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      John Allen Sterling (February 1, 1857 – October 17, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, and brother of Thomas Sterling.


      Early life and education


      Born to Charles Sterling (1821-1905) and Anna Kessler (1827-1908) near Le Roy in McLean County, Illinois, Sterling attended the public schools, and graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington in 1881. He was superintendent of the public schools of Lexington, Illinois (now Lexington Community Unit School District 7) from 1881 to 1883.


      Career


      He studied law, was admitted to the bar in December 1884, and commenced law practice in Bloomington. He was the state's attorney of McLean County from 1892 to 1896, and a member of the Republican state central committee from 1896 to 1898.
      Sterling was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1903–March 3, 1913). He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Robert W. Archbald, judge of the United States Commerce Court. He lost re-election to the Sixty-third Congress, but was re-elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915 until his death near Pontiac, Illinois, as the result of an automobile accident on October 17, 1918.


      Death


      He was interred in Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois.


      See also


      List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)


      References




      External links



      United States Congress. "John A. Sterling (id: S000870)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
      John A. Sterling at Find a Grave
      John A. Sterling, late a representative from Illinois, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
      This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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