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Gamble, Robert J

lawyer, state 1851, near Akron, N. Y. He has been district attorney; city attorney of Yankton for two terms. and state senator in 1885.

He represented South Dakota as congressman-at-large in the fifty-fourth congress, and was the unanimous nominee of his party for re-election to the fifty-fifth congress in the year 1896, but was defeated by a plurality of one hundred and eighty-two votes out of a total vote of eighty-three thousand. He has been an active member of the republican organization of his state for many years. man.

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