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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriRobert Washington FYAN
(1835-1896)
FYAN, Robert Washington, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Bedford Springs, Bedford
County, Pa., March 11, 1835; attended the common schools; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in
Marshfield, Webster County, Mo.; county attorney in 1859; entered
the Union Army in June 1861, serving with Colonel Hampton’s
regiment, Webster County Home Guards, the Twenty-fourth Regiment,
Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and the Forty-sixth Regiment, Missouri
Volunteer Infantry; circuit attorney in 1865 and 1866; circuit
judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri from April
1866 to January 1883; member of the State constitutional convention
in 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March
4, 1883-March 3, 1885); elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); resumed the practice of
law; died in Marshfield, Mo., July 28, 1896; interment in Lebanon
Cemetery, Lebanon, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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