Stephen B. Elkins

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(September 26, 1841 — January 4, 1911) Elkins was an American politician and lawyer. Stephen Elkins was born in Perry County, Ohio and moved to Missouri where he attended school and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1860. He served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and moved to the New Mexico Territory after the war. He practiced law in the territory and served in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1864 to 1865. His political career continued as he served as the district attorney for the Territory (1866-1867), attorney general (1867), and United States district attorney for the Territory (1867-1870). He was elected as a Republican to represent the Territory for the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congresses. After his time in Congress, he moved to West Virginia, where he was elected to the United States Senate to represent West Virginia, from 1895 until he died in 1911. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000110]

Member of New Mexico Territory Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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