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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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BAYNE, Thomas McKee, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pa., June 14, 1836;
attended the public schools and Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.;
studied law;
during the Civil War entered the Union Army in July 1862 as colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry;
took part in the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville;
resumed the study of law in 1865;
was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in April 1866;
elected district attorney for Allegheny County in October 1870 and held the office until January 1, 1874;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891);
was renominated as a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress, but declined to accept the nomination, retiring from public life and active business pursuits;
died in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 1894;
interment in Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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