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(October 5, 1835 — July 23, 1921) Thompson Ware McNeely was a lawyer and politician. McNeely was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1835. He graduated from Lombard College in 1856 and studied law at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated in 1857 and was admitted to the bar that same year. McNeely served in the Illinois constitutional convention in 1862 while practicing law in Menard County, Illinois. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000585]
Member of Illinois Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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