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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Sypher, Jacob Hale
Sypher, Jacob Hale, a Representative from Louisiana; born near Millerstown, Perry County, Pa., June 22, 1837; received a liberal education, and was graduated from Alfred (N.Y.) University in 1859; taught school in Cleveland, Ohio; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a private in Company A, First Ohio Light Artillery; promoted to first lieutenant of Company B, October 8, 1861; resigned February 3, 1864; later, on August 11, 1864, served as colonel of the Eleventh United States Colored Heavy Artillery; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March 13, 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services during the war"; honorably mustered out October 2, 1865; after the war bought a plantation in northern Louisiana, but about two years later commenced the study of law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Orleans, La.; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1868; upon readmission of the State of Louisiana to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 18, 1868, to March 3, 1869; contested the election of Louis St. Martin to the Forty-first Congress, but the House decided that neither was entitled to the seat; subsequently elected to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy thus created; reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from November 7, 1870, to March 3, 1873; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, when he was succeeded by Effingham Lawrence, who contested the election; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died in Baltimore, Md., May 9, 1905; interment in the Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Sypher, Jacob Hale," 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.1891 Original Sources, accessed March 23, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5CGDHJL4TWE5I6A.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Sypher, Jacob Hale." 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.1891, Original Sources. 23 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5CGDHJL4TWE5I6A.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Sypher, Jacob Hale' 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.1891. Original Sources, retrieved 23 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5CGDHJL4TWE5I6A.
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