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ANTHONY THORNTON

Anthony Thornton was born November 9, 1819 in Bourbon
county, Ky., whither his parents had gone from "Ormesby"
in Caroline. He graduated from Miama College in Ohio and

settled at Shelbyville, Illinois, where he engaged in the practice
of law. He was a Delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Conventions
of 1847 and 1862, a member of the State Legislature in
1850, and a member of the Thirty-Ninth United States Congress.