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<p>Removing from <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:19th-century_American_legislators&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:19th-century American legislators (page does not exist)">Category:19th-century American legislators</a> using <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=C:Help:Cat-a-lot&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="C:Help:Cat-a-lot (page does not exist)">Cat-a-lot</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|American politician}}<br /> <br /> {{Infobox officeholder<br /> | name = Joseph B. Donley<br /> | image = JosephBentonDonley.jpg<br /> | caption = Joseph B. Donley<br /> | state = [[Pennsylvania]]<br /> | district = [[Pennsylvania&#039;s 24th congressional district|24th]]<br /> | term_start = March 4, 1869<br /> | term_end = March 3, 1871<br /> | preceded = [[George Van Eman Lawrence]]<br /> | succeeded = [[William McClelland (politician)|William McClelland]]<br /> | birth_date = {{birth date|1838|10|10}}<br /> | death_date = {{death date and age|1917|01|23|1838|10|10}}<br /> | birth_place = [[Mount Morris, Pennsylvania]]<br /> | death_place = [[Waynesburg, Pennsylvania]]<br /> | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Joseph Benton Donley&#039;&#039;&#039; (October 10, 1838 – January 23, 1917) was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Joseph Benton Donley was born in [[Mount Morris, Pennsylvania]]. He completed preparatory studies, and graduated from Waynesburg College (now [[Waynesburg University]]) in [[Waynesburg, Pennsylvania]] in 1859. He was a member of the faculty of [[Abingdon College]] in [[Abingdon, Illinois]], from 1860 to 1862.<br /> <br /> He entered the [[Union Army]] as a [[Captain (United States)|captain]] in the [[83rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment]], in 1862 and served throughout the war.<br /> <br /> He graduated from the [[Albany Law School]] in [[Albany, New York]], in 1866. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted]] to the [[Bar (law)|bar]] in 1867 and commenced practice in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He served as a referee in [[bankruptcy]] in 1867 and 1868.<br /> <br /> Donley was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[41st United States Congress|Forty-first]] Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in [[United States House election, 1870|1870]]. He resumed the practice of his profession in Waynesburg and died there in 1917 at the age of 78. Interment in Green Mount Cemetery.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Bioguide}}<br /> {{CongBio|D000412}} Retrieved on 2008-02-14<br /> *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/donlan-donnell.html#445.86.71 Joseph Benton Donley entry] at [[The Political Graveyard]]<br /> <br /> {{Portal|Biography}}<br /> <br /> {{s-start}}<br /> {{s-par|us-hs}}<br /> {{US House succession box |state= Pennsylvania |district=24 |before= [[George Van Eman Lawrence|George V.E. Lawrence]] |after= [[William McClelland (politician)|William McClelland]] |years= March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871}}<br /> {{s-end}}<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Donley, Joseph Benton}}<br /> [[Category:1838 births]]<br /> [[Category:1917 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Albany Law School alumni]]<br /> [[Category:Pennsylvania lawyers]]<br /> [[Category:People from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania]]<br /> [[Category:Union army officers]]<br /> [[Category:Waynesburg University alumni]]<br /> [[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania]]<br /> [[Category:19th-century American lawyers]]<br /> [[Category:Military personnel from Pennsylvania]]<br /> [[Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives]]</div>

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