Ralph Plumb

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ralph Plumb |image = Ralph Plumb (1816–1903).png |caption = |state = Illinois |district = {{ushr|Illinois|8|8th}} |term_start = March 4, 1885 |term_end = March 3, 1889 |predecessor = William Cullen |successor = Charles A. Hill |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1816|3|29}} |birth_place = Busti, New York, U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|1903|4|8|1816|3|29}} |death_place = Streator, Illinois, U.S. |party = Republican |signature = Signature of Ralph Plumb (1816–1903).png }}

'''Ralph Plumb''' (March 29, 1816 – April 8, 1903) was a U.S. representative from Illinois.

==Biography== Ralph Plumb was born in Busti, New York on March 29, 1816.<ref name=Representative>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldi1271mose/page/231/mode/1up |title=Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Representative Men of the United States: Illinois Volume |editor-first=John |editor-last=Moses |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |pages=230–232 |year=1896 |access-date=2021-12-09 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He attended the common schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and moved to Ohio. He served as a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives in 1855. Deciding to study law, he was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Oberlin, Ohio. During the Civil War served in the Union Army as captain and quartermaster of Volunteers, 1861–65. He was brevetted lieutenant colonel.

He moved to Illinois in 1866 and settled in Streator. He engaged in the mining of coal and the building of railroads. He served as mayor of Streator from 1882 to 1885, and was later elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). Plumb engaged in banking until his death in Streator on April 8, 1903.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000390|title=PLUMB, Ralph - Biographical Information|website=Bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=20 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75574509/col-ralph-plumb-death-announcement/ |title=Death of Col. Ralph Plumb |newspaper=Streator Daily Free Press |page=1 |date=1903-04-09 |access-date=2021-12-09 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * {{cite news |title=John Brown's raid. Congressman Plumb Tells the Story of the Oberlin Rescuers, of Who He Was One |newspaper=St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) |date=April 22, 1888 |page=32 |first=Ralph |last=Plumb |authorlink=Ralph Plumb |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68891267/oberlin-wellington-rescue/}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Illinois | district=8 | before=William Cullen | after=Charles A. Hill | years=1885-1889 }} {{s-end}}

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