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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Philip Sydney Post |
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Galesberg, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
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March 19, 1833 |
| Died |
January 06, 1895
(61 years) |
| Contributor | ev |
| Last Modifed | ev
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| Info | a Representative from Illinois; born in Florida, Orange County, N.Y., March 19, 1833; pursued classical studies and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1855; entered the Poughkeepsie Law School; was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1856; during the Civil War entered the Union Army and served with the Fifty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Infantry; promoted through the ranks to colonel; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers December 16, 1864; awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor, March 8, 1893, for action at the Battle of Nashville; appointed consul to Vienna in 1866; promoted to consul general to Austria-Hungary in 1874; resigned in 1879; commander of the department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, until his death, before the close of the Fifty-third Congress, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 1895; interment in Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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