Theodore Medad Pomeroy, 30th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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Theodore Medad Pomeroy (December 31, 1824 – March 23, 1905) was a United States politician. He served in the House of Representatives as a Republican from New York from 1861 to 1869. He also served as the Speaker of the House for about a day (from Schuyler Colfax's resignation on March 3, 1869 to noon the following day when his final term expired). He later served as mayor of Auburn, New York.

Children

• 1) Janet Watson Pomeroy (1858 - 1882)
• 2) Lillias Pomeroy (1860 - 1933 m. Charles Irving Avery (1859 - 1927)
• 3) Josephine Pomeroy (1864 - 1938) m. Frank Rufus Herrick (1865 - 1926)
• 4) Robert Watson Pomeroy (1868 - 1935) m. Lucy Bemis (1869 - 1956)
• 5) Theodore Medad Pomeroy, jr (1874 - 1940) m. Mabel Wadsworth

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THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. II, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 1336