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Mccormick, N. B

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1847, in Fayette county, Pa. He was county attorney of Fayette county, Pa., in 1890-94; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist.

MCCORMICK, RICHARD CUNNING- HAM, journalist, congressman, governor, author, was born in 1832, in New York city. In 1862 he was chief clerk of the department of agriculture in Washington; and in 1863 was appointed secretary of Arizona territory.

In 1866 he was appointed governor of the territory; and in 1868 was elected delegate from Arizona to the forty-first congress, and re-elected to the two succeeding congresses. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. He is the author of Visit to the Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul's to St. Sophia; and Arizona: its Resources.

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