William Wallace Grout was a U.S. Representative

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 from Vermont

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Biography

Born in Compton, Province of Quebec, Grout pursued an academic course and graduated from the Poughkeepsie (New York) Law School in 1857.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in December of the same year and practiced in Barton, Vermont.
He served as lieutenant colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry, in the Union Army

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 during the Civil War

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He served as prosecuting attorney of Orleans County in 1865 and 1866.
He served in the State house of representatives 1868-1870 and in 1874.
He served as member of the State senate in 1876 and served as president pro tempore of that body.

Grout was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-seventh

47th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congress.

Grout was elected to the Forty-ninth

49th United States Congress

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 and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1901).
He served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-first

51st United States Congress

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 Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War

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 (Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

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 through Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

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 Congresses).
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He died in Kirby, Vermont

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, October 7, 1902.
He was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.