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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Elias Deemer
| image name = EliasDeemer.jpg
| caption = 
| state = [[Pennsylvania]]
| constituency = {{ushr|PA|16|C}} (1901–1903)<br>{{ushr|PA|15|C}} (1903–1907)
| term_start = March 4, 1901
| term_end = March 3, 1907
| preceded = [[Horace Billings Packer|Horace B. Packer]]
| succeeded = [[William Bauchop Wilson|William B. Wilson]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1838|01|03}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|03|29|1838|01|03}}
| birth_place = [[Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Durham, Pennsylvania]], US
| death_place = [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania]], US
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| signature = Signature of Elias Deemer.png
}}
'''Elias Deemer''' (January 3, 1838 – March 29, 1918) was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].

==Biography==
Elias Deemer was born near [[Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Durham, Pennsylvania]].  He was engaged in the mercantile business in [[Lycoming County, Pennsylvania]] and in [[Philadelphia]] in 1860.  During the Civil War, he enlisted in July 1861 as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the middle of May 1862, when he was discharged because of disabilities.  He moved to [[Milford, New Jersey]], in 1862 and engaged in business.  In 1868 moved to [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania]], and engaged in the manufacture of [[lumber]].  He served as president of the common council from 1888 to 1890.  He was president of the Williamsport National Bank from 1893 to 1918, and also interested in the publication of several newspapers at Williamsport.  He was a delegate to the [[1896 Republican National Convention]].

Deemer was elected as a Republican to the [[57th United States Congress|Fifty-seventh]], [[58th United States Congress|Fifty-eighth]], and [[59th United States Congress|Fifty-ninth]] Congresses.  He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906, for election in 1908.  He resumed lumber operations in Pennsylvania, and at Deemer, Mississippi, an unincorporated town he founded, and which was named for him.  Deemer is just south of [[Philadelphia, Mississippi]] in [[Neshoba County, Mississippi|Neshoba County]].

He died at his home in [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania]] on March 29, 1918.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66685179/hon-elias-deemer-dead/ |title=Hon. Elias Deemer Dead |newspaper=[[Altoona Tribune]] |location=Williamsport, Pennsylvania |page=1 |date=1918-03-30 |access-date=2021-01-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Interment in Wildwood Cemetery.

==Sources==
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*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html The Political Graveyard]

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| state=Pennsylvania
| district=16
| before=[[Horace B. Packer]]
| after=[[Charles H. Dickerman]]
| years=1901–1903
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| state=Pennsylvania
| district=15
| before=[[Charles F. Wright]]
| after=[[William B. Wilson]]
| years=1903–1907
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[[Category:1838 births]]
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[[Category:People from Milford, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Politicians from Williamsport, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War]]
[[Category:American city founders]]
[[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:19th-century American legislators]]
[[Category:Burials in Pennsylvania]]


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