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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioThomas Edmund SCROGGY
(1843-1915)
SCROGGY, Thomas Edmund, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Harveysburg, Warren County, Ohio,
March 18, 1843; attended the public schools; engaged in
manufacturing; enlisted in July 1861 as a private in Company H,
Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that
capacity and as corporal; honorably discharged and mustered out at
Camp Dennison in March 1865; in June 1865 engaged in the retail
business in Xenia, Ohio; was elected justice of the peace in 1869
and served one term; studied law; was admitted to the bar September
8, 1871, and commenced practice in Xenia, Ohio; served three terms
as clerk and three terms as solicitor of the city of Xenia; common
pleas judge in 1898, and again elected for a term of five years
beginning February 1904 from which he resigned upon his election to
Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress
(March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1906; resumed the practice of his profession; moved to Tulsa,
Okla., in 1912, where he died March 6, 1915; interment in Woodlawn
Cemetery, Xenia, Ohio.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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