Chauncey Ives Filley (17 October 1829 - 24 September 1923) was a

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active in

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Biography

Filley was born in

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. He received a private and academic education and entered commercial life as a clerk. He designed and controlled his own pottery patterns and became the largest importer and distributor of queensware in the

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. He became interested in politics and became the eighteenth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1863. He resigned from office because of illness after serving only one year of his two-year term. Filley was a delegate to the

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s from 1864 to 1896 and was a member of the

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from 1876 to 1892. He was a member of the convention which abolished slavery in the state. From 1873 to 1878, he was postmaster of St. Louis. He is buried at

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Chauncey I. Filley
at the St. Louis Public Library: St. Louis Mayors website. 1829 births 1923 deaths Mayors of St. Louis Missouri Republicans American businesspeople People from Lansingburgh, New York {{Missouri-mayor-stub