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Updegraff, Thomas

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 3, 1834, in Tioga county, Pa. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee of that body in 1878. He was elected to the forty-sixth congress and re-elected to the forty-seventh congress as a republican. He was a member of the board of education and city solicitor of McGregor, Iowa, for many years; and was delegate to the republican national convention of 1888 and member of notification committee. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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