biography
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| lived:
| (1815–76)
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| biography:
| US senator and senator, born in Madison Co, New York, New York, USA. A gifted orator, he was appointed governor of the Nevada Territory (Republican, 1861–4), where he helped suppress the pro-slavery forces. He then served Nevada as one of its first two US senators (1864–73). |
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