John Dodson Stiles (January 15, 1822 – October 29, 1896) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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. John D. Stiles was born in Town Hill, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was elected district attorney of

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, in 1853 and served three years. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in

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, 1864, and

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. He was also a delegate to the

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in 1866. Stiles was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Cooper. He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress. He was again elected to the Forty-first Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of law and died in Allentown in 1896. Interment in Fairview Cemetery.

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The Political Graveyard

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