David Albaugh DE ARMOND, Congress, MO (1844-1909)

DE ARMOND, David Albaugh, a Representative from Missouri; born in Blair County, Pa., March 18, 1844; attended the public schools and Williamsport Dickinson Seminary; moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Davenport; moved to Missouri in 1869 and settled in Greenfield, Dade County; member of the Missouri state senate, 1879-1883; Missouri Supreme Court commissioner, 1884; judge of the twenty-second judicial circuit of Missouri, 1886-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-November 23, 1909); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1905 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Charles Swayne, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida; died in Butler, Bates County, Mo., November 23, 1909; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present