Daniel Thomas Mills was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born near Waynesville, Ohio

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, Mills attended the common schools of Rayesville and the Waynesville High School.
He moved to Corwin, Ohio

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, in 1859 and engaged in the mercantile, grain-shipping, and pork-packing businesses.
During the Civil War

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 served in the Union Army

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 as captain of Company D, One Hundred and Eightieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, until the close of the war.
He moved to Chicago, Illinois.
He engaged in lake shipping 1866-1869, and later in the real estate business.
He served as warden of the Cook County Hospital 1877-1881.
He served as an aldermen on the Chicago city council from 1889-1893.

Mills was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

 Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:- Leadership :- Senate :* President: Garret Hobart , until November 21, 1899 , vacant thereafter.* President pro tempore: William P. Frye * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones...

 Congress.
He resumed the real estate business.
He died in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1904.
He was interred in Graceland Cemetery

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