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Gannon, Thomas Joseph

college president, lecturer, was born July 14, 1853, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1891 ne was appointed president of St. John's college of Fordham, N. Y. author, was born March 17, 1832, in Ten- GANNT, E, W., lawyer, congressman , nessee. He was elected a representative from Arkansas in congress in 1860, but does not appear to have taken his seat. In 1873 he prepared a digest of the laws of Arkansas, and soon afterwards was appointed commissioner to the centennial exhibition. He died June 10, 1874.

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