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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaSimon Barclay CONOVER
(1840-1908)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1879Party: RepublicanCONOVER, Simon Barclay, a
Senator from Florida; born in Middlesex County, N.J., September 23,
1840; attended an academy in Trenton, N.J.; studied medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; graduated from the
medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., in 1864;
during the Civil War served in the medical department of the Union
Army; appointed acting assistant surgeon in 1866, assigned to Lake
City, Fla; resigned from the medical department of the Army upon
readmission of the State of Florida into the Union; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1868; was appointed State
treasurer in 1868, serving one term; a member of the Republican
National Committee 1868-1872; member, State house of
representatives 1873, and served as speaker; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4,
1873, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection;
chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses); resumed the practice of his profession; unsuccessful
Republican candidate for Governor in 1880; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1885; appointed United States surgeon
at Port Townsend, Wash., in 1889; became president of the board of
regents of the Agricultural College and School of Sciences of the
State of Washington in 1891; practiced medicine in Port Townsend,
Wash., until his death, April 19, 1908; interment in the Masonic
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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