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Fenton, Lucien J

banker, congressman, was born May 7, 1844, in Winchester, Ohio. He was superintendent of public schools in Ohio for a number of years, serving a portion of the time as one of the school examiners for Adams county; and was awarded a high-school life certificate by the Ohio state board of school examiners in 1878.

He organized the Winchester bank in 1884, and still retains connection therewith. He was appointed a trustee of the Ohio university by Governor McKinley in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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