- Joseph Benton Donley
Joseph Benton Donley (
October 10 ,1838 –January 23 ,1917 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Joseph Benton Donley was born in
Mount Morris, Pennsylvania . He completed preparatory studies, and graduated fromWaynesburg College inWaynesburg, Pennsylvania in 1859. He was a member of the faculty ofAbingdon College inAbingdon, Illinois , from 1860 to 1862.He entered the
Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1862 and served throughout the war.He graduated from the
Albany Law School inAlbany, New York , in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He served as a referee inbankruptcy in 1867 and 1868.Donley was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870. He resumed the practice of his profession in Waynesburg and died there in 1917. Interment in Green Mount Cemetery.
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