Gilman Marston (20 August 1811 – 3 July 1890) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NH 1) from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding James Pike and preceding Daniel Marcy) and from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1867 (succeeding Marcy and preceding Jacob Hart Ela) and a US Senator from New Hampshire from 4 March to 18 June 1889 (interrupting William E. Chandler's terms).
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Gilman Marston was born in Orford, New Hampshire on 20 August 1811, and he became a lawyer in Exeter in 1841 and served in the State House from 1845 to 1849. Marston later served in the US House of Representatives from 1859 to 1863 and from 1865 to 1867, and he was a staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort during the American Civil War. Marston himself reached the rank of Brigadier-General in the Union Army, and his arm was shattered at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 and later fighting in all of the major battles of the Eastern Theatre (his brigade suffering heavy losses at the 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor). He returned to the State House several times in the 1870s, and he briefly filled a vacancy in the US Senate in 1889. He died in 1890.
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