John Winebrenner Rife (August 14, 1846 – April 17, 1908) was a
Republican
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member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania
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Biography
John W. Rife was born in
Middletown, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of
tanner. Rife enlisted July 15, 1864, as a private in Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until honorably discharged on November 6, 1864. He served as a member of the city council of Middletown in 1871, and as burgess of Middletown in 1877 and 1878. He served as a member of the
Pennsylvania State House of Representatives
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in 1885 and 1886. He served as president of the Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad Co.
Rife was elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-first and
Fifty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination. He died in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Interment in Middletown Cemetery.
See also
References
Retrieved on 2008-02-14
The Political Graveyard
External links
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Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
1846 births
1908 deaths
Union Army soldiers
Pennsylvania city council members
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American legislators
People from Middletown, Pennsylvania
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