Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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McMahon, John A.

McMahon, John A. (nephew of Clement Laird Vallandigham), a Representative from Ohio; born in Frederick County, Md., February 19, 1833; pursued academic studies; attended St. Xavier’s College, Cincinnati, and was graduated in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Dayton, Ohio; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1872 and at St. Louis in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1876 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William W. Belknap, Secretary of War; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio; served as president of the Ohio State Bar Association in 1886; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1889; died in Dayton, Ohio, March 8, 1923; interment in Woodland Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "McMahon, John A.," 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.1547 Original Sources, accessed December 2, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4A6APVMDA5FPW39.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "McMahon, John A." 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.1547, Original Sources. 2 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4A6APVMDA5FPW39.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'McMahon, John A.' 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.1547. Original Sources, retrieved 2 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4A6APVMDA5FPW39.