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BIOGRAPHICAL
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY
1774 TO 1903
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS: SEPTEMBER 5, 1774,
TO OCTOBER 21, 1788, INCLUSIVE
THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS: THE FIRST CONGRESS TO THE
FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, MARCH 4, 1789, TO
MARCH 4, 1903, INCLUSIVE
Compiled under authority of Congress
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1903
CONOURRENT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS.
Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring), That there be printed, and bound
in cloth, three thousand copies of a Congressional Directory which embraces the biography of all
members of Congress from the Continental Congress to the Fifty-seventh, inclusive, compiled by
O. M. Enyart,, two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives and one thousand
copies for the use of the Senate.
Passed February 10, 1903.
TABLE OF OOITTEK'TS.
Page.
Executive Officers, 1789-1908 3
The Continental Congress 15
The Oongebss of the United States:
First Congress , 19
Second Congress 22
Third Congress 25
Fourth Congress 28
Fifth Congress 32
Sixth Congress 36
Seventh Congress 39
Eighth Congress 1 42
Ninth Congress 46
Tenth Congress ^ 49
Eleventh Congress i 53
Twelfth Congress 57
Thirteenth Congress 61
Fourteenth Congress 65
Fifteenth Congress , 70
Sixteenth Congress.., 74
Seventeenth Congress 79
Eighteenth Congress 84
.Nineteenth Congress 89
Twentieth Congress 94
Twenty-first Congress 99
Twenty-second Congress 104
Twenty-third Congress 109
Twenty-fourth Congress : 115
Twenty-fifth Congress 121
Twenty-sixth Congress 127
Twenty-seventh Congress 133
Twenty-eighth Congress - 139
Twenty-ninth Congress 145
Thirtieth Congress 151
Thirty-first Congress 157
Thirty-second Congress 163
Thirty-third Congress - 170
Thirty-fourth Congress 176
Thirty-fifth Congress 182
Thirty-sixth Congress. .1 189
Thirty-seventh Congress ' 195
Thirty-eighth Congress 202
Thirty-ninth Congress - 208
Fortieth Congress - 214
Forty-first Congress 221
Forty-second Congress - 228
Forty-third Congress 235
Forty-fourth Congress 243
III
IV TABLE OP CONTENTS.
The Congkbss of the United States — Continued. Page.
Forty-fifth Congress '. 251
Forty-sixth Congress 258
Forty-seventh Congress 265
Forty-eighth Congress 272
Forty-ninth Congress 279
Fiftieth Congress 286
Fifty-first Congress 293
Fifty-second Congress 301
Fifty-third Congress 309
Fifty-fourth Congress 317
Fifty-fifth Congress 325
Fif ty^sixth Congress 333
Fifty-seventh Congress 341
Biographies 349
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.
H. Doc. 458 1
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1789-1903.
APRIL 30, 1789, TO MAKCH 4, ]793.
PreMdmt.—GEO-RGE Washington, Virginia.
Vice-President— John Adams, Massachusetts.
Secretary of State.— John Jay, of New York, was
Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Confedera-
tion, and continued to act, at the request of Wash-
ington, until Jefferson's arrival in March, 1790;
Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, September 26, 1789.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Alexander Hamilton,
of New York, September 11, 1789.
Secretary of War. — Henry Knox, of Massachu-
setts, September 12, 1789.
Attorney- Oeneral. — Edmund Eandolph, of Vir-
ginia, September 26, 1789.
Postmaster- General. — Samuel Osgood, of Massa-
chusetts, September 26, 1789; Timothy Pickering,
of Pennsylvania, August 12, 1791.
MARCH 4, 1793, TO MARCH 4, 1797.
President. — Geoege Washington, A'irginia.
Vice-President. — John Adams, Massachusetts.
Secretary of State. — Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia,
continued from last Administration; Edmund
Randolph, of Virginia, January 2, 1794; Timothy
Pickering, of Pennsylvania (Secretary of War),
ad interim, August 20, 1795; Timothy Pickering,
of Pennsylvania, December 10, 1795.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Alexander Hamilton,
of New York, continued from last Administration;
Oliver Wolcott, jr., of Connecticut, Februarv 2,
1795.
Secretary of War. — Henry Knox, of Massachu-
setts, continued from last Administration; Timothy
Pickering, of Pennsylvania, January 2, 1795; James
McHenry, of Maryland, January 27, 1796.
Attorney-General. — Edmond Randolph, of Vir-
ginia, continued fromlastAdministration; AVilliam
Bradford, of Pennsylvania, January 27, 1794;
Charles Lee, of Virginia, December 10, 1795.
Postmaster-General. — Timothy Pickering, of
Pennsylvania, continued from last Administration;
Timothy Pickering, of Pennsylvania, recommis-
sioned June 1, 1794; Joseph Plabersham, of Geor-
gia, Februarv 25, 1795.
MARCH 4, 1797, TO MARCH 4, 1801.
President. — John Adams, Massachusetts.
Vice-President. — Thomas Jefferson, Virginia.
Secretary of State. — Timothy Pickering, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
Charles Lee, of Virginia (Attorney-General), ad
interim. May 13, 1800; John Marshall, of Vir-
ginia, May 13, 1800.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Oliver Wolcott, jr., of
Connecticut, continued from last Administration;
Samuel Dexter, of Massachusetts, January 1, 1801.
Secretary of War. — James McHenry, of Mary-
land, continued from last Administration; Benja-
min Stoddert, of Maryland (Secretary of the
Navy), ad interim. May 6, 1800; Samuel Dexter,
of Massachusetts, May IS, 1800; Samuel Dexter,
of Massachusetts (Secretary of the Treasury), ad
interim, January 1, 1801.
Attorney-General. — Charles Lee, of Virginia, con-
tinued from last Administration.
Postmaster-General. — Joseph Habersham, of
Georgia, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Navy, — Benjamin Stoddert, of
Maryland, May 21, 1798. .
MARCH 4, 1801, TO MARCH 4, 1805.
President. — Thomas Jbffeeson, Virginia.
Vice-President. — Aaron Burr, New York.
Secretary of State. — Levi Lincoln, of Massachu-
setts (Attorney-(Jeneral), ad interim, March 4,
1801; James Madison, of Virginia, March 5, 1801.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Samuel Dexter, of
Massachusetts, continued from last Administra-
tion; Albert Gallatin, of Pennsylvania, May 14,
1801.
Secretary of War. — Henry Dearborn, of Massa-
chusetts. March 5. 1801.
Attorney-General. — Levi Lincoln, of Massachu-
setts, March 5, 3801.
Postmaster- General. — Joseph Habersham, of
Georgia, continued from last Administration;
Gideon Granger, of Connecticut, November 28,
1801.
Secretary of tfte Navy. — Benjamin Stoddert, of
Maryland, continued from last Administration;
Henry Dearborn, of Massachusetts (Secretary of
War), ad interim, April 1, 1801; Robert SmitJh, of
Maryland, July 15, 1801.
3
CONGEKSSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MAECH 4, 1805, TO MARCH 4, 1809.
President. — ^Thomas Jefferson, Virginia.
Vice-President. — Gteorge Clinton, New York.
Secretary of State. — James Madison, of Virginia,
continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Albert Gallatin, of
Pennsylvania, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of War. — Henry Dearborn, of Massa-
chusetts, continued from last Administration ; John
Smith (chief clerk), ad interim, February 17, 1809.
Attorney- General.— John Breokenridge, of Ken-
tucky, August 7, 1805; Cffisar A. Rodney, of Penn-
sylvania, January 20, 1807.
Postmaster-General— Gideon Granger, of Con-
necticut, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the A'oc!/.— Robert ,Smith, of Mary-
land, continued from last Administration.
MARCH 4, 1809, TO MAECH 4, 1813.
President. — James Madison, Virginia.
Vice-President. — Geobge Clinton, New York.
(Died April 20, 1812.)
President pro tempore of the Seiudc. — \Villxam H.
Ckaweord, Georgia.
Secreiari/ of State. — Robert Smith, of Maryland,
March 6, 1809; James Monroe, of Virginia, April
2, 1811.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Albert Gallatin, of
Pennsylvania, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of War. — John Smith (chief clerk), ad
interim, continued from last Administration; Wil-
liam Eustis, of Massachusetts, March 7, 1809;
James Monroe, of Virginia (Secretary of State),
ad interim, December 14, 1812; John Armstrong,
of New York, January 13, 1813.
Attorney- General. —C3isa.r A. Rodney, of Penn-
sylvania,' continued from last Administration;
William Pinkney, of Maryland, December 11, 1811.
Postmaster-General-GiAeon Granger, of Con-
necticut, continued from last Administration.
Sea-etary of the Kary.— Robert Smith, of Mary-
land, continued from last Administration; Paul
Hamilton, of South Carolina, March 7, 1809;
Charles W. Goldsborough (chief clerk), ad
interim, January 7, 1813; William Jones, of Penn-
sylvania, January 12, 1813.
MARCH 4, 1813, TO MARCH 4, 1817.
President. — James Madison, Virginia.
Vice-President. — Elbridge Geehy, Massachu-
setts. (Died November 23, 1814. )
President pro tempore of the Senate. — John Gail-
lard, South Carolina.
Secretary of State. — James Monroe, of Virginia,
continued from last Administration; Jarnes Mon-
roe, of Virginia (Secretary of War), ad interim,
September 30, 1814; James Monroe, of Virginia,
February 28, 1815.
Secretary of the^ Treasury. — Albert Gallatin, of
Pennsylvania, continued from last Administration ;
William Jones, of Pennsylvania (Secretary of the
Navy), performed the duties of the Secretary of
the Treasury during the absence of Mr. Gallatin
in Europe in 1813; George W. Campbell, of Ten-
nessee, February 9, 1814; Alexander J. Dallas, of
Pennsylvania, October 6, 1814; William H. Craw-
ford, of Georgia, October 22, 1816.
Secretary of War. — John Armstrong, of New
York, continued from last Administration; James
Monroe, of Virginia (Secretary of State), ad in-
terim, August 31, 1814; James Monroe, of Virginia,
September 27, 1814; James Monroe, of Virginia
(Secretary of State), ad interim, March 1, 1815;
Alexander J. Dallas, of Pennsylvania (Secretary
of the Treasury), ad interim, March , 14, 1815;
William H. Crawford, of Georgia, August 1, 1815;
George Graham (chief clerk), ad interim, Octo-
ber 22, 1816.
Attorney-Genera/. — William Pinkney, of ^Nlary-
land, continued from last Administration; Rich-
ard Eush, of Pennsylvaiiia, February 10, 1814.
Postmaster-General. — Gideon Granger, of Con-
necticut, continued from last Administration;
Return J. Meigs, jr., of Ohio, March 17, 1814.
Secretary of the Navy. — William Jones, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
Benjamin Homans (chief clerk), ad interim,
December 2, 1814; Benjamin W. Crowninshield,
of Massachusetts, December 19, 1814.
MAECH 4, 1817, TO MAECH 4, 1821.
President. — James Monroe, Virginia.
Vice-President. — DanielD. Tompkins, New York.
Secretary of State. — John' Graham (chief clerk),
ad interim, March 4, 1817; John Q. Adams, of
Massachusetts, March 5, 1817; Richard Rush, of
Pennsylvania (Attornev-General), ad interim,
March 10, 1817.
Secretary of the Treasury. — William H. Crawford,
of Georgia, continued from last Administration;
William H. Crawford, of Georgia, recommissioned
March 5, 1817.
Secretary of Far.— George Graham (chief clerk) ,
ad interim, March 4, 1817; John C. Calhoun, of
South Carolina, October 8, 1817.
Attorney-General. — Richard Rush, of Pennsylva-
nia, continued from last Administration; William
Wirt, of Virginia, November 13, 1817.
Postmaster-General. — Return J. Meigs, jr. of
Ohio, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Navy. — Benjamin W. Crownin-
shield, of Massachusetts, continued from last
Administration; John C. Calhoun, of South Caro-
lina (Secretary of War), ad interim, October 1,
1818; Smith Thompson, of New York, November
9, 1818.
MAECH 5, 1821, TO MAECH 4, 1825.
President— James Monroe, Virginia.
Vice-President— DAmEhJ). Tompkins, New York.
Secretary of State.— John Q. Adams, of Massa-
chusetts, continued from last Administration.
■Secretary of the Treasury.— William H. Crawford
of Georgia, continued from last Administration '
Secretary of War. — John C. Calhoun, of South
Carolina, continued from last Administration
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1789-1903.
Attorney-General— Willisun Wirt, of Virginia,
continued from last Administration.
Postmaster-General— B^tnrn J. Meigs, jr., of
Ohio, continued from last Administration; John
McLean, of Ohio, June 26, 1823.
Secretary of the Nam/.— Smith Thompson, of New
York, continued from last Administration; John
Rodgers (commodore, U. S. Navy, and president
of the Board of Navy Commissioners), ad interim,
September 1, 1823; Samuel L. Southard, of New
Jersey, September 16, 1823.
MARCH 4, 1825, TO MARCH 4, 1829.
President.— J onii Qumoy Adams, Massachusetts.
Vice-President. — John 0. Calhoun, South Caro-
lina.
Secretary of State. — Daniel Brent (chief clerk),
ad interim, March 4, 1825; Henry Clay, of Ken-
tucky, March 7, 1825.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Samuel L. Southard,
of New Jersey ( Secretary of the Navy ) , ad interim,
March 7, 1825; Rich Rush, of Pennsylvania,
March 7, 1825.
Secretary of War. — James Barbour, of Virginia,
March 7, 1825; Samuel L. Southard, of New Jer-
sey (Secretary of the Navy), ad interim, May 26,
1828; Peter B. Porter, of New York, May 26, 1828.
Attorney-General — William Wirt, of Virginia,
continued from last Administration.
Postmaster-General — John McLean, of Ohio,
continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Navy. — Samuel L. Southard, of
New Jersey, continued from last Administration.
MARCH 4, 1829, TO MARCH 4, 1833.
President. — Andrew Jackson, Tennessee.
Vice-P'esident. — John C. Calhoun, South Caro-
lina. (Resigned December 28, 1832.)
President pro tempore of the Senate. — Hugh Law-
son White, Tennessee.
Secretary of State. — James A. Hamilton, of New
York,, ad interim, March 4, 1829; Martin Van
Buren, of New York, March 6, 1829; Edward Liv-
ingston, of Louisiana, May 24, 1831.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Samuel D. Ingham, of
Pennsylvania, March 6, 1829; Asbury Dickins
(chief clerk), ad interim, June 21, 1831; Louis
McLane, of Delaware, August 8, 1831.
Secretary of TFar.— John H. Eaton, of Tennessee,
March 9, 1829; Philip G. Randolph (chief clerk),
ad interim, June 20, 1831; Roger B. Taney, of
Maryland (Attorney-General) , ad interim, July
21, 1831; Lewis Cass, of Ohio, August 1, 1831.
Attorney-General — John M. Berrien, of Georgia,
March 9, 1829; Roger B. Taney, of Maryland,
July 20, 1831.
Postmaster-General — John McLean, of Ohio,
continued from last Administration; William T.
Barry, of Kentucky, March 9, 1829.
Secretary of the Navy . — Charles Haj- (chief clerk),
ad interim, March 4, 1829; John Branch, of North
Carolina, March 9, 1829; John Boyle (chief clerk),
ad interim, May 13, 1831; Levi Woodburv, of New
Hampshire, May 23, 1831.
MARCH 4, 1833, TO MARCH 4, 1837.
President. — Andrew Jackson, Tennessee.
Vice-President. — Martin Van Buren, New York.
Secretary q/ Safe.— Edward Livingston, of Louiti-
ana, continued from last Administration; Louis
McLane, of Delaware, May 29, 1833; John Forsyth,
of Georgia, June 27, 1834.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Louis McLane, of
Delaware, continued from last Administration;
William J. Duane, of Pennsylvania, May 29, 1833;
Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, September 23, 1833;
McClintock Young (chief clerk), ad interim,
June 25, 1834; Levi Woodbury, of New Hamp-
shire, June 27, 1834.
Secretary of War. —he^is Cass, of Ohio, continued
from last Administration; Carey A. Harris, of
Tennessee (Commissioner of Indian Affairs), ad
interim, October 5, 1836; Benjamin F. Butler, of
New York (Attorney-General), ad interim, Octo-
ber 26, 1836; Benjamin F. Butler, » of New York,
commissioned March 3, 1837, ad interim.
Attorney-General — Roger B. Taney, of Maryland,
continued from last Administration; Benjamin F.
Butler, of New York, November 15, 1833.
Postmaster- General — William T. Barry, of Ken-
tucky, continued from last Administration; Amos
Kendall, of Kentucky, May 1, 1835.
Secretary of the Navy. — Levi Woodbury, of New
Hampshire, continued from last Administration;
Mahlon Dickerson, of New Jersey, June 30, 1834.
MARCH 4, 1837, TO MARCH 4, 1841.
President. — Martin Van Buren, New York.
Vice-President.— 'RicsKSD M. Johnson, Ken-
tucky.
Secretary of State.— John Forsyth, of Georgia,
continued from last Administration; J. L. Martin
(chief clerk), ad interim, March 4, 1841.
Secretary of the Treamry.— Levi Woodbury, of
New Hampshire, continued from last Administra-
tion; McClintock Young (chief clerk), ad interim,
March 4, 1841.
Secretary of Ifar.^Benjamm F. Butler, ot JNew
York, continued from last Administration; Joel R.
Poinsett, of South Carolina, March 7, 1837.
fiRpniamln F Butler, Attorney-General, was nominated, confirmed, and commissioned March 3, 1837, to be Secretary
of War "Sirin/the pleasure 0 the President, until a successor, duly appointed, shall accept such office and enter upon the
duties thereof."
Attorney- General — Benjamin F. Butler, of New
York, continued from last Administration; Felix
Grundy, of Tennessee, July 5, 1.838, to take effect
September 1, 1838; Henry D. Gilpin, of Pennsyl-
vania, January 11, 1840.
PostmasUr-General — Amos Kendall, of Ken-
tucky, continued from last Administration; John
M. Nilea, of Connecticut, May 19, 1840.
Secretary of the iVat)!/.— Mahlon Dickerson, of
New Jersey, continued from last Administration;
James K. Paulding, of New York, June 25, 1838.
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
MARCH 4, 1841, TO APRIL 4, 1841.
President. — William Henky Harrison, Ohio.
(Died April 4, 1841.)
Vice-Fresideril. — John Tyler, Virginia.
iSecrelari/ of State. — J. L. Martin (chief clerk),
ad interim, ilarch 4, 1841 ; Uaniel Webster, of
Massachusetts, JIarch 5, 1841.
Secretary of the Treasury. — McCIintock Young
(chief clerk), ad interim, March 4, 1841; Thomas
Ewing, of Ohio, ilarch 5, 1841.
Secretary of ]Var. — John Bell, of Tennessee,
March 5, 1841.
Attorney- Oeneral.— John J. Crittenden, of Ken-
tucky, March 5, 1841.
Postmaster-General. — Selah R. Hobbie, of New
York (First Assistant Postmaster-General), ad
interim, March 4, 1841; Francis Granger, of New
York, March 6, 1841.
Secretary of the Nary.— George E. Badger, of
North Carolina, March 5, 1841.
APRIL 4, 1841, TO MARCH 4, 1845.
President. — John Tylee, Virginia.
President jini tempore of the Senate. — Samuel L.
Southard, New Jersey; William P. Mangum,
North Carolina.
Secretary of State. — Daniel Webster, of Massa-
chusetts, continued from Harrison's Administra-
tion; Hugh S. Legar^, of South Carolina (Attorney-
General), ad interim. May 9, 1843; William S.
Derrick (chief clerk), ad interim, June 20, 1843;
Abel P. Upshur, of Virginia (Secretary of the
Navy) , ad interim, June 24, 1843; Abel P. Upshur,
of Virginia, July 24, 1843; John Nelson, of Mary-
land (Attorney-General), ad interim, February 29,
1844; John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, March
6, 1844.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Thomas Ewing, of
Ohio, continued from Harrison's Administration;
McCIintock Young (chief clerk), ad interim, Sep-
tember 13, 1841; Walter Forward, of Pennsylvania,
September 13, 1841; McChntock Young (chief
clerk), ad interim, March 1, 1843; John C. Spen-
cer, of New York, March 3, 1843; McCIintock
Young (chief clerk), ad interim. May 2, 1844;
George M. Bibb, of Kentucky, June 15, 1844.
Secretary of War. — John Bell, of Tennessee, con-
tinued from Harrison's Administration; Albert M.
Lea, of Maryland (chief clerk), ad interim, Sep-
tember 12, 1841; John C. Spencer, of New York,
October 12, 1841; James M. Porter, of Pennsyl-
vania, March 8, 1843; William Wilkins, of Penn-
sylvania, February 15, 1844.
Attorney-General. — John J. Crittenden, of Ken-
tucky, continued from Harrison's Administration;
Hugh S. Legar6, of South Carolina, September 13,
1841; John Nelson, of Maryland, July 1, 1843.
Postmaster-General. — Francis Granger, of New'
York, continued from Harrison's Administration;
Charles A. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, September 13,
1841; Selah E. Hobbie, of New York (First Assist-
ant Postmaster-General), ad interim, September
14, 1841.
Secretary of the Navy. — George E. Badger, of
North Carolina, continued from Harrison's Admin-
istration; JohnD. Simms (chief clerk), ad interim,
September 12, 1841; Abel P. Upshur,- of Virginia,
September 13, 1841; David Henshaw, of Massa-
chusetts, July 24, 1843; Thomas W. Gilmer, of
Virginia, February 15, 1844; Lewis Warrington
(captain, U. S. Navy), ad interim, February 29,
1844; John Y. Mason, of Virginia, March 14, 1844.
MARCH 4, 1845, TO MARCH 4, 1849.
President. — James K. Polk, Tennessee.
Vice-President. — George M. I)ai.las, Pennsyl-
vania.
Secretary of Slate. — John C. Calhoun, of South
Carolina, continued from last Administration;
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, March 6, 1845.
Secretary of the Treasury. — George M. Bibb, of
Kentucky, continued from last Administration;
Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, March 6, 1845.
Secretary of War. — William Wilkins, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
William L. Marcy, of New York, March 6, 1845.
Attorney-General.~:iohn Nelson, of Maryland,
continued from last Administration; John Y
Mason, of Virginia, March 6, 1845; Nathan Clif-
ford, of Maine, October 17, 1846; Isaac Toucev of
Connecticut, June 21, 1848.
Postmaster-Genernl.~Ch2iT\e}i A. Wickliffe of
Kentucky, continued from last Administration-
Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, March 6, 1845
Secretary of the Navy.— John Y. Mason, of Vir-
ginia, continued from last Administration; George
Bancroft, of Massachusetts, March 10, 1845- John
Y. Mason, of Virginia, September 9, 1846
MARCH 4, 1849, TO JULY 9, 1850.
President. — Zachary Taylor, Louisiana. (Died
July 9, 1850.)
Vice-President. — Millard Fillmore, New York.
Secretary of Slate. — James Buchanan, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration ; John
M. Clayton, of Delaware, March 7, 1849.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Robert J. Walker, of
JMississippi, continued from last Administration;
McCIintock Young (chief clerk), ad interim,
March 6, 1849; \\'Dliam M. Meredith, of Pennsyl-
vania, March 8, 1849.
Secretary of ]V'ir. — William L. Marcy, of New
York, continued from last Administration; Rever-
dy Johnson; of Maryland (Attorney-General), ad
interim, March 8, 1849; George V,'. Crawford, of
Georgia, March 8, 1849.
Attoruey-t'em-ral -Is^acToncey, of Connecticut,
continued from last Administration; Reverdv
Johnson, of Maryland, March 8, 1849
Postmafter-General.—Ca,\e Johnson, of Tennes-
see continued from last Administration; Selah R.
Hobble of New \ ork (First Assistant Postmaster-
General), ad interim, March 5, 1849; Jacob Col-
lamer, of A ermont, March 8 1849
.Secretary of the Nary.-JohnY.Mnson, of Vir-
ginia, continued from last Administration- Wil-
liam B. Preston, „f A'irginia, March 8 1849
Ma;;;rti^i^''""'"'""-'^'^°^^^^"^"^'<'^f'i"°'
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1789-1903..
JULY 9, 1850, TO MARCH 4, 1853.
President. — Millakd Fillmoke, Xew York.
Pi-esident pro tempore of the (Senate.— William R.
King, Alabama.
Secretary of Sfate.~3ohn 1\I. Clayton, of Dela-
ware, , continued from Taylor's- Administration;
Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, July 22, 1850;
Charles M. Conrad, of Louisiana (Secretary of
War), ad interim, September 2, 1852; Edward
Everett, of Massachusetts, Novembers, 1852; Wil-
liam Hunter (chief clerk), ad interim, March 4,
1853.
Secretary of the 3Ve(mtr^.— William M. Meredith,
of Pennsylvania, continued from Taylor's Admin-
istration; Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, July 23, 1850.
Secretary of TFar.— George W. Crawford, of Geor-
gia, continued from Taylor's Administration; Sam-
uel J. Anderson (chief clerk) ad interim, July 23,
1850; Winfield Scott, (major-general, U. S. Army),
ad interim, July 24, 1850; Charles M. Conrad, of
Louisiana, August 15, 1850.
Attorney-General. — Reverdy Johnson, of Mary-
land, continued from Taylor's Administration;
John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, July 22, 1850.
Postmaster- General. — Jacob Collamer, of Ver-
mont, continued from Taylor's Administration;
Nathan K. Hall, of New York, July 23, 1850;
Samuel D. Hubbard, of Connecticut, August 31,
1852.
Secretary of the Navy. — William B. Preston, of
Virginia, continued from Taylor's Administration;
William A. Graham, of North Carolina, July 22,
1850; Lewis Warrington (captain,- U. S. Navy), ad
interim, July 23, 1850; John P. Kennedy, of
Maryland, July 22, 1852.
Secretary of the Interior. — Thomas Ewing, of
Ohio, continued from Taylor's Administration;
Daniel C. Goddard (chief clerk), ad interim, July
23, 1850; Thomas M. T. McKennan, of Pennsyl-
vania, August 15, 1850; Daniel C. Goddard (chief
clerk), ad interim, August 27, 1850; Alexander H.
H. Stuart, of Virginia, September 12, 1850.
MARCH 4, 1853, TO MARCH 4, 18,57.
President. — Fkanklin Piebce, New Hampshire.
Vice-President. — William R. King, Alabama.
(Died April 18, 1853.)
President pro tempore of the Senate. — David R.
Atchison, Missouri; Lewis Cass, Michigan; Jesse
D. Bbight, Indiana; Chahlbs E. Stuart, Michi-
gan; James M. Mason, Virginia.
Secretary of State. — William Hunter (chief
clerk), ad interim, March 4, 1853; William L.
Marcy, of New York, March 7, 1853.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Thomas Corwin, of
Ohio, continued from last Administration; James
Guthrie, of Kentucky, March 7, 1853.
Secretary of War. — Charles M. Conrad, of Louis-
iana, continued from last Administration; Jeffer-
son Davis, of Mississippi, March 7, 1853; Samuel
Cooper (Adjutant-General, U. S. Army), ad in-
terim, March 3, 1857.
Attorney- General. — John J. Crittenden, of Ken-
tucky, continued from last Administration; Caleb
Gushing, of Massachusetts, March 7, 1853.
Postmaster- General. — SamuelD . H ubbard , of Con-
necticut, continued from last Administration ; James
Campbell, of Pennsylvania, March?, 1853.
Secretary of the Navy. — John P. Kennedy, of
Maryland, continuefi from last Administration;
James C. Dobbin, of North Carolina, March 7,
1853.
Secretary of the Interior. — Alexander H. H. Stuart,
of Virginia, continued from last Administration;
Robert McClelland, of Michigan, March 7, 1853.
MARC a 4, 1857, TO MARCH 4, 1861.
President. — James Buchanan, Pennsylvania.
Vice-President. — John C. Beeckinkidge, Ken-
tucky.
Secretary of State. — William L. Marcy, of New
York, continued from last Administration; Lewis
Cass, of Michigan, March 6, 1857; William Hunter
(chief clerk), ad interim, December 13, 1860;
Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, December 17,
1860.
Secretary of the Treasury.— James Guthrie, of
Kentucky, continued from last Administration;
Howell Cobb, of Georgia, March 6, 1857; Isaac
Toucey, of Connecticut (Secretary^ of the Navy),
ad interim, December 10, 1860; Philip F. Thomas,
of Maryland, December 12, 1860; John A. Dix, of
New York, January 11, 1861.
Secretary of War. — Samuel Cooper (Adjutant-
General, U. 'S. Army), ad interim, March 4, 1857;
JohnB. Floyd, of Virginia, March 6, 1857; Joseph
Holt, of Kentucky (Postmaster-General), ad in-
terim, January 1, 1861; Joseph Holt, of Kentucky,
January 18, 1861.
Attorney-General. — Caleb Gushing, of Massachu-
setts, continued from last Administration; Jere-
miah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, March 6, 1857;
Edwin M. Stanton, of Pennsylvania, December
20, 1860.
Postmaster- General. — James Campbell, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee, March 6, 1857;
Horatio King, of Maine (First Assistant Post-
master-General), ad interim, March 9, 1859; Jo-
seph Holt, of Kentucky, March 14, 1859; Horatio
King, of Maine (First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral), ad interim, January 1, 1861; Horatio King,
of Maine, February 12, 1861.
Secretary of the Navy. — JamesC. Dobbin, of North
Carolina, continued from last Administration;
Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut, March 6, 1857.
Secretary of the Interior. — Robert McClelland, of
Michigan, continued from last Administration;
Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, March 6, 1857;
Moses Kelly (chief clerk), ad interim, January 10,
1861.
MARCH 4, 1861, TO MARCH 4, 1865.
President. — Abraham Lincoln, Illinois.
Vice-President. — Hannibal Hamlin, Maine.
Secretary of Slate.— Jeremiah S. Black, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
William H. Seward, of New York, March 5, 1861.
Secretary of the Treasury. — John A. Dix, of New
York, continued from last Administration; Salmon
P. Chase, of Ohio, March 5, 1861; George Har-
rington, of the District of Columbia (Assistant Sec-
retary) , ad interim, July 1, 1864; William P. Fes-
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COiVGEESSIONAL DIEECTOBY .
senden, of Maine, July 1, 1864; George Harrington,
of the District of Columbia (Assistant Secretary),
ad interim, March 4, 1865.
Secretary of War. — Joseph Holt, of Kentucky,
continued from last Administration; Simon Cam-
eron, of Pennsylvania, March 5, 1861; Edwin M.
Stanton, of Pennsylvania, January 15, 1862.
Aitomey-General. — Edwin M. Stanton, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration; Ed-
ward Bates, of Missouri, March 5, 1861; James
Speed, of Kentucky, December 2, 1864.
Postmaster-Oeneral. — Horatio King, of Maine,
continued from last Administration ; Montgomery
Blair, of the District of Columbia, March 5, 1861;
William Dennison, of Ohio, September 24, 1864.
Secretary of the Navy.—laaac Toucey, of Connect-
icut,, continued from last Administration; Gideon
Welles, of Connecticut, March 5, 1861.
Secretary of the Interior.— Mobbb Kelly (chief
clerk), ad interim, March 4, 1861; Caleb B. Smith,
of Indiana, March 5, 1861; John P. Usher, of In-
diana (Assistant Secretary), ad interim, January
1, 1863; John P. Usher, of Indiana, January 8,
1863.
MARCH 4, 1865, TO APRIL 15, 1865.
President. — Abraham Lincoln, Illinois. (Died
April 15,1865.)
Vice-President. — Andrew Johnson, Tennessee.
Secretary of State. — William H. Seward, of New
York, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Treasury. — George Harrington,
of the District of Columbia (Assistant Secretary),
ad interim, March 4, 1865; Hugh McCulloch, of
Indiana, March 7, 1865.
Secretary of War. — Edwin M. Stanton, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration.
Attorney-General. — James Speed, of Kentucky,
continued from last Administration.
Postmaster- General— 'William Dennison, of Ohio,
continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Navy.— Gideon Welles, of Con-
necticut, continued from last Administration.
Secretary of the Interior. — John P. Usher, of Indi-
ana, continued from last Administration.
APRIL 15, 1865, TO MARCH 4, 1869.
President. — Andrew Johnson, Tennessee.
President pro tempore of the Senate. — Lafayette
S. Foster, Connecticut; Benjamin F. Wade, Ohio.
Secretary of State. — William H. Seward, of New
York, continued from Lincoln's Administration.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Hugh McCulloch, of
Indiana, continued from Lincoln's Administration.
Secretary of War. — Edwin M. Stanton, of Pennsyl-
vania, continued from Lincoln's Administration;
Ulysses S. Grant (General of the Army), ad in-
terim, August 12, 1867; Edwin M. Stanton, « of
Pennsylvania, reinstated January 13, 1868; Lo-
renzo Thomas (Adjutant-General, U. S. Army),
ad interim, February 21, 1868; John M. Schofield,
of Illinois, May 28, 1868.
Attorney-General. — James Speed, of Kentucky,
continued from Lincoln's Administration; J. Hub-
ley Ashton, of Pennsylvania (Assistant Attorney-
General), acting, July 17, 1866; Henry Stanbery,
of Ohio, July 23, 1866; Orville H. Browning, of
Illinois (Secretary of the Interior), ad interim,
March 13, 1868; William M. Evarts, of New York,
July 15, 1868.
Postmaster-General. — William Dennison, of Ohio,
continued from Lincoln's Administration; Alex-
ander W. Randall, of Wisconsin (First Assistant
Postmaster-General), ad interim, July 17, 1866;
Alexander W. Randall, of Wisconsin, Julv 25,
1866.
Secretary of the Navy. — Gideon Welles, of Con-
necticut, continued from Lincoln's Administra-
tion.
Secretary of the Interior. — John P. Usher, of In-
diana, continued from Lincoln's Administration;
James Harlan, of Iowa, May 15, 1865; Orville H.
Browning, of Illinois, July 27, 1866, to take effect
September 1, 1866.
MARCH 4, 1869, TO MARCH 4, 1873.
President. — Ulysses S. Grant, Illinois.
Vice-President. — Schuyler Colfax, Indiana.
Secretary of State.- — Elihu B. Washburne, of Illi-
nois, March 5, 1869; Hamilton Fish, of New York,
March 11, 1869.
Secretary of the Treasury. — John F. Hartley, of
Maine (Assistant Secretary) , ad interim, March 5,
1869; Georges. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, March
11, 1869.
Secretary of War. — John M. Schofield, of Illinois,
continued from last Administration; John A. Raw-
lins, of Illinois, March 11, 1869; William T. Sher-
man, of Ohio, September 9, 1869; AVilliam V,'.
Belknap, of Iowa, October 25, 1869.
Attorney-General. — J. Hubley Ashton, of Penn-
sylvania (Assistant Attorney-General), acting.
March 5, 1869; Ebenezer R. Hoar, of Massachu-
setts, March 5, 1869; Amos T. Akerman, of Geor-
gia, June 23, 1870; George H. Williams, of Oregon,
December 14, 1871, to take effect January 10, 1872.
Postmaster-General. — St. John B. L. Skinner, of
New York (First Assistant Postmaster-General),
ad interim, March 4, 1869; John A. J. Cresswell
of Maryland, March 5, 1869. '
Secretary of the j\ac(/.— William Faxon, of Con-
necticut (Assistant Secretary), ad interim, ^Nlarch
4, 1869; Adolph E. Borie, ot Pennsylvania, March
5, 1869; George M. Robeson, of New Jersey June
25, 1869.
Secretary of the Interior.— Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio
JIarch 5, 1869; Columbus Delano, of Ohio No-
vember 1, 1870. '
MARCH 4, 1873, TO MARCH 4, 1877.
President. — Ulysses S. Grant, Illinois.
Vice-President. — Henry Wilson, ^Massachusetts.
(Died November L2, 1875.)
President pro tempore of the /S'eoa^'.— Thom\s W
Ferry, Michigan.
Secretary o/S(trfe.— Hamilton Fish, of New York
a Mr. Stanton did not cease to perform the dirties of Secretary of War until tlieir a.wumption by Jrajor-General Schofield
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1789-1903.
continued from last Administration; Hamilton
Fish, of New York, recommissioned March 17,
1873.
Secretary of the Treasury.— George^ S. Boutwell,
of Massachusetts, continued from last Administra-
tion; William A. Richardson, of Massachusetts,
March 17, 1873; Benjamin H. Bristow, of Ken-
tucky, June 2, 1874; Charles F. Conant, of New
Hampshire (Assistant Secretary), ad interim,
June 21, 1876; Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, June 21,
1876.
Secretary of War. — William W. Belknap, of
Iowa, continued from last Administration; Wil-
liam W- Belknap, of Iowa, recommissioned March
17, 1873; George M. Robeson, of New Jersey (Sec-
retary of the Navy), ad interim, March 2, 1876;
Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, March 8, 1876; James D.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, May 22, 1876.
Attorney-General. — George H. Williams, of Ore-
fon, continued from last Administration; George
I. Williams, of Oregon, recommissioned March
17, 1873; Edwards Pierrepont, of New York, April
26, 1875, to take effect May 15, 1875; Alphonso
Taft, of Ohio, May 22, 1876.
Postmalster-General. — John A. J. Cresswell, of
Maryland, continued from last Administration;
John A. J. Cresswell, of Maryland, recommis-
sioned March 17, 1873; James W. Marshall, of
Virginia,, July 3, 1874; Marshall Jewell, of Con-
necticut, August 24, 1874; James M. Tyner, of
Indiana, July 12, 1876.
Secretary of the Navy. — George M. Robeson, of
New Jersey, continued from last Administration ;
George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, recommis-
sioned March 17, 1873.
Secretary of the Interior. — Columbus Delano, of
Ohio, continued from last Administration; Colum-
bus Delano, of Ohio, recommissioned March 17,
1873; Benjamin R. Cowen, of Ohio (Assistant
Secretary), ad interim, September 30, 1875;
Zacharian Chandler, of Michigan, October 19,
1875.'
MARCH 5, 1877, TO MARCH 4, 1881.
President. — Rutherford B. Hayes, Ohio.
Vice-President. — William A. Wheeler, New
York.
Secretary of State. — Hamilton Fish, of New York,
continued from last Administration; William M.
Evarts, of New York, March 12, 1877.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Lot M. Morrill, of
Maine, continued from last Administration; John
Sherman, of Ohio, March 8, 1877; Henry F.
French, of Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary),
ad interim, March 4, 1881.
Secretary of War.^!a,mes D. Cameron, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from last Administration;
George W. McCrary, of Iowa, March 12, 1877;
Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, December 10,
1879.
Attorney-General. — Charles Devens, of Massa-
chusetts, March 12, 1877.
Postmaster-General. — James M. Tyner, of Indi-
ana, continred from last Administration; David
M. Key, of Tennessee, March 12, 1877; Horace
Maynard, of Tennessee, June 2, 1880.
Secretary of the Navy. — George M. Robeson, of
New Jersey, continued from last Administration;
Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, March 12,
1877; Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota (Secretary
of War), ad interim, December 21, 1880; Nathan
Goff, jr., of West Virginia, January. 6, 1881.
Secretary of the Interior. — Zachariah Chandler,
of Michigan, continued from last Administration;
Carl Schurz, of Missouri, March 12, 1S77.
MARCH 4, 1881, TO SEPTEMBER 19, 1881.
Preddent. — James A. Garfield, Ohio. (Died
September 19, 1881.)
Vice-President. — Chester A. Arthur, New York.
Secretary of State. — William M. Evarts, of New
York, continued from last Administration; James
G. Blaine, of Maine, March 5, 1881.
Secretary of the TVeasury.— Henry F. French, of
Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary), ad interim,
March 4, 1881; William Windom, of Minnesota,
March 5, 1881.
Secretary of War. — Alexander Ramsey, of Min-
nesota, continued from last Administration;
Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, March 6, 1881.
Attorney- General. — Charles Devens, of Massa-
chusetts, continued from last Administration;
Wayne Mac Veagh, of Pennsylvania, March 5, 1881 ;
Samuel F. Phillips,- of North Carolina (Solicitor-
General), ad interim, March 7, 1881.
Postmaster-General. — Horace Maynard, of Ten-
nessee, continued from last Administration;
Thomas L. James, of New York, March 5, 1881.
Secretary of the Navy. — Nathan Goff, jr., of West
Virginia, continued from last Administration;
William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, March 5, 1881.
Secretary of the Interior. — Carl Schurz, of Mis-
souri, continued from last Administration; Samuel
J. Kirkwood, of Iowa, March 5, 1881.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1881, TO MARCH 4, 1885.
Presid!er?i.— Chester A. Arthur, New York.
President pro tempore of the Senate.— Thomas F.
. Bayard, Delaware; David Davis, Illinois; George
F. Edmunds, Vermont.
Secretary of State.— J a,mes G. Blaine, of Maine,
continued from Garfield's Administration; Fred-
erick T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, December
12 1881
Secretary of the TreosMn/.— William Windom, of
Minnesota, continued from Garfield's Administra-
tion; Charles J. Folger, of New York, October 27,
1881; Charles E. Coon, of New York (Assistant
Secretary), ad interim, September 4, 1884; Henry
F French, of Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary),
ad interim, September 8, 1884; Charles E. Coon,
of New York (Assistant Secretary), ad interim,
September 15, 1884; Walter Q. Gresham, of Indi-
ana, September 24, 1884; Hugh McCulloch, of
Indiana, October 28, 1884; Henry F. French, of
Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary), ad interim,
October 29, 1884.
Secretary of H'ar.— Robert T. Lincoln, of Illi-
nois, continued from Garfield's Administration.
Attorney-General— ^ayne Mac Veagh, of Penn-
sylvania, continued from Garfield's Administra-
tion; Samuel F. Phillips, of North Carolina
(Solicitor-General), ad interim, November 12,
1881; Benjamin H. Brewster, of Pennsylvania,
December 19, 1881.
Postmaster-Genairal.—ThovLi&s L. James, cf New
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CONGRESSIOlSrAL DIRECTORY.
York, continued from Garfield's Administration;
Thomas L. James, of New York, recommissioned
October27, 1881; Timotiiy 0. Howe, of Wisconsin,
December 20, 1881; Frank Hatton, of Iowa (First
Assistant Postmaster-General), ad interim, March
26, 1883; Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, April 3,
1883; Frank Hatton, of Iowa (First Assistant
Postmaster-General), ad interim, September 25,
1884; Frank Hatton, of Iowa, October 14, 1884.
Secretary of the iVavy.— William H. Hunt, of
Loulsiaiia, continued from Garfield's Administra-
tion; William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
April 12, 1882.
Secretary of the Interior. — Samuel J. Kirk wood,
of Iowa, continued from Garfield's Administra-
tion; Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, April 6, 1882.
MARCH 4, 1885, to MARCH 4, 1889.
President — Geover Cleveland, New York.
Vice-President. — Thomas A. Hendricks, Indi-
ana. (Died November 25, 1885. )
President pro tempore of the Senate. — John Sher-
man, Ohio; John J. Ingalls, Kansas.
Secretary of State. — Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,
of New Jersey; continued from last Administra-
tion. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, March 6,
1885.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Hugh McCulloch, of
Indiana; continued from last Administration.
Daniel Manning, of New York, March 6, 1885.
Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, April 1, 1887.
Secretary of War. — Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois;
continued from last Administration. William C.
Endicott, of Massachusetts, March 6, 1885.
Attorney-General. — Benjamin H. Brewster, of
Pennsylvania; continued from last Administra-
tion. Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas, March
6, 1885.
Postmaster-General. — Frank Hatton, of Iowa;
continued from last Administration. William F.
Vilas, of Wisconsin, March 6, 1885. Don M. Dick-
inson, of Michigan, January 16, 1888.
Secretary of the Navy. — William E. Chandler, of
New Hampshire; continued from last Adminis-
tration. William C. Whitney, of New York,
March 6, 1885.
Secretary of the Interior. — Lucius Q. C. Lamar,
of Mississippi, March 6, 1885; Henry L. Muldrow,
of Mississippi (First Assistant Secretary), ad in-
terim, January 10, 1888; William F. Vilas, of
Wisconsin, January 16, 1888.
Secretary of Agriculture. — Norman J. Coleman,
of Missouri, February 13, 1889.
MARCH 4, 1889, TO MARCH 4, 1893.
President. — Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
Vice-President. — Levi P. Morton, New York.
Secretary of State. — Thomas F. Bayard, of Dela-
ware, continued from last Administration; James G.
Blaine, of Maine, March 5, 1889; William F. Whar-
ton, of Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary), ad
interim, June 5, 1892; John W. Foster, of Indiana,
June 29, 1892; William F. Wharton, of Massachu-
setts (Assistant Secretary), ad interim, February
23, 1893.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Charles S. Fairchild,
of New York, continued from last Administration;
William Windom, of Minnesota, March 5, 1889;
Allured B. Nettleton, of Minnesota (Assistant Sec-
retary) , ad interim, January 30, 1891; Charles Fos-
ter, of Ohio, February 24, 1891.
Secretary of War. — William C. Endicott, of Mas-
sachusetts, continued from last Administration;
Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, March 5, 1889;
Lewis A. Grant, of Minnesota (Assistant Secre-
tary), ad interim, December 6, 1891; Stephen B.
Elkins, of West Virginia, December 22, 1891.
Attorney- General. — Augustus H. Garland, of Ar-
kansas, continued from last Administration; Wil-
liam H. H. Miller, of Indiana, March 5, 1889.
Postmaster- General. — DonM. Dickinson, of Mich-
igan, continued from last Administration; John
Wanamaker, of Pennsvlvania, March 5, 1889.
Secretary of the Navy. — WiUiam C. Whitney, of
New York, continued from last Administration;
Benjamin F. Tracy, of New York, March 5, 1889.
Secretary of the Juterior.— William F. Vilas, of
Wisconsin, continued from last Administration;
John W. Noble, of Missouri, March 5, 1889
Secretary of Agncullure.—J^orman J. Coleman,
of Missouri, continued from last Administration;
Jeremiah M. Rusk, of Wisconsin, March 5, 1889.
MARCH 4, 1893, TO MARCH 4, 1897.
President. — Geover Cleveland, New York.
Vice-President. — Adlai E. Stevenson, Illinois.
Secretary of State. — William F. Wharton, of
Massachusetts (Assistant Secretary), ad interim,
continued from last Administration; Walter Q.
Gresham, of Illinois, March 6, 1893; Edwin F.
Uhl, of Michigan (Assistant Secretary ), ad interim,
May 28, 1895; Richard Olney, of Massachusetts,
June 8, 1895.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Charles Foster, of
Ohio, continued from last Administration; John
G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, March 6, 1893.
Secretary of War. — Stephen B. Elkina, of West
Virginia, continued from last Administration;
Daniel S. Lamont, of New York, March 6, 1893.
Attorney-General. — William H. H. Miller, of
Indiana, continued from last Administration;
Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, March 6, 1893;
Judaon Harmon, of Ohio, June 8, 1895.
Postmaster-General.—John Wanamaker of Penn-
WlZ'% "n^^'^l^^^ from last Administration;
Wi son S Bissell, of New York, March 6, 1893
Wilham L. Wilson, of West Virginia, March i;
Secretary of the iVarj/.-Benjamin F. Tracy, of
mLj°A Tr'T'^r^'^ /[T ^"^^ Administration
Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, March 6 1893
Secretary of the Inferior.- John W Noble of
Hofrsiith°''nrr''^ •^'^T. ^^«* Administration
Hoke bmith, of Georgia, March 6 1893- Davi,i r
Francis of Missouri,^September 1, 1896; John m'
Reynolds, of Pennsylvania (Assistant Secreterv)
ad interim, September 2, 1896 ''Lcrerary;,
Secretanj of Agriciatare.-JerBmiah Isl Rusk of
A\ isconsin, continued from last Administration-
Juhus Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, MarT 6 '
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 1789-1903.
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MARCH 4, 1897, TO MARCH 4, 1901.
President.— WuAAAVi McKinley. Ohio.
Vice-President.— CiAmirsfs: A. Hobaet, New Jer-
sey. (DiedNovember 21, 1899.)
President pro tempore of the &naie.— William P.
Feye, Maine.
Secretary o/^Saic— Richard Olney, of Massachu-
setts, continued from last Administration; John
Sherman, of Ohio, March 5, 1897; William R.
Day, of Ohio, April 26, 1898; Alvey A. Adee (Sec-
ond Assistant Secretary), ad interim, September
17, 1898; John Hay, of the District of Columbia,
September 20, 1898.
Secretary of the Treasury.— Zohn G. Carlisle, of
Kentucky, continued from last Administration;
Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois, March 5, 1897.
Secretary of War.— Daniel S. Lament, of New
York, continued from last Administration; Russell
A. Alger, of Michigan, March 5, 1897; Elihu Root,
of New York, August 1, 1899.
Attomey-Oeneral. — Judson Harmon, of Ohio,
continued from last Administration; Joseph Mc-
Kenna, of California, March 5, 1897; John K.
Richards, of Ohio (Solicitor-General), ad interim,
January 25, 1898; John W. Griggs, of New Jersey,
January 25, 1898.
Postmaster-General. — William L. Wilson, of West
V^irginia, continued from last Administration;
James A. Gary, of Maryland, March 5, 1897;
Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, April 21,
1898.
Secretary of the Navy. — Hilary A. Herbert, of
Alabama, continued from last Administration;
John D. Long, of Massachusetts, March 5, 1897.
Secretary of the Interior. — David R. Francis, of
Missouri, continued from last Administration;
Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, March 5, 1897;
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, Decepiber 21,
1898.
Secretary of Agriculture. — Julius Sterling Morton,
of Nebraska, continued from last Administration;
James Wilson, of Iowa, March 5, 1897.
MARCH 4, 1901, TO SEPTEMBER 14, 1901.
' President. — William McKinley, Ohio. (Died
September 14, 1901.)
Vice-President. — ^ Theodore Roosevelt, New
York.
Secretary of State. — John Hay, of the District of
Columbia; continued from last Administration.
John Hay, of the District of Columbia; recom-
missioned March 5, 1901.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Lyman J. Gage, of
Illinois; continued from last Administration,
Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois; recommissioned March
5, 1901.
Secretary of War. — Elihu Root, of New York;
continued from last Administration. Elihu Root,
of New York; recommissioned March 5, 1901.
Attorney- General. — John W. Griggs, of New Jer-
sey; continued from last Administration. John
W. Griggs, of New Jersey; recommissioned March
5, 1901. John K. Richards, of Ohio (Solicitor-
General), ad interim, April 1, 1901. Philander
C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, April 5, 1901.
Postmaster-General. — Charles Emory Smith, of
Pennsylvania; continued from last Administra-
tion. Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania;
recommissioned March 5, 1901.
Secretary of the Navy. — John D. Long, of Massa-
chusetts; continued from last Administration.
John D. Long, of Massachusetts; recommissioned
March 5, 1901.
Secretary of the Interior. — Ethan A. Hitchcock, of
Missouri; continued from last Administration.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri; recommissioned
March 5, 1901.
Secretary of Agriculture. — James Wilson, of Iowa;
continued from last Administration. James Wil-
son, of Iowa; recommissioned March 5, 1901.
SEPTEMBER 14, 1901, TO ■
President. — Theodore Roosevelt, New York.
President' pro tempore of the Senate. — William P.
Frye, Maine.
Secretary of State. — John Hay, of the District of
Columbia; continued from McKinley's Adminis-
tration.
Secretary of the Treasury. — Lyman J. Gage, of
Illinois; continued from KcKinley's Administra-
tion. Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, January 9, 1902.
Secretary of War. — Elihu Root, of New York;
continued' from McKinley's Administration.
Attorney- General. — Philander C. Knox, of Penn-
sylvania; continued from McKinley's Administra-
tion.
Postmaster-General. — Charles Emory Smith, of
Pennsylvania; continued from McKinley's Ad-
ministration. Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin,
January 9, 1902.
Secretary of the Navy. — John D. Long, of Massa-
chusetts; continued from McKinley's Administra-
tion. William H. Moodv, of Massachusetts,
April 29, 1902.
Secretary of the Interior. — Ethan A. Hitchcock, of
Missouri; continued from McKinley's Adminis-
tration.
Secretary of Agriculture. — James Wilson, of Iowa;
continued from McKinley's Administration.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. — George B.
Cortelyou, of New York, February 16, 1903.
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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THE CONTINENTAL OONGEESS.
PLACE AND TIME OF SESSIONS.
Philadelphia, Pa from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774
Philadelphia, Pa from May 10, 1775, to December 12, 1776
Baltimore, Md from December 20, 1776, to March 4, 1777
Philadelphia, Pa from March 4, 1777, to September 18, 1777
Lancaster, Pa from September 27, 1777, to September 27, 1 777
York, Pa from September 30, 1777, to June 27, 1778
Philadelphia, Pa from July 2, 1778, to Jmie 21, 1783
Princeton, N. J from June 30, 1783, to November 4, 1783
Annapolis, Md from November 26, 1783, to June 3, 1784
Trenton, N. J from November 1, 1784, to December 24, 1784
New York City from January 11, 1785, to November 4, 1785
New York City from November 7, 1785, to November 3, 1786
New York City from November 6, 1786, to October 30, 1787
New York City from November 5, 1787, to October 21, 1788
PRESIDENTS OF THE CONGRESS.
Peyton Randolph, of Virginia elected September 5, 1774
Henry Middleton, of South Carolina elected October 22, 1774
Peyton Randolph, «■ of Virginia elected May 10, 1775
John Hancock, of Massachusetts elected May 24, 1775
Henry Laurens, of South Carolina elected November 1, 1777
John Jay, of New York elected December 10, 1778
Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut elected September 28, 1779
Thomas McKean, of Delaware elected July 10, 1781
John Hanson, of Maryland elected November 5, 1781
Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey - elected November 4, 1782
Thomas Mifflin, of Pennsylvania elected November 3, 1783
Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia elected November 30, 1784
John Hancock, 6 of Massachusetts , elected November 23, 1785
Nathaniel Gorham, of Massachusetts .' elected June 6, 1786
Arthur St. Clair, of Pennsylvania elected February 2, 1787
Cyrus GrifHn, of Virginia elected January 22, 1788
CLERK OF THE CONGRESS.
Charles Thonison, of Pennsylvania elected September 5, 1774
DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESS.
COkNECTICDT.
Andrew Adams 1777-1780
Andrew Adams 1781-1782
Joseph P. Cook 1784-1788
Silas Deane 1774-1 776
Eliphalet Dyer 1774-1779
Eliphalet Dyer 1780-1783
Pierrepont Edwards ..1787-1788
Oliver Ellsworth 1777-1784
William Hillhouse . . . .1783-1786
Titus Hosmer 1775-1776
Titus Hosmer . i 1777-1779
Benjamin Huntington. 1780-1784
oDied October 22, 1775.
Benjamin Huntington. 1787-1 78^
Samuel Huntington . . . 1776-1784
William S. Johnson... 1784-1 787
Richard Law 1 778-1778
Richard Law 1781-1784
Stephen M. Mitch ell.. 1783-1 784
Stephen M. Mitchell . .1785-1786
Stephen M. Mitchell . .1787-1788
Jesse.Root 1778-1783
Roger Sherman 1774-1784
Joseph Spencer 1778-1779
Jedediah Strong 1782-1784
6 Resigned May 29, 1786, never having served, owing to continued illness.
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Jonathan Sturges 1 774-1787
John Treadwell 1785-1786
Joseph Trumbull 1774-1775
James Wadsworth 1 783-1784
James Wadsworth 1785-1786
Jeremiah Wadsworth .1787-1788
William Williams .... 1776-1778
William Williams ....1783-1784
Oliver Wolcott 1 775-1778
Oliver Wolcott 1 780-1784
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
Gunning Bedford 1783-1785
Gunning Bedford, jr . .1785-1786
John Dickinson 1776-1777
John Dickinson 1779-1780
Philemon Dickinson ..1782-1783
John Evans 1776-1777
Dyre Kearney 1786-1788
Eleazer McComb 1782-1784
Abraham Baldwin 1785-1788
Nathan Brownson 1776-1778
Archibald Bullock . . . .1775-1776
Joseph Clav 1778-1780
William FeV 1780-1782
William Few 1785-1788
William Gibbons 1784-1786
Button Gwinnett 1776-1777
Robert Alexander 1775-1777
William Carmichael ..1778-1780
Charles Carroll 1776-1778
Daniel Carroll 1780-1784
Jeremiah T. Chase 1783-1784
Samuel Chase 1774-1778
Samuel Chase 17?4-1785
Benjamin Contee 1787-1788
James Forbes « 1778-1780
Uriah Forrest 1786-1787
Robert Goldsborough .1774-1775
John Hall 1775-1776
John Hall 1783-1784
John Hanson 1780-1783
John Adams 1774-1778
Samuel Adams 1 1774-1782
Thomas Gushing 1774-1776
Francis Dana 1776-1778
Francis Dana 1784-1784
Nathan Dane 1785-1788
Elbridge Gerrv 1776-1781
Elbridge Gerry 1782-1785
Nathaniel Gorham 1782-1 783
Nathaniel Gorham 1785-1787
Josiah Bartlett 1775-1779
Jonathan Blanchard ..1783-1784
Nathaniel Folsom 1774-1775
Nathaniel Folsom 1777-1778
Nathaniel Folsom 1779-1780
Abiel Foster 1783-1785
George Frost 1777-1779
John Taylor Oilman ..1782-1783
John Beatty 1783-1785
Elias Boudinot 1777-1778
Blias Boudinot 1781-1784
William Burnett 1780-1781
Lambert Cadwallader. 1784-1787
Abraham Clark 1776-1782
Abraham Clark 1787-1788
Silas Condict 1781-1784
John Cooper 1776-1776
Stephen Crane 1774-1776
Elias Dayton 1787-1788
Samuel Dick 1783-1784
DELAWAEE.
Nathaniel Mitchell ...1786-1788
Thomas McKean 1774-1776
Thomas McKean 1778-1783
John Patton 1785-1786
William Peevy 1785-1786
George Read 1774-1 777
Csesar Rodney 1774-1776
Csesar Rodney 1777-1778
GEOHGIA.
John Habersham 1785-1786
Lyman Hall 1775-1779
John Plouston 1775-1777
William Houston 1784-1787
Richard Howley 1780-1781
Noble Wimberly Jones. 1775-1776
Noble Wimberly Jones. 1781-1783
Edward Lahgworthy.. 1777-1779
MARYLAND.
William Harrison 1785-1787
William Hemslay 1782-1784
John Henry 1778-1781
John Henry 1784-1787
William Hindman 1784^1787
John E. Howard 1787-1788
D.Jeniferof St. Thomas 1778-1782
Thomas Johnson 1774-1777
Thomas Sim Lee 1783-1784
Edward Lloyd 1783-1784
LutherMartin 1784-1785
James McHenry 1783-1786
WiUiam Paca 1 774-1779
George Plater 1778-1781
MASSACHUSETTS.
John Hancock 1775-1780
John Hancock 1785-1786
Stephen Higginson 1782-1783
Samuel Holton 1778-1780
Samuel Holton 1782-1783
Samuel Holton 1784-1785
Samuel Holton 1786-1787
Jonathan Jackson 1782-1 782
Rufus King 1784-1787
James Lovell 1776-1782
NEW HAMPSHIEE.
Nicholas Gilman 1786-1788
John Langdon 1775-1777
John Langdon 1786-1787
Woodbury Langdon ..1779-1780
Samuel Livermore 1780-1783
Samuel Livermore 1785-1786
Pierce Long 1784-1786
Nathaniel Peabody 1779-1780
NEW JERSEY.
Jonathan Elmer 1776-1778
Jonathan Elmer 1781-1784
Jonathan Elmer 1787-1788
John Fell 1778-1780
Fred'k Frehnghuysen. 1778-1779
Fred'k Frelinghuysen. 1782-1783
Thomas Henderson . . .1779-1780
John Hart 1 774-1776
Francis Hopkinson 1776-1777
Josiah Hornblower ...1785-1786
William C. Houston ..1779-1782
William C. Houston .'.1784-1785
a Died March 25, 1780.
Rodney 1782-1784
Thomas Rodney 1781-1783
Thomas Rodney 1785-1787
James Sykes 1777-1778
James Tilton 1783-1785
Nicholas Van Dyke ...1777-1782
John Vining 1784-1786
Samuel Wharton 1782-1783
William Pierce 1786-1787
Edward Telfair 1777-1779
Edward Telfair 1780-1783
George Walton 1776-1779
George Walton 1780-1781
Joseph Wood 1777-1779
John J. Zubly 1775-1776
Riqhard Potts 1781-1782
Nathaniel Ramsay 1785-1787
Richard Ridgely 1785-1786
John Rogers 1775-1776
David Ross 1786-1787
Benjamin Rumsey 1776-1778
Gustavus Scott 1784-1785
Joshua Seney 1787-1788
William Smith 1777-1778
Thomas Stone 1775-1779
Thomas Stone 1784-1785
Matthew Tilghman ...1774-1777
Turbett Wright 1781-1782
John Lowell 1782-1783
Samuel Osgood 1780-1784
Samuel A. Otis 1787-1788
Robert Treat Paine ...1774-1778
George Partridge 1779-1782
George Partridge 1783-1785
Theodore Sedgwick . . .1785-1788
James Sullivan 1782-1782
George Thacher 1787-1787
Artemas Ward 1780-1781
John Sullivan 1774-1775
John Sullivan 1780-1781
Matthew Thornton 1776-1778
John 'S^'entworth, jr. . .1778-1779
William Whipple 1776-1779
Phillips White 1782-1783
Paine Wingate 1787-1788
James Kinsey 1774-1775
William Livingston . . .1774-1776
JohnNeilson 1778-1779
James Soheurman 1786-1787
Nathaniel Scudder 1777-1779
Jonathan D. Sergeant. 1776-1 777
Richard Smith 1774-1776
John Stevens 1784-1784
Archibald Stewart 1784-1785
Richard Stockton 1776-1777
J°}^» 9;;.^>'™'^^es 1785-1786
J oJin \\ itherspoon 177()-1783
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
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John Alsop 1774-177G
Egbert Benson 1784-1785
Egbert Benson 1786-1788
Simon Boerum 1774-1 777
George Clinton 1775-1777
Charles DeWitt 1783-1785
James Duane 1774-1784
William Duer 1777-1778
William Floyd 1774-1777
William Floyd 1778-1783
Leonard Gansevoort ..1787-1788
Alexander Hamilton.. 1782-1783
Alexander Hamilton.. 1787-1788
John Haring 1774-1775
John B. Ashe 1787-1788
Timothy Bloodworth. .1786-1787
William Blount 1782-1783
William Blount 1786-1787
Thomas Burke 1777-1781
Robert Burton 1787-1788
Eichard Caswell 1774-1776
William Cumming 1784-1784
OorneUus Harnett 1777-1780
Benjamin Hawkins . . .1781-1784
John Armstrong 1778-1780
John Armstrong 1787-1788
Samuel Atlee 1778-1782
John Bayard 1785-1787
Edward Biddle 1774-1776
Edward Biddle 1778-1779
William Bingham 1787-1788
Matthew Clarkson 1785-1786
William Clingan 1777-1779
George Clymer 1776-1778
' George Clymer 1780-1783
John Dickinson 1774^1776
Thomas Fitzsimmons. .1782-1783
Benjamin Franklin ...1775-1776
Joseph Galloway 1774-1775
Joseph Gardner 1784^1785
Edward Hand 1784-1785
William Henry 1784-1786
Jonathan Arnold 1782-1784
Peleg Arnold 1787-1789
John Collins 1778-1783
Ezekiel Cornell 1780-1783
William EUery 1776-1781
William Ellery 1783-1785
Thomas Bee 1780-1782
Eichard Beresford . . . .1783-1785
John Bull 1784-1787
Pierce Butler .1787-1788
William H. Drayton c. 1778-1779
Nicholas Eveleigh . . .• - 1781-1782
Christopher Gadsden. .1774-1776
John L. Gervais 1782-1783
Thomas Heyward, jr.. 1776-1 778
Daniel Huger 1786-1788
Eichard Hutson 1778-1779
a Died November 10, 1779.
H. Doc. 468
NEW YORK.
John Haring 1785-1788
John Jay 1774-1777
John Jay ■ 1778-1779
John Lansing 1784-1788
John Lawrence 1785-1787
Francis Lewis 1774-1779
Philip Livingston 1774-1778
EobertE. Livingston .1775-1777
Eobert E. Livingston .1779-1781
Walter Livingston 1784-1785
Isaac Low 1774-1775
Ezra L'Hommedieu. . .1779-1783
Ezra L'Hommedieu. . .1787-1788
Gouverneur Morris 1777-1780
NORTH CAROLINA.
Benjamin Hawkins . . .1786-1787
Joseph He wes 1774-1777
Joseph Hewesa 1779-1779
Whitmil Hill 1778-1781
William Hooper 1774-1777
Samuel Johnston 1780-1782
Allen Jones 1779-1780
Willie Jones 1780-1781
Abner Nash 1782-1784
Abner Nash b 1785-1786
PENNSYLVANIA.
Charles Humphreys ..1774-1776
Jared IngersoU 1780-1781
William Irvine 1786-1788
David Jackson 1785-1786
Timothy Matlack 1780-1781
James McClene 1779-1780
Samuel Meredith 1787-1788
Thomas Mifflin 1774-1776
Thomas Mifflin 1782-1784
Charles Morris 1783-1784
Eobert Morris 1776-1778
Joseph Montgomery ..1780-1784
John Morton 1774-1777
Fred'k A. Muhlenberg. 1778-1780
Eichard Peters 1782-1783
Charles Pettit 1785-1787
J. Bead 1787-1788
Joseph Eeed 1777-1778
RHODE ISLAND.
Jonathan J. Hazard... 1787-1789
Stephen Hopkins 1774-1780
David Howell 1782-1785
James Manning 1785-1786
Henry Marchant 1777-1780
Henry Marchant 1783-1784
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Ealph Izard 1782-1783
John Kean 1785-1787
Francis Kinloch 1780-1781
Henry Laurens 1777-1780
Thomas Lynch 1774-1776
Thomas Lynch, jr 1776-1777
John Matthews 1778-1782
Arthur Middleton . . . .1776-1 778
Arthur Middleton . . . .1781-1783
Henry Middleton 1774-1776
Isaac Motte 1780-1782
6 Died December 2, 1786.
Lewis Morris 1775-1777
Alexander McDougall. 1781-1782
Alexander McDougall. 1784-1785
Ephraim Paine 1784-1785
Zephaniah Piatt 1784-1786
Philip Schuyler 1775-1777
Philip Schuyler 1778-1781
John Morin Scott 1780-1783
Melancthon Smith 1785-1788
Henry Wisner 1774r-1776
Abraham Yates, jr 1787-1788
Peter W. Yates 1785-1787
John Penn 1775-1776
John Penn 1777-1780
John Sitgreaves 1784-1785
William Sharne 1779-1782
Eichard D. Spaight . . .1783-1785
John Swan 1787-1788
John Williams 1778-1779
Hugh Williamson . . . .1782-1785
Hugh Williamson .... 1787-1788
Alexander White 1786-1788
Samuel Ehodes 1774-1775
Daniel Eoberdeau 1777-1779
George Eoss 1774-1777
Benjamin Eush 1776-1777
James Searle 1778-1780
William Shippen 1778-1780
James Smith 1776-1778
Jonathan B. Smith ...1777-1778
Thomas Smith 1780-1782
Arthur St. Clair 1785-1787
George Taylor 1776-1777
Thomas Willing 1775-1776
James Willson 1775-1778
James Willson 1782-1783
James Willson 1785-1787
Henry Wynkoop 1779-1783
Nathan Miller 1785-1786
Daniel Mowrv 1780-1782
James M. Varnum 1780-1782
James M. Varnum . . . .1786-1787
Samuel Ward 1774-1776
John Parker 1786-1788
Charles Pinckney 1777-1778
Charles Pinckney 1784-1787
David Eamsay 1782-1784
David Eamsay 1785-1 786
Jacob Bead 1783-1785
Edward Eutledge 1774-1777
John Eutledge 1774-1 777
John Eutledge 1782-1783
Paul Trapier 1777-1778
Thomas T. Tucker . . . .1787-1788
«
cDied September 3, 1779.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Thomas Adams 1778-1780
John Banister 1778-1779
Richard Bland 1774-1775
Theodorio Bland 1780-1783
Carter Braxton .1 1776-1776
John Brown 1787-1788
Edward Carrington . . .1785-1786
William Fitzhugh 1779-1780
William Fleming 1779-1781
Wmiam Grayson 1784-1787
Cyrus Griffin 1778-1781
Cyrus Griffin 1787-1788
Samuel Hardy « 1783-1785
Benjamin Harrison ...1774-1778
aDied October 17,
VIRGINIA.
John Harvie 1777-1779
James Henry 1780-1781
Patrick Henry 1774-1776
Thomas Jefferson 1775-1777
Thomas Jefferson 1783-1785
Joseph Jones 1777-1778
Joseph Jones 1780-1783
Arthur Lee 1781-1784
Francis Lightfoot Lee .1775-1780
Henry Lee 1785-1788
Richard Henry Lee . . .1774-1780
Richard Henry Lee . . .1784-1787
James Madison, jr 1780-1783
James Madison, jr 1786-1788
1785. bDied
James Mercer 1779-1780
John F. Mercer 1782-1785
James Monroe 1 783-1786
Thomas Nelson 1775-1777
Thomas Nelson 1779-1780
Mann Page 1777-1777
Edmund Pendleton . . .1774-1775
Edmund Randolph ...1779-1782
Peyton Randolph b 1774-1775
Merewether Smith .... 1778-1782
George Washington. . .1774-1775
George Wythe 1775-1777
October 22, 1775.
rmST CONGRESS.
First session, from .Varch 4, 1789, to September S9, 1789. Second session, from January 4, 1190, to August
12, 1790. Tliird session, from December 6, 1790, to March 3, 1791.
Vice-President — John Adams, of Massachusetts. President of the Senate pro tempore — John Langdon,
of New Hampshire. Secretary of the Senate — Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the House — F. A. Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania. Clerk of the House — John Beckley,
of Virginia.
Oliver Ellsworth."
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPEESENTATIVES.
William S. Johnson. ^
Benjamin Huntington.
Eoger Sherman.
Jonathan Sturges.
Jonathan Trumbull.
Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Eichard Bassett.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Vining. «
George Eead.«
William Few.
Abraham Baldwin. «*
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Jackson.
James Gunn.
George Matthews. «
Charles Carroll.'^
Daniel Carroll.
Benjamin Contee.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Gale.
Joshua Seney.
John Henry.
William Smith.
Michael Jenifer Stone./
oTerm. expired March 3, 1791; reappointed.
6 Resigned in 1791.
cTook iiis seat May 6, 1789.
dTook his seat April 20, 1789.
e Took his seat June 17, 1789.
/Took his seat June 8, 1789.
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20
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
Tristam Dai ton."
Fisher Ames.
Elbridge Gerry.
Benjamin Goodhue.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATI VES.
Jonathan Grout.
George Leonard.
George Partridge.
Caleb Strong.
Theodore Sedgwick. '>
George Tbaoher.
John Langdon.
Abiel Foster.''
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nicholas Gilman.
Paine Wingate.
Samuel Livermore.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Jonathan Elmer.
William Paterson. f
Philemon Dickinson. .''
Elias Boudinot.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lambert Cadwallader. Thomas Sinnickson.
James Schureman.
Rufus King.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Philip Schuyler.
Egbert Benson.
William Floyd.
John Ha thorn.?
John Lawrence.
Peter Sylvester. ''
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer. *
Benjamin Hawkins.
John Baptist Ashe. J
Timothy Blood worth. •<■
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Sevier. '
John Steele.™
Samuel Johnston.
Hugh Williamson. «
PENNSYLVANIA.
William Maclay.
George Clymer.
Thomas Fitzsimons.
Thomas Hartley.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert Morris.
Daniel Heister.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg."
Peter Muhlenberg.
Thomas Scott.
Henry AVynkoop.
tiTook his seat April 14, 1789.
6 Took his seat June 15, 1789.
o Elected President oJ the Senate April 6, 1789, for the purpose of opening and coiuitiutr the v„te« fnr- Vr- „!.^„„» .i
Vice-President of the United States. is uujj me votes for President and
c> Toole his seat August 14, 1789.
e Resigned in 1790, having been elected governor of New Jersey.
/ Elected in place of William Paterson, and took his seat Docernber (i, 1790.
B Took his seat April 23, 1789.
li Took his seat April 22, 1789. I Took his seat June 16 1790
i Took his seat May 9, 1789. mTook his seat April 19 i7qn
J Took his seat March 24, 1790. ii Took his seat March 19 1 7qh
)iTook his seat April 6, 1790. oEleoted Speaker April i 1789
Theodore Foster, a
FIRST CONGRESS.
EHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
KEPHESENTATIVB.
Benjamin Bourn. <:
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Joseph Stanton, jr. '
Pierce Buttler.
.^danus Burke.
Daniel Huger.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SBNATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Wilham Smith. («.
Thomas Sumter. «
Ralph Izard.
Thomas Tudor Tucker.
William Grayson. /
John Walker.!/
Theodorick Bland.
John Brown.
Isaac Coles.
William B. Giles. J
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard Bland Lee.
James Madison, jr.
Andrew Moore.
John Page.
Richard Henry Lee.
James Monroe. ''
Josiah Parker.
Alexander White.
Samuel Griflfin.
a Term expired March 3, 1791; reappointed; tooli: his seat June 25, 1790.
6 Took his seat June 25, 1790.
c Took his seat December 17, 1790.
d Election unsuccessfully oonte-sted bv David Ramsay,
e Took his seat May 25, 1789.
/Died March 12, 1790.
a Appointed by the governor in place of William Grayson, deceased.
ft Elected by the legislature in place of William Grayson, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1790; term expired March
3, 1791; reappointed,
i Died June 1, 1790.
/Elected in .place of Theodorick Bland, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1790.
SECOND CONGEESS.
Fhvt nession, from October 24, 1791, to May 8, 1792. Second session, from Xoreiiwer 5, 1792, to
■ ' 3farch S, 1793.
Vicc-Preiiident. — John Adams, of Massachusetts. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Eictiahd
Hexry Lee, of Virginia, elected April 18, 1792. John Langdon, of New Hampshire, elected November
5, 1792. Secretary of the Senate. — Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the House. — Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut. Clerk of the House. — John Bbckley,
of Virginia.
CONNECTICUT.
Oliver Ellsworth.
James Hillhouse.
Amasa Learned.
eepkesentatives.
Jonathan Sturges.
Jonathan Trumbull. ^
Roger Sherman, o
Jeremiah "Wadsworth.
Richard Bassett.
DELAWARE.
senators.
representative.
John Vining.
GEORGIA.
George Read.
senators.
William Few. James Gunn.
REPHESENT.\TIVES.
Abraham Baldwin. John Milledge. <■ Anthony Wayne.'' Francis Willis.
KENTDCKY.
John Brown.
Christopher Greenup.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
John Edwards.
Alexander D. Orr.
Charles Carroll.
John Henrv.
William Hindman.?
Philip B. Key.
John Francis Mercer.''
REPRESENTATIVES,
William Vans JNIurray
William Pinkney. '
Joshua Seiiey. «
Richard Pottos. /
Upton Sheredine.
Samuel Sterritt.
aElected in place o£ William S. Jolinson, resigned, and took his si-at October ^A I7qi
!> Elected Speaker October 24, 1791.
c Elected in place of Anthony "Wayne: took his seat November 22, 1792.
^Election contested by .lames Jackson, and seat declared by the House to be vacant Mnrfii 'ii i-uo
f Resigned in 1792. -mun-i, na.;.
/Elected in place of Charles Carroll, resigned; took his seat February 4, 1793
ff Elected in place of Joshua Seney, resigned; took his seat January 30 1793
''Elected in place of William Pinkney, resigned; took his seat Februa'rv G 1709
i Resigned in 1791. " ' *^
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George Cabot.
Fisher Ames.
Shearjashub Bourne.
Elbridge Gerry.
John Langdon."
Nicholas Oilman.
Philemon Dickinson.
SECOND CONGRESS.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOES.
KEPKESBNTATIVES.
Benjamin Goodhue.
Theodore Sedgwick.
George Thacher.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Livermore.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
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Caleb Strong.
Artemas Ward.
Paine Wingate.
Jeremiah Smith.
John Rutherfurd.
Elias Boudinot.
Abraham Clark. Jonathan Dayton. Aaron Kitchell.
NEW YORK.
Aaron Burr.
Egbert Benson.
James Gordon.
Benjamin Hawkins.
John Baptist Ashe.
AVilliam Barry Grove.
William Findley.
Thomas Fitzsimons.
Andrew Gregg.
Theodore Foster.
Pierce Butler.
Robert Barnwell.
Daniel Huger.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Lawrence.
Cornelius C. Schoonmaker.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel Macon.
John Steele.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOR.
Robert Morris.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Hartley.
Daniel Heister.
Israel Jacobs.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENtATIVE.
Benjamin Bourn.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Smith.
Thomas Sumter.
Rufus King.
Peter Sylvester.
Thomas Tredwell.
Samuel Johnston.
Hugh Williamson.
John W. Kittera.
Frederick A. Muhlenberg.
Joseph Stanton.
Ralph Izard.
Thomas Tudor Tucker.
a Elected President pro tempore November 5, 1792.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIBECTOEY.
Stephen K. Bradley.
Nathaniel Miles.
Richard Henry Lee. "
James Monroe.
John Brown.
William B. Giles.
Samuel GriflSn.
Richard Bland Lee.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
HEPKESENTA TI VES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Moses Robinson.
Israel Smith.
John Taylor. 6
James Madison.
Andrew Moore.
John Page.
Josiah Parker.
Abraham B. Venable.
Alexander White.
n Elected President pro tempore April 18, 1792; resigned in 1792.
b Elected in place of JRichard Henry Lee, resigned; took his seat December 12, 1792.
THIRD CONGRESS.
First session, from December 2, 1793, to June 9, 1794. Hecoud Hnnwn, from November S, 1794, to March
S, 1796.
Fice-i>««irfen«.— John Adams, of Massachusetts. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— 'RAhTB.
Izard of South Carohna, elected May 31, 1794; Henry Tazewell, elected February 20, 1795. Secre-
tanj of the /Senaic— Samdel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the JToMse.— Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania. Clerk of the House —
John Beckley, of Virginia. .- ->
Oliver Ellsworth.
Joshua Coit.
James Hillhouse.
Amasa Learned.
Henry Latimer. 6
Henry Latimer. <^
James Gunn.
Abraham Baldwin.
John Brown.
Christopher Greenup.
John Henry.
Gabriel Christie.
George Dent.
Gabriel Duvall. ''
Benjamin Edwards./ ,
CONNECTICUT.
senators.
representatives.
Zephaniah Swift.
Uriah Tracy.
Jonathan Trumbull.
DELAWARE.
senators.
representatives.
GEORGIA.
senators.
representatives.
KENTUCKY.
senators.
representatives.
MARYLAND.
senators.
representatives.
Uriah Forrest.?
William Hindman.
John Francis Mercer. A
Samuel Smith.
Stephen Mix Mitchell."
Jeremiah Wads worth.
John Vining.
John Patton.'*
James Jackson.
Thomas P. Carnes.
John Edwards.
Alexander D. Orr.
Richard Potts.
Thomas Sprigg.
William Vans Murrav.
o Elected in place of Roger Sherman, deceased, in 1793; took his seat December 2, 1793.
6 Took his seat February 28, 1795, in place of George Read, resigned in 1793.
c Took his seat February 14, 1794.
d Election successfully contested by Henry Latimer.
e Elected in place of John Francis Mercer, resigned; took his seat November 11, 1794.
/Took his seat January 2, 1795.
» Resigned November 8, 1794.
h Resigned April 13, 1794.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
George Cabot.
Fisher Ames.
Shearjashub Bourne.
David Cobb.
Peleg Coffin, jr.
Henry Dearborn.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOKS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Dexter, jr.
Dwight Foster.
Benjamin Goodhue.
Samuel Holten.
William Lyman.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Caleb Strong.
Theodore Sedgwick.
George Thacher.
Peleg Wadaworth.
Artemas Ward.
John Langdon.
SENATORS.
Samuel Livermore. "
REPRESENT.VTI VES.
Nicholas Gilman. John S. Sherburne. Jeremiah Smith. Paine Wingate.
NEW JERSEY.
Frederick Frelinghuysen.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Rutherfiird.
John Beatty.
Elias Boudinot.
Lambert Cadwallader.
Abraham Clark. l>
Jonathan Dayton.
Aaron Kitchell. "
NEW YORK.
Aaron Burr, New York.
Theodoras Bailey.
Peter Van Gaasbeck.
Ezekiel Gilbert.
James Gordon.
SENATORS.
REPEESEXT.VTIVES.
Rufus King.
Henry Glenn.
Silas Talbot.
Thomas Tredwell.
John E. Van Allen. <^
Philip Van Cortlandt.
John Watts.
Benjamin Hawkins.
NORTH CAROLINA.
REPRESENT.^TIVES.
Alexander Martin.
Thomas Blount.
William Johnston Dawson.
James Gillespie.
William Barry Grove.
Matthew Locke.
Nathaniel Macon.
Joseph McDowell.
Alexander Mebane.
Benjamin Williams.
Joseph Winston.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Albert Gallatin.
Robert Morris.
James Armstrong.
William Findley.
Thomas Fitzsimons.
Andrew Gregg.
Thomas Hartley.
SEN.ATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
ames Ross. /
Daniel Heister.
William Irvine.
John Wilkes Kittera.
William Montgomery.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.?
Peter Muhlenberg.
Thomas Scott.
John Smilie.
« Elected President pro tempore February 20, 1795, bat cleclined.
I) Died September 15, 1794.
^Elected in place of Abraham Clark, deceased; took his seat January 29, i~95.
d Election unsuccessfuly contested by Henry K. Van Rensselaer.
" Election declared void February 2,s, 1794.
/Took his seat April 24, 1794.
r; Elected Speaker December 2, 1793.
William Bradford.
Benjamin Bourn.
Pierce Butler.
Lemuel Benton.
Alexander Gillon. *
Robert Goodloe Harper.
Stephen E. Bradley.
Nathaniel Miles.
James Monroe.''
John Taylor.<«
Isaac Coles.
Thomas Claiborne.
William B. Giles.
Samuel GrifBn.
George Hancock.
Carter B. Harrison.
John Heath.
THIRD CONGRESS.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOKS.
KBPRESENTATIVES.
John Hunter.
Andrew Pickens.
William Smith.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard Bland Lee.
James Madison.
Andrew Moore.
Joseph Neville.
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
John Page.
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Theodore Foster.
Francis Malbone.
Ralph Izard."
Richard ^^'ynn.
Moses Robinson.
Israel Smith.
Henry Tazewell. «
Josiah Parker.
Francis Preston.
Robert Rutherford.
Abraham Venable.
Francis Walker.
TERRITORY SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER.
DELEGATE.
James "V'hite. /
« Elected President pro tern. May 31, 1791.
6 Died in 1794.
cEleeted.in place of Alexander Gillon, deceased; took hia seat February 9, 1795.'
li Resigned in 1794.
^Elected in place of John Taylor, resigned; took iiis seat December 29, 1794; elected President pro tetapore February 20,
1795.
/Took his seat November 18, 1794.
EOUETH CONGRESS.
Fira session, from December 7, 1795, to June 1, 1796. Second session, from Da:e,„hcr 5, 1796, to March S,
1797.
Vice-President.-Son^ Adams, of Massach„Betts Presidents of <'i«f"«fp^™'™Cnir elected
LivERMORE, of New Hampshire, elected May 6, 1796; William Bjngham of Pennsylvania, elected
February 16, 1797. Secretary of the Senate.-%t.uvw. Allyne Otis^ of Massachusetts. ^^ ^^^^ „{
Speaker of the ITottsa.-.ToNATHAN Dayton, of New Jersey. Clerk of the Ilouse.-J ohn IJeckley, oi
Virginia.
Oliver Ellsworth. «'
James Hillhouse. ^
Joshua Coit.
Samuel Whittlesey Dana. «
James Davenport. /
Henry Latimer.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chauncey Goodrich.
Koger Griswold.
James Hillhouse. e
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Patton.
Uriah Tracy. "
Jonathan Trumbull.''
Nathaniel Smith.
Zephaniah Swift.
Uriah Tracy, ff
John Vining.
James Gunn.
James Jackson.''
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Josiah Tatnall. *
George Walton. J
Abraham Baldwin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
John Milledge.
John Brown.
Christopher Greenup.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Humphrey Marshall.
Alexander D. Orr.
a Resigned in 1796.
6 Elected in place of Oliver Ellsworth, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1796.
c Elected in place of Jonathan Trumbull, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1796,
d Resigned in 1796.
e Elected in place of Uriah Tracy; took his seat January 3, 1797.
/Elected in place of James Hillhouse; took his seat December 6, 1796.
fiElected Senator.
h Resigned in 1795.
I Elected in place of James Jackson, resigned; took his seat April 12. 1796.
J Appointed in place of James Jackson, resigned; took his seat Decembar 18, 1796.
28
John Henry.
John Eager Howard."
FOURTH CONGRESS.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
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Richard Potts. <>
Gabriel Christie.
Jeremiah Crabb. *
William Craik. c
George Dent.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Gabriel Duvall.'^
William Hindman.
Samuel Smith.
Richard Sprigg, jr. e
Thomas Sprigg. /
William Vans Murray.
MASSACHUSETTS.
George Cabot. »
Benjamin Goodhue. 6'
Fisher Ames.
Theophilus Bradbury.
Henry Dearborn.
Dwight Foster.
Nathaniel Freeman, jr.
SENATORS.
HEPEESENTATIVES.
Theodore Sedgwick.''
Caleb Strong. »
Benjamin Goodhue.
George Leonard.
Sam-uel Lyman.
William Lyman.
John Reed.
Theodore Sedgwick, i
Thomson J. Skinner. J
George Thacher.
Joseph B. Varnum.
Peleg Wads worth.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
John Langdon. Samuel Livermore.*
REPRESENTATIVES.
Abiel Foster. Nicholas Oilman. John S. Sherburne. Jeremiah Smith.
NEW JERSEY.
Frederick Frelinghuysen. J'
John Rutherford.
Richard Stockton. '
Jonathan Dayton."'
Thomas Henderson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Aaron Kitchell.
Isaac Smith.
Mark Thompson.
NEW YORK.
Aaron Burr, New York.
Rufus King. "■
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Lawrence."
Theodorus Bailej-.
William Cooper.
Ezekiel Gilbert.
Henry Glen.
John Hathorn.
Jonathan N. Havens.
Edward Livingston.
John E. Van Allen.
Philip '\'an Cortlandt.
John Williams.
a Elected in place of Riehard Potta, resigned; took his seat December 27, 1796.
b Resigned in 1796.
c Elected in place of Jeremiah Crabb, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1796.
d Resigned March 28, 1796, having been appointed judge of the supreme court of Maryland.
e Elected in place of Gabriel Duvall, resigned; took his seat May 6, 1796.
/ Took his seat February 7, 1797.
ff Elected in place of George Cabot, resigned; took his seat December 6, ,1796.
h Elected in place of Caleb Strong, resigned; took his seat December 21, 1796.
< Elected Senator.
J Elected in place of Theodore Sedgwick; took his seatJanuary 27, 1797,
* Elected President pro tempore May 6, 1796.
I Elected in place of Frederick Frelinghuysen, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1796.
ni Elected Speaker December 7, 1795.
n Resigned in 1796, having been appointed minister to England.
o Elected in place of Rufus King, resigned; took his seat December S, 1796.
HO CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Timothy Bloodworth. Alexander Martin.
EEPHESENTATIVES.
Thomas Blount. James Gillespie. ^^>^r^°'^«tS?;.k «
Nathan Bryan. William B. Grove. William Strudyick."
Dempsev Surges. James Holland. Absalom Tatum.
Jesse Franklin. Matthew Locke.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William Bingham, c James Ross.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
David Bard. Thomas Hartley. John Richards, e
George Ege.<« Daniel Heister. » Samuel Sitgreaves.
William Findley. John Wilkes Kittera. John Swanvfick.
Albert Gallatin. Samuel Maclay. Richard Thomas.
Andrew Gregg. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
William Bradford. Theodore Foster.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Bourn. » Francis Malbone. Elisha R. Potter..''
SOQTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Pierce Butler, b Jacob Read.
John Hunter.?
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lemuel Benton. Wade Hampton. William Smith.
Samuel Earle. Robert Goodloe Harper. Richard Wynn.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
William Blount.'' William Cocke.*
REPRESENTATIVE.
Andrew Jackson.''
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Elijah Paine. Isaac Tichenor. «
Moses Robinson. t>
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel Buck. • Isaac Smith.
«Elected in place of Absalom Tatum, resigned; took his seat December 13, 1796.
!> Resigned in 1796.
c Elected President pro tempore Februarj' 16 1797.
d Elected in place of Daniel Heister, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1796.
» Successfully contested the election of .lames Morris, who had received certificate; took his seat January 18 1796
/Elected in place of Benjamin Bourn, resigned; took his seat December 19, 1796.
ff Elected in place of Pierce Butler, resigned; took his seat .January 27, 1797.
^Took his seat December 6, 1796.
i Elected in place of Moses Robinson, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1796.
FOUBTH CONGRESS. 31
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Stevens Thomson Mason. Henry Tazewell. «
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Richard Brent. Carter B. Harrison. John Page.
Samuel J. Cabell. John Heath. Josiah Parker.
Thomas Claiborne. George Jackson. Francis Preston.
John Clopton. James Madison. Robert Rutherford.
Isaac Coles. Andrew Moore. Abraham Venable.
William B. Gileg. Anthony New.
George Hancock. John Nicholas.
a'Eleoted President pro tempore December 7, 1795.
FIFTH CONGRESS.
First session, from May 16, 1797, to July 10, 1797. Second session, from November 13, 1797, to July 16, 1798.
Third session, froin Decembers, 1798, to March S, 1799.
Vice-President. — Thomas Jeffeeson, of Virginia. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — William
Bradford, of Rhode Island, elected July 6, 1797; Jacob Read, of South Carolina, elected November
22, 1797; Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, elected June 27, 1798; John Lawrence, of New
York, elected December 6, 1798; James Ross, of Pennsylvania, elected March 1, 1799. Secretary of the
Senate. — Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the House. — Jonathan" Dayton, of New Jersey. Speaker of the House pro tempore. —
George Dent, of Maryland, elected April 20, 1798; and again elected, May 28,1798. Clerk of the House.—
Jonathan Williams Condy, of Pennsylvania.
James Hillhouse.
John Allen.
Jonathan Brace. «
Joshua Coit. 6
Joshua Clayton. /
Henry Latimer.
James Gunn.
Abraham Baldwin.
John Brown.
Thomas T. Davis.
CONNECTICUT.
senators.
representatives.
Samuel W. Dana.
James Davenport. <^
William Edmond."
DELAWARE.
senators.
representative.
James A. Bayard.
GEORGIA.
senators.
representatives.
KENTUCKY.
senators.
representatives.
Uriah Tracy.
Chauncey Goodrich.
Roger Griswold. «
Nathaniel Smith.
John Vining.<7
William Hill Wells.'*
Josiah Tattnall.
John Milledge.
Humphrey Marshall.
John Fowler.
"wldiniras'""''^''"''^'^"'''^"^''^''''^''*®*' ^°°^ ^^^ seat December 3, 1798.
cDiedin 1797.
d Elected in place of James Davenport, deceased; took his .xeat November 13 1797
;Erered1n p a?e°of7ota v1ni;f ?flt';!^'.'^;^^ %'"¥?T''' wiUvMatthew Lyon, of Vermont, February 15 1798
ff Resigned in 1798 resigned; toolc his seat February 19, 1798; died in 1798. ' ^' " •
/(Elected in place of Joshua Clayton, deceased; took his seat February 4, 1799. '
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B'IFTH CONGRESS.
MARYLAND.
33
John Henry. «
John E. Howard.
James Lloyd. 6
George Baer, jr.
William Craik.
John Dennis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Dent.
William Hindman.
William Matthews.
Samuel Smith.
Richard Sprigg, jr.
Benjamin Goodhue.
Bailey Bartlett.f'
Theophilus Bradbury. <■■
Stephen Bullock.
Dwight Foster.
Nathaniel Freeman, jr.
John Langdon.
Abiel Foster.
Jonathan Freeman.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Lyman.
Harrison Gray Otis.
Isaac Parker.
John Reed.
Samuel Sewall.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Gordon.
Jeremiah Smith. <'
Theodore Sedgwick. "
William Shepherd.
Thomson J. Skinner.
George Thacher.
Joseph Bradley Varnum.
Peleg Wadsworth.
Samuel Livermore.
Peleg Sprague. /
Franklin Davenport.?
John Rutherford.''
Jonathan Dayton. '
James H. Imlay.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Schureman. 3
Thomas Sinnickson.
Richard Stockton.
James Schureman.
Mark Thompson.
John Sloss Hobart.*
John Lawrence. '
William North. »»
NEW YORK.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Philip Schuyler.™
James Watson. "
David Brooks.
James Cochran.
Lucas Elmendorph.
Henry Glen.
Jonathan N. Havens.
Hezekiah L. Hosmer.
Edward Livingston.
John E. Van Allen.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
John Williams.
a Resigned in 1797, having been elected governor.
& Elected in place of John Henry, resigned : took his seat January 11, 1798.
0 Elected president pro tempore June 27, 1798.
d Elected In place of Theophilus Bradbury, resigned; took his seat November 27, 1797.
e Resigned in 1797.
/Elected in place of Jeremiah Smith, resigned; took his seat December 15, 1797.
ff Appointed in place of John Rutherford, resigned; took his seat December 19, 1798.
''Resigned in 1798.
!" Elected Speaker May 15, 1797.
3 Elected Senator February 14, 1799, to succeed Franklin Davenport.
*: Elected in place of Philip Schuyler, resigned; took his seat February 2, 1798; resigned in April, 1798, having Iven
appointed judge of the United States district court of New York.
'Elected president pro tempore December 6, 1798.
>» Appointed in place of John Sloss Hobart, resigned; took his seat May 21, 1798.
n Resigned January 3, 1798.
0 Elected in place of John Sloss Hobart, resigned; took his seat December 11, 1798.
H. Doc. 458 3
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOKY.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Timothy Bloodworth.
• Alexander Martin.
Thomas Blount.
Nathan Bryan."
Demsey Burges.
James Gillespie.
REPKESBNTATIVES.
William Barry Grove.
Matthew Locke.
Nathaniel Macon.
Joseph McDowell.
Richard Dobbs Spaight. "
Richard Stanford.
Robert Williams.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William Bingham.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.''
John Chapman.
George Ege. «
William Findley.
Albert Gallatin.
SENATOKS.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Andrew Gregg.
John Andre Hanna.
Thomas Hartley.
Joseph Heister./
John Wilkes Kittera.
Blair M'Clenachan.
James Ross. '
Samuel Sitgreaves.i
John Swanwick.A
Richard Thomas.
Robert Wain. «
William Bradford. J
Theodore Foster.
Christopher G. Champlin.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOES.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Elisha R. Potter. "
Ray Greene.*
Thomas Tillinghast.
John Hunter.'"
Charles Pinckney."
Lemuel Benton.
Robert Goodloe Harper.
Thomas Pinckney.2^
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPEESENT.iTIVKS.
Jacob Read."
John Rutledge, jr.
William Smith, Charleston district.
William Smith, Pinckney district.?
Thomas Sumter.
Joseph Anderson.''
William Blount.«
William Cocke.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
WiUiam C. C. Claiborne.'^
Andrew Jackson.*
Daniel Smith. «
oDied June4, 1798.
''Elected in place of Nathan Bryan, deceased; took his seat December 10, 1798.
c Elected President pro tempore March 1, 1797.
ri Elected in place of Samuel Sitgreaves, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1798.
e Resigned in 1797.
/Elected in placeof George Ege, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1797.
17 Resigned in 1798, having been appointed commissioner to Great Britain.
'!Diedinl798.
a Elected in place of John Swanwick, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1798.
3 Elected President pro tempore July 6, 1797; resigned in 1797.
^Elected in place oi William Bradford, resigned; took his seat November 22, 1797.
? Elected in place of Elisha R. Potter, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1797.
"' Resigned in 1798.
'■Elected In place of John Hunter, resigned; took his seat February 16, 1799.
o Elected President pro tempore November 22, 1797.
J) Elected in place of William Smith, resigned; took his seat November 23, 1797.
s Resigned in 1797, having been appointed minister to Portugal.
'"Elected in place of William Blount, expelled; took his seat November 22, 1797.
sExpelled for -'high misdemeanor" July 8, 1797.
' Took his seat November 22, 1797; resigned in 1798.
"Appointed in place of Andrew Jackson, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1798.
I'Took his seat November 23, 1797.
FIFTH CONGKESS.
VERMONT.
35
Nathaniel Chipman.a
Elijah Paine.
Matthew Lyon. '
SENATOES.
HBPKBSENTATIVES.
Isaac Tiohenor. *
Lewis E. Morris.
VIRGINIA.
Stevens T. Mason.
Richard Brent.
Samuel Jordon Cabill.
Thomas Claiborne.
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
Joseph Eggleston. "
SENATORS.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Tazewell.'^
Thomas Evans.
William B. Giles./
Carter B. Harrison.
David Holmes.
Walter Jones.
James Machir.
Daniel Morgan.
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
Josiah Parker.
Abram Trigg.
John Trigg.
Abraham Venable.
a Elected in place of Isaac Tichenor, resigned; took his seat November 22, 1797.
b Resigned in 1797, having been elected governor.
^Unsuccessful motion made to expel alter his personal encounter with Roger Griswold, of Connecticut, February 15,
1798.
dDied January 24, 1799.
e Elected in place of William B. Giles, resigned ; took his seat December 3, 1798.
/Resigned in 1798.
SIXTH OOTsTGRESS.
Fimt .irs.tion, from December 2, 1799, to May 14,
1800. Second scs.siV;)), from Noremher 17, ISOO, to March
3, ISOl.
Vice-1'reddenl. —Tro:<ias Jefferson, of Virginia. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Samuel Liv-
KRMOEE, of New Hampshire, elected December 2, 1799; Ukiah Tbacy, of Connecticut, elected May 14,
1800; John- E. Howard, of Maryland, elected November 21, 1800; James Hillhotjse, of Connecticut,
elected February 28, 1801. Srcretary of the Acxa^f.— Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the ifoMse. —Theodokb Sedgwick, of Massachusetts. Clerks of the iJbuse.— Jonathan
■Williams Condy, of Pennsylvania; John Holt Oswald, of Pennsylvania, elected December 9, 1800.
James Hillhouse.«
Jonathan Brace. "
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport.
Henry Latimer.
Abraham Baldwin.
James Jones.
John Brown.
Thomas T. Davis.
William Hindman. /
John E. Howard.?
George Baer.
Gabriel Christie.
AVilliam Craik.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Edmond.
Chauncey Goodrich.
Elizur Goodrich.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS..
REPRESENT.ATIVE.
James A. Bayard.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATI\-ES.
George Dent.
John Dennis.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Uriah Tracy. *
Roger Griswold.
John 0. Smith, f'
William Hill Wells.
James Gunn.
Benjamin Taliaferro.
Humphrey Marshall.
John Fowler.
James Llovd. r
Samuel Smith.
John Chew Thomas.
a Elected President pro tempore February 28, 1801.
b Elected President pro tempore May 14, 1800.
c Resigned in 1800.
tiEiected in place ol .Jonathan Brace, resigned; took his seat November 17, 1800.
cDied January 13, 1801.
■J Elected in place o£ James Lloj-d, resigned; took his seat December 16, 1800.
a Elected President pro tempore November 21, 1800.
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SIXTH CONGRESS.
37
Samuel Dexter. «
Dwight Foster, b
Bailey Bartlett.
Phanuel Bishop.
Dwight Foster, b
Silas Lee.
Levi Lincoln.''
Samuel Lyman. «
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ebenezer Mattoon./
Harrison G. Otis.
Nathan Eead.C
John Eeed.
Theodore Se'dgwick.A
Samuel Sewall.a
Benjamin Goodhue."
Jonathan Afason. ''
William Shepherd.
George Thacher.
Joseph B. Varnum.
Peleg Wadsworth.
Lemuel Williams.
John Langdon.
Abiel Foster.
Jonathan Freeman.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Gordon."
James Sheafe.
Samuel Livermore, *
Samuel Tenney.J
Jonathan Dayton
Aaron Ogden.*
John Condit.
Franklin Davenport.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James H. Imlay.
Aaron Kitchell.
James Schureman."
James Lynn.
John Armstrong. I
John Laurence."
Theodorus Bailey.
John Bird.
William Cooper.
Lucas Elmendorf.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Glen.
Edward Livingston.
Jonas Piatt.
John Smith.
Gouverneur Morris."*
James Watson. «
John Thompson.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Timothy Bloodworth.
Jesse Franklin.
Willis Alston.
Joseph Dixon.
William Barry Grove.
Archibald Henderson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Hill.
Nathaniel Macon.
Richard Dobbs Spaight.
Richard Stanford.
David Stone.
Robert Williams.
a Resigned in 1800.
6 Elected Senator In place of Samuel Dexter, resigned; took his seat November 21, 1800.
c Electedin place of Benjamin Goodhue, resigned; took his seat December 19, 1800.
dEIected in place of Dwight Foster, elected,Senator; took his seat February 6, 1801.
e Resigned in 1801.
/ Elected in place of Samuel Lyman, resigned ; took his seat February 2, 1801.
s Elected in place of Samuel Sewall, resigned; took his seat November 25, 1800.
'"Elected Speaker December 2, 1799.
i Elected President pro tempore December 2, 1799.
J Elected in place of William Gordon, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1800.
ft Elected in place of James Sehureman, resigned; took his seat March 3, 1801.
I Elected in place of John Laurence, resigned; took his seat January 8, 1801.
m Elected in place of James Watson, resigned; took his seat May 3, 1800.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORT.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William Bingham.
James Boss.
Robert Brown.
Albert Gallatin.
Andrew Gregg.
John A. Hanna.
Thomas Hartley."
Theodore Foster.
John Brown.
Charles Pinckney.
Robert Goodloe Harper.
Benjamin Huger.
Joseph Anderson. <
HBPEESENTATIVES.
Joseph Heister.
John AVilkes Kittera.
Michael Leib.
Peter Muhlenberg.
John Smilie.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOKS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Abraham Nott.
Thomas Pinckney.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
WiUiam Charles Cole Claiborne.
John Stewart. »
Richard Thomas.
Robert Wain.
Henry Woods.
Ray Greene.
Christopher G. Champlin.
Jacob Read.
John Rutledge, jr.
Thomas Sumter.
William Cooke.
Nathaniel Chipman.
Matthew Lvon.
Stevens Thomson Mason.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel J. Cabell.
Matthew Clay.
John Dawaon.
Joseph Eggleston.
Thomas Evans.
Samuel Goode.
Edwin Gray.
David Holmes.
George Jackson.
Henry Lee.
John Marshall. «
Anthony New.
John Nicholas.
Robert Page.
Elijah Paine.
Lewis R. Morris.
Wilson Gary Nicholas."*
Josiah Parker.
Levin Powell.
John Randolph.
Littleton W. Tazewell./
Abram Trigg.
John Trigg.
TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER.
DELEGATES.
William Henrv Harrison. «
WiUiam M'Millan.ff
a Died in 1800.
!> Elected In place of Thomns Hartley, deceased; took liis seat February 3,, 1801.
oElected in place of Andrew Jackson, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1799.
^Elected in place of Henry Tazewell, deceased; took his seat January 3, 1800.
e Resigned in 1800.
/Elected in place of John Marshall, resigned; took his seat November 26, 1800.
(7 Elected in place of William Henry Harrison, resigned; took his seat November 24, 1800.
SEVENTH OONGHESS.
First session, from December 7, 1801, to May 3, 1802. Second session, from December 6, 180S, to March S, 1803.
Vice-President—AARov Burr, of New York. Presidents of the 'Senate pro tempore.— Abbabam
Baldwin, of (xeorgia, elected December 7, 1801, and again elected April 17, 1802; Stephen E. Bradley,
?Lo '"^P^*' elected December 14, 1802, and again elected February 25, 1803, and again elected March 2,
l«Ud. Secretary of the ,Sma<«.— Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the ifoMse.— Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina. Clerk of the House.— Job^ Beckley,
of Virginia.
James Hillhouse.
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport.
Roger Griswold.
OONNEOTIOUT.
senators.
representatives.
Oalvin Gbddard.
Elias Perkins.
John C. Smith.
Uriah Tracy.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
William Hill Wells.
DELAWARE.
senators.
representative.
James A. Bayard.
GEORGIA.
senators.
Abraham Baldwin."
Samuel White.
James Jackson.
representatives.
Peter Early. 6 David Meriwether. « John Milledge.^' Benjamin Taliaferro.**
KENTUCKY.
John Breckenridge.
Thomas T. Davis.
senators.
representatives.
MARYLAND.
John Brown.
John Fowler.
William Hindman. «
John E. Howard.
John Archer.
Walter Bowie.
John Campbell.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Dennis.
Daniel Heister.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Robert Wright, .f
Thomas Plater,
Samuel Smith.
Richard Sprigg.
a Elected President pro tempore December 7, 1801, and April 17, 1802.
6EIectedinplaceof John Milledge, resigned; took his seat January 10, 1803.
oElected in place of Benjamin Taliaferro, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1802.
d Resigned in 1802.
e Appointed December 12, 1800.
/ Elected November 19, 1801, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of James Lloyd.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Dwight Foster.
John Bacon.
Phanuel Bishop.
Manasseh Cutler.
Kichard Cutts.
William Euatia.
Simeon Olcott. c
William Plumer.''
Abiel Foster.
Samuel Hunt. «
Jonathan Dayton.
John Condit.
Ebenezer Elmer.
MASSACHUSETTTS.
SENATORS.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Seth Hastings.
Silas Lee. «
Ebenezer Mattoon.
Nathan Eeed.
William Shepherd.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph Pierce. «
Samuel Tenney.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Helms.
James Mott.
Jonathan Mason.
Joaiah Smith.
Samuel Thacher. 6
Joseph B. Varnum.
Peleg Wadsworth.
Lemuel Williams.
James Sheaf e. «
George B. Upham.
•Aaron Ogden.
Henry Southard.
John Armstrong. «
De Witt Clinton. /
Theodorus Bailey.
Lucas Elmendorf.
Samuel L. Mitchell.
Thomas ilorris.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATI YES.
John Smith.
David Thomas.
Philip Van Cortland t.
John P. Van Ness. 'J
Gouverneur Morris.
Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
Benjamin Walker.
Jesse Franklin.
Willis Alston.
William Barry Grove.
Archibald Henderson.
William H. Hill.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Holland.
Charles Johnson. '«
Nathaniel Macon. *
Richard Stanford.
David Stone.
John Stanley.
Robert AVilliams. J
Thomas Wynns. *
PENNSYLVANIA.
George Logan. ^
Peter Muhlenberg.'
Robert Brown.
Thomas Boude.
Andrew Gregg.
John A. Hanna.
Joseph Heister.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Ros>
Joseph Hemphill.
William Hoge.
William Jones.
Michael Leid.
John Smilie.
John Stewart.
Isaac Vanhorne.
Henry Woods.
o Resigned in 1802.
b Elected in place of Silas Lee, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1802.
cElectud in place oJ Samuel Livermore, resigned in 1801; took his seat December V, 1801.
^Elected in place ol James Sheafe, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1802.
<■ Elected in place of Joseph Pierce, resigned; took his seat December 6. 1802.
/Elected in place of John Armstrong, resigned; took his seat February 23, 1802.
i7Seat declared forfeited January 17, 1803; behaving accepted and e.xercised the ofHce of maiomf miiino ,„ a h,
ity of the United St.ites, within the Territory of Columbia. ■' ""utia, under author-
h Died in 1802.
i Elected Speaker December 7, 1801.
iTook his seat January 22, 1802.
^Elected in place of Charles Johnson, deceased; took his seat December 7. 1802.
i Elected in place of Peter Muhlenberg, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1801.
m Resigned in 1801.
Christopher Ellery.a
Theodore Foster.
Joseph Stanton, jr.
John Ewing Calhoun.
Charles Pinckney. b
SEVENTH CONGRESS.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
HEPRESENTATIVEe.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
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William Butler.
Benjamin Huger.
Thomas Lowndes.
Thomas Moore.
John Rutledge.
Thomas Sumter. <;
.Ray Greene.''
Thomas Tillinghast.
Thomas Sumter. <■
Richard Wynn.t^
Joseph Anderson.
Stephen R. Bradley. «
Lewis R. Morris.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATiyE.
William Dickson.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
William Co^cke.
Nathaniel Chipman.
Israel Smith.
Stevens Thomson Mason.
Richard Brent.
Samuel J. Cabell.
Thomas Claiborne.
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson./
William B. Giles.
REPRESENTATIVES.
.Edwin Gray.
David Holmes.
George Jackson.
Anthony New.
Thomas Newton, jr.
John Randolph, jr.
John Smith.
Wilson Cary Nicholas.
John Stratton.
John Taliaferro, jr.
Philip R. Thompson.
Abram Trigg.
John Trigg.
Narsworthy Hunter. i7
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Paul Fearing.
Thomas M. (ireene.''
uEIected in place of Ray Greene, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1801.
6 Resigned in 1801.
c Elected Senator in place of Charles Pmckney, resigned; took his seat December 19, 1801.
d Elected in place of Thomas Sumter, elected Senator; took his seat January 24, 1803,
eElected in place of Elijah Paine, resigned in 1801; took his seat December 7, 1801; elected President pro tempore
December 14, 1802, February 25, 1803, and March 2, 1803.
/Took his seat January 14, 1802.
» Died March 11, 1802.
ft Took his seat December 6, 1806, to fill vacancy caused by death of Narsworthy Hunter.
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
First session, from October 17, 1803, to March S7, I8O4. Second session, from November 6, I8O4, to March
3, 1806.
Vice-President. — Aaeon Buek, of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — John Brown,
of Kentucky, elected October 17, 1803, and again elected January 23, 1804; Jesse Franklin, of North
Carolina, elected March 10, 1804; Joseph Anderson, of Tennessee, elected January 15, 1805, and again
elected February 28, 1805, and again elected March 2, 1805. Secretary of the Senate. — Samuel Allyne
Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the House. — Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina. Clerk of the House. — John Beckley,
of Virginia.
CONNECTICUT.
James Hillhouse.
Simeon Baldwin.
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Calvin Goddard.
Roger Griswold.
John C. Smith.
Uriah Tracy.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
James A. Bayard. «
William Hill Wells. 6
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Csesar A. Rodney.
GEORGIA.
Samuel White.
Abraham Baldwin.
Joseph Bryan. Peter Early.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Hammond. 0
James Jackson.
David Meriwether.
KENTUCKY.
John Breckenridge.
George Michael Bedinger.
John Boyle.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Brown.'?
John Fowler.
Matthew Lyon.
Thomas Sandford.
Matthew Walton.
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"Elected in place o£ Williata Hill Wells, resigned; took his seat January 15, 1805
!> Resigned in 1804.
f Seat declaTed vacant February 2, 1806.
r' Elected president pro tempore October 17, 1803, and January 23, 1804.
Samuel Smith.
John Archer.
Walter Bowie.
John Campbell.
John Dennis.
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
MARYLAND.
SENATOBS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel Heister. a
William McCreery.
Nicholas R. JVIoore.
Roger Nelson. *
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Robert Wright.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Thomas Plater.
John Quincy Adams.
Phanuel Bishop.
Phineas Bruce.**
Jacob Crowninshieid.
Manasseh Cutler.
Richard Cutts.
Thomas Dwight.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT.\TIVES.
William Eustis.
Seth Hastings.
Simon Larned. «
Nahum Mitchell.
Ebenezer Seaver.
Tompson J. Skinner. /
Timothy Pickering. <
William Stedman.
Samuel Taggart.
Samuel Thacher.
Joseph B. Varnum.
Pegleg Wadsworth.
Lemuel Williams.
Simeon Olcott.
Silas Betton.
Clifton Clagett.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
David Hough.
Samuel Hunt.
William Plumer.
Samuel Tenney.
NEW JERSEY.
John Condit.
Adam Boyd.
Ebenezer Elmer.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Dayton.
William Helms.
James Mott.
James Sloan.
Henry Southard.
NEW YORK.
John Armstrong. EC
Theodorus Bailey.''
De Witt Clinton. «
George Clinton, jr. i
Gaylord Griswold.
Josiah Hasbrouck.
Henry W. Livingston.
Andrew McCord.
Samuel L. Mitchell..;
Beriah Palmer.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel L. Mitchell. J
John Smith. ^
John Patterson.
Oliver Phelps.
Samuel Riker.»»
Erastus Root.
Joshua Sands.
Thomas Sammons.
John Smith.*
David Thomas.
George Tibbitts.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
Daniel C. Verplanck.
a Died in 1804.
6 Elected in place of Daniel Heister, deceased; took his seat November 6, 1804.
' c Elected in place of Dwight Poster, resigned in 1803; took his seat October 17, 1803.
d Elected, but never took his seat.
e Elected in place of Tompson J. Skinner, resigned; took his seat November 5, 1804.
.f Resigned in 1804.
»Appointedin place of De Witt Clinton, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1803; elected in place of Theodorus Bailey
resigned; took his seat February 25, 1804; resigned in 1804, having been appointed minister to Prance. ' '
h Resigned January 16, 1804.
iKesigned in 1803.
j'Elected Senator in place of John Armstrong, resigned; took his seat November 23, 1804.
k Elected Senator in place of De Witt Clinton, resigned; took his seat February 23, 1804.
I Elected in place of Samuel L. Mitchell, elected Senator; took his seat February 14, 1806.
'» Elected in place of John Smith, elected Senator; took his seat November 5, 1804.
44
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Jesse Franklin, a
Nathaniel Alexander.
Willis Alston, jr.
William Blacklege.
James Gillespie.*
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Holland.
"William Kennedy.
Nathaniel Macon. «
Samuel D. Purviance.
David Stone.
Richard Stanford.
Marmaduke Williams.
Joseph Winston.
Thomas Wynns.
John Smith.(«
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Jeremiah Morrow. "
Thomas Worthingtou.
George Logan.
Isaac Anderson.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.
Joseph Clay.
Frederick Conrad.
William Findley.
Andrew Gregg.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John A. Hanna.
Joseph Heiater.
Williani Hoge. /
John Hoge.?
Michael Leib.
John B. C. Lucas.
John Rea.
Samuel Maclay.
Jacob Richards.
John Smilie.
John Stewart.
Isaac Van Home.
John Whitehill.
Christopher Ellery.
Benjamin Howland.''
Nehemiah Knight.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATI VES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Samuel J. Potter, i
Joseph Stanton.
Pierce Butler. .;
John Gaillard.*
REPRESENTATIVES
William Butler.
Levi Casey.
John B. Earle.
Wade Hampton.
Benjamin Huger.
Thomas Lowndes.
Thomas Sumter. '
Thomas Moore.
Richard Wvnn.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Joseph Anderson. »»
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Washington Campbell. William Dickson.
William Cocke.
John Rhea.
a Elected President pro tempore JIarch 10, 1804.
6 Died January, 1805.
0 Elected Speaker October 17, 1803.
d Tools his seat October 25, 1803.
e Took hia seat October 17, 1803.
/ Resigned in 1804.
a Elected in place of William Hoge, resigned; took his seat November 27, 1804; election uusuocesstnllv omitpstprl
i> Elected in place of Samuel J. Potter, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1804. ■ '-""'•<""■="■
i Died in 1804.
J Elected in place of John E. Calhoun, deceased'ln 1802; took his seat October 18, 1808; resigneil in lsii4
''Elected in place of Pierce Butler, resigned; took his seat January 31, 1805.
1 Took his seat February 6, 1804.
Ml Elected President pro tempore January 15, 1805, February 2S, 1805, and Jfarch 2, 1805,
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
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Stephen R. Bradley.
William Chamberlain.
Martin Chittenden.
William B. Giles. «
Andrew Moore. ^
Wilson Cary Nicholas.
Thomas Claiborne.
Christopher Clark.!/
Matthew Clay.
John Clojiton.
John Dawson.
John W. Eppes.
Peterson Goodwyn.
Edwin Gray.
Thomas Griffln.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
KEPHESENTATIVES.
James Elliot.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPEESENTATIVES.
David Holmes.
John G. Jackson.
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
Thomas Lewis.''
Andrew Moore. ^
Anthony New.
Thomas Newton, jr.
John Randolph, jr.
Israel Smith.
Gideon Olin.
John Taylor, rf
Abraham B. Venable.
Stevens T. Mason./
Thomas M. Randolph.
John Smith.
James Stephenson.
Philip R. Thompson.
Abram Trigg.
John Trigg, i
Alexander Wilson. J
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William Lattimore.*
fl Electedin place of Wilson Gary Nictiolas, resigned; took his seat December 17, 1804; appointed in place of Abraham B.
Venable, resigned; took his seat November 5, 1804,
I) Successfully contested the election of Thomas Lewis; took his neat March 5, 1804; appointed Senator in place ol Wlison
Cary Nicholas, resigned; took his seat November 6, 1804; elected Senator in place of Abraham B. Venable, resigned; took
his seat December 17, 1804.
o Resigned in 1804.
d Appointed in place of Stevens T. Mason, deceased in 1803; took his seat October 17, 1803.
e Elected in place of Stevens T. Mason, deceased in 1803, John Tavlor having been appointed pro tem. . took his seat
December 13, 1803; resigned in 1804.
/ Died May 10, 1803.
fir Elected in place of John Trigg, deceased; took his seat November 5, 1804.
'■ Election successfully contested by Andrew Moore.
i Died in 1804.
J Elected in place of Andrew Moore, appointed Senator; took his seat December 4, 1804.
fcTook his seat October 17, 1803.
NINTH CONGEESS.
First session, from, December 2, 1806, to April SI, 1806. Second session, from December 1, 1806, to March S,
1807.
Vice-President— Geobgh Clinton, of New York. President of the Senate pro torapore.— Samuel
Smith, of Maryland, elected December 2, 1805; and again elected March 18, 1806; and again elected
March 2, 1807. Secretary of the /Senate.— Samuel Allyne Otis, of Massachusetts.
Speaker of the -House.— Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina. Clerk of the ITouse.— John Beckley,:
of Virginia.
James Hillhouse.
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport, jr.
Theodore Dwight. «
CONNECTICUT.
senatoes.
representatives.
Jonathan 0. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jr.
John Cotton Smith. 6
Uriah Tracy.
Lewis B. Sturgis.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
James A. Bayard.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
James M. Broom.
Samuel White.
Abraham Baldwin.
James Jackson, c
William W. Bibb.
Joseph Bryan. ^
Peter Early.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES,
■OowlesMead./
David Meriwether.
Dennis Smelt, ff
John Milledge. d
Thomas Spalding, ^
John Adair. *
Henrv Clav. J
George Michael Bedinger.
John Boyle.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT.A.TIVES.
Buckner Thurston.
John Fowler,
ilatthew Lyon.
Thomas Sanford.
jNIatthew AValton.
a Elected in place of John Cotton Smith, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1806.
b Resigned In 1806.
cDied March 18, 1806.
d Elected in place of James Jackson, deceased; took his seat December 11, 1806.
e Elected in place of Thomas Spalding, resigned; took his seat January 26, 1807.
/Election successfully contested by Thomas Spalding.
ffElected in place of Joseph Bryan, resigned; took his seat December 26, 1806.
ft Successfully contested the election of Cowles Mead; took his seat December 25, 1805; resigned in 1806.
i Elected in jjlace of John Breckenridge, resigned in 1805; took his seat December 9, 1805; resigned in 1806
j'Elected in place of John Adair, resigned; took his seat December 29, 1806.
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NINTH CONGRESS.
47
MARYLAND.
Philip Reed, a
Samuel Smith. 6
John Archer.
John Campbell.
Leonard Covington.
Charles Goldsborough.
John Quincy Adams.
Joseph Barker.
Basnabaa Bidwell.
Phanuel Bishop.
John Chandler.
Orchard Cook.
Jacob Crowninshield.
Nicholas Gilman.
Silas Betton.
Caleb Elhs.
John Condit.
Bzra Darby.
Ebenezer Elmer.
Samuel L. Mitchell.
John Blake, jr.
George Clinton, jr.
Silas Hasley.
Henry W. Livingston.
Josiah Masters.
Gurdon S. Mumford.
SENATORS.
BEPRESENTATIVBS.
Edward Lloyd.''
Patrick Magruder.
William McCreery.
Nicholas R. Moore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOES.
.EEPEESENTATIVBS.
Richard Cutts.
William Ely.
Isaiah L. Green.
Seth Hastings.
Jeremiah Nelson.
Josiah Quincy.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
David Hough.
Samuel Tenney.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Helms.
John Lambert.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Russell.
Peter Sailly.
Thomas Sammons.
Martin G. Schuneman.
David Thomas.
TJri Tracv.
Robert Wright. «
Roger Nelson.
Joseph H. Nicholson.
Timothy Pickering.
Ebenezer Seaver.
William Stedman.
Samuel Taggart.
Joseph B. Varnum.
Peleg Wadsworth.
William Plumer.
Thomas W. Thompson.
Aaron Kitchell.
James Sloan.
Henry Southard.
John Smith.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
KilUan K. Van Rensselaer.
Daniel C. Verplanck.
Eliphalet Wickes.
Nathan Williams.
David Stone.
Evan Alexander. /
Willis Alston, jr.
William Blacklege.
Thomas Blount.
John Smith.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Holland.
Thomas Kenan.
Nathaniel Macon.!?
Duncah McFarlan.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
James Turner.
Richard Stanford.
Marmaduke Williams.
Joseph Winston.
Thomas Wynns.
Thomas Worthington.
a Elected in place of EobertWright, resigned; took his seat December 29, 1806.
6 Elected President pro tempore December 2, 1805, March 18, 1806, and March 2, 1807.
c Resigned in 1806.
d Elected in place of Joseph H. Nicholson, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1806.
e Resigned ip 1807.
/Elected in place of Nathaniel Alexander, elected governor by the legislature in 180S; took his seat Pebmarv 24 1806
!7 Elected Speaker December 2, 1805. ' '
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOBY.
George Logan.
Isaac Anderson.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.
Joseph Clay.
Frederick Oonraii.
William Findley.
James Fenner.
Nehemiah Knight.
John Gaillard.
\Villiam Butler.
Levi Casey. <^
Elias Earle.
Joseph Anderson.
George W. Campbell.
Stephen R. Bradley.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SEXATOKS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew Gregg.
John Hamilton.
James Kelly.
Michael Leib. «
John Porter. 6
John Pugh.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT.-VTIVES.
Robert Marion.
Thomas Moore.
O'Brien Smith.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Dickson.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuel Maclay.
John Rhea.
Jacob Richards.
John Smilie.
Samuel Smith.
John Whitehill.
Robert AVhitehill.
Benjamin Howland.
Joseph Stanton.
Thomas Sumter.
David R. Williams.
Richard AVvnn.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin Chittenden. James Elliot.
VIRGINIA.
Daniel Smith.
John Rhea.
Israel Smith.
James Fisk.
Gideon Olin.
William B. Giles.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew Moore.
Burwell Bassett.
William A. Burwell.''
John Claiborne.
Christopher Clark. «
]\latthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
John \V. Eppes.
James M. Garnett.
Peterson Goodwin.
Edwin Gray.
David Holmes.
John G. Jackson.
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
John Morrow.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
DELEG.ATE.
Benjamin Parke./
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William Lattimore.
ORLEANS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Daniel Clark, y
Thomas Newton, jr.
John Randolph.
Thomas M. Randolph.
John Smith.
Philip R. Thompson.
Abram Trigg.
Alexander Wilson.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by John Dougla.s; resigned in 1806.
!> Elected in place of Michael Leib, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1800.
c Died February 1, 1807.
c' Elected in place of Christopher Clark, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1806.
'■ Resigned in 1806. / Took his seat December 12, 1806. i> Took his seat December 1. 1806.
TENTH CONGRESS.
Fmt sess-ion, from October S6, 1807, to April US, 1808. Second session, from November 7, 1808 to March S
1809.
r.t iJ' " ^"■'^j*''''?*T?'^?^^.? Clinton, of New York. Presidents of the Senatepro tempore.— Sakuel Smith
foH^ M^ttT.,;^!^'^ r "^P-'^ ^f' l^^H ^^^™'^"" ^- ^«*°^'=^' of Vermont, elected December 28, "sos';
of Zssachusetts. ^°''^'''' '■^' ^^' ^^^^^ '^"^'^^ "^ '^' Senate.^AuvEL Allyne Otis,
MAGRUDERyof MarylS''"""^""''™ ^' "^''''''^*'' °* Massachusetts. Clerk of the House. -Fatrwk
Chauncey Goodrich.
Epaphroditus Champion.
Samuel W. Dana.
John Davenport, jr.
James A. Bayard.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATOBS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Jonathan 0. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jr.
Lewis B. Sturgis.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Nicholas Van Dyke.
GEORGIA.
James Hillhouse.
Benjamin Talhnadge.
Samuel White.
William H. Crawford''
George Jones. "
SENATORS.
William W. Bibb.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Howell Cobb. Dennis Smelt.
John Milledge.c'
George M. Troup.
KENTFCKY.
John Pope.
John Boyle. «
Joseph Desha.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Howard.
Richard M. Johnson.
Buckner Thruston
Matthew Lyon.
John Rowan.,r
aElected in place of Uriah Tracy, deceased in 1807; took his seat November 27, 1807.
!> Elected in place of Abraham Baldwin, decea.sed in 1807, George Jones having been appointed pr.T tempore; took his
seat December 9, 1807.
c Appointed in place of Abraham Baldwin, deceased in 1807; took his seat October 26, 1807.
^Elected President pro tempore January 30, 1809.
cTook his seat November 21. 1808.
/Took his seat January 9, 1809.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIREOTOBT.
Philip Keed.
John Campbell.
Charles W. Goldsborough.
Philip B. Key. «
MARYLAND.
SENATOHS.
KEPKESENT ATI VES.
Edward Lloyd.
William McCreery. «
John Montgomery.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Samuel Smith. «
Nicholas E. Moore.
Roger Nelson.
Archibald Van Horn.
John Quincy Adams.''
James Lloyd, jr. «
Timothy Pickering.
Ezekiel Bacon.
Joseph Barker.
John Chandler.
Orchard Cook.
Jacob Crowninshield. /
Richard Cutts.
Nicholas Gilman.
Peter Carlton.
Daniel M. Durell.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Josiah Dean.
AVilliam Ely.
Isaiah L. Green.
Daniel Ilsley.
Edward St. Loe Livermore.
Josiah Quincy.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOHS.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Ebenezer Seaver.
William Stedman.
Joseph Story. 5'
Samuel Taggart.
Jabez TJpham.
Joseph B. Varnum.i
Francis Gardner.
Jedediah K. Smith.
Nahum Parker.
Clement Storer.
John Condict.
Adam Boyd. *
Ezra Darby, i
William Helms.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
John Lambert.
Thomas Newbold.
James Sloan.
Aaron Kitchell.
Henry Southard.
Samuel L. Mitchell.
John Blake, jr.
George Clinton, jr.
Barent Gardenier.
John Ilarris.
Reuben Humphrey.
William Kirkpatrick.
Jesse Franklin.
Evan Alexander.
Willis Alston, jr.
William Blacklege.
Thomas Blount.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Josiah Masters.
Gurdon S. Mumford.
Samuel Riker.
John Russell.
Peter Swart.
David Thomas, f'
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
EEPRES ENTATIVES.
John Culpeper. I
Meshack Franklin.
James Holland.
Thomas Kenan.
John Smith.
John Thompson.
James Q. Van Allen.
Philip Van Cortlandt.
Killian K.Vaii Rensselaer.
Daniel C. Verplanck.
Nathan Wilson.*
James Turner.
Nathaniel Macon.
Lemuel Sawyer.
Richard Stanford.
Marmaduke Williams.
a Elected President pro tempore April 16, 1808.
6 Election unsuccessIuUy contested,
c Election unsuccessfully contested by Joshua Barney.
« Resigned in 1808.
e Elected in place of John Quincy Adams, resigned ; took his seat November 7, 1808.
/Died April 15, 1808.
ffElected in place of Jacob Crowninshield, deceased; took his seat December 20, 1808.
^Elected Speaker October 26, 1807.
i Elected in place of Ezra Darby, deceased; took his seat April 4, 1808.
JDied January 28, 1808.
ft Elected in place of David Thomas, resigned; took his seat November 7, 1808.
' Seat contested by Duncan McParland, and declared vacant January 2, 1808, on account of inequalities in election; he
was subsequently reelected at new election, and took his seat Pebmary 23, 1808.
TENTH CONGRESS.
51
Keturn Jonathan Meigs. «
John Smith.''
OHIO.
SBNATOBS.
KEPRESENTATIVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
Edward Tiffin.
Andrew Gregg.
Michael Leib. <•-
David Bard.
Kobert Brown.
Joseph Clay.<«
William Findley.
John Heister.
William Hoge.
Robert Jenkins.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES
James Kelly.
William Milnor.
Daniel Montgomery, jr.
John Porter.
John Pugh.
John Eea.
Jacob Eichards.
Samuel Maclay.'^
Matthias Richards.
Benjamin Say. «
John Smilie.
Samuel Smith.
Robert Whitehill.
Benjamin Rowland.
Richard Jackson, fl
John Gaillard.
Lemuel J. Alston,
William Butler.
Joseph Calhoun.
jr.
Joseph Anderson.
George W. Campbell.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nehemiah Knight.*
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert Marion.
Thomas Moore.
John Taylor.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Rhea.
VERMONT.
Elisha Mathewson./
Isaac Wilbour.
Thomas Sumter.
David R. Williams.
Richard Wynn.
Daniel Smith.
Jesse Wharton.
Stephen R. Bradley, i
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin Chittenden.
James Elliott.
James Fisk.
Samuel Shaw.*
Jonathan Robinson..?'
James Witherell.<^
lEleoted in place of John Smith, resigned; took his seat January 6, 1809.
6 Tried by Senate for complicity with Aaron Burr; hut resoulution of expulsion negatived April 9, 1808; he resigned his
seat April 26, 1808, in a letter to the governor.
0 Elected in place of Samuel Maclay, resigned; took his seat January 19, 1809. /
a Resigned in 1808.
e Elected in place of Joseph Clay, resigned: took his seat November 16, 1808.
/ Elected in place of James Penner, elected governor in 1807; took his seat November 20, 1807.
B Elected in place of Nehemiah Knight, deceased; took his seat November 11, 1808.
h Died in 1808.
J Elected President pro tempore December 28, 1808.
^'Elected in place of Israel Smith, resigned in 1807; took his seat October 26, 1807.
*Elected in place ofJames Witherell, resigned; took his seat November 8, 1808.
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CONGRESSIONAL .DIRECTORY.
VIRGINIA.
William B. Giles.
Burwell Bassett.
William A. Burwell.
John Claiborne. «
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
John W. Eppes.
James M. Garnett.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Gholson, jr. b
Peterson Goodwin.
Edwin Gray.
David Holmes.
John G. JaCkaon.
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
John Love.
Andrew Moore.
John Morrow.
Thomas Newton, jr.
Wilson Carey Nicholas.
John Bandolph.
John Smith.
Abram Trigg.
Alexander Wilson.
Benjamin Park. '
INDIANA TERRITORY.
IlEhEOATES.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY
DELEGATE.
George Poindexter. e
ORLEANS TERRITORY.
Jesse B. Thomas.''
DELEGATE.
Daniel Clark.
aDiedinlSOS.
6 Elected in place of John Claiborne, deceased; took his seat November 7, 1808.
"Took his seat October 28, 1807; resigned in 1808.
d Elected in place of Benjamin Park, resigned; took hisseat December 1, 1808.
<• Took Lis seat October 26, 1807.
ELEVENTH CONGEESS.
Fmt session, from May £e 1809, to June 28, 1809. Secotid session, from November 27, 1809, to May 1 1810
Thml session, from December S, 1810, to March 3, 1811. ' '
Vice-President.— GfOROE Clinton, of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Andhew
n^^^o,'n°^ Pennsylvania elected June 26, 1809; John Gaillard, of South Carolina, elected February
28, 1810, and agam elected April 17, 1810; John Pope, of Kentucky, elected February 23, 1811
Secretary of the Senate.— SamveIj AjjLyne Otis, ot MsisssLchnsetta.
Speaker of the House.— Joseph B. Varnum, of Massachusetts. Clerk of the Rouse.— Patrick
Magruder, of Maryland.
CONNECTICUT.
Samuel W. Dana.«
Chauncey Goodrich.
Epaphroditus Champion.
Samuel W. Dana."
.fohn Davenport.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ebenezer Huntington. '
Jonathan 0. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jr.
DELAWARE.
James Hillhouse. *
Lewis B. Sturgis.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
James A. Bayard.
Outerbridge Horsey.''
William H. Crawford.
John Milledge. /
William W. Bibb.
Howell/ Cobb.
SENATORS.
KBPRESENTATIVB.
Nicholas Van Dyke.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Dennis Smelt.
Samuel White. ^
Charles Tait.?
George M. Troup.
KENTUCKY.
Henry Olay.A
John Pope. »
SENATORS.
William T. Barry. J
Henry Crist.
Joseph Desha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Howard. *
Richard M. Johnson.
Matthew Lyon.
Buckner Thruston. f
Samuel McKee.
a Elected Senator in place of James Hillhouse, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1810.
6 Resigned in 1810.
c Elected in place of Samuel W. Cana, elected Senator; took his seat December 3, 1810.
il Elected in place of Samuel White, deceased; took his seat January 29, 1810.
e Died in 1809.
/Resigned in 1809.
ff Elected in place of John Milledge. resigned: took his leat December 28, 1809.
'i Elected in place of Buckner Thruston, resigned; took his seat February 5, 1810.
i Elected President pro tempore Pebruary 23. 1811.
^Elected in nlace of Beninmin HowBrd, resigned; took his seat December 13, 1810.
•i.S
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MARYLAND.
Philip Reed.
John Brown. «
John Campbell.
Charles W. Goldaborough.
Philip B. Key.
SENATORS.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Alexander McKim.
John Montgomery.
Nicholas R. Moore.
Roger Nelson."
Samuel Smith.
Samuel Ringgold. »
Archibald Van Horn.
Robert Wright. «
MASSACHUSETTS.
James Lloyd, jr.
Josei)h Allen.<*
Ezekiel Bacon.
William Baylies. «
Abijah Bigelow. /
Orchard Cook.
Richard Cutts.
William Ely.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Gideon Gardner.
Barzillai Gannett.
Edward St. Loe Livermore.
Benjamin Pickman, jr.
Josiah Quinoy.
Ebenezer Seaver.
William Stedman."
Timothy Pickering.
Samuel Taggart.
Charles Turner, jr. <3
Jabez Upham."
Joseph B- Varnum.''-
Laban "\Viieaton.
Ezekiel Whitman.
Charles Cutts. «
Nicholas Gilman.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nahum Parker. «
Daniel Blaisdell.
John C. Chamberlain.
William Hale.
Nathaniel A. Haven.
James Wilson.
John Condict. 3
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Lambert.
Adam Boyd.
James Cox.*
William Helms.
Jacob Hufty.
Thomas Newbold.
John A. Scudder. '
Henry Southard.
Obadiah German.
NEW YORK.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Smith.
James Emott.
Jonathan Fisk.
Barent Gardenier.
Thomas R. Gold.
Herman Knickerbacker.
Robert Le Roy Livingston.
Vincent Mathews.
Samuel L. Mitchell."*
Gurdon S. Mumford.
John Nicholson.
Peter B. Porter.
Erastus Root.
Ebenezer Sage.
Thomas Sammons.
John Thompson.
Uri Tracy.
Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
a Resigned in 1810.
?j Elected in place of Roger Nelson, resigned: took his seat December 7, 1810.
c Elected In place o£ .John Brown, resigned; to(5k his seat December 3, 1810.
^Elected in place of Jabez Upham, resigned; took his seat December 13, 1810.
c Election successfully contested by Charles Turner, jr.
/Elected in place of William Stedman, resigned; took his seat December 14, 1810.
ff Successfully contested the election of William Baylies: tot '
took his seat June 2S, 1809.
'"Elected Speaker May 22, 1809.
(Elected in place of Nahum Parker, resigned: took his seat December 3, 1810.
./Appointed in place of Aaron Kitchell, resigned in 1809; took his seat May 24, 1809; subsequently elected by the legisla-
ture and took his seat November 30, 1809.
fc Died in 1810.
I Elected in place of James Cox, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1810.
»i Elected in place of William Denning, who was elected a member, but never qualified; took his seat December 4, :S10
ELEVENTH CONGEESS.
NORTH CAROLINA.
55
Jesse Franklin.
Willis Alston, jr.
James Cochran.
Meshack Franklin.
James Holland.
James Turner.
REPBESBNTATIVES.
Thomas Kenan.
William Kennedy.
Nathaniel Macon.
Archibald McBride.
Joseph Pearson.
Lemuel Sawyer.
Richard Stanford.
John Stanly.
Alexander Campbell."
Stanley Griswold. ti
Return Jonathan Meigs, jr. '
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Edward Tiffin.''
Thomas Worthington. '
EEPHESENTATIVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
Andrew Gregg. /
William Anderson.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.
William Crawford.
William Findley.
Daniel Heister.
Robert Jenkins.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
ttEPRESBNTATrVES.
Aaron Lyle.
William Milnor.
John Porter.
John Rea.
Matthias Richards.
John Ross.
Benjamin Say.t*
Michael Leib.
Adam Seybert.?
John Smilie.
George Smith.
Samuel Smith.
Robert Whitehill.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Christopher G. Champlin.'*
Francis Malbone. »
Elisha Mathewson.
Richard Jackson, jr.
REPRESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Elisha R. Potter.
John Gaillard..?
Thomas Sumter.*
Lemuel J. Alston.
William Butler.
Joseph Calhoun.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Taylor. I
Langdon Cheves.™
Robert Marion. »
Thomas Moore.
John Taylor. I
Richard Wynn.
Robert Witherspoon.
a Elected in place of Edward.TifRn, resigned, Stanley Griswold having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Janu-
ary 12, 1810. 1
6 Appointed in place of Edward Tiffin, resigned; took his seat June 2, 1809.
e Resigned in 1810.
a Resigned in 1809.
e Elected in place of Return Jonathan Meigs, jr., resigned; took his seat January 8, 1811.
/Elected President pro tempore June 26, 1809.
0" Elected in place of Benjamin Say, resigned; took his seat November 27, 1809.
'» Elected in place of Francis Malbone, deceased; took his seat January 12, 1810.
iDied June4, 1809.
J Elected President pro tempore February 28, 1810, and April 17, 1810.
k Took his seat November 27, 1809; resigned in 1810.
I Elected Senator in place of Thomas Sumter, resigned; took his seat December 31, 1810.
m Elected in place of Robert Marion, resigned; took his seat January 24, 1811.
n Resigned in 1811.
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Joseph Anderson.
Daniel Smith, a
Pleasant M. Miller.
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Ehea.
Jenkins Whiteside. 6
Robert Weakley.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Chamberlain. Martin Chittenden. Jonathan H. Hubbard. Samuel Shaw.
Stephen R. Bradley.
Jonathan Robinson.
Richard Brent.
Burwell Bassett.
James Breckenridge.
William A. Burwell.
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
John W. Eppes.
David S. Garland, i-'
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Gholson, jr.
Peterson Goodwin.
Edwin Gray.
John G. Jackson.''
Walter Jones.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
John Love.
William McKinley. <■
William B. Giles.
Thomas Newton.
Wilson 0. Nicholas, a
John Randolph.
John Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
John Smith.
James Stephenson.
Jacob Swoope.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings. /
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Poindexter.
ORLEANS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Julian Poydras.!/
aKesignedinl809.
!> Elected in place of Daniel Smith, resigned; took his seat May 26, 1809.
c Elected in place of Wilson C. Nicholas, resigned; took his seat Jan. 17, 1810.
"f Resigned in 1810.
e Elected in place of John G. Jackson, resigned; took his seal Dec. 21, 1810.
/ Took his seat Nov. 27, 1809; election unsuccessfully contested on the ground of illegality.
a Took his seat May 31, 1809.
TWELFTH CONGRESS.
Mrst sesdon, from November 4, 1811, to July 6, 1812. Secand: session, from November 2, 1812, to March S, 1813.
Vice-Fres^ident.—GEOSOE Clinton, a of New York. President of the Senate pro fempore.— William H.
Orawfohd, of Georgia, elected March 24, 1812. Secretary of the Senate.— SAiiVBh Allynb Otis, of
IVJ. clSS BiC O US 6 L lS •
Speaker of the i?bus«.— Henry Clay, of Kentucky. Clerk of the House.— Patrick Maghuder, of
Maryland. ., ., r- ,
Samuel W. Dana.
Epaphroditus Champion.
John Davenport, jr.
Lyman Law.
James A. Bayard.
William H. Crawford. !>
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
EEPKESBNTATIVES.
Jonathan O. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin, jr.
Lewis B. Sturgis.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Henry M. Eidgeley.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Barnett. "
William W. Bibb.
Howell Cobb.''
Boiling Hall.
Chauncey Goodrich.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
Outerbridge Horsey.
Charles Tait.
George M. Troup.
KENTUCKY.
George M. Bibb.
Henry Clay. «
Joseph Desha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard M. Johnson.
Samuel McKee.
LOUISIANA.
' SENATORS.
James Brown. /
Allan B. Magruder.!/
John Pope.
Anthony New.
Stephen Ormsby.
Thomas Posey.''
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Boiling Robertson. '
aDied April 20, 1812. _
6 Elected President pro tempore March 24, 1812.
e Elected in place of Howell Cobb, resigned ; took his seat November 27, 1812.
dResiened in 1812.
e Elected Speaker November 4, 1811.
/Elected in place of John Noel Destrahan, resigned in 1812, having never taken his seat; took his seat Februarys, 1813.
(/Took .his seat November 18, 1812.
feAppointed in place of John Noel Destrahan, resigned in 1812, having never taken his seat; took his seat December 7,
1812
iTook his seat Denembor 23, 1812.
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58
CONGRESSIONAL DIREOTOKY.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Philip Reed.
Stevenson Archer.
Charles W. Goldsborough.
Joseph Kent.
James Lloyd.
Ezekiel Bacon.
Abijah Bigelow.
Elijah Brigham.
Francis Carr. b
Richard. Cutts.c
A¥illiam Ely.
Charles Cutts.
Samuel Smith.
Josiah Bartlett.
Samuel Dinsmoor.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Philip B. Key.
Peter Little.
Alexander McKim.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
EBPRESENTATIVES.
Isaiah L. Green.
Josiah Quincy.
William Reed.
William M. Richardson. <«
Ebenezer Seaver.
Samuel Taggart.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Obed Hall.
John A. Harper.
Samuel Ringgold.
Philip Stuart.
Robert Wright.
Joseph B. Varnum.«
Peleg Tallman.
Charles Turner, jr.
Laban Wheaton.
Leonard White.
William Widgery.
Nicholas Oilman.
George Sullivan.
John Condict
Adam Boyd.
Lewis Condict.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob Hufty.
George C. Maxvi'ell.
John Lambert.
James Morgan.
Thomas Newbold.
NEW YORK.
Obadiah German.
John Smith.
Daniel Avery.
Hermanus Bleecker.
Thomas B. Cook.
James Emott.
Asa Fitch.
Thomas R. Gold.
REPRESENTATIVES.-
Thomas P. Grosvenor. ^
Robert Le Roy Livingston. /
Arunah Metcalf.
Samuel L. Mitchell.
William Paulding, jr.
Benjamin Pond.
Peter B. Porter.
Ebenezer Sage.
Thomas Sammons.
Silas Stow.
Uri Tracy.
Pierre Van Cortlandt, jr.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Jesse Franklin
Willis Alston.
William Blacklege.
Thomas Blount. 9
James Cochran.
Meshack Franklin.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT ATI V KM.
William Kennedy. *
William R. King.
Nathaniel Macon.
Archibald McBride.
Joseph Pearson.
James Turner.
Israel Pickens.
Lemuel Sawyer.
Richard Stanford.
a Elected president pro tern.
6 Took his seat June 3, 1812.
c Toole his seat June 8, 1812.
a Took his seat January 22, 1812.
e Elected in place o£ Robert Le Roy Livingston, resigned; took his seat January 29, 1813.
/Resigned in 1812.
crDied February 7, 1812.
7i Elected in place o£ Thomas Blount, deceased; took his seat January 30, 1813.
Alexander Campbell.
Andrew Gregg.
William Anderson.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.
William Crawford.
Roger Davis.
William Findley.
Jeremiah B. Howell.
Richard Jackson, jr.
John Gaillard.
William Butler.
John C. Calhoun.
Langdon Cheves.
Joseph Anderson.
Felix Grundy
TWELFTH CONGRESS.
OHIO.
SENATOHS.
BEPRESENTATIVE.
Jeremiah Morrow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Hyneman.
Abner Lacock.
Joseph Lefever.
Aaron Lyle.
James Milnor.
William Piper.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
William Hunter."
EEPEBSENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elias Earle.
William Lowndes.
Thomas Moore.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Rhea.
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Thomas Worthington.
Michael Leib.
Jonathan Roberts.
William Rodman.
Adam Seybert.
John Smilie.
George Smith.
Robert Whitehill.
Christopher G. Champlin. ^
Elisha B. Potter.
John Taylor.
David R. Williams.
Richard Wynn.
George AV. Campbell. '
John Sevier.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Bradley. Jonathan Robinson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin Chittenden. James Fisk. Samuel Shaw. William Strong.
VIRGINIA.
Richard Brent.
John Baker.
Burwell Bassett.
James Breckenridge.
AVilliam A. Burwell.
Matthew Clay.
John Clopton.
John Dawson.
Thomas Gholson.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Peterson Goodwin.
Edwin Gray.
Aylett Hawes.
John P. Hungerford.'^
.Joseph Lewis, jr.
AVilliam McCoy.
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
William B. Giles.
James Pleasants,
John Randolph.
John Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
John Smith.
John Taliaferro. '
Thomas Wilson.
jr.
a Elected in place of Christopher G. Champlin, resigned; took his seat November 25, 1811.
6 Resigned October, 1811.
c Elected in place of Jenkins Whiteside, resigned in 1811; took his seat Xovember 4, 1811.
(i Election successfully contested by John Taliaferro.
^Successfully contested the election of John P. Hungerford; took his seat December 2, 1811.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Shadrack Bond.a
INDIAN .4 TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
a Took his seat December 3, 1812.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Poindexter.
■ MISSOURI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Edward Hempstead. ^
& Took his seat January 4, 1813.
THIRTEE^'TH CONGRESS.
First session, from May S4, 1813, to August 3, 1813. Second session, from December 6, 1818, to April 18,
1814. Third sessi(m, from September 19, 1814, to March 2, 18 U.
Vice-President. — Elbhidge Geehy, « of Massachusetts. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Joseph
B. Varndm, of Massachusetts, elected December 6, 1813; John Gaillaed, of South Carolina, elected
April 18, 1814; and again elected November 25, 1814. Secretaries of the Senate. — Samuel Allyne Otis,
of Massachusetts; Chaelbs Cutts, of New Hampshire, elected October 11, 1814.
Speakers of the Haase. — Henky Clay, of Kentucky; Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, elected
January 19, 1814. Clerks of the House. — Pateick Magedder, of Maryland; Thomas Douqhbfty, of
Kentucky, elected January 30, 1815.
David Daggett, b
Epaphroditua Champion.
John Davenport, jr.
Lyman Law.
Outerbridge Horsey.
Thomas Cooper.
CONNECTICUT.
.senators,
eepeesextatives.
Jonathan 0. Moseley.
Timothy Pitkin.
Lewis. B. Sturgis.
DELAWARE.
senators.
eepebsbntatives.
GEORGIA.
Samuel W. Dana.
William Wyatt Bibb. «
William B. Bullock. /
senators.
eepsesentatives.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
Chauncey Goodrich. "
William H. Wella.«"
Henry M. Ridgeley.
Charles Tait.
WilKam H. Crawford, i^
William Barnett.
William \V. Bibb. «
Alfred Cuthbert.!/
William T. Barry. A
George M. Bibb. '
Jesse Bledsoe, i
James Clark.
Henry Clay, m
Joseph Desha.
William P. Duval.
John Forsyth.
Boiling Hall.
Thomas Telfair.
KENTUCKY.
senators.
representatives.
Joseph H. Hawkins."
Samuel Hopkins."
Richard M. Johnson. 2^
Samuel McKee.
George M. Troup.
Isham Talbot.*
George Walker. '
Thomas Montgomery.
Stephen Ormsby.
Solomon P. Sharp.
" EllotSTnTlace of Chauncey Goodrich, resigned in 1813; took his seat May 24, 1813.
riFlfSfnSaceof James A. Bayard, resigned March a, 1813; took his seat June 10^ W^^^
^EleSId s"nXf in pllce of William H.&^^ resigned in IBIS, William B. Bullock havmg been appointed pro
*7ippiinted m pTacl of WUhIm 'H^Crawford, resigned in 1813; took his seat May 24 1813.
iEfected in ptece of William W. Bibh, appointed Senator; took his seat February 7, 1814.
/^Elected in place of George M. Bibb, resigned; took his seat February 2, 1816.
i Resigned in 1814.
fcffected'in^iiee of Jesse Bledsoe, resigned; took his seat February 2 181.^
J Appointed fn place of George M. Bibb, resigned; took his seat October 10, 1814.
mEfected Speaker May 24, 1813; resigned January 19, 1814
^Elected iii place of Henry Clay, resigned; took his seat Maich 29, 1814.
©Took his seat June 26, 1813.-
P Took his seat March 7, 1814. ^^
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CONGKESSIONAL DIBEOTOEY
James Brown.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOHS.
KBPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas B. Robertson.
Elegius Fromentin
JIAEYLAjSTD.
senatoks.
Robert Henry Golds borough.
KEPKESENTATIVES
Samuel Smith.
Stevenson Archer.
Charles W. Goldsborough.
Alexander C. Hanson.
Christopher Gore.
"William Baylies.
Abijah Bigelow.
George Bradbury, Portland.
Elijah Brigham.
Samuel Dana. «
Samuel Davis, Bath.
Daniel Dewey.''
William Ely.
Charles Cutts.!7
Nicholas Gilman.'*
Bradbury Cilley.
William Hale.
Joseph Kent.
Alexander McKim.
Nicholas R. Moore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Levi Hubbard.
John W. Hulbert. «
Cyrus King, Saco.
James Parker.
Timothy Pickering.
John Reed.
William Reed.
William M. Richardson./
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Ringgold."
Philip Stuart.
Robert Wright.
Joseph B. Varnum.
Samuel Smith.
Roger Yose.
Nathaniel Ruggles.
Samuel Taggart.
Artemas Avard.
Laban Wheaton.
John Wilson.
Abiel Wood, Wiscasset.
Jeremiah Mason. »
Thomas W. Thompson.^
Daniel Webster.
Jeduthan Wilcox.
NEW JERSEY.
John Condict.
Thomas Bines.*
Lewis Condit.
William Coxe.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob Hufty. I
James Schureman.
Richard Stockton.
John Lambert.
Thomas Ward.
NEW YORK.
Obadiah German.
Rufus King.
Daniel Avery.
Egbert Benson."'
John M. Bowers."
Alexander Boyd.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Oliver C. Comstock.
Peter Denoyelles.
Jonathan Fisk.
James Geddes.
Thomas P. Grosvenor.
Abraham Hasbrouck.o
Samuel ^I. Hopkins.
Nathaniel Howell.
a Appointed in place of James Lloyd, resigned in 1813; took his seat May 28, 1813.
!> Elected President pro tempore December 6, 1813.
c Elected in place of William M. Richardson, resigned; took his seat September 22, 1814.
f? Resigned in 1814.
e Elected in place of Daniel Dewey, resigned; took his seat September 2ii, 1814.
/Took his seat June 22, 1813; resigned April 8, 1814.
g Appointed to All vacancy during recess oJ the legislature; took his seat Hay 24, 1813.
(iDiedMay 2, 1814.
i Elected for six years from March 4, 1813, Charles Cutts having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat June 21, 1813.
J Elected in place of Nicholas Gilman, deceased; took his seat September 19, 1814.
t Elected in place of Jacob Hufty, deceased; took his seat November 2, 1814.
i Died in 1814.
™ Resigned in 1813.
"Took his seat June 21, 1813; his election was successfully contested by Isaac Williams, jr.
oTook his scat June 28, 1813.
William Irving. «
Moss Kent.
John LefEerts.
John Lovett.
Jacob Markell.
Morris S. Miller.
THIRTEENTH CONGEESS.
Hosea Moiiit.
Thomas J. Oakley.
Jotham Post, jr.
Ebenezer Sage.
Samuel Sherwood.
Zebulon R. Shipherd.
NORTH CAROLINA.
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William 8. Smith.
John W. Taylor.
Joel Thompson.
Isaac Williams, jr. 6
Elisha J. Winter.
David Stone.
Willis Alston.
John Culpeper.
Peter Forney.
Meshack Franklin.
William Gaston.
Joseph Kerr. «
Jeremiah Morrow.
John Alexander.
Reazin BealL^^
James Caldwell.
SENATOES.'
EEPRESENTATIVES.
William Kennedy.
William R. King.
Nathaniel Macon.
WiUiam H. Murfee.
Joseph Pearson.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
David Clendenen. «
William Creighton, jun.
James Kilbourn.
James Turner.
Israel Pickens.
Richard Stanford.
Bartlett Yancy.
Thomas Worthington.o!
John McLean.
Abner Lacock.
Michael Leib.''
Wiliam Anderson.
David Bard.
Robert Brown.
John Conrad.
William Crawford.
Edward Crouch. »
Roger Davis.
William Findley.
Hugh Glasgow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
John Gloninger.''
Isaac Griffin.
Samuel Henderson. «
John M. Hyneman.''
Charles J. Ingersoll.
Samuel D. Ingham.
Jared Irwin.
Aaron Lyle.
William Piper.
RHODE ISLAND.
Jonathan Roberts. /
John Rea.
Jonathan Roberts. /
Adam Seybert.
Amos Slaymaker. 3
Isaac Smith.
Adamson Tannehill.
Daniel Udree.*
James Whitehill.<«
Thomas Wilson.
Jeremiah B. Howell,
Richard Jackson, jr.
John Gaillard. ^
John C. Calhoun.
John J. Chappell.
Langdon Cheves.™
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Elias Earle.
David R. Evans.
Samuel Farrow.
William Hunter.
Elisha R. Potter.
John Taylor.
Theodore Gourdin.
John Kershaw.
William Lowndes.
aElected in place of Egbert Benson, resigned; took his seat January 22, 1814.
6 Successfully contested the election of John M. Bowers; took his seat January 24, 1814.
c Elected In place of Thomas Worthlngton, resigned; took his seat December 30, 1814.
<« Resigned in 1814.
eElected in place of Reazin Beall, resigned; took his seat December 22, 1814.
/Elected Senator in place of Michael Leib, resigned; took his seat February 28, 1814.
» Elected in place of John Gloninger, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1813.
/i Resigned in 1813.
i Elected in place of Jonathan Roberts, elected senator; took his seat November 29, 1814.
J Elected in place of James WhitehilZ, resigned; took his seat December 12, 1814.
fcElacted in place of John M. Hyneman, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1813.
I Elected President pro tempore April 18, 1814, and November 25, 1814, on the death of the vice-president, Mr, Gerry.
mElected Speaker January 19, 1814,. in place of Henry Clay, resigned.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Joseph Anderson.
George W. Campbell."
John H. Bowen.
Newton Cannon.
Felix Grundy.''
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
KEPEESENTATIVBS.
Thomas K. Harris.'^
Perry W. Humphreys.
John Rhea.
Jesse Wharton. ^
John Sevier.
Dudley Chase
William C. Bradley.
Ezra Butler.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Fisk.
Charles Rich.
Jonathan Robinson.
Richard Skinner.
^^'illiam Strong,
VIRGINIA.
James Barbour. ^
Richard Brent. /
Philip P. Barbour, v
Thomas H. Bayley.''-
James Breckenridge.
William A. Burwell.
Hugh Caperton.
John Clopton.
John Dawson. *
John W. Eppes
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Gholson.
Peterson Goodwin.
Aylett Hawes.
John P. Hungerford..^'
John G. Jackson.
James Johnson.*
John Kerr.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
William B. Giles.
William McCoy.
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
James Pleasants, jr.
John Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
John Smith.
Francis White.
Shadrack Bond."
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
Benjamin Stephenson '
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William Lattimore."'
Rufus Easton."
MISSOURI TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Edward Hempstead."
n Resigned in 1814.
!i Appointed in place of George W. Campbell, resigned; took his seat April 9 1814
0 Elected in place of Felix Grundy, resigned: took his seat October 15, 1814 '
(J Seat unsuccessfully contested by William Kelly.
e Elected in place of Richard Brent, deceased; took his seat January 11 1815
/Died December 30, 1814.
B Elected in place of John Dawson, deceased; took his seat September 19, 1814
'i Election unsuccessfully contested bv Burwell Bassett.
i Died March 80, 1814.
i Election unsuccessfully contested by John Taliaferro.
tTook his seat December 16, 1813.
! Elected in place of Shadrack Bond, resigned; took his seat November 14 1814
mTiiok his seat December 6. 1813.
" Took his seat November 16, 1814.
oTook his .leat June 10, 1813.
FOURTEENTH C0NGEE8S.
First session, from December 4, 1816, to April SO, 1816. Second session, from December S, 1816, to March
3, 1817.
, Tvcf-Prmden<.« President of the Senate pro tempore.— J OHif Gaillaed, of South Carolina; again
elected December 2, 1816. Secretary of the Senate.— Ceaslms Cdtts, of New Hampshire.
Speaker of the ifoMse. —Henky Clay, of Kentucky. Clerk of the ifoMse.— Thomas Dougherty, of
Kentucky. '
CONNECTICUT.
David Daggett.
Epaphroditus Champion.
John Davenport, jr.
Lyman Law.
Outerbridge Horsey.
"Thomas Clayton.
SENATORS.
EEPBBSENTATIVES.
Jonathan 0. Moaeley.
Timothy Pitkin.
Lewis B. Sturgis.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEOBGIA.
Samuel W. Dana.
Benjamin Tallmadge.
William H. Wells. »
Thomas Cooper.
William W. Bibb. «
Charles Tait.
Zadock Cook. «
Alfred Cuthbert. 0
John Forsyth.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Boiling Hall.
Wilson Lumpkin.
Thomas Telfair.
George M. Troup.'l
Bichard Henry Wilde.
James Noble. /
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
William Hendricks, ff
Waller Taylor./
a Elbridge Gerry, Vice-President of the United States, died November 23, 1814.
b Took his seat January 10, 1816.
c Besigned in 1816.
dEleeted in place oi William W. Bibb, resigned; took his seat December 12, 1816.
"Elected in place of Alfred Cuthbert, resigned; took his seat January 23, 1817.
/ Took his seat December 12. 1816.
g Took his seat December 2, 1816.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
William T. Barry. «
Martin D. Hardin. ''
James Clark."
Henry Clay, c
Joseph Desha.
Benjamin Hardin.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
HEPEESENT.\TIVES.
Thomas Fletcher.''
Eichard M. Johnson.
Alney McLean.
Samuel McKee.
Isham Talbot.
Stephen Ormsby.
Solomon P. Sharpe.
Micah Taul.
James Brown.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas B. Robertson.
Elegius Fromentin.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Robert H. Goldsborough.
Alexander Contee Hanson, e
Robert (t. Harper. /
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer.
George Baer.
Charles W. Goldsborough.
Alexander C. Hanson. «
John 0. Herbert.
Peter Little, ff
George Peter. A
William Pinkney. '
Samuel Smith..?
Philip Stuart.
Robert Wright.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Eli P. Ashmun.*
Christopher Gore. "■
Joseph B. Varnum.
Benjamin Adams. '
William Baylies.
George Bradbury.
Elijah Brigham.n*
Benjamin Brown.
James Carr.™
Samuel S. Conner.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Hulburt.
Cyrus King.
Elijah H. Mills.
Jeremiah Nelson.
Albion K. Parria.
Timothy Pickering.
John Reed.
Thomas Rice. '
Nathaniel Ruggles.
Asahel Stearns."
Solomon Strong.
Samuel Taggart.
Artemus Ward."
Laban Wheaton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Jeremiah Mason.
Charles H. Atherton.
Bradbury' Cilley.
SEN.^TORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Hale.o
Roger Yose.
Thomas W. Thompson.
Daniel Webster, i^
Jeduthan Wilcox.
a Resigned in 1816.
0 te^crdlpla/er'SiolmbS-Zl^ir''' ''''^"''= '"""^ "^ ""' ''''''^'"' "' ^^'■' -^b-<,uently elected by legislatnre.
d Elected in place of James Clark, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1816.
e Elected Senator in place of Robert G. Harper, resigned; took his seat January 2 1817
/ Elected from January 29, 1816, to March 3, 1821; took his seat February 6, 1816- resigned in 1816
ffElected in place of William Pinkney, resigned; took his seat December 2 Ibie
ft Elected in place of Alexander C. Hanson, elected Senator; took his seat December 2 1816
i Took his seat January 8, 1816; resigned in 1816, having been appointed minister to Russia
.»■ Elected in place of Nicholas R. Moore, resigned in 1815; took ins seat February 4 1816
*:Electedinplaceof Christopher Gore, resigned; took his seat December 2. 1816. '
1 Elected in place of Elijah Brigham, deceased; took his seat December 2, ISie'
ni Died February 2, 1816.
1! Took his seat December 2, 1816.
o Took his seat January IB, 1816.
J) Took his seat February. 7, 1816.
FOURTEENTH C0NGKE8S.
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John Condict.
Ezra Baker.
Ephraim Bateman.
NEW JEESEY.
SENATOBS.
EBPEESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Bennet.a
Lewis Oondit.
James J. Wilson.
Henry Southard.
Thomas Ward. &
Rufus King.
Asa Adgate.
Daniel Avery, o
Samuel R. Betts.//-
James Birdsall.
Victory Birdseye.
Micah Brooks.
Daniel Cady.
Archibald S. Clarke. <?
Oliver C. Comstock.
Henry Crocheron.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
HBPKESENTATIVBS.
Thomas R. Gold.
Thomas P. Grosvenor.
Jabez D. Hammond.
William Irving. «
Moss Kent.
John Lovett.
Hosea Moffit.
Peter B. Porter. /
Erastus Root, a
John Savage.
Nathan Sanford.
Abraham H. Schenck.
John W. Taylor.
EnosT. Throop./
George Townsend.
Jonathan Ward.
Peter H. Wendover.
James W. Wilkin.
Westel Willoughby, jr.'i
John B. Yates.
Nathaniel Macon, i
^lontford Stokes. J
Joseph H. Bryan.
James W. Clark.
John Culpeper.
Samuel Dickens.^
Weldon N. Edwards. I
Daniel M. Forney.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Gaston.
Charles Hooks.'™
William R. King. /
William C. Love.
Nathaniel Macon, i
William H. Murfree.
James Turner. /
Israel Pickens.
Richard Stanford.™
Lewis Williams.
Bartlett Yancy.
Jeremiah Morrow.
John Alexander.
James Caldwell.
David Clendenen.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Creighton, jr.
William Henry Harrison."
James Kilbourn. P
Benjamin Ruggles.
John McLean. /
Abner Lacock.
Thomas Burnside. /
William Crawford.
William Darlington.
William Findley.!?
Hugh Glasgow.
Isaac Griffin.
John Hahn.
Joseph Heister.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
EBPEESENTATIVES.
Joseph Hopkinson.
Samuel D. Ingham.
Jared Irwin.
Aaron Lyle.
William Maclay.
William P. Maclay.''
William Milnor.
William Piper.
Jonathan Roberts.
John Ross.
John Sergeant.
Thomas Smith.
James M. Wallace.
John Whiteside.
Thomas Wilson.
William Wilson.
CI Took his seat January 15, 1816.
i Took his seat January 27, 1816.
0 Elected in place of EnosT. Throop, resigned; took his seat Decembers, 1816.
d Elected in place of Peter B. Porter, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1816.
e Took his seat January 22, 1816.
/ Resigned in 1816.
g Successfully contested the election of John Adams; took his seat December 26, 1815.
'' Successfully contested the seat of William S. Smith; took his seat December 13, 1815.
i Elected Senator in place of Francis Locke, resigned in 1816, having never taken his seat; took his seat December 13, 1815.
i Elected in place of James Turner, resigned; took his seat December 16, 1816.
k Elected in place of Richard Stanford, deceased; took his seat Decenlber 2, 1816.
1 Elected in place of Nathaniel Macon, elected Senator; took his seat February 7, 1816.
i» Elected in place of William E. King, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1816.
MDiedApril9. 1816.
o Elected in place of John McLean, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1816.
pTook his seat January 29, 1817.
STook his seat December 2, 1816.
>■ Elected in place of Thomas Burnside, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1816.
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C0NGREB8I0NAL DIRECTORr.
EHODE ISLAND.
Jeremiah B. Howell.
John L. Boss, jr.
SENATORS.
KEPKESENTATI VES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
William Hunter.
James B. Mason.
SENATORS.
John Gaillard.o
William Smith, 6 Charleston.
John Taylor.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John C. Calhoun.
John J. Chappell.
Benjamin Huger.
William Lowndes.
William Mayrant. ^^
Henry Middleton.
Stephen D. Miller, f^
Thomas Moore.
John Taylor.
William Woodward.
George W. Campbell.
TENNESSEE.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Williams. «'
William G. Blount, f
Newton Cannon.
Bennett H. Henderson.
Samuel Powel.
James B. Eeynolds.
Isaac Thomas.
Dudley Chace.
VEEMONT.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaac Tichenor.
Daniel Chipman.
Luther Jewett.
Chauncey Langdon.
Asa Lyon.
Charles jNIarsh.
John Noyes.
VIRGINIA.
James Barbour.
Armistead T. Mason, ff
Philip P. Barbour.
Burwell Bassett.
James Brectenridge.
William A. Burwell.
John Clopton.'*
Thomas Gholson.'*
Peterson Goodwin.
Aylett Hawes.
John P. Hungerford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John G. Jackson.
James Johnson.
John Kerr.
Joseph Lewis, jr.
William McCoy, i
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas M. Nelson, i
Thomas Newton.v-^
James Pleasants, jr.
John Randolph.
AVilliam H. Roane.
Daniel Sheffey.
Ballard Smith.
Magnus Tate.
Henry St. George Tucker.
John Tyler.*
a Fresident pro tempore; reelected December 2, 1816,
I) Elected in place ol John Taylor, resigned; took his seat January 10, 1817,
c Resigned in 1816.
rt Elected in place of William Mayrant, resigned; took his seat January 2, 1817.
n Elected in place oJ George W. Campbell, resigned in 1814; took his seat December 4, 1815
/ Took his seat January 8, 1816.
ff Elected in place o£ William B, Giles, resigned in 1SI5; took his seat January 22, 1816
>i Died in 1S16.
•« Election unsuccessfiilly contested by Robert Porterfield.
J Elected in place of Thomas Gholson, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1816
''Elected in place of John Clopton, deceased; took his seat December 17, 1816.
Nathaniel Pope. "
Eufus Easton.
FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jonathan Jennings.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William Lattimore.
MISSOURI TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
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Benjamin Stephenson.
John Scott, b
a Took his seat December 2, 1816.
6 Took his seat Decemher 2, 1816; liis election was contested hy Kutus Easton, and declared illegal, and seat vacant
January 13, 1817.
FIFTEENTH CONGEESS.
First session, from December 1, 1817, io April ZO, 1818. ' Second
March S, 1819.
session, pom November 16, 1818, to
Vice-President.— DAm^-L D. Tompkins, of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Jokv
Gaillard, of South Carolina, again elected March 31, 1818; James Baebouk, of Virginia, elected Feb-
ruary 15, 1819. Secretary of the Senate. — Charles Cutis, of New Hampshire.
Speaker of the JToMse'.— Hkney Clay, of Kentucky. Clerk of the Jibwe.— Thomas Dougherty, of
Kentucky.
CONNECTICUT.
David Daggett.
Sylvester Gilbert. t>
Uriel Holmes. "
Ebenezer Huntington.
SEKATOKS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan 0. Moaeley.
Timothy Pitkin.
Samuel B. Sherwood.
Samuel W. Dana.c
Nathaniel Terry.
Thomas S. Williams.
Willard Hall.
Outerbridge Horsey.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
Nicholas Van Dyke.
Louis McLaue.
SENATORS.
John Forsyth.'*
Charles Tait.
Joel Abbot.
Thomas W. Cobb.
Zadock Cook.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joel Crawford.
John Forsyth. <i
Robert Raymond Reid.
George M. Troup. <^
William Terrill.
Ninian Edwards. /
ILLINOIS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John McLean. /
Jesse B. Thomas, f
a Took his seat April 9, 1818.
iiElected in place ol Uriel Holmes resigned; took his seat November 16, 1S18.
c Resigned in 1818.
t! Elected Senator in place of George M. Troup, resigned; took his seat November 23, 1818; resigned February 1819.
c Elected in place of John Forsyth, elected Senator; took his seat February 18, 1819.
/Took his seat December 4, 1818.
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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
INDIANA.
71
James Noble.
SEXATOBS.
HEPEESENTATIVE.
William Hendricks.
Waller Taylor.
John J. Crittenden.
Richard C. Anderson, jr.
Henry Clay. «
Joseph Desha.
Richard M. Johnson.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOBS.
BEPEESBNTATIVES.
Anthony New.
Tunstall Quarles, jr.
George Robertson.
Thomas Speed.
Isham Talbot.
David Trimble.
David Walker.
LOUISIANA.
William C. C. Claiborne. »
Eligius Fromentin.
Henry Johnson.
Thomas Butler. J
BEPEESBNTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
Thomas B. Robertson. ■?
Robert H. Goldsborough.
Thomas Bayley.
Thomas Culbreth.
John C. Herbert.
SENATOBS.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Peter Little.
George Peter.
Philip Reed.
Alexander C. Hanson. /
Samuel Ringgold.
Samuel Smith.
Philip Stuart.
Eli P. Ashmun. <"
Prentiss Mellen. B
Benjamin Adams.
Samuel 0. Allen.
Walter Folger, jr.
Timothy Fuller.'*
Joshua Gage. U
John Holmes.
Enoch Lincoln. «
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOES.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Mason.
Elijah H. Mills. J
Marcus Morton.
Jeremiah Nelson.
Benjamin Orr.
Albion K. Parris. «
Thomas Rice. ^
Harrison Gray Otis.
Nathaniel Ruggles.
Zabdiel Sampson.
Henry Shaw.
Nathaniel Silsbee.
Solomon Strong.
Ezekiel Whitman.
John Wilson. I
MISSISSIPPI.
Walter Leake.'"
SENATOBS.
HEPEESENTATIVE.
George Poindexter.
Thomas H. Williams.™
a Elected Speaker December 1, 1817.
6 Died November 23, 1817, having never taken his seat.
c Elected in place of William C. C. Claiborne, deceased in 1817 ; took his seat February 26, 1818.
d Elected in place of Thomas B. Robertson, resigned; took his seat November 16, 1818.
e Resigned in 1818.
/Took his seat November 17, 1818.
cElected in place of Eli P. Ashmun, resigned; took his seat November 16, 1818.
Jt Took his seat January 2, 1818.
J Elected in place of Albion K. Parris, resigned: took his seat November 16, 1818.
i Took his seat February 3, 181S.
* Took his seat January 21, 1818.
I Took his seat January 26, 1818. ^
m Took his seat December 11, 1817.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Jeremiah Mason, o
David L. Morrill.
Josiah Butler.
Clifton Clagett.
Mahlon Dickerson.
Ephraim Bateman.
Benjamin Beunet.
Kufus King.
Oliver C. Comstock.
Daniel Cruger.L^
John P. Cushman.
John R. Drake.
Benjamin Ellicott.
Josiah Hasbrouck.
John Herkimer.
Thomas H. Hubbard.
William Irving.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
BEPRBSENTATIVES.
Salma Hale.
Arthur Livermore.
^^EW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph Bloomfield.
Charles Kinsey.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Dorrance Kirtland.
Thomas Lawyer.
David A. Ogden. =
John Palmer.
James Porter.
John Savage.
Philip J. Schuyler.
Treadwell Scudder.
John C. Spencer.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Clement Storer. 5
John F. Parrott.
Nathaniel Upham.
James J. Wilson.
John Linn.
Henry Southard.
Nathan Sanford.
Henry R. Storrs.
James Tallmadge, jr.
John W. Taylor.
Caleb Tomkins.
George Townsend.
Peter H. Wendover.
Rensselaer Westerlo.
James W. Wilkin.
Isaac Williams.
Nathaniel Macon.
Montford Stokes.
John H. Bryan.
William Davidson.*^
Weldon N. Edwards.
Charles Fisher. «
Daniel M. Forney. /
Jeremiah Morrow.
Levi Barber.
Philemon Beecher.
EBPRESENTATIVBS.
Thomas H. Hall.
George Mumford. 9
James Owen.
Lemuel Sawyer.
Thomas Settle.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Campbell.
William Henry Harrison.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Jesse Slocumb.
James S. Smith.
James Stewart./'
Felix Walker.
Louis Williams.
Benjamin Ruggles.
Samuel Herrick. '
Peter Hitchcock.
Abner Lacock.
William Anderson.
Henry Baldwin.
Andrew Boden.
Isaac Darlington.
Joseph Heister.
Joseph Hopkinson.
Jacob Hostetter. i
Samuel D. Ingham. /
William Maclay.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WiUiam P. Maclay.
David Marchand.
Robert Moore.
Samuel Moore. *
John Murray.
Alexander Ogle.
Thomas Patterson.
Levi Pawling.
Thomas J. Rogers. '
Jonathan Roberts./^
John Ross. /
John Sergeant.
Adam Seybert.
Jacob Spangler./
Christian Tarr.
James M. Wallace.
John Whiteside.
William Wilson.
a Resigned in 1817.
!> Elected In place of Jeremiah Mason, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1817,
" Took his seat January 8, 1818.
ti Elected in place of Daniel M. Forney, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1818.
e Elected In place of George Mumford, deceased; took his seat February 11, 1819.
/Resigned in 1818.
9 Died December 31, 1818.
'■Took his seat January 26, 1818.
J Election unsuccessfully contested bv C. Hammond.
J Elected in place of Jacob Spangler, resigned; took his seat November 16, 1818.
*Electedin place of Samuel D. Ingham, resigned; took iiis seat November 16, 1818.
' Elected in place of John Ross, resigned; took his seat March 24, 1818.
James Burrill, jr.
John L. Boss, jr.
John Gaillard. ^
Joseph Bellinger.
Ellas Earle.
James Erwin.
George W. Campbell. <«
John Henry Eaton. «
FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPEESBNTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPBESENTATtVES.
William Lowndes.
Henry Middleton.
Stephen D. Miller.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
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William Hunter.
James B. Mason. "
William Smith.
Wilson Nesbitt.
Eldred Simkins. <
Starling Tucker.
John Williams.
William G. Blount.
Thomas /Dlaiborne.
Dudley Chace. /
James Fisk.!/
Heman Allen. <^
Samuel C. Crafts.
James Barbour.
Archibald Austin.
William Lee Ball.
Philip P. Barbour.
Burwell Bassett.
William A. Burwell.
Edward Colston.
John Floyd.
Robert S. Garnett.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Samuel Hogg.
Francis Jones.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George W. L. Marr.
John Rhea.
William A. Palmer.''
Isaac Tichenor.
William Hunter.
Orsamus C. Merrill.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Peterson Goodwin. J^
James Johnson.
William J. Lewis.
William McCoy.
Charles F. Mercer.*
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas M. Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
ALABAMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Crowell."'
ILLINOIS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Nathaniel Pope.
MISSOURI TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Scott.
Charles Rich.
Mark Richards.
John W. Eppes.
John Pegram. '
James Pindall.
James Pleasants.
Ballard Smith.
Alexander Smyth.
George F. Strother.
Henry St. George Tucker.
John Tvler.
a Took his seat January 9, 1818.
6 President pro tempore.
oTook his seat February 9, 1818; reelected March 31, 1818.
d Resigned in 1818.
« Appointed in place of George W. Campbell, resigned; took his .seat November 16, 1818.
/Resigned in 1817.
1? Elected In place of Dudley Chace, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1817; resigned in 1818.
h Elected in place of James Pisk, resigned; took his seat November 16, 1818.
i Elected President pro tempore February 15, 1819.
J Died February 21, 1813.
ft Election unsuccessfully contested by Armistead T. Mason.
I Elected in place of Peterson Goodwin, deceased; took his seat November 16, 1818.
m Took his seat March 9, 1818.
SIXTEENTH CONGRESS.
F'mt session, from December 6, 1819, to May IB, ISW. Second session, from November IS,
3, 1821.
1820, to March
Vice-President.— BAmsi, D. Tompkins, of New York. Presidents of the Semite pro tempore.— Jaw
Bakboue, of Virginia; John Gaillakd, of South Carolina, elected January 25, 1820. Secretm-y of the
Senate. — Charles Cutts, of New Hampshire. , , j xt
Speakers of the House.— Uenry Clay, of Kentucky; John W. Taylor, of New York, elected Novem-
ber 15, 1820. Clerk of the House.— Tb.omas Dougherty, of Kentucky.
ALABAMA. '
senators.
William B. King,« Cahawba. John W. Walker, » Huntsville.
representative.
John Crowell, t> St. Stephens.
CONNECTICUT.
senators.
Samuel W. Dana, Middletown.
kepbesentatives.
Henry W. Edwards, New Haven.
Samuel A. Foot, Cheshire.
Jonathan 0. Moseley, East Haddam.
Eliaha Phelps, Simsbury.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Outerbridge Horsey, Wilmington.
representatives.
Willard Hall, « Dover.
GEORGIA.
John Elliott, Sunbury.
Joel Abbot, Washington.
Thomas W. Cobb, Lexington..
Joel Crawford, Milledgeville.
senators,
representatives.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
James Lanman, Norwich.
John Buss, Hartford.
James Stevens, Stamford.
Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
Nicholas Van Dyke, Newcastle.
Louis McLane, ^\'ilmington.
Freeman Walker,'' Augusta.
John A. Cuthbert, Eatonton.
Robert R. Reid, Augusta.
William Terrill, Sparta.
Ninian Edwards, Edwardsville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Daniel P. Cook, Kaskaskia.
Jesse B. Thomas, Edwardsville.
"Took liis seat Pecember 22, 1819.
!i Took his seat December 14, 1819.
c Resigned January 22, 1821.
d Elected in place of John Forsyth, resigned February, 1819; took his sent December 15, 1S19.
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SIXTEENTH C0NGKE8S.
INDIANA.
SENATOHS.
James Noble, Brookville. Waller Taylor, Vincennes.
EEPEESENTATIVE.
William Hendricks, Madison.
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KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Eichard M. Johnson, a Great Crossings.
William Logan, b
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard C. Anderson, jr., Louisville.
William Brown, Cynthiana.
Henry Clay,"! Lexington.
Benjamin Hardin, Bardstown.
Francis Johnson, « Bowling Green.
Alney McLean, Greenville.
Isham Talbot, <• Frankfort.
Thomas Metcailfe, Carlisle.
Thomas Montgomery,/ Stanford.
Tunstall Qua'rles. b
George Robertson, Lancaster.
David Trimble, Mount Sterling.
David Walker, ff
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
James Brown, New Orleans. Henry Johnson, Donaldsonville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Butler, St. Francisville.
MAINE. ■
SENATORS.
John Cbandler,A Monmouth. John Holmes,'' Falmouth.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Joseph Dane, « Kennebunk.
MARYLAND.
Alexander C. Hanson. J
Edward Lloyd, Easton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer, Belair.
Thomas Bayley, Princess Anne.
Thomas Culbreth, Denton.
Joseph Kent, Bladensburg.
Peter Little, Freedom.
William Pinknev, * Baltimore.
Raphael Neale, Leonardtown.
Samuel Ringgold, Hagerstown.
Samuel Smith, Baltimore.
Henry R. Warfield, Middlebury.
a. Elected in place of John J. Crittenden, resigned March 3, 1819; took his seat January 3, 1820
6 Resigned in 1820.
"Elected in place of William Logan, resigned; toot his seat November 27,1820.
d Elected Speaker December 6, 1819, and resigned October 28, 1820.
e Elected in place of David Walker, deceased; took his seat November 13, 1820.
/ Elected in place of Tunstall Quarles, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820. '
g Died Jtfarch 1, 1820.
ft Took his seat November 13, 1820. ,
* Elected in place of John Holmes, elected Senator; took his seat December 11, 1820.
i Died April 23, 1819.
* Elected in place of Alexander C. Hanson, deceased; took his seat January 4, 1820.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Prentiss Mellen. «
Elijah H. Mills, b Northampton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Adams, TJxbridge.
Samuel C. Allen, Northfleld.
Joshua Cushman.
Edward Dowse. "
William Eustis, « Boston.
Walter Folger, jr., Nantucket.
Timothy Fuller, Boston.
Benjamin Gorham,<^ Boston.
Mark L. Hill.
Aaron Hobart. «
John Holmes. «
Jonas Kendall, Leominster.
Harrison Gray Otis, Boston.
Martin Kinsley.
Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield.
Enoch Lincoln.
Jonathan Mason. «
Marcus Morton, Taunton.
Jeremiah Nelson, Newburyport.
James Parker.
Zabdiel Sampson. «
Henry Shaw, Lanesboro.
Nathaniel Silsbee, Salem.
Ezekiel Whitman.
MISSISSIPPI.
David Holmes,/ Washington.
Walter Leake."
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Williams, Washington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Christopher Rankin, Natchez.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
David L. Morrill, Goffstown. John F. Parrott, Portsmouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph Buffum, jr., Westmoreland.
Josiah Butler, South Deerfield.
Clifton Clagett, Amherst.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunny.
Samuel L. Southard.!/
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ephraim Bateman, Cedarville.
Joseph Bloomfield, Burlington.
Charles Kinsey, » Paterson.
Arthur Livermore, Plymouth.
William Plumer, jr., Epping.
Nathaniel Upham, Rochester.
James J. AVilson,'' Trenton.
John Linn, J Monroe.
Bernard Smith, New Brunswick.
Henry Southard, Baakingridge.
NEW YORK.
Rufus King.
Nathaniel Allen.
Caleb Baker.
Walter Case.
Robert Clark.
Jacob H. De Witt.
John D. Dickinson.
John Fav.
William D. Ford.
Ezra C. Gross.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Guyon, jr.^'
Aaron Hackley, jr.
George Hall.
Joseph S. Lyman.
Henry Meigs.
Robert Monell.
Hermanns Peek.
Nathaniel Pitcher.
Jonathan Richmond.
Nathan Sanford.
Henry R. Storrs.
Randall S. Street.
James Strong.
John W. Taylor. '
Caleb Tomkins.
Albert H. Tracy.
Solomon Van Rensselaer.
Peter H. Wendover.
Silas Wood.
a Resigned in 1820.
6 Elected in place of Prentiss Mellen, resigned; took his seat December 1. 1820.
c Elected in place ot Edward Dowse, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820.
rf Elected in place of .Jonathan Mason, resigned; took his seat November 27, 1820.
0 Elected in place ot Zabdiel Sampson, resigned; took his seat December 18, 1820.
/Elected in place of Walter Leake, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820.
» Elected in place of James J. Wilson, resigned; took his seat February 16, 1821.
'"Kesiguedin 1821,
i Took his seat February 16, 1820.
i Died January 6, 1821.
«f Successfully contested the election of Ebenezer Sage; took his seat January 14, 1820.
1 Elected speaker November 15, 1820, in place of Henry Clay, resigned.
SIXTEENTH CONGRESS.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
Nathaniel Macon.
William S. Blackledge. "
Hutchins C. Burton.
John Culpepper.
William Davidson.
Weldon N. Edwards.
SBNATOHS.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
Charles Fisher.
Thomas H. Hall.
Charles Hooks.
Lemuel Sawyer. *
Thomas Settle.
Montford Stokes.
Jesse Slocumb. <^
James S. Smith.
Felix Walker.
Lewis Williams.
OHIO.
Benjamin Ruggles.
Philemon Beecher.
Henry Brush.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Campbell.
Samuel Herrick.
William A. Trimble.
Thomas R.
John Sloane
PENNSYLVANIA.
Walter Lowrie.
Jonathan Roberts.
Henry Baldwin.
Andrew Boden.
William Darlington.
George Dennison.
Samuel Edwards.
Thomas Forrest.
David Fullerton.''
Samuel Gross.
Joseph Heister.''
James Burrill, jr.C
William Hunter.
Samuel Eddv.
John Gaillard. J
Joseph Brevard.
Elias Earle.
James Ervin.
REPHBSENTATIV
Joseph Hemphill.
Jacob Hibshman.
Jacob Hostetter.
William P. Maclay.
David Marchand.
Thomas G. McCullough. e
Robert Moore.
Samuel Moore.
John Murray.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Lowndes.
John McCreary.
James Overstreet.
TENNESSEE.
Thomas Patterson.
Robert Philson.
Thomas J. Rogers.
John Sergeant.
Christian Tarr.
Daniel Ddree./
James M. Wallace.
Nehemiah R. Knight.''
Nathaniel Hazard, i
William Smith.
Charles Pinckney.
Eldred Simkins.
Starling Tucker.
John Henry Eaton.
Robert Allen.
Henry H. Bryan.
SEN.4.T0RS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Williams.
Newton Cannon.
John Cocke.
Francis Jones.
John Rhea.
a Elected in place of .Tesse Slocumb, deceased; took his seat February 7, 1821.
6 Took his seat March 25, 1820. x
cDied December 20, 1820.
d Resigned in 1820.
c Elected in place oi David Fullerton, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820.
/Elected in place of Joseph Heister, resigned; took his seat January 8, 1821.
srDied December 25, 1820.
^Elected in place of James Burrill, jr., deceased; took his seat January 20, 1821.
» Died December 17, 1820.
j Elected president pro tempore January 26, 1820.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
William A. Palmer.
Samuel C. Crafts.
Ezra Meech.
Orsamus C. Merrill. «
James Barbour. "
Mark Alexander.
William S. Archer. «
William Lee Ball.
Philip P. Barbour.
William A Burwell. /
John Floyd.
Robert S. Garnett.
John 0. Gray.!/
Edward B. Jackson. '»
VERMONT.
SENATOHS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
RoHinC. Mallary.S'
Charles Rich.
Mark Richards.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
James Johnson. *
James Jones.
William McCoy.
Charles F. Mercer.
Thomas L. Moore, i
Hugh Nelson.
Thomas Newton.
Severn E. Parker.
James Pindall. «
Isaac Tichenor.
William Strong.
James Pleasants.^
James Pleasants.*
John Randolph.
Ballard Smith.
Alexander Smyth.
George F. Strother. '"
George Tucker.
John Tyler.
Thomas V. Swearingen.
Jared Williams.
Solomon Sibley."*
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James Woodson Bates. '
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
MISSOURI TERRITORY.
William Woodbridge."
DELEGATE.
John Scott.
a Election successfully contested by EoUin C. Mallary.
6 Successfully contested the election of Orsamus C. Merrill; took his seat January 14, 1820.
c President pro tempore.
d Elected in place of John W. Eppes, resigTied in 1819; took his seat December 14, 1819.
e Elected in place of James Pleasants, resigned; took his seat January 18, 1820.
/Died February 16, 1821.
a Elected in place of James Johnson, resigned; took his seat Kovember 13, 1820.
* Elected in place of James Pindall, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820.
'■ Resigned in 1820.
3 Elected in place of George P. Strother, resigned; took his seat November 13, 1820.
* Resigned in 1819.
I Took his seat March 2, 1820.
>B Elected in place of William W. Woodbridge, resigned; took his seat November 20, 1820.
n Took his seat December 10, 1819; resigned in 1820.
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 3, ISSl, to May 8, 1822. Second session, from December 2, 1822, to March 3, 1823.
Fice-iV«sidmi —Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York. Presidmt of the Senate pro tempore.— Sow
UAILLARD, ot Isouth Carolina; again elected February 1, 1822, and again elected February 19, 1823.
Secretary of the Senate.— Charlsb Cutts, of New Hampshire.
Speaker of the ITouse.— Philip P. Barbouk, of Virginia. Clerks of the House.— TsouAa Douqhbbty,
ot Jientucky; Matthew St. Claik Clarke, of Pennsylvania, elected December 3, 1822.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS,
William Kelly."- John W. Walker, b Huntsville.
William E. King, Cahawba.
BBPHESENTATIVE.
Gabriel Moore.
OONNECTIOUT.
SENATORS.
Elijah Boardman, Litchfield. James Lanman, Norwich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Noyes Barber, Groton. John Russ, Hartford. Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
Daniel Burrows, Hebron. Ansel Sterling, Sharon.
Henry W. Edwards, New Haven. EbenezerStoddard, Woodstock.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Csesar A. Rodney, " Wilmington. Nicholas Van Dyke, New Castle.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Xouis McLane, Wilmington. Csesar A. Rodney, "Wilmington. Daniel Rodney. <^
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John Elliott, Sunbury. Nicholas Ware, « Richmond.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joel Abbot, Washington. George R. Gilmer, Lexington. Edward F. Tatnall, Savannah.
Alfred Cuthbert. Robert R. Raid, Augusta. Wiley Thompson, Elberton.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Ninian Edwards, Edwardsville. Jesse B. Thomas, Edwardsville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Daniel P. Cook, Edwardsville.
a Elected in place of John W. Walker, resigned; took his seat January 21, 1823.
b Resigned December. 1822.
0 Elected Senator, and took his seat January 24, 1822; resigned January 27, 1823, having been appointed minister to Buenos
AvTss
o Elected in place of Cffisar A. Rodney, elected Senator; took his seat December 2, 1822.
eElected in place of Freeman Walker, resigned in 1821; took his seat December 11, 1821.
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80
CONGRESSIONAL CIBECTORY.
INDIANA.
James Noble, Brookville.
William Hendricks, « Madison.
SBNATOKS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
Waller Taylor, Vincennes.
Jonathan Jennings. '
SENATORS.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossmgs.
Isham Talbot, Frankfort.
James D. Breckenridge.
Benjamin Hardin, Bairdstown.
Francis Johnson, Bowling Green.
John T. Johnson, Georgetown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Metcalfe, Carlisle.
Thomas Montgomery, Stanford.
Anthony New, Elkton.
LOUISIANA.
John S. Smith, Eichmond.
David Trimble, Mount Sterling.
Samuel H. Woodson, Lexington.
SENATORS.
James Brown, New Orleans. Henry Johnson, Donaldsonville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Josiah S. Johnston, Alexandria.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
John Chandler, Monmouth.
Joshua Cushman, Winslow.
Joseph Dane, Kennebunk.
Mark Harris, c Portland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ebenezer Herrick, Lewiston.
Mark L. Hill, Phippsburg.
Enoch Lincoln, Paris.
V MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Edward Lloyd, Easton.
William Pinkney,'' Baltimore.
John Holmes, Alfred.
Ezekiel Whitman, « Portland.
William D. Williamson, Bangor.
Samuel Smith, - Baltimore.
Thomas Bayley, Princess Ann.
Jeremiah Causden, / Elkton.
Joseph Kent, Bladensburg.
Peter Little, Freedom.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaac McKim.9'
Raphael Neale, Leonardstown.
John Nelson", Frederick Town.
Philip Eeed./«
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Smith, « Baltimore.
Henry R. Warfield, Middleburg.
Robert Wright, Queenstown.
James Lloyd. *
Elijah H. Mills, Northampton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel C. Allen, Northfield.
Gideon Barstow, Salem.
Francis Baylies, Taunton.
Lewis Bigelow, Petersham.
Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge.
William Eustis, Boston.
Timothy Fuller, Boston.
Harrison Gray Otis, J Boston.
Benjamin Gorham, Boston.
Aaron Hobart, Hanover.
Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield.
Jeremiah Nelson, Newburyport.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
Jonathan Russell, Mendon.
" Kesigned In 1822.
6 Elected in place of William Hendricks, resigned; took Ms seat December 2, 1822.
0 Elected in place of Ezekiel Whitman, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1822.
rfDied February 25, 1822,
e Elected .Senator in place of William Pinknev, deceased; took his seat December 17 1822
/ Election successfully contested by Philip Reed.
B Elected in place of Samuel Smith, elected Senator; took his seat January 8, 1823.
•'1 Successfully contested the election of Jeremiah Ciiusden; took his seat March 20, 1822
' Elected m place of Harrison Gray Otis, resigned; took his .seat December 2, 1S22.
J Resigned June, 1822.
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
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MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
David Holmes, Washington, Tliomas H. Williams, Washington.
EEPEESENTATtVE.
Christopher Eankin, Natchez.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David Barton, St. Louis
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John'Scott, St. Genevieve.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
David L. Morrill, Goftatown. John F. Parrott, Portsmouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Josiah Butler, South Deerfield. William Plummer, jr., Epping.
Matthew Harvey, Hopkinton. Nathaniel Upham, Rochester.
Thomas Whipple, jr., Wentworth.
NEW JERSEY.
Aaron Matson, Keene.
SENATORS. >
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunuy. Samuel L. Southard, Trenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ephraim Bateman, Lendsville.
George Cassedy, Hackensack.
Lewis Condict, Morristown.
George Holcomb, Allentown.
James Matlack, Woodbury.
Samuel Swan, Somerville.
Rtifus King, New Yoik.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Borland, jr.,« Wardsbridge.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
Samuel Campbell, Columbus.
Cadwallader D. Golden, 6 New York.
Alfred Conkling, Canajoharie.
John D. Dickinson, Troy.
John Gebhard, Scoharie.
James Hawkes, Richfield.
Thomas H. Hubbard, Hamilton.
Joseph Kirkland, Utica.
Elisha Litchfield, Delphi.
Richard McCarty, Coxsackie.
John J. Morgan, New York.
Walter Patterson, Livingston.
Martin Van Buren, Albany.
Jeremiah H. Pierson.
Nathaniel Pitcher, Sandy Hill.
William B. Rochester, Bath.
Charles H. Ruggles, Kingston.
Elijah Spencer.
Micah Sterling, Watertown.
John W. Taylor, Ballston Springs.
Albert H. Tracy, Buffalo;
Stephen Van Rensselaer, « Albany.
Solomon Van Rensselaer,"* Albany.
William W. Van Wyck, Fishkill.
Reuben H. Walworth, Plattsbui^.
Silas Wood, Huntingdon.
David Woodcock, Ithaca.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Nathaniel Macon, Monroe.
SENATORS.
EEPEBSBNTATIVES.
Montford Stokes, Wilkesboro.
William S. Blackledge, Newbern.
Hutchins C. Burton, Halifax.
Henry W. Conner, Falls Town.
Josiah Crudup, Raleigh.
Weldon N. Edwards, Warrenton.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
Charles Hooks, Duplin.
John Long, Lindlys Store.
Archibald McNeill, M'Neills Store.
Romulus M. Saunders, Milton.
Lemuel Sawyer, Elizabeth City.
Felix Walker, Waynesville.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
n Elected in place of Selah Tuthill, deeeased in 1821; took his seat December 3, 1821.
6 Successfully contested the election of Peter Sharpe; took his seat December 12, 1821. ,
c Elected in place of Solomon Van Rensselaer, resigned; took his seat March 12, 1822.
rt Resigned January 14, 1822.
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COJSTGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
OHIO.
Ethan Allen Brown. «
Benjamin Euggles, St. Clairsville.
EEPKESENT,\TIVES.
Levi Barber, Point Harmer.
John W. Campbell, West Union.
David Chambers, Zanesville.
William A. Trimble. '>
Thomas R. Ross, Lebanon
John Sloane, Wooster.
John Vance, Urbana.
PEXNSYLVAXIA.
SENATOHS.
William Findley, Franklinton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Baldwin, " Pittsburg.
John Brown, Lewistown.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
William Darlington, West Chester.
George Dennison, Wilkesbarre.
Samuel Edwards, Chester.
Patrick Farrelly, Meadville.
John Findlaj', Chambersburg.
Thomas Forrest, f'
Walter Forward. «
Samuel Gross, Trap.
Joseph Hemphill, Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Ingham. /
James M' Sherry, Petersbra-g.
Walter Lowrie, Butler.
William Milnor, " Philadelphia.
James S. Mitchell, Eossville.
Samuel Moore, <= Doylestown.
Thomas Murray, jr., Milton.
Thomas Patterson, AVest Jliddletown.
John Philips, Hummelstown.
George Plumer, Robbstown.
Thomas J. Rogers, Easton.
John Sergeant, Philadelphia.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
John Todd, Bedford.
Daniel Udree. S
Ludwig Worman,'« Pottstown. ,
RHODE ISLAND.
James D'Wolf, Bristol.
Jo>) Durfee, Tiverton.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence.
Samuel Eddy, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John Gaiilard, > Pendleton.
James Blair, c Camden.
John Carter. J
Joseph Gist, Pinckneyville.
Andrew R. Go van.*
James Hamilton, jr. ^
William Lowndes. "
SESATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Smith, Pinckneyville.
George M'Duffie, Edgefield.
Thomas R. Mitchell, Georgetown.
James Overstreet,'' King Creek.
Joel R. Poinsett, Charleston.
Starling Tucker, Mounta,in Shoals.
John Wilson, Golden Grove.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
John Henry Eaton, Nashville.
Robert Allen, Carthage.
Henry H. Bryan,"' Palmyra.
Newton Cannon, Harpeth.
John Williams, Knoxville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Cocke, Rutledge.
Francis Jones, Winchester.
John Rhea, Sullivan.
aEleoted in place of William A. Trimble, deceased; took his seat January 1.^, 1822.
6 Died December 13, 1821.
oEesigned in 1822.
rt Elected in pluce of William Milnor, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1822.
e Elected in place of Henry Baldwin, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1822.
/Elected in place of Samuel Moore, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1822.
i; Elected in place of Ludwig Worman, deceased; took his seat December 23, 1822.
h Died in 1822.
i Elected president pro tempore February 1, 1S22, and February 19, 1823.
J Elected in place of James Blair, resigned; took his seat December 11, 1S22,
''Elected in place of James Overstreet, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1822.
'Ejected in pfece of William Lowndes, resigned; took his seat January 6, 1823.
m Reported to have been duly elected by the Committee on Elections, February 17, 1823, but appears never to have taken
hie seat.
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
83
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
William A. Palmer, Danville. Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel C. Crafts, Craftsbury. John Mattocks.
^lias Keyes, Stockbridge. Charles Rich, Shoreham.
Rollm C. Mallary, Poultney. Phineas White, Putney.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
James Barbour, Barboursville.
James Pleasants, « Goochland C. H.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy Grove.
William S. Archer, Amelia C. H.
William Lee Ball, Nuttsville.
Philip P. Barbour, o Lucketsville.
Burwell Bassett, Williamsburg.
John Floyd, Newbern.
Robert S. Garnett, Lloyds.
Edward B. Jackson, Clarksburg.
James Jones, Hendersonville.
Jabez Leftwich, Liberty.
William McCoy, Franklin.
Charles F, Mercer, Aldie.
John Taylor. '
Thomas L. Moore, Warrenton.
Hugh Nelson, Milton.
Thomas Newton, Norfolk.
John Randolph, Charlotte C. H.
Arthur Smith, Smithfield.
William Smith, Louisburg.
Alexander Smyth, Wythe.
James Stephenson.''
Andrew Stevenson, Richmond. ,
George Tucker, Lynchburg.
Thomas V. Swearingen, « Shepherdstown.
Jared Williams, Newton.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James W. Bates, / Arkansas.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. Hernandez.!/
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Solomon Sibley, Detroit.
aEesigned in 3822.
^Elected in place of James Pleasants, resigned; took his seat December 30, 1822.
cEleoted Speaker December 4, 1821.
(^Elected in place of Thomas V. Swearingen, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1822.
e Died in 1822.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by M. Lyon.
a Took his seat January 3, 1823.
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 1, 18SS, to May S7, 1SS4- Second session, from December 6, 1824, to March 3, 1825.
Vice-President. — Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York. President of the Senate pro tempore. — JoHii
Gaillaed, of South Carolina; again elected May 21, 1824. Secretary of the Senate. — Charles Cutts, oi
New Hampshire,
Spealer of the House. — Henry Clay, of Kentucky. ' Clerk of the House. — Matthew St. Claie
Clarke, of Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA
William Kelly.
John McKee, Tuscaloosa.
Gabriel P. Moore, Huntsville.
SENATORS.
representatives.
William R. King, Cahawba.
George W. Owen, Claiborne.
CONNECTICUT.
senators.
Elijah Boardman. «
Henry W. Edwards, 6 New Haven.
Noyes Barber, Groton.
Samuel A. Foot, Cheshire.
Ansel Sterling, Sharon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
DELAWARE.
James Lanman, Norwich.
Ebenezer Stoddard, Woodstock.
Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
Lemuel Whitman, Farmington.
Thomas Clayton. ''
SENATORS.
Nicholas Van Dyke. -^
REPRESENTATIVE.
Louis McLane, Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Thomas W. Cobb, « Greensboro.
John Elliott, Sunbury.
Joel Abbot, Washington.
George Carey, Appling.
Thomas W. Cobb,« Greensboro.
Alfred Cuthbert, Eatonton.
Nicholas Ware,/ Richmond.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Forsyth, Augusta.
Edward F. Tatnall, » Savannah.
Wiley Thompson, Ellerton.
Richard Henry Wilde.''
a Died October 8, 1823.
!) Appointed in place o£ Elijah Boardman, deceased in 1823; look his seat December 1, 1823; subsequently elected by the
^- Elected in place of Csesar A. Rodney, resigned in lS2;i; took his seat January 16 1824
d Took his seat January 14, 1824. ' '
<! Elected in place of Nicholas Ware, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1S24
/ Took his seat January 19, 1824; died September 7, 1824.
(vTook his seat March 27,1824.
li Elected in place of Thomas W. Cobb, elected Senator; took his seat February 7, KS25.
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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.
ILLINOIS.
85
Ninian Edwards, a Edwardsville.
John McLean, b
SENATORS.
Jesse B. Thomas, Edwardsville.
EEPRESENTATIVE.
Daniel P. Cook, Edwardsville.
James Noble, Brookville.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Jennings, Charleston.
William Prince, <= Princeton.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossings.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard A. Buckner, Greensburg.
Henr\' Clay, « Lexington.
Robert P. Henry, Hopkinsville.
Francis Johnson, Bowling Green.
John T. Johnson, Georgetown.
Robert P. Letcher, Lancaster.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Dominique Bouligny./
James Brown, s
REPRESENTATIVES.
William L. Brent, St. Martinsville.
H. H. Gurley, Baton Rouge.
John Chandler, Monmouth.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WiUiam Burleigh, South Berwick.
Joshua Cushman, Winslow.
Ebenezer Herrick, Bowdoinham.
David Kidder, Norridgewock.
Waller Taylor, Vincennes.
John Test, Brookville.
Jacob Call,"! Princeton.
Isham Talbot, Frankfort.
Thomas Metcalfe, Carlisle.
Thomas P. Moore, Harrodsburg.
Philip Thompson, Yellow Banks.
David Trimble, Mount Sterling.
David White, New Castle.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
Henry Johnson,* Donaldsville.
Josiah S. Johnston, i
Edward Livingston, New Orleans.
John Holmes, Alfred.
Enoch Lincoln, Paris.
Stephen Longfellow, Portland.
Jeremiah O'Brien.
MARYLAND.
Edward Lloyd, Easton.
William Hey ward, jr., Easton.
Joseph Kent, Bladensburg.
John Lee, Petersville.
Peter Little, Freedom.
Isaac McKim, Baltimore.
BEPRBSBNTATIVES.
Samuel Smith, Baltimore.
George E. Mitchell, Elkton.
Raphael Neale, Leonardstown.
John H. Spence, Poplartown.
Henry R. Warfield, Middleburg.
a Resigned March 4, 1824, having been appointed minister to Mexico.
6 Elected in place of Ninian Edwards, resigned; took his seat December 20, 1824.
c Died' in 1824.
dElected in place of William Prince, deceased; took his seat December 23, 1824.
e Elected Speaker December 1, 1823.
/Elected in place of Henry Johnson, resigned; took his seat December 21, 1824.
ffEesigned December 10, 1823, having been appointed minister to France.
h Resigned in 1824.
^Elected in place of James Brown, resigned; took his seat March 12, 1824.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOES.
James Lloyd, Boston.
REPRESENT ATIVES.
Samuel C. Allen, Green.
John Bailey," Canton.
Francis Baylies, Taunton.
Benj. W. Crowninshield, Salem.
Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge.
Timothy Fuller, Boston.
Aaron Hobart, Hanover.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
David Holmes, Washington.
Elijah Hunt Mills, Northampton.
Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield.
John Locke, Ashby.
Jeremiah Nelson, Newburyport.
John Reed, Yormouth.
Jonas Sibley, Worcester.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Thomas H. Williams, Washington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Christopher Rankin, Natchez.
MISSOURI.
David Barton, St. Louis.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Scott, St. Genevieve.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
Ichabod Bartlett, Portsmouth.
Matthew Harvey, Hopkinton.
Arthur Livermore, Plymouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunny.
George Cassedy, Hackensack.
Lewis Condit, Morristown.
Daniel Garrison, Salem.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK.
John F. Parrott, Portsmouth.
Aaron Matson, Stoddard.
William Plumer, jr., Epping.
Thomas Whipple, jr., Wentworth.
Joseph Mcllvaine, l' Burlington.
George Holcomb, AUentown.
James Matlack, Woodbury.
Samuel Swan, Somerville.
Rufus King, New York.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Parmenio Adams, " Batavia.
John W. Cady, Johnstown.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
Lot Clark, Norwich.
Ela Collins, Lowville.
Hector Craig, Chester.
Rowland Day, Simpronius.
Justin Dwinell, Cazenovia.
Lewis Eaton, Schoharie Bridge.
Charles A. Foote, Delhi.
Joel Frost, Carmel.
Moses Hayden, Y''ork.
ilartin Van Buren, Albany.
John Herkimer, Danube.
James L. Hogeboom, Castleton.
Lemuel Jenkins, Bloomingburg.
Samuel Lawrence, Johnsons Settle
ment.
EUsha Litchfield, Delphi.
Henry C. Martindale, Sandy Hill.
Dudley Marvin, Canandaigua.
John J. Morgan, New Yo&.
John Richards, Johnsburg.
Robert S. Rose, Geneva.
Peter Sharpe, New York
1824.
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.
87
Henry R. Storrs, Whitestown.
James Strong, Hudson.
John W. Taylor, Ballston Sjirings.
Egbert Ten Eyck, Watertown.
Albert H. Tracy, Buffalo.
Jacob Tyson, Castletown.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, Albany.
WilUam Van Wyck, Fishkill.
Isaac Williams, Coopertown.
Isaac Wilson, « Middleburg.
Silas Wood, Huntingdon.
William Woods, Bath.
NORTH CAROLINA.
John Branch, Enfield.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Hutchins G. Burton, 6 Halifax.
Henry W. Conner, Sherrills Ford.
John Culpepper, Lawrenceville.
Weldon N. Edwards, Warrenton.
Alfred M. Gatlin, Edenton.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
Charles Hooks, Dublin.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Benjamin Ruggles, St. Olairsville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mordecai Bartley, Mansfield.
Philemon Beecher, Lancaster.
John W. Campbell, West Union.
John W. Gazlay, Cincinnati.
Duncan McArthur, Chillicothe.
AVilliam McLean, Piqua.
John Patterson, St. Clairsville.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William Eindley, Franklinton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Allison, Beaver.
Samuel Breck, Philadelphia.
John Brown, Lewistown.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
Samuel Edwards, Chester.
William Cox Ellis, Muncy.
Patrick Farrelly, Meadville.
John Findlay, Chambersburg.
AValter Forward, Pittsburg.
Robert Harris, Harrisburg.
Joseph Hemphill, Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Ingham, New Hope.
George Kremer, Lewisburg.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
James D'Wolf, Bristol.
John Durfee, Tiverton.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel Macon, Monroe.
John Long, Lindleys Store.
Willie P. Mangum, Hillsboro.
George Outlaw. "^
Romulus M. Saunders, ililton.
Richard D. Spaight, Newbern.
Robert B. Vance, Nashville.
Lewis AVilliams, Panther Creek.
Ethan Allen Brown, Cincinnati.
Thomas B. Ross, Lebamon.
John Sloane, AVooster.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey, Canfield.
William Wilson, Newark.
John T. Wright, Steubenville.
Walter Lowrie, Butler.
Philip S. Markley, Norristown.
Daniel H. Miller.
James S. Mitchell, Roseville.
Thomas Patterson, West Middletown.
George Plumer, Robbstown.
Thomas J. Rogers, ti Easton.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
Alexander Thomson, f^ Bedford.
John Todd, * Bedford.
Daniel Udree, Reading.
Isaac Wayne, Warren.
Henry Wilson, Allentown.
James Wilson, Fairfield.
George Wolf, « Easton.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence.
Samuel Eddy, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John Gaillard, / Pendleton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rot(ert B. Campbell, Brownsville.
John Carter, Camden.
Joseph Gist, Pinckneyville.
Andrew R. Rovan, Orangebnrg.
James Hamilton, jr., Charleston.
Robert Y. Hayne, Charleston.
George McDuffie, Edgefield.
Joel R. Poinsett, Charleston.
Starling Tucker, Mountain Shoals.
John Wilson, Golden Grove.
<i Election safely contested by Parmenlo Adams.
b Resigned In 1824.
c Elected in place of Hutchins Q. Burton, resigned; took his seat January 19, 1825.
d Elected in place of John Todd.resigned; toot his seat December 6, 1824.
e Elected in place of Thomas J. Rogers, resigned; took his seat December 9, 1824.
/President pro tempore; reelected May 21, 1824.
CONGRESSIOlSfAL DIRECTORY.
TENNESSEE.
John Henry Eaton, Nashville.
SENATORS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Adam R. Alexander, Jackson.
Eobert Allen, Carthage.
John Blair, Jonesboro.
John Cocke, Kutledge.
Saniuel Houston, Nashville.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
William A. Palmer, Danville.
KEPKESENTATIVEB.
William C. Bradley, Westminister.
Daniel A. A. Buck, Chelsea.
Samuel C. Crafts, Craftsbury.
Andrew Jackson, Nashville.
Jacob C. Isacks, AVinchester.
James B. Reynolds, Clarkesville.
James T. Sanford, Columbia.
James Standifer, Pikeville.
Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
Rollin C. Mallary, Poultney.
Henry Olin.o
Charles Rich, !> Shoreham.
VIRGINIA.
James Barbour, Barboursville.
John Taylor, c Port Royal.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy Grove.
William S. Archer, Amelia.
William Lee Ball, « Nuttsville.
John S. Barbour, Culpeper.
Philip P. Barbour, Luokettsville.
Burwell Bassett, Williamsburg.
John Floyd, Newbern.
Robert S. Garnett, Lloyds.
Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
Jabez Leftwitch, Liberty.
William McCoy, Franklin.
Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
Littleton W. Tazewell. <«
Thomas Newton, Norfolk.
John Randolph, Charlotte.
William C. Rives, Milton.
Arthur Smith, Smithfield.
William Smith, Lewisburg.
Alexander Smyth, Wythe.
James Stephenson, Martinsburg.
Andrew Stevenson, Richmond.
John Taliaferro. /
George Tucker, Lynchburg.
Jared Williams, Newton.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry A^'. Conway, Little Rook.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Richard K. Call.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY,
DELEGATE.
Gabriel Richard, 9 Detroit.
a Elected in place of Charles Rich, deceased; took his seat December 13 1824
6 Died in 1824. '
c Took his seat February 9, 1824; died August 20, 1824.
d Elected in place of John Taylor, deceased; took his seat December 29 1824
e Died February 28, 1824.
/Elected in place of William Lee Ball, deceased; took his seat April 8 1824
crElection unsuccessfully contested by John Biddle. '
NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
Firstsesdon, from Decembers, 1826, toMaySS, 18S6. Second session, from December 4, 18S6, toMarchS, 18:
'27 .
a..J^t'^Zfi^*^r \^- ^^''1°''Ar°^ 1°'?,*''. paroHna. Presidents of the Senatepro tempore.-Jon^
Gaillaed of South Carohna elected March 9, 1825, in special session; Nathaniel Macon of North
Carohna, elected May 20, 1826, and again elected January 2, 1827, and again elected March 2 1827
ffeX'Dec'Lber?2';T827 "^^ ^''"'' °* ^'^ Hampshire; Wavte/ Lowhie, of Pennsylvania;
Speaker of the Jious?.— John W. Taylor, of New York, aerk of the IIouse.-MATm^w St Olaih
Clarke, of Pennsylvania. v^^^^^ij^
Henry Chambers, « Madison.
William R. King, Cahawba.
John McKee, Tuscaloosa.
Gabriel Moore, Huntsville.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John McKinley, » Huntsville.
Israel Pickens. "
George W. Owens, Claiborne.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Edwards, New Haven.
REPRESENT ATI VES.
John Baldwin, Windham.
Noyes Barber, Groton.
Ealph J. Ingersoll, New Haven.
Calvin Willey,'* Toland.
Orange Mervin, New Milford.
Elisha Phelps, Simsbury.
Gideon Tomlinson, Farmington.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Thomas Clayton, Dover.
Daniel Rodney. «
Henry M. Ridgeley, / Dover.
Nicholas Van Dyke,!/ Newcastle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Louis McLane, Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John Macpherson Berrien, Savannah.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Cary, Appling.
Alfred Cuthbert, Eatonton.
John Forsyth, Augusta.
Charles E. Haynes, Sparta.
Thomas W. Cobb, Greensboro.
James Meriwether, Athens.
Edward F. Tatnall, Savannah.
AViley Thompson, Elberton.
oDied January 25, 1826.
6 Elected in place ol Henry Chambers, deceased, Israel Pickens having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Decem-
ber 21, 1826.
^Appointed in place of Henry Chambers, deceased; took his seat April 10, 1826.
d Elected in place ol James Lanman, appointed during recess oJ legislature, but whom the Senate declared not entitled
to a seat, /
e Appointed in place of Nicholas Van Dyke, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1826.
/ Elected in place of Nicholas Van Dyke, deceased, Daniel Kodney having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Jan-
uary 23, 1827.
9 Died May 19, 1826.
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CON GEESSION A L DIRECTORY .
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Elias K. Kane, Kaskaskia.
Jesse B. Thomas, Edwardsville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Daniel, P. Cook, Edwardsville.
William Hendricks, Madison.
Eatliff Boon, Booneville.
Jonathan Jennings, Charleston.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossings.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard A. Buckner, Greensburg.
James Clark, Winchester.
John E. Henry. «
Robert P. Henry, ti Hopkinsville.
Francis Johnson, Bowhng Green.
James Johnson, b Great Crossings.
Joseph Lecompte, New Castle.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Dominique Bouligny, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William L. Brent, St. Martinsville.
Henry H. Gurley, Baton Rouge.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
John Chandler, Monmouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Anderson, Portland.
William Burleigh, South Berwick.
Ebenezer Herrick, Bowdoinham.
David Kidder, Norridgewock.
James Noble, Brookville.
John Test, Brookville.
John Rowan,, Louisville.
Robert P. Letcher, Lancaster.
Robert McHatton, <: Georgetown.
Thomas Metcalfe, Carlisle.
Thomas P. Moore, Harrodsburg.
David Trimble, Mount Sterling.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
William S. Young, Elizabethtown.
Josiah S. Johnston, Donaldsville.
Edward Livingston, New Orleans.
John Holmes, Alfred.
Enoch Lincoln, f^ Paris.
Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias.
Peleg Sprague, Hallow ell.
James AV, Ripley, « Fryeburg.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Ezekiel F. Chambers, f Chestertown.
Edward Lloyd, s/Easton.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
John Barney, Baltimore.
Clement Dorsey, Fenwicks To's^n.
Joseph Kent,'* Bladensburg.
John Leeds Keer, Easton.
Peter Little, Freedom.
Samuel Smith, Baltimore.
Robert N. Martin, Princess Ann.
George E. Mitchell, Elkton.
George Peter, Dainestown.
John C. Weems, «' Waterloo.
Thomas C. Worthington, Fredericktown
a Elected in place of Robert P. Henry, deceased; took his seat December 11, 1826,
i>Diedinl826.
cElected in place of James Johnson, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1826.
ti Resigned in 1826, having been elected governor.
e Elected in place of Enoch Lincoln, resigned; took his.seat in December, 1826.
/Elected in place of Edward Lloyd, resigned; took his seat February 22, 1826.
a Resigned January, 1826.
'i Resigned January 6, 1826, having been elected governor.
■/Elected in place of Joseph Kent, resigned; took his seat February 7, 1826.
NINETEENTH CONGKESS.
MASSAOHUSETTS.
91
SBNATOES.
James Lloyd, « Boston.
Elijah Hunt Mills, Northampton.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Samuel C. Allen, Greeniield. •
John Bailey, Canton.
Francis Baylies, Taunton.
Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Salem.
John Davis, Worcester.
Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge.
Edward Everett, Cambridge.
Powhatan EUis, « Winchester.
David Holmes, <« Washington.
William Haile, / AVoodville.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATOJIS.
David Barton, St. Louis.
Nathaniel Silsbee, '' Salem.
Aaron Hobart, East Bridgewater.
Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield.
John Locke, Ashby.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
John Varnum, Haverhill.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Thomas B. Read, '' Natchez.
Thomas H. Williams, Washington.
Christopher Rankin,!/ Natchez.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Scott, Ste. Genevieve.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ichabod Bartlett, Portsmouth.
Titus Brown, Erancestown.
Nehemiah Eastman, Farmington.
NEW JERSEY.
Ephraim Bateman.A
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunny.
SENATORS.
George Cassedy, Hackensack.
Lewis Condit, Morristown.
Daniel Garrison, Salem.
Nathan Sandford, J Albany.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Parmenio Adams, Attica.
William G. Angel, Burlington.
Henry Ashley, Catskill.
Luther Badger, Janesville.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
William Deitz, Court House.
Nicoll Fosdick, Morristown.
Daniel G. Gamsey, Fredonia.
John Hallock, jr., Eidgeberry.
Abrahapi B. Hasbrouck, Kingston.
Levi Woodbury, Portsmouth.
Jonathan Harvey, Sutton.
Joseph Healy, AVashington.
Thomas Whipple, jr., Wentworth.
Joseph Mcllvaine, « Burlington.
George Holcomb, Allentown.
Samuel Swan, Somerville.
Ebenezer Tucker, Tuckerton.
Martin Van Buren, Albany.
Moses Hayden, York.
Michael Hoffman, Herkimer.
Daniel Hugunin, jr.,* Oswego.
Charles Humphrey, Ithaca.
Jeromus Johnson, New York.
Charles Kellogg, Kelloggsville.
William McManus, Troy.
Henry Markell, Palatine.
Henry C. Martindale, Sandy Hill.
Duclley Marvin, Canandaigua.
a Resigned May 23, 1826.
SElected in place of James Lloyd, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1826.
c Appointed m place of David Holmes, resigned in 1825; took his seat December 12, 1S25.
d Resigned in 1825.
e Elected in place of David Holmes, resigned in 1825, Powhatan. Ellis having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
March 11, 1826.
/Elected in place of Christopher Rankin, deceased; took his seat December i, 1826.
ffDied March 14, 1826.
h Elected in place of Joseph Mcllvaine, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1826.
< Died August 19, 1826.
.^Took his seat January 31, 1826.
* Successfully contested the seat of Egbert Ten Eyck; took his seat December 15, 1825.
92
CONGEESSIONAL DIBECTORT.
John Miller, Truxton.
Timothy H. Porter, Olean.
Eobert S. Rose, Geneva.
Henry H. Boss, Essex.
Joshua Sands, Brooklyn.
Henry E. Storrs, Whitestown.
James Strong, City of Hudson.
John AV. Taylor," Ballston Springs.
Egbert Ten Eyck, 6 Watertown.
Stephen Van Bensselaer, Albany.
Gulian C. Verplanok, New York.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
Bartow W. White, FishkiU.
Elisha Whittemore.
Silas Wood, Huntingdon.
NORTH CABOLINA.
John Branch, Enfleld.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Willis Alston, Hyde Park.
Daniel L. Barringer,'* Raleigh.
John H. Bryan, Newbern.
Samuel P. Carson, Pleasant Garden.
Henry W. Conner, Sherrills Ford.
Weldon N. Edwards, Warrenton.
Richard Hines, Edgecombe.
Nathaniel Macon, " Monroe.
Gabriel Holmes, Clinton.
John Long, Longs Mills.
Archibald McNeill, McNeills Store.
Willie P. Mangum, ^ Red Mountain.
Romulus M. Saunders. Milton.
Lemuel Sawyer, Elizabeth.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
OHIO.
BEXATOKS
William Henry Harrison, Cincinnati.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mordecai Bartley, Mansfield.
Philemon Beecher, Lancaster.
John W. Campbell, West Union.
James Findlay, Cincinnati.
David Jennings, / St. Clairsville.
William McLean, Piqua.
Thomas Shannon, C Barnesville.
John Sloan, Wooster.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Benjamin Ruggles, St. Clairsville.
John Thomson, Chillicothe.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey, Canfield.
William Wilson, Newark.
John Woods, Hamilton.
John C. Wright, Steubenville.
William Findlay, Pittsburg.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Addams, Reading.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
Samuel Edwards, Chester.
Patrick Farrelly,^ Meadville.
John Findlay, Chambersburg.
Chauncey Forward, « Somerset.
Robert Harris, Harrisburg.
Joseph Hemphill, / Philadelphia.
Samuel D. Ingham, New Hope.
Thomas Kittera, i Philadelphia.
Jacob Krebs,* Orwigsburg.
George Kremer, Lewisburg.
Joseph Lawrence, Washington.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
Philip S. Markley, Norristown.
William ilarks, Pittsburg.
Daniel H. Miller, Philadelphia.
Charles Miner, West Chester.
James S. Mitchell, Roseville.
John Mitchell, Bellefonte.
Robert Orr, Kittanning.
George Plumer, Robbstown.
Thomas H. Sill, I Erie.
James S. Stevenson, Pittsburg.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
Alexander Thomson, / Bedford.
Espy Van Home, Williamsport.
Henry Wilson,™ Allentown.
James Wilson, Fairfield.
George Wolf, Easton.
John Wurts, Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND.
James D'Wolf,« Bristol.
Nehemiah B. Knight, Providence.
Asher Robbing," Newport.
Tristam Burges, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Dutee J. Pearce, Newport.
n Elected Speaker December 5, 1826.
b Unseated December 15, 1825.
c Elected President pro tempore May 20, 1826.
<i Elected in place ol Willie P. Mangum, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1826.
e Resigned March 18, 1826.
/ Resigned in 1826.
(/Elected in place of David Jenijiings, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1824.
ftDied January 12, 1826.
J Elected in place of Alexander Thomson, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1826.
.! Elected in place of Joseph Hemphill, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1826.
*: Elected in place of Henry Wilson, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1826.
'.Elected in place of Patrick Earrelly, deceased; took his seat April 3, 1826.
m Died in 1826.
'" Resigned October 31, 1826.
"Elected in place of James D'WoH, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1825.
-NINETEENTH CONGEES^.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
93
John Gaillard," Pendleton.
William Harper. ^
John Carter, Camden.
William Drayton, Charleston.
Joseph Gist, Pinckneyville.
Andrew R. Govan, Orangeburg.
James Hamilton, Charleston.
John H. Eaton, Nashville.
Andrew Jackson, li Nashville.
Adam R. Alexander, Jackson.
Robert Allen, Carthage.
John Blair, Jonesboro.
John Cocke, Rutledge.
Samuel Houston, Nashville.
SENATORS.
REPHESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Diidley Chase, Randolph.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William C. Bradley, Westminster.
Rollin C. Mallary, Poultney.
John Mattocks, Pearham.
Robert Y. Hayne, Charleston.
William Smith, « Charleston.
George McDuffie, Edgefield.
Thomas R. Mitchell, Georgetown.
Starling Tucker, Mountain Shoals.
John Wilson, Golden Grove.
Hugh Lawson White, « Knoxville.
Jacob C. Isacks, Winchester.
John H. Marable, Yellow Creek.
James C. Mitchell, Athens.
James K. Polk, Columbia.
Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
Ezra Meech, Shelburn.
George E. Wales, Hartford.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
James Barbour,/ Barboursville.
John Randolph,? Charlotte.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy.
William S. Archer, Tuntilston.
William Armstrong, Romney.
John S. Barbour, Culpeper.
Burwell Bassett, Williamsburg.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Rocky Mount.
George W. Crump,'' Cumberland.
Thomas Davenport, Meadsville.
. Benjamin Estil, Abingdon.
John Floyd, Newbern.
Robert S. Garnett, Lloyds.
Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk
Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
William McCoy, Franklin.
Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
Thomas Newton, Norfolk.
Alfred H. Powell, Winchester.
William C. Rives, Milton.
William Smith, Lewisburg.
Andrew Stevenson, Richmond.
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
Robert Taylor, Orange.
James Trezvant, Jerusalem.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry W. Conway, Little Rock.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Pensacola.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Austin E. Wing, Detroit.
o Elected President pro tempore March 9, 1825, special session; died February 26, 1826.
h Appointed in place of John Gaillard, deceased; took his seat March 28. 1826.
c Elected in place of John Gaillard, deceased, William Harper having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Decem-
ber 7, 1826.
d Resigned in 1825.
e Elected in place of Andrew Jackson, resigned in 1825; took his seat December 12, 1825.
/ Resigned March 7, 1825.
9 Elected in place of James Barbour, resigned in 1825; took his seat December 26, 1825.
h Took his seat February 6, 1826.
TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
First, session, from December S, 18S7, to Mny S6, 18S8. Second session, from December 1, 1828, to March 3, 1829.
Vice-Presidenl.^^o^TS C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. —
Nathaniel JIacon, of North Carolina, elected May 15, 1828, and declined; Samuel Smith, of Mary-
land, elected May 15, 1828. Secretary of the Senate. — Walter Lowkib, of Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the House. — Andrew Stevenson, of Virginia. Cleric of the House. — Matthew St. Claib
Clarke, of Pennsylvania.
William R. King, Selma.
John McKee, Tuscaloosa.
Gabriel Moore, Huntsville.
Samuel A. Foot, Cheshire.
ALABAMA.
senators.
eepeesentatives.
CONNECTICUT.
senators.
representatives.
John Baldwin, Windham.
Noyes Barber, Groton.
Ralph J. Ingersoll, New Haven.
John McKinley, Huntsville.
George W, Owen, Claiborne.
Calvin Willey, Toland.
Orange Mervin, New Milford.
Elisha Phelps, Simsbury.
David Plant, Stratford.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Louis McLane, Wilmington.
representative.
ICen-sey Johns, jr., Newcastle,
GEORGIA.
Henry 31. Ridgeley, Dover.
SEN.A.T0RS.
John McPherson Berrien. Savannah.
Thomas W. Cobb,« Greensborough.
representatives.
John Floyd, Jefferson.
Tomlinson Fort, Milledgeville.
George R. Gilmer, Lexington.
Charles E. Haynes, Sparta.
Oliver H. Prince, b Macon.
Wilson Lumpkin, Madison.
Wiley Thompson, Elberton.
Richard PI. Wilde.
ILLINOIS.
senators.
Ellas K. Kane, Kaskaskia.
Jesse B. Thomas, Edwardsville.
representative.
Joseph Duncan, Brownsville.
a Resigned in 1828.
94
6 Elected in place o£ Thomas W, Cobb, resigned, took his seat December 1
, 1828.
TWENTIETH CONGEESS.
95
William Hendricks, Madison.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Blake, Terre Haute.
Jonathan Jennings, Charleston.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossings.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Richard A. Buckner, Greensburg.
John Chambers, « Washington.
Thomas Chilton, Elizabethtown.
James Clark, Winchester.
. Henry Daniel, Mount Sterling.
Joseph Lecompte, Newcastle.
Robert P. Letcher, Lancaster.
LOUISIANA,
SENATORS.
Dominique Bouligny, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William L. Brent, St. Martinsville.
Henry H. Gurley, Baton Rouge.
John Chandler, Monmouth.
John Holmes, '• Alfred.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Anderson, Portland.
Samuel Butman, Dixmont.
Rufus Mclntire, Parsonsfleld.
Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Ezekiel E. Chambers, Chestertown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Barney, Baltimore.
Clement Dorsey, Chaptico.
Levin Gale, Elkton.
John Leeds Kerr, Easton.
Peter Little, Freedom.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
James Noble, Brookville.
Oliver H. Smith, Connersville.
John Rowan, Louisville.
Chittenden Lyon, Eddyville.
Robert McHatton, Georgetown.
Thomas Metcalfe, b Carlisle.
Thomas P. Moore, Harrodsburg.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
Joel Yancy, Glasgow.
Josiah S. Johnston, Alexandria.
Edward Livingston, New Orleans.
Albion K. Parris,'* Portland.
James W. Ripley, Fryeburg.
Peleg Sprague, Hallowell.
Joseph F. Wingate, Bath.
Samuel Smith, « Baltimore.
Michael C. Sprigg, Frostburg.
George C. Washington, Rockville.
John C. Weems, Waterloo.
Ephraim K. Wilson, Snow Hill.
Nathaniel Silsbee, Salem.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel C. Allen, Greenfield.
John Bailey, Milton.
Igaac C. Bates, Northampton.
Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Salem.
John Davis, Worcester.
Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge.
Edward Everett, Cambridge.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Benjamin Gorham, Boston.
James L. Hodges, Taunton.
John Locke, Ashby.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
Joseph Richardson, Hingham.
John Varnum, Haverhill.
a Elected in place of Thomas Metcalfe, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1828.
6 Resigned in 1828.
"Elected in place of Albion K. Parris, resigned; took his seat January 26, 1829.
dEesigned August 26, 1828.
e Elected president pro tempore May 15, 1828, in place of Nathaniel Macon, resigned.
96 CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATOHS.
Powhatan Ellis, Winchester. Thomas H. Williams, Washington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Haile, « Woodville. Thomas Hinds, i> Greenville.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David Barton, St. Louis. Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward Bates, St. Louis.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
David Barker, jr., Rochester.
Ichabod Bartlett, Portsmouth.
Titus Brown, Francestown.
Ephraim Bateman, f Cedarville.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis Condit, Morristown.
George Holcomb, " Allentown.
Isaac Pierson, Orange.
James F. Randolph,/ New Brunswick.
Levi Woodbury, Portsmouth.
Jonathan Harve}', Sutton,
Joseph Healy, Washington.
Thomas Whipple, jr., Wentworth.
Mahlon Dickerson,f' Suckasunny.
Thomas Sinnickson,? Salem.
Samuel Swan, Somerville.
Hedge Thompson, '' Salem.
Ebenezer Tucker, Tuckerton.
NEW YORK.
Charles E. Dudley, » Albany.
Nathan Sanford, Albany.
Daniel D. Barnard, Rochester.
Thomas Beekman, Peterboro.
George O. Belden, Monticello.
Rudolph Bunner, Oswego.
C. C. Oambreleng, New York.
Samuel Chase, Cooperstown.
John C. Clarke, Bainbridge.
John I. De Graff, Schenectady.
John D. Dickinson, Troy.
Jonas Earll, jr., Onondaga.
Daniel G. Garnsey, Fredonia.
Nathaniel Garrow, Auburn.
John Halldck, jr., Ridgebury.
Selah R. Hobbie, Delhi.
Michael Hoffman, Herkimer.
Jeromus Johnson, New York.
Richard Keese, Keeseville.
John Magee, Bath.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin Van Buren, .;' Albany.
Henry Markell, Palatine. <
Henry C. Martindale, Sandy Hill.
Dudley Marvin, Canandaigua.
John Maynard, Ovid Village.
Thomas J. Oakley, « Poughkeepaie.
Henry R. Storrs, Whitestown.
John G. Stower, Hamilton.
James Strong, city of Hudson.
Thomas Taber, 2(1,* Dover.
John W. Taylor, Ballston Springs.
Phineas L. Tracy, Batavia.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, Albany.
Gulian C. Verplanck, New York.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
John J. Wood, Clarkstown.
Silas Wood, Huntingdon.
David Woodcock, Ithaca.
Silas Wright, jr.,' Canton.
a Resigned In 1828.
ii Elected in place of William Haile, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1828.
0 Elected by his own vote in joint session of the legislature; resigned January, 1829.
^Resigned February 9, 1829; elected in place ol* Ephraim Bateman, resigned; took his seat February 9 1829
eDiedJanuary M, 1828. . . <= ■
/Elected in place ot George Holcomb, deceased; took his seat December 1, 1828.
^Elected in place of Hedge Thompson, deceased; took his seat December 1, 1828.
ft Died in 1828.
i Elected in place of Martin Van Buren, resigned; took his seat January 29, 1829.
./Resigned December 20, 1828.
'c Elected in place ol Thomas J. Oakley, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1828.
1 Resigned February, 1829.
TWENTIETH CONGKE88.
NORTH CABOLINA.
97
John Branch, Enfield.
James Iredel,« Edenton.
EEPHBSENTATIVES.
Willis Alston, Hyde Park.
Daniel L. Barringer, Raleigh.
John H. Bryan, Newbern.
Samuel P. Carson, Pleasant Garden.
Henry W. Conner, Sherrills Ford.
John Culpepper, Beards Store.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
OHIO.
Jacob Burnet. "
William Henry Harrison, <« Cleves.
SENATORS.
Mordecai Bartley, Mansfield.
Philemon Beecher, Lancaster.
William Creighton, ir.,« Chillicothe.
John Davenport, Barnesville.
James Findlay, Cincinnati.
William McLean, Piqua.
Francis S. Muhlenburg./
William Russell, West Union.
EEPRESENTATIVI
Nathaniel Macon, 6 Warrenton.
Gabriel Holmes, Montpelier.
John Long, Longs Mills.
Lemuel Sawyer, Elizabeth.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Germantown.
Daniel Turner, Warrenton.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
Benjamin Ruggles, St. Olairsville.
John Sloane, Wooster.
William Stanberry, Newark.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey, Canfleld.
John Woods, Hamilton.
John C. Wright, Steubenyille.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Isaac D. Barnard, West Chester.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Addams, Reading.
Samuel Anderson, Providence.
Stephen Barlow, Meadville.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
Richard Coulter, Greensburg.
Chauncey Forward, Somerset.
Joseph Fry, jr.. Fry burg.
Innis Green, Dauphin.
Samuel D. Ingham, New Hope.
Adam King, York.
George Kremerf.Lewisburg.
Joseph Lawrence, Washington.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
William Marks, Pittsburg.
Daniel H. Miller, Philadelphia.
Charles Miner, Westchester.
John Mitchell, Bellefonte.
Robert Orr, jr., Kittanning.
William Ramsay, Carlisle.
John Sergeant, Philadelphia.
John B. Sterigere, Upper Dublin.
James S. Stevenson, Pittsburg.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
Joel B. Sutherland, Philadelphia.
Espy Van Home, Williamsport.
James Wilson, Fairfield.
George Wolf, Easton.
RHODE ISLAND
SENATORS.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence. Asher Robbins, Newport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Tristam Surges, Providence. Dutee J. Pearce, Newport.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Robert Y. Hayne, Charleston.
William Smith, York.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Carter, Camden.
Warren R. Davis, Pendleton.
William Drayton, Charleston.
James Hamilton, jr., Charleston.
George M'cDuffle, Edgefield.
William D. Martin, Barnwell.
Thomas R. Mitchell, Georgetown.
William C. Nuckolls, Spartanburg.
Starling Tucker, Mountain Shoals.
a Elected in place of Nathaniel Macon, resigned; took his seat December 23, 1828.
ftElected president pro tempore May 35, 1828, and declined; resigned in 1828.
c Elected in place of William Henry Harrison, resigned; took his seat December 29, 1828.
d Resigned May 20, 1828.
e Resigned In 1828.
/Elected in place of William Creighton, jr.
H. Doc. 458 7
resigned; took .his seat December 19, 1828.
98
CONGKESSIONAL DIBECTOKT.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOBS.
John H. Eaton, Nashville.
John Bell, Nashville.
John Blair, Jonesboro.
David Crockett, Trenton.
Eobert Desha, Gallatin.
Jacob C. Isacks, Winchester.
Dudley Chase, Randolph.
Daniel A. A. Buck, Chelsea.
Jonathan Hunt, Brattleboro.
Bollin C. Mallary, Poultney.
Littteton W. Tazewell, Norfolk.
Hugh Lawson White, Knoxville.
RBPBESENTATIVES.
Pryor Lea, Knoxville.
John H. Marable, Yellow Creek.
James C. Mitchell, Athens.
James K. Polk, Columbia.
VERMONT.
SENATOES.
Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.
George E. Wales, Hartford.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John Tyler, Charles City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy Grove.
Robert Allen, Mount Pleasant.
William S. Archer, Elkhill.
William Armstrong, jr., Romney.
John S. Barbour, Culpeper.
Philip P. Barbour, Gordonsville.
Burwell Bassett, WiUiamsburg.
Nathaniel H. Clairborne, Rocky Mount.
Thomas Davenport, Meadsville.
John Floyd, Newbern.
Isaac Leffler, Wheeling.
Lewis Maxwell, Weston.
Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
William McCoy, Franklin.
Thomas Newton, Norfolk.
John Randolph, Charlotte.
William O. Rives, Milton.
John Roane, Rumford Academy.
Alexander Smyth, Wythe.
Andrew Stevenson, « Richmond.
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg,
■lames Trezvant, Jerusalem.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
A. H. Sevier, Little Rock.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Pensacola.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Austin E. Wing, Detroit.
a. Elected Speaker December 3, 1827.
TWENTY-FIEST CONGRESS.
First session, from December 7, 1829, to May SI, 18S0. Second session, fromBecember 6, 18S0, toMarehS, 18S1.
Vice-President.— 3 o^T^ C. Oalhoun, of South Carolina. Preddenis of the Senate pro tempore.—
bAMUEL bMiTH of Maryland; Littleton W. Tazewell, of Virginia, elected March 1, 1831. Secretaru
of the Senate.— Wavibr Loweie, of Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the House.— Audssw Stevenson, of Virginia. Clerk of the JTomsc— Matthew St. Olair
Clarke, oi Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
William E. King, Selma. John McKinley, Florence.
representatives.
^ Robert E. B. Baylor, Tuscaloosa. '^ Dixon H. Lewis, Montgomery.
tyV. C. Clay, Huntsville. ,
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS. •
Samuel A. Foot, Cheshire. Calvin Willey, Tolland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
^Noyes Barber, Groton. L^ Ralph J. Ingersoll, New Haven.
William W. Ellsworth, Hartford. '-William L. Storrs, Middletown.
Jabez W. Huntington, Litchfield. ./^benezer Young, Killingly.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
John M. Clayton, Dover. Arnold Naudain, i Wilmington.
Louis McLane,« Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
0 Kensey Johns, jr., Newcastle.
GEORGIA.
John Macpherson Berrien, c Savannah. George M. Troup, Dublin.
John Eorsyth, <? Augusta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
■^Thomas K. Foster, Greensboro. '^Wiley Thompson, Elberton.
/^Charles E. Haynes, Sparta. <- James M. Wayne, Savannah.
' Henry G. Lamar, Macon. ' Richard H. Wilde, Augusta.
i,Wilson Lumpkin, Monroe.
a Besigned in 1829.
& Elected in place of Louis McLane, resigned; took Ms seat January 13, 1830.
c Resigned March 9, 1829.
d Elected In place of John Macpherson Berrien, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1829.
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C0NGEES8I0NAL DIBECTOKY.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
David J. Baker,'' Shawneetown.
Elias K. Kane, Kaskaskia.
John McLean, ^ Shawneetown.
John M. Bobinson. ''
EEPEESENTATIVE.
Joseph Duncan, Brownsville.
INDIANA.
SBNATOKS.
William Hendricks, Madison. James Noble,'* Brookville.
^ KEPKESENTATIVES.
Ratliff Boon, Boonville. John Test, Lawrenceburg.
Jonathan Jennings, Charleston.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Oeorge M. Bibb, Yeljow Banks. John Rowan, Louisville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Chilton, Elizabethtown.
James Clark, Winchester.
Nicholas D. Coleman, Washington.
Henry Daniel, Mount Sterling.
Nathan Gaither, Columbia.
Bichard M. Johnson, Great Crossing.
John Kincaid, Stanford.
Joseph Lecompte, Newcastle.
Robert P. Letcher, Lancaster.
Chittenden Lyon, Eddyville.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
Joel Yancy, Glasgow.
Joaiah S. Johnston, Alexandria.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry H. Gurley, Baton Eouge.
Walter H. Overton, Alexandria.
John Holmes, Alfred.
John Anderson, Portland.
Samuel Butman, Dixmont.
George Evans, Gardiner.
Cornelius Holland, « Canton.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MABYLAND.
SENATORS.
Edward Livingston, New Orleans.
Edward D. White, Donaldsonville.
Peleg Sprague, Hallowell.
Leonard Jarvis,/ Ellsworth.
Rufus Mclntire, Parsonfield.
James W. Ripley,? Fryeburg.
Joseph F. Wingate, Bath.
Ezekiel F. Chambers, Ohestertown. Samuel Smith,'' Baltimore.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elias Brown, Freedom,
Clement Dorsey, Howards Race.
Benjamin O. Howard, Baltimore.
George E. Mitchell, Elkton.
Benedict I. Semmes, Piscataway.
Richard Spencer, Easton.
Michael C. Sprigg, Frostburg.
George C.Washington, Rockville.
Ephraim K. Wilson, Snow Hill.
a Appointed in place of John McLean, deceased: took his seat Decemher 6, 1830.
6 Deceased October 14, 1830.
c Elected in place of John McLean, deceased, David J. Baker having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat January
4, 1881.
d Died February 26, 1831.
e Elected in place of James W. Ripley, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1830.
/ Took his seat December 6, 1880.
17 Resigned March 12, 1830; election unsuccessfully contested by Reuel Washburn.
'lElected president pro tempore, March 18, 1829, special session, and May 29, 1830.
TWENTY-FIRST CONGBESS.
101
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Nathaniel Silsbee, Salem.
EBPRESENTATIVE8
'^ John Bailey, Milton.
<^ Isaac 0. Bates, Northampton.
cBenjamin ^W. Crowninshield, Salem.
^•John Da,via, Worcester.
I^Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge.
'-Edward Everett, Charlestown.
i'Beni^.min Gorham, Boston.
MISSISSIPPI.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
t' George, Grennell, jr., Greenfield,
i^ James L. Hodges, Taunton.
^Joseph G. Kendall, Leominster.
Sohr^ Eeed, Yarmouth Port.
^ Joseph Richardson, Hingham.
John yarnum, Haverhill.
SENATORS.
Robert H. Adams, « Natchez.
Powhatan Ellis, Winchester.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Hinds, Greenville,
George Poindexter, 6 Natchez.
David Barton, St. Louis.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Spencer Pettis, Fayette.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
John Brodhead, New Market.
Thomas Chandler, Hillsboro.
Joseph Hammons, Farmington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunny.
Lewis Condit, Morristown.
Richard M. Cooper, Camden.
Thomas H. Hughes, Cold Spring.
Levi Woodbury, Portsmouth.
Jonathan Harvey, Sutton.
Henry Hubbard', Charlestown.
John W. Weeks, Lancaster.
Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaac Pierson, Orange.
James F. Randolph, North Brunswick.
Samuel Swan, Bound Brook.
NEW YORK.
Charles E. Dudley, Albany.
Nathan Sanford, Albany.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William G. Angel, Burlington.
Benedict Arnold, Amsterdam.
Abraham Bockee, Federal Store.
Peter I. Borst, Middleburg.
C. C. Cambreleng, New York.
Timothy Childs, Rochester.
Henry B. Cowles, Carmel.
Hector Craig, " Craigville.
Jacob Crocheron, Smithfield.
Charles G. De Witt, Kingston.
John D. Dickinson, Troy.
S. W. Eager, <* Montgomery.
Jonas Earll, jr., Onondaga.
Isaac Finch, Jay.
George Fisher, « Oswego.
Jehiel H. Halsey, Lodi.
Joseph Hawkins, Henderson.
Michael Hoffman, Herkimer.
Perkins King, Freehold.
James Lent, Newtown,
John Magee, Bath.
Henry C. Martindale, Sandy Hill.
Thomas Maxwell, Elmira.
Robert Monell, / Greene.
Ebenezer F. Norton, Buffalo.
Gershom Powers, Auburn.
Robert S. Rose, Geneva.
Jonah Sanford, 9' Oswego.
o Elected in place of Thomas B. Reed, deceased in 1829; took his seat February 8, 1830, and died July 2, 1830.
b Appointed m place of Robert H. Adams, deceased; took his seat December6, 1830; subsequently elected by the legislature.
e Resigned in 1830.
d Elected in place of Hector Craig, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1830.
e Election successfully contested by Silas Wright, jr.
/Resigned February 21, 1831.
1/ Elected in place of Silas Wright, jr., who declined to take his seat.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Ambrose Spencer, Albany.
James Strong, City of Hudson.
Henry E. Storrs, Whiteatown.
John W. Taylor, Ballston Springs.
Phineas L. Tracy, Batavia.
Gulian C. Verplanck, New York.
Campbell P. White, New York.
Silas Wright, jr.a
NORTH CAROLINA.
John Branch, ^ Enfield.
Bedford Brown, « Browns Store.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Willis Alston, Fortunes Fork.
^ Daniel L. Barringer, Raleigh.
Samuel P. Carson, Pleasant Garden.
Henry W. Conner, Sherrills Ford.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
Edward B. Dudley, Wlmington.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
Jacob Burnet, Cincinnati.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATrVES.
Mordecai Bartley, Mansfield.
Joseph H. Crane, Dayton.
William Creighton, jr., Chillicothe.
James Findlay, Cincinnati.
Johri M. Goodenow,'' Steubenville.
William W. Irvin, Lancaster.
William Kennon, St. Clairaville.
Humphrey H. Lea vitt, « Steubenville.
James Iredell, Edenton.
Robert Potter, Oxford.
Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro.
William B. Shepard, Elizabeth City.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Germantown.
Jesse Speight, Speights Bridge.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
Benjamin Rugglea, St. Clairsville.
William Russell, West Union.
James Shields, Dicks Millp,.
William Stanberry, Newaffe.
John Thomson, New Lisbon.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey, Canfield.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Isaac C. Barnard, West Chester.
SENATORS. ,
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
Richard Coulte"r, Greensburg.
Thomas H. Crawford, Chambersburg.
Harmar Denny, Pittsburg.
Joshua Evans, Paoli.
James Ford, Lawrenceville.
Chauncey Forward, Somerset.
Joseph Fry, jr., Fryburg.
John Gilmore, Butler.
Innis Green, Dauphin.
Joseph Hemphill, Philadelphia.
Peter Ihrie, jr., Easton.
Thomas Irwin, Uniontown.
Adam King, York.
RHODE ISLAND.
William Marks, Pittsburg.
George C. Leiper, Leiperville.
Alam, Marr, Danville.
William McCreedy, Bricelands Cross-
roads.
Daniel H. Miller, Philadelphia.
Henry A. Muhlenburg, Reading.
William Ramsay, Carlisle.
John Scott, Alexandria.
Thomas H. Sill, Erie.
Samuel A. Smith, Doylestown.
Philander Stephens, Montrose.
John B. Sterigere, Norristown.
Joel B. Sutherland, Philadelphia.
SENATORS.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence. Asher Robbins, Newport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ti-istam Burges, Providence. Dutee J. Pearce, Newport.
Robert Y. Hayne, Charleston.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOES.
William Smith, York.
REPRESENTATIVES.
' Robert W. Barnwell, Beaufort.
James Blair, Camden.
'J John Campbell, Brownsville.
^'Warren R. Davis, Pendleton.
x/William Drayton, Charleston.
Wiliam D. Martin, Barnwell.
' George McDuffie, Edgefield.
William C. Nuckolls, Hancockville.
Starling Tucker, Mountain Shoals.
a Declined to take his seat after successfully contesting the election of George Fisher.
b Resigned in 1829.
c Elected in place of John Branch, resigned; took his seat December 28, 1829.
rf Resigned April 9, 1830.
« Elected in place o£ John M. Goodenow, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1830.
TWENTY-FIBST C0NGEE8S.
103
John H. Eaton, a Nashville.
Felix Grundy, » Nashville.
John Bell, Nashville.
John Blair, Joneaboro.
David Crockett, Crocketts.
Robert Desha, Gallatin.
Jacob C. Isacks, Winchester.
Dudley Chase, Randolph.
William Cahoon, Lyndon.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
Jonathan Hunt, Brattleboro.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
EEPEBSENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
Hugh Lawson White, Knoxille.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
Pryor Lea, Knoxville.
James K. Polk, Columbia.
James Standifer, Mount Airy.
Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
Rollin C. Mallary, Poultney.
Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.
Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy Grove.
Robert Allen, Mount Jackson.
William S. Archer, Elkhill.
William Armstrong, Romney.
John S. Barbour, Culpeper.
Philip P. Barbour, " Gordonsville.
Thomas T. Bouldin, Charlotte.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Rocky Mount.
Richard Coke, jr., Williamsburg.
Robert Craig, Montgomery.
Thomas Davenport, Meadsville.
Philip Doddridge, Wellsburg.
Joseph i)raper,(i Wythe.
John Tyler, Charles City.
AVilliam F. Gordon, Lindseys Store.
George Loyall, « Norfolk.
Lewis Maxwell, Weston.
William McCoy, Franklin.
Charles F. Mercer, Leesburg.
Thomas Newton,/ Norfolk.
John M. Patton, g Fredericksburg.
John Roane, Rumford Academy.
Alexander Smyth,'' Wythe.
Andrew Stevenson, * Richmond.
Jonn Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
James Trezvant, Jerusalem.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Little Rock.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Monticello.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Biddle, J Detroit.
a Resigned March 9, 1829.
6 Elected in place of John H. Eaton, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1829.
oEesignedinlSSO.
^Elected In place of Alexander Smyth, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1830.
e Successfully contested the election of Thomas Newton; took his seat March 9, 1830.
/ Election successfully contested by George Loyall.
c Elected in place of Philip P. Barbour, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1830.
h Died April 17, 1830.
i Elected Speaker December 7, 1829.
./Resigned February 21, 1831.
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Mrst sesmn, from December 5, 18S1, to July 16, 183S. Second session, from December S, 183S, to March 2, 18SS.
Vice-President. — John C. Calhoun, « of South Carolina. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.—
LiTTLBTON W. Tazewell, of Virginia, elected July 9, 1832; Hugh L. White, of Tennessee, elected
December 3, 1832. Secretary of the Senate. — Walter Lowhie, of Pennsylvania. ,
Speaker of the House. — Andrew Stevenson, of Yirginia. Cleric of the House. — Matthew St. Clais
Clarke, of Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
William E. King, Selma. Gabriel Moore, Huntsville.
representatives.
Clement C. Clay, Huntsville. Samuel W. Mardis, Montevallo.
Dixon H. Lewis, Montgomery.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Samuel A. Foot, Cheshire. Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
HEPRESENTA TI VES.
Noyes Barber, Groton. Ralph J. IngersoU, New Haven.
Wilham W. Ellsworth, Hartford. William L. Storrs, Middletown.
Jabez W. Huntington, Litchfield. Ebenezer Young, Killingly Center.
DELAWAEE.
SENATORS.
John M. Clayton, Dover. Arnold Naudaiu, Middletown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John J. Milligan, Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John Forsyth, Augusta. George M. Troup, Dublin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Augustin Smith Clayton, Athens. Wiley Thompson, Elberton.
Thomas F. Foster, Greensboro. James M. Wayne Savannah.
Henry G. Lamar Macon. Richard H. Wilde, Augusta.
Daniel Newman, McDonough. ' b"''"'-
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Elias K. Kane, Kaskaskia. John M. Robinson, Oarmi.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Joseph Dmican, Jacksonville.
"Resigned December 28, 1832.
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TWENTY-SECOND C0NGBES9.
INDIANA.
105
Robert Hanna. «
William Hendricks, Madison.
Ratliff Boon, Booneville.
John Carr, Charleston.
SENATORS.
RBPHE8ENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
George M. Bibb, Yellow Banks.
HEPEESENTATIVES.
John Adair, Harrodsburg.
Chilton Allan, Winchester.
Henry Daniel, Mount Sterling.
Nathan Gaither, Columbia.
Albert G. Hawes, Hawesville.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossing.
Josiah S. Johnston, Alexandria.
Edward Livingston. «
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
HEPEESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Bullard, Alexandria.
Philemon Thomas, Baton Rouge.
John Holmes, Alfred.
John Anderson, Portland.
James Bates, Norridgewock.
George Evans, Gardiner.
Cornelius Holland, Canton.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
John Tipton, i
Jonathan McCarty, Connersville.
Henry Clay, Lexington.
Joseph Lecompte, Newcastle.
Robert P. Letcher, Lancaster.
Chittenden Lyon, Eddyville.
Thomas A. Marshall, Paris.
Christopher Tompkins, Glasgow.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
George A. Waggaman,ii New Orleans.
Ezekiel F. Chambers, Chestertown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore.
Daniel Jenifer, Allen's Fresh.
John L. Kerr, Eaton.
George E. Mitchell, « Elkton.
Benedict I. Semmes, / Piscataway.
Edward D. White, Donaldsonville
Peleg Sprague, Hallowell.
Leonard Jarvis, Ellsworth.
Edward Kavanagh, Damariscotta Mills.
Rufus Mclntire, Parsonsfleld.
Samuel Smith, Baltimore.
Charles S. Sewall,? Elkton.
John S. Spence, Berlin.
Francis Thomas, Frederick.
George C. Washington, Eockville.
J. T. H. Worthington, Golden.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Nathaniel Silsbee, Salem.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy.
Nathan Appleton, Boston.
Isaac C. Bates, Northampton.
George N. Briggs, Lanesboro.
Rufus Choate, Salem.
John Davis, Worcester.
Henry A. S. Dearborn, Brookline.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
Jeremiah Nelson, A Essex.
Joseph G. Kendall, Leominster.
James L. Hodges, Bristol.
George Grennell, jr., Greenfield.
Edward Everett, Charlestown.
1 Appointed in place of James Noble, deceased in 1831; took his seat December 5, 1831.
i> Elected in place oJ James Noble, deceased in 1831,Kobert Hanna having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
January 3, 1832.
0 Resigned May 24, 1881, having been appointed Secretary of State.
^Elected in place of Edward Livingston, resigned in 1831; took his seat January 3, 1832.
eDied June2S, 1832.
/Took his seat February 13, 1832.
» Elected in place of George E. Mitchell, deceased; took his seat December, 1832.
ft Took his seat December 6, 1832.
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John Black, a Monroe.
Powhatan Ellis, » Winchester.
0ONGBE8SIONAL DIRECTORY.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATOES.
George Poindexter, Wilkinson.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Franklin E. Plummer, Westville.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
Alexander Buckner, « Jackson.
KEPKESENTATIVE.
William H. Ashley, St. Louis.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Brodhead, Newmarket.
Thomas Chandler, Piscataquog.
Joseph Hammons, Farmington.
Isaac Hill, Concord.
Joseph M. Harper, Canterbury.
Henry Hubbard, Charlestown.
John W. Weeks, Lancaster.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Mahlon Dickerson, Suckasunny. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis Condit, Morristown.
Silas Condit, Newark.
Richard M. Cooper," Camden.
NEW YORK.
Thomas H. Hughes, Coldspring.
James F. Randolph, New Brunswick.
Isaac Southard, Somervillia.
Charles E. Dudley, Albany.
William L. Marcy,'' Albany.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William G. Angel, Burlington.
William Babcock, Penn Yan.
Gamaliel H. Barstow, Nichols.
Samuel Beardsley, Utica.
John T. Bergen, Brooklyn.
Joseph Bouck, Middleburg.
John 0. Brodhead, Modena.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
John A. Collier, Binghamton.
Bates Cooke, Lewiston.
Charles Dayan, Lowville.
John Dickson, West Bloomfleld.
Ulysses F. Doubleday, Auburn.
Michael Hoffman, Herkimer.
William Hogan, Hogansburg.
Freeborn G. Jewett, Skaneateles.
John King, North Lebanon.
Silas Wright, jr. «
Gerrit Y. Lansing, Albany.
James Lent, / Newtown.
Edmund H. Pendleton, Hyde Park.
Job Pierson, Schaghticoke.
Nathaniel Pitcher, Sandyhill.
Edward C. Reed, Homer.
Erastus Root,' Dellji.
Nathan Soule, Fort Plain.
John W. Taylor, Ballston Springs.
Phineas L. Tracy, Batavia.
Gulian 0. Verplanck, New York.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
Daniel Wadwell, Mannsville.
Grattan H. Wheeler, Wheeler.
Campbell P. White, New York.
Frederick AVhittlesey, Rochester.
Samuel J. Wilkin, Goshen.
n Appointed in place of Powhatan Ellis, resigned; took his seat December 12, 1832.
b Resigned July 16, 1832, having been appointed judge of United States court.
c Died June 16, 1833.
ti Resigned in 1S32.
e Elected in place of William L. Marcy, resigned; took his seat January 14, 1833.
/Died Pebruarv 22, 1833.
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
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NORTH OABOLINA.
Bedford Brown, Browns Store.
SENATOKS.
Daniel L. Barringer, Ealeigh.
Laughhn Bethune, Fayetteville.
John Branch, Enfield.
Samuel P. Carson, Pleasant Garden.
Henry W. Conner, Sherills Ford.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
M. T. Hawkins, Granville.
BBPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Bwing, Lancaster.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elutheros Cooke, Sandusky.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
Joseph H. Crane, Dayton.
William Creighton, jr., Chillicothe.
James Findlay, Cincinnati.
William W. Irvin, Lancaster.
William Kennon, St. Clairsville.
Willie P. Mangum, Bed Mountain.
James J. McKay, a EUzabeth.
Abraham Bencher, Pittsboro.
William B. Shepard, Elizabeth City.
A. H. Sheppard, Germantown.
Jesse Speight, Stantonsburg.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
Benjamin Buggies, St. Clairsville.
Humphrey H. Leavitt, Steubenville.
William Bussel, West Union.
William Stanberry, Newark.
John Thomson, New Lisbon.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Elisha Whittlesey, Garfield.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Isaac D. Barnard, b
George M. Dallas, « Philadelphia.
SENATORS.
William Wilkins, Pittsburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bobert Allison, Huntington Center.
John Bank's, JNIercer.
John C. Bucher, Harrisburg.
George Burd, Bedford.
Eichard Coulter, Greensburg.
Thomas H. Crawford, Chambersburg.
Harmer Denny, PittslDurg.
Lewis Dewart, Sunbury.
JoshuEt Evans, Paoli.
James Ford, Lawrenceville.
John Gilmore, Butler.
William Heister, New Holland.
Henry Horn, Philadelphia.
Peter Ihrie, jr., Easton.
Adam King, York.
Henry King, Allentown.
Joel K. Mann, Jenkentown.
Henry A. Muhlenberg, Beading.
Thomas M. L. McKennan, Washington.
Bobert McCoy, Carlisle.
David Potts, jr., Pottstown.
Samuel A. Smith, Bock Hill.
Philander Stephens, Montrose.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
Joel B. Sutherland, Philadelphia.
John G. Watmough, Philadelphia.
BHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nehemiah B. Knight, Providence. Asher Bobbins, Newport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Tristam Purges, Providence. Dutee J. Pearce, Newport.
SOUTH CABOLINA.
SENATORS.
John C. Calhoun. '
Bobert Y. Havne,
Charleston.
Stephen D. Miller, Camden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bobert W. Barnwell, Beaufort.
James Blair, Lynchwood.
Warren E. Davis, Pendleton.
William Drayton, Charleston.
John M. Felder, Orangeburg.
John K. Griffin, Milton.
Thomas B. Mitchell, Georgetown.
George McDuifie, Edgefield.
William C. Nuckolls, Hancockville.
a Took his seat February 20, 18S2.
!> Resigned December, 1831.
c Elected in place of I. D. Barnard, resigned: took his seat December 21, 1831.
<i Elected in place of Robert Y. Hayne, resigned; took his seat January 4, 1833.
c Resigned in 1832, having been elected governor '
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CONGBESSlOllfAL DIKEOTOBT.
Felix Grundy, Nashville.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOKS.
REPRBSENTATIVES.
Thomas D. Arnold, Campbell Station.
John Bell, Nashville.
John Blair, Jonesboro.
William Fitzgerald, Dresden.
William Hall, Green Garden.
Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier.
Heman Allen, * Franklin.
William Gaboon, Lyndon.
Hoiace Everett, Windsor.
VEEMONT.
SENATOBS.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
Hugh Lawson White," Knoxville.
Jacob C. Isaclife, Winchester.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
James K. Polk, Columbia.
James Standifer, Mount Airy.
Horatio Seymour, Middlebury.
Hiland Hall.
Jonathan Hunt, « Brattleboro.
William Slade, Middlebury.
SENATOBS.
William C. Eives.<«
Littleton W. Tazewell, « Norfolk.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Mark Alexander, Lombardy.
Eobert Alien, Mount Jackson.
William S. Archer, Elkhill.
William Armstrong, Eomney.
John S. Barbour, Culpeper.
Thomas T. Bouldin, Charlotte.
Joseph W. Ohinn, Nuttsville.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Eockymount.
Eichard Coke, jr., Williamsburg.
Eobert Craig, Montgomery.
Thomas Davenport, Meadsville.
Philip Doddridge, / Wellsburg.
John Tyler, Gloucester.
Joseph Draper.
WilGam F. Gordon, Lindseye Store.
Joseph Johnson. 9'
Charles C. Johnston,^ Abingdon.
John Y. Mason, Hicksford.
Lewis Maxwell, Weston.
Charles Fenton Mercer, Leesburg.
William McC6y, Franklin.
Thomas Newton, Norfolk.
John M. Patton, Fredericksburg.
John J. Eoane, Eumford Academy.
Andrew Stevenson, « Richmond.
AEKANSAS TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Little Eock.
FLORIDA TEEEITOEY.
DEIiEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Monticello.
MICHIGAN TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
Austin E. Wing, Monroe.
a Elected President pro tempore December 3, 1832.
6 Took his seat June 23, 1832.
oDiedMayM, 1832.
dBlected in place of Littleton W. Tazewell, resigned; took his seat January i, 1833.
« Elected President pro tempore July 9, 1832; resigned July 16, 1832.
/Died Noyember 19, 1832.
9 Elected in place of Philip Doddridge, deceased; took his seat January 21, 1883.
*Died June 17, 1832.
* Elected Speaker December 5, 1831.
TWENTY-THIRD OOJSGRESS.
First session, from December S, 1833, to June SO, 1834. Second session, from December 1, 1834, to March 3, 1836.
Fice-Prmdmi.— Martin Van Burbn, of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Kvqtj.
LjAwsoN White, of Tennessee; Geoege Poindexteb, of Mississippi, elected June 28, 1834; John Tyler,
of Virginia, elected March 3, 1835. Secretary of .the Senate.— W awer Loweie, of Pennsylvania.
-looA^^S 1 °^^^ House.— A^-DRWff Stevenson, of Virginia; John Bell, of Tennessee, elected June 2,
l»d4. lypeaker of the House pro impore.— Henry Hubbard, of New Hampshire. Clerk of the House.—
Walter S. Franklin, of Pennsylvania.
William E. King, Selma.
Clement C. Clay, Huntsville.
Dixon H. Lewis, Lowndesboro.
John McKinley, Florence.
ALABAMA.
representatives.
Gabriel Moore, Huntsville.
Samuel W. Mardia, Montevallo.
John Murphy, Claiborne.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Noyes Barber, Groton.
William W. Ellsworth, o Hartford.
Samuel A. Foot, t> Cheshire.
Jabez W. Huntington, « Litchfield.
Ebenezer Jackson,'? Middletown.
Nathan Smith, New Haven.
Phineas Miner, « Litchfield.
Joseph Trumbull, / Hartford.
Samuel Tweedy, Danbury.
Ebenezer Young, KilUngly Center.
John M. Clayton, Dover.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Arnold Naudain, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John J. Milligan, Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
Alfred Cuthbert.?
John Forsyth, A Columbus.
Augustin S. Clayton, Athens.
John Coffee, Jacksonville.
Thomas F. Foster, Greensboro.
R. L. Gamble, Louisville.
G. R. Gilmer, Lexington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John P. King, Augusta.
Seaborn Jones, Columbus.
William Schley, Augusta.
James M. Wayne, « Savannah.
Richard H. Wilde, Augusta.
a Resigned in 1834.
SEesigned in 1834, having been elected governor.
cEesigned in 1834, having been appointed judge of the supreme court o£ errors.
^Elected in place of Samuel A. Foot,. resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
eEleoted in place of Jabez W. Huntington, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
/Elected in place of William W. Ellsworth, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
g Elected in place of John Forsyth, resigned; took his seat January 12, 1835.
''Resigned June 27, 1834, having been appointed secretary of state.
i Resigned January 13, 1835.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
ILLINOIS.
SBNATOKS.
Elias K. Kane, Kaskaskia.
Zadoc Casey, Mount Vernon.
Joseph Duncan, « Jacksonville.
William L. May, 6 Springfield.
EBPRESENTATrVES.
INDIANA.
SBNATOES.
John M. Robinson, Carmi.
John Reynolds, " Belleville.
Charles Slade,<« Carlyle.
William Hendricks, Madison.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ratliff Boon, Booneville.
John Carr, Charleston.
John Ewing, Vincennes.
Edward A. Hannegan, Covington.
John Tipton, Logansport.
George L. Kinnard, Indianapolis.
Amos Lane, Lawrenceburg.
Jonathan McCarty, Fort Wayne.
George M. Bibb, Yellow Banks.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chilton Allan, Winchester.
Martin Beaty, South Fork.
Thomas Chilton, Elizabeth town.
Amoa Davis, Mount Sterling.
Benjamin Hardin, Bardstown.
Albert G. Hawes, Hawesville.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossings.
Henry Clay, Lexington.
Robert P. Letcher, « Lancaster.
James Love, Barbourville.
Chittenden Lyon, Eddyville.
Thomas A. Marshall, Paris.
P. H. Pope, Louisville.
Christopher Tompkins, Glasgow.
LOUISIANA.
Joseph S. Johnston./
Alexander Porter,!' New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Bullard,'' Alexandria.
Rice Garland, « Opelousas.
Henry Johnson, J Thibodeauxville.
George A. Waggaman, New Orleans.
Philemon Thomas, Baton Rouge.
Edward D. White,* Donaldsonville.
MAINE.
John Ruggles. '
Ether Shepley, Saoo.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Evans, Gardiner.
Joseph Hall, Camden.
Leonard Jarvis, Ellsworth.
Edward Kavanagh, Damariscotta.
Peleg Sprague,"* Hallowell.
Moses Mason, jr.. Bethel.
Rufus Mclntire, Parsonsfield.
Gorham Parks, Bangor.
Erancis 0. J. Smith, Portland.
a Resigned in 1834, having been elected governor.
^Elected in place of Joseph Duncan, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
c Elected in place of Charles Slade, deceased; took his seat December 1, 1834,
d Died July, 1834.
e Election unsuccessfully contested by Thomas P, Moore; took his seat December 1, 1834,
f Died May 19, 1833,
0 Elected in place of Joseph S, Johnston, deceased, in 1833; took his seat January 6, 1884,
'I Resigned in 1834, having been appointed judge of the supreme court of Louisiana.
i Elected in place of Henry A. BuUard, resigned; took his seat April 28, 1834,
J Elected in place of Edward D. White, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
fc Resigned in 1834, having been elected governor.
1 Elected in place of Peleg Sprague, resigned; took his seat February 6, 1835.
»t Resigned January 1, 1835,
TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
MARYLAND.
Ill
SENATORS.
Ezekiel F. Chambers, o Charlestown.
Robert H. Goldsborough. »
REPKESENTATIVES.
Richard B. Carmichael, Centerville.
Littleton P. Dennis, « Princess Anne.
James P. Heath, Baltimore.
William Cost Johnson, Jefferson.
Isaac McKim, Baltimore.
Joseph Kent, Bladensburg.
John N. Steele, <« Vienna.
John T. Stoddart, Harris Lot.
Francis Thomas, Frederick.
James Turner, Wiseburg.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Nathaniel Silsbee, Salem.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy.
Isaac C. Bates, Northampton.
William Baylies, West Bridgewater.
George N. Briggs, Lanesboro.
Rufus Choate,« Salem.
John Davis, « Worcester.
Edward Everett, Charlestown.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Benjamin Gorham, Boston.
George Grennell, jr., Greenfield.
William Jackson,/ Newton.
Levi Lincoln,!/ Worcester.
Gayton P. Osgood, North Andover.
Stephen C. Phillips,'' Salem.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
John Black, Monroe.
Harry Cage, Woodville.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
Alexander Buckner. J
William H. Ashley, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Poindexter, » Wilkinson.
Franklin E. Plummer, Westville.
Lewis F. Linn, * St. Louis.
John Bull, Chariton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Bell, Chester.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benning M. Bean, Moultenboro.
Robert Burns, Hebron.
Joseph M. Harper, Canterbury.
Isaac Hill, Concord.
Henry Hubbard, Charlestown.
Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro.
NEW JERSEY.
Theodore Freliughuysen, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Philemon Dickerson, Paterson.
Samuel Flower, Hamburg.
Thomas Lee, Port Elizabeth.
Samuel L. Southard, Trenton.
James Parker, Perth Amboy.
Ferdinand S. Schenck, Six Mile Run.
William N. Shinn, Mount Holly.
a Resigned in 1834.
6 Elected in place of Ezekiel F. Chambers, resigned; took his seat January 23, 1835.
cDied April 14, 1834.
d Elected in place of Littleton P. Dennis, deceased; took his seat June 9, 1834.
c Resigned in 1834, having been elected governor.
/Took his seat March 17, 1834.
(/Elected in place of John Davis, resigned; took his seat March 5, 1834.
h Elected in place of Riifus Choate, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
» Elected President pro tempore June 26, 1834.
jDied JunelS, 1833.
* Appointed in place of Alexander Buckner, deceased, in 1833; took his seat December 16, 1833; subsequently elected by
the legislature.
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CONGBESSIOWAL DIRECTORY.
NEW YOEK.
SENATORS.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Poughkeepaie.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Adams, Catskill.
Samuel Beardsley, Utica.
Abraham Bockee, Federal Store.
Charles Bodle, Bloomingburg.
John W. Brown, Newburg.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
Samuel Clark, Waterloo.
John Cramer, Waterford.
Eowland Day, Sempronius.
John Dickson, West Bloomfield.
Charles G. Ferris, « New York.
Millard Fillmore, Buffalo.
Philo 0. Fuller, Geneseo.
William K. Fuller, Chittenango.
Ransom H. Gillet, Ogdensburg.
Nicoll Halsey, Trumansburg.
Gideon Hard, Albion.
Samuel G. Hathaway, Solon.
Abner Hazeltine, Jamestown.
Edward Howell, Bath.
Abel Huntington, East Hampton.
Silas Wright, jr.. Canton.
Noadiah Johnson, Delhi.
Gerrit Y. Lansing, Albany.
Cornelius W. Lawrence, » New York.
George W. Lay, Batavia.
Abijah Mann, jr., Fairfield.
Henry C. Martindale, Sandy Hill.
Henry Mitchell, Norwich.
John J. Morgan, " New York.
Charles .McVean, Canajoharie.
Sherman Page, Unadilla.
Job Pierson, Schaghticoke.
Dudley Selden,<« New York.
William. Taylor, Manlius.
Joel Turrell, Oswego.
Aaron Vanderpoel, Kinderhook.
Isaac B. Van Houten, Clarkstown.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
Daniel Wardwell, Mannaville.
Reuben Whallon, Split Rock.
Campbell P. White, New York.
Frederick Whittlesey, Rochester.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Bedford Brown, Browns Store.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel L. Barringer, Raleigh.
Jesse A. Bynum, Halifax.
Henry W. Conner, Sherrills Ford.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
James Graham, Rutherford.
Thomas H. Hall, Tarboro.
Micajah T. Hawkins, Warrenton.
OHIO.
Willie P. Mangum, Red Mountain.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro.
William B. Shepard, Elizabeth City.
A. H. Shepperd, Germantown.
Jesse Speight, Stantonsburg.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
Thomas Ewing, Lancaster.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WiUiam Allen, ChilUcothe.
James M. Bell, Cambridge.
John Chaney, Courtwrignt.
Thomas COrwin, Lebanon.
Joseph H. Crane, Dayton.
Thomas L. Hamer, Georgetown.
Benjamin Jones, Worcester.
Daniel Kilgore, « Cadiz.
Humphrey H. Leavitt,/ Steubenville.
Robert T. Lytle,<7 Cincinnati.
Thomas Morris, Bethel.
Jeremiah McLene, Columbus.
Robert Mitchell, Zanesville.
William Patterson, Mansfield.
Jonathan Sloane, Ravenna.
David Spangler, Coshocton.
John Thomson, New Lisbon.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
Taylor Webster, Hamilton.
Elisha Whittlesey, Ganfield.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Buchanan,'' Lancaster.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph B. Anthony, Williamsport.
John Banks, Mercer.
Charles A. Barnitz, York.
Andrew Beaumont, Wilkesbarre.
William Wilkins, » Pittsburg.
Horace Binney, Philadelphia.
George Burd, Bedford.
George Chambers, Chambersburg.
William Clark, Dauphin.
aElected in place of Dudley Selden, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
I) Resigned in 1834, having been elected mayor of New York City.
c Elected in place of Cornelius W. Lawrence, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
^Resigned in 1834.
e Elected in place of Humphrey H. Leavitt, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1834.
/Resigned in 1834, having been appointed judge of the United States district court.
a Elected to supply the vacancy caused by his own resignation; again took his seat December 27, 1834.
'I Elected in place of William Wilkins, resigned; took his seat December 15, 1834.
i Resigned June 30, 1834, having been appointed minister to Russia.
TWENTY-THIRD CONGEESS.
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Richard Coulter, Greensburg
Edward Darlington, Chester.
Harmer Denny, Pittsburg.
John Galbraith, Franklin
Jamea Harper, Philadelphia.
Samuel S. Harrison, Kittanning.
Joseph Henderson, Browns Mills.
William Hiester, New Holland.
Henry King, Allentown.
John Laporte, Asylum.
T. M. T. McKennan, Washington.
Joel K. Mann, Jenkintown.
Jesse Miller, Landisburg.
Henry A. Muhlenburg, Reading.
David Potts, jr., Pottstown.
Robert Ramsay, Hartsville.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
Joel B. Sutherland, Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener, Easton.
John G. Watmough, Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Adier Robbins, « Newport.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Tristam Burges, Providence. Dutee J. Pearce, Newport.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill.
James Blair, 6 Lynch wood.
Robert B. Campbell, « Brownsville.
William K. Clowney, Union.
Warren R. Davis, (« Pendleton.
John M. Felder, Orangeburg.
William J. Grayson, Beaufort.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William C. Preston, Columbia.
John K. Griffin, Milton.
Richard I. Manning, « Fulton.
George McDuffie,/ WilUngton.
Francis W. Pickens,')' Edgefield.
Henry L. Pinckney, Charleston.
Thomas D. Singleton.''
TENNESSEE.
Felix Grundy, Nashville.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John Bell, i Nashville.
John Blair, Jonesboro.
Samuel Bunch, Rutledge.
David Crockett, Crokett.
David W. Dickinson, Murfreeeboro.
William C. Dunlap, Bolivar.
John B. Forester, McMinnville.
VERMONT.
Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Heman Allen, Burlington.
Banjamin F. Deming,* Danville.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
VIRGINIA.
Benjamin W. Leigh.'" ,
William C. Rives, / Lindseys Store.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES .
John J. Allen, Clarksburg.
William S. Archer, Elkhill.
James M. H. Beale, Newmarket.
Hugh LawBon White, * Knoxville.
William M. Inge, Fayetteville.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
Luke Lea, Campbells Station.
Balie Peyton, Gallatin.
James K. Polk, Columbia.
James Standifer, Mount Airy.
Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.
Hiland Hall, Bennington.
Henry F. Janes, i Waterbury.
WilUam Slade, Middlebury.
John Tyler,™ Gloucester.
James W. Bouldin," Charlotte.
Thomas T. Bouldin.P Charlotte.
Joseph W. Chinn, Nuttsville.
a Seat unsuccessfully contested by E. E. Potter.
!) Died April :, 1834.
<: Elected in place of Thomas D. Singleton, deceased in 1833; took his seat February 27, 1834.
riDied January 29, 1835.
« Elected in place of James Blair, decea.sed; took his seat December 8, 1834.
/Resigned in 1834.
BElected In place of George McDuiBe, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1834.
h Died in 1833.
i President pro tempore.
jElected Speaker June 2, 1834, in place of Andrew Stevenson, resigned.
J: Died July 11, 1834.
I Elected in place of Benjamin F. Deming, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1834.
m Elected in place of William C. Rives, resigned; took his seat March 6, 1834.
"Elected President pro tempore March 3, 1835.
o Elected in place of Thomas T. Bouldin, deceased; took his seat March 28, 1834.
p Died February 11, 1834, in his seat, while addressing the House.
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114 CONGRESSIONAL DIKEOTOEY.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Eockymount. Samuel McDowell Moore, Lexington.
Thomaa Davenport, Meadsville. Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
John H. Fulton, Abingdon. John M. Patton, Fredericksburg.
James H. Gholson, Percivals. John Robertson," Richmond,
William F. Gordon, Lindseys Store. Andrew Stevenson, i Richmond.
George Loyall, Norfolk. William P. Taylor, Fredericksbm;g.
Edward Lucas, Charlestown. Edgar C. Wilson, Morgantown.
John Y. Mason, Hicksford. Henry A. Wise, Onancock.
William McComas, Greenbrier.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Little Rock.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Monticello.
MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Lucius Lyon, Bronson.
"Elected in place of Andrew Stevenson, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1834.
6 Elected Speaker December 2, 1833; and resigned his seat in Congress June 2, 1834.
TWENTY-FOURTH CONGEESS.
First session, from December 7, 18SB, to Jvh, 4, 1836. Second session, from December 5, 1836, to March S, 1837.
Vice-President— M.ASim Van Bdren, of New York. President of the Senate pro tempore.— William
K. King, of Alabama, elected July 1, 1836, and again elected January 28, 1837. Secretaries of the
iTlSSe" ^^^"^^ I-owRiE, of Pennsylvania; Asbuey Dickens, of North Carolina, elected December
Speaker of the £b«se.— James K. Polk, of Tennessee. Clerk of the House.— Walter S. Franklin
of Pennsylvania. '
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
William R. King,« Selma. Gabriel Moore, Huntsville.
representatives.
Reuben Chapman, Somerville. Francis S. Lyon, Demopolis.
Joab Lawler, Mardisville. Joshua L. Martin, Athens.
Dixon H. Lewis, ^ Lowndesboro.
ARKANSAS
SENATORS.
William S. Fulton, " Little Rock. Ambrose H. Sevier, c Lake Port.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Archibald Yell, « Fayetteville.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Nathan Smith.(« Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield.
John M. Niles, « Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Elisha Haley, Mystic. Lancelot Phelps, Hitchcockville.
Orrin Holt,/ Willington. Isaac Toucey, Hartford.
Samuel Ingham, Say brook. Thomas T. Whittlesey,? Danbury.
Andrew T. Judson, Canterbury. Zalmon Wildman.A
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Richard H. Bayard,* Wilmington. Thomas Clayton, ^ Dover.
John M. Clayton, .7 Dover. Arnold Naudain, ' Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John J. Milligan, Wilmington.
a Elected President pro tempore July 1, 1836, and January 28, 1837.
6 Took his seat March 8, 1836.
c Took his seat Decemher 5, 1836.
a Died December 6, 1835.
e Appointed in place oJ Nathan Smith, deceased, December 6, 1835; took his seat December 21, 1836; subsequently elected
by the legislature.
/ Took his seat December 6, 1836.
ffElected in place of Zalmon Wildman, deceased; took his seat April 29, 1836.
ft Died December 10, 1835.
i Elected in place of Arnold Naudain, resigned; took his seat June 20, 1836.
J Resigned in 1836.
fc Elected in place of John M. Clayton, resigned; took his seat January 19, 1837.
I Resigned June 16, 1836.
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OONG-KBSSIONAL DIRECTOKT.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Alfred Outhbert, Monticello.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Julius C. Alford.a
Jesse F. Cleveland, Decatur.
John Coffee, * Jacksonville.
William C. Dawson, c Greensboro.
Thomas Glascock, Augusta.
, -IgU-
Seaton Grantland, MilledgevilVe
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
William L. D. Ewing, e Yandalia.
Elias Kent Kane,/ Kaskaskia.
Zadoc Casey, Mount Vernon.
John Reynolds, Belleville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
John P. King, Augusta.
Charles E. Haynes, Sparta.
Hopkins Holsey, Hamilton.
Jabez Jackson, Clarkesville.
George W. Owens, Savannah.
George W. Towns,'' Talbotton.
John M. Robinson, Carmi.
William L. May, Springfield.
SENATORS.
William Hendricks, Madison.
John Tipton, Logansport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ratliff Boon, Boonville.
John Oarr, Charleston.
John W. Davis, Carlisle.
Edward A. Hannegan, Covington.
William Herod,!? Columbus.
George L. Kinnard,'^ Indianapolis.
Amos Lane, Lawrenceburg.
Jonathan McCarty, Fort Wayne.
Henry Clay, Lexington.
KENTUCKY.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chilton Allan, Winchester.
Linn Boyd, Newi Design.
John Calhoun, Hardinsburg.
John Chambers, Washington.
Richard French, Mount Sterling.
William J. Graves, Newcastle.
Benjamin Hardin, Bardstown.
LOUISIANA.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
James Harlan, Harrodsburg.
Albert G. Hawes, Hawesville.
Richard M. Johnson, Great Crossing.
J. R. Underwood, Bowling Green.
John White, Richmond.
Sherrod Williams, Monticello.
Alexander Mouton. «
Robert Carter Nicholas. 3
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rice Garland, Opelousas.
Henry Johnson, Donaldsonville.
Alexander Porter.^
Eleazer W. Ripley, Jackson.
a Elected in place of George W. Towns, resigned: took his seat January 31, 1837.
h Died in 1836.
c Elected in place of John Coffee, deceased; took his seat December 26, 1836.
d Resigned in 1836.
c Elected in place of Elias Kent Kane, deceased; took his seat January 26, 1836.
/Died December 11, 1835.
f/Took his seat January 25, 1837.
'^Died November 25, 1836.
a Elected in place of Alexander Porter, resigned; took his seat February 2, 1837.
3 Elected in plnce of Charles E. A. Gayarre, who never took his seat; took his seat March 4, 1836.
* Resigned January 5, 1837,
TWENTY-FOURTH C0NGBES8.
MAINE.
117
Judah Dana,o Fryeburg.
John Kuggles, Thomaston.
Jeremiah Bailey, Wiscasset.
George Evans, Gardiner.
John Fairfield, Saco.
Joseph Hall, Camden.
SENATORS.
REPKESBNTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Robert H. Goldsborough, = Easton.
Joseph Kent, Bladensburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore.
Daniel Jenifer, Harrisons Lots.
Isaac McKim, Baltimore.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
Ether Shepley, * Saco.
Leonard Jarvis, Ellsworth.
Moses Mason, jr., Bethel.
Gorham Parks, Bangor.
Francis 0. J. Smith, Portland.
John S. Spence,'^ Berlin.
John N. Steele, Vienna.
Francis Thomas, Frederick.
James Turner, Wiseburg.
G. C. Washington, Rockville.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
John Davis, Worcester.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy.
Nathaniel B. Borden, Fall Elver.
George N. Briggs, Lanesboro.
William B. Calhoun, Springfield.
Caleb Cushing, Newburyport.
George Grennell, jr., Greenfield.
Samuel Hoar, Concord.
William Jackson, Newton.
Abbott Lawrence, Boston.
Levi Lincoln, Worcester.
Stephen C. Phillips, Salem.
John Reed, Yarmouth.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Lucius Lyon, « Bronson.
John Norvell, - Detroit.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaac E. Crary, / Marshall.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
John Black, Monroe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John F. H. Claiborne, Madisonville.
David Dickson,* Jackson.
Robert J. Walker,? Madisonville.
Samuel J. Gholson. «
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Louis F. Linn, St. Genevieve.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Ashley, St. Louis. Albert G. Harrison, Fulton. '
a Appointed in place of Ether Shepley, resigned; took his seat December 21, 1836.
i Resigned in 1836.
cDied Octobers, 1836.
^Elected in place oJ Robert H. Goldsborough, deceased; took his seat January 11, 1837.
" Took his seat January 26, 1837.
f Toot his seat January 27, 1837.
BTook his seat February 22, 1836.
ftDiedinl836.
* Elected in place of David Dickson, deceased; took his seat January 7, 1837.
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NEM^ HAMPSHIRE.
Isaac Hill,« Concord.
Henry Hubbard, Charlestown.
John Page, b Haverhill.
BBPEESENTATIVBS.
Benning M. Bean, Moultonboro.
Eobert IJurns, Plymouth.
Samuel Cushman, Portsmouth.
Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro.
Joseph AVeeks, Richmond.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Samuel L. Southard, Trenton.
Garret D. Wall, Burlington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Chetwood, '-' Elizabethtown.
Philemon Dickerson,'^ Paterson.
Samuel Fowler, Hamburg.
Thomas Lee, Port Elizabeth.
NEW YORK.
James Parker, Perth Amboy.
Ferdinand S. Schenck, Six Mile Run.
William N. Shinn, Mount Hollv.
SENATORS.
N. P. Tallmadge, Poughkeepsie.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Barton, Richmond.
Samuel Beardsley, « Utica.
Abraham Bockee, Federal Store.
Mathias J. Bovee, Amsterdam.
John W. Brown, Newburgh.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
G. H. Chapin, Rochester.
Timothy Childs, Lyons.
John Cramer, Waterford.
U. F. Doubleday, Auburn.
Valentine Effner, Jefferson.
Dudley Farlin, Dudley.
Philo C. Fuller, <« Genesee.
William K. Fuller, Chittenango.
Ransom H. Gillet, Ogdensburg.
Francis Granger, Canandaigua.
Gideon Hard, Albion.
Abner Hazeltine, Jamestown.
Hiram P. Hunt, Troy.
Abel Huntington, East Hampton.
Gerrit Y. Lansing, Albany.
Silas Wright, jr.. Canton.
George W. Lay, Batavia.
Gideon Lee, New York.
Joshua Lee, Penn Yann.
Stephen B. Leonard, Oswego.
Thomas C. Love, Buffalo.
John McKeon, New York.
Abijah Mann, jr., Fairfield.
AVilliam Mason, Preston.
Rutger B. JNIiller, / Utica.
Ely Moore, New York.
Sherman Page, Unadilla.
Joseph Reynolds, Virgil.
David Russell, Salem.
William Seymour, Binghamton.
Nicholas Sickles, Kingston.
William Taylor, Manlius.
Joel Turrell, Oswego.
Aaron Vanderpoel, Kinderhook.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
Daniel Wardwell, Mannsville.
John Young, g Geneseo.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Bedford Brown, Browns Store.
Willie P. Mangum,'' Red Mountain.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jesse A. Bynum, Halifax.
Henry W. Connor, Sherrills Ford.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
James Graham,* Rutherford.
Micajah T. Hawkins, Warrenton.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
William Montgomery, Albrights.
Robert Strange, * Fayetteville.
Ebenezer Pettigrew, Cool Spring.
Abraham Eencher, Pittsboro.
William B. Sbepard, Elizabeth City.
A. H. Shepperd, Germantown.
Jesse Speight, Stantonsburg.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
a Resigned May 30, 1836, having been elected governor.
b Elected in place of Isaac Hill, resigned; took his seat June 13, 1836.
c Took his seat December 5, 1836, having been elected in place of Philemon Dickerson, resigned,
d Resigned in 1836.
« Resigned March 29, 1836.
/Elected in place of Samuel Beardslev, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1836.
tr Elected in place of Philo C. Fuller, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1836.
ii Elected in place of Willie P. Mangum, resigned; took hia seat December 16, 1836.
4 Seat declared vacant March 29, 1836, on account of irregularities in election; subsequently elected at new election, and
took his seat December 5, 1836.
TWENTY-FOURTH CON&RBSS.
119
OHIO.
Thomas Ewing, Lancaster.
William K. Bond, Chillicothe.
John Chaney, Oourtwright.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
Joseph H. Crane, Dayton.
Thomas L. Hamer, Georgetown.
Elias Howell, Newark.
Benjamin Jones, Worcester.
William Kennon, St. Clairsville.
Daniel Kilgore, Cadiz.
Jeremiah McLene, Columbus.
REPEESBNTATIVEB.
Thomas Morris, Bethel.
Samson Mason, Springfield.
William Patterson, Mansfield.
Jonathan Sloane, Eavenna.
David Spangler, Coshocton.
Bellamy Storer, Cincinnati.
John Thomson, New Lisbon.
Samuel P. Vinton, GallipoUs.
Taylor Webster, Hamilton.
Elisha Whittlesey, Canfleld.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
SENATORS.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Joseph B. Anthony, Wiaiamsport.
Michael W.Ash, Philadelphia.
John Banks, « Mercer.
Andrew Beaumont, Wilkesbarre.
James Black, 6 Newport.
Andrew Buchanan, Waynesburg.
George Chambers, Chambersburg
William Clark, Dauphin.
Edward Darlington, Chester.
Harmar Denny, Pittsburg.
Jacob Fry, jr., Trappe.
John Galbraith, Franklin.
James Harper, Philadelphia.
Samuel S. Harrison, Kittanning.
William Hiester, New Holland.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
Joseph Henderson, Browns Mills.
Edward B. Hubley, Orwigsburg.
Joseph E. Ingersoll, Philadelphia.
John Kilgensmith, jr., Stewartsville.
John Laporte, Asylum.
Henry Logan, Dillsburg.
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Washington.
Job Mann, Bedford.
Jesse Miller, « Landisburg.
Mathias Morris, Doylestown.
Henry A. Muhlenburg, Reading.
John J. Pierson, " Mercer.
David Potts, jr., Pottstown.
Joel B. Sutherland, Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener, Easton.
EHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence. Asher Eobbins, Newport.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Dutee J. Pearce, Newport. William Sprague, jr., Natick.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert B. Campbell, Brownsville.
Franklin H. Elmore, <* Columbia.
William J. Grayson, Beaufort.
John K. Griffin, Milton.
James H. Hammond, « Silverton.
Richard I. Manning, « Fulton.
William C. Preston, Columbia.
Francis W. Pickens, Edgefield.
Henry L. Pinckney, Charleston.
John P. Eichardson, / Fulton.
James Rogers, Yorkville.
Waddy Thompson, jr., Greenville.
TENNESSEE.
Felix Grundy, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Bell, Nashville.
Samuel Bunch, Rutledge.
William B. Carter, Elizabethton.
William C. Dunlap, Bolivar.
John B. Forester, McMinnsville.
Adam Huntsman, Jackson.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
Hugh Lawson White, Knoxville.
Luke Lea, Campbells Station.
Abraham P. Maury, Franklin.
Bailie Peyton, Gallatin.
James K. Polk,? Columbia.
Ebenezer J. Shields, Pulaski.
James Standifer, Mount Airy.
a Resigned in 1836.
6 Elected In place of Jesse Miller, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1836.
"Elected in place of John Banks, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1836.
<* Elected in place of J. H. Hammond, resigned; took his seat' December 19, 1836.
cDiedMay 1, 1836.
/Elected in place of Eichard I. Manning, deceased; took his seat December 19, 1836.
{(Elected Speaker December 7, 1835.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTORy.
Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier.
Heman Allen, Burlington.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
Hiland Hall, Bennington.
VERMONT.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
Benjamin W. Leigh, « Richmond.
Richard E. Parker, !> Snickersville.
EEPKBSENTATIVES.
James M. H. Beale, Mount Jackson.
James AV. Bouldin, Charlotte.
Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Rooky Mount.
Walter Coles, Robertsons Store.
Robert Craig, Christiansburg.
George C. Dromgoole, Gholsonville.
James Garland, Lovingston.
George W. Hopkins, Lebanon.
Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
John W. Jones, Petersburg.
George Loyall, Norfolk.
Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.
Henry F. Janes, Waterbury.
William Slade, Middlebury.
William C. Rives, - Lindseye Store.
John Tyler, <^ Gloucester.
Edward Lucas, jr., Charlestown.
William McComas, Cabell.
John Y. Mason, « Hicksford.
Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
AVilliam S. Morgan, White Day.
John M. Patton, Fredericksburg.
John Roane, Rumford Academy.
John Robertson, Richmond.
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
Henry A. Wise, Accomac.
ARKANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
A. H. Sevier. /
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. White, Monticello.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George W. Jones, Sinsinawa ilound.
a Resigned July 4, 1836.
h Elected in place of Benjamin W. Leigh, resigned; took his seat December 15,
c Elected in place of John Tyler, resigned; took his seat March 14, 1836.
d Resigned February 29, 1836.
e Resigned January 11, 1837.
/Elected United States Senator and took his seat December 5, 1836.
TWENTY-FIFTH CONGEESS.
First session, from September 4, 1837, to October 16, 1837. Second session, from December 4, 1837, to July 9,
1838. Third session, from December 3, 1838, to March S, 1839.
Fice-Pre«,den<.— Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky. President of the Senate pro impor-e.— William
i" ■t'?'^' ?* n ,o?;^*' elected March 7, 1837, at special session; again elected October 13, 1837; again
elected July 2, 1838, and again elected February 25, 1839. Secretary of the Senate.— Asbjjry Dickens,
01 North Carolina. '
Speaker of the -Hbuse.— Jambs K. Polk, of Tennessee. Clerks of the BoMse.— Walter S. Franklin,
ot Pennsylvania; Hugh A. Garland, of Virginia, elected December 3, 1838.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
Clement C. Clay, Huntsville. William R. King,a Selma.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Reuben Chapman, Somerville.
George W. Orabb, f" Tuscaloosa.
Joab Lawler, c Mardisville.
Wilham S. Fulton, Little Rock.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Diion H. Lewis, Lowndesboro.
Francis S. Lyon, Demopolis.
Joshua L. Martin, Athens.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Lake Port.
John M. Niles, Hartford.
Elisha Haley, Mystic.
Orrin Holt, Willington.
Samuel Ingham, Saybrook.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Archibald Yell, Fayetteville.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Perry Smith, New Milford.
Lancelot Phelps, Hitchcockville.
Isaac Toucey, Hartford.
Thomas T. Whittlesey, Danbury.
Richard H. Bayard, Wilmington. Thomas Clayton, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John J. Milligan, Wilmington.
GEORGIA.
Alfred Cuthbert, Monticello.
John P. King,<* Augusta.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jesse F. Cleveland, Decatur.
Wm. C. Dawson, Greensboro.
Thomas Glascock, Augusta.
Seaton Grantland, Milledgeville.
Charles E. Haynes, Sparta.
Wilson Lumpkin, « Athens.
Hopkins Holsey, Hamilton.
Jabez Jackson, Clarkesville.
George W. Owens, Savannah.
George W. Towns, Talbotton
aElected President pro tempore March. 7, 1837, at special session; again elected October 13, 1837; again July 2, ]
February 26, 1839.
!> Elected in place of Joab Lawler, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1838.
oDied May 8, 1838.
^Resigned November 1, 1837.
e Elected in place of John P. King, resigned; took his seat December 13, 1837.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
John M. Robinson, Carmi.
Zadoc Casey, Mount Vernon.
William L. May, Springfield.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVBS.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Oliver H. Smith, Connersville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Eatliff Boon, Booneville.
George H. Dunn, Lawrenceburg.
John Ewing, Vincennes.
William Graham, Vallonia.
Henry Clay, Lexington.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Calhoun, Hardinsburg.
John Chambers, Washington.
William J. Graves, New Castle.
James Harlan, Harrodsburg.
Richard Hawes, Winchester.
Richard H. Menifee, Mount Sterling.
John L. Murray, Wadesboro.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Alexander Mouton, Vermilionville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rice Garland, Opelousas.
Henry Johnson, Bringiers.
John Ruggles, Thomaston.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Hugh J. Anderson, Belfast.
Timothy J. Carter, a Paris.
Jonathan Cilley, i Thomastown.
Thomas Davee, Blanchard.
George Evans, Gardiner.
Richard M. Young, Quincy.
Adam W. Snyder, Belleville.
John Tipton, Logansport.
William Herod, Columbus.
James Rariden, Centerville.
Albert S. White, Lafayette.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
John Pope, Springfield.
Edward Rumsey, Greenville.
William W. Southgate, Covington.
J. R. Underwood, Bowling Green.
John White, Richmond.
Sherrod Williams, Monticello.
Robert C. Nicholas, Donaldsonville.
Eleazer W. Ripley, Jackson.
Reuel Williams, Augusta.
John Fairfield, Saco.
Joseph C. Noyes, Eastport.
Virgil D. Parris, « Buckfield.
Edward Robinson,** Thomaston.
Francis 0. J. Smith, Portland.
MARYLAND.
Joseph Kent, « Bladensburg.
William D. Merrick,/ Aliens Fresh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Dennis, Princess Anne.
Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore.
Daniel Jenifer, Harrisons Lot.
William C. Johnson, Jefferson.
John P. Kennedy,!/ Baltimore.
John S. Spence, Berlin.
Isaac McKim.A Baltimore.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
Francis Thomas, Frederick.
John T. H. Worthington, Golden.
a Died March 14, 1838.
6 Died February 24, 1838; killed in a duel by William J. Graves, of Kentucky.
<■ Elected in place of Timothy J. Carter, deceased; took his seat May 29, 1838.
d Elected in place of Jonathan Cilley, deceased; took his seat April 28, 1838.
e Died November 24, 1837.
/ Elected in place of Joseph Kent, deceased; took his seat January 5, 1838.
^Elected in place of Isaac McKim, deceased; took his seat April 30, 1838.
h Died April 1, 1838.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
John Davis, Worcester. Daniel Webster, Boston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy. WilUam S. Hastings, Mendon.
Nathaniel B. Borden, Fall River. Levi Lincoln, Worcester.
^eorae N Bnggs, Lanesboro. William Parmenter, East Cambridge.
William B Calhoun Springfield. Stephen C. Phillips, « Salem.
Caleb Oushmg, Newburyport. John Reed.
Richard 1 {etcher, Boston. Leverett Saltonstall, b Salem.
George Gnnnell, ]r., Greenfield.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Lucius Lyon, Bronson. John Norvell, Detroit.
BEPEESENTATIVB.
Isaac E. Orary, Marshall.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
John Black, a Monroe. Robert J. Walker, Madisonville.
James F. Trotter, c Thomas H. Williams, <« Pontitoo.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John F. H. Claiborne, « Madisonville. Sergeant S. Prentiss, / Vicksburg.
Samuel J. Gholson, ? Athens. Thomas J. Word, / Pontitoc.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis. Louis F. Linn, St. Genevieve.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Albert G. Harrison, Fulton. John Miller, Boonville.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Henry Hubbard, Charlestown. Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua. Joseph Weeks, Richmond.
Samuel Cushman, Portsmouth. Jared W. Williams, Lancaster.
James Farrington, Rochester.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Samuel L. Southard, Trenton. Garret D. Wall, Burlington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Aycrigg, Hackensack. Joseph F. Randolph, Freehold.
William Halstead, Trenton. Charles C. Stratton, Swedesboro.
John P. B. Maxwell, Belvidere. Thomas Jones Yorke, Salem.
1 Resigned in 1838.
6 Elected in place of Stephen C. Phillips, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1838.
cElected in place of John Black, resigned; took his seat February 19, 1838; resigned July 10, 1838.
s Appointed m place of James P. Trotter, resigned; took his seat December 13, 1838.
e Declared to have been duly elected October 3, 1837; decision subsequently reversed, and seat declared vacant January
31 1838
j" Elected at new election, and took his seat May 30, 1838.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NEW YORK.
SENATOKS.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Poughkeepsie.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John T. Andrews, North Reading.
Cyrus Beers, «■ Ithaca.
Bennet Bicknell, Morrisville.
Samuel Birdsall, Waterloo.
John C. Brodhead, Modena.
Isaac H. Bronson, Watertown.
Andrew D. W. Bruyn, !> Ithaca.
Churchill C. Cambreleng, New York.
Timothy Childs, Rochester.
John C." Clarke, Bainbridge.
Edward Curtis, New York.
John I. De Graff, Schenectady.
John Edwards, Ephratah.
Millard Fillmore, Buffalo.
Henry A. Foster, Rome.
Albert Gallup, East Berne.
Abraham P. Grant, Oswego.
Hiram Gray, Elmira.
Ogden Hoffman, New York.
Thomas B. Jackson, Newtown.
Nathaniel Jones, Warwick.
Silas Wright, jr.. Canton.
Gouvemeur Kemble, Cold Spring.
Arphaxad Loomis, Little Falls.
Richard P. Marvin, Jamestown.
Robert McClellan, Middleburg.
Charles F. Mitchell, Lockport.
Ely Moore, New York.
William H. Noble, Cato.
John Palmer, Plattsburg.
Amaaa J. Parker, Delhi.
William Patterson, c Warsaw.
Luther C. Peck, Pike.
Zadock Pratt, Prattsville.
John H. Prentiss, Cooperstown.
Harvey Putnam,'^ Attica.
David Russell, Salem.
Mark H. Sibley, Canandaigua.
James B. Spencer, Fort Covington.
William Taylor, Manlius.
Obadiah Titus, Washington.
Henry Vail, Troy.
Abraham Vanderveer, Brooklyn.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOKS.
Bedford Brown, Browns Store.
KEPKESENTATIVBS.
Jesse A. Bynum, Halifax.
Henry W. Connor, Sherrills Ford.
Edmon Deberry, Lawrenceville.
James Graham, Rutherfordton.
Micajah T. Hawkins, Warrenton.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
William Montgomery, Albrights.
Robert Strange, Fayetteville.
Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro.
Samuel T. Sawyer, Edenton.
Charles Shepard, Newbern.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Bethania.
Edward Stanly, Washington.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
OHIO.
William Allen, Chillicothe.
SEXATOES.
KEPRESENTATIVE,S.
James Alexander, jr., St. Clairsville.
John W. Allen, Cleveland.
William K. Bond, Chillicothe.
John Chaney, Courtwright.
Charles D. Coffin, « New Lisbon.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
Alexander Duncan, Cincinnati.
Joshua R. Giddings, / Jefferson.
Patrick G. Goode, Sydney.
Thomas L. Hamer, Georgetown.
Alexander Harper, Zanesville.
Thomas Morris, Bethel.
William H. Hunter, Sandusky.
Daniel Kilgore,? Cadiz.
Daniel P. Leadbetter, Millersburg.
Andrew W. Loomis,'' New Lisbon.
Samson Mason, Springfield.
Calvary Morris, Athens.
Joseph Ridgway, Columbus.
Matthias Sheplor, Bethlehem.
Henry Swearingen, » Smithfield.
Taylor Webster, Hamilton.
Elisha Whittlesey,.* Canfield.
a Elected in place of Andrew D. W. Bruyn, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1838.
6Died July27, 1838.
cDied August 14, 1838.
d Elected in place ol William Patterson, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1838.
^Elected in place of Andrew W. Loomis, resigned; took his seat December 20, 1837.
/Elected in place of Elisha Whittlesey, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1838.
B Resigned in 1838.
'1 Resigned in lci37.
I Elected in place of Daniel Kilgore, resigned; took his seat December 8, 1838.
J Resigned July 9, 1838.
TWENTY -FIFTH CONGRESS.
PENNSYLVAJSTIA.
125
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
William Beatty, Butler.
Eichard Biddle, Pittsburg.
Andrew Buchanan, Waynesburg.
Edward Darlington, Chester.
Edward Davies, Churchtown.
Jacob Fry, jr., Trappe.
Robert H. Hammond, Milton.
Thomas Henry, Beaver.
Edward B. Hubley, Orwigsburg.
George M. Keim,« Reading.
John Kilgensmith, jr. Stewartsville.
Henry Logan, Dillsburg.
Charles McClure, Carlisle.
Thos. M. T. McKennan, Washington
Mathias Morris, Doylestown.
SENATORS.
REPEESENTATIVES.
Samuel McKean, Burlington.
Samuel W. Morris, AVellsboro.
Henry A. Muhlenberg, » Reading.
Charles Naylor, « Philadelphia.
Charles Ogle, Somerset.
Lemuel Paynter, Philadelphia.
David Petrikin, Danville.
Arnold Plumer, Franklin.
William AV. Potter, Belief onte.
David Potts, jr., Pottstown.
Luther Reily, Harrisburg.
John Sergeant, Philadelphia.
Daniel Sheffer, York.
George W. Toland, Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener, Easton.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS
Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence. Asher Robbing, Newport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert B. Cranston, Newport. Joseph L. TilUnghagt, Providence
SQTJTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill.
John Campbell, Parnassus.
William K. Clowney, Union.
Franklin H. Elmore, Columbia.
John K. Griffin, Milton.
Hugh S. Legare, Charleston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Ephraim H. Foster, <« Nashville.
Felix Grundy, « Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Bell, Nashville.
William B. Campbell, Carthage.
William B. Carter, Elizabethton.
Richard Cheatham, Springfield.
John W. Crockett, Paris,
Abraham P. Maury, Franklin.
Abraham McClellan, Blountsville.
"William C. Preston, Columbia
Francis W. Pickens, Edgefield.
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Beaufort.
John P. Richardson, Fulton.
W. Thompson, jr., Greenville.
Hugh Lawson White, Knoxville.
James K. Polk,/ Columbia.
Ebenezer J. Shields, Pulaski.
William Stone,!/ Delphi.
Hopkins L. Turney, Winchester.
ChristopherH. Williams, Lexington.
Joseph L. Williams, Knoxville.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier. Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Heman Allen, Burlington.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
Isaac Fletcher, Lyndon.
Hiland Hall, Bennington.
William Slade, Middlebury.
^Elected in place of Henry A. Muhlenberg, resigned; took his seat March 17, 1838.
6 Resigned February 9, 1838.
cElected in place oi Francis J. Harper, deceased March 18, 1837, having never taken his seat.
<? Appointed in place of Felix Grundy, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1838.
oEesigned in 1838.
/Elected Speaker September 4, 1837.
ffTook his seat October 6, 1837.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Eichard E. Parker/' Snickersville.
William 0. Rives, Lindseys Store.
KEPRBSENTATIVES.
Linn Banks, " Madison.
Andrew Beirne, Union.
James W. Bouldin, Charlotte.
Walter Coles, Robertsons Store.
Robert Craig, Christiansburg.
George C. Dromgoole, Belfast.
James Garland, Lovingston.
George W. Hopkins, Lebanon.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
John W. Jones, Petersburg.
William H. Roane, » Richmond.
Francis Mallory, Hampton.
James M. Mason, Winchester.
Charles F. Mercer, Aldie.
William S. Morgan, White Day.
John M. Patton,'' Fredericksburg.
I. S. Pennybacker, Harrisonburg.
Francis E. Rives, Littleton.
John Robertson, Richmond.
Archibald Stuart, Mount Airy.
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
Henry A. Wise, Accomac.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Charles Downing, St. Augustine.
IOWA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William W. Chapman, Burlington.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
James Duane Doty, ^ Astor.
George W. Jones, / Sinsinawa Mound.
a Resigned March 13, 1R37.
& Elected in place of Eichard E. Parker, resigned; took his seat September 4, 1837.
c Elected in place of John M. Patten, resigned; took his seat May 19, 1838.
t!Resignedinl838.
e Successfully contested the election of George W. Jones; took his seat January 14, 1837.
/Election successfully contested by James D. Doty.
TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December S, 1839, to July SI, 1840. Second session, from December 7, 1840, to March 3, 1841.
Vice-Presidemt.—-RicnAm M. Johnson, of Kentucky. President of the SencUe pro tempore.— Williau
K. King of Alabama; again elected July 20, 1840, and again elected March 3, 1841. Secretary of the
&ncrfe.—AsBURY Dickens, of North Carolina. '^i^iyujuui
Vir ^^f"^^ °^^^ House.— R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia. Clerk of the Siwe.— Hugh A. Gakland, of
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
Clement C. Clay, Huntsville. William E. King,o Selma.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Reuben Chapman, Somerville. David Hubbard, Courtland.
George W. Crabb, Tuscaloosa. Dixon H. Lewis, Lowndesboro.
James Dellet, Claiborne.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
William S. Fulton, Little Rock. Ambrose H. Sevier, Lake Port.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward Cross, Washington.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Thaddeus Betts, * Norwalk. Perry Smith, New Milford.
Jabez W. Huntington, <-■ Norwich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wm. W. Boardman,!^ New Haven. William L. Storrs, « Middletown.
John H. Brockway, Ellington. Joseph Trumbull, Hartford.
Thomas B. Osborne, Fairfield. Thomas W. Williams, New London.
Truman Smith, Litchfield.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Richard H. Bayard, Wilmington. Thomas Clayton, Newcastle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Robinson, jr., Georgetown.
aPreaidentpro tempore.
6 Died April 7, 1840.
o Elected in place of Thaddeus Betts, deceased; took his seat June 2, 1840.
^Elected in place ol William L. Storrs, resigned; toot his seat December 7, 1840.
'.Resigned in 1840.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Alfred Cuthbert, Monticello.
KEPKESENTATIVBS.
Julius C. Alford, Lagrange.
Edward J. Black, Jacksonboro.
Walter T. Colquittia Columbus.
Mark A. Cooper, Columbus.
Wm. 0. Dawson, Greensboro.
John M. Robinson, Carmi.
Zadok Casey, Mount Vernon.
John Reynolds, Belleville.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
Wilson Lumpkin, Athens.
Richard W. Habersham, Clarkesville.
Hines Holt. "
Thomas Butler King, Waynesville.
Eugenius A. Nisbet, Macon.
Lott Warren, Palmyra.
Richard M. Young, Quincy.
John T. Stewart, Springfield.
Oliver H. Smith, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Carr, Charlestown.
John W. Davis, Carlisle.
Tilghman A. Howard," Rockville.
Henry S. Lane, <^ Crawfordsville.
Albert S. White, Lafayette.
George H. Proffit, Petersburg.
James Rariden, Centerville.
Thomas Smith, Versailles.
William W. Wick, Indianapolis.
KENTUCKY.
Henry Clay, Lexington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Simeon H. Anderson, <? Lancaster.
Landaff W. Andrews, Flemingsburg.
Linn Boyd, Belleview.
William O. Butler, Carrollton.
Garrett Davis, Paris.
William J. Graves, Newcastle.
Willis Green, Greens.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Alexander Mouton, Vermilionville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas W. Chinn, Baton Rouge.
Rice Garland," Opelousas.
MAINE.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
Richard Hawes, Winchester.
John Pope, Springfield.
John B. Thompson, « Harrodsburg.
Philip Triplett, Owensboro.
Joseph R. Underwood, Bowling Green.
John White, Richmond.
Sherrod Williams, Monticello.
Robert C. Nicholas, Donaldsonville.
John Moore,/ Franklin.
Edward D. White, Thibodeauxville.
John Ruggles, Thomaston.
Hugh J. Anderson, Belfast.
Nathan Clifford, Newfield.
Thomas Davee, Blanchard.
George Evans, Gardiner.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Reuel Williams, Augusta.
Joshua A. Lowell, EastMachias.
Virgil D. Parris, Buckfield.
Benjamin Randall, Bath.
Albert Smith, Portland.
aReaigned in 1840.
^Elected In place of Walter T. Colquitt, resigned; took his seat February 1, ISJl.
c Elected in place of Tilghman A. Howard, resigned; took hia seat December 7, 1840.
rtDied August 11, 1840.
1 Elected in place of Simeon H. Anderson, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1840.
/ Elected in place of Rice Garland, resigned; took his seat December 17, 1840,
TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. 129
MAHYLAND.
SENATOES.
John Leeds Kerr,» Easton. John S. Spence, » Berlm.
Wilham D. Merrick, Aliens Fresh.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
James Carroll, Baltimore. William Cost Johnson, Jefferson.
John Dennis, Princess Anne. Francis Thomas, Frederick.
Solomon Hillen, jr., Baltimore. Philip F. Thomas, Easton.
Daniel Jenifer, Milton Hill. John T. H. Worthington, Shawan.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATOBS.
Isaac C. Bates, « Northampton. John Davis, « Worcester.
Rufus Choate,<« Boston. Daniel Webster, / Boston.
BEPEESBNTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy. Levi Lincoln, Worcester.
Osmyn Baker,? Amherst. William Parmenter, East Cambridge
(Jeorge N. Briggs, Lanesboro. John Beed, Yarmouth.
William B. Calhoun, Springfield. Leverett Saltonstall, Salem.
Caleb Cushing, Newburyport. Henry Williams, Taunton.
William S. Hastings, Mendon. Robert C. Winthrop, « Boston.
Abbott Lawrence," Boston.
MICHIGAN.
SENATOBS.
John Norvell, Detroit. Augustus S. Porter, Detroit,
EEPEESBNTATIVB.
Isaac E. Crary, Marshall.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATOES.
John Henderson, Pass Christian. Robert J. Walker, Madisonville.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Albert J. Brown, Gallatin. Jacob Thompson, Pontotoc.
MISSOURI.
SENATOBS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis. Louis F. Linn, St. Genevieve.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
John Jameson, Fulton. John Miller, Conners Mills.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOES.
Henry Hubbard, Charlestown. Franklin Pierce, Concord.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua. Tristram Shaw, Exeter.
Edmund Burke, Newport. Jared W. Williams, Lancaster.
Ira A. Eastman, Gilmanton.
nElected in place of John S. Spence, deceased; took his seat January 13, 1841.
6 Died October 29, 1840.
oElected in place of John Davis, resigned; took his seat January 21, 1841.
d Elected, in place of Daniel Webster, resigned; took his seat March 1, 1841.
e Resigned in December, 1840.
/Resigned February 22, 1841.
BElecHon unsuccessfully contested; elected In place of James C. Alvord, died September 30, 1839, having never taken his
ft Resigned in 1840. . ,..,,,. ..r^ v, » .o.^
^Elected in place of Abbott Lawrence, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1840.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORr.
NEW JERSEY.
Samuel L. Southard, Trenton.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
William R. Cooper, «Swedesboro.
Philemon Dickerson,a Paterson.
Joseph Kille,a Salem.
NEW YORK.
Garret D. Wall, Burlington.
Joseph F. Randolph, New Brunswick.
Daniel B. Ryall.o Freehold.
Peter P. Vroom,« Somerville.
SBNATOBS.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Poughkeepsie.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Silas Wright, jr.. Canton.
Judson Allen, Harpersville.
Daniel D. Barnard, Albany.
David P. Brewster, Oswego.
Anson Brown, 6 Ballston.
Thomas C. Chittenden, Adams.
John C. Clarke, Bainbridge.
Edward Curtis, New York.
Amasa Dana, Ithaca.
Nicholas B. Doe, « Waterford.
Andrew W. Doig, Lowville.
Nehemiah H. Earl, Syracuse.
John Ely, Coxsackie.
Millard Fillmore, Buffalo.
John Fine, Ogdensburg.
John G. Floyd, Utica.
Seth M. Gates, Leroy.
Francis Granger, Canandaigua.
Moses H. Grinnell, New York.
Augustus C. Hand, Elizabethtown.
Ogden Hoffman, New York.
Hiram P. Hunt, Troy.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Thomas B. Jackson, Newtown.
Charles Johnston, Poughkeepsie.
Nathaniel Jones, Warwick.
Gouverneur Kemble, Cold Spring.
Thomas Kempshall, Rochester.
Stephen B. Leonard, Owego.
Meredith Mallory, Hammondsport.
Richard P. Marvin, Jamestown.
Charles F. Mitchell, Lockport.
James Monroe, New York.
J. De la Montanya, Haverstraw.
Christopher Morgan, Aurora.
Rufus Palen, Fallsburg.
Luther C. Peck, Pike.
John H. Prentiss, Cooperstown.
Edward Rogers, Madison.
David Russell, Salem.
Theron R. Strong, Palmyra.
Aaron Vanderpoel, Kinderhook.
Peter J. Wagner, Fort Plain.
SENATOKS.
Bedford Brown, <z Browns Store.
Wilham A. Graham, ^ Hillsboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jesse A. Bj^num, Halifax.
Henry W. Connor, Sherrills Ford.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
Charles Fisher, Salisbury.
James Graham, Rutherfordtown.
Micajah T. Hawkins, Warrenton.
John Hill, Germantown. •
Willie P. Mangum, / Red Mountain.
Robert Strange, <* Fayetteville.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
William Montgomery, Albrights.
Kenneth Rayner, Winton.
Charles Shepard, Newbern.
Edward Stanly, Washington.
Lewis Williams, Panther Creek.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
William Allen, Chillicothe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Allen, Cleveland.
William Key Bond, Chillicothe.
Thomas Corwin,'' Lebanon.
William Doan, Withamsville.
Alexander Duncan, Cincinnati.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Patrick G. Goode, Sidney.
John Hastings, Salem.
Daniel P. Leadbetter, Millersburg.
Samson Mason, Springfield.,
Benjamin Tappan, Steubenville.
William jNIedill, Lancaster.
Calvary Morris, Athens.
J. Morrow, » Twenty Mile Stand.
Isaac Parrish, Cambridge.
Joseph Ridgway, Columbus.
David A. Starkweather, Canton.
Henry Swearingen, Smithfield.
George Sweeny, Bucyrus.
Jonathan Taylor, Newark.
John B. Weller, Hamilton.
aElectiou unsuccessfully contested; took his seat March 10, 1840.
'JDiedJimell, 1840.
0 Elected in place oJ Anson Brown, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1840.
'I Resigned in 1840.
« Elected in place of Robert Strange, resigned; took his seat December 10, 1840.
/Elected in place of Bedford Brown, resigned; took his seat December 9, 1840.
(/Elected in place of Thomas Corwin, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1840.
TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
131
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
William Beatty, Butler.
Richard Biddle,* Pittsburg.
Henry M. Breckenridge, b Tarentum.
James Cooper, Gettysburg.
Edward Davies, Churchtown.
John Davis, Davisville.
John Edwards, Ivy Mills.
Joseph Fornance, Norristown.
John Galbraith, Erie.
James Gerry, Shrewsbury.
Robert H. Hammond, Milton.
Thomas Henry, Beaver.
Enos Hook, Waynesburg.
Francis James, West Chester.
George M. Keim, Reading.
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
Isaac Leet, Washington.
Albert G. Marchand, Greensburg.
Charles McClure, " Carlisle.
George McCuUoch,'' Center Line.
Samuel W. Morris, Wellsboro.
Charles Naylor, « Philadelphia.
Peter Newhard, AUentown.
Charles Ogle, Somerset.
Lemuel Paynter, Philadelphia.
David Petrikin, Danville.
William S. Ramsey, / Carlisle.
John Sergeant, Philadelphia.
William Simonton, Hummelstown.
George W. Toland, Philadelphia.
David D. Wagener, Easton.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly. Nehemiah R. Knight, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert B. Cranston, Newport. Joseph L. Tillinghast, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill.
Samson H. Butler, Barnwell.
John Campbell, Parnassus.
John K. Griffin, Newberry.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
Francis W. Pickens, Edgefield.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
Alexander Anderson, ff Knoxville.
Felix Grundy,'' Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Bell, Nashville.
Julius W. Blackwell, Athens.
Aaron V. Brown, Pulaski.
William B. Campbell, Carthage.
William B. Carter, Elizabethton.
John W. Crockett, Trenton.
Meredith P. Gentry, Harpeth.
William C. Preston, Columbia.
R. Barnwell Rhett, Blue House.
James Rogers, Maybinton.
Thomas D. Sumter, Slatestaurg.
Waddy Thompson, jr., Greenville.
A. 0. P. Nicholson, i Columbia.
Hugh Lawson White, J Knoxville.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
Abraham McClellan, Blountsville.
Hopkins L. Turney, Winchester.
Harvey M. Watterson, Shelbyville.
ChristopherH. Williams, Lexington.
Joseph L. Williams, Knoxville.
VERMONT.
Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury.
Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
Isaac Fletcher, Lyndon.
Hiland Hall, Bennington.
William Slade, Middlebury.
John Smith, St. Albans.
a Resigned in 1840.
6 Elected in place of Richard Biddle, resigned; took his seat December 10, 1840.
^Elected in place of William S, Ramsey, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1840.
^Elected In place of William W. Potter, deceased, in 1839; toot his seat December 2, 1839.
cSeat unsuccessfully contested by Charles J. IngersoU.
/Died in 1840.
ffElected in place of Hugh Lawson White, resigned; took his seat February 26, 1840.
ADied December 19, 1840.
i Appointed in place of Felix Grundy, deceased; took his seat January 11, 1841.
J Resigned January 13, 1840.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
VIRGINIA.
William C. Kives,«Lindseys Store.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Linn Banks, Madison.
Andrew Beirne, Union.
John M. Botts, Eichmond.
Walter Coles, Robertsons Store.
Robert Craig, Christiansburg.
George 0. Dromgoole, Gaston.
James Garland, Lovingston.
William L. Goggin, Liberty.
John Hill, Buckingham.
Joel Holleman, 6 Burwell Bay.
George W. Hopkins, Lebanon.
Robert M. T. Hunter, « Lloyds.
William H. Roane, Richmond.
Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
John W. Jones, Petersburg.
William Lucas, Charlestown.
Francis Mallory,** Hampton.
Charles F. Mercer, « Aldie.
William M. McCarty, / Alexandria.
Francis E. Rives, Littleton.
Green B. Samuels, Woodstock.
Lewis Steenrod, Wheeling.
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
Henry A. Wise, Accomac.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Charles Downing, St. Augustine.
IOWA TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
William W. Chapman, Burlington. Augustus 0. Dodge, 9' Burlington.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James D. Doty, Ashton.
"Took his seat January 30, 1841.
b Resigned in 1840.
c Elected Speaker December 16, 1839.
<i Elected in place of Joel Holleman, resigned; took his seat, 1841.
e Eesigned December 26, 1839.
/ Elected In place oJ Charles F. Mercer, resigned; took his seat January 25, 1840.
ff Took his seat December 8, 1840.
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGE.ESS.
First session, from May SI, I84I, to September IS, I84I. Second session, from December 6, 1841, to August 31,
1842. Third session, from December 5, 184S, to March 3, 1843.
Vice-President. — John Tyler, a of Virginia. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Samuel S.
Southard, of New Jersey; Willie P. Mangum, of North Carolina, elected May 31, 1842. Secretary
of the Senate. — Asbury Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — John White, of Kentucky. Clerk of the House. — JIatthbw St. Clair Clarke,
of Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
Arthur P. Bagby. b
Clement C. Clay, c Huntsville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Reuben Chapman, Somerville.
George S. Houston, Athens.
Dixon H. Lewis, Lowndesboro.
William R. King, Selma.
William W. Payne, Gainesville.
Benjamin G. Shields, Demopolis.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
William S. Fulton, Little Rock.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward Cross, Washington.
Ambrose H. Sevier, Lake Port.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Jabez W. Huntington, Norwich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wm. W. 'Boardnjan, New Haven.
John H. Brockway, Ellington.
Thomas B. Osborne, Fairfield.
Perry Smith, New Milford.
Truman Smith, Litchfield.
Joseph Trumbull, Hartford.
' Thos. W. Williams, New London.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Richard H. Bayard, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George B. Rodney, Newcastle.
Thomas Clayton, Newcastle.
a Became President by the death of Williain Henry Harrison.
b Elected in place of Clement C. Clay, resigned; took hia seat December 27, 1841.
e Resigned in 1841.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIKBOTOEY.
GEORGIA.
John M. Berrien, Savannah.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
JuUus C. Alford, Lagrange.
Edward J. Black, « Jacksonboro.
Walter T. Colquitt, ^ Columbus,
Mark A. Cooper, b Columbus.
George W. Crawford, " Augusta.
William C. Dawson, Greensboro.
Thomas F. Foster, Columbus.
ILLINOIS.
Samuel McRoberts, Danville.
Zadok Casey, « Mount Vernon.
John Reynolds, / Belleville.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
Oliver H. Smith, Indianapolis.
James H . Cravens, Marion.
Andrew Kennedy, Muncietown.
Henry S. Lane, Crawfordsville.
George H. ProflBt, Petersburg.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Clay,'« Lexington.
John J. Crittenden, « Frankfort.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Landaff W. Andrews, Flemingsburg.
Linn Boyd, Belleview.
William 0. Butler, Carrolton.
Garrett Davis, Paris.
Willis Green, Greene.
Thomas F. Marshall, Versailles.
Bryan Y. Owsley, Jamestown.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Alexander Barrow, Baton Rouge.
Charles M. Conrad,^' New Orleans.
Alfred Cuthbert, Monticello.
Roger L. Gamble, Louisville.
Richard W. Habersham,'' Clarkesville.
Thomas Butler King, Waynesville.
James A. Meriwether, Edenton.
Eugenius A. Nisbet, Macon.
Lott Warren, Palmyra.
Richard M. Young, Quincy.
John T. Stuart, C Springfield.
Albert S. White, Lafayette.
Richard W. Thompson, Bedford.
David Wallace, Indianapolis.
Joseph L. White, Madison.
James T. Morehead, Frankfort.
John Pope, Springfield.
James C. Sprigg, Shelbyville.
John B. Thompson, Harrodsburg.
Philip Triplett, Owensboro.
Joseph R. Underwood, Bowling Green.
John White, J Richmond.
Alexander Mouton, I Vermilionville
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Dawson, St. Francisville.
John Moore, Franklin.
Edward D. White, Thibodeauxville.
MAINE.
George Evans, Gardiner.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ehsha H. Allen, Bangor.
David Bronaon,"' Anson.
Nathan Clifford, Newfield.
William P. Fessenden, Portland.
Reuel Williams, Augusta.
Nathaniel S. Littlefield, Bridgeton.
Joshua A. Lowell," Machias.
Alfred Marshall, China.
Benjamin Randall, Bath.
a Took his seat March 2, 1842.
!)Took his seat February 1, 1842.
cElectedin place of Richard W. Habersham, deceased; took his seat February 1, 1843.
iJDied December 2, 1842.
e Toole his seat September 1 , 1811.
/Took his seat August 23, 1841,
0 Took bis seat August 18, 1841.
h Resigned March 31, 1842.
i Elected in place of Henry Clay, resigned; took his seat March 31, 1842.
J Elected Speaker May 31, 1841.
'c Elected in place of Alexander Mouton, resigned; took his seat April 14, 1842.
1 Resigned March 1, 1842.
m Elected In place of George Evans, elected Senator; took his seat May 31, 1841.
n Election unsuccessfully contested.
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. 135
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
John Leeds Kerr, Easton. William D. Merrick, Aliens Fresh.
EEPHESENTATIVES.
William Cost Johnson, Jefferson. James A. Pearce, Cheetertown.
Isaac D. Jones, Princess Anne. Alexander Randall, Annapolis.
?Z •, Jr^c?.^' Baltimore. Augustus R. Sollers, Prince Frederick.
Charles S Sewall. « james W. Williams, 6 Churchville.
John T. Mason, Hagerstown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
• SENATORS.
Isaac C. Bates, Northampton. Rufus Choate, Boston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy. Caleb Cushing, Newburyport.
Nathan Appleton, c Boston. William S. Hastings,'' Mendon,
Osmyn Baker, Amherst. Charles Hudson, Westminster.
Nathaniel B. Borden, Fall River. William Parmenter, East Cambridge.
George N. Briggs, Lanesboro. Leverett Saltonstall, Salem.
Barker Burnell, Nantucket. Robert C. Winthrop, « Boston.
William B. Calhoun, Springfield.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Augustus S. Porter, Detroit. William Woodbridge, Detroit.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Jacob M. Howard, Detroit.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
John Henderson, Pass Christian. Robert J. Walker, Madisonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.""'
William M. Gwin,./' Yicksburg. Jacob Thompson, » Oxford.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis. Louis F. Linn, St. Genevieve.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John C. Edwards, Jefferson City. John Miller, Gooch Mill.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Franklin Pierce,'' Concord. Levi Woodbury, Portsmouth.
Leonard Witeox, » Oxford.
REPRESENT ATI VES.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua. John R. Reding, Haverhill.
Edmund Burke, Newport. Tristram Shaw, Exeter.
Ira A. Eastman, Gilmanton.
a Took his seat January 7, 1S43.
6 Died December 2, 1842.
o Elected in place of Eobert C. Winthrop, resigned; took his seat June 9, 1842; resigned in 1842.
dDied June 17, 1842.
«■ Resigned May, 25, 1842; subsequently elected in place ol Nathan Appleton, resigned, and took his seat December 5, 1842.
/Took his seat December 23, 1841.
cTook his seat December 9, 1842.
A Resigned in 1842.
i Appointed in place of Franklin Pierce, resigned; took his seat March 7, 1842; subsequently elected by the legislature.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NEW JERSEY.
William L. Dayton, « Trenton.
Jacob W. Miller, Morristown.
John B. Aycrigg, Pyramus.
William Halstead, Trenton.
John P. B. Maxwell, Belvidere.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel L. Southard, b Trenton,
Joseph F. Randolph, New Brunswick.
Charles C. Stratton, Swedesboro.
Thomas Jones Yorke, Salem.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Poughkeepsie.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alfred Babcock, Gaines.
Daniel D. Barnard, Albany.
Victory Birdseye, Pompey.
Barnard Blair, Salem.
Samuel S. Bowne, Cooperstown.
David P. Brewster, Oswego.
Timothy Childs, Rochester.
Thomas C. Chittenden, Adams.
John C. Clarke, Bainbridge.
Staley N. Clarke, Ellicottsville.
James G. Clinton, Newburg.
Richard D. Davis, Poughkeepsie.
Andrew W. Doig, Lowville.
Joseph Egbert, Tompkinsville.
Charles G. Ferris, New York.
Millard Fillmore, Buffalo.
Charles A. Floyd, Commack.
John G. Floyd, Utica.
A. Lawrence Foster, Morrisville.
Seth M. Gates, Leroy.
Samuel Gordon, Delhi.
Silas Wright, jr.. Canton.
Francis Granger, " Canandaigua.
John Greig,'' Canandaigua.
Jacob Houck, jr., Schoharie.
Hiram P. Hunt, Troy.
Archibald L. Linn, Schenectady.
John Maynard, Seneca Falls.
Robert Mcdlellan, Hudson.
John McKeon, New York.
Christopher Morgan, Aurora.
William M. Oliver, Penn Yan.
Samuel Partridge, Elmira.
Lewis Riggs, Homer.
James I. Roosevelt, New York.
John Sanford, Amsterdam.
Thomas A. Tomlinson, Keeseville.
John Van Buren, Kingston.
Henry Van Rensselaer, Ogdensburg.
Aaron Ward, Mount Pleasant.
Fernando Wood, New York.
John Young, Geneseo.
NORTH CAROLINA.
William A. Graham, Hillsboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Archibald H. Arrington, Hilliardston.
Green W. Caldwell, Charlotte.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
James Graham, Rutherfordton.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
Anderson Mitchell, / Wilkesboro.
William Allen, Chillicothe.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPEE.SENTATIVES.
Sherlock J. Andrews, Cleveland.
Benjamin S. Cowen, St. Clairsville.
Ezra Dean, Wooster.
William Doan, Withamsville.
Joshua R. Giddings,'' Jefferson.
Patrick G. Goode, Sidney.
John Hastings, Salem.
Samson Mason, Springfield.
James Mathews, Coshocton.
Joshua Mathiot, Newark.
Willie P. Mangum, « Red Mountain.
Kenneth Rayner, Winton.
Abraham Rencher, Pittsboro.
Romulus M. Saunders, Raleigh.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Salem.
Edward Stanly, Washington.
William H. Washington, Newbern.
Lewis Williams,!? Panther Creek.
Benjamin Tappan, Steubenville.
William Medill, Lancaster.
Calvary Morris, Athens.
Jeremiah Morrow, Twentymile Stand.
Nathaniel G. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
Joseph Ridgway, Columbus.
William Russell, Portsmouth.
Samuel Stokely, Steubenville.
George Sweeny, Bucyrus..
John B. Weller, Hamilton.
aAppointed in place of Samuel L. Southard, deceased; took his seat July 6, 18'12; subsequently elected by the legislature.
i> President pro tempore; resigned May 31, 1842; died June 26, 1842.
c Elected in place ol John Greig, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1841.
fiResigned in 1841.
e Elected President pro tempore May 31, 1842, in place of Samuel L. Southard, resigned.
/Elected in place of Lewis Williams, deceased; took his seat April 27, 1S42.
a Died February 23, 1842.
AKesigned March 22, 1842; reelected, and took his seat December 5, 1842.
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
137
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Buchanan, Lancaster.
Henry W. Beeson, Uniontown.
Benjamin A. Bidlack, Wilkesbarre.
Henry Black. «
Charles Brown, Philadelphia.
Jeremiah Brown, Goshen.
James Cooper, Gettysburg.
Davis Dimock, jr., 6 Montrose.
John Edwards, Ivy Mills.
Joseph Fornance, Norristown.
James Gerry, Shrewsbury.
Amos Gustine, Mifflintown.
Thomas Henry, Beaver.
Charles J. Ingersoll, Philadelphia.
Joseph R. Ingersoll, « Philadelphia.
James Irvin, Milesburg.
William W. Irwin, Pittsburg.
SENATORS.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
William Jack, Brookeville.
Francis James, Westchester.
George M. Keim, Beading.
Joseph Lawrence, <« Washmgton.
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Washington.
Albert G. Marchand, Greensburg.
Peter Newhard, Allentown.
Arnold Plumer, Franklin.
Eobert Ramsey, Hartsville.
Almon H. Read, « Montrose.
James M. Russell, / Bedford.
Johrx Sergeant, » Philadelphia.
William Simonton, Hummelstown.
John Snyder, Selinsgrove.
George W. Toland, Philadelphia.
John Westbrook, Dingmans Ferry.
RHODE ISLAND.
Nathan F. Dixon, ^ Westerly.
James F. Simmons, Providence.
SENATORS.
William Sprague, * Natick.
Robert B. Cranston, Newport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph L. Tilliughast, Providence.
John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill.
George McDuffie, J Edgefield.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Samson H. Butler, ' Barnwell.
William Butler, Greenville.
Patrick C. Caldwell, Newberry.
John Campbell, Parnassus.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Vacant.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas D. Arnold, Greenville.
Aaron V. Brown, Pulaski.
Milton Brown,. Jackson.
Thomas J. Campbell, Athens.
William B. Campbell, Carthage.
Eobert L. Caruthers, Lebanon.
Meredith P. Gentry, Harpeth.
Samuel 0. Crafts," Craftsbury.
Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horace Everett, Windsor.
Hiland Hall, Bennington.
John Mattocks, Peacham.
William C. Preston,* Columbia.
Francis W. Pickens, Edgefield.
Robert Barnwell Ehett, Blue House.
James Rogers, Maybington.
Thomas D. Sumter, Statesburg.
S. W. Trotti,™ Barnwell.
Alfred 0. P. Nicholson, Columbia.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
Abraham McClellan, Blountsville.
Hopkins L. Turney, AVinchester.
Harvey M. Watterson, Shelbyville.
Christopher H. Williams, Lexington.
Joseph L. Williams, Knoxville.
Samuel Prentiss," Montpelier.
AVilliam Slade, Middlebury.
Augustus Young, Johnson.
aEleoted in place of Charles Ogle, deceased, May 10, 1841; died November 28, 1841.
6'Died January 13, 1842.
"Elected in place of John Sergeant, resigned; took his seat December 9, 1841.
dDied April 17, 1842.
eElecteain place of Davis Dimock, jr., deceased; took his seat March 18, 1842.
/Elected in place of Joseph Lawrence, deceased; took his seat January 3, 1842.
» Resigned in 1841.
A Died January 29, 1842.
a Elected in place of Nathan F. Dixon, deceased; took his seat February 18, 1842.
iElected in place of William C. Preston, resigned; took his seat January 3, 1843.
fcEeslgned December, 1842.
I Resigned in 1842.
™ Elected in place of Samson H. Butler, resigned; took his seat December 17, 1842.
"Appointed m place of Samuel Prentiss, resigned; took his seat April 30, 1842.
o Resigned April 11, 1842.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
VIRGINIA.
William S. Archer, Elk Hill.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Linn Banks, « Madison.
Richard "W. Barton, Winchester.
John M. Botts, Richmond.
George B. Cary, Bethlehem.
Walter Coles, Robertsons Store.
Thos. W. Gilmer, Charlottesville.
William L. Goggin, Otterbridge,
William 0. Goode, Boydton.
William A. Harris, Luray.
Samuel L. Hays, Stuards Creek.
George W. Hopkins, Lebanon.
William C. Rives, Bentivoglio.
Edmund W. Hubard, Curdsville.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
John W. Jones, Petersburg.
Francis Mallory, Hampton.
Cuthbert Powell, Upperville.
William Smith, 6 Culpeper.
Lewis Steenrod, Wheeling.
Alex. H. H. Stuart, Staunton.
George W. Summers, Kanawha,
John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg.
Henry A. Wise, Accomac.
FLORIDA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
David Levy, St. Augustine.
IOWA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry Dodge, - Dodgeville.
a Seat successfully contested by William Smith.
!> Successfully contested the election of Linn Banks; took his seat December G, 1841.
<■ Took his seat December 7, 1841.
TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
First Bes^on, from December 4, 1843, to Jan, 17, 1844. Second session, from December 2, 1844, toMarchS, 1845.
c.^J*"*'"^''.?''^c"*-". President of the Senate pro tempore.— ^Villie P. JManguji, of Korth Carolina
Secr^a?^o/(7!e,Sma<e.—AsBUBY Dickens, of North Carolina. oi i\onn uarouna.
HoPK?Nf of VWi^f ''■;7'^r''.Y.- "^^''^'' °f Vi'-ginia. Speaker of the House pro impore.-GEOBGE W.
llOPKiNs, Of Virginia. Clerks of the House.— Matthew St. Clair Olaeke, of Pennsylvania' Caleb J
SrTlS 18?5 ' '"^"'^ ^^'^^'^ber 6, 1843; Benjamin B. Fhench, oi Ne^ nlmpsWre eSed
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
wir"'' \^^^^' Tuscaloosa. Dixon H. Lewis, " Lowndesboro.
William R. King, 6 Selma.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James E. Belser, Montgomery. Dixon, H. Lewis, " Lowndesboro.
Reuben Chapman, Somerville. Felix G. McConnell, Talladega.
James Dellet, Claiborne. William W. Payne, Gainesville.
George S. Houston, Athens. William L. Yancey, <« Wetumpka
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Chester Ashley, « Little Rock. Ambrose H. Sevier, Lake Port.
William S. Fulton,/ Jjttle Rock.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward Cross, AVashington.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Jabez W. Huntington, Norwich. John M. Niles, Hartford.
EEPRESENTATI VES.
George S. Catlin, Windham. Samuel Simons, Bridgeport.
Thomas H. Seymour, Hartford. John Stewart, Middle Haddam.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS. '
Richard H. Bayard, Wilmington. Thomas Clayton, Newcastle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George B. Rodney, Newcastle.
a John Tyler became President by the death of William Henry Harrison.
6 KesigTied April 16, 1844.
c Appointed Senator in place of William E. King, resigned; took his seat May 7, 1844.
d Elected in place of Dixon H. Lewis, appointed Senator; took his seat December 2, 1844,
e Elected in place of William S. Pulton, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1844.
/ Died August 15, 1844.
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140
COTSTGEESSIONAL DIEEOTOEY.
GEOKGIA.
SENATORS.
J. Macpherson Berrien, Savannah.
EBPRESENTATIVES.
Edward J. Black, Jacksonboro.
Absalom H. Chappell, Macon.
Duncan L. Clinch, « St. Marys.
Howell Cobb, Athens.
Hugh A. Haralson, Lagrange.
Sidney Breese, Carlyle.
Samuel McKoberts. "
Stephen A. Douglas, Quincy.
Orlando B. Ficklin, Charleston.
John J. Hardin, Jacksonville.
Joseph P. Hoge, Galena.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
Walter T. Colquitt, Columbus.
John H. Lumpkin, Eome.
John Millen, & Savannah.
A. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
William H. Stiles, Cassville.
James Semple,<« Alton.
John A. McClernand, Shawneetown.
Robert Smith, Upper Alton.
John Wentworth, Chicago.
SENATORS.
Edward A. Hannegan, Covington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Brown, Indianapolis.
John W. Davis, Carlisle.
Thomas J. Henley, New Washington.
Andrew Kennedy, Muncietown.
Eobert Dale Owen, New Harmony.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Linn Boyd, Belleview.
George A. Caldwell, Columbia.
Garrett Davis,- Paris.
Eichard French, Mount Sterling.
Willis Green, Green.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Alexander Barrow, Baton Eouge.
Henry Johnson, « New Eiver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Peter E. Bossier, fi' Natchitoches.
John B. Dawson, St. Francisville.
Alc6e Labranche, New Orleans.
MAINE.
Albert S. White, Lafayette.
John Pettit, Lafayette.
Samuel C. Sample, South Bend.
Caleb B. Smith, Connersville.
Thomas Smith, Versailles.
Joseph A. Wright, Rockville.
James T. Morehead, Frankfort.
Henry Grider, Bowling Green.
James W. Stone, Taylorsville.
William P. Thomasson, Louisville.
John W. Tibbatts, Newport.
John White, Richmond.
Alexander Porter. /
Isaac E. Morse,'' St. Martinsville.
John Slidell, New Orleans.
George Evans, Gardiner.
John Fairfield, « Saco.
Shepard Cary, 3 Houlton.
Robert P. Dunlap, Brunswick.
Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
Joshua Herrick, Kennebunkport.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Reuel Williams.
Freeman H. Morse, Bath.
Luther Severance, Augusta.
Benjamin White,* Montville.
aElected In place of Jolm Millen, deceased; took his seat February 16, 1844.
6 Died October 15, 1843.
cDied March 27, 1843.
d Appointed in place of Samuel McRoberts, deceased, March 27, 1848; took his seat December 4, 1843; subsequently elected
by the legislature.
eElected in place of Alexander Porter, deceased: took his seat March 4, 1844.
/Died January 13, 1844.
sDied April 24, 1844.
ft Elected in place of Peter E. Bossier, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1844.
i Elected in place of Eenel Williams, resigned in 1843; took his seat December 4, 1848.
J Took his seat May 10, 1844.
ft Took his seat December 2, 1844.
TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
MARYLAND.
141
William D. Merrick, Aliens Fresh.
KEPRESENTATIVBS.
Francis Brengle, Fredericktown.
J. M. S. Causin, Leonardtown.
John P. Kennedy, Baltimore.
James Alfred Pearce, Chestertown.
Jacob A. Preston, Perrymansville.
Thomas A. Spence, Snow Hill.
John Wethered, Franklin.
Isaac 0. Bates, Northampton.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Amos Abbott, « Andover.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy.
Osmyn Baker, 6 Amherst.
Barker Burnell. "
Joseph Grinnell, New Bedford.
Charles Hudson, Westminster.
KEPHESBNTATIVES.
Augustus S. Porter, Detroit.
James B. Hunt, Pontiac.
Lucius Lyon, Grand Rapids.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
John Henderson, Pass Christian.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Hammett, Princeton.
Robert W. Roberts, Hillsboro.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David R. Atchison, - Platte City.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Gustavus M. Bower, Paris.
James B. Bowlin, St. Louis.
James M. Hughes, Liberty.
Rufus Choate, Boston.
Daniel P. King, South Danvers.
William Parmenter, East Cambridge.
Julius Rockwell, a! Pittsfield.
Henry Williams, Taunton.
Robert C. Winthrop, Boston.
William Woodbridge, Detroit.
Robert McClelland, Monroe.
Robert J. Walker, Madisonville.
Jacob Thompson, Oxford.
Tilghman M. Tucker, Columbus.
Louis F. Linn. /
John Jameson, Fulton.
James H. Belfe, Caledonia.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua.
Edmund Burke, Newport.
John P. Hale, Dover.
William L. Dayton, Trenton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSE'X.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lucius Q. C. Elmer, Bridgeton.
Isaac G. Farlee, Flemington.
L. Kirkpatrick, New Brunswick.
Levi Woodbury, Portsmouth.
Moses Norris, jr., Pittsfield.
John R. Reding, Haverhill.
Jacob AV. Miller, Morristown.
George Sykes, Mount Holly.
William Wright, Newark.
a Took his seat February 15, 1844.
(>Took his seat January 22, 1844.
cDiedJune4, 1843.
dTook his seat February 2, 1844.
'Appointed in place of Louis F. Linn, deceased, October 3, 1843; took his seat December 4, 1843; subsequently elected by
the legislature.
/ Died October 3, 1843.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Daniel S. Dickinson," Bingliamton.
John A. Dix. i
Henry A. Foster, « Rome.
REPRESEjSITATIVES.
Jos. H. Anderson, Wliite Plains.
Daniel D. Barnard, Albany.
Samuel Beardsley, / Utica.
Charles S. Benton, Mohawk.
Levi D. Carpenter,!/ Waterville.
C. H. Carroll, Groveland Center.
Jeremiah E. Cary, Cherry Valley.
James G. Clinton, Newburg.
Amasa Dana, Ithaca.
Richard D. Davis, Poughkeepsie.
Chesselden Ellis, Waterford.
Hamilton Fish, New York.
Byram Green, Sodus.
William S. Hubbell, Bath.
Orville Hungerford, Watertown.
AVashington Hunt, Lockport.
Preston King, Ogdensburg.
Closes G. Leonard, New York.
N. P. Tallmadge,'^ Poughkeepsie.
Silas Wright, jr.,« Canton.
William B. Maclay, New York.
William A. Moseley, Buffalo.
Henry 0. Murphy, Brooklyn.
Thomas J. Patterson, Rochester.
J. Phillips Phoenix, New York.
Zadock Pratt, Prattsville.
Smith M. Purdy, Norwich.
George Rathbun, Auburn.
Orville Robinson, Mexico.
Charles Rogers, Sandy Hill.
Jeremiah Russell, Saugerties.
David L. Seymour, Troy.
Albert Smith, Batavia.
Lemuel Stetson, Keeseville.
Selah B. Strong, Setauket.
Asher Tyler, Ellicottsville.
Horace Wheaton, Pompey.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
William H. Haywood, Raleigh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. H. Arrington, Hilliardston.
Daniel M. Barringer, Concord.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
Edmund Deberry, Lawrenceville.
OHIO.
Willie P. Mangnm,'' Red Mountain.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
Kenneth Rayner, Winton.
David S. Reid, Reidsville.
Romulus M. Saunders, Raleigh.
William Allen, Chillicothe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry R. Brinkerhoff, » Plymouth.
Jacob Brinkerhoff, Mansfield.
Ezra Dean, Wooster.
Alexander Duncan, Cincinnati.
Elias Florence, Circlesville.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Edward S. Hamlin, J Elyria.
Alexander Harper, Zanesville.
Perley B. Johnson, McConnellsville.
James Mathews, Coshocton.
William C. McCauslen, Steubenville.
Joseph J. McDowell, Hillsboro.
Benjamin Tappan, Steubenville.
Heman Allen Moore,* Columbus.
Joseph Morris, Woodsfield.
Emery D. Potter, Toledo.
Robert 0. Schenck, Dayton.
Henry St. John, Tiffin.
Alfred P. Stone, I Columbus.
Daniel R. Tilden, Ravenna.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
John J.Vanmeter, Piketon.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
John B. Weller, Hamilton.
PENNSYLVANIA.
.SENATORS.
James Buchanan, Lancaster. Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benj. A. Bidlack, Wilkesbarre.
James Black, Newport.
Richard Brodhead, Easton.
Jeremiah Brown, Goshen.
CI Appointed in place of Nattianiel P. Tallmadge, resigned; took hi.s seat December 9, 1814; subsequently elected by the
legislature.
SElected in place of Silas Wright, jr., resigned, Henry A. Foster having been appointed pro tempore
January 27, 1846.
cAppointed in place of Silas Wright, jr., resigned; took his seat December 9, 1844.
t! Resigned September 13, 1844; appointed governor of Wisconsin Territory September 13, 1844,
c Resigned December 1, 1844.
/ Resigned March 6, 1844.
(/Elected in place of Samuel Beardsley, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1844.
ft President pro tempore.
i Died April 30, 1844.
/Elected in place of Henry R. Brinkerhoff, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1844.
ftDied April 23, 1844.
' Elected in place of Heman Allen Moore, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1844,
took his seat
TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGKESS.
143
Joseph Bufflngton, Kittanning.
Cornelius Darragh,« Pittsburg.
John Dickey, Beaver.
Henry D. Foster, Greensburg.
Henry Frick, 6 Milton.
George Fuller, c Montrose.
Samuel Hays, Franklin.
Charles J. IngersoU, Philadelphia.
Joseph R. IngersoU, Philadelphia.
James Irvin, Milesburg.
Michael H. Jenks, Newtown.
A. B. Mcllvaine, Brandywine.
Edward Joy Morris, Philadelphia.
Henry Nes, York.
James Pollock,*^ Milton.
Alexander Ramsey, Harrisburg.
Almon H. Read, « Montrose.
Charles M. Reed, Erie.
John Ritter, Reading.
John T. Smith, Philadelphia.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
William Wilkins, / Pittsburg.
Jacob S. Yost, Pottstown.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
John Brown Francis,!/ Providence.
James F. Simmons, Providence.
William Sprague,'' Natick.
KEPRBSENTATIVES.
Henry Y. Cranston, Newport. Eliaha R. Potter, Kingston.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Daniel E. Huger, i Charleston. George McDuffie, Edgefield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jas. A. Black, Cherokee Iron Works.
Armistead Burt, Abbeville.
John Campbell, Parnassus.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
R. Barnwell Rhett, Blue House.
Richard.F. Simpson, Pendletonville.
Jos. A. Woodward, Winnsboro.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Ephraini H. Foster, Nashville. Spencer Jarnagin, Athens.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Ashe, Brownsville.
Julius W. Blackwell, Athens.
Aaron V. Brown, Pulaski.
Milton Brown, Jackson.
Alvan Cullom, Livingston.
D. W. Dickinson, Murfreesboro
Andrew Johnson, Greenville.
Cave Johnson, Clarksville.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Joseph H. Peyton, Gallatin.
William T. Senter, Panther Snrings.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury. William Upham, JMontpelier
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob Collamer, Woodstock.
Paul Dillingham, jr., Waterbury
William S. Archer, Elk Hill.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPR ESENT ATI V ES.
Archibald Atkinson, Smithfield.
Thomas H. Bayly, i Accomac.
Augustus A. Chapman, Union.
Solomon Foot, Rutland.
George P. Marsh, Burlington.
William C. Rives, Bentivoglio.
Samuel Chilton, Warrenton.
Walter Coles, Robertsons Store.
George C. Dromgoole, Summit.
n Elected in place of William Wilkins, resigned; took his seat March 26, 1844.
i> Died March 1, 1844.
o Elected in place of Almon H. Kead, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1844.
d Elected in place of Henry Frick, deceased; took his seat April 23, 1844.
e Died Junes, 1844.
/Resigned in 1844, having been appointed Secretary of War.
ff Elected in place of William Sprague, resigned; took his seat February 7, 1844.
'1 Resigned January 17, 1844.
i Elected in place of John C. Calhoun, resigned March 3, 1843; took his seat December 7, 1843.
/Elected in place of Henry A. Wise, resigned; tocjk his seat May 6, 1844.
144 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Thomas W. Gilmer, o Charlottesville. " Willoughby Newton, Hague.
William L. Goggin, 6 Otter Bridge. Lewis Steenrod, Wheeling.
George W. Hopkins, " Abingdon. George W. Summers, Kanawha.
Edmund W. Hubard, Curdsville. William Taylor, Lexington.
John W. Jones, <^ Petersburg. Henry A. Wise, « Accomac.
William Lucas, Charlestown.
FLORIDA TEKEITORY.
DELEGATE.
David Levy,/ St. Augustine.
IOWA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry Dodge, Dodgeville.
(■Election unsuccessfully contested by William L. Goggin; resigned February 18, 1844.
& Unsuccessfully contested the election of Thomas W. Gilmer; subsequently elected upon the resignation of Mr. Gilmer,
and took his seat December 2, 1844.
c Chosen Speakerpro tempore February 28, 1845.
ci Election unsuccessfully contested by John M. Botts; elected Speaker December 4, 1843.
e Resigned February 15, 1844.
/Election unsuccessfully contested.
TWENTY-MNTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 1, 1845, to August 10, 1846. Second session, from December 7, 1846, to March
3, 1847.
Fw«-Presi<Zm«.— George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania. President of the Senatepro tempore.— Bayiv E.
Atchison, of Missouri, elected August 8, 1846. Secretary of the Senate.— Asbvry Dickins, of North
Carolina.
Speaker of the House.— Jokn W. Davis, of Indiana. Clerk of the IfoMse.— Benjamin B. Feench, of
New Hampshire.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
Arthur P. Bagby, Tuscaloosa. Dixon H. Lewis, Lowndesboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Franklin W. Bowdon,« Talladega.
Reuben Chapman, Warrenton.
James L. F. Cottrell, 6 Hayneville.
Edmund S. Dargan, Mobile.
Henry W. Hilliard, Montgomery.
George S. Houston, Athens.
Felix G. McConnell, « Talladega.
William W. Payne, Gainesville.
William L. Yancey, ^^ Wetumpka.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Chester Ashley, Little Eock. Ambrose H. Sevier, Lake Port.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas W. Newton. « Archibald Yell, / Fayetteville.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Jabez W. Huntington, Norwich. John M. Niles, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Dixon, Hartford.
Samuel D. Hubbard, Middletown.
John A. Rockwell, Norwich.
Truman Smith, Litchfield.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
John M. Clayton, New Castle. Thomas Clayton, New Castle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John W. Houston, Georgetown.
a Elected In place of Felix G. McConnell, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1846.
b Elected In place of William L. Yancey, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1846.
0 Died September 10, 1846.
d Resigned in 1846.
e Elected in place of Archibald Yell, resigned; took his seat February 6, 1847.
/ Resigned in 1846, having been appointed colonel in the army in Mexico.
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146
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOBY.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
James D. Westcott, jr. , « Tallahassee. David Levy Yulee, « St. Augustine.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. Carrington Cabell, b Taliahassee. William H. BrockeubrouRh, o Tallahassee.
GEORGIA.'
SENATORS.
John McPherson Berrien, Savannah.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Howell Cobb, Athens.
Hugh A. Haralson, Lagrange.
Seaborn Jones, Columbus.
Thomas Butler King, Frederica.
John H. Lumpkin, Rome.
ILLINOIS.
Sidney Breese, Carlisle.
Edward D. Baker,/ Springfield.
Stephen A. Douglas, Quincy.
Orlando B. Ficklin, Charleston.
John Henry.?
Walter T. Colquitt, Columbus.
Washington Poe.'*
A. H. Stephens, Crawfordsville.
Robert Toombs, Washington.
George W. Towns, « Talbotton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Semple, Alton.
Joseph P. Hoge, Galena.
John A. McClernand, Shawneetown.
Robert Smith, Upper Alton.
John Wentworth, Chicago.
INDIANA.
Jesse D. Bright,'' Madison.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles W. Cathcart, Laporte.
John W. Davis, i Carlisle.
Thomas J. Henley, New Washington.
Andrew Kennedy, Muncietown.
Edward W, McGaughey, Greencastle.
IOWA.
SENATORS. J
REPRESENTATIVES.
S. Clinton Hastings,* Bloomington.
KENTUCKY.
Edward A. Hannegan, Covington.
Robert D. Owen, New Harmony.
John Pettit, Lafayette.
Caleb B. Smith, Connersville.
Thomas Smith-, Versailles.
William W. Wick, Indianapolis.
Shepherd Lefiler,* Burlington.
SENATORS.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joshua F. Bell, Danville.
Linn Boyd, Cadiz.
Garrett Davis, Paris.
Henry Grider, Bowling Green.
John P. Martin, Prestonburg.
James T. Morehead, Covington.
John H. McHenry, Hartford.
Wm. P. Thomasson, Louisville.
John W. Tibbatts, Newport.
Andrew Trumbo, Owingsville.
Bryan R. Young, Elizabethtown.
a Took his seat December 1, 1846.
