John Milton Glover (June 23, 1852 – October 20, 1929) was a

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from

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, nephew of John Montgomery Glover.

Biography

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Glover attended the public schools of his native city and

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, Missouri. He studied law and commenced practice in St. Louis. Glover was elected as a

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to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). In February 1887, Glover married Katherine Augusta Patten, one of five sisters who were heir to their late father Edmund's gold mining fortune, at her family's mansion in Washington, D.C. The society wedding was attended by Nevada Senator Charles Manderson, California Senator

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, California Senator-elect

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, New York Senator-elect

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and their wives. After the death of his wife's mother Anastasia in September 1888, they began a prolonged legal battle with her sisters over her share of the inheritance. One of the outcomes was the 1897

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ruling on ''Glover v. Patten'' which set the precedent for waiving

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where it relates to discussions of intent between the author of a will and their lawyer. Glover was not a candidate for renomination in 1888, having become a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, in which he was unsuccessful. He then returned to the practice of law in St. Louis, Missouri, until 1909, when he moved to

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, and continued the practice of his profession until incapacitated by ill health in 1926. He died aged 77, in

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, October 20, 1929. He was interred in

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, St. Louis, Missouri. Representative Glover is the namesake of the community of

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Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glover, John Milton 1852 births 1929 deaths Washington University in St. Louis alumni Missouri lawyers Colorado lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American politicians 20th-century American lawyers Burials at Bellefontaine Cemetery