John Thomas Deweese (June 4, 1835 – July 4, 1906) was a Congressional Representative from

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Biography

Born in

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, on June 4, 1835, Deweese was educated at home, where he studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in

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. He later lived in

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, for some years, but moved to

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, in 1860. DeWeese entered the

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on July 6, 1861, as second lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command until February 15, 1862, when he resigned. He was quickly mustered in as captain of Company F, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, on August 8, 1862, and was successively promoted to rank of

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; he was brevetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers effective March 13, 1865. Upon the reorganization of the Army he was appointed second lieutenant, in the Eighth United States Infantry, on July 24, 1866. Following the war, he moved to North Carolina. He resigned from the Army on August 14, 1867, having been elected to Congress. He was appointed register in bankruptcy for North Carolina in 1868; upon the readmission of North Carolina to the Union, DeWeese was elected as a

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to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to February 28, 1870. During that time, he was the chairman of Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior and on the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. He resigned his seat in 1870 when he was

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by the House of Representatives on March 1, 1870, for selling an appointment to the

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. He then switched parties and became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876, resumed the practice of law, and died in

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, on July 4, 1906. He is interred in

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References

U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory entry
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