!> Election successfully contested by William H. Brockenbrough.
c Successfully contested the election of E. Carrington Cabell; took his seat January 24, 1846.
d Resigned in 1845, having never taken his seat,
e Elected in place of Washington Poe, resigned; took his seat January 27, 1846.
/Resigned December 30, 1846.
(/Elected in place of Edward D. Baker, resigned; took his seat February 5, 1847.
A Took his seat December 27, 1845.
i Elected Speaker December 1, 1845.
JNo Senators from the then recently organized State of lovfa took their seats in this Congress.
fcTook his seat December 29, 1846.
TWENTY-NIKTH CONGRESS.
LOUISIANA.
147
Alexander Barrow, « Baton Eouge.
Henry Johnson, New Eiver.
SENATOKS.
KBPEESENTATIVES.
J. H. Harmanson, Simmsport.
Emile La Sere,. '' New Orleans.
Isaac E. Morse, St. Martinsville.
MAINE.
George Evans, Gardiner.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert P. Dunlap, Brunswick.
Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
John D. McCrate, Wiscasset.
Cullen Sawtelle, Norridgewock.
MARYLAND.
Pierre Soul6, li New Orleans.
John Slidell,'' NewOrleans.
B. G. Thibodeaux, Thibodeaux.
John Fairfield, Saco.
John F. Scammon, Saco.
Luther Severance, Augusta.
Hezekiah Williams, Castine.
Eeverdy Johnson, Baltimore.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John G. Chapman, Port Tobacco.
Albert Constable, Perryville.
William F. Giles, Baltimore.
James Alfred Pearce, Chestertown.
Thomas W. Ligon, EUicotts Mills.
Edward H. Long, Princess Anne.
Thomas Perry, Cumberland.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Isaac 0. Bates. «
John Davis, / Worcester.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Amos Abbott, Andover.
John Quincy Adams, Quincy.
George Ashmun, Springfield.
Joseph Grinnell, New Bedford.
Artemas Hale,? Bridgewater.
Lewis Cass, Detroit.
John S. Chipman, Centerville.
James B. Hunt, Pontiac.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Charles Hudson, Westminster.
Daniel P. King, South Danvers.
Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield.
Benj. Thomf)son, Charlestown.
Robert C. Winthrop, Boston. "
William Woodbridge, Detroit.
Robert McClelland, Monroe.
SENATORS.
Joseph W. Chalmers,'* Holly Spring.
Jesse Speight, Plymouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stephen Adams, Aberdeen.
Jefferson Davis, J Warrenton.
Henry T. Ellett.*
Robert J. Walker, i Madisonville.
Robert W. Roberts, Hillsboro.
Jacob Thompson, Oxford.
a Died December 29, 1846.
b Elected in place of Alexander Barrow, deceased; took his seat February 3, 1847.
c Elected in place of John Slidell, resigned; took his seat Japuary 29, 1846.
((Resigned in 1846.
eDied March 16, 1845.
/Elected in place of Isaac C. Bates, deceased March 16, 1845; took his seat December 1, 1845.
BTook his seat December 7, 1846.
'» Appointed in place of Robert J. Walker, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1845; subsequently elected by the legislature.
{ Resigned March 5, 1845; appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
iResignedinl846. . ^ ^ , ,.
*Electedin place of Jefferson Davis, resigned; took his seat January 26, 1847.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David R. Atchison, c Platte City. Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James E. Bowlin, St. Louis.
AVilliam McDaniel, * Palmyra.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
Sterling Price, « Keytersville.
James H. Eelfe, Caledonia.
Leonard H. Sims, Springfield.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua.
Joseph Cilley,<* Nottingham.
James H. Johnson, Bath.
Mace Moulton, Manchester.
William L. Dayton, Tr'enton.
Joseph E. Edsall, Hamburg.
James G. Hampton, Bridgeton.
John Runk, Kingwood.
Bennlng W. Jenness, « Strafford.
Levi Woodbury, f Portsmouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Moses Norris, jr., Pittsfield.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Jacob AY. jMiller, Morristown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Sykes, Mount Holly.
William AYright, Newark.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton.
John A. Dix, Albanv.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jos. H. Anderson, White Plains.
Charles S. Benton, Mohawk.
AVilliam AY. Campbell, New York.
0. H. Carroll, Groveland Center.
John E. Collin, Hillsdale.
Erastus D. Culver, Greenwich.
Samuel S. Ellsworth, Penn Yan.
Charles Goodyear, Schoharie.
Samuel Gordon, Delhi.
Martin Grover, Angelica,
Richard P. Herrick,!/ Greenbush.
Elias B. Holmes, Brockport.
AVilliam J. Hough, Cazenovia.
Orville Hungerford, Watertown.
AVashington Hunt, Lockport.
Timothy Jenkins, Oneida Castle.
Preston King, Ogdensburg.
John AV. Lawrence, Flushing.
Abner Lewis, Panama.
William B. Maclay, New York.
William S. Miller, New York.
William A. Moseley, Buffalo.
John De Mott, Lodi.
Archibald C. Niven, Monticello.
George Rathbun, Auburn.
Thomas C. Ripley,'' Schaghticoke.
Joseph Russell, AA'arrensburg.
Henry J. Seaman, Richmond.
Albert Smith, Batavia.
Stephen Strong, Owego.
Horace Wheaton, Pompey.
Hugh AVhite, Cohoes.
Bradford R. Wood, Albany.
Thomas M. AVoodruff, New York.
AVm. AV. AVoodworth, Hvde Park.
NORTH CAROLINA.
George E. Badger, » Raleigh.
AVilliam H. Haywood, .; Raleigh.
SENATORS.
AVillie P. jNlangum, Red Mountain.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel M. Barringer, Concord.
Asa Biggs, AVilliamston.
Henry S. Clarke, Washington.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
James C. Dobbin, Fayetteville.
Alfred Dockery, Dockerys Store.
James Graham, Rutherfordton.
James J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
David S. Reid, Reidsville.
a Elected President pro tempore August 8, 1846.
!> Elected in place o£ Sterling Price, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1846.
cResignc'd in 1846.
rtElected in place of Levi Woodbury, resigned, Beuuing W. Jenness having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
June 22, 1846.
c Appointed in place of Levi Woodbury, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1846.
/Resigned November 20,1845, having been appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
a Died June 20, 1846.
'» Elected in place of Richard 1', Hcrrick, decea.sed; took )iis seat December 7, 1846.
f Elected in place of William H. Haywood, resigned; took his seat December 14, 1846.
i Resigned July 25, 1846.
TWENTY -NINTH CONGEESS.
149
William Allen, Ohillicothe.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob Brinkerhoff, Mansfield.
J. D. Cmnmins, New Philadelphia.
F. A. Cunningham, Eaton.
Columbus Delano, Mount Vernon.
James J. Faran, Cincinnati.
George Pries, Hanoverton.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefierson.
Alexander Harper, Zanesville.
Joseph J. McDowell, Hillsboro.
Joseph Morris, Woodsfield.
Isaac Parrish, Parrishs Mills.
Augustus L. Perrill, Lithopolis.
Joseph M. Root, xCorwalk.
William Sawyer, St. Marys.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
Henry St. John, McCutchenville.
D. A. Starkweather, Canton.
Allen G. Thurman, Chillicothe.
Daniel R. Tilden, Ravenna.
Joseph Vance, Urbana.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Buchanan, « Lancaster.
Simon Cameron, 6 Middletown.
SENATORS.
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Black, Newport.
John Blanchard, Bellefonte.
Richard Brodhead, Easton.
Joseph BufBngton, Kittanning.
John H. Campbell, Philadelphia.
Cornelius Darragh, Pittsburg.
Jacob Erdman, Coopersburg.
John H. Ewing, A\^ashington.
Henry D. Foster, Greensburg.
William S. Garvin, Mercer.
Charles J. Ingersoll, Philadelphia.
Joseph R. Ingersoll, Philadelphia.
Owen D. Leib, Catawissa.
Lewis C. Levin, Philadelphia.
Moses McCiean, Gettysburg.
A. R. Mcllvaine, Brandywine.
James Pollock, Milton.
Alexander Ramsey, Harrisburg.
John Ritter, Reading.
Andrew Stewart, L'niontown.
John Strohm, New Providence.
James Thompson, Erie.
David Wilmot, Towanda.
Jacob S. Yost, Pottstown.
Albert C. Greene, Providence.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
James F. Simmons, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lemuel H. Arnold, Wakefield. Henry Y. Cranston, Xewport.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Andrew P. Butler, " Edgefield. Daniel E. Huger. «
John C. Calhounji^ Pendleton. George McDuflie, / Cherry Hill.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James A. Black, Cherokee Iron Works.
Armistead Burt, Wilmington.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
R. Barnwell Rhett, Ashepoo.
TENNESSEE.
Richard F. Simpson, Pendleton.
Alexander D. Sims, Darlington.
Joseph A. Woodward, A^'inn^boro.
Spencer Jarnagin, Athens.
Milton Brown, Jackson.
Lucien B. Chase, Clarkesville.
William M. Cooke, Eutledge.
John H. Orozier, Knoxville.
Alvan Cullom, Livingston.
Edward H. Ewing, Nashville.
SENATORS.
Hopkins L. Turney, Winchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Meredith P. Gentry, Franklin.
Andrew Johnson, Greenville.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Barclay Martin, Columbia.
Frederick P. Stanton, Memphis.
a Resigned March 5, 1845.
b Elected in place of James Buchanan, resigned; took his seat March 17, 1845.
c Elected in place of George McDuffle, resigned; took his seat December 21, 1846.
dElected in place of Daniel E. Huger, resigned in 1845; took his seat December 22, 1845.
c Resigned in 1845.
/Resigned January 17, 1846.
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TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Houston, o Raven Hill. Thomas J. Rusk, » Nacogdoches.
REPRESENTATIVES.
David S. Kaufman, '- Lowes Ferry. Timothy Pillsbury,'' Brazoria.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury. "William Upham, Montpelier.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob CoUamer, Woodstock. Solomon Foot, Rutland.
Paul Dillingham, j.., Waterbury. George P. Marsh, Burlington.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
William S. Archer, Lodore. Isaac S. Pennybacker, / New Market.
James M. Mason, « Winchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Archibald Atkinson, Smithfield. Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
Thomas H. Bayley, Accomac. Joseph Johnson, Bridgeport.
Henry Bedinger, Oharlestown. SheltonF. Leake, Charlottesville.
William G. Brown, Kingwood. James McDowell,!? Lexington.
Augustus A. Chapman, Union. John S. Pendleton, Culpeper.
George C. Dromgoole, Summit. James A. Seddon, Richmond.
George W. Hopkins, Abingdon. William Taylor,'' Lexington.
Edmund W. Hubard, Curdsville. William M. Tredway, Danville.
IOWA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Morgan L. Martin, Green Bay.
a Took his seat March 30, 1846.
i)Took his seat March 26, 1846.
cTook his seat June 1, 1846.
dTook his seat June 10, 1846.
e Elected in place of Isaac S. Pennybacker, deceased; took his seat January 26, 1847
/Died January 12, 1847.
(/Elected in place of William Taylor, deceased; took his seat March 6, 1846.
A Died January 17, 1846.
THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 6, 1847, to August 14, 1848. Secotid session, from December 4,
March 3, 1849.
1848 to
Vice-President. — George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania. President of the Senate pro tempore. — David R.
Atchison, of Missouri. Secretary of the Senate. — Asbury Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — Robert C. Winthhop, of Massachusetts. Speaker of the House pro tempore. —
Aemisted Burt, of South Carolina. Clerks of the House. — Benjamin B. French, of New Hampshire;
Thomas Jefferson Campbell, of Tennessee, elected December 7, 1847.
ALABAMA.
Arthur P. Bagby,« Tuscaloosa.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, >> Wetumpka.
William R. King, ■-' Selma.
Dixon H. Lewis,'' Benton.
representatives.
Franklin W. Bowdon, Talladega.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Bellefonte.
John Gayle, Mobile.
Sampson W. Harris, Wetumpka.
ARKANSAS.
senators.
Chester Ashley, « Little Rock.
Solon Borland, / Little Rock.
Henry W. Hilliard, Montgomery.
George S. Houston, Athens.
Samuel W. Inge, Livingston.
William K. Sebastian, ff Helena.
Ambrose H. Sevier,'' Pine Bluff.
representative.
Robert W. Johnson, Little Rock.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Roger S. Baldwin, i New Haven.
Jabez W. Huntington. J
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Dixon, Hartford.
Samuel D. Hubbard, Middletown.
John M. Niles, Hartford.
John A. Rockwell, Norwich.
Truman Smith, Litchfield.
?ISSS3™?: ^iS'y.ll^S^fa; roi'^^rit^SITrisli; Seduently elected by the legislature.
dDied October 25, 1848.
/£pp1>it?ed ?n plac4 of Ambrose H. Seyier, resigned; took his seat April 24 1848; subsequently elected by the legislature.
ff Appointed in place of Chester Ashley, deceased; took his seat May 31, 1848.
'^AlpftatedWace of Jabez W. Huntington, deceased November 2, 1847; took his seat December 7, 1847.
J Died November 2, 1847.
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152 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
DELAWARE.
SENATOBS.
John M. Clayton, a Newcastle. John Wales, 6 Wilmington.
Preslsy Spruance, Smyrna.
HEPRESENTATIVE.
John W. Houston, Georgetown.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
John D. Westcott, jr., Tallahassee. David L. Yulee, St. Augustine.
KEPKESENTATIVB.
E. Carrington Cabell, Tallahassee.
GEORGIA.
SENATOES.
J. McPherson Berrien, Savannah. Herschell V. Johnson,<« Milledgeville.
Walter T. Colquitt, « Columbus.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Howell Cobb, Athens. Thomas Butler King, Frederica.
Hugh A. Haralson, Lagrange. John H. Lumpkm, Rome.
Alfred Iverson, Columbus. A. H. Stephens, Crawfordsville.
John W. Jones, Griffin. Bobert Toombs, Washmgton.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Sidney Breese, Carlyle. Stephen A. Douglas, Quincy.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Orlando B. Ficklin, Charleston. Robert Smith, Alton.
Abraham Lincoln, Springfield. Thomas J. Turner, Freeport.
J. A. McClernand, Shawneetown. John Wentworth, Chicago.
William A. Richardson, Rushville.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Jesse D. Bright, Madison. Edward A. Hannegan, Covington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles W. Oathcart, Laporte. John L. Robinson, Rushville.
George G. Dunn, Bedford. William Bockhill, Fort Wayne.
Elisha Embree, Princeton. Caleb B. Smith, Connersville.
Thomas J. Henley, New Washington. Richard W. Thompson, Terre Haute.
John Pettit, Lafayette. William W. Wick, Indianapolis.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
Augustus C. Dodge, « Burlington. George W. Jones, « Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Shepherd Leffler, Burlington. William Thompson, Mount Pleasant.
a Resigned February, 1849.
6 Elected In place of John M. Clayton, resigned; took his seat February 26, 1849.
c Resigned in 1848.
d Appointed in place of Walter T. Colquitt, resigned; tooli his seat February 14, 1848.
e Took his seat December 26, 1848.
THIETIETH CONGRESS.
153
KENTUCKY.
SENATOES.
John J. Crittenden, a Frankfort.
Thomas Metcalfe, » Forest Retreat.
Joseph E. Underwood, Bowhng Green.
KEPBESENT.VTIVBS.
Green Adams, Barboursville.
Linn Boyd, Cadiz.
Aylett Buckner, Greensburg.
Beverly L. Clarke, Franklin.
Garnett Duncan, Louisville.
Solomon W. Downs, Monroe.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John H. Harmanson, Simmsport.
Emile La Sere, New Orleans.
James W. Bradbury, Augusta.
Hannibal Hamlin, « Hampden.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
Hiram Belcher, Farmington.
Asa W. H. Olapp, Portland.
Franklin Clark, Wiscasset.
David liammons, Lovell.
Eeverdy Johnson, Baltimore.
eepkesKntatives.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
KEPEESEKTATIVES.
John G. Chapman, Port Tobacco.
John W. Crisfield, Princess Anne.
Alexander Evans, Elkton.
Richard French, Mount Sterling.
John P. Gaines, Walton.
Charles S. Morehead, Frankfort.
Samuel O. Peyton, Hartford.
John B. Thompson, Harrodsburg.
Henry Johnson, New River.
Isaac E. Morse, St. Martinsville.
Bannon G. Thibodeaux, Thibodeaux.
John Fairfield,'* Saco.
Wyman B. S. Moor, « Bangor.
Ephraim K. Smart, Camden.
James S. Wiley, Dover.
Hezekiah Williams, Castine.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
Thomas W. Ligon, Elkton.
Robert M. McLane, Baltimore.
J. Dixon Roman, Hagerstown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
John Davis, Worcester.
Amoss Abbott, Andover.
John Quincy Adams, / Quin-cy.
George Ashmun, Springfield.
Joseph Grinnell, New Bedford.
Artemas Hale, Bridgewater.
Charles Hudson, Westminster.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Daniel Webster, Boston.
Daniel P. King, South Danvers.
Horace Mann, 0 AVest Newton.
John G. Palfrey, Cambridge.
Julius Rockwell, Pittsfleld.
Robert C. Winthrop,'« Boston.
MICHIGAN.
Lewis Cass, « Detroit.
Alpheus Felch, Ann Harbor.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
' Kinsley S. Bingham, Kensington.
Robert McClelland, Monroe.
Thomas Fitzgerald, J St. Joseph.
Charles E. Stuart, Kalamazoo.
a Resigned in 1848.
I> Appointed in place of John J. Crittenden, resigned; took liis seat July 3, 1848; subsequently elected by the legislature.
"Elected in place of John Fairfield, deceased, Wyman B. S. Moor having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat June
12, 1848.
dDied December 24, 1847.
e Appointed in place of John Pairfleld, deceased; took his seat January 17, 1848.
/Died in the Speaker's room at the Capitol, February 23, 1848.
g Elected in place of John Quincy Adams, deceased; took his seat April 13, 1848.
* Elected Speaker December 6, 1847.
• Resigned May 29,1848; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by his own resignation, Thomas Fitzgerald
having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat March 6, 1849.
J Appointed in place of Lewis Cass, resigned; took his seat June 20, 1848.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
Jesse Speight. «
Jefferson Davis, ^ Warrenton.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Albert G. Brown, Gallatin.
Winfield S. Featherston, Houston.
Henry S. Foote, Jackson.
Jacob Thompson, Oxford.
Patrick W. Tompkins, Vicksburg.
MISSOURI.
SENATOKS.
David R. Atchison, ^ Platte City.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
James B. Bowlin, St. Louis.
James S. Green', Montioello.
Willard P. Hall, St. Joseph.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
John Jameson, Fulton.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
IsEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Charles G. Atherton, Nashua. John P. Hale, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James H. Johnson, Bath.
Charles H. Peaslee, Concord.
Amos Tuck, Exeter.
James Wilson, Keene.
NEW JERSEY.
William L. Dayton, Trenton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph E. Edsall, Hamburg.
Dudley S. Gregory, Jersey City.
James G. Hampton, Bridgeton.
Jacob W. Miller, Morristoivn.
William A. Newell, Allentown.
John Van Dyke, New Brunswick.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ausburn Birdsall, Binghamton.
Esbon Blackmar,<^ Newark.
William Collins, Lowville.
Harmon S. Conger, Courtland.
William Duer, Oswego.
Daniel Gott, Pompey.
Horace Greeley, « New York.
Nathan K. Hall, Buffalo.
John M. Holley, / Lyons.
Elias B. Holmes, Brockport.
Washington Hunt, Lockport.
David S. Jackson,? New York.
Timothy Jenkins, Oneida Castle.
Orlando Kellogg, Elizabethtown.
Sidney Lawrence, Moira.
William T. Lawrence, Cayutaville.
Frederick W. Lord, Greenport.
William B. Maclay, New York.
John A. Dix, Albany.
Dudley Marvin, Ripley.
Joseph Mullin, Watertown.
Henry C. Murphy, Brooklyn.
William Nelson, Peekskill.
Henry Nicoll, New York.
George Petrie, Little Falls.
Harvey Putnam, Attica.
Gideon Reynolds, Hoosick.
Robert L. Rose, Aliens Hill.
David Rnmsey, jr., Bath.
Eliakim Sherrill, Shandaken.
John I. Shngerland, Bethlehem.
G. A. Starkweather, Cooperstown.
Daniel B. St. John, Monticello.
Peter H. Sylvester, Ooxsackie.
Frederick A. Tallmadge, New York.
Cornelius AVarren, Cold Spring.
Hugh White, Cohoes.
aDiedlStayl, 1847.
!< Appointed in place of Jesse Speight, deceased, in 1847; took his seat December 6, 1847; subsequently elected by the
legislature.
c President pro tempore.
cIElected in place of John M. Holley, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1848.
e Elected in olace of David S. Jackson, whose seat was declared vacant; took Ms seat December 4, 1848.
/ Died March 8, 1848.
ffSeat contested by James Monroe, and declared vacant April 19, 1848.
THIRTIETH CONGEBSS.
155
NORTH CAROLINA.
George E. Badger, Raleigh.
Daniel M. Barringer, Concord.
Nathaniel Boyden, SaUsbury.
Thomas L. Clingman, Aaheville.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
Richard S. Donnell, Newbern.
SENATOES.
REPEESBNTATI VES.
William Allen, Chillicothe.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard S. Canby, Bellefontaine.
John Crowell, Warren.
John D. Cummins, North Philadelphia.
Eudolphus Dickinson, Lower Sandusky.
Daniel Duncan, Newark.
Thomas O. Edwards, Lancaster.
Nathan Evans, Cambridge.
James J. Faran, Cincinnati.
David Fisher, Wilmington.
George Fries, Hanoverton.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Willie P. Mangum, Red Mountain.
Jaines J. McKay, Elizabethtown.
David Outlaw, Windsor.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Salem.
Abraham W. Venable, Brownsville.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
William Kennon, jr., St. Clairsville.
Samuel Lahm, Canton.
John K. Miller, Mount Vernon.
Jonathan D. Morris, Batavia.
Thomas Ritchie, Somerset.
Joseph M. Root, Norwalk.
William Sawyer, St. Marys.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
John L. Taylor, Chillicothe.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Simon Cameron, Middletown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Blanchard, Bellefonte.
Jasper E. Brady, Chambersburg.
Samuel A. Bridges,* AUentown.
Richard Brodhead, Easton.
Charles Brown, Philadelphia.
Chester Butler, Wilkesbarre.
John Dickey, Beaver.
George N. Eckert, Pottsville.
John W. Farrelly, Meadville.
John Freedley, Norristown.
Moses Hampton, Pittsburg.
John W. Hornbeck, * AUentown.
Charles J. IngersoU, Philadelphia.
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
Joseph R. IngersoU, Philadelphia.
Alexander Irvin, Clearfield.
Lewis C. Levin, Philadelphia.
Job Mann, Bedford.
A. R. Mcllvaine, Brandywine.
Henry Ness, York.
James Pollock, Blilton.
Andrew Stewart, Uniontown.
John Strohm, North Providence.
William Strong, Reading.
James Thompson, Erie.
David Wilmot, Towanda.
RHODE ISLAND.
John H. Clarke, Providence.
Robert B. Cranston, Newport.
Andrew P. Butler, Edgefield.
SENATORS.
KEPEBSENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATOES.
Albert C. Greene, Providence.
Benjamin B. Thurston, Hopkinton.
John C. Calhoun, Pendleton.
KEPEBSENTATIVES.
Jas. A. Black, « Cherkee Iron Works.
Armistead Burt, WilUngton.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
John McQueen,<« Bennettsville.
R. Barnwell Rhett, Ashepoo.
Richard F. Simpson, Pendleton.
A. D. Sims, « Darlington.
Daniel Wallace, / Union.
Jos. A. Woodward, Winnsboro.
nElected in place oi John W. Hornbeck, deceased; took his seat March 6, 1848.
6 Died January 16, 1848.
dElecte<fin place of Alexander D. Sims, deceased; took his seat February 12, 1849.
e Died November 16, 1848. ,„ ,„,o
/Elected in place of James A. Black, deceased; took his seat June 12, 1848.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
TENNESSEE.
John Bell, Nashville.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Washington Barrow, Nashville.
Lucien B. Chase, Olarksville.
WilUam M. Cocke, Eutledge.
John H. Crozier, Knoxville.
Meredeth P. Gentry, Franklin.
William T. Haskell, Jackson.
Hopkins L. Tumey, Winchester.
Hugh L. W. Hill, Irving College.
Andrew Johnson, Greenville.
George AV. Jones, Fayetteville.
Frederick P. Stanton, Memphis.
James H. Thomas, Columbia.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Houston, Raven Hill. Thomas J. Rusk, Nacogdoches.
REPRESENTATIVES.
David S. Kaufman, Sabinetown. Timothy Pillsbury, Brazoria.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Samuel «. Phelps, Middlebury. William Upham, Montpelier.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob Collamer, Woodstock.
William Henry, Bellows Falls.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Archibald Atkinson, Smithfield.
Thomas H. Bayly, Accomac.
Richard L. T. Beale, Hague.
Henry Bedinger, Charlestown.
Thoa. S. Bocock, Appomattox.
John M. Botts, Richmond.
William G. Brown, Kingwood.
Thomas S. Flournoy, Halifax.
George P. Marsh, Burlington.
Lucius B. Peck, Montpelier.
James M. JIason, AVinchester.
Andrew S. Fulton, Wytheville.
William L. Goggin, Otter Bridge.
James McDowell, Lexington.
Richard K. Meade, Petersburg.
John S. Pendleton, Culpeper.
William B. Preston, Blacksburg.
Robert A. Thompson, Kanawha.
WISCONSIN, c
SENATORS.
Henry Dodge, '' Dodgeville. Isaac P. Walker, c Milwaukee.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mason C. Darling/' Fond du Lac.
William P. Lynde, « Milwaukee.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Henry H. Sibley. /
John H. Tweedy, Milwaukee.
aThe State of Wisconsin, whicH was admitted into the tinion May 29, 1848, was only a portion of Wisconsin Territory,
whicli retained its organization, but whlcti was, in Marcli, 1849, reorganized as Minnesota Territory.
i> Took his seat June 23, 1848.
cTook his seat June 26, 1848. cTook his seat June 6, 1848.
dTook his seat June 9, 1848. /Took his seat January IB, 1849.
THIRTY-EIRST OONGEESS.
First session, from Decembei- 3, 1849, to September SO, 1850. Second session, from December 3, 1850, to
March 3, 1861.
Vice-President.— M.iijhA-KD Fillmore, « of New York. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— David E.
Atchison, March 5, 1849 ; William R. King, of Alabama, elected May 6, 1850. Secretary of the Senate.—
AsBUKY DiCKiNS, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — Howell Cobb, of Georgia. Speaker of the House pro tempore. — Robert C.
WiNTHEOP, of Massachusetts. Clerks of the House. — Thomas Jefferson Campbell, of Tennessee;
Richard M. Young, of Illinois, elected April 17, 1850.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Jeremiah Clemens, Huntsville. William R. King, * Selma.
representatives.
William J. Alston, Linden. Henry W. Hilliard, Montgomery.
Franklin W. Bowdon, Talladega. David Hubbard, Kinlock.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Belleionte. Samuel W. Inge, Livingston.
Sampson W. Harris, Wetumpka.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Solon Borland, Hot Springs. William K. Sebastian, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Robert W. Johnson, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
John C. Fremont, (^ San Francisco. William M. Gwin, « San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward Gilbert,** San Francisco. George W. Wright, ^^ San Francisco.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Roger S. Baldwin, New Haven. Truman Smith, Litchfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Walter Booth, Meriden. Chauncey F. Cleveland, Hampton.
Thomas B. Butler, Norwalk. Loren P. Waldo, Tolland.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Presley Spruance, Smyrna. John Wales, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John W. Houston, Georgetown.
a Became President by the death of Zachary Taylor. c-Took his seat September 10, 1850.
^Elected President pro tempore May 6, 1850. dTook his seat September 11, 1860.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
FLORIDA.
Jackson Morton, Pensacola.
SENATOKS.
David L. Yulee, St. Augustine.
REPRESENTATIVE.
E. Carrington Cabell, Tallehassee.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
J. McPherson Berrien, Savannah.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Howell Cobb, « Athens.
Thomas C. Hackett, Rome.
Hugh A. Haralson, La Grange.
Joseph W. Jackson, ^ Savannah.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
REPRESENTATIVES,
Edward D. Baker, Galena.
William H. Bissell, Belleville.
Thomas L. Harris, Petersburg.
J. A. McClernand, Shawneetown.
"William C. Dawson, Greensboro.
Allen F. Owen, Talbotton.
A. H. Stephens, Crawfordsville.
Robert Toombs, Washington.
Marshall J. Wellborn, Columbus.
James Shields, Belleville.
William A. Richardson, Quincy.
John Wentworth, Chicago.
Timothy R. Young, Marshall.
Jesse D. Bright, Madison.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel Albertson, Greenville.
William J. Brown, Amity.
Cyrus L. Dunham, Salem.
Graham N. Fitch, Logansport.
Willis A. Gorman, Bloomington.
Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington.
Shepherd Leffler, Burhngton.
Daniel F. Miller. «
Henry Clay, Lexington.
IOWA.
SEN.ATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOI 3.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Linn Boyd, Cadiz.
Daniel Breck, Richmond. ^
George A. Caldwell, Columbia.
James L. Johnson, Owensboro.
Humphrey Marshall, Drennons I^ick.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Solomon W. Downs, Monroe.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Bullard, « New Orleans.
Charles M. Conrad, / New Orleans.
John H. Harmanson,!/ Simmsport.
James Whitcomb, Indianapolis.
Andrew J. Harlan, Marion.
George W. Julian, Centerville.
Jos. E. McDonald, Crawfordsville.
Edw. W. McGaughey, Rockville.
John L. Robinson, Rushville.
George W. Jones, Dubuque.
William Thompson,^ Mount Pleasant.
Joseph R. Uhderwood, Bowling Green.
John C. Mason, Owingsville.
Finis E. McLean, Elkton.
Charles S. Morehead, Frankfort.
Richard H. Stanton, Maysville.
John B. Thompson, Harrodsburg
Pierre Soule, New Orleans.
Emile La Sere, New Orleans.
Isaac E. Morse, St. Martinsville.
Alexander G. Penn,'' Covington.
a Elected Speaker December 21. lS-19.
i> Elected in place of Thomas Butler King, resigned in ISM: took his seat March 4, 1850.
c Unsuccessfully contested the election ot William Thompson; subsequently elected at new election, and took his seat
December 20, 1850.
d Seat declared vacant June 29, 1860.
c Elected in place of Charles M. Conrad, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1860.
/ Resigned August 17, 1860.
ff Died October 25, 1850.
h Elected in place of John H. Harmanson, deceased; took his seat December 30, 1850.
THIRTY-FIEST 0ONGEE88.
MAINE.
James W. Bradbury, Augusta.
SENATOBS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas J. D. Fuller, Calais.
Elbridge Gerry, Waterford.
Eufus K. Goodenow, Paris.
Nathaniel S. Littlefleld, Bridgeton.
Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
John Otis, Hallowell.
Cullen Sa.wtelle, Norridgewock.
Charles Stetson, Bangor.
159
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
Thomas G. Pratt, « Annapolis.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard T. Bovpie, Eockville.
Alexander Evans, Elkton.
Wm. T. Hamilton, Hagerstown.
David Stewart. >>
Edw. Hammond, EUicotts Mills.
John B. Kerr, Easton.
Robert M. McLane, Baltimore.
John Davis, Worcester.
Robert Rantoul, jr., c Boston.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Allen, Worcester.
George Ashmun, Springfield.
James PI. Duncan. Haverhill.
Samuel A. Eliot, / Boston.
Grin Fowler, Fall River.
Lewis Cass, Detroit.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Kinsley S. Bingham, Kensington.
Alexander W. Buel, Detroit.
Daniel Webster, <« Boston.
Robert C. Winthrop, « Boston.
Joseph Grinnell, New Bedford.
Darnel P. King, a Danvers.
Horace Mann, West Newton.
Julius Rockwell, Pittsfleld.
Robert C. Winthrop, « Boston.
Alpheus Felch, Ann Arbor,
William Sprague, Kalamazoo.
MISSISSIPPI.
Jefferson Davis, Palmyra.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Albert G. Brown, Gallatin.
Winfleld S. Featherston, Houston.
Henry S. Foote, Jackson.
William Mc Willie, Camden.
Jacob Thompson, Oxford.
IMISSOURI.
David R. Atchison, '» Platte City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William V. N. Bay, Union.
James B. Bowlin, St. Louis.
James S. Green, Canton.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
Willard P. Hall, St. Joseph.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
a Elected in place of Eeverdy Johnson, resigned in 1849, David Stewart having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
January 14, 1850.
t Appointed in place of Reverdy Johnson, resigned in 1849; took his seat December 8, 1849.
"Elected in place of Daniel Webster, resigned, Robert C. Winthrop having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
February 22, 1851.
dKesigned July 22, 1850, having been appointed Secretary of State.
« Appointed Senator in place of Daniel Webster, resigned; took his seat July 30, 1850; retired from Senate February 7, 1851.
/Elected in place of Robert C. Winthrop, appointed Senator; took his seat August 22, 1860.
ffDied July 25, 1850.
ft Elected President of the Senate pro tempore March o, 1849.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
NEW HAMPSHIKE.
SENATOKS.
John p. Hale, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Harry Hibbard, Bath.
George W. Morrison, a Manchester.
Charles H. Peaslee, Concord.
XEW JEKSEY.
"William L. Dayton, Trenton.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew K. Hay, Winslow.
James G. Kins, Hoboken.
William A. Newell, Allentown.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry P. Alexander, Little Falls.
George R. Andrews, Ticonderoga.
Henry Bennett, New Berlin.
David A. Bokee, Brooklyn.
George Briggs, New York.
James Brooks, New York.
Lorenzo Burrows, Albion.
Charles E. Clarke, Great Bend.
Harmon S. Conger, Cortland.
William Duer, Oswego.
Daniel Gott, Pompey.
Herman D. Gould, Delhi.
Ransom Halloway, Beekman.
William T. Jackson, Havana.
John A. King, Jamaica.
Preston King, Ogdensburg.
Orsamus B. Matteson, Utica.
Moses Norris, jr., Manchester.
Amos Tuck, Exeter.
James Wilson, » Keene.
Jacob ^V. Miller, :Morristown.
John Van Dyke, New Brunswick.
Isaac Wildrick, Blairstown.
William H. Seward, Auburn.
Thomas McKissock, Newburg.
William Nelson, Peekskill.
J. PhilUps Phoenix, New York
Harvey Putnam, Attica.
Gideon Reynolds, Hoosick.
Elijah Risley, Fredonia.
Robert L. Rose, Aliens Hill.
David Rumsey, jr., Bath.
Willam A. Sackett, Seneca Falls.
A. M-. Schermerhorn, Rochester.
John L. Schoolcraft, Albany.
Peter H. Silvester, Coxsackie.
Elbridge G. Spaulding, Buffalo.
John R. Thurman, Chestertown.
Walter Underbill, New York.
Hiram Walden, Waldensville.
Hugh White, Cohoes.
NORTH CAROLINA.
George E. Badger, Raleigh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William S. Ashe, Wilmington.
Joseph P. Caldwell, Statesville.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
Edmund Deberry, Mount Gilead.
Willie P. Mangum, Red Mountain.
David Outlaw, Windsor.
Augustine H. Shepperd, Salem.
Edward Stanly, Washington.
A. W. Venable, Brownsville.
OHIO.
Salmon P. Chase, Cincinnat.
Thomas Corwin, " Lebanon.
John Bell, « Fremont.
Joseph Cable, CarroUton.
Lewis D. Campbell, Hamilton.
David K. Cartter, Massillon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Ewing,<i Lancaster.
Moses B. Corwin, TJrbana.
John Crowell, Warren.
David T. Disney, Cincinnati.
Nathan Evans, Cambridge.
oElected in place of James Wilson, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1850; election unsuccessfnily contested by Jared
Perkins.
6 Resigned September 9, 1850.
c Resigned July 22, 1850, having been appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
^Appointed in place of Thomas Corwin, resigned; took his seat July 27, 1850.
eEIected in place of Amos E. Wood, deceased; took his seat January 7, 1851.
THIBTT-FIKST CONGRESS.
161
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Moses Hoagland, Millersburg.
William F. Hunter, Woodsfleld.
John K. Miller, Mount Vernon.
Jonathan U. Morris, Batavia.
Edson B. Olds, Circleville.
Emery D. Potter, Toledo.
Joseph M. Eoot, Sandusky.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
Charles Sweetser, Delaware.
John L. Taylor, Chilicothe.
Samuel F. Vinton, Gallipolis.
William A. Whittlesey, Marietta.
Amos E. Wood,o Woodville.
Eudolphus Dickinson, 6Lower Sandusky.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Cooper, Pottsville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Brisbin. ''
Chester Butler,'' Wilkesbarre.
Samuel Calvin, Hollidaysburg.
Joseph Casey, New Berhn.
Joseph R. Chandler, Philadelphia.
Joel B. Danner, « Gettysburg.
Jesse C. Dickey, New London.
Milo M. Dimmick, Stroudsburg.
John Freedley, Norristown.
Alfred Gilmore, Butler.
Moses Hampton, Pittsburg.
John W. Howe, Franklin.
Lewis C. Levin, Philadelphia.
Daniel Sturgeon, Uniontown.
Job Mann, Bedford.
J. X. McLanahan, Chambersburg.
Henry D. Moore, Philadelphia.
Henry Nes, / York.
Andrew J. Ogle, Somerset.
Charles W. Pitman, Pottsville.
Robert R. Reed, Washington.
John Robbins, jr., Philadelphia.
Thomas Ross, Doylestown.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
William Strong, Reading.
James Thompson, Erie.
David Wilmot, Towanda.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
John H. Clarke, Providence. Albert C. Greene, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly. George G. King, Newport.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Robert W. Barnwell. (7
Andrew P. Butler, Edgefield.
John C. Calhoun,'' Pendleton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Armistead Burt, Willington.
William F. Colcock, Grahamville.
Isaac E. Holmes, Charleston.
John McQueen, Bennettsville.
Franklin H. Elmore. »
R. Barnwell Rhett, J Charleston.
James L. Orr, Anderson.
Daniel Wallace, Union.
Jos. A. Woodward, Winnsboro.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
John Bell, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Josiah M. Anderson, Coops Creek.
Andrew Ewing, Nashville.
Meredith P. Gentry, Franklin.
Isham G. Harris, Paris.
Andrew Johnson, Greenville.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Hopkins L. Turney, Winchester.'
John H. Savage, Smithville.
Frederick P. Stanton, Memphis.
James H. Thomas, Columbia.
Albert G. Watkins, Panther Springs.
Christopher H. Williams, Lexington.
a Died November 19, 1860.
6 Died March] 2, 1849.
. c Elected in place of Chester Butler, deceased; took his seat January 13, 1<S51.
dDied Octobers, 18B0.
e Elected in place of Henry Nes, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1850.
/Died September 10, 1850.
9 Appointed in place of Franklin H. Elmore, deceased; took his seat June 24, 1860.
''Died March 31, 1850.
< Appointed in place of John C. Calhoun, deceased: took his seat May 6, 1850; died May 29, 1850.
i Elected in place of John C. Calhoun, deceased, Franklin H. Elmore and Robert W. Barnwell having been appointed
pro tempore; took his seat January 6, 1851.
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162 OONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
" Samuel Houston, Huntsville. Thomas J. Eusk, Nacogdoches.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Volney E. Howard, San Antonio. David S. Kaufman, « Brazoria.
VERMONT.
SENATORS,
Samuel S. Phelps, Middlebury. Wi'Iiam Uphani, Montpelier.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Hebard, Chelsea. James Meacham, Middlebury.
William Henry, Bellows Falls. Lucius B. Peck, Montpelier.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds. James M. Mason, Winchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Averett, Halifax. Fayette McMullen, Rye Cove.
Thomas H. Bayley, Accomac. Richard K. Meade, Petersburg.
James M. H. Beale, Point Pleasant. John S. Millson, Norfolk.
Thos. S. Bocock, Appomattox. Jeremiah Morton, Raccoon Ford.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem. . Richard Parker, Berry ville.
Thomas S. Haymond, * Fairmount. Paulus Powell, Amherst.
Alexander R. Holladay, Mansfield. James A. Seddon, Richmond.
James McDowell, Lexington.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Henry Dodge, Dodgeville. Isaac P. Walker, Milwaukee.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Orsamus Cole, Potoai. Charles Durkee, Southport.
James Duane Doty, Menasha.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry H. Sibley, Mendota.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel R. Thurston, Linn City.
aDied JaBuary 31, 1851. !> Elected in place of Alexander Newman, deceased In 1849, having never taken his seat.
THIETY-SECOXD CONGRESS.
First session, from December 1, 1S61, to August SI, 1862. Second session, from December J 185-2 to
March 3, 186S.
Fice-Presi&ini.— Willi AM R. King, « of Alabama. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Wihi.jAM R.
King," o± Alabama; David R. Atchison, of Missouri, elected December 20, 1852. Secretarti of the
Senate. — Asbury Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House.— Linn Boyd, of Kentucky. Clerk of the House.— John W. Forney of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Jeremiah Clemens, Huntsville. William R. King,'' Selma.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, « Wetumpka.
representatives.
James Abercrombie, Girard. George S. Houston, Athens.
John Bragg, Mobile. William R. Smith, Fayette.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Bellefonte. Alexander White, Talladega.
Sampson W. Harris, Wetumpka.
ARKANSAS.
senators.
Solon Borland, Hot Springs. William K. Sebastian, Helena.
representative.
Robert W. Johnson, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
William M. Gwin, San Francisco. John B. Weller, « San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward C. Marshall, Sonora. Joseph W. McCorkle, Marysville.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Truman Smith, Litchfield. Isaac Toucey, / Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Chapman, Hartford. Colin M. Ingeraoll, New Haven.
Chauncey F. Cleveland, Hampton. Origen S. Seymour, Litchfield.
a Died April 18, 1853.
6 Resigned December 20, 1852.
"Appointed in place of William R. King, resigned; took his seat January 20, 1853.
' Resigned as President pro tempore December 20, 1852; subsequently resigned his seat, having been elected Vice-President.
e Took his seat March 17, 1852.
/ Took his seat May 14, 1852. ,
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164 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington. Presley Spruance, Smyrna.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George Bead Riddle, Wilmington.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Mallory," Jacksonville. Jackson Morton, Pensacola.
REPRESENTATIVE.
E. Carrington Cabell, Monticello.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John Macpherson Berrien, ^ Savannah.
Robert M. Charlton, « Savannah.
REPRESENT ATI VES.
David J . Bailey, Jackson.
E. W. Chastain, Tacoah.
Junius Hillyer, Monroe.
J'oseph W. Jackson, Savannah.
William C. Dawson, Greensboro.
James Johnson, Columbus.
Charles Murphy, Decatur.
Alex. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
Robert Toombs, AVashington.
ILLINOIS.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
REPRESENT A TI VES.
Willis Allen, Marion.
William H. Bissell, Belleville.
Thompson Campbell, Galena.
Orlando B. Ficklin, Charleston.
James Shields, Belleville.
Richard S. Molony, Belvidere.
William A. Richardson, Quincy.
Richard Yates, Jacksonville.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Jesse D. Bright, Madison.
Charles W. Cathcart,'' Laporte.
Samuel Brenton, Fort Wayne.
John G. Davis, Rockville.
Cyrus L. Dunham, Salem.
Graham N. Fitch, Logansport.
Willis A. Gorman, Bloomington.
John Petit, ^ Lafayette.
James Whitcomb, f Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Shelbyville.
James Lockhart, Evansville.
Daniel Mace, Lafayette.
Samuel AV. Parker, Connersville.
John L. Robinson, Rushville.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
Augustus C. Dodge, Burlington. George W. Jones, Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lincoln Clark, Dubuque. Bernhart Henn, Fairfield.
a Election unsuccessfully contested liy David L. Yuleo.
'' Resigned May 28, 1862.
c Appointed in place of Jolm Macpherson Berrien, resigned) took his seat June 11, l,s,'S-2.
rt Appointed in place ol James Whitcomb, deceased; toolc his seat December 6, 1852.
'■ Elected in place of James Whitcomb, deceased, Cliarles W. Cathcart having been appointed pro tempore; took his s
January 18, IS.S:!.
/Died October 4, 1852.
THIRTY -SECOND CONGRESS.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
165
Henry Clay.a Lexington.
Archibald Dixon, 6 Henderson.
David Meriwether. <-'
Joseph E. Underwood, Bowling Green.
REPKBSENTATIVES.
Linn Boyd,<« Paducah.
John C. Breckinridge, Lexington.
Presley Ewing, Russellville.
Benjamin E. Grey, Hopkinsville.
Humphrey Marshall,* Newcastle.
John C. Mason, Owensville.
William Preston, / Louisville.
Richard H. Stanton, Maysville.
James W. Stone, Elizabethtown.
William T. Ward, Greensburg.
Addison White, Richmond.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOES.
Solomon W. Downs, Monroe. Pierre SouM, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Aristide Landry, Donaldsonville.
John Moore, New Iberia.
James W. Bradbury, Augusta.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Andrews, 9' Paris.
John Appleton, Portland.
Thomas J. D. Fuller, Calais.
Robert Goodenow, Farmington.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard T. Bowie, Rockville.
Joseph S. Cottman, Upper Trappe.
Alexander Evans, Elkton.
Alexander G. Penn, Covington.
Louis St. Martin, New Orleans.
Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
Moses McDonald, Biddeford.
Isaac Reed, A Waldoboro.
Ephraim K. Smart, Camden.
Israel Washburn, jr., Orono.
Thomas G. Pratt, Annapolis.
Wm. T. Hamilton, Hagerstown.
Edw. Hammond, Ellicotts Mills.
Thomas Yates Walsh, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
John Da\is, Worcester.
Charles Allen, Worcester.
William Appleton, Boston.
George T. Davis, Greenfield.
James H. Duncan, Haverhill.
Francis B. Fay, * Chelsea.
Orin Fowler, 3 Fall River. "
John Z. Goodrich, Glendale.
SENATORS.
•REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
Edward P. Little,* Marshfield.
Horace Mann, West Newton.
Robert Rantoul, jr., ' Beverly.
Lorenzo Sabine,"* Framingham.
Zeno Scudder, Barnstable.
Benj. Thompson," Charlestown.
a Died June 29, 1852, having previously tendered his resignation to take effect on the first Monday of September, 1852.
6 Elected in place of Henry Clay, deceased, David Meriwether having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Decem-
ber 20, 1852.
c Appointed in place of Henry Clay, deceased; took his seat July 15, 1852.
dElected Speaker December 1, 1851.
e Resigned August 4, 1852.
/Elected in place of Humphrey Marshall, resigned; took his seat December B, 1852.
crDled April ao, 1852.
ft Elected in place of Charles Andrews, deceased; took his seat June 25, 1852.
iEleeted in place of Robert Rantoul, jr., deceased; took his seat December 29, 1852.
jDied September 3, 1862.
^Elected in place of Orin Fowler, deceased; took his seat December 30, 1852.
I Died August 7, 1852.
r.i Elected in place of Benjamin Thompson, deceased; took his seat December 28, 1862.
1! Died September 24, 1862.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Lewis Cass, Detroit.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James L. Conger, Mount Clemens.
Bbenezer J. Penniman, Plymouth.
MISSISSIPPI.
Alpheus Felch, Ann Arbor.
Charles E. Stuart, Kalamazoo.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David R. Atchison, / Platte City. Henry S. Geyer, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stephen Adams," Aberdeen.
Walter Brooke, * Lexington.
Jefferson Davis. "
Albert G. Brown, Gallatin.
John D. Freeman, Jackson.
Henry S. Foote,'' Jackson.
John I. McRae, '■ Enterprise.
Benjamin D. Nabers, Hickory Flat.
John A. Wilcox, Aberdeen.
John F. Darby, St. Louis.
Willard P. Hall, St. Joseph.
John G. Miller, Boonville.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
Gilchrist Porter, Bowling Green.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
John P. Hale, Dover.
Harry Hibbard, Bath.
Charles H. Peaslee, Concord.
Jacob W. Miller, Morristown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
George H. Brown, Somerville.
Rodman M. Price, Hoboken.
Charles Skelton, Trenton.
Moses Norris, Manchester.
Jared Perkins, Winchester.
Amos Tuck, Exeter.
Robert F. Stockton, fi' Princeton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK.
Nathan T. Stratton Mullica Hill.
Isaac Wildrick, Blairstown.
Hamilton Fish, New York.
Leander, Babcock, Oswego.
Henry Bennett, New Berlin
Obadiah Bowne, Richmond.
John H. Boyd, Whitehall.
George Briggs, New York.
James Brooks, New York.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Seward, Auburn.
Alexander H. Buell,'« Fairfield.
Lorenzo Burrows, Albion.
Gilbert Dean, Poughkeepsie.
John G. Floyd, Moriches.
Emanuel B. Hart, New York.
Augustus P. Hascall, Leroy.
n Elected in place of Jefferson Davis, resigned in 1851, John I. McR'ae having been appointed pro tempore; took his seivt
March 17, 1862.
b Elected in place of Henry S. Foote, resigned; took his seat March 11, 18V».
c Resigned November, 1851.
d Resigned in 1862.
e Appointed in place of Jefferson Davis, resigned; took his seat December 19, 1S51. '
/Elected President pro tempore December 20, 1862.
» Resigned January 10, 185S.
A Died January 29, 18B3.
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
167
Solomon G. Haven, Buffalo.
J. H. Hobart Haws, New York.
Jedediah Horsford, Moscow.
Thomas Y. How, jr., Auburn.
William Ives, Watertown.
Timothy Jenkins, Oneida Castle.
Daniel T. Jones, Baldwinsville.
Preston King, Ogdensburg.
Frederick 8. Martin, Olean.
William Murray, Goshen.
Eeuben Robie, Bath,
Joseph Eussell, Warrensburg.
William A. Sackett, Seneca Falls.
A. M. Schermerhorn, Rochester.
John L. Schoolcraft, Albany.
Marius Schoonmaker, Kingston.
David L. Seymour, Troy.
William W. Snow, Oneonta.
Abraham P. Stephens, Nyack.
Josiah Sutherland, Hudson.
Henry S. Walbridge, Ithaca.
John Wells, Johnstown.
NORTH CAROLINA.
George E. Badger, Raleigh.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William S. Ashe, Wilmington.
Joseph P. Caldwell, Statesville.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville.
John R. J. Daniel, Halifax.
Alfred Dockery, Dockerys Store.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Salmon P. Chase, Cincinnati.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nelson Barrere, Hillsboro.
Hiram Bell, Greenville.
George H. Busby, Marion.
Joseph Cable, Carrollton.
Lewis D. Campbell, Hamilton.
David K. Cartter, Massillon.
David T. Disney, Cincinnati.
Alfred P. Edgerton, Hicksville.
Jas. M. Gaylord, McConnellsville.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Frederick AV. Green, Tiffin.
Willie P. Mangum, Red Mountain.
James T. Morehead, Greensboro.
David Outlaw, Windsor.
Edward Stanly, Washington.
A. W. Venable, Brownsville.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
Alexander Harper, Zanesville.
AVilliam F. Hunter, Woodsfield.
John Johnson, Coshocton.
Eben Newton, Canfield.
Edson B. Olds, Circleville.
Benjamin Stanton, Bellefontaine.
Charles Sweetser, Delaware.
John L. Taylor, Chillicothe.
Norton S. Townshend, Avon.
John Welch, Athens.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Richard Brodhead, Easton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Allison, Beaver.
Thomas M. Bibighaus, Lebanon.
Joseph R. Chandler. Philadelphia.
Carlton B. Curtis, Warren.
John L. Dawson, Brownsville.
Milo M. Dimmick, Stroudsburg.
Thomas B. Florence, Philadelphia.
Henry M. Fuller," Wilkesbarre.
James Gamble, Jersey Shore.
Alfred Gilmore, Butler.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
John W. Howe, Franklin.
James Cooper, Pottsville.
Thomas M. Howe, Allegheny City.
J. Glancy Jones, Reading.
Joseph H. Kuhns, Greerisburg.
William H. Kurtz, York.
J. X. McLanahan, Chambersburg.
John McNair, Norristown.
Henry D. Moore, Philadelphia.
John A. Morrison, Cochransville.
Andrew Parker, Mifflintown.
John Robbins, jr., Philadelphia.
Thomas Ross, Doylestown.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
John H. Clarke, Providence. Charles T. James, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George G. King, Newport. Benjamin B. Thurston, Hopkinton.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by H. B. 'Wright.
168
CONGEESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Andrew P. Butler, Edgefield.
Wm. F. De Saussure," Columbia.
REPHESENTATIVBS.
William Aiken, Charleston.
Armistead Burt, Willington.
Wm. F. Colcock, Grahamville.
John McQueen, Bennettsville.
R. Barnwell Rhett, » Charleston.
James L. Orr, Anderson.
Daniel Wallace, Jonesville.
Jos. A. Woodward, Winnsboro.
TENNESSEE.
John Bell, Nashville.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Wm. M. Churchwell, Knoxville.
William CuUom, Carthage.
Meredith P. Gentry, FrankUn.
Isham G. Harris, Paris.
Andrew Johnson, Greeneville.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
James C. Jones, Memphis.
William H. Polk, Columbia.
John H. Savage, Smithville.
Frederick P. Stanton, Memphis.
A. G. Watkin*, Panther Springs.
C. H. Williams, Lexington.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Houston, Huntsville. Thomas J. Rusk, Nacogdoches.
KEPKESENTATIVBS.
Volney E. Howard, San Antonio. Richardson Scurry, Clarksville.
Solomon Foot, Rutland.
Samuel S. Phelps, " Middlebury.
Thomas Bartlett, jr., Lyndon.
William Hebard, Chelsea.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Uphani,'' Montpelier.
James Meacham, Middlebury.
Ahiman L. Miner, Manchester.
VIRGINIA.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Averett, Halifax.
Thomas H. Bayley, Accomac.
J. M. H. Beale, Point Pleasant.
Thos. S. Bocock, Appomattox.
John S. Caskie, Richmond.
Sherrard Clemens, « Wheeling.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem.
Chas. J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
James jM. Mason, Winchester.
Alex. R. Holladay, Mansfield.
John Letcher, Lexington.
Richard K. Meade, Petersburg.
Fayette McMuUen, Rye Cove,
John S. Millson, Nprfolk.
Paulus Powell, Amherst.
Jaji. F. Strother, Rappahannock.
George AV. Thompson, i
a Appointed in place of R. Barnwell Rhett, resigned; took his seat May 24, 1852.
1> Resigned in 1852.
o Appointed in place of William Upham, deceased; took his seat January 19, 1853.
rfDied January 14, 185.S.
e Elected in place of George W. Thompson, resigned; took his seat December 0, 1852.
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. 169
WISCONSIN.
SENATOKS.
Henry Dodge, Dodgeville. Isaac P. Walker, Milwaukee.
HEPEESENTATIVES.
James Duane Doty, Menasha. Benj. C. Eastman, Platteville.
Charles Durkee, Kenosha.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry H. Sibley, Mendota.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Richard H. Weightman," Santa F6.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph Lane, Oregon City.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John M. Bernhisel,« Salt Lake City,
a Took his seat December 1, 1851.
THIKTY-THIRD OONGEESS.
First session, from December 5, 1853, to August 7, 1854- Second session, from December 4, 1864, to
March 3, 1855.
Vice-PreHdent.a Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Dayjd E. Atchison, of Missouri; Lewis
Cass, of Michigan, elected December 4, 1854, for one day; Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, elected
December 5, 1854. Secretary of the Senate.— AsBmy Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the Ifousc— Linn Boyd, of Kentucky. Clerk of the House.— Josn W. Forney, of Penn-
sylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Clement C. Clay, jr., Huntsville. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, MVetumpka.
representatives.
James Abercrombie, Girard. George S. Houston, Athens.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Bellefonte. Philip Phillips, Mobile.
James F. Dowdell, Chambers. William E. Smith, Fayette.
Sampson W. Harris, Wetumpka.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Solon Borland. " William K. Sebastian, <' Helena.
Robert W. Johnson, f* Little Rock.
REPRESENT.iTIVES.
Alfred B. Greenwood, Bentonville. Edward A. Warren, Camden.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
William M. Gwin, San Francisco. John B. Weller, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Milton S. Latham, Sacramento City. James A. McDougall, San Francisco.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Francis Gillette, / Hartford. Isaac Toucey, Hartford.
Truman Smith,? Litchfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathan Belcher, New London. James T. Pratt, Rockyhill.
Colin M. Ingersoll, New Haven. Origen S. Seymour, llitchfleld.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington. John M. Clayton, « Chippevv'a.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George Read Riddle, Wilmington.
a William E. King, Vice-President of the United States, died April 18, 1853.
''Elected in place of William E. King, resigned; took his ."ieiit March 4, 1853.
<^ Resigned April, 1853.
d Appointed m place of Solon Borland, appointed minister to Central America; took his seat December 5, 1853; subse-
quently elected by the legislature.
eTook his seat March 4, 1853.
/Elected in place of Truman Smith, resigned; took his seat May 25, 1854,
0 Resigned April 11, 1854, to take effect May 24, 1857.
170
THIETY-THIKD UONGipiSS. 17 1
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Mallory, Jacksonville. Jackson Morton, Pensacola.
EEPEESENTATI VE.
Augustus E. Maxwell, Tallahassee.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
William C. Dawson, Greensboro. Robert Toombs, « A^'ashington.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
?^is? ni^H^^'^' Jackson. Junius Hillyer, Monroe.
Au J Ohastain, Tacoah. David A. Reese, Monticello.
wnv •^^^xl'l".^**' i^t^'ton- ■ James L. Seward, Thomasville.
William B. W. Dent, Newnan. A. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
ILLINOIS.
SENATOES.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago. James Shields, Belleville.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
^^■^ 9;/^^°.' I^alestine. William A. Richardson, Quincy.
w- r^ ^'1?^' ^arion Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
Wilham H. Bissell, Belleville. John Wentworth, Chicago.
James Knox, Knoxville. Richard Yates, Jacksonville.
Jesse O. Norton, Joliet.
INDIANA.
SEXATOES.
Jesse D. Bright, » Madison. John Pettit, Lafayette.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Ebenezer M. Chamberlain, Goshen. Thomas A. Hendricks, Shelby ville.
John G. Davis, Eockville. James H. Lane, Lawrenceburg.
Cyrus L. Dunham, Valley Farm. Daniel Mace, Lafayette.
Norman Eddy, South Bend. Smith Miller, Patoka.
William H. English, Lexington. Samuel AV. Parker, Counersville.
Andrew J. Harlan, Marion.
IOWA.
SENATOES.
Augustus C. Dodge, BurUngton. George W. Jones, Dubuque.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John P. Cook, Davenport. Bernhart Henn, Fairfield.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOES.
John B. Thompson, « Harrodsburg. Archibald Dixon, Henderson.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Linn Boyd, « Paducah. Presley Ewing, « Russellville.
John C. Breckinridge, Lexington. Ben Edwards Grey, Hopkinsville.
Francis M. Bristow,<^ Elkton. Clement S. Hill, Lebanon.
James S. Chrisman, Monticello. William Preston, Louisville.
Leander M. Cox, Flemingsburg. Richard H. Stanton, Maysville.
John M. Elliott, Prestonburg.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOES.
Judah P. Benjamin, •a^ New Orleans. Pierre Soul^.fl'
John Slidell, / New Orleans.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
William Dunbar, New Orleans. Roland Jones, Shreveport.
Theodore G. Hunt, New Orleans. John Perkins, jr., Ashwood.
a Took his seat March 4, 1853.
6 Elected President pro tempore December 5, 1854.
0 Elected Spealser December 5, 1853.
tiElected in place of Presley Ewing, deceased; toolc his seat December 4, 1854.
eDiedinl854.
/ Elected In place of Pierre Soul4, resigned 1853; took his seat December 5, 1853.
a Resigned April 11, 1853.
172
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MAINE.
SENATOES.
William Pitt Fessenden," Portland. Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
EEPKESENTATrVES.
Samuel P. Benson, Winthrop.
E. Wilder Farley, Newcastle.
Thomas J. D. Fuller, Calais.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John R. Franklin, Snowhill.
William T. Hamilton, Hagerstown.
Henry May, Baltimore.
Samuel Mahall, Gray.
Moses McDonald, Portland.
Israel Washburn, jr., Orono.
Thomas G. Pratt, Annapolis.
Jacob Shower, Manchester.
A. R. Sollers, JPrince Fredericktown.
Joshua Vansant, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SEN.^TORS.
Edward Everett, !> Boston.
Julius Rockwell, « Pittsfield.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
William Appleton, Boston.
Nathaniel P. Banks, jr., Waltham.
Samuel L. Crocker, Taunton.
Alexander De Witt, Oxford.
Edward Dickinson, Amherst.
J. W. Edmands, Newton Corner.
Lewis Cass,!/ Detroit.
Samuel Clark, Detroit.
David A. Noble, Monroe.
Stephen Adams, Aberdeen.
William Barksdale, Columbus.
William S. Barry, Greenwood.
Wiley P. Harris, Monticello.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
Henry Wilson,'' Natick.
Thos. D. Eliot, « New Bedford.
John Z. Goodrich, Glendale.
Zeno Scudder,/ Barnstable.
Charles W. Upham, Salem.
Saml. H. Walley, Roxbury.
Tappan Wentworth, Lowell.
Charles E. Stuart,'' Kalamazoo.
Hestor L. Stevens, Pontiac.
David Stuart, Detroit.
Albert G. Brown, * Newtown.
Otho R. Singleton, Canton.
Daniel B. Wright, Salem.
SENATORS.
David R. Atchison, ji Platte City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Benton, St. Louis.
Samuel Caruthers, Fredericktown.
Alfred W. Lamb, Hannibal.
James J. Lindley, Monticello.
Henry S. Geyer, St. Louis.
John G. Miller, Boonville.
ilordecai Oliver, Richmond.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
aTook his seat February 23, lx.i-1.
bResigiied June 1, 1854.
o Appointed in place of Edward Everett, resigned; took his seat Juno 15, 1854.
d Elected in place of Edward Everett, resigned, Julius Rockwell having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Feb-
ruary 10, 186B.
eElected in place of Zeno Scudder, resigned; took his seat April 17, 1854.
/ Resigned in 1854.
ffElected President pro tempore December 4, 1854, for one day.
ft Took his seat March 4, 1858.
i Took his seat January 26, 18.54.
j President ijro tempore.
THIRTY-THIBD CONGKESS.
173
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOBS.
Charles G. Atherton.a Nashua.
Moses Norris, & Manchester.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Harry Hibbard, Bath.
Geor. W. Kittredge, Newmarket.
John E. Thomson, Princeton.
Samuel Lilly, Lambertville.
Alex. C. M. Pennington, Newark.
Charles Skelton, Trenton.
NEW JERSEY.
SEXATOKS
EEPKESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK.
Hamilton Fish, New York.
SENATORS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Henry Bennett, New Berlin.
Davis Carpenter, / Brockport.
George W. Chase, Schenevus.
Thomas W. Cumming, Brooklyn.
Francis B. Cutting, New York.
Gilbert Dean,? Poughkeepsie.
Reuben E. Fenton, Frewsburg.
Thomas T. Flagler, Lockport.
Henry C. Goodwin, 't Hamilton.
George Hastings, Mount Morris.
Solomon G. Haven, Buffalo.
Charles Hughes, Sandy Hill.
Daniel T. Jones, Baldwinsville.
Caleb Lyon, Lyonsdale.
Orsamus B. Matteson, Utica.
James Maurice, Maspeth.
Edwin B. Morgan, Aurora.
William Murray, Goshen.
John S. Wells. "
Jared W. Williams, ^^ Lancaster.
George AV. Morrison, jManchester.
William Wright, '' Newark.
Nathan T. Stratton, MuUica Hill.
George Vail, jNIorristown.
William H. Seward, Auburn.
Andrew Oliver, Penn Yan.
Jared V. Peck, Port Chester.
Rufus W. Peckham, Albany.
Bishop Perkins, Ogdensburg.
Benjamin Pringle, Batavia.
Peter Eowe, Schenectady.
Russell Sage, Troy.
George A. Simmons, Keeseville.
Gerrit Smith, « Petersboro.
John J. Taylor, Owego.
Isaac Teller, i Mattawan.
William M. Tweed, New York.
Hiram Walbridge, New York.
William A. Walker, New York.
Mike Walsh, New York.
Theo. R. Westbrook, Kingston.
John Wheeler, NevA' York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
George E. Badger, Raleigh.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William 8. Ashe, Wilmington.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville
Burton Craige, Salisbury.
John Kerr, Yancevville.
David S. Eeid,^- Wentworth.
Richard C. Puryear, Huntsville.
Sion H. Rogers, Ealeigh.
Thomas Rufiin, Goldsboro.
Henry M. Shaw, Indian Town.
OHiG.
Salmon P. Chase, Cincinnati.
Edward Ball, Zanesville.
George Bliss, Akron.
Iiewis D. Campbell, Hamilton.
Moses B. Corwin, IJrbana.
David T. Disney, Cincinnati.
Alfred P. Edgerton, Hicksville.
Andrew Ellison, Georgetown.
Joshua E. Giddings, Jefferson.
Frederic W. Green, Ti£an.
Aaron Harlan, Yellow Springs.
John Scott Harrison, Cleves.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
Harvey H. Johnson, Ashland.
William D. Lindsley, Sandusky.
Matthias H. Nichols, Lima.
Edson B. Olds, Circleville.
Thomas Ritchie, Somerset.
William R. Sapp, Mount Vernon.
Wilson Shannon, St. Clairsville.
Andrew Stuart, Steubenville.
John L. Taylor, Chillicothe.
Edward Wade, Cleveland.
a Took his seat March 4, 1853; died November 15, 1853.
6 Died January 11, 1855.
c Appointed in place of Moses Norris, deceased; toolc his seat January 22, 1855.
d Appointed in place of Charles G. Athertou, deceased; took his seat December 12, 1853.
c Took his seat March 4, 1863.
/In place of A. Boody, resigned October, 1853.
ff Resigned July 3, 1854.
A Elected in place of Gerrit Smith, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1854.
* Kesigfned in 1854.
i Elected in place of Gilbert Dean, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1854.
fc Took his seat December 11, 1854.
174
CONGEESSIOTSTAL DIRECTOEy.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James Cooper, Pottsville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samviel A. Bridges, Allentown.
Joseph E. Chandler, Philadelphia.
Carlton B. Curtis, Warren.
John L. Dawson, Brownsville.
John Dick, Meadville.
Augustus Drum, Indiana.
William Everhart, AVestchester.
Thomas B. Florence, Philadelphia.
James Gamble, Jersey Shore.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
Isaac E. Hiester, Lancaster.
Thomas M. Howe, Allegheny City.
J. Glancy Jones, « Eeadmg.
Bichard Brodhead, Easton.
William H. Kurtz, York.
John McCulloch, Shavers Creek.
Ner Middleswarth, Beavertown.
John McNair, Norristown.
Henry A. Muhlenberg, b Berks.
Asa Packer, Mauch Chunk.
David Ritchie, Pittsburg.
John Bobbins, jr., Kensington.
Samuel L. Russell, Bedford.
Christian M. Straub, Pottsville.
Michael C. Trout, Sharon.
William H. Witte,. Richmond.
Hendrick B. Wright, Wilkesbarre.
Philip Allen, Providence.
Thomas Davis, Providence.
Andrew P. Butler, Edgefield.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CABOLINA.
SENATORS.
Charles T. James, Providence.
Benjamin B. Thurston, Hopkintou.
William Aiken, Charleston.
William W. Boyce, Winnsboro.
Preston S. Brooks, Ninety-Six.
John Bell, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bobert M. Bugg, Lynnfield.
William M. Churchwell, Knoxville.
William Cullom, Carthage.
Emerson Etheridge, Dresden.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Samuel Houston, Huntsville.
Peter H. Bell, Austin.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Lawrence Brainerd, « St. Albans.
Solomon Foot, Rutland.
James Meacham, Middlebury.
Alvah Sabin, Georgia.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Josiah J. Evans, " Society Hill,
L. M. Keitt, Orangeburg.
John McQueen, Marlboro.
James L. Orr, Anderson.
James C. Jones, Memphis.
Charles Ready, Murfreesboro.
Samuel A. Smith, Charleston.
Frederick P. Stanton, Memphis.
Nat'l G. Taylor,a Happy Valley.
Felix K. Zollicoffer, Nashville.
Thomas J. Rusk, Nacogdoches.
George W. Smyth, Jasper.
Samuel S. Phelps, / Middlebury.
Andrew Tracy, Woodstock.
o Elected In place of Henry A. Muhlenberg, deceased; took his seat February 13, 1854.
b Died January 9, 1864.
a Took his seat March 4, 1863.
d Elected in place of Brookins Campbell, deceased, December 25, 1853, having never taken his seat; took his seat
March 80, 1864.
eElected in place oJ William Upham, deceased, Samuel S. Phelps having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
December 4, 1854.
/Appointed in place oi William Upham, deceased; took his seat January 19, 1853.
THIKTY-THIRD C0NGBES8.
175
VIRGINIA.
Bobert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
SENATOBS.
Thomas H. Bayley, Accomac.
Thos. S. Bocock, Appomattox.
John 8. Caskie, Richmond.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem.
Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
William O. Goode, Boydton.
Zedekiah Kidwell, Fairmont.
EEPEBSENTATIVES.
WISCONSIN.
James M. Mason, Winchester.
John Letcher, Lexington.
Charles 8. Lewis, a Clarksburg.
Fayette McMullen, Rye Cove.
John 8. Millson, Norfolk.
Paulus Powell, Amherst.
William Smith, Warrenton.
John F. Snodgrass, 6 Parkersburg
Henry Dodge, Dodgeville.
Benj. C. Eastman, Platteville.
John B. Macy, Fond du Lac.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Isaac P. Walker, Milwaukee.
Daniel Wells, jr., Milwaukee.
KANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
J. W. Whitfield, cTecumseh.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry M. Rice, St. Paul.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Napoleon B. Giddings.'^
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Jos^ Manuel Gallegos, « Albuquerque.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph Lane, Winchester.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Columbia Lancaster,/ St. Helena.
a Elected in place of John F. Snodgrass, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1854
6 Died June 5, 1854.
"Took his seat December 20, 1854.
dTook his seat January 5, 1855.
«Took his seat December 5, 1853.
/Took his seat April 12, 1854.
THIETY-FOUETH OOIS^GRESS.
First session, from December S, 1855, to August 18, 1856. Second session, from August 21, 1C56, to Augud 30,
1856. Third session, from December 1, 1856, to March S, 1857.
Vice-President. "■ Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, again elected
June 11, 1856; Charles E. Stuart, of Michigan, elected June 9, 1856; James M. Mason, of Virginia,
elected January 6, 1857. Secretary of the Senate. — Asbury Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, derks of the House. — John W.
Forney, of Pennsylvania; William Oullom, of Tennessee, elected February 4, 1856.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Clement Q.. Clay, jr. Huntsville. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Wetumpka.
representatives.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Bellefonte. Eli S. Shorter, Eufaula.
James F. Dowdell, Chambers. William R. Smith, Fayette.
Sampson W. Harris, Wetumpka. Percy Walker, Mobile.
George S. Houston, Athena.
ARKANSAS.
senators.
Robert W. Johnson, Pine Bluffs. William K. Sebastian, Helena.
representatives.
Alfred B. Greenwood, Bentonville. Albert Rust, El Dorado.
CALIFORNIA.
senators.
William M. Gwin, 6 San Francisco. John B. Weller, San Francisco.
representatives.
James W. Denver, Weaverville. Philemon T. Herbert, Mariposa City.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Lafayette S. Foster, Norwich. Isaac Toucey, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ezra Clark, jr., Hartford. AVilliam AV. AVelch, Norfolk.
Sidney Dean, Putnam. John Woodruff, New Haven.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington. Joseph P. Comeavs,'' Dover.
John M. Clayton, '' Chippewa.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Elisha D. Cullen, Georgetown.
a William R. King, Vice-President of the United States, died April 18, 1853.
''Took his seat February 16, 1857.
cDIed November 9, 185(i.
rt Appointed in place of John M. Clayton, deceased; took Lis seat December 4, 1856.
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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen E. Mallory, Key West. David L. Yulee, Homasassa.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Augustus E. Maxwell, Tallahassee.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Alfred Iverson, Columbus.
REPRESENTATIVES.
177
Robert Toombs, Washington.
Howell Cobb, Athens.
Martin J. Crawford, Columbus.
Nathaniel G. Foster, Madison.
John H. Lumpkin, Rome.
ILLINOIS,
James L. Seward, Thomasville.
Alex. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
Robert P. Trippe, Forsyth.
Hiram Warner, Greenville.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James C. Allen, b Palestine.
Jacob C. Davis, " Warsaw.
Thomas L. Harris, Petersburg.
James Knox, Knoxville.
S. S. Marshall, (« McLeansboro.
Jesse D. Bright,? Madison.
Lucien Barbour, Indianapolis.
Samuel Brenton, Fort Wayne.
Schuyler Colfax, South Bend.
William Cumback, Greensburg.
George G. Dunn, Bedford.
William H. English, Lexington.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
IOWA.
Lyman Trumbull, a Alton.
Jas. L. D. Morrison, « Belleville.
Jesse 0. Norton, Joliet.
William A. Richardson,/ Quincy.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
James H. Woodworth, Chicago.
Graham N. Fitch,'' Logansport.
David P. Holloway, Richmond.
Daniel Mace, Lafayette.
Smith Miller, Patoka.
John U. Pettit, Wabash.
Harvey D. Scott, Terre Haute.
SENATORS.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant. George W. Jones, Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Augustus Hall, « Keosauqua. James Thorington, Davenport.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Burnett, Cadiz.
John P. CaiMbell, Belleview.
Leander M. Cox, Flemingsburg.
John M. Elliott, Prestonburg.
Joshua H. Jewett, Elizabethtown.
John B. Thompson, Harrodsburg.
Alex. K. Marshall, Nicholasville.
Humphrey Marshall, Springport.
Samuel F. Swope, Falmouth.
Albert G. Talbott, Danville.
Warner L. Underwood, Bowling Green.
a Elected Senator, and took hLs seat December 3, 1855.
SElection contested by William B. Archer, and seat declared vacant; subsequently elected at new election, and took his
seat December 1, 1856,
0 Elected in place of William A.Bichardson, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1856.
d Election unsuccessfully contested by G, Jay S. Turney.
e Elected in place of Lyman Trumbull, elected Senator; took his seat December 1, 1856,
/Resigned August 25, 1856,
9 President pro tempore,
* Took his seat February 9, 1857,
« Election unsuccessfully contested by E, G, B. Clarke.
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CONGKESSIOlirAL DIRECTORY.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Judah p. Benjamin, New Orleans. John Slidell, New Orleans.
REPHESENTATIVES.
Thomas G. Davidson, Livingston.
George Eustis, ir.,« New Orleans.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
WiUiam Pitt Fessenden, Portland.
Hannibal Hamlin, b Hampden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel P. Benson, Wintlirop.
Thomas J. D. Fuller, (« Calais.
Ebenezer Knowlton, South Montville.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thos. F. Bowie, Upper Marlboro.
H. Winter Davis, Baltimore.
J. Morrison Harris, Baltimore.
John M. Sandidge, Pineville.
Miles Taylor, Donaldsonville.
Amos Nourse, « Bath.
John J. Perry, Oxford.
Israel Washbm-n, jr., Orono.
John M. Wood, Portland.
Thomas G. Pratt, Annapolis.
Henry W. Hoffman, Cumberland.
James B. Eicaud, Chestertown.
James A. Stewart, Cambridge.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel P. Banks, « Waltham.
James Buffinton, Fall River.
Anson Burlingame, Cambridge.
Calvin C. Chaffee, Springfield.
Linus B. Comins, Roxbury.
William S. Damrell, Dedham.
Lewis Cass, Detroit.
Wifliam A. Howard, Detroit.
George W. Peck, Lansing,
Stephen Adams, Aberdeen.
W-illiam Barksdale, Columbus.
Hendley S. Bennett, Grenada.
William A. Lake, Vicksburg.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Timothy Davis, Gloucester.
Alexander De Witt, Oxford.
Robert B. Hall, Plymouth.
Chauncey L. Knapp, Lowell.
Mark Trafton, Westfleld.
Charles E. Stuart, / Kalamazoo.
David S. VValbridge, Kalamazoo.
Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
Albert G. Brown, Newton.
John A. Quitman, Natchez.
Daniel B. Wright, Salem.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Henry S. Geyer, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas P. Akers,'' Lexington.
Sam'l Caruthers, Cape Girardeau.
Luther M. Kennett, St. Louis.
James J. Lindley, Monticello.
James Stephens Green,!/ Canton.
John G. Miller, « Boonville.
Mordecai Oliver, Richmond.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
Gilchrist Porter, Hannibal.
a Election unsuccesBfully contested by Albert Fabre.
6 Resigned January 7, 1857, having been elected governor.
c Appointed in place of Hannibal Hamlin, resigned, took his seat January 24, 1857.
^Election unsuccessfully contested by James A. Milliken.
f Elected Speaker February 2, 1856.
/ Elected President p-'o tempore June 9, 1856.
ffTook his seat January 21, 1857.
A Elected in place of John G, Miller, deceased; took his seat August 18, 1856.
JDiedMayll, 1856.
James Bell, Laconia.
THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATOKS.
179
John P. Hale, Dover.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon.
James Pike, South Newmarket.
Mason W. Tappan, Bradford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
John R. Thomson, Trenton. William Wright, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Bishop, New Brunswick.
Isaiah D. Clawson, Woodstown.
Alex. C. M. Pennington, Newark.
Geo. R. Robbins, Hamilton Square.
George Vail, Morristown.
NEW YORK.
Hamilton Fish, New York.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Bennett, New Berlin.
Thomas Childs, jr.,« New York.
Bayard Clarke, New York;
Samuel Dickson, New Scotland.
Edward Dodd, Argyle.
Francis S. Edwards, 6 Fredonia.
Thomas T. Flagler, Lockport.
William A. Gilbert, c Adams.
Amos P. Granger, Syracuse.
Solomon G. Haven, Buffalo.
Thomas R. Horton, Fultonville.
Jonas A. Hughston, Delhi.
John Kelly, New York.
William H. Kelsey, Geneseo.
Rufus H. King, Catskill.
Orsamus B. Matteson, " Utica.
Andrew Z. McCarty, Pulaski.
William H. Seward, Auburn.
Killian Miller, Hudson.
Edwin B. Morgan, Aurora.
Ambrose S. Murray, Goshen.
Andrew Oliver, Penn Yan.
John M. Parker, Owego.
Guy_ R. Pelton, New York.
Benjamin Pringle, Batavia.
Russell Sage, Troy.
George A. Simmons, KeesevlUe.
Francis E. Spinner, Mohawk.
James S. T. Stranahan, Brooklyn.
William W. Valk, Flushing.
Abram Wakeman, New York.
John Wheeler, New York.
Thomas R. Whitney, New York.
John Williams, Rochester.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Asa Biggs, Williamston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lawrence O'B. Branch, Raleigh.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville.
Burton Craige, Salisbury.
Robert T. Paine, Edenton.
OHIO.
David S. Reid, Pleasantville.
Richard C. Puryear, Huntsville
Edwin G. Reade, Roxboro.
Thamas Ruffin, Goldsboro.
Warren Winslow, Fayetteville.
George E. Pugh, Cincinnati.
Charles J. Albright, Cambridge.
Edward Ball, Zanesville.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Philemon Bliss, Elyria.
Lewis D. Campbell, Hamilton.
Timothy C. Day, Cincinnati.
Joseph R. Emrie, Hillsboro.
Samuel Galloway, Columbus.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
Aaron Harlan, Yellow Springs.
John Scott Harrison, Cleves. '
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
Valentine B. Horton, Pomeroy.
Benjamin F. Leiter, Canton.
Oscar F. Moore, Portsmouth.
Richard Mott, Toledo.
Matthias H. Nichols, Lima.
William R. Sapp, Mount Vernon.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
Benjamin Stanton, Bellefontaine.
Edward Wade, Cleveland.
Cooper K. Watson, Tiffin.
a Never took his seat owing to prolonged illness. IJ Resigned February 28, 1857. o Resigned February 27, 1857.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
William Bigler, Philadelphia.
REPEESBNTATIVES.
John Allison, New Brighton.
David Barclay. Punxsutawney.
Samuel C. Bradshaw, Quakertown.
Jacob Broom, Philadelphia.
John Cadwalader, Philadelphia.
James H. Campbell, Pottsville.
John Covode, Lockport Station.
John Dick, ileadville.
John R. Edie, Somerset.
Thomas B. Florence, Philadelphia.
Henry M. Fuller, Wilkesbarre.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
John Hickman, West Chester.
Richard Brodhead, Eaaton.
J. Glancv Jones, Reading.
Jonathan Knight, East Bethlehem.
John 0. Kunkel, Harrisburg.
William Millward, Philadelphia.
Asa Packer, IMauch Chunk.
John J. Pearce, Williamsport.
Samuel A. Purviance, Butler.
David Ritchie, Pittsburg.
Anthony E. Roberts, Lancaster.
David F. Robison, Chambersburg.
Lemuel Todd, Carlisle.
Job R. Tyson, Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Philip Allen, Providence. Charles T. James, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel B. Durfee, Tiverton. Benjamin B. Thurston, Hopkinton.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Andrew P. Butler, Edgefield. Josiah J. Evans, Society Hill.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Aiken, Charleston.
William W. Boyce, Winnsboro.
Preston S. Brooks, « Ninetysix.
John Bell, Nashville.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Emerson Etheridge, Dresden.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Charles Ready, Murfreesboro.
Thomas Rivers, Somerville.
John H. Savage, Smithville.
L. M. Keitt, 6 Orangeburg.
John McQueen, Marlboro.
James L. Orr, Anderson.
James C. Jones, Memphis.
Samuel A. Smith, Charleston.
William H. Sneed, Knoxville.
A. G. Watkins, Panther Springs.
John V. Wright, Purdy.
Felix K. ZoUicoffer, Nashville.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Samuel Houston, Huntsville. Thomas J. Rusk, Nacogdoches.
REPRESENTATIVES.
P. H. Bell, Austin. Lemuel D. Evans, Marshal -
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Jacob CoUamer, Woodstock. Solomon Foot, Rutland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George T. Hodges, « Rutland.
James Meacham,'' Middlebury.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
Alvah Sabin, Georgia.
"Resigned July 14, 1866; subsequently reelected, and took his sent August 1, 1856; died January 27, 18B7.
b Resigned July 16, 1856; subsequently reelected, ^and took his seat August 6, 1856.
cElected in place of James Meacham, deceased; look his seat December 1, 1856.
rfDied August 22, 1856.
THIKT^-FOUKTH CONGRESS. 181
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds. James M. Mason, « Winchester.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Bayley, & Accomac. William 0. Goode, Boydton.
Thos. S. Bocock, Appomattox. Zedekiah Kidwell, Fairmount.
John S. Carlile, Clarksburg. John Letcher, Lexington.
John S. Caskie, Richmond. Fayette McMullen, Ryecove.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem. John S. Millson, Norfolk.
Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg. Paulus Powell, Amherst.
Muscoe R. H. Garnett, c Lloyds. William Smith, Warrenton.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Henry Dodge, Dodgeville. Charles Durkee, Kenosha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Billinghurst, Juneau. Daniel Wells, jr., Milwaukee.
C. C. Washburne, Mineral Point.
KANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John W. Whitfield,'^ Tecumseh.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Henry M. Rice, St. Paul.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Bird B. Chapman, « Omaha City.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATES.
Jos6 Manuel Gallegos, / Albuquerque. Miguel A. Otero,!/ Albuquerque.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph Lane, Winchester.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
J. Patton Anderson, Olympia.
a Elected President pro tempore January 6, 1857.
6Died June23, 1866.
"Elected in place of Thomas H. Bayley, deceased; took his seat December 1, lSo6.
dSeat was declared vacant August 1, 1856.
c Election unsuccessfully contested by Hiram P. Bennett
/Election successfully contested bv Miguel A. Otero.
ff Successfully contested the election of Josfi Manuel Gallegos; took his seat July 23, 1856
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGEESS.
First session from December 7, 1SS7, to June 14, 1858. Second session from December 6, 1858, to
March S, 1869.
Vice-President. — John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — James
M. Mason, of Virginia, elected March 4, 1857, in special session; Thomas J. Rusk, of Texas, elected
March 14, 1857, in special session; Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, elected December 7, 1857,
again elected March 29, 1858, again elected June 14, 1858, and again elected January 25, 1859. Secretary
of the Senate. — Asbuhy Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — James L. Oer, of South Carolina. Clerk of the House. — James C. Allen, of
Illinois.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Clement C. Clay, jr., Huntsville. Benjamin Fitzpatrick," Wetumpka.
representatives.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, Bellefonte. Sydenham Moore, Greensboro.
Jabez L. M. Curry, Talladega. Eli S. Shorter, Eufaula.
James F. Dowdell, Chambers. James A. Stallworth, Evergreen.
George S. Houston, Athens.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Robert W. Johnson, Pine Bluffs. William K. Sebastian, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alfred B. Greenvi'ood, Bentonville. Edward A. Warren, Camden.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
David C. Broderick, !> San Francisco. William M. Gwin, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph C. McKibbin, Downieville. Charles L. Scott, Sonora.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
James Dixon, b Hartford. Lafayette S. Foster, Norwich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Arnold, Haddam. Ezra Clark, jr., Hartford.
William D. Bishop, Bridgeport. Sidney Dean, Putnam.
11 Elected President pro tempore December 7, 1867. b Took his seat March 4, 1857.
182
Martin W. Bates, « Dover,
THIKTY-PIFTH CONGRESS.
DELAAVARE.
SENATOHS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
William G. Whiteley, Newcastle.
183
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Mallory, Key West. David L. Yulee, Homasassa.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George S. Hawkins, Pensacola.
GEORGIA.
Alfred Iverson, Columbus.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin J. Crawford, Columbus.
Lucius J. Gartrell, Atlanta.
Joshua Hill, Madison.
James Jackson, Athens.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John E. Farnsworth, Chicago.
Thomas L. Harris, 6 Petersburg.
Charles D. Hodges, '^ CarroUton.
William Kellogg, Canton.
Owen Lovejoy, Princeton.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Jesse D. Bright,*^ Jeffersonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Brenton. «
Charles Case, Fort Wayne.
Schuyler Colfax, South Bend.
John G. Davis, Rockville.
Wilham H. English, Lexington.
James B. Foley, Greensburg.
James M. Gregg, Danville.
Robert Toombs, Washington.
James L. Seward, Thomasville.
Alex. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
Robert P. Trippe, Forsyth.
Augustus R. Wright, Rome.
Lyman Trumbull, Alton.
Saml. S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
Isaac N. Morris, Quincy.
Aaron Shaw, Lawrenceville.
Robert Smith, Alton.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
Graham N. Fitch, « Logansport.
James Hughes, Bloomington.
David Kilgore, Yorktown.
James Lockhart. /
William E. Niblack, Vincennes.
John U. Pettit, Wabash.
James Wilson, Crawfordsville.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant. George W. Jones, Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel R. Curtis, Keokuk.
Timothy Davis, Dubuque.
a Elected in place of John M. Clayton, deceased, Joseph P. Comegys having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
December 6, 1858.
bDied November 24, 1858.
0 Elected in place of Thomas L. Harris, deceased; took his seat January, 1859.
d Election unsuccessfully contested.
cDied March 29, 1857.
/Died September 7, 1857.
184
CONGKESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Burnett, Cadiz.
James B. Clay, Lexington.
John M. Elliott, Prestonburg.
Joshua H. Jewett, Elizabethtown.
Humphrey Marshall, Springport.
LOUISIANA.
SENATOKS.
Judah p. Benjamin, New Orleans.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Thomas G. Davidson, East Feliciana.
George Eustis, jr., New Orleans.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
William Pitt Fessenden, Portland.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Nehemiah Abbott, Belfast.
Stephen C. Foster, Pembroke.
Charles J. Gilman, Brunswick.
John B. Thompson, Karrodsburg.
John C. Mason, Owingsville.
Samuel O. Peyton, Hartford,
John W. Stevenson, Covington.
Albert G. Talbott, Danville.
Warner L. Underwood, Bowling Green.
John Slidell, New Orleans.
John M. Sandidge, Pineville.
Miles Taylor, Donaldsonville.
Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden.
Freeman H. Morse, Bath.
Israel Washburn, jr., Orono.
John M. Wood, Portland.
MARYLAND.
Anthony Kennedy, « Baltimore.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thos. F. Bowie, Upper Marlboro.
H. Winter Davis, * Baltimore.
J. Morrison Harris, <-' Baltimore.
James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
Jacob M. Kunkel, Frederick.
James B. Eicaud, Chestertown.
James A. Stewart, Cambridge.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, ^^ Boston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel P. Banks, « Waltham.
James Bufflnton, Fall River.
Anson Burlingame, Cambridge.
Calvin C. Chaffee, Springfield.
Linus B. Comins, Boston.
William S. Damrell, Dedham.
MICHIGAN.
Plenry Wilson, Natick.
Timothy Davis, Gloucester.
Henry L. Dawes, North Adams.
Daniel W. Gooch, / Melrose.
Robert B. Hall, Plymouth.
Chauncey L. Knapp, Lowell.
Eli Thayer, Worcester.
Zachariah Chandler, « Detroit. Charles E. Stuart, Kalamazoo.
REPEESENTATIVES.
William A. Howard, Detroit.
DeWitt C. Leach, Lansing.
David S. Walbridge, Kalamazoo.
Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
a Took his seat March 4, 1867.
6 Election unsucceasfuUy contested by Henry P. Brooks
^Election unsuccessfully contested by William Pinkney Whyte
dDii not take his seat during the session.
0 Resigned December 24, 1857.
/Elected in place of Nathaniel P. Banks, resigned; took his seat January 21, 1858.
THIRTY-FIFTH CONaKESS. 185
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Rice.a St. Paul. ' Jamea Shields. «
REPRESENTATIVES.
James M. Cavanaugh, b Chatfield. William W. Pfielps, " Red Wing.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS. '
Albert G. Brown, Newton. Jefferson DavLs, - Hurricane.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Barksdale, Columbus. John J. McEae,(? State Line.
Reuben Davis, Aberdeen. John A. Quitman, e Natchez.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Abbeville. Otho R. Singleton, Canton.
MISSOURI.
SEN.ITORS.
James S. Green, Canton. Trusten Polk, "■ St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas L. Anderson, Palmyra. James Craig, St. Joseph.
Francis P. Blair, jr., St. Louis. John S. Phelps, Springfield.
Samuel Caruthers, Cape Girardeau. Samuel H. Woodson, Independence
John B. Clark, Fayette.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
James Bell. / John P. Hale, Dover.
Daniel Clark,!/ Manchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Aaron Cragin, Lebanon. Mason W. Tappan, Bradford.
James Pike, Sanbornton Bridge.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
John R. Thompson, Princeton. William Wright, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Garnett B. Adrain, New Brunswick. Geo. R. Robbins, Hamilton Square.
Isaiah D. Clawson, Woodstown. Jacob R. Wortendyke, Jersey City.
John Huyler, Hackensack.
NEW YORK.
SEN.4.T0RS.
Preston King, « Ogdensburg. William H. Seward, Auburn.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel G. Andrews, Rochester. Edward Dodd, Argyle. r,
Thomas J. Barr,'' New York. Reuben E. Fenton, Frewsburg. (
Henry Bennett, New Berlin. Henry C. Goodwin, Hamilton.
Silas M. Burroughs, Medina. Amos P. Granger, Syracuse.
Horace F. Clark, New York. John B. Haskin, Fordham.
Clark B. Cochrane, Schenectady. Israel T. Hatch, Buffalo.
John Cochrane, New York. Charles B. Hoard, Watertown.
Erastus Corning, Albany. John Kelly, « New York.
a Took his seat May 12, 1868.
6 Took Ms seat May 22, 1858.
c Took his seat March 4, 1857.
a Elected in place of John A. Quitman, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1858.
eDied July 17, 1858.
/Died May 26, 1857.
oElected in place of James Bell, deceased, May 26, 1867; took his seat December 7, 1857.
h Elected in place of John Kelly, resigned; took his seat January 17, 1869.
i Resigned December 25, 1858.
186
CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOKY.
William H. Kelsey, Geneseo.
William B. Maclay, New York.
Orsamus B. Matteson, TJtica.
Edwin B. Morgan, Aurora.
Oliver A. Morse, Cherry Valley.
Ambrose S. Murray, Goshen.
Abram B. Olin, Troy.
George W. Palmer, Plattsburg.
John M. Parker, Owego.
Emory B. Pottle, Naples.
William F. Russell, Saugerties.
J. A. Searing, Hempstead Branch.
Judson W. Sherman, Angelica.
Daniel E. Sickles, New York.
Francis B. Spinner, Mohawk,
George Taylor, Brooklyn.
John Thompson, Poughkeepsie.
EUjah Ward, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOES.
Asa Biggs, « Williamston.
Thomas L. Clingman, s Asheville.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Lawrence O'B. Branch, Raleigh.
Thomas L. Clingman, >> Asheville.
Burton Craige, Salisbury.
John A. Gilmer, Greensboro.
Thomas RufBn, Goldsboro.
David S. Reid, Pleasantville.
Alfred M. Scales, Madison.
Henry M. Shaw, Indian Town.
Zebulon B. Vance, " Asheville.
AVarren Winslow, Fayetteville.
OHIO.
George E. Pugh, Cincinnati.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Philemon BUss, Elyria.
Joseph Burns, Coshocton.
Lewis D. Campbell, <2 Hamilton.
Joseph R. Cockerill, West Union.
Samuel S. Cox, Columbus.
Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.
William S. Groesbeck, Cincinnati.
Lawrence W. Hall, Bucyrus.
Aaron Harlan, Yellow Springs.
Valentine B. Horton, Pomeroy.
Delazon Smith, / Portland.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
William Lawrence, Washington.
Benjamin F. Leiter, Canton.
Joseph Miller, Chillicothe.
Richard Mott, Toledo.
Matthias H. Nichols, Lima.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
Benjamin Stanton, Bellefontaine.
C. B. Tompkins, McConnellsville.
Clement L. Vallandigham, « Dayton.
Edward Wade, Cleveland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Lafayette Grover.?
PENNSYLVANIA.
Joseph Lane, / AVinchester.
William Bigler, Clearfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John A. Ahl, Newville.
Henry Chapman, Doylestown.
John Covode, Lockport.
AVilham L. Dewart, Sunbury.
John Dick, Meadville.
William H. Dimmick, Honesdale.
John R. Edie, Somerset.^
Thos. B. Florence, Philadelphia.
James L. Gillis, Kidgeway.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
John Plickman, Westchester.
J. Glancy Jones, » Reading.
Owen Jones, Cabinet.
Simon Cameron,'' Harrisburg.
William H. Keim, .;' Reading.
John C. Kunkel, Harrisburg.
James Landy, Philadelphia.
Paul Leidy, Danville.
Wm. Montgomery, AVashington.
Edw. Joy Morris, Philadelphia.
Henry M. Phillips, Philadelphia.
Samuel A. Purviance, Butler.
Wilson Reilly, Chambersburg.
David Ritchie, Pittsburg.
Anthony E. Roberts, Lancaster.
William Stewart, Mercer.
Allison White, Lockhaven.-
a Resigned May, 1858.
i Elected Senator in place of Aaa Biggs, resigned; tooli hig seat December 6, 1858.
c Elected in place of Thomas L. Clingman, elected Senator; tooli his seat December 7, isrts.
d Election successfully contested by Clement L. Vallandigliam.
c Successfully contested the election of Lewis D. Campbell; took his seat May 25, 1858.'
/ Took his seat February 14, 1869.
0 Took his seat February 15, 18B9.
'iTook his seat March 4, 1857.
i Resigned in 18BS.
J Elected in place of J. Glancy Jones, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1858.
• THIRTY -FIFTH 00NGEE88.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Philip Allen, Providence. james F. Simmons, a Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William D. Brayton, Warwick. Nathaniel B. Durfee, Tiverton.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
187
Andrew P. Butler, b
James Chesnut, jr., « Kershaw.
Josiah J. Evans, a! Society Hill.
Milledge L. Bonham, Edgefield.
William W; Boyce, Monticello.
L. M. Keitt, Orangeburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Bell, Nashville.
John D. C. Atkins, Paris.
William T. Avery, Memphis.
George W. Jones, Fayetteville.
Horace Maynard, Knoxville.
Charles Ready, Murfreesboro.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James H. Hammond, « Beech Island.
Arthur P. Hayne. /
John McQueen, Marlboro.
William P. Miles, Charleston.
James L. Orr,a Anderson.
Andrew Johnson, Greeneville.
John H. Savage, Smithville.
Samuel A. Smith, Charleston.
A. G. Watkins, Panther Springs.
John V. Wright, Purdy.
Felix K. Zolhcoffer, Nashville.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
J. Pinckney Henderson,/' Marsh ville.
Samuel Houston, Huntaville.
Guy M. Bryan, Brazoria.
Jacob Collamer, Woodstock.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
Homer E. Royce, Berkshire.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
»
VIRGINIA.
Thomas J. Rusk, i Nacogdoches.
Matthias Ward,.;' Jefferson.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
Solomon Foot, Rutland.
E. P. Walton, Montpelier.
SENATORS.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thos. S. Bocock, Appomattox.
John S. Caskie, Richmond,
^herrard Clemens, Wheeling.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem.
Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
Muscoe R. H. Gamett, Lovetts.
William O. Goode, Boydton. .
James M. Mason,* Winchester.
George W. Hopkins, Abington.
Albert G. Jenkins, Green Bottom.
John Letcher, Lexington.
John S. Millson, Norfolk.
Paulus Powell, Amherst.
William Smith, Warrenton.
a Took his seat March 4, 1857.
b Died May 25, 1857.
"Elected in place of Josiah J. Evans, deceased, Arthur P. Hayne having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
January 6, 1859.
d Died May 6, 1858.
^Elected in place of Andrew P. Butler, deceased; took his seat January 7, 1858.
/Appointed m place of Josiah J, Evans, deceased; took his seat May 20, 1858.
s Elected Speaker December 7, 1857.
^Elected in place of Thomas J. Rusk, deceased; took his seat March 1, 1858; died June 4, 1858.
^Elected President pro tempore March 14, 1857; died July 29, 1857.
i Appointed in place of J. Pinckney Henderson, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1858.
^Elected President pro tempore March 4, 1857.
188 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
James E. Doolittle.o Racine. Charles Durkee, Kenosha.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Charles Billinghurst, Juneau. C. C. Washburn, Mineral Point.
John F. Potter, East Troy.
KANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEG.iTE.
Marcus J. Parrott, Leavenworth.
MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William W. Kingsbury, Endion.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Fenner Ferguson, t> Belleview.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Miguel A. Otero, Albuquerque.
OREGON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph Lane, Winchester.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Isaac I. Stevens, Olympia.
aTook his seat March 4, 1857. ^Election unsuccessfully contested by Bird B. Chapman.
THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
First session , from December 5, 1859, to June S5, 1860. Second session, from December 3, 1860, to March 3, 1861.
Vice-President.— J OKJs C. Breckineidge, of Kentucky. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore.— Bs}^-
JAMIN FiTZPATEiCK, of Alabama, elected March 9, 1859, in special session; again elected December 19
1859; again elected February 20, 1860; and again elected June 26, 1860, in special session. Jesse D.'
Beight, of Indiana, elected June 12, 1860. Solomon Foot, of Vermont, elected February 16, 1861.
Secretary of the Senate. — Asbuey Dickens, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the J/ousc— William Pennington, of New Jersey. Clerks of the House. —James C. Allen,
of Illinois; John W. Foeney, of Pennsylvania, elected February 3, 1860.
ALABAMA.
senators.
Clement C. Clay, jr., a Huntsville. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, » Wetumpka.
REPRESENTATIVES.
David Clopton, c Tuskegee. Sydenham Moore, " Greensboro.
Williamson R. W. Cobb,<« Belief onte. James L. Pugh, « Eufaula.
* Jabez L. M. Curry, « Talladega. James A. Stallwork, c Evergreen.
George S. Houston, ' Athens.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Robert W. Johnson, Pine Bluff. William K. Sebastian, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas C. Hindman, Helena. Albert Rust, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
David C. Broderick, « San Francisco. Henry P. Haun,/ Marysville.
William M. Gwin, San Francisco. Milton S. Latham,!/ San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John C. Burch, Weaverville. Charles L. Scott, Sonora.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
James Dixon, Hartford. Lafayette S. Foster, Norwich.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Alfred A. Burnham, Windham. Dwight Loomis, Rockville.
Orris S. Ferry, Norwalk. John Woodruff, New Haven.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington. Willard Saulsbury, Georgetown.
EEPEESENTATIVE.
William G. Whiteley, New Castle.
a Retired from the Senate January 21, 1861; seat declared vacant March 14, 1861.
i'Blected Presidentpro tempore March 9, 1859; retired Irom the Senate January 21, 1861.
0 Retired from the House January 21, 1861.
dRetired from the House January 30, 1861.
eDied September 16, 1859. ,„,.,^ ji,v- ^t> v= ,»=„
/Appointed in place of David C. Broderick, deceased; took his seat December 5, 1859.
^Elected in place of David C. Broderick, deceased, Henry P. Haun having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
r......i. t:. loan
March 5, 1860
189
190
CONGRESSIONAL DIKEOTORT.
FLORIDA.
SENATOES.
Stephen R. Mallory," Pensacola. David L. Yulee.a Homasassa.
REPHESENTATIVE.
George S. Hawkins, Pensacola.
GEORGIA.
SENATOES.
Alfred Iverson, 6 Columbus.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Martin J. Crawford,'^ Columbus.
Lucius J. Gartrell,'' Atlanta.
Thomas Hardeman, ir.,<* Macon.
Joshua Hill, « Madison.
Robert Toombs, ■= Washington.
James Jackson, <* Athens.
John J. Jones,'' Waynesboro.
Peter E. Love,<* Thomasville.
John W. H. Underwood,'' Eome.
Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
John F. Farnsworth, Chicago.
Philip B. Fouke, Belleville.
William Kellogg, Canton.
John A. Logan, Benton.
Owen Lovejoy, Princeton.
ILLCNOIS.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Jesse D. Bright, / Jeffersonville.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Charles Case, Fort Wayne.
Schuyler Colfax, South Bend.
John G. Davis, Rockville.
William M. Dunn, Madison.
William H. English, Lexington.
William S. Holman, Lawrenceburg.
James AV. Grimes, Burlington.
Samuel R. Curtis, Keokuk.
IOWA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATOES.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Green Adams, Barboursville.
William C. Anderson, 0 Danville.
Francis M. Bristow, Elkton.
John Young Brown, Elizabethtown.
Henry C. Burnett, Cadiz.
LOUISIANA.
SEN.ITOES.
Judah P. Benjamin, - New Orleans.
EEPEESENT.iTIVES.
John E. Bouligny, New Orleans.
Thomas G. Davidson, Baton Rogue.
Lyman Trumbull, Alton.
John A. McClernand, Springfield.
Isaac N. Morris, Quinoy.
James C. Robinson, Marshall.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
Graham N. Fitch, Logansport. ,
David Kilgore, Yorktown.
William B. Niblack, Vincennes.
John U. Pettit, Wabash.
Albert G. Porter, Indianapolis.
Janies Wilson, Crawfordsville.
James Harlan, llount Pleasant.
William Vandever, Dubuque.
Lazarus W. Powell, Henderson.
Robert Mallory, Lagrange.
Laban T. Moore, Louisa.
Samuel O. Peyton, Hartford.
William E. Simms, Paris.
John W. Stevenson, Covington.
John Slidell,'' New Orleans.
John M. Landrum, Shreveport.
Miles Taylor, « Donaldsonville.
" Retired from the Senate January 21, 1861; seat declared vacant March 14, 1861.
i> Retired from the Senate January 28, 1861.
cSeat declared vacant March 14, 1861.
^Retired from the House January 23, 1861.
(' Resigned January 23, 1861.
/ Elected President pro tempore June 12, 1860.
ff Election unsuccessfully contested by James S. Chrisman.
(i Retired from the Senate February 4, 1861.
* Retired from the House February 5, 1861.
THIBTY-SIXTH C0NGEEB8. 191
MAINE.
SENATORS.
William Pitt Pessenden, Portland. Lot M. Morrill, » Aumsta,
Hannibal Hamlin, « Hampden.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Stephen Coburn, c Skowhegan. John J. Perry, Oxford.
Stephen C. Foster, Pembroke. Daniel E. Somes, Biddeford.
Ezra B. French, Damariscotta. Israel Washburn, jr.,'' Orono.
Freeman H. Morse, Bath. /
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Anthony Kennedy, Baltimore. James A. Pearce, Chestertown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. Winter Davis, Baltimore. Jacob M. Kunkel, Frederick City.
J. Morrison Harris, Baltimore. James A. Stewart, Cambridge.
George W. Hughes, West River. Edwin H. Webster, Belair.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Charles Sumner, Boston. Henry Wilson, Natick.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles F. Adams, Quincy. Thomas D. Eliot, New Bedford.
John B. Alley, Lynn. Daniel W. Gooch, Melrose.
James Buffinton, Fall River. Alexander H. Rice, Boston.
Anson Burlingame, Cambridge. Eli Thayer, Worcester.
Henry L. Dawes, North Adams. Charles R. Train, Framingham.
Charles Delano, Northampton.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Kingsley S. Bingham, Kensington. Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
George B. Cooper, « Jackson. , De Witt C. Leach, Lansing.
William A. Howard,/ De^troit. Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
Francis W. Kellogg; Grand Rapids.
/ MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Rice, St. Pdul. Morton S. Wilkinson, Mankato.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Cyrus Aldrich, Minneapolis. William Windom, Winona.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
I
Albert G. Brown,? Terry. Jefferson Davis,? Hurricane.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Barksdale,* Columbus. John J. McRae,'» State Line.
Reuben Davis, ^ Aberdeen. ' Otho R. Singleton,'' Canton.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, A Abbeville.
a Resigned January 7, 1861, to take effect January 17, 1861.
6 Elected in place of Hannibal Hamlin, resigned; took liis seat January 17, 1861.
cEleeted in place of Israel Washburn, jr., resigned; took his seat January 2, 1861.
d Resigned, to take effect January 1, 1861.
e Election successfully contested by William A. Howard.
/Successfully contested the election of George B. Cooper; took his seat May 15, 1860.
ffSeats declared vacant March 14, 1S61.
ft Retired from the House January 12, 1861.
192
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
James S. Green, Canton.
MISSOURI.
EBPEESENTATIVBS.
Thomas L. Anderson, Palmyra.
James 11. Barrett, « St. Louis.
Francis P. Blair, 6 St. Louis.
John B. Clark, Fayette.
Trusten Polk, St. Louis.
James Craig, St. Joseph.
John W. Noell, Perryville.
John S. Phelps, Springfield.
Samuel H. Woodson, Independence.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Daniel Clark, Manchester.
Thomas M. JMwards, Keene.
Gilman Marston, Exeter.
REPEESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
John P. Hale, Dover.
Mason W. Tappan, Bradford.
SENATOES.
John C. Ten Eyck, Mount Holly. John R. Thomson, Princeton.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Garnett B. Adrain, New Brunswick.
John T. Nixon, Bridgeton.
William Pennington, « Newark.
Jetur R. Riggs, Paterson.
John L. N. Stratton, Mount Holly.
NEW YORK.
Preston King, Ogdensburg.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Thomas J. Barr, New York.
Charles L. Beale, Kinderhook.
George Briggs, New York.
Silas M. Burroughs, <^ Medina.
Martin Butterfield, Palmyra.
Luther 0. Carter, Flushing.
Horace F. Clark, New York.
Clark B. Cochrane, Schenectady.
John Cochrane, New York.
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
R. Holland Duell, Cortland.
Alfred Ely, Rochester.
Reuben E. Fenton, Frewsburg.
Augustus Frank, Warsaw.
James H. Graham, Delhi.
John B. Haskin, Fordham.
Charles B. Hoard, Watertown.
William H. Seward, Auburn.
James Humphrey, Brooklyn.
William Irvine, Corning.
William S. Kenyon, Kingston.
M. Lindley Lee, Fulton.
William B. Maclay, New York.
Jamea B. McKean, Saratoga.
Abram B. Olin, Troy.
George W. Palmer, Plattsburg.
Emory B. Pottle, Naples.
Edwin R. Reynolds, « Albion.
John H. Reynolds, Albany.
Charles B. Sedgwick, Syracuse.
Daniel E. Sickles, / New York.
Elbridge G. Spaulding, Buffalo.
Francis E. Spinner, Mohawk.
Chas. H. Van Wyck, Bloomingburg.
Alfred Wells, Ithaca.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Thomas Bragg, Raleigh.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Lawrence O'B. Branch, Raleigh.
Burton Craige, Salisbury.
John A. Gilmer, Greensboro.
James M. Leach, Lexington.
Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville.
Thomas Ruffin, Goldsboro.
Wm. N. H. Smith, Murfreesboro.
Zebulon B. Vance, Asheville.
Warren Winslow, Fayetteville.
aElection successfully contested by Francis P. Blair; subsequently elected on the resignation of Mr. Blair, and took his
seat December 3, 1860.
I> Successfully contested the election of James R. Barrett; took his seat ,7une 8, 1860; resigned in 1860
(■Elected Speaker February 1, 1860.
rfpied Junes, 1860.
"Elected in place of Silas M. Burroughs, deceased; took his seat December 5, 1860.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by Amor J. Williamson.
THIRTY-SIXTH C0NGKES8.
193
George E. Pugh, Cincinnati.
William Allen, Lima.
James M. Ashley, Toledo.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Harrison G. Blake, Medina.
John Carey, Wyandotte.
Thomas Corwin, Lebanon.
Samuel S. Cox, Columbus.
Sidney Edgerton, Tallmadge.
John A. Gurley, Cincinnati.
William Helmick, New Philadelphia.
William Howard, Batavia.
OHIO.
KEPEBSENTATIVES.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
John Hutching, "Warren.
Charles D. Martin, Lancaster.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
Benjamin Stanton, Bellefontaine.
Thomas C. Theaker, Bridgeport.
C. B. Tompkins, McConnellsville.
Carey A. Trimble, Chillicothe.
Clement L. Vallandigham, Dayton.
Edward Wade, Cleveland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
Edward D. Baker," Oregon City. Joseph Lane, Winchester.
EEPKESENTATIVE.
Lansing Stout, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William Bigler, Clearfield.
SEXATOKS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Elijah Babbitt, Erie.
Samuel S. Blair, Holidaysburg.
James H. Campbell, Pottsville.
John Covode, Lockport.
Wm. H. Dimmick, Honesdale.
Thos. B. Florence, Philadelphia.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
James T. Hale, Bellefonte.
Chapin Hall, Warren.
John Hickman, Westchester.
Benj. F. Junkin,NewBloomfield.
John W. Killinger, Lebanon.
Henry C. Longnecker, Allen town.
Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
Jacob K. McKenty, b Reading.
Robert McKnightj Pittsburg.
Edward McPherson, Gettysburg.
Wilham Millward, Philadelphia.
Wm. Montgomery, AVashington.
James K. Moorhead, Pittsburg.
Edward Joy Morris, Philadelphia.
John Schwartz, c Reading.
George W. Scranton, Scranton.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
William Stewart, Mercer.
John P. Verree, Philadelphia.
John Wood, Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND.
SEXATOKS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William D. Brayton, Warwick.
James F. Simmons, Providence.
Christopher Robinson, Woonaocket.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
James Chesnut, Camden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John D. Ashmore,c^ Anderson.
MilledgeL. Bonham,'' Edgefield.
William W. Boyce,^' Winnsboro.
James H. Hammond, Beech Island.
L. M. Keitt, Orangeburg.
John McQueen,'' Marlboro.
W. Porcher Miles, Charleston.
Andrew Johnson, Greeneville.
William T. Avery, Memphis.
Reese B. Brabson, Chattanooga.
Emerson Etheridge, Dresden.
Robert Hatton, Lebanon.
Horace Maynard, Knoxville.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alfred O. P. Nicholson, Columbia.
Thomas A. R. Nelson, Jonesboro.
James M. Quarles, Clarksville.
William B. Stokes, Alexandria.
James H. Thomas, Columbia.
John V. Wright, Purdy.
a Took his seat December 5, 1860.
SElected in place of John Schwartz, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1860
oDied June20, 1860.
dKetired from the House December 21, 1860.
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194
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOET.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
John Hemphill, Austin.
Matthias Ward, Jefferson.
Andrew J. Hamilton, Austin.
Jacob CoUamer, Woodstock.
KEPRBSENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
Homer E. Royce, East Berkshire.
Robert M. T. Hunter, Lloyds.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas S. Bocock, Appomattox.
Alexander R. Boteler, Charlestown.
Sherrard Clemens, Wheeling.
D. C. De Jarnette, Bowling Green.
Henry A. Edmundson, Salem.
Muscoe R. H. Garnett, Loretto.
John T. Harris, Harrisonburg.
Louis T. Wigfall.a Marshall.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
Solomon Foot, ^ Rutland.
Ezekiel P. Walton, Montpelier.
James M. Mason, Winchester.
Albert G. Jenkins, Greenbottom.
Shelton E. Leake, Charlottesville.
Elbert S. Martin, Lee.
John S. Millson, Norfolk.
Roger A. Pryor, " Petersburg.
William Smith, Warrenton.
James R. Doolittle, Racine.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles H. Larrabee, Horicon.
John F. Potter, East Troy.
Charles Durkee, Kenosha.
C. C. Washburn, La Crosse.
KANSAS TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Marcus J. Parrott, Leavenworth.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Samuel G. Daily,'' Peru.
Experience Estabrook, « Omaha.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Miguel A. Otero, Albuquerque.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Hooper, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Isaac I. Stevens, Olympia.
tiElected in place of J. Pinekney Henderson, deceased, Matthias Ward iiaving been appointed pro tempore, took: hia
seat January 4, 1860.
I) Elected President pro tempore February 16, 18G1.
0 Elected in place of William O. Goode, deceased, July 3, 1859t took his seat December 7, 1859.
((Successfully contested the election of Experience Estabrook; took his seat May 18, 1860.
« Election successfully contested by Samuel G. Daily.
THIRTY-SEVENTH OONGEESS.
Mrst session, from July 4, 1861, to August 6, 1861. Second session, from December S, 1861, to July 17, 186S.
Third session, from December 1, 186S, to March S, 1863.
Vice-President. — Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. President of the Senate pro ienipore.— Solomon Foot,
of Vermont, elected July 18, 1861; again elected January 15, 1862; again elected March 31, 1862;
again elected June 19, 1862; and again elected February 18, 1863. Secretaries of the Senate. — Asbbey
Dickens, of North Carolina; John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania, elected July 15, 1861.
Speaker of the House, — Galusha A. Gbow, of Pennsylvania. Clerk of the Souse. — Emerson Ethbridge,
of Tennessee.
ALABAMA.
senators.
( Vacant. )
representatives.
(Vacant.)
AEKANSAS.
senators.
( Vacant. )
representatives.
(Vacant.)
CALIFORNIA.
senators.
Milton S. Latham, Sacramento. James A. McDougall, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Fredk. F. Low, « San Francisco. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada.
Timothy G. Phelps, San Mateo.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
James Dixon, Hartford. Lafayette S. Foster, Norwich.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alfred A. Burnham, Windham. Dwight Loomis, Bockville.
James E. English, New Haven. George C. Woodruff, Litchfield.
a Took his seat June 3, 1862.
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196
CONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. Bayard, Wilmington.
Willard Saulsbury, Georgetown.
EEPRESENTATIVB.
George P. Fisher, Dover.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Browning, «-Quincy.
Stephen A. Douglas, '' Chicago.
REPRESENTATIVES.
"William J. Alien,'' Marion.
Isaac N. Arnold, Chicago.
Philip B. Foulke, Belleville.
Anthony L. Knapp, <' Jerseyville.
William Kellogg, Canton.
~ John A. Logan,/ Benton.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Jesse D. Bright,!/ Jefiersonville.
Henry S. Lane, Crawfordsville.
William A. Richardson, " Quincy.
Lyman Trumbull, Alton.
Owen Lovejoy, Princeton.
John A. McClernand,/ Springfield.
VVilliam A. Richardson, « Quincy.
James 0. Robinson, Marshall.
Elihu B. Waahburne, Galena.
David Turpie,'' Indianapolis.
Joseph A. Wright, « Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Schuyler Colfax, South Bend.
James A. Cravens, Hardinsburg.-
W. McKee Dunn, Madison.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
George W. Julian, Centerville.
John Law, Evansville.
William Mitchell, Kendallville.
Albert G. Porter, Indianapolis.
John P. C. Shanks, Jay.
Daniel ^V. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
.Albert S. White, Stock well.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
James W. Grimes, Burlington. James Harlan, Mt. Pleasant.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel R. Curtis,.? Keokuk.
William Vandever,* Dubuque.
James F. Wilson,' Fairfield.
ti Appointed in place o£ Stephen A. Douglas, deceased; took his seat July 4, 1861.
!) Died Junes, 1861.
"Elected Senator in place of Stephen A. Douglas, deceased, Orville H. Browning having liecn appointed pro tempore;
took his seat January 30, 1863.
^Elected in place of John A. Logan, resigned; tnok his seat June 2, 1862.
cElected in place of John A. McClernand, resigned; took his seat December 12, 1861.
/Resigned in 1861.
(/Expelled February 6, 1862.
^Elected in place of Jesse D. Bright, expelled, Joseph A. Wright having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat Jan-
uary 22, 1863.
• Appointed in place of Jesse D. Bright, expelled; took his seat March 3, 1862,
j Resigned August 4, 1861.
fc Election unsuccessfully contested by Le Grand Byineton,
I Elected in place of Samuel R. Curtis, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1,S(11.
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
197
KANSAS.
SENATOBS.
James H. Lane, « Lawrence. Samuel ('. Pomeroy, Atchison.
KEPBESENTATIVE.
Martin F. Conway, Lawrence.
KENTUCKY.
, SENATORS.
John C. Breckinridge, ^ Lexington.
Garrett Davis, " Paris.
RBPHESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Burnett,'^ Cadiz.
Samuel L. Casey, « Caaeyville.
John J. Crittenden, Frankfort.
George "W. Dunlap, Lancaster.
Henry Grider, Bowling Green.
Aaron Harding, Greensburg.
Lazarus W. Powell, Henderson.
James S. Jackson, / Hopkinsville.
Eobert Mallory, La Grange.
John W. Menzies, Covington.
Wm. H. Wadsworth, Maysville.
Charles A. Wickliffe, Bardstown.
Geo. H. Yeaman,5' Owensboro.
Benjamin F. Flar.ders.A
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
BEPRBSBNTATIVES.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
AVilliam Pitt Fessenden, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel C. Fessenden, Rockland.
Thos. A. D. Fessenden, ./ Auburn.
John N. Goodwin, South Berwick.
Anson P. Morrill, Eeadfield.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Hicks, ' Cambridge.
Anthony Kennedy, Ellicotts Mills.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles B. Calvert, Bladensburg.
John W. Crisfield, Princess Anne.
Cornelius L. L. Leary, Baltimore.
Michael Hahn. <
Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
Frederick A. Pike, Calais.
John H. Rice, Foxcroft.
Charles W. Walton,* Auburn.
James A. Pearce,'" Chestertown.
Henry May, Baltimore.
Francis Thomas, Frankville.
Edwin H. AVebster, Belair.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Alley, Lynn.
AVilliam Appleton," Boston.
Goldsmith F. Bailey," Fitchburg.
James Bilffington, Fall River.
Henry L. Dawes, North Adams.
Charles Delano, Northampton.
Thomas D. Eliot, New Bedford.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Daniel W. Gooch, Melrose.
Samuel W. Hooper,/' Boston.
Alexander H. Rice, Boston.
Benjamin F. Thomas, Boston.
Charles R. Train, Framingham.
Amasa Walker,? North Brookfield.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by Frederick P. Stanton.
b Expelled December 4, 1861.
c Elected in place of John C. Breckinridge, expelled; took his seat December 23, istil.
rt Expelled Decembers, 1861.
e Elected in place of Henrv C. Burnett, expelled; took his seat Marcb 10, 1862.
f Died in 1862.
(/Elected in place of James S. Jackson, deceased; took his seat December 1, 1862.
'iTook his seat February 23, 1863.
iTook his seat February 17. 1863.
^Elected in place of Charles W. Walton, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1862.
*: Resigned Jifay 26, 1862.
/ Appointed in place of James A. Pearce, deceased; took his seat January 14, 1863.
m Died December 20, 1862.
« Resigned in 1861.
o Died May 8, 1862.
JJElected in place of William Appleton, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1861.
((Elected in place of Goldsmith F. Bailey, deceased; took liis seat December 1, 1862.
198
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Kinsley S. Bingham, « Oak Grove.
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
REPEESENTATIVES.
Fernando C. Beaman, Adrian.
Bradley F. Granger, Ann Arbor.
Henry M. Rice, St. Paul.
Cyrus Aldrich, Minneapolis.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
( Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
John B. Henderson, « Louisiana.
Waldo Porter Johnson,'' Osceola.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Francis P. Blair, jr.,/ St. Louis.
William A. Hall,? Huntsville.
John W. Noell, Perryville.
Elijah H. Norton, Platte City.
Johns S. Phelps, Springfield.
Jacob M. Howard, i* Detroit.
Francis W. Kellogg, Grand Rapids.
Rowland E. Trowbridge, Birmingham.
Morton S. Wilkinson, Mankato.
William Windom, Winona.
Trusten Polk,<« St. Louis.
Robert Wilson, " St. Joseph.
Thomas L. Price,'' Jefferson City.
John W. Reid. »
James S. Rollins, Columbia.
John B. Clark. 3
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Daniel Clark, Manchester.
Thomas M. Edwards, Keene.
Oilman Marston, Exeter.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
John P. Hale, Dover.
Edward H. Rollins, Concord.
John C. Ten Ejwk, Mount Holly.
Richard S. Field,*: Princeton.
George T. Cobb, Morristown.
John T. Nixon, Bridgeton.
Nehemiah Perry, Newark.
R(EPEESENTATIVE.s.
NEW YORK.
John R. Thomson, I Princeton.
James W. Wall,"* Burlington.
William G. Steele, Somerville.
J. L. N. Stratton, Mount Holly.
SENATORS.
Ira Harris, Albany. Preston King, Ogdensburg. , i/^.
REPRESENTATIVES. ^ '
Stephen Baker, Poughkeepsie. , Ambrose W. Clark, Watertown.
Frederick A. Oonkling, New York.
J. P. Chamberlain, Seneca Falls.
0 Died October 5, 1861.
6 Elected in place of Kinsley S. Bingham, deceased; took his seat January 17 1862
cAppointed in place ol Trusten Polk, expelled; took his seat January 29, 1862
d Expelled January 10, 1862.
« Appointed in place oJ Waldo Porter Johnson, expelled ; took his seat January 24 1862
/ Resigned in 1862. '
BEleoted in place of John B. Clark, expelled July 18, 1861; took his seat January 20 1862
'"Elected in place of John W. Eeid, expelled; took his seat January 21 1862 ■ '
i Expelled December 2, 1861. '
iExpelled July 13, 1861.
'cApnointed in place of John E. Thomson, deceased; took his seat December 1 l.s(i'>
1 Died September 12, 1862. "i-i i, i > -.
JanuMy 21! 1863!''°^ °' '"'*'" ^' ^''°'"'™' ^'"'^^'<^^' ^K\y^xd. S. Field haying been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
THIRTY -SEVENTH CONGRESS.
199
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
Erastus Corning, Albany.
Isaac C. Delaplaine, New York.
Alexander S. Diven, Elmira.
R. Holland Duell, Courtland.
Alfred Ely, Rochester.
Reuben E. Fenton, Frewsbure.
Richard Franchot, Schenectady,
Augustus Frank, Warsaw.
Edward Haight, West Chester.
James E. Kerrigan, New York.
William E. Lansing, Chittenango.
Jas. B. McKean, Saratoga Springs.
Moses F. Odell, Brooklyn.
Abram B. Olin, Troy.
Theodore M. Pomeroy, Auburn.
Charles B. Sedgwick, Syracuse.
Socrates N. Sherman, Ogdensburg.
Edward H. Smith, Smithtown.
Elbridge G. Spaulding, Buffalo.
John B. Steele, Kingston.
Burt Van Horn, Newfane.
Robt. B. Van Valkenburgh, Bath.
Chas. H. Van Wyck, Bloomingburg.
Chauncy Vibbard, Schenectady.
William Wall, Brooklyn.
Elijah Ward, New York.
William A. Wheeler, Malone.
Benjamin Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
OHIO.
Salmon P. Chase, « Cincinnati.
John Sherman, >> Mansfield.
SENATORS.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
William Allen, Greenville.
James M. Ashley, Toledo.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Harrison G. Blake, Medina.
Samuel S. Cox, Columbus.
William P. Cutler, Constitution.
Sidney Edgerton, Tallmadge.
John A. Gurley, Cincinnati.
Richai'd A. Harrison, London.
Valentine B. Horton, Pomeroy.
John Hutchins, Warren.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
Edward D. Baker. «
Benjamin F. Harding,''' Salem.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
James R. Morris, Woodsfield.
Warren P. Noble, TiiHn.
Robt. H. Nugen, New Comerstown.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
Albert G. Riddle,, Cleveland.
Sailiuel Shellabarger, Springfield.
Carey A. Trimble, Chillicothe.
Clement L. Vallandigham, Dayton.
Chilton A. White, Georgetown.
Samuel T. Worcester, Norwalk.
James W. Nesmith, Salem.
Benjamin Stark, « Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George K. Shiel, Salem.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Simon Cameron./
Edgar Cowan, Greensburg.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Sydenham E. Ancona, Reading.
Elijah Babbitt, Erie.
Joseph Baily, Newport.
Charles J. Biddle,* Philadelphia.
Samuel S. Blair, Hollidaysburg.
James H. Campbell, Pottaville.
David Wilmot, a Towanda.
Thos. B. Cooper, » Coopersburg.
John Covode, Lockport Station.
William Morris Davis, Milestown.
Galusha A. Grow..?'
James T. Hale, Bellefonte.
John Hickman, West Chester.
aEesigned March 6, 1861.
6 Elected in place oi Salmon P. Chase, resigned; took his seat March 23, 1861.
oDied October 21, 1861.
^Elected in place of Edward D. Baker, deceased, Benjamin Stark having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
December 1, 1862.
« Appointed in place of Edward D. Baker, deceased; took his seat February 27, 1862.
/Resigned March, 1861.
sElected in place of Simon Cameron, resigned; took his seat March 18, 1861.
AEIeoted in place of E. Joy Morris, resigned.
iDied April 4, 1862.
J Elected Speaker July 4, 1861.
200
CONGEESSIONAL DIBEOTOEY.
Philip Johnson, Easton.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
John W. Killinger, Lebanon.
Jesse Lazear, Waynesburg.
Wm. E. Lehman, « Philadelphia.
Robert McKnight, Pittsburg.
Edward McPherson, Gettysburg.
James K. Moorhead, Pittsburg.
John Patton, Curwinsville.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
John D. Stiles, ^ AUentown.
J ohn P. Verree, " Philadelphia.
John W. Wallace, Newcastle.
Hendrick B. Wrigjit, Wilkesbarre.
George W, Scran ton. <*
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOKS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
Samuel G. Arnold. «
James F. Simmons, / Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George H. Browne, Providence. William P. Sheffield, Newport.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Andrew Johnson, Greeneville. Alfred O. P. Nicholson, i
REPRESENTATIVES.
George W. Bridges.!/
Andrew J. Clements,'' Lafayette.
Horace Maynard, Knoxville.
Jacob CoUamer, AVoodstock.
Portus Baxter, Derby Line.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
Solomon Foot,.? Rutland.
Ezekiel P. Walton, Montpelier.
John S. Carlile,* Wheeling.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob B. Blair,"* Parkersburg.
William G. Brown, Kingwood.
John S. Carlile,* Wheeling.
Waitman T. Willey, I Morgantowu.
Joseph E. Segar,n Elizabeth City.
Charles H. Upton," Falls Church.
Killian V. Whalev, Ceredo.
a Election upsuooessfuUy contested by John M. Butler.
!) Elected m place of Thomas B. Cooper, deceased; took his seat June 3, 1862.
c Election unsuccessfully contested by John Kline.
rtDied March 24, 1861.
p Elected in place of James E. Simmons, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1862.
/Resigned in 1862.
SI Expelled July 11, 1861. ■
h Took his seat February 25, 1863.
« Took his seat January 13, 1862.
1 Elected President pro tempore July 18, 1861.
»: Elected Senator in place of R. M. T. Hunter, withdrawn; took his seat July 13, 1861
I Elected in placeof J.M. Mason, withdrawn; took his seat July 13, 1861.
Ill Elected in place of John S. Carlile, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1861.
II Took his seat May C, 1862.
o Election unsuccessfully contested by S. F. Beach,
THIRTY-SEVENTH OONGEESS. 201
WISCONSIN.
SENATOBS.
Jamee R. Doolittle, Racine. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
KBPBESENTATIVES.
Luther Hanchett, « Plover. -"- . John F. Potter, East Trov.
Walter D. Mclndee, b Warsaw. -' A. Scott Sloan, Beaver Dam.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Hiram P. Bennett, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
.Tohn B. S. Todd, Fort Randall.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel G. Daily, '■ Peru.
NEVADA TERRITORY.
DELEG.tTE.
John Cradlebaugh, Carson City.
. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
John S. Watts, Saxita F6.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Wallace, Steilacoom.
a Died November 24, 1862.
^Elected in place of Luther Hanchett, deceased; took his seat .January 26, 1863.
c Election unsuccessfully contested by J. Sterling Morton.
THIETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 7, 1863, to July 4, 1864. Second session, from December 5, 1864, to March 3, 1865.
Vice-Preddent. — Hannibal Hamlix, of Maine. Presidents of the Senate pro tempore. — Solomon
Foot, of Vermont, elected March 4, 1863, in special session, again elected December 18, 1863, again
elected February 23, 1864, again elected March 11, 1864, and again elected April 11, 1864; Daniel
Clark, of New Hampshire, elected April 26, 1864, and again elected February- 9, 1865. Secretary of
the Senate. — John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania.
Speaker of the House. — Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. Clerks of the House. — Emerson Etheridge,
of Tennessee; Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania, elected December 8, 1863.
John Conness, Sacramento.
Cornelius Cole, Santa Cruz.
William Higby, Calaveras.
James Dixon, Hartford.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
( Vacant. )
representatives.
( Vacant. )
ARKANSAS.
senators.
(Vacant. )
representatives.
(Vacant.)
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Augustus Brandegee, New London.
Henry C. Deming, Hartford.
James A. Bayard, « Wilmington.
George Read, Riddle, ^ Wilmington.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
James A. JXcDougall, San Francisco.
Thomas B. Shannon, Quincy.
Lafayette S. Foster, Norwich.
James E. English, New Haven.
John H. Hubbard, Litchfield.
Willard Saulsbury, Georgetown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Nathaniel B. Smithers.
FLORIDA. '
SBXATOHS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
HEPRESENTATn-ES.
(Vacant.)
202
a ResignedJanuary 29, 1864.
I> Elected in place of James A. Bayard, resigned; took hia seat February 2, 1864.
THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
203
William A. Richardson, Quincy.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James C. Allen, Palestine.
William J. Allen, Marion.
Isaac N. Arnold, Chicago.
John R. Eden, Sullivan.
John F. Farnsworth, St. Charles.
Charles M. Harris, Oquawka.
Ebon C. Ingersoll,o Peoria.
Anthony L. Knapp,' Jersey ville.
Lyman Trumbull, Alton.
Owen Lovejoy, » Princeton.
William R. Morrison, Waterloo.
Jesse 0. Norton, Joliet.
James C. Robinson, Marshall.
Lewis W. Ross, Lewistown.
John T. Stuart, Springfield.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis.
BEPHESBNTATIVES.
Schuyler Colfax, « South Bend.
James A. Cravens, Hardinsburg.
Ebenezer Dumont, Indianapolis.
Joseph K. Edgerton, Port Wayne.
Henry W. Harrington, Madison.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
IOWA.
Henry S. Lane, Crawfordsville.
George W. Julian, Centerville.
John Law, Evansville.
James F. McDowell, Marion.
Godlove S. Orth, Layfayette.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
James W. Grimes, Burlington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
Josiah B. Grinnen,<« Grinnell.
Asahel W. Hubbard, Sioux City.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant.
John A. Kasson, Des Moines.
Hiram Price, Davenport.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
KANSAS.^
SENATORS.
James H. Lane, Lawrence.
REPRESENTATIVE.
A. Carter Wilder, Leavenworth.
Samuel C. Pomeroy, Atchison.
Garrett Davis, Paris.
Lucien Anderson, Mayfield.
Brutus J. Clay, Paris.
Henry Grider, Bowling Green.
Aaron Harding, Greensburg.
Robert Mallory, Lagrange.
KENTUCKY. .
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lazarus W. Powell, Henderson.
William H. Randall, London.
Green Clay Smith, Covington.
Wm. H. Wadsworth, Maysville.
Geo. H. Yeaman, « Owensboro.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
( Vacant. )
MAINE.
SENATORS.
Nathan A. Farwell, / Rockland.
William Pitt Fessenden,9' Portland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James G. Blaine, Augusta.
Sidney Perham, Paris.
Frederick A. Pike, Calais.
Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
John H. Rice, Foxcroft.
Lorenzo D. M. Sweat, Portland.
"Elected in place of Owen Lovejoy, deceased; took his seat May 20, 1864.
b Died March 25, 1864.
0 Elected Speaker December 7, 1863.
d Election unsuccessfully contested by Hugh M. Martin,
c Election unsuccessfully contested by John H. McHenry.
/Appointed in place of VS^illiam Pitt Fessenden, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1864.
g Resigned in 1864.
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MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Hicks, « Cambridge. Eeverdy Johnson, Baltimore.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
John A. J. Creswell, Elkton. Francis Thomas, Frankville.
Henry Winter Davis, Baltimore. Edwin H. Webster, Belair.
Benj. G. Harris, Leonardtown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
John B. Alley, Lynn.
Oakes Ames, North Easton.
John D. Baldwin, Worcester.
George S. Boutwell, Groton.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
Augustus C. Baldwin, Pontiac.
Fernando C. Beaman, Adrian.
John F. Driggs, East Saginaw.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul.
Ignatius Donnelly, Nininger.
SEPKESENTATIVES.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Thomas D. Ehot, New Bedford.
Daniel W. Gooch, Melrose.
Samuel Hooper, Boston.
Alexander H. Rice, Boston.
Wm. B. Washburn, Greenfield.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
MISSOURI.
Jacob M. Howard, Detroit.
Francis W. Kellogg, Grand Rapids.
John W. Longyear, Lansing.
Charles Upson, Coldwater.
Morton S. Wilkinson, Mankato.
William AVindom, Winona.
B. Gratz Brown, » St. Louis.
John B. Henderson, Louisiana.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Francis P. Blair, jr. , '' St. Louis.
Henry T. Blow, St. Louis.
Sempronius H. Boyd, Springfield.
William A. Hall, Huntsville.
Austin A. King,'' Richmond.
Samuel Knox, « St. Louis.
Robert Wilson, St. Joseph.
Benjamin F. Loan, / St. Joseph.
Joseph W. McClurg,!? Linn Creek.
James S. Rollins, Columbia.
John G. Scott,'' Irondale.
John W. Noell. «
n Died February 13, 1865.
'i Elected in place of Waldo Porter Johnson, expelled in lS(i2, Koliert Wilsun having been appointed pro tempore; took
his seat December 14, 1863.
c Election successfully contested by Samuel Knox,
d Election unsuccessfully contested by James H. Birch.
c Successfully contested the election of Francis P. Blair, jr.; took his sent June l.'j, ISO-l.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by John P. Brace.
g Election unsuccessfully contested by Thomas L. Price.
h Election unsucc&ssfuUy contested by James Lindsay.
I Died March U, 1863.
THIETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
205
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
James W. Nye," Carson City.
William M. Stewart, « "'.'irtrinia City.
KEPRESBNTATIVE.
Henry G. Worthington, b Austin.
NEW HAMPSHIRK.
SEN ATOES.
Daniel Clark, <' Manchester. John P. Hale, Dover.
HBPEESENTATIVES.
Edward H. KoUins, Concord.
Daniel Marcy, Portsmouth.
James W. Patterson, Hanover.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
John 0. Ten Eyck, Mount Holly. William Wright, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Middleton, Allentown.
Nehemiah Perry, Newark.
Andrew J. Rogers, Newton.
NEW YORK.
Ira Harris, Albany.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Brooks, New York.
John W. Chanler, New York.
Ambrose W. Clark, Watertown.
Freeman Clarke, Rochester.
Thomas T. Davis, Syracuse.
Reuben E. Fenton,'' Frewsburg.
Augustus Frank, Warsaw.
John Ganson, Buffalo.
John A. Griswold, Troy.
Anson Herrick, New York.
Giles W. Hotchkiss, Binghamton.
Calvin T. Hulburd, Brasher Falls.
Martin Kalbfleisch, Brooklyn.
Orlando Kellogg, Elizabethtown.
Francis Kernan, Utica.
De Witt C. Littlejohn, Oswego.
John F. Starr, Camden.
William G. Steele, Somerville.
Edwin D. Morgan, New York.
James M. Marvin, Saratoga Sjirings.
Samuel F. Miller, Franklin.
Daniel Morris, Penn Yan.
Homer A. Nelson, Poughkeepsie.
Moses F. Odell, Brooklyn.
Theodore M. Pomeroy, Auburn.
John V. L. Pru3'n, Albany.
William Radford, Yonkers.
Henry G. Stebbins, « New Brighton, S. 1.
John B. Steele, Kingston.
Dwight Townsend, ./■ Clifton, S. I.
Robt. B. Van Valkenburgh, Bath.
Elijah Ward, New York.
Charles H. Winfleld, Goshen.
Benjamin AVood, New York.
Fernando Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
EPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant. )
'oHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
James M. Ashley, Toledo.
George Bliss, Wooster.
Samuel S. Cox, Columbus.
Ephraim R. Eckley, Carrollton.
William E. Finck, Somerset.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Wells A. Hutchins, Portsmouth.
William Johnson, Mansfield.
Francis C.Le Blond, Celina.
Alexander Long, Cincinnati.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin F. Wade, Jefferson.
John F. McKinney, Piqua.
James R. Morris, Woodsfield.
Warren P. Noble, TiffiA.
John O'Neill, Zanesville.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
Robert C Schenck, Dayton.
Rufus P. Spalding, Cleveland.
Chilton A. White, Georgetown.
Joseph W. White, Cambridge.
a Took his seat February 1, 1865.
6 Took his seat December 21, 1864.
o Elected President pro teiapore April 26, 1864, and February 9, ISSn.
rt Kesisned December IQ, 1864.
c Resigned in 1864. ^ , , ,„ .
/Elected in place of Henry G. Stebbins, resigned; took his seat December .5, 1864.
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OREGON.
Benjamin F. Harding, Salem.
SENATORS.
James W. Nesmith, Salem.
EEPBESENTATIVE.
John E. McBride, Lafayette.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
Charles R. Buckalew, Bloomsburg.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Sydenham E. Ancona, Reading.
Joseph Baily, Newport.
John M. Broomall, Media.
Alexander H. Coffroth, Somerset.
John L. Dawson, Brownsville.
Charles Dension, Wilkesbarre.
James T. Hale, Bellefonte.
Philip Johnson, Easton.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
Jesse Lazear, Waynesburg.
Archibald McAllister, Sjjringfield.
William H. Miller, Harrisburg.
Edgar Cowan, Greensburg.
James K. Moorhead, Pittsburg.
Amos Myers, Clarion.
Leonard Myers » Philadelphia.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Glenni W. Scofield, Warren.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
John D. Stiles, Allentown.
Myer Strouae, Pottsville.
M. Russell Thayer, 6 Chestnut Hill.
Henry W. Tracy, Standing Stone.
Thomas Williams, Pittsburg.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly.
Jacob CoUamer, Woodstock.
Portus Baxter, Derby Line.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford. •
Lemuel J. Bowden.''
EEPEBSENTATIVEe.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant. )
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
(Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
( Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
William Sprague, Providence.
Thomas A. Jenckes, Providence.
Solomon Foot, c Rutlan v'
Fred. E. Woodbridge, Vergenne
John S. Carlile, Clarksburg.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by John Kline.
6 Election unsuccessfully contested by C. W. Carrigan.
o Elected president pro tempore February 23 1864
t' Died January 2, 1864.
THIRTY-EiaHTH CONGRESS. 207
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Waitman T. Willey,a Morgantown. Peter G. Van Winkle.o Parkersburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
^J? S- ^^^^< " Parkersburg. Killian V. Whaley, a Point Pleasant.
Wilham G. Brown, a King wood.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
James E. Doolittle, Racine. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James S. Brown, Milwaukee. Walter D. Mclndoe, Warsaw.
Amasa Cobb, Mineral Point. Ithamar C. Sloan, Janesville.
Chas. A. Eldridge, Fond du Lac. . Ezra Wheeler, Berlin.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Charles D. Poaton, Tubac.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Hiram P. Bennett, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
William Jayne. » John B. S. Todd, « Yankton
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Wallace, Lewiston.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel McLean, <« Bannack City.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel G. Daily, Peru.
NEVADA TERRITORY.
DELEGATES.
Gordon N. Mott, « Carson City. Henry G. Worthington, Austin.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Francisco Perea, / Bernalillo.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John F. Kinney, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George E. Cole, Walla Walla.
a Took his seat December 7, 1863.
b Election successfully contested by John B. S. Todd.
"Successfully contested the election of William Jayne; took his seat June'13, 1864.
d Took his seat January 6, 1865.
e Took his seat January 11, 1864.
/ Election unsuccessfully contested by J. M. Gallegos.
THIRTY-NINTH CONGEESS.
First session Jrom December 4, 1865, to July S8, 1866. Second sessio7i, from December 3, 1866, to March S, 1867.
rice-President. « Presidents of the Senate pro temporf.— Lafayette S. Fostee, of Connecticut, elected
March 7, 1865,' in special session; Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, elected March 2, 1867. Secretary oftU
Senate.— JoB-N W. Forney, of Pennsylvania. , , -r,- -i^ Ti,r -o c
' Speaker of the House.-ScavYLER Colfax, of Indiana. CHerk of the ITokss.-Edwakd McPherson, of
Pennsylvania.
John Conness, Sacramento.
John Bidwell, Chico..
William Higby, Calaveras.
James Dixon, Hartford.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
(Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
( Vacant. )
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
REPHESENT.A.TIVES.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Augustus Brandegee, New London.
Henry 0. Deming, Hartford.
James A. BIcDougall, San Francisco.
Donald C. JIcRuer, San Francisco.
Lafavette S. Foster, ^ Norv?ich.
John H. Hubbard, Litchfield.
Samuel L. Warner, Middletown.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
George Read Riddle, Wilmington. Willard Saulsbury, Georgetown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John A. Nicholson, Dover.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVE.
(Vacant.)
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
( \'acant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
"Vice-President Andrew Johnson became President by tlie deatlr of Abralram Lincoln, April 16, 1865.
b Elected President pro tempore March 7, 1865.
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THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
209
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Lyman Trumbull, Chicago.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Jehu Baker, Belleville.
Henry P. H. Bromwell, Charleston.
Burton C. Cook, Ottawa.
Shelby M. CuUom, Springfleld.
John F. Farnsworth, St. Charles.
Abner C. Harding, Monmouth.
Ebon 0. Ingersoll, Peoria.
Henry S. Lane, Crawfordsville.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Schuyler Colfax,'' South Bend.
Joseph H. Defrees, Goshen.
Ebenezer Bumont, Indianapolis.
John H. Farquhar, Brookville.
Ealph Hill, Columbus.
George W. Julian, Centreville.
James W. Grimes, Burlington.
James Harlan, <* Mount Pleasant.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
Josiah B. Grinnell, Grinnell.
Asahel W. Hubbard, Sioux City.
James H. Lane, / Lawrence.
Samuel C. Pomeroy, Atchison.
Richard Yates, Jacksonville.
Andrew J. Kuykendall, Vienna.
Saml. S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
Samuel W. Moulton, Shelbyville.
Lewis W. Ross, Lewistown.
Anthony Thornton, Shelbyville.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
John Wentworth, Chicago.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis.
Michael C. Kerr, New Albany.
William E. Niblack, Vincennes.
Godlove S. Orth, Lafayette.
Thomas N. Stillwell, Anderson.
Daniel W. Voorhees, 6 Terre Haute.
Henry D. Washburn, « Clinton.
Samuel J. Kirkwood, « Iowa City.
John A. Kasson, Des Moines.
Hiram Price, Davenpoit.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
Edmund G. Ross,^ Lawrence.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Sidney Clarke, Lawrence.
KENTUCKY.
Garrett Davis, Paris.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Grider,'' Bowling Green.
Aaron Harding, Greensburg.
Elijah Hise, « Ruseellville.
Samuel McKee, Mount Sterling.
William H. Randall, London.
Burwell C. Ritter, Hopkinsville.
James Guthrie, Louisville.
Lovell H. Rousseau, J Louisville.
George S. Shanklin, Nicholaaville.
Green Clay Smith,* Covington.
Lawrence S. Trimble, Paducah.
Andrew H. Ward, ^ Oynthiana.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant. )
a Elected Speaker December 4, 1865.
!> Election successfully contested by Henry D. Washburn.
0 Successfully contested the election of Daniel W. Voorhees; took his seat February 28, 1866.
d Resigned May 16, 1865, having been appointed Secretary of the Interior.
e Elected in place of James Harlan, resigned; *3ok his seat January 24, 1866.
/Died July 11, 1866.
9 Appointed in place of James H. Lane, deceased; took his seat July 25, 1866.
'I Died September 14, 1866.
^Elected in place of Henry Grider, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1866.
J Resigned July 21, 1866; subsequently reelected, and took his seat December 3, 1866.
^Resigned in 1866.
1 Elected in place of Green Clay Smith, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1866.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
MAINE.
SBNATOHS.
William Pitt Fessenden, Portland.
KEPEBSBNTATIVES.
James G. Blaine, Augusta.
John Lynch, Portland.
Sidney Perham, Paris.
John A. J. Creswell, Elkton.
Benj. G. Harris, Leonardtown.
Hiram McCuUough, Elkton.
Charles E. Phelps, Baltimore.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
Frederick A. Pike, Calais.
John H. Rice, Foxcroft.
Eeverdy Johnson, Baltimore.
Francis Thomas, Frankville.
John L. Thomas, jr., Baltimore.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
John'B. Alley, Lynn.
Oakes Ames, North Easton.
John D. Baldwin, Worcester.
Nathaniel P. Banks, « Waltham.
George S. Boutwell, Groton.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Fernando C. Beaman, Adrian.
John F. Driggs, East Saginaw.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfleld.
Thomas D. Eliot, New Bedford.
Samuel Hooper, Boston.
Alexander H. Rice, Boston.
William B. Washburn, Greenfield.
Jacob M. Hovrard, Detroit.
John W. Longyear, Lansing.
R. E. Trowbridge, Birmingham.
Charles Upson, Coldwater.
Daniel S. Norton, Winona.
Ignatius Donnelly, Hastings.
B. Gratz Brown, St. Louis.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT ATI VES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
EEPRESENTATIVES.
( Vacant. )
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul.
William Windom, Winona.
REPRESENT.VTIVES.
George W. Anderson, Louisiana.
John F. Benjamin, Palmyra.
Henry T. Blow, St. Louis.
John'Hogan, St. Louis.
John R. Kelso, Springfield.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John B. Henderson, Louisiana.
Benjamin F. Loan, St. Joseph.
Joseph W. McClurg, Linn Creek.
Thomas E. Noell, Perryville.
Robert T. Van Horn, Kansas City.
William M. Stewart, Virginia City.
James W. Nye, Carson (Jity.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Delos R. Ashley, Virginia City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
George G. Fogg, « Concord.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward H. Rollins, Concord.
Daniel Clark, b Manchester.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon.
Gilman Marston, Exeter.
James W. Patterson, Hanover.
a Elected In place of D. W. Gooch, resigned in 1866.
6 Resigned July 27, 1866.
e Appointed in place of Daniel Clark, resigned; took his seat December 3, 1866.
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211
NEW JERSEY.
SBNATOKS.
Alexander G. Cattell,a Camd.en.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, » Newark.
HEPBBSENTATIVES.
William A. Newell, Allentown.
Andrew J. Rogers, Newton.
Charles Sitgreaves, Phillipsburg.
John P. Stockton, c Trenton.
William Wright, <? Newark.
John F. Starr, Camden.
Edwin R. V. Wright, Hudson City.
NEW YORK.
Ira Harris, Albany.
SENATORS.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Tennis G. Bergen, New Utrecht.
James Brooks, « New York.
John W. Ohanler, New York.
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
William A. Darlin, New York.
Thomas T. Davis, Syracuse.
William E. Dodge, / New York.
Charles Goodyear, Schoharie.
John A. Griswold, Troy.
Robert S. Hale, Elizabethtown.
Roswell Hart, Rochester.
Sidney T. Holmes, Morrisville.
Giles W. Hotchkiss, Binghamton.
Demas Hubbard, jr., Smyrna.
Edwin N. Hubbell, Coxsackie.
Calvin T. Hulburd, Brasher Falls.
James Humphrey,!)' Brooklyn.
Edwin D. Morgan, New York.
James M. Humphrey, Buffalo.
John W. Hunter,* Brooklyn.
Morgan Jones, New York.
Orlando Kellogg, i
John H. Ketcham, Dover.
Addison H. Laflin, Herkimer.
James M. Marvin, Saratoga Springs.
Daniel Morris, Penn Yan.
Theodore M. Pomeroy, Auburn.
William Radford, Yonkers.
Henry J. Raymond, New York.
Stephen Taber, Roslyn.
Nelson Taylor, New York.
Henry Van Aernam, Franklinville.
Burt Van Horn, Newfane.
Hamilton Ward, Belmont.
Charles H. Winfleld, Goshen.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James M. Ashley, Toledo.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Ralph P. Buckland, Fremont.
Hezekiah S. Bundy, Reeds Mill.
Reader W. Clarke, Batavia.
Columbus Delano,* Mount Vernon.
Ephriam R. Eckley, Carrollton.
Benjamin Eggleston, Cincinnati.
William E. Finck, Somerset.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Benjamin F. Wade, J Jefferson.
Rutherford B. Hayes, Cincinnati.
James R. Hubbell, Delaware.
William Lawrence, Bellefonte.
Francis C. Le Blond, Celina.
Tobias A. Plants, Pomeroy.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
Samuel Shellabarger, Springfield.
Rufus P. Spalding, Cleveland.
Martin Welker, Wooster.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
James W. Nesmith, Salem. George H. Williams, Portland.
KEPRESENTATIVE.
John H. D. Henderson, Eugene City.
a Elected In place of John P. Stockton, whose seat was declared vacant; took his seat December 3, 1866.
^Appointed In place of William Wright, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1866.
<;■ Seat declared vacant March 27, 1866.
d Died November 1, 1866.
e Election successfully contested by William E. Dodge.
/Successfully contested the election of James Brooks: took his seat April 7, 1866.
a Died June i6, 1866.
h Elected in place of James Humphrey, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1866.
i Died August 24, 1866.
^Elected President pro tempore March 2, 1867.
ft Election unsuccessfully contested- by Charles Follett.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
Charles R. Buckalew, Bloomsburg.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Sydenham E. Ancona, Reading.
Abraham A. Barker, Edenburg.
Benjamin M. Boyer, Norristown.
John M. Broomall, Media.
Alexander H. Coffroth,a Somerset.
Charles V. Culver, Franklin
John L. Dawson, » Brownsville.
Charles Dennison, Wilkesbarre.
Adam J. Glossbrenner, York.
Philip Johnson, « Easton.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
William H. Koontz,'^ Somerset.
George V. Lawrence, Monongahela City.
Edgar Cowan, Greensbarg.
Ulysses Mercur, Towanda.
George F. Miller, Loiiisburg.
James K. Moorhead, Pittsburg.
Leonard Myers, Philadelphia.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Glenni W. Scofleld, Warren.
Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.
Myer Strouse, Pottsville.
M. Russell Thayer, Chestnut Hill.
Thomas Williams, Pittsburg.
Stephen F. Wilson, Wellsboro.
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
SENATOES.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly.
William Sprague, Providence.
Thomas A. Jenckes, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
( Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant. )
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Jacob Caldamer. «
Joseph S. Fowler,./' Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel M. Arnell,'' Columbia.
William B. Campbell,'' Lebanon.
Edmund Cooper, / Shelbyville.
Isaac R. Hawkins,'' Huntingdon.
David T. Patterson.? Greeneville.
John W. Leftwich, / Memphis.
Horace Maynard, i Knoxville.
William B. Stokes, « Liberty.
Nathaniel G. Taylor, i Happy Valley.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
( Vacant. )
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant. )
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds,.^' Burlington.
Solomon Foot,* Rutland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Portus Baxter, Derby Line.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
( Vacant. )
Luke P. Poland, i St. Johnsbury.
Fred. E. AVoodbridge, Vergennes.
aTook his seat February 19, 1866; election successfully contested by William H. Koontz.
ii Election unsuccessfully contested bv Smith Fuller,
c Died January 29, 1867.
rt Successfully contested the election of Alexander H, Coilroth; took his seat Julv 18, 1866.
e Died November 8, 1865.
/TdOk his seat Julv 25, 1866.
tf Took his seat July 28, 1866,
ATook his seat December 3, 1866; election unsuci'essfuUv contested bv Dorsev B. Thomas.
' Took his seat July 24, 1866.
,; Elected in place of Solomon Foot, deceased; took his seat December 3, 1866.
fcDied March 28, 1866,
I Appointed in place of Jacob Cnllamer, deceased, November 8, 1865; took his seat Deeemlier 4, 1865.
THIKTY-NINTH CONGBESS. 213
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Peter G. Van Winkle, Parkersburg. Waitman T. Willey, Morgantown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chester D. Hubbard, Wheeling. Killian V. Whaley, Point Pleasant.
George R. Latham, Grafton.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
James R. Doolittle, Racine. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Amasa Cobb, Mineral Point. Halbert E. Paine, Milwaukee.
Chas. A. Eldridge, Fond du Lac. Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
Walter D. Mclndoe, Warsaw. Ithamar C. Sloan, Janesville.
ARIZONA TERRITORY,
DELEGATE.
John N. Goodwin, Prescott.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Allen A. Bradford, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Walter A. Burleigh, Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
E. D. Holbrook, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
V DELEGATE.
Samuel McLean, Bannack City.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY. <=
DELEGATE.
Phineas W. Hitchcock, Omaha.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE,
J. Francisco Chaves, Santa Fe.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Hooper, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Arthur A. Denny, Seattle.
a Became a State March 1, 1867.
FOETIETH CONGRESS.
First session, from March 4, 1887, to March 30, 1867; July 3, 1867, to July SO, 1867; November SI, 1867, w
December S, 1867. /Second session, from December S, 1867, to July S7, 1868; September 21, 1868, to
September SI, 1868; October 16, 1868, to October 16, 1868; November 10, 1868, to November 10, 1868.
Third session, from December 7, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Vice-President.'^ President of the Senate pro tempore. — Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio. Secretaries of
the Senate. — John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania; Geokgb C. Goeham, of California, elected June 4, 1868.
Speakers of the House. — Schuvleb Colfax, of Indiana; Theodoke M. Pomeeoy, of New York, elected
March 3, 1869. Clerk of the House. — Edward McPhekson, of Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
George E. Spencer, '' Decatur. Willard Warner, i Montgomery.
representatives.
Chas. W. Buckley, <^ Montgomery.
John B. CalUs, <= Huntsville.
Thomas Haughey, « Decatur.
Francis W. Kellogg,'' Mobile.
Benjamin W. Norris, « Elmore.
Charles W. Pierce, « Demopolis.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Alexander McDonald, * Little Eock. Benjamin F. Bice, « Little Rock.
representatives.
Thomas Boles,./' Dardanelle.
James T. Elliott, a Camden.
Cornelius Cole, San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT.^TIVES.
Saml. B. Axtell, « San Francisco.
William Higy, » Calavebras.
James Hinds.*
Logan H. Roots, / Devalls Bluff.
John Conness, Georgetown.
Jas. A. Johnson, * Downieville.
CONNECTICUT.
James Dixon, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William li. Barnum,.? Lime Rook.
Julius Hotchkiss, Middletown.
Orris S. Ferry, Norwalk.
Richard D. Hubbard, Hartford.
Henry H. Starkweather, Norwich.
a Andrew Johnson became President by the death of Abraham Lincohi
6Took his seat July 25, 1868.
cTook his seat July 21, 1868.
dTook his seat July 22, 186S.
eTook his seat June 23, 1868.
/Took hia seat June 24, 1868.
((Elected in place of James Hinds, deceased; took his seat January 13 1869
« Took hia seat June 24, 1868; died October 22, 1868. ' '
iTook his seat November 21, 1867,
JSeat unsuccessfully contested.
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FORTIETH CONGRESS.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
215
James A. Bayard, « Wilmington.
George Read Riddle, » Wilmington.
Willard Saulsbury, Geoigetown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John A. Nicholson, Dover.
FLORIDA.
, . SENATORS.
Thomas W. Osborn, o Pensacola. Adonijah S. Welch.rf Jacksonville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Charles M. Hamilton, « Marianna.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph W. Olift,/ Savannah.
W. P. Edwards,/ Butler.
Samuel F. Gove,/ Griawoldville.
Lyman Trumbull, Chicago.
ILLINOIS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jehu Baker, Belleville.
Henry P. H. Bromwell, Charleston.
Albert G. Burr, Winchester.
Burton C. Cook, Ottawa.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
John F. Farnsworth, St. i;harles.
Abner C. Harding, Monmouth.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Coburn, Indianapolis.
Schuyler Colfax,!/ South Bend.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Morton C. Hunter, Bloomington.
George W. Julian, Centerville.
Michael C. Kerr, New Albany.
Charles H. Prince,/ Augusta.
Nelson Tift,/ Albany.
P. M. B. Young,/ Cartersville.
Richard Yates, Jacksonville.
Ebon C. Ingersoll, Peoria.
Norman B. Judd, Chicago.
John A. Logan, Carbondale.
Samuel S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
Green B. Raum, Harrisburg.
Lewis W. Ross, Lewiston.
Elihu B. Washburne, Galena.
Oliver P. Morton, Indianapolis.
William E. Niblack, Vincennes.
Gqdlove S. Orth, Lafayette.
John P. 0. Shanks, Jay.
Henry D. Washburn, Clinton.
William Williams, Warsaw.
IOWA.
James W. Grimes, Burlington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William i. Allison, Dubuque.
Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs.
Asahel W. Hubbard, Sioux City.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant.
William Loughridge, Oskaloosa.
Hiram Price, Davenport.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
lAppointed in place of George Read Riddle, deceased; took his seat April 11, 1867.
!> Died March 29, 1867. e Took his seat July 1, 1868.
oTook his seat Jvme 30, 1868. /Took his seat July 25, 1868.
d Took his seat July 2, 1868. g Elected Speaker March 4, 1867.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
KANSAS.
SBNATOKS.
Samuel C. Pomeroy, Atchison
Edmund G. Boss, Lawi'ence.
HEPKESENTATIVE.
Sidney Clarke, Lawrence.
KENTUCKY.
Garrett Bavis, Paris.
James Guthrie, « Louisville.
SBNATOKS.
KBPRESENTATIVE8.
Geo. M. Adams, " Barboursville.
James B. Beck,<i Lexington.
Jacob S. Golladay, « Allensville.
Asa P. Grover,'* Louisville.
Thomas L. Jones, / Newport.
John S. Harris, J Vidalia.
LOUISIANA.
SBNATOHS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
W. Jasper Blackburn,* Homer.
James Mann,* New Orleans.
Jos. P. Newsham,* Frances ville.
Thomas C. McCreery, f> Owensboro.
J. Proctor Knott, <^ Louisville.
Samuel McKee,? Mount Sterling.
Lawrence S. Trimble,* Paducah.
Elijah Hise. »
William Pitt Kellogg, J New Orleans.
J. H. Sypher,* New Orleans.
Michael Vidal,* Opelousas.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
William Pitt Fessenden, Portland. Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
EEPRESENTATIVBS.
James G. Blaine, Augusta.
John Lynch, Portland.
Sidney Perham, Paris.
Eeverdy Johnson, ' Baltimore.
George Vickers,™ Chestertown.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer, Belair.
Hiram McCuUough, Elkton.
Charles E. Phelps," Baltimore.
John A. Peters, Bangor.
Frederick A. Pike, Calais.
W. Pinkney Whyte,™ Baltimore.
Frederick Stone, Port Tobacco.
Francis Thomas, Frankville.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
Oakes Ames, North Eaaton.
John D. Baldwin, Worcester.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Waltham.
George S. Boutwell, Groton.
Benjamin F. Butler, Gloucester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfleld.
Thomas D. Eliot, New Bedford.
Samuel Hooper, Boston.
Ginery Twichell, Brookline.
AVm. B. Washburn, Greenfield.
a Resigned February, 1868.
fcElected In place of James Guthrie, resigned; took his seat February 28, 1868.
c Took his seat July 8, 1867.
t^Took his seat December 3, 1867.
e Elected in place of Elijah Hise, deceased May 8, 1867; took his seat December 6, 1867.
/Took his seat December 4, 1867.
(/Successfully contested the election of John D, Young; took his seat June 22, 1868.
'1 Election unsuccessfully contested by G. G. Symmes; took his seat January 10, 1868.
* Died May 8, 1867.
J Took his seat July 17, 1868.
'cTook his seat July 18, 1868.
I Resigned July 10, 1868.
m Elected in place of P. F. Thomas, rejected; took his seat March 9, 1868.
« Appointed in place of Reyerdy Johnson, resigued; took his seat July 14, 1868.
"Election unsuccessfully contested by J. J. Stewart.
FORTIETH C0NGBES8.
217
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
MICHIGAN.
SENATOES.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Fernando C. Beaman, Adrian.
Austin Blair, Jackson.
John F. Driggs, East Saginaw.
Daniel S. Norton, AVinona.
Ignatius Donnelly, Hastings.
Charles D. Drake, St. Louis.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
MISSOCJRI.
SENATORS.
Jacob M. Howard, Detroit.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
E. E. Trowbridge, Birmingham.
Charles Upson, Cold Water.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul.
William Windom, Winona.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George W. Anderson, « Louisiana.
John F. Benjamin, Shelbyvillo.
Joseph J. Gravely, Stockton.
Benjamin F. Loan, St. Joseph.
Joseph W. McClurg, » Linn Creek.
James E. McCormick, « Ironton.
John B. Henderson, Louisiana.
Carman A. Newcomb, Vineland.
Thomas E. Noell,'^ Perry ville.
William A. Pile, « St. Louis.
John H. Stover, / Versailles.
Eobert T. Van Horn,<7 Kansas City.
John M. Thay«r, Omaha.
James W. Nye, Carson City
NEBEASKA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John TaHe, Omaha.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
Thomas W. Tipton, Brownville.
William M. Stewart, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Delos E. Ashley, Austin.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon.
Jacob Benton, Lancaster.
Jacob H. Ela, Eochester.
James W. Patterson, Hanover.
Aaron F. Stevens, Nashua.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESBNT.\TIVES.
NEW JEESEY.
SENATORS.
Alexander G. Cattell, Camden. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Haight, Freehold. William Moore, Mays Landing.
George A. Halsey, Newark. Charles Sitgreaves, Phillipsbuig.
John Hill, Boonton.
'I Election unsuccessfully contested bv William F. Switzler.
6Resignedinl868.
cEleeted in place of Thomas E. Noell, deceased; took his seat December 17, 1867.
d Died October 4, 1867.
e Election unsuccessfully contested by John Hogan.
/ Elected in place of Joseph W. McClurg, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1868.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by James H. Birch.
218
CONOEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NEW YORK.
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Alexander H. Bailey," Rome.
Demas Barnes, Brooklyn.
James Brooks, New York.
John W. Chanler, New York.
John 0. Churchill, Oswego.
Thomas Cornell, Rondout.
Orange Ferriss, Glens Falls.
William C. Fields, Laurens.
John Fox, New York.
John A. Griswold, Troy.
Calvin T. Hulburd, Brasher Falls.
James M. Humphreys, Buffalo.
WiUiam H. Kelsey,Geneseo.
John H. Ketcham, Dover.
Addison H. Laflin, Herkimer.
William S. Lincoln, Owego.
Edwin D. Morgan, New York.
James M. Marvin, Saratoga Springs.
Dennis McCarthy, Syracuse.
John Morrissey, New York.
Theodore M. Pomeroy, ^ Auburn.
John V. L. Pruyn, Albany.
William H. Robertson, Katonah.
William E. Robinson, Brooklyn.
Lewis Selye, Rochester.
Thomas E. Stewart, New York.
Stephen Taber, Roslyn.
Henry Van Aemam, Franklinville.
Burt Van Horn, Lockport.
Chas. H. Van Wyck, Middletown.
Hamilton Ward, Belmont.
Fernando Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Joseph C. Abbott, « Wilmington.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel Boyden,** Salisbury.
John T. Deweese, « Raleigh.
Oliver H. Dockery,<2 Richmond.
John R. French, « Edenton.
OHIO.
John Pool, <■■ Elizabeth City.
David Heaton, / Newbern.
Alexander H. Jones, « Asheville.
Israel G. Lash,!? Salem.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
James M. Ashley, Toledo.
John Beatty, « Cardington.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Ralph P. Buckland, Fremont.
Samuel F. Cary, .; Cincinnati.
Reader W. Clarke, Batavia.
Columbus Delano,* Mount Vernon.
Ephraim R. Eckley, CarroUton.
Benjamin Eggleston, Cincinnati.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Cornelius S. Hamilton, ' Marysville.
Benjamin F. Wade,^ Jefferson.
Rutherford B. Hayes,"* Cincinnati.
William Lawrence, Bellefontaine.
George W. Morgan," Mount Vernon.
William Mungen, Findley.
Tobias A. Plants, Pomeroy.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
Samuel Shellabarger, Springfield.
Rufus P. Spalding, Cleveland.
Philadelph Van Trump, Lancaster.
Martin Welker, Wooster.
John T. Wilson, Tranquility.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Corbett, Portland. George H. Williams, Portland.
BEPHESENTATIVE.
Rufus Mallory, Salem.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
Charles R. Buckalew, Bloomsburg. Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin M. Boyer, Norristown.
John M. Broomall, Media.
Henry L. Cake, Tamaqua.
John Covode, Lockport.
a Elected in place of Eoscoe Conkling, elected Senator; took his seat November 30, 1867.
6 Elected Speaker March 3, 1869.
c Took his seat July 17, 1868.
dTook his seat July 13, 1868.
e Took his seat July 6, 1868.
/ Took his seat July 15, 1868.
g Took his seat July 20, 1868.
'' President pro tempore.
* Elected in place o( Cornelius S. Hamilton, deceased; took his seat February 5, 1868.
JElected in place of Rutherford B. Hayes, resigned; took his seat November 21, 1867.
^Successfully contested the sc'at of George W. Morgan; took his seat June 3, 1868.
I Died December 22, 1867.
MKesignedin 1867.
II Election successfully contested Ijv Columbus Delano.
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
219
Charles Denison,a Wilkesbarre.
Oliver J. Dickey, * Lancaster.
J. Lawrence Getz, Reading.
Adam J. Glossbrenner, York.
Darwin A. Finney, « Meadville.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
William H. Koontz, Somerset.
G. V. Lawrence, Monongahela City.
TJlyases Mercur, Towanda.
George F. Miller, Louisburg.
James K. Moorhead, Pittsburg.
Daniel J. Morrell, Johnstown.
Leonard Myers, Philadelphia.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
8. Newton Pettis, «* Meadville.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Glenni W. Scofleld, Warren.
Thaddeus Stevens, « Lancaster.
Caleb N. Taylor, Bristol.
Daniel M. Van Auken, Milford.
Thomas Williams, Pittsburg.
Stephen F. Wilson, Wellsboro.
Geo. W. Woodward,/ Wilkesbarre.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
HEPRESENT.4TIVES.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly.
William Sprague, Providence.
Thomas A. Jenckes, Cumberland.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Thomas J. Robertson,!/ Columbia.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
C. C. Bo wen,'' Charleston.
Simeon Corley, « Lexington.
Joseph S. Fowler,* Nashville.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel M. Arnell,*" Columbia.
Roderick R. Butler, « Mountain City.
Isaac R. Hawkins,"* Huntingdon.
Horace Maynard,"* Knoxville.
Frederick A. Sawyer,? Bolton.
James H. Goss, J Union C. H.
B. Frank Whittemore, i Darlington.
David T. Patterson, ' Greeneville.
James Mullins,'" Shelby ville.
David A. Nunn,™ Brownsville.
William B. Stokes,"' Alexandria.
John Trimble,"' Nashville.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
BEPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENT.iTIVES.
Luke P. Poland, St. Johnsbury.
Worthington C. Smith, St. Albans.
Fred. E. Woodbridge, Vergennes.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
(Vacant.)
REPRESENTATIVES.
(Vacant.)
a Died June 27, 1867.
b Elected in place of Thaddeus Stevens, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1868.
c Died August 25; 1868.
dEleetcd m place of Darwin .4. Finnev, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1868.
cDied August 11, 1868.
/Elected in place of Charles Denison, deceased; took his seat November 21, 1867.
g Took his seat July 22, 1868. t Took his seat July 25, 1866.
ATook his seat July 20, 1868. I Took his seat July 26, 1866.
i Took his seat July 25, 1868. m Took his seat November 21, 1867.
J Took his seat July 18, 1868. " Took his seat June 26, 1868.
220 CONGRESSIONAL DISECTOBY.
AVEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Peter G. Van Winkle, Parkersburg. Waitman T. Willey, Morgantown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chester D. Hubbard, Wheeling. Daniel Polsley, Po' it Pleasant.
Bethuel M. Kitchen, Martinsburg.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
James R. Doolittle, Racine. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Amasa Cobb, Mineral Point. Halbert E. Paine, Milwaukee.
Charles A. Eldridge, Fond du Lao. Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
Benjamin F. Hopkins, Madison. C. C. Washburn, La Crosse.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Coles Bashford, Tucson.
COLORADO -TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George M. Chilcott, Excelsior.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Walter A. Burleigh, Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
E. D. Holbrook, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James M. Cavanaugh, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Charles P. Clever," Santa Fe. J. F. Chaves.''
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Hooper, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Alvan Flanders, Walla Walla.
aElectiun successfully contested by J. F. Chaves. liTook his seat February 20, 1869.
FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
First session, from March 4, 1869, to April 10, 1869. Second session, from December 6, 1869, to July 15, 1870.
Third session from December 6, 1870, to March 3, 1871.
Vice-President. — Schuyler Colpax, of Indiana. President of the Senate pro tempore. — Henry B.
Anthony, of Rhode Island; elected March 23, 1869; again elected April 9, 1869; again elected May 28,
1870; again elected July 1, 1870, and again elected July 14, 1870. Secretary of the Senate. — George C.
GoRHAM, of California.
Speaker of the House. — James G. Blaine, of Maine. Clerk of the House. — Edward McPherson, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
George E. Spencer, Decatur. Willard Warner, Montgomery.
representatives.
Alfred E. Buck, a Mobile. Charles Hays, » Eutaw.
Clias.W. Buckley," Montgomery. Robert S. Heflin, t> Wedowee.
Peter M. Dox, 6 Huntsville. William C. Sherrod, ^ Courtland.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Alexander McDonald, Little Rock. Benjamin F. Rice, Little Rock.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Boles, Dardanelle. Logan H. Roots, Duvalls Bluff.
Anthony A. C. Rogers, Pine Bluff.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Eugene Casserly, San Francisco. Cornelius Cole, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Saml. B. Axtell, San Francisco. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada City.
James A. Johnson, Downieville.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William A. Buckingham, Norwich. Orris S. Ferry, Norwalk.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Barnum,o Lime Rock. Henry H.. Starkweather, o Norwich.
Stephen W. Kellogg, " Waterbury. Julius L. Strong, » Hartford.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Thomas Francis Bayard, <« Wilmington. Willard Saulsbury, Georgetown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Benjamin T. Biggs, Summit Ridge.
ol'ook his seat December 6, 1869.
6 Took his seat December 7, 1869.
d E°ected in place of George Bead Riddle, deceased, James A. Bayard having been appointed pro tempore; took Us seat
March 4, 1869.
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222
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOEY.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Abijah Gilbert, St. Augustine. Thomas W. Osborn, Peosacola.
KEPHESENTATIVE.
Charles M. Hamilton, Marianna.
Joshua Hill,« Madison.
GEORGIA
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Marion Bethune, " Talbotton.
Stephen A. Corker, <« Waynesboro.
Jefferson F. Long, b Macon.
William W. Paine, « Savannah.
ILLINOIS.
H. V. M. Miller. 6
William P. Price, t> Dahlonega.
Richard H. Whitely, / Bainbridge.
Pierce M. B. Young, b Cartersville.
Lyman Trumbull, Chicago.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horatio C. Burchard,? Freeport.
Albert C. Burr, CarroUton.
Burton C. Cook, Ottawa.
John M. Crebs, Carmi.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
John F. Farnsworth, St. Charles.
John B. Hawley, Rock Island.
John B. Hay, Belleville.
INDIANA.
Richard Yates, Jacksonville.
Ebon C. IngersoU, Peoria.
Norman B. Judd, Chicago.
John A. Logan, Oarbondale.
Samuel S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
Thompson W.MclSeely, Petersburg.
Jesse H. Moore, Decatur.
Elihu B. Washburne,'' Galena.
Oliver P. Morton, Indianapolis.
John Coburn, Indianapolis.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
George W. Juhan, « Centerville.
Michael C. Kerr, New Albany.
William E. Niblack, Vincennes.
Gcdlove S. Orth, Lafayette.
James W. Grimes,* Burlington.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
William Loughridge, Oskaloosa.
George W. McCrary, Keokuk.
Frank W. Palmer, Des Moines.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KANSAS.
Daniel D. Pratt, Logansport.
Jasper Packard, Laporte.
John P. C. Shanks, Jay.
James N. Tyner,.; Peru.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
William Williams, Warsaw.
James B. Howell, ^ Keokuk.
Charles Pomeroy, Fort Dodge.
William Smyth,™ Marion.
William P. Wolf.™
Samuel C. Pomeroy, Atchison.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edmund G. Ross, Lawrence.
Sidney Clarke, Lawrence.
o Took his seat February 1, 1871.
6 Took his seat February 24, 1871.
cTook his seat January 16, 1871.
dBleotion unsuccessfully contested by Thomas P. Beard; took his seat January 24, 1871.
e Took his seat January 23, 1871.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by Nelson Tift; took his seat February 9, 1871.
ff Elected in place of Elihu B. Washburne, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1869.
/i Resigned March 6, 1869.
» Election unsuccessfully contested by John S. Reid.
j Elected in place of Daniel D. Pratt, elected Senator; took his seat March 4, 1869.
*: I-iesisned December 6, 1869.
? Elected in place of James W. Grimes, resigned; took his seat January 26, 1870.
lit Died September 30, 1870.
"Elected in place of William Smyth; took his seat December 17, 1870.
FOETY-FIK8T CONGRESS.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
223
Garrett Davis, Paris.
REPPESENTATIVES.
George M. Adams, « Barboursville.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
J. S. Golladay, 6 Allensville.
Thomas L. Jones, Newport.
J. Proctor Knott, Lebanon.
John S. Harris, Vidalia.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Chester B. Darrall, e Brashear.
Frank Morey, / Monroe.
Jos. P. Newsham,</St. Francisville.
Thomas C. McCreery, Owensboro.
Joseph H. Lewis, « Glasgow.
John M. Rice,** Louisa.
William N. Sweeney, Owensboro.
Lawrence S. Trimble, Paducah.
Bojtd Winchester, Louisville.
William Pitt Kellogg, New Orleans.
Lionel A. Sheldon, A New Orleans.
J. Hale Sypher, » New Orleans.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
AVilliam Pitt Fessenden, J Portland.
Hannibal HamJin, Bangor.
James G. Blaine, I Augusta.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
John Lynch, Portland.
HEPHESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
Lot M. Morrill * Augusta.
Samuel P. Morrill, Farmington.
John A. Peters, Bangor.
SENATORS.
William T. Hamilton,"' Hagerstown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer, Belair.
Samuel Hambleton, Easton.
Patrick Hamill, Oakland.
George Vickers, Chestertown.
Frederick Stone, Port Tobacco.
Tfiomas Swann, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Oakes Ames, North Easton.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Waltham.
George S. Boutwell," Groton.
George M. Brooks," Concord.
James Bufflnton, Fall Eiver.
Benjamin F. Butler, Lowell.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfleld.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Samuel Hooper, Boston.
Ginery Twichell, Brookline.
William B. Washburn, Greenfield.
a Election unsuccessfully contested bv S. M. Barnes.
6 Resigned February 28, 1870.
c Elected in place of J. S. Golladay, resigned; took his seat May 10, 1870.
^Election unsuccessfully contested by John T. Zeigler.
eEleotion unsuccessfully contested by Adolph Bailej;; took his seat July 7, 1869.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by G. W. McCranie; took his seat December 6, 1870.
» Successfully contested the election of Michael Ryan; took his seat May 25, 1870.
'"Election unsucces-sfuUy contested by Caleb S. Hunt; took his seat April 8, 1869.
* Election unsuccessfully contested by Mr. St. Martin; took his seat December 5, 1870.
J Died September 8, 1869.
Tf Appointed in place of William Pitt Fessenden, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1869.
i Elected Speaker March 4, 1869.
"> Elected in place of Reverdy Johnson, resigned in 1868, W. Pinkney Whyte having been appointed pro tem.; took his ■
seat March 26, 1869.
n Resigned March 12, 1869, having been appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
o Elected in place of George S. Boutwell, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1869.
224
CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOBY.
MICHIGAN.'
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
Fernando C. Beaman, Adrian.
Austin Blair, Jackson.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
Daniel S. Norton," Winona.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul.
Morton S. Wilkinson, Mankato.
Adelbert Ames,<^ Natchez.
SENATORS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry W. Barry, / Columbus.
George E. Harris, v Hernando.
George C. McKee,9' Vicksburg.
Francis P. Blair, jr., A St. Louis.
Charles D. Drake, * St. Louis.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Jacob M. Howard, Detroit.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
William L. Stoughton, Sturgis.
Eandolph Strickland, St. Johns.
Ozora P. Steams, * Rochester.
William Windom, " Winona.
Eugene M. Wilson, Minneapolis.
Hiram R. Revels, " Natchez.
Joseph L. Morphis,!/ Pontotoc.
Legrand W. Perce,? Natchez.
Carl Schurz, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joel F. Asper, Chillicothe.
John F. Benjamin, Shelbyville.
Sempronius H. Boyd, Springfield.
Samuel S. Burdett, Osceola.
David P. Dyer, 'i Louisiana.
GustavusA. Finkelnburg, St. Louis.
James R. McCormick, Ironton.
Robert T. Van Horn,* Kansas City.
Erastus Wells, St. Louis.
John M. Thayer, Omaha.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
BEPEESENTATIVE.
John Taffe, Omaha.
Thomas W. Tipton, Brownville.
James W. Nye, Carson City.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Fitch, Belmont.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
William M. Stewart, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James W. Patterson, Hanover.
Aaron F. Stevens, Nashua.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon.
Jacob Benton, Lancaster.
Jacob H. Ela, Rochester.
oDiedJulylS, 1870.
&Eleoted in place of Daniel S. Norton, deceased, William Windom having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
January 23, 1871.
c Appointed in place of Daniel S. Norton, deceased; took his seat December 1, 1870.
(iTook his seat April 1, 1870.
c Took his seat February 26, 1870.
/ Took his seat April 8, 1870.
crTook his seat February 23, 1870.
'i Elected in place of Charles D. Drake, resigned: took his seat Janunrv 25, 1871.
i Resigned December 19, 1870.
i Election unsuccessfully contested by William F. Switzler.
fc Election unsuccessfully contested by Mr. .Shields.
B'OBTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
225
NEAV JERSEY.
SENATOES.
Alexander G. Cattell, Camden. John P. sl^ockton, Trenton.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
John Hill, Boonton.
John T. Bird, Flemington.
Orestes Cleveland, Jersey Citv.
Charles Haight, Freehold.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Roscoe Conkling, TJtica.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Alexander H. Bailey, Rome.
David S. Bennett, Buffalo.
James Brooks, New York.
Hervey 0. Calkin, New York.
John C. Churchill, Oswego.
George W. Cowles, Clyde.
Samuel S. Cox, New York.
Noah Davis, « Albion.
Orange Ferriss, Glens Falls.
John Fisher, Batavia.
John Fox, New York.
George AV. (Jreene, b Goshen.
John A. Griswold, Catskill.
Charles H. Holmes, <-■ Albion.
Giles W. Hotchkiss, Binghamton.
William H. Kelsey, Geneseo.
John H. Ketcham, Dover.
William Moore, Mays Landing.
Reuben E. Fenton, Jamestown.
Charles Knapp, Deposit.
Addison H. Laflin, Herkimer.
Stephen L. Mayham, Scoharie.
Dennis McCarthy, Syracuse.
John Morrissey, New York.
Clarkson N. Potter, New Rochelle.
Henry A. Reeves, Green Point.
Stephen Sanford, Amsterdam.
John G. Schumaker, Brooklyn.
Porter Sheldon, Jamestown.
Henry W. Slocnm, Brooklvn.
Adolphus H. Tanner, Whitehall.
Charles H. Van Wyck,'' Middletown.
Hamilton Ward, Belmont.
William A. Wheeler, Malone.
Fernando Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Joseph C. Abbott, AVilmington.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Clinton L. Cobb, Elizabeth City.
John T. Deweese, « Raleigh.
Joseph Dixon, / Hookerton.
Oliver H. Dockery, Mangum.
David Heaton,!/ Newbern.
John Pool, Elizabeth City.
Alexander H. Jones,'' Asheville.
Israel Ci. Lash, Salem.
John Manning, jr., i Pittsboro.
Francis E. Shober, .;' Salisbury.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jacob A. Ambler, Salem.
John Beatty, Cardington.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Edward F. Dickinson, Fremont.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Truman H. Hoag,* Belmont.
William Lawrence, Bellefontaine.
Eliakim H. Moore, Athens.
George W. Morgan, Mount Vernon.
William Mungen, Findlay.
OREGON.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
Erasmus D. Peck, I Perrysburg.
Robert C. Schenck, Dayton.
John A. Smith, Hillsboro.
Job E. Stevenson, Cincinnati.
Peter W. Strader,"* Cincinnati.
William H. Upson, Akron.
Philadelph Van Trump, Lancaster.
Martin VV^elker, Wooster.
John T. Wilson, Tranquility.
James J. Winans, Xenia.
Henry W. Corbett, Portland.
SENATORS.
George H. Williams, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Joseph S. Smith, Salem.
a Resigned in 1870.
6 Seat successfully contested by Charles H. Van Wyek.
0 Elected in place of Noah Davi.i, resigned; took his seat December 6, 1870.
dSuccessfully contested the election ot George W. Greene; took bis seat February 17
e Resigned February 28, 1870.
/Elected in place o£ David Heaton, deceased; took his seat December 5, 1870.
(7 Died June 25, 1870.
h Election un.successfully contested by Plato Durham.
' Took his seat December 7, 1870.
J Election unsuccessfully contested by Nathaniel Eoyden.
ADied February, 1870.
1 Elected in place of Truman H. Hoag, deceased; took his seat April 2S, 1870.
m Election unsuccessfully contested by Benjamin Eggleston.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIBEOTOEY.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
William H. Armstrong, Williamsport.
Henry L. Cake, Tamaqua.
John Cessna, Bedford.
John Covode, « Lockport.
Oliver J. Dickey, Lancaster.
Joseph B. Donley, Waynesburg.
J. Lawrence Getz, Beading.
Calvin W. GilfiUan, Franklin.
Eichard J. Haldeman, Harrisburg.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
Ulysses Mercur, Towanda.
John Moffet, » Philadelphia.
Daniel J. Morrell, Johnstown.
John Scott, Huntingdon.
Leonard Myers, <: Philadelphia.
James S. Negley, Pittsburg.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
John B. Packer, Sunbury.
Darwin Phelps, Kittanning.
Samuel J. Eandall, Philadelphia.
John B. Beading, <« Somerton.
Glenni W. Scofield, Warren.
John D. Stiles, Allentown.
Caleb N. Taylor, « Bristol.
Washington Townsend, Westchester.
Daniel M. Van Auken, Milford.
George AV. Woodward, Wilkesbarre.
BHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, / Providence.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Nathan F. Dixon, Westerly.
SOUTH CAEOLINA.
SENATORS.
Thomas J. Bobertson, Columbia.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. C. Bowen, Charleston.
Solomon L. Hoge,!/ Columbia.
Joseph H. Eainey,'' Georgetown.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
William G. Brownlow, Knoxville.
.REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel M. Arnell, Columbia.
Boderick E. Butler, Taylorsville.
Isaac E. Hawkins, Huntingdon.
Horace jNIaynard, Knoxville.
TEXAS.
, SENATORS.
J. W. Flanagan.'" Walling' s Ferry.
REPRESENTATIVES.
AVilliam T. Clark,™ Galveston.
John C. Conner," Sherman.
William Sprague, Providence.
Thomas A. Jenckes, Providence.
Frederick A. Sawyer, Charleston.
Alexander S. Wallace, « Yorkville.
B. Frank Whittemore,J Darlington.
Joseph S. Fowler, Nashville.
William F. Prosser, Nashville.
William J. Smith,* Memphis.
William' B. Stokes, Alexandria.
Lewis Tillman, ' Shelbyville.
Morgan C. Hamilton,'" Austin.
Edward Degener,"' San Antonio.
George W. Whitmore,"* Tyler.
VEEiKlNT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
EEPRESENT.ITIVES.
Luke P. Poland, St. Johnsbury.
Worthington C. Smith, St. Albans.-
Charles W. Willard, Montpelier.
n Election unsuccessfully contested by Henry D. Foster,
ii Election successfully contested by Leonard Myers.
c Successfully contested the election of John Moffet; took his seat April 9, 1869.
d Election successfully contested by Caleb N. Taylor.
e Successfully contested the election of John R. Reading; took his seat April 13, 1870.
/Elected President pro tempore, March 23, 1869.
» Election unsuccessfully contested by J. P. Reed.
h Elected in place of B. Frank Whittemore, who was refused his seat.
i Election unsuccessfully contested by William D. Simpson.
J Resigned February 23, 1870; subsequently reelected, but refused admission June 21, 1870.
^Election unsuccessfully contested by Mr. Leftwich.
I Election unsuccessfully contested by C. A. Sheafe.
Ill Took his seat March 81, 1870.
"Took his seat March 31, 1870; election unsuccessfully contested by B. F. Grafton.
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VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John W. Johnston, « Abingdon. John F. Lewis, « Port Republic.
' HEPHESENTATIVES.
Richards Ayer, 6 Warsaw. James King Gibson, « Abingdon. Jas.H.Platt, jr., <? Petersburg,
george W. Booker c Martinsville. Lewis McKenzie,/ Alexandria. Ohas. H. Porter,? Richmond.
K. i. W. Duke,'' Charlottesville. Wm. Milnes, jr.,!/ Shenandoah. Robert Eidgway,A Cool Well.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATOES.
Arthur I. Boreman, Parkersburg. Waitman T. Willey, Morgantown.
REPBESENTATIVES.
Isaac H. Duval, Wellsburg. James 0. McCrew, Kingwood. JohnS.Witcher,Guyandotte.
WISCONSIN.
SBNATOBS.
Matthew H. Carpenter, Milwaukee. Timothy 0. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
David Atwood * Madison. Benjamin F. Hopkins, J Madison.- Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
Amasa Cobb, JNIineral Point. Halbert E. Paine, Milwaukee. C. C. Washburn, La Crosse
Charles A. Eldridge, Fond du Lac.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Richard C. McCormick, Tucson.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Allen A. Bradford, Pueblo.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
S. L. Spink, Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
, DELEGATE.
Jacob K. Shafer, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James M. Cavanaugh, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
J. Francisco Chaves, Santa Fe.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Hooper, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Selucius Garfielde, Olympia.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Stephen F. Nuckolls, Cheyenne.
fiTook his seat January 27, 1870.
6 Took his seat January 31, 1870.
0 Election unsuccessfully contested by George Tucker; took his seat February 1, 1870.
<i Elected in place of Robert Ridgway, deceased;, took his seat December 5, 1870.
c Took his seat January 28, 1870.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by C. C. Whittlesey; took his seat January 31, 1870.
» Took his seat January 27, 1870.
A Took his seat January 27, 1870; died in 1870.
< Elected in place of Benjamin P. Hopkins, deceased; took his seat February 23, 1870.
1 Died January 1, 1870.
FORTY-SECOND 00NGEE8S.
First session, from March 4, 1871, to April SO, 1S71. Second session, from December 4, 1871, to June 10, 187S.
Third session, from December S, 1872, to March 3, 1873.
Vice-President. — Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. President of the Senate pro tempore. — Heney B.
Anthony, of Rhode Island, elected March 10, ]871; again elected December 21, 1871; again elected
February 23, 1872; and again elected July 8, 1872. Secretary of the Senate. — George C. Goeham, of
California.
Speaker of the Bouse. — James G. Blaine, of Maine. Clerk of the House. — Edward McPheeson, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
George Goldthwaite, " Montgomery. George E. Spencer, Decatur.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chas. W. Buckley, Montgomery. Charles Hays, Eutaw.
Peter M. Dox, Huntsville. Joseph H. Sloss, Tuscumbia.
William A. Handley, '' Roanoke. Benjamin S. Turner, Selma.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Powell Clayton, Little Rock. Benjamin F. Rice, Little Rock.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas Boles, « Dardanelle. James j\I. Hanks, Helena.
John Edwards, <2 Fort Smith. Oliver P. Snyder, e Pine Bluff.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS. .
Eugene Casserly, San Francisco. Cornelius Cole, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Coghlan, f Suisun City. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada City.
Sherman 0. Houghton, / San Jose.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William A. Buckingham, Norwich. Orris S. Ferry, Norwalk.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Barnum, Lime Rock. Henry H. Starkweather, Norwich.
Joseph Roswell llawley,!/ Hartford. Julius L. Strong, ' Hartford.
Stephen W. Kellogg,* Waterbury.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Thomas Francis Bayard, Wilmington. Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Benjamin T. Biggs, Summit Ridge.
a Took his seat January 15, 1872.
i; Election unsuccessfully contested by B. W. Norris.
cSuccessIuUy contested the election ol John Edwards; look his seat February 9 1872
'iElectionauccessiuUy contested by Thomas Boles. ■ " ' '
« Election unsuccessfully contested by S. H. Rogers.
/Took his seat December 4, 1871.
a Elected in place oE Julius L. Strong, deceased; look his seat December 2 1872
'■ Took his seat December 4, 1871.
i Died September 7, 1872.
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FOKTY-SECOND C0NGKE8S.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
229
Abijah Gilbert, St. Augustine.
Silas L. Niblack. "
Joshua Hill, Madison.
HBPBESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Thomas W. Osborn, Pensacola.
Josiah T. Walla, t> Gainesville.
Thomas Manson Norwood, « Savannah.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Erasmus W. Beck,'' Griffin.
John Summerfield Bigby, Newnan.
Dudley M. Du Bose, « "Washington.
A. T. Mclntyre, / Thomasville.
William P. Price, Dahlonega.
Thomas J. Speer,£/ BarnesviUe. ~
Richard II. Whiteley,'' Bainbridg
Pierce M..B. Young, Gartersville.
John A. Logan, Oarbondale.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John L. Beveridge, « Evanston.
Horatio C. Burcfiard, Freeport.
Burton C. Cook, Ottawa.
John M. Grabs, Oarmi.
John F. Farnsworth, St. Charles.
Charles B. Farwell, Chicago.
John B. Hawley, Rock Island.
John B. Hay, Belleville.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Oliver P. Morton, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Coburn, Indianapolis.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Michael C. Kerr, New Albany.
Mahlon D. Manson, Crawfordsville.
William E. Niblack, Vincennes.
Jasper Packard, La Porte.
Lyman Trumbull, Chicago.
Sam. S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
T. W. McNeely, Petersburg.
Jesse H. Moore, Decatur.
Edward Y. Rice, Plillsboro.
James C. Robinson, Springfield.
Henry Snapp, .; Joliet.
Bradford N. Stevens, Tiskilwa.
Daniel D. Pratt, Logansport.
John P. C. Shanks, Portland.
James N. Tyner, Peru.
Daniel W. Vorhees, Terre Haute.
William Williams, Warsaw.
Jeremiah M. Wilson,* Connersville.
James Harlan, Mount Pleasant.
Aylett R. Cotton, Lyons.
^^'m. G. Donnan, Independence.
George W. McCrary, Keokuk.
George G. Wright, Des Moines.
Jackson Orr, Montana.
Frank W. Palmer, Des Moines.
Madison M. Walden, Centerville.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
Alexander Caldwell, Leavenworth. Samuel C. Pomeroy, Atchison.
REPRESENTATIVE.
David P. Lowe, Fort Scott.
a Successfully contested the election of Josiah T. Walls; took his seat January 29, 1873.
6 Election successfully contested by Silas L. Niblack,
"Election unsuccessfully contested by Foster Blodgett; took his seat December 19, 1871.
d Elected m place of Thomas J. Speer, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1872.
e Election unsuccessfully contested by J. S. Fannin.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by Virgil Hillyer.
oDied August 18, 1872.
* Election unsuccessfully contested by Nelson Tift.
iTook his seat December 4, 1871; resigned January 4, 1873.
J Took his seat December 4, 1871.
* Election unsuccessfully contested by David S. Gooding. '
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Garrett Davis, « Paris.
Willis B. Machen, » Eddyville.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
Geo. M. Adams, Barboursville.
William E. Arthur, Covington.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
Edward Crossland, Mayfield.
Joseph H. Lewis, Glasgow.
LOUISIANA.
, SENATORS.
William Pitt Kellogg, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
William T. Hamilton, Hageratown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stevenson Archer, Belair.
Samuel Hambleton, Easton.
William M. Merrick, Ilchester.
Aleck Boarman, " Shreveport.
Chester B. Darrall, Brashear.
Frank Morey, Monroe.
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor.
James G. Blaine, « Augusta.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
John W. Stevenson, Covington.
Henry D. McHenry, Hartford.
William B. Read, Hodgensville.
John M. Rice, Louisa.
Boyd Winchester, Louisville.
J. Rodman West, New Orleans.
Lionel A. Sheldon, New Orleans.
J. Hale Sypher, New Orleans.
James McCleary.''
Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
John Lynch, Portland.
John A. Peters, Bangor.
George Tickers, Chestertown.
John Ritchie, Frederick City.
Thomas Swann, Baltimore.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles Sumner, Boston.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATI V ES.
Henry Wilson, Natick.
Oakes Ames, North Easton.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Waltham.
George M. Brooks, / Concord.
James Buffinton, Fall River.
Benjamin F. Butler, Lowell.
Alvah Crocker, ? Fitchburg.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
Constantine C. Esty,'' Framingham.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Samuel Hooper, Boston.
Ginery Twichell, Brookline.
William B. Washburn, » Greenfield.
MICHIGAN.
.Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
Thomas W. Ferrv, Grand Haven.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Austin Blair, Jackson.
Omar D. Conger, Port- Huron.
Wilder D. Foster, J Grand Rapids.
William L. Stoughton, Sturgis.
Jabez G. Sutherland, Saginaw.
Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
a Died September 22, 1872.
& Appointed in place of Garrett Davis, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1872,
c Elected in place of James McCieary, deceased; tool; his seat December 3, 1872.
t^Died November 6, 1871.
c Elected Speaker March 4, 1871
/Resigned May 13, 1872.
0 Elected In place of William B. Washburn, elected governor; took his seat February 14, 1872.
h Elected in place of George M. Brooks, resigned ; took his seat December 2, 1872,
^'Resigned December 5, 1871, having been elected governor.
J Elected in place of Thomas W. Ferry, elected Senator; took his seat December 4, 1871,
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MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul. William Windom, Winona.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John T. Averill, St. Paul. JIark H. Dunnell, Owatonna.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
James Lusk Alcorn," Priars Point. Adelbert Ames, Natchez.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry W. Barry, Columbus. Joseph L. Morphis, Pontotoc.
George E. Harris, Hernando. Legrand W. Perce, Natchez.
George C. MoKee, Viicksburg.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Francis P. Blair, jr., St. Louis. Carl Schurz, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James G. Blair, Canton. Andrew King, St. Charles.
Samuel S. Burdett, Osceola. James R. McCormick, Arcadia.
Abram Comingo, Independence. Isaac C. Parker, St. Joseph.
Gustavus A. Finkelnburg, St. Louis. Erastus AVells, St. Louis.
Harrison E. Havens, Springfield.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Phineas W. Hitchcock, Omaha. Thomas W. Tipton, Brownville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John Taffe, Omaha.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
James W. Nye, Carson City. William M. Stewart, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Charles West Kendall, Hamilton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon. James \V. Patterson, Hanover.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel N. Bell, Manchester. Hosea W. Parker, Claremont.
EUery A. Hibbard, Laconia.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Newark. John P. Stockton, Trenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John T. Bird, Flemington. John W. Hazelton, Mullica Hill.
Samuel C. Forker, Bordentown. John Hill, Boonton.
George A. Halsey, Newark.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Eoscoe Conkling, Utica. Reuben E. Fenton, Jamestowi.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James Brooks, New York. Milo Goodrich, Dryden.
John M. Carroll, Johnstown. John H.Ketcham, Dover Plains.
Freeman Clarke, Rochester. Thomas Kinsella, Brooklyn.
Samuel S. Cox, New York. William H. Lamport, Canandaigua.
E. Holland Duell, Cortland. William E. Lansing, Chittenango.
Smith Ely, jr.. New York. Clinton L. Merriam, Locust Grove.
a Took his seat December 4, 1871.
232
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Eli Perry, Albany.
Clarksoii N. Potter, New Rochelle.
Elizur H. Prindle, Norwich.
Ellis H. Roberts, TJtica.
William R. Roberts, New York.
John Rogers, Black Brook.
Robert B. Roosevelt, New York.
John E. Seele^, Ovid.
Walter L. Sessions, Panama.
Henry W. Slocum, Brooklyn.
Horace Boardman Smith, Elmira,
Charles St. John, Port Jervis.
Dwight Townsend, Stapleton.
Joseph H. Tuthill, EUenville.
Seth Wakeman, Batavia.
Joseph M. Warren, Troy.
William A. Wheeler, Malone.
William Williams, Buffalo.
Fernando Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
John Pool, Elizabeth City.
HEPKBSENTATIVES.
Clinton L. Cobb, Elizabeth City.
James C. Harper, Patterson.
James M. Leach, Lexington.
Sion H. Rogers, t> Raleigh.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
Jacob A. Ambler, Salem.
John Beatty, Cardington.
John A. Bingham, Cadiz.
Lewis D. Campbell, " Hamilton.
Ozro T. Dodds,'' Cincinnati.
Charles Foster, Fostoria.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Charles N. Lamison, Lima.
John F. McKinney, Piqua.
James Monroe, Oberlin.
ilatt. W. Ransom, a Weldon.
Francis E. Shober, Salisbury.
Charles R. Thomas, Newbern.
Alfred Moore Waddell, Wilmington.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
George W. Morgan, Mount Vernon.
Erasmus D. Peck, Perrysburg.
Aaron F. Perry, « Cincinnati.
Samuel Shellabarger, Springfield.
John A. Smith, Hillsboro.
William P. Sprague, McConnellsville.
Job E. Stevenson, Cincinnati.
William H. Upson, Akron.
Philadelph Van Trump, Lancaster.
John T. Wilson, Tranquillity.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Corbett, Portland. James K. Kelly, Portland.
EEPRESBNTATIVE.
James H. Slater, Le Grande.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ephriam L. Acker, Norristown.
Frank C. Burnell, / Tunkhannock.
John V. Creely, Philadelphia.
Oliver J. Dickey, Lancaster.
Henry D. Foster, Greensburg.
J. Lawrence Getz, Reading.
Samuel Griffith, Mercer.
Richard S. Haldeman, Harrisburg.
Alfred C. Harmer, Germantown.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
John W. Killinger, Lebanon.
William McClelland, Newcastle.
Ebenezer McJunkin, Butler.
John Scott, Huntingdon.
Ulysses S. Mercur,!/ Towanda.
Benjamin F. Meyers,* Bedford.
Leonard Myers, Philadelphia.
James S. Negley, Pittsburg.
John B. Packer, Sunbury.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Glenni W. Scofield, Warren.
Henry Sherwood, Wellsboro.
Lazarus D. Shoemaker, Wilkesbarre.
R. Milton Speer, Huntingdon.
John B. Storm, Stroudsburg.
Washington Townsend, Westchester.
a Took his seat April 21, 1872.
liTook liis seat May 23, 1872; election unsuccesefuUy contested by James H. Harris.
(■Election unsuccessfully contested by R. C. Sclienck,
ti Elected in place of Aaron F. Perry, resigned; took his seat December 2, 1872.
' Resigned in 1872.
/ Elected in place of Ulysses S. Mercur, resigned; took his seat .Tanuarv 7, 1 HTi.
ff Resigned December 2, 1872.
ft Election unsuccessfully contested l>y .Tohn Cessna.
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RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOHS.
Henry B. Anthony, « Providence. William Sprague, Providence.
EEPEESBNTATIVES.
Benjamin T. Eames, Providence. James M. Pendleton, Westerly.
SOUTPI CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Thomas J. Robertson, Columbia. . Frederick A. Sawyer, Charleston.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Robert C. D? Large, » Charleston. Joseph H. Rainey, Georgetown.
Robert Brown Elliott, « Columbia. Alexander S. Wallace. <« Yorkville.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
William G. Brownlow, Knoxville. Henry Cooper, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Bright, Fayetteville. Edward I. Golladay, Lebanon.
Roderick R. Butler, Taylorsville. Horace Maynard, Knoxville.
Robert P. Caldwell, Trenton. Wm. W, Vaughan, Brownsville.
Abraham E. Garrett, Carthage. W. C. Whitthorne, Columbia.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
James W. Flanagan, Flanagans Mills. Morgan C. Hamilton, Austin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William T. Clark, « Galveston. John Hancock, Austin.
John C. Connor, Sherman. William S. Herndon, Tvler.
De Witt C. Giddings, / Brenham. '
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Luke P. Poland, St. Johnsbury. Charles W. Willard, Montpelier.
Worthington C. Smith, St. Albans.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John W. Johnston, Abingdon. John F. Lewis, Port Republic.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. M. Braxton, Fredericksburg. James H. Piatt, jr., Petersburg.
John Critcher, Oak Grove. Charles H. Porter, Richmond.
Richard T. W. Duke, Charlottesville. Wm. H. H. Stowell, Manchester.
John T. Harris, Harrisonburg. William Terry, Wytheville.
a Elected president pro tempore 'March 10, 1871.
6 Election contested by Christopher C. Bowen; seat declared vacant January 24, 1873.
c flesigned in 1873.
rf Election unsuccesslully contested by I. G. McKissick.
e Election successfully contested by D. C. Giddings.
/Successfully contested the election of William T. Clark; took his seat May 13, 1872.
234 CONGRESSIONAL DIREOTOEY.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Arthur I. Boreman, Parkersburg. Henry G. Davis, Piedmont.
REPKESENTATIVES.
John J. Davis, Clarksburg. James C. McGrew, Kingwood.
Frank Hereford, Union.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
MatthevF H. Carpenter, Milwaukee. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Allen Barber, Lancaster. Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee.
Chas. A. Eldredge, Fond du Lac. Jeremiah M. Rusk, Viroqua.
Gerry W. Hazelton, Columbus. Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Richard C. McCormick, Tucson.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jerome B. Chaffee, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Moses K. Armstrong, Y''ankton.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
DELEGATE.
Norton P. Chipman, Washington City.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Samuel A. Merritt, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William H. Claggett, Deer Lodge City.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
3oa& Manuel Gallegos, Sante F^.
UTAH TERRITORY^
DELEGATE.
William H. Hooper, « Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Selucius Garfielde, Olympia.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William T. Jones, Cheyenne.
II Election unsuccessfully contested by G. E. Jlaxwell.
FORTY THIRD CONGRESS.
First session, from December 1, 1873, to June SS, 1874- Second session, from December 7, 1874, to
March S, 1875.
T ice- Prmdmi.— Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. Presidents of the Senate pro (ejnpow.— Matthew
H. Carpenter of, Wisconsin, elected March 12, 1873, in special session, again elected March 26, 1873,
again elected December 11, 1873, and again elected December 23, 1874; Hbney B. Anthony, of Rhode
Island, elected January 25, 1875, and: again elected February 15, 1875. Secretary of the Senate.—
George C. Gorham, of California.
Speaker of the SoMse.— James G. Blaine, of Maine, aerlc of the JJoMse.— Edward McPherson, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
George Goldthwaite, Montgomery. George E. Spencer, Decatur.
representatives.
Frederick G. Bromberg, Mobile. James T. Eapier, Montgomery.
John H. Caldwell, Jacksonville. Christopher C. Sheats, Decatur.
Charles Hays, Eutaw. Joseph H. Sloss, Tuscumbia.
Charles Pelham, Talladega. Alexander White, Selma.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS. I
Powell Clayton, Little Rock. Stephen W;,Dorsey, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas M. Gunter," Fayetteville. Oliver P. Snyder, « Pine Bluff.
Asa Hodges, ^ Marion. Wm. W. Wilshire,'' Little Rock.
William J. Hynes, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Eugene Casserly, « San Francisco. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada City.
John S. Hager,/ San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Clayton, San Francisco. John K. Luttrell, Santa Rosa.
Sherman O. Houghton, San Jos6. Horace F. Page, Placervilie.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William A. Buckingham,!? Norwich. Orris S. Ferry, Norwalk.
William W. Eaton, a Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Barnum, Lime Rock. Stephen W. Kellogg, Waterbury.
Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford. Henry H. Starkweather, Norwich.
a Successfully contested the election of WiUiam W. Vi^ilsliire; took his seat June 16, 1874.
6 Election unsuccessfully contested by L. C. Gauae; took his seat February 4, 1874.
c Election unsuccessfully contested by M. L. Bell.
d Election successfully contested by Thomas M. Gunter.
e Resigned November 29, 1873.
/Elected in place of Eugene Casserly, resigned; took his seat February 9, 1874.
cDied February 5, 1875.
''Appointed in place of William A. Buckingham, deceased; took his seat I'ebruary 13, 1875.
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236
CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOBY.
DELAWAEE.
SENATORS.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington.
Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
REPBESENTATIVE.
James R. Lofland, Milford.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Simon B. Conover, Tallahasseee. Abijah Gilbert, St. Augustine.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Purman,« Tallahasse. Josiah T. Walls, Gainesville.
GEORGIA.
■ SENATORS.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta. Thomas Manson Norwood, Savannah.
REPRESENTATI V ES.
Hiram P. Bell, Corning.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Philip Cook, Americus.
James C. Freeman, Griffin.
Henry R. Harris, ^ Greenville.
ILLINOIS.
Morgan Rawls, c Guyton.
Andrew Sloan,'* Savannah.
Alex. H. Stephens, Crawfordville.
Richard H. Whiteley, Bainbridge.
Pierce M. B. Young, Cartersville.
John A. Logan, Chicago.
Granville Barrere, Canton.
Horatio C. Burchard, Freeport.
Joseph G. Cannon, Tuscola.
Barnard G. Canlfield, « Chicago.
Isaac Clemens, Carbondale.
Franklin Corwin, Peru.
John R. Eden, Sullivan.
Charles B. Farwell, Chicago.
Geenbury L. Fort, Lacon.
John B. Hawley, Rook Island,
REPRESENTATIVES.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Oliver P. Morton, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas J. Cason, Lebanon.
John Coburn, Indianapolis.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Morton C. Hunter, Bloomington.
^^'illiam E. Niblack, Viucennes.
Godlove S. Orth, Lafayette.
Jasper Packard, Laporte.
Richard J. Oglesby, Decatur.
Stephen A. Hurlbut, Belvidere.
Robert M. Knapp, Jerseyville.
Samuel S. Marshall, McLeansboro.
Sames S. Martin, Salem.
John McNulta, Bloomington,
William R. Morrison, Waterloo.
William H. Ray, Rushville.
John B. Rice, / Chicago.
James C. Robinson, Springfield.
Jasper D. Ward, Chicago.
Daniel D. Pratt, Logansport.
Henry B. Sayler, Huntington.
John P. C. Shanks,? Portland.
James N. Tyner, Peru.
William Williams, Warsaw.
Jeremiah M. AVilson, Connersville.
Simeon K. Wolfe, New Albany.
IOWA.
William B. Allison, Dubuqu-"
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Aylett R. Cotton, Lyons.
Wm. G. Donnan, Independence.
John A. Kasson, Des Moines.
William Loughridge, Oskaloosa.
George W. McOrary, Keokuk.
George G. Wright, Dea Moines.
James W. McDill, Afton.
Jackson Orr, Boone.
Henry O. Pratt, Charles City,
James Wilson, Traer.
a Resigned February 16, 1875.
') Election unsuccessfully contested by M. Bethune.
c Election successfully contested by Andrew Sloan.
ri Successfully contested the election of Morgan Rawls; took his seat March 24, 1874.
e Elected in place of John B. Rice, deceased; took his seat February 1, 1875.
/ Died December 16, 1874.
!; Election unsuccessfully contested by John E. Neff.
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
KANSAS.
237
SENATORS.
Alexander Caldwell, « Leavenworth.
Robert Crozier, 6 Leavenworth.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Stephen Alonzo Cobb, Wyandotte.
David P. Lowe, Fort Scott.
. James M. Harvey, " Vinton.
John James Ingalls, Atchison.
William A. Phillips, Salina.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Thomas C. McCreerv,-' Owensboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George M. Adams, Barboursville.
William E. Arthur, Covington.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
John Young Brown, Henderson.
Edward Crossland, Mayfield.
John W. Stevenson, Covington.
Milton J. Durham, Danville.
Charles W. Milliken, Franklin.
William B. Bead, Hodgensville.
Elisha D. Standiford, Louisville.
John D. Young,'' Owensville.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
J. Rodman West, New Orleans.
Vacant.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chester B. Darrall, Brashear.
Frank Morey, Monroe.
Lionel A. Sheldon, « New Orleans.
George A. Sheridan./
George L. Smith,!/ Shreveport.
J. Hale Sypher,'' New Orleans.
MAINE.
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor.
James G. Blaine, * Augusta.
John H. Burleigh, South Be
William P. Frve, Lewiston.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVEf--
Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Samuel F. I'ersey, J Bangor.
MARYLAND.
George R. Dennis, King ton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Albert, Baltimore.
Stevenson Archer, Belair.
Lloyd Lowndes, jr., Cumberland.
Wil iam T. . . milto , Hagerstown.
William J. O'Brien, Baltimore.
Thomas Swann, Baltimore.
Ephraim K. Wilson, Snow Hill.
a Resigned March 24, 1873.
6 Appointed in place of Alexander Caldwell, resigned; took his seat December 1, 1873.
e Elected in place of Alexander Caldwell, resigned, Robert Crozier having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
February 12, 1874.
dEleetion unsuccessfully contested by John M. Bums.
e Election unsuooessfuUv contested by Randall L. Gibson; took his seat December 2, 1873.
/Election unsuccessfully contested by P. B. S. Pinchback; took his seat March 3, 1875.
er Election unsuccessfully contested by E. C. Davidson; took his seat December 3, 1873.
''Election unsuccessfully contested by E. Lawrence; took his seat December 2, 1873
' Elected Speaker December 2, 1873.
j Died February 3, 1875.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
George S. Boutwell/' Groton.
Charles Sumner, f> Boston.
EEPHESENTATIVES.
James Buffinton, Fall River.
Benjamin F. Butler, Lowell.
Alvah Crocker, f' Fitchburg.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittafield.
Daniel W. Gooch, Melrose.
Benj. W. Harris, East Bridgewater.
MICHIGAN.
William B. Washburn, c Greenfield.
E. Eockwood Hoar, Concord.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Samuel Hooper, « Boston.
Henry L. Pierce, Boston.
Charles A. Stevens, / Ware.
John M. S. Williams, Cambridge.
Zachariah Chandler, Detroit.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
Josiah W. Begole, Flint.
Nathan B. Bradley, Bay City.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
Moses W. Field, Detroit.
MINNESOTA.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
Jay A. Hubbell, Houghton.
Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
George Willard, Battle Creek.
WilUam B. Williams,? Allegan.
SENATORS.
Alexander Ramsey, St. Paul. William Windom, Winona.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Horace B. Strait, ShaEopee.
John T. Averill, St. Paul.
Mark H. Dunnell, Owatonna.
MISSISSIPPI.
James L. Alcorn, Friar's Point.
Adelbert Ames,'' Natchez.
Henry W. Barry, Columbus.
Albert R. Howe, Sardis.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Oxford_.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
Henry R. Pease, « Jackson.
John R. Lynch, Natchez.
George C. McKee, Vicksburg.
Jason Niles, Kosciusko.
Lewis V. Bogy, St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard P. Bland, Lebanon.
Aylett H. Buckner, Mexico.
John B. Clark, jr., Fayette.
Abram Comingo, Independence.
Thos. T. Crittenden, Warrensburg.
John M. Glover, La Grange.
Robert A. Hatcher, New Madrid.
Carl Schurz, St. Louis.
Harrison E. Havens, Springfield.
Ira B. Hyde, Princeton.
Isaac C. Parker, St. Joseph.
Edwin 0. Stanard, St. Louis.
William H. Stone, St. Louis.
Erastus Wells, St. Louis.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Phineas W. Hitchcock, Omaha. Thomas AV. Tipton, Brownsville.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Lorenzo Crounse, Fort Calhoun.
aElected in j>lace of Henry Wilson, elected Vice-President; took his seat March 17, 1S73.
SDied March 11, 1874.
<• Elected In place of Charles Sumner, deceased; took his seat May 1, 1874.
dDied December 26, 1874.
e Died February 14, 1876.
/Elected in place of Alvah Crocker, deceased; took his seat January 27, 1875.
g Elected in place of Wilder D. Foster, deceased in 1873; took his seat December 1, 1873.
A Resigned 1874.
I Elected in place of Adelbert Ames, resigned; took his seat February 12, 1874.
FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. 239
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill. "William M. Stewart, Virginia City.
BEPRESBNTATIVE.
Charles W. Kendall, Hamilton.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Aaron H. Cragin, Lebanon. ' Bainbridge Wadleigh, Milford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William B. Small, New Market.
Hosea W. Parker, Claremont.
Austin F. Pike, Franklin.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Newark. John P. Stockton, Trenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Amos Clark, jr., Elizabeth.
Samuel A. Dobbins, Mount Holly.
Robert Hamilton, Newton.
John W. Hazleton, MuUica Hill.
William W. Phelps, Englewood.
Isaac W. Scudder, Jersey City.
Marcus L. Ward, Newark.
Roscoe Conkling, TJtica.
NEW YORK.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lyman K. Bass,« Buffalo.
Simeon B. Chittenden, Brooklyn.
Freeman Clarke, Rochester.
Samuel S. Cox, New York.
Thomas J. Creamer, New York.
Philip S. Crooke, Flatbush.
David M. De Witt, Kingston.
R. Holland Duell, Cortland.
Robert S. Hale, Elizabethtown.
H. H. Hathom, Saratoga Springs.
George G. Hoskins, Attica.
William H. Lamport, Canandaigua.
William E. Lansing, Chittenango.
John D. Lawson, New York.
Clinton D. MacDougall, Auburn.
David B. Mellish, 6 New York.
Clinton L. Merriam, Locust Grove.
Eli Perry, Albany.
Reuben E. Fenton, Jamestown.
Thomas 0. Piatt, Owego.
Clarkson N. Potter, New Rochelle.
Ellis H. Roberts, Utica.
William R. Roberts, New York.
Richard Schell, « NeW York.
John G. Schumaker, Brooklyn.
Henry J. Scudder, New York.
Walter L. Sessions, Panama.
James S. Smart, Cambridge.
H. Boardman Smith, Elmira.
Charles St. John, Port Jervis.
Lyman Tremain, Albany.
William A. Wheeler, Malone.
John O. Whitehouse, Poughkeepsie.
■David Wilber, Milford.
Fernando Wood, New York.
Stewart L. Woodford,** Brooklyn.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Augustus S. >Ierrimon, Raleigh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas S. Ashe, Wadesboro.
Clinton L. Cobb, Elizabeth City.
James M. Leach, Lexington.
Wilham M. Robbins, Statesville.
Matt W. Ransom, Weldon.
William A. Smith, Princeton.
Charles R. Thomas, Newbern.
Robert B. Vance, Asheville.
Alfred M. Waddell, Wilmington.
a Elected in place of Stewart L. Woodford, resigned, look his seat December 7, 1874.
h Died May 23, 1874.
c Elected in place of David B. Mellish, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1874.
i Resigned in 1874.
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CONGRESSIOTSTAL DIBECTOEY.
OHIO.
SENATOES.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
KEPEESENTATIVBS.
Henry B. Banning, Cincinnati.
John Berry, Upper Sandusliy.
Hezekiah S. Bundy, Eeeds Mills.
Lorenzo Danford, St. Clairsville.
William E. Finck,a Somerset.
Charles Foster, Fostoria.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Lewis B. Gunckel, Dayton.
Hugh J. Jewett,6 Columbus.
Charles N. Lamison, Lima.
William Lawrence, Belief ontaine.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
James K. Kelly, Portland.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
James Monroe, Oberlin.
Lawrence X. Neal, Chillicothe.
Eichard C. Parsons, Clevel
James W. Robinson, Maryaville.
Milton Sayler, Cincinnati.
Isaac R. Sherwood, Bryan.
John Q. Smith, Oakland.
Milton I. Southard, ^anesville.
William P. Sprague, McConnellsville.
Laurin D. Wood worth, Youngstown.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
HEPKESENTATIVE.
James W. Kesmith, " Ricreal.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
SENATORS.
KEPEESBNTATIVES.
Charles Albright, Mauchchunk.
James S. Biery, Allentown.
John Cessna, Bedford.
Hiester Clymer, Reading.
Carlton B. Curtis, Erie.
Alfred C. Harmer, Germantown.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
John W. Kilhnger, Lebanon.
John A. Magee, New Bloomfield.
Ebenezer McJunkin,'' Butler.
William S. Moore, Washington.
Leonard Myers, Philadelphia.
James S. Negley, Pittsburg.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
John Scott, Huntingdon.
John B. Packer, Sunbury.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Hiram L. Richmond, Meadville.
Sobieski Ross, Coudersport.
Glenni W. Scofleld, Warren.
L. D. Shoemaker, Wilkesbarre.
A. Herr Smith, Lancaster.
R. Milton Speer, Huntingdon.
John B. Storm, Stroudsburg.
James D. Strawbridge, Danville.
Alexander W. Taylor, Indiana.
John M. Thompson, « Butler.
Lemuel Todd, Carlisle.
Washington Townsend, Westchester.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence. AVilliam Sprague, Providence.
REPKESEXTATIVES.
Benjamin T. Eames, Providence. James M. Pendleton, Westerly.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John J. Patterson, Columbia.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard H. Cain, Columbia.
Lewis C. Carpenter,./' Columbia.
Robert B. Elliott, 1> Columbia.
Thomas J. Robertson, Columbia.
Joseph H. Rainey, Georgetown.
Alonzo J. Ransier, Charleston.
Alexander S. Wallace, Yorkville.
"Elected in place o£ Hugh J. Jewett, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1871.
b Resigned in 1S7'1.
c Elected in place of J. G. Wilson, deceased in 1873, having never taken his seat.
ci Resigned January 1, 1875, having been elected district judge.
e Elected in place of Ebenezer McTunkin, resigned; took his seat January 6, 1875.
/ Elected in place of Robert B. Elliott, resigned; took his seat December 7, 1874.
FORTY-THIED CONGEESS.
241
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
William G. Brownlow, Knoxville.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
John D. C. Atkins, Paris.
John M. Bright, Fayetteville.
Roderick B. Butler, Taylorsville.
William Crutchfleld, Chattanooga.
Horace H. Harrison, Nashville.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
James W. Flanagan, Flanagans Mills.
. BEPBESENTATI VES.
De Witt C. Giddings, Brenham.
John Hancock, Austin.
William S. Herndon, Tyler.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George W. Hendee, Morrisville.
Luke P. Poland, St. Johnsbury.
John W. Johnston, Abingdon.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
BEPEESENTATIVES.
Rees T. Bowen, Maiden Spring.
Alexander M. Davis,* Independence.
John T. Harris, Harrisonburg.
Eppa Hunton, Warrenton.
James H. Piatt, jr., Norfolk.
Henry Cooper, Nashville.
Barbour Lewis, Memphis.
Horace Maynard, Knoxville.
David A. Nunn, Brownsville.
Jacob M. Thornburgh, Knoxville.
Washington C. Whitthorne, Columbia.
Morgan C. Hamilton, Austin.
William P. McLean, Mount Pleasant.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
Asa H. Willie, Galveston.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
Charles W. Willard, Montpelier.
John F. Lewis, Port Republic.
James B. Sener, Fredericksburg.
J. Ambler Smith, Richmond.
William H. H. Stowell, Burkeville.
Christopher Y. Thomas, 6 -Martinsville.
Thomas Whitehead, Amherst.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATOBS.
Arthur I. Boremau, Parkersburg. Henry G. Davis, Piedmont.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
John J. Davis, « Clarksburg.
John M. Hagans,'* Morgantown.
Frank Hereford, Union.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Matthew H. Carpenter, « Milwaukee. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Allen Barber, Lancaster.
Charles A. Eldridge, Fond du Lac.
Gerry W. Hazelton, Columbus.
Alexander S. McDill, Plover.
Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee.
Jeremiah M. Rusk, Viroqua.
Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
Charles G. Williams, Jaynesville.
a Election successfully contested by Christopher Y. Thomas.
6 Successfully contested the election of Alexander M. Davis; took his seat March 5, 1874.
c Election unsuccessfully contested,by Benjamin Wilson; took his seat January 27, 1874.
d Election unsuccessfully contested by Benjamin F. Martin; took his seat January 27, 1874.
e Elected President pro tempore March 12, 1873.
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ARIZONA TEERITOEY.
DELEGATE.
Richard C. McCormick, Tucson.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jerome B. Chaffee, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Moses K. Armstrong, Yankton.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
DELEGATE.
Norton P. Chipman, Washington.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Hailey, Boise City.
DIEECTOEY.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
I DELEGATE.
Stephen B. Elkins, Santa, Fe.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Q. Cannon, a Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Obadiah B. McFadden, Olympia.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
William R. Steele, Cheyenne.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by George E. Maxwell.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 6, 18TS, to August 16, 1876. Second session, from December 4, 1876, to
March 3, 1877.
Vice-President.a President of the Senate pro impors.— Thomas W. Febry, of Michigan, elected
March 9, 1876, m special session; again elected March 19, 1875; and again elected December 20, 1875
Secretary of the Senate. — Geohge C. Gorham, of California.
Speakers of the House.— Micbaei. C. Kerr, b of Indiana; Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, elected
December 4, 1876. Clerk of the fibitse.— George M. Adams, of Kentucky, elected December 6, 1875
ALABAMA.
senators.
George Goldthwaite, Montgomery. George E. Spencer, Decatur.
representatives.
Taul Bradford, Talladega. Charles Hays, Haysville.
John H. Caldwell, Jacksonville. Goldsmith W. Hewitt, Birmingham.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville. Burwell B. Lewis, Tuscaloosa.'
Jere Haralson, « Selma. Jere N. Williams, Clayton.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Powell Clayton, Little Rock. Stephen W. Dorsey, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lucien C. Gause, Jacksonport. William F. Slemons, Monticello.
Thomas M. Gunter, Fayetteville. William W. Wilshire, Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Newton Booth, Sacramento. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John K. Luttrell, Santa Rosa. William A. Piper, San Francisco.
Horace Francis Page, Placerville. Peter Dinwiddle Wigginton, Merced.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Jerome B. Chaffee,'' Denver. .Henry M. Teller, « Central City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
James B. Belford, « Central City.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William H. Barnum,/ Limerock. James E. English,? New Haven.
William W. Eaton, Hartford. Orris S. Ferry,A Norwalk.
a Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States, died November 22, 1875.
b Died August 19, 1876.
c Election unsuccessfully contested by F. G. Bromberg.
d Took his seat December 4, 1876.
e Took his seat January 31, 1877.
/ Elected Senator in place of Orris S. Ferry, deceased, James E. English having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
May 22, 1876.
a Appointed in place of Orris S. Ferry, deceased; took his seat December 7, 1875.
h Died November 21, 1875.
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244
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
William H. Barnum,« Limerock.
George 11. Landera, New Britain.
James Phelps, Essex.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Henry H. Starkweather, !> Norwich.
John Turner Wait, c Norwich.
Levi Warner, <* Norwalk.
Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington.
BEPKESENTATIVE.
James Williams, Kenton.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Simon B. Conover, Tallahassee. Charles W. Jones, Pensacola.
REPRESENT ATI V ES.
Jesse J. Finley, « Jacksonville. Josiah T. Walls, f Gainesville.
Wm. J. Purman, Tallahassee.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta. Thomas Manson Norwood, Savannah.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James H. Blount, Macon. Julian Hartridge, Savannah.
Milton A. Candler, Atlanta. Benjamin H Hill, 5- Atlanta.
Philip Cook, Americus. William E. Smith, Albany.
William H. Felton, Cartersville. A. H. Stephens, CrawfordviUe.
Henry R. Harris, Greenville.
ILLINOIS.
John A. Logan, Chicago.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wm. B. Anderson, Elk Prairie.
John C. Bagby, Rushville.
Horatio C. Burchard, Freeport.
Alexander Campbell, Lasalle.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
Barnard G. Caulfield, Chicago.
John R. Eden, Sullivan.
Charles B. Farwell,'' Chicago.
Greenbury L. Fort, Lacon.
Carter H. Harrison, Chicago.
Richard J. Oglesby, Decatur.
William Hartzell, Chester.
Thos. J. Henderson, Princeton.
Stephen A. Hurlbut, Belvidere.
William R. Morrison, Waterloo.
J. V. Le Moyne, * Chicago.
William A. J. Sparks, Carlyle.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
Adlai E. Stevenson, Bloomington.
Richard H. Whiting, Peoria.
Scott Wike, Pittsfield.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Joseph E. McDonald, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John H. Baker, Goshen.
Nathan T. Carr, i Columbus.
Thomas J. Cason, Lebanon.
James L. Evans, Noblesville.
Benoni S. Fuller, Boonville.
Andrew H. Hamilton, Fort Wayne.
William S. Haymond, Monticello.
W. S. Holman, Aurora.
Oliver P. Morton, Indianapolis.
Andrew Humphreys.*^
Morton C. Hunter, Bloomington
Michael C. Kerr, ' New Albany.
Franklin Landers, Indianapolis.
Jeptha D. New, Vernon.
Milton S. Robinson, Anderson.
James D. AVilliams,"' Wheatland.
aElected Senator in place o£ Orris S. Ferry, deceased, James E. English having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat
May 22, 1876.
b Died January 28, 1876.
0 Elected in place of Henry H. Starkweather, deceased; took his seat April 12, 1876.
d Elected in place of William H. Barnum, elected Senator; took his seat December 4, 18TS.
e Successfully contested the election of Josiah T. V^alls; took his seat April 19, 1876.
/Election successfully contested by Jesse J. Finley.
17 Elected in place of Garet McMillan, deceased, in 1875; took his seat December 6, 1876.
'i Election successfully contested by J. V. Le Moyne.
>■ Successfully contested the election of Charles B. Farwell; took his seat May 6, 1876.
J Elected in place of Michael C. Kerr, deceased; took his seat December 5, 1876.
fc Elected in place of James D. Williams, resigned; took his seat December 5, 1876.
1 Elected Speaker December 6, 1875; died August 19, 1876.
Ill Resigned in 1876, having been elected governor of Indiana.
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245
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
RBPRESEN TATIVES.
L. L. Ainsworth, West Union.
John A. Kasaon, Des Moines.
George W. McCrary, Keokuk.
James Wilson McDill, Afton.
Addison Oliver, Onawa.
James M. Harvey, Vinton.
William E. Brown, Hutchinson.
John R. Goodin, Humboldt.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
Thomas C. McCreery, Owensboro.
REPliESENTATlVES.
Joseph 0. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
Andrew R. Boone, Mayfleld.
John Young Brown, Henderson. •
John B. Clarke, Brooksville.
Milton J. Durham, Danville.
Thomas L. Jones, Newport.
J. R. West, New Orleans.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chester B. Darrall, Brashear.
E. John Ellis, New Orleans.
Randall L. Gibson, New Orleans.
William M. Levy, Natchitoches.
James G. Blaine, « Augusta.
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James G. Blaine, « Augusta.
Jno. H. Burleigh, South Berwick.
Edwin Flye,? Newcastle.
George G. Wright, Des Moines.
Henry O. Pratt, Charles City.
Ezekiel S. Sampson, Sigourney.
John Q. Tufts, Wilton Junction.
James Wilson, Traer.
John James Ingalls, Atchison.
William A. Phillips, Salina.
John W. Stevenson, Covington.
J. Proctor Knott, Lebanon.
Charles W. Milliken, FrankHn.
Edward Y. Paraons,« Louisville.
Henry Watterson, b Louisville.
John D. White, Manchester.
Vacant.
Frank Moray, « Monroe.
Charles E. Nash, "Washington.
William B. Spencer,c« "N'idalia.
Lot M. Morrill, / Augusta.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Harris M. Plaisted,'' Bangor.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
George R. Dennis, Kingston. WilUam' Pinkney Whyte, Baltimore.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Eli J. Henkle, Brooklyn. Thomas Swann, Baltimore.
William J. O'Brien, Baltimore, Philip F. Thomas, Easton.
Charles B. Roberts, Westminster. William Walsh, Cumberland.
aDiedJuIy8, 1876.
SEIected in place of Edward Y. Parsons, deceased; took his seat August 12, 1876.
^Election successfully contested by William B. Spencer.
* Successfully contested tlie election of Frank Morey; took his seat June 8, 1876; resigned January 8, 1877.
eElected Senator in place of Lot M. Morrill, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1876.
/ Eesigned July 7, 1876, having been appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
» Elected in place of James Q. Blaine, resigned; took his seat December 4, 1876.
* Elected in place of Samuel F. Hersey, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1875.
246
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOBY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
George S. Boutwell, Groton.
SENATOKS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Josiah G. Abbott, « Boston.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Waltham.
Chester W. Chapin, Springfield.
William W. Crapo, » New Bedford.
Eufus S. Frost, <= Chelsea.
Benj. W. Harris, East Bridgewater.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Henry L. Pierce, Boston.
Julius H. Seelye, Amherst.
John K. Tarbox, Lawrence.
Charles P- Thompson, Gloucester.
William Wirt Warren, Boston.
Isaac P. Christiancy, Lansing.
Nathan B. Bradley, Bay City.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
George H. Durand, Flint.
Jay A. Hubbell, Houghton.
Allen Potter, Kalamazoo.
MICHIGAN.
SENjWOKS.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
MINNESOTA.
SENATOKS.
Samuel J. R. McMillan, St. Paul.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Mark H. Dunnell, Owatonna.
William S. King, Minneapolis.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
James Lusk Alcorn, Friars Point.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Oxford.
John E. Lynch, Natchez.
Lewis V. Bogy, St. Louis.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard P. Bland, Lebano];i.
Aylett H. Buckner, Mexico.
John B. Clark, jr., Fayette.
Eezin A. De Bolt, Trenton.
Benjamin J. Franklin, Kansas City.
John M. Glover, Lagrange.
Robert A. Hatcher, New Madrid.
Thomas W. Ferry,'* Grand Haven.
Henry Waldron, Hillsdale.
George Willard, Battle Creek.
Alpheus S. WilUams, Detroit.
William B. Williams, Allegan.
William Windom, Winona.
Horace B. Strait, f Shakopee.
Blanche K. Bruce, Floreyville.
Hernando De Soto Money, Winona.
Otho E. Singleton, Canton.
G. Wiley Wells, Holly Springs.
Francis M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
Edward C. Kehr, St. Louis.
Charles H. Morgan, Lamar.
John F. Philips, Sedalia.
David Rea, Savannah.
William H. Stone, St. Louis.
Erastus Wells, St. Louis.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Phineas W. Hitchcock, Omaha.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Lorenzo Crounse, Fort Calhoun,
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
Algernon S. Paddock, Beatrice.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill.
William Sharon, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
William Woodburn, Virginia City.
a Successfully contested the election o{ EuJus S. Frost; took hia seat July 28, 1876.
6 Elected in place of James Buffinton, deceased in 1875; took his seat December 6, 1875.
c Election successfully contested by Josiah G. Abbott.
d President pro tempore.
e Election unsuccessfully contested by E. S. Cox.
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247
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Aaron H. Oragin, Lebanon.
Samuel N. Bell, Manchester.
Henry W. Blair, Plymouth.
KEPBESENTATIVES.
NEW JERSEY.
Bainbridge Wadleigh, Milford.
Frank Jones, Portsmouth.
SENATORS.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Newark.
KEPKBSENTATIVES.
Augustus W. Cutler, Morristown.
Samuel A. Dobbins, Mount Holly.
Robert Hamilton, Newton. ^
Augustus A. Hardenbergh, Jersej' City.
Theodore F. Randolph, Morristown.
Miles Ross, New Brunswick.
Clement H. Sinnickson, Salem.
Frederick H. Teese, Newark.
NEW YORK.
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles H. Adams, Cohoes.
George A. Bagley, Watertown.
John H. Bagley, jr., Oatskill.
William H. Baker, Constantia.
Lyman K. Bass, Buffalo.
George- M. Beebe, Monticello.
Archibald M. Bliss, Brooklyn.
Simeon B. Chittenden, Brooklyn.
Samuel S. Cox, New York.
John M. Davy, Rochester.
Smith Ely, jr., a New York.
David Dudley Field, & New York.
H. H. Hathorn, Saratoga Springs.
Abram S. Hewitt, New York.
George G. Hoskins, Attica.
Elbridge G. Lapham, Canandaigua.
Ellas W. Leavenworth, Syracuse.
Francis Kernan, Utica.
Scott Lord, Utica.
Clinton D. MacDougall, Auburn.
Edwin R. Meade, New York.
Henry B. Metcalfe, Westfleld.
Samuel F. Miller, North Franklin.
Nelson I. Norton, « Hinsdale.
N. Holmes Odell, White Plains.
Thomas C. Piatt, Owego.
John G. Schumaker, Brooklyn.
Martin I. Townsend, Troy.
Charles C. B. Walker, Corning.
Elijah Ward, New York.
William A. Wheeler, Malone.
John 0. Whitehouse, Poughkeepsie.
Andrew Williams, Plattsburg.
Benjamin A. Willis, New York.
Fernando Wood, New York.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Augustus S. Merrimon, Raleigh.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas S. Ashe, Wadesboro.
Joseph J. Davis, Louisburg.
John A. Hyman, Warrenton.
William M. Robbins, Statesville.
OHIO.
Matt. W. Ransom, Weldon.
Alfred M. Scales, Greensboro.
Robert B. Vance, Asheville.
Alfred M. Waddell, Wilmington.
Jesse J. Yeates, Murfreesboro.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
Henry B. Banning, Cincinnati.
Jacob P. Cowan, Ashland.
Lorenzo Danford, St. Clairsville.
Charles Foster, Fostoria.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
Frank H. Hurd, Toledo.
Wm. Lawrence, Bellefontaine.
John A. McMahon, Dayton.
James Monroe, Oberlin.
Lawrence T. Neal, Chillicothe.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
Henry B. Payne, Cleveland.
Early F. Poppleton, Delaware.
Americus V. Rice, Ottawa.
John S. Savage, Wilmington.
Milton Sayler, Cincinnati.
Milton I. Southard, Zanesville.
John L. Vance, Gallipolis.
Nelson H. Van Vorhes, Athens.
Ansel T. Walling, Circleville.
L. D. Woodworth, Youngstown.
a Resigned December 12, 1876, having been elected mayor of New York City.
!> Elected in place of Smith Ely, jr., resigned; took his seat January 11, 1877.
0 Elected in place of Augustus F. Allen, deceased in 1875; took his seat December 6, 1875.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
OREGON.
SENATOKS.
James K. Kelly, Portland.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
EEPKESENTATIVE.
Lafayette Lane," Eoseburg.
PENNSYLVA.NIA.
SENATORS.
Simon Cameron, Harrisburg.
William A. Wallace, Clearfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Hiester Clymer, Heading.
Alex. G. Cochrane, Alleghany City.
Francis D. Collins, Scranton.
Albert G. Egbert, Franklin.
Chapman Freeman, Philadelphia.
James H. Hopkins, Pittsburg.
George A. Jenks, Brookville.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
W. W. Ketchum, f> Wilkesbarre.
Levi A. Mackey, Lookhaven.
Levi Maish, York.
William Mutchler, Easton.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
John B. Packer, Sunbnry.
Joseph Powell, Tovranda.
Samuel J. Kandall, " Philadelphia.
James B. Eeilly, Pottsville.
John Eeilly, Altoona.
John Eobbins, Philadelphia.
Sobieski Eoss, Coudersport.
James Sheakley, Green\dlle.
A. Herr Smith, Lancaster.
William H. Stanton,'' Scranton.
William S. Stenger, Chambersburg.
W. Townsend, West Chester.
Jacob Turney, Greensburg.
John W. Wallace, Nevfcastle.
Alan Wood, jr., Conshohocken.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence.
Ambrose E. Burnside, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Latimer W. Ballon, Woonsocket. Benjamin T. Eames, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
John J. Patterson, Charleston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles W. Buttz, « Charleston.
Solomon L. Hoge, Columbia.
Edmund W. M. Mackey, / Charleston.
Thomas J. Robertson, Columbia.
Joseph H. Eainey,? Georgetown.
Robert Smalls, Beaufort.
Alexander S. Wallace, Yorkville.
TENNESSEE.
James E. Bailey,'' Clarksville.
Henry Cooper, Nashville.
Andrew Johnson, * Greeneville.
David M. Key, J Chattanooga.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John D. C. Atkins, Paris.
John M. Bright, Fayetteville.
Vv'illiam P. Caldwell, Gardner.
G. G. Dibrell, Sparta.
Samuel M. Fite.«
John F. House, Clarksville.
AVilliam McFarland, Morristown.
Haywood Y. Riddle, ' Lebanon.
Jacob 'M. Thornburgh, Knoxville.
Washington C. Whitthorne, Columbia.
Casey Young, Memphis.
a Elected in place of George A. La Dow, deceased in 1875; took his seat December 6 1S7B
SEesigned July 19, ]876. '
0 Elected Speaker December 4, 1876.
^Elected in place of Winthrop W. Ketchum, resigned; took his seat December 4 1876
^Elected to fill vacancy declared by Congress July 19, 1876; took his seat January 23, 1877
/Seat declared vacant July 19, 1876. '
B Election unsuccessfully contested by Samuel Lee
29" im^^ ™ ^^"""^ "^ Andrew Johnson, deceased, David M. Key having been appointed pro tempore; took his seat January
i Died July 31, 1875.
^Appointed in place of Andrew Johnson, deceased; took his seat December 6, 1875
fcDied October 23, 1875. '
1 Elected to fill vacancy caused by the death of John W. Head and Samuel M. Fite. neither of whom lived to take his seat.
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TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Morgan C. Hamilton, Austin. Sam. Bell Maxey, Paris.
EEPEESBNTATIVBS.
David B. Culberson, Jefferson. John H. Reagan, Palestine.
John Hancock, Austin. Gustave Schleicher, Cuero.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana. ' James W. Throckmorton, McKinney.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPKESBNTATIVES.
Dudley C. Denison, Royalton. Charles H. Joyce, Rutland.
George W. Hendee, Morrisville.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John W. Johnston, Abingdon. Robert E. Withers, Wytheville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George C. Cabell, Danville. AVilliam H. H. Stowell, Burkeville.
Beverly B. Douglas, Ayletts. William Terry, Wytheville.
John Goode, jr.,a Norfolk. John Randolph Tucker, Lexington.
John T. Harris, Harrisonburg. Gilbert 0. Walker, Richmond.
Eppa Hunton, Warrenton.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Allen T. Caperton, & Union. Frank Hereford, « Union.
Henry G. Davis, Piedmont. Samuel Price, ^^ Lewisburg.
EEPRBSBNTATIVES.
Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg. Benjamin Wilson, Wilsonburg.
Frank Hereford, " Union.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Angus Cameron, La Crosse. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel D. Burchard, Beaver Dam. William Pitt Lynde, Milwaukee.
Lucien B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson. Henry S. Magoon, Darlington.
George W. Gate, Stevens Point. Jeremiah M. Rusk, Viroqua.
Alanson M. Kimball, Pine River. Charles G. Williams, Janesville.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Hiram S. Stevens, Tucson.
COLORADO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Thomas JI. Patterson, Denver.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jefferson P. Kidder, Vermilion.
a Election unsuccessfully contested by James H. Piatt, jr.
6DiedJuly26, 1876.
c Elected Senator in place of Allen T. Caperton, deceased, Samuel Price having been appointed pro tempore; took his
seat January 31, 1877.
<* Appointed in place of Allen T. Caperton, deceased; took his seat December 4, 1876.
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IDAHO TEEEITORY.
DKLBGATES.
Thomas W. Bennett, « Boise City. Stephen S. Fenn, 6 Mount Idaho.
MONTANA TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TEEEITOEY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Stephen B. Elkins, Santa Fe.
UTAH TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
George Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
Orange Jacobs, Seattle.
WYOMING TEEEITOEY.
DELEGATE.
William E. Steele, Cheyenne.
«Election successfully contested by Stephen S. Fenn.
6 Successfully contested the election of Thomas W. Bennett; took his seat June 23, 1876.
FOETY-EIFTH CONGRESS.
First session, from October 15, 1877, to December S, 1877. Second session, from December 3, 1877, to June
SO, 1878. Third sesdon, from December S, 1878, to March 3, 1879.
Vice-President. — William A. Wheeler, of New York. Preddent of the Senate pro tempore. — Thomas
W. Ferry, of Michigan, elected March 5, 1877, in special session; again elected February 26, 1878;
and again elected April 17, 1878. Secretary of the Senate. — George C. Goeham, of California.
Speakei' of the House. — Samuel J. Eandall, of Pennsylvania, elected October 15, 1877.
ALABAMA.
senators.
John T. Morgan, Selma. George E. Spencer, Decatur.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville. James T. Jones, Demopolis.
William W . Garth, Huntsville. Robert F. Ligon, Tuskegee.
Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery. Charles M. Shelley, Selma.
G. W. Hewitt, Birmingham. Jeremiah N. Williams, Clayton.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Stephen W. Dorsey, Helena. Augustus H. Garland, Little Rock.
REPRESENTATIVES.
ifordan E. Cravens, Olarksville. Thonias M. Gunter, Fayetteville.
Lucien C. Gause, Jacksonport. William F. Slemons, Monticello.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Newton Booth, Sacramento. Aaron A. Sargent, Nevada City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horace Davis, San Francisco. Horace F. Page, Placers'ille.
John K. Luttrell, Santa Rosa. Peter D. Wigginton, " Merced.
R. Pacheco,3 San Luis Obispo.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Jerome B. Chaffee, Denver. Henry M. Teller, Central City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James B. Belford, " Central City. Thomas M. Patterson, Denver.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William H. Barnum, Lime Rock. William W. Eaton, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George M. Landers, New Britain. John T. Wait, Norwich.
James Phelps, Essex. Levi Warner, Norwalk.
o Election successfully contested by P. D. Wigginton,
gave the seat to T. M. Patterson December
251
cEeceivedthe ci^ti&Seiillekion; but the House gave the seat to T. M. Patterson December 13, 1877.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
DELAWARE.
SENATOES.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington. Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
KEPRESENTATIVE.
JameB Williams, Kenton.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Simon B. Conover, Tallahassee. Charles W. Jones, Pensacola.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horatio Bisbee, jr., Jacksonville. R. H. M. Davidson, Quincy.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta. Benjamin H. Hill, Atlanta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Hiram P. Bell, Gumming.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Milton A. Candler, Atlanta.
Philip Cook, Americus.
William H. Felton, Cartersville.
David Davis, Bloomington.
.William Aldrich, Chicago.
Thomas A. Boyd, Lewiston.
Lorenzo Brentano, Chicago.
H. C. Burchard, Freeport.
Joseph G. Cannon, Tuscola.
John R. Eden, Sullivan.
Greenbury L. Fort, Lacon.
Carter H. Harrison, Chicago.
William Hartzell, Chester.
Philip C. Hayes, Morris. •
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry R. Harris, Greenville.
Julian Hartridge," Savannah.
William E. Smith, Albany.
Alex. H. Stevens, Crawfordville.
Richard J. Ogle!^by, Decatur.
Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton.
Robert M. Knapp, Jerseyville.
William Lathrop, Rockford.
B. F. Marsh, ^^'arsaw.
William R. Morrison, Waterloo.
W. A. J. Sparks, Carlyle.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
Thomas F. Tipton, Bloomington.
R. W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
INDIANA.
Jos. E. McDonald, Indianapolis.
Oliver P. Morton, 6 Indianapolis.
Daniel W. Voorhees, « Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John H. Baker, Goshen.
George A. Bicknell, New Albany.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
William H. Calkins, Laporte.
Thomas R. Cobb, Vincennes.
James L. Evans, Noblesville.
B. S. Fuller, Boonville.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Theodore W. Burdick, Decorah.
Rush Clark, Iowa City.
H. J. B. Cummings, Winterset.
Nathaniel C. Deering, Osage.
Addison Oliver, Onawa.
A. H. Hamilton, Fort Wayne.
John Hanna, Indianapolis.
M. C. Hunter, Bloomington.
M. S. Robinson, Anderson.
Leonidas Sexton, Rushville.
iM. D. White, Crawfordsville.
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa City.
Hiram Price, Davenport.
E. S. Sampson, Sigourney.
William F. Sapp, Council Bluffs.
J. C. Stone, Burlington.
('Died January 8, 1879,
!> Died November 1, 1877.
c Appointed In the place ol 0. P. Morton
deceased; took his seat November 12, 1877.
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253
John James Ingalls, Atchison.
Dudley C. Haskell, Lawrence.
William A. Phillips, Salina.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
KEPEESBNTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jam«a B. Beck, Lexington.
J. C. S. Blackburn, "Versailles.
Andrew R. Boone, Mayfleld.
John W. Caldwell, Russellville.
John G. Carlisle, Covington.
Johh B. Clarke, Brookville.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
J. B. Eustis, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. Hayes Acklen, Pattersonville.
J. B. Elam, Mansfield.
E. John ElUs, New Orleans.
Eandall L. Gibson, New Orleans.
, MAINE.
SENATORS.
James G. Blaine, Augusta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Stephen D. Lindsey, Norridgewock.
George R. Dennis, Kingston.
Eli Jones Henkle, Brooklyn.
Daniel M. Henry, Cambridge.
William Kimmell, Baltimore.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
KEPKESBNTATIVES.
Preston B. Plumb, Emporia.
Thomas Ryan, Topeka.
Thomas C. MoCreery, Owensboro.
Milton J. Durham, Danville.
J. Proctor Knott, Lebanon.
James A. McKensie, Longview.
Thomas Turner, Mount Sterling.
Albert S. Willis, Louisville.
William Pitt Kellogg, New Orleans.
John E. Leonard, " Monon.
Edw. W. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
Chester B. Darrall, Brashear.
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor.
Llewellyn Powers, Houlton.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
W. Pinkney Whyte, Baltimore.
Charles B. Roberts, Westminister
Thomas Swann, Baltimore.
William Walsh, Cumberland.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Waltham.
Benjamin F. Butler, Lowell.
William Claflin, Newton.
William AV. Crapo, New Bedford.
Benjamin Dean, Boston.
Walbridge A. Field, 6 Boston.
Isaac P. Christiancy, Lansing.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark S. Brewer, Pontiac.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
Charles C. Ellsworth, Greenville.
Jay A. Hubbell, Houghton.
E. W. Keightley, Constantine.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
B. W. Harris, East Bridgewater.
George B. Loring, Salem.
Leopold Morse, Boston.
Amasa Norcross, Fitchburg.
William W. Rice, Worcester.
George D. Robinson, Chicopee.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
J. H. McGowan, Coldwater.
John W. Stone, Grand Rapids.
A. S. Williams, « Detroit.
Edwin Willits, Monroe.
a Died March 15, 1878,
6 Received the certificate of election; but the House gave the seat to B. Dean, March 28, 1878.
I- Died December 20, 1878. ,
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MINNESOTA.
SBNATOKS.
Samuel J. K. ilcMillan, St. Paul. William Windom, Winona.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mark H. Bunnell, Owatonna. Horace B. Strait, Shakopee.
Jacob H. Stewart, St. Paul.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
Blanche K. Bruce, Floreyville. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Oxford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. E. Chalmers, Friarpoint. Hernando D. Money, ^Yinona.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson. H. L. Muldrow StarkviUe.
Van H. Manning, Holly Springs. Otho B. Singleton, Canton.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
David H. Armstrong, a Francis Marion Cockrell, Warrensburg.
Lewis V. Bogy, 6 St. Louis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard P. Bland, Lebanon. B. A. Hatcher, New Madrid.
Aylett H. Buckner, Mexico. Anthony Ittner, bt. Louis.
.John B. Clark, jr., Fayette. Lyne S. Metcalfe, St. Louis.
Nathan Cole, St. Louis. 9r^^^^^\?-J^?'"^j"V,J'T^^;,,
T. T. Crittenden, Warrensburg. Henry M. Pollard, Chilhcothe.
B. J. Franklin, Kansas City. David Bea, Savannah.
John M. Glover, Lagrange.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Algernon S. Paddock, Beatrice. Alvin Saunders, Omaha.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Frank Welch, o Norfolk. Thomas J.. Majors,'' Peru.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill. William Sharon, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Wren, Eureka.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Edward H. Eollins, Concord. Bainbridge Wadleigh, Milford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry W. Blair, Plymouth. Frank Jones, Portsmouth.
James F. Briggs, Manchester.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
John R. McPherson, Jersey City. Theodore F. Randolph, Morristown.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alvah A. Clark, Somerville. J. Howard Pugh, Burlington.
Augustus AV. Cutler, Morristown. Miles Ross, New Brunswick.
A. A. Hardenbergh, Jersey City. C. H. Sinnickson, Salem.
Thomas P. Peddie, Newark.
a Appointed and took his seat October 15, 1877.
6 Died September 20, 1877.
c Died Septeimber 4, 1878.
(i Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Prank Welch; took his seat December 2, 1878.
FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS.
255
Roscoe Conkling, Utica.
William J. Bacon, Utica.
George A. Bagley, Watertown.
William H. Baker, Constantia.
George M. Beebe, Monticello.
Charles B. Benedict, Attica.
Archibald M. Blisa, Brooklyn.
Solomon Bundy, Oxford.
John H. Camp, Lyons.
S. B. Chittenden, Brooklyn.
James W. Covert, Flushing.
S. S. Cox, New York.
Jeremiah W. Dwight, Dryden.
Anthony Eickhoft, New York.
E. Kirke Hart, Rochester.
Abram S. Hewitt, New York.
Frank Hisoock, Syracuse.
J. N. Hungerford, Corning.
NEW YORK.
RBPHESENTATIVES.
Francis Kernan, Utica.
A. B. James, Ogdensburg.
J. H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
E. G. Lapham, Canandaigua.
D. N. Lockwood, Buffalo.
S. L. Mayham, Schoharie.
Anson G. McOook, New York.
Nicholas Muller, New York.
G. W. Patterson, Westerfield.
0. N. Potter, New Rochelle.
T. J. Quinn, a Albany.
J. H. Starin, Fultonville.
Martin I. Townsend, Troy.
William D. Veeder, Brooklyn.
Andrew Williams, Plattsburg.
Benjamin A. Willis, New York.
Fernando Wood, New York.
Jno. M. Bailey, ^ Albany.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Augustus S. Merrimon, Raleigh.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. H. Broaden, Goldsboro.
Joseph J. Davis, Louisburg.
William M. Robbins, Statesville.
A. M. Scales, Greensboro.
Stanley Matthews, <' Cincinnati.
John Sherman,"! Mansfield.
Henry B. Banning, Cincinnati.
Jacob D. Cox, Toledo.
L. Danford, St. Clairsville.
Henry L. Dickey, Greenfield.
Thomas Ewing, Lancaster.
E. B. Finley, Bucyrus.
Charles Foster, Fostoria.
Mills Gardner, Washington.
James A. Garfield, Hiram.
John S. Jones, Delaware.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
Matt. W. Ransom, Weldon.
W. L. Steele, Rockingham.
R. B. Vance, Asheville.
A. M. Waddell, Wilmington.
J. J. Yeates, Murfreesboro.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
REPRESENTATIVES.
OREGON.
La Fayette Grover, Salem.
J. Warren Keifer, Springfield.
W. McKinley, jr.. Canton.
J. A. McMahon, Dayton.
James Monroe, Oberlin.
Henry S. Neal, Ironton.
A. V. Rice, Ottawa.
Milton Sayler, Cincinnati.
M. I. Southard, Zanesville.
Amos Townsend, Cleveland.
N. H. Van Vorhes, Athens.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Richard Williams, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA.
J. Don. Cameron, « Harrisburg.
Simon Cameron, / Harrisburg.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas M. Bayne, Pittsburg.
S. A. Bridges, Allentown.
Jacob M. Campbell, Johnstown.
Hiester Clymer, Reading.
F. D. Collins, Scranton.
Russell Errett, Pittsburg.
I. Newton Evans, Hatboro.
Chapman Freeman, Philadelphia.
William A. Wallace, Clearfield.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
William D. JCelley, Philadelphia.
J. W. Killinger, Philadelphia.
L. A. Mackey, Lockhaven.
Levi Maish, York.
John I. Mitchell, Wellsboro.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
Edward Overton, Towanda.
a Died at Albany, N. Y., June 18, 1878.
i Elected in place of T. J. Quinn, deceased; took his seat December 2, 1878.
cElected Senator in place of John Sherman, resigned.
d Resigned March 8, 1877, on having been appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
e Elected Senator in place of Simon Cameron, resigned.
/Resigned March 3, 1877.
256
CONGRESSIONAL DIBEOTOKY.
S. J. Randall, Philadelphia.
J. B. Reilly, Pottsville.
W. S. Shallenberger, Rochester.
A. Herr Smith, Lancaster.
"W. S. Stenger, Chambersburg.
J. M. Thompson, Butler.
Jacob Turney, Greensburg.
William Ward, Chester.
Lewis F. Watson, Warren.
Harry White, Indiana.
H.B. Wright, Wilkesbarre.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATOKS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence. Ambrose E. Burnside, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Latimer W. Ballou, Woonsocket. Benjamin T. Eames, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury.
Richard H. Cain,« Charleston.
J. H. Evins, Spartanburg.
James E. Bailey, Clarksville.
J. D. C. Atkins, Paris.
John M. Bright, Fayetteville.
W. P. Caldwell, Gardner.
George G. Dibrell, Sparta.
John F. House, Clarksville.
Richard Coke, Waco.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
D. C. Giddings, Brenham.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
J. J. Patterson, Columbia.
Joseph H. Rainey, Georgetown.
Robert Smalls, Beaufort.
Isham G. Harris, Nashville.
James H. Randolph, Newport.
H. Y. Riddle, Lebanon.
J. M. Thornburgh, Knoxville.
W. 0. Whitthorne, Columbia.
Casey Young, Memphis.
Samuel Bell Maxey, Paris.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
G. Schleicher, b Cuero.
J. W. Throckmorton, McKinney.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington.
D. C. Denison, Royalton.
G. W. Hendee, Morrisville.
John W. Johnston, Abingdon.
George C. Cabell, Danville.
Beverly B. Douglas, " Ayletts.
John (joode, jr., Norfolk.
J. T. Harris, Harrisonburg.
Eppa Hunton, Warrenton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
Charles H. Joyce, Rutland.
Robert E. Withers, Wytheville.
n Seat contested by M. P. O'Contior.
l> Died January 10, 1879.
Joseph Jorgensen, Petersburg.
A. L. Pridemore, Jonesville.
J. Randolph Tucker, Lexington.
Gilbert 0. Walker, Richmond.
R. L. T. Beale,<« Hague.
0 Died December 22, 1878.
rf Elected in place of Beverly B. Douglas, deceased.
rOETY-FIFTH CONGRESS. 257
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATOES.
Henry G. Davis, Piedmont. Frank Hereford, Union.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
John E. Kenna, Kanawha. B. Wilson, Wilsonburg.
B. F. Martin, Pruntytown.
WISCONSIN.
SENATOKS.
Angus Cameron, La Crosse. Timothy O. Howe, Green Bay.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Gabriel Bouck, Oshkosh. H. L. Humphrey, Hudson.
E. S. Bragg, Fond du Lac. W. P. Lynde, Milwaukee.
L. B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson. T. C. Pound, Chippewa Falls.
G. C. Hazelton, Boscobel. C. G. Williams, Janeaville.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Hiram S. Stevens, Tucson.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jefferson P. Kidder, Vermilion.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
S. S. Fenn, Mount Idaho.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Trinidad Romero, Santa Fe.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Orange Jacobs, Seattle.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
W. AV. Corlett, Cheyenne.
H. Doc. 458 17
FORTY-SIXTH OONGEESS.
First session, from March 18, 1879, to July 1. 1879. Second session, from December 1, 1879, to June 16, 1880.
Third session, from December 6, 1880, to March 3, 1881.
rice-President.-WiLLij.M A. Wheeler, of New York. President of the Senate pro impore.-ALLEN
G. Thuhman, of Ohio, elected April 15, 1879. Secretary of the Senate.-So^f C Bubch, of TeimesBee
Speaker of the fibuse.-SAMUEL J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. Clerh of the ifrntse. -George M.
Adams, of Kentucky.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh,« Eufaula.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Herndon, Mpbile. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
William J. Samford, Opelika. Charles M. Shelley, Selma.
Thomas Williams, Wetumpka. Newton N. Clements, b Tuscaloosa.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville. William M. Lowe, Huntsville.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Augustus H. Garland, Little Rock. James D. Walker, Fayetteville.
REPRESENT.ATIVES.
Poindexter Dunn, Forest City. William F. Slemons, Monticello.
Jordan E. Cravens, Olarksville. Thomas M. Gunter, Fayetteville.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Newton Booth, San Francisco. James T. Farley, Jackson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Horace Davis, San Francisco. Horace F. Page, Placerville.
Campbell P. Berry, Wheatland. Romualdo Pacheco, San Luis Obispo.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, <^ Central City. Nathaniel P. Hill, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVE.
James B. Belford, Central City.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
William W. Eaton, Hartford. Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford. James Phelps, Essex.
John Turner Wait, Norwich. Frederick Miles, Chapinville.
a Took his seat December 6, 1880, to fill out the unexpired term of B. B. Lewis, resigned October 1, 1880.
b Toole his seat December 6, 1880.
c Resigned April 17, 1882.
258
FOETY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
DELAWARE.
259
8ENAT0KS.
Thomas Francis Bayard, Wilmington. Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward Livingstone Martin, Seaford.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Charles W. Jones, Pensacola. Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. Bisbee, a Jacksonville. Noble A. Hull, b Sanford.
E. H. M. Davidson, Qumcy.
GEORGIA.
Benjamin Harvey Hill, « Atlanta.
John C. Nicholls, Blackshear.
Philip Cook, Americus.
N. J. Hammond, Atlanta.
William H. Felton, Cartersville.
Emory Speer, Athens.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph E. Brown, (« Atlanta.
William E. Smith, Albany.
Henry Persons, Geneva.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Alex. Hamilton Stephens, Crawfordsville.
ILLINOIS.
David Davis, Bloomington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Aldrich, Chicago.
Hiram Barber, jr., Chicago.
Eobt. M. A. Hawk, Mount Carroll.
Philip C. Hayes, Morris.
Thomas A. Boyd, Lewiston.
James W. Singleton, Quincy.
Adlai E. Stevenson, Bloomington.
Albert P. Forsythe, Isabel.
William E. Moi-rison, Waterloo.
Richard W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
John A. Logan, Chicago.
George R. Davis, Chicago.
John C. Sherwin, Aurora.
Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton.
Greenbury L. Fort, Lacon.
Benj. F. Marsh, Warsaw.
William M. Springer, Quincy.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
William A. J. Sparks, Carlyle.
John E. Thomas, Metropolis.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Joseph E. McDonald, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Heilman, Evansville.
Geo. Augustus Bicknell, New Albany.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
Gilbert De La Matyr, Indianapolis.
Godlove S. Orth, Lafayette.
Calvin Cowgill, Wabash.
John H. Baker, Goshen.
IOWA.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
Thomas R. Cobb, Vincennes.
Jeptha D. New, Vernon.
William E. Myers, Anderson.,
Abraham J. Hostetler, Bedford.
William H. Calkins, Laporte.
Walpole G. Colerick, Fort Wayne.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Moses A. MeCoid, Fairfield.
Thomas TJpdegraff, McGregor.
William G. Thompson, Marion.
Edw. Hooker Gillette, Des Moines.
Cyrus Clay Carpenter, Fort Dodge.
Samuel J. Kirkwood, « Iowa City.
Hiram Price, Davenport.
Nathaniel C. Deering, Osage.
James B. Weaver, Bloomfleld.
William Fletcher Sapp, Council Bluffs.
a Took his seat January 22, 1881.
6 Unseated January 22, 1881, by H. Bisbee.
c Died August 16, 1881.
d Took his seat December 6,
« Resigned March 1, 1881.
260
CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
John James Ingalls, Atchison.
John A. Anderson, Manhattan.
Thomas Ryan, Topeka.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
James J. Beck, Lexington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Oscar Turner, Woodlands.
John William Caldwell, Russellville.
Albert S. Willis, Louisville.
Jos. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
Thomas Turner, Mount Sterling.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
William Pitt Kellogg, New Orleans.
EBPKE8ENTATIVES.
Randall Lee Gibson, New Orleans.
Jos. Hayes Acklen, Franklin.
J. Floyd King, Vidalia.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
Stephen D. Lindsey, Norridgewock.
Thompson H. Murch, Rockland.
W. Pinkney Whyte, Baltimore.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Daniel Maynadier Henry, Cambridge.
William Kimmel, Baltimore.
Eli Jones Henkle, Brooklyn.
Preston B. Plumb, Emporia.
Dudley C. Haskell, Lawrence.
John S. Williams, Mount Sterling.
James A. McKenzie, Long View.
J. Proctor Knott, Lebanon.
John G. Carlisle, Covington.
Philip B. Thompson, jr., Harrodsburg.
Elijah 0. Phister, Maysville.
Benj. F. Jonas, New Orleans.
E. John Ellis, New Orleans.
Jos. B. Elam, Mansfield.
Ed. White Robertson, Baton Rouge.
James G. Blaine, « Augusta.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
George W. Ladd, Bangor.
James B. Groome, Elkton.
J. F. C. Talbott, Towsontown.
Robert H. McLane, Baltimore.
Milton G. Urner, Frederick.
Henrj' L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Wallace Crapo, New Bedford.
Walbridge Abner Field, Boston.
Selwyn Zadock Bowman, Soraerville.
William A. Russell, Lawrence.
William W. Rice, Worcester.
George D. Robinson, Chicopee.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Benj. W. Harris, East Bridgewater.
Leopold Morse, Boston.
Geo. Bailey Loring, Salem.
William Claflin, Newton.
Amasa Norcross, Fitchburg.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven.
Zachariah Chandler. ^
REPRESENTATIVES.
John S. Newberry, Detroit.
Jonas H. McGowan, Cold water.
John W. Stone, Grand Rapids.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
Jay A. Hubbell, Houghton.
Henry P. Baldwin, c Detroit.
Edwin Willits, Monroe.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
Mark S. Brewer, Pontiac.
Roswell G. Horr, East Saginaw.
a Resigned March 1, 1881.
b Died November, 1879.
c Appointed in November, 1879, to fill vacancy caused by death of Zachariah Chandler.
FORTY-SIXTH CONGBESS. 261
MINNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
William Windom, Winona. Saml. J. R. McMillan, St. Paul.
BEPKESBNTATIVE8.
Mark H. Dunnell, Owatonna. Henry Poehler, Henderson.
William Drew Washburn, Minneapolis.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
Blanche K. Bruce, Floreyville. L. Q. C. Lamar, Oxford.
HEPRESENTATIVES.
Henry L. Muldrow, Starkville. Van H. Manning, Holly Springs.
Hernando De Soto Money, Winona. Othro R. Singleton, Canton.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson. James Ronald Chalmers, Vicksburg.
MISSOURI.
SENATOKS.
Francis Marion Cockrell, Warrensburg. George Graham Vest, Kansas City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin Linn Clardy, Farmington. Erastus Wells, St. Louis.
Richard Graham Frost, St. Louis. Lowndes H. Davis, Jackson.
Richard Parks Bland, Lebanon. James Richard Waddill, Springfield.
John F. Philips, Sedalia. Samuel L. Sawyer, Independence.
Nicholas Ford, Rochester. Gideon F. Rothwell, Moberlj;.
John B. Clark, jr., Fayette. William Henry Hatch, Hannibal.
Aylett Hawes Buckner, Mexico.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Algernon S. Paddock, Beatrice. Alvin Saunders, Omaha.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edward K. Valentine, West Point.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill. William Sharon, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Rollin M. Daggett, Virginia City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Edward H. Rollins, Concord. Henry W. Blair, Plymouth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joshua G. Hall, Dover. James F. Briggs, Manchester.
Evarts W. Farr, « Littleton. Ossian Ray. *
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Theodore F. Randolph, Morristown. John Roderick McPherson, York.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George M. Robeson, Camden. Hezekiah B. Smith, Smithville.
Miles Ross, New Brunswick. Alvah A. Clark, Somerville.
Charles H. Voorhis, Hackensack. John L. Blake, Orange.
Lewis A. Brigham, Jersey City.
a Died November 30, 1882. i Took his seat January 8, 1881.
262
CONGEESSIONAL DIKECTOKT.
NEW YORK.
Eoscoe Conkling, « Utica.
SENATORS.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
James W. Covert, Flushing.
Simeon B. Chittenden, Brooklyn.
Nicholas MuUer, New York.
Edwin Einstein, New York.
Fernando Wood, ^ New York.
Levi P. Morton, New York.
John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
William Lounsberry, Kingston.
AValter A. Wood, Hoosick Falls.
Amaziah B. James, Ogdensburg.
David Wilber, Milford.
Cyrus D. Prescott, Rome.
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
Elbridge G. Lapham, Canandaigua.
D. P. Richardson, Angelica.
Richard Crowley, Lockport.
Henry Van Aernam, Franklinville.
Francis Kernan, Utica.
Daniel O'Reilly, Brooklyn.
Archibald M. Bliss, Brooklyn.
Samuel S. Cox, New York.
Anson G. McCook, New York.
James O'Brien, New York.
Waldo Hutchins, Kingsbridge.
John W. Ferdon, Piermont.
John M. Bailey, Albany.
John Hammond, Crown Point.
John H. Starin, Fultonville.
Warner Miller, Herkimer.
Joseph H. Mason, Hamilton.
John H. Camp, Lyons.
Jeremiah W. Dwight, Dryden.
John Van Voorhis, Rochester.
Jonathan Scoville, « Salisbury.
Ray V. Pierce,'^ Buffalo.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Matt. W. Ransom, Weldon..
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Joseph John Martin, « Williamston.
Daniel Lindsay Russell, Wilmington.
Alfred Moore Scales, Greensboro.
Robert Franklin Armfleld, Statesville.
Jessee J. Yeates. /
Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte.
William H. Kitchin, Scotland Neck.
Joseph J. Davis, Louisburg.
Walter Leak Steele, Rockingham.
Robert Brank A'ance, Asheville.
Allen G. Thurman, Columbus.
OHIO.
REPRESENT ATIV ES.
Benj. Butterworth, Cincinnati.
John A. McMahon, Dayton.
Benj. LeFevre, Sidney.
Frank H. Hurd, Toledo.
George L. Converse, Columbus.
Henry L. Dickey, Greenfield.
A. J. Warner, Marietta.
George W. Geddes, Mansfield,
James Monroe, Oberlin.
Ezra B. Taylor,? Warren.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
Thomas L. Young, Cincinnati.,
Jos. AVarren Keifer, Springfield.
W. D. Hill, Defiance.
Ebenezer B. Finley, Bucyrus.
Thomas Ewing, Lancaster.
Henry S. Neal, Ironton.
Gibson Atherton, Newark.
William McKinley, jr.. Canton.
Jonathan T. Updegraff, Mount Pleasant.
Amos Townsend, Cleveland.
OREGON.
.SENATORS.
Lafayette Grover, Salem. James H. Slater, Lagrande.
HEPBESENTATIVE.
John ■\Vhiteaker, Pleasanthill.
a Resigned May J 6, 1881.
!> Died February 14, 1881.
c Took his seat December 6, 1880.
iJ Resigned.
cSeat successfully contested by J. J. Yeates.
/Took his seat January 29, 1881.
17 Elected in place of James A. Garfield, and took his seat December 13, 1880.
FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
263
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
"William A. Wallace, Clearfield.
HEPHESENTATIVES.
Henry H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia.
Alfred C. Harmer, Germantown.
William Godshalk, New Britain.
A. Herr Smith, Lancaster.
Robert Klotz, Mauchchunk.
John W. Ryon, Pottsville.
Edward Overton, jr., Towanda.
Alexander H. Coffroth, Somerset.
Frank E. Beltzhoover, Carlisle.
Morgan E. Wise, Waynesburg.
Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny.
Harry White, Indiana.
J. H. Osmer, Franklin.
James Donald Cameron, Harrisburg.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
William Ward, Chester.
Hiester Clymer, Reading.
Reuben K. Bachman, Durham.
Hendrick B. Wright, Wilkesbarre.
John W. Killinger, Lebanon.
John I. Mitchell, Wellsboro.
Horatio G. Fisher, Huntingdon.
Seth H. Yokum, Bellefonte.
Russell Errett, Pittsburg.
W. S. ShallenlDerger, Rochester.
Samuel B. Dick, Meadville.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Henry B. Anthony, Providence. Ambrose E. Burnside, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nelson W. Aldricjti, Providence. Latimer W. Ballon, Woonsocket.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
John S. Richardson, Sumter.
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury.
George D. Tillman, Edgefield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Wade Hampton, Charleston.
M. P. O'Connor, Charleston.
John H. Evins, Spartanburg.
James E. Bailey, Clarksville. Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert L. Taylor, Jonesboro.
George G. Dibrell, Sparta.
John Morgan Bright, Fayetteville.
Washington 0. Whitthorne, Columbia.
Charles Bryson Simonton, Covington.
Leonidas C. Houk, Knoxville.
Benton ]\IcMillin, Carthage.
John F. House, Clarksville.
John D. C. Atkins, Paris.
Casey Young, -Memphis.
Samuel Bell Maxey, Paris.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
Olin Wellborn, Dallas.
George W, Jones, Bastrop.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Richard Coke, Waco.
David C. Culberson, Jefferson.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
C. Upson, San Antonio.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles H. Jovce, Rutland. James M. Tyler, Brattleboro.
Bradley Barlow, St. Albans.
264 CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John W. Johnston, Abingdon. Robert E. Withers, Wytheville.
HEPKESENTATIVES.
R. L. T. Beale, Hague. John Goode, jr., Norfolk.
J. E. Johnston, Longwood. Joseph Jorgensen, Petersburg.
George C. Cabell, Danville. John Randolph Tucker, Lexington.
John T. Harris, Harrisonburg. Eppa Hunton, Warrenton.
James B. Richmond, Estillville.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Henry G. Davis, Piedmont. Frank Hereford, Union.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Wilson, Wilsonburg. Benj. F. Martin, Pruntytown.
John E. Kenna, Kanawha.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
Angus Cameron, La Crosse. Matthew H. Carpenter, « Milwaukee.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles G. Williams, Janesville. Lucien B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson.
George C. Hazelton, Boscobel. . Peter V. Deuster, Milwaukee.
Edward S. Bragg, Fond du Lac. Gabriel Bouck, Oshkosh.
Herman L. Humphrey, Hudson. Thaddeus C. Pound, Chippewa Falls.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John G. Campbell, Prescott.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Granville G. Bennett, Yankton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Ainslie, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Mariano S. Otero, Peralta.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Thos. H. Brents, Walla Walla.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
S. W. Downey, Laramie City.
n Died February 24, 1881.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 5, 1881, to August 8, 188$. Second session, from December 4, 188$, to March
S, 1883. Special session of the Senate from October 10, 1881, to October $9, 1881.
Fic«--FVe«id!«n<.— Chester A. Ahthue, of New York. President of the Senate pro tempore.— Dayib
Davis, of Illinois, elected October 13, 1881. Secretary of the /Seraate.— Fkancis E. Shobeh (acting), of
North Carolina.
Speaker of the House. — J. Warken Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio.
McPhbeson, of Pennsylvania.
Clerk of the House.— Edwabd
John T. Morgan, Selma.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Herndon, Mobile.
William C. Gates, Abbeville.
Thomas Williams, Wetumpka.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville.
William Lowe,« Huntsville.
James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
Charles M. Shelley, 6 Selma.
G. W. Hewitt, Birmingham.
Joseph Wheeler, « Wheeler.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Augustus H. Garland, Little Bock. J. D. Walker, Fayetteville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
P. Dunn, Forest City.
Jordan E. Cravens, Clarksville.
James T. Farley, Jackson.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William S. Rosecrans, San Francisco.
C. P. Berry, Wheatland.
James K. Jones, Washington.
Thomas M. Gunter, Fayetteville.
John F. Miller, San Francisco.
Horace F. Page, Placerville.
R. Pacheco, San Luis Obispo.
COLORADO.
N. P. Hill, Denver.
George M. Chilcott,<* Denver.
REPRESENTATIVE.
H. A. W. Tabor, « Denver.
Henry M. Teller, / Denver.
James B. Belford, Central City.
o After a contest with Wheeler, took his seat June 3, 1882, and died August 16, 1882.
ftContested by Smith with success; Smith died before vote was taken and seat declared vacant July 20, 1882. CM. Shelley
elected to fill vacancy, and took his seat December 4, 1882.
"Elected to succeed Lowe, and took his seat December 4, 1882.
<* Appointed by governor to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Henry M. Teller; took his seat April 17, 1882.
eTook his seat February 2, 1883, to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Henry M. Teller.
/Resigned April 17, 1882.
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266
OONGKESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, West Meriden. Joseph E. Hawley, Hartford.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
John R. Buck, Hartford.
John T. Wait, Norwich.
DELAWARE.
James Phelps, Essex.
Frederick Miles, Chapinville.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington. Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
REPRESENTATIVE.
E. Livingstone Martin, Seaford.
FLORIDA.
Charles W. Jones, Pensacola.
R. H. M. Davidson, Quincy.
Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta.
George R. Black, Sylvania.
Philip Cook, Americus.
N. J. Hammond, Atlanta.
J. 0. Clements, Lafayette.
Emery Speer, Athens.
David Davis, Bloomington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Aldrich, Chicago.
Charles B. Farwell, Chicago.
R. R. Hitt, « Mount Morris.
William CuUen, Ottawa.
B. F. Marsh, Warsaw.
W. M. Springer, Springfield.
J. G. Cannon, Danville.
W. A. J. Sparks, Carlyle.
John E. Thomas, Metropolis.
R. M. A. Hawk, / Mount Carroll.
W. Call, Jacksonville.
H. Bisbee, " Jacksonville.
Pope Barrow, '> Athens.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
H. Buchanan, Newman.
James H. Blount, Macon.
S. Reese, « Sparta.
A. H. Stephens, f' Crawfords^dlle.
John A. Logan, Chicago.
George E. Davis, Chicago.
John C. Sherwin, Aurora.
T. J. Henderson, Princeton.
L. E. Payson, Pontiae.
J. W. Singleton, Quincy.
D. C. Smith, Pekin.
S. W. Moulton, Shelbyville.
W. B. Morrison, Waterloo.
E. W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
J. H. Lewis, KnoxviUe.
INDIANA.
D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Heilman, Evansville.
S. M. Stockslager, Corydon.
0. C. Matson, Greencastle.
Stanton J. Peele, Indianapolis.
Charles T. Doxey,!/ Anderson.
G. W. Steele, Marion.
W. H. Calkins, Laporte.
B. Harrison, Indianapolis.
Thomas E. Cobb, Vincennes.
W. S. Holman, Aurora.
T. H. Browne, Winchester.
E. B. F. Pierce, Crawfordsville.
M. L. DeMotte,' Valparaiso.
W. G. Colerick, Fort Wayne
G. S. Orth,'t Lafayette.
aContested with J. J. Finley and took his seat June 1, 1882.
fcTook his seat Deoemher 6, 1882, to fill vacancy caused by death of B. H. Hill,
c Filled the vacancy caused by resignation ot A. H. Stephens, and took his seat December 4, 1882.
dEesigned in 1882.
e Took his seat December 4, 1882, to fill vacancy caused by death of E. M. A. Hawk.
/Died June 29, 1882.
ffTook his seat January 17, 1883, to fill vacancy caused by death of Godlove S. Orth.
h Died December 16, 1882.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
267
W. B. Allison, Dubuque.
M. A. McCoid, Fairfield.
Thomas Updegraft, McGregor.
W. G. Thompson, Marion.
W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
J. C. Cook, 6 Newton.
J. J. Ingalls, Atchison.
J. A. Anderson, Manhattan.
D. 0. Haskell, Lawrence.
J. B. Beck, Lexington.
Oscar Turner, Woodlands.
J. W. Caldwell, Eussellville.
A. S. Willis, Louisville.
J. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
John D, White, Manchester.
W. P. Kellogg, New Orleans.
E. L. Gibson, New Orleans.
C. B. Darrall, Morgan City.
J. F. King, Vedalia.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
S. D. Lindsey, Norridgewock.
T. H. Murch, Rockland.
BEPHESENTATIVES.
James B. Groome, Elkton.
G. W. Covington, Snow Hill.
F. S. Hoblitzell, Baltimore.
A. G'. Chapman, La Plata.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. W. McDill.aAfton.
S. S. Farwell, Monticello.
N. C. Deering, Osage.
J. A. Kasson, Des Moines.
0. C. Carpenter, Fort Dodge.
M. E. Cutts, c Oskaloosa.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
BEPHESENTATIVES.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfleld.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. W. Crapo, New Bedford.
A. A. Ranney, Boston.
S. Z. Bowman, SomerviJle.
William A. Russell, Lawrence.
William W. Rice, Worcester.
George D. Robinson, Chicopee.
P. B. Plumb, Emporia.
Thomas Ryan, Topeka.
J. S. Williams, Mount Sterhng.
J. A. McKenzie, Longview.
J. P. Knott, Lebanon.
J. G. Carlisle, Covington.
P. B, Thompson, jr., Harrodsburg.
E. C. Phister, Maysville.
B. F. Jonas, New Orleans.
E. J. Ellis, New Orleans.
N. C. Blanchard, Shreveport.
E. W. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
W. P. Frye,<^ Lewiston.
Nelson Dingley, Lewiston.
George A. Ladd, Bangor.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
J. F. C. Talbott, Towsontown.
Robert M. McLane, Baltimore.
Milton G. Urner, Frederick.
G. F. Hoar, Worcester.
B. W. Harris, East Bridgewater.
L. Morse, Boston.
Eber F. Stone, Newburyport.
John W. Candler, Brookline.
A. Norcross, Fitchburg.
a Took his seat March 8, 1881.
b Tooi his seat March 3, 1883.
c Unseated March 3, 1883.
dTook hia seat March 18, 1881.
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MICHIGAN.
SENATOES.
Thomas W. Ferry, Grand Haven. Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
BEPBESBNTATIVES.
Henry W. Lord, Detroit.
Edward S. Lacey, Charlotte.
George W. Webber, Ionia.
John T. Rich, Elba.
Jay A. Hubbell, Houghton.
S. J. K. McMillan, St. Paul.
M. H. Bunnell, Owatonna.
W. D. Washburn, Minneapolis.
L. Q. 0. Lamar, Oxford.
H. L. Muldrow, Starkville.
H. De Soto Money, Winona.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
Edwin Willits, Monroe.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
0. L. Spalding, St. Johns.
B. G. Horr, East Saginaw.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
M. L. Clardy, Farmington.
L. H. Davis, Jackson.
I. S. Hazeltine, Springfield.
R. T. Van Horn, Kansas City.
Jos. H. Burrows, Cainsville.
Wm. H. Hatch, Hannibal.
G. Sessinghaus, * St, Louis.
E. G. Frost, «
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Alvin Saunders, Omaha.
William Windom, Winona.
H. B. Strait, Shakopee.
J. Z. George, Jackson.
V. H. Manning, Holly Springs.
O. R. Singleton, Canton.
J. R. Lynch, « Natchez.
G. G. Vest, Kansas City.
James H. McLean,*^ St. Louis.
R. P. Bland, Lebanon.
T. M. Rice, Booneville.
N. Ford, Rochester.
J. B. Clark, jr., Fayette.
A. H. Buckner, Mexico.
Thomas Allen, « St. Louis.
Charles H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
E. K. Valentine, West Point.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill.
James G. Fair, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George William Cassidy, Eureka.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
E. H. Rollins, Concord.
J. G. Hall, Dover.
Ossian Ray, Lancaster.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. W. Blair, Plymouth.
J. F. Briggs, Manchester.
a Took his seat April 29, 1882.
6 Took his seat March 2, 1883.
c Successfully contested by Sessinghaus.
dTook his seat December 16, 1828, made vacant by the death of Thomas Allen.
eDled April8, 1882.
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269
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
J. R. McPherson, Jersey City.
EEPRESBNTATIVES.
G. M. Robeson, Camden.
Miles Ross, New Brunswick.
John H. Hill, Boon ton.
A. A. Hardenberg, Jersey City.
NEW YORK.
W. J. Sewell, Camden.
J. H. Brewer, Trenton.
H. S. Harris, Belvidere.
Phineas Jones, Newark.
Warner Miller," Herkimer.
Rosooe Conkling, b Utica.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Perry Belmont, Babylon.
J. H. Smith, Brooklyn.
Benjamin Wood, New York City.
P. H. Dugro, New York City.
John Hardy, « New York City.
R. P. Flower, New York City.
J. H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
Thos. Cornell, Rondout.
Walter A. Wood, Hoosick Falls.
A. X. Parker, Potsdam.
Ferris Jacobs, jr., Delhi.
C. D. Prescott, Rome,
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
J. W. Wadsworth, Livingstone.
D. P. Richardson, Angelica. »
Richard Crowley, l^ockport.
H. Van Aernam, Franklinville.
E. G. Lapham, " Canandaigua.
T. C. Piatt, (« Owego.
W. E. Robinson, Brooklyn.
A. M. Bhss, Brooklyn.
S. S. Cox, New York City.
A. G. McCook, New York City.
A. S. Hewitt, New York City.
W. Hutching, Kirrgsbridge.
Lewis Beach, Cornwall.
M. N. Nolan, Albany.
J. Hammond, Crown Point.
George West, Balston Spa.
C. R. Skinner, Watertown.
Jos. Mason, Hamilton.
John H. Camp, Lyons.
J. W. Dwight, Dryden.
J. Van Voorhis, Rochester.
J. Sooville, Buffalo.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
M. W. Ransom, Weldon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
L. C. Latham, Greenville.
J. W. Shackleford,/ Jacksonville.
A. M. Scales, Greensboro.
R. F. Armfield, Statesville.
OHIO.
Z. B. Vance, Charlotte.
Orlando Hubbs, New Berne.
W. R. Cox, Raleigh.
Clement Dowd, Charlotte.
Robt. B. Vance, Asheville.
SENATORS.
G. H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
B. Butterworth, Cincinnati.
H. L. Morey, Hamilton.
Benj. LeFevre, Sidney.
J. P. Leedom, West Union.
J. S. Robinson, Kenton.
Henry S. Neal, Ironton.
Gibson Atherton, Newark.
R. R. Dawes, Marietta.
William McKinley, jr.. Canton.
E. B. Taylor, Warren.
J. T. Updegraff,? Mount Pleasant.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
T. L. Young, Cincinnati.
E. Shultz, Dayton.
J. M. Ritchie, Toledo.
J. W. Keifer, Springfield.
J. B. Rice, Fremont.
G. L. Converse, Columbus.
G. W. Geddes, Mansfield.
J. D. Taylor, A Cambridge.
A. S. McClure, Wooster.
A. Townsend, Cleveland.
a Took his seat October 11, 1881, made vacant bj' the resignation of T. C. Piatt.
» Resigned May 16, 1881.
oTook his seat October 11, 1881, made vacant by the resignation of Eoscoe Conkling.
d Resigned May 16, 1881.
e Took his seat December 6, 1881, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Fernando Wood.
/Died January 18, 1883.
g Died November 30, 1882.
h Elected to flU vacancy caused by the death of J. T. Updegrail, and took his seat January 16. 1883.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
OREGON.
SBNATOES.
LaFayette Grover, Salem.
J. H. Slater, LaGrande.
BEPRESBNTATIVES.
Melvin C. George, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA.
J. D. Cameron, Harrisburg.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
S. J. Randall, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
William Godshalk, New Britain.
A. H. Smith, Lancaster.
R. Klotz, Mauch Chunk.
0. N. Brumm, Minersville.
C. C. Jadwin, Honesdale.
J. M. Campbell, Johnstown.
F. E. Beltzhoover, Carlisle.
M. R. Wise, Waynesburg.
T. M. Bayne, Allegheny.
J. Mosgrove, Kittanning.
Lewis F. Watson, Warren.
J. I. Mitchell, Wellsboro.
Charles O'Neil, Philadelphia.
W. D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
William Ward, Chester.
D. Ermentrout, Reading.
W. Mutchler, Easton.
J. A. Scranton, Scranton.
S. F. Barr, Harrisburg.
R. J. C. Walker, Williamsport.
H. G. Fisher, Huntingdon.
A. G. Curtin, Bellefonte.
Russell Errett, Pittsburg.
W. S. Shallenberger, Rochester.
S. H. Miller, Mercer.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
H. B. Anthony, Providence. N. W. Aldrich,o Providence.
BKPKESBNTATIVES.
H. J. Spoouer, Providence. Jonathan Chace, Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
J. S. Richardson, Sumter.
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury.
Robert Smalls, '' Beaufort.
I. G. Harris, Memphis.
A. H. Pettibone, Greenville.
G. H. Dibrell, Sijarta.
R. Warner, Lewisburg.
W. C. Witthorne, Columbia.
C. B, Simonton, Covington.
Wade Hampton, Charleston.
E. W. M. Mackay, c Charleston.
John H. Evins, Spartanburg.
M. P. O' Connor, (« Charleston.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TEXAS.
H. E. Jackson, Jackson.
L. C. Houk, Knoxville.
B. McMillin, Carthage.
J. F. House, Clarksville.
J. D. C. Atkins, Paris.
W. R. Moore, Memphis.
S. B. Maxey, Paris.
J. H. Reagan, Palestine.
0. AVellborn, Dallas.
0. Upson, San Antonio.
G. F. Edmunds, Burlington.
C. H. Joyce, Rutland.
W. W. Grout, Barton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
R. Coke, Waco.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
G. W. Jones, Bastrop.
R. Q. Mills, Corsicana.
J. S. Morrill, Stafford.
Jas. M. Tyler, Brattleboro.
a Took his seat December 5, 1881, to fill vacancy caused bv death of Ambrose E. Burnside.
l> Took his seat .July 19, 1882.
0 Contested with M. P, O'Connor and took his seat May 31, 1882.
d Died April 26, 1881.
FOKTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 271
VIRGINIA.
SENATOES.
J. W. Johnston, Abingdon. W. Mahone, Petersburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
G. T. Garrison, Accomac. J. F. Dezendorf, Norfolk.
George D. Wise, Richmond. J. Jorgensen, Petersburg.
G. C. Cabell, Danville. J. R. Tucker, Lexington.
John Paul, Harrisonburg. J. S. Barbour, Alexandria.
A. Fulkerson, Bristol.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Henry G. Davis, Piedmont. J. N. Camden, Parkersburg.
P.EPRE8ENTATIVES.
Benjamin Wilson, Clarksburg. J. B. Hoge, Martinsburg.
J. E. Kenna, Kanawha.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
A. Cameron, a La Crosse. P. Sawyer, Oshkosh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. G. Williams, Janesville. L. B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson.
G. C. Hazelton, Boscobel. P. V. Deuster, Milwaukee.
E. S. Bragg, Fond du lac. R. Guenther, Oshkosh.
H. L. Humphrey, Hudson. T. C. Pound, Chippewa Falls.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Granville H. Oury, Florence.
' DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Richard F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
George Ainslie, Idaho City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
T. Luna, Los Lunas.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John T. Caine, !> Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Thomaa H. Brents, Walla Walla.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Morton E. Post, Cheyenne.
a Took his seat October 10, 1881, made vacant by death of M. H. Carpenter.
*Took his seat January 17, 1883.
FOUTY-EIGHTH CO:^GEESS.
First session, from, December 3, 1883, to July 7, 1884. Second session, from December 1, 1884, to March 3, 1885.
President pro tempore of the Senate. — George F. Edmunds, of Vermont. Secretary of the Senate. —
Anson G. McCook, of New York.
Speaker of the House. — John G. Carlisle, of Covington, Ky. Clerk of the House. — John B.
Clark, Jr., of Missouri.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James T. Jones, Demopolis. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
William C. Gates, Abbeville. George H. Craig, 6, Selma.
Thomas Williams, Wetumpka. G. W. Hewitt, Birmingham.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville. Luke Pryor, Athens.
Charles M. Shelley, « Selma.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
Augustus H. Garland, Little Eock. James D. Walker, Fayetteville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Poindexter Dunn, Forest City. C. E. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff.
James K. Jones, Washington. John H. Eogers, Fort Smith.
Samuel W. Peel, Bentonville.
CALIFOENIA.
SENATORS.
James T. Farley, Jackson. John F. Miller, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles A. Sumner, San Francisco. John E. Glascock, Oakland.
WiUiam S. Eosecrans, San Francisco. James H. Budd, Stockton.
Barclay Henley, Santa Eosa. Pleasant B. Tulley, Gilroy.
COLOEADO.
SENATORS.
Nathaniel P. Hill, Denver. Thomas M. Bowen, Del Norte.
REPRESENTATIVE.
James B. Belford, Central City.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden. Joseph E. Hawley, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WilUam W. Eaton, Hartford. C. Le Moyne Mitchell, New Haven.
^John T. Wait, Norwich. Edward W. Seymour, Litchfield.
a Unseated January 9, 1885, by G. H. Craig.
b Successiully contested the election of C. M. Shelley, and took his seat January 9, 1885, and resigned March 3, 188.').
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POETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
DELAWARE.
273
SENATOES.
Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington. E. Saulsbury, Dover.
EEPRESBNTATIVE.
Charles B. Lore, Wilmington
FLORIDA.
SENATOES.
Charles AV. Jones, Pensacola. Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
R. H. M. Davidson, Quincy. Poratio Bisbee, jr., JacksonviUe.
Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta.
Thomas Hardeman, Macon.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
H. Buchanan, Newman.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Seaborn Reese, Sparta.
GEORGIA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
ILLINOIS.
SENATOES.
John A. Logan, Chicago.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
R. W. Dunham, Chicago.
George R. Davis, Chicago.
Reuben Ellwood, Sycamore.
T. J. Henderson, Princeton.
Lewis E. Payson, Pontiac.
William H. Neece, Macomb.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
J. G. Cannon, Danville.
S. W. Moulton, Shelbyville.
R. W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
INDIANA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
J. J. Kleiner, Evansville.
S. M. Stockslager, Corydon.
C. C. Matson, Greencastle.
William E. English, « Indianapolis.
Thomas B. Ward, Lafayette.
George W. Steele, Marion.
B. F.'Shively,6 North Bend.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
Moses A. McCoid,<^ Fairfield.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
James Wilson, « Traer.
H. Y. Smith,/ Des Moines.
W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
A. J. Holmes, Boone.
B. T. Frederick,? Marshalltown.
IOWA.
SENATOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Alfred H. Colquitt, Atlanta.
John C. Nicholls, Blackshear.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
N. J. Hammond, Atlanta.
J. C. Clements, Lafaj^ette.
Allen D. Candler, Gainesville.
Shelby M. Oullom, Springfield.
John F. Finerty, Chicago.
George E. Adams, Chicago.
R. R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
William CuUen, Ottawa.
N. F. Worthington, Peoria.
James R. Riggs, Winchester.
J. H. Rowell, Bloomington.
Aaron Shaw, Olney.
William p. Morrison, Waterloo.
John R. Thomas, Metropolis.
Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis.
Thomas R. Cobb, Vincennes.
W. S. Holman, Aurora.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
John E. Lamb, Terre Haute.
Thomas J. Wood, Crownpoint.
Robert Lowry, Fort Wayne.
W. H. Calkins, " Laporte.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
J. H. Murphy, Davenport.
L. H. Weller, Nashua.
John C. Cook, Newton.
J. A. Kasson,^ Des Moines.
W. H. M. Pusey, Council Bluffs.
I. S. Struble, Lemars.
a Successfully contested the election of S. J. Peele, and took his seat May 22, 1884.
6 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of W. H. Calkins, resigned.
c Resigned October 20, 1884.
<iTook seat December 6, 1883.
« Election successfully contesteVJ by Benjamin T. Frederick.
/Elected in place of J. A. Kasson, resigned, and took his seat December 2, 1884.
» Contested seat of James Wilson, and took seat March 3, 1885.
''Took seat December 6, 1883.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
J. J. Ingalls, Atchison.
Edwin N. Morrill, Hiawatha.
S. R. Peters," Newton.
J. A. Anderson, Manhattan.
Thomas Eyan, Topeka.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVBS.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Oscar Turner, Woodlands.
John E. Halsell, Bowling Green.
A. S. Willis, Louisville.
J. 0. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
W. W. Culberson, Ashland.
F. L. Wolford, Columbia.
B. F. Jonas, New Orleans.
Carleton Hunt, New Orleans.
W. P. Kellogg, New Orleans.
J. F. King, Vidalia.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Beed, Portland.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
James B. Groome, Elkton.
G. W. Covington, Snowhill.
F. S. Hoblitzell, Baltimore.
H. B. Holton, Powhatan.
LOUISIANA.
SEXATOES.
REPRESENTATIVES.
P. B. Plumb, Emporia.
Lewis, Hanback, Osborne.
B. W. Perkins, Oswego.
E. H. Flinston,6 lola.
Dudley C. Haskell, " Topeka.
John S. Williams, Mount Sterling.
James F. Clay, Henderson.
T. A. Robertson, Elizabethtown.
J. G. Carlisle, Covington.
P. B. Thompson, jr., Harrodsburg.
J. D. White, Manchester.
R. L. Gibson, New Orleans.
E. J. Ellis, New Orleans.
N. C. Blanchard, Shreveport.
E. T. Lewis, Opelousas.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESBXTATIVES.
W. p. Frye, Lewiston.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
S. L. Milhken, Belfast.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
J. F. C. Talbott, Towson.
J. V. L. Findlay, Baltimore.
L. E. McComas, Hagerstown.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
Robert T. Davis, Fall River.
A. A. Ranney, Boston.
Leopold Morse, Boston.
Eben F. Stone, Newburyport.
Theodore Lyman, Brookline.
W. Whiting, Holyoke.
G. D. Robinson,^' Chicopee.
Omar D. Conger, Port Huron.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
8EPHESENTATIVES.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
John D. Long, Hingham.
Patrick A. Collins, Boston.
H. B. Lovering, Lynn.
W. A. Russell, Lawrence.
William W. Rice, Worcester.
F. W. Rockwell, « Pittsfield.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. C. Maybury, Detroit.
E. S. Lacey, Charlotte.
Julius Houseman, Grand Rapids.
E. C. Carleton, Port Huron.
B. M. Cutcheon, Manistee.
Edward Breitimg, Negaunee.
Thomas W. Palmer, Detroit.
N. B. Eldredge, Adrian.
George L. Yaple, Mendon.
E. B. Winans, Hamburg.
R. G. Horr, East Saginaw.
H. H. Hatch, Bay City.
a Took his Beat December 3. 1888.
b Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Dudley C. Haskell.-
cDied December 16 1883.
a Resigned January 7, 1884.
e Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of G. D. Robinson, and took Ms seat January 26, 1884.
FOBTY-EIGHTH C0NGEE8S.
MINNESOTA.
275
S. J. R. McMillin, St. Paul.
Milo "White, Chatfield.
Horace B. Strait, Shakopee.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
L. Q. C. Lamar, Oxford.
H. L. Muldrow, Starkville.
Elza Jeffords, Mayersville.
O. R. Singleton, Forest.
E. Barksdale, Jackson.
F. II. Oockrell, Warrensburg.
W. H. Hatch, Hannibal.
A. M. Bockery, Gallatin.
Alex Graves, Lexington.
A. H. Buckner, Mexico.
J. 0. Broadhead, St. Louis.
K. P. Bland, Lebanon.
R. W. Fyan, Marshfield.
SENATORS.
HBPBESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATOES.
EEPHESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
D. W. Sabin, Stillwater.
James B. Wakefield, Blue Earth City.
William Drew Washburn, Minneapolis.
James Z. George, Jackson.
J. R. Chalmers, « Sardis.
H. De Soto Money, Winona.
H. S. Van Eaton, Woodville.
G. G. Vest, Kansas City .
A. M. Alexander, Paris.
J. N. Burns, St. Joseph.
J. Cosgrove, Boonville.
J. J. O'Neill, St. Louis.
Martin L. Clardy, Farmington.
0. H. Morgan, Lamar.
L. H. Davis, Jackson.
C. F. Manderson, Omaha.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
C. H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. J. Weaver, Falls City. James Laird, Hastings.
E. K. Valentine, West Point.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
J. P. Jones, Gold Hill.
J. G. Fair, Virginia City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George W. Cassidy, Eureka.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Blair, Manchester. A. F. Pike, Franklin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Martin A. Haynes, Lake Village. Ossian Ray, Lancaster.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
J. R. McPherson, Jersey City. W. J. Sewell, Camden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
T. M. Ferrell, Glassboro.
John Kean, jr., Elizabeth.
W. W. Phelps, Teaneck, Englewood.
William McAdoo, Jersey City.
J. Hart Brewer, Trenton,
B. F. Howey, Columbia.
W. H. Fieder, Newark.
(iTook his seat June 25, 1884.
276
CONGRESS lOTSTAL DIBECTOEY.
NEW YORK.
Warner Miller, Herkimer.
H. W. Slocum, Brooklyn.
W. E. Robinson, Brooklyn.
F. Campbell, Brooklyn.
Samuel S. Cox, New York.
J. J. Adams, New York.
A. S. Hewitt, New York.
Waldo Hutchins, Kingsbridge.
Lewis Beach, Cornwall.
T. J. Van Alstyne, Albany.
F. A. Johnson, Glens Falls.
Edward Wemple, Fultonville.
C. R. Skinner, Watertown.
Newton W. Nutting, Oswego.
Sereno E. Payne, Auburn.
S. C. Millard, Binghamton.
H. S. Greenleaf, Rochester.
W. F. Rogers, Buffalo.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. C. Lapham, Canandaigua.
. Perry Belmont, Babylon.
D. R. James, Brooklyn.
N. Muller, New York.
W. Dorsheimer, New York.
John Hardy, New York.
Orlando B. Potter, New York.
J. H. Ketc.hum, Kingsbridge.
John H. Baglev, jr., Catskill.
H. G. Burleigh, Whitehall.
A. X. Parker, Pottsdam.
George W. Ray, Chenango.
J. T. Spriggs, Utica.
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
J. W. Wadsworth, Philadelphia.
J. Arnot, jr., Elmira.
R. S. Stevens, Attica.
F. B. Brewer, Westfield.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOKS.
M. W. Ransom, Weldon.
R. T. Bennett, Wadesboro.
J. E. O'Hara, Enfield.
W. B. Cox, Raleigh.
James W. Reid," Wentworth.
Tyre York, Trap Hill.
REPRESENTATIVES.
OHIO.
Z. B. Vance, Charlotte.
Alfred M. Scales, * Greensboro.
T. G. Skinner, c Hertford.
W. J. Green, Fayetteville.
Clement Dowd, Charlotte.
Robert B. Vance, Asheville.
George H. Pendleton, Cincinnati.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John F. Follett, Cincinnati.
Robert M. Murray, Piqua.
George E. Seney, Tiffin.
J. E. Campbell, <^ Hamilton.
J. S. Robinson, « Kenton.
J. W. McCormick, Gallipolis.
G. L. Converse, Columbus.
A. J. AVarner, M*ietta.
Jos. D. Taylor, Cambridge.
Ezra B. Taylor, Warren.
M. A. Foran, Cleveland.
OREGON.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
Isaac M. Jordan, Cincinnati.
Benjamin LeFevre, Maplewood.
W. D. Hill, Defiance.
J. W. Keifer, Springfield.
Frank H. Hurd, Toledo.
Alphonso Hart, Hillsboro.
G. W. Geddes, Mansfield.
Beriah Wilkins, Urichsville.
J. H. Wallace, / New Lisbon.
D. R. Paige, Akron.
H. L. Morey,!!' Hamilton.
SENATORS.
James li. Slater, Lagrande. J. N. Dolph, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
M. C. George, Portland.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James D. Cameron, Harriaburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
M. F. Elliott, Wellsboro.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
J. B. Everhart, Westchester.
John I. IMitchell, Wellsboro.
Daniel Ermentrout, Reading.
William Mutchler, Easton.
D. W. Connolly, Scranton.
Samuel F. Barr, Harrisburg.
a Took his seat January 2S, 1885.
!> Resigned December 30, 1884, to become governor of North Carolina.
c Took his seat December 19, 1883.
ciTook his seat June 20, 1884.
p Resigned January 12, 1885.
/Contested the seat of William McKlnley, and took his seat May 28, 1884.
» Election suecesstuUy contested by James E. Campbell.
FOETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
277
W AV. Brown, Bradford.
Louis E. Atkinson, Mifflintown.
A. G. Curtin, Bellefonte.
J. H. Hopkins, Pittsburg.
G. \'. Lawrence, Monongahela.
Samuel H. Miller, Mercer.
Samuel M. Brainard, Erie.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
S. J. Randall, Philadelphia.
A. 0. Harmer, Philadelphia.
I. N. Evans, Hatboro.
A. Herr Smith, Lancaster.
JohnB. Storm, Stroudsburg.
0. N. Brumm, Minersville.
George A. Post, Susquehanna.
Jacob M. Campbell, Johnstown.
J. A. Swope," Gettysburg.
Charles E. Boyle, Uniontown.
Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny.
John D. Patten, Indiana.
W. A. Duncaj:i,S Gettysburg.
EHODE ISLAND.
Nelson Aldrich, Providence.
W. P. Sheffield, <; Newport.
SENATORS.
KEPKBSENTATIVES.
Jonathan Ohace,'^ Providence.
H. B. Anthony, « Providence.
Henry J. Spooner, Providence.
N. F. Dixon,/ Westerly.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
Jonathan Chace,!/ Providence.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
SENATOKS.
EEPRESBNTATIVES.
Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg.'
D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury.
J. J. Hemphill, Chester.
Robert Smalls, ^ Beaufort.
E. W. M. Mackey, i Mount Pleasant.
Wade Hampton, Charleston.
G. D. Tilman, Clarks Hill.
John Bratton, J White Oak.
G. W. Dargan, Darlington.
John H. Evins,^ Spartanburg.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
A. H. Pettibone, Greeneville.
G. G. Dibrell, Sparta.
Richard Warner, Lewisburg.
J. G. Ballentine, Pulaski.
Rice A. Pierce, Union City.
Samuel B. Maxey, Paris.
TENNESSEE.
SENATOES.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
TEXAS.
SENATOKS.
RBPKESENTATIVES.
Charles Stewart, Houston.
James H. Jones, Henderson.
J. W. Throckmorton, McKinney.
Thomas P. Ochiltree, Galveston.
R. Q. Mills, Corsicana.
S. W. Lanham, Weatherford.
Howell E. Jacksons, Nashville.
L. C. Houk, Knoxviile.
Benton Mclilillin, Carthage.
A. J. Caldwell, Nashville.
J. M. Taylor, Lexington.
Casey Young, Memphis.
Richard Coke, Waco.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Olin Wellborn, Dallas.
James F. Miller, Gonzales.
John Hancock, Austin.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. J. S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. W. Stewart, Middlebury.
Luke P. Poland, St. Johnsbury.
nTook his seat January 5, 1885, to fill vacancy caiised by death of W. A. Duncan.
!>Died November 14, 1884.
oAppointed in place of H. B. Anthony, deceased, and took his seat December 2, 1884, and held same until an election to
fill vacancy. , „ „ . ,,
dTook his seat January 26, 1885; elected to succeed H. B. Anthony.
e Died September 2, 1884.
/Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Chace, and took his seat February 12, 1885.
I? Resigned January 26, ]88o; elected to the United States Senate.
ft Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of E. W. M. Mackey.
iEleoted to fill the vacancy caused by death of J. H. Evins, and took his seat December 8, 1884.
fcDied October 20, 1884.
278
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
William Mahone, Petersburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John S. Wise, Richmond.
Harry Libbey, Old Point Comfort.
B. S. Hooper, Farmville.
J. R. Tucker, Lexington.
J. S. Barbour, Alexandria. y
Robert M. Mayo,« Hague.
WEST VIRGINIA.
H. H. Riddleberger, Woodstock.
George T. Garrison, * Accomac.
George D. Wise, Richmond.
G. 0. Cabell, Danville.
C. T. O'Ferrall, c Harrisonburg.
Henry Bowen, Tazewell.
John Paul,'' Harrisonburg.
J. N. Camden, Parkersburg.
Nathan Goff, jr., Clarksburg.
Charles P. Snyder, Charleston.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WISCONSIN.
John E. Kenna, Kanawha.
William L. Wilson, Charlestown.
Eustace Gibson, Huntington.
Angus Cameron, La Crosse.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Winans, Janesville.
Burr W. Jones, Madison.
Joseph Rankin, Manitowoc.
Gilbert M. Woodward, La Crosse.
Isaac Stephenson, Marinette.
Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
D. H. Sumner, Waukesha.
Peter V. Deuster, Milwaukee.
Richard Guenther, Oshkosh.
William T. Price, Black River Falls.
T. Luna, « Las Lunas.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Granville H. Oury, Florence.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John B. Raymond, Fargo.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
T. F. Singiser, Boise City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Martin Maginnis, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATES.
1 F. A. Manzanares,/ Las Vegas.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John T. Caine, Salt Lake City.
AVASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Thomas H. Brents, Walla Walla.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Morton E. Post, Cheyenne,
a Election BUCoessfuUy contested by G. T. Garrison
STookhisseatMarcli 20, If 84.
cTook his seat May 6, 1884.
<« Unseated by C. T. O'Ferrall, May 6, 1884.
•■Election successfully contested by F. A. Manzanares.
/Took Us seat March 5, 1884.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December 7, 1885, to August 5, 1886. Second session, from December 6, 1886, to March 3,
1887. Special session of Senate from March 4, 1885, to April S, 1886.
President of the Senate. — Thomas A. Hendricks, « of Indiana. President pro tempore of the Senate. —
John Shekman, <> of Ohio, and John J. Ingalls, « of Kansas. Secretary of the Senate. — Anson G.
McCooK, of New York.
Speaker of the House. — John G. Cahlisle, of Kentucky. Clerk of the House. — John B. Clark, Jr.,
of Missouri.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James T. Jones, Demopolis. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
William C. Gates, Abbeville. A. C. Davidson, Uniontown.
Thomas W. Sadler, Prattville. John M. Martin, Birmingham.
William H. Forney, Jackson,ville. Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James K. Jones, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Poindexter Dunn, Forest City. Clifton E. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff.
Thomas C. McRae, Prescott. John H. Rogers, Fort Smith.
Samuel W. Peel, Bentonville.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
George Hearst, « San Francisco. Leland Stanford, San Francisco.
Abram P. Williams,'* San Francisco. - ~ J. F. Miller, / San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Barclay Henley, Santa Rosa. . J. A. Louttit, Stockton.
Joseph McKerina, Suisun. W. W. Morrow, San Francisco.
Charles N. Felton, San Francisco. H. H. Markham, Pasadena.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Thomas M. Bowen, Del Norte. H. M. Teller, Central City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George G. Symes, Denver.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden. Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. R. Buck, Hartford. C. LeMoyne Mitchell, New Haven.
John T. Wait, Norwich. E. W. Seymour, Litchfield.
a Died November 25, 1885.
ftElected December 7, 1885; resigned February 22, 1887.
cEleeted February 25, 1887. ^ „.,, ^ .. , ,,. *» •, „ loo/:
dADDOlnted to fill vacancy caused by death of John F. Miller and took his seat April 9, 1886.
c Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of J. F. Miller and took his seat December 6, 1886.
/Died March 8, 1886.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEEOTQBY.
DELAWAKE.
SENATORS.
Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
George Gray, Newcastle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Charles B. Lore, "Wilmington.
FLOBIDA.
SENATORS.
C. W. Jones, Pensacola.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Eobert H. M. Davidson, Quincy.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Jos. E. Brown, Atlanta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas M. Norwood, Savannah.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
Nathaniel J. Hammond, Atlanta.
Judson C. Clements, Lafayette.
A. D. Candler, Gainesville.
ILLINOIS.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
Charles Dougherty, Port Orange.
Alfred H. Colquitt, Atlanta.
Henvy G. Turner, Quitman.
Henry R. Harris, Greenville.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Seaborne Reese, Sparta.
G. T. Barnes, Augusta.
Shelby M. CuUom, Springfield.
John A. Logan, « Chicago.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ransom W. Dunham, Chicago.
James H. Ward, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
T. H. Henderson, Princeton.
Lewis E. Payson, Pontiac.
William H. Neece, Macomb.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
J. G. Cannon, Danville.
J. R. Eden, Sullivan.
R. W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
C. B. Far-vyell, '> Chicago.
Frank Lawler, Chicago.
George E. Adams, Chicago.
R. R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Ralph Plumb, Streator.
N. E. Worthington, Peoria.
J. M. Riggs, Winchester.
J. H. Rowell, Bloomington.
S. Z. Landes, Mount Carmel.
W. R. Morrison, Waterloo.
J. R. Thomas, Metropolis.
INDIANA.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIV]
J. J. Kleiner, Evansville.
John G. Howard, Floyd.
C. C. Matson, Greencastle.
W. D. Bynum, Indianapolis.
Thomas B. Ward, Lafayette.
George AV. Steele, Marion.
George Ford, South Bend.
IOWA.
Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis.
Thomas R. Cobb, Vincennes.
W. S. Holman, Aurora.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
J. T. Johnston, Rockville.
AV. D. Owen, Logansport.
Robert Lowry, Fort Wayne.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benton J. Hall, Burlington.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
B. T. Frederick, Marshalltown.
Edwin H. Conger, Des Moines.
Jos. Lyman, Council Bluffs.
J. S. Struble, Le Mars.
J. F. Wilson, Fairfield.
Jeremiah H. Murphy, Davenport.
W. E. Fuller, West Union.
J. B. Weaver, Bloomfleld.
W. P. Hepburn, Olarinda.
A. J. Holmes, Boone.
oDied December 26, 1886.
!> Elected in place of John A. Logan and took his seat January 25, 1887.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
281
J. J. Ingalls,« Atchison.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
REPKESENTATIVES.
E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha.
B. W. Perkins, Oswego.
John A. Anderson, Manhattan.
Samuel E. Peters, Newton.
Preston B. Plumb, Emporia.
E. H. Funston, lola.
Thomas Ryan, Topeka.
Lewis Hanback, Osborne.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Stone, Kuttawa.
J. E. Halsell, Bowling Green.
A. S. Willis, Louisville.
W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington.
W. H. Wadsworth, Maysville.
F. L. Wolford, Columbia.
J. C. S. Blackbxirn, Versailles.
■Poke Laffoon, Madisonville.
Thomas A. Robertson, Elizabethtown.
J. G. Carlisle, Covington.
J. B. McCreary, Richmond.
W. P. Taulbee, Salyersville.
E. Lee Gibson, New Orleans.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Louis St. Martin, New Orleans.
E. J. Gay, Plaquemine.
J. F. King, Vidalia.
Michael Hahn, i New Orleans.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
Seth L. Milliken, Belfast.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
Charles H. Gibson, Easton.
Henry W. Rusk,<* Baltimore.
Barnes Compton, Laurel.
W. H. Cole, « Baltimore.
James B. Eustis, New Orleans.
Nathaniel D. Wallace, « New Orleans.
N. 0. Blanchard, Shreveport.
A. B. Irion, Marksville.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. P. Frye, Lewiston.
Nelson Dingley, Lewiston.
CvA. Boutelle, Bangor.
E. K. Wilson, Snowhill.
F. T. Shaw, Westminster.
J. V. L. Findlay, Baltimore.
Louis McComas, Hagerstown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
Robert T. Davis, Fall River.
A. A. Ranney, Boston.
E. D. Hay den, Wobum.
E. F. Stone, Newburyport.
F. B. Ely, Dedham.
W. Whiting, Holyoke.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
G. F. Hoar, Worcester.
J. D. Long, Hingham.
P. A. Collins, Boston.
H. B. Lovering, Lynn.
C. H. Allen, Lowell.
W. W. Rice, Worcester.
F. W. Rockwell, Pittsfield.
o Elected February 25, 1887, as President pro tempore of the Senate.
6Died March 15, 1886.
"Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of M. Hahn, and took his seat December 9, 1886.
<* Elected to fill vacancy caused by the death of W. H. Cole, and took his seat December 6, 1886.
eDied July 8, 1886.
282
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
MICHIGAN.
SBNATOES.
O. D. Conger, Port Huron.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
W. C. Maybury, Detroit.
James O'Donnell, Jackson.
Charles C. Comstock, Grand Eapids.
E. C. Carleton, Port Huron.
B. M. Cutcheon, Manistee.
S. C. Moftatt, Traverse City.
S. J. R. McMillin, St. Paul.
Milo White, Chatfield.
Horace B. Strait, Shakoi)ee.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
James Z. George, Jackson.
J. M. Allen, Tupelo.
T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
0. R. Singleton, Forest.
E. Barksdale, Jackson.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
Francis M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. H. Hatch, Hannibal.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
W. W. Warner, Kansas City.
J. E. Hutton, Mexico.
J. M. Glover, St. Louis.
R. P. Bland, Lebanon.
AV. H. Wade, Springfield.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
Charles H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. J. Weaver, Falls City.
George E. Dorsey, Fremont.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
Thomas D. Palmer, Detroit.
N. B. Eldredge, Adrian.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
Edwin B. Winahs, Hamburg.
Timothy E. Tarsney, East Saginaw.
S. 0. Fisher, West Bay City.
Dwight M. Sabin, Stillwater.
James B. Wakefield, Blue Earth City.
J. B. GilfiUan, Minneapolis.
E. Gary Walthall, Grenada.
James B. Morgan, Hernando.
F. G. Barry, West Point.
Henry S. Van Eaton, Woodville.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill.
REPRESENT ATI VE.
William Woodburn, Virginia City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
G. G. Vest, Kansas City.
John B. Hale, CarroUton.
J. N. Burnes, St. Joseph.
J. T. Heard, Sedalia.
J. J. O'Neill, St. Louis.
M. L. Clardy, Farmington.
W. J. Stone, Nevada.
William Dawson, New Madrid.
C. F. Manderson, Omaha.
James Laird, Hastings.
J. G. Fair, Virginia City.
Person C. Cheney, « Manchester.
A. F. Pike, b Franklin.
Henry W. Blair, Manchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
M. A. Haynes, Lake Village. J. H. Gallinger, Concord.
<i Appointed to fill vacancy caused by the death of A. F. Pike, and took his seat December 7. 1886.
6 Died October 8, 1886.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
283
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
John R. McPherson, Jersey City.
George Hires, Salem.
Robert S. Green, « Elizabeth.
W. W. Phelps, Teaneck.
W. McAdoo, Jersey City.
RBPKESENTATIVE3.
NEW YORK.
William J. Sewell, Camden.
James Buchanan, Trenton.
James N. Pidock, White House.
Hiram Lehlbach, Newark.
Warner Miller, Herkimer.
P6rry Belmont, Babylon, L. I.
Darwin R. James, Brooklyn.
A. M. Bliss, Brooklyn.
J. J. Adams, New York City.
S. S. Cox, 6 New York City.
E. L. Viele, New York City.
Henry Bacon, « Goshen.
J. G. Lindsley, Rondout.
John Swinburne, Albany.
E. H. Johnson, Glens Falls.
A. X. Parker, Potsdam.
J. S. Pindar, Cobleskill.
S. C. Millard, Binghamton.
I. Davenport, Bath.
J. G. Sawyer, Albion.
J. B. Weber, Buffalo.
Jos. Pulitzer, <* New York.
Abram Dowdney, « New York.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
W. M. Evarts, New York City.
Felix Campbell, Brooklyn.
P. B. Mahoney, Brooklyn.
N. MuUer, New York O'ity.
T. J. Campbell, New York.
T. A. Merriman, New York.
W. G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers.
J. H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
H. G. Burleigh, Whitehall.
George West, Ballston Spa.
A. S. Hewitt,/ New York.
J. T. Spriggs, TJtica.
F. Hiscock, Syracuse.
S. E. Payne, Auburn.
Charles S. Baker, Rochester.
J. M. Farquhar, Buffalo.
W. L. Sessions, Jamestown.
Lewis Beach, y Cornwall.
Jno. Arnot, Elmira.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Matt. W. Ransom, Weldon.
SENATORS.
REPEESEXTATIVES.
Thomas G. Skinner, Hertford.
Wharton J. Greene, Fayetteville.
James W. Reid,''Wentworth.
J. S. Henderson, Salisbury.
T. D. Johnston, Asheville.
John Sherman, * Mansfield.
Benj. Butterworth, Cincinnati.
James E. Campbell, Hamilton.
B. LeFevre, Maplewood.
George E. Seney, Tiffin.
W. C. Cooper, Mount Vernon.
W. W. Ellsberry, Georgetown.
J. H. Outhwaite, Columbus.
Beriah Wilkins, Urichsville.
A. J. Warner, Marietta.
E. B. Taylor, Warren.
M. A. Foran, Cleveland.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte.
James E. O'Hara, Enfield.
W. R. Cox, Raleigh.
R. T. Bennett, Wadesboro.
W. H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro.
Henry B. Payne, Cleveland.
C. E. Brown, Cincinnati.
C. M. Anderson, Greenville.
William D. Hill, Defiance. *
John Little, Xenia.
Jacob Romeis, Toledo.
A. C. Thompson, Portsmouth.
C. H. Grosvenor, Athens.
George W. Geddes, Mansfield.
J. H. Taylor, Carrollton.
W. McKinley, jr., Canton.
Joseph N. Dolph, Portland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
J. H. Mitchell, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
B. Hermann, Roseburg.
2 Resigned January 17, 1887.
ftSuooeeded Jos. Pulitzer, resigned, and took his seat December 6, 1886.
''Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach, and took his seat December 6, 1886.
dEesigned April 10, 1886. » Died in November, 1886.
e Died December 10, 1886. ''Resigned December 31, 1886.
/Resigned December 30, 1886. i Resigned February 22, 1887.
284
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James D. Cameron, Harrisburg.
RErRESENTATIVES.
Edwin S. Osborne, "Wilkesbarre.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
W. D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
James B. Everhart, Westchester.
Daniel Ermentrout, Beading.
W. H. Sowden, Allentown.
J. A. Scranton, Scranton.
F. Bound, Milton.
W. W. Brown, Bradford.
L. E. Atkinson, Mifflintown.
A. G. Curtin, Bellefonte.
James S. Negley, Pittsburg.
O. L. Jackson, Newcastle.
George W. Fleeger, Butler.
John I. Mitchell, Wellsboro.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
S. J. Randall, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
I. N. Evans, Hatboro.
J. A. Hiestand, Lancaster.
J. B. Storm, Stroudsburg.
C. N. Brumm, Minersville.
F. C. Bunnell, Tunkhannock.
J. M. Campbell, Johnstown.
J. A. Swope, Gettysburg.
Charles E. Boyle, Uniontown.
Thomas N. Bayne, Allegheny.
A. C. White, Brookville.
AVilliam L. Scott, Erie.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence.
KEPKESENTATI VES .
Henry J. Spooner, Providence.
Charles H. Page," Scituate.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg.
D. W. Aiken, Cokesbury.
J. J. Hemphill, Chester.
Eobert Smalls, Beaufort.
Howell E. Jackson, " Nashville.
W. C. Whitthorne,'^ Columbia.
SOUTH CAEOLIN
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jonathan Chace, Providence.
William A. Pirce, » Olneyville.
A.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Wade Hampton, Charleston.
George D. Tillman, Clarks Hill.
W. H. Perry, Greenville.
George W. Dargan, Darlington.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Augustus H. Pettibone, Greenville.
John E. Neal, Ehea Springs.
J. D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
J. G. Ballentine, Pulaski.
Presley T. Glass, Eipley.
L. C. Houk, Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Carthage.
A. J. Caldwell, Nashville.
J. M. Taylor, Lexington.
Zachary Taylor, Covington.
Samuel B. Maxey, Paris.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles Stewart, Houston.
James H. Jones, Henderson.
J. W. Throckmorton, McKinney.
W. H. Crain, Ouero.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
e. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford.
Richard Coke, Waco.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Olin Wellborn, Dallas.
James F. Miller, Gonzales.
Jos. D. Sayera, Bastrop.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Stewart, Middlebury. W. W. Grout, Barton.
a Elected in place of William A. Pirce, and took his seat February 25, 1887.
6 Seat declared vacant January 26, 1887.
» Resigned April 14, 1886.
d Elected in place of H. E. Jackson, and took his seat February 3, 1887.
POETY-NIWTH C0NGKE8S.
285
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
William Mahone, Petersburg.
HEPKESEKTATIVES.
Thomas Croxton, Tappahannock.
George D. Wise, Eichmond.
George C. Cabell, Danville.
Charles T. O'Ferrall, Harrisonburg.
C. F. Trigg, Abingdon.
-H. H. Rlddleberger, Woodstock.
Henry Libbey, Old Point Comfort.
James D. Brady, Petersburg.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
John S. Barbour, Alexandria.
J. R. Tucker, Lexington.
J. N. Camden, Parkersburg.
Nathan Goff, jr., Clarksburg.
C. P. Snyder, Charleston.
P. Sawyer, Oshkosh.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATOKS.
KEPRE8BNTATIVES.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. E. Kenna, Charleston.
W. L. Wilson, Charlestown.
Eustace Gibson, Huntington.
L. B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson.
Robert M. La Follette, Madison.
Thomas R. Hudd, « Green Bay.
0. B. Thomas, Prairie du Chien.
William T. Price, & Black River Falls.
Joseph Rankin, <= Manitowoc.
J. 0. Spooner, Hudson.
E. S. Bragg, Fond du Lac.
I. W. Van Schaick, Milwaukee.
R. Guenther, Oshkosh.
H. H. Price,<« Black River Falls.
Isaac Stephenson, Marinette.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Curtis C. Bean, Prescott.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Oscar S. GiHord, Canton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John Hailey, Boise City.
MONTANA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph K. Toole, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
J. T. Cains, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
C. S. Voorhees, Colfax.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne.
oEleoted to fill vacancy caused by death of Joseph Eankin, and took his seat March 8, 1886.
6 Died December 6, 1889.
c Died January 24, 1886. ,,,,.. . t^ ^ n , oo^
d Elected in place of W. T. Price, deceased, and took his seat February 2, 1887.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
First session,from December 5, 1SS7, to October £0, 1888. Second session, from December 3, 1888, to March
3, 1889.
President pro tempore of the Senate. — J. J. Ingalls, Oi Kansas. Speaker of the House. — John G.
Carlisle, of Kentucky. Secretary of the Senate. — Anson G. McCook, of New York. Clerh of the
House. — John B. Clabk, of Missouri.
ALABAMA.
senators.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
James Taylor Jones, Demopolis. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
William 0. Gates, Abbeville. A. 0. Davidson, Uniontown.
James E. Cobb, Tuskegee. John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville. Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James K. Jones, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Poindexter Dunn.a Forest City. C. R. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff.
Thomas 0. McRae, Prescott. John H. Rogers, Fort Smith.
Samuel AV. Peel, Bentonville.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
Leland Stanford, San Francisco. George Hearst, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.'
Thomas L. Tompson, Santa Rosa. Marion Biggs, Gridley.
Joseph McKenna, Suisun. W. W. Morrow, San Francisco.
Charles N. Felton, San Francisco. William Vandever, San Buena Ventura.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Thomas M. Bowen, Del Norte. Henry M. Teller, Central City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George C. Symes, Denver.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden. Joseph p,. Hawley, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert J Vance, New Britain. Carlos French, Seymour.
Charles A. Russell, Killmgly. Miles T. Granger, Canaan.
« Took his seat January 4, 1888.
j-oD
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
287
DELAWARE.
Eli Saulsbury, Dover.
SENATORS.
George Gray, Newcastle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John B. Penington, Dover.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
R. H. M. Davidson, Quincy.
Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta.
FLORIDA.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
REPEE.SENTAT1VES.
Thomas M. Norwood, Savannah.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
John D. Stewart, Griffin.
Judson C. Clements, Rome.
Allen D.. Candler, Gainesville.
ILLINOIS.
SENATORS.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
R. W. Dunham, Chicago.
William E. Mason, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton.
Lewis Payson, Pontiac.
William H. Gest, Rock Island.
William M. Springeij Springfield.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
Edward Lane, Hillsboro.
R. W. Townshend, Shawneetown.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alvin P. Hovey,« Mount Vernon.
Jonas G. Howard, Jeffersonville.
C. C. Matson, Greencastle.
William D. Bynum, Indianapolis.
Joseph B. Cheadle, Frankfort.
George W. Steele, Marion.
Benjamin F. Shively, South, Bend.
Samuel Pasco, Monticello.
Charles Dougherty, Port Orange.
A. li. Colquitt, Atlanta.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
Thomas W. Grimes, Columbus.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Henry H. Carlton, Athens.
George T. Barnes, Augusta.
Charles B. Farwell, Chicago.
Frank Lawler, Chicago.
George E. Adams, Chicago.
Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Ralph Plumb, Streator.
P. S. Post, Galesburg.
George A. Anderson, Quincy.
Jonathan H. Rowell, Bloomington.
Silas Z. Landes, Mount Carmel.
Jehu Baker, Belleville.
John R. Thomas, Metropolis.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
John H. O'Neall, Washington.
W. S. Holman, Aurora.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
James T. Johnson, Rockville.
William D. Owen, Logansport.
James B. White, Fort Wayne.
Frank P. Posey, b
IOWA.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John H. Gear, Burlington.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
Daniel Kerr, Grundy Center.
Edwin H. Conger, Des Moines.
Joseph Lyman, Council Bluffs.
I. S. Struble, Lemars.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
Walter I. Hayes, Clinton.
William E. Fuller, West Union.
J. B. Weaver, Bloomfield.
A. E. Anderson, Sidney.
A. J. Holmes, Boone.
a Resigned January 17, 1889.
!> Took his seat February 6, 1889.
288
CONGRESSIONAL DIKBCTOEY.
J. J. Ingalls, Atchison.
E. K. Morrill, Hiawatha.
B. W. Perkins, Oswego.
John A. Anderson, Manhattan.
Samuel E. Peters, Newton.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
KEPEBSENTATIVES.
James B. Beck, Lexington.
KENTUCKY.
SBNATOKS.
KEPEESBNTATIVES.
Wilham J. Stone, Kuttawa.
^y. G. Hunter, Burksville.
A. G. Caruth, Louisville.
W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington.
George M. Thomas, Vanceburg.
H. F. Finley, Williamsburg.
LOUISIANA.
' SENATORS.
E. L. Gibson, New Orleans.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
T. S. Wilkinson, Plaquemines Parish.
Ed. J. Gay, Plaquemine.
' 0. Newton, Bastrop.
Ed. W. Robertson, a Baton Eouge.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thos. B. Eeed, Portland.
Seth L. Milliken, Belfast,
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
Ghas. H. Gibson, Easton.
H. W.Eusk, Baltimore.
Barnes Compton, Laurel.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
Eobeit T. Bavis, Fall Eiver.
P. A. Collins, Boston.
E. D. Hayden, Woburn.
Wm. Cogswell, Salem.
E. Burnett, Southboro.
Wm. Whiting, Holyoke.
Thomas W. Palmer, Detroit.
EEPRESE1<TATIVES.
MAEYLANl).
SENAjTOES.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
P. B. Plumb, Emporia.
E. H. Funston, lola.
Thomas Eyan, Topeka.
E. J. Turner, Hoxie.
J. 0. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
Polk Laffoon, Madisonville.
A. B. Montgomery, Elizabethtown.
John G. Carlisle, Covington.
James B. McOreary, Eichmond.
William P. Taulbee, Saylorsville.
Jas. B. Eustis, New Orleans.
M. D. Lagan, New Orleans.
N. 0. Blanchard, Shreveport.
S. M. Robertson, i Baton Eouge.
Wm. P. Frye, Lewiston.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
Chas. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
E. K. Wilson, Snow Hill.
Frank T. Shaw, Westminster.
Isidor Eavner, Baltimore.
L. E. McComas, Hagerstown.
MASSACHUSETTS.
SENATORS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
MICHIGAN.
SENATOES.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. L. Chipman, Detroit.
James O'Donnell, Jackson.
M. H. Ford, Grand Eapids.
J. E. Whiting, St. Clair.
B. M. Cutcheon, Manistee.
H. W. Seymour, « Sault Ste. Marie.
Geo. F. Hoar, Worcester.
John D. Long, Hingham.
Leopold Morse, Boston.
H. 0. Lodge, Nahant.
Chas. H. Allen, Lowell.
John E. Eussell, Leicester.
F. W. Eockwell, Pittsfield.
F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo.
E. P. Allen, Ypsilanti.
J. C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
M. S. Brewer, Pontiac.
T. E. Tarsney, East 8aginaw.
S. 0. Fisher, West Bay City.
S. 0. Moflett,«« Grand Traverse.
n Died August 2, 1S87.
STook his seat December 5, 1887.
0 Took his seat March 3, 1888.
dDied December 22, 1887.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
MINNESOTA.
SENATOBS.
289
D. M. Sabin, Stillwater.
Thomas Wilson, Winona.
J. L. MacDonald, Shakopee.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
James Z. George, CarroUton.
HEPHESEKTATIVE8.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
Thomas C. Catchings,"V"icksburg.
0. L. Anderson, Kosciusko.
C. E. Hooker, .lackson.
0. K. Davis, St. Paul.
John Lind, New Ulm.
Edmund Eice, St. Paul.
E. 0. Walthall, Grenada.
James B. Morgan, Hernando.
F. G. Barry, West Point.
Thos. E. Stockdale, Summitt.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
W. H. Hatch, Hannibal.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
W. Warner, Kansas City.
John E. Hutton, Mexico.
John M. Glover, St. Louis.
E. P. Bland, liebanon.
W. H. Wade, Springfield.
0. F. Blooher,a St. Joseph.
Charles F. Manderson, Omaha.
J. A. McShane, Omaha.
G. W. E. Dorsey, Fremont.
MISSOTJEI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEBEASKA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
^NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill.
REPRESENTATIVE.
William Woodburn, Virginia City.
G. G. Vest, Kansas City.
C. H. Mansur, Chillicothe.
James N. Burns, 6 St. Joseph.
J. T. Heard, Sedalia.
J. J. O'Neill, St. Louis.
M. L. Clardy, Farmington.
W. J. Stone, Nevada.
J. P. Walker, Dexter.
A. S. Paddock, Beatrice.
Jas. Laird, Hastings.
W. M. Stewart, Carson City.
NEW HAMPSHIEE.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Blair, Manchester.
L. F. McKinney, Manchester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW JEESEY.
SENATORS.
John E. MePherson, Jersey City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George Hires, Salem.
John Kean, jr., EUzabeth.
W. W. Phelps, Teaneck.
W. McAdoo, Jersey City.
• W. E. Chandler, Concord.
J. H. Gallinger, Concord.
Eufus Blodgett, Long Branch.
James Buchanan, Trenton.
James N. Pidcock, White House.
Herman Lehlback, Newark.
a Elected in place of J. N. Burns, and took his seat February 25, 1889.
H. Doc. 468 19
b Died January 23, 1889.
290
OONGBE88IONAL DIRECTOKY.
NEW yokk:
SENATORS.
William M. Evarts, New York City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Perry Belmont, Babylon.
S. V. White, Brooklyn.
A. M. Bliss, Brooklyn.
L. S. Bryce, New York City.
S. S. Cox, New York City.
T. A. Merriman, New York City.
A. P. Fitch, New York City.
Henry Bacon, Goshen.
S. T. Hopkins, Catskill.
Charles Tracey,a Albany.
J. N. Moffitt, Chateaugay Lake.
J. S. Sherman, Utica.
J. J. Belden, Syracuse.
N. W. Nutting, Oswego.
Ira Davenport, Bath.
John G. Sawyer, Albion.
John B. Weber, Buffalo.
N. T. Kane, " Albany.
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
Felix Campbell, Brooklyn.
Peter P. Mahoney, Brooklyn. .
A. J. Oummings, New York City.
T. J. Campbell, New York City.
F. B. Spinola, Stony Brook.
W. B. Cockran, New York City.
W. G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers.
John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
E. W. Greenman, Troy.
George West, Ballaton Spa.
A. X. Parker, Potsdam.
David Wilber, Oneonta.
Milton De Lano, Canastota.
T. S. Flood, Elmira.
Charles S. Baker, Eochester.
John M. Farquhar, Buffalo.
W. G. Laidlaw, Ellicottville.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Matt W. Random, Weldon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Louis C. Latham, Greenville.
Charles W. McClammy, Scotts Hill.
John M. Brower, Mount Airy.
Johii S.Henderson, Salisbury.
T. D. Johnston, Asheville.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Butterworth, Cincinnati.
E. S. Williams, Troy.
G. E. Seney, TiflBn.
James E. Campbell, Hamilton.
William C. Cooper, Mount Vernon.
A. C. Thompson, Portsmouth.
J. H. Outhwaite, Columbus.
C. H. Grosvenor, Athens.
J. D. Taylor, Cambridge.
E. B. Taylor, Warren.
Martin A. Foran, Cleveland.
Zebulon B. Yance, Charlotte.
F. M. Simmons, Newbern.
John Nichols, Raleigh.
A. Rowland, Lumberton.
W. H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro.
Henry B. Payne, Cleveland.
Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati.
S. S. Yoder, Lima.
M. M. Boothman, Bryan.
R. P. Kennedy, Bellefontaine.
Jacob Romeis, Toledo.
J. J. Pugsley, Hillsboro.
Charles P. Wickham, Norwalk.
Beriah Wilkins, Uhrichsville.
William McKinley, jr., Canton.
George W. Crouse, Akron.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
Joseph N. Dolph, Portland. John H. Mitchell, Portland.
RBPRESBNTATIVB.
Binger Hermann, Roseburg.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James D. Cameron, Ilarrisburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. S. Osborne, Wilkesbarre.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
William D. Kelley, Philadelphia.
S. Darlington, West Chester.
Daniel Ermentrout, Reading.
M. 8. Quay, Beaver.
W. H. Sow den, AUentown.
John Lynch, Wilkesbarre.
Franklin Bound, Milton.
Henry C. McCormick, Williamsport.
Louis E. Atkinson, Mifflintown.
aEleoted to succeed N. T. Kane; took his seat December 6, 1887.
6 Died September 14, 1887,
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
291
John Patton, Curwensville.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
O. L. Jackson, Newcastle.
Norman Hall, Sharon.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Eandall, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
Robert M. Yardley, Doylestown.
John A. Hiestand, Lancaster.
Charles E. Buckalew, Bloomsburg.
Charles N. Brumm, Minersville.
F. C. Bunnell, Tunkhannock.
Edward Scull, Somerset.
Levi Maish, York.
W. McCullogh, Greensburg.
Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny.
James T. Maffett, Clarion.
William L. Scott, Erie.
RHODE ISLAND.
SBNATOBS.
Nelson Aldrich, Providence. Jonathan Chace, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry J. Spooner, Providence. Warren O. Arnold, Gloucester.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
M. C. Butler, Edgefield.
Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg,
James S. Cothran, Abbeville.
John J. Hemphill, Chester.
William Elliott, Beaufort.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wade Hampton, Charleston.
George D. Tillman, Clarks Hill.
William H. Perry, Greenville.
George VV. Dargan, Darlington.
WiUiam B. Bate, Nashville.
Roderick R. Butler, Mountain City.
John R. Neal, Rhea Springs.
James' D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
W. C. Whitthorne, Columbia.
P. T. Glass, Ripley.
L. C. Houk, Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Carthage.
J. E. Washington, Cedar Hill.
B. A. Enloe, Jackson.
James Phelan, Memphis.
TEXAS.
Richard Coke, Waco.
Charles Stewart, Houston.
C. B. Kilgore, Wills Point.
Silas Hare, Sherman.
W. H. Crain, Cuero.
R. Q. Mills, Corsicana.
S. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
W. H. Martin, Athens.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Jo Abbott, Hillsboro.
L. W. Moore, Lagrange.
J. D. Sayers, Bastrop.
SENATORS.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington. Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John W. Stewart, Middlebury. William W. Grout, Barton.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
H. H. Riddleberger, Woodstock.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. B. Browne, Accomac. G. E. Bowden, Norfolk.
George D. Wise, Richmond. W. E. Gaines, Burkeville.
J. R. Brown, Martinsville. , S. J. Hopkins, Lynchburg.
C T. O'Ferrall, Harrisonburg. W. H. F. Lee, Burkes Station.
Henry Bowen, Tazewell C. H. Jacob Yost, Staunton.
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WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
John E. Kenna, Charleston. Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
KBPRESBNTATIVBS.
Nathan Goff, Clarksburg. W. L. Wilson, Charlestown.
C. P. Snyder, Charleston. C. E. Hogg, Point Pleasant.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
P. Sawyer, Oshkosh. J- C. Spooner, Hudson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
L. B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson. Richard Guenther, Oshkosh.
Robert M. La FoUette, Madison. Henry Smith, Milwaukee.
Thomas R. Hudd, Greenbay. Charles B. Clarke, Neenah.
0. B. Thomas, Prarie du Chien. N. P. Haugen,« River Falls.
1. Stephenson, Marinette.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Marcus A. Smith, Tombstone.
DAKOTA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Oscar S. Gifford, Canton.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Fred. T. Dubois, Blackfoot.
Montana territory.
DELEGATE.
Jos. K. Toole, Helena.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John T. Caine, Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Chas. D. Voorhees, Colfax.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Jos. M. Carey, Cheyenne,
a Took Ms seat January 4, 1888.
EIFTY-riRST CONGRESS.
First session, from December S, 1889, to October 1, 1890. Second session, from December 1, 1890, to March
a, 1891.
Fice-Prmdeni— Levi P. Morton, of New York. Presidents pro tempore— J. J. Ingalls,« of Kansas;
Chakles F. Mandbeson, 6 of Nebraska. Secretary of the -Senate— Anson G. McCook, of New York.
Speaker of the ifow8«— Thomas B. Eeed, of Maine. Clerk of the House— Eb-ward McPhbkson, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard H. Clarke, Mobile.
William C. Gates, Abbeville.
James E. Cobb, Tuskegee.
William H. Forney, Jacksonville.
J. V. McDuflSe, 0 Hayneville.
ARKANSAS.
James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
Louis W. Turpin,'* Newbern.
John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
James K. Jones, Washington.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis E. Featherston, « Forest City.
Thomas C. McRae, Prescott.
S. W. Peel, Bentonville.
CALIFORNIA.
James H. Berry, Bentonville.
C. E. Breckinridge, / Pine Bluff.
John H. Rogers, Fort Smith.
W. H. Gate,? Forest City.
SENATORS.
Leland Stanford, San Francisco.
John J. De Haven, « Eureka.
Joseph McKenna, Suisun.
T. J. Clunie, San Francisco.
T. J. Geary,.?" Santa Rosa.
REPRESENTATIVES.
COLORADO.
George Hearst, ^ San Francisco.
Marion Biggs, Gridley.
W. W. Morrow, San Francisco.
W. Vandever, San Buenaventura.
Henry M. Teller, Central City. E. 0. Wolcott, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Hosea Townsend, Silver Cliff.
a Resigned February 19, 1891.
SElected March 2, 1891.
cTook his seat June 4, 1890.
a Unseated June 4, 1890, by McDuffie.
eTook his seat March 5, 1890.
/Seat declared vacant September 5, 1890, account death of
J. M. Clayton, successful contestant.
g Unseated March 5, 1890.
A Died February 28, 1891.
i Resigned October 1, 1890.
jTook his seat December 9, 1890.
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294
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
CONNECTICUT.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
William E. Simonds, Canton.
C. A. Eussell, Killingly.
SENATORS.
EEPRBSBNTATIVBS.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Joseph E. Hawley, Hartford.
W. F. Willcox, Cheater.
F. Miles, Chapinville.
George Gray, Newcastle.
Anthony Higgins, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John B. Penington, Dover.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
R. H. M. Davidson, Qnincy.
J. E. Brown, Atlanta.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
John D. Stewart, Griffin.
Judson C. Clements, Rome.
Allen D. Candler, Gainesville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
IDAHO. «t
SENATORS.
Samuel Pa.oco, Monticello.
Robert Bullock, Ocala.
A. H. Colquitt, Atlanta.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
Thomas W. Grimes, Columbus.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Henry H. Carlton, Athena.
George T. Barnes, Augusta.
W. J. McConnell,* Moscow.
George L. Shoup, <^ Salmon City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Willis Sweet,* Moscow.
ILLINOIS.
Charles B. Farwell, Chicago.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Abner Taylor, Chicago.
William E. Mason, Chicago.
Albert J. Hopkins, Aurora.
Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton.
Lewis E. Payson, Pontiac.
William H. (Jest, Rock Island.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
Edward Lane, Hillsboro.
James R. Williams, « Carmi.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William S. Parrett, Evansville.
Jason B. Brown, Seymour.
George W. Cooper, Columbus.
William D. Bynum, Indianapolis.
Joseph B. Cheadle, Frankfort.
A. N, Martin, Bluffton.
Benjamin F. Shively, South Bend.
Shelby M. CuUom, Springfield.
Frank Lawler, Chicago.
George E. Adams, Chicago.
Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Charles A. Hill, Joliet.
Philip S. Post, Galesburg.
Scott Wike, Pittsfield.
Jonathan H. Rowell, Bloomington.
George W. Fithian, Newton.
William S. Forman, Nashville.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
John H. O'Neall, Washington.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Thomas M. Browne, Winchester.
E. V. Brookshire, Crawfordsville.
William D. Owen, Logansport.
Charles A. 0. McClellan, Auburn.
aAdmittolJuly 3, 1890.
&Took his seat January .5, 1891.
■c Took hi.s seat December 29, 1890.
dTook his seat December 1, 1890.
eTook his scat December 1, 1889; elected to flU vacancy
caused by death of R. W. Townsend.
FIFTY-FIRST 00NGKES8.
IOWA.
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SBNATOHS.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
J. H. Gear, Burlington.
David B. Henderson, Dubuque.
Dan'l Kerr, Grundy Center.
E. H. Conger, a Des Moines.
Joseph R. Reed, Council Bluffs.
I. S. Struble, Lemars.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KANSAS.
W. I. Hayes, Clinton.
Joseph H. Sweney, Osage.
John F. Lacey, Oskaloosa.
James P. Flick, Bedford.
J. P. DoHiver, Fort Dodge.
E. R. Hays, b Knoxville.
J. J. Ingalls, Atchison.
E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha.
Bishop W. Perkins, Oswego.
J. A. Anderson, Manhattan.
S. R. Peters, Newton.
SENATOBS.
P. B. Plumb, Emporia.
BEPEESBNTATIVES.
E. H. Funston, lola.
H. Kelley, « Burlington.
E.. J. Turner, Hoxie.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
J. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
J. G. Carlisle,<^ Covington.
William J. Stone, Kuttawa.
I. H. Goodnight, Franklin.
Asher G. Caruth, Louisville.
W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington.
T. H. Paynter, Greenup.
H. F. Finley, Williamsburg.
James B. Beck, - Lexington.
REPEESBNTATIVES.
W. T. Ellis, Owensboro.
Alexander B. Montgomery, Elizabethtown.
J. (t. Carlisle,/ Covington.
James B. McCreary, Richmond.
J. H. Wilson, Barboursville.
W. W. Dickerson,!? Williamstown.
LOUISIANA.
Randall L. Gibson, New Orleans.
SENATORS.
James B. Eustis, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Theo. S. Wilkinson, Plaquemines Parish.
A. Price,'* Thibodaux.
Charles J. Boatner, Monroe.
E. J. Gay, « Lafourche Parish.
MAINE.
H. D. Coleman, New Orleans.
Newton C. Blanchard, Shreveport.
S. M. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
Seth L. Milliken, Belfast.
E. K. Wilson, J Snow Hill.
C. H. Gibson, Easton.
Harry Welles Rusk, Baltimore.
S. E. Mudd,^' Bryantown.
B. H. Compton, ' Laurel.
SENATORS.
W. P. Frye, Lewiston.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Herman Stump, Belair.
H. Stockbridge, jr., Baltimore.
Louis E. McOomas, Hagerstown.
0 Resigned October 3, 1890.
b Took his spat December 1, 1890, to fill unexpired term of E. H. Conger, resigned.
cEleeted in place of Thomas Eyan, resigned, and took his seat December 2, 1889.
d Died May 3, 1890.
e Elected in place of James B. Beck, deceased, and took his seat May 26, 1890.
/Resigned to become United States Senator May 26, 1890.
sTook his seat June 30, 1890.
ft Took his seat December 1, 1889.
i Died May 30, 1890.
jDied February 24, 1891. •
fcTook his seat March 20, 1890.
1 Unseated March 20, 1890, by S. E. Mudd.
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C0NGBES8I0NAL DIEECTOET.
MASSACHUSETTS.
H. L. Dawes, Pittsfleld.
EEPKESENTATIVBS.
Ohas. S. Randall, New Bedford.
J. F. Andrew, Boston.
N. P. Banks, Waltham.
W. Cogswell, Salem.
J. "W. Candler, Brookline.
Eodney Wallace, Fitchburg.
MICHIGAN.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
E. A. Morse, Canton.
Jos. H. O'Neil, Boston.
H. C. Lodge, Nahant.
F. T. Greenhalge, Lowell.
J. H. Walker, Worcester.
F. W. Eockwell, Kttsfield.
F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo.
BEPKESENTATIVES.
J. Logan Chipman, Detroit.
J. O'Donnell, Jackson.
Charles E. Belknap, Grand Eapids.
Justin E. Whiting, St. Clair.
Byron M. Cutcheon, Manistee.
S. M. Stephenson, Menominee.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
C. K. Davis, St. Paul.
EEPBESENTATIVES.
Mark H. Dunnell, Owatonna.
D. S. Hall, Stewart.
Solomon G. Comstock, Moorhead.
J. McMillan, Detroit,
Edward P. Allen, Ypsilanti.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
Mark S. Brewer, Pontiac.
Aaron T. Bliss, Saginaw.
Frank W. Wheeler, West Bay City.
W. D. Washburn, Minneapolis.
John Lind, New Ulm.
S. P. Snider, Minneapolis.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
James Z. George, Carrollton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
Thomas C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
C. L. Anderson, Kosciusko.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
MISSOUEI.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. H. Hatch, Hannibal.
Alex. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
J. C. Tarsney, Kansas City.
E. H. Norton, Troy.
Nathan Frank, St. Louis.
E. P. Bland, Lebanon.
W. H. Wade, Springfield.
E. H. Whitelaw,« Cape Girardeau.
E. C. Walthall, Grenada.
J. B. Morgan, Hernando.
Clark Lewis, Cliftonville.
Thomas E. Stockdale, Summit.
George G. Vest, Kansas City.
C. H. Mansur, Chillicothe.
E. P. C. Wilson, 6 Platte City.
J. T. Heard, Sedalia.
F. G. Niedringhaus, St. Louis.
W. M. Kinsey, St. Louis.
W. J. Stone, Nevada.
J. P. Walker, c Dexter.
MONTANA.
SENATORS.
Wilbur F. Sanders, Helena. T. C. Power, Helena.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas Henry Carter, Helena.
aTook his seat December 1, 1890, to fill unexpired term of J. P. Walker, deceased.
6 Took his seat December 2, 1889, to fill vacancy caused by death o£ James Burnes.
oDied July 20, 1890.
FIFTY-FIKST OOWGEESS.
NEBRASKA.
BENATOES.
Algernon S. Paddock, Beatrice. Charles F. Manderson, Omaha.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
G. L. Laws a McCook.
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W. J. Connell, Omaha.
George W. E. Dorsey, Fremont.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Goldhill. W. M. Stewart, Carson City.
HEPHESENTATIVE.
Horace F. Bartine, Carson City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
Henry W. Blair, Manchester. William E. Chandler, Concord.
BEPRESBNTATIVES.
Alonzo Nute, Farmington. 0 C. Moore, Nashua.
NEW JERSEY.
Rufus Blodgett, Longbranch.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. A. Bergen, Camden.
J. A. Geissenhainer, Freehold.
Charles D. Beck with, Paterson.
William McAdoo, Jersey City.
John R. McPherson, Jersey City.
James Buchanan, Trenton.
S. Fowler, Newton.
Herman Lehlback, Newark.
NEW YORK.
William M. Evarts, New York City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James W. Covert, Long Island City.
W. C. Wallace, Brooklyn.
Thomas F. Magner, Brooklyn.
E. J. Dunphy, New York.
A. J. Cummings, * New York.
John Quinn, New York.
A. P. Fitch, New York.
M. D. Stivers, Middletown.
C. J. Knapp, Deposit.
Charles Tracey, Albany.
J. H. MofHtt, Chateaugay Lake.
James S. Sherman, Utica.
J. J. Belden, Syracuse.
Sereno E. Payne, " Auburn.
John Raines, Canandaigua.
John G. Sawyer, Albion.
John M. Wiley, East Aurora.
Felix Campbell, Brooklyn.
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
John M. Clancy, Brooklyn.
C. H. Turner,** New York.
J. H. McCarthy, « New York.
F. B. Spinola, New York.
Roswell P. Flower, New York.
W. G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers.
J. H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
J. A, Quackenbush, Stillwater.
John Sanford, Amsterdam.
F. Lansing, Watertown.
David Wilber,/ Oneonta.
M. De Lano, Canastota.
Thomas S. Flood, Elmira.
C. S. Baker, Rochester.
John M. Farquhar, Buffalo.
W. G. Laidlaw, Ellicottville.
John S. Pindar,? Cobleskill.
"Took his seat December 2, 1889, to fill out unexpired term of James Laird, deceased.
6Took his seat December 2, 1889, having been elected to iiH vacancy caused by death of S. S. Cox.
cTook his seat December 2, 1889, having been elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Newton W. Nutting.
dTook his seat December 9, 1889, to fill unexpired term of F. T. Fitzgerald, who resigned November 4, 1889.
e Besigned January 14, 1891.
/Died April 1,1890.
O'Electea to fill unexpired terra of David Wilber, deceased.
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CONaEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOKS.
Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Thomas G. Skinner, Hartford.
C. W. McClammy, Scotts Hill.
John M. Brower, Mountairy.
J. S. Henderson, Salisburjr.
H. G. Ewart, Hendersonville.
Matt W. Ransom, Northampton.
H. P. Cheatham, Henderson.
Benjamin H. Bunn, Rockymount.
A. Rowland, Lumberton.
William H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro.
G. A. Pierce, Fargo.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SENATOKS.
Lyman R. Casey, Jamestown.
REPRESENTATIVE.
H. C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Benjamin Butterworth, Cincinnati.
E. S. Williams, Troy.
George E. Seney, Titfin.
H. L. Morey, Hamilton.
William C. Cooper, Mount Vernon.
A. C. Thompson, Portsmouth.
J. H. Outhwaite, Columbus.
C. H. Grosvenor, Athens.
Joseph D. Taylor, Cambridge.
Ezra B. Taylor, Warren.
T. E. Burton, Cleveland.
Henry B. Payne, Cleveland.
J. A. Caldwell, Cincinnati.
S. S. Yoder, Lima.
M. M. Boothman, Bryan.
R. P. Kennedy, Bellefontaine.
William E. Haynes, Fremont.
Jacob J. Pugsley, Hillsboro.
Charles P. Wickham, Norwalk.
James W. Owens, Newark.
William McKinley, jr.. Canton.
M. L. Smyser, Wooster.
OREGON.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
SENATORS.
Joseph N. Dolph, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Binger Herman, Roseburg.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James D. Cameron, Harriaburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
Richard Vaux, « Philadelphia.
J. E. Reyburn, '> Philadelphia.
S. Darlington, Westchester.
William Mutchler, Easton.
M. Brosius, Lancaster.
E. S. Osborne, Wilkesbarre.
J. W. Rife, Middletown.
H. C. McCormick, Williamsport.
Louis E. Atkinson, Mifflintown.
Edward Scull, Somerset.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
Joseph W. Ray, Waynesburg.
William C. Culbertson, Girard.
James Kerr, Clearfield.
C. W. Stone, c Warren.
RHODE ISLAND.
M. S. Quay, Beaver.
C. O'Neill, Philadelphia.
S. J. Randall,"! Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
Robert M. Yardley, Doylestown.
D. Brunner, Reading.
J. A. Scranton, Scran ton.
James B. Reilly, Pottsville.
Myron B. Wright, Susquehanna.
Charles R. Buckalew, Bloomsburg.
Levi Maish, York.
S. A. Craig, Brookville.
Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny.
C. C. Townsend, New Brighton.
Lewis F. Watson, « Warren.
W. D. Kelley,/ Philadelphia.
SENATORS.
Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence. Jonathan Chace,!7 Central Falls.
N. Dixon, Westerly.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry J. Spooner, Providence.
Warren 0. Arnold, Gloucester.
a Took his seat May 28, 1890.
''Took his seat February, 24, 1890,
d Died April 13, 1890.
Died August 25, 1890.
oTook his seat December 1, 1890, to fill unexpired term o{ L. F. Watson, deceased.
/ Died January 9, 1890.
» Resigned April 9, 1889.
FIFTY-FIEST 0ONGBE88.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
. SBNATOKS.
Wade Hampton, Charleston. M. C. Butler, Edgefield
REPRESENTATIVES.
Samuel Dibble, Orangeburi
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Qgeburg.
James S. Cothran, Abbeville.
James J. Hemphill, Chester.
William Elliott, « Beaufort.
George D. Tillman, Clarks Hill.
W. H. Perry, Greenville.
George W. Dargan, Darlington.
T. E. Miller, 6 Beaufort.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
G. C. Moody, Deadwood.
Oscar S. Gifford, Canton.
William B. Bate, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. A. Taylor, Johnson City.
H. C. Evans, Chattanooga."
James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
W. 0. Whitthorne, Columbia.
Rice A. Pierce, Union City.
John H. Reagan, Palestine.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
RBPEESBNTATI V ES.
Charles Stewart, Houston.
C. B. Kilgore, Wills Point.
Silas Hare, Sherman.
William H. Grain, Cuero.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
S. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
T. H. B. Browne, Accomac.
Edmund Waddill, jr.,(^ Henrico County.
Posey G. Lester, Floyd.
C. T. O'Ferrall, Harrisonburg.
J. A. Buchanan, Abingdon.
J. M. Langston, « Petersburg.
WASHINGTON.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
J. W. Stewart, Middlebury.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
J. B. Allen, Walla Walla.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
R. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
J. A. Pickler, Faulkton.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
L. C. Houk, Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Carthage.
J. E. Washington, Cedar Hill.
B. A. Enloe, Jackson.
James Phelan, « Memphis.
