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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaMahlon Dickerson MANSON
(1820-1895)
MANSON, Mahlon Dickerson,
a Representative from Indiana; born in Piqua, Ohio, February 20,
1820; attended the common schools; moved to Montgomery County,
Ind., and taught school for a year; studied medicine at the Ohio
Medical College at Cincinnati; served as captain of Volunteers in
the Mexican War October 8, 1847-July 28, 1848; member of the State
house of representatives 1851 and 1852; engaged in the retail drug
business at Crawfordsville; commissioned captain of the Tenth
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, April 17, 1861, and promoted
through the ranks to brigadier general of Volunteers March 24,
1862; resigned December 21, 1864; unsuccessful Democratic candidate
for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1864; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third
Congress; elected auditor of Indiana in 1878; elected Lieutenant
Governor in 1884; appointed collector of internal revenue of the
seventh district of Indiana August 11, 1886, and resigned November
5, 1889; died in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Ind., on
February 4, 1895; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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