Chapman Freeman was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Philadelphia High School in 1850 and went on to study law

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, but engaged in mercantile pursuits until he entered the United States Navy

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 as acting assistant paymaster

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 in 1863.

On account of impaired health he resigned in 1864 and resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1867. He was one of the commissioners on behalf of the Centennial

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 from the city of Philadelphia to Vienna, Austria, in 1873.

He was elected in 1874

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 as a Republican to the 44th Congress and served two terms. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878. He was buried at The Woodlands Cemetery

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 in Philadelphia. Though the Congressional Biography lists his death date as March 22 according to his death certificate he actually died on March 21 in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania

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