Richard Coke, Waco.
William H. Martin, Athens.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Jo Abbott, Hillsboro.
L. W. Moore, La Grange.
Joseph D. Sayere, Bastrop.
George F. Edmunds, Burlington,
William W. Grout, Barton.
J. S. Barbour, Alexandria.
George E. Bowden, Norfolk.
E. C. Venable, / Petersburg.
Paul C. Edmunds, Halifax County
W. H. P. Lee, Burkes Station.
H. St. George Tucker, Staunton.
George D. Wise,fl' Richmond.
W. C. Squire, Seattle.
John L. Wilson, Spokane Falls.
a Unseated September 23, IMO, by T. E. Miller.
bTook bis seat September 24, 1890.
"Died January 30, 1891.
tfTook his seat April 12, 1890.
e Took his seat September 23, 1890.
/Unseated September 23,1890, by J. M. Langston,
» Unseated April 10, 1890, by E. Waddill.
300 CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
C. J. Faulkner, MartinslDurg. J- E. Kenna, Charleeton.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George W. Atkinson, Wheeling. William L. Wilson, Charleatown.
J. D. Alderson, Nicholas. 0. B. Smith, » Parkersburg.
J. M. Jackson, ffl Parkersburg. J. 0. Pendleton, « Wheelmg.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
J. Q. Spooner, Hudson. P. Sawyer, Oshkosh.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lucien B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson. 0. Barwig, Mayyille.
Robert M. La Follette, Madison. I. W. Van Schaick, Milwaukee.
G. H. Brickner, Sheboygan. C. B. Clark, Neenah.
O. B. Thomas, Prairie du Chien. N. P. Haugen, River Falls.
M. A. McCord, Merrill.
WYOMING. <«
SENATORS.
Joseph M. Carey, « Cheyenne. F. E. Warren, « Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Clarence B. Clark, « Evanston.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Marcus A. Smith,/ Tombstone.
IDAHO TERRITORY. »
DELEGATE.
Fred T. Du Bois, Blackfoot.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
A. Joseph, Ojo Caliente.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
J. T. Caine, Salt Lake City.
WYOMING TERRITORY.^
DELEGATE.
J. M. Carey, Cheyenne.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
David A. Harvey, « Oklahoma City.
a Unseated February 3, 1890, by C. B. Smith. « Took his seat December 1, 1890.
b Took his seat February 3, 1890. / Took his seat January 6, 1890.
cUnseatedFebruary26, 1890, by George W.Atkinson; took ffAdmitted as a State July 3, 1890.
his seat February 26, 1890. * Admitted as a State July 10, 1890.
d Admitted July 10, 1890.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
First session, from December 7, 1891, to August 5, 189g. Second session, from Decembers, 1892, to March S, 189S.
Vice-President. — Levi P. Moeton, of New York. President pro tempore of Senate. — Charles F.
Manderson, of Nebraska. Secretary of the Senate. — A. G. McCook, of New York.
Speaker of the JSoMse.— Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia. Clerk of the ifowse.— James Keer, of Penn-
sylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Eichard H. Clarke, Mobile. Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery.
William C. Gates, Abbeville. Louis W. Turpin, Newbern.
James E. Cobb, Tuskegee. J. H. Bankhead, Fayette.
W. H. Forney, Jacksonville. Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
AEKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James K. Jones, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Gate, Jonesboro. C. E. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff.
T. C. McEae, Prescott. William L. Terry, Pulaski.
S. W. Peel, Bentonville.
CALIFGENIA.
SENATORS.
Leland Stanford, San Francisco. C. N. Felton, San Francisco.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas J. Geary, Santa Eosa. A. Caminetti, Jackson.
Joseph McKenna,a Suisun. John T. Cutting, San Francisco.
Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco. W. W. Bowers, San Diego.
S. G. Hilborn, 6 Oakland.
COLOEADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, Central City. E. O. Wolcott, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Hosea Townsend, Silver Cliff.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Joseph E. Hawley, Hartford. Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis Sperry, Hartford. W. F. Willcox, Chester.
0. A. Eussell, Killingly. E. E. DeForest, Bridgeport.
oEesigned March 28, 1892. &Took his seat December 5, 1892, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Joseph McKenna.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
DELAWARE.
George Gray, Newcastle.
SENATORS.
Anthony Higgins, Wilmington.
REPKESENTATIVB.
John Williams Causey, Milford.
FLORIDA.
Samuel Pasco, Monticello.
S. R. Mallory, Pensacola.
A. H. Colquitt, Atlanta.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
L. F. Livingston, Atlanta.
Robert W. Everett, Fish.
Thomas E. Winn, Gwinnett County.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
Robert Bullock. Ocala.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
Charles L. Moses, Turin.
James H. Blount, Macon.
Thomas G. Lawson, Eatonton.
Thomas E. Watson, Thompson.
George L. Shoup, Salmon.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
Fred T. Dubois, Blackfoot.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Willis Sweet, Moscow.
ILLINOIS.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Abner Taylor, Chicago.
A. C. Durborow, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
T. J. Henderson, Princeton.
Herman W. Snow, Sheldon.
Benjamin T. Cable, Rock Island.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
Samuel T. Busey, Urbana.
Edward Lane, Hillsboro.
James R. Williams, Carmi.
J. McAuley Palmer, Springfield.
L. E. McGann, Chicago.
Walter C. Newberry, Chicago.
R. R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Lewis Steward, Piano.
Philip S. Post, Galesburg.
Scott Wike, Pittsfield.
Owen Scott, Bloomington.
G. W. Fithian, Newton.
W. S. Forman, Nashville.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
INDIANA.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. F. Parrett, Evansville.
J. B. Brown, Seymour.
George W. Cooper, Columbus.
William D. Bynum, Indianapolis.
Daniel Waugh, Tipton.
A. N. Martin, Bluffton.
B. F. Shively, South Bend.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
John L. Bretz, Jasper.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Henry U. Johnson, Richmond.
E. V. Brookshire, Crawfordsville.
David H. Patton, Remington.
C. A. O. McClellan, Auburn.
IOWA.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John J. Seerley, Burlington.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
J. T. Hamilton, Cedar Rapids.
J. A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
Thomas Bowman, Council Bluffs.
George D. Perkins, Sioux City.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
Walter I. Hayes, Clinton.
W. H. Butler, West Union.
F. E. White, Webster.
James P. Flick, Bedford.
J. P. Dolliver, Fort Dodge.
FIFTY-SECOND C0NGBE8S.
303
KANSAS.
Preston B. Plumb,« Emporia.
W. A. Peffer, Topeka.
Case Broderick, Helton.
B. H. Clover, Cambridge.
John Davis, Junction City.
Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge.
SENATORS.
KEPKBSENTATIVES.
B. W. Perkins, >> Oswego.
E. H. Funston, lola.
John G. Otis, Topeka.
William Baker, Lincoln.
KENTUCKY.
William Lindsay, « Frankfort.
John G. Carlisle,*' Covington.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Stone, Kuttawa.
I. II. Goodnight, Franklin.
A. G. Caruth, Louisville.
W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington.
T. H. Paynter, Greenup.
John H. Wilson, Barboursville.
E. L. Gibson,/ New Orleans.
D. Caffery,fl' Franklin.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Andrew Price, Thibodaux.
C. J. Boatner, Monroe.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
T. B. Reed, Portland.
Seth L. Milliken, Belfast.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
Henry Page,'' Princess Anne.
Harry W. Eusk, Baltimore.
Barnes Compton, Laurel.
J. B. Brown, « Centerville.
LOUISIANA.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
W. T. Ellis, Owensboro.
A. B. Montgomery, Elizabethtown.
W. W. Dickerson, Williamstown.
J. B. McCreary, Eichmond.
J. W. Kendall, e West Liberty.
E. D. White, New Orleans.
Matt D. Lagan, New Orleans.
N. C. Blanchard, Shreveport.
S. M. Eobertson, Baton Eouge.,
William P. Frye, Lewiaton.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
0. H. Gibson, Easton.
Herman Stump, Bel Air.
I. Eayner, Baltimore.
W. McMahon McKaig, Cumberland.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield.
0. S. Eandall, New Bedford.
J. F. Andrew, Boston.
Sherman Hoar, Waltham.
William Cogswell, Salem.
George F. Williams, Dedham.
F. S. Coolidge, Ashburnham.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Elijah A. Morse, Canton.
Joseph H. O'Neil, Boston.
Henry 0. Lodge, Nahant.
Moses T. Stevens, North Andover.
Joseph H. Walker, Worcester.
J. C. Crosby, Pittsfield.
iDied December 20, 1891.
f) Appointed January 1, 1892, on account of death of P. B. Plnrob; held his seat until legislature met.
<• Elected to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of J. G. Carlisle, and toolj his seat February 21, 1893
^Resigned February 4,'l893.
p Died March 7, 1892.
/Died December 15. 1892.
9 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of E. L. Gibson, and took his seat January 14, 1893.
'I Resigned to become judge of fir.st judicial district of Maryland.
i'Took his seat December 5. 1892. to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Henry Page.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIREOTOEY.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
F. B. Stockbridge, Kalamazoo.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
J. Logan Chipman, Detroit.
James O'Donnell, Jackson.
0. E. Belknap, « Grand Eapids.
J. R. Whiting, St. Clair.
Harrison H. Wheeler, Ludington.
S. M. Stephenson, Menominee.
0. K. Davis, St. Paul.
W. H. Harries, Caledonia.
O. M. Hall, Red Wing.
K. Halvorson, North Fork.
James Z. George, CarroUton.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
J. H. Beeman, Eley.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
William H. Hatch, Hannibal.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
J. 0. Tarsney, Kansas City.
E. H. Norton, Troy.
Seth W. Cobb, St. Louis.
R. P. Bland, Lebanon.
Robert W. Fyan, Marshfield.
Wilbur F. Sanders, Helena.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MONTANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
James McMillan, Detroit.
James S. Gorman, Chelsea.
Julius 0. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
B. G. Stout, Pontiac.
Henry M. Youmans, Saginaw.
T. A. E. Weadock, Bay City.
William D. Washburn, Minneapolis.
John Lind, New Ulm.
James N. Castle, Stillwater.
Edward C. Walthall, Grenada.
John 0. Kyle, Sardis.
Clarke Lewis, Macon.
T. R. Stockdale, Summit.
George G. Vest, Kansas City.
C. H. Mansur, Chillicothe.
R. P. C. Wilson, Platte City.
John T. Heard, Sedaha.
J. J. O'Neill, St. Louis.
Samuel Byrns, Potosi.
D. A. De Armond, Butler.
Marshall Arnold, Benton.
T. C. Power, Helena.
W. W. Dixon, Butte City.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
A. S. Paddock, Beatrice. C. F. Manderson, Omaha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. J. Bryan, Lincoln.
0. M. Kern, Broken Bow.
W. A. McKeiehan, Red Cloud.
iTook his seat December 7, 1891, having been elected in place of M. Ford, deceased.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
305
John P. Jones, Goldhill.
W. M. Stewart, Carson City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Horace F. Bartine, Carson City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
William E. Chandler, Concord. John H. Gallinger, Concord.
REPRESENTATIVES.
L. F. McKinney, Manchester. W. F. Daniell, Franklin.
NEW JERSEY.
Rufus Blodgett, Long Branch.
C. A. Bergen, Camden.
J. Geissennainer, Freehold.
C. A. Cadmus, Paterson.
E. F. McDonald, a Harrison.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John R. McPherson, Jersey City.
James Buchannan, Trenton.
Samuel Fowler, Newton.
T. D. English, Newark.
Frank Hiscock, Syracuse.
NEW YORK.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James W. Covert, Long Island City.
William J. Coombs, Brooklyn.
Thomas E. Magner, Brooklyn.
Edward J. Dunphy, New York.
Amos J. Cummings, New York.
J. De Witt AVarner, New York.
A. P. Fitch, New York.
Henry Bacon, Goshen.
I. N. Cox, Ellenville.
Charles Tracey, Albany.
J. M. Wever, Plattsburg.
H. W. Bentley, Boonville.
J. J. Belden, Syracuse.
S. E. Payne, Auburn.
John Raines, Canandaigua.
James W. Wadsworth, Genesee.
T. L. Bunting, Hamburg.
D. B. Hill, Elmira.
A. C. Chapin, b Brooklyn.
J. M. Clancy, Brooklyn.
J. R. Fellows, New York.
T. J. Campbell, New York.
W. B. Cockran, « New York.
J. J. Little, <2 New York.
W. G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers.
J. H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
J. A. Quackenbush, Stillwater.
John Sanford, Amsterdam.
Newton M. Curtis, " Ogdensburg.
George Van Horn, Cooperstown.
G. W. Ray, Norwich.
H. H. Rockwell, Elmira,
H. S. Greenleaf, Rochester.
D. N. Lockwood, Buffalo.
W. B. Hooker, Fredonia.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Matt W. Ransom, Weldon.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. A. B. Branch, Washington.
B. F. Grady, Wallace.
A. H. A. Williams, Oxford.
J. 8. Henderson, Salisbury.
William T. Crawford, Waynesville.
Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte.
H. P. Cheatham, Henderson.
B. H. Bunn, Rocky Mount.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte.
W. H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro.
a Died November 5, 1892.
6 Elected to succeed D. A. Boody, who resigned October 13, 1891; resigned November 16, 1892.
"Took his seat December 7, 1891, having been elected in place of F. B. Spinola, who died April 13, 1891.
<iTook hi.s seat December 7, 1891, having been elected to succeed R. P. Flower, who resigned September 16, 1891.
eTook his seat December 7, 1891, having been elected to succeed L. W. Russell, who resigned September 11, 1891.
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OONGEESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
Lyman R. Casey, Jamestown.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
Henry C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Martin N. Johnson, Petersburg.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
SENATtJRS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bellamy Storer, Cincinnati.
George W. Houk, Dayton.
T. C. Layton, Wapakoneta.
William E. Haynes, Fremont.
Joseph H. Outhwaite, Columbus.
J. M. Pattison, Milford.
Irvine Dungan, Jackson.
M. D. Harter, Mansfield.
A. J. Pearson, Woodsfield.
E. B. Taylor, Warren.
T. L. Johnson, Clpveland.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
C. S. Brice, Lima.
John A. Caldwell, Cincinnati.
M. K. Gantz, Troy.
D. D. Donovan, Deshler.
D. D. Hare, Upper Sandusky.
Robert E. Doan, Wilmington.
W. H. Enochs, Ironton.
James W. Owens, Newark.
J. G. Warwick, a Massillon.
J. D. Taylor, Cambridge.
V. A. Taylor, Bedford.
L. P. Ohliger, ^ Wooster.
Joseph N. Dolph, Portland.
Binger Hermann, Roseburg.
PENNSYLVANIA.
M. S. Quay, Beaver.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
William McAleer, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
Edwin Hallowell, Willowgrove.
D. E). Brunner, Reading.
L. Amerman, Scranton.
James B. Reilly, Pottsville.
Myron B. Wright, Susquehanna.
S. P. Wolverton, Sunbury.
F. E. Beltzhoover, Carlisle.
G. F. Huff, Greensburg.
W. A. Stone, Allegheny.
E. P. Gillespie, Greenville.
Charles W. Stone, Warren.
W. A. Sipe, « Pittsburg.
RHODE ISLAND.
.T. D. Cameron, Harrisburg.
Charles O'Neill, Philadelphia.
John E. Reyburn, Philadelphia.
J. B. Robinson, Media.
William Mutchler, Easton.
M. Brosius, Lancaster.
George W. Shonk, Plvinouth.
John W. Rife, Middletovvn.
A. C. Hopkins, Lockhaven.
L. E. Atkinson, MifHintown.
Edward Scull, Somerset.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
A. K. Craig, (« Pittsburg.
M. Griswold, Erie.
G. F. Kribbs, Clarion.
N. W. Aldrich, Providence.
Oscar Laphani, Providence.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
X. F. Dixon, Westerly.
0. H. Page, South Scituate.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
Matthew C. Butler, Edgefield. J. L. :\I. Irby, Laurens.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. H. Brawley, Charleston. George D. Tillman, Clarks Hill.
George Johnstone, Newberry. George W. Shell, Laurens.
John J. Hemphill, Chester. E. T. Stackhouse, « Little Rock.
Wilham Elliott, Beaufort. J. L. McLaurin, / Marlboro Countv.
a Died August 14, 1892.
STook his seat December 5, 1892, to fill vacancy caused by death of J. G. Warwick,
cTook his seat December 5, 1892.
rfTook his seat February 26, 1892, and died July 29, 1892.
c Died June 14, 1892.
/Took his seat December 6, 1892, to flll vacancy caused by death of E. T. Stackhouse.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGKESS.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATOBS.
307
R. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
John L. Jolley,a Vermillion.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
REPRESENTA TI VES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. A. Taylor, Johnson City.
H. 0. Snodgrass, Sparta.
J. D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
N. N. Cox, Franklin. '
Rice A. Pierce, Union City.
Richard Coke, Waco.
R. Q. Mills, " Corsicana.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Charles Stewart, Houston.
C. B. Kilgore, Wills Point.
Joseph W. Barley, Gainesville.
William H. Crain, Cuero.
R. Q. Mills, « Corsicana.
S. W. T. Lanham, Cameron.
J. S. Morrill, Strafford.
H. H. Powers, Morrisville.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
J. S. Barbour,'' Alexandria.
William A. Jones, Warsaw.
George D. Wise, Richmond.
Posey G. Lester, Floyd.
C. T. O'Ferrall, Harrisonburg.
J. A. Buchanan, Abingdon.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENT ATI V BS.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. H. Kyle, Aberdeen.
John A. Pickler, Faulkton.
William B. Bate, Nashville.
J. C. Houk, 6 Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Carthage.
Joseph E. Washington, Cedar Hill.
B. A. Enloe, Jackson.
Josiah Patterson, Memphis.
Horace Chilton,'* Tyler.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Long, Palestine.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Jo Abbott, Hillsboro.
L. W. Moore, Lagrange.
Joseph D. Sayers, Bastrop.
E. Leroy Antony,/ Cameron.
Redfield Proctor, v Proctor.
W. W. Grout, Barton.
Bppa Hunton, ' Warrenton.
John W. Lawson, Isle of Wight.
James F. Epes, Blackstone.
Paul C. Edmunds, Halifax.
E. E. Meridith,.?Brentsville.
H. St. George Tucker, Staunton.
WASHINGTON.
SENATORS.
John B. Allen, Walla Walla. Watson C. Squire, Seattle.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John L. Wilson, Spokane.
"Elected in the place ol J. E. Gamble who died August 14, 1891, and took his seat December 7, 1891.
''Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of L. C. Houk (his father), who died May 25, 1891, and took his .seat
December 7, 1891.
"Took his seat March 30, 1892.
^Appointed to fill vacancy untiHegislature met.
e Resigned March 29, 1892.
/Took his seat July 28, 1892, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of R. Q. Mills.
^Elected in place of George F. Edmunds, who resigned November 1, 1891. Took his seat December 7, 1891.
*Died May 14, 1892.
»' Appointed in place of J. S. Barbour, deceased. Took his seat June 1, 1892.
^Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of W. H. F. Lee, who died October 15, 1891, and took his seat December 7, 1891.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
C. J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
John E. Kenna, « Charleston.
J. O. Pendleton, Wheeling.
John D. Alderson, Nicholas.
Philetus Sawyer, Oshkosh.
REPRESENT ATIVBS.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Clinton Babbitt, Beloit.
A. R. Bushnell, Madison.
G. H. Brickner, Sheboygan.
Frank P. Coburn, West Salem.
Thomas Lynch, Antigo.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVE.
■ Clarence D. Clark, Evanston.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Marcus A.- Smith, Tombstone.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
David A. Harvey, Oklahoma City.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John T. Caine, Salt Lake City.
J. N. Camden, b Parkersburg.
William L. Wilson, Charleston.
James Capehart, Mason County.
William F. Vilas, Madison.
Charles Barwig, May vi lie.
J. L. Mitchell, Milwaukee,
Lucas M. Miller, Oshkosh.
N. P. Haugen, River Falls.
Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne.
tiDied January 11, 1893.
& Took his seat January 28, ]
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
¥vnt session, from August 7, 189S, to November S, 1893. Second session, from December 4, 1893. to August
S8, 1894. Third session, from December 3, 1894, to March S, 1895.
Vice-President— AD1.AI E. Stbvenson, of Illinois. Presidents pro tempore— Isuam G. Harris « of
Tennessee; Matt W. Ransom, !> of North Carolina. Seaetary of the (Senate— William R Cox of
North Carolina. '
Speaker of the ifouse— Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia. Cleric of the House— James Kerr, of Penn-
sylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Richard H. Clarke, Mobile. Jesse F. Stallings, Greenville.
George P. Harrison, « Opelika. Gaston A. Robbins, Dallas County.
James E. Cobb, Tuskegee. John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
William H. Denson, Gadsden. Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
Louis W. Turpin, Newbern. William C. Gates, <^ Abbeville.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James K. Jonea, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Philip D. McCuUoch, Marianna. John S. Little, / Greenwood.
Thomas C. MoRae, Prescott. William L. Terry, Little Rock.
H. A. Dinsmore, Fayetteville. Robert Neill, Batesville.
Clifton R. Breckinridge, « Pine Bluff.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
George C. Perkins,? Oakland. S. M. White, « Los Angeles.
EEPKESBNTATIVES.
Thomas J. Geary, Santa Rosa. A. Caminetti, Jackson.
W. B. English,^ Oakland. James G. Maguire, San Francisco.
Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco. Marion Cannon, Ventura.
W. W. Bowers, San Diego.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, Central City. E. 0. Wolcott, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lafe Pence, Denver. John C. Bell, Montrose.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford. Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Lewis Sperry, South Windsor. James P. Pigott, New Haven.
Charles A. Russell, Killingly. Robert E. DeForest, Bridgeport.
(I Elected August 8, 1893.
b Elected January 7, 1895.
c Elected in place of William C. Oates, resigned, and took his seat December 3, 1894.
d Resigned Ausust 28, 1894.
e Resigned August 14, 1894.
/ Elected in place of C. R. Breckinridge, and took his seat December 3, 1894.
BTook his seat August 8, 1893.
ft Took his seat April 4, 1894.
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DELAWARE.
SBNATOES.
George Gray, Newcastle.
Anthony Higgins, Wilmington.
REPRESENTATIVE.
John W. Causey, Milford.
FLORIDA.
Samuel Pasco, Monticello.
S. R. ilallory, Pensacola.
A. H. Colquitt,« Atlanta.
Patrick Walsh,* Augusta.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
Charles M. Cooper, Jacksonville.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
Charles F. Crisp, Americus.
Leonidas F. Livingston, Kings.
John W. Maddox, Rome.
F. C. Tate, Jasper.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
iBenjamin E. Russell, Bainbria,,
Charles L. Moses, Turin.
Thomas B. Cabanies, Forsyth.
Thomas G. Lawson, Eatonton.
James C. C. Black, Augusta.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
George L. Shoup, Salmon City. Fred T. Dubois, Blackfoot.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Willis Sweet, Moscow.
ILLINOIS.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Andrew J. Hunter, Paris.
Lawrence E. McGann, Chicago.
Julius Goldzier, Chicago.
Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Robert A. Childs, Hinsdale.
P. S. Post, « Galesburg.
John J. McDannold, Mount Sterling.
Benjamin F. Funk, Bloomington.
George W. Fithian, Newton.
William S. Forman, Nashville.
George W. Smith, Murphy sboro.
J. McAuley Palmer, Springfield.
J. Frank Aldrich, Chicago.
A. C. Durborow, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton.
Hamilton K. Wheeler, Kankakee.
Benjamin F. Marsh, Warsaw.
William M. Springer, Springfield.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
Edward Lane, Hillsboro.
James R. Williams, Carmi.
J. C. Black, d Chicago.
INDIANA.
Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
REPRESENT ATI VES.
Arthur H. Taylor, Indianapolis.
Jason B. Brown, Seymour.
George W. Cooper, Columbus.
William D. Bynum, Indianapolis.
Dan Waugh, Tipton.
A. N. Martin, Bluffton.
Charles G. Conn, Elkhart.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
John L. Bretz, Jasper.
William S. Holman, Aurora.
Henry U. Johnson, Richmond.
E. V. Brookshire, Crawfordsville.
Thomas Hammond, Hammond.
William F. McNagny, Columbia City.
aDled March 26, 1894.
i'Took his seat April 9, 1894, having been appointed di lill the vacancy caused bv the death of A. H. Colquitt.
«Died January 6, 1895.
<i Resigned January 12, 1896.
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IOWA.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
John H. Gear, Burlington.
D. B. Henderson, DuDuque.
Robert G. Cousins, Tipton.
J: A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
A. L. Hager, Greenfield.
George D. Perkins, Sioux City.
KBPEESENTATIVES.
James F. Wilson, Fairfield.
Walter I. Hayes, Clinton.
Thomas Updegraff, McGregor.
John F. Lacey, Oskaloosa.
W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
J. P. DoUiver, Fort Dodge.
KANSAS.
William A. Peffer, Topeka.
William Baker, Lincoln.
William A. Harris, Linwood.
H. L. Moore, 0 Lawrence.
Charles Curtis, Topeka.
Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge.
SENATORS.
KBPEESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
J. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Stone, Kuttawa.
I. H. Goodnight, Franklin.
A. G. Oaruth, Louisville.
W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington.
Thomas H. Paynter, « Greenup.
Silas Adams, Liberty.
Donelson Caffery, / Franklin.
E. D. White,!? New Orleans.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
-REPRESENTATIVES.
N. C. Blanchard, » Shreveport.
Eobert C. Davey, New Orleans.
H. W. Ogden, J Benton.
S. M. Pobertson, Baton Eouge.
MAINE.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
Seth L. Milliken, Belfast.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
John Martin, Topeka.
Case Broderick, Holton.
T. J. Hudson, Fredonia.
John Davis, Junction City.
Edward Funston, >> lola.
William Lindsay, Frankfort.
William T. Ellis, Owensboro.
A. B. Montgomery, Elizabethtown.
A. S. Berry, Newport.
James B. McCreary, Richmond.
W. M. Beckner,"* Winchester.
Marcus C. Lisle, « Winchester.
N. C. Blanchard, A Shreveport.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Andrew Price, Thibodeaux.
C. J. Boatner, Monroe.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
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Arthur P. Gorman, Laurel.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. L. Henry,* Cambridge.
Harry W. Rusk, Baltimore.
C. E. Coffin, I Muikirk.
Robert F. Bratton,»« Princess Anne.
Charles Hopper Gibson, Easton.
J. F. C. Talbott, Towson.
Isidor Rayner, Baltimore.
William McMahonMcKaig, Cumberland.
Barnes Compton,« Laurel.
a Took his seat August 2, 1894.
i Seat successfully contested by Horace L. Moore.
c Resigned January 3, 1895.
(J Elected in place of M. C. Lisle, deceased, and took hid seat December 3, 1894.
eDied July?, 1894.
/ Took his seat June 26, 1894, to fill vacancy caused by death of R. L. Gibson,
ff Resigned March, 1894.
''Took his seat March 12, 1894, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Edward T. White.
* Resigned to become United States Senator, March, 12, 1894.
jTook his seat May 12, 1894.
^Elected in place of R. F. Bratton, deceased, and took his seat December 3, 1894.
I Elected in place of Barnes Compton resigned, and took his seat December 3, 1894.
m Died May 10, 1894.
" Resigned May 12, 1894.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. B. Wright, North Adams.
Joseph H. Walker, Worcester.
Moses T. Stevens, North Andover.
William Everett, « Quincy.
Jos. H. O'Neil, Boston.
William F. Draper, Hopedale.
C. 8. Eandall, New Bedford.
MICHIGAN.
SENATORS.
F. B. Stockbridge, » Kalamazoo.
John Patton, « Grand Rapids.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Levi T. Griffin, e Detroit.
H. F. Thomas, Allegan.
D. D. Aitken, Flint.
William S. Linton, Saginaw.
T. A. E. Weadock, Bay City.
S. M. Stephenson, Menominee.
J. C. Burrows,/ Kalamazoo.
Cushman K. Davis, St. Paul.
James A. Tawney, Winona.
Osee M. Hall, Red Wing.
Loren Fletcher, Minneapolis.
H. E. Boen, Fergus Falls.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Nahant.
F. H. Gillett, Springfield.
L. D. Apsley, Hudson.
William Cogswell, Salem.
S. W. McCall, Winchester.
M. J. McEtterick, Boston.
E. A. Morse, Canton.
James McMillan, Detroit.
Julius C. Burrows,'!' Kalamazoo.
J. S. Gorman, Chelsea.
G. F. Richardson, Grand Rapids.
J. R. Whiting, St. Clair.
John W. Moon, Muskegon.
John Avery, Greenville.
J. L. Ohipman,!/ Detroit.
^V. D. Washburn, Minneapolis.
James T. McCleary, Mankato.
Andrew R. Kiefer, St. Paul.
M. R. Baldwin, Duluth.
James Z. George, CarroUton.
E. C. Walthall,'' Grenada.
SENATORS.
A. J. McLaurin, « Brandon.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
J. S. AVilliams, Yazoo.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
J. C. Kyle, Sardis.
H. De Soto Money, CarroUton.
T. R. Stockdale, Summit.
SENATORS.
Francis M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Hatch, Hannibal.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
J. C. Tarsney, Kansas City.
John T. Heard, Sedalia.
Champ Clark, Bowling Green.
John J. O'Neill,.; St. Louis.
Robert W. Fyan, Marshfield.
CharleK H. Morgan, Lamar.
George G. Vest, Kansas City.
Uriel S. Hall, Hubbard.
D. D. Burnes, St. Joseph.
D. A. De Armond, Butler.
R. P. Bland, Lebanon.
Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis.
Seth AV. Cobb, St. Louis.
Marshal Arnold, Benton.
Charles F. Joy,* St. Louis.
a Took his seat August 7, 1893, elected to succeed H. C. Lodge, who resigned March 3, 1893.
dDied April 30, 1894.
c Appointed in place of F. B, Stockbridge, and took his seat May 10, 1894
dTook his seat .lanuary 23, 1896.
c Elected in place of J. L. Chipman, deceased, and took his seat December -l, 1893.
/Resigned January 23, 1895, to become United States Senator.
BD'ed August 17, 1893.
'I Resigned January 18. 1894.
i Elected in p'ace of E. C. Walthall, resigned, and took his seat February 15. 1894
iTook his seat April 3, 1894.
fcSeat successfully contested by J. J. O'Neill.
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T. C. Power, Helena.
MONTANA.
SENATORS.
Lee Mantle," Butte City.
EEPKESENT ATI VE.
Charles S. Hartman, Bozeman.
Charles F. Manderson, Omaha.
Williaca J. Bryan, Lincoln.
G. D. Meiklejohn, Fullerton.
W. A. McKeighan, Red Cloud
Wilham V. Allen, Madison.
David H. Mercer, Omaha.
E. J. Hainer, Aurora.
Omer M. Kem, Broken Bow.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill. W. M. Stewart, Carson City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Francis G. Newlands, Reno.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
"W. E. Chandler, Concord. J. H. Gallinger, Concord.
REPRESENTATI VES.
Henry AV. Blair, Campton. Henry M. Baker, Bow.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
JOiiU R. McPherson, Jersey City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Loudenslager, Paulsboro.
J. A. Geissenhainer, Freehold.
C. A. Cadmus, Paterson.
George B. Fielder, Jersey City.
NEW YORK.
James Smith, jr., Newark.
John J. Gardner, Atlantic City.
Johnson Cornish. Washington.
T. D. English, Newark.
John T. Dunn, Elizabeth.
David B. Hill, Albany.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James W. Covert, Long Island City.
Joseph C. Hendrix, Brooklyn.
John H. Graham, Brooklyn.
Franklin Bartlett, New York.
T. J. Campbell, New York.
Amos J. Cummings, i> New York.
John DeWitt AVarner, New York.
Isidor Straus, " New York.
Francis Marvin, Port Jervis.
Charles D. Haines, Kinderhook.
S. J. Shermerhorn, Schenectady.
J. M. Wever, Plattsburg.
J. S. Sherman, Utica.
J. J. Belden, Syracuse.
C. W. Gillet, Addison.
John Van Voorhis, Rochester.
Charles Daniels, Buffalo.
J. R. Fellows, a! New York.
Edward Murphy, jr., Troy.
John M. Clancy, Brooklyn.
William G. Coombs, Brooklyn.
Thomas F. Magner, Brooklyn.
E. J. Dunphy, New York.
Daniel E. Sickles, New York.
W. B. Cockran, New York.
Lemuel E. Quigg, b New York.
William Ryan, Port Chester.
Jacob LeFever, New Paltz.
Charles Tracey, Albany.
N. M. Curtis, Ogdensburg.
C. A. Chickering, Copenhagen.
George W. Ray, Norwich.
S. E. Payne, Auburn.
J. W. Wads worth, Geneseo.
D. N. Lockwood, Buffalo.
W. B. Hooker, Fredonia.
A. P. Fitch, « New York.
aSeat declared vacant August 28,
6 Resigned November 21, 1894.
c Took his seat Pebriiary 14, 1894.
subsequently seated February 2, 1895.
I* Resigned December 22, 1893.
c Resigned December 26, 1893.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
T. J. Jarvis, « Greenville.
J. C. Pritchard, » Madison.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William A. B. Branch, Washington.
B. F. Grady, Wallace.
Thomas Settle, Reidsville.
J. S. Henderson, Salisbury.
W. T. Crawford, Waynesville.
Matt AV. Ransom, Northampton.
Z. B. Vance, « Charlotte.
Fred A. Woodard, Wilson.
B. H. Bunn, Rocky Mount.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte.
W. H. Bower, Yadkin Valley.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
Henry C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake. William N. Roach, Larimore.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Martin M. Johnson, Petersburg.
' OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Bellamy Storer, Cincinnati.
P. J. 8oTg,<i Middletown.
D. D. Donovan, Deshler.
George W. Wilson, London.
Byron S. Ritchie, Toledo.
Chas. H. Grosvenor, Athens.
D. D. Hare, Upper Sandusky.
H. C. Van Voorhis, Zanesville.
J. A. D. Richards, New Philadelphia.
George P. Ikert, East Liverpool.
William J. White, Cleveland.
John A. Caldwell, « Cincinnati.
Calvin 1^. Brice, Lime.
J. H. Bromwell, / Cincinnati.
Fernando 0. Layton, Wapakoneta.
Geo. W. Hulick, Batavia.
Luther M. Strong, Kenton.
H. S. Bundy,ff Wellston.
Jos. H. Outhwaite, Columbus.
M. D. Barter, Mansfield.
A. J. Pearson, Woodsfield.
George W. Houk,'» Dayton.
S. A. Northway, Jefferson.
Tom L; Johnson, Cleveland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
John H. Mitchell, Portland. Jos. N. Dolph, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Binger Hermann, Roseburg. William R. Ellis, Heppner.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Jas. D. Cameron, Harrisburg.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Alexander McDowell, Sharon.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
Wm. McAleer, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
I. P. Wanger, Norristown.
C. J. Erdman, AUentown.
Jos. A. Scranton, Scranton.
James B. Reilly, Pottsville.
Myron B. Wright, i Susquehanna.
A.C. Hopkins, Lock Haven.
Thaddeus M. Mahon, Chambersburg.
J. D. Hicka, Altoona.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
William A. Sipe, Pittsburg.
John C. Sibley, Franklin.
George F. Kribbs, Clarion.
William Lilly, .; Mauch Chunk.
Matthew S. Quay, Beaver.
G. A. Grow,* Glenwood.
Robert Adams, jr., ' Philadelphia.
John E. Reyburn, Philadelphia.
J. B. Robinson, Media.
Howard Mutchler,"* Easton.
Mariott Brosius, Lancaster.
William H. Hines, Wilkesbarre.
E. M. Woomer, Lebanon.
E. J. Jordon," Coudersport.
S. P. Wolverton, Sunbury.
F. E. Beltzhoover, Carlisle.
D. B. Heiner, Kittanning.
William A. Stone, Alleghenv.
Thos. W. Phillips, New Castle.
Chas. W. Stone, Warren.
Chas. 0'Neill,o Philadelphia.
" Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Z. B. Vance,
and took his Beat April 26, 1»94.
'>Took his seat Januaiy 24, 1895.
(■Died AprilU, 1S94.
rfTook his seat May 21, 1894.
c Resigned May 1, 1894.
/Took his seat December 3, 1894.
II Took his seat December 4, 18"?
''Died February 9, 1894.
'Died November 13, 1894.
J Died December 1, 1893.
k Elected in place of William Lilly, and took his seat March
2, 1894.
I Elected in place of Chas. O'Neill, deceased, and took his
seat January 3, 1894.
"sTook his seat August 7, 1893; elected to succeed William
Mutchler, who died June 23, 1893.
'iTook his seat February 23, 1S95.
o Died November 25, 1893.
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RHODE ISLAND.
315
N. W. Aldrich, Providence,
scar Lapham, Providence.
M. 0. Butler, Edgefield.
Jas. F. Izlar,a Orangeburg.
Asbury Latimer, Belton.
T. J. Strait, Lancaster.
Geo. W. Murray, Eembert.
R. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
John A. Pickler, Faulkton.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
N. F. Dixon, Westerly.
Chas. H. Page, Scituate.
J. L. M. Irby, Laurens.
W. J. Talbert, Parksville.
Geo. W. Shell, Laurens.
John L. McLaurin, Marlboro County.
Willia^n H. Brawley, * Charleston.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
A. A. Taylor, Johnson City.
H. C. Snodgrass, Sparta.
J. D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
N. N. Cox, Franklin.
J. C. McDearmon, Trenton.
Richard Coke, Waco.
J. 0. Hutcheson, Houston.
C. B. Kilgore, Wills Point.
Jos. W. Bailey, Gainesyille.
Geo. C. Pendleton, Belton.
Jos. D. Sayers, Bastrop.
W. H. Crain, Cuero.
J. V. Cockrell, Anson.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
H. H. Powers, Morrisville.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William A. Jones, Warsaw.
George D. Wise, Richmond.
Claude A. Swanson, Chatham.
Smith S. Turner, « Front Royal.
Jas. W. Marshall, New Castle.
Chas. T. 0'Ferrall,<^ Harrisonburg.
James H. Kyle, Aberdeen.
William V. Lucas, Hot Springs.
William B. Bate, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John C. Houk, Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Carthage.
J. E. Washington, Cedar Hill.
B. A. Enloe, Jackson.
Josiah Patterson, Memphis.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana.
Sam B. Cooper, Woodville.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Jo Abbott, Hillsboro.
Chas. K. Bell, Fort Worth.
Walter Gresham, Galveston.
T. M. Paschal, Castroville.
Redfleld Proctor, Proctor.
W. W. Grout, Barton.
Eppa Hunton, Warrenton.
D. G. Tyler, Charles City County.
James F. Epes, Blackstone.
Paul C. Edmunds, Halifax.
Elisha E. Meredith, Brentsville.
Henry St. George Tucker, Staunton.
a Took his seat April 5, 1894.
* Reigned February 12, 1894.
0 Took his seat February 12, 1894.
, rf Resigned December 28, 1893.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
WASHINGTON.
SENATOHS.
Watson C. Squire, Seattle.
John L. Wilson, a Spokane.
John L. Wilson, c Spokane.
C. J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
John O. Pendleton, Wheeling.
John D. Alderson, Nicholas.
William F. Vilas, Madison.
John B. Allen, * Spokane.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. H. Doolittle, Tacoma.
J. N. Camden, Parkersburg.
William L. Wilson, Charlestown.
James Capehart, Mason County.
John Lendrum Mitchell, Milwaukee.
Henry A. Cooper, Racine.
J. W. Babcock, Necedah.
George H. Brickner, Sheboygan Falls.
Michael Griffin,<« Eau Claire.
Thomas Lynch, Antigo.
George B. Shaw, « Eau Claire.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne.
Clarence D. Clark,!? Evanston.
Charles Barwig, Mayville.
Peter J. Somers, / Milwaukee.
Owen A. Wells, Fond du Lac.
Lyman E. Barnes, Appleton.
N. P. Haugen, River Falls.
A. C. Beckwith,'' Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVE.
H. A. Coffeen, Sheridan.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
M. A. Smith, Tombstone.
TERRITORY OF NEW JIEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Dennis T. Flynn, Guthrie City.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Joseph L. Rawlins, Salt Lake City.
a Took his seat February 19, 1895.
6 Seat declared vacant by Senate August 28, 1893.
o Resigned to become U.S. Senator February 18, 1895.
ti Elected in place of George B. Shaw, deceased, and toolj liis seat December 3 1894
e Died August 27, 1894. '
/Toole his seat August 27, 1893; elected to succeed J. L. Mitchell, resigned March 3
»Took his seat February 6, 1895.
''Declined to serve August 8, 1893.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
First session, from December S, 1895, to June 11, 1896. Second session, from December 7, 1896, to March S,
1897.
Vice-President. — Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois. President pro tempore. — William P. Feye, of
Maine. Secretary of the Senate. — William R. Cox, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the Home. — Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. Clerk of the House. — Alexander McDowell, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma.
representatives.
Richard H. Clarke, Mobile.
George P. Harrison, Opelika.
Albert T. Goodwyn,a Robinson Springs.
M. W. Howard, Fort Payne.
T. H. Aldrich, >> Birmingham.
James E. Cobb, c Tuskegee.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James L. Pugh, Eufaula.
Jesse F. Stallings, Greenville.
W. F. Aldrich,(« Aldrich.
John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
G. A. Robbins, « Dallas County.
Oscar W. Underwood,/ Birmingham.
James K. Jones, Washington.
P. D. McCulloch, Marianna.
Thomas C. McRae, Prescott.
H. A. Dinsmore, Fayetteville.
James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
John S. Little, Greenwood.
William L. Terry, Little Rock.
Robert Neill, Batesville.
George C. Perkins, Oakland.
John A. Barham, Santa Rosa.
S. G. Hilborn, Oakland.
Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco.
William W. Bowers, San Diego.
REPRESENTATIVES.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, Central City.
John F. Shafroth, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford.
E. S. Henry, Rockville.
Charles A. Russell, Killingly.
a Took his seat April 22, 1896.
b Took tiis seat June 9, 1896.
0 Seat successfully contested by A. T. Goodwyn.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stephen M. White, Los Angeles.
Grove L. Johnson, Sacramento.
James C. Maguire, San Francisco.
James McLachlan, Pasadena.
Edward 0. Wolcott, Denver.
John C. Bell, Montrose.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
N. D. Sperry, New Haven.
E. J. Hill, Norwalk.
liTook his seat March 13, 1896.
e Seat successfully contested by W. P. Aldrich.
/Seat successfully contested by T. H. Aldrich.
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DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
George Gray, Newcastle.
R. B. Kenny," Dover.
H. A. Dupont, b Baltimore.
Samuel Pasco, Monticello.
S. M. Sparkman, Tampa.
John B. Gordon, Atlanta.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
C. F. Crisp, « Americas.
L. F. Livingston, Kings.
John W. Maddox, Rome.
Farish C. Tate, Jasper.
Henry G. Turner, Quitman.
George L. Shoup, Salmon.
REPRESENTATIVE.
J. S. Willis, Milford.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
Wilkinson Call, Jacksonville.
C. M. Cooper, Jacksonville.
A. O. Bacon, Macon.
B. E. Russell, Bainbridge.
0. L. Moses, Turin.
C. L. Bartlett, Macon.
Thomas G. Lawson, Eatonton.
J. C. C. Black, Augusta.
C. R. Crisp,'' Americus.
Fred T. Dubois, Blackfoot.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Edgar Wilson, Boise City.
ILLINOIS.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. F. Aldrich, Chicago.
H. R. Belknap, « Chicago.
George E. White, Chicago.
George E. Foas, Chicago.
E. R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Walter Reeves, Streator.
V. Warner, Clinton.
B. F. Marsh, Warsaw.
J. A. Connolly, Springfield.
Benson Wood, Effingham.
E. J. Murphy, East St. Louis.
Lawrence E. McGann, / Chicago.
D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute.
J. A. Hemenway, Boonville.
R. J. Tracewell, Corydon.
Jesse Overstreet, Indianapolis.
Charles L. Henry, Anderson.
J. F. Hanley, Williamsport.
George W. Steele, Marion.
Lemuel W. Koyse, Warsaw.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. McAuley Palmer, Springfield.
William Lorimer, Chicago.
Charles W. Woodman, Chicago.
E. D. Cooke, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
George W. Prince, a Galesburg.
J. G. Cannon, Danville.
Joseph V. Graff, Pekin.
J. I. Rinaker,'' Carlinville.
W. F. L. Hadley, » Edwardsville.
Orlando Burrell, Carmi.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
F. E. Downing, J Virginia.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
A. M. Hardy, Washington.
James E. Watson, Rushville.
H. U. Johnson, Richmond.
George W. Faris, Terre Haute.
Jethro A. Hatch, Kentland.
J. D. Leighty, St. Joe.
a Took his seat February 5, 1897.
b Unseated Mav 15, 1896, and seat declared vacant.
c Died October" 26, 1896.
rt Elected to succeed his father, C. F., Crisp, deceased, and toolc lii.s seat December 19, 1896.
e Toole his seat December 27, 1895.
/Seat auccessfully contested by H. R. Belknap.
ffTook his seat December 2, 1895.
/( Took his seat January 5, 1896.
'Took ilia seat December 2, 1895; elected to succeed F. Remann. wlio died July 14, 189.^.
J Seat .successfully contested by J. I. Rinaker.
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319
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
S. M. Clark, Keokuk.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
Robert G. Cousins, Tipton.
J. A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
A. L. Hager, Greenfield.
G, D. Perkins, Sioux City.
William A. Peffer, Topeka.
Richard W. Blue, Pleaaanton.
O. L. Miller, Kansas City.
Charles Curtis, Topeka.
William Baker, Lincoln.
J. C. S. Blackburn, ^'ersailles.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
EEPHESENTATIVES.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. K. Hendrick, Southland.
W. G. Hunter, Burkesville.
Walter Evans, Louisville.
William C. Owens, Georgetown.
S. J. Pugh, Vancei)urg.
D. G. Colson, Middlesboro.
Donaldson Caffery, Franklin.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Andrew Price, Thibodaux.
C. J. Boatner; « Monroe.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MAINE.
John H. Gear, Burlington.
George M. Curtis, Clinton.
T. Updegraff, McGregor.
John F. Lacey, Oskaloosa.
W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
J. p. Dolhver, Fort Dodge.
Lucien Baker, Leavenworth.
Case Broderick, Holton.
S. S. Kirkpatrick, Fredonia.
W. A. "Calderhead, Marysville.
Chester I. Long, Medicine Lodge.
W^illiam Lindsay, Frankfort.
John D. Clardy, Newstead.
John W. Lewis, Springfield.
A. S. Berry, Newport.
J. B. McCreary, Richmond.
J. M. Kendall, « Prestonsburg.
N. T. Hopkins. 6
N. C. Blanchard, Shreveport.
Charles F. Buck, New Orleans.
H. W. Ogden, Benton.
S. M. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
S. L. Millikin, Belfast.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
SENATORS.
REPRESBN TATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joshua W. Miles, Princess Anne.
Harry W. Rusk, Baltimore.
Charles E. Coffin, Muirkirk.
William P. Frye, Lewistori.
Nelson Dingley, jr., Lewiston.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
Charles H. Gibson, Easton.
William B. Baker, Aberdeen.
John K. Cowen, Baltimore.
George L. Wellington, Cumberland.
a Unseated February 18, 1897.
6Took his aeat February 18, 189?.
cSeat declared vacant March 20, 1896; subsequently elected, and took his seat December 10, 1896.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
SENATORS.
EEPEESBNTATIVES.
Ashley B. Wright, North Adams.
J. H. Walker, Worcester.
William S. Knox, Lawrence.
William E. Barrett, Melrose.
J. F. Fitzgerald, Boston.
William F. Draper, Hopedale.
John Simpkins, Yarmouth.
Henry 0. Lodge, Nahant.
F. H. Gillett, Springfield.
Lewis A. Apsley, Hudson.
W. H. Moody, « Haverhill.
S. W. McCall, Winchester.
H. H. Atwood, Boston.
E. A. Morse, Canton.
MICHIGAN.
James McMillan, Detroit.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Corliss, Detroit.
Alfred Milnes, >> Coldwater.
William A. Smith, Grand Rapids.
Horace G. Snover, Port Austin.
Eoswell P. Bishop, Ludington.
John Avery, Greenville.
C. K. Davis, St. Paul.
James A. Tawney, Winona.
J. P. Heatwole, Northfield.
Loren Fletcher, Minneapolis.
Frank M. Eddy, Glenwood.
MINNESOTA.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
George Spalding, Monroe.
Henry F. Thomas, Allegan.
D. A. Aitken, Flint.
William S. Linton, Saginaw.
R. 0. Crump, West Bay City.
S. M. Stephenson, Menominee.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
J. T. McCleary, Mankato.
Andrew R. Keifer, St. Paul.
Charles A. Towne, Duluth.
James Z. George, CarroUton.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
John S. Williams, Yazoo.
James G. Spencer, Port Gibson.
Edward 0. Walthall, Grenada.
John C. Kyle, Sardis.
H. DeSoto Money, CarroUton.
Walter McK. Denny, Scranton.
MISSOURI.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. N. Clark, Hannibal.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
R. T. Van Horn, c Kansas City.
John P. Tracey, Springfield.
WiUiam M. Treloar, Mexico.
Charles F. Joy, St. Louis.
John R. Raney, Piedmont.
Charles G. Burton, Nevada.
George G. Vest, Kansas City.
Uriel S. Hall, Hubbard.
George C. Crowther, St. Joseph.
David De Arinond, Butler.
Joel D. Hubbard, Versailles.
Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis.
Seth W. Cobb, St. Louis.
N. A. Mozley, Dexter.
J. C. Tarsney,'' Kansas City.
iTook his seat December 2, 1895; elected to succeed W. Cogswell, who died May 22, 1895.
b Elected to succeed Julius C. Burrows, who resigned to become United States Senator, and tooli his seat December 2, 1895.
cTook his seat February 27, 1896.
dgeat BUCcesstuUy contested by E. T. Van Horn.
Lee Mantle, Butte.
FIFTY-FOUETH OONGKESS.
MONTANA.
SENATORS.
Thomas H. Carter, Helena.
HEPHESENTATIVB.
Charles S. Hartman, Bozeman.
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NEBEASKA.
SENATORS.
William V. Allen, Madison. John M. Thurston, Omaha.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jesse B. Strode, Lincoln. David H. Mercer, Omaha.
G. D. Meiklejohn, Fullerton.
William E. Andrews, Hastings.
E. J. Hainer, Aurora.
Omer M. Kem, Broken Bow.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
John p. Jones, Gold Hill. , William M. Stewart, Carson City.
EEPKESENTATIVB.
Francis G. Newlands, Reno.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
William E. Chandler, Concord. Jacob H. Gallinger, Concord.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. A. Sulloway, Manchester. Henry M. Baker, BoW.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
James Smith, jr., Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. C. Loudenslager, Paulsboro.
B. F. Howell, New Brunswick.
James F. Stewart, Paterson.
Thomas McEwan, jr., Jersey City.
William J. Sewell, Camden,
J. J. Gardner, Atlantic City.
Mahlon Pitney, Morristown.
R. W. Parker, Newark.
C. N. Fowler, Elizabeth.
NEW YORK.
D. B. Hill, Albany.
E. C. McCormick, Jamaica.
Francis H. Wilson, Brooklyn.
Charles G. Bennett, Brooklyn.
Franklin Bartlett, New York.
Henry Clay Miner, New York.
William Sulzer, New York.
R. C. Shannon, New York.
P. B. Low, New York.
B. B. Odell, Newburgh.
F. S. Black, a Troy.
D. F. Wilber, Oneonta.
Wallace T. Foote, Port Henry.
James S. Sherman, Utica.
Theodore L. Poole, Syracuse.
Charles W. Gillett, Addison.
H. C. Brewster, Rochester.
Warren B. Hooker, Fredonia.
Denis M. Hurley, Brooklyn.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward Murphy, jr., Troy.
I. F. Fischer, Brooklyn.
James E. Howe, Brooklyn.
J. M. Mitchell,* New York.
A. J. Oummings, " New York.
George B. McClellan, New York.
L. E. Quigg, New York.
B. L. Fairchild, Pelham Heights.
Jacob Le Fever, New Paltz.
George N. Soathwick, Albany.
N. M. Curtis, Ogdensburg.
C. A. Chickering, Copenhagen.
George W. Ray, Norwich.
Sereno B. Payne, Auburn.
J. W. Wadsworth, Geneseo.
R. B. Mahany, Buffalo.
J. J. Walsh,«! New York.
Charles Daniels, Buffalo.
a Resigned January 7, 1897, elected governor ol New York.
6 Took his seat June 2, 1896.
o Took his seat December 2, 1895.
d Seat successfully contested by J. M. Mitchell.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
J. C. Pritchard, Marshall.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Harry Skinner, Greenville.
John G. Shaw Fayetteville.
Thomas Settle, Reidsville.
A. C. Shuford, Newton.
Richmond Pearson, Asheville.
Marion Butler, Elliott.
Fred A. Woodard, Wilson.
William F. Strowd, Pittsboro.
0. H. Martin, o Polkton.
R. Z. Linney, Taylorsville.
J. A. Lockhart, 6 Wadesboro.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SENATOKS.
Henry C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake. William N. Reach, Larimore.
BEPKESENTATIVE.
Martin N. Johnson, Petersburg.
OHIO.
John Sherman, Mansfield.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati.
Paul J. Sorg, Middletown.
F. B. De Witt, Paulding.
George W. Wilson, London.
J. H. Southard, Toledo.
Charles H. Grosvenor, Athens.
Stephen R. Harris, Bucyrus.
H. 0. Van Voorhis, Zanesville.
A. S. McClure, Wooster.
S. A. Northway, Jefferson.
C. B. Beach, Cleveland.
Calvin S. Brice, Lima.
J. H. Bromwell, Wyoming.
F. C. Layton, Wapakoneta.
George W. Hulick, Batavia.
Luther M. Strong, Kenton.
L. J. Fenton, Winchester.
D. K. Watson, Columbus.
AV. S. Kerr, Mansfield.
Lorenzo Danford, St. Clairsville.
Robert W. Tayler, New Lisbon.
T. E. Burton, Cleveland.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
John H. Mitchell, Portland. George W. McBride, St. Helens.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Binger Hermann, Roseburg. William R. Ellis, Heppner.
PENNSYLVANIA.
James D. Cameron, Harrisburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
G. A. Grow, Glenwood.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
F. Halterman, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
I. P. AA'anger, Norristown.
C. J. Erdman, AUentown.
J. A. Scranton, Scranton.
Charles N. Brumm, Minersville.
James H. Codding, <^ Towanda.
M. H. Kulp, Shamokin. -
James A. Stable, Emigsville.
D. B. Heiner, Kittanning.
W. A. Stone, Allegheny.
Thomas W. Phillips, Newcastle.
Charles W. Stone, Warren.
M. S. Quay, Beaver.
G. F. Huff, Greensburg.
Robert Adams, jr., Philadelphia.
John E. Reyburn, Philadelphia.
J. B. Robinson, Media.
Joseph J. Hart, Milford.
M. Brosius, Lancaster.
J. Leisering, Upper Lehigh.
E. M. Woomer, Lebanon.
F. C. Leonard, Coudersport.
T. M. Mahon, Chambersburg.
J. D. Hicks, Altoona.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
E. T. Acheson, Washington.
M. Griswold, Erie.
W. C. Arnold, Dubois.
aTook his seat June 5, 1896.
6 Seat successfully contested by C. H. Martin.
0 Toot his seat December 2, 189B.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
323
Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence. G. P. Wetmore, Newport.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
Warren O. Arnold, Glocester.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Melville Bull, Middletown.
J. L. M. Irby, Laurena.
G. W. Murray, a Eembert.
A. 0. Latimer, Belton.
Thomas J. Strait, Lancaster.
J. W. Stokes, b Orangeburg.
R. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls.
John A. Pickler, Faulkton.
Isham G. Harris, Memphis.
SENATOHS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
B. R. Tillman, Trenton.
W. J. Talbert, Parksville.
Stanyarne Wilson, Spartanburg.
J. L. McLaurin, Marlboro County.
William Elliott, « Beaufort.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
James H. Kyle, Aberdeen.
R. J. Gamble, Yankton.
William B. Bate, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. C. Anderson, Newport.
Foster V. Brown, Chattanooga.
J. E. Washington, Cedarhill.
J. E. McCall, Lexington.
Josiah Patterson, Memphis.
Henry R. Gibson, Knoxville.
Benton McMillin, Murfreesboro.
Nicholas N. Cox, Franklin.
J. C. McDearmon, Trenton.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsioana.
J. C. Hutcheson, Houston.
C. H. Yoakum, Greenville.
Joseph W. Bailey, Gainesville.
George C. Pendelton, Belton.
Joseph D- Sayers, Bastrop.
Rudolph Kleberg, <* Cuer.0.
J. V. Cockrell, Anson,
Arthur Brown, Salt Lake City.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
UTAH.
SENATORS.
Horace Chilton, Tyler.
S. B. Cooper, Woodville.
D. B. Culberson, Jefferson.
Jo. Abbott, Hillsboro.
Charles K. Bell, Fort Worth.
Miles Crowley, Galveston.
George H. Noonan, San Antonio.
W. H. Grain, « Cuero.
F. J. Cannon,/ Ogden.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Clarence E. Allen, Salt Lake City.
VERMONT.
Justin S. Morrill, Strafford.
H. H. Powers, Morrisville.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Redfield Proctor, Proctor.
William W. Grout, Barton.
a Took his seat June 4, 1896.
6 Given the certificate of election, but seat was declared vacant June 1, 1896; reelected and took liis'seat December 7, 1896.
cSeat successfully contested by G. W. Murray.
t> Elected to succeed W. H. Grain, deceased, and took his seat May 6, 1896.
eUied February 10, 1896.
/Took his seat January 27, 1896.
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John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thos. S. Martm, Scottsville.
Wm. A. Jones, Warsaw.
Tazewell EUett, Richmond.
Claude A. ^wanson, Chatham.
Smith S. Turner, Front Royal.
James A. Walker, Wytheville.
Wm. R. McKenney, * Petersburg.
WASHINGTON.
SENATORS.
Watson C. Squire, Seattle.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Doolittle, Tacoma.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Charles J. Faulkner, Martinsburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
B. B. Dovener, Wheeling.
James H. Huling, Charleston.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
D. Gardiner Tyler, Charles City County.
Robert T. Thorp, « Mecklenburg.
Peter J. Otey, Lynchburg.
Elisha E. Meredith, Brentsville.
Henry St. George Tucker, Staunton.
John L. Wilson, Spokane.
Samuel C. Hyde, Spokane.
Stephen B. Elkins, Elkins.
A. G. Dayton, Philippi.
Warren Miller, Jackson.
William T. Vilas, Madison.
Henry A. Cooper, Racine.
Joseph W. Babcock, Necedah.
Samuel S. Barney, Westbend.
Michael Griffin, Eau Claire.
Alexander Stewart, Wausau.
Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
John L. Mitchell, Milwaukee.
Edward Sauerhering, Mayville.
Theobold Otjen, Milwaukee.
Samuel A. Cook, Neenah.
Edward S. Minor, Sturgeon Bay.
J. J. Jenkins, Chippewa Falls.
Clarence D. Clark, Evanston.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Frank W. Mondell, Newcastle.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Nathan 0. Murphy, Phoenix.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Thomas B. Catron, Sante Fe.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Dennis T. Flynn, Guthrie.
UTAH TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
F. J. Cannon, Ogden.
a Took his seat May 2, 1896.
6 Seat successfully contested by R. T. Thorp,
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
First sesnon, from March 15, 1897, to July S4, 1897. Second session, from December 6, 1897, to July 8,
1898. Third session, frcrni Dece'mber 6, 1898, to March S, 1899.
Vice-President — Gaeebt A. Hobaet, of New Jersey. President pro tempore of the Senate — ^ William
P. Fhye, of Maine. Secretary of the Senate — William R. Cox, of North Carolina.
Speaker of the House — Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. Clerk of the House — Alexander McDowell,
of Pennsylvania.
. ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
John T. Morgan, Selma. Edmund W. Pettue, Selma.
» eepeesentatives.
George W. Taylor, Demopolis. Jesse F. Stallings, Greenville.
Henry D. Clayton, Eufaula. W. F. Aldrich,« Aldrich.
Willis Brewer, Hayneville. John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
M. W. Howard, Fort Payne. Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler.
O. W. Underwood, Birmingham. C. S. Plowman, 6 Talladega.
ARKANSAS.
senators.
James K. Jones, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
P. D. McCulloch, jr., Marianna. John S. Little, Greenwood.
T. 0. McRae, Prescott. WiUiam L. Terry, Little Rock.
H. A. Dinsmore, Fayetteville. S. Brundidge, Searcy.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
S. M. "White, Los Angeles. G. C. Perkins, Oakland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. A. Barham, Santa Rosa. Marion De Vries, Stockton.
S. G. Hilborn, Oakland. James G. Maguire, San Francisco.
Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco. C. A. Barlow, San Luis Obispo.
C. H. Castle, Merced.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, Central City. E. O. Wolcott, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. F. Shafroth, Denver. J- C. Bell, Montrose.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden. J- B- Hawley, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. S. Henry, Rockville. N. D. Sperry, New Haven.
C. A. Russell, Killingly. E. J. Hill, Norwalk.
aTook l?Is seat February 9, 1898. 6Seat successfully contested by W. F. Aldrich.
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DELAWARE.
SENATOES.
George Gray, Wilmington.
E. R. Kenney, Dover.
KEPRESENTATIVE.
Levin I. Handy, Newark.
FLORIDA.
Samuel Pasco, Monticello.
S. M. Sparkman, Tampa.
Augustus 0. Bacon, Macon.
SENATORS.
EEPEESEXTATIVES.
GEORGIA.
SBNATOES.
EBPEBSENTATIVES.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
Elijah B. Lewis, Montezuma.
L. F. Livingston, Kings.
John W. Maddox, Rome.
Farish C. Tate, Jasper.
WiUiam G. Brantley, Brunswick.
S. R. Mallory, Pensacola.
Robert W. Davis, Palatka.
Alexander S. Clay, Marietta.
James M. Griggs, Dawson.
William C. Adamson, GarroUton.
C. L. Bartlett, Macon.
William M. Howard, Lexington.
William H. Fleming, Augusta.
George L. Shoup, Boise.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
EEPEE8BNTATIVE.
James Gunn, Boise.
ILLINOIS.
Henry Heitfeld, Lewiston.
SENATORS.
Shelby M. CuUom, Springfield.
EBPEBSENTATIVES.
E. D. Cooke, a Chicago.
William Lorimer, Chicago.
Daniel W. Mills, Chicago. '
H. S. Boutell, 6 Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
George W. Prince, Galesburg.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
Joseph V. Graff, Pekin.
William H. Hinrichsen, Jacksonville.
Thomas M. Jett, Hillsboro.
James R. Campbell, McLeansboro.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
William E. Mason, Chicago.
James R. Mann, Chicago.
H. R. Belknap, Chicago.
George E. White, Chicago.
George E. Foss, Chicago.
Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Walter Reeves, Streator.
"V. Warner, Clinton.
B. F. Marsh, Warsaw.
James A. Connolly, Springfield.
Andrew J. Hunter, Paris.
Jehu Baker, Belleville.
INDIANA.
David Turpie, Indianapolis.
EBPEBSENTATIVES.
James A. Hemenway, Boonville.
William T. Zenor, Corydon.
George W. Faris, Terre Haute.
Jesse Overatreet, Indianapolis.
Charles B. Landis, Delphi.
George W. Steele, Marion.
L. W. Royse, Warsaw.
Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis.
Robert W. Miers, Bloomington.
F. M. CTrifiith,cVevay.
Henry U. Johnson, Richmond.
Charles L. Henry, Anderson.
Edgar D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso.
James M. Robinson, Fort Wayne.
W. S. Holman,'' Aurora.
aDied June 23, 1897.
STook his seat December 6, 1897.
cTook his seat December 6, 1897, to fill vacancy caused by the death of W. S. Holman.
(iDied April 22, 1897.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
IOWA.
SENATORS.
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William B. Allison, Dubuque.
EEPKBSENTATIVES.
Sam'l M. Clark, Keokuk.
D. B. Henderson, Dubuque.
Eobert G. Cousins, Tipton.
John A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
A. L. Hager, Greenfield.
George D. Perkins, Sioux City.
Lucien Baker, Leavenworth.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
REPEESBNTATIVES.
J. D. Botkin, Winfield.
Marion S. Peters, Kansas City.
Charles Curtis, Topeka.
W. B. McCormick, Phillipsburg.
John H. Gear, Burlington.
George M. Curtis, Clinton.
Thomas Updegran, McGregor.
J. F. I^cey, Oskaloosa.
William P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
J. P. Dolliver, Fort Dodge.
William A. Harris, Linwood.
Case Broderick, Holton.
E. R. Ridgely, Pittsburg.
William D. Vincent, Clay Center.
Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge.
KENTUCKY.
William Lindsay, Frankfort.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles K. Wheeler, Paducah.
John S. Rhea, Russellville.
Walter Evans, Louisville.
E. E. Settle, Owenton.
S. J. Pugh, Vanceburg.
D. G. Colson, Middlesboro.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Donelson Caffery, Franklin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Eobert F. Broussard, New Iberia.
Samuel T. Baird, Bastrop.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
S. L. Milliken, a Belfast.
Nelson Dingley, * Lewiston.
C. A. Boutelle, Bangor.
A. P. Gorman, Laurel.
I. A. Barber, Easton.
William S. Booze, Baltimore.
Sydney E. Mudd, Laplata.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William J. Deboe, Marion.
J. D. Clardy, Newstead.
D. H. Smith, Hodgensville.
A. S. Berry, Newport.
George M. Davidson, Stanford.
T. Y. Fitzpatrick,Prestonburg.
S. G. McEnery, New Orleans.
Robert 0. Davey, New Orleans.
Henry W. Ogden, Benton.
Samuel M. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Thomas B. Reed, Portland.
E. C. Burleigh, « Augusta.
G. L. Wellington, Cumberland.
W. B. Baker, Aberdeen.
William W. Mclntyre, Baltimore.
J. McDonald, Rockville.
aDied April 18, 1897. b Died January 13, 1899. cBlected in place of S. L. Milliken, and took his seat July 1, 1897.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
Joseph H. Walker, Worcester.
William S. Knox, Lawrence.
William E. Barrett, Melrose.
John F. Fitzgerald, Boston.
Charles F. Sprague, Bfookline.
W. S. Greene,a Fall Eiver.
A. B. Wright, 6 North Adams.
F. H. Gillett, Springfield.
SENATORS.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Lodge, Nahant.
George W; Weymouth, Fitchburg.
William H. Moody, Haverhill.
Samuel W. McGall, Winchester.
Samuel J. Barrows, Boston.
William C. Levering, Taunton.
John Simpkins, " Yarmouth.
George P Lawrence,'' North Adams.
MICHIGAN.
James McMillan, Detroit.
KEPEESBNTATIVES.
John B. Corliss, Detroit.
A. M. Todd, Kalamazoo.
W. A. Smith, Grand Kapids.
Horace G. Snover, Port Austin.
Koswell P. Bishop, Ludington.
W. S. Mesick, Mancelona.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
George Spalding, Monroe.
Edward L. Hamilton, Niles.
Samuel W. Smith, Pontiac.
F. Brucker, Saginaw.
R. 0. Crump, West Bay City.
C. D. Shelden, Houghton.
MINNESOTA.
Cushman K. Davis, St. Paul.
James A. Tawney, Winona.
J. P. Heatwole, Northfield.
Pa^e Morris, Duluth.
F. C. Stevens, St. Paul.
KEPEESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
J. T. McCleary, Mankato.
Loren Fletcher, Minneapolis.
F. M. Eddy, Glenwood.
James Z. George, « CarroUton.
W. V. Sullivan, / Oxford.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
John S. Williams, Yazoo.
Patrick Henry, Brandon.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSOURI.
H. D. Money,^ CarroUton.
Edward C. Walthall,'' Grenada.
Thomas Spight, « Ripley.
Andrew F. Fox, Westpoint.
F. A. McLain,.? Gloster.
W.F. Love,* Gloster.
F. M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
J. T. Lloyd, ' Shelbyville.
A. M. Dockery, Gallatin.
W. S. Cowherd, Kansas City.
James Cooney, Marshall.
Champ Clark, Bowling Green.
Charles F. Joy, St. Louis.
Edward Eobb, Perryville.
M. E. Benton, Neosho.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George G. Vest, Sweetsprings.
R. N. Bodine, Paris.
C. F. Cochran, St. Joseph.
D. A. De Armond, Butler.
R. P. Bland, Lebanon.
Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis.
Charles E. Pearce, St. Louis.
W. D. Vandiver, Cape Girardeau.
a Took his seat June 15, 1898; elected to succeed John Simpkins, deceased.
»Died August 14, J897.
cDied March 27, 1898 ,
dTook his seat December 6, 1897; elected in place of A. B. Wright, deceased.
«Died August 14, 1897.
/Took his seat May 31, 1898; appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of B. C. Waltliall.
17 Took his seat December 7, 1897; subsequently elected to fill vacancy caused by death of J. Z. George, and took his seat
January 24, 1898.
fiDied April 21, 1898.
iTook his seat December 5, 1898, to fill vacancy caused by W. V. Sullivan becoming United States Senator.
iElected to succeed W. F. Love, deceased, and took his seat December 12, 1898.
*Died October 16, 1898.
IElected to succeed E. P. Giles, who died November 17, 1896.
Lee Mantel, Butte.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGKESS.
MONTANA.
SENATORS.
T. H. Carter, Helena.
HEPHESENTATIVE.
0. S. Hartman, Bozeman.
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William V. Allen, Madison.
Jesse B. Strode, Lincoln.
Samuel Maxwell, Fremont.
R. D. Sutherland, Nelson.
John P. Jones, Goldhill.
NEBRASKA.
senatoes.
representatives.
NEVADA.
SENATOES.
John M. Thurston, Omaha.
D. H. Mercer, Omaha.
William L. Stark, Aurora.
William L. Greene, Kearney.
William M. Stewart, Carson City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
F. G. Newlands, Reno.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
William E. Chandler, Concord. J. H. Gallinger, Concord.
REPRESENTATIVES.
C. A. SuUoway, Manchester. F. G. Clarke, Petersboro.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
James Smith, Newark.
H. C. Loudenslager, Paulsboro.
B. F. Howell, New Brunswick.
James F. Stewart, Paterson.
Thomas McEwan, Jersey City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW YORK.
W. J. Sewell, Camden.
J. J. Gardner, Atlantic City.
M. Pitney, « Morristown.
R. W. Parker, Newark.
C. N. Fowler, Elizabeth.
Edward Murphy, Troy.
Thomas C. Piatt, Owego.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Francis H. Wilson, 6 Brooklyn.
D. M. Hurley, c Brooklyn.
I. F. Fischer, Brooklyn.
James R. Howe, Brooklyn.
John M. Mitchell, New York.
Amos J. Cummings, New York.
George B. McCIellan, New York.
Lemuel E. Quigg, New York.
William L. Ward, Port Chester.
John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
George N. Southwick, Albany.
L. N. Littauer, Gloversville.
C. A. Chickering, Copenhagen.
George W. Ray, Norwich.
Sereno E. Payne, Auburn.
J. W. Wadsworth, Geneseo.
R. B. Mahany, Buffalo.
Warren B. Hooker, <* Fredonia.
Joseph M. Belford, Riverhead.
E. H. Driggs, « Brooklyn.
Charles G. Bennett, Brooklyn.
J. H. G. Vehslage, New York.
Thomas J. Bradley, New York.
William Sulzer, New York.
Richard C. Shannon, New York.
P. B. Low, New York.
B. B. Odell, Newburgh.
A. V. S. Cochrane, Hudson.
David T. Wilber, Oneojita.
Wallace T. Foote, Port Henry.
James S. Sherman, Utica.
James J. Belden, Syracuse.
Charles W. Gillet, Addison.
H. C. Brewster, Rochester.
■ D. S. Alexander, Buffalo.
"Resigned January 10, 1899.
ftRssigned September 30, 1897.
cDied February 26, 1899.
d Resigned November 11, 1898.'
e Elected to succeed F. H. Wilson, resigned, and took his seat
December 6, 1897.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIBEOTOBY.
NORTH CABOLINA.
SENATORS.
J. C. Pritchard, Marshall.
Harry Skinner, Greenville.
John E. Fowler, Clinton.
William W. Kitchin, Roxboro.
A. 0. Shuford, Newton.
Richmond Pearson, Asheville.
KBPKESKNTATIVES.
Marion Butler, Elliot.
George H. White, Tarboro.
William F. Strowd, Ohapelhill.
Charles H. Martin, Polkton.
R. Z. Linney, Taylorsville.'
NORTH DAKOTA.
' SENATORS.
H. C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake. William N. Roach, Larimore.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Jlartin N. Johnson, Petersburg.
OHIO.
SENATORS.
John Sherman, a Mansfield.
Marcus A. Hanna, " Cleveland.
REPREHENTATIVES.
William B. Shattuc, Madisonville.
John L. Brenner, Dayton.
David Me'ekison, Napoleon.
AValter L. Weaver, Springfield.
J. H. Southard, Toledo.
C. H. Grosvenor, Athens.
James A. Norton, Tiffin.
H. C. Van Voorhi,", Zanesville.
J. A. McDowell, JMillersburg.
Charles Dick, « Akron.
T. E. Burton, Cleveland.
Joseph B. Foraker, Cincinnati.
J. C. Bromwell, Wyoming.
G. A. Marshall, Sidney.
Seth W. Brown, Lebanon.
Archibald Lybrand, Delaware.
Lucien J. Fenton, Winchester.
John J. Lentz, Columbus.
.Winfield S. Kerr, Mansfield.
Lorenzo Danford, St. Clairsville.
Robert W. Tayler, Lisbon.
C. B. Beach, Cleveland.
S. A. Northway,** Jefferson.
OREGON.
SENATORS.
G. W. McBride, St. Helens. Joseph Simon, Portland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
T. H. Tongue, Hillsboro. William R. Ellis, Heppner.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATORS.
M. S. Quay, Beaver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
G. A. Grow, Glenwood.
H. H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
William McAleer, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, Philadelphia.
I. P. Wanger, Norristown.
Daniel Ermentrout, Reading.
William Connell, Scranton.
C. N. Brumm, Minersville.
J. H. Codding, Towanda.
Monroe H. Kulp, Shamokin.
George J. Benner, Gettysburg.
Edward E. Robbins, Greensburg.
William H. Graham, '■ Allegheny.
J. B. Showalter,/ Chicora.
Charles W. Stone, Warren.
W. A. Stone,!/ Allegheny.
Boies Penrose, Philadelphia.
S. A. Davenport, Erie.
Robert Adams, Philadelphia.
James R. Young, Philadelphia.
T. S. Butler, Westchester.
W. S. Kirkpatrick, Easton.
M. Brosius, Lancaster.
Morgan B. Williams, Wilkesbarre.
M. E. Olmsted, Harrisburg.
H. B. Packer, Wellsboro.
T. M. Mahon; Chambersburg.
Josiah D. Hicks, Altoona.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
E. F. Acheson, Washington.
J. C. Sturtevant, Conneautville.
William C. Arnold, Dubois.
a Resigned March 4, 1897, to become Secretary of State.
i> Appointed to succeed Jolin Slierman, resigned; elected to fill vacancy and took liis seat March 15, 1897.
o Elected to fill vacancy caused by death ofS. A. Northway and took his seat December 5, 1898.
dDied September 18, 1898.
c Took his seat December 5, 1898, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of W. A. Stone.
/Took his seat March 15, 1897, to fill vacancy caused by death of J. ,T. Davidson.
a Resigned to become Governor of Pennsylvania.
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RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nelson M. Aldrich, Providence. George P. Wetmore, Newport.
BBPEESENTATIVBS.
Melville Bull, Middletown. A. B. Capron, Stillwater.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SENATORS.
J. H. Earle,o Greenville. B. R. Tillman, Trenton.
J. L. McLaurin, 6 Marlboro County.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
William Elliott, Beaufort. ^V. J. Talbert, Porksville.
A. C. Latimer, Belton. Stanyarne Wilson, Spartanburg.
T. J. Strait, Lancaster. James Norton, c Mullins.
J. W. Stokes, Orangeburg. J. L. McLaurin,'? Marlboro County.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
R. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls. James H. Kyle, Aberdeen.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Freeman Knowles, Deadwood. John E. Kelley, Flandreau.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Isham G. Harris, - Memphis. William B. Bate, Nashville.
Thomas B. Turley,/ Memphis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Walter P. Brownlow, Jonesboro. Henry R. Gibson, Knoxville.
John A. Moon, Chattanooga. Benton McMillin,!/ Carthage.
James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro. John AV. Gaines, Nashville.
N. N. Cox, Franklin. T. W. Sims, Linden.
E. A. Pierce, Union City. E. W. Carmack, Memphis.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Roger Q. Mills, Corsicana. Horace Chilton, Tyler.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Ball, Huntsville. Sam M. Cooper, Beaumont.
E. C. DeGraffenreid, Longview. John W. Cranford, « Sulphur Springs.
Joseph W. Bailey, (lainesville. Robert E. Burke, Dallas.
Robert L. Henry, Waco. S. W. Lanham, Weatherford.
J. D. Sayers,'* Bastrop. R. B. Hawley, Galveston.
Rudolph Kleberg, Cuero. James L. Slayden, San Antonio.
J. H. Stephens, Vernon.
UTAH.
SENATORS.
Frank J. Cannon, Ogden. Joseph L. Rawlins, Salt Lake City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
William H. King, Salt Lake City.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Redfleld Proctor, Proctor. Jonathan Ross,*^ St. Johnsbury.
Justin S. Morrill,./ Strafford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. H. Powers, Morrisville. W. W. Grout, Barton.
oiDiedMay 20, 1897.
6 Took his seat June 1, 1897, having been appointed to iill vacancy caused by death o( J. H. Earle; subsequently elected
by legislature.
0 Took his seat December 6, 1897, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of J. L. McLaurin.
dEesigned to become United States Senator May 31, 1897.
e Died July 8, 1897. •
/Appointed in place of I. Q. Harris, deceased, and took his seat December 6, 1897; subsequently elected and took his
seat February 14, 1898.
g Resigned January 16, 1897, to become governor of Tennessee.
ft Resigned January 16, 1899, to become governor of Texas.
iDiedMarch2 ,1899.
JDied December 28, 1898.
^Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of J. S. Morrill, and took his seat January 16, 1899.
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John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOET.
VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Thomas S. Martin, Scottsville.
KEPRESENTATIVES.
William A. Young, « Norfolk. William A. Jones, Warsaw.
R. A. Wise, 6 Williamsburg,
Robert T. Thorp, « Mecklenberg.
Peter J. Otey, Lynchburg.
John F. Rixey,- Brandy.
Jacob Yost, Staunton.
John Lamb, Richmond.
O. A. Swanson, Chatham.
James Hay, Madison.
James A. Walker, Wytheville.
Sydney P. Epes.'* Blackstone.
WASHINGTON.
SBNATOES.
George Turner, Spokane.
REPRESENTATIVES.
WilUam C. Jones, Spokane.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
C. J. Faulkner, Martinsburg. S. B. Elkins, Elkins.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John L. Wilson, Spokane.
James H. Levfis, Seattle.
B. B. Dovener, Wheeling.
C. P. Dorr, Addison.
A. G. Dayton, Philippi.
Warren Miller, Jackson.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
John T. Mitchell, Milwaukee. John C. Spooner, Madison.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Cooper, Eacinel
J. W. Babcock, Necedah.
S. S. Barney, West Bend.
M. Griffin, Eau Claire.
A. Stewart, Wausau.
E. Sauerherring, Mayville.
Theobold Otjen, Milwaukee.
James H. Davidson, Oshkosh.
E. S. Minor, Sturgeon Bay.
J. J. Jenkins, Chippewa Falls.
C. D. Clark, Evanston.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
F. E. Warren, Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVE.
J. E. Osborne, Rawlins.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
M. A. Smith, Tucson.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
H. B. Fergusson, Albuquerque.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
James Y. Callahan, Guthrie.
o Unseated April 26, 1898.
6 Took Ms seat Apnl 26, 1898.
cTook his seat March 23, 1898.
d Seat successfully contested by E. T. Thorp.
FIFTY-SIXTH C0NGEES8.
First session from December 4, 1899, to June 7, 1900. Second session from Decembers, 1900, to March 4, 1901.
Vice-President — Gaeeet A. Hobaet,^ of New Jersey. President pro tempore of the Senate — Wiir-
LiAM P. Feye, of Maine. Secretary of the Senate— G. G. Bennett, of New York.
Speaker of the Home — David B. Hendeeson, of Iowa. Clerk of the House — Alexander McDowell,
of Pennsylvania.
John T. Morgan, Selma.
George W. Taylor, Demopolis.
H. DeLamar Clayton, Eufaula.
John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
Joseph Wheeler, b Wheeler.
William F. Aldrich, « Aldrich.
Jesse F. Stallings, Greenville.
ALABAMA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James H. Berry, Bentonville.
ARKANSAS.
senators.
eepeesentativbs.
p. D. McCuUoch, Marianna.
Thomas 0. McRae, Prescott.
Hugh A. Dinsmore, Fayetteville.
George C. Perkins, Oakland.
John A. Barham, Santa Bosa.
Victor H. Metcalf, Oakland.
Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco.
James C. Needham, Modesto.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward O. Wolcott, Denver.
John F. Shafroth, Denver.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden.
E. S. Henry, Rockville.
Charles-A. Russell, Killingly.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
EEPRESENTATIVBS.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. W. Pettus, Selma.
G. A. Bobbins, <^ Dallas County.
Willis Brewer, Hayneville.
John L. Burnett, Gadsden.
O. W. Underwood, Birmingham.
William Richardson, « Huntsville.
James K. Jones, Washington.
John S. Little, Greenwood.
William L. Terry, Little Rock.
Stephen Brundidge, Searcy.,
Thomas Robert Bard, / Hueneme.
Marion DeVries,? Stockton.
Julius Kahn, San Francisco.
Russel J. Waters, Los Angeles.
Samuel D. Woods, 'i' Stockton.
Henry M. Teller, Central City.
John C. Bell, Montrose.
Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford.
N. D. Sperry, New Haven.
E. J. Hill, Norwalk.
a Died November 21, 1899.
&Eeslgned April 20, 1900.
cTook his seat March 8, 1900.
d Seat successfully contested by W. F. Aldrich.
e Elected in place of Joseph Wheeler, and took his seat December 3, 1900.
/ Took his seat March 5, 19Q0. '
a Resigned August 20, 1900.
'i Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Marion DeVries and took his seat December 3, 1900.
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334 CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
DELAWARE.
SENATOES.
Richard R. Kenney, Dover. Vacant. '
REPRESENTATIVES.
John H. Hof£ecker,« Smyrna. Walter O. Hoffecker.6
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Mallory, Pensacola. James P. Taliaferro, Jacksonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
S. M. Sparkman, Tampa. Robert W. Davis, Palatka.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Augustus O. Bacon, Macon.
A. S. Clay, Marietta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
Elijah B. Lewis, Montezuma.
Leonidas F. Livingston, Kings.
John W. Maddox, Rome. -
Farrish C. Tate, Jasper.
William G. Brantley, Brunswick.
James M. Griggs, Dawson.
William C. Adamson, Carrollton.
Charles L. Bartlett, Macon.
William M. Howard, Lexington.
William H. Fleming, Augusta.
George L. Shoup, Boise.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Henry Heitfeld, Lewiston.
Edgar Wilson, Boise City.
ILLINOIS.
Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James R. Mann, Chicago.
George P. Foster, Chicago.
Edward T. Noonan, Chicago.
George E. Foss, Chicago.
R. R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
Walter Reeves, Streator.
Vespasian Warner, Clinton.
Benjamin F. Marsh, Warsaw.
B. F. Caldwell, Chatham.
Joseph B. Crowley, Robinson.
William. A Rodenberg, East St. Louis.
William E. Mason, Chicago.
William Lorimer, Chicago.
Thomas Cusack, Chicago.
Henry S. Boutell, Chicago.
A. J. Hopkins, Aurora.
Geo. AV. Prince, Galesburg.
J. G. Cannon, Danville.
Joseph V. Graft, Peoria.
W. E. Williams, Pittsfield.
Thomas M. Jett, Hillsboro.
James R. Williams, Carmi.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
INDIANA.
SENATORS.
Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James A. Ilemenway, Boonville.
William T. Zenor, Corydon.
George W. Faris, Terre Haute.
Jesse Overstreet, Indianapolis.
Charles B. Landis, Delphi.
George \V. Steele, Marion.
Abraham L. Brick, South Bend.
Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis.
Robert W. Miers, Bloomington.
F. M. Griffith, Vevay.
James E. Watson, Rushville.
George W. Cromer, Muncie.
Edgar D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso.
James M. Robinson, Fort Wayne.
"Died June 16, 1900.
6 Took his seat December 3, 1900.
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
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John H. Gear,ff Burlington.
J. P. Dolliver, 6 Fort Dodge.
Thomas Hedge, Burlington.
D. B. Henderson, « Dubuque.
Robert G. Cousins, Tipton.
John A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
Smith McPherson,'^ Red Oak.
Lot Thomas, Storm Lake.
James P. Connor, « Denison.
IOWA.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
William B. Allison, Dubuque.
Joe R. Lane, Davenport.
G. N. Haugen, Norwood.
John F. Lacey, Oskaloosa.
William P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
J. P. Dolliver, » Fort Dodge.
Walter I. Smith,/ Council Bluffs.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
Lucien Baker, Leavenworth.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Willis J. Bailey, Baileyville.
J. De Witt Bowersock, Lawrence.
James M. Miller, Council Grove.
William A. Reeder, Logan.
KENTUCKY.
William A. Harris. Linwood.
Charles Curtis, Topeka.
E. R. Ridgely, Pittsburg.
W. A. Calderhead, Marysville.
Chester I. Long, Medicine Lodge.
William Lindsay, Frankfort.
REPRESENTATIVES.
E. E. Settle,? Owenton.
Henry D. Allen, Morganfield.
David H. Smith, Hodgensville.
Albert S. Berry, Newport.
George G. Gilbert, Shelbyville.
Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick, Prestonburg.
William J. Deboe, Marion.
Charles K. Wheeler, Paducah.
John S. Rhea, Russellville.
Oscar Turner, Jefferson County.
JuneW. Gayle,'' Owenton.
Samuel J. Pugh, Vanceburg.
Vincent Boreing, London.
LOUISIANA.
Donelson Caffery, Franklin.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Robert F. Broussard, New Iberia.
Joseph E. Ransdell, ' Lake Providence.
S. T. Baird,./ Bastrop.
MAINE.
S. D. McEnery, New Orleans.
Robert C. Davey, New Orleans.
Phanor Breazeale, Natchitoches.
S. M. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Amos L. Allen,* Alfred.
Edwin C. Burleigh, Augusta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MARYLAND.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
Charles E. Littlefield, Rockland.
Charles A. Boutelle, Bangor.
SENATORS.
George L. Wellington, Cumberland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph L. Kerr, I Cambridge.
Frank C. Wachter, Baltimore.
Sydney E. Mudd, Laplata.
John W. Smith,"* Snowhill.
Louis E. McComas, Williamsport.
William B. Baker, Aberdeen.
James W. Denny, Baltimore.
George A. Pearre, Cumberland.
' n Died July 14, 1900.
„6 Appointed United States Senator in place of John H. Gear, deceased, and took his seat Decem-ber 4, 1900.
0 Elected Speaker December 4, 1899.
d Resigned June 6, 1900.
e Elected in place of J. P. Dollver, appointed to United States Senate.
/ Elected in place oJ Smith McPherson, and took his seat December 3, 1900.
BDied November 16, 1899.
''Elected at a special election December 18, 1899, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. E. E. Settle. Took his seat January
15, 1900.
« Elected to succeed S. T. Baird, deceased.
J Died April 22, 1899.
* Elected in place of T. B. Reed, resigned.
1 Elected in place of John W. Smith, resigned, and took his seat December 3, 1900.
M Resigned January 12, 1900.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
George P. Lawrence, North Adams.
John B. Thayer, Worcester.
William S. Knox, Lawrence.
Ernest W. Roberts, Chelsea.
J. F. Fitzgerald, Boston.
Charles F. Sprague, Brookline.
William S. Greene, Fall Eiver.
MICHIGAN.
James McMillan, Detroit.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John B. Corliss, Detroit.
Washington Gardner, Albion.
William A. Smith, Grand Rapids.
Edgar Weeks, Mount Clemens.
Roswell P. Bishop, Ludington.
William S. Mesick, Mancelona.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
Charles A. Towne,a Duluth.
James A. Tawney, Winona.
Joel P. Heatwole, Northfield.
Loren Fletcher, Minneapolis.
Frank M. Eddy, Glenwood.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MISSISSIPPI.
Will Van Amberg Sullivan, Oxford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John M. Allen, Tupelo.
Thomas C. Catchings, Vicksburg.
John S. Williams, Yazoo.
Patrick Henry, Brandon.
Henry C. Lodge, Nahant.
F. H. Gillett, Springfield.
George W. Weymouth, Fitchburg.
William H. Moody, Haverhill.
S. W. McCall, Winchester.
Henry F. Naphen, Boston.
William C. Lovering, Taunton.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
Henry C. Smith, Adrian.
Edward L. Hamilton, Niles.
Samuel W. Smith, Pontiac.
Joseph W. Fordney, Saginaw.
Rousseau O. Crump, West Bay City.
Carlos D. Shelden, Houghton.
Cushman K. Davis, * St. Paul.
Moses E. Clapp, c St. Paul.
James T. McCleary, Mankato.
Frederick C. Stevens, St. Paul.
Page Morris, Duluth.
H. D. S. Money, Carrollton.
Thomas Spight, Ripley.
Andrew F. Fox, Westpoint.
Frank A. McLain, Gloster.
MISSOURI.
SENATORS.
George G. Vest, Sweetsprings.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James T. Lloyd, Shelbyville.
John Dougherty, Liberty.
William S. Cowherd, Kansas City.
James Cooney, Marshall.
Champ Clark, Bowling Green.
Charles Joy, St. Louis.
Edward Robb, Perryville.
M. E. Benton, Neosho.
MONTANA.
SENATORS!
Thomas H. Carter, Helena.
Francis M. Cockrell, Warrensburg.
William W. Bucker, Keytesville.
Charles F. Cochran, St. Joseph.
David A. De Armond, Butler.
D. W. Shackleford, Jefferson City.
Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis.
Charles E. Pearce, St. Louis.
Willard D. Vandiver, Cape Girardeau.
William A. Clark, <« Butte.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Albert J. Campbell, Butte.
a Appointed United States Senator by governor to fill vacancy caused by death of C. K. Davis, and took his seat December
10, 1900.
6 Died November 27, 1900.
cTook his seat January 28, 1901.
rt Resigned May 16, 1900.
John M., Thurston, Omaha.
Monroe L. Hay ward, a Nebraska City.
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
NEBRASKA.
SENATOHS.
William V. Allen, b Madison.
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Elmer J. Burkett, Lincoln.
John S. Robinson, Madison.
R. D. Sutherland, Nelson.
John P. Jones, Goldhill.
EBPHESENTATIVES.
NEVADA.
SENATOHS.
D. H. Mercer, Omaha.
William L. Stark, Aurora.
William Neville, North Platte.
William M. Stewart, Carson City.
BEPEESENTATIVE.
Francis G. Newlands, Reno.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
William E. Chandler, Concord. Jacob H. Gallinger, Concord.
REPRESENTAtlVES.
Cyrus A. Sulloway, Manchester. Frank G. Clarke, c-Peterboro.
NEW JERSEY.
William J. Sewell, Camden.
SENATOHS.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Loudenslager, Paulsboro.
Benjamin F. Howell, New Brunswick.
James F. Stewart, Paterson.
William S. Daly,<i Hoboken.
Allan L. McDermott, « Jersey City.
NEW YORK.
SENATORS.
Thomas C. Piatt, Owego.
John Kean, Ursino.
John J. Gardner, Atlantic City
Joshua A. Salmon, Boonton.
Richard W. Parker, Newark.
Charles N. Fowler, Elizabeth.
C. M. Depew, Peeksville.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Townsend Scudder, Glenhead.
Edmund H. Driggs, Brooklyn.
Frank E. Wilson, Brooklyn.
Nicholas Muller, New Brighton.
Thomas J. Bradley, New York.
William Sulzer, New York.
Jefferson M. Levy, New York.
Jacob Ruppert, jr., New York.
Arthur S. Tompkins, Nyack.
A. V. S. Cochrane, Hudson.
John K. Stewart, Amsterdam.
Louis W. Emerson, Warrensburg.
James S. Sherman, Utica.
Michael E. Driscoll, Syracuse.
Charles W. Gillett, Addison.
J. M. E. O'Grady, Rochester.
De Alva S. Alexander, Buffalo.
Albert D. Shaw, / Watertown.
John J. Fitzgerald, Brooklyn.
Bertram T. Clayton, Brooklyn.
Mitchell May, Brooklyn.
Daniel J. Rioron, New York.
Amos J. Cummings, New York.
George B. McCIellan, New York.
William A. Chanler, New York.
John Q. Underbill, New Rochelle.
John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
Martin H. Glynn, Albany.
L. N. Littauer, Gloversville.
Charles A. Chickering,!? Copenhagen.
George W. Ray, Norwich.
Ser&o E. Payne, Auburn.
Jatnes W. Wadsworth, Geneseo.
William H. Ryan, Buffalo.
Edward E. Vreeland, Salamanca.
a Died December 5, 1899.
6 Appointed fa place of M. L. Hayward, deceased, and took Ms seat December 19, 1899.
oDied January 9, 1901.
dDied July 31, 1900.
e Elected in place of William D. Daly, deceased, and took his seat December 3, 1900.
/Kleoted in place of Charles A. Chiokering, deceased, and took his seat December 3, 1900.
eDied February 13, 1900.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
NOBTH CAROLINA.
SENATOKS.
Marion Butler, Elliot.
BEPKKSENTATIVBS.
John M. Small, Washington.
Charles R. Thomas, Newbern.
William W. Kitchin, Eoxboro.
Theodore F. Kluttz, Salisbury.
William T. Crawford, « Waynes ville.
Jeter C. Pritchard, Marshall.
George H. White, Tarboro.
John W. Atwater, Rialto.
John D. Bellamy, Wilmington.
R. Z. Linney, Taylorsville.
Richmond Pearson, » Asheville.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SBNATOES.
Henry 0. Hansbrough, Devils Lake. P. J. McCumber, Wahpeton.
KEPKESENTATIVE.
Burleigh F. Spalding, Fargo
OHIO.
Joseph B. Foraker, Cincinnati.
KEPKESENTATIVES.
William B. Shattuc, Madisonville.
John L. Brenner, Dayton.
David Meekison, Napoleon.
Walter L. Weaver, Springfield.
James H. Southard, Toledo.
Charles H. Grosvenor, Athens.
James A. Norton, Tiffin.
H. C. Van Voorhis, Zanesville.
John A. McDowell, Millersburg.
Charles Dick, Akron.
Theodore E. Burton, Cleveland.
Marcus A. Hanna, Cleveland.
Jacob H. Bromwell, Wyoming.
Robert B. Gordon, St. Marys.
Seth W. Brown, Lebanon.
Archibald Ly brand, Delaware.
Stephen Morgan, Oakhill.
John J. Lentz, Columbus.
W. S. Kerr, Mansfield.
James J. Gill, Steubenville.
Robert W. Taylor, Lisbon.
Fremont O. Phillips, Medina.
OREGON.
SENATOES.
George W. McBride, St. Helens. Joseph Simon, Portland.
EEPEESElvTATIVES.
Thomas li. Tongue, Hillsboro. ilalcolm A. Moody, The Dalles.
PENNSYLVANIA.
SENATOES.
Boies Penrose, Philadelphia.
EEPRESENTATIVES.
S. A. Davenport, Erie.
Henry H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
WiUiam McAleer, Philadelphia.
A. C. Harmer, « Philadelphia.
I. P. Wanger, Norristown.
Henry D. Green, Reading.
William Connell, Scranton.
James W. Ryan, Pottsville.
Charles F. Wright, Susquehanna.
Rufus K. Polk, Danville.
Edward D. Ziegler, York.
S. M. Jack, Indiana.
William H. Graham, Allegheny.
Joseph B. Showalter, Butler.
Joseph C. Sibley, Franklin.
Edward Morrell,i^ Torresdale.
Vacant.
Galusha A. Grow,, Glenwood.
Robert Adams, jr., Philadelphia.
James R. Young, Philadelphia.
Thomas S. Butler, West Chester.
Laird H. Barber, Mauchchunk.
Marriott Brosius, Lancaster.
Stanley W. Davenport, Plymouth.
M. E. Olmsted, Harrisburg.
Horace B. Packer, Wellsboro.
T. M. Mahon, Chambersburg.
Joseph E. Thropp, Everett.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
Ernest F. Acheson, Washington.
Athelston Gaston, Meadville.
J. K. P. Hall, Ridgway.
1 Seat successfully contested by E. Pearson.
b look his seat May 10, 1900.
oDied March 6, 1900.
liTook his seat December 3, 1900.
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RHODE ISLAND.
SBNATOHS.
George P. Wetmore, Newport. N. W. Aldrich, Providence.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Melville Bull, Middleton. « A. B. Capron, Stillwater.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 SENATORS.
Benjamin R. Tillrhan, Trenton. J. L. McLaurin, Marlboro.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Elliott, Beaufort. W. Jasper Talbert, Parksville.
Asbury C. Latimer, Belton. Stanyarne Wilson, Spartanburg.
David E. Finley, Yorkville. James Norton, Mulling.
J. W. Stokes, Orangeburg.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
E. F. Pettigrew, Sioux Falls. James H. Kyle, Aberdeen.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert J. Gamble, Yorkton. ~ Charles H. Burke, Pierre.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
Thomas B. Turley, Memphis. William B. Bates, Nashville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. ,P. Brownlow, Jonesboro. Henry R. Gibson, Knoxville.
John A. Moon, Chattanooga. James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro.
John W. Gaines, Nashville. N. N. Cox, Franklin.
T. W. Sims, Linden. R. A. Prince, Union City.
E. W. Oarmack, Memphis.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Horace Chilton, Tyler. C. A. Culberson, Dallas.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Ball, Hunts ville. S. B. Cooper, Beaumont.
R. C. De Graffenreid, Longview. J. L. Sheppard, Texarkana.
J. W. Bailey, Gainesville. R. E. Burke, Dallas.
Robert L. Henry, Waco. S. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford.
A. S. Burleson, Austin. R. B. Hawley, Galveston.
Rudolph Kleberg, Cicero. James L. Slayden, San Antonio.
John H. Stephens, Vernon.
UTAH.
SENATORS.
Joseph L. Rawlins, Salt Lake City. Thomas Kearns,« Salt Lake City.
REPRESENTATIVES.
B. H. Roberts, » Salt Lake City. William H. King, « Salt Lake City.
VERMONT.
SENATORS.
Jonathan Ross,*' St. Johnsbury! Redfield Proctor, Proctor.
- William P. Dillingham, « Waterbury.
REPRESENTATIVES.
H. H. Powers, Morrisville. WilUam W. Grout, Barton.
a Took his seat February 4, 1901.
6 Refused admission January 25, 1900.
oTook his seat April 25, 1900.
a Appointed and took his seat January 11, 1899.
cEleoted to succeed Justin S. Morrill, deceased, and took his seat October 18, 1900.
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VIKGINIA.
SENATORS.
Thomas S. Martin, Scottsville. John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
W. A. Jones, Warsaw. William A. Young, b Norfolk.
John Lamb, Richmond. Sydney P. Epes, « Blackstone.
Claude A. Swanson, Chatham. Peter J. Otey, Lynchburg.
James Hay, Madison. John F. Rixey, Brandy.
William F. Rhea, Bristol. Julian M. Quarles, Staunton.
• Richard L. Wise," Williamsburg. Francis R. Lassiter,<i Petersburg.
WASHINGTON.
SENATORS.
George Turner, Spokane. Addison G. Foster, Tacoma.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wesley L. Jones, North Yakima. Francis W. Cushman, Tai'oma.
WEST VIRGINIA.
SENATORS.
Stephen B. Elkins, Elkins. ' Nathan B. Scott, Wheeling.
REPRESENTATIVES.
B. B. Dovener, Wheeling. Alston G. Dayton, Philippi.
David E. Johnston, Bluefield. Romeo H. Freer, Harrisville.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
John C. Spooner, Madison. Joseph V. Quarles, Milwaukee.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Cooper, Racine. Herman B. Dahle, Mount Horeb.
Joseph W. Babcock, Necedah. Theobold Otjen, Milwaukee.
Samuel S. Barney, Westbend. James H. Davidson, Oshkosh.
John J. Esch, La Crosse. Edward S. Minor, Sturgeon Bay.
Alexander Stewart, Wausau. John J. Jenkins, Chippewa Falls.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne. Clarence D. Clark, Evanston.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Frank W. Mondell, Newcastle.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
John F. Wilson, Prescott.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Pedro Perea, Bernalillo.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Dennis T. Flynn, Guthrie.
TERRITORY OF HAWAII.
DELEGATE.
Robert W. Wilcox, « Honolulu.
a Successfully contested the seat of W. A. Young, and took his seat March 12, 1900, and died December 21, 1900.
b Unseated March 12, 1900.
0 Died March 3, 1900.
d Elected to succeed S. P. Epes, deceased, and took his seat April 28, 1900.
eTook his seat December 15, 1900.
FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGEESS.
Mrat session from December 3, 1901, to July 1, 1903. Second session from December 1, 1903, to March 4,
1903.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate. — William P. Fkyb, of Maine. Secretary of the
Senate. — 0. G. Bennett, of New York.
Speaker of the House. — D. B. Henderson, of Iowa. Clerk of the House. — Alexander McDowell, of
Pennsylvania.
ALABAMA.
senators.
John T. Morgan, Selma> E. W. Pettus, Selma.
representatives.
G. W. Taylor, Demopolis. A. P. Wiley, Montgomery.
Henry D. Clayton, Eufaula. S. J. Bowie, Aniiiston.
Charles W. Thompson, Tuskegee. John H. Bankhead, Fayette.
John L. Burnett, Gadsden. William Richardson, Huntsville.
Oscar W. Underwood, Birmingham.
ARKANSAS.
SENATORS.
James K. Jones, Washington. James H. Berry, Bentonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Philip D. McCulloch, Marianna. Charles C. Reid, Clarksville.
John S. Little, Greenwood. Hugh A. Dinsmore, Fayetteville.
Thomas C. McRae, Prescott. Stephen Brundidge, Searcy.
CALIFORNIA.
SENATORS.
George C. Perkins, Oakland. Thomas R. Bard, Hueneme.
REPRESENTATIVES.
F. L. Coombs, Napa. Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco.
S. D. Woods, Stockton. James McLachlin, Pasadena.
V. H. Metcalf, Oakland. James 0. Needham, Modesto.
Julius Kahn, San Francisco.
COLORADO.
SENATORS.
Henry M. Teller, Central City. T. M. Patterson, Denver.
REPRESENTATIVES.
John F. Shafroth, Denver. John C. Bell, Montrose.
CONNECTICUT.
SENATORS.
Orville H. Piatt, Meriden. Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Edward S. Henry, Rockville. Ebenezer J. Hill, Norwalk.
Nehemiah D. Sperry, New Haven. FrankB.Brandegee,6New London.
Charles A. Russell, « Killingly.
oDied October 23, 1902. 6 Elected to fill vacancy caused byileathof C. A. Russell, and took his seat.
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James Frank Allee. "
00NGKES8I0NAL DIKECTOKY.
DELAWARE.
SENATORS.
Lewis H. Ball, a
KEPKESBNTATIVE.
Lewis H. Ball, b Faulkland.
FLORIDA.
SENATORS.
Stephen R. Mallory, Pensacola. James P. Taliaferro, Jacksonville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Stephen M. Sparkman, Tampa. Robert W. Davis, Palatka.
GEORGIA.
SENATORS.
Augustus O. Bacon, Macon. Alexander S. Cla}% Marietta.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Rufus E. Lester, Savannah.
James M. Griggs, Dawson.
Elijah B. Lewis, Montezuma.
William C. Adamson, CarroUton.
Leonidas F. Livingston, Kings.
Charles L. Bartlett, Macon.
John W. Maddox, Rome.
William M. Howard, Lexington.
Farish C. Tate, Jasper.
William H. Fleming, Augusta.
William G. Brantley, Brunswick.
IDAHO.
SENATORS.
Henry Heitfeld, Lewiston. Fred T. Dubois, Blackfoot.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Thomas L. Glenn, Montpelier.
ILLINOIS.
Shelby M. OuUom, Springfield.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James R. Mann, Chicago.
John J. Feely, Chicago.
George P. Foster, Chicago.
James McAndrews, Chicago.
William F. Mahoney, Chicago.
Henry S. Boutell, Chicago.
George E. Foss, Chicago.
Albert J. Hopkins, Aurora.
Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris.
George W. Prince, Galesburg.
Walter Reeves, Streator.
INDIANA.
William E. Mason, Chicago.
Joseph G. Cannon, Danville.
V. Warner, Clinton.
Joseph V. Graff, Peoria.
J. R. Mickey, Macomb.
Thomas J. Selby, Hardin.
B. F. Caldwell, Chatham.
Thomas M. Jett, Hillsboro.
Joseph B. Crowley, Robinson.
James R. Williamson, Carmi.
Frederick J. Kern, Belleville.
George W. Smith, Murphysboro.
Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James A. Hemenway, Boonville.
Robert W. Miers, Bloomington.
William T. Zenor, Corydon.
Francis M. Griffith, Vevay.
Elias 8. Holliday, Brazil.
James E. Watson, Rushville.
Jesse Overstreet, Indianapolis.
Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis.
George W. Cromer, Muncie.
Charles B. Landis, Delphi.
Edgar D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso.
George W. Steele, Marion.
James M. Robinson, Fort Wayne.
Abraham L. Brick, South Bend.
a Took his seat March 3, 1903. 6 Resigned March 3, 1903; elected to United States Senate, took his seat March 3, 1903.
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William B. Allison, Dubuque.
IOWA.
BBNATOES.
KEPRESENTATIVBS.
Thomaa Hedge, Burlington.
John N. W. Rumple, « Marengo.
David B. Henderson, Dubuque.
Gilbert N. Haugen, Northwood.
Bobert G. Cousins, Tipton.
John J*'. Lacey, Oskaloosa.
Jonathan P. DoUiver, Fort Dodge.
John A. T. Hull, Des Moines.
William P. Hepburn, Clarinda.
Walter I. Smith, Council Bluffs.
James P. Conner, Denison.
Lot Thomas, Storm Lake.
KANSAS.
SENATORS.
William A. Harris, Linwood. Joseph R. Burton, Abilene.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles F. Scott, lola.
Charles Curtis, Topeka.
Justice De Witt Bowersock, Lawrence.
Alfred M. Jackson, Winfleld.
James M. Miller, Council Grove.
William A. Calderhead, Marysville.
William A. Reeder, Logan.
Chester I. Long, Medicine Lodge.
KENTUCKY.
SENATORS. '
William J. Deboe, Marion. J. C. S. Blackburn, Versailles.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles K. Wheeler, Paducah.
Henry D. Allen, Morganfield.
John's. Rhea, 6 Russell ville.
David H. Smith, Hodgensville.
Harvey S. Irwin, Louisville.
Daniel L. Gooch, Covington.
South Trimble, Frankfort.
George G. Gilbert, Shelbyville.
James N. Kehoe, Maysville.
James B. White, Irvine.
Vincent Boreing, London.
McKenzie Moss, « Bowling Green.
LOUISIANA.
SENATORS.
Samuel D. McEnery, New Orleans.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Adolph Meyer, New Orleans.
Robert C. Davey, New Orleans.
Robert F. Broussard, New Iberia.
Eugene Hale, Ellsworth.
MAINE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Amos L. Allen, Alfred.
Charles E. Littlefield, Rockland.
Murphy J. Foster, Franklin.
Phanor Breazeale, Natchitoches.
Jos. E. Ransdell, Lake Providence.
Samuel M. Robertson, Baton Rouge.
William P. Frye, Lewiston.
Edwin C. Burleigh, Augusta.
Llewellyn Powers, Houlton.
MARYLAND.
SENATORS.
George L. Wellington, Cumberland.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William H. Jackson, Salisbury.
Albert A. Blakeneyj Franklinville.
Frank C. Wachter, Baltimore.
Louis E. McComas, Williamsport.
Charles R. Schirm, Baltimore.
Sydney E. Mudd, Laplata.
George A. Pearre, Cumberland.
a Died January 31, 1903.
h Took his seat Marcli 25, 1902.
c Unseated March 25, 1902.
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MASSACHUSETTS.
George F. Hoar, Worcester.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
George P. Lawrence, North Adams.
Frederick H. Gillett, Springfield.
John B. Thayer, Worcester.
Charles 0. 'Tirrell, Natick.
William S. Knox, Lawrence.
William H. Moody, « Haverhill.
Ernest W. Roberts, Chelsea.
MICHIGAN.
James McMillan, « Detroit.
Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo.
EEPKESENTATIVES.
John P. Oorliss, Detroit.
Henry C. Smith, Adrian.
Washington Gardner, Albion.
E. L. Hamilton, Niles.
William Alden Smith, Grand Rapids.
Samuel W. Smith, Pontiac.
Knute Nelson, Alexandria.
MINNESOTA.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James A. Tawney, Winona.
James T. McCleary, Mankato.
Joel P. Heatwole, Northfield.
Frederick C. Stevens, St. Paul.
> MISSISSIPPI.
SENATORS.
Hernando De Soto Money, Carrollton.
Henry C. Lodge, Nahant.
Samuel W. McCall, Winchester.
Joseph A. Conry, Boston.
Henry F. Naphen, Boston.
Samuel L. Powers, Newton.
William C. Lovering, Taunton.
William S. Greene, Fall River.
Augustus P. Gardner, !> Hamilton.
Russell A. Alger, <* Detroit.
Edgar Weeks, Mount Clemens.
Joseph W. Fordney, Saginaw.
Roswell P. Bishop, Ludmgton.
Henry H. Aplin, West Bay City.
A. B. Darragh, St. Louis.
Carlos D. Shelden, Houghton.
Moses E. Clapp, St. Paul.
Loren Fletcher, Minneapolis.
Page Morris, Duluth.
Frank M. Eddy, Glenwood.
Anselm J. McLaurin, Brandon.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Ezekiel S. Candler, jr., Corinth.
Thomas Spight, Ripley.
Patrick Henry, Vioksbur^.
Andrew F. Fox, West Point.
John Williams, Yazoo.
Frank A. McLain, Gloster.
Charles E. Hooker, Jackson.
MISSOURI.
Franci^ M. Cockrell, AVarrensburg.
REPRESENTATIVES.
James T. Lloyd, Shelbyville.
William AV. Bucker, Keytesville.
John Dougherty, Liberty.
Charles F. Cochran, St. Joseph.
William S. Cowherd, Kanpa.s City.
David A. De Armond, Butler.
James Cooney, Marshall.
D. \V. Shackleford, Jefferson City.
George G. Vest, Sweet Springs.
Champ Clark, Bowling^Green.
Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis.
Charles F. Joy, St. Louis.
James L. Btttler, « St. Louis.
Edward Robb, Perryville.
William D. Vandiver, Cape Girardeau.
M. E. Benton, Neosho.
a Resigned May 1, 1902.
6 Elected to 1511 vacancy caused by resignation of W. H. Moody and took his seat,
c Died August 10, 1902.
d Appointed to fill vacancy September 27, 1902, caused by death of James McMillan.
eSeat declared vacant June 28, 1902; was a candidate tor reelection; received the certificate of election and his seat
was successfully contested by George C. R. Wagoner, February 26, 1903.
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William A. Clark, Butte.
MONTANA.
SENATOES.
Paris Gibson, Great Falls.
Charles H. Dietrich, Hastings.
Elmer J. Burkett, Lincoln.
David H. Mercer, Omaha.
John S. Robinson, Madison.
HEPRESENTATIVE.
Caldwell Edwards, Bozeman.
NEBRASKA.
SENATORS.
John P. Jones, Gold Hill.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEVADA.
SENATORS.
Joseph H. Millard, Omaha.
WilUam L. Stark, Aurora.
A. C. Shallenberger, Alma.
William Neville, North Platte.
William M. Stewart, Carson City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Francis G. Newlands, Reno.
Jacob B. Gallinger, Concord.
Cyrus A. SuUoway, Manchester.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
r.
NEW JERSEY.
SENATORS.
Jobn Kean, Ursino.
John F. Dryden,« Newark.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry C. Loudenslager, Paulsboro.
Benjamin F. Howell, New Brunswick.
James F. Stewart, Paterson.
Allan L. McDermott, Jersey City.
De Witt Flanagan, * Morristown.
NEW YORK.
Thomas C. Piatt, Owego.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Frederick Storm, Bayside.
Henry Bristow, Brooklyn.
Frank E. Wilson, Brooklyn.
Montague Lessler, « New York.
Henry M. Goldfogle, New York.
William Sulzer, New York.
O. H. P. Belmont, New York.
Jacob Ruppert, jr.. New York.
Arthur S. Tompkins, Nyack.
William H. Draper, Lansingburg.
John K. Stewart, Amsterdam.
Nicholas Mueller,/ New York.
Charles L. Knapp,!? Lowville.
George W. Ray,'* Norwich.
Sereno E. Payne, Auburn.
James W. Wadsworth, Geneseo.
William H. Ryan, Buffalo.
Edward Swann^ New York.
John J. Fitzgerald, Brooklyn.
Henry E. Burnham, Manchester.
Frank D. Currier, Canaan.
William J. Sewell, <^ Camden.
John J. Gardner, Atlantic City.
Joshua S. Salmon,** Boonton.
Richard W. Parker, Newark.
Charles N. Fowler, Elizabeth.
C. M. Depew, Peekskill.
Harry A. Hanbury, Brooklyn.
George H. Lindsay, Brooklyn.
Thomas J. Creamer, New York.
Amos J. Cummings, « New York.
George B. McClellan, New York.
William H. Douglas, New York.
C. A. Pugsley, Peekskill.
John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains.
George N. Southwick, Albany.
Lucius N. Littauer, Gloversville.
Louis W. Emerson, Warrensburg.
James S. Sherman, Utica.
Michael E. Driscoll, Syracuse.
Charles W. Gillet, Addison.
James B. Perkins, Rochester.
Edward B. Vreeland, Salamanca.
John W. Dwight, J Dryden.
D. S. Alexander, Buffalo.
iiEIected in place of William J. Sewell, deceased, and took his seat February 4, 1902.
6 Elected to All vacancy caused by death ol J. S. Salmon, and took his seat.
»Died December 27, 1902.
dDied May 6, 1902.
e Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Nicholas Mueller, and took Ms seat January IB, 1902.
/Resigned December 1, 1902.
ff Elected in place of Amos J. Cummings, deceased, and took his seat-
» Resigned September H, 1902.
i Died May 2, 1902.
i Elected in place of G. W. Ray, resigned, and took his seat.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
NOETH CAEOLINA.
Jeter C. Pritchard, Marshall.
SENATOE§.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
John H. Small, Washington.
Charles E. Thomas, Newbern.
William W. Kitchin, Eoxlow.
Theodore F. Kluttz, Salisbury.
James M. Moody, Waynesville.
F. M. Simmons, Ealeigh.
Claude Kitchin, Scotland Neck.
Edward W. Pou, Smithfleld.
John D. Bellamy, Wilmington.
Edmond S. Blackburn, Wilkesboro.
NOETH DAKOTA.
SENATOKS.
Henry C. Hansbrough, Devils Lake. Peter J. McCumber, Wahpeton.
KEPEESENTATIVE.
Thomas F. Marshall, Oakes.
OHIO.
Joseph B. Foraker, Cincinnati.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
William B. Shattuc, Madisonville.
Eobert M. Nevin, Dayton.
John S. Smook, Paulding.
Thomas B. Kyle, Troy.
James H. Southard, Toledo.
Charles H. Grosvenor, Athens.
James A. Norton, Tiffin.
Henry 0. Van Voorhis, Zanesville.
John W. Casaingham, Coshocton.
Charles Dick, Akron.
Theodore E. Burton, Cleveland.
OEEGON.
SENATOBS.
Joseph Simon, Portland.
Marcus A. Hanna Clevelard.
Jacob H. Bromwell, Cincinnati.
Eobert B. Gordon, St. Marys.
Charles O. Hildebrant, Wilmington.
William E. Warnock, Urbana.
Stephen Morgan, Oak Hill.
Emmett Tompkins, Columbus.
William W. Skiles, Shelby.
Joseph J. Gill, Steubenville.
Eobert W. Tayler, Lisbon.
Jacob A. Beidler, Willoughby.
John H. Mitchell, Portland.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Tongue, « Hillsboro. Malcolm A. Moody, The Dalles.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Boise Penrose, Philadelphia.
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Galusha A. Grow, Glenwood.
Henry H. Bingham, Philadelphia.
Henry Burk, Philadelphia.
Edward D. Morrell, Torresdale.
Irving P. Wanger, Morristown.
Henry D. Green, Eeading.
'\^lliam Connell, Scran ton.
George E. Patterson, Ashland.
Charles F. Wright, Susquehanna.
Eufus K. Polk,6 Danville.
Eobert J. Lewis, York.
Summers M. Jack, Indiana.
William H. Graham, Allegheny.
Joseph B. Showalter, Butler.
Joseph C. Sibley, Franklin.
Alexander Bilhneyer, <^ Washingtonville.
Matthew S. Quay, Beaver.
Eobert H. Foerderer, Philadelphia.
Eobert Adams, jr., Philadelphia.
James E. Young, Philadelphia.
Thomas S. Butler, Westchester.
Howard Mutchler, Easton.
Henry B. Cassel, Marietta.
Henry W. Palmer, Wilkesboro.
Marlin E. Olmsted, Harrisburg.
Ellas Deemer, Williamsport.
Thaddeus M. Mahon, Chambersburg.
Alvin Evans, lEbensburg.
John Dalzell, Pittsburg.
Ernest F. Acheson, Washington.
Arthur L. Bates, Meadville.
James K. P. Hall,** Eidgway.
aDied January 11, 1903.
!)Died March 5, 1902.
^Elected to fill vacancy caused by deatli of R. K. Polk, and took his seat,
ti Resigned December 1, 1902.
PEFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. 347
RHODE ISLAND.
SENATORS.
Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence. George P. Wetmore, Newport.
KEPRBSENTATIVES.
Melville Bull, Middletown. Adin B. Capron, Stillwater.
SOUTH CAROLINA. ■
SENATORS.
Benjamin R. Tillman, Trenton. John L. McLaurin, Marlboro County.
REPRESENTATIVES.
William Elliott, Beaufort. William J. Talbert, Parksville.
Asbury C. Latimer, Belton. Joseph T. Johnson, Spartanburg.
David E. Finley, Yorkville. Robert B. Scarborough, Conway.
Asbury F. Lever, Lexington.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
SENATORS.
Robert J. Gamble, Yankton. Alfred B. Kittredge,« Sioux Falls.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Charles H. Burke, Pierre. Eben W. Martin, Deadwood.
TENNESSEE.
SENATORS.
William B. Bate, Nashville. Edward W. Oarmack, Memphis.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Walter P. BroWnlow, Jonesboro. Henry R. Gibson, Knoxville.
John A. Moon, Chattanooga. Charles E. Snodgrass, Crossville.
James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro. John W. Gaines, Nashville.
Lemuel P. Padgett, Columbia. Thetus W. Sims, Linden.
Rice A. Pierce, Union City. Malcolm R. Patterson, Memphis.
TEXAS.
SENATORS.
Charles A. Culberson, Dallas. Joseph W. Bailey, Gainesville.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Thomas H. Ball, Huntsville. Sam B. Cooper, Beaumont.
Reese C. De Graffenreid, 6 Longview. John L. Sheppard,<* Texarkana.
Choice B. Randell, Sherman, Dudley G. Wooten, Dallas.
Robert L. Henry, Waco. Samuel W. T. Lanham, Weatherford.
Albert S. Burleson, Austin. George F. Burgess, Gonzales.
Rudolph Kleberg, Cuero. James L. Slayden, San Antonio.
John H. Stephens, Vernon. Gordon Russell, « Tyler.
Morris Sheppard, " Texarkana.
UTAH.
SENATORS
Joseph L. Rawlins, Salt Lake City. Thomas Kearns, Salt Lake City.
REPRESENTATIVE.
George Sutherland, Salt Lake City.
VERMONT.
■
SENATORS.
Redfield Proctor, Proctor. William P. Dillingham, Montpelier.
EBPEBSENTATIVES.
David J. Foster, Burlington. Kittredge Haskins, Brattleboro.
"Appointed in place of James H. Kyle, deceased, and toot his seat December 1, 1902.
6 Died August 30, 1902.
oEIected to fill vacancy caused by death of J. L. Sheppard and took his seat December 1, 1902.
dDied October 11, 1902.
eElected to fill vacancy caused by death of R. C. De Grailenreid and took his seat December 2, 1902.
348
OONGEESSIONAL DIBBCTOEY.
VIRGINIA.
SBNATOKS.
John W. Daniel, Lynchburg.
William A. Jones, Warsaw.
John Lamb, Richmond.
Claude A. Swanson Chatham.
James Hay, Madison.
William F. Rhea, Bristol.
Carter Glass, « Lynchburg.
KEPKESBNTATIVES.
Thomas S. Martin, Albemarle County.
Harry L. Maynard, Portsmouth.
Francis R. Lassiter, Petersburg.
Peter J. Otey, 6 Lynchburg.
John F. Rixey, Brandy.
Henry D. Flood, Appomattox.
WASHINGTON.
SENATORS.
George Turner, Spokane.
KEPRBSENTATIVES.
Wesley L. Jones, North Yakima.
WEST VIRGINIA,
SENATORS.
Stephen B. Elkins, Elkins.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Blackburn B. Dovener, Wheeling.
Joseph H. Gaines, Charleston.
John C. Spooner, Madison.
WISCONSIN.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Henry A. Cooper, Racine,
Joseph W. Babcock, Necedah.
Samuel S. Barney, West Bend.
John J. Esch, La Crosse.
Webster E. Brown, Rhinelander.
Addison G. Foster, Tacoma.
Francis W. Cushman, Tacoma.
Nathan B. Scott, Wheeling.
Alston G. Dayton, Philippi.
James A. Hughes, Huntington.
Joseph V. Quarles, Milwaukee.
Herman B. Dahle, Mount Hoi;eb.
Theobold Otjen, Milwaukee.
James H. Davidson, Oshkosh.
Edward S. Minor, Sturgeon Bay.
John James Jenkins, Chippewa Falls.
WYOMING.
SENATORS.
Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Frank H. Mondell, Newcastle.
Clarence D. Clark, Evanston.
ARIZONA TERRITORY.
DELEGATE.
Marcus A. Smith, Tucson.
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.
DELEGATE.
Bernard S. Rodey, Albuquerque.
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
DJELBGATB.
Dennis T. Flynn, Guthrie.
HAWAII TERRITORY.
DELBGATE.
Robert W. Wilcox, Honolulu.
PORTO RICO.
RESIDENT COMMISSIONER.
Federico Degetau.
aEIected to fill vacancy caused by death of Peter J. Otey, and took his seat December 1, 1902.
6 Died May 4, 1902.
BIOGRAPHIES.
349
BIOGRAPHIES.
Abliott, Amos, was born at Andover, Mass.,
September 10, 1786; reared on his father's farm;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; filled a number of
town offices; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1835-36 and 1842, and of the : State
senate in 1840 and 1843; one of the founders and
directors of the Boston and Maine Eailroad;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; reelected
to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses,
serving from February 15, 1844, until March 3,
1849; died November 2, 1868, at Andover, Mass. •
Abbott, Jo, of Hillsboro, Tex., was born near
Decatur, Morgan County, Ala., January 15, 1840;
received a private and public school education;
served in th& Confederate army as first lieutenant,
Twelfth Texas Cavalry; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in October, 1866; elected to the State
legislature in 1869, and served one term ; appointed
by Governor Roberta district judge of the twenty-
eighth judicial district in February, 1879; elected
in November, 1880, for a term of four years; elected
to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses; resumed the practice of
law at Hillsboro, Tex.
Abbott, Joel, was born at Fairfield, Conn., in
1790; moved to Washington, Ga. ; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat on a gen-
eral ticket; reelected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
and Eighteenth Congresses, receiving at his last
election 11,231 votes as a supporter of Mr. Craw-
ford for the Presidency, and Served from Decem-
ber 1, 1817, to March 3, 1825; died November 19,
1826, at Washington, Ga.
Abbott, Joseph. C, was born July 15, 1825, at
Concord, N. H.; received an academic education;
read law and admitted to the bar; editor and pro-
prietor of the Manchester American for a num-
ber of years, and later editor of the Boston Atlas;
appointed adjutant-general of the State of New
Hampshire in July, 1855; member of the commis-
sion for adjusting the boundary line between New
Hampshire and Canada; took a great interest in
literary and historical matters and contributed
largely to magazines; after the civil war moved
to Wilmington, N. C, and for a time commandant
of the city; elected to the United States Senate
from that State as a Republican for a partial term
which closed in 1871 ; collector of the port of Wil-
mington under President Grant, and inspector of
posts along the eastern line of the Southern coast
under President Hayes; the last few years of his
life engaged in business at Wilmington, where he
died in 1881.
Abbott, Josiah G. , was born November 1, 1815,
at Chelmsford, Mass.; died at Wellesley Hills,
Mass., June 2, 1891; fitted for college by Ralph
Waldo Emerson; graduated from Harvard College
in 1832, and in 1835 admitted to the bar; when
he attained his majority became a member of the
State house of representatives, and in 1841 and
1842 a member of the State senate; delegate to
the national Democratic convention in 1844, and
with the exception of two attended every national
convention of his party until his death, and in-
variably chosen' chairman of the Massachusetts
delegation ; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1853; judge of the superior court of
Massachusetts for Suffolk County from the estab-
lishment of the coilrt in 1855 until it was abolished
in 1859; Democratic candidate for Congress from
the Fourth Massaciiusetts district in 1874; the cer-
tificate of election was given to his Republican op-
ponent, Mr. Frost, but Mr. Abbott contested the
seat, and the House of Representatives gave it to
him July 28, 1876; declined a renomination; unsuc-
cessful Democratic candidate for the United States
Senate in 1875 and 1877, and in 1878 for governor.
Abbott, Wehemiah, was born March 29, 1806,
at Sidney, Me.; received an academic education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began the
practice of his profession at Belfast, Me. ; member
of the State house of representatives in 1842 and
1843; elected a Representative from Maine to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; after his
retirement from Congress resumed the practice of
law at Belfast, Me., and died there July 26, 1877.
Abercrombie, James, was born in Hancock
County, Ga. ; after having received an academic
education moved to Montgomery County, Ala.,
in 1819; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1820 and 1822, and of the State senate
1825-1833; moved to Russell County and again
elected to the State bouse of representatives .in
1838 and 1839, and of the State senate in 1847-1850;
elected a Representative from the State of Ala-
bama to the Thirty-second Congress as a Union-
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-third Congress,
serving from December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1855;
died in 1860.
Acheson, Ernest F., of Washington, Pa., was
born in Washington, Pa., September 19, 1855;
educated in the public schools and at Washington
and Jefferson College, being a member of the class
of 1875 at that institution; read law, and admitted
to the bar in 1877; newspaper correspondent for
several years; purchased the Washington Weekly
Observer in 1879, of which he was editor; estab-
lished a daily edition of the Observer in 1889;
elected president of the Pennsylvania Editorial
351
352
0ONGEE88IONAL DIRECTOEY.
Association in January, 1893, and in June of the
same year chosen as recording secretary of the
National Editorial Association; secretary and
chairman of the Washington County Republican
committeefor several terms; for ten years a mem-
ber of the Republican State committee; delegate
to the Republican national convention at Chicago
in 1884 and voted for Blaine on every ballot; Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the Twenty-
fourth district in 1892, but defeated on account of
the labor troubles at Homestead, which town is
situated in that district; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Acker, Ephraim L. , was born January 11,
1827, in Marlboro Township, Pa. ; received a clas-
sical education and graduated September 8, 1847,
from Marshall College; after teaching school two
years again attended college and graduated in
medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in
March, 1852; editor and publisher of the Norris-
town Register from June, 1854, to June, I860;
superintendent of the schqols of Montgomery
County; appointed postmaster at Norristown in
March, 1860, under President Buchanan, and after
serving eleven months was removed by President
Lincoln; for three years inspector of Montgomery
County prison; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Acklen, Joseph. Hayes, of Franklin, La., was
born at Nashville, Tenn., May 20, 1850, though his
parents were citizens of Louisiana at the time;
educated partly by private tutor at "Belmont,"
the summer home of his parents at Nashville,
then at Burlington College, and finally graduated
successively from two foreign universities; return-
ing to America, graduated from the law depart-
ment of the Columbian University, at Lebanon,
Tenn. ; commenced, and continued for some years,
the practice of law at Nashville, and later at
Memphis, Tenn.; abandoned the practice of law
to personally superintend his sugar plantations in
Louisiana; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress and
reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat; after his retirement from Congress moved to
Memphis, Tenn. , where he resumed his practice.
Adair, Jolin, was born August 16, 1759, in
Chester County, S. C. ; served in the Army of the
Revolution; moved to Kentucky in 1787; in an
expedition against the Indians, under General
Wilkinson, in 1791 and 1792, was a major of vol-
unteers, and in 1793 a lieutenant-colonel under
General Scott; member of the Kentucky constitu-
tional convention in 1799; member of Kentucky
legislature for several years, serving one year as
speaker of the house; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Kentucky as a Democrat (in the place
of John Breckinridge, resigned), serving from No-
vember 8, 1805, until he resigned in 1806; com-
mander of the Kentucky Rifle Brigade, which
served under General Jackson in 1814 and 1815,
and distinguished himself in the battle of New
Orleans; governor of Kentucky 1820-1824; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
second Congress as a Democrat; died Mav 19
1840, at Harrodsburg, Ky.
Adams, Andrew, was born in January, 1736
at Stratford, Conn. ; graduated from Yale College
in 1760; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Stamford; moved to Litch-
field in 1764; member of the State legislature 1776-
1781; Delegate from Connecticut to the Conti-
nental Congress 1777-1780 and 1781-82; member
of the executive council of Connecticut in 1789
and chief justice in 1793; died at Litchfield, Conn.,
November 26, 1797.
Adams, Benjamin, was born in 1765 at Worces-
ter, Mass.; graduated from Brown University in
1788; studied law; admitted to the bar and began
the practice of his profession at Uxbridge; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1809-1814,
and of the State senate 1814-15 and 1822-1825;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist (to fill a
vacancy caused by the death of Elijah Brigham) ;
reelected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con-
gresses, serving from December 2, 1816, to March
3, 1821; defeated as the Federal candidate to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses; died
March 28, 1837, at Uxbridge, Mass.
Adams, Charles Francis (grandson of John
Adams and son of John Quincy Adams) , was bom
August 18, 1807, at Boston, Mass.; was given a
classical education in Europe; after his return
home he studied law under Daniel Webster and
in 1828 admitted to the bar but never practiced;
member of the State house of representatives 1831-
1834 and of the State senate 1835-1837; editor of
the Boston Whig 1845-1848; candidate of the Free
Soil Party in 1848 for Vice-President of the United
States; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican
(from the district formerly represented by his
father) ; reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress,
but only served from December 5, 1859, until
March 3, 1861; appointed minister to Great Britain,
March 20, 1861, by President Lincoln and served
until May 13, 1868; in 1869 chosen as one of the
overseers for the Harvard College; the defeated
candidate of the Democratic party in 1876 for gov-
ernor of Massachusetts.
Adams, Charles H., was born in Coxsackie,
N. Y., in 1824; after receiving an academic^duca^
tion studied and practiced law; moved to Cohoes
in 1850 and engaged in manufacturing; retired
from active business in 1870; elected in 1870 the
first mayor of Cohoes and served two years; mem-
ber of the State assembly in 1858 and of the State
senate 1872-73; delegate to the national Repubh-
can convention in 1872; United States commis-
sioner from New York to the Vienna exposition in
1873; elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; died
December 15, 1902, at New York City.
Adams, George Everett, of Chicago, 111.,
was born at Keene, N. H., June 18, 1840; gradu-
ated from Harvard in 1860; studied law at the
Dane Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and after-
wards practiced; elected State senator of Illinois
from the Sixth district, being part of Chicago, in
November, 1880, and resigned on the 3d of March,
1883, having been elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses.
Adams, George M., was born December 20,
1837, in Knox Countv, Ky. ; educated at Center
College, Danville, Ky"; studied law; clerk of the
circuit court of Knox County, Ky., from 1859 to
1861; in August, 1861, raised a company and en-
tered the Union Army as its captain; during the
same year appointed paymaster of volunteers,
which position he held until the close of the war;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fortieth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third
Congresses; elected Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Forty-fourth Congress.
BIOGBAPHIES.
353
Adams, Green, was born August 20, 1812, at
Barboursville, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the
bar and practiced; member of the State legislature
of Kentucky in 1839; elected as a Representative
to the Thirtieth Congress, as a Whig; Presidential
elector 1844-1856; judge of the circuit court of
Kentucky 1851-1856; elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a National American; Sixth Auditor
of the Treasury from April 17, 1861, to October 26,
1864; Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives
in the Forty-fourth Congress.
Adajns, John (father of John Quincy Adams
and grandfather of Charles Francis Adams), was
born October 30, 1735, at Braintree, now Quincy,
Mass. ; graduated from Harvard College in 1755;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Quincy; removed to Boston in 1768;
member of the general court in 1770 and of the
provincial council in 1773-74; Delegate to the
Continental Congress from Massachusetts 1774t-
1777; commissioner to France in 1777, but after
his arrival at Paris resigned and returned; mem-
ber of the Massachusetts constitutional convention
in 1779; appointed in September, 1779, minister
plenipotentiary to negotiate a treaty with Great
Britain; negotiated a treaty of commerce with the
Netherlands in 1782; again appointed a Delegate
to Congress in 1788, but did not serve, as he was
elected Vice-President of the United States; re-
elected in 1793; elected President of the United
States in 1797, as a Federalist, receiving 71 elec-
toral votes against 68 for Thomas Jefferson, Dem-
ocrat; candidate for reelection but defeated, re-
ceiving 65 of the 128 electoral votes cast; retired
to Quincy, Mass., where he died July 4, 1826.
Adams, Joh.n, was born August 26, 1808, at
Durham, N. Y. ; received an academic education,
studied law, and was admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Catskill, N. Y. ; member of the State
house of representatives 1812-13; Democratic can-
didate from the State of New York to the Four-
teenth Congress, and received the certificate of
election, but did not take his seat, as the House
of Representatives decided that his opponent,
Erastus Root, had been legally elected, 576 of his
votes having been thrown out by mistake; elected
to the Twenty-third Congress from New York as
a Jackson Democrat; died at Catskill, N. Y., Sep-
tember 28, 1854.
Adams, John J. , was elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-eighth and Forty-
ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Adams, John ftuincy (eldest son of John
Adams and father of Charles Francis Adams) , was
born at Braintree, Mass. , July 11, 1767; the greater
part of his education was received in Europe, at-
tending for a time the University of Leyden ; when
only 15 years of age went, as secretary, with Francis
Dana with his mission to St. Petersburg; after
making quite an extensive tour of Europe returned
home and graduated from Harvard in 1788;
studied law at Newburyport with Theophilus Par-
sons and admitted to the bar; began practicing at
Boston; elected to the State senate on the Federal
ticket in 1802; defeated candidate for Congress in
1802; elected to the United States Senate as a
Federalist, serving from October 17, 1803, until
defeated for reelection; resigned June 8, 1808;
professor in rhetoric at Harvard College 1806-
1809; appointed minister to Russia 1809-1814;
member of the commission which negotiated the
treaty of Ghent in 1815; minister to England 1815-
1817, and assisted at the convention of commerce
with Great Britain; Secretary of State under Pres-
ident Monroe 1817-1825; in 1825 the election of a
President fell, according to the Constitution of the
United States, to the House of Representatives,
since no one of the candidates had secured an abso-
lute majority of the electors chosen by the States,
and Adams, whostood second to Jackson intheelec-
toral vote, was chosen, in preference to Jackson,
Clay, and Crawford; defeated candidate for gov-
ernor in 1834; elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Twenty-second Congress, as a
Whig, and successfully reelected eight times;
stricken by death in the Capitol building at Wash-
ington, Februarjf 23, 1848; the exact spot where
Mr. Adams fell is marked by a star and inscription
in Statuary Hall, which at one time was the House
of Representatives Chamber.
Adams, Parmenio, was bom at Hartford, Conn. ;
received a public-school education; removed to
Genesee County, N. Y.; served in the war againgt
Great Britain as paymaster of Dobbin's New York
Volunteers; elected a Representative from New
York to the Eighteenth Congress, as an Adams
man, receiving 2,077 votes agamst 2,871 votes for
Isaac Wilson, Democrat, who obtained the seat
through indirect returns, but the House gave it to
Adams; reelected to the Nineteenth Congress, serv-
ing from January 7, 1824, until March 3, 1827.
Adams, Robert, jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., was
bom at Philadelphia, Pa., February 26, 1849;
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1869; studied and practiced law for five years;
member of the United States Geological Survey
1871-1875, and engaged in explorations of the
Yellowstone Park; member of the State senate of
Pennsylvania 1883-1887; graduated in 1884 from
the Wharton School of Economy and Finance of
the University of Pennsylvania; appointed United
States minister to Brazil April 1, 1889, and re-
signed June 1, 1890; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican, and reelected
to theFifty-eighth Congress; in the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress, as acting chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Mr. Adams reported, conducted
through the House, and had charge of, iii con-
ference with the Senate, the Cuban resolutions,
and drafted, introduced, reported, and passed
through the House of Representatives, in one hour,
the declaration of war against Spain.
Adams, Robert H. , was bom in Rockbridge
County, Va., in 1792; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law; admitted to the bar and began
practicing at Knoxville, Tenn.; removed to
Natchez, Miss., in 1819; member of the State
house of representatives in 1828; elected to the
United States Senate tp fill a vacancy caused by the
death of Thomas B. Reed, serving from February
3, 1830, until May 31, 1830; died at Natchez, Miss.,
July 2, 1830.
Adams, Samuel, was bom September 27,
1722; graduated in 1740 from Harvard College; ap-
pointed tax collector of Boston; member of the
general court of Massachusetts 1765-1774; dele-
gate to the Continental Congress from Massachu-
setts 1774-1781; member of the Massachusetts
constitutional convention in 1779; president of
the State senate in 1781; member of the State con-
stitutional convention which adopted the Federal
Constitution in 1788; elected lieutenant-governor
of Massachusetts as a Democrat 1789-1794, and
governor 1794-1797; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for Congress to the First Congress from
Massachusetts; died at Boston, Mass., October 2,
1803.
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Adams, Silas, of Liberty, Ky., was born in
Pulaski County, Ky., February 9, 1839; moved to
Casey at the age of 2; received an education in the
pubhc schools of the county, Kentucky University
at Harrodsburg, and Transylvania at Lexington;
entered the law school at Lexington in 1867, and
received license to practice; served two terms as
county attorney; served three terms in the legisla-
ture; nominated and voted for by the Bepublicans
of the State legislature for speaker in 1892, and also
for United States Senator; entered the Union Army
in 1861 as first lieutenant. First Kentucky Vol-
unteer Cavalry; promoted to captain, lieutenant-
colonel, and colonel of the regiment, and mustered
out December 31, 1864; elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a EepubHcan in 1892; after leaving
Congress resumed the practice of law; died May 5,
1896.
Adams, Stephen, was born in Franklin
County, Tenn. ; received a public-school education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member
of the State senate of Tennessee; moved to
Mississippi and began the practice of his profes-
sion; member of the State house of representatives
of Mississippi; elected a representative to Con-
gress from Mississippi to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected judge of the circuit
court in 1848; chosen a United States Senator from
Mississippi, as a States rights Democrat (in place
of Jefferson Davis, resigned), and served from
March 17, 1852, until March 3, 1857; moved to
Memphis, Tenn. , to resume the practice of law,
and died there May 11, 1857.
Adams, Thom^as, was born in Virginia; dele-
gate from his native State to the Continental Con-
gress, 1778-1780.
Adamson, William Charles, of Carrollton,
Ga., was born at Bowdon, Ga., August 13, 1854;
spent his youth alternately in working on the farm
and in hauling goods and cotton between Atlanta
and Bowdon; took the collegiate course at Bow-
don College, graduating with the degree of A. B.
in 1874, the degree of A. M. being conferred a few
years later by the same institution; read law; ad-
mitted to the bar October, 1876, practicing law in
the circuit and supreme courts of the State and the
Federal courts; judge of the city court of Carroll-
ton 1885-1889, and attorney for the city of Car-
rollton for a number of years; Presidential elector
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and
reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a JDemocrat.
Addams, William, was born in Lancaster
County, Pa., September 4, 1776; moved to I?erks
County, and served as auditor in 1813 and 1814;
member of the State house of representatives
1822-1824; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses; associate judge of Berks County 1839-1842;
died May 19, 1858.
Adgate, Asa, was born in New York State;
member of the State house of representatives in
1798-99; elected a Representative from New York
to the Fourteenth Congress; again chosen a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1823;
died at Clinton, N. Y.
Adrain, Garnett B., was born at New York
City, December 20, 1816; graduated from Rutgers
College, New Jersey, in 1833, and four years later
admitted to the bar; elected a Representetive from
New Jersey to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as an anti-Le Compton Democrat, supported by the
opposition; while in Congress served as chairman
of the Committee on Engraving; died at New
Brunswick, N. J., August 17, 1878.
Ahl, John A. , was bom August 9, 1815, at Stras-
burg, Pa.; received a liberal education; studied
medicine and graduated from the Washington Med-
ical College of Baltimore; practiced until 1850,
when he engaged in manufacturing; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Aiken, D. Wyatt, of Cokesbury, S.C, was born
at Winnsboro, FairfleldCounty, S. C. , March 17, 1828 ;
received an academic education at Mount Zion
Institute, Winnsboro; graduated from the South
Carolina College, Columbia, in 1849; taught school
two years; settled upon a farm in 1852; entered
the volunteer service of the Southern Confederacy
as a private in 1861; appointed adjutant of the
Seventh Regiment of Volunteers; elected colonel
of the same when reorganized at the expiration of
their term of service; relieved from service by
reason of wounds received on the 17th of Septem-
ber, 1862, at Antietam; elected to the State legis-
lature in 1864 and again in 1866; master of the
State Grange for two years and member of the
executive committee of the National Grange for six
years; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at St. Louis that nominated Tilden and
Hendricks; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress,
and reelected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses; while in
Congress served on the committees on Agriculture
and Patents and as chairman of the Committee
on Education; an invalid all throughout his last
term in Congress, and died April 6, 1887, at Cokes-
bury, S. C.
Aiken, William, was born at Charleston,
S. C, in 1806; received a classical education and
graduated from the College of South Carolina;
became engaged in agricultural pursuits; member
of the State legislature 1838-1842; governor of
South Carolina 1844-1846 ; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Thirty-second, Thirty-
third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses without oppo-
sition; reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress;
presented his credentials February 12, 1867, but
not admitted to his seat; died at Flat Rock, N. C,
September 7, 1887.
Ainslie, George, of Idaho City, Idaho, was
born near Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., Octo-
ber 30, 1838; received a common school education,
and attended the St. Louis University 1856-57;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in Missouri
in 1860; moved to Colorado in 1860, and in 1862
moved to that portion of Washington Territory
which now constitutes the Territory of Idaho;
engaged there in mining and practicing law ; elected
a member of the legislature and served two ses-
sions, 1865 and 1866, in the legislative council, and
president of the council during the fourth session;
edited the Idaho World, then a Democratic news-
paper, from 1869 to 1873; elected district attorney
of the second district in 1874 and reelected in 1876;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress.
Ainsworth, Lucien Lester, was born June
21, 1831, at New Woodstock, N. Y.; educated in
the public schools and at the Oneida Seminary,
Cazenovia, N. Y. ; studied law and admitted to
the bar in Madison County, N. Y., in 1854; mo\ed
to Iowa in 1855 and commenced the practice of
law at West Union; member of the State senate
1860-1862; entered the Union Army as captain
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355
in the Sixth Iowa Cavalry in 1862, and served
three years against the Indians in the Northwest;
after leaving the Army returned to West Union
and resumed practice; member of the State house
of representatives of Iowa in 1872 and 1873;
elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-
fourth Congress as an anti-Monopolist.
Aitken, Davia D., of Flint, Mich., was born
in Genesee County, Mich., Septembers, 1854; edu-
cated in the public schools of Flint; admitted to
the bar in 1879; elected to the Fifty-third Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; supreme
counselor and attorney for the Maccabees of the
World.
Akers, Thomas Peters, was elected a Rep-
resentative from Missouri to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a National American (to fill the va-
cancy caused by the death of J. G. Miller), serv-
ing from August 18, 1856, to March 3, 1857.
Albert, ■William Julian, was born August 4,
1816, at Baltimore, Md.; educated at Mount St.
Mary's College, Maryland; a merchant, but in
1856 retired; president of the electoral college of
Maryland in 1864 and voted for Abraham Lincoln
as President of the United States; one of the
founders and directors of the First National Bank
of Maryland; director of several insurance com-
panies, savings banks, and manufacturing compa-
nies; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican; died
at Baltimore, Md., March 29, 1879.
Albertson, Nathaniel, was born in Virginia;
moved to Greenville, Ind. ; elected a Representa-
tive from the State of Indiana to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat.
Albright, Charles, was born December 13,
1830, in Berks County, Pa., educated at Dickenson
College; studied law and admitted to the bar
in 1852; moved to Kansas in 1854 and partici-
pated in the early struggle of that Territory; re-
turned to Pennsylvania and resumed the prac-
tice of law at Mauchchunk in 1856; delegate to the
Republican national convention in 1860; entered
the Army in 1862 as major of the One hundredth
and thirty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-
teers; made lieutenant-colonel after the battle
of Antietam; February 22, 1863, commissioned
colonel commanding the Third Brigade, Third
Division, Second Army Corps, until after the battle
of Chancellorsville; September, 1864, commissioned
colonel of theTwo hundred and second Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers; March, 1865, promoted
to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers; August,
1865, mustered out of the service, and resumed
business at Mauchchunk; delegate to the Republi-
can national convention at Philadelphia in 1872;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Forty-third Congress as one of three Con-
gressmen at large as a Republican.
Albright, Charles J., was born in Pennsyl-
vania; moved to Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican.
Alcorn, James Lusk, was born in November
1816, near Golconda, 111.; reared in Livingston
County, Ky., and educated at Cumberland Col-
lege in that State; deputy sheriff of Livingston
County for four years; elected to the legislature
in 1843; in 1844 moved to Coahoma County,
Miss., and entered upon the practice of law;
served sixteen years in the house and senate of
the Mississippi legislature; an elector at large
on the Scott ticket in 1852; ilominated by the
Whigs in 1857 for governor, he declined, running
in that year as the Whig candidate for Congress
in his district, which was largely Democratic, and
was beaten; founder of the levee system in his
State, and was made president of the levee board
of the Mississippi Yazoo Delta; elected to the State
convention in 1851, and again in 1861; served in
the Confederate Army; elected to the United
States Senate in 1865, but not allowed to take his
seat; elected governor of Mississippi on the Re-
publican ticket in 1869, and inaugurated in March,
1870; elected to the Senate of the United States
and resigned as governor on November 30, 1871,
and took his seat in the Senate on December 4,
1871; defeated as an independent candidate for
governor in 1873; died in 1894.
Alderson, John Duffy, was born at Nicholas
Court-House, W. Va., November 29, 1854; received
a common-school education; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar when 21 years of age; appointed
prosecuting attorney in each of the counties of
Nicholas and Webster, to iill vacancies occasioned
by the death of his father, Joseph A. AlderSon;
elected prosecuting attorney for these counties in
1876, and twice reelected, serving until January 1,
1889; page in the West Virginia constitutional con-
vention of 1872; elected doorkeeper of the State
senate of 1872-3; sergeant-at-arms of that body and
afterwards clerk, serving seventeen years as an
attach^ of the legislature; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a. Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses; resumed the
practice of law after leaving Congress; delegate to
the Democratic national convention at Kansas
City in 1900.
Aldrich, Cyrus, was born June 7, 1808, at
Smithfield, R. I. ; received a public school educa-
tion and then went to sea; moved to Illinois and
became an extensive mail contractor; member of
the State house of representatives in 1845 and 1846;
register of deeds of Jo Daviess County in 1847; ap-
pointed receiver of land office at Dixon in 1849;
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-
second Congress; moved to Minneapolis in 1854;
member of the Minnesota constitutional conven-
tion in 1857; defeated at the convention for the
nomination on the Republican ticket to the Thirty-
fifth Congress; elected a Representative from Min-
nesota to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican
and reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, un-
successful candidate for the United States Senate
in 1863; member of the legislature in 1864; ap-
pointed postmaster at Minneapolis by President
Johnson, March, 1867; died at Minneapolis, Octo-
ber 5, 1871.
Aldrich, J. Frank, of Chicago, 111., was born
at Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wis., April 6,
1853; moved to Chicago in April, 1861; attended
public schools and Chicago University and gradu-
ated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y., in 1877, with degree of civil engi-
neer; engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil,
and subsequently in the gas business; has been a
member of the Cook County board of commission-
ers, and president of that body during the reform
period in 1887; also a member of the county
board of education and chairman of the committee
of citizens of Chicago appointed from the various
clubs and commercial organizations to inaugurate
and further the drainage act; served as commis-
sioner of public works of Chicago from May 1, 1891,
to January 1, 1893; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress.
356
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth, of Providence,
E. I., was born at Foster, R. I., November 6, 1841;
received an academic education; president of the
Providence common council in 1871-1873; member
of the Rhode Island general assembly in 1875-76,
serving the latter year as speaker of the house of
representatives; elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Forty-sixth Congress and re-
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; elected to
the United States Senate as a Republican to suc-
ceed A mbrose E. Burnside, Republican ( deceased ) ;
took his seat December 5, 1881, and reelected in
1886, in 1892, and in 1898.
Aldrich, Truman H., of Birmingham, Ala.,
was born in Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y.,
October 17, 1848; educated in the public schools
at that place and at the military academy at West
Chester, Pa. ; graduated from the Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute of Troy, N. Y., as a mining engi-
neer in class of 1869; after practicing his profession
in New York and New Jersey, moved to Selma,
Ala., in winter of 1871-72; in the banking busi-
ness there for two years and then made coal min-
ing" a business; operated successfully for many
years the Montevalo mines, the Pratt mines, and
opened and operated a dozen other mines; became
vice-president and general manager of the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in 1892,
operating a large number of mines and 16 blast
furnaces; nominated for Congress in 1894 by the
Republicans and indorsed by the People's Party;
elected but counted out, and after a successful
contest was seated near the close of the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-fourth Congress; has been active
in the development of the coal and iron industries
of his district and with the scientific and geolog-
ical work of the State.
Aldrich., William, of Chicago, 111., was born
at Greenfield, N. Y., in January, 1820; received a
common-school education, with a private tutor
one term in the higher mathematics and survey-
ing, and one term at an academy ; reared on a farm ;
taught school; engaged in mercantile pursuits in
1846; moved to Wisconsin in 1851, and, in addi-
tion to merchandising, engaged in the manufac-
ture of lumber, woodenware, and furniture; for
three years superintendent of schools; chairman
of the county board of supervisors one,year; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1859;
moved to Chicago in 1860 and was in the whole-
sale grocery business there; elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, and reelected to the Forty-sixth
and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Aldrich, William F., of Aldrich, Ala., was
born at Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y., March 11,
1853; educated in the public school of his native
village until 1865, when his father moved to
New York City, in which city and vicinity he at-
tended several schools; graduated from Warren's
MilitaryAcademy,atPoughkeepsie, takingacourse
in civil engineering; moved to Alabama in 1874;
engaged in mining and manufacturing; built up
the town that now bears his name; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress by the combined vote of the
Rejjublicans and Populists of the Fourth district,
against Gaston A. Robbins, Democrat; the latter
received the certificate of election from the gov-
ernor on the face of the returns, which showed a
majority of 3,750 in his favor; Mr. Aldrich insti-
tuted a contest, and was seated by the House on
Friday, March 13, the reports giving him a major-
ity of from 600 to 1,100, a change of 4,350 to 4,850
votes; candidate for reelection to the Fifty-fifth
Congress; the certificate of election was given to
Thomas S. Plowman, his opponent; however after
a contest the seat was given to Mr. Aldrich, and
he took his seat February 9, 1898; reelected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican, opposing
Gaston A. Robbins, Democrat, the latter receiving
the certificate of election as he did in 1894; after
a contest Mr. Aldrich was seated March 8, 1900.
Alexander, Adam B., was born in Washing-
ton County, Va. ; received an academic education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; moved to
Madison County, Tenn. ; elected a Representative
from that State to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Congresses, serving from December 1, 1823, to
March 3, 1827; died at Jackson, Tenn.
Alexander, Armstead TIL., of Paris, Mo., was
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; died November 7, 1892.
Alexander, De Alva Stanwood, of Buffalo,
N. Y., was born July 17, 1846, at Richmond, Me.;
at the age of 15 entered the Army, serving three
years, and until the close of the war; prepared for
college at Edward Little Institute in Auburn, Me.,
and took his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1870; located at Indianapolis, Ind., where
he studied and practiced law; delegate to the
national Republican convention in 1872; secretary
of the Indiana Republican State committee 1874-
1878; appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury
Department in 1881; served one term as com-
mander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand
Army of the Republic; moved to Buffalo, form-
ing a law partnership with his college classmate,
Hon. James A. Roberts; appointed United States
attorney for the northern district of New York in
May, 1889, holding the office until December, 1893;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty -eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Alexander, Evans, was a native of North
Carolina; received a classical education and grad-
uated from Princeton College in 1787; member of
the State legislature for two years; elected a Rep-
resentative from North Carolina to the Ninth
Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of Nathaniel Alexander) and reelected to the
Tenth Congress, serving from February, 1806, to
March 3, 1809; died October 28, 1809.
Alexander, Henry P. , was bom in New York
in 1802; received a public school education; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits at Littlefalls; defeated
as the Whig candidate for the Thirtieth Congress;
elected a Representative to the Thirty-first Con-
gress from New York; died at Littlefalls, N. Y.,
February 22, 1867.
Alexander, James, jr., was a native of Mary-
land; received a public school education; moved
to St. Clairsville, Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig,
and served from September 4, 1837, to March 3,
1839; died at St. Clairsville, Ohio, August 6, 1846.
Alexander, John, was born at Spartanburg,
8. C; after receiving a public school education
moved to Ohio where he became widely known in
politics as "The Buffalo of the West;" elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Congresses, serving from May 24, 1813,
to March 3, 1817.
Alexander, Mark, was a native of Mecklen-
burg County, Va. ; received a public school educa-
tion; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Sixteenth Congress; reelected to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first,
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357
and Twenty-second Congresses without opposition,
serving from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1833.
Alexander, Nathaniel, was born in Mecklen-
burg County, N. C, March 5, 1756; received a
classical education and graduated from Princeton
College in 1776; studied medicine and surgery;
served in the Revolutionary Army as a surgeon;
after independence was established practiced his
profession at the High Hills of Santee; served in
the legislature for several years; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Eighth Con-
gress, serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3,
1805; governor of North Carolina 1805-1807; died
at Salisbury, N. C, March 8, 1808.
Alexander, Kobert, was a native of Maryland;
member of the provincial convention of Maryland
in 1775; elected a Delegate from Maryland to the
Continental Congress December 9, 1775, and re-
elected July 4, 1776, but soon after the promulga-
tion of the Declaration of Independence left lor
England.
Alexander, Sydenham B. , of Charlotte, N. C,
was born in Mecklenburg County December 8,
1840; entered the University of North Carolina in
1856 and graduated from that institution in 1860;
by profession a farmer; enlisted in the Confed-
erate army in 1861 as a private soldier in the First
North Carolina Volunteer Infantry; elected captain
of Company K, Forty-second North Carolina In-
fantry in June, 1862; detached from his company
in 1864 and served as inspector-general on the staff
of Maj. Gen. R. F. Hoke; after the war returned
home and engaged in farming; master of State
Grange and ex officio member of State board of
agriculture in 1877; elected to the State senate in
1878 and reelected in 1882, 1884, and 1886; member
of the board of trustees of the North Carolina Agri-
cultural .i,nd Mechanical College; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat and reelected
to the Fifty-third Congress.
Alford, Julius C, was a native of Georgia;
received an academic education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at
Lagrange; Ga. ; elected a Representative from that
State to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a State
Rights Whig (to fill a vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of George W. B. Towns), serving from Jan-
uary 31, 1837, to March 3, 1837; defeated for
reelection to the Twenty -fifth Congress; elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress; reelected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Harrison Whig, and
served from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1843.
Alger, Russell A., of Detroit, Mich., was bom
in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio, Feb-
ruary 27, 1836; at the age of 11 years his parents
died; for seven years he labored on a farm, attend-
ing the Richfield Academy, in Summit Coimty,
Ohio, in winters, and subsequently taught country
school; later studied law at Akron, Ohio; admitted
to the bar bv the supreme court of that State
March, 1859; "the degree of LL. D. was conferred
upon him by Hillsdale College in May, 1855 ; Decem-
ber, 1859, moved to Grand Rapids, Mich. ; exten-
sively engaged in the lumber business and other
industries since 1866| August, 1861, enlisted in the
Army and mustered into service as captain of Corn-
panv C, Second Michigan Cavalry, September 2,
1861; major of the regiment April 2, 1862; lieu-
tenant-colonel Sixth Michigan Cavalry, October
30, 1862; colonel Fifth Michigan Cavalrj^, June 11,
1863; brevet brigadier-general, TJ. S. Volunteers,
for gallant and meritorious services to rank from
the battle of Trevillon Station, June 11, 1864;
brevet major-general, U. S. Volunteers, June 11,
1865, for gallant and meritorious services during
the war, having participated in 66 battles and skir-
mishes; elected commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic in 1889; in politics General.
Alger was a Republican; delegate to the Repub- ^u«
lican national convention of 1884, and elected gov- iffc '\,
ernor of Michigan in the same year, declining a &^-
renomination in 1886; first elector at large of his 'J'C^
State in 1888; March, 1897, appointed Secretary of V
War by President McKinley, resigning August 1 ,
1899; September 27, 1902, appointed United States
Senator by Governor Bliss, of Michigan, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of James McMillan;
took his seat December 1, 1902, and elected by the
legislature in January, 1903.
Allan, Chilton, was born April 6, 1786, in
Albermarle County, Va. ; received a common
school education; learned the wheelwright's trade;
moved to Kentucky, and, after working hours,
studied law; admitted to the bar; elected to the
legislature in 1811 and served for several years;
elected a j'epresentative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Olay Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-third Congress without
opposition, and reelected to the Twenty-fourth
Cfongress, serving from December 5, 1831, to March
3, 1837; elected president of the State board of
internal improvements in ]838; again elected to
the State house of representatives in 1842; died at
Winchester, Ky., Septembers, 1858.
AUee, James Frank, Republican, of Dover,
Del. , was born in that city in 1857 ; learned the trade
of jeweler and watchmaking from his father, whom
he succeeded in business; presidentof the Bay State
Gas Companyj of Delaware, and of the Staten
Island Brick Company; elected to the State senate
on the Union Republican ticket in 1898 and 1902,
each time overcoming the opposition of Democratic
and Regular Republican candidates; chairman of
the Union committee; elected to the United States
Senate March 2, 1903, to fill a vacancy that had
existed since March 3, 1901, and took his seat
March 3, 1903.
Allen, Amos L., of Alfred, was bomat Water-
boro, York County, Me., March 17, 1837; attended
the common school, and entered the Whitestown
Seminary, Whitestown, N. Y., in 1853, and the
sophomore class of Bowdoin College in 1857, grad-
uating in 1860; studied law at Alfred, and attended
the Columbian Law School at Washington, D. C. ;
admitted to the bar of York County in 1866; served
as clerk in Treasury Department for about three
years; elected clerk of the courts for York County
in 1870 and reelected three times and served twelve
years, until January 1, 1883; clerk of the Judiciary
Committee, House of Representatives, in 1883-84;
special examiner under the Pension Bureau for
a year in 1884-85; member of the Maine leg-
islature in 1886-87; private secretary to Speaker
Reed in the Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth
Congresses; delegate at large from Maine to the
Republican national convention at St. Louis in
1896, and member of the committee on resolu-
tions; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Republican November 6, 1899, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Hon. T. B. Reed;
reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Allen, Aug'ustus F. , was born in 1810; elected
a Representative from New York to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican, but died at
Jamestown, N. Y., January 22, 1875, before he
took his seat.
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Allen, Charles, was born at Worcester, Mass.,
August 9, 1897; studied law and admitted to the
bar; began practicing at Braintree, and soon after
moved to Worcester; member of the State house
.of representatives in 1829, 1834, 1836, and 1840,
and State senator in 1835, 1838, and 1839; member
of the northeastern boundary commission; judge of
the court of common pleas 1842-1844; declined to
be a candidate for judge of the State supreme court
in 1847 after having received the nomination;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Free Soiler, on the sec-
ond trial; reelected to the Thirty-second Congress
on the second trial; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1853; chief justice of the Suf-
folk County supreme court 1858-1860; delegate to
the peace conference in 1861; died at Worcester,
Mass., August 6, 1869.
Allen, Charles H., of Lowell, Mass., was born
at Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; fitted for college
in public schools; graduated from Amherst College
in 1869; took the decree of A. M. in 1872; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; held various local offices;
member of the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives in 1881 and 1882, and of the Massachusetts
senate in 1883, serving in each branch upon im-
portant committees; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Eepublican, and reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress.
Allen, Clarence Emir, of Salt Lake City , Utah,
was born at Girard, Erie County, Pa. , September
8, 1852; trained in the common schools of Girard;
fitted for college at Grand River Institute, Austin-
burg, Ohio, and graduated from Western Reserve
College With the class of 1877; taught one year at
Grand River Institute, and then was principal of
the preparatory of Western Reserve College three
years; went to Salt Lake City, Utah, in August,
1881, where he was an instructor in Salt Lake
Academy until 1886, when be resigned and entered
upon the business of mining; elected to and served
in the Territorial legislatures of 1888, 1890, and
1894; elected county clerk of Salt Lake County,
Utah, in August, 1890, and served until January 1,
1893; admitted to the bar at Salt Lake City in
1892; Liberal candidate for Delegate to Congress
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican at the special election held Novem-
ber 5, 1895, to vote upon the constitution of the
proposed State of Utah and for the selection of the
officers thereof; took his reat in the House of
Representatives January 7, 1896.
Allen, Edward P., of Ypsilanti, Mich., was
born at Sharon, Washtenaw County, Mich., Octo-
ber 28, 1839; worked on a farm until 20 years old,
attending school and teaching during winters;
graduated from the State Normal School in March,
1864; taught the Union School at Vassar, Mich.,
for the three months following, when he enlisted
and helped to raise a company for the Twenty-
ninth Michigan Infantry; commissioned first lieu-
tenant in that regiment in the following Septem-
ber, and went with it Southwest, where the regi-
ment was engaged in active campaigning until
the 1st of April; in September, 1865, mustered
out of the service with his regiment as captain;
entered the law school at Ann Arbor, graduating
in March, 1867; formed a partnership with Hon.
S. M. Cutcheon; upon the removal of Mr.
Cutcheon to Detroit, in 1875, continued the
practice alone at Ypsilanti; elected alderman of
Ypsilanti in 1872 and 1874, and mayor in 1880;
prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County in 1872;
elected to the lower house of the legislature in
1876, serving as chairman of the committee on
education; again elected in 1878, at which time he
was elected speaker pro tempore; appointed as-
sistant assessor of internal revenue in 1869; United
States Indian agent for Michigan in August, 1882,
which office he held until December, 1885; ran
for Congress in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican.
Allen, Elisha H. , was born January 28, 1804,
at Salem, Mass.; received a classical education;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began
practicing at Bangor, Me.; member of the State
house of representatives 1836-1841, and in 1838
was speaker; elected a Representative from Maine
to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; de-
feated for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress; again elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1846; moved to Boston in 1847, where
he resumed the practice of his profession; ap-
pointed consul at Honolulu, and was prominently
connected with the government of the Hawaiian
Islands as chief justice, and as regent and envoy
to the United States in 1856,- 1864, 1870, and 1875.
Allen, Heman, was born February 23, 1779, at
Poultney, Vt. ; received a liberal education and
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795; studied
law; admitted to the bar and began practicing
at Colchester; sheriff of Chittenden County, in
1808-9 and 1811-1814 chief justice of the county
court; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1812-1817; elected a Representative from
Vermont to the Fifteenth Congress, but resigned
on account of having been appointed by President
Monroe United States marshal for the district of
Vermont, serving in Congress from December 1,
1817, until Augustl, 1818; minister plenipotentiary
to Chile January 27, 1823, until July 31, 1827;
moved to Highgate, Vt., and died there April 7,
1852.
Allen, Heman, was born at Milton, Vt., in
1776; after having received an academic education)
studied law; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing in his native town; elected a Representa-
tive from Vermont to the Twenty-second Congress
as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses; defeated for reelection
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; died at Burlington,
Vt., December 11, 1844.
Allen, Henry D., of Morganfield, Union
County, Ky., was born in Henderson County, Ky.,
June 24, 1854; moved with his parents to Dnion
County in 1855, where he resided; reared on a
farm and educated in the common schools and at
Morganfield Collegiate Institute; taught for five
years in the public schools of Union County; ad-
mitted to the bar in July, 1878; served as common-
school commissionerf or three years; elected county
attorney, and served in that capacity for nine y eai-s ;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and reelected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Allen, James C, was born January 28, 1823",
in Shelby County, Ky. ; received a public-school
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
Indiana in 1843 and began practicing; elected
prosecuting attorney for the seventh judicial dis-
trict of Indiana 1846-1848; moved to Illinois
and was a member of the State house of repre-
rentatives 1850-51; elected a Representative
from Illinois to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat; Democratic candidate for reelection to
the Thirty-fourth Congress and received the cer-
tificate of election, but on a contest the House
declared the seat to be vacant; at a subsequent
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election was elected and took his seat December 1,
1856; elected Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives for the Thirty-fifth Congress; again elected
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Representative
at Large.
Allen, John, was born in 1763 at Great Bar-
rington, Mass.; received a classical education;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced at
Litchfield, Conn.; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist,
serving from May 15, 1797, to March 3, 1799; died
at Litdifield, Conn., July 31, 1812.
Allen, John Beard, of Walla Walla, Wash. ;
was born at Crawfordsville, Montgomery County,
Ind., May 18, 1845; educated at Wabash Col-
lege, Crawfordsville; private soldier in the One
hundred and thirty-fifth Regiment of Indiana
Volunteers; moved with his father's family to
Rochester, Minn., where he resided until Janu-
ary, 1870; here he read law and admitted to prac-
tice; moved to Washington Territory in March,
1870, and entered upon the practice of his pro-
fession; appointed United States attorney for
Washington Territory April, 1875, by President
Grant, and continued in that office until July,
1885; reporter of the supreme court of Washing-
ton Territory from 1878 to 1885; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican from the Ter-
ritory of Washington; elected to the United States
Senate under the provisions of the act of Congress
admitting Washington Territory into the Union;
took his seat December 2, 1889; reelected in 1893;
seat declared vacant by the United States Senate
August 28, 1893; resumed the practice of law; died
January 28, 1903.
Allen, John J., was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education, studied law, and began
practicing in Harrison County; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Twenty-third Con-
gress; chief justice of the supreme court of
Virginia.
Allen, Joliii M. , of Tupelo, Mis^., was born in
Tishomingo County, Miss., July 8, 1847; received
a common-school education up to his enlistment
as a private in the Confederate army, in which he
served through the war; after the cessation of hos-
tilities attended the law school at the Cumberland
University in Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated in
law, in the year 1870, from the University of Missis-
sippi; commenced the practice of his profession at
Tupelo, Lee County, Miss., in 1870; elected district
attorney for the first judicial district of Mississippi
in 1875; served a term of four years, and retired
from that office; elected a representative from
Mississippi to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and
Fifty-sixth Congresses; declined being a candidate
for reelection to the Fifty-seventh Congress; in
March, 1901, appointed a United States commis-
sioner to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904.
Allen, John W. (son of John Allen), was bom
in 1802 at Litchfield, Conn. ; received a classical
education; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825;
member of the State senate 1835-1837; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress.
Allen, Joseph, was born September 2, 1749, at
Boston, Mass. ; graduated from Harvard College in
1774;' became engaged in mercantile pursuits at
Leicester, Mass. ; moved to Worcester in 1776, hav-
ing been chosen clerk of the court, which posi-
tion he held until 1810; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1778; Presidential
elector in 1797; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Eleventh Congress in place of
Jabez Upham, resigned; State councilor 1815 and
1816; died at Worcester, September 2, 1827.
Allen, Judson, was a native of Connecticut;
received a public-school education; moved to
Brown County, N. Y. ; member of the State house
of representatives in 1837; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat.
Allen, Nathaniel, was born in New York State;
member of the State assembly of New York in
1812; elected a Representative from New York to
the Sixteenth, Congress.
Allen, Philip, was born September 1, 1785, at
Providence, R. I. ; graduated from Brown Univer-
sity in 1803 ; became engaged in mercantile pursuits;
appointed pension agent and president of the
Rhode Island branch of the United States Bank in
1827; elected governor of Rhode Island in 1851
as a Tariff Democrat; reelected in 1852 and 1853;
at the May session of the legislature, and after he
had been elected governor of the State, was elected
a United States Senator for the term commencing
March 4, 1853, and served until March 3, 1859 ; died
at Providence, R. I., December 16, 1865.
Allen, Kobert, was born in Augusta County,
Va. ; received a public-school education; moved
to Carthage, Tenn., where he engaged in business;
served as county clerk for many years; served in
the war of 1812, and commanded, a regiment of
Tennessee Volunteers under General Jackson;
elected a Representative from Tennessee io the
Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; declined a reelection; died at Carthage,
Tenn., August 19, 1864.
Allen, Robert, was bom July 30, 1794, at Wood-
stock, Va. ; received a liberal education and gradu-
ated from Washington College ; studied law ; admit-
ted to the bar and began the practice of his profes-
sion at Woodstock; elected prosecuting attorney;
member of the State senate for five years; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twentieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
first Congress; died at Mount Jackson, Va.
Allen, Samuel Clesson, was bom January 5,
1772, at Bernardstown, Mass. ; graduated in 1794
from Dartmouth College; studied theology and
was pastor of the Congregational Church in North-
field 1795-1798; studied law; admitted to the bar
and practiced; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1806-1810, and of the State senate
1812-1815; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth,andTwentieth Congresses,
serving from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1829;
again elected to the State senate io 1831 ; died Feb-
ruary 8, 1842, at Northfield, Mass.
Allen, Thomas, of St. Louis, Mo., was born at
Pittsfield, Mass.; educated at Union College;
studied law in New York City and admitted to the
bar; came to Washington in 1837 and established
the Madisonian, and elected Printer to the House
of Representatives and two years later Printer to
the Senate; five years editor and proprietor of the
Madisonian in Washington City; went to St. Louis
and married in 1842; member of the State senate
of Missouril850-1854; engaged in internal improve-
ments; projected and built over 1,000 miles of rail-
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way; took the first locomotive across the Missis-
sippi in 1852; president and director of various
public and private works and institutions; erected
and presented to his native town a free library in
1874, and the same year received from his alma
mater the honorary degree of LL. D. ; elected to
the Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat while
president of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Eailway, but subsequently sold his rail-
way interests and retired from all active business
except farming and the care of his property; died
April 8, 1882.
Allen, William, was born in 1806 at Edenton,
N. C. ; received a classical education; moved to
Ohio and studied law; admitted to the bar and
practiced; elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to
the Twenty-third Congress; elected to the United
States Senate (in place of Thomas Ewing), and re-
elected, serving from March 4, 1837, to March 3,
1849; elected governor of Ohio 1874-1876; can-
didate for reelection, but defeated by Rutherford
B. Hayes, Republican.
Allen, William, was born August 13, 1827, in
Butler County, Ohio ; received a public-school edu-
cation and taught; studied law, and in 1849 admit-
ted to the bar; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Allen, William J. , a native of Tennessee, was
born in 1828; emigrated the following year with
his father to Illinois; received a common school
education; studied law and admitted to the bar in
1848; member of the State legislature in 1854; ap-
pointed district attorney in 1855 and resigned when
elected judge of the circuit court; elected a Repre-
resentative from Illinois to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress (to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation
of Gen. J. A. Logan); reelected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; died January 26,
1901.
Allen, William Vincent, of Madison, Nebr.,
was born in Midway, Madison County, Ohio,
January 28, 1847; moved with his stepfather's
family to Iowa in 1857; educated in the common
schools of Iowa and attended the Upper Iowa
University at Fayette for a time, but did not
graduate; private soldier in Company G, Thirty-
second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, during the war
of the rebellion, the last five months of his service
being on the staff of Gen. J. I. Gilbert; read law;
admitted to the bar May 31, 1869, and practiced
law from then until elected judge of the district
court of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska, in
the fall of 1891; moved from Iowa to Nebraska in
1884; elected a United States Senator, to succeed
Algernon Sidney Paddock, February 7, 1893, for
the full term of six years, commencing March 4,
1893; appointed judge of the district court of the
ninth judicial district of Nebraska, March 9, 1899,
to fill a vacancy; elected judge November 7, 1899,
for the full term to begin on the first Thursday in
January, 1900; appointed a United States Senator
December 13, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Hon. M. L. Hayward; resigned his
judgeship three days later and took his seat in
the United States Senate, December 19, 1899.
Allen, Willis, was a native of Tennessee;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to
the Thirty-third Congress.
Alley, John B., was born January 7, 1817, at
Lynn, Mass. , received a liberal education ; engaged
in the shoe and leather business; member of the
State senate in 1852; member of the constitutional
convention in 1853; elected a Eepresentative from
Massachussetts to the Thirty-sixth Congress as
a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses; after
leaving Congress became connected with the Union
Pacific Eailroad.
Allison, James, was born October 4, 177'2, in
Cecil County, Md.; studied law and admitted to
the bar; began practicing in Beaver County, Pa.;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth Congress; reelected to the Nineteenth
Congress, but declined to serve on account of ill
health; died in June, 1854.
Allison, John (son of James Allison), was born
August 5, 1812, in Pennsylvania; received a liberal
education; studied law and admitted to' the bar,
but never practiced; member of the State house of
repretensatives in 1846, 1847, and 1849; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig ; defeated for reelection,
but reelected as a member of the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Whig; declined a renomination; ap-
pointed Hegister of the Treasury April 3, 1869.
Allison, Bobert, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
second Congress.
Allison, William Boyd, of Dubuque, Iowa,
was born at Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; educated
at the Western Eeserve College, Ohio ; studied law
and practiced in Ohio until he moved to Iowa in
1857; served on the staff of the governor of Iowa
and aided in organizing volunteers in the begin-
ning of the war for the suppression of the rebellion;
elected a Representative to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican to succeed James Harlan, Republican; took
his seat March 4, 1873, reelected in 1878, 1884, 1890,
1896, and 1902.
Aplin, Henry Harrison, of West Bav City,
Mich., was born at Thetford, Genesee County,
Mich., April 15, 1841; his parents moved to Flint
in 1848, and the son's education was received in
the public schools of Flint; the family returned to
the farm in 1856, where the son remained until the
outbreak of the civil war, when he enlisted on
July 3, 1861, in Company C, Sixteenth Michigan
Infantry; served until the close of the war, leaving
the service July 16, 1865, with the rank of second
lieutenant; returning to Michigan, engaged in mer-
cantile business at Wenona, now West Bay City;
postmaster at West Bay City from November, 1869,
to June, 1886, and again appointed to the same
office October 1, 1898; at the November election in
1886 elected auditor-general of the State; reelected
to the same office in 1888; elected to the lower
house of the State legislature from the second dis-
trict of Bay County in 1894, serving during the
session of 1895; delegate to the national conven-
tion which nominated Blaine and Logan in 1884;
served as township clerk and township treasurer,
each three years; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican October 15, 1901, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Rousseau 0.
Crump.
Alsop, John, was a native of Connecticut;
moved to New York and engaged in the mercan-
tile business, and became very successful; elected
a Delegate from New York to the Continental Con-
gress and reelected, serving from September 14,
1774, to October 26, 1774, and from May 10, 1775,
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to the latter part of that year when he returned to
Connecticut; died November 22,1794, at Newtown,,
Long Island, N. Y.
Alston, Xiemuel J. , was a native of South Caro-
lina; elected a Representative from South Carolina
to the Tenth Congress and reelected to the Elev-
enth Congress.
Alston, ■\yilliani J. , was a native of Georgia;
moved to Alabama while quite young and settled
in Marengo County; elected a member of the State
house of representatives in 1837, and in 1839 State
senator; elected a Representative from Alabama
to the Thirty-first Congress as aWhig; again elected
to the State house of representatives in 1855.
Alston, "Willis, was a native of Halifax County,
N. C; received a liberal education; member of
the house of commons of the State of North Caro-
lina in 1791, 1792, 1820, and 1821, and of the State
senate 1794r-1796; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses as
a War Democrat, and again elected to the Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses;
died April 10, 1837, at Halifax, N. 0.
Alvord, James C. , was born in Massachusetts
in 1808; received a classical education, and gradu-
ated from Dartmouth College in 1867; studied law
and was admitted to the bar; served one year in
each branch of the legislature of Massachusetts,
and elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Whig; died Sep-
tember 27, 1859, before taking his seat.
Ambler, Jacob A., was born February 18,
1829, at Pittsburg, Pa. ; studied law, admitted to
the bar and began practicing in Ohio; elected to
the legislature in 1857, and served two terms; ap-
pointed judge of the ninth judicial district in 1859,
serving until 1867; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican,
and reelected to the Forty-second Congress.
Amerman, Lemuel, of Scranton, Pa., was born
near Danville, Montour County, Pa., October 29,
1846; brought up on a farm; educated in the com-
mon schools, Danville Academy, and Bucknell
University, at Lewisburg, Pa. ; taught school three
years; professor of ancient languages and Enghsh
literature in the State Normal School at Mansfield,
Pa., for three years; read law in Philadelphia with
Hon. Lewis C. Cassady; admitted to practice and
located in Scranton in 1876; county solicitor for
Lackawanna County, 1879-80; representative in
Pennsylvania legislature, 1881-1884; city comp-
troller of Scranton, 1885-86; reporter of the deci-
sions of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
1886-87; electeid to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; died October 7, 1897.
Ames, Adelbert, was born October 31, 1835,
at Rockland, Me.; received a liberal education;
graduated at the United States Military Academy
at West Point, May 6, 1861; commissioned second
lieutenant of artillery; breveted major for meri-
torious servicesat Bull Run, where he was wounded;
breveted lieutenant-colonel for services at the bat-
tle of Malvern Hill; appointed colonel of the
Twentieth Maine Volunteers; breveted major-
general of volunteers for services at Fort Fisher;
at the close of the civil war breveted major-general
in the United States Army for meritorious services
in the field during the rebellion; appointed pro-
visional governor of Mississippi June 15, 1868;
appointed to the command of the fourth military
district (departmentof Mississippi) March 17, 1869;
elected to the United Statfes Senate from Missis-
sippi and took his seat April 1, 1870, serving until
January, 1874, when he resigned, having been
elected governor; resigned as governor in 1875 and
moved to Minnesota.
Ames, Fisher, was born April 9, 1758, at Ded-
ham, Mass. ; received a classical education and in
1 774 graduated from Harvard College ; while teach-
ing school studied law; admitted to the bar and
began practicing in 1781; served in the State legis-
lature; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the First Congress as a Federalist over Samuel
Adams, and reelected to the Second, Third, and
Fourth Congresses; after leaving Congress resumed
the practice of law, and chosen president of Har-
vard College in 1804, but dechned; died at Ded-
ham, Mass., July 4, 1808.
Ames, Oakes, was born January 10, 1804, at
Easton, Mass. ; received a public school education;
learned the trade of shovel making and estab-
lished himself as a manufacturer at North Easton;
member of the executive council of Massachu-
setts; member of the Thirty-eighth Congress from
Massachusetts; reelected to the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses;
died May 8, 1873, at North Easton, Mass.
Ancona, Sydenham E., was born November
20, 1824, at Warwick, Pa.; after receiving a lib-
eral education, moved to Berks County, ta.,
where for several years he was associated with the
Reading Railroad Company; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses.
Anderson, Albert K., of Sidney, Iowa, was
born in Adams County, Ohio, November 8, 1837,
and moved with his parents to Galesburg, 111.,
where he was educated in the common schools
and at Knox College; moved to Taylor County,
Iowa, in 1857, where he studied law and was
admitted to the bar; appointed postmaster of
Clarinda by President Lincoln in 1861; resigned
that office to enlist as a private in Company K,
Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry; with his com-
pany in the battle of Pea Ridge, and promoted to
first lieutenant after the battle; while before
Vicksburg was promoted to the captaincy of his
company; while serving as adjutant-general of
his brigade in the Atlanta campaign was commis-
sioned major of his regiment; commissioned lieu-
tenant-colonel of his regiment in 1865; wounded
at Jonesboro August 31, 1864, and again.at Benton-
ville, N. C., March 19, 1865; mustered out of the
service in August, 1865, and returned to Clarinda;
moved to Sidney in 1866; assessor of internal rev-
enue, 1868-1871; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention in 1872; district attorney 1876-
1880, when he resigned to become eligible for
election as elector at large on the Garfield and
Arthur ticket; appointed State railroad commis-
sioner in 1881; defeated for Congress in 1882;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as an Independent
Republican; died in 1898.
Anderson, Alexander, was a native of Ten-
nessee; after having received a classical education,
studied law and practiced at Knoxville; elected to
the United States Senate from Tennessee as a
Democrat to succeed Hugh L. White (resigned),
serving from February 26, 1840, to March 3, 1841.
Anderson, C. L., of Kosciusko, Miss., was
born in Noxubee County, Miss., March 15, 1845;
attended the common schools until the breaking
out of the civil war; entered the Confederate Army
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as a private in the Thirty-ninth Infantry Eegi-
ment, Mississippi Volunteers, March 5, 1862, and
served continuously in that command, receiving
promotion through the successive grades of non-
commissioned officers, until July,1864,whenhewas
transferred to Bradford's Cavalry Corps of Scouts,
with the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity
he served until the close of the war; entered the
University of Mississippi in January, 1866, where
he remained until the summer of 1867, having
taken a partial course in both the literary and law
departments; commenced the practice of law in
the town of Kosciusko, February 14, 1868; elected
to, the Mississippi legislature in November, 1879,
and served through the session of 1880; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Fifty-first Congress.
Anderson, Charles M. , of Greenville, Ohio,
was born in Juniata County, Pa., January 5, 1845;
emigrated to Ohio in 1855; served in the Union
Army during the civil war in one of the Ohio regi-
ments; practised law; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Anderson, George A. , ol Quincy, 111., was
born in Botetourt County, Va., March 11, 1853;
moved with his parents to Hancock County, 111. ,
when 2 years of age; received a common school
and collegiate education, graduating with first
honors in 1876; studied law; began the practice of
law in Quincy, 111., in 1880; elected city attorney of
Quincy in 1884, and reelected without opposition
in 1885; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat.
Anderson, ereorge W. , was born May 22, 1832,
in Jefferson County, east Tennessee; after gradu-
ating from Franklin College studied law; admitted
to the bar and practiced; moved to Missouri in
1853; member of the Missouri State legislature in
1859 and 1860 and of the State senate in 1862; Presi-
dential elector in 1860; from 1862 to 1864 served
as colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps and
commanded the Forty-ninth Regiment and First
Battalion, E. M. M., in active service; elected a
Representative from IMissouri to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fortieth Congress.
Anderson, Hugh. J. , was born in 1801 at Bel-
fast, Mass. (afterwards Maine); received a liberal
education; clerk of the Waldo County courts 1827-
1837; studied law; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-fifth Congress, and reelected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress; governor of Maine
1844-1847; Presidential elector on the Cass and
Butler ticket; commissioner of customs in the
Treasury Department 1853-1858; Sixth Auditor of
the Treasury 1866-1869.
Anderson, Isaac, was a representative from
Pennsylvania to the Eighth and Ninth Con-
gresses.
Anderson, John, was born in 1792 at Cum-
berland, Me.; received a classical education, and
in 1813 graduated from Bowdoin College; studied
law, and in 1816 admitted to the bar and began
practicing; member of the State senate in 1824;
elected a Representative to the Nineteenth Con-
gress and reelected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first,
and Twenty-second Congresses; elected mayor of
Portland in 1833 and 1842; United States attorney
for the district of Maine 1833-1837, and collector
of customs at Portland 1837-1841 and 1843-1848-
died August 21, 1863.
Anderson, John A., of Manhattan, Kans., was
born in Washington County, Pa., June 6, 1834;
graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
1853; elected by the legislature of California trus-
tee of the State insane asylum in 1860; appointed
chaplain of the Third Infantry, California Volun-
teers, in 1862; accompanied General Connor's ex-
pedition to Salt Lake City; in the service of the
United States Sanitary Commission, 1863-1867, as
California correspondent and agent; president of
the Kansas State Agricultural College from 1873 to
March, 1876, and served as such on Group XXI;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-
gresses; immediately after leaving Congress ap-
pointed consul-general to E^pt; died at Liverpool
while serving in that capacity.
Anderson, Joseph, was born Novembers, 1757,
near Philadelphia, Pa.; received a liberal educa-
tion and studied law; served through the Revolu-
tionary war and attained the rank of brevet major;
practiced law in Delaware for a number of years;
appointed United States judge of the territory
south of the Ohio River in 1791; memberof the first
constitutional convention of Tennessee; elected
a United States Senator from Tennessee, serving
from September 26, 1797, to March 8, 1815; First
Comptroller of the Treasury, serving from March
4, 1815, to July 1, 1836; died at Washington April
17, 1837.
Anderson, Joseph H. , was a native of White
Plains, N. Y.; received a common-school educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; died at
White Plains, N. Y.
Anderson, Josiah M. , was a native of Tennes-
see; elected a Representative from that State to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851; delegate from
Tennessee to the peace congress of 1861.
Anderson, J. Patton, was born in Tennessee;
moved to Washington Territory and settled at
Olympia; Delegate from Washington Territory to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; ap-
pointed governor of Washington Territory, holding
the position two months; entered the Confederate
army February 10, 1862, as brigadier-general; com-
mander of the brigade composed of the First
Florida, Seventeenth Alabama, and Fifth and
Eighth Mississippi regiments; promoted major-
general February 17, 1864, and assigned to the com-
mand of the district of Florida; suteequently in
command of Hindman's division, Polk's corps,
Army of Tennessee.
Anderson, Luifien, was born in June, 1824, at
Mayfield, Ky. ; received a liberal English educa-
tion; studied law; admitted to the bar and began
practice; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Union man.
Anderson, Richard Clough, jr., was born
August 4, 1788, at Louisville, Ky. ; attended school
at the William and Mary College in Virginia and
graduated there; studied law; practiced at Louis-
ville; member of the Kentucky legislature several
years; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Fifteenth Congress, and reelected to the Six-
teenth Congress; declined a reelection; again a
member of the State legislature in 1822 and elected
speaker of the house; first minister to Colombia,
January 27, 1823; took his leave June 7, having
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been commissioned envoy extraordinary to the
Panama Congress of Nations, but died at Cartagena
July 24, 1826, on his way there.
Anderson, Samuel, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; served several years in the State legisla-
ture; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twentieth Congress; died at Chester, Pa.,
January 17, 1850.
Anderson, Simeon H., was born March 2,
1802, in Garrard County, Ky.; received a liberal
education; studied law; admitted to the bar; a
member of the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-sixth
Congress, serving the iirst session, from December
2, 1839, until July 21, 1840; died before the expira-
tion of his term at his home near Lancaster, Ky.,
August 11, 1840.
Anderson, Thomas L., was born December
8, 1808, in Greene County, Ky. ; studied law;
admitted to the bar; moved to Missouri in 1830,
where he began the practice of his profession;
member of the State legislature of Missouri in
1840; Presidential elector 1844, 1848, 1852, and
1856; member of the constitutional convention
in 1845; elected a Representative from Missouri
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a National Amer-
ican, and reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat.
Anderson, William, was born in Chester
County, Pa., in 1759; served through the Revolu-
tionary war and distinguished himself at German-
town and Yorktown; moved to Delaware County,
Pa., in 1790 where he occupied several public po-
' sitions; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Eleventh Congress as a Jefferson Dem-
ocrat, and reelected to the Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fifteenth Congresses; collector of customs at
Chester, Pa., where he died December 13, 1829.
Anderson, William B., was born April 2, 1830,
at Mount Vernon, 111. ; received a common school
education; elected surveyor of Jefferson County
in 1851 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar,
but never practiced; was a member of the legisla-
ture in 1856 and 1858; entered the Union Army as
as a private in 1861; brevetted brigadier-general;
elected member of the constitutional convention
of Illinois in 1869; elected to the State senate in
1871; elected a Representative from Illinois in the
Forty-fourth Congress as an Independent Repub-
lican.
Anderson, William C. , was born December 6,
1829, at Lancaster, Ky. ; graduated from Danville
College; studied law; admitted to the bar and
practiced; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1851 and 1853; .defeated candidate of
the American party for the Thirty-fifth Congress;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as an American,.his seat be-
ing unsuccessfully contested; died at Frankfort,
Ky., December 23, 1861.
Anderson, William Colman of Newport,
Tenn., was born near Greensville, Tenn., in 1853;
raised on a farm; graduated from Tusculum Col-
lege in 1876; read law at Newport, Tenn.; admitted
to the bar in 1878; elected to the State legislature
from Cocke and Sevier counties in 1880 as a
Republican; chairman of the Republiean Con-
gressional committee for the First district for six
years; appointed a principal examiner of contested
land claims in the General Land Office in 1889, and
afterwards promoted for merit, first to chief of the
contest division, then to chief clerk of the General
Laiid Ofiice; assistant secretary of the Republican
national committee, with headquarters in New
York, during the campaign of 1892, and took an
active part in that campaign; returned to Newport
in the spring of 1893 to resume his law practice;
nominated in 1894 and elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; resumed the practice of
law; died September 8, 1902.
Andrew, John Forrester, of Boston, Mass.,
was born at Hingham, Mass., November 24, 1850;
graduated from Harvard Law School in 1875;
admitted to the Suffolk bar, and practiced law in
Boston; served three terms as member of the State
house of representatives and two terms in the State
senate; Democratic candidate for governor in 1886,
and was defeated; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress; died Mav 30, 1895, at Boston,
Mass.
Andrews, Charles, was born in 1814 at Paris,
Me.; studdied law; admitted to the bar in 1837;
began practicing at Turner, Me. ; member of the
State house of representatives 1839-1843; served as
speaker in 1842; elected as a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; died at Paris, Me., April 30, 1852.
Andrews, George B,., was a native of New
York; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; died atTicon-
deroga, N. Y.
Andrews, John T. , was bom in 1816 at North
Reading, N. Y. ; educated in the public schools;
served as sheriff of Steuben County, 1834-1837;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Andrew^s, Landaff W., was born February
12, 1803, in Fleming County, Ky. ; graduated from
the Transylvania University in 1824; studied law,
and in 1826 admitted to the bar; member of the
State house of representatives in 1834; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Whig, and reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-eighth Congress.
Andrews, Samuel G. , was born October 16,
1790, at Derby, Conn.; received a public school
education; moved with his parents to Rochester,
N. Y., in 1816; engaged in manufacturing; mayor
of Rochester; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1831 and 1832; secretary of the
State senate four years; postmaster at Rochester;
elected a Representative from New York in the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; died at
Rochester, N. Y., in 1863.
Andrews, Sherlock J. , was born at Walling-
ford. Conn., in 1801; graduated from Union Col-
lege; studied law and was admitted to the bar; in
1825 began practicing at Cleveland, Ohio; elected
a Representative from Ohio in the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig.
Andrews, William E., of Hastings, Nebr.;
was born near Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa;
served as a farm hand several years during the
farming seasons, and attended country schools oc-
casionally in winter; entered Simpson College,
Indianola, Iowa, in 1874; elected superintendent
of the schools of Ringgold County, Iowa, in 1879;
graduated from Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa,
in 1885; member of the faculty of Hastings (Nebr. )
College from January 1, 1885, to January 1, 1893;
elected vice-president of the college in 1889 and
president of the Nebraska State Teachers' Associ-
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ation in 1890; member of the Nebraska Republi-
can State central committee, 1891-92; nominated
in 1892 by the Bepublicans of the Fifth Nebraska
district to make the canvass against W. A.
McKeighan, Fusionist, whose former plurality of
10,388 was reduced 7,128 votes; private secretary
to Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, governor of Nebraska,
1893-94; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Eepublican; appointed Auditor for the Treasury
Department by President McKinley in 1897.
Angel, ■William G., was born July 17, 1790, at
NewShoreham, Block Island, B. I. ; moved with his
parents to Litchfield, Otsego County, N.Y.,inl792;
received a common school education ; studied med-
icine in 1807, and began the study of law in 1809;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Burling-
ton, N Y., in 1817; elected a Representative from
New York in the Nineteenth Congress as a John
Quincy Adams Democrat; r.eelected to the Twen-
tieth and Twenty-first Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat; after the expiration of his service in
Congress moved to Hammondsport, where he re-
sumed his practice; membet of the constitucional
convention in 1846, and was elected judge of
Allegany County in 1847; resigned in 1852; died
August 13, 1858, at Angelica, N. Y.
Anthony, Henry B., was born at Coventry,
E.I., April 1, 1815; educated at Brown University,
graduating in 1833; editor of the Providence Jour-
nal in 1838, and a few years afterwards became
one of its proprietors; elected governor of Rhode
Island in 1849, and reelected in 1850; declined a
renomination; resumed editorial work; elected to
to the United States Senate in 1859, and this ofiice
he held until his death, which occurred at Provi-
dence, B. I., September 2, 1884; elected President
pro tempore of the Senate in March, 1863, and
again in March, 1871; also elected to that position
in 1884, but on account of ill health he declined to
serve; during his long service in the United States
Senate he was twice elected chairman of the Com-
mittee on Printing, and was also a member of sev-
eral important committees — Claims, Naval Affairs,
on Mines and Mining, and Post-Offices and Post-
Boads.
Anthony, Joseph. B., was a native of Penn-
sylvania;, elected a representative from that State
to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses; died at Williamsport, Pa., January 17,
1851.
Antony, Edwin Le Roy, of Cameron, Tex.,
was born near Waynesboro, in Burke County, Ga.,
January 5, 1852; with his father's family he emi-
grated to the Lone Star State in 1859, and located
in Brazoria County, Tex., where they resided
until the close of the civil war; they removed
to Milam County, in that State, in 1867; in 1869,
at the age of 17, having received the ordinary
education of the country schools of that day in his
adopted State, he entered the university of his
native State at Athens, Ga., whence he graduated
in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts;
returned to his home in Milam County, Tex., and
read law in the private law office of Col. N. P.
Garrett; admitted to practice in the courts of that
State January 8, 1874, and at once entered upon
theduties-of his profession; two j^ears later elected
county attorney of his county, the first under the
constitution of 1876, being also ex ofiBcio district
attorney, for his county; during the illness of the
regular district judge, he filled that office as
special judge, in 1886; while an alderman of his
city, was nominated and elected (June 14) to the
Fifty-second Congress, as a Democrat, to fill the
unexpired term of Hon. Roger Q. Mills, chosen
United States Senator from that State,' in 1892;
qualified and took his seat in the House on July
28, 1892; returned to Cameron, Tex., after the
expiration of his term in Congress and resumed
the practice of his profession.
Appleton, John, was born February 11, 1815, at
Beverly, Mass. ; graduated from Bowdoin College
inl834; studied law; admitted to the bar and began
practicing at Portland, Me., in 1837; engaged in
editorial work on the Portland Argus; chief clerk
of the Navy Department, also of the Department
of State; minister to Bolivia from March 30, 1848,
to May 4, 1849; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat, receiving 5,943 votes against 5,903 votes for
Fessenden, Whig and Free Soil; declined to serve
as secretary of the legation at London in 1853;
secretary of legation at London from February 19,
185S, to November 16, 1855, serving in October as
charg6 d'affaires; Assistant Secretary of State from
April 4, 1857, to June 8, 1S60; minister to Bussia
■from June, 1860, to June 7, 1861; died at Portland,
Me., August 22, 1864.
Appleton, Nathan, was born October 6, 1779, at
New Ipswich, N. H.; received an academic edu-
cation; entered Dartmouth College, but a short
times afterwards left to accept a position as clerk
in his brother's store at Boston; one of the found-
ers of the cotton-mill industry at Waltham, Mass. ;
also one of the founders of Lowell in 1821; served
several years as a member of the legislature;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-second Congress as a high-tariff Whig,
defeating Henry Lee; also elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress in place of Robert C. Winthrop,
resigned; resigned October 4, 1842; died at Boston,
Mass., July 14, 1861.
Appleton, Williani (brother of Nathan), was
born November 16, 1786, at Brookfleld, Mass. ; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved to Boston and
engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits
in 1807; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Thirty-second Congress as a . Whig,
and reelected to the Thirty-third Congress; also
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Whig
and served through the extra session, when here-
signed, August 6, 1861; died near Boston, Mass.,
February 15, 1862.
Apsley, Lewis Dewart, of Hudson, Mass.,
was born at Northumberland, Pa., September 29,
1852; at the age of 15 moved to Philadelphia and
immediately engaged in active business pursuits,
early identifying himself with the rubber-goods
trade; moved to Massachusetts in 1877, and es-
tablished himself in -1885 as a manufacturer of rub-
ber clothing in Hudson; is presidentand treasurer
of the Apsley Bubber Company, president of the
Hudson Board of Trade, and a director in the
Hudson National Bank; has never held political
office; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Re-
publican, and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress; declined a renomination.
Archer, John (father of Stevenson Archer and
grandfather of Stevenson Archer), was born June
6, 1741, in Harford County, Md.; received a lib-
eral education and graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1760; studied medicine, and received from
the Philadelphia College the first medical diploma
issued on the American continent in 1768; raised
a military company during the Revolution; served
several years in the general assembly of Maryland;
Presidential elector in 1801; elected a Representa-
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tive from Maryland to the Seventh Congress, and
reelected to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses;
died in Harford County, Md., in 1810.
Archer, Stevenson (son of John Archer and
father of Stevenson Archer), was a native of Har-
ford County, Md. ; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1805; studied law and admitted to the bar;
judge of the Maryland court of appeals; elected a
Eepresentative from Maryland to the Twelfth Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Congresses; appointed a United
States judge for the Territory of Mississippi; also
elected to the Sixteenth Congress; died at his
. home in 1848.
Archer, Stevenson (son of Stevenson Archer,
and grandson of John Archer), was born February
28, 1827, in Harford County, Md. ; received a lib-
eral education and graduated from Princeton Col-
lie; studied law and admitted to the bar; mem-
ber of the Maryland legislature in 1854; elected a
Eepresentative from Maryland to the Fortieth
Congress as a Democrat; and reelected to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con-
Archer, William B., claimed to have been
elected a Eepresentative from Illinois to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, receiving 8,451
votes against 8,452 votes for James A. Allen, Demo-
crat, but the official canvass gave Allen the seat by
1 majority; the House decided that Mr. Allen was
not entitled to the seat and rejected a resolution
declaring Mr. Archer elected; yeas 89, nays 91;
on a second trial Mr. Allen was elected.
Archer, "William S., was born March 5, 1789,
in Amelia County, Va. ; graduated from the College
of William and Mary; studied law and practiced;
elected to the State house of delegates in 1812, and
annually reelected until 1819 with the exception
of one year; elected a Eepresentative from Vir-
ginia to the Sixteenth Congress (in place of James
Pleasants, resigned), and reelected without oppo-
sition to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses; elected to the United
States Senate as a Whig, and served from May 31,
1841, to March 3, 1847; died March 28, 1855.
Armfield, BrObert Franklin, of Statesville,
N. C, was born in Guilford County, N. C, July
9, 1829; educated at Trinity College, North Caro-
lina; lawyer by profession; county attorney 1 855-
1861, and State solicitor for the Sixth district 1863-
1865; lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty-eighth Eegi-
ment of North Carolina State troops during the
war between the States; president of the State
senate of North Carolina, and lieutenant-governor
in 1875-76; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress; appointed judge of the supreme court
in 1889; reelected judge of the supreme court in
1890, serving until January 1, 1895, when he re-
tired; died November 9, 1898.
Armstrong-, David H., resided in St. Louis,
Mo., where he held a number of city offices; ap-
pointed United States Senator from Missouri as a
Democrat (to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Lewis V. Bogy), serving from October 15, 1877, to
March 3, 1879; died March 18, 1893.
Armstrong, James (son of John Armstrong
and brother of John Armstrong), was a native of
Carlisle, Pa.; served in the Eevolutionary war;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Third Congress; died at Carlisle, Pa.
Armstrong, John (father of James and John
Armstrong), was born in Ireland in 1735; emi-
grated to America and settled at Carlisle, Pa.;
colonel of military arranges, and commissioned
brigadier-general in the Continental Army, 1776,
but resigned April 4, 1777; Delegate from Penn-
sylvania to the Continental Congress, 1778-1780
and 1787-88; died March 9, 1795, at Carlisle, Pa.
Armstrong, John (son of John and brother of
James Armstrong), was bom November 25, 1755,
at Carlisle, Pa.; entered Princeton College, but
left to enter the Eevolutionary Army; served on
the staffs of Generals Mercer and Gates; elected
one of the judges of the Western Territory Octo-
ber 16, 1787, but declined; moved to New York
and elected a United States Senator from that
State in the place of John Lawrence, resigned,
and took his seat January 8, 1801, but resigned in
1802; appointed to the United States Senate in
the place of De Witt Clinton, resigned, serving
from December 7, 1803, until February 25, 1804,
when he took his seat as elected to succeed Theo-
dorous Bailey, resigned, and resigned June 30,
1804; minister to France June 30, 1804, to Septem-
ber 14, 1810; on returning home was appointed
brigadier-general July 6, 1812; Secretary of War
from January 19, 1813, to September 26, 1814;
died at Eed Hook, N. Y., April 1, 1843.
Armstrong, Moses K. , was born September 19,
1832, at Milan, Ohio; received a classical education
at Huron Institute and Western Eeserve College,
Ohio; moved to Minnesota Territory in 1856;
elected surveyor of Mower County and assigned
to survey of the United States lands in 1858;
moved to Yankton, then a small Indian village,
when Minnesota was admitted as a State; served
as a member of the first Territorial legislature of
Dakota, and reelected in 1862 and 1863, serving
the last year as speaker; edited the Dakota Union
in 1864; appointed clerk of the supreme court in
1865; elected to the Territorial council in 1866,
and in 1867 chosen speaker; acted as secretary of
the Indian Peace Commission in 1867; from 1866
to 1869, inclusive, e^tabli^hed the great meridian
and standard lines for United States surveys in
southern Dakota and northern Eed Eiver Valley,
and found that the international boundary line
near Pembina since 1823 was wrong; again elected
to the Territorial council in 1869; elected to the
Forty-secondCongress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Forty-third Congress.
Armstrong, William., was born December 23,
1782, at Lisburn, Antrim County, Ireland; emi-
grated to America in 1792, settling in Virginia;
studied law while clerking in a store at Winchester;
United States tax collector in 1818-19; member of
the State house <of delegates 1822-23; Presidential
elector in 1 820 and in 1824; elected a Eepresentative
from Virginia to the Nineteenth Congress as a
Whig, and reelected to the Twentieth, Twenty-
first, and Twenty-second Congresses.
Armstrong, William H. , was born September
7, 1824, at Williamsport, Pa. ; received a classical
education, and in 1847 graduated from Princeton
College; studiedlawandadmittedtothebar; served
in the State legislature in 1860 and 1861; declined
a commission as president judge of the twenty-
sixth judicial circuit of Pennsylvania in 1862;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to
the Forty-first Congress as a Eepublican.
Arnell, Samuel M. , was born May 3, 1833, in
Maury County, Tenn. ; received his^ education at
Amherst and Easthampton, Mass. ; member of the
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constitutional convention of Tennessee in 1865;
served in the State house of representatives in
1865andl866; elected to the Thirty -ninth Congress,
but did not take his seat until the second session,
and reelected to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-first Congress as an
Independent Republican.
Arnold, Benedict, was a native of New York,
and served in the State assembly of New York in
1816-17; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-first Congress.
Arnold, Isaac N., was born November 30,
1815, at Hardwicke, N. Y.; received a common
school education; while teaching school studied
law, and in 1835 admitted to the bar at Chicago,
111., where hfe began practicing; member of the
State house of representatives in 1843; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; Sixth Auditor of the
United States Treasury from April 29, 1865, to
September 26, 1866; died at Chicago, 111., April
24, 1884.
Arnold, Jonathan, was born December 14,
1741, at Providence, R. I. ; studied medicine and
practiced; member of the general assembly of
Rhode Island from Providence in 1776; served in
the Revolutionary Army as surgeon; director of
the army hospital at Providence; delegate from
Rhode Island to the Continental Congress in 1782
and 1783; moved to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and died
there February 2, 1798.
Arnold, Lemuel H., was born January 20,
1792, at St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; moved with his
parents to Rhode Island while quite young; re-
ceived a liberal education, and in 1811 graduated
from Dartmouth College; studied law a short time,
but abandoned it to engage in mercantile pur-
suits; elected governor of Rhode Island in 1831,
and reelected in 1832; member of the executive
council during the Dorr rebellion in 1842; elected
a Representative from Rhode Island to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; died June 27, 1852, at
Kingston, R. I.
Arnold, Marshall, of Benton, Mo., was born
in St. Francois County, Mo., October 21, 1845;
educated in the common schools; professor in
Arcadia College in 1870 and 1871 ; deputy clerk of
the circuit, county, and probate courts in St. Fran-
cois County, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Scott
County, Mo. ; served two terms in the legislature
of Missouri; Presidential elector on the Hancock
ticket; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second
Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress; resumed the practice of law at Benton, Mo.
Arnold, Peleg, was born in 1752 at Smithfleld,
R. I.; received an academic education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; served for several
years in the general assembly of the State ; Delegate
from Rhode Island in the Continental Congress in
1787; chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode
Island; died at Smithfield, R. I. , February 13, 1820.
Arnold, Samuel, was born June 1, 1806, at
Haddam, Conn.; received a classical education;
became interested in a large stone quarry, which
he carried on successfully; member of the State
house of representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and
1851 elected a Representative from Connecticut to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Arnold, Samuel Green, was born April 12,
1821„at Providence, R. I. ; received a liberal edu-
cation, graduating from Brown University in 1841 ;
attended the Cambridge Law School, and in 1845
admitted to the bar; traveled extensively abroad,
and visited South America; elected lieutenant-
governor of Rhode Island in 1852; member of the
Peace Commission in 1861; again elected lieu-
tenant-governor in 1861 and 1862; served in the
Union Army as captain of light artillery; elected
United States Senator from Rhode Island in 1862
in the place of James F. Simmons, resigned, and
served from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1863;
published a history of Rhode Island in seven vol-
umes, and contributed largely to magazines.
Arnold, Thomas D. , was a native of Tennes-
see; defeated as candidate for the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Congresses, but elected a representa-
tive to the Twenty-second Congress as a Whig;
elected without opposition to the Twenty-seventh
Congress; died May 26, 1870, at Campbell Station,
Tenn.
Arnold, Warren 0., of Gloucester, R. I., was
born at Coventry, R. I., June 3, 1839; received his
education in the public schools of his native State;
engaged in mercantile pursuits, 1857-1864; from
the latter date to 1866 was engaged in cotton
manufacturing; engaged in the manufacture of
woolens; elected alternate delegate to the national
Republican convention of 1884; elected to the
Fittieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican;
again elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress ; defeated
for the Fifty-second Congress.
Arnold, William Carlile, of Du Bois, Pa., was
born at Luthersburg, Clearfield County, Pa., July
15, 1851; educated in Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts; admitted to the bar in 1875 and has
practiced law continuously since his admission;
had never held any public ofiB.ce before his elec-
tion to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Arnot, John, jr., of Elmira, N. Y., was bom at
Elmira, N. Y., March 11, 1831; educated at a pri-
vate school; engaged in the banking business at
Elmira; elected president of the village 1859, 1860,
and 1861, and mayor in 1864, 1870, and 1874;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat and reelected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses; died November 20, 1886.
Arrington, Archibald H., was a native of
North Carolina; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; was a supporter of the Confed-
eracy and elected to the first Confederate congress.
Arthur, William E., was born March 3, 1825,
at Cincinnati, Ohio; moved to Covington, Ky.,
with his parents while quite a young child, where
he was educated; studied law, and in 1850 ad-
mitted to the bar; practiced at Covington; Com-
monwealth attorney for the ninth judicial dis-
trict of Kentucky 1856-1862; elected judge of the
ninth, afterwards the twelfth, judicial cil-cuit in
1866 for a full term of six years, but resigned in
two years; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat
and reelected to the Forty-third Congress; re-
sumed the practice of law at Covington, Ky., after
the expiration of his service in Congress.
Ash, Michael W., a native of Pennsylvania,
was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Twenty-fourth Congress.
Ashe, John B. , was a native of North Carolina;
received a public school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; removed to Tennessee
and began practicing there; elected a Represents-
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367
tive from Tennessee to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress; removed to Harris County, Tex., where he
died in January, 1858.
Ashe, John Baptiste, was born in 1748 at
Halifax, N. C. ; served through the Revolutionary
war, attaining the rank of colonel; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina in 1786 and
of the State senate in 1789 and 1795; Delegate to
the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; elected
a Representative from N orth Carolina to the Second
Congress; in 1801 elected governor of North Caro-
lina but died, before his inauguration, at Halifax,
N. C, November 27, 1802.
Ashe, Thomas Samuel, was a native of Orange
County, N. C. ; in 1832 graduated at the University
of North Carolina; studied law and admitted to
the bar; member of the house of commons of the
State legislature from Anson County in 1842; in
1847 the legislature elected him solicitor of the
fifth judicial district of North Carolina, which
position he held for four years; in 1854 elected
to the State senate; served in the House and
Senate of the Confederate Congress 1861-1864;
defeated for governor of North Carolina; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-
third Congress as a Conservative and reelected to
the Forty-fourth Congress.
Ashe, ■William S., was born at Wilmington,
N. C. ; received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; in 1846 and 1848 served
in the State legislature of North Carolina; elected
a Representative to the Thirty-first. Congress as a
Democrat and reelected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress without opposition.
Ashley, Chester, was born June 1, 1790, at
Westfleld, Mass.; moved while quite young to
Hudson, N. Y., and given a liberal education;
studied law, admitted to the bar; in 1817 moved
to Illinois, where he began practicing, and in 1819
moved to Little Rock, Ark.; in 1844 elected a
United States Senator from Arkansas as a Demo-
crat to succeed William S. Fullon, Democrat, de-
ceased, and in 1846 reelected for full term; died at
Washington, D. C, April 29, 1848.
Ashley, Deles B.. , was born February 19, 1828,
at the Post Arkansas; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; in 1849 re-
moved to California; member of the assembly of
California in 1854 and 1855 and of the State senate
in 1856 and 1857; State treasurer of California in
1862 and 1863; in 1864 moved to Nevada; elected
a Representative from Nevada to the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses as a Republican.
Ashley, Henry, was a native of Cheshire
County, N. H. ; received a common school educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Nineteenth Congress.
Ashley, James M., was born November 14,
1824, near Pittsburg, Pa.; self-educated; studied
law but never practiced; engaged in boat building
and later in the drug business in Toledo; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Republican and reelected to the
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses as a Republican; governor of
Montana Territory in 1869 and 1870; defeated as
the Republican candidate for the Forty-first Con-
gress; died at Alma, Mich., September 16, 1896.
Ashley, WilHam H. , was born in 1778 in Pow-
hatan County, Va.; received a common school
education, and in 1808 moved to Missouri (then
upper Louisiana); traded with the Indians and
dealt in furs; in 1820 was lieutenant-governor of
Illinois; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Twenty-second Congress as a Whig and re-
elected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; died near Boonville, Mo., March 26,
1838.
Ashmore, John D., was born August 7, 1819,
in Greenville district, S. C. ; attended public
schools; clerked in a store; studied law and ad-
mitted to tjie bar, but never practiced; member
of the State house of representatives in 1848, 1850,
and 1852; cojitroller-general of the State 1853-1857;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, but
withdrew when his State seceded, December 21,
1860; served in the Confederate army; died at
Sardis, Miss., December 6, 1871.
Ashmun, Eli Porter, was born June 24, 1770,
at Blandford, Mass. ; received a liberal education,
and in 1807 graduated from Middleburg College;
studied law and began practicing at Blandford;
served as a member of the State legislature for
several terms in both branches; elected a United
States Senator from Massachusetts to succeed Cris-
topher Gore, and served from December 2, 1816,
to May, 1818, when he resigned; died May 10,
1819, at Northampton, Mass.
Ashmun, George, was born December 25, 1804,
at Blandford, Mass. ; received a liberal education,
and in 1823 graduated from Yale College; studied
law, and began practicing at Springfield in 1828;
member of the State house of representatives in
1833, 1835, 1836, 1838, and 1841, serving the last
year as speaker; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig, and reelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-
first Congresses; director in the Union Pacific Rail-
road after leaving Congress; died July 16, 1870, at
Springfield, Mass.
Asper, Joel P., was born April 20, 1822, in
Adams County, Pa.; in 1827 removed with his
father to Ohio, where he attended public schools
during the winter and worked on the farm during
his vacations; studied law, and in 1844 admitted
to the bar; in 1846 elected a justice of the peace,
and in 1847 elected prosecuting attorney for his
county; editor of the Western Reserve Chronicle
in 1849 and of the Chardon Democrat in 1850;
raised a company in 1861, and wounded at the
battle of Winchester; promoted to the rank of
lieuteuant-colonel in 1862, and in 1863 mustered
out of the service on account of wounds received
in action; in 1864 removed to Missouri, where he
resumed the practice of law with success, and in
1866 founded the Spectator; elected a Representa-
tive from Missouri to the Forty-first Congress as a
Radical Republican.
Atchison, David R., was bom August 11,
1807, at Frogtown, Ky. ; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and began practicing in Mis-
souri in 1830; member of theMissouri legislature in
1834 and 1838; inl841 appointed judge of the Platte
County circuit court; appointed a United States
Senator from Missouri to succeed Lewis F. Linn,
deceased; subsequently elected by the legislature
and reelected, serving from December 4, 1843, to
March 3, 1855; served at the head of important
committees, and for several sessions was President
pro tempore of the Senate; this office made him
President of the United States during Sunday,
March 4, 1849, as General Taylor was not sworn
into office until the following day; latter years of
his life devoted to agricultural pursuits; died in
Clinton County, Mo., January 26, 1886.
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Atherton, Charles Gordon, was born July 4,
1804, at Amherst, N. H.; received a classical educa-
tion, and in 1822 graduated from Harvard College;
in 1825 admitted to the bar after having studied law
under his father, and began practicing at Dunstable
(now Nashua) ; served a number of years in the
State house of representatives, and three years
as speaker; elected a Eepresentative from New
Hampshire to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat, and in
1843 elected to the Ilnited States Senate, serving
until March 3, 1849; in 1852 again elected to the
United States Senate, and served until stricken
with paralysis while attending court; died Novem-
ber 15, 1853, at Manchester, N. H.
Atherton, Charles Humphry (father of
Charles Gordon Atherton), was born August 14,
1773, at Amherst, N. H. ; graduated from -Harvard
College in 1794; studied law and in 1797 began prac-
ticing at Amherst; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Fourteenth Congress as a
Federalist; declined a reelection; elected to the
State house of representatives 1823-1839; died Jan-
uary 8, 1853, at Amherst, N. H.
Atherton, Gibson, of Newark, Ohio, was born
in Licking County, Ohio, January 19, 1831; re-
ceiveda collegiate education, havinggraduated from
Miami University in 1853; studied law at Newark,
Ohio; admitted to the bar in 1855, and has prac-
ticed law at Newark ever since; elected prosecut-
ing attorney of Licking County, Ohio, in 1857 and
reelected in 1859 and 1861 ; mayor of Newark, Ohio,
1860-1864; delegate from the Thirteenth Congres-
sional district of Ohio to the St. Louis convention
in 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; and reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress.
Atkins, John D. C, of Paris, Tenn., was born
in Henry County, Tenn., June 4, 1825; received a
good early education, and graduated from the
East Tennessee University in 1846; studied law;
is a farmer; elected a member of the Tennessee
house of representatives in 1849 and in 1851 ; elected
to the State senate of Tennessee in 1855; chosen
a Presidential elector in 1856; elected a member
of the House of Eepresentatives in the Congress
of the United States in 1857; on the Breckinridge
electoral ticket in 1860; lieutenant-colonel of the
Fifth Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate
Army in 1861; elected to the Confederate Provi-
sional Congress in August, 1861; reelected in
November, 1861, and again elected in November,
1863; elected to the Forty-third Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con-
Atkinson, Archibald, was born September 13,
1792, in Isle of Wight County, Va.; received a
classical education; studied law at the law school
of William and Mary College; served through the
war of 1812; began the practice of law at Smith-
field; member for several years of the State senate
and house of delegates; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Twenty -eighth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth Congresses; after leaving Congress served
as prosecuting attorney for Isle of Wight County
died January 16, 1872, at Smithfield, Va.
Atkinson, George W., of Wheeling, W. Va.,
was born at Charleston, Kanawha County, Va.,
June 29, 1846; educated by private tutor and iii
the public schools, and at the Ohio Wesleyan
University, from which institution he graduated
B. A. in the class of 1870; took a post-graduate
course at Mount Union College, Ohio, and received
the degree of Ph. D., pro merito; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1875; removed to Wheeling
in 1877; served four years as United States mar-
shal for the district of West Virginia; postmaster
of Charleston, his native city, six years; served
four years as a revenue agent of the Treasury
Department; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as
a Republican; served as governor of West Virginia
one term. .
Atkinson, Louis E., of Mifflintown, Pa., was
born in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pa.,
April 16, 1841; educated in the common schools,
and at Airy View and Milnwood Academies;
studied medicine, and graduated from the medical
department of the University of the city of New
York March 4, 1861; entered the Medical Depart-
ment, U. S. Army, September 5, 1861; served as
assistant surgeon of the First Pennsylvania Reserve
Cavalry and surgeon of the One hundred and
eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was
mustered out in December, 1865; disabled while
in the Army, and being ui able to practice medi-
cine studied law; admitted to the b r in Septem-
ber, 1870, and has practiced law since that time;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses.
Atlee, Samuel John, was born in 1738; served
in the French and Revolutionary wars; made a
prisoner by , the British at Long Island; Delegate
from Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress
1778-1782; died November 7, 1786, at Philadelphia,
Pa.
Atwater, John William, of Rialto, N. C, was
born in Chatham County, N. C, December 27,
1840; received a common school and academic
education; brought up on a farm atid has con-
tinued that occupation until the present; joined
the Confederate army, Company D, First North
CaroUna Volunteers, and was with the army of
Gen. R. E. Lee until the end; joined the Farmers'
Alliance in 1887; elected the first president of his
county alliance; elected State senator in 1890 as
an Alliance-Democrat, and again in 1892 and 1896
as a Populist; elected a Representative from
North Carolina, as a Populist in the Fifty-sixth
Congress.
Atwood, David, was born December 15, 1815,
at Bedford, N. H. ; received a public school educa-
tion; printing apprentice at Hamilton, N. Y., in
1832; moved to Wisconsin, and fcr twenty-three
years was editor and publisher of the State Jour-
nal, Madison, Wis. ; member of theState legislature
in 1861; United States assessor for four years, and
mayor of Madison in 1868; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Forty-first Congress as a
Republican, to succeed B. F. Hopkins, deceased;
died December 11, 1889.
Atwood, Harrison Henry, of Boston, Mass.,
was born at North Londonderry, Vt., August 26,
1863; attended the public schools, graduating in
1877; studied architecture and began practice in
1886; elected to the Massachusetts house of repre-
sentatives, representing the eighth Suffolk district,
for the years 1887, 1888, and 1889, and served on
the committees on Statehouse extension, liquor
law, mercantile affairs, and cities; appointed city
architect of Boston during the terms 1889 and 1890;
served two years as a member of the State Re-
publican committee, 1887 and 1888, and has for
many years been a member of the Boston Repub-
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369
lican city committee; elected twice as delegate to
Republican national conventions, 1888 and 1892;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Austin, Arcliibald, was born August 11, 1772,
in Buckingham County, Va. ; received a liberal
education; studied law and admitted to the bar
and practiced in his native county successfully for
over forty years; elected Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat, but
was defeated for reelection; for several years a
member of the State legislature; died October 16,
1837.
Averett, Thomas H. , was a native of Vir-
ginia; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Thirty-second Congress.
Averill, John T., was born March 1, 1825, at
Alna, Me. ; received an academic education, grad-
uating at the Maine Wesleyan University; moved
to St. Paul, Minn.; engaged in manufacturing;
member of the state senate 1858 and 1859; entered
the Union Army as lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth
Minnesota Infantry in 1862; mustered out as briga-
dier-general of volunteers in November, 1865;
elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Forty-third Congress.
Avery, Daniel, was a native of Cayuga County,
N. Y.; received a common school education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Fourteenth Congress to fill
a vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos T.
Throop; died at Amora, N. Y.
Avery, John, of Greenville, Mich., was born
atWatertown, N. Y., February 29, 1824; moved
to Michigan in 1836; educated in the common
schools and Grass Lake Academy; read medi-
cine, and graduated from Cleveland Medical Col-
lege in 1850; assistant surgeon and surgeon of the
Twenty-first Michigan Infantry; served in the
Army of the Cumberland in Kentucky and Ten-
nessee, and was with Sherman on his march to the
sea; member of the State legislature from Mont-
calm County in 1869-70; appointed member of
the State board of health in 1880, and reappointed
in 1886; elected a Representative from Michigan
to the Fifty-third Congress, and reelected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; after
retiring from Congress engaged in mercantile
business.
Avery, William T. , was born November 11,
1819, in Maury County, Tenn. ; by his own exer-
tions received an academic education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; member of the State legis-
lature in 1843; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Axtell, Samuel B. , was born October 14, 1819,
in Franklin County, Ohio; educated at the West-
ern Reserve College, Ohio; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar ; moved to California and began
practicing at San FraniMsco; elected to the Fortieth
and Forty-first Congresses as a Democrat.
Aycrigg', John B. , was a native of New York ;
moved to New Jersey and located at Pyramus;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; claimed to have
been elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, and al-
though a certificate of election was given him the
House refused him a seat; reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig.
Ayer, Ricliard S. , was born October 9, 1829,
in Waldo County, Me. ; received a common school
education ; served in the Union Army, and mus-
tered out as a captain, having enlisted as a pri-
vate; moved to Virginia in 1865; elected a delegate
to the Virginia constitutional convention in 1867;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican.
Babbitt, Clinton, of Beloit, Wis., was born at
Westmoreland, N. H., November 16, 1831; re-
ceived a common school education and graduated
from Keene Academy, New Hampshire; moved
to Wisconsin in 1853; by occupation a farmer and
breeder of blooded stock ; for several years secretary
of Wisconsin State agricultural society; elected al-
derman, and one of the members of the first city
council of Beloit; appointed postmaster of Beloit
by Grover Cleveland in August, 1886; Democratic
candidate for Congress in 1880, and defeated by
Hon. C. G. Williams, Republican; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Babbitt, Elijah, was born in 1796, at Provi-
dence, R. I.; received an academic education in
the States of New York and Pennsylvania; studied
law and admitted to the bar in Erie, Pa., in
1824; prosecuting attorney for his county in 1833;
member of the State legislature in 1836-37, and a
State senator in 1844-45; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Unionist, and reelected to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; died January 1, 1887.
Babcock, Alfred, was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig.
Babcock, Joseph W. , of Necedah, Wis., was
born at Swanton, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved with
his parents to Iowa in 1855, where he resided until
1881, when he moved to Necedah, Wis. ; elected to
the Wisconsin assembly in 1888, and reelected in
1890; chairman national Republican Congres-
sional committee forthe years 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900,
and 1902; appointed chairman of the Committee
on the District of Columbia in Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses
and a member of the committees on Ways and
Means and Census in the Fifth-sixth Congress;
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Babcock, lisander, was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Babcock, 'William, was born in New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-second Congress.
Bachman, Beuben K. , of Durham, Pa., was
born at Williams, Northampton County, Pa.,
August 6, 1834; spent his ear)y boyhood upon his
father's farm; received a common school educa-
tion ; followed the vocation of teaching in his early
manhood; entered into the mercantile and milling
business at Durham, Bucks county, Pa.; held
neither military nor civic office until elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Bacon, Augustus Octavius, of Macon, Ga.,
was born in Bryan County, Ga., October 20, 1839;
received a high school education in Liberty and
Troup counties; graduated at the University of
Georgia in the literary and classical department
in 1859, and in the law department in 1860; en-
tered the Confederate army at the beginning of
the war and sejved during the campaigns of 1861
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and 1862 as adjutant of the Ninth Georgia Regi-
ment in the Army of Northern Virginia; subse-
quently thereto was commissioned as captain in
the provisional army of the Confederate States
and assigned to general staff duty; at the close of
the war resumed the study of law and began prac-
tice in 1866 at Macon; frequently a member of
State Democratic conventions; presidents of the
State Democratic convention in 1880, and dele-
gate from the State at large to the national Dem-
ocratic convention at Chicago in 1884; elected
Presidential elector (Seymour and Blair) on the
Democratic ticket in 1868; elected to the Georgia
house of representatives in 1871, of which body
he served as a member for fourteen years; in
this time, during two years he was the speaker
pro tempore, and during eight years he was
the speaker of the Georgia house of represent-
atives; several times a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of Georgia, and in
the Democratic State convention of 1883 came
within one vote of a nomination; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat in November,
1894, and again in 1900.
Bacon, Ezekiel, was born September 1, 1776;
received a liberal education and graduated at Yale
College in 1794; attended the Litchfield Law
School and afterwards studied with Nathan Dane
at Beverly; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Stockbridge, Mass. ; member of the State
legislature in 1806 and 1807; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Tenth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses; chief justice of the court
of common pleas for the western district of Massa-
chusetts; Comptroller of the United States Treas-
ury from February 11, 1814, to February 28, 1815;
removed to New York in 1816; judge of the court
of common pleas; defeated for reelection to the
Nineteenth Congress; died October 18, 1870, at
Utica, N. Y.
Bacon, Henry, of Goshen, N. Y., was born at
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 14, 1840; received an
academic education at the Mount Pleasant Acad-
emy at Sing Sing and at the Episcopal Academy of
Cheshire, Conn. ; was at Union College, Schenec-
tady, N. Y., where he graduated in 1865; studied
law and commenced the practice in December,
1866; elected to the Forty -ninth Congress as a
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by death of
Lewis Beach, and took his seat December 6, 1886;
reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-second Con-
gresses; resumed, the practice of law at Goshen,
N. Y. , after leaving Congress.
Bacon, John, was born in 1737 at Canterbury,
Conn.; graduated from Princeton College in 1765;
studied theology; was settled over the Old South
Church, Boston, September 25, 1771, and dismissed
February 8, 1775, owing to differences of opinion
with his church; moved to Massachusetts and
located at Stockbridge; served in the State legis-
lature ; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Seventh Congress; died at Stockbridge,
Mass., October 25, 1820.
Bacon, "WilUam Johnson, was born February
18, 1803j atWilliamstown, Mass.; moved to Utica.
N. Y., in 1814; after having received a classical
education, graduated from Hamilton College in
1822; studied law with Gen. Joseph Kirkland at
Utica, and attended the Litchfield law school,
where he graduated in 1824; appointed corpora-
tion counsel ot Utica in 1837; member of New
York assembly in 1850; elected justice of the
supreme court for eight years in 1853 and reelected
for another term; elected a Representative from
New , York to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Badgrer, George Edmond, was born April 13,
1795, at Newbern, N. C; received a liberal edu-
cation and graduated from Yale College in 1813;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began practic-
ing at Newberne; member of the house of com-
mons of North Carolina in 1816; elected judge of the
superior court in 1820, resigning in 1825; appointed
Secretary of the Navy by President Harrison,
March 5, 1841; reappointed by President Tyler,
but resigned September 13, 1841 ; elected a United
States Senator in 1846 and reelected in 1849, serv-
ing from December 14, 1846, to March 3, 1855;
member of the State convention of 1861; died May
11, 1865, at Raleigh, N. C.
Badger, Lutber, was born April 10, 1785, at
Partridgefleld, Mass.; removed in 1786 with his
father to New York; received a liberal education
and graduated in 1807 from Hamilton College;
studied law and practiced with success; elected a
Representative from New York to the Nineteenth
Congress; resumed practice in 1832; examiner in
chancery and commissioner of United States loans
1840-1843; United States attorney for the district
of New York 1843-1849.
Baer, George, jr., a native of Frederick, Md.;
received a common school education; engaged
in manufacturing; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; re-
elected to the Fourteenth Congress; died at Fred-
erick, Md.
Bagby, Arthur P., was born in Virginia in
1794; received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; moved to Alabama in
1818, where he began practicing; member of the
State house of representatives in 1820-1822; gov-
ernor of Alabama 1837-1841; elected a United
States Senator from Alabama, to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of C. C. Clay, as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 27, 1841, until he
resigned, June 16, 1848, to accept the appointment
of minister to Russia, which he held until May,
1849; died September 21, 1858, at Mobile, Ala.
Bagtay, Jolin C, was born January 24, 1819,
at Glasgow, Ky. ; received a public school educa-
tion, and graduated as a civil engineer at Bacon
College, Harrodsburg, in June, 1840; studied law,
and admitted to the bar in March, 1845, and began
practicing at Rushville in April, 1846; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Bagley, George A., was born July 22, 1826,
at Watertown, N. Y. ; received a liberal" education;
studied law, and in 1847 admitted to the. bar and
practiced ; relinquished his law business "after six
years and engaged in the manufacture of iron;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Bagley, John H., jr., of Catskill, N. Y., was
born at Hudson, N. Y., November 26, 1832; re-
ceived a common school education; was a mer-
chant and engaged in leather manufacture; super-
visor of the town of Catskill 1861-1864; elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-eighth Congress; visited Colorado in
1893, where he was interested in mining; returned
to New York one year later and engaged in insur-
ance business; Democratic candidate for Congress
in 1896.
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Bailey, Alexander H. , was born August 14,
1817, at Minisink, N. Y. ; received a liberal educa-
tion; graduatedfromPrinceton College; studiedlaw
and admitted to the bar; examiner in chancery in
Greene County in 1840-1842 ; justice of the peace in
the town of CatSKlU for four years; served in the
general assembly of the State of New York in 1849;
county judge of Greene County for four years from
1851; served in the State senate 1861-1864; elected
a Representative from New York to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican to fill a vacancy caused
by the resignation of Roscoe Conkling; reelected
to the Forty-first Congress.
Bailey, David J., was a native of Georgia;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Thirty-second Congress as a State Rights Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Thirty-third Congress.
Bailey, Goldsmitli F., was born July 17, 1823,
at Westmoreland, N. H. ; received a public school
education; apprentice in a printing establishment
and became the assistant printer and editor of a
county newspaper; studied law with Torrey &
Wood, of Fitchburg, and when admitted to the bar
in 1848 became a member of that firm; member of
the State house of representatives in 1856 and of the
senate in 1858 and 1860; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican; died at Fitchburg, Mass.,
May 8, 1862.
Bailey, James £., was born August 15, 1822,
in Montgomery County, Tenn.; attended the
Clarksville Academy and the University of Nash-
ville; studied law; began practicing at Clarksville
in 1843; elected to the State house of representa-
tives as a Whig in 1853; served in the Confederate
army; elected to the United States Senate to fill a
vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Johnson,
and took his seat January 29, 1877, and served
until March 3, 1881; died at his home in Clarks-
ville, Tenn., December 29, 1885.
Bailey, Jeremiah, was a native of Little Comp-
ton, R. I.; graduated from Brown University;
studied law and began practicing atWiacasset, Me. ;
member of the State house of representatives of
Maine 1811-1814; judge of probate 1814-1835;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, defeating Edward
Kavanagh, Democrat; defeated for reelection; col-
lector of customs at Wiscasset 1849-1853; died
July 7, 1853.
Bailey, Jolin, was a native of Norfolk County,
Maas.; graduated from Brown University in 1807;
tutor in Brown University 1808-1814; member of
the State legislature 1815-16; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Eighteenth Congress ;
a contest on the grounds that he was not a resi-
dent of the district he represented resulted in his
losing his seat; again elected, receiving 2 more
than a majority of all votes cast; subsequently
elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; died at Dorchester, Mass., June
26, 1835.
Bailey, John M. , of Albany, N. Y., was born at
Bethlehem, N. Y., August 24, 1838; graduated from
Union College in 1861; studied law with Messrs.
Cagger & Porter at Albany; entered the Army in
the fall of 1862 as first lieutenant and was adjutant
of the One hundred and seventy-seventh New
York State Volunteers, serving in the Department
of the Gulf until discharged by the expiration of
his term of service; commenced the practice of
law in 1864; assistant district attorney of Albany
County in 1865-1867; appointed and served as col-
lector of internal revenue for four years; elected
district attorney of Albany County in 1874 and
served for the term of three years; elected to fill
a vacancy in Forty-fifth Congress (caused by the
death of T. J. Quinn) ; reelected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Republican.
Bailey, Joseph, was born March 18, 1810, on
the Brandywine battle ground, Chester County,
Pa.; received a common school education; mem-
ber of the State house and senate from Chester
County 1839-1845, and from Perry County 1850-
1854; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a War
Democrat.
Bailey, Joseph Welden, of Gainesville, Tex.,
was born in Copiah County, Miss., October 6, 1863;
admitted to the bar in 1883; served as a district
elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in
1884; moved to Texas in 1885 and located at his
present home; served as elector for the State at
large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; elected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, and Fifty -sixth Congresses; on the organiza-
tion of the Fifty-fifth Congress, March 15, 1897, he
was the Democratic nominee for Speaker of the
House of Representatives; chosen a United States
Senator as a Democrat January 23, 1901, to suc-
ceed Senator Horace Chilton, and took his seat
March 4.
Bailey, Theodorus, was born June 11, 1752,
in Dutchess County, N. Y. ; elected a Representative
from New York as a Democrat to theThlrd, Fourth,
Sixth, and Eighth Congresses; elected a United
States Senator from New York and served from
October 17, 1803, until January 16, 1804, when he
resigned to accept the position of postmaster at the
city of New York, which he held until his death,
September 6, 1828.
Bailey, Willis J., of Bailey ville, Karis., was
born October 12, 1854, in Carroll County, 111. ; edu-
cated in the common schools, the Mount Carroll
High School, and the University of Illinois, at
Champaign; moved with his father to Nemaha
County, Kans., in 1879, and engaged in farming
and stock raising; elected a member of the Kansas
State board of agriculture, serving two terms, 1895-
1899; elected to the Kansas legislature from Nemaha
County in 1888; nominatexi by his party again in
1890, but defeated; elected president of the Repub-
lican State League in 1893; leading candidate for
Congress from the First Kansas district in 1896 and
1898; defeated Richard W. Blue for the nomina-
tion for Congressman at large before the Republican
State convention at Hutchinson in June, 1898, and
on the 8th day of November following was elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Baird, Samuel T., of Bastrop, La., was born
May 5, 1861, at Oak Ridge, La. ; educated at home
and at Vincennes, Ind. ; began the study of law in
1879, and admitted to the bar in 1882; elected dis-
trict attorney of the sixth judicial district in 1884;
served four years in that position; elected district
judge of the same district in 1888; after serving
four years upon the bench, resumed practice of
law; elected to the State senate in April, 1896, and
served as chairman of the committee on railroads
and as a member of judiciary, lands and levees,
and elections committees; chairman of joint Demo-
cratic caucus during session of general assembly;
temporary chairman of Democratic State conven-
tion in June, 1896; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention at Chicago, 1896; elected to the
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Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress, but died April 22, 1899.
Baker, Caleb, was a native of New York; mem-
ber of the State assembly for four years; elected
a Representative from New York to the Sixteenth
Congress.
Baker, Charles Simeon, of Rochester, N. Y.,
was born at Church ville, Monroe County, N. Y.,
February 18, 1839; received an academic educa-
tion; teacher in 1856-57; studied law; admitted
to the bar in December, 1860; member of the
board of supervisors of Monroe County three years;
member of the Rochester board of education two
years, and president thereof the second year;
member of the New York State assembly from
the second (Rochester) district of Monroe County
in 1879-1882; member of the State senate of New
York from the twenty -ninth district in 1884-85;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republi-
can; reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con-
gresses; returned to Rochester, N. Y., and resumed
the practice of his profession.
Baker, David Jevrett, was born September 7,
1792, at East Haddam, Conn.; moved with his
parents to Ontario County, N. Y. , where he worked
on a farm ; studied law and commenced practicing at
Kaskaskia, 111. ; opposed to slavery; probate judge
of Randolph County; appointed to the United
States Senate November 12, 1830, as a Democrat,
to fill a vacancy caused by the death of John
McLean, and served from December 6, 1830, until
January 4, 1831; died at Alton, 111., August 6, 1869.
Baker, Edward Dickinson, was born Febru-
ary 24, 1811, at London, England; came to this
country with his father in 1815 and settled in
Philadelphia, Pa.; in 1825 moved to Illinois,,
where the boy received a public school education;
studied law and admitted to the bar in Greene
County; began practicing Ett Springfield ; member
of the State house of representatives in 1837 and
of the States enate 1840-1844; elected a Represent-
ative from Illinois to the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Whig; resigned December 30, 1846, having
been commissioned colonel of the Fourth Regi-
ment of Illinois Volunteers; served throughout
the Mexican war; participated in the siege of
Vera Cruz, and commanded a brigade at Cerro
Gordo; after the war moved to Galena, 111.,
where he was again elected to the Thirty-first
Congress; declined a reelection; in 1851 moved
to California and resumed the practice of law;
moved to Oregon and elected a United States
Senator from that State, and took his seat Decem-
ber 5, 1860; at the breaking out of the civil war
he raised a regiment of California volunteers in
New York and Philadelphia and took the field as
its colonel; commanded a brigade at Balls Bluff,
where he was killed October 21, 1861.
Baker, Ezra, was a native of New Jersey;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Fourteenth Congress.
Baker, Henry M., of Bow, N. H., was born at
Bow, N. H., January 11, 1841; graduated from the
New Hampshire Conference Seminary in 1859,
Dartmouth College in 1863, and Columbian College
Law School in 1866, and admitted to the bar the
same year; clerk in the War and Treasury Depart-
ments, and later practiced law in Washington, D. C. ;
judge-ad vocate-general of the National Guard of
New Haiupshire in 1886-87, with rank of brigadier-
general; member of the State senate in 1891-92;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican ;
reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Baker, Jehu, of Belleville, 111.; was born in
Fayette County, Ky., November 4, 1822; attended
common schools and McKendree College; received
the honorary degree of M. A. from McKendree
College in 1858, and of LL. D. in 1882; author of an
Annotated Edition of Montesquieu's<jrandeur and
Decadence of the Romans; studied medicine for a
time, but abandoned it; was a lawyer by profes-
sion; master in chancery of St. Clair County 1861-
1865; elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Congresses; served as United States minister resi-
dent to Venezuela 1878-1881 and 1882-1885, being
minister resident and consul-general for a time
during the closing part of this service, and was
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-fifth as a Fusionist, having
been nominated by the People's, also the Demo-
cratic party; died March 1, 1903, at Belleville, 111.
Baker, John, was born in Virginia; received
a liberal education; studied law and, after being
admitted to the bar, practiced; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Twelfth Congress as
a Federalist; after expiration of his term in Con-
gress resumed the practice of his profession, which
he carried on successfully; died August 18, 1833, at
Shepherdstown, Va.
Baker, John H. , of Goshen, Ind., was born in
Parma Township, N. Y., February 28, 1832; moved
at an early age with his parents to the present
county of Fulton, Ohio, where he assisted in such
farm labor as is incident to early pioneer life until
less than a year before attaining his majority; his
early education at home was limited to the brief
winter terms of a new and sparsely settled coun-
try; he afterwards taught school and attended the
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, complet-
ing the first two years of the college course; stud-
ied law at Adrian, Mich. ; admitted to the bar and
commenced to practice in 1857 at Goshen, Ind. ;
elected to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses; reelected to the Forty -sixth Congress as a
Republican ; resumed the practice of law at Goshen,
Ind., after his term in Congress; appointed a dis-
trict judge by President Harrison, which position
he now holds.
Baker, Xiucien, of Leavenworth, Kans., was
born in Ohio in 1846, and shortly thereafter moved
with his parents to Michigan; in 1869 moved to
Kansas and settled at Leavenworth and engaged
in the practice of law; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican in 1895, serving until March
3, 1901.
Baker, Osmyn, was born May 18, 1800, at
Amherst, Mass.; graduated from Yale College in
1822; studied law and admitted to the bar; in 1853
and 1854 member of the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-
sixth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of James C. Alvord) as a" Whig; reelected
to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Con-
gresses.
Baker, Stephen, was born August 12, 1819, in
New York City; after receiving a common-school
education became engaged in mercantile pursuits
and amassed a fortune; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Republican; died suddenlyon the train approach-
ing Ogden, Utah, June 9, 1875.
Baker, William, of Lincoln, Kans., was born
in Washington County, Pa., April 29, 1831; brought
up on a farm; graduated from Waynesburg Col-
lege, 1856; followed teaching as a profession for a
number of years, and while teaching studied law
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and admitted to the bar; elected to the Fifty-
second Oongreas as a nominee of the People' s party ;
reelected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses; after his retirement from Congress he de-
voted his time to farming and stock raising.
Baker, 'William, B., of Aberdeen, Md., was
born near Aberdeen, Md., July 22, 1840; educated
at i)ublic and private schools; -worked upon a farm
until 32 years of age, when he commenced fruit
packing; elected to the house of delegates as a Re-
publican in 1881 and to the State senate in 1893;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses.
Baker, ■William H., was born January 17, 1829;
in 1829 moved with his parents to Oswego County,
N. Y. ; studied law, and, after being admitted to the
bar, located at Constantina, N. Y., where he began
practicing; elected district attorney for Oswego
County, N. Y., from January 1863, until January,
1870; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Bald-win, Abraham, was born November 6,
1754, atGuilford, Conn. ; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1772; tutor in mathematics there until 1777;
studied theology; chaplain in the Revolutionary
Army until 1783; after the war moved to Savan-
nah, where he was admitted to the bar and began
practicing; member of the legislature in 1784; dele-
gate to the Continental Congress 1785-1788; mem-
ber of the United States Constitutional Conven-
tion; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
First Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses;
elected a United States Senator and served from
December 2, 1799, until March 4, 1807, when he
died at Washington City; elected President pro
tempore of the Senate December 7, 1801, and April
17, 1802.
Baldwin, Augustus C. , was born December24,
1817, at Salina, N. Y.; after receiving a public-
school education moved to Michigan in 1837,
where he taught school; studied law, and in 1842
admitted to the bar; commenced practicing in
Oakland County, Mich. ; member of the State leg-
islature in 1844 and 1846; in 1853 and 1854 prose-
cuting attorney for Oakland County; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Union Democrat; defeated for reelec-
tion to the Fortieth Congress by R. E. Trowbridge,
and contested the seat without success; delegate
to the Peace Convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
Baldwin, Henry, was born in 1779 at New
Have^, Conn. ; graduated from Yale College in 1797 ;
studied law and began practicing at Pittsburg, Pa. ;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, resigning in
1822; appointed a justice of the United States
Supreme Court; died at Philadelphia, April 21,
1844.
Baldwin, Henry P. , of Michigan, was born at
Coventry, R. I., February 22, 1814; received a
common-school education, supplemented by six
months at an academy; engaged in mercantile busi-
ness in his native State in 1834; moved to the city
of Detroit and established a mercantile house in
1838; for several years a director and the presi-
dent of the Detroit Young Men's (Literary) Soci-
ety; director of the Michigan State Bank, and
president of the Second National Bank of Detroit
at its organization in 1864; member of the con-
vention which organized the Republican party at
Jackson, Mich., in 1854; State senator in 1861 and
1862; governor of Michigan for four years, having
been elected in 1868 and reelected in 1870; mem-
ber of the national Republican convention at Cin-
cinnati in 1876; appointed a United States Senator
in November, 1879, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Hon. Zachariah Chandler, whose
term of office would have expired March 3, 1881;
died December 31, 1892.
Baldwin, John, was a native of Windham,
Conn. ; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses.
Baldwin, John Denison, was born Septem-
ber 28, 1810, at North Stonington, Conn. ; attended
Yale College and studied law but never practiced;
editor and proprietor of the Worcester Spy ; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses;
reentered newspaper work and published m 1847
Raymond Hill and other poems.
Baldwin, Melvin B.. , of Duluth, Minn., was
bom in Windsor County, Vt., April 12, 1838;
moved to Wisconsin, 1847; entered Lawrence Uni-
versity, Appleton, Wis., 1855, remaining through
the sophomore year; studied law eighteen months,
and then adopted civil engineering aa a profession;
engaged on Chicago and Northwestern Railway
till April 19, 1861, when he enlisted as a private in
Company E, Second Wisconsin Infantry, brigaded
with the Iron Brigade; promoted to captain of
his company; captured at Gettysburg and con-
fined in Libby, Macon, Ga., Charleston and Colum-
bia, S. C. ; engaged in operative railway work in
Kansas after the war; general superintendent four
years; removed to Minnesota in 1875, and has
resided in Duluth since 1885; was president of
Duluth Chamber of Commerce ; nominated for Con-
gress by acclamation in August, 1 892 ; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; chairman of
the Chippewa Indian Commission for two years,
having been appointed by President Cleveland.
Baldwin, Roger Sherman, was born January
4, 1793, at New Haven, Conn. ; graduated in 1811
from Yale College; studied law, and in 1814 ad-
mitted to the bar; began practicing at New Haven;
in 1837 member of the State senate, and of the
State house of representatives in 1840 and 1841;
governor 1844-1846; December 7, 1847, appointed
a United States Senator (to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of W. T. Huntington), and served
until March 3, 1851.
Baldwin, Simeon, was born December 14,
1761, at Norwich, Conn. ; graduated in 1781 from
Yale College; remained there as a tutor until 1786;
studied law, commencing practice at New Haven;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Eighth Congress as a Federalist; judge of the
State supreme court 1806-1817; mayor of New
Haven in 1826; died May 26, 1851, at New Haven.
Ball, Edward, was a native of Virginia; moved
to Ohio and elected a Representative from that
State as a Whig to the Thirty-third and Thirty-
fourth Congresses; sergeant-at-arms of the House
of Representatives in the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Ball, Lewis Heisler, of Faulkland, Del., was
born September 21, 1861, near Wilmington, Del.;
graduated from Delaware College with the degree
of Ph. B. in 1882, and trom the University of
Pennsylvania with the degree of M. B. in 1885;
State treasurer of Delaware 1898-1900; trustee of
Delaware College; elected a Representative to the
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Fifty-seventh Congress; resigned March 3, 1903;
elected to the United States Senate as a Republi-
can March 2, 1903, to fill a vacancy that had ex-
isted since March 3, 1899, and took his seat March
3, 1903.
Ball, Thomas Henry, of Huntsville, Tex., was
born January 14, 1859, at Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., where he now resides; educated in
private schools and Austin College, in his native
town; afterwards worked upon a farm and then
obtained practical business training in the mer-
cantile business; served three terms as mayor of
Huntsville, and retired to begin the practice of
law; attended lectures at the University of Vir-
ginia and elected president of the law class; chair-
man of the Democratic executive committee of
Walker County for twelve years, and of the first
supreme judicial district of Texas for three terms;
served as a delegate from his county in every
State convention since 1886; delegate from the
district to the Democratic national conventions in
1892 and 1896; delegate at large to the Democratic
national convention at Kansas City in 1900, and
the Texas member on platform and resolutions;
nominated by acclamation by the Democratic dis-
trict convention in 1896, and elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Ball, William Lee, was born in 1779 in Lan-
caster County, Va. ; elected a Representative from
Virginia to tihe Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
and Eighteenth Congresses; died February 28,
1824, at Washington, D. C.
Ballentine, John G. , of Pulaski, Tenn., was
born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn. ; received a
classical education; elected to the Forty -eighth
Congress; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat.
Ballon, Latimer W. , of Woonsocket, R. I.,
was born at Cumberland, R. I., March 1, 1812;
received his education in the public schools and
academies in the vicinity; moved to Cambridge,
Mass. , in 1828, and learned the art of printing at
The University Press; established The Cambridge
Press in 1835, and continued in the business until
1842, when he moved to Woonsocket, R. I., and
engaged in mercantile pursuits; chosen in 1850
cashier of the Woonsocket Falls Bank, and treas-
urer of the Woonsocket Institution for Savings,
which positions he retained for over twenty-five
years; active in the organization of the Republican
party, and president of the Fremont Club in
Woonsocket in 1856; Presidential elector on the
Lincoln and Haralin ticket in 1860; delegate to
the national Republican convention which nomi-
nated Grant and Wilson, at Philadelphia, in 1872;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-
sixth Congresses as a Republican; died at Woon-
socket, R. I., May 9, 1900.
Banister, John, was a native of Virginia; edu-
cated in England, and studied law at the Temple;
returned to Virginia, where he became an active
organizer in ante-Revolutionary movements; dele-
gate to the Continental Congress, serving from
March 16, 1778, to September 24, 1778; one of the
framers of the Articles of Confederation; lieuten-
ant-colonel of Virginia cavalry in 1781, and active
in repelling the British invaders; died in 1787,
near Hatcher's Run, Dinwiddle County, Va.
Bankhead, John HoUis, of Fayette, was born
in Moscow, Marion County (now Lamar), Ala.,
September 13, 1842; is a farmer; seiTed four years
in the Confederate army, being wounded three
times; represented Marion County in the general
assembly, sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867; mem-
ber of the State senate 1876-77, and of the house
representatives 1880-81; wa^rden of the Alabama
penitentiary 1881-1885; elected to the Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat.
Banks, John, was born October 17, 1793, in
Juniata County, Pa. ; received a classical education;
studied law, and in 1819 began practicing; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses, resigning in 1836 to become judge of Berks
judicial district; defeated as the Whig candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania in 1841; resigned
judgeship and became State treasurer in 1847; re-
sumed the practice of law at Reading, and died
there April 3, 1864.
Banks, Linn, was a native of Virginia; received
an academic education; member of the Virginia
house of delegates, and for twenty successive years
was speaker of that body; in 1838 declined fur-
ther service in that body and was elected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat (to fill out
the unexpired term of John M. Patton, resigned) ,
reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress over William Smith,
also a Democrat, who successfully contested the
election; while attempting to ford the Conway
River January 14, 1842, he was thrown from his
horse and drowned.
Banks, Nathaniel P., was born January 30,
1816, at Waltham, Mass. ; received a common
school education, and when only 12 j'ears old was
put to work in a, cotton factory; learned the ma-
chinists' trade; applied his leisure time to study;
became a lyceum lecturer, and subsequently edi-
tor of a weekly paper in Waltham; clerk in the
custom-house at Boston; studied law and began
practicing; member of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture 1849-1852, and for two years speaker of the
house; in 1851 elected to the senate, but being a
member of the house declined to serve; in 1853
member of the Massachusetts constitutional con-
vention; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts as a Coalition Democrat to the Thirty-third
Congress, on the second trial; reelected to the
Thirty -fourth Congress as an American; elected
Speaker of the House after a long contest; the
session began December 3, 18.55; Mr. Banks had
already made his influence felt and had won many
friends, who placed him in nomination for the
oflBce; William Aiken, a large slaveholder of
South Carolina, was the favorite candidate of
many of the Southern members; Henry N. Fuller,
of Pennsylvania, was favored for a time by the
Southern Know Nothings, and Lewis Campbell, an
Ohio American, had an influential following; on
account of the deadlock, the contest lasted more
than two months; the President's Message was
withheld and all legislative business was stopped ;
the Members ate and slept in the Hall, and the
Sergeant-at-Arms borrowed $20,000 to enable him
to make advances to members of both parties;
after the one hundred and twenty-ninth ballot the
House agreed to adopt the plurality rule after
three more, and on the one hundred and thirty-
third ballot (February 2, 1856) Mr. Banks was
elected Speaker; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican; resigned December 4, 1857,
to become governor of Massachusetts, and served
from January, 1858, until January, 1861; moved
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to Chicago, 111., and became president of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad; in 1861 entered the Union
Army as major-general of volunteers and served
throughout the war; returned to Massachusetts
and again elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress as
a Union Republican (to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of D. W. Gooch); reelected to
the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Con-
gresses as a Republican ; defea,ted for reelection to
the Forty-third Congress as a Liberal Republican
and Democrat; again elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Liberal Republican; appointed
United States marshal March 11, 1879, and served
until April 23, 1888; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; in 1891 Congress voted him
a pension of $1,200 per annum; died at Waltham,
Mass., September 1, 1894.
Banning:, Henry B. , was born November 10,
1834, at Mount Vernon, Ohio; received an aca-
demic education; studied law at Mount Vernon
until April, 1861, when he enlisted in the Union
Army as a private and was promoted successively
to 'the rank of captain, major, lieutenant-colonel,
colonel, brevet brigadier-general, and brevetmajor-
general; representative from Knox County, Ohio,
in the legislature in 1866 and 1867; in 1869 moved
to Cincinnati where he resumed the practice of
law; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-third Congress; reelected to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Barber, Hiram, jr., of Chicago, 111., was born
in Warren County, N. Y., March 24, 1835; moved
to Wisconsin in 1846; educated at the State Uni-
versity at Madison, Wis.; studied law at the
Albany Law School; admitted to the bar; district
attorney of Jefferson County, Wis., in 1861 and
1862; assistant attorney-general in 1865 and 1866;
moved to Chicago in 1866; elected a Representa-
tive from Illinois to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Republican.
Barber, Isaac A., of Easton, Md., was born
near Salem, N. J., January 26, 1852; studied medi-
cine on nearing manhood, and graduated, in 1872;
practiced for a short period in Woodstown, N. J. ;
moved to Easton, Talbot County, Md., in 1873;
practiced medicine successfully for about fifteen
years; engaged in milling; elected to the Mary-
land legislature in 1895; was chairman of the
Republican State central committee for Talbot
County, and president of the Farmers and Mer-
chants' National Bank of Easton; elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Barber, J. Allen, native of Georgia, Vt.; re-
ceived an academy education; studied law, and in
1833 admitted to the bar; in 1837 moved to Wis-
consin and settled at Lancaster, Grant County,
and began practicing; member of the first consti-
tutional convention of Wisconsin in 1846; elected
to the State assembly in 1852, 1853, and 1863, serv-
ing the last year as speaker; in 1856 and 1857
served in the State senate; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Forty-second and Forty-
third Congresses as a Republican.
Barber, Laird Howard, of Mauchchunk, Pa.,
was born near Mifflinburg, Union County, Pa.,
October 25, 1848; prepared for college at the Mif-
flinburg Academy, and graduated from Lafayette
College in 1871; principal of the Mauchchunk
public schools for several years; read law with
Frederick Bertolette, esq., of Mauchchunk, and
admitted to the bar in Carbon County June 20,
1881; served for a number of years as a member of
the committee on admissions to the bar in Carbon
County, and as member of the committee on legal
education of the Pennsylvania Bar Association;
Democratic candidate for Congress in 1896, but
was defeated by Hon. William S. Kirkpatrick by
329 votes; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat.
Barber, Levi, was a native of Litchfield County,
Conn. ; moved to Ohio and elected a Representa-
tive from that State to the Fifteenth and Seven-
teenth Congresses; defeated candidate for the
Sixteenth Congress.
Barber, Noyes, was born April 28, 1781, at
Groton, Conn.; received a common school edu-
cation; studied law while clerking in a store, and
admitted to the bar at Groton; elected a represen-
tative from Connecticut to the Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
and Twenty- third Congresses; after his retirement
from Congress, resumed the practice of his profes-
sion at Groton, Conn., where he died January 3,
1845.
Barbour, James, was born June 10, 1775, in
Orange County, Va.; received a common school
education; while serving as deputy sheriff of
Orange County studied law, and in 1794 admitted
to the bar; member of the Virginia house of dele-
ga,tes, and its speaker; United States Senator from
Virginia, Anti-Democrat and State Rights, from
January 11, 1815, to March 27, 1825, when he
resigned to become Secretary of War under Presi-
dent John Quincy Adams; minister to England
from May 23, 1828, to September 23, 1829; died
June 8, 1842, near Gordonsville, Va.
Barbour, John S. , was born August 8, 1790, in
Culpeper County, Va. ; graduated in 1808 from Wil-
liam and Mary College; studied law and admitted
to the bar; in the war of 1812 was aid-de-camp to
General Madison; served in the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Eight-
eenth Congress as a State Rights Democrat;
reelected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-
first, and Twenty-second Congresses; member of
the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829 and
1830; died January 12, 1855, in Culpeper County,
Va.
Barbour, John S., of Alexandria, Va., was
born in Culpeper County, Va., December 29,
1820; educated at the University of Virginia;
graduate of the law school of the University of
Virginia, and began the practice of law in his
native county of Culpeper; elected to the legisla-
ture of Virginia from Culpeper County in 1847,
and reelected, serving four consecutive sessions;
in 1852 elected president of the railroad company
then called "The Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Company," in which position he continuously
remained until it was merged in what is now
known as ' ' The Virginia Midland Railway Com-
pany," extending from Alexandria to Danville,
Va.; elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,
and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat; elected
to the United States Senate to succeed Harrison H.
Riddleberger, and took his seat March 4, 1889;
died May 14, 1892.
Barbour, Iiucien, was born March 4, 1811, at
Canton, Conn. ; received a classical education, and
in 1837 graduated from Amherst College; moved to
Indiana, where he studied law; admitted to the
bar at Indianapolis; appointed United States dis-
trict attorney for the district of Indiana; commis-
sioner to codify the laws of Indiana in 1852;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
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Barbour, Philip Pendleton, was born in
Orange County, Va., in 1783; received a classical
education; studied law and practiced with success;
elected a Kepresentative from Virginia to the
Fourteenth Congress aa a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eight-
eenth Congresses without opposition; resigned in
February, 1825; Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Seventeenth Congress; appointed
judge of the Virginia general court for the eastern
district in 1825 (in place of Judge Holmes,
deceased); again elected a Representative to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, and again
resigned May 31, 1830; candidate at the Demo-
cratic national convention at Baltimore for Vice-
President, at which Jackson and Van Buren were
nominated, and received 46 votes; in 1856 ap-
pointed by President Jackson associate justice of
the Supreme Court, and held the position until
his death, at Washington, D. C, February 25,
1841.
Barclay, David, was a native of Pennsylvania,
and elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Bard, David, was a native of Pennsylvania;
graduated from Princeton College in 1778; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fourth
and Fifth Congresses; again elected to the Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and' Thirteenth
Congresses; soon after his retirement from Con-
gress he died in Virginia.
Bard, Thomas Robert, of Hueneme, .Cal., was
born at Chambersburg, Pa., Decembers, 1841; his
ancestors were Scotch-Irish, and among the earliest
settlers of that part of the Cumberland Valley in
which Chambersburg is situated ; received a com-
mon-school education, and graduated from the
Chambersburg Academy in 1858; before, complet-
ing the study of law engaged in railroading at
Hagerstown, Md.; went to California in 1864; re-
sided in Ventura County, that State, where he
engaged in wharving and warehousing, banking,
petroleum mining, sheep grazing, horticulture, and
general farming; Presidential elector in 1880 and
again in 1892, but has held no other important
public ofBces; on February 7, 1900, elected to the
United States Senate at an extra session of the
State legislature by unanimous vote of the Repub- ,
lican majority to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
expiration of the term of Stephen M. White,
Democrat, March 3, 1899, and took the oath of
office in the Senate March 5, 1900.
Barham, John A., of Santa Rosa, Cal., was
born in Missouri, July 17, 1844; moved with his
parents to California in 1849; educated in the com-
mon schools and at the Hesperian College in
Woodland, Cal.; taught in the public schools of
California for three years; studied law and, in 1868,
admitted to practice; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses.
Barker, Abraham A., was born March 30,
1816, at Lovell, Me. ; received a public school edu-
cation and engaged in farming; in 1854 moved to
Pennsylvania, engaging in the lumber trade; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1860; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania in the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Union Republican.
Barker, David, jr. , was born January 8, 1797,
at Stratham, N. H. ; educated at Exeter Academy
and Harvard College, graduating in 1815; studied
law and in 1819 admitted to the bar; began prac-
ticing at Rochester, N. H.; served several years as a
member of the New Hampshire legislatuie; elected
a Representative to the Twentieth Congress from
New Hampshire; resumed his law practice; died
at Rochester, April 1, 1834.
Barker, Jacob, was born December 7, 1779, at
Swan Island, Me. ; received a public school edu-
cation ; moved to New York City, becoming a well-
known financier; state senator; becoming involved
in numerous speculation, lost his property; after
the failure of a life insurance company of which
he was the manager was indicted for conspiracy to
defraud; in 1834 removed to New Orleans; admit-
ted to the bar there and became a political leader;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Conservative; his cre-
dentials were presented December 19, 1865, but he
wasnotadmittedto hisseat; in 1867heagain became
bankrupt; died at Philadelphia, Pa., December
27, 1871.
Barker, Joseph, was born in Massachusetts in
1751; studied two years at Harvard College and
in 1771 graduated from Yale College; studied theol-
ogy and was ordained as a pastor; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Ninth
Congress; died in 1815.
Barksdale, Ethelbert, of Jackson, Miss., was
born in Rutherford County, Tenn. ; moved to
Mississippi when a youth; entered upon journal-
ism in his twenty-first year, and adopted it as a
profession; engaged in farming; conducted the
official journal of the State 1854-1861 and 1876-
1883; member of the Congress of the Confederate
States during the existence of that government;
served on the platform committees of the national
Democratic conventions of 1860, 1868, 1872, and
1880; on the Democratic electoral ticket for the
State at large in 1876, and president of the State
electoral college; chairman of the Democratic State
executive committee 1877-1879; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-ninth Congress; died at Yazoo, Miss.,
February 17, 1893.
Barksdale, William, was born August 21, 1821,
in Rutherford County, Tenn. ; received a classical
education; studied law, and admitted to the bar;
moved to Columbus, Miss., where he began prac-
ticing; editor of the Columbus Democrat; served
in the Mexican war as quartermaster of the Missis-
sippi V^olunteers; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention in 1852; elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Thirty-third Congress as a
State Rights Democrat for the State at large, and
reelected to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and
Thirty-sixth Congresses without opposition; re-
signed January 12, 1861, to enter the Confederate
army; made brigadier-general August 12, 1862,
commanding a Mississippi brigade in Longstreet's
Corps; killed at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July
2, 1863.
Barlow, Bradley, of St. Albans, Vt., was bom
at Fairfield, Vt., May 12, 1814; brought up there,
and engaged in agricultural and mercantile puiv
suits until 1858, when he moved to St. Albans,
and for twenty years engaged in banking and other
large business pursuits; president of the Vermont
National Bank, and engaged in railroad enterprises;
six times elected a member of the State house of
representatives, and twice elected a State senator;
twice elected a member of State constitutional con-
ventions, of one of which he was assistant secre-
tary; several years county treasurer; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a National Republican.
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Barlovr, Charles Averill, of San Luis Obispo,
Cal., eldest son of Merrill Bariow, who was
quartermaster-general of Ohio in 1862 under Gov-
ernor Brough, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, March
17, 1858, and received a common school education
in that city; his father having died, he, with his
mother and family, moved to Ventura, Cal., in
1875; then learned the harness maker's trade, later
buying an interest in the business of his employer;
also engaged extensively in the fruit drying and
shipping business; disposing of his interests in
Ventura, moved to San Luis Obispo County, where
he acquired land and engaged in wheat farming;
State lecturer of the Farmers' Alliance one term,
and elected to the State assembly from San Luis
Obispo County in 1893 on the straight People's
Party ticket; then engaged with J. K. Tuley in
the publication of theEeasoner, at San Luis Obispo,
that being the leading Populist paper in southern
California; chairman of the People's Party State
convention in 1896, and in August of that year
nominated for Congress by both the People's Party
and Democratic conventions and the unanimous
indorsement of the Free-Silver Republican organi-
zation of the Sixth district; elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress as a fusion candidate.
Barlovir, Stephen, was a native of Pennsylva-
nia, and elected a Kepresentative from that State
to the Twentieth Congress.
Barnard, Daniel Dewey, was born July 16,
1797, in Berkshire County, Mass.; graduated at
Williams CoUege in 1818; studied law and in 1821
was admitted to the bar; began practicing at Roch-
ester, N. Y. ; prosecuting attorney in 1826; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twentieth
Congress; in 1832 moved to Albany, N. Y.; mem-
ber of the State assembly; again elected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Twenty seventh and Twenty-eJighth Congresses;
minister to Prussia September 3, 1850, to Septem-
ber 21, 1853; died at Albany, N. Y., April 24, 1861.
Barnard, Isaac D. , was born July 18, 1791, at
Aston, Pa.; received a public school education;
while studying law was appointed captain in the
Fourteenth United States Infantry, March 12,
1812, and served during the war; especially distin-
guished himself at the engagements of Lyons
Creek and Fort Dodge; resumed his legal studies
and in 1816 admitted to the bar; began practicing
at Westchester; deputy attorney-general in 1817;
State senator in 1820; State secretary of state in
1826; United States Senator from Pennsylvania
from December 3, 1827, until December, 1831,
when he resigned; died at Westchester, Pa., Feb-
ruary 28, 1834.
Barnes, Demas, was born April 4, 1827, at
Gorham, N. Y. ; reared on a farm; received an
acedemic education; 1849 moved to New York
and engaged in wholesale drug and medicine busi-
ness; elected a Representative from New York in
the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat.
Barnes, Greorge T. , of Augusta, Ga. , was born in
Richmond County, Ga., August 14, 1833; educated
at the Richmond County Academy, and at Frank-
lin College, University of Georgia, Athens, where
he graduated in August, 1853; studied law, admit-
ted to the bar, and practiced; member of the State
house of representatives of Georgia 1860-1865;
member of the national Democratic committee
from Georgia 1876-1884; elected to the Forty^ninth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth
and Fifty-flrst Congresses. *
Barnes, Xiyman E., of Appleton, Wis., was
born at Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis., June
30,1855; educated in the public schools; admitted
to the bar in 1876, after four years' study in a law
office and at Columbia College Law School, New
York; began the practice of law in Appleton in
1876 and soon afterwards formed a partnership
with Judge Goodland (one of the circuit judges of
Wisconsin), which continued until 1882; moved
to Rockledge, Brevard County, Fla., where he
remained about five years; practiced law there;
nominated by acclamation for State senator by
the Democratic party of Brevard and Dade counties,
but declined; returned to Appleton and resumed
the practice of his profession; district attorney of
Outagamie County; held no other public ofi5ce;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Barnett, William, was a native of Virginia;
removed to Georgia, and elected a Representative
from that State to the Twelfth Congress (in place
of Howell Cobb, resigned) as a State Rights Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Thirteenth Congress; in
1815 appointed a member of the commission to
establish the boundaries of the Creek Indian
Reservation.
Barney, John (son of Commodore Joshua
Barney), wa^ born at Baltimore, Md., in 1785;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; died at
Washington, D. C, January 26, 1856.
Barney, Samuel Stebbins, of West Bend,
Wis., was iDorn at Hartford, Washington County,
Wis., January 31, 1846; educated in the public
schools and at Lombard University, Galesburg, 111. ;
taught the high school in Hartford for four years;
began the study of law at West Bend with Hon.
L. F. Frisby, late attorney -general of Wisconsin,
in 1870; admitted to practice in 1873, arid has
practiced his profession at West Bend ever since;
filled the office of superintendent of schools of
Washington County from 1876 to 1880; Republi-
can candidate for Congress in 1884 in the old Fifth
district; in the same year delegate to the National
Republican convention at Chicago; held no other
public office; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican; re-
fused renomination for the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Barnitz, Charles A., was bom September 11,
1780, at York, Pa.; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began the
practice of his profession at York; in 1815 elected
to the State senate; elected to the Twenty-third
Congress from Pennsylvania; died at York, Pa.,
January 8, 1850.
Barnum, William H. , was born September 17,
1818, in Boston Corners, Columbia County, N. Y.;
received public school education; apprentice to
the iron founders' trade and subsequently engaged
in the manufacture of pig iron, car wheels, and
other articles of iron, in which he became quite
wealthy; member of the Connecticut legislature in
1851-52; elected a Representative from that State
to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat ; reelected
to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and
Forty-fourth Congresses, and resigned May 22,
1876, to become a United States Senator from
Connecticut as a Democrat ( in place of Orris Ferry,
Republican), and took his seat in the Senate May
22, 1876; served until March 3, 1879; delegate to
the national Democratic convention in 1868, 1872,
1876, 1880, and 1884; chairman of the national
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Democratic executive committee in the canvasses
of 1880 and 1884; died at Lime Eock, Conn., April
30, 1889.
Barnwell, Koljert, was a native of South Caro-
lina; Representative in the Second Congress from
that State, serving from October 24, 1791, to March
2, 1793.
Barnwell, Kobert Woodward, was born Au-
gust 10, 1801, in South Carolina; received a classical
education, and in 1821 graduated from Harvard Col-
lege; studied law, admitted to the bar, and began
practicing; elected a Eepreaentative from South
Carolina to the Twenty-flrst and Twenty-second
Congresses; declined a renomination; appointed a
United States Senator from South Carolina (in
place of Franklin H.Elmore, deceased), and served
from June 24, 1850, to January 6, 1851; commis-
sioner from South Carolina to the Federal Gov-
ernment regarding the secession of that State in
December, 1860; member of the Provincial Con-
gress of the Confederate States.
Barr, Samuel F., of Harrisburg, Pa., was born
near Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland, June 15,
1829; his parents came to the United States in
1831; received a common school education; freight
agent of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad in 1855-56; engaged early in the war on
the Government railways in and about Washing-
ton; in 1867 appointed clerk to the Committee on
Agriculture of the Senate, and afterwards became
clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations of
that body; was for five years editor of the Harris-
burg (Pa) Telegraph, from which position he
withdrew in 1878, giving up active business ; elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Barr, Thomas J., was born in New York in
1812; received a public school education; engaged
in the hotel business, 1835-1842, in New Jersey;
returned to New York City, where he was an
assistant alderman, 1849-50; in 1853 served in
the State senate; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress ( in the place
of John Kelly, resigned), as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as an independent
Democrat.
Barrere, Granville, was a native of Highland
County, Ohio; received a public school education,
attended college at Augusta, Ky., and Marietta,
Ohio; studied law and began practicing in Illinois
in 1856; elected a Representative from Illinois to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican.
Barrere, Nelson, was elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-third
Congress.
Barrett, J. Richard, was a native of Kentucky;
moved to St. Louis, Mo., and became identified
with the St. Louis Agricultural Society, and organ-
ized its successful exhibitions; claimed to have
been elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-sixth Congress, and after the contest the
seat was given to his opponent, Francis P. Blair,
who soon afterwards resigned; elected to fill the
vacancy in the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-seventh
Congress.
Barrett, "William E., of Melrose, Maas., was
born there December 29, 1858; educated in the
public schools; graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1880; began at once as assistant editor of the
St. Albans Daily Messenger; joined the staff of
the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1882; Washington
correspondent of the Boston Advertiser 1882-86;
recalled to Boston to become editor in chief, and
in 1888 became chief proprietor and manager of
the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Boston Even-
ing Record; elected to the Massachusetts legisla-
ture 1887-1892; speakerof that body every year but
the first, being elected by the votes of both par-
ties; candidate for Congress in April, 1893, at a
special election to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Hon. H. C. Lodge, but was defeated
by William Everett, Democrat; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress; moved to Boston,
Mass., and became publisher of the Boston Daily
Advertiser, a morning paper, and the Record, an
evening paper; president of a bank at Medford,
Mass., and president of a trust company located
at Boston, Mass.
Barringer, Daniel L., was born October 1,
1788, in Cabarrus County, N. 0. ; received a clas-
sical education; studied law and began practicing
in Wake County; member of the house of com-
mons of North Carolina in 1813, 1819, 1821, and
1822; elected a Representative from North Caro-
,lina to the Nineteenth Congress (in place of W.
Mangum, resigned) aa a Democrat; reelected to
the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses; defeated for reelection
to the Twenty-fourth Congress; moved to Ten-
nessee and became a member of the legislature;
elected its speaker; died in Tennessee October 16,
1852.
Barringer, Daniel IVCoreau, was born in July,
1806, in Cabarrus County, N. C; graduated at
the University of North Carolina in 1826; studied
law and began practicing in 1829; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina in 1829, 1830,
1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1840, and 1842; member of
the constitutional convention in 1835; elected a
Representative from North Carolina as a Whig to
the Twenty-eighth Congress; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses; minister
to Spain from June 18, 1849, until September 4,
1853; in 1854 elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives, and declined a renomination; delegate
to the peace congress in 1861.
Barrow, Alexander , was born in 1801 near Nash-
ville, Tenn. ; graduated from the West Point Mili-
tary Academy ; studied law and began practicing in
Louisiana; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served
several years in the ^tate legislature of Louisiana;
chosen as a United States Senator from Louisiana
as a Whig and served from May 31, 1841, until his
death, at Baltimore, Md., December 29, 1846.
Barrow, Pope, of Athens, Ga., was born in
Oglethorpe County, Ga., August 1, 1839; graduated
from tbe University of Georgia in the class of 1859
and in the law class of 1860; admitted to the bar
and practiced law; entered the Confederate service
in 1861, and served as aid-de-camp to Maj. Gen.
Howell Cobb during the war; resumed the prac-
tice of law at Athens; member of the constitutional
convention of 1877, and of the State Legislature of
Georgia in 1880 and 1881; elected to the United
States Senate November 15, 1882, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of Hon. B. H. Hill; took
his seat December 5, 1882, serving until March 3,
1883; resumed the practice of law at Savannah, Ga.
Barrow, Washington, was born October 5,
1817, in Davidson County, Tenn. ; received a clas-
sical education; studied law and practiced; minister
to Portugal from August 16, 1841, to February 24,
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1844; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; edited The
Nashville Banner; State senator in I860 and 1861;
prominently identified with the Confederacy dur-
ing the civil war, and arrested by order of Governor
Andrew Johnson, March 28, 1862, and imprisoned
at Nashville; released the following week by order
of President Lincoln; died October 19, 1866, at
St. Louis, Mo.
Barrows, Samuel June, of Boston, Mass., was
born at New York City May 26, 1845 ; afteraprimary
school education entered, at 9 years, the employ
of R. Hoe & Co., New York, as errand boy and
telegraph operator; with the exception of one year
spent in the public schools, remained nine years
with this firm; studied in night school; learned
shorthand; enlisted in the Navy at 19, but was
not mustered in on account of ill health; practiced
as a stenographer; reporter for the New York Sun
and New York World; in 1867 became phono-
graphic secretary to AVilliam H. Seward, then Sec-
retary of State; remained in Department of State
until 1871, and served part of the time in the Con-
sular Bureau and Bureau of Rolls; accompanied
Chaplain Newman, of the Senate, to Utah in 1870,
and reported the debate with the Mormons; en-
tered the Harvard Divinity School in the fall of
1871 and was graduated with the degree of B. A.;
while at Harvard was Boston correspondent of the
New York Tribune; accompanied aa correspondent
of the same paper the Yellowstone expedition in
1873, under the command of General Stanley, and
the Black Hills expedition in 1874, commanded by
General Custer; took part in 1873 in the battles of
Tongue River and the Big Horn ; spent a year at
Leipsic University and studied political economy
under Roscher ; settled as pastor of the First Parish,
Dorchester (Boston), Mass., in 1876; resigned in
1881 to become editor of the Christian Register,
which position he held for sixteen years; spent
the year 1892-98 in Europe studying archaeology
in Greece and visiting European prisons; secretary
of the United States delegation to the International
Prison Congress at Paris in 1895, and prepared the
report transmitted by the Secretary of State to Con-
gress; appointed by President Cleveland in 1896 to
represent the United States on the International
Prison Commission; elected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Barry, F. G. , of West Point, Miss;, was born
at Woodbury, Tenn. , of Irish parentage, January
15, 1845; received a rudimental education; served
as a private in the Confederate army; studied law,
admitted to the bar, and practiced; member of the
State senate of Mississippi 1875-1879; Democratic
elector at large for the State of Mississippi in 1880;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Barry, Henry W., was a native of New York;
self-educated; graduated in law at Columbian Law
College, Washington, D. C. ; enlisted in the Union
Army early in the war; organized a regiment of col-
ored troops in Kentucky; breveted major-general;
member of the Mississippi State constitutional con-
vention in 1 867; elected to the State senate in 1868;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses; died
June 7, 1875, at Washington, D. C.
Barry, William Taylor, was born February 5,
1784; graduated from William and Mary College in
1803; studied law and began the practice of his
profession at Lexington, Ky.; elected a Repre-
sentative to the Eleventh Congress as a Democrat
(to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of
George M. Bibb), and served from February 2,
1815, vmtil he resigned in 1816; judge of the
supreme court of Kentucky; elected lieutenant-
governor; appointed professor of law and politics
m Transylvania University, at Lexington, in 1821;
secretary of state; chief justice of the supreme
court of Kentucky; appointed Postmaster-General
by President Jackson, March 9, 1829, the first
Postmaster-General invited to sit in the Cabinet;
resigned April 10, 1835, when he became minister
to Spain; died at Liverpool, England, August 30,
1835, on his way to his post; his remains were
brought home and reinterred in Frankfort Ceme-
tery with Masonic honors, November 8, 1854.
Barry, William Sullivan, was bom December
10, 1821, at Columbus, Miss.; graduated from
Yale College in 1841; studied law and practiced
at Columbus; owner of several plantations;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; president
of the State secession convention of 1861, and
member of the provincial Confederate Congress;
entered the military service and commanded the
Thirty-fifth Mississippi Volunteers, acting at times
commander of the brigade to which he belonged;
captured at Mobile, April 12, 1865; resumed prac-
tice at Columbus and died there. January 29,
1868.
Barstow, Gamaliel H. , was born in New
York State in 1785; state treasurer of New York
1825-1828; served several terms as member of
the State senate and assembly; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-second
Congress; died at Nichols, N. Y., April 10, 1865.
Barstow, Gideon, was born in Essex County,
Mass., in 1783; several years a member of the
State senate and house of representatives; elected
a Representative to the Seventeenth Congress from
Massachusetts as a Democrat; died at St. Augustine,
Pla., March 26, 1852.
Bartholdt, Bichard, of St. Louis, Mo., was
born in Germany November 2, 1855; came to this
country when a boy; received a classical education;
learned the printing trade and has remained a
newspaper man ever since; connected with several
Eastern papers as reporter, legislative correspond-
ent, and editor, and was at the time of his election
to Congress editor in chief of the St. Louis Tribune;
elected to the board of public schools of St. Louis,
and in November, 1891, chosen its president;
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Bartine, Horace F. , of Carson City, Nev., was
born in New York City, N. Y., March 21, 1848;
attended the common schools until 15 years of age;
at the age of 15 enlisted as a private soldier in the.
Eighth New Jersey Regiment, serving during the
last two years of the late civil war; wounded in
the breast at the battle of the Wilderness, but
speedily recovered and rejoined his regiment;
participated in nearly all the principal engage-
ments in which the Army of the Potomac was
engaged until the surrender at Appomattox; in
1869 removed to Nevada; during the greater part
of the time from 1869 to 1876 engaged as a mill
hand and in the manufacture of sulphate of copper
for milling purposes, endeavoring in the mean-
time, by studying nights, to supply the defects in
his education; in 1876 began the study of law,
devoting his evenings to that purpose; in 1880
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admitted to the bar; practiced in all the courts,
State and Federal, within the State of Nevada;
served one term of two years as district attorney
of Ormsby County; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress.
Bartlett, Bailey, was born at Haverhill, Mass.,
in 1750; received a public school education; clerk
in his father's store; member of the State house
of representatives 1781-1783; declined areelection
in 1784; delegate to the State convention to ratify
the Federal Constitution in 1787; in 1788 again a
member of the State house of representatives and
in 1789 of the State senate; in 1789 appointed
high sheriff of Essex County and held the office
over forty years consecutively, except between
December 5, 1811, and January 20, 1812, when
for political reasons he was removed by Governor
Gerry and appointed county treasurer by the com-
missioners of Essex County; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Fifth Congress (in
place of Theophilus Bradbury, resigned) as a
Federalist; reelected to the Sixth Congress; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1820;
died at Haverhill, Mass., September 9, 1830.
Bartlett, Charles Lafayette, of Macon, Ga.,
was born at Monticello, Jasper County, Ga., on
January 31, 1853; moved from Monticello to Macon
in 1875; educated in the schools at Monticello, the
University of Georgia, and the University of Vir-
ginia; graduated from the University of Georgia in
August, 1870; studied law at the University of Vir-
ginia and admitted to the bar in August, 1872; ap-
pointed solicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) for
the Macon judicial court January 31, 1877, and
served in that capacity until January 31, 1881;
elected to the house of representatives of Georgiain
1882 and 1883, and again in 1884 and 1885, and to the
State senate in 1888 and 1889, from the Twenty-
second senatorial district; elected judge of the
superior court of the Macon circuit January 1,
1893, and resigned that office May 1, 1894; elected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, as a Democrat.
Bartlett, Franklin, of New York City, N. Y.,
was born in Worcester County, Mass., September
10,1847; graduated from the Brooklyn Polytech-
nic Institute in June, 1865, and entered Harvard
College, from which he graduated in June, 1869;
entered the Columbia College Law School in the
autumn of 1869, and studied at such school until
June, 1870; admitted to the bar upon examination
by the general term in 1870; student at Exeter
College, Oxford University, England, in 1870-71 ;
in 1872-73 concluded the second year of law
school course at Columbia College Law School
and received the degree of LL. B. ; in 1878
received the postgraduate degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Harvard University, and delivered
the postgraduate oration at the commencement in
Cambridge; in 1890 served as a member of the
constitutional commission of the State of -New
York; delegate from New York to the Democratic
national convention in 1892 at Chicago; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as the nominee of the
Democratic party; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress.
Bartlett, Ichabod, was born July 24, 1786, at
Salisbury, N. H. ; graduated at Dartmouth in 1808;
studied law and in 1811 admitted to the bar; com-
menced practicing at Durham, but in 1816 moved
to Portsmouth; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1820 and 1821, serving the last year
as speaker; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Eighteenth Congress as an Anti-
Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth Congresses; in 1830 again a member of the
State house of representatives; defeated for gover-
nor in 1832; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1838, 1851, and 1852; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1850; died October 19,
1853, at Portsmouth, N. H.
Bartlett, jrosiah, was born November 21, 1727
(old style), at Amesbury, Mass.; received a public
school education; studied medicine and began
practice at Kingston; filled several local oflSces
under the royal government; delegate from New
Hampshire to the Continental Congress in 1775;
second signer of the Declaration of Independence;
resigned in 1788 and became chief justice of the
State; in 1789 elected to the United States Senate
from New Hampshire, but declined, and at the
same time resigned as chief justice; elected pres-
ident of the State of New Hampshire in 1790;
member of the constitutional convention of 1792
(which substituted the title of governor for that of
president) and was first governor of New Hamp-
shire; died at Kingston, N. H., May 19, 1795.
Bartlett, Josiah, jr. (a son of Dr. Josiah Bart-
lett), was born December 16, 1788, at Kingston,
N. H. ; studied medicine and began practicing at
Stratham, N. H.; Presidential elector on the
Washington ticket in 1793, and again in 1825 on
the John Quincy Adams ticket; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Twelfth
Congress; died April 14, 1838, at Stratham, N. H.
Bartlett, Thomas, jr., was born June 18, 1808,
at Sutton, Vt. ; received a public school education;
studied law and in 1833 began practicing at
Groton; State's attorney for Caledonia County
1839-1842; member of the State senate in 1841
and 1842 and of the house of representatives 1849,
1850, 1854, and 1855; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention in 1850 and 1857; elected a
Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for re-election
to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the prac-
tice of his profession, and died at Lyndon, Vt.,
September 8, 1876.
Bartley, Mordecai, was born December 16,
1783, in Fayette County, Pa. ; attended school in
Virginia; moved to Ohio in 1809 and became a
farmer at Mansfield; served in the war of 1812 as
captain; State senator 1817-18; register of the land
office 1818-1823; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth,
and Twenty-first Congresses; governor of Ohio
1844-1846; died October 10, 1870, at Mansfield,
Ohio.
Barton, David, was a native of Waco County,
Ky. , moved with his parents to theTerritory of Mis-
souri; member of the convention which formed a
State in 1820; United States Senator from Mis-
souri from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1831 ;
died near Boonville, Mo., September 28, 1837.
Barton, Bichard W. , was native of Virginia
and ^served several terms in th e Virginia State legis-
lature; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; died in
Frederick County, Va., March 15, 1859.
Barton, Samuel, was a native of New York
State; received a common-school education and
served three terms in the State legislature; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
fourth Congress.
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Barwig, Charles, of Mayville, Wis., was bom
in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, March 19, 1837;
emigrated to this country with his parents in 1845,
locating at Milwaukee; graduated from the Spen-
cerian Business College in 1857; located at May-
ville in 1865; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as
a Democrat, reelected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses.
Bashford, Coles, was born January 24, 1816,
nearCold Springs, N. Y. ; educated at the Wesleyan
Seminary, now Genesee College, Lima, N. Y.;
studied law and in 1841 admitted to the bar; dis-
trict attorney for Wayne County 1847-1850; re-
signed in 1850 and moved to Oshkosh, Wis.;
member of the Wisconsin State senate 1852-1854,
resigning in 1855; governor 1855-1858; moved in
1863 to Arizona and became attorney-general of
Arizona 1864-1867; presiding officer of the first
Territorial council of Arizona; elected a Delegate
from Arizona to the Fortieth Congress as an Inde-
pendent; in 1869 appointed secretary of Arizona,
which position he held for several years; died at
Prescott, Ariz., April 25, 1878.
Bass, Lyman K. , was born November 13, 1836,
at Aldel, N. Y. ; graduated from Union College in
1856; admitted to the bar at Buffalo in 1858; dis-
trict attorney for Erie County 1865-1872; renomi-
nated and declined; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-third Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress;
during his terms in Congress served on commit-
tees on Railroads and Canals, Claims, Expendi-
tures in the War Department, and on the Joint
Select Committee to inquire into the affairs of the
District of Columbia; in 1872 formed a partnership
with S. Bissell, to which Grover Cleveland was
admitted in 1874; in 1876 retired from the firm
on account of failing health and moved to Colo-
rado Springs, Colo., becoming general counsel of
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company;
died at New York City May 11, 1889.
Bassett, Burwell, was born in New Kent
County, Va., in 1764; served in the Virginia legis-
lature for several years; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for
the Thirteenth Congress by Thomas M. Bailey,
whose election he unsuccessfully contested; elected
to the Fourteenth Congress by 47 majority and
reelected to the Fifteenth; again elected to the
Seventeenth Congress and reelected, to the Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses;
defeated as a Democratic candidate for the Twenty-
first Congress by Richard Coke, jr. ; died in New
Kent County, Va., February 26, 1841.
Bassett, Bicliard, was a native of Delaware;
admitted to the bar and practiced; delegate from
Delaware to the convention which framed the
Constitution of the United States in 1787; United
States Senator from Delaware from March 4, 1789,
to March 2, 1793; Presidential elector in 1797 and
voted for John Adams for President; governor of
Delaware 1798-1801; died September 18, 1815.
Bate, William B., of Nashville, Tenn., was
born near Oastalian Spring, Tenn.; received an
academic education; when quite a youth served
as second clerk on a steamboat between Nashville
and New Orleans; served as a private throughout
the Mexican war in Lousiana and Tennessee regi-
ments, a year after returning from the Mexican
war elected to the Tennessee legislature; gradu-
ated from the Lebanon Law School in 1852 and
entered upon the practice of his profession at Gal-
latin, Tenn. ; in 1854 elected attorney-general for
the Nashville district for six years; during term
of ofiice nominated for Congress, but declined;
Presidential elector in 1860 on the Breckinridge-
Lane ticket; private, captain, colonel, brigadier
and major-general in the Confederate service, sur-
rendering with the Army of the Tennessee in 1865;
three times dangerously wounded; after the close
of the war returned to Tennessee and resumed the
practice of law; delegate to the Democratic na-
tional convention in 1868; served on the national
Democratic executive committee for Tennessee
twelve years; elector for the State at large on the
Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; in 1882
elected governor of Tennessee and reelected with-
out opposition in 1884; in January, 1887, elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
Washington C. Whitthorne, and took his seat
March 4, 1887; reelected in 1893 and again in 1899.
Bateman, Ephraim, was born at Cedarville,
N. J., in 1770; studied medicine while an ap-
prentice to a machinist and practiced at Cedarville;
served in the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Fourteenth Con-
fress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifteenth,
ixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses; elected to
the council of the State legislature, and as its presi-
dent gave in 1826 the casting vote which elected
him to the United States Senate against T. Freling-
huysen; served in the United States Senate from
December 7, 1826, until he resigned in January,
1829; died at Cedarville, N. J., January 29, 1829.
Bates, Arthur Xiaban, of Meadville, Pa., was
born at Meadville, Pa., June 6, 1859; son of Sam B.
Bates, LL. D., and S. Josephine Bates; graduated
from Allegheny College in 1880; admitted to the bar
in 1882; elected city solicitor of Meadville in 1889,
1890, 1892, and 1894; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Bates, Edward, was born September 4, 1793,
at Belmont, Goochland County, Va. ; educated at
Charlotte Hall Academy, Maryland, and in 1812
obtained a midshipman's warrant but was pre-
vented from going to sea by his mother; served
as sergeant in the winter of 1812 and 1813 in a
volunteer brigade; in 1814 moved to St. Louis;
studied law and in 1817 admitted to the bar; cir-
cuit prosecuting attorney in 1818; member of the
convention which formed the State constitution
in 1820; State's attorney in 1820; member of the
State house of representatives in 1822; United
States district attorney 1821-1826; elected a Rep-
resentative from Missouri to the Twentieth Con-
gress as an Adams anti-Democrat; defeated for
reelection to the Twenty-first Congress; member
of the State senate in 1830, and of the State house
of representatives in 1834; dechned a Cabinfet seat
tendered him by President Fillmore; in 1856 pre-
sided at the national Whig convention at Balti-
more; appointed Attorney- General by President
Lincoln and served from March, 1861, to Septem-
ber, 1864; died at St. Louis, Mo., March 25, 1869.
Bates, Isaac C, was born May 14, 1780, at
Granville, Mass. ; graduated in 1802 from Yale Col-
lege; admitted to the bar and began practicing at
Northampton; served several years in the State
senate and house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Twentieth
Congress as an anti-Jackson man; reelected to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses; declined a reelection; Presidential
elector from Massachusetts in 1837 and 1841;
elected a United States Senator (in place of John
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Davis, resigned) and served from January, 1841,
until his death, at Washington, D. 0. , March 16,
1845.
Bates, James, was a native of Maine; studied
medicine ; physician at the Augusta insane asylum ;
moved to Nbrridgewock and devoted much time
to agricultural pursuits; edited the Democrat Som-
erset Republican; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-second Congress, serving
from December 5, 1831, to March 3, 1833.
Bates, James ■Woodson, was a native of Gooch-
land County, Va. ; moved to Arkansas Territory;
elected a delegate to the Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth Congresses; after the expiration of his term
in Congress appointed a judge of the supreme court
of Arkansas; died January 20, 1847, at Van Buren,
Ark.
Bates, Martin W., was born February 24, 1787,
at Salisbury, Conn, ; received a thorough English
education; moved to Delaware and taught school;
studied medicine and later studied law; admitted
to the bar; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1850; elected a United States Senator
from Delaware to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John M. Clayton, as a Democrat, and
served from December 6, 1858, to March 3, 1859;
died at Dover, Del., January 1, 1869.
Baxter, Portus, was a native of Brownington,
Vt. ; attended the public schools; Presidential
elector on the Scott ticket in 1852, and in 1856 on
the Fremont ticket; elected a Representative from
Vermont as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh
Congress; reelected to the Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congresses; died at Washington,
D. C, March 4, 1869.
Bay, William V. N. , was a native of New York;
after receiving a public school education moved to
Missouri and located at Union, Newton County;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Bayard, James A. (son of James A. Bayard and
father of Thomas Francis Bayard), was horn No-
vember 15, 1799, at Wilmington, Del.; received a
classical education; admitted to the bar and began
practicing at Wilmington; in 1851 elected a United
States Senator from Delaware as a Democrat; re-
elected in 1857 and again in 1863, serving from
December 1, 1851, until he resigned January 30,
1864; appointed a United States Senator as a Dem-
ocrat (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of George Read Riddle), and subsequently elected
by the legislature to complete the unexpired term,
serving from April 11, 1867, to March 3, 1869; dele-
gate to the national Democratic convention at New
York in 1868; died at Wilmington, Del., June 13,
1880.
Bayard, James Aslieton (father of James A.
Bayard and Richard H. Bayard and grandfather
of Thomas Francis Bayard), was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa. , July 28, 1767; pursuing classical studies,
graduated from Princeton College in 1784; studied
law under Gen. Joseph Reed; admitted to the
bar, commencing practice at Wilmington, Del.;
declined the offer as minister to France under
President Adams; elected a Representative from
Delaware to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist;
reelected to the Sixth and Seventh Congresses;
elected a United States Senator from Delaware (in
place of William Hill Wells, resigned), serving
from January 15, 1805, to March 3, 1813; appointed
one of the commission to negotiate peace with
Great Britain; went to Europe in 1814 and aided
in negotiating the treaty of Ghent; declined the
appointment of minister to Russia in 1815; died
at Wilmington, August 6, 1815.
Bayard, John, was born August 11, 1738, in
Cecil County, Md. ; received an academic educa-
tion; moved to Pennsylvania and located at Phila-
delphia, where he became engaged in mercantile
pursuits; elected several times as a member of the
Pennsylvania assembly, serving several years as
speaker; major of the Second Battalion of Phila-
delphia Volunteers, which he commanded at the
battle of Trenton; Delegate from Pennsylvania to
the Continental Congress 1785-1787; in 1788 moved
to New Brunswick; became mayor, also judge of
the court of common pleas; died January 7, 1807,
at New Brunswick, N. J.
Bayard, Sichard H., was born at Wilming-
ton, Del., in 1796; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1814; admitted to the bar and practiced
law; elected a United States Senator as a Whig
(to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Arnold Naudin), serving from June 20, 1836, to
September, 1839, when he resigned to become
chief justice of Delaware; again elected to the
United States Senate, serving from December 2,
1839, to March 3, 1845; charge d'affaires to Bel-
gium December 10, 1850, and served until Sep-
tember 12,. 1853; died at Philadelphia March 4,
1868.
Bayard, Thomas Francis, of Wilmington,
Del., was born at "Wilmington, Del., October 29,
1828; chiefly educated at the Flushing School, es-
tablished by Rev. Dr. F. L. Hawks, and although
his early training was for a mercantile life, studied
and adopted the profession of la w ; admitted to the
bar in 1851, and exceptingthe years 1855 and 1856,
when he resided in Philadelphia, always prac-
ticed in his native city; in 1853 appointed United
States district attorney for Delaware, but resigned
in 1854; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed James A. Bayard (his father) ;
took his seat March 4, 1869; reelected in 1875;
member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; re-
elected to the United States Senate in 1881 ; elected
President pro tempore of the Senate in 1881 ; re-
signed in 1885; Secretary of State 1885-1889, in
President Cleveland's Cabinet; ambassador to the
Court of St. James 1893-1897; died at the home of
his daughter in Dedham, Mass., September 28,
1898,
Bayard, ■William, was a native of New York;
member of assembly in 1764; Delegate from New
York to the Colonial Congress which met at New
York October 7, 1765.
Bayley, Thomas, was born in Somerset County,
Md. ; received a classical education, graduating
from Princeton College in 1794; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Fifteenth, Six-
teenth, and Seventeenth Congresses.
Bayley, Thomas Henry (son of Thomas M.
Bayly), was born December 11, 1810, in Accomac
County, Va. ; graduated from the University of
Virginia; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1830,
and commenced practice; member of the State as-
sembly 1835-1840, resigning on being elected judge
of the circuit court; elected a Representativ.3 from
Virginia to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat (to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
tion of Henry A. Wise); reelected to the Twenty-
ninth, Thirtieth,Thirty -first. Thirty-second, Thirt^
third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses, serving until
his death, which occurred Jime 23, 1856, at his
home in Accomac Countv.
BIOGKAPHIES.
383
Baylies, Francis (brother of William Baylies),
was bom October 16, 1783, at Taunton, Mass. ; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law with his
brother William Baylies; admitted to the bar and
practiced; register of probate for Bristol County
1812-1820; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Con-
gresses, and to the Nineteenth Congress on the
second trial; commissioned charg6 d'affaires to the
Argentine Republic January 3, 1832, and received
his passports September 3, 1832; died October 28,
1862, at Taunton, Mass.
Baylies, William (brother of Francis Baylies),
was born October 16, 1783, at Taunton, Mass.;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice at West Bridgewater; member of the State
legislature 1808-9, 1812-13, 1820-21, 1830-31, and
of the State senate 1825-26; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Eleventh Congress
as a War Democrat, and took his seat May, 1809
(but the House declared that his opponent, Charles
Turner, jr.. Peace candidate, to have been elected
at a previous election, which the governor of Mas-
sachusetts had declared void, and gave Turner the
seat June 28, 1809); elected to the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth , and Twenty-third Congresses ; defeated
candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress; died September 27, 1865, at Taunton, Mass.
Baylor, R. E. B., was elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Twenty-first Congress.
Bayly, Thomas M., was born in Accomac
County, Va., September 2, 1775; graduated from
Princeton College in 1794; entered public life in
1798 and served several years in each of the two
houses of the State legislature as a Democrat;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24, 1813 to
March 3, 1815; again reelected to the State legis-
lature and served several terms; died in Accomac
County, Va., January 6, 1834.
Bayne, Thomas M., of the city of AUeghenj^,
Pa.; born in that city June 14, 1836; educated in
the public schools and at Westminister College;
entered the Union Army in July, 1862, as colonel
of the One hundred and thirty-sixth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which he com-
manded during its nine months' term of service,
taking part in the battles of Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville; resuriied the reading of law in
1865, and admitted to the bar of Allegheny County
in April, 1866; elected district attorney for Alle-
gheny County in October, 1870, and held the office
until January 1, 1874; nominated by the Repub-
lican party ior the Forty-fourth Congress, and
defeated ; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, and
reelected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-
gresses as a Republican; died June 14, 1894.
Beach, Clifton Bailey, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was born at Sharon, Medina County, Ohio, Sep-
tember 16, 1845; moved to Cleveland in 1857;
educated in the common schools and at Western
Reserve College, class of 1871; admitted to the
bar in 1872; retired from active practice in 1884,
having become extensively engaged in manufac-
turing enterprises; nominated for Congress by
acclamation and elected to the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Beach, liewis, of Cornwall, N. Y., was born in
the city of New York March 30, 1835; graduated
from the Yale Law School in 1856; admitted to
the bar the same year, and began, the practice of
law in New York, in 1861 took up his residence I
in Orange County, N. Y. ; member and treasurer of
the Democratic State central committee 1877-1879;
placed on the electoral ticket for 1880, but resigned
on receiving his nomination for Congress; elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat and
reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses; died in November, 1886.
Beale, Charles L., was born at Canaan, N. Y.,
March 5, 1824; received a classical education,
graduating from Union College in 1844; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1849, and began prac-
tice at Kinderhook, N. Y. ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-seventh Congress; Presidential elector in
1864; delegate to the national Union convention
at Philadelphia in 1866.
Beale, James M. H. , was born in Virginia;
resided at Point Pleasant; elected a Represent-
ative from Virginia to the Twenty-third Con-
gress; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress
M'ithout opposition; again elected to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-second Congress.
Beale, Bichard Lee Turberville, of Hague,
Va., was born in Westmoreland County, Va., May
22, 1819; educated in private schools in West-
moreland County, Northumberland Academy, and
Rappahannock Academy, in Virginia, and Dick-
inson College, Pennsylvania; studied law, gradu-
ating frorn. the University of Virginia in 1837; ad-
mitted to the bar and has since practiced the
profession; Representative from Virginia in the
Congress of the United States 1847-1849; member
of the convention to form a constitution for Vir-
ginia in 1851; member of the State senate of
Virginia 1858-1860; lieutenant of cavalry in the
service of Virginia in May and June, 1861, captain
July to September, and major October to April,
1862; in the service of the Confederate States as
lieutenant-colonel from April to October, 1862,
colonel from October, 1862, to February, 1865,
brigadier-general from February to April, 1865;
elected on the 23d of January, 1879, to fill the
vacancy in the Forty-fifth Congress caused by the
death of B. B. Douglas; had previously been
elected, in November, 1878, to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; after leaving Congress
retired to his home near Hague, Westmoreland
County, Va., and practiced law; died April 21, 1893.
Beall, Reazin, was born in Pennsylvania
August 10, 1770; appointed ensign in the U. S.
Army March 7, 1792, and battalion quartermaster
1793; served under General Wayne in his cam-
paign against the Indians; moved to Wooster,
Ohio, and became brigadier-general of volunteers
in 1812; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirteenth Congress, serving from May 24,
1813, to Noveniber, 1814, when he resigned; died
at Wooster, Ohio, February 20, 1843.
Beaman, Fernando C, was born at Chester,
Vt., June 28, 1814; received a liberal education;
studied and practiced law; prosecuting attorney
for Lenawee County, Mich., six years; four years
judge of probate; Presidential elector in 1856;
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and
Forty-first Congresses.
Bean, Benning' M. , was bom in New Hamp-
shire in 1782; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the State legislature for five years and presi-
dent of the State senate in 1832; in 1829 member of
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the executive council; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses.
Beau, Ctirtis C, of Prescott, Ariz., was born at
Tamworth, N. H., January 4, 1828; educated at
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.; studied law;
admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1865; ap-
pointed by Governor Brownlow attorney-general
for the eleventh judicial circuit of Tennessee in
1865; represented Williamson, Maury, and Lewis
counties in the Tennessee legislature in 1866-67;
went to Arizona in June, 1868; member of the
upper house in the tenth legislative assembly of
Arizona in 1879; nominated by acclamation in the
Republican convention held at Tombstone in Sep-
tember, 1884, and elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Beardsley, Samuel, wasborn in Otsego County,
N. Y. ; received an academic education; studied
law; admitted to the bar, and began practicing at
Rome; member of the State senate, but resigned
in 1822 to be chosen first judge of Oneida County;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses, but resigned July 4, 1836, to accept the
appointment as circuit judge; in 1836 attorney-gen-
eral of the State of New York ; again elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-eighth
Congress, serving until March 6, 1844, when he
resigned to accept the position as associate judge
of the supjeme court; made chief justice in 1847,
but declined a new term of service under the new
constitution; died at XJtica, N. Y., May 6, 1860.
Beatty, John, was bom in Bucks County, Pa.,
December 10, 1749; graduated at Princeton College
in 1769; studied medicine at Philadelphia under
Dr. Rush and afterwards practiced; entered the
Revolutionary Army in 1776, and had attained the
rank of lieutenant-colonel when he was made pris-
oner at the surrender of Fort Washington; after
having been exchanged was appointed commissary-
general of prisoners, with the rank of colonel, May
28, 1778; resigned March 31, 1780, and resumed
the practice of medicine at Trenton, N. J. ; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress from the State of
New Jersey, serving from January 13, 1784, to June
3, 1784, and from November 11, 1784, to Novem-
ber 7, 1785; member of the State convention that
adopted the Federal Constitution; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Third Con-
gress; secretary of state of New Jersey 1795-1805;
member of the State senate and house of repre-
sentatives forseveral years, servingtwice as speaker
of the house; president of the Trenton Bank 1815-
1826; died at Trenton, N. J., May 30, 1826.
Beatty, John, was born near Sandusky City,
Ohio, December 16,1828; received a Hberal educa-
tion; engaged in the banking business; Republican
Presidential elector in I860; at the beginning of
the civil war volunteered as private in the Third
Ohio Infantry, and appointed lieutenant-colonel in
1861; in several battles in West Virginia; promoted
colonel in 1862, and took a prominent part in the
campaigns in the Southwest; commanded a regi-
ment at Perryville and a brigade at Stone River;
commissioned brigadier-general in 1863, and com-
manded a brigade at TuUahoma, Chickamauga,
an<l Marion Ridge; elected a Representative from
, Ohio to the Fortieth Congress (to complete the
unexpired term of C. S. Hamilton, deceased); re-
elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Beatty, William, was born in Ireland; received
a liberal education; located at Butler, Pa.; held
several local oflBces; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Van Buren Democrat; reelected to the- Twenty-
sixth Congress.
Beaty, Martin, was born in the State of Ken-
tucky; elected a Representative from that State to
the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig, defeating
Gaither and T. J. Marshall; defeated as a Whig
candidate for the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at
Southfork, Ky.
Beaumont, Andrew, was born in Pennsylva-
nia; received a liberal education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; appointed Commissioner of Pub-
lic Buildings at Washington by President Polk, and
served from November 5, 1846, to March 3, 1847;
died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., October 80, 1853.
Beck, Erasmus W. , was born at McDonough,
Ga., October 21, 1833; graduated from Mercer
University; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1856 and commenced practice at Griffin, Ga.;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Thomas J.
Speer.
Beck, James B. , was born at Dumfriesshire,
Scotland, February 13, 1822; received an academic
education in his nativecountry; came to the United
States with his parents while a youth and settled
in Lexington, Ky. ; graduated from the law school
of the Transylvania University in 1846; practiced
for twenty years and became very successful;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fortieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con-
gresses; in May, 1876, appointed member of the
commission to define the boundary between Mary-
land and Virginia; elected a United States Senator
from Kentucky as a Democrat for six years from
March 4, 1877; reelected in 1882 and 1888; and his
third term would have expired March 4, 1895; his
last official act was the preparation of the minority
report on the tariff in 1889; died in Washington,
D. C, May 3, 1890.
Beckner, William Morgan, of Winchester,
Ky., was born June 19, 1841, in Nicholas County,
Ky. ; educated in country schools and at the Rand
and Richeson Seminary in Maysville, Ky. ; read
law with Judge E. O. Phister, of Maysville, Ky.;
located in Winchester January 5, 1865; elected
city judge without opposition March, 1865; county
attorney without opposition in 1867; nominated
without opposition and elected county judge in
1870; appointed prison commissioner in 1880, and
wrote report of commission with reference to sys-
tem for managing State prisons; appointed railroad
commissioner in 1882 and served until February,
1884, when he resigned; nominated and elected
member of the constitutional convention without
opposition in 1890; elected to the legislature with-
out opposition in 1893; lawyerby profession; served
several terms on Democratic State central commit-
tee; elected to Congress as a Democrat in Novem-
ber, 1894, to fill the unexpired term of Hon M. C.
Lisle, who died July 7, 1894; resumed the practice
of law after leaving Congress.
Beckwith, Charles D., of Paterson, N. J., Avaa
born at Saratoga, N. Y., October 23, 1838; edu-
cated at private schools in Troy, N. Y., Philadel-
phia, Pa., Worcester, Mass., and at New Haven,
BIOGRAPHIES.
385
Conn, (military); engaged in iron manufacturing;
served as alderman and mayor each four years;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Bedford, Gunning:, was bom at .Philadelphia,
Pa. ; received his education at the public schools;
lieutenant in the French war of 1755; entered the
Revolutionary Army as major March 20, 1775;
lieutenant-colonel in Haslett's Regiment January
19, 1776; wounded at the battle of White Plains;
appointed muster master-general June 18, 1776;
Delegate from Delaware to the Continental Con-
gress 1783 to 1785; elected governor of Delaware in
1796; died at Newcastle, Del., September 30, 1797,
before his term expired.
Bedford, Gunning, jr. (cousin of Gunning Bed-
ford), was born at Philadelphia in 1747; graduated
from Princeton College in 1771; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar and began practice at Dover, Del. ,
moving afterwards to Wilmington; member of the
State house of representatives; attorney-general of
Delaware; Delegate from Delaware to the Conti-
nental Congress, serving from March 10, 1783, to
November, 1786; member of the Federal constitu-
tional convention; Presidential elector in 1789 and
1793; appointed by President Washington United
States judge for the district of Delaware in 1789,
which position he held until his death, which
occurred at Wilmington, Del., March 30, 1812.
Bedinger, George Michael, was born in Vir-
ginia, and was one of the earliest emigrants to
Kentucky; adjutant in the expedition against
Chillicothe in 1779, major in the battle of Blue
Licks in 1782, major in Dark's regiment in 1791,
major commanding the Winchester Battalion of
Sharpshooters in the St. Clair expedition in 1791,
and major commanding the Third sublegion of
U. S. Infantry from April 11, 1792, to February
' 28, 1793; member of the State house of represen-
tatives in 1795; elected a representative from Ken-
tucky to the Eighth Congress; reelected to the
Ninth Congress, serving from October 17, 1803, to
March 3, 1807; died at the Lower Blue Licks, Ken-
tucky, about 1830.
Bedinger, Henry, was born near Shepherds-
town, Va., in 1810; received a classical education;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1832 and began
to practice at Shepherdstown; elected a Represen-
tative from Virginia in the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected in the Thirtieth
Congress; defeated for reelection for the Thirty-
first Congress; appointed charg^ d'affaires to Den-
mark May 24, 1853, and minister resident June 29,
1854, serving until August 10, 1858; died near
Shepherdstown, Va. , November 26, 1858.
Bee, Thomas, was a native of South Carolina,
born in 1729; received a classical education; studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; member
of the State house of representatives of South Car-
olina; member of the royal privy council; took an
active part in the Revolution, and was a member
of the council of safety; Ueutenant-governor of
South Carolina; Delegate from South Carolina to
the Continental Congress 1780-1782; judge of the
United States court for the district of South Caro-
lina; in 1810 published. Reports of the District
Courts of South Carolina.
Beebe, George M. , was born at Mount Vernon,
N. Y., October 28, 1836; received a liberal educa-
tion ; studied law at the Law University at Albany ;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice; in
1859 moved to Kansas; member of the Territo-
rial council, secretary of the treasury, and acting
governor; moved to Nevada in 1863; appointed
collector of internal revenue, but declined; re-
turned to Monticello, N. Y., and edited the Repub-
lican Watchman ; president of the State Demo'^ratic
conventions in New York in 1873 and 1874; elected
a Representative from New York to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-fifth Congress.
Beeclier, Philemon, was born at New Haven,
Conn., in 1775; received a classical education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; moved to
Ohio; became noted as a lawyer; deputy grand
master of Masons of Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Fifteenth Congress as a Federal-
ist; reelected to the Sixteenth Congress; defeated
as a candidate for reelection to the Seventeenth
Congress; elected to the Eighteenth Congress;
reelected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses; defeated as the candidate for the Twenty-
first Congress; died at Lancaster, Ohio, November
30, 1839.
Beekman, Thomas, was a native of New York;
elected as a Representative from that State to the
Twentieth Congress.
Beeman, Joseph H. , of Ely, Miss., was born
in Gates County, N. C, November 17, 1835; moved
with his parents in 1847 to Morgan County, Ala.,
and from thence to Mississippi in 1849; brought up
on the farm and spent much of his life in active
participation in agricultural pursuits; received an
academic education; elected to the legislature from
Scott County in 1883 and reelected in 1885, 1887,
and 1889; connected with the Farmers' Alliance
from organizafion in the State, serving as chairman
of the State executive committee; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat without op-
position.
Beers, Cyrus, was born in the city of New
York; educated in the public schools; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Andrew D. W. Bruyn,
serving from December 3, 1838, to March 3, 1839.
Beeson, Henry W. , was born in Pennsylvania;
received his education in the public schools;
elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, serving
from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
Begole, Josiah W. ,was born at Groveland, N.
Y., January 20, 1815; educated in the public
schools; moved to Genesee County, Mich., in
August, 1836; taught district schools during the
winters of 1837 and 1838; in 1839 became rngaged
in farming, which pursuit he followed until 1856;
elected county treasurer four successive terms from
1856 to 1864; entered into the lumbering business
in 1863; elected to the State senate in 1871; mem-
ber of the board of aldermen for the city of Flint
for three years; delegate to the national Republi-
can convention at Philadelphia in 1872; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Beidler, Jacob Atlee, of Willoughby, Ohio,
was born near Valley Forge, Chester County, Pa.,
November 2, 1852; educated in the country schools
of that vicinity and attended Locke's Seminary, at
Norristown, Pa., for four years; moved to Ohio
and started in the coal business; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Beirne, Andrew, was born in Ireland; emi-
grated to Virginia and settled at Union, Monroe
County; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Van Buren Demo-
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
crat; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress;
serving from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841.
Belcher, Hiram, was born at Augusta, Me.
(then Massachusetts), June 10, 1790; received his
education at Hallowell Academy; studied law;
admitted to the bar, and in 1812 began practice at
Augusta; member of the State house of represent-
atives for several years; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
died at Augusta, Me., May 7, 1857.
Belelier, Nathan, was born at Griswold, Conn.,
June 23, 1813; graduated from Amherst College in
1832; studied law at the Cambridge law school;
admitted to the bar in 1836, and commenced prac-
tice at Clinton, Conn. ; in 1841 moved to New Lon-
don, where he gave up the practice of law and
became a manufacturer; member of the State
house of representatives in 1846 and 1847 and of
the State senate in 1850; Presidential elector in
1852; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; died
in New London, Conn., June 3, 1891.
Belden, George O., was born in the city of
New York; educated in the public schools; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twentieth
Congress.
Belden, James J., of Syracuse, N. Y., was
born at Fabius, Onondaga County, September 30,
1825; after receiving an ordinary common school
education, early engaged in mercantile pursuits;
had large interest in manufactures and other local
enterprises; director and trustee in several banks,
and president of the Robert Gere Bank, which he
established; for many years extensively engaged
in railroad and other public works and improve-
ments throughout the country and in Canada;
elected mayor of Syracuse in 1877 and reelected in
1878; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Repub-
lican to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Frank
Hiscock, elected to the United States Senate; re-
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
and Fifty-fifth Congresses.
Belford, James B., of Central City, Colo., was
born at Lewistown, Pa., September 28, 1837; edu-
cated at Dickinson College; by profession a lawyer;
appointed one of the judges of the supreme court
of Colorado in 1870, and held the office for five
years; elected, on the admission of Colorado as a
State, a Representative to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress aa a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth
Congresses.
Belford, Joseph McCrum, of Riverhead, Suf-
folk County, N. Y., was born at Mifflintown,
Juniata County, Pa., August 5, 1852; received a
classical education, graduating from Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., m 1871; engaged in academic
work for some years; moved to Long Island in
1884; admitted to the bar in 1889, and elected to
the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Belknap, Charles Eugene, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was born at Massena, St. Lawrence County,
N. Y., October 17, 1846; moved with his parents
to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1855; educated in the
common schools of Grand Rapids; left school
August 14, 1862j and enlisted in the Twenty-first
Regiment Michigan Infantry; promoted to differ-
ent positions, and receiyed a captain's commission
January 22, 1864, at the age of 17 years and 3
months; served until June, 1865, with the Army
of the Cumberland; wounded seven times; served
eleven years on board of education; served two
years as alderman; served one year as mayor; a
member of the board of control of State school in-
stitution for the deaf for four years; engaged in the
manufacture of wagons and sleighs; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Fifty-second Congress at the election Novem-
ber 3, 1891, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Melbourne H. Ford, Democrat.
Belknap, Hugh Beid, of Chicago, 111., was
born at Keokuk, Iowa, September 1, 1860; at-
tended the public schools there, and also took a
course of instruction at the Adams Academy,
Quincy, Mass., completing his education at Phil-
lips Academy, at Andover, Mass. ; being unable to
take a collegiate course, at the age of 18 entered
the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company in a minor capacity; remained with this
company for twelve years, filling various positions
in practical railroading in the operating depart-
ment, and retired as chief clerk to the general
manager in 1892 to become superintendent of the
South Side Rapid Transit Railroad, of Chicago —
the first elevated road in that city; never held any
political office until elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, the election returns
showing 15,325 votes for Hugh R. Belknap, against
15,356 votes for Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat,
and 3,945 votes for John B. Clark, Populist. Mr.
Belknap contested the election, and a recount of
the votes showed a plurality in his favor, a fact
readily conceded by Mr. McGann, his opponent,
and he was seated by a unanimous vote of the
House of Representatives, December 27, 1895; re-
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; in 1889 ap-
pointed a paymaster in the Regular Army; died
at Calamba, L^guna de Luzon, November 12, 1901.
Bell, Charles K., of Fort Worth, Tex., was
born at Chattanooga, Tenn., April 18, 1853; moved
to Texas in 1871; admitted to the bar in 1874;
elected district attorney, State senator, and district
judge, serving four years in each position; dele-
gate to the Democratic national convention in
1884; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress;
resumed the practice of law after leaving Congress.
Bell, Hiram, was born in Vermont; received
his education in the public schools; removed to
Greenville, Ohio; elected a Representative from
that State to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig;
died at Greenville, Ohio, December 21, 1855.
Bell, Hiram P. , was born in Jackson County,
Ga., January 27, 1827; received a liberal educa-
tion; taught school two years, during which time
he studied law and was admitted to the bar No-
vember 28, 1849; afterwards practiced at Gumming,
Ga. ; elected a member of the secession convention
without opposition in 1861, and opposed the seces-
sion ordinance; commissioner from Georgia to
solicit the cooperation of Tennessee in the formation
of a Southern Confederacy; member of the State
senate in 1861, and resigned to remain in the Con-
federate army, which he had entered in 1862 as cap-
tain; was promoted lieutenant-colonel and colonel
of the Forty-third Georgia Regiment; dangerously
wounded at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mis-
sissippi, December 29, 1862; member of the Second
Confederate Congress in 1864 and 1865; United
States Presidential elector in 1868; member of the
State Democratic executive committee 1868-1871;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-
third Congress aa a Democrat; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at St. Louis that
nominated Tilden and Hendricks; chosen as mem-
ber from the State at large of the Democratic
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387
national committee; again elected a Representative
to the Forty-fifth Congress (to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Benjamin H. Hill to the
United States Senate) as a Democrat.
Bell, James (son of Samuel Bell), was born at
Francistown, Hillsboro County, N. H., November
13, 1804; graduated from Bowdoin College in
1822; studied law at the Litchfield Law School;
admitted to the bar in 1825, and began practice at
Gilmanton, N. H.; in 1831 moved to Exeter, and
thence to Quilford in 1846; member of the State
house of representatives in 1846; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1850; defeated
as the Whig candidate for governor in 1854 and 1855 ;
elected a TJnited States Senator from New Hamp-
shire as a Whig, serving from December 3, 1855,
until the time of his death, which occurred May
26, 1857, at Laconia, N. H.
Bell, James M. , was born in Ohio; educated
in the public schools; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-third Congress as a Clay
Democrat.
Bell, John, was born near Nashville, Tenn.,
February 15, 1797; graduated from the University
of Nashville in 1814; studied law, and in 1816 admit-
ted to the bar; began practice iSi Franklin, Tenn. ;
elected to the State senate in 1817; became an emi-
nent lawyer; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Twentieth Congress and reelected to
the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth
Congresses as a Whig; Speaker of the House of
Representatives during the second session of the
Twenty-third Congress; appointed by President
Harrison Secretary of War in 1841, but resigned
October 12, 1841; in 1847 elected to the State house
of representatives of Tennessee; elected to the
United States Senate as a Whig, serving from De-
cember 6, 1847, until March 3, 1859; defeated as a
Presidential candidate with Edward Everett for
Vice-President; became interested in large iron
works at Chattanooga; died at his home near Cum-
berland River September 10, 1 869.
Bell, John, of Fremont, Ohio, was elected a
Representative from that State to the Thirty-first
Congress (to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Amos E. Wood) as a Whig, serving from Jan-
uary 7, 1851, to March 3, 1851.
Bell, John C. , of Montrose, Colo. , was educated
in the private schools of Prof. Rufus Clark and of
Professors Hampton and Miller, in Franklin
County, Tenn.; read law in Winchester, Tenn.;
admitted to the bar of that State in 1874, and the
same year moved to Colorado and commenced the
practice of law at Saguache in June, 1874; ap-
pointed county attorney of Saguache County and
served until May, 1876, when he resigned and
moved to Lake City, Colo. ; elected county clerk
of Hinsdale County in 1878; twice elected mayor
of Lake City, and in August, 1885, resigned that
position, and, forming a law partnership with
Hon. Frank C. Goudy, moved to Montrose; in
November, 1888, elected judge of the seventh
judicial district of Colorado for a period of six
years; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat; defeated for the Fifty-eighth Con-
Bell, Joshua F., was born in Kentucky and
educated in the public schools; studied law, ad-
mitted to the bar, and began practicing at Dan-
ville, Ky. ; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig; appoint-
ed secretary of state of Kentucky in July, 1849, in
place of Orlando Brown, resigned; delegate to the
peace convention in 1861 from Kentucky; member
of the State house of representatives in 1865; died
in Kentucky August 20, 1870.
Bell, Peter Hansbroug'h, was born in Vir-
ginia and e'ducated in the public'schools; studied
law, and admitted to the bar; moved to Texas;
captain of Texas Volunteer Rangers 1845-46;
served in the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel of
mounted volunteers; in 1848-49 colonel of a
Texas volunteer regiment; governor of Texas
1849-1853; elected a Representative from Texas to
the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as
a Democrat; judge of the supreme court of Texas.
Bell, Samuel, was born at Londonderry, N. H.,
February 9, 1770; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1793; studied law and practiced at Chester,
N. H.; a member of the State legislature 1804-
1808, serving as speaker; State senator in 1807 and
1808; State councilor in 1809; judge of the State
supreme court 1816-1819; governor of New Hamp-
shire 1819-1823; elected to the United States Sen-
ate, and reelected, serving from March 4, 1823, to
March 3, 1835; died at Chester, N. H., December
23, 1850.
Bell, Samuel N. , was born at Chester, N. H.,
March 25, 1829, graduated from Dartmouth College,
New Hampshire, in 1847; studied law and after-
wards practiced at Manchester; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Forty-sec-,
ond and Forty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat;
appointed chief justice of the supreme court of
New Hampshire.
Bellamy, John Sillard, of Wilmington, N. C,
was born at Wilmington, N. C, March 24, 1854;
educated at the Cape Fear Military Academy, pre-
sided over by Gen. Raleigh E. Colston, of Confed-
erate-war fame, at Davidson College, North Caro-
lina, a Presbyterian college, where he graduated
with the degree of A. B. in 1873, and at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, graduating in several of the
schools in 1874, and with the degree of LL. B. in
1875; practiced the profession of law for twenty-
three years with marked success; author of a num-
ber of historical essays and sketches; has been
city attorney of Wilmington; State senator from
the twelfth senatorial district, and one of the del-
egates at large to the Democratic national conven-
tion of 1892; grand master of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows of North Carolina and rep-
resentative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the
United States; also a prominent Knight of Pythias;
elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Bellinger, Joseph, was born in South Caro-
lina; Presidential elector from that State on the
Madison and Clinton ticket; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Fifteenth Con-
gress, serving from December 1, 1817, to April
20, 1818.
Bellows, Benjamin, was born at Walpole, N.
H., October 6, 1740; elected town clerk in 1759,
and successively elected until 1776; member of
the Colonial and afterwards of the State legisla-
ture, State senator, and State councilor; in 1781
appointed a Delegate from New Hampshire to the
Continental Congress, but declined to serve; mem-
ber of the State convention that ratified the Fed-
eral Constitution in 1788 ; president of the electoral
college of New Hampshire which voted for Wash-
ington in 1789 and member of the electoral college
388
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wMch. voted for John Adams in 1797; served dur-
ing the Revolutionary war as colonel; died at
Walpole June, 1802.
Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry, was born in
New York City, N. Y., November 12, 1858; son
of late August Belmont; educated at United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis, and served two years
in the U. jS. Navy, when he resigned; at one time
member of the firm of August Belmont & Co.,
bankers. New York; publisher of The Verdict, a
weekly paper, and delegate to the Democratic
national convention at Kansas City, July 4, 1900;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Belmont, Perry, of Babylon, Long Island,
N. Y., was born in the city of New York, Decem-
ber 28, 1851; graduated from Harvard College in
1872; admitted to the bar in 1876, and has since
been engaged in the practice of law; elected to
the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat; candidate for
election as a Representative to the Fifty-eighth
Congress, but was defeated by Montague Lessler,
Republican.
Belser, James E., was born in North Caro-
lina and received a public school education;
moved to Montgomery, Ala., where he studied
law and was admitted to practice; elected clerk
of the county court and afterwards county solic-
itor; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1853
and 1855; died at Montgomery, Ala,, January 16,
1859.
Beltzhoover, Frank E., of Carlisle, Pa., was
born in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland
County, Pa., November 6, 1841; received a pri-
mary education at Big Spring Academy, Newville;
entered Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, in 1858
and graduated in 1862; read law; admitted to the
bar in 1864 at Carlisle, where he practiced; chair-
man of the Democratic committee of Cumberland
County in 1868 and 1873; district attorney 1874-
1877; delegate to the Democratic national conven-
tion at St. Louis in 1876; elected to the Forty -sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress; elected a Representative to the
Fifty-second and Fifty- third Congresses; after leav-
ing Congress resumed the practice of law at Car-
lisle, Pa.
Benedict, Charles B. , was born at Attica, N. Y.,
February 7, 1828; received a liberal education;
studied law and in 1856 admitted to the bar; en-
gaged in the banking business at Attica in May,
1860; for five years member of the board of super-
visors of Wyoming County; in 1875 member of the
Democratic State committee; in 1876 Presidential
elector; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty -fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Benjamin, John E., was born at Cicero, N. Y.,
January 23, 1817; educated in the public schools;
moved to Texas, where he resided three years,
and thence to Missouri; studied law and began to
practice at Shelby ville in 1848; member of the
State house of representatives 1850 and 1852 ; Presi-
dential elector on the Bqchanan ticket in 1856;
entered the Union Army as a cavalry private in
1861, and subsequently promoted captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, and brigadier-general; in 1863
and 1864 provost-marshal of the eighth district of
Missouri; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at Baltimore in 1864; elected a Representa-
tive from Missouri to the Thirty-ninth Congress as
a Radical; reelected to the Fortieth and Fortv-
first Congresses; after his retirement from Con-
gress engaged in the practice of law at Washington,
D. C, until his death, which occurred March 8,
1-877.
Benjamin, Judah Peter, was born in Santo
Domingo in 1812 and came with his parents to
Savannah, Ga., in 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion, having studied at Yale College; in 1831
moved to New Orleans; taught school; notary's
clerk; studied law and began practicing in 1831;
member of the State constitutional .convention
in 1845; elected a United States Senator in 1853
as a Whig and reelected in 1859 as a Conservative,
serving from March 4, 1853, until he resigned Feb-
ruary 4, 1861; appointed attorney-general of the
Southern Confederacy February 21, 1861; expelled
from the United States Senate March 14,1861; ap-
pointed acting secretary of war of the Southern
Confederacy in August, 1861, and secretary of war
from November 10, 1861, until February 7, 1862,
when he was appointed secretary of state; moved
to Great Britain and became a member of the bar
at London, receiving the appointment of Queen's
counsel for Lancaster and enjoying a lucrative
practice; died in Paris, France, in Ma.y, 1884.
Benner, George Jacob, of Gettysburg, Pa.,
was born April 13, 1859, at Gettysburg; educated
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, graduating
in the class of 1878; after several years devoted to
teaching, admitted a member of the Adams County
bar December 31, 1881; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat.
Bennet, Benjamin, was born in 1762 and edu-
cated in the public schools; studied theology and
ordained as a Baptist minister at Middletcwn,
N. J. ; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Fourteenth Congress and reelected to the
Fifteenth Congress, serving from January 15, 1816,
to March 3, 1819; diedatMiddletown, N. J., Octo-
ber 8, 1840.
Bennett, Charles Goodwin, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., was born in the city of Brooklyn Decem-
ber 11, 1863, where he always resided; a gradu-
ate of public school No. 24 and of the Brooklyn
High School, and studied law and graduated from
the New York Law School, receiving the degree
of LL. B. from the State board of regents; admit-
ted in the second department to practice at the
bar, and was a member of the law firm of Daniels
& Bennett, of New York City; unsuccessful Re-
publican candidate for member of the Fifty-third
Congress in this district, and elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fift^-fifth Congress; elected Secretary of United
States Senate January 29, 1902.
Bennett, David S. , was elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-first Congress as
a Republican.
Bennett, Granville G., of Yankton, S. Dak.,
was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 9, 1833;
spent his youth in Fayette County, Ohio; moved,
with his parents, to Fulton County, 111., in 1849,
and to Washington, Iowa, in 1855; educated at
Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant, and Washing-
ton College, Iowa; studied law and entered upon
the practice at that place in 1859; served in the
Union Army as a commissioned oflBcer during the
war of the rebellion from July, 1861, to August,
1865; elected a member of the State house of rep-
resentatives of Iowa in the fall of 1865 for two
years, and to the State senate in the fall of 1867 for
four years; appointed associate justice of the su-
preme court of Dakota February 24, 1875, and re-
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signed, on being nominated as a Delegate, August
23, 1878; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Republican; after leaving Congress resumed the
practice of law.
Bennett, Henry, was born at New Lisbon,
N. Y., September 29, 1808; educated in the public
schools; studied law and commenced practice at
New Berlin, N. Y., in 1832; elected a Bepresenta-I
tive from New York to the Thirty-first Congress!
as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-second, ThirtyJ
third. Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses aa
a Republican. '
Bennett, Hendley S., was born in Williamson
County, Tenn., March 7, 1807; educated at the
public schools; studied law and commenced prac-
tice in Mississippi in 1830; circuit judge 1846-1854;
elected a Representative to Congress from Missis-
sippi to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Bennett, Hiram P. , was born at Carthage, Me. ,
September 2, 1826; received his education in the
public schools; studied law and commenced prac-
tice in Western Iowa; elected judge of the circuit
court there in 1852; moved into Nebraska Terri-
tory in 1854 and elected a member of the Territo-
rial Council the same year; in 1858 elected to the
State house of reprsentatives and chosen speaker;
in 1859 moved to Colorado Territory and elected
its delegate to the Thirty-seventh Congress;
reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Conservative Republican; appointed secretary of
State of Colorado in March, 1867.
Bennett, Bisden T., of Wadesboro, N. C,
was born in Anson County, N. C, June 18, 1840;
educated at Anson Institute; took the degree of
bachelor of laws at Lebanon Law School, Tennes-
see, in June, 1859; entered the Confederate army
as a private April 30, 1861, and rose through the
several grades to the colonelcy of the Fourteenth
North Carolina Troops; soUcitor of Anson County
in 1866 and 1867; member of the legislature of
North Carolina in 1872, and delegate to the con-
stitutional convention of the State in 1875, serving
in each body as chairman of the judiciary commit-
tee; judge of the superior court in 1880, and
resigned to accept the nomination for Congress as
Congresman at large from North Carolina; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law.
Bennett, Thomas W., was born in Union
County, Ind., February 16, 1831; graduated from
the law department of the Indiana Asbury Uni-
versity in July, 1854, and commenced practice; in
1858 elected to the Indiana State senate and re-
signed in 1861 to enter the Union Army; commis-
sioned a captain in the Fifteenth Regiment Indiana
Volunteers in April, 1861, major of the Thirty-
sixth Regiment September, 1861, colonel of the
Sixty-ninth Regiment in August, 1862, and ap-
pointed brigadier-general in March, 1865; agam
elected to the State senate in October, 1864; elected
mayor of the city of Richmond, Ind., May, 1869,
and served two years; in September, 1871, ap-
pomted governor of Idaho Territory, and served
until December 4, 1875, when he resigned, claiming
to have been elected to the Forty-fourth Congress
as an independent candidate; the House, however,
gave the seat to his opponent, S. S. Fenn, Demo-
crat.
Benson, Egbert, was born in New York City,
June 21, 1746; graduated from Columbia College
in 1765; commenced the practice of law at New
York; prominent member of the Revolutionary
committee of safety; in 1777 appointed the first
attorney-general of New York ; member of the first
State legislature in 1777; in 1783 one of the three
commissioners to direct the embarkation of the Tory
1 refugees for the loyal British provinces; delegate
from New York to the Continental Congress, serv-
ing from 1784 to 1788; elected a representative
from New York to the First Congress and reelected
to the Second Congress, serving from April 9, 1789,
to March 3, 1793; regent of the New York Uni-
/versity 1789-1802; judge of the supreme court of
New York 1784-1801; judge of the United States
I circuit court; again elected to the Thirteenth Con-
gress, serving from May 24, 1813, until August 2,
1813, when he resigned; first president of the New
York Historical Society; wrote and published
Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre in 1817,
and Memoir on Dutch Names of Places in 1835;
died at Jamaica, L. I., August 24, 1833.
Benson, Samuel P., was born at Winthrop,
Me., in 1825; graduated from Bowdoin College;
studied law and began to practice at Winthrop;
member of the State legislature of Maine 1834 and
1836; secretary of State of Maine 1838-1841; elected
a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; after his retirement
from Congress resumed the practice of law and
appointed one of the overseers of Bowdoin College;
died August 12, 1876.
Bentley, Henry W., of Boonville, N. Y., was
born at Deruyter, Madison County, N. Y., Sep-
tember 30, 1838; admitted to the bar in April,
1861, and for thirty years actively engaged in the
practice of law in Boonville; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; at the expiration
of his term in Congress returned to Boonville,
N. Y., where he resumed the practice of his pro-
fession.
Benton, Charles S., was bom in Maine and
spent his early life there; removed to Mohawk,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from that State to
the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses
as a Whig.
Benton, Jacob, was born at Waterford, Vt.,
August 14, 1819; received a liberal education;
taught for several years; moved to Lancaster,
N. H. , in 1842, and in 1843 admitted to the bar and
commenced to practice in Lancaster; elected to the
legislature in 1854, 1855, and 1856; delegate to the
national Republican convention in 1860; brigadier-
general commanding the State volunteers; elected
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican from New
Hampshire; reelected to the Forty-first Congress;
after his retirement from Congress resumed the
practice of law, which he carried on very success-
fully; died in Lancaster, N. H., September 29, 1892.
Benton, Iiemuel, was born in South Carolina;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Third Congress;
reelected to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses.
Benton, Maecenas E., of Neosho, Mo., was
born in Obion County, Tenn., January 29, 1849;
received his literary education in two West Ten-
nessee academies and in St. Louis University;
graduated from the law department of Cumber-
land University in June, 1870, and immediately
removed to Missouri, settling in Neosho, where he
has since lived; beginning with 1872 (with four
exceptions) has been a delegate to every Demo-
cratic State convention held in Missouri, and was
president of the conventions held in 1890, 1896,
and 1898; elected prosecuting attorney in 1878 and
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1880, and declined reelection in 1882; attorney of
the United States from March, 1885, to July, 1889;
seven years a member of the board of curators of
the Missouri University; served as a member of
the Democratic State committee for the State at
large; delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tion held in Chicago in July, 1896, and member of
the committee on credentials in that body; elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Benton, Thomas Hart, was born at Harts
Mill, near Hillsboro, N. C , March 14, 1782; re-
ceived a liberal education, having been a student
at Chapelhill College; studied law at William and
Mary College; removed to Nashville, Tenn., where
he commenced to practice; served as aid-de-camp
to General Jackson; fromDecember, 1812, to April,
1813, was colonel of a regiment of Tennessee vol-
unteers; lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty-ninth
U. S. Infantry 1813-1815; removed to St. Louis,
where he edited The Missouri Inquirer and con-
tinued the practice of law; elected United States
Senator from Missouri as a Democrat, and five
times reelected, serving from August 10, 1821, to
March 3, 1851; elected a Representative from Mis-
souri to the Thirty-third Congress as a Missouri-
Compromise Democrat; defeated for reelection to
the Thirty-fourth Congress; defeated for governor
of Missouri in 1856; after his retirement from
Congress devoted himself to the completion of
his Abridgment of Congressional Debates; died at
Washington, D. C, April 10, 1858.
Beresford, Richard, was born in South Caro-
lina and spent the greater part of his life there;
delegate from that State to the Continental Con-
gress, serving from May 30, 1783, to June 8, 1784.
Bergen, Christopher Augustus, of Camden,
N. J., was born at Bridge Point, Somerset County,
N. J., August 2, 1841; educated at Harlingen
School, at Edge Hill Classical School, and at
Princeton College, graduating from the academic
department in 1863; studied law, and licensed by
the supreme court of New Jersey as an attorney
at law November, 1866, and as a counselor at law
November, 1869; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress.
Bergen, John T., was elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-second Con-
gress.
Bergen, Tennis G., was born at Brooklyn,
N. Y., October 6, 1806; received his education at
Flushing; engaged in horticulture and surveying
of land; served in the State volunteer militia as
sergeant, and regularly promoted until he became
colonel; member of the State constitutional con-
vention of 1846; member of the national Demo-
cratic conventions at Baltimore and Charleston in
1860; supervisor of New Utrecht for twenty-three
years; elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat.
Bernhisel, John M. , was born in Cumberland
County, Pa., June 23, 1799; received a liberal edu-
cation and graduated from the medical department
of the Pennsylvania University; moved to Utah;
elected a Delegate from Utah to the Thirty-fifth
Congress; elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress,
Berrien, John Macpherson, was born in New
Jersey August 23, 1781; in 1796 graduated from
Princeton College; studied law at Savannah under
Hon. Joseph Clay; began the practice of law in
1799 at Louisville, then the capital of Georgia;
moved to Savannah; elected solicitor of the east-
ern judicial circuit of Georgia in 1809; judge of the
same circuit 1810-1821; captain of the Georgia
Hussars, a Savannah volunteer company, in the
war of 1812-18151 State senator 1822-23; elected a
United States Senator from Georgia as a Democrat
in 1825 and served until March 9, 1829, when he
resigned to accept the position of Attorney-General
under President Jackson; resigned as Attorney-
General December 27, 1831; again elected to the
United States Senate as a Whig; took his seat May
31', 1841; reelected in 1847 and resigned May 28,
1852; died at Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1856.
Berry, Albert Seaton, of Newport, Ky., was
born in Campbell County, Ky . ; educated at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio; attended Cincinnati
Law School; served two terms in State senate, five
terms as mayor of Newport, and elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses.
Berry, CamptoellP., of Wheatland, Cal., was
born in Alabama November 7, 1834; in 1841 moved
to Arkansas, and thence, in 1857, to California;
graduated from Methodist College, Vacaville, Cal.,
in 1865; served as super visor of Sutter County three
years; elected to thelegislatureof California in 1869,
againin 1871, again in 1875, and on the organization
of the assembly was unanimously chosen speaker;
elected in 1879 to the Forty-sixth Congress from the
Third Congressional district of California as a Dem-
ocrat, and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress.
Berry, James H., of Bentonville, Ark., was
born in Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841;
moved to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited edu-
cation at a private school at Berryville, Ark.;
studied law and admitted to practice in 1866; en-
tered the Confederate army in 1861 as second lieu-
tenant, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantrv; lost a leg at
the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862;
elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; re-
elected in 1872; elected speaker of the house at the
extraordinary session of 1874; president of the
Democratic State convention in 1876; elected judge
of the circuit court in 1878; elected governor m
1882; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed
Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25,
1885, and reelected in 1889, 1895, and 1901; his
term of service expires March 3, 1907.
Berry, John, was born April 26, 1833, in Wyan-
dotte County, Ohio; received his education in the
public schools and at the Ohio Wraleyan Uni-
versity, Delaware; graduated from the law school
of the Cincinnati College, and commenced practice
at Upper Sandusky in 1857; in 1862, and again in
1864, elected prosecuting attorney of Wyandotte
County; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-third Congress.
Bethune, Laughlin, was born in Cumberland
County, N. C. ; member of the State senate of North
Carolina in 1817, 1818, 1821, and 1827; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Twenty-
second Congress as a Jackson Democrat; defeated
for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; died
at Fayetteville, N. C, in 1856.
Bethune, Marion, was elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Forty-first Congress, andadmit-
ted to his seat January 16, 1871, serving until
March 3, 1871.
Betton, Silas, was born at Londonderry, N. H.,
in 1764; in 1787 graduted from Dartmouth College;
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391
elected a Representative from New Hampshire in
the Eighth Congress, and reelected to the Ninth
Congress, serving from October 17, 1803, to March
3, 1807; high sheriff of Rockingham County for
several years; died at Salem, N. H., in 1822.
Betts, Samuel Rossiter, was born at Rich-
mond, Mass., June 8, 1787; in 1806 graduated from
Williams College; studied law at Hudson, N. Y. ;
commenced to practice in Sullivan County; served
as judge-advocate of volunteers in the war of 1812;
elected a Representative from New York in the
Fourteenth Congress as a Democrat; moved to
Newburgh, N. Y., where he continued the prac-
tice of law; in 1823 appointed circuit judge under
the new State constitution; appointed in 1826
judge of the United States district court for the
southern district of New York; resigned in 1867;
in 1838 published a valuable work on admiralty
practice; died at New Haven, Conn., November 2,
1868.
Betts, Thaddeus, was born atNorwalk, Conn. ;
graduated from Yale College in 1807; studied law
and commenced practice atNorwalk; held several
important public oflSces; elected a United States
Senator from Connecticut as a Whig in 1839 and
served until his death, which occurred at Wash-
ngton, D. C, April 8, 1840.
Beveridge, Albert J., o£ Indianapolis, Ind.,
was born on a farm in Highland County, Ohio,
October 6, 1862; his father and brothers were sol-
diers in the Union Army; married to Miss Kath-
erine Maude Langsdale on November 24, 1887,
who died June 19, 1900; admitted to the bar in
1886, and devoted himself to his profession; elected
to the Senate of the United States as a Republican
by the sixty-first general assembly of Indiana Jan-
uary 17, 1899, and took his seat March 4 following.
Beveridge, Jolin Ii. , was born at Greenwich,
N. Y., July 6, 1824; educated in the public schools;
moved to Illinois in 1842 and continued his educa-
tion at the Rock River Seminary; taught school
in Tennessee; studied law 1846-1851, and after-
wards practiced in Chicago; served four years
in the Union Army as major and colonel of cav-
alry; sheriff of Cook County, 111., two years from
1866; in November, 1870, elected State senator,
resigning, having been nominated as a Republican
to flu the vacancy in the Forty-second Congress
caused by the election of John A. Logan to the
United States Senate; elected a Representative
from Illinois, serving from January 4, 1873, to
March 3, 1873; elected governor of Illinois in 1873
for four years.
Bibb, George M., was born in Virginia in
1772; graduated from Princeton College in 1792;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and commenced
to practice in Kentucky; member of the State
house of representatives and senate; three times
elected chief justice of Kentucky; chancellor of
the Louisville court of chancery; elected a United
States Senator from Kentucky, serving from
1811 to 1814, when he resigned; again elected
United States Senator, serving from December 7,
1829, to March 3, 1835; Secretary of the Treasury
under President Tyler for one year; resumed the
practice of law at Washington, and was a clerk in
the office of the Attornev-General; died at George-
town, D. C, April 14, 1859.
Bibb, William Wyatt, was born in Virginia
October 1, 1780; received a liberal education;
graduated from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1801; removed to
Georgia; member of the State senate and house of
representatives of Georgia; elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat (in the place of Thomas Spalding, resigned) ;
reelected to the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth
Congresses; United States Senator 1813-1816, to
flu the vacancy caused by the resignation of W.
H. Crawford, who was appointed minister to
France; moved to Alabama Territory and elected
the first governor under the State constitution in
1819; died at Fort Jackson July 9, 1820.
Bibighaus, Thomas M., was born in Penn-
sylvania in 1816; received his education in the
common schools; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig.
Bickuell, Bennet, was born at Mansfield,
Conn., in 1803; educated in the pubUc schools;
moved to Morrisville, N. Y. ; member of the State
assembly in 1812, and 1815-1818 State senator;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839; died at Morris-
ville, Madison County, N. Y., 1863.
Bicknell, George Augustus, of New Albany,
Ind., was born February 6, 1815, at Philadelphia,
Pa.; studied law at the law school of Yale Col-
lege; moved to Scott County, Ind. , in 1846; elected
county prosecutor in 1848, circuit prosecutor in
1850, and judge of the second judicial circuit in
1852, holding the last-named place twenty-four
years by four successive elections; professor of law
at the University of Indiana 1861-1870: elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as, a Democrat; in 1881 appointed
commissioner of appeals in the supreme court of In-
diana, which office he held until the completion of
its work in 1885; judge of the circuit court of In-
diana in 1889, and held that office until the time
of his death, April 11, 1891, at New Albany, Ind.;
author of Bicknell's Civil Practice and Bicknell's
Criminal Practice.
Biddle, Charles John (son of Nicholas Bid-
die) , was born at Philadelphia in 1819; graduated
from Princeton College in 1837 ; admitted to practice
law in 1840 at Philadelphia; served in the Mexi-
can war, receiving the brevet of major for meri-
torious services; resumed the practice of law at
Philadelphia; entered the Union Army in 1861 as
colonel of a regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of
B. Joy Morris; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; died at Philadelphia
September 28, 1873.
Biddle, Edward (uncle of Richard Biddle),
Was born at Philadelphia in 1739; lieutenant and
captain in the French war 1756-1763; studied law
and commenced*practice at Reading, Pa.; member
of the State assembly; Delegate to the Old Con-
gress 1774-75; died at Baltimore, Md., September
5, 1779.
Biddle, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
March 9, 1789; served in the war of 1812; subse-
quently paymaster and Indian agent; moved to
Detroit, Mich., and Delegate from that Territory
to the Twenty-first Congress; in 1831 appointed
register of the land office at Detroit, Mich. ; trav-
eled extensively over Europe; died at the White
Sulphur Springs, Va., August 25, 1859.
Biddle, Richard (nephew of Edward Biddle),
was born at Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1796;
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CONGRESSIONAL BIEECTORY.
Studied law and commenced practice at Pittsburg,
Pa. ; visited England and made important histor-
ical investigations 1827-1830; returned home and
resumed practice; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
serving from September 4, 1837, to 1840, when he
resigned; in 1831 he published a Life of Sebastian
Cabot; died at Pittsburg, Pa., July 7, 1847.
Bidlack, Benjamin A., was born at Wilkes-
barre, Pa.; elected a Bepresentative from that
State to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twenty-eighth Congress,
serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1845; ap-
pointed chargi§ d'affaires to Colombia May 14,
1845, and died in office, at Bogota, Colombia, Feb-
ruary 6, 1849.
Bidwell, Barnabas, was born in Massachu-
setts; in 1785 graduated from Yale College; studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; member of
the Massachusetts house of representatives 1805-
1807; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Ninth Congress; attorney-general of Massa-
chusetts 1807-1810; died in 1833.
Bidwell, John, was born in Chautauqua
County, N. Y., August 5, 1819; moved in 1829
to Erie, Pa. , and again to Ashtabula County, Ohio,
r-N I the same year; received his education at the
j Kingsville Academy; taught school; in 1841 emi-
A grated to California; served in the warwith Mexico,
yj attaining the rank of major; member of the State
convention which fratned the first constitution of
California; member of the State senate of Califor-
nia in 1849; delegate to the national Democratic
convention at Charleston in 1860; elected a Rep-
resentative from California to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Unionist; defeated as a candidate
for governor of California in 1875.
Biery, James S. , was born in Venango County,
Pa., March 2, 1839; received a liberal education
and taught school for several years; studied the-
ology for two years and subsequently studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Allen-
town in 1868; elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania in 1869; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Bigby, John Summerfleld, was born in Coweta
County, Ga., February 13, 1832; educated in the
public schools and at Emory College, Oxford,
Ga.; studied and practiced law; member of the
State constitutional convention of 1867-68; solifc-
itor-general of the Tallapoosa circuit from August,
1867, to September 22, 1868; then judge of the
superior court to March 3, 1871; elected a Repre-
sentative from Georgia to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican.
Bigelow, Abijah, was born at Westminster,
Mass., December 5, 1775; received his education
at Dartmouth College, graduating from there in
1795; studied law and in 1798 commenced practice
in the courts of Worcester County, Mass.; five
years town clerk of Leominster; member of the
state house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Eleventh Con-
gress as a Federalist to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of William Steadman; reelected to
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses; clerk of the
courts of Worcester County 1817-1833; appointed
a master in chancery in 1838; died April 4, 1860.
Bigelow, Lewis, was bornin Worcester County,
Mass., in 1788; educated at Williams College,
graduating there in 1803; studied law and prac-
ticed at Worcester; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Seventeenth Congress; editor
of the first seventeen volumes of Massachusetts
Reports and of a digest of six volumes of Pick-
ering's Reports; moved to Peoria, 111.; clerk of
the Peoria County court; died at Peoria, 111.,
October 3, 1838.
Bigger, Samuel, was born in Warren County,
Ohio, December 16, 1799; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating from Athens University ; studied
law; admitted to the bar; began practice at Fort
Wayne; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 2, 1833, until March 3, 1835; governor
of Indiana 1840-1843; defeated as a Whig candi-
date for governor in 1843 by James Whitcomb,
Democrat; died at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1845.
Biggs, Asa, was bom at Williamston, N. C,
February 4, 1811; received a liberal education;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831, and
afterwards practiced; member of the constitutional
convention of North Carolina in 1835; member of
the house of commons of North Carolina in 1840
and 1842, and of the State senate in 1844 and 1854;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; one of
a commission to codify the State laws of North
Carolina in 1850; elected a United States Senator as
a Democrat for six years from March 3, 1855, but
resigned May, 1858, to become United States judge
for the district of North Carolina, having been ap-
pointed by President Buchanan.
Biggs, Benjamin T., was born at Summit
Bridge, Del., October 1, 1821; spent the early part
of his life on a farm; attended the Pennington
Seminary for two years, and afterwards taught
school; also a student in the Wesley an University
of Connecticut; in 1847 became engaged in farm-
ing; member of the State constitutional convention
in 1853; became interested in railroad operations
and was director in the Kent and Queen Anne's
Railroad Company; candidate for Congress in 1860,
but defeated by Judge Fisher; elected a Repre-
sentative from Delaware to the Forty-first Congress
as a Democrat; was reelected to the Forty-second
Congress.
Biggs, Marion, of Gridley, Cal., was born in
PikeCounty, Mo., May 2, 1823; received a common
school education ; elected sheriff of Monroe County,
Mo., in 1852, and reelected in 1854; elected to the
California legislature from Sacramento County in
1867, and from Butte County in 1869; elected to
the State constitutional convention from the State
at large in 1878; elected to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress.
Bigler, William, was born at Shermansburg,
Pa., December, 1813; received a public school edu-
cation; in 1829 apprenticed to his brother to learn
the art of printing; in 1833 moved to Clearfield
and established the Clearfield Democrat; in 1836
engaged in the lumber business; in 1841 elected to
the State senate by a majority of over 3,000, receiv-
ing every vote cast with the exception of 1; in
1844 reelected to the State senate and chosen
speaker; in 1851 elected governor of Pennsylvania;
elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania
in 1855 for a term of six years; delegate to the
Chicago national convention of 1864, to the Phila-
delphia national Union convention of 1866, and to
the New York national convention of 1868; mem-
ber of the constitutional convention of Pennsyl-
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vania, and in 1874 member of the board of finance
of the Centennial Exposition; died at Clearfield,
Pa., August 9, 1880.
Billing'liurst, Charles, was born at Brighton,
N. Y., July 27, 1818; educated at the common
schools; studied law and afterwards practiced;
moved to Wisconsin in 1847; member of the first
State legislature of Wisconsin in 1848; elected a
Presidential elector in 1852; elected a Represent-
ative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Bines, Thomas, was born at Trenton, N. J.,
and educated in the common schools; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Thirteenth
Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Jacob Hufty, serving from November 2, 1814, to
March 3, 1815.
Bingham, Henrjr Harrison, of Philadelphia,
Pa., was born at Philadelphia, Pa., December 4,
1841; graduated from Jefferson College in 1862;
studied law; entered the Union Army as a lieuten-
ant in the One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania
Volunteers; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 18B3,
at Spottsyl vania, Va., in 1864, and at Farmville,
Va., in 1865; mustered out of service July, 1866,
as brevet brigadier-general of volunteers; received
the medal of honor for gallantry on the field of
battle; appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in
March, 1867, and resigned December, 1872, to
accept the clerkship of the courts of oyer and ter-
miner and quarter sessions of the peace at Phila-
delphia, having been elected by the people; re-
elected clerk of courts in 1875; delegate at large to
the Republican national convention at Philadel-
phia in 1872, also delegate from the First Congres-
sional District to the Republican national conven-
tion at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and
1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, St. Louis in 1896, and
at Philadelphia June 19, 1900; elected to the
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican without
opposition.
Bingham, John A., was bonj at Mercer, Pa.,
in 1815; received a liberal education; apprentice
in a printing ofiice for two years; studied at Frank-
lin College, Ohio; began the practice of law in
1840; district attorney for Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, 1846-1849; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-
sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-eighth
Congress; declined the appointment of United
States district judgeship for the squthern district
of Florida, which was tendered him by President
Lincoln; appointed judge advocate of the Union
Army in 1864, and later in the year appointed
solicitor of the Court of Claims; special judge ad-
vocate in the trial of the conspirators against the
life of Mr. Lincoln; again elected to the Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second
Congresses as a Republican; appointed minister to
Japan in 1873.
Bingham, Kinsley S. , was born at Camillus,
N. Y., December 16, 1808; received a liberal
education and taught school; for three years a
lawyer's clerk; in 1833 moved to Michigan and
engaged in farming; held several local oflBces;
member of the State house of representatives 1835-
1840; elected a Representative from Michigan to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Thirty-first Congress; elected gov-
ernor of Michigan in 1854 as a Republican; re-
elected in 1856 as a Republican; elected United
States Senator from Michigan as a Republican in
place of Charles E. Stewart, Democrat, and served
from December 5, 1859, until his death, which
occurred October 5, 1861, at Oak Grove, Mich.
Bingham, William, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1751; in 1768 graduated from the Philadel-
phia College; agent of the Continental Congress at
Martinique, and afterwards consul at St. Pierre;
Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress 1787-88; United States Senator from
Pennsylvania 1795-1801; elected president pro
tempore of the Senate February 16, 1797; after his
retirement from the Senate traveled extensively
over Europe; and died at Bath, England, February
7, 1804.
Binney, Horace, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa. , January 4, 1780 ; graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1797; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Philadelphia in 1800; member of the State
house of representatives 1806-7; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Whig; director and defender
of the United States Bank; died at Philadelphia,
August 12, 1875.
Bird, John, was born at Litchfield, Conn. ; in
1786 graduated from Yale College; studied law and
commenced practice at Troy, N. Y. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Sixth Congress
as a Democrat; died at Troy, N. Y., in 1806.
Biid, John T., was bom at Hunterdon, Hunt-
erdon County, N. J., August 16, 1829; received a
liberal education and began the practice of law in
1855 in his native county; nominated as prose-
cutor of the pleas in 1863 and held the ofiice
five years; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Forty-second Congress.
Birdsall, Austaurn, was born in the city of New
York; moved to Bingham ton; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirtieth Congress as
a Democrat; appointed United States naval store-
keeper at New York City.
Birdsall, James, was elected a Representative
from New York to the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat; member of the State general assembly
in 1837.
