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as the second member of Nebraska's house congressional delegation. He did not present his credentials and was not seated as the house only recognized Nebraska as having one representative. When the recognized representative,
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He returned to Nebraska and became the director of Citizens’ State Bank of Peru. He was elected to the Nebraska State House of Representatives in 1889, and became the
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again as the second member of the delegation, but the House, on February 24, 1883, disallowed Nebraska’s claim to an additional Member and refused to seat him.
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in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C, First Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry. He served successively as captain, major, and lieutenant
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council in 1866, and its equivalent after Nebraska was accepted as a state, the first Nebraska State senate, from 1867 to 1869. He was appointed
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of internal revenue for the Nebraska district in 1869 until the offices of collector and assessor were merged into one.
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Republican Party members of the Nebraska House of Representatives
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska
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from 1891 to 1895 serving under three different Governors
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of that regiment and was mustered out June 15, 1866.
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
John Milton Thayer
James E. Boyd
Lorenzo Crounse
George de Rue Meiklejohn
Robert E. Moore
U.S. House of Representatives
Nebraska
at-large
Frank Welch
Edward K. Valentine
Libertyville, Iowa
Peru, Nebraska
Republican
American Civil War
Republican
U.S. state
Nebraska
Libertyville, Iowa
normal school
Peru, Nebraska
Union Army
colonel
Nebraska Territorial
assessor
Republican
Forty-fifth United States Congress
Frank Welch
Forty-sixth

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