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Jeremiah M. Rusk

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(June 17, 1830 — November 21, 1893) Rusk was a businessman and politician. Jeremiah Rusk was born in Ohio, where he received a limited schooling. Agricultural pursuits took him to Vernon County, Wisconsin in 1853. There he served as Sheriff of Viroqua, Wisconsin (1855-1857), coroner (1857), and as a member of the State Assembly (1862). During the Civil War, he became a major in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Rusk was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000517]

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