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TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson and Columbiana.
CHARLES C. CONNELL, OF LISBON.
The Senior Senator from the 20-22d district is a Republican. He was born in Lisbon, Ohio, September 27, 1871; graduated from High School of Lisbon, 1890; attended college at Ohio State University 1890-1891; taught school and studied law 1891-1892; entered the Cincinnati Law School and graduated there- from May 30, 1894; returned to Lisbon and engaged in the practice of his profession, and was elected solicitor of his native village in April, 1899; was nominated for State Senator by the Republican party without opposition. and was elected to the Seventy-fifth General Assembly from the 20-22d joint district by 8,500 majority, and re-elected to the Seventy-sixth General Assembly by 9,000 majority.
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THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Allen, Auglaize, Defiance, Mercer, Paulding, Van Wert, and Williams.
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STEPHEN D. CRITES, OF ELIDA.
Senator Crites, Democrat from the 32 District, is the eldest son of Jacob (and Mary J. Cameron) Crites; was born in German township, Allen County, Ohio, November 28, 1847, and has ever since been a resident of his native town- ship. He was brought up on the farm and experienced many of the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. He was educated at the schools of nis native township and at the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio, when Alfred Holbrook was president of that institution. He began teaching at the age of eighteen; in September, 1870, he was elected Superintendent of the Elida public schools, which position he successfully held for twelve successive years, when he was forced to resign on account of ill health. From 1876 to 1888 he was a member of the Allen County Board of School Examiners. He was for nine years a Justice of the Peace in his home township. In 1883 he turned his attention from school work to the outdoor work of farming and stock raising. In 1895 he purchased the grain elevator in Elida, which he has modernized and brought into a condition of increased activity and pros- perity. This he manages in addition to the active management of his farm. He is a Mason (32 degree), and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Miss Sarah J. Reichelderfer, of Pickaway County, Ohio, who died within the same year. In 1876 he was married to Miss Emma M. Ditto. They have a family of four daughters: Mrs. S. O. Morris, of Lima, and the Misses Mabel, Zoe and Grace. The Senator was twice nominated by accla- mation by his party district convention and was elected the first time by a majority of 2,300, and the second time without opposition.
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TENTH DISTRICT.
Composed of Franklin and Pickaway Counties.
RENICK W. DUNLAP, OF KINGSTON.
Senator Dunlap, Republican, was born near Kingston, Pickaway County, October 25, 1872. He attended district school until he was 15 years old, when he entered the public school at Kingston. In 1890, he entered the Ohio State University in the second year of the preparatory course and graduated there- from in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture; afterward taking three months of post graduate work in the animal mechanics. During his college career he was a member of the University Senate and president of the Townsend Literary Society.
Mr. Dunlap was tendered a position in one of the state agricultural col- leges, but declined the offer; was for three years secretary and president of the farmers' institute in his county, and state lecturer for three years. He was a candidate for representative from Pickaway County on the Republican ticket in 1901, and defeated by the usual Democratic majority; elected State Senator from the Tenth Senatorial District in the fall of 1903 by a majority of 2,500 votes, being the first Republican ever elected from Pickaway County. Senator Dunlap was the author of several important bills.
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THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Putnam and Wood.
CALVIN P. GODFREY, OF OTTAWA.
Calvin P. Godfrey, of Ottawa, Putnam County, was born in that village April 11, 1863. He has resided there all his life, excepting four years of childhood at Bluffton, Ohio, one year as drug clerk at Paxton, Ill., two years as student in the school of pharmacy, University of Michigan, two years as drug clerk at Dayton, Ohio, and seven years as drug proprietor at Fostoria, Ohio. During the period from 1893 to 1901 he was publisher of a Republican weekly newspaper, The Gazette, at Ottawa. He graduated from the Ottawa High School in 1881, and from the University of Michigan in 1884. He was married on November 6, 1889, to Miss Emma Kelly, of Ottawa. He was the Republican nominee in the Democratic thirty-third Senatorial district and was elected in 1901. and re-elected in 1903. He is the author of the veto amend- ment to the constitution of Ohio.
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SECOND-FOURTH DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Butler, Warren, Clermont and Brown.
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J. EUGENE HARDING, OF MIDDLETOWN.
