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Spencer, George Eliphaz

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1836, in Jefferson county, N.

Y. He was secretary of the Iowa senate in 1858. He entered the army as a captain in 1862; and was brevetted a brigadier-general for gallantry in the field. He settled in Alabama; and in 1867 was appointed a register in bankruptcy for the fourth district of Alabama. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from that state for the term ending in 1873; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1879.