About Elias Florence
Lived 1797 – 1880 (aged 83). Elias Florence was an American politician.
Elias Florence (February 15, 1797 – November 21, 1880) was a U.S. representative from Ohio.
Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, he attended the public schools and studied agriculture. He later moved to Ohio and settled in Circleville, Pickaway County. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1829, 1830, 1834, and 1840, and served in the Ohio Senate in 1835.
He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845). In 1850, he served as member of the state constitutional convention. Thereafter he resumed agricultural pursuits. He died in Muhlenberg Township, Ohio, November 21, 1880 and was interred in Forest Cemetery in Circleville.
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Elias Florence was born on 15 February 1797 in Fauquier County.
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Elias Florence died on 21 November 1880 in Muhlenberg Township.
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