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Friday, August 6, 2010

Contested Seat Settled

In noticing the fact that Gen. Lane’s claim to a seat in the Senate has been confirmed, the Washington correspondent to the N. Y. Commercial says his decision settles another election in the House, where a seat from Iowa is claimed by Legrand Byington, who found that the member from his district was in the volunteer service, and on the next election day obtained a few votes for the vacancy which he declared existed.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 2

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