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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn COBURN
(1825-1908)
COBURN, John, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Ind., October
27, 1825; attended the public schools and was graduated from Wabash
College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1846; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Indianapolis; member
of the State house of representatives in 1850; judge of the court
of common pleas from 1859 to 1861, when he resigned to enter the
Union Army; became colonel of the Thirty-third Regiment, Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, September 16, 1861, and was mustered out
September 20, 1864; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March
13, 1865; appointed as the first secretary of the Territory of
Montana in March 1865 but resigned at once; elected judge of the
fifth judicial circuit of Indiana in October 1865 and resigned in
July 1866; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman,
Committee on Public Expenditures (Forty-first Congress), Committee
on Military Affairs (Forty-second and Forty-Third Congresses); was
an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the
Forty-fourth Congress; was appointed a justice of the supreme court
of the Territory of Montana on February 19, 1884, and served until
December 1885; returned to Indianapolis, and resumed the practice
of law; died in Indianapolis, Ind., on January 28, 1908; interment
in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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