J. Eugene Harding, Republican member of the Senate from Butler County, was born in Excello, Ohio, June 27, 1877. He received his education at the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pennsylvania, and afterwards gradu- ated in law at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He is now engaged in the manufacture of writing paper at Middletown, Ohio, the establishment with which he is connected being the largest of its kind in the United States.
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TWENTY-FOURTH-TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage, and Summit.
WILLIAM S. HARRIS, OF SAYBROOK.
The Republican Senator from the 24th-26th districts was born at Saybrook, Ashtabula County, in 1846, and is serving his second term in the Senate.
He is a farmer by occupation and is of the third generation of his family, who, since 1818, have lived on the farm where he now resides. He was edu- cated in the district schools of his township, and at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio.
In November, 1893, he was elected to the 71st General Assembly and re- elected in 1895, so that he came to the Senate with four years' experience in the lower House.
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TWELFTH DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Miami, Darke and Shelby.
O. E. HARRISON, OF GREENVILLE.
. Senator Harrison from the Twelfth District is the first Republican ever elected to that office in the Ohio Senate from Darke County. He was born in his home county thirty-one years ago. He is a graduate of the Greenville High School, and the National Normal University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. For five years he followed the profession of teaching, and rose to the front rank of educators of his section of the state, and became principal of the Franklin, Ohio, High School.
He read law with Judge James I. Allread and was admitted to the bar in 1897, and later entered the firm of Allread, Teegarden & Harrison, since which time he has been identified with some of the most important litigation in his county. He is prominently connected with public affairs; is Secretary of the Darke County Agrciultural Society; is high in Pythian circles, being now Past Chancellor of the Greenville Lodge No. 161.
In 1898 he was married to Miss Virginia Eidson, daughter of the late Frank M. Eidson, who was one of the leading citizens of Darke County.
Mr. . Harrison is a consistent and steadfast Republican. His election from what has always been considered a Democratic stronghold is a high tribute to him, as no extraordinary political issue or local disturbances entered into the campaign. His district normally over 1,800 Democratic, elected Senator Harrison to the 75th and 76th General Assemblies by a large majority.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
MOSES W. HARVEY, OF CLEVELAND.
Moses W. Harvey, Republican, was born September 6, 1852, at Delhi, N. Y. His parents removed to London, Ohio, in 1855. Received a common school education. Entered service of United States Express Company at Columbus, Ohio, in 1873. Removed to Dunkirk, N. Y., 1878, to Bradford, Pa., in 1880, and to Cleveland in 1887. Agent Wells, Fargo Express Co., in Cleveland from March 16, 1888 to date. Elected State Senator from Cuyahoga County, November 1903, by a majority of 5,600.
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TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, and Columbiana
JOSEPH CHARLES HEINLEIN, OF BRIDGEPORT.
Joseph Charles Heinlein, Senator-elect in the 20-22d District, was born March 22, 1864; educated in the common schools, Ohio University and in the law school at Albany, N. Y.
He was married July 2, 1894, to Miss Minnie R. Alexander, daughter of Ross J. Alexander. They have had four children, three of whom are living.
Senator Heinlein was elected from Belmont County to the House of Representatives in the 70th and 71st General Assemblies. He is an attorney- at-law, and is a member of the firm of Driggs, Heiniein & Armstrong.
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SEVENTEENTH-TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Knox, Morrow, Wayne, and Holmes.
LEWIS B. HOUCK, OF MOUNT VERNON.
The Democratic Senator from the Seventeenth-Twenty-eighth District was born and reared in the village of Bladensburg, Knox County, Ohio, and is now thirty-six years old. He is in the true sense of the words, "a self-made man," for early in his life his father died leaving him with a widowed mother to support, and by earnest toil he not only did that faithfully and well, but attended the public and normal schools of his county and Oberlin College thereby obtaining a thorough education. For ten years he was a successful teacher and superintendent of schools in his native county, and for nine years he was County School Examiner.
Senator Houck was admitted to the bar in 1892 and has the distinction of being one of the leading attorneys in his county. He was for six years a member of his city council, and although that body stood ten Republicans and two Democrats, yet such was his high standing that he was made president and served until the new code went into effect. In fraternal and social circles he occupies a high place, being a Knight Templar, Odd Fellow, K. of P., as well as, holding membership in several other social and fraternal organizations.
