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| members of the united states house of representatives from illinois | |
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Born in La Salle, Illinois , Evans attended the public schools and was graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois , in 1882. He taught in the schools of La Salle and Evanston, Illinois. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice at Chicago, Illinois . Lecturer on corporation law in the John Marshall Law School in 1907 and 1908. Evans was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress ( March 4 , 1911 - March 3 , 1913 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Illinois , until his death there on May 6 , 1926 . He was interred in Graceland Cemetery. SOURCE |
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