Hiester Clymer

Clymer, Hiester. He was born in Berks County, November 3, 1827; graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1847; studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1849; pursued his profession in that county until 1851, when he removed to Pottsville, and there practiced until 1856, when he settled in Reading. In 1860 he represented Berks County in the Board of Revenue Commissioners of the State, and in the same year attended the National Democratic Convention in Charleston and Baltimore; was a member of the State Senate of Pennsylvania from October, 1860, until he resigned, when nominated, in 1866, a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; in 1868 he again represented his district in the Democratic Convention which met at New York; in 1870 he was appointed a member of the State Board of Public Charities; and he was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Public Lands. In December, 1875, he was appointed Chairman of the Committees on Library and on Expenditures in War Department.

Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 87.

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