Birdsall, Samuel, was elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat, serving from September 4, 1837, to
March 3, 1839.
Birdseye, Victory, was born in 1782; elected
a Representative from New York to the Fourteenth
Congress; chosen delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention of 1821; State senator in 1821
and in 1829; member of the State assembly for
three years; defeated for reelection to the Twenty^
sixth Congress; was again elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3,
1843; died at Pompey, September 16,. 1853.
Bisb^e, Horatio, jr., was born at Canton,
Oxford County, Me., May 1, 1839; graduated from
Tuft's College, Massachusetts; served as a private
soldier three months in the Fifth Massachusetts
Volunteers; mustered out the middle of July, 1861;
appointed captain in the Ninth Maine Volunteers
in September, 1861; promoted to the rank of
lieutenant-colonel, and afterwards to the rank of
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
colonel; honorably mustered out of service with
the latter rank the last of March, 1863; commenced
practicing law at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 10th
day of February, 1865; held the office of United
States attorney for the northern district of Florida
1869-1873, and for a short period the office of
attorney-general of the State of Florida; elected
to the Fortv-flfth Congress as a Bepubhcan, and
unseated eight days before the close of said Con-
gress; reelected as a Republican to the Forty -sixth
Congress, counted out, and seated on a contest the
22d day of January, A. D. 1881; elected to the.
Forty-seventh Congress, counted out, and seated
on a contest the 1st day of June, 1882; reelected
to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Bishop, James, was born at New Brunswick,
N. J., educated in the common schools; trained
for a mercantile life; member of the State house
of representatives; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Bishop, Phaneul, was born in Massachusetts
and educated in the public schools; State senator
1787-1791; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses.
Bishop, Roswell, P. , of Ludington, was born
at Sidney, Delaware County, N. Y., January 6,
1843; worked on a farm until August 3, 1861, when
he enlisted as a private in Company C, Forty-third
New York Volunteer Infantry; April 28, 1862,
wounded at Lees Mills, Va., necessitating the am-
putation of his right arm; discharged in the field
near Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1862; sub-
sequently attended school at Unadilla Academy,
Cooperstown Seminary, and Walton Academy,
New York; taught school several years, and en-
tered Michigan University in September, 1868,
where he remained until December, 1872; ad-
mitted to the bar in May, 1875, at Ann Arbor;
commenced practicing law at Ludington, Mich.,
soon after, where he has since resided; elected
prosecuting attorney of Mason County, 1876, 1878,
and 1884; elected to the Michigan legislature, 1882
and 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re-
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republi-
can.
Bishop, William D., was born at Bloomfield,
N. J., September 14, 1827; graduated from Yale
College in 1849; studied law and admitted to the
bar, but did not practice as he entered into railroad
enterprises; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-sixth
Congress; Commissioner of Patents from May 23,
1859, to January, 1860; member of the State house
of representatives in 1866.
Bissau, "WilUam H., was born at Hartwick,
N. Y., April 25, 1811; educated in the public
schools; graduated from the Philadelphia Medical
College in 1835; moved to Illinois and practiced
medicine there until 1840; member of the State
house of representatives; studied law and com-
menced practice at Belleville, 111. ; county prose-
cuting attorney in 1844; served in the Mexican
war; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat without oppo-
sition; reelected to the Thirty-second Congress
and reelected to the Thirty-third Congress as an
Independent Democrat; elected governor of the
State of Illinois as a Republican 1856-1860; died
at Springfield, 111., March 18, 1860.
Black, Edward J., was born at Beaufort, S. C,
in 1806; educated at the public schools and studied
law under Judge Reid, at Augusta, Ga. ; com-
menced practice in 1827 at Augusta; moved to
Scriven County, Ga., in 1832; member of the
State house of representatives for several years;
defeated as a candidate for State attorney-general
in 1831; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a States' -rights Whig;
defeated for reelection to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress; reelected to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat, to fill a vacancy, and served from
March 2, 1842, to March 3, 1845; defeated for
reelection to the Twenty-ninth Congress; died in
Barnwell District, S. C, 1846.
Black, Frank S., of Troy, N. Y., was born at
Limington, York County, Me., March 8, 1853;
reared on a farm; educated in the district schools
and at Lebanon Academy, West Lebanon, Me.;
graduated from the academy in 1871 and from Dart-
mouth College in 1875; editor of the Johnstown
(N. Y. ) Journal for a short time after graduating
from Dartmouth; then moved to Troy, where he
studied law and was a newspaper reporter; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1879; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; resigned January
7, 1897, having been elected governor of New
York.
Black, George K. , of Sylvania, Ga., was born
in Scriven County, Ga., March 24, 1835; educated
partly at the University of Georgia and at the
South Carolina College, which latter institution he
left in his senior year in the students' rebellion of
1856; studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1857
at Savannah; entered the Confederate service as
first lieutenant of the Phoenix Riflemen, and after-
wards promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-
third Georgia Regiment; delegate to the constitu-
tional convention of 1865, and to the national
Democratic convention at Baltimore; State senator
1874-1877; vice-president of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; died in July, 1§83.
Black, Henry (father of Jeremiah S. Black),
was born at Stony brook, Somerset County, Pa.,
February 25, 1783; educated in the public schools;
studied law and afterwards practiced; member of
the State house of representatives, 1815-1818; asso-
ciate judge of Somerset County 1820-1840; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig (to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Charles Ogle), but died
before taking his seat, November 28, 1841.
Black, James, was born at Newport, Pa., and
educated in the common schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, in place of Jesse Miller,
resigned, and served from December 5, 1836, to
March 3, 1837; elected to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
Black, James A., was born in Abbeville Dis-
trict, S. C, in 1793; educ ited in the public schools
and engaged in mercantile pursuits; entered the
U. S. Army as a lieutenant in 1812 and promoted
to the rank of captain; filled other important posi-
tions; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Calhoun
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth and
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395
Thirtieth Congresses, serving from December 4,
1843, until the time of his death, which occurred
April 3, 1848, at Washington, D. C.
Black, James C. C. , of Augusta, Ga., was born
at Stamping Ground, Scott County, Ky., May 9,
1842; private soldier in Company A, Ninth Ken-
tucky Cavalry, Confederate States army; after the
war read law in the office of Frank H. Miller, esq.,
at Augusta, Ga., and admitted to the bar April,
1866; elected to the Fifty- third Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Black, Joh.li, was born and reared in Virginia;
received a liberal education and taught school for
a few years; studied law and began to practice in
Louisiana; moved to Mississippi, where he was ap-
pointed judge; appointed a tlnited States Senator
from Mississippi by the governor (to fill the va-
cancy caused by the resignation of Powhatan Ellis)
as a Whig, and was subsequently elected, serving
from December 12, 1832, until 1838, when he re-
signed; resumed the practice of law; died at Win-
chester, Va., August 29, 1854.
Black, John C, of Chicago, 111., was born at
Lexington, Miss., January 29, 1839; lived in Illi-
nois since 1847; alumnus of Wabash College, In-
diana; lawyer by profession, having been admitted
to the bar in 1867; served in the armies of the
United States from April 15, 1861, to August 15,
1865; Commissioner of Pensions from March 17,
1885, to March 27, 1889; elected a Representative
at large to the Fifty-third Congress from the State
of Illinois as a Democrat; resigned January 12,
1895.
Blackburn, Edmond Spencer, was born in
Watauga County, N. C, September 22, 1868; re-
ceived a substantial academic education, and
studied law, being admitted to practice in 1890;
served as reading clerk of the State senate; mem-
ber of the house, and speaker pro tempore of that
body; trustee of the University. of North Carolina;
assistant United States attorney for the western
North Carolina district; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, of Versailles,
Ky. , was born in Woodford County, Ky. , October
1, 1838; educated at Sayres Institute, Frankfort,
Ky., and at Centre College, Danville, Ky., whence
he graduated in 1857; studied law with George B.
Kincaid, esq., at Lexington; admitted to the bar
in 1858, and practiced until 1861 ; entered the Con-
federate army in 1861, and served throughout the
war; resumed practice in 1865; elected to the State
legislature of Kentucky in 1871 and 1873; elected
to the House in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed John S. Williams, Democrat,
and took his seat March 4, 1885; reelected in 1890;
reelected in 1900 to succeed William Lindsay,
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
Blackburn, Williani Jasper, born in Arkansas
July 24, 1820; educated in the public schools;
learned the printing trade; established the Homer
Iliad, at Homer, La., and was so strong in his at-
tacks against the slavery question that his office was
twice mobbed; member of the State constitutional
convention of 1848; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican,
serving from July 18, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Blackleg'e, 'William, was born in . Craven
County, N. C.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1809;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Eighth Congress as a Democrat, and was
reelected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses;
defeated for reelection to the Eleventh Congress;
elected to the Twelfth Congress, defeating William
Gaston, Federalist; defeated for reelection to the
Thirteenth Congress; died at Spring Hill, Craven
County, N. C, October 19, 1828.
Blackledge, "William S., was born in Pitt
County, N. C., in 1793; moved to Craven County;
in 1820 member of the State house of representa-
tives; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Sixteenth Congress (to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Jesse Slocum) as a Demo- '
crat, defeating Davis; reelected to the Seventeenth
Congress, serving from February 7, 1821, to March
3, 1823; died at Newbern, N. C, March 21, 1857.
Blackmar, Esbon, was born in the State of
New York; a prominent citizen of Newark, of that
State; two years a member of the State assembly;
elected a Representative to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of John M. HoUey.
Blackwell, Julius W. , was born in Virginia;
educated in the public schools; moved to Tennes-
see and settled at Athens; elected a Represent-
ative from Tennessee to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Van Buren Democrat; defeated as a
Democratic candidate for reelection to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; elected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-
ninth Congress.
Blaine, James Gr. , of Augusta, Me., was born
in Washington County, Pa., January 31, 1830;
graduated from Washington College, Pennsylvania;
adopted the editorial profession, and wentto Maine,
where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the
Kennebec Journal; member of the Maine legisla-
ture in 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, serving the last
two years as speaker of the house; elected to the.
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first,
Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses (serving
in the Forty-first, Forty-second, and the Forty-
third as Speaker) ; reelected to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; elected to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res-
ignation of Lott M. Morrill, appointed Secretary
of the Treasury; resigned his seat in the Senate
March 1, 1881, to become Secretary of State in
Garfield's Cabinet; in 1884 was nominated for
President of the United States by the Republicans,
and defeated by Grover Cleveland, of New York;
refused to allow his name to come before the
Republican national convention in 1888 as a can-
didate for President; Secretary of State under Har-
rison, and served from March 5, 1889, to June 4,
1892, when he resigned; in the national conven-
tion of 1892 he received 182| votes for President
(Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, receiving the nomina-
tion) ; died January 27, 1893.
Blair, Austin, was born at Caroline, Tomp-
kins County, N. Y., February 8, 1818; graduated
from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1839;
studied law in Oswego for two years, and moved
to Michigan, where he began practicing in 1842;
county clerk of Eaton County, and prosecuting
attorney for Jackson County; member of the State
legislature, serving in both branches; elected gov-
ernor of Michigan in 1860; elected as a Represent-
ative from Michigan to the Fortieth, Forty-first,
and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican;
died at Jackson, Mich., August 6, 1894.
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Blair, Barnard, was born at Salem, N. Y., in
1801; educated in the public schools; held several
political olfices in his own county; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig; died at Salem, N. Y., May 1,
1880.
Blair, Francis P., jr., was born at Lexington,
Ky., February 19, 1821; graduated from Princeton
College in 1841; moved to St. Louis, studied law,
and commenced practice there in 1845; visited the
Eocky Mountains, and while there enlisted as a
private in the regiment of Colonel Doniphan, serv-
ing through the Mexican war; after the war re-
sumed practice at St. Louis; in 1852 and 1854
elected to the Missouri legislature; elected a Rep-
resentative from Missouri to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Free Soiler; reelected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress by a close -vote; seat was contested,
but was awarded him; resigned at the close of the
first session; defeated as a Free Soil candidate to
fill the vacancy for the remainder of the Thirty-
sixth Congress; elected to the Thirty-seventh and
Thirty-eighth Congresses; resigned his seat in Con-
gress to enter the Union Army as colonel ; returned
to the Democratic party; candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent, 1868; member of State legislature in 1870;
elected United States Senator (vice Judge Drake,
resigned) as a Democrat; served from January 25,
1871, to March 3, 1873; State insurance commis-
sioner; died at St. Louis, Mo., July 8, 1875.
Blair, Henry W. , of Plymouth, N. H., was born
at Campton, ISf. H., December 6, 1834; received a
common school and academic education; studied
law with WilliamLeverett, at Plymouth; admitted
to the bar in May, 1859; appointed prosecuting
attorney for Grafton County in 1860; served in the
Union Army as lieutenant-colonel of the Fifteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers; member of the State
house of representatives in 1866, and of the State
senate in 1867-68; elected a Representative to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Re-
publican, and declined a renomination to the
House of Representatives of the Forty-sixth Con-
gress; elected to the United States Senate as a Re-
publican to succeed Charles H. Bell, who had been
temporarily appointed by the executive of New
Hampshire, and took his seat June 20, 1879, his
term expiring March 3, 1885; he was appointed to
fill the vacancy until the next session of the legis-
lature in the month of June following, when he
was elected to serve the balance of the term which
would expire March 3, 1891; was candidate for re-
election and defeated; declined the oflice of United
States judge for the district of New Hampshire;
was selected without his knowledge by the Presi-
dent to be envoy extraordinary and mmister plen-
ipotentiary to China; was nominated, confirmed
by the Senate, and appointed March 6, 1891 ; was
objected to as persona non grata by the Chinese
Government, our Government protesting against
the sufl&ciency of the objections; the objections
were, first, that he voted for the exclusion act of
1888, and, second, that he had abused China and
Chinese laborers in debate; the first objection was
true and the second false; declined other appoint-
ments; his resignation was accepted October 6,
1891, and he retired to private life, intending to
resume the practice of law, but being urged to be
a candidate as a Representative to the Fifty-third
Congress he accepted the Republican nomination
and was elected.
Blair, Jacob B., was born at Parkersburg, Va.,
April 11, 1821; received his education in the public
schools; studied law and afterwards practiced;
prosecuting attorney for Ritchie County for sev-
eral years; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Unionist;
elected a Representative from West Virginia to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; was surveyor-general of
Utah; minister to Costa Rica; member of the
Wyoming supreme court for twelve years, and for
a number of years occupied the same position in
Utah; died February 12, 1901.
Blair, James, was born at Lancaster, S. C;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Seventeenth Con-
gress as an antitarift Democrat, serving from De-
cember 2, 1821, to May 8, 1822, when he resigned;
elected to the Twenty-first Congress as a Union
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses as a Democrat; while
attending the theater one night during the first
session of the Twenty-first Congress, being die-
pleased with an actor, -fired a shot at him, was
arrested and fined $5; -his physicians testified that
he was under the infiuenee of brandy and opium
taken for chronic rheumatism; three weeks after-
wards, April 1, 1834, he died at Washington, D. C.
Blair, James Gr. , was born in 1828; educated
in the public schools; studied law arid began prac-
ticing at Canton; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Forty-second Congress as a Liberal
Republican.
Blair, John, was born in Washington County,
Tenn., inl798; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the State legislature, serving in both houses;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses as
a Democrat; died at Jonesboro, Washington
County, Tenn., July 9, 1863.
Blair, Samuel S., was born in Pennsylvania
in 1821; received his education in the public
schools; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected- to the Thirty-seventh Congress;
died at Holidaysburg, Pa. , December 8, 1890.
Blaisdell, Daniel, was bom in New Hampshire
in 1760; received his education in the public
schools; member of the executive council 1803-
1808; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist,
serving from May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1811; died
in 1832.
Blake, Harrison G., was born at Newfane,
Vt., March 17, 1818; received his education in
the public schools; in 1830 moved to Ohio, and
while engaged as a clerk in a store studied law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice at
Medina; for four years a member of the legislature
of Ohio; president of the State senate from 1848 to
1849; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-sixth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by
the death of Cyrus Spink) as a Republican; re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; delegate
to the Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia in
1866.
Blake, John, jr. , was born at Montgomery,
Orange County, N. Y. ; received a public school
education; member of the State legislature 1798,
1799, and 1800; sheriff of Orange County 1803-
1805; elected as a Representative from New York
to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses; member of
the State legislature 1812-13; died at Montgom-
ery, N. Y.
BIOGRAPHIES.
397
Blake, John L., of Orange, N. J., was born at
Boston, Mass., March 25, 1831; when 15 years old
moved to Orange, N. J.; admitted to practice in
1852 as an attorney and in 1855 as a counselor in
the courts of New Jersey; was a member of the
house of assembly in 1857; delegate to the national
Republican convention in 1876 at Cincinnati; in
the same year a candidate on the Republican
ticket for Presidential elector; elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; after leaving Con-
gress resumed the practice of law ; in 1 893 president
of the Citizens' Gas Light Company of Newark;
died October 16, 1899.
Blake, Thomas H., was born in Calvert County,
Md., June 14, 1792; educated in the public schools
and studied law at Washington, D. C. ; mem-
ber of the militia of the District of Columbia
which took part in the battle of Bladensburg, in
1814; moved to Kentucky and thence to Indiana,
where he began the practice of law at Terre Haute;
prosecuting attorney and judge of the circuit court;
gave up the practice of law and became engaged
m mercantile pursuits; for several years a mem-
ber of the State legislature of Indiana; elected a
Representative from Indianain the Twentieth Con-
gress as an Adams Republican; defeated for reelec-
tion to the Twenty-flrst Congress, and declined to
be a candidate for the Twenty-second Congress;
appointed Commissioner of the General Land
Office by President Tyler, May 19, 1842, serving
until April, 1845; appointed president of the Erie
and Wabash Canal Company; visited England as
financial agent of the State of Indiana; on his way
home from there died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Novem-
ber 28, 1849.
Blakeney, Albert Alexander, of Franklin,
ville Baltimore County, Md., was born at Sher-
wood, in that county, September 28, 1850; educated
in private schools; learned the cotton manufactur-
ing business and established the large cotton-duck
mills now located at Franklinville, Md. ; nomi-
nated by his party in 1895 for county commis-
sioner, arid elected for a term of six years; after
serving a period of four years resigned; nomi-
nated on the first ballot by the Republicans for
the Fifty-seventh Congress, to which he was
elected.
Blanchard, John, was born at Peacham, Vt.,
and spent the early part of his life on a farm;
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1812; re-
moved to York, Pa.; taught school and studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania in the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thir-
tieth Congress; died at Columbia, Pa., March 8,
1849.
Blanchard, Jonathan, was born in New Hamp-
shire; received his education in the public schoolsi;
took an active part in the early stages of the Rev-
olution; was a Delegate from New Hampshire to
the Continental Congress 1793-94.
Blanchard, Newton C, of Shreveport, La.,
was born in Rapides Parish, La., January 29, 1849;
received an academic education; commenced the
study of law at Alexandria, La., in 1868; entered
the law department of the University of Louisiana,
at New Orleans, in the winter of 1869, and gradu-
ated with the degree of bachelor of laws in 1870;
commenced practice at Shreveport in 1871; in 1876
made chairman of the Democratic committee of
Caddo Parish; took an active part_ in the politics
of the State looking to the restoration of the gov-
ernment of the State to the hands of her own peo-
ple; nominated by the Democracy of Caddo Parish
for the position of representative delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1879, and elected
by a large majority; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
appointed United States Senator to succeed E. D.
White, appointed associate judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and took his seat March
12, 1894; when the legislature met in May follow-
ing was elected by that body for the remainder of
the term, receiving every vote cast in joint session
of the two houses except one; is now a judge of
the supreme court of Louisiana.
Bland, Kichard, was born in Orange County,
Va., in 1708; graduated from William and Mary
College and the University of Edinburgh; member
of the Virginia house of burgesses 1745 to 1769;
was known as "the Virginian Antiquary," having
investigated the settlement and progress of the
colony with great care; took a leading part in the
Revolutionary movement; was chosen as a Delegate
to the Continental Congress 1774-1776; again
chosen, but declined to serve; died at Williams-
burg, Va., October 28, 1776.
Bland, Bichard Parks, of Lebanon, Mo., was
born near Hartford, Ky., August 19, 1835; received
an academic education; moved to Missouri in
1855, thence to California, and thence to that por-
tion of Utah now Nevada, locating at Virginia
City; practiced law; county treasurer of Carson
County, Utah' Territory, from 1860 until the or-
ganization of the State government of Nevada; re-
turned to Missouri in 1865; located at Rolla, Mo.,
and practiced law with his brother, C. C. Bland,
until he moved to Lebanon in August, 1869, and
continued his practice there; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, For-
ty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fifth,
and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; died
June 15, 1899; defeated for, reelection to the Fifty-
fourth Congress.
Bland, Theodorick (an uncle of John Ran-
dolph) ,was born in Prince George County, Va., in
1742; sent to England to be educated in 1753;
studied medicine at Edinburgh in 1761-1763 and
admitted to practice; returned home and took
part in the Revolutionary movements and entered
the Continental army as captain of the First Troop
of Virginia Cavalry; Delegate from Virginia to the
Continental Congress, 1780-1783; appointed by
Governor Henry lieutenant of Prince George
County militia in 1785; member of the Virginia
convention of 1788 on the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, and was one of the minority which
opposed its ratification; was elected as a Repre-
sentative from Virginia in the First Congress; took
his seat March 30, 1789, and served until the time '
of his death, which occurred at New York, June
1, 1790.
Bledsoe, Jesse, received a liberal education;
studied law, and afterwards practiced in the courts
of Kentucky with great success; professor of law
in the Transylvania University; elected United
States Senator from Kentucky, serving from May
24, 1813, until his resignation in 1815; appointed
chief justice of Kentucky; removed to Texas and
continued the practice of law; died at Nacog-
doches, Tex., June 30, 1837.
Bleecker, Hermanns, was bom at Albany,
N. Y., in 1779; received a liberal education; stud-
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
ied law and commenced practice at Albany ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twelfth
Congress as an anti-War Federalist; appointed a
regent of the University of New York, in 1822;
charge d'affaires in the Netherlands, May 12, 1842,
to June 28, 1845: died at Albany, N. Y., July 19,
1849.
Bliss, Aaron T., of Saginaw, Mich., was born
at Peterboro, Madison County, N. Y., May 22,
1837; his father was a farmer; his early life was
that of the common farmer boy of that time, work-
ing on the farm summers and attending the dis-
trict school winters; October 1, 1861, enlisted as a
private in the Tenth New York Cavalry, serving
three years and five months, six months of which
time he was confined in the prisons of Anderson-
ville, Charleston, Macon, and Columbia; made
his escape from Columbia, and after eighteen
nights of travel through rebel territory reached
the Union lines; rose while in the service from
private to captain; moved to Michigan in De-
cember, 1865, and has since resided at Saginaw,
where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber;
has held many positions of public trust in his own
county, having been a supervisor, alderman, presi-
dent of the school board for eleven consecutive
years; commander of Penoyer Post, G. A. R., and
president of the Soldiers and Sailors' Association
of northern Michigan; treasurer of the Michigan
Soldiers' Home; elected a member of the State
senate in 1882; appointed aid-de-camp on the staff
of Governor Alger, 1885; held the same position
on the staff of the commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, 1888; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; elected
department commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Michigan; candidate for nomination
for governor on the Republican ticket in 1896, but
was defeated by Mr. Pingree.
Bliss, Archibald M., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Brooklyn, N. Y., January 25, 1838; re-
ceived an academic education; engaged for many
years in mercantile pursuits; alderman of Brook-
lyn 1864-1867, serving in 1866 as president of the
board; Republican candidate for mayor of Brook-
lyn in 1867; delegate to the national Republican
conventions at Baltimore in 1864, at Chicago in
1868, to the Liberal national convention at Cin-
cinnati in 1872, and to the national Democratic
convention at St. Louis in 1876; member of the
board of water commissioners of Brooklyn 1871-72;
director in the Mechanics and Traders' Bank of
Brooklyn and the Loaners' Bank of New York;
president and vice-president of the Bush wick Rail-
road Company from 1868 until 1878, and director;
director of the New York and Long Island Bridge
Company; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, and Fif-
tieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Bliss, George, was born at Jericho,Vt. , January
1, 1813; received a liberal education, spending some
time at Granville College; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice at
Wooster, Ohio; appointed presiding judge of the
eighth judicial district in 1850, serving until the
office was vacated owing to a change of the con-
stitution; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Thirty-eighth Congress; defeated for reelection
to the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the
national Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
Bliss, Philemon, was born at Canton, Conn.,
July 28, 1814; educated at Fairfield Academy and
Hamilton College; studied law and was admitted
to the bar; moved to Ohio, where he commenced
practice; took a prominent part in the antislavery
movement and was elected presiding judge of the
fourteenth judicial circuit; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress;
appointed United States judge for the Territory of
Dakota in 1861 by President Lincoln; subse-
quently moved to Columbus, Mo., and became
a judge of the supreme court of that State and
dean of the State University; died at St. Paul
Minn., August 25, 1889.
Blodgett, Foster, was born at Augusta, Ga. ;
mayor of Augusta; served a short time in the
Confederate army; postmaster at Augusta; claimed
to have been elected to the United States Senate
as a Republican, his term beginning March 4,
1871, but the Senate gave the seat to Thomas M.
Norwood; died at Atlanta, Ga., Novemljer 13
1877.
Blodgett, Rufus, of Longbranch, K. J., was
born at Dorchester, N. H., October 9, 1834; re-
ceived a common school and academic education;
apprenticed to the Amoskeag Locomotive Works,
of Manchester, N. H., at the age of 18, where he
learned the trade of machinist; moved to New
Jersey in 1866 and engaged in railroad business,
and is so engaged at present; president of the Long
Branch City Bank, member of the New Jersey
legislature, house of assembly, 1878-1880; delegate
to the Democratic national convention at Cincin-
nati in 1880; elected to the United States Senate as
a Democrat to succeed Hon. W. J. Sewell, Repub-
lican, and took his seat March 4, 1887. '
Bloodworth, Timothy, was born in North
Carolina in 1736; member of the State house of
representatives 1779-1784; Delegate to the Con-
tinental Congress 1786-87; member of the State
senate 1788-89; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the First Congress, serving from
April 6, 1790, to March 3, 1791; member of the
State house of representatives 1793-94; elected a
United States Senator, his term beginning Decem-
ber 7, 1795, and ending March 3, 1801; collector of
customs at Wilmington; died at Washington, N. C,
August 24, 1814.
Blooher, C. F., of St. Joseph, Mo., was elected
to the Fiftieth Congress in place of J. N. Burns,
and took his seat February 25, 1889.
Blootufield, Joseph, was born at Woodbridge,
N. J.; received an academic education; studied
law; in 1776 entered the Revolutionary Army as
captain in the Third New Jersey Regiment, and
attained the rank of major before the close of the
war; resumed the study of law; commenced prac- ■
tice at Burlington, N. J.; State attorney-general;
governor of New Jersey 1801 and 1803-1812; com-
missioned brigadier-general March 13, 1812, and
served until June 15, 1815; elected a Representa-
tive from New Jersey to the Fifteenth and Six-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat; died at Burling-
ton, N. J., October 3, 1823.
Blount, James H., of Macon, Ga., was born in
Georgia September 12, 1837; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Demo-
crat; his last public service was as commissioner
paramount to the Hawaiian Islands during Presi-
dent Cleveland's second term; on his report Mr.
Cleveland revised the policy of Mr. Harrison;
retired from that position in 1893; died at Macon,
Ga., March 8, 1903.
BIOGRAPHIES.
399
Blount, Thomas, was born in Edgecombe
County, N. C, in 1760; at the age of 16 years
entered the Revolutionary army; in 1780 became
deputjr paymaster-general; major commanding a
battahon of North Carolina militia at the battle of
Eutaw Springs; major-general of militia; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Twelfth Con-
greases; died while a member of Congress at Wash-
ington, D. C, February 7, 1812.
Blount, William, was born in Craven County,
N. C, in 1744; member of the house of commons of
North Carolina, 1780-1784; delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress from North Carolina in 1782,
1783, 1786, and 1787; in 1790 was appointed gov-
ernor of the territory south of the Ohio River by
President Washington; chairman of the conven-
tion which framed the first State constitution of
Tennessee, February 6, 1796; elected a United States
Senator from Tennessee, serving from December
5, 1796, until he was impeached, found guilty, and
expelled, for having instigated the Creeks and
Cherokees to aid the British in conquering the
Spanish territory of west Florida, July 8, 1797;
during the trial was elected to the State senate of
Tennessee and chosen its president; died at Knox-
ville, Tenn., March 21, 1800.
Blount, William G. , was elected as a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Fourteenth Con-
gress; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress, serving
from January 8, 1816, to March 3, 1819; secretary
of State of Tennessee; died at Paris, Tenn., May
21,. 1827.
Blow, Henry T., was bom in Southampton
County, Va., July 15, 1817; in,1830 moved to Mis-
souri; graduated from the St. Louis University;
engaged in the wholesale drug business and later
become interested largely in lead mines; member
of the State senate for four years; minister resident
at Venezuela, June 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-eight Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress; minister to Brazil
from May 1, 1869, to February 11, 1871; commis-
sioner for governing the District of Columbia 1874-
75; died at Saratoga, N. Y., September 11, 1875.
Blue, Ricliard Whiting', of Pleasanton, Kans.,
was born in Wood County, Va. , September 8, 1841 ;
brought up on a farm near where the city of Graf-
ton is now located; worked on the farm during
the summer and attended such select schools as
that locality afforded during the winter season
(Virginia then had no free common schools) ; in
1859 was sent to Monongalia Academy, at Morgan-
town, Va., which was then under the control of
Rev. J. R. Moore, where he remained several
years, first as a pupil and later as a teacher; after-
wards he entered Washington (Pa.) College, and
remained there until he enlisted in the Third West
Virginia Volunteer Infantry; served first as pri-
vate and later as lieutenant in said regiment; was
severely wounded at the battle of Rocky Gap, in
southwest Virginia; prisoner of war at Libby
Prison, Richmond, Va., and at Danville, Va., for a
short time; the regiment was eventually mounted,
and after the Salem raid was changed, by order of
the Secretary of War, to the Sixth West Virginia
Veteran Cavalry; it finished its services in a cam-
paign on the plains against the Indians, and was
mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. ; com-
manded Company F of said regiment while on the
Plains; returning to Grafton, W. Va., after the
discharge of his regiment, he taught school and
studied law; admitted to practice in Virginia and
went West in 1870, locating in Linn County, Kans.,
in 1871; lawyer by profession and was in active
practice when elected to Congress; probate judge
of his county two terms, county attorney two
terms, and a State senator of Kansas two terms;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; resumed the practice of law after leaving
Congress.
Boardman, Elijah, was born at New Milford,
Conn., March 7, 17B0; received a liberal educa-
tion; became engaged in mercantile pursuits;
member of the State house of representatives and
of the executive council for several years; a United
States Senator from Connecticut, serving from
December 3, 1821, until his death, which occurred
at Boardman, Ohio, October 8, 1823.
Boardman, William W., was born at New
Milford, Conn., October 10, 1794; received a liberal,
education, graduating from Yale College in 1812;
studied law in the Cambridge and Litchfield law
schools, and afterwards practiced at New Haven;
judge of probate; for several years a member of
the State house of representatives, serving as
speaker for one year; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Whig (to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of William L. Storrs) ; reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress.
Boarman, Aleck, was bom in Mississippi in
1830; received his education in the Kentucky Mili-
tary Institute, Frankfort, Ky.; studied law and
afterwards practiced at Shreveport; elected a Rep-
resentative to the Forty-second Congress (in place
of James McCleary, deceased) as a Liberal, and
served from December 3, 1872, to March 3, 1873.
Boatner, Charles J., of Monroe, was born at
Columbia, in the parish of Caldwell, La., January
23, 1849; admitted to the bar in January, 1870;
elected a member of the State senate in 1876, which
position he resigned in May, 1878; was a candidate
for Congress in 1884, and defeated by Gen. J. Floyd
King, the then incumbent; elected to the Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty- third Congresses, and
received the certificate of election to the Fifty-
fourth Congress, but his seat was declared vacant
March 20, 1896. At a special election held June
10, 1896, he was elected to the short term of the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; died at New
Orleans, La., March 21, 1903.
Bockee, Abraham, was born at Northeast,
Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1783; educated in the
public schools; in 1820 was a member of the State
assembly; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; again elected to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses; member of the State
senate, 1842 to 1845; first judge of the Dutchess
County court, 1846; died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
June 1, 1865.
Bocock, Thomas S. , was born in Buckingham
County, Va., in 1815; graduated at Hampden-
Sidney College; studied law; attorney for Appo-
mattox County in 1845-46; member of the Virginia
house of delegates for several years; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Thirtieth, Thirty-
first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat; in 1861 elected as a representative from
Virginia to the Confederate Congress and on Febru-
ary 18, 1862, was chosen speaker of the house;
died in Appomattox County, Va., August 5, 1891.
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Boden, Andrew, was born at Carlisle, Pa.;
received his education in the public schools;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses.
Bodine, Robert N., of Paris, Mo., was born
December 17, 1837, in Monroe Coimty, Mo. ; gradu-
ated from the Missouri University; principal of the
Paris public school for a number of years; engaged
in the practice of law; held the office of prosecut-
ing attorney; elected twice a member of the Mis-
souri legislature, in which capacity was a member
of the committee on the revision of the statutes;
member of the board of regents of the Kirksville
Normal School at the time of his nomination for
Congress; elected to the Fifty- fifth Congress as a
Democrat.
Bodle, Charles, was a native of Sullivan County,
N. Y. ; held several political offices at Blooming-
burg; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-third Congress; died at New York City
in 1836.
Been, Haider E., of Felrgus Falls, Minn., was
born at Sondre Aurdal, Valders, Norway, January
2, 1851; received a common school education, and
emigrated to Minnesota in 1868; located in Otter-
tail County January 1, 1871, and worked in the
auditor's office one year, computing the first taxes
levied in that county; in 1872 settled on his farm
in the township of Aurdal, and during the next
six years worked on this farm in summer and
taught in the public schools during winter; held
various town offices and was county commissioner
one year; May 19, 1884, assisted in organizing the
Ottertail County Farmers' Alliance, and was made
its secretary, which position he held for seven
years, resigning after having been elected the
eighth time; corresponding secretary of the Min-
nesota State Farmers' Alliance 1886^7; its vice-
president at large 1888-89, being each time elected
without a dissenting vote ; at meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the State Alliance in 1889 he
offered a resolution requesting the legislature, then
in session, to provide for manufacturing binding
twine in the penitentiary at Stillwater, which was
adopted, and as a committee appointed to lay that
proposition before the legislature and the governor
he secured the adoption of his plan by the State;
clerk of the house committee on railroads during
the legislature of 1887; elected register of deeds
in 1888, and reelected in 1890; chairman of Fifth
Congressional district Alliance committee in 1890;
chairman of the First Congressional committee of
the People's Party in the Seventh district in 1892;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as the candidate
of the People's Party.
Boerum, Simon, was bom at Brooklyn, N. Y. ;
received a liberal education; county clerk of Kings
County 1750-1755; member of the colonial assem-
bly 1761-1775; deputy to the provincial conven-
tion April, 1775; Delegate to the Continental Con-
gress from New York 1775-1777.
Bogry, Lewis V. , was born at Ste. Genevieve,
Mo., April 9, 1813; educated in the public schools;
clerk in a store; studied law in Illinois under
Judge Pope, and then at the law school at Lexing-
ton, Ky., where he graduated in the spring of
1835; began practice in St. Louis; elected several
times to the State legislature of Missouri; Com-
missioner of Indian Affairs 1867-68; one of the
projectors of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain
Railway, serving as president of the company for
two years; elected a United States Senator from
Missouri as a Democrat to succeed F. P. Blair,
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1873; died
at St. Louis, Mo., September 20, 1^77.
Bokee, David A., was born at New York City;
educated in the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Whig; appointed by President Fillmore
naval officer of the port of New York; died in
Washington, D. C, March 16, 1860.
Boles, Th-omas, was born in Johnson County,
Ark., July 16, 1837; spent his early life on a farm;
received a limited common school education;
deputy clerk of the circuit court of Yell County in
1859 and 1860, during which time he studied law;
in September, 1860, admitted to the bar; served in
the Union Army as captain during the civil war;
in 1865 elected circuit judge of the fourth judicial
circuit of Arkansas and resigned April 20, 1868,
having been elected to Congress; elected a Repre-
sentative from Arkansas to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican without opposition; reelected to
the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. Mr. '
John Edwards received the certificate of election
to the Forty-second Congress and took the seat,
but the House declared Mr. Boles entitled to it,
and he was sworn in February 9, 1872, serving
from June 24, 1868, until March 3, 1873.
Bend, Shadrack, was bom in Maryland; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved to Kaskaskia
(now in the State of Illinois, then in Indiana Ter-
ritory) ; member of the legislature of the Territory
of Illinois; Delegate from the Territory of Illinois
to the Thirteenth Congress; appointed receiver of
public money at Kaskaskia in 1814; the first gov-
ernor of Illinois alter its admission as a State, 1818— ^■jt
1822; died at Kaskaskia, 111., April 13, 1832. ^ j
Bond, William Key, was born in St. Maty
County, Md.; received a liberal education; studied \ '
law and afterwards practiced at Chillicothe, Ohio; ^
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig; . reelected to the
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses; ap-
pointed collector of customs at Cincinnati; died at
Cincinnati, Ohio, February 17, 1874.
Bonde, Thomas, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Seventh Congress.
Bonham, Milledg'e L. , was born at Edgefield,
S. C, December 25, 1813; graduated from the
University of South Carolina m 1834; studied law,
and commenced practice at Edgefield in 1837;
served as major and adjutant-general of the South
Carolina Brigade in the Seminole war in Florida
in 1836; during the Mexican war was lieutenant-
colonel and colonel of the Twelfth United States
Infantry; major-general of the South Carolina
Militia; elected a Representative from South Car-
olina to the Thirty-fifth Copgress as a States-Rights
Democrat over Charles P. Sullivan, and reelected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress without opposition,
serving from December 7, 1857, until he withdrew
with the other members of the South Carolina
delegation December 21, 1860; commissioned brig-
adier-general in the Confederate Army April 19,
1861; commanded the center of General Beaure-
gard's army in the first battle of Manassas; re-
signed his commission to enter the Confederate
Congress January 27, 1862; in December following
was elected governor of South Carolina and in
January, 1865, was again commissioned brigadier-
general in the army; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at New York in 1868; died
at White Sulphur Springs, N, C, August 27, 1890,
BIOGRAPHIES.
401
Bonzano, M. F., was born in Louisiana; elected
a Kepresentative from that State to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Republican; his seat was con-
tested; a majority of the Committee on Elections
reported that he was entitled to his seat, but the
opposition was so strong that no vote was taken
on the resolution; on the last day of the session he
wag voted $2,000 for compensation, mileage, and
expenses.
Boody, Azariah, was born in New York City
and educated in the public schools; interested to
a great extent in the construction of railroads;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig; compelled to
resign before taking his seat on account of the
extensive railroad contracts into which he had
entered but could not pomplete before the com-
mencement of the session.
Booker, George W., was born in Patrick
County, Va., December 5, 1821; educated in the
public schools; taught school and studied law;
elected a justice of the peace in Henry County;
presiding justice of Henry_ County court for ten
years; an unconditional Unioti man during the war
of the rebellion; elected to the State legislature of
Virginia in 1865; nominated by the Republican
party in 1868 and elected attorney-general on the
Wells ticket, which position he resigned in 1869;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Forty-first Congress as a Conservative, serving from
January 31, 1870, to March 3, 1871.
Boon, Batliff, was born in Franklin County,
N. C, in 1781; educated in the public schools;
moved to Indiana; elected a Representative from
that State to the Nineteenth Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; defeated for reelection to the Twentieth
Congress; elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-
fifth Congresses; died in Louisiana November 20,
1844.
Boone, Andrew E.., was born in Davidson
County, Tenn., April 4, 1831; moved, with his
parenia, in 1833 to Graves County, Ky. ; received a
limited education in the public schools; studied
law and admitted to the bar October, 1851;
elected judge of the Graves County court in 1854
for four years and reelected in 1858; resigned as
county judge in 1861 and elected to the Ken-
tucky legislature in that year, but resigned the
same year; elected circuit judge for the first
judicial district of Kentucky in 1868 for six years;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Booth, Newton, was born at Salem, Ind.,
December 25, 1825; graduated from the Asbury
University in 1846; studied law at Terre Haute;
admitted to the bar in 1850, and removed to
California, where he temporarily abandoned his
profession and engaged in mercantile pursuits at
Sacramento; returned to Terre Haute in 1857;
practiced law there until 1860, when he again went
to California; elected to the State senate in Cali-
fornia in 1863; elected governor of California in
1871, and served until March, 1874, when he re-
signed, having been elected to the United States
Senate as an Antimonopolist, to succeed Eugene
Casserly, Democrat (whose unexpired term had
been filled by the ! election of John S.' Hager,
Antimonopolist), and took his seat March 9, 1875,
serving until March 3, 1881; died at Sacramento,
Cal., July 14, 1892.
Booth, Walter, was born at Woodbridge,
Conn., Decembers, 1791; educated in the public
schools; located at Meriden and became interested
in manufacturing; member of the State assembly
and of the State senate for several years; associate
judge of the county court 1834; major-general of
militia; elected to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Free Soiler.
Boothman, M. M. , of Bryan, Ohio, was born
in Williams County, Ohio, October 16, 1846; fol-
lowed farming until January 4, 1864, when he en-
listed in Company H, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry, ' ' for three years or during the war;' '
served through the Atlanta campaign; attended
school, when not working or teaching to get funds,
until April, 1871, when he received the degree of
LL. B. from the law department, Michigan Uni-
versity; elected treasurer of Williams County in
October, 1871; reelected in 1873, holding the oflace
six years; engaged in the practice of law when
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican,
and reelected to the Fifty-first Congress.
Booze, William S., of Baltimore, Md., was
born in that city January 9, 1862; educated in the
public schools and at the Baltimore City College;
graduated from the latter in 1879; studied medi-
cine and graduated from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in 1882; nominated for Congress by
the Republicans of the Third Congressional dis-
trict in 1894 against Harry Welles Rusk, whose
election to the House of Representatives he con-
tested unsuccessfully; renominated in 1896 and
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Borden, Joseph, was an early settler at Bor-
dentown, N. J. ; Delegate from New Jersey to the
Colonial Congress which met at New York Octo-
ber 7, 1765; his residence was burned by British
troops in 1778.
Borden, Nathaniel B. , was born at Fall River,
Mass., Apr. 15, 1801; member of the State house
of representatives in 1831 and 1884; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, on the second trial, as a Van Buren
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress; defeated as a Whig candidate for election to
the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig on the second trial,
serving from May 31, 1841 to March 3, 1843;
State senator, 1845-1848; member of the State
house of representatives in 1851; died at Fall
River, Mass., April 10, 1865.
Boreing:, Vincent, of London, Laurel County,
Ky., was bom November 24, 1839, in Washington
County, Tenn.; moved with his father, Murry
Boreing, to Laurel County, Ky., in 1847; educated
at Laurel Seminary, London, Ky., and Tusculum
College, Greenville, Tenn.; volunteered in the
Union Army, in Company A, Twenty-fourth Ken-
tucky Volunteer Infantry, November 1, 1861, as
private soldier; on account of meritorious conduct
was commissioned first lieutenant from the ranks
by Governor Bramlett, of Kentucky; severely
wounded in the battle of Resaca, Ga. , May 14, 1863 ;
elected county superintendent of public schools in
1868 and 1870; founded (as editor and publisher)
the Mountain Echo, at London, Ky., in 1875, the
first Republican newspaper published in south-
eastern Kentucky; elected county judge in 1886;
prewdent of the Cumberland Valley Land Com-
pany in 1887; president of the First National Bank
of London, Ky. , in 1888; represented the Kentucky
conterence as a lay delegate in the general confer-
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTORT.
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, in 1880, and 1896 at Cleveland, Ohio;
department commander of the Department of Ken-
tucky, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1889;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty -seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Kepublican.
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, was born at
Waynesburg, Pa., July 24, 1823; moved to west-
ern Virginia and educated in the public schools
there; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1845
and afterwards practiced at Parkersburg; elected
to the house of delegates of Virginia in 1855 and
reelected until 1860; also a member of the extra
session of the legislature in 1861, taking an active
part against the secession movement; president of
the Wheeling convention of 1861 to reorganize the
government of Virginia; elected judge of the cir-
cuit court in October, 1861, and held the office
until 1863, when he was elected governor of West
Virginia; twice reelected and was still in that office
when he was elected United States Senator as a
Republican for the term 1869-1875; died at Par-
kersburg, W. Va., April 19, 1896.
Borland, Charles, jr., was born in Orange
County, N. Y. ; member of the general assembly
in 1820 and 1821; elected a Representative from
New York to the Seventeenth Congress, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Tuthill; again a
member of the general assembly of the State of
New York in 1836.
Borland, Solon, was born in Virginia; received
a liberal education in North Carolina; studied
medicine and afterwards practiced, locating at
Little Rock, Ark. ; served throughout the Mexican
war as major of Yell's Arkansas volunteer cavalry
and as volunteer aid to Major-General North; ap-
pointed United States Senator from Arkansas as a
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Ambrose H. Sevier, and subsequently
elected by the legislature to fill Mr. Sevier's unex-
pired -term, serving from April 24, 1848, to April
3, 1853; appointed by President Pierce minister to
Nicaragua and the other Central American Repub-
lics, serving from April 18, 1853, to June 30, 1854;
appointed governor of New Mexico, but declined;
resumed the practice of medicine at Little Rock;
raised a brigade of Confederate troops and took
possession of Fort Smith April 24, 1861; raised the
Third Arkansas Confederate Cavalry and was its
colonel; appointed a brigadier-general in the Con-
federate service; died in Texas January 31, 1864.
Bor st, Peter I. , was born at Middlebury , N. Y. ,
and educated in the common schools; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-first
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; died at Middle-
bury, N. Y., November 14, 1848.
Boss, John L. , jr. , was elected a Representa-
tive from Rhode Island to the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Congresses.
Bossier, Pierre Evariste, was a native of
Louisiana, of a Creole family which was among
the first settlers of the French colony; received a
classical education; served ten years" in the State
senate; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Calhoun
Democrat by a lar^e majority, serving from
December 4, 1843, until his death, which occurred
at Washington, D. C, April 24, 1844.
Boteler, Alexander R., was born at Shep-
herdstown, Jefferson County, Va., May 16, 1815;
graduated from Princeton College in 1835, and
devoted himself to agriculture and literary work;
in 1852 a 'Whig Presidential elector and in 1856
an American Presidential elector; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a National American; after leaving
Congress he entered the Confederate Army and
for some time was a member of Stonewall Jack-
son's staff; chosen by the State convention a
Representative from Virginia to the Confederate
Provisional Congress (in the place of James M.
Mason, resigned) November 19, 1861 •; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the First Con-
federate Congress; appointed a member of the
Centennial Commission; after the war was
appointed a member of the Tariff Commission
by President Arthur, and subsequently made
pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by
Attorney-General Brewster; died May 8, 1892.
Botkin, Jeremiah D., of Winfleld, Kans., was
born April 24, 1849, in Logan County, IL.; edu-
cated in country schools; spent one year in De
Pauw University, at Greencastle^ Ind. ; went into
the Methodist ministry and served six years as
presiding elder; delegate to the general conference
of the Methodist Church held in New York City
in 1888, and to the ecumenical" conference in
Washington, D. C, 1891; was early imbued with
abolition sentiments and was a Republican; made
three attempts to enter the Army during the last
year of the war, but being under age and size was
rejected; Prohibition candidate for governor of
Kansas in 1888 ; defeated as a Populist to the Fifty-
fourth, but elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Fusionist.
Botts, John Slinor, was born at Dumfries, Va.,
September 16, 1802; his parents met their death at
the Richmond Theater fire and he was left an or-
phan in 1811; received a liberal education; studied
law, and practiced for six years; became engaged
in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house
of representatives 1833-1839; elected a Represen-
tative from Virginia to the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Henry Clay Whig;
defeated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-
eighth Congress; elected to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Henry Clay Whig, but defeated for the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses; opposed the
secession of Virginia, and for his devotion to the
Union was imprisoned in 1862; a delegate to the
Southern Loyalists convention in 1866; published
the Great Rebellion — Its Secret History; died at
Richmond, Va., January 8, 1869.
Bouck, Gabriel, of Oshkosh, Wis., was bom
at Fulton, Schoharie County, N. Y., December 16,
1828; graduated from Union College in 1847; by
profession a lawyer; settled in Wisconsin in 1848;
attorney-general of the State in 1858 and 1859;
member of the State assembly in 1860 and 1874,
serving the last year as speaker; Democratic can-
didate for Congress in 1874; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic conventions of 1868 and 1872;
entered the military service in the war tor the
Union as captain in 1861, and was promoted to
colonel in 1862; elected to the Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; resumed
law practice at Oshkosh, Wis.
Bouck, Joseph, was born in New York and
educated in the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-second
Congress.
Boudinot, Elias, was born at Philadelphia,
May 2, 1740; received a liberal education; studied
law and afterwards practiced; commissary-general
of prisoners in the Revolutionary Arm v, 1776-1779;
BIOGRAPHIES.
403
Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental
Congress, 1777-78, and 1781-84; resumed the
practice of law; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the First, Second, and Third Congresses;
Director of the Mint from October, 1795, to July,
1805; locating at Burlineton, devoted his time to
Biblical literature and his fortune to charitable
and reUgious purposes; died at Burhngton, N. J.,
October 24, 1821.
Bouldin, James W. (brother of Thomas T.
Bouldin), was bornin Virginia; elected a Represen-
tative from Virginia to the Twenty-third Congress
(to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas
T. Bouldin) as a Jackson Democrat, and reelected
to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses.
Bouldin, Thomas T. (brother of James W.
Bouldin), was born in Virginia in 1772; spent his
early life on a farm; received a liberal education;
studied law and afterwards practiced; appointed
judge of the general court, and served until elected
a Representative to the Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, and Twenty-third Congresses as a Demo-
crat; soon after entering upon his third term, and
as he arose to reply to a rebuke administered to
him by his colleague, Hon. Henry A. Wise, for
having neglected to call the attention of the House
to the death of his predecessor, he was seized with
an apoplectic fit and died instantly, February 11,
1834.
Bouligny, Domiuique, was born in Louisiana
and educated in the public schools; studied law
and practiced at New Orleans; elected a United
States Senator from Louisiana (in place of Henry
Johnson, resigned), serving from December 21,
1824, to March 3, 1829; died at New Orleans, La.,
March 5, 1833.
Bouliguy, John Edmund (nephew of Domi-
nique Bouligney), was born at New Orleans Feb-
ruary 25, 1824; educated in the public schools;
studied law and practiced at New Orleans; held
several local- oflBces; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Na-
tional American, and was the only Representative
from the seceding States who did not leave his
seat; died at Washington, D. C, February 20,
1864.
Bound, Franklin, of Milton, Pa. , was born at
Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1829;
educated in the common schools and at the old
Milton Academy; taught school; attended the law
school at Easton, Pa., admitted to the bar in 1853
at Easton, and practiced in his native town; elected
to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1860 as a Repub-
lican from one of the strongest Democratic districts;
served three years, but declined a renomination;
a delegate to the national convention at Chicago
that nominated Grant and Colfax; served as a
private in one of the emergency regiments called
for the defense of the State; was mustered into the
United States service and discharged with his regi-
ment; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con-
gesses as a Republican; resumed the practice of law.
Bourn, Benjamin, was born at Bristol, R. I.,
September 9, 1755; graduated from Harvard College
in 1775; studied law and practiced at Providence,
where he held several public offices; member of
the general assembly of Rhode Island; in 1776 was
quartermaster of the Second Rhode Island Regi-
ment; one of a committee sent with a petition
from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress in
1789; elected the first Representative from Rhode
Island to the First Congress, and reelected to the
Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses, serving
until 1796, when he resigned; appointed judge of
the United States district court for the district
of Rhode Island in 1801; died September 17, 1808.
Bourne, Shearjashub, was born in Massachu-
setts; received a liberal education, graduating from
Harvard College in 1764; studied law and practiced
at Boston; chief justice of the court of common
pleas for Suffolk County, Mass. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Second and
Third Congresses; died in 1806.
Boutell, Henry Sherman, Republican, of
Chicago, 111., was born at Boston, Mass., March
34, 1856; moved to Chicago in 1863; graduated
from Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., in
1874, and from Harvard University in 1876; re-
ceiyed the degree of A. M. from Harvard (consti-
tutional history and international law) in 1877; a
trustee of the Northwestern University; admitted
to the bar of Illinois in 1879, and to that of the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1885;
elected a member of the Illinois general assembly
in 1884, and was one of the "103" who elected
General Logan to the United States Senate; elected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the unexpired
term of Edward Dean Cooke, deceased, and to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Boutelle, Charles A., of Bangor, Me., was
born at Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Me., Feb-
ruary 9, 1839; educated in public schools at Bruns-
wick and at Yarmouth Academy; early adopted
the profession of his father, a shipmaster; in the
spring of. 1862 volunteered and was appointed act-
ing master in the U. S. Navy; served in the North
and South Atlantic and West Gulf squadrons;
took part in the blockade of Charleston and Wil-
mington, the Pocotaligo expedition, the capture of
St. Johns Bluff, and occupation of Jacksonville,
Fla.; while an officer of U. S. steamer Sassacus
was promoted to lieutenant "for gallant conduct
in the engagement with the rebel ironclad Albe-
marle," May 5, 1864; afterwards in command of
U. S. steamer Nyanza; participated in the capture
of Mobile, and in receiving surrender of the Con-
federate fleet; afterwards assigned to command of
naval forces in Mississippi Sound; honorably dis-
charged at his own request January 14, 1866;
engaged in commercial business in New York;
became managing editor of the Bangor, Me.,
Whig and Courier in 1870, and purchased con-
trolling ownership in 1874; a delegate to national
Republican convention in 1876; unanimously
nominated in 1880 as Republican candidate for
Congress in the Fourth Maine district; elected to
the Forty-eighth and reelected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; was made a captaia
on the retired list of the Navy March 1, 1901; re-
signed his seat in Congress March, 1901; died May
21, 1901, at Waverley, Mass.
Boutwell, George Sewell, was born at Brook-
line, Mass., January 28, 1818; educated in the
public schools; previous to 1850 was engaged in
mercantile pursuits at Groton; studied law and
began practice in 1853; member of the legislature
of Massachusetts in 1842-1844 and 1847-1850;
State bank commissioner in 1849-50; governor
of Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852; member of the
Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853;
secretary of the State board of education of . Mas-
sachusetts from October, 1855, until January,
1861; member of the board of overseers of Har-
vard College from 1850 until 1860; member of the
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Peace Conference of 1861; first Commissioner of
Internal Bevenue in 1862 and 1863; elected 'a
Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first
Congresses as a EepubUoan, but resigned on being
appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President
Grant March 11, 1869; resigned March, 1873, hav-
ing been elected United States Senator from Mas-
sachusetts to succeed Henry Wilson, serving until
March 3, 1877; appointed by President Hayes
commissioner to codify and edit the Statutes at
Large in March, 1877; in 1880 United States coun-
sel before the French and American Claims Com-
mission; in 1884 declined appointment as Secretary
of Treasury; practiced law in Washington, D. C;
president of the Anti-Imperialist League, 1900;
author of several financial, educational, and polit-
ical works.
Bovee, Matthias J., was born in New York
and educated in the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fourth
Congress.
Bowden, George Edwin, of Norfolk, Va., was
born at Williamsburg, Va., July 6, 1852; received
a private school education; studied law; admitted
to the bar, but never engaged in the practice;
elected bank president in' 1874; collector of cus-
toms for port of Norfolk from September, 1879,
until May, 1885; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-
first Congresses as a Republican.
Bowden, Lemuel J., was born at Williams-
burg, Va., January 16, 1815; graduated from Wil-
liam and Mary College; studied law and practiced;
member of the Virginia constitutional conventions
of 1849 and 1851; in 1861 a Presidential elector;
elected to the United States Senate from Virginia,
his term beginning March 3, 1863; died at Wash-
ington, D. C., January 2, 1864.
Bowdoin James, was bom at Boston, Mass.,
August 8, 1727; graduated from Harvard College in
1745; devoted himself to literary and scientific
pursuits; member of the general court of Massa-
chusetts in 1753; provincial senator and councilor
in 1756; again chosen councilor in 1769, but op-
posed by Governor Barnard, and immediately
afterwards again elected representative to the
general court; in 1774 was chosen a Delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, but
ill health prevented him from serving; took a
prominent part in the Revolutionary war; presi-
dent of the State constitutional convention of
1778; governor of Massachusetts 1785-86; founder
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and of the Massachusetts Humane Society; died at
Boston, November 6, 1790.
Bowdon, Franklin W . , was born at Talladega,
Ala.; graduated at the University of .Alabama;
studied law and practiced; member of the State
house of representatives 1844-45; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Twenty-ninth
Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Pehlix G. McConnell), the Thirtieth and Thirty-
first Congresses as a Democrat; in 1852 moved to
Texas, where he continued the practice of law; in
1856 was a Presidential elector on the Buchanan
and Breckinridge ticket; died at Henderson, Tex.,
June 8, 1857.
Bowen, Christopher Columbus, was born in
Rhode Island, January 5, 1832; in 1850 moved
to Georgia; studied and practiced law; in 1862
moved to Charleston; in 1867 elected to the con-
stitutional convention of ■ South Carolina held
under the reconstruction acts of the Thirtv-niiith
and Fortieth Congresses; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Fortieth and Forty-
first Congresses as a Republican, serving from July
20, 1868, to March 3, 1871; defeated as the inde-
pendent candidate for the Forty-second Congress;
elected sheriff of Charleston in November, 1872.
Bowen, Henry, of Tazewell, Va., was elected
to the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Congresses as a
Readjuster and Independent Democrat.
Bowen, John H. , received his education in the
public schools; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat.
Bowen, Rees T. , was born in Tazewell County,
Va., January 10, 1809; received a liberal educar
tion; farmer and grazier; member of the State
legislature of Virginia in 1863 and 1864; magis-
trate for several years prior to the war, and the
presiding justice of the county court a portion of
the time; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Forty-third Congress as a Conservative.
Bowen, Thomas M., of Del Norte, Colo., was
born near the present site of Burlington, Iowa,
October 26, 1835; :feceived an academic education
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa; admitted to the bar at
the age of 18; moved to Wayne County, Iowa,
where, in 1856, he was elected to the house of
representatives; moved to Kansas in 1858; served
in the Union Army from June, 1861, until July,
1865, first as a captain in the First Regiment
Nebraska Volunteers, after which he raised and
commanded, as colonel, the Thirteenth Kansas
Infantry until the close of the war; brigadier-
general by brevet and had command of a brigade
the last two years of the war, first in the army of
the frontier, but later in the Seventh Army Corps;
member of the national Republican convention as
a delegate from the State of Kansas in 1864; mem-
ber and president of the constitutional convention
of Arkansas, which convened under the recon-
struction acts of Congress; justice of the supreme
court of that State for four years, when he
accepted the pasition of governor of Idaho Terri-
tory, tendered to him by President Grant in 1871,
but resigned and returned to Arkansas, where he
was defeated for the Senate of the United States
by Hon. S. W. Dorsey in an open contest before
the legislature; moved to Colorado in January,
1875; resumed the practice of law ; at the organiza-
tion of the State government was elected judge of
the fourth judicial district, and served in that
capacity for four years, after which he engaged in
several large mining enterprises; in 1882 elected
a representative to the State legislature; resigned,
having been elected to the United States Senate as
a Republican to succeed Horace A. W. Tabor for
the term 1883 to 1889; identified with large min-
ing interests in Colorado.
Bower, Gustavus B. , was born in Virginia
and educated in the public schools; moved to Mis-
souri and elected a Representative from that State
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Bower, "William Horton, of Yadkin Valley,
Caldwell County, N. C, was born in Wilkes
County, N. C, June 6, 1850; received an academic
education; lived on a farm till 1869, when he
studied law in office of Col. G. N. Folk, of Lenoir;
licensed by the supreme court of North Carolina
to practice law in 1870; moved to California in
1876 and remained there teaching till the summer
of 1880, when he returned to his native State;
canvassed his count)^ for Hancock in 1880; elected
representative to legislature for Caldwell County
in 1882; elected to the State senate in 1884;
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405
appointed solicitor of tenth judicial district in
1885; elected solicitor of tenth judicial district for
four years in 1886; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Bowers, John M. , was born at Boston, Mass. ;
graduated from Columbia College in New York;
studied law, and practiced in 1800 at Cooperstown,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirteenth Congress, serving from June 21,
1813, to December 20, 1813, when the House gave
his seat to Isaac Williams, jr.; died at Coopers-
town, N. "i .
Bowers, William Wallace, of San Diego, Cal.,
was born at Whitestown, Oneida County, N. Y.,
October 20, 1834; attended a common school;
moved to Wisconsin in 1852; enlisted as a private
in Company I, First Wisconsin Cavalry, February
22, 1862; discharged from the service as second
sergeant February 22, 1865; served as post wagon
master at Cape Girardeau, Mo., until the close
of the war; moved to San Diego in 1869; elected
member of the California legislature in 1873; col-
lector of customs for the San Diego district in
1874-1882; elected State senator; elected to the
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Republican; in 1898 appointed col-
lector of customs for San Diego, Cal.
Bowersock, Justin D., of Lawrence, Kans.,
of Dutch-Scotch parentage; was born in Colum-
biana County, Ohio, September 19, 1842; went to
Iowa City, Iowa, in 1860, and engaged in merchan-
dising and grain shipping; moved to Lawrence,
Kans. , in 1877 and commenced banking and manu-
facturing; built the dam across the Kansas River;
president of the Kansas Water Power Company;
Lawrence National Bank, Lawrence Paper Com-
pany, Bowersock Milling Company, Consolidated
Barb Wire Company, Griffin Ice Company, Law-
rence Iron Works, Lawrence Gas and Electric
Light Company, Merchants' Athletic Association,
Lawrence Oominercial Club, and board of trustees
Congregational Church; mayor or Lawrence two
terms, 1881 to 1885; elfected to Kansas house of
representatives in 1887; member of State senate in
1895, elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Bowie, Richard I. , was born at Gepi^etown,
D. C, June 23, 1807; received a liberal education,
studied law, and commenced practice in 1827 at
Rockville, Md. ; member of the Maryland legisla-
ture in 1836-37; delegate to the Whig national
convention at Harrisburg in 1840; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maryland to the Thirty-first Con-
gress, and reelected to the Thirty -second Congress
as a Whig.
Bowie, Sydney Johnston, of Anniston, Ala.,
was born at Talladega, Ala., July 26, 1865, where
he resided until January 1, 1899; attended school
until 16 years of age, and graduated from the law
department of the University of Alabama June 20,
1885; admitted to the bar and engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession; city clerk of Talladega,
1885-86, and alderman in 1891 ; six years a mem-
ber of the State Democratic executive committee
of Alabama, and chairman of the Democratic execu-
tive committee of Talladega County from 1896 to
1899; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress with-
out opposition and reelected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat.
Bowie, Thomas F. , was born at Queen Anne,
Prince George County, Md., April 7, 1808; received
a liberal education, graduating from Union College
in 1837; studied law and afterwards practiced at
Upper Marlboro, Md.; deputy attorney-general
for Prince George County for sixteen years; mem-
ber of the State legislature for three terms; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Whig and reelected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress; died at Upper Marlboro,
Md., October 30, 1869.
Bowie, Walter, was born in Prince George
County, Md. ; member of the Maryland constitu-
tional convention of 1776; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Seventh Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of William
Sprigg; reelected to the Eighth Congress, serving
from March 24, 1802, to March, 1805.
Bowler, Metcalfe, delegate from Rhode Island
to the Colonial Congress which met at New York
October 7, 1765; member of the State general
assembly, and speaker in 1774.
Bowlin, James Butler, was born in Spottsyl-
vania County, Va., in 1804; learned a mechanical
trade, but abandoned it; taught school and ac-
quired a liberal education; moved to Greenbrier
County in 1825, where he studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice;
moved to St. Louis the same year,, continuing
the practice of law; established The Farmers
and Mechanics' Advocate; was a member of the
State house of representatives in 1836; defeated as
a candidate for the State legislature in 1837;
appointed district attorney for St. Louis in 1837;
elected judge of the criminal court in 1839; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con-
gresses; appointed commissioner to Paraguay by
President Buchanan, serving from September 9,
1858, to February 10, 1859.
Bowman, Selwyn Zadock, of Somerville,
Mass., was born at Charlestown, Mass., May 11,
1840; educated in the Charlestown public schools
and at Harvard College, graduating there in 1860;
studied law in the Harvard University Law School
and Hon. D. H. Mason's law office, Boston; en-
gaged in the practice of law; member of the
Massachusetts house of representatives in 1870,
1871, and 1875, and of the Massachusetts senate
in 1876 and 1877; city solicitor of the city of
Somerville in 1872 and 1873; elected to the Forty-
sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; after leaving Congress he devoted himself
to the practice of his profession, and was again
city solicitor for the city of Somerville, Mass.,
which position he resigned to devote his time to
private interests.
Bowman, Thomas, of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was born at Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Me., May
25, 1848; removed to Council Bluffs in 1868, where
he engaged in commercial business; elected treas-
urer of Pottawattamie County in 1875 and re-
elected in 1877 and 1879; elected mayor of Council
Bluffs in 1882; appointed postmaster in 1885 and
served until 1889, when he resigned; purchased a
controlling ownership in the Council Bluffs Globe
in 1883; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Bowne, Obadiah, was born on Staten Island,
N. Y., May 19, 1822; graduated from Princeton
College; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig; studied
law, but never practiced; quarantine commissioner
1857-1859; a Lincoln Presidential elector in 1866;
died at Staten. Island, N. Y., April 27, 1874.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOBY.
Bowne, Samuel S., was born in the State of
New York in 1795; educated at the i)ublic schools;
studied law and commenced practice in Otsego
County; member of the State assembly of New
York in 1834; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Van
Buren Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1843; judge of Otsego County in 1857;
died in Otsego County, N. Y., July 15, 1875.
■Boyce, William W., was born at Charleston,
S. C, October 24, 1819; received his education at
the College of South Carolina and Virginia Uni-
versity; studied law and afterwards practiced at
Winnsboro, S. C. ; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Thirty-third Congress as a
States' Rights Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses
without opposition, serving from December 5,
1853, until after he left his seat at the secession of
South Carolina, December 21, 1860; appointed as
a delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate
Provisional Congress January 4, 1861; elected to
the First Confederate Congress and reelected to
the Second, serving from February 10, 1862, to
February 18, 1864; removed to Washington, D. C,
and practiced law.
Boyd, Adam, was a native of New Jersey; took
an active part in the colonial resistance to British
authority; held several local ofHces at Hackensack
during the Revolutionary war; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from October 17, 1803,
to March 3, 1805; elected to the Tenth Congress
to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Ezrea
Darby; reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth
Congresses and served from April 4, 1808, to March
3, 1813; died at Hackensack, N. J.
Boyd, Alexander, was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirteenth Congress on the Peace and Commerce
ticket, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1 815.
Boyd, John H., was born at Whitehall, N. Y. ;
educated in the public schools; member of the
State assembly in 1840; elected a Representative
to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig.
Boyd, liinn, was born at Nashville, Tenn.,
November 28, 1800; moved with his parents to
Trigg County, Ky., where he spent his early life
on a farm, acquiring a limited education in the
public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits in
Calloway County in 1826; member of the State
legislature 1827 to 1830; returned to Trigg County,
which he representated in the State legislature in
1831 to 1832; defeated as a Democratic candidate
for the Twenty-third Congress; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to
the Twenty -fifth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress, and reelected to the Twenty-
seventh, Twenty-eigth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Con-
gresses; Speaker of the House of Representatives
in the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses;
lieutenant-governor of Kentucky one year; died
at Paducah, Ky., December 16, 1859.
Boyd, Sem.pronius H. , was born in William-
son County, Tenn., May 28, 1828; received a lib-
eral education; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1855; commenced practice at Springfield Mo. ;
clerk of the court; mayor of Springfield in 1857;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as the com-
mander of a regiment known as the Lyon Legion,
which he raised; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Thirty-eighth Congress as an
Emancipationist; resumed the practice of law;
judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri;
delegate to the Baltimore convention in 1864 ; raised
the Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry in 1865; sup-
ported General Grant for President in convention;
elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Boyd , Thomas A. , of Lewiston, 111. , was born in
Adams County, Pa., June 25, 1830; received a clas-
sical education, graduating from Marshall College,
Mercersburg, Pa., in 1848; studied law in Cham -
bersburg. Pa.; admitted to the bar; practiced at
Belford, Pa. ; removed to Illinois in 1856 and con-
tinued in his profession until 1861; enlisted in the
Seventeenth Illinois Infantry in 1861 and held the
position of captain; elected a State senator in 1866,
and reelected in 1870; elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress and reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Boyden, Nathaniel, was born at Franklin,
Mass., August 16, 1796; graduated from Union
College, Schenectady, in 1821; removed to Stokes
County, N. C, in 1822; taught school and studied
law; member of the house of commons of North
Carolina in 1838 and 1840, and of the State senate in
1844; removed to Salisbury; elected a Representa-
tive to the Thirteenth Congress as a Whig; declined
a reelection; member of the legislature of North
Carolina under the Confederate Government;
elected to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican,
serving from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1869; de-
feated as the Republican candidate for reelection
to the Forty-first Congress.
Beyer, Benjamin M. , was born in Montgom-
ery County, Pa., January 22, 1823; graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania; studied law and
afterwards practiced; district attorney of Mont-
gomery County, Pa., 1848 to 1850; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to |the
Fortieth Congress.
Boyle, Charles E., of Uniontown, Pa., was
born at Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., Febru-
ary 4, 1836; his early education was had in the
schools of that town and at Waynesburg College,
in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. ; studied law,
was admitted to the bar in December, 1861, and
practiced the profession; elected district attorney
for Fayette County in 1862, and held that ofiice
for three years; before the expiration of his term,
in 1865, was elected to the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture; reelected in 1866, serving two years; the last
year of his service a member of the committee
of ways and means, and also of the general judi-
ciary; president of the Democratic State conven-
tion in 1867, and again in 1871; nominated as the
Democratic candidate for auditor-general of Penn-
sylvania, in 1868, but failed of election by a small
majority, delegate to the St. Louis national Demo-
cratic convention of 1876, and to the Cincinnati
national Democratic convention of 1880; one of
the State managers of the Western Pennsylvania
Hospital; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress and
reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat; in September, 1888, appointed judge of Wash-
ington Territory; died at Seattle December 15,
1888.
Boyle, John, was born in Botetourt County
Va., October 28, 1774; removed with his father to
Kentucky in 1779; received a liberal education;
studied law and commenced to practice at Lancas-
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407
ter in 1797; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Eighth Congress, and reelected to the
Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving from October
17, 1803, to March 3, 1809; appointed governor of
Illinois Territory but did not serve; judge of the
court of appeals of Kentucky from April, 1809, to
April, 1810, and chief justice of that court from
April, 1810, to November 8, 1826; United States
district judge for the district of Kentucky from
November 8, 1826, until the time of his death,
which occurred January 28, 1834.
Brabson, Reese B. , was born at Chattanooga,
Tenn. ; educated in the public schools; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Whig.
Brace, Jonathan, was born at Harrington,
Conn.; November 12, 1754; graduated from Yale
College in 1779; studied law and afterwards prac-
ticed at Hartfoyd; prosecuting attorney, judge of
probate, and chief judge of the county court of
Hartford County; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Fifth Congress to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Joshua Coit; reelected to
the Sixth Congress, serving from December 3,
1798, until he resigned in 1800; member of the
State legislature of Kentucky for several years;
mayor of Hartford for nine years; died at Hart-
ford, Conn., August 26, 1837.
Bradbury, Gecrgre, was born at Falmouth,
Mass. (now Portland, Me.), in 1770; graduated
from Harvard College in 1789; studied law and
afterwards practiced at Portland; member of the
Massachusetts house of representatives from Port-
land 1806-1810, 1811, and 1812; elected a Repre-
sentative from the Maine district of Massachusetts
to the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist, reelected
to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from May 24,
1813, to March 3, 1817; resumed the practice of
law; associate clerk of the Portland court 1817 to
1820; member of the State senate of Maine in 1820;
died at Portland, Me., November 7, 1823.
Bradbury, James Ware, was born at Parson-
field, Me., June 10, 1802, being a direct descendant
of Thomas Bradford, who came to this country
from England in 1611; graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1825; studied law and practiced at Au-
gusta, Me. ; prosecuting attorney 1834^1838; Presi-
dential elector on the Polk ticket in 1844; elected
a United States Senator from Maine as a Democrat,
his term beginning December 6, 1847, serving until
March 3, 1853; died at Augusta, Me., January 7,
1901.
Bradbury, Theophilus, was born at Newbury,
Mass., November 13, 1739; graduated from Har-
vard College in 1757; taught school and studied
law at Portland, Me.; admitted to the bar and
practiced in Portland 1761-1769; returned to New-
bury and continued the practice of law; member
of the State legislature, serving in both houses;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving until 1797,
when he resigned, having been appointed a judge
of the supreme court of Massachusetts, holding the
position until the time of his death, which occurred
at Newburyport, Mass., September 6, 1803.
Bradford, Allen A. , was born at Friendship,
Me., July 23, 1815; received a liberal education;
moved to Missouri in 1841; studied law and after-
wards practiced; clerk of the circuit court of At-
chison County, Mo., 1845-1851; moved to Iowa
and was judge of the sixth judicial district 1852-
1855; moved to Nebraska and was a member of
the legislative council 1856, 1857, and 1858; moved
to Colorado in 1860; appointed judge of the su-
preme court of Colorado by President Lincoln
June 6, 1862; elected a Delegate from Colorado
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
elected to the Forty-first Congress.
Bradford, Taul, was born at Margisville, Ala.,
January 20, 1835; graduated from the University,
of Alabama in 1854; studied law and commenced
practice in 1855; served in the Confederate army
throughout the war; member of the State le^sla-
ture of Alabama in 1871 and 1872; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Bradford, 'William, was born at Plympton,
Mass., November 4, 1729; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied medicine at Hin^ham under Dr.
E. Hersey, and afterwards practiced at Warren,
R. I.; moved to Bristol; studied law and after-
wards practiced; member of the Rhode Island
committee of correspondence in 1773; chcsen dep-
uty governor of Rhode Island in 1773; elected a
Delegate from Rhode Island to the Continental
Congress in 1773 but did not serve; delegate from
Rhode Island to confer with the governments of
Massachusetts and Connecticut; member of the
State general assembly and speaker for one year;
elected a United States Senator from Rhode Island,
serving from December 2, 1793, until 1797, when
he resigned; elected President pro tempore of the
Senate July 6, 1797; died at Bristol, R. I., July 6,
1808.
Bradley, Edward, was born at East Bloom-
field, N. Y., April, 1808; educated in the public
schools; studied law and afterwards practiced in
Ontario County, N. Y. ; appointed associate judge
of the court of common pleas in 1836; moved to
Michigan in 1839 and practiced there; member of
the State senate of Michigan in 1842; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Democrat, but owing to ill health
never took his seat; died at New York City August
5, 1847.
Bradley, Nathan B. , was born at Lee, Berk-
shire County, Mass., May 28, 1831; moved with
his parents to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1835; spent
his early life on a farm and received but a limited
education; at the age of 16 years apprenticed to a
custom clothier, with whom he served three years;
at the age of 19 went to C(shkosh Wis., where he
spent a year in the employ of lumber manufac-
turers; returned to Ohio; remained two years,
then moved to Michigan and engaged in manufac-
turing lumber; justice of the peace three terms,
a supervisor one term, an alderman three terms,
and the first mayor of Bay City after it obtained
its charter, declining a renomination from both
political parties at the close of the term; candidate
for the lower house of the State legislature; elected
to the State senate in 1866, but declined a renomi-
nation at the close of the term; elected a Repre-
sentative from Michigan to the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Bradley, Stephen Row, was born at Walling-
ford. Conn., February 20, 1754; graduated from
Yale College in 1765; studied law and admitted
to the bar in 1779; commanded a volunteer com-
pany in the Revolutionary war and served as aid-
de-camp to General Wooster; moved to Vermont
and took a prominent part in organizing that State;
United States Senator from Vermont as a Demo-
crat, serving from October 24, 1791, to March 3,
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1795 ; again elected a United States Senator in place
of Elijah Paine, resigned, and reelected, serving
from December 7, 1801, until March 3, 1813; Pres-
ident pro tempore of the Senate during a part of
the Seventh and Tenth Congresses; died at Wal-
pole, N. H., December 16, 1830.
Bradley, Thomas J. , of New York City, was
born January 2, 1870, in the city of New York;
attended public schools until June, 1882, when he
was graduated to the College of the City of New
York; graduated with the degree of bachelor of
arts in June, 1887; taught in the public schools of
New York City from 1887 until 1891, at the same
time attending the University Law School, from
which institution he graduated as a bachelor of
laws in 1889; appointed a deputy assistant district
attorney of the county of New York in 1891,
which position he held till July, 1895; resigned to
attend to his private law practice; elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress as the regular Democratic can-
didate and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Bradley, William Czar (son of Stephen Row
Bradley), was born at Westminster, Vt., March
23, 1783; student at Yale College; studied law
with his father and afterwards practiced at West-
minster, Vt. ; secretary of commissioners of bank-
ruptcy 1800-1803; prosecuting attorney for Wind-
ham County 1804-1811 ; member of the State house
of representatives 1806-7; State councillor in 1812;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Thirteenth Congress as a War Democrat, serving
from May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1815; agent of
United States under the treaty of Ghent, 1823 to
1827; elected to the Eighteenth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth Congress;
elected to the State house of representatives in
1850; Presidential elector on the Fremont ticket
in 1856; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1857; retired from the practice of law
in 1858; died at Westminster, Vt., March 3, 1867.
Bradshaw, Samuel C, wasbornatPlumstead,
Bucks County, Pa., June 10, 1809; educated in the
public schools; graduated from the Pennsylvania
Medical College in 1833 and afterwards practiced
at Quakertown; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; defeated as a Union candidate for reelection
to the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Brady, James B., of Petersburg, Va., was
born at Portsmouth, Va., April 3, 1843; received
a common school education; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits; residing temporarily in New York
at the commencement of the war, enlisted as a
private in the Thirty-seventh New York Volun-
teers, in which regiment served as acting adjutant,
when he was transferred and commissioned adju-
tant of the Sixty-third New York Volunteers;
subsequently held the rank of captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of that regiment,
serving in the judge-advocate's, adjutant-general's,
and inspector-general's departments of the Second
Corps, Army of the Potomac;, and commanding
the Sixty-third Regiment when honorably mus-
tered out of service in July, 1865; appointed during
the latter part of 1866 naval storekeeper at the
Norfolk Navy-Yard, and held that position until it
was abolished; appointed chief accountant of the
Norfolk Navy- Yard, which ofBce he resigned to
accept that of clerk of courts of Portsmouth, Va.,
to which he had been elected and which he held
from July 1, 1870, to June 30, 1876; appointed col-
lector of internal revenue in June, 1877; tendered
the position of clerk of the court of appeals of
Virginia, but declined; delegate from Virginia to
the national Republican convention of 1880, and
delegate at large to the national Republican con-
vention of 1884; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Brady, Jasper E., was born in New Jersey
and educated in the public schools; learned the
hatter's trade; studied law and afterwards prac-
ticed at ChamlDersburg, Pa. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig; defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Thirty-first Congress; moved to Pittsburg, Pa., and
resumed the practice of law; appointed in 1861 a
clerk in the office of the Paymaster-General in the
War Department; died at Washington, D. C.,
January 23, 1870.
Brag'g, Edward S., of Fond du Lac, Wis., was
born at Unadilla, N. Y., February 20, 1827; at-
tended district school and academy and completed
his education at Geneva College; studied law, ad-
mitted to the bar in New York in 1848, and com-
menced practice at Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1850,
elected district attorney in 1854; delegate to the
Charleston convention in 1860; entered the Union
Army as a captain in 1861; promoted, and held
successively the rank of major, lieutenant-colonel,
colonel, and brigadier-general, and mustered out
of service in October, 1865; appointed postmaster
at Fond du Lac by President Johnson in 1866;
elected to the State senate and served in the years
1868 and 1869; delegate to the Baltimore conven-
tion in 1872; supported as the Democratic candi-
date for the United States Senate to succeed Matt. H.
Carpenter in 1875; elected to the Forty-fifth and
reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat; elected to Forty-ninth
Congress.
Brag'g', Jolm (brother of Thomas Bragg), was
born in Warren County, N. C. ; graduated from
the University of North Carolina in 1824; studied
law under Judge Hall and afterwards practiced;
member of the house of commons of North Caro-
lina 1830-1834; moved to Mobile, Ala., in 1836,
where he continued the practice of law; was ap-
pointed judge of the tenth judicial circuit in 1842;
served several years in the State legislature; elected
a Representative from Alabama to the Thirty-
second Congress as a States Rights Democrat; de-
clined a reelection and devoted himself to agricul-
tural pursuits; delegate from Mobile to the State
convention of 1861.
Bragg, Thomas (brother of John Bragg), was
born in Warren County, N. C, November 9, 1810;
educated at the Military Academy, Middletown,
Conn. ; studied law, and practiced at Jackson, N.C.;
member of the house of commons of North Caro-
lina in 1842; Presidential elector on the Pierce and
King ticket in 1853; governor of North Carolina,
1855-1859; elected a United States Senator from
North Carolina as a Democrat, to succeed David S.
Reid, Democrat; took his seat December 5, 1859,
and resigned early in 1861, North Carolina having
seceded from the Union; appointed attorney-gen-
eral of the Confederate States February 22, 1861,
by Jefferson Davis, and served two years; took an
active part in the impeachment of Governor Hol-
den; died at Raleigh, N. C, January 21, 1872.
Brainerd, Lawrence, was a prominent busi-
ness man at St. Albans, Vt.; elected a United
States Senator from Vermont as a Free Soiler, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of William
Upham, serving from December 4, 1854, to March
3, 1855.
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Brainerd, Samuel M., of Erie, Pa., was born
in Erie County, Pa., November 13, 1842; received
an academical education; studied law and admitted
to the Erie bar in November, 1869; actively en-
gaged in the practice of law since at Erie; elected
district attorney of Erie County in 1872, and held
the oflBce for a term of three years; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican; died in
November, 1898.
Braucli, A. M., was elected a Representative
from Texas to the Thirty-ninth Congress; his cre-
dentials were presented January 10, 1867, but he
was not admitted to his seat.
Branch., John, was born in Halifax County,
N. C, November 4, 1782, graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina m 1801 ; studied law with
Judge John Haywood, and afterwards practiced;
member of the State senate of North Carolina
1811-1817, 1822, and 1834; was governor of North
Carolina 1817-1820; elected a United States Senator
in 1823, and reelected in 1829; resigned March 9,
1829, having been appointed Secretary of the Navy
by President Jackson; resigned in 1831; elected a
Representative to the Twenty-second Congress as a
Democrat; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1835; Democratic candidate for gov-
ernor of North Carolina in 1838, and defeated by
Dudley, Whig; appointed governor of Florida by
President Tyler, serving from 1844 until the elec-
tion of a governor under the State constitution in
1845; died at Enfield, N. C, January 4, 1863.
Branch, Lavrrence O'Brien, (son of John
Branch), was bom in Halifax County, N. C, July
7, 1820; graduated from Princeton College in 1838;
studied law, and afterwards practiced at Raleigh;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Thirty -fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses; entered the Confederate army after the
secession of North Carolina in May, 1861, and was
appointed brigadier-general the same year; in com-
mand at Newbern when it was captured bjr Gen-
eral Burnside; killed at the battle of Antietam,
September 17, 1862.
Branch, William A. B., of Washington, N. C,
was born at Tallahassee, Fla., February 26, 1847;
moved with his father to Raleigh, N. C., when 5
years of age; prepared for college by W. J. Bing-
ham; entered the University of North Carolina
at the age of 15, remaining two years; entered
the Virginia Military Institute, remaining a few
months, when he joined the Confederate army;
served as a courier on staff of Gen. R. F. Hoke;
surrendered with General Johnson's army in 1865;
studied law under Governor Thomas Bragg, of
North Carolina, but never practiced; at the age of
20 took charge of his landed estate in Beaufort
County, N. C., and engaged in agriculture; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fifty-third Congress.
Brandegee, Augxistus, was born at New Lon-
don, Conn., July 15, 1828; graduated from Yale
College in 1849; graduated from the Yale Law
School in 1851; afterwards practiced at New Lon-
don; member of the State legislature of Connecti-
cut in 1854, 1858, 1859, and 1861; Presidential
elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1861; elected a
Representative to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican, and reelected to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1864.
Brandegee, Frank Bosworth, of New London,
Conn., who was chosen to fill an unexpired term
from the Third Connecticut district in the Fifty-
seventh Congress, and also for the full term in the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican, was born
in New London, Conn., on July 8, 1864; son of
Augustus Brandegee, of New London, and Nancy
Christina Bosworth (Brandegee), of Lee, Mass.";
attended the common schools of New London, and
graduated from the Bulkeley High School, in
New London, in the class of 1881; entered Yale
College, and graduated with honor in the class of
1885; admitted to the bar of New London County
in 1888, and since that time has practiced his pro-
fession as an attorney at law in New London;
member of the law firm of Brandegee, Noyes &
Brandegee; elected a representative to the general
assembly of Connecticut in 1888, and chairman of
the committee on cities and boroughs; elected cor-
poration counsel of the city of New London in
1889, and reelected annually to that office by the
city council, with the exception of two years when
the Democrats controlled that body; resigned the
office upon entering Congress in 1902; delegate
to the Republican national convention at Minne-
apolis in 1892; chosen a mem'ber of the Republi-
can State central committee from the Ninth sena-
torial district in 1898, which position he still re-
tains; elected to the lower branch of the general
assembly in 1898, and was chosen speaker of the
house of representatives; unanimous choice of
the delegates from the two counties of Windham
and New London, which compose the district.
Brantley, William Gordon, of Brunswick, was
born at Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., on Sep-
tember 18, 1860, and lived there until his removal to
Brunswick in 1889; educated in common schools,
with two years at University of Georgia; read law
with ex-Congressman John C. Nicholls, and ad-
mitted to the bar in October, 1881; represented
Pierce County in Georgia house of representatives
in 1884-85; represented Third senatorial district
in Georgia senate in 1886-87; elected solicitor-
general (prosecuting attorney) of Brunswick cir-
cuit in 1888 for a term of four years, and reelected
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth as a Democrat.
Brattan, Robert F., of Princess Anne, Md.,
was born at Barren Creek Springs, Wicomico (then
Somerset) County, Md., on May 13, 1845; attended
Washington College, at Chestertown, Md., for four
years, and graduated in 1864; immediately upon
his return from college appointed deputy register
of wills for Somerset County, where he remained
until admitted to the bar in 1867; member of the
State convention in 1865 which sent delegates to
a peace convention held in Philadelphia in that
year; member of several State and Congressional
conventions'; elected to the house of delegates in
1869, and to the State senate in 1873, again in 1879,
and again in 1887; elected president of the Mary-
land senate in 1890 without opposition in any
party; engaged in the practice of law in Princess
Anne; elected a member of the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; died May 10, 1894.
Bratton, John, of White Oak, S. C, was born
at Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S. C, March 7,
1831; received an academic education at Mount
Zion Institute, Winnsboro; graduated from South
Carolina College in 1850; studied medicine and
took a medical diploma at the South Carolina
Medical College at Charleston, in 1853; volunteered
in the civil war as. a private and served from the
beginning to the end of the war, attaining the rank
of brigadier-general; member of the State consti-
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tutional convention in 1865, held under the proc-
lamation of President Johnson; member of the
State senate from the Fairfield district in 1866;
chairman of the South Carolina delegation to the
national Democratic convention at St. Louis in
1876 and member of the State Democratic com-
^mittee the same year; delegate from South Caro-
lina to the national Democratic convention at
Cincinnati in 1880 and chairman of the State
Democratic committee that year; elected comp-
troller general of the State of South Carolina, by
the legislature, to fill a vacancy in 1881; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress, on the 24th of No-
vember, 1884, without opposition, to fill the
unexpired term of Hon. John H. Evins, deceased;
died January 12, 1898.
Brawley, 'Willij.m H., of Charleston, S. C,
was born in South Carolina in 1841; educated at
the State college; served in the Confederate army;
solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit; served in the
legislature of South Carolina; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress; resigned February 12, 1894;
appointed a United States district judge in 1894.
Braxton, Carter, was born at Newington, Va. ,
September 10, 1736; graduated from William and
Mary College in 1755; spent three years in Eng-
land; member of the Virginia house of burgesses
1760-1765; member of the Virginia conventions
1774-75; appointed a delegate to the Continental
Congress in the place of Peyton Randolph, deceased,
in December, 1775; one of the signers of the Dec-
laration of Independence; not reappointed to the
next Congress, but reappointed at the first session
of the general assembly of Virginia under the new
constitution, serving from 1777 until 1783, and
again in 1785; member of the Virginia council of
state 1786-1791, and from 1794 until his death,
which occurred October 10, 1797.
Braxton, Elliott M., was born in Matthews
County, Va., October 8, 1823; educated in the
common schools, studied law, and practiced;
elected to the State senate of Virginia in 1851 and
reelected in 1853; elected a member of the com-
mon council of Fredericksburg in 1866; elected a
Eepresentative from Virginia to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat. ^
Brayton, William D. , was born at Warwick,
Kent County, B. I., November 6, 1815; received
a liberal education, spending two years at Brown
University; engaged in mercantile pursuits; town
clerk for several years and then member of the
town council of Warwick; member of the State
general assembly in 1841 and 1851, and of the
State senate in 1848 and 1853; major of the Fourth
Regiment Rhode Island militia in the Dorr rebel-
lion; Presidential elector on the Frfemont ticket
in 1856; elected a Representative from Rhode
Island to the Thirty-fifth Congress as an Ameri-
can-Republican; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-sixth
Congress; appointed collector of internal revenue
tor the Second district of Rhode Island in 1862
and served until he resigned in 1871 ; member of
the national Union Republican convention at
Philadelphia in 1872; member of the national
Union Republican committee in 1872 and 1876,
resigning in favor of Governor Howard.
Breazeale, Phanor, of Natchitoches, was born
in Natchitoches Parish, La., December 29, 1858;
lived on a plantation, attending private school un-
til the age of 14; worked on a plantation for four
years; removed to the town of Natchitoches, La.,
in 1877; clerked in a dry goods store for two years;
studied law in Col. W. H. Jack's office for sixteen
months; then secured a clerkship in the supreme
court of the State, and attended law lectures at
Tulane University; received his diploma as a law-
yer in 1881; returned to Natchitoches and entered
into the practice of law as a member of the firm
of Chaphn, Breazeale & Chaplin; edited a news-
paper in that town for two years; president of the
school board of his parish for four years; elected
district attorney of the tenth judicial district in
1892, and reelected in 1896 without opposition;
member of the constitutional convention of 1898,
and took a leading part in framing the judiciary
and railroad commission ordinances; elected to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Brack, Daniel, was born at Topsfield, Mass.,
February 12, 1788; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1813; studied law, and commenced
practice 1814 at Richmond, Ky. ; judge of the
Richmond County court; member of the State
house of representatives 1824-1829; president of
the Richmond branch of the State Bank of Ken-
tucky 1835-1843; judge of the supreme court of
Kentucky 1843-1849; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Whig; after retiring from Congress resumed his
duties as president of the Richmond branch of the
State Bank.
Brack, Samuel, was born at Boston July 17,
1771; received a liberal education, completed at
the Royal Military School of Loreze, in the south
of France; returning to the United States, he after-
wards visited Paris during the Revolution; estab-
lished himself at Philadelphia in mercantile work
in 1792, and became a successful merchant; mem-
ber of the State legislature for several years;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth Congress as a Federalist; died Septem-
ber 1, 1862.
Breckenridga, Henry M., of Tarentum, Pa.,
was elected a Representative from that State to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Bid-
die, serving from September 10, 1840, to March 3,
1841.
Brackenridge, James, was born near Fincas-
tle, Botetourt County, Va., March 7, 1763; took
part in the Revolutionary war; graduated at
William and Mary College in 1785; studied law,
and afterwards practiced at Fincastle; member of
the State general assembly for several years, and
took a special interest in the construction of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and in the establish-
ment of the University of Virginia; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Eleventh Congress
as a Federalist; reelected to the Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from
May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1817; died at Fincastle,
Va., August 9, 1846.
Breckenridge, James D. , was born in Jeffer-
son County, Ky. ; received a liberal education;
elected a Eepresentative from Kentucky to the
Seventeenth Congress in place of Winfield Bullock,
deceased, serving from December 3, 1821, to March
3, 1823; died at Louisville, Ky., May, 1849.
Breckinridge, Clifton R., of Pine Bluff, Ark.;
was elected a Representative from Arkansas to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses as a Democrat; unseated September 5,
1890; nominated for the second session of the
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Fifty-first Congress and elected; reelected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; resigned
August 14, 1894.
Breckinridge, John, (grandfather of John C.
Breckinridge), was bom in Virginia in 1760; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied, and afterwards
practiced law; member of the general assembly of
Virginia; removed to Lexington, Ky., where he
held several public ofiices; elected United States
Senator from Kentucky as a Democrat, serving
from December 7, 1801, until December 25, 1805,
when he resigned to accept the position of Attor-
ney-General of the United States under President
Jefferson; died at Lexington, Ky., December 14,
1806.
Breckinridge, John Cabell (grandson of John
Breckinridge), was born near Lexington, Ky.,
January 21, 1821; received a liberal education,
being a student at Center College; studied law at
the Transylvania Institute; admitted to the bar;
moved to Burlington, Iowa, but soon returned and
began practice at Lexington, Ky.; major of the
Third Kentucky Volunteers in the Mexican war;
member of the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-third
Congress; tendered the mission to Spain, iDut de-
clined it; elected Vice-President of the [Jnited
States in 1856; defeated as candidate for President
in 1860 by Abraham Lincoln ; elected United States
Senator from Kentucky in the place of J. J. Crit-
tenden, Whig, his term beginning March 4, 1861 ;
expelled December 4) 1861; entered the Confederate
army as major-general; secretary of war of the Con-
federate States Government from January to April,
1865; died at Lexington, Ky., May 17, 1875.
Breckinridge, William C. P., of Lexington,
Ky., was born August28, 1837; graduated from Cen-
ter College, Danville,. Ky., April 26, 1855, and from
the law department of the University of Louisville
February 27, 1857; attorney at law; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses; defeated for the nomination to
the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Congresses.
Breese, Sidney, was born at Whitesboro, N.Y.,
July 15, 1800; student at Hamilton College and
graduated from Union College; moved to Illinois;
studied law, and commenced practice at Kaskaskia
in 1 820 ; appointed postmaster of Kaskaskia in 1 821 ,
prosecuting attorney in 1822, and United States
district attorney in 1827; held several commissions
in the militia and served as a lieutenant of volun-
teers in the Black Hawk war; elected circuit judge
in 1835; elected United States Senator from Illinois
as a Democrat to succeed Richard M. Young, serv-
ing from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives, serving as
speaker in 1850; made a judge of the circuit court
of Illinois in 1855, and its chief justice in 1873.
Breitung, Edward, of Negaunee, Mich., was
born in the city of Schalkau, Germany, November
10, 1831; educated at the College of Meiningen, in
the city of Meiningen, in Germany; capitalist in-
terested in iron mines and lands; elected mayor
of Negaunee in 1879, 1880, and 1882; elected a
member of the State house of representatives for
1873-74, but resigned in 1873; elected a State sena-
tor from the thirty-second district in 1877-78;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Brengle, Trancis, was born in Maryland in 1806;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Twenty-eighth Con-
fress as a Whig; died at Frederick, Md., Decem-
er 10, 1846.
Brenner, John L. , of Dayton, Ohio, was born
in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio,
in 1832; received a common school education;
worked on the farm summers and attended school
winters until 20 years old, when he attended the
Springfield, Ohio, Academy; engaged in farming
until 1862, when he engaged in the nursery busi-
ness, which pursuit he followed quite successfully
until 1874; engaged in the leaf -tobacco business;
married in the fall of 1866, and then made Dayton
his home; police commissioner; elected to the
Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Brent, Bichard, was born in Virginia; received
a liberal education; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Con-
gresses; elected a United States Senator from Vir-
ginia, serving from May 22, 1809, until his death
at Washington, D. C, December 30, 1814.
Brent, WilliamL. , was born in Charles County,
Md.; received a liberal education; studied law and
moved to Louisiana, where he practiced; elected a
Representative from Louisiana to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses as a Whig;
practiced law at Washington, D. C. , and in Louisi-
ana; died at St. Martinsville, La., July 7, 1848.
Brentano, Ijorenzo, was born at Mannheim,
Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, November 4,
1813; received a liberal education and studied ju-
risprudence at the universities of Heidelberg and
Freiburg and graduated as LL. D. ; practiced before
the supreme court of Baden; elected, on attaining
a legal age, to the chamber of deputies and in 1848
to the Frankfort Parliament; president of the pro-
visional republican government established by the
revolutionists of 1849; sentenced to imprisonment
for life after the failure of the revolution, but sought
refuge in the United States; settled in Kalamazoo
County, Mich., and became a farmer; in 1859
moved to Chicago and was admitted to the bar;
became editor in chief and principal proprietor of
the Illinois Staats-Zeitung; member of the State
legislature in 1862; president of the Chicago board
of education for five years; Presidential elector on
the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868; a general
amnesty having been granted to those who had
participated in the revolution of 1849, revisited his
native land in 1869, returning to Chicago after the
great fire; in 1872 appointed United States consul
at Dresden and served until April, 1876; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican ; after retiring from Congress
devoted himself to literary works along legal.and
historical lines; published report of the trial of
Guiteau, assassin of Garfield, and history of King
V. Missouri (107 U. S.); died at Chicago, 111., Sep-
tember 18, 1891.
Brenton, Samuel, was born in Gallatin County,
Ivy., November 22, 1810; received a liberal educa-
tion; minister of the gospel 1830-1848; appointed
registrar of the land office at Fort Wayne 1848;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig; defeated for
the Thirty-third Congress; elected to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Republican,
but died before taking his seat at Fort Wayne,
Ind., March 29, 1857.
Brents, Thomas H. , of Walla Walla, Wash.,
was born near Florence, Pike County, 111., Decem-
ber 24, 1840; lawyer; educated in common schools
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and at Portland Academy, Baptist Seminary of
Oregon City, and McMinnville College, in Oregon;
justice of the peace, postmaster at Canyon City,
Oreg., county clerk of Grant County, Oreg., and
member of the Oregon State legislature; elected
to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican; resumed the
practice of law.
Bretz, John L., of Jasper, Ind., was born near
Huntingburg, Dubois County, Ind., September
21, 1852; farmed until 23 years of age; educated
in common country schools and Huntingburg
High Schodl; taught school three years; read law
under Hon. ^V. A. Traylor, and graduated froni
the Cincinnati Law School in 1880; located in
Jasper the same year; elected prosecuting attorney
of the eleventh judicial circuit in 1884, 1886, and
1888; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice
of law.
Brevard, Joseph, was born in Mecklenburg
County, N. C, July 19, 1766; received a liberal
education; entered the Revolutionary Army as
lieutenant in 1782, and served throughout the war;
moved to Camden, S. C, and sheriff of that dis-
trict 1789-1791; appointed commissioner in equity
October 14, 1791; admitted to the bar February
11, 1792; elected judge December 17, 1801, and re-
signed December, 1815, on account of ill health;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Sixteenth Congress; died at Camden, S. C,
October 11, 1821.
Brewer, Francis B., of Westfield, N. Y., was
born at Keene, N. H., in 1820; educated in public
schools, and graduated at Dartmouth College; also
graduated from the medical department of the
same institution; engaged in banking, manufac-
turing, and farming; State military agent during
the civil war; elected to the New York State leg-
islature in 1873 and 1874; Government director of
the Union Pacific Railroad four years under Pres-
idents Grant and Hayes; appointed by Governor
Cornell a manager of the New York State Insane
Asylum at Bunalo; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; died July 29, 1892, at
Westfield, N. Y.
Brewer, J. Hart, of Trenton, N. J., was born
in Hunterdon County, N. J., March 29, 1844;
educated at the Delaware Literary Institution,
Franklin, Delaware County, N. Y. ; manufacturer
of pottery; elected a member of the New Jersey
house of assembly in 1876; elected to the Forty-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; appointed assistant appraiser of merchan-
.dise of the port of New York.
Brewer, Mark S., of Pontiac, Mich., was born
October 22, 1837, at Addison, Oakland County,
Mich. ; worked upon his father's farm until he was
19 years of age; educated at Romeo and Oxford
academies; commenced reading law in 1861 with
ex-Governor Wisner and Hon. M. E. Crofoot, and
in 1864 admitted to the bar at Pontiac and prac-
ticed his profession; circuit court commissioner for
Oakland County 1866-1869; city attorney of Pon-
tiac in 1866 and 1867; elected to the State senate of
Michigan in 1872 and served two years; elected to
the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-
first Congresses as a Republican; after leaving Con-
gress appointed member of the Civil Service Com-
mission; died March 18, 1901.
Brewer, Willis, of Hayneville, Ala., is a native
Alabamian; entered the military service of the
Confederate States at the age of 18 years; journal-
ist; practiced law; planter; in 1871 county treas-
urer of Lowndes; State auditor 1876-1880; State
legislator 1880-1882; State senator 1882-1890; State
legislator 1890-1894; State senator from 1894 till he
resigned in 1897; elector for the State at large on
the Democratic ticket in 1892; elected to the Fifty-
fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
Brewster, David P. , was born in the State of
New York; studied law and practiced at Oswego,
N. Y. ; district attorney of Oswego County 1829-
1836; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses
as a Democrat; died at Oswego, N. Y., February
19, 1876.
Brewster, Henry C, of Rochester, N. Y., was
born at Rochester, September 7, 1845; received
his education in the schools of the city; in 1863,
entered the Traders' National Bank as a clerk; in
1868 appointed cashier, a position he held for more
than twenty-six years; president of thesamebank;
always took an active interest in the Republican
party and contributed largely of his time and
means toward its success; vice-president of the
New York State League of Republican Clubs and
president of the Monroe County League; elected
to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; interested in numerous local financial
and other institutions.
Brice, Calvin Stewart, of Lima, Ohio, was born
at Denmark, Ohio, September 17, 1845; entered
Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, September,
1858; enlisted in Captain Dodd's University Com-
pany April, 1861, and served at Camp Jackson,
Columbus, Ohio; in April, 1862, enlisted in Cap-
tain McFarland's University Company A, Eighty-
sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in West
Virginia; graduated from Miami University June,
1863; after teaching three months in the public
schools at Lima recruited a company, reentered
the service as captain of Company E, One hun-
dred and eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
served in the First Division of the Twenty-third
Corps in Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas
until July, 1865; studied law in the law depart-
ment of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor;
admitted to practice by the State and United
States district and circuit courts at Cincinnati in
the spring of 1866; on the Tilden electoral ticket
in 1876 and Cleveland electoral ticket in 1884;
delegate at large from Ohio to the St. Louis Dem-
ocratic national convention in 1888; selected to
represent Ohio on the national Democratic com-
mittee, and was made chairman of the campaign
committee for the ensuing national campaign; on
the death of William H. Barnum, was unanimous-
ly elected chairman of the national committee, in
1889; in January, 1890, elected United States Sen-
ator, to succeed Hon. Henry B. Payne, for the
term, 1891-1897; died at New York City, Decem-
ber 15, 1898.
Brick, Abraham Liincoln, of South Bend, St.
Joseph County, Ind., was born in that county
May 27, 1860; educated in the common schools;
graduated from the South Bend High School, and
later attended Cornell, Yale, and Michigan uni-
versities; graduated from the law department of
the Michigan University in 1883; practiced in
South Bend; in 1886, elected prosecutor for the
counties of St. Joseph and Laporte: elected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Brickner, George H., of Sheboygan Falls,
Wis., was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 21,
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1834; immigrated to Ohio in 1840; educated in the
common schools; woolen manufacturer; elected to
the Fitty-flrst, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Bridges, George "W., was born in McMinn
County, Tenn., October 9, 1825; received his edu-
cation at the East Tennessee University; studied
law and practiced, also engaged in agricultural
pursuits; attorney-general of Tennessee 1849-1860;
elected in August, 1861, a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Unionist; was arrested on his way to Washington,
taken back, and held over a year a prisoner in
Tennessee; succeeded in escaping, and admitted
to his seat in the House February 25, 1863, serving
until March 3, 1863.
Bridges, Samuel Augustus, was born at Col-
chester, Conn., January 27, 1802; in 1826 graduated
from . Williams College; in October of the same
year moved to eastern Pennsylvania; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1829 and practiced at Doyles-
town; moved in March, 1830, to AllentoWn, Pa.,
where he continued the practice of law; deputy
attorney-general of the State for seven years for
Lehigh County; in 1841 delegate to the Democratip
State convention; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John W. Horn-
beck, Whig) as a Democrat and served from March
6, 1848, to March 3, 1849; elected to the Thirty-
third Congress; defeated for the Thirty-fourth
Congress; again elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress.
Briggs, George, was born in Fulton County,
N. Y., May 6, 1805; in 1812 moved to Vermont
and was educated in the public schools; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; in 1837 elected to the State
house of representatives; in 1838 moved to New
York City and was a large dealer in hardware
there; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses as a
Whig; elected to the Thirty-sixth as an American;
in 1886 delegate to the national Union convention
at Philadelphia; died at Saratoga, N. Y., June 1,
1869.
Briggs, George Nixon, was born at North
Adams, Mass., April 13, 1796; educated in the pub-
lic schools; apprenticed to a hatter; studied law
and practiced at Pittsfield; register of deeds for
Berkshire County 1824-1831; elected a Represent-
ative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twen-
ty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a
Whig; governor of Massachusetts 1844-1851; mem-
ber of the State constitutional convention of 1853;
judge of the court of common pleas 1851-1856;
president of the Tract Society, the Baptist Mis-
sionary Union, and the Sunday School Union; in
1861 appointed one of a commission to adjust dif-
ferences between the United States and New Gren-
ada; died September 12, 1861.
Briggs, James F.. of Manchester, N. H., was
born at Bury, Lancashire, England; received a
common school and academic education; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1851; practiced at
Hillsboro, N. H., until 1871, at which time he
moved to Manchester; elected a member of the
State legislature in 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1874; a
member of the State senate in 1876; elected a Rep-
resentative to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican; de-
clined a renomination; in 1883, 1891, and 1897
elected to the State legislature, serving the latter
year as speaker of the house; in 1889, member of
the State constitutional convention.
Brigham, Elijah, was born at Northboro,
Mass., June 6, 1750; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1778 ; studied theology but soon relinquished
it and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Westboro;
appointed a justice of the court of common pleas
in 1795; in 1796 elected a State senator, and was
State councilor in 1789 and 1790; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Twelfth Con-
gress as a Federalist and reelected to the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Congresses; died at Washington,
D. C, February 22, 1816.
Brigham, Lewis A., of Jersey City, N. J., was
born at New York Mills, Oneida County, N. Y.,
January 2, 1831; graduated from Hamilton Col-
lege, New York, in 1849, and admitted to the New
York bar in 1855; elected superintendent of pub-
lic schools of the city of Bergen, N. J., 1866-
1870; member of the board of police commission-
ers of Jersey City 1874-1876; elected a member of
the legislature of New Jersey in 1877; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican; died
February 19, 1885.
Bright, Jesse D., was born at Norwich, N. Y.,
December 18, 1812; moved with his parents to
Ihdiana in 1820; educated in the public schools;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831, and
practiced at Madison, Ind. ; in 1834 elected judge
of the probate court of Jefferson County; in 1836
member of the State house of representatives;
United States marshal for the district of Indiana;
in 1841, elected lieutenant-governor of Indiana;
elected a United States Senator from Indiana as
a Democrat to succeed Albert S. White, Whig,
and twice reelected, serving from December 27,
1845, to February 5, 1862, when he was expelled
for having, in a letter to Jefferson Davis, recog-
nized him as President of the Confederate States;
moved to Covington, Ky.; in 1866 member of
the State legislature; in 1871, chosen president of
the Raymond City Coal Company; in 1874 moved
to Baltimore, still retaining his connection with
the coal company; died at Baltimore, Md., May
20, 1875.
Bright, John Morgan, of Fayette ville, Tenn.,
was born at Fayetteville, Tenn., January 20, 1817;
received his early education at Fayetteville, and
at Bingham's School, Hillsboro, N. C; graduated
from Nashville University, Tennessee, in Septem-
ber, 1839, and from the law department of Tran-
sylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in March,
1841; practiced law; member of the legislature of
Tennessee in 1847-48; received the degree of LL.D.
from the Nashville University; elected to the
Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
Brinkerhoff, Henry R. , was born in Adams
County, Pa., in 1788; moved with his parents to
Cayuga County, N. Y. ; received a very limited
education; commanded a company of militia in
the war of 1812, distinguishing himself at the bat-
tle of Queenstown Heights; twice elected a mem-
ber of the State legislature; major-general of the
New York State militia; in 1827 moved to Huron
County, Ohio, and cultivated a large farm; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 4,
1843, until his death, in Huron County, Ohio,
April 30, 1844.
Brinkerhoff, Jacob, was born in the State of
New York; moved to Plymouth, Ohio; elected a
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Eepresentative from that State to the Twenty-
eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Brisbin, John, was born in Pennsylvania;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Thirty-first Congress (to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Chester Butler ) as a Whig, and served
from January 13, 1851, to March 3, 1851.
Bristow, Francis Marion, was born in Clark
County, Ky., August 11, 1804; received a liberal
education; studied law, and practiced; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the State house
of representatives in 1831 and 1833, and of the
State senate in 1846; member of the State consti-
tutional convention in 1849; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Kentucky to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Presby Ewing, and served from December 4,
1854, to March 3, 1855; again elected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress; espoused the Union cause and was
for a time a refugee in Illinois; died at Elkton,
Ky., June 10, 1864.
BristO'w, Henry, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; was
born June 5, 1840, at St. Michael, Azore Islands,
but resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., since childhood;
educated in private and public schools; engaged
in mercantile business until 1896; served as a
member of the board of education of the city of
Brooklyn 1880-1889; appointed city magistrate in
1896; as a member of the Seventh Eegiment,
National Guard, State of New York, went to the
front twice during the war of the rebellion ; elected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Broadhead, James O., of St. Louis, Mo., was
born at Charlottesville, Va., May 29, 1819; edu-
cated at the High School in Albemarle County and
afterwards at the University of Virginia; studied
law with Edward Bates, of Missouri, and practiced;
elected to the Missouri legislature in 1847, and to the
senate in 1850-1854; member of the constitutional
conventions in Missouri in 1861-1 863, which deposed
the rebel legislature, and governed the State of
Missouri for two years of the rebellion; United
States district attorney for the eastern district of
Missouri in 1861; member of the State constitu-
tional convention of 1875; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; in 1885 appointed a
member of the French Spoliation Claims Com-
mission by President Cleveland; minister to Swit-
zerland.
Brockenbrough, William H. , was born in
1813 and received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; settled at Tallahassee,
Fla. ; senator under the Territorial government and
United States district attorney; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Florida to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat and received his seat, altlaough
it was contested by E. C. Cabell, Whig; died at
Tallahassee, Fla., in June, 1850.
Brockway, John H., was born at Ellington,
Conn.; graduated from Yale College in 1820;
taught school and studied law; admitted to the
bar and practiced at Ellington; member of the
State senate and house of representatives of Con-
necticut for several terms; elected a Ee'presenta-
tive from Connecticut' to the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig.
Broderick, Case, of Holton, Kans., was born
in Grant County, Ind., September 23, 1839; re-
ceived a common school education; removed to
Kansas in the fall of 1 858 ; settled in Douglas Town-
ship, Jackson County, and engaged in farming;
enlisted at Fort Scott, Kans., as a private soldier
in the Second Kansas Battery in 1862, and mus-
tered out at Leavenworth in August, 1865; elected
probate judge of Jackson County in 1868, and
twice reelected; studied law and admitted to the
bar at Holton in 1870; elected county attorney of
Jackson County in 1876 and 1878; elected State
senator in 1880 to represent Jackson and Potta-
watomie counties; in March, 1884, appointed by
President Arthur associate justice of the supreme
court of Idaho for the term of four years; moved
at once to Boise City, Idaho, assumed the duties
of the position and served until the fall of 1888,
when he returned to Holton and resumed the
practice of law; elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a
Eepublican; resumed the practice oi law.
Broderick, David Colbreth, was born at Wash-
ington, D. C, in December, 1818, his father having
emigrated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter
on the Capitol; moved to New York in 1823, and
educated in the common schools; apprenticed to
learn the stonecutters' trade; prominently con-
nected with the volunteerflre department; defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Thirtieth
Congress; in 1849 removed to California; member
of the constitutional convention of California in.
1849; member of the State senate of California in
1850 and 1851, and president of that body the last
year; elected a United States Senator from Cali-
fornia for the term of 1857-1863; mortally wounded
in a duel by David S. Terry, chief justice of the
supreme court of California, and died September
16, 1859.
Brodhead, John, was born in 1771 ; nrinister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for forty-four
years; elected a Eepresentative from New Hamp-
shire to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Con-
gresses; died at New Market, N. H., April 7, 1838.
Brodhead, John C. , was a resident of Modena,
Ulster County, N. Y. ; elected a Eepresentative
from that State to the Twenty-second and Twenty-
fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Brodhead, Richard, was born in Pike County,
Pa. ; elected a Eepresentative from that State to
the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth
Congresses aa a Democrat; elected United States
Senator from Pennsylvania to succeed Daniel
Sturgeon, Democrat, serving from December 1,
1851 to March 3, 1857; died at Easton, Pa.,
September 17, 1863.
Brogden, Curtis H. , of Goldsboro, was elected
a Eepresentative from North Carolina to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Eepublican.
Brombergr, Frederick G-eorge, was born in
New York City June 19, 1837; moved with his
parents to Mobile, Ala., in February, 1838; in 1858
graduated from Harvard University; student and
assistant in the chemical laboratory of the Law-
rence Scientific School, Cambridge, Mass., 1861-
1863; elected tutor in mathematics at Harvard
University in 1863; resigned in 1865 and returned
to Mobile; appointed treasurer of the city of
Mobile in July, 1867, by Maj. Gen. John Pope,
commanding the department, and served until
January 19, 1869; member of the State senate of
Alabama 1868-1872; in July, 1869, appointed post-
master of Mobile, but was removed in June, 1871;
elected a Eepresentative from Alabama to the
Forty-third Congress by the Liberal Republicans
and Democrats, but defeated for the Forty-fourth
Congress.
Bromwell, Henry P. H. , was born at Balti-
more, Md., August 26, 1823; moved to Ohio and
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afterwards to Illinois, where he studied and prac-
ticed law; published and edited the Vandalian
Age of Steam and Fire; Presidental elector from
Illinois in 1860; elected a Eepresentative from
Illinois to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con-
gresses as a Republican; moved to Denver, Colo.,
m 1880, and engaged in the practice of law; died
at Denver, Colo., January 9, 1903.
Brom'well, Jacob H. , of Wyoming, Ohio, was
born May 11, 1847, at Cincinnati, Ohio; received
his education in the public schools of Cincinnati,
graduating from Hughes's High School in 1864;
lived on a farm in southern Indiana for three
years; taught in the Cincinnati high schools for
seventeen years; graduated from the Cincinnati
Law College in 1870; assistant county solicitor of
Hamilton County, Ohio, for four years; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as a Eepublican to fill
the unexpired term made vacant by the resigna-
tion of Hon. John A. Caldwell; reelected to the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses.
Bronson, David, was born at Suffleld, Conn. ;
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1819; stud-
ied law and commenced practice at Anson, Me. ;
member of the State house of represeintatives in
1832 and 1834 and of the State senate in 1846;
elected a Eepresentative from Maine to the Twen-
ty-seventh Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by
the resignation of George Evans, on his election to
the Senate) as a Whig, serving from May 31, 1841,
to March 3, 1843; collector of customs at Bath,
Me., 1850-1853; judge of probate for Sagadahoc
County. 1854-1857; died in Talbot County, Md.,
November 20, 1863.
Bronson, Isaac H. , was born at Rutland, N. Y. ,
October 16, 1802; educated in the, public schools;
studied law and practiced at Watertown, N. Y.;
elected a Representative from New Yorlr to
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, but
defeated for the T wenty-sixth Congress ; appointed
judge of the fifth judicial district of New York;
appointed United States district judge for the
northern district of Florida; died at Palatka, Fla.,
August 13, 1855.
Brooke, Walter, was educated in the public
schools; studied law and practiced at Lexington,
Miss. ; elected a United States Senator fromMissis-
sippi (in place of Henry S. Foote, resigned), serv-
ing from March 11, 1852, to March 3, 1853; elected
a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress
from Mississippi in 1861, serving one year; de-
feated as a candidate for the Confederate senate
by James Phelan.
Brooks, David, was born in Pennsylvania in
1756; educated in the public schools; in 1776
entered the Continental Army as a lieutenant in
the Pennsvlvania line; captured at Fort Washing-
ton, November 10, 1776, and exchanged after two
years' imprisonment; appointed assistant clothier-
general in 1778, in which position he secured the
friendship of Washington; after the war moved to
Dutchess County, N. Y.; member of the State
assembly for six years; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fifth Congress; appointed
commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Seneca
Indians; first judge of Dutchess County, serving
sixteen years; ofiicer in the United States customs
service; died in Dutchess County, N. Y., August
30, 1838.
Brooks, George Merrick, was born at Con-
cord, Mass., July 26, 1824; in 1844 graduated from
Harvard College; studied law and practiced; in
1858 member of the Massachusetts house of rep-
resentatives, and in 1859 of the Massachusetts State
senate; member of the joint committee of the sen-
ate and house chosen in 1859 to revise the statutes
of Massachusetts; elected a Eepresentative-from
Massachusetts to the Forty-first Congress in
November, 1869 (to fill the vacancy caused by the
appointment of George S. Boutwell to the bffice of
the Secretary of the Treasury), as a Eepublican;
reelected to the Forty-second Congress; resigned
in 1872 to become judge of probate for Middlesex
County.
Brooks, James, was born at Portland, Me.,
November 10, 1810; graduated' from Waterville
College; taught school in Portland until 1830;
edited the Portland Advertiser, for which he wrote
letters from Washington during sessions of Con-
gress; in 1835 traveled in Europe, and on his
return established the New York Daily Express,
of which he was the editor in chief the remainder
of his life; defeated as a Whig candidate for Con-
gress in the Twenty-fifth Congress; member of the
State legislature in 1867; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Thirty-first and Thirty-
second Congresses as a Whig; elected to the Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and
Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat; in the
Thirty-ninth his seat was successfully contested
by William E. Dodge, Eepublican; appointed a
Government director in the Union Pacific Railroad
in October, 1867; made a tour around the world
in 1872; died at Washington, D. C, April 30, 1873.
Brooks, Micah, was born at Cheshire, Conn.,
in 1775; moved to western New York and received
his education through the instruction of his father;
taught school and worked on a farm; in 1806
appointed a justice of the peace; judge of the Liv-
ingston County court 1806-1826; member of the
New York Assembly 1808-9; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Fourteenth Congress;
member' of the State constitutional convention of
1821; presidential elector on the Adams ticket in
1824; died in Livingston County, N. Y. , July 7, 1857.
Brooks, Preston S. , was born in Edgefield dis-
trict. South Carolina, August 10, 1819; graduated
from the College of South Carolina in 1839; studied
law; admitted to the bar 1843; member of the
State general assembly 1844; served in the Mexi-
can war as captain of the Palmetto Regiment of
South Carolina Volunteers; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from South Carolina to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a State Eight Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, serving from December
5, 1853, to July 14, 1856, when (the House not
having given a two-thirds vote for his exjmlsion
for the assault upon Charles Sumner) he resigned;
again elected to the Thirty-fourth and the Thirty-
fifth Congresses, serving till his death at Wash-
ington, D. C, January 27, 1857.
Brookshire, Elijah. Voorhees, of Crawfords-
ville, Ind., was born near Ladoga, in Montgomery
County, Ind., August 15, 1856; graduated in the
scientific course from the Central Indiana Normal
College at Ladoga in August, 1878; engaged in
farming and school teaching until 1883; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in Crawfordsville in
that year; and engiiged in the practice of the law
and farming; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Broom, Jacob, was born at Baltimore, Md.,
July 25, 1808; received a liberal education; moved
to Pennsylvania and appointed deputy auditor of
that State in 1840; in 1849 elected clerk of the
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Philadelphia orphans' court; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as an American Whig; died at Washington,
D. C, in November, 1864.
Broom, Jam.es M. , was born in Delaware in
1778; graduated from Princeton College in 1794;
elected a Representative from Delaware to the
Ninth Congress.
Broom.aU, John M. , was born at Upper Chi-
chester, Pa., January 19, 1816; received a common
school education; studied law, and practiced dur-
ing the greater part of his life; member of the State
legislature of Pennsylvania, 1851 -52 ; member of the
State revenue board in 1854; Presidential elector in
1860 on the Lincoln ticket and again in 1872 on the
Grant ticket; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congresses as a Republican; died in 1894.
Brosius, Marriott, of Lancaster, Pa., was born
in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pa.,
March 7, 1843; received a common school and ac-
ademic education; enlisted as a private in Com-
pany K, Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers, in October, 1861, for three years, and
March 6, 1863, while engaged on the Edisto River,
promoted to sergeant; participated in the siege of
Charleston and the assault on Fort Wagner, and on
the 28th of February, 1864, reenlisted as a vet-
eran; on May 20, 1864, participated in the brilliant
charge at Green Plains, in the Bermuda Hundred;
in this en counter he sustained a severe wound, from
the effects of which he was a lifelong sufferer; dis-
charged December 28, 1864, and on February 28,
1865, was commissioned a second lieutenant for
bravery on the field of battle; after the war he fin-
ished his education at the Millersville Normal
School and took a course of law at Ann Arbor
University; admitted to the bar in 1868, and prac-
ticed; in 1882 was the Republican candidate for
Congressman at large, but was defeated; elected
to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
• Congresses as a Republican; died March 16, 1901,
at Lancaster, Pa.
Broussard, Bobert F. , of New Iberia, La. , was
born August 17, 1864, on the Marie Louise planta-
tion, near New Iberia, parish of Iberia, La.; at-
tended various public and private schools, and in
1879 entered Georgetown University, Washington,
D. C, where he remained until 1882; appointed
inspector of customs December 27, 1885, at .New
Orleans, and to assistant weigher, and subsequently
to export statistician at that- port; during the time
he wa^ in the Government service he entered the
law school of Tulane University, of Louisiana, at
New Orleans, and graduated in 1889; moved to
New Iberia, where he commenced the practice of
law with T. Donelson Foster; elected member of
the Democratic parish executive committee, the
Democratic Congressional executive committee of
the Third district, and the Democratic State central
executive committee; in 1890 tookactive part in the
controversy over the lottery question on the anti-
lottery side, and canvassed the State in that mem-
orable campaign; became the nominee of the anti-
lottery wing of the Democratic party for the district
attorneyship of the nineteenth judicial district of
Louisiana, to which position he was elected at the
State elections of 1892 and 1894; elected to the
F;ifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Brower, John OT., of Mount Airy, N. C, was
born at Greensboro, N. C, July 19, 1845; moved
with his parents to Mount Airy; received a com-
mon school education; engaged in farming and
manufacturing tobacco ;.in 1875, elected to the State
constitutional convention, but was counted out by
10 votes; in August, 1878, elected to the State sen-
ate; candidate for Congress in 1878, but was de-
feated; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Brown, Aaron Vail, was born in Brunswick
County, Va., August 15, 1795; graduated from the
University of North Carolina in 1814, and in 1815
moved with his parents to Nashville, Tenn. ; studied
law and practiced at Nashville; in partnership
with James K. Polk, in Giles County, for some
time; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat; in 1845 elected
governor of Tennessee, and defeated for reelection
m 1847; appointed Postmaster-General by Presi-
dent Buchanan in March, 1857; died at W^ashing-
ton, D. C, March 8, 1859.
Brown, Albert Gallatin, was born in Chester
District, S. C, May 31, 1813; moved with his
parents to Mississippi when a child and received
a liberal education; studied law and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives
1835-1839; elected a Representative from Mis-
sissippi to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; judge of the circuit superior court 1852-53;
governor of Mississippi, 1844-1848; elected a Rep-
resentativefrom Mississippi to theThirtieth, Thirty-
first, and Thirty-second Congresses, serving froioa
January 24, 1848, to March 3, 1853; elected a
United States Senator from Mississippi in 1853 and
reelected in 1859, serving from January 26, 1854,
until the secession of Mississippi, when he with-
drew, January 12, 1861 ; expelled from the United
States Senate July 11, 1861; entered the Confeder-
ate army as captain in the Seventeenth Mississippi
Volunteers; in 1862 elected a Confederate Stat^
senator and served in the first and second con-
gresses; died at Jackson, Miss., June 12, 1880.
Brown, Anson, was born at Ballston, N. Y.,in
1800; received a liberal education; studied lawand
practiced at Ballston; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig, serving from March 3, 1839, until his death
at Ballston, June 14, 1840.
Brown, Arthur, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born March 8, 1843, on a farm in Prairie Ronde,
Kalamazoo County, Mich.; received the usual
common school education, and after attending An-
tioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, graduated
there in 1862; took a post-graduate literary course
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and re-
ceived a degree from that university; graduated
from the law school at Ann Arbor m 1864, and
admitted to the bar of Michigan, commencing
practice at once at Kalamazoo; moved to Salt Lake
City, Utah, 1879; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate January 22, 1896, upon the
admission of the State of Utah, himself and col-
league being elected at one and the same time and
on the same vote; in drawing lots in the presence
of the Senate he drew the short term; extensively
engaged in the law business both in Michigan and
in the States of Utah and Idaho; his term of serv-
ice expired March 3, 1897; delegate to the Repub-
lican national conventions of 1896 and 1900.
Brown, B. Gratz (grandson of John Brown),
was born at Lexington, Ky., May 28, 1826; grad-
uated from the Transylvania University in 1845,
and from Yale College in 1847; studied law at
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Louisville and practiced at St. Louis, Mo. ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1852-1858;
one of the founders of the Missouri Democrat and
its editor 1854-1859; took an active part in pre-
venting the secession of Missruri in 1861 ; elected
United States Senator from Missouri as a Repub-
lican in the place of W. P. Johnson, expelled in
1862, serving from December 14, 1863, until March
4, 1867; nominated for "Vice-President in 1872 on
the Greeley ticket, and, after Mr. Greeley'sdeath,
received 18 votes for President; died at St. Louis,
Mo., December 13, 1885.
Brown, Bedford, was born in Caswell County,
N. C, in 1795; elected to the house of commons of
North Carolina in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1823, and
to the State senate in 1828and 1829; elected aUnited
States Senator from North Carolina as a Democrat
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John
Branch, and reelected in 1835, serving from De-
cember 28, 1829, until 1840, when he resigned be-
cause he could not obey the instructions of the
general assembly of North Carolina; again elected
to the State senate in 1842; defeated as a candidate
for the United States Senate by W. H. Heywood,
jr., and withdrew from public life; moved to Mis-
souri and then back to North Carolina; died in
Caswell County December 6, 1870.
Brown, Benjamin, was a member of the Massa-
chusetts State legislature 1809, 1811, and 1812;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Fourteenth Congress.
Broivn, Charles, was born in Pennsylvania
and educated in the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
seventh and Thirtieth Congresses as a Democrat;
appointed collector of customs at Philadelphia;
delegate to the Philadelphia Union convention of
1866.
Brown, Charles Elwood, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was born at Cincinnati, of Quaker parentage, July
4, 1834; after two years' attendance at Greenfield
Academy entered Miami University, at Oxford,
Ohio, from whence he graduated with the class of
1854; went South, and while serving as tutor at
Baton Rouge, La. , read law ; in 1859 returned to Ohio
and entered the law practice at Chillicothe; after
the war was inaugurated he enlisted as private in
Company B, Sixty-third Regiment Ohio Volun-
teers, and on October 23, 1861, commissioned a
captain; promoted to major for meritorious con-
duct March 12, 1863, and lieutenant-colonel May
17, 1863; while recovering from his wound prved
as provost-marshal of the Eighteenth Ohio district;
promoted to colonel June 6, 1865, and subsequently
brevetted brigadier-general " for gallant and mer-
itorious conduct in the campaign before Atlanta,
Ga.;" resumed the law practice at Chillicothe,
Ohio; in 1872 commissioned by President Grant,
United States pension agent at Cincinnati, which
position he held until President Hayes's Adminis-
tration; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Republican; elected to the State
senate on a fusion ticket in 1899.
Brown, Elias, was born near Baltimore, Md.;
educated in the public schools; member of the
State legislature for several years; Presidential
elector in 1820 on the Monroe ticket, and in 1828
on the Adams ticket; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-first Congress; Presiden-
tial elector in 1836; member of the State constitu-
tional convention ; died near Baltimore July 7, 1857.
Brown, Ethan Allen, was born at Darien,
Conn., July 4, 1776; received a liberal education;
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studied law under Alexander Hamilton, and
moved to Cincinnati in 1804, where he commenced
practice; judge of the supreme court of Ohio 1810-
1818; governor of Ohio 1818-1822; resigned on be-
ing elected United States Senator from Ohio (to
fill vacancy caused by the death of William A.
Trimble) as a Democrat, serving from January 15,
1822, to March 3, 1825; canal commissioner of
Ohio 1825-1830; minister to Brazil 1830-1834;
Commissioner of the General Land Ofiice at Wash-
ington from July 24, 1835, to October 31, 1836;
moved to Rising Sun, Ind., November 1, 1836; in
1842 member of the Indiana house of representa-
tives; died at Indianapolis, Ind., February 24,
1852.
Brown, Foster Vincent, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., was bom in White County, Tenn., Decem-
ber 24, 1854; graduated from Bumtt College, Van
Buren County, Tenn., in 1871; attended the law
school of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. ,
and graduated in the summer of 1873; located at
Jasper, Marion County, Tenn., and commenced
the practice of law January 1, 1874; elected
attorney-general of the fourth (Chattanooga) ju-
dicial district in August, 1886, and held the ofiice
for eight years; moved to . Chattanooga in May,
1890, and continued the practice of law with Judge
Charles D. Clark; appointed United States district
judge in place of Judge D. M. Key, retired; dele-
gate to the Republican national convention in
1884 and voted for James G. Blaine for President;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republi-
can; resumed the practice of law.
Brown, Georg'e H., was born in New Jersey;
graduated from Princeton College in 1848; studied
law and practiced at Somerville, N. J. ; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1844; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig.
Brown, James (brother of John Brown) , was
born near Staunton, Va., September 11, 1766;
student at the William and Mary College; studied
law and commenced practice at Frankfort, Ky. ;
in 1791 commanded a company of sharpshooters in
an expedition against the Indians; secretary to
Governor Shelby in 1792; soon after the cession of
the Louisiana territory moved to New Orleans;
aided Livingston in compiling the codes of laws; .
secretary of the Territory and subsequently United
States district attorney; elected United States Sen-
ator from Louisiana (to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of J. N. Destrahan), serving from
February 5, 1813, to March 3, 1817; defeated for
reelection to the Senate by W. C. C. Claiborne,
who died before taking his seat; again elected a
United States Senator, serving from December 6,
1819, until December 10, 1823, when he resigned;
minister to France from December 9, 1823, to July
1, 1829; died at Philadelphia, April 7, 1835.
Brown, James S., was born at Hampton, Me.,
February 1, 1824; received his education in the
public schools; in 1,840 moved to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he studied law; commenced practice at Mil-
waukee, Wis., in 1844; prosecuting attorney for
Milawukee County in 1846; attorney-general for
Wisconsin in 1848; mayor of Malwaukee in 1860;
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Brown, Jason Brevoort, of Seymour, Ind.,
was born at Dillsboro, Ind., February 26, 1839;
educated in thei common schools, except a short
course at the Wilmington Academy in Dearborn
County, Ind. ; earned his own living when a boy,
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and therefore had little opportunity to acquire an
education; studied law at Indianapolis, Ind., in
1858-59, and admitted to the bar in 1860, and to
practice, in the Supreme Court of the United
States in 1866; located in Jackson County, Ind.,
in 1860; elected to the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives from Jackson County in 1862 and in
1864; elected to the State senate in 1870 from the
counties of Jackson and Brown, and reelected in
1880 from the counties of Jackson and Jennings;
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses as a Democrat; died March 10,
1898.
Brown, Jeremiah, was born at Goshen, Pa.,
in 1782; member of the State house of representa-
tives for two years; the first associate judge elected
by the people; elected a Kepresentative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses as a Whig; died at Lancaster,
Pa., March 2, 1848.
Brown, Jolin, was born at Providence, R. I.,
January 27, 1736; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
commanded the party which destroyed the British
sloop of war Oaspee in Narragansett Bay and sent
in irons to Boston for trial, but released through
the efforts of his brother Moses; chosen as a dele-
gate from Rhode Island to the Continental Con-
gress in 1784, but did not serve; treasurer of Brown
University for forty years; elected a Representa-
tive from Rhode Island to the Sixth Congress;
died at Providence, R. I., September 20, 1803.
Brown, John (brother of James Brown), was
born at Staunton, Va., September 12, 1757; student
at Princeton College ; enlisted in the Revolutionary
Army and served until the close of the war; com-
pleted his studies at the William and Mary Col-
lege, Virginia; taught school and studied law;
commenced practice at Frankfort, Ky., in 1782;
elected a member of the State legislature of Vir-
ginia from the district of Kentucky in 1785; Dele-
gate from the Kentucky district of Virginia to the
Continental Congress 1787-88; elected a Repre-
senta,tive from the Kentucky district of Virginia
to the First and Second Congresses, serving until
November 5, 1792, when he took his seat as United
States Senator from the newly admitted State of
Kentucky, and reelected, serving until March 8,
1805; elected President pro tempore of the Sena,te
October 17, 1803, and January 23, 1804; he was
the first Member of Congress from the Mississippi
Valley and the last survivor of the Continental
Congress when he died at Frankfort, Ky., August
27, 1828.
Brown, John, was elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Eleventh Congress, serving
until 1810, when he resigned.
Brown, John, was born at Lewistown, Pa.;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses.
Brown, John Brewer, of Centerville, Md,, was
born May 13, 1836, at Philadelphia, Pa. ; educated
at Centerville Academy, Maryland, and at Dickin-
son College; read law, and admitted to the bar in
1857; elected to the State house of delegates in
1870 and to the State senate in 1887, serving three
terms; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat to fill the unexpired term of Henry
Page, appointed judge of the first judicial circuit
of Maryland; took his seat December 5, 1892; re-
sumed the practice of law; died May 16, 1898.
Brown, John K,., of Martinsville,. Va., was
born in Franklin County, Va., January 14, 1842;
received a common school and academic education;
atthe age of 19 years entered the Confederate army
as a private in Company D, Twenty-fourth Vir-
ginia Volunteers; in 1870 formed a copartnership
withi his father as manufacturers of tobacco at
Shady Grove, and in 1882 moved to Martinsville;
elected mayor of Martinsville in 1884; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as an Independent Republican.
Brown, John W. , was born at Dundee, Scot-
land, October 11, 1766; in 1802 moved with his
father to Newburgh, N. Y. ; educated in the public
schools; studied- law; admitted to the bar in 1818
and practiced ; elected a j ustice of the peace in 1 820 ;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat; elected in November, 1849, a justice of
the supreme court for the second judicial district
for the State of New York, and reelected in 1857;
in 1864 defeated as the Democratic candidate for
judge of the court of appeals; in 1865 retired from
the bench and resumed practice; an earnest ad-
vocate of the war for the suppression of the rebel-
lion; died at Newburgh, N. Y., September 6, 1875.
Brown, John Young, was born in Hardin
County, Ky., June 28, 1835; in 1855 graduated from
Center College, Danville, Ky. ; studied lawi and ad-
mitted to the bar in 1857; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but by
reason of not having attained the age required by
the Constitution of the United States, did not take
his seat until the second session; in 1860 member
of the national Douglas committee; again elected
to, the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat, but the
House of Representatives declared his seat vacant
on account of alleged disloyalty of a letter which
he had written; reelected to the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses; governor of Kentucky
1891-1895; located at Louisville, Ky.
Brown, Joseph E., of Atlanta, Ga., was born
in Pickens District, S. C, April 15, 1821; when
a boy his father moved to Georgia; educated
at the Calhoun Academy, South Carolina; taught
school in Canton, Ga. ; admitted to the bar in
August, 1845; afterwards graduated from Yale
College Law School, and returned to Georgia and
commenced the practice of law in 1846; in 1849
elected to the State senate; Pierce elector in 1852;
in 1855 elected judge of the superior court of the
Blue Ridge circuit; in 1855 elected governor by the
Democratic party; reelected in 1859; secessionist
in 1860, and active and energetic as a war governor
after the State had seceded; in 1861 again elected
governor; in 1863 again a candidate for governor,
and opposed by Joshua Hill, an original Union
man, and Timoth Furlow, an original secessionist;
Governor Brown was elected over both by a hand-
some majority; during the war Governor Brown
opposed the policy of President Davis on the con-
script act, but threw no obstacles in the way of
the execution of the law by the Confederate Gov-
ernment; he simply discussed with the President
the constitutionality of the measure; after the sur-
render he advocated the acquiescence in the re-
construction measures, and became very unpopu-
lar on account of his recommendation that the
people acquiesce and carry them out in good faith;
as the Democratic party opposed these measures,
as a reconstructionist he voted for General Grant,
who favored them; nominated by the Republicans
for United States Senator during the legislature of
1868, and defeated; after his defeat for Senator,
appointed by Governor Bullock chief justice of the
supreme court of Georgia, which position he held
until December, 1870, when he resigned and ac-
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cejited the presidency of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad Company; when General Gordon re-
signed his position in the Senate Governor Brown
was appointed to fill the vacancy; afterwards
elected over Gen. A. R. Lawton, by over a two-
thirds majority of' the legislature; reelected in
1884, serving from May 26, 1880, until March 3,
1891; died in 1894.
Brown, Milton, was born in Ohio; moved to
Jackson, Tenn., where he held several public offi-
ces; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-
ninth Congresses.
Brown, Robert, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fifth Congress to fill a
vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Sit-
greaves, and reelected to the Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and
Thirteenth Congresses.
Brown, Seth W. , of Lebanon, Ohio, was born
January 4, 1843, near Waynes ville, Warren County,
Ohio; Drought up on a farm and educated in the
public schools; member of Company H, Seventy-
ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; read law with
George R. Sage, and admitted to the bar by the
supreme court in 1873 ; elected prosecuting attorney
for Warren County in 1880 and 1882; elected rep-
resentative to the general assembly in 1883, and
to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, as a
Republican.
Brown, Titus, was born in Cheshire County,
N. H., in 1786; graduated from Middlebury College
in 1811; studied law and practiced at Francestown,
N. H.; member of the State legislature 1820-1825;
solicitor of Hillsboro County 1823-1825 and
1829-1834; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses; State senator and president of the senate
in 1842; died at Francestown, N. H., January 31,
1849.
Brown, Webster Everett, of Rhinelander,
Wis., was born in Madison County, N. Y., July 16,
1851; went with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857,
living for a time in Columbia County, then moving
to Portage County, where he lived on a farm till 17
years of age; his elementary education was received
in the common schools of Portage County, and
afterwards he took preparatory studies at Lawrence
University, Appleton, Wis., and a business course
at the Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee;
in 1870 entered the University of Wisconsin, at
Madison, and graduated with the class of 1874;
entered the lumber business with his elder brother
in 1875 at Stevens Point, Wis., continuing at that
point till the fall of 1882, when they took in a
vounger brother, and the firm transferred their
business to Rhinelander; chairman of the town
and county boards; also member of the school
board, and served two terms as mayor of the city
of Rhinelander; elected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Brown, William, was born in Frederick Coun-
ty, Va.; received his education in the common
schools; moved to Kentucky and located at Cyn-
thiana, Harrison County; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Sixteenth Congress by a
majority of over 1,000 over B. Tyler.
Brown, William G., was born in Preston
County, Va., September 25, 1801; educated in the
public schools; studied law, and commenced prac-
tice in 1823 at Kingwood; member of the house
of delegates of Virginia in 1832 and again 1840-1843;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Thirtieth Congress; member of the
State constitutional convention of 1850;- delegate
to the national Democratic conventions of 1860 at
Charleston and Baltimore; member of the Virginia
State convention of 1861, opposing secession; again
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress from Vir-
ginia as a Unionist, and reelected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress from West Virginia as a Unionist.
Brown, William J., was born in Kentucky
November 22, 1805; in 1821 moved to Indiana;
member of the State legislature and secretary of
state for Indiana; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; Second Assistant Postmaster-General, 1845-
1849; again elected to the Thirty-first Congress;
editor of the Indiana Sentinel and State librarian
of Indiana; special agent of the Post-Office Depart-
ment for Indiana and Illinois; died near Indian-
apolis, Ind., March 18, 1857.
Brown, William R. , was born at Buffalo, N. Y. ,
July 16, 1840; in 1862 graduated from Union Col-
lege, Schenectady, N. Y. ; studied law, and in 1864
admitted to the bar; elected judge of the ninth
judicial district of Kansas in 1867, and reelected
in 1872; elected a Representative from Kansas to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Brown, William Wallace, of Bradford, Pa.,
was born at Sumnerhill, Cayuga County, ST. Y.,
April 22, 1836; educated at Alfred College, Alle-
gany County, N. Y. ; studied law: admitted to the
bar and practiced; enlisted May 16, 1861, in the
Twenty-third New York Volunteers for two years;
transferred to the First Pennsylvania Rifies Decem-
ber 18, 1861, serving his term of enlistment in the
ranks; aid-de-camp to Governor Hartranft, with
the rank of colonel; elected recorder of McKean
County in 1864; district attorney in 1867; member
of the legislature of Pennsylvania from Erie County,
1872-1876; elected to the Forty -eighth Congress as
a Republican; reelected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress; appointed Auditor of the Navy Department
in 1900.
Browne, George Huntington, was born at
Gloucester, R. I., January 6, 1811; graduated from.
Brown University in 1840; studied law and after-
wards practiced at Providence; elected a repre-
sentative to the so-called "Charter" general as-
sembly of Rhode Island, in 1842, and at the same
time elected a representative to what was termed
the "Suffrage" legislature, and attended the lat-
ter; again elected to the general assembly of Rhode
Island, under the constitution, 1849-1852; in 1852
appointed United States district attorney for Rhode
Island and held the office until 1861, when he re-
signed; delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore
national Democratic conventions on the Douglas
ticket in 1860; delegate to the peace conference at
Washington February 4, 1861 ; elected aRepresenta-
tive from Rhode Island to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Union Democrat, serving from July 4,
1861, to March 3, 1863; entered the Union Army as
colonel of the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers
October 13, 1862, and served through the term of
enlistment, participating in the battle of Fred-
ericksburg December 13, 1862, and in several other
skirmishes; State senator in 1872 and 1873; elected
by the general assembly in May, 1874, chief jus-
tice of the supreme court of Rhode Island and
commissioned, but declined the office.
Browne, Thomas H. Bayly, was born at Ac-
comac, Va., in 1844; attended Hanover and Bloom-
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field academies in Virginia, leaving the latter in
May, 1861; volunteered as a private in Company
r, Thirty-ninth Eegiment Virginia Infantry ; after-
wards served as a private in Chew's battery of the
Stuart Horse Artillery ; surrendered with the Army
of Northern Virginiain April, 186&; graduated from
the law department of the University of Virginia
in 1867; was active in the practice of law; in 1873
elected attorney for the Commonwealth of Accomac
County; Fresidential elector on the Blaine ticket
in 1884, and elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress;
died August 27, 1892.
Browne, Thomas M., of Winchester, Ind.,was
born at New Paris, Ohio, April 19, 1829; moved
to Indiana in January, 1844; received a common
school education; studied law at AVinchester, and
admitted to the bar in 1849; elected prosecuting
attorney for the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1855,
and reelected in 1857 and 1859; secretary of the
State senate in Indiana in 1861, and represented
Randolph County in that body in 1863; assisted in
organizing the Seventh Volunteer Cavalry, and
went to the field with that regiment as its lieuten-
ant-colonel, promoted to its colonelcy, and subse-
quently commissioned by President Lincoln briga-
dier-general by brevet; appointed in April, 1869,
United States attorney for the district of Indiana,
and resigned that office August 1, 1872; Repub-
lican candidate for governor of that State in 1872,
and defeated by Thomas A. Hendricks; elected to
the Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Re-
publican.
Browning-, Orville H. , was born in Harrison
County, Ky., in 1810; received his education at
Augusta College; admitted to practice law in 1831;
moved to Quincy, 111. ; served in the Illinois Vol-
unteers through the Black Hawk war in 1832;
member of the State senate of Illinois, 1836-1840,
and of the State house of representatives, 1841-1843 ;
one of the founders of the Republican party and a
delegate to the national cdnvention at Chicago in
1860; appointed a United States Senator from Illi-
nois (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Stephen A. Douglas), serving from July 4, 1861.
to January 30, 1863; member of the Union execu-
tive committee in 1866; appointed by President
Johnson Secretary of the Interior in July, 1866,
but only served from September 1, 1866, to March
3, 1869; member of the State constitutional con-
vention of 1869.
Brownlow, Walter Preston, of Jonesboro,
Tenn., was born at Abingdon, Va. ; attended com-
mon school for three years; because of the death
of his father earned his support from the age of
10; served an apprenticeship at the tinners' trade,
and as a locomotive engineer, working at these
trades for several years; entered the newspaper
business as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig and
Chronicle (edited by his uncle, the late Hon. Wil-
liam G. Brownlow, United States Senator) in 1876;
in the same year purchased the Herald and Trib-
une, a Republican newspaper published at Jones-
boro, of which he has since been the editor and
proprietor; delegate from his district to the Re-
publican national conventions of 1880, 1896, and
1900, and delegate from the State at large to the
national convention of 1884; chairman of the cam-
paign committee of his district in 1880; elected a
member of the Republican State committee in
1882, and served as such for eight years, two of
which he was its chairman; appointed postmaster
at Jonesboro in March, 1881, and resigned in De-
cember to accept the Doorkeepership of the House
of Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress;
elected by the delegations from his State to the
national conventions as Tennessee's member of
the Republican national committee in 1884, 1896,
and 1900, and unanimously elected chairman of
the Republican State executive committee by the
members of that body for 1898-99; elected by Con-
gress a member of the Board of Managers for the
National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers; chosen at a primary election as the
nominee for Congress without opposition in 1902;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Protectionist Republican, m
a district which was represented from 1843 to 1853
by the late President Andrew Johnson as a Free-
Trade Democrat.
Brownlow, William Gannaway, was born in
Wythe County, Va., August 29, 1805, his parents
leaving him an orphan at the age of 12 years;
moved to Abingdon when 18 years of age and ap-
prenticed himself to a house carpenter and learned
the trade; entered the traveling ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; moved to Tennessee
in 1828; published and edited a news'paper called
the Whig from 1839 until 1861; defeated candi-
date for Congress in 1843; appointed by President
Fillmore in 1850 a member of the Tennessee River
Commission for the improvement of navigation;
for his loyalty to the Federal Government ne was
imprisoned at the beginning of the war in a flre-
less jail where he contracted painful diseases;
member of the constitutional convention which
reorganized the State government of Tennessee;
elected governor of Tennessee, without opposition,
March 4, 1865, and in August, 1867, reelected;
elected a United States Senator from Tennessee as
a Republican in place of David T. Patterson, War
Democrat, and served from Marcn 4, 1869, to March
3, 1875; returned to Knoxville and died April 29,
1877.
Brownson, Nathan, was born in Georgia in
1743; graduated from Yale College in 1761; stud-
ied medicine and afterwards practiced in Liberty
County, Ga. ; member of the Provincial Congress
of 1775; surgeon in the Revolutionary Army; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives and its
speaker in 1781; chosen by that body governor of
Georgia; Delegate from Georgia to the Continental
Congress in 1776 and 1778; elected to the State
house of representatives in 1778, serving as speaker;
elected to the State senate and was its president
from 1789 to 1791; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1789; died in Liberty County,
Ga., November 6, 1796.
Bruce, Blanche K., of Florevville, Miss., was
born in Prince Edward County, Va., March 1, 1841;
received a limited education; became a planter in
Mississippi in 1869; member of the Mississippi
levee board, and sheriff and tax collector of Boli-
var County from 1872 until his election to the
United States Senate, February 3, 1875, as a Repub-
lican, to succeed Henry R. Pease, Republican, and
took his seat March 4, 1875; served until IMarch 3,
1881; died at Washington, D. C, March 17, 1898.
Bruce, Fhineas, was born June 17, 1762; grad-
uated from Yale College in 1786; member of the
Massachusetts legislature in 1792, 1793, 1796, and
1800; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Eighth Congress; had an attack of hypo-
chondriasis, which prevented him from takmg his
seat; became of unsound mind ; died at Uxtaridge,
Mass., October 4, 1809.
BIOGRAPHIES.
421
Brucker, Ferdinand, of Saginaw, Mich., was
born January 8, 1858, at Bridgeport, Saginaw
County, Mich. ; received a common school educa-
tion and graduated from the law department of
the University of Michigan in the class of 1881;
law^yer by profession; served as alderman of the
city of East Saginaw two years, 1882-1884; held
the office oa judge of probate for Saginaw County
two terms, 1888-1896, and elected to the Fifty-flfth
Congress as a Silver Democrat; after leaving Con-
gress resumed the practice of law.
Brumm, Charles N., of Minersville, Pa., was
bom at Potts ville. Pa., June 9, 1838; receiveid a
common school education, with the exception of
one year at the Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg,
Pa.; served an apprenticeship at the trade of
watchmaker; studied law two years in the office
of the late Howell Pisher, esq. ; left studies and en-
listed as a private under the first call of President
Lincoln for three-months men; elected first lieu-
tenant Company I, Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers;
after expiration of term reenlisted September 15,
1861, for three years; elected first lieutenant of
Company K, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, November 18, 1861; detailed on the staff of
General Barton as assistant quartermaster and aid-
de-camp, which position he held under Generals
Barton and Pennypacker until the expiration of
his term of service; resumed the study of law
under the late E. O. Parry, and admitted to the
bar in 1871; elected to Congress in 1878 to repre-
sent the Thirteenth district of Pennsylvania, but
was counted out by 192 votes; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican Greenbacker;
reelected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses; again elected to the Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Brundidge, Stephen, jr., of Searcy, Ark.,
was born in White County, Ark., January 1, 1857;
educated in the private schools of the county;
studied law at Searcy with the firm of Coody &
McRae; in 1878 admitted to the bar; in Septem-
ber, 1886, elected prosecuting attorney for the first
judicial district of Arkansas, and reelected in 1888
without opposition; since 1890 served a term as
member of the Democratic State central committee
of Arkansas; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-siith,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Brunner, David B., of Reading, Pa., was born
at Amity, Berks County, Pa., March 7, 1835; re-
ceived a good common school education; learned
the carpenter's trade; taught school 1853-1856,
during which time he studied the classics and
entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1856,
and graduated in 1860; opened an academy in his
native place, and in 1862 located in the city of
Reading and taught a classical academy until 1869,
when he was elected county superintendent of the
public schools of the county, which office he filled
until 1875; taught private school until 1880, when
he opened the Reading Business College, and has
since been the principal of that institution; author
of an elementary work on EngHsh grammar and
analysis, and a work entitled The Indians of Berks
County, Pa.; devoted much time to mineralogy
and microscopy ; elected to the Fifty-first Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second
Congress.
Brush, Henry, was born in Dutchess County,
N. Y., in June, 1778; received a liberal education;
studied law and afterwards practiced at Ghillicothe,
Ohio; moved to* London, Ohio; grand master of
Masons in Ohio 1813-1818; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Sixteenth Congress; defeated
for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress; judge
of the supreme court of Ohio; retired to his farm
near London, Ohio, where he died January 19,
1855.
Bruyn, Andrew DeWitt, was born in the
State of New York; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced at Ithaca; held several
public offices there; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from September 4, 1837, until his
death, which occurred at Ithaca, July 27, 1838.
r
Bryan, Guy M., was born in Missouri June
12, 1821; received a liberal education; studied law
and commenced practice in Texas; took part in
the Mexican war; served in the Texas Volunteers
on the eastern bank of the Rio Grande; member
of the Texas legislature for seven years; elected a
Representative from Texas to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat.
Bryan, Henry H. , was bom in Martin County,
N. C; received a liberal education; removed to
Tennessee and held several local offices there;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Sixteenth Congress; reelected to the Seventeenth
Congress; died in Montgomery County, Tenn.,
May 9, 1835.
Bryan, John H., was born at Newbern, N. C,
in 1798; graduated from the University of North
Carolina m 1815; studied law and practiced; mem-
ber of the State senate of North Carolina 1823-24;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; de-
clined reelection and removed to Raleigh.
Bryan, Joseph, was elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Eighth Congress; reelected to
the Ninth Congress, serving from October 17,
1803, until his resignation in 1806.
Bryan, Joseph H. , received a liberal educa-
tion; elected a Representative from North Carolina
to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses.
Bryan, Nathan, was born in Jones County,
N. C, in 1748; leading member of the Baptist
organization in North Carolina; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina in 1 793 and
1794; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving
until his death, which occurred at Philadelphia
June 4, 1798.
Bryan, William Jennings, of Lincoln, Nebr.,
was born at Salem, Marion County, 111., March
19, 1860; attended public school until 15 years of
age, spending vacations on the farm; in the fall of
1875 entered Whipple Academy at Jacksonville,
111.; entered Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1877;
completed a classical course and graduated with
highest honors in 1881; attended Union College of
Law, Chicago, 111., for two years, during which
time he was connected with the office of ex-Sena-
tor Lyman Trumbull; began the practice of his
profession at Jacksonville; moved to Lincoln,
Nebr., October 1, 1887, and became a member of
the firm of Talbot & Bryan; never held an elec-
tive office prior to his election to Congress; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifty-third Congress; candidate for
President of the United States on the Democratic
ticket in 1896, receiving 176 electoral votes against
271 electoral votes for William McKinley the
Republican candidate; again the Presidental can-
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didate on the Democratic ticket in 1900, receiving
155 e)ectorial votes against 292 electoral votes
for William McKinley, his Republican opponent.
Bryee, Lloyd S., of Nevi' Yorli City, was born
at Flushing, N. Y., September 4, 1851; attended
schools in New York; graduated from Oxford
College; appointed paymaster-general. State of
New York, 1886, and elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Buclianan, Andrew, was born at Waynesburg,
Pa., elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress.
Buclianan, Hugh, of Newnan, Ga., was born
at Argyleshire, Scotland, September 15, 1823; re-
ceived an academic education; admitted to the bar
December, 1845; elected to the senate of Geor-
gia in 1855, and reelected in 1857; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Cincinnati in
1856; elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket
in 1860; entered the Confederate army in June,
1861; elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress in 1865;
delegate to the national Democratic convention in
1868; appointed judge of the superior court Au-
gust, 1872, and resigned the sanle on his nomina-
tion for Congress in September, 1880; member of
the constitutional convention of 1877; elected to
the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as
a Democrat; died June 20, 1890.
Buchanan, James, was born in Franklin
County, Pa., April 23, 1791; graduated from Dick-
inson College in 1809; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1812, and afterwards practiced at Lancaster,
Pa. ; elected a Bepresentative from Pennsylvania
to the Seventeenth Congress as a Federalist; suc-
cessively reelected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses, having
become a Jackson Democrat; minister to Russia
1832-1834; elected United States Senator as a
Democrat in place of "William Wilkins, Democrat,
resigned; twice reelected, and served from Decem-
ber 12, 1834, until he resigned on March 5, 1845;
Secretary of State under' President Polk 1845-1849;
minister to Great Britain 1853-1856; elected Pres-
ident of the United States in 1856 as a Democrat,
receiving 173 electoral votes against 114 electoral
votes for John C. Fremont and 8 electoral votes
for Millard Fillmore, and serving from March 4,
1857, to March 3, 1861; retired to Wheatland, near
Lancaster, Pa. , where he died June 1, 1868.
Buchanan, James, of Trenton, N. J., was born
at Ringoes, Hunterdon County, N. J., June 17,
1839; raised on a farm, and educated in public
schools and Clinton Academy; studied law at the
Albany University; admitted to practice in 1864;
reading clerk of the New Jersey legislature in 1866;
member of the board of education of Trenton,
N. J., 1868-1879; presiding judge of Mercer County
1874-1879; member of the common council of
Trenton 1883-1885; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress and reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
and Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican; after
leaving Congress he resumed the practice of his
profession at Trenton, N. J.
Buchanan, John Alexander, of Abingdon,
Va., was born October 7, 1843; private in the
Stonewall Brigade, Confederate army; taken pris-
oner at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and remained in
prison until February, 1865; graduated from Em-
ory and Henry College, Emory, Va., June, 1870;
studied law at the University of Virginia, 1870-71;
attorney at law; member of "the house of delegates
of Virginia, 1885-1887; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress.
Bucher, John C, was bom in Pennsylvania
and educated in the public schools; studied law
and afterwards practiced at Harrisburg; judge of
the circuit court; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-second Congress;
died at Harrisburg, Pa., October 26, 1851.
Buck, Alfred E., was born at Foxcroft, Me.,
February 7, 1832; graduated from Waterville Col-
lege, Maine, in 1859; principal of the high school
at Lewiston, Me. ; in 1861 entered the Union Army
as captain of Company C, Thirteenth Maine In-
fantry; appointed lieutenant-colonel of thg Ninety-
first United States Colored Troops in August, 1863;
transferred and made the lieutenant-colonel of the
Fifty-first United States Colored Troops in Octo-
ber, 1864; at the siege of Fort Blakely, Ala., April,
1865, brevetted colonel of volunteers for gallant
conduct; mustered out of service at Baton Rouge,
La., June, 1866; in 1867 member of the constitu-
tional convention of Alabama; in 1867 appointed
by General Pope clerk of the circuit court of Mo-
bile County, Ala, and elected to the same office in
1868; Presidential elector in 1868, and elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican; died at Tokyo, Japan,
December 4, 1902.
Buck, Charles F., of New Orleans, La., was
born at Durrheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Ger-
many, November 5, 1841; graduated from the city
high school of New Orleans; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the Fifty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat.
Buck, Daniel (father of Daniel A. A. Buck),
was an early settler in Vermont and took an active
part in securing its recognition as one of the States
of the Union; prominent lawyer; elected a Repre-
sentative from Vermont to the Fourth Congress;
died 1817.
Buck, Daniel Azro A. , was born in Vermont
January 16, 1789; graduated from Middlebury Col-
lege in 1807; student at the Military Academy at
West Point and commissioned a lieutenant in the
Army in 1808; resigned in 1811 and studied law;
in 1813 raised a volunteer company of rangers and
served until 1815; commenced the practice of law
at Chelsea, \'t. ; member of the State legislature of
Vermont for sixteen years, serving twelve years as
speaker of the house; State attorney for Orange
County for six years; Presidential elector in 1821;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Eighteenth Congress and again elected to the Twen-
tieth Congress; clerk in the Indian Bureau, then
connected with the War Department; diedat Wash-
ington, D. C, December 24, 1841.
Buck, John R., of Hartford, Conn., was born
at Glastonbury, Conn., December 6, 1836; edu-
cated at Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy and after-
wards one year at Wesley an University; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1862, and practiced at
Hartford; assistant clerk of the Connecticut house
of representatives in 1864, clerk in 1865, and clerk
of the senate in 1866; president of the common
council of the city of Hartford in 1868; city attor-
ney in 1871 and in 1873; treasurer of i;he county of
Hartford 1863-1881; member of the State senate
1880-81; secretary of the State Bar Association of
Connecticut; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth Congress; after leaving Congress resumed
the practice of law at Hartford, Conn.
BIOGRAPHIES.
423
Buckalevr, Charles R., of Bloomsburg, Pa.,
was born in Fishing Creek Township, Columbia
County, Pa., December 28, 1821; admitted to the
bar in August, 1843, and settled at Bloomsburg,
Pa., in 1844; prosecuting attorney for Columbia
County 1845-1847, when he resigned; elected to
the State senate in 1850 and reelected in 1853;
commissioner to exchange ratifications of a treaty
with Paraguay in 1854, serving as such between
sessions of the legislature; Presidential elector in
1856; chairman of the Democratic State committee
in 1857; again elected to the State senate in 1857;
one of the commissioners to revise the penal code
of the State, both of which offices he resigned in
1858; appointed minister resident of the United
States at the Republic of Ecuador, which ofiice he
filled for three years; elected by the legislature in
1863 to the United States Senate; elected to the
State senate in 1869 for the fourth time; Demo-
cratic candidate for governor in 1872, being de-
feated by the popular vote; served in the consti-
tutional convention of 1873; in 1876 headed' the
Democratic State electoral ticket; in 1886 elected
president of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan Rail-
road; in 1872 published a volume upon Propor-
tional Representation, and in 1883 a work upon
the constitution of Pennsylvania, and elected to
the i'iftieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-first Congress.
Buckingham, William Alfred, was born at
Lebanon, Conn., May 28, 1804; received his edu-
cation in the public schools; spent his early life on
a farm ; entered a store at the age of 20 years, and
engaged in the mercantile business for twenty-
one years, and then became a manufacturer; mayor
of the city of Norwich 1849, 1850, 1856, and 1857;
Presidential elector in 1856; governor of Connecti-
cut 1858-1866; elected a United States Senator from
Connecticut as a Republican to succeed James
Dixon, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1869;
died at Norwich, Conn., February 5, 1875.
Buckland, Balph P. , was born at Leyden,
Mass. , January 20, 1812; his parents moved to Ohio
while he was an infant; graduated from Kenyon
College, Ohio; studied law, and afterwards settled
in Fremont and practiced; delegate to the Whig
national convention in 1848; State senator 1855-
1859; in 1861 entered the Union Army as colonel of
the Seventy-second Ohio Volunteers and attained
the rank of major-general; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fortieth Congress;
delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists convention
in 1866; delegate to the Pittsburg soldiers' conven-
tion and Republican national convention in 1876;
president of the board of managers of the Ohio
Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia
1867-1873; Government director of the Union
Pacific Railroad 1877-1880; died at Fremont, Ohio,
May 28, 1892.
Buckley, Charles W., was born in Otsego
County, N. Y., February 18, 1835; in 1860 graduated
from Beloit College, Wisconsin, and in 1863 from
the Union Theological Seminary in New York City;
entered the Union Army February 9, 1864, serving
until January 11, 1866, when he was mustered out;
Alabama State superintendent of education for the
Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen in 1866 and
1867; in 1867 member of the convention which
framed the constitution of Alabama; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican, and took his seat when
the State was readmitted; reelected to the Forty-
first Congress.
Buckner , Alexander, was born in Indiana and
moved to Missouri in 1818; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1820; member of the
State house of representatives of Missouri for sev-
eral years; elected a United States Senator from
Missouri, serving from March 4, 1831, until his
death, which occurred at St. Louis, Mo., June 15,
1833.
Buckner, Aylett, was born at Greensburg,
Ky. ; received his education at the New Athens
Seminary; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1842-43; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
defeated for reelection to the Thirty-first Congress.
Buckner, Aylett Hawes, of Mexico, Mo., was
born at Fredericksburg, Va. ; educated at George-
town College and at the University of Virginia;
taught school and studied law; emigrated to Mis-
souri in 1837; elected in 1841 clerk of the county
probate court of Pike County; in 1850 moved to
St. Louis and practiced his profession; elected
attorney for the Bank of the State of Missouri in
1852; in 1854 appointed commissioner of public
works by Governor Sterling Price; in 1857 elected
judge of the third judicial circuit; in 1861 selected
by the general assembly of the State as. one of the
delegates to the peace congress; elected to the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Buckner, Richard A., was born in Fauquier
County, Va., July 16, 1763; studied law and prac-
ticed at Greensburg, Ky. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Eighteenth Congress
as an anti-Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Congresses; defeated as the Whig
candidate for governor; presidential elector on
the Harrison ticket in 1841; circuit judge in 1845;
died at Greensburg, Ky., December 8, 1847.
Budd, James Herbert, of Stockton, Cal., was
born at Janesville, Wis., May 18, 1851; raised and
educated in California, graduating from the State
University; practiced law from 1873; member of
the law firm of Budd, Surimedis & Scanlan, of
Stockton, Cal.; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected governor of Cali-
fornia as a Democrat 1894-1898.
Buel, Alexander Hamilton, was born at Fair-
field, N. Y., July 14, 1801; educated at the Herki-
mer County Academy; after his father's death
engaged in mercantile work; largely interested in
California trade; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 1, 1851, until
his death, which occurred at Washington, D. C,
January 29, 1853.
Buel, Alexander Wadleigh, was born at Cas-
tleton, Vt., in 1813; graduated from Middleburg
College in 1830; taught school and studied law; in
1834 commenced practice in Detroit, Mich.; in
1836 city attorney of Detroit; member of the State
legislature of Michigan in 1837 and again in 1847;
prosecuting attorney for Wayne County in 1843
and 1844; elected a Representative from Michigan
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress; died
at Detroit, Mich., April 17, 1868.
Buffiuton, James, was born at Fall River,
Mass., March 16, 1817; educated at Friends' Col-
lege, Providence; studied medicine; went on a
whaling voyage, and on his return engaged in
business at Fall River, of which city he was mayor
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in 1854 and 1855; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth,
Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a
Eepublican; Fall Biver having been incorporated
in another district, he accepted a position as spe-
cial agent of the Treasury, and later was made
internal-revenue collector; elected to the Forty-
first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Eepublican, but died before taking
his seat in the Forty-fourth Congress, at Fall Eiver,
Mass., March 7, 1875.
Buffington, Joseph., was born in Pennsylva-
nia; received a liberal education; studied law and
practiced at Kittanning, Pa. ; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from that State to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress.
Buffum, Joseph., jr. , was born at Fitchburg,
Mass., September 23, 1784; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1806; studied law and practiced
at Westmoreland, N. H. ; elected a Eepresentative
from New Hampshire to the Sixteenth Congress
as a Democrat; renominated but declined a reelec-
tion; appointed judge of the court of common
pleas January 21, 1825; last survivor of the Six-
teenth Congress; died at Westmoreland, N. H.,
February 24, 1874.
Bugg, Robert M., was born at Lynnville,
Tenn. ; educated in the public schools; elected a
Eepresentative from Tennessee to the Thirty-third
Congress.
Bull, John, was a resident of Charleston, S. C. ;
Delegate from that State to the Continental Con-
gress 1784-1787.
Bull, John, resided at Chariton, Mo.; elected
a Eepresentative from that State to the Twenty-
third Congress.
Bull, Melville, of Middletown, E. I., was born
at Newport, E. I., in 1854; prepared for college at
Philips Academy, Exeter; graduated from Harvard
College in 1877; engaged in farming; representative
from Middletown in State legislature 1883-1885
senator, 1885-1892; lieutenant-governor, 1892-1894
member of Eepublican State central committee
delegate to the Eepublican national convention in
1888; while in the legislature was chairman of the
militia committee, on the joint special committee
to investigate State institutions, and chairman of
the special committee to select, purchase, and fit
up permanent camp grounds for the State militia;
much interested and took an active part in estab-
lishing the naval reserve militia of the State; one
of board of managers of the Ehode Island College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Experiment
Station; in November, 1892, was a candidate for
Congress, receiving 640 plurality, but, the laws of
Ehode Island requiring a majority at that time,
was not elected ; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a
Eepublican; defeated for the Fifty-eighth Congress.
BuUard, Henry Adams, was born at Groton,
Mass., September 9, 1781; graduated from Har-
vard College in 1807; studied law and practiced;
accompanied General Toledo as military secretary
on a revolutionary expedition into New Mexico,
which was repulsed by the Spanish troops at San
Antonio; after many hardships reached Natchi-
toches, where he practiced law; elected district
jud^e in 1822; elected a Eepresentative from
Louisiana to the Twenty-second Congress as a
Whig, and reelected to the Twenty-third Con-
gress, serving from December 5, 1831, until 1834,
when he resigned to become judge of the supreme
court of Louisiana; remained on the supreme
bench until 1846, with the exception of a few
months in 1839, when he acted as secretary of
state; in 1847 appointed professor of civil" law
in the Louisiana Lasv School and delivered two
courses of lectures; in 1850 member of the State
house of representatives; elected to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig (to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Charles M. Conrad) and served from
December 5, 1850, until his death, which occurred
at New Orleans, La., April 17, 1851.
Bullock, Archibald (father of William B.
Bullock), was born at Charleston, S. C. ; moved
to Savannah; took an active part in the difficulties
with the British Government prior to the Eevolu-
tion; Delegate from Georgia to the Continental
Congress 1775; president of the executive council
of Georgia from June '20, 1776, to February 5,
1777, when the State government was inaugurated;
died at Savannah, Ga., in 1777.
Bullock, Kobert, of Ocala, Fla., was born at
Greenville City, N. C, December 8, 1828; received
a common school education; taught school until 20
years of age; elected clerk of the circuit court at 21
years of age, and held the office three terms, of
two years each; commissioned in 1856 by the gov-
ernor as captain to raise a mounted company of
volunteers; mustered into the United States service
for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and served
eighteen months, until the cessation of hostilities';
commenced the study of law in 1859, and was ad-
mitted to the bar; entered upon the practice of the
law in 1861 ; in 1862 went into the war as lieutenant-
colonel of the Seventh Eegiment Florida Volun-
teers, and remained until the close of the war;
promoted to brigadier-general in 1864; elected
judge of probate during Johnson's. reconstruction,
and appointed judge of county criminal courts by
the governor; deposed by second reconstruction,
when he resumed the practice of the law; Demo-
cratic candidate for lieutenant-governor in 1872,
and defeated; in 1873 Democratic caucus nominee
for United States Senator, and lacked one vote of
election; withdrew from the contest in favor of
ex-Senator Jones; Tilden elector in 1876; elected
to the legislature in 1879: elected clerk of the cir-
cuit court, which office he held when elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second Congress.
Bullock, Stephen, was born in Massachusetts
in 1736; member of the first State constitutional
convention; member of the State legislature for
several years; elected a Eepresentative from Massa-
chiisetts to the Fifth Congress, serving from May
15, 1797, to March 8, 1799; judge of the court of
common pleas for Bristol County, State senator,
and an executive councilor; died m Massachusetts
in 1816.
Bullock, "WilUam B. (son of Archibald Bul-
lock), was born in Georgia in 1776; received a
liberal education; studied law and commenced
practice at Savannah in 1797; mayor of Savannah
m 1809, and collector of customs at that port; dur-
ing the war of 1812 served in the Savannah Heavy
Artillery ; appointed by the governor United States
Senator from Georgia (to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of William H. Crawford), and
served from May 24, 1813, until December 6, 1813,
when AV. Wyatt Bibb, who had been elected as
Jlr. Crawford's successor, took his seat; one of the
founders of the State Bank of Georgia, and its
president 1816-1843; died at Savannah, Ga., May
6, 1852.
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Bunch., Samuel, was born in 1786; educated
in the public schools; served in the Creek war
as captain of a company of mounted riflemen
under General Jackson, and distinguished himBelf
in the attack on Hillibeetown November 18, 1813;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as
a Whig; died at.Eutledge, Tenn., September 5,
1849.
Bundy, Hezekiah. Sanford, of Wellston, Ohio,
was born at Marietta, Ohio, August 15, 1817; his
parents moved two years afterwards to a farm in
Athens County, Ohio, where he was left an orphan
at the age of 15, having only received the rudi-
ments of an English education; entering into
business as a clerk in a store, he commenced the
purchase of land, and became a prosperous farmer;
studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar in
1850 ; for more than ten years engaged in the active
practice of his profession, after which he engaged
m the iron business, and became the owner of the
Latrobe, Keystone, and Eliza furnaces, which he
subsequently lost by business reverses; resumed
the practice of law at Wellston in 1887; elected to
the State house of representatives in 1848 and 1850,
and elected to the Ohio State senate in 1855; Presi-
dential elector for the Eleventh Congressional dis-
trict in 1860, and cast his vote in the electoral
college for Abraham Lincoln; elected a member of
the Thirty-ninth Congress, as a Republican, from
the Eleventh Ohio district; declined a nomination
to the Fortieth Congress, but was again elected to
the Forty-third Congress, and served his term;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress, as a Repub-
lican, to fill out the unexpired term of the late
William H. Enochs; took his seat December 3,
1895; died December 12, 1895.
Bundy, Solomon, was born at Oxford, Che-
nango County, N. Y., May 22, 1823; educated at
Oxford Academy; taught school for several years
and studied law; in 1859 admitted to the bar and
commenced practice at Oxford; district attorney
of Chenango County 1862-1865; elected to the
Forty-flfth Congress as a Republican.
Bunn, Benjamin H., of Rockymount, N. C,
was born near Rockymount, Nash County, N. C,
October 14, 1844; owing to the civil war received
only an academic education; at the age, of 16 he
enlisted in the Confederate army; commanded
Fourth Company Sharpshooters, MacRae!s brig-
ade. Army of Northern Virginia; twice wounded;
read law and licensed to practice in 1867; member
of the State constitutional convention in 1875; dele-
gate to the national Democratic convention in
1880; member of the State legislature in 1883 and
chairman of the committee on code; Presidential
elector in 1884, and voted for Cleveland and
Hendricks; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-
third CongreEses;postmasteratRockymount, N. C,
under Cleveland's Administration.
Bunnell, Frank C, of Tunkhannock, Pa., was
born in Washington Township, Luzerne County,
Pa., March 19, 1842; received an academic educa-
tion; left Wyoming Seminary to enlist as private
in Company B, Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, in September, 1861; promoted and served as
quartermaster-sergeant of his regiment during the
Peninsular campaign under General McClellan;
discharged April 2, 1863, on a surgeon's certificate
of disability; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1864-
1869, and principally engaged in farming and
banking; elected to the Forty-second Congress in
1872 to serve out the unexpired term of Hon.
Ulysses Mercur, resigned; member o' the board
of education 1882-1885; appointed by Governor
Hoyt a member of the bi-Centennial Association
of Pennsylvania in 1882; elected burgess and
borough treasurer.of Tunkhannock in 1884; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Bunner, Rudolph, was born in 1779; gradu-
ated from Columbia College; studied law and com-
menced practice at Oswego, N. Y. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from that State to the Twentieth Con-
gress as an Adams Democrat; died at Oswego,
N. Y., July 23, 1837.
Bunting, Thomas L., of Hamburg, N. Y., was
born at the town of Eden, Niagara County, N. Y.,
in 1844; educated in the common schools and at
Springville Academy; taught school winters and
attended the academy during the summer months;
was prevented from entering college by impaired
health; entered a store at Hamburg in the posi-
tion of clerk, and after a few years' clerkship
commenced business for himself, and engaged
extensively in merchandising; president of the
New York Packers' Association, and State presi-
dent of the National Packers' Association; presi-
dent of the Hamburg Water and Electric Light
Company, and Investment and Improvement
Company; vice-president of the Bank of Hamburg,
and manager of the Hamburg Canning Company;
also interested in farming, dairying, and stock
raising; one of the city and county hall commis-
sioners; member of the Erie County Farmers'
Institute, and represented that body before the
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Repre-
sentatives on the subject of bogus butter; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; died
at Buffalo, N. Y., December 27, 1898.
Burch, John Chilton, was born in Boone
County, Mo., February 1, 1826; received his edu-
cation at Bonne Femme Academy and Kemper
College; practically engaged as a mason on the
construction of several public buildings to defray
the expenses of his education; studied law at Jef-
ferson City; deputy county clerk of Cole County
in 1855-56, and assistant adjutant-general of Mis-
souri; assistant enrolling clerk of the State senate
of Missouri in 1857; military secretary to Governor
John 0. Edwards, in which capacity he assisted in
organizing Doniphan's regiment, which conquered
New Mexico, and Powell's Oregon battalion;
moved to California in 1850 and worked in the
mines until 1851, when the region in which he was
at work was. organized as Trinity County and he
was elected county clerk; elected district attorney
in 1853; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1856, and of the State senate 1857-1859;
elected a Representative from California to the
■Thirty-sixth Congress as a Lecompton Democrat;
resumed the practice of law at San Francisco; ap-
pointed by Governor Haight a code commissioner
and served four years; declined to be a candidate
for supreme judge of the State.
Burchard, Horatio C. , was born at Marshall,
Oneida County, N. Y., September 22, 1825; gradu-
ated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1850;
studied and practiced law j engaged in the mercan-
tile business; school commissioner of Stephenson
Countv, 111., 1857-1860; member of the legislature
of the "state of Illinois 1863-1866; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Forty-first Congress
as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of E. B. Washburne; reelected to
the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and
Forty-flfth Congresses. ,
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COWGEESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
Burcliard, Samuel D., was born at Ley den,
N. Y., July 17, 1836; moved with his father to
Wisconsin in 1845; received a liberal education,
completing it at Madison University, Hamilton,
N. Y. ; manufacturer of woolen goods; entered the
Union Army as a lieutenant in the Missouri mili-
tia; appointed assistant quartermaster of U. S.
Volunteers, with the rank of captain; stationed at
New York, where he had charge of the purchase
of forage for the forces on the Atlantic coast, and
mustered out with the rank of major; elected to
the State senate of Wisconsin in 1872; elected a
Eepresentative from Wisconsin to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Burd, George, was born in 1796; resided at
Bedford, Pa. ; elected a Eepresentative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Oongresses; died at Bedford, Pa., January 13,
1844.
Burdett, Samuel S., was born in Leicester-
shire, England, February 21, 1886; at the age of
12 emigrated to the United States; educated at
Oberlin, Ohio; studied law, and in 1858 com-
menced practice in Dewitt, Iowa; entered the
Union Army as a private in May, 1861, and served
until August, 1864; Presidential elector in 1864;
moved to Missouri in December, 1864; appointed
circuit attorney in 1866; chosen a delegate from
Missouri to the Chicago Presidential convention of
1868; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Forty-first Congress as a Radical Republican;
reelected to the Forty-second Congress.
Burdick, Theodore Weld, was born at Evans-
burg, Crawford County, Pa., October 7, 1836; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved with his par-
ents to Decorah, Iowa, in 1853; appointed deputy
treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek County in
1854, and occupied those positions until 1857, when
he was elected treasurer and recorder, and twice
reelected, serving until 1862, when he resigned to
recruit a company for the Union Army; commis-
sioned captain and assigned to the Sixth Regiment
Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, in which he served for
three years in the Department of the Northwest;
in 186.5, after the regiment was mustered out, he
returned to Decorah and was chosen cashier of the
First National Bank there; elected a Representa-
tive from Iowa to the Forty-fifth Congress as a,
Republican.
Burges, Dempsey, was born in Camden County,
N. C. ; took an active part in the Revolutionary
war; lieutenant-colonel of Gregory's Continental
Regiment; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Fourth Congress and reelected to
the Fifth Congress, serving from December 7, 1795,
to July 16, 1798.
Burges, Tristam, was bornat Rochester, Mass.,
February 26, 1770; spent his early life on a farm
and received but a limited education; later, bv his
own industry and savings, entered Brown Univer-
sity, graduating in 1796; studied law, admitted to
the bar in 1799, and afterwards practiced at Provi-
dence, R. I.; member of the State legislature of
Rhode Island in 1811; chief justice of Rhode Island
in 1815; professor of oratory and belles-lettres in
Brown University 1815-182.5; elected a Represen-
tative from Rhode Island to the Nineteenth Con-
gress as a Federalist, and reelected to the Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-
third Congresses; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-fourth Congress; defeated as the Whig
candidate for governor in 1836; resumed the prac-
tice of law; died at Providence, R. I., October 13,
1858.
Burgess, George Farmer, of Gonzales, Tex.,
was born in Wharton County, Tex., September 21,
1861; educated in the common schools, and studied
law, being admitted to the bar at Lagrange, Tex.,
December, 1882; county attorney of Gonzales
County^ 1886-1889, and Presidential elector for the
Tenth district in 1892; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Burk, Henry, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born
at Wurttemberg, Germany, September 26, 1850;
attended public schools about three years; engaged
in the manufacturing business; elected to the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Burke, Aedanus, was born atGalway, Ireland,
June 16, 1743; received a theological education at
the college at St. Omer, in France; visited' the West
Indies and came to Charleston, S. C, and enlisted
in the Revolutionary army; relinquishing the
church, he commenced the practice of law; ap-
pointed a judge of the State supreme court in 1778;
served again in the Revolutionary army 1780-1782;
afterwards resuming his seat on the bench ; elected
a Representative from South Carolina to the First
Congress as a Democrat, serving from March 4,
1789, until 1791, when he resigned, the South Caro-
lina legislature having passed a law prohibiting
any State judge from leaving the State; member
for several years of the State legislature, and-
became State chancellor a short time before his
death; died at Charleston, S. C, March 30, 1802.
Burke, Edmund, was born at Westminster,
Vt., January 23, 1809; received a private educa-
tion ; studied law and afterwards practiced at New-
port, N. H., beginning in 1833; 'established the
New Hampshire Argus and edited it for several
years; commissioned as adjutant iii the militia in
1837 and as brigade inspector in 1838; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Twen-
ty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Con-
gresses; appointed Commissioner of Patents by
President Polk, and served from May 5, 1846, un-
til September 3, 1850; resumed the pra-itice of law
at Newport, N. H., having also an office at Boston.
Burke, Charles Henry, of Pierre, Hughes
County, S. Dak., was born on a farm in Genesee
County, N. Y., April 1, 1861; educated in the public
schools of Batavia, N. Y.; removed to Dakota Ter-
ritory in 1882 and settled upon a homestead; read
law and admitted to the. bar in 1886, but never en-
gaged actively in the practice of law, having had
charge of the affairs of a large loan company, and
being generally engaged in the real estate business;
elected to the legislature in 1894, and reelected in
1896; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress; reelected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty- eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Burke, Robert Emmet, of Dallas, Tex., was
born in Tallapoosa County, Ala., August 1, 1847;
volunteered as a private in Company D, Tenth
Georgia Cavalry, at the age of 16 and served until
close of the war; moved to Texas in 1866 and
located at Jefferson; admitted to the bar in Novem-
ber, 1870; located at his present home in 1871;
elected county judge in 1878, serving three con-
secutive terms; elected district judge in 1888 and
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses; died at Dallas, Tex., June 5,
1901.
Burke, Thomas, was born at Galway, Ireland,
about 1747; received a liberal education; studied
BIOGRAPHIES.
427
medicine, and in 1764 went to Aceomac County,
Va., and commenced practice; studied law, and
moved to Norfolk, where he practiced; moved
to Hillsboro, N. C, in 1774; delegate to the State
conventions at New Berne and Hillsboro in 1775,
and at Halifax in 1776; delegate to the Continen-
tal Congress from North Carolina from December,
1776, to July, 1781, when he was elected the first
governor of North Carolina under its State consti-
tution; kidnapped September 13, 1781, by the
Tories and carried to Charleston, S. C, where he
was held as a hostage; succeeded in escaping, and
having been exchanged he resumed his duties as
governor in April, 1782; defeated for reelection the
following December by Alexander Martin; died at
Hillsboro, N. C, December 2, 1783.
Burke'tt, Elmer Jacob, of Lincoln, Nebr., was
born in Mills County, Iowa, on a farm, December 1,
1867; attended public school and afterwards Tabor
College, at Tabor, Iowa, from which institution he
graduated in June, 1890; upon his graduation
elected principal of schools at Leigh, Nebr., which
position he held two years, when he entered the
State University of Nebraska for a law course;
received from this institution the degrees of LL. B.
in 1893 and LL. M. in 1895; admitted to the bar
at Lincoln in June, 1893 ; elected trustee of his alma
mater. Tabor College, in 1895; elected a member
- of the State legislature in 1896; elected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Burleigh, Edwin C, of Augusta, Me., was born
at Linneus, Aroostook County, Me., November 27,
1843; educated in the common schools of his native
town and at Houlton Academy; for many years
largely interested in the timber lands of his State;
enlisted in the cavalry during the rebellion, and,
being rejected by the examining surgeon on account
of ill health, was given a place in the Adjutant-
General's Office, where he served till the close of
the war; State land agent 1876-1878, and also
served during the same years as assistant clerk of
the Maine house of representatives; elected treas-
urer of State in 1885; reelected in 1887, and in the
same year acquired a controlling interest in the
Kennebec Journal, published at Augusta; resigned
the office of treasurer in 1888, having received the
Republican nomination for governor; governor of
Maine 1889-1892; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention at St. Louis in 1896; elected to
the Fifty-flfth Congress at a special election held
June 21, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Seth L. Milliken; reelected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Burleigli, Henry G., of Whitehall, N. Y., was
born at Canaan, N. H., June 2, 1832; received a
common-school education; engaged in business
connected with lumber, coal, mining iron ore,
and transportation; supervisor of the town of
Ticonderoga, Essex County, N. Y., for several
years; member of theassembly from Essex County
in 1876 and chairman of the committee on canals;
member of the assembly from Washington County,
and elected to the Forty-eighth Congress ; reelected
to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Burleig-h, Jolin H. (son of William Burleigh),
was born at South Berwick, Me., October 9, 1822;
received a liberal education; at the age of 16 went
to sea and commanded a ship on foreign voyages
seven years; left the sea in 1853 and engaged in
manufacturing; member of the Maine Stat^ house
of representatives in 1862, 1864, 1866, and 1872;
for twelve years president of a State and national
bank, also of a savings bank; delegate at large to
the national Republican convention at Baltimore
in 1864; elected a Representative from Maine to
the Forty- third Congress as a Republican ; reelected
to the Forty -fourth Congress; died at South Ber-
wick, Me., December 6, 1877.
Burleigh Walter A. , was elected a Delegate
from Dakota to the Thirty-ninth Congress as an
Independent candidate; reelected to the Fortieth
Congress; defeated for reelection to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses; died in 1896.
Burleigh, William (father of John H. Bur-
leigh), was born at Rockingham, N. H; received
a liberal education; studied law, and afterwards
practiced at South Berwick, Me. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maine to the Eighteenth Con-
gress on the fourth trial as a John Quincy Adams
Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth Congress;
died at South Berwick, Me., in July, 1827.
Burleson, Albert Sidney, of Austin, Tex.,
was born June 7, 1863, at San Marcos, Tex.; edu-
cated at Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas, Baylor University, of Waco, and Univer-
sity of Texas; admitted to the bar in 1884; assist-
ant city attorney of Austin 1885-1890; appointed
by the governor of Texas attorney of the twenty-
sixth judicial district in 1891; elected to said office
1892, 1894, and 1896; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress.
Burlingame, Anson, was born at New Berlin,
N. Y., November 14, 1822; removed with his
parenti to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1823, ^.nd
afterwards to Michigan; graduated from Harvard
College in 1846; studied law, and commenced prac-
tice in Boston; member of the State senate in 1852,
and of the Massachusetts constitutional conven-
tion in 1853; elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress
as an American, and to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as an American and Republican; defeated for
reelection to the Thirty-seventh Congress; ap-
pointed minister to Austria March 22, 1861, but
was not accepted by the Austrian Government;
minister to China June 14, 1861, to November 21,
1867; appointed December 1, 1867, by the Chinese
Government its ambassador to negotiate treaties
with foreign powers; died at St. Petersburg, Rus-
sia, February 23, 1873.
Burnell, Barker, was born at Nantucket,
Mass., in 1798; member of the State house of
representatives in 1819, and of the State senate
1824-25; member of the Massachusetts constitu-
tional convention; delegate to the national Whig
convention at Harrisburg in 1840; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts as a Whig to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, and reelected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress; died at Washington,
D. C, June 4, 1843.
Burnell, Frank C, was born in Wyoming
County, Pa., March 9, 1842; received a liberal
education; private in the Fifty-second Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers; after serving through the Pen-
insular campaign was discharged April 2, 1863, on
account of disabilities; employed in mercantile
pursuits 1864-1869; engaged in banking; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
second Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of U. Mercur) as a Republican, serv-
ing from January 7, 1873, to March 3, 1873.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Burnet, Jacob, was born at Newark, X. J.,
February 22, 1770; graduated from Princeton!
College in 1791; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1796, and afterwards practiced at Cincinnati,
Ohio; member of the Territorial councils of Ohio
1799-1802; deputy grand master of Free Masons
1808-1813; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1812; judge of the supreme court of
Ohio 1821-1828; elected a United States Senator
from Ohio to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of W. H. Harrison, and served from De-
cember 29, 1828, to March 3, 1831; , member of the
commission appointed in 1831 by the States of
Virginia and Kentucky to settle their controversy
on the statute of limitation passed by Kentucky;
member of the prominent literary and astronomical
association of southern Ohio, and of the French
Academy; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1853.
Burnett, E., of Southboro, Mass., was born at
Boston, Mass., March 16, 1849; graduated from
Harvard College in 1871; married the only child
of James Russell Lowell in 1872, and elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat.
Burnett, Henry C, was born in Essex County,
Va., October 5, 1825; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced at Cadiz, Ky. ; clerk of
the Trigg County circuit court 1851-1853; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Con-
gresses, but was expelled December 3, 1861; had
been president of the Kentucky Southern confer-
ence which met at Russellville, October 29_, 1861,
and called a sovereignty convention, of which he
was also president, which met at Russellville No-
vember 18, passing an ordinance of secession and
organizing a State government; Representative
from Kentuckj' to the Provisional Confederate
Congress, serving from November 18, 1861, to
February 17, 1862; Senator from Kentucky to the
First and Second Confederate Congresses, serving
from February 19, 1862, to February 18, 1865;
died near Hopkinton, Ky., 1866.
Burnett, Joh.n Lawsou, of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., was born at Cedarbluff, Cherokee
Coxmty, Ala., January 20, 1854; educated in the
common schools of the county, at the Wesleyan
Institute, Cavespring, Ga., and Gaylesville High
School, Gaylesville, Ala.; elected to the lower
house of the Alabama legislature in 1884, and to
the State senate in 1886; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Burnett, William, was born at Newark, N. J. ;
graduated from Princeton College in 1749; Delegate
from New Jersey to the Continental Congress, serv-
ingfrom December 11, 1780, to Aprill, 1781 ; died at
Newark, N. J., in 1791.
Burnes, Baniel Dee, of St. Joseph, Mo., was
born at Ringgold, Platte County, Mo., January 4,
1851 ; graduate of the St. Louis University and of
the Harvard Law School; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat; died November 2,
1899.
Burnes, James Nelson, of St. Joseph, Mo. , was
born in Indiana August 22, 1832; received a com-
mon and high school education; studied law,
graduating from the Harvard Law School; admitted
to the bar and practiced; circuit attorney in 1856;
Presidential elector in 1856; judge of the common
pleas court 1868-1872; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; reelected to the
Fifty-first Congress and died January 24, 1889.
Burnliaui, Alfred A. , was born at Windham,
Windham County, Conn., March 8, 1819; received
a liberal education, spending one year at Wash-
ington College; taught school and studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1843 and afterwards prac-
ticed at Windham; member of the State house of
representatives in 1844, 1845, 1850, and 1858, being
speaker the last year; clerk of the State senate in
1847; lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1857;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Buruham, Henry Etoen, of Manchester, N. H.,
was born at Dunbarton, N. H., November 8, 1844;
fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, and
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1865; studied
law in the office of Minot & Mugridge, Concord,
and in the offices of E. S. Cutter and Judge Lewis
W. Clark in Manchester; admitted to the bar in
April, 1868, and practiced in Manchester; judge of
probate for Hlllsboro County 1876-1879; represent-
ative in the State legislature 1873-74; treasurer of
Hillsboro County; member of the constitutional
convention of 1889; served as ballot law commis-
sioner; chairman of the Republican State conven-
tion to nominate delegates to the national con-
vention in 1888 ; elected by a unanimous vote of the
Republican members of the legislature and the
votes of five Democratic members to the United
States Senate to succeed Hon. W. E. Chandler,
Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
Burns, Joseph, was born at Waynesboro, Va.,
March 11, 1800; moved to Ohio and educated
in the public schools; learned the hatters' trade,
but engaged in farming; held several offices in
Coshocton County; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat; defeated for reelection to. the Thirty-sixth
Congress.
Burns, Robert, was born in New Hampshire;
member of the legislature of New Hampshire,
serving in both houses; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Twenty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; died at Plymouth, N. H., June
20, 1866.
Burnside, Ambrose E., of Providence, R. I.,
was born at "Liberty, Ind., May 23, 1824; entered
West Point in his nineteenth year, and graduated
in 1847; served in the Mexican and Indian wars,
and resigned in 1852 to manufacture a breech-
loading rifle of his own invention; moved to Illi-
nois when appointed treasurer of the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad in 1858; entered the Union Army in
April, 1861, as colonel of the First Rhode Island
Volunteer Infantry; commanded a brigade at the
first battle of Bull Run; promoted brigadier and
major general; commanded successively the expe-
dition to North Carolina in 1862, the left wing of
the Union Army at Antietam, the Army of the
Potomac, and the Ninth Army Corps, resigning in
April, 1865; elected governor of Rhode Island in
1866, 1867, and 1868; visited Europe in 1870, and
admitted within the German and French lines in
and around Paris, acting as a medium of commu-
nication between the hostile nations in the inter-
ests of conciliation; elected to the LFnited States
Senate as a Republican, to succeed William
Sprague, Independent, and took his seat March 4,
1875; reelected in 1880; died September 13, 1881,
at Bristol, R. I.
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Burnside, Thomas, was born in Pennsylvania
in 1783; received a liberal education; studied law
and commenced practice in 1804; member of the
State house of representatives; elected a represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth Con-
gress, serving from December 11, 1815, to April,
1816, when he resigned; president-judge of a judi-
cial district, and subsequently an associate justice
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania; died at Ger-
mantown, Pa., March 25, 1851.
Burr, Aaron, was born at Newark, N. J., Feb-
ruary 6, 1756; when 12 years of age entered Prince-
ton College and graduated from there in 1772;
studied theology; entered the Continental Army
in 1775; distinguished himself at Quebec, Mon-
mouth, and New Haven, and resigned March 10,
1779, owing to ill health; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1782, and practiced at Albany;
moved to New York in 1783; member of the State
house of representatives in 1784 and 1798; attorney-
feneral of New York 1789-90; commissioner on
Revolutionary claims in 1791 ; elected United States
Senator from New York as a Democrat, serving
from October 24, 1791, until March 3, 1797; at the
Presidential election of 1801, Burr and Jefferson
had each 73 votes, and the House of Representa-
tives, on the thirty-sixth ballot, elected Jefferson
President, and Burr Vice-President; defeated in
1804 as the Democratic candidate for governor of
New York; mortally wounded Alexander Hamil-
ton in a duel fought at Weehawken, July 12, 1804;
arrested and tried for treason in August, 1807, for
attempting to revolutionize the Mississippi Valley,
but acquitted; went abroad in 1808 to escape fur-
ther prosecution and his creditors; returned to
New York City in 1812 and resumed the .practice
of law; died at Port Richmond, Staten Island,
September 14, 1836.
Burr, Albert G. , was born in Illinois in 1829;
received a liberal education; studied and practiced
law; member of the State legislature of Illinois
1861-1864; member of the State constitutional
convention; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-first Congress.
Burrell, Orlando, of Carmi, 111., w^as born in
Bradford County, Pa.; moved with his parents
to White County, 111., in 1834, and raised on a
farm near Carmi; received a common-school edu-
cation; raised a company of cavalry in June, 1861,
elected captain of it, and joined the First Regiment
Illinois Cavalry; elected county judge in 1873 and
reelected in 1877; elected sheriff in 1886; occupa-
tion, farming and stock raising; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; after leav-
ing Congress returned to his farm near Carmi, 111.
Burrill, James, jr., was born at Providence,
R. I., April 25, 1772; graduated from Brown Uni-
versity in 1788; studied law and afterwards prac-
ticed at Providence; attorney-general of Rhode
Island 1797-1813, when he retired from the bar on
account ofill health; member of the geneVal assem-
bly of Rhode Island 1813-14, being speaker the
last year; chief justice of the State supreme court
in 1816; elected aUnited States Senator from Rhode
Island and served from December 1, 1817, until
his death, at Washington, D. C, December 25,
1820.
Burroughs, Silas M. , was born in the State of
New York; received a liberal education; member
of the State house of representatives for four years;
«lected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1857, until his death at Medina, N. Y., June
3, 1860.
Burrows, Daniel, was born at Groton, Conn. ;
received a liberal education; studied theology;
one of the commissioners who established the
boundary Une between Connecticut and Massachu-
setts in 1776; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Seventeenth Congress; surveyor of
the port of Middletown for twenty years; died at
Mystic River, Conn., January 23, 1858.
Burrows, Joseph H., of Cainsville, Mo., was
born at Manchester, England, May 15, 1840; edu-
cated at Quincy, 111., and Keokuk, Iowa; mer-
chant; Baptist minister; farmer; member of the
State house of representatives 1870-1874 and 1878-
1880; nominated by the Greenbackers for Congress
in 1880, and the Republicans supported him;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Green-
backer.
Burrows, Julius C, of Kalamazoo, Mich. ; was
born at Northeast, Erie County, Pa., January 9,
1837; received a common school and academic
education; by profession a lawyer; oflficer in the
Union Army 1862-1864; prosecuting attorney of
Kalamazo County, 1865-1867; appointed super-
visor of internal revenue for the States of Michigan
and Wisconsin in 1867, but declined the office;
elected a Representative to the Forty-third, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; appointed
Solicitor of the United States Treasury Department
by President Arthur in 1884, but declined the
oflice; elected a delegate at large from Michigan
to the national Republican convention at Chicago
in 1884; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty -first Congresses; twice elected Speaker pro
tempore of the House of Representatives during
the Fifty-first Congress, and elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resigned his seat in
the House January 23, 1895, to assume the oflice
qf United States Senator from Michigan, to which
he had been elected by the legislature to fill out
the unexpired term of Francis B. Stockbridge, de-
ceased, and took his seat in the Senate the same
day; reelected in 1899.
Burrows, Iiorenzo, was born in Connecticut
and educated in the public schools; moved to
Albion, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-
gresses as a Whig; elected comptroller of the State
of New York in 1855.
Burt, Armlstead, was born in South Carolina;
received a liberal education; studied law and
afterwards practiced at Wilmington, S. C. ; elected
a Representative from South Carolina to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Calhoun Democrat;
reelected without opposition to the Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Con-
gresses; served as Speaker pro tempore of the
House of Representatives during the absence of
Mr. Speaker Winthrop; delegate to, the national
Democratic convention at New York in 1868.
Burton, Charles Germman, of Nevada, Mo.,
was born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 4, 1846; raised
at Warren, Ohio, and educated in its public schools ;
enlisted as a private September 7, 1861, in Com-
pany C, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and served
with the regiment until discharged, October 29,
1862, by reason of disability; corporal in Company
A, One hundred and seventy-first Ohio National
Guards, during the "one hundred days" cam-
paign of 1864; admitted to the bar at Warren,
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOET.
Ohio, in April, 1867; located at Virgil City, Mo.,
in April, 1868; moved to Erie, Kans., May, 1869;
moved to Nevada, Mo., May, 1871; circuit attor-
ney and judge of the twenty-fifth circuit; delegate
to the national Republican convention at Chicago
m 1884; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Kepublican ; resumed the practice of law after leav-
ing Congress.
Burton, Hutching G. , was born in Granville
County, N. C. ; studied law and commenced prac-
tice in Mecklenburg County; member of the house
of commonsof North Carolina in 1810; elected attor-
ney-general in ISlOand resigned inNovember, 1816;
moved to Halifax; again elected to the house of
commons in 1816; elected a Eepresentative from
North Carolina to the Sixteenth Congress as an
anti-Democrat; reelected to the Seventeenth Con-
gress without opposition, and reelected to the
Eighteenth Congress, serving from December 6,
1819, until March 23, 1824, when he resigned; gov-
ernor of North Carolina 1824-1827; nominated by
John Quincy Adams governor of Arkansas, but not
confirmed by the Senate; died in Iredell County,
N. C, April 21, 1886.
Burton, Joseph. Kalph, of Abilene, Kans.,
was elected to the United States Senate to succeed
Hon. Lucien Baker, and took his seat March 4,
1901; his term expires March 3, 1907.
Burton, Kobert, was born in Mecklenburg
County, Va., in 1747; planter; moved to Granville
County, N. C, in 1775, and served in the Revolu-
tionary army, attaining the rank of colonel; dele-
gate from North Carolina to the Continental Con-
gress 1777-78; member of the commission which
established the boundary line between North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, and Georgia, in 1801; died
in Granville County, N. C, in 1825.
Burton, Theodore E. , of Cleveland, Ohio, was
born at Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, De-
cember 20, 1851 ; studied at Grand River Institute,
Austinburg, Ohio, at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa,
and at Oberlin College, from which last institution
he graduated in 1872; began the practice of law at
Cleveland in 1875; member of the Fifty-first Con-
gress, but defeated for reelection in 1890; elected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth
Congresses as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress; author of a work on Fi-
nancial Crises and Periods of Commercial Depres-
sion, published in 1902; reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Burwell, William A., was born in Mecklen-
burg County, Va., about 1780; graduated from
William and Mary College; moved to Franklin
County in 1802; elected a member of the State
house of delegates; private secretary to President
Jefferson; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Ninth Congress (in the place of Christopher
Clark, resigned) as a Democrat; reelected to the
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from
December 1, 1806, until his death, at Washington,
D. C, February 16, 1821.
Busby, George H., was born at Davistown,
Pa., June 10, 1794; educated in the public schools;
moved with his father to Ohio in 1810; learned
the cabinetmaker's trade; worked on a farm; ap-
pointed clerk of the Marion County courts and
subsequently recorder of deeds for the same
county ; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Busey, Samuel T., of Urbana, 111., was born
at Greencastle, Putnam County, Ind., November
16, 1835; moved with his parents the following
spring to Illinois; resided on a farm, and educated
in the public schools of Urbana; engaged in mer-
chandising 1857-1859; studied law; attended com-
mercial college and law lectures 1859-60; re-
turned to merchandising for two years; first
sergeant and first lieutenant of the Urbana Zouaves
1861-62; town collector 1862; commissioned sec-
ond lieutenant in the recruiting service by Gov-
ernor Yates in June, 1862, and helped to organize
the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry;
elected captain Company B of that regiment
August 7, 1862; elected lieutenant-colonel August
12, 1862, and commissioned August 16 by Gov-
ernor Yates; promoted to the colonelcy of the
same regiment May, 1863; mustered out of the
service August 6, 1865, at Chicago, 111., with the
rank of brevet brigadier-general; received the last
commission on recommendation of Maj. Gen. C.
C. Andrews for leading the assault on Fort Blake-
ley, Ala., 1865; mayor and president of the board
of education of Urbana 1880-1889; organized Bu-
sey's bank in 1867, and conducted its business
twenty-one years; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Bushnell, Allen Kalph, of Madison, Wis., was
born at the town of Hartford, Trumbull County,
Ohio, July 18, 1833; received an academic educa-
tion at Oberlin and Hiram and pursued a special
course for the legal profession; by profession a
lawyer; moved to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled
in Platteville; moved to Lancaster in 1864 and to
Madison in 1891; elected district attorney of
Grant County in I860, and resigned to enter the
Army in August, 1861; served as first lieutenant
and afterwards as captain of Company C, Seventh
Wisconsin Volunteers; member of the Iron Bri-
gade; appointed by the governor, in 1864, district
attorney of Grant County to fill the unexpired
term of Hon. J. T. Mills, elected judge of the
fifth circuit; member of the Wisconsin legislature
in 1872; United States district attorney for western
district of Wisconsin 1886-1890; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; resumed the
practice of law after leaving Congress.
Butler, Andre-w Pickens, was born in Edge-
field District, S. C, November 19, 1796; graduated
from the College of South Carolina in 1817; studied
law and commenced practice at Edgefield in 1818;
member of the State house of representatives for
several years; appointed judge of the sessions
court in 1833; judge of the State court of common
pleas 1835-1846; appointed by the governor of
South Carolina United States Senator from that
State (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr.
McDuffice) as a States' Rights Democrat; subse-
quently elected and reelected by the legislature,
serving from December 21, 1846, until his death,
near Edgefield, S. C, May 25, 1857.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, was born at
Deerfield, N. H., November 6, 1818; graduated
from Colby University, Maine, in 1838, and in 1840
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Low-
ell, Mass, whferehe soon became eminent, especially
in criminal cases; elected to the Massachusetts
State house of representatives in 1853 and to the
State senate in 1859; delegate to the national
Democratic conventions at Charleston and Balti-
more in 1860; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date for governor of Massachusetts in 1860;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as brigadier-
general in command of the Eighth Massachusetts
Regiment; promoted to major-general May 16,
1861, and assigned to command of Fort Monroe
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BIOGBAPHI3E8.
431
and the Department of Eastern Virginia, and took
a very prominent part throughout the entire war;
returned to Massachusetts, where he continued to
take an interest in public affairs; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-first,
Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; de-
feated for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress;
again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Eepublican ; again defeated as candidate for gov-
ernor of Massachusetts in 1871; in 1879, when he
changed his politics, again defeated for governor
of Massachusetts as a candidate on the Greenback
and Democratic ticket; the Democrats united on
him and secured his election in 1882, although
they lost the rest of their ticket; again defeated
for governor in 1883; Presidential candidate on
the Greenback and anti-Monopolist ticket in 1884;
died in Washington, D. C, January 11, 1893.
Butler, Chester, was born at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
March 6, 1798; graduated from Princeton College
in 1817; studied law at the Litchfield law school,
and in 1820 commenced practice at Wilkesbarre;
member of the State house of representatives for
three jjears; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, and
reelected to the Thirty-first Congress, serving from
December 6, 1847, until his death, at Philadelphia,
October 5, 1850.
Butler, Ezra, was born in Connecticut in 1762;
received a liberal education; studied law, and in
1786 commenced practice at Waterbury, Vt.; mem-
ber of the State assembly for eleven years, and a
member of the executive council for fifteen years;
first judge of the Chittenden County court 1803-
1806, and chief justice 1806-1811; elected a Rep-
resentative from Vermont to the Thirteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813,
to March 3, 1815; chief justice Of the Jefferson
County court 1814-1826; member of the Vermont
constitutional convention in 1822; governor of Ver-
mont 18^6-1828; died at Waterbury, Vt., July 19,
1838.
Butler, James Joseph, of St. Louis, Mo., was
born in that city August 29, 1862; and has been
continually, a resident of Missouri and the city of
St. Louis from birth; received his primary train-
ing in the public schools, after which he entered
the St. Louis University, but was, however, forced
to abandon his college course, through ill health,
before its completion, and took up the trade of his
father — that of blacksinith and farrier — at which
he worked for three years; he then reentered the
St. Louis University, taking up the course where he
had left off, and graduated from that institution
with a degree of B. S. in June, 1881; immediately
went to work at his trade, at which he continued
for one year, attending the post-graduate lectures
of the St. Louis University at night during that
time; entered the law school of Washington Uni-
versity the following year, and admitted to prac-
tice June 2, 1884; served for seven years as city
attorney of St. Louis and for two years as a school
director; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as
a Democrat; his seat was declared vacant June 28,
1902; elected to fill the vacancy, and his seat was
successfully contested by George C. R. Wagoner
February 26, 1903; reelected to the Fifty reighth
Congress.
Butler, Josiah, was born in Rockingham
County, N. H., in 1780; graduated from Harvard
College in 1803; taught school in Virginia and
studied law; commenced practice in South Deer-
field, N. H. ; representative in the State legislature
for several terms; sheriff of Rockingham County;
appointed judge of the superior court of New
Hampshire in 1813, and occupied the position
until 1816, when the office was abolished by the
legislature; defeated as the Democratic candidate
for the Thirteenth Congress; elected a Represent-
ative from New Hampshire to the Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses; died at
Deerfield, N. H., November 8, 1854.
Butler, M. C, of Edgefield, S. C, was born
near Greenville, S. C, March 8, 1836; received a
classical education at the academy at Edgefield,
and entered the South Carolina College in Octo-
ber, 1854; left this institution before graduating,
and studied law at Stonelands, the residence of
his uncle, Hon. A. P. Butler, near Edgefield;
admitted to the bar in December, 1857; practiced
at Edgefield; elected to the legislature of South
Carohna in 1860; entered the Confederate service
as captain of cavalry in the Hampton Legion in
June, 1861, and became a major-general through
the regular grades; lost his right leg at the battle
of Brandy_ Station on the 9th of June, 1863; elected
to the legislature of South Carolina in 1866; candi-
date for lieutenant-governor of South Carolina in
1870; received the Democratic vote of the South
Carolina legislature for United States Senator in
1870, receiving 30 votes; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed Thomas J.
Robertson, Republican, and admitted to his seat
December 2, 1877; was reelected in 1882 and again
in 1889; after his retirement from the United
States Senate resumed the practice of law in
Washington, D. C; appointed major-general of
U. S. Volunteers in the Spanish- American war;
located at Edgefield, S. C.
Butler, IHarion, of Elliot, Sampson County,
N. C, was born on a farm in Honey cutts Town-
ship, Sampson County, X. C, May 20, 1863;
graduated from the University of North Carolina
in 1885; began the study of law, but was called
home, being the eldest boy, by the sudden death
of his father, to run the farm and to look after
the education of his younger brothers and sisters,
and taught at a neighboring academy for three
years; joined the Farmers' Alliance in 1888 and
bought the Clinton Caucasian; elected to the
State senate in 1890; elected president of the State
Farmers' Alliance in 1891 and reelected in 1892;
elected vice-president of the National Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union in 1893 and elected
president of that organization in 1894; immedi-
ateljr after the adjournment of the Chicago con-
vention in 1892 severed his connection with the
Democratic party and went to work to organize
and build up the People's Party; chairman of the
Populist State committee during that campaign;
trustee and a member of the executive board of
the State University, his alma mater; his paper,
the Caucasian, has been moved to Raleigh, N. C,
and has probably the largest circulation and is
one of the most influential papers in the State;
elected to the United States Senate as a Populist,
to succeed Matt W. Ransom, Democrat, in 1895;
served until March 3, 1901.
Butler, Pierce, wasborn in Ireland, July 11, 1744;
received a liberal education; served as lieutenant,
captain, and major in the British army; stationed
in Boston, but resigned previous to the Revolution
and settled in Charleston, S. C. ; member of the
Continental Congress from South Carolina in 1787;
member of the convention which framed the Fed-
eral Constitution in 1788; elected a United States
Senator from South Carolina as a Democrat, serv-
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ing from March 4, 1789, to 1796, when he resigned;
again elected to the United States Senate (in place
of J. C. Calhoun, deceased) , serving from October
18, 1803, until 1804, when he again resigned; died
at Philadelphia, February 15, 1822.
Butler, Roderick R., of Mountain City , Tenn. ,
was born at AVytheville, Va. ;. at the age of 14 was
apprenticed to "the tailoring business; studied law,
admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession;
appointed postmaster of Taylorsville, now Moun-
tain City, by President Fillmore; majorof the First
Battalion of Tennessee miUtia; elected county judge
in 1856; member of the Tennessee legislature for
fourteen years, serving in both branches; lieuten-
ant-colonel of the Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry,
receiving his commission from President Johnson;
member of the Baltimore national convention of
1864; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion of 1865; chairman of the first State Eepubli-
can executive committee of Tennessee; member of
the Baltimore border State convention; member
of the Philadelphia and Cincinnati national Eepub-
lican conventions; elected delegate to the Chicago
convention, but prevented from attending by sick-
ness; judge of the first judicial circuit of Tennes-
see in 1865; elected to Congress in 1867; president
of the Eepublican State, convention in 1869 and
1882; member of the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-
second, and Forty-third Congresses, and elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Eepublican; after his
retirement from Congress resumed the practice of
law; member of the State senate for six years, and
in 1900 was again elected.
Butler, Sampson H. , was born in South Caro-
lina; received a liberal education; elected a Bep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
sixth Congress, and reelected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, serving from December 2, 1819, until
September 27, 1842, when he resigned on account
of ill health.
Butler, Thomas, was born at Carlisle, Pa. ; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved to Louisiana;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Fifteenth Congress (to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of William C. C. Claiborne, deceased),
defeating Edward Livingstone, and reelected to
the Sixteenth Congress, serving from Februarv
26, 1818, to March 3, 1821; died at New Orleans
August 14, 1847.
Butler, Thomas B., was bom at Wethersfleld,
Conn.,inl807; received a liberal education; studied
law and commenced jjractice at Norwalk, Conn. ;
memberof the State legislature; elected aRepresent-
ative from Connecticut to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Whig; died at Norwalk, Conn., June 8, 1873.
Butler, Thomas S., of Westchester, Pa., was
born at IJwchland, Chester County, Pa., Novem-
ber 4, 1855; received a common school and aca-
demic education; attorney at law; elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Butler, Walt H., of West Union, Iowa, was
born February 13, 1852, at Springboro, Crawford
County, Pa., his father being Col. Hiram Butler,
of that place; moved to Iowa in 1875; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Butler, ■William (father of Andrew Pickens
Butler and of William Butler), was born in Prince
William County, Va., in 1759; received a liberal
education ; m oved to South Carolina and graduated
from the South Carolina College as a student of
medicine; served in the Revolutionary war; mem-
ber of the State convention which adopted the
Federal Constitution and of the State constitutional
convention; member of the State legislature for
several years; sheriff in 1794; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses;
major-general, commanding the troops raised for
the defense of South Carolina during the war
with Great Britain; defeated as a candidate for
the Sixteenth Congress; died at Columbia, S. C,
November 15, 1821.
Butler, Williain, was born at Columbia, S. C. ;
graduated from the South Carolina College in 1810;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig, serving
from May 31, 1841, to March 3, l643.
Butler, 'William Orlando, was bom in Jessa-
mine County, Ky., in 1793; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law; in September, 1812, entered
the U.S. Army as lieutenant in the Second In-
fantry, and served throughout the war with Great
Britain, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel, prac-
ticed law at Carrollton, Ky., 1817-1839; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a Van Buren Democrat, and re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress; served
during the war with Mexico, attaining the rank of
major-general; nominated as the Democratic can-
didate for Vice-President in 1848 with General
Cass as a candidate for President, and defeated;
appointed governor of Nebraska by President
Pierce, but declined the appointment; member of
the Washington Peace Congress.
Butman, Samuel, was born in the Maine dis-
trict of Massachusetts; received a liberal educa-
tion; member of the State house of representatives
of Maine in 1822, 1826, and 1827; elected a Repre-
sentativefrom Maineto the Twentiethand Twenty-
first Congresses; county commisslonerof Penobscott
County in 1846; served in the State senate and was
its president in 1853; died at Dixmont, Me., in 1864.
Butterfleld, Slartin, was a resident of Pal-
myra, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from that
State to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Eepublican.
Butterworth, Benjamin, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was born in Warren County, Ohio, October 22,
1837; attorney at law; member of the Ohio senate
from Warren and Butler counties 1873-74; elected
to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican;
died January 16, 1898.
Bynum, Jesse A. , was born in Halifax County,
N. C., in 1795; graduated from Princeton College
in 1816; studied law and commenced practice at
Halifax; member of the house of commons of
North Carolina 1823-24; again elected to the house
of commons in 1827-1830; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses
as a Democrat; moved to Alexandria Parish, La.,
where he engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in
September, 1868.
Bynum, William D., of Indianapolis, Ind.,
was born near Newberry, Greene County, Ind.,
June 26, 1846; received a primary education in
the common schools, and collegiate at State Uni-
versity at Bloomington, Ind., graduating in 1869;
studied law with Hon. WiUiam Mack, of Terre
Haute, and admitted to practice in 1869; city
attorney of Washington, Ind., 1871-1875; mayor
of Washington, Ind., 1875-1879; appointed by
Governor Hendricks a trustee of the State Normal
BIOGRAPHIES.
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School of Terre Haute, Ind., in February, 1875,
and served until he resigned in June, 1875; Demo-
cratic elector in 1876; moved from Daviess County
to Marion County in May, 1881; member of the
State legislature of Indiana in 1882, and elected
speaker of the house at the beginning of the ses-
sion of 1883; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
flrst. Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as
a Democrat; located at Washington, D. C; ap-
pointed by President McKinley on the commission
to codify the United States criminal laws.
Byriis, Sam, was born on a farm in Jefferson
County, Mo., March 4, 1848; received a good
English education; studied law and admitted to
the bar of Missouri at Hillsboro in 1872; appointed
in 1872 collector of revenue for Jefferson County;
nominated by the Democratic convention iii 1876
Presidential elector; elected in 1876 a member of
the twenty-ninth general assembly to represent
Jefferson County; member of the committee on
judiciary; elected State senator in 1878, and was
chairman of the committee on criminal jurispru-
dence; member of the Democratic State central
committee 1886-1888; Democratic Presidential
elector in 1888; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of law.
Catoaniss, Thomas B., was born at Forsyth,
Monroe County, Ga., graduated from the University
of Georgia, and entered the Confederate army
April 1, 1861; surrendered with General Lee at
Appomattox; elected to the house of representa-
tives of Georgia in October, 1865, and , four times
subsequently to the senate of that State; secretary
of the State senate in 1873, and solicitor-general of
the Flint circuit for a term of four years; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress aa a Democrat; resumed
the practice of law.
Cabell, Edward Carring^ton, was born at
Richmond, Va., in 1817; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Virginia; moved to Florida in 1837 and
settled near Tallahassee on a cotton plantation;
received the certificate of election as a Representa-
tive from Florida to the Twenty-ninth Congress,
but the House gave the seat to the contestant,
W. H. Brockenborough, January 28, 1846; elected
a Representative from Florida to the Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses as a
Whig, and defeated for the Thirty-third Congress;
died in 1896.
Cabell, George C, was born at Danville, Va.,
January 25, 1837; instructed by his father, the
late Gen. B. W. S. Cabell, until 12 years of age,
and from that time until the age of 18 attended
the Danville Academy; taught school in Henry
County, devoting his leisure hours to the study of
law; attended the law school of the University of
Virginia in 1857; commenced the practice of law
at Danville in 1858; edited The Republican and
then The Democratic Appeal, papers published at
Danville; elected in September, 1858, Common-
wealth attorney for Danville; held said position
to April 23, 1861, when he volunteered as a private
soldier in the Confederate army; commissioned
major in June, 1861, by Governor Letcher, and
assigned to the Eighteenth Virginia Infantry,
Colonel Withers, Pickett's division, Longstreet's.
corps; twice wounded, and left the army at the
close of the war with the rank of colonel; after
the war, returned to the practice of his profession;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-flfth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-
ninth Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the
practice of law at Danville, Va.
Cabell, Samuel J., was born in Virginia;
student at William and Mary College, but left
before graduating to enter the Revolutionary army ;
attained the rank of lieutenant- colonel, serving
until taken prisoner by the British in May, 1780,
at the capture of Charleston ; after the war returned
to Virginia; member of the State house of delegates
for several years; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Congresses; died in Nelson County, Va., Septem-
ber 4, 1818.
Cable, Benjamin T. , of Rock Island, 111., was
born at Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., August 11,
1853; moved with his father's family to Rock
Island in September, 1856; educated in the public
schools of Rock Island and the University of
Michigan, graduating from the latter institution in
June, 1876; engaged in ranching and manufactur-
ing; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Cable, Joseph., was born in Ohio, and educated
in the public schools; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-flrst and Thirty-second
Congresses as a Democrat.
Cabot, George, was born at Salem, Mass., De-
cember 3, 1752; student at Harvard College, but
left before graduating and shipped as a cabm boy;
before he reached his majority was in command of
a vessel and followed the seas for some years; en-
gaged in commercial pursuits at Boston; delegate
to the State provincial congress in 1775, to the
State constitutional convention in 1777, and to
the convention which ratified the Constitution of
the United States; elected to the United States
Senate from Massachusetts as a Federalist, serving
from October 24, 1791, until he resigned in 1796;
appointed the first Secretary of the Navy by John
Adams, May 3, 1798, but declined; member of the
executive council of Massachusetts in 1808; a del-
egate to the Hartford convention in 1814 and was
its presiding officer; retired from public affairs, and
died at Boston, April 8, 1823.
Cadmus, Cornelius A., of Paterson, N. J., was
born in Bergen County, N. J., October 7, 1844; at-
tended the public schools of his native county;
elected a member of the house general assembly
from Passaic County in 1883; elected sheriff of Pas-
saic County in 1887 for three years; elected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Cadwalader, John, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., April 1, 1805; graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1821; studied law and in 1821
commenced practicing at Philadelphia; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Nebraska Democrat; declined
a renomination and resumed the practice of law
at Philadelphia; appointed by President Buchanan
judge of the United States district court for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Cadwalader, Lambert, was born at Trenton,
N. J., in 1741; entered the Revolutionary army
and commanded a regiment of "Jersey Blues;"
delegate to the Continental Congress 1784 to 1787;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
First Congress, and again to the Third Congress;
died at Trenton, N. J., September 12, 1823.
Cady, Daniel, was born at Chatham, N. Y.,
April 29, 1773; educated in the public schools;
learned the trade of shoemaking; studied law at
Florida, N. Y., and afterwards practiced at Johns-
town, N. Y. ; member of the State house of repre-
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sentatives 1809-1813; elected a Representative from
New York to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed the
practice of law; justice of the State supreme court
from 1847 to January 1, 1855, when he resigned;
died at Johnstown, N. Y., October 31, 1859.
Cady, John W. , was born in the State of New
York and educated in the public schools; member
of the State legislature in 1822; elected a Bepre-
sentative from New York to the Eighteenth Con-
gress.
Caffery, Donelson, of Franklin, St. Mary Par-
ish, La., was born in the parish of St. Mary, La.,
September 10, 1835; educated at St. Mary's Col-
lege, Maryland; studied law in Louisiana and
admitted to the bar; served in the Confederate
army, first in the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment
andsubsequentlyonthestaffof Gen. W. W. Walker;
practiced law and engaged in sugar planting after
the war; member of the constitutional convention
of 1879; elected to the State senate in 1892; ap-
pointed United States Senator to succeed Randall
Lee Gibson, deceased, and took his seat January
7, 1893; elected by the legislature in 1894 to fill
out the term which expired March 4, 1895, and
also the long term expiring March 4, 1901.
Cage, Harry, was born in Tennessee; received
a liberal education ; studied law and practiced at
Woodville, Miss.; appointed judge of the supreme
court of Mississippi; elected a Representative from
Mississippi to the Twenty-third Congress; retired
from practice and settled on a plantation in Lou-
isiana, where he died.
Cahoon, William, was born in the State of Ver-
mont; member of the State house of representa-
tives for several years; Presidential elector on the
Madison ticket in 1809; member of the executive
council, 1815 to 1820; county judge; lieutenant-
governorof Vermontl820to 1821; elected aRepre-
sentative from Vermont to the* Twenty-first and
Twentv-second Congresses; died at Lyndon, Vt.,
May 30, 1833.
Cain, Ricliard H. , was born in Greenbrier
County, Va., April 12, 1825; moved with his father
to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831; received a limited edu-
cation until after his marriage; entered the minis-
try at an early age, and in 1860 was a student at
Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio; moved to
Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1861, where he was a pastor
for four years; sent by his congregation as a mis-
sionary to the freedmen of South Carolina in 1865;
member of the constitutional convention of South
Carolina in 1868; member of the State senate for
two years; took charge of a Republican newspaper
in 1868; elected a Representative from South Car-
olina to the Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses
as a Republican; after his retirement from Con-
gress elected fourteenth bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church; died at "Washington,
D. C, January 18, 1887.
Caine, John T. , of Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born in the parish of Kirk Patrick, Isle of Man,
January 8, 1829; received a grammar school edu-
cation; emigrated to the United States in 1846, and
Uved in New York City and St. Louis till 1852,
when he crossed the plains and settled in Utah;
mostly followed business pursuits, but for many
years was manager of the Salt Lake Theater; in
1870, with two associates, he founded the Salt
Lake Herald, became its managing editor and
president of its company; served as secretary of
the legislative council during the sessions of 1856,
1857, 1859, and 1860; member of the constitutional
conventions of 1872 and 1882, which adopted con-
stitutions and asked for the admission of Utah as
aState; elected to the council branch of the legisla-
tive assembly for the sessions of 1874, 1876, 1880,
and 1882; by joint vote of the assembly was elected
a regent of the Deseret University in 1876, 1878,
1880, and 1882; elected recorder of Salt Lake City
in 1876, 1878, 1880, and 1882; elected on the Peo-
ple's, ticket to the Forty-seventh Congress, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the action of the House,
which declared that George Q. Cannon, Delegate-
elect, was ineligible, being the only candidate, and
took his seat January 23, 1883; reelected to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and
Fifty-second Congresses; elected State senator in
1896.
Gate, Henry L., was born in Northumber-
land County, Pa., October 6, 1827; educated in the
public schools; learned the art of printing, and pub-
lished the Pottsville Mining Record up to the com-
mencement of the rebellion; entered the Union
Army April 17, 1861, as a private, and was elected
colonel of the Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment at Washington May 1, 1861 ; reorganized the
regiment after three months' service; commanded
the Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers; largely
engaged in the manufacture of machinery for the
preparation of and in the mining and shipping of
anthracite coal; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Fortieth and Forty-first Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Calderliead, William. A., of Marysville,
Kans., was born in Perry County, Ohio, Septem-
ber 26, 1844; received his education in the common
schools and from his father. Rev. E. B. Calderhead;
spent the winter of 1861-62 in the preparatory
department of Franklin College, New Athens,
Ohio; enlisted in August, 1862, as a jgrivate in
Company H, One hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio
Infantry; transferred to Company D, Ninth Vet-
eran Reserves, for disability incurred in the service,
and discharged June 27, 1865; went to Kansas in
the fall of 1868 and engaged in farming; settled on
a homestead near Newton, Harvey County, Kans.,
in 1872; taught school in Newton; read law in the
office of Hon. J. W. Ady, and admitted to the bar;
went to Atchison, Kans., in 1875, and spent four
years there reading law and teaching country
schools during the winters; settled in Marysville in
November, 1879, and engaged in the practice of
law; elected county attorney in the fall of 1888
and served two years; several years clerk of the
board of education of the city; elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
Caldwell, Alexander, was born in Hunting-
don County, Pa., March 1, 1830; educated in the
public schools; enlisted in 1847 as a soldier in the
Mexican war; returned to Columbia, Pa., in 1848,
where he was employed in a bank and subsequently
in mercantile work; went to Kansas inl861, where
he engaged in the transportation of military sup-
plies to the various posts on the Plains; afterwards
largely interested in the building of railroads and
bridges; elected a United States Senator from Kan-
sas as a Republican.
Caldwell, Andrew J. , of Nashville, Tenn., was
born at Montevallo, Ala. ; received his early edu-
cation at Washington Institute; graduated from
Franklin College, Tenn.; with the Confederate
army until the close of the war; studied law;
admitted to the bar in January, 1867; elected
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attorney-general for the district of Davidson and
Rutherford counties, Tenn., in August, 1870, and
held the office eight years; elected to the Forty-
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Caldwell, Ben Franklin, of Chatham, III., was
born on a farm near Carrollton, Greene County, 111. ,
August 2, 1848; moved with his parents in April,
1853, to near Chatham, in Sangamon County, 111. ;
had a high school education; member of the" board
of supervisors of Sangamon County during 1877 and
1878; member of the Illmois house of representa-
tives 1882-1886; member of the Illinois State sen-
ate 1890-1894; president of the Farmers' National
Bank of Springfield; president of the Caldwell State
Bank of Chatham; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as aDemocrat;
defeated for the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Caldwell, George A., was born in Kentucky;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-eighth and Thirty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; defeated for the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; delegate to the national Union convention
at Philadelphia in 1866; died at Louisville, Ky.,
September 17, 1866.
Caldw^ell, Green Washington, was born in
Gaston County, N. C, April 13, 1811; received a
liberal education; studied medicine and practiced;
assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army July 13, 1832,
to October 19, 1832; studied law and afterwards
practiced at Charlotte; member of the State legis-
lature for several years; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; appointed superintendent of
the United States mint at Charlotte in 1844; ap-
pointed captain of dragoons March 3, 1847, and was
mustered out July 30, 1848.
Caldwell, James, elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Caldwell, Joh.n A., of Cincinnati, Ohio, was
born at Fairhaven, Preble County, Ohio, April
21, 1853; received his education in the common
schools of his native county; taught school at the
age of 17; graduated from the Cincinnati Law
College in 1876; elected prosecuting attorney of
Cincinnati in 1881 and 1883; elected judge of the
city court in 1887; president of the Ohio Republican
League; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty -third Congresses as a Republican; re-
signed May 1, 1894; elected mayor of Cincinnati
April 3, 1894.
Caldvrell, John H., was born at Huntsville,
Ala. ; received a liberal education, being a student
at Bacon College, Harrodsburg, Ky. ; member of
the legislature of Alabama m 1857 and 1858; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1859; elected solicitor for the
tenth judicial circuit by the legislature at the ses-
sion of 1859 to 1860; reelected at the session of
1863 to 1864; deposed by the provisional governor
in 1865; reelected the same winter, and in 1867
was removed from the office for refusing to obey
military orders; elected a Representative from Ala-
bama to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Caldwell, John William, of Russellville, Ky.,
was born at Russellville, Logan County, Ky.,
January 15, 1838; entered the Confederate army
September 20, 1861, as captain; promoted to major,
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Ninth Ken-
tucky Regiment of Infantry; elected county judge
of Logan County in 1866, and reelected in 1870; |
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Caldwell, Joseph Pearson, was born in Ire-
dell County, N. C, in 1808; educated at Bethany
Academy; studied law and commenced practice
at Statesville; member of the State house of
representatives in 1838, 1840, and 1842; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses as a AVhig,,
serving until his death, January 3, 1853.
Caldwell, Patrick C, was born in South Caro-
Ima; resided near Newberry; elected a Represent-
ative from South Carolina to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a State Rights Democrat.
Caldwell, Robert P. , was born in Adair County,
Ky., December 16, 1821; educated in the public
schools; studied law and commenced practice at
Trenton; member of the lower branch of the gen-
eral assembly of Tennessee in 1847 and 1848, and
of the upper branch in 1855 and 1856; elected
attorney-general in the sixteenth judicial circuit
of Tennessee in 1858; major in the Twelfth Ten-
nessee Infantry of the Confederate service; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-
second Congress as a Democrat.
Caldwell, William P. , was born at Christmas-
ville, Tenn., November 8, 1832; received his edu-
cation in Cumberland College, Kentucky; studied
law at Lebanon; practiced at Dresden, Tenn.;
member of the State house of representatives in
1857 and 1859; Presidential elector on the Douglas
ticket in 1860; delegate to the national Democratic
convention at New York in 1868; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Calhoun, John, was born in Kentucky; received
a liberal education; studied law and practiced;
member of the State legislature in 1820 and 1821,
1829, and 1830; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Congresses as a Whig; moved to St. Louis in 1839,
where he continued the practice of law; returned
to Kentucky, and in January, 1842, was appointed
judge of the fourteenth judicial district.
Calhoun, John Caldwell, was born in Abbe-
ville District, S. C, March 18, 1782; educated
at Willington Academy and Yale College, gradu-
ating in 1804; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1807; began practicing at Abbeville; member
of the State general assembly in 1808 and 1809;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twelfth Congress as a War Democrat and re-
elected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Con-
gresses; Secretarv of War December 16, 1817, to
March 3, 1825; Vice-President of the United States
March 4, 1825, to December 28, 1832, when he re-
signed, having been elected United States Senator
to fill the vacancy made by the election of General
Hayne as governor of South Carolina; reelected,
serving from January 4, 1833, until March 3, 1843,
when he resigned; Secretary of State under Presi-
dent Tyler from March 6, 1844, to March 3, 1845;
again elected United States Senator from South
Carolina, serving from December 22, 1845, until
his death, at Washington, March 31, 1850.
Calhoun, John Ewing, was born in 1749;
graduated from Princeton College in 1774; studied
law, and in 1789 commenced practice at Charles-
ton; commissioner of confiscated estates; member
of the State house of representatives for several
years; elected a United States Senator from South
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Carolina as a Democrat, serving from December
11, 1801, until his death, near Fort Hill, S. C,
November 3, 1802.
Calhoun, Joseph., was born in South Carolina;
elected a Representative from that State to the
.Tenth and Eleventh Congresses.
Calhoun, 'Williani B. , was born at Boston,
Mass., December 29, 1796; in 1814 graduated from
Yale College; studied law and practiced at Spring-
field; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1825 to 1835, serving two years as speaker;
elected as a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig; mem-
ber of the State senate, and its president in 1846
and 1847; secretary of state of Massachusetts 1848
to 1851; State bank commissioner 1853 to 1855;
Presidential elector on the Clay and Frelinghuysen
ticket in 1844; mayor of Springfield in 1859; died
at Springfield, Mass., November 8, 1865.
Calkin, Hervey C. , was born at Maiden, N. Y. ,
March 23, 1828; educated in the public schools;
moved to New York City in 1847; employed in
the Morgan Iron Works for five years; engaged in
business for himself in 1852; dealer in metals, and
identified himself with the shipping interests of
the country; elected a Representative from New
York to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Calkins, William H., of Laporte, Ind., was
born in Pike County, Ohio, February 18, 1842;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced;
served in the Union Army from May, 1861, to
December, 1865, with the exception of about three
months in 1863, belonging to the Fourteenth Iowa
Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry; State
attorney for the ninth Indiana judicial circuit
1866-1870; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1871; defeated for Congress in 1874
and elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; engaged in the practice of law at Tacoma,
"Wash., where he died.
Call, Jacob, a resident of Princeton, Ind., was
elected a Repi-esentative from that State in place
of Williani Prince, deceased, in the Eighteenth
Congress, serving from December 23, 1824, to
March 3, 1825.
Call, Richard K., was a native of Kentucky;
in 1814 entered the U. S. Army as first lieu-
tenant of the Forty-fourth Infantry; volunteer
aid to Major-General Jackson, April, 1818; in July,
1818, made captain, and resigned May 1, 1822;
located in Florida; member of the Territorial legis-
lative council in 1822; brigadier-general of the
West Florida Militia in 1823; elected a Delegate
from Florida to the Eighteenth Congress.
Call, Wilkinson, of Jacksonville, Fla., was
born at Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January
9, 1834; by profession a lawyer; elected to the
United States Senate after the war, but was not
allowed to take his seat; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat in the place of Simon
B. Conover, Republican, and took his seat March
18, 1879, serving until March 4, 1897; resumed the
practice of law.
Callahan, James Yancy, was born in Dent
County, Mo., December 19, 1852; brought up on
the farm where he was born; received a common
school education; licensed as a local minister in
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880; engaged
principally in farming, sawmilling, and mining;
moved to Stanton County, Kans., in 1885, and
twice elected register of deeds in that county;
moved to Oklahoma in 1892 and settled on a farm;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by the Populists
and Democrats on a free-silver ticket.
Callis, John B. , was born in North Carolina in
1828; in 1841 moved to Tennessee and thence to
Wisconsin; entered the Union Army as lieutenant
and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general;
after the war moved to Huntsville, Ala. ; declined
a colonel's commission in the U. S. Army; elected
a Representative from Alabama to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican.
Calvert, Charles B. , was born in Prince George
County, Md., August 24, 1808; graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1827; engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits and became noted as a stock breeder;
president of the Prince George County Agricul-
tural Society, and of the Maryland State Agri-
cultural Society, and vice-president of the United
States Agricultural Society; member of the State
house of representatives in 1839, 1843, and 1844;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union Whig; died
near Bladensburg, Md., May 14, 1864.
Calvin, Samuel, was born at Waahingtonville,
Pa., July 30, 1811; by his own efforts received a
liberal education; taught school and studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced prac-
tice at HoUidaysburg, Pa. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Whig.
Cambreleng, Churchill C. , was born at Wash-
ington, N. C, in 1786; educated at Newbern, N. C. ;
moved to New York City in 1802 where he be-
came a clerk and a leading merchant, establish-
ing the house of Cambreleng & Pearson; elected a
Representative from New York to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated
for the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed minis-
ter to Russia by President Van Buren, serving
from May 20, 1840, to July 13, 1841; died at West
Neck, Long Island, April 30, 1862.
Camden, Johnson N. , of Parkersburg, was
born in 1828 in Lewis County, W. Va. ; appointed
a cadet to West Point in 1846; resigned in 1848;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1851; ap-
pointed the same year prosecuting attorney for
Braxton County, and in 1852 elected prosecuting
attorney for Nicholas County; in 1854 elected to a
position in a bank; resigned in 1858 and entered
into the development of petroleum and manufac-
turing interests at Parkersburg, W. Va.; president
of the First National Bank of Parkersburg at its
organization in 1862; nominee of the Democratic
party for governor of the State, in 1868, and again
in 1872; delegate to the Democratic national con-
ventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
Frank Hereford, Democrat, and took his seat
March 4, 1881, and served until March 3, 1887;
again elected to the United States Senate January
24, 1893, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of John E. Kenna, and took his seat January 28,
1893, serving until March 3, 1895.
Cameron, Angus, was born at Caledonia, Liv-
ingston County, N. Y., July 4, 1826; received an
academic education; studied law at Buffalo, N. Y.,
and graduated from the National Law School, Ball-
stonSpa; moved to La Crosse, Wis., in 1857; mem-
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ber of the State senate of Wisconsin in 1863, 1864,
1871, and 1872; memberof the legislative assembly
of Wisconsin in 1866 and 1867, and speaker in
1867; member of .the national Republican con-
vention at Baltimore in 1864; regent of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin 1866-1875; elected to the
United States Senate as a Republican; took his
seat March 4, 1875, and was reelected in 1881 to
succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, deceased; served
until March 3, 1885; returned to La Crosse, Wis.,
where he resumed the practice of law; in 1889
retired from business other than the care of his
property; died March 30, 1897, at La Crosse, Wis.
Cameron, James Donald, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
was born at Middletown, Pa., in 1833; received a
classical education; student at Princeton College;
entered the Middletown Bank as clerk, and be-
came its cashier; president of the Northern Cen-
tral Railway Company of Pennsylvania 186&-1874;
Secretary of War under President Grant from May
22, 1876, to March 3, 1877; delegate to the national
Republican coii,vention at Cincinnati in 1876;
elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania
(to fill the vacancy caused by the -resignation of
his father, Hon. Simon Cameron) in March, 1877;
took his seat October 15, 1877, and reelected, serv-
ing until March 3, 1897.
Cameron, Simon, was born at Maytown (now
Donegal), Lancaster County, Pa., March 8, 1799;
apprenticed himself to learn the art of printing;
was employed in the office of The Republican, in
Harrisburg; editor of the Doylestown Democrat;
became interested in important banking and rail-
road interests; adjutant-general of Pennsylvania;
Secretary of War in 1861, and organized theLTnion
armies; resigned in 1862, having been appointed
minister to Russia; elected a United States Senator
frota Pennsylvania, serving from 1845 to 1849, and
reelected in 1857, but resigned in 1861; again
elected as a Union Republican to succeed Edgar
Cowan, Democrat, taking his seat in 1867; re-
elected in 1872; resigned his seat in 1877, and was
succeeded by his son, James Donald Cameron;
died in Lancaster County, Pa., June 26, 1889.
Caminetti, Anthony, was born July 30, 1854,
at Jackson, Amador County, Cal. ; educated in the
public schools of his native county, at the gram-
mar school, San Francisco, and the University of
California; clerk in a country store for five years;
read law and admitted to the bar in 1877; engaged
in practice at Jackson, Cal. ; elected district attor-
ney of Amador County in 1877 for two years, re-
elected in 1879 for three years; elected to the State
assembly in 1883, declined renomination, and
elected to the State senate in 1886 ; engaged in prac-
tical fruit culture for fourteen years; Democratic
alternate elector for the Second Congressional dis-
trict in 1880; Democratic elector in 1888; the first
native of California after it became a State elected
to Congress; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-
third Congresses as a Democrat.
Camp, John H. , of Lyons, N. Y., was born at
Ithaca, N. Y., April 14, 1840; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the barin 1860;
district attorney of Wayne County in 1867-1870;
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Campbell, Alhert J., of Butte, Mont., was
born at Pontiac, Mich., December 12, 1857; edu-
ciated at the Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich. ;
read law; admitted to the bar in 1881; elected
prosecuting attorney for Lake County, Mich. , in
1886 and in 1888; resigned and moved to Mon-
tana November 16, 1889; member of the legisla-
ture from Park County in 1897; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Campbell, Alexander, was born in Virginia in
1779; received a liberal education; studied medi-
cine, and in 1785 commenced practice in Ken-
tucky; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1800; moved to Ripley, Ohio, in 1803;
member of the State house of representatives in
1806; elected a United States Senator from Ohio
in place of Edward Tiffin, resigned, and took his
seat January 12, 1810, serving until March 3, 1813;
State senator 1813 to 1823; died at Ripley, Ohio,
November 5, 1857.
Campbell, Alexander, was born at Concord,
Pa., October 14, 1818; educated in the public
schools; clerk in an iron manufacturing establish-
ment; became superintendent, and continued in
the business of managing iron works in Pennsyl-
vania; Kentucky, and Missouri until 1850, when
he moved to Lasalle; elected mayor of Lasalle in
1852 and reelected in 1853; member of the State
legislature of lUinois in 1858 and 1859; member of
the State constitutional convention of Illinois in
1862; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Forty-fourth Congress as an Independent; defeated
for the Fifty-fifth Congress; died in 1898.
Campbell, Felix, was born at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
February 28, 1829; received a common school edu-
cation; manufacturer of iron pipe, and a consulting
engineer; president of the board of supervisors in
1858; appointed one of the centennial commission-
ers by Governor Tilden in 1876; elected to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
November 8, 1902.
Campbell, George Washington, was born in
Tennessee in 1768; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1 794 ; studied law and com menced practice at
Nashville; elected a Representative from Tennes-
see to the Eighth Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses; elected
a United States Senator from Tennessee in place
of Jenkins Whiteside, resigned, and took his seat
November 4, 1811, serving until February 9, 1814,
when he resigned; Secretary of the Treasury from
February 9, 1814, to October 6, 1814; again elected
Senator from Tennessee, serving from December
4, 1815, until 1818, when he resigned; minister to
Russia 1818 to 1821; member of the French Claims
Commission in 1831; died at Nashville, Tenn.,
February 17, 1848.
Campbell, Jacob Miller, of Johnstown, Pa.,
was born in Allegheny Township, Somerset County,
Pa., November 20, 1821; received a common school
education; learned the art of printing in the office
of the Somerset Whig; engaged in steamboating
on the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries
from 1841 to 1847; gold mining in California in
1850; aided in building the Cambria Iron AVorks
at Johnstown, Pa., in 1853, and remained in the
employ of that company until 1861; entered the
military service as first lieutenant of Company
G, Third Pennsylvania Volunteers in April, 1861;
fall of the same year recruited the Fifty-fourth Regi-
ment, three-years volunteers, and commanded it
as colonel; was brevetted brigadier-general June 5,
1864; elected surveyor-general of Pennsylvania in
1865 for three years and in 1868 for a like term;
delegate to the first Republican convention, held
in Philadelphia in 1856; trustee of the Pennsylva-
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nia State College; elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses
as a Republican; died September 27, 1888.
Campbell, James E., was born at Middletown,
Ohio, July 7, 1843; served in the Navy during the
war; prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio,
1876 to 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, being seated June 20, 1884; re-
elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses;
governor of Ohio for one term ; moved to New
York City; engaged in the practice of law.
Campbell, James H., was born in Williams-
port, Pa., February 8, 1820; graduated from the
Carlisle Law School; admitted to the bar in 1841;
commenced practice at Pottsville; delegate to the
national Whig convention at Baltimore in 1844;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig; defeated for
I the Thirty-fifth Congress; elected to the Thirty-
i^ sixth and Thirty-aeyenth Congresaea; defeated for
the Thirty-eighth Congress; appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln, in May, 1864, minister resident to
Sweden, where he served until March 29, 1867;
appointed minister to the United States of Colom-
bia in 1867, but declined; died at Wayne, Pa.,
April 12, 1895.
Campbell, James R. , of McLeansboro, 111.,
was born in Hamilton County, 111., May 4, 1853;
educated at Notre Dame, Ind. ; read law, and ad-
mitted to the bar by the suprdne court of Illinois
in 1877; purchased the McLeansboro Times (the
only Democratic paper in the county) in 1878;
elected to the Illinois house of representatives in
1884 and 1886, to the senate in 1888 and 1892;
served for twelve years as a member of the judi-
ciary, appropriation, revenue, and agricultural
committees; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as
a Democrat, indorsed by the Populists; served in
the Spanish war as colonel of the Ninth Illinois
Infantry, and after the muster out of that regi-
ment appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Thirtieth
Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, and assigned to service
in the Philippine Islands.
Cam.pbell, John, was born in Charles County,
Md., July 4, 1765; received a liberal education;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Maryland as a Federalist to the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses;
judge of the orphans' court of Charles County;
died at Port Tobacco, Md., June 23, 1828.
Campbell, John, was born in South Carolina;
graduated from the South Carolina College in 1819;
studied law and commenced practice at Browns-
ville; moved to Parnassus, Marlboro District;
elected a representative from Soiith Carolina to
the Twenty-first Congress, as a State Rights Whig;
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a State
Rights Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses;
died at Parnassus, May 19, 1845.
Campbell, John G. , of Prescott, Ariz., was
born at Glasgow, Scotland, June 25, 1827; came to
the United States in 1841 ; received a public school
education; learned the baking and confectionery'
trades in Detroit, Mich. ; went to California from
New York, through Mexico, in 1849; engaged in
mining, farming, and merchandising up to 1857;
went to the Republic of Chili; returned to Cali-
fornia in 1859, and remained until 1863; went to
the Territory of Arizona; elected a member of the
council of the Territorial legislature in 1868, and
ill 1874; county supervisor of Yavapai County a
number of years, and filled other positions of
honor and trust; elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
Campbell, John H. , was born in Pennsylvania;
studied law and afterwards practiced in Philadel-
phia; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a native Ameri-
can; resumed the practice of law; died at Philar
delphia, January 19, 1868.
Campbell, John P., was born in Kentucky;
resident of Belleview; member of the State house
of representatives in 1826; elected a Representative
from Kentuckj^ to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
National American.
Campbell, John W. , was born in Augusta
County, Va.; received a liberal education; studied
law and commenced practice at West Union, Ohio;
held .several public offices in his own county;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fif-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses as a Democrat; judge of the
United States court for the district of Ohio; died
September 24, 1833.
Campbell, Lewis D. , was born at Franklin,
Ohio, August 9, 1811; educated in the public
schools; apprenticed himself to learn the art of
printing 1828-1831; published a Clay Whig news-
paper at Hamilton, Ohio, 1831-1836; studied law
and commenced practicing at Hamilton; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-second,
Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses;
claimed to have been reelected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, but the House gave the seat to 0. L. Val-
landigham; served in the Union Army as colonel
of a regiment of volunteer infantry 1861 to 1862,
resigning on account of ill health; commissioned
minister to Mexico, ^Iay4, 1866, to June 16, 1867,
but did not reach his post; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; elected to the Forty-second Congress as
a Democrat.
Campbell, Robert B. , was born in South Caro-
lina; received a liberal education; in 1809 gradu-
ated from South Carolina College; elected a Rep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Eighteenth
Congress as a State Rights Whig; elected to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Nullifier in place of
Thomas B. Singleton, deceased, and reelected to
the Twenty-fourth Congress; appointed consul-
general at Habana in 1842 by President Tyler.
Campbell, Samuel, was born at Mansfield,
Conn., and educated in the public schools; moved
to Columbus, N. Y. ; member of the State house
of Representatives for five years; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Seventeenth
Congress.
Campbell, Thomas Jefferson, was born in
Tennessee in 1786; educated in the public schools;
assistant inspector-general toMajor-General Coke's
division of the East Tennessee militia from Sep-
tember 25, 1813, to March 12, 1814; Presidential
elector on the Harrison ticket in 1841; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig, and served from
May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; defeated for the
Twenty-eighth Congress; Clerk of the House of
Representatives in fiie Thirtieth and Thirty-first
Congresses, serving until his death at Washington,
D. C, April 13, 1850.
Campbell, Thompson, v.as born in Pennsyl-
vania and educated in the public schools; moved
to Galena, 111., and became interested in mining;
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elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Democrat; moved to Cali-
fornia, where he died December 7, 1868.
Campbell, Timothy J. , of New York City, was
bom in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1840; of Scotch-
Irish ancestry; came to this country when 5 years
old; attended the public schools in the city of New
York; learned the printing business and worked
on the New York Times, Express, Tribune, and
Herald; employed as a printer on the Herald when
nominated in 1867 for the State assembly by the
Democracy of his district; elected to the assembly
1868-1873, 1875, and 1883; elected justice of the
fifth district civil court in New York City; served
six years in this capacity; nominated for State
senator in opposition to the Tammany candidate
and elected; before his term expired a vacancy
occurred in the Eighth Congressional district of
New York, by the appointment of S. S. Cox as
minister to Turkey, and Mr. Campbell was elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy;
reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses; defeated for the Fifty-fourth
Congress.
Campbell, William B. , was born in Tennessee;
received a liberal education; studied law at Abing-
don and at Winchester, Ta., and practiced; elected
a member of the Tennessee house of representa-
tives in 1835; captain of a company in Trousdale's
regiment in the Florida war; elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Twenty-fifth Congress
as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty- sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses; colonel of the First
Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican war; judge
of the fourth circuit of Tennessee after his return
from Mexico; governor of Tennessee 1851-1853;
elected judge of the circuit court in 1857; appointed
by President Lincoln brigadier-general of volun-
teers June 30, 1862; resigned January 26, 1863, on
account of ill health ; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat; died at Lebanon, Tenn., August 19, 1867.
Campbell, William W., was born at Cherry
Valley, N. Y. , June 10, 1806 ; graduated from Union
College in 1827; studied law, and in 1831 com-
menced practice in New York City; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a National American; justice of the
superior court of New York City 1849-1855; elected
a judge of the State supreme court for the sixth
district 1857-1865; devoted a great part of his time
to literary work.
Canby, Ricliard S. , was born in Ohio, and was
a resident of Belief ontaine; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig.
Candler, Allen, D., of . Gainesville, Ga., was
born in Lumpkin County, Ga., November 4, 1834;
graduated from Mercer University, Ga., in 1858;
studied law in 1860, but the war coming on never
practiced; successively a private, lieutenant, cap-
tain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the Con-
federate army; member of the Georgia house of
representatives 1872-1877; member of the Georgia
State senate 1877-1879; manufacturer and railroad
president; elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat;
secretary of state for Georgia 1895-1898, resigning
in April, 1898; elected governor of Georgia in
October, 1898.
Candler, Ezekiel Samuel, jr., of Corinth,
Miss., was born at Belleville, Hamilton County,
Fla., on January 18, 1862; moved with his parents
to Tishomingo County, Miss. ; received a common
school education in the luka Academy at luka.
Miss. ; attended the law department of the Uni-
versity of Mississippi at Oxford, and on June 30,
1881, graduated in law, receiving the degree of
B. L., and, having his disabilities of minority re-
moved by the chancery court, at once commenced
the practice of law with his father at luka under
the firm name of Candler & Candler; chairman of
the Democratic executive committee of Tisho-
mingo County in 1884; moved to Corinth January
1 , 1887, and actively engaged in the practice of law,
the firm of Candler & Candler having an office at
luka and also one at Corinth; member of the Dem-
ocratic executive committee of Alcorn Countj';
elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eigh1;h Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Candler, Jolin W., of Brookline, Mass., was
born at Boston, February 10, 1828; educated at
Marblehead Academy and Dummer Academy, By-
field, Mass. ; entered a countingroom in Boston in
1845; merchant, and extensively engaged in ship-
ping and commerce with the East and West Indies
and South America; member of the State house of
representatives in 1866; chairman of the Commis-
sioners of Prisons of Massachusetts; president of
the Boston Board of Trade and of the Commercial
Club of Boston; elected to the Forty-seventh and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican; interested
in railroads; died at Providence, R. I., March 16,
1903.
Candler, Hilton A., was born in Campbell
County, Ga., January 11, 1837; graduated from
the University of Georgia in 1854 ; studied law, and
in 1856 commenced practice at Decatur, Ga. ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1861
to 1863, and of the State constitutional convention
in 1865 and State senate in 1868-1872; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Cannon, Frank J., of Ogden, Utah; was born
at Salt Lake City, Utah, January 25, 1859; grad-
uated from the University of Utah in 1878; printer
and newspaper writer; delegate to the Republican
national convention at Minneapolis in 1892; de-
feated for Delegate to Congress in 1892; elected
Delegate to Congress in 1894; elected to the United
States Senate January 22, 1896, and served until
March 3, 1899.
Cannon, George Q,., of Salt Lake City, Utah;
was born at Liverpool, England, January 11, 1827;
at an early age emigrated with his parents to the
United States; receiveda careful education; learned
the art of printing; editor by profession; one of
the first settlers of the Great Salt Lake Basin; when
steps were taken by the people of Utah in 1862 to
have the Territory admitted into the Union as a
State, was elected United States Senator; elected a
member of the legislative council of Utah for 1865
and 1866, 1869 and 1870, and 1871 and 1872; mem-
ber of the board of regents of the Deseret Univer-
sity, and chancellor; elected in 1872 a Delegate to
present the constitution and memorial to Congress
for the admission of the Territory into the Union
as a State; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Dele-
gate; returned to Salt Lake City, Utah; director of
the Union Pacific Railroad; died at Monterey, CaL,
April 12, 1901.
Cannon, Joseph, G. , lawyer, of Danville, 111. ;
was born at Guilford, N. C, May 7, 1836; State
attorney of Illinois, March, 1861, to December,
1868; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
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eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth; Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; defeated for the Fifty-second Congress;
chairman of Committee on Appropriations in the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses.
Cannon, Marion, of Ventura, Cal., was born
near Morgantown, W. Va., October 30, 1834; edu-
cated in a log schoolhouse in a country district;
raised on a farm; learned the blacksmith's trade;
at the age of 18 started for California, and drove
an ox team overland ; entered the mines in Nevada
County and mined for twenty-one years; moved
to Ventura in 1874; elected county recorder of
Nevada County in 1869, and served two years;
when the Farmers' Alliance was introduced into
California, joined that order; unanimously elected
its first State president November 20, 1890, and
reelected October 22, 1891; organized the People's
Party of California October 22, 1891; chosen a
representative to the supreme council at Indian-
apolis November, 1891; selected by that body to
represent California in the industrial conference
at St. Louis February 22, 1892, and chosen tempo-
rary chairman over that body; chairman of the
California delegation to the national convention
of the People's Party at Omaha July 4, 1892;
active member of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons
for eleven years; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Populist and Democrat.
Cannon, Newton, was born in Guilford Coun-
ty, N. C. ; educated in the common schools;
moved to Tennessee; elected a Kepresentative from
Tennessee to the Thirteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat in place of Felix Grundy, resigned, and
reelected to the Fourteenth Congress; appointed
a commissioner in 1819 by President Monroe to
negotiate a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians;
elected a representative from Tennessee to the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses; governor
of Tennessee from 1835 to 1839; died at Harpeth,
Tenn., September 29, 1842.
Capeh.art, James, of Mason County, W. Va.,
was born in Mason County, Va. (now West Vir-
ginia), March 7, 1847; educated at Marietta Col-
lege,, Ohio; engaged in farming and stock breed-
ing; president of county court of Mason County
1871-72 and 1880-1885; delegate to the national
Democratic convention in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat.
Caperton, Allen Taylor, was born near Union,
Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia) , Novem-
ber 21, 1810; student at the University of Virginia
and Yale College; graduated from Yale College in
1839; studied law at Staunton, Va., and practiced;
director of the James River and Kanawha Canal;
Whig member of the State house of delegates for
several years, and of the State senate of Virginia,
serving his last term as senator from 1859 to 1860;
member of the State constitutional convention
of Virginia in 1861; elected by the legislature of
Virginia a member of the Confederate States sen-
ate, and served until 1865; elected to the United
States Senate from West Virginia as a Democrat
for the term of 1875-1881; died at Washington,
D. C, July 26, 1876.
Caperton, Hugh (father of Allen T. Caperton),
was born in Virginia in 1780; received a liberal
education; engaged in agriculture; member of the
Virginia State house of delegates for several years;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist, serving from
May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815; died in Monroe
County, Va., February 9, 1847.
Capron, Adin Ballou, of Stillwater, Providence
County, R. I., was born at Mendon, Mass., Jan-
uary 9, 1841; educated at Woonsocket High School
and Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, Me.;
engaged in milling and dealing in grain; enlisted
as sergeant in Second Rhode Island Infantry May,
1861; promoted to sergeaflt-major July 11,1861;
commissioned lieutenant September, 1861, and
ordered on detached service in the Signal Corps
December, 1861; served in the Signal Corps until
the close of the war, having been commissioned
first lieutenant in the Signal Corps, U. S. Army,
March 3, 1863, and receiving promotion to the
rank of captain and major by brevet; elected
representative to the general assembly of Rhode
Island in 1887, and reelected in 1888, 1889, 1890,
1891, and 1892; speaker of the house in 1891 and
1892; Republican candidate for Congress in 1892;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Carey, George, was bom in Charles County,
Md. ; received a liberal education; moved to
Appling, Ga. ; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected
to the Nineteenth Congress; died in Upson County,
Ga., June 14, 1844.
Carey, John, was born in Monongahela County,
Va., April 5, 1792; moved with his parents to the
Northwestern Territory in 1798; worked as a tan-
ner with his father until 1812; assisted in build-
ing the first stone house in Columbus, Ohio, in
1834; associate judge 1825-1832; member of the
State house of representatives in 1828, 1836, and
1843; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; after his
retirement from Congress engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Carey, Joseph. M., of Cheyenne, Wyo., was
born in Sussex County, Del., January 19, 1845;
received a common school education, and attended
Fort Edward Collegiate Institute and Union Col-
lege, New York; studied law at Philadelphia, and
was admitted to the bar in 1867, graduating the
same year at the law department of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; engaged in stock growing;
president of the AVyoming Stock-Growers' Asso-
ciation; appointed United States attorney for the
Territory of Wyoming on the organization of the
Territory in 1869; resigned this office in 1871, on
his appointment as an associate justice of the
supreme court of Wyoming, which office he held
until 1876; member of the United States Centen-
nial Commission 1872-1876; mayor of Chevenne
1881-1885; elected Delegate to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Repub-
lican; elected to the United States Senate Novem-
ber 15, 1890, and took his seat December 1, 1890,
serving until March 3, 1895.
Carleton, Ezra C, of Port Huron, Mich., was
born at St. Clair, Mich., September 6, 1838; gradu-
ated from the Port Huron High School; hardware
merchant; mayor of Port Huron in 1881; chairman
of the Port Huron fire relief commission in 1881;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Carlile, John S., was born at Winchester,
Va., December 16, 1817; received a limited educa-
tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law
and commenced practice in 1842 at Beverly, Va.;
member of the State senate 1847-1851; delegate
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to the State constitutional convention of 1850;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Unionist; elected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from July 4,
1861, until July 13, 1861, when he resigned, hav-
ing been elected to the United States Senate in
place of R. M. T. Hunter, withdrawn; died at
Clarksburg, W. Va., October 24, 1878.
Carlisle, John GriflSn, of Covington, Ky., was
born in Campbell (Kenton) County, Ky., Septem-
ber 5, 1835; received a common school education;
taught school in the county and afterwards in
Covington; studied law; admitted to the bar in
March, 1858; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1859-1861 ; elected to the State senate
in 1866 and reelected in August, 1869; delegate at
large from the State of Kentucky to the Demo-
cratic national convention at New York in July,
1868; nominated for lieutenant-governor of Ken-
tucky in May, 1871, and elected in August of same
year, serving until September, 1875; alternate
Presidential elector for the State at large in 1876;
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses; elected Speaker of the House
of Representatives in the Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses; resigned May 26,
1890, to become United States Senator, filling the
unexpired term of James B. Beck, deceased, tak-
ing his seat May 26, 1890; resigned February 4,
1893; Secretary of the Treasury 1893-1897; moved
to New York City and practiced law.
Carlton, Henry Hull, . of Athens, Ga., was
born at Athens, Ga., May 14, 1835; received a
common school and university education; gradu-
ated in medicine and surgery from Jefferson Med-
ical College, Philadelphia, in 1857, and practiced
till 1872; elected a representative to the general
assembly of Georgia in 1872, and reelected till
1877; speaker pro tempore and chairman of
finance committee; State senator 1884-85, and
president of the senate; editor and proprietor of
thfc Athens Banner ( Banner- Watchman ) until 1880,
when he commenced the practice of law; city at-
torney of Athens; four years in the Confederate
army, under Gen. R. E. Lee, holding the ranks of
lieutenant, captain, and major of artillery; elected
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; elected to the State legislature.
Carlton, Peter, was born in New Hampshire
and educated in the public schools; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Tenth
Congress, serving from October 26, 1807, to March
3, 1809.
Carmack, Edward "Ward, of Memphis, Tenn.,
was bom near Castalian Springs, Sumner County,
Tenn., November 5, 1858; received an academic
education; studied law and began j)racticing at
Columbia, Tenn.; elected to the legislature as a
Democrat in 1884; joined the editorial staff of the
Nashville American in 1886; founded the Nash-
ville Democrat in 1888; afterwards became editor
in chief of the Nashville American when the
Democrat was merged into that paper; became
editor of the Memphis Commercial in 1892; dele-
gate for the State at large to the Democratic
national convention in 1896; elected to the Fifty-
fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses; elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Thomas B. Turley,
Democrat, who declined to stand for reelection,
and took his seat March 4, 1901.
Canmchael, Ricliard B. , w^s a native of Mary-
land, graduated from Princeton College in 1828;
studied law and practiced at Centerville; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Democrat; presiding
judge of tlie county court of Queen Anne County
in 1861. ■^
Carmichael, WiUiam, was born in Maryland;
received a liberal education; went to Paris in No-
vember, 1777, as secretary to the commissioners of
the American States; Delegate from Maryland to
the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780; in Sep-
tember, 1779, went to Spain as secretary of lega-
tion; appointed charg^ d'affaires April 20, 1790,
and served until May, 1794; in 1792 tried to nego-
tiate (jointly with William Short) a treaty with
Spain concerning the free navigation of the Mis-
sissippi River; died in Maryland, February, 1795.
Carnes, Thomas P. , was born in Maryland in
1762; received a liberal education; studied law and
commenced practice atMilledgeville, Ga, ; solicitor-
general and subsequently attorney-general of
Georgia; judge of the supreme court of Georgia;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the Third
Congress; died at Milledgeville, Ga., May 5, 1822.
Carpenter, Cyrus Clay, of Fort Dodge, Iowa,
was born at Hartford, Susquehanna County, Pa.,
November 24, 1829; educated in the common
schools and attended an academy at Hartford a
few months; after going to Iowa in 1854 engaged
in land surveying, devoting a portion of the time
from 1856 to 1860 to the study of law; officer in
the Union Army during the civil war, serving as
captain, lieutenant-colonel, and was mustered out
a brevet colonel; elected to the legislature of Iowa
in 1857; elected register of the State land office
in 1866 and 1868; elected governor in 1871 and
1873; appointed Second Comptroller of the Treas-
ury January, 1876, by President Grant, and re-
signed September, 1877; appointed railroad com-
missioner of Iowa in April, 1878; resigned the
following August, being nominated for Congress;
elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Carpenter, Davis, was born at Walpole, N. H.,
December 25, 1799; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; graduated from Middlebury Col-
lege in 1824 and commenced practice at Brockport,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig (in place
of A. Boody, resigned); defeated for the Thirty-
fourth Congress; resumed the practice of medicine
at Brockport, N. Y.
Carpenter, Levi D. , was born in Oneida
County, N. Y.; educated in the public schools;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-eighth Congress (in place of Samuel
Beardsley, resigned) as a Hard Democrat, serving
from December 2, 1844, to March 3, 1845.
Carpenter, Lewis Cass, was born at Putnam,
Conn., February 20, 1836; educated in the public
schools; moved to New Jersey, where he taught
school and studied law; at an early age began
writing for the press, and was connected with the
New York papers for several years; moved to
Washington, D. C, in 1864, and was employed in
the Treasury Department; also Washington cor-
respondent for several newspapers; assisted in
establishing the first Republican daily paper in
South Carolina in 1868, known as the Charleston
Republican; moved to Charleston in 1870 and
became an editor; established the Daily Union;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican, in place
of Robert B. Elliott, resigned.
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Carpenter, Mattliew H., of Milwaukee, Wis.,
■was born at Moretown, Vt., in 1824; entered the
Military Academy at West Point in 1843, and
remained two years; studied law with Eufus
Choate, and admitted to the bar; moved to Wis-
consin in 1848, and entered upon the practice of
his profession; elected to the United States Senate
as a Eepublican in place of James R. Doohttle,
and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875;
practiced law at Washington and at Milwaukee;
again elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican in place of Timothy 0. Howe, and
took his seat March 18, 1879; died in the city of
Washington, February 24, 1881.
Carr, Francis, was born in Massachusetts in
1752; educated in the public schools; member of
the State house of representatives 1806-1811;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat in place of B.
Gannett, resigned, serving from June 3, 1812, to
March 3, 1813; died October 7, 1821.
Carr, James, was born in Maine district of Mas-
sachusetts; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1806-1811; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Fourteenth Congress;
died at Bangor, Me.
Carr, Jolin, a resident of Charlestown, Clark
County, Ind., was elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Twenty-second Congress as a Dem-
ocrat and reelected to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses; defeated for the
Twenty-fifth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
sixth Congress; died at Charlestown, Ind., Janu-
ary 20, 1845.
Carrington, Edward, was born in Virginia
February 11, 1749; received a liberal education;
served in the Revolutionary Army in the Quarter-
master's Department; Delegate from Virginia to
the Continental Congress 1785-86; died at Rich-
mond, Va., October 28, 1810.
Carroll, Charles, was born at Annapolis, Md.,
September 20, 1737; educated at the College of St.
Omer, in France; studied the civil law at the Col-
lege of Louis-le-Grand at Rheims, and the com-
mon law at the Temple at London; returned to
Baltimore in 1764; Continental commissioner to
Canada in 1776, but failed to induce the Canadians
to join the other provinces; delegate to the consti-
tutional convention of Maryland; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress, serving
from July 18, 1776 to 1778, when he resigned,
having been elected to the State senate; signer of
the Declaration of Independence ; elected a Sena-
tor from Maryland to the First Congress as a Fed-
eralist, for two years; reappointed, but resigned in
1792; member of the State senate of Maryland
from 1791 until 1801, when he retired to private
life; laid the corner stone of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad July 4, 1828; died at Baltimore
November 14, 1832.
Carroll, Charles H., was born in Maryland,
June 7, 1794; moved to the Genesee Valley, New
York; received a liberal education; studied law,
but never practiced; devoted a greater part of his
time to the management of his large landed estates;
member of the State house of representatives in
1836, and of the State senate in 1837; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Henry Clay Whig, and re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; Presiden-
tial elector on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket
in 1856, and on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860;
died at Groveland, N. Y., June 8, 1865.
Carroll, Daniel, was born in Prince George
County, Md., in 1756; received a liberal education;
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; Delegate
from Maryland to the Continental Congress 1780 to
1784; delegate to the convention which framed the
Federal Constitution; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the First Congress as a Federal-
ist; took an active part in securing the establish-
ment of the seat of government; appointed by
President Washington, in 1791, one of the com-
missioners to locate the District of Columbia and
the Federal city; died at Washington, D. C, in
1829.
Carroll, James, was born at Baltimore, Md.;
received a liberal education; elected a Represent-
ative from Maryland to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Carroll, John M., was born at Springfield,
N. Y., April 27, 1825; graduated from Union Col-
lege, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1846; studied law and
in 1848 admitted to the bar, afterwards practicing
at Johnstown; elected district attorney of Fulton
County in 1859, which position he held for three
years; elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Carson, Samuel P. , was born at Pleasant Gar-
den, N. C. ; member of the State senate of North
Carolina in 1822 and 1824; elected a Representa-
tive to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses,
defeating R. B. Vance; reelected to the Twenty-
first and Twenty-second Congresses without oppo-
sition; after his retirement from Congress moved
to Arkansas, where he died at the Hot Springs in
November, 1840.
Carter, John, was born on Black River, Sum-
ter District, South Carolina, September 11, 1792;
graduated from the South Carolina College in 1811;
studied law and commenced practice at Camden;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Seventeenth Congress in the place of James
Blair, resigned; reelected to the Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, and Twentieth Congresses; resumed the
practice of law at Camden ; moved to Georgetown,
D. C, in 1836, where he died June 20, 1850.
Carter, Luther C, was born at Bethel, Me.,
February 25, 1805; received a liberal education;
moved to New York and engaged in mercantile
pursuits; member of the board of education of
New York City for several years ; retired from busi-
ness and moved to Long Island, where he became
interested in agriculture; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Union Republican ; defeated for the Thirty-seventh
Congress.
Carter, Thomas Henry, of Helena, Mont.,
was born in Scioto County, Ohio, October 30, 1854;
received a common school education in the State
of Illinois; engaged in farming, railroading, and
school-teaching for a number of years; studied
law, and was admitted to the bar; elected Dele-
gate to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican
from the Territory of Montana; nominated by
the Republicans in their first State convention,
and elected to the Fifty-first Congress; Commis-
sioner of the General Land Office from March,
1891, to July, 1892; elected to the United States
Senate by the legislature of Montana in January,
1895, for the term beginning March 4, 1895, and
ending March 3, 1901; elected chairman of the
Republican national committee in July, 1892;
appointed United States Commissioner to the St.
Louis Exposition, March 6, 1901.
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Carter, Timotliy J., was born in the Maine
district of Massachusetts; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law, and afterwards practiced at
Paris, Me. ; secretary of the State senate of Maine
in 1833; county attorney 1833 to 1837; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from September
4, 1837, until his death, at Washington, D. C,
March 14, 1838.
Carter, William B. , was born in Tennessee in
1812; educated in the public schools; engaged in
agricultural and mercantile pursuits; member of
the State legislature of Tennessee, serving in both
houses; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1834 and its presiding officer; elected a
Eepresentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, and reelected to the
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses; died
at Elizabethtown, Tenn., April 17, 1848.
Cartter, David K., was born in New York;
received a liberal education; studied law and
afterwards j)racticed at Massillon, Ohio; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat and reelected to the Thirty-
second Congress; appointed minister to Bolivia
by President Lincoln, serving from March 27,
1861, to March 10, 1862; appointed chief justice of
the supreme court of the District of Columbia in
1863; died at Washington, D. C, April 16, 1887.
Caruth, Ash.er Graham, of Louisville, Ky.,
was born at Scottsville, Allen County, Ky., Feb-
ruary 7, 1844; attended the public schools of Phil-
adelphia, Pa., and gradu-ited from the Male High
School of Louisville in June, 1864; graduated from
the law department of the University of Louisville
March, 1866; Presidential elector in 1876; attor-
ney of the board of trustees of the public schools
of Louisville from 1873 until 1880; elected Com-
monwealth attorney for the ninth judicial district
of Kentucky in 1880 for six years, and reelected in
August, 1886; resigned the office in March, 1887;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and
Fifty-third Congresses;. resumed the practice of law.
Caruthers, Robert L., was born in Smith
County, Tenn., .Tuly 31, 1800; received a liberal
education; clerk in a store; studied law and in
1823 was admitted to the bar; clerk of the State
house of representatives in 1824; clerk of the
chancery court of Smith County and editor of a
newspaper there; moved to Wilson County in
1826; State attorney 1827 to 1832; member of the
Tennessee house of representatives in 1835; Presi-
dential elector on the Clay and Frelinghuysen
ticket in 1844; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig,
■ serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; ap-
pointed judge of the supreme court of Tennessee
in 1852; delegate from Tennessee to the peace
■convention of 1860.
Caruthers, Samuel, was born in Madison
County, Mo., October 13, 1820; graduated from
Clinton College, Tennessee; studied law, com-
menced practice at Fredericktown, subsequently
moving to Girardeau, Mo.; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as
a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as
a Democrat; died at Cape Girardeau, Mo., July 20,
1860.
Cary, Georg'e B., was born near Petersburg,
Va., in 1811; received a liberal education; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat, serving from May
31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; died at Bethlehem, Va.,
March 5, 1850.
Cary, Jeremiah E., was born at Coventry,
R. I. , April 30, 1803 ; educated in the public schools ;
moved to the State of New York; studied law and
in 1829 commenced practice; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; moved to New York City,
where he continued the practice of law.
Cary, Samuel F. , was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
February 18, 1814; graduated from the Miami
University of Ohio and from the Cincinnati Law
School; practiced law until 1845, when he devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits; was a delegate to
the Republican national convention in 1864 which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for President; nomi-
nated in 1876 for the Vice-Presidency with Peter
Cooper, the Greenback candidate for President;
elected a Representative to the Fortieth Congress as
a Republican; ran for lieutenant-governor of Ohio
in 1875; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1, 1900.
Cary, Shepard, was born in Maine and
educated in the public schools; engaged in agricul-
tural and mercantile pursuits; member of the
State house of representatives in 1832, 1833, 1839,
1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843; Presidential elector
on the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1836;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving from May
10, 1844 to March 3, 1845; died at Houlton, Me.,
August 12, 1866.
Case, Charles, was born at Austinburg, Ohio,
December 21, 1817; received a liberal education;
studied law and afterwards practiced at Fort
Wayne, Ind. ; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Repub-
lican (to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Samuel Brenton); reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress.
Case, Walter, was born in Dutchess County,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York to
the Sixteenth Congress; died at Newburgh, N. Y.
Casey, Joseph, was born in Maryland and lib-
erally educated; studied law, afterwards practicing
at New Berlin, Pa.; elected a Representative to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; in 1863 ap-
pointed by President Lincoln a judge of the Court
of Claims.
Casey, Iievi, served in the Revolutionary war;
elected brigadier-general of militia; elected a Rep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Eighth and
Ninth Congresses, serving from October 17, 1803,
until his death, at Washington, D. C, February 1,
1807.
Casey, Iiyman B., of Jamestown, N. Dak.,
was born at York, Livingston County, N. Y., 1837;
when very young moved with his parents to
Ypsilanti, Mich.; prepared for Ann Arbor Uni-
versity, but never entered; in the hardware busi-
ness for many years; after he retired from business
he went to Europe and traveled, and studied for
five years; became a student of foreign affairs and
an accomplished linguist; settled in Dakota in
1882, at Carrington, Foster County, where he oper-
ated a farm; secretary and general manager of the
Casey-Carrington Land Companj^; chairman of
the North Dakota committee on irrigation; com-
missioner of Foster County; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican November 21, 1889;
took his seat December 4, 1889; term expired
March 3, 1893.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Casey, Samuel L., was born in Union County,
Ky.; received a liberal education; studied law,
afterwards practicing at Caseyville; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-seventh
Congress.
Casey, Zadok, was born in Georgia in 1796;
moved to Illinois and founded the town of Casey-
ville; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses;
elected lieutenant-governor of Illinois; delegate to
the State constitutional convention; died at Casey-
ville, 111., in 1862.
Caskie, Jolin S. , was bom at Richmond, Va. >
graduated from the University of Virginia; studied
law and practiced at Richmond; prosecuting attor-
ney; judge of the Richmond and Henrico circuit;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-
fifth Congresses; defeated for the Thirty-sixth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; died at
Richmond, Va., December 16, 1869.
Cason, Thomas J. , was born in Union County,
Ind., September 13, 1828; received his education
at home and in the common schools; spent his
early life on a farm; taught school and studied
law; admitted to the bar in March, 1850; in May,
1852, was admitted to the bar of the supreme court
and continued to practice at Lebanon, except when
on the bench; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1861-1864, and of the State senate
1864-1867; in April, 1867, appointed by Governor
Baker common pleas judge, serving until October,
when he was elected to the same office for a term
of four years; elected a Representative from Indi-
ana to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses
as a Republican.
Cass, Lewis, was born at Exeter, N. H. , October
9, 1782; received a liberal education; when 17
years of age crossed the Allegheny Mountains on
foot to Ohio; studied law, afterwards practicing at
Zanesville; member of the Ohio house of repre-
sentatives; United States marshal for the district
of Ohio 1807-1813; colonel of the Third Ohio
Volunteers; appointed colonel of the Twentieth
U. S. Infantry in February, 1813, and promoted to
the rank of brigadier-general March 12, 1813;
governor of Michigan Territory 1813-1831; ap-
pointed by President Jackson Secretary of War,
serving from 1831-1836; from October 24, 1836, to
November 12, 1842, minister to France; elected a
United States Senator from Michigan as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1845, until May 29,
1848, when he resigned; in 1848 defeated as the
Democratic candidate for President; subsequently
elected Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by
his own resignation, serving from January 20, 1849,
to March 3, 1857; Secretary of State under Presi-
dent Buchanan from March 4, 1857, until Decem-
ber 17, 1860, when he resigned; retired to Detroit,
Mich., where he died June 17, 1866.
Cassedy, George, was born in Bergen County,
N. J., May 14, 1784; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses; died at Hackensack, N. J.
Cassel, Henry Burd, of Marietta, Lancaster
County, Pa. , was bom at Marietta, October 19, 1855,
and after passing through the public schools of
Marietta finished his education at the Columbia
Classical Institute; became interested in politics
at an early age; member of the county committee
in 1881; chairman of the county committee in
1893; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion in St. Louis in 1896; in 1898 elected to the
lower house of the State legislature,' where his
father had served fifty-nine years before; reelected
in 1900; served as member of the committees of
the judiciary, ways and means, and public build-
ings; wholesale and retail lutober dealer; director
or stockholder in a number of companies; elected
to the Fifty -seventh Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Marriott Brosius, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Casserly, Eugene, was bom in Ireland in
1822; emigrated with his parents to New York
when quite young; his father being a teacher, re-
ceived an excellent education; graduated from
Georgetown College, District of Columbia; studied
law, and in 1844 was admitted to the bar; corpora-
tion attorney in New York City 1846-47; in 1850
moved to California and located at San Francisco;
connected with the press for about five years;
practiced law from 1851 until November, 1868;
elected a United States Senator from California as
a Democrat to succeed John Conness, Republican,
and served from March 4, 1869, until November 29,
1873, when he resigned; resumed the practice of
law at San Francisco; died in San Francisco June
14, 1883.
Cassidy, George Williams, of Eureka, Nev.,
was bora in Bourbon County, Ky., April 25, 1836;
educated in the free schools and by a private
tutor; journalist; elected to the State senate in
1872 for four years; reelected in 1876; president of
the senate for the session of 1879; elected to the
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat; appointed national-bank examiner for
Nevada, Utah, California, and Colorado by Presi-
dent Cleveland; nominated for Congress by the
Silver Party in 1892, but died June 24, 1892.
Cassingham, JohnW. , of Coshocton, Ohio, was
born there June 22, 1840, and received his educa-
tion in the public schools; deputy treasurer of his
county 1857-1868; county auditor 1880-1887; en-
gaged inmercantileand coal-mining operations, and
in the manufacture of paper; trustee of the public
library; member of the board of education; presi-
dent of the Coshocton Board of Trade; director
and vice-president of the Commercial Banking
Company; trustee of West Lafayette College; in-
vested in farm property; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at Chicago in 1896; elected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Castle, Curtis Harvey, of Merced, Cal., was
born October 4, 1848, in Knox County, 111. ; attended
Knox College, Galesburg, 111., through sophomore
year, when he transferred to Northwestern Uni-
versity, at Evanston, 111.; graduated in 1872 with
the degree of B. A. ; received the degree of A. M. ;
employed as a teacher for four years; studied
medicine and graduated in 1878 from College of ,
Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa; mem-
ber of the American Academy of Medicine; chair-
man of the Populist executive committee of his
county and member of the State executive com-
mittee; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as the
fusion candidate of the Populist and Democratic
parties.
Castle, James N., of Stillwater, Minn., was
bom at Shefford, Province of Quebec, May 23,
1836; educated in the public schools; in 1862 moved
to Washington County, Minn.; elected district
attorney in 1865, and located in Stillwater, where
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he engaged in the practice of law; elected to the
State senate in 1868, 1878, and 1882, serving in all
ten years; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as
a Democrat.
Caswell, Lucien B., of Fort Atkinson, Wis.,
was born at S wanton, Vt., November 27, 1827;
moved to Wisconsin in 1837; pursued a partial col-
legiate course; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1851, and practiced; elected district attorney in
1855 and 1856; member of the legislative assembly
of Wisconsin in 1863, 1872, and 1874; commissioner
of the second district board of enrollment from
September, 1863, to May 5, 1865; delegate to the
Republican national convention at Chicago in 1868;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Eepublican; resumed
the practice of law at Fort Atkinson, Wis. ; vice-
president and acting president of the First National
Bank.
Caswell, Bicliard, was born in Maryland, Au-
gust 3, 1729; received a liberal education; in 1746
moved to Raleigh, N. C, and was clerk in the
State capitol for several years; studied law and
afterwards practiced ; member of the colonial house
of delegates 1754-1771, serving as speaker the last
two years; commanding the right wing at the battle
of Allamance in 1771 ; served in the Revolutionary
Army; Delegate from North Carolina to the Con-
tinental Congress 1774-1776; delegate to the State
constitutional convention, and its president; gov-
ernor of North Carolina 1777-1780; commanded
the North Carolina troops at the battle of Camden
in 1780; speaker of the senate of North Carolina
1782-1784, also serving as comptroller-general at
the same time; governor of North Carolina 1785-
1788; delegate from North Carolina to the con-
vention which framed the Federal Constitution,
1787; in 1789 elected State senator, serving until
his death, November 20, 1789.
Cate, George W. , was born at Montpelier, Vt.,
September 17, 1825; educated in the common
schools; studied law and in 1845 was admitted to
the bar at Montpelier; moved to Wisconsin in
1845 and located at Plover; member of the State
legislature 1852-53; elected judge of the circuit
court in April, 1854, holding the position until
March 4, 1875, when he resigned, having been
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the
Forty-fourth Congress as an Independent Re-
former.
Cate, William Henderson, was born in Ruth-
erford County, Tenn., November 11, 1839; raised
and educated in East Tennessee; graduated in the
class of 1857 from the university at Knoxville;
engaged in teaching in the South and West for
some time; in the Southern army.; settled at
Jonesboro, Ark., in 1865; admitted to the bar in
1866; elected to the legislature 1871-1873, includ-
ing the extra session of 1874; elected prosecuting
attorney of the second circuit in 1878; appointed
judge of the second circuit in March, 1884; elected
to the same position in September, 1884; inter-
ested in planting; organized the Bank of Jonesboro
in 1887; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Democrat, but unseated March 5, 1890, by L. E.
Featherston, Independent Union Labor; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress; died at Toledo, Ohio,
August 23, 1899.
Catchings, Thomas Clendinen, of Vicksburg,
Miss., was born in Hinds County,- Miss., January
11, 1847; entered the University of Mississippi in
September, 1859, and Oakland College, Mississippi,
in 1861 ; entered the Confederate army early in 1861,
and served throughout the war; commenced the
study of law in 1865; admitted to the bar in May,
1866, and practiced at Vicksburg; elected to the
State senate of Mississippi in 1875, but resigned
on being nominated in 1877 for attorney-general;
elected attorney-general of Mississippi in Novem-
ber, 1877, for a term of four years, and again in
1881, resigning February 16, 1885; elected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-
sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
Cathcart, Charles W. , was born on the island
of Madeira in 1809; received a liberal education;
spent his early life on the sea; in 1831 located at
Laporte, Ind., and engaged in agricultural pur-
suits; United States land surveyor for several
years; member of the State house of representa-
tives; Presidential elector oh the .Polk and Dallas
ticket in 1845; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat, _ and reelected to the Thirtieth Congress;
appointed United States Senator from Indiana in
place of James Whitcomb, deceased, serving from
December 6, 1852, to March 3, 1853; engaged in
agricultural pursuits: died at Michigan City, Ind.,
August 22, 1888.
CatUn, George S., was born at Harwinton,
Conn., August 7, 1809; received a liberal education;
studied law and afterwards practiced at Windham,
Conn.; member of the State legislature for several
years; Stateattorneyfor Windham County; elected
a Representative from Connecticut to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Twenty-ninth Congress; judge of the Windham
County court; died at Windham, Conn., Decem-
lier 26, 1851.
Catron, Thomas B., of Santa Fe, N. Mex., was
born October 6, 1840, in Lafayette County, Mo.;
received a common school education and graduated
from the University of Missouri in 1860; served
four years in the Confederate army; went to New
Mexico in 1866 and commenced th e practice Of law ;
appointed district attorney of the third district for
two years; elected to the legislative assembly in
1868 and 1869, and in 1869 was appointed attorney-
general of the Territory; resigned to take the po-
sition of United States attorney, to which he was
appointed by President Grant, and held that posi-
tion nearly seven years; member of the legislative
council of 1884 and 1889; Republican candidate
for Delegate to the Fifty-third Congress, and was
defeated; again the Republican candidate for the
Fifty-fourth Congress, and was elected; resumed
the practice of law.
Cattell, Alexander G., was born at Salem,
N. J., February 12, 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion; clerked in his father's store for a while and
afterwards became a merchant and banker in Phil-
adelphia; member of the State legislature of New
Jersey in 1840; clerk of, the general assembly of
New Jersey from 1842 to 1844; member of the State
constitutional convention of New Jersey in 1844;
elected a United States Senator from New Jersey
as a Republican in place of John P. Stockton,
Democrat, who had been unseated, and served
from December 3, 1866, to March 3, 1871; died at
Jamestown, N. Y., April 8, 1894.
Caulfield, Barnard G. , was born at Alexan-
dria, Va., October 18, 1828; graduated from George-
town College, District of Columbia, in 1848, and
in 1850 from the law department of the University
of Pennsylvania; moved to Chicago in 1853, where
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he commenced to practice; elected a Representa-
tive from Illinois to the Forty-third Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of John B.
Rice, and took his seat February 1, 1875; had pre-
viously been elected to the Forty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat.
Causey, Jolin Williams, was born at Milford,
Kent County, Del., September 19, 1841; educated
in the schools of his native town, Albany Academy,
New York, and Pennsylvania Agricultural College;
engaged in farming and fruit growing; elected to
the State senate for 1875-1877; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic convention in 1884; appointed
internal-revenue collector for Delaware by Presi-
dent Cleveland; elected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; returned to
Milford, Del.
Causin, John M. S., was born in Maryland in
1811; received a liberal education; studied law
and commenced practice at Leonardtown; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives for several
years; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; in 1848
Presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore
ticket; died at Cairo, 111., January 30, 1861.
Cavanaugh., James M. , was born at Spring-
field, Mass., July 4, 1823; engaged in newspaper
work; studied and practiced law; in 1854 settled
in Minnesota, and elected from that State a Repre-
sentative to the Thirty-flfth Congress; moved to
Colorado and continued the practice of law in 1861 ;
also engaged in mining; member of the convention
that framed the constitution of the State of Col-
orado; in 1866 went to Montana; elected a Dele-
gate from Montana to the Fortieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-first Congress.
Cessna, John, was born in Bedford County,
Pa., June 29, 1821; in 1842 graduated from Mar-
shall College, Mercersburg; tutor in that institu-
tion for a short time; afterwards studied law and
admitted to the bar in 1845; member of the
State legislature in 1850, 1851, 1862, and 1863,
serving as speaker of the house in 1851 and 1863;
delegate to the Cincinnati convention of 1856, to
the Charleston and Baltimore conventions of 1860,
and to the Chicago convention of 1868; chairman
of the Republican State convention and chairman
of the Republican State central committee, 1865;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican; defeated for
the Forty-second Congress; elected to the Forty-
third Congress; in 1875 appointed by President
Grant assistant attorney-general, but declined;
died December 13, 1893.
Chace, Jonathan, was born at Fall River,
Mass., September 22, 1829; received an academic
education; moved to Central Falls, R. I.; cotton
manufacturer; member of the Rhode Island State
senate 1876 and 1877; elected to the Forty-seventh
and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Republican,
resigning to become a United States Senator from
Rhode Island, having been elected to succeed
Henry B. Anthony, deceased; took his seat Jan-
uary 26, 1885 ; subsequently reelected, but resigned
April 9, 1889; president of the Phenix National
Bank of Providence, R. I., and interested in sev-
eral manufacturing enterprises; resides at Central
Falls, R. I.
Chaffee, Calvin C. , was born at Saratoga, N. Y. ,
August 28, 1811; received a liberal education;
studied medicine and graduated from the medical
school of Middlebury College; located at Spring-
field, Mass., where he commenced practice;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Know Nothing, and
reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; librarian of
the House of Representatives 1859-1861; located
at Washington, D, C, 1861-1876.
Chaffee, Jerome B., was born in Niagara
County, N. Y., April 17, 1825; received a liberal
education; in 1846 moved to Adrian, Mich., sub-
sequently settling in St. Joseph, Mo., and Elm-
wood, Kans., conducting a banking and real
estate business in both places; moved to Colorado
in 1860, where he established himself as a banker
and a mining capitalist; elected to the legislature
of Colorado in 1861, 1862, and 1863, serving the
last year as speaker of the house; in 1865 elected
by the State legislature of the proposed State of
Colorado a United States Senator; one of the
founders of the city of Denver; in 1865 became
president of the first national bank in Denver;
elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Con-
gresses as a Republican; elected United States
Senator as a Republican on the admission of Colo-
rado as a State and served from December 4, 1876,
to March 3, 1879; died at Salem Center, N. Y.,
March 9, 1886.
Chalmers, James Ronald, of Vicksburg, Miss.,
was born in Halifax County, Va. , January 11, 1831 ;
moved to Mississippi in May, 1839; attended
school at Holly Springs, Miss., and graduated from
South Carolina College, Columbia, in December,
1851; studied law and admitted to the bar in
1853; elected district attorney for the seventh
-judicial district of Mississippi in -1858; member of
the secession convention of Mississippi in 1861,
and chairman of the committee on military affairs;
entered the Confederate service as a captain in
March, 1861; elected colonel of the Ninth Missis-
sippi Regiment in April, 1861 ; promoted brigadier-
general in February, 1862; transferred to the
cavalry service in 1863; surrendered in May, 1865,
in command of the first division of Forrest's
Cavalry Army Corps; member of the State senate
of Mississippi in 1876 and 1877; elected to the
Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Forty -eighth Congress as an
Independent, indorsed by both the Greenback and
Republican conventions; deprived of the certifi-
cate of election by an illegal count of the votes
by the secretary of state of Mississippi, and after
a contest seated on the 25th of June, 1884; prac-
ticed law in Memphis, Tenn., where he died
April 9, 1898.
Chalmers, Joseph W., was a lawyer at Holly
Springs, Miss. ; appointed a United States Senator
from Mississippi in place of Robert J. Walker and
subsequently elected for the vacant term, serving
from December 7, 1845, to March 3, 1847; resumed
the practice of law in partnership with Robert
Barton.
Chamberlain, Ebenezer M. , was born at
Orrington, Me., August 20, 1805; educated in the
public schools; worked in a shipyard; taught
school and studied law; moved to Connersville,
Ind., in 1832, where he completed his studies;
admitted to the bar and commenced to practice in
Elkhart County in 1833 ; member of the State house
of representatives in 1835 and 1837; elected a Repre-
sentative from Indiana to theThirty-third Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress; resumed the practice of law at Goshen.
Chamberlain, Jacob P., was born in Massa-
chusetts and educated in the public schools ; moved
to Seneca Falls, N. Y.; elected a Representative
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from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Republican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March
3, 1863; died at Seneca Falls, N. Y., October 5,
1878.
Chataberlaiu, Joh.n C. , was bom in 1772; grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1793; studied law,
and commenced practice at Alstead, N. H. ; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Elev-
enth Congress as a Federalist, serving from Mav
22, 1809, to March 3, 1811; died at Utica, N. Y.",
December 8, 1834.
Chamberlam, William, was born in the State
of Vermont, and received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced ; State councilor 1796-
1803; Presidential elector in 1801; chief justice of
the State court of common pleas 1801-1803; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Eighth Con-
gress; defeated for the Ninth and Tenth Con-
gresses; elected to the Eleventh Congress; defeated
for the Twelfth Congress; lieutenant-governor of
Vermont 1813-1815.
Chambers, David, was born at AUentown, Pa. ,
Marchl7, 1780; received a liberal education; served
in the whisky insurrection campaign as a confi-
dential express rider for President Washington;
learned the art of printing; spent sixteen years on
a farm in Virginia; moved to Zanesville, Ohio,
where he established a newspaper and was elected
State printer; secretary of the senate of Ohio when
the seat of government was mOved to Columbus;
volunteer aid-de-camp to General Cass in the war of
1812; served as recorder and mayor of Zanesville;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Seven-
teenth Congress ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives for several years, serving as speaker in
1844; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion of 1851; died at Zanesville, Ohio, Augusts,
1864.
Chambers, Ezekiel F., was born in Kent
County, Md., February 28, 1788; graduated from
Washington College in 1805; studied law, and in
1808 commenced practice; served in the war of
1812, attaining rank of brigadier-general; in 1822
member of the State senate; elected a United States
Senator from Maryland as a Whig, in place of
Edward Lloyd, resigned, serving from February
22, 1826, until 1834, when he resigned; in 1834 ap-
pointed presiding judge of the second judicial
circuit of Maryland, which position he held until
1851, when, by change of constitution, the judi-
ciary of Maryland became elective; in 1852 was
offered the position of Secretary of the Navy by
President Mllmore, but declined on account of
ill health; defeated as Democratic candidate for
governor of Maryland in 1864; died at Chester-
town, Md., January 30, 1867.
Ch.am.bers, Greorge, was born at Chambers-
burg, Pa., February 24, 1786; graduated from
Princeton College in 1804; studied law, and in
1807 was admitted to the bar; commenced practice
at Chambersburg; elected a Representative to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Whig; member of the State constitutional conven-
tion of Pennsylvania in 1837; appointed a justice
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania April 12,
1851, which position he held until it was vacated
by constitutional provisions; died March 25, 1866.
Chambefs, Henry, studied medicine and
practiced at Madison, Ala. ; elected a United States
Senator from Alabama, serving from December 5,
1825, until his death, which occurred in Virginia
on his way to Washington, January 25, 1826.
Chambers, John, was bom in New Jersey De-
cember 4, 1779; educated in the public schools;
moved with his father to Kentucky in 1792; stud-
ied law and in 1800 admitted to the bar; served as
aid-de-oamp to General Harrison in the war of
1812, and was at the battle of the Thames; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twentieth
Congress (in place of Thomas Metcalfe, resigned)
as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses; governor of the Territory
of Iowa 1841-1846; commissioner to negotiate a
treaty with the Sioux Indians in 1849; died near
Paris, Ky., September 21, 1852.
Champion, Epaphroditus, was born at East
Haddam, Conn., February 1, 1752; educated in the
common schools; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Tenth Congress as a Federalist;
reelected to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fourteenth Congresses; died at East Haddam,
Conn., November 22, 1835.
Champlin, Christopher Grant, was born at
Newport, R. I., April 12, 1768; graduated from
Harvard College in 1786, and continued his studies
at the College of St. Omer in France; elected a Rep-
resentative from Rhode Island to the Fifth and
Sixth Congresses; elected a United States Senator
from Rhode Island in place of Francis Malbone,
deceased; took his seat January 12, 1810, serving
until 1811, when he resigned; president of the
Rhode Island Bank for many years, which position
he held until his death, at Newport, .R. I., March
18, 1840.
Chandler, John (brother of Thomas Chandler,
and uncle of Zachariah Chandler), was born at
Epping, N. H.; received a liberal education; took
part in the Revolutionary war; moved to the
Maine district of Massachusetts and settled on a
farm at Monmouth; member of the State senate
1803 to 1805; elected a Representative from the
Maine district of Massachusetts to the Ninth and
Tenth Congresses; elected a United States Senator
from Maine on the admission of that State and re-
elected, serving from November 13, 1820, to March
3, 1829; collector of customs at Portland 1829-1837;
died at Augusta, Me., September.25, 1841.
Chandler, Joseph R. , was born at Kingston,
Mass., in 1792; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law, and practiced at Philadelphia; editor of
the United States Gazette; grand master of the
Freemasons of Pennsylvania; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses as a
Whig; appointed by President Buchanan minister
to the Two Sicilies, serving from June 15, 1858, to
November 15, 1860; editor of the Philadelphia
North American; died at Philadelphia, Pa.
Chandler, Thomas, was born at Bedford, N. H.,
August 10, 1772; educated in the public schools;
farmer and a teacher of sacred music; justice of
the peace in 1808; captain of militia in 1815; mem-
ber of the State legislature in 1818, and again in
1827; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire as a Democrat to the Twenty-first and
Twenty-second Congresses; died at Bedford, N. H.,
January 28, 1866.
■ Chandler, William Eaton, of Concord, N. H.,
was born at Concord, N. H., December 28, 1835;
received a common school education; studied law;
graduated from Harvard Law School, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1855; appointed reporter of
the decisions of the supreme court in 1859; mem-
ber of the New Hampshire house of representa-
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tives in 1862, 1863, and 1864, serving as speaker
during the last two years; became solicitor and
judge-advocate-general of the Navy Department
March 9, 1865; appointed First Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury June 17, 1865, which office he re-
signed November 30, 1867; member of the New
Hampshire constitutional convention in 1876;
again a member of the New Hampshire house of
representatives in 1881; appointed by President
Garfield Solicitor-General March 23, 1881, but was
rejected by the Senate; appointed by President
Arthur Secretary of the Navy April 12, 1882, and
served till March 7, 1885; elected to the United
States Senate June 14, 1887, as a Eepublican, to
fill the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike, deceased,
serving until March 3,1889; elected June 18,1889,
and again January 16, 1895, serving until March 3,
1901 ; appointed in 1901 by President McKinley
president of the Spanish Claims Commission.
Chandler, Zachariah., was born at Bedford,
N. H., December 10, 1813; received a liberal edu-
cation ; moved to Michigan, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits; mayor of Detroit in 1851;
elected a United States Senator from Michigan as
a Eepublican to succeed Lewis Cass, Democrat, in
1857; reelected in 1863 and again in 1869, serving
from' March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1875; appointed
Secretary of the Interior by President Grant, serv-
ing from October 19, 1875, to March 3, 1877;
chairman of the national Republican executive
committee in 1868 and 1876; elected a United States
Senator from Michigan, serving from February
19, 1879, until his death, November 1, 1879, at
Chicago, 111.
Chaney, Jolin, was born in Maryland in 1801;
educated in the common schools; moved to Ohio;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Democrat, defeating
W. W. Irvin, Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses; died at Court-
wright, Ohio. •
Cliariler, Joh.n Winthrop, was born in New
York C'ity in 1826; graduated from Columbia Col-
lege, New York, in 1847; studied law, and after-
wards practiced ; member of the New York State
assembly from the tenth district of New York
City for 1858 and 1859; nominated State senator
from the fifth district in 1860, but declined; de-
feated for the Thirty-seventh Congress; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
. eighth. Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a
Democrat; died near Rhinebeck, N. Y., October
19, 1877.
Chanler, William Aster, of New York City,
was born June 11, 1867, at Newport, R. I., son of
John Winthrop Chanler, who served several terms
in the legislature of New York State and repre-
sented the Seventh Congressional district of that
State for three terms; educated at St. John's
School, Sing Sing, Phillips Academy, Exeter,
N. H., and Harvard University, which he left to
undertake explorations in Africa, the result of his
travels having been published in a book; had con-
ferred upon him the degree of A. M. by Harvard
University, and became a member of two Euro-
pean geographical societies; elected to the assem-
bly in the New York State legislature in 1897;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Chapin, Alfred C, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at South Hadley, Mass., March 8, 1848;
resided in Springfield, Mass., in Keene, N. H., and
in Rutland, Vt. ; educated in public and private
schools, and at Williams College, from which latter
he was graduated in 1869, and at Harvard Law
School, from which he graduated in 1871; moved
to New York in 1871; member of the New York
assembly in 1882 and 1883, being speaker in the
latter year; elected State comptroller in 1883 and
in 1885; elected mayor of Brooklyn in 1887 and in.
1889; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; resigned November 16, 1892; appointed
railroad commissioner of New York State in 1892.
Chapiu, Chester W., was born at Ludlow,
Mass., December 16, 1798; educated in the com-
mon schools; engaged in mercantile work for five
years; mail contractor, running post coaches and
steamboats; member of the constitutional conven-
tion of Massachusetts in 1853; interested in farm-
ing, manufacturing, banking, and president of the
Boston and Albany Railroad Company; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Forty-fifth Congress; amassed a fortune in trans-
portation; diedatSpringfleld, Mass., June 10, 1883.
Chapin, Graham H. , was born in Connecticut
in 1799; graduated from Yale College in 1817;
moved to Rochester, N. Y. ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died at Mount Morris, N. Y.,
September 8. 1843.
Chapman, Andre-w Grant, of Laplata, Md.,
was born at Laplata, Charles County, Md., Jan-
uary 17, 1839; educated at Charlotte Hall Acad-
emy and at the University of Virginia; entered
St. Johns College, Annapolis, whence he gradu-
ated with honor in 1858; returning to the Uni-
versity of Virginia, remained for two years in
the law department; went to Baltimore, where
he read law in the office of William A. Stewart;
admitted to the bar in 1860; returned to Charles
County and commenced practice at Port Tobacco
in 1864; engaged in ^ricultural pursuits; member
of the State house of delegates in 1868, 1870, and
1872; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat.
Chapman, Augustus A., was born in Virginia
in 1816; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Van Buren Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress;
defeated as a Democratic candidate for the Thir-
tieth Congress.
Chapman, Bird B. , was born in Connecticut
and educated in the public schools; moved to
Omaha, Nebr.; elected a Delegate from the Ne-
braska Territory to the Thirty-fourth Congress,
his seat being unsuccessfully contested by Hiram
P. Bennett.
Chapman, Charles, was born at Newtown,
Conn., June 21, 1799; received aliberal education;
studied law at the Litchfield Law School, and in
1827 commenced practice at New Haven; moved
to Hartford in 1828 and became editor of the
New England Review; elected to the State legis-
lature as a Whig for three successive tei;ms; United
States district attorney 1841-1848; defeated as the
AVhig candidate for the Thirty-first Congress;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Thirty -second Congress; defeated as a temperance
candidate for governor of Connecticut in 1854;
when the Republican party was formed identified
himself with the Democracy and was sent to the
State legislature three times by that party; died
at Hartford, Conn., August 7, 1869.
Chapman, Henry, was born at Newton, Pa.,
February 4, 1804; studied law and afterwards
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449
practiced at Doylestown; elected a State senator
in 1843, and two years afterwards appointed judge
of the fifteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania,
where he served four years; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thi rty-fif th Congress
as a Democrat; elected judge of the Bucks County
court in 1861 and retired in 1871; died near Doyles-
town, Pa., April 11, 1891.
Chapman, Johri, was born in Pennsylvania
and elected a Eepresentative from that State to
the Fifth Congress.
Chapman, John G. , was born in Charles
County, Md., July 5, 1798; received a liberal edu-
cation, having been a student at Yale College;
studied law, and in 1820 commenced practice;
member of the State house of representatives of
Maryland 1824-1839, 1843, and 1844, and of the
State senate in 1840; elected a Eepresentative from
Maryland to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig,
and reelected to the Thirtieth Congress without
opposition; president of the constitutional conven-
tion of Maryland in 1851 ; president of the national
Whig convention at Baltimore in 1856; died at
Port Tobacco, Md., December 10, 1856.
Chapman, Beuhen, was born in Virginia in
1806; received an academic education; moved to
Somerville, Ala.; elected a Eepresentative from
Alabama as a Democrat to the Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, Twenty- sixth. Twenty-seventh,
Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses
without opposition; governor of Alabama 1847-
1849.
Chapman, 'William W., was one of the first
settlers at Burlington, Iowa; elected the first Del-
egate from Iowa to the Twenty-fifth Congress and
reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving
from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841.
Chappell, Ahsalom H., was born in Georgia;
studied law and afterwards practiced at Macon;
elected a Eepresentative from Georgia to the
Twenty-eighth Congress (in the place of John G.
Lamar, resigned) as a State Eights Whig.
Chappell, John Joel, was born on Little Eiver,
in Fairfield District, S. C, January 19, 1782; moved
with his parents to Eichland District; received a
liberal education; studied laW, and in 1805 com-
menced practice at Columbia; colonel during the
war of 1812, but his regiment saw no active service;
elected a Eepresentative from South Carolina to
the Thirteenth Congress as a State Eights War
Democrat; reelected to the Fourteenth Congress;
defeated for reelection to the Fifteenth and Six-
teenth Congresses; defeated as a candidate for
secretary of state of South Carolina; resumed the
practice of law and practiced until 1849; director
of the Columbia branch of the State Bank of South
Carolina 1830-1858; moved to Alabama and became
a cotton planter; died in Lowndes County May 23,
1871.
Charlton, Robert M., was born at Savannah,
Ga. , January 19, 1807; received a liberal education;
studied law, and afterwards practiced at Savannah ;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected United States district attorney; elected a
judge of the superior court in 1835; resigned to
devote himself to his profession; appointed a Sen-
ator from Georgia (in place of J. Macpherson Ber-
rien, resigned), serving from June 11, 1852, to
March 3, 1853; mayor of Savannah; died at Savan-
nah, Ga., January 8, 1854.
Chase (or Chace), Dudley (uncle of Salmon P.
Chase), was bom at Cornish, N. H., December 30,
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1771 ; received a liberal education, graduating from
Dartmouth College in 1791; studied law, and prac-
ticed at Eandolph, Vt. ; State attorney for Orange
County 1803-1811; a delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention of 1814 and of 1822; for several
years a member of the State house of representa-
tives, and speaker 1813-1817; elected a United
States Senator from Vermont in the place of Ste-
phen E. Bradley, serving from May 24, 1813, to 1817,
when he resigned; chief justice of the supreme
court of Vermont 1817-1821; elected a United
States Senator in the place of William A. Palmer,
serving ivora December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1831;
died at Eandolph, Vt., February 23, 1846.
Chase, George W., was born at Schenevus,
ISr. Y.; defeated as the Whig candidate for the
Thirty-second Congress; elected a Eepresentative
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig; died at
Maryland, N. Y., May 1, 1867.
Chase, Jeremiah T., was born in Maryland;
a Delegate from that State to the Continental
Congress 1783 to 1784.
Chase, Lucien B., was born in Vermont
August 9, 1817; moved to Clarksville, Tenn.;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses as a
Democrat; died December 14, 1864.
Chase, Salmon Portland, was born at Cornish,
N. H., January 13, 1808; student at the Cincin-
nati College, Ohio, for one year; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1826; taught school and
studied law at Washington, and in 1829 admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Cincinnati in
1830; devoted some time to literary work; school
examiner of Cincinnati in 1839; elected as a Whig
to the Cincinnati city council in 1840; identified
himself in 1841 with the Liberty Party, and was a
participant in its national conventions at Buffalo
in 1843 and at Cincinnati in 1847; in 1848 mem-
ber of the national Free Soil convention at Buf-
falo, which nominated Van Buren; elected to the
United States Senate (by a coalition under which
the Free Sellers gave all the State ofiices to the
Democrats in consideration for their electing him
Senator) , and served from March 4, 1849, to March
4, 1855; elected governor of Ohio in 1855 as a Free
Soil Democrat and reelected in 1857 as a Eepub-
lican; member of the national peace convention in
1868; elected a United States Senator in 1860; took
his seat March 4, 1^61, but resigned the next day
to become Secretary of the Treasury under Presi-
dent Lincoln, which position he held until Sep-
tember, 1864, when he resigned; appointed Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court December 6, 1864;
presided at the impeachment trial of President
Johnson, in 1866; died at New York May 7, 1873.
Chase, Samuel, was born in Somerset County,
Md., April 17, 1741; received a liberal education;
studied law, and afterwards practiced at Annap-
olis; member of the general assembly of Maryland,
1764-1784; elected as a Delegate from Maryland to
the Continental Congress, 1774, and reelected in
1776; sent on a special mission to Canada in 1774,
to induce the Canadians to join in the revolution
against Great Britain; signer of the Declaration of
Independence; went to England, in 1783 as agent
for the State of Maryland, to recover the stock in
the Bank of England which the State had pur-
chased when a British colony; removed to Balti-
more in 1786; appointed judge of the general court
of Maryland in 1791, and judge of the Baltimore
criminal court in 1793; appointed in 1796, by
President Washington, a justice of the Supreme
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Court; impeached in 1804, througli the exertions
of John Kandolph, on charges of malfeasance in
office seyeral years previous; tried by the Senate
in 1805, and acquitted of all the charges; died June
19, 1811.
Ch.ase, Samuel, was born at Cooperstown,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from that State to
the Twentieth Congress as an Adams Democrat.
Chastain, Elijah. W., was born in South Car-
olina; settled in Tacoah, Ga. ; held several public
offices; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses as
a Union Democrat.
Chaves, J. Francisco, was born at Padillas,
N. Mex. , June 27, 1833; educated at St. Louis, Mo. ;
studied medicine at the New York College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons; engaged in mercantile and
agricultural pursuits in New Mexico; major of
the First New Mexico Infantry in the Union
Army; promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel;
elected a Delegate from New Mexico to the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses.
Cheadle, Joseph. B., of Indiana, was born at
Perrysville, Vermilion County, Ind., August 14,
1842; received a good English education; entered
Asbury as a student, but upon the organization of
the Seventy-first Indiana Volunteers enlisted as a
private in Company K, and served until the close
of the war; returning home, he entered upon the
study of law, and graduated from Indianapolis
Law College in 1867; began the practice of law at
Newport, Ind. , and continued the same until Novem-
ber, 1873, when he entered the editorial profession,
which occupation he has since followed; elected to
the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Repub-
lican; unsuccessful candidate for Congress on fusion
ticket against Chas. B. Landis in 1896.
Cheatham, Heury Plummer, of Henderson,
N. C, was born at Granville, N. C, December 27,
1857; attended public and private schools near the
town of Henderson while a boy; when 18 years of
age entered the normal department of Shaw Uni-
versity, at Raleigh; at 21 entered the college
department of the university, and graduated with
honors in 1882, receiving the degree of A. B. ;
elected principal of the Plymouth State Normal
School immediately after graduation, and served
in that capacity until 1885; elected register of
deeds of Vance County ; read law very extensively ;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Fifty-second Congress;
recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia at
Washington, 'D. C.
Cheatham, Richard, was born at Springfield,
Tenn., and elected a Representative from that
State to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig,
serving from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839;
defeated for reelection to the Twenty-sixth
Congress.
Cheney, P. C, was born at Holderness, now
Ashland, N. H., February 25, 1828; received a
common school education; engaged in the manu-
facture of paper; member of the New Hampshire
legislature 1853; quartermaster of the Thirteenth
Regiment, but was forced to resign on account of
ill health; State railroad commissioner 1864-1867;
moved to Manchester in 1867; elected mayor in
1871; governor of New Hampshire 1875-76 and
1876-77; appointed a United States Senator from
New Hampshire as a Republican, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of A. F. Pike; took his
seat December 7, 1886; term expired June 14, 1887;
died at Dover, N. H., June 19, 1901.
Chesnut, James, jr., was born near Camden,
S. C, in 1815; graduated from Princeton College;
member of the State house of representatives of
South Carolina 1842-1852, and of the State senate
1854r-1858; appointed to the United States Senate
as a State Rights Democrat (in the place of J. J.
Evans, deceased) and subsequently elected, serv;
ing from January 5, 1859, until he resigned, No-
vember 10, 1860; expelled July 11, 1861; delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provi-
sional Congress in 1861; colonel in the Confederate
army, and held a position as aid-de-camp on the
staff of Jefferson Davis in 1861; appointed briga-
dier-general in 1864, and assigned to the command
of a iDrigade on the coast of South Carolina'; mem-
ber of the national Democratic convention of 1868,
which nominated Seymour and Blair; died at
Camden, S. C, February 1, 1885.
Chetwood, William., was born at Elizabeth-
town, N. J., in 1769; graduated from Princeton
College in 1792; studied law and practiced; mem-
ber of the State council of New Jersey; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, in place of Philemon Dickerson,
resigned, serving from December 5, 1836, to March
3,1837; resumed the practice of law; diedatEhza-
bethtown, N. J., December 18, 1857.
Cheves, Iiang'don, was born on Rocky River,
Abbeville District, S. C, September 17, 1776; re-
ceived a limited education; moved with his father
to Charleston in 1786; clerk in a store; studied
law, and in 1797 admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at Charleston; member of the general
assembly in 1808 and State attorney-general the
same year; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Eleventh Congress, in place of Rob-
ert Marion, resigned; reelected to the Twelfth and
Thirteenth Congresses, presiding as Speaker dur-
ing the second session; declined a reelection and
resumed the practice of law; elected law judge in
December, 1816; elected president of the Bank of
the United States March 6, 1819; chief commis-
sioner of claims under the treaty of Ghent; prac-
ticed at Philadelphia and at Lancaster, but in 1830
returned to South Carolina and engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; delegate to the Southern con-
vention at Nashville in 1850 and to the Southern
convention at Columbia in 1852; died at Columbia,
S. C, June 26, 1852.
Chickering, Charles A. , of Copenhagen, N.Y.,
was born at Harrisburg, Lewis County, N. Y.,
November 26, 1843; educated in common schools
and at Lowville Academy; for a time a teacher in
that institution; school commissioner of Lewis
County 1865 to 1875; member of assembly 1879
to 1881; elected clerk of the assembly in 1884 and
reelected in 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican,
and reelected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and
Fifty-sixth Congresses; died February 13, 1900.
Chilcott, George M. , was born in Huntingdon
County, Pa., January 2, 1828; moved with his
parents to Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1844; studied
medicine and taught school until 1850; elected
sheriff of Jefferson County in 1853; moved to Ne-
braska in 1856 and elected the same year to the Ter-
ritorial legislature as a Republican; moved to Col-
orado in 1859; member of the legislature of Colo-
rado in 1861 and 1862; admitted to the bar in 1863
and appointed register of the United States land
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offlce-for Colorado, and served four years; elected
a Bepresentative to Congress in 1865 under the State
organization, but was not admitted; elected a Del-
egate from Colorado to the Fortieth Congress as a
Eepublican.
Childs, Kobert A., of Hinsdale, 111., was born
at Malone, Franklin County, N. Y., March 22,
1845; settled near Belvidere, Boone County, 111.,
in 1852; at the age of 16 enlisted in Gen. Stephen
A. Hurlbut's company, which subsequently be-
came a part of the Fifteenth Illinois Infantry Vol-
unteers, and served throughout the war; after his
discharge from the Army, he entered school and
graduated from the Illinois State Normal Univer-
sity in 1870; principal and superintendent of the
public schools at Amboy, Lee County, 111., in 1871,
1872, and 1873; entered upon the practice of law at
Chicago in July, 1873, settling at Hinsdale, a suburb
of Chicago; held various local offices; was Presi-
dential elector in 1884; elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a Eepublican.
Childs, Thomas, jr. , was born in New York
'City; elected a Bepresentative from New York to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American Whig,
but never took his seat, owing to prolonged illness.
Childs, Timothy, was born at Pittsfield, Mass. ;
moved to Rochester, N. Y. ; member of the State
house of representatives in 1828; elected a Bepre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-first Con-
gress as a Whig; elected to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses, also to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; died at Santa Cruz November 8,
1847.
Chilton, Horace, of Tyler, Tex., was born in
Smith County, Tex., December 29, 1853; an attor-
ney at law; delegate at large from Texas to the
national Democratic convention at St. Louis in
1888; served one term as assistant attorney -general
of Texas, by appointment of Governor 0. M. Rob-
erts; appointed a United States Senator by Gover-
nor Hogg, to fill the vacancy created by the resig-
nation of Hon. John H. Beagan, in April, 1891, but
failed of election when the legislature convened;
became a candidate again in 1894, made a canvass
of the State, and elected to the United States
Senate, as the successor of Hon. Bichard Coke
(who did not desire reelection), on January 23,
1895.
Chilton, Samuel, was born at Warrenton, Va.,
September 7, 1804; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced at Warrenton; member
of the State house of representatives for several
years; elected a Bepresentative from Virginia to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; was a del-
egate to the State constitutional convention; died
at Warrenton, Va., January 14, 1867.
Chilton, Thomas, was born at Elizabethtown,
Ky. ; elected a Bepresentative from Kentucky to
the Twentieth and Twenty-third Congresses.
Chinn, Joseph W. , was born at Nuttsville, Va. ;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-third Congress, defeating John Talia-
ferro, Whig; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; died at Bichmond, Va., Decem-
ber 5, 1840.
Chinn, Thomas "W., was born in Kentucky;
moved to Baton Bouge. La., where he held sev-
eral public offices; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig;
appointed by President Taylor minister to the
Two Sicilies, and served from Jnne 5, 1849, until
October of the same year, when he resigned.
Chipman, Daniel, was born atSalisbury, Conn.,
in 1765; graduated from Dartmouth College in
1788; studied law and commenced practice at Bip-
ton, Vt. ; member of the State house of represent-
atives for several years, serving four years as
speaker; elected a Bepresentative from Vermont
to the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist; died
at Bipton, Vt., April 23, 1850.
Chipman, J. Logan, of Detroit, Mich., was
born at Detroit, Mich., June 5, 1830; educated in
the schools of that city and at the University of
Michigan; engaged in the Lake Superior region as
an explorer for the Montreal Mining Company in
1846; admitted to the bar in 1854, and participated
in making the treaty of Detroit with the Ottawas
and Ohippewas of Michigan; assistant clerk of the
State house of representatives of Michigan in 1853;
elected city attorney of Detroit in 1856, and held
that position till 1861; elected to the Michigan leg-
islature in 1863; appointed attorney of the police
board of Detroit in 1865; ran for Congress on the
Democratic ticket in 1866, but was defeated; re-
tained the office of attorney of police till May 1,
1879, when he was elected judge of the superior
court of Detroit, to which position he was reelected
at the end of six years; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses; died
August 17, 1893.
Chipman, John S., was born in Vermont;
graduated from Middlebury College in 1823 ; moved
to Centerville, Mich., where he held several local
offices; elected a Bepresentative from Michigan
to .the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat;
moved to California.
Chipman, Nathaniel, was born at Salisbury,
Conn., November 15, 1752; graduated from Yale
College in 1777; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Tinmouth, Vt. ; was professor of law at
Middlebury College for many years; elected a
judge of the State supreme court in 1786 and
chosen chief justice in 1789; appointed judge of
the United States district court in 1791, serving
until 1794, when he was again elected chief justice
of the State supreme court; elected United States
Senator from Vermont in place of Isaac Tichenor,
resigned, serving from November 22, 1797, until
March 3, 1803; died at Tinmouth, Vt., February
13, 1843.
Chipman, Norton P., was born at Milford
Center, Ohio, March 7, 1834; educated in the
public schools; moved to Iowa in 1845 and entered
Washington College; afterwards attended the law
school at Cincinnati; returned to Washington,
Iowa, and commenced the practice of law; entered'
the Union Army and attained the rank of briga-
dier-general; settled at Washington, D. C, where
he had previously been on duty for two years;
appointed secretary of the Territorial government
of the District of Columbia at its organization;
elected as a Delegate from the District of Columbia
to the Forty-second Congress as a Bepublican and
reelected to the Forty-third Congress; moved to
California and engaged in the lumber business.
Chittenden, Martin, was born at Salisbury,
Conn., March 12, 1769; moved with his parents to
Williston, Vt., in 1776; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1789; engaged in agricultural pursuits;
delegate to the State convention that ratified the
Federal Constitution; elected clerk of Chittenden
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County in 1790; member of the State house of
representatives 1790 to 1796; judge of the Chitten-
den County court 1793-1795 and chief justice 1796-
1803; elected a Representative from Vermont to
the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth
Congresses; governor of Vermont 1813 and 1814;
judge of probate 1821-1823; died at Williston, Vt.,
September 5, 1841.
Cliittendeii, Simeon B., of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was born at Guilford, Conn., March 29, 1814; re-
ceived an academic education; entered a store in
early life at New Haven, Conn. ; moved to New
York in 1843, where he engaged in mercantile
pursuits; vice-president of the New York Chamber
of Commerce from 1867 to 1869; a Presidential
elector in 1872; one of the first directors in the
Continental Bank and in the Continental Fire
Insurance Company; trustee of the United States
Trust Company; director in the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western and other railroads; president
of the New Haven and New London Shore Line
Railroad of Connecticut; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Republican; founder of the Church
of the Pilgrims, the Brooklyn Library, and the
Long Island Historical Society; contributed liber-
allv to the support of each; to Yale University, in
1887, he gave $250,000, including $100,000 for a
new fireproof library building, and proportionate
sums to the Brooklyn Art Association, Young
Women's Christian Association, Children's Aid
Society, the .Eye and Ear Infirmary, and to Yale
University for the endowment of a professorship,
conditioned that it should not be named after
him during his lifetime; died at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
April 14, 1889.
Chittenden, Thomas C, was born in Massa-
chusetts; moved to Adams, Jefferson County, N.
Y., and held several local offices there; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig.
Choate, Rnfus, was born at Ipswich, Mass.,
October 1, 1799; spent his early life on a farm;
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1819; tutor
at Dartmouth College for one year; studied law
and cominenced practice at Danvers; member of
the State house of representatives in 1825 and
State senator in 1826; moved to Salem in 1828;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-second Congress as a Whig; reelected
to the Twenty-third Congress by an increased
majority, but resigned at the close of the first
session; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts (to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Daniel Webster) and served from
March 1, 1841, to March 3, 1845, declining a reelec-
tion; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, but
•resigned February 2, 1855, as he could not indorse
the management of it; declined a seat on the bench
of the State supreme court; delegate to the Whig
national convention at Baltimore in 1852; declined
the attorney-generalship of Massachusetts in 1853;
died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859.
Chrisman, James S., was born in Kentucky;
a delegate to the State constitutional convention
in 1849; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Dem ocrat ; claimed
to have been elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress,
but the House gave the seat to Anderson; Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the First and Second
Confederate Congresses.
Christiancy, Isaac P., was born at Canoga
(then Johnstown), N. Y. , March 12, 1812; received
his education at the Johnstown and Ovid acade-
mies; studied law; moved to Monroe, Mich., in
1836, and soon afterwards commenced practice;
prosecuting attorney for Monroe County 1841-1846;
delegate to the Buffalo convention in 1848; State
senator in 1850-1852; unsuccessful Free Soil candi-
date for governor in 1852; delegate to the first
Republican national convention in Philadelphia in
1856; became editor and proprietor of the Monroe
Commercial in 1857; unsuccfssful candidate for
United States Senator; elected a judge of the
supreme court of Michigan in 1857, and reelected
in 1865 and 1873; chosen chief justice in 1872;
United States Senator from 1875 until 1879, when
he resigned, owin^ to ill health; served two years
as United States minister to Peru; died at Lansing,
Mich., September 8, 1890.
Christie, Gabriel, was born in Maryland;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Third, Fourth, and Sixth Congresses.
Churchill, John Charles, was born at Mooers,
N. Y., January 17, 1821; received his education at ,
Burr Seminary, Vermont, and Middlebury Col- '
lege, Vermont, graduating in 1843; taught lan-
guages for two years at Castleton Seminary; tutor
for one year at Middlebury College; studied law,
and in 1847 admitted to the bar; commenced prac-
tice at Oswego, N. Y. ; member of the board of
education of Oswego city from 1853 tcJ 1856, and of
the board of supervisors of Oswego County, 1854
and 1855 ; district attorney for Oswego County from
1857 to 1860; judge of Oswego County from 1860
to 1864; elected a Representative from New York
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, and re-
elected to the Forty-first Congress.
Churchwell, WiUiamM. , was born nearKnox-
ville, Tenn. ; one of the judges for Knox County;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Thirty-third Congress.
Cilley, Bradbury, was bom at Nottingham,
N. H., February 1, 1760; educated in the pubUc
schools; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Thirteenth Congress on the Peace
ticket, headed by Daniel Webster; reelected to
the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist, serving
from May 24, 1813, until March 3, 1817; was an aid-
de-camp to Governor Gillman; died at Notting-
ham, December 17, 1831.
Cilley, Jonathan, was born at Nottingham,
N. H., July 2, 1802; graduated from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1825; studied law, and in 1829 commenced
practice at Thomaston, Me. ; editor of the Thom-
aston Register 1829-1831; member of the State
house of representatives 1832 to 1837, serving as
speaker for two years; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Van Buren Democrat, serving from September 4,
1837, to February 24, 1838, when he was killed in
a duel near Washington by ■William Graves, a
Representative from Kentucky.
Cilley, Joseph, was born at Nottingham, N. H.,
January 4, 1791; commissioned as ensign of State
miUtia October 17, 1811, and as ensign in the
Regular Army March 12, 1812; served through
the Revolutionary war and resigned in July, 1816;
aid-de-camp to Governor Benjamin Pierce in 1827;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat
(to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Levi Woodbury, who had been appointed a jus-
tice of the Supreme Court) serving from June 22,
1846, until March 3, 1847; retired to his farm near
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Nottingham, N. H., where he spent the remainder
of his life; died at Nottingham, N. H., September
16, 1887.
Claflin, William, of Newton, Mass., was born at
Milf ord, Mass. , March 6, 1818 ; educated in the public
schools and at Brown University ; engaged for many
years in the shoe and leather business at St. Louis,
Mo., and afterwards at Boston; a member of the
State house of representatives 1849-1852, and of the
State senate 1860 and 1861, serving the last year as
president of the senate; member of the Republican
national executive committee from 1864 to 1875,
serving aa chairman from 1868 to 1872; lieutenant-
governor of Massachusetts 1866-1869; governor of
Massachusetts 1870-1872; elected to the Forty-fifth
and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Eepublican.
Clagett, Clifton, was born at Portsmouth, N. H.,
December 3, 1762; received a liberal education;
studied law and commenced practice at Litch-
field in 1787; appointefl judge of probate for
Hillsboro County in 1811, and moved to Am-
herst ; representative from Litchfield in the legis-
lature for several years, and from Amherst in 1816;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Eighth Congress; appointed a justice of the
peace and quorum in 1808; appointed a judge of
the superior court in 1812; again elected to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses; appointed
judge of probate August 5, 1823, and held the office
until his death, which occurred at Amherst, Jan-
uary 29, 1829.
Clagett, William H. , was born at Upper Marl-
boro, Md., September 21, 1838; received a Mmdted
education; studied law and afterwards practiced;
member of the legislature of Nevada in 1862-63,
and 1865; elected a Representative from Montana
to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican.
Claiborne, John, was born in Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Ninth and Tenth
Congresses, serving from December 2, 1805, until
his death, which occurred in 1808.
Claiborne, John F. H. , was born at Natchez,
Miss.; educated in Virginia; studied law and
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at
Natchez; member of the State legislature for sev-
eral years; elected a Representative from Missis^
sippi to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; claimed to have been reelected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, the House admitting him
to his seat October 3, 1837, but subsequently
reversing its decision and declaring the seat vacant,
serving from December 7, 1835, to January 31,
1838; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-fifth
Congress; editor of the Natchez Free Trader and
subsequently the Louisiana Courier; appointed by
President Pierce United States live-oak timber
agent for the districts of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert, was born in
Sussex County, Va., November 14, 1767; received
a liberal education; member of the State house
of delegates for several years; an executive coun-
cilor; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Nineteenth Congress, defeating Jabez Left-
wich; reelected to the Twentieth Congress; re-
elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses with-
out opposition; died at Bockymount, Va., August
15, 1839.
Claiborne, Thomas (father of John and
Thomas Claiborne), was born at Brunswick, Va.;
received a liberal education; elected a Represent-
ative from Virginia to the Third, Fourth, and
Fifth Congresses; defeated for reelection to the
Sixth Congress; elected to the Seventh and Eighth
Congresses; died at Brunswick, Va., in 1812.
Claiborne, Thomas, was bom at Brunswick,
Va. ; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Fifteenth Congress.
Claiborne, William Charles Cole, was born
in Virginia; studied law and commenced practice
at Nashville, Tenn. ; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses;
appointed governor of the Territory of Mississippi
in 1801 and of the newly acquired Louisiana in
1804; governor of Louisiana 1812 to 1816; elected
a United States 'Senator from Louisiana as a
Democrat, but died, before taking his seat, at New
Orleans, November 23, 1817.
Clancy, John M., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born in Ireland May 7, 1837; emigrated with
his parents to New York; educated in the public
schools of Brooklyn; engaged in real estate busi-
ness; served as an alderman of the city of Brook-
lyn 1868-1875; member of the State assembly 1878-
1881; elected to the Fiftj-first Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses.
Clapp, Asa W. H., was born at Portland, Me.,
in 1805; graduated from the military academy at
Norwich, Vt., in 1823; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; elected a Representative from Maine to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; director for
many years of the Maine General Hospital, the
Portland Public Library, and of other institutions;
died at Portland, Me., March 22, 1891.
Clapp, Moses Edwin, of St. Paul, Minn., was
born at Delphi, Ind., May 21, 1851; his parents
moved to Hudson, Wis., in 1857; after obtaining
a common school education, graduated from the
Wisconsin Law School in 1873; elected county
attorney of St. Croix County, Wis., in 1878;
moved to Fergus Falls, Minn., in 1881 and resided
there until 1891; elected attorney-general of Min-
nesota in 1887, 1889, and 1891, and moved to St.
Paul and made that his permanent home in 1891;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican January 23, 1901, to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Senator Davis, of Minnesota,
and took his seat January 28, 1901.
Clardy, John D., of Newstead, Ky., was bom
in Smith County, Tenn., August 30, 1828; went
with his parents to Christian County, Ky., in 1831;
graduated from Georgetown College, Kentucky,
in 1848, at the age of 19; studied medicine and
fraduated in the medical department of the
Fniversity of Pennsylvania in 1851; practiced
medicine for a number of years; devoted some
time to general farming and stock raising; elected
to represent Christian County in the constitutional
convention in 1890 ; candidate for governor in 1891 ;
appointed and served as one of the State commis-
sioners to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in
1893; elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Clardy, Martin Linn, of Farmington, Mo.,
was born in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo. ; educated
at the St. Louis University and the University of
Virginia; lawyer by profession; elected to the
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Clark, Abraham, was born near Elizabeth-
town, N. J., February 15, 1726; studied law, after-
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wards practicing at Eahway; sheriff of Union
County; clerk of the provincial assembly; a Dele-
gate from New Jersey to the Continental Con-
gress 1776-1782 and 1787-88; delegate to the
conventions of 1786 and 1787; member of the State
house of representatives 1782-1787; elected a Eep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Second and
Third Congresses, serving from October 24, 1791,
until his death, at Eahway, N. J., September 15,
1794.
Clark, Alvali A., of Somerville, N. J., was
born at Lebanon, N. J., September 13, 1840; pre-
pared for college, then commenced the study of
law; admitted as an attorney in November, 1864;
counselor in February, 1867; pever was a candi-
date for any position until nominated for Congress;
dected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Clark, Ambrose W. , was born near Coopers-
town, N. Y., February 19, 1810; educated in the
public schools; publisher of the Otsego Journal
for five years, of the Northern Journal in Lewis
County for eight years, and of the Northern New
York Journal at Watertown for sixteen* years;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March
3, 1865; appointed consul at Valparaiso by Presi-
dent Lincoln and served from 1865 to 1869; in 1869
acted as chargg d'affaires in Chile in the absence
of the minister.
Clark, Amos, jr. , was born at Westfield, N. J.,
November 8, 1827; received a liberal education;
engaged in business in New York City, still re-
maining a resident of Elizabeth where he was
largely interested in real estate; member of city
council of that city in 1865 and 1866; elected State
senator and served from 1866 to 1869; Presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1872; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican.
Clark, Champ, of Bowling Green, Mo., was
born March 7, 1850, in Anderson County, Ky. ;
educated in the common schools, Kentucky Uni-
versity, Bethany College, and Cincinnati Law
School; president of Marshall College, West Vir-
ginia, 1873-74; worked as a hired farm hand,
clerked in a country store, edited a country news-
paper, and practiced law; city attorney of Lou-
isiana and Bowling Green; deputy prosecuting
attorney and prosecuting attorney; Presidential
elector; delegate to Trans-Mississippi Congress at
Denver; elected to the Fifty-third Congress; de-
feated for the Fifty-fourth; elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses,
and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Clark, Charles B. , of Neenah, Wis., was born at
Theresa, Jefferson County, N. Y., August 24, 1844;
received a common school education;' moved to
Wisconsin in 1855, and settled in Neenah; engaged
in manufacturing; enlisted in Company I, Twenty-
first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at its organiza,-
tion, and served with the same during the war, held
various minor local offices; elected a member of
the assembly for 1885; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican;' died Sep-
tember 10, 1891.
Clark, Charles N., of Hannibal, Mo., was born
in Cortland County, N. Y., August 21, 1827; edu-
cated at Hamilton, N. Y., and moved to Illinois in
1859 ; when the war broke out he assisted in raising
a company of cavalry, which was made Company
G, Third Illinois Cavalry, August 6, 1861, and
went directly into active service at the front under
Col. E. A. Carr; becoming disabled from further
service, he left the Army in 1863 and located in
Hannibal in April, 1865; became interested in
the Mississippi River bottom lands in Illinois, op-
posite the city of Hannibal, in 1870, and imme-
diately began the work of their reclamation; be-
gan active work of erecting the Sny Island levee in
1872 and completed it in 1874, reclaiming over
100,000 acres of land from overflow by the river;
engaged in farming these lands for a number of
years; interested in the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi River; made a member of the executive
committee for the improvement of Western water-
ways; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican.
Clark, Christopher, was born in Virginia in
1767; received a liberal education; studied law and
practiced; member of the State legislature for sev-
eral years; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Eighth Congress as a Jeff ersonian Democrat,
in place of John Trigg, deceased; reelected to the
Ninth Congress, serving from November- 5, 1804,
until July 1, 1806, when he resigned; died near
New London, Va., November 21, 1828.
Clark, Clarence Don, of Evanston, Wyo., was
born at Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N. Y., April
16, 1851; educated in the common schools and at
the Iowa State University; admitted to the bar in
1874; taught school and practiced law in Delaware
County, Iowa, until 1881; in that year moved to
Evanston, Wyo.; prosecuting attorney for Uinta
County four years; delegate to the national Repub-
lican conventions of 1888 and 1900 ; appointed asso-
ciate justice of the Territory of Wyoming in 1890,
but declined the office; upon the admission of
Wyoming as a State was elected to the Fifty-first
and Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican; de-
feated for the Fifty-third Congress by a fusion of
Democrats and Populists; elected January 23, 1895,
to the United States Senate for the term ending
March 3, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the
failure of the legislature to elect in 1892-93, and
on Januarv 24, 1899, reelected for the term of
1899-1905. ■
Clark, Daniel, was born at Stratham, N. H.,
October 24, 1809; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1834; studied law and in 1837 commenced
practice at Epping, N. H. ; became a resident of
Manchester in 1839; member of the State legisla-
ture 1842, 1843, 1846, 1854, and 1855; elected a
United States Senator from New Hampshire as a
Republican in the place of James Bell, deceased;
reelected, serving from December 7, 1857, to July,
1866, when he resigned; President pro tempore
of the Senate during the first session of the
Thirty-eighth Confess; appointed July 27, 1866,
United States district judge, which oflice he held
until his death; president of the New Hampshire
constitutional convention in 1876; died in Man-
chester, N. H., January 2, 1891.
Clark, E^ra, jr., was born in Vermont; moved
to Hartford, Conn. ; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American Republican; reelected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Clark, Franklin, was born in Maine; educated
in the public schools; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits at Wiscasset, Me. ; member of the State house
of representatives; an executive councilor in 1855;
elected a representative from Maine to the Thir-
tieth Congress as a Democrat.
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Clark, Horace F., was born at Southbury,
Conn., in 1815; graduated from Williams College;
studied law and commenced practice in New York
City, where he became prominent in financial,
political, and railroad circles; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirty-flfth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress; died at New York City June 19, 1873.
Clark, James, was born in Bedford County,
Va., in 1779; moved with his parents to Clark
County, Ky.; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law in Virginia and commenced practice at
Winchester, Ky., in 1797; member of the State
house of representatives for several years; ap-
pointed judge of the court of appeals in 1810;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Clay Democrat; reelected
to the Fourteenth Congress without opposition,
serving from May 24, 1813, to 1816, when he re-
signed; judge of the circuit court 1817-1824;
elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; elected governor of Kentucky in
1836; died at Frankfort, Ky., Angiist 27, 1839.
Clark, James W. , was born in Bertie County,
N. 0., March 2, 1781; graduated from Princeton
College in 1796; member of the house df commons
of North Carolina in 1802, 1803, and 1811; Presi-
dential elector on the Madison ticket in 1812;
member of the State senate inl812, 1813, and 1814;
elected a Representative to the Fourteenth Con-
fress as a Democrat; appointed by Secretary
Iranch chief clerk of the Navy Department in
1828; died at Washington, D. C, January, 1844.
Clark, John B. , was born in Madison County,
Ky., April 17, 1802; studied law and commenced
gractice at Fayette, Mo.; clerk of the Howard
ounty courts 1824-1834; commanded a regiment
of Missouri Mounted Volunteers in the Black Hawk
warinl832; commissioned major-general of militia
in 1848; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1850 and 1851 ; commander of the State force
called out to expel the Mormons from Missouri;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat to fill the
vacancy caused by the election of James S. Green
to the United States Senate; reelected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress without opposition, and to
the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1857, until he withdrew; expelled July 13,
1861; served as a Senator from Missouri to the
First Confederate Congress and as a Representa-
tive in the Second Confederate Congress; brigadier-
general in the Confederate service.
Clark, Jolm B., jr., of Fayette, Mo., was born
at Fayette, Mo., January 14, 1831; attended the
common schools; entered Missouri University at
the age of 15, but remained only two years; studied
law, and afterwards graduated from the law depart-
ment of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass. ;
practiced law from 1855 until the commencement
of the civil war, when he entered the Confederate
army as a lieutenant; promoted successively to be
captain, major, colonel, and brigadier-general;
elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat.
Clark, Lincoln, wasborninHampshireCounty,
Mass., June 6, 1800; spent the early part of his life
on a farm; taught school; graduated from Amherst
College; studied law and commenced practice in
Pickens County, Ala. ; member of the State house
of representatives in 1834, 1835, and 1845; moved
to Tuscaloosa in 1836; appointed attorney-general
in 1839; appointed United States circuit judge in
1846; moved to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1848; Presi-
dential elector on the Pierce and King ticket in
1852; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Thirty-second Congress; defeated for reelection to
the Thirty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice
of law.
Clark, Lot, was born in New York; resided at
Norwich; elected a Representative from New York
to the Eighteenth Congress.
Clark, Robert, was born in Washington
County, N. Y. ; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1812-1815;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Sixteenth Congress.
Clark, Samuel, was born in New York; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat; moved to Kala-
mazoo, Mich.; elected a Representative from
Michigan to the Thirty-third Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-fourth
Congress; died at Kalamazoo, Mich., October 2,
1870.
Clark, Samuel M. , of Keokuk, Iowa, was born
on a farm in Van Buren County, Iowa, October
11, 1842; attended a few terms of public school
and one year at Des Moines Valley College ; studied
law; enlisted as private in Company H, Nine-
teenth Iowa Infantry, but was not mustered in
because of ill health; admitted to the bar June,
1864; editor of the Keokuk Gate City for thirty-
one years; delegate to national Republican con-
ventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Clark, William, was born at Dauphin, Pa.;
treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania; Treasurer
of the United States 1828-1829; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; died at Dauphin, Pa., April 28,
1841.
Clark, William Andrews, Democrat, of Butte,
Mont., was born on a farm near Connellsville,
Fayette County, Pa., January 8, 1839; received a
common school education; moved to Iowa with
his father in 1856; and assisted in farm work for a
short time; taught school, and studied law at
Mount Pleasant, Iowa; worked in the quartz
mines around Central City, Colo., in 1862, and
went to Montana in 1863; State orator at the Phil-
adelphia Centennial in 1876; elected grand master
of the Masonic Fraternity in 1877; major of a bat-
talion that pursued Chief Joseph and his band in
the Nez Perces invasion of 1877; president of the
constitutional convention of the State in 1884;
president of the second constitutional convention
in 1889; candidate for Congress in 1888, but de-
feated because of a schism in his own party ; elected
to the United States Senate by the Democratic
legislature in 1890, but was not seated owing to
the muddle growing out of the organization of two
legislatures in the State, the Republican Senators
being seated; caucus nominee of his party for the
Senate in 1893; assisted materially in retaining
the State capital at Helena in a contest between
that city and Anaconda in 1894; extensively en-
gaged in banking, mining, manufacturing, and
various other business enterprises; elected United
States Senator as a Democrat January 28, 1899, to
succeed Hon. Lee Mantle, Republican; a memorial
was filed in the Senate asking that the election of
Senator Clark be investigated, which was referred
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to the Committee on Privileges and Elections;
after an investigation a resolution was reported to
the effect that the election was void; this resolu-
tion was not acted upon by the Senate, as Senator
Clark, in a speech on May 15, 1900, stated that he
had sent his resignation to the governor of Mon-
tana and desired to submit the matter to the people
of his State, and would abide by their verdict;
the acting governor of the State immediately ap-
pointed him to fill the vacancy created by his res-
ignation, but he did not present himself to be
sworn in under the credentials; in the Democratic
State convention held in Montana in September a
resolution was unanimously adopted demanding
his reelection to the Senate, and a legislative ticket
favorable to his reelection was overwhelmingly
elected in November, and on January 16, 1901,
was reelected for the term of six years to succeed
the Hon. Thomas H. Carter, and took his seat
March 4, 1901.
Clark, William T. , was born atNorwalk, Conn. ,
June 29, 1834; received his education in Connecti-
cut and at New York City; taught school; studied
law in New York, and in 1855 moved to Iowa
and commenced practice; served in the Union
Army, attaining the rank of major-general, and
commanded a division in Texas until he was mus-
tered out in 1866; engaged in business at Galves-
ton, Tex. ; elected a Representative from Texas to
the Forty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Forty-second Congress, but his seat was suc-
cessfully contested by t>. C. Giddings, May 13,
1872.
Clarke, Archibald S. , was born in New York
in 1788; received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to practice; successively clerk, sur-
rogate, and judge 6f Saratoga County; member of
the State senate 1813-1816; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Fourteenth Congress (in
the place of Peter B. Porter, resigned), serving
from December 2, 1816, to March 3, 1817; died at
Clarence, N. Y., December 4, 1821.
Clarke, Bayard, was born in New York March
17, 1815; graduated from Geneva College; studied
law and admitted to practice; attach^ to General
Cass, minister to France, 1836-1840; student at the
Royal Cavalry School; appointed second lieuten-
ant in the Eighth Infantry March 3, 1841; trans-
ferred to the Second Dragoons in September, 1841,
and resigned December 15, 1843; settled in West-
chester County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as
an American Whig.
Clarke, Beverly L., was born in Virginia;
moved to Kentucky; member of the State house
of representatives m 1841 and 1842; delegate to
the State constitutional convention in 1849;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; appointed by
President Buchanan minister to Guatemala, and
was also accredited to Honduras, serving from Jan-
uary 7, 1858, until his death, at (Guatemala, March
17, 1860.
Clarke, Charles E., was born at Greatbend,
N. Y., April 8, 1790; member of the State house
of representatives 1839-40; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Whig; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-
second Congress; died at Greatbend, N. Y., De-
cember 29, 1863.
Clarke, Daniel, a resident of New Orleans,
waa Delegate from the Territory of Orleans to the
Ninth Congress.
Clarke, Frank Gay, of Peterboro, N. H., was
bornin Wilton, N.H., September 10, 1850; educated
at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and
at Dartmouth College; admitted to the bar in 1876,
and practiced law at Peterboro; member of the
State house of representatives in 1885, of the State
senate in 1889; reelected to the former in 1891,
and chosen speaker of that body; appointed colo-
nel on the military staff of Governor Hale, and
served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887; elected to
the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress; died January 9, 1901.
Clarke, Freeman, was born at Troy, N. Y.,
March 22, 1809; engaged in mercantile pursuits for
a time, and subsequently engaged in the banking
business; officer of railroad companies for thirty-
five years; Presidential elector in 1856; appointed
Comptroller of the Currency in the United States
Treasury Department in 1865; member of the State
constitutional convention of 1867; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; elected to the Forty-
second Congress.
Clarke, Henry S. , was born in Beaufort County,
N. C, in 1801; graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1828; studied law and com-
menced practice at Washington; member of the
State house of commons in 1833 and 1834; elected
a representative from North Carohna to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Clarke, John B., was born near Augusta,
Bracken County, Ky., April 14, 1833; received his
education at Augusta; studied law and in 1854 was
admitted to the bar; county attorney of Bracken
County 1858-1862; elected to the State senate of
Kentucky in 1867; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Clarke, John C, was born in Connecticut
March 8, 1793; graduated from Williams College
in 1811 ; moved to Chenango County, N. Y. ; elected
a member of the State assembly in 1826; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twentieth
Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, but changed his
politics on the appearance of President Van
Buren's message in 1837; reelected to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig;
First Auditor of the Treasury from August 2, 1849,
to October 31, 1849; died in 1852.
Clarke, John H., was born at Elizabethtown,
N. J., in 1791; graduated from Brown University
in 1809; studied law and commenced practice at
Providence; engaged in manufacturing; member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
United States Senator from Rhode Island as a
Whig, serving from December 6, 1847, to March 3,
1853; died at Providence, R. I., 1870.
Clarke, Reader Wright, was born at Bethel,
Ohio, May 18, 1812; received a liberal education
and learned the art of printing; studied law and
afterwards practiced; member of the Ohio legisla-
ture in 1840, 1841, and 1842; Presidential elector
in 1844; clerk of the court of Clermont County
from 1846 to 1852; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses
as a Republican; appointed by President Grant
Third Auditor of the Treasury, serving from March
26, 1869, to "March 26, 1870; appointed a collector
of internal revenue in Ohio; died May 23, 1872.
Clarke, Kichard H., of Mobile, Ala., was
born in Marengo County, Ala., February 9, 1843;
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graduated from the University of Alabama in July,
1861; served in the Confederate army as lieuten-
ant in the First Battaliop of Alabama Artillery;
admitted to the practice of the law in 1867;
State solicitor (prosecuting attorney) for Marengo
County from 1872 to 1876; prosecuting attorney
of the seventh judicial circuit from 1876 to 1877;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-
fourth Congresses.
Clarke, Sidney, was born at Southbridge;
October 16, 1831; educated in the pub-
lic schools; publisher of the Southbridge Press;
"^ ^ went to Kansas and served in the State legislature
y in 1862; captain and assistant provost-marshal-
general in the war for the suppression of the re-
( bellion; elected a Representative from Kansas to
/, the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses.
Clarke, Staley N. , resided at EUicottsville,
Cattaraugus County, N. Y. ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a Whig.
Clarkson, Matthew, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa.; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Conti-
nental Congress 1785-86.
Clawson, Isaiah D., was born at Woodstown,
N. J., March 30, 1822; graduated from Princeton
College, 1840; studied medicine and graduated, in
1843, from the University of Pennsylvania; com-
menced practice at Woodstown, N. J. ; member of
the State house of representatives in 1853; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress.
Clay, Alexander Stephens, of Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., was born September 25, 1853, on a
farm in. Cobb County; received his primary and
preparatory education in the country schools and
the high school at Palmetto, Ga. ; graduated from
Hiawassee College in 1875; taught school for two
vears; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
September, 1877, and practiced; member of the city
council in 1880 and in 1881; represented Cobb
County in the general assembly of the State in
1884-85 and 1886-87; in the latter term was elected
speaker pro tempore; reelected for 1889-90, and
served as speaker for two years ; elected to the State
senate.in 1892, and served as president of that body
for two years; chairman of the State Democratic
executive committee in 1894, and conducted the
State campaign between the Democrats and Popu-
lists that year; reelected to the same position in
1896; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to succeed John B. Gordon, in October,
1896, for the term 1897-1903, and reelected for the
term 1903-1909.
Clay, Brutus J. , was born in Madison County,
Ky., July 1, 1808; educated at Danville College;
engaged in farming and stock raising in Bourbon
County, Ky. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1840 and 1860; president of the Bour-
bon County Agricultural Society, and president of
the State Agricultural Society of Kentucky 1853-
1857; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Unionist; after
his retirement from Congress devoted himself to
agricultural pursuits.
Clay, Clement Comer (father of C. C. Clay, jr. ),
was born in Halifax County, Va., December 17,
1789; educated in the public schools; studied law,
and in 1811 moved to Huntsville, Ala., where he
commenced practice; served in the war against the
Creek Indians in 1813; member of the Territorial
council of Alabama in 1817; elected a judge of the
circuit court in 1819, and chief justice in 1820, re-
signing in 1823; member of the State legislature of
Alabama in 1827; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Twenty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat; governor of Alabama 1836-37; elected a
United States Senator from Alabama to fill a
vacancy caused by the resignation of John McKin-
ley and served from September 4, 1837, until 1841,
when he resigned; judge of the supreme court in
1843; codified the laws of Alabama 1842-43; died
at Huntsville, Ala., September 7, 1866.
Clay, Clement Comer, jr. , was born at Madi-
son, Ala., in 1819; graduated from the University
of Alabama; studied law at the University of Vir-
ginia and graduated in 1839; commenced practice
at Huntsville, Ala.; member of the State house
of representatives of Alabama in 1842, 1844, and
1845; judge of the county court of Madison County
1845-1850; Presidential elector on the Pierce and
King ticket in 1852; unsuccessful candidate for
Congress in 1853; elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat in 1853, and unanimously
reelected in 1859; withdrew from the Senate De-
cember 10, 1860; elected to the Confederate States
senate 1861-1863; appointed a diplomatic agent of
the Confederate States; arrested and imprisoned in
Fort Monroe in 1865; settled on his plantation,
Jackson County, Ala., and devoted himself to
agricultural pursuits.
Clay, Henry, was born in Hanover County,
Va., April 12, 1777; spent the early part of his life
on a farm, receiving a limited education; at the
age of 15 began the study of law at Richmond;
admitted to the bar in 1797, and commenced prac-
tice at Lexington, Ky. ; member of the State house
of representatives in 1803; elected a United States
Senator from Kentucky (in place of John Adair,
resigned), servingfromDecember 29, 1806, to March
3, 1807; again a member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1808-1.809, serving as speaker the last
year; again elected a United States Senator (in-
place of Buckner Thruston) , resigned, serving from
February 5, 1810, to March 3, 1811; elected a Rep-
resentative to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Con-
gresses, serving as Speaker of the House from
November 4, 1811, to January 19, 1814, when he
resigned; appointed one of the commissioners to
negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses,
serving as Speaker from December 4, 1815, until
October 20, 1820, when he resigned; elected a
Representative to the Eighteenth Congress, serv-
ing as Speaker from December 1, 1823, until March
3, 1825; appointed by President John Quincy
Adams Secretary of State 1825-1829; again elected
to the United States Senate, and reelected, serving
from December 5, 1831, until March 31, 1842, when
he resigned; defeated as the Whig candidate for
President by Andrew Jackson in 1832, and again
by James K. Polk in 1844; again elected to the
United States Senate, serving from December 3, >
1849, until his death, at Washington, D. C, June,
29, 1852.
Clay, James Brown (son of Henry Clay), was
born at Washington, D. C, 1817; educated at
Transylvania University; clerk in a counting
house in Boston 1832-1834; studied law at the
Lexington Law School and practiced; charg6 d'af-
faires to Portugal from August 1, 1849, to July
19, 1850; resident of Missouri 1851-52; returned
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to Kentucky and elected a Kepresentative from
that State to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat; member of the peace conference of 1861;
identified himself with the Confederacy; died at
Montreal, Canada, January 26, 1864.
Clay, James P., of Henderson, Ky., was born
December 29, 1840; received a classical education,
graduating from Georgetown College, Kentucky,
June, 1860; licensed to practice law June, 1862;
elected to senate of the State of Kentucky August,
1876; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Clay, Joseph., was born at Savannah, Ga. ;
delegate from Georgia to the Continental Congress
1778-1780; paymaster of the southern department
in the Revolutionary army; judge of the United
States court for the district of Georgia 1796-1801;
died at Savannah, Ga., January 16, 1805.
Clay, Joseph, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Eighth Congress; reelected to the Ninth and Tenth
Congresses, serving from October 17, 1803, to 1808,
when he resigned.
Clay, Mattlie-w, was bom in Virginia; elected
a Representative from that State to the Fifth Con-
gress as a. Democrat and reelected to the Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses without opposition; died in
1815.
Clayton, Augustine Smith, was born at Fred-
ericksburg, Va., November 27, 1783; moved with
his parents to Georgia in 1784; graduated from
Franklin College in 1804; studied law and com-
menced practicing in Franklin County; moved to
Athens; selected by the legislature in 1810 to com-
pile the statutes of Georgia from 1800; member of
the State legislature, serving in both houses; elected
a judge of the superior court in 1819 and reelected
in 1822 and again in 1828; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Twenty-second Congress as a
State Rights Democrat (to fill a vacancy caused by
the resignation of Wilson Lumpkin) and reelected
to the Twenty-third Congress, serving from Janu-
ary 21, 1832, to March 3, 1835; died at Athens, Ga.,
June 21, 1839.
Clayton, Bertram Tracy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ,
was born at Clayton, Ala., October 19, 1862; edu-
cated at the University of Alabama and at the
United States Military Academy ; graduated from
the Academy June, 1886, and appointed a second
lieutenant in the Eleventh U. S. Infantry; served
till April 30, 1888, then resigned to go into busi-
ness as civil engineer in Brooklyn; first lieutenant
and adjutant Thirteenth Regiment, National
Guards, New York, from May 12, 1890, to Decem-
ber 2, 1892; captain Company I, same regiment,
to July 17, 1893; major and engineer Second Bri-
gade, National Guards, New York, to December
16, 1895; mustered into U. S. Volunteer service as
captain of Troop C, New York Volunteers, May 20,
1898, and served through the Porto Rican cam-
paign; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
Clayton, Charles, was born in England in 1825;
educated in the public schools; emigrated to AVis-
consin in 1842, went to Oregon in 1847, and in
1848 arrived in San Francisco, Cal.; alcalde in
Santa Clara 1849-50; built the Santa Clara flour
mills in 1852; moved to San Francisco in 1853; en-
gaged in the grain and flour business; member of
the State legislature in 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866;
member of the board of supervisors of San Fran-
cisco 1864-1869; appointed surveyor of customs of
the port and district of San Francisco by President
Grant March 16, 1870; elected a Representative
from California to the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican.
Clayton, Henry D. , of Eufaula, Ala., was born
in Barbour County, Ala., February 10, 1857; law-
yer; served one term in the Alabama legislature;
chairman of the judiciary committee; United
States district attorney from May, 1893, to Octo-
ber, 1896; Democratic Presidential elector in 1888
and 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Clayton, John IVEiddleton, was born in Sussex
County, Md., July 24, 1796; graduated from Yale
College in 1815; studied law at the Litchfield Law •
School; admitted to the bar in 1818, and com-
menced practice at Dover; member of the State
house of representatives in 1824; secretary of state
of Delaware; elected a United States Senator from
Delaware and reelected, serving from December 7,
1829, to 1836; chief justice of Delaware 1837 to
1839 ; again elected a United States Senator, serving
from December 1, 1845, until March 6, 1849, when
he resigned; appointed Secretary of State by
President Taylor, serving from March 7, 1849, to
July 22, 1850; again elected a United States Sena-
tor, serving from March 4, 1853, until his death, at
Dover, Del., November 9, 1856.
Clayton, Joshua, was born in Delaware;
studied medicine at Philadelphia and practiced at
Middletown, Del.; president of Delaware 1789-
1793; governor of the State of Delaware 1793-1798;
elected a United States Senator from Delaware in
place of John Vining, resigned, serving from Feb-
ruary 19, 1798, to July 16, 1798; died near Middle-
town, Del., August 11, 1798.
Clayton, Po'well, was bornin Delaware County,
Pa., August 7, 1833; educated in the common
schools and at Partridge Military Academy, Bris-
tol, Pa. ; studied civil engineering at Wilmington,
Del., and afterwards followed it as a profession;
entered the Union Army in Kansas May 29, 1861,
as captain in the First Kansas Infantry; appointed
lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Kansas Cavalry in
February, 1862, and colonel in March, 1862; com-
missioned brigadier-general in August, 1864; moved
to Arkansas and became a planter; elected gov-
ernor in 1868; elected a United States Senator from
Arkansas as a Republican (to succeed A. McDon-
ald, Republican) for the term 1871 to 1877; mem-
ber of Republican national committee and attended
the Republican national conventions from 1872 to
1896, inclusive; appointed ambassador to Mexico
in 1898 by President McKinley.
Clayton, Thomas, was born at Newcastle, Del.,
March9, 1778; received a liberal education; studied
law and afterwards practiced at Newcastle; elected
a Representative from Delaware to the Fourteenth
Congress; member of the State legislature for sev-
eral years; elected a United States Senator (in the
place of C. A. Rodney, resigned), serving from
January 15, 1824, to March 3, 1827; chief justice
of the court of common pleas of Delaware; elected
to the United States Senate (in place of John M.
Clayton, resigned), serving from January 19, 1837,
to March 3, 1847; chief justice of the supreme court
of Delaware; died at Newcastle, Del., August 21,
1854.
Clemens, Jeremiah, was born at Huntsville,
Ala., December 28, 1814; graduated from the Unl-
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459
versity of Alabama in 1833; studied law at the
Transylvania University, and afterwards practiced
at Huntsville; appointed United States marshal for
the northern district of Alabama in 1838; member
of the State house of representatives 1839-1841;
raised a company of riflemen in 1842, and served
in the Texas war of independence;- again a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1843-44;
served in the Mexican war and appointed major of
the Thirteenth United States Infantry March 3,
1847; promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth
United States Infantry July 16, 1847; disbanded
July 20, 1848; appointed chief of the depot of pur-
chases in Mexico in 1848; elected a United States
Senator from Alabama as a Democrat, serving from
December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1853; member of
the convention which voted Alabama out of the
Union in 1861, but protested against its action;
held oflice under the Southern Confederacy ; moved
to Memphis, Tenn., and became editor of the
Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, January 1, 1859;
returned to Alabama, and died at Huntsville May
25, 1865.
Clemens, Sherrard, was born at Wheeling,
Va., April 28, 1826; graduated from Washington
College; studied law and commenced practice at
Wheeling; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia
to the Thirty-second Congress (in place of George
W. Thompson, resigned) as a Democrat, serving
from December 6, 1852, to March 3, 1853; Presi-
dential elector on the Buchanan and Breckin-
ridge ticket in 1856; elected a Eepresentative
from Virginia to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress without opposition.
Clements, Andre-w J., was born in Jackson
County, Tenn., in 1832; educated in the public
schools; studied medicine; graduated from the
University of Tennessee in 1858 and commenced
gractice at Lafayette; elected a Eepresentative
'om Tennessee to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Unionist, serving from January 13, 1862, to
March 3, 1863; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1866.
Clements, Isaac, was born in Franklin County,
Ind., in 1837; graduated from the Indiana Asbury
University at Greencastle in 1859; studied law at
Greencastle; moved to Illinois and taught school;
entered the Union Army as second lieutenant of
Company G, Ninth Illinois Infantry, in July, 1861;
remained iathe service over three years; wounded
three times and twice promoted; appointed regis-
ter in bankruptcy in June, 1867; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Illinois to the Forty-third Congress
as a Eepublican; defeated for the Forty-fourth
Congress.
Clements, Judson C, of Lafayette, Ga., was
born in Walker County, Ga., February 12, 1846;
educated in the schools of that county, also in the
law at Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn. ;
admitted to the bar and begaa the practice of law
in 1869 at Lafayette, Ga. ; elected a representative
to the general assembly of Georgia in 1872 and
1874; elected a State senator in 1877; elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
and Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat; member
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Clements, Newton N., of Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., December
23, 1837; received a classical education, graduating
from the University of Alabama in 1858; entered
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1859;
studied law, but never practiced; entered the Con-
federate army in 1861 as captain in the Twenty-
sixth Alabama Eegiment, afterwards the Fiftieth
Alabama Eegiment; successively promoted major,
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel; member of the
State house of representatives of Alabama in 1870,
1871, and 1872; again elected in 1874, 1875, 1876,
1877, and 1878; elected speaker of the house of
representatives of Alabama in 1876, 1877, and 1878;
largely interested in planting and cotton manufac-
tures; president of the Tuscaloosa Manufacturing
Company and one of its principal stockholders;
elected in 1880 a Eepresentative from Alabama to
fill the unexpired term of B. B. Lewis in the Forty-
sixth Congress, without opposition.
Clendenen, David, was elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Ohio to the Thirteenth Congress, in place
of Eeazin Beall, resigned; reelected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from December 22, 1814,
to March 3, 1817.
Cleveland, Chauncey F. , was born at Hamp-
ton, Conn., in 1799; educated in the public schools;
studied law and in 1819 was admitted to the bar;
member of the State legislature, having been
elected in 1826, and served for twelve years;
elected speaker in 1836, 1838, and 1863; appointed
attorney for the State in 1832; governor of Con-
necticut 1842-43; elected a Eepresentative from
Connecticut to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Democrat and reelected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress; Presidential elector on the Lincoln and
Hamlin ticket in 1860; member of the peace con-
ference in 1861; died at Hampton, Conn., June 6,
1887.
Cleveland, Jesse F. , was born at Decatur,
Ga. ; elected a Eepresentative from Georgia to the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union Democrat and
reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress; moved to
Charleston S. C, in 1839, and engaged in mercantile
pursuits; died at Charleston, S. C, May 19, 1841.
Cleveland, Orestes, was born at Duanesburgs
Schenectady County, N. Y., March 2, 1829; edu-
cated in the common schools; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits in New York City, and afterward,
became a manufacturer in Jersey City; elected
alderman in 1861 and was president of the board in
1862; elected mayor in 1864; reelected in 1865 and
1866; elected a Eepresentative from New Jersey
to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for the Forty-second Congress.
Clever, Charles P., was born at Cologne,
Prussia, February 23, 1830; educated at the Gym-
nasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn;
studied law and commenced practice at Santa Fe,
N. Mex. ; held several Territorial oflSces, and
claimed to have been elected a Delegate to the
Fortieth Congress, but the House gave the seat to
J. Francisco Chaves; he served from March 4,
1867, to February 20, 1869.
Clifford, Nathan, was born at Eumney, N. H.,
August 18, 1803; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and commenced practice in York County
in 1827; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1830-1834, serving as speaker the last two years;
attorney-general of Maine 1834-1838; elected a
Eepresentative from Maine to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; appointed by President Polk
Attorney-General of the United States, serving
from December 23, 1846, to March 17, 1848; com-
missioner to Mexico, with the rank of envoy extra-
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary, from March
18, 1848, to September 6, 1849; resumed the prac-
tice of law at Portland, Me. ; appointed by Presi-
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dent Buchanan associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States January 28, 1858; died
at Oornish, Me., July 25, 1881.
Clift, Toseph. Wales, was born at North Marsh-
field, Mass., September 1, 1836; educated in the
common schools and at Phillips Academy; learned
the carpenter's trade; entered the Union Army
and was acting surgeon in the U. S. Armj_ from
July 13, 1862, to August 7, 1865, serving in the
Army of the Potomac until November 18, 1866;
practiced medicine in Savannah, Ga. ; appointed
registrar of the city of Savannah by Major-General
Pope under the reconstruction acts; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican, serving from July 25, 1868, to
March 3, 1869.
Clinch, Duncan L., was born in North Caro-
lina in 1798; entered the U. S. Army as first lieu-
tenant July 1, 1808, and attained the rank of
brigadier-general in 1829; commanded at the bat-
tle of Withlacoochee, against the Seminole Indians
December 31, 1835; resigned September 31, 1836,
and settled on a plantation near St. Marys, Ga.;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Twenty -eighth Congress as a Whig (to fill a va-
cancy caused by the death of John Millen), and
served from February 15, 1844, to March 3, 1845;
died at Macon, Ga., November 27, 1849.
Clingan, "William, was bom in Pennsylvania;
Delegate from that State to -the Continental Con-
gress 1777-1779.
Clingman, Thomas L., was born at Hunts-
ville, N. C. ; received a liberal education; gradu-
ated from the University of North Carolina in
1832; studied and practiced law; elected to the
State house of commons in 1835; moved to Ashe-
ville. Buncombe County, in 1836; elected a State
senator in 1840; elected a Representative to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; defeated for
reelection; reelected to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; appointed
to the United States Senate as a Democrat to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Asa Biggs;
elected for six years after March 4, 1861; with-
drew from the United States Senate January 21,
1861, after having served continuously since De-
cember 6, 1847; expelled from Senate July 11,
1861; appointed May 17, 1862, brigadier-general
in the Confederate service, commanding a brigade
composed of the Eighth, Thirty-first, Fifty-first,
and Sixty-first North Carolina Infantry.
Clinton, De Witt, was born at Little Britain,
N. Y., March 2, 1769; graduated from Columbia
College in 1786; studied law and admitted to
practice; private secretary to his uncle. Governor
George Clinton, 1790-1795; member of the State
house of representatives in 1798, and State sena-
tor 1799-1802; elected a United State Senator
from New York as a Democrat in place of John
Armstrong, who resigned, serving from February
23, 1802, to 1803, when he resigned; mayor of the
city of New York 1803-1807; again State senator
1806-1811 ; again mayor of the city of New York
1810-11; lieutenant-governor of New York 1811-
1813j defeated in 1812 ais the peace candidate for
President; again mayor of the city of New York
1811-1814; initiated the Erie Canal in 1815, and
served several years as canal commissioner; gov-
ernor of the State of New York 1817-1822 and
1824-1827;diedatAlbany, N. Y., February 11, 1828.
Clinton, G-eorge, was born in Ulster Countv,
N. Y., July 26, 1739; received a liberal education;
served as lieutenant of rangers in the expedition
against Fort Frontenac; studied law and com-
menced practice in Ulster County; Delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1775-1777,
but served a part of that time in the field as brig-
adier-general of militia; appointed brigadier-gen-
eral by Congress March 25, 1777; governor of New
York 1777-1795; delegate to the State convention
which ratified the Federal Constitution, and was
its president; defeated as a State Rights can-
didate for the Vice-Presidency in 1790; member of
the State house of representatives in 1800; again
governor of New York 1801-1804; elected Vice-
President in 1804 as a State Rights Democrat;
reelected in 1808; died at Washington, D. C, April
20, 1812.
Clinton, George, jr. , was bom in New York
City; member of the State house of representatives
1801-2; elected a Representative from New York
to the Eighth Congress in place of Samuel L.
Mitchill, elected Senator; reelected to the Ninth
and Tenth Congresses, serving from February 14,
1805, to March 3, 1809.
Clinton, James G. , was born at Newburgh,
N. Y. ; held several public offices there; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress.
Clopton, David, was born in Georgia in 1820;
moved to Tuskegee, Ala. ; elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Thirty-sixth Congress aS a
State Rights Democrat, serving from December 5,
1859, to January 21, 1861, when he retired from
the House; elected a Representative to the First
and Second Confederate Congresses 1862-1864.
Clopton, John, was born in Virginia; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifth, Sev-
enth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses, serving
until his death, September 11, 1816.
Clover, B. H., of Cambridge, Kans., was born
in Franklin County, Ohio, December 22, 1837; re-
ceived his education in the common schools of his
native State; a farmer; school commissioner, and
held similar local offices; twice chosen president of
the Kansa? State Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union, and twice vice-president of the national
organization; elected to the Fifty-second Congress
as a candidate of the Farmers' Alliance.
Clowney, William K., was born in Union
County, S. C. ; graduated from the South Carolina
College in 1818; studied law and began practicing
a,t Union ; commissioner in equity of South Caro-
lina 1830-1833; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Twenty-third Congress as a
Nullifler; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; elected to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a State Rights candidate, defeating James
Rogers, Unionist; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-sixth Congress.
Clunie, Thomas Jefferson, of San Francisco,
Cal., was born at St. Johns, Newfoundland, March
25, 1852; emigrated to California; returned to
Maine, where ne remained a few years, and then
went back to California, where he afterwards
resided; educated in the public schools; studied
law, and admitted to practice when 18 years of
age by a special act of the legislature; elected
to the legislature in 1875; appointed brigadier-
general of the Fourth Brigade of the National
Guard of California in 1876; delegate at large to
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461
the national Demonratic convention at Chicago in
1884, and represented California Democrats on the
committee on platform and resolutions; served one
term in the State senate; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Democrat.
Clymer, Georg^e, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1739; received a liberal education; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; delegate from Pennsylva-
nia to the Continental Congress 1776-1778 and
1780-1783; member of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture in 1784; delegate to the convention which
framed the Federal Constitution; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the First Congress;
appointed collector of excise duties in 1791, but
resigned after the whisky insurrection; one of
the commissioners who negotiated a treaty with
the Cherokees and the Creeks June 29, 1796;
retired from public life and devoted himself to
agriculture, the fine arts, and finance; died at
Morrisville, Pa., January 23, 1813.
Clymer, Hiester, of Eeading, Pa., was born in
Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pa., No-
vember 3, 1827; received his primary educatioa
in the schools of Eeading, and graduated from
Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1847; studied
law and admitted to the bar in Berks County in
1849; pursued his profession in that county until
the autumn of 1851, when he removed to Potts-
ville, Schuylkill County, and there practiced until
1856, when he returned to Eeading; acquired an
extensive practice; in January, 1860, by appoint-
ment of the judges of the court of common pleas,
he represented Berks County in the board of rev-
enue commissioners of the State; same year he
represented his district in the National Democratic
convention at Charleston and Baltimore; member
of the State senate of Pennsylvania from October,
1860, until he resigned when nominated, in March,
1866, as Democratic candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania; represented his district in the na-
tional Democratic convention which met at New
York in 1868; appointed by Governor Geary a
member of the State board of public charities in
1870; president of the Democratic State conven-
tion which met at Eeading in May, 1872; elected
to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and
Forty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; after his
retirement from Congress was president of the
Union Trust Company, of Philadelphia, and presi-
dent of the Clymer Iron Company; died at Eead-
ing, Pa., June 12, 1884.
Cobb, Am»sa, was bom in Crawford County,
111., September 27, 1823; educated in the public
schools; went to Wisconsin Territory in 1842 and
engaged in lead mining; served in the Mexican
war as a private in the U. S. Army; studied law
and afterwards practiced; district attorney 1850-
1854; member of the State senate of Wisconsin
1855-56; adjutant-general of Wisconsin 1855-1858;
member of the State house of representatives
1860-61, serving as speaker the last year; en-
tered the Union Army as colonel and rose to
the rank of brigadier^general; elected a Eepresent-
ative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses as a
Eepublican.
Cobb, Clinton L. , was born at EUzabeth City,
N. C, August 25, 1842; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law and in 1867 was admitted to
practice; candidate for the legislature in 1866, but
was defeated; independent candidate for Congress
in 1868, but withdrew in favor of J. R. French;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Forty-first Congress; reelected to the Forty-
second Congress as the regular Eepublican candi-
date; also to the Forty-third Congress; defeated
for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Cobb, David, was born at Attleboro, Mass.,
September 14, 1748; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1766; studied medicine in Boston, and
afterwards practiced at Taunton, Mass.; member
of the Provincial Congress in 1775; lieutenant-
colonel of Jackson's regiment 1777-78, serving in
Ehode Island and New Jersey; after the war re-
sumed the practice of law at Taunton; appointed
major-general of militia; judge of the Bristol
County court of common pleas; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Third Con-
gress as a Federalist; moved to Maine in 1796
and devoted himself to agriculture; elected to the
senate of Massachusetts from the eastern district
of Maine in 1802 and served as president; elected
to the State council in 1808; elected lieutenant-
governor in 1809; member of the board of military
defense in, 1812; chief justice of the Hancock
County court of common pleas; returned to Taun-
ton in 1817; died at Taunton, Mass., April 17, 1830.
Cobb, George T., was born at Morristown,
N. J.; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat.
Cobb, Howell (uncle of Howell Cobb), was
born at Granville, N. C. ; moved to Georgia, where
he engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the
U. S. Army as ensign and captain from 1793 to
1806; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses,
serving from October 26, 1807, to 1812j when he
resigned to accept a captain's commission in the
U. S. Army; served through the war with Great
Britain; after the war resigned and returned to
his plantation, where he died in 1820.
Cobb, Howell, was born at Cherry Hill, Ga. ,
September 7, 1815; graduated from Franklin Col-
lege in 1834; studied law, and in 1836 commenced
practice at Athens, Ga. ; chosen Presidential elect-
or on the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1836;
solicitor-general of the western judicial circuit of
Georgia 1837-1841; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
and Thirty-first Congresses; served as Speaker in
the Thirty-first Congress; governor of Georgia
1851-1853; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
Secretary of the Treasury under President Buchan-
an, serving from March 6, 1857, until December
10, 1860, when he resigned; chairman of the con-
vention of delegates from the seceded States which
assembled at Montgomery, Ala., to forma Confed-
erate Government, February 24, 1861; appointed
brigadier-general in the Confederate army Febru-
ary 13, 1862, and promoted major-general Septem-
ber 9, 1863; surrendered.at Macon, Ga., April 20,
1864; died at New York Cfity October 9, 1868.
Cobb, James E., of Tuskegee, Ala., was born
at Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., October 5,
1835; received his early education in the town
schools; graduated from Emory College, Oxford,
Ga., in June, 1856; after being admitted to the
practice of law moved to Texas in 1857; entered
the Confederate army in 1861 as lieutenant in
Company F, Fifth Texas Regiment, with which
command he served in the army of northern "Vir-
ginia until he was made prisoner at the battle of
Gettysburg; after his release located at Tuskegee
and practiced law until 1874; at the general election
of that year he was chosen one of the circuit
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judges of the State; reelected in 1880 and again in
1886; before qualifying undea- the last election he
was elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress and seat successfully contested by A. T.
Goodwyn; after leaving Congress he resumed the
practice of law; died avt Bast Lasvegas, N. Mex.,
June 4, 1903.
Cobb, Seth. W., of St. Louis, Mo., was born in
Southampton County, Va., December 5, 1838;
received a common school edfecation; joined a vol-
unteer company from his native county in 1861;
served throughout the war in the army of north-
ern Virginia; moved to St. Louis in 1867, and
worked as a clerk in a grain commission house for
three years; engaged in the same business on his
own account in 1870; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
third and Fifty-fourth Congresses.
Cobb, Stephen Alonzo, was born at Madison,
Me., June 17, 1833; educated in the common
schools; moved with his father to Minnesota in
1850, where he worked at the lumbering business
nearly four years, studying the languages and pre-
paring for college; entered Beloit College in 1854,
where he was a student for' two years; went to
Providence and graduated from the Brown Univer-
sity in 1858; settled at Wyandotte, Kans., in 1859
and commenced the practice of law; entered the
Army in 1862; attained the rank of lieutenant-
colonel, and served throughout the war; mayor of
Wyandotte 1862 and>1868; member of the State
senate of Kansas 1862, 1869, and 1870; speaker of
the house of representatives of Kansas in 1872;
elected a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican; defeated for
reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Cobb, Thomas R. , of Vincennes, Ind., was
born in Lawrence County, Ind., July 2, 1828;
raised on a farm; attended the Bloomington Uni-
versity ; studied and practiced law at Bedford from
1853 until 1867, when he moved to Vincennes;
commissioned major of the militia of Indiana by
the governor of Indiana in 1852; elected to the
State senate from 1858 to 1866; Democratic candi-
date for elector in 1868; president of the Indiana
State convention in 1876; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention at St. Louis which
nominated Tilden and Hendricks in 1876; elected
to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrat; died June 23, 1892.
Cobb, Thomas W. , was born in Columbia
County, Ga., 1784; received a liberal education;
studied law and afterwards practiced at Greens-
boro; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses; elected
to the Eighteenth Congress, and before the expira-
tion of his term was elected a United States Senator
in place of Nicholas Ware, deceased, serving from
December 6, 1824, to 1828, when he resigned;
chosen a judge of the superior court; died at
Greensboro, Ga., February 1, 1830.
Cobb, Williamsoii R. W. , was born in Rhea
Ciounty, Tenn., June 8, 1807; moved with his
father to Madison County, Ala., in 1809, where he
was educated in the public schools; farmer and
dealer in clocks; member of the State house of
representatives 1804-1805; elected a Representa-
tive from Alabama to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses without opposi-
tion, serving until January 21, 1861, when he
resigned, Alabama having seceded; elected to the
Confederate House of Representatives in 1863, but
did not take his seat; died in November, 1864.
Coburn, Frank Potter, of West Salem, Wis.,
was born at Hamilton, La Crosse County, Wis.,
December 6, 1858; educated in the public schools;
farmer; Democratic candidate for Congress in the
Seventh district in 1888 and defeated; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Coburn, John, was born at Indianapolis, Ind.,
October 27, 1825; graduated from Wabash College
in 1840; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1849
and commenced practice at Indianapolis ; member
of the State house of representatives in 1850; judge
of the court of common pleas during 1859, 1860,
and 1861, when he resigned; served in the Union
Army as colonel of the Thirty-third Indiana Regi-
ment during the war for the suppression of the
rebellion and was bre vetted brigadier-general;
appointed the first secretary of Montana Terri-
tory in March, 1865, but resigned at once; elected
judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Indiana in
October, 1865, and resigned in July, 1866: elected
a Representative from Indiana to the Fortieth,
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con-
gresses as a Republican; defeated for reelection to
the Forty-fourth Congress.
Coburn, Stephen, was born in Maine; resided
at Skowhegan; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-sixth Congress (in place of
Israel Washburn, jr., resigned) as a Republican,
serving from January 2, 1861, to March 3, 1861.
Cochran, Charles Fremont, of St. Joseph,
Mo., was born at Kirksville, Adair County, Mo.;
resided in Atchison, Kans., from 1860 till 1885;
educated in the common schools; practical printer,
newspaper man, and a lawyer; served four years
as prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, Kans. ,
and four years as a member of the Missouri senate;
editor and publisher of the Atchison Patriot in
1868-69; admitted to the bar in 1873, and practiced
law until 1885; editor of the St. Joseph Gazette;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Cochran, James, .was born at Oswego, N. Y.,
February 11, 1769; elected a Representative from
New York to the Fifth Congress, serving from
May 15, 1797, to March 3, 1799; postmaster at
Oswego; died at Oswego, N. Y., November 7, 1848.
Cochran, James, was born in North Carolina;
educated in the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Eleventh and
Twelfth Congresses as a Democrat, serving from
May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1813.
Cochrane, Aaron V. S., of Hudson, N. Y.,
was born March 14, 1858, at Coxsackie, N. Y. ;
brought up on a farm; educated in a district school
and at Claverack Academy, in Claverack, N. Y. ;
entered Yale College in 1875 and graduated in
1879; moved to Hudson and entered on the study
of law; admitted to the bar in 1881 and has ever
since practiced his profession in Hudson; member
of the law firm of Brownell & Cochrane; police
justice of Hudson in 1887 and 1888; elected dis-
trict attorney of Columbia County in 1889 and
served three years; elected to the Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Republican.
Cochrane, Alexander Gr., was born at Alle-
gheny City, Pa., March 20, 1845; received his ed-
ucation in the public schools and at Phillips Acad-
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emy, Andover, Mass. ; studied law, and in 1866
was admitted to the bar; has since practiced at
Allegheny City; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for the Forty-flfth Congress.
Cochrane, Clark B., was born at New Boston,
N. H., May 31, 1815; moved to Montgomery
County, N.Y., where he was educated, graduating
from Union College; studied law and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives 1843
and 1844; moved to Schenectady; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Republican; moved
to Albany, where he continued the practice of law;
member of the State house of . representatives in
1866; defeated for reelection in 1867; died at Al-
bany, N. Y., March 5, 1867.
Cochrane, John, was born at Palatine, N. Y.,
August 27, 1813; graduated from Hamilton College
in 1831 ; studied law and commenced practice at
Palatine; moved to New York City in 1846; ap-
pointed by President Pierce survej'or of the port of
New York 1853-1857,; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a State
Rights Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress; member of the Charleston-Baltimore
national convention; entered the Union Army in
1861 as colonel, and promoted to the rank of
brigadier-general; resigned February 25, 1863;
president of the Cleveland convention in 1864,
which nominated him for Vice-President on the
ticket with Fremont for President; attorney-gen-
eral of the State of New York, 1865 ; delegate to the
Republican national convention in 1868 at Chicago;
appointed collector of internal revenue for the
sixth district of New York in 1869.
Cocke, John (son of William Cocke), was born
at Brunswick, Va., in 1772_; moved to Tennessee,
where he was educated in the public ^chools;
studied law and practiced; member of the State
senate and house of representatives for several
years; served as major-general of Tennessee Vol-
unteers in the Creek war in 1813 and as colonel of
a regiment of Tennessee riflemen, under General
Jackson, at New Orleans; elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses; devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits; died at Rutledge,
Tenn., February 16, 1854.
Cocke, William, was born in Virginia; received
a liberal education; studied law and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives and
a colonel of militia; moved to Tennessee; attained
the rank of brigadier-general of militia; member
of the State house of representatives in 1813; judge
of the circuit court; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Tennessee, serving from December 5,
1796, to March 3, 1805; appointed by President
Madison Indian agent for the Chickasaw Nation
in 1814.
Cocke, William M., was born in Tennessee;
resided at Rutledge; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirtieth Congress; de-
feated for reelection to the Thirty-first Congress.
Cockerill, Joseph R., was born in Virginia;
moved to Ohio, where he was educated in the pub-
lic schools; held several public offices at West
Union; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-fifth Congress; died at West Union, Ohio,
October 25, 1875.
Cockran, WilUam Bourke, of New York City,
fvas born in Ireland, February 28, 1854; came to
this country when 17 years of age; educated in his
native country and France; soon after his arrival
in America he received the appointment of teacher
in a private academy; subsequently appointed
principal of a public school in Westchester County,
N. Y. ; while engaged in teaching he studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1876; appointed counsel
to the sheriff of the city of New York in 1882, and
reappointed in 1885; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Francis B. Spinola; took his seat December 7, 1891 ;
reelected to the Fifty-third Congress.
Cockrell, Francis Marion, of Warrensburg,
Mo., was bom in Johnson County, Mo., October
1, 1834; received his early education in the com-
mon schools of his county; graduated from Chapel
Hill College, Lafayette County, Mo. , in July, 1853;
studied law, and has pursued that profession;
elected to the Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
Carl Schurz, Independent Republican; took his
seat March 4, 1875; reelected four times.
Cockrell, Jeremiah. Vardaman, of Anson,
Jones County, Tex., was born in Johnson County,
Mo., May 7, 1832; attended common schools and
Chapel Hill College; went to California during
gold excitement in 1849 and returned to Missouri
in 1853; engaged in farming and read law prior to
the civil war; entered the Confederate army and
served through the war; after the war settled in
Grayson County, Tex., where he engaged in
farming and practiced law until 1882, when he
moved to Jones County; appointed district judge
by Governor Ireland in 1885, to which position he
was elected in 1886 and reelected in 1890; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelect-
ed to the Fifty-fourth Congress; engaged in stock
raising on his large ranch in Jones County, Tex.,
after leaving Congress.
Codding, James H., of Towanda, Pa., was
born in Pike Township, Bradford County, Pa.,
July 8, 1849; moved in 1854 to Towanda, where
he has since resided; educated at Susquehanna
Collegiate Institute, and in 1868 engaged in the
hardware business; commenced the study of law
in 1876 and has practiced continuously since his
admission to the bar; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress.
Cofffeen, Henry A., of Sheridan, Wyo., was
born in Gallia County, Ohio, in 1841; during in-
fancy rhoved with his parents to the Wabash
country in western Indiana; the family moved
to Champaign County, 111., in 1853;^ graduated
from the scientific department of Abingdon Col-
lege (now consolidated with Eureka College),
Illinois; for seven years devoted himself to teach-
ing, being connected, as teacher of natural sciences,
with Hiram College, Ohio; received various ap-
pointments from the governors of his State as dele-
gate to Western congresses and conferences, serving
as delegate for Wyoming in the World's Fair con-
gress of bankers and financiers, at Chicago, in June,
1893; member of the constitutional convention, in
1889, that framed the present constitution of the
new State of Wyoming; received the unsolicited
and unanimous nomination from the Democrats
fois Representative from Wyoming to the Fifty-
third Congress and elected.
Coflon, Charles D. , a resident of Ohio; studied
law and commenced practice at New Lebanon;
was elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-fifth Congress (in place of Andrew W.
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Loomis, resigned) as a Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839; moved to Cin-
cinnati, where he continued the practice of law.
Coffin, Charles E., of Muirkirk, Md., was born
at Boston, Mass., in 1844; educated in the Boston
grammar and high schools; moved to Maryland
in 1863 and made his home at Muirkirk, in Prince
George County; he established the iron works at
that place in 1864; elected to the house of dele-
gates of Maryland in 1884 and served on the ways
and means committee; elected a member of the
State senate in 1890, serving for four years; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican to fill
the unexpired term of Hon. Barnes Compton, re-
signed; reelected a member of the Fifty-fourth
Congress.
Coffin, Peleg:, jr., was born in Massachusetts
in September, 1756; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Third Congress; State treas-
urer of Massachusetts 1797 to 1802; died March 6,
1805.
Coffroth, Alexander H. , of Somerset, Pa., was
born at Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., May 18,
1828; educated in the public schools and at Som-
erset Academy; commenced publishing and edit-
ing a Democratic paper at Somerset when he was
18 years of age, and continued at this business for
five years; studied law, admitted to the bar in
February, 1851, and has since practiced; elected a
major-general of volunteers of Pennsylvania in
1854, and held the office five years; frequently a
delegate to the Democratic State conventions of
Pennsylvania, and delegate to the Democratic
national conventions which assembled at Charles-
ton, S. C, and at Baltimore in 1860; delegate to
the Democratic national convention which assem-
bled in Baltimore in 1872; Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-
ninth Congresses, and was elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat; after his retirement
from Congress, resumed the practice of law at Som-
erset, Pa.
Cog'hlan, John M. , was born at Louisville, Ky. ,
December 8, 1835; moved with his parents to Illi-
nois in 1847, and in 1850 emigrated to California;
studied law and practiced at Suisun City; member
of the California legislature in 1865" and 1866;
elected a Representative from .California to the
Forty-second Congress as a Repuljlican.
Cogswell, "William, of Salem, Mass., was born
in Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838; fitted at Phil-
lips Academy, Andover, Mass. , and entered Dart-
mouth College August 23, 1855; graduated from
the Dane Law School, Harvard University, in 1860;
lawyer by profession; mayor of the city of Salem,
Mass., in 1867, 1868, 1869, 1873, and 1874; mem-
ber of the Massachusetts house of representatives
1870-71, 1881-1883, and a member of the State
senate 1885-86; served in the Union Army from
April, 1861, till July 25, 1865; held commissions as
captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the Sec-
ond Massachusetts Infantry, and brigadier-general
by brevet, and assigned to the command of the
Third Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army
Corps; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses; died at
Washington, D. C, May 22, 1895.
Coit, Joshua, was born at New London, Conn.,
October 7, 1758; graduated from Harvard College
in 1776; studied law, and in 1779 commenced prac-
tice at New London; member of the State house
of representatives for several years; elected a Rep-
resentative from Connecticut to the Third, Fourth,
and Fifth Congresses, serving until September 5,
1798, when he died at New London, Conn.
Coke, Ricliard, of Waco, Tex., was bom at
Williamsburg, Va., March 13, 1829; educated at
William and Mary College; studied law; admitted
to the bar when 21 years of age; moved in 1850 to
Waco, McLennan County, Tex., where he has
since resided; served in the Confederate army as
private and afterwards as captain; appointed dis-
trict judge in June, 1865; nominated by the Dem-
ocratic party for judge of the State supreme court
in 1866 and elected; after having occupied the
position one year was removed by General Sheri-
dan as "an impediment to reconstruction;" re-
turned to the practice of law the latter part of 1867;
elected governor of Texas in December, 1873; re-
elected m February, 1876, resigning December 1,
1877, after having been elected the previous April
to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to suc-
ceed Morgan C. Hamilton, Republican, and took
his seat March 4, 1877; reelected in 1883, and again
in 1889.
Coke, Brichard, jr., was born in "Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and com-
menced practice at Abingdon ; elected a Represent-
ative from Virginia to the Twenty-first Congress
as a Jackson Democrat, and reelected to the
Twenty-second Congress without opposition; died
at Abingdon, Va., March 30, 1851.
Colcock, "William F. , was born in South Car-
olina; graduated from South Carolina College in
1823; studied law, and commenced practice at
Grahamville, S. C. ; member of the State house of
representatives for several years, serving two years
aa speaker; collector of the port of Charleston pre-
vious to and during the civil war; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Thirty-flrst
Congress; reelected to the Thirty-second Congress;
member of the national Democratic convention
held in Charleston in 1860; died in Charleston,
S. C, June 13, 1889.
Colden, Cadwallader David, was bom at
Flushing, N. Y., April 4, 1759; received a liberal
education, completing it at London; returned to
the United States, where he studied law and com-
menced practice at New York; moved toPough-
keepsie in 1793, where he remained a few years
and then located in New York City; appointed
State district attorney in 1810; colonel of volun-
teers in 1812; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1818; mayor of the city of New "fork
in 1819; elected a Representative from New York
to the Seventeenth Congress, having successfully
contested the election of Peter Sharpe, and served
from December 12, 1821, to March 3, 1823; mem-
ber of the State senate 1824 to 1827; died at Jersey
City, N. J., February 7, 1834.
Cole, Cornelius, was born at Lodi, N. Y., Sep-
temberl7, 1822; graduated from Wealeyan Univer-
sity, Connecticut; studied law and was admitted to
practice; wentto California in 1849, and after work-
ing a year in the gold mines commenced practice;
district attorney of Sacramento city and county
from 1859 to 1862; member of the national Repub-
lican committee from 1856 to 1860; moved to Santa
Cruz; Representative from California to theThirty-
eighth Congress as a Union Republican; elected a
United States Senator to succeed James A. Mc-
Dougall, Democrat, serving from March 4, 1867, to
March 3, 1873.
Cole, George E. , was bom in Oneida County,
N. Y., December 23, 1826; educated in the public
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schools; in 1849 moved to Iowa; emigrated to Cali-
fornia, and went thence to Oregon; member of the
Oregon house of representatives 1851 to 1853; clerk
of the United States courts for the district of Ore-
gon 1859-60; moved to Washington Territory in
1861; elected as a Delegate from Washington Ter-
ritory to the Thirty-eighth Congress as aDemocrat.
Cole, Orsamus, was born in New York; studied
law and commenced practice at Potosi, Wis.;
appointed United States judge for Wisconsin Ter-
ritory; elected a Representative from Wisconsin
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Eepublican;
elected judge of the State supreme court in 1855.
Cole, ■William H., of Baltimore, Md., was
born at Baltimore, Md., January 11, 1837; after
practicing law for a short time engaged in the
study of medicine; served in the Confederate army
during the war; reporter and city editor of the
Baltimore Gazette from 1866 until 1883; deputy
registrar of Baltimore City in 1870, which position
he resigned to accept that of chief clerk of the
first branch of the city council of that city; elected
reading clerk of the Maryland house of delegates
in 1872; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat; died July 8, 1886.
Coleman, Hamilton Dudley, of New Orleans,
La., was born in that city May 12, 1845; at 16
years of age he enlisted in the Washington Artil-
lery, Army of Northern Virginia, as a private,
and served throughout the war; engaged in the
business of manufacturing and dealing in planta-
tion machinery; active in the organization of the
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo-
sition; one of the organizers of the first electric-
lighting company established in New Orleans, and
served as vice-president and afterwards as presi-
dent; served two terms as president of the New
Orleans Chamber of Commerce, and was elected
November, 1888, one of the vice-presidents of the
National Board of Trade; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Eepublican.
Coleman, N'ich.olas D., was bom atMaysville,
Ky., in 1800; received a liberal education; studied
law and commenced practice; elected a Hepresent-
ative from Kentucky to the Twenty-first Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; moved to Vicksburg,
Miss., where he resumed the practice of law; post-
master at Vicksburg 1841-1844; died at Vicks-
burg, Miss., May 11, 1874.
Colerick, "Walpole G. , of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
was bom at Fort Wayne, Ind., August 1, 1845;
lawyer by profession; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law.
Coles, Isaac, was born in Virginia; received a
liberal education; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the First, Third, and Fourth Con-
gresses.
Coles, Walter, was bom in Pittsylvania,
County, Va., in 1789; received a liberal education;
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; justice of
the peace for many years; served in the tl. S. Army
dunng the war of 1812- as a captain of riflemen, on
the northern frontier; member of the State house
of representatives in 1833 and 1834; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; died near Robersons Store,
Va., November 9, 1857.
Colfax, Schuyler, was born at New York City
March 23, 1823; educated in the common schools;
became proprietor and editor of the Register at
South Bend, Ind., in 1845, which he pu Wished
for eighteen years; elected in 1850 a delegate from
St. Joseph County to the convention which framed
the constitution of Indiana; elected a Representa-
tive from Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-fifth,
Thirty - sixth. Thirty - seventh. Thirty - eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses; Speaker of
the House of Representatives in the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses; elected
Vice-President of the United States on the ticket
with General Grant, and served from March 4,
1869, to March 3, 1873; vice-president of a manu-
facturing company at South Bend, Ind. ; died at
Mankato, Minn., January 13, 1885.
CoUamer, Jacob, was born at Troy, N. Y., in
1792; moved with his father to Burlington, Vt.;
graduated from the University of Vermont in 1810;
served in the war of 1812; studied law and prac-
ticed at Woodstock, Vt., from 1813 to 1833; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives for several
years; judge of the superior court of Vermont
1833-1842; elected a Representative from Vermont
to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth
Congresses as a Whig; appointed Postmaster-Gen-
eral by President Taylor, serving from March 7,
1849, to July 20, 1850; again judge of the superior
court of Vermont from November 8, 1850, to Octo-
ber 3, 1854; elected a United States Senator from
Vermont as a Republican, serving from December
3, 1855, until his death, at Woodstock, Vt., No-
vember 9, 1865.
Collier, John A., was born in Broome County,
N. Y., in 1787; located at Binghamton; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
second Congress as a Clay Democrat; died at
Binghamton, N. Y., March 24, 1873.
ColUn, John F., was born at Hillsdale, N. Y.,
April 30, 1802; educated in the common schools,
and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of
the State legislature in 1834; supervisor of Colum-
bia County for several years; elected a Represen-
tative from New York to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; died at Hillsdale, N. Y., September 16, 1889.
Collins, Ela (father of William Collins), was
born at Meriden, Conn., February 14, 1786; studied
law and commenced practice at Lowville, N. Y.;
district attorney of Lewis County 1819 and 1840;
served in the war of 1812 as colonel of an infantry
regiment of militia; member of the State house of
representatives; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1821; elected a Representative from
New York to the Eighteenth Congress; after his
retirement from Congress, devoted himself to agri-
cultural pursuits; died at Lowville, N. Y., Novem-
ber 23, J848.
Collins, Francis D., was born at Saugerties,
N. Y., March 5, 1844; educated at St. Joseph's
College, in Susquehanna County, and Wyoming
Seminary, at Kingston, Pa. ; studied law, and in
1866 was admitted to the bar; commenced prac-
tice at Scranton, Pa. ; elected district attorney of
the Scranton mayor's court district in 1869; elected
to the State senate of Pennsylvania 1872, 1873, and
1874; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Collins, John, was torn at Newport, R. I.,
June 8, 1717; Delegate from Rhode Island to the
Continental Congress 1778-1783; governor of Rhode
Island 1786-1789; elected a Representative from
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Rhode Island to the First Congress, but did not
take his seat; died at Newport, R. I., March 8, 1795.
Collins, Patrick A. , of Boston, Mass., was born
near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March 12,
1844; came to the United States in 1848; received
a common school education; in early life an up-
holsterer; read law in the Harvard Law School and
in Boston, where he practiced since his admission
to the bar in 1871; member of the Massachusetts
house of representatives in 1868 and 1869, and of
the Massachusetts senate in 1870 and 1871; judge-
advocate-general of Massachusetts in 1875; elected
to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; consul-general at London
under President Cleveland; resumed the practice
of law at Boston, Mass.
Collins, ■William (son of Ela Collins) , was born
in Oneida County, N. Y. ; studied law and com-
menced practice at Lowville, N. Y.; district at-
torney for Lewis County 1845-46; elected a Bepre-
Bentative from New Yorkto the Thirtieth Congress
as a Democrat; moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
Colquitt, Alfred Holt, of Atlanta, Ga., was
born in Walton County, Ga., April 20, 1824; grad-
uated from Princeton College in the class of 1844;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1845; served
as a staff officer, with the rank of major, during
the Mexican war; elected and served as a member
of the Thirty-third Congress; member of the
Georgia legislature in 1859; Presidential elector for
the State at large on the Breckinridge ticket in
1860; member of the secession convention of the
State of Georgia; entered the Confederate service
as captain; colonel of the Sixth Georgia Infantry;
served as a brigadier-general, and was commis-
sioned a major-general; elected governor of the
State of Georgia in 1876 for four years; reelected
under a new constitution for two years; elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
Pope Barrow, Democrat, for the full term com-
mencing March 4, 1883; reelected in 1888; died
March 26, 1894, at Washington, D. C.
Colquitt, "Walter T. (father of Alfred H. Col-
quitt), was born in Halifax County, Va., Decem-
ber 27, 1799; moved with his parents to Georgia;
received a liberal education, being a student at
Princeton College; studied law, and in 1820 was
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Sparta,
Ga.; moved to Cowpens; elected brigadier-general
of militia by the legislature in 1820; defeated as
the Troup candidate for the Twentieth Congress
by Lumpkin, the Clark candidate; elected judge
of the Chattahoochee circuit in 1826 and reelected
in 1829; licensed as a Methodist Episcopal preacher
in 1827; State senator in 1834 and 1837; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a State Rights Whig, but refused to
support General Harrison for President,, and re-
signed July 21, 1840; elected to the Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth Congresses; elected a United
States Senator, and served from December 4, 1843,
until 1 848, when he resigned; member of the Nash-
ville convention in 1850; died at Macon, Ga., May
7, 1855.
Colson, David Grant, of Middlesboro, Ky.,
was born April 1, 1861, at Yellow Creek (now
Middlesboro, Knox (now Bell) County, Ky.;
attended the common schools and the academies
at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tenn. ; taught school,
and while thus engaged read law; took the junior
course in law in the Kentucky University in
1879-80; went to Washington in September, 1882,
from which time until June 30, 1886, he was an
examiner and special examiner in the Pension
Bureau of the Interior Department; returned to
Kentucky in 1887, and in that year was elected
to the Kentucky house of representatives, session
of 1887-88 ; Republican nominee for State treasurer
in 1889; elected mayor of Middlesboro in Novem-
ber, 1893, for four years, which position he resigned
to accept a seat in the Fifty-fourth Congress, to
which he was elected as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress; colonel of a Kentucky
regiment during the Spanish-American war.
Colston, Ed-wrard, was born in Berkeley County,
Va., in 1788; graduated from Princeton College in
1806; several years a member of the State house of
representativesandhighsheriff of Berkeley County;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Fif-
teenth Congress as a Federalist; defeated for the
Sixteenth Congress; died in Berkeley County, Va.,
April 23, 1851.
Comegys, Joseph P., was bom at Cherbourg,
Del., December 29, 1813; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1835, and
practiced ; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1835 and 1843; appointed one of a commission
of three lawyers to revise the State statutes in 1852;
appointed a United States Senatorto fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John M. Clayton, and
served from December 4, 1856, to March 3, 1857;
delegate to the national Union convention at
Philadelphia in 1866; appointed chief justice of
Delaware May 18, 1876; died at Dover, Del., Feb-
ruary 1, 1893.
Comingo, Abram, was born in Mercer County,
Ky., January 9, 1820; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1847 admitted to the bar;
moved to Missouri in 1848; elected a member of
the Missouri State convention in February, 1861;
appointed provost-marshal of the sixth district of
Missouri in May, 1863; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Comius, Ijinus B. , was born at Charlton, Mass.,
November 29, 1817; graduated from the Worces-
ter County Manual-Labor High School; engaged
in mercantile pursuits and manufacturing at Kox-
bury, Mass. ; member of the Roxbury city conncil
in 1846, 1847, and 1848, serving the last two years
as president; mayor of Roxbury in 1854; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as an American, and reelected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention in 1860;
died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 14, 1892.
Compton, Barnes, of Laurel, Md., was born at
Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md., November 16,
1830; educated at Charlotte Hall Academy and at
Princeton College, where he graduated in June,
1851; planter and farmer; member of the State
house of delegates from Charles County in 1860-61,
and of the senate in 1867, 1868, 1870, and 1872,
serving as president of the senate during the ses-
sions of 1868 and 1870; State tobacco inspector in
1873 and 1874; elected State treasurer of Mary-
land in 1874 for two years, and reelected for five
successive terms, resigning in the second year
of his sixth term, when elected a Representative
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty-third Congresses; in the Fifty-first Con-
gress was unseated March 20, 1890, Hon. S. E.
Mudd being given the seat; resigned May 12,
1894; naval officer at Baltimore for four years;
died in December, 1898.
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Comstock, Charles Carter, of Grand Eapids,
Mich., was born at Sullivan, Cheshire County,
N. H., March 5, 1818; received a common school
education; farmer, lumberman, and manufacturer
of furniture, wooden ware, etc. ; mayor of Grand
Eapids 1863-64; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Fusion Democrat; died February 20, 1900.
Comstock, Oliver C, was born in Oswego
County, N. Y., in 1784; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied medicine and practiced at Trumans-
burg, N. Y. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1810-1812; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
and Fifteenth Congresses as a Democrat; aban-
doned the practice of medicine and was ordained
as a clergyman of the Baptist Church; chaplain of
the United States House of Representatives; died
at Marshall, Mich., January 11, 1860.
Comstock, Solomon G., of Moorhead, Minn.,
was born at Argyle, Me., May 9, 1842; received
an academic education; read law; admitted to
practice; went to Minnesota in 1870; county
attorney for Clay County 1872-1878; elected a
representative to the Minnesota legislature in
1875, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881; State sena-
tor 1882-1888, when he resigned; elected to the
Mfty-first Congress as a Republican.
Condict, John, was born in 1755; educated in
the public schools; served as surgeon in the Revo-
lutionary war; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives for several years; elected a Represent-
ative from New Jersey to the Sixth and Seventh
Congresses as a Democrat; elected United States
Senator froin New Jersey, serving from October
17, 1803, to March 3, 1817; died at Orange, N. J.,
May 4, 1834.
Condict, Lewis, was born at Morristown, N. J.,
March, 1773; studied medicine and commenced
practice at Morristown ; member of the State house
of representatives 1805-1810, serving as speaker
the last two years; member of the commission for
adjusting the boundary between New York and
New Jersey in 1807; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Four-
teenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-iirst, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses as a Whig; Presidential elector on the
Harrison and Tyler ticket in 1840; died at Morris-
town, N. J., May 26, 1862.
Condict, Silas (father of Silas Condict), was
born in New Jersey; Delegate from that State to
the Continental Congress 178^.-1784.
Condict, Silas, was born at Newark, N. J., 1777;
graduated from Princeton College in 1795; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives for several
years; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Twenty-second Congress as a Clay Demo-
crat; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-third
Congress; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1844; president of the Newark Banking
Company for several years; died at Newark, N. J. ,
November 29, 1861.
Conger, Edwin H. , of Des Moines, Iowa, was
born in Knox County, 111., March 7, 1843; edu-
cated at Lombard University, graduating in the
class of 1862; enlisted at once as a private in Com-
pany I, One hundred and second Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, in which he served until the close of the
war, attaining the rank of captain and receiving
from the President the brevet of major for "gal-
lant and meritorious conduct in the field; " stud-
ied law, and graduated from the Albany Law
School in 1866, when he was admitted to the bar,
and practiced at Galesburg, 111., until 1868; moved
to Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa, in 1868, and en-
gaged in farming, stock . growing, and banking;
elected treasurer of Dallas County in 1877 and re-
elected in 1879; elected State treasurer of Iowa in
1880 and reelected in 1882; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; minister to
Brazil 1891-1895; reappointed'inl897; transferred
to China in 1898,
Conger, Harmon S. , was born in Connecticut;
moved to Cortland, N. Y., where he held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, and
reelected to the Thirty-first Congress.
Conger, James L. , was born in New Jersey;
moved to Mount Pleasani, Mich. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Michigan to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Free Soil Whig.
Conger, Omar D., of Port Huron, Mich., was
born in 1818 at Cooperstown, N. Y. ; moved with
his father, Rev. E. Conger, to Huron County, Ohio,
in 1824; pursued his academic studies at Huron
Institute, Milan, Ohio, and graduated in 1842 from
Western Reserve College; employed in the geolog-
ical survey and mineral explorations of the Lake
Superior copper and iron regions in 1845-1847, and
in 1848 engaged in the practice of law at Port Huron,
Mich. ; elected judge of the St. Clair County court
in 1850, and senator in the Michigan legislature
for the biennial terms of 1855, 1857, and 1859;
president pro tempore of the senate in 1859 ; elected
in 1866 a member of the constitutional convention
of Michigan; Presidential elector on the Repub-
lican ticket in 1864; elected to the Forty-first, Forty-
second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a
Republican; elected to the United States Senate as
a Republican (to succeed Hon. Henry P. Baldwin,
RepubUcan) for the term 1881-1887.
Conkling, Alfred (father of Frederick and
Eoscoe Conkling), was born at East Hampton,
N. Y., October 12, 1789; graduated from Union
College; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1812,
and commenced practice at Canajoharie; district
attorney for Montgomery County for two years;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventeenth Congress as an anti-Jackson Democrat;
moved to Albany; appointed by President Adams
United States district judgje for the northern dis-
trict of New York, serving from 1825 to 1852;
appointed by President Fillmore minister to Mex-
ico, serving from August 6, 1852, to August 17,
1853; on his return located at Genesee, N. Y., and
devoted himself to literary pursuits; died at Utica
February 5, 1874.
Conkling, Frederick Augustus, was born at
Canajoharie, N. Y., August 22, 1816; received a
classical education; engaged in mercantile busi-
ness in New York City; elected as a Republican to
the State legislature in 1858, in which he served
two terms; in June, 1860, organized the Eighty-
fourth Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York, and was its colonel; served
through the Shenandoah campaign, and in 1863
his regiment was on provost-guard duty in Balti-
more; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirtv-seventh Congress as a Republican;
died at New York City September 18, 1891.
Conkling, Roscoe, of Utica, N. Y., was born
at Albany October 30, 1829; received an academic
education; studied and practiced law; moved to
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Utica in 1846; district attorney for Oneida County
in 1850; elected mayor of Utica in 1858; Eepre-
sentative to tlie Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and
Thirty-ninth Congresses, and reelected a Repre-
sentative in the Fortieth Congress, but was imme-
diately afterwards elected to the Senate of the
United States as a Union Eepublican, to succeed
Ira Harris, Eepublican; took his seat in the Senate
in March, 1867, and, was reelected, serving until
he resigned. May 16, 1881; retired to private life
and resumed the practice of law in New York
City; died at New York City April 18, 1888.
Conn, Charles Gerard, of Elkhart, Ind., was
born at the village of Phelps, Ontario County,
N. Y., in the year 1844, and in early boyhood ac-
companied his parents to Elkhart, Ind.; served
throughout the civil war as a soldier in the Union
Army; manufacturer; elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a Democrat; returned to Elkhart, Ind.,
and engaged in manufacturing.
Connell, ■William, of Scranton, Pa., was bom
at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, September 10, 1827,
his parents being of Scotch and Irish descent; his
education was self -won; when he was yet young
his parents moved to what is now Hazleton, Lu-
zerne County, Pa., where he worked in the mines
as a driver boy at 75 cents a day; in 1856, having
shown the ability to rise in life, placed in charge
of the mines of the Susquehanna and Wyoming
Valley Eailroad and Coal Company, with ofBces
at Scranton; in 1870, the charter of that company
lapsing, he purchased the plant with his savings
and organized the firm of William Connell & Co. ;
from this beginning he developed into one of the
largest individual coal operators in the Wyoming
coal region; president of the Third National Bank;
head of or actively identified with the manage-
ment of most of the industries and large commer-
cial enterprises of Scranton, and prominent in
charitable and religious work; member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; always a Eepub-
lican; delegate to the Eepublican national con-
vention of 1896 and member of the Pennsylvania
Eepublican committee; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; de-
feated for the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Connell, William J., of Omaha, Nebr., was
born at Cowansville, Canada, July 6, 1846; moved
to the village of Schroon Lake, N. Y., when 11
years of age; received an academic education; in
April, 1867, located at Omaha; admitted to the bar
in 1869, and engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion; elected district attorney of the third judicial
district of Nebraska in 1872, and reelected in 1874;
appointed city attorney of Omaha in 1883, and
occupied that position until 1887; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Eepublicaij; appointed
city attorney of Omaha, Nebr., in 1892.
Conner, James Perry, of Denison, Iowa, was
born in Delaware County, Ind., January 27, 1851;
attended college at the Upper Iowa University, at
Fayette, Iowa, and graduated from the law depart-
ment of the State University at Iowa City in June,
1873; elected district attorney of the thirteenth
judicial district of Iowa in 1880 and held that
ofiice four years; elected circuit judge of the thir-
teenth judicial district of Iowa in 1884; elected
district judge of the sixteenth judicial district of
Iowa in 1886, having the support of both Eepub-
lican and Democratic parties; delegate to the na-
tional Eepublican convention at Minneapolis in
1892; nominated September26, 1900, by the Eepub-
lican convention of the Tenth Congressional district
of Iowa for the Fifty-sixth Congress, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. J. P.
Dolliver, and elected ; reelected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Conner, John C. , was bornatNoblesville, Ind.J
in 1842; student at the Wabash College, Indiana;
entered the Union Army in 1862 as a lieutenant in
the Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers and served
until the close of the war; appointed a captain in
the Forty-first Infantry upon the reorganization of
the Army in 1866 and served in Texas until nomi-
nated for Congress; elected a Eepresentative from
Texas to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Conner, Samuel S. , was born in New Hamp-
shire; graduated from Yale College in 1806; served
in the war of 1812 as major of the Twenty-fiist
Infantry and lieutenant-colonel of the Thirteenth
Infantry, resigning July 14, 1814; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Fourteenth
Congress; appointed surveyor-general of the Ohio
land district in 1819; died at Covington, Ky.,
December 17, 1820.
Conuess, Jolin, was bom in Ireland, Septem-
ber 20, 1821; emigrated when a lad to the United
States; learned the art of pianoforte making and
worked at it in New York; one of the California
pioneers, interested in the mines and afterwards
in mercantile pursuits; member of the California
legislature 1853-54 and 1860-61; elected a United
States Senator from California as a Union Eepub-
lican to succeed Milton S. Latham, Democrat, and
sel-ved from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1869;
moved to Massachusetts.
Connolly, Baniel Ward, of Scranton, Pa., was
born at Cochecton, Sullivan County, N. Y., Apj^
24, 1847, and resided in Scranton thirty-five years;
educated in the public schools of Scranton; stud-
ied law in the office of A. A. Chase, Scranton,
and admitted to the bar of Luzerne County in
June, 1870; elected president-judge of Lackawanna
County, on its organization in 1878, but did not
take his seat, the supreme court holding that there
was no vacancy; candidate for Congress in 1880
against J. A. Scranton, but defeated through the
independent candidacy of Colonel Wright; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; died
December 4, 1894.
Connolly, James Austin, of Springfield, 111.,
was born at Newark, N. J., March 8, 1843; went
to Ohio with his parents in 1850; had an academic
education; assistant clerk of Ohio senate 1858-59;
admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1861; moved to
Illinois in 1861; entered the U. S. Army in 1862
as a private in the One hundred and twenty-third
Illinois Volunteers, and was afterwards captain,
major, and brevet lieutenant-colonel; member of
the Illinois house of representatives 1873-1875;
United States attorney for the southern district of
Illinois 1876-1885 and again 1889-1893; appointed
and confirmed Solicitor of the Treasury in 1886,
but declined to uccept; ran for Congress in 1886,
as a Eepublican, against W. M. Springer, Demo-
crat, and defeated; nominated again in 1888, but
declined to run; elected to the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Eepublican; resumed
the practice of law.
Connor, Henry W. , was born in Prince George
County, Va., in August, 1793; graduated from the
University of South Carolina in 1812; served as
aid-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Joseph Graham in the
expedition against the Creek Indians in 1814;
settled in Catawba County, N. C. ; defeated as the
Democratic candidate for the Sixteenth Congress;
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elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat of the
Macon school, and reelected to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-sec-
ond, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
and Twenty-sixth Congresses; member of the
State senate in 1848; retired from public life; died
in Catawba County, N. C, January 15, 1866.
Conover, Simon B. , was born in Middlesex
County, N. J., September 23, 1840; studied medi-
cine and graduated in 1863; appointed assistant
surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland, and sta-
tioned at Nashville, Tenn.; after several promo-
tions in the Medical Corps of the Army, ordered
to Lake City, Fla. , in 1866, and shortly afterwards
resigned his commission; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1868; appointed State
treasurer by Governor Eeed; member of the Chi-
cago convention which nominated General Grant
in 1868, and at that time appointed a member of
the national Republican committee; member of
the State executive Republican committee of Flor-
ida; member of the State house of representatives
and was chosen to preside over that body; elected
a United States Senator from Florida as a Repub-
lican in place of T. W. Osborn, Republican, for
the term of 1873-1879.
Conrad, Charles M. , was born at Winchester,
Va., about 1804; moved with his father to Missis-
sippi, and thence to Louisiana; studied law; in
1828 admitted to the bar, and commenced practice
at New Orleans; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives for several years; elected a United
States Senator from Louisiana, as a Whig in place
of Alexander Mouton, resigned, serving from April
14, 1842, to March 3, 1843; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1844; elected a repre-
sentative from Louisiana to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Whig, serving from December 3 , 1849,
to August 17, 1850, when he resigned; appointed
Secretary of War by President Fillmore, serving
from August 13, 1850, to March 7, 1853; deputy
from Louisiana in the Montgomery provisional
congress of 1861 ; Representative froni Louisiana to
the First and Second Confederate Congresses, 1862-
1864; died at New Orleans February 12, 1878.
Conrad, Frederick, was elected a. Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Eighth and Ninth
Congresses.
Conrad, John, was elected a Representative
from Pennsjdvania to the Thirteenth Congress.
Oonry, Joseph A., of Boston, Mass., was born
September 12, 1868; president of the Boston com-
mon council in 1896-97; chairman of the board of
aldermen in 1898; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Constable, Albert, was born in Maryland;
studied law and commenced practice at Perryville,
Md., elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; elected
judge of the circuit court of Maryland in 1851;
died at Camden, N. J., September 18, 1855.
Contee, Benjamin, was born in Maryland in
1755; studied theology and became a clergyman
of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1787-88;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
First Congress; presiding judge of the Charles
County testamentary court; died in Charles County,
Md,, Novembers, 1815.
Converse, George L., of Columbus, Ohio, was
born at Georgesville,- Franklin County, Ohio, June
4, 1827; graduated from Granville College, Ohio,
class of 1849; admitted to the bar in 1851; repre-
sented his county in the house of representatives
of that State 1860-1863 and 1873-1876, and speaker
of the house 1873-74; member of the Ohio senate
1864-65; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat; died
March 30, 1897.
Conway, Henry Wharton, was born in Greene
County, Tenn.; educated in the public schools;
moved to Arkansas and elected a Delegate from
that Territory to the Eighteenth and Nmeteenth
Congresses.
Conway, Martin F. , was born at Charleston,
5. C, in 1830; received a liberal education; moved
to Baltimore in 1844; learned the art of printing,
and became a member of National Typograpliical
Union; studied law and commenced practice at
Baltimore; moved to Kansas in 1854; member of
the first legislative council; chief justice of the
supreme court under the Topeka constitution;
president of the Leavenworth constitutional con-
vention; elected a Representative from Kansas to
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican;
appointed United States cpnsul; returned to United
States and became a resident of Washington, D. C;
devoted himself to literary pursuits; died at Wash-
ington, D. C, February 15, 1882.
Cook, Burton C. , was born in Monroe County,
N. Y., May 11, 1819; educated at the Collegiate
Institute, Rochester; studied law, and in 1835
moved to Ottawa County, 111., where he com-
menced practice in 1840; elected by the legislature
State attorney for the ninth judicial district for
two years in 1846, and reelected by the people in
1848 for four years; member of the State senate of
Illinois 1852-1860; member of the peace confer-
ence which met at Washington in 1861; elected to
the Thirty-ninth Congress from Illinois as a
Republican, and reelected to the Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses.
Cook, Daniel P., was born in Scott County,
Ky., in 1795; received a liberal education ; studied
law and commenced practice at Kaskaskia; moved
to Edwardsville; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
and Nineteenth Congresses; defeated for the
Twentieth Congress; died in Kentucky October
16, 1827.
Cook, John C, of Newton, Iowa, was born in
Seneca County, ^Ohio, December 26, 1846; received
a common school education; studied for the legal
profession, and commenced' the practice of law at
21 years of age; elected judge of the sixth district
of Iowa in 1878; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress in 1880; certificate awarded to M. E. Cutis,
but on a contest Mr. Cook, on March 3, 1883, was
declared elected and awarded his seat; elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. Cutts; on his previous
elections he was nominated by the National Party
and also by the Democrats; at his last election he
ran as an independent, receiving no party nom-
ination, but the support of the Nationals and
Democrats.
Cook, John P., was born in New York; moved
to Davenport, Iowa; elected a Representative .
from Iowa to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig.
Cook, Orchard, was born in the Maine district
of Massachusetts; educated in the public schools;
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engaged in mercantile pursuits; high sheriff of
Lincoln County; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh
Congresses.
Cook, Philip, of Americus, Ga., was born in
Twiggs County, Ga., July 31, 1817; partially edu-
cated at Oglethorpe University, Georgia; read law
at the University of Virginia, and practiced ; -elected
to the State senate of Georgia in 1859, 1860, and
1863; member of the State convention in 1865,
called by President Johnson; entered the Confed-
erate service in 1861 as a private; commissioned
first lieutenant, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and in
August, 1863, brigadier-general; elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, but not allowed to take his
seat; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con-
' gresses as a Democrat.'
Cook, Samuel A., of Neenah, Wis., was born
in Ontario January 28, 1849; received a common
school education in Fond du Lao and Calumet
counties; enlisted as a private in Company A, Sec-
ond Wisconsin Cavalry; served under General
Custer; mustered out at the close of the war; lived
on a farm in Calumet County until 1872, when he
located in Marathon County, conducting a business
of general merchandising, later on engaging in
manufacturing; moved to Neenah, Winnebago
County, in 1881; elected mayor of Neenah in 1889;
member of the State legislature in 1891-92; dele-
gate to the Republican national convention at
Minneapolis in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican.
Cook, Zadock, was born in Georgia in 1769;
member of the State house of representatives for
several years; elected a Representative from Geor-
gia to the ITourteenth Congress in place of Alfred
Cuthbert, resigned; reelected to the Fifteenth
Congress.
Cooke, Bates, was born in Niagara County,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-second Congress as an anti-Mason;
comptroller of the State of New York in Febru-
ary, 1839; bank commissioner from May 14, 1841,
until his death, at Lewiston, N. Y., early in 1841.
Cooke, Edward Dean, was born at Cascade,
Dubuque County, Iowa, October 17, 1849; educated
in the common schools, the Cascade Academy,
and the high school of Dubuque ; studied law at the
Columbian University, Washington, D. C, receiv-
ing the degree of bachelor of laws; admitted to the
bar in 1873 at Washington, Dubuque, and Chicago;
elected a representative to the Illinois legislature
in 1882 as a Republican, and member of the judi-
ciary committee and committee on banks and
banking, and chairman of the committee on elec-
tions; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress from
what is known as the " North Side district" in the
city of Chicago, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress; died June 23, 1897.
Cooke, Eleutheros, was born at Granville,
N. Y., December 25, 1787; studied law and com-
menced practice at Granville; moved to Sandusky,
Ohio; member of the State house of representa-
tives for several years; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-second Congress; again
a member of the State house of representatives;
died at Sandusky, Ohio, December 28, 1864.
Cooke, Joseph. Piatt, was born at Danbury,
Conn., in 1730; graduated from Yale College in
1750; Delegate from Connecticut to the Continental
Congress 1784-1788; died at Danbury, Conn.,
August 14, 1816.
Cooke, Thomas B., was a resident of Catskill,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from that State to
the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat; member of
the State house of representatives in 1838 and 1839.
Coolidg'e, Frederick Spaulding, of Ashburn-
ham, Mass., was born at Westminster, Mass.,
December 7, 1841; received his education in the
common schools; manufacturer of chairs and chair
cane, and manager of the Boston Chair Manufac-
turing Company and of the Leominster Rattan
Works; selectman of his native town for three
years, and held other offices; member of the Dem-
ocratic State central committee; Democratic elector
in 1888; representative to the general court of
Massachusetts in 1875; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat.
Coombs, Frank L., of Napa, Cal., was born at
Napa, Cal., December 27, 1853; educated in the
public schools of California and the law school of
Columbian University, Washington, D. C, gradu-
ating from the latter institution in 1875, and admit-
ted to the practice of law; district attorney of
Napa County, Cal., 1880-1885; member of the
California legislature of 1887, 1889, 1891, and 1897,
and speaker of the assembly in 1891 and 1897;
served as United States minister to Japan for the
unexpired term occasioned by the death of John
F. Swift, from June, 1892, to August, 1893; State
librarian of California from April 1, 1898, to April
1, 1899; United States attorney for the northern
district of California from April 1, 1898, to March
1, 1901; elected to the Fifty-Seventh Congress as a
Republican.
CoomlDs, "William J., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Jordan, Onondaga County, N. Y., Decem-
ber 24, 1833; moved to New York City in early
life and for many years resided in Brooklyn; one
of the pioneers in the business of exporting Amer-
ican goods; unsuccessful Independent and Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in 1888; elected to
the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat.
Cooney, James, of Marshall, Mo., was born in
Ireland in 1848, and came to the United States
with his family in 1852; educated in the public
schools and at the State University of Missouri;
taught school for a few years after he left the uni-
versity, and in 1875 located in Marshall, Mo., and
again engaged in the practice of law; elected to
the office of probate judge of his county in 1880;
elected prosecuting attorney of his county in 1 882
and again in 1884; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Cooper, Charles M. , of Jacksonville, Fla., was
born atAthens, Ga., January 16, 1856; when a
child moved with his parents to Florida, where
his father's family had previously resided; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1877; elected to lower house
of legislature in 1880; elected to State senate in
1884; appointed attorney-general of the State in
1885 for term of fouryears; appointed in 1889 one
of three commissioners to revise the statutes of the
State; elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
law.
Cooper, Edmund, was born at Franklin, Tenn.
September 11, 1821; graduated from Jackson Col-
lege in 1839; studied law at Harvard College, and
commenced practice in Bedford County Tenn •
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471
member of the State house of representatives in
1849; Union delegate to the State constitutional
convention of 1861 ; again elected to the State house
of representatives, but in 1865 resigned, having
been elected to Congress; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Conservative, and served from July 13, 1866, to
March 3, 1867; appointed by President Johnson
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury November 20,
1867, and served until March 20, 1869.
Cooper, Georg'e B., was born at Long Hill,
N. J., June 6, 1808; educated in the public schools;
moved to Jackson, Mich., in 1830, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits; postmaster at Jackson for
eleven years; State treasurer of Michigan for two
years; member of the State senate and house of
representatives for several years; claimed to have
been elected a Representative from Michigan to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, but the House gave the
seat to William A. Howard, Mr. Cooper serving
from December 5, 1859, to May 15, 1860.
Cooper, George ■William, was born in Bar-
tholomew County, Ind., May 21, 1851; received a
preliminary education in the public schools, and
took a four years' collegiate course at the Indiana
State University, graduating from the literary and
law courses in 1872; elected prosecuting attorney
in 1872; elected mayor of the city of Columbus in
1877; city attorney of Columbus for four years;
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the
practice of law at Columbus, Ind. ; died November
27, 1899.
Cooper, Henry, was bom at Columbia, Tenn.,
August 22, 1827; gi;aduated from Jackson College
in 1847; studied law and commenced practice at
Shelby ville in 1850; member of the State legisla-
ture of Tennessee in 1853 and 1857; appointed
judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee
in April, 1862, and resigned in January, 1866;
chosen professor in the law school at Lebanon,
Tenn., September 1, 1866, but resigned in June,
1867, and moved to Nashville, where he resumed
the practice of law; elected to the State senate of
Tennessee in 1869 and 1870; elected a United
States Senator from Tennessee as a Democrat
(defeating Andrew Johnson, Democrat) for the
term of 1871-1877.
■Cooper, Henry Allen, of Racine, Wis., was
bom in Walworth County, Wis. ; received a com-
mon school and collegiate education; graduated
from the Northwestern University in 1873, and
from Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1875;
elected district attorney of Racine County in 1880,
and reelected in 1882 and 1884; elected State sen-
ator in 1886; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fiftv-flfth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Cooper, James, was born in Frederick County,
Md., May 8, 1810; graduated from Washington
College; studied law, in 1834 admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Gettysburg, Pa.;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig, and reelected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress; member of the
State legislature in 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1848, serv-
ing as speaker one term; attorney-general of Penn-
sylvania in 1848; elected a United States Senator
from Pennsylvania as a Whig, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 1849, to March 3, 1855; moved to Philadel-
phia; authorized by President Lincoln to raise a
brigade of loyal Marylanders, and commissioned
brigadier-general in May, 1861; served m West
Virginia under General Frtoont; appointed com-
mandant at Camp Chase, near Cincinnati, and died
there March 1, 1863.
Cooper, John, was born in New Jersey; Dele-
gate from that State to the Continental Congress
in 1776.
Cooper, Mark A. , was bom in Georgia; studied
law and commenced practice at Columbus; elected
a Representative from Georgia to the Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; resigned from the Twenty-eighth
Congress in 1843 to become Democratic candidate
for governor of Georgia, and was defeated.
Cooper, Richard M. , was born in Gloucester
County, N. J., in 1767; received a liberal educa-
tion; leading member of the Society of Friends;
member of the State house of representatives for
several years; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second
Congresses; president of the State Bank of New
Jersey for several years; died at Camden, N. J.,
March 10, 1843.
Cooper, Sam Bronson, of Woodville, Tex.,
was born in Caldwell County, Ky., May 30, 1850;
moved with his parents to Texas the same year
and located in Woodville, Tyler County; educated
in the common school of the town; at 16 years of
age began clerking in a general store; read law in
the office of Nicks & Hobby in 1871; obtained
license to practice law and became a partner in
the firm of Nicks, Hobby & Cooper in January,
1872; elected county attorney of Tyler County in
1876 and 1878; elected to the State senate in 1880;
reelected in 1882; appointed collector of internal
revenue of the first district of Texas by President
Cleveland in 1885; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Cooper, Thomas, was born in Delaware;
elected a Representative from Delaware to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist, and reelected
to the Fourteenth Congress.
Cooper, Thomas B. , was bom at Cooperstown,
Pa., December 29, 1823; graduated from Pennsyl-
vania College; studied medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania, and commenced practice at Coop-
erstown; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat, serving from July 4, 1861, until his death, at
Cooperstown, Pa., April 4, 1862.
Cooper, William (father of James Fenimore
Cooper, the novelist), was bom at Burlington,
N. J. ; moved to Otsego County, N. Y., and founded
Cooperstown; lawyer; appointed first judge of the
court of common pleas for Otsego County February
17, 1791; elected a Representative from New York
to the Fourth and Sixth Congresses as a Federalist;
died at Cooperstown, N. Y.
Cooper, 'Williani C, was born at Mount Ver-
non, Ohio, December 18, 1832; educated in the
public schools and at the Mount Vernon Academy ;
attorney at law; prosecuting attorney January,
1859-1863; mayor of Mount Vernon April, 1862-
April, 1864; member of the general assembly of
Ohio January, 1872-January, 1874; judge-advocate-
general of Ohio January, 1879-January, 1884;
member of the board of education of Mount Ver-
non, and president of the board; elected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as
a Republican.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Cooper, W. B., was elected a Bepresentative
from New Jersey to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat.
Corbett, Henry W., was born at Westboro,
Mass., February 18,1827; moved with his parents
to Washington County, N. Y. ; received a liberal
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Cam-
bridge, N. Y., in 1840; moved to New York City
in 1843, continuing there in mercantile pursuits
until 1851; moved to Portland, Oreg., in 1861;
city treasurer, member of the city council, and
chairman of the Republican State central comrnit-
tee; elected a United States Senator as a Union
Eepublican to succeed J. W. Nesmith, Democrat,
and served from 1867 to March 3, 1873; died March
31, 1903.
Corlett, William. W. , of Cheyenne, was elected
a Delegate from Wyoming to the Forty-flfth Con-
gress as a Bepublican.
Corley, Simeon, was born in Lexington County,
S. C, February 10, 1823; received a limited edu-
cation, being a student in the Lexington Academy
for only four years when he was apprenticed to
learn the tailor's trade; began business for himself
in 1838; opposed the first attempt at secession of
South Carohna in 1852, for which, on the grounds
of his abolitionism, an attempt was made to expel
him from the State; editor of the South Carolina
Temperance Standard in 1855 and 1856; invented
and patented a new system pf garment cutting in
1857; compelled to enter the rebel army in 1863;
captured by the national troops at Petersburg, Va.,
April 2, 1865; gladly took the oath of allegiance
June 5 and returned home; delegate to the con-
stitutional convention of South Carolina in 1867;
elected a Bepresentative from South Carolina to
the Fortieth Congress as a Bepublican.
Corliss, John Blaisdell, of Detroit, Mich., was
born at Bichford, Vt.; educated at the Vermont
Methodist University; studied law at the Colum-
bian Law School, Washington, D. C, and gradu-
ated from that institution in 1875; settled in
Detroit in September of the same year and engaged
in the practice of law; elected city attorney of
Detroit in 1881 and reelected in 1883; during his
four years' incumbency of the office of city attor-
ney prepared the first complete charter of Detroit,
which was passed by the legislature in 1884;
always active in Republican politics; elected to the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Eepublican.
Cornell, Ezekiel, was born at Scituate, R. I.,
and educated in the public schools; mechanic;
appointed lieutenant-colonel in Hitchcock's Bhode
Island regiment in 1775; appointed brigadier-
general of Bhode Island State troops in 1776 and
served until March 16, 1780; Delegate from Rhode
Island to the Continental Congress 1780-1783; re-
tired to his farm at Scituate, where he spent the
remainder of his life.
Cornell, Thomas, was born at White Plains,
N. Y., January 27, 1814; educated in the public
schools; engaged in steamboat transportation
business between Bondout and New York City in
1 843 ; president of the Cornell Steamboat Company
until nia death; founder and president from its
organization of the First National Bank of Bond-
out; president of the Rondout Savings Bank, and
principal owner of the Ulster and Delaware and
the Kaaterskill Railroad and of the Rhinebeck and
Kingston Ferry; elected a Representative from
New York to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; defeated for the Forty-first Congress; died
at Bondout, N. Y., March 30, 1890.
Corning, Erastus, was born at Norwich, Conn.,
December 14, 1794; moved to Troy, N. Y., and
enterered the hardware store of his ujicle, Benja-
min Smith, whose business and fortune he inher-
ited; moved to Albany in 1814 and established the
iron house of E. Corning & Co.; State senator
1842-1845; alderman for several years and subse-
quently mayor of Albany; elected a Bepresenta-
tive from New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress; member of the peace conference of 1861;
again elected to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-
eighth Congresses, but resigned from the latter
Congress; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1867; died at Albany, N. Y., April 9,
1872.
Cornish, Johnston, of Washington, N. J., was
born in Hunterdon County, N. J.; educated in the
district school of Bethleham Township of his native
county, and graduated from the business college
of Easton, Pa.; entered the Cornish Piano and
Organ Company as junior partner; manager of
that institution; elected mayor of Washington in
1884 and in 1886; declined renomination in 1887
and 1888; State senator in 1890, and elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the State senate in 1899.
Corwln, Franklin, was born at Lebanon, Ohio,
January 12, 1818; studied law, and in 1839 ad-
mitted to the bar; served in both branches of the
State legislature of Ohio; moved to Peru, III., in
1857, where he served in the State legislature, being
speaker of the house for two terms; elected a
Bepresentative from Illinois to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; ' defeated for the Forty-
fourth Congress.
Corwin, Moses B. (brother of Thomas Cor-
win), was born in Bourbon County, Ky., January
5, 1790; spent the early part of his life on a farm,
and educated in the public schools; studied law,
admitted to the bar in 1812, and commenced
practice at Urbana, Ohio; member of the State
house of representatives in 1838 and 1839; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Whig; again elected to the Thirty-third
Congress; died at Urbana, Ohio, April 7, 1872.
Corwin; Thomas, was borninBourbon County,
Ky., July 29, 1794; moved to Lebanon, Ohio,
where he spent the early part of his life on a farm;
studied law and in 1818 admitted to the bar; com-
menced practice at Lebanon, Ohio; member of the
State legislaturel822-1829; electedaRepresentative
from Ohio to the Twenty-second Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses,
serving from December 5, 1831 to 1840, when he
resigned; elected governor of Ohio in 1840; de-
feated in 1842; elected United States Senator from
Ohio, serving from December 1, 1845, to July 22,
1850, when he resigned, having been appointed
Secretary of the Treasury by President Taylor, and
serving until March 3, 1853; elected to the Thirty-
sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; appointed by President Lincoln minister to
Mexico, serving from March 12, 1861, to Septem-
ber 1, 1864; located at Washington, D. C, where
he died December 18, 1865.
Cosgrove, John, of Boonville, Mo., was born
in Jefferson County, N. Y., September 12, 1839;
educated in New York; studied law at Watertown
and admitted to the bar in October, 1863; elected
prosecuting attorney of Cooper County, Mo., in
I November, 1872, and held the office two years;
BIOGEAPHIES.
473
city attorney of Boonville, Mo., from April, 1877,
to April, 1878, and from April, 1879, to April, 1881;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Cothran, James S., was born in Abbeville
County (then district), S. O., August 8, 1830, and
entered the university of Georgia at Athens in
October, 1850, from whence he graduated in the
summer of 1852; studied law and admitted to the
bar in 1854; entered the Confederate service as a
private at the breaking out of the war; severely
wounded at the battle of Second Manassas, Chan-
cellorsville, and Jericho Ford ; at the surrender of
the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox,
having attained the rank of captain; resumed the
practice of law at Abbeville; elected solicitor of
the eighth judicial circuit in 1876 and in 1880;
appointed to the judgeship of the circuit to fill
a vacancy caused by the death of Judge Thomson
in 1881; elected by the legislature to the same
office the following winter, and reelected in 1885;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fifty-flrst Congress; died Decem-
ber 5, 1897.
Cottman, Joseph. S., was born in Somerset
County, Md., August 16, 1803; received a liberal
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1826, and commenced practice at Upper Trappe,
Md. ; Presidential elector on the Taylor and Fill-
more ticket in 1848; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Thirty-second Congress as an
Independent Whig; died at -Upper Trappe, Md.,
in 1863.
Cotton, Aylett R., was born at Austintown,
Ohio, November 29, 1826; moved with his father
to Iowa in 1844; student at AUegiheny College,
Meadville, Pa., in 1845; taught school in Fayette
County, Tenn., in 1846-47; studied law, and in
1848 admitted to the bar; emigrated to California
in 1849, and in 1851 returned to Iowa; county
judge of Clinton County, Iowa, in 1851 and 1853;
prosecuting attorney of the same county in 1854;
member of the State constitutional convention of
Iowa in 1857; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1868-1870, serving as speaker the last
term; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses as a
Eepublican.
Cottrell, James La Fayette, was elected to the
State house of representatives of Alabama in 1834,
1836, and 1837, and to the State senate in 1838 for
three years, serving as president in 1840; elected
a Representative from Alabama to the Twenty-
ninth Congrfess (to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of W. L. Yancey) as a Democrat, and
served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847;
nominated on the Cass electoral ticket in 1848, but
resigned; moved to Florida, where he took an
active part in politics.
Coulter, Ricliard, was bom in Westmoreland
County, Pa. ; studied law and practiced at Greens-
burs; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
and Twenty-third Congresses; judgeof the supreme
court of Pennsylvania; died near Greensburg, Pa.,
April 21, 1852.
Cousins, Robert G., of Tipton, Iowa, was
born in Cedar County, Iowa, in 1859; graduated
from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, inl881;
admitted to the bar in 1882, and engaged in the
practice of law; elected to the Iowa legislature in
1886- youngest member of that assembly; served
on the judiciary and other important committees,.
and elected by vote of the house of representatives
as one of the prosecutors for the famous Brown
impeachment, which was tried before the senate
during 1887; elected prosecuting attorney and also
Presidential elector in 1888; elected to the Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Covert, James W. , of Flushing, N. Y., was
born at Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 2, 1842;
studied law with Hon. James Maurice, at New
York City, and with Benjamin W. Downing, esq.,
at Flushing; admitted to the bar in 1863, and
practiced at Flushing, Long Island; elected school
commissioner of his assembly district in 1867, and
held the position three years; acted as assistant
district attorney of his county; elected surrogate
of Queens County for the term commencing 1870,
and held the position four years; elected to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; moved
to Brooklyn, N. Y., and engaged in the practice
of law.
Covington, George W. , of Snow Hill, Md.,
son of Isaac Covington and Amelia Franklin, was
born at Berlin, Worcester County, Md., Septem-
ber 12, 1838; educated at Buckingham Academy;
read law under his uncle. Judge John E. Frank-
lin, and attended the law school of Harvard Uni-
versity; admitted to the bar and practiced; elected
member of the constitutional convention of Mary-
land from Worcester ^County in 1867, and served
in said body as a member of the judiciary commit-
tee; elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat; devoted himself to the
practice of law.
Covington, Ijeonard, was bom at Aquasco,
Md., October 30, 1768; received a liberal educa-
tion; entered the Army as cornet of cavalry, March
14, 1792; promoted to a captaincy, and resigned
September 12, 1795; engaged in agricultural pur-
suits; member of the State house of representa-
tives for several years; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat; appointed by President Jefferson lieutenant-
colonel of light dragoons, January 9, 1809, and
colonel February 15, 1809; promoted brigadier-
general August 1, 1813; fought gallantly; wounded
at the battle of Chrystler's field, November 11,
1813, and died the next day.
Covode, John, was born in "Westmoreland
County, Pa., March 17, 1808; educated in the j)ub-
lic schools; engaged in agriculture, manufacturing,
and transportation pursuits; largely interested in
the coal trade; elected a Eepresentative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
anti-Masonic Whig, and to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican ; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
and Thirty-seventh Congresses.
Cowan, Edgar, was born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., September 19, 1815; graduated from
Franklin College, Ohio, 1839; by turn a raftsman,
boat builder, schoolmaster, and student of medi-
cine; studied law and commenced practice at
Greensburg; Presidential elector in 1860 on the'
Lincoln and Hamlin ticket; elected a United States
Senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican, serv-
ing from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1867; delegate
to the national Union convention at Philadelphia
in 1866; appointed minister to Austria in January,
1867, by President Johnson, but not confirmed by
the Senate; died at Greensburg, Pa., August 29,
1885.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOKT.
Cowan, Jacob P., was born at Florence, Pa.,
March 20, 1823; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in
1835; engaged in manufacturing until 1843, when
he commenced the study of medicine; moved to
Ashland County, Ohio, in 1846, where he com-
menced practice; graduated from Starling Medical
College, Columbus; member of the State legisla-
ture 1855-1857; resumed the practice of medicine
in 1859; president of the Citizens' Bank, of Ash-
land, and a dealer in real estate; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Ohio to the Forty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat.
Cowen, Benjamin Sprague, was born in
Washington County, N. Y., September 27, 1793;
educated in the common schools; studied medi-
cine; served in the war of 1812 as a private; moved
to Moorefield, Ohio, in 1820, where he practiced
medicine and studied law; admitted to the bar in
1829, and commenced practice at St. Clairville,
Ohio; edited the Belmont Chronicle 1836-1840;
delegate to the national Whig convention which
nominated Harrison and Tyler in 1839; elected a
Eepresentative from Ohio to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as an antislavery Whig; member of the
State house of representatives 1845 and 1846; be-
came presiding judge of the court of common pleas
in 1847; died at St. Clairville, Ohio, September 27,
1860.
Cowen, John K. , of Baltimore, Md. , was born
October 28, 1844, at Millersburg, Holmes County,
Ohio; educated in the public schools, at the acad-
emy of Fredericksburg, and the one at Hayesville,
Ohio; graduated from Princeton College, class of
1866; studied at the law school of the Michigan
University, Ann Arbor; admitted to the bar of
Ohio in 1868, and began practice at Mansfield,
Ohio, same year; moved to Baltimore, Md., in
February, 1872, and practiced law; general coun-
sel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat;
president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company 1896-1901; trustee of Princeton Uni-
versity.
Cowgill, Calvin, of Wabash, Ind., was born in
Clinton County, Ohio, January 7, 1819; educated
in the common schools and by private teachers;
moved with his parents to Indiana in 1836; studied
law at Winchester, and moved to Wabash County,
Ind., in 1846; where he engaged in the practice of
law; member of the Indiana State legislature
which convened in 1851, and of the special session
of 1865; county treasurer from September 5, 1855,
to September 5, 1859; provost-marshal of the
eleventh district of Indiana from June, 1862, to
October, 1865; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; resumed the practice of law at
Wabash, Ind. ; died February 10, 1903.
Cowherd, ■William Strother, of Kansas City,
was born September 1, 1860, in Jackson County,
Mo. ; educated in the pubUc schools in the town
of Lees Summit, and at the University of Missouri;
appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jack-
son County in 1885, and served four yea'ra in that
capacity; appointed first assistant city counselor of
Kansas City in 1890; elected mayor of Kansas City
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Cowles, G-eorge W. , was born at Otisco, N. Y. ;
graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in
1845; taught school until 1853; studied law until
1854, and admitted to the bar; elected judge of
Wayne County, N. Y., in 1863, and again in 1867;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Cowles, Henry B. , wasbornat Hartford, Conn.,
March 18, 1798; moved with his father to Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1809; graduated from Union
College in 1816; studied law and commenced prac-
tice in Putnam County ; member of the State house
of representatives 1826-1828; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-first Congress;
moved to New York City in 1834 and practiced law.
Cowles, W. H. H., of Wilkesboro, N. C, was
born at Hamptonville, N. C, April 22, 1840; edu-
cated at home and in the common schools and
academies of his native county; entered the Con-
federate service as a private in Captain Crumpler's
company, afterwards Company A of the First
North Carolina Cavalry, which formed a part of
ten regiments of State troops enlisted for the war
and for the service of the Confederate States; made
first lieutenant upon the organization of the com-
pany, and served from the spring of 1861 to the
close of the war with the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, holding the positions of captain, major, and
lieutenant-colonel of his regiment; twice wounded
severely; entered upon the study of law at "Rich-
mond Hill," Yadkin County, in 1866, obtained a
county-court license in January, 1867, and that of
the superior court in January, 1868; moved to
AVilkesboro; reading clerk of the senate of North
Carolina in the sessions of 1872-73 and 1873-74;
elected solicitor of the tenth judicial district in
1874 and served for 'four years; member of the
Democratic State executive committee for eight
years; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
Cox, Isaac Newton, of Ellenville, N. Y., was
born at Fallsburg, Sullivan County, N. Y., August
1, 1846; located at Ellenville in his boyhood, where
he received an academic education; elected super-
visor 1875 and 1883-1886, and served as chairman
of the board the last year; chairman of the com-
mittee that effected a settlement with the State by
which Ulster County was relieved of the payment
of $27,000 for back taxes claimed by the State;
served four years on the Democratic State com-
mittee; delegate to Democratic conventions, State
and local; appointed by President Cleveland chair-
man of the commission to make an examination
of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1886; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; en-
gaged in the mercantile, lumbering, and banking
business at Ellenville, N. Y.
Cox, Jacob D., was born at Montreal, Canada,
October 27, 1828, his parents being natives of the
United States; reared in the citv of New York;
graduated from Oberlin College "in 1851; studied
law; m 1853 admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Warren, Ohio; member of the State
senate m 1859; entered the Union Army as briga-
dier-general of Ohio Volunteers April 23, 1861, and
attained the rank of major-general in December,
1864; elected governor of Ohio in October, 1865;
moved to Cincinnati and resumed the practice of
law; Secretary of the Interior in President Grant's
first Cabinet, March, 1869, to December, 1870; made
president of the Wabash Railroad in 1873; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fi'fth Con-
gress; dean of the Cincinnati Law School 1881-1897-
president of the University of Cincinnati. '
Cox, James (grandfather of S. S. Cox), was born
at Monmouth, N. J., June 14, 1753; educated in the
public schools ; com manded a company of militia at
the battles of Germantown and of Monmouth and
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attained the rank of brigadier-general; member of
the State assembly for several years, serving one
year as speaker ; elected a Eepresentati ve from New
J ersey to the Tenth Congress as a Madison Demo-
crat, serving from May 22, 1809, until his death, at
' Monmouth, September 12, 1810.
Cox, Leauder M. , was born in Virginia; moved
to Flemingsburg, Ky. ; captain in the Third Ken-
tucky Volunteers, raised for the Mexican war, in
1847 ; Presidential elector on the Scott and Graham
ticket in 1852; elected a Eepresentative from Ken-
tucky to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig, and
to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; de-
feated for the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Cox, Nicholas Nichols, of Franklin, Tenn.,
was born in Bedford County, Tenn., January 6,
1837; moved with his parents to the frontier of
Texas when a small boy; brought up in Seguin,
near San Antonio ; educated in the common schools;
pursued the study of law at the law school of Leb-
anon, Tenn., from which institution he graduated
in 1858, and licensed to practice at the same time;
Confederate colonel, and sei'ved during most of the
war with General Forrest; located m Franklin,
Williamson County, Tenn.; engaged in farming;
elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in
1860; elector on the Greeley ticket in 1872; Mr.
Greeley having died before the college of electors
met, cast his vote for Hendricks, of Indiana, for
President; elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, was born at Zanesville,
Ohio, September 30, 1824; attended Ohio Univer-
sity, Athens; graduated from Brown University,
Providence, class of 1846; studied and practiced
law; owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio)
Statesman 1853-54; appointed secretary of legation
to Peru in 1855; delegate to the Chicago and the
New York Democratic national conventions of 1864
andl868; author of several worksandcontributorto
the press and periodicals; elected from the Colum-
bus (Ohio) district to th^ Thirty-flfth, Thirty-sixth,
Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Congresses;
moved to New York City March 4, 1865; elected
to the Forty-first Congress; reelected to the Forty-
second Congress, and candidate of the Democrats
and Liberal RepubUcans for Eepresentative at
large to the Forty-third Congress, and defeated by
Lyman Tremain; subsequently reelected to the
Forty-third Congress (to succeed James Brooks,
deceased) ; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress;
appointed Speaker pro tempore of the House June
7, 1876, and elected Speaker pro tempore June 19,
1876 serving until he vacated the office, June 24,
1876; reelected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Tammany Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Joseph
Pulitzer, and took his seat December 6, 1886; re-
elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses
as a Democrat; died September 10, 1889, at New
York City.
Cox, William Kuffin, of Raleigh, N. C, was
born at Scotland Neck, N. C. ; moved to Tennessee;
entered Franklin College, near Nashville where
he graduated; student at Lebanon Law School;
received degree of bachelor of laws; practiced m
Nashville, Tenn. ; returned to his native State; en-
caged in planting in Edgecombe County; early m
the war entered the Confederate States army as
major of the Second North Carolina State Troops;
became brigadier-general, and commanded his di-
vision in the last charge at Appomattox; resumed
practice of law at Raleigh; elected solicitor of the
Metropolitan district, and held the office for six
years; appointed judge of the superior court for
the same district, and held the office until near the
expiration of his term, when he resigned ; trustee
of the University of the South; delegate to national
Democratic convention which met in New York;
delegate to the St. Louis Democratic convention,
but declined the honor; several years chairman of
the State Democratic committee; elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Coxe, Tench, was born at Philadelphia May 22,
1755; received a liberal education; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; commissioner to the Federal
convention at Annapolis in 1786; delegate to the
Continental Congress in 1788; Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury in 1790; revenue commissioner in
1792; purveyor of the public supplies 1803 to 1812;
died at Philadelphia July 17, 1824.
Coxe, "William, was born at Burlington, N. J.;
member of the State house of representatives,
serving as speaker for one year; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirteenth Con-
gress as a Federalist; died at Burlington, N. J.
Crabb, George W. , was born in Tennessee and
educated in the public schools; moved to Tusca-
loosa, Ala. ; elected assistant secretary of the State
senate and subsequently comptroller of public
accounts; served in the Florida Indian war as
lieutenant-colonel of the Alabama Volunteers;
member of the State senate of Alabama and major-
general of militia; elected a Representative to the
Twenty-fifth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by
the death of Joab Lawler) as a Whig; reelected to
the Twenty-sixth Congress, serving from Septem-
ber 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841; defeated for the
Twenty-seventh Congress; appointed judge of the
county court of Mobile in 1846; died at Philadel-
phia, Pa., in 1847.
Crabb, Jeremiah, was born in Maryland and
elected a Representative from that State to the
Fourth Congress, serving from December 7, 1795,
to 1796, when he resigned.
Cradlebaug-h, John, was bom in Ohio; moved
to Carson City, Nev. ; elected a Delegate from
Nevada Territory to the Thirty-seventh Congress;
appointed United States district judge for the
district of Utah.
Crafts, Samuel Chandler, was born at Wood-
stock, Conn., October 6, 1768; graduated from
Harvard College in 1790; moved to Vermont with
his father, who founded the town of Craftsbury, of
which he was town clerk 1792-1829; youngest
delegate to the Vermont constitutional convention
of 1793; member of the State house' of representa-
tives in 1796, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805, and clerk
of the house 1798-99; registerof probate 1796-1815;
judge of the Orleans County court 1800-1816 and
1825-1828 ; elected a Representative from Vermont
to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and
Eighteenth Congresses; governor of Vermont
1829-1832; member of the Vermont constitutional
convention of 1829, servingaspresident; appointed
by the governor of Vermont and subsequently
elected to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel
Prentiss, serving from April 30, 1842, until March
3, 1843; died at Craftsbury, Vt., November 19,
1853.
Crag'in, Aaron H. , was born at Weston, Vt.,
February 1, 1821; received a liberal education;
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CONGRESSIONAL DIREOTOKY.
studied law, and in 1847 admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Lebanon, jSf. H. ; member
of the State house of representatives 1852-1855;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, and to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican ; resumed
the practice of law; elected a United States Sena-
tor as a Republican to succeed John P. Hale, Re-
publican, and reelected, serving from March 4,
1865, to March 3, 1877; appointed by President
Hayes one of the commissioners for the sale of the
Hot Springs of Arkansas.
Craig, Alexander Kerr, of Olaysville, Pa., was
born in Buffalo Township, Washington County,
Pa., February 21, 1828; of Scotch-Irish descent;
educated in the common schools; commenced
teaching school at 17 years of age, and continued
to teach winters (working on the farm summers)
until 1885; devoted himself exclusively to agricul-
ture; enlisted February, 1865, in the Eighty-
seventh Pennsylvania Infantry; participated in
the closing scenes of the war of the rebellion, and
present at the surrender at Appomattox; always a
Democrat in politics and a Presbyterian in religion ;
school director and justice of the peace; nominated
as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress, and
after a contest was seated February 26, 1892; died
July 29, 1892.
Craig, George H., of Selma, Ala., was born at
Cahaba, Dallas County, Ala., December 25, 1845;
educated at Cahaba Academy and the University
of Alabama; entered the Confederate army, at the
age of 16 years, as a private in Colonel Byrd's
regiment, Alabama Volunteers, at Mobile; at ex-
piration of term of service entered the University
of Alabama as a cadet; promoted to first lieutenant
of infantry, and in 1863 again entered the Confed-
erate service; served until the end of the war, and
surrendered at Meridian, Miss., in May, 1865;
studied law at Selma, Ala. , and admitted to prac-
tice in December, 1867; elected solicitor of Dallas
County in 1868; appointed by the governor sheriff
of Dallas County in March, 1869; elected by Re-
publicans as judge of the criminal court of Dallas
County in March, 1870, for term of six years;
appointed by the governor of Alabama, in July,
1874, judge of the first judicial circuit to fill an
unexpired term;- elected on the Republican ticket,
November 4, 1874, judge of the first judicial circuit
for six years; retired to practice in Selma; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress by a majority of
12,000 votes; "counted out," and the certificate
given Charles M. Shelley; contested the seat suc-
cessfully, and was seated on January 9, 1885;
resumed the practice of law.
Craig, Hector, was born in Orange County,
N. Y.; elected a Representative from New York
to the Eighteenth Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat; again elected to the Twenty-first Congress,
serving from December 7, 1829, to July 12, 1830,
when he resigned.
Craig, James, was born in Pennsylvania, May
7, 1820; studied law and moved to St. Joseph, Mo.,
where he commenced practice; captain of a volun-
teer company in the Mexican war; State attorney
for the twelfth judicial circuit 1852-1856; member
of the'Missouri legislature 1846-47; elected a Rep-
resentative from Missouri to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress; on March 21, 1862, commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers by President Lin-
coln; the first president of the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad and the first comptroller of the
city of St. Joseph; negotiated the Piatt purchase
which "Comprised all of northwest Missouri; died
at St. Joseph, Mo., October 21, 1888.
Craig, Kobert, was born in Virginia; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-first
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
second Congress; defeated for the Twenty-third
Congress; elected to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-
fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses.
Craig, Samuel Alfred, of Brookville, Pa., was
born at iSrookville, Jefferson County, Pa., Novem-
ber 19, 1839; received his education in the cosn-
mon schools of his native town and at Jefferson
College, Canonsburg, Pa.; learned the printer's
trade and taught school; enlisted as a private
April 19, 1861; promoted to second lieutenant,
first lieutenant, and captain Company B, One
hundred and fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; shot
through the head, right leg, and right arm; com-
missioned captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps,
U. S. Army, and served continuously four years
and three months; studied law, admitted to prac-
tice in 1876, and practiced; elected district attorney;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican;
resumed the practice of law.
Craige, Burton, was born in Rowan County,
N. C, March 13, 1811; graduated from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina in 1829; studied law and
commenced practice at Salisbury; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina, 1832 and
1834; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat,
serving from December 5, 1853, until 1861, when
he resigned; delegate to the convention which dis-
solved the union between North Carolina and the
other States; delegate to the Provisional Con-
gress of the Confederate States which met at Rich-
mond in July, 1861 ; retired to private lite and died
at Salisbury, N. C, December 29, 1875.
Craik, ■William, was born near Port Tobacco,
Md., received a liberal education; studied law and
practiced; elected a Representative from Maryland
to the Fourth Congress in place of Jeremiah Crabb,
resigned; reelected to the Fifth and Sixth Con-
gresses; appointed a judge of the United States
district court and subsequently chief justice of the
fifth judicial district of Maryland.
Grain, William H. , of Cuero, Tex. , was born at
Galveston, Tex., November 25, 1848; graduated
from St. Francis Xavier's College, .New York City,
July 1, 1867, and received the degree of A. M.;
studied law in the oflice of Stockdale & Proctor,
Indianola, and admitted to practice in February,
1871; practiced law; elected a State senator in Feb-
ruary, 1876; electeddistrictattorney of the twenty-
third judicial district of Texas in November, 1872;
elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first,'
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died February 10, 1896 at
Washington, D. C.
Cramer, John, was born at Waterford, N. Y.
September 26, 1779; Presidential elector on the
Jefferson and Clinton ticket in 1805; served in the
State house of representatives in 1806 and 1811-
State senator 1823-1825; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention in 1821; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Jackson Democrat, and reelected to
the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at Waterford
N. Y., June 1,1870. ■" '
Crane, Joseph H., was born at Elizabethtown
N. J., in 1782; studied law and practiced; moved
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477
to Dayton, Ohio; judge of the court of common
pleas; elected a Bepresentative from Ohio to the
Twenty-flrst Congress as a Whig, and reelected to
the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses; died at Dayton, Ohio, Novem-
ber 12, 1832.
Crane, Stephen, was born in New Jersey; Dele-
gate from that State to the Continental Congress
1774-1776.
Cranford, John Walter, of Sulphur Springs,
Tex., was born near Grovehill, Clarke County,
Ala., about 1862; educated in the best high schools
of Alabama, and finished his education under a
private tutor; moved to Texas; studied law under
Judge J. K. Milam and Sam J. Hunter; admitted
to the bar and became a member of the law firm
of Hunter, Putman & Cranford; elected to the
State senate in 1888 for a term of four years and
reelected in 1892; chairman of judiciary committee
No. 1; elected president pro tempore of the twenty-
second senate; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat; died March 2, 1899.
Cranston, Henry Y., was born at Newport,
E. I., October 9, 1789; educated in the public
schools; worked at a trade and clerked when
young; studied law; in 1809 admitted to the bar,
and commenced practice at Newport; clerk of the
court of common pleas 1818-1833; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; member of the
State house of representatives 1827-1843; elected
a Representative from Rhode Island to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, and reelected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; again a member of the
State house of representatives, serving three years
as speaker; retired from public life in 1854; died
at Newport, R. I., February 12, 1864.
Cranston, Robert B., was born at Newport,
R. I., in 1791; educated in the public schools;
employed in the collection of internal revenue;
sheriff of Newport County; elected a Representa-
tive from Rhode Island to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a Whig, and reelected to the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses; cashier of the
Newport Exchange Bank; postmaster of Newport,
and cashier of the Newport Traders' Bank; mem-
ber of the State senate and house of representa-
tives for several years, ser^^ng one year as speaker
of the house; again elected to the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Law and Order Whig; bequeathed
$75,000 to the poor people in Newport; died at
Newport, R. I., Janua^ry 27, 1873.
Crapo, William Wallace, of New Bedford,
Mass., was born at Dartmouth, Mass., May 16,
1830; educated in the public schools of New Bed-
ford, at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated
from Yale College in 1852; studied law at Dane
Law School, Cambridge, admitted to the bar, and
practiced; member of the State legislature in 1857;
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. James Buff-
inton]; reelected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican;
returned to New Bedford, Mass., and engaged in
banking and manufacturing.
Crary, Isaac E. , was born at Preston, Conn. ;
educated in the public schools; studied law and
commenced practice at Marshall, Mich.; elected
a Delegate from Michigan and subsequently a Rep-
resentative to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving from January
27, 1837, to March 3, 1841; died at Marshall, Mich.,
May 8, 1854.
Cravens, James A. , was born in Rockingham
County, Va., November 4, 1818; moved with his
father to Indiana in 1820; educated in the public
schools; engaged in farming and stock raising;
served in the war with Mexico as major of the
Second Indiana Volunteers from June, 1846, to
1847; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1848-49, and of the State senate '1850-1853;
commissioned brigadier-general of militia in 1854;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat; delegate to the national Union conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1866, and to the national
Democratic convention at New York in 1868.
Cravens, James H., was born in Rockingham
County, Va., in 1798; moved to Indiana and
engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected a Rep-
resentative from Indiana to the Twenty-seventh
Congress, serving from May 31, 1841, to March 3,
1843; defeated as the Free Soil candidate for gov-
ernor; colonel of a regiment of Indiana volunteers
in the war for the suppression of the rebellion.
Cravens, Jordan E., of Clarksville, Ark., was
born at Fredericktown, Madison County, Mo.,
November 7, 1830; his father moved to Arkansas
the following year; received a common school
education; studied law, and admitted to the bar
in 1854, and afterwards practiced; member of the
State house of representatives in 1860; entered the
Confederate army in 1861 as a private, promoted
to colonel in 1862, and continued in the service
until the close of the war; member of the State
senate in 1866; Presidential elector on the Greeley
ticket in 1872; elected a. Representative from
Arkansas to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Crawford, George W. , was born in Columbia
County, Ga., December 22, 1798; graduated from
Princeton College in 1820; studied law, and in 1822
commenced practice at Augustd, Ga. ; attorney-
general of the State of Georgia 1827-1831; member
of the State house of representatives 1837-1842;
elected a Bepresentative from Georgia to the
Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Richard W. Habersham, as a
Whig, serving from February 1, 1843, to March 3,
1843; elected governor of Georgia in 1843 and
reelected in 1845; appointed by President Taylor
Secretary of War, serving from March 7, 1849, to
August 15, 1850.
Cravsrford, Joel, was born in Columbia County,
Ga., June 15, 1783; received a liberal education;
studied law at the Litchfield Law School, and in
1808 commenced practice at Sparta, but soon
moved to Milledgeville; served in the war against
the Creek Indians as second lieutenant and aid-
de-camp to Brigadier-General Floyd 1813-14;
resumed the practice of law at Milledgeville ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1814r-1817;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Sixteenth Congress; member of the State
legislature for several years; appointed a commis-
sioner to run the boundary line between Alabama
and Georgia in 1826; elected in 1837 a State com-
missioner to locate and construct the Western and
Atlantic Railroad; died in Early County, Ga.,
April 5, 1858.
Crawford, Martin J., was bom in Jasper
County, Ga., March 17, 1820; educated at Mercer
University; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1839, and commenced practice, but the death
of his father forced him to devote himself to
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CONGEES8IONAL BIKECTORT.
planting; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1845-1847; elected delegate to the
Southern convention at Nashville in May, 1850;
judge of the superior courts of the Chattahoochee
circuit 1853-1855; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving from December
3, 1855, to January 23, 1861, when he retired
from the House; elected to the Confederate
Provisional Congress, serving from January,
1861, to February 22, 1862; appointed by Presi-
dent Davis a special commissioner to the Gov-
ernment of the United States at Washington;
raised the Third Georgia Cavalry Regiment in May,
1862; served with it one year, and then placed on
the staff with Maj. Gen. Howell Cobb, on which
he served until the close of the war; in September,
1875, appointed judge of the superior court of the
Chattahoochee circuit to fill a vacancy caused by
the resignation of Judge James Johnson, and
reappointed in 1877 for eight years.
Crawford, Thomas Hartley, was born at
Chambersburg, Pa., November 14, 1786; grad-
uated from Princeton College in 1804; studied
law, and in 1807 commenced practice at Cham-
bersbiu-g; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-second
Congress; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1833; appointed a commissioner to
investigate alleged frauds in the sale of the Creek
Reservation in 1836; appointed by President Van
Buren Commissioner of Indian Affairs, serving
from October 22, 1838, to October 30, 1845; appoint-
ed by President Polk judge of the criminal court
of the District of Columbia in 1845, serving until
his death, at Washington, D. C, January 27, 1863.
Crawford, 'Williani, was born at Paisley, Scot-
land, in 1760; received a liberal education; studied
medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in
1791 received his degree; emigrated to the United
States and settled near Gettysburg; purchased a
farm on Marsh Creek in 1795, where he spent the
rest of his life practicing medicine; associate judge
for Adams County; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, and Fourteenth Congresses as a Democrat;
died in 1823.
Crawford, William Harris, was born in
Amherst County, Va., February 24, 1772; moved
with his father to Georgia in 1783; studied law
and commenced practice at Lexington; appointed
to prepare a digest of the laws of Georgia in 1799;
member of the State house of representatives
1803-1807; elected a United States Senator from
Georgia in place of Abraham Baldwin, deceased,
serving from December 9, 1807, to March 3, 1813;
elected President pro tempore of the Senate March
24, 1812; declined the position of Secretary of War
offered him by President Madison, and accepted
the mission to France, serving from April 3, 1813,
to April 22, 1815; returned home to act as agent
for the sale of the land donated by Congress to
La Fayette; accepted the position as Secretary of
War August 1, 1815, and transferred to the Treas-
ury October 22, 1816, serving until March 7, 1825;
defeated as the Democratic candidate for President
in 1825; on account of illness declined the request
of President J. Q. Adams that he remain Secretary
of the Treasury ; returned to Georgia and appointed
judge of the northern circuit court in 1827, which
position he held until his death, at Elberton, Ga.,
September 15, 1834.
Crawford, William Thomas, of Waynesville,
N. C, was born in Haywood County, N; C, June
1, 1856; educated in the common schools and at
Waynesville Academy; taught school and engaged
in mercantile business; elected to the State legis-
lature in 1884 and in 1886; Democratic elector in
1888; engrossing clerk of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1889; pursued the study of law at the
State University of North Carolina, 1889-90, and
obtained license to practice in January, 1891;
elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses asa Democrat; claimed to have been elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress, but the House on May
10, 1900, decided that he was not entitled to the
seat, and gave it to Richmond Pearson, the Repub-
lican candidate.
Creamer, Thomas J., of New York, N. Y.,
was born May 26, 1843, near Garadice Lake, Ire-
land; his grandfather served in a New York regi-
ment in the Revolution; lawyer; served ten years
in the State legislature, and as city tax commis-
sioner for five years; acted as counsel for State
commissions to revise the tax laws; elected to the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat; a delegate to
three Democratic national conventions; elected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Crebs, John M., was born at Middleburg, Lou-
doun County, Va., April 9, 1830; moved with his
parents in 1837 to Illinois, where he worked on a
farm; educated in the public schools; studied law;
in 1852 admitted to the bar; commenced practice
in White County, 111. ; entered the Union Army as
lieutenant-colonel in 1862; took part in the Missis-
sippi, Vicksburg, and Arkansas campaigns; com-
manded a brigade of cavalry in the Department of
the Gulf, and after the close of the war resumed
law practice; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Forty-second Congress; died at
Mount Carmel, 111., June 26, 1890.
Creighton, William, jr. , was born in Berkeley
County, Va., October 29, 1778; graduated from
Dickinson College; studied law, and in 1798 ad-
mitted to the bar; commenced practice at Chilli-
cothe, Ohio; secretary of state of Ohio in 1803;
elected to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from
May 24, 1813, until March 3, 1817; elected to the
Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses; appointed a judge of the United States
court for the district of Ohio; died at Chillicothe,
Ohio, October 8, 1851.
Crisiield, John W. , was born in Kent County,
Md., November 6, 1808; educated at Washington
College, Chestertown; studied law; in 1830 ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice in
Somerset County .-Md.; member of the State legis-
lature in 1836 ; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Thirteenth Congress as a Whig; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1850;
delegate to the peace conference in 1861; elected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union Repub-
lican ; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-eighth
Cpngress; delegate to the national Union conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1866.
Crisp, Charles Frederick, of Americus, Ga. ,
was born on the 29th of January, 1845, at SheflSeld,
England; brought to this country the year of his
birth; received a common school education at
Savannah and Macon, Ga.; entered the Confed-
erate army in May, 1861; lieutenant in Company
K, Tenth Virginia Infantry, and served with that
regiment until the 12th of May, 1864, when he
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became a prisoner of war; upon his release from
Fort Delaware, in June, 1865, joined his parents at
Ellaville, Schley County, Ga. ; read law at Ameri-
cus, and admitted to the bar there in 1866; began
the practice of law at Ellaville, Ga.; appointed
solicitor-general of the southwestern judicial cir-
cuit in 1872, and reappointed in 1873 for a term of
four years; appointed judge of the superior court
of the same circuit in June, 1877; elected by the
general assembly to the same office in 1878; re-
elected judge for a term of four years in 1880; re-
signed that office in September, 1882, to accept
Democratic nomination for Congress; permanent
president of the Demiocratic convention which
assembled at Atlanta in April, 1883, to nominate
a candidate for governor; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses; elected
Speaker of the House of Representatives in the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; died
October 26, 1896.
Crisp, Charles E., of Americus, Ga., was born
at Ellaville, Schley Coimty, Ga., October 19, 1870;
lawyer by profession, being the junior member of
the firm of Hooper & Crisp; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, without opposition,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father,
Hon. Charles F. Crisp; after expiration of his term
in Congress resumed the practice of law at Ameri-
cus, and afterwards became judge of the county
court of Sumter County.
Crist, Henry, was bom in Virginia in 1764;
moved with his father to Pennsylvania, where he
was educated in the public schools; moved to Bul-
litt County, Ky. , in 1788, and engaged in the manu-
facture of salt; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives of Kentucky in 1795, and of the State
senate 1800-1804; elected a Eepresentative from
Kentucky to the Eleventh Congress; died in Bullitt
County, Ky., in 1844.
Critcher, John, was born in AVestmoreland
County, Va., March 11, 1820; graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1839; studied at the Uni-
versity of France for three years; studied law and
practiced; elected to the State senate of Virginia
and to the State convention of 1861; lieutenant-
colonel of cavalry in the Confederate army; ap-
pointed judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Vir-
ginia, but removed by the thirty-day resolution of
Congress; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia
to the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative.
Crittenden, John J., was born in Woodford
.County, Ky., September 10, 1787; received a lib-
eral education; served in the war of 1812 as aid
to Governor Shelby; studied law and practiced at
Frankfort, Ky. ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1816; United States Senator from
Kentucky, serving from December 1, 1817, to
March 3, 1819; served several years in the State
house of representatives; again United States Sen-
ator, serving from December 7, 1835, to March 3,
1841; appointed Attorney-General of the United
States by President Harrison, serving from March
5, 1841, to September 13, 1841; again United States
Senator, serving from March 31, 1842, until 1848,
when he resigned; elected governor of Kentucky
1848-1850; again appointed Attorney-General by
President Fillmore, serving from July 20, 1850, to
March 3, 1853; again United States Senator, serv-
ing from December 3, 1855, to March 3, 1861;
elected a Eepresentative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Unionist; died at
Frankfort, Ky., July 26, 1863.
Crittenden, Thomas T., was born in Shelby
County, Ky., January 2, 1834; graduated from Cen-
tre College, Danville, Ky., in April, 1855; studied
law at Frankfort; afterwards practiced at Warrens-
burg, Mo. ; appointed attorney-general of Missouri
in 1864 ^o fill out the unexpired term of Ackmen
Welsh, deceased; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Forty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat; again elected to the' Forty-fifth Congress;
governor of Missouri 1881-1885; appointed consul-
general to Mexico April 5, 1893.
Crocheron, Henry, was a resident of Rich-
mond County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from that State to the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat.
Crocheron, Jacob, was elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-first Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; Presidential elector on
the Van Buren and Johnson ticket in 1837.
Crocker, Alvah, was born at Leominster, Mass. ,
October 14, 1801; proprietor of paper manufac-
tories at Fitchburg; president of the Boston and
Fitchburg Railroad; commissioner of the Hoosac
Tunnel; member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1836, 1842, and 1843; member of the
State senate for two terms; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Ilepublican to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of William B. Washburn; re-
elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving until
his death, at Fitchburg, Mass., December 26, 1874.
Crocker, Samuel L. , was born at Taunton,
Mass., March 31, 1804; graduated from Brown
University in 1822; engaged in manufacturing;
member of the executive council of Massachusetts
in 1849; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig;
died at Boston, Mass., February 10, 1883.
Crockett, David (father of John W. Crockett),
was born in Greene County, Tenn., August 17,
1786; commanded a battalion of mounted riflemen
under General Jackson in the Creek campaign
1813-14; member of the State legislature; elected
a Eepresentative from Tennessee to the Twentieth
Congress as a Whig, and reelected to theTwenty-first
Congress; defeated for reelection; ag^in elected to
the Twenty-third Congress; went to Texas to aid
in the struggle for independence and was killed
while gallantly fighting at San Antoine de Bexar,
March 6, 1836.
Crockett, John W. , was bornat Trenton, Tenn. ;
educated in the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a Whig, and reelected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress ; elected by the State legislature attorney-
general for the ninth district of Tennessee Novem-
ber 1, 1841; moved to New Orleans and became
editor of the National May 22, 1848; moved to
Memphis, Tenn., where he died November 24, 1852.
Cromer, George Washington, of Muncie, Ind.,
was born May 13, 1856, in Madison County, Ind. ;
moved with his parents while quite young into
Salem Township,.Delaware County, Ind.; educated
in the common schools, in Wittenberg College, of
Springfield, Ohio, and in the State University at
Bloomington, Ind., from which university he
graduated in the year 1882 with the degree of
A. B. ; after graduating, for a short time editor of
the Muncie Times, then read and began the prac-
tice of law in 1886; elected prosecuting attorney
of the forty-sixth judicial circuit of Indiana in
1886, reelected in 1888; member of the State Ee-
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publican committee from the Sixth Congressional
district of Indiana in 1892 and 1894; elected mayor
of Muncie in 1894; elected to the Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Crooke, Philip S., was born at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., March 2, 1810; educated at the Dutchess
Academy at Poughkeepsie ; studied law, and in 1831
admitted to the bar; located at Flatbush in 1838;
Presidential elector in 1852 on the Democratic
ticket; elected amember of the general Msembly of
theStateof NewYorkasaEepublicaninlteeS; mem-
ber of the board of supervisors of Kings County
1844-1852, 1858-^1870, and chairman of the board
1861, 1862, 1864, and 1865; served forty years in
the National Guard of the State of New York from
private to brigadier-general; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from New York to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican. '
Crosby, John Crawford, of Pittsfleld, Mass,,
was born at Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass.,
June 15, 1859; educated in the public schools of
Pittsfleld ; studied law and graduated from the Bos-
ton University Law School; admitted to the bar
and engaged in the practice of law ; elected a mem-
ber of the school committee of Pittsfleld in 1885,
and served six consecutive years in that office;
elected a member of the Massachusetts house
of representatives in 1885 and reelected in 1886,
serving each year on the committees on rules and
railroads; elected a member of the Massachusetts
senate in 1887; reelected in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; after leaving
Congress, twice dected mayor of Pittsfleld, Mass.,
and twice elected city solicitor.
Cross, Edward, was born in Tennessee and
educated in the public schools; studied law and
practiced; United States judge for the district of
Arkansas; elected a Representative from Arkansas
to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth
Congresses; appointed judge of the State supreme
court in July, 1845.
Crossland, Edward, was born in Hickman
County, Ky., June 30, 1827; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice; mem-
ber of the legislature of the State of Kentucky
1857-58; elected jud^e of the court of common
pleas in the first judicial district of Kentucky in
August, 1867, for six years, and resigned Novem-
ber 1, 1870; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Forty-gecond Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Forty-third Congress.
Crouch, Edward, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirteenth Congress as
a Democrat, in place of John Gloninger, resigned.
Crounse, Lorenzo, was born in Schoharie
County, N. Y., January 27, 1834; received a lib-
eral education; moved to Fort Plain, Montgomery
County, N. Y., in 1855 and practiced law; raised a
battery of light artillery in 1861 ; entered the Army
as captain in the First Regiment, New York State
Artillery; wounded, and resigned after a year's
service; moved to Nebraska Territory in 1865;
member of the Territorial legislature in 1866 and
assisted in framing and securing the adoption of
its present State constitution; elected associate
judge of the supreme court and entered upon its
duties in March, 1867, when Nebraska was admitted
into the Union; elected a Representative from
Nebraska to the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Crouse, George "W. , of Akron, Ohio, was born
at Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, November
23, 1832; received a common school education;
elected and reelected auditor of Summit County,
Ohio, 1858-1862; held the office of county treas-
urer; county commissioner and trustee for the
Children's Home for the same county; member
and president of the city council for four years;
member and president of the board of education
for the city of Akron four years; sergeant in Com-
pany F, One hundred and sixty-fourth Regiment,
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in fortifica-
tions around Washington in 1864; elected to the
Ohio State senate in 1885, and served during
the' regular and adjourned sessions of the sixty-
seventh general assembly until March 4, 1887,
when he resigned; elected to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Republican.
Crowell, John, was born in Halifax County,
Ala.; educated in the public schools; elected a
Delegate from the Territory of Alabama to the Fif-
teenth Congress, serving from March 9, 1818, to
March 3, 1819, when the State constitution went
into operation; elected a Representative from Ala-
bama to the Sixteenth Congress; appointed agent
for the Creek Indians, then inhabiting western
Georgia and eastern Alabama, and occupied the
position until they were moved to the Indian Ter-
ritory in 1836; died at Fort Mitchell, Ala., June
25, 1846.
Crowell, John, was born in Connecticut;
moved to Warren, Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Thirty-flrst Congress.
Crowley, Joseph B. , of Robinson, 111., was
bom at Coshocton, Ohio, July 19, 1858 ; moved with
his parents to Robinson in 1872; educated in the
common schools; engaged in mercantile business
1876-1880; studied law; admitted to the bar in
May, 1883; elected county judge of Crawford
County in November, 1886, and reelected in 1890;
appointed United States special Treasury agent in
charge of the seal fisheries of Alaska in April, 1893,
resigning this position in April, 1898; served two
terms as president of the Robinson city school
board and two terms as master in chancery of his
county; elected a Representative to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Crowley, Miles, of Galveston, Tex., was born
at Boston, Mass., in 1859; by profession a lawyer;
member of the house of representatives of the
twenty-second legislature of the State of Texas
and a State senator of the twenty-third and twenty-
fourth legislatures; elected a Representative to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; returned to
Texas and engaged in the practice of law.
Crowley, Bichard, of Lockport, N. Y., was
born at Lockport, N. Y., December 14, 1836; ed-
ucated in the public schools there; studied law at
Lockport and admitted to the bar in 1860; city
attorney in 1865; elected in that year to the New
York State senate and reelected m 1867, serving
from January 1, 1866, to January 1, 1870; appointed
United States district attorney for the northern
district of New York in 1871, and reappointed in
1875, resigning that office March 3, 1879, to take
his seat in Congress; elected a Representative to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress.
Crowninshield, Benjamin Williams, was
born at Boston, Mass., December 27, 1772; received
a liberal education; engaged in mercantile pursuits
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at Salem, Mass.; State senator in 1811; appointed
Secretary of the Navy by President Madison De-
cember 17, 1814, and reappointed by President
Monroe, resigning in 1814; again a State senator
1822-1823; elected a Kepresentative from Massa-
chusetts to the Eighteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty-first Congresses; defeated for reelection
to the Twenty-second Congress; died at Boston,
Mass., February 3, 1851.
Crowninshield, Jacob, was born at Salem,
Mass.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; defeated
as the Democratic, candidate to fill the vacancy in
the Sixth Congress, caused by the resignation of
Dwight Foster, by Nathan Read, Federalist; a
member of the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives; tendered the position of Secreteiry of the
Navy by President Jefferson, but did not accept;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses as a Demo-
crat, serving until his death, at Washington, D. C,
April 14, 1808.
Crowther, George C, of St. Joseph, Mo., was
born January 26, 1849; attended the public schools
until his tenth year, when he became a printer's
apprentice, continuing in the printing office until
he mastered the trade, during his apprenticeship
pursuing his studies at home; entered the Federal
Army in 1862, and mustered out of service July 14,
1865; moved to Kansas in 1866 and engaged in
newspaper work, continuing this line of labor until
1873; elected secretary of the Kansas State senate
in January, 1869, and reelected in 1871 and 1873;
engaged on newspapers and in the printing busi-
ness 1875-1886; appointed deputy sheriff of Bu-
chanan County, Mo. , in 1887 ; elected city treasurer
of St. Joseph in 1888, and reelected in 1890; elected
a Representative to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican.
Croxton, Thotnas, of Tappahannock, Va., was
bom at Tappahannock, Essex County, Va., March
15, 1822; educated in the primary schools in Tap-
pahannock, at Rappahannock and Fleetwood
academies and at the University of Virginia; grad-
uated in law June, 1842, and practiced; attorney
for the Commonwealth from July, 1852, to July,
1865, when he resigned; elector from the First
district of Virginia on the Hancock and English
(Democratic) ticket in 1880; elected a Representa-
tive to the FortyTninth Congress as a Democrat;
elected judge of Essex County, Va.
Crozier, Jolin H. , was born in Tennessee and
educated in the public schools; resident of Knox-
ville; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses as a
Whig.'
Orudup, Josiah, was born in "Wake County,
N. C; resident of Raleigh; elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina to the Seventeenth Con-
gress.
Cruger, Daniel, was born at Bath, N. Y. ; edu-
cated in the public schools; member of the State
house of representatives 1814-15; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Fifteenth
Congress.
Crump, George William, was born in Pow-
hatan County, Va. ; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege; studied medicine and practiced; member of
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Nineteenth Con-
gress (in the place of John Randolph, resigned)
Is a Jackson Democrat, serving from February 6,
1826, to March 3, 1827; defeated for reelection to
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the Twentieth Congress; appointed by President
Jackson chief clerk of the Pension Bureau in 1832,
which position he held until. his death, at Wash-
ington, D. C, in 1850.
Crump, Rousseau 0. , was born at Pittsford,
Monroe County, N. Y., May 20, 1843, and received
his education in the Pittsford and RochesterSchools;
followed the lumber business; established his first
home in Plainwell, Mich. ; served West Bay City
as alderman for four years, and in the spring of
1892 nominated and elected mayor of West Bay
City, and reelected in 1894; elected a Representa-
tive to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses; reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress;
died at West Bay City, Mich., May 1, 1901.
Crumpacker, Edgar D., of Valparaiso, Ind.,
was born May 27, 1851, in Laporte County, Ind.;
educated in the common schools and at the Val-
paraiso Academy; admitted to the bar in 1876, and
practiced at Valparaiso, Ind.; prosecuting attor-
ney for the thirty-first judicial district of Indi-
ana 1884-1888; served as appellate judge in the
State of Indiana, by appointment under Governor
Hovey, from March, 1891, to January 1, 1893;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Crutclifield, William, was born at Greenville,
Tenn., November 16, 1826; educated in the com-
mon schools; moved to McMinn County, Tenn.,
in early youth and remained there for four years;
settled in Alabama in 1844 and engaged in farming;
became a permanent resident of Chattanooga in
1850; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican; died at
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 24, 1890.
Culberson, Charles A., of Dallas, Tex., was
born at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., June
10, 1855; eldest son of David B. Culberson, for
twenty-two years a member of the House of Rep-
resentatives from Texas; resided at Gilmer and
Jefferson, Tex., until 1887, when he moved to Dal-
las ; graduated from the Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, class of 1874; studied law under his
father and at the University of Virginia in 1876-77;
elected attorney-general of Texas in 1890 and 1892;
elected governor of Texas in 1894 and 1896; delegate
at large to the Democratic national convention at
Chicago in 1896; chosen United States Senator
January 25, 1899, with only three opposing votes,
to succeed Roger Q. Mills; his term of ofllce expires
March 3, 1905.
Culberson, David B., of Jefferson, Tex., was
born in Troup County, Ga., September 29, 1830;
educated at Brownwood, Lagrange, Ga.; studied
law under Chief Justice Chilton, of Alabama;
moved to Texas in 1856, and elected a member of
the legislature of that State in 1859; entered the
Confederate army as a private, and promoted to
the rank of colonel of the Eighteenth Texas In-
fantry; assigned to duty in 1864 as adjutant-gen-
eral, with the rank of colonel, of the State of
Texas; elected to the State legislature in 1864;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
fiftieth. Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; appointed
by President McKinley as one of the commission-
ers to codify the laws of the United States, and
held this position until he died at his home, Jef-
ferson, Marion County, Tex., May 7, 1900.
Culbertson, William C, of Girard, Pa., was
born in Erie Comity, Pa., November 25, 1825,
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where he received a common school education;
engaged in lumbering and farming pursuits; never
held public office until elected to the Fifty-flrst
Congress as a Eepublican; returned to Girard, Pa.,
where he devoted his time to managing his vast
business interests.
Culbertson, 'Williani Wirt, of Ashland, Ky.,
was born near Lewistown, in the central part of
Pennsylvania, which State he left when 2 years
old; engaged in the manufacture of iron; elected
to the house of representatives of the Kentucky
legislature in 1870 for a term of two years, and to
the Kentucky State senate in 1873 for a term of
four years; delegate from his district to the Eepub-
lican national conventions at Cincinnati and Chi-
cago in 1876 and 1880; mayor of the city of Ash-
land; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Eepublican.
Culbreth., Thomas, was born in Kent County,
Del., in 1786; moved to Caroline County, Md.; a
member of the State house of representatives in
1813; elected a Eepresentative from Maryland to
the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Sixteenth Congress; clerk of the executive
council of Maryland 1825-1838; died at his home
near Denton, Md., May 17, 1843.
CuUen, Elisha D., was born at Georgetown,
Del.; elected a Eepresentative from Delaware to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; de-
feated for reelection to the Thirty-fifth Congress.
CuUen, William, of Ottawa, 111., was born in
the north of Ireland March 4, 1826; when a child
his parents came to the United States and located
in Pittsburg, Pa. , where he received a public school
education; moved to Illinois in 1846 and located
on a farm; sheriff of Lasalle County, and held
other local offices; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Eepubhcan, and reelected to the
Forty-eighth Congress.
CuUom, Alvan, was born in Kentucky; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and com-
menced practice at Livingston, Tenn. ; member of
the State house of representatives for several years;
elected a Eepresentative from Tennessee to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-ninth Congress; delegate to the
peace conference of 1861.
CuUom, Shelby Moore, of Springfield, 111.,
was born in Wayne County, Ky., November 22,
1829; his father moved to Tazewell County, 111.,
the following year; received an academic and
university education; went to Springfield in the
fall of 1853 to study law, and resided there; imme-
diately upon receiving license to practice elected
city attorney; continued to practice law until he
took his seat in the House of Eepresentatives in
1865; Presidential elector in 1856 oh the Fillmore
ticket; elected a member of the house of repre-
sentatives of Illinois in 1856, 1860, 1872, and 1874;
elected speaker in 1861 and in 1873; elected a Eep-
resentative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses as a Eepub-
lican, serving from December 4, 1865, to March 3,
1871; delegate to the Eepublican national conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1872, being chairman of the
Illinois delegation, and placed General Grant in
nomination; delegate to the Eepublican national
convention in 1884 and chairman of the Illinois
delegation; elected governor of Illinois in 1876
and succeeded himself in 1880, serving from Janu-
ary 8, 1877, until February 5, 1883, when he
resigned, having been elected to the United States
Senate to succeed David Davis, Independent Demo-
crat; took his seat December 4, 1883; reelected in
1888, 1894, and 1900; member of the commission
appointed to prepare a system of laws for the
Hawaiian Islands.
CuUom, William, was born in Tennessee; edu-
cated in the public schools; studied law and prac-
ticed at Carthage, Tenn.; elected a Eepresentative
from Tennessee to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-third Congress; de-
feated for reelection to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
Clerk of the House for the Thirty-fourth Congress,
serving from February 4, 1856, to December 6, 1857.
Culpepper, John, was born in Anson County,
N. C; educated in the public schools; became in-
terested in religious matters and licensed to preach
to the Baptist denomination; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from North Carolina to the Tenth Congress as
a Federalist; seat was contested and declared
vacant January 2, 1808, on account of inequalities
in election, but was subsequently reelected at a
new election and took his seat February 23, 1808;
elected to the Thirteenth Congress; reelected to the
Fourteenth Congress; defeated for the Fifteenth
Congress; elected to the Sixteenth Congress and
defeated for the Seventeenth Congress; elected to
the Eighteenth and defeated for the Nineteenth
Congress; elected to the Twentieth Congress.
Culver, Charles Vernon, was born at Logan,
Ohio, September 6, 1830; received a liberal educa-
tion and engaged in mercantile pursuits; became
largely interested in the development of the oil
regions in Venango County, Pa., and established
national banks as a part of his extensive opera-
tions; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Eepublican;
while a member of Congress became bankrupt
and was imprisoned in 1866, but after a prolonged
trial was acquitted; resumed operations in the oil
business.
Culver, Erastus D., was born at Whitehall,
Washington County, N. Y., in 1802; graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1826; studied
lawand commenced practice at Greenwich; elected
to the State assembly of New York 1838 and 1841;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig; minister to
Peru 1862-1870; became the second judge of the
city court of Brooklyn in 1854 and served until
1861, and during the greater part of this time was
a member of the firm of Culver, Parker & Arthur;
died at Greenwich, N. Y., October 15, 1889.
Cumbaok, Will, was born in Franklin County,
Ind., March 24, 1829; graduated from the Miami
University, Ohio; taught school two years; studied
law at the Cincinnati Law School, and afterwards
practiced at Greensburg, Ind.; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Eepublican; defeated for the Thirty-fifth
Congress; Presidential elector in 1860 on the
Lincoln and Hamlin ticket; appointed by President
Lincoln a paymaster in the.Army.
Gumming, Thomas W. , was born in Maryland;
moved to Brooklyn, N.gY. ; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from New York to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat.
Gumming, William, was born at Edenton, N. C. ;
studied law and practiced; Delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress m 1784; elected to the house of
commons in 1788.
Cummings, Amos J. , of New York City, was
born atConkling, Broome County, N. Y., May 15
1841; received a common school education; entered
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a printing office when 12 years of age; a boy with
Walker in the last invasion of Nicaragua; sergeant-
major of the Twenty-sixth New Jersey Eegiment,
Second Brigade, Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac;
filled editorial positions on the New York Tribune
under Horace Greeley, New York Sun, New York
Express, and editor of the Evening Sun on enter-
ing upon his Congressional duties; elected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Baltimore, Md.,
May 2, 1902.
Cummings, Henry J. B. , was born at Newton,
N. J., May 21, 1831; educated in the public schools;
edited a newspaper in Schuylkill County, Pa., in
1850; studied law, and commenced practice at
Winterset, Iowa, in January, 1856; elected county
prosecuting attorney in August, 1856, and held the
office two years and three months, when it was
abolished by the new constitution; entered the
Union Army in July, 1861, and elected captain of
Company F of the Fourth Iowa Infantry; commis-
sioned colonel of the Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry,
which he commanded until 1865; became editor
and proprietor of the Winterset Madisonian in
1869; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Eepublican.
Cummins, •Tolin D. , was born in Pennsylvania
and educated in the public schools; studied law;
commenced practice at New Philadelphia, Ohio;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
ninth and Thirtieth Congresses as a Democrat;
died at Milwaukee, Wis., September 11, 1849.
Cunuing'h.am, Francis A. , was born in South
Carolina; moved to Eaton, Ohio; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Currier, Frank Dunklee, of Canaan, N. H.,
was born at Canaan, N. H., October 30, 1853;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1874;
member of the New Hampshire house of repre-
sentatives in 1879; secretary of the Republican
State committee 1882-1890; clerk of the State sen-
ate 1883-1887; delegate to the Republican national
convention of 1884; president of the State senate
in 1887; naval officer of customs at the port of
Boston, Mass., 1890-1894; speaker of the New
Hampshire house of representatives in 1899 ; elected
to the Fiftv- seventh Congress, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Curry, Jabez L. M., was born in Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5, 1825; moved with his father
to Talladega Cpunty, Ala., in 1838; graduated from
the University of Georgia in 1843; studied law and
commenced practice in Talladega County in 1845;
served in the war with Mexico as a private in the
Texaa Rangers in 1846, but resigned on account of
ill health; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1847, 1853, and 1855; Presidential elector
on the Buchanan ticket in 1856; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a State Rights Democrat without oppo-
sition, and reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress
without opposition, serving until January 21, 1861,
when he retired from the House; deputy from
Alabama to the Provisional Confederate Congress
and a Representative to the First Confederate Con-
gress- served as lieutenant-colonel of cavalry in
the Confederate army; after the war became a
Baptist preacher; chosen president of Howard
College, Alabama, in 1865; professor in Richmond
College, Virginia, 1868-1881; appointed mmister
to S^in in 1885; died February 12, 1903.
Curtin, Andrew G., of Bellefonte, Pa., was
born at Bellefonte, Pa., in 1817; educated for and
practiced law; secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania andsuperintendent of public instruc-
tion; governor of Pennsylvania; minister to Rus-
sia; member of the constitutional convention of
Pennsylvania; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses; died October 7, 1894.
Curtis, Carlton B. , was born in Madison
County, N. Y., December 17, 1811; studied law
and commenced practice at Warren; moved to
Erie, Pa. ; elected to the legislature of Pennsylva-
nia in 1836, 1837, and 1838; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Whig; elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress; served in the Union Army as colonel of a
regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers; again elected
to the Forty-third Congress as a Republican; de-
feated for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Curtis, Charles, of Topeka, Kans., was born in
what is known as North Topeka, Shawnee County,
Kans., January 25, 1860; received his education
in the common schools of the city of Topeka;
studied law with A. H. Case, esq., at Topeka;
admitted to the bar in 1881 ; entered into a partner-
ship with Mr. Casein 1881 and remained with him
until 1884; elected county attorney of Shawnee
County in 1884 and reelected in 1886; elected to
the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fiftj^-fifth Oon-
fresses from the Fourth Kansas district; in 1897
hawnee County was taken out of the Fourth dis-
trict and placed in the First district; , Mr. Curtis
was nominated by the Republicans of the First
district and elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress,
and reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
Curtis, Edward, was born in Vermont; grad-
uated from Union College in 1821; studied law and
commenced practice in New York City in 1824;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig and reelected to
the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed by Presi-
dent Harrison collector of the port of New York,
and held the position for nearly four years; re-
sumed the practice of law at Washington, D. C. ;
later in life became mentally unbalanced; died at
New York City August 2, 1856.
Curtis, George M. , of Clinton, Iowa, was born
near Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y., April 1,
1844; moved with his parents to Ogle County, 111.,
in 1856; reared upon the farm, and received his
education in the common schools and at the Rock
River Seminary, Mount Morris, 111. ; engaged as
clerk in a store at Eochelle, 111., 1863-1865, and
subsequently, for two years in merchandising, at
Cortland, 111.; moved to Clinton in 1867; engaged
in the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, lumber,
etc. ; member of the twenty-second general assem-
bly of Iowa; delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress.
Curtis, Newton Martin, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. ,
was born at Depeyster, St. Lawrence County,N.Y.,
May 21 , 1835 ; educated in the common schools and
the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary; commenced
the organization of a company of volunteers April
15, 1861; commissioned captain May 7 following in
the Sixteenth New York Infantry; served in Sixth
Corps, Army of the Potomac, till October 17, 1862,
when promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and January
21, 1863, to be colonel of the One hundred and
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forty-second New York Infantry; assigned to com-
mand of Second Brigade, Second Division, Tenth
Army Corps, June 10, 1864; assigned to command
of First Brigade, same division and corps, June 25,
1864; commissioned brigadier-general by brevet
for distinguished services to date from October 28,
1864; appointed on the field, January 16, 1865,
provisional brigadier-general for gallant services
in the capture of Fort Fisher; appointed major-
general by brevet for gallant and meritorious serv-
ices and assigned to duty as chief of staff of Major-
General Ord; assigned to command of southwest
Virginia July 1, 1865; mustered out of service Jan-
uary 15, 1866; appointed collector of customs, dis-
trict of Oswegatchie, N. Y., in 1866; appointed
special agent, United States Treasury Department,
in 1867, which position he resigned in 1880; em-
ployed 1880-1882 by the Department of Justice to
assist the United States district attorney for the
southern district of New York in preparing for
trial and settlement cases pending in the circuit
court of that district, known as the "Charges and
commissions" cases; trustee of the board of con-
trol of the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station from its organization in 1880 to 1891, serv-
ing as secretary and later as president of the board ;
member of the assembly 1884-1890; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, vice Leslie
W. Eussell, resigned; reelected to the Fifty-third
and Fifty -fourth Congresses as a Republican; as-
sistant inspector-general of the National Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Curtis, Samuel R., was born in the State of
New York February 3, 1807; reared in Ohio,
where he was educated in the public schools; ap-
pointed a cadet at West Point in 1827, graduating
in July, 1831, as brevet second lieutenant in the
Seventh Infantry, and resigned in June, 1832;
studied law and commenced practice in Ohio;
chief engineer of the Muskingum River improve-
ments April, 1837, to May, 1839; served in the
the war with Mexico as adjutant-general of Ohio
and as colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry; also
served as acting assistant adjutant-general to
Brigadier-General Wool; resumed the practice of
law; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses,
serving from December 7, 1857, to August 6, 1861,
when he resigned; served in the Union Army as
colonel of the Second Iowa Volunteers, brigadier-
general and major-general 1861-1865; appointed
United States peace commissioner to treat with
the Indians in 1865; appointed commissioner to
examine and report on the Union Pacific road,
and served from November, 1865, to April, 1866;
died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Decmber 25, 1866.
Cusack, Thomas, of Chicago, 111., was born in
Ireland October 5, 1858; moved to New York
with his parents when 3 years of age; after the
death of his parents, at the age of 5 years, moved
to Chicago; attended private and public schools in
Chicago and New York; learned the sign-painting
trade, and started in the advertising sign-painting
business December, 1875, under the firm name of
Thomas Cusack & Co. ; member of the board of
education 1891-1898, and vice-president during the
years 1896-1898; served on Governor Altgeld's
staff, Avith the rank of colonel; member of the
State central committee 1896-1898; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Gushing, Caleb, was born at Salisbury, Mass.,
January 17, 1800; graduated from Harvard College
in 1817; tutor in mathematics there 1819-1821;
studied law; admitted to the bar at Newburyport
in 1823; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1825, and of the State senate in 1827;
again a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1833 and 1834; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses;
appointed by President Tyler commissioner to
China, and served from May 8, 1843, to March 13,
1845; again a member of the State house of
representatives 1845-46; colonel of a Massachu-
setts regiment which served in the war with
Mexico; appointed brigadier-general by President
Polk April 14, 1847; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1847,
and again in 1848; again elected to the State house
of representatives in 1850; offered the position as
attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1851, but de-
clined; appointed judge of the supreme court of
Massachusetts in 1852; appointed by President
Pierce Attorney-General of the United States
March 7, 1853; president of the Democratic na-
tional convention at Baltimore and Charleston in
1860; appointed by President Johnson a com-
missioner to codify the laws of the United States,
1866-1870; appointed by President Grant counsel
for the United States before the Geneva tribunal
of arbitration on the Alabama claims; nominated
by President Grant in 1874 to be Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States, but was
not confirmed by the Senate; minister to Spain
1874-1877; died at Newburyport, Mass., January
2, 1879.
Cushing:, Thomas, was born at Boston, Mass.,
March 24, 1725; graduated from Harvard College
in 1744; studied law and admitted to the bar at
Boston; for many years member of the provincial
assembly; member of the Provincial Congress in
1774; delegate from Massachusetts to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-1776; commissary-general of
Massachusetts in 1775; declined a reelection to
the Continental Congress in 1779; lieutenant-gov-
ernor of Massachusetts, 1779-1788, and acting
governor in 1788; died at Boston February 28,
1788.
Cushman, Francis "W., of Tacoma, Wash.,
was born May 8, 1867, at Brightopi, Washington
County, Iowa; educated chiefly at the high school
in Brighton, and at the Pleasant Plain Academy
of Jefferson County, Iowa; assisted himself in se-
curing an education by working as a "water boy"
on the railroad in the summer time and attending
school in the winter time; after the completion of
his school course, worked for a time as a common
laborer or "section hand" on the railroad; at the
age of 16 moved to the then Territory of Wyoming,
where he remained for five years working as a cow-
boy on a ranch , in a lumber camp, teaching school,
and studying law; then moved to Nebraska and
began the practice of law, being admitted to both
district and supreme court bars of that State;
moved to the State of Washington in 1891, and en-
gaged in the practice of law; prior to his election
he never held, or was a candidate for, any office,
either elective or appointive; elected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Cushman, John Paine, was born at Pomfret,
Conn., in 1784; graduated from Yale College in
1807; admitted to the bar at Troy, N. Y., and be-
gan practicing; elected a Representative from New
York to the Fifteenth Congress; appointed a re-
gent of the State University from April 2, 1830,
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??H' he resigned in April, 1834; circuit judge 1838-
1846; died at Troy, N. Y., September 16, 1848.
Cushman, Joshua, was born at Plymouth,
Mass.; graduated from Harvard College in 1787-
studied theology, and licensed to preach; member
ot the State house of representatives in 1811 and
State senator in 1809, 1810, 1819, and 1820; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Six-
teenth Congress; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Con-
gresses; died at Winslow, Me., in 1834.
Cushman, Samuel, was born at Portsmouth,
N. H., June 8, 1783; received his education in the
public schools; served as judge of the Portsmouth
police court; county treasurer, 1823-1828, and a
member of the State council, 1833-1835; nominated
by President Jackson to be United States attorney
for the district of New Hampshire, but was not
conflrmed by the Senate; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; United
States Navy agent at Portsmouth 1845-1849; died
at Portsmouth, N. H., May 20, 1851.
Cutcheon, Byron M., of Manistee, Mich., was
born at Pembroke, Merrimack County, N. H., May
11, 1836; pursued his preparatory studies at Pem-
broke and completed them at Ypsilanti, Mich.,
where .he moved in 1835; graduated from the
University of Michigan, classical course, in 1861;
became principal of the high school at Ypsilanti
in 1861; captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and
colonel of the Twentieth Michigan Infantry, 1862-
1864; brevet colonel and colonel Twenty-seventh
Michigan Infantry, and brevet brigadier-general,
"for conspicuous gallantry," 1864-65; twice
wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House; assigned
to the command of the Second Brigade, First
Division, Army of the Potomac, in 1864; mustered
out in 1865; studied law with Hon. S. M. Cutcheon,
Ypsilanti, Mich., 1865-66; graduated from Mich-
igan University Law School, 1866, and admitted to
practice at Ann Arbor, Mich.; commenced the
practice of law at Manistee, Mich., in 1867; mem-
ber of the board of control of railroads of Mich-
igan 1866-1883; Presidential elector in 1868; city
attorney 1870-71; county attorney 1873-74; regent
of the Michigan University 1875-1883; postmaster
at Manistee City 1877-1883; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
I Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses;
appointed the civilian member of the Board of
Ordnance and Fortification by President Harrison
in July, 1891, serving until March 25, 1895; edi-
torial writer on the Detroit Daily Tribune and
Detroit Journal 1895-1897; resumed the practice
of law at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Cuthbert, Alfred, was born at Savannah, Ga. ;
graduated from Princeton College in 1803; studied
law, and afterwards practiced at Monticello, Jas-
per County, Ga.; member of the State legisla-
ture; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Thirteenth Congress (in place of William W.
Bibb, appointed Senator) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from Feb-
ruary 7, 1814, to 1816, when he resigned; elected
to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth
Congresses; elected a United States Senator from
Georgia in place of John Forsyth, resigned, and
reelected for a full term, serving from January 12,
1835, to March 3, 1843; died near Monticello, Ga.,
July 9,. 1856.
Cuthbert, Jolin A., was born at Savannah,
Ga., June 3, 1788; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege at the age of 17; studied law, and commenced
practice at Eatonton; elected to the legislature of
Georgia from Liberty County, which he continued
to represent for years, either in the senate or in
the house; commander of a volunteer company
during the war of 1812; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Sixteenth Congress; became
editor and subsequently proprietor of the Federal
Union, an infiuential paper published at Milledge-
ville, Ga., in 1831; moved to Mobile in 1837, and
practiced his profession; elected by the legislature
of Alabama judge of the county court of Mobile in
1840, and appointed by the governor judge of the
circuit court of the same county in 1852; died near
Mobile, Ala., September 22, 1881.
Cutler, Augustus W., was born at Morris-
town, N. J., October 22, 1827; spent the early
part of his life on a farm; studied law; admitted
as an attorney in 1850 and as a counselor in 1853;
prosecutor of the pleas 1856-1861; became presi-
dent of the board of education in 1870; member
of the constitutional convention of New Jersey in
1873; elected State senator in 1871; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
fifth Congress.
Cutler, manasseh, was born at Killingly,
Conn., May 3, 1742; graduated from the medical
department at Yale College in 1765; engaged in
the whaling business at Edgarton, Marthas Vine-
yard; moved to Dedham in 1769; studied law;
admitted to the bar, taut did not practice; studied
theology, and in 1770 licensed to preach; ordained
to the ministry by the Congregational Society at
Hamilton, Mass., September 11, 1771; appointed
chaplain of Colonel Francis's regiment in 1776; ap-
pointed j udge of the United States court for Ohio in
1795 by President Washington, but declined; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Seventh
and Eighth Congresses as a Federalist; died at
Hamilton, Mass., July 28, 1823.
Cutler, William P., was born at Marietta,
Ohio, July 12, 1813; member of the State house of
representatives of Ohio, 1844-1847, serving as
speaker during the last term; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1850; president of
the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad 1850-1860;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Republican ; died at Mari-
etta, Ohio, April 11, 1889.
Cutting, Francis B. , was bom in New York
in 1805; graduated from Columbia College in 1825;
studied law and afterwards practiced at New York;
served as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1836 and 1837; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat; was a war Democrat in 1863, and
advocated th e reelection of President Lincoln ; died
at New York City June 26, 1870.
Cutting, John Tyler, of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born at Westport, Essex County, N. Y., Sep-
tember 7, 1844; resided in Wisconsin and Illinois
1855-1860 and educated in the latter State; enlisted
in Taylor's Chicago Battery at the breaking out of
the civil war and served until July 20, 1862; dis-
charged for disability, the result of service in the
field; reenlisted January 4, 1864, in the Chicago
Mercantile Battery, in which he served until the
expiration of the war; moved to California in 1877
and established a wholesale fruit and commission
business under the title of John T. Cutting &
Co.; identified himself with State and national
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politics; for nine years connected with the national
guard of California, holding the commissions of
lieutenant, major, and colonel, and brigadier-gen-
eral commanding the Second Brigade; retired
February, 1891, with the rank of brigadier-general;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Cutts, Charles, was born in Massachusetts in
1769; graduated from Harvard College in 1790;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the New Harbpshire house of representatives in
1804, serving as speaker; elected Senator from New
Hampshire in place of Nahum Parker, resigned,
serving from December 3, 1810, to March 3, 1813;
subsequently appointed Senator to fill a vacancy
during a recess of the legislature, serving from
May 24, 1813, to June 21, 1813, when his successor
took his seat; chosen Secretary of the United States
Senate, serving from October 11, 1814, to December
12, 1825; died in Fairfax County, Va., January 25,
1846.
Cutts, Madison E., of Oskaloosa, Iowa, was
born at Orwell, Addison County, "Vt., May 22,
1833; received an academic education; moved to
Iowa in June, 1855; prosecuting attorney of Powe-
shiek County from August 25 to January, 1859;
member of the State house of representatives at
the extra session in May, 1861; State senator from
January, 1864, until he resigned in August, 1866;
member of the State house of representatives from
January, 1870, until January, 1872; attorney-
general of the State of Iowa from February, 1872,
until January, 1877; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; his seat was contested
by J. C. Cook, and on March 3, 1883, Mr. Cook
was declared elected; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress, but died before taking his seat.
Cutts, Kichard, was bom at Cutts Island, Saco,
Mass. (now Maine), June 22, 1771; graduated from
Harvard College in 1790; studied law; engaged in
commercial pursuits; member of the State house
of representatives 1799 and 1800; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; defeated for the Thirteenth
Congress; appointed superintendent-general of mil-
itary supplies March 4, 1813, which office he held
until March 3, 1817, when he was appointed Second
Comptroller of theTreasurv, which position he held
until 1829; died at Washington, D. C, April 7,
1845.
Dagg'ett, David, was born at Attleboro, Mass.,
December 31, 1764; graduated from Yale College
in 1783; studied law and commenced practice at
New Haven; member of the State legislature for
several years; Presidential elector in 1805, voting
for Charles C. Pinckney, in 1809 voting again
for Charles C. Pinckney, and in 1813 voting for
De Witt Clinton; elected a United States Senator
from Connecticut as a FederaUst, in place of
Chauncey Goodrich, resigned, serving from Mav
24, 1813, to March 3, 1819.
Daggett, RoUin M., of Virginia City, Nev.,
was born at Richville, N. Y., in 1831; his father
moved to northwestern Ohio in 1837; educated at
Defiance, Ohio, where he learned the printing
business; crossed the Plains on foot to the Pacific
coast in 1849, supporting himself with his rifle;
followed mining until 1852, and in that year started
the Golden Era at San Francisco; with others es-
tablished the San Francisco Mirror in 1860; turned
it into a Republican journal at the breaking out
of the rebellion; united it with the San Francisco
Herald; moved to Nevada in 1862 and settled at
Virginia City; elected a member of the Territorial
council in 1863; became connected, editorially, in
1864 with the Territorial Enterprise; Republican
Presidential elector in 1876, and messenger to
Washington; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Dahle, Herman B., of Mount Horeb, Wis.,
was born March 30, 1855, at Perry, Dane County,
Wis. ; educated in the district schools and at Wis-
consin State University; moved to Mount Vernon,
Wis., engaging in general mercantile business;
moved to Mount Horeb in 1887 and established
the firm of Dahle Brothers; partner in the Mount
Horeb Bank; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Daily, Samuel G. , was born in Indiana in
1819; educated in the public schools; moved to
Nebraska Territory and settled at Peru; elected a
Delegate from Nebraska to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving (as the House
decided) 2,790 votes against 2,671 votes for Esta-
brook. Democrat, who received the certificate of
election; reelected to the Thirty-seventh and
Thirty-eighth Congresses; received the appoint-
ment of deputy collector of customs at New Orleans
at the special request of President Lincoln, which
position he held until his death, at New Orleans,
September 14, 1865.
Dallas, George ]yri£a.in, was bom at Philadel-
phia, Pa., July 10, 1792; graduated from Princeton
College in 1810; studied law and admitted to
practice; private secretary to Albert Gallatin,
minister to Russia; appointed deputy attorney-
general at Philadelphia in 1817; mayor of Phila-
delphia in 1825; United States district attorney
for the eastern district of Pennsylvania 1829-1831;
elected United States Senator from Pennsylvania
as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of I. D. Barnard), serving from Decem-
ber 15, 1831, to March 2, 1833; declined a reelec-
tion and resumed the practice of law; appointed
by President Van Buren minister to Russia, serv-
ing from March 7, 1837, to July 29, 1839; elected
Vice-President on the Polk ticket in 1844, receiv-
ing 170 electoral votes against 105 electoral votes
for T. Frelinghuysen, Whig; appointed minister
to Great Britain by President Pierce, serving
from February 4, 1856, to May 16, 1861; returned
to Philadelphia, where he died December 31, 1864.
Dalton, Tristam, was born at Newburyport,
Mass., May 28, 1738; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1760; studied law; admitted to practice but
engaged in mercantile pursuits; delegate from Mas-
sachusetts in the convention of committees of New
England States which first met at Providence, R. I. ,
December 25, 1776; one of the first United States
Senators from Massachusetts, serving from April
14, 1789, to March 3, 1791; having met with heavy
losses in business, accepted the surveyorship of the
port of Boston, serving from November 10, 1814,
until his death, at Boston, May 30, 1817.
Daly, WilUam D. , of Hoboken, N. J., was born
at Jersey City, N. J., June 4, 1851; lawyer by pro-
fession; molder by trade; assistant United States
district attorney for New Jersey 1885-1888; alter- ,
nate delegate to the Democratic national conven-
tion in 1888; elected to the house of assembly in
1889; judge of the district court of Hoboken- re-
signed as judge in 1892; elected a State senator in
1892 and 1895; delegate to the Democratic national
conventions of 1892 and 1896 ; chairman of the State
Democratic convention in 1896, and member of the
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State committee 1896-1898; elected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat; died July 31, 1900.
Dalzell, John, of Pittsburg, Pa., was born at
New York City April 19, 1845; moved to Pitts-
burg in 1847; received a common school and col-
legiate education, graduating from Yale College in
the class of 1865; studied law, admitted to the bar
in February, 1867, and practiced his profession;
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican .
Bamrell, William S. , was born at Portsmouth,
N. H., November 20, 1809; received his education
in the public schools; learned the art of printing
and became the proprietor of a large printing
establishment at Boston; elected a Eepresentative
from Massachusetts to the 'Thirty-fourth Congress
as an American, and reelected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress; partially paralyzed before the expira-
tion of his term; died at Dedharh, Mass., May 17,
1860.
Dana, Amasa, a resident of Ithaca, N. Y. , was
a member of the State house of representatives
1828-29; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Dana, Francis, was born at Charlestown,
Mass., June 13, 1743; graduated from Harvard
College in 1762; studied law, admitted to the
bar in 1767, and commenced practice in Boston;
Delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774; State
councilor 1776-1780; Delegate to the Continental
Congress from Massachusetts 1776-1778 and 1784;
secretary of legation at London from September
28, 1779, until December 19, 1780, when he was
appointed minister to Russia; recommissioned sec-
retary of legation at London June 15, 1781;, judge
of the supreme court of Massachusetts 1785-1792;
member of the State convention which adopted
the Federal Constitution in 1788; a founder of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; died at
Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 1811.
Dana, Judali, was born a,t Pomfret, Conn.,
April 25, 1772; graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1795; studied law and afterwards practiced at
Fryeburg, Mass. (afterwards Maine), in 1798;
county attorney of Oxford County 1805-1811, and
judge of probate 1811-1822; judge of the circuit
court of common pleas 1811-1823; delegate to the
convention which framed the constitution of Maine
in 1819; member of the executive council in 1834;
appointed a United States Senator from Maine as
a Democrat (in place of Ether Shepley, resigned),
serving from December 21, 1836, to March 3, 1837;
died at Fryeburg, Me., December 27, 1845.
Dana, Samuel, was born at Groton, Mass.,
June 26, 1767; studied law and afterwards prac-
ticed at Charlestown, Mass.; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Thirteenth Congress (in place of Wil-
liam M. Richardson, resigned), servmg from
September 22, 1814, to March 3, 1815; member of
the State senate, and ite president; appomted chief
justice of the court of common pleas; died at
Charlestown, Mass., November 20, 1835.
Dana, Samuel Whittlesey, was born at New
Haven, Conn., July, 1757; graduated from Yale
College in 1775; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Fourth Congress as a Federahst (in
place of Uriah Tracy, resigned) ; reelected to the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth
Congresses; reelected to the Eleventh Congress,
but before taking his seat was elected United States
Senator from Connecticut as a; Federalist (in place
of James Hillhouse, resigned), and again elected
in 1815; afterwards mayor of Middletown, Conn.,
where he died July 21, 1830.
Dane, Joseph, was born at Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., October 25, 1778; graduated from
Harvard College in 1799; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; began the practice of his pro-
fession at Kennebunk, Me. ; delegate to the State
constitutional conventions of 1816 and 1819;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Six-
teenth Congress (to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of John Holmes, who had been elected
to the United States Senate) as a Federalist; re-
elected to the Seventeenth Congress; member of
the State house of representatives 1823-1828, and
of the State senate 1829; declined to serve as exec-
utive councilor of Maine in 1841; died at Kenne-
bunk, Me., May 1, 1858.
Dane, ITathan, was born at Ipswich, Mass., in
1752; graduated from Harvard College in 1799;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
ticing at Beverly, Mass.; member of the State
house of representatives 1782-1785; Delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1785-
1788; member of the State senate 1790, 1794,
1796-1798; commissioner to codify the laws of
Massachusetts in 1795, and again in 1812; member
of the Hartford convention in 1814; elected a del-
egate to the State constitutional convention in 1820,
but on account of his deafness declined to serve;
died at Beverly, Mass., February 15, 1835.
Danford, Lorenzo, of St. Clairsville, Ohio,
was born in Belmont County, Ohio, October 18,
1829; lived on a farm; received a common school
education and attended a college at Waynesburg,
Pa., two years; admitted to the bar at St. Clairs-
ville, Ohio, in September, 1854; prosecuting attor-
ney of Belmont County from 1857 to 1861, when
he resigned and went into the Union Army, in
the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in April
of that year, and served as private, lieutenant, and
captain until August, 1864; Republican member
of the electoral college of Ohio in 1864 and in 1892;
elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses, but died June 19, 1899.
Daniel, Henry, was born in Virginia in 1793;
educated in the public schools; moved to Ken-
tucky, where he studied law and afterwards prac-
ticed at Mount Sterling; member of the State house
of representatives in 1812; served in the war
against Great Britain as captain of the Twenty-
eighth U. S. Infantry 1813-1815; again a member
of the State house of representatives ia 1819 and
1826; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second
Congresses; died at Mount Sterling, Ky., October
5, 1873.
Daniel, John Reeves Jones, was born in
Halifax County, N. C. ; in 1821 graduated from
the University of North Carolina; studied law and
afterwards practiced with great success; member
of the house of commons of North Carolina 1831-
1834; elected attorney-general in 1834; elected a
Representati ve from North Carolina to the Twenty-
seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses as a
Democrat; after his retirement from Congress
moved to Louisiana.
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OONGEESSIOWAL DIEECTOEY.
Baniel, John Warwick, of Lynchburg, Camp-
bell County, Va. , was born there Septembers, 1842;
attended private schools, Lynchburg College, and
Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School; entered
Confederate army iii May, 1861, as second lieuten-
ant in the Provisional Army of Virginia and
drillmaster in Twenty-seventh Virginia Infantry,
"Stonewall Brigade;" became second lieutenant
Company A, Eleventh Virginia Infantry, also
first lieutenant and adjutant of same regiment;
wounded in first battle of Manassas and at
Boonsboro, Md. ; raised a company of cavalry and
elected captain in 1862, but conscription act of
Confederate Congress remanded officers and men
to their old regiilients; major and chief of staff of
Gen. Jubal A. Early until crippled in the Wilder-
ness, May 6, 1864; studied law at University of
Virginia 1865-66, and practiced with his father,
the late Judge William Daniel, jr., until his death
in 1873; LL. D. of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity and of Michigan University; author of Daniel
on Attachments and Daniel on Negotiable Instru-
ments; member of Virginia house of delegates
1869 to 1872; member of State senate from 1875 to
1881; Democratic elector in 1876, and delegate at
large to national Democratic conventions of 1880,
1888, 1892, 1896, and 1900; Democratic nominee
for governor in 1881, and defeated by William E.
Cameron, Eeadjuster; elected to House of Rep-
resentatives of Forty-ninth Congress in 1884;
elected to United States Senate to succeed William
Mahone, and took his seat March 4, 1887; unani-
mouslv reelected in December, 1891, and Decem-
ber, 1897.
Daniell, Warren Fisher, of Franklin, N. H.,
was born at Newton Lower Falls, Mass., June 26,
1826; moved to Franklin, N. H., with his parents
in 1834; educated in the common schools; entered
his father's paper mill; member of the State house
of representatives six and of the State senate two
years; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Daniels, Charles, of Buffalo, N. Y., was born
at New York City in 1826; read law and admit-
ted to the bar; elected to the supreme court in
1863; appointed by Governor Seymour to hold
the. ofiice of justice of that court until January 1 ,
1864, when the term to which he had been elected
commenced; twice reelected and held the office
until December, 1891; elected to the Fifty-third
and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican; died
at Buffalo, N. Y., December 20, 1897.
Banner, Joel B. , a resident of Gettysburg, Pa.,
was elected a Representative from that State to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig (in place of
Henry Nes, deceased), serving from December 2,
1850, to March 3, 1851.
Darby, Ezra, was'born in New Jersey in 1769;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Ninth and Tenth Congresses, serving until his
death at Washington City, January 28, 1808.
Darby, John Fletcher, was born in Person
County, N. C, December 10, 1803; educated in
the public schools; moved with his father to Mis-
souri in 1818, where he worked on a farm; went
to Frankfort, Ky., in 1825, where he studied law,
and afterwards practiced at St. Louis, Mo. ; mem-
ber of the State senate; mayor of St. Louis four
terms; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig.
Dargan, Edward S. , was born in North Caro-
lina; educated in the public schools; moved to
Washington, Ala., where he studied law and after-
wards practiced; elected a justice of the peace;
moved to Montgomery and subsequently to Mo-
bile; elected mayor of Mobile in 1844; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; elected judge of the su-
preme court in 1847, and in 1849 became chief
justice; resumed the practice of law; delegate to
the State convention in 1861 and voted for the or-
dinance of secession; member of the First Confed-
erate House of Representatives; resumed practice
at Mobile.
Dargan, George W., of Darlington, S. C, was
born. in Darlington County, S. C, in 1841; edu-
cated at the academies of his native county and
at the State Military Academy; admitted to the
bar in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the State
legislature without opposition in 1877; elected
solicitor of the fourth judicial circuit of South
Carolina without opposition in 1880; elected to
the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-
first Congresses as a Democrat; died June 29, 1898.
Darling, Mason C, was born at Bellingham,
Mass., May 18, 1801; received his education in the
public schools; taught school in the State of New
York; studied medicine, graduated from the Berk-
shire Medical College in 1824, and afterwards prac-
ticed for thirteen years; moved to Wisconsin in
1837 and was one of the original settlers at Fond
du Lac, serving as its first mayor; member of the
Territorial legislature for several years; elected
one of the first Representatives from Wisconsin to
the Thirtieth Congress as -a Democrat, serving
from June 9, 1848, to March 3, 1849.
Darling, William A., was born at Newark,
N. J., December 17, 1817; educated in the public
schools; moved to New York, where he was clerk
in a store, and afterwards became a merchant;
connected with the Seventh Regiment ISfational
Guard for many years; deputy receiver of taxes
for the city of New York 1847-1854; Presidential
elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1860; elected a
Representaive from New York to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican; defeated for the For-
tieth Congress.
Darlington, Edward, was born in Chester
County, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress as an
anti-Mason; elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress.
Darlington, Isaac, was born at Westtown,
Chester County, Pa., December 13, 1781; educated
in the public schools; worked in his father's black-
smith shop; studied law and afterwards practiced
at Westtown; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1807; lieutenant of Pennsylvania
volunteers in the war of 1812; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth Congress;
appointed deputy attorney-general for Chester
County in 1820; appointed president-judge of the
Chester County court in 1821, which position he
held until his death, at Westtown, April 27, 1839.
Darlington, Smedley, of Westchester, Pa.,
was born in Pocopson Township, Chester Oountv,
Pa., January 24, 1827; educated in the common
schools and in the Friends Central School, Phila-
delphia; teacher in the latter school for several
years; while preaching he made stenographic re-
ports of sermons, lectures, and speeches for the
morning dailies of Philadelphia; established a
school for boys in Ercildoun in 1851, which he
conducted for three years; changed the school for
girls and presided over it for nine years; engaged
extensively in organizing oil companies and in
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boring oil wells in 1862; elected a Representative
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Re-
publican; died June 24, 1899.
Darlington, WiUiam, was born at Birming-
ham, Chester County, Pa., April 28, 1782; spent
his early life on a farm, and became a botanist at
an early age; studied medicine, and in 1824 re-
ceived the degree of M. D. from the University of
Pennsylvania; went to the East Indies as surgeon
of a ship; returned to Westchester in 1807 and
commenced practice; raised a company of volun-
teers at the commencement of the war of 1812,
and was major of a volunteer regiment raised after
the burning of the Capitol; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth Con-
gress, and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth Congresses; appointed canal commissioner
in 1825; established a natural history society in
Westchester in 1826; became noted as a botanist
and was made a corresponding member of some
forty literary and scientific societies in Europe and
America; published several works on botany and
natural history; died at Westchester, Pa., April
23, 1863. ^
Darragh, Archibald Bard, of St. Louis, Mich.,
was born in Monroe County, Mich., December 23,
1840; received a common school and collegiate
education, and graduated from the University of
■ Michigan in the class of 1868; served in the Union
Army during the civil war as a private and officer
until discharged in 1865; engaged in the business
of banking; elected county treasurer in 1872;
member of the Michigan legislature in 1882; mem-
ber of the board of control of the State asylum;
elected a Representative to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Darragh, Cornelius, a resident of Pittsburg,
Pa., was elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig (to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wil-
liam Wilkins, appointed Secretary of War), and
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; died at
Pittsburg, Pa., January 20, 1855.
Darrall, C. B., was born in Somerset County,
Pa., June 24, 1842; received a common school
education; studied medicine and graduated from
the Albany Medical College; entered the Union
Army as assistant surgeon of the Eighty-sixth
New York Volunteers; promoted to be surgeon;
resigned from the Army while on duty in Louisi-
ana in 1867 and engaged in mercantile pursuits
and planting; delegate to the national Republican
convention at Philadelphia in 1872, and to the
Cincinnati convention in 1876; elected to the State
senate of Louisiana in 1868; elected a Representa-
tive to the Forty-flrst, Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican; after leaving Congress
served as register of United States land ofidce. New
Orleans, La., and engaged in sugar planting.
Davee, Thomas, was born at Plymouth, Mass.,
December 9, 1797; educated in the public schools;
moved to Maine, where he engaged in mercantile
business; member of the State senate and house of
representatives for several years; high sheriff of
Somerset County; postmaster at Blanchard;
elected a Representative from Maine to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress; died at Blanchard,
Me., December 11, 1841.
Davenport, Franklin, was born in New Jersey;
received a liberal education ; studied law, and after-
wards practiced at Woodbury; served in the New
Jersey line in the war of the-Revolution ; appointed
judge; appointed a United States Senator from
New Jersey (in place of John Rutherfurd, re-
signed), serving from December 19, 1798, to
March 3, 1799; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Sixth Congress.
Diavenport, Ira, of Bath, N. Y., was born at
Hornellsville, N. Y., June 28, 1841; elected to
the New York State senate 1878-79 and 1880-81;
elected comptroller of the State of New York in
1881, serving two years; defeated as the Republican
candidate for governor of New York in 1885;
elected a Representative to the Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican.
Davenport, James (brother of John Daven-
port), was born at Stamford, Conn., October 12,
1758; graduated from Yale College in 1777; served
in the Commissary Department in the war of the
Revolution; judge- of the court of common pleas;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Fourth Congress (in place of James Hillhouse),
and reelected to the Kfth Congress, serving until
August 3, 1797, when he died at Stamford, Conn.
Davenport, John, jr. (brother of James Dav-
enport), was born at Stamford, Conn., January
16, 1752; graduated from Yale College in 1770;
tutor there in 1773-74; studied law and afterwards
practiced at Stamford, Conn. ; served in the Com-
missary Department in the war of the Revolution;
elected a Representative from Connecticut as a
Federalist to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four-
teenth Congresses; died at Stamford, Conn., No-
vember 28, 18.30.
Davenport, John, a resident of Barnesville,
Ohio; was engaged in mercantile pursuits; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives and of the
State senate for several years; elected a Repre-
resentative from Ohio to the Twentieth Congress
as an Adams man; defeated for the Twenty-first
Congress; twice elected by the legislature judge of
the Monroe judicial circuit; died at Woodsfleld,
Ohio, July 25, 1855.
Davenport, S. A., of Erie, Pa., was born Jan-
uary 15, 1834, in Schuyler County, near Watkins,
N. Y.; moved to Erie, Erie County, Pa., in 1839;
educated at the Erie Academy; read law and grad-
uated from the Harvard Law School in 1855;
elected district attorney for the county of Erie m
1860; delegate to the Republican national conven-
tion at Chicago in 1888; one of the delegates at
large to the national Republican convention at
Minneapolis in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Republican.
Davenport, Stanley Woodward, of Plymouth,
Pa., was born at Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa.,
July 21, 1861; attended the public schools in his
native town and Wyoming Seminary; graduated
from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
in 1884; read law; admitted to the Luzerne County
bar in June, 1890; appointed a director of the poor
of the central poor district of Luzerne County in
1893; secretary and treasurer of the poor district;
elected register of wills of Luzerne County in 1893;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Davenport, Thomas, was born in Cumberland
County, Va.; received a liberal education; studied
law and afterwards practiced at Meads ville ; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Nineteenth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-
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third Congresses without opposition; defeated for
the Twenty-fourth Congress; died near Meadsville,
Va., November 18, 1838.
Davey, Robert Charles, of New Orleans, La.,
was born in that city October 22, 1853 ; received his
early education in the schools of his native city;
entered St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau,
Mo., in 1869, and graduated in 1871; elected a
member of the State senate in 1879, 1884, and 1892;
president pro tempore of the senate during the
sessions of 1884-1886; elected judge of the first re-
corder's court, November, 1880-1882, and April,
1884, serving until May, 1888; defeated for mayor
of New Orleans in April, 1888; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress; declined renomination for the
Fifty-fourth Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Davidson, A. C, of Uniontown, Ala., was born
in Mecklenburg County, N. C, December 26, 1826;
educated in the public schools of Marengo County,
Ala., and at the University of Alabama, where he
graduated July 11, 1848; studied law, but never
practiced; cotton planter; member of the State
house of representatives of Alabama 1880-81, and
of the State senate 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885;
elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses
as a Democrat; died November 6, 1897.
Davidson, George KEosby, of Stanford, Ky.,
was born at Stanford, Lincoln County, Ky., March
23, 1856; educated in the common schools, Stan-
ford Academy, and private school of Prof. J. B.
Meyers; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
1879; appointed to the internal-revenue service
in 1881, serving until 1885; appointed master of
chancery, or commissioner, of the Lincoln circuit
court in 1886 and resigned in 1893; elected to the
legislature from Lincoln County as a Eepublican
in 1887, serving on the committees of revenue
and taxation, civil codes, and general statutes;
Republican candidate for elector in 1888 and 1892;
elected judge of the Lincoln County court in 1894;
chairman of the Lincoln County Eepublican com-
mittee; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Republican; claimed to have been elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress, but wa^ not given the seat;
after retirement from Congress resumed the prac-
tice of.law at Stanford, Ky.
Davidson, James Henry, of Oshkosh, Wis.,
was born June 18, 1858, at Colchester, Delaware
County, N. Y. ; received a common school educa-
tion in the public schools and at Walton, N. Y.,
Academy; teacher in the public schools of Dela-
ware and SuUivan counties, N. Y., and Princeton,
Green Lake County, Wis. ; began the ^tudy of law
at Walton, N. Y. ; president of his class and grad-
uated from the Albany Law School in 1884; moved
to Green Lake County, Wis., and commenced the
practice of law at Princeton, in that county, in 1887;
elected district attorney of Green Lake County in
1888; chairman of the Republican Congressional
committee for the Sixth district of Wisconsin in
1890; moved to Oshkosh, Wis., January 1, 1892,
and became a member of the law firm of Thomp-
son, Harshaw & Davidson; withdrew and contin-
ued the practice alone; appointed city attorney in
May, 1895, for two years; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Davidson, Robert H. M., of Quincy, Fla.,
was born in Gadsden County, Fla., September 23,
1832; received an academic education at Quincy;
studied law at the University of Virginia; member
of the State house of representatives of Florida in
1856-1859; elected to the State senate in 1860;
retired from the State senate in 1862', and entered
the Confederate army as captain of infantry; re-
ceived a wound. May 28, 1864, which rendered
him unable to do further military service; mem-
ber of the constitutional convention in 1865; can-
didate for elector on the Greeley and Brown ticket
in 1872; elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Conservative Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses.
Davidson, Thomas G. , was born in Jefferson
County, Miss., August 6, 1805; received a liberal
education; studied law, and commenced practice
at Baton Rouge, La. ; member of the State house
of representatives 1833-1846; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the 'Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses; died on his farm in Liv-
ingston Parish, La., September 11, 1883.
Davidson, 'William, was born in Mecklenburg
County, N. C, September 12, 1778; received a lib-
eral education; planter; member of the State senate
1813-1817; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Fifteenth Congress (in place of
Daniel M. Forney, resigned) as a Federalist; re-
elected to the Sixteenth Congress; defeated for the
Seventeenth Congress; died at Charlotte, N. C,
September 16, 1857.
Davies, Edward, was born in Pennsylvania;
resided at Churchtpwn; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig.
Davis, Amos (brother of Garrett Davis), was
born at Mount Sterling, Ky.; received a liberal
education; studied law and practiced at Mount
Sterling; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1819, 1825, 1827, and 1828; elected a Represen-
tativ* from Kentucky to the Twenty-third Congress
as a Whig; candidate for reelection, and while
speaking at Owingsville', Ky., was taken ill and
died in a few hours, June 5, 1835.
Davis, Cushman Kellogg, of St. Paul, Minn.,
was bom at Henderson, Jefferson County, N. Y.,
June 16, 1838; received a common school and col-
legiate education, graduating from the University
of Michigan in June, 1857; lawyer; first lieutenant
in the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry 1862-
1864; member of the Minnesota legislature in
1867; United States district attomev for Minnesota
1868-1873; governor of Minnesota 1874-1875;
elected to the United States Senate as a Republican
to succeed Hon. S. J. R. McMillan, and took his
seat March 4, 1887; twice reelected and served
until his death, at St. Paul, Miun., November 27,
1900; member of the commission which met at
Paris, France, September, 1898, to arrange terms
of peace between the United States and Spain;
died at St. Paul, Minn., November 27, 1900.
Davis, David, of Bloomington, 111., was born
m Cecil County, Md., March 9, 1815; received a
classical education, graduating from Kenyon Col-
lege, Ohio, in 1832; studied law at Lenox, Mass.,
and the law school at New Haven; admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Illinois in the
fall of 1835; located at Bloomington in 1836;
member of the State house of representatives in
1844; delegate to the -State constitutional conven-
tion in 1847; elected in 1848 a judge of one of the
Illinois circuit courts, and held the office by re-
peated elections until he resigned it in October
1862, delegate to the national Republican conven-
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tion at Chicago in 1860; appointed by President
Lincoln a judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States in October, 1862, and served until
March, 1877, when he resigned to take his seat as
United States Senator from Illinois, having been
elected the previous January, by the votes of Inde-
pendents and Democrats, to succeed John A. Logan,
Republican; elected President of the Senate pro
tempore October 13, 1881; served until March 3,
1883; died at Bloomington, 111., June 26, 1886.
Davis, Garrett, was born at Mount Sterling,
Ky., September 10, 1801; received a liberal educa-
tion; employed in the ofiBce of the county clerk of
Montgomery County and afterwards of Bourbon
County; studied law, and afterwards practiced at
Paris, Ky. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1833-1835; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-seventh,' Twenty-
eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses; declined
reelection and resumed his professional and agri-
cultural avocations; declined the nomination for
lieutenant-governor on the ticket headed by
John J. Crittenden in 1848; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1849; elected United
States Senator as an old-line Whig (to succeed
John C. Breckinridge), and reelected, defeating
B. F. Brigtow, serving from December 3, 1861,
until hia death at Paris, Ky., September 22, 1872.
Davis, George B,., of Chicago, 111., was born
at Three Rivers, Palmer County, Mass., January 3,
1840; received a public school education, also com-
pleted a classical course at Williston Seminary, East
Hampton, Mass., graduating in 1860; studied law;
entered the service in 3u\y, 1862, and was an offi-
cer in the Union Army during the war, holding the
position of captain in the Eighth Massachusetts Vol-
unteer Infantry and that of major of the Third
Rhode Island Cavalry; engaged in business in Chi-
cago as a manufacturer and as an insurance and
financial agent; Republican nominee for the Porty-
flfth Congress; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the.Forty-seventh and
Forty-eighth Congresses; nominated by acclama-
tion August 30, 1884, and again October 28, but
declined both nominations; treasurer of Cook
County, 111., 1886-1890; director-general of World's
Columbian Exposition 1893; died at Chicago, 111.,
November 25, 1899.
Davis, George T., was born at Sandwich,
Mass., January 12, 1810; graduated from Harvard
College in 1829; studied law at Cambridge and at
Greenfield, and commenced practice in 1832; es-
tablished the Franklin Mercury in 1833, and con-
ducted it with ability until he sold it in 1836;
member of the State house of representatives one
year and of the State senate for two years; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig; moved to Portland,
Me., where he died June 17, 1877.
Davis, Henry G., of Piedmont, W. Va., was
bom in Howard County, Md., November 16, 1823;
received a country school education; lived and
worked upon a farm until 1843; in the employ of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for four-
teen years; commenced banking and mining coal
at Piedmont in 1858; president of the Piedmont
National Bank; engaged in mining and shippmg
coal, manufacturing lumber, etc.; elected to the
house of delegates of West Virginia in 1865; mem-
ber of the national Democratic conventions at
New York in 1868 and at Baltimore in 1872; elected
to the State senate 1868 and 1870; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
W. T. Willey, Republican; took his seat March 4,
1871; reelected, serving until March 3, 1883.
Davis, Henry Winter, was born at Annapolis,
Md., August 16, 1817; ■ graduated from Kenyon
College in 1837; studied law at the University of
Virginia and commenced practice at Alexandria;
moved to Baltimore in 1850 where he continued
practice and also engaged in literary pursuits;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican and
reelected to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and
Thirty-eighth Congresses; died at Baltimore, Md/,
December 30, 1865.
Davis, Horace, of San Francisco, Cal., wasbom
at Worcester, Mass., in 1831; educated in the pub^
lie schools of Worcester and graduated from Har-
vard University in 1849; studied law in the Dane
Law School, but abandoned professional pursuits
by reason of failing health; moved to California in
1852; engaged in flour milling; elected a Represent-
ative to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses
as a Republican; president of Chamber of Com-
merce of San Francisco 1883-84, and president of
University of California from 1888 to 1890.
Davis, Jefferson, was born in Christian County,
Ky., June 3, 1808; received a liberal education;
appointed a cadet and graduated from West Point in
1828; commissioned second lieutenant of the First
Infantry July 1, 1828, and promoted first lieuten-
ant of the First Dragoons March 4, 1833, serving
until June 30, 1835, when he resigned; engaged in
cotton planting in Warren County, Miss. ; Presiden-
tial elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Twenty-ninth Congress asaDemocrat, serving until
June, 1846, when he resigned to command the First
Regiment of Mississippi Riflemen in the war with
Mexico; appointed brigadier-general May 27, 1847,
but declined; appointed United States Senator from
Mississippi (in place of Jesse Speight, deceased),
and subsequently elected, serving from December
6, 1847, to November, 1851, when he resigned; de-
feated as a secession candidate for governor in 1851 ;
again elected United States Senator, but resigned;
appointed Secretary of War by President Pierce,
serving from March 7, 1853, to March 3, 1857;
again elected United States Senator, serving from
March 4, 1857, until January 21, 1861, when ho
withdrew; chosen President of the Confederate
States by the Provisional Congress, and inaugu-
rated February 18, 1861; elected President of the
Confederate States for six years, and inaugurated
February 22, 1862; captured by the Union troops
at Irwinsville, Ga., May 10, 1865; imprisoned two
years at Fortress Monroe and thfen released on
bail; died at New Orleans, La., December 6, 1889.
Davis, John, was born at Northboro, Mass.,
January 13, 1787; graduated from Yale College In
1812; studied law and in 1815 commenced practice
at Worcester, Mass. ; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts as a Whig to the Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
and Twenty-fourth Congresses; governor of Mas-
sachusetts 1834-35; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Massachusetts, serving from December 7,
1835, to December, 1840, when he resigned; again
governor of Massachusetts 1840-41; again elected a
United States Senator, serving from March 24,
1845, to March 3, 1853; died at Worcester, Mass.,
April 19, 1854.
Davis, John, was born in Pennsylvania in 1788;
moved to Maryland and educated in the public
schools; returned to Pennsylvania in 1812 and
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COKGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
located at what is now Davisville; engaged in agri-
culture and mercantile pursuits; served as captain
in the war of 1812; rose to the rank of major-
general of militia; elected a Eepresentative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-sixth Congress' as a
Democrat; appointed collector of the port of Phila-
delphia by President Polk; delegate to several
State and national Democratic conventions; died
at Davisville, Pa., April 1, 1878.
Davis, John, of Junction City, Kans., was bol-n
in Sangamon County, 111., August 9, 1826; from
the farm, at 20, entered Springfield Academy, pre-
paratory to a course in Illinois College, at Jack-
sonville; opened a farm in Macon County in 1850,
and followed agricultural pursuits for twenty-two
years in Illinois; actively favored Government
endowment of agricultural colleges and took a
leading part in the antislavery movement; en-
gaged in farming again in 1872 in Kansas ; president,
in 1873, of the first distinctive farmers' organization
of Kansas; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as
a candidate of the People's Party; reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress; devoted his time to literary
work; died August 2, 1901.
Davis, John G. , was born in Fleming County,
Ky., October 10, 1810; educated in the public
schools; farmer and stock raiser; moved to Rock-
ville, Ind.; sheriff of Parke County 1830-31;
clerk of the superior and inferior courts of Parke
County 1833-1851; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-third and Thirty
fifth Congresses and to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as an anti-Lecompton Democrat; died at 'Terre
Haute, Ind., January 18, 1866.
Davis, John J. , was born at Clarksburg, W.
Va., May 1, 1835; received his education at the
Northwestern Virginia Academy; studied law, and
when 20 years of age commenced practice; mem-
ber of the State legislature of Virginia in 1861 and
of West Virginia in 1870; Presidential elector on
the McClellah ticket in 1864; one of the delegates
from the State at large to the national Democratic
convention at New "York in 1868; elected a Repre-
sentative from "West Virginia to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat, and to the Forty-third
Congress as an Independent Democrat.
Davis, John W. , was born in Cumberland
County, Pa., July 17j 1799; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied medicine, graduating from the
Baltimore Medical College in 1821; moved to Car-
lisle, Ind., in 1823; member of the State house of
representatives for several years, serving as speaker
in 1832; commissioner to negotiate an Indian treaty
in 1834; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; elected
to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-
ninth Congresses; elected Speaker DecemlDer 1,
1845; commissioner to China January 3, 1848, to
May 25, 1850; governor of Oregon 1853-54; pres-
ident of the national Democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1852; died at Carlisle, Ind., August
22, 1859.
Davis, Joseph J., of Louisburg, N. C, was
born in Franklin County, N. C, April 13, 1828;
educated at the Louisburg Academy; studied law
at Chapel Hill, receiving the degree of bachelor of
laws in 1850, and engaged in practice; served in
the Confederate army as captain; member of the
State legislature in 1866-67; elected to the Forty-
fourth, Forty -fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as
a Democrat; appointed a justice of the supreme
court of the State in 1887, and in 1888 was elected;
died August 7, 1892, at Louisburg, N. C.
Davis, Lowndes H., of Jackson, Mo., was
born at Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Mo.,
December 14, 1836; graduated from the collegiate
■department of Yale College in 1860, and at the
Louisville Law Acaldemy School, Louisville, Ky.,
in 1863; practiced law until 1875; elected State at-
torney for the tenth judicial circuit of Missouri in
1868, which ofiice he held for four years; an
elector in 1872 on the Greeley and Brown ticket;
member of the constitutional convention; that
framed Missouri's constitution in 1875; elected a
member of the general assembly of Missouri in
1876; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
and Forty-eighth Congresses aa a Democrat.
Davis, Noah, was born at Haverhill, N. H.,
September 10, 1818; moved with his parents to
Albion, N. Y., in 1825; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law at Lewiston, and afterwards
practiced at Gains and Buffalo; moved to Albion
in February, 1844, where he continued practice
until May, 1858; appointed and subsequently twice
elected judge of the supreme court for the eighth
judicial district, serving from 1857 to 1868; moved
to New York and practiced law; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican, serving until July 15, 1870,
when he resigned; appointed by President Grant
United States attorney for the southern district of
New York, serving from July, 1870, until January,
1873, when he resigned, having been again elected
a judge of the supreme court of the State of New
York, serving until 1887; member of council of
the University of New York City; died at New
York City March 20, 1902.
Davis, Keuben, was born in Tennessee Jan-
uary 18, 1813; educated in the public schools;
studied medicine but practiced only a few years,
when he abandoned the profession and studied
law; moved to Aberdeen, Miss., where he prac-
ticed law; prosecuting attorney for the sixth
judicial district 1835-1839; judge of the high court
of appeals in 1842, but after four months' service
resigned; served as colonel of the Second Regi-
ment Mississippi Volunteers in the war with
Mexico; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1855-1857; elected a Representative from the
state of Mississippi to the Thirty-fifth Congi-ess as
a Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, serving from December 7, 1857, to January
12, 1861, when he retired from the House; served
in the Confederate army as brigadier-general
commanding a brigade of sixty days' Mississippi
militia in Kentucky; resumed the practice of law;
died at Columbus, Miss., December 15, 1873.
Davis, Richard D., was born in New York;
graduated from Yale College in 1818; studied law
and afterwards practiced ; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress.
Davis, Robert T. , of Fall River, Mass. , was born
in the County Down, Ireland, August 28, 1823;
his parents emigrated to this country and settled
in Amesbury, Essex County, Mass., when he was
3 years of age; educated at Amesbury Academy
and at the Friends' School at Providence, R. I. ;
graduated from the medical department of Har-
vard University in 1847; dispensary physician in
Boston; practiced medicine three years at Water-
ville, Me., and moved to Fall River in 1850; mem- ^
ber of the Massachusetts State constitutional con-
vention of 1853, of the Massachusetts State senate
of 1859 and 1861, and of the Republican national
conventions of 1860 and 1876 : mayor of Fall River in
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1873; member of the State board of charities when
organized in 1863; appointed a member of the
State board of health upon its organization in
1869; elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican.
Davis, Robert W., of Palatka, Fla., was born
m Lee County, Ga., March 15, 1849; educated in
the common schools of his native State; entered
the Confederate army at 14 years of age, and sur-
rendered with the army of Gen. Joseph E. John-
ston at Greensboro, N. C, at the close of the war;
worked on a farm in Georgia; read law; admitted
to the bar at 20 years of age; moved to Florida in
1879; elected to the legislature from Clay County
in 1884; elected speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives at the session of 1885; made general
attorney for the Florida Southern Railroad Com-
pany in 1885; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Davis, Roger, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Davis, Samuel, was born at Bath, Me., in 1774;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the
State house of representatives in 1803 and 1808-
1812; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist; again
a member of the State house of representatives
1815-16; died at Bath, Me., April 17, 1831.
Davis, Thomas, was born in Ireland; emi-
grated to the United States and located at Provi-
dence, R. I.; manufacturing jeweler; member of
the State senate; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat; unsuccessful candidate for the Thirty-
fourth, Thirty-sixth, Forty-second, Forty-third,
and Forty-sixth Congresses; State senator 1877-78;
member of general assembly 1887-1890; died at
Providence, R. I., July 26, 1895.
Davis, Thomas T., was born at Middlebury,
Addison County, Vt., August 22, 1810; graduated
from Hamilton College in 1831; studied law at
Syracuse, N. Y. ; admitted to the bar in 1833, but
practiced only a short time, when he turned his at-
tention to railroading and coal mining; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Unionist, and reelected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress.
Davis, Timothy, was bom at Newark, N. J.,
March, 1794; educated in the public schools;
moved to Kentucky in 1816; moved to Dubuque,
Iowa, in 1837; elected a Representative from Iowa
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a RepubUcan.
Davis, Timothy, was born at Gloucester, Mass. ,
April 12, 1821; educated in the pubhc schools;
served two years in a printing office; clerk and sub-
sequently a merchant in Boston; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
" fourth Congress as an American, and reelected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; ap-
pointed by President Lincoln to a position in the
Boston custom-house, which he held several years,
and then became an attorney for the prosecution
of claims against the Government; died at Boston,
Mass., October 23, 1888.
Davis, Warren B. , was bom in South Caro-
lina May 8, 1793; graduated from the College of
South Carolina in 1810; studied law and after-
wards practiced; State solicitor in 1818; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Twen-
tieth Congress as a NuUifler; reelected to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses, serving until his death, at Washington,
D. C, January 29, 1835.
Davis, William Morris, a resident of Miles-
town, Pa., was elected a Representative from that
State to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Davy, John M. , was born at Ottawa, Ontario,
June 29, 1835; while quite young moved with his
parents to Monroe County, N. Y. ; educated in the
common schools; studied law in Rochester, and
afterwards practiced; elected district attorney of
Monroe County in 1868 for three years; appointed
by President Grant collector of customs for the
port of Genesee in April, 1872, which office he held
until elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Dawes, Henry It. , of Massachusetts, was born
at Cummington, Mass., October 30, 1816; graduated
from Yale College; school-teacher, and edited the
Greenfield Gazette and Adams Transcript; studied
and practiced law; member of the house of repre-
sentatives of Massachusetts in 1848, 1849, and 1852;
member of the State senate in 185;0; member of the
State constitutional convention of Massachusetts
in 1853; district attorney for the western district of
Massachusetts 1853-1857; elected a Representative
to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first,
Forty -second, and Forty-third Congresses, and de-
clined to be a candidate for the Forty-fourth Con-
gress; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican to succeed Charles Sumner (whose
unexpired term had been filled by William B.
Washburn), and took his seat March 4, 1875;
reelected in 1881 and 1887, serving until March 3,
1893; located at Pittsfield, Mass.; chairman of
Commission to the Five Civihzed Tribes of the
Indian Territory 1893-1903; died at Pittsfield,
Mass., Febmary 5, 1903.
Dawes, Rufus R. , of Marietta, Ohio, was born
at Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, July 4, 1838;
received a collegiate education, graduating from
Marietta College in 1860; entered the volunteer
service in 1861 as a captain in the Sixth Wisconsin
Volunteers, and during the war was promoted to
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-
general by brevet; engaged in business at Marietta;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; died August 1, 1890.
Dawson, John, was born in Virginia in 1762;
graduated from Harvard College in 1782; studied
law and practiced; Presidential elector on the
Washington ticket in 1793; member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth
Congresses as a Democrat, serving from May 15,
1797, to March 30, 1814, when he died, at Wash-
ington, D. C
Dawson, John B. , was born at Nashville,
Tenn., in 1800; moved to Louisiana and became a
planter; member of the State house of representa-
tives for several years; judge of the parish court;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress; died at
St. Francisville, La., June 26, 1845.
Dawson, John L. , was born at Uniontown, Pa. ,
February 7, 1813; graduated from Washington
College; studied law and commenced practice at
Brownsville, Pa. ; United States district attorney
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for the western district of Pennsylvania, 1845-1848;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Thirty-third Congress; appointed
governor of Kansas Territory by President Pierce,
but declined; again elected to the Thirty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth Congresses; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic conventions in 1844, 1848, 1860,
and 1868; died at Uniontown, Pa., September 18,
1870.
Dawson, William, of New Madrid, was born
at New Madrid, New Madrid County, Mo., March
17, 1848; graduated from the college of the Chris-
tian Brothers at St. Louis, Mo., in 1869; elected
sheriff and collector of New Madrid County in
1870 and in 1872; elected in 1878 to the lower
house of the general assembly of Missouri, and re-
elected in 1880 and 1882; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Dawson, ■William C, was born in Greene
County, Ga., January 4, 1798; graduated from
Franklin College in 1816; studied law and com-
menced practice at Greensboro, Ga. ; member of
the State senate and house of representatives for
several years; elected a Representative from Geor-
gia to the Twenty-fourth Congress (in place of
John Coffee, deceased) as a State Eights Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from Decem-
ber 26, 1836, to September 13, 1841, when he re-
signed; appointed judge of the Ocmulgee circuit
in 1845; elected a United States Senator from Geor-
gia, serving from December 3, 1849, to March 3,
1855; died at Greensboro, Ga., May 5, 1856.
Dawson, "William J. , was born in North Car-
olina; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Third Congress.
Day, Rowland, was born in the State of New
York in 1788; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1816-17; held several Ijcal offices
at Sempronius, where he resided; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Eighteenth and
Twenty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Day, Timothy C. , was born at Cincinnati, Ohio;
educated in the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Republican; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April
15, 1869.
Dayan, Charles, was bom at Amsterdam,
N. Y., July 16, 1792; spent the early part of his
life on a farm; educated in the public schools;
taught school and studied law, afterwards prac-
ticing at Lowville; member of the State senate,
1827-1829; acting lieutenant-governor in 1829;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat; member
of the State house of representatives in 1835 and
1836; districtattorney for Lewis County, 1840-1845;
died at Lowville, N. Y., December 25, 1877.
Dayton, Alston Gordon, of Philippi, W. Va.,
was bom at Philippi, Va. (now West Virginia),
October 18, 1857; graduated from the University
of West Virginia in June, 1878; studied law, ad-
mitted to, the bar October 18, 1878; devoted him-
self to the practice of his profession; appointed to
fill out an unexpired term as prosecuting attorney
of Upshur County, W. Va., in 1879; prosecuting
attorney for Barbour County, 1884-1888; elected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Re-
publican.
Dayton, Elias (father of Jonathan Dayton),
was born at Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1785; received
a liberal education; served in the Jersey Blues in
the provincial expedition under Wolfe, which
conquered Canada; member of the Committee of
Safety at the breaking out of the war of the Revo-
lution; appointed colonel of the Third New Jersey
Regiment and promoted to the rank of brigadier-
general January 7, 1783; elected major-general of
militia; elected a delegate to the Continental Con-
gress 1787-88; died at Elizabethtown, N. J., July
17,1807. n^l-^t M-f^t
Dayton, Jonathan, was bom in New Jersey,
October 16, 1760; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1776; studied law and admitted to the bar,
but entered the Continental Army as paymaster
in the regiment commanded by his father; served
throughout the war of the Revolution; member of
the New Jersey house of representatives for sev-
eral years, serving as speaker in 1790; delegate to
the Federal constitutional convention, 1787; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Second,
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, serving as
Speaker during the Fourth and Fifth Congresses;
elected a United States Senator from New Jersey,
servmg from December 2, 1799, to March 3, 1805;
died at Elizabethtown, N. J., October 9, 1824.
Daylion, 'Williain Lewis, was born at Baskiu-
ridge, N. J., February 17, 1807; graduated from
Princeton College in 1825; studied law at Gould's
Law School at Litchfield, Conn., and commenced
practice at Trenton, N. J., in 1830; State senator,
1836-37; judge of the superior court from February
28, 1838, to November 1, 1841, when he resigned;
appointed a United States Senator from New Jersey
(in place of Samuel L. Southard, deceased), and
subsequently elected, serving from July 6, 1842, to
March 3, 1851; resumed the practice of law; nomi-
nated in 1856 as the Republican candidate for Vice-
President on the Fremont ticket, receiving on the
informal ballot in the convention 259 votes against
110 votes for Abraham Lincoln, and received 114
electoral votes against 173 votes for John C. Breck-
inridge, Democrat, and 8 electoral votes for A. J.
Donelson, American; attorney-general of New
Jersey, 1857-1861; appointed by President Lin-
coln minister to France March 18, 1861, and served
until his death at Paris, December 1, 1864^
Dean, Benjanoin, was born at Clitherve, Eng-
land, August 14, 1824; emigrated to Lowell, Mass.,
at an early age; received a classical education at
Lowell and Dartmouth Colleges; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1845; member of the Massa-
chusetts State senate in 1862, 1863, and 1869;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving (as
the House subsequently determined) 9,315 votes
against 9,295 votes for W. A. Field, Republican;
Mr. Field received the certificate of election on a
different return, but Mr. Dean contested, and was
declared entitled to the seat March 28, 1878.
Dean, Ezra, was born in the State of New
York in 1791; moved to Ohio, where he held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
the State of Ohio to the Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Dean, Gilbert, was born at Pleasant Valley,
N. Y. ; graduated from Yale College in 1841 ; studied
law and began practicing at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
in 1844; elected a Representative from the State of
New York to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat and reelected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress, serving from December 1, 1851, until July
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3, 1854, -when he resigned, having been appointed
]udge of the second district of the supreme court;
died October 12, 1870, at Poughkeepsle, N. Y.
Dean, Josiah, was born at Eaynham, Mass.,
March 16, 1748; received a common school educa-
tion; Presidential elector on the Jefferson ticket
in 1805; member of the State senate 1804-1807;
elected a Representative from the State of Massa-
chusetts to the Tenth Congress; again a member
of the State house of representatives 1810-11; died
October 14, 1818.
Sean, Sidney, vaa born at Glastonbury, Conn.,
November 16, 1818; received a common school
education; engaged in manufacturing and after-
wards became a clergyman; member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Thirty-fourth Congress as
an American; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican; moved to Rhode Island in
1860, where he became pastor of a church, and
afterwards became editor of the Providence Press;
moved to Warren, R. I. ; died October 29, 1901.
Deane, Silas, was born at Groton, Conn., De-
cember 24, 1737; received a classical education,
and graduated from Yale College in 1758; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; delegate from Connecticut
to the Continental Congress 1774^1776; sent on a
secret mission to France in March, 1776, and in
September was commissioned as ambassador with
Frank lin and Lee ; negotiated and signed the treaty
with France, February 6, 1778; personally secured
the services of Lafayette, Dekalb, and other for-
eign ofiicers; recalled in 1777, and investigated by
Congress, Lee having charged him with financial
irregularities; returned to France to procure tran-
scripts of his transactions there and found that the
publication of some of his confidential dispatches
had imbittered that Government against him, and
he was compelled to go to Holland, and thence to
Great Britain, impoverished, feeling that he had
been injured; died at Deal, England, August 23,
1789; in 1 842 Congress vindicated him by deciding
that a considerable sum of money was due him,
which was paid to his heirs.
Dearborn, Henry (father of li. A. S. Dear-
born) , was born at Hampton, N. H., February 23,
1751; received a public school education; studied
medicine; began practicing in 1772; captain during
the Revolutionary war; moved to Monmouth, Me.,
in June, 1784; elected brigadier-general of militia
in 1787, and made major-general in 1789; ap-
pointed United States marshal for the district of
Maine in 1789; eleited a Representative from one
of the M aine districts of Massachusetts to the Third
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to theFourth
Congress, serving from December 2, 1793, until
March 3, 1797; appointed Secretary of War by Presi-
dent Jefferson, and served from March 4, 1801, until
March 7, i809; appointed collector of the port of
Boston by President Madison in 1809, which posi-
tion he held until January 27, 1812, when he
was appointed senior major-general in the United
States Army; in command at the capture of York
(now Toronto), April 27, 1813; recalled from the
frontier July 6, 1813, and placed in command of
the city of New York; appointed minister pleni-
potentiary to Portugal by President Monroe, and
served from May 7, 1822, until June 30, 1824, when,
by his own request, he was recalled ; returned to
Eoxbury, Mass., where he died, June 6, 1829.
Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell (son
of H Dearborn), was born in 1783 at Exeter, N. H. ;
graduated from William and Mary College in 1803;
studied law, and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Salem, Mass. ; collector of customs at Boston,
1812-1829; served in the war of 1812 as brigadier-
general commanding the volunteers at Boston;
member of the State constitutional convention in
1820; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1829, and State senator in 1830; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-
second Congress; adjutant-general of Massachu-
setts 1834-1843; mayor of Roxbury 1847-1851;
died at Portland, Me., July 29, 1851.
De Armond, David A., of Butler, Mo., was
born in Blair County, Pa. , March 18, 1844; brought
up on a farm; educated in the common schools
and at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary; Presi-
dential elector in 1884; State senator, circuit judge,
and Missouri supreme court commissioner; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses,
Deberry, Edmund, was born at Mount Gilead,
N. C, August 14, 1787; received a public school
education; member of the State senate 1806-1811,
1813, 1814, 1820, 1821, 1826-1828; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Twenty-first
Congress as an Adams man; defeated for reelec-
tion; again elected to the Twenty-third Congress;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth,
and Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig; died at
Mount Gilead, N. C, December 12, 1859.
Deboe, William J., of Marion, Ky., was born
in Crittenden County, Ky., on a farm in 1849;
received his education in the public and academic
schools of the State and Ewing College, Illinois;
studied law in early life, afterwards studied medi-
cine, and graduated from the Medical University
of Louisville; practiced a few years, when his
health failed; renewed the study of law; admitted
to the bar; served as superintendent of schools of
Crittenden County; delegate to the national Re-
publican convention at Chicago in 1888; member
of the Republican State central committee twelve
years; made the race for Congress in 1892; elected
to the State senate in 1893; delegate from the State
at large to the national Republican convention at
St. Louis in 1896, and chairman of the delegation;
when the Republicans carried the legislature in
1895 he entered the race for United States Senator,
but withdrew and supported Dr. Hunter, who was
nominated, but failed to be elected; again entered
the race for Senator in 1896, and withdrew when
Dr. Hunter was nominated and failed of an elec-
tion, after which Mr. Deboe was nominated and
elected to the United States Senate as a Republi-
can after two of the most sensational and memor-
able sessions of the legislature of the State, and
took his seat March 4, 1897, serving until March 3,
1903
De Bolt, Rezin A., was born in Fairfield.
County, Ohio, January 20, 1828; worked on a farm;
received a common school education; apprenticed
to a tanner, and while working at his trade studied
law; admitted to the bar in February, 1856; moved
to Trenton, Grundy County, Mo., in 1858, and
began the practice of his profession; appointed in
1859 and elected in 1860 commissioner of common
schools for Grundy County, serving until the com-
mencement of the civil war; entered the Union
Army as captain in the Twenty-third Missouri
Volunteer Infantry; captured at the battle of
Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and held as prisoner until
the following October; resigned his commission in
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1863 on account of impaired health; in 1864 again
entered the United States service as major m the
Forty-fourth Missouri Volunteer Infantry; mus-
tered out in August, 1865; elected judge of the
circuit court for the eleventh judicial circuit of
Missouri in November, 1863, which position he
held by reelection until January 1, 1875; elected a
Eepresentative from Missouri to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Deemer, Elias, of Williamsport, Lycoming
County, Pa., was born in Bucks County, Pa., Jan-
uary 3, 1838; educated, in the common schools;
engaged in the mercantile business in his native
county and in Philadelphia; enlisted as a private
in Company E, One hundred and fourth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, in July, 1861, and served in the
Pennsylvania campaign until the middle of May
following, when he was discharged for disabilities
resulting from injuries received while in the line
of duty; member of Eeno Post, Grand Army of the
Eepublic; moved to WiUiamsport in the spring of
1868; president of the common council, 1888-1890;
engaged in the manufacture of lumber, employing
between 500 and 700 men in his different opera-
tions; president of the Williamsport National
Bank; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Deering, Nathaniel C, of Osago, Iowa, was
born at Denmark, Oxford County, Me., Septem-
ber 2, 1827; educated in the common schools and
at North Bridgeton Academy; elected a member
of the legislature from Penobscot County in 1855;
reelected in 1856; moved to Osage, Iowa, in 1857;
for several years a clerk in the United States Sen-
ate, but resigned in 1865; later in 1865 appointed
special agent of the Post-Offi.ee Department for the
district of Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska and
served until 1869, when he resigned; appointed
national-bank examiner for the State of Iowa in
1872, which position he held until February, 1877;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Kepublican ;
reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses.
De Forest, Robert E., of Bridgeport, Conn.,
was bom at Guilford, Conn., February 20, 1845;
brought up on a farm; educated in Guilford
Academy and at Yale College; graduated in 1867;
taught school; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1868; located in Bridgeport where he practiced
his profession; appointed prosecuting attorney for
Bridgeport in 1872; elected by the legislature of
Connecticut judge of the court of common pleas
for Fairfield County in 1874; elected mayor of
Bridgeport in 1878; elected to the legislature in
1880; elected to the State senate in 1882; corpora-
tion counsel for Bridgeport; again elected mayor
in 1889 and 1890; elected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Defrees, Joseph H., was born at Carthage,
Tenn., May 13, 1812; received a common school
education; learned the art of printing; moved to
Indiana and engaged in mercantile pursuits;
sheriff of Elkhart County 1836-1840; member of
the State house of representatives in 1849 and of the
State senate in 1850; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Unionist.
Degener, Edward, was born at Brunswick,
Germany, October 20, 1809; received an academic
education in Germany and in England; twice a
member of the legislative body in Anhalt-Dessau
and a member of the first German Parliament in
Frankfort; emigrated to the United States and
located at Sisterdale, Tex. ; engaged in farming in
1850; court-martialed and imprisoned by the Con-
federates on account of his loyalty to the Union;
moved to San Antonio, Tex., after the war; be-
came a merchant; member of the Texas constitu-
tional conventions in 1866 and 1868; elected a
Representative to the Forty-first Congress as a
Republican; died at San Antonio, Tex. , September
11, 1890.
Degetau, Federico, Porto Riean Republican, of
San Juan, was born at Ponce, P. R. ; received his
first education in the schools of that island; gradu-
ated as bachelor of sciences and arts at Barcelona,
Spain, and as a lawyer in the Central University
of Madrid; the Academy of Anthropological Sci-
ences of Madrid elected him president of the sec-
tion of moral and political sciences; one of the
founders of the Soci6t6 Fran^aise pour 1' Arbitrage
entre Nations, and honorary member of the Colegio
de Profesores de Cataluna; president of the section
of moral and political sciences of the "Ateneo" of
San Juan; one of the four commissioners sent by
Porto Rico to ask Spain for autonomy; district of
Ponce elected him a deputy to the Cortes of 1898;
General Henry appointed him secretary of the
interior of the first American cabinet that was
formed in Porto Rico; appointed a member of the
insular board of charities by General Davis; elected
first vice-president of the municipal council of San
Juan in 1899, and later president of the board of
education of that city; elected resident commis-
sioner from Porto Rico to the United States on
November 6, 1900; reelected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
De Graff, John I., was born at Schenectady,
N.Y.; received a common school education; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twentieth
and Twenty-fifth Congresses; died June 26, 1848,
at Schenectady, N. Y.
De Graffenreid, B. C, was born at Franklin,
Tex. , in 1859; attended the academic school of that
place until 13 years old; went to the University
of Tennessee; graduated from the Lebanon Law
School; having the right to practice before major-
ity, he commenced the law practice immediately
at Franklin; moved to Chattanooga, where he
practiced for one year; moved to Texas; helped to
build the Texas and Pacific Railroad ; resumed the
practice of his profession at Longview, Tex., in
1883; elected county attorney and resigned two
months afterwards; elector on the Democratic
ticket in 1888; made the race for Congress in 1890
with Hon. C. B. Kilgore and ex-Governor Hub-
bard as opponents, and beaten; elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses; died
at Washington, D. C, August 30, 1902.
De Haven, John Jefferson, of Eureka, Cal.,
was born at St. Joseph, Mo., March 12, 1849; re-
sided in Humboldt County; received a common
school education; printer by trade, and pursued
that vocation for four years; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar of the district court in Ilumboldt
in 1866; elected district attorney in 1867; elected
to the assembly in 1869; elected to the State senate
in 1871; served until April, 1874; defeated as a
candidate for delegate to the constitutional con-
vention in 1878; appointed in the latter year city
attorney of Eureka, serving two years; Republican
candidate for Congress in 1882, and defeated;
elected judge of the superior court of Humboldt
County in 1884; elected to the Fifty-first Congress
as a Republican; resigned October 1, 1890; elected
associate justice of the supreme court of California
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to fill an unexpired term of four years; commis-
sioned United States district judge for the northern
district of California, June 8, 1897.
Deitz, "William, was born in Schoharie County,
N. Y.; received a public school education; served
in the State house of representatives 1814-15;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Nineteenth Congress; member of the State senate
18S0-1833; died at Schoharie, N. Y.
De Jarnette, Daniel C, was born near Bowl-
ing Green, Va., in 1822; received a classical edu-
cation; served several years in the State house of
representatives; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-sixth Congress as an anti-
Administration Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, but did not serve; Representa-
tive from Virginia to the First and Second Con-
federate Congresses 1862-1865.
De' La Matyr, Gilbert, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
wasbornatPharsalia,N. Y., July 8, 1825; received
an academic education; studied theology and grad-
uated in the theological course of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1854; itinerant elder in that
church ; member of the general conference in 1868,
and for one term filled the ofiice of presiding elder;
helped enlist the Eighth Regiment of New York
Heavy Artillery in 1862, and was its chaplain for
three years; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as
a National and Democrat.
Delano, Charles, was born at Braintree, Mass.,
in 1820; graduated from Amherst College in 1840;
studied law, and in 1840 admitted to the bar; began
the practice of his profession at Northampton,
Mass. ; appointed treasurer of Hampden County in
1850; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Delano, Columbus, was born atShoreham, Vt.,
in 1809; moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1817;
received an. academic education; studied law, and
in 1831 admitted to the bar; elected a Represent-
ative from Ohio to the Twenty- ninth Congress as a
Whig; defeated by two votes at the Whig State
convention in 1847 as a candidate for the nomina-
tion for governor; delegate to the Republican na-
tional convention at Chicago which nominated
Lincoln and Hamlin; served as State commissary-
general of Ohio in 1861; defeated by two votes for
the United States Senate in 1862; member of the
State house of representatives in 1863; delegate to
the Republican national convention at Baltimore
which nominated Lincoln and Johnson; elected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fortieth Congress; George W.
Morgan, Democrat, obtained the certificate of elec-
tion, but was voted out of his seat June 3, 1868,
and Mr. Delano recognized; appointed by Presi-
dent Grant Secretary of the Interior November 1,
1870, which positionhe held until October 19, 1875,
when he resigned.
De Lano, Milton, of Canastota, N. Y., was born
at Wampsville, Madison County, N. Y., August 11,
1844; received a common school education; brought
up a merchant's clerk; merchant for eight years;
three times elected town clerk of Lenox, serving
1867-1869; twice elected sheriff of Madison County,
N. Y., serving 1873-1875 and 1879-1881; engaged
in the banking and real estate business and the
manufacture of window glass; aided in the orgini-
zation of the Canastota Northern Railroad Com-
pany; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Chicago in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fifty-first Congress; declined a renomination and
retired from politics.
Delaplaine ,IsaacC.,wasa native of New York ;
received an academic education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Fusionist. '
De Large, Kobert C, was born at Aiken,
S. C, March 15, 1842; received a limited education;
farmer ; elected a member of the State constitutional
convention in 1868; member of the State house of
representatives 1868-1870; elected State land com-
missioner in 1870 and served until he was elected
a Representative from South Carolina to the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican; trial justice at
Charleston, S. C, February 15, 1874.
Dellet, James, was born in Ireland in 1788;
emigrated to America when quite young and lo-
cated in South Carolina; graduated from the Uni-
versity of South Carolina in 1810; studied law and
in 1813 admitted to the bar; moved to Alabama in
1818 and located at Claiborne; elected to the first
State house of representatives under the State gov-
ernment in 1819 and served as its speaker; re-
elected in 1821 and 1825; defeated as the Whig
candidate for Congress in 1833; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-eighth Congresses as a Whig; died at
Claiborne December 21, 1848.
Deming, Benjamin F. , was born at Danville,
Vt. ; received an academic education; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; served sixteen years as clerk
of the county courts; elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Twenty-third Congress as a
Whig; died at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Deming, Henry C, was a native of Connecti-
cut; received a classical education and graduated
from Yale College in 1836; graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1838; admitted to the bar
and began practice at New York City; moved to
Hartford, Conn., in 1845; member of the State
house of representatives 1849, 1850, 1859, 1860, and
1861, serving the last year as speaker, and of the
State senate in 1851 ; entered the Union Army in
1861 as colonel of the Twelfth Connecticut Volun-
teers; appointed mayor of New Orleans under mar-
tial law; several years mayor of Hartford, Conn. ;
elected a Representative froir Connecticut to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and re-
elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; defeated for
reelection to the Fortieth Congress; appointed col-
lector of internal revenue in 1869 and served until
his death, at Hartford, Conn., October 9, 1872.
De Mott, John, was a native of New Jersey;
moved at an early age to New York; received an
academic education; member of the State legisla-
ture in 1833; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
De Motte, IVIark L., of Valparaiso, Ind., was
bornatRockville, Ind., December 28, 1832; gradu-
ated in the literary department of the Asbury Uni-
versity, at Greencastle, Ind. , in 1853, and in the law
department of the same university in 1855; began
the practice of law at Valparaiso during the latter
year; elected prosecuting attorney of his judicial
circuit in 1856; served in the Atmy of the Union
during the rebellion with the rank of captain; at
the close of the war moved to Lexington, Mo., and
entered the practice of the law; editor and pro-
prietor of the Lexington Register; nominee of the
Republicans of the Eleventh Missouri district for
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Congress in 1872 and 1876; returned to Valparaiso,
Ind., in 1877, and resumed the practice of his pro-
fession; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as
a Republican; State senator 1886-1890; in 1890
became dean of the Northern Indiana Law School.
Denison, Charles, was born in Wyoming
Valley, Pa., January 23, .1818; graduated from
Dickinson College in 1829; studied law, admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice at Wilkesbarre;
elected a Bepresentatiye from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, serv-
ing from December 7, 1863, to June 27, 1867, when
he died at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Denison, Dudley Chase, was born at Royal-
ton, Vt., September 13, 1819; graduated from the
CTniversity of Vermont in 1840; studied law, and
in 1844 admitted to the bar; member of the State
senate of Vermont 1853-54, and of the State house
of representatives 1861-1863; State attorney 1858-
1860; elected on the second trial a Representative
from Vermont to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Republican, and reelected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress.
Denning, William, was a native of the State
of New Yoi;k; elected a Representative from that
State to the Eleventh Congress, but resigned before
that Congress met.
Dennis, Georg'e B. , waa born at White Haven,
Somerset County, Md., April 8, 1822; graduated
from Polytechnic 'Institute of Troy, N. Y., and
then entered the University of Virginia; studied
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and
graduated from that institution in 1843; delegate
' from the S.tate at large to the national Whig con-
vention at Philadelphia in 1856, and also to the
Democratic national convention at New York in
1868; elected to the Maryland State senate in 1854
and to the house of delegates in 1867 and again to
the senate in 1871, and while filling this position
was elected to the United States Senate as a Demo-
crat to succeed George Vickers, serving from March
4, 1873, until March 3, 1879.
Dennis, John (father of John Dennis), waa
born in Somerset County, Md.; received a Ub-
eral education; studied law and admitted to the
bar; served two terms in the Maryland State house
of representatives; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Fifth Congress and reelected to
the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses; died
at Philadelphia August 17, 1807.
Dennis, John (son of John Dennis), was born
in Somerset County, Md.; received a liberal edu-
cation; served in the State house of representa-
tives; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Twenty-fifth Congress and reelected to the
Twenty-sixth Congress; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention; died at his rural home near
Princess Anne, Md., November 1, 1859.
Dennis, Littleton' Purnell, was a native of
Maryland; graduated from Yale College in 1803;
served several terms in the Maryland State legisla-
ture; Presidential elector in 1800, 1812, 1816, 1824,
and 1828;' elected a Representative from Maryland
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; died in
Washington, D. C, April 14, 1834, before the ex-
piration of his term.
Dennison, George, was born in Luzerne
County, Pa.; received an academic education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served sev-
eral years as a member of the State legislature-
recorder of Luzerne County; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Sixteenth Congress
aa a Democrat, and reelected to the Seventeenth
Congress; died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1831.
Denny, Arthur A. , was born in Indiana, May
7, 1822; moved with his parents to Illinois in
1834; received a public school education; surveyor
of Knox County 1843-1851; moved to PugetSound
in 1851 and became a member of the Washington
Territorial legislature 1853-1861; register of -the
land office at Olympia 1861-1865; elected a Dele-
gate from WashingtonTerritoryto the Thirty-ninth
Congress, serving from December 4, 1865, to March
3, 1867.
Denny, Harmar, waa born at Pittsburg, Pa.,
inl794; graduated from Dickinson College; studied
law and admitted to the bar; served one term in
the State legislature; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-first Congress
as an anti-Mason; reelected to the Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Whig; died at Pittsburg, Pa., January 29, 1852.
Denny, James W., of Baltimore, Md., was
born in the valley of Virginia; attended the male
academy of Rev. William Johnson, in Berryville;
three years at the University of Virginia; princi-
pal of Osage Seminary, Osceola, St. Clair County,
Mo. ; returned to his native State, where he enlisted
in Company A, Thirty-ninth Virginia Battalion
of Cavalry, in which he served until, in 1863, he
was detailed for service at Gen. R. E. Lee's head-
quarters, where he continued until the surrender .
at Appomattox Court-Houae; returned to his home
in Clarke County and began the study of law in
Judge Richard Parker's law school in Winchester;
after graduation and admission to the bar, in 1868,
moved to Baltimore and began the practice of law;
elected to the first branch of the city council in
1881 and reelected in 1882 and became the presi-
dent thereof; member of the house of delegates of
Maryland in 1888; elected to the Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat, but defeated
for the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Denny, Walter McKennon, of Scranton,
Miss., was born at Moss Point, Jackson County,
Miss., October 28, 1853; attended the common
schools and Roanoke (Va.) College, and in 1874
graduated from the law department of the Univer-
sity of Missiasippi; in November, 1883, elected
clerk of the circuit and chancery courts of Jackson
County, Miss.; also in 1887 and 1891; resigned
January 1, 1895; delegate from Jackson County to
the State constitutional convention in 1890; elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
DenoyeUes, Peter, was a native of New York;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative to the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat.
Denson, William H., of Gadsden, Ala., waa
born in Russell County, Ala., March 4, 1846; left
the University of Alabama in 1863 to join the Con-
federate army; worked on hia father's farm and
commenced reading law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice at Union Springs in 1868-
moved to Lafayette, Chambers County, Ala., in
October, 1870; elected a member of thelower house
of the general assembly of Alabama in 1876; mem-
ber of the judiciary committee; moved to Gads-
den, Etowah County, in 1877; Cleveland elector
in 1884, and appointed United States district attor-
ney for the northern and middle districts of
Alabama by President Cleveland; chairman of the
Democratic State convention in 1890; elected to
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the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; moved to
Birmingham, Ala., where he engaged in the prac-
tice of law.
Dent, George, was born in Maryland; received
a classical education; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses; elected
Speaker pro tempore April 20, 1798 (during the
illness of Speaker Dayton), and served two' days;
appointed United States marshal for the Potomac
district by President Jefferson in 1801.
Dent, ■William B. "W., was bom in Maryland;
received a common school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began {practicing at New-
nan, Ga.; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; died
at Newnan, Ga,., September 9, 1855.
Denver, James W., was born at Winchester,
Va., in 1818; received a public school education;
moved to Missouri in 1841 and taught school;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served as a
captain in the war with Mexico; moved to Cali-
fornia in 1850; appointed secretary of state; elected
a Representative from California to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as an anti-Broderick Democrat;
appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs April 17,
1857; resigned to become governor of Kansas June
17, 1858, and reappointed November 8, 1858, serv-
ing until March 13, 1859; died in 1892.
Depew, Chauncey KEitchell, of Peekskill,
N. y., was born in that city April 23, 1834; gradu-
ated from Yale College in 1856, and in 1887 re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. ; read law with Hon.
William Nelson, of Peekskill, and admitted to the
bar in 1858, beginning the practice of his profes-
sion the next year; elected to the assembly in
1861, and reelected in 1862, serving as chairman of
the committee on ways and means in the latter
term; led the Republican campaign iia New York
as candidate for secretary of state in 1863, being
elected by 30,000 majority; refused a renomina-
tion; appointed minister to Japan, and confirmed
by the Senate, but declined; appointed attorney
for the New York and Harlem Railroad Company
in 1866, and identified with that and the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad Company,
the successor of the former corporation, and with
the various railroads comprising and allied to the
Vanderbilt system, as general counsel; became
president of "the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad in 1885; resigned in 1899 to become
chairman of the board of directors of the New York
Central, the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central,
and the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Rail-
road companies; appointed county clerk of West-
chester County by Governor Fenton in 1867 and
resigned; made immigration commissioner by the
New York legislature in 1870, but declined;
boundary commissioner in 1875, fixing the State
line with adjoining States; candidate for lieuten-
ant-governor on the Liberal Republican or Greeley
ticket in 1872, but acted with the Republican
party the next year; canvassed the State and
county for the party every year after 1872, as he
had every year before 1872, beginning the yea* he
graduated from Yale College; elected regent of the
State University and appointed one of the com-
missioners to build the State capitol in 1874; can-
didate for United States Senator in 1881, to succeed
Thomas C. Piatt, who had resigned, and after a
protracted and exciting contest, in which he rer
ceived the votes of a large majority of the Repub--
lican legislators, withdrew, and Warner Miller
was chosen; the Senatorship was tendered him in
1885, but his business and professional engage-
ments at that time prevented acceptance; candi-
date for the Presidential nomination at the Repub-
lican national convention at Chicago in 1888, and
received 99 votes; delegate at large to the conven-
tions in 1892, 1896, and 1900, presenting the name
of President Harrison for renomination to the
foriner, and that of Governor Morton to the latter;
and Theodore Roosevelt for Vice-President at the
1900 convention; orator on the unveiling of the
Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the statue
having been purchased by the contributions of the
people of France, and brought over here by the
members of the cabinet, of the legislature, and of
the army and navy of the French Republic — the
centennial celebration of the inauguration of the
first President of the United States, George Wash-
ington— the opening of the great World's Fair at
Chicago, in 1892, celebrating the discovery of
America by Columbus; also selected by the legis-
lature to deliver the oration at the centennial cele-
bration of the formation of the constitution of the
State of New York at Kingston — at the centennial
of the organization of the legislature of the State
of New York — at the services in the legislature in
memory oi General Sherman, General Husted,
and Governor Fenton, and at the memorial serv-
ices of President G&rfleld in New York; selected
as the orator for the unveiling of the statue of
Alexander Hamilton in Central Park, and at the
centennial celebration of the capture of Major An-
dre at Sleepy Hollow; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican, to succeed Edward Mur-
phy, jr.. Democrat, and took his seat March 4,
1899.
De Saussure, William F. , was born at Charles-
ton, S. C, in 1792; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1810; studied law and admitted to the
bar; appointed United States Senator (to fill va-
cancy caused by the resignation of R. B. Rhett, re-
signed), serving from December 20, 1852, to March
3, 1853.
Desha, Joseph, (brother of Robert Desha), was
born in Pennsylvania, December 9, 1768; moved to
Kentucky in 1781; served in the Indian wars;
member of the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Tenth Congress;
reelected to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses; governor of
Kentucky 1824-1828; died at Georgetown, Ky.,
October 13, 1842.
Desha, Robert (brother of Joseph Desha) , was
a native of Pennsylvania; while quite young im-
migrated to Tennessee; served as captain and
brigade major in the war of 1812; elected a Rep-
resentative from Tennessee to the Twentieth Con-
gress and reelected to the Twentv-flrst Congress;
died February 8, 1849.
Destrehan, John Noel, was elected a United
States Senator from Louisiana, but resigned in
1812, never having taken his seat.
Deuster, Peter Victor, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
was born near Aix-la-Chapelle, in Rhenish Prus-
sia, Germany, February 13, 1831; received an ele-
mentary and academical education; .emigrated with
his parents to the United States in May, 1847, and
settled at Milwaukee, Wis.; entered a printing
office; published and edited the first literary paper
in Milwaukee, and in 1856 became editor of the
Milwaukee See-Bote, a daily Democratic paper;
elected to the lower house of the State legislature
in 1862, and member of the State senate in 1870
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and 1871; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-seventh and
Forty-eighth Congresses.
De Vries, Marion, of Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Cal., was born near Woodbridge, in said
county, August 15, 1865; educated in the public
schools of said county until 15 years of age, at
which time he entered San Joaquin Valley College
at Woodbridge; graduated in 1886, having con-
ferred upon him there the degree of Ph. B. ;
entered the University of Michigan law depart-
ment; graduated in 1888 with degree of LL. B. ;
admitted to the supreme court of Michigan in 1887
and of California in the same year; commenced
the practice of law at Stockton, January 1, 1889,
with John B. Hall; August 1, 1889, formed a co-
partnership with W. B. Nutter; assistant district
attorney for San Joaquin County from January,
1893, to February, 1897; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, indorsed by the Peoples
Party, and to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resigned
August 19, 1900, to accept a place on the Board of
General Appraisers at New York City.
Dewart, Lewis, was born in Pennsylvania;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
Dewart, William L. , was born in Pennsylva-
nia; received a common school education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; defeated as a Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress;
elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection.
Deweese, John T., was born in Crawford
County, Ark., June 4, 1835; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; entered the Union Army in
1861; resigned his position as lieutenant in the
Army and appointed register in bankruptcy for
North Carolina; elected a Representative from
that State to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Forty-first Congress,
serving from July 6, 1868, to February 28, 1870,
when he resigned.
Dewey, Daniel, was born at Sheffield, Mass.,
January 29, 1766; educated at Yale College; stud-
ied law, and admitted to the bar; treasurer of
Williams College 1798-1814; member of the gov-
ernor's council 1809-1812; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Thirteenth Congress,
serving from May 24, 1813, to 1814, when he re-
signed; appointed by Governor Strong a judge of
the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1814, and
served until his death, which occurred May 26,
1815.
De "Witt, Alexander, was born at New Brain-
tree, Mass., April 2, 1798; received an academic
education; became a manufacturer, and erected a
large spinning mill at Oxford; member of the State
house of representatives 1830-1836; State senator
1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851; member of the consti-
tutional convention in 1853; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as an American; reelected to the Thirty-
ifourth Congress; defeated for reelection as the
American candidate.
De Witt, Charles, was born at Kingston, N. Y.,
in 1728; received a classical education; elected a
delegate from New York to the Continental Con-
gress 1783-1785; died at Kingston, N. Y., Septem-
ber 12, 1787.
De Witt, Charles G. , was born in Newburgh,
N. Y., in 1802; electeda Representative from New
York to the Twenty-first Congress as a Democrat;
appointed charge de affaires to Central America
January 29, 1833; returned home in February,
1839, and died at his home in Newburgh April 13,
1839.
De Witt, David Miller, was born at Paterson,
N. J., November 25, 1837; received a liberal edu-
cation; graduated from Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, June, 1858; studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar; elected district attorney of
Ulster County in the fall of 1862 and 1865; elected
a Representative from New York to the Forty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
De Witt, Francis B., of Paulding,' Ohio, was
born in Jackson County, Ind., March 11, 1849;
moved with his parents in 1854 to a farm in Dela-
ware County, Ohio; enlisted in the Forty-sixth
Ohio Regiment at the a^e of 12 and served at the
battle of Shiloh and during the Corinth campaign;
mustered out for temporary disability, and reen-
listed, in 1862, in the One hundred and twentj^-flrst
Ohio Regiment, serving until the close of the re-
bellion; prisoner of war at Salisbury, Danville, and
Libby; attended the common school, the high
school at Galena, Ohio, the National Normal School
at Lebanon, Ohio, and the Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Delaware; taught school for five terms; ad-
mitted to the practice of law in 1875, and followed
his profession at Paulding until 1891 ; moved to his
farm; elected on the Republican ticket in 1891 to
represent Paulding County in the Ohio legislature;
reelected in 1893, from which position he resigned
on March 4, 1895; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican.
De Witt, Jacob H. , was bom in Ulster County,
N. Y., in 1784; elected a Representative from New
York to the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat;
member of the State house of representatives in
1839 and again in 1847; died at Kingston, N. Y.,
January 30, 1857.
De Wolf, James, was bom at Bristol, R. I., in
1763 ; elected aUnited States Senator from that State,
serving from December 3, 1821, to December, 1825,
when he resigned; died at New York City, Decem-
ber 21, 1837.
Dexter, Samuel, was bom in Massachusetts
May 14, 1761; graduated from Harvard College in
1781; studied law and admitted to the bar; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1788-1790;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Third Congress as a Federalist; elected to the
United States Senate, serving from December 2,
1799, until he resigned in June, 1800; appointed
Secretary of War by President Adams May 13,
1800; and Secretary of the Treasury December 31,
1800; dechned the mission to Spain offered him
by President Madison; while on his way home
with his family from Washington, D. C, died at
Athens, N. Y., May 3, 1816; published The Prog-
ress of Science (a poem), 1780, also Speeches and
Political Papers, and several other political pam-
phlets.
Dezendorf, Jolin F. , of Norfolk, Va., was born
at the town of Lansingburg, N. Y., August 10,
1834; received an academic education; learned the
carpenter's trade; studied architecture, surveying,
and civil engineering; engaged on railroad and
other buildings at Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio,
1850-1860; mercantile pursuits 1860-1862; moved
to Norfolk, Va., in 1863 and engaged in the ship-
ping business until 1866; city and county surveyor
of Norfolk city and county 1866-1869; assistant
assessor of the United States internal revenue
1869-1871 ; appraiser of merchandise at the Norfolk
BIOGRAPHIES.
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custom-house 1872-1877; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Cincinnati in 1876; de-
feated as the Republican candidate for Congress in
1878; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a
Republican; died June 22, 1894, at Norfolk, Va.
Dibble, Samuel, of Orangeburg, S. C, was
born at Charleston, S. C, September 16, 1837; re-
ceived his early education in his native city and
at Bethel, Conn., and his academic education at
the high school of Charleston; entered the College
of Charleston in 1853 and Wofford College, Spar-
tanburg, S. C, where he graduated in 1856; en-
gaged in teaching, and studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1859, and commenced practice at Orange-
burg, S. C. ; volunteered at the beginning of the
late civil war as a private in the Confederate army,
and served until its close in the First and Twenty-
first regiments of South Carolina Volunteers, at-
taining the rank of first lieutenant; resumed the
practice of law at Orangeburg, S. C.; elected a
member of the State house of representatives in
1877; elected a trustee of the University of South
Carolina in 1878; chairman of executive commit-
tee of South Carolina Agricultural College and
Mechanics' Institute for colored students (a branch
of the State University); elected to and took his
seat in the Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat
(filling the vacancv occasioned by the death of
Hon. M. P. O'Connor), but Mr. O'Connor's claim
to an election having been successfully contested,
Mr. Dibble as a consequence lost his seat in said
Congress; reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-flrst Congresses.
Dibrell, G-eorg'e G., of Sparta, Tenn., was bom
in White County April 22, 1822; received a good
common school education; farmer; member of the
legislature of Tennessee; member of the State
convention that framed a constitution of Tennes-
see; held several local oflSces; volunteered in the
Confederate army as a private, and promoted to
brigadier-general; elected to the Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat; died May 9, 1888.
Bick, Charles, of Akron, Ohio; lawyer; born
at Akron, Ohio, November 3, 1858; upon the death
of Stephen A. Northway in 1898, elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress; reelected
to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Dick, John, was a native of Meadville, Tenn. ;
received a common school education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Dick, Samuel, was a native of New Jersey;
received a liberal education; studied medicine;
Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Con-
gress in 1783 and 1784; died in New Jersey in
November, 1812.
Dick, Samuel B., 6f Meadville, Pa., was born
at Meadville, Pa., October 26, 1836; educated at
Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; banker; en-
listed and commanded the first company of troops
for the war from Crawford County in April, 1861,
which was subsequently known as Company F,
Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; se-
verely wounded at Dranesville, Va., December 20,
1861; subsequently served as colonel of the regi-
ment up to February, 1863, when he resigned on
account of ill health from wounds and exposure;
in July, 1873, commanded brigade of Pennsylvania
State Militia in West Virginia; Presidential elec-
tor in 1864; mayor of Meadville in 1870; elected to
the Forty-^ixth Congress as a Republican; presi-
dent of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Com-
pany until April, 1900.
Dickens, Samuel, was born in North Carohna;
received an academic education; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Fourteenth
Congress, in place of Richard Stanford, deceased,
servmg from December 2, 1816, to March 3, 1817.
Dicker son, Mahlon (brother of Philemon
Dickerson), was born at Hanover, N. J., April 17,
1770; graduated from Princeton College in 1789;
studied law and in 1793 was admitted to the bar;
be^an the practice of his profession at Philadel-
phia; quartermaster-general of Pennsylvania, 1805-
1808; recorder of the city court of Philadelphia,
1808-1810; returned to New Jersey; member of
the State house of representatives in 1814; gover-
nor of New Jersey, 1815-17; elected United States
Senator from New Jersey as a State Rights Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1817, to March 2,
1833; appointed by President Jackson Secretary of
the Navy June 30, 1834, and reappointed by Presi-
dent Van Buren; United States district judge of
the district of New Jersey; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1844; president of the
American Institute, 1846-1848; died at his home
in Succasunna, Morris County, N. J., October 5,
1853.
Dickerson, Philemon (brother of Mahlon
Dickerson), was born in Morris County, N. J., in
1792; received a classical education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began the practice of his
profession at Paterson, N. J.; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, from which he resigned
in 1836, having been elected governor of New
Jersey; elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress;
judge of the United States district court for the
district of New Jersey; died at Paterson, N. J.,
December 10, 1862.
Dickerson, W. W. , of Williamstown, Ky., was
born in Grant County, Ky., November 29, 1851;
educated in the public schools and 'in the private
school of Prof. N. M. Lloyd, at Crittenden, Ky, ;
read law and admitted to the bar in 1872; elected
county attorney in August, 1874, for a term of
four years; elected a member of the State house
of representatives in December, 1885; elected a
member of the State senate in August, 1887, for
four years; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first
Congress June 21, 1890, to fill a vacancy caused by
the resignation of John G. Carlisle, and reelected
to the Fifty-second Congress.
Dickey, Henry L., of Greenfield, Ohio, was
born at South Salem, Ross County, Ohio, October
29, 1832; received his early education at the
Greenfield Academy; pursued the occupation of a
civil engineer, and in that capacity had charge of
the construction of the Marietta and Cincinnati
Railroad in Vinton County, Ohio, resigning his
position as engineer in 1855; studied law and was
admitted to the bar, and attended the Cincinnati
Law School, graduating in 1859; elected in 1860
to the general assembly of Ohio, and in 1867 to the
State senate; elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-
sixth Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the
practice of law.
Dickey, Jesse C. , was born in Chester County,
Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-first Congress as a Whig.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Dickey, John, waa born at Beaver, Pa.; re-
ceived a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Whig; elected to the Thirtieth Congress;
appointed Unjted States marshal for the western
district 6f Pennsylvania; died at Beaver, Pa.,
March 14, 1853.
Dickey, Oliver J. , was born in Old Brighton,
Pa., April 6, 1823; received a liberal education;
studied law and was admitted to the bar; district
attorney for Lancaster County, 1856-1859; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortieth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Thaddeus Stevens, and elected to the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
second Congress; died at Lancaster, Pa., April 21,
1876.
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens, was born at
Goshen, Conn., September 11, 1800; moved with
his parents to Chenango County, N. Y., In 1806;
received a public school education; studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1826; began prac-
tice at Binghamton, N. Y., in 1831; State senator,
1837-1840; lieutenant-governor, president of the
senate, and president of the court of errors, 1842-
1844; delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tion and a Presidential elector on the Polk ticket
in 1844; appointed United States Senator (to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of N. P.
Tallmadge) as a Democrat, and afterwards elected,
serving from December 9, 1844, to March 3, 1851;
delegate to the national Democratic convention of
1852; elected attorney-general of the State of New
York in 1861; delegate to the national Republican
convention of 1864; United States district attornej'
for the southern district of New York; died at
New York City, April 12, 1866.
Dickinson, David W. , was born at Franklin,
Tenn., in 1807; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Tenneseee to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; prevented
on account of his failing health from attending tjie
last session, and died, near Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
April 27, 1845.
Dickinson, Bdward, was born at Amherst,
Mass., January 1, 1803; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1823; studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in 1826; began the practice of his profession
at Amherst; treasurer of Amherst College several
years; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1839, and of the State senate 1842-43, and
of the governor's council 1846-47; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig; again a member of the State
house of representatives in 1873; died June 16,
1874.
Dickinson, Edward F. , was born at Fremont,
Ohio, January 21, 1829; received a liberal educa-
tion; graduated from the St. Xavier College, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; studied law; admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Fremont, Ohio; served in the
Union Army for over three years as lieutenant-
quartermaster of the Eighth Ohio Infantry; elected
judge of the Sandusky County probate court in
1866; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Dickinson, John, was born in Maryland No-
vember 13, 1732; received a liberal education;
studied law in Philadelphia and at the Temple in
London; admitted to the bar and began practicing
at Philadelphia; member of the Pennsylvania
assembly in 1764; Delegate from Delaware to the
Colonial Congress in 1765, and to the Continental
Congress in 1774-1776 and 1779-80; brigadier-gen-
eral of Pennsylvania militia; president of the State
of Delaware 1781; returned to Philadelphia and in
1782-1785 president of Pennsylvania; died at Wil-
mington, Del., February 14, 1808.
Dickinson, John D. , was born in Middlesex
County, Conn., in 1767; graduated from Yale, Col-
lege in 1785; studied law, and after being admitted
to the bar began practicing at Troy, N. Y. ; member
of theState house of representatives in 1817; elected
a Representative from New York to the Sixteenth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Seven-
teenth Congress; elected to the Twentieth Congress
as a Whig, and reelected to the Twenty-flrst Con-
gress; died at Troy, N. Y., January 28, 1841.
Dickinson, Philemon, was born near Dover,
Del., April 5, 1739; received a liberal education;
studied medicine and began practicing near Tren-
ton; served in the Army of the Revolution, com-
manding the New Jersey Militia; elected a Dele-
gate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress;
elected a United States Senator from New Jersey
(in place of William Patterson, resigned), serving
from December 6, 1790, to March 2, 1793; died at
Trenton, N. J., February 4, 1809.
Dickinson, Rudolphus, waa born in Massa-
chusetts in 1798; received a public school educa-
tion; moved to Lower Sandusky, Ohio; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-first
Congress, serving from March 4, 1847, to March
12, 1849; died March 12, 1849.
Dickson, John, was a native of Vermont; grad-
uated from Middlebury College in 1808; studied
law and was admitted to the bar; began practicing
at West Bloomfield, N. Y. ; member of the State
house of representatives in 1829-30; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-second
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-third
Congress.
Dickson, Joseph (Dixon), was a native of
North Carolina; served in the war of the Revolu-
tion; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Sixth Congress.
Dickson, Samuel, was born in New York La
1807; given a liberal education; studied medicine
and practiced at New Scotland, N. Y.; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Whig; died at New Scotland,
N. Y., May 3, 1858.
Dickson, William, was born in Tennessee; re-
ceived a public school education; devoted himself
to agricultural pursuits; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Congresses.
Dietrich, Charles Henry, of Hastings, Nebr.,
was born of German parentage at Aurora, 111.,
November 26, 1853; moved to Deadwood, S.
Dak., in the winter of 1875-76; located at Hast-
ings, Nebr., in 1878; engaged in mercantile busi-
ness; organized the German National Bank in
1887; president of the same; elected governor of
Nebraska in 1900, and elected United States
Senator as a Republican March 28, 1901, to fill
out the unexpired term of the late Senator Hay-
ward, succeeding W. V. Allen, appointed by Gov-
ernor Poynter; resigned the governorship May 1,
1901, and took his seat in the United States Senate
December 2, 1901.
Dillingham, Paul, jr., was bom at Shutes-
bury, Mass., August 6, 1800; moved with his
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father to Waterbury, Vt. in 1805; received an
academic education; studied law and in 1824
admitted to the bar; began practicing at Water-
oury; justice of the peace 1826-1844; town clerk
of Waterbury 1829-1844; prosecutuig attorney
for Washington County 1835-1838; delegate to
the State constitutional convention 1836-37; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1836-
1840, and of the State senate 1841 and 1842;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
Dillingham, William Paul, of MontpeUer,
Vt., was born at Waterbury, Vt., December 12,
1843; received an academic education; admitted
to the bar in 1867; State attorney for Washington
County two terms; commissioner of State taxes
for several years; member of the Vermont house
of representatives in 1876 and again in 1884; State
senator from Washington County in 1878 and
again in 1880; governor of Vermont from 1888 to
1890; October 18, 1900, elected United States
Senator from Vermont as a Republican to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justin S. Morrill,
and on October 15, 1902, elected to succeed himself.
Dimmick, Milo M., was a native of Monroe
County, Pa. ; by his own efforts secured a classical
education; studied law; admitted to the bar; be-
gan practicing at Stroudsburg, Pa. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat and reelected to the Thirty-
second Congress; resumed the practice of law;
elected president-judge of the twenty-second ju-
dicial circuit of Pennsylvania in 1853; died at
Mauchchunk, Pa., November 21, 1872.
Dimmick, William H. , was born at Milford,
Pa., December 20, 1815; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and was admitted to the bar, and
began practicing at Honesdale, Pa.; prosecuting
attorney for Wayne County 1836-37; member of
the State senate 1845, 1846, and 1847; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the T,];iirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat and reelected to 'the
Thirty-sixth Congress; died at Honesdale, Pa.,
August 2, 1861.
Dimock, Davis, jr. , was a native of Susque-
hanna County, Pa. ; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-seventh Congress,
serving from May 31, 1841, until his death, Jan-
uary 13, 1842, at Montrose, Pa.
Dingley, Nelson, jr., df Lewiston, Me., was
born at Durham, Androscoggin County, Me., Feb-
ruary 15, 1832; graduated from Dartmouth College
in the class of 1855; studied law and admitted to
the bar, but left the profession to become propri-
etor and editor of the Lewiston (Me. ) Journal in
1856; member of tjhe State house of representa-
tives in 1862-1865, 1868, and 1873; speaker of
the State house of representatives in 1863 and
1864; governor of Maine in 1874 and 1875; re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Bates College in
1874; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion in 1876; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress
as a Republican, at a special election September
12, 1881, to fill the vacancy caused by the election
of Hon. WilUam P. Frye to the United States
Senate; reelected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fiftv-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses; chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means during the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-
gresses; died at Washington, D. C, January 13,
1899.
Dinsmoor, Samuel, was bom at Windham,
N. H., July 1, 1766; received a classical education
and graduated from Harvard College 1789; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practicing
at Keene, N. H.; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Twelfth Congress as a War
Democrat; defeated for reelection to the Thirteenth
Congress; State councilor in 1821; Presidential
elector on the Monroe ticket in 1821; defeated as
a candidate for governor; judge of probate of Che-
shire County 1823-1831; member of the boundary
commission which established the boundary line
between New Hampshire and Massachusetts in
1825; governor of New Hampshire 1831-1833; died
at Keene, N. H., March 15, 1835.
Dinsmore, Hugh Anderson, of Fayetteville,
Ark., was born in Benton County, Ark., Decem-
ber 24, 1850; educated in private schools in Benton
and Washington counties; studied law at Benton-
ville; appointed clerk of the circuit court for Ben-
ton County in April, 1873; admitted to the bar;
moved to Fayetteville in April, 1875, and engaged
in the practice of law; in September, 1878, elected
prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial district
of Arkansas; reelected in 1880 and again in 1882;
Presidential elector in 1884 on the Democratic
ticket; in January, 1887, appointed by President
Cleveland to be minister resident and consul-
general of the United States to the Kingdom of
Korea, serving until May 25, 1890; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Disney, David Tiernan, was born at Balti-
more, Md., in 1803; received a common school
education; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1807;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Cincinnati; member of the State house of
representatives for several years, and served as
speaker three years; took an active part in the
Mexican war; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third
Congresses; tendered a mission to Spain by Presi-
dent Buchanan, but declined; died at Washington,
D. C, March 14, 1857.
Diven, Alexander S. , was born at Catharine,
N. Y., February 15, 1809; received a common
school education; studied law and admitted to the
bar; began practicing at Elmira; member of the
State senate in 1858; ' elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Republican; died in 1895.
Dix, John Adams, was born at Boscawen,
N. H., July 24, 1798; received a liberal education;
served through the war of 1812; studied law, and
after having made a European tour was admitted to
the bar; began practice at Cooperstown, N. Y. ; adju-
tant-general of New York in 1831; secretary of the
Democratic national convention at Baltimore in
1828; secretary of state of New York in 1833; re-
gent of the university, member of the council, and
canal commissioner; member of the State house of
representatives from Albany in 1842; elected, a
United States Senator from New York (to fill the .
vacancy occasioned by the death of Silas Wright) as
a Democrat, serving from January 27, 1845, to March
3, 1849; appointed postmaster of the city of New
York in 1860; Secretary of the Treasury January
11, 1861, to March 3, 1861; served in the Union
Army as major-general 1861-1865; naval oflicer of
the port of New York; minister to France from
September 24, 1866, to May 23, 1869; governor of
New York 1873-1875; defeated as the Republican
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candida-te for governor in 1874 and as the Repub-
lican candidate for mayor of New York City in
1876; president of Erie Eailroad and also of the
Union Pacific Railroad; died in New York City
April 21, 1879.
Dixon, Archibald, was born in Caswell
County, N. C, April 2, 1802; moved with his
father to Henderson County, Ky., in 1805; re-
ceived a common school education; studied law;
admitted to the bar, and began practicing at Hen-
derson, Ky. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1830 and 1841 and of the State senate
in 1836; lieutenant-governor in 1843; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1849; elected
a United States Senator from Kentucky (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Henry Clay) as a
Whig, and served from December 20, 1852, until
March 3, 1855; delegate to the Frankfort peace
commission in 1863; died at Henderson, Ky.,
April 23, 1876.
Dixon, Jam.es, was born at Enfield, Conn.,
August 5, 1814; graduated from Williams College
in 1834; studied law; admitted to the bar; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1837-1838
and 1844; elected a Representative from Connecti-
cut to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Thirtieth Congress; again elected
to the State house of representatives in 1854; de-
feated as a candidate for the United States Senate;
elected a United States Senator as a Republican (to
succeed Francis Gillette, Free Soiler) and reelected,
serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1869; de-
feated as a Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate in 1868; defeated as a Democratic
candidate for Representative in the Forty-first
Congress; died at Hartford, Conn., March 27,
1873.
Dixon, Joseph., of North Carolina, was elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the
Forty-first Congress to succeed David Heaton (de-
ceased) and took his seat December 5, 1870, serv-
ing until March 3, 1871.
Dixon, Nathan F. ( father of Nathan F. Dixon ) ,
was born at Plainfleld, Conn., 1774; graduated
from Brown University in 1799; studied law, and
in 1802 was admitted to the bar; began practicing
at Westerly, R. I. ; member of the general assem-
bly 1813-1830; elected a United States Senator
from Rhode Island as a Whig, serving from De-
cember 2, 1889, until January 29, 1842, when he
died at Washington, D. C.
Dixon, Nathan F. , was born at Westerly, R. I. ,
May 1, 1812; received a classical education and
graduated from Brown University; studied law at
the Cambridge and New Haven law schools; mem-
ber of the general assembly of Rhode Island
1840-1849, 1851, 1852, 1855-1863; appointed mem-
ber of the governor's council in 1842; Presidential
elector in 1844; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Whig; elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican and reelected to the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses; declined to
be a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice
of law; again elected to the general assembly from
1872 to 1877; died at AVesterlv, R. I., April 11
1881. ■ ' f '
Dixon, Nathan Fellows, was born at West-
erly, R. I., August 28, 1847; fitted for college at
Westerly and at PhiUips Academy, Andover;
graduated from Brown University in 1869; studied
law with his father, Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, and
at the Albany Law School; admitted to practice
in New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in
1871; appointed United States district attorney for
the district of Rhode Island by President Grant
in 1877 and reappointed in 1881; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress (to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the transfer of Hon. Jonathan Chace to
the United States Senate) as a Republican; elected
April 10, 1889, to the United States Senate to
succeed Jonathan Chace, resigned, serving until
March 4, 1895; died Novemoer 8, 1897.
Dixon, William Wirt, of Butte, Mont., was
born at Brooklyn, N. Y., June 3, 1838; moved
to Illinois in 1843 and went to Keokuk, Iowa, in
1849; read law at Keokuk, and was admitted to
the bar in 1858; lived in Tennessee and Arkansas
in 1860; went to California in 1862, and settled in
Humboldt County, Nev.; moved to Montana in
1866, and resided in Helena and Deerlodge until
1879; spent two years in the Black Hills; returned
to Montana in 1881 and settled at Butte; engaged
in the practice of law; member of the legislative
assembly of Montana Territory 1871-72; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection in 1893; candidate for the
United States Senate, but the legislature failed to
elect.
Doan, Robert £., of Wilmington, Ohio, was
born of farmer parents and brought up on a farm
in Clinton County, Ohio; received a common school
and academic education ; taught school three years
in southern Ohio, and studied law; graduated from
the Cincinnati Law School April 15, 1857, with the
degree of bachelor of laws; admitted to the bar;
continued in practice at Wilmington; editor of the
Wilmington Watchman in 1859 and 1860; appoint-
ed prosecuting attorney for Clinton County in 1 862;
held an important secret position under Abraham
Lincoln connected with the Post-Office Depart-
ment during the war; elected a Garfield Presiden-
tial elector for the Third Congressional district in
1880; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Republican.
Doan, William, was a native of Maine; re-
ceived a common school education; moved to Ohio,
where he held several local offices; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Dobbin, James Cochrane, was born at Fayette-
ville, N. C, in 1814; graduated from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina in 1832; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1825; began practicing at
Fayetteville; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat; declined to be a candidate for reelection;
member of the house of commons in 1848, 1850,
and 1852, and in 1850 was speaker; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Baltimore in
1852; Secretary of the Navy under President Pierce
from March 7, 1853, to March 6, 1857; died at
Fayetteville, N. C, August 4, 1857.
Dobbins, Samuel A. , was born in Burlington
County, N. J., April 14, 1814; received a liberal
education; farmer; high sheriff of Burlington
county from 1854 to 1857; member of the State
legislature from 1859 to 1862; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican and reelected to the
Forty-fourth Congress.
Dockery, Alexander Monroe, of Gallatin,
Mo., was born in Livingston County, Mo., Febru-
ary 11, 1845; attended the common schools, com-
pleting his education at Macon Academy, Macon,
Mo. ; studied medicine, and graduated from the
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505
St. Louis Medical College in March, 1865; also at-
tended lectures at Bellevue College, New York
City, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
during the winter of 1865-66; practiced medicine
at Chillicothe, Mo., serving as county physician
of Livingston County; abandoned medicine in
March, 1874, and moved to Gallatin, Mo., and
assisted in organizing the Farmers' Exchange
Bank, of which he was cashier; one of the cura^
tors of the University of Missouri from 1872 to
1882; 1870-1872 president of the board of edu-
cation of Chillicothe, Mo. ; chairman of the Con-
gressional committee of his district; member of
the city council of Gallatin for the five years pre-
vious to April, 1883, serving the last two years as
mayor; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
and Fifty-flfth Congresses; elected, governor of
Missouri in November, 1900, for the term 1901-
1905.
Dockery, Alfred, was bom in Eichmond
County, N. C, December 11, 1797; planter; mem-
ber of the North Carolina house of commons in
1822 and of the State senate 1836-1844; elected a
Representative fronj North Carolina to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Whig; declined to be a candi-
date for reelection; elected to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig; defeated as the Whig candi-
date for governor in 1854; opposed to secession,
and after the civil war became a Republican; died
at his residence in Richmond County, N. C,
December 7, 1875.
Dockery, Oliver H., was born in Richmond
County, N. C, August 12, 1830; received a liberal
education, and in 1848 graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina; farmer; member of the
State legislature 1858-59; served a short time in the
Confederate service, but withdrew and took a bold
stand for the reestablishment of the Federal Gov-
ernment; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses
as a Republican.
Dodd, Edward, was born at Salem, Washing-
ton County, N. Y., 1805; received a public school
education; became engaged in mercantile pursuits;
clerk of Washington County 1835-1844; delegate
to the State constitutional convention in 1846;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig and reelected to
the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Doddridge, Philip, was bornatWellsbury, W.
Va., 1768; reared on a farm; studied law and was
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-first Congress, and reelected
to the Twenty-second Congress without opposi-
tion, serving until his death, which occurred at
Washington, D. C, November 19, 1832.
Dodge, Augustus 0. (son of Henry Dodge),
was born at Ste. Genevieve, Mo., January 2, 1812;
received a liberal education; moved to Burlmgton,
Iowa, where he became register of the land office,
1838-1840; elected a Delegate from Iowa to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, and
Twenty-ninth Congresses; on the admission of
Iowa as a State was elected a United States Sena-
tor and served from December 26, 1848, to his res-
ignation, February 8, 1855; minister to Spam from
February 9, 1855, to March 12, 1859; delegate to
the national Democratic convention at Chicago in
1864; elected mavorof Burlington on an independ-
ent ticket, February 2, 1874.
Dodge, Grenville M., was born at Danvers,
Mass., April 12, 1831; received a liberal education
and graduated at the military university, Norwich,
Vt.; studied civil engineering; chief engineer of
the Union Pacific Railroad; entered the Union
Army as a captain and left the service as a major-
general; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican; located in New
York City, but still retained residence in Iowa;
president of Society of Army of Tennessee; presi-
dent of New York commandery of Loyal Legion;
president of commission to inquire into the man-
agement of the war with Spain; extensively inter-
ested in Western railroad building and manage-
ment; vice-president of the Grant Monument
Association.
Dodge, Henry (father of Augustus C. Dodge),
was born at Vincennes, Ind., October 12, 1782;
received a limited education; emigrated to Mis-
souri; served in the Black Hawk and other Indian
wars; left the Army as colonel of the First United
States Dragoons, July, 1836; governor of Wiscon-
sin from July 4, 1836, to 1841; elected a Delegate
from Wisconsin to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-eighth
Congress; again appointed governor of Wisconsin,
February 6, 1846; elected United , States Senator
from Wisconsin as a Democrat, and reelected,
serving from June 23, 1848, to March 3, 1857.
Dodge, William E., was born at Hartford,
Conn., September 4, 1805; received a liberal edu-
cation; moved to New York in 1818; became a
clerk in a store, and in 1826 commenced business
on his own account; established the house of
Phelps, Dodge & Co. , of which he was the head
for forty years; delegate to the peace convention in
1861; claimed to have been elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress
(James Brooks having received the certificate of
election and taken his seat), and on April 6, 1866,
the House decided that Mr. Dodge was entitled to
the seat, serving from April 6, 1866, to March 3,
1867; died February 9, 1883, at New York City.
Doe, Nicholas B. , a native of New York, was
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-sixth Congress (in place of Anson Brown,
deceased) as a Whig.
Doig, Andrew W., was born in Washington
County, N. Y.; received an academic education;
county surveyor and clerk of Washington County;
member of the State house of representatives in
1832; surrogate of Washington County, 1835-1840;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
DoUiver, Jonathan Prentiss, of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, was born near Kingwood, Preston County,
Va. (now West Virginia) , February 6, 1858; gradu-
ated in 1875 from the West Virginia University;
admitted "to the bar in 1878; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Republican, from the Tenth
Congressional district of Iowa; member of the
House also in the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-flfth, and Fifty-sixtli Congresses;
August 23, 1900, appointed Senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. H. Gear,
deceased, and took his seat in the United States
Senate December 3, 1900; elected January 21, 1902,
to succeed himself.
Dolph, Joseph N., was bom at Dolphsburg, in
Tompkins (now Schuyler) County, N. Y., October
19, 1835; received a common school education,
private instruction, and attended the Genesee
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CONGBBSSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y.; taught school
a portion of each year while acquiring an education
and his profession; studied law; admitted to the
bar at Binghamton, November, 1861; practiced his
profession in Schuyler County, ^f. Y., during the
winter of 1861-62; enlisted in Capt. M. Crawford s
company in 1862, known as the Oregon Escort,
raised under an act of Congress for the purpose of
protecting the emigration of that year to the Pacific
coast against hostile Indians crossing the Plains,
filling the position of orderly sergeant; settled at
Portland, Oreg., in October, 1862; elected city
attorney in 1864; member of the State senate in
1866, 1868, 1872, and 1874; actively engaged in
various business enterprises; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican to succeed L. F.
Grover, Democrat, and took his seat March 3, 1883;
reelected and served until March 3; died March
10, 1897.
Donley, Joseph. B. , was born at Mount Morris,
Pa., October 10, 1838; received a liberal education;
graduated from Waynesburg College in 1859; en-
tered the tTnion Army as a captain of the Eighty-
third Illinois Infantry in 1862; graduated from the
Law University of Albany, N. Y., in May, 1866;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Donnan, "William G. , was born at West Charl-
ton, N. Y., June 30, 1834; received a limited edu-
cation; graduated from Union College, New York,
in 1856; in the same j;ear moved to Independence,
Iowa, where he studied law, and a year later ad-
mitted to the bar; in September, 1857, elected
treasurer and recorder of Buchanan County, and
held the office by election until 1862; entered the
Union Army as a private, promoted to the grade
of first lieutenant, and brevetted captain and major
for eflicient service in the field; member of the
State senate of Iowa 1868 and 1870; elected a Rep-
resentative from Iowa to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican, and reelected to the Forty-
third Congress; declined to be a candidate for
reelection.
Sonnell, Richard S. , was bom at Newbern,
N. C. ; elected a Representative from that State to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig.
Donnelly, Ignatius, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., November 3, 1831; graduated from the high
school of that place; studied law, and practiced;
moved to Minnesota in 1857; author and politi-
cian; elected lieutenant-governor of Minnesota
in 1859 and reelected in 1861; elected a Represent-
ative from Minnesota to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Republican;
died at Minneapolis January 18, 1901.
Donovan, D. D., of Deshler, Ohio, was born
near Texas, Henry County, Ohio, January 31,
1859 ; attended common school and the Northern
Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind. ; taught
school; engaged in mercantile and timber business;
appointed postmaster at Deshler by President
Cleveland; elected to the legislature in 1887; re-
elected in 1889; elected a Representative to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-third Congress.
Doolittle, James R. , was born at Hampton,
N. Y., January 3, 1815; received a liberal educa-
tion, and graduated from Geneva College, New
York; studied law, and admitted to the bar;
district attorney for Wyoming County, N. Y. ;
moved to Wisconsin in 1851; elected judge of the
first judicial circuit of Wisconsin in 1853, and held
the office until 1856, when he resigned; elected a
United States Senator from Wisconsin as a Demo-
crat (to succeed Henry Dodge, Democrat) and re-
elected, serving from December 7, 1857, to March
3, 1869.
Doolittle, "William Hall, of Tacoma, Wash.,
was born in Erie County, Pa. ; moved to Portage
County, Wis., with his parents in 1859; worked in
the pineries of that State; attended district school
occasionally; early in 1865 enlisted as a private
soldier in the Ninth Wisconsin Battery; discharged
the following summer under general order, and
returned to his home in Wisconsin; returned to
Pennsylvania in 1867, and availed himself of an
academic education; read law in Chautauqua
County, N. Y.; moved to Nebraska in 1872, and
practiced law in Johnson County; served one
term in the Nebraska legislature; assistant United
States district attorney; moved to Washington
Territory in 1880, locating at Colfax, Whitman
County, and practiced his profession; moved to
Tacoma; one of the Eepublican members of the
Territorial code commission; elected to the Fifty-
third and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Dorr, Charles Philips, of Addison, W. Va.,
was born August 12, 1852, in Monroe County, Ohio;
educated in the common schools, and after ad-
mission to the courts of Ohio began the practice
of law in West "Virginia in 1874; elected a member
of the West Virginia house of delegates in 1884
and in 1888; sergeant-at-arms of that body in 1887;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Eepubhcan.
Dorsey, Clement, was born in Anne Arundel
County, Md. ; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; died August 6, 1846.
Dorsey, George "W. E., of Fremont, Nebr., was
born in Loudoun County, Va., January 25, 1842;
moved with his parents to Preston County (now
West Virginia) in 1856; educated in private schools
and at Oak Hill Academy; recruited a company
and entered the Union Army in August, 1861, as
first lieutenant. Sixth West Virginia Infantry; pro-
moted to captain and major, and was mustered
out with the Army of the Shenandoah in August,
1865; moved to Nebraska in 1866; studied law, and
admitted to practice in 1869; engaged in banking;
member of the board of trustees of the insane
hospital; vice-president of the State board of agri-
culture, and chairman of the Republican State
central committee; elected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican.
Dorsey, Stephen "W. , was born at Benson, Vt.,
February 28, 1842; received a liberal education;
moved to Ohio and located at Oberlin while yet a
boy; served in the Union Army under General
Grant at Shiloh, General Buell at Perryville, Gen-
eral Rosecrans at Stone River and Chattanooga,
and General Thomas at Mission Ridge; was trans-
ferred to the Army of the Potomac in 1864, and
took part in the battles of the Wilderness and Cold
Harbor, serving until the close of the war; returned
to Ohio and was employed by the Sandusky Tool
Company, becoming its president; soon elected
president of the Arkansas Railway Company;
moved to Arkansas and was chosen chairman of
the Eepublican State committee; declined to be a
candidate for Congress; elected a United States
Senator from Arkansas as a Republican, serving
from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; chairman of
the Republican executive committee in 1876 and
secretary of the committee in 1880; devoted him-
self to mining interests in New Mexico and Colo-
rado; moved to California.
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Dorsheimer, WilUam, was bom at Lyons,
Wayne County, N. Y., February 5, 1832; educated
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and at
Harvard College; studied law; admitted to the
bar and practiced in New York; appointed major
in the U. S. Army in August, 1861; appointed
United States attorney for the northern district of
New York in April, 1867; lieutenant-governor of
New York in 1874 and reelected in' 1876, his term
expmng January 1, 1880; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; died March 26, 1888.
Doty, James Buane, was born in New York
in 1799; received a common school education;
moved to Menasha, Wis. ; elected a Delegate from
Wisconsin to the Twenty-flfth and Twenty-sixth
Congresses; governor of Wisconsin 1841-1844;
elected a Eepresentative from Wisconsin to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat and to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Free-soil Democrat;
appointed treasurer of Utah and governor of that
Territory in 1864 by President Lincoln; died at
Salt Lake City June 13, 1865.
Boubleday, XTlysses F., was born in Otsego
County, N. Y., in 1794; received a limited educa-
tion; learned the art of printing; engaged in news-
paper work at Ballston and established a news-
paper at Auburn; elected a Eepresentative from
New York to the Twenty-second Congress as a
Jackson Democrat; elected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress; moved to New York and became
engaged in the book trade; died at Belvidere, HI.,
March 11, 1866.
Dougherty, Charles, of Port Orange, Pla.,
was born at Athens, Ga., October 15, 1850; edu-
cated in the public schools at Athens and at the
University of Virginia, leaving when 17 years of
age; sailor; engaged in planting; elected to the
legislature of Florida in 1876, 1878, 1880, and 1882,
serving as speaker in 1878; elected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Dougherty, John, of Liberty, was born in
Platte County, Mo., February 25, 1857; a few
months subsequently his parents moved to Liberty,
Mo. ; educated in the public schools and at William
Jewell College; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1880; city attorney of Liberty, Mo. ; editor and
proprietor of the Liberty Tribune from 1885 to 1888 ;
elected prosecuting attorney of Clay County, Mo.,
in 1888 and twice reelected; elected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Douglas, Beverly B., was born in New Kent
County, Va., December 21, 1822; received a col-
lege education; studied law and graduated from
the law school of Judge Beverly Tucker, and from
William and Mary College 1843; admitted to the
bar in 1844; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1850-51; twelve years in the State
senate; Presidential elector on the Breckinridge
and Lane ticket in 1860; served in the Confederate
army and attained the rank of major of the Fifth
Virginia Cavalry; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Con-
servative, and reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress;
died December 22, 1878.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, was born at Bran-
don, Vt., April 23, 1813; received a Hberal educa-
tion; learned the cabinetmaker's trade; moved to
New York and located at Canandaigua, where he
studied law; moved to Ohio, where he resumed
the study of law, but on account of failing health
moved to Illinois; taught school; admitted to the
bar in 1834; elected in 1835 by the legislature State
attorney for the Morgan circuit; member of the
State house of representatives of Illinois in 1836-
37; appointed register of the land office at Spring-
field in 1837; defeated in 1838 as the Democratic
candidate for Congress ; appointed secretary of state
of Illinois during the session of the legislature 1840-
41 and at the same session was elected one of the
judges of the State supreme court; elected a Eep-
resentative from Illinois to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirtieth Congress, but before taking his
seat was elected to the United States Senate and
took his seat March 4, 1847; reelected in 1853 as a
Popular Sovereignty Democrat, and again in 1859,
defeating Abraham Lincoln; in 1860 he received
twelve electoral votes for President; > died at Chi-
cago June 3, 1861.
Douglas, William Harris, of New York City,
was born on the southwest corner of Thirtieth
street and Fifth avenue, December 5, 1853; his
family was one of the oldest in the country; edu-
cated mostly at private schools and went through
the freshman class in the College of the City of
New York; entered into business connected with
the exporting and importing trade; senior mem-
ber of the firm of Arkell & Douglas, New York,
this firm having branches at London, Sydney and
Melbourne, Australia, and Cape Town and Port
Elizabeth, South Africa; traveled extensively in
Europe and other foreign countries, making two
complete trips around the world and visiting Egypt,
Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Samoan Islands,
and Hawaiian Islands; active worker in politics
for many years; member of the Chamber of Com-
merce, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, New York Produce Exchange, Maritime
Exchange, Merchants' Exchange, and various
other institutions; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Dovener, Blackburn Barrett, of Wheeling,
W. Va., was born in Cabell County, Va. (now
West Virginia), April 20, 1842; raised a company
of loyal Virginians and served in the United States
volunteer infantry during the war; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1873, and practiced law in
Wheeling; elected a Representative of Ohio County
to the legislature of 1883; Republican candidate
for Congress in 1892, but defeated; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, and reelected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Dowd, Clement, of Charlotte, N. C. , was born
in Moore County, N. C, August 27, 1832; gradu-
ated from the University of North Carolina in 1856;
taught school; studied law; moved to, Charlotte
and engaged in practicing law; elected mayor of
Charlotte in January, 1869, and reelected; president
of the Merchants and Farmers' National Bank;
president of the Commercial National Bank of
Charlotte, N. C. ; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-
eighth Congress.
Dowdell, James F. , was born in Jasper County,
Ga., November 26, 1818; received a liberal educa-
tion, and in 1840 graduated from Randolph Macon
College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in 1841; began the practice of his profession at
Greenville, Ga. ; moved to Chambers County, Ala. ,
in 1846 and engaged in farming;, defeated for elec-
tion to the State legislature in 1849 and 1851;
elector on the Pierce and King ticket in 1852;
elected a Representative from Alabama to the
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Thirty-third Congress as a State Eights Democrat,
and reelected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth
Congresses.
Dowdney, Abraham, of New York City, was
born in Ireland in October, 1840; educated in pri-
vate schools; builder and contractor; served in the
war for the suppression of the rebellion as captain
of the One hundred and thirty-second New York
State Volunteers 1862-63; chairman of the public
school trustees 1882-1885; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; died December 10,
1886.
Downey, S. W. , of Laramie City, Wyo., was
born at Western Port, Md., July 25, 1839; received
an academic education ; studied law ; admitted to
the bar in 1863; served in the war for the Union;
moved to the Territory of Wyoming in 1869, and
practiced law; elected a member of the council of
Wyoming Territory in 1871, and reelected in 1875
and in 1877; treasurer of the Territory for three
years, and auditor of the Territory; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Downing, Charles, a native of Virginia, was
elected a Delegate from the Florida Territory to
the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses.
Downing', Finis Ewing, of Virginia, 111., was
born at Virginia, Cass County, 111., August 24,
1846; raised on a farm; received his education in
the public and private schools of his native town;
engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1865 to 1880;
elected clerk of the circuit court of Cass County,
111., in 1880, and served for three terms; read law,
and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887;
engaged in the newspaper business in August, 1891 ;
secretary of the senate in 1893 for the thirty-eighth
general assembly of Illinois; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Downs, Solomon W. , was born in Tennessee
in 1801 ; received a classical education and gradu-
ated from the Transylvania University; studied
law; admitted to the bar and began practicing at
New Orleans in 1826; United States district attor-
ney 1845-1847; elected a United States Senator
from Louisiana as a Democrat and served from
December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1853; died at
Orchard Springs, Ky., August 14, 1854.
Dowse, Edward, was a native of Norfolk
County, Mass.; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from December 6, 1819, to 1820, when he resigned.
Dowse, William, was elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirteenth Congress
as a Federalist, but died before the first session,
February 13, 1813.
Dox, Peter M. , was born in Geneva, Ontario
County, N. Y., September 11, 1813; educated in
Geneva Academy and at Hobart College, Geneva,
from which college he graduated in 1833; studied
and practiced law; member of the New York State
legislature 1841-42; judge of the Ontario county
courts; moved to Alabama in 1855 and located in
Madison County; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1865; elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Forty-first Congress as a
Union Democrat, and to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Doxey, Charles T., of Anderson, Ind., was
elected at a special election, January 9, 1883 (to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Godlove S.
Orth), to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; died April 30, 1898.
Drake, Charles D., was bom at Cincinnati,
Ohio, April 11, 1811; studied law; admitted to
-the bar; moved to St. Louis in 1834; member of
the State house of representatives of Missouri in
1859-60; Presidential elector in 1864; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1865; elected
a United States Senator as a Republican (to succeed
B. Gratz Brown), serving from March 4, 1867, to
December 19, 1870, when he resigned to become
chief justice of the Court of Claims; died in 1892.
Drake, John E.., was born in 1783; received a
liberal education; held several local oflBces in
Tioga County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fifteenth Congress; judge
of the court of common pleas for Tioga County
1833-1838; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1834; died at Oswego, March 21,
1857.
Draper, Joseph, was born in Virginia; elected
a Representative from that State to the Twenty-
first Congress (in place of Alexander Smyth,
deceased), and reelected to the Twenty-second
Congress, serving from December 6, 1830, to March
2, 1833.
Draper, William Franklin, of Hopedale,
Mass., was born at Lowell, Mass., April 9, 1842;
attended public, private, and high schools; studied
mechanical engineering and cotton manufacture;
served in the Union Army from August, 1861, to
October, 1864; held commissions as second lieu-
tenant and first lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth
Massachusetts Infantry; also as captain, major,
and lieutenant-colonel, commanding the Thirty-
sixth Massachusetts Infantry; also as colonel and
brigadier-general by brevet; was shot through the
body at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864,
and again slightly wounded at Pegram Farm, Sep-
tember 30, 1864; manufacturer of cotton machinery,
and made and patented many improvementa m
such machinery; president of the Home Market
Club in 1891 and 1892; delegate to the Republican
national convention in 1876; colonel on staff of
Governor Long from 1880 to 1883; chosen Presi-
dential elector at large in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Republican and reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress; ambassador and min-
ister plenipotentiary to Italy 1897-1899.
Draper, William H., of Troy, N. Y., was bom
in Worcester County, Mass., June 24, 1841; moved
to Troy in 1847; attended the public schools until
1856 and then entered a mercantile career; engaged
in manufacturing cordage and twine under the firm
name of William H. Draper & Son; trustee of the
village of Lansingburg; commissioner of jurors for
Rensselaer County from 1896 to 1900; elected to
the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Drayton, William, was born at St. Augus-
tine, Fla., December 30, 1776; educated in Eng-
land; studied laM', and admitted to the bar
December 12, 1797; entered the U. S. Army as
heutenant-colonel March 12, 1812, and served
through the war of 1812; recorder of Charleston
1819-1824; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Nineteenth Congress as a Union
Democrat (to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint-
ment of Joel R. Poinsett minister to Mexico), and
reelected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses; opposed nullification
m 1830, and consequently left South Carolina-
moved to Philadelphia in August, 1833; president
of the Bank of the United States 1840-41; died at
Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1846.
BIOGRAPHIES.
509
Drayton, 'Williain Henry, was born at Dray-
ton Hall, on Ashley River, South Carolina, in
September, 1742; received a classical education;
studied law and adnlitted to the bar; visited Eng-
land, and appointed by King George III privy
councilor for the province of South Carolina; while
on his way home was appointed assistant judge,
but took such an active part in the pre-Revolution-
ary movement that he was deprived of both posi-
tions; president of the Council of Safety in 1775,
and in 1776 chief justice; elected to the Continental
Congress in 1778, and served until he died in Sep-
tember, 1779.
Driggs, Edmund Hope, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1865; edu-
cated at Adelphi College, Brooklyn; fire insurance
surveyor; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat to take the place of Francis H. Wilson,
resigned, and reelected to the Fifty -sixth Congress;
defeated for the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Driggs, John F., was born at Kinderhook,
N. Y., March 8, 1813; received a liberal education;
contractor; superintendent of the New York peni-
tentiary in 1844; moved to Michigan in 1856;
member of the State legislature in 1859 and 1860;
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died at East Saginaw,
Mich., December 17, 1877.
Drisc'oU, Michael Edward, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
waa born at Syracuse, N. Y., February 9, 1851;
when about 1 year old his parents moved to the
town of Camillus, Onondaga County; educated in
the district schools, Monro Collegiate Institute,
at Elbridge, Onondaga County, and Williams
College; lawyer; elected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Dromgoole, George C, was a native of Vir-
ginia; received a liberal education; studied law;
admitted to the bar; served several years as a
member of the State house of representatives and
senate; elected a Representative from Virginia as
a Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress; de-
clined being a candidate for reelection; elected to
the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses;
died April 27, 1847.
Drum, Augustus, was born at Indiana, Pa. ; re-
ceived a common school education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
Dryden, John Fairfield, of Newark, N. J.,
was born near Farmington, Me., August 7, 1839;
moved with his parents when in his seventh year
to Massachusetts; fitted for college at Worcester,
Mass., and entered Yale University, and graduated
with the class of 1865; made a special study of
life insurance, and in 1875, at Newark, N. J., origi-
nated and founded the Prudential Insurance Com-
pany of America, becoming its first secretary and
in 1881 its president; one of the founders of the
Fidelity Trust Company; identified with the man-
agement of various street railways, banks, and
other large financial enterprises of New Jersey,
New YoiSi, and Pennsylvania; Presidential elector
in 1896 and 1900; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican to succee^ WiUiam J.
Sewell on January 29, 1902.
Duane, James, was born in New York, Febru-
ary 6, 1733; received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; Delegate to the
Continental Congress from New York 1774-1784;
delegate to the constitutional convention 1776-77;
member of the State senate 1783-84; the first
mayor of New York in 1784; delegate to the State
convention to consider the Federal Constitution iji
1788; United States district judge for the district
of New York 1789-1794; died at Duanesburg,
N. Y., February 1, 1797.
Du Bose, Dudley Mclver, was born in Shelby
County, Tenn., October 28, 1834; educated at the
University of Mississippi; studied law and admit-
ted to the bar; served in the Confederate army as
brigadier-general; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Forty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Dubois, Fred T., of Blackfoot, Idaho, was born
in Crawford County, 111., May 29, 1851; received a
public school and collegiate education, graduating
from Yale College in the class of 1872; secretary of
the board of railway and warehouse commission-
ers of Illinois 1875-76; went to Idaho Territory
in 1880 and engaged in business; United States
marshal of Idaho from August 25, 1882, till Sep-
tember 1, 1886; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-
first Congresses as a Republican Delegate, having
secured the admission of the Territory to the Union
on July 3, 1890; chairman of the first delegation
from the new State to the Republican national
convention held at Minneapolis, Minn., in June,
1892; elected to the United States Senate as a Re-
publican December 18, 1890, for the term ending
March 3, 1897, and took his seat March 4, 1891;
chairman of the Republican delegation from his
State to the national Republican convention at
St. Louis, in 1896, and left the convention and the
party when they declared for the single gold
standard; candidate of the Silver Republicans
of Idaho for reelection to the Senate in 1896, and
beaten by the combined votes of the Democrats,
Populists, and Republicans, receiving 30 votes to
40 for Henry Heitfeld; nominated in State con-
vention in 1900 by the Democrats, Populists, and
Silver Republicans, being classed as a Silver Re-
publican; elected to the United States Senate, and
took his seat March 4, 1901; after his election de-
clared himself a Democrat.
Dudley, Charles Edward, was born at John-
ston Hall, Staffordshire, England, May 23, 1780;
came to America with his mother in 1794 and
located at Newport, R. I. (where his father had
been the King's collector of customs); entered a
counting room as clerk; moved to Albany, N. Y.,
where he became a successful merchant; member
of the State senate 1820-1825; mayor of Albany
1821-1828; elected United States Senator from New
York as a Democrat (to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Martin Van Buren) , and served
from January 29, 1829, to March 2, 1833; inter-
ested in astronomical science; died at Albany,
N. Y., January 23, 1841.
Dudley, Edward B. , was born at Wilmington,
N. C, December 15, 1787; member of the State
house of representatives in 1816; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Twenty-first
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; governor of
North CaroHna 1837-1841; president of the Wil-
mington and Raleigh Railroad Company; died at
Wilmington, N. C, October 30, 1853.
Duell, R. Holland, was born at Warren, N. Y.,
December 20, 1824; received a hberal education;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced;
district attorney of Cortland County from 1850 to
1855; judge of Cortland County 1855-1859; asses-
sor of internal revenue for the twenty-third dis-
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CONGEESSTONAL DIRECTORY.
trict of New York from 1869 to 1871; elected a
Representive from New York to the Thirty-sixth,
Thirty-seventh, Forty-second, and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican.
Duer, William (father of WilUam Duer), was
bom in England, March 18, 1747; received a lib-
eral education; served in the Anglo-Indian army;
emigrated to the province of New York in 1768,
and located in Washington County, where he was
judge, colonel of militia, member of the committee
of safety, and leader in the ante-Revolutionary
movements; Delegate to the Continental Congress
from New York 1777-78; moved to New York City
in 1783; assisted Hamilton in organizing the Treas-
ury Department 1789-90; died at New York City,
May 7, 1799.
Duer, "William (son of William Duer), was
born at New York City, May 25, 1805; received a
liberal education and graduated from Columbia
College in 1824; studied law and was admitted to
the bar; began practicing at Oswego; defeated for
the legislature in 1832; moved to New York City
and thence to New Orleans, La., in 1833; returned
to Oswego, N. Y., in 1835; served in the New York
State house of representative^ 1840-41; district
attorney for Oswego County 1845-1847; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirtieth
Congress as aWhig, and reelected to the Thirty-first
Congress.
Dugro, P. Henry, of New York City, was born
October 3, 1855; educated at Columbia College,
New York; studied law; graduated from the
Columbia College Law School; practiced law at
New York; member of the State assembly in
1879; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat.
Duke, Richard T. W., was born in Albemarle
County, Va., June 6, 1822; graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute in 1845; graduated
from the law school of the University of Virginia
in 1850; elected Commonwealth attorney for the
county of Albemarle in 1858, and continued in
that office until 1869; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Forty-first Congress as a Con-
servative (to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Robert Ridgway), and reelected to the Forty-
second Congress.
Dumont, Ebenezer, was born at Vevay, Ind.,
November 23, 1814; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Vevay; member of the State
house of representatives in 1838; treasurer of
Vevay 1839-1845; lieutenant-colonel of volunteers
in the Mexican war; Presidential elector on the
Pierce ticket in 1852; member of the State house
of representatives in 1850 and in 1853; colonel of
the Seventh Indiana Volunteers in the civil war;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Unionist, and reelected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Dunbar, "William, was elected a Representa- ;
tive from Louisiana to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat.
Duncan, Alexander, was a resident of Cincin-
nati, Ohio; physician; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
Congresses as a Whig; defeated as the Whig can-
didate for the Twenty-seventh Congress; elected
to the Twenty-eighth Congress; died at Cincinnati,
Ohio, March 2, 1852.
Duncan, Daniel, was born at Shippensburg,
Pa., July 22, 1806; received a liberal education;
emigrated to Ohio; became interested in mercan-
tile pursuits; member of the State legislature of
Ohio in 1843; defeated for the State senate on the
Whig ticket in 1844; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; defeat-
ed for reelection; died at Washington, D. C, June
18, 1849.
Duncan, Garnett, a native of Kentucky; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practicing at Louis-
ville; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; declined to be
a candidate for reelection; moved to New Orleans
and resumed the practice of law.
Duncan, Irvine, of Jackson, Ohio, was born
at Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa. ; received
a collegiate education; served till the close of the
war in the Nineteenth Iowa Infantry; captured
and confined ten months in a military prison;
elected mayor of Jackson in 1869; elected State
senator in 1877; led the Democratic electoral ticket
in Ohio in 1888; the author of the first law in Ohio
against the truck system; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat.
Duncan, James Henry, was born at Haver-
hill, Mass., Decembers, 1793; graduated from Har-
vard College in 1812; studied law, and in 1815 was
admitted to the bar; an active militia officer, and
attained the rank of coloneil; for three years presi-
dent of the Essex Agricultural Society; member of
the State house of representatives in 1827, 1837,
1838, and 1857; State senator, 1828-1831; appointed
commissioner in bankruptcy in 1841; delegate to
the national convention at Harrisburg w^hich
nominated Harrison and Tyler in 1839; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig, and reelected to the
Thirty-second Congress; died at Haverhill, Mass.,
February 8, 1869.
Duncan, Joseph., was born in Kentucky in
1790; received a classical education; studied law;
lieutenant of United States infantry in the war of
1812, and distinguished himself at the defense of
Fort Stephenson; moved to Illinois and settled at
Kaskaskia, where he held several local offices; elec-
ted a Representative from Illinois to the Twentieth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses, serving from December 8, 1827, until
his resignation in November, 1834; moved to Jack-
sonville, 111., in 1829; governor of Illinois 1834-
1838-; died at Jacksonville, 111., January 15, 1844.
Duncan, "William A., of Gettvsburg, Pa., was
born in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pa.,
February 2, 1836; graduated from Franklin and
Marshall College, at Lancaster, in 1857; read law,
and was admitted to the bar at Gettysburg in 1859;
elected district attorney in 1862 and in 1868; elec-
ted to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
died November 14, 1884.
Dunham, Cyrus L., was a native of New York;
self-educated; moved to Indiana and located at
Salem; while teaching school studied law; admit-
ted to the bar; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1846-47; became engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; elected a Representative to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses;
defeated as a candidate for the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress; again elected a member of the State house
of representatives; died at Valley Farm Ind
October 15, 1856. ' '
BIOGRAPHIES.
511
Dunham, Ransom "W., was bom at Savoy,
Mass., March 21, 1838; educated in the common
schools, closing at the high school at Springfield,
Mass.; engaged in the office of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company from August,
1855, to August, 1860; moved to Chicago, April 1,
1857; grain and provision commission merchant:
president of the Board of Trade of Chicago in 1882;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republi-
can, and reelected to the Forty-ninth and Ffftieth
Congresses; died in 1896.
Dunlap, George "W., was born in Fayette
County, Ky., February 22, 1813; graduated from
Transylvania University; studied law; admitted
to the bar, and began the practice of his profession
at Lancaster, Ky. ; member of the State house of
representatives; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Unionist; Presidential elector on the McClellan
and Pendleton ticket in 1864.
Dunlap, Robert P. , was born in Maine in 1789;
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1815; studied
law; began practicing at Brunswick, Me.; member
of the State house of representatives 1821-1823,
and of the State senate 1823-1832; president of the
State senate four years; an executive councilor in
1833; governor of Maine 1834-1838; elected a Rep-
resentative from- Maine to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; collector of customs at
Portland, Me., 1848-49; president of the board of
overseers of the Bowdoin College; died at Bruns-
wick, Me., October 20, 1859.
Dunlap, William C. , was a native of Tennes-
see; elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Twenty-third Congress, and reelected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress; moved to Texas in 1838;
minister to Mexico in 1839.
Dunn, George G. , was born in 1813; received
a libera] education; studied law; admitted to the
bar and began practice at Bedford, Ind. ; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Whig, and to the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Republican; died at Bedford, Ind., Septem-
ber 4, 1857.
Dunn, George H. , resided at Lawrenceburg,
Ind; defeated as the Whig candidate for Congress
in 1835; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; defeated for
the Twenty-sixth Congress.
Dunn, John T., of Elizabeth, N. J., was born
in 1838 and resided in New Jersey; owing to the
death of his mother when he was 4 years old, and
his father having a large family of children, he was
placed with a farmer, who agreed to give him three
months' schooling each year till he was 16 years of
age; the farmer neglected his part of the contract,
and at 11 years he did not know the alphabet;
ran away and shipped as a cabin boy on a vessel
trading with the West Indies; on the vessel's re-
turn to Philadelphia his brother took him to Glou-
cester City, where he engaged as bobbin boy in a
factory; at 16 learned iron molding, brass turning,
and silver burnishing, also painting; while serving
an apprenticeship at the latter trade mastered read-
ing, writing, and arithmetic, and, by employing
his evenings and Sundays and holidays, acquired
all the education he possessed; took part in the
Presidential campaign of 1860 as public speaker;
studied law and admitted to the bar; engaged in
business in 1862 and acquired a competency;
elected alderman of Elizabeth in 1878; four times
elected to the legislature of New Jersey; speaker of
the house in 1882; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of law.
Dunn, Poindexter, of Forest City, Ark., was
born in Wake County, N. C, November 3, 1834;
moved with his father to Limestone County, Ala.,
in 1836; received his primary education in the
county schools, four years in Jackson College at
Columbia, Tenn., where he graduated in 1854;
moved to St. Francis County, Ark., in March, 1856;
engaged in cotton growing until 1861; elected to
the lower house of the Arkansas legislature as a
Democrat in 1858; served in the Confederate army
during the war; commenced the practice of law in
1867; on the Democratic electoral ticket for Ar-
kansas in 1872 and 1876; elected a Representative
from the State of Arkansas to the Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Dunn, William IKcKee, was born in Indiana
Territory, December 12, 1814; graduated from the
Indiana State College in 1832, and from Yale Col-
lege in 1835; studied law, admitted to the bar, and
practiced; member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1848; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1850; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress;
defeated for the Thirty-eighth Congress; appointed
assistant judge-advocate-general of the U. S. Army,
and December, 1875, promoted to be Judge-Advo-
cate-General; died July 24, 1887.
Dunnell, Mark H. , of Owatonna, Minn., was
born in Buxton, Me., July 2, 1823; graduated from
Colby University, Maine, in 1849; for five years
principal of Norway and Hebron academies; mem-
ber of the Maine house of representatives in 1854,
and of the State senate in 1855 ; during the years
1855, 1857, 1858, and 1859 was State superintendent
of common schools; delegate to the national Re-
publican convention at Philadelphia in 1856; com-
menced the practice of law at Portland in 1860;
entered the Union Army as colonel of the Fifth
Maine Infantry in 1861 ; United States consul at
Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1862; in January, 1865, be-
came a citizen of Minnesota; member of the Min-
nesota house of representatives in 1867; State
superintendent of public instruction from April,
1867, to August, 1870; elected to the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Re-
publican; located at Washington, D. C.
Dunphy, Edvrard J. , of New York, was born
at New York City May 12, 1856; received his j)ri-
mary education in the public schools of his native
city, and in 1871 began a collegiate course at Mount
St. Mary's College, in Emmitsburg, Md., where,
in 1876, he received the degree of A. B. and in
1878 the degree of A. M. ; connected with the law
department of the New York Cehtral and Hudson
River Railroad Company; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Tammany Democrat, and reelected
to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses.
Durand, George H., was born at Cobleskill,
N. Y., February 21, 1838; moved to FUnt, Mich.,
in 1858; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected mayor of Flint in 1873, and reelected in
1874; elected a Representative from Michigan to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Durborow, Allan Cathcart, jr., of Chicago,
111., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 10,
1857; moved with his parents toWilliamsport, Ind.,
where he received his earljr education; entered
Wabash College, CrawfordsviUe, Ind., in the fall of
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1872; graduated from the TJniverBity of Indiana, at
Bloomington, in 1877; after residing in Indianap-
oplis moved to Chicago; elected to the Fi'fty-second
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fif ty-
third Congress; defeated for the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
Durfee, Job, was born in Tiverton, K. I., in
1790; graduated from Brown University in 1813;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Tiverton; member of the State house of
representatives 1813-1819 and 1827-1829; elected
a Representative from Rhode Island to the Seven-
teenth Congress as the people's candidate, and to
the Eighteenth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Congresses;
resumed the practice of law; elected associate and
chief justice of the Rhode Island supreme court;
died in 1847.
Durfee, Nathaniel B. , was born at Tiverton,
R. I., September 29, 1812; received a liberal edu-
cation; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member
of the Rhode Island assembly for eleven years;
elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American, and to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; died
at Tiverton, R. L, November 12, 1872.
Durham, Milton J., was born in Mercer
County (Boyle County), Ky_., May 16, 1824; grad-
uated from Asbury University, Indiana, in 1844;
studied law, and graduated in 1850 from the
Louisville Law School; one of the circuit judges of
Kentucky in 1861 and 1862; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Forty-third Congress as
a Democrat, and reelected to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses.
Durkee, Charles, was born at Royalton, Vt.,
December 10, 1805; received a liberal education;
moved to Wisconsin; member of the Territorial
legislature in 1836 and 1838; elected a Representa-
tive from Wisconsin to the Thirty -first and Thirty-
second Congresses as a Free Soiler; delegate to
the World's Peace Convention at Paris; elected a
United States Senator from Wisconsin as a Repub-
lican (in the place of I. P. Walker, Democrat),
and served from December 3, 1855, to March 3,
1861; appointed governor of Utah in 1865, and
served until failing health compelled him to re-
sign; died at Omaha, Nebr., January 14, 1870.
Duval, Gabriel, was born in Prince George
County, Md., December 6, 1752; received a lib-
eral education; studied law and admitted to the
bar; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Third Congress (in place of John F. Mercer,
resigned) as a Democrat; reelected to the Fourth
Congress, serving from November 11, 1794, to
March 28, 1796, when he resigned; elected judge
of the supreme court of Maryland; appointed
Comptroller of the Currency in December, 1802,
and resigned November 18, 1811, having been ap-
pointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; resigned in 1836 on account of
deafness; died in Prince George County, Md.,
March 6, 1844.
Duval, Isaac H., was born at Wellsburg,
Brooke County, Va., September 1, 1824; received
a liberal education; entered the U. S. volunteer
service June 1, 1861, as major of the First West
Virginia Infantry; promoted to the colonelcy of
the Ninth West Virginia Infantry September 6,
1862; promoted to brigadier-general October 20,
1864, and subsequently to major-general by brevet;
served two years in the West Virginia State senate;
adjutant-general of the State two years; elected a
Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican.
Duval, Williani P., was born in 1784; received
a liberal education; moved to Kentucky; studied
law and admitted to the bar; during the Indian
hostilities of 1812 commanded a company of
mounted volunteers; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat; resumed practice at Bardstown, Ky. ; ap-
pointed United States judge for the district of
Florida; governor of Florida under Presidents
Monroe, Adams, and Jackson, serving from 1822
to 1834; moved to Texas in 1848; died a Washing-
ton, D. C, March 19, 1854.
Dwight, Henry W. , was a native of Berkshire
County, Mass. ; member of the State legislature in
1818; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Seventeenth Congress, and reelected to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; died at New York City February
21, 1845.
Dwight, Jeremiah W., of Dryden, N. Y., was
born at Cincinnatus, Cortland County, N. Y. ;
reared as a farmer and mechanic; received his
education in district schools and at a village high
school; went early into mercantile pursuits; en-
gaged in farming and real estate operations,
including transactions in pine lands in Wisconsin
and city property in Jersey City, and in the manu-
facture and sale of lumber; elected supervisor of
the town of Dryden in 1857 and 1858; chairman y€7
of the board; member of the State assembly in ^f~^_
1860 and 1861; appointed by Governor Morgan a/cS S
member of the senatorial district war committee
in 1861; delegate to the Republican national con-
vention at Chicago in 1868; director, member of
executive committee, and vice-president of the
Southern Central Railroad for many years; elected
to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Dwight, John Wilbur, of Dryden, N. Y., was
born May 24, 1859, in that place; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. G. W.
Ray; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Dwight, Theodore, was born at Northampton,
Mass., December 15, 1764; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practicing at Hart-
ford, Conn.; served several years in the State
senate; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Ninth Congress as a Federalist (in place of
of John Cotton Smith, resigned), serving from De-
cember 1, 1806, to March 3, 1807; editor of the
Hartford Mirror; secretary of the Hartford Con-
vention; moved to Albany in 1815; published the
Albany Daily Advertiser; moved to New York in
1817 and established the New York Daily Adver-
tiser, with which he was connected until the great
fire of 1835; returned to Hartford; died at New
York June 12, 1846.
Dwight, Thomas, was a native of Massachu-
setts, graduated from Harvard College in 1778
member of the State legislature 1794 and 1795
served in the State senate 1796-1803 and 1813
member of the governor's council 1808 and 1809,
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Eighth Congress; died in 1819.
Dwinell, Justin, was born at Cazenovia, N. Y. ;
graduated from Yale College in 1805; member of
the State house of representatives in 1821, 1822;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Eighteenth Congress.
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Dyer, David P., was born in Henry County,
Va., February 12, 1838; in 1841 moved to Lincoln
County, Mo.; received a liberal education; studied
law at Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo., and
admitted to the bar in March, 1859; elected prose-
cuting attorney for the third judicial circuit in
1860; member of the legislature from Pike County
in 1862-1865; recruited and commanded the Forty-
ninth Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry dur-
ing the civil war; secretary of the State senate in
1866; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion in 1868; elected a Representative from Mis-
souri to the Forty-flrst Congress as a Republican.
Dyer, Eliphalet, was born at Windham, Conn.,
September 28, 1721; graduated from Yale College
in 1740; studied law and was admitted to the bar;
representative to the general court 1743-1762; ap-
pointed in 1755 colonel of a regiment of Connect-
icut volunteers raised for the conquest of Canada;
delegate to the stamp-act congress in 1765; ap-
pointed judge of the supreme court in 1766; Dele-
gate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress
1774-1779 and 1780-1783; chief justice of the
supreme court of Connecticut 1789-1793; died at
Wmdham, Conn., May 13, 1807.
£ag:er, S. W. , was a native of Orange County,
N. Y. ; graduated from Princeton College in 1809;
was elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-flrst Congress in place of Hector Craig,
resigned.
Eames, Benjamin T., was born in Dedham,
Mass., June 4, 1818; graduated from Yale College
in 1843; studied law, and in 1845 admitted to the
bar; began practicing in Providence, R. I. ; mem-
ber of the house of representatives in the general
assembly of that State in 1859, 1868, and 1869;
speaker of the house of representatives in 1869;
member of the State senate in 1854, 1855, 1856,
1859, and 1863; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Forty-second Congress as a
Repubhcan and reelected to the Forty-third, Forty-
fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses; died at East
Greenwich, R. I., October 6, 1901.
Earl, Neliemiah. H. , was born in Onondaga
County, N. Y. ; received a public school education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Earle, Elias, was a native of Frederick County,
Va. ; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Ninth,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, anii Sixteenth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Earle, John B. , was a native of South Carolina;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Eighth Congress.
Earle, Joseph, H. , of Greenville, S. C, was born
at Greenville, S. C, April 30, 1847; attended the
high schools at that place until he entered the
service of the Confederacy in the war between
the States; after the close of the war entered Fur-
man University at Greenville, S. C, where he fin-
ished his collegiate education; taught school for
three years and during that time studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1870; elected to the
legislature of South CaroUna from Sumter County
in 1878, and in 1882 elected to the State senate from
the same county; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic conventions in .1880 and 1884; elected attor-
ney-general of South Carolina in 1886 and reelected
to same office in 1888; opposed Hon. B. R. Tillman
in 1890 as the conservative Democratic candidate
for governor and was defeated; elected to the office
of circuit judge in 1894, which position he held
when elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat on January 27, 1897, to succeed Hon.
J. L. M. Irby; took his seat March 4, 1897; died
May 20, 1897, before the expiration of his term.
Earle, Samuel, was a native of Charleston,
S. C. ; elected a Representative from South Carolina
to the Fourth Congress.
Earll, Jonas, jr. , was born in 1786; resided in
Onondaga County, N. Y., and received a common
school education; member of the State house of
representatives 1820-21; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twentieth Congress aa a
Jackson Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-first
Congress; elected a canal commissioner, serving
from February 8, 1842, until his death, at Syracuse,
October 11, 1846.
Early, Peter, was born in Madison County,
Va., June 20, 1773; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1792; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing in Madison County, Ga., in 1795;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the Sev-
enth Congress in place of John Milledge, re-
signed; reelected to the Eighth and Ninth Con-
gresses; judge of the supreme court 1807-1813;
member of the State senate; died in Green County,
Ga., August 15, 1817.
Easterbrook, Experience, was born at Leb-
anon, N. H., April 30, 1813; received a liberal ed-
ucation; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Geneva, Wis., in 1840; dele-
gate to the second State constitutional convention
of Wisconsin; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1851; attorney-general of Wisconsin
in 1852; moved to Nebraska Territory and served
as district attorney 1854-1859; claimed to have
been elected from Nebriaska Territory as a Demo-
crat, but the House decided that he had only re-
ceived 2,671 votes, and gave the seat to Samuel G.
Daily, as having received 2,790 votes; he served
from December 5, 1859, to April 20, 1860; moved
to Chicago, 111., in 1894.
Eastman, Benjamin C, received a public
school education; moved to Platteville, Wis. ; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Wisconsin to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-third Congress;
died at Platteville, Wis., February 5, 1856.
Eastman, Ira A. , was a native of New Hamp-
shire; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
ticing at Gilmanton; served several years as mem-
ber of the State house of representatives and State
senate; served as speaker of the house 1837-1839;
register of probate; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress; a judge of the circuit and State supreme
courts 1844-1859.
Eastman, Nehemiali, was born in Strafford
County, N. H., in 1800; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Farmington, N. H. ; member of the
State senate 1820-1825; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Nineteenth Congress;
died at Farmington, N. H., January 11, 1856.
Easton, Bufus, was elected a Delegate from the
Territory of Missouri to the Thirteenth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress (defeating John Scott, who obtained the cer-
tificate of election but was rejected by the House),
serving from November 16, 1814, to March 3, 1817.
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Eaton, John Henry, was born in Tennessee
in 1800; received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; practiced at Nashville;
elected United States Senator from Tennessee (in
place of George W. Campbell, resigned), and unan-
imously reelected, serving from November 16,
1818, to March, 1829, when he resigned; appointed
Secretary of War by President Jackson; resigned
June 18, 1831; appointed governor of Florida
1834-1836; minister to Spain- 1836-1840; died at
Washington, D. C, November 17, 1856.
Eaton, Lewis, was a native of New York State;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Eighteenth Congress.
Eaton, William W. , was born in Tolland,
Conn., October 11, 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; served
in the State senate; clerk of the superior and su-
preme courts of Tolland and Hartford counties;
served four years as recorder of Hartford County;
member of the State house of representatives in
1847, 1848, 1853, 1863, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1873, and
1874; speaker of the house 1853 and 1873; member
of the State senate of Connecticut in 1850; elected
a United States Senator from Connecticut as a
Democrat (to succeed W. A. Buckingham, Repub-
lican) for the term commencing March 4, 1875;
upon the death of Senator Buckingham in Febru-
ary, 1875, was appointed to fill the vacancy, taking
his seat February 13, 1875; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress; died at Hartford, Conn., Sep-
tember 21, 1898.
Eckert, George N., was a resident of Potts-
ville, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig.
Eckley, Ephraim R. , was born in Jefferson
County, Ohio, December 9, 1812; received a lib-
eral education; studied law; admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Carrollton; a member of the
State senate of Ohio in 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1849,
and 1850; member of the house of representatives
in 1853; served in the Union Army and attained
the rank of brigadier-general; elected a Represent-
ative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.
Eddy, Erank Marion, of Glenwood, Minn.,
was born at Pleasant Grove, Minn., April 1, 1856,
and was the first Representative of Minnesota who
was a native of that State; elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Eddy, Norman, was a native of New York
State, but when quite young moved to Indiana
and located at South Bend; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection; colonel of the Forty-eighth Indiana
Regiment of Volunteers during the civil war;
elected secretary of state in 1870; died at Indian-
apolis Ind., January 28, 1872.
Eddy, Samuel, was born at Johnston, R. I.,
March 31, 1769; received aliberal education; gradu-
ated from Brown University in 1787; studied law
and admitted to the bar; practiced a short time;
clerk of the supreme court 1790-1793; secretary of
state 1798-1819; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Sixteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat, without opposition, and reelected to the Sev-
enteenth and Eighteenth Congresses; defeated for
the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Congresses; chief
justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island
1827-1835; died at Providence, R. I., February 2,
1839.
Eden, John K.., was born in Bath County, Ky.,
February 1, 1826; moved with his parents to In-
diana; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Sullivan, 111. ; State attorney for the
seventeenth judicial district of Illinois 1856-1860;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Thirty-eighth, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
flfth, and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat;
after leaving Congress resumed the practice of law
at Sullivan, 111.
Edgerton, Alfred P., was a native of New
York; moved with his parents to Hicks ville, Ohio,
where he acquired an academic education ; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
third Congress.
Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum, was born at
Vergennes, Vt., February 16, 1818; educated in
'the public schools of Clinton County, N. Y; stud-
ied law at Plattsburg and admitted to the bar in
New York City in 1839; moved to Fort Wayne,
Ind., in 1854; became president of theFort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad; elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for reelection; died in 1893.
Edgerton, Sidney, was born at Cazenovia,
N. Y., inl818; received a limited education; moved
to Ohio in 1864; studied law and admitted to the
bar; began practicing at Talmadge, Ohio; for four
years prosecuting attorney for Summit County;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Republican ; reelected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress; appointed United States
judge for the Territory of Idaho in 1864, and gov-
ernor of Montana 1865-66.
Edie, John R., was born at Gettysburg, Pa.;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Edmands, J. Wiley, was born at Boston, Mass.,
March 1, 1809; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the firm of Abbott & Amos, Lawrence, from
which he retired in 1843; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Whig; declined to be a candidate for reelec-
tion; treasurer of the Pacific mills at Lawrence in
1855; a Presidential elector on the Grant and Col-
fax ticket in 1868; founded a public library at
Newton; died at Newton, January 1, 1877.
Edmond, William, was born at South Britain,
Conn., September 28, 1755; graduated from Yale
College in 1773; wqunded at the battle of Danbury
while serving in the Revolutionary Army; studied
law and admitted to the bar in 1780; a member
of the State house of representatives; judge of the
State supreme court; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Fifth Congress (in place
of James Davenport, deceased) as a Federalist;
reelected to the Sixth Congress; died at Newton,
Conn., August 1, 1838.
Edmunds, George F., of Burlington, Vt., was
born at Richmond, Vt., February 1, 1828; received
a public school education and the instruction of a
private tutor; studied and practiced law; member
of the State legislature of Vermont in 1854, 1855
1857, 1858, and 1859, serving three vears as speaker'
a member of the State senate, and its presiding
officer pro tempore in 1861 and 1862; appointed
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to the United States Senate as a Republican to fill
the vacancy caused by (the death of Solomon Foot,
and took his seat April 5, 1866; elected by the
legislature for the remainder of the term ending
March 4, 1869; reelected for the terms ending in
1875, 1881, 1887, and 1893; resigned November 1,
1891; member of the electoral commission of 1876;
after leaving the United States Senate he moved
to Philadelphia, Pa., where he engaged in the
practice of law.
Ediuunds, Paul Carriugton, was born in
Halifax County, Va., November 1, 1836; educated
by a private tutor at home; three years at the
University of Virginia; graduated in law from
William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. ;
practiced law for nearly two years in Jefferson
City, Mo.; returned to Virginia in 1858, and
engaged in agriculture on his farm in Halifax
County; elected to the senate of Virginia in 1881,
and served four years; reelected in 1884; a dele-
gate from the Sixth district to the Democratic
national convention at Chicago in 1884; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses.
Edmundson, Henry A. , was a native of Vir-
ginia; received a liberal education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Salem;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirty-first Congress; reelected to the Thirty-
second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth,
and Thirty-sixth Congresses; had no opposition
except for the Thirty-first and Thirty-fourth Con-
Edsall, JoseplL E., was born in Sussex County,
N. J.; received a common school education;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirtieth Congress.
Ed'wards, Benjamiii, was born in Stafford
County, Va., in 1752; received a common school
education; member of the State legislature; dele-
gate to the State convention which ratified the
Federal Constitution; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Third Congress (in place of
Uriah Forrest, resigned), serving from January 2,
1795, to March 3, 1795; moved to Todd County,
Ky., and died there November 13, 1826.
Edwards, Caldwell, of Bozeman, Mont., was
born at Sag Harbor, N. Y., January 8, 1841;
educated in the district schools; salesman and
bookkeeper in dry goods stores; moved to Mon-
tana in the summer of 1864; located on afarmthat
fall; three times elected a member of the Terri-
torial legislature; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress on a fusion ticket with the Democrats.
Edwards, Francis S., was born' in Norwich,
Conn., May 28, 1818; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began practic-
ing at Fredonia, Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as an American ; resigned February
28, 1857; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Edwards, Henry Wag'ganian, was born at
New Haven, Conn. , in 1779; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1797; studied laTvat the Litchfield
Law School; admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at New Haven, Conn.; elected a Represent-
ative from Connecticut to the Sixteenth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Seventeenth Oon-
eress- appointed United States Senator (in place
6f Elijah Boardman, deceased), and subsequently
elected, serving from December 1, 1823, to March
4, 1829; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1830, serving as speaker, and again 1835-
1838; died at New Haven, Conn., July 22, 1847.
Edwards, John, was born in Virginia, and
while quite young moved to Fayette County, Ky. ;
member of the Kentucky State house of repre-
sentatives 1781-1783 and 1785; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1785 and of the
convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in
1792; elected a United States Senator from Ken-
tucky and served from October 24, 1791, to March
3, 1795.
Edwards, John, resided at Ephratah, N. Y. ;
was elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat. ,
Edwards, John, resided at Ivy Mills, Delaware
County, Pa.; was elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Edwards, John, was born in Jefferson County,
Xy., October 24, 1815; received a hmited educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; moved
to Indiana, where he served in the State legisla-
ture 1845-1849; moved to California, and in 1849
elected alcalde there; returned to Indiana in 1852,
and the same year elected to the State senate;
moved to Iowa, and in 1855 elected a member of
the constitutional convention of that State; served
in the Iowa State legislature 1856-1860, the last two
years as speaker of thfe house; appointed lieuten-
ant-colonel. May 21, 1861, on the staff of the gov-
ernor of Iowa, and commanded troops until May,
1862, when he was appointed colonel of the
Eighteenth Iowa Infantry; appointed brigadier-
general of volunteers in April, 1864; at the close
of the war settled in Fort Smith, Ark.; elected
a Representative from Arkansas to the Forty-sec-
ond Congress asa Liberal Republican; his election
was successfully contested by T. Boles.
Edwards, John C, was a native of Chester,
Pa.; received a liberal education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Missouri to the Twenty-seventh
Congress; governor of Missouri 1844-1848.
Edwards, Ninian, was born in Montgomery
County, Md., March 17, 1775; graduated from
Dickinson College; studied law; moved to Ken-
tucky; admitted to the bar; served in the State
legislature; elected judge of the circuit court, judge
of the court of appeals, and chief justice of the
State; appointed governor of the Territory of Illi-
nois 1809-1818; elected a United States Senator
from Illinois as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 4, 1818, to March 4, 1824, when he resigned;
appointed minister to Mexico March 4, 1824, and
while on his way was instructed to return and
answer charges filed against him by W. H. Craw-
ford, Secretary of the Treasury; again elected gov-
ernor of Illinois 1826-1831; died at Belleville, 111.,
July 20, 1833.
Edwards, Pierrepont, was born at Northamp-
ton, Mass., April 8, 1750; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1768; studied law and admitted to
the bar; began practicing at New Haven, Conn.,
in 1771; served in the Revolutionary Army;
served for several years in the State house of rep-
resentatives; Delegate from Connecticut to the
Continental Congress 1787-88; appointed United
States district judge for the district of Connecticut;
died at Bridgeport, Conn., April 5, 1826.
Edwards, Samuel, was born near Chester, Pa.,
received a common school education; elected a
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOKX.
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Sixteenth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses.
Edwards, Thomas M., was born in Cheshire
County, N. H.; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege; studied law; admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed; served several terms in the New Hampshire
legislature; Presidential elector on the Fremont
ticket in 1856; elected a Eepresentative from New
Hampshire to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Ee-
publican; reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Edwards, Thomas O. , was a native of Mary-
land; received a liberal education; moved to Ohio;
elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-first Congress.
Edwards, Weldon Nathaniel, was born at
Warren, N. C, in 1788; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1810 admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Warrenton; member of the
house of commons 1814 and 1815; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Fourteenth
Congress (in place of Nathaniel Macon, elected
Senator) as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nine-
teenth Congresses; elected State senator in 1833,
and Successively reelected until 1844; member of
the North Carolina constitutional convention in
1835; again elected to the State senate in 1850, and
chosen its president; president of the State con-
vention in 1861; died at Warren, N. C, December
18, 1873.
Edwards, William P. , was a native of Geor-
gia; elected a Eepresentative from Georgia to the
Fortieth Congress as a Eepublican.
Effner, Valentine, was born in Schoharie
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
member of the State house of representatives in
1829; elected a Eepresentative from New York to
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Egtoert, Albert G. , was born in Mercer County,
Pa., April 18, 1828; given a liberal education;
became a farmer; began the study of medicine in
1853 and graduated in March, 1856; practiced
until 1861, when he became interested in manufac-
turing and farming; elected a Eepresentative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
Egbert, Joseph, was a native of Richmond,
N. Y. ; received a common school education;
elected a Representative from New York to tlie
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat, serving
from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
Ege, George, was born in Brooks County, Pa.;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Fourth Con-
gress in place of Daniel Heister, resigned; re-
elected to the Fifth Congress; resigned in 1797.
Eggleston, Benjamin, was born in Corinth,
N. Y., January 3, 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion; moved to Cincinnati, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits; presiding officer of the city
council of Cincinnati; served in the Ohio State sen-
ate 1862-1865; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Eepublican; re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress; died February 9,
1888.
Eggleston, Joseph, was bom in Amelia County,
Va., November 24, 1754; graduated from the Col-
lege of William and Mary; captain and major of
Lee's Light-Horse Cavalry in the Revolutionary
Army; member of the Virginia house oi repre-
sentatives for several years; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Fifth Congress in place
of William B. Giles, resigned; reelected to the
Sixth Congress; died in Amelia County, Va., Feb-
ruary 13, 1811.
Eickhoff, Anthony, was born in Germany
September 11, 1827; emigrated to Arherica in
1847; located at St. Louis and there studied law;
became an editor; edited papers at St. Louis, Du-
buque, Louisville, and finally at New York in 1852;
appointed commissary-general of subsistence, for
the State of New York in 186/5; member of the
assembly in 1853; elected a Eepresentative from
New York to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Einstein, Edwin, of New York, N. Y., was
born at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 18, 1842;
moved to New York in 1846; received a collegiate
education at the College of the City of New York,
and entered Union College, but did not graduate;
always engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected to
the Forty -sixth Congress as a Eepublican.
Ela, Jacob H., was born at Rochester, N. H.,
July 18, 1820; printer; became engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; member of the State legislature
of New Hampshire 1857-58; United Sf^ates mar-
shal from July, 1861, to October, 1866; elected a
Eepresentative from New Hampshire to the For-
tieth Congress as a Eepublican; ' reelected to the
Forty-first Congress; appointed by President Grant
Fifth- Auditor of the Treasury.
Elam, Joseph B. , of Mansfield, La., was born in
Hempstead County, Ark. , June 12, 1821 ; moved with
his father to Natchitoches, La., in 1826; studied
law; admitted to the bar at Alexandria, La., in
October, 1843, and practiced there; served two
terms in the Louisiana legislature from the parish
of Sabine previous to his removal to the parish of
Desoto in 1851; elected delegate from Desoto
Parish to the State constitutional convention in
1861, and signed the ordinance of secession; elected
and served two terms in the legislature, one term
as speaker, during civil war; reelected in 1865, and
served until the passage of the reconstruction leg-
islation by Congress; elected to the Porty-fiifth
Congress, and reelected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat; after leaving Congress re-
sumed the practice of law; died July 4, 1885.
Eldredge, Nathaniel B. , of Adrian, Mich.,
was born at Auburn, N. Y., March 28, 1813; re-
ceived a common school education; practiced
medicine for fifteen years; then practiced law for
twentjr years; held several minor ofiaces; clerk of
the Michigan senate in 1845; elected member of the
Michigan legislature in 1848; elected judge of pro-
bate 1852-1856; commissioned captain in the Union
Army in June, 1861, major in August, 1861, and
colonel in April, 1862; elected sheriff of Lenawee
County,' Mich., in 1874; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-ninth Congress; died in November, 1893.
Eldredge, Charles A., was born at Bridport,
Vt., February 27, 1821; moved with his par-
ents to New York; studied law and admitted to
the bar; moved to Wisconsin in 1848, and settled
at Fond du Lac; member of the Wisconsin State
senate in 1854 and 1855; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty -ninth For-
tieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third
Congresses; died in 1896.
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Eliot, Samuel Atkins, was born at Boston,
Mass., March 5, 1798; graduated from Harvard
College in 1817; mayor of Boston 1837-1839;
served m both branches of the State legislature;
elected aRpp(resentative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty-first Congress (in place of Robert P. Win-
throp, appointed Senator) as a Whig, serving from
August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; eleven years
treasurer of Harvard College; died at Cambridge,
Mass., January 26, 1862.
Eliot, Thomas D., was born at Boston, Mass.,
March 20, 1808; studied law, and admitted to the
bar; served in both branches of the Massachusetts
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-third Congress for the
unexpired term of Z. Scudder, serving from April
17, 1854, to March 3, 1855; reelected to the Thirty-
sixth, Thu-ty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Republican;
died at New Bedford, Mass., June 12, 1870.
Elkins, Stephen Benton, of Elkins, W. Va.,
was born in Perry County, Ohio, September 26,
1841; received his early- education in the pubhc
schools of Missouri, and graduated from the
University of that State, at Columbia, in the
class of 1860; admitted to the bar in 1864, and in
the same year went to New Mexico, where he
acquired a knowledge of the Spanish language, and
began the practice of law; member of the Terri-
torial legislative assembly of New Mexico in 1864
and 1865; held the offices of Territorial district
attorney, attorney-general, and United States dis-
trict attorney ; elected to the Forty-third Congress,
and while abroad was renominated and elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress; during his first term
in Congress made a member of the Republican
national committee, on which he served for three
Presidential campaigns; after leaving Congress
moved to West Virgmia and devoted himself to
business affairs; appointed Secretary of War De-
cember 17, 1891, and served until the close, of
President Harri son' s Administration ; in February,
1895, elected to the United States Senate to suc-
ceed Hon. Johnson N. Camden, and reelected in
1901.
Ellery, Christopher, was born at Newport,
E. I. ; graduated from Yale College in 1787; studied
law; admitted to the bar, and began practice at
Newport; elected a United States Senator from
Rhode Island (in place of Ray Greene, resigned)
as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1801, to
March 3, 1805; appointed by President Jefferson
United States commissioner of loans in 1806; ap-
pointed collector of customs at Newport in 1828;
died at Newport, December 2, 1840.
Ellery, William, was born at Newport, R. I.,
December 22, 1727; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1747; studied law, and in 1770 admitted to
the bar; clerk of a court two years; Delegate from
Rhode Island to the Continental Congress in
place of Samuel Ward, taking his seat May 14,
1776; one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; again a Delegate 1783^1785; appointed
chief justice of Rhode Island in 1785; elected to
Congress from Rhode Island in 1786; collector of
the port at Newport from 1790 until his death,
February 15, 1820.
EUett, Henry T. , was elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Twenty-ninth Congress (in
place of Jefferson Davis, resigned), serving from
January 26, 1847, to March 3, 1847.
Ellett, Tazewell, of Richmond, Va., was born
in that city January 1, 1856; lived all his life either
in Richmond City or Hanover County; educated in
the private school of John M. Strother until 16 years
old; cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and
graduated from that mstitution in 1876; studied
law at the University of Virginia and graduated
with the degree of LL. B. in 1878; practiced law
in Richmond; several years a member of the board
of visitors of' the Virginia Military Institute;
Presidential elector in 1888 on the Democratic
ticket; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
EUicott, Benjamin, was a resident of Batavia,
Genesee County, N. Y.;\ elected a Representative
from that State to the Fifteenth Congress.
Elliott, John, graduated from Yale College in
1794; studied law and began practicing at Sunbury,
Liberty County, Ga. ; held several local offices;
elected United States Senator from Georgia, serv-
ing from December 6, 1819, to March 3, 1825; died
at Sunbury, Ga., August 9, 1827.
Elliott, James, was born at Guilford, Vt.,
August 9, 1770; received a public school educa-
tion; sergeant in the Indian war of 1793; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practice at
Brattleboro, Vt. ; held several local ofiices; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Eighth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Ninth
and Tenth Congresses; died at Newfane, Vt.,
November 10, 1839.
Elliott, James T. , was born in Monroe County,
Ga., April 22, 1823; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1854 admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Camden, Ark. ; elected circuit
judge in 1866; in 1867 established and edited the
South Arkansas Journal; elected a Representative
from Arkansas to the Fortieth Congress, in place
of James Hinds, as a Republican, serving from
January 13 to March 3, 1869; died at Camden,
Ark., July 28, 1875.
Elliott, John M. , was born in Scott County,
Va., May 16, 1820; moved to Kentucky and
attended public schools; studied law and admitted
to the bar; began practice in 1843; member of the
State house of representatives in 1847; elected a
Representative^ from Kentucky to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress; representative from Ken-
tucky to the First and Second Confederate Con-
gresses.
Elliott, Mortimer F., of Wellsboro, Pa., was
born at Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa., September
24, 1843; received an academic education; studied
law; admitted to the bar; member of the conven-
tion to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in
1873; elected a Representative at large from Penn-
sylvania to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection; accepted a position
with the Standard Oil Company.
Elliott, Robert Brown, was born at Boston,
Mass., August 11, 1842; entered High Hollow
Academy, in London, England, in 1853; entered
Eton College, in England, in 1859 and graduated
the same year; studied law and admitted to the
bar; member of the South Carolina State constitu-
tional convention in 1868; member of the house of
representatives of South Carolina from July 6,
1868, to October 23, 1870; assistant adjutant-general
from 1869 until elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Forty-second Congress as a
Republican; resigned before his term expired; re-
elected to the Forty-third Congress; resigned,
having been elected sheriff.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOEY.
Elliott, William, of Beaufort, S. C, was born
at Beaufort, S. C, September 3, 1838; educated at
Beaufort College; entered Harvard University in
1854, but before graduating entered the University
of Virginia and studied law; admitted to the bar
at Charleston in April, 1861; entered the Confed-
erate service; served as an officer throughout the
war; elected a member of the legislature and
intendant of Beaufort in 1866; delegate to^ the
national Democratic convention at St. Louis in
1876; Democratic Presidential elector for the State
at large in 1880; Democratic candidate for Congress
in 1884, but defeated; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress; his seat
was contested by Miller and was unseated Septem-
ber 23, 1890; reelected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress; was given the certificate of election to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, but was unseated June 4,
1896, and seat ^iven to his Eepublican opponent;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; reelected to the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Ellis, Caleb, was born at Walpole, Mass., in
1767; graduated from Harvard College in 1793;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and moved to
Newport, N. H., and thence to Claremont; served
in both branches of the legislature; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Hampshire to the Ninth
Congress; elector on the Clinton and Ingersoll
ticket in 1813; appointed judge of the superior
court of New Hampshire same year, which oflJce
he held until his death, May 6, 1816.
Ellis, Chesselden, was a native of New York;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for the Twenty-ninth
Congress.
Ellis, E. Johii, was born at Covington, La.,
October 15, 1841; received his early education at
Clinton, La. ; entered the freshman class at Cen-
tenary College, Jackson, La., in 1855, and with-
drew when in the junior class, in 1858; entered
the law department of the University of Louisiana;
graduated in March, 1861; joined the Confederate
army five days afterwards and served throughout
the war; admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1866,
and practiced; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat; died in 1889.
Ellis, Powhatan, was a native of Virginia;
moved to Mississippi; received a liberal education;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced;
elected a judge of the State supreme court in 1823;
appointed United States Senator from Mississippi
(in place of David Holmes, resigned) as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 12, 1825, to March 11,
1826, when his successor took his seat; again
elected a United States Senator, serving from
December 3, 1827, to 1832, when he resigned to
become judge of the United States court; appointed
by President Jackscn charg6 d'affaires of the
United States to Mexico January 5, 1836, and closed
the legation December 28, 1836; minister plenipo-
tentiary to Mexico February 15, 1839, to April 21,
1842; died at Richmond, Va., about 1844.
Ellis, William C, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; received a public school education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Eighteenth Congress
as a Federalist; resumed the practice of law; died
at Muncy, Pa., December 13, 1871.
Ellis, William R., of Heppner, Oreg., was
born near Waveland, Montgomery County, Ind.,
April 23, 1850; moved to Guthrie County, Iowa, in
1855; worked on farm and attended district school
until 18 years of age; divided his time between
teaching country school and working on farm, until
after arriving at majority; attended school for a
while at the Iowa State Agricultural College at
Ames, Iowa; graduated from the law department
of the Iowa State University at Iowa City in June,
1874; practiced law and engaged in newspaper
work at Hamburg, Iowa; served two years as city
attorney and one term as mayor of that city;
moved to Oregon in 1883 ; served one term as county
superintendent of schools, and three terms as dis-
trict attorney of the seventh judicial district of
Oregon; elected to the Fifty- third Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses.
Ellis, William T., of Owensboro, Ky., was
born near Knottsville, Ky., July 24, 1845; early
education obtained in the common schools; en-
listed in 1861 in the First Kentucky Confederate
Cavalry at the age of 16 and served with his regi-
ment continuously until April 21, 1865; at the
close of the war returned home, and for a few
months attended Pleasant Valley Seminary,
Daviess County; taughtschoQlforeighteenmonths,
during which time he devoted his leisure time to
the study of law; although licensed and admitted
to practice in 1868, to better equip himself for his
profession he entered the senior law class at Har-
vard in 1869; entered upon the practice of the law at
Owensboro in 1870; elected county attorney in
1870, and reelected in 1874; Presidential elector
for the Second Congressional district in 1876;. de-
feated for Congress in 1886; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law.
Ellison, Andrew, was born in Ireland; emi-
grated to the United States and located at George-
town, Ohio; received a public school education;
elected, a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat.
EUsberry, William W., was born at New
Hope, Brown County, Ohio, December 18, 1833;
received good education in the public schools of
his native county, finishing at a private academy
in Clermont County; after having taught school.
two years began the study of medicine with his
father; attended medical lectures at the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery, graduating there,
and some years later attended a full course at the
Ohio Medical College, adding its diploma to the
former; continued in the successful practice of his
profession until his election to Congress ; appointed
superintendent of the Central Insane Asylum at
Columbus in 1878, but declined to serve; chosen
three times county auditor; at the outbreak of the
war he was one of the county military board;
member of various medical societies, including the
American Medical Association; delegate to the
national Democratic convention which nominated
Hancock in 1880; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died September 7, 1894.
Ellsworth, Charles C, was elected a Repre-
sentative from Michigan to the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Republican.
Ellsworth, Oliver (father of William W. Ells-
worth), was born at Windsor, Conn., April 29
1745; graduated from Princeton College in 1796'
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Windsor; Delegate from Connecticut to the
Continental Congress in 1777; executive councilor
1778-1780; delegate to the convention which
BIOGRAPHIES.
519
framed, the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected a
United States Senator from Connecticut as a Fed-
eralist, serving from March 4, 1789, to 1796, when
he resigned; appointed Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in 1796; resigned
in 1800 on account of ill health ; appointed envoy
extraordinary to France to negotiate a treaty; died
at Windsor, Conn., November 26, 1807.
EUswortli, Samuel S., was a native of Ver-
mont; received a common school education; moved
to Penn Yan, N. Y. ; served in the New York State
legislature in 1840; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat.
EUswortli, "William W. (son of Oliver Ells-
worth), was born in Windsor, Conn., November
10, 1791; graduated from Yale College in 1810;
studied law and admitted to the bar; professor of
law at Trinity College, Hartford; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Jwenty-flrst
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses, serving from
December 7, 1829, to 1834, when he resigned; gov-
ernor of Connecticut 1834-1842; judge of the State
supreme court from 1847 to 1861, when, by the
constitutional provision, he was compelled to re-
tire; declined twice an election to the United States
Senate; died at Hartford, Conn., January 15, 1868.
Ellwood, Reuben, was born in Montgomery
County, N. Y., February 21, 1821; educated at
Cherry Valley Academy, New York; manufacturer
of agricultural implements; member of the New
York State house of representatives in 1850; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress; died July 1,
1885.
Elmendorf, Lucas, was born at Kingston,
N. Y., in 1768; graduated from Princeton College
in 1782; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fifth Congress; reelected to the Sixth and Seventh
Congresses; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1804-5, and of the State senate 1814-
1817; died at Kingston, N. Y., August 17, 1843.
Elmer, Ebenezer, was born at Cedarville,
-N. J., in 1752; received an academic education;
studied medicine and practiced; served in the
Revolutionary Army as surgeon; practiced medi-
cine at Bridgeton, N. J.; member of the State
house of representatives 1789-1795, serving as
speaker in 1791 and 1795; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Seventh, Eighth, and
Ninth Congresses; collector of customs at Bridge-
ton; served in the war of 1812; vice-president of
the Burlington College 1808-1817 an4 1822-1832;
died at Bridgeton, N. J., October 18, 1843.
Elmer, Jonathan (brother of Ebenezer Elmer) ,
was born in Cumberland County, N. J., in 1745;
received a liberal education; studied medicine and
graduated from the medical school of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; Delegate from New Jersey
to the Continental Congress 1776-1778, 1781-1784,
and 1787; high sheriff and afterwards surrogate of
Cumberland County; elected a United States Sena-
tor as a Federalist 1789-1791; died at Burlington,
N. J., in 1817.
Elmer, Lucius Q. C. , was born at Bridgeton,
N. J., in 1793; graduated from Princeton College;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
ticing at Bridgeton, N. J. ; served several years as
prosecuting attorney; member of the State house
of representatives 1820-1823, serving the last year
as speaker; United States district attorney for the
district of New Jersey 1824-1829; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection;
appointed attorney-general of New Jersey in 1850;
justice of the State supreme court 1850-1852.
Elmore, Franklin Harper, was born in Lau-
rens District, S. C, January 16, 1790; graduated
from the South Carolina College in 1819; studied
law, and in 1821 admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Walterboro, S. C. ; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress (to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation
of General Hammond) as a State Rights Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress; pres-
ident of the Bank of the State of South Carolina
1839-1850; declined appointment as minister to
Great Britain; appointed a United States Senator
(to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
John C. Calhoun), serving from May 6, 1850, until
his death at Washington, May 29, 1850.
Ely, Alfred, was born at Lyme, New London
County, Conn., February 15, 1815; received a lib-
eral education; moved to Rochester, N. Y., in
1835; studied law, and in 1841 admitted to the
bar; began practicing at Rochester; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress; spectator at the battle of Bull
Run and taken a prisoner by the Confederates and
imprisoned at Richmond for nearly six months.
Ely, Frederick David, of Dedham, Mass., was
born at Wrentham, Norfolk County, Mass.," Sep-
tember 24, 1838; educated at Day's Academy,
Wrentham, and at Brown University, Providence,
R. I., where he graduated in 1859; studied law, and
admitted to practice in 1862; trial justice from
1867 to March 3, 1885; member of the State house
of representatives of Massachusetts in 1873, and of
the State senate 1878-79; member of the school
committee of Dedham 1882-1885; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican; resumed
the practice of law after leaving Congress.
Ely, John, was anative of Connecticut; received
a liberal education; member of the State house of
representatives 1837-1839; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat.
Ely, Smith, jr., was born in New Jersey in
1825; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1846;
never practiced his profession; became engaged in
mercantile pursuits in New York; elected school
trustee in 1856, State senator in 1857, and county
supervisor in 1860, retaining the latter office until
1870, when it was abolished; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-second Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress; resigned December 12, 1876, having been
elected mayor of New York.
Ely, 'William, was a native of Massachusetts;
graduated from Yale College in 1787; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Ninth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses;
died in 1817.
Embree, Elisha, was born in Lincoln County,
Ky., September 28, 1801; moved with his father
to Indiana in 1811; received a public school edu-
cation; studied law; began practicing at Prince-
ton, Ind. ; circuit judge 1835-1845; elected a Rep-
resentative from Indiana to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig; defeated for the Thirty-first Congress;
died at Princeton, Ind., March 7, 1863.
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CONQKESSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
Emerson, Iiouis Woodard, of Warrensburg,
Warren County, N. Y., was born at Warrensburg
July 25, 1857; educated at Warrensburg Academy;
engaged in the banking and manufacturing busi-
ness; State senator for two terras, commencing
1891; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Emott, James, was born at Albany, N. Y., in
1770; received a liberal education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Pough-
keepsie; elected a Representative from New York
to the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist; reelected
to the Twelfth Congress; member of theState house
of representativesl814-1817; first judgeof the court
of common pleas of Dutchess County from April 8,
1817, to February 3, 1823; appointed judge for the
second judicial, circuit February 21, 1827, and held
that office until he was 60 years of age, when he
retired; died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 7, 1850.
Emrie, Joseph. Beece, was elected a Represent-
ative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican ; defeated for the Thirty-flf th Congress.
English., James E. , was born at New Haven,
Conn., March, 1812; received a public school edu-
cation; became a dealer in lumber, subsequently
a banker and manufacturer; member of the State
house of representatives in 1855 and of the State
senate 1856-1858; declined a reelection; defeated
as a candidate for lieutenant-governor in 1860;
elected a Representative to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress; elected governor of Connecticut
in 1867, defeating J. E. Hawleyi reelected in 1868;
defeated in 1869 and again in 1870; again elected
to the State house of representatives; defeated as a
candidate for the Forty-third Congress; appointed
United States Senator from Connecticut as a Dem-
ocrat (to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death
of Orris S. Ferry, Republican), serving from
December 7, 1875, to May 22, 1876.
English, Thomas Dunn, was born in Phila-
delphia, Pa., June 29, 1819; graduated as doctor of
medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in
1839, and called to the Philadelphia bar in 1842,
but mainly pursued authorship and journalism;
moved to Virginia; prominent opponent of Know-
nothingism; moved to New Jersey, and in 1863-64
served in the New Jersey legislature; received the
degree of doctor of laws from William and Mary
College, Virginia, in 1876; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Fifty-second Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress;
, author of numerous poems and ballads; editorial
writer; wrote Ben Bolt, a popular ballad; died
at Newark, N. J., April 1, 1902.
English, Warren B., of Oakland, Cal., was
born at Charlestown, Va., May 1, 1846; attended
the public schools and Charlestown Academy
until June, 1861; served in the Confederate army
moved to Oakland, Cal., and attended the Cali-
■ fornia Military Academy; elected member of the
board of supervisors of Contra Costa County in
1877 and served four years; elected State senator
m 1882; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at Chicago in 1^84; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
English, "William E., of Indianapolis, Ind.,
was born at Lexington, Scott County, Ind. , Novem-
ber 3, 1851; moved to Indianapolis at an early age;
graduated from the Northwestern University; ad-
mitted to the practice of law in 1872 ; member of the
State house of representatives in 1878; Democratic
candidate for Representative in the Forty-eighth
Congress in November, 1882, but the certificate of
election having been given to his Republican com-
petitor on the face of the returns, he contested the
seat on the ground of fraud and irregularity in the
counting of the votes; after an examination of the
evidence a majority of the Committee on Elections
reported that he had been duly and rightfully
elected; declined a renomination and returned
to Indianapolis, where he devoted his time to the
management of his vast real-estate interests.
English, William H., was bom in Scott
County, Ind., August 27, 1822; received a classical
education at the University of' South Hanover;
studied law; admitted to the bar and in 1846
began practicing; became interested in farming;
clerk of the State house of representatives in 1843;
clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington
1844-1848; clerk of the Indiana constitutional con-
vention in 1850; speaker of the Indiana house of
representatives 1851; elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses.
Enloe, Benjamin Augustine, of Jackson,
Tenn., was born near Clarksburg, Carroll County,
Tenn., January 18, 1848; raised on a farm, and
enjoyed the benefit of such country schools as the
country afforded between 1855 and 1865; entered
Bethel College in 1867, and afterwards became a
student in the literary department of the Cumber-
land University at Lebanon, Tenn. ; while a stu-
dent at the latter institution elected a member of
the house of representatives of the general assem-
bly of the State, at the age of 21 years; reelected
under the new constitution in 1870; graduated
from the law department of Cumberland Univer-
sity in 1872; delegate to the national Democratic
convention at Baltimore in 1872; appointed a com-
missioner by Governor Marks in 1878 to negotiate
a settlement of the State debt; served on the State
executive committee for the State at large 1878-
1880; delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tion at Cincinnati in 1880; edited the Jackson
Tribune and Sun 1874-1886; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses.
Enochs, William H., of Ironton, Ohio, was
born near Middleburg, Noble County, Ohio, March
29,1842; brought up on farm ; educated in common
schools; served through late war as private, cor-
poral, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, lieutenant-
colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-general;
graduated from the Cincinnati Law School 1866,
and engaged in the practice of law; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Republican; died Julv
13, 1893. '
Epes, James F., of Blackstone, Va., was born
m Nottoway County, Va., May 23, 1842; educated
in different primary and pri<'ate schools and at the
University of Virginia; m the Confederate army
1861-1865; during session of 1866 and 1867 attended
the law department of Washington and Lee Uni-
versity, and graduated there; lawyer by profession;
elected to Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-third Congress.
- . Sydney P., was born in Nottoway
County, Va., August 20, 1865; moved, when 14
years of age, to Kentucky with his parents, where
he received an academic education; returned to
Virginia in 1884 and engaged in journalism; edited
and published a Democratic newspaper for a num-
ber of years; chairman of the Democratic county
committee of Nottoway County, member of the
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Democratic State central committee, and oliairman
of the Fourth Congressional district committee;
elected in 1891 a member of the general assembly
to represent the counties of Nottoway and Amelia;
appomted by Governor O'Ferrall in 1895 register
of the land office to fill an unexpired term, and at
the following session of the general assembly
elected by acclamation for the full term; before
the expiration of his term elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat; his seat was successfully
contested by E. T. Thorp, who took his seat March
23,1898; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress; died
March 3, 1900.
Eppes, John W. , was born in Virginia in 1773;
received an academic education; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Nmth, Tenth, and Eleventh
Congresses; again elected to the Thirteenth Con-
gress; elected a United States Senator from Vir-
ginia, serving from December 1, 1817, to 1819,
when he resigned on account of failing health;
retired to his farm in Chesterfield County, Va.,
where he died September 20, 1853.
Erdman, Constantine J., of AUentown, Pa.,
was .born in Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh
County, Pa., September 4, 1846; attended the
common schools of the district and a classical
school at Quakertown; entered Pennsylvania
College, Gettysburg, in 1861, and graduated in
1865; read law; admitted to the bar of Lehigh in
1867; elected district attorney in 1874; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Erdznan, Jacob, was a native of Pennsylvania;
resided at Coopersburg; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat; died at Coopersburg, Pa., July 20,
1867.
Ermentrout, Daniel, was born at Reading, Pa. ,
January 24, 1837; educated in the public and clas-
sical schools of his native city, Franklin and Mar-
shall College, Lancaster and Elmwood Institutes,
Norristown, Pa. ; studied law; admitted to practice
in August, 1859; elected district attorney for three
years in 1862 ; solicitor for the city of Reading 1867-
1870; elected to the State senate of Pennsylvania in
1873 for a term of three years, and reelected in
1876 for four years; member of the board of school
control of Reading for many years; appointed in
October, 1877, by Governor Hartranft, a member
of the Pennsvlvania statuary commission; several
times chosen "chairman of the standing committee
of Berks County, and delegate to various Demo-
cratic State conventions; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at Cincinnati in 1880;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses; died Septem-
ber 17, 1899.
Errett, Russell, was born in New York in 1817;
self-educated; moved to Pennsylvania in 1829; by
profession an editor; elected comptroller of Pitts-
burg in 1860; served as clerk of the Pennsylvania
senate 1860-61 and 1872-1876; appointed additional
paymaster in the U. S. Army in 1861, and served
Sntil mustered out in 1866; elected to the State
senate of Pennsylvania in 1867; appointed assessor
of internal revenue in 1869, and served until 1873;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty^seventh
Congresses; defeated for reelection; appointed by
President Arthur United States pension agent at
Pittsburg in 1883, which position he held until
May 1887; died at Cologne April 7, 1891.
Erwin, James, was born in Williamsburg
District, S. C, October 17, 1778; graduated from
Brown University in 1797; studied law, and in 1800
admitted to the bar; member of the State house of
representatives 1800-1804; solicitor of the northern
judicial circuit 1804-1816; trustee of the South
Carolina College 1809-1817; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Fifteenth Con-
gress as a tariff man; reelected to the Sixteenth
Congress without opposition; declined reelection
on account of failing health; died near Darlington,
D. C, July 7, 1841.
Esch, John Jacob, of La Crosse, Wis., was
born near Nor walk, Monroe County, Wis., March
20, 1861, of German parents; his parents moved
to Milwaukee in 1865 and five years later to Sparta,
Wis.; graduated from the Sparta High School; en-
tered the State University at Madison and took
his degree with the class of 1882; entered the law
department of the State University and graduated
in 1887; practiced; city treasurer of Sparta in 1885;
organized the Sparta Rifles, afterwards known as
Company I, Third Regiment Wisconsin National
Guard in 1883 and was commissioned captain, re-
taining the office until 1887; also helped organize
Company M of the same regiment, being first lieu-
tenant and afterwards captain; in January, 1894,
commissioned acting judge-advocate-general, with
the rank of colonel, Dy Gov. W. H. Upham, hold-
ing the office for two years; elected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Estil, Benjamin, was a native of Washington
County, Va. ; received a public school education;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and began prac-
ticing at Arlington; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Nineteenth Congress.
Esty, Constantine C, was born at Framing-
ham, Mass., December 26, 1824; graduated from
Yale College in 1845; studied law, and in 1847 ad-
mitted to the bar; began practicing at Framing-
ham; member of the State senate 1857-58, and of
the State house of representatives in 1867; ap-
pointed assessor of internal revenue in 1862 and
removed in 1866; reappointed in 1867; resigned in
1872; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Forty-second Congress (in place of George
M. Book, resigned) as a Republican.
Etheridge, Emerson, was born at Currituck,
N. C, September 28, 1819; moved to Tennessee in
1831; received a liberal education; Studied law,,
and in 1840 admitted to the bar; member of the
State house of representatives 1845-1847; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fourth
Congress; defeated for the Thirty-fifth Congress;
again elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Eustis, George, jr. , was born at New Orleans,
La., September 28, 1828; graduated from the Jef-
ferson College of Louisiana, also the Cambridge
Law School ; admitted to the bar and began prac-
tice at New Orleans; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American, and reelected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress; secretary of the Confederate legation at
Paris; remained in Paris after the close of the war;
commissioned by Elihu B. Washburne, the min-
ister at Paris, to negotiate a postal treaty with the
French Government; died at Cannes, France,
March 15, 1872.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Eustis, James B., was born at New Orleans
August 27, 1834; received a classical education;
attended the Harvard Law School 1853-54; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1856, and practiced at New
Orleans; entered the Confederate service at the
commencement of hostilities as judge-advocate
on the staff of General Magruder and transferred
to the staff of Gen. Joe Johnston; served until
the close of the war; resumed practice at New
Orleans; elected a member of the State legis-
lature prior to the reconstruction acts; one of
the committee sent to Washington to confer with
President Johnson on Louisiana affairs; member
of the State house of representatives in 1872;
elected a member of the State senate for four
years in 1874; elected in 1877 a United States
Senator, appearing February 10, 1877, but his seat
being contested by P. B. S. Pinchback, was not
recognized by the Senate until December 10, 1877;
served until March 3, 1879; professor of civil law
in the University of Louisiana; again elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
Benjamin F. Jonas, Democrat, for the term of
1885-1891; practiced law at Washington, D. C, in
1891; ambassador to France 1893-1897; located at
New York City; died at Newport, R. I., Septem-
ber 9, 1899.
Eustis, William, was born at Cambridge,
Mass., June 10, 1753; graduated from Harvard
College in 1772; studied medicine, and served in
the Revolutionary Army as surgeon; resumed his
practice at Boston; elected a Representative to
the Seventh Congress as a Democrat, and reelected
to the Eighth Congress; Secretary of War from
March 7, 1809, to January 19, 1813; minister to
the Netherlands December 19, 1814, to May 5,
1818; again elected to the Seventeenth Congress;
elected governor of Massachusetts in 1823, and
served until his death, at Boston, February 6,
1825.
Evans, Alexander, was born at Elkton, Md. ;
received a public school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at Elk-
ton in 1845; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, and
reelected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second
Congresses.
Evans, Alvin, of Ebensburg, Pa., was born at
Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa., October 4, 1845
educated in the public schools of his native county
studied law, and admitted to the bar June 3, 1873,
practiced law in the several courts of Cambria
County, superior and supreme courts of the State,
and Federal courts; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Evans, David E. , of Batavia, Genesee County,
N. Y.; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twentieth
Congress, but resigned before he took his seat.
Evans, David B., was born at Westminster,
England, February 20, 1769; came with his father
to South Carolina in 1784; educated at Mount
Zion College; studied law and in 1796 admitted to
the bar; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1800-1804; solicitor of the middle judicial
circuit 1804-1811; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat; declined a reelection and returned to
his plantation; member of the State, senate 1818-
1826; died March 8, 1843.
Evans, George, was born at Plallowell, Mass.
(afterwards Maine), January 12, 1797; graduated
from Bowdoin College in 1815; studied law, and
in 1818 admitted to the bar; member of the State
house of representatives, and its speaker in 1829;
elected a Representative from Maine to the
Twenty -first. Twenty -second. Twenty -third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
Congresses; elected a United States Senator from
Maine as a Whig, serving from May 31, 1841, until
March 3, 1847; defeated for reelection; memberof
the commission to ascertain the claims against
Mexico 1849-50; elected attorney-general of
Maine in 1850, 1854, and 1856; died at Hallowell
April 5, 1867.
Evans, H. Clay, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was
born in Juniata County, Pa., June 18, 1843; re-
ceived a common school and academic education;
manufacturer; enlisted in the Forty-first Wisconsin
Infantry during the civil war; twice elected mayor
of Chattanooga; elected to the Fifty-first Congress
as a Republican; Assistant Postmaster-General,
1891-1893; elected governorofTennesseein 1894 on
the face of the returns, but a legislative recount re-
jected certain votes and declared Turney elected;
United States Pension Commissioner March 31,
1897, to May, 1902; appointed United States consul-
general to London, England, May 9, 1902.
Evans, I. Newton, of Hatboro, Pa., was bom
in East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pa.,
July 29, 1827; received an academic education;
studied medicine; graduated from the medical
department of Bowdoin College, of Maine, in 1851,
and Jefferson College, of Philadelphia, in 1852;
member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Soci-
ety and the American Medical Association; pres-
ident of the Hatborough National Bank; elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, and
reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses.
Evans, James La Fayette, was born in Ham-
son County, Ky., March 27, 1825; received a
public school education; moved to Indiana and
located in Hancock County in 1837; moved to
Hamilton County, Ind., and located at Noblesville
in 1850; elected a Representative from that State
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican and
reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Evans, John, was a Delegate from Pennsylvania
to the Continental Congress 1776-77.
Evans, Joshua, was born in Pennsylvania;
resided at Paoli, and received a public school edu-
cation; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Twenty-second Congress.
Evans, Josiah James, was born in Marlboro
District, S. C, November 27, 1786; graduated in
1808 from South Carolina College; studied law
and in 1811 began practicing in Marlboro District;
member of the State house of representatives
1812-13; moved to Darlington District in 1816, and
again elected a member of the State house of rep-
resentatives; State solicitor for the northern dis-
trict 1816-1829; circuit judge, 1829-1835, and of
the higher court 1829-1852; elected a United States
Senator from South Carolina as a State Rights
Democrat, and served from March 4, 1853, until
his death at Washington, D. C, May 6, 1858.
Evans, Lemuel D. , was a native of Tennessee;
moved to Marshall, Tex., where he practiced law;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; defeated
for reelection; circuit judge; appointed United
States marshal for the eastern judicial district of
Texas.
BIOGRAPHIES.
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Evans, Nathan, was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, June 24, 1804; received a hberal education;
studied law, and in 1831- admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Cambridge; prosecuting attorney for
Guernsey County 1842-1846; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-first Congress;
resumed his practice at Cambridge.
Evans, Thomas, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a public school education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Fifth Congress and reelected to the
Sixth Congress.
Ev^ns, Walter, of Louisville, Ky., was born
in Barren County, Ky., September 18, 1842; self-
educated; worked on a farm; deputv clerk in Hop-
kinsville in December, 1859, reading law at night;
entered the Federal Army in 1861; began to prac-
tice law in 1864; elected to the lower house of the
State legislature in 1871 and to the Senate in 1874,
serving in each house on the judiciary committee;
delegate to the Republican national conventions
in 1868, 1872, 1880, and 1884; moved to Louisville
in 1874; Republican nominee for governor in 1879;
on May 21, 1883, appointed by President Arthur
Commissioner of Internal Revenue and served
until April 20, 1885, when he returned to Louis-
ville and resumed the practice of law; elected to
the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; appointed judge of the Federal court
at Louisville, Ky., by President McKinley, March
4, 1899.
Evarts, William Maxwell, was born at Bos-
ton, Mass., February, 6, 1818; received a classical
education, graduating from Yale College in 1837;
studied in the Harvard Law School, and admitted
to the bar in New York in 1841; practiced law;
chairman of the New York delegation to the na-
tional Republican convention of 1860; Attorney-
General of the United States from July 15, 1868,
to March 3, 1869; received the degree of LL. D.
from Union College in 1857, from Yale in 1865,
and from Harvard in 1870; counsel for President
Johnson on his trial upon his impeachment in
1868; counsel for the United States before the
tribunal of arbitration on the Alabama claims at
Geneva, Switzerland, in 1872; counsel for Presi-
dent Hayes, in behalf of the Republican party,
before the electoral commission; Secretary of State
of the United States from March 12, 1877, to March
3, 1881 ; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican in the place of Elbridge G. Lapham,
Republican, serving from March 4, 1885, to March
3, 1891 ; died February 28, 1901, in New York City.
Eveleigrh, Nicholas, was a Delegate from South
CaroUna to the Continental Congress 1781-82.
Everett, Edward, was born in Dorchester,
Mass. , April 11, 1 794; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1811; tutor at Harvard in 1812; ordamed pas-
tor of the Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston,
February 9, 1814; elected professor of Greek lit-
erature at Harvard in 1814; abroad three years
and a half preparing himself for those duties;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Nineteenth Congress as a Whig; and reelected to
the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses; declined a reelection;
governor of Massachusetts 1836-1840; declined a
commission to China 1843; minister to Great
Britain September 13, 1841, to August 8, 1845;
elected president of Harvard College, serving
from 1846 to 1849; Secretary of State under Presi-
dent Filhnore (to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Daniel Webster), serving from November
6, 1852, to March 3, 1853; elected a United States
Senator from Massachusetts, serving from Decem-
ber 5, 1853, to June 1, 1854, when he resigned;
defeated as the American compromise candidate
for Vice-President on the ticket headed by John
Bell; lectured in behalf of the fund for the pur-
chase of Mount Vernon; Presidential elector in
1864 on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket; died at
Boston, January 15, 1865.
Everett, Horace, was born in Vermont in 1780;
received a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practicing at Windsor,
Vt. ; prosecuting attorney for Windsor County,
1813-1817; memberof the Statehouse of represent-
atives 1820-1822, and again in 1834; delegate to
the State constitutional convention in 1828; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Twenty-
first Congress as a Whig and reelected to the
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses; died at Windsor, Vt., January 30, 1851.
Everett, Bobert William, of Fish, Polk
County, Ga., was born near the village of Hayne-
ville, Houston County, Ga., March 3, 1839; re-
ceived his preparatory education in the village
school; entered Mercer University September, 1856;
graduated in July, 1859; located in Polk County;
engaged in teaching school; entered the Confed-
erate army as a sergeant in Gen. N. B. Forrest's
Escort Squadron, and served until the close of the
war; commissioner of revenue; twelve years on
the board of education, the last four as president
of the board; member of the general assembly
1882-1885; engaged in farming; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; again elected
a member of the State legislature of Georgia.
Everett, William, of Quincy, Mass., was born
at Watertown, Mass., October 10, 1839; educated
in public schools of Cambridge and Boston, at
Harvard College (A. B., 1859; Ph. D., 1875), and at
Trinity College, Cambridge, England (B. A., 1863);
admitted to the bar in 1867; licensed to preach
1872, by the Suffolk Association of (Unitarian)
Ministers; tutor in Harvard College 1870-1873;
assistant professor of Latin 1873-1877; master of
Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., 1878-1893; au-
thor of various publications, chiefly books for
boys; engaged in political speaking on the Repub-
lican side 1864-1883; an early civil-service re-
former; took part in the Cleveland campaign of
1884 as a Mugwump; acted with the Democratic
party, but holding an independent position; nomi-
nated for Congress by Democratic conventions in
1884, 1890, 1892; chosen at the by-election of
April, 1893, to the Fifty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat; took his seat August 7, 1893, serving until
March 3, 1895; master of school at Quincy, Mass.
Everhart, James Bowen, of Westchester, Pa.,
was elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Republican; died August 23, 1888.
Everhart, William, was born at Westches-
ter, Pa.; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Whig.
Evins, John H., was born in Spartanburg Dis-
trict (now county), S. C, July 18, 1830; entered
South Carolina College in December, 1850, and
graduated in 1853; studied law and admitted to
practice in 1856; officer in the Confederate service,
serving first as a first lieutenant in the Fifth South
Carolina Regiment, and afterwards as a captain
in the Palmetto Sharpshooters; wounded, and.
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being disabled from active service in the field,
appointed lieutenant-colonel and assigned to duty
in his own State; member of the legislature of
South Carolina for two terms; elected to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat; died October 20, 1884.
Ewart, Hamilton Glover, of Hendersonville,
N. C, was born at Columbia, S. C, October 23,
1849; received an academic education; graduated
from the University of South Carolina; graduated
from the law department of the same institution,
receiving the degree of bachelor of laws; com-
menced the practice of law at Hendersonville,
N. C, in 1872; appointed register in bankruptcy;
twice elected mayor of Hendersonville; district
elector on the Hayes ticket in 1876; elected to the
lower house of the legislature in 1886; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; elected judge
of the criminal court in 1895; elected judge of the
circuit court in 1897, and appointed judge of the
United States district court for the western district
of North Carolina in 1898.
Ewing, Andrew, was born at Nashville, Tenn. ;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Thirty-first Congress as
a Democrat.
Ewing', Edwin H. , was a native of Tennessee;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Whig.
E'wing, John, was born at sea while his parents
were on their way from Cork to Baltimore; located
in Indiana; received a public school education;
engaged in commercial pursuits at Vincennes;
served several years in both branches of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Twenty-third Congress; again elected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress; died at Vincennes in De-
cember, 1857.
Ewing, John H., was born at Washington,
Pa.; received a limited education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Whig.
Ewing, Presley, was a native of Russellville,
Ky. ; received a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; served two terms in the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig,
and reelected to the Thirty-third Congress; died at
Mammoth Cave, Ky., September 27, 1854.
Ewing, Thomas (father of Thomas Ewing, jr. ),
was born near West Liberty, Va., December 28,
1789; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1792;
worked on his father's farm; received a liberal
education at the Athens Academy, which conferred
on him the degree of A. B. in 1815, the first grant-
,, ', ed in Ohio; studied law; admitted to the bar in
Y 1816; began practicing at Lancaster, Ohio; elected
,\-, a United States Senator from Ohio as a Whig,
serving from December 5, 1831, to March 3, 1837;
>., defeated for reelection; appointed Secretarv of the
V. Treasury by President Harrison, serving from
' ' March 5, 1841, to September 13, 1841; appointed
Secretary of the Interior by President Taylor,
.; serving from March 7, 1849, to July 25, 1850; ap-
, pointed United States Senator (in place of Thomas
Corwin, resigned), serving from July 27, 1850, to
; March 3, 1851; resumed the practice of law; del-
•' egate to the peace congress in 1861; delegate to the
national Union convention in 1865; died at Lan-
caster, Ohio, October 26, 1871.
Ewing, Thomas, was born at Lancaster, Ohio,
August 7, 1829; graduate^ from Brown University!
Providence, R. I., 1854; lawyer; member of the
peace conference from Kansas in 1861; chief justice
supreme court of Kansas 1861-62; served in the
Union Army as colonel Eleventh Kansas Infantry
Volunteers August, 1862; brigadier-general U. S.
Volunteers September, 1863; brevet major-general
U. S. Volunteers March, 1865; member of the con-
stitutional convention of Ohio 1873-74; elected to
the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a I
Democrat; moved to New York in 1881, where he 1
engaged in the practice of law; died in New York
in January, 1 896.
Ewing, William L. D., was born in 1795;
received an academic education and studied law;
admitted to the bar, and commenced practice, at
Vandalia; appointed a United States Senator from
Illinois (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Elias Kane), serving from January 25, 1836, to
March 3, 1837; died March 25, 1846.
