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Mcculloch, Philip D

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 23, 1851, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was elected as the democratic nominee to the office of prosecuting attorney of the first judicial district of Arkansas in 1878; was renominated and elected for three successive terms; and at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again.

He was elected as the democratic presidential elector for the first congressional district in 1888; was nominated by the democratic congressional convention for the fifty-third congress by acclamation and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

McCULLOCH, THOMAS G., congressman, was born in Franklin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1820 to 1822, to fill a vacancy.

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