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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Henry WADE
(1835-1911)
WADE, William Henry, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Springfield, Clark County,
Ohio, November 3, 1835; attended the common schools, Grove Academy,
and Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army April 17,
1861, and was mustered out April 26, 1866; moved to Missouri in May
1866 and resumed agricultural pursuits; member of the State house
of representatives 1881-1884; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4,
1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Labor (Fifty-first
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the
Fifty-second Congress; again engaged in agricultural pursuits; died
in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., January 13, 1911; interment in
Maple Park Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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