David Albaugh De Armond (March 18, 1844 – November 23, 1909) was a Democratic Representative representing

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from March 4, 1891 until March 3, 1893, and then

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from March 4, 1893 until dying in office in 1909. He was born in

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, attended Lycoming College and moved to

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in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Davenport; moved to Missouri in 1869 and settled in

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. He was member of Missouri State Senate, 1879–1883;

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commissioner, 1884; judge of the twenty-second judicial circuit of Missouri, 1886–1890. In Congress he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1905 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Charles Swayne, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. De Armond and his young grandson both died in a fire that destroyed his home in

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."DE ARMOND BURNED WITH HIS GRANDSON; Bodies of Missouri Congressman and Little David Clasped Together in Ruins. TRIED TO RESCUE THE BOY " Grandpa Will Take You Out," His Daughter Heard Him Tell Boy When They Awoke to Find Home Ablaze." ''New York Times,'' November 24, 1909. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
/ref> He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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David A. De Armond, late a representative from Missouri, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1910
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