Matthew Rombach Denver (December 21, 1870 – May 13, 1954) was a three-term member of the

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from 1907 to 1913. He was the son of James William Denver, who served as a member of Congress from California in the mid-19th century.

Biography

Born in Rombach Place in

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,Brown, Albert J., ed. ''History of Clinton County Ohio: Its People, Industries, and Institutions''.

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: Bowen, 1915, 561. Denver attended public schools there. He graduated from

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in Washington, D.C. in 1892. He was involved in agriculture, banking and manufacturing. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1896, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936 and as a member of the Democratic State committee from 1896 to 1908. Denver was elected as a

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to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1913). He declined candidacy for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress. He returned to banking in Wilmington and served as president of the Ohio Bankers' Association in 1918 and 1919. Denver was again elected a member of the Democratic State committee for the 1926–1928 term. He served as president of the Clinton County National Bank & Trust Co. from 1902 until his death in Wilmington on May 13, 1954. His remains are interred at the Sugar Grove Cemetery.

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