John Wheeler (February 11, 1823 – April 1, 1906) was a

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from

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Biography

Wheeler was born in Humphreysville, Connecticut (now

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on February 11, 1823. He attended the common schools in

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and moved to

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in 1843. He was engaged in the hotel business with his father, and later became a dry-goods clerk. A

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, he was elected to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857) as the representative of New York's sixth district. Wheeler declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress. Wheeler served as commissioner and president of the New York City's Department of Taxes and Assessments from 1872 to 1880, and later served as a member of the Board of Estimates and Apportionments and Commissioner of Accounts. In the 1870s he was a member of the Committee of Seventy, a group of anti-

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Democrats who worked to overthrow

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, and elected

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. He died in New York City on April 1, 1906 and was buried at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wheeler, John 1823 births 1906 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century New York (state) politicians 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives