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Underwood, John Curtiss

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1808 in Litchfield, N. Y. From 1861 to 1863 he was fifth auditor of the treasury in Washington; and was subsequently United States district judge in the state of Virginia.

He died Dec. 7, 1873, in Washington, D. C.

UNDERWOOD, JOHN WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1816, in Elbert county, Ga. In 1843 he was elected solicitor-general for the western circuit, resigning in 1847. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1857, and chosen speaker. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the thirty-sixth congress. He died July 18, 1888, in Rome, Ga.