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          Life Summary
Full name
              Joseph
          Place of birth
              Clift
          Place of Birth
              
          Burial Place
              
          Birth Date Certainty
              Exact
          Death Date Certainty
              Exact
          Gender
              Male
          Race
              White
          Sectional choice
              North
          Origins
              Free State
          No. of Siblings
              5
          Family
              Wales Rogers Clift (father), Susan Wildes Clift (mother)
Education
          Harvard
              Occupation
          Politician
          Military
          Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
              Relation to Slavery
          White non-slaveholder
              Political Parties
          Republican
              Government
          US House of Representatives
          Other state government
              Military
          Union Army
          US military (Post-Civil War)