district predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place nationality term_end birth_date term_start article_title state name
4th willard p. hall james craig april 25 , 1898 -lrb- aged 68 -rrb- anderson county , kentucky springfield , missouri american march 3 , 1857 october 22 , 1819 march 4 , 1853 mordecai oliver
 missouri mordecai oliver
mordecai oliver

mordecai oliver -lrb- october 22 , 1819 -- april 25 , 1898 -rrb- was an attorney and two-term u.s. representative from missouri .
born in anderson county , kentucky , oliver attended the common schools and then studied law .
he was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in richmond , missouri .
he served as a prosecuting attorney for the fifth judicial circuit in 1848 .
oliver was elected as a whig to the thirty-third congress and reelected as an opposition party candidate to the thirty-fourth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1853 -- march 3 , 1857 -rrb- .
oliver was elected as a unionist secretary of state of missouri in 1861 .
he resumed the practice of law in st. louis , missouri , and served as judge of the criminal court 1889-1893 .
he moved to springfield , missouri , where he died april 25 , 1898 .
he was interred in hazelwood cemetery .
