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| An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representative |
SULLOWAY, Cyrus Adams, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Grafton, Grafton
County, N.H., June 8, 1839; attended the common schools, Colby Academy, and
Kimball Academy; studied law in Franklin, N.H.; was admitted to the bar in 1863
and commenced practice in Manchester, N.H.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1872, 1873, and 1887-1893; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3,
1913); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice
(Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions (Fifty-sixth through
Sixty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the
Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses
and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 11,
1917; interment in the City Cemetery, Franklin, N.H.
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