Ebenezer McJunkin (March 28, 1819 – November 10, 1907) was a Republican member of the

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from

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.McJunkin, Ebenezer
(M000487), in ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online February 24, 2023.

Biography

Ebenezer McJunkin was born at Center Top, in

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on March 28, 1819. He graduated from Jefferson College (now

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) in

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in 1841. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843, and commenced practice in

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. He subsequently served as deputy attorney general for

in 1850, and was a delegate to the

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. During the

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, he served as a first lieutenant of a militia unit. McJunkin was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Forty-third Congress. He resigned January 1, 1875 in order to serve as president judge of the seventeenth judicial district of Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1885. He then resumed the practice of his profession until 1900, when he retired.

Death and interment

He died in Butler, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1907, and was interred in North Cemetery.

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