O. H. Brewster

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Orlando H. Brewster was a federal general land surveyor and politician in Louisiana. His vote as an elector was disputed. [1] He served as a member of the Louisiana Senate. [2] In 1872 he was Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was an elector for Rutherford B. Hayes and received an appointment as surveyor after his election. [3]

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He was born in New York. [4] In 1879 he was an elector. [5] He served as suveyor-general in Louisiana. [6] [7] [8]

He was wounded at Blackwell Station. He supported Rutherford B. Hayes candidacy for I.S. president. He was a Republican and served as an elector. [9] He had a resort in Lake Charm, Florida. [10] [11]

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  1. ↑ "Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ..." D. Appleton & Company. September 18, 1890 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "MEMBERSHIP IN THE LOUISIANA SENATE" (PDF). Louisiana State Senate. March 2024.
  3. ↑ Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpet-Bag Rule, 1876-1880. Pelican Publishing. 30 April 1999. ISBN   9781455607822 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the ...: Showing the State Or Territory from which Each Person was Appointed to Office, the State Or Country in which He was Born, and the Compensation, Pay, and Emoluments Allowed to Each; Together with the Names and Compensation of All Printers in Any Way Employed by Congress, Or Any Department Or Officer of the Government". U.S. Government Printing Office. October 19, 1878 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "House documents". October 19, 1879 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ House, United States Congress (October 19, 1876). "Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session" – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Interior, United States Department of the (October 19, 1881). "Register of the Department of the Interior". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912". National Archives and Records Administration. October 19, 1993 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Elliott, Isaac Hughes (October 19, 1902). "History of the Thirty-Third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 22nd August, 1861, to 7th December, 1865". Higginson Book Company – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ https://www.physics.uci.edu/~jmlawren/DTDecember07.pdf
  11. ↑ "Lake Charm Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.


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