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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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        HON. OMAR D. CONGER, United States Senator, was born in 1808, at
    Cooperstown, N.Y.  He removed with his father, Rev. E. CONGER, to Huron
    County, Ohio, in 1824.  He received the instruction given in the common
    schools; pursued his academic studies at Huron Institute, Milan, Ohio,
    and graduated from the Western Reserve College in 1842.  From 1845 to
    1848, he was engaged in the geological survey and mineral explorations
    of the Lake Superior copper and iron regions.  In 1848, he removed to
    Port Huron, Mich., and engaged in the practice of law.  In 1850, Mr.
    CONGER was elected Judge of St. Clair County Court.  He was elected
    State Senator for the biennial terms of 1855, 1857 and 1859, and during
    the last term was made President pro tempore of the Senate.  In 1860,
    he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan,
    and in 1864, was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket.  He
    represented his district in the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third,
    Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.  In the last election he re-
    ceived fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighteen votes, against
    thirteen thousand one hundred and seveny-seven, given the Democratic
    candidate, ANSON E. CHADWICK.  In the winter of 1880, he was elected to
    the United States Senate, to succeed the late Senator CHANDLER.

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