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Wheeler, Hamilton K

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1848, in Ballston, N. Y. In 1884 he was elected to the state senate of Illinois from the sixteenth senatorial district, and on the organization of the senate he was assigned the chairmanship of the committee on judicial department. He was one of the one hundred and three who took an active part in the famous senatorial contest of Illinois, which resulted in the election of General Logan to the United States senate. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.