Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (August 14, 1842 – May 28, 1904) was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran who served two terms as a

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from

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from 1887 to 1891.

Early life and career

Born in

Perrysville, Indiana Perrysville is a town in Highland Township, Vermillion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 456 at the 2010 census. History Perrysville was platted and surveyed in 1825 by James Blair on a bluff on the west side of the Wabash ...

, Cheadle attended the common schools. He entered Asbury (now De Pauw) University,

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, but upon the organization of the Seventy-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, enlisted as a private in Company K and served until the close of the

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. He returned home and entered upon the study of law. He was graduated from the Indianapolis Law College in 1867. He was

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and commenced practice in

Newport, Indiana Newport is a town in Vermillion Township, Vermillion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 515 at the 2010 census. The town is the county seat of Vermillion County. History A post office has been in operation at Newport since ...

. He continued in practice until 1873, when he entered upon newspaper work.

Congress

Cheadle was elected as a

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to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890, and for nomination to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses in 1892 and 1894.

Later career and death

He was affiliated with the

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in 1896. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 and 1898 on the Democratic and Populist tickets. He was editor of the American Standard in 1896. He died in

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, May 28, 1904. He was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery.

References

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