John Taddeus Heard was a Democrat

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 Representative

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 representing Missouri

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 from March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895.

Heard was born in Georgetown, Missouri

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 in Pettis County, Missouri

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. He graduated from the University of Missouri

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 in 1860. He was admitted to the bar in 1862 and practiced law in Sedalia, Missouri

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Sedalia is a city located about south of the Missouri River in Pettis County, Missouri. U.S. Highway 50 and U.S. Highway 65 intersect in the city. As of 2006, the city had a total population of 20,669. It is the county seat of Pettis County. The Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of...

. He was a member of the Missouri State House of Representatives  1872-1875; Missouri State Senate 1880-1884; employed in 1881 by the fund commissioners of the State to prosecute and adjust all claims of the State against the General Government.
While in Congress he was chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; delegate to the 1904 Democratic National Convention

1904 Democratic National Convention

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He died while on a visit to Los Angeles, California

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, January 27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery in Sedalia.