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Maginnis, Martin

soldier, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1840, in Wayne county, N. Y. He removed to Montana and engaged in mining, and in publishing and editing the Helena Daily Gazette. He was elected a delegate from Montana to the forty-third congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and fortyeighth congresses as a democrat. • MAGNER, THOMAS F., congressman, was born March 8, 1860, in Brooklyn, N.

Y. He was a member of the New York assembly one year, which office he held when elected to the fifty-first congress.

He was re-elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

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