biography
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Gallinger, Jacob H(arold)
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| lived:
| (1837–1918)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. A printer's apprentice in Canada, he emigrated to study medicine in Ohio (1855), opening a practice in Keene, NH (1860). He served in the US House of Representatives (Republican, New Hampshire, 1885–9) and in the US Senate (1891–1918), where he supported high tariffs. |
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