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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Ohio / USJoseph Warren KEIFER
(1836-1932)
KEIFER, Joseph Warren, a
Representative from Ohio; born near Springfield, Bethel Township,
Clark County, Ohio, January 30, 1836; attended the common schools
and Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and began practice in Springfield, Ohio,
January 12, 1858; enlisted in the Union Army on April 19, 1861;
commissioned major in the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 27,
1861; lieutenant colonel February 12, 1862; colonel of the One
Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry September 30, 1862;
brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers October 19, 1864;
promoted to major general April 9, 1865; mustered out June 27,
1865; resumed the practice of law in July 1865; member of the State
senate in 1868 and 1869; commander of the Ohio Department of the
Grand Army of the Republic in 1871 and 1872; trustee of Antioch
College; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1885); Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Forty-seventh Congress); chairman,
Committee on Rules (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1884; was a major general of Volunteers in the
Spanish-American War from June 9, 1898, to May 12, 1899; first
commander in chief of the Spanish War Veterans in 1900 and 1901;
elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses
(March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed his law
practice; president of the Lagonda National Bank of Springfield,
Ohio, for more than fifty years; died in Springfield, Ohio, April
22, 1932; interment in Ferncliff Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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