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Born in 1820, Sherrard Clemens studied law at Washington College in Pennsylvania and was admitted to the bar in 1843, then established a practice in Wheeling. He served in the U.S. House from 1852 to 1853 and from 1857 to 1861, and was a delegate to the Richmond Convention of 1861, where he voted against secession. During the Civil War, he opposed West Virginia statehood. Clemens later moved to Missouri and died there in 1881.
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