Nathaniel Cobb Deering
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Nathaniel Cobb Deering (September 2, 1827 - December 11, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born in Denmark, Maine, Deering attended the common schools and was graduated from North Bridgeton Academy. He served as member of the State house of representatives from Penobscot County in 1855 and 1856. He moved to Iowa, and settled in Osage, Mitchell County, in 1857. He engaged in the lumber business and built and operated a sawmill. For several years a clerk in the United States Senate, but resigned in 1865. He served as special agent of the Post Office Department for the district of Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska from 1865 to 1869, when he resigned. National-bank examiner for the State of Iowa 1872-1877.
Deering was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Forty-seventh Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was also interested in cattle raising in Montana, and at the time of his death served as president of a large cattle company in that territory. He died in Osage, Iowa, December 11, 1887. He was interred in Osage Cemetery.
