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Albert Gallatin Porter (20 April 1824-3 May 1897) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IN 6) from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding James M. Gregg and preceding Ebenezer Dumont) and Governor of Indiana from 10 January 1881 to 12 January 1885 (interrupting Isaac P. Gray's terms).

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Albert Gallatin Porter was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1824, and he was raised in Boone County, Kentucky before moving to Indianapolis in 1843. He wrote for the Indianapolis Journal before serving as the city attorney from 1851 to 1853, on the State Supreme Court from 1854 to 1856, and in the US House of Representatives from 1859 to 1863. He was originally an anti-slavery Democrat, but he joined the Republicans in 1860. Porter later served as Governor from 1881 to 1885, and he died in 1897.

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