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

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politician. Born in Pécs,

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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

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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 Iowa Agricultural College. He graduated from the law department of Simpson College in

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in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He set up practice in Aurora, Nebraska, in 1877, becoming interested in banking and in a group of

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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

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, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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