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TELLER, Henry Moore, senator, born in Granger, Allegany County, New York, 23 May, 1830. He was educated at Alfred university, New York, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Binghamton, New York, in 1858, and removed to Illinois in the same year, and to Colorado in 1861. He was major-general of Colorado militia in 1862-'4, but held no political office till, on the admission of Colorado as a state in 1876, he was chosen United States senator as a Republican, and took his seat, 4 December, 1876. He was re-elected for the term that ended in 1883, and in 1877-'8 served as chairman of a special committee on election frauds, that was known as the Teller committee. On 17 April, 1882, he resigned, on his appointment by President Arthur to the portfolio of the interior, which he held till the close of the latter's administration. He was then re-elected to the senate for the term that will end in 1891. Alfred university gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1886.
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