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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJeremiah Wilbur DWIGHT
(1819-1885)
DWIGHT, Jeremiah Wilbur,
(father of John Wilbur Dwight), a Representative from New York;
born in Cincinnatus, Cortland County, N.Y., April 17, 1819; moved
with his parents in 1830 to Caroline, and in 1836 to Dryden,
Tompkins County, N.Y.; attended the district schools and the
Burhan’s School in Dryden; engaged in mercantile pursuits,
farming, real-estate business, and in the manufacture and sale of
lumber; chairman of the board of supervisors of the town of Dryden
in 1857 and 1858; member of the State assembly in 1860 and 1861;
appointed by Governor Morgan a member of the senatorial district
war committee in 1861; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884; director, member
of the executive committee, and vice president of the Southern
Central Railroad for many years; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1877-March 3, 1883); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1882; resumed former business activities; died in Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y., November 26, 1885; interment in Green Hills
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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