Horace Greeley Snover was a politician and judge from the U.S. state

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 of Michigan

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Snover was born in Romeo, Michigan

Romeo, Michigan

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, where he attended the public schools and the Dickenson Institute. He graduated from the academic department of the University of Michigan

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 at Ann Arbor

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 in 1869 and from the law department in 1871. He was admitted to the bar

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 and practiced in Wichita, Kansas

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 in 1871 and 1872. The following year he moved back to Romeo and then moved to Port Austin

Port Austin, Michigan

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 in 1874 while continuing the practice of law. He also engaged in banking and was principal of the public schools of Port Austin for two years. He also served as probate judge of Huron County

Huron County, Michigan

-Highways:* M-19* M-25* M-53* M-142-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 36,079 people, 14,597 households, and 10,144 families residing in the county. The population density was 43 people per square mile . There were 20,430 housing units at an average density of 24 per square mile...

 from January 1, 1881 to January 1, 1885.

Snover was elected as a Republican

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 from Michigan's 7th congressional district

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 to the 54th

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 and 55th

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 Congresses, serving from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1899 in the U.S. House. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898.

After leaving Congress, Horace G. Snover moved to Port Huron

Port Huron, Michigan

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, where he died at the age of seventy-six and is interred there in Lakeside Cemetery.

The community of Snover in Sanilac County

Sanilac County, Michigan

-Highways:* M-19* M-25* M-46* M-53* M-81* M-90-History:Sanilac County was probably named for a Wyandot chief named Sanilac. See List of Michigan county name etymologies....

was named for him.

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