| LC control no. | n 85180137 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Paine, Halbert E. |
| Variant(s) | Paine, H. E. (Halbert E.) |
| Birth date | 1826-02-04 |
| Death date | 1905-04-14 |
| Place of birth | Chardon (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators |
| Found in | His Contested election, United States Senate ... 1891: t.p. (Halbert E. Paine) Protest of the Chickasaw Nation ... 1880: p. 7 (H.E. Paine, counsel for Chickasaws) WwW in Am. (Paine, Halbert Eleazer, lawyer; b. 2/4/1826; d. 1905) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 6, 2022 (Paine, Halbert Eleazer, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, February 4, 1826; attended the common schools; was graduated from the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, in 1845; taught school for a season in Mississippi; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1857 and continued the practice of law; entered the Union Army in May 1861 as colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted to the rank of brigadier general on March 13, 1863, and in the following June lost a leg at Port Hudson; brevetted major general on March 13, 1865, and resigned on May 15, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committee on Militia (Fortieth Congress), Committee on Elections (Forty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; through his efforts the taking of meteorological observations in the interior was inaugurated; appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Grant and served from November 1, 1878, to May 7, 1880; died in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1905; interment in Arlington National Cemetery) |
| Associated language | eng |
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