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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaJohn CRADLEBAUGH
(1819-1872)
CRADLEBAUGH, John, a
Delegate from the Territory of Nevada; born in Circleville,
Pickaway County, Ohio, February 22, 1819; attended the common
schools, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and Oxford (Ohio)
University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840; appointed
United States associate justice for the district of Utah on June 4,
1858; moved to Carson City, Nev.; upon the formation of the
Territory of Nevada was elected a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh
Congress and served from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1863;
colonel of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served from April 27, 1862, until honorably
discharged October 20, 1863, on tender of resignation; wounded at
Vicksburg; returned to Nevada and settled in Eureka; engaged in the
mining business until his death in Eureka, Nev., February 22, 1872;
interment in Forest Cemetery, Circleville, Ohio.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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