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The Daily Gazette
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Hon. R. W. Townshend, born in Maryland in 1840 and former House page in Washington D.C., has been elected Congressman from Illinois' 19th district by over 4,000 votes despite two opponents. He rose through legal positions in Illinois.
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Illinois
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Late Election
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elected by over four thousand majority
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The newly-elected Congressman from the nineteenth district, Hon. R. W. Townshend, was born in Maryland in 1840, and was educated in Washington, D. C., where he served as page in the House of Representatives in 1857-8. He came to Illinois in 1858, and studied law under Hon. S. S. Marshall, at McLeansboro. In 1862 he was elected circuit clerk of Hamilton county, and in 1868 was elected attorney for the twelfth circuit. He now goes back to Washington, but to serve in a far different capacity from that in which he acted nineteen years ago. By his own efforts, perseverance and intrinsic worth he has risen step by step from the position of page to a seat in the House. In the late election, although he had two opponents, one a republican and one an independent, he was elected by over four thousand majority. He is a man of whom his constituents may well be proud.