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Switzler, William F

journalist, congressman, author, was born March 16, 1819, in Fayette county, Ky. He has been a representative several times in the Missouri state legislature; and was a member of the two conventions of 1865 and 1875 to form the constitutions of the state. He was chief of the bureau of statistics, treasury department, during President Cleveland's first term. He was elected to the forty-first congress. In 1841 he began editorial work, and in 1843 established the Missouri Statesman, which he published and edited for forty-two years; and in 1893 became the editor and owner of The Democrat of Boonville. He is the author of Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri; is a political speaker of wide reputation; and a magazine writer of national fame.