Amos Richard Webber (January 21, 1852 – February 25, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a

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from

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from 1904 to 1907.

Biography

Born in

Hinckley, Ohio Hinckley is an unincorporated community in Medina County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. History A post office called Hinckley has been in operation since 1825. The community has the name of Judge Samuel Hinckley, a land speculator from Massachusetts. ...

, Webber attended the public schools of Hinckley and was graduated from

Baldwin University The history of Baldwin Wallace University dates back to 1828, when co-founder John Baldwin settled in present-day Berea, Ohio. His founding eventually established Baldwin–Wallace College. This founding of present-day Baldwin Wallace Universit ...

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, in 1876. He studied law, was

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in 1876 and commenced practice in

Elyria, Ohio Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles southwest of Cleveland. As of the 2020 cen ...

. He served as

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Lorain County Lorain County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 312,964. Its county seat is Elyria, Ohio, Elyria. The county was physicall ...

1884-1890. He served as judge of the

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of Lorain County 1900-1903. Webber was elected as a

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to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William W. Skiles. He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress and served from November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1907. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906. He resumed the practice of law in

, and also engaged in literary pursuits. Webber was again elected in 1922 judge of the court of common pleas, serving until his retirement in 1935. He died in

, on February 25, 1948. He was interred in Ridgelawn Cemetery.

External links

Encyclopedia of Baldwin Wallace History: Amos Webber

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Webber, Amos Richard 1852 births 1948 deaths Baldwin Wallace University alumni People from Hinckley, Ohio People from Elyria, Ohio Ohio lawyers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio