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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJames Overton BROADHEAD
(1819-1898)
BROADHEAD, James Overton,
a Representative from Missouri; born in Charlottesville, Va., May
29, 1819; attended the high school in Albemarle County and the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville; moved to Missouri in
1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced
practice in Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo.; delegate to the State
constitutional conventions in 1845, 1861, 1863, and 1875; member of
the State house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; served in the
State senate 1850-1853; moved to St. Louis in 1859 and continued
the practice of law; appointed United States attorney for the
eastern district of Missouri in 1861; commissioned by President
Lincoln as lieutenant colonel of Volunteers and appointed provost
marshal general of Missouri in 1863; delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions in 1868 and 1872; appointed by President Grant
as special United States attorney to assist in the prosecution of
the so-called “whisky ring” at St. Louis in 1876;
president of the American Bar Association in 1878; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3,
1885); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884; appointed a
special commissioner on French spoliation claims by President
Cleveland in 1885; Minister to Switzerland 1893-1897; died in St.
Louis, Mo., August 7, 1898; interment in Bellefontaine
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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