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Harlan, Aaron

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1802, in Warren county, Ohio. In 1831 he was elected a member of the state legislature; and in 1838 and 1839 was elected to the state senate. He was a presidential elector in 1844 from Ohio; and in 1849 was again elected to the state senate.

In 1852 he was elected a representative in congress from Ohio, where he continued to serve the people of his native district until the close of the thirty-fifth congress.

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