Addison Smith McClure (October 10, 1839 – April 17, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a

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from

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in the late 19th century.

Biography

Born in

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, McClure pursued an academic course in Jefferson College,

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(now

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). He studied law in the office of Martin Welker, was admitted to the bar in 1861, thereafter practicing in Wooster. He entered the

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as a private in April 1861. He was elected captain of Company H, Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in October of the same year. He was captured December 29, 1862, during the

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, and held as a prisoner of war until he was exchanged in May 1863. He was discharged in August 1864. He served as recorder of Wayne County in 1867. He was also appointed

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of Wooster in 1867, and reappointed in both 1872 and 1876. He served as delegate to the

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in 1868 and 1876. McClure married Mary L. Brigham of Vienna Township, Michigan on September 26, 1866. They had one son.

Congress

McClure was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). While he was not reelected in 1882, he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). Again failing to be reelected in 1896, McClure resumed the practice of law.

Death

He died in

, on April 17, 1903. He was interred in Wooster Cemetery.

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