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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Perry, Eli
Perry, Eli, a Representative from New York; born in Cambridge, Washington County, N.Y., December 25, 1799; attended the common schools; engaged in business in Albany, N.Y., in 1827 and continued until 1852; member of the Board of Aldermen of Albany for two years; served in the State assembly in 1851; mayor of Albany 1851-1853, 1856-1860, 1862-1866; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., May 17, 1881; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Perry, Eli," 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.1671 Original Sources, accessed July 15, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULDLRWWQD44TUYT.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Perry, Eli." 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.1671, Original Sources. 15 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULDLRWWQD44TUYT.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Perry, Eli' 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.1671. Original Sources, retrieved 15 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULDLRWWQD44TUYT.
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