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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyVincent BOREING
(1839-1903)
BOREING, Vincent, a
Representative from Kentucky; born near Jonesboro, Washington
County, Tenn., November 24, 1839; moved with his father to Laurel
County, Ky., in 1847; attended Laurel Seminary, London, Ky., and
Tusculum College, Greenville, Tenn.; enlisted as a private in the
Union Army in Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer
Infantry, November 1, 1861; for meritorious conduct was
commissioned first lieutenant; county superintendent of public
schools 1868-1872; established the Mountain Echo at London, Ky., in
1875, the first Republican newspaper published in southeastern
Kentucky; county judge in 1886; president of the Cumberland Valley
Land Co. in 1887; president of the First National Bank of London in
1888; department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in
Kentucky in 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4,
1899, until his death in London, Laurel County, Ky., September 16,
1903; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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