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| Image, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, May 5 1892, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
ROCKWELL, Hosea Hunt, a Representative from New York; born in Lawrenceville, Tioga County,
Pa., on May 31, 1840; attended the common schools; served as a private in the
Twenty-third Regiment, New York Volunteers, in 1861 and 1862; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Elmira, N.Y.; member of
the State assembly in 1877; city attorney of Elmira; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893): was not a candidate
for renomination in 1892; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in
1896; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1896; resumed the practice
of law in Elmira, N.Y.; died in Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., December 18,
1918; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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