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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaDaniel Webster WAUGH
(1842-1921)
WAUGH, Daniel Webster, a
Representative from Indiana; born near Bluffton, Wells County,
Ind., March 7, 1842; attended the country schools and the high
school in Bluffton; enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 in Company
A, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served
until honorably discharged in September 1864; taught school;
engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1866; settled in Tipton, Ind., in 1867 and practiced; judge
of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit 1884-1890; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4,
1891-March 3, 1895); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1894; resumed the practice of law; died in Tipton, Ind., March 14,
1921; interment in the mausoleum adjoining Green Lawn Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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