John Wesley Longyear

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John Wesley Longyear was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and later as a federal judge.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
judge
lawyer
politician
admittedToTheBar Michigan
appointedBy Ulysses S. Grant
birthDate 1820-10-22
birthPlace Town of Shandaken, New York
surface form: Shandaken, New York
burialPlace Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan
centuryOfActivity 19th century
commissionReceivedOn 1870-02-18
confirmedOn 1870-02-18
country United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
court United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
deathDate 1875-03-10
deathPlace Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan
educatedAt common schools
endTime 1867 (as U.S. Representative)
1875 (as federal judge)
familyName Longyear
gender male
givenName John
languageOfWorkOrName English
legislativeBody United States House of Representatives
memberOfPoliticalParty Republican Party
middleName Wesley
nativeLanguage English
nominatedOn 1870-02-07
notableFor service as U.S. Representative from Michigan
service as U.S. federal judge in Michigan
occupation judge
lawyer
politician
participatedIn Michigan constitutional convention of 1867
positionHeld Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Representative
surface form: United States Representative
precededBy Francis William Kellogg
representedDistrict Michigan's 3rd congressional district
surface form: Michigan 3rd congressional district
residence Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan

Lansing, Michigan
startTime 1863 (as U.S. Representative)
1870 (as federal judge)
stateRepresented Michigan
succeededBy Austin Blair

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