Mr. Houck was recognized as one of the ablest speakers and debaters in the Senate.
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ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Clark, Champaign and Madison.
ORAN F. HYPES, OF SPRINGFIELD.
Oran F. Hypes, Senator Eleventh District, was born at Xenia, Ohio, De- cember 18, 1862. Graduated at Xenia High School, 1879; began business life at Xenia; removed to Springfield in 1883; continuously engaged as a hat mer- chant; actively identified with Springfield's business interests; is Charter Mem- ber of Commercial Club. Always an ardent and active Republican; elected to the 75th General Assembly as Representative from Clark County. Chosen member of Select Committee, Extraordinary Session. framing the Municipal Code. Elected State Senator 76th General Assembly.
Mr. Hypes is a Mason, Past Master of Anthony Lodge, No. 455 F. & A. M. Past Eminent Commander of Palestine Commandery No. 33 Knights Templar. Married Jessie B. Johnson in 1889. They have two children, Dorothy and Douglas.
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THIRTIETH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Huron, Erie, Sandusky and Ottawa.
CHARLES A. JUDSON, OF SANDUSKY.
Charles A. Judson, Republican Senator from the 30th District, was born August 11, 1856, in Florence township, Erie County, Ohio; lived on a farm until twenty years old; taught district school for several winters; spent one year in the academy at Delaware, Ohio, and four years in Oberlin College, graduating from the latter institution in 1882; came to Sandusky in 1882 and engaged in the practice of civil engineering, which he has followed to the present time; was city engineer of Sandusky for seven years and superintendent of its water works for thirteen years. Is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Is secretary and treasurer of the Erie County Investment Company, doing an abstract, loan, real estate and insurance business at Sandusky. He was a member of the Senate from the 30th District in the 75th General Assem- bly, to which he was re-elected. He was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Erie County during the campaigns of 1899, 1900 and 1902.
Mr. Judson was married in 1883 to Roxie E. Lowry of Berlin Heights, Ohio, and has a family of six children. He is now United States Internal Revenue Collector at Sandusky.
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TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Trumbull and Mahoning.
THOMAS KINSMAN, OF KINSMAN.
Thomas Kinsman, Senator from the 23d District, who represented Trumbull County in the 74th and 75th General Assembly, was born in Kinsman, Trum- bull County, Ohio, and was educated at the Kinsman schools, as his course of study at Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, Ohio, was abruptly ended by the death of his father and the imperative need that the two thousand acres of farm lands should have the care of the sons, of whom Thomas was the elder.
His farming has been of a general character, but dairying and raising of cattle and of the trotting-bred horse have been especially prominent. He is also President of the Kinsman National Bank. In politices Mr. Kinsman is of the Republican stock that is found on the Western Reserve, who are never known to waver in their principles. While not an orator on the floor of the Senate he has been a working member in the committees to which he was assigned, and his suggestions in the various matters have been carefully considered.
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SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Scioto, Adams, Pike and Jackson.
GORDON F. LAUMAN, OF LUCASVILLE.
Gordon F. Lauman, Republican, from the Seventh District, was born in Flemming County, Kentucky, November 17, 1840; moved to Aberdeen, Brown County, Ohio, in about 1845; lived in Chillicothe in 1846, in Waverly in 1847. In 1850 worked for James Emmitt for three years at milling and distilling. Worked in the store of Emmitt, Myer & Co., and continued in their employ until the war broke out. Enlisted on the 17th of April, 1861, in Company G, 1st O. V. I., from Portsmouth, Ohio; was wounded on the 17th of June at Vienna, Virginia; was discharged at E Street Hospital, Washington, D. C., at the expiration of three months. Mr. Lauman was in the merchandise business since 1872, and at the same time interested in farming. Three years ago he retired from business renting his farm. He was married twice, being married first to Miss Mary L. Watkins, October 6, 1864, who died October 22, 1892. Was married to Mary E. Dever, November 28, 1895. He has held several township offices.
Mr. Lauman was elected to the Seventy-sixth General Assembly from his district by a large majority.
