Morgan Ringland Wise (June 7, 1825 – April 13, 1903) was a member of the 46th and 47th

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. Wise was born in West Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He engaged in

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in 1850 and while there volunteered under Major Stammins, to defend the miners against Indians. He returned to Pennsylvania where he graduated from

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in 1856. He spent several years engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, serving from 1874 to 1878. Later he was elected as a Democrat to the 46th and 47th Congress. He did not seek re-election in

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. Wise moved to

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where he became a rancher and raised cattle. He was appointed as consular agent at Nogales,

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from February 10, 1888 to May 31, 1900. On August 6, 1896, he was witness to a failed bank robbery in Nogales, Arizona, while attending a meeting in the bank. Following his appointment, he returned to the East, where he died a few years later in

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. His body was taken to

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, for burial.

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1825 births 1903 deaths Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives People from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania Waynesburg University alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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