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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Steele, John Benedict
Steele, John Benedict, a Representative from New York; born in Delhi, N.Y., March 28, 1814; attended Delaware Academy at Delhi and was graduated in law from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; was admitted to the bar of Otsego County in 1839 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y.; district attorney of Otsego County 1841-1847; moved to Kingston in 1847; elected special judge of Ulster County in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1864; was again a candidate for the nomination in 1866, but died on the eve of the primary; was accidentally killed in Rondout, near Kingston, N.Y., September 24, 1866; interment in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Steele, John Benedict," 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.1857 Original Sources, accessed March 25, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5MI6KP2M9MJBP71.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Steele, John Benedict." 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.1857, Original Sources. 25 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5MI6KP2M9MJBP71.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Steele, John Benedict' 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.1857. Original Sources, retrieved 25 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5MI6KP2M9MJBP71.
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