Fair, James Graham, was born December 3,
1831, near Belfast, Ireland; came to this country
with his parents in 1843 and settled in Illinois;
received a thorough business education, paying
special attention to scientific studies; on the
breaking out of the gold fever in 1849, moved
to California and engaged in mining until 1860,
when he moved to Nevada, where he engaged ex-
tensively in mining, constructing huge quartz
mills, building waterworks, etc.; formed a part-
nership with John AV. Mackay, J. G. Flood,
and Wm. S. O'Brien in 1867; the firm pur-
chased the control of the Bonanzas and various
other well-known mines, the yield of gold and sil-
ver from which, while under the superintendency
of Mr. Fair, is estimatedatabout$200, 000,000; also
extensively engaged in real estate and buildings
in San Francisco, and largely interested in the
various manufactures of the Pacific coast; elected
to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to suc-
ceed William Sharon, Republican, and took his
seat March 4, 1881, serving until March 3, 1887;
died at San Francisco, Cal., December 28, 1894.
Fairbanks, Charles Warren, of Indianapolis,
Ind., was born on a farm near Unionville Center,
Union County, Ohio, May 11, 1852; educated in
the common schools of the neighborhood and at
the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio,
graduating from that institution in 1 872 in the clas-
sical course; admitted to the bar by the supreme
court of Ohio in 1874; moved to Indianapolis 'in the
same year, where he practiced his profession; never
held public office prior to his election to the United
States Senate; elected a trustee of the Ohio Wes-
leyan University in 1885; chairman of the Indiana
Republican State conventions in 1892 and 1898;
unanimously chosen as the nominee of the Repub-
lican caucus for United States Senator in the
Indiana legislature in January, 1893, and subse-
quently received his entire party vote in the
legislature, but defeated by Da\'id Turpie, Demo-
crat; delegate at large to the Republican national
convention at St. Louis in 1896, and temporary
chairman of the convention; delegate at large
to the Republican national convention at Phila-
delphia in 1900, and as chairman of the com-
mittee on resolutions reported the platform; ap-
pointed a member of the United States and British
joint high commission which met in Quebec- in
1898 for the adjustment of Canadian questions,
and chairman of the United States high commis-
sioners; elected to the United States Senate Jana-
ery 20, 1897, as a Republican, to succeed Daniel
W. Voorhees, Democrat, and took his seat March
4, 1897; reelected in 1903,
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Fairchild, BenL., of Pelham Heights, West-
chester County, N. Y., was born at Sweden, N. Y.,
January 5, 1863; moved to Washington, D. C,
with his parents at the close of the war of the
rebellion, his father having lost his health from
wour.ds and disabilities received in military serv-
ice, and settled in that city,; educated in the pub-
lic schools of Washington, and at the age of 13
entered the draftsman division of the Interior
Department, and two years later the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Depart-
ment; studied law at the Columbian Law School,
from which he graduated with the degree of LL. M.
in 1885; resigned his position in the Treasury De-
partment, and after being admitted to the bar of
the District of Columbia went to New York City,
where, after taking the prescribed course of one
year, passed the bar examinations and admitted
to bar of that city and commenced the practice of
law; elected to the 'Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican.
Fairfield, John, was born at Saco, Me., Jan-
uary 30, 1797; received a limited education; studied
law and in 1826 admitted to the bar; appointed
reporter of the State supreme court decisions in
1832; elected a Representative froci Maine to the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; governor of Maine
1839-1843; elected a United States Senator from
Maine (in place of Reuel Williams, resigned) ;
reelected, and served from December 4, 1843, to
December 24, 1847, when he died, at Washington,
D. C.
Faran, James J., was a native of Ohio; re-
ceived a liberal education; resided at Cincinnati;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirtieth Congress; became one of the owners of
the Cincinnati Enquirer; died in 1892.
Faris, George W., of Terre Haute, Ind., was
born on a farm in Jasper County, Ind., June 9,
1854; his early life was spent on a farm in Pulaski
County, Ind.; entered Asbury University in 1872,
and graduated with his class in 1877; his father
having met with financial reverses, the son was
obliged to make his own way at college, which he
did by teaching school, keeping up with his col-
lege studies in the meantime, and spending part of
each year with his class; read law, admitted to the
bar, and practiced his profession; Republican nomi-
nee for the circuit judgeship in 1884, but defeated;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses.
Farlee, Isaac G., was a native of New Jersey;
resided at Flemington, where he received a public
school education; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Twenty-eighth Congress.
Farley, E. Wilder, was born in Maine in 1818;
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1836; studied
law, admitted to the bar, and began practicing at
Newcastle; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1843 and 1851-1853; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Thirty-third Congress
4S a Whig ; defeated for the Thirty-fourth Congress ;
State senator in 1856.
Farley, James T. , was born in Virginia, August
9, 1829; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed A. A. Sargent, .Republican,
and took hia seat March 18, 1879; died January
23, 1886.
Farlin, Dudley, was elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat; died at Warrensburg, N. Y., Septem-
ber 26, 1837.
Farnsworth., John F. , was born at Eaton,
Canada East, March 27, 1820; received a liberal
education; studied law aud admitted to the bar;
elected a Representative frbm Illinois to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress; served in the Union Army
as a colonel of cavalry and brigadier-general;
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress; reelected to
the Xhirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-
second Congresses; died in 1897.
Farquhar, John H., was born in Frederick
County, Md., December 20, 1818; moved with his
parents to Indiana in 1833, where he received a
public school education; civil engineer; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practicing at
Brookville; secretary of the State senate in 1842
and 1843; chief clerk of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1844; Presidential elector on the Lin-
coln and Hamlin ticket in 1860; served as cap-
tain in the civil war; elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Republican.
Farquhar, John M., of Buffalo, N. Y., was
born near Ayr, Scotland, April 17, 1832; educated
at Ayr Academy; for thirty-three years a printer,
editor, or publisher; manufacturer of lubricants;
president of the National Typographical Unioh
two terms, 1860-1862; enlisted in the Union Army
as a private in the Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry,
rose tc the rank of major, and served as judge-
advocate and as inspector on the staffs of Generals
Willich, Beatty, and Wood in the Fourth Army
Corps; participated in all the battles of the former
Twentieth (McCook's) and Fourth Army Corps,
excepting Missionary Ridge; never held civic office
until elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first
Congresses; member of the Industrial Commission.
Farr, Evarts W., was born at Littleton, N. H.,
in 1840; educated at Dartmouth College; entered
the Union Army as a private and attainted the rank
of major; admitted to the bar in 1867; member of
the executive council of New Hampshire in 1876;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses;
died at Littleton, N. H., November 30, 1880.
Farrelly, John W. (son of Patrick Farrelly),
was born at Meadville, Pa., July 7, 1809; received
a limited education; served in the State senate in
1828, and again 1838-1841; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig; appointed Sixth Auditor of the Treas-
ury by President Taylor, serving from November
5, 1849, to April 7, 1853; died at Washington, D. C.
Farrelly, Patrick (father of John W. Farrelly) ,
, was born in Ireland in 1 760 ; emigrated to the United
States; received a limited education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practice at Mead-
ville; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; died January 12, 1826, at Meadville, Pa.
Farrington, James, was born at Conway,
N. H., in October, 1791; graduated from Fryeburg
Academy, Maine; studied medicine; licensed July
18, 1818, and began practicing at Rochester, N. H. ;
served in both branches of the legislature; elected
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; appointed
one of the trustees of the New Hampshire Insane
Asylum in 1845; died at Rochester, N. H., October
29, 1859.
Farrow, Samuel, was born in Virginia in 1759;
moved in 1765 with his family to South Carolina,
and settled in Spartanburg District; served in the
Revolutionary war; studied law and admitted to
the bar in 1793; began practicing at Spartanburg;
lieutenant-governor of South" Carolina in 1810;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Thirteenth Congress as a War Democrat;
reelected to the Fourteenth Congress, but declined
to serve; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1816-1821; died at Columbia, S. C, Novem-
ber 18, 1824.
Tarwell, Charles B. , was born at Painted Post,
N. y., July 1, 1823; educated at the Elmira Acad-
emy; moved to Illinois in 1838; employed in Gov-
ernment surveying and in farming until 1844,
when he engaged in real estate business and bank-
ing in Chicago; elected county clerk of Cook
County in 1853, and reelected in 1857; subse-
quently engaged in mercantile pursuits; appointed
a member of the State board of equalization in
1867; chairman of the board of supervisors of Cook
County in 1868; appointed national-bank examiner
in 1869; elected to the Forty-second Congress; re-
elected to the Forty-third Congress; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; elected
tothe Senate of the United States January 19, 1887,
to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Gen.
John A. Logan, and took his seat January 25, 1887.
Farwell, Nathan A., was born in Unity, Me.,
February 24, 1812; received a public school educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Rockland, Me. ; member of the State
house of representatives 1863 and 1864; State sena-
tor in 1853, 1854, 1861, and 1862, serving the last
year as presiding officer; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Baltimore in 1864; ap-
pointed and afterwards elected United States
Senator as a Republican (in place of William Pitt
Fessenden, resigned), serving from December 5,
1864, to March 3, 1867; delegate to the Philadel-
phia Loyalist coQvention in 1866; died at Rock-
land, Me., December 10, 1893.
Parwell, Sewall S., of Monticello, Iowa, was
born near Keene, Coshocton County, Ohio, April
26, 1834; received an academic education; moved
to Iowa in 1852 and engaged in farming; entered
the service of the United States in 1862 as captain
of Company H, Thirty-first Iowa Volunteer In-
fantry, and served until the close of the war;
elected to the State senate in 1865 and served four
years; appointed assessor of internal revenue in
1869 and served four years; appointed collector of
internal revenue in 1875 and served six years;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; after leaving Congress elected president of
the Monticello State Bank.
Faulkner, Charles James, was born in Mar-
tinsburg, Va. (afterwards West Virginia) , in 1806;
graduated from Georgetown University; attended
Chancellor Tucker's law lectures at Winchester,
Va. ; admitted to the bar and practiced; member
of the Virginia house of representatives in ] 831 ;
commissioner of Virginia on the disputed bound-
aries between that State and Maryland; member
of the State senate 1841-1844, but resigned; ap-
pointed a visitor of the Virginia Military Academy
m 1846; elected a member of therevising legislature
in 1848; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1850; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-second,Thirty-third,Thirty-
f ourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses; appointed min-
ister to France by President Buchanan in 1859;
returned tothe United States in August, 1861, and
detained as a prisoner of state, but exchanged in
December, 1861, for Alfred Ely, member of the
United States House of Representatives from New
York; entered the Confederate army as a member
of Stonewall Jackson's staff; engaged in railroad
enterprises; member of the State constitutional
convention of West Virginia in 1872; elected a
Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; died at Martins-
burg, W. Va., November 1, 1884.
Faulkner, Charles James, of Martinsburg,
W . Va. , was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley County,
September 21, 1847; accompanied his father, who
was minister to France in 1859; attended noted
schools in Paris and Switzerland, returned to the
United States in August, 1861, and after the arrest
of his father immediately went South; in 1862, at
the age of 15, entered the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, at Lexington; served with the cadets in the
battle of New Market; served as aid to Gen. J. C.
Breckinridge, and afterwards to Gen. Henry A.
Wise, surrendering with him at Appomattox; on
his return to Boydville, his home in Martinsburg,
he studied under the direction of his father until
October, 1866, when he entered the University of
Virginia, graduating in June, 1868; admitted to the
bar in September, 1868; grand master of the Ma-
sonic Grand Lodge in 1879; in October, 1880,
elected judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit,
composed' of the counties of Jefferson, Morgan,
and Berkeley; elected to the United States Senate
as a Democrat to succeed Johnson N. Camden,
and took his seat March 4, 1887; reelected in 1893;
permanent chairman of the Democratic State con-
vention of West Virginia in 1888, and both tem-
porary and permanent chairman of the Democratic
State convention of 1892; chairman of the Demo-
cratic Congressional campaign committee in 1894
and 1896.
Fay, Francis B., was born at Southboro,
Mass., June 12, 1793; received a limited education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; deputy sheriff of
Worcester County 1824-1830; member of the
Massachusetts general court 1830-31; moved to
Chelsea, which he represented in the Massachu-
setts general court in 1834-1836 and 1840; State sen-
ator in 1843 and 1845; elected a Representative to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Robert Rantoul;
mayor of Chelsea in 1857; founder of the State re-
form school located at Lancaster, where he moved
in 1858; member of the Massachusetts State senate
in 1868; died at South Lancaster October 6, 1876.
Fay, John, was a native of Worcester County,
Mass.; received a public school education; moved
to New York and located in Montgomery County;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Sixteenth Congress.
Fearing, Paul, was born at Wareham, Mass.,
February 28, 1762; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1785; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected a Delegate from the Northwest Territory
to the Seventh Congress.
Featherston, Lewis Porter, of Forest City
Ark., was born July 28, 1851, at Oxford, Miss.'
educated in the common schools of his native
State, and took a course in the law department of
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the Cumberland University, Tenn.; engaged in
planting in Shelby County, Tenn., 1872-1881,
when he moved to St. Francis County, Ark.,
where he engaged in the game business; elected to
the State house of representatives in 1886 for the
term of 1887-88; elected president of the State
Wheel (a farmers' organization) in 1887 and re-
elected in 1888; nominated for Congress in 1888 by
that organization and elected, but counted out; con-
tested and was seated March 5, 1890, as a Repre-
sentative in the Fifty-first Congress; candidate on
the Union Labor ticket for reelection, but defeated
by W. H. Cate, Democrat. The offlcial figures, as
shown by the report of the Congressional commit-
tee, give Mr. Featherston 15,160 votes, against
15,074 votes for Wifliam H. Cate, Democrat.
Featherston, W. S. , was born in Rutherford
County, Tenn., August 8, 1821; received a liberal
education; moved to Mississippi and located at
Houston; elected a Representative from that State
to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty -first Congress; served in the Confed-
erate army; killed in action near Atlanta, Ga.,
July 20, 1864.
Feely, John J., of Chicago, 111., was born Au-
gust 1, 1875, on a farm near Wilmington, Will
County, 111; educated in the public schools, Niagara
University, Niagara, N. Y., and at Yale Law School,
graduating with the degree of LL. B. in 1897; ad-
mitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1897 and in
Illinois in 1898; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Felch, Alpheus, was born at Limerick, Me.,
September 28, 1806; received a classical education,
graduating from Bowdoin College; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at Ann
Arbor; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1836 and 1837; appointed bank commis-
sioner in 1838, resigning in 1839; elected auditor-
general in 1842, but resigned to accept the position
of judge of the supreme court; governor of Michi-
gan 1845-1847; elected a United States Senator
from Michigan as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1847, to March 3, 1853; served on the com-
mission for the settlement of the California land
claims, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
from March, 1853, until 1856; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1864;
died in 1896.
Felder, John M., was born in Orangeburg
District, S. C, July 7, 1782; graduated from Yale
College in 1804, in the class with John C. Calhoun
and Bishop Gladsden; studied law at Litchfield,
Conn.; admitted to the bar in 1808; began prac-
tice at Orangeburg, S. C. ; served several years in
the State legislature; major of volunteers in the
war of 1812; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Twenty-second Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Twenty-third Congress;
declined a reelection, but did not resume practice;
elected a State senator in 1840, and successively
reelected until he died near Union Point, Ga., Sep-
tember 1, 1851.
Fell, John, was a native of New Jersey; re-
ceived a pubhc school education; Delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1778-
1780.
Fellows, John B., was born at Troy, N. Y.,
July 29, 1832; moved to Camden, Ark., 1850; read
law there and admitted to the bar; entered the
Southern armv in the First Arkansas Regiment;
after the battle" of Shiloh assigned to staff duties as
assistant adjutant and inspector general, and
ordered to report to General Van Dorn at Vicks-
burg; assigned to the staff of Brig. Gen. W. N. R.
Bell, commanding a district in General Van
Dorn's department; captured at the surrender of
Port Hudson, La., July 9, 1863, and released June
10, 1865; returned to Arkansas; elected to the State
senate; movedtoNewYork City in 1868; appointed
assistant district attorney in 1869; elected district
attorney in 1887; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third
Congress; resigned December 22, 1893; died in
1896.
Felton, Charles N., of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born in Erie County, N. Y., in 1832; received
an academic education; after having retired from
active business was assistant treasurer and treas-
urer of the mint at San Francisco for six years;
elected to the legislature of California for two
terms; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress;
elected to the United States Senate by the legisla-
ture of California March 19, 1891, as a Republican
to succeed George Hearst, deceased.
Felton, William H. , of Cartersville, Ga., was
born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., June 19, 1823;
graduated from the University of Georgia, at Ath-
ens, in August, 1843; graduated from the Medical
College of Georgia, at Augusta, in March, 1844;
farmer by profession and practice; member of the
State house of representatives of Georgia, from
Cass (now Bartow) County in 1851; elected to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and re-
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as an inde-
pendent Democrat; served in the Georgia legisla-
ture 1884-1890; trustee from State at large for
University of Georgia for ten years.
Fenn, Stephen S., was born at Watertown,
Conn., March 28, 1820; moved in 1824 with his
parents to Niagara County, N. Y., where he re-
ceived a public school education; moved in 1841
to Jackson County, Iowa, where he held several
local ofiices; moved to California in 1850 and
engaged in mining and ranching; again moved in
1862 to that part of Washington Territory which
became a part of Idaho upon its organization in
1863; there mined and practiced law; elected a
member of the legislative council 1864 and 1865;
elected district attorney for the first judicial dis-
trict in 1869; again elected a member of the legis-
lative assembly in 1872, and served one year as
speaker of the^ house; engaged in agricultural pur-
suits; elected a Delegate from Idaho Territory to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Fenner, James, was born at Providence, R. I.,
in 1771 ; graduated from Brown University in 1789;
served several years in the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a United States Senator from
Rhode Island, serving from December 2, 1805, to
1807, when he resigned, having been elected gov-
ernor of Rhode Island, which otS.ce he filled
1807-1811, 1824-1831, and 1843-1845; Presidential
elector in 1821 and 1837; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention in 1842 and its president;
died at Providence, R. I., April 17, 1846.
Fenton, Lucien J., of Winchester, Ohio, was
born near Winchester, Ohio, May 7, 1844; edu-
cated in the public schools, at the Lebanon Normal
School, andattheOhio University, Athens; assisted
in the work on his father's farm until the begin-
ning of the civil war; enlisted as a private in the
Ninety-first Ohio Regiment August 11, 1862, and
served continuously in the field as such until
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CONGEESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
dangerously wounded at the battle of Winchester,
Va., September 19, 1864; teacher and superin-
tendent of public schools in Ohio for a number of
years after the war; Republican candidate for clerk
of the courts of Adams County in 1880, reducing
considerably the then large Democratic majority
in the county; organized the Winchester Bank,
becoming its cashier and manager in 1884; ap-
pointed a trustee of the Ohio University, at Athens,,
by Governor McKinley in 1892; delegate to the
national Republican convention at Minneapolis in
1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress;
after leaving Congress resumed the banking busi-
ness and became cashier of the Winchester Bank.
Fenton, Reuben E. , was born at Carroll, N. Y. ,
July 4, 1819; received a liberal education; studied
law; engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected super-
visor of Carroll in 1843; governor of New York
1865-66 and 1867-68; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-third Congress; reelected
to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,
and Thirty-eighth Congresses, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1857, to December 10, 1864, when he resigned,
having been elected governor of New York ; elected
a United States Senator from New York, serving
from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; died at
Jamestown, N. Y., August 25, 1885.
Ferdon, Jolin W., was born at Plermont,
Rockland County, N. Y., in 1828; graduated from
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., in 1847;
studied law and graduated in 1851; member of
the assembly of the State of New York from the
county of Rockland in 1855; member of the senate
of the State of New York in 1856 and 1857; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention at
Baltimore in 1864, which nominated Mr. Lincoln
a second time; delegate to the Cincinnati national
convention which nominated Hayes and Wheeler
in 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Republican; died in 1883.
Ferguson, Fanner, was born in Rensselaer
County, N. Y., April 25, 1814; received a liberal
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Albany, N. Y.; moved to
Michigan; member of the State legislature; ap-
pointed chief justice of Nebraska in 1854; elected
a Delegate from Nebraska Territory to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Fergusson, H. B., of Albuquerque, N. Mex.,
a native of Alabama, was born September 9, 1848;
graduated from the Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, Lexington, Va., with the degree of M. A., in
1873; graduated from the law department of that
university in 1874, and commenced the practice of
his profession at Wheeling, W. Va., where he
remained until the year 1882; located in Albu-
querque in 1884; in politics a Democrat; elected
a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico to
the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Ferrell, Thomas M., of Glassboro, N. J., was
born at Glassboro, N. J., June 20, 1844; received
a common school and academic education; elected
a member of the township committee 1872-73;
member of the school board of his native town
for three consecutive terms of three years each;
elected a member of the general assembly of New
Jersey, 1879-80, in a strong Republican district;
after his term expired, elected State senator for
the county of Gloucester; nominated for the Forty-
eighth Congress before his term of State senator
expired, and elected as a Democrat.
Ferris, Charles Gr., was born at New York
City; received a limited education; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-third
Congress (in place of Dudley Selden, resigned) as
a Jackson Democrat, serving from December 1,
1834, to March 3, 1835; elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress.
Ferriss, Orange, was born at Glens Falls, N. Y. ,
November 26, 1814; received a liberal education;
studied and practiced law; judge of Warren
County 1851-1863; <;lected a Representative from
New York to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-first Congress; died
in 1894.
Ferry, Orris Sanford, was born at Bethel,
Conn., August 15, 1823; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1844; studied law, and in 1846 admitted to
the bar; appointed judge of probate in 1849; mem-
ber of the State senate -1855-56; State attorney for
Fairfield County 1856-1859; defeated for the
Thirty-fifth Congress; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Thirty-sixth Congress as
a Republican; defeated for the Thirty-seventh
Congress; entered the Union Army in 1861 aa col-
onel of the Fifth Connecticut Volunteers; promoted
brigadier-general 1862, and served until the close
of the war; elected a United States Senator from
Connecticut as a Republican (to succeed Lafayette
S. Foster, Republican); reelected by a combina-
tion of independent Republicans and Democrats,
serving from March 4, 1867, to his death, which
occurred at Norwalk, Conn., November 21, 1875.
Ferry, Thomas W., was born at Mackinac,
Mich., June 1, 1827; received a public school edu-
cation; engaged in business pursuits; member of
the house of representatives of Michigan in 1850;
member of the State senate in 1856; vice-president
for Michigan in the Chicago Republican convention
of 1860; appointed in 1864 to represent Michigan
on the board of managers of the Gettysburg Sol-
diers' National Cemetery, and reappointed in 1867;
elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-
first Congresses, and reelected to the Forty-second
Congress, but did not take his seat, having subse-
quently been elected to the United States Senate
to succeed Jacob M. Howard, Republican; took
his seat in the Senate March 4, 1871; chosen Pres-
ident pro tempore March 9 and 19, and again
December 20, 1875, and by the death of Vice-Pres-
ident Wilson he became acting Vice-President,
serving as such until March 4, 1877; reelected a
Senator January 17, 1877; reelected President pro
tempore of the Senate March 5, 1877, February
26, 1878, April 17, 1878, and March 3, 1879; died
in 1896.
Fessenden, Samuel C. , was born at New Glou-
cester, Me., March 7, 1815; received a classical
education; graduated from Bowdoin College in
1834; studied law; commenced practice in 1838;
elected judge of the Rockland municipal court;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirtv-
seventh Congress as a Republican, serving froim
July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; appointed one of
the examiners m the Patent Office in 1865; United
States consul at St. Johns, New Brunswick, in
1879; died in 1881.
Fessenden, T. A. D., was born at Portland,
Me., January 23, 1826; received a classical educa-
tion; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1845;
studied law, and commenced practice at Lewiston'
Me. ; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion in 1856; member of the State house of repre-
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sentatives in 1860; prosecuting attorney for Andros-
coggin County 1861-62; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress (in
place of Charles W. Walton, resigned) as a Be-
publican, serving from December 1, 1862, to March
3, 1863; died at Lewiston, Me., September 28, 1868.
Fessenden, William Pitt, was born at Bosca-
,wen, N. H., October 16, 1806; graduated from
Bowdoin College in 1823; studied law, admitted
to the bar, and commenced practive at Bridge-
water, but soon afterwards moved to Portland,
Me. ; member of the State house of representatives
in 1832 and 1840; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig;
declined to be a candidate for reelection; again a
member of the State legislature 1845-46; defeated
as a Whig candidate for the Thirty-second Con-
gress; again a member of the State legislature
1853-54; elected a United States Senator from
Maine as a Whig (to succeed J. W. Bradbury,
Democrat) ; reelected as a Republican in 1854 and
resigned in 1864; appointed by President Lincoln
Secretary of the Treasury, serving from July 1,
1864, to March 3, 1865; again elected a United States
Senator, serving from March 4, 1865, to his death,
at Portland, Me., September 8, 1869.
Few, William, was born near Baltimore, Md.,
June 8, 1748; moved to North Carolina with his
family in 1758; commenced law practice at Au-
gusta, Ga. ; served in the Revolutionary war as
colonel, and distinguished himself against the
British and Indians; presiding judge of Richmond
County court, and surveyor-general in 1778;' Dele-
gate from Georgia to the Continental Congress
1780-1782 and 1785-1788; delegate to the conven-
tion which framed the Federal Constitution in
1787; elected a United States Senator from Georgia,
serving from March 4, 1789, to 1793; judge of the
circuit court of Georgia 1794-1797; moved to New
York City in 1799; member of the State house of
representatives 1802-1805; United States commis-
sioner of loans; died at Fishkill, N. Y., July 16,
1828.
Ficklin, Orlando B., was born in Kentucky
in 1808; graduated at Transylvania Law School;
admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced prac-
tice at Mount Carmel, 111. ; member of the State
house of representatives in 1835, 1838, and 1842;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses; elected
to the Thirty-second Congress, and served from
December, 1851, to 1853; Presidential elector on
the Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket in 1856.
Fiedler, WilUam H. F., of Newark, N. J.,
was born in New York City October 25, 1847; re-
ceived a public and high school education; elected
an alderman of Newark in October, 1876; elected a
member of the New Jersey legislature in Novem-
ber, 1877; reelected alderman in October, 1878;
and reelected a member of the legislature in No-
vember, 1878; elected mayor of Newark while
serving his second term as an alderman in Octo-
ber, 1879; in 1882, previous to the organization of
the legislature, one of the Republican members
died— the house having been a tie— Mr. Fiedler
■was nominated to fill the vacancy and elected,
which gave the organization of the house of as-
sembly of New Jersev to the Democrats; this was
his third term; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; postmaster of Newark, N. J.,
under Cleveland's first Administration.
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Field, A. P., claimed to have been legally
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
.Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, but the
Committee on Elections reported adversely; re-
turned to New Orleans, had a new election held,
and returned with a certificate that he had received
1,377 votes against 1,023 votes for A. P. Dostie; a
majority of the Committee on Elections reported
that he was entitled to his seat, but such Was the
opposition that no vote was taken on the resolu-
tion, although on the last day of the session he
was voted $2,000 for compensation, mileage, and
expenses.
Field, Moses W., was born at Watertown,
Jefferson County, N. Y., February 10, 1828; re-
ceived a public school education; worked upon a
farm; moved to Michigan and engaged in mercan-
tile and agricultural pursuits; elected a Represent-
ative from Michigan to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican, serving from December, 1873, to
March, 1875; died in 1889.
Field, Kichard S. , was born in New Jersey;
received an academic education; admitted to the
bar and commenced practice at Princeton; Senator
from New Jersey (in place of John R. Thompson,
deceased), serving from December 1, 1862, to
March 3, 1863; appointed by President Lincoln
judge of the United States district court for the
district of New Jersey; died at Princeton, N. J.,
May 25, 1870.
Field, Walbridge Abner, of Boston, Mass.,
was born at Springfield, Vt., April 26, 1833; grad-
uated from Dartmouth College in 1855; studied
law in Boston and at Harvard Law School; ad-
mitted to the bar at Boston in 1860; appointed
assistant attorney of the United States for Massa-
chusetts in 1865, and, held the office until April,
1869, when appointed Assistant Attorney-General
of the United States, and held this ofiice until
August, 1870, when he resigned and returned to
the practice of law in Boston; received the certifi-
cate of election as a Representative to the Forty-
fifth Congress, in which he sat until March 28,
1878, when the House declared Benjamin Dean
entitled to the seat; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Republican; appointed by Governor
Long to the bench of the supreme judicial court in
February, 1881, and promoted to the position of
chief justice in 1890, which he held until his death,
at Boston, July 15, 1899.
Fielder, George B., of Jersey City, N. J., was
born at Jersey City, July 24, 1842; educated in
public schools and at Selleck's Academy, Norwalk,
Conn.; soldier in the civil war; enlisted as private
in the Twenty-first New Jersey Volunteers, 1862,
and promoted to sergeant-major and lieutenant;
wounded and taken prisoner May, 1863, at the
battle of Maryes Heights; elected register of the
county of Hudson in 1884, and reelected in 1889;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Fields, William C, was born at New York
City February 13, 1804; received a public school
education; went to Laurens, where he was justice
of the peace for sixteen years, and subsequently
supervisor; county clerk of Otsego for three years;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican.
Fillmore, Millard, was born at Sumner Hill,
N. Y., January 7, 1800; received a public school
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1823, and commenced practice at Aurora, N. Y. ;
mtember of the State house of representatives
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1829-1831; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, and Twentj^-seventh Congresses as a Whig;
declined a renomination; defeated as the Whig
candidate for governor in 1844; elected State comp-
troller in 1847; elected Vice-President on the Whig
ticket headed by Zachary Taylor in 1848, receiv-
ing 136 electoral votes against 127 electoral votes
for \V. 0. Butler; became President of the United
States after the death of President Taylor, serving
from July 9, 1850, to March 3, 1853; defeated as
the National American candidate for President in
1856, receiving 8 electoral votes against 173 elec-
toral votes for James Buchanan and 114 electoral
votes for John C. Fremont; president of the Buffalo
Historical Society, and commanded a corps of
home guards during the war of the rebellion; died
at Buffalo, N. Y., March 8, 1874.
Finch., Isaac, was born in the State of New
York; received a public school education; resided
at Jay, Essex County; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-first Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December, 1829, to March,
1831.
Findlay, James (Ijrother of John and William
Findlay), was born at Mercersburg, Pa., in 1775;
received a public school education; moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the Territorial legis-
lative council, and afterwards of the State house
of representatives; served in the war of 1812 as
colonel of the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry;
United States receiver of public moneys at Cin-
cinnati; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Nineteenth Congress as a Jackson Democrat; re-
elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
second Congresses, serving from December 5,
1825, to March 2, 1833; defeated as the Jackson
Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1834
by Robert Lucas; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Decem-
ber 28, 1835.
Findlay, John (brother of James and William
Findlay) , was born at Mercersburg, Pa. ; received
a public school education; located at Chambers-
burg, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses, ser^dng from December 3, 1821, to March
3, 1827; appointed postmaster at Chambersburg,
Pa., and held the office at the time of his death,
November 5, 1838.
Findlay, John V. L., of Baltimore, Md., was
bom near Williamsport, Md., December 21, 1839;
educated at Princeton, N. J.; lawyer by profession
and practice; member of the State legislature of
Maryland; collector of internal revenue for one of
the Baltimore districts, and city solicitor for Balti-
more; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Findlay, William (brother of James and John
Findlay), was born in Mercersburg, Pa., June 20,
1768; received a public-school education; studied
law; admitted to the bar, and practiced at Frank-
linton. Pa. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1797 and 1803; State treasurer 1807-
1817; governorof Pennsylvania 1817-1820; elected
UnitedStatesSenatorfrom Pennsylvania as aDemo-
crat, serving from December 3, 1821, to March 3,
1827; treasurer of the United States 1827-1840; died
at Harrisburg November 12, 1846.
Findley, William, was born in Ireland, Jan-
uary 11, 1751; received a parish school education;
came to the United States and located at Phila-
delphia; served in the Revolutionary war; moved
to Westmoreland County, Pa.; member of the
State legislature, and delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died near Greensburg, Pa., April 5, 1821;
published a Review of the Funding System (1794),
a History of the Insurrection in Western Pennsyl-
vania (1796), and several political pamphlets.
Fine, John, was bom in New York City, August
26, 1784; graduated from Columbia College, New
York, in 1809; studied law at the Litchfield Law
School; admitted to the bar, and commenced jprac-
tice at Ogdensburg, N. Y. ; first judge of the
court of common pleas for St. Lawrence County,
1824-1838; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December, 1839, to March, 1841;
again judge of the court of common pleas from
February 16, 1843, until the court was abolished
in 1847; State senator in 1848; died at Ogdensburg,
N. Y., January 4, 1867; published a volume of
law lectures.
Finerty, John F. , of Chicago, III., was born
in Galway, Ireland, September 10, 1846; educated
mainly by private tuition; entered the profession
of journalism at the age of 16; came to America in
1864; served one hundred days' term in the Ninety-
ninth New York State Militia in the United States
service; correspondent for the Chicago Times in
the Sioux war of 1876, with General Crook; with
the Northern Indian (Sioux) war of 1879, with
General Miles; in the Ute campaign, 1879, with
General Merritt, and afterwards in the Apache
campaign of 1881 with General Carr; corresponded
for the same paper in most of the States of Mexico,
and in every State and Territory of the United
States; editorial correspondent in AVashington
during the sessions of the Forty-sixth Congress;
established The Citizen, a weekly newspaper, and
the Irish-American organ of tlie Northwest, on
the 14th of Januarjr, 1882; elected to represent
the Second Congressional district of Illinois as an
Independent Democrat in the Forty-eighth Con-
gress.
Fink, William E. , was born at Somerset,
Ohio, September 1, 1822; received a public school
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
September, 1843; practiced at Somerset, Ohio;
State senator in 1851; delegate to the national
Whig convention which nominated Scott and Gra-
ham in 1852; State senator again in 1861; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress, serving from December, 1863, to
March, 1867; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date for judge of the supreme court of Ohio in
1868; elected to the Forty-third Congress (in place
of Hugh J. Jewett, resigned) as a Democrat; died
January 26, 1901.
Finkelnhurg, Gustavus A., was born near
Cologne, Prussia, April 6, 1837; emigrated to Mis-
souri with his family in 1848; received an academic
education at St. Charles College, Missouri; grad-
uated in the law department of Ohio University
at Cincinnati; admitted to the bar at St. Louis
in 1860; served in the Union Army; elected to the
Missouri legislature as a Radical in 1864; reelected
in 1866 and chosen speaker pro tempore; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
second Congress.
BIOGRAPHIES.
531
Fmley, David Edward, of Yorkville, S. C
was born at Trenton, Ark., February 28, 1861-
educated m the schools in Rock Hill and Ebenezer,
S. C, and the South Carolina College; lawyer-
member of the house of representatives of South
Carolina in 1890-91, and of the State senate 1892-
1896; trustee of the South Carolina University in
1890; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat without opposition; reelected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress.
Finley, Ebenezer B., of Bucyrus, Ohio, was
born at Orville, Wayne County, Ohio, July 31,
1833; studifid law; admitted to practice in June,
1862; served in the Union Army in the civil war
as first lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Ohio In-
fantry; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress;
adjutant-general of Ohio; also served as circuit
judge of the third circuit of Ohio.
Finley, H. F. , of Williamsburg, Ky. , was born
of Scotch-Irish parents, January 18, 1833; worked
on a farm until 21 years of age, and began life for
himself without education suflicient to transact
business, and penniless; read law in 1857-58, and
licensed in 1859; elected to the State legislature in
1861-62; elected Commonwealth's attorney in 1862
for six years, which office he resigned in 1866;
reelected in 1867, and again in 1868 for six years;
defeated for Congress in 1870; elected to the State
senate in 1875; appointed United States district
attorney for Kentucky in 1876, and wept out with
Grant's Administration; elected judge of the fif-
teenth circuit in 1880 for six years; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-first Congress.
Finley, Jesse J. , was born in Wilson County,
Tenn., November 18, 1812; received an academic
education; captain in the Seminole war in 1836;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and located in
Mississippi County, Ark., in 1840; elected to the
State senate in 1841; moved to Memphis, Tenn.,
In 1842; resumed the practice of law; elected mayor
of Memphis 1845; moved to Mariana, Fla., in
November, 1846; elected to the State senate of
Florida in 1850; elected Presidential elector on the
Whig ticket in 1852; appointed judge of the western
circuit of Florida in 1853, and elected to the same
office in 1855, and again in 1859; appointed judge
of the Confederate States court for the district of
Florida in 1861; resigned and volunteered as a
private in the Confederate army in 1862, and was
successively promoted to the rank of brigadier-
general; located at Lake City, Fla., in 1865; moved
to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1871; elected a Repre-
sentative from Florida to the Forty-fourth Congress
as a Conservative Democrat.
Finney, Darwin A. , was born at Shrewsbury,
Vt., August 11, 1814; moved with his family to
Meadville, Pa., when a lad; received a classical
education, graduating from the Meadville College;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and practiced at
Meadville; twice elected to the State house of rep-
resentatives and once to the State senate; elected
a Representative from Pennsyl vania to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican, serving from March 4,
1867, until his death, while traveling in Europe,
August 25, 1868.
Fish, Hamilton, was born at New York City,
August 3, 1808; graduated from Columbia College
in 1827; admitted to the bar in 1830 and practiced
in New York; commissioner of deeds for the city
and county of New York; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Whig, serving from December 4, 1834, to March
3, 1845; State senator in 1847; governor of New
York 1848-1850; elected a Senator from New York,
serving from December, 1851, to March, 1857; one
of the board of commissioners for the relief of
Union prisoners of war at the South; appointed
by General Grant Secretary of State, serving from
March, 1869, to March, 1877; member of the joint
high commission which settled the differences
between the United States and Great Britain, and
negotiated the treaty of Washington in 1871; pres-
ident-general of the Society of the Cincinnati; died
at Garrison, N. Y., September 7, 1893.
Fisher, Charles, was born in Rowan County,
N. C, October 20, 1789; educated by private tutors
at Raleigh; studied law but never practiced to any
extent; State senator in 1818; elected to the Fif-
teenth Congress (in place of George Mumford,
deceased) as a Democrat; reelected to the Sixteenth
Congress, serving from February, 1819, until March,
1821, when he declined reelection; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina 1821-1823,
1826-1831, 1833, and 1836; member of the consti-
tutional convention of 1835; elected a Representa-
tive to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from December, 1839, until March, 1841;
nominated for Congress in 1S45 as a Democrat, but
defeated; declined the Democratic nomination for
governor of North Carolina in 1846; died, while
traveling, at Hillsboro, Miss., May 7, 1849.
Fisher, David, was born in Somerset County,
Pa., December 3, 1794; moved to Ohio, where he
was reared as a farmer, receiving a scanty back-
woods education; lay preacher and newspaper
contributor; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1842; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, serving
from December, 1847, to March, 1849; died near
Mount Holly, Pa., May 7, 1886.
Fisher, George P., was born at Milford, Del.,
October 13, 1817; graduated from Dickinson Col-
lege in 1838; admitted to the bar in 1841 and prac-
ticed at Dover, Del.; member of the State house
of representatives in 1843 and 1844; secretary of
state of Delaware in 1846; confidential clerk to Sec-
retary Clayton in the Department of State at Wash-
ington in 1849; appointed by President Taylor a
commissioner to adjudicate claims against ferazil
1 850-1852; attorney-general of theStateof Delaware
1857-1860; elected a Representative from Delaware
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union Repub-
lican, serving from July, 1861, to March, 1863; de-
feated as the Union Republican candidate for the
Thirty-eighth Congress; appointed by President
Lincoln a judge pf the District supreme court,
which position he resigned when appointed dis-
trict attorney for the District of Columbia, from
which he was removed in 1875; died in 1899.
Fisher, Horatio Gr., of Huntingdon, Pa., was
born there April 21, 1838; graduated from Lafay-
ette College, Easton, Pa., July, 1855; engaged in
mining, shipping, and wholesale coal business;
elected member of councils in 1862 and served
three years; elected county auditor in 1865 and
served three years; elected burgess in 1874 and
served three years; elected t6 the senate of Penn-
sylvania in 1876 from the thirty-third district, to
iserve four years; elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress.
Fisher, Israel F. , of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born in the city of New York August 17, 1858;
moved to Brooklyn September, 1887; left public
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school at the age of 13 and began life as an office
boy with Henry S. Bennett, counselor at law, and
studied law with him; admitted to the bar in De-
cember, 1879; subsequently entered into partner-
ship with Mr. Bennett, which continued until May
1, 1894, when he engaged in practice alone; mem-
ber of the executive committee of the Eepublican
State committee during 1888 and 1890; chairman
of the executive committee of the county for two
years and chairman of the campaign committee
in 1888; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Eepublican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Fisher, John, was born at Londonderry, N. H.,
March 13, 1806; reared on a farm and afterwards
engaged in mercantile pursuits; for twenty-one
years had charge of an iron manufacturing estab-
lishment in Hamilton, Canada, where he was a
member of the city council, and subsequently
mayor; returned to New York and settled in
Batavia in 1856; acted as State commissioner in
the erection of the institution for the blind in
Batavia; president of a tire insurance company;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-first Congress as a Eepublican.
Fisher, Spencer 0., of West Bay City, Mich.,
was born at Camden, Hillsdale County, Mich.,
February 3, 1843; educated in the public schools,
one year at Albion College, and one 3'ear at Hills-
dale College, both in Michigan, but never grad-
uated; engaged in lumbering and banking; mayor
of West Bay City, Mich., 1881-1884; delegate to
the national Democratic convention at Chicago in
1884; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Fisk, James, was born in Vermont in 1762;
commencedpracticinglawatSwanton, Vt. ; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected to the Tenth, Twelfth,
and Thirteenth Congresses; appointed United
States judge for the Territory of Indiana in 1812,
but declined; judge of the supreme Court of Ver-
mont 1815-16; elected a Senator from Vermont (in
place of Dudley Chase, resigned), serving from
December, 1817, to April, 1818, when he resigned;
collector of customs for the district of Vermont
1818-1826; died at Swanton, Vt, December 1, 1844.
Fisk, Jonathan, was born at Newburgh, N. Y. ;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Eleventh Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from May, 1809, to
March, 18] 1; again elected to the Thirteenth Con-
gress, and reelected to the Fourteenth Congress,
serving from May, 1813, to June, 1815, when he
resigned, before having taken his seat, to accept
the position of United States attorney for the
southern district of New York.
Fitch, Asa, resided at Salem, Washington
County, N. Y. ; elected a Eepresentative from that
State to the Twelfth Congress as a Federalist,
serving from November, 1811, to March, 1813.
Fitch, Ashbell Parmelee, of New York City,
was born at Moores, Clinton County, N. Y., Octo-
ber 8, 1848; educated in the public schools of New
York, Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass.,
and the universities of Jena and Berlin, Germany,
and Columbia College law school in New York City ;
admitted to the bar in November, 1869, and prac-
ticed his profession in New York City; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Eepublican; reelected
to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third
Congresses as a Democrat; resigned December 26
189:j.
Fitch, Graham N., was born at Leroy, N. Y.
December 5, 1809; received a classical education
studied medicine; practiced at Logansport, Ind.
professor in the Eush Medical College, 1844-1849:
Indiana Presidential elector in 1844, 1848, and 1856:
member of the State legislature in 1836 and 1839,
elected a Eepresentative from Indiana to tke
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from De-
cember, 1849, to March, 1853; elected a Senator
from Indiana, serving from February, 1857, to
March, 1861; delegate to the national Democratic
convention in 1868; died at Logansport, Ind.,
November 29, 1892.
Fitch, Thomas, was born at New York City,
January 27, 1838; received a public school educa-
tion; went to Milwaukee in 1855; engaged as clerk;
local editor of the Milwaukee Free Democrat in
1859 and 1860; went to California in 1860; edited
the San Francisco Times and Placerville Eepub-
lican; studied law; member of the California
assembly in 1862-63; went to Nevada in June,
1863; elected a member of the convention which
framed the State constitution in 1864; Union nom-
inee for Territorial Delegate to Congress in 1864;
district attorney of Washoe County in 1865 and
1866; elected a Eepresentative from Nevada to
the Forty-first Congress.
Fite, Samuel M. , was elected December 31,
1874, a Eepresentative from Tennessee to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat (to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John W.Head) ;
but died before taking his seat, at Hot Springs,
Ark., October 23, 1875.
Fithian, George W., of Newton, 111., was born
on a farm near the village of Willow Hill, HI.,
July 4, 1854; educated in the common schools;
learned the printer's trade at Mount Carmel, 111.,
which business he followed until he was admitted
to the bar, in 1875; elected State attorney of
Jasper County in 1876; reelected in 1880; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses;
resumed the practice of law and engaged in stock
raising after leaving Congress.
Fitzgerald, John F., of Boston, Mass., was
born at Boston February 11, 1865; member of the
Boston common council of 1892; elected a member
of the Massachusetts State senate in 1893 and 1894;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fiftv-sixth Con-
gresses.
Fitzgerald, John J., of Brooklyn. N. Y., was
bom in that city March 10., 1872; received his pre-
liminary education in the schools in the citv; en-
tered Manhattan College, New York Citv, and
graduated therefrom, receiving the degrees of
bachelor and master of arts; studied law at the
New York Law School; admitted to the bar at the
age of 21, and the same year received from the re-
gents of the State of New York the degree of
bachelor of laws cum laude; elected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Fitzgerald, Thomas, was born at Germau-
town, N. Y., April 10, 1796; received an academic
education; served under General Harrison in the
war of 1812; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice at St. Joseph, Mich.; appointed a Senator
from Michigan (in place of Lewis Cass, resigned)
serving from June, 1848, to Jlarch, 1849; d-'ed at
Niles, Mich., March 25, 1855.
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Fitzgerald, William, was born in Tennessee;
received a thorough English education; studied
law, and commenced practice at Dresden, Tenn. ;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 5, 1831, to March 2, 1833;
defeated as a Democratic candidate for the Twenty-
third Congress.
ritzhugh, "William, was born at Boscobel,
Stafford County, Va., in 1726; received a classical
education from private tutors; Delegate from Vir-
ginia to the Continental Congress 1779-1780; died
July 6, 1809.
Fitzpatrick, Benjamin, was born in Greene
County, Ga., June 30, 1802; left an orphan, he
was taken by his brother, to Alabama in 1815;
, received a public school education ; admitted to the
bar in 1821 and practiced until 1829; devoted him-
self to planting; governor of Alabama 1845-1855;
appointed United States Senator from Alabama as
a State Eights Democrat (in place of Dixon H.
Lewis, deceased), serving from December 11, 1848,
to March, 1849; again appointed a United States
Senator (in place of William E. King, resigned),
and subsequently elected by the legislature, serv-
ing from January, 1853, to 1861 ; several times Presi-
dentprotempore; earnest supporter of the Southern
Confederacy; delegate to the national Union con-
vention at Philadelphia in 1866; died on his plan-
tation,near Wetumpka, Ala., November 25, 1869.
■ Fitzpatrick, T. Y. , of Prestonburg, Ky., was
born in Floyd County, Ky., September 20, 1850;
educated in the common schools; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1877; filled the positions of
county judge, county attorney, and representative
in the State legislature; Democratic elector in 1884;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Fitzsimons, Thomas, was born at Belfast,
Ireland, in 1741; emigrated to the United States
and entered a countinghouse at Philadelphia as
clerk; commanded a company of volunteer home
guard during the Eevolutionary war; several years
a member of the State house of representatives;
delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress in 1782-1783, and to the United States
constitutional convention in 1787; elected a Eep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the First Con-
gress; reelected to the Second and Third Con-
gresses, and served until March, 1795; held several
local ofiices; died at Philadelphia in August, 1811.
Flagler, Thomas T. , resided at Lockport, Ni-
agra County, N. Y.; held several local offices;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, serving from December 5, •
1853, to March 3, 1857; member of the State house
Of representatives in 1860.
Flanagan, De "Witt Clinton, of Morristown,
N J, was born at New York City, December 28,
1870; educated at Columbia College, New York
City; pursued a commercial career, bemg inter-
ested in a number of industrial enterprises; elected,
without opposition, June 18, 1902, to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the Hon. J. S. Salmon.
Flanagan, J. W., was born at Albemarle, Va. ,
September 5, 1805; received a common school ed-
ucation; moved in 1.816 to Kentucky, where he
engaged in mercantile pursuits; justice of the peace
for twelve years; moved to Texas in 1843, where
he studied law and practiced; member of the State
house of representatives in 1851 and 1852 and the
State senate in 1855 and 1856; State elector on the
Fillmore ticket in 1857; member of the State con-
stitutional convention in 1866 and 1868; elected by
the convention as a Eepresentative to Congress for
the State at large in 1869; elected lieutenant-gov-
ernor in 1869 ; elected a United States Senator from
Texas' as a Eepublican on the reconstruction of
Texas and served from March 31, 1870, to March
3, 1875.
Flanders, Alvan, was born at Hopkinton,
N. H., August 2, 1825; received a public school
education; learned the machinist trade in Boston;
moved to California in 1851, and there engaged in
the lumber business until 1858; one of the pro-
jectors and proprietors of the San Francisco Daily
Times; member of the State legislature in 1861;
appointed register of the Humboldt land ofiice;
moved to Washington Territory and engaged in
business there; elected a Delegate from Washing-
ton Territory as a Eepublican, serving from March
4, 1867 to March 3, 1869; appointed by President
Grant governorof Washington Territory and served
one year.
Flanders, Benjamin F. , was born at Bristol,
N. H., January 26, 1816; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating from Dartmouth College in 1842;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and commenced
practicing at New Orleans; edited the New Or-
leans Tropic; superintendent of a school; elected
a Eepresentative from Louisiana to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Unionist, serving from Feb-
ruary 23, 1863, to March 3, 1863; military governor
of Louisiana 1867-68; died in 1896.
Fleeger, George W. , of Butler, Pa. , was born
in Butler County, Pa., March 13, 1839; educated in
the common schools and at West Sunbury Acad-
emy; enlisted in theUnion Army June 10, 1861, as
private in Company C, Eleventh Eegiment Penn-
sylvania Eeserves, and was discharged as first
lieutenant March 13, 1865; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1866 at Butler, Pa. ; member of the
legislature of Pennsylvania in 1871 and 1872 ; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Eepublican.
Fleming, William, was born in Virginia in
1734, and represented that State in the Continental
Congress 1779-1781; died February 2, 1824.
Fleming, William Henry, of Augusta, Ga.,
was born at Augusta, Eichmond County, Ga., on
October 18, 1856; educated at Summerville Acad-
emy, Eichmond (County) Academy, and the State
University, at Athens, Ga., from which institution
he received the degrees of civil engineer and master
of arts; chosen private anniversarian of the Phi
Kappa Society in 1873; awarded junior debaters'
medal in 1874; elected superintendent of the pub-
lic schools of Augusta and Eichmond County, Ga.,
in January, 1877, and resigned in August, 1880;
admitted to the bar in November, 1880; elected to
the State legislature from Eichmond County in
1888, 1890, and 1892, and was chairman of the
finance committee; again elected in 1894, and was
speaker of the house; elected a Eepresentative to
the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Fletcher, Isaac, was born in Vermont; received
a classical education; member of the State house
of representatives; elected a Eepresentative from
Vermont to the Twenty-fifth Congress as an Anti-
Masonic Democrat, defeating Henry F. Janes,
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress,
serving from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841;
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<lefeated as a candidate for reelection by Joiin
Mattocks, Wiiig; died at Lyndon, \t., October 19,
1842.
Fletcher, Iioren, of Minneapolis, Minn., was
born at Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Me.;
educated in the public schools and at Maine Wes-
leyan Seminary, KentsHill, Me.; moved to Bangor
in" 1853, where he was employed as clerk by a mer-
cantile and lumber company; moved to Minne-
apolis, JNIinn., in 1856; engaged in manufacturing
and mercantile pursuits, largely in the manufacture
of lumber and flour; elected to the State legislature
in 1872, and reelected seven times, the last three
terms serving as speaker; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Fletcher, Kichard, was born at Cavendish,
Vt., January 8, 1788; received -a classical educa-
tion, graduating from Dartmouth College in 1806;
studied law under Daniel Webster.; commenced
practicing at Salisbury, N. H.; moved to Boston
in 1825; member of the State house of represent-
atives in Massachusetts; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Twenty-fifth Congress
as a Whig; judge of the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts 1848-1853; received the degree of LL. D.
from Dartmouth College, to which he bequeathed
$100,000; died at Boston, June 21, 1869.
Fletcher, Thomas, received a public school
education; located in Montgomery County, Ky.;
member of the State legislature 1803, 1805, and
1806; served in the war of 1812 as major of
Kentucky volunteers under General Harrison and
distinguished himself at Fort Meigs, May 15, 1813;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fourteenth Congress (in place of James Clark,
resigned ) , serving from December 2, 1816, to March
3, 1817; declined a reelection; again a member of
the State house of representatives in 1817, 1820,
1821, and 1825.
Flick, James P., of Bedford, Iowa, was born
at Bakerstown, Allegheny County, Pa., August 28,
1845; moved with his parents to Wapello County,
Iowa, when 7 years of age, and from there to Tay-
lor County in 1857, where he has since resided;
received a common school education; enlisted in
the Fourth Iowa Infantry April 3, 1862, and served
as a private soldier; studied law, and admitted to
the bar in 1870; member of the seventeenth gen-
eral assembly of Iowa, and served as district at-
torney of the third judicial district of Iowa for
six years; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Republican ; reelected to the Fifty-second Congress.
Flood, Henry Delevyare, of Appomattox, Va.,
was born in Appomattox County, Va., September
2, 1865; educated in the schools of Appomattox
and Richmond, Washington and Lee University,
and the University of Virginia; began the prac-
tice of the law on September 15, 1886; elected
to the house of delegates of the general assembly
of Virginia from Appomattox County in 1887 and
reelected in 1889; elected to the senate of Virginia
from the eighteenth senatorial district in 1891, re-
elected in 1895, and nominated and reelected with-
out opposition in 1899; elected attorney for the
Commonwealth for Appomattox County in 1891
1895, and 1899, in each one of these positions suc-
ceeding a Republican; Presidential elector from
the Tenth Congressional district on the Cleveland
and Stevenson ticket in 1892; nominated for Con-
gress by the Democratic party in 1896 and defeated;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and reelected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Flood, Thomas S., of Elmira, N. Y., was bom
at Lodi, Seneca County, N. Y., April 12, 1844;
educated in the common schools of his native town
and at the Elmira Free Academy; an alderman of
Elmira 1882-83; president of the Chemung County
Agricultural Society 1884-85; engaged in farming
and lumbering; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as
a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress.
Florence, Ellas, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a public school education; moved to Ohio,
locating at Circleville, Piqua County; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig.
Florence, Thomas B. , was born in the South-
wark district of Philadelphia, January 26, 1812;
received a public school education; learned the
hatter's trade, and went into that business in 1833;
Democratic candidate for the Thirtieth and Thirty-
first Congresses, but was defeated ; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second,
Thirty- third, Thirty- fourth. Thirty- fifth, and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; after leav-
ing Congress became engaged in editing and the
Eublishing of various newspapers in Washington,
I. C. ; defeated as the Democratic candidate in his
old district for the Forty-first Congress; defeated
as the Democratic candidate for the Forty-fourth
Congress and intended to contest the election, but
he died at Washington, D. C, July 3, 1875.
Flournoy, Thomas S. , was born in Prince
Edward County, Va., December 15, 1811; re-
ceived a public school education; studied law,
admitted to the bar, and began practicing at Hali-
fax; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Thirtieth Congress; defeated as the Whig candi-
date for the Thirty-first Congress; entered the
Confederate army, and was killed in battle in Vir-
ginia in June, 1864.
Flower, Eoswell P., was bom at Theresa,
Jefferson County, N. Y., August 7, 1835; actively
engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits
from the age of 16; moved to New York City and
entered into the banking business in 1869; nomi-
nated to fill the vacancy in the House of Repre-
sentatives caused by the resignation of Hon. Levi
P. Morton; elected in 1881 to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress and reelected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress, and resigned September 16, 1891; in Novem-
ber, 1891, elected governor of New York, serving
until 1895; died at Eastport, N. Y., May 12, 1899.
Floyd, Charles A., was born in New Y'ork;
received a common school education; resided at
.Commack, Suffolk County; member of the State
legislature in 1836 and 1838; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Floyd, John (father of John B. Floyd), was
born in Jefferson County, Va., in 1770; received an
academic education; for several years a member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Fifteenth Con-
gress as a State Rights Democrat; reelected to the
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
and Twentieth Congresses; governor of Virginia
from 1829 to 1834; died at Sweet Springs, Va.,
August 16, 1837. f » >
Floyd, John, was born at Beaufort, S. C, Octo-
ber 3, 1769; movec^ in 1791 with his father to
Georgia, and engaged in boat building; served in
the war of 1812 as brigadier-general in expeditions
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535
against the 'Creek Indians; served several times as
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the Twen-
tieth ■Congress; died near Jefferson, Ga., June 24,
1839.
Floyd, Jolm G. , was born in the State of New
York; received a common, school education; re-
sided at Utica; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1839-1843; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-
seventh, and Thirty-second Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat.
Floyd, William, was born at Brookhaven,
N. Y., December 17, 1734; received an academic
education; w.as prominent in the ante- Revolution-
ary movements; Delegate from New York to the
Continental Congress 1774-1777, signing the Decla-
ration of Independence; State senator 1777-78;
again Delegate toHhe Continental Congress 1778-
1783; elected a Representative from New York to
the First Congress; moved in 1794 to Western ville,
Oneida County; Presidential elector in 1800, 1804,
and 1820; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1801; again State senator in 1808; died
at Westernville, N. Y., August 4, 1821.
Flynn, Dennis T., of Guthrie, Okla., was born
at Phoenixville, Pa., February 13, 1862; removed
two years later to Buffalo, N. Y. , where he resided
until 1880, whence he moved to Riverside, Iowa;
admitted to the bar and established the Riverside
Leader; moved from Iowa in 1881 to Kiowa,
Kans., where he established the Kiowa Herald
and pursued the practice of law; elected city attor-
ney of that place and also appointed its first post-
master; moved to Oklahoma Territory April 22,
1889, and was commissioned by President Harri-
son postmaster of the city of Guthrie, which posi-
tionheheld when elected Delegate to the Fifty-third
Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress;
defeated for the Fifty-fifth Congress, and elected
to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Republican; nominated, but declined to be a
candidate for Fifty-eighth Congress.
Foerderer, Robert Hermann, of Philadelphia,
Pa., was born at Frankenhausen, Germany, May
16, 1860, while his parents were sojourning in
Europe; educated in public and private schools,
but did not enter college; began as an apprentice,
and soon after attaining his majority commenced
business for himself; engaged as a manufacturer of
leather; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a
Republican; reelected to Fifty-eighth Congress.
Fogg, George G. , was born at Meredith, Bel-
knap County, N. H., May 26, 1815; received a
classical education, and graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1839; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in 1842; began practicing at Gilmanton, N. H. ;
secretary of state of New Hampshire in 1846; news-
paper pubhsher from 1847 to 1861; reporter of
the State supreme court 1856-1860; appointed by
President Lincoln minister resident to Switzerland,
servino- from March 28, 1861, to October 16, 1865;
appointed a United States Senator from New
Hampshire as a Republican (in place of Daniel
Clark, resigned), serving from December i, 1866,
to March 3, 1867.
Foley, James B., a native of Kentucky; re-
ceived a limited education; moved to Greensburg,
Ind.; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Indiana to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Folger, Walter, jr., was born at Nantucket,
Mass.; received a public school education; State
senator from 1809 to 1815 and again in 1822; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Fif-
teenth Congress as a Democrat and reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress.
FoUett, John Fassett, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was
born of farmer parents in Franklin County, Vt. ;
his father moved to Ohio in 1837 and settled in
Licking County; procured for himself a classical
education, entering Marietta College in 1851, and
graduating in 1865 as the valedictorian of his class;
taught school two years; studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1858; elected to the Ohio legis-
lature from Licking County in 1865, and reelected
in 1867; elected in January, 1868, spaaker of the
House of Representatives; in September, 1868,
moved to Cincinnati to engage in the practice of
the law, and on the assembling of the legislature
in December of the same year resigned the speaker-
ship and his commission as representative from
Licking county; was nominated at the Democratic
State convention as one of the electors at large for
Ohio on the Hancock and English Presidential
ticket in 1880; received the degree of LL.D from
Marietta College in 1879; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; resumed practice
of law after leaving Congress.
Folsom, Nathaniel, was born at Exeter, JN. H.,
September 18, 1726; received a public school edu-
cation; served in the Seven Years' war as captain
in Colonel Blanchard's regiment; successively
major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Fourth
Regiment of New Hampshire militia, which he
commanded at the beginning of the Revolutionary
war; appointed by the convention of New Hamp-
shire, April 21, 1775, brigadier-general of the New
Hampshire troops sent to Massachusetts, serving
during the siege of Boston; appointed major-gen-
eral and made the details of troops sent from New
Hampshire to Ticonderoga; a Delegate from New
Hampshire to the Continental Congress 1774-1775
and 1777-1780; executive councilor in 1778; a
delegate to the State constitutional convention of
1783, and its president; died at Exeter, N. H., May ..
26, 1790. '^
Foot, Solomon, was born at Cornwall, Addison 1
County, Vt., November 19, 1802; received a classi- k- ?
cal education, graduating at Middlebury College *^
in 1826; studied law; admitted to the bar; com- ( D
menced practice at Rutland, Vt. ; elected a Repre- ,o
sentative from Vermont to the Twenty-eighthi^'''
Congress as a "Whig; reelected to the Twenty-^/p^^
ninth Congress; defeated as a candidate for Clerk l6>
of theHouseof Representatives in December, 1849; <.C
elected a United States Senator from Vermont as I "
a Republican, and was twice reelected, serving
from December 1, 1857, to March 28, 1866, -(vhen
he died at Washington, D. C. ; served several times
as President pro tempore.
Foots, Charles A. , was born in the State of
New York; received an academic education; a
Representative from New York to the Eighteenth
Congress; died at Delhi, N. Y., August 1, 1828.
Foote, Henry Stuart, was born in Fauquier
County, Va., t?eptember 20, 1800; received a clas-
sical education; graduated from Washington Col-
lege, Virginia, 1819; studied law, and in 1822
admitted to the bar; began jjracticing at Tuscum-
bia, Ala., in 1824; moved in 1826 to Jackson,
Miss. ; electeid a United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi as a Unionist, serving from December 6,
1847, to the fall of 1852, when he resigned to sue-
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cesafully canvass the State as Union candidate for
governor against Jefferson Davis, Secessionist,
serving from 1852 to 1854, when he moved to Cali-
fornia; returned to Vicksburg, Miss., in 1858;
member of the Southern convention at Knoxville
in 1859, speaking against disunion ; a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the first and second
Confederate congresses; afterwards moved to
Washington, where he practiced law; published
Texas and the Texans in 1841, a History of the
Southern Struggle, and a volume of Personal
Eeminiscences; died at Nashville, Tenn., May 20,
1880.
Foote, Samuel Augustus (father of Admiral
Foote, U. S. Navy), was' born at Cheshire, Conn.,
November 8, 1780; received a classical education
and graduated from Yale College in 1797; engaged
in mercantile pursuits at New Haven; for several
years a member of the State house of representa-
tives and twice its speaker; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Connecticut to the Sixteenth Congress
as a Whig; again elected to the Eighteenth Con-
gress; elected a United States Senator from Con-
necticut, serving from December 3, 1827, to March
2, 1833; defeated for reelection by Nathan Smith;
again elected a Representative to the Twenty-
third Congress, serving from December 2, 1833, to
May 9, 1834, resigning to become governor of
Connecticut; served as governor from 1834 to 1835;
a Presidential elector on the Clay and Freling-
huvsen ticket in 1844; died at Cheshire, Conn.,
September 15, 1846.
Foote, Wallace Turner, jr., of Port Henry,
Essex County, N. Y., was born there April 7,
1864; received his early education at Port Henry
Union Free School; prepared for college at
Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., and
graduated as civil engineer from Union College,
Schenectady, with honors, in 1885; elected alumni
trustee of that university in 1896 ; assistant super-
intendent of the Cedar Point Furnace at Port Henry
from 1885 to 1887^ entered Columbia Law School
in 1889; practiced law at Port Henry; followed
that profession, and was the head of the firm of
Foote, Stokes & Owen, doing a general law busi-
ness at that place; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-
fifth Co ogress.
Foraker, Josepli Benson, of Cincinnati, was
born July 5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro,
Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14, 1862,
as a private in Company A, Eighty-ninth Regi-
ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organ-
ization he served until the close of the war, at
which time he held the rank of first lieutenant
and brevet captain; graduated from Cornell Uni-
versity, Ithaca, N. Y., July 1, 1869j admitted to
the bar and entered upon the practice of the law
at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869; elected judge
of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879;
resigned on account of ill health. May 1, 1882; was
the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in
1883, but defeated; elected to that office in 1885,
and reelected in 1887; again nominated for gover-
nor and defeated in 1889; chairman of the Repub-
lican State conventions of Ohio for 1886, 1890, 1896,
and 1900, and a delegate at large from Ohio to the
national Republican conventions of 1884, 1888,
1892, 1896, and 1900; chairman of the Ohio delega-
tion in the conventions of 1884 and 1 888, and pre-
sented to both of these conventions ;he name of
Hon. John Sherman 'or nomination tor the Presi-
dency; in the conventions of 1892 and 1896 served
as chairman of the committee on resolutions, and
as such reported the platform each time to the con-
vention; presented the name of William McKinley
to the conventions of 1896 and 1900 for nomination
to the Presidency; elected United States Senator
January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Price, and
took his seat March 4, 1897; reelected January 15,
1902, to succeed himself.
Foran, Martin Ambrose, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was born at Choconut, Susquehanna County, Pa.,
November 11, 1844; received a public school and
collegiate education; spent two terms in St.
Joseph's College, Susquehanna, Pa.; taught school
three years; served in the Fourth Pennsylvania
Cavalry from April, 1864, to July, 1865, as private;
cooper by trade; a member of the constitutional
convention of Ohio, 1873; lawyer by profession,
having been admitted, 1874, in the district court
of Cincinnati; prosecuting attorney for city of
Cleveland from April, 1875, to April, 1877; elected
to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice
of law after leaving Congress.
Forbes, James, was a Delegate from Maryland
to the Continental Congress 1778-1780.
Ford, George, of South Bend, Ind., was born
at South Bend, Ind., January 11, 1846; received a
common school education; lawyer by profession;
prosecuting attorney for ten years; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; after leaving
Congress returned to South Bend, Ind., where he
resumed the practice of his profession.
Ford, James, was a native of Pennsylvania;
resided at Lawrenceville, where he held several
local offices; elected a Representative from that
State to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, and reelected to the Twenty-second
Congress.
Ford, Melbourne H. , was born in Saline,
Mich., June 30, 1849; educated at the Michigan
Agricultural College and at the United States Naval ,
Academy; served in the Navy during the latter
part of the war of the rebellion; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1878 but never engaged in the
Practice; has been official stenographer of several
[ichigan courts; a member of the Michigan legis-
lature in 1885-86; elected to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Democrat; died April 21, 1891.
Ford, Nicliolas, of Rochester, Mo., was born
in Ireland; emigrated to America in 1848; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits at St. Joseph, Mo.;
elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a National.
Ford, William D., was a native of Providence,
E. I.; received a limited education; moved to
Jefferson County, N. Y.; a member of the Sta,te
house of representatives of New York in 1816-17;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Sixteenth Congress; died at Watertown, N. Y.
Fordney, Josepli Warren, of Saginaw (West
Side), Mich., was born in Blackford County, Ind.,
November 5, 1853; received a common school edu-
cation; lived with his parents on a farm until 16
years of age; moved to Saginaw in June, 1869;
began life in the lumber woods, logging and esti-
mating pine timber, thus acquiring a thorough
knowledge of the pine land and lumber industry;
interested in an artificial ice plant at Hartford
City, Ind. ; vice-president of the Saginaw Board of
Trade; elected alderman in 1895 and reelected in
1897; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican.
BIOGEAFHIES.
537
Forester, John B., was a native of Tennessee;
received a limited education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-third
Congress; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
Forker, Samuel C. , was born at Mount Holly,
N. J., March 16, 1821; received a liberal educa-
tion; became engaged in the banking business;
director and cashier of the Bordentown Banking
Company; elected a Representative from New Jer-
sey to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Forman, 'William S., of Nashville, 111., was
bom at Natchez, Miss., January 20, 1847; moved
with his father to Nashville in 1851; lawyer by
profession; a member of the State senate, thirty-
fourth and thirty-fifth general assemblies; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat, and re-
elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses; after leaving Congress he moved to East
St. Louis, where he resumed the practice of his
profession.
Fornance, Joseph, was born at Norristown,
Pa.; received a public school education; held sev-
eral local ofiices; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
Forney, Daniel M., was born in Lincoln
County, N. C, in May, 1784; served in the war of
1812 as major; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Four-
teenth Congress; reelected to the Fifteenth Con-
gress, but resigned in 1818; appointed by Presi-
dent Monroe as a commissioner to treat with the
Creek Indians; a member of the State senate of
North Carolina in 1823, 1824, 1825, and 1826;
moved to Alabama in 1834 and located in Lowndes
County, where he died in October, 1847.
Forney, Peter, was born in Lincoln County,
N. C, in April, 1756; received a public school
education; served in the Revolutionary war; be-
came a manufacturer; a member of the bouse of
commons of North Carolina in 1794, 1795, and
1796, and of the State senate in 1801 and 1802;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Thirteenth Congress; Presidential elector on
the Jefferson ticket m 1809, on the Madison ticket
in 1813, the Monroe ticket in 1817, and the Jack-
son tickets 1825 and 1829; died at his country
home known as "Mount Welcome," Lincoln
County, N. C, February 1, 1834.-
Forney, Williain Henry, was born at Lin-
colnton, N. C, November 9, 1823; received a clas-
sical education, graduating from the University of
Alabama in 1844; served in the war with Mexico
as a first lieutenant in the First Regiment of
Alabama Volunteers ; studied law ; admitted to the
bar in 1848 and practiced; elected by the legisla-
ture of Alabama a trustee of the University of
Alabama, and served 1851-1860; a member of the
State house of representatives of Alabama 1859-60;
entered the Confederate army at the commence-
ment of hostilities in 1861 as captain and was
successively promoted major, lieutenant-colonel,
colonel, and brigadier-general; surrendered at Ap-
pomattox Court-House; a member of the State
senate of Alabama 1865-66, serving until the State
was reconstructed; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses as
a Democrat; died January 17, 1894.
Forrest, Thomas, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa.; received a public school education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Sixteenth
Congress; defeated for reelection to the Seven-
teenth Congress at the regular election, but was
subsequently elected to the Seventeenth Congress
to fill out the unexpired term of William Milnor,
resigned, and served from December 2, 1822, to
March 3, 1823; died at Philadelphia, March 20,
1825.
Forrest, TJriah, was born in St. Marys County,
Md., in 1756; received a limited education; served
as a private in the Revolutionary war; wounded
at the battle of Germantown, and lost a leg at the
battle of Brandy wiije; a Delegate from Maryland
to the Continental Congress 1786-87; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Third Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1793, to November
8, 1794, when he resigned; died near Georgetown,
D. C, in April, 1805.
Forsyth, John, was born at Fredericksburg,
Va., October 22, 1780; graduated from Princeton
College in 1799; moved to Augusta, Ga., with his
father; studied law, and in 1802 admitted to the
bar; began practicing at Augusta; attorney-general
of Georgia m 1808; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con-
gresses, serving from May 24, 1813, to November
23, 1818, when he was elected a United States
Senator; resijgned February 15, 1819, having been
appointed minister to Spain, serving until March
2, 1823; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses; again
elected a United States Senator from Georgia (in
place of J. Macpherson Berrien, resigned), and
served from December 8, 1829, to June 27, 1834,
when he resigned, having been appointed Secretary
of State by President Jackson; reappointed by
President Van Buren; died at Washington, D. C,
October 21, 1841.
Forsythe, Albert P., of Isabel, 111., was bom
at New Richmond, Ohio, May 24, 1830; educated
in the common schools and at Asbury University;
raised on a farm; farmer by occupation; served
in the Union Army as first lieutenant; elected
master of the Illinois State Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry in December, 1875, and reelected
January, 1878; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a National; after expiration of his term in Con-
gress he moved to Kansas.
Fort, GreenburyL. , of Lacon, 111., was born
at French Grant, Scioto County, Ohio, October 11,
1825; moved with his parents to Illinois in April,
1834; admitted to the bar and practiced law; an
ofiicer in the Un^on Army from April 22, 1861, to
March 24, 1866; 'elected to the Forty-third, Forty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a
Republican; died at Lacon, 111., January 13, 1883.
Fort, Tomlinson, was born in Warren County, •
Ga., July 11, 1787; received a liberal education;
studied medicine, and in 1810 began practicing;
served several years as a member of the Georgia
State legislature; elected a, Representative from
that State to the Twentieth Congress on a general
ticket; after leaving Congress resumed the practice
of medicine; chosen president of the State Bank
of Georgia in 1832 and held that position until his
death, which occurred at Milledgeville, May 11,
1859.
For'ward, Chauncey, was born in 1793 at Old
Granby, Conn. ; moved with his father to Ohio in
1800; received a classical education; studied law,
538
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOBY.
and in 1817 admitted to the bar at Pittsburg, Pa.;
began practicing at Somerset, Pa. ; served in both
branches of the Pennsylvania State legislature;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Nineteenth Congress (in place of Alexander Thom-
son, resigned) as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twentieth and Twenty-flrst Congresses; appointed
prothonotary and recorder of Somerset County
in 1831; died at Somerset, Pa., October 19, 1839.
Forward, Walter, vi^as born in Connecticut in
1786; received a liberal education; moved to Pitts-
burg, Pa., in 1803; studied law, and in 1806 ad-
mitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Seventeenth Congress (in
place of Henry Baldwin, resigned), as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Eighteenth Congress; a del-
egate to the State constitutional convention in
1837; appointed by President Harrison Fiisi
Comptroller of the Treasury, April 6, 1841, serving
until September 13, 1841, when he was appointed
Secretary of the Treasury by President Tyler,
which position he held until March 1, 1843"; re-
sumed the practice of law; appointed by President
Taylor charg6 d'affaires to Denmark, serving from
Novembers, 1849, to October 10, 1851; returned
to serve as president judge of the district court of
Allegheny County; died at Pittsburg, Pa., Novem-
ber 24, 1852.
Fosdick, NicoU, was born at New London,
Conn., November 9, 1785; received a liberal edu-
cation; moved to Norway, N. Y.; a Presidential
elector on the Monroe ticket in 1816 ; a member
of the State house of representatives in 1818 and
1819; elected a Representative from New York to
the Nineteenth Congress as a Whig; returned to
New London in 1843, and was collector of customs
there 1849-1853; died at New London May 7, 1868.
Foss, Georg-e Edmund, of Chicago, was born
at Berkshire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2, 1863;
graduated from Harvard College in 1885; attend-
ed the Columbia Law School and School of Po-
litical Science in New York City, and graduated
from the Union College of Law of Chicago in 1889,
receiving the degree of LL. B. ; admitted to the bar
the same year and began the practice of law in
Chicago; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; re-
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Foster, Atoiel, was born at Andover, Mass.,
Augusts, 1735; graduated from Harvard College in
1756; studied theology; ordained over the Congre-
gational Church at Canterbury, N. H., in 1761, and
remained its minister until 1779; a Delegate from
New Plampshire to the Continental Congress
1783-1784; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the First Congress; president of the
State senate of New Hampshire, 1793-1794; elected
to the Fourth Congress, and reelected to the Fifth,
Sixth, and Seventh Congresses; died at Canter-
bury, N. H., February 6, 1806.
Foster, Addison G., of Tacoma, Wash., was
born at Belchertown, Mass., January 28, 1837;
moved to Oswego, Kendall County, 111., where he
received a good common school" education, and
started out in life by teaching school, finally set-
tling at Wabasha, Minn., and engaging in the
grain and real estate business; served as county
auditor and county surveyor, one term in each
position; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1873, and
engaged extensively in lumbering, contracting,
and the fuel-supply trade; had extensive lumber,'
coal, coke, packing house, and shipping interests
in Washington; he and his business associates sent
the chief products of Washington throughout the
United States by rail, and by sail and steam ves-
sels throughout the world; elected to the United
States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed John
L. Wilson, Republican.
Foster, A. Iiawrence, resided at Morrisville,
N. Y. ; received a public school education; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig.
Foster, Charles, was born in Seneca County,
Ohio, April 12, 1828; received an academic educa-
tion; engaged in the banking business; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Foster, David Joluison, of Burlington, Vt.,
was born in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vt., June
27, 1857; graduated from the St. Johnsbury Acad-
emy, St. Johnsbury, Vt., in 1876, and from Dart-
mouth College in 1880; admitted to the bar in
1883; prosecuting attorney of Chittenden County
1886-1890; State senator from Chittenden County
1892-1894; commissioner of State taxes 1894-1898;
chairman of the board of railroad commissioners
1898-1900; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Rebublican.
Foster, Dwight, wasbornatBrookfield, Mass.,
December 7, 1757; received a liberal education and
in 1774 graduated from the Brown University;
studied law and admitted to the bar; high
sheriff of Worcester County; justice of the court
of common pleas and afterwards chief justice;
served in both branches of the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist; a delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1799; elected a United States Senator
from Massachusetts (in place of Samuel Dexter,
resigned), serving from June 6, 1800, to March 3,
1803; died at Brookfield, Mass., April 29, 1823.
Foster, Ephraim H., was born about 1795;
received a liberal education; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; began practicing at Nashville,
Tenn.; appointed a United States Senator from
Tennessee (in place of Felix Grundy, resigned)
as a Whig, serving from December 3, 1838, to
March 3, 1839, when he resigned because he would
not obey instructions given him by the State leg-
islature; elected a United States Senator from Ten-
nessee, and served from December 4, 1843, to March
3, 1845; defeated as the Whig candidate for gov-
ernor; died at Nashville, Tenn., September 4, 1854.
Foster, George P., of Chicago, 111., was born
at Dover, N. J., April 3, 1860; came to Chicago
when 7 years of age, where he attended the pubUc
schools and also took a course of instruction at the
old University of Chicago; graduated from Union
College of Law of Chicago in 1882; admitted to the
bar the same year and began the practice of law in
Chicago; on the recommendation of the judges of
tlie circuit, superior, county, and probate courts of
Cook County in 1891, he was nominated by (tov-
crnor Joseph W. Fifer and confirmed by the State
senate, and, after confirmation, was commissioned
justice of the peace for the town of South Chicago-
while acting as justice of the peace he also acted
under the appointments of Mayors Washburne
Harrison, sr., Hopkins, and Harrison, jr., as police
magistrate of the principal police court of the city
of Chicago; nominated Presidential elector on
Democratic ticket in 1896, but resigned in order to
permit a fusion between Democratic and People's
parties; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat.
BIOGRAPHIES .
539
Foster, Henry A., was born at Hartford,
Conn., May 7, 1800; moved to Cazenovia, N. Y.,
when quite a boy; received a common school edu-
cation; studied law, and in 1822 admitted to the
bar; a member of the State senate from 1831 to
1834 and from 1841 to 1844; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat; aj)pointed a United States Senator
from New York (in the place of Silas Wright, jr.,
resigned), serving from December 9, 1844, to Jan-
uary 27, 1847; elected judge of the fifth district of
the supreme court November 3, 1863, serving until
November, 1869; senior member and president of
the board of trustees of Hamilton College; vice-
president of the American Colonization Society;
died at Eome, N. Y., May 12, 1889.
Foster, Henry Donnel, was born at Mercer,
Pa., December 19, 1812; received a classical educa-
tion; studied la* and admitted to the bar; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to theT wenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; member of the State
house of representatives 1846 and 1847; defeated
as the Democratic ^candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania in 1860; defeated for election to the
Forty-first Congress; elected a Representative to
the Forty-second Congress.
Foster, Lafayette S., was born at Franklin,
Conn., November 22, 1806; received a classical
education and graduated from Brown University
in 1828; studied law, and admitted to the bar
at Centerville, Md., in 1830, and also at Norwich,
Conn., where he began practicing; moved to
Hampton in 1833, but returned to Norwich in
1835; a member of the State legislature in 1839,
1840, 1846-1848, and in 1854; served three years as
speaker of the house; defeated as the Whig can-
didate for governor in 1850 and 1851; defeated for
the United States Senate in 1851; mayor of Nor-
wich in 1851 and 1852; elected a United States
Senator from Connecticut as a Republican; re-
elected, serving from 1855 to March 3, 1867, acting
as President pro tempore of the Senate for a short
time; elected professor of law at Yale College in
1869; a judge of the supreme court of Connecticut
in 1870-1876; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date for the Forty-fourth Congress; died at Nor-
wich, Conn., September 19, 1880.
Foster, Murphy J. , of Franklin, was born at
Franklin, La., January 12, 1849; after the civil
war, attended preparatory school at Whites Creek,
near Nashville, Tenn., for two years; from there
went to Washington and Lee College for the session
of 1867 and 1868; from Washington and Lee, went
to Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and
graduated there in 1870; attended the law school
of Tulane University, New Orleans, graduating in
1871; elected member of the John McEnery legis-
lature in 1872, but owing to the fact that this gov-
ernment was never recognized and the Kellogg
government was, did not take his seat; elected a
member of the senate of the State of Louisiana in
1879 under the constitution of that year, and was
returned for three consecutive terms of four years
each; elected president pro tempore of the senate
in 1888-1890; led the antilottery fight in the legis-
lature in 1890, and in 1892 was nominated by the
antilottery convention as candidate for governor;
elected for four years, and in 1896 was nominated
to be his own successor and again elected; at the
end of eight years in the governor's office, was
unanimously elected to the United States Senate
as a Democrat to succeed Hon. Donelson Caffery,
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
Foster, Nathaniel G., was born in Greene
County, Ga., August 25, 1809; received a classical
education and graduated from Franklin College in
1829; studied law and admitted to the bar in 1831;
began practicing at Madison, Ga. ; served in both
houses of the State legislature; for three years
solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee circuit; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as an American.
Foster, Stephen C. , was born at Machias, Me.,
December 24, 1799; received a public school edu-
cation; learned the blacksmith trade and became
a shipbuilder; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1834-1837; president of the State senate
in 1840; again elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1847; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Foster, Theodore, was born at Brookfield,
Mass., April 29, 1752 (old style); received a classical
education and graduated from the Rhode Island
College (now Brown University) in 1770 and from
Dartmouth College in 1786; studied law and admit-
ted to the bar; began practicing at Providence,
R. I.; member of the state house of representa-
tives 1776 to 1782; town clerk of Providence for
many years; appointed judge of the court of admi-
ralty in May, 1785; elected a United States Senator
from Rhode Island and twice reelected, serving
from December 7, 1790, until March 3, 1803; mem-
ber of the state house of representatives 1812-1816
from the town of Fostei-, which was named after
him; antiquarian student, and started a history of
Rhode Island which was never completed; died at
Providence, January 13, 1828.
Foster, Thomas F. , was born at Greensboro,
Ga., November 23, 1790; received a classical educa-
tion, graduating from Franklin College in 1812;
studied law at the Litchfield Law School ; admitted
to the bar in 1816 and began practicing at Greens-
boro; member of the state house of representa-
tives; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Twenty-first Congresses as a Democrat on a
general ticket; reelected to the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses on a general ticket;
defeated for the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected
to the Twenty -seventh Congress, serving from May
31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; died at Columbus, Ga.,
in 1847.
Foster, Thomas J. , was a Representative from
Alabama to the First and Second Confederate Con-
gesses; his political disabilities being removed by
President Johnson, he was elected a Representa-
tive from Alabama to the Thirty-ninth Congress,
but his credentials after being presented to "the
House January 10, 1867, were not acted upon.
Foster, Wilder D. , was born in Orange County,
N. Y., January 8, 1819; received a common school
education; moved to Michigan in 1837; tinner's
apprentice; carried on the hardware business at
Grand Rapids in 1845; city treasurer and alder-
man, and elected as mayor in 1854; elected a State
senator in 1855 and 1856; again mayor of Grand
Rapids in 1865 and 1866; elected a Representative
from Michigan to the Forty-second Congress as a
Republican in April, 1871, vice Thomas W. Ferry,
elected to the United States Senate.
Fouke, Philip B., was born at Kaskaskia, 111.,
January 23, 1818; received a public school educa-
tion; a civil engineer; established and published
the Belleville Advocate in 1841; studied law and
admitted to the bar; prosecuting attorney of the
Kaskaskia district 1846-1850; member of the
540
OONGEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
State legislature in 1851 ; elected a Representative
irom Illinois to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-seventh
Congress; colonel of Illinois volunteers in 1861-b^;
resumed practice and died at Washington October
3, 1876.
Fowler, Charles Newell, of Elizabeth, N., J.,
was born at Lena, 111., November 2, 1852; gradu-
ated from Yale University in 1876 and from the
Chicago Law School in 1878; elected to the Fitty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Eepublican.
Fowler, John, was born in Virginia in 1755;
received a public school education and served m
the Revolutionary war as captain; moved to Lex-
ington Ky., after the war; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Fifth Congress; re-
elected to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Congresses; died at Lexington, Ky., August 22,
1840.
Fowler, Jolin Edgar, of Clinton, N. C, was
born on a farm in Sampson County, N. C, Septem-
ber 8, 1866; educated in the common schools of
the county and at AVake Forest College; taught two
years after leaving college; read law at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, and admitted to the bar
in 1894; formerly a Free-Silver Democrat, but upon
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland in 1892 left the
Democratic and allied himself with the Populist
party ; nominated as a Populist for the State senate
in 1894, and elected; elected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Populist.
Fowler, Joseph Smith, was born at Steuben-
ville, Ohio, August 31, 1822; graduated from
Franklin College, Ohio, where he was professor of
mathematics for four years; studied law in Ken-
tucky, and began practicing in Tennessee; ap-
pointed by Governor Johnson comptroller of
Tennessee, and took an active part in the recon-
struction of the State government; elected a United
States Senator from that State as a Union Repub-
lican, serving from July 25, 1866, to March 3, 1871.
Fowler, Orin, was born at Lebanon, Conn.,
July 29, 1791; received a classical education and
graduated from Yale College in 1815; studied
theology; after performing an extensive mission-
ary tour in the valley of the Mississippi settled as
a minister at Plainfield, Conn., in 1819; moved to
Fall River, Mass., in 1829, where he was pastor
for twenty years; served several times in both
branches of the legislature; elected to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Free-Soil Whig, and reelected
to the Thirty-second Congress, serving until he
died, at Washington, D. C, September 3, 1852.
Fowler, Samuel, was born near Newburgh,
N. Y., October 30, 1779; after receiving an academic
education studied medicine and commenced prac-
ticing at Hamburg, N. J. ; was elected a Represent-
ative from that State to the Twenty-third Congress
as a Jackson Democrat on a genera,l ticket; re-
elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at
Franklin, N. J., February 21, 1844.
Fowler, Samuel, of Newton, N. J., was born
at Franklin, Sussex County, N. J., March 22, 1851;
educated at Newton Collegiate Institute, Princeton
College, and Columbia College Law vSchool; ad-
mitted to the bar of New York in 1873 and of New
Jersey in 1876; practiced law in Newark and New-
ton, N. J. ; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as
a Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-second
Congress.
Fox, Andrew Fuller, of West Point, Clay
County, Miss., was born April 26, 1849 in Pickens
County, Ala. ; studied law at Grenada, Miss., in 1876
and 1877; admitted to the bar in 1877, and engaged
in the practice of law in Mississippi; a delegate to
theDemocratic national convention in 1888; elected
State senator in 1891, which position he resigned
to accept the office of United States attorney for
the northern district of Mississippi, to which he
was appointed June 27, 1893; resigned the latter
office September 1, 1896; elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat.
Fox, John, was born at New York, June 30,
1835; after receiving a public school education
engaged in mechanical pursuits; served as alder-
man and supervisor of New York City; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fortieth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Forty-first Congress.
Franchot, Richard, was born at Morris, N. Y. ,
in 1816; after receiving a public school education ■
and studying civil engineering became interested
in agricultural pursuits, and then in the construc-
tion of railroads; served for some years as presi-
dent of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad
Company; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; died at Schenectady, N. Y., November 23,
1875.
Francis, John Brown, was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., May 31, 1794; on the death of his father
he was reared by Nicholas Brown, of Providence,
B. I., receiving a classical education and graduated
from Brown University in 1808; attended the
Litchfield Law School; never practiced; became
interested in agricultural pursuits; secretary of the
State agricultural society; a representative from
Warwick in the State legislature in 1824, 1826-
1828, and 1832; elected governor in 1832 as a Jack-
son and Antimasonic candidate, serving until 1838;
State senator in 1843; chancellor of Brown Uni-
versity 1841-1854; elected United States Senator
(vide William Sprague, resigned), as a Law and
Order candidate, serving from February 7, 1844,
to March 3, 1845; again State senator in 1847, 1849,
and 1852-1854; died at Warwick, R. I., August 9,
1864.
Frank, Augustus, was born at Warsaw, N. Y.,
July 17, 1826; received a business education and
entered upon a mercantile career; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses.
Frank, Nathan, of St. Louis, Mo., was born at
Peoria, 111., February 23, 1852; educated in the pub-
lic schools of Peoria and St. Louis, and at Wash-
ington University; graduated from Harvard Law
School in 1871; author of Frank's Bankrupt Law;
Republican nominee for the Fiftieth Congress, and
received, according to the face of returns, 7,102
votes, against 7,202 votes for John M. Glover,
Democrat; contested the election on the ground of
fraud on the part of the registration and revision
officer and the suppression of ballots cast; the con-
test was decided adversely; renominated by the
Republicans and Union Labor party, and elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Franklin, Benjamin, was born at Boston,
Mass., January 17, 1706; received a public school
education; learned the art of printing, and after
working at his trade in Philadelphia and London
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established himself at Philadelphia; State printer;
postmaster at Philadelphia; a member of the pro-
Yincial assembly 1744-1754; a member of several
Indian commissions; appointed postmaster-general
of the British North American colonies; agent of
Pennsylvania at London- a Delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress 1775-76; signed the Declaration
of Independence; sent as a diplomatic commis-
sioner to France by the Continental Congress
1778-1785; governor of Pennsylvania 1785-1788;
a delegate to the convention which framed the
Federal Constitution; published Poor Eichard's
Almanac, several works on electricity, and nu-
merous political pamphlets; died at Philadelphia
April 17, 1790.
Franklin, Benjamin J. , was a native of Mason
County, Ky. ; after attending private schools en-
tered Bethany College, Virginia, remaining two
years; taught school one year; studied law and
admitted to the bar in 1857; began practicing at
Leavenworth, Kans. ; moved to Missouri in 1860,
and located at Kansas City; entered the. Confed-
erate army as a private, promoted to captain, and
served throughout the war; elected Common-
weath attorney for the twenty-fourth judicial
eircuit of Missouri in March, 1871; elected a Rep-
resentative from Missouri to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Fortyrflfth Congress.
Franklin, Jesse, was born in Orange County,
Va., March 24, 1760; served as major during the
Revolutionary war; a member of the house of com-
' mons of North Carolina in 1794, 1797, and 1798, and
of the State senate in 1805 and 1806; a Representa-
tive to the Fourth Congress as a Democrat; elected
a United States Senator in 1799, serving until
March 3, 1805; again elected United States Senator
in 1807, serving until March 3, 1818; governor of
North Carolina 1820-21; died in Surry County,
N. C, in September, 1823.
Franklin, John R. , was born near Snow Hill,
Md., in 1820; received a classical education; grad-
uated from Jefferson College in 1836; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1841 and began prac-
tice at Snow Hill, Md. ; a member of the State
house of representatives 1840-1843 and again in
1859, serving as speaker one term; chosen presi-
dent of the state board of public works in 1851;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Whig; died in Worces-
ter County, Md., January 11, 1878.
Franklin, Meshach, was born in Surry
County, N. C, in 1772; member of the house of
commons of that State in 1800, and of the State
senate in 1828 and 1829; elected a Representative
from North Carohna tb the Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses as a Democrat;
died in Surry County, N. C, December 18, 1839.
Frederick, Benjamin Todd, of Marshalltown,
Iowa, was born at Fredericktown, Columbiana
Countv, Ohio, October 5, 1834; engaged in manu-
facturing; member of the city council of Marshall-
town three terms, and of the school board three
terms; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, but
was compelled to contest the seat, which was given
to him on the last day of that Congress, March 3,
1885; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat.
Freedley, John, was born at Norristown, Pa.,
Ijlay 22, 1793; received a public school education;
worked for some years in a brick yard; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1820 and began prac-
tice at Norristown; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Thirty-flrst Congress; died at
Norristown, Pa., December 8, 1851.
Freeman, Cliapman, was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., October 8, 1832; educated in the public
schools; graduated from the Philadelphia High
School in 1850; commenced the study of law, but
engaged in mercantile pursuits until the break-
ing out of the civil war; entered the U. S.
Navy as acting assistant paymaster in 1863; re-
signed on account of poor health in 1864; resumed
the study of law and admitted to the bar in 1867;
practiced at Philadelphia; one of the commission-
ers on behalf of the centennial from the city of
Philadelphia to Vienna, Austria, in 1873; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-fifth Congress.
Freeman, George C. , served in the Confederate
army as a major and lost a leg in action; returned
and elected a Representative to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, and his credentials were presented, but
he was not admitted.
Freeman, James C. , was born in Jones County,
Ga., April 1, 1820; received a limited education;
planter; opposed to secession; elected a Repre-
sentative from Georgia to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican.
Freeman, Jolin D. , was a native of New Jer-
sey; received a common school education; moved
to Mississippi and located at Jackson; elected
a Representative from that State to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Unionist.
Freeman, Jonathan, was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1745; received a public school education;
executive councilor 1789-1797; overseer of Dart-
mouth College 1793-1808; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Fifth and Sixth Con-
gresses; died in 1808.
Freeman, Nathaniel, was born at Dennis,
Mass., April 8, 1741; received a liberal education;
studied medicine, and in 1765 began practicing at
Sandwich, Mass.; also studied law and admitted
to the bar; a colonel in the Revolutionary war;
judge of the court of common pleas for Barnstable
County 1775-1811; brigadier-general of militia
1781-1793; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses; died
at Sandwich, Mass., September 20, 1827.
Freer, Someo Hoyt, of Harrisville, Ritchie
County, W. Va., was born in Trumbull County,
Ohio, November 9, 1846; reared on a farm, and
educated in the common schools of Ashtabula
County, Ohio, where his parents had moved when
he was 3 years old; served in, the Union Army
during the war as a private; located at Charleston, ,
W. Va., in March, 1866; taught school and studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1868; assistant
prosecuting attorney of Kanawha Count}' 1868-
1871, and prosecuting attorney of the same county
1871-1873; Grant elector in 1872; consul to Nicar-
agua until 1877; moved to Ritchie County in 1882;
Blaine elector in 1884; member of the legislature
in 1891; 'prosecuting attorney of Ritchie County
1892-1897; elected judge of the fourth judicial cir-
cuit in 1896; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick, was born in Som-
erset County, N. J., April 13, 1753; graduated from
Princeton College in 1770; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; Delegate from New Jersey to
the Continental Congress in 1775, 1778-79, and
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1782; served in the Revolutionary war as captain
and colonel, and in 1790 appointed by President
Washington brigadier-general in the campaign
against the Western Indians; elected United States
Senator from New Jersey as a Federalist, serving
from December 2, 1793, to 1796, when he resigned;
died April 13, 1804.
Frelingliuysen, Frederick Theodore, was
born at Millstone, N. J., August 4, 1817; gradu-
ated from Rutgers College in 1836; studied law, and
in 1839 admitted to the bar; a delegate to the
peace congress in 1861 ; appointed attorney-general
of New Jersey in 1861; reappointed in 1866; ap-
pointed United States Senator from New Jersey as
a Republican (to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of WilliamWright), and elected to fill the
unexpired term, serving from December 3, 1866,
to March 3, 1869; appointed minister to England
by President Grant in July, 1870, in place of J. L.
Motley; confirmed, after considerable opposition
by Senators Sumner and Wilson, but declined the
appointment; again elected to the United States
Senate and served six years; after leaving the
Senate resumed the practice of law; appointed
Secretary of State under President Arthur, which
position he held until the close of that Administra-
tion; died at Newark, N. J., May 20, 1885.
Frelinghuysen, Theodore (son of Frederick
Frelinghuysen), was born at Millstone, N. J.,
March 28, 1787; received a classical education, and
graduated from Princeton College in 1804; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1808; began prac-
tice at Newark, N. J. ; served as captain of volun-
teer militia in the war of 1812 against Great
Britain; attorney-general of New Jersey 1817-1829;
defeated for election as United States Senator in
1826 by E. Bateman, who secured his election by
voting for himself; elected to the United States
Senate as an Adams Republican, serving from
March 4, 1829, until March 3, 1833; mayor of
Newark, N. J., 1837-38; chancellor of the New
York University 1839-1850; defeated as the Whig
candidate for Vice-President in 1844; president of
the American Bible Society, the American Board
of Foreign Missions, the American Tract Society,
and the American Temperance Union, and prom-
inently connected with several like organizations;
president of Rutgers College from 1850 until his
death; died in New Brunswick, N. J., April 12,
1862.
Fremont, John. Charles, was born at Savan-
nah, Ga., January 21, 1813; after receiving a clas-
sical education, graduated from the Charleston Col- ■
lege in 1830; instructor in mathematics in U. S.
Navy 1833-1835; civil engineer, becoming an
assistant of Nicollet in 1838-39, exploring the
territory between the Missouri River and the
northern boundary of the United States; appointed
'• second lieutenant of topographical engineers of
the U. S. Army, July 7, 1838; commenced in 1842
his explorations and surveys for an overland route
from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; major
of a battalion of California volunteers in 1846;
appointed lieutenant-colonel of United States
Mounted Rifles in 1846 and ordered to act as gov-
ernor of California by Commodore Stockton, at
that time commanding the United States squadron
at San Francisco; General Kearny, U. S. Army,
revoked this order and placed him under arrest
for mutiny; tried by court-martial at Washington,
found guilty, and pardoned by President Polk,
but resigned; crossed the continent in 1848;
located in California on the Mariposa grant; com-
missioner to run the boundary line between United
States and Mexico in 1849; elected United States
Senator from California as a Free Soil Democrat,
serving from September 10, 1850, to March 3,
1851; crossed the continent in 1853 for the fifth
time; defeated in 1856 as the Republican candidate
for President by James Buchanan, Democrat; vis-
ited Europe in 1860; appointed major-general of
volunteers by President Lincoln May 14, 1861,
being placed in command of the Western Military
District, whence he was removed December 2,
1861 ; appointed to command the Mountain Depart-
ment February 10, 1862; resigned in 1863; again
nominated for President by the Cleveland conven-
tion in 1864; published Frtoont's Explorations in
1859 and many accounts of his expeditions; gov-
ernor of Arizona Territory 1878-1881; died at New
York City July 13, 1890.
French, Carlos, of Seymour, Conn., was born
at Humphreysville (now Seymour) , Conn., August
6, 1835; educated at General Russell's school. New
Haven, Conn. ; engaged in the manufacturing busi-
ness; member of the Connecticut house of repre-
sentatives 1860 and 1868; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat; died April 14, 1903.
French, Ezra B. , was a native of New Hamp-
shire; received an academic education; moved to
Damariscotta, Me. ; secretary of State of Maine;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-
sixth Congress; appointed Second Auditor of the
Treasury, August 3, 1861, by President Lincoln,
and continued during the Administrations of Presi-
dents Johnson, Grant, and Hayes.
French, John B., was born at Gilmanton,
N. H., May 28, 1819; learned the printer's trade;
five years publisher and associate editor of the
New Hampshire Statesman, at Concord; two years
editor of the Eastern Journal, at Biddeford, Me. ;
moved to Lake County, Ohio, in 1854, becoming
editor of the Telegraph, the Press, and in 1856 of
the Cleveland Morning Leader; member of the
State legislature 1858 and 1859; appointed by Sec-
retary Chase in the Treasury Department at Wash-
ington in 1861; appointed by President Lincoln in
1864 on the board of direct-tax commissioners for
the State of North Carolina; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of North Carolina in
1867; elected a Representative from North Carolina
to the F"'ortieth Congress as a Republican, serving
from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1869; elected Sergeant-
at-Arms of the United States Senate in December,
1870, and held the office nine years; appointed
secretary of the Ute Commission in July, 1880;
moved to Boise City, Idaho, becoming editor of
the Boise City Sun; died at Boise Citv, October 2,
1890. "
French, Richard, was a native of Kentucky;
received a public school education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Mount
Sterling; a judge of the circuit court; member of
the State legislature in 1820 and 1822; Presidential
elector on the Jackson and Van Buren ticket in
1829; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat;"de-
feated for the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected to
the Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth Congresses.
Frick, Henry, was born at Northumberland,
Pa., in 1795; educated at the public schools; ap-
prenticed to a printer in Philadelphia; served in
the war of 1812; located at Milton, Pa., in 1816,
establishing a political journal, with which he was
connected for over twenty years; member of the
State house of representatives 1828-1831 ; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, serving until March 1
1844, when he died, at Washington, D. C
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Fries, George, was a native of Pennsylvania
and educated in the public schools; studied med-
icine and practiced at Hanoverton, Ohio; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-ninth
Congress; reelected to the Thirtieth Congress- died
November 13, 1866.
Fromentin, Eligius, was born in France; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law; admitted
to the bar and practiced at New Orleans; United
States Senator from Louisiana from May 24, 1813,
to March 3, 1819; appointed judge of the criminal
court at New Orleans in 1821; appointed United
States district judge for the district of Florida in
January, 1822, but soon resigned and resumed the
practice of law at New Orleans; his wife died of
yellow fever and he also died within twenty-four
hours at New Orleans October 6, 1822; publisher
of Observations on a Bill respecting Land Titles
in Orleans.
Frost, George, was born at Newcastle, N. H.,
April 26, 1720; educated in the public schools;
entered the countinghouse of his uncle at Kittery
Point, near Portsmouth; followed the sea as super-
cargo and captain for twenty years; returned to
Newcastle in 1760, and in 1770 moved to Durham;
judge of the court of common pleas of Strafford
County 1773-1791, part time chief justice; Dele-
gate from New Hampshire to the Continental Con-
fress 1777-1779; executive councilor 1781-1784;
ied at Durham, N. H., June 21, 1796.
Frost, Joel, was a native of Westchester County,
N. Y.; educated in the public schools; member of
the lower branch of the State legislature 1806-1810;
moved to Schenectady; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Eighteenth Congress.
Frost, Richard Graham, of St. Louis, Mo.,
was born there December 29, 1851; educated at
St. John's College, New York, and London Uni-
versity, England; studied law at the St. Louis Law
School; lawyer by profession; Democratic candi-
date from the Third district of Missouri for Rep-
resentative to the Forty-fifth Congress, and con-
tested the seat of L^ne S. Metcalfe, Republican;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress; unseated
by Sessinghaus, who took his seat March 2, 1883.
Frost, Bufus S. , was born at Marlboro, N. H.,
July 18, 1826; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1833,
where he attended the, public schools; entered
upon a mercantile career; in which he became quite
prominent; mayor of Chelsea in 1867 and 1868;
member of the State senate in 1871 and 1872, and
of the governor's council 1873 and 1874; elected
on the fece of the returns a Eepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Forty-fourth Congress and
served until July 28, 1876, when he was unseated
by J. G. Abbott, Democrat; president of the
National Association of Woolen Manufacturers for
seven years, of the Boston Board of Trade for two
years, and of the New England Conservatory of
Music for eight years; well known philanthropist;
delegate to the national Republican convention in
1892; died at Chicago, 111., March 6, 1894.
Fry, Jacot), jr. , was a native of Pennsylvania
and attended the public schools; resided at Fry-
burg, Clarion County; elected a Representative
frora Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Fry, Joseph., jr. , was a native of Pennsylvania,
and resided at Fryburg^ Clarion County; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twen-
tieth and Twenty-flrst Congresses.
Frye, William Pierce, of Lewiston, Me., was
born there September 2, 1831; graduated from
Bowdoin College, Maine, 1850; studied and prac-
ticed law; member of the State legislature in 1861,
1862, and 1867; mayor of the city of Lewiston
in 1866 and 1867; attorney-general of the State
of Maine 1867-1869; elected a member of the
national Republican executive committee in 1872
and reelected in 1876 and 1880; elected a trustee
of Bowdoin College in June, 1880; received the
degree of LL. D. from Bates College in July, 1881,
and the same degree from Bowdoin College in
1889; Presidential elector in 1864; delegate to the
national Republican conventions in 1872, 1876, and
1880; elected chairman of the Repubhcan State
committee of Maine in place of Hon. James G.
Blaine, resigned, in November, 1881; elected a
Representative to the Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses; elected to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig-
nation of James G. Blaine, appointed Secretary of
State; took his seat March 18, 1881; reelected in
1883, 1888, 1895, and 1901; elected President pro
tempore of the Senate February 7, 1896, and re-
elected March 7, 1901; member of the commission
which met in Paris September, 1898, to adjust
terms of peace between the United States and
Spain.
Fulkerson, Abram, was born in Washington
County in 18.34; graduated from the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute; lawyer by profession; entered the
Confederate service in March, 1861, as a captain-
promoted to major, lieutenant-colonel, and colo-
nel; in the battles of Wildcat, Chickamauga, Dru-
rys Bluff, and Petersburg; wounded five times and
captured twice; imprisoned at Huntsville, Ala.,
Fort Delaware, Morris Island, and Fort Pulaski,
and released from prison in July, 1865; elected to
the house of delegates of Virginia in 1871 and 1873,
and to the. senate of Virginia in 1877 and 1879;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Read-
•juster; resumed the practice of law after leaving
Congress; died December 17, 1902.
Fuller, Benoni S., was born in Warwick
County, Ind., November 13, 1825; brought up on
a farm and attended the common schools; at 21
years of age a school-teacher; elected sherifi in
1856 and 1858; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1866 and 1868 and of the State
senate 1862, 1870, and 1872; elected a Representa-
tive from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Fuller, George, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the public school; resided at Montrose;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-eighth Congress (vice Almon H. Read,
deceased) as a Democrat, serving from December
2, 1844, to March 3, 1845.
Fuller, Henry M., was born at Bethany, Pa.,
January 3, 1820; received a classical education
and graduated from Nassau Hall, Princeton, in
1839; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
practice at Wilkesbarre; elected to the State legis-
lature in 1848; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig; defeated for the Thirty-third Congress;
elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress; died at
Philadelphia December 26, 1860.
Fuller, Philo C, lived at Geneseo, Livingston
County, N. Y. ; member of the State legislature in
1830; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; reelected to
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the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving until 1836,
when he resigned; Second Assistant Postmaster-
General 1841-1843; comptroller of New York
from December 18, 1850, to November 4, 1851;
died at Geneva, N. Y., August 16, 1855.
Fuller, Thomas J. D., was born at Hardwick,
Caledonia County, Vt., March 17, 1808; attended
the public schools; studied law and admitted to
the bar; began practicing at Calais, Me. ; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Thirty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-second,
Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses; ap-
pointed by President Buchanan Second Auditor of
the Treasury from April 15, 1857, to August 3, 1861 ;
practiced law at Washington, D. C. ; died near that
city at the country residence of his son in 1876.
Fuller, Timotlijr, was born atChilmark, Mass.,
' July 11, 1778; received a liberal education and
graduated from Harvard College in 1801; taught
at Leicester Academy; studied law at Worcester;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Bos-
ton, residing at Cambridge; member of the State
senate 1813-1817, and of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1825; elected a Bepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Fifteenth Congress as a Dem-
ocratic Republican oyer the Federalist candidate;
reelected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eight-
eenth Congresses, serving from January 2, 1818,
until March 3, 1825; State councilor in 1828;
again elected to the State house of representatives
from Groton; died at Groton October 1, 1835.
Fuller, William E., of West Union, Iowa, was
born at Howard, Center County, Pa., March 30,
1846; educated at the Upper Iowa University and
the State University; graduated from the law de-
partment of the State University in June, 1870;
held a position in the office of Indian Affairs, De-
partment of the Interior, in 1866 and 1867; member
of the Iowa house of representatives in 1876 and
1877; member of the Republican State and Con-
gressional committees; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fiftieth
Congress.
Fuller, William K., resided at Chittenango,
N. Y.; adjutant-general of New York in 1823;
member of the State legislature of New York in
1829-30; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty -fourth Congress.
FuUertou, David, was born in the Cumberland
Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1772; attended the pub-
lic schools; located at Greencastle; member of the
State senate; elected a Bepresentative from Penn-
sylvania to the Sixteenth Congress, serving until
1820 when he resigned, having been burned in
effigy at Carlisle by some of his, constituents, and
positively declined a renomination; president of
the bank at Greencastle, where he died February
1, 1843.
Fulton, Andrew S., was born near Wythe-
ville, Va. ; attended the public schools; elected a
Representative from Virgmia to the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Whig.
Fulton, John H. , was born at Abington, Va. ;
received a liberal education; elected to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Whig; defeated for the Twenty-
fourth Congress.
Fulton, William S. , was born in Cecil County,
Md., June 2, 1795; received a classical education
and graduated from Baltimore College in 1813;
started the study of law under William Pinckney'
but served in the war of 1812 in a company of vol-
unteers at Fort McHenry; after the war moved to
Tennessee with his father's family and resumed
the study of law with Felix Grundy; military sec-
retary to General Jackson in his Florida campaign
in 1818; moved to Alabama; appointed by Presi-
dent Jackson secretary of state of the Territory of
Arkansas in 1829; governor of Arkansas 1835-1836;
elected a United States Senator from Arkansas as
a Democrat, and served from December 3, 1836, to
his death, August 15, 1844.
Funk, Benjamin F., of Bloomington, 111., was
born on a farm in Funks Grove Township, McLean
County, 111., October 17, 1838; educated in the
district school and the Wesleyan University,
Bloomington; left school in 1862 to enlist in the
Sixty-eighth Illinois Infantry as a private, and
served five months; returned to the university
and finished a three-year course; engaged in farm-
ing three years after leaving the university; moved
to Bloomington in 1869; elected mayor of that city
in 1871, and reelected six times consecutively;
trustee of the Asylum for the Blind at Jackson-
ville; a delegate to the national Republican con-
vention in 1888; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Republican.
Funston, Ed-ward H., of lola, Kans., was bom
in Clark County, Ohio, in 1837; reared on a farm;
educated in the common schools; New Carlisle
Academy, and Marietta College; entered the Army
in 1861 as lieutenant. Sixteenth Ohio Battery; par-
ticipated in the principal engagements along the
Mississippi River; mustered out in 1865; located in
Kansas on a prairie farm in 1867; elected to Kan-
sas house of representatives 1873-1875; speaker
in 1875; elected to State senate in 1880 for four
years, of which he was made president pro tem-
pore; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress March
1, 1884, as a Republican, to fill vacancy caused by
the death of the late Hon. D. C. Haskell; reelected
to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-
second Congresses; reelected to the Fifty-third
Congress, and given the certificate of election, but
his seat was contested by Horace L. Moore, and
he was unseated August 2, 1894.
Fyan, Robert W. , was born in Bedford County,
Pa. , March 11 , 1835 ; resided at Marshfleld, Webster
County, Mo.; lawyer by profession; captain and
major of the Twenty-fourth Missouri Volunteer
Infantry and colonel of the Forty-sixth Missouri
Volunteer Infantry; circuit attorney of the four-
teenth judicial circuit 1865-66; circuit judge of the
fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri from April,
1866, to January, 1883, having four years to serve
when elected to Congress; member of the Missouri
conatitutionab convention of 1875; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress, and reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law
after leaving Congress; died July 28, 1896.
Gage, Joshua, was a native of Massachusetts;
received a liberal education; served several terms
in the State legislature; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Fifteenth Congress as a
Democrat; an executive councilor in 1822 and 1823.
G-aillard, John, was born in St. Stephens Dis-
trict, S. C, September 5, 1765; received a liberal
education; elected a United States Senator from
South Carolina (inplaceof PierceButler, resigned),
serving from January 31, 1805, until he died at
Washington, D. C, February 26, 1826; President
pro tempore of the Senate in the Eleventh, Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, and Eighteenth Congresses.
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545
Gaines, John P., was a native of Walton, Ky.;
received a thorough English education; studied law
and admitted to the bar at Walton, where he be-
gan practice; served in the Mexican war as major;
captured at Incarnacion in January, 1847, and while
in captivity elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Thirteenth Congress as a Whig; gov-
ernor of Oregon Territory 1850-1853; died in Oregon
inl858. ^
Gaines, John "Wesley, of Nashville, Tenn.,
was born August 24, 1861, in the Seventh district
of Davidson County, Tenn., his father being a
country physician; educated in the country com-
mon schools, in which he also taught; studied
medicine and graduated from the University of
Nashville, and Vanderbilt University in 1882, pay-
ing his own way by teaching and farm work;
never practiced medicine, but the next day after
graduating took up the study of law, and in 1884.
commenced practice in Nashville; elector on the
Cleveland ticket in 1892 and led in the ballot;
afterwards became a leading exponent of free silver
in his district, and elected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Gaines, Joseph. Holt, of Charleston, W. Va. ,
was born September 3, 1864, in the District of
Columbia; taken by his parents to Fayette County,
W. Va., in 1867; educated at the University of
West Virginia and Princeton, graduating from the
latter institution in 1886; admitted to the bar in
Fayetteville, W. Va., in 1887; appointed United
States district attorney for West Virginia by Presi-
dent McKinley in 1897; resigned in 1901; elected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Gaines, William Emhre, of Burkeville, Va.,
was born in Charlotte County, Va., August 30,
1844; raised on a farm; received a common school
education; when the civil war broke out in 1861
enlisted as a private in Company K, Eighteenth
Virginia Regiment (Pickett's division); engaged
in ail the battles fought by the Army of Northern
Virginia up to the Maryland campaign; relieved
from duty by an act of the Confederate States Con-
gress; remaining at home for a few months, reen-
listed in the Army of the Cape Fear, stationed
near Wilmington, N. C. , in which army he sur-
rendered with Johnson, near Greensboro, N. C,
in April, 1865, having attained the rank of adju-
tant of Manly's artillery battalion; tobacconist
and merchant; president of the only bank in his
town; cooperated with the Conservative (Demo-
cratic) party of his State till 1879, when he became
a Republican; elected to the Virginia State senate
in 1883, and leader of his party in that branch three
years, when he resigned; represented his State in
the national convention which nominated Blaine
for the Presidency in 1884; mayor of his town
several years, and delegate to all State conven-
tions since 1879; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as
a Republican.
Gaither, Nathan, was born at Columbia, Ky.,
in 1785; received a liberal education; studied med-
icine; began practicing at Columbia; member of
the State house of representatives 1815-1818; Pres-
idential elector on the Jackson and Calhoun ticket
in 1829; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses
as a Jackson Democrat; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention in 1849; Presidential elector
on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1861; died at
Columbia, Ky., in 1862.
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Galbraith, John, was a native of Franklin,
Pa.; received a public school education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; served in the State
house of representatives several terms; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth Con-
gresses; appointed president-judge for the sixth
judicial district; died at Erie, Pa., June 15, 1860.
Gale, George, was a native of Maryland; re-
ceived a common school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maryland to the First Congress.
Gale, Levin, was born in Cecil County, Md., in
1824, and resided at Elkton; received a common
school education; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twentieth Congress; died at
Baltimore, Md., April 28, 1875.
Gallatin, Albert, was born at Geneva, Switzer-
land, January 29, 1761; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Geneva in 1779; emigrated to America
and located at Boston, Mass. ; served in the Revo-
lutionary Army; instructor of French at Harvard
College in 1782; moved to Pennsylvania in 1785
and located on a tract of land in Fayette County,
which he purchased; became a naturalized citizen;
member of the Pennsylvania constitutional con-
vention in 1789; member of the State house of
representatives 1790-1792; elected to the United
States Senate, and on December 2, 1793, when he
attempted to take his seat, it was claimed he had
not been a citizen of the United States a sufficient
length of time, and on February 28, 1794, his elec-
tion was declared void; elected a member of the
Pennsylvania State house of representatives, but
declined; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fourth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; ap-
pointed Secretary of the Treasury by President
Jefferson January 26, 1802; reappointed by Presi-
dent Madison and held the position until February
9, 1814, when appointed one of the commissioners
to negotiate the treaty of Ghent, which was signed
December 24, 1814; one of the commissioners
which negotiated a commercial convention with
Great Britain in 1815; minister plenipotentiary to
Great Britain from May 10, 1826, until October 4,
1827; minister to France for several years; re-
turned to New York City and became president
of the National Bank; died at Astoria, N, Y,, August
12, 1849.
Gallegos, Jose M., was bom in Rio Arriba
County, N. Mex. , November 14, 1815 ; received apub-
lic school education ; studied theology at the College
of Durango, Republic of Mexico, and graduated in
1840; member of the legislative assembly of what
was then the department of New Mexico, Republic
of Mexico 1843-1846; member of the first legisla-
tive assembly of the Territory of New Mexico,
United States, in 1850 and 1851; elected Delegate
from the Territory of New Mexico to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-fourth Congress, but his seat was contested
by Miguel A. Otero, who took his seat July 23,
1856; speaker of the Territorial house of represent-
atives 1860-1862; treasurer of the Territory for
live years; made a prisoner of war by the Texaa
Confederate troops in 1862; superintendent of In-
dian affairs in New Mexico in 1868; elected a Del-
egate to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Gallinger, Jacob H., of Concord, N. H., was
born on a farm in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28,
1837, being one of 12 children; received a com-
mon school and academic education; printer in
early life; studied medicine; graduated with hon-
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ors in 1858, and followed the profession of medi-
cine and surgery from April, 1862, until he en-
tered public life, having a practice which extended
beyond the limits of his State; connected with
Yarious medical societies and made frequent con-
tributions to medical literature; member of the
house of representatives of New Hampshire in
1872-73 and 1891; member of the constitutional
convention in 1876; member of the State senate
1878-1880, being president of that body the last
two years; surgeon-general of New Hampshire with
the rank of brigadier-general in 1879-80; received
the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1885; chairman of the Republican State
committee 1882-1890, when he resigned the place;
again elected to the position in 1898 and reelected
in 1900 and again in 1902; chairman of the delega-
tion from his State to the Republican national con-
vention of 1888, and made a speech seconding the
nomination of Benjamin Harrison; also chairman
of the New Hampshire delegation to the Repub-
lican national convention at Philadelphia in June,
1900, which convention renominated President
McKinley; member (by appointment) of the
national Republican c'ommittee; elected to the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and declined
renomination to the Fifty-first Congress; elected
a United States Senator as a Republican to succeed
Henry W. Blair, and took his seat March 4, 1891 ;
reelected in 1897 by a unanimous vote of the Re-
publican members of the legislature and the votes
of 5 Democratic members, and again reelected in
1903, receiving all the Republican votes and the
votes of 3 Democrats.
Galloway, Joseph, was born at West River,
Md., about 1729; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the Pennsylvania colonial house of representatives
in 1764; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Conti-
nental Congress in 1775; remained loyal to the
King, and in December, 1775, joined the British
army in New York; moved to England in 1778,
where he died August 29, 1803.
G-alloway, Samuel, was born at Gettysburg,
Pa., .March 20, 1811; moved to Ohio and located
in Highland County in 1830; graduated in 1833
from the Miami University; studied law, and in
1842 admitted to the bar; professor of languages at
South Hanover College in Indiana; began the
practice of law in Chilhcothe, Ohio; elected secre-
tary of state and moved to Columbus in 1844;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; defeated for
reelection to the . Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses; died at Columbus, Ohio, April 5, 1872.
Gallup, Albert, was born at New Berne, N. Y. ;
received a limited education; sheriff of Albany
County 1831-1834; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection; appointed by Presi-
dent Polk collector of customs at Albany; died at
Providence, R. I., in 1851.
Gamble, James, was born in Lycoming County,
Pa., January 28, 1809; received a common school
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-third Congress; died at Williams-
port, Pa., February 22, 1822.
Gamble, John R., of Yankton, S. Dak., was
elected a Representative from South Dakota to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, but died
before taking his seat, August 14, 1891.
Gamble, Robert Jackson, of Yankton, S. Dak.,
was born in Genesee County, N. Y., February 7,
1851; moved with his parents to Fox I^ake, Wis.,
in 1862; reared upon a farm; graduated from Law-
rence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1874; located
at Yankton in 1875, where he engaged in the prac-
tice of law; for sixteen years associated with his
late brother, John R., in the practice, under the
firm name of Gamble Brothers; district attorney
for the second judicial district of the Territory in
1880; city attorney of Yankton for two terms;
State senator in 1885 under the constitution
adopted that year; elected to the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses, and elected to the United
States Senate January 23, 1901, as a Republican,
to succeed Richard F. Pettigrew, Populist.
Gam.ble, Rog'er L. , was a native of Jefferson
County, Ga., received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practicing at
Louisville; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Twenty-third Congress as a State Rights
Democrat; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-
fourth Congress; again elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Harrison Whig; defeated
for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; judge
of the superior court of "Georgia; died at Louis-
ville, Ga., December 20, 1847.
Gannett, Barzillai, was a native of Massachu-
setts; graduated from Harvard College in 1785;
studied law and admitted to the bar; four years a
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Eleventh Congress.
Gansevoort, Iieonard, was born at Albany,
N. Y., in 1751; a Delegate from that State to the
Continental Congress 1787-88; died at Albanv,
N. Y., in 1810.
Ganson, John, was born at Leroy, N. Y., Janu-
ary 1, 1818; graduated from Harvard College in
1839; studied law, admitted to the bar, and began
practicing at Buffalo; member of the State house
of representatives in 1862; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; delegate to the national Republican
convention at Baltimore in 1864; died at Buffalo,
N. Y., September 28, 1874.
Gantz, Martin K. , of Troy, Ohio, was born in
Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio, January
28, 1862; received a common school education;
attended college at Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated
from the Cincinnati Law College, class of 1883;
elected mayor of the city of Troy; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Gardenier, Barent, a native of Ulster County,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Tenth Congress as a Federalist; re-
elected to the Eleventh Congress; died at King-
ston, N. Y., January 10, 1822.
Gardner, Augustus Peabody, of Hamilton,
was born at Boston, Mass., November 5, 1865;
graduated from Harvard College, with the degree
of A. B., in the class of 1886; member of the Massa-
chusetts State senate for the two terms of 1900 and
1901; served as captain and assistant adjutant-
general on the staff of Gen. James H. Wilson dur-
ing the Spanish-American war; elected totheFifty-
seventh Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of the Eton. W. H. Moody to become
Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President
Roosevelt, amd to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a
Republican.
BIOGRAPHIES.
547
Gardner, Francis, was born at Leominster,
Mass., December 27, 1771; graduated from Harvard
College; studied theology; pastor of a church in
New Hampshire; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Tenth Congress; died at
Roxbury, Mass., June 25, 1835.
Gardner, Gideon, was a native of Massachusetts;
received a limited education ; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Eleventh Congress.
Gardner, Jolin J., of Atlantic City, N. J., was
born in Atlantic County in 1845; raised a water-
man until 16 years of age, when he enlisted for
three years in the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers;
in March, 1865, enlisted for one year in United
States Veteran Volunteers; elected alderman of
Atlantic City in 1867, and mayor in 1868; reelected
mayor seven times; coroner of county one year;
city councilman one year; member of New Jersey
State senate fifteen years, from 1878 to 1893 ; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican, and
reelected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Gardner, Joseph, was born in Honeybrook
Township, Chester County, Pa., in 1752; repre-
sented that State in the Continental Congress 1784-
1785; died at Elkton, Md., in 1794.
Gardner, Mills, was born at Russellville,
Brown County, Ohio, January 30, 1880; moved to
Fayette County in 1854; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1855 was admitted to
the bar; prosecuting attorney of Fayette County
for four years; member of the Ohio State senate
1862-1864; Presidential elector on the Lincoln
ticket in 1864; member of the State house of
representatives 1866-1868; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1873; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth Congress
as a Republican.
Gardner, Washington, of Albion, Mich., was
born on a farm in Morrow County, Ohio; when 16
years of age entered the Union Army, serving
in the ranks of the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry from October, 1861, to December, 1865;
severely wounded in action at Resaca, Ga. ; grad-
uated from the Ohio Wesleyan University 1870;
studied in the school of theology, Boston Univer-
sity, 1870-71; graduated from the Albany Law
School in 1876; practiced law one year in Grand
Rapids, Mich., and then entered the ministry of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he
served twelve years; commander of the Depart-
ment of Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic,
in 1888; made professor in and public lecturer for
Albion College in 1889; appointed by Governor
John T. Rich secretary of state in March, 1894, to
fill out an unexpired term, and subsequently twice
nominated by acclamation and elected to succeed
himself; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Garfield, James A. , was born at Orange, Cuya-
hoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831; his boy-
hood was spent in working on a farm, aidmg m the
support of his widowed mother; attended district
school about three months each winter; when
17 was driver and helmsman on the Ohio Canal;
entered Geauga Seminary at Chester, Ohio, m
March, 1849, and at the close of the fall term
taught a district school; attended the Eclectic
Institute at Hiram in 1851-1854; professor of an-
cient languages and literature at Hiram College;
when 26 years of age made president of Hiram
College, which position he held until 1861, when
he entered the Union Army; elected to the Ohio
State senate in 1859; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1860; admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1866; while serving
in the Army elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first,
Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses; in January,
1880, elected by the Ohio legislature Senator for
the term beginning March 4, 1881, to succeed
Allen G. Thurman; on the 8th of June, 1880, in
the Chicago Republican national convention, was
nominated and on ISfovember 4 elected President
of the United States; on the morning of July 1,
1881, while passing through the Pennsylvania
depot, Washington, D. C, was shot by an assassin;
died September 19, 1881, at Elberon, N. J.
Garflelde, Selucius, waa bom at Shoreham, Vt. ,
December 8, 1822; moved to Kentucky; received
an academic education; read law and admitted to
the bar; a member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1849; emigrated to California in 1851;
member of the California State legislature in 1852;
elected by the legislature to codify the laws of the
State in 1853; returned to Kentucky in 1854; mem-
ber of the Cincinnati national convention in 1856;
moved to Washington Territory in 1857, and re-
ceiver of public moneys, which position he held
until 1860; defeated as a candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket for Congress in 1861; surveyor-general
from 1866 to 1869; elected a Delegate from Wash-
ington Territory to the Forty-first Congress as a
Republican, and reelected to the Forty-second
Congress.
Garland, Augustus H., was born in Tipton
County, Tenn., June 11, 1832; his parents moved
to Arkansas in 1833; educated at St. Mary's College
and St. Joseph's College in Kentucky; studied law
and admitted to practice in 1853 at Washington,
Ark., where he then lived;' moved to Little Rock
in 1856; delegate to the State convention that
passed the ordinance of secession in 1861; member
of the provisional congress that met at Mont-
gomery, Ala., in May, 1861, and subsequently of
the Confederate Congress, serving in both houses,
and being in the senate when the war closed;
elected to the United States Senate from Arkansas
for the term beginning March 4, 1867, but not ad-
mitted to his seat; made the test^oath case as to
lawyers in the Supreme Court of the United States
and gained it (see Garland ex parte, 4 Wallace);
followed the practice of law until the fall of 1874,
when elected governor of Arkansas without opposi-
tion; elected in January, 1876, by the legislature
of Arkansas, without opposition, to the United
States Senate as a Democrat to succeed Powell Clay-
ton, Republican, and took his seat March 5, 1877;
reelected in 1883; resigned in 1885 to accept the
position of Attorney-General under Cleveland's
first Administration; died at Washington, D. C,
January 26, 1899.
Garland, David S. , was a native of Virginia;
received an academic education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and .began practice; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Eleventh Con-
gress (in place of Wilson C. Nicholas, resigned)
as a Democrat, serving from January 17, 1810, to
March 3, 1811; died at his home in Virginia Octo-
ber 7, 1811.
Garland, James, was born in 1792 in Nelson
County, Va.; received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practice at
Lovingston; served in the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1829; elected a Representative from
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Virginia to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-
sixth Congresses; moved to Lynchburg, Va., and
was judge of the hustings court of that city for
many years; again elected to the State legislature
in 1876.
Garland, Rice, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; began practice at Opelousas, La. ;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Whig, vice Henry A.
Bullard, resigned; reelected to the Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses, serv-
ing from April 28, 1834, to July 21, 1840, when he
resigned to accept the appointment of judge of the
supreme court of Louisiana.
Garnett, James M. , was born at Elmwood,
Essex County, Va., June 8, 1770; received an aca-
demic education; served several terms in the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses;
delegate to the State constitutional convention . in
1829; president of the Fredericksburg Agricultural
Society for twenty years; died at Elmwood, Va.,
May 7, 1843.
Garuett, Muscoe E. H. , a native of Essex
County, Va.; received a classical education; gradu-
ated from the University of Virginia; studied law
and admitted to the bar; commenced practice at
Loretto, Va. ; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1850; member of the State house of
representatives 1853-1856; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat (vice Thomas H. Bayley, deceased); re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses, serving from December 1, 1856, to March
3, 1861; delegate to the national Democratic con-
ventions at Baltimore in 1852 and at Cincinnati in
1856; member from Virginia of the First Confed-
erate Congress; died in Virginia about 1863.
Garnett, Kobert S. , a native of Essex County,
Va. ; received an academic education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Lloyds ;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Fif-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Garrett, Abraham E., was born at Overton,
Ky., March 6, 1830; attended the country schools
andPoplarSpringsCollege, Kentucky; studied law,
but followed farming; served in the Union Army
during the civil war; elected to the State house of
representatives of Tennessee in 1865 and to the
State senate in 1867; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Garnsey, Daniel G. , was a native of Saratoga
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at Pomfret, N. Y.; district attorney of
Chautauqua County, June 11, 1818, to March
4, 1825; elected a Representative from New York
as a Jackson Democrat to the Nineteenth Con-
gress; reelected to the Twentieth Congress; moved
to Rock Island, III; president of the Harrison
celebration at Galena, 111., July 4, 1840.
Garrison, Daniel, a native of Salem, N. J. ■
received an academic education; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Congresses.
Garrison, George -Tankard, was born in
Accomac County, Va., January 14, 1835; graduated
from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1858, and
from the law school of the University of Virginia
in 1857; practiced law until the civil war; entered
the Confederate service as a private; soon thereafter
elected to the State legislature, and served in that
body, first in the house andthen in the senate, until
the close of the war; after the war engaged again
-in the law and also in agriculture; elected by the
legislature judge of the eighth Virginia circuit in
1870, and subsequently elected judge of the seven-
teenth circuit, which position he held when elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress; State canvass-
ing board refused to count certain votes, and counted
Mayo in by a majority of one vote over Garrison,
giving him the certificate; Garrison contested the
seat; by unanimous vote of the House was declared
entitled to the seat and sworn in March 20, 1884;
died November 14, 1889.
GarrOTV, Nathaniel; attended the public schools;
resided at Auburn, N. Y. ; was elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twentieth Con-
gress as a Jackson Democrat.
Garth, William W. , was a native of Morgan
County, Ala. ; pursued classical studies at Lagrange
and at Emory and Henry College, Virginia; studied
law at the University of Virginia and admitted to
the bar; commenced practice at Huntsville, Ala. ;
elected a Representative to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Gartrell, Iiucius J. , was born near Washing-
ton, Ga. , January 7, 1821 ; pursued classical studies,
attending Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, and
Franklin College, Georgia; studied law; admitted to
the bar, pradticing at Atlanta, Ga. ; elected by the
legislature in 1843 solicitor-general of the northern
judicial circuit, resigning in 1847; member of the
State house of representatives 1847-1850; a Presi-
dential elector on the Buchanan and Breckinridge
ticket in 1856; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat, serving until January 23,
1861, when he retired, giving his adherence to the
Southern Confederacy; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the First Confederate Congress;
appointed in 1864 brigadier-general in the Confed-
erate service.
Garvin, William S. , was a native of Mercer,
Pa.; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Gaston, Athelston, of Meadville, Pa., was
born in Castile, N. Y., April 24, 1838; when 16
years of age his parents moved to Crawford County,
Pa. ; received a common school education; engaged
in farming until 35 years of age; elected mayor of
the city of Meadville in 1891; reelected in 1892 for
a term of three years; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress aa a Democrat.
Gaston, William, was born at Newbern, N. C,
September 19, 1778; pursued classical studies, at-
tendmg Georgetown (D. C.) College, and gradu-
ating from Princeton College in 1796; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1798, attaining prominence
in the legal profession in the State; State senator
in 1800; member of the house of commons of
North Carolina in 1808 and 1809, serving in the
former year as speaker; a Presidential elector in
1809; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina as an anti-Admi nistration candidate to the Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Congresses; again elected
a member of the house of commons of North Car-
lina (to till a vacancy) in 1827; elected judge of*
the supreme court of North Carolina in 1834 hold-
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mg the position until his death; member of the
constitutional convention of 1835; dechned the
nomination to the United States Senate in 1840-
died at Raleigh, N. C, January 23, 1844. '
Gates, Seth Merrill, was born at Winfield,
N. Y., October 16, 1800; attended the public
schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1827,
commencing practice at Leroy, N. Y. ; a member
of the State house of representatives in 1832, de-
clining a reelection; purchased the Le Roy Gazette
in 1838, editing it for several years; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as an Anti-Slavery Whig; reelected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress; defeated as the Free
Soil candidate for lieutenant-governor in 1848;
died at Leroy, N. Y., September 1, 1877.
Gatlin, Alfred M., was a native of Edenton,
N. C. ; pursued classical studies, graduating from
the University of North Carolina; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Eighteenth
Congress.
Gaunt, E. "W., was born in Tennessee March
17, 1832; received an English education; studied
law; admitted to the bar, commencing practice in
Arkansas in 1850; claimed to have been elected a
Representative from Arkansas to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as an Independent Democrat, but never
took his seat; entered the Confederate army as
colonel of the Twelfth Arkansas Infantry and was
promoted to brigadier-general; appointed in 1873
a commissioner to revise and codify the statutes of
Arkansas; commissioner from Arkansas to the
Centennial Exhibition; died in Arkansas June 10,
1874.
Gause, Lucien C, was born in Brunswick
County, N. C, December 25, 1838; moved to Lau-
derdale County, Tenn. ; attended the public schools
and the University of Virginia; studied law and
graduated from Cumberland College, Tenn., com-
mencing practice at Jaoksonport, Ark., in 1859;
served throughout the civil war in the Confederate
army, becoming a colonel; resumed practice in
1865 at Jacksonport; elected a member of the State
legislature in 1866; appointed a commissioner to
represent the State government at Washington;
claimed to have been elected to the Forty-third
Congress, but his competitor occupied the seat
without any action on the case; elected a Repre-
sentative from Arkansas to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Gay, Edward J., was born at Liberty, Bed-
ford County, Va., February 3, 1816; his father,
John H. Gay, and family moved in 1820 to lUinois,
and thence to St. Louis, Mo., in 1824; he spent
several years under the tuition of an accomplished
teacher, residing in Belleville, 111., and in 1833-34
at Augusta College, Kentucky; extensively en-
gaged in commercial affairs at St. Louis from 1838
to 1860; resided in Louisiana and has been largely
engaged in commercial, manufacturing, and agri-
cultural pursuits; prominently instrumental in the
enterprise of the erection of the first and the
present Merchants' Exchange Building at St.
Louis, and the first president of the Louisiana Sugar
Exchange of New Orleans; elected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; died May 30, 1890.
Gayarre, Charles E. A., was born at New
Orleans, La., January 9, 1805; pursued classical
studies at New Orleans College; studied law at
Philadelphia; admitted to the bar in 1829, com-
mencing practice at New Orleans; elected a State
representative in 1830; appointed attorney-general
in 1831; appointed presiding judge of the city court
of New Orleans in 1833; elected a United States
Senator from Louisiana as a Jackson Democrat in
1834, but resigned on account of ill health before
taking the seat in the Twenty-fourth Congress;
traveled abroad; returned to New Orleans and
elected in 1843 a Representative from Louisiana to
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, but re-
signed before taking the seat, having been elected
secretary of state for Louisiana, which position he
held from 1846 to 1850; published An Historical
Essay on Louisiana, 1830; a History of Louisiana,
1847;_ Romance of the History of Louisiana, 1848;
Spanish Domination in Louisiana, 1854; French
Domination in Louisiana, 1851 and 1854; The
School of Politics, 1854, and other essays; died in
1895.
Gayle, John, was bom in Sumter District, S. C. ,
September 11, 1792; pursuing classical studies,
graduated from the South Carolina Uni\ersity;
studied law; admitted to the bar, commencing
practice at Mobile, Ala., in 1813; member of the
Territorial legislature in 1817; appointed solicitor
of the first judicial district in 1819 ; elected judge of
the State supreme court in 1823; speaker of the
State house of representatives in 1829; governor of
Alabama 1831-1835; defeated as Presidential elector
in 1836 and 1840; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; ap-
pointed United States district judge of Alabama
m 1849; died near Mobile July 28, 1859.
Gayle, June W. , of Owenton, Ky., was born at
New Liberty, Owen County, Ky . , February 22, 1865;
received his early education at Concord College,
New Liberty, Ky., afterwards finishing his course
at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky. ; served
as deputy sheriff for several years, and in 1892
elected high sheriff of Owen County; reelected in
1894, and in 1899 a prominent candidate for aud-
itor of state; upon the death of Hon. E. E. Settle
became a candidate for Congress to fill Settle's un-
expired term, and elected to the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat at the special election Decem-
ber 18, 1899.
Gaylord, James M. , was a native of Ohio; pur-
sued academic studies; lived at McConnelsville;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
second Congress.
Gazley, James W. , was born in New York in
1784; pursued academic studies; moved to Cincin-
nati, Ohio; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Eighteenth Congress as a Jackson Free-States
man; defeated for the Nineteenth Congress; died
at Cincinnati, July 12, 1874.
Gear, John Henry, was born in Ithaca, N. Y.,
April 7, 1825; received a common school educa-
tion; moved to Galena, 111., in 1836, to Fort Snell-
ing, Iowa Territory, in 1838, and to Burlington in
1843, where he engaged in merchandising; elected
mayor of the city of Burlington in 1863; member of
the Iowa house of representatives of the fourteenth,
fifteenth, and sixteenth general assemblies of the
State, serving as speaker for the last twp terms;
elected governor of Iowa in 1878-79, and again in
1880-81; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and
Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican; elected
January 23, 1894, a United States Senator from, the
State of Iowa for six years, beginning March 4,
1895; died at Washington, D. C, July 14, 1900.
Geary, Thomas. J., of Santa Rosa, Cal., was
born in Boston, Mass., January 18, 1854; moved
with his parents to California in April, 1863;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1877,
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and engaged in the practice of his profession;
elected district attorney of Sonoma County, Cal.,
in 1882, and served two years; elected to the Fifty-
flrst Congress as a Democrat and American to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
J. De Haven; reelected to the fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses.
Gebliard, John, was a native of Claverack,
N. Y.; attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Seventeenth
Congress.
Geddes, Greorge W. , of Mansfield, Ohio, was
boi-n at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 16, 1824; re-
ceived a common school education; studied law;
admitted to the bar in July, 1845; elected judge
of the court of common pleas of the sixth judicial
district in 1856, and reelected without opposition
in 1861; after serving ten years on the bench he
returned to the practice until 1868, when he was
again elected judge of the same court for five years,
at the expiration of which time he again returned
to the practice; Democratic candidate for supreme
judge m 1871; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth, Congresses
as a Democrat; died Novembers, 1892!
Geddes, Jamps, was born near Carlisle, Pa.,
July 22, 1763; attended public schools; moved to
Onondaga, N. Y., in 1794; justice of the peace in
1800; State representative in 1804 and in 1821; as-
sociate justice of the county court in 1809; judge
of the court of common pleas in 1809; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirteenth
Congress as a Federalist; appointed chief engineer
of the Ohio Canal in 1822 ; an engineer on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal in 1827; died at Geddes,
N. Y., August 19, 1838.
Geissenliainer, Jacob AugTistus, of Freehold,
N. J., was born in the city of New York in 1841;
graduated from Columbia College, receiving the
degrees of A. B. and A. M., and afterwards studied
law at Yale and at the New York University,
receiving the degree of LL. B. ; commenced the
practice of law in New York City in 1863; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses.
Gentry, Meredith P., was born in Rocking-
ham County, N. C, September 15, 1809; receiving
a liberal education; studied law; admitted to the
bar, commencing practice at Franklin, Tenn.;
State representative 1835-1839; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress; elected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses; mem-
ber from Tennessee of the First Confederate Con-
gress; died at Nashville, Tenn., November 2, 1866.
George, James Z. , was born in Monroe County
Ga., October 20, 1826; moved to Mississippi with
his father when a lad; received a public school
education; volunteered when 19 years of age in the
Mississippi Rifle Regiment, commanded by Col
Jefferson Davis, and served through the Mexican
war; studied law; admitted to the bar, and com-
menced practice; compiled five volumes of the
Mississippi State reports; enlisted in the Confed-
erate service in 1861, and commanded a regiment
of cavalry ; chairman of tlje Democratic State com-
mittee in 1875 and 1876; chosen to the supreme
bench and was elected chief justice by his associ-
ates; elected to the United States Senate as a Dem-
^^fiii'"^ ^°°^^ his seat March 4, 1881; reelected
in 188b, and again m January, 1892; a member of
the constitutional convention of the State of Mis-
sissippi which was held in 1890; died August 14,
1897.
George, M. C. , of Portland, Oreg., was born in
Noble County, Ohio, May 13, 1849; educated at the
Santiam Academy and the Willamette University
in Oregon; studied law and admitted to the bar;
commenced the practice of law in Portland in 1877;
elected State senator from Multnomah district for
four years; received all the votes of the Repub-
lican senators for president of the State senate at
the biennial session of 1878; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Forty-eighth Congress.
German, Obadiah, was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1767; received a liberal educa-
tion; moved to Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.,
in 1792; a memberof the State house of representa-
tives in 1798, 1804, 1805, 1807, 1808, and 1809;
elected a United States Senator from New York
as .a Democrat, serving from May 23, 1809, to
March 2, 1815; again elected a member of the
State house of representatives in 1819 and its
speaker; held several local offices in Chenango
County; became an ardent Whig; died at Norwich,
N. Y., September 24, 1842.
Gerry, Eltoridge (grandfather of Elbridge
Gerry), was bom at Marblehead, Mass., July 17,
1744; pursued classical studies and graduated
from Harvard College in 1762; a merchant; mem-
ber of the colonial house of representatives 1772-
1775; Delegate to the Continental Congress from
Massachusetts 1776-1780 and 178.3-1785; a dele-
gate to the constitutional convention of the United
States; refused to sign the instrument; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the First
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Second
Congress; sent to France on a secret mission in
1797; defeated as the Democratic candidate for
governor in 1801; elected in 1810 and 1811, and
again defeated in 1812; elected Vice-President of
the United States as a Democrat in 1812; died at
Washington, D. C, November 23, 1814.
Gerry, Elbridge (grandson of Elbridge Gerry 1
was born at Waterford, Me., December 6, 1815
received an academic education; studied law,
admitted to the bar in 1839, and began practice at
Waterford; clerk of the State house of representa-
tives in 1840; appointed State attorney for Oxford
County in 1842, and elected in 1843; State repre-
sentative in 1846; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-first Congress as a Cass Demo-
crat; moved to Portland, Me., where he continued
his practice.
Gerry, James, was a native of Maryland;
received an academic education; settled at Shrews-
bury, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Gervais, John L. , was a native of South Car-
olma; represented that State in the Continental
Congress 1782-83.
Gest, William H., of Rock Island, 111., was
born m Jacksonville, 111., January 7, 1838; moved
to Rook Island in 1842, where he afterwards re-
sided; attended Williams College, Massachusetts
and graduated in the class of 1860; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican-
after expiration of his term in Congress was elected
one of the circuit judges of the fourteenth judicial
district of Illinois. ■"
BIOGRAPHIES.
551
Getz, J. Lawrence, was born at Reading, Pa.,
beptember 14, 1821; received an academic educa-
tion; studied and practiced law; for over twenty-
five years editor of the Beading Gazette and Dem-
ocrat; State representative of Pennsylvania in 1856
and 1857, one year as speaker of the house; elected
a Representativefrom Pennsylvania to the Fortieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses.
Geyer, HenryS. , was born in Frederick County,
Md., in 1798; received an academic education and
moved to St. Louis, Mo. ; served in the war of 1812;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at St. Louis; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention in 1820; State representative
1820-1824; the last year was speaker; elected
United States Senator from Missouri, serving from
December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1857; one of the
counsel in the Dred Scott case; died at St. Louis
March 5, 1859.
Gholsoii, James H. , was born in Vii^inia in
1798; received an academic education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practice at Perci-
vals; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; died at
Brunswick, Va., July 2, 1848.
G-liolson, Samuel J., was born in Madison
County, Ky., May 19, 1808; pursued classical
studies; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
began practice at Athens, Miss.; elected a Repre-
sentative from that State to the Twenty-fourth
Congress (vice David Dickson, deceased) as a
Democrat; claimed to have been elected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from January 7,
1837, to January 31, 1838, when the seat was
declared vacant; appointed United States district
judge for Mississippi in 1839; active in the civil
war; was appointed June 1, 1864, brigadier-general
in the Confederate army; died at Aberdeen, Miss.,
October 16, 1883.
Gliolson, Thomas, a native of Virginia; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practice in Brunswick
County, Va. ; elected a Representative from that
State to the Tenth Congress (vice John Claiborne,
deceased) as a Democrat; reelected to the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses,
serving from November 7, 1808, to July 4, 1816,
when he died, in Brunswick County, Va.
Gibbons, William, was native of Georgia; rep-
resented that State in the Continental Congress
1784-1786.
Gibson, Cliarles Hppper, of Fasten, Md., was
born January 19, 1842, in Queen Anne County,
Md. ; educated at Centerville Academy, at Wash-
ington College, Chestertown, and at the Archer
School, in Harford County; commenced the study
of law in 1862; admitted to the bar in 1864, and
commenced practice at Easton; appointed by
President Johnson in 1867 collector of internal
revenue for the Eastern Shore district, but his
nomination was rejected by a majority of one
vote; appointed in 1869 auditor and commissioner
in chancery, which offices he resigned in 1870 to
accept the appointment by the court of State
attorney for Talbot County, to which position he
was elected in 1871 and again in 1875, holdmg the
office for three consecutive terms; elected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses
as a Democrat; appointed United States Senator
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ephraim
K. Wilson, and took his seat December 7, 1891;
elected to fill the unexpired term January 21,
1892; resumed the practice of law after leaving
Congress; he died March 31, 1900.
Gibson, Eustace, of Huntington, W. Va., was
born in Culpeper County, Va., October 4, 1842;
received a common education in the ordinary
Virginia schools of that day; studied law and
commenced the practice in the spring of 1861;
enlisted in the Confederate army June, 1861, as
first lieutenant; made captain in 1863, and retired
on account of wounds; member of the constitu-
tional convention of Virginia in 1867-68; settled
in Huntington in 1871; elected to the house of
delegates of West Virginia in 1876, and by that
house elected speaker; a Hancock elector in 1880;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress; after
leaving Congress he resumed the practice of law.
Gibson, Henry Kichard, of Knoxville, Tenn.,
was born on Kent Island, . Queen Anne County,
Md., in 1837; educated at Bladensburg, Md., and
at Hobart College, Genevqi, N. Y., from which he
graduaded in 1862; served in the Commissary
Department of the Federal Army from March,
1863, to July, 1865; in September, 1865, entered
the Albany, N. Y., Law School; in December,
1865, was licensed to practice law by the supreme
court of New York at Albany; in January, 1866,
moved to Knoxville, Tenn., and there began the
practice of law; in October, 1866, moved to Jacks-
boro, Campbell County, Tenn.; appointed com-
missioner of claims by Governor William G.
Brownlow in 1868; elected a delegate to the con-
stitutional convention which framed the present
constitution of the State in 1869, but refused to sign
or vote for the constitution because of some ob-
noxious provisions; elected a member of the State
senate in 1870; Republican nominee for Presi-
dential elector in 1872; elected a member of the
Tennessee house of representatives in 1874; moved
back to Knoxville in 1876 and formed a law part-
nership with Jud^e L. C. Houk; founded the
Knoxville Republican in 1879 and became its
editor; Republican nominee for Presidental elector
in 1880; appointed post-office inspector in 1881
and as such investigated the postal service on the
Mississippi River and its tributaries and the star-
route service west of the Rocky Mountains; be-
came editor of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle in
1882; appointed United States pension agent at
Knoxville in 1883 for the southern district; elected
chancellor of the second chancery division of Ten-
nessee for a term of eight years in 1886; published
Suits in Chancery in 1891; professor of medical ju-
risprudence in the Tennessee Medical College in
1889; degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by
Hobart College, his alma mater, in 1892; elected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Gibson, James King, was born in Abingdon,
Va., February 18, 1812; attended the common
schools; went to Limestone County, Ala., in 1833;
merchant; returned to Virginia, and was deputy
sheriff of Washington County 1834-35; postmaster
at Abingdon 1838-1849; became interested in farm-
ing; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Gibson, Paris, of Great Falls, Mont., was born
at Brownfield, Oxford County, Me., July 1, 1830;
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1851, and
soon after elected a representative to the State
legislature of Maine; located in Minneapolis, Minn.,
in 1858, and in connection with W. W. Eastman
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
built the first flour mill of that city; later, built
and operated the "North Star" woolen mill m
the same place; located at Fort Benton, Mont.,
in 1879, where he became interested in the first
flock of sheep driven into northern Montana;
founded the city of Great Falls in 1882, of which
he was the first mayor; chosen delegate to the
convention in 1889 at which was framed the con-
stitution of the State of Montana; elected to rep-
resent his county in the State senate in 1890; in-
augurated the municipal park system of Montana;
elected to the United States Senate March 7, 1901,
as a Democrat to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Hon. W. A. Clark in 1900, and
took his seat December 2, 1901.
Gibson, Bandall Lee, of New Orleans, La., was
born September 10, 1832, at Spring Hill, near Ver-
sailles, Woodford County, Ky., the home of his
grandfather; educated in Woodford County, in
Ijexington, Ky,, and in Terre Bonne Parish, La.;
at Yale College, where' he graduated in 1853; at
the University of Louisiana, in the law depart-
ment of which he received a diploma in 1855;
served in the Southern army in the war of seces-
sion and rose through the different grades to the
command of a division; after the war, began and
continued the practice of law in the city of New
Orleans, and was also a planter; elected to the
Forty-third Congress, but denied admission;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Demo-
crat; elected to the Senate of the United States
without opposition for the term that commenced
March 4, 1883; reelected, in 1888, serving until his
death, at Hot Springs, -.Ark., December 15, 1892.
Griddings, De Witt C, was born in Susque-
hanna County, Pa., July 18, 1827; received an
academic education; studied law at Honesdale,
Pa. ; admitted to the bar in Texas in 1852, practic-
ing at Brenham; served throughout the civil war
in the Confederate army; a member of the State
constitutional convention of 1866; elected a Repre-
sentative from Texas to the Forty-second Congress
as a Democrat, but, Mr. Clark having received the
certificate of election, Mr. Giddings was not given
the seat; reelected to the Forty-third Congress
and elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Giddings, Joshua Reed, was born at Tioga
Point (now Athens), Pa., October 6, 1795; moved
to Ohio and located in Ashtabula County; served
in the war of 1812; taught school, and obtained a
good education; studied law, admitted to the bar
in 1821, and began practice at Jefferson; State
representative in 1826; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth Congress as an Anti-
Slavery Whig (vice Elisha Whittlesey, resigned) ;
reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses; resigned March 22, 1842, after a vote
of censure had been passed on him by the House;
elected to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth,
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-
second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-
fifth Congresses; appointed consul-general to
Canada by President Lincoln; died at Montreal
May 27, 1864; published a work on Florida, and
a history of the great rebellion.
Gidding's, Napoleon B. , was a Delegate from
Nebraska Territory to the Thirty-third Congress;
took his seat January 5, 1855.
Gifford, Oscar Sherman, of Canton, S. Dak.,
was born at Watertown, N. Y., October 20, 1842;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; served in the Union Army as private in the
Elgin (111.) Battery 1863-1865; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1870, and practiced; elected
district attorney for Lincoln County in 1874;
mayor of the city of Canton 1882-83; member of the
constitutional convention of Dakota which con-
vened at Sioux Falls September 7, 1883; elected
to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first_ Con-
gresses as a Republican; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Gilbert, Abijah, bom at Gilbertsville, Otsego
County, N. Y., June 18, 1806; attended Hamilton
College, N. Y.; became a merchant in New York
City; moved to Florida and elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, serving from March
4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; died at Gilbertsville,
N. Y., November 23, 1881.
Gilbert, Edward, was a native of New York; at-
tended the public schools; moved to San Francisco,
Oal. ; elected a Representative from California to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat, serving
from September 11, 1850, to March 3, 1851; died in
California in 1862.
Gilbert, Ezekiel, was born at Middletown,
Conn., in 1755; pursued classical studies, and grad-
uated from Yale College in 1788; studied law,
admitted to the bar, and began practice at Hudson,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Third and Fourth Congresses; died at
Hudson, N. Y., July 11, 1842.
Gilbert, George Gilmore, of Shelbyville, Ky.,
was born ia Spencer County, Ky. ; educated in the
common schools of the neighborhood until 18
years of age; went to Cecilian College in 1868 and
1869; afterwards studied the Latin, Greek, and
French languages at Lyndland Institute, in Ken-
tucky; taught school for several years and studied
law at the same time; attended University of
Louisville, and graduated from the law department
in 1873; began practicing law in Taylorsville, Ky.,
in 1874; elected county attorney of Spencer
County in 1876 and held that oflice for four years;
elected to the State senate from the counties of
Shelby, Spencer, and Nelson in 1885; held that
position for four years; made chairman of the
judiciary committee of the Kentucky senate in
' 1887; delegate from the Eighth Congressional dis-
trict of Kentucky to the Democratic national con-
vention held at Chicago in 1896, and Kentucky's
representative on the committee on permanent
organization at that convention; elected to the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Gilbert, Sylvester, was born at Hebron, Conn. ,
in 1756; pursued classical studies and graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1775; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1777 and began practice at
at Hebron; a colonial representative in 1780.
State attorney for Tolland County 1786-1807 ; chief
judge of the county court and judge of the probate
court 1807-1818; principal of a law school 1810-
1818; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Fifteenth Congress (vice Uriel Holmes, re-
signed), serving from November 16, 1818, to March
3, 1819; again judge of the county court 1820-1825;
elected State representative in 1826; died at
Hebron, Conn., January 16, 1846.
Gilbert, William A., was a native of Connecti-
cut; attended the public schools; moved to Roch-
ester County, N. Y.; elected a Representative from
that State to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig,
serving until his resignation, February 27, 1857.
BIOGEAPHIES.
553
Giles, John, was born in Rowan County, N. 0.,
July 16, 1788; pursuing classical studies, graduated
from the University of North Carolina in 1808;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced for
more than thirty years at Salisbury; elected a
Representative to the Twenty-first Congress and
declined to serve on accourt of ill health; a mem-
ber of the State constitutional convention in 1835;
died at Stanley, N. C, March 2, 1846.
Giles, William Brancli, was bom in Amelia
County, Va., August 12, 1762; pursuing classical
studies, graduated from Princeton College in 1781;
studied law and admitted to the bar; Presidential
elector on the Jefferson ticket in 1801; elected
as a Democrat to the First Congress, vice Theo-
dorick Bland, deceased; reelected to the Second,
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses, serving from
December 7, 1790, to March 3, 1799, when he'
resigned; elected to the Seventh Congress; ap-
pointed United States Senator (vice Abraham B.
Venable, resigned), and took his seat November 5,
1804, and was then elected United States Senator
' (vice Wilson Cary Nicholas, resigned), serving
from November 5, 1804, until his resignation,
March 3, 1815; governor of Virginia 1826-1829;
died in Albemarle County, Va., December 4, 1830.
Giles, William. Fell, was born in Harford
County, Md., April 8, 1807; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1829 and began practice at Baltimore; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; appointed United
States district judge by President Pierce.
GilflUan, Calvin W. , was born near Newcastle,
Pa., February 20, 1832; attended Westminster Col-
lege, Pennsylvania; studied and practiced law;
superintendent of schools of Mercer County for
two years; a clerk in the State house of represent-
atives in 1859; appointed attorney for Venango
County in 1861, and elected in 1862 for three
years; elected a Rmresentative f rom Pennsylvania
to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
GilfiUan, Jolin B. , of Minneapolis, Minn. , was
born at Barnet, Caledonia County, Vt., February
11, 1835; graduated from the Caledonia County
Academy in 1855, and then moved to Minneapolis;
studied law; admitted to the bar in July, 1860, and
practiced; a member of the board of education
1860-1868; an alderman of the city of Minneapolis
1865-1869; prosecuting attorney of Hennepin
County 1863-1867 and 1869-1873; city attorney
of Minneapolis 1861-1864; member of the State
senate of Minnesota 1875-1885; regent of the State
University of Minnesota in 1880; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
Gill, Joseph J. , of Steubenville, Ohio, was born
September 21, 1846, at Barnesville, Belmont
County, Ohio; reared at Mount Pleasant, in Jeffer-
son County, to which place his parents returned
when he was about 2 years old; received an aca-
detnic education; graduated from the law school
of the University of Michigan in 1868; practiced
law at the Jefferson County bar; subsequently en-
gaged in banking, and later in manufacturing and
iron mining; a large employer of labor, and as a
candidate for Congress was indorsed by labor or-
ganizations throughout the district; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Lorenzo Danford, and to the Fifty-
seventh Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress as a Republican.
Gillespie, Eugene P. , was born at Greenville,
Mercer County, Pa., September 24, 1852; educated
in the common schools of Greenville, at St.
Michael's College, Toronto, Canada, and at Alle-
gheny College, Meadville, Pa: ; admitted to the bar
m August, 1874, and practiced; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; returned to Green-
ville, Pa., and practiced law until he died, Decem-
ber 17, 1899.
Gillespie, Jam.es, was a native of North Caro-
lina; pursued classical studies; elected a Represent-
ative from that State to the Third, Fourth, Fifth,
and Eighth Congresses, serving until January,
1805^ when he died.
Gillet, Charles William, was bom at Addison,
N. Y., November 26, 1840; graduated from Union
College, Schenectady, N. Y., class of 1861; enlisted
as a private in the Eighty-sixth Regiment New
York Volunteers, August, 1861; made adjutant of
the regiment, November, 1861, and served as adju-
tant until discharged the service for disabilities in
1863; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses,
and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a
Republican.
Gillet, Ransom H. , was born at New LebaiUon,
N. Y., January 2'7,. 1800; received an academic
education; studied law at Canton; admitted to the
bar,, and practiced at Ogdensburg; postmaster
there 1830-1833; delegate to the Democratic con-
vention at Baltimore in 1832; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; ap-
pointed commissioner to treat with the New York
Indians 1837-1839; a delegate to the Democratic
convention in 1840; appointed Register of the
Treasury, serving from April 1, 1845, to May 27,
1847, when he was appointed Solicitor of the Treas-
ury, serving until October 31, 1849; appointed
assistant attorney-general, serving 1855-1858; ap-
pointed solicitor of the Court of Claims, Serving
1858-1861; died at Washington, D. C, October
24, 1876.
Gillett, FrederickHuntington, of Springfield,
Mass., was born at Westfield, Mass., October 16,
1851; graduated from Amherst College in 1874 and
from Harvard Law School in 1877; admitted to
the bar at Springfield in 1877; assistant attorney-
general of Massachusetts from 1879 to 1882; elected
to the Massachusetts house of representatives in
1890 and 1891; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Gillette, Edward Hooker, of Des Moines,
Iowa, was born at Bloomfleld, Conn., October 1,
1840; completed his education at the New York
State Agricultural School in 1862; moved to Des
Moines, Iowa, in the spring of 1863 and engaged
in farming, building, and manufacturing; delegate
to the national convention that met at Indianapolis
in 1876 and nominated Hon. Peter Cooper for
President; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as
a member of the National Greenback party, re-
ceiving also the nomination of the Democratic
party.
Gillette, Francis, was born at Broomfield,
Conn., December 14, 1807; pursued classical studies,
and graduated from Yale College in 1829; com-
menced the study of law; a strong temperance and
antislavery advocate; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Connecticut as a Free Soil Whig (vice
Truman Smith, resigned), serving from May 25,
1854, to March 3, 1855; several times defeated for
governor; member of the State house of repre-
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sentatives; chairman of the board of education of
Connecticut 1849-1865; died at Hartford, Conn.,
September 30, 1879.
Gillis, James L., was bom at Hebron, Wash-
ington County, N. Y., October 2, 1792; attended
the pubhc schools; became a tanner; served m the
war of 1812; moved to Ridgway, Pa., in 1823; State
representative 1840 and 1851; one of the judges of
Jefferson County in 1842; State senator m 1845;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Gillon, Alexander, was born at Rotterdam,
Holland, in 1741; received an academic education;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Third Congress, serving until October 6, 1794,
when he died at Gillon' s Retreat, S. 0.
Gilman, Charles J., a native of New Hamp-
shire, was born in 1824; pursued classical studies;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Brunswick, Me. ; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Re-
publican; died February 5, 1901.
Gilman, John Taylor (brother of Nicholas
Gilman), was born at Exeter, N. H., December
19, 1753; one of the minutemen of 1775; a delegate
to the convention of the States at Hartford in Octo-
ber, 1780; Delegate from New Hampshire to the
Continental Congress 1782-1783; State treasurer
in 1791; governor of New Hampshire 1794-1805;
defeated the same year by John Langdon, Demo-
crat, for same office; again defeated for governor
as a Federalist in 1812; again elected in 1813, 1814,
and 1815, declining a reelection in 1816; died at
Exeter, N. H., September 1, 1828.
Gilman, Nicholas, was born at Exeter, N. H.,
m 1762; received an academic education; served
as an officer during the Revolutionary war; Dele-
gate from New Hampshire to the Continental
Congress 1786-1788; elected a Representative from
that State to the First, Second, Third, and Fourth
Congresses; elected to the United States Senate as
a Democrat; reelected, serving from December 2,
1805, until his death. May 2, 1814, at Philadelphia.
Gilmer, Geor§fe K. , was born in Wilkes County,
Ga., April 17, 1790; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Lexington; served in the U. S. Army
in 1813; resigned in 1818, resuming practice at
Lexington; State representative in 1818, 1819, and
1824; governor of Georgia 1829-1831; elected a
Representative from that State as a Democrat to
the Seventeenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-third
Congresses; again elected governor of Georgia
1837-1839; Presidential elector on the Harrison
ticket in 1840; died at Lexington, Ga., November
15, 1859.
Gilmer, John A. , was born in Guilford County,
N. C, November 4, 1805; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1832; began practicing at Greensboro; State sen-
ator 1846-1856; defeated as the Whig candidate
for governor in 1856; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Thirty-flfth Congress
as an American; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress; a member of the Second Confederate
Congress; delegate to the national Union conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1866; died at Greensboro,
N. C, May 14, 1868.
Gilmer, Thomas W. , was a native of Virginia;
attended the public schools; studied law; admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Charlottes-
ville; for several years State representative, two
years of which time was speaker; governor of
Virginia 1840-41; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat, serving until February 15, 1844,
when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy;
killed by the bursting of a gun on board the U. S.
steamer Princeton, near Washington, D. C, Febru-
ary 28, 1844.
Gilmore, Alfred, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the public schools; lived at Butler;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Thirty-first Congress as an opposition candi-
date, and reelected to the Thirty-second Congress.
Gilmore, John, was a native of Butler, Pa. ; at-
tended the public schools; elected a representative
from Pennsylvania as a Jackson Democrat to the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses; died
at Butler, Pa., May 18, 1845.
Gist, Joseph, was born in Union District, S. C,
January 12, 1775; moved to Charleston, where he
attended classical school; studied law, and in 1799
was admitted to the bar; began practice in 1800 at
Pinckneyville; State representative 1801 to 1819;
electa^ a Representative from South Carolina to
the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses, declining a reelection; died at Pinckney-
ville, S. C, Mays, 1836.
Glascock, John Kagland, of Oakland, Alameda
County, Cal., was born in Panola County, Miss.,
August 25, 1845; received a collegiate education at
the University of California and the University of
Virginia; studied law; admitted to the bar and
has since practiced; district attorney of Alameda
County, Cal., 1875-1877; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as Congressman at large from
California as a Democrat; served one term as
mayor of Oakland; resumed the practice of law.
Glascock, Thomas, was a native of Georgia;
attended the public schools at Augusta; served as
lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, also in the
campaign against the Creek Indians; elected a
Representative from Georgia as a Democrat to the
Twenty-fourth Congress, and reelected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress; died at Decatur, Ga., May 9,
1841.
Glasgovsr, Hug-h, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the public schdols; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth Coh-
gress.
Glass, Carter, of Lynchburg, Va., was born in '
that city January 4, 1858; educated in the private
and public schools of the town and in the news-
paper business; served eight years in the mechan-
ical department of a printing office, and after-
wards, in successive stages, filled the positions of
reporter, city editor, and editor; owner of the
Daily News, the morning paper of the city, and
the Daily Advance, the afternoon paper; elected,
without solicitation, to the Virginia State senate
for the session of 1899-1903, and to the Virginia
constitutional convention in 1901; five years a
member of the board of visitors of the University
of Virginia; resigned from the Virginia State sen-
ate to contest for the seat in the Fifty-seventh
Congress made vacant by the death of the late
Maj. P. J. Otey; elected November 4, 1902, for the
unexpired term in the Fifty-seventh and the full
term in the Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Glass, Presley T. , was born in Halifax County,
Va., October 18, 1824; moved with his parents in
1828 to Weakley County, Tenn., where he was
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brought up; educated at the Dresden Academy
elected colonel of militiaat 18 years of age; studied
law; attended one course at the Lexington (Ky )
Law School; admitted to the bar in 1847; com-
menced the- practice of law in partnership with
Hon. E. Ethendge, and the same year elected a
member of the State legislature; major commissary
in the Confederate service; chiefly a farmer and
busmess man; again elected to the legislature in
1882, when he was chairman of the committee on
agriculture and was the author of the bill to
establish an agricultural experiment station at
KnoxviUe, Tenn.; elected a Representative to the
Fortyrmnth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat;
died at Eipley, Tenn., October 9, 1902.
Glen, Henry, was a native of Albany County,
N.-Y., served in the Revolutionary war; State
representative 1786-87; elected a Representative
from New York to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and
Sixth Congresses; again a State representative in
1810; died at Schenectady, August 14, 1814.
. Glenn, Thomas Louis, of Montpelier, Idaho,
was born in Ballard County (now CarUsle County) ,
Ky., February 2, 1847; educated in the public
schools, and took a course at the Commercial Col-
lege, Evansville, Ind.; member of Company F.,
Second Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A., John 11. Mor-
gan's brigade; was wounded in battle at Mount
Sterling, Ky., June 9, 1864, and captured and im-
prisoned in Transylvania University, at Lexing-
ton, until September 9 of said year, when he was
paroled and went home; never returned to the
army, as his wound (his right shoulder beingshat-
tered) did not heal until 1868, the war in the mean-
time having closed; elected clerk of Ballard County,
Ky., in 1874, and reelected in 1878; elected to the
senate of Kentucky from the second district in
1887 for a term of four years, and served in regu-
lar sessions of 1887-88 and 1889-90; admitted to
the practice of law in 1890; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Populist.
Gloninger, John, was a native of Pennsylvania;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirteenth Congress, serving until August 2, 1813,
when he resigned.
Glossbrenner, Adam J. , was born at Hagers-
town, Md., August 31, 1810; self-educated; learned
the art of printing and became a publisher of the
Western Telegraph in Hamilton, Ohio, 1827-28;
went to York, Pa., in 1829, publishing the York
Gazette 1835-1858; clerk in the Pennsylvania legis-
islature in 1838; was a clerk in the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses; and in the State Department 1848-49;
for ten years Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of
Representatives; President Buchanan's private
secretary 1860-61; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth Congress and
reelected to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat.
Glover, John Milton, of St. Louis, Mo., was
born at St. Louis, Mo., June 23, 1852; educated at
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; studied
law; admitted to the bar; business member of the
firm of Glover & Shepley, attorneys.at law; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Glover, John Montgomery, was born in Mer-
cer County, Ky., September 4, 1824; pursued a
college course; studied law and admitted to the
bar; appointed colonel of cavalry by President
Lincoln and commissioned colonel by the gov-
ernor of Missouri September 4, 1861; resigned in
1864; collector of internal revenue 1866-67 for the
third district of Missouri; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; died
at Newark, Mo., November 12, 1891.
Glynn, Martin H., of Albany, N. Y. , was born
in the town of Kinderhook September 27, 1871;
educated in the public schools and graduated from
St. John's College, Fordham, at the head of the
class of 1894; four years later this institution hon-
ored him with the degree of master of arts; after
graduation he studied law and became a member
of the Albany County bar and the New York State
Bar Association; did iournalistic work on several
papers until he became managing editor of the
Albany Times-Union; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; in March, 1901, appointed
a United States commissioner to the St. Louis
Exposition of 1904.
Goddard, Calvin, was born at Shrewsbury,
Mass., July 17, 1768; pursuing classical studies,
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1786; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1790; began prac-
ticing at Plainfleld, Conn.; State representative
1791-1806, three years as speaker of the house;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Seventh and Eighth Congresses; moved to Norwich
in 1807; member of the executive council 1808-
1815; Presidential elector on the De Witt Clinton
ticket in 1812; delegate to the Hartford convention
in 1814; judge of the superior court 1815 and 1818;
mayor of Norwich for seventeen years; died at
Norwich, Conn., May 2, 1842.
Godshalk, William, of New Britain, Pa., was
born at East Nottingham, Chester County, Pa.,
October 25, 1817; attended the common schools;
for a time a student at the Union Academy,
Doylestown; elected associate judge of Bucks
Coimty in October, 1871, and served the full term
of five years; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress; died February 6, 1891.
Goflf, Nathan, jr., of Clarksburg, W. Va., was
born there February 9, 1843; educated at the
Northwestern Virginia Academy, Georgetown Col-
lege, and the University of the City of New York;
admitted to the bar in 1865; elected a member of
the West Virginia legislature iu 1867; appointed
United States attorney for the district of West
Virginia in 1868, to which position he was reap-
pointed in 1872, 1876, and 1880; resigned the dis-
trict attorneyship in January, 1881, when he was
appointed Secretary of the Navy by President
Hayes; in March, 1881, President Garfield reap-
pointed him district attorney for West Virginia,
which position he again resigned in July, 1882;
he enlisted in the Union Army in June, 1861, in
the Third Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry;
served as lieutenant of Company G, also as adju-
tant of said regiment, and as major of the Fourth
Virginia Volunteer Cavalry; Republican candidate
for Congress in 1870 in the First West Virginia dis-
trict, as also in the year 1874; candidate of the
Republican party for governor of West Virginia in
1876 and defeated by Hon. H. M. Mathews; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and
reelected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con-
gresses; in 1888 elected governor of West Virginia
on the face of the returns by a plurality of 130
votes; the election was contested by A. B. Flem-
ing, the Democratic candidate, who was seated as
governor by a majority vote of the legislature;
appointed United States circuit judge of the fourth
circuit March 17, 1892, by President Harrison.
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Goggin, William L., was born in Bedford
County, Va., May 31, 1807; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1828; began practice at Winchester, Va.; State
representative in 1836; elected a Eepresentative
from Virginia as a Whig );o the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses; elected to theTwenty-
eighth Congress (vice T. W. Gilmer, resigned), and
elected to the Thirtieth Congress; became a farmer;
defeated as the Whig candidate for governor in
1860 by John Letcher, Democrat; died at Rich-
mond, Va., January 5, 1870.
Gold, Thomas B., was a native of New York;
pursuing classical studies, graduated from Yale
College in 1786; located at Whitestown, Oneida
County; State senator 1797-1802; State represent-
ative in 1808; elected a Eepresentative from New
York as a Federalist to the Eleventh, Twelfth,
and Fourteenth Congresses; died at Whitestown,
N. Y., June 22, 1826.
Qoldfog'le, Henry Mayer, of New York City,
was born there May 23, 1856; educated in the pub-
lic schools and admitted to the bar at the age of
21, after having passed the examination at the
head of his class; elected justice of the fifth dis-
trict court in New York in 1887 and reelected in
1893 without opposition; became one of the judges
of the municipal court of New York, and retired
from the bench on January 1, 1900, to resume the
practice of law; an alternate to the national Dem-
ocratic convention in 1892, and in 1896 a delegate
to the national Democratic convention; elected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Goldsboroug'li, Charles, was born in Mary-
land in 1760; pursued academical studies; held,
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Maryland as a Federalist to the Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses; governor of Maryland 1818-19; died
at Shoals, Md., December 13, 1834.
Goldsborough, Robert, was born at Cam-
bridge, Md., in 1733; pursued academical studies;
studied medicine and graduated from the Phila-
delphia College in 1760; prominent in ante-Revo-
lutionary movements; Delegate from Maryland to
the First Continental Congress, 1774-75; died at
Cambridge, Md., December 31, 1788.
Goldsborough, Robert Henry, was born at
North Easton, Md., in 1780; received an academic
education; elected a United States Senator from
Maryland, serving from May 24, 1813, to March 3,
1819; again elected a United States Senator as a
Whig (vice Ezekiel F. Chambers, resigned), serv-
ing from January 23, 1835, until his death at
North Easton, Md., October 5, 1836.
Goldthwaite, Georgre, was born at Boston,
Mass., December 10, 1809; pursued academical
studies; moved to Alabama; studied law and
admitted to the bar; chief justice of the State
supreme court for several years; adjutant-general
of the State of Alabama during the civil war;
elected a United States Senator from Alabama as
a Democrat, serving from January 15, 1872, to
March 3, 1877; died at Montgomery, Ala., March
18, 1879.
Goldzier, Julius, of Chicago, 111., was born at
Vienna, Austria, January 20, 1854; came to New
York in 1866 and settled at Chicago in 1872, where
he practiced law; in April, 1890, became a member
of the city council of Chicago, and served until the
end of his term, in 1892; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-third Congress.
Golladay, Edward I., was born September 9,
1831, at Lebanon, Tenn.; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1852 admitted to the bar
member of the State legislature in 1857-58; Presi
dential elector on the Bell-Everett ticket in 1860
served in the Confederate army; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Golladay, J. S. , received a public school edu-
cation; was elected as a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat,
vice Elijah Hise, deceased; reelected to the
Forty-first Congress, serving from December 5,
1867, to February 28, 1870, when he resigned.
Goooh, Daniel Iiiun, was born in Rumsey,
McLean County, Ky. ; educated at a private school;
deputy governor-general of the Society of Sons of
Colonial Wars; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Goocli, Daniel W., was bom at Wells, Me.,
January 8, 1820; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1843; studied law and in 1846 was ad-
mitted to the bar; practiced at Boston; member
of the State house of representatives in 1852;
member of the State constitutional convention in
1853; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, and Thirty -ninth Congresses; re-
signed before taking his seat in the Thirty-ninth
Congress, having been appointed navy agent of
the port of Boston in 1865; removed by President
Johnson from the port of Boston in less than a
year; elected to the Forty-third Congress; defeated
for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress; ap-
pointed pension agent at' Boston by President
Grant; died at Melrose, Mass., November 1, 1891.
Goode, Jolin, jr., of Norfolk, Va., was born in
Bedford County, Va., May 27, 1829; attended the
New London Academy in early life, and graduated
from Emory and Henry College in 1848; studied
law; admitted to the bar in April, 1851; elected
to the Virginia house of delegates in 1851 and
1856; on the Democratic ticket as Presidential
elector in 1852 and 1856; elected in 1860 a member
of the State convention of Virginia which passed
the ordinance of secession; twice elected a mem-
ber of the Confederate Congress, and served in
that capacity from February 22, 1862, until the
close of the war; appointed a member of the
national Democratic executive committee in 1868
and reappointed in 1872 for four years; elected to
the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice
ot law at Washington, D. C.
Goode, Patrick G., was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; studied law and ad-
mitted to practice; located at Sidney, Ohio, where
he practiced several years; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses.
Goode, Samuel, received a limited education;
was a member of the Virginia State legislature;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Sixth
Congress.
Goode, William O., was born iu Mecklenburg
County, Va September 16, 1798; graduated from
William and Mary College; studied law and in
1821 was admitted to the bar; began the practice
° .u Pfo^essjon at Boydtown; served several years
m the State legislature; elected a Representative
from \ irginia to the Twenty-seventh Congress as
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55Y
a Democrat; again served several terms in the
State legislature and speaker of the house three
terms; a delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1850; elected to the Thirty-third Con-
gress with but little opposition; reelected to the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses; died at Boydtown, Va., July 3, 1859.
Goodenow, Jolm M., was born in Massachu-
setts in 1782; received a limited education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practicing his
profession at Steuben ville, Ohio; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Twenty-first Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; resigned April 9, 1830, on
account of haviilg been chosen judge of the su-
preme court of Ohio; died at Steubenville, Ohio,
in 1838.
Goodenow, Robert, was born at Farmington,
N. H., June 10, 1800; received a liberal education
and studied law; admitted to the bar in 1821; be-
gan the practice of his profession at Farmington;
county attorney 1828-1834 and 1841; moved to
Maine and resumed practice at Paris; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig; appointed State bank com-
missioner in 1857.
■ Goodenow, Rufus K. , was born at Henniker,
N. H., April 24, 1790; moved to Maine and located
at Brownfleld; received a limited education; en-
gaged in farming; a captain in the war of 1812;
moved to Paris, Me. ; clerk of the Oxford County
courts 1821-1837; served in the State house of
representatives; a Presidential elector on the Har-
rison ticket in 1840; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig;
■died at Paris, Me., March 24, 1863.
Goodhue, Benjamin, was born at Salem, Mass.,
October 1, 1748; graduated from Harvard College
in 1766; member of the State senate 1784-1789;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the First, Second, and Third Congresses; elected
.a United States Senator from Massachusetts (vice
Oeorge Cabot, resigned), serving from December
■6 1796, to 1800, when he resigned; died at Salem,
Mass., July 28, .1814.
Goodin, John B.., was born at Tiffin, Ohio,
December 14, 1836; moved with his father to
Kenton, Ohio, in 1844; educated at the Kenton
and Geneva College; studied law and m 1854 ad-
mitted to the bar; moved to Kansas m 1859 and
resumed the practice of law; elected to the State
legislature in 1866; judge of the seventh judicial
district of Kansas 1868-1875; elected a Represent-
a,tive from Kansas to the Forty-fourth Congress
as the reform and opposition candidate.
Goodnig'ht, Isaac Herschel, of Franklin, Ky.,
was born in Allen County, Ky January 31, 1849,
where he hved on a farm until November, 1870;
moved to Franklin; received his primary education
in the common schools; graduated from Cumber-
land University, Tennessee, in 1872; attended the
law department of the same university until ia73;
practiced law; represented Simpson County in the
State legislature in 1877-78; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Fifty-secSnd and Fifty-third Congresses; elected
judgeoftheseventh Kentucky circuitcourt district.
Goodrich, Chauncey, was born at Durham,
Conn., October 20, 1759; graduated from Yale Ool-
ksein 1776; studied law and in 1781 was admitted
to the bar; began the practice of his profession at
Hartford; member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1793; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Con-
gresses; member of the State executive council
1802-1807; elected a United States Senator from
Connecticut (vice Uriah Tracy, deceased), serving
from November 27, 1807, to 1813, when he re-
signed; lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1814,
died at Hartford, Conn. , August 18, 1815.
Goodrich, Elizur, was born at Durham, Conn.,
March 24, 1761; graduated from Yale College in
1779; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
the practice of his profession at New Haven in
1783; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Sixth Congress as a Federalist; appointed
collector of customs at New Haven, and removed
by President Jefferson; for seventeen years judge
of the probate; held several local offices; for nine
years professor at Yale College; mayor of New
Haven 1803-1822; died at New Haven, Conn.,
November 1, 1849.
Goodrich, John Z., was born in Shefiield,
Mass., September 27, 1801; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to practice; a
Presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in 1841;
served two years in the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
second and Thirty-third Congresses; member of
the peace congress in 1861; collector of customs
at Boston 1861-1865.
Goodrich, Milo, was bom at Homer, N. Y.,
January 3, 1820; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to practice; member
of the State constitutional convention 1867-68;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican.
Goodwin, Henry C, was born at Deruyter,
N. Y., June 25, 1824; received a liberal education;
studied law and in 1846 admitted to practice; be-
gan the practice of his profession at Hamilton,
N. Y. ; district attorney 1847-1850; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-third
Congress (vice Gerrit Smith, resigned) as a Re-
publican; died at Hamilton, N. Y., November 12,
1860.
Goodwin, John Noble, was born at South
Berwick, Me., October 18, 1824; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1844; studied law and in
1848 admitted to practice ; began the practice of his
profession at South Berwick; member of the State
senate in 1854; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; moved to Arizona Territory in 1863, having
been appointed chief justice of the Territory, which
position he held until September, 1865; elected a
Delegate from Arizona Territory to the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Republican.
Goodwin, Peterson, was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Congresses; died February 21, 1818.
Goodwyn, Albert Taylor, was born at Robin-
son Springs, Ala., December 17, 1842; educated at
South Carolina College and the University of Vir-
ginia, from which latter institution he graduated in
1867; member of the State house of representatives
1886-87, and member of the State senate from 1892
to 1896; State inspector of convicts from 1874 to
1880; in the Confederate army, and mustered out
at the close of the war as captain of a company of
sharpshooters; nominated for the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress by the People's, Jeftersonian Democratic,
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and Eepublican parties; the certificate of elec-
tion was given to James E. Cobb, but as the result
of a contest for the seat the Committee on Elec-
tions reported in favor of the contestant, and on
April 21, 1896, passed a resolution unseating Mr.
Cobb and awarding the seat to Mr. Goodwyn;
took his seat April 22, 1896.
Goodyear, Charles, was born at Cobleskill,
N. Y., April 26, 1805; graduated from Union Col-
lege in 1824; studied law, and in 1824 admitted to
the bar; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1839; appointed first judge of Schoharie
County in 1841 ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Demo-
crat; resumed the practice of law and continued
until 1852, when he engaged in the banking busi-
ness; elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; dele-
gate to the national Union convention at Philadel-
phia in 1866, and to the Democratic national con-
vention at New York in 1868.
Gordon, E. J., of Coudersport, Pa., was elected
to the Fifty-third Congress and took his seat Feb-
ruary 23, 1895.
Gordon, James, was born in Ireland in 1743;
emigrated to America and located at Schenectady,
N. Y. , where he engaged in Indian trading ; served
as a colonel in the Revolutionary war; located at
Ballston, and elected a member of the State house
of representatives 1778-1790; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Third Congress; a
State senator 1797-1804; county judge; died at
Ballston, N. Y., January 17, 1810.
Gordon, John B., of Atlanta, Ga., was born in
Upson County, (ia., February 6, 1832; educated
at the University of Georgia; read law and ad-
mitted to the bar; at the beginning of the war en-
tered the Confederate army as captain of infantry,
and occupied the positions of major, lieutenant-
colonel, colonel, brigadier-general, and major-
general, respectively; commanded the second
army corps; commanded one wing of General
Lee's army at Appomattox; the Democratic can-
didate for governor of Georgia in 1868; member
of the national Democratic convention in 1868 and
in 1872; elected Presidential elector for the State
at large in 1868 and in 1872; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat in 1872, and took his
seat March 4, 1873, serving to March 3, 1885; re-
elected in 1879; elected governor in 1886, and
reelected in 1888; elected United States Senator
in 1890, serving from March 4, 1891, to March 3,
1897; after leaving the United States Senate he
devoted his time to farming.
Gordon, Robert Bryarly, of St. Marys, Ohio,
was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, August 6,
1855; received his education in public schools at
St. Marys; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Gordon, Samuel, was a native of New York;
resided at Delhi, where he received a public school
education; served in the State house of representa-
tives 1820, 1821 , and 1834; elected a Representative
from New Y'ork to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; provost-marshal for the nineteenth district
of New York 1863-1865.
Gordon, William, was born in 1763; graduated
from Harvard College in 1779; studied law and
admitted to practice; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses;
resigned in 1800; died at Boston, Mass., May 8,
1802. ' '
Gordon, William F. , was a native of Albemarle
County, Va. ; received a liberal education; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-flrst
Congress as a Democrat (vice Rives, resigned) , and
took his seat .January 25, 1830; reelected to the
Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses; died
near Lindseys Store, Va., July 2, 1858.
Gore, Christopher, was born at Boston, Mass.,
September 21, 1758; graduated from HarvardfCol-
lege in 1776; studied law; admitted to the bar and
began practice at Boston; United States attorney
for the district of Massachusetts 1789-1796; com-
missioner to England 1796-1803; charg6 d'affaires
at London 1803-4; a member of the State house
of representatives and State senate; governor of
Massachusetts 1809 and 1810; elected a United
States Senator from Massachusetts (vice James
Lloyd, resigned), serving from May 28, 1813, to
1816, when he resigned; a trustee of Harvard Uni-
versity; died at Waltham, Mass., March 1, 1827.
Gorham, Benjamin, was born at Charlestown,
Mass., February 13, 1775; graduated from Cam-
bridge in 1795; studied law and admitted to the
bar at Boston; elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (in place of
Jonathan Mason, resigned) and took his seat No-
vember 27, 1820; elected to the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Congresses; for a short time a mem-
ber of the State legislature; died at Boston, Maes.,
September 27, 1855.
Gorham, Ifathaniel (father of Benjamin Gor-
ham), was born at Charlestown, Mass., May 27,
1738; attended the public schools; entered upon a
mercantile career; a member of the colonial legis-
lature 1771-1775; delegate to the provincial con-
gress 1774-75; member of the board of war 1778-
1781; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1779; Delegate from Massachusetts to the
Continental Congress 1782-83, and again 1785-1787,
serving the latter part of his term as presiding
officer; delegate from Massachusetts to the Federd
constitutional convention in 1788; for several
years a judge of the court of common pleas; be-
came interested in the purchase and settlement of
lands in the Genesee Valley, New Y'ork; died at
Charlestown, Mass., June 11, 1796.
Gorman, Arthur P., of Laurel, Md., was born
in Howard County, Md., March 11, 1839; attended
the public schools in his native county for a brief
period; appointed page in the Senate of the United
States in 1852, and continued in the service of the
Senate until 1866, at which time he was postmaster;
on the_ 1st of September, 1866, he was removed
from his position and immediately appointed col-
lector of internal revenue for the fifth district of
Maryland, which office he held until the incoming
of the Grant Administration in 1869; in June, 1869,
he was appointed a director in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, and in November elected a
member of the house of delegates of the Maryland
legislature as a Democrat; reelected in 1871, then
elected speaker of the house of delegates at the
ensuing session; in June, 1872, elected president
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company;
elected to represent Howard County in the Mary-
land State senate in 1875, and reelected in No-
vember, 1879, for a term of four years; el'ected
m January, 1880, to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to succeed William Pinkney AVhyte;
took his seat March 4, 1881 ; reelected in 1886, 1892,
and again in 1902, taking his seat March 5, 1903.
Gorman, James Sedgwick, of Chelsea, Mich.,
was born on a farm in the township of Lindon,
BIOGBAPHIES.
559
Washtenaw County, Mich., December 28, 1850;
began his education in a log schoolhouse; gradua-
ted from the Union School at Chelsea; graduated
from the law department of the University of
Michigan in 1876, and engaged in the practice of
law in the city of Jackson; two years assistant
prosecuting attorney; moved to the village of Dex-
ter, near his own home, in 1879; elected to the
lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1880;
elected to the State senate in 1886 from the fourth
district, and reelected in 1888; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress; after the expiration of his
term in Congress he returned to his farm near
Chelsea, Mich.
Grorman, Willis Arnold, was born near Flem-
ingsburg, Ky., January 12, 1814;' received an aca-
demic education and studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1835; began practice at Bloomington, Ind.,
the same year; clerk of the Indiana senate 1837-38;
major and colonel of Indiana volunteers in the
Mexican war; elected a Representative from Indi-
ana to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Thirty-second Congress; Territo-
rial governor of Minnesota 1853-1857; delegate to
the constitutional convention of Minnesota in 1857 ;
practiced law at St. Paul, Minn., 1857-1861; entered
the Union Army as colonel of the First Mirnesota
Volunteer Infantry; commissioned brigadier-gen-
eral September 6, 1861; elected city attornev of
St. Paul in 1869; died at St. Paul May 20, 1876.
Goss, James H. , was born at Union, S. C,
August 9, 1820; attended the public schools; be-
came a merchant; a delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention in 1867; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Fortieth Congress,
serving from July 18, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Gott, Daniel, was a native of Connecticut, at-
tended the public schools; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-first Congress.
Gould, Herman D., was a native of Connec-
ticut, received an academic education; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig.
Gourdin, Theodore, received an academic edu-
cation; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from May 24, 1813, to March 2, 1815.
Govan, A. B,. , was born at Orangeburg, S. C. ;
pursued classical studies; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Seventeenth Congress,
vice James Overstreet, deceased; reelected to the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses without
opposition.
Gove, Samuel F., was born at Weymouth,
Mass March 9, 1822; attended the public schools;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the For-
tieth Congress, serving from July 25, 1868, to
March 3, 1869.
Grady, Benjamin F., of Wallace, N. C, was
born in Duplin County, N. C, October 10, 1831;
attended old field schools; entered the University
of North Carolina in 1853, and graduated from
that institution in 1857; elected professor of math-
ematics and natural 'sciences in Austin College,
then located in Huntsville, Tex.; remained m
Austin College till he enlisted in a Texas Confed-
erate regiment; served in the Trans-Mississippi
Department until captured with his whole com-
mand at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863; about
three months a prisoner at Camp Butler, lUinois;
when exchanged was sent to General Bragg' s army
at Tullahoma, Tenn., in which he served until
the close of the war, in Cleburne's division; twice
wounded at Franklin, Tenn.; located in North
Carolina at the close of the war and engaged in
teaching, which occupation he followed for ten
years, when he engaged in agricultural pursuits;
superintendent of public schools of Duplin County
from 1881 to 1888, and justice of the peace from
1879 to 1890; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-
third Congresses as a Democrat.
Graff, Joseph V. , of Pekin, Tazewell- County,
111., was born at Terre Haute, Ind., July 1, 1854;
graduated from the Terre Haute high school at
the age of 16; also attended Wabash College, at
Crawfordsville, Ind., one year; studied law and
admitted to the bar while living at Delavan, 111.,
in 1879; a delegate to the national Republican con-
vention at Minneapolis in 1892; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Grahaxa, James (brother of William A. Gra-
ham), was born in Lincoln County, N. C, Janu-
ary, 1793; received a classical education and grad-
uated from the University of North Carolina in
1814; studied law; admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed with great success for many years; moved
to Rutherford County, which he represented in
the house of commons of North Carolina in 1822,
1823, 1828, and 1829; elected a. Representative to
the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses,
fsnerally without opposition, serving from Decem-
er 2, 1833, to March 3, 1843, excepting from
March 25, 1836, to December 5, 1836, when a
Democratic House declared the seat vacant, but
at a new election again elected; defeated for the
Twenty-eighth Congress] elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Whig; retired to private life
and engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in
Rutherford County, N. C, in September, 1851,
Graham, James H., attended the public
schools; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Graham, John H., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Belfast, Ireland, April 1, 1835; three
months later he came with his parents to this
country, settling in Brooklyn; educated in the
public schools of Brooklyn, and in his youth served
, an apprenticeship of five years as a carpenter and
builder; in the fall of 1861 recruited Company A,
Fifth Regiment Heavy Artillery, New York Vol-
unteers, and served three years as its captain, and
for gallant and meritorious service at Harpers
Ferry and in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia,
was commissioned as major and bre vetted lieuten-
ant-colonel; after the war entered the wholesale
hardware business; nominated in 1892 as a Presi-
dential elector by the New York State Democratic
convention, but resigned on the supposition that
his position as director of a national bank would
render him ineligible; elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a Democrat.
Graham, William, was born March 16, 1782;
attended the public schools; studied law, admit-
ted to the bar, and practiced at Vallonia, Ind.;
delegate to the State constitutional convention;
speaker of the house of representatives in 1820;
member of the State senate; elected a Representa-
tive from Indiana to the Twenty-fifth Congress as
a Whig, serving from September 4, 1837 to March
3, 1839; died near Vallonia, August 17, 1858.
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OONGEESSIONAL DIRECTOKy.
Graham, ■William Alexander (brother of
James Graham), was bom in Lincoln County,
N C, September 5, 1804; received a classical edu-
cation; graduated from the University of North
Carolina in 1824; studied law at Newbern; admit-
ted to the bar and began practicing at Hillsboro;
member of the house of commons of North Car-
olina 1833-1840; elected a United States Senator
(vice Robert Strange, resigned), serving from
December 10, 1840, to March 3, 1843; elected gov-
ernor of North Carolina in 1844 as a Whig; re-
elected in 1846; after declining the mission to
Spain, in 1849, was Secretary of the Navy from
July 20, 1850, until March 7, 1853; Whig candi-
date for Vice-President in 1852; Senator in the
Second Confederate Congress; delegate to the
Philadelphia Union convention in 1866; died at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., August 11, 1875.
Graham, William Harrison, of Allegheny,
Pa., was born there August 3, 1844; attended the
public schools of that city; at the age of 17 enhsted
in a Pittsburg company, but Pennsylvania's quota
being full, they chartered a steamer, went down
the river to Wheeling, and were accepted there,'
becoming Company A, Second Virginia Infantry;
after a service of two years the regiment was
mounted, becoming the Fifth West Virginia Cav-
alry; wounded in engagement at White Sulphur
Springs, Va.; president of the Mercantile Trust
Company and Central Accident Insurance Com-
pany of Pittsburg; served three successive terms
as recorder of deeds of Allegheny County; repre-
sented his city during four sessions of the Penn-
sylvania legislature; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress at a special election held November 29,
1898, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of
William A. Stone, and to the Fifty-sixth Con-
fress, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress;
efeated forreelection to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Granger, Amos P. , was born at Suffield, Conn. ,
June 3, 1789; attended the public schools; moved
to Manlius, N. Y., in 1811, where he was president
of the corporation several years; served as captain
in the war of 1812; moving to Syracuse, N. Y., in
1820 became a merchant; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died
at Syracuse, N. Y., August 20, 1866.
Granger, Bradley F. , was native of New York;
attended the public schools; moved to Ann Arbor,
Mich. ; elected a Representative from that State to
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Granger, Francis (son of Gideon Granger),
was born at Suffield, Conn., December 1, 1792;
pursuing classical studies, he graduated from Yale
College in 1811; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1816, commencing practice at Canandaigua,
N. Y. ; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1826-1831 ; twice candidate of the National
Republicans for governor o^ New York and
defeated; delegate to the National Anti-Masonic
convention at Philadelphia September 11, 1830;
defeated as the National Republican candidate for
Vice-President in 1831; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fourth Congress as
« a Whig; defeated as the Whig candidate for the
' Twenty-fifth Congress by Mark A. Sibley; elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed by Pres-
ident Harrison Postmaster-General, serving fi'om
March 6, 1841, to September 18, 1841; elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig (vice John
Greig, resigned) , serving from December 7, 1841,
to March 3, 1843; his "silver gray" hair was as-
sumed as a name by a portion of the Whig party
in New York; delegate to the peace convention
in 1861; died at Canandaigua, N. Y., August 28,
1868.
Granger, Miles Tohey, was born in New Marl-
boro, Berkshire County, Mass., August 12, 1817;
at the age of 2 moved to Canaan, Conn.; received
a common school, academic, and collegiate educa-
tion, graduating from Wesleyan University, Mid-
dletown. Conn. , in 1842; went to Louisiana in 1843,
where he studied law; admitted to the bar in Wil-
kinson County, Miss., in April, 1845; returned to
Canaan, and admitted to the bar in Litchfield in
October, 1845; practiced law in Canaan from 1847
till 1867, when he was elected judge of the supe-
rior court of Connecticut, and in 1876 elected judge
of the supreme court, serving till March 1, 1887,
when he resigned; member of the Connecticut
house of representatives in 1857, and of the senate
in 1866-67, at which last session was chairman of
the judiciary committee; received the degree of
LL. D. from Wesleyan University in 1883; held
the office of judge of the superior court nineteen
and a half years consecutively; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; died October 21,
1895.
Grant, Abraham P., was born at Oswego,
N. Y. ; attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from September
4, 1837, to March 3, 1839.
Grantland, Seaton, was a native of Virginia;
received an academic education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Mil-
ledgevilie, Ga. ; elected a Representative from that
State to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union
candidate on a general ticket; reelected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress; a Presidential elector on
the Harrison and Tyler ticket in 1840; died in
Georgia.
Gravely, Joseph. J. , was born in Henry County,
Va., in 1828; attended public schools; member of
the State legislature in 1853 and 1854; moved to
Missouri in 1854; telected to the constitutional con-
vention in 1860 and to the State senate in 1862 and
1864; served in the Union Army as colonel of the
Eighth Missouri Cavalry; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress as a Radical.
Graves, Alexander, of Lexington, Mo., was
born in Mississippi August 29, 1844; at the out-
Isreak of the war he left Centre College, Danville,
Ky; joined the Confederate army, serving under
Gen. N. B. Forrest; paroled with him at Gaines-
ville, Ala., May, 1865; returning to college, he
graduated from Oakland (now Alcorn) University,
Mississippi, in July, 1867; studied law, and gradu-
ated from the University of Virginia in June,
1869; practiced law at Lexington, Mo.; elected
city attorney of Lexington in 1872, and in 1874
prosecuting attorney of Lafayette County, Mo.;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; resumed the practice of law at Lexing-
ton, Mo.
Graves, Williani J., was born at Newcastle,
Ky., in 1805; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice; member of the' State house of repre-
sentatives in 1834; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-
sixth Congresses; member of the State legisla-
ture in 1843; died at Louisville, Ky., September
27, 1848.
BIOGRAPHIES.
561
Gray, Ed-win, waa born in Virginia in 1769;
attended the public schools; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Virginia to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Tvi^elfth Congresses.
Gray, George, of Newcastle, Del., was born at
Newcastle, Del., May 4, 1840; graduated from
Princeton College when 19 years old, receiving the
degree of A. B., and in 1862 the degree of A. M.;
after studying law with his father, Andrew C.
Gray, he spent a year in the Harvard law school,
and admitted to practice in 1863; appointed
attorney-general of the State of Delaware in 1879
by Govern or H all , and reappointed attorney-general
in 1884 by Governor Stockley; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876, at
Cincinnati in 1880, and at Chicago in 1884; elected
to the United States Senate as a Democrat to fill
the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas
F. Bayard as Secretary of State, and took his seat
March 19, 1885; reelected in 1887 and took his
seat March 4, 1887; reelected in 1893, serving
until March 3, 1899; member of the commission
which met, at Quebec, August, 1898, to settle dif-
ference between United States and Canada, and
later of the commission which met at Paris in
September, 1898, to arrange terms of peace between
United States and Spain; in October, 1902, ap-
pointed chairman of the commission to investigate
conditions of the coal strike in Pennsylvania.
Gray, Hiram, was born at Salem, Washington
County, N. Y., April 10, 1802; graduated from
Union College in 1821; studied law, and in 1823
admitted to the bar; practiced at Elmira 1825-28;
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in 1823;
elected a Pepresentative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; appointed by
Governor Silas Wright circuit judge and vice chan-
cellor of the sixth judicial district of New York in
1838; on the abolition of these offices retired to
private practice; elected justice of the supreme
court of New York in 1847, and reelected in 1851,
serving until 1859; received the degree of LL. D.
from Union College in 1867; died at Elmira, N.Y.,
May 6, 1890.
Gray, Jolin C, was born in Southampton
County, Va. ; received an academic education;
elected a Representative from that State to the Six-
teenth Congress (vice James Johnson, resigned),
serving from November 18, 1820, to March 3, 1821;
defeated for the Seventeenth Congress.
Grayson, William, was born in Prince William
County, Va. ; pursued classical studies in England
and graduated from the University of Oxford;
studied law at the Temple in London; practiced
law at Dumfries, Va. ; was aid-de-camp to General
Washington August 24, 1776; entered the Revo-
lutionary Army as colonel of a Virginia regiment,
January 1, 1777; distinguished himself at the battle
of Monmouth; delegate to the Continental Con-
gress, 1784-1787; member of the Virginia conven-
tion of 1788 for the adoption of the Federal Con-
stitution, which he opposed; appomted a United
States Senator from Virginia to the First Congress,
serving from May 21, 1789, until he died, at Dum-
fries, Va., March 12, 1790.
Grayson, William J., was born at Beaufort,
S C. November 10, 1788; received a classical edu-
cation, and in 1809 graduated from the South Caro-
lina College; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
began practice at Beaufort; appointed a commis-
sioner in equity; a member of the State house of
representatives in 1813 and of the State senate
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in 1831; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig, and
reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress without
opposition; collector of customs at Charleston
1841-1843; engaged in planting; died at Newberry,
S. C, October 4, 1863; published the Hireling and
the Slave, Chicora and other Poems, Marion, the
Life of J. L. Petigru, and was a contributor to the
Southern Review.
Greeley, Horace, was born at Amherst, N. H.,
February 3, 1811; attended the public schools;
apprenticed to the art of printing at Poultney, Vt.,
1826-1830; worked as a journeyman printer in
Erie, Pa., and after August, 1831, at New York
City; commenced the publication of the Morning
Post, the first 1-cent daily paper, January 1,
1833, but it was soon discontinued; published the
New Yorker 1834-1841; edited the Log Cabin in
1840; founded the New York Tribune, April 10,
1841, and edited it until his death; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirtieth Con-
gress (vice David S. Jackson, unseated) as a Whig,
serving from December 4, 1848, to March 3, 1849;
visited Europe in 1851, and was chairman of one of
the juries at the World's Fair; visited California in
1859 by the way of Kansas and Utah; a Presi-
dential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket
in 1864; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1867; at the close of the civil war advo-
cated universal amnesty and universal suffrage,
and in May, 1867, offered himself as bail for Jef-
ferson Davis; in November, 1867, appointed by
President Johnson, and confirmed, as minister to
Austria, but declined; nominated by the Reform
Republicans at Cincinnati in 1872 ^nd by the
Democrats at Baltimore as President, but was de-
feated by U. S. Grant; losing his reason, died in
an asylum near the city of New York November
29, 1872; he published Hints Toward Reforms,
Association Discussed, Glances at Europe, Art and
Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the
Crystal Palace, History of the Struggle for Slavery
Extension from 1787 to 1856, History of the Amer-
ican Conflict, Recollections of a Busy Life, Over-
land Journey from New York to San Francisco,
Essays on Political Economy, and many pam-
phlets and magazine articles.
Green, Byram, was native of New York; at-
tended the public schools; a member of the legisla-
ture in 1816, 1817, 1819, 1820, and 1822; State sen-
ator in 1823 and 1824; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-eighth Congress;
resided at Sodus, N. Y.
Green, Frederick W., was a native of Mary-
land; received an academic education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at Tiffin,
Ohio; after holding several local offices was elected
as a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
third Congress.
Green, Henry Dickinson, of Reading, Pa.,
was born at Reading, Berks County, Pa., May 3,
1857; educated in the public schools of his native
city (graduating from the Reading High School in
1872) and at Yale University, graduating from the-
latter with the class of 1877; admitted to practice'
law at the Berks County bar in November, 1879;'
representative of the city of Reading in the house
of representatives of Pennsylvania in the sessions
of 1883-84 and 1885-86; member of the senate of
Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1896, being originally
elected in November, 1888, and reelected in 1892;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress November 7,
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1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
Daniel Ermentrout, and reelected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Green, Innis, was born at Dauphin, Pa.; re-
ceived an academic education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serving
from December 3, 1827', to March 3, 1831.
Green, Isaiah L. , was a native of Massachu-
setts; pursued a classical course and graduated
from Harvard College in 1781; studied law and
admitted to the bar and practiced; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts totheNinth, Tenth,
and Twelfth Congresses; held several local offices;
died in 1841.
Green, James S. , was born at Fauquier County,
Va., February 28, 1817; attended the public
schools; moved to Alabama, and then to Missouri,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1840, com-
mencing practice at Canton; Presidential elector
in 1844 on the Polk and Dallas ticket; delegate to
the constitutional convention of 1845; Representa-
tive from Missouri to the Thirtieth and Thirty-
first Congresses; charge d'affaires to Colombia
May 24, 1853, to August 13, 1854; appointed min-
ister resident June 29, 1854, but did not present
his credentials; elected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, but did not take his seat, having been
elected to the United States Senate from Missouri
as a Democrat, serving from January 21, 1857, to
March 3, 1861; died at St. Louis, Mo., January 19,
1870.
Green, Kobert S. , was born at Princeton, N.
J., March 25, 1831; graduated from the College of
New Jersey in 1850; admitted to the bar of New
Jersey as an attorney in 1853, and as counselor in
1856; city attorney of the city of Elizabeth 1857-
1868; surrogate of Union County 1862-1867; presid-
ing judge of Union County court of common pleas
1868-1873; member of the commission to suggest
amendments to- the constitution of New Jersey in
1873; became a member of the bar of New York
in 1874; delegate to the Democratic conventions
of 1860 and 1880; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; resigned January 17, 1887;
governor of New Jersey 1886-1889; appointed vice-
chancellor for a term of seven years in 1890; died
at Elizabeth, N. J., May 7, 1895.
Green, Thomas M., was a native of Virginia;
moved to Bruinsburg, Miss. T., becoming an ex-
tensive planter; elected a Delegate from Mississippi
Territory to tb e Seventh Congress (vice Narsworthy
Hunter, deceased), serving from December 6, 1802,
to March 3, 1803.
Green, Wharton J. , of Fayetteville, N. C, was
born near St. Marks, Fla., about 1840 where his
father had lately moved from Warren County, N. C. ;
partially educated atGeorgetownCoUege, Lovejoy's
Academy at Raleigh , "West Point, and the University
of Virginia; read law at the last, and afterwards at
Cumberland University; immediately after obtain-
ing a United States Supreme Court license he
abandoned the law; enlisted in one of the three
first companies that went into camp upon the
breaking out of the civil war; promoted to lieuten-
ant-colonel, commanding Second North Carolina
Battalion in the Confederate army; afterwards on
General Daniel's staff; delegate to the Democratic
national convention in New York in 1868; State
delegate to the Democratic national convention at
St. Louis; State alternate to the Cincinnati national
Democratic convention, and candidate for elector
on the Democratic ticket of 1868; elected a Repre-
sentative to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Green, Willis, was a native of the Shenandoah
Valley, Virginia; attended the public schools; lo-
cated in that part of Virginia which is now the
State of Kentucky; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1792; surveyor for locating
land warrants; member of the State legislature in
1 836 and 1837 ; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses.
Greene, Albert Collins (brother of Gen. Nath-
anael Greene), was born at East Greenwich, R. I.,
April 15, 1791; received an academic education;
studied law in New York, and admitted to the bar;
returned to Rhode Island, and commenced prac-
tice; a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1816, 1822-1825, the last year as speaker;
brigadier-general and major-general in the militia;
attorney-general of Rhode Island 1825-1843;
elected United States Senator from Rhode Island
as a Whig 1845-1851; afterwards a member of the
State house of representatives and of the State
senate; died at Providence January 8, 1863.
Greene, George W., was born in Orange
County, N. Y. , July 4, 1 831 ; received a classical edu-
cation'and graduated from the University of Penn-
sylvania; taught school; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1860; commenced practice at Goshen,
N. Y. ; school commissioner for Orange County;
judge of the Orange County courts 1861-1864;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat, but his seat
was successfully contested by Charl es H . Van Wyck,
Republican, who took his seat February 17, 1870.
Greene, Ray, was born at Warwick, R. I.,
February 2, 1765; received a classical education,
graduating from Yale College in 1784; studied law;
admitted to the bar and began practicing at Pro-
vidence; attorney-general of Rhode Island 1794^
1797; elected United States Senator from Rhode
Island (vice William Bradford, resigned) and
served from November 22, 1797, to 1801, when he
resigned; died in Warwick, R. I., January 11, 1849.
Greene, William L., was born on a farm in
Pike County, Ind., October 3, 1849; moved with
his j^arents to Dubois County, in the same State;
admitted to the bar in Bloommgton, Ind. , in 1876;
moved with his family to Kearney, Nebr., in 1883,
and resumed the practice of his profession ; elected
judge of the twelfth judicial district of Nebraska in
1895; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Popu-
list; died March 11, 1899, while on his way home
from Washington, D. C.
Greene, William Stedman, of Fall River,
Mass., was born atTremont, Tazewell Countv, 111.,
April 28, 1841; moved to Fall River with his
parents in 1844; educated in the public schools of'
that city; elected member of common council in
1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879, and president of the
body the latter three years; elected mayor in 1880;
also alternate delegate to Republican national con-
vention which nominated President Garfield; re-
elected mayor in 1881, but resigned the same year,
being appointed postmaster by President Garfield;
again elected mayor in 1886; appointed by Gov-
ernor Ames general superintendent of prisons for
the State in July, 1888, and served until 1893;
elected mayor in 1895, 1896, and 1897; declined a
reelection in 1898; appointed postmaster by Presi-
dent McKinley, and entered upon his duties April
BIOGRAPHIES.
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' l^? ' '■^s'gped this position and elected as a Re-
publican to Congress May 31, 1898, to fill the un-
^T''®jlt^^°' °* *^® ^""^^ John Simpkins for the
iitty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
' Greenhalge, Frederic T. , was born in CUthero,
England, July 19, 1842; his father brought him to
the United States in early childhood; received his
primary education in the public schools of Lowell
and entered Harvard in 1859; with the Union
Army at Newbern, N. C, for five months, but
tailed to get a commission, and was sent home sick
April, 1864; studied law, and admitted to practice
in 1865 at Lowell, Mass.; served in the common
council of Lowell 1868-69; received the degree of
A. B., Harvard, 1870; member of the school com-
mittee 1871-1873; mayor of Lowell 1880-81; dele-
gate to the Republican national convention in 1884;
member of the State house of representatives in
1885; city solicitor in 1888; president of the Hayes
and Wheeler Club in 1876; trustee of City Institu-
tion for Savings 1876; president of People's Club,
of Lowell; president of History Club, and presi-
dent of Humane Society; defeated for the State
senate in 1881 and for the house in 1885; practiced
law in Middlesex and other counties; elected to
the Fifty-flrst Congress as a Repubhcan; elected
governor of Massachusetts in 1893, 1894, and 1895,
and served until his death, March 5, 1896.
Greenleaf, Halbert Stevens, of Rochester, N.
Y., was born at Guilford, Windham County, Vt.,
April 12, 1827; brought up on a farm, and received
a common school and academic education; manu-
facturer of locks — time, combination, and key
locks; commissioned justice of the peace March
12, 1856, and captain of Massachusetts Militia Au-
gust 29, 1857; enlisted as a private soldier in the
Union Army August, 1862; commissioned captain
of Company E, Fifty-second Regiment Massachu-
setts Volunteers, September 12, 1862; unanimously
elected colonel of the regiment October 23 of the
same year, and subsequently served under General
Banks in the Department of the Gulf; organized
and commanded the Hancock Brigade in the fall
of 1880; elected commander of the First New York
Veteran Brigade February, 1882, and reelected
January, 1883; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second
Congress.
Grreenman, Edward W., of Troy, N. Y., was
born at Berlin, Rensselaer County, N. Y., Janu-
ary 26, 1840; received a common school education,
with partial course in academy; for many years
engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits
in his native town; elected supervisor of Berlin in
1866, 1867, and 1868; elected clerk of. Rensselaer
County in 1868, serving a full term of three years;
deputy county clerk for ten years; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; cashier of the
Central National Bank of Troy, N. Y.
Greenup, Christopher, was born in Virginia in
1750; moved to Frankfort, Ky. ; elected a Repre-'
sentative from that State to the Second, Third, and
Fourth Congresses; governor of Kentucky 1804-
1808; Presidential elector on the Madison and
Clinton ticket; died at Frankfort, Ky., April 24,
1818.
Greenwood, Alfred B., was born in Frankhn
County, Ga., July 11, 1811; received a classical
education, graduating from the University of Geor-
gia at Athens; studied law; admitted to the bar
and began practicing at Bentonville, Ark. ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1842-1845;
State prosecuting attorney 1845-1851; circuit judge
1851-1853; elected a Representative from Arkansas
to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat; Coihmissioner of Indian
Affairs May 13, 1859, to April 13, 1861; Represent-
ative from Arkansas to the Confederate Congress.
Gregg', Andrew, was born at Carlisle, Pa.,
June 10, 1755; pursued academic studies; for sev-
eral years a tutor in the University of Pennsyl-
vania; merchantatMiddletown 1783-1789; became
a farmer; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses'; United
States Senator from Pennsylvania from October 26,
1807, to March 3, 1813, a portion of which time
President pro tempore; moved to Belief onte in
1814; appointed secretary of state for Pennsylvania
in 1816; died at Bellefonte, Pa., May 20, 1835.
Gregg, James M. , was born in Patrick County,
Va., June 26, 1806; attended the public schools;
studied, law; admitted to the bar in 1830; began
practicing at Danville, Ind.; county surveyor of
Hendricks County 1834-1837; clerk of the circuit
court 1837-1845; elected a Representative from In-
diana to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Gregory, Dudley S., was born at Reading,
Conn., February 5, 1800; attended the public
schools; moved to the Adirondack regions, New
York, where he became interested in iron mines;
moved to Jersey City, where he was interested
with the legal State lotteries; Representative from
New Jersey to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
held several local offices; died at Jersey City, N. J.,
December 8, 1874.
Grefg, John, was born at Dumfriesshire, Scot-
land, August 6, 1779; educated in the Edinburgh
High School; came to America in 1797; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1804; commenced prac-
tice at Canandaigua, N. Y.s president of the On-
tario bank 1820-1856; regent of the State University
1825-1858, serving as vice-chancellor of the same
institution after 1845; one of the founders of the
Ontario Female Seminary ; elected a Represetative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Whig (vice Francis Granger, resigned), serv-
ing from May 31, 1841, to September 25, 1841,
when he resigned; president of the Ontario Agri-
cultural Society; died at Canandaigua, N. Y.,
April 9, 1858.
Grennell, George, jr., was born at Greenfield,
Mass., December 25, 1786; educated at Deerfield
Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College
with highest honors in 1808; admitted to the bar
in 1811; prosecuting attorney for Franklin County
1820-1828; State senator 1824-1827; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts as a Whig to
the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congresses;
trustee of Amherst College, 1838-1859, from which
he received the degree of LL. D. in 1854; judge
of probate 1849-1853; clerk of Franklin County
courts 1853-1865; first president of the Troy and
Greenfield Railroad; died at Greenfield, Mass.
November 20, 1877.
Gresham, Walter, of Galveston, Tex., was
born in King and Queen County, Va. , July 22,
1841; graduated from the University of Virginia;
served as a private in the Confederate army; set-
tled in Galveston in 1867 and comrpenced the,
practice of law in that city; elected district attor-
ney for the judicial district in which Galveston is
located in 1872; elected to the twentieth, twenty-
first, and twenty-second legislatures of Texas;
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elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat;
resumed the practice of his profession at Galves-
ton, Tex.
Grey, Benjamin E., was a native of Ken-
tucky; received an academic education; studied
law and began practice at Hopkinsville; State
representative 1838-1839 and State senator 1847-
1851; speaker of the senate and acting lieutenant-
governor in 1850; elected a Eepresentative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-third Congress.
Grider, Henry, was born in Garrard County,
Ky., July 16, 1796; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law; admitted to the bar; began
practicing at Bowling Green; served in the war of
1812; State representative in 1827 and 1831; State
senator 1833-1837; elected a Eepresentative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Whig; elected to the Thirty-
seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Con-
gresses, serving until September 14, 1866, when he
died, in Warren County, Ky.
Griffin, Cyrus, was born in Virginia in 1749;
sent to England to be educated; on his return to
Virginia prominent in pre-Revblutionary move-
ments; member of the colonial house of burgesses;
Delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress
1778-1781 and 1787-88, and its President in 1788;
president of the supreme court of admiralty; com-
missioner to the Creek Nation in 1789; judge of
the United States district court of Virginia from
December, 1789, until his death at Yorktown, Va.,
December 14, 1810.
Griffin, Isaac, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the public schools; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from that State to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Griffin, Joh.n K., was born at Milton, 8. C;
received an academic education; elected a Eepre-
sentative from South Carolina -as a State Eights
Whig to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses;
died at Milton, S. C, August 1, 1841.
Griffin, liBvi T., of Detroit, Mich., was born at
Chnton, Oneida County, N. Y., May 28, 1837; his
parents moved to Rochester, Oakland County,
Mich., in 1848; graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1857, and entered upon the study of
law at Detroit; entered the U. S. Army in August,
1862, as second lieutenant. Fourth Michigan Cav-
alry, and served as first lieutenant, adjutant, cap-
tain, brigade inspector, acting assistant adjutant-
general, cavalry division, and acting assistant
adjutant-general, cavalry corps. Military Division
of Mississippi, and brevetted major; at the close
of the war resumed practice of law in Detroit;
appointed Fletcher professor of law in the Univer-
sity of Michigan in 1886; defeated candidate for
judge of the supreme court in 1887; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress to fill the place made vacant
by the death of Hon. John Logan Chipman.
Griffin, Michael, of Eau 'Claire, Wis., was born
September 9, 1842, in Ireland; emigrated with his
parents to Canada in 1847, and to Ohio in 1851,
thence to Wisconsin in 1856; received his education
in the common schools of Ohio and Wisconsin ; first
resided in Sauk County, ^Vis., until 1868, and then
. moved to Kilbourn City, Wis., where he remained
until 1876, removing in that year to Eau Claire;
enlisted as a private September 11, 1861, in Com-
pany E, Twelfth Eegiment AVisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, and served until the close ot the war,
being promoted successively to the grade of second
and first lieutenant; served at the siege of Vicks-
burg in the Meridian campaign and in the Atlanta
campaign, and marched to the sea and north
through the Carolinas with Sherman; mustered
out July 16, 1865; member of the county board of
Columbia County, Wis., in 1874 and 1875; member
of assembly in 1876; city attorney of Eau Claire in
1878, 1879, and 1880 ; State senator in 1880 and 1881 ;
department commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic in 1887 and 1888; served as quartermaster-
general of the State, with rank of brigadier-general,
in 1889 and 1890; admitted to the bar May 19, 1868,
and engaged in the practice of law; elected in 1894
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Eepublican to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death _ of Hon.
George B. Shaw, and at the same election to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress; appointed chairman of Wisconsin State
tax commission by Governor Schofleld May 28,
1899; died in 1900.
Griffin, Samuel, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a classical education; studied.and practiced
law; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
First, Second, and Third Congresses.
Griffin, Thomas, was a native of Virginia; pur-
sued classical studies; -elected a Eepresentative
from Virginia to the Eighth Congress.
Griffith, Francis Marion, of Vevay, Ind., was
born in Switzerland County, Ind., August'21, 1849;
educated in the country schools of the county, the
high school at Vevay, and at Franklin College;
engaged in the practice of law at Vevay; served as
State senator 1886-1894; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-fifth Congress at the special election held
August 10, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. AVillian S. Holman; reelected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses.
Griffith, Samuel, -was born in Wales, Great
Britain, February 14, 1816; educated by a private
teacher at the Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. ;
studied law, and in 1846 admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Mercer; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Griggs, James M., of Dawson, Ga., was born
at Lagrange, Ga., on March 29, 1861; educated in
the common schools of Georgia and at the Peabody
Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn., from which
institution he graduated in May, 1881; after grad-
uation taught school and studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1883, and commenced the practice of
law in 1884 at Alapaha, Berrien County, Ga. ; for
a short while engaged in the newspaper business;
moved to Dawson in 1885; elected solicitor-general
(prosecuting attorney) of the Pataula judicial cir-
cuit in 1888 and reelected in 1892; resigned in
1893; appointed judge of the same circuit and
twice reelected without opposition; resigned this
office in 1896 to make the race for Congress; dele-
»gate to the Democratic national convention of 1892;
elected a Eepresentative from Georgia to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Grimes, James W. , was born at Deering, N. H. ,
October 20, 1816; graduated from Hampton Acad-
emy and from Dartmouth College in 1836; studied
law and commenced practicing in Iowa; served
several terms in the Iowa. State legislature; gov-
ernor of Iowa 1854-1858; elected a United States
Senator from Iowa in 1859 as a Eepublican; re-
elected in 1865, serving until March 3, 1871; died
at Burlington, Iowa, February 7, 1872.
BIOGRAPHIES.
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Grimes, Thomas Wingfleld, of Columbus,
tra., was bom and raised in Georgia; by profession
a lawyer; served as a private in the Confederate
army during the last eighteen months of the civil
war; member of the legislature in 1868-69, and
reelected in 1875-76; served as State senator
1878-79; member of the national Democratic con-
vention in 1880; elected by the Georgia legislature
m 1880 solicitor-general of the Chattahoochee cir-
cuit for a term of four years; reelected without
opposition in 1884; resign^ed upon being nominated
for Congress; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress;
resumed the practice of law at Columbus, Ga.
Grinnell, Josepli, was born at New Bedford,
Mass., November 17, 1788; received a liberal edu-
cation, and also mercantile training; moved to
New York in 1809; merchant until his retirement
in 1829; traveled in Europe, and returned to New
Bedford; member of the governor's council 1839-
1841; elected a Eepresentative from Massachusetts
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; reelected
to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses; president of the New Bedford and
Taunton Railroad, the First National Bank, and
the Wamsutta Cotton Mills; died at New Bedford,
Mass., February 7, 1885.
Grinnell, Josiah. Bushnell, was born at New
Haven, Vt., December 22, 1821; received a classical
education and graduated from Auburn Theological
Seminary in 1847; ordained a Presbyterian clergy-
man; held pastorates in Union Village, N. Y.,
Washington, D. C, and in the Congregational
Church of New York City; moved to Iowa in
1855; engaged largely in agricultural pursuits, espe-
cially wool growing; founded Grinnell University;
elected State senator in 1856, serving four years;
delegate to the Republican national convention in
1860; special agent for the Post-Office Department
for two years; elected a Representative from Iowa
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; president
of the St. Louis and St. Paul Railroad, of the State
horticultural society, and of the First National
Bank, at Marshalltown; died at Marshalltown,
Iowa, March 31, 1891.
Grinnell, Moses H., was born at New Bedford,
Mass., March 3, 1803; after receiving an academic
education entered a counting room in New York
in 18l8, from which time until 1860 was a promi-
nent merchant in New York; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Whig; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-seventh Congress; Presidential elector on
the Fremont ticket; president of the Chamber of
Commerce and of the Merchants' Clerks' Savings
Banks; commissioner of charities and corrections;
Central Park commissioner; one of the Union de-
fense committee; collector of the port of New York
March, 1869, to July, 1870; died at New York City
November 24, 1877.
Griswold, Gaylord, was a native of Connecti-
cut; pursued classical studies, graduating from
Yale College in 1787; moved to Herkimer, N. Y.;
member of the State house of representatives 1796-
1798; elected a Representative from New York to
the Eighth Congress.
Griswold, John A. , was bom at Nassau, N. Y.,
in 1822; received an academic education; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; large steel manufacturer;
mayor of Troy in 1850; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congre.sses; defeated as the Republican
candidate for governor of New York in 1868 by
J. T. Hoffman, Democrat; died at Troy, N. Y.,
October 31, 1872.
Griswold, John A. , was born in Greene County,
N. Y., in 1827; received an academic education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; commenced
practice in Greene County ; county district attorney
1856-1859; county judge 1864-1868; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Forty-first
Congress as a Democrat.
Griswold, Matthew, of Erie, Pa., was born at
Lyme, New London County, Conn., June 6, 1833;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; engaged in teaching and farming for a num-
ber of years; frequently elected to various local
town offices; elected a member of the Connecticut
house of representatives in 1862 and reelected in
1865; moved to Erie in 1866; engaged in manu-
facturing; elected trustee for four successive terms
of the Erie Academy, a State institution; elected
to the Fifty-Second Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Griswold, Koger, was born at Lyme, Conn.,
May 21, 1762; pursued classical studies, graduat-
ing from Yale College in 1780; studied law, ad-
mitted to the bar in 1783 and began practice at
Norwich; returned to Lyme in 1794; elected a
Representative from Connecticut to the Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses as
a Federalist; appointed judge of the supreme
court of Connecticut in 1807; Presidential elector
on the Pinckney and King ticket; lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut 1809-1811, and governor
from 1811 until his death, at Lyme, Conn., October
25, 1812.
Griswold, Stanley, was born at Torringford,
Conn., November 14, 1763; received a classical edu-
cation; graduated from Yale College in 1786;
studied theology ; pastor at Milford, Conn. , 1790-
1802, and also at Greenfield, Mass.; editor of a
Democratic paper at Walpole, N. H., in 1804; ap-
pointed secretary of Michigan Territory in 1805;
moved to Ohio; appointed a United States Senator
from Ohio (vice Edward Xiffin, resigned), serving
from June 2, 1809, to January 12, 1810; appointed
United States judge of the Northwest Territory;
died at Shawneetown, 111., August 21, 1815.
Groesheck, ■William S. , was born at New York
City July 24, 1815; received an academic education
and studied law; admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the State con-
stitutional convention in 1851; commissioner to
codifythe laws of Ohio inl852; elected a Represent-
ative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; member of the peace conference in
1861; State senator in 1862; delegate to the national
Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866; one of
President Johnson's counsel in his impeachment
trial; died in 1897.
Groome, James B., was born at Elkton, Md.,
April 4, 1838; practicing lawyer; elected a member
of the convention which framed the present con-
stitution of Maryland in 1867; represented his
county in the house of delegates in 1871; elected
Presidential elector in 1872 and voted for Hon.
Thomas A. Hendricks for President; reelected to
the house of delegates in 1873, but resigned early
in the session to accept the position of governor of
the State, made vacant by the resignation of Hon.
William Pinkney Whyte, who had been chosen a
United States Senator; his term as governor ex-
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pired in January, 1876 ; elected to the United States
Senate in January, 1878, as a Democrat to succeed
George B. Dennis, Democrat, and took his seat
March 18, 1879; died at Baltimore, Md., October
5, 1893.
Gross, Ezra C. , wasa native of Windsor County,
Vt.; pursued classical studies; graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1806; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practice at Elizabeth-
town, X. Y. ; surrogate of Essex County 1819-1821 ;
elected a Eep_resentative from New York to the Six-
teenth Congress as a Democrat; member of the
legislature in 1828-29; died at Keeseville, N. Y.,
August 6, 1829.
Gross, Samuel, was a native of Montgomery
County, Pa. ; attended the public schools; Bepre-
sentative from that State to the Sixteenth and Sev-
enteenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Grosvenor, Charles Henry, of Athens, Ohio,
was born at Pomfret, Windham County, Conn.,
September 21), 1833; his grandfather was Col.
Thomas Grosvenor, of the Second Connecticut
Eegiment in the Eevolution, and his father was
Maj. Peter Grosvenor, who served in the Tenth
Connecticut Eegiment in the war of 1812; his
father carried him from Connecticut to Ohio in
May, 1838, but there was no schoolhouse near
where he settled until he was 14 years old, when
he attended a few terms in a country log school-
house in Athens County, Ohio ; taught school and
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857; chair-
man of the executive committee of the Ohio State
Bar Association from its organization for many
years; served in the Union Army, in the Eight-
eenth Ohio Volunteers, from July, 1861, to Novem-
ber, 1865; major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and
brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, command-
ing a brigade at the battle of Nashville, in Decem-
ber, 1864; held divers township and village offices;
member of the State house of representatives of
Ohio 1874-1878, serving as speaker of the house
two years; Presidential elector for the Fifteenth
district of Ohio in 1872, and chosen to carry the
electoral vote of the State to Washington; Presi-
dential elector at large in 1880; member of the
board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailor's
Orphans' Home at Xenia from April, 1880, till
1888, and president of the board for five years;
delegate at large to the national Eepublican con-
vention at St. Louis in 1896, and again to the
national Eepublican convention at Philadelphia
in 1900; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Eepublican.
Grosvenor, Thomas P. , was born at Pomfret,
Conn., in 1780; pursued classical studies; gradu-
ated from Yale College in 1806; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practicing at Hudson,
N. Y. ; member of the State legislature 1810-1812;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Twelfth Congress (vice Eobert Le Eoy Livingston,
resigned) as a Federalist; reelected to the Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from
January 29, 1813, to March 3, 1817.
Grout, Jonathan, was born at Lunenburg,
Worcester County, Mass., July 23, 1737; served in
the expedition against Canada 1757-1760; studied
law; admitted to the bar, and began practice at
Petersham, Mass.; also a farmer; served in the
Eevolutionary war; member of the State house of
representatives; elected a Eepresentative from
Massachusetts to the First Congress as a Demo-
crat; returned to Lunenburg in 1803; died at
Dover, N. H., September 8, 1807.
Grout, "William W. , of Barton, Vt., was born of
American parents atCompton, Provinceof Quebec,
May 24, 1836; received an academic education and
graduated from the Poughkeepsie Law School in
the class of 1857; admitted to the bar in December
of the same year; practiced law; State attorney •
for Orleans County 1865-66; served as lieutenant-
colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers m
the Union Army; member of the Vermont house
of representatives in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874,
and of the senate in 1876, and president pro tem-
pore of that body; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress; reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-flfth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Ee-
publican; died at Irby, Vt., October 7. 1902.
Grove, William B. , was a native of North Caro-
lina and a Eepresentative from that State to the
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Congresses.
Grover, A. P., was born in Ontario County,
N. Y., February 18, 1819; moved to Kentucky in
1837; attended Centre College; studied law, com-
mencing practice at LoCisville, Ky., in 1843; State
senator 1858-1865; elected a Eepresentative from
Kentucky to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat.
Grover, La Payette, of Salem, Oreg., was bom
at Bethel, Oxford County, Me., November 29, 1823;
primarily educated at Gould's Academy, Bethel,
two years a student at Bowdoin College; pursued
his studies to a liberal course at Philadelphia,
where he also studied law; admitted to the bar in
1850; moved to Oregon; elected by the Territorial
legislature prosecuting attorney for the second j udi-
cial district, and as auditor of public accounts for
the Territory, 1851-52; elected a member of the
legislature in 1853; appointed by the Department
of the Interior as a commissioner to audit the
spoliation claims growing out of the Eogue Eiver
Indian war in 1854; again elected a member of the
legislature in 1855, at which session he served as
speaker of the house; appointed by the Secretary
of War as a member of the board of commissioners
to audit the Indian war expenses of Oregon and
Washington in 1856; delegate to the convention
which framed the present constitution of Oregon
in 1857; Eepresentative from Oregon to the Thirty-
fifth Congress; chairman of the Democratic State
central committee 1866-1870; elected governor of
Oregon in 1870 for the term of four years, reelected
in 1874, and served until February 1, 1877, when
he resigned, having been elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James K.
Kelly, Democrat, and took his seat March 8, 1877,
serving until March 3, 1883.
Grover, Martin, was a native of New York;
received a common school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at An-
gelica, N. Y. ; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the T^^■enty-ninth Congress as a Native
American Democrat; elected justice of the supreme
court in November. 1857, and reelected in 1859;
elected judge of the court of appeals in 1867;
elected an associate judge for fourteen years in
1870; died at Angelica, N. Y., August 23, 1875.
Grow, Galusha A. , of Glen wood, Susquehanna
County, Pa., was born in Ashford (now Eastford),
Windham County, Conn., August 31, 1823; his
father died when he was 3 years old; his mother
with her six children, moved to Susquehanna
County, Pa., in May, 1834; worked on a farm
summers and went to the common school winters
until the summer of 1837, when he began a regtilar
course of study at Franklin Academy, Susquehanna
County, and entered the freshman class, Amherst
College, September, 1840; graduated July, 1844;
admitted to the bar of Susquehanna County April
19, 1847; declined, a unanimous nomination for
the legislature in August, 1850; elected to Congress
the following October, succeeding David Wilmot;
elected from the same district six consecutive
terms, once by a unanimous vote; defeated in a
new district, composed of Susquehanna and Lu-
zerne counties, in 1862; elected the first three
times as a Free Soil Democrat, the last three as a
Republican; entered Congress in December, 1851,
being the youngest member of that Congress; his
maiden speech in Congress was on "Man's right
to the soil; " for ten years, at the beginning of each
Congress, he introduced in the House a free home-
stead bill, until it became a law in 1862; chairman
of the Committee on the Territories in the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, and member
of that committee in the Thirty-fifth Congress;
Republican nominee for Speaker in 1857; elected
Speaker of the Thirty-seventh Congress July 4,
1861; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tions of 1864, 1884, and 1892; chairman of the
Pennsylvania State Republican committee in 1868;
president of the International and Great Northern
Railroad Company of Texas 1871-1876; declined
the mission to Russia tendered by President Hayes
in the fall of 1879; at a special election to fill a
vacancy in the Fifty-third Congress elected Con-
gressman at arge for the State February 20, 1894;
reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress in Novem-
ber, 1894; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress in
November, 1896, by a plurality of 297,446, being
the largest plurality ever given in any State of the
Union to any candidate for any oflBce; reelected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress in November, 1898; re-
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress in November,
1900, as a Republican; declined a renomination.
Grundy, Felix, was born in Berkeley County,
Va., September 11, 1777; when 2 years old
moved to Brownsville, Pa. ; thence in 1780 to Ken-
tucky; received an academic education; studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; mem-
ber of the Kentucky constitutional convention in
1799; member of the State legislature 1800-1805;
chosen judge of the supreme court of Kentucky in
1806; soon afterwards made chief justice; moved to
Nashville, Tenn, in 1807; elected a Representative
from Tennessee as a War Democrat to the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Congresses; resigned in 1814; mem-
ber of the Tennessee house of representatives
1815-1819; elected a United States Senator from
Tennessee (vice John H. Eaton, resigned), serv-
ing from December 7, 1829, to July 4, 1838, when
he resigned; appointed Attorney-General of the
United States July 5, 1838, resigning December 1,
1840, to become tJnited States Senator; having
doubts as to his eligibility, returned to Tennessee
to become an "inhabitant" of the State, and was
again elected December 14, 1840, but died at
Nashville, Tenn., December 19, 1840.
G-uenther, Bichard, of Oshkosh, Wis., was
born at Potsdam, Prussia, November 30, 1845;
received a collegiate education; studied pharmacy
in the Royal Pharmacy at Pottsdam; emigrated to
the United States in July, 1866; moved to Oshkosh
in 1867; elected State treasurer of Wisconsin m
1876 and reelected in 1878; elected to the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Republican; appointed consul-
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general to Mexico by President Harrison and re-
tired from that position at the end of that Admin-
istration; appointed consul-general at Frankfort-
on-the-Main by President McKinley.
Gunckel, Lewis B. , was born at German town,
Ohio, October 15, 1826; graduated from Farmer's
College in 1848, and in 1851 from the law school of
Cincinnati College; began practice at Dayton, Ohio,
the same year; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention in 1856; State senator 1862-1865;
Presidential elector in 1864; appointed by Congress
a manager of the National Military Soldiers' Home
for Disabled Volunteers in 1864; reappointed in
1870 for six years; appointed United States com-
missioner to investigate Indian frauds in 1871;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican; defeated for the
Forty-fourth Congress.
Gunn, James, was born in Virginia in 1739;
received an academic education; studied law and
began practice at Savannah, Ga. ; elected a United
States Senator from Georgia, and reelected, serving
from 1789 to March 3, 1801; died at Louisville,
Ky., July 30, 1801.
Gunn, James, of Boise, Idaho, was born in the
State of New York March 6, 1843; emigrated with
his parents when he was but a few years old to
Wisconsin, settling in the western part of that
State; received a common school and academic
education; volunteered as a private in Company
G, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, with
which regiment he served until the close of the
civil war, being mustered out with the rank of
captain; in the early summer of 1866 went to Col-
orado, where he resided nine years, making his
home in the counties of Gilpin and Clear Creek;
mayor of Georgetown three years; moved to the
Pacific slope in 1875, living temporarily in Nevada
and California; mining excitement broke out in
Idaho in 1880 and 1881, and he joined the rush of
prospectors to that State, making the town of
Hailey, in Wood River Valley, bis home; elected
to the senate of the first State legislature in 1890;
nominated by the Populists for Congress in 1892,
and again in 1894, and, though defeated each time,
received a third nomination from the People's-
Democratic-Fusion in 1896, and elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress aa a Populist.
Gunter, Thomas M. , of Fayetteville, Ark.,
was born in middle Tennessee September 18, 1826;
received a classical education, graduating from
Irving College in 1850; studied law, admitted to
the bar, and commenced to practice at Fayette-
ville in 1853; delegate from Washington County
in the Arkansas State convention in May, 1861;
served in the Confederate army as colonel of the
Thirteenth Arkansas Volunteers; elected prose-
cuting attorney for the fourth judicial circuit in
1866, and held the ofl3ce until his official position
was terminated by the reconstruction of the State
in 1868; contested the seat of W. W. Wilshire in
the Forty-third Congress, and the House declared
that he was entitled to it June 16, 1874; reelected
to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses.
Gurley, Henry H., was born at Lebanon,
Conn., in 1787; pursuing classical studies, gradu-
ated from Williamstown College; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practice at Baton Rouge,
La.; United States district judge for Louisiana;
elected a Representative from that' State to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; died at Baton Rouge, La. , in 1832.
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Grurley, John A. , was born at East Hartford,
Conn., December9, 1813; received an academic edu-
cation; studied theology; pastor of the Universal-
ist Church at Methuen, Mass., 1834-1837; moved
to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became editor of the Star
in the West; retired from the ministry in 1850; de-
feated as the Eepublican candidate for the Thirty-
fifth Congress, but elected to the Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses; appointed governor of
Arizona by President Lincoln, but died at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, August 19, 1863, while en route there.
Gustine, Amos, lived at Mifilintown, Pa.;
elected a Bepresentative from that State to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat (vice Wil-
liam S. Ramsey, deceased), serving from May 31,
1841, to March 3, 1848.
Guthrie, James, was born in Nelson County>
Ky., Decembers, 1792; educated at McAllister's
Academy, Bardstown, Ky.; entered the Missis-
sippi trade; also studied and practiced law at
Bardstown, Ky. ; appointed Commonwealth at-
torney in 1820 and moved to Louisville; member
of the State legislature for several years, serving
in both branches; delegate and chosen president
of the Kentucky constitutional convention; presi-
dent of the University of Louisville, the Louisville
and Portland Canal Company, and the Louisville
and Nashville Eailroad Company; appointed Sec-
retary of the Treasury in 1853; elected United
States Senator from Kentucky as a Democrat, serv-
ing from March 4, 1865, to February 7, 1868, when
he resigned on account of illness; died at Louis-
ville, Ky., March 13, 1869.
Guyon, James, jr., was born in Eichmond
County, N. Y., in 1777; received an academic edu-
cation; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1812-1814; successfully contested the election
of Ebenezer Sage as a Representative from New
York in the Sixteenth Congress, serving from Jan-
uary 14, 1820, to March 3, 1821; died in Eichmond
County, N. Y., March 8, 1846.
Gwin, ■William M., was born in Sumner
County, Tenn,, October 9, 1805; received a classical
education, graduating from Transylvania Univer-
sity, Lexington, Ky. ; studied and practiced medi-
cine; moved to Mississippi, and in October, 1833,
appointed United States marshal for that State;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; superin-
tendent for building the custom-house at New
Orleans; moved to California in 1848; member of
the constitutional convention in 1849; elected
United States Senator from California as a Demo-
crat, serving from September 10, 1850, to March 3,
1855; reelected United States Senator, serving from
February 16, 1857, to March 3, 1861; connected
with the Southern Confederacy and with the Mexi-
can Imperial Governmentof Maximilian; returned
to California, and engaged in agricultural pursuits;
died at New York City, September 3, 1885.
Gwinnett, Button, was born inEnglandin 1732;
received an academic education; came to Charles-
ton, S. C, in 1770; engaged in commercial pur-
suits; moved to St. Catherines Island, Georgia, and
engaged in planting; prominent in ante-Revolu-
tionary movements; delegate from Georgia to the
Continental Congress 1775-76; signer of the Dec-
laration of Independence; member of the State
constitutional convention in February, 1777; de-
feated for the governorship of Georgia; died in
Georgia, May 27, 1777.
Habersham, John, was born at Savannah, Ga. ,
in 1754; received a limited education; became a
merchant; served in the Revolutionary war as
major of the First Georgia Continental Eeg^iment;
member of the Continental Congress, from Georgia
1785-86; collector of customs at Savannah 1789-
1799; died near Savannah, November 19, 1799.
Habersham, Richard "W. , was born at Savan-
nah, Ga., in 1786; received a liberal education;
graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied
law and admitted to the bar; elected a Eepresent-
ative from Georgia to the Twenty-sixth Congress
as a State Eights Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress;- died at Clarksville, Ga.,
December 2, 1842.
Hackett, Thomas C, was a native of Georgia;
received a common school education; elected a
Eepresentative from Georgia to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat; died at Marietta, Ga.,
October 8, 1851.
Hackley, Aaron, jr. , was born at New Haven,
Conn.; received a public school education; moved
to Herkimer, N. Y.; member of the New York
State house of representatives 1814, 1815, and 1818;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Sixteenth Congress.
Hadley, WilUam F. L., of Edwardsville, 111.,
was born nearCollinsville, 111., Jimel5, 1847; reared
on a farm and received his education in the com-
mon schools and at McKendree College, Lebanon,
from which he graduated in June, 1867; entered
the law department of the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor in the fall of 1870, from which he
graduated in 1871; elected as a Eepublican to the
State senate in 1886; one of the four delegates at
large from Illinois to the Eepublican national con-
vention at Chicago in 1888, which nominated
Benjamin Harrison; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Eepublican to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hon. Frederick Eemann.
Hagans, John Marshall, was born at Bran-
donville, Va., August 13, 1838; received a public
school education; studied law and admitted to the
bar in 1859; elected prosecuting attorney for Mon-
ongalia County, W. Va. , in 1862; reelected in 1863,
1864, and 1870; law reporter for the supreme court
of appeals of West Virginia from January, 1864, to
March 4, 1873; elected mayor of Morgantown in
1866, 1867, and 1869; Presidential elector on the
Eepublican ticket for the Second Congressional dis-
trict in 1868; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1871; elected a Eepresentative from
West Virginia to the Forty-third Congress, serving
from January 27, 1874, to March 3, 1875, when his
seat was successfully contested by B. F. Martin.
Hager, A. L., of Greenfield, Adair County,
Iowa, was born near Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N. Y., October 29, 1850; in the spring of
1859 his family moved to Iowa and settled near
Cottonville, Jackson County; moved to Jones
County in 1863 and engaged in farming near
Langworthy; received his education in the com-
mon schools and high schools of Monticello and
Anamosa; entered the law school at Iowa City in
the fall of 1874 and graduated therefrom in June,
1875; elected to the State senate in the fall of
1891; chairman of the Iowa Eepublican State con-
vention of 1892; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses; after leaving
Congress resumed the practice of law.
Hager, John S. , was born in Morris County
N. J., March 12, 1818; graduated from Princeton,
College in 1836; studied law and in 1840 admitted
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to the bar; emigrated to California in 1849 and
served in the State legislature in 1852; elected
State district jiidge for the district of San Fran-
cisco in 1855 and served six years; elected to the
State senate in 1865 and 1867; elected a regent of
the State University in 1871; elected a United
States Senator from CaUfornia as an Anti-Monopoly
Democrat (to fill the unexpired term of Eugene
Casserly, resigned), serving from February 9, 1874,
to March 3, 1875. o' - -
Hahn, John, was a native of Pennsylvania;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Fourteenth Congress.
HaJin, Michael, of New Orleans, La., was born
in Bavaria, November 24, 1830; when an infant, his
widowed mother emigrated to the United States,
landing at New York, and afterwards removing to
New Orleans; attended the public schools, also
attended the lectures in the law department of
the University of Louisiana, graduating April
7, 1851; an anti-Buchanan Democrat in politics
and an advocate of Stephen A. Douglas, making
Union speeches and opposing secession; refused
to take an oath of office requiring fidelity to the
Confederate States, and active in the reconstruc-
tion of the State on the arrival of the Union forces;
elected to Congress in ] 862, but not admitted to
his seat until the 7th of February, 1863; after the
expiration of his Congressional term, appointed
prize commissioner of New Orleans; elected the
first governor of Louisiana as a free State and
inaugurated March 4, 1864, receiving from Presi-
dent Lincoln, on the 15th of the same month, the
additional powers of military governor; having
been elected United States Senator in January,
1865, resigned the office of governor, but did not
press his claim to a seat in the Senate; elected to
the State legislature in 1872, 1874, and 1876; ap-
pointed State register of voters on the 15th of
August, 1876, and unanimously elected a police
juror for his parish on the 5th of November, 1878;
superintendent of the United States mint at New
Orleans in 1878, and remained at his post during
the epidemic of that year; elected judge of the
district composed of the parishes of Jefferson,
St. Charles, and St. John in November, 1879,
and reelected unanimously in 1884, serving until
he resigned, March 3, 1885, having been elected to
the Forty-ninth Congress as a EepubUcan; died
March 15, 1886, at Washington, D. C.
Haight, Charles, was born at Colts Neck, N. J. ,
January 4, 1838; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege iA 1857; studied law and admitted to the bar;
member of the New Jersey State legislature in
1861 and 1862, serving the last year as speaker of
the house; commissioned brigadier-general of
militia in 1861; throughout the civil war very
actively engaged in raising, equipping, and send-
ing troops forward to the seat of war; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
first Congress; prosecutor for Monmouth County,
1879 until August 1, 1891, when he died, at Free-
hold, N. J.
Haight, Edward, was born at New York,
March 26, 1817; received a limited education;
merchant; president of a banking institution;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Halle, William, was born in 1797; moved to
Mississippi and located at Woodville; elected a
Eepresentative from Mississippi to the Nineteenth
Congress (in place of Christopher Eankin, de-
ceased); reelected to the Twentieth Congress;
died at Woodville, Miss., March 7, 1837.
Hailey, John, of Boise City, Idaho, was bom
in Smith County, Tenn., August 29, 1835; received
a common school education; moved with his par-
ents to Dade County, Mo., in 1848; crossed the
Plains to Oregon in 1853; went in 1862 to what is
now Idaho; engaged in staging, farming, stock-
raising, butchering, and mining; elected to the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat; elected to the
legislative council of Idaho in 1880 and was its
president; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as
a Democrat; appointed warden of Idaho peniten-
tiary.
Hainer, Eugene J., of Aurora, Hamilton
County, Nebr., was born August 16, 1851, at Fuuf-
kirchen, Hungary; emigrated to the United States
with his parents in 1854; spent his early boyhood
on his father's farm; at the age of 15 left home,
working as farm hand near Garden Grove, Iowa,
until 1873; received his education at Garden
Grove Seminary and Iowa Agricultural College,
teaching school during vacations to meet expenses;
graduated from the law department, Simpson Cen-
tenary College, Indianola, Iowa, in 1876; moved
to Aurora, Nebr., in 1877, and engaged in the
practice of law; became interested in banking and
m a line of creameries in southern Nebraska;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican ;
reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Haines, Charles D., of Kinderhook, N. Y., was
born at Medusa, Albany County, N. Y., June 9,
1856; moved with his parents to Coxsackie when
6 years of age; attended the common school till 14
years of age; studied telegraphy; at the age of 18
appointed train dispatcher on an Eastern road; at
the age of 20 assistant superintendent and at 22
made superintendent of the road; at 26 he turned
his attention to building street railways and asso-
ciated with him his four brothers, under the firm
name of Haines Brothers, who built twenty-seven
street railways in thirteen States; located in Kin-
derhook in 1888 and built the Kinderhook and
Hudson Railway; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Haldeman, Richard J., was born at Harris-
burg, Pa. , May 19, 1831 ; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1851; attach^ of the legation at Paris in
1853 and later occupied a similar position at
St. Petersburg; returned to Harrisburg and pur-
chased the Daily and Weekly Patriot and Union
and was its editor until 1860; delegate to the Balti-
more and Charleston conventions in 1860; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
first and Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
Hale, Artemas, was born at Winchendon,
Mass. ,- October 20, 1783; received a limited educa-
tion and worked on a farm; taught school at
Hingham, 1804-1814; became interested in man-
ufacturing at Briderewater; served several terms in
both branches of the legislature; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1853; elected a
Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-
ninth Congress (in place of I. C. Bates, deceased)
as a Whig; reelected to the Thirtieth Congress;
Presidential elector on the Lincoln and Johnson
ticket in 1864.
Hale, Eugene, of Ellsworth, Me., was born at
Turner, Oxford County, Me., June 9, 1836; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law, admit-
ted to the bar in 1857, and commenced practice;
fornine successive years county attorney for Han-
cock County; a' member of the legislature of Maine
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in 1867, 1868, and 1880; elected to the Forty-first,
Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; ap-
pointed Postmaster-General by President Grant in
1874, but declined; reelected to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses; tendered a Cabinet
appointment by President Hayes, and declined;
chairman of the Republican Congressional com-
mittee for the Forty-fifth Congress; received the
degree of LL. D. from Bates College; delegate to
the Cincinnati convention in 1876 and the Chicago
conventions in 1868 and 1880; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican to succeed Hannibal
Hamlin, Republican (who declined a reelection),
and took his seat March 4, 1881; reelected in 1887,
1893, and 1899.
Hale, James T. , was born in Bradford County,
Pa., October, 1810; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1832 admitted to the bar; com-
menced practicing at Bellefonte, Pa.; appointed
president-judge of the twentieth judicial district;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-sixth. Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty -eighth Con-
gresses; died at Bellefonte, Pa., April 7, 1865.
Hale, Joliu Blackwell, of Carrollton, Mo., was
born in Brooks (now Hancock) County, W. Va.,
February 27, 1831; educated at a common country
school; studied law, admitted to the bar, and
practiced at Carrollton; member of the Missouri
legislature, 1856-1858; Douglas elector in Missouri
in 1860; colonel of the Sixty-fifth Regiment Mis-
souri Militia and of the Fourth Provisional Regi-
ment of Missouri Militia in the United States
service during the civil war; delegate to the Dem-
ocratic national conventions in 1864 and 1868; a
Democratic elector on the Greeley ticket in Mis-
souri in 1872; member of the Missouri constitu-
tional convention of 1875; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Hale, Jolin Parker, was born at Rochester,
N. H., March 31, 1806; received a liberal educa-
tion, and in 1827 graduated from Bowdoin College;
studied law, and in 1830 admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Dover, N. H.; member of
the State house of representatives in 1832; appointed
United States attorney for the district of New
Hampshire in 1834 , and for party reasons removed
by President Tyler in 1840; elected a Representa-
tive from New Hampshire to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; renominated for the
Twenty-ninth Congress by the Democrats, but his
views against the annexation of Texas, on anti-
slavery grounds, caused the Democrats to call
another convention and nominate another man;
ran as an independent, receiving 3,137 votes,
against 5,388 votes for Woodbury, Democrat, and
4,357 votes for Good.win, Whig (there being no
choice) ; again elected to the legislature in 1846,
and chosen speaker; elected United States Senator
as an antislavery man, serving from 1847 to 1853;
Free Soil candidate for the Presidency in 1852;
defeated for reelection to the Senate by a Demo-
crat, but again elected in 1855 for a short term,
and reelected, serving until March 3, 1865;
appointed minister to Spain, serving from March,
1865, to July, 1869; returned to Dover, having
very poor health until his death, November 19
1873.
Hale, Robert S., was born at Chelsea, Vt.,
September 24, 1822; graduated from the Univer-
sity of Vermont in 1842; studied law, and admit-
ted to the bar; began practice at Elizabeth town,
N. Y.; judge of Essex County, N. Y., 1856-1864;
appointed a regent of the University of New
York in 1859; Presidential elector from the
Twenty-first district of New York in 1860; special
counsel of the United States, charged with the
defense of the abandoned and captured property
claims, 1868-1870; agent and counsel for the
United States before the American and British
mixed commission under the treaty of Washing-
ton 1871-1873; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-ninth Congress (vice Orlando
Kellogg, deceased); elected to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; died at Elizabethtown,
N. Y., December 14, 1881.
Hale, Salma, wasbornat Alstead, N. H., March
7, 1787; became a printer, and in 1805 edited the
Walpole Political Observatory; studied law with
Hon. Roger Nose; appointed clerk of the Chesh-
ire County court of common pleas; moved to
Keene in 1813; elected to the Fifteenth Congress
as a Democrat; declined a reelection; clerk of
the supreme court of New Hampshire, May, 1817,
to May, 1834; admitted to the bar in October,
1834; secretary to the boundary commission ap-
pointed under the treaty of Ghent; served sev-
eral terms as a member of the State legislature;
died at Somerville, Mass., November 19, 1866; pub-
lished Annals of Keene, a History of the United
States for Schools, and other works.
Hale, William, was a native of Dover, N. H. ;
received a good English education; held several
local offices; elected a Representatiye from New
Hampshire to the Eleventh Congress as a Feder-
alist; elected to the Thirteenth Congress on the
peace ticket; reelected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress; died at Dover, N. H., November 8, 1840.
Haley, Elislia, was a native of Mystic, Conn. ;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Connecticut to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Hall, Augustus, was born at Batavia, N. Y.,
April 29, 1814; received an academic education;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1836; com-
menced practice at Marysville, Ohio, in 1837;
county attorney 1840-1842; moved to Keosauqua,
Iowa, in 1844; Presidential elector on the Pierce
and King ticket in 1852; elected a Representative
from Iowa to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat; appointed by President Buchanan
chief justice of Nebraska; died near Bellevue,
Nebr., February 1, 1861.
Hall, Benton J., of Burlington, Iowa, was bom
at Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, January
13, 1835, but a resident of Iowa from December,
1839; educated at Knox College, Illinois, and at
Miami University, Ohio, from which latter insti-
tution he graduated in June, 1855; studied law and
practiced; member of the lower house of the gen-
eral assembly of the State of Iowa for the term of
1872-73; senator in the general assembly of Iowa
for four years, commencing in January, 1882;
elected to the Forty -ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Hall, Boiling, was born in Georgia in 1789;
pursued classical studies; held several local oflSces;
member of the State legislature for several years;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses
as a War Democrat; retired to private life, moving
to Alabama and engaging in planting near Mont-
gomery; died March 25, 1836.
Hall, Chapin, was born at Ellicott, Chautauqua
County, N. Y., July 12, 1816; attended the public
schools; moved to Warren, Pa., and engaged in
lumbering and mercantile pursuits; elected a Rep-
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resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Republican.
Hall, Darwin S., of Stewart, Minn., was born
in Kenosha County, Wis., in 1844; attended the
common schools and the academy at Elgin, 111.,
and Markham's (Milwaukee) Academy; farmer;
settled in Minnesota in 1866; elected county au-
ditor of Renville County in 1869 and 1871; clerk
of district court 1873 and 1877; elected to the legis-
lature in 1876; appointed register of the United
States land office at Benson in 1878 and 1882;
elected to the State senate in 1886 for a term of
four years; chairman of the railroad and other
important committees; served in Company K,
Forty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, as a
private during the war; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Republican.
Hall, George, was a native of New Haven,
Conn. ; attended the public schools; moved to
Onondaga, N. Y. ; member of the State house of
representatives in 1816; elected a Representative
from New York to the Sixteenth Cougxess. j,- -_
Hall, Hiland, was born at Bennington, Vt.A
July 20, 1795; attended the public schools; studied*,
law, and admitted to the bar in 1819; commenced
practice at Bennington; member of the State house
of representatives in 1827; State attorney 1828- .
1831; elected a Representative from "Vermont to!
the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses as a Whig; State bank commissioner
•1843-1846; judge of the State supreme court 1846-
1850; Second Comptroller of the Treasury, Novem-
ber 27, 1850, to September 10, 1851; United States
land commissioner for California 1851-1854; re-
turned to his native farm in Vermont; governor
of Vermont 1859; delegate to the peace congress
of 1861; author of a History of Vermont; died at
Springfield, Mass., December 18, 1885.
Hall, James Knox Polk, of Ridgway, Elk
County, Pa., was bom September 30, 1844, at
Mileslsurg, Center County, Pa., and educated at
Pittsburg, Pa. ; admitted to the bar November 8,
1866; elected district attorney of Elk County in
1867; reelected in 1870 and in 1873; retired from
practice in 1883, and devoted himself to his coal,
lumber, railroad, and banking interests; elected
to the 'Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress; resigned
November 29, 1902, having been elected a State
senator in Pennsylvania.
Hall, Joseph, was born in Essex County, Mass.,
June 26, 1793; received an academic education at
Andover; moved to Camden, .Me.; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; sheriff, and held other local
offices; postmaster at Camden for four years;
elected a Representative from Maine to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat; navy agent at Boston 1849-1853; clerk
in the Boston custom-house; died in 1857.
Hall, Joshua G., of Dover, N. H., was born
at Wakefield, N. H., November 5, 1828; graduated
from Dartmouth College in July, 1851; studied
law, admitted to the bar in 1855, and practiced at
Wakefield and Dover; solicitor of the county of
Strafford from June, 1862, to June, 1874; mayor
of the city of Dover in 1866 and 1867; member of
the New Hampshire senate 1871 and 1872; mem-
ber of the New Hampshire house of representa-
tives in 1874; attorney of the United States for the
district of New Hampshire from April, 1874, to
February, 1879; elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress; died October 31, 1898.
Hall, Lawrence W. , was born in Lake County,
Ohio, in 1819; received a classical education; grad-
uated from Hudson College in 1839; studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1843; commenced prac-
tice at Bucyrus; judge of the common pleas 1851-
1856; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; imprisoned
for alleged disloyalty in 1862; died at Bucyrus,
Ohio, January 26, 1863, shortly after his release.
Hall, Lyman, was born in Connecticut in 1725;
received a classical education; graduated from
Yale College in 1747; studied medicine and began
practice at Sunbury, Ga. ; active in pre-Revolu-
tionary movements, and member of the conven-
tions in 1774 and 1775; Delegate to the Continental
Congressin March 1775-1780; returned home when
the British invaded the State; lost his property by
British confiscation; governor of Georgia in 1783;
died in Burke County, Ga., October 19, 1790.
Hall, Nathan K. , was born at Marcellus, N. Y. ,
March 10, 1810; received an academic education;
studied law at Buffalo with Millard Fillmore; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1832; commenced practice
under the firm name of Fillmore, Hall & Haven;
member of the State house of representatives in
1846; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; appointed Post-
master-General, serving from July 23, 1850, to
August 31, 1852; appointed United States district
judge for the western district of New York, hold-
ing the position until he died, at Buffalo, N. Y.,
March 2, 1874.
Hall, Norman, of Sharon, Pa., was born at the
Miincy Farms, Lycoming County, Pa., November
17, 1829; received a collegiate education, graduat-
ing from Dickinson College in 1847; engaged in the
iron business; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat.
Hall, Obed, was elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Twelfth Congress.
Hall, Osee Matson, of Red Wing, Minn., was
born in Conneaut, Ohio; graduated from Williams
College in the class of 1868; resided and practiced
law in Red Wing, Minn.; elected to the Fifty-sec-
ond Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the F^ifty-
third Congress.
Hall, Kobert B., was born at Boston, Mass.,
January 28, 1812; received a liberal education;
studied theology and ordained; one of the twelve
original members of Garrison's Anti-Slavery So-
ciety in 1832; moved to Plymouth, Mass.; State
senator in 1855; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American ; reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-
fifth Congress; delegate to the Union convention
at Philadelphia in 1866; died at Plymouth, Mass.,
April 15, 1868.
Hall, Thomas H., was born at Edgecombe
County, N. C, in 1733; received a classical educa-
tion; studied medicine and practiced at Tarboro;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses as a Democrat; defeated
for the Nineteenth Congress; St^te senator in 1836;
died at Tarboro, N. C, June 30, 1853.
Hall, TTriel Sebree, of Hubbard, Mo., was
born on a farm in Randolph County, Mo., April
12, 1852; received common school education and
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sent to Mount Pleasant College, at Huntsville, Mo. ,
where he graduated atthe'age of 20; taught school
three years; studied law and admitted to the bar;
followed that profession for eight years; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Hall, "Willard, was bom at Westford, Mass.,
December 24, 1780; received a classical education;,
graduated from Harvard College in 1799; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1803; commenced
practice at Wilmington, Del.; secretary of the State
of Delaware 1811-1814; elected a Eepresentative
from Delaware to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Congresses; againsecretary of State in 1821; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1822;
United States district judge for Delaware 1823-
1872, when he resigned; died at Wilmington, Del.,
May 11, 1875; published a revision of the State
laws of Delaware in 1829; died at Wilmington,
Del., May 10, 1875.
Hall, Willard P., was a native of "Virginia;
moved to St. Joseph, Mo. ; elected a Representa-
tive from that State to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-
second Congresses; lieutenant-governor of Mis-
souri in 1861-62, and acting governor.
Hall, William, was born in Virginia in 1774;
received an English education; moved to Green
Garden, Tenn. ; served in the Indian wars and
that of 1812; member of the State legislature for
several years, and speaker of the senate; became
governor (vice Samuel Houston, resigned) in 1820;
major-general of militia; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Twenty-second Congress as
a Democrat; died at Green Garden, Tenn., in
October, 1856.
Hall, ' William A. , was a native of Maine'
taken in childhood to Virginia and moved thence
to Missouri in 1841; Presidential elector in 1844;
appointed a judge of the circuit court in 1847; del-
egate to the Stateconstitutional convention of 1861;
J elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat (vice John
B. Clark, expelled); reelected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, serving from January 20, 1862, to March
3, 1865; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at Chicago in 1864.
Hallock, John, jr., was a native of Orange
County, N. Y. ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1816, 1817, 1820, and 1821; elected
a Representative from New York to the Nine-
teenth Congress as a Democrat.
Halloway, Ransom, was a native of Dutchess
County, N. Y. ; received a good education; elected
a Eepresentative from New York to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig; died at Mount Pleasant,
Md., April 6, 1851.
Hallowell, Edwin, of Willow Grove, Pa., was
born in Abington, Montgomery County, Pa., in
1844; educated in the public schools; brought up
on a farm, and always a farmer; elected member
of the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1876; reelected
in 1878; elected chairman of the Democratic
county committee of Montgomery County in 1886;
'delegate to the Democratic national convention in
1888; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Halsell, John E., of Bowling Green, Ky., was
born in Warren County, Ky., September 11, 1826;
educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tenn.; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
commenced the practice of law at Bowling Green
in 1856; elected county attorney for Warren
County and served four years; elected circuit
judge of the fourth judicial district of Kentucky
in 1870; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Halsey, George A. , was born at Springfield,
N. J., December 7, 1827; educated at Springfield
Academy; became a leather manufacturer in
Newark in 1844 and then engaged in the whole-
sale clothing business, again taking up the leather
business in 1866; a member of the State assembly
of New Jersey in 1861 and 1862; United States
assessor of internal revenue 1862-1866; elected a
Representative as a Republican to the Fortieth
and Fortv-second Congresses; declined a renomi-
nation in 1872; defeated for governor in 1874;
declined the offer of an appointment as Register
of the Treasury; connected with several financial
institutions; died at Newark, N. J., April 1, 1894.
Halsey, Jehiel H. , was a native of Lodi, N. Y. ;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from New York as a Jackson Democrat in the
Twenty-first Congress; was a State senator 1832-
1835.
Halsey, NicoU, was a native of Seneca County,
N. Y.; resided at Trumansburg; a member of the
State house of representatives in 1824; elected a
Representative from New York as a Democrat to
the Twenty-third Congress.
Halsey, Silas, was a native of New York; at-
tended the public schools; member of the State
house of representatives from Onondaga County,
1800-1804; elected a Representative from New
York to the Ninth Congress; State senator in 1809.
Halstead, William, was a native of New Jer-
sey; received a classical education; graduated
from Princeton College in 1812; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey as a Whig to the
Twenty-fifth Congress; received the certificate of
election to the Twenty-sixth Congress but was re-
fused admittance; elected to the Twenty-seventh
Congress; died at Trenton, N. J., March 4, 1878.
Halterman, Frederick, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
was born in Vegesack on the Weser, part of the
old Hause town of Bremen, Germany, October 22,
1831; received his education at the high school of
said place; emigrated to Philadelphia September,
1849; engaged in the grocery business, from which
he retired in 1891; elected a member of the select
council from the Twelfth Ward in 1880 f nr a term of
three years; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress
as a Republican.
Halvorson, Kittel, of North Fork, Stearns
County, Minn., was born December 15, 1846, in
Telemarken, Norway, Europe; emigrated to the
United States with his parents in the summer of
1848, and settled in Wisconsin; attended the pub-
lic school of the neighborhood; entered the mili-
tary service in 1863; enlisting in Company C, First
Regiment Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and served
until the close of the war; moved to Minnesota
in November, 1865, and settled on a homestead in
Stearns County; engaged in farming and stock
raising; a member of the lower house of the State
legislature in 1887; elected by the Farmers' Al-
liance and Prohibitionists to the Fifty-second
Congress.
Hambleton, Samuel, was born in Talbot
County, Md., in 1812; educated at the county
academy; studied law and admitted to the bar in
1833; commenced practice at Easton; member of
the State house of delegates in 1834, 1835, and
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1853; State senator 1844-1850; Presidential elector
in 1844; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal in 1853 and 1854; elected a Representative
to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-second Congress.
Hamer, Thomas L., was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; received an academic education; studied
law and admitted to the bar in 1821 ; commenced
practice at Georgetown, Ohio; for several years
served in the Ohio house of representatives, one
year was speaker; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; nominated
U. S. Grant, son of a constituent, to be a cadet at
West Point; volunteered as a private in the Mexi-
can war, receiving the next day the commission
of brigadier-general; died in the service at Monte-
rey, Mexico, December 2, 1846.
Hamill, Patrick, was born in Green Glades,
Allegany County, Md., April 28, 1817; educated
at private schools; appointed collector of taxes in
1841 and 1842; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1843 and 1844; appointed and
served for three years asjudge of the orphan's court
of Allegany County; reelected and served four
years; engaged in farming and mercantile pursuits;
elected chief judge of the orphan's court of Alle-
gany in 1867; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat;
died in 1895.
Hamilton, Alexander, was born in the island
of Nevis, British West Indies, January 11, 1757;
came to the .United States in 1772, where he re-
ceived a liberal education ; entered the Continental
Army in 1776 as captain of artillery; appointed
aid-de-camp March 1, 1777; elected to the Con-
tinental Congress 1772-1783; member of the New
York legislature 1787; member of the State con-
stitutional convention In 1787; studied law and
admitted to the bar; engaged in practice at New
York City; Secretary of the Treasury under Presi-
dent Washington 1789-1795; returned to New York
and resumed the practice of law ; mortally wounded
in a duel at Weehawken, on the Hudson, and died
at New York City the next day, July 12, 1804;
distinguished as a political writer. \J
Hamilton, Andrew H., received a liberal ©iu-
cation; studied law and -was admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Fort Wayne, Ind. ; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses; died in 1895.
Hamilton, Andrew J. , was born in Madison
County, Ala., January 28, 1815; received a hberal
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
clerk of the county court; moved to Texas in 1846
and resumed the practice of law at Lagrange;
Presidential elector on the Buchanan and Breck-
enridge ticket in 1856; elected a Representative
from Texas to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Re-
publican; appointed by President Lmcoln military
governor of Texas in 1862; appointed provisional
governor by President Johnson in 1865; delegate
to the loyalists' convention at Philadelphia in 1866;
died at Austin, Tex., April 10, 1875.
Hamilton, Charles M., was born in CUnton
County, Pa., November 1, 1840; received a liberal
education; studied law; served m the Union
Army, being wounded at Gaines' Mills, Antietam, '..
and Fredencksburg; detailed a judge advocate;,"l
began the practice of law in 1868; elected a Rep-
resentative from Florida to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican, but did not take his seat until
Julv 1, 1868; reelected to the Forty-first Congress.
Hamilton, Cornelius S., was born in Mus-
kingum County, Ohio, Januarys, 1821; received
a common school education; studied law and was
admitted to practice; engaged in farming and
banking in connection with the practice of his
profession; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1850; State senator in 1856; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican; called home to see a son
who had suddenly become insane, and killed by
him at Marysville, Ohio, December 21, 1867.
Hamilton, Edward La Rue, of Niles, Mich.,
was bom in Niles Township, Berrien County,
Mich., December 9, 1857; admitted to the bar in
1884; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Hamilton, James, was born at Charleston,
S. C, May 8, 1786; received a liberal education;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice at Charleston; served in the war of 1812 as
major; mayor of Charleston; served several terms in
theState house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Seventeenth
Congress (vice William Lowndes, resigned) as a
State Rights Free Trader; reelected to the Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses;
governor of South Carolina 1830-1832; moved to
Texas; drowned while on his way from New
Orleans to Galveston, November 15, 1857.
Ham.ilton, John, was born in Washington
County, Pa., in 1763; sheriff for several years;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Ninth Congress; died at his home in Washington
County, Pa., August 31, 1837.
Hamilton, John Taylor, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, was born October 16, 1843, on a farm near
Geneseo, Henry County, 111.; moved to Iowa in
1868; engaged in the wholesale farm-machinery
business; president of the Cedar Rapids Savings
Bank and a director in the Cedar Rapids Electric
Light and Power Company; mayor of Cedar
Rapids; member of the board of supervisors;
three times a member of the State legislature, and
speaker of the house; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat.
Hamilton, Morgan C. , was born near Hunts-
ville, Ala., February 25, 1809; received a limited
education; merchant; moved to the Republic of
Texas in 1837; clerk in the war department 1839-
1845; acted as secretary of war for three years;
appointed comptroller of the treasury of Texas in
1867; delegate to the constitutional convention in
1868; elected a United States Senator from Texas
as a Republican on the reconstruction of Texas
and took his seat March 31, 1870; reelected, and
served until March 30, 1877; died at San Diego,
Cal., November 21, 1893.
Hamilton, Robert, was born in Hamburg, Sus-
sex County, N. J., December 5, 1816; received a
liberal education; studied law and was admitted
to the bar; for fifteen years was prosecutor of pleas;
member of the legislature 1863 and 1864, serving
the last year as Speaker; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Forty-third and Forty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Hamilton, William T., was born in Washing-
ton County, Md., September 8, 1820; attended
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and received a
liberal education; studied law and was admit-
ted to the bar in 1843; member of the State as-
sembly in 1848; Cass Presidential elector in 1848;
574
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
elected a Eepresentative from Maryland to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Thirty-second and Thirty -third Congresses;
elected a United States Senator from Maryland
(vice W. P. Whyte, resigned), serving from March
4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; elected governor of
Maryland in 1879; died at Hagerstown, Md., Oc-
tober 26, 1888.
Hamlin, Edward S., received a liberal educa-
tion at Elyria, Ohio; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
eighth Congress (vice H. R. Brinkerh off, deceased),
serving from December 2, 1844, to March 3, 1845.
Hamlin, Hannibal, of Bangor, Me., was born
at Paris, Me., August 27, 1809; prepared for a col-
legiate education, but was obliged by the death
of his father to take charge of his home farm until
he was of age; in a printing office for a year as a
compositor; studied law, and admitted to the bar
in 1833, continuing in active practice until 1848;
member of the legislature of Maine in 1836, 1837,
1838, 1839, 1840, and 1847, presiding as speaker of
the house in 1837, 1839, and 1840; Representative
from Maine to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-
ninth Congresses; elected to the United States
Senate in 1848, for four years, to fill a vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of John Fairfield; reelected
for a full term in 1851, but resigned in 1857 to act
as governor for the State of Maine; reelected to
the Senate in 1857, and served until he resigned
in January, 1861; elected Vice-President of the
United States on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln,
and presided over the Senate from March 4, 1861,
to March 3, 1865; ex officio a regent of the Smith-
sonian Institution during that time; appointed
collector of the port of Boston in 1865, but re-
signed in 1866; again elected to the United States
Senate, and reelected in 1875; chosen a regent of
the Smithsonian Institution in 1870; died at Ban-
gor, Me., July 4, 1891.
Hammett, William H. , was a native of Vir-
ginia; received a classical education; studied the-
ology; chaplain of the University of Virginia and
the House of Representatives; moved to Prince-
ton, Miss. ; elected a Representative from Missis-
sippi to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Hammond, Edward, was a native of EUicotts
Mills, Md.; received a common school education;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress.
Hammond, Jabez D. , was born at New Bed-
ford, Mass., August 2, 1778; received a liberal
education; studied medicine; began the practice
of his profession at Reading, Vt., in 1799; studied
law, and after being admitted to the bar began
practicing at Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1805; elected
a Representative from New York to the Fourteenth
Congress as a Democrat; served in the State senate
1817-1821; moved to Albany where he resumed the
practice of law 1822-1839; returned to Cherry
Valley; elected judge of Otsego County, N. Y., in
1838; died at Cherry Valley, N. Y., August 18,
1855.
Hammond, James Henry, was born in New-
bury District, S. C, November 15, 1807; gradu-
ated from the South Carolina College in 1825;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1827; ap-
pointed a member of the governor's staff in 1833-
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig, serving
until February 16, 1836, when he resigned; gov-
ernor of South Carolina 1842-1844; elected a United
States Senator from South Carolina, serving from
December 7, 1857, to November 11, 1860; died at
Beaeh Island, S. C, November 13, 1864.
Hammond, Jolin, of Crown Point, N. Y., was
born at Crown Point, N. Y., August 27, 1827,
received an academic education; afterwards gradu
ated from the Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y.
pioneer in California in 1849 ; volunteered as private
in the war of 1861-1865; promoted to captain of
cavalry, and advanced through all the grades to
brigadier-general; a manufacturer of iron for
twenty-five years, president of the Crown Point
Iron Company; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress; died May 28, 1889.
Hammond, N. J., of A.tlanta, Ga., was born in
Elbert County, Ga., December 26, 1833; gradu-
ated from the University of Georgia at Athens in
1852; solicitor-general from 1861 to 1865; reporter
of the supreme court from 1867 to 1872; attorney-
general from 1872 to 1877; member of the consti-
tutional conventions of 1865 and 1877; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-
ninth Congresses; died in April, 1899.
Hammond, Robert H. , was a native of Penn-
sylvania; elected a Representative from that State
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Van Buren Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress.
Ham.mond, Sam.uel, was born in Richmond
County, Va., September 21, 1757; received a lib-
eral education; served in the Revolutionary Army;
after independence was established settled at Sa-
vannah; surveyor-general of Georgia; served in
the Creek war and commanded a corps of Georgia
volunteers; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Eighth Congress as a Democrat; civil and
military governor of upper Louisiana Territory
1805-1824; receiver of public moneys at St. Louis;
moved in 1824 to South Carolina; a member of the
State legislature; surveyor-general in 1825; secre-
tary of State of South Carolina 1831-1835; died
near Augusta, Ga., September 11, 1842.
Hammond, Thomas, of Hammond, Ind., was
born February 27, 1843, at Fitchburg, Mass. ; re-
ceived a common school education; engaged with
his father aa carpenter and contractor until 21
years of age; moved to Detroit, Mich. , and engaged
in the packing-house business with his brother
George, and twelve years later moved to Ham-
mond, Ind., to assist in the establishment of the
great dressed-beef industry for which his name
and town are noted; elected mayor of Hammond
in the spring of 1888, it being the first office he
ever held, and reelected twice; severed his con-
nection with the Hammond Beef Company in 1892
to organize the Commercial Bank, a State institu-
tion, of which he was i)resident; accepted the nom-
ination for Congress in the Tenth (Republican)
district under protest; entered into a vigorous
campaign, and was elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Hammons, David, was born in Oxford County,
Me., in 1807; attended the public schools; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1836; began practice
at Lovell, Me.; State senator 1840-41; efected a
Representative from Maine as a Democrat to the
Thirtieth Congress; resumed practice at Bethel
Me.
BIOGBAPHIES.
575
Hammons, Joseph, was a native of Farming-
ton, N. il.; attended the public schools; elected a
Eepresentative from New Hampshire to the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses; ap-
pointed postmaster at Dover in June, 1833.
Hampton, James G. , was a native of New Jer-
sey; received a classical education, and graduated
from Princeton College in 1835; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersev as a Whig to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Thirtieth
Congress.
Hampton, Moses, was born in Beaver County,
Pa., October 28, 1803; moved to Trumbull County,
Ohio; pursued classical studies and graduated
from Washington College, Pennsylvania; studied
law at Uniontown; admitted to the bar in 1829;
began practice at Somerset, and moved in 1838 to
Pittsburg; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress; reelected
to the Thirty-first Congress; declined to be a can-
didate for reelection, and was elected president
judge of the Allegheny County district court in
1853.
Hampton, "Wade, was born in South Carolina
in 1754; receiving a good education, and devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits; active in pre-Revo-
lutionary movements; served under Marion and
Sumter; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Fourth and Eighth Congresses; a Pres-
idential elector on the Jefferson and Burr ticket in
1801; colonel in the V. S. Army in 1808; appointed
brigadier-general in February, 1808, and major-
general in March, 1813; served in the war of 1812
and resigned April 6, 1814; died at Columbia, S. C,
February 4, 1834.
Hampton, Wade, was born in Charleston, S.C,
March 28, 1818; graduated from the South Caro-
lina College; served in both branches of the State
legislature; member of senate when State seceded;
regigned and served in Confederate army during
the war; elected governor of the State in 1876, and
again in 1878, and elected a United States Senator
from South Carolina in December, 1878; took his
seat April 16, 1879; reelected in 1884, serving until
March 3, 1891; defeated in 1890; United States
railroad commissioner, 1893-1897; died April 11,
1902.
Hantoack, Lewis, of Osborne, Kans., was born
in Winchester, Scott County, 111., March 27, 1839;
received a common school education; enlisted in
the Union Army in the war of the rebellion, first
in the Tenth Illinois Infantry, and then in the
Twenty-seventh Ulnois Infantry, and promoted to
be second and first heutenant in Company K of
the last-named regiment; after the war moved to
Kansas; in 1868 elected probate judge of Shawnee
County, holding the position for four years; after-
wards was appointed assistant United States attor-
ney for the district of Kansas, and held the position
for more than two vears, when^ he was appointed
receiver of public moneys at Salina, Kans., which
position he held until he was elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as Congressman at large from
Kansas as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth Congress; died at Armourdale, Kans., Sep-
tember 9, 1897. >
Hanbury, Harry A., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Bristol, England, January 1, 1863; came
to this country with his parents at an early age;
educated in the public schools; entered mercantile
life soon after leaving school, and at the age of 21
established an iron works; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Republican.
Hanchett, Luther, was born in Portage County,
Ohio, October 25, 1825; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1846;
began practice at Fremont; moved to Portage
County, Wis., in 1849; engaged in lumber and
mining enterprises; for four years county attorney;
State senator 1856-1860; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Republican, serving until his death, at Madison,
Wis., November 24, 1862.
Hancock, Georgfe, was born in Virginia in
1755; pursued classical studies; served in the Revo-
lutionary war as colonel of infantry; elected a
Representative from Virginia as a Democrat to the
Third and Fburth Congresses; died at Fotherin-
gay, Va., August 1, 1820.
Hancock, John, was born at Quincy, Mass.,
January 12, 1737; pdrsuing classical studies, grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1754; trained to a
business career in his uncle's large counting-
room, whose large fortune and business he in-
herited; several years was one of the selectmen
of Boston; member of the provincial legisla-
ture 1766-1772; active in pre-Revolutionary move-
ments, and, with Samuel Adams, was exempted
from pardon in Governor Gage's proclamation
of June 12, 1775; Delegate from Massachusetts
to the Continental Congress 1775-1780 and 1785-86,
serving as President of the Continental Congress
May 27, 1775-October, 1777; served as senior
major-general of Massachusetts militia during the
Revolutionary war; member of the Massachusetts
constitutional convention of 1780; governor of
Massachusetts 1780-1785 and 1787, until his death
at Quincy, October 8, 1793.
Hancock, John, of Austin, Tex., was born of
Virginia parents, in Jackson County, Ala., Octo-
ber 29, 1824; educated partly in Alabama anid
partly in Tennessee; studied law at Winchester,
Tenn.; admitted to the bar in 1846; settled in
Texas in 1847, practicing his profession there until
August, 1851; elected to the district bench of the
State and served as judge until 1855, when he re-
signed and resumed practice and planting; mem-
ber of the State legislature in 1860 and 1861, when
he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the
Confederate States, and was expelled; elected a
member of the State constitutional convention of
1866; engaged in the practice of his profession,
planting, and stock raising; elected a Representa-
tive to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-
fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; after the expira-
tion of his term in Congress he resumed the prac-
tice of law at Austin, Tex., and died there July 19,
1893.
Hand, Augr^istus C, was born at Shoreham,
Vt., September 4, 1803; received an academic
education; studied law at Litchfield, Conn.; ad-
mitted to the bar and began practice at Elizabeth-
town, N. Y. ; surrogate of Essex County 1831-1839;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection; elected State senator in 1844 and
served several years; justice of the State supreme
court 1847-1855; in 1868 delegate to the national
Democratic convention; died at Elizabethtown,
N. Y., March 8, 1878.
Hand, Edward, was born at Clyduff, Kings
County, Ireland, December 31, 1744; Delegate from
Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress 1784-85;
died at Rockford, Pa., September 3, 1802.
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CONGKESSIOKAL BIEECTOET.
Handley, ■William A. , was born near Frank-
lin, Ga., December 15, 1834; moved to Alabama;
attended the public scliools; held several local
oflBces; moved to Roanoke, Ala.; served in the
civil war on the Confederate side; elected a Eep-
resentative from Alabama to the Forty-second
Congress aa a Democrat.
Handy, Iievin Irving, of Newark, Del., was
born December 24, 1861, at Berlin, Md. ; attended
public schools in Maryland and New York; super-
intendent of free schools in Kent County 1887-1890;
chairman of the Democratic State central commit-
tee 1892-1896; editorial writer on Wilmington
Every Evening 1894-95; elected to the Fifty -fifth
Congress as a Democrat.
Hanks, James M., was born at Helena, Ark.,
February 12, 1833; attended the public schools
and also the college at New Albany, Ind., and the
Jackson College at Columbia, Tenn. ; studied law,
and graduated from the University of Louisville
in 1855; commenced practice at Helena; judge of
the first judicial district of Arkansas 1864-1868;
elected a Representative from Arkansas to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Hanly, J. Frank, of Williamsport, Ind., was
born in Champaign County, 111., April 4, 1863; re-
ceived a common school education; moved to
Warren County, Ind., in 1879; taught in the pub-
lic schools of the State from 1881 to 1889; studied
law, and admitted to the bar April 6, 1889; elected
to the Indiana State senate in November, 1890;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Hanna, John, was born in Marion County,
Ind., September 3, 1827; pursued classical stud-
ies; graduated from the Indiana Asbury Univer-
sity in 1850; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practice at Greencastle, where he was mayor
in 1851-1854; moved to Kansas, and was a mem-
ber of its Territorial legislature in 1857-58; re-
turned to Indiana; Presidential elector on the Re-
publican ticket in 1860; Appointed United States
district attorney for Indiana in 1861, and reap-
pointed in 1865; removed by President Johnson;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Hanna, John A., was born in Pennsylvania;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses.
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, of Cleveland, was
born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, September 24, 1837; moved with
his father's family to Cleveland in 1852; educated
in the common schools of that city and at the West-
ern Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio; engaged as an
employee in the wholesale grocery house of Hanna,
Garretson & Co., his father being senior member
of the firm; his father died in 1862, and he repre-
sented that interest in the firm until 1867, when
the business was closed up; then became a member
of thefirm of Rhodes & Co., engaged in the iron and
coal business; at the expiration of ten years the
tiileof this firm was changed to M. A. Hanna & Co. ;
identified with the lake carrying business; presi-
dent of the Union National Bank of Cleveland;
president of the Cleveland City Railway Company;
director of the Union Pacific Railway Company in
1885, by appointment of President Cleveland; dele-
gate to the national Republican conventions in
1884, 1888, and 1896; elected chairman of the na-
tional Republican committee in 1896; appointed to
the United States Senate by Governor Bushnell
March 5, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the retire-
ment of Hon. John Sherman, who resigned to accept
the position of Secretary of State in President Mc-
Kinfey's Cabinet; took his seat jNIarch 5, 1897;
elected for the short term ending March 3, 1899, in
January, 1898, and also for the succeeding full term.
Hanna, Robert, was born in Laurens District,
S. C, April 6, 1786; settled in Brookville, Ind., in
1802; held several local offices; appointed United
States Senator from Indiana as a Whig (vice James
Noble, deceased), serving from Decembers, 1831,
to January 3, 1832; served as State senator; died
at Indianapolis, Ind., November 19, 1858.
Hannegan, Edward A., was a native of Ohio;
received a public school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practice at Cov-
ington, Ind.; for several years State representa-
tive; elected a Representative from Indiana as a
Democrat to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; elected United States Senator from
Indiana 1843-1849; minister to Prussia 1849-50;
moved to St. Louis, Mo. ; died there February 25,
1859.
Hansbrough, Henry Clay, of Devils Lake,
N. Dak., was born in Randolph County, 111.,
January 30, 1848; received a common school edu-
cation; learned the art of printing, and engaged
in journalism in California, Wisconsin, and Dakota
Territory, becoming a resident of the latter in 1881 ;
twice elected mayor of his cityj delegate to the
Republican national convention in 1888; national
committeeman for eight years; nominated for
Congress by the first Republican State conven-
tion in North Dakota and elected; elected to the
United States Senate January 23, 1891; took his
seat March 4, 1891; reelected in 1897 and in 1903.
Hanson, Alexander Contee, was born in
Maryland, February 27, 1786; received a liberal
education; Presidential elector on the Federalist
ticket in 1789 and 1793; edited the Federal Repub-
lican at Baltimore when in 1812 a mob, irritated
by his articles denouncing the Administration, de-
stroyed the office; he persisted in issuing his paper
the next day, and the house in which he printed
it was attacked, and after a fight he and his friends
were escorted to jail, where the mob again attacked
and nearly killed them ; moved the paper to George-
town, D. C., where he published it unmolested; re-
turned to Baltimore; elected a Representative from
Maryland as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Congresses, serving until January 2,
1817, when he took his seat as United States
Senator from Maryland (vice Robert G. Harper,
resigned), serving until his death, April 23, 1819,
at Belmont, Md.
Hanson, John, was born in Charles County,
Md., in 1715; received a good education; member
of the Maryland house of delegates for a number of
years; moved to Frederick County in 1773; active
m pre-Revolutionary matters; treasurer of Fred-
erick County in 1775; elected a Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress, serving
from February 22, 1781, until his death, November
22, 1783, at Oxen Hill, Prince George County, Md.,
serving one year as president.
Haralson, Hug'h Anderson, was born near
Pennfield, Ga., November 13, 1805; pursued clas-
sical studies and graduated from Franklin College
in 1825 ; studied law and admitted to the bar in 1825
by a special act of the legislature; commenced
practice at Monroe and afterwards moved to La-
grange, Ga.; State senator 1837-38; defeated as
the Democratic candidate to Congress in 1840;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
BIOGRAPHIES.
577
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Democrat; served in
themiUtiaas a major-general; died at Laeranee,
Ga., October 6, 1854.
Haralson, Jere, was born in Muscogee County,
Ga., April 1, 1846; a slave until emancipated in
1865; self-educated after obtaining his freedom;
moved to Alabama; elected a State representative
in 1870 and State senator in 1872; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; defeated for reelection to
the Forty-fifth Congress.
Hard, Gideon, resided at Albion, N. Y. ; was
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Whig; State senator 1842-1847.
Hardeman, Thomas, was born in Putnam
County, Ga., January 12, 1825; graduated from
Emory College in 1845; admitted to the bar in
1846, but never practiced, as he engaged in the
commission business; served in the State legisla-
ture in 1853, 1855, and 1857; elected a Representa-
tive to the Thirty-sixth Congress, of which he
was a member at the time of secession; captain
of the Floyd Rifles; major of the Second Georgia
Battalion and colonel of the Forty-fifth Georgia
Regiment; elected to the State legislature in 1863,
1864, and 1874, serving as speaker of the house of
representatives during these three sessions; mem-
ber of the national convention that nominated
Horace Greeley; president of the State convention
and chairman of the State executive committee
of the Democratic party for four years; elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress as Congressman at large
from the State of Georgia as a Democrat; died at
Macon, Ga., March 6, 1891.
Hardenbergh, Augustus A. , was born at New
Brunswick, N. J., May 18, 1830; entered Rutgers
College in 1844, but was only able to continue his
studies through the freshman year, as he was called
upon to act as amanuensis for his father, Cornelius
L. Hardenbergh, LL. D., who had been stricken
with blindness; entered a countingroom in New
York and took up his residence in Jersey City in
1846; elected to the house of assembly of the State
legislature in 1853; member of the board of educa-
tion in 1855 and 1856; alderman of Jersey City in
1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860, serving the latter year
as president of the board of aldermeil; reelected
a member of the board in 1862; moved to the
city of Bergen in 1863, and elected as councilman;
elected State director of railroads by the legisla-
ture in joint convention in 1868; moved to the
county of Bergen in 1868, and represented that
district in the Baltimore national Democratic con-
vention of 1872; moved back to Jersey City, in
Hudson County, in 1873; elected president of the
Northern Railroad of New Jersey in 1874, and de-
clined a reelection; elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress and reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress;
declined a reelection to the Forty-sixth Congress;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; died at Jersey City October 5, 1889.
Hardin, Benjamin, was born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., in 1784; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1806 and began practice at Elizabethtown,
but moved to Bardstown, Ky., in 1808; State rep-
resentative in 1810, 1811, 1824, and 1825; State
senatorin 1828-1832; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Whig; secretary of state of Kentucky
1844-1847; member of the State constitutional con-
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vention 1849; died at Bardstown, Ky., September
24, 1852.
Hardin, J'ohn J. (son of Martin D. Hardin), was
born at Frankfort, Ky., January 6, 1810; pursued
classical studies and graduated from the Transylva-
nia University; studied law and admitted to thebar;
began practice at Jacksonville, 111. ; member of the
State legislature 1836-1842; elected a Representa-
tive from Illinois to the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Whig; colonel of' Illinois volunteers in the
Mexican war and was killed at Buena Vista Feb-
ruary 27, 1847.
Hardin, IVIartinD. (father of John J. Hardin),
was born on the Monongahela River, western Penn-
sylvania, June 21, 1780; received an academic
education and studied law; admitted to the bar;
began practice in Franklin County, Ky.; for a
number of years a State representative; State sec-
retary of state; served as major in the war of 1812;
appointed and elected a United States Senator from
Kentucky as a Democrat (vice William T. Barry,
resigned), serving from November 13, 1816, to
March 3, 1817; died at Frankfort, Ky., October 8,
1823.
Harding, Aaron, was a native of Green County,
Ky.; attended the public schools; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1833; commenced practice
at Greensburg, Ky. ; State representative in 1840;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Unionist; reelected
to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses.
Harding, Abner C. , was born at East Hampton,
Conn., February 10, 1807; received an academic
education; studied law, and began practicing at
Monmouth, 111. ; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1848; State legislator 1848-1850;
enlisted as a private and became a brigadier-general
in the Union Army ; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fortieth Congress as a Union
Republican.
Harding, Benjamin F. , was born in Wyoming
County, Pa., January 4, 1823; attended the public
schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847;
commenced practice in Illinois in 1848; moved to
Oregon in 1849; clerk of the Territorial legislature
185fr-51 and its speaker in 1852; United States dis-
trict attorney for Oregon in 1853; secretary of the
Territory 1854-1859; member of the State house
of representatives 1859-1862, two years as speaker;
elected a United States Senator from that State as
a Republican (vice Edward D. Baker, deceased),
serving from 1862 until 1865; died in 1899.
Hardy, Alexander Merrill, of Washington,
Ind., wasbornatSimcoe, Norfolk County, Ontario,
Canada, December 16, 1847; received a collegiate
education and studied law; came to the United
States in 1864, taking a commercial course at East-
man College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; went to New
Orleans in 1869, where he engaged in newspaper
work until 1873, when he located in Natchez,
Miss., where he conducted a Republican newspa-
per until 1877; collector of the port of Natchez un-
der appointment of President Grant; a witness in
1877 before the United States Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections engaged in investigating
the" political outrages in Mississippi; after testify-
ing he resigned his position as collector of the port
of Natchez, and for a number of years was a clerk
in the Departments at Washington; assigned to
duty as clerk to the superintendent of construc-
tion of the Government building at Paducah, Ky.,
in 1881; located at Washington, Daviess County,
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Ind., in 1884; engaged in the practice of law;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; after expiration of his term in Congress, re-
turned to Washington, Ind., and resumed the
practice of law.
Hardy, John, of New York City, was born in
Scotland September 19, 1835; received a public
school and collegiate education, graduating from
theCoUege of theCity of New York in 1853; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1861, and practiced in
the city of New York; member of the assembly
of the State of New York in 1861; member of the
board of aldermen of the city of New York in 1863,
1864, 1867, 1868, and 1869; clerk of the common
council in 1870 and 1871, and chief clerk in the
office of the mayor in 1877 and 1878; elected to
the Forty-seventh Congress, to fill vacancy caused
by the death of Fernando Wood, as a Democrat;
reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Hardy, Sam.uel, was born in Isle of Wight
County, Va., about 1758; member of the Conti-
nental Congress 1783-1785; died at New York City
in October, 1785.
Hare, Darius D., of Upper Sandusky, Ohio,
was born near Adrian, • in Seneca County, Ohio,
January 9, 1848; reared on afarm; received acom-
mon school education; entered the military service
as a private in the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, in
March, 1864, and served during the remainder of
the war; after the war assigned to special duty
at the headquarters of Major-General Canby and
afterwards of Major-General Sheridan, at New
Orleans, remaining on duty with the latter until
discharged, February 17, 1866; attended the law
department of the University of Michigan; admit-
ted to the bar in September, 1867; elected mayor
of Upper Sandusky in 1872, 1874, 1878, 1880, and
1882, serving ten years; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress.
Hare, Silas, of Sherman, Tex., was born in
Boss County, Ohio, November 13, 1827; moved to
Hamilton County, Ind., when 13 years of age; re-
ceived a common and private school education;
served one year in the war with Mexico as a pri-
vate; studied law, and obtained license to practice
in Indiana in 1850; shortly afterwards moved to
Texas; chief justice of New Mexico in 1862, under
the Confederate Government; afterwards served
until the war closed as a captain; settled in Sher-
man in 1865; criminal district judge from 1873 to
1876; delegate to the Chicago Democratic conven-
tion in 1884; chosen Democratic elector for the
State at large in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-first
Congress; after leaving Congress he engaged in the
practice of his profession at Washington, D. C.
Haring', John, was born at Tappan, N. Y.,
September 28, 1739; Delegate to the Continental
Congress in 1774-75 and 1785-1787; died at Blau-
veltville, N. Y., April 1, 1809.
Harlan, Aaron, was born in Warren County,
Ohio, September 8, 1802; attended the public
schools; studied law; admitted to the bar and be-
gan practice in 1825; State representative in 1831,
and State senator in 1838-39 and 1849; Presidential
elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844; del-
egate to the State constitutional convention in
1850; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Whig.
Harlan, Andrew J., was born at Chester,
Ohio, March 29, 1815; attended the public schools;
studied law; admitted to the bar, but never prac-
ticed; clerk of the Indiana house of representatives
in 1842 and a member 1846-1848; elected a Repre-
sentative from that State to the Thirty-first and
Thirty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Harlan, James, was born in Mercer County,
Ky., June 22, 1800; attended the public schools;
merchant;, studied law, admitted to the bar in
1823, and began practice at Harrodsburg; circuit
prosecuting attorney 1829-1844; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Whig; secretary
of state 1840-1844; Presidential elector on the
Whig ticket in 1840; served again in the State leg-
islature in 1845; appointed attorney-general of
Kentucky in 1850, holding the office until his
death, at Frankfort February 18, 1863.
Harlan, James, was born in Clark County, 111.,
August 25, 1820; received a classical education,
graduating from the Indiana Asbury University
in 1845; studied law; removed to Iowa; superin-
tendent of public instruction in 1847; president of
the Iowa Wesleyan University; elected a United
States Senator from Iowa as a Whig in May, 1855;
the seat having been declared vacant on the ground
of an informality in his election, again elected for
the remainder of the term in 1857, and reelected
in 1860, serving until March, 1865, having been
appointed Secretary of the Interior; resigned this
position in 1866, having been elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican for the term begin-
ning in 1867, and served until March 3, 1873; del-
egate to the peace convention in 1861; delegate to
the Philadelphia Loyalist convention of 1866; pre-
siding judge of court of commissioners of Alabama
claims 1882-1885; editof of Washington Chronicle;
died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, October 5, 1899.
Harmanson, John H., was born at Norfolk,
Va., January, 1803; pursuing classical studies,
graduated from Jefferson College in Mississippi;
practiced law in Louisiana; farmer; State senator
in 1844; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirtv-first
Congresses as a Democrat, serving until his death,
at New Orleans, La., October 25, 1850.
Harmer, Alfred C. , yras born in Germantown
(now part of the city of Philadelphia), Pa., August
8, 1825; educated in public schools and at Ger-
mantown Academy; commenced business as a shoe
manufacturer at 20 years of age; became a whole-
sale dealer, and retired from business in 1860;
identified with railroad enterprises, shipping, and
wholesale coal business; elected a member of the
city council of Philadelphia in 1856, and served
four years; elected recorder of deeds for Philadel-
phia in 1860, and served three years; delegate to
the national Republican convention at Chicago in
1865; elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and
Fifty -sixth Congresses as a Republican ; died March
6, 1900.
tlarnett, Cornelius, was a native of North Car-
olina; Delegate from North Carolina to the Con-
tinental Congress 1777-1780; died at Wilmington,
N. C, April 20, 1781.
Harper, Alexander, was a native of Ireland;
emigrated to America and located at Zanesville,
Ohio; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig, and also to the
Twenty-eighth, Twentj'-ninth, and Thirty-second
Congresses.
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579
Harper, Francis J. , was born at Frankford,
Pa., in 1799; State representative in 1832 and a
State senator 1834-35; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat, but died before taking his seat at
Frankford, March 18, 1837.
Harper, James, was born in Ireland in 1779;
emigrated to America and located at Philadel-
phia, Pa.; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-third Congress as a Clay
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Whig; died at Philadelphia March 31,
1873.
Harper, James C, was born in Cumberland
County, Pa., December 6, 1819; moved to Darke
County, Ohio, in 1831, where he was raised on a
farm and received a common school education;
in 1840 moved to Caldwell County, N. C, where
he engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pur-
suits; held several local offices; elected to the
house of commons of the State in 1865 and 1866;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative.
Harper, Jolin A. , was a native of New Hamp-
shire; received an academic -education; studied
law; admitted to the bar; began practice at Mere-
dith, N. H.,; served in the State militia 1809-1812;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Twelfth Congress as a War Democrat; defeated
for reelection.
Harper, Joseph M., was born at Limerick,
Me., June 21, 1787; reared on a farm; attended
the public schools; studied medicine and began
practice at Canterbury, N. H., in 1811; served in
the war of 1812; State representative in 1826 and
1827; State senator 1829-1830, the last year as
president of the senate and ex officio governor
from February until June, 1831; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Canterbury, January 15, 1865.
Harper, Bobert Goodloe, was born near Fred-
ericksburg, Va., in 1765; received a classical
education; graduated from Princeton College in
1785; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1786
and began practicing at Charleston, S. C. ; elected
a Representative from South Carolina to the Third
Congress (vice Alexander Gillon, deceased) as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fourth, Fifth, and
Sixth Congresses; served in the war of 1812 as
colonel and attained the rank of major-general;
moved to Baltimore and practiced his profession;
elected a United States Senator from Maryland to
serve from January 29, 1816, to 1821, but resigned
in 1816; died at Baltimore, Md., January 15, 1825.
Harper, William, was born in the island of
Antigua January 17, 1790; emigrated to America
and located at Charleston, S. C. ; graduated from
the South Carolina College in 1808; studied law
and admitted to the bar; moved to Missouri in
1818; State chancellor in 1819; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1821; returned
to South Carolina in 1823; appointed United
States Senator from South Carolina (vice John
Gaillard, deceased) , serving from March 28, 1826,
to December 7, 1826; member of the State house
of representatives, and in 1828 its speaker;
appointed a judge of the court of appeals m 1831;
chancellor of the State in 1834, which position he
held at the time of his death, which, occurred
October 10, 1847.
Harries, William Henry, of Caledonia,
Minn., was born in Montgomery County, Ohio,
January 15, 1843; moved to La Crosse, Wis. ; enlisted
as a private in Company B, Second Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, April 18, 1861; rose through
all the grades of noncommissioned officers to
second and first lieutenant of his company; com-
missioned captain of Company F, Third United
States Veteran Volunteers, General Hancock's
corps, December 21, 1864; severely wounded
through the left lung in the battle of Antietam;
discharged from the Army April 17, 1866; gradu-
ated from the Ann Arbor Law School in 1868; lo-
cated in Houston County, Minn., and admitted to
the bar May 6, 1868; county attorney two terms;
member of the board of education and president
of board of trustees of Caledonia; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Harrington, Henry W. , was born in Otsego
County, N. Y., September 12, 1825; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and in 1849 admitted
to the bar; moved to Indiana in 1856; delegate to
the Democratic national convention at Charles-
ton in 1860; elected a Representative from Indi-
ana to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Harris, Benjamin G-winn, was born near
Leonardtown, Md., December 13, 1806; student
at Yale, and attended the Cambridge law school;
studied law, and admitted to the bar at Leonard-
town; served six terms^ in the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Thirty-ninth Congress; court-martialed at
Washington, D. C, in May, 1865, for harboring
two paroled Confederate soldiers, and sentenced
for three years, and forever disqualified from
holding any office under the United States Gov-
ernment; President Johnson remitted the sen-
tence; died in 1895.
Harris, Benjamin W. , of East Bridgewater,
Mass., was born there November 10, 1823; received
an academic education; studied law, graduating
from the Dane Law School, Cambridge, in 1849;
admitted to the bar at Boston in April, 1850; com-
menced practice at East Bridgewater in July, 1850;
member of the State senate from Plymouth County
in 1857 and a representative in the State legislature
from East Bridgewater in 1858; district attorney
for the southeastern district of Massachusetts from
July 1, 1858, until June 30, 1866; collector of inter-
nal revenue for the second district of Massachu-
setts from June 20, 1866, until March 1, 1873, when
he resigned; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses,
and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a
Republican; elected judge of probate for the
county of Plymouth in 1887.
Harris, Charles M. , was born at Munfordsville,
Ky., April 10, 1821; received a limited education;
studied law' and admitted to the bar; moved to
Illinois and located at Oquawka, where he began
practice; elected a Representative from Illinois to
the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Harris, George E. , was born in Orange County,
N. C, January 6, 1827; moved when quite young
to Tennessee, and thence to Mississippi; received
acommon school education; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1854; entered the Confederate army,
serving until the close of the war; elected a district
attorney in 1865; reelected in 1866; elected a Rep-
resentative from Mississippi to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-second
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Congress; elected attorney-general of the State of
Mississippi.
Harris, Henry B.. , of Greenville, Ga., was born
at Sparta, Ga., February 2, 1828; moved to Green-
ville, Meriwether County, Ga., in 1833; graduated
from Emory College in 1847; planter; member of
the Georgia convention of 1861; elected to the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-
ninth Congresses as a Democrat; after leaving Con-
gress resumed farming.
Harris, Henry S. , of Belvidere, N. J., was
born there December 27, 1850; graduated from
Princeton College in 1870; studied law at Belvi-
dere; licensed as an attorney in June, 1873, and
counselor at June term, 1876, and began successful
practice immediately; appointed prosecutor of the
pleas for Warren County in March, 1877; elected
to the Forty seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Harris, Ira, was born in Charleston, N. Y.,
May 31, 1802; graduated from Union College in
1824; studied law, and in 1827 admitted to the bar;
began practice at Albany; member of the State
house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; State
senator in 1846; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1846; justice of the supreme court
1847-1859; elected a United States Senator from
New York as a Republican, serving from July 4,
1861, to March 3, 1867; delegate at large to the
State constitutional convention in 1867; died at
Albany, N. Y., December 2, 1875.
Harris, Isham G. , was born near Tullahoma,
Tenn., February 10, 1818; educated at the
academy at Winchendon; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; commenced to practice at Paris,
Henry County, Tenn., in 1841; elected to the
State legislature as a Democrat from the counties
of Henry, Weakley, and Obion in 1847; candi-
date for Presidential elector in the Ninth Congres-
sional district of Tennessee on the Democratic
ticket in 1848; elected to Congress as a Democrat
from the Ninth Congressional district in 1849, re-
elected in 1851, and nominated as the candidate of
the Democratic party in 1853, but declined the
nomination; moved to Memphis, and there re-
sumed the practice of his profession; Presidential
elector for the State at large in 1856; elected gov-
ernor of Tennessee as a Democrat in 1857, reelected
in 1859, and again in 1861; volunteer aid upon the
staff of the commanding general of the Confederate
army of Tennessee for the last three years of the
civil war; returned to the practice of law at Mem-
phis in 1867, and engaged in it until elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
Henry Cooper, Democrat, and took his seat
March 5, 1877; reelected in 1883, 1889, and 1895;
died July 8, 1897.
Harris, J. Morrison, was born at Baltimore,
.Md., in 1821; graduated from Lafayette College,
Easton, Pa. ; studied law, and in 1843 admitted to
the bar; elected a Representative from Maryland
to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses; delegate to the National Union convention
at Philadelphia in 1846; defeated as the independ-
ent candidate for governor of Maryland in 1867.
Harris, John, was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Tenth Congress.
Harris, John S., was born at Truxton, N. Y.,
December 18, 1825; received a liberal education';
moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1846; moved to
Concordia Parish, La., in 1863 and became a
planter; elected to the constitutional convention
of that State in 1867 and to the State senate in
1868; elected United States Senator from Louisi-
ana as a Republican, serving from July 17, 1868,
to March 3, 1871.
Harris, John T., was born in Albemarle
County, Va., May 8, 1825; studied law and prac-
ticed; attorney for the Commonwealth 1852-1859;
Presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in
1856; member of the Thirty-sixth Congress of the
United States; member of the Confederate legisla-
ture 1863-1865; judge of the twelfth judicial circuit
of Virginia 1866-1869; elected to the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-
sixth Congresses as a Democrat; commissioner
from Virginia to the World's Fair at Chicago; died
October 14, 1899.
Harris, Mark, was born at Ipswich, Mass., in
1779; moved to Portland, Me., in 1800; held sev-
eral local offices; served in both branches of the
legislature; elected a Representative from Maine
to the Seventeenth Congress (vice E. Whitman,
resigned), serving from December 20, 1822, to
March 3, 1823; died at New York Citv March 2,
1843.
Harris, Kober);, was a native of Dauphin
County, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
Harris, Sampson W. , was born in Elbert
County, Ga., February 23, 1809; graduated from
the University of Georgia in 1828; studied law
and admitted to the bar; served in the State house
of representatives; moved to Wetumpka, Ala., in
1838; elected solicitor of theeighth circuit inl841;
State senator 1844 and 1845; elected a Representa-
tive from Alabama to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; declined reelection; died
at Washington, D. C, April 1, 1857.
Harris, Stephen R. , of Bucyrus, Ohio, was
born on his father's farm, 7 miles west of Massil-
lon, Ohio, May 22, 1824; his grandfather, John
Harris, served in the Revolutionary war under
General Washington, and signalized himself for
bravery in the battle of Monmouth; worked on
his father's farm and attended common school
until 14 years of age; admitted to the bar in the
spring of 1849 and opened a law office June 14,
1849, in Bucyrus; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Harris, Thomas K. , was elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Thirteenth Congress as
a Democrat; died from wounds received in an
encounter with Colonel Simpson April 18, 1816.
Harris, Thomas L. , was born at Norwich,
Conn., October 29, 1816; pursued classical studies,
graduating from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1841;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1842; com-
menced practice at Springfield, 111.; moved to
Mound City in 1843; elected a State senator in
1846, but did not accept, as he was serving in the
Mexican war; elected a Representative from Illi-
nois to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-second Congress; elected
to the Thirty-fourth Congress; reelected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress, but did not serve; died November 24.
1858, at Springfield, 111. '
Harris, Wiley P., was a native of Mississippi;
located at Monticello; elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Thirty-third Congress as a
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581
Democrat; deputy to the provisional congress of
the Confederate States at Montgomerv, Ala.,
February, 1861.
Harris, William A., was born in Fauquier
County, Va., August, 1805; received an academic
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Luray; State representa-
tive; Presidential elector on the Van Buren and
Johnson ticket in 1840; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat; editor of the Spectator and the Con-
stitution at Washington, D. C; charg6 d'affaires to
the Argentine Eepubhc 1846-1851; mpved to Mis-
souri; editor of the Washington Union and printer
to the United States Senate 1857-1859; died in
Pike County, Mo., March 28, 1864.
Harris, 'William Alexander, of Linwood,
Leavenworth County, Kans., was born in Loudoun
County, Va., October 29, 1841, his home being at
Luray, Va., where he attended school; graduated
from Columbian College, Washington, D. C, in
1859, and from the Virginia Military Institute in
1861; served three years in the Confederate army
as assistant adjutant-general of Wilcox's brigade
and ordnance officer of D. H. Hill's and Rodes's
divisions. Army of Northern Virginia; moved to
Kansas in 1865 and employed as civil engineer in
the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad,
Kansas Division, for three years; accepted the
agency for the sale of the Delaware Reservation
and other lands in 1868, in connection with farm-
ing and stock raising; farmer and breeder of pure-
bred shorthorn cattle from 1876; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Populist, indorsed by the
Democrats; renominated for the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress, but defeated at the election; elected to the
State senate November, 1896, and elected in Janu-
ary, 1897, to the United States Senate as a Demo-
crat and took his seat March 4, 1897.
Harrison, Albert G. , was a native of Kentucky;
received a good education; studied law; admitted
to the bar, commencing practice at Fulton, Mo. ;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a
Van Buren Democrat; died at Fulton, Mo.,
September 7, 1839.
Harrison, Benjamin (father of William Henry
Harrison and grandfather of John Scott Harrison,
and great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison), was
born in Berkeley, Charles City County, Va., April
5, 1740; pursued classical studies, attending William
and Mary College; member of the colonial house
of burgesses in 1764; active in pre-Revolutionary
movements; Delegate from Virginia to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774, resigning in 1778; speaker
of the house of burgesses; governor of Virgmia
1782-1784; delegate to the State convention for
the ratification of the Federal Constitution, voting
against it; died at City Point, Va., April 24, 1791.
Harrison, Benjamin, was born at North-
bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833;
received a classical education, graduatmg from
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, m 1852; stud-
ied law at Cincinnati, Ohio; moved m March,
1854, to Indianapolis; engaged m the practice
of law; elected in October, 1860, by the people,
reporter of the decisions of the supreme court
of the State; commissioned second lieutenant of
Indiana Volunteers in July, 1862; raised Com-
pany A of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry, commissioned captain, and on the organi-
zation of the regiment commissioned colonel; went
with the regiment to Kentucky in August, and
served until mustered out in June, 1865; brevetted
brigadier-general in February, 1865; while in the
field, in October, 1864, reelected reporter of the
supreme court, which ofiice he had lost by accept-
ing commission in the Army; after having been
mustered out entered upon the duties of reporter
and served four years; candidate of the Republican
party for governor of Indiana in 1876, but de-
feated; appointed member of the Mississippi River
Commission in 1879; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican to succeed Joseph E. Mc-
Donald, Democrat, and took his seat March 4,
1881; defeated for reelection by David Turpie;
elected President of the United States in 1888; re-
nominated for second term and defeated by Grover
Cleveland; attorney for Venezuela in the boundary
dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain,,
which met at Paris in 1900; died at Indianapolis,
Ind., March 13, 1901.
Harrison, Carter B. , was a native of Charles
City County, Va. ; received a classical education;
elected a Representative from Virginia, to the
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses.
Harrison, Carter H., born in Fayette County,
Ky., February 15, 1825; received a classical educa-
tion and graduated from Yale College in 1845;
studied law, but , pontinued farming until 1855;
traveled abroad two years; graduated at Transyl-
vania Law School, Lexington, Ky., in 1855; moved
to Chicago, becoming interested in the real estate
business; commissioner of Cook County 1871-1874
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty
fourth Congress as an Oppositionist (Democrat)
reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress; elected
mayor of Chicago in 1879, 1881, 1883, and 1885;
made a tour of the world in 1887; defeated as an
independent for mayor in 1891, but elected in
1893 as a Democrat; died at Chicago, 111., October
29, 1893.
Harrison, George P., of Opelika, Ala., was
born near the city of Savannah, Ga., March 19,
1841; educated at the Georgia Military Institute;
entered the Confederate army as second lieuten-
ant of the First Georgia Regulars, and successively
promoted to first lieutenant, major, colonel, and
isrigadier-general; moved to Alabama in 1865;
studied law during and after the war and licensed
to practice soon after removal to Alabama; mem-
ber of the constitutional convention of Alabama
in 1875; elected State senator in 1876, and reelected
in 1880; president of the State senate 1882-1884;
delegate to the national Democratic convention
held in Chicago in 1892; elected as a Democrat,
November 6, 1894, to fill out the unexpired term
of Hon. W. C. Oates, resigned, in the Fifty-third
Congress; reelected to Fifty-fourth Congress; de-
clined a reelection and resumed the practice of
law.
Harrison, Horace H., was born in Wilson
County, Pa., August 7, 1829; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1857; commenced practice at Nashville in 1859;
United States district attorney for the central
Tennessee district 1863-1866; elected chancellor
in the Nashville chancery division; judge of the
State supreme court 1867-68; Presidential elector
on the Republican ticket in 1868; again United
States district attorney in his former district 1872-
73; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican.
Harrison, John Scott (grandson of Benjamin
Harrison, son of William Henry Harrison, and
father of Benjamin Harrison), was born at Vin-
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CONGHESSIONAL DIEECTOET.
cennes, ind., October 4, 1804; received a good ed-
ucation; elected a Eepresentatiye from Ohio to the
Thirty- third Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Thirty-fonrth Congress; died at Northbend, Ohio,
May 26, 1878.
Harrison, Rich.ard A. , was born in England
in 1827; emigrated to America in 1836, settling in
Ohio; attended public schools and the Cincinnati
Law School, graduating in 1846; commenced prac-
tice at London; State representative in 1846 and a
State senator in 1848; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress (vice
Thomas Corwin, resigned) as a Union Democrat.
Harrison, Samuel S., was a native of Mary-
land; moved to Kittanning, Pa. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Harrison, William, was a native of Maryland;
Delegate from that State to the Continental Con-
gress 1785-1787.
Harrison, William Henry (son of Benjamin
Harrison, father of Scott Harrison, and grandfather
of Benjamin Harrison), was born in Charles City
County, Va., February 9, 1773; pursued classical
studies; attended Hampden-Sydney College;
studied medicine; commissioned by President
Washington ensign in April, 1791, and serving in
Indian wars; resigned in 1797 with the rank of
captain; appointed secretary of the Northwest
Territory, and elected its Delegate to the Sixth
Congress, resigning in March, 1800; governor of
Indiana 1801-1813, and also Indian agent; major-
general of volunteers in the war of 1812; defeated
the British and Indians at Tippecanoe November
7, 1811; resigned in 1814; head commissioner to
treat with the Indians; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Fourteenth (vice John McLean
resigned ) and Fifteenth Congresses as a Whig; State
senator 1819-1821; elected United States Senator
from Ohio, serving from December 5, 1825, to his
resignation, May 20, 1828; minister to Colombia,
May 24, 1828, to September 26, 1829; President of
the United States March 4, 1841, until his death,
at Washington, D. C, April 4, 1841.
Hart, Alphonso, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was born
at Vienna, Trumbull County, Ohio, July 4, 1830;
educated in common schools and at Grand River
Institute, Austinburg, Ohio; studied law in War-
ren, Ohio, andadmittedtothebar August 12, 1851;
editor and proprietor of the Portage Sentinel 1854-
1857, at Ravenna, and then began the practice of
law; elected prosecuting attorney for Portage
County in 1861, and reelected in 1863; resigned in
1864, and elected to the Ohio senate; elected again
to the senate in 1871 ; Grant Presidential elector at
large for Ohio in 1872; elected lieutenant-governor
of Ohio on the Republican ticket in 1873, and
served two years; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Hart, E. Kirke, was born at Albion, N. Y.,
April 8, 1841; attended the Albion Academy; en-
gaged in banking; member of the State house of
representatives in 1872; elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Hart, Emanuel B. , was born at New York City
in 1809; attended the public schools; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; active in the militia; alder-
man; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; ap-
pointed by President Buchanan surveyor of the
port of New York,
Hart, John, was born at Hopewell, N. J., in
1708; received a public school education; Delegate
from New Jersey to the Continental Congress
1774-1777; died at Hopewell in 1780.
Hart, Joseph J., of Milford, Pa., was born at
Nyack, Rockland Count);, N. Y., April 18, 1859;
attended the schools of his native village and the
Charlier Institute, New York City, from which
institution he graduated in 1876; became book-
keeper in a grain warehouse in Brooklyn; on at-
taining his majority returned to Nyack and pur-
chased City and Country, the leading Democratic
newspaper of the section, which he successfully
conducted until 1883, when he moved to Pike
County, Pa.; elected from Pennsylvania to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Hart, Roswell, was born at Rochester, N. Y.,
in 1824; graduated from Yale College in 1843;
studied law and in 1847 admitted to the bar; never
practiced; merchant; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Re-
publican; defeated for reelection to the Fortieth
Congress.
Harter, Michael D. , was born at Canton, Ohio,
in 1846; lived at Mansfield, Ohio; Mr. Harter was
a Jeffersonian, and his influence politically was for
conservative, safe measures, and against radical,
unsound, meddlesome legislation; elected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; died in 1896.
Hartley, Thomas, was born at Reading, Pa.,
September 7, 1848; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began the
practice of his profession at York, Pa. ; served in
the Revolutionary war as colonel; served in the
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Congresses; died at York, Pa.,
December 21, 1800.
Hartman, Charles S., of Bozeman, Mont.,
was born at Monticello, Ind., March 1, 1861; read
law; moved to Montana in January, 1882; admit-
ted to the bar in 1884, and in November, 1884,
elected probate judge of Gallatin County, Mont.,
and served two years as such; a candidate for the
legislature from Gallatin County in 1888 and de-
feated; member of the constitutional convention
in 1889; held no other office; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Republican, and reelected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress as a Silver Republican.
Hartridge, Julian, was born at Savannah, Ga.,
in September, 1829; received a classical education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served in
the State legislature; delegate to the national Dem-
ocratic convention at Charleston in 1860; served
one year in the Confederate army; member of the
Confederate Congress; delegate to the national
Democratic convention in 1872; also Presidential
elector; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses; died
January 8, 1879, at Washington, D. 0.
Hartzell, William, was born in Stark County,
Ohio, February 20, 1837; moved with his parents
to Illinois in 1840; moved to the Republic of Mex-
ico in 1844, where he remained until 1853, when
he returned to Randolph County, 111. ; received a
limited education; studied law and in 1864 ad-
mitted to the bar; elected as a Democratic to the
Forty-fourth Congress from Illinois; reelected to
the Forty-fifth Congress.
BIOGRAPHIES.
583
Harvey, David A., of Oklahoma City, Okla.,
-was born at St«wiack, Province of Nova Scotia,
March 20, 1845; went with his parents to Clermont
County, Ohio, in 1852; enlisted September, 1861,
in Company B, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, and served
throughout the war; after the war attended Miami
University, at Oxford, Ohio; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in September, 1868: moved to
Topeka, Kans., in 1869, where he served four
years as city attorney and six years as probate
]udge; elected Delegate from Oklahoma to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to
the Fifty-second Congress.
Harvey, James M., was born in Monroe
County, Va., September 21, 183a; received a lib-
eral education; moved to Kansas in 1859 and
engaged in farming; served with the Union Army
as captain 1861-1864; member of the State house
of representatives 1865-66 and of the State senate
1867-68; governor of Kansas 1869-70, 1870-71;
elected a United States Senator from Kansas as a
Republican (vice Alexander, Caldwell, resigned,
vice Robert Crozier, resigned), serving from Feb-
ruary 12, 1874, to March 3, 1877.
Harvey, Jonathan (brother of Matthew Har-
vey), was born in Merrimack County, N. H., in
1780; received a liberal education; served several
years in both branches of the legislature; presi-
dent of the senate 1817-1823; member of the exec-
utive council 1823-1825; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, and Twenty-first Congresses; died at Sutton,
N. H., August 23, 1859.
Harvey, Matthew, was born at Sutton, N. H.,
June 21, 1781 ; graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1806; studied law and admitted to. the bar;
began practice at Hopkinton, N. H., in 1809;
served seven terms in the lower branch of the
legislature; its speaker three terms; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Hampshire to the Seven-
teenth and Eighteenth Congresses; State senator
in 1825, 1826, and 1827, serving as president of the
senate; governor of New Hampshire in 1830 and
1831; appointed by President Jackson judge of
the United States district court for New Hamp-
shire in 1831; died at Concord, N. H., April 7, 1856.
Harvie, John, was born at Gargunnock, Scot-
land; a Delegate from the State of Virginia to the
Continental Congress 1777-78; died at Richmond,
Va., February 6, 1807.
Hastorouck, Abraham, was a native of New
York; served in the State legislature 1781, 1782,
and 1811; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat;
again a member of the State senate in 1822.
Hastorouck, Abraham B., was born at Kings-
ton, N. Y., in November, 1791; graduated from
Yale College in 1810; elected a Representative
from New York to the Nineteenth Congress;
moved to New Jersey; for a number of years presi-
dent of Rutgers College; died at Kingston, N. Y.,
February, 23, 1879.
Hasbrouck, Josiah, was a native of Ulster
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
member of the State house of representatives 1796,
1797, 1802, and 1806; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighth and Fifteenth Con-
Hascall, Augustus P. , was a native of Massa-
chusetts; located at Leroy, N. Y.; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig.
Haskell, Dudley C. , was born at Springfield,
Vt., March 23, 1842; received a classical education
at Easthampton, Mass., and took a special course
at Yale College; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
moved to Kansas in 1855; member of the State
house of representatives in 1872, 1875, and 1876,
.■serving the last term as speaker of the house;
nominated for governor by the Temperance party
in 1874, and declined; elected to the Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died at Washington
December 16, 1883.
Haskell, William T. , was born in Tennessee;
received a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; served as colonel in the
Mexican war; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
resumed practice; died at Hopkinsville, Ky.,
March 20, 1859.
Haskin, John B., was born at Fordham, N. Y.,
August 7, 1821; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began the
practice of his profession at New York City in
1845; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat; died at Friends Lake, N. Y., Septem-
ber 8, 1895.
Haskins, Kittredge, of Brattleboro, Vt., was
born at Dover, Vt., April 8, 1836; educated in the
public schools and by a private tutor; read law
and admitted to the bar; State attorney for
Windham County 1870-1872;* United States attor-
ney for the district of Vermont from October, 1880,
to June, 1887; served as first lieutenant of Com-
pany I, Sixteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers,
in the Union Army; appointed colonel and chief of
staff to Governor Peter T. Washburn in 1869;
member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of
the Loyal Legion; served on the Republican State
committee 1869-1872, and chairman of the Repub-
lican committee for the Second Congressional dis-
trict 1876-1884; represented Brattleboro in the
legislature 1872-1874, and again 1896-1900;
speaker of the house 1898-1900; State senator
from Windham County 1892-1894; chairman of
the Vermont board of commissioners to establish
the boundary line between that State and Massa-
chusetts 1892-1900; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Hastings, George, was born at Clinton, Oneida
County, N. Y., March 13, 1807; graduated from
Hamilton College in 1826; studied law, and in 1830
admitted to the bar; moved to Mount Morris,
Livingston County; district attorney for Living-
ston County 1839-1848; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat; elected judge of the county court of
Livingston County, serving from November, 1855,
until August 29, 1866, when he died at Mount
Morris, N. Y.
Hastings, John, was elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-sixth and Twenth-
seventh Congresses as a Democrat; died at Colum-
bus, Ohio, December 29, 1854.
Hastings, Serranus Clinton, was born in
New York November 14, 1814; received a liberal
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practicing in Iowa; judge of the State
supreme court; elected a Representative from
Iowa to the Twenty-ninth Congress; moved to
California and resumed the practice of law.
Hastings, Seth (father of W. S. Hastings), was
born at Mendon, Mass., in 1761, graduated from
584
CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Harvard College in 1782; studied law and admit-
ted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Congresses; member of the State senate 1810 and
1814; died at Mendon, Mass., in 1831.
Eastings, William Sodeu (son of Seth Hast-
ings), was born at Mendon, Mass.; received a lib-
eral education; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from
September 4, 1837, to June 17, 1842, when he
died, at Red Sulphur Springs, Va.
Hatch, Herschel Harrison, of Bay City, Mich.,
was born at Morrisville, Madison County, N. Y.,
February 17, 1837; received a common school ed-
ucation; studied law at the Hamilton College Law
School, New York; attorney and counselor at law;
elected alderman of Bay City at its first organiza-
tion in 1865; elected judge of probate of Bay
County in 1868 for a term of four years; appointed
member of the constitutional commission of Mich-
igan in 1873; appointed member of the tax com-
mission of Michigan in 1881 ; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Republican.
Hatch, Israel T., was born at Owasco, N. Y.,
in 1808; received a limited education; grain mer-
chant; served in the State house of representa-
tives; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress; post-
master at Buffalo 1859-1861; died at Buffalo, N. Y.,
September 24, 1875.
Hatch, Jethro A., of Kentland, Ind., was born
June 18, 1837, in Chenango County, N. Y. ; settled
in Sugar Grove, Kane County, 111. ; received a com-
mon school education, and afterwards attended
Batavia (111.) Institute; graduated from Rush
Medical College in February, 1860; commenced
the practice of his profession in Kentland, Ind.,
July, 1860; commissioned assistant surgeon of the
Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry December
11, 1862, and afterwards promoted to surgeon of
the same regiment; mustered out of service with
regiment February 8, 1865, and returned to his
home in Kentland; member of the Indiana house
of representatives in 1872 and 1873; Republican
candidate for State senator in 1874, but defeated;
alternate delegate to the national Republican con-
vention in 1888; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; after leaving Congress
returned to Kentland, Ind., where he resumed
the practice of medicine.
Hatch, William Henry, was born in Scott
County, Ky., September 11, 1833; educated at
Lexmgton, Ky. ; admitted to the bar in Septem-
ber, 1854, and commenced practicing; elected cir-
cuit attorney of the sixteenth judicial circuit of
Missouri in October, 1858, and reelected to the
same position in November, 1860; served in the
Confederate army; commissioned captain and as-
sistant adjutant-general December, 1862, and in
March, 1863, assigned to duty as assistant commis-
sioner of exchange under the cartel, and continued
in this position until the close of the war; elected
to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; died
December 23, 1896.
Hatcher, Robert A., was born in Bucking-
ham County, Va., February 24, 1819; educated at
Lynchburg, Va. ; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in Kentucky; commenced practice at New
Madrid, Mo., in 1847; for several years circuit
attorney of the tenth judicial court of Missouri;
a State legislator in 1850 and 1851; member of the
State convention in 1862; member of the Confed-
erate Congress 1864-65; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and
Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Hathaway, Samuel G. , was born at Freetown,
Mass., July 18, 1780; attended the public schools;
went to sea; moved to Solon, N. Y., in 1808; mem-
ber of the State assembly in 1814 and 181 8; a State
senator in 1823; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat;
declined a reelection; died at Solon, N. Y., May
2, 1867.
Hathorn, Henry H. , was born at Greenfield,
N. Y., November 28, 1813; received an academic
education; merchant at Saratoga Springs 1839-1849
and then hotel proprietor and owner at Hathorn
Spring; supervisor for Saratoga Springs; sheriff of
Saratoga County in 1853 and 1862-1867; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-third
and Forty-fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Hathorn, John, of Warwick, Orange County,
N. Y. , was elected a Representative from New York
to the First and Fourth Congresses as a Federalist
and defeated for election to the Second, Third, and
Fifth Congresses; State senator in 1804; defeated
for Presidential elector in 1804.
Hatton, Bobert, was born in Sumner County,
Tenn. , in 1827; pursuing classical studies, graduated
from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. ; studied
law and admitted to the bar; commenced practice
at Lebanon, Tenn.; State representative in 1856;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a National American;
became a brigadier-general in the Confederate
army. May 23, 1862, and killed in action at
Edward's Farm, June 1, 1862.
Haugen, Gilbert N., of Northwood, Worth
County, Iowa, was born April 21, 1859, in Rock
County, Wis.; at the age of 14 and prior to his
election to Congress actively engaged in various
enterprises, principally real estate and banking;
treasurer of Worth County, Iowa, for six years;
elected to the Iowa legislature, serving in the
twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth general assemblies;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Haugen, N. P., of River Falls, Wis., was born
m Norway, March 9, 1849; graduated from the law
department of the Michigan State University in
class of 1874; located in Wisconsin in 1854; mem-
ber of the assembly in 1879 and 1880; State railroad
commissioner 1882-1887; elected to the Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses
as a Republican.
Haughey, Thomas, was born at Glasgow, Scot-
land, in 1826; located in Alabama in 1840; pursued
classical studies; studied medicine, graduating from
the New Orleans Medical College in 1858; surgeon
m U. S. Army 1862-1865; delegate to the Alabama
constitutional convention of 1867; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Fortieth Congress
taking his seat July 21, 1868.
Haun, Henry P. , was born in Scott County, Ky. ,
January 18, 1815; received an academic education;
studied law at Lexington; admitted to the bar in
1839; elected county attorney; moved to Iowa in
1845 and thence to Yuba County, Cal., in 1849-
countv judge in 1851; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for governor; appointed United States
benator from California as a Democrat (vice David
BIOaKAPHIES.
585
9-,?J9'^®"*' deceased), serving from December
5 1857, to March 5, 1860; died at Maysville, Cal.,
May 6, 1860.
Haven, Nathaniel A., was born in New
Hampshire in 1762; received a classical education;
graduated from Harvard College in 1779; elected
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
Eleventh Congress as a Federalist; died March 7,
lodl.
Haven, Solomon G., was born in Chenango
County, N. Y., November 27, 1810; studied and
practiced law; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and
Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig; died at Buf-
falo, N. Y., December 24, 1861.
Havens, Harrison E. , was born in Franklin
County, Ohio, December 15, 1837; attended the
common schools; studied and practiced law in
Illinois; moved to Iowa and thence to Spring-
field, Mo., in 1867, becoming editor of the Spring-
field Patriot; elected a Representative from Mis-
souri as a Regular Republican in the Forty-second
Congress; reelected to the Forty-third Congress.
Havens, Jonathan NicoU, was a native of
Staten Island, New York; received a classical edu-
cation; graduated from Yale College in 1777; State
representative 1786-1795; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fourth and Fifth Con-
gresses; died on Staten Island, New York, July 7,
1799.
Hawes, Albert G-., was a native of Kentucky;
resided at Hawesville; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Twenty-second Congress as
a Jackson Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth Congresses; died at Hawes-
ville, Ky., April 14, 1849.
HaTxres, Aylett, was a native of Culpeper
County, Va. ; received a classical education; stud-
ied medicine; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
medicine; died in Culpeper County, Va., August
31, 1833.
Ha-wes, Richard, was born in Caroline County,
Va., February 6, 1797; moved to Kentucky in
1810; pursued classical studies at Transylvania
University; admitted to the bar, commencing
practice at Winchester; State representative for
several years; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Whig; became a Democrat and advo-
cated tie Southern cause; left Kentucky for the
South in 1861, but on October 4, 1862, was in-
stalled provisional governorof the State, but retired
immediately on the advance of the Union Army;
returned to Paris, Ky., being elected county judge
in 1866, servinguntil his death in Bourbon County,
Ky., May 25, 1877.
Hawk, Robert M. A., was born in Hancock
County, Ind., April 23, 1839, educated in the com-
mon and select schools of Carroll County, 111., and
at Eureka College, Illinois; entered the Union
Army as first lieutenant, September 4, 1862; pro-
moted to captain February, 1863; brevetted major
for soldierly conduct, the commission bearing date
of April 10, 1865; clerk of the county court of Car-
roll County, 111., from December 13, 1865, to Feb-
ruary 27, 1879, having been elected four times in
succession to that office; elected a Representative
to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Forty-seventh Congi-ess; died June
29, 1882.
Hawkes James, was a native of Worcester,
Mass.; moved to New York and located at Rich-
field; held several local oflices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Seventeenth Con-
gress.
Hawkins, Benjamin, was born in Warren
County, N. C, August 15, 1754; student in the
senior class at Princeton College when the Revolu-
tionary war began; acquired a knowledge of
French; left the school and was appointed on the
staff of George Washington and acted as his inter-
preter; Delegate to the Continental Congress
1781-1784 and 1786-87; appointed by Congress to
negotiate treaties with the Creek and Cherokee
Indians in 1785; elected a United States Senator
from North Carolina, serving from January 13,
1790, until March 3, 1795; appointed Indian agent
for all the tribes south of the Ohio River by Presi-
dent Washington in 1796, and held the office until
he died, at Hawkiiisville, Ga., June 6, 1816.
Hawkins, George S., was a native of New
York; moved to Florida and located at Pensadola
where he held several local offices; elected a Rep-
resentative from Florida to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the i?hirty-sixth
Congress.
Hawkins, Isaac K., was born in Maury
County, Tenn., May 16, 1818; received a liberal
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
served in the Mexican war; delegate from Tennes-
see to the peace conference in 1861; entered the
Union Army as lieutenant-colonel in 1862; ap-
pointed chancellor of the sixth diyision in 1865,
but declined; delegate to the Chicago convention
in 1868; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses.
Hawkins, Joseph, was a native of the State of
New York; received a liberal education; studied
law, and admitted to the bar; began the practice
of his profession at Henderson; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-first Con-
gress as an Adams Democrat; died at Hehderson,
N. Y., May 9, 1832.
Hawkins, Joseph H. , resided in Lexington,
Ky. ; received an academic education; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; member of the State
house of representatives, 1810-1813, and served
two years as speaker; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirteenth Congress, in
place of Henry Clay, resigned.
Hawkins, Micajah Thomas, was born in War-
ren County, N. C. , in 1790; attended the University
of North "Carolina; served several years in both
branches of the legislature; elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina to the Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; died in
Warren County, December 22, 1858.
Hawley , John B. , was born in Fairfield County,
Conn., February 9, 1831; moved to Illinois with
his parents when quite young; studied law, and in
1854 admitted to the bar; elected State attorney
for four years; served one year in the Union Army;
appointed postmaster at Rock Island in 1865, and
removed the year following by President Johnson;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Forty -first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses;
appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
December 6, 1877; died in 1895.
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CONGEESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Ha-wley, Joseph. Roswell, of Hartford, Conn.,
was bom at Stewartsville, Richmond County,
N. C, October 31, 1826; graduated from Hamilton
College, New York, inl847; admitted to the bar in
1850 at Hartford, Conn.; practiced law six and
a half years; became editor of the Hartford Even-
ing Press in February, 1857, which, in 1867, was
consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which
he became editor; enlisted in the Union Army
as a captain April 18, 1861; became brigadier and
brevet major-general; mustered out January 15,
1866; elected governor of Connecticut in April,
1866; delegate to the Free Soil national convention
of 1852; Presidential elector in 1868; president of
the Republican national convention of 1868, and
delegate to the Republican national conventions
of 1872, 1876, and 1880; president of the United
States Centennial Commission from its organiza-
tion, in March, 1873, to the completion of the work
of the Centennial Exposition; trustee of Hamilton
College; received the degree of doctor of laws
from Hamilton College, Yale University, and Trin-
ity College; elected in November, 1872, a Repre-
sentative to the Forty-second Congress to fill a
vacancy caused by the death of J. L. Strong; re-
elected to the Forty-third and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses; elected to the United States Senate as a.
Republican to succeed William W. Eaton, Demo-
crat; took his seat March 4, 1881; reelected in
1887, 1893, and 1899.
Hawley, R. B., of Galveston, Tex., was born
at Memphis, Tenn., in 1850; brought up and edu-
cated in that city; became a citizen of Texas in
1875; merchant, importer, and manufacturer in
the city of Galveston continuously for twenty
years; always maintained an active interest in pol-
itics; three times elected president of the Galves-
ton board of education; presided several times
over State conventions, and attended as a delegate
national conventions, but never offered for any
political office until the campaign of 1896, when
he was unanimously nominated and elected by his
Earty as a Representative from Texas to the Fifty-
fth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress.
Haws, J. H. Hobart, was born in New York
City; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig.
Hay, Andrew K. , was a native of Massachu-
setts; received a liberal education; moved to New
Jersey, and located at Winslow; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-first
Congress.
Hay, James, of Madison, Va., was born at
Millwood, Clarke County, "\'a., January 9, 1856;
educated in private schools in Maryland and Vir-
ginia, at the University of Pennsylvania, and
Washington and Lee University, Virginia, from
which latter institution he graduated in law in
June, 1877; moved to Harrisonburg, Va., in 1877,
where he practiced law and taught school until
June, 1879, when he moved to Madison, Va., and
devoted himself exclusively to his profession;
elected attorney for the Commonwealth in 1883,
and reelected to that office in 1887, 1891, and 1895;
elected to the house of delegates of Virginia in
1885, and reelected in 1887 and 1889; elected to
the Virginia State senate in 1893; member of the
State Democratic committee for four years, and
member of the Democratic national convention of
1888; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected
chairman of the Democratic caucus of the House
of Representatives in the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses.
Hay, John B. , was born at Belleville, 111., Janur
ary 8, 1834; received a limited education; learned
the art of printing; studied law and admitted to
the bar; State attorney^ for the twenty-fourth
judicial district of Illinois for eight years; served
in the Union Army during the civil war; elected
a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses.
Hayden, Edward Daniel, of Woburn, Mass.,
was born at Cambridge, Mass., December 27, 1838;
educated at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass.,
and at Harvard College, where he graduated in
1854; studied law, admitted to the bar, and prac-
ticed until 1862, when he entered the U. S. Navy
as assistant paymaster; member of the State house
of representatives of Massachusetts in 1880, 1881,
and 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as
a Republican;, reelected to the Fiftieth Congress;
after the expiration of his term in Congress he
became interested in banking and railroading.
Hayden, Moses, was born in Hampshire
County, Mass. ; received a liberal education; grad-
uated from Williams College in 1804; studied law
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at York,
Livingston County; was first judge of the court of
common pleas of Livingston County 1821-1823;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Eighteenth Congress and reelected to the Nine-
teenth Congress.
Hayes, Philip C, of Morris, 111., was born at
Granb)^, Conn., February 3, 1833, and moved
with his father's family to Lasalle County, 111.,
during the summer of the same year; spent the
first twenty years of his life on a farm; received a
collegiate education, graduating from Oberlin Col-
lege, Ohio, 1860; served in the Union Army, en-
listing as a private in April, 1861, and mustered
out of the service June 22, 1865, having been com-
missioned, successively, captain, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general "for
gallant and meritorious conduct" on the field; a
delegate to the national Republican convention
which met at Philadelphia in 1872; elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, and reelected
to the Forty-sixth Congress.
Hayes, Kutherford B. , was born at Delaware,
Ohio, October 4, 1822; graduated at Kenyon Col-
lege, Ohio; attended the Cambridge Law School
and admitted to the bar; began practicing at Cin-
cinnati; entered the Union Army in 1862 as major
of' the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers, and when
mustered out had attained the rank of brigadier-
general; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican and re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress; resigned Decem-
ber, 1867, having been elected governor of Ohio-
reelected in 1869, and again in 1876; elected Presi-
dent of the United States in 1876 and inaugurated
March 4, 1877; died January 17, 1893, at Fremont,
Ohio.
^^?''^^^\'7^^}y^^ ^•' °* Clinton, Iowa, was born
at Marshall, Mich., December 9, 1841; received a
common school education; graduated from the
law department, Michigan University, in 1863-
lawyer by profession; city attorney of Marshall'
Mich.; was United States commissioner for the
eastern district of Michigan, and also of Iowa-
city solicitor of Clinton, Iowa; district judge of
*5S.^^^?,"*'^ judicial district of Iowa from August,
1875, till January 1, 1887; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
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587
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses;
after leaving Congress he resumed the practice of
law.
Haymond, Thomas S., was a native of Vir-
ginia; elected a Representative from that State to
the Thirty-iirst Congress, vice Alexander New-
man, deceased.
Haymond, 'William. S. , was born near Clarks-
burg, W. Va.; received a scientific education; civil
engmeer; graduated from two medical colleges;
began the practice of medicine in 1851 at Mon-
ticello, Ind. ; entered the Union Army as surgeon
in 1862 and served one year; defeated for the State
senate in 1866; elected president of the Indianap-
olis, Delphi and Chicago Eailroad in 1872, 1873,
and 1874; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a candidate of the
Democrats and Liberals; defeated for reelection as
the Democratic candidate.
Hayne, Arthur P. (brother of Robert Y.
Hayne), was born at Charleston, S. C, March
12,1790; received a liberal education; a merchant;
served in the war of 1812 ; studied law and admitted
to the bar; served in the Florida war; served in
the State house of representatives of South Caro-
lina; Presidential elector on the Jackson and Cal-
houn ticket in 1828; United States naval agent in
the Mediterranean for five years; declined the
Belgian mission ; appointed a United States Senator
from South Carolina (vice J. J. Evans, deceased),
serving from May 20, 1858, to January 5, 1859;
died at Charleston, S. C, January 7, 1867.
Hayne, Robert Y. (brother of Arthur P.
Hayne), was born near Charleston, S. C, Novem-
ber 10, 1791; received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practice at
Charleston, S. C. ; member of the State legislature
1814-1818, serving one year as sjpeaker; attorney-
general 1818-1822; elected a United States Sena-
tor from South Carolina as a State Rights Demo-
crat, serving from December 1, 1823, to December,
1832, when he resigned to become governor; served
as governor 1832-1834; mayor of Charleston
1835-36 ; president of the Cincinnati and Charleston
Railroad 1836-1839; died at Asheville, N. C,
September 24, 1839.
Haynes, Charles E., was a native of Bruns-
wick, Va. ; moved to Sparta, Ga. ; received a liberal
education; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses; de-
feated for reelection to the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses; elected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Union man; reelected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress.
Haynes, Martin A., of Lake Village, N. H.,
was born at Springfield, N. H., July 30, 1842;
moved to Manchester, N. H., at the age of 4,
where he received a common school education and
learned the printer's trade; in June, 1861, he en-
hsted as a private in the Second New Hampshire
Regiment, in which he served as a private three
years receiving wounds at the first Bull Run,
Glendale, and second Bull Run battles; in 1868
he moved to Lake Village, where he established
the Lake ^'illage Times; mem ber of the New Hamp-
shire house of representatives in 1872 and 1873;
clerk of the supreme court for Belknap County
from 1876 to 1883; president of the New Hamp-
shire Veteran Association 1881 and 1882; depart-
ment commander Grand Army of the Republic
1881 and 1882; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican^ reelected to the Forty-ninth
Congress; appointed special agent of the Treasury
Department under President Harrison.
Haynes, William E., of Fremont, Ohio, was
born at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., October 19, 1829;
moved to Ohio in 1839; received a common school
education; a printer in early life, but engaged in
mercantile pursuits from 1850 until 1856, when he
was elected auditor of Sandusky County, Ohio,
and served two terms; enlisted, April 16, 1861, in
the Eighth Regiment Ohio Infantry; commis-
sioned captain, and served with that regiment in
western Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, and the
Army of the Potomac, until November, 1862, when
he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the
Tenth Ohio Cavalry, and served with it in the
Army of the Cumberland until 1864; appointed
collector of internal revenue for the ninth district
of Ohio in 1866, which position he held until
March 4, 1867; after that time was principally
engaged in farming and banking; a member of the
board of trustees of the Toledo Insane Asylum
from 1884 until 1888; a delegate to the national
Democratic conventions held in Cincinnati, Ohio,
in 1880, and in Chicago, 111., in 1884; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second Congress.
Hays, Charles, was born in Greene County,
Ala., February 2, 1834; received a liberal educa-
tion; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; in
1867 elected to the constitutional convention of
Alabama; in 1868 elected to the State senate;
elected as a Representative from Alabama to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Republican.
Hays, Edward R. , of Knoxville, Iowa, was
born in Wood County, Ohio, Ma^ 26, 1847; edu-
cated at Heidelburgh College, Ohio; studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1869; moved to Knox-
ville, Iowa, in May, 1871, where he practiced law;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the unex-
pired term of E. H. Conger, resigned; died at
Knoxville, Iowa, February 28, 1896.
Hays, Samuel, was a native of Virginia; moved
to Pennsylvania; elected a Representative from
that State to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Hays, Samuel L., was a native of Pennsylva-
nia; moved to Stuarts Creek, Va. ; elected a
Representative from that State to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Hayward, Monroe L. , was born in Wellsville,
N. Y. , December 22, 1840; served in the war of the
rebellion in the Twenty-second New York Infantry
and Fifth New York Cavalry; graduated from Fort
Edward Collegiate Institute, New York; studied
law at Whitewater, Wis. ; moved to Nebraska in
1867; member of the constitutional convention of
1873; elected to the United States Senate, to suc-
ceed WiUiam Vincent Allen, March 8, 1899; died
before taking his seat, at Nebraska City, Nebr.,
December 5, 1899.
Haywood, William Henry, was born in Wake
County, N. C, in 1801; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1819; studied law and
admitted to the bar; member of the house of
commons of North Carolina in 1831 and 1834-1836,
serving the last year as speaker; elected a United
States Senator in 1842 as a Democrat, serving from
December 4, 1843, until -July 25, 1846, when he
resigned; died at Raleigh, N. C, October 6, 1852.
588
CONGRESSIONAL DIBEOTOHY.
Hazard, Jonathan J., was born in Rhode
Island in 1728; elected a Delegate from that State
to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; died
in New York in 1812. •
Hazard, ITath.auiel, was born at Newport,
R. I. , in 1773; graduated from Brown University in
1792; elected a Representative from Rhode Island
to the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; died at
'Washington, D. C, December 17, 1820.
Hazeltiue, Abner, was a native of the State of
New York; resided at Jamestown; served two
terms in the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress.
Hazeltine, Ira S., of Springfield, Mo., was
bom in Andover, Wmdsor County, Vt., July 13,
1821; received a common school and academic
education; taught school three years in Wiscon-
sin; studied law; received a commission as colonel
in 1852 from Governor Farwell, of Wisconsin;
elected to the State legislature in 1867; located
upon a farm near Springfield, in Greene County,
Mo. , in 1870, as an agriculturist and large fruit and
wool grower; member of the executive committee
of the State Grange two years; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress-, died January 18, 1899, on
his farm in Greene County, Mo.
Hazelton, George C, of Boscobel, Wis., was
born in Chester, Rockingham County, N. H.,
January 3, 1833; graduated from Union College,
Schnectady, N. Y., in 1858; studied law; admitted
to the bar in the State of New York; settled
at Boscobel, Wis., in 1863, where he practiced his
Srofession; elected district attorney of Grant
ounty in 1864 and reelected in 1866; elected State
senator in 1867, and chosen president pro tempore
of the senate, and reelected to the senate in
1869; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; reelected
to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses
as a Republican; located at Washington, D. C,
and practiced law.
Hazelton, Gerry W., was born at Chester,
N. H., February 24, 1829; received an academic
education; studied law; moved to Wisconsin in
1856; elected to the State senate in 1860, and
chosen president pro tempore twice; elected dis-
trict attorney tor Columbia County in 1864; ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue for the second
district in 1866 and removed by President Johnson
the same year; appointed United States attorney
for the district of Wisconsin in 1869, which posi-
tion he held until elected a Representative from
Wisconsin to the Forty-second Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Forty-third Congress.
Hazelton, John W., was born atMullicaHill,
N. J.; received a common school education- a
farmer; delegate to the national Republican con-
vention at Chicago in 1868; Presidential elector in
1868 on the Grant and Colfax ticket; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fortv-
third Congress.
Head, John W. , was elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, but died before taking his seat; his suc-
cessor also died before taking his seat.
Healy, Joseph, was born in Cheshire, N. H
in 1776; received a liberal education; member of
the State senate in 1824; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Nineteenth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Twentieth Con-
gress; member of the State execiitive council 1829-
1832; died at Washington, N. H., October 10, 1861.
Heard, JohnT., of Sedalia, Mo., was born at
Georgetown, Pettis County, Mo. ; educated in the
common schools of Pettis County and at the State
University at Columbia, graduating in 1860; read
law; practiced several years at the Sedalia bar;
■ elected without opposition to the State senate in
1861 and served four years; elected to the State leg-
islature of Missouri in 1872; employed in 1881 by
the fund commissioners of the State to prosecute
and adjust all claims of the State against the Gen-
eral Government, and resigned that position on
being elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses.
Hearst, Georg-e, was born in Franklin County,
Mo., September 3, 1820, one year after his father,
a South Carolinian, had emigrated there; received
a public school education; passed his early man-
hood on his father's farm; in 1850 went to Cali-
fornia, where he worked in the mines; engaged in
mining, stock raising, and farming; elected to the
Cahfornia State legislature in 1865; candidate for
governor before the San Jose convention in 1882;
the Democrats, who were in the minority in the
State legislature in 1885, gave him their unanimous
vote for United States Senator; appointed United
States Senator March 23, 1886, as a Democrat, by
Governor Stoneman, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John F. Miller; took his seat April
9, 1886; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1887; died
at Washington, D. C, February 28, 1891.
Heath, James P. , was born in Delawai-e De-
cember 21, 1777; received a liberal education;
served in the Regular Army as lieutenant of en-
gineers 1799-1802; register in chancery at An-
napolis; served throughout the war of 1812 as
aid-de-camp to General Winder; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Twenty-third Con-
gress; defeated as the Democratic candidate for
reelection; died at Georgetown, D. C, June 12,
1854.
Heath, John, was born in Virginia; received
a liberal education; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Third Congress, and reelected to
the Fourth Congress.
Heaton, David, was bom at Hamilton, Ohio,
March 10, 1823; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; elected to
the State senate of Ohio in 1855; moved to St
Anthonys Falls, Minn., in 1857; a member of the
State senate of Minnesota 1858-1863; appointed
special agent of the Treasury Department and
United States depository at Newbern, N C in
1863; appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury
m 1864, but declined; member of the constitu-
tional convention of North Carolina in 1867 ; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the For-
tieth Congress as a Republican, and reelected to
the Forty-first Congress; renominated for the
iorty-second Congress, but died June 25, 1870, at
Washington, D. C.
Heatwole, Joel Prescott, of Northlield, Minn.,
was born m Waterford, Elkhart County, Ind
August 22, 1856; a printer by trade; elected to the
f„ ft °S^i? SS-u^""???..^^ ? Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses; refused to be a candidate for Fiftv-
eighth Congress. ■'
Hebard, William, was a native of Connecticut-
received an academic education; studied law and
BIOGRAPHIES.
589
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Chel-
sea, Vt.; judge of probate of Orange County for
seven years; member of the legislature; judge
of the State supreme court 1842-1845; elected a
Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-second
Congress.
Hedge, Thomas, of Burlington, was born in
the town of Burlington, Territory of Iowa, June 24,
1844; prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., graduating in 1861; graduated
from Yale College in 1867 and from Columbia
College Law School, New York, in 1869; served
as private in Company E and as second lieutenant
in Company G, One hundred and sixth New York
Infantry, in 1864 and 1865; engaged in the practice
of law at Burlington, Iowa, from 1869; elected to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh and reelected to
the Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Heflin, Robert S. , was born near Madison, Ga. ,
April 15, 1815; received an academic education;
served in the Creek war in 1836; clerk of the supe-
rior court of Fayette County 1836-1840; studied
law, and in 1840 admitted to the bar; State sena-
tor 1840-41; went to Randolph County in 1844;
State representative in 1849 and 1860; strong
Union man during the civil war; appointed and
elected judge of probate of Savannah ; Presidential
elector in 1868 on the Republican ticket; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Forty-first
Congress.
Heilman, William, was born at Albig, Rhein,
Germany, October 11, 1824; came to the United
States in 1843, and resided at Evansville, Vander-
berg County, Ind. ; elected to the city council for
six years; elected a representative to the general
assembly of the State in 1870; elected to the State
senate in 1876, and in the same year as a delegate
to the national Republican convention at Cincin-
nati; resigned his seat in the State senate March 3,
1879, having been elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress; died at Evansville, Ind., Sep-
tember 22, 1890.
Heinerj Daniel Broadhead, was bom at Kit-
tanning, Pa., December 30, 1854; graduated from
Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in the class of
1879; read law, and admitted to the bar of Arm-
strong County, Pa., in 1882; elected district attor-
ney in 1885 and reelected in 1888; chairman of the
Republican county executive committee from 1884
to 1888, and elected to the Fifty-third Congress
aa a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress.
Heister, Daniel, was born in Berks County,
Pa., June 25, 1747; attended the public schools;
carried on business in Montgomery County; active
in pre-Revolutionary movements; colonel and
brigadier-general of militia, and saw service in
the Revolutionary war; member of the supreme
executive council of Pennsylvania 1784-1786; com-
missioner of the Connecticut land claims in 1787;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
First, Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses, serv-
ing until his resignation, July 1, 1796; moved to
Hagerstown, Md.; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Seventh and Eighth Congresses,
serving until his death at Washington, D. C,
March 7, 1804.
Heister, Daniel, was a native of Berks County,
Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Eleventh Congress.
Heister, Isaac E., was born in Lancaster
County, Pa., about 1820; pursued classical studies
and graduated from Yale College in 1842; studied
la^*-; admitted to the bar and began practice at
Lancaster; elected attorney-general for the county
in 1848; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirty-third Congress as a Whig;
died at Lancaster, Pa., February 6, 1871.
Heister, John, was born at Bern, Pa., April 9,
1746; elected a Representative from that State to
the Tenth Congress; died October 15, 1821.
Heister, Joseph, was born in Berne Township,
Berks County, Pa., November 18, 1752; attended
the common schools; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; served in the Revolutionary Army as captain
and colonel; taken prisoner and confined on the
Jersey prison ship; member of the constitutional
conventions in 1776 and 1790; for five years a State
representative and for four years a State senator;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Fifth Congress (vice George Ege, resigned);
reelected to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Four-
teenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses, re-
signing in 1820; major-general of Pennsylvania
militia in 1807; governor of Pennsylvania 1820-
1823; died at Reading, Pa., June 10, 1832.
Heister, William, was born in Berne Town-
ship, Berks County, Pa., in 1791; attended the
public schools; devoted himself to farming in Lan-
caster County; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and
Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Whig; delegate to
the State constitutional convention of 1837; died
in Lancaster County, October 14, 1853.
Heitfeld, Henry, of Lewiston, Idaho, was born
at St. Louis, Mo., January 12, 1859; received his
early education in the schools of that city; moved
to Seneca, Kans., at the age of 11, where he
continued to reside till the year 1882, in which year
he emigrated to the State of Washington; located
in Idaho in 1883, where he engaged in farming and
stock raising; elected State senator in 1894 and re-
elected in 1896; elected a United States Senator,
as a Populist, January 28, 1897; took his seat March
4, 1897, serving until March 3, 1903.
Helmick, William, was born in Jefferson
County, Ohio, September 6, 1817; attended the
public schools; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in 1845; elected prosecuting attorney in 1851;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Republican.
Helms, William, was a native of New Jersey;
served in the Revolutionary war; elected a Rep-
resentative from that State to the Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; moved to Tennessee, where he died in 1813.
