Eugene Jerome Hainer (August 16, 1851 – March 17, 1929) was an American Republican Party politician.

Biography

Born in

Pécs Pécs ( , ; ; Slovak language, Slovak: ''Päťkostolie''; also known by #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the c ...

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in 1851, he immigrated to the United States with his parents settling in

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, in 1854. He later moved with them in 1861 to the Hungarian settlement of New Buda, Iowa founded by George Pomutz. He spent his childhood on a farm near

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. Was educated in Garden Grove Seminary school and then in the

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. He graduated from the law department of

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in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He set up practice in

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, in 1877, becoming interested in banking and in a group of creameries in southern Nebraska. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He resumed practice in Aurora and moved to

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, in 1904 while still practicing. He retired in July 1928 and moved to

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, where he resided until his death on March 17, 1929. He is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

References

* * * 1851 births 1929 deaths Nebraska lawyers Emigrants from the Austrian Empire to the United States Politicians from Columbia, Missouri People from Aurora, Nebraska Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska People from Pécs 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Nebraska-politician-stub