Michael Joseph Gill was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

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Born in Covington, Kentucky

Covington, Kentucky

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people, 18,257 households, and 10,132 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile . There were 20,448 housing units at an average density of 1,556.5 per square mile...

, Gill attended the common schools and Oberlin (Ohio) College.
He engaged in the glass manufacturing business.
Executive member of the National Bottle Blowers' Association 1892-1912.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1892-1896.
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912.
He successfully contested as a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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the election of Leonidas C. Dyer to the Sixty-third Congress and served from June 19, 1914, to March 3, 1915.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.
He served as Government labor conciliator from March 31 to May 31, 1916, and from July 1 to October 2, 1916.
He died in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1, 1918.
He was interred in Calvary Cemetery.