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Mccleary, James Thompson

congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1853, in Ingersoll, Ontario. For two years he was superintendent of Pierce county schools; resigned in 1881 to become state institute conductor of Minnesota and professor of history and political science in the State Normal school at Mankato, continuing in this position until June, 1892. In 1888 he published Studies in Civics, and in 1894 a Manual of Civics, which are used in the best schools of the country. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses; and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican,