John Avery (politician)
{{Short description|American politician (1824–1914)}}
{{For|other politicians of this name|John Avery (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = John Avery
| image = JohnAvery.jpg
| caption = From 1896's An Illustrated Congressional Manual.
| state1 = Michigan
| district1 = 11th
| term_start1 = March 4, 1893
| term_end1 = March 3, 1897
| predecessor1 = Samuel M. Stephenson
| successor1 = William S. Mesick
| office2 = Member of the Michigan Board of Health
| term_start2 = 1880
| term_end2 = 1893
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| office3 = Member of the Michigan House of Representatives
| term_start3 = 1869
| term_end3 = 1870
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1824|02|29}}
| birth_place = Watertown, New York, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|01|21|1824|02|29}}
| death_place = Greenville, Michigan, US
| restingplace = Forest Home Cemetery
Greenville, Michigan
| allegiance = United States (Union)
| branch = Union Army
| serviceyears = 1862-1865
| rank = Major (Surgeon)
| unit = 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
| battles = March to the Sea
Carolinas Campaign
| alma_mater = Cleveland Medical College
| spouse =
| relations =
| profession = Physician
}}
John Avery (February 29, 1824 – January 21, 1914) was a physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897.
Early life and education
Avery was born in Watertown, New York, and moved with his parents to Michigan in 1836. He attended the common schools and entered Grass Lake Academy in Jackson, where he studied medicine for two years. He graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1850 and commenced the practice of medicine in Ionia, Michigan. He then moved to Otsego, Michigan, in 1852 and continued the practice of his profession.{{cite book|title=Who Was Who in American History - the Military|date=1975|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|location=Chicago|isbn=978-0-8379-3201-9|page=20}}
Civil War service
During the American Civil War, he was assistant surgeon and surgeon of the Twenty-first Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He served in the Army of the Cumberland in Kentucky and Tennessee and was with General William Tecumseh Sherman on his March to the Sea, as well as during the subsequent Carolinas Campaign.
Political career
He settled in Greenville, Michigan, in 1868 and again engaged in the practice of medicine. He was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1869 and 1870. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Health in 1880 and was reappointed in 1886.
Avery was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1897. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1896.
After leaving Congress, Avery went back to Greenville and returned to the practice of medicine. He died at the age of eighty-nine and was interred at Forest Home Cemetery of Greenville.
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External links
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- {{cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Avery, John |volume= 1 |page= 169 |year=1906 |short=}}
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#R9M0IO9LQ The Political Graveyard]
- [http://www.21stmichigan.us/avery.htm 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Page on Avery]
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Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan
Category:People from Otsego, Michigan
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Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives