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John Turner Wait
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromConnecticut's3rd district
In office April 12, 1876 – March 3, 1887
Preceded by	Henry H. Starkweather
Succeeded by	Charles Addison Russell
President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate
Member of theConnecticut Senate
In office 1865-1866
Member of theConnecticut House of Representatives
In office 1867 1871 1873
Personal details
Born	August 27, 1811
Died	April 21, 1899(1899-04-21) (aged 87)

John Turner Wait (August 27, 1811 – April 21, 1899) was aU.S. Representative fromConnecticut.

Born inNew London, Connecticut, Wait moved with his mother toNorwich, Connecticut. He attended the common schools andTrinity College,Hartford, Connecticut, for two years. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He studied law, wasadmitted to the bar in 1836, and began the practicing law in Norwich this same year.

He served as state's attorney for thecounty of New London from 1842 to 1844 and 1846 to 1854. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election asLieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857. He served in theConnecticut Senate in 1865 and 1866, the latter year aspresident pro tempore. He served as member of theConnecticut House of Representatives in 1867, 1871, and 1873, serving asspeaker in 1867.

Wait was elected as aRepublican to theForty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofHenry H. Starkweather. He was reelected as aRepublican to theForty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from April 12, 1876, to March 3, 1887. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886, and resumed the practice of his profession.

Congressman Wait was a first cousin of U.S. Chief JusticeMorrison Waite.

He died inNorwich, Connecticut, April 21, 1899, and was interred in Yantic Cemetery.

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