Alonzo Madison Giles
Alonzo Madison Giles | |
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 Alonzo Madison Giles, 1868 Massachusetts Senate | |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the Suffolk County, second district | |
| In office 1861–1862 | |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate | |
| In office 1868–1870 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 25, 1821 |
| Died | 1872 |
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Alonzo Madison Giles was an American politician in Massachusetts.
Giles was born in Brookfield, New Hampshire, February 25, 1821.[1] He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1861[2] and 1862,[3] and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1868–1870 for the second district of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.[1]
Giles patented an improved gas-generator that was used in the manufacture of coal gas.[4][5]
In 1869, he was one of two votes against the 14th Amendment in the Massachusetts Senate.[6]
The genealogy of the Giles family has been documented by John Adams Vinton.[7]
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References
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- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1868". 1868 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1869". 1869 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1870". 1870 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- ↑ Manual for the use of the General Court. Boston: William White, printer to the state. 1861. p. 214 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Manual for the use of the General Court. Boston: William White, printer to the state. 1862. p. 199 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases". United States Government Publishing Office. April 13, 1872. p. 76 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office". United States Government Publishing Office. April 13, 1872 – via Google Books.
- ↑ McPherson, Edward (April 13, 1875). "The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction, (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,): Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congress. With the Votes Thereon; Together with the Action, Congressional and State, on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Otther Important Executive, Legislative, Politico-military, and Judicial Facts of that Period". Washington: Solomons & Chapman. p. 493 – via Google Books.
- ↑ VINTON, John Adams (April 13, 1864). "The Giles Memorial. Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes ... Also Genealogical Sketches of the Pool, Very ... and Other Families, with a History of Pemaquid, Ancient and Modern; Some Account of Early Settlements in Maine, and Some Details of Indian Warfare" – via Google Books.