Reuben Eaton Fenton

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1819-07-04

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1885-08-25

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"Reuben Eaton Fenton" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004984, (accessed December 27, 2024).

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New York entrepreneur and politician. Chautauqua County, New York, native. Worked in the lumber industry. Worked as a land speculator. Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1853 to 1855 as a Free Soil Democrat. Founding member of the New York Republican Party in 1855. Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1857 to 1864 as a Republican. Governor of the State of New York from 1865 to 1868.

Gregory P. Rabb, "Reuben E. Fenton," (https://hallofgovernors.ny.gov/ReubenFenton) (accessed May 4, 2017).

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