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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Deuster, Peter Victor
Deuster, Peter Victor, a Representative from Wisconsin; born near Aix la Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, February 13, 1831; pursued an academic course; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled on a farm near Milwaukee, Wis., in May 1847; worked in a printing office; moved to Port Washington, Wis., in 1854 and edited a newspaper; also served simultaneously as postmaster, clerk of the circuit court, clerk of the land office, and notary public; returned to Milwaukee in 1856 and edited the Milwaukee See-Bote, a Democratic daily paper, until 1860, when he became proprietor; member of the State assembly in 1863; served in the State senate in 1870 and 1871 elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed newspaper interests; appointed chairman of a commission to diminish the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon in 1887; appointed consul at Crefeld, Germany, February 19, 1896, and served until a successor was appointed October 15, 1897; died in Milwaukee, Wis., December 31, 1904; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Deuster, Peter Victor," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1078 Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1114WC1ZWA3XSR7.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Deuster, Peter Victor." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1078, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1114WC1ZWA3XSR7.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Deuster, Peter Victor' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1078. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1114WC1ZWA3XSR7.
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