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ELDRIDGE, Charles A., politician, born in Bridport, Vermont, 27 February 1821. He removed with his parents to New York, where he studied and began the pracLice of law, and in 1848 settled in Fond du Lac, Wis. It e was a member of the state senate in 1854'5. In 1862 he was elected a member of Congress as n democrat, and was five times reelected, serving from 7 December 1863, to 3 March 1875. On I February 1864, he offered a resolution condemning the draft as contrary to the genius of republican government, and on 21 March of the same year one calling upon the president to furnish the names of all persons that had been arrested for political cause.
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