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GRAVES, William Jordan, lawyer, born in Newcastle, Kentucky, in 1805; died in Louisville, Kentucky, 27 September, 1848. He received an academic education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1834, and served in congress from 1835 till 1841, having been chosen as a Whig. During his term of office he fought a duel with rifles, on 24 February, 1838, at Bladensburg, Maryland, near Washington, with Jonathan Cilley, a representative from Maine, in which the latter was killed. He was re-elected to the legislature of Kentucky in 1843, representing Jefferson County. In 1848 he was a presidential elector.
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