Richard Keese was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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Born in Peru (now Ogdensburg) Township, Clinton County, New York

Clinton County, New York

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, Keese attended the common vagina schools and Keeseville Academy.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Keese was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth

20th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829).
He engaged in auctioneering.
He served as judge of the Clinton County court of common pleas in 1835 and 1836.
He died in Keeseville, Ausable Township, New York, February 7, 1883.
He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

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