Hemenway, James A., of Boonville, Ind.,
was born there March 8, 1860; educated in the
common schools; commenced the practice of law
in 1885; elected prosecuting attorney of the second
judicial circuit of Indiana in 1886 and 1888; se-
lected as the member of the Republican State com-
mittee from the First district in 1890; elected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Hemphill, John, was born in Chester District,
S. C, in 1803; located at Sumter; edited a nullifi-
cation paper 1832-1833; moved to Texas, and for
many years chief justice of the supreme court of
that State; elected a United States Senator from
Texas, serving from December 5, 1859, until his
590
CONGKESSIONAL DIEEOTOBY.
expulsion July 11, 1861; deputy to the provisional
congress of the Confederate States at Montgomery
in February, 1861; died at Eichmond, Va., Janu-
ary 4, 1862. *
Hemphill, John J., was born at Chester, S. C,
August 25, 1849; attended the schools in the town
until 1866, when he entered the South Carolina
University, from which he graduated in 1869;
after leaving college he began the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1870;
nominated by the Democrats as a candidate for the
legislature in 1874, but not elected; again nomi-
nated for the same office by the same party in 1876
and elected, and likewise renominated and re-
elected in 1878 and 1880; elected to the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and
Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
Hemphill, Joseph, was, born in Delaware
County, Pa., in 1770; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practice in Chester County ; elected a Rep-
resentative as a Federalist from Pennsylvania to
the Seventh Congress; moved to Philadelphia;
appointed the first president-judge of the city and
county; elected a Kepresentative to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses, serving until his resignation in 1826;
elected to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; State representative in 1831-32; died
at Philadelphia May 29, 1842.
Hempstead, Edward, was born at New Lon-
don, Conn., June 3, 1780; received an academic
educationj studied law; admitted to the bar in
1801; commenced practice in Rhode Island; moved
to St. Louis in 1805; attorney-general of the Terri-
tory of Upper Louisiana 1809-1811; elected a Dele-
gate from the Missouri Territory to the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Congresses; speaker of the Terri-
torial assembly; died at St. Louis August 10, 1817.
Hem.sley, William., was a Delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1782-1784.
Hendee, George Whitiuaii, was born at
Stowe, Vt., November 80, 1832; received an
academic education; studied law; admitted to the
bar, and began practice at Morrisville; prosecuting
attorney 1858-59; State representative 1861-62;
State senator 1867-68; lieutenant-governor of Ver-
mont in 1869 and governor in 1870; elected a Rep-
resentative from Vermont to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses.
Henderson, Archibald, was born at Salisbury,
N. C, August 7, 1768; attended the common
schools; studied law with his father; admitted to
the bar, and became a leading member of the
State bar; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Sixth and Seventh Congresses;
member of the house of commons of North
Carolina 1807, 1808, and 1819; died at SaUsburv
N. C, October 1, 1822.
Henderson, Bennett H., was elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Fourteenth Con-
gress.
Henderson, David Bremner, of Dubuque
Iowa, was born at Old Deer, Scotland, March 14^
1840; brought to Illinois in 1846 and to Iowa in
1849; educated in common schools and at the Upper
Iowa University; studied law and admitted to the
bar in the fall of 1865; reared on afarm until21 years
of age; enlisted in the Union Army in September,
1861, as private in Company C, Twelfth Regiment
Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and elected and com-
missioned first lieutenant of that company, serving
with it until discharged, owing to the loss of his
leg, February 26, 1863; appointed commissioner
of the board of enrollment of the third district of
Iowa in May, 1863, serving as such until June,
1864, when he reentered the Army as colonel of
the Forty-sixth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volun-
teers, and served therein until the close of his
term of service; collector of internal revenue for
the third district of Iowa from November, 1865,
until June, 1869, when he resigned and became
a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee
& Henderson; assistant United States district
attorney for the northern division of the district
of Iowa about two years, resigning in 1871; elected
to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
flrst. Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Republican; Speaker of the House for the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses; renominated
for the Fifty-eighth Congress, but declined.
Henderson, James Pmckney, was born in
Lincoln County, N. C, March 31, 1808; received
an academic education; studied law; admitted to
the bar arid began practice in Mississippi; moved
to the Republic of Texas in 1836; appointed by
President Houston attorney-general, and after-
wards secretary of state; visited Europe as the
diplomatic representative of Texas, and in 1844
visited the United States as special minister to
negotiate annexation; member of the State consti-
tutional convention of 1845; governor of Texas in
1846; served in the Mexican war, receiving a vote
of thanks and a sword from Congress; elected a
United States Senator from Texas as a State Rights
Democrat (vice Thomas J. Rusk, deceased), serv-
ing from March 1, 1858, until his death, at "Wash-
ington, D. C, June 4, 1858.
Henderson, John, was born in 1795; received
an academic education; studied law and admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Pass Christian,
Miss.; brigadier-general of militia; elected a United
States Senator from Mississippi 1839-1845 as a
Whig; practiced at New Orleans; died at Pass
Christian, Miss., in 1857.
Henderson, John B., was born near Danville,
Va., November 16, 1826; moved to Missouri; re-
ceived an academic education; taught school for
several years; studied and practiced law; a mem-
ber of the State legislature 1848-1856; Presidential
elector in 1856 on the Democratic ticket; defeated
for Congress in 1858; Presidential elector on the
Douglas ticket in 1860, pledging himself to vote
for either Douglas or Bell to carry the State
agamst Breckmridge, the secession candidate; de-
feated for Congress in 1860; member of the State
convention in 1861; a pronounced Union man;
served in the State militia in- 1861; appointed
United States Senator in January, 1862, to succeed
Trusten Polk, expelled, and elected and reelected
serving until March 3, 1869; a commissioner to
treat with hostile tribes of Indians in 1867; moved
to Washington, D. C.
Henderson, ^ohn H. D. , was born near Salem,
Ky., July 3, 1810; moved to Missouri Territory in
1817; attended the public schools; learned the art
of printing; entered the ministry and was pastor
m Washington County, Pa., 1843-1851; returned
to Missouri; in 1852 moved to Oregon; superin-
tendent of public schools in Lane County in 1859;
elected a Representative from Oregon to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
Henderson, John Steele, was bom near Salis-
bury, Rowan County, N. C., January 6, 1846;
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591
entered the University of North Carolina in Janu-
ary, 1862, and left in November, 1864, to enter
the Confederate army as a private in Company B,
Tenth Regiment North Carolina State troops;
after the war studied law, and in January, 1866,
entered Judge Pearson's law school at Richmond
Hill, N. C. ; obtained county court license in June,
1866,_ and superior court license in June, 1867;
appointed in June, 1866, register of deeds for
Rowan County, and resigned that office in Sep-
tember, 1868; elected in 1871 a delegate to the pro-
posed constitutional convention; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1875; member
of the State house of representatives in 1876, and
of the State senate in 1878; elected by the general
assembly in 1881 one of the three commissioners
to codify the statute laws of the State; elected pre-
siding justice of the inferior court of Rowan
County in June. 1884; elected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Henderson, Joseph, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from that State to the Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Henderson, Samuel, was elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania in the Thirteenth Con-
gress (vice Jonathan Roberts, elected Senator),
serving from March 29, 1814, until March 2, 1815.
Henderson, Thomas, was born at Freehold,
N. J. , in 1743; pursued classical studies and gradua-
ted from Princeton College in 1761; studied law,
admitted to the bar; judge of the court of common
pleas; Delegate to the Continental Congress from
New Jersey 1779-80; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Fourth Congress; died at
Freehold, N. J., December 15, 1824.
Henderson, Thomas J., of Princeton, 111.,
was born at Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn.,
November 29, 1824; moved to Illinois at the age
of 11; received an academic education; reaired upon
a farm; elected clerk of the county commissioners'
court ot Stark County, 111., in 1847, and served
until 1849; elected clerk of the county court of
Stark County, and served from 1849 to 1853; stud-
ied law, admitted to the bar in 1852 and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives in
1855 and 1856, and of the State senate in 1857,
1858, 1859, and 1860; entered the Union Army in
1862 as colonel of the One hundred and twelfth
Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served
until the close of the war and was brevetted briga-
dier-general in January, 1865, for gallant services
in the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, especially
at the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30,
1864; elected a Presidential elector for the State at
large on the Republican ticket in 1868; elected to
the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Republican.
Hendrick, John K., of Smithland, Ky., was
born in North Carolina October 10, 1849; raised on
a farm in Logan and Todd counties, Kentucky;
educated at private school, and at Bethel College,
Russellville, Ky.; moved to Crittenden County,
Ky in 1869, and engaged in school-teaching while
studying law; admitted to the bar in Livingston
County," Ky., in 1874; elected county attorney of
Livingston County in 1878 and reelected in 1882;.
elected to the State senate from the third district
in 1887; in 1888 chosen a delegate from the State
at large to the Democratic national convention
which met at St. Louis; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Hendricks, Thomas Andrews, was born near
Zanesville, Ohio, September 7, 1819; moved with
his parents to Madison, Ind., thence to Shelby
County in 1832; pursued classical studies and grad-
uated from Hanovtjr College in 1841; studied law
at Chambersburg, Pa., admitted to the bar in 1843,
and began practice at Shelby ville, Ind. ; State rep-
resentative in 1848 and a State senator in 1849;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses; defeat-
ed for the Thirty-fourth Congress; Commissioner
of General Land Office 1855-1859; defeated as the
Democratic candidate for governor in 1860, and
the same year moved to Indianapolis; United
States Senator from Indiana 1863-1869; defeated
as the Democratic candidate for governor in 1868;
elected governor in 1872; defeated for Vice-Presi-
dent on the Democratic ticket in 1876; visited Eu-
rope in 1877 and 1883; elected Vice-President on
the Democratic ticket in 1884; died at Indianapolis,
Ind., November 25, 1885.
Hendricks, William, was born in Westmore-
land County, Pa., in 1783; attended the common
schools; moved to Madison, Ind., in 1814; secre-
tary of the first State convention; elected to the
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth
Congresses, serving until his resignation, in 1822;
governor of India^.a 1822-1825; elected Ui\ited
States Senator from Indiana 1825-1837 as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection; died at Madison,
Ind., May 16, 1850.
Hendrix, Joseph C., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Fayette, Howard County, Mo., May 25,
1853; educated in private schools, at Central Col-
lege in his native place, and at Cornell Univer-
sity, Ithaca, N. Y. ; moved to New York in 1873,
and until 1883 a reporter, night city editor, and
writer on New York Sun; moved to Brooklyn,
N. Y., in 1873, and in 1882 appointed a mem-
ber of the board of education; in 1883 Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor of Brooklyn, and
defeated by Seth Low; appointed trustee of
the New York and Brooklyn Bridge in 1884;
elected secretary of the board of bridge trustees
in 1885; appointed postmaster of Brooklyn by
President Cleveland in 1886, and served until July
1, 1890; elected president of the board ot educa-
tion of Brooklyn in 1887; appointed rapid transit
commissioner in 1889, but declined the office; be-
came president of the Kings County Trust Com-
pany in 1889, and continued as such until June 1,
1893, when he became president of the National
Union Bank of New York City; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Henkle, Eli Jones, of Brooklyn, Md., was born
in Baltimore Countjr, Md., November 24, 1828; re-
ceived an academic education; taught school
three years; studied medicine, and graduated from
the University of Maryland in 1850; devoted his
attention chiefly to the practice of his profession
and to fruit culture; trustee and also professor
of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene in the Mary-
land Agricultural College; elected to the house of
delegates in 1863; member of the State constitu-
tional convention of 1864; elected to the State
senate in 1866 and again in 1867, serving in 1867,
1868, and 1870; elected to the house of delegates
in 1871 and 1873; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention in 1872; elected to the Forty-
fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses and reelected
to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Henley, Barclay, of Santa Eosa, Cal. (son of
Thomas J. Henley), was born in Clark County,
Ind., March 17, 1843; moved to California in 1853;
returned to Indiana; educated at Hanover College;
studied law in San Francisco, admitted to the bar
in 1864; district attorney of Sonoma County; mem-
ber of the State assembly; nominated Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876; nominated
for the same position in 1880 and elected; elected
to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Henley, Thomas J. , was born in Indiana in
1810; attended the Indiana State College; a
farmer; State representative 1832-1842; elected a
Eepresentative from Indiana to the Twenty-eighth,
Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; moved to California; member of the first
State legislature; superintendent of Indian af-
fairs of California for seven years; postmaster at
San Francisco.
Henn, Bernhart, was a native of New York;
attended the public schools; moved to Fairfield,
Iowa; elected a Eepresentative from Iowa to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-third Congress.
Henry, Charles L., of Anderson, Ind., was
born July 1, 1849, in Green Township, Hancock
County, Ind. ; his parents moved with him in his
early youth to Pendleton, Ind.; educated in the
common schools, and pursued his studies through
part of a collegiate course at Asbury (now De
Pauw) University, at Greencastle, Ind.; studied
law and graduated from the law department of the
Indiana University, at Bloomington, in 1872, and
immediately commenced the practice of law at
Pendleton; moved to Anderson in 1875; elected to
the State senate in 1880 from the counties of Grant
and Madison, and served in the sessions of 1881
and 1883_; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as
a Repubhcan; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress;
declined a renomination.
Henry, Daniel Maynadier, of Cambridge,
Md., was born near that town, Dorchester County,
February 19, 1823; educated at Cambridge Acad-
emy, and at St. John's College, Annapolis; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1844, and practiced;
elected a member of the house of delegates in
1846, and again in 1849; elected a member of the
State senate in 1869; elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress and reelected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat; after leaving Congress de-
voted himself to the practice of his profession; died
in August, 1899.
Henry, E. Stevens, was born in Gill, Mass.,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry, February 10, 1836, mov-
ing in 1849 to Eockville, Conn.; closely connected
with the business interests of that city; filled nu-
merous local offibes, serving two years as mayor;
representative to the lower house of the Connecti-
cut general assembly of 1883; State senator in
1887-88; delegate at large to the Chicago national
Eepublican convention in 1888; treasurer of the
State of Connecticut 1889-1893; elected to the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Henry, James, was a native of Virginia; pur-
sued classical studies; studied law; admitted to
the bar, and appointed a judge; Delegate to the
Continental Congress from Virginia 1780-81- died
in Virginia January 17, 1805.
Henry, John, was born at Easton, Md., about
1750; pursued classical studies and graduated from
Princeton College in 1769; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; commenced practice at Easton;
Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Con-
gress 1778-1781 and 1784-1787; United States
Senator from Maryland March 4, 1789, to his res-
ignation December 10, 1797; governor of Mary-
land 1797-98; died at Easton, Md., December 16,
1798.
Henry, John F. , was born in Scott County,
Ky., January 17, 1793; devoted himself to farm-
ing and the practice of medicine; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Nineteenth Con-
gress (vice his brother, Eobert P. Henry, de-
ceased), serving from December 11, 1826, to March
3, 1827.
Henry, Patrick, was born at Studley, Hanover
Oount;^, Va., May 29, 1736; received a limited
education; engaged unsuccessfully in mercantile
pursuits; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
1760; moved to Louisa County in 1764; member
of the colonial house of burgesses in 1765; Delegate
from Virginia to the Continental Congress 1774^
1776; colonel of the First Virginia Eegiment for a
few months; governor of Virginia 1776-1779 and
1784-1786; member of the State convention which
ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; declined
the appointment of Secretary of State offered by
President Washington and that of minister to
France offered by President John Adams; elected
to the State senate in 1799, but did not take the
seat; died at Eed Hill, Charlotte County, June 6,
1799.
Henry, Patrick, of Brandon, Miss., was born
in Madison County, Miss., February 12, 1843;
entered Mississippi College, at Clinton; afterwards
Madison College, at Sharon, and when the war
commenced was at the Nashville (Tenn. ) Militarv
College; in the spring of 1861 enlisted in the Con-
federate service in the Sixth Mississippi Infantry
Eegiment; served through the war, and surren-
dered at Greensboro, N. C, April 26, 1865, as
major of the Fourteenth (consolidated) Mississippi
Eegiment; returning home, farmed until 1873 in
Hinds and Eankin counties, when he commenced
the practice of law at Brandon; member of the
legislature in 1878 and 1890, and delegate from the
State at large to the constitutional convention in
1890; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat and reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Henry, Patrick, of Vicksburg, Miss., was born
m Arkansas, February 15, 1861; received a free-
school education and spent two years at college;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1884; eight
years attorney of the ninth judicial district, and
was beginning to serve his third term of four years
when appointed judge of the same district by the
governor, February, 1900, which he resigned to
take his seat in Congress, leaving three years of
the judicial term unexpired; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Henry, Robert Lee, was born May 12, 1864
at Linden, Cass County, Tex.; in 1895 located in
McLennan County; graduated with the degree of
M. A. from the Southwestern University of Texas
m June, 1885; valedictorian of his class; read law
and m January, 1886, admitted to the bar; prac-
ticed for a short time, and then took a course at
the University of Texas, and graduated with the
degree of B. L. in 1887; elected mayor of Texar-
kana in 1890; resigned this position to accept the
office of assistant attorney-general; moved tem-
porarily to Austin; served in this capacity for
nearly eighteen months; appointed assistant attor-
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593
ney-general October 3, 1893; held the latter posi-
tion for nearly three years; filled out an unexpired
term and one full term, and then located in
Waco foi- the practice of law; elected a member
of the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Henry, Robert P. , was born in Scott County,
Ky., November 24, 1788; received a classical
education; graduated from Transylvania College;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1809;
prosecuting attorney; served in the war of 1812;
moved to Hopkinsville; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Congresses as a Clay Democrat, serving until his
death, August 25, 1826, at Hopkinsville, Ky.,
Henry, Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1785;
emigrated to America; located at Beaver, Pa.;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as
a Whig; died at Beaver, Pa., July 27, 1849.
Henry, "W. Laird, was born at Cambridge, Md.,
December 20, 1864; educated in the public schools
of his native town; after a few years in mercantile
life he purchased an interest "in the Cambridge
Chronicle, and engaged in editing that journal;
never held any public position until elected in
1894 to fill out the unexpired term of Robert F.
Brattan in the Fifty-third Congress; after leaving
Congress he resumed the practice of law in Cam-
bridge, Md.
Henry, William, was Delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Congress 1784-1786.
Henry, William, was a native of New Hamp-
shire; attended the public schools; moved to Bel-
lows Falls, Vt. ; elected a Representative from Ver-
mont to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses
as a Whig.
Hepburn, William Peters, of Clarinda, Iowa,
was born November 4, 1833, at Wellsville,^Colum-
biana County, Ohio; taken to Iowa April, 1841;
educated in the schools of the Territory and in a
printing office; admitted to practice law in 1854;
made his home in Marshall County in February,
1856; elected prosecuting attorney of Marshall
County in August of that year; served the follow-
ing winter as a clerk in the house of representa-
tives, and elected clerk of the house of represent-
atives at the first session that convened in Des
Moines in January, 1858; in October of that year
elected district attorney of the eleventh judicial
district; member of the Republican national con-
vention in 1860; in August, 1861, resigned the
positioiLof district attorney and became a member
of the Second Iowa Cavalry; held the rank of cap-
tain, major, and lieutenant-colonel; a resident of
Memphis, Tenn., during the two years next fol-
lowing the war; moved to Clarinda, Iowa, in June,
1867; engaged in the active practice of his profes-
sion until 1881 ; on the Republican ticket in 1876
and 1888 as an elector at large; member of the
Republican national conventions in 1888 and 1896;
served as SoUcitor of the Treasury during the Ad-
ministration of President Benjamm Harrison;
elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighthj 'Forty-
ninth, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fiftb? Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican; served on the Committees on
Elections, Patents, Pacific Railways, Alcoholic
Liquor Traffic, Isthmian Affairs; during and after
the Fifty-fourth Congress, chairman of the Com-
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Herbert, Hilary A., of Montgomery, Ala.;
was born at Laurensville, S. C, March 12, 1834;
moved to Greenville, Butler County, Ala., in 1846;
attended the University of Alabama in 1853-54,
and the University of Virginia in 1855-56; studied
law and admitted to the bar; entered the Confed-
erate service as captain; promoted to the colonelcy
of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers; disabled at the
battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; continued
the practice of law at Greenville, Ala., until 1872,
when he moved to Montgomery, where he after-
wards practiced; elected a Representative from
Alabama to th^ Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat;
Secretary of the Navy 1893-1897; located at Wash-
ington, D. C, and practiced law.
Herbert, John C, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses.
Herbert, Philemon T. , was a native of Ala-
bama; moved to Mariposa City, Cal. ; elected a
Representative from California to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Hereford, Frank, was born iii Fauquier County,
Va., July 4, 1825; graduated in 1845; studied law
and practiced his profession; district attorney of
Sacramento County, Cal., from October, 1855, to
October, 1857; Presidential elector on the Demo-
cratic ticket for the State at large in 1868; elected
a member of the House of Representatives to the
Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses; elected to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Allen Taylor
Caperton; term of service expired March 3, 1881;
after leaving Congress he resumed the practice of
law; died at Union, Monroe County, W. Va.,
December 21, 1891.
Herkimer, John, was born at Danube, Her-
kimer County, N. Y., in 1773; attended the pub-
lic schools; State representative 1800-1808; judge
of the circuit court for several years; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fifteenth
and Eighteenth Congresses as a Democrat; moved
to Meriden, N. Y., in the interval, subsequently
returning to Danube, where he died June 8, 1848.
Hermann, Binger, of Roseburg, Oreg., was born
at Lonaconing, Allegany County, Md., February
19, 1843; educated in the rural schools of western
Maryland and at the Independent Academy (after-
wards Irving College), near Baltimore City; moved
to Oregon; taught country schools; studied law,
admitted to the supreme court of Oregon in 1866,
and practiced law; represented Douglas County
in the lower house of the Oregon legislature in
1866, and State senator for Douglas, Coos, and
Curry counties in 1868; deputy collector of United
States internal revenue for southern Oregon 1868-
1871 ; receiver of public moneys at the United States
land ofiice at Roseburg, Oreg., under appoint-
ment by President Grant 1871-1873; largely inter-
ested in shipping and lumber manufacturing on
the southern Oregon coast and rivers; judge-advo-
cate, with the rank of colonel, in the Oregon State
militia 1882-1884; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses as a Republican; appointed Commis-
sioner of the General Land Office by President
McKinley March 24, 1897; resigned February 2,
1903.
Hernandez, Joseph M., was a native of St.
Augustine, Fla. (a Spanish colony), transferring
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allegiance to the United States; elected a first
Delegate from Florida Territory to the Seventeenth
Congress, serving from January 3 to March 3,
1823; member and presiding officer of the Terri-
torialhouseof representatives; appointed brigadier-
feneral of volunteers in the war against the Florida
ndians; died at Matanzas, Cuba, June 8, 1857.
Herndon, Th.omas H. , was born in Greene
(now Hale) County, Ala., July 1, 1828; graduated
from the University of Alabama, and attended the
law school of the university at Cambridge, Mass. ;
Dracticing lawyer; elected a member of the legis-
ature from Mobile 1857-58; trustee of the Uni-
versity of Alabama 1858-59; member of the State
convention known as the secession convention in
1861; major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the
Confederate States army; wounded twice in bat-
tle, and paroled May 13, 1865; Democratic candi-
date for governor of Alabama in 1872; member of
the constitutional convention in 1875; chairman
of committee on the executive department; mem-
ber of the State legislature 1876-77; chairman of
the judiciary committee of the house; elected a
Eepresentative to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat; died
March 28, 1883.
Herndon, William S. , was born at Bome, Ga. ,
November 27, 1837; moved to Wood County, Tex;,
in May, 1852; attended McKenzie College, Texas;
studied law, and commenced practice in 1860;
served in the Confederate army 1861-1 865 ; resumed
practice at Tyler, Smith County; elected a Eep-
resentative from Texas to the Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Herod, William, received a liberal education;
studied law, admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Columbus, Ind.; State senator; elected
a Eepresentative from Indiana to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Whig, vice George L. Kinnard,
deceased; reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress;
defeated for the Twenty-sixth Congress.
Herrick, Anson (son of Ebenezer Herrick),
was born at Lewiston, Me., January 21, 1812; at-
tended the public schools; became a printer; estab-
lished the Citizen at Wiscasset in 1833; moved to
New York in 1836; established the New York
Atlas in 1838, which he continued until his death;
alderman from the Nineteenth Ward of New York
City 1854-1856; naval storekeeper for the port
of New York 1857-18gl; elected a Eepresentative
from New York t6 the Thirty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; delegate to the national Union con-
vention at Philadelphia in 1856; died at New York
City February 5, 1868.
Herrick, Ebenezer (father of Anson Herrick),
was a native of Lincoln County, Me. ; attended the
public schools; secretary of the State senate in
1820; elected a Eepresentative from Maine to the
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; declined a reelection; State senator in
1828-29; died at Lewiston, Me., May 7, 1839.
Herrick, Joshua, was born at Beverly, Mass
March 18, 1793; attended the public schools'
moved to the district of Maine in 1811 and engaged
m the lumber business on the Androscoggin Eiver-
served in the war of 1812; moved to Brunswick'
becoming connected with the first cotton factory
erected m Maine; deputy sheriff of Cumberland
County for many years; deputy collector and in-
spector of customs at Kennebunkport 1829-1841-
county commissioner of York County 1842-43-
elected a Eepresentative from Maine to theTwenty -
eighth Congress as a Democrat; again deputy col-
lector at Kennebunkport 1847-1849; register of
probate of York County 1849-1855; served for sev-
eral years in the militia; died at Alfred, Me.,
August 30, 1874.
Herrick, Kicliard P. , was born in Eensselaer
County, N. Y., in 1791; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Twenty-ninth Congress as
a Whig, serving until his death, at Washington,
D. C, June 20, 1846.
Herrick, Samuel, was bom in Dutchess County,
N. Y., April 14, 1779; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law at Carlisle, Pa. ; admitted to
the bar in 1805; moved to ZanesviUe, Ohio, in
1810; held several local offices; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Ohio to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Congresses as a Democrat; Presidential elector on
the Jackson and Calhoun ticket in 1828 ; appointed
United States district attorney for Ohio in 1829;
died December 16, 1851.
Hersey,Sam.uel F., was bom at Sumner, Me.,
April 12, 1812; received an academic education;
engaged in banking and lumber business in Maine,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin; member of the State
legislature of Maine in 1842, 1857, 1865, 1867, and
1869, knd of the executive council in 1851 and 1852;
delegate to the Eepublican convention at Chicago
in. 1860 and at Baltimore in 1864; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Maine to the Forty-third Congress
as a Eepublican, serving until his death, at Bangor,
Me., February 3, 1875.
He-wes, Joseph., was born at Kingston, N. J., in
1730; pursued classical studies and graduated from
Princeton College; located at Wilmington, N. C,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to
Edenton, N. C. ; member of the house of commons
of North Carolina 1774-1776; Delegate to the Con-
tinental Congress from 1774 until his death, at
Philadelphia, November 10, 1779; was one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
He-witt, Abram Stevens, was bom at Haver-
straw, N. Y., July 31, 1822; received his elemen-
tary education in the public schools of New York
City, where he gained a prize scholarship to Co-
lumbia College, whence he graduated at the head
of his class in 1842; acting professor of mathemat-
ics in 1843; studied law, and admitted to practice
in the State supreme court in October, 1845; his
eyesight failing, he engaged in the iron business,
and under the firm of Cooper & Hewitt established
extensive iron works, mainly in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania; appointed one of the ten United
States scientific commissioners to visit the French
Exposition Universelle of 1867 and made a report
on Iron and Steel, which was published by Con-
gress and has been translated into most foreign
languages; organized and managed the Cooper
Union for the Advancement of Science and Art,
designed especially for the education of the work-
ing classes; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; mayor of New York City,
1887-88; died January 18, 1903, at New York City.
Hewitt, Goldsmith. W. , of Birmingham, Ala.,
was born in Jefferson County, Ala., Febraary 14,
1834; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1856;
entered the Confederate army in June, 1861, as a
private; promoted captain in 1862, and severely
wounded at Chickamauga; member of the State
house of representatives in 1870 and 1871; elected
a member of the State senate in 1872, and resigned
in 1874; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
and Forty-seventh Congresses; reelected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; died in 1895.
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Hejrward, Thomas, jr. , was bom in St. Luke
Parish, S. C, in 1746; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law in the Temple at London; admit-
ted to the bar and practiced ; member of the colonial
assembly of South Carohna; Delegate from South
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1776-1778;
served in the Revolutionary war as captain; taken
prisoner at the capture of Charleston and carried
to St. Augustine; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1790; died on his plantation
in the parish of St. Luke, S. C, March 6, 1809.
Hejnvard, ■William, pursued classical studies;
graduated from Princeton College in 1808; elected
a Bepresentative from Maryland to the Eighteenth
Congress.
Hibbard, EUery A. , was born at St. Johnsbury ,
Vt., July 31, 1826; received an academic educa-
tion; studied and practiced law; clerk of the New
Hampshire house of representatives 1852-1854,
and a member in 1865-66; elected a Representa-
tive from New Hampshire to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat and Labor Reform; judge
of the supreme court of Vermont 1873-74, and
declined a reappointment under the revised ju-
diciary system.
Hibbard, Harry, was born at Concord, Vt.,
July 1, 1816; pursued classical studies and gradu-
ated from Dartmouth College in 1835; studied law,
admitted to the bar in 1839; commenced practice
at Bath, N. H. ; clerk of the S ata house of repre-
sentatives 1840-1843; meml er and speaker of it
1814-45; State senator 1846-J 849; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; died at Somersville, N. H., July 27,
1872.
Hitoshman, Jacob, was a native of Lancaster,
Pa.; attended the common schools; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Sixteenth Congress.
Hickman, Jolin, was born in Chester County,
Pa., September 11, 1810; received an academic
education; started to study medicine, but aban-
doned it for the study of law; admitted to the bar
in 1833 and began practice at West Chester; dele-
gate to the Democratic convention at Baltimore in
1844 ; district attorney for Chester County 1844-45 ;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat, to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Doug-
lass Democrat, and to the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Republican, declining a reelection to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; State representative in
1869; died at West Chester, Pa., March 23, 1875.
Hicks, Josiah D., of Altoona, Pa., was born in
Chester County, Pa., August 1, 1844, and moved to
Blair County in the year 1847; received his educa-
tion principally in the common schools of Blair
and Huntingdon counties; moved to Altoona in
the spring of 1861 , and enlisted in the Union Army
as a private soldier from that place in the fall of
1862, and served in the Army nearly eighteen
months; admitted to prac;tice law in his county
and State courts in 1875; elected district attorney
of Blair County in 1880, and in 1883 reelected;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty -fifth
Congresses.
Hicks, Thomas HoUiday, was born in Dor-
chester County, Md., September 2, 1798; attended
the public schools; worked on a farm; elected
sheriff of Dorchester County in 1831; State repre-
sentative in 1836; appointed register of wills in
1838, holding the office a number of years; gov-
ernor of Maryland 1858-1862; took a firm stand
against secession; appointed as a United States
Senator from Maryland as a Republican (vice J. A.
Pearce, deceased), and afterwards elected by the
legislature, serving from January 14, 1863, until
his death, at Washington, D. C, February 13, 1865.
Hiestand, John A., of Lancaster, Pa., was
born in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County,
Pa., October 2, 1824; raised on a farm; attended
the common schools and academies of the neigh-
borhood and Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg;
studied law; admitted to the Lancaster bar m 1849;
elected to the State house of representatives of
Pennsylvania in 1852, 1853, and 1856 as a Whig; he
purchased in October, 1858, an interest in the Lan-
caster Examiner newspaper and printing establish-
ment, relinquishing the practice of law; nominated
to the State senate in 1860 by the Republican party
and elected for a term of three years; district Lin-
coln and Johnson elector in 1864, and appointed
by the electoral college the messenger to carry the
vote to Washington; appointed by President Grant
in 187 1 naval officer at the port of Philadelphia, and
reappointed by him in 1875, serving eight years;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Higby, William, was born at Willsboro, N. Y.,
August 18, 1813; received a classical education,
graduating from the University of Vermont ; studied
and practiced law; went to California in 1850; dis-
trict attorney 1853-1859; State senator in 1862 and
1863; elected a Representative from California to
the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses as a Republicari.
Higgins, Anthony, of Wilmington, Del., was
born in Red Lion Hundred, Newcastle County,
Del., October 1, 1840; attended Newark Academy
and Delaware College, and graduated from Yale in
1861; studied law one year at the Harvard Law
School, and admitted to the bar in 1864; appointed
deputy attorney-general in September, 1864; United
States attorney for Delaware from May, 1869, until
1876; received the votes of the Republican mem-
bers of the legislature for the United States Senate
in 1881; Republican candidate for Congress in
1884, and elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican to succeed Eli Saulsbury, Democrat,
and took his seat March 4, 1889; resumed the
practice of law after the expiration of his term in
Congress,
Higginson, Stephen, was born at Salem, Mass. ,
November 28, 1743; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits and navigation; Delegate from Massachu-
setts to the Continental Congress 1782-83; navy
agent at Boston 1797-1808; prominent in putting
down "Shay's Rebellion;" a heavy loser by the
war of 1812; published several political pamphlets;
died at Boston, Mass. , November 22, 1828.
Hilborn, Samuel Greeley, was born at Minot,
Androscoggin County (then Cumberland), Me.,
December 9, 1834; educated in the common schools,
Hebron Academy, and Gould's Academy, Bethel,
Me., and Tufts College, Mass., from which latter
institution he graduated in 1859; read law, admit-
ted to the bar in 1861, and immediately went to
California; located at Vallejo, Solano County, and
engaged in the practice of the law; served in the
State senate from 1875 to 1879; member of the con-
stitutional convention in 1879; appointed United
States district attorney for the district of California
in 1883, and moved to San Francisco, where he
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resided while filling the office; changed his resi-
dence to Oakland in 1887, continuing the law busi-
ness under the firm name of Hilborn & Hall in
San "Francisco; elected to the Fifty-second Congress
as a Republican to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
Joseph McKenna, appointed United States circuit
judge; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth
Congresses; died April 19, 1899, at Washington,
D. C.
Hildebrant, Charles ftuinn, of Wilmington,
Ohio, was born in that city October 17, 1864; edu-
cated in the public schools and for a few months
at Ohio State University, Columbus; elected clerk
of the courts of Clinton County in 1890, and
reelected in 1893 and 1896; elected to the Fifty-
seventh and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Hill, Benjamin Harvey, was born in Jasper
County, Ga., September 14, 1823; received a clas-
sical education, graduating from the University of
Georgia, at Athens, in 1844; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1845, and commenced to practice at
Lagrange, Ga.; a member of the State house of
representatives of Georgia in 1851, 1859, and 1860;
defeated as the American candidate for Congress in
1855; defeated as the American candidate for gov-
ernor of Georgia in 1857; Presidential elector on
the Bell and Everett ticket in 1861; delegate to the
State convention in 1861, and advocated the Union
until the secession ordinance had been adopted; a
delegate from Georgia to the Confederate provis-
ional congress, and subsequently a senator from
Georgia to the Confederate congress; elected a
Representative to the Forty-fourth Congress (to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garrett
McMillan) and reelected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, but resigned, having been elected to the
United States Senate from Georgia; took his seat
March 5, 1877; died at Atlanta, Ga., August 19,
1882.
Hill, Charles Augustus, was born at Truxton,
Cortland County, N. Y., August 23, 1833; received
his early education in the common schools and
select schools at Griflins Mills during one winter;
in the spring of 1854 located in Will County, 111.,
where he taught school for several years; in 1856
took a course at JBell's Commercial College, Chi-
cago; while teaching school read law; admitted to
the bar, and returned to Will County, 111., in 1860,
and admitted to practice in the courts of Illinois;
enlisted in Company F, Eighth Illinois Cavalry,
commanded by Colonel Farnsworth, in August,
1862j and immediately proceeded to Washington;
wasm the battle of Antietam, in the battles of
Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, the fight at Falling
Waters, and numerous small engagements; ap-
pointed first lieutenant First Regiment United
States Colored Troops; commissioned in 1865 cap-
tain of Company C, that regiment, and mustered
out September 29, 1865; present at the siege of
Petersburg, in both expeditionsagainst Fort Fisher,
and the taking of Wilmington, N. C. ; joined Gen-
eral Sherman's forces at Coxs Bridge after the bat-
tle 01 BentonviUe; with his command at Raleigh
when General Johnston surrendered; after theclose
of the war served for some time on detached duty
as a mea-tber of a court-martial sitting at Newbern,
N. C; commanded a separate post at Elizabeth
City, N. 0., and mustered out September 29, 1865
with his regiment; returned to Will County, Ill.|
in 1865, and opened a law office at Joliet; elected
State attorney in 1868 for the counties of Will
and Grundy, and declined a renomination; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; after
expiration of his term in Congress resumed the
practice of law; in December, 1896, appointed
assistant attorney-general of Illinois; died May 29,
1901.
Hill, Clement S., was a native of Kentucky,
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-thil'd Congress as an Independent Demo-
crat.
Hill, David Bennett, of Elmira, N. Y., was
born at Havana, Schuyler (then Chemung) County,
N. Y., August 29, 1843; graduated from the Ha-
vana Academy; studied law in Elmira, and ad-
mitted to the bar in November, 1864, at the age of
21; within a few months appointed city attorney;
in 1871 and again in 1872 elected from Chemung
County to the State assembly; president of the
Democratic State conventions in 1877 and 1881;
elected mayor of Elmira in 1882; president of the
New York State bar association in 1886 and again
in 1887; chosen lieutenant-governor of the State
in November, 1882; became governor, in the place
of Grover Cleveland, in January, 1885; elected
governor in November, 1885; reelected in 1888,
and in 1891 elected to the United States Senate as
a Democrat to succeed William M. Evarts; after
his retirement from Congress resumed the prac-
tice of law.
Hill, Ebenezer J., of Norwalk, Conn., was
born at Redding, Conn., August 4, 1845; prepared
for college at the public school in Norwalk and
entered Yale in the class of 1865; in 1892 received
from Yale University the honorary degree of
master of arts; in 1868 joined the Army as a civil-
ian, and remained until the close of the war; en-
gaged in business from that time until elected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress; held the commercial
positions of secretary and treasurer of the Norwalk
Iron Works, president of the Norwalk Street Rail-
way Company, president of the Norwalk Gaslight
Company, vice-president of the Norwalk Mills
Company, and vice-president of the National Bank
of Norwalk; past grand master and past grand
representative of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of Connecticut; served twice as burgess of
Norwalk, twice as chairman of the board of school
visitors ; the Fourth district delegate to the national
RepubUcan convention of 1884; member of the
Connecticut senate for 1886-87; served one term
on the Republican State central committee; elected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Hill, Hugh. I,. W., was a native of Tennessee;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat.
Hill, Isaac, was born at Somerville, Mass.,
April 6, 1788; received a limited education; in
1798 moved with his parents near Ashburnham,
Mass. ; apprentice to a printer; moved to Concord,
where he purchased a paper, and for twenty years
edited the New Hampshire Patriot; served several
terms m both branches of the legislature; can-
didate for the United States Senate in 1828, but
defeated; Second Comptroller of the United
States Treasury 1829-30; elected a United States
benator from New Hampshire as a Democrat and
served from December 5, 1831, to May 28, 1836
when he handed in his resignation, to take effect
May 30, having been elected governor of New
Hampshire, 1836-1839; 1840-41 was United States
subtreasurer at Boston; editor and publisher of
Hill s New Hampshire Patriot 1840-1847; died at
Washington, D. 0., March-22, 1851.
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Hill, Jolin, was a native of Buckingham County,
Va.; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Twenty-sixth
Congress.
Hill, John, was a native of Crawford, N. C;
education limited; a member of the North Caro-
lina house of commons 1819-1822 and of the State
senate 1823-1826; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
Hill, John, of Boonton, N. J., was born at
Catskill, N. Y., June 10, 1821; received a private
school education; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
located at Boonton, N. J., where he held several
local ofl&ces; a member of the State assembly of
New Jersey in 1861, 1862, and 1866, serving during
the last year as speaker; active in raising troops
for the Union Army during the war for the sup-
pression of the rebellion; elected to the Fortieth
and reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second
Congresses; elected in 1874 to the State senate of
New Jersey and served for three years; elected to
the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; died
July 24, 1884, at Boonton, N. J.
Hill, Joshua, was born in Abbeville District,
S. C, January 10, 1812; attended the public schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; moved to
Madison, Ga., where he began the practice of law;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as an American; reelected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress, but resigned January
23, 1861 ; appointed collector of customs at Savan-
nah in 1866; appointed register in bankruptcy in
1867; elected a United States Senator from Geor-
gia, serving from February ,1, 1871, to March 3,
1873; member of the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1877; died at Madison, Ga., March 6, 1891.
Hill, Mark L., was born in Biddeford, Mass.
(now Maine), June 30, 1772; attended the public
schools; served in both branches of the Massachu-
setts legislature; a judge of the court of common
pleas; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Sixteenth Congress; elected a Representa-
tive from Maine to the Seventeenth Congress; col-
lector of customs at Bath, Me.; overseer of
Bowdoin College several years; died at Phipps-
burg, Me., November 26, 1842.
Hill, Nathaniel P., was born at Montgomery,
N. Y., February 18, 1882; entered Brown Univer-
sity at Providence, R. I., in 1853; professor in
chemistry in Brown University from 1860 to 1864;
spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea,
Wales, and Freiberg, Saxony, studying metal-
lurgy; took up a permanent residence in Colorado
in 1867 as manager of the Boston and Colorado
Smelting Company; member of the Territorial
council of Colorado in 1872 and 1873; elected to
the United States Senate as a Republican to suc-
ceed Jerome B. Chaffee, Republican, and took his
seat March 18, 1879; after his retirement from the
United States Senate he devoted himself to mining,
and was quite successful; died May 22, 1900; at
Denver, Colo.
Hill, Balph, was bom in Johnson County,
Ohio, October 12, 1827; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar;
moved to Columbus, Ind., where he began prac-
ticing; elected a Representative from Indiana to
. the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Hill, William D. , of Defiance, Ohio, was born
in Nelson County, Va., October 1, 1833; educated in
country schools and Antioch College; studied law
at Springfield, Ohio; admitted to the bar in 1860,
and practiced law; mayor of Springfield, Ohio;
member of the State house of representatives of
Ohio 1866-1869; appointed superintendent of in-
surance by Governor Allen in 1875 and served
three years; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses; resumed the practice of
law at Defiance, Ohio, after leaving Congress.
Hill, Whitmill, was born in Bertie County,
N. C,, February 12, 1743; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; prominently connected
with the early Revolutionary movements; delegate
to the assembly of freemen at Hillsboro in 1775
and the State congress at Halifax in 1776; member
of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1777
and of the State senate in 1778-1780, 1784-85; Del-
egate from North Carolina to the Continental Con-
gress 1778-1781; died at Hills Ferry, N. C, Sep-
tember 12, 1797.
Hill, William H. , was a native of North Caro-
lina; studied law and admitted to the bar; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the Sixth
and Seventh Congresses; judge of the United States
district court for North Carolina; died in 1809.
Hillen, Solomon, jr. , was born in Baltimore
County, Md., in 1813; graduated from Georgetown
College; studied law and admitted to the bar; be-
gan practice at Baltimore; member of the State
house of representatives 1834-1838; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maryland to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; mayor of Baltimore 1842-
1845; on account of ill health resigned.
Hillhouse, James, was born at Montville,
Conn., October 21, 1754; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1773; studied law and admitted to the bar;
located at New Haven, where he began the practice
of his profession; served in the Revolutionary war;
elected as a Representative from Connecticut to
the Second and Third Congresses as a Federalist;
elected a United States Senator from Connecticut
(vice Oliver Ellsworth, resigned), serving from
May, 1796, until June 10, 1810, when he resigned
to become commissioner of the school fund, which
he held until 1825; member of the Hartford con-
vention; treasurerof Yale College 1782-1832; died
at New Haven, Conn. , December 29, 1832.
Hillhouse, William (father of James Hill-
house), was born at Montville, Conn., August 25,
1728; received a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; served fifty years in the colo-
nial and State house of representatives; judge of
the court of common pleas for forty years; Dele-
gate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress
1783-1786; died at Montville, Conn., January 12,
1816.
Hilliard, Henry Washington, was born at
Fayetteville, N. C, August 4, 1808; received a
liberal education and graduated from the South
Carolina College in 1826 ; studied law and moved to
Athens, Ga. , where he was admitted to the bar in
1829; professor of the University of Alabama 1831-
1834, when he resigned to practice law at Mont-
gomery; elected to the State legislature 1836-1838;
member of the Whig national convention in 1839,
and in 1840 a Whig Presidential elector; charge
d'affaires to Belgium May 12, 1842, to August 15,
1844; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con-
gresses as a Whig; resumed the practice of law;
served in the Confederate army; moved to Geor-
gia; defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Forty-fifth Congress; appointed by Jefferson Davis,
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Confederate commissioner to Tennessee; served as
a brigadier-general in the Confederate army;
resumed practice at Augusta, Ga. , thence moved
to Atlanta; United States minister to Brazil 1877-
1881; died at Atlanta, Ga., December 17, 1892.
Hillyer, Junius, was born in Wilkes County,
Ga., April 23, 1807; graduated from the State Uni-
versity at Athens in 1828; studied lawand admitted
to the bar; began practicing at Athens; elected
solicitor-general for the western district of Georgia
in 1834; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-third Congress ; solicitor of the
United States Treasury, December 1, 1857, to Feb-
ruary 1 1, 1861, when lie resigned; died at Decatur,
Ga., June 21, 1886.
Hindmau, Thomas C. , wa^born in Tennessee
in November, 1818; attended the public schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice in Mississippi; served in the Mexican war with
the Mississippi Volunteers; moved to Helena, Ark. ;
elected a Representative from Arkansas to the.
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to'
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Secessionist, but
did not take his seat; appointed brigadier-general
in the Southern army, September 28, 1861, and
major-general in 1862; served throughout the war;
went to Texas, and returned to Helena in 1868,
where he died September 28, 1868.
Hiudman, Williani, was bom in Dorchester
County, Md., April 1, 1743; received a classical
education; elected a Representative from that State
to the Second Congress, vice J. Seney, resigned;
reelected to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Con-
gresses, serving from January 30, 1793, to 1799;
appointed United States Senator from Maryland
(vice James Lloyd, resigned), serving from De-
cember 15, 1800," to March 3, 1801; reappointed,
serving from March 5, 1801, until November 19,
1801; died at Baltimore, Md., January 26, 1822.
Hinds, James, was born at Hebron, N. Y.,
December 5, 1833; received a liberal education;
studied law; graduated from the Cincinnati Law
College in 1856, commencing practice in Minnesota ;
served in the Union Army as a private; settled at
Little Rock, Ark.; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention; appointed as a commissioner to
codify the State laws; elected a Representative from
Arkansas to the Fortieth Congress, serving from
June 24, 1868, until he died at Monroe, Ark.,
Ootober 22, 1868.
Hinds, Thomas, was born in 1775; located at
Greenville, Miss.; served in the war of 1812;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Twentieth Congress as a Democrat (vice William
Haile, resigned), and reelected to the Twenty-first
Congress, serving_ from December 8, 1828, until
March 3, 1831; died at Greenville, Miss., August
23, 1840.
Hiues, Richard, was native of Edgecombe
County, N. C; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Nineteenth Congress; moved
to Raleigh, where he died November, 1851.
Hines, William H., of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was
born at Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15, 1856; educated
in the public schools and Wyoming Seminary;
admitted to the bar in Luzerne County in 1881;
a member of the house of representatives of Penn-
sylvania 1879-1880 and 1883-84; elected to the sen-
ate of Pennsylvania in 1888 for a term of four
vears; elected to the Fifty- third Congress as a
Democrat.
Hinrichsen, William. H., of Jacksonville, III.,
was born at i'ranklin. May 27, 1850; educated in
the public schools and the State University at
Champaign, 111.; elected to the office of justice of
the peace in 1871 and reelected in 1873; appointed
deputy sheriff of his county in 1874, and served
three terms in that position; elected sheriff In
1880; elected clerk of the house of representatives
of Illinois in 1891; elected secretary of state in
1892; delegate at large to the Democratic national
convention of 1896; served as a member of the
Democratic State committee since 1888, and was
chairman of it in 1895; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat.
Hires, George, of Salem, N. J., was bom in
Salem County, January 26, 1835; received a coni-
mon school and commercial education; has been
engaged in the mercantile and manufacturing
business since 1855 ; elected sheriff of Salem County
in 1867, 1868, and 1869; elected State senator from
Salem County in 1881 for three years; elected to
the Forty-ninth Congress as a . Republican; re-
elected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Hiscock, Frank, of Syracuse, N. Y., was bom
at Pompey, September 6, 1834; received an aca-
demic education; studied law, admitted to the
bar in 1855, and commenced practice at TuUy,
Onondaga County; elected district attorney of
Onondaga County, serving from 1860 to 1863; a
member of the State constitutional convention in
1867; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, and re-
elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses;
elected to the United States Senate as a Republican
to succeed Warner Miller.
Hise, Elijah, was born in Kentucky, July 4,
1802; defeated as Democratic candidate for lieu-
tenant-governor in 1836; chargg d'affaires to Gua-
temala, March 31, 1848, to June 21, 1849; Presi-
dential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1856;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat (vice Henry
G rider, deceased), serving from December 3, 1866,
to 1867; reelected to the Fortieth Congress; died
at Russellville, Ky., May 8, 1867.
Hitchcock, Peter, was born at Cheshire, Conn.,
October 19, 1781; pursued classical studies and
graduated from Yale College in 1801; studied law
and admitted to the bar in 1804; began practice at
Cheshire; moved to Geauga Countv, Ohio; State
representative in 1810 and a State senator in 1812-
1816; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Fifteenth Congress; judge of the supreme court of
Ohio 1824r-1852; a portion of that time was chief
justice; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1850; died at Painesville, Ohio, May
IXj loOo.
Hitchcock, Phineas W., of Nebraska, was
born at New Lebanon, N. Y., November 30, 1831-
gra,duated from Williams College, Massachusetts,
in 1855; studied law and admitted to the bar- began
practice m Nebraska in 1857; delegate to the Re-
publican convention at Chicago in 1860; appointed
United States marshal in 1861, resigning in 1864
having been elected a Delegate to the Thirty-ninth
Oongress; two years surveyor-general of Nebraska;
United States Senator from Nebraska as a Repub-
lican 1871-1877; died at Omaha, Nebr., July 10,
Hitt, Robert Roberts, of Mount Morris, 111
was born at Urbana, Ohio, January 16 1834-
moved to Ogle County, 111., in 1837; educated at
Kock River bemmary (now Mount Morris College)
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and at De Pauw University; reported Lincoln-
Douglas debates in 1858; first secretary of legation
and charg6 d'affaires ad interim at Paris from De-
cember, 1874, until March, 1881; Assistant Secre-
tary of State in 1881; regent of the Smithsonian
Institution and chairman of the Committee of For-
eign Affairs; commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands
in 1898; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress No-
vember 7, 1882, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Hon. E. M. A. Hawk; elected to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Hoag, TrumanH., wasbornatManliuSjN. Y.,
April 9, 1816; attended the public schools; a clerk
in a store at Syracuse 1831-1839; in the steamboat
business on Lake Ontario in 1842, moving to Toledo
• in 1848; elected a Representative from Ohio as a
Democrat to the Forty-first Congress, serving un-
til February 5, 1870, when he died, at Washington,
D. C.
Hoagland, Moses, was a native of Ohio; at-
tended the public schools; studied law and admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Millersburg;
elected a Representative from Ohio as a Democrat
to the Thirty-first Congress; appointed United
States judge for Washington Territory.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood (son of Samuel,
and brother of George Frisbie Hoar) , was born at
Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816; pursued clas-
sical studies and graduated from Harvard College in
1835; admitted to the bar in 1840; began practice
at Concord and Boston, Mass. ; elected State sena-
tor in 1846 as an antislavery Whig; prominent in
the Free Soil party movement; judge of the court
of common pleas 1849-1855; judge of the State
supreme court 1859-1869; Attorney-General of the
United States March, 1869, until his resignation,
June, 1870; nominated for associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, but not confirmed
by the Senate; a member of the Joint High Com-
mission which framed the treatjf.of Washington
in 1871; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-
aress- member of the board of overseers of Harvard
College 1868-1880, and 1881-1882; died at Concord,
Mass., January 31, 1895.
Hoar, George IVisbie, of Worcester, was born
at Concord, Mass., August 29, 1826; studied in
early youth at Concord AcadeiHy; graduated from
Harvard College in 1846; studied law and gradu-
ated from the Dane Law School, Harvard Univer-
sity; settled at Worcester, where he practiced;
city solicitor in 1860; president of the trustees of
the city library; member of the State house pi
representatives in 1852 and of the State senate m
1857; elected a Representative to the Forty-first,
Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses; declined arenomination for Representative
to the Forty-fifth Congress; overseer of Harvard
College 1874^1880; declined reelection, but re-
elected in 1896 and again, for six years m 1900;
president of the Association of the Alumm of
harvard; presided aver t^eMassachusette State
Republican conventions of 1871, 1877, 1882, and
188^5; delegate to the Bf.P'^bliff„"^^{°^f ,*L°?T^?o
tions of 1876atCincinnatiandof 1880, 1884, andlSSS
at Chicago, presiding over the convention of 1880,
chairmaS of the Massachusetts delegation in 1880,
1884, and 1888; one of the managers on the part of
the House of Representatives of the Belknap im-
peachment trial in 1876; member of the Electoral
^iission in 1876; regent of the Smithsonian
Institution in 1880; president and vice-president
of the American Antiquarian Society; president of
the American Historical Association; president
board of trustees of Clark University 1900; trustee
of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology; trustee of
Leicester Academy; member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, of the American Historical
Society, the Historic-Genealogical Society, the
Virginia Historical Society ; fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and corresponding
member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences; trustee of the Peabody fund; received
the degree of doctor of laws from William and
Mary, Amherst, Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth
colleges; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican to succeed George S. Boutwell; took
his seat March 5, 1877, and reelected in 1888, 1889,
1895, and 1901.
Hoar, Samuel (father of E. R. and G. F. Hoar) ,
was born at Lincoln, Mass., May 18, 1778; pursued
classical studies, and graduated from Cambridge in
1802; for two years a private tutor in Virginia;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1805 ; began
practice at Concord, Mass. ; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1820; State senator in
1825 and 1833 ; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress;
prominently connected with several charitable,
historical, and scientific societies; died at Concord,
Mass., November 2, 1856.
Hoar, Sherman, was born at Concord, Mass.,
July 30, 1860; educated in the public schools of
his native village, at Phillips Exeter Academy,
at Harvard University, and Harvard Law School;
a lawyer; trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and
director of the American Unitarian Association;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; United States district attorney for district
of Massachusetts 1893-1897; died October 7, 1898,
at Concord, Mass. .
Hoard, Charles B., was born at Springfield,
Vt., June 28, 1805; attended the public schools;
moved to Antwerp, N. Y., and thence to Water-
town, where he was postmaster during the Admin-
istrations of Jackson and Van Buren; a State
representative in 1838; clerk of Jefferson County
1844-1846; elected a Representative from New
York as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses; died at Ceredo, W. Va.
Hobart, Aaron, was born at Abington, Mass.,
June 26, 1787; pursued classical studies and grad-
uated from Brown University in 1805; studied law
at East Bridgewater; admitted to the bar in 1819
and began practicing at Abington; resumed prac-
tice at Hanover in 1811; in 1824 moved to East
Bridgewater; State representative in 1814, and
State senator in 1819; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts as a Democrat to the Six-
teenth Congress (vice Zabdiel Sampson, resigned),
and reelected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses, executive councilor 1827-
1831; judge of probate 1843-1858; died at East
Bridgewater, Mass., July 19, 1858.
Hobart, John Sloss, was Dorn at Fairfield,
Conn., in 1738; pursued classical studies and grad-
uated from Yale College in 1757; studied law, ad-
mitted to the bar, and began practice in New York
State; deputy to the provincial convention in 1775;
Delegate to the Provincial Congress 1775-1777 a
puisne justice of the supreme court 1777-1798;
elected a United States Senator from New York
(vice Philip Schuy.er, resigned), serving from
February 2, 1798, to April, i798, resigning to accept
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the appointment as judge of the United States dis-
trict court of New York; died February 4, 1805.
Hobble, Selah. B., was born at Newburgh,
N. Y., March 10, 1797; studied law, admitted to
the bar, and began practice at Delhi; district
attorney of Delaware County, 1823-1827; served
in the militia; elected a Representative from New
York as a Jackson Democrat to the Twentieth
Congress; Second Assistant Postmaster-General
1829-1836, and First Assistant 1836-1851, resigning
on account of ill health; again First Assistant
Postmaster-Qeneral March 22, 1853, to his death,
at Washington, D. C, March 23, 1854.
Hoblitzell, Fetter S., of Baltimore, Md., was
born in Cumberland, Md., October 7, 1838; edu-
cated in the Allegany Academy, and studied law;
practiced his profession in the city of Baltimore in
1859; served as a private in the First Maryland
Regiment of Infantry, Confederate States army;
at the close of the war resumed the profession of
law; elected a member of the legislature in 1870
and 1876, and reelected in 1878 and chosen speaker
of the house of delegates by the unanimous vote
of his party; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-eighth
Congress.
Hodges, Asa, was born January 22, 1823;
moved to Marion, Ark.; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1849 and practiced until 1860; delegate
to the State constitutional convention in 1866;
elected a State representative in 1868, and elected
in 1870 a State senator for four years; elected a
Representative from Arkansas to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Hodges, Charles D., lived at Carrollton, 111.;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-fifth Congress (vice Thomas L. Harris, de-
ceased), serving from January, 1859, to March 3,
1859.
Hodges, George T. , was born at Clarendon,
Vt., July 4, 1789; attended the common schools;
a merchant at Rutland; served several terms in
both branches of the State legislature; president of
the Bank of Rutland for over twenty-five years;
elected a Representative from Vermont as a Re-
publican to the Thirty-fourth Congress (vice James
Meacham, deceased), serving from December 1
1856, to March 3, 1857; died at Rutland, Vt., Sep-
tember 9, 1860.
Hodges, James L., was born in Bristol County,
Mass., August 7, 1790; attended the common
schools; State senator 1823-24; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Twentieth,
Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses; died
in Bristol County, Mass., March 8, 1846.
Hoffecker, John Henry, was born Septem-
ber 12, 1827, at Mansion House, on a farm near
Smyrna, Del. ; attended pubhc and private schools
in that town; graduated in civil engineering;
opened an office in Smyrna, in 1853, as surveyor
and conveyancer, and pursued the business con-
tinuously to 1889; elected delegate to the Repub-
lican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876,
and at Chicago in 1884; elected a member of the
general assembly in 1888, and on January 1, 1889,
chosen speaker of the house of representatives-
elected president of town council in 1878, and
served continuously by reelection to 1898; elected
to the Fifty -sixth Congress as a Republican; died
June 16, 1900.
Hoffecker, "Walter Oakley (son of John Henry
Hoffecker), of Smyrna, Del., was born September
20, 1854, on his father's farm near that town; at-
tended public schools; graduated from Smyrna
Seminary in 1872; in September, 1873, entered
Lehigh University; studied civil engineering and
followed that profession; also engaged in farming
and the canning business; president of Philadel-
phia and Smyrna Transportation Company ; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of his father;
took his seat December 3, 1900.
Hoffman, Henry W. , was a native of Maryland;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Thijty-fourth Congress
as an American; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-fifth Congress; elected Sergeant-at-Arms of
the House in the Thirty-sixth Congress; collector
of customs at Baltimore 1861-1866.
Hoffman, IlJCicliael, was born at Clifton Park,
N. Y., in 1788; received an academic education; '
studied medicine and' the law; admitted to the bar
and began practice at Herkimer; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York as a Democrat to the
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
second Congresses; canal commissioner of New
York 1833-1835; register of the land oflBce at Sagi-
naw, 111., in 1836; returned to Herkimer, N. Y.;
State representative in 1841, 1842, and 1844; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1846;
naval officer of New York City; died at Brooklvn
September 27, 1848.
Hoffman, Ogden, was born at New York City
May 3, 1793; pursued classical studies and grad-
uated from Columbia College in 1812; served for
three years in the Navy; studied law; admitted to
the bar, and began practice in Orange County; dis-
trict attorney of that county 1823-1826; returned
to New York City; State representative in 1828;
district attorney of the city and county of New
York 1829-1835; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fifth and Twentv-sixth
Congresses as a Whig; United States district attor-
ney at New York 1841-1845; attorney-general of
the State November 8, 1853, to November 7, 1855;
died at New York City May 1, 1856.
Hogan, John, was born at Mallow, County
Cork, Ireland, January 2, 1805; emigrated to the
United States in 1817; located at Baltimore; ap-
prenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade; received
a limited education; went West in 1826, and in
1831 entered into mercantile business at Madison,
III; member of the State legislature in 1836; regis-
ter of the land office at Dixon, 111., 1841-1845;
moved to St. Louis, Mo., and engaged in banking
and mercantile pursuits; postmaster at St. Louis
1857-1861; elected a Representative from Missouri
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Hogan, William, was born at New York City
m 1792; when young went to Cape Colonv where
he studied the Dutch language; returned" to New
York; pursued classical studies, and graduated
from Columbia College; studied law; admitted
to the bar; founded the town of Hogansburg
Frankhn County; county judge of the county;
elected a Representative from New York to the
I wenty-second Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
?!®^ V^cJ^^ ^^^ Department at Washington,
D. C., 1850-1860; died at Washington, D. C, Ibout
io75.
Hoge, John (brother of William Hoge), was
bom near Carlisle, Pa., September 10, 1760- re-
ceived a hberal education; served in the Revolu-
tionary war; moved to western Pennsylvania in
1782, where he founded the town of Washinoton-
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delegate to the State constitutional convention;
member of the State senate 1790-1795; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Eighth
Congress, vice William Hog'e, resigned; died near
Washington, Pa., August 4, 1824.
Hoge, John Blair, of Martinsburg, W. Va.,
was born at Richmond, Va., February 2, 1825;
educated for the bar and admitted to practice
in April, 1845; chosen president of the Bank of
Berkeley in Virginia in 1853; served in the Vir-
ginia house of delegates 1855 to 1859; delegate
from Virginia to the Democratic convention of
1860 at Charleston and Baltimore; entered the
Confederate service, and served in line and staff
until paroled in 1865; subsequently engaged in
journalism; resumed the practice of law in West
Virginia in 1870; elected to the constitutional
convention of that State in 1871; member of
the national Democratic committee 1872-1876;
judge of the third judicial circuit in 1872, which
office he resigned in August, 1880; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; appointed
United .States district attorney for the District of
Columbia; died in Martinsburg, AV. Va., March
1, 1896.
Hoge, Joseph. P. , was anative of Ohio; received
a common school education; moved to Illinois and
located at Galena; studied law and admitted to the
bar; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Hoge, Solomon La Fayette , was born in Logan
County, Ohio, about 1837; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law at the, Cincinnati Law School
and graduated in 1859; began practicing at Belle-
fontaine; entered the Union Army in 1861 as first
lieutenant in the Ohio volunteer infantry and
promoted to captain; wounded at the second bat-
tle of Bull Run; aided in the reconstruction of
South Carolina, and elected associate justice of the
supreme court; elected a ■ Representative from
South Carolina to the Forty-first Congress as a
Republican; comptroller-general of South Carolina
1874-75; elected to the Forty -fifth Congress.
Hoge, William, was born near Carlisle, Pa., in
1762 ; received a limited education ; moved to western
Pennsylvania in 1782, and with his brother, John,
founded the town of Washington, Pa. ; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Seventh
and Eighth Congresses, resigning in 1804; elected
to the Tenth Congress; died at Washington, Pa.,
September 25, 1814.
Hogeboom, James L., of New York, was a
member of the New York State house of represent-
atives, 1804-5 and 1808; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighteenth Congress.
Hogg, Charles E., of Point Pleasant, W. Va.,
was born December 21, 1852; received a common
school education; studied law, and began its prac-
tice in May, 1875; served four years as county
superintendent of free schools of Mason County,
1875-1879; chosen a Democratic Presidential elector
in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; resumed the practice of law after leavmg
Congress.
Hogg, Samuel, was a native of Virginia; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the pfteenth
Congress.
Holbrook, E. D. , was born at Elyria, Ohio, in
1836; attended the public schools; studied law and
admitted to practice; removed to Idaho City, Idaho
T • elected a Delegate from Idaho Territory to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Idaho City June 18, 1870.
Holcomb, George, was born at Lambertsville,
N. J., in 1786; received a liberal education, and in
1805 graduated from Princeton College; studied
medicine and began practice at AUentown, N. J. ;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 3, 1821, to January
14, 1828, when he died, at AUentown, N. J.
Holladay, Alexander R. , was a native of Vir-
ginia; attended the public schools; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat,
and reelected to the Thirty-second Congress.
Holland,. Cornelius, was born July 9, 1783, in
Maine; studied medicine and practiced at Canton,
Me. ; a delegate to the constitutional convention in
1819 which founded the State of Maine; member
of the State house of representatives 1820 and 1821
and of the State senate 1822, 1825, and 1826; elected
a Representative from Maine to the Twenty-first
Congress (vice James W. Ripley, resigned) and
reelected to the Twenty-second Congress; died at
Canton, Me., June 2, 1870.
Holland, James, was a native of North Caro-
lina; received a limited education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Fourth Congress; elected to the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses.
HoUeman, Joel, was born in Isle of Wight
County, Va., Octoberl, 1799;received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
the practice of his profession at Burwell Bay ; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a Van Buren Democrat; served
until 1840, when he resigned; again elected a
member of the State house of representatives,
serving as speaker when he died, August 5, 1844.
HoUey , John M. , was born at Salisbury, Conn. ,
November, 1802; graduated from Yale College in
1822; studied law, and in 1825 admitted to the bar;
moved to New York and began practice at Lyons;
served in the State house of representatives 1838-
1841; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirtieth Congress, serving from December 6,
1847, to March 8, 1848, when he died, at Jajckson-
ville, Fla.
Holliday, Elias S. , of Brazil, Ind., was born at
Aurora, Ind., March 5, 1842; sjjent the early part
of life on .farms in Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa;
secured a common school education in the inter-
vals of farm work, and before the civil war was a
teacher in the public schools of Iowa; enlisted in
the Fifth Kansas regiment; shortly afterwards
part of the command was reorganized into the
Tenth Kansas Volunteers; served in the army of
the frontier under Generals Lane and Blunt until
August 12, 1864, when he was mustered out, hav-
ing risen to the rank of first sergeant; took a par-
tial academic course at Hartsville College, and
resumed teaching in the winter, while farming
in the summer, and between times studying law;
moved to Carbon, Clay County, in 1873, and
entered upon the practice of the law, and the next
year located in Brazil; elected mayor of Brazil
three times; Presideintial elector on the Blaine
ticket; a member of the Grand Army of the Re-
public; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses.
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Holloway, David P. , was born at Waynesville,
Ohio, December 6, 1809; moved with his parents to
Cincinnati in 1813; attended the common schools;
apprentice to a printer, and for four years worked
on the Cincinnati Gazette; established the Rich-
mond Palladium in 1832, and for many years ed-
ited it; served in both branches of the Indiana
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; Commissioner of Patents 1861-1865; died at
Washington, D. C, September 10, 1883.
Holman, William S., was born at a pioneer
homestead called Veraestau, in Dearborn County,
Ind., September 6, 1822; received a common school
^education, and studied at Franklin College, In-
— /^ diana, for two years; studied and practiced law;
^1 judge of the court of probate from 1843 to 1846;
"7 / prosecuting attorney from 1847 to 1849; member
\j^ of the constitutional convention of Indiana in 1850;
■'"■^member of the legislature of Indiana in 1851;
li I* judge of the court of common pleas from 1852 to
I \l856; elected to the Thirty-sixthj Thirty-seventh;
Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fifth Congresses
as a Democrat; died April 22, 1897, at Washing-
ton, D. C.
Holmes, Adouiram. Judson, of Boone, Iowa,
was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March 2, 1842;
moved with his parents to Palmyra, Wis., in
1853; received a thorough academic education;
entered Milton College, Wisconsin, but left in
1862 to enter the Union Army, where he served
until the close of the war; studied law at Janesville
and admitted to the bar; afterwards took a full
course in the law department of the University
of Michigan, graduating in 1867; commenced prac-
tice at Boone, Iowa, in 1868; elected a member of
the house of representatives in the Iowa legislature
in the fall of 1881 for the two following years;
elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fif-
tieth Congresses as a Republican; was Sergeant-
at-Arms of the National House of Representatives
in the Fifty-first Congress; resumed the practice
of law.
Holm.es, David, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a classical education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth
Congresses; appointed governor of the Territory
of Mississippi 1809-1817, and governor of the State
of Mississippi 1817-1819; elected a United States
Senator from Mississippi (vice Walter Leake, re-
signed), serving from November 13, 1820, to Sep-
tember 25, 1825, when he resigned; died at Wash-
ington, Miss., August 20, 1832.
Holmes, Elias Bellows, was born at Fletcher,
Vt., May 27, 1807; attended the public schools
and taught; attended a law school at Pittsfleld,
N. Y., and in 1830 admitted to the bar; began
the practice of his profession at Brockport, N. Y.
in 1831 ; elected a Representative from New Yori.
to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig; elected to
the Thirtieth Congress.
Holmes, Gabriel, wasborn in Sampson County,
N. C, 1769; attended Harvard College; studied
law at Raleigh, N. C, and admitted to the bar-
began practice at Clinton, N. C; served as State
senator m 1807; governor of North Carolina 1821-
1824; elected a Representative from North Carolina
to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first
Coneresses; died near Clinton, N. C, September
26, 1829.
Holmes, Isaac Edward, was born at Charles-
ton, S. C, April 6, 1796; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1815; studied law, and in 1818 admitted
to the bar; began practice at Charleston; served
in the State legislature in 1826 and 1832; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-
ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; moved to California in 1851 and prac-
ticed law until 1857, when he returned to South
Carolina; died at Charleston, S. C, February 24,
1867.
Holm.es, John, was born at Kingston, Mass.,
March 14, 1773; graduated from Brown University
in 1796; studied law, and in 1799 began practicing
at Alfred, Mass. (now Maine) ; served in both
branches of the Massachusetts State legislature;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress and served from December 1,
1817, to 1820, when he resigned; delegate to the
Maine constitutional convention; elected a United
States Senator from Maine, serving from Novem-
ber 13, 1820, to March 3, 1827; again elected to the
United States Senate (vice A. K. Parris, resigned),
serving from January 26, 1829, to March 2, 1833;
member of the State house of representatives,
1835-1838; district attorney for Maine, 1841, until
his death, at Portland Me., July 7, 1843.
Holmes, Sidney T. , was born at Schaghticoke,
N. Y., August 7, 1815; received a hberal education;
studied law, and in 1841 admitted to the bar; be-
gan practicing at Morrisville; loan commissioner
for Madison County, 1848-1851 ; surrogate for Madi-
son County, 1851-1864; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Republican.
Holmes, tTriel, was a native of Connecticut;
graduated from Yale College in 1784; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Fifteenth Congress, serv-
ing from 1817-18, when he resigned; died Novem-
ber 1, 1827.
Holsey, Hopkins, was born in Virginia in
1799; received a good English education; studied
law, and admitted to the bar; moved to Georgia,
and located at Hamilton, where he began the
practice of his profession; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses;
moved to Athens, Ga., and engaged in the news-
paper business; died at Columbus, Ga., March 31,
1859.
Holt, Hines, was a native of Georgia; received
a liberal education; studied law and admitted to
the bar; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Twenty-sixth Congress (vice W. T. Colquitt
resigned), serving from February 1, 1841, to
March 3, 1841.
Holt, Orrin, was a native of Connecticut; re-
ceived a hmited education; studied law, and
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Holten, Samuel, was born at Dan vers, Mass.,
June 9, 1738; received a liberal education; studied
medicine and practiced; a member of the Conti-
nental Congress 1778-1787, serving as president
one term; elected a Representative from Massa-
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chusetts to the Third Congress; judge of the pro-
bate court for Essex County for a number of
years; died January 2, 1816.
Helton, Hart B., of Powhatan, Md., was elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Hook, Enos, was a native of Pennsylvania; re-
ceived a limited education; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress, resigning April 18, 1841.
Hooker, Charles E. , of Jackson, Miss., was born
in Union District, S. C, in 1825; graduated from the
Cambridge Law School; moved to Jackson, Miss.,
and entered upon the practice of his profession;
elected district attorney of the River District in
1850; elected to the Mississippi legislature in 1859,
and resigned his seat to enter the Confederate
army; wounded during the siege of Vicksburg;
promoted to the rank of colonel of cavalry, and
assigned to duty on the military court attached
to General Polk's command; elected attorney-
general of the State of Mississippi in 1865, and
reelected ia 1868; in common with the other civil
officers of the State was removed by the military
authorities; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat.
Hooker, Warren Brewster, of Fredonia.N.Y.,
was born at Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County,
N. Y., November 24, 1856; always hved in New
York State except two years spent in Tacoraa,
Wash., practicing law; special surrogate of Chau-
tauqua County; supervisor of his town two terms;
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifth-sixth Congresses as
a Republican; resigned November 10, 1898, having
iDeen appointed a justice of the supreme court of
New York State, and in 1899 was elected for a full
term.
Hooks, Charles, was a native of Bertie County,
N. C. ; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Fourteenth Congress (viceW. R. King,
resigned) as a Democrat; elected to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses; moved
to Alabama, and died in 1851.
Hooper, Benjamin S., of Farmville, Va., was
born in Buckingham County, Va., March 6, 1835;
received a common school education; engaged
in mercantile business and the manufacture of
tobacco; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Readjuster; died January 17, 1898.
Hooper, Samuel, was born at Marblehead,
Mass., February 3, 1808; received a liberal educa-
tion; became a merchant; served several terms in
both branches of the legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh
Congress (vice William Appleton, resigned) as a
Republican; reelected to theThirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses; died February 15, 1875,
at Washington, D. C.
Hooper, William, was born at Boston, Mass.,
June 17 1742; received a liberal education, and in
1760 graduated from Harvard College; studied
law, and admitted to the bar; moved to Wilming-
ton N. C, in 1767, where he began the practice of
law a member of the North Carohna State house
of representatives in 1773; Delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-1777; died at Hillsboro, N. 0.,
in October, 1790.
Hooper, William H. , was born in Dorchester
County, Md., December 25, 1813; attended the
common schools; became a merchant; moved to
Utah; elected a United States Senator under the
State organization of Deseret, adopted by the peo-
ple of IJtah in 1862; elected a Delegate from Utah
to the Thirty-sixth Congress; elected to the Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second
Congresses.
Hopkins, Albert C, of Lock Haven, Pa., was
born in Villenovia, Chautauqua County, N. Y.,
September 15, 1837; attended various schools;
engaged in the mercantile business at Troy, Pa. ,
where he remained until 1867; moved to Lock
Haven, Clinton County, Pa., in that year and be-
came actively engaged in the lumber business in
its various branches; elected to the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses as a Republican; after
expiration of his term in Congress resumed the
lumber business.
Hopkins, Albert J., of Aurora, 111., was born
in Dekalb County, 111.,' August 15, 1846; graduated
from Hillsdale (Mich.) College in June, 1870;
studied law and commenced practice at Aurora,
111. ; State attorney of Kane County from 1872 to
1876; a member of the Republican State central
committee from 1878 to 1880; Presidential elector
on the Blaine and Logan ticket in 1884; elected to
the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Republican;
elected United States Senator January 21, 1903;
took his seat March 5, 1903.
Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin, was born at
Hebron, N. Y., April 22, 1829; received a public
school education and became a telegraph operator;
moved to Madison, Wis., in 1849; private secre-
tary to Governor Baahfourd 1856-57; a member
of the State senate in 1861 and of the State house
of representatives in 1865; elected a Representa-
tive from Wisconsin to the Fortieth and Forty-
first Congresses; died at Madison, Wis., January
1, 1870.
Hopkins, George W. , was born in Goochland
County, Va., February 22, 1804; received a com-
mon school education; studied law and began
practice at Lebanon, Va. ; a mettiber of the State
house of representatives 1833-34; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh,
Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses as
a Democrat; charg6 d'affaires to Portugal March
3, 1847, to October 18, 1849; again a member of
the State house of representatives in 1849; judge
of the circuit court; elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress; again elected a member of the State
house of representatives; died March 2, 1861.
Hopkins, James H., of Pittsburg, Pa., was
born- November 3, 1832, in Washington County,
Pa.; graduated from Washington College in 1850;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852, before
he was of age; practiced in Pittsburg for twenty
years; president of a bank of discount and of a
bank of deposit, of a fire insurance company, of a
mutual life insurance company, and of a railroad,
also interested in manufacturing and mining; for
several years vice-president of the chamber of com-
merce of Pittsburg; candidate for the Forty-third
Congress from the State at large as a Democrat;
elected to the Forty-fourth and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Hopkins, N. T., of the Eleventh district of
Kentucky, took his seat in the Fifty-fourth Con-
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gress February 18, 1897, after a contest with J. M.
Kendall, who was given the certificate of election.
Hopkins, Samuel, was born in Albemarle
County, Va., about 1750; served in the Revolu-
tionary war; moved to Kentucky in 1797 and prac-
ticed law; served several terms in the State
legislature; served in the campaign against the
Kickapoo Indians in 1812; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat; died in Henderson County, Ky., Octo-
ber 9, 1819.
Hopkins, Samuel J., of Lynchburg, Va., was
born in Prince George County, Md., December 12,
1843; moved in infancy to Anne Arundel County,
where he received a common school education;
while a minor enlisted in Company A, Second
Maryland Infantry, C. S. A., and served during the
war; wounded several times; after the war he lo-
cated in Lynchburg; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Knight of Labor.
Hopkins, Samuel M., was born at Salem,
Conn., May 9, 1772, received a liberal educa-
tion, and in 1791 graduated from Yale College;
studied law and admitted to practice in Genesee
County; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirteenth Congress; a member of the State
house of representatives 1820-21 ; died at Geneva,
N. Y., March 9, 1837.
Hopkins, Stephen, wasbornatScituate, R. I.,
March7,1707; attended the public schools; moved
to Providence in 1731 and became a merchant;
member of the colonial assembly and its speaker
1732-1741; chief justice of the court of common
pleas in 1739 and of thesuperior court 1751-54; Del-
egate to the Colonial Congress which met at
Albany in 1754; colonial governor of Rhode Island
1755, 1756, 1758-1761, 1763-64, and 1767; Delegate
from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress
1774-1778; died at Providence, R. I. , July 13, 1785.
Hopkins, Stephen T. , was born in the city of
New York March 25, 1849; educated at the Antho a
Grammar School, in New York City; an iron
merchant; member of assembly of the State of
New York 1885-86, serving as chairman of com-
mittees on appropriations and banks; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican; died March
2, 1892.
Hopkinson, Francis (father of Joseph Hop-
kinson), was born at Philadelphia, Pa., September
21, 1737; graduated from the University of Penn-
sylvania; studied law and in 1765 admitted to the
bar; removed as royal tax receiver when he
espoused the popular cause; Delegate from New
Jersey to the Continental Congress 1776-77; judge
of the United States district court for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania 1790-91; died at Phila-
delphia May 9, 1791.
Hopkinson, Joseph, (son of Francis Hopkin-
son), was born at Philadelphia, Pa. , November 12,
1770; graduated from the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1786; studied law and in 1791 admitted to
practice; began the practice of his profession at
Easton, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con-
gresses; moved to Bordentown, N. J., and after
three years returned to Philadelphia, Pa. ; judge '
of the United States district court for Easton, Pa. ,
1828-1842; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1837; died at Philadelphia January
15, 1842.
Horn, Henry, was born at Philadelphia, Pa. ;
received a liberal education ; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-second
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; defeated for re-
election to the Twenty-third Congress.
Horntoeck, John W., was a native of New
Jersey; received a liberal education and graduated
from. Union College, New York; studied law and
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress; died at
AUentown, Pa., January 16, 1848.
Hornhlower, Josiah, was born at Stafford-
shire, England, February 23, 1729; received a lib-
eral education; emigrated to the United States in
1753 and located at Belleville, N. J. ; served several
years as a member of the colonial house of repre-
sentatives; a Delegate from New Jersey to the
Continental Congress 1785-86; judge of the Essex
County court 1798-1809; died at Newark, N. J.,
January 21, 1809.
Horr, Boswell G., of East Saginaw, Mich.,
was born at Waitsfield, Vt., November 26, 1830;
moved with his parents, when 4 years of age, to
Lorain County, Ohio, where he passed his early
years; graduated from Antioch College, in its
first class, in 1857; the fall after his graduation
elected clerk of the court of common pleas of
Lorain County, and reelected in 1860; at the close
of his six years' clerkship admitted to the bar, and
practiced law two years at Elyria, Lorain County,
Ohio; in the spring of 1866 moved to southeastern
Missouri, where he engaged in mining for six
years; moved in the spring of 1872 to East Sagi-
naw, Mich.; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; after his retirement from Congress became
associate editor upon the staff of the New York
Tribune until he died, December 19, 1896.
Horsey, Outerbridge, was born in Delaware in
1777; received a liberal education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; for many years attorney-
general of Delaware; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Delaware (vice Samuel White, deceased),
serving from January 29, 1810, to March 3, 1821;
died at Needwood, Md., June 9, 1842.
Horton, Thomas B., was a native of New
York; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig.
Horton, Valentine B. , was born at Windsor,
Vt., January 29, 1802; educated at the Partridge
Military School and afterwards became one of its
tutors; studied law at Middletown, Conn., and in
1830 admitted to the bar; moved to Pittsburg,
where he began practice; moved to Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1833, and in 1835 moved to Pomfret,
Ohio, where he engaged in manufacturing; a dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1850;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
fourth Congress; declined a reelection; elected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress; died at Pomeroy,
Ohio, January 14, 1888.
Hosford, Jedediah, was a native of Vermont;
moved to Moscow, N. Y., where he held several
local ofiices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-second Congress.
Hoskius, George G-., was born at Bennington,
N. Y., December 24, 1824; received a liberal edu-
cation; became a merchant; for a number of years
town clerk; postmaster at Bennington, N. Y.,
duringPresidentTaylor's Administration, and held
the office under Fillmore's Administration; again
appointed postmaster at Bennington by Presidefit
Lincoln, and removed by President Johnson;
served in the State legislature several terms, and
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three years speaker of the house; collector of
internal revenue under Grant for the twenty-ninth
district of New York, May 1, 1871, until March 4,
I87,i, when he resigned, having been elected a
Kepresentative from New York to the Forty-third
Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to the Forty-
fourth Congress; defeated for reelection to the
Forty-fifth Congress.
Hosmer, Hezekiah L. , was elected a Kepre-
sentative from New ,York to the Fifth Congress.
Hosmer, Titus, was born at Watertown, Conn.,
in 1736; graduated from Yale College in 1757;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the State house of representatives 1773-1778 and
speaker 1777; Delegate from Connecticut to the
Continental Congress 1777-1779; died at "Water-
town, Conn., August 4, 1780.
Hostetler, Abraham J., of Bedford, Ind., was
born in Washington County, Ind., November 22,
1818; received a common school education; raised
on a farm; apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's
trade; elected to the State senate from 1854 to
1858; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; after expiration of his term in Congress
engaged in merchandising; died near Bedford,
Ind., November 24, 1899.
Hostetter, Jacob, was born at York, Pa.; re-
ceived a liberal education; elected a Bepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth Congress,
vice Jacob Spangler, resigned; reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress.
Hotchkiss, Giles W. , was born in Windsor,
Broome County, N. Y., October 25, 1815; received
a liberal education; studied law and admitted
to the bar; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses as a Republican; died at Sar-
atoga, N. Y., May 1, 1878.
Hotchkiss, Julius, was born at Waterbury,
Conn., July 11, 1810; attended common schools;
engaged in manufacturing pursuits; mayor of Wa-
terbury in 1852; member of the legislature of
Connecticut in 1851 and 1858; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Fortieth Con-
gress; died December 23, 1878, at Middletown,
Conn.
Houck, Jacob, jr., was born at Schoharie,
N. Y.; attended the public schools; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat.
Hough, David, was a native of New Hampshire ;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from New Hampshire to the Eighth and
Ninth Congresses.
Houg^h, William J., was born at Cazenovia,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; a member of
the State house of representatives in 1835 and 1839;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Houghton, Sherman O., was born in New
York City, April 10, 1828; received a liberal edu-
cation; served in the Mexican war; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; moved to California;
mayor of San Francisco 1855-56; elected a Rep-
resentative from California to the Forty-second
and Forty-third Congresses as a Republican.
Houk, George W., was born in Cumberland
Countv, Pa., September 25, 1825; moved with his
father" to Ohio in 1827, and settled in Dayton;
received an academic education; taught school;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1846; elected
to the State legislature from Montgomery County
in 1852-53, and served through his term as chair-
man of the judiciary committee of the house; a
delegate to the Charleston-Baltimore convention
in 1860; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention in 1876; district elector on the Democratic
Presidential ticket in 1884; elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
died February 9, 1894.
Houk, John C, of Knoxville, Term., was born
February 26, 1860, in Clinton, Anderson County,
Tenn. ; moved with his father to Knoxville in 1870;
educated in the University of Tennessee; read law
and licensed to practice at the age of 24; secretary
of the State Republican committee for four years;
received all of the Republican votes of the legisla-
ture in 1884 for State treasurer; assistant door-
keeper of the House of Representatives, Fifty-first
Congress; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as
a Republican, at a special election held November
21,1891; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law; in
1896 elected to the State senate; reelected in 1898.
Houk, Leonidas C. , was born in Sevier County,
Tenn., June 8, 1836; attended an old field school
something less than three months, but otherwise
self-educated, studying when at work as a cabinet-
maker and by the fireside at night; read law while
working at his trade; admitted to the bar October
13, 1859, and practiced until the war; entered the
Union Army as a private August 9, 1861; promoted
to lieutenant in the First Tennessee Infantry;
mustered in as colonel of the Third Tennessee In-
fantry February 2, 1862, and served until April 23,
1863, when he resigned on account of ill-health;
a candidate for elector on the Lincoln and Johnson
ticket in 1864; member of the State convention
which amended the constitution and provided for
the reorganization of the State government of Ten-
nessee in February, 1865; elected judge of the
seventeenth judicial circuit of Tennessee on the 3d
day of March, 1866, and served four years, when
he moved from Clinton to Knoxville, Tenn., and
resumed the practice of law; held a position for a
short time under the Southern Claims Commis-
sion; member of the National Republican conven-
tion which met at Chicago in 1868 and nominated
General Grant; elector for the State at large on the
Grant and Wilson ticket in 1872; at the same time
chosen a representative in the lower'house of the
Tennessee legislature, in which he was the Repub-
lican candidate for speaker, coming within one
vote of an election, although the body was largely
Democratic; elector on the Hayes and Wheeler
ticket in 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses; died May
25, 1891.
House, John F. , of Clarksville, Tenn. , was bom
in Williamson County, Tenn., January 9, 1827;
received his early education at a grammar school,
Williamson County, Tenn.; afterwards entered
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. ; studied
law and graduated frorn the Lebanon Law School,
Tennessee, in 1850; a member of the Tennessee
legislature 1853-54; Presidential elector on the
Bell and Everett ticket in 1860; member of the
provisional congress of the Confederate State?
from Tennessee; at the expiration of his term of
service in said body entered the Confederate
army, and continued therein until the close of
the war, and paroled at Columbus, Miss., in June,
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1865_; delegate from Tennessee to the national con-
vention of the Democratic party that nominated
Seymour and Blair in 1868; member of the State
constitutional convention of Tennessee in 1870;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty- fifth, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Housem.an, Julius, was born in the village of
Leckendorf, in Bavaria, Germany, December 6,
1832; received a common school and commercial
education; engaged for thirty years in mercantile
business and the manufacture of lumber; held the
office of alderman in the city of Grand Rapids from
1861 to 1870, inclusive; representative in the State
legislature inl871 and 1872; mayorof Grand Rapids
in 1873 and 1875; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died February 8, 1891.
Houston, George Smith, was born in Wil-
liamson County, Tenn., January 17, 1811; moved
to Alabama, where he attended the public schools;
studied law and began practice in Limestone
County; served in the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Con-
gresses; declined a reelection; elected to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Union Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses; resigned Jan-
uary 21, 1861, Alabama having seceded; elected a
United States Senator from Alabama in 1865, but
was refused admission to his seat; defeated for the
United States Senate in 1867; delegate to the
national Union convention at Philadelphia in
1866; was governor of Alabama 1874-1876; died at
Athens, Ga., January 17, 1879.
Houston, John, was born at "Waynesboro, Ga.,
August 31, 1744; a, Delegate from Georgia to the
Continental Congress 1775-1777; member of the
State council in 1777; member of the commis-
sion to establish the boundary line between Geor-
gia and South Carolina; appointed judge of the
State supreme court in 1792; died at Savannah,
Ga., July 20, 1796.
Houston, John Wallace, was born at Concord,
Del., in 1814; graduated from Yale College in 1834;
studied law, and in 1834 admitted to the bar; began
pra<;ticing at Georgetown, Del., in 1839; elected a
Representative from Delaware to the Twenty-
ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses; del-
egate to the peace conference at Washington,
D. C, in 1861; died in 1896.
Houston, Samuel, was born near Lexington,
Va., March 2, 1793; moved to Blount County,
Tenn., where he was adopted into the Cherokee
tribe of Indians; served under General Jackson in
the Creek war 1813-14; studied law and admitted
to the bar; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Eighteenth Congress as a Democrat-
governor of Tennessee 1827-1829; resigned before
the expiration of his term; on account of family
troubles moved to Arkansas and subsequently to
Texas in 1833; member of the constitutional con-
vention in 1835; commander in chief of the
Texas army; elected the first President of the
Republic of Texas 1836-1838; member of Texas
Congress 1838-1840; again President 1841-1844-
elected a United States Senatorfrom Texas, serving
from March 30, 1846, to March 3, 1859; governor
of Texas 1859-1861, and deposed February 20
1861; died at Huntsville, Tex., July 25, 1863.
Houston, William Churchill, was born in
Cabarras County, N. C, in 1740; received a clas-
sical education ; graduated from Princeton College
in 1768; Delegate from New Jersey to the Conti-
nental Congress, 1779-1782 and 1784-85; died at
Frankfort, Pa., August 12, 1788.
Houstoun, William, was a Delegate from
Georgia to the Continental Congress 1784-1787;
delegate to the constitutional convention which
framed the' Federal Constitution, but refused to
sign it.
Hovey, Alvin P. , was born in Posey County,
Ind., September 6, 1821; educated in common
schools and by private teachers; taught school one
year in 1840; admitted to the bar September 25,
1842; commissioned first lieutenant June, 1846, for
service in the war with Mexico; elected a delegate
to the constitutional convention of the State of
Indiana, 1850; circuit judge of the third judicial
circuit in that State from 1851 to 1854; appointed
one of the judges of the supreme court in 1854;
appointed district attorney of the United States
for the State of Indiana by President Pierce in
1856, and removed by President Buchanan in 1858
for supporting Stephen A. Douglas; commissioned
colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana
Volunteers Augi'st, 1861; commissioned brigadier-
general of volunteers April, 1862; in July, 1864,
commissioned brevet major-general of volunteers
"for meritorious and distinguished services during
the war;" in command of the eastern district of
Arkansas, at Helena, in 1863, and the district of
Indiana 1864-65; served under Generals Fremont
and Hunter in Missouri in 1861, with General
Grant at Shiloh and the Vicksburg campaign, and
with General Sherman in his march to the sea,
down to Kenesaw; commanded brigades and divi-
sions in several important engagements; commis-
sioned United States minister to the Republic of
Peru, South America, in 1865; resigned in 1870;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican;
resigned January 17, 1889; elected in 1888 gov-
pernor of Indiana, inaugurated in January, 1889,
and served until his death, at Indianapolis, Ind.,
November 23, 1891.
Howard, Benjamin, was born in Virginia
about 1760; received a liberal education; moved to
Kentucky; elected a Representative from that
State to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses, serving
until April 10, 1810, when he resigned; governor
of Upper Louisiana 1810-1812; appointed a briga-
dier-general of the U. S. Army, March 12, 1813,
and given command of the Eighth Military De-
partment, embracing the territory west of the
Mississippi River; died at St. Louis, Mo., Septem-
ber, 18, 1814. *^
Howard, Benjamin C. , was bom in Baltimore
County, Md., November 5, 1791; received a clas-
sical education; graduated from Princeton College
in 1809; studied law, and admitted to the bar; be-
gan practice at Baltimore; served in the war of
1813; member of the Maryland State house of
representatives in 1824; elected a Representative
from Maryland totheTwenty-first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat; reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States 1843-1862; declined the
appointment of United States Senator in 1848;
delegate to the peace congress in 1861; died at
Baltimore, March 6, 1872.
Howard, Jacob M. , was born at Shaftsbury,
Vt., July 10, 1805; received a liberal education and
graduated from Williams College, in Massa-
chusetts; moved to Michigan; served in the Mich-
igan State legislature in 1838; in 1854 drew up the
platform of the first convention ever held by the
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Republican party, and christened that partv;
served six years as attorney-general of Michigan;
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Republican; elected
a United States Senator from Michigan as a
Republican vice K. S. Bingham, deceased; re-
elected in 1865, serving from January 17, 1862, to
March 3, 1871; died at Detroit, Mich., April 2,
1871. . F .
Howard, John Eager, was born at Baltimore,
June 4, 1752; received a liberal education; served
in the Revolutionary war and colonel when peace
was declared; Delegate from Maryland to the
Continental Congress 1787-88; governor of Mary-
land 1789-1792; member of the State 8enatel795;
elected a United States Senator from Maryland
vice R. Potts, resigned, serving from December 7,
1796, to March 3, 1803; died at Baltimore, Md.,
October 12, 1827.
Howard, Jonas G., of Jeffersonville, Clark
County, Ind., was born in Floyd County, Ind.;
educated at Asbury College, Greencastle, Ind.;
Graduated at law from the State University at
lloomington, Ind., in 1851; after graduating prac-
ticed in Clark County; elected to the State legis-
lature of Indiana in 1862, and again in 1864;
Presidential elector on the Seymour and Blair
ticket in 1868; again elector from the Second Con-
gressional district (now Third) in the Tilden and
Hendricks campaign in 1876; elected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat;
returned to Jeffersonville, Ind., where he resumed
the practice of law.
Howard, Milford "W. , of Fort Payne, Ala. , was
born in Floyd County, Ga., December 18, 1862;
while working on the farm he read law at Cedar-
town, Ga. ; moved from there in 1 880 to Fort Payne,
Ala., his present home, and admitted to the bar;
elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Populist.
Howard, Tilgham A. , was born near Pickins-
ville, S. C, November 14, 1797; received a common
school education; taught school for two years;
studied law, and admitted to the bar; moved to
Tennessee and began practice; member of the
State house of representatives in 1824; Presidential
elector on the Jackson and Calhoun ticket in 1825;
moved in 1830 to Eockville, Ind., where he resumed
practice; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from December 2, 1839, to August 1, 1840, when he
resigned to become the Democratic candidate for
governor and was defeated; charg6 d'affaires to
the Republic of Texas, June 11, 1844; died at
Washington, Tex., August 16, 1844.
Howard, Volney E. , was born at Norridge-
wock. Me., about 1808; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and admitted to the bar; moved
'^ to Mississippi and from there to Texas; elected a
/ Representative from Texas to the Thirty-first and
/ Thirty-second Congresses as a Democrat; sent on
L a mission to CaUfornia by the President; died at
Santa Monica, Cal., May 14, 1889.
Howard, "William, was a native of Virginia;
attended the common schools; moved to Batavia,
Ohio; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Howard, William A. , was born at Hinesburg,
Vt, April 8, 1813; graduated from Middlebury Col-
lege in 1839; studied law and admitted to the bar;
moved to Michigan and began practice at Detroit;
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress
after successfully contesting the seat of G. B.
Cooper, Democrat; appointed postmaster at
Detroit; tendered the Chinese mission in 1869,
but declined it; died at Washington, D. C, April
10, 1880.
Howard, William Slarcellus, of Lexington,
Ga., was born at Berwick City, La., of Georgia
parents, December6, 1857; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Georgia; began practice of law February,
1880; elected solicitor-general of the northern circuit
of Georgia by the State legislature in 1884; re-
elected to thatofflce in 1888 and 1892; elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
without opposition.
Howe, Albert R. , was born at Brookfield,
Mass., January 2, 1840; received a classical educa-
tion; enlisted as a private in the Union Army in
1861 and mustered out as major in 1865; settled in
Como, Panola County, Miss., on a cotton planta-
tion in December, 1865; member of the Mississippi
State constitutional convention in 1868; delegate
to the national Republican convention at Chicago
in 1868; appointed treasurer of Panola County in
1869; member of the legislature of Mississippi in
1870, 1871, and 1872; elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican.
Howe, James E.. , of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born in the city of New York January 27, 1839;
his ancestors were among the earlj^ settlers of New
England; received his education in the common
schools of his native city, and from his youth up
was engaged in the dry goods business; trustee in
a number of public institutions in the city; vice-
president of the Amphion Musical Societj', and
member of the Union League Club; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Howd, John W. , was a native of New Hamp-
shire; moved to Franklin, Pa.; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Free Soil Whig; reelected to the
Thirty-second Congress.
Howe, Thomas HI., was a native of Vermont;
received a public school education; moved to Pitts-
burg, Pa., and engaged in the banking business;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig; reelected to
the Thirty-third Congress.
Howe, Thomas Y. , was born at Auburn, N. Y. ;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-second Congress
as a Democrat.
Howe, Timothy O., was born at Livermore,
Me., February 24, 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; served one term
in the State legislature; mov6d to Wisconsin in
1845; elected judge of the circuit and supreme
courts of Wisconsin in 1850 and resigned in 1855;
elected a United States Senator from Wisconsin as
a Union Republican (vice Charles Durkee) and
reelected two terms, serving from 1861 to 1869;
appointed one of the delegates to the. International
Monetary Conference in Paris in 1881; appointed
Postmaster-General in 1881; died at Kenosha, Wis.,
March 25, 1883.
Howell, Benjamin Franklin, of New Bruns-
wick, N. J., was born in Cumberland County, N. J.,
January, 1844; enlisted in the Twelfth New Jersey
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Volunteers in 1862 and served until the close of
the war; elected surrogate of Middlesex County in
1882, and reelected for a second term in 1887;
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Eepublican.
Howell, David, was born in New Jersey Jan-
uary 1, 1747; pursued classical studies and gradu-
ated from Princeton College in 1776; studied law
and admitted to the bar; commenced practice at
Providence, R. I. ; Delegate from that State to the
Continental Congress 1782-1785; attorney-general
of the State in 1789; professor of law in Brown
University 1790-1824; judge of the United States
district court for Rhode Island 1812-1824; died at
Providence, R. I., July 29, 1826.
Howell, Edward, was a native of New York;
attended the public schools; resident of Bath;
State representative in 1832; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-third Congress
as a Democrat.
Howell, Elias, was a native of New Jersey;
attended the public schools; moved to Newark,
Ohio; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig; died near
Newark, Ohio, May, 1844.
Howell, James B. , was born in New Jersey
July 4, 1816; moved to Newark, Ohio, in 1819;
graduated from Miami University, Ohio, in 1837;
studied law at Lancaster; admitted to the bar in
1839; moved to Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1841, where
he practiced for several years; engaged in news-
paper work, and in 1849 moved to Keokuk; promi-
nent in organizing the Republican party in Iowa;
delegate to the national Republican convention in
1856; elected a United States Senator from Iowa as
a Republican (vice James W. Grimes, resigned),
serving from January 26, 1870, to March 3, 1871;/
died at Keokuk, Iowa, June 17, 1880.
Howell, Jeremiah
Island in 1772; pursued classical studies, and grad
uated from Brown University in 1789; studied law.
and admitted to the bar; began practice at Provi-^
New York; graduated from Princeton College in^
1788; elected a Representative from New York t*
the Thirteenth Congress; died at Canandaigua,'
N. Y., October 16, 1821.
Howey, Benjamin F., was born at Pleasant
Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County,
N. J., March 17, 1828; educated by a private tutor
at Pleasant Meadows and at the academies at
Swedesboro and Bridgeton, N. J.; engaged in
quarrying and manufacturing roofing and school
slates; captain of Company G. Thirty-first Regi-
ment New Jersey Volunteers from September 3
1862, to June 26, 1863; sheriff of Warren County,
N. J., from November 13, 1878, to November 15,
1881; elected to the Forty -eighth Congress as a
Republican; died February 6, 1893.
Howland, Benjamin, was born at Tiverton,
R. I., in 1756; attended the public schools; held
several local offices; member of the general assem-
bly; elected a United States Senator from Rhode
Island as a Democrat, vice Samuel J. Potter, de-
ceased; took his seat December 3, 1804, serving
until March 3, 1809; died at Tiverton, R. 1,, Mav
9, 1821. ^
Howley, Bichard, was born in Liberty County,
Ga., about 1740; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and. admitted to the bar; member of the
State house of representatives; governor of Georgia
in 1780; Delegate from Georgia to the Continental
Congress 1780-81; died about 1790.
Hubard, Edmund W. , was a native of Virginia;
resident of Curdsville; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-
eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Hubbard, Asahel W. , was born at Haddam,
Conn., January 19, 1818; attended the public
schools; moved to Indiana in 1820, where he taught
school and studied law; member of the State legis-
lature 1847-1849; moved to Iowa in 1857; elected
judge of the fourth judicial district; elected a Rep-
resentative from Iowa to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress aa a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses.
Hubbard, Chester D., was born at Hamden,
Conn., November 25, 1814; moved with his parents
to Wheeling, Va., 1819; graduated from the Wes-
leyan University in 1840; became a banker, and
largely interested in iron and lumber; member of
the State legislature of Virginia in 1852 and 1853;
delegate to the Virginia convention at Richmond
in 1861, and opposed secession ; delegate to the West
Virginia convention at Wheeling short time after-
wards; strong Union man; State senator of West
Virginia 1863-64; delegate to the national Re-
publican convention of 1864; elected a Repre-
sentative from West Virginia to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fortieth Congress; died at Wheeling, W. Va.,
August 23, 1891.
Hubbard, David, was born in Virginia in 1806;
"teceived an academic education; inhisyouth moved
_;o Alabama; studied and practiced law; solicitor
- vol his judicial district; State senator in 1830, and a
■D u • -ni, J ,' State representative in 1831, 1842, 1843, 1845, and
^•' ZT^l?It.'^J}:2^^^^^^-^^^^^^^^f^V^^^^^^-^^ from Alabama to"
^^^the Twenty-sixth Congress as a State Rights
Democrat; Presidential elector on the Democratic
dence; a United States Senate fr'om Rhode Island lSVfiVtTo^™Prt«,&'f"^**7 *° t''
1811-1817- dipdatPmvidpnre P T in 1S99 vUmrty-nrst Oongress; Presidential elector on the
l»li iSi/, died at Providence, R. 1., in 1822. --Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; after the
Howell, Nathaniel, was born in the State ofOv'^''*'" ™oved to Nashville, Tenn.
Hubbard, Demas, was born at Winfleld, N. Y.,
'January 17, 1806; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the, bar and began prac-
tice at Smyrna; held several local offices; a State
representative 1838-1840; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Republican; died at Smyrna, N. Y., September 2,
1873.
Hubbard, Henry, was born at Charlestown,
N. H., May 3, 1784; pursued classical studies and
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1803; studied
law; admitted to the bar; State representative
1812-1815, 1819-20, 1823-1827, serving three years
as speaker; State solicitor for Cheshire County
1823-1828; probate judge 1827-1829; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Conffresses as a Democrat; United States Senator
1839-1841; governor of New Hampshire 1841-1843-
United States subtreasurer at Boston 1846-1849-
died at Charlestown, N. H., June 5,1857. '
Hubbard, Joel D., of Versailles, Mo., was born
near Marshall, Saline County, Mo., November 6
1860; attended the public school. Central College'
BI0GKAPHIE8.
609
Fayette, Mo., and graduated from the Missouri
Medical College, St. Louis, in 1883; practiced
medicine in Morgan County, at Syracuse, Mo.,
until 1886; elected county clerk in that year, and
reelected in 1890; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a RepubUcan; returned to Versailles,
Morgan County, Mo.; engaged in the banking
business; also largely interested in mining.
Hubbard, John H. , was born at Salisbury,
Conn., in 1805; attended thepublic schools; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1826, and commenced
practice at Litchfield; county attorney for five
years; twice elected State senator; elected a Rep-
resentative from Connecticut to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican.
Hubbard, Jonathan H. , was born at Windsor,
Vt., in 1768; received a liberal education; studied
law; admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Eleventh Congress; judge of
the State supreme court 1813-1845; died at Wind-
sor, Vt., September 20, 1849.
Hubbard, Levi, was a native of Massachusetts;
State representative 1804-1805, and a State senator
1806-1811; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Thirteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat; again a State senator in 1816; an executive
councilor in 1829.
Hubbard, Richard D., was born at Berlin,
Conn., September 7, 1818; graduated from Yale
College in 1839; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1842; elected to the legislature in 1842, and
again a member i^i 1855 and 1858; State attorney
for Hartford County 1846-1868; elected a Rep-
resentative to the Fortieth Congress as a Demo-
crat; declined a reelection; defeated as the Dem-
ocratic candidate for governor in 1872; elected in
1876, and again defeated in 1878; died in Hart-
ford, Conn., February 28, 1884.
Hubbard, Samuel Dickinson, was born at
Middletown, Conn., August 10, 1779; pursued
classical studies and graduated from Yale College
in 1819; studied law, but devoted himself to man-
ufacturing; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Thirtieth Congress; Postmaster-
General August 31, 1852, to March 7, 1853; died
at Middletown, Conn., October 8, 1855.
Hubbard, Thomas H. , was born at New Haven,
Conn., in 1780; pursued classical studies and grad-
uated from Yale College in 1798; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practice at Hamilton,
N. Y.; surrogate of Madison County 1806-1816;
Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in
1812; elected a Representative from New York to
the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Congresses as a
Democrat; moved to Utica, N. Y. ; Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844 and 1852;
died at Utica, N. Y., May 22, 1857.
Hubbell^ Edwin N. , was born at Coxsackie,
N. Y., August 13, 1815; received an academic edu-
cation; farmer; several years supervisor of Greene
County; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Hubbell, James B., was born in Delaware
County, Ohio, in 1824; attended the public schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; for four years
a State representative, two of which he was
speaker; Presidential elector on the Republican
ticket in 1856; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
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Hubbell, Jay A., was born at Avon, Mich.,
September 15, 1829; graduated from the University
of Michigan in 1853; admitted to the practice of law
in 1855; moved to Ontonagon, Mich., in Novem-
ber, 1855; elected district attorney of the upper
peninsula in 1857, and again in 1859; moved to
Houghton, Mich., in February, 1860; elected pros-
ecuting attorney of Houghton County in 1861, 1863,
and 1865; engaged in the practice of law until 1870;
identified with the development of the mineral
interests of the upper peninsula; appointed by the
governor of Michigan in 1876 State commissioner
to the Centennial Exhibition and collected and
prepared the State exhibit of minerals; elected to
the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; after the expiration of his term in Congress
became circuit judge of his home county in Michi-
gan, which position he held for a number of years,
when he resigned; died in 1900.
Hubbell, 'William S. , was a native of Steuben
County, N. Y.; attended the public schools; a
State representative in 1841; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Hubbs, Orlando, of Newbern, N. C, was born
in New York, February 18, 1840; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Hubley, Edward B., was a native of Phila-
delphia; attended the public schools; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Februarv 23,
1856.
Hudd, Thomas R. , was born at Buffalo, N. Y.,
October 2, 1835; moved to Wisconsin in 1853, and
settled at Appleton, from whence, in 1868, he
moved to Green Bay; educated in the common
schools, printing office, and Lawrence University;
attorney at law; district attorney of Outagamie
County 1856-57; city attorney of Green Bay 1873-
74; State senator from the twenty-second district
in 1862 and 1863; member of the State assembly
from Outagamie County in 1868 and from Brown
County in 1875; State senator from second district
1876-1879; delegate from the State at large to the
national Democratic convention at Cincinnati in
1880; State senator 1882 and 1883, and reelected for
the term ending Decem be' 31,1888; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, to fill the va-
cancy caused by the death of Hon. Joseph Rankin,
and took his seat March 8, 1886; reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress; died at Green Bay, Wis., June
22, 1896.
Hudson, Charles, was born at Marlboro, Mass.,
November 14, 1795; reared on a farm; attended the
common schools; studied theology; ordained as a
Universalist preacher in 1819; State representative
1828-1833; State senator 1833-1839; executive coun-
cilor 1839-1841; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-
eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses
as a Whig; naval officer of Boston 1849-1853;
edited the Boston Daily Atlas; assessor of internal
revenue 1864-1868; died at Lexington, Mass., May
4, 1881.
Hudson, Thomas J., of Fredonia, Kans., was
born October 30, 1844, in the State of Indiana;
brought up on a farm; went to school on money
earned by himself; moved to Kansas in the spring
of 1866 and engaged in farming for four years;
studied law and commenced to practice in 1870;
member of the Kansas legislature, county attorney
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0ONGKES8IONAL DIKECTOEY.
of his county three timeg, and mayor of his city a
number of times; nominated by both the People's
Party and the Democrats to the Fifty-third Con-
gress, and elected as a Populist by Populists and
Democrats; resumed the practice of law after
leaving Congress.
Huff, George rranklin, of Greensburg, Pa.,
was born at Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa. ,
July 16, 1842; received his education in the public
schools at Middletown, Dauphin County, and
Altoona, Blair County, where he learned the trade
of car finishing; entered the banking business, and
employed in the banking house of William M.
Lloyd & Co. until 1867, when he moved to West-
moreland County, Pa. ; engaged in the banking
business at Greensburg, and largely identified with
the industrial and mining interests of western
Pennsylvania; member of the national Republican
convention at Chicago in 1880, where he came into
national prominence as one of the "Old Guard,"
or "Immortal 306;" elected to the senate of Penn-
sylvania in November, 1884, and represented the
thirty-ninth senatorial district in that body until
the close of the term in 1888; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Bepublican; reelected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress.
Hufty, Jacob, was a native of New Jersey;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses as a
Democrat, serving until his death, at Salem, N. J.,
May 20, 1814.
Huger, Benjamin, was born near Charleston,
S. C. ; received an academic education; elected a
Eepresentative from that State to the Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, and Fourteenth Congresses.
Huger, Daniel, was born on Limerick Planta-
tion, S. C, February 20, 1741; prominent in the
Eevolutionary war; Delegate from South Carolina
to the Continental Congress 1786-1788; elected a
Representative from that State to the First and
Second Congresses; died at Charleston, S. C, July
1, 1799.
Huger, Daniel Elliott, was born on Limerick
Plantation, S. C, June 28, 1779; pursued classical
studies; graduated from Princeton College in 1798;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice at Charleston, S. C. ; served in both branches
of the legislature; elected a United States Senator
from South Carolina as a State Eights Democrat
(vice John C. Calhoun, resigned), serving from
December 7, 1843, to 1845, when he resigned; judge
of the superior court; died at SuUivana Island,
S. C, August 21, 1854.
Hughes, Charles, was a native of Georgia;
received a liberal education; studied law and prac-
ticed; moved to Sandy Hill, N. Y.; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Democrat; provost-marshal for the
Sixteenth district of New York in 1862.
Hughes, George W., was born at Elmira,
N. Y., September 30, 1806; received a liberal ed-
ucation, and in 1827 graduated from West Point
Military Academy; became a civil engineer in New
York City; reappointed to the Army in 1838;
served in the Mexican war; resigned his commis-
sion in 1851 and became president of the North-
ern Central Railroad; elected a Eepresentative
from Maryland to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; died at West River, Md., September 3,
1870.
Hughes, James, was born at Hampstead, Md.,
November 24, 1823; graduated from the State
University of Indiana; studied law, and in 1842
admitted to the bar; served in the Mexican war;
circuit judge for five years; professor of law at the
University of Indiana 1853-1856; elected a Repre-
sentative from Indiana to the Thirty-fifth Congress
as a Democrat; judge of the court of claims 1861-
1865; appointed cotton agent of the Treasury De-
partment 1866-1868.
Hughes, James Anthony, of Huntington, W.
Va., was born at Corunna, Ontario, February 27,
1861; moved with his parents to Ashland, Ky.,
where he entered on a business career in July, 1873;
elected to represent the counties of Boyd and
Lawreuce in the legislature of Kentucky for the
years 1887 and 1888; moved to West Virgmia;
State senator 1894r-1898; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress and reelected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress as a Republican.
Hughes, James Iff., was a native of Kentucky;
moved to Liberty, Mo. ; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Hughes, Thomas H., was a native of New
Jersey; received a public school education; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
first and Twenty-second Congresses.
Hughston, Jonas A., was bom in New York;
received a liberal education; studied law; began
practice at Delhi, N. Y.; district attorney of Dela-
ware County 1842-1845; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; appointed marshal of the consular court at
Shanghai, China, and died there in 1862.
Hugunin, Daniel, was born in Montgomery
County, N. Y., in 1791; received a classical edu-
cation; served in the war of 1812; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Nineteenth
Congress; appointed United States marshal of the
Territory of Wyoming; died at Kenosha, Wis.,
Jime 21, 1850.
Hulhert, John W. , was a native of Massachu-
setts; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirteenth
Congress (vice Daniel Dewey, resigned) as a Fed-
eralist; reelected to the Fourteenth Congress.
Hulburd, Calvin X., was born at Stockholm,
N. Y., June 5, 1809; received a liberal education;
graduated from Middlebury College, Vt. ; attended
Yale College Law School; merchant; member of
the State legislature of New York 1842, 1843, 1844,
and 1862; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con-
Hulick, GeorgeW., of Bata via, Ohio, was born
there June 29, 1833; attended public schools in
winter and worked on his father's farm during
summer; took charge of Pleasant Hill Academy
and taught two years, during which time he stud-
ied law; admitted to the bar by the district court
March, 1857, and at once commenced the practice
at Batavia; enhsted under the first call as a private
in Company E, Twenty-second Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, April 14, 1861; appointed
orderly sergeant and afterwards elected captain
of the company; discharged, by expiration of term
of enlistment, August 16, 1861; elected probate
judge of Clermont County in 1863 and served from
February, 1864, to February, 1867; served nine
years on the board of education of Batavia; dele-
gate from Ohio to the Republican national con-
vention at Chicago in 1868; elector in 1876 for the
BIOQEAPHIES.
611
Third district of Ohio on the Hayes and Wheeler
Presidential ticket; elected to the Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a EepubHcan.
Huling, James H., of Charleston, W. Va., was
bom at Williamsport, Pa., March 24, 1844; raised
on a faxm and educated in the public schools and
Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa. ; served
in the Pennsylvania cavalry in 1863; engaged in
the lumber business in his native State up to 1869,
when he moved to West Virginia, where he en-
gaged in the same business up to 1874; afterwards
actively engaged in the real estate business; elected
mayor of Charleston, W. Va., in 1884, being the
first EepubUcan ever elected to that office ; declined
a renomination; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Hull, John A. T., of Des Moines, Iowa, was
born at Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio, May 1,
1841; moved with his parents to Iowa in 1849; edu-
cated in public schools, Asbury (Indiana) Univer-
sity, and Iowa Wesleyan College, at Mount Pleas-
ant; graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law
School in the spring of 1862; enlisted in the
Twenty-third Iowa Infantry July, 1862; first lieu-
tenant and captain; wounded in the charge on
intrenchments at Black Eiver May 17, 1863; re-
signed on account of wounds October, 1863;
elected secretary of the Iowa State senate in 1872,
and reelected in 1874, 1876, and 1878; elected sec-
retary of state in 1878 and reelected in 1880 and
1882; elected lieutenant-governor in 1885 and re-
elected in 1887; engaged in farming and banking;
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Hull, Noble A., of Sanford, Fla., was born in
Camden County, Ga., March 11, 1827; educated
in his native county of Camden and at Savannah,
Ga.; merchant; member of the house of represent-
atives of Florida in 1860 and 1861; captain of
cavalry in the Confederate army; elected lieuten-
ant-governor of Florida in 1876; elected a Repre-
tative to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
his seat was contested by Horatio Bisbee, jr. , result-
ing in the seating of Bisbee, who was sworn in
January 22, 1881.
Humphrey, Charles, was born in Orange
County, jSI. Y., in 1791; attended public schools;
moved to Ithaca, Tompkins County; elected a
Representative from New York to the Nineteenth
Congress; member of the State house of represent-
atives 1834-1836 and 1842, serving as speaker
January 6, 1835, to May 26, 1836; died at Albany,
N. Y., July 18, 1850.
Humphrey, Herman li., of Hudson, Wis.,
was born at Candor, Tioga County, N. Y., March
14, 1830; received a public school education, with
the addition of one year in Cortland Academy;
became a merchant's clerk at the age of 16 in
Ithaca, N. Y., and remained there for several
years; studied law; admitted to the bar m July,
1854, and moved to Hudson, Wis., where he com-
menced practice in January, 1855; soon after ap-
pointed district attorney of St. Croix County, to fill
a vacancy ; appointed by the governor county ]udge
of St. Croix County to fill a vacancy, in the fall
of 1860, and in the spring of 1861 elected for the
full term of four years from the following January;
elected to the State senate for two years, and m
February, 1862, resigned the office of county judge;
elected mayor of Hudson for one year; elected m
the spring of 1866 judge of the eighth judicial cir-
cuit, and reelected in 1872; elected a Representa-
tive from Wisconsin to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican; re-
sumed the practice of law after leaving Congress.
Humphrey, James, was born at Fairfield,
Conn., October 9, 1811; received a classical educa-
tion; graduated from Amherst College in 1831;
studied law and practiced; moved to Louisville,
Ky., in 1837, and one year later moved to New
York; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-ninth Congresses as a
Republican; died June 16, 1866, at Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Humphrey, James M. , was born at Holland,
N. Y., September 21, 1819; received a common
school education; studied law and practiced; dis-
trict attorney for Erie County 1857-1859; member
of the State senate 1863-1865 ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fortieth Congress.
Humphrey, Reuben, was a native of New
York; received a liberal education; member of the
State senate 1811-1814; elected a Representative
from New York to the Tenth Congress.
Humphreys, Charles, was born at Haverford,
Pa., in 1712; received a liberal education; became
a miller; member of the Provincial Congress,
1764-1774; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the
Continental Congress 1774-1776; died at Haver-
ford, Pa., March 11, 1786.
Humphreys, Perry W., received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and practiced in Tennessee;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat; moved to
Hernando, Miss., where he died March 1, 1839.
Hungerford, John N. , was born at Vernon,
N. Y., December 31, 1825; received a liberal edu-
cation and in 1846 graduated from Hamilton Col-
lege; engaged in banking business at Corning in
1848; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1872; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-fifth Congress as
a Republican.
Hungerford, John P. , was born in Virginia in
1769; received a thorough English education;
served in the Revolutionary war; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Twelfth Congress as
a Democrat, serving from November 4, 1811, to
December 2, 1811, his seat having been success-
fully contested by John Taliaferro; elected to the
Thirteenth Congress; his seat was again contested
by Taliaferro, but unsuccessfully; reelected to the
Fourteenth Congress; served in the war of 1812 as
brigadier-general of militia; died in Westmoreland
County, Va., December 21, 1833.
Hungerford, Orville, was born in Connecticut
in 1790; received a public school education, and
moved to Watertown, N. Y. ; studied law and prac-
ticed; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; died at
Watertown, N. Y., April 6, 1855.
Hunt, Carleton, of New Orleans, La., was bom
there January 1, 1836; graduated from Harvard
College in 1856; received the degree of A. M. from
the same university in 1859, and tlie degree of
LL. B. from the law department of the University
of Louisiana in 1858; admitted to the bar of Louisi-
ana in 1858; elected in 1860 a member of the con-
vention of the Constitutional Union party which
met at Baton Rouge, La. ; appointed in April, 1861,
first lieutenant in the Louisiana Regiment of Ar-
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTOBY.
tillery, Confederate army; administrator of the
University of Louisiana in 1866; a member of the
committee to examine applicants for admission to
the bar; appointed professor of admiralty and in-
ternational law in the University of Louisiana in
1869, and later dean of the faculty for ten years;
professor of civil law in the University of Louisiana
in 1879; doctor of laws in the same university in
1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Hunt, Hiram. P. , was a native of New York;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Whig; defeated for reelection; elected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses; declined a reelection; died at Troy, N. Y.
Hunt, James B., was born in New York in
1799; received an academic education; studied law
and began practice at New York City; moved to
Pontiac, Mich., in 1836; elected a Eepresentative
from Michigan to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; died at Washington, D. C, August 15, 1857.
Hunt, Jonathan, was a native of Vermont;
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1807; studied
law and began practice at Brattleboro; elected a
Eepresentative from Vermont to the Twentieth
Congress; reelected to the Twenty-first and
Twenty-second Congresses; died at Washington,
D. C, May 15, 1832.
Hunt, Samuel, was a native of New Hampshire;
received a liberal education; studied law and prac-
ticed at Alstead, N. H.; left the practice in 1795;
member of the State legislature of New Hampshire;
elected a Eepresentative from New Hampshire to
the Seventh Congress, vice Joseph Pierce, re-
signed; reelected to the Eighth Congress; died in
1807.
Hunt, Tlieodore Gr., was a native of South
Carolina; received a liberal education; studied law
and commenced practice at New Orleans; elected
a Eepresentative from Louisiana to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Whig.
Hunt, Wash.ing'ton, was born at Windham,
Greene County, N. Y., August 5, 1811 ; received a
liberal education; studied law and began practice
at Lockport; appointed first judge of Niagara
County in 1836; electeda Eepresentative from New
York to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Con-
gresses; comptroller of New York 1849-50; gov-
ernor of New York as a Whig 1850-1852; defeated
for reelection; delegate to the Chicago convention
of 1864; died at New York City, February 2, 1867.
Hunter, Andrew J., of Paris, 111., was born
at Greencastle, Ind., December 17, 1831; moved
with his parents to Edgar County, 111. ; attended the
common schools until 15 years old, and then sent to
the Edgar Academy, where he finished his educa-
tion; commenced business life as a civil engineer,
spending three years in that employment; studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced his profes-
sion at Paris; elected to the State senate in 1864;
a member of the board of investigation of State
institutions; elected county judge of the Edgar
County court in 1886, and again in 1890, serving
six years; nominated by the State convention a
candidate for Congressman at large in 1892, and
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Hunter, John, was born in South Carolina
about 1760; received a liberal education; electeda
Eepresentative from South Carolina to the Third
Congress; elected a United States Senator from
South Carolina (vice Pierce Butler, resigned),
serving from January 27, 1797, to 1798, when he
Hunter, John W. , was born at Brooklyn, N. Y. ,
October 15, 1807; received a liberal education;
clerk in the New York custom-house 1831-1836;
assistant auditor of custom-house 1836-1865; en-
gaged in banking; elected a Eepresentative from
New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress (vice
James Humphrey, deceased), serving from De-
cember 4, 1866, to March 3, 1867; died in 1900.
Hunter, Morton C, was born at Versailles,
Ind., February 5, 1825; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; served
in the State house of representatives 1858; served
in the civil war with the Union forces; commanded
the .First Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth
Army Corps; with Sherman in his march to the
sea; elected a Eepresentative from Indiana to the
Fortieth, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-
fifth Congresses as a Eepublican; died in 1896.
Hunter, Narsworthy, was elected a Delegate
from Mississippi Territory to the Seventh Con-
gress; died March 1, 1802, at Washington, D. C.
Hunter, Robert M. T., was born in Essex
County, Va., April 21, 1809; received a liberal
education and graduated from the University of
Virginia; studied law, and in 1830 admitted to the
bar; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses; defeated for reelection; served as
Speaker of the House in the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress; defeated for the Twenty-eighth Congress;
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; elected a
United States Senator from Virginia, serving from
1847 until he withdrew when Virginia seceded, and
in July, 1861, was expelled; delegate from Virginia
to the Confederate provincial congress at Eich-
mond; Confederate State Senator from Virginia to
the First Confederate Congress; Confederate Sec-
retary of State; elected State treasurer of Virginia
in 1877; died in Essex County, Va., July 18, 1887.
Hunter, W. Godfrey, of Burkesville, Ky., was
born in 1841; educated for and practiced medicine;
surgeon in the Union Army during the late war;
thrice elected a member of the Kentucky legisla-
ture; delegate to the Eepublican national conven-
tion at Chicago in 1880; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican; appointed
mmister to Guatemala by President McKinley.
Hunter, William, was born at Newport, R. I.,
November 26, 1774; graduated from Brown Uni-
versity m 1791; studied medicine in London; re-
turned to Newport and in 1796 admitted to the
bar; served several years in the State house of rep-
resentatives; elected a United States Senator from
Ehode Island (vice C. G. Champlin, resigned).
If '^elected, serving from November 25, 1811, to
March 3, 1821; commissioned charge d'affaires to
Brazil June 28, 1834, and minister plenipotentiary
September 13, 1841, serving until December 9,
1843; died at Newport, E. I., December 3, 1849.
Hunter, William, was a native of Vermont;
received a common school education; studied law
and practiced; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1807-1809; State councilor in 1809,
1814, and 1815; elected a Eepresentative from
Vermont to the Fifteenth Congress.
BIOGRAPHIES.
613
Hunter, William F., was born at Alexandria,
Va., December 10, 1808; received a common
school education; studied law and practiced;
moved to Woodsfleld, Ohio; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-second Congress.
Hunter, William H. , of Sandusky, Ohio, was
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
fifth Congress.
Huntington, Abel, was born at Norwich,
Conn., inl776; received a liberal education; moved
to East Hampton, Long Island, where he practiced
medicine; elected a Representative from New Yorli
to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses
as a Democrat; collector of customs at Sag Harbor
1845-1849; died May 18, 1858, at East Hampton.
Huntington, Benjamin, was born at Norwich,
Conn., April 19, 1736; received a liberal education
and in 1761 graduated from Yale College; studied
law and began practice at Norwich; Delegate from
Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1780-1784
and 1787-1788; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the First Congress; served in the State
senate 1781-1791 and 1791-1793; judge of the State
superior court 1793-1798; mayor of Norwich
1784-1796; died at Norwich, Conn., October 16,
1800.
Huntington, Ebenezer, was born at Norwich,
Conn., December 26, 1754; graduated from Yale
College in 1775; served in the Revolutionary
Army; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Eleventh (vice S. W. Dana, elected Senator)
and Fifteenth Congresses; died at Norwich, Conn. ,
June 17, 1834.
Huntington, Jabez Williams, was born at
Norwich, Conn., Novembers, 1788; pursued clas-
sical studies; graduated from Yale College in 1806;
studied law and admitted to the bar, commencing
practice at Litchfield; State representative in 1829;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses; resigned in 1834 to accept the appoint-
ment of judge of the State supreme court of errors;
moved to Norwich ; elected a United States Senator
as a Whig (vice Thaddeus Betts, deceased), serv-
ing from June 2, 1840, until his death at Norwich,
Conn., November 1, 1847.
Huntington, Samuel, was born at Windham,
Conn., July 3, 1731; attended the common schools;
took up the coopers trade; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1758, commencing practice at Nor-
wich; in the colonial assembly of 1764; appointed
in 1765 Crown's attorney; executive councilor in
1763- Delegate from Connecticut to the Conti-
nental Congress 1766-1783, and its president 1779--
1781; superior court judge 1774-1784, and chief
justice in 1784; lieutenant-governor in 1785 and
governor of Connecticut 1786-1796; died at Nor-
wich, Conn., January 5, 1796.
Hunton, Eppa, of Warrenton, Va., was born in
Fauquier County, Va., September 23, 1823; his
early education was limited; studied and practiced
law; Commonwealth attorney for the county of
Prince William 1849-1862; elected to the State
convention of Virginia which assembled at Rich-
mond in February, 1861; served through its first
session, and then entered the Confederate army as
colonel of the Eighth Virginia Infantry; promoted
after the battle of Gettysburg, and served through
the residue of the war as brigadier-general, suc-
ceeding Brigadier-General Gamett; captured at
Sailors Creek, April 6, 1865, and released from
Fort Warren in July, 1865; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Democrat; active In the adoption
of the present government of the District of Colum-
bia; appointed by the governor May 28, 1892,
to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. J. S. Barbour, and
took his seat June 1, 1892; subsequently elected
by the legislature of Virginia to fill out the unex-
pired term of his predecessor; resumed the prac-
tice of law.
Huntsman, Adam, was a native of Virginia;
moved to Jackson, Tenn.; elected a Representa-
tive from Tennessee to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Whig; defeated for the Twenty-fifth
Congress.
Hurd, Frank H. , was born at Mount Vernon,
Ohio, December 25, 1841; received a liberal edu-
cation, graduating from Kenyon College in 1858;
studied law; admitted to the bar; county prose-
cuting attorney in 1863; member of the State
senate of Ohio in 1866; appointed to codify the
criminal laws of Ohio ih 1868; elected to the Forty-
fourth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; died in 1896.
Hurlburt, Stephen A. , was born at Charles-
ton, S. C, November 29, 1815; received a thorough
education; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1837; served in the Florida war; moved to Belvi-
dere. 111., in 1845; Whig delegate to the constitu-
tional convention of Illinois in 1847; Presidential
elector on the Whig ticket in 1848 and on the Re-
publican ticket in 1868; member of the legislature
in 1859, 1861, and 1867; served in the Union Army
1861-1865, being appointed brigadier-general of
volunteers May 27, 1861, and major-general in
September, 1862; minister resident to the LTnited
States of Colombia 1869-1872; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses as a Republican; ap-
pointed minister to Peru in 1881, becoming prom-
inent in Secretary Blaine's Peruvian-Chilean pol-
icy; died at Lima, Peru, March 27, 1882.
Hurley, Denis M. , was born in the city of
Limerick, Ireland, March 14, 1843; came to reside
in Brooklyn in June, 1850; moved to New York
City in 1854, and returned to Brooklyn in 1866;
educated in the public schools and learned the
carpenter's trade; in the contracting business;
elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died February 26, 1899.
Hutcheson, Joseph C, of Houston, Tex., was
born In Mecklenburg County, Va., May 18, 1842;
graduated from Randolph-Macon College and the
University of Virginia; enlisted as a private soldier
in the 'Twenty-first Virginia Regiment; served in
the Valley under Stonewall Jackson, and surren-
dered at Appomattox, at which time he was in
command of Company E, Fourteenth Virginia
Regiment; emigrated to Texas October, 1866; en-
gaged in the practice of law, member of the Texas
legislature in 1880; elected to the Fifty-thi«l and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; after his
retirement from Congress resumed the practice of
law at Houston.
Hutchins, John, was born at Vienna, Ohio,
July 25, 1812; pursued classical studies, attending
the Western Reserve College; studied law; admit-
ted to the bar in 1837; common pleas court clerk
for Trumbull County 1838-1843; State represen-
tative in 1849; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses
as a Republican.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEEGTORY.
Hutchins, Waldo, was born at Brooklyn,
Conn., in 1823; graduated from Amherst College;
studied law, and, on being admitted to the bar,
commenced practice at the city of New York;
member of the legislature of the State of New
York in 1852, and of the constitutional conven-
tion of the State of New York of 1867; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat (to fill
vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Smith ) ;
reelected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
Congresses; after leaving Congress returned to
New York City and resumed the practice of law;
member of the park commission of New York City
at the time of his death, which occurred February
8, 1891, at New York City.
Hutcliins, Wells A. , was born at Hartford,
Ohio, Octobers, 1818; attended and taught public
schools; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
1841; a State representative in 1851; appointed the
United States provost-marshal for Ohio in 1862;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Hutson, Richard, was born in Prince William
Parish, S. C, June 12, 1747; pursued classical
studies; graduated from Princeton College; Dele-
gate from South Carolina to the Continental Con-
gress 1778-79; died at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1793.
Hutton, John E., was elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress; died December 23, 189.3.
Huyler, John, was born in New York City,
June 16, 1809; attended the public schools; moved
to Hackensack, N. J., in 1846, engaging in the
lumber business; president of supervisors of Ber-
gen County; State representative 1850-1853, serv-
ing the last year as speaker of the house; judge of
the court of appeals 1853-1856; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-iifth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated as a Lecompton
Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress; died at
Hackensack, N. J. , in January, 1870.
Hyde, Ira B., was born at Guilford, N. Y.,
January 18, 1838; worked on a farm and attended
Oberlin College, Ohio; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in 1861 at St. Paul, Minn. ; served in
the Union Army; moved to Missouri in 1866, be-
coming a railroad attorney; appointed prosecuting
attorney in 1872; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Hyde, Samuel Clarence, of Spokane, Wash.,
was born at Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y., April 22,
1842; at 3 years of age his parents moved to Wis-
consin with him and took up land upon the public
domain, where he grew up, helping to make a farm
in the wilds of that new country, attending the
common schools during winter seasons; at 19 years
of age worked as a raftsman on the Wisconsin and
Mississippi rivers; afterwards served in the Sev-
enteenth Regiment Wisconsin Infantry in the war
of the rebellion; worked in the forests of Wis-
consin and Michigan as a timber cruiser; studied
law in the law school of the Iowa State Univer-
sity for a term; admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed law at Rock Rapids, Iowa, five years; moved
with his family to Washington Territory in 1877
where he lived on Puget Sound three years; moved
to Spokane in 1880; elected prosecuting attorney
for the district embracing northeastern Washing-
ton in 1880; reelected three terms, holding that
office for six years; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican.
Hyman, John Adams, was bom a slave in
Warren County, N. C, July 23, 1840; sold and
sent to Alabama; emancipated in 1865, returning
to North Carolina and engaging in farming; ac-
quired a rudimentary education; delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1868, and a State
senator 1868-1874; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; appointed collector of internal reve-
nue of the second district of North Carolina in
June, 1877.
Hyneman, John M., was a native of Berks
County, Pa. ; received a classical education; served
in the State house of representatives in 1809;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses, serving
from November 4, 1811, to 1813, when he re-
signed; surveyor of Berks County 1814-1824.
Hynes, William J. , was born in County Clare,
Ireland, March 31, 1843; in 1854 emigrated to the
United States and located at New York; attended
the public schools of Massachusetts; learned the
art of printing; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1870 at Little Rock, Ark.; elected a Repre-
sentative from Arkansas to the Forty-third Con-
gress; moved to Chicago in 1876 and resumed the
practice of law.
Ihrie, Peter, jr. , was a native of Pennsylvania;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania from
the Fasten district to the Twenty-first Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
second Congress.
Ikirt, Georg'e P. , of East' Liverpool, Ohio, was
born near West Beaver, in Columbiana County,
in 1852; educated in the common and public
schools at New Lisbon; at the age of 17 began
teaching school and reading law, but ill health
compelled an abandonment of both; selected the
medical profession and after due preparation took
his first course at the Columbus Medical College;
went to Cincinnati; graduated from the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery in 1877; prac-
ticed five years; went to New York in 1882; grad-
uated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College
in 1888, and again resumed practice; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Ilsley, Daniel, was born at Falmouth, Mass.
(afterwards Maine), in 1740; received a liberal
education; became a distiller; delegate to the State
convention which adopted the Federal Constitu-
tion; member of the State house of representa-
tives; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Tenth Congress as a Democrat.
Imlay, James H., was a native of New Jersey
pursued classical studies; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1786, where he was also a tutor;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Fifth and Sixth Congresses.
IngaUs, John James, was born at Middleton,
Mass., December 29, 1833; graduated from Will
liams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; stud-
ied law; admitted to the bar in 1857; moved to
Kansas m October, 1858; member of the Wyandotte
constitutional convention in 1859; secretary of the
ierritorial council in 1860; secretary of the State
senate in 1861; member of the State senate from
Atchison County in 1862; elected to the United
btates Senate as a Republican, to succeed S C
1 omeroy, Republican; took his seat March 4, 1873-
16 1900 "^ ^^^^ ^"'^ ^^^''^ '" ^^^' ^^^'^ ^"8"®*
BIOGRAPHIES.
615
Inge, Samuel W., was a native of North Caro-
lina; moved to Greene County, Ala. ; attended pub-
lic schools; studied law; admitted to the bar; began
practicing in Livingston County; iJiember of the
State house of representatives 1844-45; elected a
Eepresentative from Alabama to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Democrat; resumed
practice of law; appointed by President Pierce as
United States attorney for the District of Colum-
bia; died at San Francisco in 1867.
Inge, William M. , was a native of Tennessee;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; moved to
Lexington, Sumter County, Ala., in 1836; member
of the State house of representatives in 1840, 1844,
and 1845; died at Lexington, Ala., in 1846.
IngersoU, Charles J. (brother of Joseph R.
IngersoU), was born at Philadelphia, Pa., October
3,1782; received an academic education; studied
law and began practicing at Philadelphia; elected
a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Democrat; United States
district attorney for Pennsylvania 1815-1829; sec-
retary of legation to Prussia in 1837; elected a
Eepresentative to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-
eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses
as a Democrat; appointed minister to France in
1847, but not confirmed by the Senate; died at
Philadelphia May 14, 1862.
IngersoU, Colin M. (son of Ealph J. IngersoU),
was born at New Haven, Conn., March 11, 1819;
received an academic education; studied law; ad-
mitted, to the bar; began practice at New Haven;
appointed secretary of legation at St. Petersburg
by President Polk; elected a Eepresentative from
Connecticut to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-third Congress.
IngersoU, Ebon C. , was born in Oneida County,
N. Y., December 12, 1831; moved to Illinois in
1843; received a classical education there and at
Paducah, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1854 and began practice; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Illinois to the Thirty-eighth Congress
(vice Owen Lovejoy, deceased) as a Eepubhcan;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-
first Congresses.
IngersoU, Jared (father of Joseph E. Inger-
soU), was born in Connecticut in 1749; received a
classical education; graduated from Yale College
in 1766; studied law at the Middle Temple; ad-
mitted to the bar and began practice at Philadel-
phia; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Conti-
nental Congress 1780-81; representative in the
convention which framed the Federal Constitu-
tion in 1787; twice attorney-general of Pennsyl-
vania; United States district attorney for the east-
ern district of Pennsylvania; Federalist candidate
for the Vice-Presidency in 1812; presiding judge
of the-district courts of Philadelphia County; died
at Philadelphia October^Sl, 1822.
IngersoU, Joseph Beed (son of Jared Inger-
soU), was born at Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1786;
received a classical education; graduated from
Princeton College in 1804; studied law;- admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Philadelphia;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Twenty-seventh (vice John Sergeant, resigned),
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Con-
gresses; declinedfurtherreelection; appointedmin-
ister to Great Britain, serving from August 21, 1852,
to August 23, 1853; died at Philadelphia, Febru-
ary 20, 1868.
IngersoU, Ralph I. (father of Colin M. Inger-
soU), was born at New Haven, Conn., February 8,
1788; pursued classical studies; graduated from
Yale College in 1808; studied law; admitted to the
bar, commencing practice at New Haven; for sev-
eral years a member of the State house of represent-
atives; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses as a Democrat; State
attorney-general; minister to Eussia, August 8,
1846, to July 1, 1848; died at New Haven, Conn.,
August 26, 1872.
Ingham, Samuel, was born at Hebron, Conn.,
September 5, 1793;, attended the public schools;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1815; com-
menced practice at Saybrook in 1817; State attor-
ney for Middlesex County 1827-1835; judge of
probate 1829-1833; judge of the Middlesex County
court 1849-1853; elected a Eepresentative from
Connecticut to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat; again State attorney for
Middlesex County 1843-44; member for several
years of the State house of representatives, serving
three years as speaker, and two years State senator;
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate in 1854; United States com-
missioner of customs December 5, 1857, to May 14,
1861; died at Essex, Conn., j^^ovember, 10, 1881.
Ingham, Samuel D., was born in PennB}'l-
vania September 16, 1779; attended the public
schools;- manager of a paper mill at Easton, N. J.,
for several years; member of the State legislature
of Pennsylvania for three years; prothonotary at
Philadelphia; elected a Eepresentative frOm Penn-
sylvania to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif-
teenth Congresses as a Jackson Democrat, resigning
July 6, 1818; elected a Eepresentative to the
Seventeenth Congress, vice Samuel Moore, re-
signed; reelected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
and Twentieth Congresses; Secretary of the Treas-
ury from March 6, 1829, serving until August 8,
1831, when he resigned; died at Trenton, N. J.,
June 5, 1860.
Irhy, John Laurens Manning, was born Sep-
tember 10, 1854, at Laurens, S. 0.; educated at
Laurensville Male Academy, College of New Jer-
sey, Princeton, N. J., and University of Virginia;
admitted to the bar in 1876; practiced law until
1879; appointed lieutenant-colonel in South Caro-
lina volunteers in 1877; elected to the State house
of representatives of South Carolina in 1886, and
reelected in 1888 and 1890; unanimously elected
speaker in the latter year; chairman of the State
Democratic executive committee in the campaign
of 1890; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat December ,11, 1890, for the full term
commencing March 4, 1891, and served until March
3, 1897; died at Laurens, S. C, December 9, 1900.
IredeU, James, was born at Eden ton, N. C,
November 2, 1788; pursued classical studies and
graduated from Princeton College in 1806; studied
law; admitted to the bar; served in the war of
1812; appointed judge of the superior court of
North Carolina in March and resigned in Mayj
1819- governor of North CaroUna 1827-28; elected
United States Se'nator (vice Nathaniel Macon,
resigned), serving from December 23, 1828, to
March 3, 1831; moved to Ealeigh, where he prac-
ticed and was supreme court reporter; died at
Edenton, N. C, April 13, 1853.
Irion, Alfred BriggSj of Marksville, La., was
born in Avoyelles Parish, La., February 18, 1833;
educated at the University of North CaroUna,
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
fraduating in 1855; studied law; admitted to the
ar in 1857; elected in 1880 judge of the circuit
court of appeals, which office he held for f ouryears;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat;
after leaving Congress he resumed the practice of
law.
Irvin, Alexander, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; resided at Clearfield; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig.
Irvin, James, was born in Center County, Pa.,
February 18, 1800; elected a Representative from
that State to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses as a Whig; died in Center
County November 28, 1862.
Irvin, William W. , was born in Albemarle
Q. /County, Va., in 1778; received an academic educa-
nj^ tion; studied law; admitted to the bar; began
'''' practicing at Lancaster, Ohio; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
"3? Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses as a.
> Jackson Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-third Congress; judge of the State supreme
court; died at Lancaster, Ohio, April 19, 1842.
Irvine, William, was born near Enniskillen,
Ireland, November 3, 1741; pursued classical
studies; graduated from the Dublin University;
studied medicine; admitted to practice and served
as surgeon on a British man-of-war; came to Car-
lisle, Pa., in 1763; delegate to the State Revolu-
tionary conventions 1764-1766; colonel of the
Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolution-
ary Army; captured in Canada June 16, 1776, and
remained a prisoner of war until exchanged. May
6, 1778; appointed brigadier-general May 12, 1779,
and served until the close of the war; Delegate
from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress
1786-1788; commanded the State troops in whisky
insurrection in 1794; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Third Congress; moved to
Philadelphia, where he was superintendent of mil-
itary stores; died there July 29, 1804.
Irvine, William, resided at Corning, Steuben
County, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Irving, William, was born at New York City
August 15, 1766; received a liberal education-
engaged m mercantile trade; elected a Represent^
ative from New York to the Thirteenth Congress
(vice Egbert Benson, resigned) as a Democrat- re-
elected to th e Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses •
served until 1818, when he resigned on account of
dechnmg health; died at New York City Novem-
ber 9, 1821; contributed several essays and poems
to Salmagundi, published by his brother, Wash-
mgton Irving.
Irwin, Harvey Samuel, of Louisville, Ky.
fcf/.^°''?/° Highland County, Ohio, December 10
1844; after graduating from the high school at
Greenfield, Ohio, began the study of law, but
abandoned that to enlist in the Union Armv
Assisted in raising a regiment of artillery, which wm
consolidated witTi another regi^nent, he receiving
an appointment as lieutenant; transferred to a
special corps in the Regular Army in which he
served till the close of the war; located in Louis^
ville; resumed his studies in the law; admitted
to the bar; appointed successively assistant inter-
sfi;I!TI"^ assessor, deputy clerk of the United
fl^t flffi'*'"';* '=°"r*' ^'^ ^'^'^'f deputy collector of
the litth internal-revenue district of Kentucky-
assisted in founding the Home and Savings Fund
Company; in 1895, elected railroad commissioner!
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; defeated for the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Irwin, Jared, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Irwin, Thomas, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
February 22, 1785; studied law; admitted to the
bar; began practice at Uniontown; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-first
Congress; appointed by President Jackson a United
States judge for the western district of Pennsylva-
nia; died at Pittsburg, Pa., May 14, 1870.
Irwin, William W. , was a native of Pittsburg,,
Pa.; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from that State to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Whig; charg6 d'affaires to
Denmark, March 3, 1843, to June 12, 1847; dietfat
Pittsburg, Pa., September 15, 1856.
Isacks, Jacob C, was a native of Montgomery
County, Pa. ; moved to Winchester, Tenn. ; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses; defeated for the
Twenty-third Congress.
Ittner, Anthony, was born at Lebanon, War-
ren Cdunty, Ohio, October 8, 1837; attended the
common schools; bricklayer and builder; served
in the city council of St. Louis, Mo., in 1867 and
1868; elected a member of the general assembly of
Missouri in 1868, of the State senate in 1870, and
reelected in 1874; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Iverson, Alfred, was born in Burke County,
Ga., December 3, 1798; pursuing classical studies,
graduated from Princeton College in J820; studied
law; admitted.to the bar, and began practice at
Columbus; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives for three years and of the State senate
one year; judge of the State supreme court for
seven years; Presidential elector on the Polk and
Dallas ticket in 1844; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Democrat; elected a United States Senator from
Georgia, serving from 1855 to January 28, 1861,
when he retired; served in the Confederate army
as colonel; appointed brigadier-general in 1862-
died at Macon, Ga., March 5, 1873. '
Ives, Willard, was born at Watertown, N Y
July 7, 1806; attended the public schools; farmer-
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; died in
loyb.
- ■^f^*.^?' ^^lP^> was born near Charleston, S. C
in 1742; received classical education and grad-
uated from Cambridge University, England; Dele-
gate from South Carolina to the Continental Con-
gress 1781-1783; elected United States Senatorfrom
South Carolma 1789-17931 appointed by the Con-
tinental Congress commissioner to Tuscany; re-
caled June 8, 1779; pledged his large estate in
South Carolina for the payment of ships of war to
be used in the Revolution; died near Charleston,
S. C, May 30, 1804.
of^^int^,'^r"'^^•^•' °* O^'^ngeburg, S. C, anative
OvwS ^ Carolina, graduate of Emory College,
a.«nnffi^«'-''"i^n^V^'' ^y Profession; served
as an officer in the Confederate army; State sena-
tor tor ten years; for eight years the nresidpnt
pro tempore of that body? elected by thr~al
assembly judge of the first judicial circuit i?i 1889;
BI0GKAPHIE8.
617
for a number of years chairman of the State Demo-
cratic executive committee; delegate to the na-
& f7^fv,°''^^J^° convention of 1884; elected to
wL^^ii'^''"'^ Congress as a Democrat to succeed
S°t ;^'^i'^'^ -^J Brawley, who resigned to ac-
cept a Federal judgeship, at a special election held
tor the purpose.
horn';^'*®''"'"'^''-,^!''^^' Of Indiana, Pa., was
ie if^o®"°T®™^J^®' Jefferson County, Pa., July
il. f V ?'^H°^ted in the public and private
^hoolsof Jefferson County, and in the Indiana
JNormal School of Pennsylvania; registered as a
student at law in June, 1877, with Hon. Silas M.
i^ TA .oJ-^.^^' a-dmitted to practice Septem-
ber 10, 1879; elected district attorney for Indiana
ri*Qc y ^'^ ^^^?> reelected without opposition in
lS8b, serving six years; formed a law partnership
with D B Taylor m 1885, under the firm name
ot Jack & Taylor; appointed member of the
board of trustees of the Indiana Normal School of
Pennsylvania, to represent the State in 1886, and
reappointed in 1889, 1892, 1895, and 1898; chair-
man of the Congressional conference for the
Twenty-flrst district in 1896; elected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress.
Jack, 'William, was a native of Pennsylvania;
lived at Brook ville; elected a Eepresentati\^ from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat.
Jackson, Alfred Metoalf, of Winfleld, Kans.,
was born July 14, 1860, at South Carrollton,
Muhlenberg County, Ky.; educated at West
Kentucky College, in that place; moved to Kansas
in 1881, locating at Howard, Elk County, and
engaged in the practice of law; elected county
attorney in 1890, and in 1892 elected judge of the
thirteenth judicial district; served one term and
then moved to Winfield; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Jackson, Andrew, was born in the Waxhaw
.settlenient, North Carolina, March 15, 1767; early
education limited; accompanying the militia of his
neighborhood he was captured by thfe British and
brutally struck by an oiBcer whose boots he re-
fused to clean; left destitute by the death of his
mother, worked for a time in a saddler's shop and
afterwards taughtschool; studied lawatSaulsbury,
N. C. ; admitted to the bar before he was 20 years
of age; appointed in 1788 solicitor of the western
district of North Carolina, comprising what is now
the State of Tennessee; delegate to the convention
in 1796 to frame a constitution for the new State;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Fourth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 5, 1796, until March 3, 1797; elected a
United States Senator, serving from November 22,
1797, until his resignation in April, 1798; elected
judge of the State supreme court of Tennessee,
serving from 1798 until 1804; entered into mer-
cantile pursuits; served in the Creek war of 1813;
commissioned major-general in the U. S. Army
May 31, 1814; captured Florida; led his army to
New Orleans, where he defeated the British Jan-
uary 8, 1815; commanded an expedition which
captured Florida in 1817; governor of Florida from
March 10 to July 18, 1821; declined the position of
minister to Mexico; grand master of Masons in
Tennessee i;i 1822 and 1823; again elected a United
States Senator, serving from December 1, 1823, to
1825, when he resigned; defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for President in 1824; elected
President, and reelected, serving from March 4,
1829, to March 3, 1837; retired to the Hermitage,
his estate near Nashville, Tenn., where he died
June 8, 1845.
Jackson, David, was born at Oxford, Pa., about
1747; was a Delegate from that State to the Con-
tinental Congress 1785-86; died at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1801.
Jackson, David S., was a native of New York
City; attended public schools; claimed to have been
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat, serving until
April 19, 1848, when the seat was declared vacant,
having been contested.
Jackson, Ebenezer, jr., was a native of Con-
necticut; resided at Littletown; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Whig (vice Samuel A. Foot, re-
signed), servingfrom December 31, 1834, to March
3, 1835.
Jackson, Edward B. , was a native of Harrison
County, Va.; received an academic education;
studied medicine; commenced practice at Clarks-
burg; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Sixteenth Congress, vice James Tindall, re-
signed; reelected to the Seventeenth Congress,
serving from November 30, 1820, to March 3, 1823;
died at Clarksburg September 8, 1826.
Jackson, George, was a native of Virginia;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat.
Jackson, Howell Edmunds, of Jackson, Tenn. ,
was born at Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832; in 1840
his parents moved to Jackson; received a classical
education, grad^iating from West Tennessee Col-
lege in 1848, and afterwards studying for two
years at the University of Virginia; studied law
in Jackson; entered the Lebanon Law School in
1855, graduated the following year, and com-
menced the practice of law at Jackson; moved to
Memphis in 1859; engaged in the practice of law;
served on the supreme bench by appointment on
two occasions; prominent candidate for supreme
judge before the nominating convention; moved to
Jackson in 1876; elected to the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1880 on the State credit platform;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat
to succeed James E. Bailey, Democrat, and took
his seat March 4, 1881; resigned April 14, 1886;
died in 1895.
Jackson, Jabez, was a- native of Georgia; re-
sided at Clarksville; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-
fifth Congresses as a Union Democrat.
Jackson, Jaines, was born in Devonshire,
England, September 21, 1757; came to Georgia in
1772; received the Masonic degrees in Kmg Solo-
mon's Lodge, at Savannah, in 1775; entered the
Revolutionary Army as captain , commander of the
Georgia legionary forces in 1781; received the keys
of Savannah from the British July 12, 1782; pre-
sented with a house at Savannah by the assembly
of the State of Georgia; grand master of Masons of
Georgia 1786-1789; delegate to the first State con-
stitutional convention of Georgia; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the First Congress;
contested the seat of Anthony Wayne in the Second
Congress, and the seat was declared vacant by the
House March 21, 1792; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Georgia, serving from December 2, 1793,
to his resignation in 1795; governor of Geoigia
1798-1801; again elected a United States Senator,
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTOKT.
serving from 1801 to March 18, 1806, when he died
at Washington, D. C.
Jackson, James, was born in Jefferson County,
Ga., October 18, 1819; pursued classical studies;
graduated frona the University of Georgia in 1837;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began practic-
ing at Athens in 1840; secretary of the State senate
in 1842; elected to the State house of representa-
tives in 1845 and 1847; chosen judge of the western
judicial circuit in 1846; elected to the same office
in 1853 and 1857; resigned in June, 1859; elected
a Representative from Georgia as a Democrat to
the Thirty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress, serving until January 23, 1861,
when he retired from the House; died at Atlanta,
Ga., January 13, 1887.
Jackson, James Monroe, was born at Parkers-
burg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virginia),
Decembers, 1825; received an academic education;-
graduated from Princeton College in 1845; admit-
ted to the bar in 1847; elected prosecuting attor-
ney for Wood County in 1856; reelected in 1860;
elected a member of the legislature in 1870; re-
elected in 1871- elected a member of the consti-
tutional convention, in 1872, that framed the
present constitution of the State; elected judge of
■ the fifth judicial circuit, and served from January
1, 1873, a period of fifteen years and eight months,
when he resigned; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat; unseated February 3, 1890,
by C. B. Smith; died February 14, 1901.
Jackson, James S., was born in Fayette
County, Ky., September 27, 1823; pursued classi-
cal studies at Centre College; studied law; admit-
ted to the bar in 1843; began practice at Green-
upsburg; moved to Hopkinsville; served in the
Mexican war as captain of volunteers; elebted a
Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Unionist; raised a com-
pany of cavalrymen at the commencement of the
civil war; became colonel of the Third Kentucky
Cavalry; took his seat in Congress July 4, 1861;
absent in the field most of the time; brigadier-
general of Union volunteers July 10, 1862; killed
at the battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862.
Jackson, John George, was born in Virginia
in 1774; received an English education; in 1798
appointed surveyor of public lands of what is now
the State of Ohio; member of the Virginia house
of representatives 1797 to 1801; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia as a Democrat to the
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses,
serving until 1810, when he resigned; again elected
State representative in 1811; chosen brigadier-
general of militia; elected to the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Congresses; declined a reelection to
the Fifteenth Congress; appointed judge of the
western district of Virginia in 1819, and held the
office until his death, at Clarksburg, Va., March
^Uf l82o.
Jackson, Jonathan, was born at Boston, Mass
June 4, 1743; pursued classical studies; graduated
from Harvard College in 1761; engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits at Newburyport; member of the
Provincial Congress in 1775, and of the State leg-
islature in 1777; Delegate from Massachusetts in
the Continental Congress 1782; State senator in
1789; United States marshal, Massachusetts- presi-
dent of the State Bank; died at Boston, March 5
1810. '
Jackson, Joseph W., was a native of Georgia-
attended the public schools; for several years a
member of the municipal council of Savannah and
for two years mayor; State senator and member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Thirty-first
Congress as a State Rights Democrat, vice Thomas
B. King, resigned; reelected to the Thirty-second
Congress, serving from March 4, 1850, to March 3,
1853; declined a reelection; died at Savannah,
Ga., September 20, 1854.
Jackson, Oscar L., of Newcastle, Pa., was
born in Lawrence County, Pa., September 2, 1840,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry, , who settled in that State
at an early date; educated in common schools, at
Tansy Hill Select School, and at Darlington Acad-
emy; served in the Union Army from 1861 to
1865, entering as captain and receiving the promo-
tions of major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel by
brevet; took part with the Army of the Tennessee
in the campaigns in Missouri, Tennessee, and Mis-
sissippi, also from Chattanooga to Atlanta, the
march to the sea, and through the Carolinas,
commanding his regiment during the latter part
of the war; severely wounded in battle at Corinth,
Miss., October 4, 1862; studied law, admitted to
the bar at Newcastle in 1867, and practiced there;
district attorney 1868-1871; member of the com-
mission to codify laws and devise a plan for the
government of cities of Pennsylvania 1877-1878;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republi-
can; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Jackson, Sichard, jr., was born in Rhode
Island in 1764; received a liberal education; man-
ufacturer; elected a Representative from Rhode
Island to the Tenth Congress (vice Nehemiah
Knight, deceased), and reelected to the Eleventh,
Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, serving from
November 11, 1808, to March 2, 1815; died at
Providence, R. I., April 18, 1838.
Jackson, Tliomas B. , was born on Long Island,
New York; attended the public schools; member
of the State house of representatives 1833-1835;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Jackson, William, was born at Newton, Mass.,
September 2, 1783; attended the public schools;
engaged m the construction of railroads;' member
of the State house of representatives 1829-1832-
elected a Representative from Massachusetts as a
Wliig, on the second trial, to the Twenty-third
CoAgress; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress, serving from March 17, 1834, to March 3,
AT L '^s'Jiined a renomination; president of the
5lf^o°^= ™'^' '^^^^ ** Newton, Mass., February
Jackson, William H., of Salisbury, Md., was
born m 1839, 6 miles from Salisbury, Md., on a
farm belonging to his great-grandfather, Elihu
Jackson; remained on the farm until 1864, receiv-
ing his education in the country schools; moved
to Salisbury m 1864; from that year until 1867
dealer m^ horses and cattle; went into the lumber
business in 1867; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Jackson, William T., was born at Chester,
NY December 29, 1794; attended the public
schools; engaged m mercantile pursuits at Havana,
^- y.; justice of the peace and county judge of
Orange County N. Y., for four years; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirtv-flrst
Congress as a Whig. ^
BIOGBAPHIES.
619
Jacobs, Ferris, jr., was born at Delhi, N. Y.,
March 20, 1836 ; entered the j unior year of the class
of 1856 at Williams College with James A. Garfield;
graduated; admitted to the bar in 1859 and began
practice in Delhi; in August, 1861, raised a com-
pany in Delaware County; elected its captain and
joined the Third New York Cavalry; served with
the advance of Bank's column up the Shenandoah
to Winchester in the spring of 1862, and returning
to Washington joined Burnside in North Carolina;
joined the Army of the James in the winter of
1863 and 1864; promoted to major and lieutenant-
colonel; commanded a brigade in Kautz's cavalry
division and continued to serve during Grant's
campaign, about Petersburg, until mustered out,
October 12, 1864; returned home and commis-
sioned colonel of Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry,
and brigadier-general by brevet, and mustered out
of service July 1, 1865; elected district attorney in
the fall of that year, and afterwards reelected;
delegate to Chicago convention in 1880; elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a EepubUcan;
soon after retiring from Congress his health failed,
and he died August 30, 1886.
Jacobs, Israel, was a native of Germany; moved
to United State in his youth; elected a Eepresent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Second Congress.
Jacobs, Orange, was born in Livingston County,
N. Y. ; moved to Michigan Territory in 1831, where
he was educated; lawyer; moved to the Territory
of Oregon in 1852, remaining there until 1859; ap-
pointed associate justice of Washington Territory
in 1869, and within a year appointed chief jus-
tice of the Territory, and reappointed at the
expiration of four years; elected a Delegate from
Washington Territory to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Eepublican; reelected to the Forty-fifth
Congress.
Jadwin, Cornelius C, of Honesdale, Pa., was
born at Carbondale, Pa., March 27, 1835; received
a common school education; at the age of 18 was
placed in charge of a city school, where he taught
for four years, devoting his leisure time to the
study of civil engineering and pharmacy; from
1857 to 1861 a civil and mining engineer; from
1861 gave his att€ntion to the drug business;
located at Honesdale in 1862; nine successive
years a member and for three years president of
the board of education of his district; delegate to
the Chicago convention in 1880; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Eepublican; defeated
as an independent candidate for the Forty-eighth
Congress.
James, Amaziah B., was born at Stephen-
town, N. Y., July 1, 1812; received an academic
education; moved in 1814 to Sweden, Monroe
County; studied law at Ogdensburg; admitted to
the bar in January, 1838, and commenced to prac-
tice at Ogdensburg; elected a justice of the su-
preme court in 1853, and resigned in 1876; elected
to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a
Eepublican; died July 6, 1883.
James, Charles Tilling'liast, was born at
West Greenwich, E. I.j in 1804; attended the pub-
lic schools; carpenter, and followed mechanical
pursuits; superintendent of and constructed numer-
ous mills throughout the country; major-general
of the Ehode Island irjlitia; elected a United
States Senator from Ehode Island as a protective
tariff Democrat, serving from March 4, 1851, to
March 3, 1857; invented a rifle cannon, and lost
his life in conducting an experirhent with one at
Sag Harbor, October 17, 1862.
James, Darwin K.., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at Williamsburg, Mass., May 14, 1884; re-
ceived an academic education at Mount Pleasant
Boarding School, Amherst, Mass. ; entered mercan-
tile business in New York; an importer of indigo,
spices, etc., from the East Indies; president of the
East Brooklyn Savings Bank; secretary of the New
York Board of Trade and Transportation; from
1876 to 1882 park commissioner of Brooklyn;
elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Eepublican.
, James, Francis, was a native of West Chester,
Pa.; attended the public schools; elected a Eepre-
sentative from that State to the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig.
Jameson, John, was a native of Kentucky;
attended the public schools; studiedlaw; admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Fulton, Mo. ;
held several local offices; elected a Eepresentative
from Missouri as a Van Buren Democrat to the
Twenty-sixth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
eighth and Thirtieth Congresses.
Janes, Henry F. , was born at Brimfleld, Mass.,
October 10, 1792; received an academic education;
studied law at Burlington, Vt. ; admitted to the
bar in 1817; began practice at Waterbury, Vt.;
postmaster 1820-1830; member of the State legis-
lative council 1830-1834; elected a Eepresentative
from Vermont as a Whig and Anti-Mason to the
Twenty-third Congress, vice Benjamin F. Deming, -
deceased; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress,
serving from December 2, 1834, to 1837; defeated
as Anti-Masonic candidate for the Twenty-fifth
Congress; State treasurer 1838-1841; member of
the State council of censors 1848 ; State representa-
tive in 1855.
Jarnagin, Spencer, was born in Granger
County, Tenn., about 1793; pursuing classical
studies, graduated from Greenville College in
1813; studied' law; admitted to the bar in 1817;
commenced practice at Athens, Tenn. ; State rep-
resentative; elected a United States Senator from
Tennessee as a Whig, serving from December 4,
1843, to March 3, 1847; died at Memphis, Tenn.,
June 24, 1851.
Jarvis, Leonard, was born in Massachusetts
October 19, 1781; graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1800; sheriff of Hancock County, Me.,
1821-1829; collector of customs for the Penobscot
district 1829-30; elected a Eepresentative from
Maine as a Jackson Democrat to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; navy agent of Boston 1838-1841;
moved to Surry, Me., where he died September
18, 1854.
Jarvis, Thomas Jordan, of Greenville, N. C,
was born January 18, 1836, in the county of Cur-
rituck, N. C. ; graduated at Eandolph-Maeon Col-
lege, Virginia, in 1860; soldier in the Confederate
army; permanently disabled in right arm in 1864;
elected to Andrew Johnson constitutional con-
vention from his native county in 1865; moved to
the county of Tyrrell in 1866; elected from that
county to the legislature in 1868; reelected to the
house in 1870; chosen speaker of that body on
the assembling of the legislature in 1870; moved
to the county of Pitt in 1872; elected a member of
the State constitutional convention from that
county in 1875; elected lieutenant-governor in
1876; became governor February 5, 1879, on the
election of Governor Vance to the Senate; elected
governor for a full term in 1880, and thus served as
governor of his State six consecutive years; ap-
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pointed United States minister to Brazil by Presi-
dent Cleveland in March, 1885, in which position
he served to the end of Mr. Cleveland's term; ap-
pointed to the United States Senate by Governor
Carr, April 19, 1894, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator Vance, and took his seat
April 26, 1894.
Jay, Jolm, was born at New York City Decem-
ber 1, 1745 (old style); graduated from Columbia
College in 1754; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1768; Delegate from New York to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-1777, and 1778-79; recalled
some months in 1776 to aid in forming the New
York State constitution; absent when the Dec-
laration of Independence was adopted; appointed
chief justice of the State of New York in May,
1777, but resigned December, 1778, to become
President of Congress; appointed minister pleni-
potentiary to Spain September 27, 1779; appointed
one of the ministers to negotiate peace with Great
Britain June 14, 1781, and signed the treaty of
Paris; appointed one of the ministers to negotiate
treaties with the European powers May 1, 1783;
returned to New York in 1784; appointed secretary
of foreign affairs December, 1784; appointed Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
September 24, 1789; defeated as the Federal candi-
date for governor of New York in 1792 by George
Clinton, Democrat; appointed envoy extraordi-
nary to Great Britain April 19, 1794, serving until
April 8, 1795; governor of New York 1795-1801;
declined reelection, and also reappointment as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States; retired to his farm at Bedford, near New
York City, where he died May 17, 1829. He
wrote several numbers of the Federalist and many
able state papers.
Jayne, Williain, was born at Springfield, 111.,
October 8, 1826; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; practiced for eleven years;
mayor of Springfield 1859-1861; appointed by
President Lincoln governor of Dakota Territory
and served in 1861 and 1862; claimed to have
been elected as a Delegate from Dakota Territory
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican,
but the seat was successfully contested by John
B. S. Todd, who took the seat June 13, 1864.
Jefferson, Thomas, was born at ShadweIl,Va.,
April 2, 1743; graduated from William and Mary
College; studied law with George Wythe; admit-
ted to the bar and began practice in 1757; member
of the colonial house of burgesses 1769-1774;
prominent in pre-Revolutionary movements; Del-
egate from Virginia to the Continental Congress
1775-1778; governor of Virginia 1779-1781; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1782;
again Delegate to the Continental Congress 1782-
1783 ; appointed minister plenipotentiary to Europe
and then to France alone 1784-1789; appointed
Secretary of State of the United States September
26, 1789, serving until December 3, 1793; elected
Vice-President of the United States, serving from
1797 to 1801; received 73 of 128 electoral votes cast
for President of the United States in 1801, and
Aaron Burr having received the same number
Mr. Jefferson was elected by the House of Repre-
sentatives on the thirty-sixth ballot; reelected
President in 1805; serving as President March 4
1801, to March 3, 1809; retired to his estate, called
"Monticello;" active in founding the University
of Virginia; died at Monticello, July 4, 1826.
Jeffords, Elza, was born near Ironton, Law-
rence County, Ohio, May 23, 1826; received a good
common school education; reared in Portsmouth,
Ohio; served his apprenticeship in the clerk's
office; read law and admitted to practice in Ports-
mouth, Ohio, in 1847; served in the Army of the
Tennessee from June, 1862, to December, 1863, as
clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, land
transportation; judge of the high court of errors
and appeals in Mississippi 1868-69; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican ; died March
19, 1885, at Vicksburg, Miss.
Jenckes, Thomas A., was born at Cumber-
land, R. I., November 2, 1818; graduated from
Brown University in 1838; studied law, and in
1840 admitted to the bar; began practice at Provi-
dence; clerk in the State legislature 1840-1844;
secretary of the State constitutional convention
in 1842; adjutant-general 1845-1855; member of
the State legislature 1854-1859; commissioner to
revise the laws of the State in 1855; elected a
Representative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first
Congresses as a Republican; defeated as a Repub-
lican candidate to the Forty-second Congress; died
at Cumberland, R. I., November 4, 1875.
Jenifer, Daniel (father of Daniel Jenifer), of
St. Thomas, was born in Maryland in 1723; active
in pre-Revolutionary movements; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1778-1782,
and also to the national constitutional convention;
died in Maryland November 6, 1790.
Jenifer, Daniel (son of Daniel Jenifer), was
born in -Charles County, Md., April 15, 1791; re-
ceived a liberal education; State legislator; local
magistrate; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Twenty-second Congress as a Whig;
defeated for the Twenty-third Congress; reelected
to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-
sixth Congresses; minister to Austria August 27,
1841, to July 7, 1845; died December 18, 1855, near
Port Tobacco, Md.
Jenkins, Albert G. , was born in Cabell County,
Va., November 10, 1830; graduated from Jefferson
College; studied law at the Cambridge Law School;
admitted to the bar but never practiced; delegate
to the national Democratic convention at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, 1856; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses; delegate from Virginia to the provisional
Confederate congress in 1861; entered the Confed-
erate service; appointed brigadier-general August
1, 1862; killed m action at Dublin, Va.,'Mav 7,
1864. - J- .
Jenkins, John J. , of Chippewa Falls, Wis., was
born at Weymouth, England, August 20, 1843; set-
tled in Baraboo, Wis., in June, 1852; attended the
common schools a few terms; served during the
war as a member of Company A, Sixth Wisconsin
Volunteers; clerk of the circuit court of Baraboo,
Sauk County; city clerk and city attorney of Chip-
pewa Falls; member of the assembly from Chip-
pewa County; county judge of Chippewa County;
appointed United States attornev of the Territory
of Wyoming by President Grant March, 1876;
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Jenkins, Lemuel, was a native of Blooming-
burg, N. Y.; elected a Representative from New
York to the Eighteenth Congress.
Jenkins, Robert, was a native of Pennsylvania;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Tenth and Eleventh Congresses.
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621
Jenkins, Timotliy, was born at Barre, Mass.,
January 29, 1799; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1824; began
practice at Oneida Castle, N. Y . ; district attorney
for Oneida County 1839-1845; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-ninth
and Thirtieth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated
for the Thirty-first Congress; reelected to the
Thirty-second Congress; defeated for the Thirty-
third Congress; died at Martinsburg, N. Y.,
December 24, 1859.
Jenks, George A., was born in Jefferson
County, Pa., March 26, 1836; learned the carpen-
ter's trade; taught school; graduated from Jeffer-
son College in August, 1858; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1859; began practice at Brookville;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Jenks, Micliael Hutchinson, was born at
Bridgetown Mills, near Middletown, Pa., May 21,
1795; received an academic education; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; commissioner of Bucks
County 1830-1833, and treasurer 1833-1835; moved
to Newtown in 1837; associate judge of the court
of common pleas in Bucks County 1838-1843;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-eighth Congress; defeated for the Twenty-
ninth Congress; chief burgess of Newtown for
many years, where he died October 16, 1867.
Jenness, Banning W., was born at Deerfleld,
N. H., July 14, 1806; received an academic educa-
tion; judge of probate of Strafford County 1841-
1845; appointed a United States Senator from New
Hampshire (vice Levi Woodbury, resigned), serv-
ing from December 1, 1845, to June 22, 1846; died
at Cleveland, Ohio, November 16, 1879.
Jennings, David, was a native of Hunterdon
County, N. J.; attended the public schools; moved
to St. Clairsville, Ohio; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Nine-
teenth Congress, serving until his resignation. May
■25, 1826.
Jennings, Jonathan, was born in Hunterdon
County, N. J., about 1776; received an academic
education; went to the Northwest Territory; first
Delegate from the Indiana Territory, after some
opposition entering the Eleventh Congress; re-
elected to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses; elected governor of Indiana in Decem-
ber, 1816, serving until 1822; appointed Indian
Commissioner in 1818; elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Seventeenth Congress, vice
William Hendricks, resigned; reelected to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; grand master of Free Masons in
1824; died near Charlestown, Ind., July 26, 1834.
Jett, Thomas Marion, of Hillsboro, 111., was
born on a farm in Bond County, 111., May 1, 1862;
attended the common schools of the counties of
Bond and Montgomery; attended college two
years at the Northern Indiana Normal School,
Valparaiso, Ind.; taught school; read law, and
admitted to practice in May, 1887; elected State
attorney of Montgomery County, 111., in 1889, and
served eight years; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Je-wett, Daniel T., was appointed a United
States Senator from the State of Missouri Decem-
ber 19, 1870, in the place of Charles D. Drake,
resigned, and served until June 20, 1871.
Jewett, Freeborn G. , was born at Skaneateles,
N. Y., in 1790; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818; com-
menced practice at Skaneateles; surrogate of Onon-
daga County 1824-1831; elected a Representative
from New York as a Jackson Democrat to the
Twenty-second Congress; appointed a puisne jus-
tice of the supreme court March 5, 1845; elected
judge of the court of appeals in 1849; reelected in
1853; resigned in 1853 on account of ill health;
died at Skaneateles, N. Y., February 23, 1858.
Jewett, Hugh J., was born at Deercreek, Md.,
about 1812; received a liberal education; studied
law in Cecil County, Md. ; admitted to the bar;
commenced practicing at Columbus, Ohio; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving until June 23, 1874,
when he resigned to become president of the Erie
Railroad Company; died in 1898.
Jewett, Joshua H. , was born at Deercreek,
Harford County, Md., September 13, 1812; at-
tended the public schools; studied law; admitted
to the bar and began practicing at Elizabethtown,
Ky. ; county prosecuting attorney; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Jewett, Luther, was born at Canterbury,
Conn., December 24, 1772; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1795; studied medicine and
began practice at Putney, Vt. ; member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Vermont to the Fourteenth Con-
gress as a Federalist; moved to St. Jolmsbury;
studied theology; pastor at Newbury, Vt., 1821-
1828; returned to St. Johnsbury and published
the Farmer's Herald 1828-1832 and the Free Mason
Friend 1830-1832; diedatSt. Johnsbury, Vt., March
8, 1860.
Johns, Eensey (father of Kensey Johns, jr.),
was born in Maryland June 14, 1759; received a
classical education; studied law; practiced; chan-
cellor of the State of Delaware; appointed by the
governor of Delaware a United States Senator, vice
George Read, resigned; after presenting his cre-
dentials, March 4, 1794, the Committee on Elec-
tions reported on the 28th of March that he was
not entitled to a seat, a session of the legislature
of Delaware having intervened between Senator
Read's resignation and the appointment; the
report was sustained by the Senate.
Johns, Kensey, jr., was born at Newcastle,
Del., December 10, 1791; received a classical edu-
cation and graduated from Princeton College in
1810; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1813;
commenced practice at his home town; elected a
Representative from Delaware to the Twentieth
and Twenty-first Congresses; appointed chancellor
of Delaware in 1832, serving until his death, at
Newcastle, Del., March 28, 1857.
Johnson, Andrew, was born at Raleigh, N. C,
December 29, 1808; received no schooling on ac-
count of poverty; at the age of 10 ajiprenticed to a
tailor; moved to Greeneville, Tenn., September,
1826, where he received a limited education under
his wife's instruction; organized in 1828 a work-
ingman's party; elected alderman tor three years;
mayor of Greeneville 1830-1833; member of the
Tennessee house of representatives 1835-1839; de-
feated as a Presidential elector on the Van Buren
ticket in 1840; State senator in 1841 ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-eighth,
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-
second Congresses as a Democrat; governor of
Tennessee 1853-1857; United States Senator from
Tennessee from December 7, 1857, until appointed
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by President Lincoln to be military governor of
Tennessee, March 4, 1862; elected Vice-President
on the Kepublioan ticket in 1864; President of the
United States April 15, 1865, on the death of
Abraham Lincoln; impeached and acquitted May
26, 1868, by a vote of 35 guilty against 19 not
guilty; defeated as a candidate for the United
States Senate before the legislature in 1870; de-
feated as an independent candidate for Congress
at large to the Forty-third Congress ; elected United
States Senator from Tennessee in 1875; died July
31, 1875, in Carter County, Tenn.
Johnson, Cave, was born in Robertson County,
Tenn., January 11, 1793; received an academic ed-
ucation; studied law; admitted to the bar and be-
gan practice at Clarksville, Tenn. ; appointed cir-
cuit j udge ; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Twenty-fifth Congress; reelected to
the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; appointed Postmaster-General,
serving March 5, 1845, until March 5, 1849; presi-
dent of the State Bank of Tennessee 1850-1859;
elected to the State senate during the civil war as
a Unionist; died at Clarksville, Tenn. , November
23, 1866.
Johnson, Charles, was a native of Chowan
County, N. C. ; received an academic education;
State senator 1781-1784, 1788, 1790-1792; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the
Seventh Congress, serving until his death, in 1802.
Johnson, Francis, was a native of Caroline
County, Va. ; studied law; admitted to the bar;
practiced; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; moved to Bowling Green, Ky. ; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Sixteenth
Congress (vice David Walker, deceased) as an
Adams Republican; reelected to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses, serving
from November 13, 1820, to March 3, 1827; died
at Louisville, Ky., December 14, 1851.
Johnson, Frederick A., was born at Glens
Falls, Warren County, N. Y., January 2, 1833;
educated in the common schools and at Glens
Falls Academy; engaged in banking; elected to
the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Republican; executor of several large estates; treas-
urer of the Glens Falls Insurance Company;
died July 19, 1893.
Johnson, Grove Lawrence, of Sacramento,
Cal., was born at Syracuse, Onondaga County,
N. Y., March 27, 1841; studied law; admitted to
the bar April 3, 1862; elected school commissioner
of the Fourth Ward of Syracuse in March, 1862;
in 1863 moved to the Pacific coast; in December,
1865, located at Sacramento, Cal.; swamp-land
clerk of Sacramento Countv from 1866 to 1873,
inclusive; member of the California assembly in
1878-79 and of the California State senate in 1880,
1881, and 1882; commenced the practice of his pro-
fession in Sacramento May 1, 1874; conducted the
celebrated Heath murder trial at Fresno, and the
equally celebrated Martin will case at San Fran-
cisco; chairman of the committee on platform in
the Republican State conventions of California in
1888, 1892, and 1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican, being the first Repub-
lican elected to Congress from the district in ten
years.
Johnson, Harvey H., was a native of Ver-
mont; attended the public schools; moved to Ash-
land, Ohio; elected a Representative from that
State to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Johnson, Henry, was born in Tennessee Sep-
tember 14, 1783; received an academic education;
moved to Louisiana; studied law; admitted to the
bar; began practice at Bringiers; clerk of the Ter-
ritorial court in 1809; judge of the parish court in
1811; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1812; defeated by Thomas B. Robertson in
1812 for United States Representative; elected a
United States Senator from Louisiana, vice William
0. 0. Claiborne, deceased; reelected, serving from
February 26, 1818, to May 27, 1824, when he re-
signed; defeated for the United States Senate by
Edward Livingstone in 1829; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the Twenty-third (vice
Edward G. White, resigned). Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Whig; defeated as
the Whig candidate for governor in 1842 by A.
Mouton, Democrat; again elected a United States
Senator (vice Alexander Porter, deceased), serving
from March 4, 1844, to March 3, 1849; died at
Pointe Coupee, La., September 4, 1864.
Johnson, Henry TJ., of Richmond, Ind., was
born at Cambridge City, Wayne County, Ind., Oc-
tober 28, 1850; received his education at Center-
ville Collegiate Institute and at Earlham College;
located in Wayne County; studied law; admitted
to practice at the Wayne County bar in February,
1872; elected prosecuting attorney for Wayne
County in 1876 and 1878; elected to the State sen-
ate from Wayne County in 1886 and served in the
legislative sessions of 1887 and 1889; elected to the
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-
fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Johnson, Herschel V., was born in Burke
County, Ga., September 18, 1812; graduated from
Franklin College in 1834; studied law; admitted
to the bar; practiced at Augusta; moved to Jeffer-
son County in 1839 and to Milledgeville in 1844;
appointed a United States Senator from Georgia
(vice Walter T. Colquitt, resigned), serving from
February 14, 1848, to March 3, 1849; judge of the
superior court November, 1849, to August, 1853;
governor of Georgia 1853-1857; candidate for vice-
president on the Douglas Democratic ticket in
1860; a Senator from Georgia in the Second Con-
federate Congress; died in Jefferson County, Ga.,
August 16, 1880.
Johnson, James, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education; member of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
and Sixteenth Congresses as a Democrat, serving
until February 1, 1820, when he resigned to become
customs col lector of Norfolk; died at Norfolk, Va.,
December 7, 1825.
Johnson, James (brother of Richard M. John-
son), was born in Orange County, Va., January 1,
1774; moved to Kentucky; served in the war of
1812; large contractor for supplying troops on the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers 1819-20; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Nineteenth
Congress as a Democrat, serving until his death, at
Great Crossings, Ky., August 14, 1826.
Johnson, James, was born in Robinson County,
N. C, in 1811; graduated from the State Univer-
sity m 1832; taught school; studied law; admitted
to the bar; prosecuting attorney; elected a Eepre-.
sentative from Georgia to the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Unionist; appointed provisional governor
of Georgia by President Johnson in 1865; customs
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623
collector at Savannah 1866-1869; appointed judge
of the circuit court of Georgia in 1870.
Johnson, James A., was bom at Spartanburg,
S. 0., May 16, 1829; entered the common schools;
studied medicine and law; commenced practice
at Downieville, CaL; member of the legislature
1859-60; elected a Representative from California
to the Fortieth and Porty-flrst Congresses as a
Democrat.
Johnson, James H., was a native of New
Hampshire; entered the public schools; resided
at Bath; State senator in 1839; State councilor in
1842 and 1845; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
Congresses.
Johnson, James L., was a native of Kentucky;
lived at O wensboro ; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig;
died at Owensboro, February 12, 1877.
Johnson, Jeromus, was a native of Kings
County, N.Y; attended the public schools; moved
to New York City; elected a Representative from
New York to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses as a Jackson Democrat; moved to Goshen,
Orange County, where he died September 7, 1846.
Johnson, John, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, in 1808; received a limited education;
came to Coshocton, Ohio, in 1824; engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits; State senator; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-second Congress
as an Independent.
Johnson, John T., was a native of Scott
County, Ky. ; received a limited education; studied
law; admitted to the bar; began practice at George-
town; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses;
appointed judge to the new court of appeals April
20, 1826; died at Lexington, Mo., December 18,
1857.
Johnson, Joseph, was born in Orange County,
N. Y., December 19, 1785; moved to Bridgeport, Va.
(now West Virginia); self-educated; served in the
war of 1812 as captain of volunteers; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for
the Twentieth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
second Congress (vice Philip Doddridge, deceased),
serving from January 21 to March 2, 1833; elected
to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-
sixth Congresses; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention at Baltimore in 1844; elected to
the Twenty-ninth Congress; governor of Virginia
1852-1856; supporter of the Southern Confederacy;
died at Bridgeport, W. Va., February 27, 1877.
Johnson, Joseph Travis, of Spartanburg, was
born at Brewerton, Laurens County, S. C, Febru-
ary 28, 1858; graduated from Erskine College July
2 1879; admitted to the practice of law in the
courts of South Carolina May 30, 1883; elected to
the Fifty-seventhCongress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Johnson, Martin N., of Petersburg, N. Dak.,
was born in Wisconsin in 1850; moved to Iowa;
graduated from the Iowa State University in 1873;
teught two years in the California Military Acad-
emy at Oakland; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1876; served a term in each branch of the Iowa
legislature; Hayes elector for the Dubuque district
in the electoral college of 1876; moved to Dakota
in 1882; elected district attorney in 1886 and 1888;
member of the constitutional convention of North
Dakota in 1889 and chairman of the first Repub-
lican State convention same year; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth
Congresses.
Johnson, Noadiah, was a native of New York;
received a liberal education; studied law; admitted
to the bar; began practice at Delhi, N. Y.; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Jackson Democrat; member of
the State senate 1837-1839; died at Albany, N. Y.,
April 4, 1839.
Johnson, Parley B., was a native of Ohio;
attended the public schools at McOonnelsville;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig.
Johnson, Philip, was born in Warren County,
N. J., January 17, 1818; went to Pennsylvania in
1839; attended Lafayette College; taught school;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1848; com-
menced practice at Easton; county court clerk;
State representative in 1853-54; revenue commis-
sioner of the third judicial district in 1860; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Repub-
lican, serving until his death, at Washington,
D. C, January 29, 1867.
Johnson, Reverdy, was born at Annapolis,
Md., May 21, 1796; graduated from St. John's Col-
lege; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1815,
commencing practice at Annapolis; appointed
State attorney; moved to Baltimore in 1817;
State senator 1821-1827; United States Senator
from Maryland as a Whig in 1845, serving until
his resignation, March 7, 1849; appointed Attorney-
General March 7, 1849, serving until July 20, 1850;
delegate to the peace convention in 1861; State
representative in 1861; elected a United States
Senator 1863, serving until his resignation, July 10,
1868; minister to England 1868-69; edited several
reports of Marj^land court of appeals 1820-1827;
died at Annapolis, Md., February 10, 1876.
Johnson, Richard Mentor ( brother of James
Johnson), was born at Bryants Station, Ky., Octo-
ber 17, 1781; attended Transylvania University;
studied law; admitted to the bar; State representa-
tive in 1805; served in the war of 1812 as colonel
of volunteers; elected a Representative from
Kentucky as a Jackson Democrat to the Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and
Fifteenth Congresses; elected a United States
Senator from Kentucky, vice John J. Crittenden,
resigned; reelected January 3, 1820, to March 3,
1829; elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses;
Vice-President of the United States 1837-1841,
chosen by the Senate; defeated for the same ofiice
on the Democratic ticket in 1840; State representa-
tive; died at Frankfort, Ky., November 19, 1850.
Johnson, Robert W., was born in Kentucky
in 1814; attended the common schools; studied
law; admitted to the bar; began practice at Pine
Bluff, Ark.; elected to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
and Thirty-second Congresses as a Democrat;
elected a United States Senator (vice Solon Bor-
land, resigned), serving from December 5, 1853,
until he withdrew in 1861; Confederate States
senator from Arkansas, serving to the final ad-
journment; moved to Washington, D. C, ; died in
Arkansas about 1879.
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Johnson, Thomas, waa born in Calvert County,
Md., November 4, 1732; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress, serving
from 1774 to 1777; nominated George Washington
to be commander in chief; delegate to the first con-
stitutional convention of Maryland; served in the
Eevolutionary war; elected first governor of Mary-
land 1777-1779; moved to Frederickstown, Md. ;
served several terms in the State legislature; served
on the United States Supreme Court bench 1791-
1793; died at Eose Hill, Md., October 25, 1819.
Johnson, Tom L., of Cleveland, Ohio, was
born in Scott County, Ky., July 18, 1854; educated
in the public schools of Evansville, Ind. ; secretary
and subsequently superintendent of the Central
Passenger Railroad Company, of Louisville, Ky. ;
in 1876 became the owner of the Indianapolis
(Ind.) Street Eailway; in 1879 purchased the
Brooklyn Street Eailway, of Cleveland, Ohio;
president of that company; in 1884 established the
Johnson Company, of Johnstown, Pa. , for the man-
ufacture of, steel rails; elected to the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; elected
mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1899, 1901, and 1903.
Johnson, Waldo P., was born in Harrison
Coimty, Va., September 16, 1817; elected a United
States Senator from Missouri as a Democrat, serv-
ing from July 4, 1861, to January 10, 1862, when
he was expelled from the Senate; died at Osceola,
Mo., August 14, 1885.
Johnson, William, was born in Ireland in
1819; emigrated to the United States and located
in Ohio; received a public school education;
studied law; admitted to the bar; began the prac-
tice of his profession at Mansfield, Ohio; elected a
Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection-
died at Mansfield, Ohio, May 3, 1866.
Johnson, William Cost, was born in Fred-
erick County, Md., in 1806; received a liberal ed-
ucation; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831;
began practicing at Jefferson, Md.; served in the
State house of representatives; delegate to the
Maryland State constitutional convention; elected
a Eepresentative from Maryland to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Whig; again elected to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses; resumed the practice of law at Wash-
ington, D. C, and died there April 16, 1860.
Johnson, William Samuel, was born at Strat-
ford, Conn., October 7, 1727; graduated from 'Yale
College in 1744; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Stratford; delegate from Connecticut to the
convention of the colonies at New York in 1765;
judge of the supreme court of Connecticut 1772-^
1774; Delegate from Connecticut to the Continen-
tal Congress 1784-1787; elected a United States
Senator from Connecticut to the First Congress
serving from 1789 to 1791, when he resigned- presi-
dent of Columbia College of New York City 1792-
1800; died at Stratford, Conn., November 14, 1819.
Johnston, Charles, was a native of Connecti-
cut; attended the common schools; moved to New
York; located at Poughkeepsie; studied law;
admitted to the bar; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Whig; defeated for reelection.
Johnston, Charles C. , was born at Abingdon
Va., in 1795; received a liberal education; studied
law; practiced at Abingdon; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Virginia to the Twenty-second Congress;
died at Alexandria, Va., June 17, 1832.
Johnston, David E., of Bluefield, W. Va.,
was born April 10, 1845, near Pearisburg, Giles
County, Va. ; received a common school education;
in April, 1861, enlisted in Confederate army,
serving four years in Seventh Virginia Eegiment
of Infantry, Kemper's brigade of Pickett's divi-
sion; twice wounded^at Williamsburg, Va., May
5, 1862, and in the charge of Pickett's division at
Gettysburg, July 3, 1863; admitted to the bar in
Giles County, Va., in 1867; moved to Mercer
County, W. Va., in 1870; elected prosecuting
attorney for last-named county, and served four
years; in 1878 elected to the State senate, served
one term, resigned; in 1880 elected judge of the
ninth judicial circuit; serving eight years; Demo-
cratic Presidential elector in 1896 for the Third dis-
trict of West Virginia; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat.
Johnston, Joseph E., was born atLongwood,
Prince Edward County, Va. February 3, 1807;
educated at West Point; served in the TJ. S. Army
in the grades from second lieutenant to brigadier-
general; in the Confederate army as general; was
for some years the general agent of the Home
(Fire) Insurance Company of New York; elected
a Eepresentative to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; Commissioner of Eailroads under
Grover Cleveland; died at Washington, D. C,
March 21, 1891.
Johnston, James T., of Eockville, Ind., was
born in Putnam County, Ind., January 19, 1839;
received a common school education; commenced
the study of law in 1861; in July, 1862, enlisted as
a private in Company C, Sixth Indiana Cavalry;
in September, 1863, transferred to Company A,
Eighth Tennessee Cavalry, and commissioned as
second lieutenant and served in that capacity until
January, 1864, resigning on account of disability; .
afterwards served as commissary-sergeant of One
hundred and thirty-third Indiana Infantry; com-
missioned lieutenant and assistant quartermaster
of the One hundred and forty-ninth Indiana In-
fantry, and mustered out with the regiment in
September, 1865; admitted to the bar in March,
1866; elected prosecuting attorney, serving two
years; elected a representative to the State legisla-
ture in 1868 from Parke County; elected State sen-
ator from the counties of Parke and Vermilion in
1874, serving four years; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress.
Johnston, John W., was born at Panicello,
near Abingdon, September 9, 1818; educated at
the Abingdon Academy and the South CaroUna
College, at Columbia, S. C. ; studied law at the Uni-
versity of Virginia; licensed in 1839; Common-
wealth attorney for Tazewell County two years-
member of the senate of the State of Viro-inia
1846-47 and 1847-48; judge of the circuit court of
Virginia; elected a United States Senator from
Virginia as a Conservative, and took his seat Janu-
ary 28, 1870; reelected in 1871 and in 1875; died
at Eichmond, Va., February 27, 1889.
Johnston, Josiah Stoddard, was born at Salis-
bury, Conn., November 24, 1784; in 1805 graduated
from Transylvania University; studied law; began
practice at Alexandria, La. ; member of the State
house of representatives; State district judge;
elected a Eepresentative from Louisiana to the
Seventeenth Congress as a Clay Democrat- ap-
pointed a United States Senator from Louisiana
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vice James Brown, resigned; twice reelected, serv-
ing from March 12, 1824, to May 19, 1833, when he
died, at Red River, La.
Johnston, Samuel, was born at Dundee, Scot-
land, December 15, 1733; emigrated early in life
to Chowan County, N. C; Delegate from North
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1780-1782;
elected a United Slates Senator from North Caro-
lina to tiie First Congress as a Federalist, serving
ffom January 29, 1790, until March 2, 1793; ap-
pointed judge of the superior courts of North Car-
olina 1800-1803; died near Edenton, N. C, August
18, 1816. ^
Johnston, Thomas Dillard, of Asheville, N. C'
was born in Waynes ville, Haywood County, N. C'
April 1, 1840; educated at common schools unti^
1853; 1858-59 entered the sophomore class at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but
left college in the spring of 1859 on account of
failing health; studied law; entered the Southern
army in the spring of 1861 and received three des-
perate wounds at Malvern Hill; licensed to practice
law in 1866 by the supreme court of North Carolina;
elected mayor of Asheville in 1869 — the first Demo-
cratic mayor after the war; elected in 1870 to the
lower house of the legislature of North Carolina;
designated by the house as one of the managers of
the impeachment of Governor W. W. Holden;
candidate for Democratic elector on the Greeley
ticket in 1872; reelected to the State legislature in
1872; declined a third election; elected to the State
senate from the Buncombe district in 1876; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Johnstone, George, was born at Newberry,
S. C, April 18, 1846; received his early education
principally in the schools of his native town; en-
tered the State Military Academy, from which he
enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of
the Battalion of State Cadets and served until the
close of the war; student in the University of Ed-
inburgh, Scotland, from 1866 until 1 869; returned to
his native town; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1871; declined a nomination to the State legisla-
ture inl874, which was tendered him; elected to the
State legislature at a special election in 1877, and
served continuously until 1884; declined reelec-
tion; served as member of the commission created
by act of the legislature which revised the tax laws
and to suggest amendments to the State constitu-
tion in 1881; member of the State executive com-
mittee of his party from 1880 to 1884; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; member
of the State constitutional convention in 1895.
JoUey, John L., of Vermilion, Clay County,
S. Dak., was born in Montreal, Quebec, July 14,
1840; received a common school education; moved
to Wisconsin in 1857; settled in Dakota Territory
July 9, 1866; enlisted as a private in Company C,
Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Au-
gust 22, 1862; mustered out as second lieutenant,
July 4, 1865; elected a member of Dakota house
of representatives in 1867 and 1868; member of the
Dakota Territorial council in 1875 and 1881; elected
State senator 1889-90; mayor of the city of Ver-
milion in 1877 and 1885; member of the Sioux
Falls constitutional convention in 1889; member
of the Republican national convention in Chicago
in. 1884; nominated by the Republican convention
at Aberdeen, S. Dak., September 29, 1891, for
member of Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John R. Gamble, and elected to the
Fifty-second Congress November 3, 1891.
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Jonas, Benjamin F., of New Orleans, La., was
born at Williamstown, Grant County, Ky., July
19,1834; moved to Adams County, 111., where he
received his education; in 1853 moved to New
Orleans, where he studied law; received a diploma
from the law department of the University of
Louisiana in 1855; joined the Confederate army
as a private of artillery; served as such and as act-
ing adjutant of the artillery of Hood's corps in the
Army of Tennessee until the end of the war; elected
member of the Louisiana legislature in 1865, and
served until reconstruction; chairman of the
Louisiana delegation to the Democratic national
convention in 1868; elected to the State senate in
1872, and adhered to the McEnery government,
refusing to take his seat in the Kellogg legislature;
elected city attorney of New Orleans in 1874, and
reelected in 1876; member of the Louisiana legisla-
ture in 1876 and 1877 and chairman of the judiciary
committee of the house; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat to succeed James B.
Eustis, Democrat, and took his seat March 18, 1879.
Jones, Alexander H. , was born in Buncombe
County, N. C, July 21, 1822; received a liberal
education,; merchant; strong Union man, and in
1863 joined the Union forces; captured in East Ten-
nessee while raising a regiment of Union volunteera
and imprisoned at Asheville, also at Camp Vance,
Camp Holmes, and in Libby, at Richmond, Va. ;
conscripted; made his escape November 14, 1864;
again joined the Union forces at Cumberland, Md. ;
after the war returned home; elected to the State
convention in 1865; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a
Republican, but was not admitted to his seat; re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress and took his seat
July 6, 1868; reelected to the Forty-first Congress.
Jones, Allen, was born in Halifax County,
N. C, in 1739; delegate to the State conventions
at Newbern in 1775 and Halifax in 1776; served
throughout the Revolutionary war; Delegate to
the Continental Congress 1779-1780; member of
the State senate of North Carolina 1784-1787;
member of the State convention in 1788; died in
Northampton County, N. C, November 10, 1798.
Jones, Benjamin, was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; moved to Ohio and
located at Wooster;. elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Jackson Democrat.
Jones, Burr W. , of Madison, Wis., was born in
Union, Rock County, Wis. , March 9, 1846; received
an academic and collegiate education, graduating
from the Wisconsin State University in 1870 and
from the law school of the same university in 1871 ;
a lawyer by profession and practiced at Madison,
Wis. ; elected district attorney of Dane County in
1872; reelected in 1874; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat.
Jones, Charles W., of Pensacola, Fla., was
born in Ireland in 1834; emigrated to the United
States in 1844, settling at Pensacola in 1854; self-
educated; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1857; member of the national Democratic con-
vention at Baltimore in 1872; unsuccessful Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in 1872; member of
the State house of representatives of Florida in
1874; elected to the United States Senate as a
Conservative Democrat, to succeed Abijab Gilbert,
Republican, and took his seat March 5, 1875;
reelected in 1881; died in 1897.
Jones, Daniel T. , was a native of Connecticut;
received a liberal education; moved to Baldwins-
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ville, N. Y.; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Thirty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Tones, Francis, of Winchester, Tenn. ; received
a limited education; studied law and practiced;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses.
Jones, Frank, ;was born at Barrington, N. H.'
September 15, 1832; moved to Portsmouth in 1849;
merchant; mayor of Portsmouth 1868-69; elected
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; interested in railroads; Republican Presi-
dential elector in 1900; died at Portsmouth, N. H.,
October 2, 1902.
Jones, George, was appointed a United States
Senator from Georgia (vice A. Baldwin, deceased),
serving from October 26 to December 9, 1807.
Jones, George W., was born at Vincennes,
Ind., April 12, 1804; graduated from the Tran-
sylvania University, Kentucky, in 1825; studied
law; admitted to the bar; clerk of the United
States courts in Missouri in 1826; moved to Wis-
consin Territory and located at Simsinawa Mound;
judge of the county court; elected a Delegate from
Wisconsin Territory to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress; received a certificate of election to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, but his seat was successfully
contested by James D. ' Doty, Whig; appointed
surveyor-general of the Northwest Territory by
President VanBuren, removed by President Har-
rison, and reappointed by President Polk; elected
a United States Senator from Iowa, and reelected,
serving from December 26, 1848, to March 3, 1859;
minister resident to the United States of Colombia
1859-1861 ; returned to the United States and was
imprisoned at Fort Warren for disloyalty; died in
1896.
Jones, George W., was borii in Virginia,
March 15, 1806; moved toFayetteville, Tenn.; re-
ceived a liberal education; justice of the peace
1832-1835; served several years in both branches
of the legislature; served as county clerk; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-
second Congresses; elected to. the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Congresses; a Representative
from Tennessee to the First Confederate Congress;
a delegate to the State constitutional convention
in 1870.
Jones, George W., of Bastrop, Tex., was born
in Marion County, Ala., September 5, 1828; raised
in Tipton County, Tenn.; moved to Bastrop, Tex.,
in the winter of 1848; education limited; elected
district attorney in 1856; when the war came on in
1861 he strongly opposed secession, but acquiesced
in revolution; entered the Confederate army as a
private; elected lieutenant-colonel and afterwards
promoted to the colonelcy of the Seventeenth
Texas Infantry; the war over, returned to his
home in Bastrop County; member of the consti-
tutional convention of 1866 from the county of
Bastrop, and on the adoption of the constitution
made by said convention elected lieutenant-gov-
ernor of the State; removed by General Sheridan
as "an impediment to reconstruction;" elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Greenbacker;
resumed the practice of law.
Jones, Isaac D., was a native of Maryland'
received a good English education and studied
law; admitted to the bar; practiced in Princess
Anne County; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; elected attorney-general of Maryland in
1863.
Jones, James, was a native of Maryland; moved
to Georgia; received a limited education; studied
law; admitted to the bar; served several terms in
both branches of the legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Georgia to the Sixth Congress; died
in Washington, D. C., January 13, 1801.
Jones, James, was born in Amelia County,
Va., in 1769; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Congresses; died January 11,
1801.
Jones, James C. , was bom in Davidson
County, Tenn., April 20, 1809; attended the pub-
lic schools; served in the State house of representa-
tives in 1839; governor of Tennessee 1841-1845;
Presidential elector on the Taylor ticket in 1848;
elected a United States Senator from Tennessee as
a Whig 1851-1857; died at Memphis, Tenn., Octo-
ber 29, 1859.
Jones, James H. , of Henderson, Tex., was
born in Shelby County, Ala., September 13, 1830;
raised in Talladega County, Ala.; received an
academic education; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1851, and commenced practice at Hender-
son, Tex.; served in thfe Confederate service as
captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the
Eleventh Texas Infantry, and at the close of the
war was commanding the Third Brigade in Walker' s
old division of the Trans-Mississippi Military De-
partment; Presidential elector on the Hancock and
English ticket in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
ninth Congress.
Jones, James Kimbrougli, of Washington,
Hempstead County, Ark., was bom in Marshall
County, Miss., September 29, 1839; received a
classical education; private soldier during the "late
unpleasantness" on the losing side; lived on his
plantation after the close of the war until 1873,
when he commenced the practice of law; elected
to the State senate of Arkansas in 1873; member
of the State senate when the constitutional con-
vention of 1874 was called; reelected under the
new government, and in 1877 elected president of
the senate; delegate to the Democratic national
convention in 1896; chairman of the committee on
resolutions in that convention and reported- the
platform; subsequently elected chairman of the
Democratic national committee and conducted the
campaign; delegate to the Democratic national
convention in Kansas City in 1900; chairman of
the committee on resolutions, and reported the
platform which was adopted by that convention;
agam elected chairman of the Democratic national
committee; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses; elected to the United States Senate to
succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his
seat March 4, 1885; reelected in 1890 and 1897,
serving from March 4, 1885, until March. 3, 1903.
Jones, James Taylor, of Demopolis, Ala., was
born at Eichmondj Va., in 1832; moved to Marengo
County, Ala.; received a classical education, gradu-
ating from Princeton College, in 1852, and from the
law school of the Univetsity of Virginia in 1855-
admitted to the bar in 1856; during civil war pri-
vate and afterwards an officer in the Fourth Ala-
bama Regiment; a delegate to the Alabama State
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?2?f 7o*''?'^l convention in 1865; State senator
1872-73; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress in 1876
and to the 1 orty-eighth Congress as a Democrat
m July, 1883, to succeed Thomas H. Herndon, de-
ceased; reelected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses.
Jones, John Glancy, was born in Pennsylva-
nia October 7, 1811; received a classical education;
studied theology and law; admitted to the bar;
practiced at Reading, Pa.; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
third Congress, vice H. A. Muhlenberg, deceased;
reelected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-flfth
Congresses, resigning October 30, 1858; minister
to Austria 1858-1861; died at Reading, Pa., March
24, 1877.
Jones, John J., was bom in Burke County,
Ga., November 13, 1824; graduated from Emory
College; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1848;
elected a Representativefrom Georgia to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 5, 1859, to January 23, 1861.
Jones, John Percival, of Gold Hill, Nev., was
bijrn in Herefordshire, England, in 1829, and came
with his parents to this country when he was less
than a year old, settling in the northern part of
Ohio; attended public school in Cleveland; in the
early part of the California excitement went to
that State and engaged in mining in one of the
inland counties; subsequently a member of the
State senate; went to Nevada in 1867, engaged in
the development of the mineral resources of that
State; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican to succeed J. W. Nye, Republican;
took his seat March 4, 1873, and reelected in 1879,
1885, 1890, and 1897, serving from March 4, 1873,
to March 3, 1903.
Jones , John S ., was born in Champaign County,
Ohio, February 12, 1836; received a scientific edu-
cation and graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University in 1855; studied law; admitted to the
bar 1857; elected prosecuting attorney for Dela-
ware County 1860; served as first lieutenant and
captain in the Union forces 1861-1864; reenlisted
to command the One hundred and seventy-fourth
Ohio Infantry in September, 1864; mustered out
July 7, 1865; resumed the practice of law; mayor of
Delaware in 1866; again elected prosecuting attor-
ney for Delaware County 1866-1872; Presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1872; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Jones, John W., was born in Montgomery
County, Md., April 14, 1806; moved with his
parents to Kentucky; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; received the degree of doctor of
medicine from Jefferson College; moved to Grifiin,
Ga. ; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Whig; moved to Ala-
bama; returned to Georgia, where he was ap-
pointed a professor in the State Medical College.
Jones, John Winston, was bom at Chester-
field, Va., November 22, 1791; graduated from
William and Mary College in 1803; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; declined a reelection; Speaker
of the House in the Twenty-eighth Congress; died
January 29, 1848.
Jones, Joseph, was born in Virginia in 1727;
represented that State in the Continental Congress
1777-78 and 1780-1783; died in Virginia October
28, 1805.
Jones, Morgan, was born in New York, Feb-
ruary 26, 1832; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the city council 1858-1862; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat.
Jones, Nathaniel, was a native of Orange
County, N. Y.; received a limited education;
served in the State house of representatives
1827-28;, elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; re-
eleted to the Twenty-sixth Congress; State canal
commissioner 1844-1847; State senator 1852-53;
died at Newburgh, N. Y., July 21, 1866.
Jones, Noble "Wimberly, was born near Lon-
don, England, in 1724; came with his parents to the
United States and located at Savannah, Ga., where
he studied medicine and practiced 1748-1756;
member of the colonial assembly and of the State
house of representatives; Delegate from Georgia
to the Continental Congress 1775-76; captured at
the fall of Charleston in 1780 and imprisoned at
St. Aijgustine; exchanged in 1781 ; again a Delegate
to the Continental Congress 1781-1783; president
of the State constitutional convention in 1795; died
at Savannah, Ga., January 9, 1805.
Jones, ,Owen, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a classical education; studied law; admit-
ted to the bar; began practice at Philadelphia;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for
reelection; died in December, 1878.
Jones, Fhineas, of Newark, N. J., was born at
Spencer, Worcester County, Mass., 1819; received
a common school and academic education; moved
in 1855 to Elizabethport, N. J. ; two years a mem-
ber of the city council of Elizabethport; moved to
Newark in 1860; engaged in manufacturing, and
mercantile houses; vice-president of the New Jer-
sey State Agricultural Society; member of the State
legislature 1874-75; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
Jones, Roland, was a native of North Carolina;
moved to Shreveport, La. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat.
Jones, Seaborn, was bom at Augusta, Ga., in
1788; graduated from Princeton College; studied
law, and by a special act of the legislature admitted
to the bar in 1808; began practice at Columbus;
solicitor-general of Georgia in 1823; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress; died at Columbus, Ga., in 1874.
Jones, Thomas Laurens, was born in Ruther-
ford County, N. C, January 22, 1819; graduated
from Princeton College; received the degree of
bachelor of laws from Harvard University; ad-
mitted to the bar at Charleston, S. C, 1846; began
practice in New York City in 1847; moved to
Newport, Ky. ; member of the general assembly
1853-54; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-first and Forty-fourth Congresses.
Jones, Walter, was bom in Virginia in 1745;
graduated from William and Mary College in 1760;
studied medicine at Edinburgh, Scotland, and re-
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ceived the degree of doctor of medicine; returned
to Virginiaand located in Northumberland County;
physician-general of the middle military depart-
ment; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Fifth Congress as a Democrat; elected to the
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses;
died in Westmoreland County, Va., December 31,
1815.
Jones, Wesley L. , of North Yakima, was born
near Bethany, 111., October 9, 1863; graduated
from Southern Illinois College at Enfield; lawyer;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Jones, William, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
in 1760; received a liberal education; served in
the Revolutionary war; entered the Continental
Naval service; moved to Charleston, S. C. ; re-
turned to Pennsylvania; elected a Representative
from that State to the Seventh Congress as a
Democrat; Secretary of the Navy January 12,
1813-December 7, 1814; collector of customs at
Philadelphia; died at Bethlehem, Pa., September
5, 1831.
Jones, William Atkinson, of Warsaw, Va.,
was born there March 21, 1849; in the winter of
1864-65 entered the Virginia Military Institute,
where he remained until the evacuation of Eich-
mond; studied at Coleman's school in Fred-
ericksburg; entered the University of Virginia;
graduated with the degree of B. L. in 1870;
admitted to the bar in July, 1870, and to practice
law; delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tions in 1880, 1896, and 1900; elected to the
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Jones, William Carey, of Spokane, Wash.,
was born April 5, 1855, at Remsen, Oneida County,
N. Y. ; educated chiefly at high school and semi-
nary at West Salem, Wis., and University of Wis-
consin, at Madison; admitted to the bar at Medalia,
Minn., in 1876; besides holding the office of city
attorney several terms, twice elected district
attorney for the twelfth district of the Territory of
Washington, in 1886 and 1888; elected attorney-
general of the State of Washington upon the ad-
mission of the State into the Union in 1889, and
again in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress
as a Free Silver Republican.
Jones, William T. , was born at Corydon, Ind.,
February 20, 1842; received a liberal education;
studied law; served in the Union Army as major
of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers; Presiden-
tial elector in 1868; appointed associate justice of
the supreme court of Wyoming in 1869; elected a
Delegate from Wyoming to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican.
Jones, Willie, was born in Halifax County, N.
C, in 1731; received a liberal education; member
of the first constitutional conventionin 1776; mem-
ber of the house of commons of North Carolina
1776-1778; Delegate to the Continental Congress
1780-81; elected to the United States constitu-
tional convention in 1787, but declined; inember
of the State constitutional convention called to
ratify the Constitution of the United States Julv
21, 1788; died near Raleigh, N. C, in 1801.
Jordan, Isaac M., was born in Union County,
Pa., May 5, 1835; educated at a preparatory school
inNorthwood, Ohio; completed his education and
graduated from, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
July, 1857; studied law; admitted to the bar in
May, 1858; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat; declined renomination; died De-
cember 3, 1890.
Jorgensen, Joseph, of Petersburg, Va., was
born at Philadelphia, Pa., February 11, 1844;
graduated from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania; assistant surgeon,
U. S. Army, 1865-1868; elected to the legislature
of Virginia from Prince Edward County in Novem-
ber, 1871; appointed postmaster of Petersburg;
elected to the Forty-fibfth and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress.
Joseph., Antonio, of Ojo Caliente, N. Mex.,
was born at Taos, N. Mex., August 25, 1846; re-
ceived his early education at Lux's Academy in
Taos; attended Bishop Lammy's school in Santa
Fe, N. Mex., for two years; attended Webster
College, in St. Louis County, Mo., for four years,
completing a commercial course at Bryant & Strat-
ton's Commercial College, St. Louis, Mo. ; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; county judge of Taos
County, N. Mex. ; member of the Territorial legis-
lature; served one term in the Territorial senate,
and was elected president of that body; elected to
the Fortv-uinth Congress as a Democrat^ reelected
to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses.
Joy, Charles Frederick, of St. Louis, Mo., was
born in Morgan County, 111., December 11, 1849;
received his early education in the schools of that
county; in 1870 entered the academic department
of Yale College, from which he graduated with
the decree of bachelor of arts June 25, 1874; en-
gaged in the practice of law in St. Louis in Sep-
tember, 1876; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Jifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican, and at the end of ten
years' service returned to the practice of law at St.
Louis.
Joyce, Charles H., of Rutland, Vt., was born
near Andover, England, January 30, 1830; edu-
cated at Waitsfield Academy and Newbury Semi-
nary; studied law; admitted to the bar; two years
State librarian; two years district attorney for
Washington County; served in the Union Army
as major and lieutenant-colonel of the Second
Vermont Volunteers; member of the State house of
representatives in 1869, 1870, and 1871; speaker
of the house in 1870 and 1871; elected to the
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican; after the ex-
piration of his term in Congress resumed the prac-
tice of his profession.
Judd, Norman B., was born at Rome, N. Y.,
January 10, 1815; received a liberal education;
studied law; admitted to the bar; moved to Chi-
cago in 1836; served sixteen years in the Illinois
State senate; minister plenipotentiary to Prussia
1861-1865; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Forty-first Congress; collector at the port
of Chicago under President Grant; died at Chicago,
111., November 10, 1878.
Judson, Andrew T., was born at Eastford,
Conn., November 29, 1784; received a limited edu-
cation; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1806;
moved to Montpelier, Vt., where he began prac-
tice; returned to Connecticut and settled at Can-
terbury in 1809; State attorney for Windham
County 1819-1833; served several years in the
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twentv-fourth Congress as a
fwf;^,^-^^'
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Democrat, serving from December 7, 1835, to July
1, 1837, when he resigned to become United States
judge for the district of Connecticut, which posi-
tion he held until his death, at Canterbury, Conn.,
March 17, 1853.
Julian, George W. , was born near Centerville,
Ind., May 5, 1817; received a common school edu-
cation; studied law; practiced; member of the
State legislature in 1845; candidate on the Free
Soil ticket in 1852; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention at Pittsburg in 1856; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-flrst
Congress as a Republican; elected to the Thirty-
seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth,
and Forty-first Congrepgsj, died in 1899.
JuAlan, Beiqaihiil I".,^arborn ^'Cumber-
land County, Pa., November 12, 1822; graduated
from Fayette College; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1844; began practice at Bloomfield; dis-
trict attorney for Perry County 1850-1853; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; defeated for re-
election.
Kahn, Julius, of San Francisco, Cal., was bom
February 28, 1861 ; moved with his parents to Cali-
fornia in 1866; educated in the common schools of
San Francisco, having been a member of the class
of 1878 of the Boy's High School; entered the
theatrical profession, which he followed for ten
years, playing with Edwin Booth, Joseph Jeffer-
son, Tomaso Salvini, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence,
Clara Morris, and other well-known "stars;" re-
turned to San Francisco and began studying law
in 1890; elected to the legislature of the State of
California in 1892; secretary of the finance com-
mittee of the California Midwinter International
Exhibition in July, 1893; admitted to the bar of
the supreme court of California in January, 1894;
elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican; defeated for the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Kaltofleisch, Martin, was born at Flushing,
Holland, February 8, 1804; attended the pubhc
schools; studied chemistry; emigrated to New York
City; health warden in 1832, and school trustee in
1836; supervisor of Brunswick 1852-1854; alder-
man in Brooklyn 1855-1861; mayor 1861-62 and
1867-68; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; dele-
gate to the national Union convention of 1866; died
at Brooklyn, N. Y., February 12, 1873.
Kane, Elias K. , was born in New York City,
June 7, 1796; attended the public schools; studied
law and admitted to the bar; commenced prac-
tice at Nashville, Tenn. ; moved to Kaskaskia, 111. ;
delegate to the State constitutional convention; first
secretary of state of Illinois; State representative;
twice elected a United States Senator from Ulmois
as a Jackson Democrat, serving from 1825 until his
death, at Washington, D. C, December 11, 1835.
Kasson, Jolin A. , of Des Moines, Iowa, was
born near Burlington, Vt., January 11, 1822;
graduated from the University of Vermont m 1842;
engaged in the practice of law until 1861; delegate
to tS Republican convention in 1860; FirstAssist-
ant Postmaster-General in President Lincoln s
Administration in 1861, and resigned in 1862 to
accept a candidacy for Congress; United States
Commissioner to the International Postal Congress
at Paris in 1863; elected a Representa,tive from
Iowa to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Con-
gresses; commissioner from the United States m
1867 to negotiate postal conventions with Great
Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Switzerland, and Italy; member of the twelfth,
thirteenth, and fourteenth general assemblies of
the State of Iowa 1868-1872; elected to the Forty-
third and Forty-fourth Congresses; envoy and
minister of the United States to Austria-Hungary
1877-1881; elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican; minister to
Germany 1884-85; envoy to the Samoan interna-
tional conference 1893; United States special com-
missioner plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity
treaties in 1897; member of the United States and
British joint high commission which met in Que-
bec in 1898 to adjust Canadian questions.
Kaufman, David S., was born at Boiling
Springs, Pa., December 18, 1813; received a clas-
sical education; graduated from Princeton College
in 1833; studied law at Natchez, Miss., and ad-
mitted to the bar; commenced practice at Natchi-
toches, La.; moved to Nacogdoches, Tex., in 1837;
served against the Indians; Texas representative
1839-1843 and senator 1843-1845; appointed charg6
d'affaires of Texas to the United States; elected a
Representative from Texas to the Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses, serving
until his death, at Washington, D. C, January 31,
1851.
Kavanagh., Edward, was born at Newcastle,
Me., April 27, 1795; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; com-
menced practice at Damariscotta, Me. ; State rep-
resentative 1826 and 1828; secretary of the State
senate in 1830; elected a Representative from
Maine to the 'Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Congresses as a Jackson Democrat, being defeated
for the Twenty-fourth Congress; charg6 d'affaires
to Portugal 1835-1841; one of the joint commission
on the Northeastern boundary in 1842; acting
governor of Maine 1843-44 ; died at Newcastle, Me. ,
January 21, 1844.
Kean, John, was born in South Carolina about
1756; Delegate to the Continental Congress from
South Carolina 1785-1787;. died at Philadelphia,
Pa., in May, 1795.
Kean, John, of Elizabeth, N. J., was born at
Ursino, near Elizabeth, N. J., December 4, 1852;
admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1877; engaged
in banking and ottier business; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican; defeated
for the Forty-ninth, and elected to the Fiftieth
Congress; elected to the United States Senate Jan-
uary 25, 1899, to succeed James Smith, jr.. Demo-
crat, for the term 1899-1905.
Kearney, Dyre, was a Delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress from Delaware 1786-1788.
Kearns,' Thomas, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was
born near Woodstock, Ontario, April 11, 1862;
attended public schools; moved with his parents
to Holt County, Nebr. ; worked on his father's
farm; took up the business of freighter; on attain-
ing his majority moved to Salt Lake City and
afterwards to Park City; employed as a miner
in the Ontario mines; became one of the owners
of the Mayflower and Silver King mines; member
of the city council of Park City in 1895, and of the
constitutional convention of the same year; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention in
1896; delegate to the Philadelphia convention in
1900; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican in 1901, taking his seat February 4,
succeeding Hon. Frank J. Cannon.
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Keese, Bichard, was bora at Peru, N. Y.,
November 23, 1794; attended the common schools;
founder of Keese ville; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Twentieth Congress as a
Jackson Democrat.
Kehoe, James N., was born at Maysville, Ky.,
July 15, 1862; educated in public and private
schools of his native city; learned the printing
trade and engaged in that business until 1884,
when he commenced the study of law at Louis-
ville, Ky. ; admitted to practice November 1, 1888,
and engaged in the practice of his ~ profession;
served as precinct, county, and district chairman
of the Democratic executive committee; city at-
torney of Maysville; master in chancery of the
Mason County circuit court; elected to the Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Eehr, Edward C, was bom at St. Louis, Mo.,
November 5, 1837; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar Febru-
ary 18, 1858; commenced practice at St. Louis;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for
the Forty-fifth Congress.
Keifer, Joseph Warren, of Springfield, Ohio,
was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio,
January 30, 1836; reared on a farm; educated in
common schools and at Antioch College; com-
menced the study of law at Springfield in 1856;
admitted to practice January 12, 1858, and prac-
ticed his profession; volunteered in the Union
Army April 19, 1861; commissioned major of the
Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 27, 1861;
promoted lieutenant-colonel of the same regiment
February 12, 1862; appointed colonel of the One
hundred and tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Sep-
tember 30, 1862; severely wounded at the battle of
the Wilderness May 5, 1864; appointed brigadier-
general by brevet November 30, 1864; assigned to
duty by President Lincohi as brigadier-general
December 29, 1864; appointed July 1, 1865, major-
general by brevet; mustered out of service June
27, 1865; resumed practice of law at Springfield,
Ohio, in July, 1865; appointed lieutenant-colonel
of the Twenty-sixth U. 8. Infantry November 30,
1866, but declined; member of the Ohio State
senate 1868-69; commander of the Department
of Ohio, Grand Army of the Eepublic, 1868-1870,
and elected vice-commander in chief of that organ-
ization May 8, 1872; trustee of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans' Home April 16, 1870, to
March 5, 1878, when he resigned; trustee of An-
tioch College; delegate to the national Republican
convention at Cincinnati in June, 1876; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; elected Speaker of the Forty-seventh Con-
gress December 5, 1881; reelected to the Forty-
eighth Congress; served as a major-general in the
Spanish-American war.
Keightley, Edwin •William, was born at Van
Buren, Lagrange County, Ind., August 7, 1843-
attended the common schools and Valparaiso Col-
legiate Institute; graduated from the University of
Michigan m 1865; commenced the practice of law
m St. Josephs County, Mich.; county prosecutins
attorney 1873-74; appointed and elected judge of
the fifteenth judicial circuit of Michigan in 1876-
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
iv/r'^®i™Ao°®,°n^J® "^^y- ""^^ ^o™ at Reading, Pa.,
March 23^ 1805; received a classical education'
attended Princeton College; studied law and admit-
ted to the bar in 1826; commenced practice at
Reading; major-general of militia; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1837; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, vice Henry A. Muh-
lenberg, resigned; reelected to the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from
March 17, 1838 to 1843; appointed in 1843 United
States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsyl-
vania and reappointed by President Polk; defeated
as a Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket
in 1860; active in raising men for the Union Army;
died at Reading, Pa., June 10, 1861.
Keim, William High, was bom near Beading,
Pa., June 25, 1813; attended Mount Airy Military
school; major-general of militia; mayor of Bead-
ing in 1848; elected a Eepresentative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat (vice J. Glancy Jones, resigned), serving
from December 7, 1858 to 1859; surveyor-general
of Pennsylvania; served in the Union Army as
brigadier-general of Volunteers; died at Harris-
burg, Pa., May 18, 1862.
Keitt, Lawrence M. , was born in Orangeburg
District, S. C, October 4, 1824; pursued classical
studies; graduated from the South Carolina Col-
lege in 1843; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1845, and began practice at Orangeburg; elected
a Eepresentative from South Carolina to the
Thirty-third Congress as a State Rights Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth,
and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving until Decem-
ber, 1860, when he withdrew, having been elected a
delegate to the secession convention of South Caro-
lina; member of the provisional congress of the
Confederate States at Montgomery in February
1861, and in Bichmond in July, 1861; served as
colonel in the Confederate service; died June 4
1864, at Bichmond, Va.
Kelley, Harrison, of Burlington, Kans., was
born m Montgomery Township, Wood County
Ohio, May 12, 1836; raised on a farm and received
a common school education; moved to Kansas in
March, 1858; enhsted in the Fifth Kansas Cavalry
and served through aU grades to captain; captain
of Company B, Fifth Cavalry, for over two years-
returned to his claim in 1865; served one term
m the State house of representatives: appointed
brigadier-general of Kansas State militia in 1865-
appointed director of the State penitentiary in 1868 '
and served, five years; receiver of United States
land office at Topeka; assistant assessor of internal
revenue; chairman of live stock sanitary com-
mission of the State; treasurer of State board of
charities; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Republican to fill the vacancy occasioned bv the
resignation of Hon. Thomas Eyan; died at Bur-
lington, Kans., July 24, 1897.
■^^K^®^'^"!^"^^ ^'^"^^^'^' of Flandreau, S. Dak.,
was born March 27, 1853, in Columbia County
Wis. ; educated in the public schools of that State-
closestudent, especially upon literary topics; moved
to Dakota in 18/8; engagedin the newspaper busi-
ness; in 1890 elected to the legislature; in 1892
nominated by the People's Party for Congress and
fiftTco'Jigfess ^"^ '^^ ' "^^""^^ to thf Fifty-
A^n^^7V^i"'^'*'•^:.' "^^f '^o™ »t Philadelphia
April 12, 1814; received a thorough English edu-
cation; reader m a printing office, and afterwards
an apprentice m a jewelry estabhshment; moved
to Boston where he worked five years as ourney-
man jeweler; returned to Philadelphia, where fie
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631
studied and practiced law; twice prosecuting attor-
ney for the city and county of Philadelphia, and for
ten years judge of the court of common pleas for
Philadelphia; delegate to the national Republican
convention in 1860; elected to the Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first,
Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as
a Republican, serving until his death, at Wash-
ington, D. C, January 9, 1890.
Kellogg, Charles, was a native of Brookshire
County, Mass.; attended the common schools;
moved to Cayuga County, N. Y. ; State representa-
tive 1808-1810 and 1820-1822; elected a Repre-
sentative from JSTew York to the Nineteenth Con-
Kellogg, Francis W. , was born at Worthing-
ton, Mass., May 30, 1810; attended the common
schools; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and en-
gaged in the lumber business; State representative
1856-57; elected a Representative from Michigan
• to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican; appointed by
President Johnson collector of internal revenue for
the southern district of Alabama; moved to Mobile,
Ala.; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Fortieth Congress as a Republican, serving
from July 22, 1868 to 1869; died at Alliance, Ohio,
in November, 1878.
Kellogg, Orlando, was born at Elizabethtown,
N. Y., June 18, 1809; attended an academy; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1838; commenced
practice at his home town; surrogate of Essex
County 1840-1844; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirtieth, Thirty-eighth, and
Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Republican, serving
until his death, at Elizabethtown, N. Y., August
24, 1865.
Kellogg, Steplien W. , was born at Shelburne,
Mass., April 5, 1822; graduated from Yale College
in 1846; studied law and admitted to the bar; com-
menced practice at Waterbury, Conn.; clerk of the
State senate in 1851; senator in 1853; State rep-
resentative in 1856; judge of the local courts
1854r-1860; delegate to the national Republican
conventions of 1860 and 1868; elected a Represent-
ative from Connecticut to the Forty-first and Forty-
second Congresses as a Republican; defeated for
the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.
Kellogg, ■William, was born in Ashtabula
County, Ohio, July 8, 1814; attended the public
schools; studied law and admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Canton; State representa-
tive in 1849 and 1850; judge of the State circuit
court 1852-1855; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican; appointed
minister resident to Guatemala, April 21, 1864, but
declined; appointed chief justice of Nebraska Ter-
ritory in 1866.
Kellogg, Willam Pitt, of New Orleans, La.,
was born December 8, 1831, at Orwell, Vt. ; edu-
cated at Norwich University; moved to Illinois in
1848; studied law at Peoria, 111., and admitted to
the bar in 1853; commenced practicing in Fulton
County; served as Presidential elector in 1860;
appointed chief justice of Nebraska by Mr. Lincoln
in 1861; afterwards resigned and accepted the col-
onelcy of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry; served
under General Pope in Missouri, and commanded
General Granger's cavalry brigade until the evac-
uation of Corinth; appointed collector of the port
of New Orleans in April, 1865; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, serving from July
17, 1868, to November 1, 1872, when he resigned;
fovernor of Louisiana from January 5, 1873, to
anuary 5, 1877; again elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican, and admitted to his
seat December 1, 1877; served until March 3, 1883;
elected to the House of Representatives of the
Forty-eighth Congress; located at Washington, D. C.
Kelly, James, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a classical education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Ninth and Tenth Con-
gresses; died at Philadelphia, Pa., February 4,
1819.
Kelly, James K. , was born in Center County,
Pa., February 16, 1819; graduated from Princeton
College in 1839; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in 1842; in 1849 went to California, thence to
Oregon Territory in 1851; commissioner for the
codification of the Territorial laws in 1852; legis-
lative councilor 1853-1857; served in the Yakima
Indian war in 1855-56; member of the State con-
stitutional convention in 1857; State senator 1860-
1864; appointed by President Buchanan in 1860
United States district attorney for Oregon, but
declined; elected a United States Senator from
Oregon as a Democrat 1871-1877.
Kelly, John, was born at New York City, April
21, 1821; received a limited education; engaged
in the mason's trade; elected alderman in 1854;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat; resigned December 25, 1858, having
been elected sheriff of New York County; ap-
pointed comptroller of New York in 1876; dele-
gate to the national Democratic conventions of
1864, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884; died in New
York City, June 1, 1886.
Kelly, William, was born in Tennessee about
1770; received a classical education; studied law,
and commenced practice at Huntsville, Ala.;
elected a United States Senator from that State as
a Jackson Democrat (vice John W. Walker, re-
signed), serving from January 21, 1823, to 1825;
died at New Orleans, La., about 1832.
Kelsey, "William H., was born at Smyrna,
N. Y., October 2, 1812; studied law; surrogate of
Livingston County in 1840; elected county district
attorney in 1850; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth
Congresses as a Whig and to the Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses as a Republican.
Kelso, John R., was born in Franklin County,
Ohio, March 21, 1831; received a classical educa-
tion; graduated at Pleasant Ridge College, Mis-
souri; principal of an academy; served in the Union
Army; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-ninth Congress as an Independent
Radical.
Kem, Omer Madison, of Broken Bow, Nebr.,
was born in Wayne County, Ind., November 13,
1855; brought up on a farm and received a com-
mon school education; moved to Custer County,
Nebr., in March, 1882; moved to Broken Bow in
January, 1890; deputy treasurer of Custer County;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as an Inde-
pendent; reelected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-
fourth Congresses; retired to a fruit farm in
Colorado.
Kemtole, Gouverneur, was born at New York
City January 25, 1786; received a good education;
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engaged in mercantile pursuits; appointed consul
at Cadiz by President Monroe; established a can-
non foundry at Coldspring, N. Y. ; elected a Eep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention of 1846;
died at Coldspring, N. Y., September 16, 1875.
Kempshall, Thomas, was a native of England;
attended the common schools; located at Eoches-
ter, N. Y.; held several local offices; elected a
Eepresentative from New York to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a "Whig; died at Rochester, N. Y. ,
January 14, 1865.
Kenan, Thomas, was born in Duplin County,
N. C, in 1771; member of the house of commons
in 1799 and a State senator in 1804; elected a Eep-
resentative from that State to the Ninth, Tenth,
and Eleventh Congresses; moved to Selma, Ala.;
served several terms in the legislature of that
State; died October 22, 1843.
Kendall, Charles West, was born at Sears-
mont, Me., April 22, 1828; attended Phillips
Academy, Massachusetts, and Yale College; studied
law at Sacramento, Cal., and commenced prac-
tice; served in the State legislature 1861-62;
moved to Hamilton, Nev. ; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from that State to the Forty-second and Forty-
third Congresses as a Democrat.
Kendall, John W. , was born in Morgan (now
Elliott) County, Ky., June 26, 1834; attended the
country schools and the Owingsville Academy;
studied law; twice elected county attorney of
Morgan; first lieutenant and adjutant of the
Tenth Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, and served
throughout the war; twice a member of the Ken-
tucky legislature; six years Commonwealth attor-
ney for the thirteenth judicial district; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; died
March 7, 1892.
Kendall, Jonas, was born at Worcester, Mass.,
June 6, 1757; received an academic education;
served several times as State representative from
Leominster; elected a Eepresentative from Massa-
chusetts to the Sixteenth Congress; died at Leo-
minster, Mass., October 29, 1844.
Kendall, Joseph G. , was born at Leominster,
Mass., in 1788; pursued classical studies; graduated
from Harvard College in 1810; tutor there 1812-
1819; elected a Eepresentative from Massachusetts
to the Twenty-firstand Twenty-second Congresses;
county clerk of Worcester County; died at Worces-
ter, Mass., October 2, 1847.
Kendall, Joseph M., of Prestonburg, Ky. (son
of John W. Kendall) , was born at West Liberty
Ky. ; attended the State College of Kentucky and
the University of Michigan; examined by the
court of appeals of Kentucky and admitted to
practice law before he was of age; clerk in the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; elected to
■the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of his father; received
the certificate of election to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress, but his seat wag successfully contested by
N. T. Hopkins, who took his seat February 18, 1897.
Kenna, John E. , was born at Valcoulon, Va
(now AVest Virginia), April 10, 1848; lived and
worked on a farm; entered the Confederate army-
wounded in that service in 1864, and was sur-
rendered at Shreveport, La., 1865; attended St
A^mcent's College, Wheeling; studied law at
Charleston; admitted to the bar June 20, 1870
and practiced law; elected prosecuting attorney
for Kanawha County in 1872; elected a Eepresent-
ative from West Virginia to the Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat to
succeed Henry G. Davis, and took his seat Decem-
ber 3, 1883; reelected, serving until his death, at
Washington, D. C, January 11, 1893.
Kennedy, Andrevsr, was born in Ohio in 1810;
blacksmith's apprentice; received a limited educa-
tion; moved to Muncietown, Ind. ; studied law and
admitted to the bar; State senator; elected a
Eepresentative from Indiana to the Twenty-
seventh, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Muncietown, Ind.,
December 31, 1847.
Kennedy, Anthony, was born at Baltimore,
Md., December 21, 1811; went to Virginia in 1821;
received an academic education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; engaged in the cotton busi-
ness at New Orleans and planting in Virginia;
Virginia State representative 1839-1843; defeated
for the Twenty-ninth Congress; Presidential elec-
tor on the Whig ticket in 1848; returned to Balti-
more in 1850; member of the State legislature in
1856, and by that body elected a United States
Senator from Maryland as a Unionist 1857-1863;
delegate to the State constitutional convention;
died at Annapohs, Md., July 31, 1892.
Kennedy, John P., was born at Baltimore,
Md., October 25, 1795; received a classical educa-
tion; graduated from Baltimore College in 1812;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1816; com-
menced practice at Baltimore; served in the war
of 1812; State representative 1820-1822; appointed
secretary to the legation at Chile, January 27,
1823, but resigned; defeated for the Twenty-fifth
Congress, but subsequently elected to the same
Congress as a Eepresentative from Maryland (vice
Isaac McKim, deceased), serving from April 30,
1838, to 1839; defeated for the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress; Presidential elector on the Whig ticket in
1840; elected to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; Secretary of the Navy July 22
1852, to March 7, 1853; died at Newport, E. I ,
August 18, 1870. '
Kennedy, Robert Patterson, was born at
Bellefontaine, Ohio, January 23, 1840, educated
in the public schools; at the first call for troops
he enlisted in a company of three months' men
and was elected second lieutenant; the company
reorganized and became a part of the Twenty-
third Ohio, the first three years' regiment from
that State; transferred to staff duty and appointed
assistant adjutant-general of volunteers with rank
of captain; reached the rank of captain, major
heutenant-colonel, and brevet brigadier-general
mustered out of the service in September, 1865
returned to his home, read law, admitted to the
bar, practiced his profession; collector of internal
revenue in 1878; elected lieutenant-governorin 1885
and served until March 4, 1887, when he resigned;
elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses
as a Eepublican; appointed a member of the insu-
lar commission by President McKinley to examine
and report upon the civil conditions of Porto Eico.
Kennedy, WilUam, was a native of North
Carolina; studied and practiced law; elected a
Eepresentative from North Carolina to the Eighth
and Eleventh Congresses as a Federalist- defeated
iZ^ m® 7,^^^*''^ Congress, but later elected to
the Twelfth <vice T. Blount, deceased), and re-
elected to the Thirteenth Congress, servino- from
January 30, 1813, to March 2, 1815. ^
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633
1^ S?^ J' ^"*lier m.., was born at Falmouth,
Ky., March 15, 1807; received an academic educa-
tion; clerk of the Pendleton County court; moved
to Missouri in 1825; became a merchant; moved
to St. Louis; vice-president of the Pacific Eailroad
Company ; mayor of St. Louis 1850-1853 ; presi-
dent of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad
in 1853; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; de-
feated for reelection.
Kenney, Richard KoUand, of Dover, Del.,
was born in Sussex County, Del., September 9,
1856; graduated from Laurel Academy, Delaware,
in June, 1874; attended Hobart College, Geneva,
N. Y.; read law; admitted to the bar October 19,
1881, and practiced; elected State librarian in Jan-
uary, 1879; adjutant-general of the State 1887-
1891 ;_ delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tion in 1892; member of the national Democratic
committee in 1896; elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat January 19, 1897, to fill the
vacancy caused by the legislature of 1895 failing
to elect a Senator to succeed the Hon. Anthony
Higgins; took his seat February 5, 1897, and served
until March 3, 1901.
Kennon, William, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; received a liberal education; moved to St.
Olairsville, Ohio; member of the State house of
representatives; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-flrst Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-second,
Twenty-fourth, and Thirtieth Congresses.
Kent, Joseph, was born in Calvert County,
Md., January 14, 1779; received a liberal education;
studied medicine and practiced ; elected a Represen-
tative from Maryland to the Twelfth Congress as a
Federalist; reelected to the Thirteenth, Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; resigned January 6, 1826, to become gov-
ernor of Maryland 1826-1829; elected a United
States Senator from Maryland as a Whig, serving
from December 2, 1833, to November 24, 1837;
died at his home near Bladensburg, Md., Novem-
ber 24, 1837.
Kent, Moss, was born in Rensselaer County,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; member of the State
house of representatives 1807-1810; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thirteenth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Four-
teenth Congress.
Kenyon, "William S., was a native of Kings-
ton, N. Y.; received a liberal education; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; died in 1896.
Kern, Frederick J., of Belleville, 111., was
born on a farm near Millstadt, 111., September 2,
1864; educated in the public schools of Millstadt
and attended the Illinois State Normal University;
taught in the public schools for five years; em-
barked in the newspaper business, becoming editor
of the East St. Louis Gazette and later of the
Belleville Daily and Weekly News-Democrat;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Kernan, Francis, was born at Wayne, N. Y.,
January 14, 1816; finished his education at George-
town College, District of Columbia; studied law at
Utica; admitted to the bar; reporter of the court
of appeals; elected a member of the general assem-
bly of the State in 1861; elected to the House of
Representatives of the United States in 1862;
member of the State constitutional convention
1867-68; Democratic and Liberal candidate for
governor of New York in 1872; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
R. E. Fenton, Liberal, for the term 1875-1881;
died at Utica, N. Y., September 15, 1892.
Kerr, Daniel, of Grundy Center, Iowa, was
born at Highfield Farm, near Dairy, Ayrshire, Scot-
land, June 18, 1836; emigrated with his parents
to Madison County, 111., in 1841; graduated from
McKendree College in 1858; read law; admitted
to the bar in 1862; entered the Army August 12,
1862; promoted to second lieutenant Company G,
One hundred and seventeenth Illinois Volunteers,
in 1863, and to first lieutenant in 1864; elected to
the legislature of Illinois in 1868; moved to Iowa
in 1870; elected to the legislature of Iowa in 1883;
Presidential elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket
in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Kerr, James, of Clearfield, Pa., was bom in
Mifflin County, Pa., October 2, 1851; resided in
Blair County until 1864; moved to Clearfield
in 1867; received an academic education; elected
justice of the peace in 1878; elected prothonotary
for Clearfield County in 1880 and 1883; engaged
in mining and shipping of bituminous coal and
the cutting and transportation of lumber; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; clerk
of the United States House of Representatives dur-
ing the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses;
moved to New York City.
Kerr, John, was bom in Caswell County,
N. C, August 14, 1792; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Congresses; died September 29, 1842.
Kerr, John, was born in Pittsylvania County,
Va. ; received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Yancey ville; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig; defeated for the Thirty-
fourth Congress; died at Reidsville, N. C, Sep-
tember 5, 1879.
Kerr, John Eozman, was born at Easton, Md.,
March 5, 1809; graduated from Harvard College
in 1830; studied law; began practicing at Easton
in 1833; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1836-1838; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the TJiirty-first Congress as a Whig;
reelected tp the Thirty-third Congress, but re-
signed, having been commissioned charg^ d'affaires
to Nicaragua 1851-1853; returned and resumed
practice at St. Michaels, Md. ; died at Washington,
D. C, January 27, 1878.
Kerr, John L., was born near Annapolis, Md.,
January 15, 1780; graduated from St. John's Col-
lege in 1799; studied law and admitted to the
bar; began practice at Easton; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses as a Whig; defeated as the
Whig candidate for the Twenty-first Congress;
elected to the Twenty-second Congress; Presiden-
tial elector on the Harrison and Tyler ticket in
1840; elected a United States Senator from Mary-
land (vice John S. Spence, deceased), serving
from January 13, 1841, to March 3, 1843; died
February 21, 1844, near Easton, Md.
Kerr, Joseph, was elected a United States Sen-
ator from Ohio, vice Thomas Worthington,
resigned.
Kerr, Josiah Leeds, of Cambridge, Md., was
born at Vienna, Md., January 10, 1861; received
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his education in the pubHc schools of Vienna and
at Vienna Academy; taught school in his native
county; entered a lumber company^ in Crisfleld,
Md., as clerk; moved to Cambridge in 1885; trav-
eling salesman for a Baltimore firm for ten years;
elected school examiner in August, 1898; served
two years; nominated for the unexpired term of
John "Walter Smith in the Fifty-sixth Congress
and elected as a Republican.
Kerr, Michael C, was born at Titusville, Pa.,
March 15, 1827; received a liberal education, and
graduated from Louisville University in 1851;
admitted to the bar, and began practice at New
Albany, Ind., in 1852; elected city attorney in
1854; elected prosecuting attorney of Floyd County
in 1855; member of the State legislature in 1856
and 1857; elected reporter of the supreme court
of Indiana in 1862; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first,
and Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Forty-third Congress; elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress and elected its Speaker;
died at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., August
19, 1876.
Kerr, Winfield S., of Mansfield, Ohio; gradu-
ate from the law department of the University of
Michigan; lawyer; served four years in the Ohio
Statesenate; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Republican.
Kerrigan, James E., was born in Ireland;
received a liberal education; emigrated to Amer-
ica and located at New York; member of the city
council; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat;
served in the Union Army as colonel; died in 1899.
Kershaw, John, was a. native of South Caro-
lina; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat.
Ketcham, John Henry, of Dover Plains, N. Y. ,
was born at Dover, N. Y., December 21, 1832; re-
ceived an academic education; became interested
in agricultural pursuits; supervisor in 1854 and
1855; member of the State assembly of New York
in 1856 and 1857; member of the State senate of
New York in 1860 and 1861, and a member of the
war committee for his senatorial district; entered
the Union Army as colonel of the One hundred
and fiftieth New York Volunteers in October,
1862, and appointed brigadier-general by brevet,
afterwards brigadier-general, serving until he re-
signed, in March, 1865; appointed major-general
by brevet; elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth,
Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses; often a
delegate to Republican State conventions, and del-
egate to the Republican national conventions in
1876 and 1896; Commissioner of the District of Co-
lumbia from July 3, 1874, until June 30, 1877,
when he resigned, having been elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress; elected to the Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifti-
eth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses, when,
owing to impaired health, declined a renomina-
J;ion; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Ketchum, Winthrop W., was born atWilkes-
barre. Pa., June 29, 1820; received a classical edu-
cation; studied Jaw; admitted to the bar in 1850;
served in both branches of the legislature; solicitor
of the United States Court of Claims 1864-1866;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; judge of
the United States court for the western district of
Pennsylvania; died at Pittsburg, Pa., December
6, 1879.
Key, David McKendree, was born in Greene
County, Tenn., January 27, 1824; raised on a
farm in Monroe County; attended the common
schools; graduated from Hiawassee College in 1850;
studied law, admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice at Chattanooga in 1853; Presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket in 1856 and on the Breckin-
ridge and Lane ticket in 1860; served in the Con-
federate army as lieutenant-colonel in the civil
war; member of the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1870 ; chancellor of the third chancery district
1870-1875; defeated as the Democratic candidate
to the Forty- third Congress; appointed a United
States Senator from Tennessee as a Democrat (vice
Andrew Johnson, deceased), serving from Decem-
ber 6, 1875, to January 29, 1877; defeated for re-
election; Postmaster-General March 12, 1877, to
1880; resigned to accept United States judgeship
of the eastern district of Tennessee; retired Janu-
ary 26, 1894; died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Febru-
ary 3, 1900.
Key, Philip, was bom in St. Marys County,
Md., in 1750; pursued academical studies; a
farmer; one year speaker of the State house of
representatives; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Second Congress; died in St.
Marys County, Md., January 4, 1820.
Key, Philip Barton, was born in Cecil
County, Md., in 1757; pursued academic studies;
served in the British army during the Revolution-
ary war; taken prisoner in Florida, and went to
England, having been released on parole; returned
to Maryland in 1785 and located at Annapolis in
1790; several times a State representative; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Tenth
Congress as a Federalist; reelected to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses; died at Georgetown,
D.C., July 28, 1815.
Keyes, Elias, was a native of Ashford, Conn. ;
attended the common schools; moved to Stock-
bridge, Vt.; State councilor 1803-1818; State
representative for several years; elected a Repre-
sentative from Vermont to the Seventeenth Con-
Kidder, David, was born at Dresden, Me.,
December 8, 1787; pursued academical studies;
studied law; admitted to the bar and began prac-
tice at Norridgewock; county attorney of Somerset
County 1811-1823; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses as a Whig; State representative in 1829;
died at Norridgewock, Me., November 1, 1860.
Kidder, Jefferson P. , was a native of Brain-
tree, Vt. ; attended the common schools; farmed
and taught school; took up classical studies and
graduated from Norwich University; studied and
practiced law; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1843; State attorney 1842-1847;
State senator 1847-48; lieutenant-governor 1853-
54; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1857; State rep-
resentative from Minnesota in 1861, 1863, and 1864;
appointed associate justice of the supreme court
for Dakota Territory in 1865, and reappointed in
1869 and 1873; elected a Delegate from Dakota as
a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses.
Kidwell, Zedekiah, was born in Fairfax County,
Va., January 4, 1814; received a liberal education;
studied medicine and graduated from Jefferson
BIOGRAPHIES.
635
Medical College of Philadelphia in 1839; practiced
medicine; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1849; settled at Fairmont, Va.; State representa-
tive; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1849; Presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket in 1852; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and Thirty-
fourth Congresses; elected a member of the State
board of public works in 1857; died at Fairmont,
W. Va., April 27, 1872.
Kiefer, Andrew B,., of St. Paul, Minn., was
born at Marienborn, in the district of Manz, on
the Rhine; attended school at Manz; emigrated
to America in 1849; settled in St. Paul in 1855;
elected clerk of the legislature in 1860; entered the
Union Army as captain, Second Minnesota Infan-
trjr Volunteers, in 1861; commissioned colonel of
militia in 1863; member of State legislature in 1864;
clerk of district courts of Ramsey County in 1878;
Republican candidate for mayor of St. Paul in 1890;
elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Republican; mayor of St. Paul in 1898 _
Kilhcfurn, James, was born at New Britain,
Conn., October 19, 1770; pursued classical studies;
studied theology and entered the Episcopal
Church; founded Worthington, Ohio; aj)pointed
United States surveyor of public lands in 1805;
president of the Worthington College; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Congresses as a Democrat; State rep-
resentative in 1823 and 1828; died at Worthington,
Ohio, April, 9, 1850.
Kilgensmitli, John, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; resided at Ste warts ville; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Kilgore, Constantine B. , was born at Newnan,
Ga., February 20, 1835; moved with his parents to
Rusk County, Tex., in 1846; received a common
school and academic education; studied law and
admitted to the bar; served in the Confederate
army as private, orderly sergeant, first sergeant,
first lieutenant, and captain of the Tenth Texas
Regiment; adjutant-general of Ector's brigade.
Army of the Tennessee, in 1862; wounded at
Chickamauga; captured and confined as a prisoner
in Fort Delaware during 1864; elected justice of
the peace in Rusk County in 1869; member of the
constitutional convention in 1875; Presidential
elector in 1880 on the Hancock and Enghsh ticket;
elected to the State senate in 1884 for four years,
serving as president pro tempore of that body for
two years; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses asaDemo-
crat; in March, 1895, appointed United States
judge for southern district of Indian Territory;
died at Ardmore, Ind. T., September 23, 1897.
Kilgore, Daniel, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved to Cadiz, Ohio;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat,
vice H. H. Leavitt, resigned; elected to the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses, serv-
ing from December 1, 1834, until his resignation in
1838; died at New York, December 12, 1851.
Kilgore, Bavid, was born in Harrison County,
Ky., April 3, 1804; moved to Franklin County,
Ind., in 1819; attended the public schools; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1830; began practice
at Yorktown, Ind.; State representative 1833-
1838; president-judge of his judicial circuit 1839-
1844; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1850; speaker of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1854; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican; delegate to the national
Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
Kille, Joseph., was a native of New Jersey;
pursued academic studies; located at Salem; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Killinger, John W., was elected to the Thirty-
sixth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; died in 1896.
Kimball, Alanson M., was born at Buxton,
Me., March 12, 1827; pursued academic studies;
moved to Wisconsin in 1852 and engaged in farm-
ing and mercantile pursuits; State senator in
1863-64; elected a Representative from Wisconsin
to the Forty-fourth Congress; defeated as the
Republican candidate for the Forty-fifth Congress.
Kimmel, "William, of Baltimore, Md., was
born at Baltimore, Md. ; educated at St. Marys and
Baltimore colleges; studied law; member of the
Baltimore bar; interested in agricultural and busi-
ness pursuits; State director in the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad; stockholder and director in the
Canton Company of Baltimore; director in the
Union Railroad Company and in the Western
Maryland Extension; member of the State Demo-
ocratic committee from 1862 to 1866; delegate to
the national Democratic convention in 1864; served
in the Maryland State senate from 1866 to 1871;
elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Kincaid, John, was born near Danville, Ky.,
February 15, 1791; attended the public schools;
located at Stanford; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jack-
son Depiocrat; died February 7, 1873.
King, Adam, was a native of York, Pa. ; pur-
sued academic studies and studied medicine;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses as a Jackson Democrat; died at York, Pa.,
May 6, 1835.
King, Andrew, was born in Greenbrier County,
Va. , March 20, 1812; attended the common schools;
studied law and began practice at St. Charles, Mo. ;
elected State senator in 1846 and State represent;
ative in 1858; judge of the circuit court of the
nineteenth judicial district of Missouri 1859-1864;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
King, Austin A. , was born in Sullivan County,
Tenn., September 20, 1801; attended the public
schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1822;
moved to Richmond, Mo., in 1830; State repre-
sentative in 1834 and 1836; circuit judge of Ray
County 1837-1848; governor 1848-1853; again
circuit judge of Ray County 1862-63, when he
resigned; elected a Representative from Missouri
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-ninth Congress; died at
St. Louis, Mo., -April 22, 1870.
King, Cyrus, was born at Scarborough, Mass.
(now Maine), September 16, 1772; pursued clas-
sical studies and graduated from Columbia College
in 1794; studied law; admitted to the bar and
began practice at Saco; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Thirteenth and Four-
teenth Congresses as a Federalist; died at Saco
April 25, 1817.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIBEOTOBY.
King, Daniel Putnam, was born at Danvers,
Mass., January 8, 1801; pursued classical studies
and graduated from Harvard College in 1823;
studied law; admitted to the bar; became a farmer;
State representative 1836-37; State senator 1838-
1841, serving one term as president of the State
senate; speaker of the State house of representa-
tives 1843-44; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig;
died at South Danvers, Mass., July 25, 1850.
King, George G. , was a native of Rhode Island;
pursued classical studies and graduated from Brown
University in 1825; studied law; admitted to the
bar; commenced practice at Newport; speaker of
the State house of representatives 1845-46; Presi-
dential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; elected
a Representative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses as a Whig; died
at Newport, R. I., July 17, 1870.
King, Henry, was born at Hampden, Mass., in
1790; pursued classical studies; studied law at
AVilkesbarre, Pa. ; admitted to the bar in 1815, and
began practice at Allentown; State senator in 1830;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses as a
Jackson Democrat; died at Allentown, Pa., July
13, 1861.
King, J. Floyd, of Vidalia, La., was born at
Monticello, near the town of St. Marys, Ga., April
20, 1842; went to Russell School, New Haven, Conn.,
Bartlett's College Hill School, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., and the Military Institute of Georgia; pre-
pared for West Point, but was sent to the Univer-
sity of Virginia; entered the Confederate service;
served in the army of Virginia; promoted by vari-
ous grades to the rank of colonel of artillery; his
property in Georgia being confiscated, moved to
Louisiana, where he became interested in and
controller of a large planting interest; studiedlaw;
appointed brigadier-general of State troops ; elected
inspector of levees and president of the board of
school directors of his district, and also a trustee
of the University of the South; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth
Congresses.
King, James Gore, was born at New York
City May 8, 1791; pursued classical studies in
England; graduated on his return from Harvard
College in 1810; studied law at the Litchfield Law
School, but engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig; president of the New
York Chamber of Commerce; died at High wood,
N. J., Octobers, 1853.
King, John, was born in 1775; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-second
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; died at New
Lebanon, N. Y., September 1, 1838.
King, John Alsop, waa born at New York
City Januarys, 1788; educated at Harrow School,
England, and at Paris; returned, to New York;
served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant of cavalry;
State representative 1819-1821, and a State senator
in 1823; appointed secretary of the legation at
London in 1825 ; charg6 d' affaires June 15 to August
5, 1826; again a State representative in 1832 and
1840; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; governor of
New York 1856-1858; Presidential elector on the
Republican ticket in 1860; delegate from New
York to the peace conference of 1861; died at
Jamaica, N. Y., July 7, 1867.
King, John Pendleton, was born at Glasgow,
Barren County, Ky., April 3, 1799; moved to
Augusta, Ga., in 1815; graduated from Richmond
Academy; admitted to the bar in 1819; elected a
United States Senator from Georgia as a State
Eights Democrat, vice George M. Troup, resigned;
reelected November, 1834, serving from December
2, 1833, until his resignation, November 1, 1837;
judge of the court of common pleas; president of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company 1841-
1878; member of the State constitutional conven-
tion of 1865; died at Augusta, Ga., March 19, 1888.
King, Perkins, was born at New Marlboro,
Mass., January 12, 1784; pursued academic stud-
ies; studied law; admitted to the bar; moved to
Greenville, N. Y., where he began practice;
county judee of Greene County 1826-1850; State
representative in 1827; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-first Congress as
a Jackson Democrat; died at Freehold, Greene
County, November 29, 1875.
King, Preston, was born at Ogdensburg, N. Y.,
October 14, 1806; pursued classical studies and
graduated from Union College in 1827 ; studied law ;
admitted to the bar; began practice at his home
town; established the St. Lawrence Republican;
postmaster at Ogdensburg; State representative
1834-1837; electeda Representative fromNew York
to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat, to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Free Soil Democrat, and to the Thirty-second
Congress; elected a United States Senator from
New York as a Republican, serving 1857-1863;
resumed practice at New York City; Presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; appointed
collector of the port of New York "August 15, 1865;
died in New York November 12, 1865.
King, Rufus, was bom at Scarboro, Mass.
(now Maine), March 24, 1755; pursued' classical
studies and graduated from Harvard College in
1777; studied law at Newbury port; served in
the Revolutionary war; admitted to the bar
and began practice in 1780; State representative
in 1782; Delegate from Massachusetts to the Con-
tinental Congress 1784^1786; delegate to the State
constitutional convention 1787, and also to the
Federal constitutional convention; moved to New
York City in 1788; member of the State legisla-
ture in 1789; elected and reelected a United States
Senator from New York as a Federalist, serving
from 1789 to his resignation. May 18, 1796; min-
ister to Great Britain May 20, 1796, to May 18,
1803; again elected and reelected a United States
Senator from New York 1813-1825; again min-
ister to Great Britain May 5, 1825, to June 16,
1826; died at Jamaica, N. Y., April 29, 1827.
King, Rufus H. , was born at Rensselaerville,
Albany County, N. Y., January 20, 1820; received
a liberal education and graduated from Wesleyan
University, Lima, N. Y.; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1843; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; president of the (Jatskill Bank 1857-1868;
Presidential elector on the Republican ticket in
1860; delegate to the Republican national conven-
tion? 1868 and 1880; died at Catskill, N. Y., Sep-
tember 13, 1890.
King, Thomas Butler, was born at Hampden,
Mass., August 27, 1804; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Waynes-
ville, Ga. ; member of the State senate in 1832, 1834,
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1835, and 1837; farmer; elected a Eepresentative
from Georgia to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a
State Righ ts Whig; reelected to theTwenty-seventh ■
defeated for the Twenty-eighth; elected to the
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirtv-flrst Con-
gresses; resigned in 1849; collector ol San Fran-
cisco 1850-51 ; sent to Europe on a secret mission
by Confederate government in 1862; died at
Waynesboro, Ga., May 10, 1864.
King, ■William Henry, of Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born at Fillmore City, Millard County, Utah,
in Jmie, 1863; attended the district schools, the
Brigham Young Academy, State University, and
at Ann Arbor, Mich.; graduated; practiced law;
county attorney; county clerk; city assessor and
collector; city recorder; member of the city coun-
cil; school trustee; elected a member of the legis-
lature and reelected; in 1889 moved to ProvoCity,
Utah; in 1891 elected to the Territorial legislature
and selected as president of the council; county
attorney of Utah County; city attorney of Provo
City; appointed associate judge of the supreme
court of Utah in July, 1894; elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to fill a
vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Congress; defeated for
the Fifty-seventh Congress.
King, William Bufus, was born in Sampson
County, N. C, April 7, 1786; in 1803 graduated
from the University of North Carolina; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1806; began practice
at Clinton; member of the State house of com-
mons 1808-9; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and
Fourteenth Congresses as a War Democrat, serv-
ing until November 4, 1811, when he resigned to
become secretary of legation at St. Petersburg; re-
turned to Alabama in 1818 and located at Cahaba;
became a planter; elected a United States Senator
from Alabama 1819-1844, when he resigned, hav-
ing been appointed minister to France 1844--1846;
appointed to the United States Senate (vice A. P.
Bagby, resigned), and reelected 1846-1853; elected
Vice-President in 1852 as a Democrat; took the
oath of office at Habana, Cuba, March 4, 1853,
where he had gone for his health; returned to
Cahaba, Ala., and died there April 18, 1853.
King, William S., was born at Malone, N. Y.,
December 16, 1828; attended the common schools;
engaged in farming; postmaster of the House of
Representatives in the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-
eighth, Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second
Congresses; elected a Representative from Minne-
sota to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican:
died in 1900.
Kingsbury, William W., was born at To-
wanda. Pa., June 4, 1828; received a public school
education; moved to Endion, Minn. ; member of
the Territorial legislature 1855-56; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; elected a delegate
from Minnesota Territory to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress.
Kinloch, Francis, was born at Charleston,
S. C, March 7, 1755; a Delegate from South Caro-
lina to the Continental Congress 1780-81; died at
Charleston, S. C, February 8, 1826.
Kinnard, George Ii., was bom in 1803; re-
ceived a liberal education; moved to Indianapolis,
Ind. ;. held several local offices; elected a Repre-
. sentative from Indiana to the Twenty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress, serving until his death, December
2, 1833.
Kinney, John Fitch, was bom at New Haven,
N. Y., April 2, 1816; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1837;
moved to Marysville, Ohio, where he began prac-
tice; moved to Mount Vernon in 1839, and moved
to Lee County, Iowa, in 1844; judge of the supreme
court of Iowa 1846-1853; chief justice of the
supreme court of Utah 1854-1857; moved to Ne-
braska and resumed practice in 1857; chief justice
of the supreme court of Utah 1860-1863; elected
a Delegate from Utah to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Kinsella, Thomas, was born in Ireland in
1832; attended the common schools; engaged in
newspaper work; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., February 11,
1884.
Kinsey, Charles, was a native of Paterson,
N. J.; received a liberal education; elected a Eep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses.
Kinsey, James, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
March 22, 1731; received a limited education;
elected a Delegate from New Jersey to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-75; appointed "chief justice of
New Jersey in 1789; died at Burlington, N. J.,
January 4, 1803.
Kinsey, William M., of St. Louis, Mo., was
born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio,
of Quaker parentage; educated at Hopedale
Academy, Harrison County, Ohio, and Monmouth
College-, Illinois; became a resident of Muscatine
County, Iowa, .in 1863; studied law at the Iowa
State University in 1871; admitted to the bar, and
practiced law in Iowa; moved to St. Louis and
engaged in the practice of law; elected to the Fifty-
flrst Congress as a Republican.
Kinsley, Martin, was born at Bridgewater,
Mass., June 2, 1754; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1778; studied medicine; purveyor of sup-
plies in the Revolutionary Army; served thirty
years as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; held local offices; elected a Represent-
ative from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Con-
gress and defeated for reelection.
Kirkland, Joseph, was born at Old Norwich,
Conn., January 18, 1770; graduated from Yale in
1790; studied law and began practice at New Hart-
ford, N. Y. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1804-5; moved to Utica; agajn a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1818,
1820, 1821, and 1825; elected a Representative
from New York to the Seventeenth Congress;
mayor of Utica 1832, 1834, and 1835; died at Utica
January 26, 1844.
Kirkpatrick, Xiittleton, was born at New
Brunswick, N. J., October 19, 1797; graduated
from Princeton College in 1815; studied law and
began practice in his native town; elected a Eep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; died at Saratoga Springs,
N. Y., August 15, 1859.
Kirkpatrick, Snyder S., of Fredonia, Kans.,
was born in Franklin County, 111., February 21,
1848; attended the common schools; engaged in
mercantile business in 1865: entered the law school
at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1867; returning to Illi-
nois, admitted to the bar by the supreme court of
Illinois in July, 1868; moved to Kansas in 1873,
locating in Fiedonia; engaged in the practice of
law; elected county attorney of Wilson County in
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1879- elected to the State senate; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Eepubhcan; resumed
the practice of law.
Kirkpatrick, William, was born at Amwell,
N J November, 1768; graduated from Princeton
College in 1788; studied medicine and practiced
at Amwell; moved to Salina, N. Y. , in 1806; elected
a Kepresentative from New York to the Tentti
Congress; died at Salina, N. Y., September 2, 1832.
Kirkpatrick, WilUani Sebring, of Easton,
Pa., was born there April 21, 1844; educated
at Lafayette College; studied law; admitted to the
bar October 2, 1865; solicitor of Easton; president-
judge of the third judicial district; presided over
the RepubUcan State convention of 1882 as tem-
porary chairman; delegate to the national Eepub-
hcan convention at Chicago in 1884; appointed
attorney-general of Pennsylvania by Governor
Beaver; lecturer on municipal law in Lafayette
College; trustee of that institution; elected to the
Pifty-fifth Congress as a Eepubhcan; resumed the
practice of law at Easton, Pa.
Kirkwood, Samuel J., was born in Harford
County, Md., December 20, 1813; received a Hm-
ited education at the academy of John McLeod m
Washington City; moved to Eichland County,
Ohio, in 1835, and studied law there; admitted to
the bar in 1843; elected prosecuting attorney in
1845 and again in 1847; member of the convention
that formed the present constitution of the State
of Ohio in 1850 and 1851; moved to Johnson
County, Iowa, in 1855; elected to the State senate
in 1856; elected governor in 1859 and again in
1861; nominated by President Lincoln and con-
firmed as minister to Denmark, in 1863, but de-
clined the appointment; elected to the United
States Senate to (ill the unexpired term of Hon.
James Harlan in 1866; again elected governor of
Iowa in 1875, and resigned that olfice in January,
1877; elected to the United States Senate as a Ee-
pubhcan in January, 1876, serving from March 4,
1877, to March 5, 1881, when he resigned to become
Secretary of the Interior, which he resigned April
6, 1882; died February 1, 1894, at Iowa City, Iowa.
Kirtland, Dorrance, was a native of Coxsackie,
N. Y. ; graduated from Yale College in 1789; elected
a Eepresentative from New York to the Fifteenth
Congress.
Kitchell, Aaron, was born at Hanover, N. J.,
July 10, 1744; received a limited education; was a
blacksmith; elected a Eepresentative from New
Jersey to the Second Congress as an Anti-Federal-
ist; reelected to the Third and Fourth Congresses;
again elected to the Sixth Congress; elected a
United States Senator from New Jersey, serving
from December 2, 1805, to 1809, when he resigned;
Presidential elector on the Monroe and Tompkins
ticket in 1817 ; died at Hanover, N. J. , June 25; 1820.
Kitchen, Bethuel M., was born in Berkeley
County, W. Va. , March 21, 1812 ; received a limited
education; farmer; served in the State legislature
1861-62, and State senate 1864-65; elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress, but not admitted ; reelected
to the Fortieth Congress from West Virginia as a
Eepubhcan.
Kitchin, Claude, of Scotland Neck, N. C, was
born in Halifax County, N. C. , near Scotland
Neck, March 24, 1869; graduated fromAVake For-
est College in June, 1888; admitted to the bar in
September, 1890; practiced law at Scotland Neck;
elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con-
greases as a Democrat.
Kitchin, William H., was born in Lauderdale
County, Ala., December 22, 1837; his parente
moved back to North CaroUna in 1841; educated
at Emory and Henry College in western Virginia;
left college in April, 1861, to enlist m the Confed-
erate army; made captain in 1863 and served
through the war; studied law and licensed to
practice in 1869; elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died February 2, 1902.
Kitchin, William Walton, of Boxboro, N. C,
was born near Scotland Neck, N. C, October 9,
1866; graduated from Vine Hill Academy and
Wake Forest College in 1884; edited the Scotland
Neck Democrat in 1885; after studying law ad-
mitted to the bar in 1887; located at Roxboro m
January, 1888; chairman of the county executive
committee in 1890; nominee of his party for the
State senate in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Kittera, Jolin W., was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; graduated from Princeton College in 1776;
studied law and practiced; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Second Congress as
a Federalist; reelected to the Third, Fourth, Fifth,
and Sixth Congresses.
Kittera, Thomas, was a native of Pennsylva-
nia; received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Philadelphia; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Nineteenth
Congress, vice Joseph Hemphill, resigned; died
at Philadelphia, June 16, 1839.
Kittredge, Alfred Beard, of Sioux Falls, S.
Dak., was born in Cheshire County, N. H., March
28, 1861; graduated from Yale College in 1882, and
from the law school in 1885; began the practice of
law at Sioux Falls; appointed to the United States
Senate as a Eepubhcan, July 11, 1901, to succeed
the Hon. James H. Kyle, deceased; took his seat
December 2, 1901; reelected in 1903 for the term
ending March 3, 1909.
Kittredge, G-eorge W. , was a native of Epping,
N. H. ; received a liberal education; studied med-
icine and practiced at Newmarket; member of the
State house of representatives three years, one
year as speaker; elected a Eepresentative from
New Hampshire to the Thirty-third Congress as an
anti-Nebraska Democrat; defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for reelection; died at Newmarket,
N. H., January 25, 1878.
Kleberg, Kiudolpli, of Cuero, Tex., was born
June 26, 1847, in Austin County, Tex;. ; received a
liberal education at private schools; joined Tom
Green's brigade of cavalry in the Confederate army
in the spring of 1864, and served until the close of
the war; completed his education; studied law in
SanAntonio, Tex.,and admitted to the bar in 1872;
established the Cuero Star in 1873; elected county
attorney in 1876; reelected in 1878, and practiced
law ; elected to the State senate as a Democrat in 1882 ;
appointed United States attorney for the western
district of Texas in 1885; elected on April 7, 1896,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his
partner; elected to the Fifty -fifth. Fifty -sixth, and
Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Kleiner, Jolm J., of Evansville, Ind., was
born at AVest Hanover, Pa., February 8, 1845;
manufacturer and dealer in hard-wood lumber;
served in the Union Army 1863-64; member of
the citv council of Evansville in 1873; mayor of
Evansville 1874-1880; elected to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
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639
Klotz, Robert, was born in jSTorthampton
(now Carbon) County, October 27, 1819; received
a very limited education; elected first register and
recorder of Carbon County in 1843; elected lieu-
tenant of Company K of the Second Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1846, in the Mexican
war; elected to the State house of representatives
in 1848, and reelected in 1849; went to Kansas in
1855; member of the Topeka constitutional con-
vention, serving as the first secretary of state;
brigadier-general under the Robinson government;
elected treasurer of Carbon County in 1859; en-
tered the Union Army in 1861; again in the service
as colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment, at Cham-
bersburg, in 1862, in the emergency; trustee of the
Lehigh_ University at Bethlehem; elected to the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a
Democrat; died May 1, 1895.
Kluttz, Theodore Tranklin, was bornatSahs-
bury. Rowan County, N. C, October 4, 1848;
received his education in schools of his native
county; presiding justice of the inferior court in
1884 and resigned; Democratic elector in 1880 and
again in 1896; president of the Davis & Wiley
(State) Bank; vice-president of the Salisbury cot-
ton mills; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Enapp, Anthony L. , was born at Middletown,
N. Y., June 14, 1828; moved with his parents to
Illinois in 1839; received a liberal education;
studied law, and moved to Jerseyville in 1849,
where he was admitted to the bar; member of the
State senate 1859-1861; elected a Representative
from Illinois to the Thirty-seventh Congress (vice
J. A. McClemand, resigned) as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Knapp, Charles, was born at Colchester, Del-
aware County, N. Y., October 8, 1797; received a
limited education; member of the legislature of
New York in 1841; moved to Deposit, Delaware
County, N. Y., in 1848, and organized the Deposit
Bank in 1854; elected a Representative from New
York to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Enapp, Charles Junius, of Deposit, N. Y.,
was born at Pepacton, Delaware County, N. Y.,
June 30, 1845; graduated from Hamilton College
in 1866; engaged in the banking business; presi-
dent of the board of education; elected sufjervisor
in 1885 and 1886; member of the State legislature
in 1886 and 1888; elected to the Fifty-first Congress
as a Republican; moved to Bingham ton, N. Y.;
president of the Binghamton Trust Company.
Enapp, Charles Luman, of Lowville, N. Y.,
was born at Harrisburg, Lewis County, N. Y.,
July 4, 1847; educated at Lowville Academy and
Rutgers College, New Jersey, graduating from the
latter in 1869; studied law; admitted to the bar,
and began practice at Lowville in 1873; elected to
the State senate in 1885; served during 1886 and
1887; appointed by President Harrison consul-
general to Montreal in 1889 and served until Sep-
tember, 1893, when he returned to Lowville and
resumed the' practice of his profession; elected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican No-
vember 5, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. A. D. Shaw, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress.
Enapp, Chauncey L. , was born at Berlin, Vt.,
February 26, 1809; received a liberal education;
learned the art of printing; engaged in newspaper
work; secretary of state of Vermont 1836-1840;
moved to Massachusetts and located at Lowell;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty-fourtn Congress as an American; reelected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican;
resumed newspaper work on the Lowell News.
Enapp, Robert M., was a native of Jersey-
ville, 111.; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Jerseyville; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat; again elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress.
Enickerbocker, Herman, was born at Albany,
N. Y., July 27, 1782; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practicing at Al-
bany, N. Y. ; moved to Schaghticoke, near Albany,
and became known as "the Prince of Schaghti-
coke" on account of his liberality; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Eleventh Con-
gress as a Federalist; served in the State legislature
in 1816; died at Williamsburg, N. Y., January 30,
Eni^^ht, Jonathan, was born in Bucks County,
Pa., November 22, 1787; moved with his parents
to East Bethlehem in 1801; attended the common
schools; became a civil engineer; member of the
State house of representatives 1822-1828; ap-
pointed chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Whig; became a fairmer; died at East Bethlehem,
Pa., November 22, 1858.
Enig'ht, Nehemiah, was a native of Rhode
Island ; elected a Representative from Rhode Island
to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses as a
Federalist; died in 1808.
Enight, Nehemiah R. , was born at Cranston,
R. I., December 31, 1780; received a liberal edu-
cation; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1802; elected a clerk of the court of common
pleas 1805; moved to Providence; clerk of the court
1812-1817; governor of Rhode Island May, 1817-
January 9, 1821, as an Anti-Federalist; collector of
customs at Providence; elected a United States
Senator from Rhode Island as a Whig (vice James
Burrill, jr. , deceased), and was three times — the last
time as a National Republican — elected, serving
from January 20, 1821, to March 3, 1841; delegate
to the State constitutional convention in 1842; died
at Providence, R. I. , April 19, 1854.
Eaott, J. Proctor, of Lebanon, Ky., was born
August 29, 1830, near Lebanon, Ky. ; studied law;
moved to Missouri in May, 1850, and admitted
to the bar in 1851; elected to the State house of
representatives in Missouri in 1857 and resigned in
August, 1859; appointed attorney-general for Mis-
souri in the same month; unanimously nominated
for the same position by the Democratic conven-
tion and elected in August, 1862; returned to Ken-
tucky and commenced the practice of law in
Lebanon in 1863; member of the Fortieth, Forty-
first, and Forty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat; governor of Kentucky 1883-1887;
delegate to Kentucky constitutional convention
1891; professor of civics and economics, Centre
College, 1892-1894.
Enowles, Freeman, of Deadwood, S. Dak.,
was born at Harmony, Me., October 10, 1846; edu-
cated at Bloomfield Academy, Skowhegan, Me.;
enlisted in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment June 16,
1862; served three years and nineteen days in the
Army of the Potomac; captured at the battle of
Reams Station August 18, 1864, and kept a pris-
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oner at Libby, Belle Island, and Salisbury, N. C,
until the war closed; moved to Denison, Iowa;
admitted to the bar in April, 1869; moved to Ne-
braska and began the publication of the Ceresco
Times; moved to the Black Hills in 1888 and began
the publication of the Meade County Times at
Tilford; moved his plant to Dead wood and began
the publication of the Evening Independent;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Populist;
resumed newspaper work.
Knowlton, Ebenezer, was a native of New
Hampshire; received a liberal education; studied
theology; moved to South Montville, Me.; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1844-
1850, and served as speaker in 1844; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Republican.
Enox, James, was born at Ganajoharie, N. Y.,
July 4, 1807; graduated from Yale College in 1830;
studied law, and in 1833 began practicing at Utica;
moved to Illinois in 1836, when he founded the
town of Knoxville; became a farmer; delegate to
the State constitutional convention in 1847; elected
a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-third
arid Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig; died at
Knoxville, 111., Octobers, 1876.
Enox, Samuel, resided at St. Louis, Mo., and
received a limited education; was elected a Repre-
sentative from Missouri to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress.
Enox, Williani Shadraoh, of Lawrence, Mass. ,
was born at Killingly, Conn., September 10, 1843;
went to Lawrence when 9 years of age; graduated
from Amherst College in 1865; admitted to Essex
bar in November, 1866, and practiced law; mem-
ber of the Massachusetts house of representatives
1874-75; city solicitor of Lawrence in 1875, 1876,
1887-1890; president of the Arlington National
Bank of Lawrence; elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Eoontz, "William H., was born at Somerset,
Pa., July 15, 1830; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; for three
years district attorney for Somerset County;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty -ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fortieth Congress.
■ Erebs, Jacob, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a public school education; resided at
Orwigsburg; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Nineteenth Congress as a Demo-
crat, vice Henry Wilson, deceased.
Eremer, George, was bornin Dauphin County,
Pa., in 1775; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Eight-
eenth, Nmeteenth, and Twentieth Congresses.
^,^P^^s> ®- ^■> of Clarion, Pa., was born in
Clarion County, Pa . , November 8, 1846, on the farm
on which he was brought up; attended the country
schools, working on the farm during the summer-
graduated from Muhlenberg College, Allentown'
Pa., m 1873; studied law and admitted to prac-
tice in 1875; edited the Clarion Democrat from 1877
to 1889; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress; resumed the practice of law at Clarion.
Euhns, Joseph H., was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
*° .u Thirty-seTOnd Congress as a Whig; defeated
for the Thirty-third Congress.
Eulp, Monroe H., of Shamokin, Pa., was born
at Barto, Berks County, Pa., October 23, 1858;
educated in the public schools of Shamokin, the
State Normal College, Lebanon, Ohio, and East-
man Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; after
graduating from the latter institution he took
charge of the books of the firm of Kulp, Mc Wil-
liams & Co., and continued in that position until
the dissolution of the firm in 1886; elected to the
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; devoted himself to his lumber business.
Eunkel, Jacob M., was born at Frederick,
Md., July 23,1822; graduated from the University
of Virginia in 1843; Studied law and began prac-
tice at Frederick in 1846; elected a State senator
in 1850; elected a Representative from Maryland
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress; delegate to
the loyalist convention at Philadelphia in 1866;
died at Frederick, Md., April 9, 1870.
Eunkel, John C, was born at Harrisburg, Pa.,
September 18, 1816; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Harrisburg;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig, and reelected
to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died at Harrisburg,
Pa., October 14, 1870.
Eurtz, William H., was a native of York, Pa.;
received a limited education; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second
Congress as aDemocrat, and reelected totheThirty-
third Congress.
Euykendall, Andrew J. , was born in Galla-
tin County, 111., March 3, 1815; received a limited
education; studied law and began practice at
Vienna; a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1842-1846, and of the State senate 1850-
1862; served one year in the Union Army as major
of the Thirty-first Illinois Voluiiteers; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican.
Eyle, John Curtis, of Sardis, Panola County,
Miss., was born July 17, 1851; educated at Bethel
College and Cumberland University, graduating
with the degree of LL. B. in 1874, and began the
practice of law; elected mayor of Sardis in 1879-
elected to the State senate in 1881; member of the
Mississippi railroad commission; chairman of the
°*^*® V'^™o'=''atic executive committee; elected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Eyle, Thomas Barton, of Troy, Ohio, was
born at Troy, March 10, 1856; son of Lieut. Barton
S. Kyle, of the Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer In-
ta.ntry, who was killed at the battle of Shiloh-
educated in the public schools of Troy and Dart-
mouth College; admitted to the bar in 1884 and
elected prosecuting attorney of Miami County in
1890; president of the board of education of Troy
elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Eyle, James Henderson, was born nearXenia,
Ohio, February 24, 1854; entered the College of
Illinois in 1871, but left in 1873 to enter Oberlin
College; graduated in 1878; prepared for admis-
sion to the bar, but entered the AVestern Theo-
ogical Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., graduating in
!f,?i 'Q^ff ?"■ ,°* O?"greffational churches at Echo
and Salt Lake_ City, Otah, from 1882 to 1885-
resided at Ipswich and Aberdeen, S. Dak.; elected
to the State senate on the Independent ticket in
1890; elected as an Independent to the United
BIOGRAPHIES.
641
States Senate to succeed Gideon C. Moody; took
his seat March 4, 1891; reelected in 1897, serving
until his death, July 1, 1901.
Lahranche, Alc^e, was a native of New Or-
leans, La.; charg6 d'affaires to Texas March 7,
1837, to April 2, 1840, when he resigned; elected
a Representative from Louisiana as a Democrat to
the Twenty-eighth Congress.
Lacey, Edward S., of Charlotte, Mich., was
born at Chili, Monroe County, N. Y.,, November
26, 1835; moved to Branch County, Mich., in Oc-
tober, 1842, and to Eaton County m March, 1843;
educated in the public schools and at Olivet Col-
lege; engaged in business pursuits, but more par-
ticularly in banking; elected register of deeds for
Eaton County in 1860 and 1862; trustee of the
Michigan Asylum for the Insane from 1874 to 1880;
delegate to the national Republican convention in
1876; nominated by acclamation and elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican, and re-
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Lacey, John Fletcher, of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
was born at New Martinsville, Va. (now West Vir-
ginia), May 30, 1841; moved to Iowa in 1855; re-
ceived a common school and academic education;
enlisted in Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, in
May, 1861, and afterwards served in Company D,
Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, as sergeant-major, and
as lieutenant in Company C of that regiment; pro-
moted to assistant adjutant-general on the staff of
Brig. Gen. Samuel A. Rice, and after that officer
was killed in battle was assigned to duty on the
staff of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele; served in the
Iowa legislature one term, in 1870; temporaj-y
chairman of Iowa Republican convention in 1898;
served in city council; one term as city solicitor of
Oskaloosa; lawyer, and author of Lacey's Railway
Digest and Lacey's Iowa Digest; elected to the
Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-flfth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Iiacock, Abner, was born in Virginia in 1770;
attended the public schools; moved to Beaver
County, Pa. ; served several terms in both branches
of the legislature; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the Twelfth Con-
gress; United States Senator from Pennsylvania
1813-1819; president of the Pennsylvania and Ohio
Canal Company; died at Freedom, Pa., April 12,
1837.
Ladd, George W., was born at Augusta, Me.,
September 28, 1818; prepared for a collegiate
education, but owing to the death of his father,
was obliged to serve six years as an apprentice in
the apothecary business; at 20 years of age com-
menced business for himself at Bangor, but retired
from same on account of ill health; engaged in the
lumber and commission business in connection
with the wholesale grocery business; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Greenback Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
died January 31, 1892.
lia Dow, George A., was born in Cayuga
County, N. Y., March 18, 1828; moved to Mc-
Henry County, 111.; attended the public schools;
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1850;
commenced practice in 1851 in Wisconsin; elected
district attorney in 1860; moved to Minnesota in
1862; State representative in 1867; moved to
Oregon in 1869; State representative in 1872;
elected a Representative from Oregon as a Repub-
lican to the Forty-fourth Congress, but died May
8, 1875, before taking his seat.
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Iiafibon, Folk, of Madison ville, Ky., was born
in Hopkins County, Ky. , October 24, 1844; received
a common school education; entered the Confed-
erate army as a member of the Eighth Confed-
erate Infantry; captured at Fort Donelson on
February 16, 1862, and exchanged at Vicksburg
in September; member of Morgan's command dur-
ing the remainder of the war; captured at Cheshire,
Ohio, on the raid into that State, and confined in
the Pennsylvania penitentiary as a prisoner of war;
followed teaching for two years; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1867, and once county attorney
of his county; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress; resumed the practice of law.
Laflin, Addison H., was born at Lee, Mass.,
October 24, 1823; graduated from Williams Col-
lege in 1843; went to Herkimer County, N. Y., in
1849, becoming largely interested in pape^ manu-
facturing; State senator 1858-59; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Thrty-ninth,
Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses as a Repub-
lican; appointed by President Grant naval officer
at New York City.
La Toilette, Robert M., of Madison, Wis.,
was born at the town of Primrose, Dane County,
June 14, 1855;' received a collegiate education,
graduating from the University of Wisconsin in
June, 1879; lawyer; elected district attorney of
Dane County in 1880 and 1882; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; elected
governor of Wisconsin in 1900; reelected in 1902.
Lagan, Matthew D., of New Orleans, La.,
was born in County Derry, Ireland, June 20, 1829;
received a common school education; emigrated
to the United States in 1843, , arriving in New
Orleans December 28, 1843; engaged in manufac-
turing and mercantile pursuits; elected to the
common council of the city of New Orleans in
1867; elected to the convention which framed a
constitution of the State of Louisiana in 1879;
again elected to common council in 1882, and
selected as president and acting mayor during the
term; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Fifty-second Congress.
Lahm, Samuel, was born at Leitersburg, Md.,
April 22, 1812, receiving a limited preparatory
education; attended Washington College, Penn-
sylvania; moved to Indiana in 1835; admitted to
practice in 1836, locating at Canton, Ohio; master
of chancery 1836-1839; elected prosecuting attor-
ney 1838-1840; State senator in 1842; delegate to
the national Democratic convention at Baltimore
in 1844; brigadiet-general in the militia; defeated
as the Democratic candidate to the Twenty-ninth
Congress, but elected to the Thirtieth Congress as
an Independent Democrat.
Laidlaw, William G., of Ellicottville, N. Y.,
was born near Jedburgh, the county town of Rox-
burgshire, Scotland, January 1, 1840; came with
his parents to the United States in 1852; received
a common school and academic education; studied
law and admitted to the bar in 1866, and practiced;
served two years in the U. S. Navy during the war
of the rebellion; school commissioner of the first
district of Cattaraugus County from 1867 to 1870;
assessor of internal revenue of the thirty-first col-
lection district of New York during 1871 ; district
attorney of Cattaraugus County from 1872 till 1878;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Republican, and
reelected to the Fifty-first Congress; resumed the
practice of law at Ellicottvillej N. Y.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIKECTORS".
Xiaird, James, was born at Fowlerville, Livings-
ton County, N. Y., June 20, 1849; brougiit up in
Michigan and educated at Adrian College and
Michigan University, at Ann Arbor; graduated
from the law school of the Michigan University in
1871; actively engaged in the practice of la\y; en-
tered the volunteer military service of the United
States from Michigan July 24, 1862, and served
with the Army of the Potomac until the close of the
war; member of the Nebraska constitutional con-
vention of 1875; Republican Presidential elector
from Nebraska in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses; died
August 17, 1889.
Lake, William A., was a native of Maryland;
received a classical education; graduated from
Washington College, Pennsylvania; studied law
and admitted to the bar; State representative;
moved to Vicksburg, Miss. ; State senator; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as an American over Otho R.
Singleton, Democrat, who defeated him for reelec-
tion to the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Lamar, Henry G. , was a native of Georgia; pur-
sued academic studies; studied law and admitted
to the bar; commenced practice at Macon; judge
of the State superior court; elected a Representee
tive from Georgia to the Twenty-first and Twenty-
second Congresses as a State Rights Dempcrat.
Lam.ar, Lucius Quintus Ciucinnatus, was
born in Putnam County, Ga., September 1, 1825;
moved to Oxford, Miss.; graduated from Emory
College, Oxford, Ga., in 1845; studied law at
Macon, and admitted to the bar in 1847; returned
to Oxford, Mi§s., in 1849; served a year as pro-
fessor of mathematics at the University of Missis-
sippi; moved to Covington, Ga., and elected a
State representative in 1853; returned to Lafayette
County, Miss.; elected a Representative from
Mississippi to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Thirty-sixth, serving
until his retirement, January 12, 1861, to become
a member of the secession convention of Missis-
sippi; served in the Confederate army as lieutenant-
colonel and colonel ; in 1863 entered the diplomatic
service of the Confederacy on a special mission to
Russia; in 1866 elected professor of political
economy and social science at the University of
Mississippi, and in 1867 professor of law; elected
a Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-
third Congress and also to the Forty-fourth;
United States Senator from Mississippi 1877 to
March 6, 1885, resigning to accept the Seoretarv-
ship of Interior; in December, 1887, appointed
associate justice of the United States Supreme
Court, and commissioned January 16, 1888; died
at Vineville, Ga., January 23, 1893.
Lamb, Alfred W., was a native of New York;
attended the public schools; moved to Hannibal,
Mo.; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-third Congressas a Democrat.
Lamb, John, of Henrico County, Va., was born
in Sussex County, Va., June 12, 1840; educated by
his father, who taught a private school; serveii
through the war between the States in Company
D, Third Virginia Cavalry; commanded his com-
pany three years, and wounded several times;
engaged largely in business; served as sheriff,
treasurer, and surveyor in his county; elected to
the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Lamb, Jolin E., of Terre Haute, Ind., was
born there December 26, 1852; received a private
and common school education, and graduated
from the Terre Haute high school; studied law
and admitted to the bar in 1873, and engaged in
the practice of his profession; prosecuting_ attorney
of the fourteenth judicial circuit; candidate for
Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in
1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Lambert, John, was born in New Jersey in
1748; received an academic education; State repre-
sentative; vice-president of the council and acting
governor in 1802-3; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses;
elected a Senator from New Jersey for the term
1809-1815; died at Amwell, N. J., February 4,
1823.
Lamison, Charles N. , was bom in Columbia
County, Pa., in 1826; privately educated; admitted
to practice law in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio;
prosecuting attorney of Allen County for five
years; served in the Union Army; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses as aDemocrat; died in 1896.
Lamport, "William H. , was born at Pittstown,
N. Y., May 27, 1811; attended the public schools
and went to farming; supervisor of Gorham, N. Y. ,
1848^9; elected sheriff of Orange County in 1851;
elected a State assemblyman in 1854; president of
the village of Canandaigua 1866-67; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Forty-second
and Forty-third Congresses as a Republican; died
at Canandaigua, N. Y., July 21, 1891.
Lancaster, Columbia, of St. Helena, Wash. T. ;
held several local ofiices; elected a Delegate from
Washington Territory to the Thirty-third Con-
Landers, FDanblin, was born in Morgan
County, Ind., March 22, 1825; attended the com-
mon schools; engaged in farming and in 1850 en-
tered the dry goods trade, moving to Indianapolis
in 1865;. entered the pork packing business in 1873;
State senator 1860-1864; elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat; died at Indianapolis September 10, 1901.
Landers, George M., was born at Lenox,
Mass., February 22, 1813; attended the public
schools; moved to Hartford County, Conn., in
1829; engaged in the manufacture of hardware;
State representative in 1851, 1867, and 1874; State
senator in 1853, 1869," and 1873; State bank com-
missioner in 1874; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Landes, Silas Z., of Mount Carmel, 111., was
bdrn in Augusta County, Va., May 15, 1842;
licensed by the supreme court of Illinois to prac-
tice law in August, 1863; practiced; elected State
attorney for Wabash County in 1872, 1876, and
1880; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Landis, Charles B., of Delphi, Lid., was born
July 9, 1858, at Millville, Butler County, Ohio;
educated in the public schools of Logansport and
graduated from Wabash College at Crawf ordsville,
Ind., in 1883; from 1883 to 1887 editor of the
Logansport Journal, and at the time of his nomi-
nation for Congress was the editor of the Delphi
(Ind.) Journal; in 1894 elected president of the
Indiana Republican Editorial Association and
BIOGRAPHIES.
643
reelected in 1895; elected to the Fifty-flfth Con-
gress as a Republican and reelected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Landrum, Jolin M. , was born in Edgefield Dis-
trict, S. C, July 3, 1815; received a classical edu-
cation, graduating from South Carolina College in
1842; taught school; studied law; admitted to the
bar and commenced practice at Shreveport, La. ;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Landry, J. Aristide, was a native of Louisiana
and resided at Donaldson ville; elected a Repre-
sentative from Louisiana to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig.
Landy, James, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
October 13, 1813; attended the public schools;
studied law, but entered mercantile pursuits;
school commissioner; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Lane, Amos, was born near Aurora, N. Y.,
March 1, 1778; attended the public schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at Lawrenceburg, Ind. ; speaker of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Indiana to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated
for the Twenty-fifth Congress; ,died at Lawrence-
burg, Ind., September 2, 1849.
Lane, Edward, of Hillsboro, 111., was born at
Cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 1842; moved to Illinois
in May, 1858; received an academic education;
taught school; afterwards read law; licensed to
practice by the supreme court of the State of Illi-
nois in February, 1865, and practiced; elected judge
in November, 1869; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat.
Lane, Henry S., was born in Montgomery
County, Ky., February 24, 1811; received a public
school education; studied law, and began practicing
at Crawfordsville, Ind. ; served in the ^tate senate;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Twenty-sixth Congress, vice T. A. Howard, re-
signed; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress;
served in the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel
of volunteers; elected governor of Indiana in 1860;
served two days and resigned to become a United
Senator from Indiana 1861-1867; delegate to the
Republican national convention at Chicago in 1868
and at Cincinnati in 1876; died at Crawfordsville,
Ind., June 11, 1881.
Lane, James Henry, was born at Lawrence-
burg, Ind., June 22, 1814; attended the public
schools; served in the city council and in the
Mexican war; lieutenant-governor 1849; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Democrat; moved to Kansas; elected
a United States Senator, but not recognized by
United States Senate, in 1856; elected to the United
States Senate as a Bepublican in 1861 and reelected
in 1865, serving imtil his death, July 11, 1866, near
Fort Leavenworth, iCans.
Lane, Joe B. , of Davenport, Iowa, was born at
Davenport, Iowa, May 6, 1858; educated in the
common schools of that city and at Knox College,
Galesburg, 111. : studied law at i he State University
of Iowa and practiced at Davenport; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Lane, Josepli, was born in Buncombe County,
N. C, December 14, 1801; attended the common
schools; moved to Indiana in 1821; served in both
branches of the States legislature 1822-1846; served
in the Mexican war with distinction, being bre-
vetted major-general ; appointed governor of Oregon
Territory in August, 1848, serving from March,
1849 to 1850; elected a Delegate from the Territory
to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat; again appointed
governor in 1853; elected a United States Senator
from Oregon, serving from February 14, 1859, to
1861; nominated for Vice-President on the Breck-
inridge Democractic ticket in 1860; died in Oregon
April 19, 1881.
Lane, Lafayette (son of Joseph Lane), was
born in Vanderberg County, Ind., November 12,
1842; elected a Representative from Oregon to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, vice George
A. La Dow, deceased; defeated for the Forty-fifth
Congress.
Langdon, Charles C, was born at Southing-
ton, Conn., August 5, 1805; received a good edu-
cation; moved to Perry County, Ala., in 1820, en-
gaging in mercantile pursuits; editor of the Mobile
Advertiser in 1834; State representative in 1839,
1840, 1855, 1861, and 1865; unsuccessful as a Whig
candidate for Congress in 1850; mayor of Mobile;
member of the State constitutional conventions of
1865 and 1878; claimed to have been elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, but denied admittance; appointed State
secretary of state in 1885, and elected in 1886 and
1888; died June 8, 1889.
Langdon, Chauncey, was a native of Ver-
mont; pursued classical studies; graduated from
Yale in 1787; several years State representative
and State councilor; elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Fourteenth Congress as a
Federalist.
Langdon, John, was born at Portsmouth,
N. H., June 25, 1741; attended the public schools
and engaged in mercantile pursuits; prominent
in ante-Revolutionary affairs and during the war;
Delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental
Congress 1775-76 and in 1783; served several terms
as speaker of the State house of representatives;
president of New Hampshire in 1785; delegate to
the Federal constitutional convention in 1787;
governor in 1788, 1805, 1809, and 1810-11; twice
elected a Senator from New Hampshire, serving
from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1801, and its
President; declined the offer of the Secretaryship
of the Navy in 1811 and the Democratic nomina-
tion for Vice-President in 1812; died at Ports-
mouth, N. H., September 18, 1819.
Langdon, Woodbury, was born at Ports-
mouth, N. H.,in 1739; attended the public schools;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; prominent inpre-
Revolutionary affairs; Delegate to the Continental
Congress 1779-80; executive councilor 1781-1784;
judge of the State supreme court in 1782 and
1786-1790; died at Portsmouth, N. H., January 13,
1805.
Langston, John M. , was born in Louisa
County, Va., December 14, 1829; educated in the
schools of Ohio; graduated from Oberlin College
in 1849 and from the theological department of
that institution in 1853; admitted to the bar in
Ohio in 1855 and practiced; appointed inspector-
general of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and
Abandoned Lands in 1868; dean of the law depart-
ment of Howard University; appointed and com-
missioned by President Grant a member of the
board of health of the District of Columbia in
644
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
1871; appointed by President Hayes minister
resident and consul-general to Haiti, and charg6
d'affaires to Santo Domingo; elected vice-president
and acting president of Howard University in 1872 ;
elected president of the Virginia Normal and Col-
legiate Institute in 1885; during the war of the
rebellion took active part in the recruitment of
colored troops, recruiting mainly the Fifty-fourth
and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts and Fifth Ohio
(colored) regiments; filled several township offices
in Ohio; twice elected a member of the council of
Oberlin; member of the board of education of that
place for twelve years; had scholarly honors con-
ferred by several colleges and universities, and re-
ceived several honorary memberships from scien-
tific and literary institutions and associations of
foreign countries; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican November 6, 1888, but com-
pelled to make a contest for his seat, and not per-
mitted to take his place till September 23, 1890;
died at Washington, D. C, November 15, 1897.
Ijang-nrortliy, Edward, was a Delegate from
Georgia to the Continental Congress 1777-1779.
Lanham, Samuel W. T., of Weatherford,
.Tex.; was born in Spartanburg District, S. C,
July 4, 1846; received only a common school edu-
cation; entered the Confederate army when a boy;
moved to Texas in 1866; studied law, and admit-
ted to practice in 1869; district attorney; Demo-
■ cratic elector in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses; resigned January IS, 1903; elected gov-
ernor of Texas November 4, 1902, for the term
commencing January, 1903.
Lanman, James, was born at Norwich, Conn.,
June 13, 1769; pursued classical studies, graduat-
ing from Yale College in 1788; studied law and
admitted to the bar in 1791, commencing prac-
tice at Norwich; State attorney for New London
County 1814-1819; State representative in 1817
and State senator in 1819 and 18.32; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1818; elected a
United States Senator from Connecticut as a Dem-
ocrat, serving 1819-1825; February 8, 1825, ap-
pointed by the governor to continue after March
4, but denied admission by the Senate; judge of
the State superior and supreme courts 1826-1829;
mayor of Norwich 1831-1834; died at Norwich,
Conn., August 7, 1841.
Lansing, Frederick, was born at Manheim,
Herkimer County, N. Y., February 16, 1838; edu-
cated at Little Falls Academy, New York; admit-
ted to the bar in 1859 and practiced; served during
the civil war in the Eighth New York Cavalry;
acting adjutant of that regiment from June 23 to
October U, 1863; badly wounded at the battle of
Bristow Station and the next year discharged on
account of wounds; elected State senator in 1881;
in 1883 reelected; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; died January 31, 1894.
Lansing, G-errit Y. , -was born at Albany, N. Y. ,
in 1783; pursued classical studies; State represent-
ative 1796-1801; elected a Representative from
New York to the Tjventy-second Congress as a
Jackson Democrat; elected to the Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth Congresses; chancellor of State
university 1842-1849; died at Albany, N. Y., Jan-
uary 3, 1862.
Lansing, John, was born at Albany, N. Y.,
January 30, 1754; Delegate from New York to the
Continental Congress 1784-1788, and to the Fed-
eral constitutional convention; served several years
as State representative; died at New York City
December 12, 1829.
Lansing, William E., was born at Sullivan,
N. Y., in 1822; pursued academic studies; studied
law at Utica, commencing practicii at Chittenango
in 1845; district attorney of Madison County 1848-
1851 and clerk in 1857; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-seventh, Forty-
second, and Forty-third Congresses as a Republican.
Lapham, Elbridge G. , was born at Farming-
ton, N. Y., October 18, 1814; brought up on afarm,
attending the winter public schools and the Oan-
andaigua Academy; studied civil engineering and
employed on the Michigan Southern Railroad
Line; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1844
and practiced atCanandaigua; member of the con-
stitutional convention of New York in 1867; elected
to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican; elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican, July
22, 1881, in the place of Roscoe Conkling, resigned,
and took his seat October 11, 1881, serving until
March 4, 1885; returned to Canandaigua, N. Y. ;
practiced law until his death, January 8, 1890.
Laph.aiu, Oscar, of Providence, R. I., was born
at Burrillville, R. I., June 29, 1837; educated at
University Grammar School, Providence; gradu-
ated from Brown University, class of 1864; mem-
ber of board of trustees of that university; ad-
mitted to the bar at Providence in May, 1867, and
practiced; first lieutenant, adjutant, and captain
in Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers; captain of
University Cadets of Brown University and colo-
nel of United Train of Artillery; represented city
of Providence in State senate 1887^88; member
and treasurer Democratic State central committee
1887-1891; Democratic candidate for Congress in
1882, 1886, and 1888; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected at a special
election April 5, 1893, to the Fifty-third Congress;
resumed the practice of law.
Laporte, John, was a native of Pennsylvania;
resided at Asylum; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-third and Twenty-
fourth Congresses.
Larned, Simon, was born at Thompson, Conn.,
August 13, 1753; attended the common schools; for
several years sheriff of Berkshire County; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Eighth
Congress (vice Thompson J. Skinner, resigned),
servmg from November 5, 1804, to 1805; med at
Pittsfield, Mass., November 16, 1817.
Larrahee, Charles H. , was born at Rome,
N. Y., November 9, 1820; moved to Ohio, attend-
ing Granville College; studied engineering and
law; admitted to the bar in 1841; commenced
practice at Pontotoc, Miss.; moved to Chicago,
111., in 1844; city attorney 1846-47; moved to
Horicon, Wis. ; delegate to the State constitutional
convention of 1847; ]udge oi the third judicial cir-
cuit and the State supreme court from 1848 to
1858, resigning; elected a Representative from
Wisconsin to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for the Thirty-seventh Congress;
served in the Union Army April 17, 1861, to his
resignation, September, 1863, from lieutenant to
colonel ; moved to Seattle, Wash.
La Sere, Emile, was a native of Louisiana; ac-
quired a good education; located at New Orleans;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, vice John
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645
Slidell, resigned; elected to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-flrst Congresses.
Lash, Israel G., was born at Bethania, N. C,
August 18, 1810; after working on a farm, became
a merchant, manufacturer, and a banker at Salem
in 1847; elected a Representative from North
Carolina as a Republican to the Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses.
• liassiter, Francis Rives, of Petersburg, Va.,
was born there February 18, 1866; educated in the
public schools and at the University School of
W. Gordon McCabe; graduated from several
academic schools, University of Virginia 1883-84,
and received the degree of LL. B. from the Univer-
sity of Virginia 1886; admitted to the Suffolk bar,
Boston, Mass. ,1887, and to the Virginia bar in 1888,
and practiced; member of the Virginia Democratic
State central committee; elected city attorney in
1888 and reelected in 1890 and 1892; Presidential
elector in 1892; appointed United States attorney
for the eastern district of Virginia in 1893 and
resigned in 1896; defeated for the Democratic
nomination for attorney-general of Virginia in
1897; appointed supervisor of the Twelfth Census
for the Fourth district of Virginia in 1899; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill a vacancy;
reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat.
Latham, George R. , was born in Prince
William County, Va., March 9, 1832; attended the
public schools; studied law, and admitted to
the bar in 1859; commenced practice at Grafton;
served in the Union Army as captain of volun-
teers; elected a Representative from West Virginia
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
consul at Melbourne 1867-1870; school superin-
tendent of Upshur County, W. Va., September 1,
1875, to August 31,1877.
Latham, Louis Charles, was born at Plymouth,
N. C, September 11, 1840; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1859, and then attended
the law school at Harvard College; practiced law;
entered the Confederate service in May or June,
1861, for the war, and made captain and after-
wards major of the First North State Troops;
elected to the house of commons of North Carolina
in 1864; surrendered at Appomattox; elected to
the Senate of North Carolina in 1870; elected to
the Forty-seventh Cpngress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fiftieth Congress; died in October,
1895, at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital,
Baltimore, Md.
Latham, Milton S., was born at Columbus,
Ohio, May 23, 1827; pursued classical studies;
graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in
1845; moved to Russell County, Ala. ; taught school
and studied law; admitted to the bar in 1848 and
appointed circuit court clerk; moved to San Fran-
cisco, Cal., in 1849; clerk of the recorder's court
in 1850; district attorney for the Sacramento dis-
trict in 1851; elected a Representative from Cali-
fornia to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat,
declining a reelection; collector of San Francisco
1655-1857; elected governor in 1859; inaugurated
in January, 1860, and on January 11 elected a
United States Senator (vice David C. Broderick,
deceased), taking theseat March 5, 1860, and serv-
ing until March 3, 1863; president of the Bank of
C^ifornia; died at New York City March 4, 1882.
Lathrop, Samuel, was born in Hampden
County, Mass., in 1771; received a classical educa-
tion and graduated from Yale College in 1792;
studied law and admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at West Springfield; elected a Represent-
ative from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses;
State senator for ten years and president of the
State senate 1829-30; died at West Springfield,
Mass., July 11, 1846.
Lathrop, William, was born in Genesee
County, N. Y., April 17, 1825; attended the public
schools; moved to Illinois and studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1851; commenced practice at
Rockford; State representative in 1856; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Republican.
Latimer, Asbury C, of Belton, S. C, was
born July 31, 1851, near Lowndesville, Abbeville
County, S. 0. ; brought up on his father's farm;
spent much of his life in agricultural pursuits;
educated in the common schools; took an active
part in the memorable campaign of 1876; moved
to Belton, Anderson County, in 1880; devoted his
energies to his farm; elected county chairman of
the Democratic party of his county in 1890 and
reelected in 1892; urged to make the race for lieu-
tenant-governor of his State in 1890, but declined;
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat; elected to the United States Senate
for the term commencing March 4, 1903.
Latimer, Henry, was born at Newport, Del.,
April 24, 1752; pursued classical studies; studied
medicine at Philadelphia and Edinburgh; served
as surgeon in the Revolutionary Army; State rep-
resentative; elected a Representative from Dela-
ware to the Third Congress as a Federalist, taking
his seat February 14, 1794; served until February
28, 1795, when he entered the United States Senate,
vice George Read, resigned; reelected, serving
until his resignation in 1 801 ; died at Philadelphia,
Pa., December 19, 1819.
Lattimore, "William, was born at Norfolk, Va.,
February 9, 1774; attended the common schools;
studied medicine; moved to Mississippi; elected a
Delegate from the Mississippi Territory to the
Eighth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Con-
gresses; delegate to the constitutional convention
of Mississippi; died April 3, 1843.
Laurens, Henry, was born at Charleston, S. C,
in 1724; studied in England; upon returning en-
tered the mercantile business; served against the
Cherokee Indians; visited Europel771-l 774; presi-
dent of the provincial congress; Delegate from
South Carolina to the Continental Congress 1777-
1780; President of it 1777-1778; elected a minister
to Holland by the Continental Congress October
21, 1779; captured on the voyage and held a pris-
oner in the Tower of London for fifteen months;
appointed one of the peace commissioners and
signed the preliminary treaty of Paris November
30, 1782; returned to farming in South Carolina
and died at Charleston, S. C, December 8, 1792.
Lavsr, John, was born at New London, Conn.,
in 1796; pursued classical studies; graduated from
Yale College in 1814; studied law and admitted
to the bar in 1817, commencing practice at Vin-
cennes, Ind. ; State representative in 1823; prose-
cuting attorney and judge of the local circuit sev-
eral years; land-oflBce receiver 1838-1842; judge of
the court of land claims 1855-1857; moved to
Evansville; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Evansville, Ind.,
October 7, 1873.
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CONaEESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Law, liyman, was bom at New London, Conn.,
August 19, 1776; pursued classical studies; gradu-
ated from Yale College in 1791; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1793; speaker of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Twelfth, Ttiir-
teenth, and Fourteenth Congresses as a Federalist;
died at New London, Conn., February 3, 1842.
Law, Sichard, was born at Milford, Conn.,
March 17, 1783; pursued classical studies, gradu-
ating from Yale College in 1751; studied law and
admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1754, com-
mencing practice at New London; chief judge
of the county court and of the superior court in
1784; member of the council of the assembly 1776-
1786; Delegate to the Continental Congress from
Connecticut 1777-78 and 1781-1784; mayor of New
London 1784-1806; appointed chief judge of the
superior court in May, 1786, and United States
district judge for Connecticut by President Wash-
ington, serving until his death, at New London,
Conn., January 26, 1§06.
Lawler, Frank, was born at Rochester, N. Y.,
June 25, 1842; attended a public school; news agent
on railroads; learned the trade of shipbuilder;
elected president of the Shipcarpenters and Ship-
caulkers' Association, and took an active part in
organizing trade and labor unions; became agent
for the Workingman's Advocate; employed in the
Chicago post-office from 1869 to 1877; elected a
member of the Chicago city council from the
Eighth Ward in April, 1876, and reelected in 1878,
1880, 1882, and 1884; engaged in business in 1878
at Chicago as a liquor merchant; elected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as
a Democrat; died at Chicago, 111., January 17,
1896.
Law^ler, Joab, was born in North Carolina,
June 12, 1796; attended the public schools; studied
theology; licensed to preach; moved to Mardis-
ville, Ala.; State representative 1826-1831, and
State senator 1831-32; received public moneys for
the Coosa land district 1832-1835; treasurer of the
University of Alabama 1833-1836; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-flfth Congresses as a Whig, serving until
his death, at Washington, D. C, May 8, 1838.
Lawrence, Abbott, was born at Groton, Mass. ,
December 16, 1792; attended Groton Academy;
became a merchant and importer at Boston; com-
mon councilman in 1831; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig, resigning in
1840; northeast boundary commissioner in 1842;
visited Europe 1843-44; minister to Great Britain
August 20, 1849, to October, 1852; founder of the
Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge; died at
Boston, Mass., August 18, 1855.
Lawrence, Cornelius "Van Wyck, was born
at Flushing, N. Y., February 28, 1791; attended
the common schools; went to New York City in
lfll2, engaging in a mercantile career; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
third. Congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving
until May, 1834, when he resigned to accept the
oflice of mayor of New York City; Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1836; died at
Flushing, N. Y., February 20, 1861.
Lawrence, EfS.ng'ham, of Louisiana, success-
fully contested the seat of Jay Hale Syptier in the
Forty-third Congress and was seated Marcji 3, 1875,
the last day of the session; died in 1878.
Lawrence, George Pelton, of North Adams,
Mass., was born at Adams, Mass., May 19, 1859;
graduated from Drury Academy in 1876, and from
Amherst College in 1880; studied law at Columbia
Law School; admitted to the bar in 1883, and
practiced law at North Adams; appointed judge
of the district court of northern Berkshire in 1885;
resigned in 1894 upon being elected to the Massa^
chusetts senate; meinber of the Massachusetts : . -
senate 1895-97; president of that body 1896-97;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- \
enth, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Lawrence, George V. , of Monongahela City,
Pa., was born in Washington County, Pa., No-
vember 13, 1818; received a common school edu-
cation, and studied at Washington College; farmer;
elected to the State house of representatives in 1844
and 1847, and to the senate in 1848; reelected to
the house of representatives in 1858, and again in
1859, and to the senate in 1860; elected a Repre-
sentative to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con-
gresses; delegate to the constitutional convention
of Pennsylvania in 1872; elected to the State
senate under the new constitution in 1875, 1876,
and 1878; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as
a Republican; again served two terms in the State
legislature.
Lawrence, Jolin, was born in Cornwall County,
England, in 1750, coming to New York City in
1767; pursued academic studies; studied law and
admitted to the bar in 1772; served throughout
the Revolutionary war; judge-advocate-general
on General Washington's staff and on the court-
martial which convicted Major Andre; Delegate
from New York to the Conttuental Congress 1785-
1787; State senator in 1789; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the First and Second Con-
gresses; appointed by President Washington judge
of the United States circuit court; elected a United
States Senator from New York (vice Rufus King,
resigned), serving from December 8, 1796, to
August, 1800, when he resigned; died at New
York City November 7, 1810.
Lawrence, John "W. , was a native of Flushing,
N. Y.; State representative 1841-42; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Whig.
La^rrence, Joseph., was born inAdams County,
Pa., in 1788; moved to Washington County; at-
tended the common schools; farmed; State repre-
sentative for nine years, four years as speaker;
State treasurer; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat, serv-
ing until his death, at Washington, D. C, April
17, 1842.
Lawrence, Samuel, was a native of New York;
located at Johnson's settlement; State representa-
tive 1808-9 and 1818; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighteenth Congress.
Lawrence, Sidney, was a native of Vermont;
attended the common schools; moved to Moira,
Franklin County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirtieth Congress.
Lawrence, ■William, was born at Washington, y
Ohio, September 2, 1814; pursued classical studies, ^
graduating from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, O
in 1835; farmer and merchant; State representative
in 1843; Presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket in 1848; delegate to the State constitutional
convention of 1850; State senator 1856-57; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat.
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647
Lawrence, Willianu., waa born at Mount Pleas-
ant, Ohio, June 26, 1819; graduated from Franklin
College and the Cincinnati Law School; reporter
on the Columbus State Journal; editor of the
.Logan Gazette and the Western Law Monthly;
>. 1 ^bankrupt commissioner of Logan County in 1842
J' • I and prosecuting attorney of Logan County in 1845;
ijO A State representative 1846-47 and a State senator
/ A V 1848-1853; supreme court reporter; judge of the
A common pleas court a number of years; entered
•J the Union Army in 1862 as colonel of volunteers;
appointed United States judge in Florida in
1863; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-third,
and Forty-fourth Congresses as a Eepublican.
Lawrence, William T. , was born at New York
City May 7, 1788; attended the common schools;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the war
of 1812; moved to Cayuta in 1823, becoming a
farmer; judge of Cayuga County in 1H38; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirtieth
Laws, Gilbert Lafayette, of McCook, Nebr.,
was born March 11, 1838, near Olney, Richland
County, 111.; moved with his parents to Iowa
County, Wis., in 1845; received nis education in
the common schools; attended Haskell University,
Mazomahie, Wis., and Milton College, Milton,
Wis. ; taught school till 1861, when he enlisted in
the Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; wounded
in the battle of Williamsburg,' Va., May 5, 1862;
returned to Wisconsin and located in Richland
County; elected clerk of that county in Novem-
ber, 1862; twice reelected?' edited the Richland
County Observer; engaged in the manufacture
of lumber, bedsteads, and. wagon material; chair-
man of the county board of supervisors 1869-70;
member of the city council; elected mayor of
Richland Center in 1870; postmaster 1869-1876,
when he resigned and moyed, to Orleans, Nebr. ;
became editor of the Republican Valley Sentinel;
appointed register of the United States land office
at McCook, Nebr., in 1883, and served till Novem-
ber 1, 1886; elected secretary of state November 2,
1886, and in 1888; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Eepublican, to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Hon. James Laird.
Lawson, John B. , was born at Montgomery,
N. Y., February ]8, 1816; attended the pubhc
schools; importer in New York City; delegate to
the national Republican conventions of 1868 and
1872; elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-third Congress as a Republican.
Lawson, John W., of Isle of Wight, Va., was
born in James City County, Va., September 13,
1837; educated in the schools of Williamsburg, at
William and Mary College, and at the University
of Virginia; studied medicine and graduated from
the University of the City of New York March 4,
1861;. returned to his native State and enlisted in
the Thirty-second Regiment Virginia Infantry;
served on the Peninsula; participated in the battle
of Williamsburg and in the series of battles be-
ginning with Seven Pines; entered the medical
department Confederate States of America; assist-
ant surgeon in charge of artillery battahon; pro-
moted to full surgeon March 10, 1864; surrendered
at Appomattox April 9, 1865; settled m Isle of
Wight County, Va., December, 1865; practiced
medicine for ten years; elected to the house of
delegates and reelected; elected to the State senate;
settled on a farm; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Lawson, Thomas G., of Eatonton, Ga., was
bom in Putnam County, Ga. ; educated in the com-
mon schools and at Mercer University; elected to
the legislature in 1861 and in 1863 and' 1865; mem-
ber of the constitutional convention in 1877;
elected by the general assembly in 1878 judge of
the superior courts of the Ocmulgee circuit, and
in 1882; in 1886 retired to his farm; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses.
Lawyer, Thomas, was a native of Cobleskill,
N. Y. ; State representative in 1816; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Fifteenth
Congress.
Lay, George W., was a native of New York;
pursued classical studies; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar, commencing practice at Batavia;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Whig; State representative in 1840; chargd d'af-
faires to Sweden Mav 12, 1842, to October 29, 1845;
died at Batavia, N. Y., October 28, 1860.
Layton, Fernando 0. , of Wapakoneta, Ohio,
was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, April 11,
1847; educated in the public schools and at Wit-
tenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; admitted to
the bar in 1869; county school examiner; prose-
cuting attorney for the years 1875-78; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses; resumed the practice of law.
Lazear, Jesse, was born in Greene County, Pa.,
December 12, 1804; received a limited education;
held several local ofiices; bank cashier at Waynes-
burg 1832-1864; elected a .Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-
"eighth Congresses as a Democrat; delegate to the
national Union convention at Philadelphia in
1866; died at Baltimore County, Md., September
2, 1877.
Lea, Luke, was born in Surry Countjr, N. C,
January 26, 1782; moved to Tennessee' in 1790;
attended the common schools; served in the Creek
and Seminole wars; held several minor State of-
fices; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat, and to
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Union Democrat;
appointed by President Taylor Indian agent at
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., near which place he
died June 17, 1851.
Lea, Pryor, was born in Knox County, Tenn.,
in 1794; graduated from Greeneville College;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1817; com-
menced practice at Knoxville; served in the
Creek war in 1813; United States attorney for Ten-
nessee in 1824; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Con-
gresses as a Jackson Democrat; defeated for the
Twenty-second Congress; moved to Jackson, Miss.,
in 1837, thence to Goliad, Tex., in 1847.
Leach, DeWitt C. , was bornat Clarence, N. Y.,
November 22, 1822; acquired a limited education;
State representative 1849-50; delegate to the con-
stitutional convention of 1850; State librarian in
1855-56; elected a Representative from Michigan
to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as
a Republican.
Leach, James M. , was born in Randolph
County, N. C?, in 1824; pursued classical studies;
studied law and practiced; for ten years member of
the hou&e of commons; Presidential elector on the
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CONGEE8SIONAL DIEECTOBY.
American ticket in 1856; elected a Eepresentative
from North Carolina to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Whig, to the Fortj'-second Congress as a Con-
servative, and to the Forty-third Congress; mem-
ber of the Confederate Congress 1864r-65; twice
elected State senator.
Leadbetter, Daniel P. , was a native of Penn-
sylvania^ moved to Millersburg, Ohio; elected a
Bepresentative from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Van Buren Demo-
crat.
Leake, Shelton F., was born in Albemarle
County, Va., November 30, 1812; received a good
education; taught school; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1835; commenced practice at Char-
lottesville; State representative in 1842; Presiden-
tial elector on the Democratic ticket in 1848;
elected lieutenant-governor in 1851; elected a Eep-
resentative from Virginia to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, and to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as an Independent Democrat.
Leake, Walter, was born in Virginia about
1760; moved to Hinds County, Miss.; elected a
United States Senator from Mississippi, serving
from December 11, 1817, until his resignation in
1820; governor 1821-1825; died at Mount Salus,
Miss., November 17, 1825.
Learned, Amasa, was born at Killingly, Conn.,
November 15, 1750; graduated from Yale College
in 1772; studied theology and received a license to
preach; elected a Representative from Connecti-
cut to the Second and Third Congresses; delegate
to the constitutional convention of 1818, and a
State representative, serving several terms; died
at New London, Conn., May 4, 1825.
Leary, Cornelius L. L., was born at Balti-
more, Md., October 22, 1813; attended St. Mary's
College; moved to Louisville, Ky., returning to
Baltimore in 1837; studied law and admitted to
thebarinl847; State representative in 1847; Presi-
dential elector on the American ticket in 1856;
elected a Eepresentative from Maryland to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Unionist.
Leavenworth., Elias Warren, was born at
Canaan, N. Y., December 20, 1803; raised at Great
Barrington, Mass. ; attended the Hudson Academy;
graduated from Yale CoUegein 1824; studied law;
admitted to the bar; moved to Syracuse, N. Y., in
1827; State assemblyman 1835, 1856-1853, and
1856-57; appointed brigadier-general of militia in
1836; president of Syracuse Village 1839-1841, and
1846-47, and mayor 1849-1859"' secretary of the
State of New York 1854-55; prominently con-
nected with local public corporations and several
State commissions; constitutional commissionerin
1872; elected a Eepresentative from New York to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Eepublican ; died at
Syracuse, N. Y., November 25, 1887.
Leavitt, Humphrey H., was born at Suffield,
Conn., June 18, 1796; moved to Ohio; received a
liberal education; studied law and admitted to
the bar; commenced practice at Steuben ville; State
representative 1825-26; State senator in 1827;
elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to the Twenty-
first (vice John M. Goodenow, resigned), Twenty-
second, and Twenty-third Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat, serving from December 6, 1830, imtil
his resignation in 1834 to accept the appointment
of United States district judge for Ohio; died at
Springfield, Ohio, in March, 1873. .
Le Blond, Francis C, was a native of Ohio;
received an academic education; studied law; ad-
mittea to the bar; commenced practice at Oelina,
Ohio; State representative 1851-1855; speaker of
the house 1854-55; elected a Eepresentative from
Ohio to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Lecompte, Joseph, was native of Woodford
County, Ky. ; located at Newcastle; elected a
Eepresentative from Kentucky to the Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-secondCon-
gresses as, a Jackson Democrat.
Lee, Arthur, was born at Stratford, Va., De-
cember 20, 1740; educated at Eton, in England;
studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,
graduating in 1765; after traveling in Eurojie, com-
menced practice at Williamsburg, Va. ; in 1766
went to London to study law; admitted to the bar
in 1770; Matesachusetts's agent in England and
France; appointed correspondent of Congress at
London in 1775; Commissioner to France 1776 and
to Spain 1777; returned to Virginia in 1780; State
representative in 1781 ; delegate to the Continental
Congress 1782-1785; member of the Treasury board
1785-1789; died on a farm near the Eappahannock
Eiver, Virginia, December 12, 1792.
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, was born at Stratford,
Va., October 14, 1734; pursued classical studies;
member of the house of burgesses 1765-1772; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress 1775-1779; State
senator; died at Eichmond, Va., April 3, 1797.
Lee, Gideon, was born at Amherst, Mass., April
27,1778; attended the common schools; learned the
trade of shoemaker; moved to New York City and
engaged in the leather business; State representa-
tive in 1822; alderman in 1828; mayor in 1833;'
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat; died at Geneva, N. Y., August 21, 1841.
Lee, Henry, was born in Westmoreland County,
Va., January 29, 1756; pursued classical studies,
graduating from Princeton College; served as cap-
tain of light horse in the Eevolutionary war 1776-
1781; Delegate from Virginia to the Continental
Congress 1786; advocated the adoption of the
Federal Constitution in the Virginia convention of
1788; governor 1792-1795; commanded the Vir-
ginia forces, in the whisky insurrection ; elected a
Eepresentative to the Sixth Congress as a Federal-
ist; died at Cumberland Island, Georgia, March 25,
1818.
Lee, Henry B., was a native of New York
City; elected a Eepresentative from New York to
the Fifteenth Congress; died February 18, 1817,
at New York City before the commencement of
the session.
Lee, John, of Petersville, Md., was electee^ a
Eepresentative from Maryland to the Eighteenth
Congress as a Federalist.
Lee, Joshua, was born at Penn Yan, N. Y.;
State representative in 1833; elected a Eepresenta-
tive to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Lee, M. Lindley, was born at Minisink, N. Y.,
May 29, 1805; with difficulty pursued classical
studies; graduated from Union College in 1827
and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Western New York in 1830; practiced medicine at
Fulton; postmaster 1840-1844; State representative
1846-47; elected State senator in 1865; elected a
Eepresentative from New Y'ork to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Eepublican.
Lee, Richard Bland, was a native of Virginia;
born ill 1762; elected a Eepresentative from Vir-
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ginia to the First, Second, and Third Congresses;
died March 12, 1827.
Lee, Ricliard Henry, was bom at Stratford,
Va., January 20, 1732; educated at Wakefield
Academy, England; returned in 1751; delegate to
the house of burgesses in 1757; Delegate from Vir-
finia to the Continental Congress 1774-1780, and
'resident of it in 1784; served in the State legisla-
ture and as colonel of militia; member of the Vir-
ginia convention of 1788; United States Senator
from Virginia 1789 to his resignation in 1792; died
at Chantilly, Va., June 19, 1794.
Lee, Silas, was a native of Massachusetts; re-
ceived a classical education; graduated from Har-
vard College in 1784; studied law; admitted to the
bar; State representative in 1793, 1797, and 1798;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Sixth and Seventh Congresses as a Federalist; re-
signed in 1802; probate judge in 1805-1814; chief
judge of the common pleas court; United States
district attorney; died in 1814.
Lee, Thomas, was a native of New Jersey;
resided at Port Elizabeth, N. J. ; elected a Repre-
sentative to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses as a Jackson Democrat.
Lee, Thomas Sim, was born in Frederick
County, Va., in 1744; received a good education;
moved to Maryland; held several local offices;
governor 1779-1783 and 1792-1794; Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1783-84; to the State conven-
tion for the ratification of the Federal Constitution ;
elected a United States Senator from Maryland in
1794, but declined; died at Need wood, Frederick
County, Va., November 9, 1819.
Lee, William. H. F. , was born at Arlington,
Va., May 31, 1837; in 1857, while completing his
education at Harvard College, appointed second
lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment U. S. Infantry;
accompanied his regiment m 1858 in the expedi-
tion to Utah against the Mormons; resigned in
1859; returned to Virginia and took charge of his
estates in the county of New Kent; in 1861 raised
a company of cavalry and joined the Army of
Northern Virginia; served successively from cap-
tain to major-general of cavalry; wounded at
Brandy Station in June, 1863; captured in Han-
over County and taken to Fortress Monroe; trans-
ferred to United States prison at Fort Lafayette in
1863, where he was confined till March, 1864, when
he was transferred to Fortress Monroe and ex-
changed; returned to his command and served
throughout the campaign of 1864, surrendering at
Appomattox; returned to his plantation; repre-
sented his senatorial district in the State senate for
one term; president of the State Agricultural
Society; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; died October 15, 1891.
Leedom, John P., of West Union, Ohio, was
bom in Adams County, Ohio, December 20, 1847;
received a common school education; graduated
from Smith's Mercantile College in 1868; taught
public school; farmer; elected clerk of the court
of common pleas of Adams County in 1874 and
reelected in 1877; member of the Democratic State
central committee in 1879; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; Sergeant-at-Arms
of the National House of Representatives 1884-
1886.
Leet, Isaac, was born at Washington, Pa., in
1802; pursued academic studies; State senator and
held' several county offices; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for the Twenty-
seventh Congress; died at Washington, Pa., June
11, 1844.
Lefever, Jacob, of New Paltz, N. Y. , was born
there April 20, 1830; educated at New Paltz Acad-
emy and Amenia Seminary; supervisor of the town
1861 and 1862; member of assembly of the State of
New York 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1867; frequently a
delegate to Republican State conventions and
delegate to the national Republican convention
of 1888; president of the Huguenot National Bank
of New Paltz and vice-president of the New Paltz
Savings Bank ; elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Lefever, Joseph, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twelfth Congress.
Le Fevre, Benjamin, of Sidney, Ohio, was bom
in Shelby County, Ohio, October 8, 1838; educated
at the Miami University; studied law at Sidney;
farmer; volunteered in the Union Army in 1861
and served antil the close of the war; elected to
the legislature in 1865; nominated in 1866 for sec-
retary of state by the Democrats of Ohio;
appointed United States consulat Nuremburg, Ger-
many, in 1867; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Lefferts, John, was a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y. ; attended the public schools; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirteenth
Congress as a Democrat; delegate to the constitu-
tional convention in 1821 ; State senator 1822-1 825;
died at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7, 1841.
Leffler, Isaac, was born in Washington County,
Pa., November, 1788; graduated from Jefferson
College; studied law and admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Wheeling, Va. ; State repre-
sentative 1817-1825; in 1832 elected a Represent-
ative from Virginia to the Twentieth Congress;
moved to Wisconsin in 1835; State representative
1837-38; moved to Iowa in 1839; State representa-
tive; marshal of Iowa in 1843; receiver of the
Stillwater land office 1852-1857.
Leffi.er, Shepherd, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; received an academic education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; moved to Burlington,
Iowa, becoming a farmer; elected a Representative
from Iowa to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Con-
gresses; defeated as a Democrat for governor in
1875.
Left'wich, Jabez, was a native of Bedford
County, Va.; attended the common schools; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Congresses; defeated for the Nine-
teenth Congress.
Leftwich, John W., was born in Bedford
County, Va., September 7, 1826; attended the pub-
lic schools; studied medicine, graduating in 1850
from the Philadelphia Medical College; moved to
Memphis, Tenn., engaging in mercantile pursuits;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Conservative; delegate
to the national Democratic convention of. 1868;
died at Lynchburg, Va., in June, 1870.
Legare, Hugh Swinton, was born at Charles-
ton, S. C, January 2, 1789; graduated from the
College of South Carolina in 1814; studied law;
visited Paris and Edinburgh; admitted to the bar
at Charleston, S. C, in 1822; State representative
1820-1822 and 1824-1830; attorney-general of
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOEY.
South Carolina 1830-1832; charge d'affaires to
Brussels 1832-1836; elected a Eepresentative from
South Carolina to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
"Union Democrat; defeated for the Twenty-sixth
Congress; Attorney-General of the United States
September 13, 1841, until his death, at Boston,
Mass., June 20, 1843.
Lehlbach, Herman, of Newark, N. J., was
born July 3, 1845, in Baden, Germany; surveyor
by profession; member of the house of assem-
bly of New Jersey in 1884; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses.
liehman, William E., was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., August 21, 1822; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1843; studied law and
admitted to the bar; visited Europe; appointed
post-office examiner for Pennsylvania and New
York by President Polk; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat; United States provost-marshal
1863-1865.
Leih, Micliael, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
in 1759; attended the common schools; studied
medicine, practicing at Philadelphia; State repre-
sentative; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Congresses as a Democrat, resigning in 1806; Presi-
dential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1808;
elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania
(vice Samuel Maclay, resigned), January 19, 1809,
until his resignation in 1814 to accept the post-
mastership of Philadelphia; died at Philadelphia,
Pa., December 22, 1822.
Leib, Owen D. , was a native of Schuylkill, Pa. ;
received a classical education; studied medicine,
commencing practice at Catawissa, Pa. ; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; died at Catawissa,
Pa., June 17, 1848.
Leidy, Paul, was born at Hemlock, Pa., No-
vember 21, 1813; attended the common schools;
tailor's apprentice; taught school; studied law and
admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Dan-
ville, Pa. ; district attorney for five years; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Iielgh, Benjamin Watkins, was born in Ches-
terfield County, Va. , June 18, 1781 ; graduated from
William and Mary College in 1802; studied law
and admitted to the bar; commenced practice
at Petersburg, moving in 1813 to Richmond, Va. ;
State representative; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention of 1830-31; official reporter to
the State court of appeals. 1829-1841; elected a
United States Senator from Virginia as a Whig in
1834, vice William C. Rives, Democrat, resigned;
reelected for six years, serving from March 5, 1834,
until his resignation in 1836; died at Richmond,
Va., February 2, 1849.
Leighty, Jacob D., of St. Joe, Ind., was born
in Westmoreland County, Pa., October 15, 1839;
moved with his parents in 1844 to Dekalb County,
Ind.; attended the common schools; student at
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; in July,
1861, enlisted in Company E, Eleventh Indiana
Volunteer Infantry; promoted to second lieuten-
ant and to first lieutenant; severely wounded at
Champion Hills, Miss., May 16, 1863; resigned in
1864; returning home, engaged in general mer-
chandising and in manufacturing enterprises;
elected to the Indiana house of representatives in
1886; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican ; United States pension agent at Indian-
apolis 1897-1901; resumed the practice of law.
Leiper, George G., was born in Delaware
County, Pa., February 8, 1786; attended the com-
mon schools; engaged in stone quarrying; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
first -Congress as a Jackson Democrat; died at Lei-
pidia. Pa., November 17, 1868.
lieis&nring, John, was born at Ashton (now
Lansford), Carbon County, Pa., June 3, 1853; edu-
cated at Schwartz's Academy, Bethlehem, Pa., and
at Merchantville and Princeton, N. J.; civil and
mining engineer; president and manager of numer-
ous coal and iron companies and director of several
national banks; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; died at Philadelphia, Pa.,
January 19, 1901.
Ijeiter, Benjamin P. , was bom at Leitersburg,
Md., October 13, 1813; received a limited educa-
tion; taught school 1830-1884; moved to Ohio;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1842;
commenced practice at Canton; State representa-
tive 1848 and speaker of the house 1849; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
lie Moyne, J. V. , was born in Washington
County, Pa., in 1828; graduated from Washington
College in 1847; studied law and admitted to
the bar at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1852, moving to Chi-
cago the same year; defeated as the Liberal candi-
date for the Forty-third Congress; elected a Rep-
resentative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for the Forty-fifth
Congress. .
Lent, James, was born at Newton, N. Y., in
1780; merchant of New York City; visited India
and China; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Con-
gresses as a Jackson Democrat, serving until his
death, February 22, 1833, at AVashington, D. C.
Iientz, John Jacob, of Columbus, Ohio, was
born near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio,
January 27, 1856; attended district school and the
St. Clairsville High School; taught school; gradu-
ated from the National Normal University, Leba-
non, Ohio, in 1877; attended University of Woos-
ter; graduated from University of Michigan with
degree of A. B. in 1882; took both law courses at
Columbia College, New York City, receiving the
degree of LL. B. in 1883; admitted' to the bar at
Columbus in October, 1883; member of the law
firm of Nash & Lentz; trustee of Ohio University;
national president of the American Insurance
Union; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; permanent chairman of the Democratic
State convention h^ld at Davton, August 23 and
24, 1898; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress,
but defeated for the Fifty-seventh.
Leonard, Fred C, of Coudersport, Pa., was
born at Elmer, Potter County, Pa., February 16,
1856; educated in the public schools, the State
Normal School at Mansfield, Pa., Williston Semi-
nary, Easthampton, Mass., and Yale College;
graduated in 1883; studied law at Wellsboro, Pa.,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1885; moved
to Elmira, N. Y., where he studied and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1887; came to Coudersport in
1887 and began the practice of law; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Leonard, George, was born at Norton, Mass.,
July 4, 1729; graduated from Harvard College in
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1748; appointed register of probate in 1748; studied
law; commenced practice; provincial representa-
tive and a provincial councilor; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the First and
Fourth Congresses; judge of the common pleas
court; State representative and State senator;
died at Baynham, Mass., July 26, 1819.
.Leonard, John Edwards, was bom in Chester
County, Pa., September 22, 1845; graduated from
Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard College in
1867; studied law in Germany; received an LL. D.
from the University at Heidelberg; commenced
practice in Louisiana; district attorney; judge of
the State supreme court; elected a Representative
from Louisiana to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican; died at Habana, Cuba, March 15,
1878.
Xieonard, Moses Gr. , was a native of Connec-
ticut; attended the public schools; moved to New
York City; elected a Representative from New
Yorkto theTwenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Twenty-ninth Congress; commis-
sioner of immigration at New York City.
lieonard, Stephen B., was a native of Nesr
York; -attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
Iiessler, Montague, of New York, was born at
New York City January 1, 1869; educated in
the public schools of New York City and then at
the College of the City of New York, graduating
with the class of 1889; later graduated from the
Columbia Law School; practiced law in New
York City; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress
as a Republican January 7, 1902, to flU a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Nicholas Muller,
Democrat, being the first Republican ever elected
from this district.
Lester, Posey Green, of Floyd Court-House,
Va., was born in Floyd County, "Va., March 12,
1850; lived on a farm; obtained a common school
education and engaged in teaching literary and
vocal school; ordained to the work of the gospel
ministry in the Primitive or Old School Baptist
Church" in 1876; engaged in traveling and preach-
ing in eighteen States; associate editor of Zion's
Landmark; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Democrat and reelected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress.
Lester, Bufus Ezekiel, of Savannah, Ga., was
born in Burke County, Ga., December 12, 1837;
graduated from Mercer University, Georgia, 1857;
admitted to the bar in Savannah and commenced
gractice in 1859; entered the military service of the
onfederate States in 1861 ; remained in the service
till the end of the war; resumed practice; State
senator 1870-1879; president of the senate during
the last three years of service; mayor of Savannah
from 1883 to 1889; elected to the Fifty-first; Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Letcher, John, was born at Lexington, Rock-
bridge County, Va., March 28, 1813; studied at
Washington College and at Randolph-Macon Col-
lege; studied law and commenced practice at
Lexington in 1839; Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1848; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1850; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Thirty-second,
Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; governor of Virginia 1860-
1864; turned over the entire forces of the State to
the Confederacy before its secession; died at
Lexington, Va., January 26, 1884.
Letcher, Robert P. , was a native of Gooch-
land County, Va. ; received an academic education;
studied law and commenced practice at Lancaster,
Ky. ; State representative for a number of years;
one year speaker of the house; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Congresses as a Clay Democrat;
elected to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, and Twenty-third Congresses as a Whig;
Presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1836;
governor of Kentucky 1840-1844; minister pleni-
potentiary to Mexico August 9, 1849, to August 3,
1852; died at Frankfort, Ky., January 24, 1861.
Lever, Asbury Francis, of Lexington, S. C,
was born January 5, 1875, near Springhill, Lex-
ington County, S. C. ; brought up on his father's
farm, attending the common schools; graduated
from Newberry College in 1895; taught school;
private secretary to Hon. J. William Stokes; grad-
uated in law at the Georgetown University in 1899,
and the same year admitted to practice in his State
by the supreme court; member of the State con-
ventions in 1896 and 1900; elected to the State
legislature in 1900; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat in place of Hon. J. Wil-
liam Stokes, deceased, and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Levin, Lewis C, was born at Charleston, S. C,
November 10, 1808; -graduated from Columbia
College, South Carolina; studied law and practiced
in several States until located in Philadelphia, Pa. ;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con-
gresses as a Native American.
Levy, David (afterwards David Levy Yulee),
was born at St. Thomas, West Indies, in 1811;
pursued classical studies and studied law in Vir-
ginia; moved to Florida in 1 824, becoming a plant-
er; elected a Delegate from Florida to the Twenty-
seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat; changed his name to David Levy Yu-
lee; delegate to the first State constitutional con-
vention; twice elected a United States Senator
from Florida as a Democrat, serving from Decem-
ber 1, 1845, to 1851, and from 1855 until his retire-
ment, January 21, 1861; president of tiie Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad; served in the Confederate Con-
gress; prisoner of state at Fort Pulaski in 1865;
died at New York City October 10, 1886.
Levy, Jefferson M. , of New York City, was
born in New York, son of Capt. Jonas P. Levy,
and a nephew of Commodore Uriah P. Levy; edu-
cated in the public schools and graduated from
the University of the City of New York; studied
law; admitted to the bar of the State of New York;
member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the
Board of Trade and Transportation, of the Real
Estate Exchange, and of numerous clubs and other
organizations; vice-president of the Democratic
Club; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Detuocrat.
Levy, ■William M. , was born in Isle of Wight
County, Va., October 30, 1827; received a college
education; studied and practiced law; served in the
Mexican war; moved to Louisiana in 1852; State
representative 1859-1861; J'residential elector on
the Democratic ticket in I860; served in the Con-
federate army; elected a Representative from Lou-
isiana to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Lewis, Abner, was a native of Panama, Chau-
tauqua County, N. y. ; attended the public schools;
State representative 1838-39; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty rninth Congress
as a Whig.
Iiewis, Barbour, was born at Alburg, Vt., in
1824; attended the common schools in various
States, graduating from Illinois College, Jackson-
ville, 111., in 1846; teacher at Mobile, Ala.; attended
law schools at Albany, N. Y., and Cambridge,
Mass.; served in the Union Army 1861-1864; ap-
pointed judge of Memphis, Tenn., 1863-64; ap-
pointed president of commissioners of Shelby
County, Tenn., 1867-1869; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Tennessee to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican.
Lewis, Burwell Boykin, was born at Mont-
gomery, Ala., July 7, 1838; graduated from the
University of Alabama in 1857; studied law, com-
mencing practice at Montevello in 1859; served in
the Cenfederate army; Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1868; State representative
1870-1872; moved to Tuscaloosa in 1872, engaging
in the iron business; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
Lewis, Charles S. , was a native of Clarksburg,
Va. ; well educated; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-third Congress (vice John
F. Snodgrass, deceased), as a Democrat, serving
from December 4, 1854, to March 3, 1855.
Lewis, Clarke, of Clifton ville, Miss., was born
in Madison County, Ala., November 8, 1840;
moved to Noxubee County, Miss.; worked on a
farm and attended the county school; entered
Somerville Institute, and took a partial course;
taught school; entered the Confederate army in
February, 1861, and served until the close of the
war; resumed teaching in May, 1865; clerked in a
store during 1866; engaged in merchandising and
farming; planter; elected to the State legislature
in 1877 ; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Dem-
ocrat and reelected to the Fifty-second Congress.
Lewis, Dixon Hall, was born in Hancock
County, Ga., August 10, 1802; graduated from
Mount Zion Academy and University of South
Carolina; moved to Autauga County, Ala., in 1822;
studied and practiced law; State representative
1825-1827; elected a Representative from Alabama
to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-
third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses as
a State Rights Democrat, serving until his appoint-
ment as United States Senator from Alabama ( vice
W. E. King, resigned, April 22, 1844), taking the
oath May 7, 1844; elected again in 1847, serving
until his death, at New York City, October 25,
1848.
Lewis, Edward Taylor, of Opelousas, La., was
born at Opelousas, parish of St. Landry, October
26, 1834; educated principally by a private tutor,
but partly at the Wesleyan University at Dela-
ware, Ohio; admitted to the bar of Louisiana aa
an attorney at law in 1859 and practiced; soldier
in the Confederate army during the whole war,
enterifig as a private in the infantry and ranking
as a captain of cavalry at its close; "elected to the
legislature of Louisiana in 1865; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat at the special
election held on the 15th of February, 1883, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Maj. Andrew
S. Herron; again elected to the State legislature.
Lewis, Elijah. Banks, of Montezuma, Ga., was
born in Dooly County, Ga., March 27, 1854; moved
to Montezuma; educated in the common schools
of Dooly and Macon counties; had a business
training; engaged in the banking and mercantile
business; elected to the State senate for the years
1894-95; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Lewis, Francis, was born at Llandaff, Wales,
in March, 1713; educated at Westminster school,
London; entered mercantile pursuits in New York
City in 1735; on the British expedition to Canada
in 1756; was taken prisoner and carried to France;
returned to New York, becoming active in Revo-
lutionary affairs; Delegate to the Continental Con-
gress 1776-1779; died at New York City December
30, 1803.
Lev7is, James Hamilton, of Seattle, Wash.,
was born at Danville, Va., May 18, 1863; moved
with his parents to Augusta, Ga., in 1866; edu-
cated at Houghton College and the University
of Virginia; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1882; located in Seattle, Wash., November, 1885;
elected to the Territorial senate as a Democrat;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
served in the Spanish war as colonel; moved to
Chicago, 111., and resumed the practice of law.
Lewis, John E. , was born near Port Republic,
Va., March 1, 1818; farmer; delegate to the State
secession convention of 1861, and refused to sign
the ordinance of secession; elected lieutenant-
governor on the True Republican ticket in 1869;
the same year elected United States Senator from
Virginia, serving from January 27, 1870, until
March 3, 1875; appointed United States marshal
for the southwestern district of Virginia in 1875;
again elected lieutenant-governor on the Read-
juster ticket in 1881; died at Lymood, Va., Sep-
tember 2, 1895.
Lewis, John H., of Knoxville, 111., was born
in Tompkins County, N. Y., July 21, 1830; emi-
grated to Illinois in 1836; received a common
school education; admitted to the bar in 1860;
elected clerk of the circuit court of Knox County
in 1860; elected a member of the house of repre-
sentatives of Illinois in 1874; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican.
Lewis, John 'William, of Springfield, Ky., was
born near Greensburg, Green County, Ky. ; edu-
cated at Centre College, Danville, Ky. ; admitted
to the bar and practiced at Greensburg, Ky. ;
moved to Springfield January 1, 1869; temporary
chairman of the Republican State convention
April 10, 1880; delegate to the Republican national
conventions in 1880, 1884, and 1888; elected dele-
gate to the constitutional convention of Kentucky
in 1890 and was unseated upon a contest; member
of the Republican State central committee of Ken-
tucky from 1878 to 1891, and chairman in the
State campaign of 1887; served as special judge in
circuit courts of Marion, Taylor, and other coun-
ties; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican; resumed the practice of law.
Lewis, Joseph, jr., was born in Virginia in
1772; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist; died at Clifton, Va. , iSIarch 30, 1834.
Lewis, Joseph H., was born in Barren County,
Ky., October 29, 1824; graduated from Centre
College, Danville, Ky.; studied law; State repre-
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sentative 1850-1853 and 1869-70; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Forty-first
Congress as a Democrat, vice J. S. Golladay, re-
signed; reelected to the Forty-second Congress,
serving from May 10, 1870, to 1873.
Iiewis, Robert Jacob, of York, Pa., was born
at the village of Dover, Dover Township, York
County, Pa., December 30, 1864; attended the
public schools of York, and graduated from the
high school in 1883; taught in the public schools
until September, 1889, when he entered the law
department of Yale University ; graduated in 1891 ;
admitted to the New Haven, Conn., bar June,
1891, and August 3 of the same year to the bar of
York County, Pa.; elected school controller in
1893 and reelected in 1897 and 1903; elected city
solicitor in 1895; elected a Representative to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican; declined
a renomination.
Levris, Thom.as, was a native of Virginia; at-
tended the common schools; claimed to have been
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving from Octo-
ber 17, 1803, to March 5, 1804, when the seat was
given to Andrew Moore on contest.
Lewis, "William J. , was born near Lynchburg,
Va. ; attended the common schools; was a State
representative; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; died
near Lynchburg, Va., November 1, 1828.
L'Hommedieu, Ezra, was born at Southhold,
N. Y., August 30, 1724; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1774; studied law, practicing at New York
City; delegate to the provincial congress 1775-
1778; State representative 1777-1783; Delegate
from New York to the Continental Congress 1779-
1783 and, 1787-88; State senator 1784-1792 and
1794-1809; regent of the University of the State of
New York 1787-1811; died at Southhold, N. Y.,
September 28, 1811.
Libbey, Harry, of Old Point Comfort, Va.,
was born at Wakefield, N. H., Novernber 22,
1843; received a common school education; en-
gaged in mercantile ^pursuits; appointed one of
the presiding justices of Elizabeth City County,
Va., in 1869; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Coalition Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth Congress; engaged in the oyster industry.
liigon, Robert F., was a native of Clarke
County, Ga.; received an academic education;
moved to Atlanta; studied and practiced law;
served in the Mexican war; State representative
1849-50, and State senator 1860-1863; served in
the Confederate army; lieutenant-governor in
1874; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Xiig'ou, Thomas Watkins, was born in Prince
Edward County, Va. ; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Virginia; studied law at Yale College,
practicing in Baltimore and other places in Mary-
land; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth' Congresses as a
Democrat; governor of Maryland 1854^1858.
Lilly, Samuel, was born at Geneva, N. Y.,
October 28, 1815; studied medicine; commenced
practice at Lambertville, N. J. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Democrat; died at Lambertville,
N. J., April 3, 1880.
Lilly, William, was born at Penn Yan, Yateq
County, N. Y., June 3, 1821; moved to Carbon
County, Pa., in 1838; employed with the Beaver
Meadow Railroad Company; became a conductor,
and shortly was advanced to a position of trust in
the administrative department of the road; i elected
colonel of one of the militia regiments of the
Lehigh Valley, and subsequently brigadier-general;
elected a member of the Pennsylvania house of
representatives in 1850-51; Democrat in politics
until 1862, when he became a Republican; at-
tended six national Republican conventions, either
as delegate or alternate; member of every import-
ant Republican State convention; delegate at large
to the convention to revise the constitution of
Pennsylvania 1872-73; engaged in the mining of
anthracite coal; life member of the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; member of the
Society of American Mining Engineers; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Republican; died December 1,
1893.
Lincoln, Abraham, was born in Hardin County,
Ky., February 12, 1809; his parents moved in 1816
to Pigeon Creek, Ind. ; worked on his father's farm,
receiving some education at the village school;
when 19 years of age made a trip to New Orleans
as a boatman; moved to Macon County, 111., in
1830; private in the thirty days' service in the
Black Hawk war, and elected captain when the
call for sixty days' service was made; appointed
postmaster at New Salem in 1832; land surveyor,
and began to study law; member of the State leg-
islature 1834-1841; admitted to the bar in 1836,
and commenced practice at Springfield in 1837;
canvassed the State of Illinois for Henry, Clay in
1844;' elected a Representative from Illinois to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig, and served
from December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1849; applied
for appointment aa Commissioner of the General
Land Ofiice; canvassed Illinois in 1858 as candi-
date for United States Senator in opposition to
Stephen A. Douglas, who was elected by the leg-
islature, although the popular vote gave Lincoln a
majority of over 4,000; elected President of the
United States in 1860 as a Republican, receiving
180 electoral votes against 72 electoral votes for
John C. Breckinridge, 39 electoral votes for John
Bell, and 12 electoral votes for S. A. Douglas;
inaugurated March 4, 1861; issued the first call
for troops April 15, 1861, and the proclamation of
emancipation January 1, 1863; reelected Presi-
dent in 1864, receiving 212 electoral votes against
21 electoral votes for George B. McClellan; assas-
sinated by J. Wilkes Booth April 14; died April
15, 1865.
Lincoln, Enoch, was born at Worcester, Mass.,
December 28, 1788; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1807; studied law and commenced practice
at Salem, moving thence to various places, finally
locating at Paris, Me.; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts (vice Albion K. Parris, re-
signed) to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses;
upon Maine becoming a State, elected to the Sev-
enteenth, Eighteenth," and Nineteenth Congresses,
serving from November 16, 1818, to his resigna-
tion, in 1826, to accept the governorship of Maine;
served as governor until his death, at Augusta, Me.,
October 8, 1829.
Lincoln, Levi, was born at Hingham, Mass.,
May 15, 1749; graduated from Harvard College in
1772; studied law, commencing practice at Worces-
ter in 1774; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Sixth Congress (vice Dwight Foster,
resigned), serving from February 6 to March 3,
1801; died at Worcester, Mass., April 14, 1820.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Lincoln, Levi, was born at AVorcester, Mass. ,
October 25, 1782; graduated from Harvard College
in 1802; studied law, commencing practice in 1805;
Democratic State senator in 1812 and State repre-
sentative 1814^1822; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention in 1820; elected lieutenant-
governor in 1823; appointed associate justice of the
supreme court in 1824; governor 1825-1834; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to theTwenty-
third Congress as a Whig, vice John Davis, resigned ;
elected to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and
Twenty-sixth Congresses, serving from March 5,
1834, to 1841; collector of Boston in 1841; president
of the State senate; Presidential elector on the
Whig ticket in 1848; first mayor of Worcester in
1848; member of numerous historical and agricul-
tural societies; died at Worcester, Mass., May 29,
1868.
Lincoln, William S. , was born at Newark
Valley, N. Y., August 13, 1813; attended the com-
mon schools; engaged in the leather business;
postmaster of Newark Valley 1838-1866; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican.
Lind, Joh.n, of Minneapolis, Minn. , was born in
Sweden March 25, 1854; received a public school
education; attended the State University at Min-
neapolis; taught school; read law, and admitted to
the bar in 1877; appointed receiver of the Tracy
land office in 1881; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican;
served in the Spanish war as quartermaster of the
Twelfth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteers ; el ected
governor of Minnesota in 1898 as a Democrat;
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Lindley, James J., was bom at Mansfield,
Ohio, January 1, 1822; moved to Cynthia, Ky. ;
attended Woodville College, Ohio; studied law,
commencing practice at Monticello, Mo.; elected
circuit attorney in 1848 and 1852; elected a Repre-
sentative from Missouri to the Thirty-third and
Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig; moved to
Davenport, Iowa.
Lindsay, George Henry, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was born at New York City, and moved to Brooklyn
in 1843; educated in the public schools and engaged
in the hotel business; elected to the State assembly
1882-1886; coroner; appointed assistant tax com-
missioner in 1898; elected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Lindsay, William, of Frankfort, Ky., was born
in Rockbridge County, Va., September 4, 1835;
settled in Clinton, Hickman County, Ky., in No-
vember, 1854_; commenced the practice of law in
1858; served in the Confederate army from July,
1861, till May, 1865; paroled as prisoner of war at
Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865; resumed practice;
elected State senator in August, 1867; elected judge
of the Kentucky court of appeals in August, 1870;
served till September, 1878; from September, 1876,
until September, 1878, chief justice of the court;
practiced law in Frankfort, Ky.; elected State
senator in August, 1889; served as a member of
the World's Columbian Commission for the coun-
try at large from the organization of the Commis-
sion until February 20, 1893; appointed as mem-
ber of the Interstate Commerce Commission in
January, 1892, but declined; elected a United States
Senator as a Democrat on February 14, 1893, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
G. Carlisle; reelected in January, 1894, and served
until March 3, 1901; moved to New York City
and resumed the practice of law; in March, 1901,
appointed United States commissioner to the St.
Louis Exposition.
Lindsey, Stephen D. , was born at Norridge-
wock. Me., March 3, 1828; received an academic
education; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice in 1853; clerk of the judicial
courts in Somerset County 1857-1860; member of
the State house of representatives in 1856 and of the
senate in 1868-1870, and president of the senate in
1869; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tions of 1860 and 1868; member of the executive
council of Maine in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as a
Republican; died at Norridgewock, Me., April 28,
1884.
Lindsley, James Girard, of Rondout, N. Y.,
was born at Orange, N. J., March 19, 1819; edu-
cated at district schools. Ransom's Military Acad-
emy, and Pierson's Orange Classical School; resi-
dent agent and manager of the Newark Lime and
Cement Manufacturing Company at Rondout;
elected trustee of the village of Rondout 1859-
1864; elected president of the village of Rondout
in 1852, 1867, 1868, and 1869; elected supervisor
of Kingston in March, 1872, and in April elected
the first mayor of Kingston, to which office he
was reelected for six consecutive years; elected to
the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
Lindsley, William D., was a native of Con-
necticut; attended the common schools; moved to
Sandusky, Ohio; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Linn, Archibald L. , was born in New York
City October 15, 1802; graduated from Union Col-
lege; studied law, and commenced practice at Sche-
nectady; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; State
representative in 1844; died at Schenectady, N. Y.,
October 10, 1857.
Linn, John, was born in New Jersey in 1764;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving until
his death, January 5, 1821.
Linn, Lewis Fields, was born near Louisville,
Ky., November 5, 1796; received an academic
education; studied medicine; served in the war of
1812; commenced practice at St. Genevieve, Mo.;
State representative in 1827; appointed in 1832 on
the French land-claims commission in Missouri;
appointed a United States Senator from Missouri
as a Democrat ( vice Alexander Buckner, deceased) ,
and three times efected, serving from December
16, 1833, until his death, at St. Genevieve, Mo.,
October 3, 1843.
Linney, Bomulus Z., of Taylorsville, Alex-
ander County, N. C, was born in Rutherford
County, N. C, December 26, 1841; educated in
the common schools, at York's Collegiate Institute,
and at Dr. Millen's school at Taylorsville; served
in the Confederate army until the battle of Chan-
cellorsville, where he was severely wounded;
returned to Taylorsville and joined a class in Dr.
Millen's school; studied law; admitted to the bar
by the supreme court in 1868; elected to the State
senate in 1870, 1873, and again in 1882; by profes-
sion a lawyer; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress
as a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth
and Fifty-sixth Congresses.
Linton, "William Seelye, of Saginaw, Mich.,
was born at St. Clair, Mich., February 4, 1856:
moved with his parents to Saginaw, Mich.; edu-
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cated in the public schools; commenced clerking
at Farwell, Mich. ; member of Bay County board
of supervisors; again moved to Saginaw in 1879;
engaged in the lumber and salt business; elected a
member of the East Saginaw comnion council in
1883, serving two terms; elected representative to
the Michigan legislature of 1887-88; j)resident
of the People's Building and Loan Association of
Saginaw County; president of the Michigan State
League of Building and Loan Associations during
1891; candidate for lieutenant-governor on the
Eejjublican State ticket in 1890; president of the
Saginaw water board ; mayor of Saginaw 1892-1894;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican,
and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; ap-
pointed postmaster at Saginaw, Mich. , by President
McKinley.
Xiisle, Marcus Claiborixe, was born September
23, 1862, in Clark County, Ky.; educated in the
common schools and at Kentucky University ; took
a course in law at Columbia College Law School,
New York; began the practice of law at Winches-
ter, Ky., in 1887; elected county judge of Clark
County, Ky., in 1890; elected as a" Democrat to the
Fifty-third Congress; died July 7, 1894.
Iiitclifield, Elisha, was born at Canterbury,
Conn., in 1795; attended the common schools;
learned, the carpenter's trade; moved to Pompey
(now Delhi), N. Y.; postmaster; became a mer-
chant; State representative in 1819 and again
elected in 1832-1834 and 1844; speaker of the
house in 1844; elected a Representative from New
York to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Cazenovia, N. Y.,
August 4, 1859.
Littauer, Iiy.cius Nathan, of Gloversville,
N. Y., was born there January 20, 1859; moved to
New York City in 1865; educated there at Charlier
Institute; entered Harvard University, and gradu-
ated in 1878; member of Harvard University crew
and University football team ; engaged in the glo ve-
manufacturing businessof his fatheratGloversville,
to which he succeeded in 1882; officer and director
of many commercial and financial institutions;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
liittle, Edward P., was born in Massachusetts
in 1788; attended the public schools; served in the
war of 1812; State representative from Marshfield
1829-1834 and 1835-1838; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Thirty-second Congress
as a Democrat (vice Grin Fowler, deceased), serv-
ing from December 30, 1852, to 1853; appointed
customs collector at Plymouth, Mass., 1853-1857.