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NINTH-FOURTEENTH DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Athens, Hocking, Fairfield, Morgan, Washington, part of Monroe (Rinard's Mills precinct in Washington township, and part of Bethel and Benton townships), Noble, and part of (Brookfield, Jackson, Noble, Sharon and Olive townships, and part of Elk, Jefferson and Center townships, Forest Grove and Caldwell precincts, and part of Dexter prey cinct.)
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DAVID H. MOORE, OF ATHENS.
David H. Moore, Senator-elect in the 9-14th Senatorial District, was born October 11, 1856. His father's family crossed the Alleghany Mountains from Worcester, Massachusetts, with the first Ohio settlers, and arriving at Marietta, where most of them settled, David Moore, grandfather of David H. Moore, con- tinued his journey and settled on Sunday Creek, Trimble township, Athens County, and finally took up a quarter section of land about two miles west of Athens, where he cleared the forest and reared his family.
David H. Moore, after graduating from the Public Schools at the age of 17, went west and spent several years teaching school and working on a · farm. He returned to Athens, Ohio, in 1876, and entered the First National Bank, as messenger boy, since which time he has followed the banking business as Cashier of the First National Bank and President of the People's Bank at Nelsonville, Ohio.
He has always been an active, hard-working Republican, has been chairman of the County Executive Committee, Trustee of the Ohio University and mem- ber of the State Central Committee.
His large experience in business affairs, as a farmer, banker and merchant eminently qualifies him to represent one of the largest Senatorial districts in the State. He was elected to the 75th and 76th General Assemblies of Ohio by large majorities, and is now United States Revenue Collector.
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FIRST DISTRICT.
Composed of Hamilton County.
HENRY OSKAMP, OF CINCINNATI.
Henry Oskamp, Republican Senator from the First District, was born Feb- ruary 10, 1848, in Cincinnati, where he has resided all his life; graduated with honors at Saint Xavier's College in 1865 in his native city; was associated with his father in the jewelry business until 1880. Mr. Oskamp was largely inter- ested in the cattle business in Wyoming from 1884 to 1894; he is very fond of field sports and has hunted every species of game in this country excepting the grizzly bear. He retired from active business in 1894; has traveled abroad considerably from time to time. Senator Oskamp was a member of the Decennial Board of Equalization in 1901. He has always been a Republican.
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FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH (JOINT) DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Muskingum, Perry, Delaware and Licking.
N. F. OVERTURE, OF DELAWARE.
Norman F. Overturf, representing the 15-16 district for the second time, was born in 1846, on a farm in Liberty township, Licking County, Ohio. At the age of seventeen he began teaching district schools in the winters, and continued at farm labor during the summers. Afterward he was regularly employed as a teacher in the village school in Summerford, Madison County, which position he held for seven consecutive years, when. hv reason of impaired health. he resumed out-door work, and engaged in the timber and lumber busi- ness for two years.
In 1883, he located in Delaware, Ohio, where he has ever since resided, and been engaged in the practice of law.
He has always been a Republican, and has taken a very active interest in public affairs, having been elected to various public offices.
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ROBERT A. POLLOCK, OF NORTH LAWRENCE.
Robert A. Pollock, Republican, was born August 24, 1870, at North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio. He attended school at home until the age of 13, when he went to work in the mines and remained at such work for a number of years, being a leader in the Miners' Union. Later he became associated with his father in business, conducting a general store. He represented his county in the 74th and 75th General Assemblies, and was elected as Senator from the 21st district, comprising Stark and Carroll Counties, to the 76th General Assembly.
Early in the session he suffered the sad misfortune of the loss of his charming and good wife, who was one of the victims of the dreaded scourge of typhoid fever that swept over the Capital City during the winter, and was called to her heavenly home February 6, 1904, leaving the bereaved husband and a bright boy of six months to help comfort him in his affliction.
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TENTH DISTRICT. 1
Composed of the Counties of Franklin and Pickaway. 1
THOMAS HUGH RICKETTS, OF COLUMBUS.
Thomas Hugh Ricketts, of the Tenth Senatorial , District, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, December 9, 1845. His boyhood days were spent on a farm in Tuscarawas County, near the historic village of Gnadenhutten, whence he enlisted, September, 1863, in the 12th O. V. C., and served until the close of the Civil War. His education was obtained in district schools, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and in the law department of the University of New York, at Albany.
