Clinton Dugald MacDougall (June 14, 1839 - May 24, 1914) was a United States Representative from New York

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Biography

Born near Glasgow, Scotland, he immigrated to Canada in 1842 with his parents, who later settled in Auburn, New York

Auburn, New York

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. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and engaged in banking from 1856 to 1869. He was commissioned captain in the Seventy-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry on September 16, 1861; lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, August 20, 1862; colonel January 3, 1863; and Brevet

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ted brigadier general of Volunteers February 25, 1865. He was honorably mustered out on June 4, 1865. In 1869 he was appointed postmaster

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MacDougall was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, hgolding office from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876. He served as United States Marshal of the northern judicial district of New York from 1877 to 1885 and from 1901 to 1910. He died in Paris, France in 1914; interment was in Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

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