biography
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Hepburn, William (Peters)
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| lived:
| (1833–1916)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Wellsville, Ohio, USA. A lawyer in Marshalltown, IA (1855–61) and Republican party activist, he joined the Union Army in 1861, becoming a lieutenant-colonel. After the war, he returned to his law practice in Iowa and was elected to Congress (1881–7) where he championed military pensions. Re-elected (1893–1909) he set a rate law for the railroads, and co-sponsored the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. |
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