William H. Calkins

William Henry Calkins (February 18, 1842 – January 29, 1894) was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1877 to 1884.Born in Pike County, Ohio, Calkins studied law.During the Civil War served in the Union Army from May 1861 to December 1865, except three months in 1863, attached to the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry.State's attorney for the ninth Indiana judicial circuit 1866-1870.Calkins was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884, when he resigned.
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