. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. atiseentitled Sitgreaves Manual of Legislative Practice. lie introducedthe bill to • abolish public executions, and also drafted, introduced,and advocated a bill for relief of the poor by exempting from execu-tion, and for the use of the debtors family, certain articles of house-hold and kitchen furniture. Mr. Sitgreaves subsequently held thepositions of trustee of the State Normal School, president of the Bel-videre and Delaware Eaikoad Company, mayor of the town ofPliillipsburg, and president of the Phillipsburg Baidc
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. atiseentitled Sitgreaves Manual of Legislative Practice. lie introducedthe bill to • abolish public executions, and also drafted, introduced,and advocated a bill for relief of the poor by exempting from execu-tion, and for the use of the debtors family, certain articles of house-hold and kitchen furniture. Mr. Sitgreaves subsequently held thepositions of trustee of the State Normal School, president of the Bel-videre and Delaware Eaikoad Company, mayor of the town ofPliillipsburg, and president of the Phillipsburg Baidc. In 186-4 he was elected a Eepresentative from New Jersey to theThirty-ninth Congress, and was re-elected in 1866. In the FortiethCongress he served on the Committee on Military Affairs, and wasan active and efficient member on the Democratic side of the opposed the Impeachment of the President in an elaboratespeach, and on another occasion addressed the House at length from a stand-point in opposition to the insane policy of reconstruction. 334. ?^^-ifC-jEPerin-s^ \j^^:-/) s-ia.
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