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Fitch, Graham Newell

physician, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 5, 1809, in Le Roy, N. Y.

He was a medical professor in the Rush Medical college at Chicago, Ill., from 1844 to 1849. In 1844, 1848, and 1856, he was chosen a presidential elector, and in 1836 and 1839 was elected to the legislature of Indiana. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853; and in 1857 was chosen a senator of the United States for the term ending in 1861.