Ebenezer McJunkin was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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

Pennsylvania

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Biography

Ebenezer McJunkin was born at Center Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania

Center Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania

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. He graduated from Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College

Washington & Jefferson College

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) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

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, in 1841. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843, and commenced practice in Butler, Pennsylvania

Butler, Pennsylvania

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. He served as deputy attorney general for Butler County, Pennsylvania

Butler County, Pennsylvania

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 174,083 people, 65,862 households, and 46,827 families residing in the county. The population density was 221 people per square mile . There were 69,868 housing units at an average density of 89 per square mile...

, in 1850, and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention

1860 Republican National Convention

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. He served during the American Civil War

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 as first lieutenant of militia.

McJunkin was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second

42nd United States Congress

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 and Forty-third

43rd United States Congress

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 Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy during the Forty-third Congress. He resigned January 1, 1875, serving a president judge of the seventeenth judicial district of Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1885. He resumed the practice of his profession until 1900, when he retired. He died in Butler in 1907. Interment in North Cemetery.