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Dwight Townsend

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and served from December 5, 1864, to March 3, 1865. During this term, Townsend voted "nay" (the minority position) on the question of adopting the
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Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
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American History Told by Contemporaries: Welding of the Nation, 1845-1900
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He died in New York City on October 29, 1899. He was interred at
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The First Fifty Years of the Equitable Life Assurance Society
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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Mathew Brady photo, circa 1871. National Archives and Records Administration.
U.S. House of Representatives
New York
1st
Henry G. Stebbins
Stephen Taber
Henry A. Reeves
Henry J. Scudder
New York City
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York
Democratic
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
U.S. Representative
New York
Western Union
New York City
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
Democrat
Thirty-eighth Congress
Henry G. Stebbins
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Forty-second Congress
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York




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