Stephen Arnold Hoxworth (May 1, 1860 – January 25, 1930) was a

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from

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. Born in Maquon Township, near

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, Hoxworth attended the public schools. He moved to

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, in 1880. He engaged in banking and in the grain and implement business. He served as member of the Nebraska State Militia. He returned to Illinois in 1885 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Rapatee, Knox County. He served as supervisor of Maquon Township 1907–1912. Hoxworth was elected as a

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to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He resumed agricultural pursuits. He died in

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, January 25, 1930. He was interred in Lyons Cemetery.

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1860 births 1930 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Illinois-Representative-stub