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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn Taylor BIRD
(1829-1911)
BIRD, John Taylor, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Bloomsbury, Hunterdon
County, N.J., August 16, 1829; attended the public schools, and a
classical academy at Hackettstown, N.J.; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Bloomsbury, N.J.;
moved to Clinton in 1858; prosecutor of the pleas for Hunterdon
County 1862-1867; moved to Flemington in 1865; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4,
1869-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872;
resumed the practice of law in Flemington, N.J.; member of the New
Jersey constitutional convention in 1876; moved to Trenton, N.J.,
in 1882; vice chancellor of New Jersey 1882-1896; master in
chancery 1900-1909; died in Trenton, N.J., May 6, 1911; interment
in Riverview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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