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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VermontGROUT, William Wallace
(1836—1902)
GROUT, William Wallace, a Representative from Vermont; born in Compton, Province of Quebec, May 24, 1836; pursued an academic course and graduated from the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Law School in 1857; was admitted to the bar in December of the same year and practiced in Barton, Vt.; served as lieutenant colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry, in the Union Army during the Civil War; prosecuting attorney of Orleans County in 1865 and 1866; served in the State house of representatives 1868-1870 and in 1874; member of the State senate in 1876 and served as president pro tempore of that body; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1901); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-first Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Kirby, Vt., October 7, 1902; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Grout, William Wallace. Cuba. Remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Monday, April 11, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Indian appropriation bill
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Memoir of Gen’l William Wallace Grout and autobiography of Josiah Grout
. Newport, Vermont: The Bullock Press, 1919.
———. Oleomargarine
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1886.
———. War revenue. Remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House ... April 29, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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