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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioLucien Jerome FENTON
(1844-1922)
FENTON, Lucien Jerome, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Winchester, Ohio, May 7, 1844;
attended the public schools, Lebanon Normal School, and Ohio
University at Athens; enlisted as a private in Company I,
Ninety-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 11, 1862;
discharged because of wounds on May 29, 1865; taught school from
1865 to 1881; unsuccessful candidate for clerk of the courts of
Adams County in 1880; clerk in the United States Treasury
Department, Washington, D.C., 1881-1884; returned to Ohio and
organized the Winchester Bank in 1884; appointed a trustee of the
Ohio University at Athens by Governor McKinley in 1892; delegate to
the Republican National Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March
3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898; resumed
banking in Winchester, Ohio; president of the Winchester School
Board 1912-1922; president of the Adams County School Board
1918-1922; died in Winchester, Ohio, June 28, 1922; interment in
Winchester Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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