CIVIL WAR CONGRESSMAN LEHIGH COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA STILES AUTOGRAPH SIGNED 1864 VF

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JOHN DODSON STILES
(1822 - 1896)
CIVIL WAR U. S. DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM
LEHIGH COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA 1862-1871.
Stiles served three times as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention – 1854, 1864, and 1868 – casting his vote for General McClellan in the ’64 Election!
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HERE’S STILES’ CIVIL WAR DATE SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“John D. Stiles
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Feb – 1864~”
The document measures 6¾” x 3" and is in very fine condition.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
JOHN DODSON STILES
John Dodson Stiles
(January 15, 1822 – October 29, 1896) was a
Democratic
member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
John D. Stiles was born in
Town Hill, Pennsylvania
. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in
Allentown, Pennsylvania
. He was elected district attorney of
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
, in 1853 and served three years. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention
in
1856
,
1864
, and
1868
. He was also a delegate to the
Union National Convention
at
Philadelphia
in 1866.
Stiles was elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-seventh
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Thomas B. Cooper
. He was reelected to the
Thirty-eighth
Congress. He was again elected to the
Forty-first
Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1870
. He resumed the practice of law and died in Allentown in 1896. Interment in Fairview Cemetery.
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