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Thurston (JOHN MELLEN an American lawyer)

JOHN MELLEN, an American lawyer; born in Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 21, 1847; was admitted to the bar in 1869; 1869; was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions in 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; was United States senator from Nebraska in 1895-1901, and in 1897 rose to special prominence because of his speeches in the Senate advocating prompt intervention on behalf of Cuba. He was also a United States commissioner at the St. Louis Exposition in 1901. He died in 1916.

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