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Hahn, Michael

soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, United States senator , was born Nov. 24, 1830, in Bavaria , Germany. During the civil war he served in the union cause; was elected to congress in 1862; was inaugurated governor in 1864; and in 1865 became a United States senator. In 1867 he was the organizer and the chief editor of the New Orleans Republican. He has been superintendent of the United States mint in New Orleans; and in 1876 became judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit; and was a representative in the thirty-ninth congress . He died March 15, 1886.

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