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Reagan, John Henninger 1818-

Jurist; born in Sevier county, Tenn., Oct. 8, 1818; held several local offices in Texas; and was judge of the district court in Texas, to which State he emigrated after its independence. From 1857 to 1861 he was in Congress, and, joining the Confederacy, was appointed Postmaster-General, and was for a short time Secretary of its Treasury Department. He was captured with Jefferson Davis and was sent to Fort Warren. In 1874 he was elected to Congress, where for nearly ten years he was chairman of the committee on commerce, and in 1887 to the United States Senate, on retiring from which he became chairman of the Texas State railroad commission.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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