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TOWNSHEND, Richard Wellington, member of congress, born in Prince George county, Maryland, 30 April, 1840. He was educated in public and private schools at Washington, D. C., removed in 1858 to Illinois, and, after teaching for some time in Fayette county, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at McLeansborough in 1862. He was clerk of the county court of Hamilton county from 1863 till 1868, and district attorney for the next four years. He was a delegate to the National Democratic convention in 1872. He settled in Shawneetown in 1873, was elected a member of congress in 1876, and has since been continuously re-elected, serving in the congress which began its sessions on 5 March, 1887, as chairman of the committee on military affairs. He was the author of the proposition to secure the establishment of an American Zollverein, which was embodied in a bill passed by congress in 1888.
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