- Albert Gallatin Egbert
Albert Gallatin Egbert (
April 13 ,1828 –March 28 ,1896 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Albert G. Egbert was born near
Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania . He attended the public schools and Grand River Institute inAustinburg, Ohio . He was graduated from the medical department of theWestern Reserve University inCleveland, Ohio , in 1856 and commenced the practice of medicine inClintonville, Pennsylvania . He moved toCherrytree, Pennsylvania , and practiced his profession until 1861, when he retired in order to devote his entire time to the production ofoil and to agricultural pursuits. During theAmerican Civil War , he served as a volunteersurgeon .Egbert was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress. He served as chairman of the
United States House Committee on Mileage during this Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876. He resumed his former business pursuits, and died inFranklin, Pennsylvania . Interment in Franklin Cemetery.References
*CongBio|E000087 Retrieved on
2008-02-14
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/egbert.html The Political Graveyard]
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