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Caine, John T

statesman, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Isle of Man. He settled in Utah in 1852; engaged in various pursuits; was secretary of the legislative council in 1856-60; was a delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1872 and 1882; and served in the territorial council in 1874, 1876, 1880 and 1882. He was elected a regent of the Deseret university in 1876, 1878, 1880 and 1882; was elected recorder of Salt Lake City in 1876, and re-elected in 1878, 1880 and 1882. He was elected a delegate from Utah to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses.

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