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Pettibone, Augustus H

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1835, in Bedford, Ohio. He commenced the practice of law in La Crosse, Wis.; served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of major. He settled in Tennessee; was elected attorneygeneral for the first judicial circuit; and was a presidential elector in 1868 and 1876. He was assistant United States district attorney for several years; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a republican.