1. Mark T Skinner was an American politician, attorney, and philanthropist from Vermont.
19 Facts About Mark Skinner
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The son of a Vermont politician and judge, Skinner decided to follow his father into the legal profession.
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Mark Skinner moved west to Chicago, Illinois, and was named City Attorney for Chicago and United States Attorney for the Illinois District.
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In 1846, Mark Skinner was elected to a term in the Illinois House of Representatives.
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Mark T Skinner was born in Manchester, Vermont, on September 13,1813.
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Mark Skinner's father was Richard Skinner, at the time a member of the United States House of Representatives and the future Governor of Vermont.
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Mark Skinner was accepted to the University of Vermont in 1830 and graduated three years later.
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Mark Skinner followed his father's profession and studied law in Saratoga Springs, New York, under Esek Cowen and Nicholas Hill.
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Mark Skinner attended the New Haven Law School for a year, studying under David Daggett and Samuel J Hitchcock.
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Mark Skinner was immediately admitted to the bar and started a practice, partnering with George A O Beaumont.
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In 1844 President John Tyler nominated Mark Skinner to be United States Attorney for the District of Illinois.
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In 1846, Mark Skinner was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Democrat, serving one two-year term.
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Mark Skinner formed a law partnership with Thomas Hoyne in 1847 that operated until 1851, when Mark Skinner was elected Judge of the Cook County Court of Common Pleas.
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In 1862, Mark Skinner was named to the United States Sanitary Commission and served until it was disbanded in 1866.
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Mark Skinner helped to organize the Young Men's Association of Chicago, which later became the Chicago Library Association.
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Mark Skinner was a co-founder and first President of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Reform School.
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Mark Skinner donated to Manchester, Vermont the Mark Skinner Library, which operated until 2013, when a larger, more modern community library was opened and the Skinner library building was sold to a private developer.
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Mark Skinner was a charter member of the Second Presbyterian Church and served on its board of trustees.
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Mark Skinner died on September 16,1887, while visiting Manchester, Vermont and was buried at Manchester's Dellwood Cemetery.