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Lansing, Frederick

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1838, in Manheim, N. Y. He has resided in Watertown since 1856. He served during the war in the eighth New York cavalry; was acting adjutant of that regiment in 1863; was was at badly wounded the battle of Bristoe Station; and the next year was discharged on account of wounds. He was elected state senator in 1881; and in 1883 was re-elected. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican. He declined a renomination.

He died Jan. 30, 1894, in Watertown, N. Y.

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