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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeAugustus Herman PETTIBONE
(1835-1918)
PETTIBONE, Augustus
Herman, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Bedford,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January 21, 1835; was graduated from Hiram
College, Ohio, and from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in
1859; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced
practice in La Crosse, Wis.; enlisted in the Union Army as a
private in 1861; promoted to second lieutenant, captain, and major
in the Twentieth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; continued
the practice of law in Greeneville in 1865; alderman of Greeneville
1866-1868; attorney general for the first judicial circuit of
Tennessee in 1869 and 1870; appointed assistant United States
district attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee December
27, 1871, and served until 1880; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1880; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March
4, 1881-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in
1886; resumed the practice of law; member of the State house of
representatives 1897-1899; appointed special agent of the General
Land Office and served from July 17, 1899, to January 31, 1905,
when he resigned; died in Nashville, Tenn., November 26, 1918;
interment in Nashville National Cemetery, Madison, Davidson County,
Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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