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Alexander G. Cochran | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's23rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 | |
| Preceded by | John McCandless Thompson |
| Succeeded by | Thomas McKee Bayne |
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| Born | Alexander Gilmore Cochran (1846-03-20)March 20, 1846 |
| Died | May 1, 1928(1928-05-01) (aged 82) |
| Party | Democratic |
Alexander Gilmore Cochran (March 20, 1846 – May 1, 1928) was an American attorney and one-termDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Cochran was born inAllegheny City, Pennsylvania (now part ofPittsburgh). He attended private and public schools in Pennsylvania,Phillips Academy inAndover, Massachusetts, andColumbia Law School inNew York City. Cochran was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh.
Cochran was elected as a Democrat to theForty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1876 and so resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh. In 1879 he moved toSt. Louis, Missouri where he spent more than twenty years as general solicitor for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and head of its legal department in the West. He also served as vice president of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railway and as judge advocate with the rank of lieutenant colonel in theMissouri National Guard. Cochran died in St. Louis in 1928 and was interred inBellefontaine Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 23rd congressional district 1875–1877 | Succeeded by |
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