THOMAS HEDGE

He was born at Burlington in the Territory of Iowa , on the 24th of June, 1844 .  He received a college education, graduating from Yale in 1867 and from Columbia Law Department in 1869.  He served as a lieutenant in a New York regiment during the Civil War and, returning to Burlington , entered upon the practice of law.  In 1898 he was elected on the Republican ticket to Congress from the First District, was reelected in 1900 and again in 1902.

 

 

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