Daniel W. Waugh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling. You can assist by editing it now. A how-to guide is available. (August 2007) |
Daniel Webster Waugh (March 7, 1842 - March 14, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born near Bluffton, Indiana, Waugh attended the country schools and the high school in Bluffton. Enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 in Company A, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until honorably discharged in September 1864. He taught school. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1866. He settled in Tipton, Indiana, in 1867 and practiced. He served as judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit 1884-1890.
Waugh was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Tipton, Indiana, March 14, 1921. He was interred in the mausoleum adjoining Green Lawn Cemetery.
