Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (April 12, 1827 – August 25, 1906) was an American

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veteran and politician who served two non-consecutive term as a

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from

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from 1883 to 1885, and again from 1891 to 1893.

Biography

Born in

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, Greenleaf attended the common schools and completed an academic course. He moved to

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, and engaged in the manufacture of locks. He was appointed

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in 1856. He served as captain of Massachusetts Militia in 1857. Organized the Yale & Greenleaf Lock Co..

Civil War

Enlisted as a private in the

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in August 1862. Commissioned captain of Company E, Fifty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, September 12, 1862. Greenleaf was elected colonel of the regiment October 23, 1862.

After the war

He was employed in a salt works near

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, for several years. He settled in

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, in 1867 and resumed the manufacture of locks.

Congress

Greenleaf was elected as a

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to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress. Greenleaf was elected to the

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(March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892.

Later career and death

He resumed his former business activities until retirement in 1896. He died at his summer home in the town of Greece, near

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, on August 25, 1906. He and his wife

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, a noted suffragist, were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery,

External links

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