Graham N. Fitch

Graham Newell Fitch (December 5, 1809 – November 29, 1892) was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana, as well as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born in Le Roy, New York, he attended Middlebury Academy and Geneva College; he studied medicine and completed his medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and commenced practice in Logansport, Indiana in 1834. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1836 and 1839, and was a professor of anatomy at the Rush Medical College in Chicago from 1844 to 1848, and at the Indianapolis Medical College in 1878. Fitch was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, serving from March 4,...