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John W. Geary

New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
· (1819 - 1873)
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John W. Geary served two terms as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1867 to 1873. He was a Major General in the Civil War, a Colonel of the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment in the Mexican War, Governor of Kansas Territory, and the first postmaster and first mayor of San Francisco. His home stood a block east at 308 Market Street.
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