John Alfred Pickler Biography


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PICKLER, John Alfred, a Representative from South Dakota; near Salem, 
Washington County, Ind., January 24, 1844; moved with his father to 
Davis County, Iowa; attended the district school; during the Civil War 
entered the Union Army and served in the Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer 
Cavalry; mustered out as captain in that regiment; subsequently served 
six months as major in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Iowa 
Volunteer Cavalry; was graduated from the University of Iowa at Iowa 
City in 1870; attended the Chicago University Law School in 1871 and 
was graduated from the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law School in 1872; was 
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Kirksville, Mo.; elected 
district attorney of Adair County, Mo., in 1872; moved to Muscatine, 
Iowa in 1874; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Garfield 
and Arthur in 1880; member of the Stagy legislature 1881-1883; moved to 
the Territory of Dakota in 1883; elected to the Dakota Legislature in 
1884; upon the admission of South Dakota as a State into the Union was 
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and to the three succeeding 
Congresses and served from November 2, 1889, to March 3, 1897; was not 
a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of his 
profession; also engaged in the real-estate business; died in Faulkton, 
Faulk County, S. Dak., on June 13, 1910; interment in Faulkton 
Cemetery.