Alexander S. McDill

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Alexander Stuart McDill (born March 18, 1822 in Meadville , Pennsylvania , †  November 12, 1875 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alexander McDill first attended Allegheny College and then studied medicine at Cleveland Medical College . After his medical license, he practiced in Crawford County from 1848 to 1856 . In 1856 he moved to Plover , Wisconsin. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1862 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly . Between 1862 and 1868 he was a board member of the Wisconsin State Mental Hospital. After that he was the medical director of this institution from 1868 to 1873. McDill also served on the Wisconsin Senate in 1863 and 1864 .

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created eighth constituency of Wisconsin , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he in the elections of 1874 the Democrats George W. Cate defeated, he could only one term in until March 4, 1875 Congress completed. After leaving the US House of Representatives, McDill took over the medical management of the state mental hospital again. He died in the same year, on November 12, 1875, near Madison.

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SURNAME McDill, Alexander S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDill, Alexander Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH near Meadville , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1875
Place of death at Madison , Wisconsin