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Hagans, John Marshall

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1838, in Brandonville, Va. He was elected proseelected prosecuting attorney for Monongalia county, W. Va., in 1862; was re-elected in 1863 and 1864, and again in 1870. He was appointed law reporter of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia in 1864, and held the position until 1873. He was the elector on the republican ticket for the second congressional district during the presidential contest in 1868; and was elected a delegate for the county of Monof Monongalia to the convention which framed the present constitution of West Virginia in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third congress in 1872, as a republican.