Merriman, Truman Adams

Name: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 - Merriman, Truman Adams
Author: U.S. Congress

Merriman, Truman Adams, a Representative from New York; born in Auburn, N.Y., September 5, 1839; attended the Auburn Academy, and was graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1861; during the Civil War entered the Union Army in September 1861 as captain of a company which he had raised and which Was attached to the Ninety-second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry; was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel in December 1864; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867; moved to New York City and entered the profession of journalism in 1871; president of the New York Press Club in 1882, 1883, and 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; died in New York City April 16, 1892; interment in Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Merriman, Truman Adams," 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.1557 Original Sources, accessed December 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S9UZ7UBWYUXH4B.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Merriman, Truman Adams." 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.1557, Original Sources. 11 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S9UZ7UBWYUXH4B.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Merriman, Truman Adams' 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.1557. Original Sources, retrieved 11 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8S9UZ7UBWYUXH4B.