A Republican, he was elected mayor of Coshocton and prosecuting attorney of the Democratic county of that name, holding both offices at the same time, then permitted by the laws of Ohio. He came to Columbus in January, 1881, and engaged in the practice of law with Hon. Thomas E. Powell; later the firm included Judges Selwyn N. Owen and Samuel S. Black. He served on the Board of Education of the City of Columbus. Was a candidate on the Repub- lican ticket for Common Pleas Judge in 1897, but never qualified.
Mr. Ricketts comes of Maryland and Connecticut revolutionary ancestors, being a descendant of the revolutionary patriot, Col. Thomas Cresap, of Maryland.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
J. M. SHALLENBERGER, OF CLEVELAND.
Mr. Shallenberger, Senator from the 25th District, is a native of Holmes County, Ohio. He attended the public schools of his county and subsequently graduated from Wooster University in the class of 1886. Two years later he was admitted to the bar of Ohio at Cleveland where he had read law in the offices of Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he enlisted as a private in the First Ohio Cavalry and was mustered out with his regiment as First Lieutenant in command of G Troop. He re-entered · the United States service as a Captain, serving in the 42d and 43d Regiments, U. S. V. Infantry on stations in the Philippines for two years. Was detailed by General Bell as Public Prosecutor of Manila and shortly after was detailed as Superior Provost and Admiralty Judge of the city and province of Manila. Organized the first Admiralty Court in Manila and tried a great variety of cases thereunder. Shortly after his return home he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by Governor Nash to fill a vacancy; subsequently resuming the practice of law. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican and was chosen by Senator Hanna to place him in nomination for re-election to the United States Senate.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
FRANK P. SHUMAKER, or CHAGRIN FALLS.
Frank P. Shumaker, one of the four Republican Senators from Cuyahoga County, was born of German-English parentage, on a farm near Galion, Craw- ford County, Ohio, December 20, 1858. He secured his preliminary education in the district schools, and at the age of eighteen began teaching country school to earn the money with which to pay his expenses at Mount Union College, from which college he graduated in 1886. Before his graduation he was chosen principal of the Mount Union public schools, which he resigned after two years' service, to accept the superintendency of the Chagrin Falls public schools, which position he held thirteen years, when he was offered and accepted the. state agency for one of the largest educational publishing houses in the country.
Mr. Shumaker was granted a life high school certificate in 1887, and has served six years as a member of the Cuyahoga County Board of School Exam- iners. He has always manifested a keen interest in all matters pertaining to education. He has always been an active Republican, having been a councilman and also the mayor of Chagrin Falls. In his church relations, he is a Methodist, having been a member of the official board and superintendent of the Sunday school for the past fifteen years. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight Templar.
June 18, 1889, Mr. Shumaker was married to Maggie Martin Atwell, daughter of John Atwell, of Alliance, Ohio, who was the founder of the Alliance Bank Company, and its president for nineteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Shu- maker, with their three children, two girls and one boy, live in their beautiful home at Chagrin Falls.
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FIRST DISTRICT.
Composed of Hamilton County.
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MAX SILBERBERG, OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
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Max Silberberg, Republican, one of the Senators from Hamilton County, is a German by birth, and came to this country at the age of fifteen. He was a soldier in the Civil War, and after being discharged, began an active business life, which he still pursues. He was one of the organizers of the National Manufacturers' Association, which is now influential in the vast exportation of American products. He is an active member of the Credit Men's Association, and four years ago, when the convention was held at Milwaukee, was appointed chairman of the Clothing Conference Committee. He was also appointed chairman of the National Legislative Committee, and his report given at Cleveland received favorable comments. He is and has been for the past fifteen years President of the Business Men's Building Association, and for many years a director of the Ohio Valley Building Association.
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He was one of the organizers of the Commercial Mckinley Club, who made themselves instrumental in rolling up the largest majority that the Republican ticket ever received in Hamilton County. He is an active and ardent Grand Army man and is Past Commander of August Willich Post. He was a member of the committee who so successfully conducted the state and national G. A. R. Encampment held in the city of Cincinnati.
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