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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJames Noble TYNER
(1826-1904)
TYNER, James Noble, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Brookville, Franklin County,
Ind., January 17, 1826; pursued an academic course, and was
graduated from Brookville Academy in 1844; spent ten years in
business; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and
commenced practice in Peru, Ind.; secretary of the State senate
1857-1861; special agent of the Post Office Department 1861-1866;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect Daniel D.
Pratt; reelected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses and
served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; appointed Second
Assistant Postmaster General, serving from February 26, 1875, to
July 12, 1876, and as Postmaster General from July 12, 1876, to
March 3, 1877; appointed First Assistant Postmaster General, and
served from March 16, 1877, until his resignation on October 29,
1881; delegate to the International Postal Congress at Paris in
1878 and at Washington in 1897; Assistant Attorney General for the
Post Office Department from 1889 to 1893, and again from 1897 to
1903; died in Washington, D.C., December 5, 1904; interment in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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