John Winfield Wallace (December 20, 1818 – June 24, 1889) was a

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member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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Biography

John Winfield Wallace was born near

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. He attended Darlington Academy in

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, where he afterward taught. He graduated from

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in 1846 and commenced the practice of medicine in Darlington. He moved to

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, in 1850, and held several local offices. Wallace was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862. During the Civil War, Wallace served as paymaster in the

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. He was again elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of medicine in New Castle where he died in 1889, aged 70. Interment in Grandview Cemetery, near Beaver Falls.

References

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