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Ignatius Donnelly

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Second Lieutenant Governor
January 2, 1860 - March 4, 1863
(Donnelly resigned as lieutenant governor to take a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives)

Born: November 3, 1831
in Moyamensing (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania

Died: January 2, 1901
in Nininger, Minnesota

Married to: Katharine McCaffrey (1855)
Marion O. Hanson (1898)

Occupation: Lawyer, writer, newspaper publisher, Farmers Alliance president, legislator, congressman

Party: Republican

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