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Keywords: John T. Deweese - Brady-Handy.jpg Deweese Hon John T of N C Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 04200 CALL NUMBER LC-BH832- 273 <P P>P P between 1865 1880 Creator Mathew Brady Creator Levin Corot Handy PD LOC-image cwpbh 04200 Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Van Buren June 4 1835; educated at home; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Henderson; resident of Denver for some years; moved to Pike County in 1860; entered the Union Army July 6 1861 as second lieutenant of Company E Twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served with that command until February 15 1862 when he resigned; mustered in as captain of Company F Fourth Indiana Cavalry August 8 1862; successively promoted to rank of colonel; moved to North Carolina; upon the reorganization of the Army was appointed second lieutenant Eighth United States Infantry July 24 1866; resigned August 14 1867 having been elected to Congress; appointed register in bankruptcy for North Carolina in 1868; upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6 1868 to February 28 1870 when he resigned pending the investigation of certain appointments to the United States Military and Naval Academies; chairman Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior Forty-first Congress Committee on Revolutionary Pensions Forty-first Congress ; censured by the House of Representatives on March 1 1870 for selling an appointment to the Naval Academy; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; resumed the practice of law; died in Washington July 4 1906; interment in Arlington National Cemetery This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-Brady-Handy Photographs by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy Deweese John T Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Deweese John T
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