biography
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Mondell, Frank (Wheeler)
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| lived:
| (1860–1939)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Orphaned at age seven, he was raised by a minister in rural Iowa before heading West, where he prospected for coal and discovered the Cambria coal mine in the late 1880s. In the US House of Representatives (Republican, Wyoming, 1895–7, 1899–1923) he advocated rapid expansion in the West, and opposed the conservation efforts of the Forest Service, thereby angering President Theodore Roosevelt. |
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