Addison S. McClure was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

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Biography

Born in Wooster, Ohio

Wooster, Ohio

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, McClure pursued an academic course in Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

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 (now Washington & Jefferson College

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). He studied law, and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1861 and commenced practice in Wooster. He entered the Army

United States Army

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 as a private in April 1861. He was elected captain of Company H, Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry

16th Ohio Infantry

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, in October of the same year.

He served as recorder of Wayne County

Wayne County, Ohio

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 in 1867. He was appointed postmaster

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 of Wooster in 1867 and reappointed in 1872 and 1876. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention

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 in 1868 and 1876.

McClure was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-seventh

47th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congress.

McClure was elected to the Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: Adlai E. Stevenson * President pro tempore: William P. Frye - Majority leadership :* Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman- Minority leadership :...

 Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

 Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Wooster, Ohio

Wooster, Ohio

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, April 17, 1903. He was interred in Wooster Cemetery.