Gideon Frank Rothwell (April 24, 1836 – January 18, 1894) was a

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from

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. Born near

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, Rothwell graduated from the

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in Columbia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1864, commencing practice in Huntsville, Missouri. Rothwell was elected as a

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to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881) but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880. He resumed the practice of law in

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. He was appointed in 1889 a member of the board of curators of the

, and served as its president in 1890–1894 during the catastrophic 1892 fire. After first ordering the remaining

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torn down, Rothwell, eventually declare them structurally sound, creating Columbia's most famous landmark. He died in

, on January 18, 1894, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

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