John Winfield Wallace was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Biography

John Winfield Wallace was born near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

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. He attended Darlington Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania

Darlington, Pennsylvania

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, where he afterward taught. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1846 and commenced the practice of medicine in Darlington. He moved to New Castle, Pennsylvania

New Castle, Pennsylvania

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, in 1850, and held several local offices.

Wallace was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh

37th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862

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During the Civil War, Wallace served as paymaster in the Union Army

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. He was again elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth

44th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1876

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He resumed the practice of medicine in New Castle where he died in 1889, aged 70. Interment in Grandview Cemetery, near Beaver Falls.