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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaStrother Madison STOCKSLAGER
(1842-1930)
STOCKSLAGER, Strother
Madison, a Representative from Indiana; born in Mauckport,
Harrison County, Ind., May 7, 1842; attended the common schools,
Corydon High School, and Indiana University at Bloomington; taught
school; served in the Union Army during the Civil War as second
lieutenant and captain in the Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry,
which he had assisted to organize; was mustered out as captain and
returned to Mauckport; deputy county auditor of Harrison County
1866-1868; deputy county clerk of Harrison County 1868-1870;
appointed by President Andrew Johnson as assessor of internal
revenue in 1867, but was not confirmed by the United States Senate;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in Corydon, Ind., in 1871 and
practiced in Indiana and Kentucky; member of the State senate
1874-1878; editor of the Corydon Democrat 1879-1882; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4,
1881-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds (Forty-eighth Congress); was an unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Corydon; appointed assistant commissioner of the
General Land Office on October 1, 1885, and commissioner on March
27, 1888; resigned March 4, 1889, but remained in charge until June
20, 1889; continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; was an
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1894 to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1896; served as legal expert in the Department of
Labor in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
until his death there on June 1, 1930; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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