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James MonroeMember of theU.S. House of office
March 4, 1871– March 3, 1873Preceded byMartin WelkerSucceeded byJohn BerryMember of theU.S. House of office
March 4, 1873– March 3, 1879Preceded byWilliam H. UpsonSucceeded byJonathan T. UpdegraffMember of theU.S. House of office
March 4, 1879– March 3, 1881Preceded byWilliam McKinleySucceeded byWilliam McKinleyPersonal detailsBornJuly 18, 1821
Plainfield, ConnecticutDiedJuly 7, 1899(aged77)
Oberlin, OhioPolitical partyRepublicanSpouse(s)

Elizabeth Maxwell
Julia Finney

Children4Alma materOberlin CollegeReligionCongregational

James Monroe(July 18, 1821 – July 6, 1898) was aU.S. RepresentativefromOhio.

Early life[edit]

Born inPlainfield, Connecticut, Monroe attended the common schools andPlainfield Academy. He was graduated fromOberlin Collegein 1846. He pursued a postgraduate course intheologyand was a professor at Oberlin College from 1849–1862.[1]

Career[edit]

He served as a member of the State house of representatives of Ohio in 1856–1859. He served in the State senate from 1860–1862, during which time he was chosen to serve as president pro tempore from 1861 and 1862.

In October 1862, he resigned his seat in the senate to accept the position of United States consul to Rio de Janeiro and served from 1863 to 1869. Following that, he served for several months in 1869 as Charge D\'Affaires ad interim to Brazil.[2]

Monroe was elected as aRepublicanto theForty-secondand to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1881). He served as chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-thirdCongress) and was not a candidate for renomination.

Later career[edit]

After his terms in the House of Representatives, he returned to Oberlin College as a professor from 1883–1896.

Personal life[edit]

He was married twice, first to Elizabeth Maxwell (1825-1862), and later to Julia Finney Julia (1837-1930). He had four children, including:

Mary Katherine Monroe (1851-1891)
Charles Edwin Monroe (1861-1947)

He died inOberlin, Ohio, July 6, 1898 and was interred in Westwood Cemetery.

Legacy[edit]

The house in which Monroe and his wife Julia lived when they returned to Oberlin from his consul appointment in Rio de Janeiro is currently preserved as part of theOberlin Heritage Center. The current interior of the house presents decor and information from the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, and uses Monroe\'s commitments to education and the abolition of slavery to highlight important events in the history of the city of Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdward McPherson

Edward McPherson(July 31, 1830 – December 14, 1895)[1]was aPennsylvanianewspaper editor and politician who served 2 terms as aUnited States Congressman. As a director of theGettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, he effected efforts to protectand markportions of theGettysburg Battlefield.

1863Battle of Gettysburgcombat on July 1 was at the barn onMcPherson Ridge, which had been named for McPherson by 1892.

Early life and career[edit]

Born nearGettysburg, McPherson studied law and botany to graduate as 1848Pennsylvania Collegevaledictorian. InThaddeus Stevens\' firm inLancaster, McPherson became aWhig. McPherson left the law practice due to illness and moved toHarrisburg, editing theHarrisburg Americanin 1851, and the LancasterIndependent Whig(1851-1854).[2]In 1855, he started and edited anAmerican Partypaper, the PittsburghEvening Times.[3]He moved back to Gettysburg the next year and resumed his legal career. He inherited his father\'s farm west of town along theChambersburg Turnpikein 1858.[citation needed]and was elected to the36thand37th United States Congresses(1859-March 1863,Republican). He was a member of theRepublican National Committeein 1860.

American Civil War[edit]

McPherson organized Company K of the FirstPennsylvania Reservesat the beginning of theAmerican Civil War,[4]and was defeated in the 1862 reelection when hisHouse of Representativesdistrict (Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, and Juniata counties)[5]was expanded to include opposingRadical RepublicansinSomerset County[citation needed](substituted for Juniata).[6]PresidentAbraham Lincolnappointed McPherson asDeputy Commissioner of Revenuein 1863. After theBattle of Gettysburg, McPherson became an officer of theGettysburg Battlefield Memorial Associationwith an office on the corner of Baltimore and Middle streets[7]and after Congressman Morehead nominated him,Thaddeus Stevenshad him appointed asClerk of the House of Representatives(December 8, 1863 – December 5, 1875).[citation needed]

Postbellum career[edit]

McPherson presided over theRepublican National Conventionin 1876, and PresidentHayesappointed him as Director of the United StatesBureau of Engraving and Printing(1877-8). Returning to the newspaper business, he was editor of thePhiladelphia Pressfrom 1877 until 1880. He also served as editor of theNew York Tribune Almanacfrom 1877–1895 and was editor and proprietor of a newspaper in Gettysburg from 1880 until 1895. He was the American editor of theAlmanach de Gotha. He again served as Clerk of the House of Representatives from December 1881 to December 1883 and for a third time from December 1889 to December 1891. McPherson was the attorney for the 1893 complaint against theGettysburg Electric Railwaywhich ended in the Supreme Court case ofUnited States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry. Co.[8]

McPherson died ofaccidental poisoningin Gettysburg[9](interredEvergreen Cemetery (Adams County, Pennsylvania)) after being married to Annie D. Crawford McPherson in 1862[10][11]with four sons and a daughter: William L. McPherson.[12]The Edward McPherson Society is named in his honor.

Works[edit]

In 1941, the papers of Edward McPherson were added to theLibrary of Congress,[1]and his published works include:

—— (1871).The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction