 2, 1901, until his death in Calamba, Laguna, P.I., November 12, 1901; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
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