Erasmus D. Peck

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(September 16, 1808 — December 25, 1876) Erasmus Darwin Peck was a medical doctor and politician. Peck was born in Stafford, Connecticut in 1808 and moved to Ohio in 1830. He graduated in medicine from Yale College in 1829, and practiced medicine until 1856 when he served in the State House of Representatives until 1859. Peck was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Truman Hoag. He was reelected to the Forty-Second Congress, making his overall service in the House from April 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. Peck then returned to Ohio where he practiced medicine until his death in 1876. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000175]

Member of Ohio Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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