Albert Duane Shaw was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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Born in Lyme, New York

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, Shaw attended Belleville and Union Academies and St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University

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, Canton, New York

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. He enlisted as a private

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 in Company A, Thirty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in June 1861 and served out the term of enlistment. He was appointed a special agent of the War Department

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 in 1863, stationed at provost marshal's headquarters in Watertown, New York, and served until the close of the war. He served as member of the New York State Assembly

New York State Assembly

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 in 1866. He was appointed colonel of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, New York National Guard, in 1867, and resigned to accept the position of United States consul at Toronto

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, Canada

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, in 1868. He was promoted to United States consul at Manchester, England, in 1878.

Shaw was elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic

Grand Army of the Republic

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 of New York in 1896, and was unanimously elected commander in chief at the national encampment in 1899.

Shaw was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-sixth Congress

56th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:- Leadership :- Senate :* President: Garret Hobart , until November 21, 1899 , vacant thereafter.* President pro tempore: William P. Frye * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones...

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Chickering

Charles A. Chickering

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. He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress

57th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:*Democratic: 151*Republican: 200 *Populist: 5*Silver : 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Theodore Roosevelt , until September 14, 1901, vacant thereafter....

 and served from November 6, 1900, until his death in Washington, D.C.

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, on February 10, 1901, before the close of the Fifty-sixth Congress. He was interred in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York.

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