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George Hehn Yeaman
YEAMAN, George Hehn, lawyer, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, 1 November, 1829. He was educated at an academy, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and began to practise at Owensborough, Kentucky In 1854 he was elected a judge of Daviess county. In 1861 he was chosen a member of the legislature, and in 1862 he recruited a regiment for the National army. The same year he was sent to congress as a Unionist to fill a vacancy, and, being re-elected, he served from 1 December, 1862, till 3 March, 1865. In the latter year he was appointed by President Johnson minister to Denmark, which office he held till 7 November, 1870, since which time he has practised law in New York. Besides pamphlets on "Naturalization" (1867) and "Privateering" (1868), Mr. Yeaman has published "A Study of Government" (Boston, 1870). He has also written for periodicals on the labor and currency questions.
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YEAMAN, George Helm,
a Representative from Kentucky; born in Hardin County, Ky., November
1, 1829; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1852 and commenced practice in Owensboro, Ky.; judge of Davis County in 1854;
member of the State house of representatives in 1861; elected as a Unionist to
the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James S.
Jackson; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from December 1,
1862, to March 3, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the
Thirty-ninth Congress; United States Minister to Denmark 1865-1870; resigned in
1870 and settled in New York City; lecturer on constitutional law at Columbia
College; president of the Medico-Legal Society of New York; died in Jersey City,
N.J., February 23, 1908; interment in Webb Memorial Chapel, Madison, N.J.
-- Courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the
US Congress
