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Party
  
Democratic Party

Political party
  
Democratic

Name
  
Ezra Dean

Resigned
  
March 4, 1845

Role
  
U.S. representative


Ezra Dean

Born
  
April 9, 1795 Hillsdale, New York (
1795-04-09
)

Died
  
January 25, 1872, Ironton, Ohio, United States

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Preceded by
  
David A. Starkweather

Succeeded by
  
David A. Starkweather

Ezra Dean (April 9, 1795 – January 25, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Hillsdale, New York, Dean attended the common schools. In the War of 1812 was appointed ensign in the Eleventh Regiment of United States Infantry April 17, 1814. Commissioned lieutenant October 1, 1814, for meritorious conduct at the sortie of Fort Erie. At the close of the war was placed in command of a revenue cutter on Lake Champlain. He resigned to study law. He was admitted to the bar in Plattsburg, New York, in 1823. He settled in Wooster, Ohio in 1824 and commenced the practice of law. Postmaster of Wooster 1828–1832. He served as president judge of the court of common pleas 1834–1841.

Dean was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845). He served as chairman of the Committee on the Militia (Twenty-eighth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844. He resumed the practice of law in Wooster. He moved to Ironton, Ohio, in 1867, and died there January 25, 1872. He was interred in Woodland Cemetery.

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