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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJoseph Washington McCLURG
(1818-1900)
McCLURG, Joseph
Washington, a Representative from Missouri; born near
Lebanon, St. Louis County, Mo., February 22, 1818; attended Xenia
(Ohio) Academy and Oxford (Ohio) College; taught school in
Louisiana and Mississippi in 1835 and 1836; moved to Texas in 1839;
studied law and was admitted to practice at Columbus, Tex.; clerk
of the circuit court in 1840; returned to Missouri in 1841 and
engaged in mercantile pursuits; served during the Civil War as
colonel of Cavalry in the Union Army; member of the State
convention 1861-1863; elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; reelected as a Republican to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1865,
until his resignation in 1868, having been elected Governor;
elected as a Republican Governor of Missouri and served from
January 31, 1869, to January 31, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection; resumed mercantile pursuits at Linn Creek, Mo., and
also engaged in steamboating and lead mining; register of the land
office at Springfield, Mo., in 1889; died in London, Mo., on
December 2, 1900; interment in Lebanon Cemetery.
Bibliography
Morrow, Lynn. “Joseph Washington McClurg: Entrepreneur,
Politician, Citizen.” Missouri Historical Review 78
(January 1984): 168-201.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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