Henry B. Sayler
(March 31, 1836 — June 18, 1900) Sayler was a lieutenant, captain, major, lawyer, and politician. Henry Benton Sayler was born in Montgomery County, Ohio and moved to Indiana after the Civil War. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced law in Preble County, Ohio. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army as a lieutenant, captain, and major. Sayler was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served during the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After serving in Congress, he returned to Indiana and acted as a judge of the Twenty-Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000100]
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Indiana Delgation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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