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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Taddeus HEARD
(1840-1927)
HEARD, John Taddeus, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Georgetown, Pettis County,
Mo., October 29, 1840; attended the public schools and was
graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1860;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862 and practiced several
years in Sedalia, Pettis County, Mo.; member of the State house of
representatives 1872-1875; served in the State senate 1880-1884;
employed in 1881 by the fund commissioners of the State to
prosecute and adjust all claims of the State against the General
Government; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895); chairman,
Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-third Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904;
engaged in banking; retired from active business in 1922; died
while on a visit to Los Angeles, Calif., January 27, 1927;
interment in Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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