Congressmen of St Clair County

Congressmen of St. Clair County

  home   Omar D. Conger

Representative, 1869 - 1881

The first representative in Congress from St. Clair county was Omar D. Conger, who was elected to the forty-first congress, beginning in 1869, and who was re-elected to the succeeding six congresses. After being elected as representative in 1880, he was elected United States Senator in 1881, serving in that capacity one term, from 1881 to 1887, the only time in which this county has been honored in that office. The other representatives from the district in which St. Clair county has been are as follows:

  history  
  people  
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  photos   Year Congressmen District
  ships   1881 - 1882 John T. Rich Lapeer County
  this n that   1883 - 1886 Ezra C. Carleton St. Clair County
  links   1887 - 1894 Justin R. Whiting St. Clair County
  guestbook   1895 - 1898 Horace G. Snover Huron County

 

  1899 - 1902 Edgar Weeks Macomb County
  1903 Henry McMorran St. Clair County
   
 

Prior to Mr. Conger, the representatives from the various districts in which St. Clair county chanced to be were as follows:

    Year Congressmen District
    1835 - 1840 Isaac Crary Marshall
    1841 - 1842 Jacob M. Howard Detroit
    1843 - 1846 James B. Hunt Pontiac
    1847 - 1850 Kinsley S. Bingham Green Oak
    1851 - 1852 James L. Conger Belvedere
    1853 - 1854 Hester L. Stevens Pontiac
    1855 - 1856 George W. Peck Lansing
    1857 - 1860 Dewitt C. Leach Lansing
    1861 - 1862 Rowland E. Trowbridge Bloomfield
    1863 - 1864 Augustus C. Baldwin Pontiac
    1865 - 1868 Rowland E. Trowbridge Bloomfield
Source: St. Clair County, Michigan, its history and its people; a narrative account of its historical progress and its principal interests,, Jenks, William Lee, 1856-1936, pgs. 441.

 

 

 

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