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Lacey, John Fletcher

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born May 30, 1841, in New Martinsville, W. Va. In 1855 he moved to Iowa; enlisted in company H, third Iowa infantry, in 1861, and afterward served as a private in company D, thirtythird Iowa infantry, as sergeant-major, and as lieutenant in company C of that regiment. He was promoted to assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Brig.- Gen. Samuel A. Rice. He served in the Iowa legislature one term in 1870. He is a lawyer and author of Lacey's Railway Digest and Lacey's Iowa Digest. He was a member of the fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.