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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJames Henry McLEAN
(1829-1886)
McLEAN, James Henry, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August
13, 1829; reared in Nova Scotia, Canada; immigrated to the United
States in 1842 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; employed as a
clerk in a drug store; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1849, and in the
following year to New Orleans, La., to take charge of financial
operations of the Lopez expedition to Cuba; returned to St. Louis
in 1851; studied medicine and surgery; was graduated from the St.
Louis (Mo.) Medical College in 1863 and practiced in St. Louis;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Allen and served from
December 15, 1882, to March 3, 1883; died in Dansville, Livingston
County, N.Y., August 12, 1886; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery,
St. Louis, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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