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Geary, John White

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Geary, John White (1819–1873)

US soldier and politician. A Mexican War veteran, he was the first mayor of San Francisco (1850) and he pacified ‘Bloody Kansas’ as territorial governor there in 1856–57. He commanded a Union division at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, during the Chattanooga campaign (1863), and in General Sherman's March to the Sea. Geary was Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1867–73. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.



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