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Representative Cave Johnson McFarland View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/22/1862
Birth Place: Mount Vernon, Ohio
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 2 (1848)
Home County: Lee
Cave Johnson McFarland
Lee County
Born at Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He read law with John C. McNulty, Clerk of the House of Representatives. He came to Lee county, Iowa, in 1844, and was subsequently Prosecuting Attorney for the county for several years, and also represented that county in the legislature. He afterwards moved to Boone county, where he was appointed Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, and was afterwards elected. He died in April, 1862, at Boonesboro.
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House District 1
Committees
2nd GA (1848)
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2nd GA (1848)