Frederick Joseph Teale (1836 – 20 June 1914) was an English-born American politician in the state of Iowa. Teale, a native of Greenwich born in 1836, left England in 1843 for the United States. By 1859, he had moved to Decatur County, Iowa, where he farmed near Decatur City. During the

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, Teale served in the

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. He held the District 12 seat in the

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for two terms of two years each, from 1870 to 1874. He then served in the

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between 1876 and 1880, first for

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until 1878, and thereafter for

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. Throughout his political career, Teale was affiliated with the

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. Shortly after stepping down from the

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, Teale moved to

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, where he spent the final three decades of his life, and died on 20 June 1914, aged 78.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Teale, Fred J. 1836 births People from Greenwich Politicians from Los Angeles 1914 deaths People of Iowa in the American Civil War 19th-century American legislators Republican Party Iowa state senators Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives People from Decatur County, Iowa English emigrants to the United States