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| The House of Representatives of the Fifty Third Congress (detail), The Graphic Chicago, 1893, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
WAUGH, Daniel Webster, a Representative from Indiana;
born near Bluffton, Wells County, Ind., March 7, 1842;
attended the country schools and the high school in Bluffton;
enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 in Company A, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until honorably discharged in September 1864;
taught school;
engaged in agricultural pursuits;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1866;
settled in Tipton, Ind., in 1867 and practiced;
judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit 1884-1890;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894;
resumed the practice of law;
died in Tipton, Ind., March 14, 1921;
interment in the mausoleum adjoining Green Lawn Cemetery.
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