biography
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Cullom, Shelby M(oore)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1829–1914)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born in Kentucky, USA. A lawyer in Springfield, IL, he became a Republican (1858) and served Illinois in the US House of Representatives (1865–7), as governor (1877–83), and as US senator (1883–1913). He helped establish the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887. |
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