Chauncey Ives Filley (17 October 1829 - 24 September 1923) was a
United States
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politician
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active in
Missouri
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.
Biography
Filley was born in
Lansingburg, New York. He received a private and academic education and entered commercial life as a clerk. He designed and controlled his own pottery patterns and became the largest importer and distributor of
queensware in the
Mississippi Valley
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. He became interested in politics and became the eighteenth mayor of
St. Louis, Missouri
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, in 1863. He resigned from office because of illness after serving only one year of his two-year term.
Filley was a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions from 1864 to 1896 and was a member of the
Republican National Committee
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from 1876 to 1892. He was a member of the convention which abolished slavery in the state. From 1873 to 1878, he was postmaster of St. Louis. He is buried at
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine is home to a number of architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as t ...
.
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External links
Chauncey I. Filleyat the St. Louis Public Library: St. Louis Mayors website.
1829 births
1923 deaths
Mayors of St. Louis
Missouri Republicans
American businesspeople
People from Lansingburgh, New York
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