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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Charles TARSNEY
(1845-1920)
TARSNEY, John Charles, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Medina, Lenawee County,
Mich., November 7, 1845; attended the common schools; during the
Civil War enlisted in the Fourth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer
Infantry, in August 1862; mustered out of the service in June 1865;
attended high school in Hudson, Mich.; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1869; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Hudson,
Mich.; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1872; city attorney of Kansas
City in 1874 and 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3,
1895); chairman, Committee on Labor (Fifty-second Congress);
presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth
Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to February 27, 1896, when
he was succeeded by Robert T. Van Horn, who contested his election;
appointed by President Cleveland associate justice of the supreme
court of Oklahoma Territory in 1896 and served until 1899; returned
to Kansas City, Mo., in 1899 and resumed the practice of law; died
in Kansas City, Mo., September 4, 1920; interment in Mount St.
Mary’s Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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