- HON. DELERANDE D. REMINGTON, Bee, Nebraska, Populist member
from the twenty-
- ninth district, was born in Rock county, Wisconsin, May 7,
1849. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools,
with a few terms at Evansville Seminary later. At the latter
place Senator PETTIGREW was a pupil at the same time. When eighteen
years old he came with his parents to Nodaway county, Missouri,
whence he came to Page county, Iowa, in 1869. Here he cast his
first vote for U.S. Grant for president. He married Florence
L. MORGAN, of Holt county, Missouri, in 1879, and has four children,
a boy and three girls. Mr. REMINGTON lived fourteen years in
Iowa, during most of which time he served either as a township
clerk or assessor of his county. In 1883 he moved his family
to Scward county, where he still resides on one of the finest
farms in the county near Bee. Here he has served on the board
of supervisors, and was chairman of the same during most of the
term. In 1889 Mr. REMINGTON joined the farmers' alliance, and
from this time on began to fall away from the republican party,
with which he had heretofore affiliated. He was president of
the local alliance and secretary of the county alliance for a
number of terms. In 1891 was a delegate to the industrial convention
at Cincinnati. He was one of the reception committee for the
Omaha convention of 1892. In 1890 he was nominated for representative
by the populists and received one thousand and sixty votes, with
six candidates in the field. This winter he was nominated by
the same party and endorsed by the democrats.
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- [Taken from "Biographical Sketches of the Nebraska
Legislature and National and State Officers of Nebraska"
compiled by W. A. Howard (c)1895 Press of Jacob North, Lincoln,
NE; pp. 170-171]
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