THAYER, JOHN M.
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born in 1820, led a brigade at Donelson and Shiloh and commanded a division at Vicksburg and a column at Chickasaw. He represented Nebraska in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from 1867 to 1871, and was Governor of Nebraska from 1886 to 1891.
By John Franklin Jameson
