John M. Glover

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(September 4, 1822 — November 15, 1891) Glover was a businessman, lawyer, and politician. John Montgomery Glover was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in 1822 and moved to Missouri in 1836. He attended Marion and Masonic Colleges in Philadelphia, Missouri, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. During the Civil War, Glover served as a colonel in the Missouri Volunteer Calvary from 1861 to 1864, having resigned due to poor health. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1879. After serving in Congress, Glover returned to Missouri and engaged in agriculture until his death in 1891. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000245]

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

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