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Thornburgh, Jacob M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 1837, in Newmarket, Tenn. In 1862 he joined the federal army in Kentucky, and was promoted until he became colonel of the fourth Tennessee cavalry in 1863. In 1867 he moved to Knoxville, and was appointed attorney-general of the third district of Tennessee, and was elected to the same position in 1869 and 1870. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.