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Black, Frank S

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 8, 1853, in Limington, Maine. He was editor of the Johnstown Journal for a short time after graduating from Dartmouth; then removed to Troy, where he studied law and was a newspaper reporter. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and since that time has followed his profession in Troy. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican; and has filled the high office of governor of the state of New York.

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