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Saunders, Alvin 1817-1899

Legislator; born in Fleming county, Ky., July 12, 1817; removed to the present State of Iowa in 1836; delegate to the Iowa constitutional convention in 1846; governor of the Nebraska Territory in 1861-67; and United States Senator from Nebraska in 1877-83. During this period he secured over 600,000 acres of land to his State by the rearrangement of the northern boundary. He died in Omaha, Neb., Nov. 1, 1899.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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