Douglas County IL Archives Biographies.....Cannon, Joseph G 1836 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

CANNON, Joseph G., representative, was born at Guilford, N. C., May 7, 1836. 
He was educated for the bar in the schools of his native state, and commenced 
practice at Tuscola, Ill., removing subsequently to Danville. He served as 
states attorney from March, 1861, to December, 1868, and as a representative 
from the fifteenth district of Illinois to the 43rd and every successive 
Congress, including the 55th, except the 52nd Congress, to which he failed of 
an election by reason of an ill-advised speech, which was made the instrument 
of his defeat. On the organization of the 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th Congresses 
he was made chairman of the committee on appropriations.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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