| LC control no. | n 88071039 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fitch, Graham N. (Graham Newell), 1809-1892 |
| Variant(s) | Fitch, G. N. (Graham Newell), 1809-1892 |
| Birth date | 18091205 |
| Death date | 18921129 |
| Place of birth | Le Roy (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Logansport (Ind.) |
| Affiliation | Geneva College (N.Y.) Indiana. General Assembly. House of Representatives Rush Medical College United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 46th (1861-1865) Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Physicians |
| Found in | His Speech of Hon. Graham N. Fitch of Indiana, 1857. MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Fitch, Graham Newell, 1809-1892; usage: G.N. Fitch, M.D.) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, July 16, 2014 (Fitch, Graham Newell, (grandfather of Edwin Denby), a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in LeRoy, Genesee County, N.Y., December 5, 1809; attended Middlebury Academy and Geneva (N.Y.) College; studied medicine and completed his medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; commenced practice in Logansport, Ind., in 1834; member, State house of representatives in 1836 and 1839; professor of anatomy at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill., 1844-1848, and at the Indianapolis (Ind.) Medical College in 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed the practice of medicine; elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1855, and served from February 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861; was not a candidate for reelection in 1860; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); raised the Forty-sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War and served as its colonel 1861-1862, when he resigned because of injuries received in action; resumed the practice of medicine in Logansport, Ind.; died in Logansport, Ind., November 29, 1892; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery) |
| Associated language | eng |
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