Edwin O. Stanard

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(January 5, 1832 — March 12, 1914) Stanard was a teacher, businessman, and politician. Edwin Obed Stanard was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1832 and moved to Missouri in 1853. He taught school in Illinois from 1854 to 1855 and graduated from St. Louis Commercial College in 1855. He worked in the commission business and eventually in the milling business. Stanard served as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri before being elected to Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After his service in Congress, he returned to St. Louis and worked in the manufacturing of flour until he died in 1914. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at hhttps://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000787]

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

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