Alfred Gilmore (June 9, 1812 – June 29, 1890) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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Biography

Alfred Gilmore (son of

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) was born in

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. He was graduated from

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, in 1833. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Butler. Gilmore was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in

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. He resumed the practice of law in

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, and later moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1866, and continued the practice of his profession. He died while on a visit in New York City in 1890. Interment in Lenox Cemetery in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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