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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyGeorge Bragg FIELDER
(1842-1906)
FIELDER, George Bragg, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Jersey City, N.J., July 24,
1842; attended private and public schools in his native town, and
was graduated from the Dickinson Lyceum in Jersey City and from
Selleck’s Academy, Norwalk, Conn.; engaged in banking, and,
in company with his father, built the New Jersey Southern and New
York, New Hampshire & Willimantic Railroads; enlisted as a
private in the Union Army in 1862 and served throughout the Civil
War, being promoted to sergeant major and lieutenant; elected
register of Hudson County in 1884, and reelected in 1889; elected
as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1895); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894; elected
county register for a third time in 1895; died in Windham, N.Y.,
August 14, 1906; interment in Bay View Cemetery, Jersey City,
N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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