Clement Hall Sinnickson (September 16, 1834 – July 24, 1919), was an American
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politician, who served in the
United States House of Representatives
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Salem, New Jersey
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, before graduating from
Union College
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, New York, in 1855. While at Union he became a member of
Theta Delta Chi
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. After his collegiate career, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, commencing the practice of law in Salem. During the
Civil War
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Sinnickson served as
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in the
Union Army
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. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth United States Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1879. After his stint in Washington, he resumed the practice of law in Salem. He also served as a delegate to the
1880 Republican National Convention
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, and he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1896 and reappointed in 1901 and 1906.
Sinnickson died in
The Political Graveyard
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