Little, John, of Xenia, Ohio, was born in
Greene County, Ohio, in 1837; attended common
school and Antioch College, graduating m 1862;
admitted to the bar iil 1865; twice elected prose-
cuting attorney of Greene County, 1866 and 1868;
twice to the house of representatives of Ohio, 1869
and 1871; twice attorney-general of Ohio; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
appointed a member of the United States and
Venezuela Claims Commission in 1889 by Presi-
dent Harrison, and was its chairman.
Little, John Sebastian, of Greenwood, Ark.,
"was bor-n at Jenny Lind, Sebastian County, Ark
March 15, 1853; educated in the common schools
and at Cane Hill College, Arkansas; admitted to
the bar in 1874; elected district attorney in 1877,
and reelected for four successive terms; elected a
representative to the legislature in 1884; elected
circuit judge for a term of four years in l»8b;
chosen chairman of the State judicial convention
in 1893; in September, 1894, elected to fill the un-
expired term of C. R. Breckinridge in the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Little, Joseph J., of New York, N. Y., was
born at Bristol, England, June 5, 1841; emigrated
with his parents to the United States in 1846, and
settled at Morris, Otsego County, N. Y. ; educated
in the village district school ; apprenticed to the local
printer, and entered a New York book-printing
office to complete his trade; served in the Union
Army, 1862-1864, as corporal, first sergeant, and
first lieutenant; established a printing business in
1867; member of the board of education and chair-
man of committee on buildings; member of the
New York World's Fair committee; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat to fill the un-
expired term of Roswell P. Flower.
Little, Peter, was born in Petersburg, Pa.,
about 1775; attended the common schools; me-
chanic; moved to Maryland; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Twelfth Congress as a
Democrat, and to the Fourteenth (vice William
Pinkney, resigned). Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses; died in Baltimore County, Md., Feb-
ruary 5, 1830. ,
Littlefield, Charles Edgar, of Rockland, Me.,
was born June 21, 1851, at Lebanon, York County,
Me. ; received a common school education and
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1876; member
of the Maine legislature in 1885, and speaker of the
house in 1887; attorney-general of the State from
1889 to 1893; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress
June 19, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the
deatlji of Nelson Dingley , and reelected to the. Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Littlefield, Nathaniel S. , was born at Wells,
Me., September 20, 1804; attended the common
schools and studied law, commencing practice at
Bridgeton; State senator 1837-1839; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maine to the 'Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, to the Thirty-first as a
Cass Democrat; State representative in 1854.
Littlejohn, De Witt C. , was born at Bridge-
water, N. J., February 7, 1818; received an aca-
demiceducation; merchant; held several important
local offices; State representative 1853-1857, five
years as speaker of the house, 1859-1861, 1866-67,
and 1870-71; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Livermore, Arthur, was born at Londonderry,
N. H:, July 26, 1776; studied law, and commenced
practice at Concord and Chester; State representa-
tive and State senator; superior court justice
1799-1816; Presidential elector on the Federalist
ticket in 1800; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Eight-
eenth Congresses as a Democrat; chief justice of
the common pleas court 1825-1833; died at Camp-
ton, N. H., July 1, 1853.
Livermore, Edward St. Loe, was born at
Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762; pursued classical
and legal studies, commencing the practice of law
at Concord; State solicitor for Rockingham County
1791-1793; supreme court justice 1797-1799;
moved to Boston, Mass.; elected a Representative
from Massachhsetts to the Tenth and Eleventh
Congresses; died at Lowell, Mass., September 15,
1832.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Livermore, Samuel, was born at Waltham,
Mass., May 14, 1732 (old style); graduated from
Nassau Hall, Princeton, N. J., in 1752; studied law,
and commenced practice in 1758 at Portsmouth,
N. H.; member of the general court 1768-1770;
moved to Holderness in 1775; State attorney for
three years; Delegate to the Continental Congress
1780 to his resignation, June 21, 1782, and agam in
1785; chief justice of the" State supreme court
1782-1789; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the First and Second Congresses;
twice elected a United States Senator, serving from
1793 to his resignation in 1801 ; died at Holderness,
N. H., May 18, 1803.
liivingston, Edward, was born at Clermont,
Livingston Manor, N. Y., May 26, 1764; graduated
from Princeton College in 1781 ; studied law, and
commenced practice at New York City in 1785;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses as a Democrat;
United States district attorney March 27, 1801, to
July 25, 1803; mayor of New York City 1801-1803;
moved to New Orleans in 1804; aiithor of a legal
code for Louisiana; served at the battle of New Or-
leans in 1815; elected a Representative from Louisi-
ana to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses as a Jackson Democrat ; elected aUnited
States Senatorfrom Louisiana, serving from Decem-
ber 7, 1829, until his resignation. May 24, 1831;
Secretary of State, May 24, 1831, to May 29, 1833;
minister plenipotentiary to France May 29, 1833,
to April 28, 1835; died at Rhinebeck, N. Y., May
23, 1836.
Iiivingston, Henry Walter, was born at Lin-
lithgo, N. Y., in 1768; graduated from Yale Col-
lege iu 1786; studied law and commenced practice
in New York City; secretary to the minister pleni-
potentiary to Paris, France, 1792-1794; common
pleas judge of Columbia County; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Eighth and Ninth
Congresses; died at Linlithgo, N. Y., December 22,
1810.
Iiivingston, Leonidas Felix, of Covington,
Ga. , was born in Newton County, Ga. , April 3, 1832 ;
of Scotch-Irish descent; his grandfather emigrated
to this country from north Ireland, and served
under General Washington during the Revolution-
ary war; educated in the common schools; farmer
by occupation; private soldier In the Confederate
Army from August, 1861, to May, 1865; for two
terms a member of the house of representatives
and one term a member of the State senate; vice-
president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society
for eleven ^ears and president or the same for four
years; president of the Georgia State Alliance for
three years; elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Livingston, Philip, was born at Albany ,'N.'Y.,
January 15, 1716; graduated from Yale College in
1737; merchant in New York City; alderman
1754-1758; member of the provincial house of
representatives 1759-1769; active in pre-Revolu-
tionary movements; Delegate from New York to
the Continental Congress 1774-1778; president of
the New York provincial congress 1775; State rep-
resentative in 1776, and State senator; prominent
in commercial and educational societies; died at
York, Pa., June 12, 1778.
Livingston, Robert Le Roy, was a native of
New York; graduated from Princeton College in
1784; elected a Representative from New York to
the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses as a Feder-
alist, serving until his resignation. May 6, 1812, to
become a lieutenant-colonel in the war of 1812.
Livingston, Robert R., was born at New
York City, November 27, 1746; graduated from
King's College in 1765; studied law, and com-
menced practice in New York; city recorder 1773-
1775; member of the colonial assembly 1775; Del-
egate from New York to the Continental Congress
1775-1777 and 1779-1781; secretary of foreign
affairs August, 1781, to August, 1783; delegate to
the State constitutional convention in April, 1777;
chancellor of New York State 1777-1801; minister
plenipotentiary to France 1801-1804; prominent
m local affairs; died at Clermont, N. Y., February
26, 1813.
Livingston, Walter, 'was born in 1740; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress from New York
1784-85; died at New York City May 14, 1797.
Livingston, William, was born at Albany,
N. Y., November 30, 1723; graduated from Yale
College in 1741; studied law and began practice in
New York; edited the Independent Reflector in
1752; moved to Elizabeth, N. J., in 1773; Delegate
from New Jersey to the Continental Congress
1774-1776; brigadier-general of militia in 1775;
governor of New Jersey 1776-1790; delegate to the
Federal constitutional convention in 1787; pub-
lished several poems and political pamphlets; died
at Elizabeth, N. J., July 25, 1790.
Lloyd, Ed-ward, was a Delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1783-84.
Lloyd, Edward, was born in Maryland in 1779;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Ninth Congress (vice Joseph H. Nicholson, re-
signed), and also the Tenth Congress, serving
from December 3, 1806, to 1809; governor 1809-
1811; elected a United States Senator from Mary-
land, serving from December 27, 1819, until his
resignation, January, 1826; president of the State
senate 1826-1831; died at Annapolis, Md., June 2,
1834.
Lloyd, James, was a native of Maryland; pur-
sued classical studies; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Maryland (vice John Henry, resigned),
serving from January 11, 1798, until his resigna-
tion, December 1, 1800.
Lloyd, James, was born at Boston, Mass., in
1769; graduated from Harvard College in 1787;
merchant; visited St. Petersburg; returning to-.
Boston, was a State senator and representative;
elected a United States Senator from Massachu-
setts as a Federalist (vice John Qnincy Adams,
resigned) and reelected, serving from November
7, 1808, until his resignation in 1813; again elected
a United States Senator from Massachusetts (vice
Harrison Gray Otis, resigned) and reelected, serv-
ing from December 2, 1822, until his resignation.
May 23, 1826; moved to Philadelphia, Pa.; died
at New York City, April 5, 1831.
Lloyd, James T., of Shelby ville. Mo., was born
at Canton, in Lewis County, Mo., August 27, 1857;
graduated from Christian University at Canton,
Mo., in 1878; taught school; admitted to the bar,
and practiced; prosecuting attorney of his county
from 1889 to 1893; elected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat at a special election hel'd June
1, 1897, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of R. P. Giles, Democrat, and reelected to
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth ,
Congresses.
BIOGRAPHIES.
657
Loan, Benjamin F. , was born at Hardinsbury,
Ky., October 4, 1819; pursued academic studiea,
and studied law; moved to Missouri in 1838; brig-
adier-general in the Union Army; elected a Rep-
resentative from Misspuri to the Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congresses as an Emancipationist
and to the Fortieth Congress as a Radical.
liOcke, Francis, was born in Rowan County,
JSr. C, October 31, 1766; studied and practiced law;
superior court judge 1803-1814, resigning; Presi-
dential elector 1809; elected a United States Sena-
tor from North Carolina in 1814, resigning in 1815
without taking the seat; died January 8, 1823.
liocke, Joh.n, was born at Hopkinton, Mass.,
in 1764; graduated from Harvard College in 1792;
studied law, commencing practice at Ashby in
1796; State representative 1804-5, 1813, and 1823;
delegate to the State constitutional convention of
1820; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses; State senator 1830, and executive
councilor in 1831; moved to Lowell in 1837, thence
to Boston in 1849; died at Boston, Mass., March
29, 1855.
Locke, Mattliew, was born in Rowan County,
N. C, in 1730; a strong patriot during the Revo-
lution; member of the house of commons of North
Carolina in 1775, and of the State constitutional
convention in 1776; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth
Congresses, being defeated for the Sixth Congress;
died at Salisbury, N. C, September 7, 1801.
Iiockliart, James, was born at Auburn, N. Y.,
February 13, 1806; moved to Indiana in 1832;
studied law and commenced practice at Evansville,
Ind., in 1834; prosecuting attorney 1841-42; judge
of the fourth judicial district 1845-1851; delegate
to the State constitutional convention of 1850;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; elected to
Thirty-fifth Congress; died at Evansville, Ind.,
September 7, 1857, before taking his seat.
liockhart, James Alexander, of Wadesboro,
N. C, was born in Anson County, N. C, June 2,
1850; attended the country schools and worked on
his father's farm; graduated from Trinity College,
North Carolina, June, 1873; read law in Charlotte
and licensed to practice in 1874; settled at Wades-
boro, where he practiced his profession; mayor in
1875; elected to the house of representatives of the
general assembly in 1878 and to the State senate in
' 1880; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; his seat was successfully contested by C. H.
Martin, who took the seat June 5, 1896; resumed
the practice of law.
liOckwood, Daniel N., of Buffalo, N. Y., was
born at Hamburg, Erie County, N. Y., June 1,
1844; graduated from Union College, Schenectady,
N. Y., in 1865; studied law; admitted to the bar
oi the supreme court in May, 1866, and practiced
at Buffalo ; elected district attorney for Erie Couiity
in 1874 for three years; a Representative from New
York to the Forty-fifth Congress; delegate to the
Democratic national conventions in 1880 and in
1884; United States attorney for the northern dis-
tric' ot New York from October, 1886, to June,
1889, when he resigned; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law
at Buffalo, N. Y.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, of Nahant, Mass., was
born at Boston, Mass., May 12, 1850; received a
H. Ddc. 468 4:2
private school and collegiate eaucation; graduated
from Harvard College in 1871 ; studied law at Har-
vard Law School and graduated in 1875, receiving
the degree of LL. B. ; admitted to the Suffolk bar
in 1876; in the same year received the degree of
Ph. D. from Harvard University for his thesis on
"The Land La w of the Anglo-Saxons ; ' ' profession,
that of literature; published, 1877, Life and Letters
of George Cabot; 1881, Short History of the Eng-
lish Colonies in America; 1882, Life of Alexander
Hamilton; 1883, Life of Daniel Webster; 1885,
edited the works of Alexander Hamilton in nine
volumes; published, in 1886, Studies in History;
1889, Life of Washington, two volumes; 1891, His-
tory of Boston (in the Historic Towns Series, pub-
lished by the Longmans); 1892, Historical and
Political Essays, and a volume of selections from
speeches; 1895, in conjunction with Theodore
Roosevelt, Hero Tales from American History;
1897, Certain Accepted Heroes, and other essays;
1898, Story of the Revolution, two volumes; 1899,
Story of the Spanish War; 1902, A Fighting Frigate,
and other essays; member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, of the Virginia Historical Soci-
ety, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
of the New England Historic and Genealogical
Society, and of the American Antiquarian Society;
received the degree of doctor of laws from Williams
College; permanent chairman of the Republican
national convention which met at Philadelphia
June 19, 1900; served two terms as member of the
house of representatives of the Massachusetts leg-
islature; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-flrst, Fifty-
second, and Fifty -third Congresses as a Republican;
elected to the Senate January 17, 1893, to succeed
Henry L. Dawes; resigned his seat in the House
and took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1893;
and reelected in 1899.
Lofland, James K. , was born at Milford, Del.,
November 2, 1823; graduated from Delaware Col-
lege in 1845; studiea law and commenced practice
at Milford; secretary of the State senate in 1849;
member of the State constitutional convention in
1853; secretary of the State of Delaware 1855-1859;
paymaster in the U. S. Army 1863-1867; elected
a Representative from Delaware to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; died February 10, 1894.
Logan, Georg'e, was born at Stenton, Pa., Sep-
tember 9, 1753; pursued classical studies; gradu-
ated from the Edinburg Medical School; after
extensive traveling returned in 1779; scientific
farmer; State representative; elected a United
States Senator from Pennsylvania as a Democrat
(vice Peter Muhlenburg, resigned), serving from
December 7, 1801 to 1807; went to England in
1810; published several agricultural pamphlets;
died at Stenton, Pa., April 9, 1821.
Logan, Henry, was a native of Pennsylvania;
lived at Dillsburg; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-
fifth Congresses as a Jackson Democrat.
Logan, John A. , was born in Jackson County,
111., where he received a common school educa-
tion, and subsequently graduated fromthe Louis-
ville University; enlisted as a private in the Illi-
nois Volunteers and became quartermaster in the
war with Mexico; elected clerk of the Jackson
County court in 1849; studied and practiced law;
elected to the legislature of Illinois in 1852, 1853,
1856, and 1857; prosecuting attorney from 1853 to
1857; Presidential elector in 1856; elected to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses; re-
signed and entered the Union Army as colonel,
and reached the rank of major-general in the war
658
CONGRESSIONAL DIKEOTOEY.
for the suppression of the rebellion; appointed
minister to Mexico in 1865, but declined; elected
to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses; elected
to the United States Senate as a Eepubhcan, serv-
ing from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; resumed
the practice of law at Chicago; again elected to
the United States Senate and took his seat March
18, 1879; reelected in 1885; died at Washington,
D. C, December 26, 1886.
Log'an, William, was born at Harrodsburg,
Ky., December 8, 1776; pursued classical studies;
studied law ; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1799; twice speaker of the State house
of representatives; twice chosen judge of the court
of appeals; elected a United States Senator from
Kentucky, serving from December 6, 1819, until
his resignation in 1820; died at Harrodsburg, Ky. ,
August 8, 1822.
XiOu^, Alexander, was born at Greenville, Pa.,
December 24, 1816; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law and commenced practice at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; State representative 1848-49; elected
a Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; delegate to the Demo-
cratic convention at Chicago in 1864.
Xjoug', Cliester, I., of Medicine Lodge, Kans.,
was born in Perry County, Pa., October 12, 1860;
moved with his parents to Daviess County, Mo. ,
in 1865, where he resided until 1879, when he
moved to Paola, Kans. ; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar March
4, 1885, and located at Medicine Lodge; engaged
in the practice of his profession; elected to the
State senate in 1889; elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Kansas to succeed William A. Harris,
January 27, 1903, for the term ending March 3,
1909.
Long', Edward H., was born in Maryland in
1808; graduated from Yale College;, studied law
and commenced practice in Princess Anne County;
State representative; elected a Eepresentative from
Maryland to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig; died in Somerset County, Md., October 12,
1865.
Long, Jolin, was a native of Loudoun County,
Va. ; became a farmer in Randolph County, N. C. ;
State senator in 1811; elected a Eepresentative
from North Carolina to the Seventeenth, Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses.
Long, John Benjamin, of Busk, Tex., was
born in the county of Nacogdoches September 8,
1843; moved with his parents to Eusk, Tex., in
1846; limited education; became a member of the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry in 1874; overseer
of the Texas State Grange and president of the
Texas Farmer Cooperative Publishing Association;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; editor of the Industrial Press.
Long, John D., of Hingham, Mass., was born
at Buckfield, Oxford County, Me., October 27,
1838; educated in the common school at Buckfield,
and at Hebron Academy, Maine; graduated from
Harvard College in 1857; taught school two years
in Westford Academy, Massachusetts; studied law
at the Harvard Law School and in private offices;
admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the
Massachusetts house of representatives 1875-1878,
serving the last three years as speaker of the
house; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in
1879; elected governor of Massachusetts in 1880,
1881, and 1882; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican and reelected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; Secretary of the
Navy from March 5, 1897, until his resignation.
May 1, 1902.
Long, Pierce, was born at Portsmouth, N. H.,
in 1739; receiving a good education, engaged in
the shipping business; delegate to the provincial
congress of New Hampshire in 1775; served in the
Revolutionary war; Delegate from New Hampshire
to the Continental Congress 1784-1786; State coun-
cilor 1786-1789; delegate to the constitutional
convention 1788; customs collector at Portsmouth,
N. H., from January, 1789, until his death, April
3, 1789.
Longfello'w, Steplien, was born at Gorham,
Mass. (now Maine), June 23, 1775; graduated
from Harvard College in 1798; studied law, and
commenced practice at Portland, Me., in 1801;
delegate to the Hartford convention in 1814;
elected a Eepresentative from Maine to the Eight-
eenth Congress as a Federalist; president of the
Maine Historical Society in 1834; died at Port-
land, Me., August 2, 1849.
Longnecker, Henry C, was born in Allen
Township, Cumberland County, Pa., April 17,
1820; graduated from the Norwich Military Acad-
emy of Vermont and Lafayette College, Pennsyl-
vania; studied law; wounded in the Mexican war;
elected district attorney of Lehigh County, Pa.,
in 1848; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; colonel of volunteers in the civil war;
appointed an associate judge of Lehigh County in
1867; died at Lehigh, Pa., September 16, 1871.
Longyear, John W. , was born at Shandaken, /J.
_ '. Y., October 22, 1820; pursued classical studies; \C
studied and commenced practicing law in Lan- ,
sing, Mich., in 1846; elected a Representative . */)
from Michigan to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty- ' '
ninth Congresses as a Republican; district court
judge of Michigan in 1870; died at Detroit, Mich.,
March 10, 1875.
Loomis, Andrew W., of New Lisbon, Ohio,
was elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig, serving until
his resignation, October 20, 1837.
Loomis, Arphaxad, was born in Winchester,
Conn., April 9, 1798; attended the public schools;
located at Little Falls; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; State representative in 1841^2 and
1853; died at; Little Falls, N. Y., September 15,
1885.
Loomis, Dwight, was born at Columbia, Conn. ,
July 27, 1821; received a limited education; studied
law at the New Haven Law School, commencing
practice at Rockville, Conn. ; State representative
in 1851 ; elected a Eepresentative from Connecticut
to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses
as a Republican; appointed supreme court judge
of the State.
Lord, Frederick "William, was born at Lyme,
Conn. , December 11 , 1800 ; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1821 and received an M. D. from the same col-
lege in 1829, teaching several years in the interval;
practiced at Sag Harbor for fifteen years; moved
to Greenport; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Thirtieth Congress; died at New York
City Ma> 24, 1860.
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BIOGEAPHIES.
659
Lord, Henry W., of Detroit, Mich., was bom
at Northampton, Mass., March 8, 1821; received
an academic education at Andover, Mass. ; moved
to Detroit, Mich., in 1839; four years after went to
Pontiac; engaged in farming and mercantile busi-
ness; returned to Detroit; appointed United States
consul to Manchester, England, in 1861, where he
served until his resignation, in 1867; Presidential
elector in 1876; served on the State board of cor-
rections and charities; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; appointed register of the
United States land office at Devils Lake, N. Dak. ;
died at Butte, Mont., January 25, 1891.
Lord, Scott, was born at Nelson, Madison
County, N. Y., December 20, 1820; received an
academic education; studied law and practiced
at Utica; judge of Livingston County 1847-1853;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for
the Forty-fifth Congress; died at Morris Plains,
N. J., September 10, 1885.
Lore, Charles B., of Wilmington, Del., was
born at Odessa, Del., March 16, 1831; received an
education in public schools and at Middletown
Academy, Delaware, and collegiate education at
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, graduating in
June, 1852; studied law; admitted to the bar of
Newcastle County, Del., in 1861; clerk of the house
of representatives of Delaware in 1857; commis-
sioner of the draft for Newcastle County, Del.,
1862; attorney-general of the State of Delaware
1869-1874; Presidential elector in 1880; elected to
the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrat; appointed chief justice of the supreme
court of Delaware in 1893; reappointed chief jus-
tice under the new State constitution in 1897 for a
term of twelve years; member of the Historical
Society of Delaware; Presidential elector in 1892.
Lorimer, 'Williani, of Chicago, 111., was born
at Manchester, England, April 27, 1861, and is of
Scotch parentage; came to this country with his
parents when 5 years old and settled in Detroit,
Mich., in 1866; the family moved to Bay City,
Mich., thence to Ohio, where they lived on a) farm;
settled in Chicago in 1870; attended a private
school; an apprentice in the business of sign paint-
ing and worked for the Wilson Packing Company,
for Armour & Co., and for a street-railroad com-
pany; engaged in the real estate business in 1886;
also engaged in the building and brick-manufac-
turing business; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-eighth Congresses, but de-
feated for the Fifty-seventh,
Loringr, Georg;e Bailey, was born at North
Andover, Mass., November 8, 1817; fitted for
college at Franklin Academy, in that town;
graduated from Harvard University in 1838; re-
ceived the degree of M. D. at Harvard Medical
College in 1842; appointed surgeon of the marine
hospital at Chelsea, Mass., in 1843; surgeon of the
Seventh Regiment M. V. M. 1842-1844; appointed
commissioner to revise the U. S. Marine-Hospital
system in 1849; appointed postmaster at Salem,
Mass., in 1853; member of the Massachusetts
house of representatives in 1866 and 1867; presi-
dent of the Massachusetts State senate 1873-1876;
delegate to the national Republican conventions
of 1868, 1872, and 1876; appointed United States
centennial commissioner for the State of Massa-
chusetts in 1872; elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress and reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; died September 13, 1891.
Loud, Eugene Francis, of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born at Abington, Mass., March 12, 1847; went
to sea and to California; enhsted in California Cav-
alry Battahon in 1862, which formed a part of
Second Massachusetts Cavalry; with the Army of
the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah
Valley until the close of the war; returned to Cali-
fornia and studied law; in the customs service;
followed mercantile business; member of Califor-
nia legislature in 1884; cashier of city and county
of San Francisco; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses; defeated for the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
Loudenslager, Henry Clay, of Paulsboro,
N. J., was born at Mauricetowu, Cumberland
County, N. J., May 22, 1852; moved with his
parents to Paulsboro in 1856; educated in the com-
mon schools; after leaving the home farm engaged
in the produce commission business in Philadel-
phia, Pa., from 1872 to 1882; elected county clerk
in 1882 and reelected in 1887; elected from New
Jersey to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sibcth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Loughridg'e, William, was bom at Youngs-
town, Ohio, July 11, 1827; attended the common
schools; studied law, and commenced practice at
Mansfield, Ohio, in 1849; moved to Iowa in 1852;
State senator 1857-1860; judge of the sixth judicial
circuit 1861-1867; elected a Representative from
Iowa to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican; died near Reading,
Pa., September 26, 1889.
Lounsbery, William, of Kingston, N. Y., was
born at Stone Ridge, N. Y., December 25, 1831;
graduated from Rutgers College in 1851; attended
the law department of the New York University,
at Albany, and admitted as an attorney and coun-
selor in 1853, and engaged in the practice of law;
commissary of the Twentieth Regiment of New
York Militia, with the rank of first lieutenant,
during its three months' service; member of the
New York assembly in 1868; elected mayor of
Kingston in March, 1878, for the term of two
years; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
Louttit, J. A.', of Stockton, Cal., was elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
Love, James, of Barboursville, Ky. ; attended
the public schools; was elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Twenty-third Congress.
Love, John, was a native of Virginia; received
an academic education; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Tenth and Eleventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died August 17, 1822.
Love, Peter E., born near Dublin, Ga., July
7, 1818; graduated from Franklin College; studied
medicine at Philadelphia, Pa., and then law, com-
mencing practice of the latter at Thomasville, Ga.,
in 1839; solicitor-general of the southern district
of Georgia in 1843 and judge in 1853; State senator
1849; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, serving until
his retirement, January 23, 1861.
Love, Thomas C, of Buffalo, N. Y., was judge
of Erie County in 1828; district attorney 1829-
1835, and surrogate 1841-1845; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Whig; died at Buffalo, N. Y., Sep-
tember 17, 1853.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
liove, William C, was a native of Virginia;
attended the University of Virginia; studied law,
and practiced at Salisbury, N. C. ; elected a Eep-
resentative from North Carolina to the Fourteenth
Congress as a Eemocrat.
Love, William Franklin, was born March 29,
1852, in Amite County, Miss., near Liberty; edu-
cated in the common schools and at the University
of Mississippi; brought up on the farm, and en-
gaged in agriculture; elected to the legislature for
ten years and State senator for eight years; dele-
gate to the constitutional convention of Mississippi
in 1890; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; died October 16, 1898.
Iiovejoy, Owen, was born at Albion, Me.>
January 6, 1811'; graduated from Bo wdoin College;
studied theology ; moved to Illinois in 1836; pastor
of the Congregational Church at Princeton 1839-
1856; State representative in 1854; elected a Rep-
resentative from Illinois to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-
sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican; served until his death, at
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 25, 1864.
liovell, James, was born at Boston, Mass.,
October 31, 1737; graduated from Harvard College
in 1756; taught school; imprisoned by the British
and conveyed to Halifax 1775-76; Delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1776-
1782; receiver of taxes 1784-1788; customs collector
of Boston 1788-89, and naval officer 1790-1814;
died at Windham, Me., July 14, 1814.
liOvering, Henry B. , of Lynn, Mass., was
born at Portsmouth, N. H., April 8, 1841; edu-
cated in the common schools of Lynn; connected
with the manufacture of shoes; representative to
the State legislature in 1872 and 1874; assessor in
1879-80; mayor of Lynn in 1881 and 1882; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to" the Forty-ninth Congress; appointed
warden of the Massachusetts State prison at
Chariestown 1891-1893, and later appointed pension
agent at Boston, Mass., 1894-1898.
Levering, William C, of Taunton, Mass., was
born in Rhode Island; educated at Cambridge,
Mass., at the Cambridge high school and the Hop-
kins Classical School; engaged in cotton manufac-
turing nearly all of his life; president and chief
manager of the Whittenton Manufacturing Com-
pany, in Taunton; also interested in many other
manufactories; served in the war as engineer at
Fort Monroe; retired from the service an invalid;
State senator for two years, 1874-75; delegate to
thenational Republican convention inl880; elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Lovett, John-, was a native of Norwich, Conn. ;
graduated from Yale College; moved to Albany,
N. Y. ; State representative in 1800 and 1801;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist; died in Ohio in 1818.
Low, Frederick F. , was born at Frankfort (now
Winterport), Me., June 30, 1828; received his early
education at Hampden Academy and at Boston,
Mass. ; engaged in the shipping business at San
Francisco, Cal., in 1849, moving to Marysville,
Cal., in 1854; engaged in banking until 1861;
elected a Representative from California to the
Thirty -seventh Congress as a Republican ; appointed
collector of San Francisco in 1863, and later in
the year elected governor of California, serving
until 1867; minister to China 1869-1874; died at
San Francisco, Cal., July 21, 1894.
Low, Isaac, was born near New Brunswick,
N. J., about 1735; active in pre-Revolutionary
matters; Delegate from New York to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-75; member of the provin-
cial congress 1775; accused of treason; arrested in
1776; president of the New York Chamber of Com-
Commerce 1782; property was confiscated and he
exiled, going to England, where he died in
1791.
Low, Philip Burrill, of New York, N. Y., was
born at Chelsea, Mass., May 6, 1836; graduated
from high school; shipmaster; volunteered and
appointed acting ensign in the U. S. Navy and
served in the North Atlantic Squadron during
1862-63; resigned and entered commercial circles
of Boston until 1865, when he moved to New York;
identified with the shipping and maritime inter-
ests; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and
defeated for the Fifty-sixth.
Lowe, David P. , was born in Oneida County,
N. Y., August 22, 1823; graduated from Cincinnati
Law College in 1851, commencing practice in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; moved to Kansas in 1861; State
senator 1863-64; judge of the sixth judicial district
1867-1871; elected a Representative from Kansas
to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses as
a Republican; chief justice of Utah Territory; re-
turned to Fort Scott, Kans.
Lowe, William Manning', was born at Hunts-
ville, Ala.; educated at Florence, Ala., at the Uni-
iversity of Tennessee, and the University of Vir-
ginia as a lawyer; served as private, captain, and
lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate army; mem-
ber of the legislature in 1870 and of the constitu-
tional convention in 1875; solicitor of the fifth
judicial circuit 1865-1868 ; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Greenback Democrat; candidate for
reelection to the Forty-seventh Congress; although
elected a certificate of election was given Joseph
Wheeler; after a contest he was seated June 3,
1882; died August 16, 1882.
Lowell, John, was born at Newbury port, Mass.,
June 17, 1743; graduated from Harvard College in
1760; studied law, commencing practice at New-
buryport; State representative and an officer in the
militia in 1776; moved to Boston in 1777; again
State representative in 1778; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1780; Delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1782-83;
commissioner on the New York and Massachusetts
boundary line in 1784; judgeof the court of appeals
1784-1789, of the United States district court
1789-1801, and of the United States circuit court for
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
1801-2; died at Roxbury, Mass., May 6, 1802.
Lowell, Joshua A., was born at Thomaston,
Mass. (now Maine), March 20, 1801; attended
the common schools; taught school and studied
law, commencing practice at East Machias in 1826;
State representative in 1832-33, 1835, and 1837;
elected a Representative from Maine to theTwenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Demo-
crat; Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket
in 1844; died at East Machias, Me., March 13,
1874.
Lower, Christian, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Ninth Congress. His
name appears on a list of those whose credentials
entitle them to seats in the House, reported from
the Committee on Elections December 26, 1805,
but there is no other mention of his name on the
journals.
BIOGKAPHIES.
661
Lowndes, Iiloyd, jr., of Cumberland, Md., was
born at Clarksburg, Va. (now West Virginia) , Feb-
ruary 21, 1845; graduated from Allegheny College,
Meadville, Pa., in 1865, and from the University
of Pennsylvania Law School in 1867, commencing
practice at Cumberland, Md.; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Republican; elected governor of Mary-
land in 1895 for four years; president and director
in a number of Maryland financial and other
institu-tions.
Xiowndes, Thomas, was born at Charleston,
S. C, in 1765; received an academic education;
engaged in business; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Seventh and Eighth Con-
gresses; died at Charleston, S. C, July 8, 1843.
Lowndes, William, was born at Charleston,
S. C, February, 1782; pursued classical studies in
England and at home; studied law, commencing
practice in 1804, but soon abandoned it for agri-
cultural pursuits; captain of militia in 1807;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses as a Demo-
crat, serving until his resignation, May 8, 1822;
died at sea, November 22, 1822.
LovTrie, Walter, was born at Edinburgh, Scot-
land, December 10, 1784; located in Butler County,
Pa., in 1791; pursued classical studies; Staterepre-
sentative; UnitedStatesSenator from Pennsylvania
by election 1819-1825; secretary of the United
States Senate 1825-1836; secretary of the Presby-
terian Board of Foreign Missions 1836-1868; died
at New York City December 14, 1868.
Lowry, Robert, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was born
in Ireland; moved to Rochester, N. Y.; instructed
in private schools and had partial academic course;
librarian of Rochester Athenaeum and Young
Men's Association; studied law; moved to Fort
Wayneinl843; city recorder; admitted to the bar;
commenced practice in Goshen, Ind., in 1846; ap-
pointed circuit judge in 1852; president of the
Democratic State convention and delegate to the
Democratic national convention in 1860; elected
circuit judge for six years in 1864; reelected in
1870; delegate to the Democratic national conven-
tion in 1872; resigned the circuit judgeship in
January, 1875; judge of superior court; elected
the first president of the Indiana State Bar Asso-
ciation in July, 1879; elected to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat; re-
sumed the practice of law.
Loyall, George, was born at Norfolk, Va., May
29, 1789; graduated from William and Mary Col-
lege in 1808; visited England in 1815; State repre-
sentative 1817-1827; delegate to the constitutional
convention of 1829; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat (successfully contesting the seat of Thomas
Newton), serving from March 9, 1830, to 1831;
elected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; navy agent at Norfolk 1837-1861,
excepting two years.
Lucas, Edward, was a native of Virginia; at-
tended the common schools; officer in the war of
1812; State representative; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Twenty-third and Twenty-
fourth Congresses as a Jackson Democrat; pay-
master at the Harpers Ferry Armory May 12,
1847, until his death, at Harpers Ferry, Va., March
4, 1858.
Lucas, John B. C, was born in France in
1762; graduated from the University of Caen law
department in 1782, practicing in France until
1784, when he became a farmer, near Pittsburg, Pa. ;
State representative 1792-1798; judge of the com-
mon pleas court in 1794; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Eighth and Ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; resigned before taking his
seat in the Ninth Congress to accept the appoint-
ment of district judge of the United States court
for the northern part of Louisiana Territory;
moved to St. Louis; continued as judge until 1820;
died near St. Louis August 17, 1842.
Lucas, William, was a native of Virginia^ at-
tended the public schools atOharlestown; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Lucas, William, v., of Hot Springs, S. Dak.,
was born on a farm near Delphi, Carroll County,
Ind., July 3, 1835; educated in the common
schools; moved to Bremer County, Iowa, in 1856;
entered the military service in the Fourteenth
Iowa Infantry; promoted to the captaincy of the
company in 1863; elected treasurer of Bremer
County and twice reelected; Hayes elector in 1876;
chief clerk of the Iowa house of representatives
the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions; maj'or
of Mason City, Iowa; elected auditor of the State
in 1880; declined to be a candidate for reelection;
located in 1883 at Chamberlain, Dak., and en-
gaged in farming; elected treasurer of Brule
County in 1887; appointed commandant of the
Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs, where he moved in
1890; elected to the Fifty-third Congress aa a Re-
publican; after leaving Congress again appointed
commandant of the South Dakota Soldiers' Home
at Hot Springs for one year; moved to Chamber-
lain, S. Dak. ; recorder of the United States land
office.
Lumpkin, John Henry, was born in Ogle-
thorpe County, Ga., June 13, 1812; attended
Franklin and Yale colleges; studied law, and com-
menced practice at Rome, Ga., in 1834; State rep-
resentative in 1835; solicitor-general of the Chero-
kee circuit in 1838; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; State supreme court judge; died at Rome,
Ga., June 6, 1860.
Lumpkin, Wilson, was born 'in Pittsylvania
County, Va., January 14, 1783; attended the com-
mon schools of Oglethorpe County, Ga. ; studied
law, and commenced practice at Athens, Ga. ; State
representative; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Fourteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty-first Congresses as a Democrat; appointed
one of the commissioners on the Georgia-Florida
boundary line; governor 1831-1835; appointed
commissioner under the Cherokee treaty in 1835;
United States Senator from Georgia by election
(vice John P. King, resigned) December 13, 1837,
to 1841; member of the State board of pubHc
works; died at Athens, Ga., December 28, 1870.
Luna, Tranquilino, of Los Lunas, N. Mex., was
born February 23, 1849; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican.
Luttrell, John K. , was born near Knoxville,
Knox County, Tenn., June 27, 1831; early educa-
tion limited;" moved to California; studied law and
practiced; engaged in farming; member of the leg-
islature in 1863, 1865, 1866, 1871, and 1872; elected
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
a Representative from California to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses as
a Democrat; died October 20, 1893.
Lybrand, Archibald, of Delaware, Ohio, was
born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, May 23,
1840; moved to Delaware in 1857; educated at the
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; at
the breaking out of the civil war enlisted April 26,
1861, in Company I, Fourth Ohio Volunteer In-
fantry; transferred to Company E, Seventy-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and promoted to first
lieutenant; remained in service three years; re-
turned to Delaware; elected mayor in 1869; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1871; became an
active partner in the Delaware Chair Company in
1873; landowner and interested in farming; ap-
pointed postmaster of Delaware December 20, 1881,
• and served four years; elected to the Fifty-fifth
and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Republican.
Lyle, Aaron, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the common schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses
as a Democrat; died September 24, 1825.
Lyman, Joseph, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
born at Lyons, Mich., September 13, 1840; received
a common school and academic education; entered
college; enlisted in the Union Army in Company
E, Fourth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry; adjutant of
the Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry from October 19,
1862, to February 21, 1865, and major of the same
regiment from February 21, 1865, to August 10,
1865; studied law, admitted to the bar, and prac-
ticed at Council Bluffs; deputy collector of internal
revenue of the fifth district of Iowa from January
1, 1867, to March 1, 1870; circuit judge 1884; elected
to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a
Republican.
Lymau, Joseph. S., was born at Hampden,
Mass. ; attended common schools; moved to Otsego,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Sixteenth Congress; died at Cooperstown,
N. Y.
liyman, Samuel, was a native of Massachu-
setts; graduated from Yale College in 1770; State
representative 1786-1788, and State senator 1790-
1793; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses,
serving until his resignation in 1801 ; died in 1802.
Lyman, Theodore, was born at Waltham,
Mass., August 23, 1833; graduated as bachelor of
arts from Harvard College in 1855, and as bachelor
of science from the Lawrence Scientific School in
1858; served in the war of the rebellion as lieu-
tenant-colonel and volunteer aid-de-camp on the
staff of Major-General Meade, commanding the
Army of the Potomac, from September 2, 1863, to
April 20, 1865; a zoologist; member of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences and trustee of the Pea-
body Education Fund; one of the State fishery
commissioners 1865-1882; took part in the admin-
istration of public and private charities; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as an Independent;
died at Nahant, Mass., September 9, 1897.
Lyman, William, was born at Northampton,
Mass., in 1753; graduated from Yale College in
1776;_ State senator in 1789; brigadier-general of
militia; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Third and Fourth Congresses; consul
at London 1805 until his death in October, 1811.
Lynch, Jolin, was born at Portland, Me., Feb-
ruary 18, 1825; graduated in 1842 from the city
high school; engaged in business; member of t^e
State legislature in 1862 and 3864; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maine to the Thirty-ninth, For-
tieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses as
a Republican; editor of the Washington Union
1876-77.
Lynch, Jolin, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was born
at Providence, R. I., November 1, 1843; received
a public school and academic education; worked
on a farm and at the coal mines; taught school;
read law; admitted to the bar November 1, 1865;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat.
Lynch., Joh.n K.. , of Natchez, Miss. , was born
in Concordia Parish, La., September 10, 1847; at-
tended evening school at Natchez for a few months "
and by private study acquired a good English edu-
cation; engaged in the business of photography at
Natchez until 1869, when Governor Ames ap-
pointed him a justice of the peace; elected a mem-
ber of the State legislature in 1869, and reelected
in 1871, serving the last term as speaker of the
house; elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Republican; elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, but was counted out and Gen. J. R.
Chalmers counted in; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; appointed Fourth Audi-
tor of the Treasury Department under President
Harrison; paymaster in the Volunteer Army dur-
ing the Spanish war.
Lynch, Thomas, was born in Milwaukee Coun-
ty, Wis., November 21, 1844; resided on a farm
and attended the public schools of that period un-
til 1863, when he moved to Calumet County, where
he continued farming and also taught school; held
various local offices; member of the Wisconsin
legislature in 1873 and 1883; graduated from the
law department of the Wisconsin University in
1875; district attorney of the county 1878-1882;
moved to Antigo, in Langlade County, in 1883;
mayor of Antigo in 1885 and again in 1888; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifty-third Congress; died May 4,
1898.
Lynch, Thom.as, sr., was born in South Caro-
lina about 1720; active in pre-Revolutionary affairs;
Delegate from South Carolina to the colonial con-
gress in 1765 and Continental Congress 1774-1776;
resigned oh account of ill health; died in South
Carohna in 1776.
Lynch, Thomas, jr. , was born in Prince George
Parish, S. C, August 5,1749; studied at Eton and
Cambridge, England, also at the Temple in Lon-
don; returned to America in 1772; became a
planter on the North Santee River; served a short
time in the Revolutionary war; Delegate to the
Continental Congress from South Carolina (vice
Thomas Lynch, sr., resigned) 1776-77; drowned
at sea in the latter part of 1779.
Lynde, "William P., was born at Sherburne,
Chenango County, N. Y., December 16, 1817;
graduated from Yale College in 1838; studied law
and admitted to the bar in New York; moved to
Wisconsin in 1841; appointed attorney-general of
Wisconsin in 1844 and United States district attor-
ney for Wisconsin in 1845; elected mayor of Mil-
waukee in 1860, State representative in 1866, and
State senator 1868-69; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirtieth, Forty-fourth, and
Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; died at Mil-
waukee, Wis., December 18, 1885,
BIOGRAPHIES.
663
Lynn, James, was a native of New Jersey;
graduated from Princeton College in 1769; studied
and practiced law; elected a Eepresentative from
New Jersey to the Sixth Congress as a Democrat;,
appointed by President Jefferson supervisor of the
revenue; Statesecretary of state; died at Trenton,
N. J., December 29, 1820.
Lyon, Asa, was born at Pomfret, Conn., De-
cember 31, 1763; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1791; studied law, commencing practice at
South Hero, Vt.; chief justice of Grand Island
County, 1805-1814; State representative 1800-1810
and 1814; executive councilor in 1808; elected a
Representative from Vermont to the Fourteenth
Congress as a Federalist; died at South Hero, Vt.,
April 4, 1841.
Lyon, Caleb, was bom at Greig, N. Y., De-
cember 7, 1822; graduated from Norwich Univer-
sity of Vermont in 1841; consul at Shanghai
1845-1849; secretary of the California constitutional
convention; visited Europe and Egypt; State rep-
resentative and senator in 1851; elected a Kepre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-third
Congress as an Independent; moved to Staten
Island; governor of Idaho Territory 1864-1866;
died near Eossville, N. Y., September 8, 1875.
Lyon, Chittenden, was born in Vermont in
1786; attended common schools; moved to Ken-
tucky in 1801; served in both branches of the leg-
islature; elected a Eepresentative from Kentucky
to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
and Twenty-third Congresses as a Jackson Demo-
crat; died in Caldwell County, Ky., November 8,
1842.
Lyon, Francis S. , was a native of North Caro-
lina; attended common schools; moved to Demop-
olis, Ala. ; elected a Representative from Alabama
to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses
as a Whig; elected in 1863 a Representative from
Alabama to the Second Confederate Congress.
Lyon, Lucius, was born at Shelbourne, Vt.,
February 26, 1800; attended common schools;
moved to Bronson, Mich. T.; land surveyor; elected
a Delegate from Michigan Territory to the Twenty-
third Congress as a Democrat; elected to the
Twenty-eighth Congress; elected United States
Senator from Michigan, serving from January 26,
1837, to 1839; surveyor-general of public lands in
the Northwest; died at Detroit, Mich., September
24, 1851.
Lyon, Matthew, was bom in County Wicklow,
Ireland, in 1746; emigrated to America in 1759;
became prominent in ante-Revolutionary affairs;
deputy paymaster in the Revolutionary Army in
1778- clerk of the court of confiscation in 1786;
founder of Fairfield, Vt., in 1783; State represent-
ative 1784-1794; elected a Eepresentative from
Vermont to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; moved
to Kentucky; elected a Eepresentative from that
State to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh
Congresses; appointed United States factor among
the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas; elected Dele-
gate from that Territory to the Sixteenth Congress,
but died at Spadra Bluff, Ark., August 1, 1822,
before taking his seat.
Lytle, Robert T., of Cincinnati, Ohio, was
twice elected a Representative from Ohio as a
" Jackson Democrat— to the Twenty-third Congress,
serving from December 2, 1833, until his resigna-
tion, March 10, 1834, and from December 27, 1834,
to March 3, 1835; surveyor-general of public lands
in Ohio 1835-1838; died at New Orleans, La.,
December 21, 1839.
McAdoo, "William, of Jersey City, N. J., was
born in Ireland October 25, 1853, and brought by
his parents at an early age to Jersey City, where
he continued to reside; received a good education
in the schools of Jersey City; studiedlaw; became
a member of the bar of that State in 1874; member
of the legislature of New Jersey; elected to the
Fortv-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-ninth , Fiftieth , and Fifty-first Congresses.
McAleer, William, of Philadelphia, Pa., was
born in County Tyrone, Ireland, January 6, 1838;
emigrated to Philadelphia with his parents in
1851; attended public and private schools; elected
a member of common councils from the Fifth Ward
in 1871 for a term of two years; elected by coun-
cils in 1873 a member of the board of guardians of
the poor for a term of three years and reelected
five consecutive terms; vice-president and presi-
dent of the board; member of the commercial ex-
change; director, vice-president, and president of
the same; director of the chamber of commerce in
1880; elected to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1886
for a term of four years, and nominated for presi-
dent pro tempore by the Democratic members in
1889; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fifth,
and Fifty-sixth Congresses.
McAllister, Archibald, was born in Dauphin
County, Pa., in 1814; attended the public schools;
engaged in iron manufacturing; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat.
McAndrew^, James, of Chicago, 111., was
bom at Woonsocket, R. I., October 22, 1862;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
McArthur, Duncan, was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., June 14, 1772; moved to western
Pennsylvania, thence to Chillicothe, Ohio; State
representative in 1805, 1815, 1817, and 1819; served
as colonel and brigadier-general in the militia and
held like commissions in the volunteers of the war
of 1812; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirteenth Congress, but declined to leave the
Army; elected to the Eighteenth Congress as a
Clay Democrat; Indian treaty commissioner in
1816; governor of Ohio 1830-1832; defeated for
the Twenty-third Congress by William Allen,
Jackson Democrat, by 1 majority; died at Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, April 28, 1839.
McBride (or McBryde) , Archibald, was a
native of Moore County, N. C. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses as a Democrat; twice a
State senator.
McBride, George W., of St. Helens, Oreg.,
was born in Yamhill County, Oreg., March 13,
1854; received his primary education in the public
schools and in the preparatory department of
Willamette University; student at Christian Col-
lege, Monmouth, Oreg., for two years; studied law
and admitted to the bar, but never practiced; en-
gaged in mercantile business for ten years; elected
a member of the house of representatives of the
legislative assembly of Oregon in June, 1882;
elected speaker of the house in September, 1882;
elected secretary of state in 1886; reelected in 1890,
and served eight years, his second term ending
January 14, 1895; elected United States Senator as
a Republican February 23, 1895, serving until
March 3, 1901; in March, 1901, appointed a United
States Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition
of 1904.
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CONGKESSIOKAL DIEECTOEY.
McBride, John. R., was born in Franklin
County, Mo., August 22, 1832; attended the public
schools; moved to Oregon in 1846; eupeiintendent
of schools 1854; studied law, and commenced prac-
tice at Lafayette in 1855; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention; State senator; elected a
Eepresentative from Oregon to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; appointed by President
Grant United States judge for Idaho.
McCall, Jolin Ether idge, of Lexington, Tenn.,
was born at Clarksburg, Carroll County, Tenn.,
August 14, 1859; reared on a farm, attending the
village schools a few months in each year; entered
the University of Tennessee in 1878 and graduated
from that institution in 1881; began the study of
law at Huntingdon, Tenn., soon after leaving the
university, and admitted to the bar in 1883;
edited the Tennessee Eepublican during 1882;
Jocated in Lexington in December, 1883, where he
has been continuously in the practice of law; can-
vassed his district as elector for Blaine and Logan
in 1884; and candidate for district attorney in 1886,
but defeated; represented Henderson County in
the Tennessee legislature in 1887 and reelected in
1889; delegate to the Chicago convention in 1888
that nominated General Harrison for President,
and secretary to the committee on rules and order
of business; appointed assistant United States
district attorney for West Tennessee in 1890,
which office he resigned in' 1891; unsuccessful can-
didate for governor before the Eepublican State
convention in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Eepublican; delegate to the Re-
publican national convention at Philadelphia in
1900 which nominated William McKinley; candi-
date for governor of Tennessee on the Eepublican
ticket.
McCall, Samuel Walker, of Winchester,
Mass., was born at East Providence, Pa., Feb-
ruary 28, 1851; graduated from New Hampton
(N. H.) Academy in 1870 and from Dartmouth
College in 1874; admitted to the bar, and from
January, 1876, practiced law in Boston, except
one year when editor of the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser; elected a member of the Massachusetts
house of representatives of 1888, 1889, and 1892;
delegate to the national Republican convention
of 1888; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a
Eepublican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifth-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses; delivered an oration at Dartmouth
College in Aoi at the centennial of the gradu-
ation of Daniel AVebster, and at the same time the
college conferred on him the degree of doctor of
laws.
McCarthy, Dennis, was born at Salina, N. Y.,
March 19, 1814; received an academic education;
engaged in salt manufacturing; State representa-
tive in 1846; mayor of Syracuse in 1853; elected a
Eepresentative from New York to the Fortieth
and Forty -first Congresses as a Eepublican; de-
feated for the Forty-second Congress as an Inde-
pendent Democrat.
McCarthy, John Henry, of New York, N. Y.,
was born at the city of New York, November 16,
1850; educated at De La Salle Institute, Christian
Brothers, and St. Francis Xavier College, but did
not complete the course; engaged in mercantile
pursuits; studied law; member of the legislature of
New York in 1880 and 1881; elected civil justice
for the fifth judicial district in the city of New
York for the term of six years in 1882; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; resigned
January 14, 1891.
McCarty, Andrew Z., of Pulaski, N. Y.,was
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Whig.
McCarty, Jonathan, was a native of Tennessee;
attended the public schools; mo\ed to Frankhn
County, Ind. ; State representative; moved to Con-
norsville, Fayette County; held several county
offices; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses as a Whig; defeated for the
Twenty-fifth Congress; died at Keokuk, Iowa, in
1855.
McCarty, Richard, was a native of Albany,
N. Y. ; attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Seventeenth
Congress.
McCarty, William M., was a native of Lou-
doun County, Va. ; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-sixth Congress (vice
Charles F. Mercer, resigned) as a Whig, serving
from- January 25, 1840, to March 3, 1841.
McCauslen, William C, was a native of Ohio;
attended the public schools; located at Steuben-
ville; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
McClammy, Charles W. , was born at Scotts
Hill, N. C, May 29, 1839; received an academic
education, and graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1859; engaged in teaching; en-
tered the Confederate army in 1861 ; by successive
promotions became major of the Third North Caro-
lina Cavalry Regiment, and surrendered at Appo-
mattox; farmer; elected a member of the house of
commons of North Carolina in 1866 and to the
State senate in 1871; Democratic elector in 1884;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-first Congress; died February
26, 1896.
McClean, Moses, was born at Gettysburg, Pa.,
in 1804; received an academic education; studied
law, and commenced practice in 1825; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
ninth Congress; State representative in 1855; died
at Gettysburg, Pa., October 1, 1870.
McCleary, James Thompson, of JNIankato,
Minn., was born at Ingersoll, Ontario, February
5, 1853; educated at the high school there and at
McGill University, Montreal; taught school for
some years in Wisconsin; resigned the superin-
tendency of the Pierce County, Wis., schools in
1881 to become State institute conductor of Minne-
sota and professor of history and civics in the State
Normal School, at Mankato, continuing in this posi-
tion until June, 1892; during summer vacations
conducted institutes in Wisconsin, Dakota, Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, and Colorado; published Studies
in Civics in 1888 and a Manual of Civics in 1894;
chosen president of the JVIinnesota Educational
Association in 1891; elected to the Fifty-third, ,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Eepublican.
McClellan, Abraham, of Blountsville, Tenn.,
was a native of that State; elected a Eepresentative -
from Tennessee to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
McClellan, Charles A. O., was born at Ash-
land, Ohio, May 25, 1835, where he resided until
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665
1856, when he moved to Auburn; educated in the
district school; studied law at Auburn; admitted
to the bar in 1860; in the banking business from
1868, being the president of the First National
Bank of Auburn; appointed judge of the fortieth
circuit of Indiana by Governor Williams in 1879,
and served for two years; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Democrat, reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress; died January 31, 1898.
McClellan, George Brinton, of New York
City, was born November 23, 1865, at Dresden,
Saxony, where his parents had gone on a visit;
graduated from Princeton College in 1886; worked
as a reporter and in editorial positions on several
New York newspapers; lawyer by profession;
president of the board of aldermen of the city and
county of New York in 1892 and 1893; elected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat.
McClellan, Robert, was a native of Schoharie
County, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh Con-
fresses as a Democrat; died at Middlebury, N. Y.,
une 7, 1860.
McClelland, Robert, was born at Greencastle,
Pa., August 1, 1807; graduated from Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1829; admitted to the bar
in Chambersburg in 1831; moved to Pittsburg,
thence in 1833 to Monroe, Mich.; delegate to the
State constitutional conventions of 1835 and 1867;
State representative 1838-1843, the last year as
speakerof the house; elected a Eepresentativefrom
Michigan to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and
Thirtieth Congresses as a Democrat; delegate to
the national Democratic conventions of 1848, 1852,
and 1868; governor of Michigan 1851-1853, resign-
ing; Secretary of the Interior 1853-1857; died at
Detroit, Mich., August 27, 1880.
McClelland, 'William, was born at Mount
Jackson, Pa., March 2, 1842; attended the West-
minster College at New Wilmington, Pa. ; served
over four years in the civil war; attended the Alle-
gheny College; studied law, commencing practice
in 1870; elected a Representative from Pennsylva-
nia to the Forty-secondv Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Forty-third Congress.
McClenachan, Blair, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Fifth Congress.
McClene, James, was bom at New London,
Pa., October 14; 1730; a Delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Congress 1778-1780; died
at Antrim, Pa., March 13, 1806.
McClernand, John Alexander, was born in
Breckinridge County, Ky., May 30, 1812; moved
to Illinois; studied law, commencing practice at
Shawneetown; served in the Black Hawk war;
State representative 1836, 1840, 1842, and 1843;
Presidential elector on the Van Buren and Johnson
ticket- elected a Representative from Illinois to
the Twentv-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, Thirtv-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat; resigned after the first ses-
sion of the Thirty-seventh Congress, m 1861; re-
turned to Illinois to raise troops for the Union
Army and served through the civil war; died in
1900.
McClure, Addison S., of Wooster, Ohio, was
born there October 10, 1839; received an academic
education at Jefferson College, Pa. ; studied law;
admitted to the bar in April, 1861 ; entered the
Army as a private in April, 1861, and elected cap-
tain of Company H, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry Vol-
unteers, in October of the same year, and dis-
charged on account of expiration of service in the
fall of 1864; elected recorder'of Wooster in 1867;
appointed postmaster of Wooster in 1867; reap-
pointed in 1872, and again reappointed in 1876;
delegate to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1868 and at Cincinnati in 1876; elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the
practice of law after leaving Congress.
McCIure, Charles, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth Congress as
a Democrat; elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress
(vice William S. Ramsey, deceased), serving from
December 7, 1840, to 1841; State secretary of state;
died at Pittsburg, Pa., February 8, 1846.
McClurg-, Joseph W. , was born in St. Louis
County, Mo., February 22, 1818; attended Xenia
Academy and Oxford College; taught school in
Louisiana and Mississippi in 1835-36; moved to
Texas; circuit court clerk in 1840; returned to
Missouri and engaged in business in 1844; served
in the civil war as colonel of cavalry in the Union
Army; member of the State convention 1861-1863;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as an Emancipationist;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con-
gresses as a Radical, serving until he resigned in
1868; died in 1900.
McCoid, Moses A. , of Fairfield, Iowa, was bom
in Logan County, Ohio; educated at Fairfield Uni-
versity and at Washington College, Pennsylvania;
studied law at Fairfield, Iowa, 1858-1861; enlisted
as a private in Company E, Second Regiment Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, May 6, 1861 ; served in the bat-
tles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, advance on Corinth,
battle of Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862, Bear Creek,
Resaca, and Oostenaula River; at Fort Donelson
received a commission as second lieutenant; acting
adjutant of the regiment during the advance on
Corinth and in the spring of 1862; engaged in the
practice of law at Fairfield; district attorney of
the sixth judicial district of Iowa from January,
1867, to January, 1871; member of the State
senate of Iowa, 1872-1879, and chairman of the
senate judiciary committee of the seventeenth
general assembly; elected to the Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican; resumed the practice of law after
leaving Congress.
McComas, Xiouis Emory, of Williamsport,
Md., was born in Washington County, Md.,
October 28, 1846; educated at St. James College,
Maryland, and at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania,
graduating from the latter in 1866; studied law;
admitted to the bar at Hagerstown, Md., in 1868,
and practiced law there until 1892; professor of
international law^in the law school of Georgetown
University; Republican candidate for the Forty-
fifth Congress; elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and
defeated for reelection to the Fifty-second Con-
gress; delegate at large to the Republican national
conventions in 1892 and 1900, and during the
Presidential campaign of 1892 was secretary of the
Republican national committee; on November 17,
1892, appointed by President Harrison an associate
justice of the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, which office he held when elected to
the United States Senate as a Republican, to sue-
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CONGKESSIONAL DIKECTORT.
ceed Arthur P. Gorman, Democrat, and took his
seat March 4, 1899.
McComas, "WilUam, was a native of Virginia;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Whig.
MoComlOjEleazer, was a Delegate from Dela-
ware to the Continental Congress 1782-1784.
McConnell, Felix G., was a native of Lincoln
County, Tenn. ; moved to Talladega, Ala. ; studied
and practiced law; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat, serving until his death,
at Washington, D. C, September 10, 1846.
McConnell, W. J., of Moscow, Idaho, was
born at Commerce, Oakland County, Mich., Sep-
tember 18, 1839; received an academic education;
went West at the age of 20; engaged in mmmg,
cattle business, merchandising, and banking;
moved to Idaho in 1886; president of the Oregon
State senate in 1882; member of the national con-
vention which nominated James G. Blaine for
President; also a member of the constitutional
convention of Idaho; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican, December 18, 1890, taking
his seat January 5, 1891, serving until March 3,
1891; elected governor of Idaho in 1892, and re-
elected in 1894; appointed Indian inspector by
President McKinley in 1897.
McCook, Anson G. , of New York City, was
born at Steubenville, Ohio, October 10, 1836;
received a common school education; in the spring
of 1854 crossed the Plains to California; returned
in the autumn of 1859, and at the outbreak of the
rebeUion was engaged in the study of the law; en-
tered the Union Army as captain in the Second
Regiment of Ohio ^Infantry, and was at the first
battle of Bull Run; on the reorganization of the
regiment was commissioned major and afterwards
promoted to lieutenant-colonel and colonel, serv-
ing with the regiment in the Army of the Cum-
berland; at the muster out of the regiment
commissioned colonel of the One hundred and
ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry, arid at the close of
the war brevetted brigadier-general; appointed
assessor of internal revenue in the seventeenth
Ohio district in Kovember, 1865; moved to New
York in May, 1873; elected to the Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, "and Forty-seventh Congresses as a
Republican.
McCord, Andrew, was a native of Ulster
County, N. Y. ; State representative in 1800, 1802,
and 1807; elected a Representative from New
York to the Eighth Congress.
McCord, Myron H., of Phoenix, Ariz., was
born at Ceres, McKean County, Pa., November
26, 1840; went to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled
at Shawano; moved to Merrill in 1875; educated
at the Richburg Academy, New York; by occupa-
tion a publisher, lumberman, and farmer, and by
profession an editor; published a newspaper 1868-
1883; member of the State senate in 1873 and
1874; member of assembly in 1881; delegate to
the Cincinnati Republican national convention
1876; register United States land office from April
1, 1883, to December 31, 1885; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Republican; after leaving Con-
gress returned to Merrill, Wis., and engaged in
farming and lumbering; Republican candidate fur
Congress in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses and defeated; moved to Arizona; appointed
governor of Arizona in 1897; resigned in 1898 and
organized the Territorial regiment for the Spamsh
war.
McCorkle, JosepliW., was a native of Ohio;
moved to Marysville, Oal. ; elected a Representar
tive from California to the Thirty-second Congress
as a Democrat.
McCormick, Henry C, was born in Wash-
ington Township, Lycoming County, Pa., June
30 1844; educated in the common schools and at
Dickinson Seminarv; studied law; admitted to the-
bar in 1866 and practiced his profession; never
held any public office until elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
flrst Congress; delegate at large to the Repubhcan
national convention in 1892; elected president of
the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad Jan-
uary 1, 1892; appointed attorney-general of Penn-
sylvania by Governor Hastings in January, 1895,
which position he held for four years; died May
26, 1902.
McCormick, James R. , was born in Washing-
ton County, Mo., August 1, 1824; attended the
public schools; studied medicine; delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1861; State sen-
ator in 1862 and 1866; brigadier-general of militia
in 1863; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Fortieth (vice Thomas E. Noel, deceased),
Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses as a
Democrat.
McCormick, JohnW. , of Gallipolis, Ohio, was
born in Gallia County, Ohio, December 20, 1831;
brought up on a farm and educated at the Ohio
Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and at the
Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio; on leaving school
engaged in the business of farming; elected dele-
gate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
McCormick, N. B., of Phillipsburg, Kans.,
was born in Fayette County, Pa., November 20,
1847; brought up on a farm; received his educa-
tion in the common schools of his native county;
moved to Marion County, Iowa, in 1867, where he
settled on a farm and engaged in the business of
farming and stock raising until his removal to
Phillips County, Kans., where he settled upon a
homestead in 1877; while engaged in farming
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1882; soon
thereafter formed a partnership with Hon. S. W.
McElroy, under whom he served as deputy county
attorney for four years; elected county attorney of
Phillips County in 1890 and reelected in 1892, and
served in that capacity four years; refused a third
nomination; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as
a Populist; after leaving Congress resumed the
practice of law.
McCormick, Richard C, was born at New
York City in 1832; received a classical education;
entered business in AVall street in 1852; engaged in
journalistic work in New York in 1857; with the
Army of the Potomac as a correspondent of the
New York Evening Post in 1861-62; first chief
clerk of the Department of Agriculture; appointed
secretary of Arizona Territory in 1863 and gov-
ernor of the Territory in 1866; elected Delegate
from Arizona to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses as a Union candidate,
serving from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875;
established the Arizona Miner in 1864 and the
Arizona Citizen in 1870; delegate to the Repub-
lican national conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880;
United States commissioner to the Centennial
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Exposition in 1876; First Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in 1877; commissioner-general to
the Paris Exposition in 1878; declined the mission
to Brazil in 1877 and the mission to Mexico in
1879; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Ee-
gublican; member of the board of managers of the
tate Normal School at Jamaica, N. Y. ; died June
2, 1901.
McCoy, Robert, was a native of Carlisle, Pa.;
attended common schools; State canal commis-
sioner; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylva-
nia to the Twenty-second Congress; died at Wheel-
ing, Va., June 7, 1849.
McCoy, William, was a native of Augusta
County, Va. ; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fif-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
second Congresses as a Jackson Democrat.
McCrary, George ■Washington, was born near
Evansville, Ind., August 29, 1835; moved to what
is now Iowa in 1836; attended public schools;
studied law, commencing practice at Keokuk in
1856; elected State representative in 1857 and State
senator in 1861; elected a Eepresentative from
Iowa to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third,
and Forty-fourth Congresses as a Eepublican; Sec-
retary of War March 12, 1877 to 1879; judge of the
eighth judicial district 1879-1884; moved to Kansas
City, Mo., becoming consulting attorney for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Eailroad Com-
pany; died at St. Joseph, Mo., June 23, 1895.
McCrate, JohnD., wasbornat Wiscasset, Me.,
May 1, 1800; graduated from Bowdoin College in
1819; studied law, commencing practice at Wis-
casset; State representative 1831-1836; customs col-
lector 1836-1841; elected a Representative from
Maine to theTwenty-ninth Congress as aDemocrat.
McCreary, James B. , of Richmond, Ky., was
born in Madison County, Ky., July 8, 1838; re-
ceived a classical education, and graduated at the
age of 18 from Centre College, Danville, Ky. , in
1857; at once commenced the study of law, and
graduated from the law department of the Cum-
berland University of Tennessee (with the first
honor in a class of forty-seven) in 1859, and im-
mediately commenced the practice of law at Rich-
mond, Ky. ; entered the Confederate army in 1862;
lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Kentucky Cav-
alry at the close of the war; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic convention held in New York
in July, 1868; elected a member of the State house
of representatives of Kentucky in 1869, 1871, and
1873, and speaker of the house in 1871 and 1873;
Democratic candidate for governor in May, 1875,
and elected, serving from August, 1875, to Sep-
tember, 1879; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses; elected to the United States Senate in
1902.
McCreary, Jolin, was a native of Chester Dis-
trict, S. C; elected a Eepresentative from South
Carolina to the Sixteenth Congress.
McCreedy, William, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylva-
nia to the Twenty-first Congress.
McCreary, Thomas Clay, was born in Daviess
County, Ky., in 1817; attended common schools;
studied law, and was both lawyer and farmer;
Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in
1852- elected United States Senator from Ken-
tucky as a Democrat in 1868 (vice James Guthrie,
resigned), serving from February 27, 1868, to
March 4, 1871; again elected for the term 1873-
1879; died at Owensboro, Ky., July 10, 1890.
McCreery, William, was elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Eighth, Ninth, and
Tenth Congresses.
McCuUoch, George, of Center Line, Pa., was
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-sixth Congress (vice WiUiam W. Potter,
deceased), as a Democrat, serving from December
2, 1839, to March 4, 1841.
McCuUoch, John, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; attended public schools; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig.
McCuUoch, Philip D., jr., of Marianna, Lee
County, Ark. , was born at Murfreesboro, Euther-
ford County, Tenn., on the 23d-day of June, 1851;
moved with his parents when 3 years of age to
Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn.; educated at
Andrew College of that place; be^an the study of
law in 1871 at the age of 20; admitted to the bar
of Tennessee in August, 1872, and actively engaged
in the practice of his profession from that time;
moved to Marianna, Lee County, Ark., in Febru-
ary, 1874; elected as the Democratic nominee to
the office of prosecuting attorney of the first judi-
cial district of the State in September, 1878; renom-
inated and elected for three successive terms;
nominated by the Democratic Congressional con-
vention at Paragould on the 13th of July, 1892,
for the Fifty-third Congress by acclamation, and
elected; reelected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
McCuUogh, Welty, of Greensbui'g, Pa., was
born at Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa.,
October 10, 1847; received a common and select
schooleducation; entered sophomore class at Wash-
ington and Jefferson College, and remained nearly
two years; went to Princeton, N. J., and entered
junior class at last term and graduated in June,
1870; second clerk"under Capt. W. B. Coulter,
provost-marshal of twenty-first district of Penn-
sylvania, for two years during the war; after leav-
ing college read law, and admitted to the bar in
1872; never held any office until elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Eepublican; died August
31, 1899.
McCuUough, Hiram, was borniu Cecil County,
Md., September 20, 1818; received an academic
education; studied and practiced law; State sena-
tor 1845-1851 ; elected a Eepresentative from Mary-
land to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses
as a Democrat.
McCullough, Thomas G., was a native of
Franklin County, Pa.; attended common schools;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Sixteenth Congress (vice David FuUerton, re-
signed), serving from November 13, 1820, to March
4, 1821.
McCumber, Porter James, of Wahpeton, N.
Dak., was born in Illinois February 3, 1856; moved
to Rochester, Minn. , the same year; brought up on
a farm and educated in the district schools, after-
wards in the city schools; taught school for a few
years, and took the law course in the University
of Michigan, graduating in 1880; moved to Wah-
peton, N. Dak., in 1881; practiced his profession;
member of the Territorial legislature in 1895 and
1897; refused to accept any public office in the
State except that which was in line with his profes-
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sion — State attomev — until he became a candi-
date for Senator; ele'cted to the United States Sen-
ate as a Eepublican January 20, 1899, and took his
. seat March 4, 1899
McDaniel, William, was elected a Eepresent-
ative from Missouri to the Twenty-ninth Congress
(vice Sterling Price, resigned), as a Democrat.
McDannold, John J., of Mount Sterling, 111.,
was born in Brown County, 111, August 29, 1851;
brought up on a farm; educated in the common
schools and private school at Quincy; studied law,
and graduated from the law department of the
Iowa State University, at Iowa City, in June,
1874; admitted to the bar of Illinois in September,
1874, and practiced law at Mount SterUng; ap-
pointed master in chancery for Brown County,
October, 1885; elected county judge of Brown
County, November, 1886; reelected in November,
1890; resigned October 2, 1892; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; after retiring
from Congress moved to Chicago, where he engaged
in the practice of law.
McDearmon, James C, of Trenton, Tenn.,
was born at New Canton, Buckingham County,
Va., June 13, 1844; moved with his parents to
Gibson County, Tenn., in 1846; attended Andrew
College, Trenton, Tenn., for several years before
the civil war; entered the Confedrate army April,
1862, and served throughout the war in Cheatham's
division, Army of the Tennessee; wounded slightly
at Murfreesboro and severely at Franklin; sur-
rendered at Greensboro, N. C., with Johnston's
army, April 26, 1865; admitted to the bar in 1867;
practiced law; elected to the Fifty-third Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the FiftJ'-fourth Con-
gress; resumed the practice of law after leaving
Congress.
McDermott, Allan Langdon, of Jersey City,
N. J., was born at South Boston, Mass., March 30,
1854; lawyer by profession; corporation attorney
of Jersey City 1879-1883; district court judge
1883-1886; president Jersey City board of finance
and taxation 1883-1886; member of State board of
taxation 1884-1886; member of the State assembly
1880-81; corporation counsel of Jersey City; mem-
ber of the State senate 1899-1900; chairman of
the New Jersey State Democratic committee 1885-
1895; member of the commission to revise consti-
tution of New Jersey 1894; candidate of the Dem-
ocratic legislative caucus for United States Senator
in 1895; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Wil-
liam D. Daly, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress.
McDill, Alexander S. , was born in Crawford
County, Pa., March 18, 1822; attended Allegheny
College; graduated from Cleveland Medical Col-
lege; moved to Portage County, Wis., in 1856;
elected State representative in 1861 and senator in
1862; Republican Presidential elector in 1864;
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican; defeated
for the Forty-fourth Congress; medical superin-
tendent of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the
Insane 1868-1873 and 1875 until his death, near
Madison, Wis., November 12, 1875.
McDill, James Wilson, of Afton, Iowa, was
born at Monroe, Ohio, March 4, 1834; graduated
from the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, in
1853; studied law at Columbus, Ohio; admitted to
the bar in 1856, and moved to Iowa in that year;
elected superintendent of Union County, Iowa, in
1859; elected county judge of Union County,
Iowa, in 1860; appointed in 1861 clerk of the Sen-
ate Committee on the District of Columbia; clerk
in the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury
1862-1865, when he resigned and returned to Iowa;
elected circuit judge of the second district, third
judicial circuit of Iowa, in 1868; appointed in 1870
and then elected district judge of the third judicial
circuit of Iowa, which position he held when
elected a Representative to the Forty-third Con-
gress; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress;
member of the board of railroad commissioners
for the State of Iowa 11878-1881; appointed to the
United States Senate as a Repubicaii to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon.
Samuel J. Kirkwood to accept the appointment as
Secretary of the Interior, and took his seat March
8, 1881; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy
by the legislature of Iowa, serving until March 3,
1883; died in 1894.
McDonald, Alexander, was born in Clinton
County, Pa., April 10, 1832; attended Lewisburg
University; moved to Kansas in 1857, engaging in
general business; active in the civil war on the
Union side; became interested in banking in
Arkansas in 1863, finally locating at Little Rock;
member of the State constitutional convention;
elected a United States Senator from Arkansas as a
Republican, serving from June 23, 1868, to March
3, 1871.
McDonald, Bdw^ard Francis, of Harrison,
N. J., was born in Ireland, September 21, 1844,
and came to this country with his parents during
infancy; his education was obtained in the public
schools; skilled mechanic, having learned the trade
of machinist, which he followed up to 1875; elected
to the New Jersey assembly in 1874; elected
director at large of the board of chosen freeholders
of Hudson County in 1877 and reelected in 1879,
serving four years; chosen Presidential elector by
the Democratic State convention in 1884, but de-,
clined the office; elected State senator in 1889, but
was unseated for purely partisan reasons; restored
to his seat by the next senate and resigned to begin
his term as Congressman; soldier in the civil war,
enlisting in 1861, before he was 17 years old, in the
Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, serving
under McClellan and Hooker; largely interested
in the business of real.estate; town treasurer for
ten years, until he declined a further election;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat;
died November 5, 1892.
McDonald, Joh.n, of Rockville, Md., was born
in Ireland, May 24, 1837; educated in the schools
of Ireland; came to this country and enlisted in
the U. S. Army at Boston, Mass., in 1857; joined
his regiment the following December in Arizona;
participated in several Indian campaigns in that
Territory and in California; served in the cavalry
corps of the Army of the Potomac throughout the
civil war; after the war ordered to the West, where
he again took part in several campaigns against
hostile Indians; retired as a captain of cavalry July
1, 1868, for disabilities incurred in the line of serv-
ice; elected to the Maryland legislature as a Re-
publican in 1881; elected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican.
McDonald, Joseph E., was born in Butler
County, Ohio, August 29, 1819; taken to Indiana
in 1826; apprenticed to the saddler's trade at La-
fayette; two years in college, but did not graduate;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1843, and com-
menced to practice; prosecuting attorney in 1843-
1847; elected to the Thirty-first Congress from the
Eighth district of Indiana; elected attorney-general
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of Indiana in 1856 and reelected in 1858; moved
to Indianapolis in 1859; unsuccessful candidate for
governor of Indiana in 1864; elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Daniel D. Pratt, Republi-
can, and took his seat March 5, 1875; died June
21, 1891, at Indianapolis, Ind.
McDonald, Moses, was born at Limerick, Me.,
April 8, 1815; received an academic education;
studied law, commencing practice in 1837; State
representative 1841-42; speaker of the house in
1845 and State senator in 1847; State treasurer
1847-1849; elected a Representative from Maine to
the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses as
a Democrat; customs collector at Portland 1857-
1861; died at Saco, Me., October 18, 1869.
McDougall, Alexander, was born in Scotland
in 1731; came to New York in 1755; engaged in
printing and was imprisoned as the alleged author
of Revolutionary documents; held several com-
missions in the Revolutionary army, finally as
major-general October 20, 1777; Delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1781 and
1784-85; State senator 1783-1786; died at New
York City June 8, 1786.
McDougall, James A. , was born at Bethlehem,
N. Y., November 19, 1817; attended the Albany
public schools; studied law, commencing practice
in Pike County, 111., in 1837; State attorney-general
1842-1846; made explorations of the southwestern
part of the United States, finally locating in San
Francisco; attorney-general of California in 1850;
elected a Representative from California to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; elected a
United States Senator from California for the term
1861-1867; delegate to the national Democratic
convention of 1864; died at Albany, N. Y., Sep-
tember 3, 1867.
McDoTwell, Alexander, of Sharon, Pa., was
born at Franklin, Venango County, Pa., in 1845;
received a common school education; printer by
trade; engaged in the banking business; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican, to
represent the State at large; elected Clerk of the
House of Representatives in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
McDowell, James, was born in Rockbridge
County, Va., October 12, 1796; graduated from
Princeton. College in 1817; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Twenty-ninth (vice
William Taylor, deceased). Thirtieth, and Thirty-
first Congresses as a Democrat, serving from March
6, 1846, to 1851; died near Lexington, Va., August
24, 1851.
McDo-well, James Foster, was born in Mifflin
County, Pa., December 3, 1825; moved to Ohio in
1835; attended the public schools; worked in a
printing office; studied law, commencing practice
in 1846; established the Marion Journal in Indi-
ana; elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for the Thirty-ninth Congress^
McDowell, Jolin Anderson, of Millersburg,
Ohio, was born at Killbuck, Holmes County, Ohio,
September 25, 1853; his father's family moved to
a farm in Monroe Township, Holmes County,
where he received his first years of schooling in a
country school; later the family returned to Kill-
buck, where he clerked in his father's store and
attended the village school in the winters; attended
the Millersburg High School and Lebanon Normal
University; graduated from Mount Union College;
began teaching a country school at 17; taught
seven winter terms; principal of Millersburg High
School two years and superintendent of Millers-
burg schools for seventeen years; county school
examiner for seven years; engaged as instructor in
teachers' institutes in several counties in Ohio;
also instructor in the summer school of Wooster
University; directly interested in agricultural pur-
suits for several years; elected to the Fifty-fifth
and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
McDowell, Joseph, (father of Joseph J. Mc-
Dowell), was born in Winchester, Va., in 1756;
moved to Burke County, N. C; active in the
Revolutionary war; member of the house of com-
mons of North Carolina 1782-1788; opposed to
the adoption of the Federal Constitution in the
State convention; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Third and Fifth Congresses;
died in Burke County, N. C.
McDowell, Joseph. J. (son of Joseph McDow-
ell), was born in Burke County, N., C, November
13,1800; moved to Hillsboro, Ohio; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat; died at
Hillsboro, Ohio, January 17, 1877.
McDuffie, George, was born in Columbia
County, Ga., in 1788; graduated from South Caro-
lina College in 1813; studied law and commenced
practice in 1814 at Pendleton, S. C. ; State repre-
sentative 1818-1820; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, and Twenty-third Congresses as a Demo-
crat, serving until^his resignation in 1834; elected
governor; elected a United States Senator from
South Carolina ( vice William C. Preston, resigned) ;
reelected, serving from January 3, 1843, until his
resignation, January 17, 1846; died in Sumter
District, S. C, March 11, 1851.
McDuffie, John V. , was born at Addison, Steu-
ben County, N. Y., May 16, 1841; moved with his
parents to Bureau County, 111., 1855; attended
school at Lutheran College, Iowa; joined Company
B, Second Iowa Cavalry, July, 1861; served during
the entire war, leaving service at Selma, Ala.;
located at Lowndes County, Ala.; studied law and
admitted to practice in the State courts; elected
judge of probate in 1868; reelected in 1872 and
held the office until 1880; renominated and re-
elected in 1880, but counted out; elected a member
of the State constitutional convention in 1875, but
did not serve; Republican candidate for the
Fiftieth Congress, but was not given the certificate
of election; contested and received the support of
his party in said Congress; renominated for the
Fifty-first Congress, and after contest was seated
June 4, 1890; died in 1896.
McEnery, Samuel Douglas, of New Orleans,
La., was born at Monroe, La., May 28, 1837; edu-
cated at Spring Hill College, near Mobile, Ala.,
the United States Naval Academy, and the Uni-
versity of Virginia; graduated from State and
National Law School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; served
in the Confederate Army, in the war between the
States, as lieutenant, in Virginia, under Magruder,
and in the trans-Mississippi department; lawyer by
profession; nominated by the Democratic party
and elected lieutenant-governor, with L. A. Wiltz
as governor, in 1879; on the death of Governor
Wiltz, October, 1881, succeeded him in the execu-
tive office; nominated by the Democratic party for
governor and elected in 1884; appointed associate
justice of the supreme court in 1888 for the term
of twelve years; nominated by the Democratic
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party in 1892 for governor and defeated by the
Anti-Lottery party; nominated by Dernocratic
caucus for Senator at the session of the legislature
in 1896, and elected to the Senate, to succeed
Hon. N. 0. Blanchard, May 28, 1896; took his seat
March 4, 1897; reelected in 1902.
McEttrick, Michael J., of Boston, Mass., Tvas
born at Roxbury, Mass., June 22, 1846; graduated
from the Washington Grammar and Eoxbury
Latin schools; by profession a journalist; assistant
assessor of Boston in 1884; elected the game year
to the house of representatives of Massachusetts,
and reelected for seven consecutive terms; chair-
man of the Democratic members of the house and
served as chairman of the committee on labor;
elected to the State senate in 1890; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat. '
McEwau, Thomas, jr., of Jersey City, N. J.,
was born at Paterson, JST. J., February 26, 1854;
lawyer by profession and formerly a civil engineer;
assessor of the fourth district, ' Jersey Citjr, for
two years, 1886-87; United States commissioner
and chief supervisor of elections for the district of
New Jersey from August, 1892, to October, 1893;
delegate from Hudson County to the Republican
national convention of 1892; elected a membier of
the assembly in a Democratic district in Hudson
County in 1893 by a plurality of 815 over Dr.
Stout, who was the representative the year before;
in the legislative session of 1894 chosen the Repub-
lican leader of the house; elected to the Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
McPadden, Obadiah B. , was born in Wash-
ington County, Pa., in 1817; studied and practiced
law ; elected State representative iil 1843 ; appointed
a justice of the supreme court of Oregon Territory
in 1853, of Washington Territory in 1854, and
chief justice of the latter in 1858, serving until
1861; member of the legislative council; elected a
Delegate from Washington Territory to the Forty-
third Congress as a Democrat; died at Olympia,
Wash., June 25, 1875.
McFarlan, Duncan, was a native of North
Carolina; attended the common schools; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the
Ninth Congress; State senator for three years;
died September 7, 1816.
McFarlaud, William, was born at Dandridge,
Tenn., September 15, 1821; attended the common
schools; studied law; engaged in tanning and
other business until 1861; engaged in the practice
of law in 1865; held several local judicial offices;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Conservative Demo-
crat; defeated for the Forty-fifth Congress.
McGann, Lawrence Edward, of Chicago, 111.,
was born February 2, 1852, in Ireland; his father
died in 1854; emigrated to the United States with
his mother in 1855, and settled in Milford, Mass.,
where he attended the public schools; moved to
Chicago in 1865, anrl there worked at the boot and
shoe trade until 1879; employed as clerk in the
service of the city until 1885; appointed superin-
tendent of streets January 1, 1885, and resigned
May, 1891; elected to the Fifty-second Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress; received the certificate of election to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, but his seat was success-
fully contested by H. E. Belknap, who took his
seat December 27, 1895.
McGaughey, Edward W. , was a native of In-
diana; attended the public schools; elected a Rep-
resentative from Indiana to the Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig; defeated for
the Thirty-second Congress; died at Greencastle,
Ind., August 18, 1852.
McGowan, Jonas H., of ColdwatSr, Mich.,
was born in the township of Smithtown, Mahon-
ing (then Colunibiana) County, Ohio, April 2,
1837; moved with his parents to Orland, Steuben
County, Ind., in 1854; entered the University of
Michigan in 1857 and graduated in June, 1861;
taught in the city schools of Cold water, Mich.,
for one year and then enlisted as a private in the
Fifth Michigan Cavalry Volunteers; afterwards
promoted to a captaincy; raised a company for the
Ninth Michigan Cavalry, and went into active
service with that regiment in the spring of 1863;
by reason of injuries received in a cavalry charge
was disabled, and resigned his commission in Feb-
ruary, 1864, returning to Coldwater, where he
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1867; from
1868 to 1872 prosecuting attorney; served one term
as State senator and seven years as regent of the
University of Michigan, resigning to take his seat
in the Forty-fifth Congress, to which he was
elected; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress as
a Republican.
McGrrew, James C, was born in Monongalia
County, Va. (now West Virginia), September 14,
1813; attended the common schools; engaged in
mercantile pursuits and banking; delegate to the
State convention of 1861; State representative of
West Virginia 1863-1865; managing director of the
West Virginia Insane Hospital for many years;
elected a Representative from West Virginia to
the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses as a
Union Republican.
McHatton, Robert, was a native of Virginia;
moved to Georgetown, Ky. ; elected a Represent-
ative from Kentucky to the Nineteenth Congress
as a Jackson Democrat, vice James Johnson, de-
ceased; reelected to the Twentieth Congress;
died at Georgetown, Ky.
McHenry, Henry D., was born at Hartford,
Ky., February 27, 1826; graduated from Transyl-
vania Law School in 1845; State representative
1851-1853 and 1865-1867, and State senator 1861-
1865; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat; member
of the Democratic national committee 1876-1890;
died at Hartford, Ky., December 17, 1890.
McHenry, James, was born in Ireland No-
vember 16, 1753; aid-de-camp to General La-
fayette during the Revolution; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1783-1786
and the Federal constitutional convention in 1787;
Secretary of War, Januarv 29, 1796, to May 13,
1800; died at Baltimore, Md., May 8, 1816.
McHenry, John H., of Hartford, Ky., was a
native of that State; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig.
Mcllvaine, Abraham Robinson, was born at
Crum Creek, Pa., August 14, 1804; attended the
common schools; became a farmer in Chester
County, Pa.; State representative 1836-37; Presi-
dential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
eighth, Twentjf-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses as
a Whig; died in Chester County, Pa., August 14,
1863.
Mcllvaine, Joseph, was born at Bristol, Bucks
County, Pa., in 1768; received an academic educa-
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tion; studied law and commenced practice in 1791
at Burlington, N. J. ; county court clerk 1800-1823;
United States attorney for New Jersey 1801-1820;
elected a United States Senator from New Jersey
as a Democrat (vice Samuel L. Southard, resigned),
serving from December 1, 1823, until his death at
Burlington, N. J., August 19, 1826.
Mclndoe, "Walter D., was born in Scotland,
March 30, 1819; emigrated to America in 1823;
engaged in business in New York, Charleston, and
St. Louis, finally locating in Wisconsin in the
lumber business; State representative 1850, 1854,
and 1855; Presidential elector on the Republican
tickets of 1856 and 1860; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-
eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Repub-
can, serving from January 26, 1863, to 1867.
Mclntire, Rufus, was born at York, Me., De-
cember 19, 1774; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1809; studied law and commenced practice
at Parsonsfield, Me., in 1812; served in the war of
1812; State representative and county attorney;
on the boundary commission in 1826; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Twentieth,
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses as a Jackson Democrat; State land
agent 1839-1840; United States marshal for Maine
and surveyor of the port of Portland; died at Par-
sonsfield, Me., April 28, 1866.
Mclntire, William Watson, of Baltimore,
Md., was born in Franklin County, Pa., of Scotch-
Irish and German parentage, June 29, 1850; in his
infancy his parents moved to Washington County,
Md., where his father died in 1868 from the effects
of wounds received in the war of the rebellion;
forced in early life to provide for a dependent
family, he learned the trade of machinist, and
moved in July, 1872, to Baltimore, where he ob-
tained employment in the machine shops of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, at Mount
Clare; worked here till 1874, when he received an
appointment in the United States Railway Mail
Service; remained in this service till 1885, when
he resigned and became general agent of the
United States Life Insurance Company for the
State of Maryland and the District of Columbia;
for a short time attended school at the Hagers-
town Academy; while in the Railway Mail Serv-
ice studied law and admitted to the Baltimore
bar; elected as a Republican to the city council of
Baltimore in 1887, and was reelected in 1888; in
the campaign of 1895 was treasurer of the Mary-
land RepubUcan State and city committees;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Mclntyre, Archibald Thompson, of Thomas-
ville, Ga. , was born in Twiggs County, Ga. , October
27, 1822; attended Thomasville Academy; studied
law at Monticello, Fla., and Macon, Ga.; State
representative in 1849, and a delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1865; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
McJunkin, Etoenezer, was born in Butler
County, Pa., March 28, 1819; graduated from Jef-
ferson" College in Pennsylvania m 1841; studied
law delegate to the national ReJ)ublican conven-
tion at Chicago in 1860; Republican Presidential
elector in 1864; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Repubhcan, resignmg January 1,
1875.
McKaig, William McMahon, of Cumberland,
Md., was born of Scotch-Irish parentage at Cum-
berland, AUegany County, Md., July 29, 1845;
educated in the Carroll School and the Allegany
County Academy; boated coal over the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal from Cumberland to the
navy-yard in Washington City 1860-1865; read
law; admitted to the Allegany bar April, 1868;
health failing him in 1873, he went to Colorado
Territory and lived an outdoor life; spring of 1874
went to Manitou and Denver, and engaged in the
hotel business until October, when he went to
Salt Lake City, Utah, then to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and Cajon Pass, near the Panamint
Mines, California, where he followed gold mining;
spring of 1875 went to Acapulco, Mexico; Pont
Auramis, Costa Rica; Panama, Aspinwall, and
Savanilla, in the United States of Colombia; then
to New York; failed to secure the Democratic
nomination for State attorney for Allegany County;
appointed city attorney of Cumberland in 1876;
elected in 1877 from Allegany County to the lower
branch of the Maryland legislature; appointed in
1879 colonel on the personal staff of Governor
Hamilton; appointed chief of ordnance on the
general staff by Governor Robert M. McLane in
1884, and reappointed by Governors Lloyd and
Jackson; elected State senator from Allegany
County in 1887; elected mayor of Cumberland in
spring of 1890; in the fall of same year elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-third Congress.
McKay, James J. , was bom in Bladen County,
N. C, in 1793; pursued classical studies and studied
law; United States attorney for North Carolina for
a number of years; State senator 1815-1819, 1822,
1826, and 1830; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Twenty-second and contin-
uously to the Thirtieth Congress as a' Democrat;
died at Goldsboro, N. C, September 14, 1853.
McEean, James Bedell, was born at Hoosick,
N. Y., August 5, 1821; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and commenced practice at
Saratoga Springs in 1849; county judge 1854r-1858;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a
Republican; colonel oit the Sixty-seventh New
York Volunteers in the civil war; appointed chief
justice of Utah by President Lincoln, serving
until 1875.
McKean, Samuel, was bom in Huntingdon
County, Pa. , in 1790; attended the common schools;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses
as a Democrat; elected a United States Senator
from Pennsylvania for the term of 1833-1839; died
in McKean County, Pa., June 23, 1840.
McKean, Thomas, was born in Chester County,
Pa., March 19, 1734; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law; commenced practice at New-
castle, Del.; colonial representative 1762-1769;
delegate from Delaware to the general congress
at New York City in 1765 and to the Continental
Congress 1774^1783; served in the Revolutionary
Army; moved to Pennsylvania; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; governor of Penn-
sylvania 1799-1808; died at Philadelphia, Pa., June
24, 1817.
McEee, George C, was bom at Joliet, 111.,
October 2, 1837; attended Knox College and Lom-
bardy University; admitted to the bar in 1858;
city attorney at Centralia; served throughout the
civil war with distinction, from private to briga-
dier-general; resumed law practice in Vicksburg,
Miss.; appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867;
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elected a Eepresentative from Mississippi to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican, but the State
was refused representation; elected to the Forty-
first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses;
postmaster of Jackson for four years; died at
Jackson, Miss., November 17, 1890.
McKee, Jolm, was a native of Rockbridge
County, Va. ; received an academic education;
located at Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; agent to the Choctaw
Indians; elected a Representative from Alabama
to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses; died at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
McKee, Samuel, was a native of Virginia;
moved to Kentucky ; delegate to the constitutional
convention; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and
Fourteenth Congresses as a Democrat.
McEee, Samuel, was born in Montgomery
County, Ky., Novembers, 1833; attended the com-
mon schools; graduated from Miami University,
Ohio, in 1857, and the Cincinnati Law School in
1858, commencing practice at Mount Sterling, Ky. ;
served in the civil war as captain of volunteers;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; pension agent at Louisville 1869-1871 ; died
in 1898.
McKeighan, William Arthur, was born of
Irish parents in Cumberland County, N. J., Jan-
uary 19, 1842; moved with his parents to Fulton
County, 111., in 1848, where he lived on a farm
and attended the common school; enlisted in the
Eleventh Regiment Illinois Cavalry September,
1861; at the close of the war settled on a farm
near Pontiac, 111. ; took an active part in organ-
izing the Farmers' Association; elected vice-
president for the Eighth Congressional district;
moved to Nebraska in 1880 and settled on farm
near Red Cloud; took an active interest in organ-
izing the Alliance; elected county judge of Webster
County in 1885; nominated for Congress by the
Alliance, or Independent party, indorsed by the
Democratic convention, and elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as an Independent; reelected to
the Fifty -third Congress; died at Hastings, Nebr.,
December 15, 1895.
McKenna, Joseph., of Suisun, Cal. ; was born
at Philadelphia, Pa., August 10, 1843; went to Cali-
fornia with his parents in January, 1855; district
attorney of Solano County for two terms, com-
mencing in March, 1866; served in the California
legislature in the sessions of 1875 and 1876; un-
successful Republican candidate for Congress in
1876 from the Third district, and again the unsuc-
cessful candidate in 1879; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses-
Attorney-General under President McKinley, and
subsequently appointed a justice of the Supreme
Court.
McKennan, Thomas M. T., was born in New-
castle County, Pa., March 31, 1794; received an
academic education and studied law, commencing
practice at Washington, Pa. ; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-second
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig; Secretary
of the Interior August 15 to September 12, 1850-
died at Reading, Pa., July 9, 1852. '
McKenney, William Bobertsoii, of Peters-
burg, Va., was born at that city December 2, 1851-
prepared for college at McCabe's University
School, Petersburg; entered the academic depart-
ment of the University of Virginia in October,
1871, and afterwards graduated from a number of
the schools of that institution; taught school for
two years, and in the fall of 1875 entered the law
school of said university; graduated in June, 1876,
with the degree of B. L. ; commenced the practice
of law in Petersburg; elected president of the city
council of Petersburg in the spring of 1888, which
oflice he held for six years; Presidential elector
on the Democratic ticket in 1888, and in 1892 a
delegate to the Democratic national convention at
Chicago, in which body he was the Virginia rep-
resentative on the committee on credentials; served
as a member of the State Democratic executive
committee; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat; his seat was successfully contested by
R. T. Thorp, who was seated May 2, 1896.
McKenty, Jacob K. , was born at Douglasville,
Pa., in 1827; graduated from Yale College in 1848;
studied law, and commenced practice at Reading
in 1851; elected county attorney in 1856; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
sixth Congress (vice John Schwartz, deceased),
serving from December 3, i860, to March 3, 1861;
died at Douglasville, Pa., January 3, 1863.
McKenzie, James A., of Long View, Ky., was
born in Christian County, Ky., August 1, 1840; edu-
cated in the common schools of Christian County
and at Centre College, Danville, Ky. ; studied law
and admitted to the bar; by occupation a farmer;
member of the Kentucky legislature 1867-1871;
Democratic elector for the State at large in 1872;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress and reelected
to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses
as a Democrat; secretary of State of Kentucky
under Governor J. Proctor Knott; commissioner
to the World's Fair, Chicago; minister to Peru
under Cleveland's last Administration, and while
there contracted the smallpox, which settled in his
eyes; resigned, and located on his farm near Long
View, Ky. ■ ^
McKenzie, Lewis, was born at Alexandria,
Va., October 7, 1810; received an academic educa-
tion; prominently engaged in shipping and mer-
cantile business; city councilman for a number of
years; State Representative from Virginia to the
third session of the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Unionist, serving from February 16, 1863, to March
3, 1863, and as a Union Conservative to the Forty-
first Congress, serving from January 31, 1870, to
March 3, 1871; president of the Washington and
Ohio Railroad Company; appointed postmaster of
Alexandria in 1878.
McKeon, John, was born at Albany, N. Y.,
m 1808; graduated from Columbia College; studied
law and practiced in New York City; State assem-
blyman 1832-1834; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-
seventh Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for
the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-eighth Congresses;
district attorney for New York County 1846-1850
and again elected in 1881; appointed United States
district attorney for the southern district of New
York in 1853; died at New York City, November
22, 1883.
McKibbin, Joseph C, was born in Pennsyl-
vania in 1824; received an academic education;
moved to California; elected a Representative from
California to the Thirty-fifth Congress as an anti-
Lecompton Democrat; died July 1, 1896.
McKim, Alexander, was born at Baltimore
Md., in 1748; received an academic education;
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elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses as
a Democrat.
McEim, Isaac, was a native of Baltimore, Md. ;
attended the public schools; engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Seventeenth Congress as a Jackson
Democrat, vice Samuel Smith, resigned; reelected
to the Eighteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
and Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving until his
death, April 1, 1838, at Washington, D. C.
McKinley, Jolm, was a native of Culpeper
County, Va.; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Louisville, Ky.; moved to Huntsville, Ala.;
a State representative; elected a United States
Senator from Alabama as a Jackson Democrat
(vice Henry Chambers, deceased), serving from
December 21, 1,826 to 1831 ; elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Twenty-third Congress; ap-
pointed an associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court April 22, 1837, serving until his
death, July 19, 1852, at Louisville, Ky.
McKinley, 'William, was a native of Virginia;
elected a Representative from that Ftate to the
Eleventh Congress as a Democrat (vice John G.
Jackson, resigned), serving from December 21,
1810, to March 3, 1811.
McKinley, 'William, jr., of Canton, Ohio, was
born at Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843; enlisted in
the U. S. Army on June 23, 1861, as a private sol-
dier in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and mustered out as captain and brevet major in
the same regiment; prosecuting attorney of Stark
County, Ohio, 1869-1871; elected to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses
as a Republican; defeated for the Forth-eighth
Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses; elected governor of Ohio in
1891 and inaugurated January 11, 1892; elected
President of the United States in November, 1896,
as a Republican; reelected President in 1900; as-
sassinated by an anarchist while attending the Pan-
American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., September
6, 1901, and died in that city September 14, 1901.
McKinney, John F. , was borii on a farm near
Piqua, Ohio, April 12, 1827; received a liberal ed-
ucation; studied law and commenced practice in
1851 at Piqua; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thitty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Thirty-ninth Congress; elected to
the Forty-second Congress.
McKinney, Iiuther P., of Manchester, N. H.,
was born in Licking County, Ohio, April 25, 1841;
spent his early Ufe on a farm; received a common
school education; enlisted in the First Ohio Cav-
alry in August, 1861, and served as sergeant till
1863, when he was discharged for disabilities re-
sulting from typhoid fever; in the spring of 1865
moved to the State of Iowa, where he remained
till the fall of 1867, being engaged in farming and
teaching; in September, 1867, entered the St.
Lawrence University at New York, took a three
years' course, and graduated June 30, 1870; moved
to Maine and entered the ministry; moved to
New Hampshire in 1873; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second Congress;
was minister to Colombia, South America, 1893-
,1897. '
McKissock, Thomas, was born in Ulster
County, N. Y., in 1798; studied medicine and law,
commencing practice of the latter at Newburgh;
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appointed a puisne justice of the supreme court in
1847; elected a Representative from New York'to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; defeated for
the Thirty-second Congress.
McKnig'ht, Robert, was born at Pittsburg, Pa.,
in 1820; graduated from Princeton College in 1839;
studied law and commenced practice in 1842 at
Pittsburg; city councilman 1847-1849; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
McXiachlan, James, of Pasadena, Cal., was
born in August, 1852, in Argyllshire, Scotland; at
the age of 3 he moved with his parents to Tomp-
kins County, N. Y., where he was reared on a
farm, and educated in the public schools; began
teaching in the public schools at the age of 16,
and while engaged in that work prepared him-
self for college; graduated from Hamilton Col-
lege, New York, in 1878; admitted to practice in
the supreme court of New York State in 1880, and
commenced the practice of the law in 1881 at
Ithaca, N. Y., where he remained until 1888,
when he moved to Pasadena, Cal., and there con-
tinued the practice of his profession; elected on
the Republican ticket to the oflBce of school com-
missioner of Tompkins County, N. Y., in 1877;
elected district attorney of Los Angeles County,
Cal., in 1890; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress
as a Republican; elected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
McLain, Frank Alexander, of Gloster, Miss.,
was born January 29, 1853, and reared on a farm
in Amite County, Miss.; attended the common
schools of the county and graduated in the A. B.
course at the University of Mississippi in June,
1874; commenced the practice of law in Liberty,
Miss., 1880; elected to the State legislature in 1881
for a term of two years; elected district attorney
for his judicial district in 1883, in which capacity
he served for three consecutive terms of four years
each; elected to the constitutional convention of
Mississippi in 1890 as floater delegate from the
counties of Amite and Pike; retired voluntarily
from the office of district attorney January 1, 1896,
and resumed his law practice at Gloster, Miss.;
elected as a Democrat, practically without opposi-
tion, to fill out the unexpired term in the Fifty-
fifth Congress of William Franklin Love, who
died October 16, 1898; reelected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
McLanahan, James X., was born near Green-
castle, Pa., in 1809; graduated from Dickinson Col-
lege in 1826; studied law and commenced practice
at Chambersburg, Pa. ; State senator in 1841 ; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses as a Democrat;
died at New York City December 16, 1861.
McXiane, Louis (father of Robert M. McLane),
was born at Smyrna, Del., May 28, 1786; entered
the U. S. Navy in 1798; commenced to study law
in 1804; practiced in Smyrna in 1807; served in
the war of 1812; elected a Representative from
Delaware to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses, as a Dem-
ocrat; elected a United States Senator from Dela-
ware, serving from December 3, 1827, to his
resignation, April 16, 1829; minister to England
April 18, 1829, to July 6, 1831; Secretary of the
Treasury August 8, 1831, to May 29, 1833; Secre-
tary of State May 29, 1833, to June 2, 1834; again
minister to England June 16, 1845, to August 18,
1846; delegate to the Maryland constitutional con-
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vention of 1850; president of the Baltimore and
Ohio Eailro'ad 1837-1847; died at Baltimore, Md.,
October 7, 1857.
McLane, Kobert M., was born at Wilmington,
Del., June 23, 1815; received a scholastic educa-
tion, entering St. Mary's College in 1827, and the
College Bourbon, Paris, in 1829; appointed a ca-
det at West Point by President Jackson in 1833;
graduated in July, 1837, and commissioned second
lieutenant of artillery; served with his regiment
during the Florida wars of 1837 to 1838; trans-
ferred to the Corps of Topographical Engineers
in 1838, then newly reorganized, in which he
served until he resigned from the Army in 1843;
studied law during his Residence in Washington
in the winters of 1842 and 1843; admitted to
the bar and moved to Baltimore, where he
practiced; elected a member of the Maryland
house of delegates in 1845; member of the Thir-
tieth and Thirty-first Congresses; Presidential
elector on the, Pierce ticket in 1852; in the subse-
quent year was appointed commissioner to China,
with me powers of a minister plenipotentiary,
and at the same time accredited to Japan, Siam,
Korea, and Cochin China; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at Cincinnati, 1856; ap-
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to the Republic of Mexico in 1859;
delegate to national Democratic convention at St.
Louis in 1876; in the fall of that year was elected
to the State" senate of Maryland; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-seventh Congress; United States minis-
ter to France; died April 26, 1898.
Mcliaurin, Anselm Joseph, of Brandon,
Miss., was born there March 26, 1848; moved
with his parents the latter part of that year to
Smith County, where he was raised on a farm;
attended the neighborhood schools occasionally
until 16 years old, when he joined the Confeder-
ate army and served as a private; after the war
attended two years at Summerville Institute, com-
pleting the junior year; licensed to practice law
July 3, 1868; elected district attorney in 1871; rep-
resentative in the legislature in 1879; Presidential
elector for the State at large in 1888 ; delegate to the
constitutional convention in 1890; United States
Senator in February, 1894; governor of Mississippi
in 1895, and served four years; reelected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat in January,
1900, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
McLaurin, Jclin Loundes, of Marlboro
County, 8. C, was born at Bed Bluff, that county.
May 9, 1860; educated in the village school at
Bennettsville, "Bethel Military Academy, near
Warrenton, Va., and Swathmore College, Phila-
delphia, Carolina Military Institute, and University
of Virginia; studied law at the last-named school,
and admitted to the bar in 1882; elected to the
general assembly of South Carolina in 1890; elected
attorney-general of that State the following year;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Eli
T. Stackhouse, and took his seat December 5, 1892;
reelected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and
Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; appointed a
United States Senator May 27, 1897, by Governor
EUerbe, of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Joseph H. Earle, and took
his seat June 1, 1897; nominated at a Democratic
primary, receiving a majority in 41 of the 45 coun-
ties of the State; the legislature ratified the action
of the primaries by electing him Senator to fill the
unexpired term which ended March 3, 1903; sworn
in January 31, 1898.
McXiean, Alney, was born in Burke County,
N. C, September 5, 1779; studied and practiced
law; a State representative; served in the war of
1812; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Congresses; circuit
judge from 1821 to his death.
McLean, Finis E. , was a native of Kentucky;
State representative from Elkton; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig.
McLean, James H., of St. Louis, Mo., was
born in Scotland, August 13, 1829; reared in Nova
Scotia, and moved to the United States at the age
of 13; studied medicine and surgery at St. Louis,
and after having graduated practiced there; an
energetic business man; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican, from a Demo-
cratic district, to fill the vacancy created by the
death of Thomas Allen, Democrat.
McLean, Jolin, was born in Morris County,
N. J., March 11, 1785; moved to Morgantown, Va.,
in 1789, to Nicholasville, Ky., in 1790, to Mayslide,
Ky., in 1793, and to Lebanon, Ohio, in 1797; at-
tended the common schools; studied law at Cin-
cinnati, commencing practice at Lebanon in 1807;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a War Demo-
crat, serving until his resignation in 1816; elected
State supreme court judge in 1817; appointed Com-
missioner of the United States General Land Office
September 11, 1822; Postmaster-General Decem-
ber 9, 1823, to March 7, 1829; justice of the United
States Supreme Court March 7, 1829, until his
death, at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4, 1861.
McLean, John, was born in North Carolina in
1791; received an academic education; moved to
Illinois and studied law; commenced practice at
Shawneetown; State representative and speaker of
the house; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Thirteenth Congress; a United States Sena-
tor (vice Ninian Edwards, resigned) December 20,
1824, to March 3,, 1825; again Senator from Decem-
ber 7, 1829, to his death, October 14, 1830, at
Shawneetown.
McLean, Samuel, was elected a Delegate from
Montana Territory to the Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
McLean, William (brother of John McLean),
was born in Morris County, N. J. ; attended the
public schools; moved to Ohio; appointed re-
ceiver of public moneys at Piqua, Ohio; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; died at
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 12, 1839.
McLean, William P., was born in Hinds
County, Miss., August 9, 1836; moved to Marshall,
Tex., in 1839; graduated from the University of
North Carolina m 1857, and studied law; served in
the Confederate army throughout the civil war;
member of the Texas legislature in 1861 and 1869;
elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
McLene, Jeremiah, was born in 1767; received
a limited education; moved to Columbus, Ohio;
secretary of the State of Ohio for several years;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Washington, D. 0., March. 19, 1837.
McMahon, John A., of Dayton, Ohio, was
born in Frederick County, Md., February 19, 1833;
educated at Saint Xavier's College, Cincinnati,
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graduating in 1849; began the study of law in Jan-
uary, 1851, at Dayton; admitted to the bar in June,
1854, and practiced at Dayton; a delegate at large
to the national Democratic convention at Balti-
more in 1872; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-
flfth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
jyiciyCauus, ■William, was a native of Rensselaer
County, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from that
State to the Nineteenth Congress; died at Troy,
McMillan, Garrett, was elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Forty-fourth Congress as
a Democrat, but died before Congress met.
McMillan, James, was born at Hamilton, On-
tario, May 12, 1838; prepared for college, but in
1855 moved to Detroit, where he entered upon a
business life; with others established the Michigan
Car Company in 1863, Of which enterprise, with its
various branches, he was the president; member of
the Republican State central committee in 1876,
and on the death of Zachariah Chandler made
chairman; again in 1886 and 1890 elected chair-
man of the committee; for three years was presi-
dent of the Detroit board of park commissioners
and for four years a member of the Detroit board
of estimates; a Rejpublican Presidential elector in
J884; received the unanimous n'omination of the
Republican members of the legislature and elected
to the United States Senate to succeed Thomas
Witherell Palmer, and took his seat March 3, 1889 ;
reelected in 1895 and 1901, serving until his death,
August 10, 1902, at Manchester, Mass.
McMillan, Samuel J. R. , was born at Browns-
ville, Pa., Februarjr 22, 1826; received a classical
education, graduating from Duquesne College,
Pittsburg, in 1846; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1849, and commenced practice at Stillwater,
Minn., in 1852; elected judge of the first judicial
circuit in 1857; appointed associate justice of the
State supreme court in 1864 to flljl a vacancy;
elected and reelected, and resigned in 1874; 'ap-
pointed in 1874 and afterwards reelected chief jus-
tice of the State supreme court, and resigned when
glected to the United States Senate as a Republi-
can, to succeed Alexander Ramsey, Republican;
took his seat March 4, 1875; reelected in 1881,
serving until March 3, 1887; died in October, 1897.
McMillan, 'William, was born in Virginia in
1760; graduated from William and Mary College;
studied and practiced law; moved to Fort Wash-
ington (now Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1787; held several
local offices; elected to the Territorial legislature
in 1799; elected a Delegate from the Northwest
Territory to the Sixth Congress (vice William
Henry Harrison, resigned), serving from Novem-
ber 24, 1800, to March 3, 1801; United States dis-
trict attorney for Ohio for a short time; died near
Cincinnati, Ohio, in June, 1804.
McMillin, Benton, of Carthage, Tenn., was
born in Monroe County, Ky., September 11, 1845;
educated at Phylomath Academy, Tennessee, and
Kentucky University, at Lexington; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; commenced practice at Ce-
lina, Tenn. , in 1871 ; elected a member of the house
of representatives of the Tennessee legislature in
November, 1874, and served out his term; commis-
sioned by the governor to treat with the State of
Kentucky for the purchase of territory in 1875;
chosen elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket
in 1876; commissioned by thegovernorspecial judge
of thecircuitcourtin 1877; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and
Fifty-fifth Congresses; resigned January 16, 1899,
having been elected governor of Tennessee; re-
elected governor in 1900.
McMuUen, Fayette, was a native of Virginia;
received an academic education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Thirty-first, Thirty-
second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses
as a Democrat; governor of Washington Territory
1857-1861; elected a representative from Virginia
to the Second Confederate Congress, serving to the
end of the Confederacy.
McNagny, ■William P. , of Columbia City, Ind.,
was born in Summit County, Ohio, April 19, 1850;
moved in early life to Whitley County, Ind. ; had
a common school education; taught school and
worked on farm for six years; employed four years
as station agent for Pennsylvania Company; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1873 and settled at Columbia
City ; elected to the Fifty- third Congress as a Demo-
crat; after leaving Congress resumed the practice
of law at Columbia City, Ind. .
McNair, John, of Norristown, Pa., was born in
that State in 1800; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second and Thirty- third
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Evansport, Va.,
August 7, 1861.
MclTeely, Thompson W., was born at Jack-
sonville, 111., October 5, 1835; graduated from
Lombard University in 1856 and from the Law
University of Louisville, Ky., in 1859; member
of the Illinois constitutional convention in 1862;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-
first and Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
McNeill, Archibald, was a native of Cumber-
land County, N. C. ; State representative 1808-9,
and State senator 1811-1815; elected a Represent-
ative from North Carolina to the Seventeenth and
Nineteenth Congresses.
McNulta, J'ohn, was born at New York City
November 9, 1837; received an academic educa-
tion; after visiting the West India Islands and
Europe, moved to Attica, Ind. , in 1853, and from
there to Bloomington, 111., in 1859; engaged in the
manufacture of cigars and the study of law; served
in the Union Army from private, ih April, 1861,
to brigadier-general, by brevet, at its close; com-
menced law practice in October, 1865, at Bloom-
ington; State senator 1869-1873; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican; defeated for the Forty-fourth
Congress; died February 2, 1900.
McFherson, Edvsrard, was bom at Gettysburg,
Pa., July 31, 1830; graduated from Pennsylvania
College in 1848; studied law; edited a paper at
Harrisburg, Pa., and engaged in farming; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a Repub-
lican; defeated for the Thirty-eighth Congress; ap-
pointed deputy commissioner of internal revenue
in 1863; elected Clerk of the National House of
Representatives in the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-
third, Forty-seventh, and Fifty-first Congresses;
president of the national Republican convention
of 1876; chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing 1877-78; editor of the Philadelphia Press
1877-1830; editor and proprietor of a paper at
Gettysburg 1880-1895; editor of the New York
Tribune Almanac 1877-1895; American editor of
the Almanach de Gotha; published the Political
History of the United States during the Great Re-
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bellion; published the Political History of the
United States during the Period of Eeconstruction;
published numerous political essays, orations,
pamphlets, etc. ; received an LL. D. from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1877; died at Gettysburg,
Pa., December 14, 1895.
McPherson, John Khoderic, was born at
York, Livingston County, N.Y., May 9, 1833; re-
ceived a common school and academic education;
moved to Jersey City, N. J., in 1859; farmer and
dealer in live stock; elected a member of the board
of aldermen of Jersey City in 1864, and held that
ofiBce for six years, serving for three years as presi-
dent of the board; president of the People's Gas
Light Company during the years 1868-69; elected
president of the Central Stock Yard and Transit
Compaoay in 1873; member of the State senate of
New Jersey 1871-1873; Presidential elector on the
Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
F. T. Frelinghuysen, Eepublican, and took his
seat March 5, 1877; reelected in 1883 and 1889, and
served until March 3, 1895; died October 8, 1897.
McPherson, Smith, of Red Oak, Montgomery
County, Iowa, was born near Mooresville, Morgan
County, Ind., February 14, 1848; received a com-
mon school and academic education; worked on a
farm until he attained his majority; attended law
school at Iowa State University, at Iowa City, from
which he graduated in June, 1870; attorney-general
of Iowa January, 1881, to January, 1885; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resigned June 6, 1900.
McQueen, John, was bom in Eobinson County,
N. C.,inl808; received a liberal education; studied
law; commenced practice at Bennettsville, S. C,
in 1828; served in the State militia 1833-1837;
elected a Eepresentative from South Carolina to
the Thirtieth (vice Alexander D. Sims, deceased).
Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-
fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses
as a Democrat, serving from February 12, 1849, to
his retirement, DecemlDer20, 1860; Eepresentative
from South Carolina to the first Confederate Con-
gress; died at Society Hill, S. C, August 30, 1867.
McKae, John J. , was born in Wayne County,
Miss. , about 1810; received an academic education;
studied law and practiced; State representative
and senator for several years; appointed a United
States Senator from Mississippi (vice Jefferson
Davis, resigned), as a State Rights Democrat, serv-
ing from December 19, 1851, to March 17, 1852;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Thirty-fifth (vice John A. Quitman, deceased) and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a State Rights Demo-
crat, serving from December 7, 1858, until he re-
tired January 12, 1861; Representative from Mis-
sissippi to the First Confederate Congress; died at
Belize, British Honduras, May 30, 1868.
McBea, Thomas Chipman, of Prescott, Ark.;
was born at Mount Holly, Union County, Ark.,
December 21, 1851; received a limited education
at the private schools at Shady Grove, Columbia
County, Mount Holly, Union County, and Falcon,
Nevada County, Ark. ; in boyhood worked on a
farm, one year in a wholesale mercantile estab-
lishment at Shreveport, La., and one year in a
retail store at Falcon, Ark. ; received a full course
of instruction at Soul6 Business College, New
Orleans, La., in 1870; graduated in law from the
Washington and Lee University, Virginia, in class
of 1871-72; admitted to practice in State circuit
courts in Eosston, Nevada County, Ark., January
8, 1873, in the Arkansas supreme court January
27, 1876, and in the United States Supreme Court
January 4, 1886; member of the State legislature
of Arkansas in 1877, in which year the county
seat was changed, and he moved from Rosston to
Prescott; member of the town council of the in-
corporated town of Prescott in 1879; Presidential
elector for Hancock and English in 1880; chair-
man of the Democratic State convention in 1884
and in 1902; delegate to the national Democratic
convention in 1884; Democratic national commit-
teeman for Arkansas 1896-1900, and Congressional
committeeman for said State 1888-1902; elected to
the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat; vol-
untarily retired from Congress to resume the
practice of law.
McBoberts, Samuel, was bom in Illinois
about 1800; graduated from Transylvania Univer-
sity; studied law and commenced practice at
Danville; United States attorney for Illinois; State
senator; elected a United States Senator from Illi-
nois as a Democrat, serving from May 31, 1841,
until his death, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mafch 27,
1843.
McKuer, Donald C. , was bom in Maine in
1826; received an academic education; moved to
San Francisco, Cal. ; harbor commissioner at San
Francisco; elected a Representative from Califor-
nia to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
McShane, John A. , of Omaha, Nebr. , was bom
at New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, August
25, 1850, and worked on a farm until 21 years of
age, receiving only such education as could be ob-
tained in the common schools; went to Wyoming
Territory in 1871, and employed on a cattle ranch;
became a cattle owner in 1873; moved to Omaha
in 1874, but retained his interest in Wyoming until
1883, when he merged his individual cattle inter-
ests in the Bay State Live Stock Company; director
in the First National Bank of Omaha; elected to the
lower house of the State legislature from Omaha in
1880 for two years; elected to the Statesenatein 1882
for two years, and reelected for another term in
1884; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat.
McSherry, James, was bom in Adams County,
Pa., in 1776; State representative for twenty years;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Seventeenth Congress; died at Littlestown, Pa.,
February 3, 1849.
McVean, Charles, was bom at Johnstown, N.
Y., in 1802; received an academic education;
studied law and commenced practice at Canajo-
harie, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; moved to New York City; appointed
surrogate January 24, 1844; United States attorney
for the southern district of New York; died at New
York City, December 20, 1848.
McWillie, William, was bom in Kershaw
District, S. C, November 17, 1795; served in the
war of 1812; graduated from South Carolina Col-
lege in 1817; studied law, and commenced practice
at Camden, S. C, in 1818; State senator 1836-1840;
moved to Mississippi in September, 1845; elected
a Representative from Mississippi to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Thirty-second Congress; governor of Mississippi
1858-1860; active in the support of the Confed-
eracy; died at Kirkwood, Miss., March 3, 1869.
Macdonald, John L., of Shakopee, Minn.,
was born in Scotland in 1838; when quite young
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moved with his parents to Nova Scotia; came
to the United States in 1847, and located in Pitts-
burg, Pa. ; moved to Minnesota in 1855, and set-
tled in Scott County; studied law; admitted to
the bar 1859; judge of the probate court of Scott
County in 1860 and 1861; during the war of the
rebellion commissioned to enlist and muster in
volunteers for the Union Army, and served in that
capacity; prosecuting attorney of Scott County,
1863-64; mayor of Shakopee; member of the State
house of representatives 1869-70, and of the State
senate 1871, 1873-1876; candidate of the Demo-
cratic party for attorney-general in 1872; elected
judge of the eighth judicial district of Minnesota
in 1876 for the term of seven years, and reelected
without opposition in 1883, resigning in the fall of
1886; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat.
MacDougrall, Clinton Sugald, was born in
Scotland, June 14, 1839; emigrated to New York
in 1842; received an academic education; studied
law but engaged in banking 1856-1869; served
prominently in the Union Army, being brevetted
brigadier-general in 1864; appointed postmaster of
Auburn, N. Y., in 1869; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Forty-third and Forty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican; appointed
United States marshal of the western judicial dis-
trict of New York in 1877.
Mace, Daniel, was born in Pickaway County,
Ohio, September 5, 1811; attended the public
schools; studied law and commenced practice at
Lafayette, Ind.; a State representative in 1836
clerk of the State house of representatives in 1837
United States attorney for Indiana 1849-1853
elected a Eepresentative from Indiana to the
Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses as a
Democrat, and to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; appointed postmaster at Lafayette by
President Lincoln; died at Lafayette, Ind., July
26, 1867.
Machen, Willis B., was born in Caldwell
County, Ky., April 10, 1810; attended the common
schools; engaged in farming; delegate to the con-
stitutional convention of 1849; a State senator in
1854 and a representative in 1856 and 1860; elected
a representative from Kentucky to the first and
second Confederate congresses; appointed a United
States Senator from Kentucky (vice Garrett Davis,
deceased) as a Democrat, serving from December 2,
1872, to March 3, 1873; died at Louisville, Ky.,
September 28, 1893.
Machir, James, was a native of Virginia;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Fifth
Congress; died June 25, 1827.
IHackey, Edmund W. M. , was bom at Charles-
ton March 8, 1846; received a classical education,
but prevented by the war from entering college,
for which he was preparing wlien the war began;
appointed assistant assessor of internal revenue in
the second collection district of South Carolina
September 8, 1865; while occupying that position
studied law and subsequently admitted to the bar
by the supreme court of South Carolina November
22 1868; took a prominent part in the work of
reconstruction, and elected November 19 and 20,
1867, a delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion; elected sheriff of Charleston County June 2
and 3, 1868, for a term of four years; elected an
alderman of the city of Charleston in November,
1868, again in October, 1873, and reelected in 1875;
during 1871-72 editor and proprietor of the Charles-
ton Republican; elected in November, 1873, a rep-
resentative to the legislature of South Carolina;
elected in November, 1874, a Representative to the
Forty-fourth Congress; elected in November, 1876,
a representative to the State legislature, and upon
its assembling elected speaker of the house; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention at
Philadelphia in 1872, and also to the national Re-
publican convention at Chicago in 1880, being at
the latter convention chairman of the South Caro-
lina delegation; delegate to every Republican State
convention in South Carolina during his life, and
thrice president of such conventions; chairman of
the Republican State executive committee; assis-
tant United States attorney for South Carolina 1878-
1881; candidate on the Republican ticket for the
Forty-sixth Congress, to which he claimed to have
been elected, but the certificate of election was
given by the State board of canvassers to M. P.
0' Connor, whose seat he contested without success,
the Committee on Flections having failed to make
any report in the case to the House; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican, receiving,
according to the returns made by the precinct
managers of the election, 18,337 votes, against
17,458 votes for M. P. O'Connor, Democrat, but
nevertheless the certificate of election was given
by the State board of canvassers to the latter,
whose right to the seat he contested, and on May
31, 1882, he was seated by the House; reelected to
the Forty-eighth Congress; died January 27, 1884.
Mackey, L. A., was born in Whitedeer Town-
ship, Pa., November 25, 1819; moved to Milton,
Pa. ; graduated from Union College in 1837; studied
law at Dickinson College; commenced practice at
Lockhaven in 1855; delegate to the Whig national
convention of 1852 and the national Democratic
convention of 1872; mayor of Lockhaven in 1870;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat.
Haclay, Samuel, was bom atLurgan, Pa., June
7, 1741; elected a Representative from that State to
the Fourth Congress; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Pennsylvania, serving from October 17,
1803, until his resignation in 1808; died in North-
umberland County, Pa., Octobers, 1811.
Maclay, William, was bom at New Garden,
Pa., July 20, 1737; elected a United States Senator
from Pennsylvania as a Democrat for the term
1789-1791; Presidential elector on the Jefferson
ticket; died April 16, 1804, at Harrisburg, Pa.
SCaclay, William, of Pennsylvania, studied
and practiced law; associate judge; county com-
missioner; State representative; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Congresses; died January 4, 1825.
Maclay, William Brown, was bom at New
York City in 1815; graduated from the University
of New York; taught latin; studied and practiced
law; associate editor of the New York Quarterly
Review in 1836; elected a State representative in
1839, 1 841, and 1842; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at New York Citv in
1882.
Maclay, William P. , was born in Buffalo Val-
ley, Pa., August 23, 1774; attended the common
schools; State representative; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth (vice
Thomas Burnside, resigned), Fifteenth, and Six-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat, serving from
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December 3, 1816, to March 3, 1821; died at Mil-
roy, Pa., September 2, 1842.
Macon, Nathaniel, was born in Warren
County, N. C, December 17, 1757; pursued classi-
cal studies and attended Princeton College; served
in the Kevolutionary war; State senator 1780-1782
and 1784-85; continuously elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina from the Second to Thir-
teenth Congresses, inclusive, as a Democrat; served
as Speaker of the House of Representatives 1801-
1807; elected and reelected a United States Senator
from North Carolina, serving from December 13,
1815, until he resigned in 1828; President pro tem-
pore of the Senate 1825-1827; president of the State
constitutional convention in 1835; Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1886; died in
Warren County, N. C, June 29, 1837.
Macy, John. B. , attended the common schools;
moved to Fond du Lac, Wis. ; elected a Represent-
ative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-fourth Congress; lost by the burning of the
steamer Niagara on Lake Michigan, September 24,
1856.
Madison, James, was born at Port Conway,
Va., March 16, 1751; graduated -from Princeton
College in 1771; studied law and admitted to the
bar; State representative in 1776, and an executive
councilor in 1778; Delegate to the Continental
Congress 1780-1783 and 1786-1788, and to the
Federal constitutional convention in 1787; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the First, Sec-
ond, Third, and Fourth Congresses as a Democrat;
Secretary of State of the United States 1801-1809;
President 1809-1817; died at Montpelier, Va., June
28, 1836.
Maddox, John W., of Rome, Ga., was born
June 3, 1848, in the county of Chattooga, Ga.;
received a common school education; enlisted
in the service of the Confederate States at the
age of 15, and served as a private until the end of
the war between the States; read law in Summer-
ville, Ga.i admitted to the bar at the Septem-
ber term, 1877, and practiced law there till
1886; elected county commissioner January, 1878;
elected to the State legislature October, 1880, and
reelected in 1882; elected to represent the forty-
second senatorial district in 1884; elected judge of
the superior court, Rome circuit, in Novernber,
1886, and reelected November, 1890; resigned that
office September, 1, 1892, to accept the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Mafiett, James Thompson, of Clarion, Pa.,
was born in Clarion County , near Strattonville, Pa.,
February 2, 1837; received a common school and
collegiate education; after leaving college in 1859,
went to California, where he began the study of
law; returned to Pennsylvania in 1870, completed
his law studies in 1872, and admitted to the bar;
in 1872 formed a law partnership with the late
Judge Knox, of Clarion; this partnership contin-
ued until 1881, when Knox was elected judge of
the eighteenth judicial district; Republican Presi-
dential elector for the Twenty-fifth Congressional
district in 1880; had the instructions of Clarion
County for Congress in 1884; at the Republican
Congressional conference, held at Brookfield in
July of that year, was a prominent candidate, but
failed to receive the nomination, principally be-
cause of his inability to be present at the conven-
tion; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Repub-
lican ; resumed the practice of law after expiration
of his term in Congress.
Magee, John, was a native of New York; at-
tended the common schools; moved to Bath;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses as a Jack-
son Democrat; died at Watkins, N. Y., April 5,
1868.
Magee, John A., was born at Landisburg, Pa.,
October 14, 1827; engaged in printing, and for a
number of years published the Perry County
Democrat; member of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture in 1863; delegate to the national Democratic
convention of 1868; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-third Congress as a
Democrat.
Maginnis, Martin, of Helena, Mont., was bom
in Wayne County, N. Y., October 27, 1840; moved
with his parents to Minnesota at an early age; re-
ceived an academic education; student of Hamline
University, but left to take charge of a Democratic
newspaper; enlisted as a private in the First ■
MinnesotaVolunteerlnfantry April 18, 1861; made
second lieutenant after the first battle of Bull Run,
promoted to first lieutenant in September, 1862,
and to captain in July, 1863; served in the line of
his regiment in all the campaigns' and nearly all
the battles of the Army of the Potomac until Sep-
tember, 1864, when appointed major of the
Eleventh Minnesota Volunteers and ordered to
join the Army of the Cumberland, where he served
under command of General Thomas until mustered
out with his regiment in July, 1865; moved to
Montana the next year; engaged in mining and
subsequently in pubhshing and editing the Helena
Daily Gazette; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Magner, Thomas P., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born there March 8, 1860; educated in the public
schools of Brooklyn and at Columbia College;
taught in a public school in Brooklyn while pur-
suing the study of law; practiced law from 1883;
held no public ofiice except as a member of the
assembly one year, which office he held when
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
Magoon, Henry S., was born at Monticello,
Wis., January 31, 1832; attended the Rock River
Semmary at Mount Morris, 111., and graduated
from the Western Military College at Drennon
Ky., m 1853; studied law at the Montrose Law
School, Frankfort, Ky.; professor of ancient lan-
guages at Nashville University 1855-1857 ; returned
to Wisconsin to practice law; elected district at-
torney m 1858; State senator 1871-72; elected
a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-
tourth Congress as a Republican; first native of
Wisconsin to serve in the State senate' or National
TTr?"®®,.°* Representatives; died at Darlington,
Wis., March 3, 1889.
Magruder, Allan B., was born in Kentuckv
about 1775; received an academic education;
studied and practiced law at Lexington; moved to
Louisiana; State representative; elected a United
btates Senator from Louisiana as a Democrat, serv-
ing from November 18, 1812, to March 3, 1813-
published several literary works; died at One-
lousas. La., April 16, 1822.
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Mag^ruder, Patrick, was born in Montgomery
County, Md., in 1768; graduated from Pnnceton
College; studied law and practiced; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maryland to the Ninth Congress;
Clerk of the United States House of Representa-
tives and Librarian of Congress 1807-1815; died at
Petersburg, Va., December 24, 1819.
Mag-aire, James G., of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born at Boston, Mass., February 22, 1853;
moved with his parents to California in April,
1854; educated in the public schools of Watson-
ville, Santa Cruz County, Cal., and in the private
academy of Mr. Joseph K. Fallon, of that place;
upon leaving school served an apprenticeship of
four years at the trade of blacksmithing; afterwards
taught school for a year and a half; elected to the
legislature of California in 1875, serving two years;
admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Cali-
fornia in January, 1878; elected judge of the
superior court of the city and county of San Fran-
cisco in 1882, serving in that office for six years;
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-
fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Mahauy, Bo-wland Blennerhassett, of Buf-
falo, N. Y., was born there September 28; 1864;
educated in the public schools and graduated with
highest honors from the high school in 1881;
appointed secretary of legation to Chile, 1890; ac-
credited envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to Ecuador 1892; nominated for Con-
gress 1892; ran ahead of the ticket and cut down
the Democratic maj ority o ve r 1 , 000 votes ; returned
to Ecuador in 1893, and concluded the Santos treaty,
negotiations for which had remained unsettled for
nearly ten years; renominated in 1894 and elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; I'esumed the
practice of law at Buffalo, N. Y.
Mahon, Thaddeus Maclay, of Chambersburg,
Pa., was born at Greenvillage, Franklin County,
Pa., in 1840; received a common school and aca-
demic education; enlisted as a private in Company
A, One hundred and twenty-sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers in August, 1862; after term of service
in this regiment reenlisted as a veteran in Janu-
ary, 1864, in Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry;
served until September, 1865; participated m
many of the engagements with Army of the Poto-
mac, Fifth Corps; seriously wounded at Boydton
Plank Road, Virginia, on November 4, 1864; read
law, and admitted to practice in 1871; actively
engaged in his profession in southernPennsylvania;
member of Pennsylvania legislature . in 1870 and
1871; served as chairman of general judiciary com-
mittee; president of Baltimore and Cumberland
Valley Railroad, president of St. Thomas Bank,
member of the commission having charge of the
soldiers' orphan schoolsof Pennsylvania; candidate
for Congress in the Eighteenth district in 1876, and
defeated by Hon. W. S. Stenger (who received
the support of the Greenbackers) by the small
majority of 49; always a Republican and always
took an active part in State and national politics;
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Mahone, William, was born at Southampton,
Va., December 1, 1826; graduated from the Vir-
ginia Mihtary Institute in 1847; became a civil
engineer, and constructor of the Norfolk and Peters-
burg Railroad; embarked in the secession move-
ment in 1861, and took part in the capture of the
Norfolk navy-vard; raised and commanded the
Sixth Virginia "Regiment, and was with it in most
of the battles of the peninsular campaign, those on
the Rappahannock, and those around Petersburg;
made both brigadier-general and major-general in
1864,_and afterwards commanded a corps in Hill's
division; at the close of the war returned to rail-
road engineering, and in a few years became presi-
dent of a trunk line from Norfolk into Tennessee;
elected to the United States Senate as a Readjuster,
in the place of Robert E. Withers, Democrat, and
took his seat March 4, 1881, serving until March 3,
1887; died in 1895.
Mahoney, Peter P., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born at the city of New York, June 25, 1848; edu-
cated in the grammar schools of New York City;
engaged in the dry goods business for several years;
never held any public office; elected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Mahoney, William Frank, of Chicago, 111.,
was born at Chicago, 111., February 22, 1836; edu-
cated in the public schools; engaged in the whole-
sale trade; served twelve years in the Chicago com-
mon council ; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Maish, Levi, was born in Conewago Town-
ship, York County, Pa., November 22, 1837; edu-
cated in common schools and subsequently at
the York County Academy, working on a farm
when not at his studies; apprenticed in 1854 to
a machinist and remained with him two years;
recruited a company for the Union Army in
1862, and with it joined the One hundred and
thirtieth. Pennsylvania Infantry, of which he was
soon promoted to lieutenant-colonel; wounded at
the battle of Antietam; promoted colonel after the
battle of Fredericksburg; again wounded while
leading his regiment at the battle of Chancellors-
ville; after having been mustered out with his
regiment at the expiration of its term of service,
attended lectures in the law department of the
University of Pennsylvania, and admitted to the
bar in 1864; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1867 and 1868; appointed by the
legislature in 1872 one of a commission to reexam-
ine and reaudit the accounts of certain public
officers of York County; elected to the Forty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-
gresses as a Democrat; after leaving Congress,
located in Washington, D.C, where he engaged in
the practice of law; died in 1899.
Hajors, Thomas J., of Peru, Nebr., was born
in Jefferson County, Iowa, June 25, 1841; educated
in the common and select schools of his native
place and the Nebraska State Normal School;
went to Nebraska in 1860; engaged in mercantile
pursuits before and after the war; large land-
owner and farmer; entered the Union Army in
June, 1861, as flrpt lieutenant Company C, First
Nebraska Infantry, and served successively as cap-
tain, major, and leutenant-colonel of that regi-
ment; his regiment, while on veteran leave in
1864, was ordered on the Plains to aid in sup-
pressing Indian outbreaks, where he served with
it until mustered out June 15, 1866; member of
the last Territorial council of Nebraska; elected
and served as a member of the first State senate;
reelected to the same position and served until
appointed assessor of internal revenue for the dis-
trict of Nebraska in 1869, which office he held
until by act of Congress the office of collector and
assessor was merged into one; elected contingent
(or additional) member to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress; elected a Representative to the Forty-fifth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. Frank Welch;' reelected a contingent (or
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additional) member of the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Malbone, Francis, was bom at Newport, E. I.,
in 1757; elected a Representative from Rhode
Island to the Third and Fourth Congresses as a
Federalist; elected a United States Senator for
the term 1809-1815; took his seat May 22, and
died at Washington, D. C, June 4, 1809.
Mallary, Bollin C, was born at Cheshire,
Conn., May 27, 1784; graduated from Middlebury
College in 1805; moved to Poultney, Vt. ; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Sixteenth
Congress (successfully contesting the returned
election of 0. C. Merrill), taking the seat January
14, 1820; reelected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Con-
gresses; died at Baltimore, Md., April 16, 1831.
Mallory, Francis, was a native of Virginia;
attended the common schools; located at Hamp-
ton; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses as a Whig; appointed navy agent at
Norfolk November 1, 1850; died at Norfolk, Va.,
March 26, 1860.
Mallory, Meredith., was a native of Connecti-
cut; attended the common schools; moved to
Hammondsport, N. Y.; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from. New York to the
Twenty-pixth Congress as a Democrat.
Mallory, Kobert, was born in Madison County,
Va., November 15, 1815; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Virginia in 1827; engaged in farming at
Lagrange, Ky. ; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and
Thirty-eighth Congresses as a Union Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate
to the national Union convention at Philadelphia
in 1866; one of the vice-presidents of the Centen-
nial Exhibition in 1876.
Mallory, Bufus, was born at Coventry, N. Y.,
January 10, 1831; received an academic education;
moved to Iowa in 1855, thence to Oregon in 1858;
studied law and commenced practice in Salem in
1860; district attomfey of the first judicial district
in 1860, and of the third, 1862-1866; State repre-
sentative in 1862; elected a Representative from
Oregon to the Fortieth Congress as a Union Re-
publican.
Mallory, Stephen R. , was born at Trinidad in
1813 on his father's vessel, sailing from Bridge-
port, Conn.; located at Key West in 1821; attended
schools in Connecticut and New York; studied
law at Key West, and commenced practice there
in 1833; appointed by President Jackson customs
inspector at Key West; county judge of Monroe
County; appointed collector of the port of Key
West in 1845; elected and reelected a United
States Senator from Florida as a Democrat, serv-
ing from 1851 until his retirement January 21,
1861; secretary of the navy of the Confederate
States; at the close of the civil war arrested and
imprisoned for treason, but released in 1867;
moved to Pensacola, Fla., where he died Novem-
ber 9, 1873.
Mallory, Stephen Kussell, of Pensacola, Fla.,
was born November 2, 1848; entered Confederate
army in Virginia in the fall of 1864; appointed
midshipman in Confederate navy in the spring of
1865; entered Georgetown College, District of
Columbia, November, 1865, and graduated in June,
1869; taught a class at Georgetown College until
July, 1871; admitted to the bar by the supreme
court of Louisiana in 1872; moved to Pensacola,
Fla., in 1874 and began practice of law; elected to
lower house of the legislature in 1876; elected to the
senate in 1880, and reelected in 1884; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-third Congress; elected to the United
States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1897,
and reelected in 1903.
Manderson, Charles F. , of Omaha, Nebr., was
born at Philadelphia, Pa., February 9, 1837; edu-
cated in the schools and academies of his native
city; moved to Canton, Ohio, in 1856, where he
studied law; called to the bar in 1859; elected city
solicitor of that city in 1860, and in April, 1861,
entered the Army as first lieutenant. Company A,
Nineteenth Regiment Ohio Infantry; participated
in the campaign under General McClellan in West
Virginia in the summer of 1861, and afterwards in
the campaigns of the Army of the Cumberland;
rose through the grades of captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Nineteenth
Ohio Infantry, being in command of the regiment
from the date of the battle of Shiloh; resigned in
April, 1865; brevetted brigadier-general of volun-
teers, U. S. Army, in March, 1865, "for gallant,
long-continued, and meritorious service during the
war of the rebellion;" continued the practice of
law at Canton, Ohio, being twice elected as district
attorney, until November, 1869, when he moved
to Omaha, Nebr., where he resided and prac-
ticed law; city attorney at Omaha for six years,
and in 1871 and again in 1874 elected by both
political parties as a member of the constitutional
convention for those years; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Alvin
Saunders, Republican, and took his seat December
3, 1883; reelected in 1888, serving until March 3,
1895; elected President pro tempore of the United
States Senate in 1891 to succeed J. J. Ingalls;
resigned the position of President pro tempore of
the Senate in March, 1893, and was succeeded bv
the Senator from Tennessee, Mr. Harris.
Mang'um, Willie Person, was born in Orange
County, N. C, in 1792; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1815; studied law and
commenced practice at Redmountain in 1817;
State representativeinl818; twice elected a superior
court judge; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Eighteenth and. Nineteenth Con-
gresses as a Whig, resigning March 18, 1826; elected
a United States Senator, serving from 1831 until
his resignation in 1836; again elected Senator (vice
Bedford Brown, resigned), serving from December
9, 1840, to March 3, 1853; died at Redmountain,
In. C, September 14, 1861.
Mann, Abijah, jr. , was born at Fairfield, Her-
kimerCounty, N. Y., September 24, 1793; attended
the common schools; engaged in mercantile pur-
suits; justice of the peace and postmaster; elected
State representative 1827-1830 and 1837; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat; moved to New York City; died at
Auburn, N. Y., September 6, 1868.
Mann, Horace, was born at Franklin, Mass.,
May 4, 1796; graduated from Brown University in
T •. L*V*°''®'^ *^®''® 1819-1821; studied law at
Litchfield, Conn. ; commenced practice at Dedhani,
Mass., m 1826; State representative 1828-1831-
commissioner for the revision of the Massachusetts
statutes in 1835; moved to Boston in 1836; presi-
dentof the State senate 1836-1838; secretary of the
State board of education 1837-1848; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirtieth
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681
Congress (vice John Quincy Adams, deceased) as
a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-
second Congresses as a Free Soiler, serving from
April 13, 1848, to March 3, 1853; defeated as the
Free Soil'fcandidate for governor in 1852; president
of Antioch College, Ohio, 1853 until his death,
August 2, 1859, at Yellowsprings, Ohio.
Mann, James, was born at Gorham, Me., in
1822; State senator; county treasurer; custom-
house officer at Portland; served in the Union
Army; appointed by President Lincoln Treasury
agent for Louisiana; elected a Eepresentative from
Louisiana to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat,
serving from July 18, 1868, to his death, August 26,
1868, at New Orleans, La.
Mann, James R., of Chicago, was born near
Bloomington, 111., October 20, 1856; his father
was William H. Mann, a native of Kentucky, and
his mother Elizabeth Dabney Abraham-Mann, a
native of Virginia; educated in the public schools;
graduatedfrom the University of Illinois in 1876;
valedictorian of his class; received the degree of
master of arts; entered the Union College of Law
of Chicago in 1879 and graduated in 1881; in his
junior year received the faculty prize for best
scholarship; in his senior year received prize of
$100 for best thesis, faculty prize of $50 for best
scholarship, and elected valedictorian of his class;
member of the law firm of Mann & Miller, of
Chicago; member of the Oakland board of educa-
tion in Chicago; attorney for Hyde Park and the
South Park commissioners of Chicago; secretary of
the citizens' association which secured the adop-
tion of Jackson Park as the site for the World's
Fair in Chicago; master in chancery of the supe-
rior court of Cook County; member of the city
council of Chicago 1892-1896, and recognized as
the fighting leader of the "honest minority," and
through his constant and vigorous fighting helped
to arouse a public sentiment which caused a re-
generation of the council and the election of an
"honest majority;" author of the low-level sewer
system in Chicago; chairman of the Illinois State
Eepublican convention in 1894, and chairman of
the Republican county convention in Chicago in
1895 and again in 1902; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Mann, Job, was born at Bethel, Pa., March 31,
1795; attended the common schools; held several
local offices of Bedford County 1816-1835; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to theTwenty-
fourth. Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses as a
Democrat; admitted to the bar in 1839; State
treasurer 1842-1848.
Mann, JoelK., was born in Pennsylvania in
1780; attended the common schools; located at
Jenkintown; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Congresses as a Jackson Democrat; died in Mont-
gomery County, Pa., September 5, 1857.
Manning, James, was born at Elizabeth, N.
J., October 22,»1738; graduated from Princeton
College in 1762; studied theology and became a
prominent Baptist preacher; moved to Warren,
R. I., in 1764, taking charge of Rhode Island Col-
lege; moved to Providence with the college in
1770- Delegate from Rhode Island to the Conti-
nental Congress 1785-86; pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church in Providence 1770 until his resigna-
tion, April, 1791; also resigned the college presi-
dency in 1791; died at Providence, R. I., July 29,
1791.
Manning, John, jr., was bom at Edenton,
N. C, July 3, 1830; graduated from the University
of North Carolina; studied law and commenced
practice at Pittsboro, N. C, in 1853; delegate to
the constitutional convention in 1861; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-
first Congress (vice John T. Deweese, resigned)
as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1870, to
March 3, 1871.
Manning, RicliaTd Irvine, was born in Sum-
ter District, S. C, May 1, 1789; graduated from the
State college at Columbia in 1811; served as cap-
tain of volunteers in the war of 1812; State repre-
sentative 1822; governor 1824-1826; state senator;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses
as a Union Democrat, serving from December 8,
1834, until his death, at Philadelphia, Pa., May 1,
1836.
Manning, Van H., of Holly Springs, Miss.,
was born in Martin County, N. C, July 26, 1839;
moved to Mississippi in 1841 ; received a classical
education at Horn Lake Male Academy, De Soto
County, Miss., and at the University of Nashville;
moved to Arkansas in 1860; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; served in the Confederate army
as captain and subsequently as colonel of the Third
Arkansas Infantry and Second Arkansas Battalion
in General Lee's army; elected to the Forty-fifth
Congress and reelected to the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Manson, Mahlon D. , was born at Piqua, Ohio,
February 20, 1820; attended the common schools;
became a druggist at Crawfordsville, Ind. ; State
representative 1851-52; served as captain of volun-
teers in the Mexican war; served with distinction
in the civil war, from private to brigadier-general
of volunteers; elected a Representative from In-
diana to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Forty-third Congress; died Feb-
ruary 4, 1895.
Mansur, Charles H., of Chillicothe, Mo., was
born at the city of Philadelphia March 6, 1835;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; studied law, and admitted to the bar at Rich-
mond, Mo., August 30, 1856; moved to Chillicothe
in 1856 and practiced law; member of the board
of education of Chillicothe for eight years; mem-
ber of the Democratic State central committee
1864-1868; delegate to the national Democratic
convention at New York in 1868; prosecuting at-
torney of Livingston County 1875-1879; delegate
at large to the Democratic national convention at
Chicago in 1884; joint nominee for Congress of the
Democracy and Liberal Republicans in the Tenth
district in 1872, and again the nominee of the De-
mocracy in the same district in 1880; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses; died
at Washington, D. C, April 16, 1895.
Mantle, Lee, of Butte, Mont., was bom in
England in. 1851; came to the United States at
the age of 11 with his mother, his father being
dead, and went West to Utah Territory; a few
years later moved to Idaho, and in 1872 moved to
Montana; worked on a farm until 16 years of age;
afterwards learned telegraphy and entered the
employ of the Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany ; remained with that"" company six years on
the old overland stage ■ and telegraph line run-
ning to Montana; next moved to Butte City,
Mont., and entered the employ of the Wells-Fargo
Express Company as agent; in 1881 established a
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daily newspaper, known as the Inter Mountain;
alderman and mayor of his home city; three times
elected to the Territorial legislature of Montana,
the last time being made speaker; first president
of the Mineral Land Association of Montana; del-
egate to the national Republican convention in
1884; in March,' 1892, the State legislature failed
to elect a United States Senator, and he being the
caucus nominee when the legislature adjourned,
the governor appointed him to fill the vacancy;
the United States Senate, however, decided that it
was the duty of the legislature to elect and that
the governor of aStatecouldnotlegallyappointun-
der such circumstances, and he was refused a seat;
January 15, 1895, elected by the legislature to fill
the existing vacancy, serving until March 3, 1899.
Manzanares, rrancisco A., of Las Vegas,
N. Mex., was born atAbiquiu, N. Mex., January
25, 1843; his early education was in Spanish, by
the best teachers then in that country; at the age
of 17 commenced the study of the English lan-
guage, and in 1863-64 attended the St. Louis Uni-
versitjr, at St. Louis, Mo.; engaged in mercantile
pursuits from 1866; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; his opponent received
the certificate of election, but the House Commit-
tee on Elections reported that he had received
13,376 votes against 12,287 votes for Tranquilino
Luna, Republican, and the House unanimously
gave him the seat March 5, 1884.
Mar able, John H., was a native of Brunswick
County, Va.; received an academic education;
moved to Yellow Creek, Tenn. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses; defeated for the Twenty-
first Congress.
Marchand, Albert G., was a native of Greens-
burg, Pa.; attended the common schools; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Greensburg, Pa., February 5, 1848.
Marchand, David, was a native of "Westmore-
land County, Pa.; attended the common schools;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses.
Marehant, Henry, was born at Marthas Vine-
yard, Mass., April 9, 1741; graduated from Phila-
delphia College in 1762; studied law at Cambridge,
Mass.; commenced practice at Newport, R. I.;
attorney-generalofRhodeIslandl771-1777; promi-
nent in ante-Revolutionary events; Delegate from
Rhode Island to the Continental Congress 1777-
1780 and 1783-84 and to the State convention for
the adoption of the Federal Constitution; United
States district judge for Rhode Island 1790-1796;
died at Newport, R. I., August 30, 1796.
Marcy, Daniel, was born in New Hampshire
November 7, 1809; attended the common schools-
followed the sea and later engaged in shipbuild-
ing; State representative 1853-54, and senator
1856-57; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-ninth Congress-
again State representative and State senator. '
Marcy, ■William Learned, was born at South-
bridge, Mass., December 12, 1786; graduated from
Brown University in 1808; taught school at New-
port R I.; studied law, commencing practice at
iroy, N. y., m 1810; served in the war of 1812-
recorder of Troy in 1816; edited the Troy Budget-
adjutant-general of New York in 1821; State
comptroller m 1823; associate justice of the State
supreme court in 1829; elected a United States
Senator from New York as a Jackson Democrat,
serving from December 5, 1831, to his resignation
in July, 1832; governor of New York 1833-1839;
commissioner on Mexican claims 1839-1842; Sec-
retary of War March 5, 1845, to March 3, 1849;
Secretary of State March 7, 1853, to March 4, 1857;
died at Ballston Spa, N. Y., July 4, 1857.
Mardis, Samuel W. , was born in Alabama in
1801; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Talladega, Ala., December 2, 1836.
Marion, Robert, was a native of South Caro-
lina; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, resigning Decem-
ber 4, 1811.
Markell, Jacob, was born in Schenectady
County, N. Y., May 8, 1770; attended the common
schools; engaged in farming at Manheim, N. Y.;
supervisor and county judge for several years;
elected a Representative from New York as a Fed-
eralist to the Thirteenth Congress; State represent-
ative in 1820; died 'at Manheim, N. Y., Novem-
ber 26, 1852.
Markell, Henry, was a native of Montgomery
County, N. Y.; attended the common schools;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses as an Adams
Democrat; died at Palatine, N. Y.
Markham, Henry H., of Pasadena, Oal., was
born at Wilmington, Essex County, N. Y., Novem-
ber 16, 1840; received an academic education;
served in the Union Army from Wisconsin, and
discharged in June, 1865; practiced law in Mil-
waukee, Wis.; moved to Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Oal., in 1879; elected a Representative
from Cahfornia to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
RepubUcan; elected governor of California in 1895.
Markley, Philip S. , was a native of Montgom-
ery County, Pa.; received an academic education;
located at Norristown; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for the
Twentieth Congress; appointed naval officer of
Philadelphia by President Jackson.
Marks, William, was born in Chester County,
Pa., October 13, 1778; settled at Beaver, Pa.; re-
ceived a limited education; State representative
1810-1819, and State senator 1820-1827; elected a
United States Senator from Pennsylvania as a
Democrat for the term 1827-1833; died at Beaver,
Pa., April 10, 1858.
Marquette, Turner M., was a native of Ohio;
received a classical education; studied law and
commenced practice at Plattsmouth, Nebr., in
1856; a Territorial representative for several years;
elected a Representative from Nebraska to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican, serving
from March 2-3, 1867, one day.
Marr, Alem, was a native of Pennsylvania;
graduated from Princeton College in 1807; located
at Danville; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat.
Marr, George W. 1,., attended the common
schools; was elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to the Fifteenth Congress.
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Marsh, Benjamin F. , of Warsaw, 111. , was born
in Wythe Township, in Hancock Countv, 111.;
reared on his father's farm; ejducated in private
schools until 14 years old; sent to Jubilee College
and entered upon a classical course; lacking one
year of graduating, entered the law ofllce of his
brother at Warsaw; admitted to the bar in 1860;
enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Illinois In-
fantry Volunteers; served in said regiment in
northern Missouri; recruited a company of cav-
alry, commissioned captain, and assigned to the
Second Regiment Illinois Cavalry; commissioned
colonel of this regiment and served continuously
until January, 1866; returning to Waraaw resumed
the practice of law until 1877; the Republican can-
didate for the constitutional convention in 1869;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress from the then
Tenth district, and reelected to the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses; returning home in 1883,
at the expiration of his term in Congress, engaged
in general farming and stock raising; in the sprmg
of 1889 appointed by Governor Oglesby railroad
and warehouse commissioner, and held the same
four years; delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1888; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
IVEarsh, Charles, was born at Lebanon, Conn.,
' July 10, 1765; moved to Vermont; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1786; studied law, com-
mencing practice at Woodstock, Vt. ; elected a
Representative from Vermont to the Fourteenth
Congress as a Federalist; died at Woodstock, Vt.,
January 11, 1849.
Marsh, George Perkins, was born at Wood-
stock, Vt., March 15, 1801; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1820; studied law, commencing
practice at Burlington, Vt. ; member of the State
legislature in 1835; elected a Representative from
Vermont to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig,
but resigned in 1849; minister resident to Turkey
1849-1853 ; charged with a special mission to Greece
in 1852; fish commissioner of Vermont in 1857 and
railroad commissioner 1857-1859; received an
LL. D. from Dartmouth College in 1860; appointed
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Italy in March, 1861, serving until his death;
the author and publisher of numerous literary
works; died at Vallombrosa, Italy, July 24, 1882.
Marshall, Alexander K. , was a native of Ken-
tucky; located at Mcholasville; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as an American.
Marshall, Alfred, of China, Me., was State
representative 1827-28 and 1834-35; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Van Buren Democrat; collector of
■ Belfast, Me., 1846-1849.
Marshall, Edward C, was born at Woodford,
Ky., in 1820; moved to Sonora, Cal.; elected a
Representative from California to the Thirty-
second Congress.
Marshall, George A., was born in Shelby
County, Ohio, September 14, 1851; educated in
public schools of Shelby County, and later at the
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; attor-
ney at law; served eight years as prosecuting at-
torney of Shelby County, being elected in 1878,
1880, and again in 1883; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat; died April 29, 1899.
Marshall, Humphrey, was bom in Westmore-
land County, Va., in 1756; attended the common
schools; moved to Kentucky; delegate to the State
constitutional convention; State representative for
several years; elected a United States Senator from
Kentucky as a Federalist, serving from 1795-1801;
died near Frankfort, Ky., July 1, 1841.
Marshall, Humphrey, was born at Frankfort,
Ky., January 13, 1812; graduated from West P61nt
in 1828; resigned from the Army April 30, 1833;
studied law and commenced practice at Louisville;
active in the State militia; colonel of volunteers
in the Mexican war; engaged in farming; elected
a. Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses as a Whig,
serving until his resignation, August 4, 1852;
minister to China 1852 to January 27, 1854; elected
to the Thirty-fourth and Thirtj^-fifth Congresses
as a National American; brigadier-general in the
Confederate service; died at Louisville, Ky., March
28, 1872.
Marshall, James W. , of Newcastle, Craig
County, ViJ.., was born in Augusta County, Va.,
March 31, 1844; served as a private soldier four
years in the Confederate army commanded by
Gen. Robert E. Lee; attended Roanoke College
part of two sessions, and graduated from the same
in 1870; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected Commonwealth attorney for Craig County
in 1870; served till 1875, inclusive; elected to Vir-
ginia senate in 1875, and served four years; elected
a member of the general assembly of Virginia in
1882-83; elected Commonwealth attorney for Craig
County in 1884 and served till 1888, inclusive;
Presidential elector on the Cleveland and Thur-
man ticket in 1888; elected to the Virginia senate
in 1891 for term of four years; served in same ses-
sion of 1891-92, and elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of law
after leaving Congress.
Marshall, John, was bom at Germantown,
Va., September 24, 1755; served in the Revolu-
tionary Army; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Richmond in 1781; delegate to the State
convention for the ratification of the Federal Con-
stitution; State representative; minister to France
June 5, 1797, to April 3, 1798; elected a Represen-
tative from Virginia to the Sixth 'Congress, resign-
ing in 1800; appointed Secretary of State May 13,
1800; appointed Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court January 31, 1801, serving until
his death at Philadelphia, Pa., July 6, 1835; pub-
lished several literary works.
Marshall, Samuel S., was bom in Gallatin
County, 111., in 1824; studied and practiced la-w;
member of the State legislature in 1847; State
attorney 1847-48; circuit court judge 1851-1854
and 1861-1864; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention at Charleston and Baltimore in
1860 and 1864; delegate to the national Union con-
vention in 1866; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses as a Democrat;. defeated for
the Forty-fourth Congress.
Marshall, Thomas Alexander (son of Hum-
phrey Marshall), was born near Versailles, Kjr.,
January 15, 1794; graduated from Yale College in
1815; studied law, commencing practice at Frank-
fort in 1816; moved to Paris, Ky., in 1819; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses as a Whig,
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but was defeated for the Twenty-fourth Congress;
judge of the State court of appeals, 1835-1856;
professor in the Transylvania Law School 1836-
1849; moved to Chicago in 1856, but soon returned
to Kentucky; State representative in 1863; chief
justice of the court 6f appeals 1866-67; died at
Louisville, Ky., April 17, 1871.
Itlarshall, Thomas Francis, was born at
Frankfort, Ky., June 7, 1801; received a classical
education in Virginia; studied law and commenced
practice at Versailles, Ky., in 1828; member of the
State legislature 1832-1836, 1838-39, and in 1854;
moved to Louisville in 1833; defeated as an inde-
pendent for the Twenty-fifth Congress; returned
to Versailles in 1837; elected a Representative froih
Kentucky to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; served in the Mexican war as captain of
volunteers; moved to Chicago in 1856; died near
Versailles, Ky., September 22, 1864.
Marshall, Thomas Frank, of Oakea, Dickey
County, N. Dak., was born at Hanijibal, Mo.,
March 7, 1854; educated at State Noritial School,
Platteville, Grant County, Wis.; learned the pro-
fession of surveyor; became a resident of Dakota
in 1873; engaged in banking; elected mayor of
Oakes, N. Dak., two terms; State senator from the
twenty-fifth district of North Dakota, one term —
four years; delegate to the Republican national
convention held at Minneapolis in 1892; elected to
the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as
a Republican.
Marston, Gilman, was born at Orford, N. H.,
August 20, 1811 ; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1837; studied at the Dane Law School,
commencing the practice of law at Exeter in 1841;
State representative 1845-1849; delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1850; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-
sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-ninth Congresses
as a Republican; served with distinction in the
Union Army as colonel and brigadier-general of
volunteers; declined the governorship of Idaho
Territory in 1870; appointed United States Senator
from New Hampshire by governor, serving from
March 5 to June 19, 1889; died at Exeter, N. H ,
July 3,-1890.
Martin, Alexander, was born in New Jersey
in 1740; graduated from Princeton College in 1756;
studied law, and commenced practice in North
Carolina in 1772; member of the colonial assem-
bly; colonel in the Revolutionary war; State sena-
tor 1779-1782, 1785-1788; governor 1782-1785 and
1789-1792; delegate to the State convention for the
adoption of the Federal Constitution; United
States Senator from North Carolina 1793-1799;
died at Danbury, N. C, in November, 1807.
Martin, Augustus N., was born at Whites-
town, Butler County, Pa., on the farm of his
father, John Martin, March 23, 1847; educated in
the common schools and at Witherspoon Insti-
tute, Butler, Pa., and graduated in February, 1867
from Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; en-
listed July 3, 1863, in Company I, Fiftv-eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, which assisted in
the capture of Gen. John Morgan's command-
enlisted again February 22, 1865, in Company e'
Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving
until discharged, August 30, 1865, for disability
left home for the West March 23, 1868, working
in sawmills and on farms and teaching school
m Ohio, and arriving in Wells County, Ind.,
June 19, 1869, where he worked on farm and rail-
road until he commenced reading law in Bluffton
in 1869; admitted to the practice of the law in
1870; represented Adams and Wells counties in
the legislature in 1875, where he served on the
house judiciary, organization of courts, and corpo-
ration committees; elected reporter of the supreme
court of Indiana in 1876 and served for a term
of four years, during which period he edited and
published Indiana Supreme Court Reports from
volume 54 to volume 70, inclusive; renominated,
but, with the whole ticket, defeated in 1880; re-
sided from 1881 to 1883 at Austin, Tex. ; became
again a resident of Bluffton upon his return from
Texas; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and
Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; resumed
and continued practice of law at Bluffton, Ind.,
until his death, which occurred July 11, 1901.
Martin, Barclay, was a native of South Caro-
lina; received an academic education; moved to
Columbia, Tenn. ; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
Martin, Benjamin F. , was bom in Marion
County, Va., October 2, 1828; lived and worked
upon a farm until he was 21 years of age; chiefly
educated at, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.,
where he graduated with college honors in June,
1854; taught school at Fairmount, Marion County,
for eighteen months; studied law and admitted to
the bar; commenced to practice in March, 1856, ■
moving in the following November to Prunty town ;
a member of the constitutiotial convention of West
Virginia in 1872; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention at Baltimore in 1872; elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat; died in 1895.
Martin, Charles D., was a native of Ohio;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-seventh
Congress.
Martin, Charles H., of Polkton, N. C; grad-
uated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina;
studied law; admitted to the bar; became preacher;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a
Populist; certificate of election was given J. A.
Lockhart in the Fifty -fourth Congress, but after a
contest Mr. Martin was seated.
Martin, Eben "Waver, of Dead wood, S. Dak.,
was bom at Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa,
April 12, 1855; graduated from Cornell College in
1879, with the degree of B. A., and three years
later received the degree of A. M. from his' alma
mater; attended the law school of the University
of Michigan; admitted to the bar in the spring of
1880; moved to Deadwood, and practiced law;
a member of the Territorial legislature of Dakota
m 1884 and 1885; several years president of the
board of educaticn of the city of Deadwood; mem-
ber of the Sons «. the American Revolution, South
Dakota Chapter, and of the Iowa Commandery of
the Loyal Legion, the latter by inheritance from
his father, Capt. James W. Martin, of Company I,
Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteers; elected to the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Martin, Edward Livingston, was born at Sea-
fordi Del., March 29, 1837; educated at Bolmar's
Academy, Delaware College, and the University of
Virginia; studied law, and admitted to the bar;
clerk of the senate of Delaware; served as a com-
missioner to settle disputed boundary between Del-
aware and New Jersey; a member of the national
Democratic convention at Chicago in 1864 at Bal-
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685
timore in 1872, and at St. Louis in 1876; elected to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a
Democrat; died January 27, 1897.
Martin, Ellaert S.,,was a native of Virginia;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Thirty-sixth Congress as
an Independent Democrat.
Martin, Frederick S., was born in Rutland
County, Vt., April 25, 1794; attended the common
schools; sailor on Lake Champlain and on the
seas; engaged in trading in Olean, N. Y,; State
representative in 1850; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-second Congress as
a Whig.
Martin, James S. , was born in Scott County,
Va., August 19, 1826; attended the common
schools; moved to Salem, 111., in 1846; served in
the Mexican war; studied and practiced law;
clerk of Marion County court; colonel in the
Union Army and brigadier-general by brevet;
county judge; appointed pension agent in 1868;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican.
Martin, John, of Topeka, Kans., was born in
Wilson County, Tenn., November 12, 1833;
brought up on a farm and educated in the com-
mon country schools; engaged as a clerk in store
and post-office at 18 years of age; accompanied
Judge Rush Elmore to Kansas in 1855, who had
been appointed United States district judge for that
Territory; located at Tecumseh April 8, 1855;
elected assistant clerk of the first house of repre-
sentatives organized in the Territory, July 4,
1855; served as county clerk and register of deeds
1855-1857; admitted topractice law in 1856; served
■as the fl.rst county attorney of Shawnee County,
1858-59; postmaster at Tecumseh 1857-58; served
as deputy United States attorney in 1859 till Janu-
ary 29, 1861; settled in Topeka in January, 1861;
elected to the legislature in 1873, and reelected in
1874; delegate to the Democratic national conven-
tion in 1872, and one of the committee to notify
Mr. Greeley of his nomination; Democratic nom-
inee for governor in 1876; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention of that year; appointed
district judge and subsequently elected to that
office; elected to the United States Senate January
25, 1893, to fill the unexpired term of Senator
Plumb; took his seat March 4, 1893,' serving until
March 3, 1895; after leaving the United States
Senate he served as clerk of the supreme court of
Kansas for two terms.
Martin, Jolin Mason, was born at Athens,
Limestone County, Ala., January 20, 1837; re-
ceived his early education at the best high schools
of the South, including the one at Green Springs,
Ala. ; student at the University of Alabama for two
and a half years; student at Centre College, Dan-
ville, Ky . , from June 5, 1855, to September 11, 1856,
when he was graduated an A. B. ; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar; professor of equity jurisprudence
in the University of Alabama from 1875 to 1886;
member of the State senate of Alabama from Au-
gust, 1871, to November, 1876, serving as pr^ident
pro tempore from 1873 to 1876; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Forty-nmth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died in 1898.
Martin, John P. , was bom in Lee County, Va.,
October 11, 1811; received an academic education;
moved to Prestonburg, Ky., in 1828; State repre-
sentative 1841^2, and State senator in 1857;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Martin, Joseph John, of Wilhamston, N. C,
was bom in Martin County, N. C, November 21,
1833; educated at Williamston Academy; studied
law at the law school of Chief Justice R. M. Pear-
son in Yadkin County, N. C. ; admitted to the bar
in the summer of 1859; elected county attorney for
his native county, which position he held for six
years; elected as a Republican solicitor for the sec-
ond judicial district of North Carolina in 1868 and
held the position six years; reelected in 1874 and
held the office until his nomination for Congress;
a delegate to the national Republican convention
at Cincinnati; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; resumed the practice of law after
leaving Congress.
Martin, Joshua L. , was bom in Blount County,
Tenn. , December 5, 1799; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and commenced practice in the
northern part of Alabama; elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-
fifth Congresses as a Democrat; chancellor of
middle Alabama; governor 1845-1847; died at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., November 2, 1856.
Martin, Luther, was born at New Brunswick,
N. J., in 1744; graduated from Princeton College
in 1766; taught school at Queenstown,Md.; studied
law and commenced practice in Accomac County,
Va. ; member of the Annapolis convention 1774;
appointed attorney-general of Maryland February
11, 1778, and again in 1818; Delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1784^85; mem-
ber of the Federal constitutional convention,
opposing its adoption; counsel for Judge Chase in
1804 and for Aaron Burr in 1807; chief justice of
the court of oyer and terminer in 1814; published
several political pamphlets; received an LL. D.
from Princeton College; died at New York City
July 10, 1826.
Martin, Morgan L., was a native of New
York; moved to Green Bay, Wis.; elected a Dele-
gate from Wisconsin Territory to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; died December 10, 1887.
Martin, Robert N., was born at Cambridge,
Md., January 14, 1798; attended thepublicschods;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Nineteenth Congress; died at Saratoga, N. Y.,
July 20, 1870.
Martin, Thomas Staples, of Albemarle
Ciuntv (post-office, Scottsville, Va. ) ; was bom at
Scottsville, Albemarle County, July 29, 1847;
moved with his parents to the country in 1853,
about 2 miles from Scottsville; educated at the
Virginia Military Institute, where he was a cadet
from March 1, 1864, to April 9, 1865, and at the
University of Virginia, where he was a student in
the academic schools for two sessions, from Octo-
ber 1, 1865, to June 29, 1866, and from October 1,
1866, to June 29, 1867; though nof a regularly
enlisted soldier, part of the time while he was a
cadet at the Virginia Military Institute was spent
in the military service of the Confederate States
with the battalion of cadets of the institute; soon
after leaving the University of Virginia he com-
menced the study of law by a course of private
reading at home, and was licensed to practice law
in the fall of 1869; for a number of years a mem-
ber of the board of visitors of the Miller Manual
Labor School, of Albemarle County, and a mem-
ber of the board of visitors of the University of
Virginia, but until elected to the Senate he had
never held nor been a candidate for any political
office. State or national; December 19, 1893,
elected a Senator from Virginia for the term com-
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTOE^r.
mencing March 4, 1895, to succeed Hon. Eppa
Hunton, who had been first appointed by the
governor and then elected by the legislature to
flu the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
John S. Barbour; reelected in 1899.
Martin, Williani D. , was born at Martintown,
S. C, October 20, 1789; received an academic edu-
cation; attended the Litchfield Law School; com-
menced practice at Edgefield in 1811, moving in
1813 to Coosawhatchie; State representative 1816-
1818; clerk of the State senate 1818-1826; elected
a Eepresentative from South Carolina to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses as a State
Rights Democrat; elected judge of the circuit court
of law; moved to Columbia; died at Charleston,
S. C, November 16, 1833.
Martin, William H., of Athens, Tex., was
born in Barbour County, Ala., September 2, 1823;
received a limited education in the schools of his
neighborhood; studied law in Troy, Ala., and ad-
mitted to the bar; moved to Texas in 1850, and
engaged in the practice of his profession ; elected
to the State senate in 1853, and reelected in 1855;
raised a company for the Confederate army in 1861 ,
and was mustered into the Fourth Texas Regiment;
assigned to Lee's army, and participated in all the
battles of that army till the surrender in April,
1865; returned to Athens, and resumed the prac-
tice of law; elected district attorney in 1872; at
the expiration of his term of office he retired to
his farm and ranch; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat.
Martindale, Henry C. , was born in Berkshire
County, Mass., May 6, 1780; graduated from Wil-
liams College in 1800; moved to Sandy Hill, N. Y.;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first,,
and Twenty-third Congresses as a Whig; died at
Sandy Hill, N. Y., April 22, 1860.
Marvin, Dudley, was born at Lyme, Conn.,
May 6, 1786; attended Colchester Seminary; stud-
ied law at Canandaigua, N. Y., commencing prac-
tice there in 1807; elected a Representative from
New York to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses as an Adams Democrat;
moved to New York City in 1835, thence -to Ripley
in 1845; elected to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; died at Ripley, N. Y., June 25, 1856.
Marvin, Francis, of Port Jervis, N. Y., was
born at the city of New York March 8, 1828; edu-
cated in private schools of that city; entered upon
a commercial career and engaged in the promo-
tion, construction, and operation of railways,
water-supply companies, bridges, the manufacture
of illuminating gas, and in banking; filled many
local offices; unsuccessful candidate of the Repub-
lican party for member of the assembly in 1864
and for senator from the Orange and Sullivan dis-
trict in 1881 ; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as
a Republican; retired to private life after leaving
Congress and devoted his time to the management
of his several business enterprises.
Marvin, James M. , was born at Ballston, N. Y.
February 27, 1809; attended. the common schools
and engaged in farming; State representative in
1846; county supervisor for several years; entered
the hotel business at Saratoga; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Republican-
died April 25, 1901.
Marvin, Biohard Pratt, was born in New
York about 1815; attended the public schools;
studied law, commencing practice at Jamestown,
N. Y.; State representaitive in 1836; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
fifth and Twenty-sixth Ccmgresses as a Whig;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1846; justice of the State supreme court 1847-1871;
died at Jamestown, N. Y., Jianuasry 14, 1892.
Mason, Armistead Thomson, was born in
Loudoun County, Va., in 1787; graduated from
William and Mary College; engaged in farming;
colonel of the Virginia Volunteers in the war of
1812; elected a United States Senator from Vir-
ginia (vice William B. Giles, resigned), serving
from January 22, 1816, to March 3, 1817; defeated
for the Fifteenth Congress; died near Washington,
D. C, February 6, 1819.
Mason, George, waa born at Doegs Neck, Fair-
fax County, Va. , in 1726; received an academic edu-
cation; active in ante-Revolutionary events; Dele-
gate from Virginia to the Continentat Congress in
1777; delegate to the State convention for the adop-
tion of the Federal Constitution in 1787; died at
Gunston Hall, Va,, October 7, 1792.
Mason, James B., was born in Rhode Island
in 1774; received a classical education; studied
medicine, commencing practice at Charleston,
S. C; engaged in mercantile business at Provi-
dence, R. 1. ; State representative for several
years, being speaker of the house from February,
1812, to May, 1814; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses as a Federalist; died at Providence,
R. I., September 6, 1819.
Mason, James M. , was born on Analostan
Island, Virginia, November 3, 1798; graduated
from the Uhiversity of Pennsylvania in 1818;
studied law at William and Mary College; com-
menced practice at Winchester, Va., in 1820; State
representative 1826-1832; Presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket in 1832; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Twenty-fifth Con-
gress as a Jackson Democrat; elected a United
States Senator from Virginia, vice Isaac S. Penny-
backer, deceased; twice reelected, serving from
January 25, 1847, to his retirement, March 28,
1861; delegate from Virginia to the provisional
congress of the Confederate States; appointed
commissioner of the Confederate States to Great
Britain; taken prisoner and confined at Fort War-
ren, Boston Harbor, and released; died near Alex-
andria, Va., April 28, 1871.
Mason, Jeremiah, was born at Lebanon,
Conn., April 27, 1768; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1788; studied law, commencing practice in
1791; moved successively to several places, locat-
ing in 1797 at Portsmouth, N. H.; appointed
attorney-general of New Hampshire in 1802; State
representative for several years; elected a United
States Senator from New Hampshire for the term
1813-1819, but resigned in 1817; moved to Boston,
Mass., in 1832, and died there October 14, 1848.
Mason, John C, was a native of Kentucky;
located at Owensville; elected a Representative
»om Kentucky to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second,
and Thirtv-fifth Congresses as a Jackson Democrat.
Mason, John Thomson, was bom at Mont-
peher^ Md., May 9, 1815; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1836; studied law, commencing
practice at Hagerstown, Md., in 1838; State repre-
sentative 1838-39; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat; judge of the court of appeals 1851-1857;
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customs collector at Baltimore 1857-1861; moved
to Annapolis, Md., where he died March 28, 1873.
Xlason, John Y., -was born at Greensville, Va.,
April 18, 1799; graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1816; studied law, commencing
practice at Hicksford, Va.; State representative
1819-1829; United States district judge for eastern
Virginia; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia
to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat, resigning Janu-
ary 11, 1837; elected judge of the Virgmia general
court; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tions of 1828 and 1849; Secretary of the Navy March
14, 1844-45, and September 9, 1846-1849 ; Attorney-
General March 5, 1845, to September 9, 1846; min-
ister to England January 22, 1854, until his death,
at Paris, France, October 3, 1859.
Mason, Jonathan, was born at Boston, Mass.,
August 30, 1752; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1774; studied law under John Adams;
commenced practice in 1777 in Boston; State rep-
resentative; executive councilor in 1798; elected
a United States Senator from Massachusetts, vice
Benjamin Goodhue, resigned, serving from De-
cember 19, 1800-1803; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Congresses as a Federalist; resigned May 15, 1820;
died at Boston, Mass., November 1, 1831.
Mason, Joseph, of Hamilton, N. Y., was born
at Plattsburg, N. Y., March 30, 1828; received an
academic education; studied law, admitted to the
bar in 1849; practiced law at Hamilton; elected
county judge, of Madison County for the term
commencing January 1, 1864, and held the posi-
tion four years; appointed collector of internal
revenue for the twenty-second district of New York
in 1871, and held the position until January, 1876;
elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; resumed the prac-
tice of law.
Mason, Moses, was born at Oxford County,
Mass. (now Maine), in 1791; county commissioner
1831-1834; elected a Representative from Maine
to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses
as a Democrat; an executive councilor of the State;
died at Bethel, Me., June 25, 1866.
Slason, Samson, was a native of Ohio; attended
the common schools; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig.
Mason, Stevens Thomson, was bom at Cha-
pawausic, Va., in 1760; graduated from William
and Mary College; served in the Revolutionary
Army, rising to brigadier-generalship; State repre-
sentative; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1788; elected a United States Senator
from Virginia, vice James Monroe, resigned; twice
reelected, serving from November 18, 1794, until
his death, May 10, 1803, at Philadelphia, Pa.
Mason, ■William, was a native of Connecticut;
moved to Preston, N. Y.; State representative
1821-22; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Mason, William E., of Chicago, 111., was born
at Franklinville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., July
7 1850; moved with his parents to Bentonsport,
Iowa, in 1858; attended school at Bentonsport
Academy and Birmingham College; taught school
from 1866 to 1870, the last two years at Des Momes,
Iowa; entered the law office of Hon. Thomas F.
Withrow, and was admitted to practice law in
Des Moines; went to Chicago in 1872, and has
practiced law; elected tb the general assembly in
1879, and to the State senate in 1881; elected to
the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Repub-
lican; elected to the United States Senate January
20, 1897; took his scat March 4, 1897, and served
until March 3, 1903.
Masters, Josiah, was born at Woodbury, Conn.,
October 22, 1763; graduated from Yale College in
1784; studied law, and commenced practice at
Schaghticoke, N. Y. ; State representative in 1792
and 1801; associate judge of Rensselaer County
1801-1805; elected a Representative from New
York to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses as a
Democrat; common pleas court judge of Rensselaer
County from 1808 until his death, June 30, 1832,
at Schaghticoke, N. Y.
Mathews, James, was a native of Ohio; at-
tended the common schools; located at Coshocton;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Mathews, Vincent, was born in Orange County,
N. Y., June 29, 1766; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law, and commenced practice at
Elmira, N. Y., in 1790; Statte representative in
1793 and senator in 1796; , bounty land claims com-
missioner in 1798 ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Eleventh Congress as a Federal-
ist; State district attorney 1812-1815; moved to
Bath, thence to Rochester; again State representa-
tive in 1826; died at Rochester, N. Y., August 23,
1846.
Mathe-wson, Elisha, was born at Scituate R. I. ,
April 18, 1767; received an academic education;
State representative for several years and speaker
from May to October, 1821, and May to October,
1822; elected a United States Senator from Rhode
Island (vice James Fenner, resigned) as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from November 20, 1807, to March
3, 1811; died at Scituate, R. I., February 6, 1853.
Mathiot, Joshua, was a native of Ohio; at-
tended the common schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Twenty-seventh Congress as
a Whig; died at Newark, Ohio, July 30, 1849.
Matlack, James, was a native of Gloucester
County, N. J.; attended the common schools;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses; died at
Woodbury, N. J., January 15, 1840.
Matlack, Timothy, was bom at Haddonfield,
N. J., in 1730; received an academic education;
active in pre-Revolutionary affairs and in the Rev-
olutionary volunteers; Delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Congress 1780-81; held
local ofiices at Lancaster and Philadelphia; died
at Holmesburg, Pa., April 15, 1829.
Matson, Aaron, was born at Plymouth, Mass.,
in 1770; moved to Cheshire County, N. H.; judge
of probate; executive councilor 1819-1821; elected
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses; died at
Newport, Vt., July 18, 1855.
Matson, Courtland C, of Greencastle, Ind.,
was bom at Brookville, Ind. , April 25, 1841; gradu-
ate of Indiana Asbury University j atthebegmning
of the war enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth
Indiana Volunteers, and after one year's service
in that regiment entered the Sixth Indiana Cav-
alry (Seventy-first Volunteers), and served in that
regiment until October, 1865, filling different inter-
mediate grades up to that of colonel of the latter
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regiment; after the war he studied law with his
father, Hon. John A. Matson; entered the practice
at his present home, and has so continued; was
three times elected as prosecuting attorney of dif-
ferent courts in Indiana, and was elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat; after his retire-
ment from Congress he resumed the practice of
his profession at Greencastle, Ind.
Matteson, Orsamus B. , was born at Verona,
N. Y., in 1805; attended the common schools;
studied and practiced law at Utica; city attorney
at Utica; State supreme court commissioner;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Whig; resigned from
the Thirty-fourth Congress February 27, 1857;
died at Utica, N. Y., December 22, 1889.
Matthews, George, was bom in Augusta
County, Va., in 1739; served in the Indian and
Eevolutionary wars; engaged in farming in Ogle-
thorpe County, Ga., in 1785; governor of Georgia
1793-1796; elected a Eepresentative from Georgia
to the First Congress; brigadier-general in the
expedition for the capture of West Florida in 1811;
died at Augusta, Ga., August 30, 1812.
Matthews, John, was born at Charleston, S. C. ,
in 1744; studied law; associate judge of the State
supreme court in 1776; Delegate from South Car-
olina to the Continental Congress 1778-1782; gov-
ernor 1782-83; judge of the court of equity in 1784;'
died at Charleston, S. C, November 17, 1802.
Matthews, Stanley, was bom at Cincinnati,
Ohio, July 21, 1824; attended Woodward High
School; graduated from Kenyon College in 1840;
studied law, and commenced practice in Maury
County, Tenn., in 1842; returned to Cincinnati in
1844; appointed assistant prosecutor of Hamilton
County in 1845; editor of the Cincinnati Herald;
clerk of the State assembly, 1848-49; judge of the
county common pleas court, 1850-1852; elected a
State senator in 1853; United States district attor-
ney for southern Ohio 1858, until his resignation
in March, 1861 ; joined the Eepublican party at
this time; served as lieutenant-colonel and colonel
of volunteers in the Union army 1861-1863; judge
of the Cincinnati superior court 1863, until his
resignation in July, 1864; Presidential elector on
the Eepublican tickets of 1864 and 1868; defeated'
for the Forty-fifth Congress; elected a United
States Senator March 20, 1877, as a Eepublican
(vice John Sherman, resigned), serving until
March 3, 1879; appointed justice of the United
States Suj)reme Court in January, 1881, but lacked
confirmation; renominated March 15, confirmed
May 12, 1881, and served until his death, at Wash-
ington, D. C, March 22, 1889.
Matthews, William, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Fifth Congress.
Mattocks, John, was bom at Hartford, Conn.,
March 4, 1777; received an academic education;
studied law and commenced practice at Peacham,
Vt. ; brigadier-general of militia; State supreme
court judge for two years; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Vermont to the Seventeenth, Nineteenth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig; gov-
ernor of Vermont 1843-44; died at Peacham, Vt.,
August 14, 1847.
Mattoon, Slbenezer, was born at Amherst,
Mass., August 19, 1755; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1776; Presidential elector in 1796;
elected a Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the
Sixth Congress (vice Samuel Lyman, resigned);
elected to the Seventh Congress, serving from
February 2, 1801, to March 3, 1803; major of vol-
unteers in the war of 1812; sheriff of Hampden
County; State adjutant-general; died at Amherst,
Mass., September 11, 1843.
Maurice, James, was a native of New York;
attended the public schools; located at Maspeth;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Maury, Abraham P., received an academic
education; located at Franklin, Tenn. ; State rep-
resentative; elected a Eepresentative from Tennes-
see to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Whig; died at Franklin, Tenn., July
22, 1848.
Maxey, Samuel Bell, was bom in Monroe
County, Ky., March 30, 1825; received his pri-
mary education there; entered the West Point
Military Academy in 1842 and graduated in 1846;
joined the Seventh Infantry, U. S. Army, at
Monterey, Mexico, as brevet second lieutenant;
brevetted first lieutenant for gallant services at
Contreras and Churubusco; served through the
Mexican war; resigned in 1849; returned to Ken-
tucky; studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in 1850; moved to Texas in 1857 and practiced law;
elected State senator for four years in 1861, but de-
clined, and raised the Ninth Texas Infantry for
the Confederate States army, of which he was
colonel; promoted brigadier-general in 1862 and
major-general in 1864; commanded the Indian
Territory military district 1863-1865, and was also
superintendent of Indian affairs; remained in the
service until the surrender of the trans-Mississippi
department May 26, 1865; resumed the practice of
law; commissioned as judge of the eighth district
of Texas April 18, 1873, but declined; elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
James W. Flanagan, Eepublican, and took his seat
March 5, 1875; reelected in 1881, serving until March
3, 1887; died August 16, 1895.
Maxwell, Augustus E., was born at Elberton,
Ga., September 21, 1820; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Virginia in 1841; studied law, and com-
menced practice at Tallahassee, Fla. ; State repre-
sentative in 1847; secretary of state in 1848 and
State senator in 1849; elected a Eepresentative
from Florida to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress; navy agent at Pensacola 1857-1861; senator
of the Confederate States; elected president of the
Pensacola and Montgomery Eailroad in 1866.
Maxwell, George C, was a native of New Jer-
sey; graduated from Princeton College in 1792;
elected a Eepresentative from New Jersey to the
Twelfth Congress as a Whig.
Maxwell, J. P. B. , was born in New Jersey in
1805; graduated from Princeton College in 1823;
studied law and commenced practice at Belvidere
in 1827; elected a Eepresentative from New Jersey
to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Whig; received the certificate of elec-
tion to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but the House
refused to recognize it; died at Belvidere, N. J.,
November 14, 1846.
Maxwell, Lewis, was a native of Virginia;
located at Weston; elected a Eepresentative from
Virginia to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and
Twenty-second Congresses as a Whig.
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689
Maxwell, Samuel, waa born at Lodi (then a
suburb of Syracuse, N. Y.), May 20, 1826; edu-
cated in the common schools, and in the higher
branches under private tuition; moved with his
father's family to Michigan in 1844; here he
taught school and farmed; completed a course
in law in Michigan in 1858; admitted to the bar
in 1859; returned to Neoraska and began practice;
elected a delegate to the first Republican Territo-
rial convention; elected a representative from Cass
County to the Territorial legislature; elected to
the first constitutional convention, held in 1864;
elected to the legislature in the same year, and re-
elected in 1865; assisted in framing the constitution,
of 1866; el.ected to the first State legislature in 1866;
in the following year appointed by the governor a
commissioner to select the capitol building and uni-
versity lands ; organized the First National Bank of
Plattsmouth about 1870 and was one of its officers;
elected in 1871 to the second constitutional con-
vention, and was chairman of the committee on
suffrage; elected judge of the supreme court as a
Republican in 1872 for a term of six years; located
in Fremont in 1873; elected in 1875 a member of
the third constitutional convention, and was chair-
man of the judiciary committee; elected the same
year judge of the supreme court under the new
constitution, and reelected in 1881 and 1887;
elected as a Representative from Nebraska to the
Fifty-fifth Congress as a Fusionist; after leaving
Congress resumed the practice of law ; died in 1901.
Max-well, Tliomas, of Elmira, N. Y. ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
first Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
May, Henry, was a, native of the District of
Columbia; received an academic education;
studied and practiced law; sent by President
Pierce to Mexico to investigate the Gardiner
claim; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Thirty-third and Thirty-seventh Congresses
as a Democrat; died at Baltimore, Md., Septem-
ber 25, 1866.
May, Mitcliell, of the borough of Brooklyn,
N. Y. , was born July 11, 1871, in said borough; edu-
cated in the public schools and at the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, later entering the law school
of Columbia College, graduating in 1892; admitted
to the bar in 1893; actively engaged in practice in
Brooklyn; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
May William L., was a native of Kentucky;
attended the common schools; nioved to Spring-
field 111 ; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, vice Joseph Duncan, resigned; elected to
the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses.
Mayall, Samuel, was a native of Maine; at-
tended the public schools; located at Gray; State
representative in 1845 and 1847-48;. fected a Rep-
resentative from Maine to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Maybury, WiUiam C, of Detroit, Mich, was
born there November 21, 1849; educated at the
University of Michigan, which gave him the
degree of master of arts; studied law; admitted
to the bar, and practiced; city at orney of Detroit
1875-1880 lecturer on medical jurisprudence in
Michigan College of Medicine; elected to the
Forty?eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrff after his retirement from Congress
Resumed the practice of law; in 1897 was elected
mayor of Detroit, and twice reelected.
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Mayham, Stephen L. , born at Blenheim, N. Y. ,
October 8, 1825; received an academic education;
studied law at Ithaca, commencing practice in
1848; superintendent of schools at Schoharie 1852-
1857 and supervisor 1857-1860; county attorney
1859-1863; State representative in 1863;-elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-first
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Maynard, Harry Lee, of Portsmouth, Va., was
born there June 8, 1861; educated in the common
schools of Norfolk County and the Virginia Agri-
cultural Mechanical College; graduated therefrom
in 1880; in 1890 elected to the Virginia house of
delegates; in 1894 elected to the Virginia State sen-
ate; reelected in 1898; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Maynard, Horace, was born at Westboro,
Mass., August 13, 1814; attended school at Charles-
ton, S. C, and the Millbury (Mass.) Academy;
graduated from Amherst College in 1838; in 1839
became principal of the Hampden-Sydney Acad-
emy at Knoxville, Tenn. ; instructor and professor
in the University of East Tennessee until 1844;
studied law and practiced; attorney-general of
Tennessee 1863-1865; Presidential elector in 1852
and 1864; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1865; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-fifth Congress as an
American; reelected to the Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses; elected to the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-
third Congresses; appointed minister to Tur;key
March 9, 1875, serving several years; Postmaster-
General June 2, 1880, to March 5, 1881; died at
Knoxville, Tenn., May 3, 1882.
Maynard, John, was a native of New York;
graduated from Union College in 1810; studied
law, and commenced practice at Seneca Falls;
moved to Auburn; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twentieth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses as a Whig; a State senator 1838-1840;
seventh district judge of the supreme court June
7, 1847, until his death, March 24, 1850, at Auburn,
N. Y.
Mayo, Robert M., of Hague, Va., was given
certificate of election as a Representative from
that State to the Forty-eighth Congress, but waa
unseated by G. T. Garrison on March 20, 1884.
Mayrant, William, was a native of South Caro-
lina; elected a Representative from that State to
the Fourteenth Congress; resigned October 21,
1816; defeated for the Fifteenth Congress.
Meacham, James, was born at Rutland, Vt.,
in 1810; graduated from Middlebury College in
1832; tutor and professor at Middlebury College;
studiedtheology; pastoratNewHaven, Vt.; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig (vice George P. Marsh, re-
signed); reelected to the Thirty-second, Thirty-
third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses, serving until
his death, at Middlebury, Vt., August 22, 1856.
Mead, Cowles, was a native of Georgia; studied
and practiced law; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Ninth Congress as a Democrat, but
was unseated December 25, 1805, by the successful
contest of his opponent; appointed secretary of
Mississippi Territory in 1806.
Meade, Edwin Ruthven, was born at Nor-
wich, N. J., July 6, 1836; received an academic
education; studied law, and commenced practice
in Norwich in 1858; moved to New York City in
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
1872; elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; died at
New York City November 28, 1889.
Iffleade, Richard K., was born in Frederick
County, Va., about 1795; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and commenced practice at
Petersburg; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second
Congresses as a Democrat; minister to Brazil July
27, 1857, to July 9, 1861; died April 20, 1862, at his
home in Virginia.
Mehane, Alexander, was born at Hawfields,
N. C, November 26, 1744; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1776; member of the
house of commons of North Carolina 1787-1792;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Third Congress; died in Orange County, N. C,
July 5, 1795.
HedilliWilliain, was born in Newcastle County,
Del., in 1805; received a liberal education; studied
law, and commenced practice in Lancaster County,
Ohio, in 1832; member of the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Demo-
crat; Second Assistant Postmaster-General in 1 845 ;
Indian Commissioner October 28, 1845, to May 29,
1850; delegate to the Ohio constitutional conven-
tion of 1850; lieutenant-governor of Ohio 1851-52,
and governor 1854-55; First Comptroller of the
Treasury March 26, 1857, to April 10, 1861; died at
Lancaster, Ohio, September 2, 1865.
SCeech, Ezra, was born at New London, Conn. ,
July 26, 1773; attended the common schools; en-
gaged in the fur trade in the Northwest and in
ship-timber contracts in Canada; moved to Shel-
burne, Vt.; State representative 1805-1807; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Sixteenth
and Nineteenth Congresses; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1822 and 1826; chief
justice of Chittenden County; Presidential elector
on the Whig ticket in 1840; died at Shelburne,
Vt., September 23, 1856.
Meekison, David, of Napoleon, Ohio, was born
November 14, 1849, at Dundee, Scotland, and
emigrated with his parents from that country in
1855 to Napoleon, Ohio; attended the common
schools until his fourteenth year, and then entered
a printing office; studied law, and was admitted to
the bar m 1873; in 1881 elected probate judge,
and served two terms; in 1886 established a bank-
ing business at Napoleon, Ohio, under the name
of Meekison Bank, to which he gave his principal
attention, except that required by the duties of
mayor of Napoleon, Ohio; elected to the Fifty-
fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat.
Meigs, Henry, was born at New Haven, Conn.,
October 28, 1782; graduated from Yale College in
1798; studied law, and commenced practice in New
York City; elected a Representative from New
York to the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat-
died at New York City, May 20, 1861.
Meigs, Beturn Jonathan, was born at Middle-
town, Conn., in November, 1765; graduated from
Yale College in 1785; studied law, and commenced
practice at Marietta, Ohio; served in the Indian
war; .judge of the Ohio supreme courtg elected a
United States Senator from Ohio as a Democrat
(vice John Smith, resigned), serving from Janu-
ary 6, 1809, to his resignation, May 1, 1810; gov-
ernor of Ohio 1810-1814; Postmaster-General
March 17, 1814, to June 26, 1823; died at Marietta
Ohio, March 29, 1825.
Meiklejohn, George D., of Fullerton, Nebr.,
was born at Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis.,
August 26, 1857; brought up on a farm; educated
at the State Normal, Oshkosh, Wis., and Michigan
University, Ann Arbor; principal of the high
school at Weyauwega, Wis., and Liscomb, Iowa;
graduated from the law department, Michigan
University , in 1880; located at Fullerton, Nance
County, Nebr,, in 1880, where he was engaged
in the practice of law; county attorney for
Nance County three years; elected to the senate
of the Nebraska legislature in 1884, and reelected
in 1886; elected president of the senate during his
second term; elected chairman of the Republican
State convention in 1887; elected chairman of the
Republican State central committee in 1887-88;
elected lieutenant-governor of Nebraska in 1888,
and, by virtue of his office as lieutenant-governor,
was presiding officer of the famous joint convention
to canvass the election returns of 1891, when an
attempt was made to count out the ticket that was
duly elected; elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican; appointed
Assistant Secretary of War in 1897.
Mellen, Prentiss, was born at Sterling, Mass.,
October 11, 1764; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1784; studied law and commenced practice
at Bridgewater in 1786; moved to Biddeford in
1792 and from there to Portland; executive coun-
cilor 1808-9 and 1817; trustee of Bowdoin College
1817-1836; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts (vice Eli P. Ashmun, resigned),
serving from November 16, 1818, to May 15, 1820;
resigned on the creation of Maine; chief justice of
Maine 1820-1834 ; died at Portland, Me. , December
31, 1840.
MelUsh, David B. , was born at Oxford, Mass. ,
January 2, 1831; attended the public schools;
printer at Worcester; taught school in Massachu-
setts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; proof reader in
New York City; reporter for the New York Trib-
une; stenographer to the police board of New
York City for ten years; appointed assistant ap-
praiser of New York in 1871; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; served until his death,
at Washington, D. C, May 23, 1874. .
Menifee, Kichard H., was a native of Ken-
tucky; received an academic education; studied
law and commenced practice at Lexington; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Whig; died at Frankfort, Kv.,
February 21, 1841.
Menzies, John W., was born in Fayette
County, Ky., April 12, 1819; graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1840; studied law, com-
mencing practice at Covington, Ky., in 1841;
State representative in 1848 and 1855; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Thirtv-
seventh Congress as a Unionist; delegate to the
national Democratic convention of 1864.
Mercer, Charles Fenton, was born at Fred-
ericksburg, Va., June 6, 1778; graduated from
Princeton College in 1797; lieutenant and captain
in the U. S. Army 1798-1800; studied and prac-
ticed law; visited Europe, returning in 1803; State
representative 1810-1817; brigadier-general in the
war of 1812; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company; elected a Representative from
Virginia to eleven successive Congresses, from the
Sixteenth to the Twenty-sixth, inclusive, as a
Democrat; visited Europe again in 1853; died at
Howard, Va., May 4, 1858.
BIOGRAPHIES.
691
Mercer, David Henry, of Omaha, Nebr. , was
born in Beiiton County, Iowa, July 9, 1857; moved
with his parents to Adams County, 111., the fol-
lowing year; at close of the war moved with his
parents to Brown ville, Nebr., where he attended
the public schools; entered the Nebraska State
University in 1877 and graduated in 1880; during
the Bummer vacations he taught school, clerked in
a store, worked on a farm, and edited a newspaper;
studied law one year and then entered senior class
of the law department of Michigan State Univer-
sity, graduating in 1882, after which he returned
to Brownville to practice his profession; served
one term as city clerk and police judge; twice
elected secretary of the Republican State central
committee; moved to Omaha in 1885, and for sev-
eral years was chairman of the Republican city
and county committees; elected secretary of the
national Republican Congressional committee in
1896, and in 1897-98 was chairman of the Repub-
lican State central committee of Nebraska; elected
to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh. Congresses as a Repub-
lican; served six years as chairman committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds; defeated for
reelection to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Mercer, James, was born in Hampshire
County, Va., in 1747; graduated from William
and Mary College in 1767; active in pre-Revolu-
tionary affairs; was on the committee of public
safety; Delegate from Virginia to the Continental
Congress 1779-80; appointed a judge of admiralty
and of the court of appeals 1779-80; died in Vir-
ginia in June, 1793.
Mercer, John Francis, was born in Stafford
County, Va., May 17, 1759; graduated from Wil-
liam and Mary College in 1775; Delegate from
Virginia to the Continental Congress 1782-1785;
moved to Maryland; delegate from Maryland to
the. Federal constitutional convention; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Second Con-
gress (vice William Pinkney, resigned); reelected
to the Third Congress, serving from February 6,
1792, until his resignation April 13, 1794; State
representative; governor of Maryland 1801-1803;
died at Philadelphia, Pa., August 30, 1821.
Mercur, TJlysses, was born at Towanda, Pa.,
August 12, 1818; graduated from Jefferson College
in 1842; studied law, and commenced practice at
Towanda in 1843; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention of 1856; Presidential elector in
1860; president-judge of the thirteenth judicial dis-
trict of Pennsylvania from March, 1861, to March
4 1865, resigbing; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-
flrst, and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican,
serving until his resignation December 2, 1872;
elected justice of the supreme court of Pennsyl-
vania in 1872, becoming chief justice in 1883;
served until his death, at Wallmgford, Pa., June 6,
1887.
Meredith, Elisha E., was born in Sumter
County, Ala., December 26, 1848; educated at
Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; admitted to
the bar in 1869; prosecuting attorney for Prince
William County seventeen years; served in the
State senate of Virginia from 1883 to 1887; Presi-
dential elector in 1888; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat December 9, 1891, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. W. H. f.
Lee; reelected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
Congresses; after leaving Congress resumed the
practice of law; died in 1900.
Meredith, Samuel, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1740; engaged in mercantile pursuits; mem-
ber of the colonial legislature; active in ante- Revo-
lutionary affairs; served in the Revolutionary war;
friend of Washington; Delegate from Pennsylvania
to the Continental Congress 1787-88; United States
Treasurer September 11, 1789, to December 1, 1801,
when he resigned; died at Belmont, Pa., March 10,
1817.
Meriwether, David, was borninLouisa County,
Va. , October 30, 1 800 ; attended the common schools ;
engaged in fur trading near Council Bluffs, Iowa;
became a farmer in Kentucky; in 1832 elected a
State representative and served a number of years;
delegate to the state constitutional convention of
1849; State secretary of state; appointed a United
States Senator from Kentucky (vice Henry Clay,
deceased), serving from July 6, 1852, until Septem-
ber 1, 1852; governor of New Mexico May 6, 1853,
to Januarys, 1855; died near Louisville, Ky., April
4, 1893. •
Meriwether, David, was born in Virginia in
1755; received a liberal education; served in the
Revolutionary war; located at Wilkes County, Ga. ;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Seventh (vice Benjamin Taliaferro, resigned),
Eighth, and Ninth Congresses as a Democrat,
serving from December 6, 1802 to 1807; ai)pointed
a commissioner to the Creek Indians in 1804;
Presidential elector in 1812; died near Athens,
Ga., November 16, -1822.
Meriwether, James, wasborninWilkes County,
Ga. ; attended the common schools; felected a
Representative from Georgia to the Nineteenth
Congress.
Meriwether, James A. , of Edenton, Ga. , was
a native of that State; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Twenty -seventh Congress as a
Whig.
Merriam, Clinton L., was, born at Ley den,
N. Y., March 25, 1824; received a liberal educa-
tion and engaged in mercantile pursuits in north-
ern New York; moved to New York City in 1847,
becoming an importer and in 1860 entered the
banking business; returned to Leyden in 1864;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses as a
Republican.
Merrick, "Williara D. , was bom at Annapolis,
Md., October 25, 1793; received a liberal education;
held several locaL offices; elected a United States
Senator from Maryland (vice Joseph Kent, de-
ceased) as a Whig; reelected, serving from Janu-
ary 5, 1838, to March 3, 1845; died at Washington,
D.O., February 5, 1857.
Merrick, William M. , (son of William D.
Merrick), was born in Charles County, Md., Sep-
tember 1, 1818; studied law at the University of
Virginia; was admitted to the bar at Baltimore
in 1839, commencing practice at Frederick, Md.,
in 1844; deputy attorney-general for Frederick
County 1845-1850; moved to Washington, D. C, in
1854; associate justice of the United States circuit
court for the District of Columbia 1854-1863; re-
sumed the practice of law in Maryland; professor
of l^w in Columbian College 1866-67; delegate to
the State constitutional convention of 1867; State
representative in 1870; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for the Forty-third Congress;
appointed supreme court judge of the District of
692
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Columbia in 1885; died at Washington, D. C,
February 4, 1889.
Merrill, Orsamus C. , waa born in "Vermont in
1776; received a liberal education; studied law
and practiced; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from Vermont as a Jackson Demo-
crat to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses,
but in the Sixteenth Congress his seat was suc-
cessfully contested by R. 0. Mallory, who took it
January 14, 1820; died at Bennington, Vt., April
11, 1865.
Merriman, Truman Adams, was born at Au-
burn, N. Y., September 5, 1839; educated at the
Auburn Academy and at Hobart College, Geneva,
IST. Y. , graduating in 1861 ; entered the Union Army
in September, 1861, as captain in the JSTinety-second
New York Infantry, and was mustered out in De-
cember, 1864, as lieutenant-colonel; studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1867; entered the
profession of journalism in 1871; elected to the
Forty-ninth and FiftiethMJongresses as a Democrat;
died in 1892.
Merrimon, Aug'ustus Suinm.erfield, was born
in Buncombe County, N. C, September 15, 1830;
attended the common schools; studied law, and
commenced practice in 1852; was county attorney;
member of North Carolina legislature 1860-61;
entered the Confederate army; solicitor of the
eighth judicial district of North Carolina 1861-
1865; judge of the superior court 1866-67, when
he resigned; elected a United States Senator from
North Carolina as a Democrat for the term 1873-
1879; elected associate judge of the North Carolina
supreme court, and from 1889 chief justice until
his death at Raleigh, N. C, November 14, 1892.
Merritt, Samuel A. , was born at Staunton, Va.,
August 15, 1828; attended Staunton Academy and
graduated from Washington College June 18, 1848;
studied and practiced law; moved to California;
county clerk in 1850; State representative 1851-52
and State senator 1857-1862; moved to Idaho;
elected a Delegate from that Territory to the Forty-
second Congress as a Democrat.
Mervin, Orange, was a native of Litchfield,
Conn.; received a liberal;education; located at New
Milford; elected a Representative from Connecti-
cut to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses.
Mesick, "William Smith, of Mancelona, Antrim
County, Mich., was born August 26, 1856, at New-
ark, Wayne County, N. Y.; educated in the com-
mon schools and at Kalamazoo (Mich.) Business
College and the University of Michigan; admitted
to the bar in 1881; held the office of prosecuting
attorney of Antrim County, Mich., for one term;
elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty -sixth Congresses
as a Republican.
Metcalf, Arunali, was a native of New York;
attended the public schools; located at Otsego;
elected a Representative from New York to flie
Twelfth Congress as a Democrat; State represent-
ative in 1814-1816 and in 1828.
Metcalf, "Victor Howard, of Oakland, Cal.
was born at Utica, Oneida County, N. Y., October
10, 1853; graduated from the Utica Free Academy
also from Russell's Military Academy, New Haven'
Conn., and then entered the class of 1876, Yale-
left the academic department of Yale in his junior
year and entered the Yale Law School, gradu-
ating therefrom in 1876; admitted to practice in
the supreme court of Connectic-ut in June, 1876
and in the supreme court of New York in 1877'
practiced law in Utica, N. Y., for two years and
then moved to California^ locating in Oakland;
formed a law partnership m 1881 with George D.
Metcalf, under the firm name of Metcalf & Metcalf;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses.
Metcalfe, Henry B., was born at Albany,
N. Y., January 20, 1805; moved in 1811 to New
York City; moved to Richmond County in 1816;
studied law and commenced practice at New York
City in 1826; county attorney of Richmond County
1826-1832; county judge 1840-41, when he re-
signed; in the revenue department 1841-1843;
county judge 1847-1875; elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
Metcalfe, Lyne S. , was born at Madisonville,
Ky., April 21, 1822; attended thecommon schools,
Shurtleff and Illinois colleges; engaged in mer-
cantile business at Alton, 111., in 1844; alderman
and mayor; served in the Union Army; moved to
St. Louis in 1863; engaged in manufacturing; served
in the city council; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Re-
publican.
Metcalfe, Thomas, was born in Fauquier
County, Va., March 20, 1780; moved to Fayette
County, Ky. ; attended the common schools;
learned the mason's trade; served in the war of
1812; State representative for several years; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twen-
tieth Congresses as a Clay Democrat, resigning
June 1, 1828; governor of Kentucky 1829-1833;
State senator 1834; president of the board of in-
ternal improvement 1840; appointed a United
States Senator from Kentucky (vice John J. Crit-
tenden, resigned), serving from July 3, 1848, to
March 8, 1849; died in Nicholas County, Ky.,
August 18, 1855.
Meyer, Adolph, of New Orleans, La., was born
October 19, 1842; student at the University of
Virginia until 1862, during which year he entered
the Confederate army and served till the close of
the war on the staff of Brig. Gen. John S. Williams,
of Kentucky; at the close of the war returned to
Louisiana and engaged largely in the culture of cot-
ton and sugar; also engaged in merchandising and
bankmg m the city of New Orleans; elected colo-
nel m 1879 of the First Regiment of Louisiana
State National Guard, and in 1881 was appointed
brigadier-general to command the first brigade,
embracing all the uniformed corps of the State,
which position he still holds; elected to the Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Meyers, Benjamin F., was born near New
Centerville, Pa., July 6, 1833; attended the Somer-
set and Jefferson colleges; studied law and com-
menced practice in 1855; member of the State
legislature in 1864; delegate to the Democratic
national convention of 1864; editor of the Bed-
ford Gazette and in 1868 of the Harrisburg Daily
±'atriot; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Forty-third Congress.
Mickey J. Ross, of Macomb, McDonough
(..ounty. 111., was born January 5, 1856, in Eldo-
rado lownship, in said county, and reared on the
tarm; educated in the public schools and at Lin-
^l\ T'^^^uV engaged in the profession of
teacher of public schools for a number of years-
read law with Judge William Prentiss and Hon.
BIOGRAPHIES.
693
Jacob L. Baily, of Macomb; admitted to the bar
in 1889; engaged in the practice of the law until
the fall of 1898, when he was elected judge of the
county and probate court of his native county for
a term of four years, being the only Democrat
elected, the county being 500 Repubhcan; which
said office he resigned February 22, 1901, having
been elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat; declined a renomination to the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Middleswarth., Ner, was born in New Jersey
about 1780; received a liberal education; moved
to Beavertown, Pa. ; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig; died at Beavertown, Pa., June 2, 1865.
Middleton, Arthur (son of Henry Middleton
and father of Henry Middleton) , was born near the
Ashley River, South Carolina, June 26, 1742; grad-
uated from Cambridge University (England) in
1764; became a planter in 1773; one of the Council
of Safety in 1775 and delegate to form a State con-
stitution in 1776; Delegate to the Continental Con-
gress from South Carolma 1776-1778 and 1781-1783;
served in the Revolutionary army ; held a prisoner
by the British 1780-81 ; publisherof several political
essays; died at Goose Creek, S. C. , January 1, 1787.
Iffiddleton, George, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., October 14, 1811; moved to Burlington, N. J.;
attended the public schools; became a tanner;
moved to Allentown; after holding several local
offices he became a State representative; elected a
Representative from. New Jersey to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Thirty-ninth Congress.
middleton, Henry (father of Arthur Middle-
ton) , was born in South Carolina in 1717; Delegate
from that State to the Continental Congress 1774-
1776; died at Charleston, S. C, June 13, 1784.
Middleton, Henry (son of Arthur Middleton),
was born at Middleton Place, S. C, in 1771; received
a classical education; State representative 1801-
1810; governor 1810-1812; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Congresses; minister to Russia, April 6,
1820, to August 3, 1830; died at Charleston, S. C,
June 14, 1846.
Miers, Robert "W., of Bloomington, Ind., was
born in Decatur County, Ind., January 27, 1848;
graduate of both the literary and the law depart-
ment of Indiana University; commenced the prac-
tice of law at Bloomington, Ind., in April, 1872;
elected prosecuting attorney for the tenth judicial
circuit of Indiana in 1875 and reelected in 1877;
elected to the house of representatives of the In-
diana legislature in 1879; trustee of the Indiana
University from 1881 to 1893; appointed judge of
the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1883 to fill
an unexpired term; elected judge of the same cir-
cuit in 1890 and served as judge until September,
1896, when he resigned and accepted the nomina-
tion of the Democratic Congressional convention
for the Second district of Indiana; elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Mifain, Thomas, was born at Philadelphia
Pa., in 1744; attended Philadelphia College; visited
Europe in 1765; returned and engaged in business;
memberofthecolonial legislature in 1772-73; Dele-
gate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Con-
gress 1774-1776 and 1782-1784; served with dis-
tinction in the Revolution as major, reaching the
rank of major-general February 19, 1777; opposed
Washington toward the last of the struggle; speak-
er of the State house of representatives in 1785;
delegate to the Federal constitutional convention
of 1787; president of the supreme executive coun-
cil of Pennsylvania, October, 1788, to October,
1790; president of the State constiutional conven-
tion of 1790; governor of Pennsylvania 1791-1800;
died at Lancaster, Pa., January 20, 1800.
DCiles, Frederick, was born at Goshen, Litch-
field County, Conn., December 19, 1815; received
a common school and academic education; engaged
in mercantile pursuits at Goshen until 1857; moved
to Chapinville, in Salisbury, in 1858, and engaged
in the manufacture of iron; elected in November,
1877, to the State senate of Connecticut for two
years, and resigned in February, 1879, having been
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
declined nomination for reelection; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress; died November 20, 1896.
Miles, Joshua Weldon, of Princess Anne, Md.,
was born on his father's farm on the Great Anna-
messex River, in Somerset County, Md., December
9, 1858; studied in early youth at a private school
and also at the Marion Academy, a public high
school at Marion, in said county, both of which
institutions were conducted by Benjamin F.
Haynes, a well-known Maryland educator; gradu-
ated from Western Maryland College in 1 878 ; began
the study of law with Hon. Charles B. Roberts at
Westminster in the summer of 1878; pursued his
studies for a while at the Maryland University
Law School and afterwards in the office of Dennis
& Brattan, at Princess Anne; admitted to the bar
in July, 1880; elected State attorney of Somerset
County in 1883; defeated for reelection; formed a
a partnership with Hon. Henry Page, a member
of the Fifty-second Congress, in January, 1888,
which continued until the appointment of that
gentleman to a seat upon the bench of the court
of appeals of Maryland; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Miles, Nathahiel, was elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Second and Third Congresses.
Miles, W. Porcher, was born at Charleston,
S. C, in July, 1828; graduated from Charleston
College; studied law and practiced; mayor of
Charleston 1856-57; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses as a State Rights Democrat,
serving until the secession of South Carolina; was
a Representative from South Carolina to the Con-
federate provisional congress; died in 1899.
Millard, Joseph Hopkins, of Omaha, Nebr.,
was born at Hamilton, Canada, April, 1836, the
son of natives of the United States temporarily
residing abroad; in childhood moved with his
parents to Iowa, near Sabula, Jackson County,
and at 18 entered a store in Dubuque as clerk; two
years later moved to Omaha; engaged in the land
business and later in banking, becoming a director
of the Omaha National Bank in July, 1866, and on
January 1, 1867, its president and cashier, still
retaining his place at the head of the institution;
served one term as mayor of Omaha; for six years
a Government director of the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company, and subsequently served the stock-
holders of the company as one of their represent-
atives on the board for a period of seven years;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican March 28, 1901, arid took his seat December
2, 1901.
694
CONGEKSSIONAL DIEECTOKY.
Millard, Stephen C, of Binghamton, N. Y.,
was born at Stamford, Vt., January 14, 1841; edu-
cated at Williams College, Mass., graduating in
the class of 1865; read law at Harvard Law School
and in the oflBce of Pingree & Baker, Pittsfield,
Mass., and admitted to the bar of the State of New
York in May, 1867, at Binghamton; chairman
of the Republican county committee 1872-1879;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Eepub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress; after
the close of his term in Congress he returnedto
Binghamton, N. Y., and engaged in the practice
of his profession.
Milledg'e, John, was born at Savannah, Ga.,
in 1757; served in the Bevolutionary struggle;
attorney-general of Georgia in 1780; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the Second Congress
(vice Anthony Wayne, whose seat was declared
vacant) , serving from November 22, 1792, to March
2, 1793; elected to the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh
Congresses, resigning in May, 1802; governor 1802-
1806; elected a United States Senator from Georgia
(vice James Jackson, deceased), serving from De-
cember 11, 1806, until his resignation in 1809;
died at Sand Hill, Ga., February 9, 1818. '
Miller, Daniel F., was born in Allegany
County, Md., October4, 1814; received an academic
education; studied law at Pittsburg, Pa., com-
mencing practice in 1839 in Iowa; Territorial rep-
resentative; as a Whig candidate contested the
leturned election of William H. Thompson as a
Representative from Iowa to the Thirty-first Con-
gress and the seat was declared vacant; at a sub-
isequent election was elected- to the Thirty-first
Congress, serving from December 20, 1850, to
March 3, 1851; Presidential elector on the Repub-
lican ticket of 1856.
Miller, Daniel H. , was a native of Philadelphia,
Pa. ; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and
Twenty-first Congresses as a Jackson Democrat;
died at Philadelphia, Pa.,' 1846.
Miller, Georg'e F. , was born at Chillisquaque,
Pa., September 5, 1809; received an academic edu-
cation; studied law and practiced; secretary of
the Lewisburg University 1848-1864; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a Republican.
Miller, Homer M. V., was born in Pendleton
County, S. C, April 29, 1814; elected to the United
States Senate in 1871; Congress passed a special
form of oath to be taken by him; took his seat
February 24, 1871, serving until March 3, 1871;
died in 1896.
Miller, Jacob W. , was born in Morris County,
N. J., in 1800; received an academic education;
studied law and commenced practice at Morris-
town; twice elected a United States Senator from
New Jersey as a Whig, serving from 1841 to 1853;
died at Morristown, N. J., September 30, 1862.
Miller, James Francis, of Gonzales, Tex., was
born in Tennessee August 1, 1832; received a
classical education in a private school; by profes-
sion a lawyer; also engaged in banking and stock
raising; never held any civil or political office and
never a candidate for any until elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty -ninth Congress; after leaving Congress
became engaged in the banking business in Gon-
zales, Tex.
Miller, James Mouroe, of Council Grove,
Kans., was born at Three Springs, Huntingdon
County, Pa.; educated at Dickinson Seminary,
Williamsport, Pa.; lawyer; elected county attor-
ney of Morris County, Kans., in 1880 for a term
of two years, and reelected in 1884 and 1886; elected
a member of the Kansas legislature in 1894, and
also a Republican Presidential elector for Kansas
in 1884; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Miller, Jesse (father of William H. Miller),
was a native of Landisburg, Pa. ; attended the com-
mon schools; studied law and practiced; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat, resigning October 30, 1836; Auditor of
the United States Treasury November 18, 1836, to
June 17, 1842; canal commissioner of Pennsylvania
1845^6; State secretary of state 1846-1848; died
at Harrisburg, Pa., August 20, 1850.
Miller, Jolm, was born at Amenia, N. Y.,
November 10, 1774; received a liberal education;
studied medicine at the University of Pennsyl-
vania; commenced practice at Truxton, N. Y.;
postmaster 1805-1825; State representative in 1817,
1820, and 1845; elected a Representative from New
York to the Nineteenth Congress; delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1846; died at
Truxton, N. Y., March 5, 1862.
Miller, John, was born in Steubenville, Ohio,
in 1780; attended the public schools; served in the
war of 1812; moved to Missouri; governor 1826-
1832; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-
seventh Congresses as a Van Buren Democrat;
died near Florisant, Mo., March 18, 1846.
Miller, JohnF. , was born at South Bend, Ind.,
November 21, 1831; received an academic educa-
tion at South Bend, and fitted for college at Chi-
cago, but did not enter; commenced -the study of
law in 1849, and graduated from the New York
State Law School in 1852; commenced practice at
South Bend; soon went to California, where he
practiced law for three years, when he returned
to Indiana and resumed practice there; member
of the State senate in 1860, but resigned to enter the
Army as colonel of the Twenty-ninth Indiana Vol-
unteers, and placed in command of a brigade, serv-
ing under Sherman, Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas,
and receiving severe wounds in the battles of Stone
River and Liberty Gap; promoted to brigadier-
general; in the battle of Nashville commanded
the left division of 8,000 men, and brevetted a
major-general for conspicuous bravery; offered a
high commission in the Regular Army at the close
of the war, but declined it; returned to California;
collector of the port of San Francisco four years,
declming a reappointment; Republican candidate
for Presidential elector in 1872, 1876, and 1880;
member of the California State constitutional con-
vention in 1879; elected to the United States Sen-
ate as a Republican to succeed Newton Booth,
Antimonopohst, and took his seat March 4, 1881
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Miller, John G., was born in Kentucky Octo-
ber 4, 1812; attended the common schools; moved
\° ?aT'^'}h 1^°;; ^" 1^^5; State representative
IS ^1-' ,'5le<=ted a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-second Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth
Congresses as a Whig, serving until his death, in
Saline County, Mo., May 11, 1856.
tK^^^^ifr' "^"^J^,^-' was a native of Ohio; attended
the pubhc schools; located at Mount Vernon, Ohio-
elected a Representative from that State to the
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ocrat.
Congresses as a Dem-
Miller, Joseph., was a native of Ohio; attended
school at Chillicothe; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for the Thirty-sixth Congress;
appointed United States district judge for Nebraska
Territory.
IVCiller, Killian, was born at Claverack, N. Y.,
July 30, 1785; received an academic education;
studied law, and commenced practice in 1806 at
Livingston, N. Y. ; State rejjresentative in 1825 and
1828; moved to Hudson in 1833; county clerk
1837-1840; elected a Representative fromNew York
to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig.
IXiller, Lucas M., of Oshkosh, Wis., was born
at Laviadia, Greece, in 1824; emigrated to the
United States and located at Montpelier, Vt. , where
he attended the public schools; moved to Wiscon-
sin in 1846; member of the Wisconsin legislature
in 1853; elected a Representative from Wisconsin
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Miller, Morris S., was born in 1779; located
at Utica, N. Y.; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirteenth Congress as a Feder-
alist; State commissioner to the Seneca Indians
1819; Oneida County judge; died at Utica, N. Y.,
November 15, 1824.
Miller, Nathan, was born in Rhode Island
about 1750; brigadier-general of militia; Delegate
from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress
1785-86; died in Rhode Island in 1787.
Miller, Orrin L. , of Kansas City, Kans. ; waa
born at Ne^burg, Me., January 11, 1856; studied
law, and admitted to practice at Bangor, Me.,
in 1880; moved to Kansas in November of that
year and located at Kansas City, where he en-
gaged in the practice of law; appointed district
]udge for the twenty-ninth judicial district of
Kansas in March, 188"7, and elected to that offlce
for four years in November of the same year; re-
signed in 1891 to resume the practice of law;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; resumed the ]iractice of law after leaving
Congress.
Miller, Pleasant M. , was electect a Represent-
ative from Tennessee to the Eleventh Congress.
Miller, Rutger B., was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-fourth Congress (vice Samuel Beardsley,
resigned), serving from December 5, 1836, to March
3, 1837; died at Utica, N. Y., November 13, 1877.
Miller, Samuel F. , was born at Franklin, N. Y. ,
May 27, 1827; graduated from Hamilton College
in 1852; studied law, and admitted to the barm
1853; engaged in farming and lumbering; State
representative in 1854; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-eighth and Forty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican; member of the
State constitutional convention of 1867; district
collector of internal revenue 1869-1873; on the
State board of charities 1869-1877; died at Frank-
lin, N. Y., March 16, 1892.
Miller, Samuel H., of Mercer, Pa., was bom
at Cool Spring, Mercer County, Pa., April 19, 1840;
prepared for college in the common schools by
James Hannavan; graduated from Westmmster
College in 1860; taught school m the wmter of
1860-61 in Madison County, Ky. ; edited and pub-
lished the Mercer Dispatch, a Repubhcan journal,
1861-1870; admitted to the bar at Mercer m 1870,
where he practiced; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
eighth Congress; elected president-judge of tne
several courts of Mercer County, Pa., in 1894, for
ten years.
Miller, Smith, was a native of North Carolina;
moved to Patoka, Ind.; received a limited educa-
tion; engaged in farming; State representative;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Miller, Stephen Decatur, was born at Wax-
haw Settlement of the Lancaster District, S. C,
May 8, 1787; graduated from South Carolina Col-
lege in 1808; studied law, and in 1811 commenced
practice at Sumterville; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Fourteenth (vice
William Mayrant, resigned) and Fifteenth Con-
gresses as an anti-Calhoun Democrat, serving from
January 2, 1817, to March 3, 1819; State senator
1822-1828; governor 1828^1830; elected a United
States Senator from South Carolina as a Nullifler,
serving from 1831 to his resignation March 2, 1833;
delegate to the nullification convention of 1830 and
1832; engaged in cotton planting in Mississippi in
1835; died at Raymond," Miss., March 8, 1838.
Miller, Thomas E., of Beaufort, S. C, was
born in Beaufort County, S. C, at Ferry beeville,
June 17; 1849; attended the free public school for
negro youths up to the breaking out of the war;
graduated from Lincoln University, in Pennsylva-
nia, in 1872; read law, and admitted to the supreme
court in 1875; elected school commissioner of his
native county in 1872 ; elected to the lower house of
the South Carolina legislature in 1874, 1876, and
1878, and to the State senate in 1880; returned to
the lower house in 1886; served as a member of the
State executive committee for over ten years, and
chairman of the said committee for two years;
nominated by his party for lieutenant-governor of
South Carolina in 1878, but on account of the
riotous actions of the Democratic party in the State
during the campaign of said year the ticket was
withdrawn; nominated by the Republicans in
1888 and elected to the Fifty-first Congress, but
counted out by the Democratic returning boards;
contested the seat of Col. William Elliott, to whom
was given the certificate of election, and seated by
a vote of the House; elected president of the State
Colored College at Orangeburg, S. C, in 1896.
Miller, Warner, of Herkimer, N. Y., was born
in Oswego County, N. Y., August 12, 1838; grad-
uated from Union College in 1860; commenced
teaching in the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute,
but on the breaking out of the war enlisted as pri-
vate in the Fifth New York Cavalry; served in
the Shenandoah Valley; promoted to be sergeant-
major and lieutenant; taken prisoner at the
battle of Winchester; engaged in the manufacture
of paper, and farming; delegate to the national
convention at Philadelphia in 1872; elected to the
New York legislature in 1874, and also in 1875;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican, July 16, 1881, in the place of Thomas C.
Piatt, resigned, and took his seat October 11, 1881;
served until March 3, 1887.
Miller, Warren, of Jackson, W. Va., was bom
in Meigs County, Ohio, April 2, 1847; went to
Virginia (now West Virginia) about 1850; raised
on a farm; attended subscription schools a few
months; attended the Ohio University, at Athens,
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about three years; taught scliool; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1871; served as assistant
prosecuting attorney of Jackson County one term
and as prosecuting attorney eight years from Jan-
uary 1, 1881; delegate at large to the Republican
national convention at Chicago in 1884 and sup-
ported Mr. Blaine for President on every ballot;
member of the West Virginia legislature in 1890-
1891; candidate on the State ticket for supreme
judge in 1892 and received the vote of both
Republicans and Democrats; lacked, according to
the Democratic count, only 95 votes of a majority
in the State, although he received more votes
than the Cleveland electors; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress.
Miller, ■William H. (son of Jesse Miller), was
born in Percy County, Pa., January 29, 1828;
graduated from Marshall College; State supreme
court clerk 1854-18fi3; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-ninth
Congress; died at Harrisburg, Pa., September 12,
1870.
Miller, William S., was a native of New
York City; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-ninth Congress; died at
New York City November 9, 1854.
Milligan, John J. , was born in Cecil County,
Md., December 10, 1795; attended Princeton
College; studied law, commencing practice in
Newcastle County, Del., in 1818; elected a
Representative from Delaware to the Twenty-
second, Twenty- third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-
fifth Congresses as a Whig ; appointed judge of
the State superior court in 1839.
Milliken, Charles W., was born in Graves
County, Ky., August 15, 1827; moved to Simpson
County in 1829; studied and practiced law; county
attorney for five years; Commonwealth attorney
of the fourth judicial district of Kentucky 1867 to
February 24, 1872, resigning; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Forty-third and Forty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Milliken, Seth L. , of Belfast, Me., was born
at Montville, Me.; educated at Union College,
New York; lawyer by profession; member of the
Maine legislature two terms; clerk of the supreme
judicial court; delegate to the Republican national
convention at Cincinnati in 1876; elector of Pres-
ident the same year; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as Congressman at large from Maine as a
Republican; reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
and Fifty-fifth Congresses; died April 18, 1897.
Mills, Daniel W., of Chicago, 111., was born on
a farm near Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio,
February 25, 1838; worked for neighboring farm-
ers during summers and attended the common
schools of Rayesville, and later the Waynesville
high school; at the age of 18 secured employment
in a mercantile establishment, and in 1859 en-
gaged in the mercantile, grain-shipping, and pork-
packing business on his own account at Corwin,
Ohio; served in the Army as captain of Company
D, One hundred and eightieth Ohio Volunteers,
and continued in active service until the close of
the war; in the spring of 1866 went to Chicago and,
as owner of a vessel, engaged in lake shipping for
three years; made large investments in real estate,
which yielded profitable returns ; served as warden
of the Cook County Hospital 1877-1881; twice
elected alderman of his ward; elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress as a Republican.
Mills, Elijah Hunt, was born at Chesterfield,
Mass., December 1, 1776; graduated from Williams
College in 1797; studied law, commencing practice
at Northampton; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses as a Federalist; elected a United States
Senator from Massachusetts (vice Prentiss Mellen,
resigned), and reelected, serving from December
1, 1820, to March 3, 1827; died at Northampton, .
Mass., May 5, 1829.
Mills, Boger Q,., of Corsicana, Tex., studied
and practiced law; elected to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Democrat;
resigned March 29, 1892, to succeed Horace Chilton
as a United States Senator, serving from March 30,
1892, until March 3, 1899.
Millson, John S., was bom at Norfolk, Va.,
October 1, 1808; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and commenced practice at Norfolk, Va. ;
Presidential elector in 1844 and 1848; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat;
died at Norfolk, Va., February 26, 1873.
Millward, 'Williain, was a native of Philadel-
phia, Pa.; attended the public schools; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Whig; de-
feated as the Union candidate for the Thirty-fifth
Congress.
Milnes, Alfred, of Coldwater, Mich., was born
at Bradford, Yorkshire, England, May 28, 1844;
came with his father's family to the United States
in 1854; settled at Newton, Iowa; lived there two
years, then moved to Coldwater, Mich.; edu-
cated in the common schools of Utah, Iowa, and
Michigan; enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth
Michigan Infantry, the "Old Stonewall Regi-
ment," June 30, 1862, and served through to the
end of the war; engaged with his regiment in every
battle in which it took part, from South Mountain,
Maryland, in 1862, to Lee's surrender at Appomat-
tox, in April, 1865; served the city of Coldwater as
alderman for one term and as mayor for two terms;
elected to the State senate in 1888 and reelected
in 1890; at the close of the war came home and
engaged in the mercantile business; elected
lieutenant-governor of Michigan in 1894, and pre-
sided over the State senate until the close of the
session, June 1, 1895, when he resigned, having
been elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican to fill the vacancy caused by the election
of the Hon. J. C. Burrows to the United States
Senate; appointed postmaster at Coldwater by
President McKinley.
Milnes, William, jr. , was born at Yorkshire,
England, December 8, 1827; his family emigrated
to Pottsville, Pa., in 1829; received a liberd edu-
cation; entered machinist's trade; engaged in
mining and shipping coal; moved to Virginia in
1865; engaged in the iron business; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Conservative, serving from Januarv 27,
1870, to March 3, 1871.
Milnor, James, was bom at Philadelphia, Pa.,
June 20, 1773; graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania; studied law and commenced prac-
tice at Philadelphia in 1794; elected a Representa-
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tive from Pennsylvania to the Twelfth Congress;
ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in
1814, and in 1816 became rector of St. George's
Church in New York City; died at New York City
April 8, 1844. ■'
Milnor, WilUam, was a native of Philadelphia,
Pa.; received an academic education; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Tenth,
l!-leventh, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Con-
gresses; resigned in 1822; sheriff of Philadelphia.
Miner, Ahiman L., was a native of Vermont;
received an academic education; clerk of the Ver-
mont house of representatives 1836-37; State
representative 1838-39 and in 1845; State senator
m 1840; held several county offices; elected a
Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig.
Miner, Charles, was born at Norwich, Conn.,
February 1, 1780; attended the puTolic schools;
moved m 1797 to Wilkesbarre, Pa., and from
there to West Chester; published the Village
Record; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses
as a Federalist; died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., October
26, 1865.
Miner, Henry Clay, of New York City, was
born at that city March 23, 1842; educated in the
New York City grammar schools and at the Amer-
ican Institute School; studied the drug business;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Democrat;
died at New York City February 22, 1900.
Miner, Fhineas, was born in Connecticut in
1779; received a liberal education; studied law and
commenced practice at Litchiield, Conn.; elected
a Representative from Connecticut to the Twenty-
third Congress (vice Jabez W. Huntington, re-
signed) , serving from December 1, 1834, to March
8, 1835; died at Litchfield, Conn., September 16,
1839.
Minor, Edward S., of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,
was born in Jefferson County, N- Y., in 1840; went
with his parents to Wisconsin in 1845; settled in
Milwaukee County and subsequently lived in the
city of Milwaukee, where he attended the public
schools; went with his parents to Sheboygan
County in 1852, where he lived on a farm for sev-
eral years; received a public school and academic
education; in 3861 enlisted in Company G, Second
Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, as a private; partic-
ipated in all the expeditions, raids, and battles in
which the regiment was engaged until the close of
the war; mustered out as first lieutenant in Novem-
ber, 1865; after his return home engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits until 1884, at which time he was
appointed superintendent of the Sturgeon Bay and
Lake Michigan Ship Canal; elected to the Wiscon-
sin assembly in 1877, and reelected in 1880 and
1881; elected to the State senate and served in that
body in 1883 and 1885; president pro tempore of
the senate during the latter term; member of the
Wisconsin fish commission for four years; held
numerous local offices at various times; mayor of
the city of Sturgeon Bay; elected to the FilEty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses.
Mitchell, Alexander, was born in Aberdeen-
shire, Scotland, October 18, 1817; attended the
parish schools; banking-house clerk; located at
Milwaukee, Wis., in May, 1839; secretary of the
Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company;
engaged in banking; president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company 1864-
1887; elected a Representative from Wisconsin to
the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; died at New York City April 19, 1887.
Mitchell, Anderson, was born in Caswell
Comity, N. C, in 1800; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1821; studied law, and
commenced practice at Wilkesboro in 1830; elected
a Representative from North Carolina (vice Lewis
Wilhams, deceased) to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress, serving from April 27, 1842, to March 3, 1843.
Mitchell, Charles P., was a native of New
York City; attended the public schools; located
atLockport; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Whig; convicted of forgery in 1842
and sentenced to three years' imprisonnlent; par-
doned in November, 1843; engaged in milling in
the West.
Mitchell, Charles Le Moyne, of New Haven,
Conn., was born at New Haven, Conn., August 6,
1844; received an academic education; member of
the State house of representatives in 1877; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress; moved to New
York City in 1886, and resumed the practice of
law; died at New York March 1, 1890.
Mitchell, George E. , was bom in Cecil County,
Md.; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Maryland to the Eighteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth
Congress; elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-
second Congresses, serving from December 7, 1829,
to June 28, 1832, when he died at Washington,
D. C.
Mitchell, Henry, was bom at Woodbury,
Conn., in 1784; received a classical education;
studied medicine and practiced at Norwich, N. Y. ;
member of the State house of representatives in
1827; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-third Congress asa Jackson Democrat;
died at Norwich, N. Y., January 12, 1858.
Mitchell, James C, was born in Mecklenburg
County, N. C, about 1790; received a common
school education; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Nineteenth Congress; reelected
to the Twentieth Congress; defeated for reelection
to the Twenty-first Congress; moved to Missis-
sippi in 1835 and engaged in agricultural pursuits;
member of the State house of representatives;
died near Jackson, Miss., August 7, 1843.
Mitchell, James S., was born atRossville, Pa.;
received a public school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Mitchell, John, was born in Perry County,
Pa.; received a public school education; resided at
Bellefonte; held several public offices; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Nine-
teenth Congress; reelected to the Twentieth
Congress.
Mitchell, John H. , of Portland, Oreg., was
born in Washington County, Pa., June 22, 1835;
received a public school education and the instruc-
tion of a private tutor; studied and practiced law;
moved to California and practiced law, first in
San Luis Obispo and then in San Francisco; moved
to Portland, Oreg., in 1860 and there continued
his profession; elected corporation attorney of
Portland in 1861 and served one year; elected asa
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Republican to the State senate in 1862 and served
four years, the last two as president of that body;
commissioned by the governor of Oregon in 1865
lieutenant-colonel in the State militia; candidate
' for United States Senator in 1866 and defeated in
the party caucus by one vote; chosen professor of
medical jurisprudence in Willamette University, at
Salem, Oreg., in 1867. and served in that position
nearly four years; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican September 28, 1872, and
served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; re-
ceived the caucus nomination of the Republican
party for United States Senator in 1882, receiving
the votes of two-thirds of all the Republicans in
the legislature on the first ballot, but was finally,
after a contest lasting until the close of the session,
defeated in joint session; again elected to the
United ' States Senate November 18, 1885, to suc-
ceed James H. Slater, Democrat, for the term
commencing March 4, 1885, and took his seat
December 17, 1885; reelected January 20, 1891;
in a caucus of the Republican members of the
legislature, January 10, 1897, there being 48 mem-
bers present, 2 more than a majority of the whole
legislature, the whole number constituting the
two houses being 90, on an open roll call he re-
ceived every one of the 48 votes and was declared
the unanimous nominee of the Republican party
for United States Senator to succeed himself; 28
members of the house refused to take the oath of
office during the entire session, thus destroying a
quorum and preventing a vote for Senator, and
also preventing the passage of any appropriation
or other acts during the entire session, which re-
sulted in his defeat; again, on February 23, 1901,
elected to succeed Hon. Geo. W. McBride, and
took his seat March 9, 1901.
Illitcliell, John I. , of Wellsboro, Pa., was born
in Tioga County, Pa., July 28, 1838; spent his
boyhood upon his father's farm; received a com-
mon school education and private instruction, and
passed some time at the University of Lewisburg,
Pa. (1857-1859;), but did not graduate; taught
school; served in the Union Army as a lieutenant
and captain; admitted to the bar in 1864; prac-
ticed law; elected district attorney of his native
county in 1868, serving three years; edited the
Tioga County Agitator during 1870; member of
the State house of representatives 1872-1876, and
served as chairman of the judiciary general and
ways and mfeans committees; elected to the Forty-
fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Republican;
elected to the United States Senate as a Republi-
can to succeed William A. Wallace, Democrat, and
took his seat March 4, 1881 ; served until March 3,
1887; elected president-judge of Tioga County, Pa.,
in 1888; served ten years and reelected; elected
judge of the superior court and served one session.
Mitchell, John Lendrum, of Mil waukee, Wis. ,
was born at Milwaukee, Wis., October 19, 1842;
received an academic education in this country
and studied in England, Switzerland, and Ger-
many; served in the war of the rebellion in the
Twenty-fourth Wisconsin "Volunteer Infantry;
member of the State senate of Wisconsin in 1872-
73 and 1875-76; president of the public school
board of the city of Milwaukee in 1885; member
of the Board of Managers of the National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; president of the
Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company's
Bank, of Milwaukee, and president of the Mil-
waukee Gas Company; interested in agricultural
Eursuits; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
lemocrat; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress;
elected to the United States Senate and took his
seat March 4, 1893.
Mitchell, John Murray, of New York, N. Y.,
was born at 60 West Ninth street, in the upper
portion of the Eighth Congressional district, March
18, 1858; graduated from Columbia CoUegein 1877,
with the degree of A. B., and was class valedicto-
rian, though the youngest member of the class;
completed a course in the Columbia Law School in
the spring of 1879, receiving the degree of LL. B.,
and admitted to the bar immediately thereafter;
nominated by acclamation for Congress in the fall of
1894; the result of the election showed an apparent
plurality of 367votes for hiaopponent,whichcount,
however, was found to be erroneous; acontest of the
right to the seat terminated in seating Mr. Mitchell
by a vote of 162 to 39; again nominated by accla-
mation and stood for election -Against his former
competitor and elected, the only gold candidate
elected south of Twenty-third street; reelected to
the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Mitchell, Nahum, was bom at East Bridge-
water, Mass., February 12, 1769; graduated from
Harvard College in 1789; studied law at Plymouth,
commencing practice at East Bridgewater in 1792;
common pleas court judge 1811-1821; State repre-
sentative 1803-1805, 1839^0, and senator 1813-14;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Eighth Congress; one of the governor's council
1814-1820; State treasurer 1822-1827; librarian and
treasurer of the Massachusetts Historical Society;
died at East Bridgewater, Mass., August 1, 1853.
Mitchell, Nathaniel, was a Delegate from Del-
aware to the Continental Congress 1786-1788.
Mitchell, Robert, was born in Pennsylvania;
received a public school education; moved to
Lanesville, Ohio; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
Mitchell, Stephen Mix, was born at Wethers-
field, Conn., December 9, 1743; graduated from
Yale College in 1763; studied law, eommencing
practice at Wethersfleld in 1772; judge of the
Hartford County court 1779-1795; Delegate from
Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1783-1785;
elected a United States Senator from Connecticut
(vice Roger Sherman,, deceased), serving from
December 2, 1793 to March 3, 1795; judge of the
supreme court 1795-1807; chief justice, 1807-1814;
died at Wethersfield, Conn., September 30, 1835.
Mitchell, Thomas B,. , was a native of George-
town, S. C. ; graduated from Harvard University
in 1802; studied law, commencing practice at
Georgetown; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Seventeenth, Nineteenth Twen-
tieth, and Twenty-second Congresses; defeated
for the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Congresses,
died at Georgetown, S. C, November 2, 1837.
Mitchell, "William, was a native of New York;
attended the jjublic schools; studied law and com-
menced practice at Kendallsville, Ind.; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; defeated for the Thirty-
eighth Congress; died at Macon, Ga., September
11, 1865.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham, was born at Hamp-
stead, N. Y., August 20, 1764; received a classical
education, and studied medicine; commissioner to
purchase the land of the Iroquois Indians in western
New York in 1788; member of the State house of
representatives in 1791; professor of chemistry
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and natural history in Columbia College in 1792;
one of the founders of the State Society for the
Promotion of Agriculture in 1793; editor of the
Quarterly Medical Repository 1797-1813; again a
member of the State house of representatives in
1798; elected a Representative from New York to
the Seventh Congress, and reelected to the Eighth
Congress, serving until his resignation, November
22, 1804; elected a United States Senator from
New York (in place of John Armstrong, resigned),
serving from November 23, 1804, to March 3, 1809;
elected a Representative to the Eleventh Congress
and reelected to the Twelfth Congress; professor
of natural history in the New York College of
Physicians and Surgeons 1808-1820; and of botany
and materia medica 1820-1826; vice-president of
the Rutgers Medical School 1826-1830; one of the
founders of the New York Literary and Philo-
sophical Society in 1815; died at New York, Sep-
tember 7, 1831.
MofFatt, Seth. C, was born at Battlecreek,
Mich., August 10, 1841; received a common school
education; student one year in the literary depart-
ment and two years in the law department of
Michigan University; graduated from the law de-
partment of Michigan University in 1863, and en-
• gaged in the practice of his profession; prosecuting
attorney for Grand Traverse and Leelanaw coun-
ties for ten years; member of the State senate of
Michigan in 1871-72; member of the constitutional
commission in 1873; register of the United States
land office at Traverse City 1874-1878; member
of the State house of representatives of Michigan
in 1881-82, serving as speaker both terms; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1884, and elected to the Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican; died
December 22, 1887.
Illofifet, Jolin, was born in County Antrim,
Ireland, in 1832; attended the public schools in
Philadelphia, Pa. ; studied medicine at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; apothecary; claimed to have
been elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Forty-flrst Congress as a Democrat; served
from March 4 to April 9, 1869, when unseated in
favor of Leonard Myers.
Mofat, Hosea, was a native of Rensselaer
County, N. Y.; State representative 1794-1801;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist.
Moffitt, Jolin. H. , of Chateaugay Lake, N. Y.,
was born at Chazy, Clinton County, N. Y., Janu-
ary 8, 1843; educated in the common schools,
Plattsburgh Academy, and Fort Edward Collegiate
Institute; enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth
Regiment of New York Volunteers April 27, 1861;
wounded at the battle of Gaines Mills June 27,
1862; mustered out of service with his regiment
May 18, 1863; deputy collector of customs at Rouse
Point, N. Y., 1866-1872; engaged in the manufac-
ture of charcoal bloom iron; elected supervisor of
Saranac, Clinton County, in 1877; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican;
appointed superintendent of the waterworks at
Syracuse, N. Y., after leaving Congress.
Molony, Richard S. , was a native of North-
field, N.H.; attended Dartmouth College; studied
medicine and commenced practice at Belvidere,
111. ; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Mondell, Frank Wheeler, of Newcastle, Wyo.,
was bom at St. Louis, Mo., November 6, 1860;
both of his parents died before reaching his sixth
year; went to live with friends in Iowa, residing
on a farm until 18 years of age; attended the local
district schools, and received instruction in the
higher branches from a private tutor; engaged in
mercantile pursuits, mining, and railway construc-
tion in various Western States and Territories;
settled in Wyoming in 1887, and engaged in the
development of coal mines and oil property at and
in the vicinity of Newcastle and Cambria; took an
active part in the establishment and building of
the town of Newcastle and the development of
the Cambria mines; elected mayor of Newcastle in
1888, and served until 1895; elected a me)nber of
the first State senate in 1890, served as president
of that body at the session of 1892; delegate to the
Republican national convention in Minneapolis in
1892; appointed Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land OlficeNovember 15, 1897, and served
until March 3, 1899; elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Monell, Robert, was a native of Columbia
County, N. Y. ; pursued classical and legal studies;
commenced the practice of law at Greene, Che-
nango County; State representative 1814-15, 1825-
26, and 1828; elected a Representative from New
York to the Sixteenth and Twenty-first Congresses
as a Democrat, resigning February 21, 1831; cir-
cuit judge; died at Greene, N. Y., in 1860.
Money, Hernando De Soto, of Winona, Miss.,
was born in Holmes County, Miss., August 26,
1839; educated at the University of Mississippi, at
Oxford; studied law; by profession an editor;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Fifty-third,
and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; elected
to the United States Senate in January, 1896, for
the term beginning March 4, 1899; appointed to
the Senate October 8, 1897, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. J. Z. George, on
August 14, 1897; unanimously elected by the leg-
islature to fill out the unexpired term ending
March 3, 1899, and sworn in January 24, 1898;
reelected in 1899.
IVEonroe, James, was born at Plainfield, Conn.,
July 18,1821; received his early education in the
common schools and at Plainfield Academy; grad-
uated from Oberlin College in 1846; afterwards
pursued a course of theological study there; pro-
fessor in Oberlin College from 1849 until 1862;
member of the house of representatives of the
State of Ohio 1856-1859, and of the Ohio senate
1860-1862; chosen president pro tempore of the
Ohio senate in 1861, and again in 1862; resigned
his seat in the senate in October, 1862, to accept
the position of United States consul to Rio de
Janeiro, tendered him by President Lincoln; held
the office of consul at that capital from 1863 to
1869, serving for some months of 1869 as charg6
d'affaires ad interim; elected to the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses, and reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; declined a reelection; died July
6, 1898.
Monroe, Jam.es, was born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April 28, 1758; received a classical
education; graduated from William and Mary
College in 1776; joined Revolutionary Army as a
cadet in 1776; promoted to a captaincy and par-
ticipated in several engagements; studied law;
appointed military commissioner for Virginia in
1780, and visited the Southern army under General
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DeKalb; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1782; Delegate from Virginia to the Conti-
nental Congress 1783-1 786; again member of State
house of representatives in 1786; United States
Senator from Virginia 1790-1794, when he resigned
to become minister plenipotentiary to France,
serving from May 28, 1794, to December 30, 1796;
governor of Virginia 1799-1802; again minister
plenipotentiary to France, serving from January
12, 1803, to July 12, 1803; minister plenipotentiary
to England in 1803, and to Spain in 1805; returned
home in 1808 ; again elected member of State house
of representatives; governor of Virginia in 1811;
Secretary of State of the United States November
25, 1811, to March 3, 1817; elected and reelected
President of the United States, serving from March
4, 1817, to March 3, 1825; retired to his farm in
Loudoun County, Va. ; resided there until 1831,
when he moved to New York City, where he died,
July 4, 1831.
Montanya, J. De la, was born in New York;
resided at Haverstraw; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat.
Montgomery, A. B., of Elizabethtown, Ky.,
was born on a farm in Hardin County, Ky., J^e-
cember 11, 1837; received a collegiate education,
graduating with the class of 1859; studied law and
graduated from the Louisville Law School with
the class of 1861 ; began the practice of law in 1874;
elected county judge of Hardin County in 1870,
serving until 1874; elected to the Kentucky senate
in 1877 from the Twelfth senatorial district, and
served until 1881; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat.
Montg'omery, Daniel, jr., was elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Tenth Con-
gress, serving from October 26, 1807, to March 3,
1809.
Montgomery, John, was born in Maryland;
received a classical education; elected a Represent-
ative from Maryland to the Tenth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Eleventh Congress,
serving from October 26, 1807, to March 3, 1811.
Montgomery, Joseph, was born in Dauphin
County, Pa., Octobers, 1733; received a classical
education, graduating from Princeton College in
1755; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Conti-
nental Congress 1780-1784; died at Harrisburg,
Pa., October 14, 1794.
Montgomery, Thomas, was born in Nelson
County, Va. ; received a thorough English educa-
tion; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced
at Stanford, Ky. ; county judge; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from May 24, 1813, to
March 2, 1815; elected to the Sixteenth Congress
(in place of Tunstall Quarles, resigned); reelected
to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from No-
vember 13, 1820, to March 3. 1823; died at Stan-
ford, Ky., April 2, 1828.
Montgomery, William, was elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Third Con-
gress, serving from December 2, 1793, to March 3
1795. '
Montgomery, William, was bom in Guilford
County, N. C, in 1791; studied tnedicine and
practiced in Orange County; a member of the
State senate 1824^1827 and 1829-1834; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Twenty-
fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses
as a Democrat, serving from December 7, 1835,
until March 3, 1841, when he declined a reelec-
tion; died November 27, 1844.
Montgomery, William, was born at Canton,
Pa., April 11, 1819; received a classical education,
graduating from Washington College in 1839;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1842, and
commeficed practice at Washington, Pa.; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Thirty-sixth Congress; died at Washington, Pa.,
April 28, 1870.
Moody, Gideon C, of Deadwood, Lawrence
County, S. Dak., was born at Cortland, N. Y.,
October 16, 1832; received an academic education;
read law at Syracuse, N. Y. ; moved to Indiana in
1852; admitted to the bar of the supreme court of
Indiana, and the United States district court for
the district of Indiana in 1853; appointed prose-
cuting attorney for Floyd County in 1854; elected
in the fall of 1860 a member of the house of repre-
sentatives of Indiana; served as such in the winter
of 1861; in April, 1861, entered the service as
captain in the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry;
served therein as captain, lieutenant-colonel, and
colonel; appointed in August, 1861, captain in the
Nineteenth United States Infantry; resigned there-
from March, 1864; moved to Dakota in May, 1864;
member of the house of representatives of Dakota
Territory in 1867-68, in 1868-69, and in 1874;
speaker of the house in 1868-69, and in 1874;
appointed associate justice of the supreme court of
Dakota Territory in September, 1878, and served
as such until April 1, 1883; admitted to the bar of
the United States Supreme Court January, 1884;
delegate to the Republican national conventions
in 1868 and 1888, at Chicago; chairman of the
Dakota delegation; member of the constitutional
convention of South Dakota held June, 1883, and
also of the constitutional convention of South
Dakota held September, 1885; chairman of the
judiciary committee in both conventions; chair-
man of the committee to draft and present a
memorial to Congress asking admission; elected
by the legislature which assembled under the
constitution of 1885 as one of the United States
Senators for the State of South Dakota; again
elected October 16, 1889, under the provisions of
the act of Congress admitting South Dakota and
other States into the Union; took his seat Decem-
ber 2, 1889, serving until March 3, 1891.
Moody, James Montraville, was born on a
farm in Cherokee (now Graham) County, N. C
February 12, 1858; while an infant his parents
moved to Haywood County; as a boy he worked
on the farm during the summer months and at-
tended the neighborhood schools in the winter; at
the age of 17 he entered Waynesville Academy,
remaining two years, and then attended Candler
College, in Buncombe County, N. C, for one year-
studied law under a private instructor at Waynes-
ville, and admitted to the bar in January 1881-
elected prosecuting attorney of the twelfth judicial
district of North Carolma in 1886, and served in
that capacity for four years; elected to the State
senate for two years in 1894; served through the
bpamsh-American war as major and chief commis-
sary of United States Volunteers on the staff of
Maj. Gen. J. Warren Keifer; elected from North
Carolina to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; died Februarys, 1903, at Waynesville, N. C.
Moody, Malcolm Adeltoert, of The Dalles
Oreg., was born at Brownsville, Linn County,'
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Oieg., November 30, 1854; educated in the public
schools of Oregon, and at the University of Cali-
fornia; upon leaving college entered mercantile
business at The Dalles; in 1887 the mercantile
business was merged into The Dalles National
Bank, of which he was elected cashier; from 1885
to 1889 a member of the city council o6The Dalles;
elected mayor in 1889, serving two terms; member
of the Republican State central and Congressional
committees continuously from 1888 to 1898; Ore-
gon's member of the executive committee of the
Republican League of the United States from 1895
to 1900, and also a member of the executive com-
mittee of the Republican League of Oregon; on
April 13, 1898, received by acclamation from the
Republican convention the nomination of Con-
^essman, and on June 6 was elected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
Moody, ■William H., of Haverhill, Mass., was
bom at Newbury, Mass., December 23, 1853; grad-
uated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in
1872, and from Harvard University in 1876; law-
yer by profession; district attorney for the eastern
district of Massachusetts from 1890 to 1895; elected
to, the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, at a
special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Gen. William Cogswell; reelected to the
Fifty-flfth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses; resigned April 30, 1902, having been ap-
pointed Secretary of the Navy; assumed the duties
of that office May 1, 1902.
Moon, Jolin Austin, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
was born in Albemarle County, Va. , April 22, 1855;
moved with his parents in 1857 to Bristol, Va.,
where he resided until January, 1870, and then
moved to Chattanooga, where he has since resided;
educated at King College, Tennessee; admitted to
the bar in Alabama and Tennessee in March, 1874,
and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States in 1878; elected attorney for the city of
Chattanooga in 1881-82; a member of the Demo-
cratic executive committee of the State in 1888; at
the unanimous request of the bar of the fourth
judicial circuit was commissioned by the governor
in May, 1889, as special circuit judge and twice re-
appointed, and held the office until January 3,
1891, when he was appointed as regular judge for
the fourth circuit, and served until August, 1892,
when he was elected circuit judge; reelected in
1894 for a term of eight years; on August 12, 1896,
nominated by the Democrats and August 13 by
the Populists for Congress; elected to the Fifty-
flfth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth.
Congresses as a Democrat.
Moon, Jolin W., of Muskegon, Mich., was'
born in Wayne County, Mich., January 18, 1836;
until he was 18 years of age he worked on his
father's farm, attending school during the winters;
moved to the northern part of the State in 1854
and soon connected himself with the lumbering,
business; held the offices of supervisor, township
treasurer, and president of village; elected to the
State senate in 1884 and reelected in 1886; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican; died
April 5, 1898.
Moor, Wyman B. S. , was born at Waterville,
Me November 3, 1814; received a classical educa-
tion', graduating from Waterville College; studied
law at Cambridge; admitted to the bar in 1834,
and commenced practice at Bangor; a member of
the State house of representatives in 1839; State
attorney-general 1844-1848; appointed a United
States Senator from Maine (in place of John Fair-
field, deceased), serving from January 17, 1848, to
June 12, 1848; appointed by President Buchanan
consul-general for British America, serving 1857-
1861; died at Lynchburg, Va., February 16, 1869.
Moore, Andrew, was a native of Rockbridge
County, Va. ;, received an academic education;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
First, Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses;
elected to the Eighth Congress, obtaining the seat
by successfully contesting that of Thomas Lewis,
serving from March 5, 1804, to November 6, 1804,
when he became a United States Senator by ap-
pointment (vice William Cary Nicholas, resigned),
and subsequently elected (vice Abraham B. Ven-
able, resigned), serving until March 3, 1809; died
May 24, 1821.
Moore, Eliakim Hastings, was born in Wor-
cester County, Mass., June 19, 1812; moved to
Athens County, Ohio, in 1817; attended the com-
mon schools; county surveyor 1836-1846, and
auditor 1846-1860; collector of internal revenue
1862-1866; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Moore, Ely, was a native of New Jersey; at-
tended public schools; printer; edited labor paper
in New York City; elected Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat; appointed Indian agent
and later register of land office in Kansas; died
January 26, 1860.
Moore, Gabriel, was born in Stokes County,
N. C, about 1790; received an academic education;
studied law; commenced practice at Huutsville,
Ala.; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses; governor 1829-1831; United
States Senator from Alabama 1831-1837; died at
Caddo, Tex., June 9, 1844.
Moore, Henry D., was born at Goshen, N. Y.,
April 13, 1817; moved to New York City in 1828;
attended public schools; engaged in tailoring busi-
ness and subsequently, at Philadelphia, in that of
mahogany and marble; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first and Thirty-
second Congresses aa a Whig; State treasurer for
several years.
Moore, Herman Allen, was born at Plain-
fleld, Vt., in 1810; received an academic education;
studied law at Rochester, N. Y. ; commenced prac-
tice at Columbus, Ohio; State adjutant-general;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat, serving until his
death at Columbus, Ohio, April 3, 1844.
Moore, Horace L. , of Lawrence, Kans., was
born at Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, February
25, 1837; educated in the common schools and
at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram,
Ohio; moved to Kansas in 1858; enlisted as a pri-
vate soldier in the Second Kansas Infantry May
14, 1861, and served continuously until June 30,
1865, when he was mustered out of the service as
lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Arkansas Cavalry;
commanded the Eighteenth and Nineteenth regi-
ments of Kansas Cavalry, serving against the In-
dians on the Plains in the years 1867 and 1868;
engaged in mercantile pursuits since the close of
his service in the Army, except for two years when
he was treasurer of Douglas County, Kans. ; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress by the Democrats and
Populists; was not seated until August 2, 1894, Mr.
Funston, who was then ousted by vote of the
House, having obtained the certificate of election.
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Moore, Jesse H. , was born near Lebanon, 111.,
April 22, 1817; graduated from McKendree College
in 1842; taught school for thirteen years and stud-
ied law; admitted to the bar; ordained a Methodist
minister in 1849; colonel and brigadier-general, by
brevet, of volunteers in the civil war; presiding
elder of the Decatur district Illinois conference in
1868; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Forty-flrst and Forty-second Congresses as a Re-
publican; appointed United States consul atCallao,
Peru, in 1881, where he died, July 11, 1883.
Moore, Jolin, was born in Berkeley County,
Va., in 1788; received an academic education;
moved to Franklin, La. ; State representative 1825-
1834; elected a Representative from Louisiana to
the Twenty-sixth (vice Rice Garland, resigned)
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig, serv-
ing from December 17, 1840 to 1843; elected to
the Thirty-second Congress; Whig Presidential
elector in 1848; delegate to the State secession
convention in 1861; died at Franklin, La., June
17, 1867.
Moore, Laban T. , was born in Cabell County,
Va., January 13, 1829; attended public schools;
studied law, commencing practice at Louisa, Ky. ;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a National American.
Moore, Littleton W. , of Lagrange, Tex., was
born in Alabama in 1835 ; moved to Mississippi when
a child; educated at the State University, gradual^
ing with the first honors of his class in 1855; read
law; moved to Texas in 1857 and began the prac-
tice of his profession; served in the Confederate
army during the war; elected to the constitutional
convention of Texas in 1875; elected district judge
in 1876 and remained upon the bench till 1885;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat
and reelected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second
Congresses.
Moore, Nicholas B.. , was a native of Baltimore,
Md. ; attended public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Congresses as a
Democrat; died at Baltimore, Md., March 9, 1816.
Moore, Orren C, of Nashua, N. H., was born
at New Hampton, N. H., August 10, 1839; edu-
cated in the public schools; learned the trade of a
printer and then became a journalist, establishing
the Nashua Daily Telegraph in 1869; served six
terms in the lower branch of the legislature and
one term in the upper branch; member of the
State tax commission, and chairman of the State
railroad commission for three years; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; died May 12,
1893.
Moore, Oscar I'., was a native of Ohio; attended
public schools; located at Portsmouth; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; defeated as an Ameri-
can for the Thirty-fifth.
Moore, Robert, was a native of Washington
County, Pa.; received an academic education;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses.
Moore, Samuel, was a native of Cumberland
County, M. J.; received an academic education;
studied medicine, commencing practice at Doyles-
town. Pa.; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fifteenth (vice Samuel D. Ingham,
resigned) , Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses
as a Democrat, serving from November 16, 1818
until his resignation. May 20, 1822; died at Doyles-
town. Pa., February 18, 1861.
Moore, Samuel McDowell, was a native of
Virginia; attended public schools; located at Lex-
ington; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; defeated to
the Twenty-fourth Congress; served in the Con-
federate army.
Moore, Sydenham, was born in Rutherford
County, Tenn.; received a classical education;
graduated from University of Alabama; studied law;
admitted to the bar; commenced practiceatGreens-
boro, Ala. ; judge of Greene County court and then
of circuit court; served in the war against Mexico
as captain in Colonel Coffey's regiment of Alabama
Infantry from June, 1846, to June, 1847; elected
brigadier-general of Alabama militia; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as aDemocrat, and reelected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress, serving from December 7, 1857, to
January 21, 1861, when he retired from the House
on the secession of Alabama; served as colonel
in the Confederate army; died from wounds re-
ceived at the battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862.
Moore, Thomas, was elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Seventh Congress, and
reelected to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
and Twelfth Congresses, serving from December
7, 1801, to March 3, 1813; elected to the Four-
teenth Congress, serving from December 4, 1815,
to March 3, 1817.
Moore, Thomas L., was born in Jefferson
County, Va.; received an academic education;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Sixteenth Congress in place of George L. Strother,
resigned; reelected to the Seventeenth Congress,
serving from November 13, 1820, to March 3, 1823.
Moore, Thomas P., was born in Charlotte
County, Va., in 1797; received a pubUc school
education; an officer in the war of 1812; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Eighteenth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; reelected to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, serving
from December 1, 1823, until March 3, 1829; ap-
pointed by President Jackson minister plenipo-
tentiary to the United States of Colombia March
13, 1829, and served until April 16, 1833; returned
to Kentucky, and received a certificate of election
as a Representative to the Twenty-third Congress
as a Democrat, having received 3,099 votes against
3^055 votes for R. P. Letcher, Whig, but the
House, after much discussion, rejected some of
the votes given to each candidate, and declared
that Letcher had 11 majority; appointed lieuten-
ant-colonel of the Third United States Dragoons
lo.i. x^^v y^*^ Mexico, serving from March 3,
1847, to July 81 1848; a delegate from Blercer
County to the Kentucky constitutional conven-
tion of 1849-50; died at Harrodsburg, Ky., July
21, 1853.
Moore, William, was born in Montgomery
County, Pa., December 25, 1810; received I public
school education; interested in mercantile pur-
suits and iron works; judge of the court of com-
mon pleas for Atlantic County from 1855 to 1865;
elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses
as a Republican serving from March 4, 1867, to
March 3, 1871; died at Mays Landing, N. J., April
Moore, William S., was born at West Bethle-
w""!,- ";• Nove«nber 18, 1822; graduated from
Washington College in 1847; studied law cho"en
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prothonotary of Washington County in 1854; en-
gaged in the newspaper business; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Moore, 'William Robert, of Memphis, Tenn.,
was born at Huntsville, Ala., March 28, 1830; his
father died in that town when he was 6 months
old; moved with his mother to Tennessee; brought
up on a farm until 15, then, after serving a year
in a country dry goods store, moved to Memphis,
Tenn., and engaged in the wholesale dry goods
business; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican;
renominated, and refused to accept.
IVEoorhead, James Kennedy, was born at
Halifax, Pa., September 7, 1806; received a com-
mon school education; served an apprenticeship
to the tanner's business, after which he became a
canal contractor, and then superintendent and
supervisor on the Juniata Canal; projected and
established the first passenger packet line on the
Pennsylvania Canal in 1835; appointed adjutant-
general of Pennsylvania in 1838; constructed the
Monongahela navigation canal; president of the
company twenty-one years; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to tlje Thirty-
seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses; died at Pittsburg, Pa., March 6, 1884.
Morehead, Charles S., was born in Nelson
County, Ky. , July 7, 1802; received a pubhc school
education; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Frankfort, Ky.; member
of the State house of representatives 1828 and 1829;
attorney-general of Kentucky 1830-1835; again a
member of the State house of representatives 1838-
1842 and 1844, serving the last three years as
speaker of the house; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig, and reelected to the Thirty-first Congress,
serving from December 6, 1847, to March 3, 1851;
again a member of the State legislature in 1853;
governor of Kentucky in 1855; delegate from Ken-
tucky to the peace convention held at Washington
in 1861; died at Greenville, Miss., December 23,
1868.
Morehead, James T. , was born at Covington,
Ky., May 24, 1797; received an academic educa-
tion'; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818
and commenced practice at Covington, Ky.; a
member of the State house of representatives
1827-1830; elected lieutenant-governor of Ken-
tucky in 1832, and, after the death of Governor
Breathitt, became governor 1834-1836; again a
member of the house of representatives in 1837;
president of the State board of internal improve-
ments 1838-1841; elected a United States Senator
from Kentucky as a Whig (in the place of Crit-
tenden, declined), serving from May 31, 1841, to
March 3, 1847 ; returning to Covington, he resumed
his practice, and died there December 28, 1854,
Morehead, James T. , was born at Greensboro,
N C • received a public school education; elected
a " Representative from North Carolina to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig, serving from
December 1, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
Morey, Frank, was born at Boston, Mass.,
Julv 11 1840; educated in the Boston public
schools; moved to Illinois in 1857, where his^tudy
of law was interrupted by entering the Union
Army in 1861 in the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry;
served till the close of the war, principally on
staff duty, with the rank of captain; settled in
Louisiana in 1866, in which State he had been
stationed for two years while in the military
service, and engaged in cotton planting and the
insurance business; a member of the general
assembly of Louisiana in 1868 and 1869; appointed
a commissioner to revise the statutes and codes of
the State; commissioner to the Vienna Exposition
in 1873; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and
Forty-fourth Congresses. '
Morey, Henry Lee, was born on a farm in
Butler County, Ohio, April 8, 1841; received his
preliminary education in the common schools and
at an academy in the neighboring village of Morn-
ing Sun; at the breaking out of the war was a
member of the senior class in Miami University,
at Oxford, and became a member of the University
Rifles and served with the company in the Twen-
tieth Ohio Regiment during the three months'
serviQ^ in West Virginia; enlisted in the Seventy-
fifth Ohio three years' regiment and served during
its entire term of service in the campaigns of Gen-
eral Schenck in West Virginia, General Sigel in
the Shenandoah Valley, General Pope, General
Hatch in Florida, and the siege of Charleston
under General Gillmore; successively promoted
to second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain;
at the close of the war he studied law, and in 1867
was admitted to the bar at Hamilton, Ohio, where
he practiced his profession; in January, 1871, was
elected city solicitor of Hamilton to fill a vacancy,
and was reelected for the full term of two years;
elected prosecuting attorney for Butler County in
1873, which ofiice he held for the full term; nomi-
nated for the State senate of Ohio in 1875 as a
Republican,, but was defeated; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; received
the certificate of election to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress, but was unseated by Campbell; reelected to
the Fifty-first Congress; resumed the practice of
law at Dayton, Ohio; member of the Dayton State
Hospital for the Insane; died December 30, 1902,
at Dayton, Ohio.
Morgan, Charles Henry, of Lamar, Mo., was
born at New York July 5, 1843; educated in the
Wisconsin common schools and at the Fond du Lac
High School; studied law; graduated from the
Albany Law School in 1866; served in the Federal
Army four years and three months as a private,
noncommissioned officer, second and first lieuten-
ant, and captain in the First and Twenty-first
Wisconsin Infantry; prosecuting attorney of Bar-
ton County, Mo., for four years; a member of the
Missouri legislature 1872-1874; member of the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; delegate to the Democratic national conven-
tion at Cincinnati in 1880; Democratic elector at
large in 1888; elected to the Fifty-third Congress;
served in the war with Spain as lieutenant-colonel
of the Fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry.
Morgan, Christopher (brother of Edwin B.
Morgan), was born at Aurora, N. Y., June 4, 1808;
received a classical education; graduated from Yale
College in 1830; studied law; admitted to the bar,
and began practice at Auburn, N. Y.; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig;
secretary of state of New York 1848-1852; mayor
of Auburn in 1860; trustee of State lunatic asylum
at Utica; died at Auburn, N. Y., April 3, 1877.
Morgran, Daniel, was born in Hunterdon
County, N. J., in 1736; farm laborer; moved to
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Virginia; entered the army commanded by Gen-
eral Braddock in 1755 as a wagoner; entered the
Continental Army and served through the Bevo-
lution, attaining the rank of brigadier-general; re-
tired after the war to his estate known as "Sara-
toga," near Winchester; commanded the Virginia
militia ordered out by President Washington in
1794 to suppress the whisky insurrection in Penn-
sylvania; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist, but the cer-
tificate of election was given Robert Rutherford;
after a contest Mr. Morgan was given the seat May
15, 1797; served until March 3, 1799; declined re-
election on account of ill health; died at Win-
chester, Va., July 6, 1802.
Morgan, Edwin B. (brother of Christopher
Morgan), was born at Aurora, N. Y., May 2, 1806;
received a public school education ; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-third,
Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; interested in the New York Times;
trustee of Cornell University 1865-1874; died in
Aurora, N. Y., October 13, 1881.
Morgran, Edwin D., was born at Washington,
Mass., Februarys, 1811; received a public school
education; engaged in grocery business at Hart-
ford, Conn., and afterwards New York City; mem-
ber of city council at Hartford in 1832; alderman
of New York City in 1849 ; member of State senate of
New York 1850-1853; State commissioner of immi-
gration 1855-1858; chairman of Republicannational
committee in 1856-1864; chairman of Union Con-
gressional committee in 1864; governor of State of
New York 1859-1862; major-general of volunteers
from September28, 1861, to January 1, 1863; elected
a United States Senator from New York as a Union
Republican (tosucceed Preston King, Republican),
serving from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1869; de-
clined the office of Secretary of the Treasury in
1881; died at New York City February 14, 1883.
Morgpan, George W., was born at Washington,
Pa., September 20, 1820; left college in 1836; en-
listed in company commanded by hia brother and
assisted Texas in gaining her independence, in
which service he rose to the rank of captain; re-
turned to the United States; studied law; admit-
ted to the bar and commenced practice at Mount
Vernon, Ohio, in 1843; commanded the Second
Ohio Volunteers in the Mexican war in 1846; in
the winter of 1846 and 1847 appointed colonel of
the new Fifteenth Infantrjr, which he commanded,
under General Scott, until the close of the war;
brevetted brigadier-general in the Regular Army;
appointed consul at Marseille in 1855; appointed
minister resident at Lisbon in 1858; on the break-
ing out of the rebellion, as brigadier-general of
volunteers he had command of the Seventh Divi-
sion of the Army of the Ohio; with General Sher-
man at Vicksburg; assigned to the Thirteenth
Army Corps; in command at the taking of Fort
Hindman, in Arkansas; resigned in 1863 on ac-
count of ill health; defeated for governor of Ohio
in 1865; claimed to have been elected Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Fortieth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, but the House gave the seat to Columbus
Delano, Whig; elected to the Forty-first and
Forty-second Congresses; defeated for reelection
to the Forty-third; delegate at large to the national
Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876; died
July 26, 1893.
Morgan, James, was born at Amboy, N. J., in
1756; received public school education; served as
an ofiicer in the New Jersey line during the Revo-
lutionary war; elected Representative from New
Jersey to the Twelfth Congress as a Federalist,
serving from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 1813;
became major-general of militia; died at South
Amboy, N. J., September 14, 1822.
Morgan, James Bright, was born in Lincoln
County, Tenn., March 14, 1835; brought by his
parents to De Soto County, Miss., ih 1840; re-
ceived an academic education, studied law at
Hernando and admitted to the bar in 1857; when
not engaged in the public service practiced his
profession; elected judge of probate before the
war; resigned and mustered into the Confederate
States service as a private; elected captain, and in
the organization of the Twenty-ninth Mississippi
Infantry elected major; promoted lieutenant-
colonel and colonel; at the close of the war again
elected judge; member of the State senate of Mis-
sissippi in 1876-1878 and chairman of the commit-
tee on the judiciary; appointed, in October, 1878,
by the governor, chancellor of the third chancery
district, and served for four years; elected to the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and reelected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; died
June 18, 1892.
Morgan, Jolm J. , was born in Queens County,
N. Y., in 1769; received an academic education;
member of State house of representatives in 1819;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses; elected
to the Twenty-third Congress (in place of Cor-
nelius W. Lawrence, resigned) as a Deinocrat,
serving from December 1, 1834, to March 3, 1835;
again member of State house of representatives
in-1836 and 1840; died at Port Chester, N. Y.,
July 29, 1849.
Morgan, John T., of Selma, Ala., was born at
Athens, McMinn County, Tenn., June 20, 1824;
received an academic education, chiefly in Ala-
bama, to which State he emigrated when 9 years
old; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1845, and
practiced until elected to the Senate; Presidential
elector in 1860 for the State at large, and voted -for
Breckinridge and Lane; delegate in 1861 from
Dallas County to the State convention which passed
the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate
army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I,
Cahawba Rifles, and when that company was
assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under
Col. Robert E. Rodes, was elected major and lieu-
tenant-colonel of that regiment; eommissione<l in
1862 as colonel, and raised the Fifty-flrst Alabama
Regiment; appointed brigadier-general in 1863 and
assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to
join his regiment, whose colonel had been killed
in battle; later in 1863 again appointed brigadier-
general and assigned to an Alabama brigade which
included his regiment; after the war resumed ihe
practice of his profession at Selma; Presidential
elector for the State at large in 1876, and voted for
Tilden and Hendricks; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed George
Goldtbwaite, Democrat, and took his seat March
5, 1877; reelected in 1882, 1888, 1894, and Novem-
ber 17, 1900, for the term expiring 1907; member
of a commission to prepare a system of laws for the
Hawaiian Islands.
Morgan, Stephen, of Oak Hill, Ohio, was bom
in Jackson County, Ohio, January 25, 1854; was
reared on a farm and educated in the country
schools and at Worthington and Lebanon, Ohio;
taught in the public schools of Jackson County ior
a number of years; school examiner for nine vears
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and principal of Oak Hill Academy for fifteen
years; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Morgan, William S. , was born in Monongalia
County, Va., September 7, 1801; received a public
school education, and reared on a farm; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1839; ap-
pointed a clerk in the House of Representatives in
1840; a member of the State hoxise of representa-
tives; Presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas
ticket in 1844; appointed to a clerkship in the
Treasury Department.
Morphis, Joseph L., was born in McNairy
County, Tenn., April 17, 1831; brought up as a
planter; a Whig member of the State legislature of
Tennessee in 1859; entered the Confederate army
as captain in August, 1861, and served until the
surrender; moved to Mississippi in 1863; elected
to the State constitutional convention of Mississippi
in 1865; a member of the State legislature of Mis-
sissippi in 1866-1868; elected a Representative from
Mississippi to the Forty-first and Forty-second
Congresses as a Republican, serving from February
23, 1870, to March 3, 1873; appointed marshal of
the northern district of Mississippi by President
Hayes.
Morrell, Daniel J., was born at North Ber-
wick, Me., Augusts, 1821; received a public school
education; moved to Philadelphiain 1836; entered
a counting room as clerk, and became interested
in business; moved in 1855 to Johnstown, Pa.,
where he manufactured iron; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses as a Re-
publican, serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3,
1871; defeated as the Republican candidate for the
Forty-second Congress.
Morrell, Edward, of Torresdale Philadelphia,
Pa., was bom at Newport, R. I., August 7, 1862;
studied law at the University of Pennsylvania,
graduating with high honors in 1885; elected to
the select council of Philadelphia in 1891, serving
three years; active in the National Guard of Penn-
sylvania, entering that organization as colonel of
the Third Regiment, and afterwards being com-
missioned as brigadier-general, commanding the
First Brigade; nominated by the Republican con-
vention to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress caused by the death of Hon. A. C. Harmer,
and elected; reelected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
Morril, David liawrence, was born at Epping,
N. H., June 10, 1772; received an academic edu-
cation; studied medicine, and commenced practice
at Epping in 1793; turned his attention to theol-
ogy, and was made pastor of the Congregational
Church at Goffstown 1802-1811 ; practiced medicine
1807-1830; member of the State, house of represent-
atives 1808-1817; elected a United States Senator
from New Hampshire as an Adams Democrat,
serving from December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1823;
elected a member of the State senate, and served
1823-24; candidate for governor of New Hamp-
shire in 1824; there was no choice by the people;
elected by the convention, and the next two years
elected by the people to the same office; moved
in 1831 to Concord, where he edited the New
Hampshire Observer; died at Concord, N. H.,
January 28, 1849.
Morrill, Anson P., was born at Belgrade, Me.,
June 10, 1803; received a public school education;
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engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits;
memoer of the State house of representatives; gov-
ernor of Maine in 1855; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Republican, serving from July 4, 1861, to March
3, 1863; died at Augusta, Me., July 4, 1887.
Morrill, Edmund N., of Hiawatha, Kans., was
born at Westbrook, Cumberland County, Me.,
February 12, 1834; received a common English
education at Westbrook Seminary; banker; mem-
ber of the Territorial legislature of Kansas in 1857;
enlisted in the Dnion Army October 5, 1861; elected
sergeant October 10, 1861; appointed commissary
of subsistence in August, 1862; mustered out as
major in October, 1865; elected clerk of the district
court in Brown County, Kans. , in 1866 and reelected
in 1868; elected county clerk in 1867 and reelected
in 1869 and 1871 ; elected State senator of Kansas in
1872 and reelected in 1876; elected president pro
tempore of the senate in 1879 ; , elected to the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-
gresses as a Republican; governor of Kansas 1894^
1896.
Morrill, Justin Smith, was born at Strafford, j H '
Vt., April 14, 1810; received a common school P^
and academic education; merchant and afterwards .gf<
engaged in agricultural pursuits; a Representative ' L
to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, ,--/■
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth /?**
Congresses; elected to the United States Senate
as a Union Republican, to succeed Luke P. Po-
land, Union Republican, and took his seat March
4, 1867; reelected in 1872, 1878, 1884, 1890, and
1896; regent of the Smithsonian Institution; died
at Washington, D. C, December 28, 1898.
Morrill, Lot M. , was born at Belgrade, Me.,
May 3, 1813; a student at Waterville College, Maine;
studied and practiced law; member of the State
legislature in 1854 and 1856, presiding over the
senate the last year; governor of Maine 1858-1860;
elected a United States Senator from Maine as a
Republican (to fill the vacancy created by the elec-
tion of Hannibal Hamlin to the Vice-Presidency)
and took his seat January 17, 1861; reelected in
1863; appointed in December, 1869, and afterwards
elected by the legislature, to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of WilHam Pitt Fessenden;
reelected as a Republican in 1871; served until July
7, 1876, when he became Secretary of the Treasury,
serving until March 8, 1877; appointed by Presi-
dent Hayes collector of customs at Portland, Me.,
in 1877;"died at Augusta, Me., January 10, 1883.
Morrill, Samuel P. , was born at Chesterville,
Franklin County, Me., February 11, 1816; received
an academic education and adopted the profession
of a clergyman; elected in 1857, for five years,
register of deeds for Franklin County, and re-
elected to the same office in 1867; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Forty-first Congress
as a Republican.
Morris, Calvary, was born in Virginia; received
a public school education; moved to Ohio and
located at Athens; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; re-
elected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses, serving from September 4, 1837,' to
March 3, 1843.
Morris, Charles, was a Delegate from Pennsyl-
vania to the Continental Congress 1783-84.
Morris, Daniel, was born in Seneca County,
N. Y., January 4, 1812; received a public school
education; studied law; began practicing at Penn
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Yan; district attorney for Yates County; member
of the State house of representatives in 1859;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress; died at Penn Yan,
N. Y,, April 22, 1889.
Morris, Edward Joy, was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., July 16, 1815; graduated from Harvard
College in 1836; member of the State house of
representatives 1841-1843; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Whig; charge d'affaires to Naples January 20,
1850, to August 26, 1853; again member of the
State house of representatives in 1856; elected a
Representative to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses; appointed minister resident to
Turkey June 8, 1861; served until October 25,
1870; published a tour through Turkey, Greece,
and Egypt, and several other valuable books on
life abroad; died at Philadelphia, Pa., December
31, 1881.
Morris, Gouverne-ur (brother of Lewis Mor-
ris), was born at Morrisania, N. Y., January 31,
1752; received a classical education; studied law,
and in 1771 began ;practice in New York; member
of New York provincial congress; Delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1787-88;
appointed assistant financier in 1781; member of
the convention which framed the Constitution of
the United States in 1787; minister plenipotentiary
to France January 12, 1792, until August 15, 1794;
elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania
as a Federalist April 7, 1800 (in the place of James
Watson, resigned), and served from May 3, 1800,
to March 8, 1803; moved to New York, and in
1810 appointed chairman of the canal commission;
died at Morrisania, N. Y., November 6, 1816.
Morris, Isaac N. (son of Thomas Morris and
brother of Jonathan D. Morris), was born at
Bethel, Ohio, January 22, 1812; received an aca-
demic education; studied law, and began practice
at Quincy, 111., in 1836; appointed secretary of
state for Illinois in 1840, but declined; chosen
president of the Illinois and Michigan Canal Com-
pany in 1841; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1846; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat,
and reelected to the Thirty -sixth Congress; ap-
pointed a commissioner for the Pacific Railroad
in 1869; died October 29, 1879, at Quincy, 111.
Morris, James E. (son of Joseph Morris), was
born in Greene County, Pa., January 10, 1820;
received a public school education; moved with
his parents to Ohio; elected a member of the State
house of representatives in 1848; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Thirty -seventh Congress
as a Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress; defeated for the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Morris, Jonathan D. (son of Thomas Morris),
was born in Ohio in 1804; received a public school
education; studied law and began practice at
Batavia, Ohio; for twenty years clerk of the courts
of Clermont County; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses
as a Democrat; died at Connersville, Ind., Mav 16,
1875.
Morris, Joseph (father of James R. Morris),
was born in Greene County, Pa., October 16, 1795,
received public school education; wheelwright;
sheriff of^ Greene County 1824; moved to Woods-
field, Ohio, in 1829 where he engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1833-34; treasurer of Monroe County;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Woodsfield, Ohio, October 23,
1854.
Morris, Lewis (brother of Gouverneur Mor-
ris), was born at Morrisania, N. Y., in 1726; grad-
uated from Yale College in 1746; devoted himself
to agricultural pursuits; Delegate from New York
to the Continental Congress 1775-1777; held the
commission of major-general of militia; died at
Morrisania, N. Y., January 22, 1798.
Morris, Lewis K., was born in Vermont in
1753; received public school education; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Fifth, Sixth,
and Seventh Congresses; died at Springfield, Vt.,
December 29, 1825.
Morris, Matliias, was born at Hill town. Pa.,
in 1785; received a public school education; elect-
ed a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a
Whig; defeated for the Twenty-sixth Congress;
died at Doylestown, Pa., November 9, 1839.
Morris, Page, of Duluth, Minn., was born June
30, 1853, at Lynchburg, Va. ; educated at a private
school and at William and Mary College, and the
Virginia Military Institute; graduated from the
latter institution in 1872, and at once appointed
assistant professor of mathematics; appointed pro-
fessor of mathematics in the Texas Military Insti-
tute in 1873, and moved to Austin, Tex. ; elected
professor of applied mathematics in the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College of Texas in 1876,
located near Bryan, in that State, where he re-
mained for three years; studied law while teach-
ing in college, and admitted to the bar at Lynch-
burg, Va., whither he had returned in 1880; nomi-
nated by the Republicans in 1884 and ran for Con-
gress in the Sixth district of Virginia against John
W. Daniel, Democrat, and defeated; moved from
Lynchburg to Duluth in 1886; in February, 1889,
elected municipal judge of the city of Duluth; in
March, 1894, elected by the city council of Duluth
city attorney; in August, 1895, appointed by the
governor district judge of the eleventh judicial dis-
trict of Minnesota; in July, 1896, elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican; refused to be a candidate
for the Fifty-eighth Congress; appointed United
States district judge in Minnesota.
Morris, Eohert, was born at Liverpool, Eng-
land, January 20, 1734; came to Oxford, Md., in
1747; received a public school education; mer-
chantat Philadelphia; Delegate from Pennsylvania
to the Continental Congress; signer of the' Decla-
ration of Independence; superintendent of finance
1781-1784; member of Pennsylvania legislature in
1786; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the conven-
tion which framed the Federal Constitution in
1787; United States Senator from Pennsylvania
1789-1795; declined position of Secretary" of the
Treasury under President Washington; became
financially involved by unsuccessful land specula-
tions, which were the cause of passing the latter
years of his life in a debtor's jail; died at Phila-
delphia, May 8, 1806.
Morris, Samuel W., was born in Pennsylva-
nia in 1788; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice at Wellsboro; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat, serving
from September 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841; died at
Wellsboro, Pa., May 25, 1847.
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Morris, Thomas (father of Isaac N. Morris and
Jonathan D. Morris), was born in Virginia Janu-
ary 3, 1776; received a public school education;
moved when 19 years of age to Ohio, and finally
located at Bethel; member of the State senate or
house of representatives 1806-1830; chief judge of
Ohio 1830-1833; elected a United States Senator
from Ohio as a Democrat, serving from December
2, 1833, to March 3, 1839; died at Bethel, Ohio,
December 7, 1844.
Morris, Thomas, resided inCanandaigua; was
a member of the State house of representatives
1794-1796; elected a Representative from New
York to the Seventh Congress.
Morrison, George W. , was born at Fairlee,
Vt., October 16, 1809; received a public school
education; moved to Manchester, N. H.; studied
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-
first Congress (in place of James Wilson, resigned)
as a Democrat; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date forthe Thirty-second Congress; elected to the
Thirty-third Congress; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Morrison, James L. D., was born in Illinois;
received an academic education; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar and commenced practice at
Belleville ; served in the Mexican war as lieutenant-
colonel of Bissell's regiment of Illinois volunteers
July 1, 1846, to July 1, 1847; a member of the
State senate of Illinois in 1854; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress (in place of Lyman Trumbull, elected Sena-
tor) as an Old-Line Whig.
Morrison, John A. , was born in Pennsylvania;
received a public school education; resided at
Cochranville; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-second Congress as a Dem-
ocrat.
Morrison, William K. , of Waterloo, 111., was
born in Monroe County, 111., September 14, 1825;
educated in the common schools and at McKendree
College, Illinois; lawyer by profession; clerk of
the circuit court; four terms a member and one
term speaker of the Illinois house of represent-
atives; elected to the Thirty-eighth, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses;
at the expiration of Congressional service was
appointed by President Cleveland a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission; reappointed
by President Harrison in July, 1892; chairman of
the Commission from September, 1891, to Decem-
ber 31, 1897, when he was succeeded by W. J.
Calhoun, Republican; returned to his home, where
he practiced his profession.
Morrissey, John, was born in County Tip-
perary, Ireland, February 12, 1831; came to this
country in 1833 with his parents, who settled at
South Troy, N. Y.; received a limited public
school education; worked as a molder m an iron
foundry; went to New York in the Presidential
campaign of 1848 as an anti-Tammany shoulder
hitter- went to California in 1851; fought a priz^
fight at Mare Island with Thompson for $2,000 a
Bide, and won; returned to New York and fought
a prize fight at Boston Four Corners, October 12
1853 with Yankee Sullivan, for |1,000 a side, and
won after thirty-seven rounds; fought a prize
fight at Long Point Island, Canada, October 20,
1858 with John C. Heenan, for $2,500 a side, and
won' in the eleventh round; retired from the
prize ring and became the proprietor of gambling
houses at New York and at Saratoga; purchased
the controlling interest in the Saratoga race course
in 1863; elected a Representative from New York
to the Fortieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-first Congress; engaged in New York
politics as an opponent of Tammany Hall; elected
to the State senate of New York in 1875 and re-
elected in 1877; visited Florida for his health, and
returned to die at Saratoga Springs, May 1, 1878.
Morrow, Jeremiah, was born at Gettysburg,
Pa., October 6, 1771; received a public school edu-
cation ; moved to the Northwest Territory (now the
State of Ohio) in 1795; member of the Territorial
house of representatives in 1800; elected the first
Representative from the State of Ohio to the Eighth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Ninth,
Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses, serving
from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1813; elected
a United States Senator from Ohio, serving from
May 24, 1813, to March 3, 1819; Presidential
elector on the Monroe ticket in 1821; governor of
Ohio 1822-1826; State canal commissioner; elected
to the Twenty-sixth Congress (in place of Thomas
Corwin, resigned) as a Whig; reelected to the
Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from December
7, 1840, to March 3, 1843; died at Twentymile
Stand, Ohio, March 22, 1852.
Morrow, John, was elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Ninth Congress; reelected to
the Tenth Congress, serving from December 2,
1805, to March 3, 1809.
Morrow, William W. , of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born near Milton, Wayne County, Ind., July
15, 1843; moved with his parents to Illinois in
1845 and settled in Adams County; went to Cali-
fornia in 1859; received a common school educa-
tion, supplemented by private tuition in special
branches; joined a party which discovered gold
placers on the headwaters of the John Day River
in Oregon in the spring of 1862; engaged in mining
for a season; returned East in January, 1863;
served in the National Rifles, a military organiza-
tion raised in the District of Columbia; appointed
special agent of the Treasury Department in Jan-
uary, 1865, and placed in charge of a large ship-
ment of treasure to California; employed during
the next four years in confidential positions under
the Secretary of the Treasury; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1869; assistant United States
attorney for California 1870-1874; chairman of
the Republican State central committee of Cali-
fornia 1879-1882; attorney for the State board of
harbor commissioners 1880-1883; chairman of the
California delegation to the national Republican
convention at Chicago in 1884; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; United States
circuit judge ninth judicial circuit of California.
Morse, Elijah Adams, was bornat South Bend,
Ind. , May 25, 1841 ; moved with his parents to Mas-
sachusetts in his childhood; received his education
in the public schools of Massachusetts and at Onon-
daga Academy, New York; businessmanand man-
ufacturer; a soldier in the Fourth Massachusetts
Regiment in the war of the rebellion, enlisting at
the age of 19; served three months under General
Butler in Virginia and one year under General
Banks in Louisiana; taken prisoner at the capture
of Brash ear City, La. ; entered the service as a pri-
vate and promoted to corporal; served a term in
the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1876;
member of the State senate in 1886, and reelected
in 1887; elected a member of the governor's council
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in 1877; elected a Bepresentative from Massachu-
setts to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses; died June 5, 1898.
Morse, Freeman H., was born at Bath, Me.,
February 18, 1807; received a public school educa-
tion; member of State house of representatives
1840-1844; mayor of Bath; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Maine to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Whig; again member of State house of repre-
sentatives 1833-1856; elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to the Thirty-
sixth Congress; member of peace congress in 1861;
appointed by President Lincoln consul at London.
Morse, Isaac Edwards, was born at Attakapas,
La., May 22, 1809; received a military and clas-
sical education at the academy of Captain Part-
ridge and at Harvard College; graduated from the
latter institution in 1829; studied law; admitted to
the bar; practiced at New Iberia; member of the
State senate; elected a Representative from Louisi-
ana to the Twenty-eighth Congress (in place of
Peter E. Bossier, deceased ) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses; defeated for the Thirty-second Con-
gress; attorney-general of Louisiana; appointed
by President Pierce minister to New Granada to
demand indemnity for the murder of American
citizens crossing the Isthmus; followed the fortunes
of Louisiana in her secession from the Union; died
at New Orleans February 11, 1866.
Morse, Leopold, was born at Wachenheim,
Bavaria, August 15, 1831 ; received a common school
education at Wachenheim; came to the United
States in early life; merchant; twice elected a dele-
gate to the national Democratic convention; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and
Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat; died December
15, 1892, at Boston.
Morse, Oliver Andrew, was born at Cherry
Valley, Otsego County, N. Y., March 26, 1815;
received a classical education; graduated from
Hamilton College, New York, in 1833; studied
law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice
at Cherry Valley; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Repub-
lican; died at Cherry Valley April 20, 1870.
Morton, Jackson, was born in Spottsylvania
County, Va., August 10, 1794; received a public
school education; moved to Pensacola, Fla., where
he engaged in lumber business; elected a United
States Senator from Florida as a Whig, serving
from December 3, 1849, to March 3, 1855; deputy
to the provisional congress of the Southern States,
which assembledat Montgomery in February, 1861;
member of Confederate congress 1862-1865; died
in Santa Rosa County, Fla., November 20, 1874.
Morton, Jeremiah., was born in Virginia; resi-
dent of Raccoon Ford; elected a Representative
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress.
Morton, John, was born at Ridley, Pa. , in 1724;
received a public school education; for many years
a land surveyor; member of the colonial general
assembly 1756-1775, serving the last four years as
speaker; high sheriff 1766-1770; judge of supreme
court of the province; Delegate to Continental
Congress from Pennsylvania 1774^1777; gave the
casting vote of the Pennsylvania delegation on the
adoption of the Declaration of Independence; died
in Pennsylvania in April, 1777.
Morton, Marcus, was born at Freetown, Mass.,
December 19, 1784; received a classical education,
graduating from Brown University in 1804 ; studied
law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice
at Taunton; clerk of Massachusetts senate in 1811;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress; executive councilor in 1823;
elected lieutenant-governor in 1823; judge of the
supreme court 1825-1840; governor of Massachu-
setts 1840-41 and 1843-44; appointed by President
Polk collector of customs at Boston, serving 1845-
1849; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion of 1853; member of State house of repre-
sentatives in 1858; died at Taunton, Mass., Febru-
ary 6, 1864.
Morton, Levi Parsons, of New York, N. Y.,
was born at Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824; received
a public school and academic education; com-
menced mercantile business at Hanover, N. H.,
in 1845; moved to Boston in 1850 and to New York
in 1854; engaged in the banking business in 1863
in New York and London; appointed by the Presi-
dent honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibi-
tion of 1878; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress aa
a Republican; Vice-President of the United States
1889-1893.
Morton, Oliver P. , was born in Wayne County,
Ind., August 4, 1823; apprenticed to a hatter at
the age of 15, and worked at the trade four years;
entered the Miami University; graduated in 1843;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847, and com-
menced practice at Centerville, Ind. ; elected cir-
cuit judge in 1852; defeated as the Republican
nominee for governor in 1856; elected lieutenant-
governor in 1860, with the understanding that Gen.
H. S. Lane, who was placed at the head of the
ticket, was to be elected to the United States Sen-
ate in the event of Republican success, which plan
was carried out, and he became governor of In-
diana; elected governor in 1864; elected United
States Senator as a Union Republican, to succeed
Henry S. Lane, and reelected, serving from March
4, 1867, until his death at Indianapolis, November
1, 1877; stricken by partial paralysis in the fall of
1865, from which he never recovered; compelled
to do his work by secretaries, to be carried m and
out of the Senate, and to address the Senate seated,
died at Indianapolis, Ind., November 1, 1877.
Moseley, Jonathan Ogden, was born at East
Haddam, Conn., in 1762; graduated from Yale
College m 1780; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Ninth Congress as a Federalist;
reelected to the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Con-
gresses, serving from December 2, 1805, to March
3, 1821; moved to Saginaw, Mich., where he died
September 9, 1839.
Moseley, William Abbott, graduated from
Yale College in 1816; resided at Buffalo, N. Y.;
member of State house of representatives in 1835
and of State senate 1838-1841; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress; died at New York November 19, 1873.
Moses, Charles L., of Turin. Ga., was born in
Coweta County, Ga., May 2, 1856; attended the
country schools of his native county, and graduated
from Mercer. University in the class of 1876; be-
came a farmer and teacher; for several years prin-
cipal of the Newman Male Seminary; after 1886
devoted his time exclusively to agricultural inter-
ests; member of the Farmers' Alliance; elected
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709
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
gresses.
Mosgfrove, James, of Kittanning, Pa., was
born there July 14, 1821; received a common
school education; engaged in the iron business;
president of the First National Bank at Kittan-
ning, Pa. ; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat and Greenbacker.
Moss, McEenzie, of Bowling Green, Ky., was
born January 3, 1868, on a farm in that section of
Christian County, Ky., known as "Flat Lick;"
worked on a farm, and attended the neighborhood
schools during boyhood; held a position in the
Railway Mail Service 1888-1891; read law and
attended evening law class; obtained a license to
practice law in 1893, and located at Bowling Green,
where he engaged in the practice; as a Democrat
he opposed the nomination of William Goebel
for governor of Kentucky in 1899, and after his
nomination made common cause with the Repub-
licans of the State against his election; nominated
by the Republicans of the Third district in July,
1900, as their candidate for the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Republican, and received upon the
face of the returns 19,344 votes; John S. IJhea, the
Democratic candidate, received 19,500 votes, and
H. S. Glenn, Populist, 148 votes; upon this show-
ing the certificate of election was given to Mr.
Rhea, and notice of contest was at once served
upon him; the contest was vigorously prosecuted
before Elections Committee No. 1, of which Robert
W. Tayler, of Ohio, was chairman, resulting in a
report presented by the majority of that committee
to the House of Representatives declaring that
" McKenzie Moss was elected as a member of the
Fifty-seventh Congress," and on the 25th day of
March, 1902, that report was sustained on the
floor of the House and Mx. Moss was sworn in.
Mott, Gordon N., was born at Zanesville,
Ohio, October 21, 1812; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law; began practice at Zanesville in
1836; moved to Texas during its struggle for inde-
pendence and served nine months as a volunteer;
returned to Ohio and resumed the practice of law;
moved to California in 1849; elected judge of Sut-
ter County in 1850; appointed district judge in
1851; appointed justice of the supreme court of
Nevada; elected a Delegate from Nevada Territory
to the Thirty-eighth Congtess as a Republican
serving from January 11, 1864, to March 3, 1865'
Mott, James, was born in New Jersey; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Seventh
Congress; reelected to the Eighth Congress, serv-
ing from December 7, 1801, to March 3, 1805', for
many years treasurer of the State of New Jersey;
died at his residence nea;r Shrewsbury, N. J.,
December 10, 1813.
Mott, Bichard, was born at Mamaroneck,
N Y., July 21, 1804; educated at the Quaker
Seminary in Dutchess County, N. Y.; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; moved to Toledo, Ohio, m
1858 and entered into business there; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth I
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress, serving from December 3, 1855, to
March 3. 1859.
Motte, Isaac," was born in South Carolina De-
cember 8, 1738; a Delegate from South Carolina to
the Continental Congress 1780-1782; died in South
Carolina May 8, 1795.
Moulton, Mace, was born in New Hampshire;
received a public school education; sheriff of Hills-
boro County in 1845; State councilor in 1848 and
1849; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1847.
Moulton, Samuel W., of Shelby ville. III, was
born at Wenham, Mass., January 20, 1822; re-
ceived a pubUc school education; moved to the
South, where he remained some years, and then
located in Illinois in 1845; studied law, admitted
to the bar, and practiced at Shelby ville; member
of the State house of representatives 1852-1859;
Presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in
1857; president of the board of education of the
State of Illinois 1859-1876; elected a Representa-
tive to the Thirty-ninth, Forty-seventh, and P'orty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Mouton, Alexander, was born in Attakapas
Parish, La., November 19, 1804; received a clas-
sical education, graduating from Georgetown
College, District of Columbia; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice in his
native parish (then known as Lafayette Parish);
member of the State house of representatives 1827-
1832; defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Twenty;second Congress; again a member of the
State house of representatives in 1836; elected a
United States Senator from Louisiana (to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Alexan-
der Porter), serving from February 2, 1837, until
he resigned, March 1, 1842; governor of Louisiana
1842-1846; president of the Southwestern railroad
convention which met in New Orleans in January,
1852; president of the vigilance committee of La-
fayette Parish in 1858; president of the State con-
vention which voted Louisiana out of the Union
January 23, 1861; defeated November 29, 1861, at
an election held for two senators in the Confeder-
ate Congress; died near Lafayette, La., February
12, 1885.
Mowry, Daniel, jr., was born at Smithfield,
R. I., and resided there; judge of the court of
common pleas; took an active part in pre-Revolu-
tionarv movements; Delegate from Rhode Island
to the'Continental Congress in 1780-1782.
Mowry, Sylvester, was born at Providence,
R. I., in 1830; received a military education at
the United States MiUtary Academy, graduating
in 1852; served in the First United States Artillery
as second and then first lieutenaLt from July 1,
1852, until he resigned July 31, 1858; engaged in
mining in Arizona; elected Pelegate from Arizona
to the Thirty-fifth Congress, but the bill creating
a Territorial organization failed to become a law,
so he never took his seat; appointed by President
Buchanan in 1860 a commissioner to establish the
boundary line between California and Nevada,
and superseded by President Lincoln in 1861 on
political grounds; published Geography and Re-
sources of Arizona and Sonora; arrested and
imprisoned at Fort Yuma on a charge of disloyalty,
but established his innocence; went abroad for his
health, and died at London October 16, 1871.
Mozley, Norman A., of Dexter, Mo., was born
December 11, 1865, on a farm in Johnson County,
111.; educated in the common schools; taught
school; went to Missouri in 1887; studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1891 ; engaged in the
practice of law; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; after leaving Congress re-
sumed the practice of law at Bloomfleld, Mo.
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Mudd, Sydney Emanuel, of Bryantown, Md.,
was born February 12, 1858, in Charles County,
Md. ; educated at Georgetown College, District of
Columbia, and St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.,
graduating from the latter in 1878; read law pri-
vately and attended the law department of the
University of Virginia; admitted to the bar in 1880,
and practiced; elected to the State house of dele-
gates in 1879, and reelected in 1881; elector on the
Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; elected to the
State house of delegates in 1895_, and speaker of
that body; delegate to the national Republican
convention in 1896; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Muhlenberg, Francis Samuel (brother of
F. A. Muhlenberg and J. P. G. Muhlenberg), was
born at Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1795; received
an academic education; studied law; admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice; private secre-
tary to Governor Heister 1820-1823; moved to
Pickaway County, Ohio; member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twentieth Congress (in place of
William Creighton, jr., resigned), serving from
December 19, 1828, to March 3, 1829; died in Picka-
way County, Ohio, in 1832.
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad
(brother of F. S. Muhlenberg and J. P. G. Muhlen-
berg), was born at La Trappe, Pa., January 1, 1750;
received a classical education; studied theology,
and ordained in Germany as a minister of the
Lutheran Church; preached in Pennsylvania and
New York City, which city he left when the British
entered; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Con-
tinental Congress 1779 and 1780; member of the
State house of representatives 1780-1783; delegatg
to the State constitutional convention of 1790;
president of the State convention called to ratify
the Federal Constitution; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the First, Second, Third,
and Fourth Congresses, serving from March 4,
1789, to March 8, 1797; died June 4, 1801.
Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus (father of
Henr}"- Augustus Muhlenberg), was born at Lan-
caster, Pa., May 13, 1782; received a classical edu-
cation; studied theology, and ordained to the
Lutheran ministry in 1802; pastor of Trinity
Church at Reading 1802-1828, resigning on account
of ill health; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson
Democrat; reelected totheTwenty-second.Twenty-
third. Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congresses
(defeating, at the last election. Smith, anti-Masonic
Whig), serving from December 7, 1829, to Febru-
ary 9, 1838, when he resigned; offered by Presi-
dent Van Buren the positions of Secretary of the
Navy and minister to Russia, both of which he
declined; minister to Austria February 8, 1838, to
September 18, 1840; nominated as the Democratic
candidate for governor in 1844, but, before the elec-
tion, he died at Reading, August 12, 1844.
Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus (son of Henry
Augustus Muhlenberg), was bom at Reading, Pa.,
July, 1823 ;receivedaclassical education, graduating
from Dickinson College; studied law for four years;
admitted to the bar in July, 1844, and commenced
practice at Reading; member of the State senate
three years; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-third Congress as a Demo
crat, serving from December 5, 1853, to January 9,
1854, when he died of typhoid fever at Washing-
ton, D. C. ; appeared in the House of Representa-
tives but one day, the day on which it was
organized; published the Life of Maj. Gen. John
Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (his uncle).
Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel (brother of
F. A. Muhlenberg and F. S. Muhlenberg), was
born at La Trappe, Pa., October 1, 1746; received
a classical education; studied theology at Halle,
Germany, and ordained a priest in the Episcopal
Church April 21, 1772, by the Bishop of London;
returning home, he wasplaced in charge of a parish
in Virginia: member of the colonial house of bur-
gesses in 1774; prominent in pre-Revolutionary
movements; entered the Revolutionary army as
colonel of the Eighth Virginia (German) Re.gi-
ment, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general,
distinguishing himself in several battles; elected
vice-presidentof Pennsylvania; Presidential elector
in 1797; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the First, Third, and Sixth Congresses;
elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania
as a Democrat, but did not take his seat; appointed
by President Jefferson supervisor of the revenue for
the district of Pennsylvania in 1801, and collector
of customs at the port of Philadelphia in 1803; died
near Philadelphia, Pa., October 1, 1807.
Muldrow, Henry Lowndes, of Starkville,
Miss., was born in Lowndes County, Miss.; grad-
uated from the University of Mississippi, and
received the degree of A. B. in the year 1856, and
the degree of LL. B. in 1858; admitted to the bar
as attorney and solicitor in 1859; lawyer by pro-
fession; entered the Confederate army in 1861 and
held various positions in the line, and at the close
of the war surrendered at Forsyth, Ga., as colonel
of cavalry; held the position of district attorney
for the sixth judicial district of Mississippi 1869-
1871; elected to the State legislature in 1875;
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; First Assistant Secretary of the Interior during
the first Administration of President Cleveland;
resigned in 1889 to resume the practice of law at
Starkville, Miss. ; elected a delegate from the State
at large to the Mississippi constitutional conven-
tion in 1890; appointed chancellor of the first dis-
trict of Mississippi in September, 1899.
MuUer, Nicholas, of New York, N. Y., was
born in the Gl-and Duchy of Luxembourg No-
vember 15, 1836; received a common school edu-
cation in the city of Mptz and afterwards attended
the Luxembourg Athenupem; engaged in business
as a railroad ticket agent for over twenty years;
one of the promoters and original directors of the
Germania Bank, New York; member of the State
assembly in 1875 and 1876 and of the State cen-
tral committee in 1875; elected to the Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fifty-
sixth Congresses as a Tammany Democrat.
MuUin, Joseph, was born in Ireland; emi-
grated to the United States when quite young and
located in New York State; attended the public
schools; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirtieth Con-
gress.
MuUins, James, was born in Bedford County,
Tenn., September 15, 1807; received a liberal
education; apprentice to the millwright's trade;
elected colonel of the State militia in 1831; sheriff
of his native coiinty 1840-1846; compelled to flee
from his home on account of his loyalty to the
Union in 1862; served in the Union Army 186^
1864; speaker of the State house of representatives
in 1865; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican.
BIOGRAPHIES.
711
Mumford, George, was a native of Rowan
County, N. C. ; received a limited education;
member of the house of commons of North Caro-
lina in 1810 and 1811; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Fifteenth Congress,
serving until December 31, 1818, when he died at
Washington, D. C.
Mumford, Gurdon S., was a native of New
York; received a limited education; elected a
Representative from New 'York to the Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses.
Mungen, WiUiam, was horn at Baltimore,
Md., May 12, 1821; moved with his parents to
Ohio in 1830; received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; editor and publisher
of the Findlay Democratic Courier; served two
terms as auditor of Hancock County; State sena-
tor in 1851; entered the "Union Army in 1861 as
colonel of the Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteers;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth
and Forty-first Congresses.
Munroe, James, was a native of Virginia; grad-
uated from West Point in 1815; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Whig; defeated for the Twenty-
seventh Congress; State senator 1852-1855; moved
to New Jersey, where he died in 1870.
Murcli, Thomas H., of Rockland, Me., was
born at Hampton, Penobscot County, Me., March
29, 1838; received a common school education;
passed his early life at sea; learned the stonecut-
ting trade and worked at the same eighteen years
as an apprentice, iourneyman, foreman, and con-
tractor; became editor and publisher of the Granite
Cutters' International Journal in 1877; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Greenback Labor
Reformer; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
died December 15, 1886.
Murfree, William Hardee, was a native of
Hertford County, N. C. ; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1801 ; studied law, and
began practice at Edenton; member of the house
of commons of North CaroUna in 1805 and_ 1812;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a
Democrat; moved to Tennessee, where he died at
Nashville in 1828.
Murphy, Charles, was a native of South Caro-
lina; moved to Decatur, Ga.; received a liberal
education; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Unionist.
Murphy, Edward, jr., of Troy, N. Y., was
born at Troy December 15, 1836; educated at
St. John's College, Fordham; elected mayor of the
city of Troy in 1875, and reelected in 1877, 1879,
and 1881; elected chairman of the Democratic
State committee of New York in 1887, and re-
elected four times; elected United States Senator
in January, 1893, to succeed Frank Hiscock; took
his seat March 4, 1893; vice-president and treas-
urer of the Kennedy & Murphy Brewmg and
Malting Company ; president of the Troy Gas Com-
pany and vice-president of the Manufacturers
National Bank of Troy.
Murphy, Everett J., of East St. Louis, 111.,
was born at Nashville, 111., July 24, 1852; moved
with his father's family, in early youth, to Sparta,
111 and educated in the high schools of that place;
elected city clerk of Sparta in 1877, but resigned
in 1878, and moved to Chester to accept the ap-
pointment of deputy circuit clerk under George
H. Tate, which position he held until the fall of
1882, when elected sheriff of Randolph County as
a Republican; elected a representative to the
general assembly of Illinois in 1886; appointed
warden of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary by
Governor Joseph W. Fiferin 1889, which position
he held until March, 1892, when he moved to
East St. Louis; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; appointed warden of the
penitentiary at Joliet, 111.
Murphy, Henry C, was born at Brooklyn,
N. Y., July 5, 1810; graduated from Columbia
College in 1830; studied law, and admitted to the
bar; began practice at Brooklyn in 1833; prosecut-
ing attorney for Kings County ; mayor of Brooklyn
in 1842; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Twenty-ninth Congress; elected to
the Thirtieth Congress; minister to the Nether-
lands 1857-1861; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Decem-
ber 1, 1882.
Murphy, Jeremiah H. , of Davenport, Iowa,
was born at Lowell, Mass., February 19, 1835;
educated in the schools of Boston and at the State
University of Iowa; read law; admitted to the bar
in April, 1858, and practiced; elected mayor of
Davenport in 1873; elected to the State senate of
Iowa in 1874 and held the office four years; again
elected mayor in 1879 and held the office one year;
elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; after leaving Congress vis-
ited Europe to make a study of European canals;
died December 11, 1893.
Murphy, John, was born at Columbia, S. C,
in 1786; graduated from South Carolina College in
1808; moved to Alabama in 1818; studied and
practiced law; governor of Alabama 1825-1829;
elected a Representative from Alabama to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; died in
Clarke County, Ala., September 21, 1841.
Murphy, Nathan O., of Phoenix, Ariz., was
born in Lincoln County, Me., in 1849; received
a high school education; taught school in Wis-
consin before he was 21 years old; settled in
Prescott, Ariz., in April, 1883; appointed, March
21, 1889, secretary of Arizona; the governorship
was tendered to him two years later, and he took
his seat May 11, 1892; unanimously chosen a dele-
gate to the national Republican convention held
in Minneapolis in June, 1892, and succeeded,
among other things, in getting the arid-land inter-
ests of the West recognized in the platform of his
party; during his incumbency of the office of sec-
retary he was more than three-fourths of his time
governor de facto; elected a Delegate to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; appointed gov-
ernor of Arizona Territory July 16, 1898, during
recess of Congress; reappointed and confirmed
December 14, 1898.
Murray, Ambrose S., was a native of New
York; received a common school education; held
several local offices at Goshen, N. Y. ; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Murray, George Washington, was born Sep-
tember 22, 1853, of slave parents, near Rembert,
Sumter County, S. C. ; emancipation found him a
lad of 11 summers; bereft of both parents, thrown
upon the rugged shores of early emancipation,
without a friend upon whom to rely for either aid
or advice, he entered upon the fierce combat then
in progress in an impoverished section for the in-
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dispensable bread of life; among the waifs of his
neighborhood in 1866 he picked up his alphabet
and acquired an imperfect and crude pronuncia-
tion of monosyllable; during the next five years
he so industriously applied himself in efforts to
improve his meager stock of knowledge that in
January, 1871, he entered, while in session, for
the first time, a day school, but as teacher, not
scholar; he taught until the fall of 1874, when he
successfully passed a competitive examination and
obtained a scholarship as subfreshman in the re-
constructed University of South Carolina; having
passed through his alma mater to his junior year,
the accession to power of an administration un-
friendly to the coeducation of the races (1876)
forced him without her doors; he reentered the
public schools of his county as teacher, and was
successfully employed until February, 1890; al-
though opposed by one of the wealthiest and most
popular Democrats in the State, he was returned
by the managers of elections, nearly all of whom
were Democrats, by about 1,000 majority, not-
withstanding twelve of his strongest polls were
not opened; having run the gauntlet of the vari-
ous boards of managers and canvassers, elected as
a Republican to the Fifty -third Congress; renomi-
nated for the Fifty-fourth Congress by the Repub-
licans; the certificate of election was given to his
opponent, William Elliott, but as the result of a
contest the seat waB awarded to Mr. Murray June
4, 1896.
Murray, John, was a native of Lancaster, Pa. ;
received a limited education; held several local
offices; studied law and practiced; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Congresses.
Murray, Jehu L., was bom at Wadesboro,
Ky.; received a liberal education; studied and
practiced law; held several local positions; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
fifth Congress aa a Democrat.
Murray, Robert M. , of Piqua, Ohio, was born
at Concord, Lake County, Ohio, November 28,
1841; educated at Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio,
and at Oberlin, Ohio; admitted to practice law af-
ter graduating at the law college, but accepted a
position in the First National Bank at Painesville,
Ohio; cashier of that institution nine years, leaving
the bank and the place in the year 1879 and moved
to Piqua; mayor of Painesville from April, 1877,
to 1879; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Murray, Thomas, was born in Northumber-
land County, Pa.; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat.
Murray, William, was a native of Goshen,
N. Y. ; attended the common schools; held sev-
eral local oflSces; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Murray, William Vans, was born at Cam-
bridge, Md., in 1762; received a liberal education;
studied law in the Temple, at London, and began
practice at his home in 1785; served as a member
of the Maryland State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Second, Third, and
Fourth Congresses as a Federalist; minister 'resi-
dent to the Netherlands 1797-1801; died at Cam-
bridge, Md., December 11, 1803.
Mutchler, Howard, of Easton, Pa., was born
at Easton, Pa., February 12, 1859; educated in the
public schools of his native city and at the Phillips
Academy, Ahdover, Mass.; read law with his
father at Easton; before qualifying for admission
to the bar became editor and publisher of the
Easton Daily Express and the Northampton Dem-
ocrat; elected to the Fifty-third Congress at a
special election held July 25, 1893, to fill the unex-
pired term of his father, the late Hon. William
Mutchler, as a Democrat; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress.
Mutchler, William, of Eaaton, Pa., was born
in Northampton County, Pa., December 21, 1831;
received an academic education; studied law and
practiced; elected prothonotary of his native
county in 1860, and reelected in 1863; appointed
assessor of internal revenue by President Johnson
in March, 1867, and served until May, 1869; chair-
man of the Democratic State committee of Penn-
sylvania in 1869-70; elected to the Forty-fourth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-
second Congresses as a Democrat; died June 23,
1893.
Myers, Amos, was born in Lancaster County,
Pa., April 23, 1824; received a liberal education;
studied law and in 1846 began practice at Clarion,
Pa.; held several local offices; appointed district
attorney in 1847; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican.
Myers, Leonard, was born at Attleboro, Pa.,
November 13, 1827; received a classical education;
studied law and practiced; held several local of-
fices; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, For-
ty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses
as a Republican; defeated for the Forty-fourth
Congress.
Myers, William K., of Anderson, Ind., was
born in Clinton Countv, Ohio, June 12, 1836;
moved with his parents to Madison County, Ind.,
October, 1848; received a common school educa-
tion; his father being a farmer, his early life was
spent in that vocation; at the age of 20 learned the
pamter's trade, which he followed in the summer
seasons, teaching the common schools during the
winters, until the commencement of the war; en-
listed in Company G, Forty-seventh Indiana Vol-
unteers, in which he served as private, orderly
sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and
captain, remaining with that company in the serv-
ice of the United States four years and three
months; elected county surveyor of Madison
County in 1858, which position he retained until
the time of his enhstment; after returning from
the Army followed school-teaching as a business,
????!? ^^ leisure time in studying law until
1871, when admitted to the bar; superintendent of
J ^?o}}.° schools of the city of Anderson in 1868
and 1869, and served as one of the school board
of that city; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat.
Nabers, Benjamin D., was a native of Ten-
nessee; received a common school education;
moved to Hickory Flat, Miss.; held several local
otters; elected a Representative from Mississippi
to the Thirty-second Congress as a Unionist; de-
feated as the Whig candidate for the Thirty-third
Congress; moved to Tennessee; Presidential elector
on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1861.
Naphen, Henry Francis, of Boston, Mass., was
born in Ireland August 14, 1847; came to Massa-
chusetts when a child; educated, in the public
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schools and under private tutors; obtained the
decree of bachelor of laws from Harvard Universitjr
in 1878; also attended a course in the Boston Uni-
versity Law School; admitted to the Suffolk bar in
1880, and devoted himself to the practice of his pro-
fession in Boston; elected a member of the school
committee of the city of Boston in 1882 for the
term of three years, and declined to be a candidate
for a second term; State senator in 1885 and 1886
from the fifth Suffolk district; appointed bail
commissioner by the justices of the superior court;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress and reelected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Nash, Abner, was born in Prince Edward
County, Va., August 8, 1716; received a liberal
education; studied and practiced law; moved to
North Carolina and served in the house of com-
mons in 1777, 1778, 1782, and 1785; governor of
North Carolina 1779-80; defeated for reelection;
Delegate from North Carolina to the Continental
Congress from 1782 to December 2, 1786, when he
died at New York on his way to Philadelphia.
Nash., Charles E., was a native of Opelousas,
La.; educated at New Orleans; bricklayer; private
in the Eighty-third Regiment United States Chas-
seurs d'Afrique April 20, 1863; promoted to ser-
geant-major; lost a leg at the storming of Fort
Blakeley; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; de-
feated for the Forty-fifth Congress.
Naudain, Arnold, was born near Dover, Del.,
January 6, 1790; graduated 'from Princeton College
in 1806; elected a United States Senator from Dela-
ware (vice Louis McLane, resigned) as a Whig,
serving from January 13, 1830, until June 16, 1836,
when he resigned; died at Odessa, Del., January
4, 1872.
Naylor, Charles, was born in Philadelphia
County, Pa., October 6, 1806; received a liberal
education; studied law, and in 1828 began prac-
tice at Philadelphia, Pa.; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty -fifth (vice F. J. Harper, deceased) and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig; captain of a
company of volunteers in the Mexican war; died
at Philadelphia, Pa., December 24, 1872.
Neal, Henry S. , of Ironton, Ohio, was born at
Gallipolis, Ohio, August 25, 1828; graduated from
Marietta College in 1847; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in 1851; elected to the State senate in
1861, and reelected in 1863; appointed consul to
Lisbon, Portugal, in 1869; by the resignation of
the minister resident became charg^ d'affaires m
December, 1869; in July, 1870, resigned and re-
turned to Ohio; elected delegate to the Ohio con-
stitutional convention in 1873; elected to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican; appointed Solicitor of the
Treasury by President Arthur, which position he
held until his successor was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Neal, John Randolph, was born in Anderson
County Tenn.; received his early education in the
common schools of Tennessee, and graduated from
Emorv and Henry College, Virginia m June,
1858; studied law, and admitted to the bar m 1860;
volunteered in the Confederate army as a private;
elected captain of a cavalry company, which after-
wards became a part of the Sixteenth Battalion
Tennessee Cavalry, and promoted to lieutenant-
colonel of the battalion; elected a member of the
house of representatives of Tennessee in Novem-
ber 1874, and of the Tennessee senate in Novem-
ber, 1878; elected speaker of the senate in January,
1879; elector on the Hancock and English ticket
in 1880; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Democrat; died March 26, 1889.
Neal, Lawrence Talbott, was born at Park-
ersburg, Va. (now West Virginia), September 22,
1844; received a classical education; moved to Chil-
licothe, Ohio, in 1864; studied law, and in 1866
admitted to the bar; held several local offices;
served in the State legislature 1867-68; declined a
reelection; elected prosecuting attorney of Ross
County, Ohio, in 1870, and resigned in October,
1872; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Neale, Raphael, was a native of St. Mary
County, Md., and resided at Leonardstown; re-
ceived a limited education; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Sijcteenth, Seventeenth,
and Eighteenth Congresses; died at Leonardstown
October 19, 1833.
Neece, William H., of Macomb, 111., was born
in what was then Sangamon County, now part of
Logan County, 111., February 26, 1831; his parents
moved to McDonough County in the same year,
where he was raised on a farm and educated in
the common schools; read law, and admitted to
the bar in 1858; elected a member of the city
council of Macomb in 1861; elected to the legisla-
ture of that State in 1864, and a member of the
constitutional convention in 1869; again elected
to the legislature in 1871, and in 1878 to the State
senate; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat, and to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat and Antimonopolist; after leaving Con-
gress resumed the practice of law; also devoted a
great part of his time to the raising of fine cattle.
Needham, James Carson, of Modesto, Cal.,
was born September 17, 1864, at Carson City, Nev. ,
in an emigrant wagon, his parents being at the
time en route across the plains to California; his
early education was received in the public schools
of California; graduated from the San Jose High
School, and subsequently took a collegiate course
at the University of the Pacific at San Jose, grad-
uating in the year 1886 with the degree of Ph. B. ;
entered the law department of the University of
Michigan and spent one year, at the end of Which
time he was appointed, under civil-service rules,
to a clerkship in the Adjutant-General's Office at
Washington, D. C. ; resigning from the War De-
partment, he returned to the University of Michi-
gan and completed his law course, graduating
with the class of 1889 with the degree of LL. B. ;
began the practice of law in November, 1889, at
Modesto; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and reelected to the Fifty -eighth Congress as a
Republican.
Neg'ley, James S., of Pittsburg, Pa., was born
in Allegheny County, Pa., December 26, 1826;
educated at the Western University; served in the
Mexican war in the Duquesne Grays, First Penn-
sylvania Volunteers; entered the Union Army as
brigadier-general April 19, 1861; commanded a
division in Patterson's command, three months'
service; took part in the battle of Falling Waters;
organized and equipped a brigade of infantry and
artillery for the West, and joined General Sher-
man October, 1861; participated in the Buell
campaign in Tennessee; defended Nashville in
1862, and received special commendation for this
service; promoted to major-general for distin-
guished services and gallantry on the field at the
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battle of Stone River; commanded a division and
took a prominent part in the campaigns of Tulla-
homa, Chattanooga, Alabama, and Georgia; suc-
ceeded Jay Cook as a member of the Board of
Managers of the National Home for Disabled Vol-
unteer Soldiers; elected to the Forty-first, Forty-
second, Forty-third, and Forty-ninth Congresses as
a Republican; after leaving Congress became en-
gaged in railroading; moved to New York.
Neill, Robert, of Bates ville, Ark., was born in
Independence County, Ark., November 12, 1838;
received a fair English education in the private
schools of the county, and took a course in land-
surveying under a competent tutor in Ohio in 1859 ;
elected county surveyor of his native county in
August, 1860, and served until he entered the Con-
federate army in May, 1861, as a private soldier in
Company K, First Regiment Arkansas Mounted
Riflemen, Gen. Benjamin McCulloch's brigade.
Army of the West; promoted to the grade of first
lieutenant in 1862, and to that of captain in 1863;
elected clerk of the circuit court of his county in
August, 1866, serving until ousted by reconstruction
in 1868; read law, licensed in 1868, and in active
practice from 1872; lieutenant-colonel of Arkansas
State guards 1874-1877, and brigadier-general of
State militia 1877-1882; delegate to the national
Democratic convention held in St. Louis June, 1888,
and vice-president of the convention for Arkansas;
elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-foUrth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Neilson, Joh.ii, was born near New Brunswick,
N. J., March 11, 1745; received a liberal education;
merchant at New Brunswick 1769-1775; entered
the Revolutionary Army as captain in 1775;
appointed colonel in 1775, and in September, 1780,
made deputy quartermaster-general for New Jer-
sey; Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental
Congress 1778-79; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention which ratified the Federal Con-
stitution; died at his home near New Brunswick,
March 3, 1833.
Nelson, Homer A. , was born at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., August 31, 1829; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.; judge of Dutchess County 1855-1862; colo-
nel of the One hundred and fifty-ninth New York
Volunteer Infantry in the civil war, resigning in
1863; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1867; secretary
of state of New York 1867-1870; elected a State
senator in 1881; appointed a member of the com-
mission to report a revision of the judiciary article
in the State senate in 1890; died at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., April 25, 1891.
Nelson, Hug'hi, was born in Virginia September
30, 1768; received a liberal education; speaker of
the State house of representatives; judge of the
general court; Presidential elector in 1809 on the
Pinckney ticket; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses,
resigning January 14, 1823, to become minister to
Spain, serving from January 15, 1823, to November
23, 1824; died at his home in Albemarle County
Va., March 18, 1836.
Nelson, Jeremiah., was born at Rowley, Mass.,
September 14, 1769; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1790; merchant at Newburyport, Mass. ;
held several local oflices; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Ninth Congress as a
Federalist; also elected to the Fourteenth, Fif-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Twenty-second Congresses; died at Newburyport,
Mass., October 2, 1838.
Nelson, John, was born at Frederick, Md.,
June 1, 1791; graduated from William and Mary
College in 1811; studied law and began practice in
his native town; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Seven-
teenth Congress; minister to Naples October 24,
1831, to October 15, 1832; Attorney-General of the
United States under President Tyler, 1843-1845;
died at Baltimore, Md., January 8, 1860.
Nelson, Knute, of Alexandria, Minn., was
born in Norway February 2, 1843; came to the
United States in July, 1849, and resided, in Chi-
cago, 111., until the fall of 1850, when he moved
to the State of Wisconsin, and from there to
Minnesota in July, 1871; private and noncom-
missioned officer in the Fourth Wisconsin Regi-
ment during the war of the rebellion; wounded
and taken prisoner at Port Hudson, La., June 14,
1863; admitted to the bar in the spring of 1867;
member of the assembly in the Wisconsin legisla-
ture in 1868 and 1869; county attorney of Douglas
County, Minn. , 1872-1874; State senator 1875-1878;
Presidential elector in 1880; member of the board
of regents of the State University from February
1, 1882, to January 1, 1893; member of the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses for
the Fifth district of Minnesota; elected governor
of Minnesota in the fall of 1892 and reelected in
the fall of 1894; elected a United States Senator as a
Republican for Minnesota January 23, 1895, for
the term commencing March 4, 1895, and reelected
in 1901.
Nelson, Rog'er (father of John Nelson), was
born at Frederick, Md., in 1735; received a liberal
education; served in the Revolutionary Army;
wounded at the battle of Camden and attained the
rank of brigadier-general: studied law, and began
practice at Frederick; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Eighth (vice Daniel Heister, deceased). Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses, serving until May
14, 1810, when he resigned to become associate
justice of the fifth judicial circuit of Maryland;
died at Frederick, Md., June 7, 1815.
Nelson, Thomas, was born at Yorktown, Va.,
December 26, 1 738; graduated from Trinity College,
in England; elected a member of the house of
burgesses while on his way home from England;
member of the first provincial convention at Wil-
liamsburg in 1774; Delegate from Virginia to the
Continental Congress 1775-1777; appointed com-
mander of the Virginia State forces in 1777; again
a Delegate to the Continental Congress 1779-80;
governor of Virginia 1781; died near Y'orktown,
Va., January 4, 1789.
Nelson, Thomas A. R. , was born in Roane
County, Tenn., March 19, 1812; received a liberal
education; studied law, and began practice at
Knoxville, Tenn.; Presidential elector on the
Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1848; appointed
commissioner to China March 6, 1851, but did not
go tnen, and resigned July 2, 1851; elected a Rep-
resentative from Tennessee to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Unionist; reelected to the Thirty-
seventh Congress, but prevented by the Confed-
erates from proceeding to Washington to take his
seat; delegate to the national Union convention
at Philadelphia in 1866, and to the national Demo-
cratic convention at New York July 4, 1868; died
at Knoxville, Tenn., August 24, 1873.
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Nelson, Tlioinas M., was born in Virginia in
1782; ret-eived a common school education; cap-
tain of the Tenth Regiment Infantry and major of
the Thirtieth and Eighteenth infantries in the war
of 1812; after the war reduced to captain, and re-
signed his commission May 15, 1815; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Fourteenth (vice
Thomas Gholson, deceased) and Fifteenth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; declined a reelection; died
near Columbus, Ga., November 10, 1853.
Nelson, 'William, was born at Clinton, N. Y. ,
June29, 1784; received a liberal education; studied
law, and in 1807 began practice at Peekskill, N. Y. ;
for thirty years served as district attorney for Put-
nam, Rockland, and Westchester counties; served
in both branches of the State legislature several
years; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses as a
Whig; died at Peekskill, N. Y., October 2, 1869.
Nes, Henry, was born at York, Pa., in 1799;
received a liberal education; studied and practiced
medicine; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-eighth Congress as an Inde-
gendent; elected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first
ongresses, serving until September 10, 1850, when
he died, at York, Pa.
Nesbitt, Wilson, resided at Spartanburg, S. C;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Fifteenth Con-
gress.
Nesmith., James W. , was born in Washington
County,, Me., July 23, 1820; moved with his par-
ents to New Hampshire, then to Ohio, and in 1843
to Oregon; received an. early education; United
States marshal for Oregon 1853-1855, when he re-
signed; appointed superintendent of Indian affairs
for Oregon and Washington Territories in 1857;
elected a United States Senator from Oregon, serv-
ing from 1861 to 1867; appointed minister to Aus;
tria, but his nomination was not confirmed; elected
a Representative from Oregon to the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat (vice J. G. Wilson, de-
ceased), serving from December 1, 1873, to March
3, 1875; died in Polk County, Oreg., June 17, 1885.
Neville, Josept, was born in 1730; served in
the Revolutionary Army; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Third Congress; died in
Hardy County, Va., March 4, 1819.
Neville, William, of North Platte, Nebr., was
born in Washington County, 111., December 29,
1843, and moved to Chester, in Randolph County,
in 1851 ; educated at McKendree College, Lebanon,
111. ; second sergeant Company H, One hundred
and fortv-second Illinois Infantry m the civil war;
elected to the Illinois legislature as a Democrat m
the fall of 1872; moved to Nebraska in May, 1874;
elected to the Nebraska legislature from Omaha in
the fall of 1876; moved to North Platte m April,
1877- elected judge of the thirteenth judicial dis-
trict for a four years' term in 1891; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Hon. W. L. Greene, and reelected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Populist.
Nevin, Botoert Murpliy, of Dayton, Ohio, was
born May 5, 1850, in Highland County Ohio;
went to the public schools in the town of Hills-
boro, Ohio, until the age of 14, when he entered
Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, graduat-
ing from that institution in June, 1868, and in 1871
was made master of arts by said college; came to
Dayton, Ohio, in July, 1868; admitted to the bar
May 10, 1871; elected prosecuting attorney of
Montgomery County in 1887; elected to the Fifty-
seventh and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
as a Republican.
New, Anthony, was born in Gloucester County,
Va., in 1747; received a limited education; studied
and practiced law; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Sev-
enth, andEighth Congresses as a Democrat; moved
to Kentucky and located at Elkton; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Twelfth,
Fifteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; died in Todd County, Ky., March 2, 1833.
New, Jeptha D. , was born at Vernon, Jennings
County, Ind. , November 28, 1830; educated at Ver-
non Academy and Bethany College, Virginia; stud-
ied law; elected mayor of Vernon when 21 years
of age; admitted to the bar and practiced until
1864, serving two years of that time as prosecuting
attorney; elected judge of the district court of com-
mon pleas in 1864 and served until the expiration
of his term in 1868, when he resumed practice;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-
fourth Congress, and unanimously renominated
for the Forty-fifth Congress, but declined the nom-
ination; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat;* elected judge of the sixth judicial cir-
cuit of Indiana in 1882 and served for six years;
elected by the State legislature as one of the
supreme court commissioners of Indiana in 1889;
appointed appellate judge in 1891; nominated by
the Democratic party as a candidate for supreme
judge in 1892, but died, July 9, 1892, before the
election.
Newberry, John S., was born at Waterville,
Oneida County, N. Y., November 18, 1826; moved
with his father's family to Michigan when a child,
residing successively at Detroit, Ann Arbor, and
Romeo; pursued his preparatory studies at Eomeo
Academy; entered the sophomore class of Miclii-
gan University and graduated in 1847 as valedic-
torian; spent two years in civil engineering on
railroads under Col. J. M. Berrien; studied law
at Detroit and admitted to the bar in 1852; made
the admiralty of the Western lakes and rivers a
specialty for seventeen years, and published the
first volume of admiralty reports of decisions of
cases arising on those waters; engaged in several
large manufacturing enterprises in 1864; declined
political honors of every kind previous to his elec-
tion as a Representative from Michigan to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican; died Janu-
ary 2, 1887.
Newberry, Walter C, of Chicago, 111., was
born at Sangerfleld, Oneida County, N. Y., De-
cember 23, 1835; received an academic education;
served during the war in volunteef' armies of the
United Statesas private, lieutenant, captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general
by brevet ; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as
a Democrat.
Newbold, Tbomas, was elected a Representa-
tive from New Jersey to the Tenth, Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses as a Democrat; died in Bur-
lington County, N. J., December 4, 1823.
Newcomb, Carman A., was born in Mercer /
County, Pa., July 1, 1830; received a liberal edu-(;; - /
cation; studied law and admitted to practice; '
moved to Iowa, where he was a judge for five ^^
years; moved to Missouri and resumed practice; ;
served in the Missouri legislature 1865-66; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Fortieth
Congress as a Radical.
716
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Newell, William A., was born at Franklin,
Ohio, September 5, 1819; graduated from Butgers
College in 1836; studied medicine and began prac-
tice at AllentoTvn, N. J. ; elected a Eepresentative
from New Jersey to the Thirtieth and Ihirty-first
Congresses as a Whig; governor of New Jersey
1856-1860; delegate to the national Republican
convention at Baltimore in 1864; elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican; defeated
for the Fortieth Congress; defeated as Republican
candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1877;
died at AUentown, N. J., August 8, 1901.
Newhard, Peter, was a native of AUentown,
Pa., received a liberal education; studied and
practiced law; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Newlands, Francis G., of Reno, Nov., was
born at Natchez, Miss., August 28, 1848; entered
the class of 1867 at Yale College and remained
until the middle of his junior year; later on at-
tended the Columbian College Law School at
Washington, but prior to graduation was admitted
to the bar by the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, and went to San Francisco, where he
entered upon the practice of the law; continued
in the active practice of his profession until 1886,
when he became a trustee of the estate of William
Sharon, formerly United States Senator from the
State of Nevada; became a citizen of the State of
Nevada in 1888; engaged actively in the agitation
of the silver question, and was for years vice-
chairman of the national Silver committee; also
active in the irrigation development of the arid
region and other questions relating to the West;
nominated by the Silver party of Nevada for
member of Congress in 1892, receiving also the
nomination of the Silver, Republican convention
of that State; elected to the Fifty-third Congress
as a Silver party man; reelected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses; elected a United States Senator, and took
his seat March 4, 1903.
Newman, Alexander, was bom near Orange,
Va., in 1806; received an academic education; held
several local offices; elected to the Virginia legis-
lature in 1836; postmaster at Wheeling 1845-1849,
when he resigned; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-first Congress, but did not
take his seat; died at Pittsburg in July, 1849.
Newman, Daniel, was a native of North Caro-
lina; received a liberal education; ensign of the
Fourth United States Infantry; promoted to be
first lieutenant in 1799, and resigned January 1,
1802; commanded the Georgia volunteers in the
Creek war 1812-1814; major-general of militia;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Twenty-second Congress as a State Rights Demo-
crat; died in Walker County, Ga., January 16,
1851.
Newsham, Joseph Parkinson, was born at
Preston, Lancashire, England, May 24, 1837; re-
ceived a limited education; studied law and prac-
ticed at St. Louis, Mo. ; served in the Union Army
on the staffs of General Fremont and General
Smith; adjutant of the Thirty-second Missouri
Volunteer Infantry, and resigned July 4, 1864;
moved to Louisiana in 1864; held several local
offices in Louisiana during the reconstruction of
the State; established the Feliciana Republican;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Fortieth Congress as a Republican; claimed to
have been elected to the Forty-first Congress, but
the certificate was given to his opponent, Michael
Ryan, Democrat, and after a contest the seat was
given to Joseph P. Newsham, on May 23, 1870,
when he was sworn in.
Newton, Cherubusco, of Bastrop, La., was
born in the State of Louisiana May 15, 1848; re-
ceived an academic education; taught school, dur-
ing which time he read law; admitted to the bar in
1870 and entered upon the practice of his profession
in Louisiana; formed a law partnership with Col.
William J. Hall in 1873, which partnership con-
tinued till the death of Colonel Hall in 1884;
elected to the State senate in 1879 and served four
years; declined a judgeship in 1885, preferring to
remain in active practice; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat.
Nevrton, Eben, was born at Goshen, Conn.,
October 16, 1795;' received a limited education;
moved to Portage County, Ohio; studied law and
in 1823 began practice at Canfield, Ohio; State
senator in 1842; judge of the third judicial circuit;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig; defeated for reelection;
president of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Rail-
road Company 1856-1859.
Newton, Thomas, was bom at Norfolk, Va.,
in 1769; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice at Norfolk; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six-
teenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses as a Demo-
crat, serving from December 7, 1801, to March 9,
1830, when the House gave his seat to George
Loyall, who had contested it; again elected to the
Twenty-second Congress; died at Norfolk, Va.,
August 5, 1847.
Newton, Thomas Willoughby, was born at
Alexandria, Va., January 18, 1803; received a
limited education; moved in 1820 to Arkansas and
located at Little Rock; moved to Shelby County,
Ky., and returned to Little Rock in 1837 and be-
came cashier in a bank; elected a Representative
from Arkansas to the Twenty-ninth Congress (vice
Archibald Yell, resigned) ; died at New York in
1853.
Newton, Willoughby, was a native of West-
moreland County, Va. ; received a limited educa-
tion; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig.
Niblack, Silas L. , was elected a Representa-
tive from Florida to the Forty-second Congress,
having successfully contested the seat of Josiah T.
Walls, and served from January 29, 1873, to March
3, 1873; defeated as the Democratic candidate at
large for the Forty-third Congress.
Niblack, William E. , was born at Vincennes,
Ind., May 19, 1822; received a classical education;
studied law and practiced; served several terms in
both branches of the State legislature; circuit judge
1854-1857, when he resigned, having been elected
a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-fifth
Congress (vice James Lockhart, deceased) as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress;
elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortietli, Forty-first,
Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; delegate
to the Democratic national convention at Chicago
in 1864, at New York in 1868, and at St. Louis in
1876.
BIOGRAPHIES.
717
Nicholas, Jolm, was bom at Williamsburg,
Va., January 19,1761; received a common school
education; elected a fiepresentative from Virginia
to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses
as a Democrat; moved to Geneva, N. Y. ; member
of the New York State senate 1806-1809; died at
Geneva, N. Y., December 31, 1819.
Nicholas, Robert Carter, was born at Hanover,
Va., in 1793; graduated from William and Mary
College; served in the war of 1812 as captain and
major; moved to Louisiana and became a sugar
planter; secretary of state of Louisiana; elected a
United States Senator from Louisiana (vice C. A.
E. Gayarre, declined), serving from 1836 to 1841;
died in Terrebonne Parish, La., December 24, 1857.
Nicholas, Wilson Carey, was born at Hanover,
Va. , about 1757 ; graduated from William and Mary
College; served in the Revolutionary Army; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention which
ratified the Federal Constitution; elected a United
States Senator from Virginia (vice Henry Taze-
well, deceased) as a Democrat, serving from Jan-
uary 3, 1800, to 1804, when he resigned; collector
of the port at Norfolk 1804-1807; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Tenth and Eleventh
Congresses, serving from October 26, 1807, to No-
vember 27,1809, when he resigned; governor of
Virginia 1814^1817; died at Milton, Va., October
10, 1820.
NichoUs, John C. , was born at Clinton, Jones
County, Ga., April 25, 1834; educated at William
and Mary College, Virginia; by profession a law-
yer, also a planter; soldier in the Confederate army
during the entire war; member ol the national
Democratic convention that nominated John C.
Breckinridge for President; member of the State
constitutional convention of 1865; elector of the
First districtof Georgia on the Seymour and Blair
ticket of 1868; elected to the Georgia senate in 1870
and served five years, and while a member of that
body served as chairman of the committee to in-
vestigate the affairs of Governor Bullock; delegate
to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis
in 1876; elected a Reprorentative from Georgia to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat; died December 25, 1893.
Nichols, John, of Raleigh, N. C, was born in
Wake County, N. C, November 14, 1834; received
a common school education; when 15 years of age
apprenticed to the printing business, serving a full
term of six years; when 21 years of age attended
Lovejoy Academy for one year; for a number of
years engaged in the book and job printing busi-
ness and newspaper publishing; principal of the
North OaroHna Institute for the Deaf and Dumb
and the Blind 1873-1877; revenue-stamp a^ent at
Durham, N. C, 1879-1881; appointed postmaster
at Raleigh, N. C, in May, 1881, and removed by
President Cleveland in May, 1885; secretary and
treasurer of the State Fair Association for a num-
ber of years; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as an
Independent; chief of the division of mail flies
' and records of the Treasury Department during
President Harrison's Administration- resigned
July 1, 1893; returned to Raleigh, N. C, and for
one year was in the internal-revenue oflice.
Nichols, Matthias H., was bom at Sharps-
town, N. J., October 3, 1824; received a limited
education; printer; moved to Ohio in 1842; studied
law, and in 1849 began practice at Lima, Ohio;
prosecuting attorney for Allen County; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-third,
Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, September
15, 1862.
Nicholson, Alfred O. P. , was born in William-
son County, Tenn., August 31, 1808; graduated
from Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, in
1827; studied law, and in 1831 began practice at
Columbia, Tenn.; edited the Western Mercury at
Columbia 1832-1835; member of the State house
of representatives 1833-1839; appointed a United
States Senator from Tennessee (vice Felix Grundy,
deceased) as a Democrat, serving from January
11, 1841, to March 3, 1843; edited the Nashville
Union 1844-1846; elected a United States Senator
from Tennessee, serving from December 5, 1859,
to March 3, 1861, when he retired, but was ex-
pelled July 11, 1861; appointed chief justice of
the supreme court of Tennessee ; died at Columbia,
Tenn., March 23, 1876.
Nicholson, John, was born at Herkimer, N. Y.,
in 1765; received a limited education; studied and
practiced law; held various local offices; elected
a Representative from New York to the Eleventh
Congress as a Democrat; died at Herkimer, N. Y.,
January 20, 1820.
Nicholson, John A., was born at Laurel,
Del., November 17, 1827; received a liberal edu-
cation; superintendent of free schools for Kent
County in 1851; studied and practiced law; elected
a Representative from Delaware to the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Nicholson, Joseph Hopper, was born in Mary-
land in 1770; received a liberal education; studied
and practiced law; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth
Congresses as a Democrat, serving from December
2, 1799, to March 1, 1806, when he resigned; chief
justice of the sixth judicial district; judge of the
court of appeals; died in Maryland March 4, 1817.
NicoU, Henry, was born at New York, October
23, 1812; graduated from Columbia College in
1830; studied law and began practice in New York;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1847; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat.
Niedringhaus, Frederick G., of St. Louis,
Mo., was born at Ltiebbecke, Westphalia, North
Germany, October 21, 1837, where he received a
common school education; placed in his father's
shop, and trained in general mechanics, particular-
ly in glazing, painting, and the tinner's trade;
emigrated to the United States at the age of 18,
arriving at St. Louis in November, 1855, where he
sought employment at the tinner's bench; after
six months his brother William joined him, and
they worked together two years at the bench, sav-
ing enough money during this time from their
rapidly increasing w^es to start a business of
their own; this was a success from the beginning,
and soon after two branches were started; being
general mechanics, they turned their attention
particularly to manufacturing, and in 1862 began
the stamping of tinware, etc.; in 1866 the busi-
ness was incorporated under the name of St. Louis
Stamping Company, of which Frederick G. was
president; in 1874 they invented what is called
"granite ironware;" in 1881 they established ex-
tensive rolling mills, which, with their factory,
employed about 1,200 people; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Republican.
Niles, Jason, was electedaRepresentativefrom
Mississippi to the Forty-third Congress as a Re-
publican; defeated for reelection.
718
CONGRESStONAL DIRECTORY.
Niles, John Milton, was bom at Windsor,
Conn. , August20, 1787; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Hartford, Conn. ;
established the Hartford Times; county judge
1821-1826; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1826; postmaster at Hartford in 1829;
appointed a United States Senator from Connecticut
(vice Nathan Smith, deceased) as a Whig, and
subsequently elected, serving from December 21,
1835, to March 3, 1839; Postmaster-General 1840-
41; again elected a United States Senator, serving
from 1843 to 1849; died at Hartford, Conn., May
31, 1856.
Niles, Nathaniel, was born at South Kingston,
E. I., April 3, 1741; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1766; studied law and practiced; studied
theology and preached; moved to Orange County,
Yt. ; member of the State house of representatives
in 1784 and served as its speaker; judge of the
supreme court for several years; elected a Bepre-
sentative from Vermont to the Second and Third
Congresses; died at Fairlee, Vt., October 31, 1828.
Nisbet, Eugenius A. , was born at Union Point,
Ga. , December 7, 1803; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Macon, Ga. ;
member of the State house of representatives; de-
feated as the Whig candidate for the Twenty-fifth
Congress; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Whig; judge of the supreme court of
Georgia; died at Macon, Ga., March 18, 1871.
Niven, Archibald C. , was a native of New
York; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Nixon, John T. , was born at Fairtou, Cumber-
land County, N. J., August 81, 1820; graduated
from Princeton College in 1841; studied law and
began practice at Bridgeton, N. J. ; member of the
State house of representatives from New Jersey to
the Thirty -sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as
a Repubhcan; appointed United States judge for
the district of New Jersey in 1870; died at Stock-
bridge, Mass., September 28, 1889.
Noble, David A., was a native, of Massachu-
setts; graduated from Williams College in 1825;
studied law and began practice at Monroe, Mich.;
held several local offices; elected a Representa-
tive from Michigan to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-fourth Congress.
Noble, James, was born at Battletown, Ya.,
about 1790; moved to Kentucky, and afterwards to
Indiana; received a limited education; elected a
United States Senator from Indiana, serving from
December 12, 1816, to February 26, 1831, when he
died, at Washington, D. 0.
Noble, "Warren P., was born in Pennsylvania
.Tune 14, 1821; received a limited education; moved
to Ohio and studied law; began practice at Tiffin,
Ohio; held several local offices; member of the
State house of representatives 1856-1860; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh
and Thirty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Noble, William H. , was born m New York in
1788; resided at Cato; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection; died at Rochester, N. Y.,
February 5, 1850.
Noel, -Thomas E. , was born at Perry ville. Miss. ,
April 3, 1839; received a common school educa-
tion; studied law and in 1858 began practice at
Perryville; captain in the Nineteenth Infantry,
U. S. Army, in 1862, and resigned in 1863; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses as a Radical; died at St.
Louis, Mo., October 4, 1867.
Noell, John W. , was born in Bradford County,
Ya., February 15, 1816; received a liberal educa-
tion; moved in 1832 to Missouri; studied law and
began practice at Perryville, Mo.; held several
local offices; State senator for four years; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses; died at
Washington, D. C, March 14, 1863.
Nolan, Michael N., of Albany, N. Y., was born
in Ireland May, 1834; came to this country at the
age of 10 years and educated in the public schools
of Albany; studied law; president and treasurer of
the Beverwyck Lager Beer Brewing Company;
director of the National Savings Bank of Albany;
fire commissioner of Albany for ten years; elected
mayor of the city of Albany in 1878; reelected in
1880, and again reelected in 1882 while serving as
a member of Congress; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat.
Noonan, Edward T. , of Chicago, 111., was born
at Macomb, 111., October 23, 1861; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1882; received the degree of
LL. B. from the University of Michigan in 1883;
member of the State senate of Illinois 1890-1894;
one of the "101" who voted nine weeks for Gen.
John M. Palmer for Senator; colonel on the staff
of Governor Altgeld 1893-1897; annually elected
attorney for the board of West Chicago park com-
missioners 1893-1898; elected a member of the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Noonan, George H. , of San Antonio, Tex.,
was born in New Jersey, and, after attaining his
majority, emigrated in 1852 to Texas, located in
Medina County, and practiced law until elected
judge of the district court in 1862; held the office
of judge continuously from that time to the pres-
ent; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; after leaving Congress resumed the
practice of law.
Norcross, Amasa, was born at Rindge, N. H.,
January 26, 1824; received an academic education;
studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1847; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives of the
Massachusetts legislature in 1858, 1859, and 1862,
and of the State senate of Massachusetts in 1874;
assessor of internal revenue for the Tenth Congres-
sional district from August, 1862, until May, 1873,
when the office was abolished; mayor of the citv of
Fitchburg in 1873 and 1874; elected to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses as
a Republican; died in Paris, France, April 2, 1898.
Norris, Benjamin W. , was born at Mon- ,
mouth. Me., in 1819; graduated from Colby Uni-
versity in 1843; merchant; delegate to the Free
Soil convention at Buffalo in 1848; held several
local offices; delegate to the national Republican .
convention at Baltimore in 1864; paymaster in the
Union Army 1864-65; became a planter in Ala-
bama after the war; member of the constitutional
convention of Alabama in 1868; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Fortieth Congress
as a Republican; died at ^lontgomerv, Ala»,
I January 27, 1873.
BIOGRAPHIES.
719
Norris, Moses, was born at Pittsfield, N. H.,
November 8, 1799; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1828; studied law and commenced
practice at Barnstead; served two terms in the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty Tninth Congress; again a member of the
State house of representatives in 1847 and chosen
speaker; elected to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1849, until he died, at
Washington, D. 0., January 11, 1855.
North, William, was born at Fort Frederick,
Pemaquid, Me., in 1755; aid-de-camp to Major-
General Baron de Steuben in the Kevolutionary
Army; appointed United States Senator from New
York (vice John S. Hobart, resigned), serving from
May 21, 1798, to March 3, 1799; appointed adjutant-
general of the Army with the rank of brigadier-
general, and served from 1798 to 1800; died at
Duanesburg, N. Y., January 3, 1836.
Northway, Stephen A. , was born at Christian
Hollow, Onondaga County, N. Y., June 19, 1833;
moved in 1840 with his parents into the township
of Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio; educated in
the district school, Kingsville Academy, and
Orwell Academy; taught school to procure means
with which to prosecute his studies; began the
study of law in 1858 and admitted to the bar in
1859; elected prosecuting attorney and located in
Jefferson in 1861; reelected prosecuting attorney
in 1863; elected to the State house of representa-
tives in 1865 and served two years; devoted him-
self to his law business till elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses; died September
18, 1898.
Norton, Daniel S. , was born at Mount Vernon>
Ohio, April 12, 1829; received a classical education,
and graduated from Kenyon College, Ohio; served
in the Mexican war; after the war returned to
Ohio and studied law; began practice in 1852;
moved to Minnesota and practiced; served six
years in the Minnesota State senate; elected a
United States Senator from Minnesota as a Union
Conservative, and served from March 4, 1866, to
July 14, 1870, when he died at Washington, D. C.
Norton, Ebenezer F. , was a native of Buffalo,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; studied and
practiced law; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
first Congress as a Democrat.
Norton, Elijah H. , was born in Logan County,
Ky., November 24, 1821; received a liberal educa-
tion'; studied law and began practice at Piatt City;
moved to Missouri; judge of the circuit court of
Missouri 1852-1860; elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Democrat.
Norton, James, of Mullins, S. C, was born
October 8, 1843, in Marion County, S. C. ; received
an academic education; left school in 1861 to enter
the Confederate army; served through the war in
the Army of Northern Virginia; more than bnce
wounded, a minie ball at one time passing
through the body and right lung; from this wound
he had sufficiently recovered to be able to return
to the army just in time, with Petersburg, to be
captured; after the war reentered school, but did
not finish regular course; elected county school
commissioner in 1870 and reelected 1872; served
as a member of the house of representatives of
■ South Carolina 1886-87 and 1890-91; elected
comptroller-general of the State 1894 and reelected
1896, which office he resigned to accept a seat in
the Fifty-fifth Congress; won the nomination for
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of John L. McLaurin, and elected as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Norton, James Albert, of Tiffin, Seneca County,
Ohio, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, Novem-
ber 11, 1843; educated in the Tiffin schools; en-
listed in United States service in August, 1862,
sergeant Company K, One hundred and first Ohio
Volunteer Infantry; prompted to first lieutenant
and adjutant One hundred and twenty-third
United States Colored Infantry in 1864; mustered
out of service at close of the war, in 1865; be-
gan the practice of medicine in 1867; continued
that profession until 1879; admitted to the bar in
1879; served six years in the Ohio house of repre-
sentatives 1873-1879; speaker pro tempore of that
body for two years; appointed commissioner of
railroads and telegraphs by Governor James E.
Campbell, and served in that capacity during
Governor Campbell's and part of the first term of
Governor McKinley's administration, when he
resigned to accept position in railroad service;
elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Norton, Jesse O. , was a native of Vermont;
graduated from Williams College, in Massachusetts ;
moved to Illinois; studied law and in 1840 began
practice at Joliet, 111. ; member of the State con-
stitutional convention in 1847; member of the
State house of representatives in 1851-52; elected
a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-third
and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Republican;
judge of the eleventh district of Illinois 1857-1862;
elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress; delegate to
the national Union convention at Philadelphia in
1866; died at Chicago, 111., Augusts, 1875.
Norton, Nelson I., was born in Cattaraugus
County, N. Y., March 30, 1820; received a limited
education; farmer; held several local offices; mem-
ber of the State assembly in 1861; Presidential
elector on the Grant and Wilson ticket in 1872;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-fourth Congress (vice A. F. Allen, deceased)
as a Republican.
Norton, Klchard Henry, of Troy, Mo., was
born at Troy, Lincoln County, Mo., November 6,
1849; educated at the St. Louis University, where
he took the classical course; graduated from the
law department of Washington University, St.
Louis, in the class of 1870, and practiced his pro-
fession; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second Congress;
on leaving Congress he devoted his time to practic-
ing law and farming.
Norvell, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pa. , in
1790; printer; received a limited education; moved
to Michigan and located at Detroit; postmaster at
Detroit; elected a United States Senator from
Michigan as a Democrat, serving from January 26,
1837, to March 3, 1841; died at Detroit, Mich.,
April 11, 1850.
Norwood, Thomas M., of Savarmah, Ga., was
born in Talbot County, Ga., April 26, 1830; re-
ceived an academic education at Culloden, Monroe
County, Ga. ; graduated from Emory College,
Oxford, Ga., in 1850; studied law, and admitted
to practice in February, 1852; moved to Savannah
in March, 1852, where he practiced law; member
of the Georgia legislature in 1861-62; elected
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alternate Democratic elector for the State at large
in 1868 on the Seymour and Blair ticket; elected
to the United States Senate in November, 1871;
after a contest for his seat with Foster Blodgett he
was admitted to his seat December 19, 1871, and
served until March 3, 1877; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress and reelected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress aa a Democrat.
Nott, Abraham, was born at Sayljrook, Conn.,
in 1767; graduated from Yale College in 1787;
went to Georgia, and subsequently to Camden,
S. C, in 1789; studied law, and in 1791 admitted
to the bar; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Sixth
Congress aa a Federalist; resumed the practice of
law at Columbia in 1804; preaident of the court of
appeals in 1824; died June 19, 1830, at Fairfield,
S. C.
Nourse, Amos, was born at Bolon, Mass., De-
cember 17, 1794; graduated from Harvard College
in 1812; studied medicine, and practiced at Bath;
medical lecturer at Bowdoin College 1846-1854;
held several local ofBces; appointed a United
States Senator from Maine (vice Hannibal Hamlin,
resigned), and served from January 24, 1857, to
March 3, 1857; judge of probate of Sagadahoc
County; died at Bath, Me., April 17, 1877.
Noyes, John, was born in 1763; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1795; held several local
offices in Vermont; elected a Representative from
Vermont to the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist.
Noyes, Joseph C, was born at Portland, Me.,
in 1798; received a limited education; merchant
at Eastport; State representative in 1833; elected
a Representative from Maine to the Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig; moved
to Portland and engaged in the banking business;
died at Portland, Me., July 21, 1868.
Nuckolls, Stephen F., was born in Grayson
County, Va., August 16, 1825; received a liberal
education; moved to Missouri in 1846 and became
a merchant; moved to Nebraska Territory in 1854;
held several local ofiices; served in the Nebraska
legislature in 1859; moved to Colorado Territory
in 1860 and engaged in mining; moved to New
York City in 1864; moved to Dakota Territory in
1867 and located at Cheyenne, and in 1869, upon the
organization of Wyoming Territory, was elected
a Delegate from Wyoming to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Nuckolls, William C. , was a native of South
Carolina; graduated from the South Carolina Uni-
versity in 1820; studied law and began practice at
Spartanburg, S. 0. ; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Twentieth, Twenty-first,
and Twenty-second Congresses.
Nugen, Robert H. , was bom in Washington
County, Pa., in 1809; moved with his parents to
Ohio in 1811 and located in Columbiana County,
and in 1828 moved to Tuscarawas County; received
alimited education; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Nunn, David A. , was bornin Haywood County,
Tenn., in 1835; received a classical education;
studied law and began practice at Brownsville; a
Presidential elector on the Bell ticket in I860, and
in 1864 on the Republican ticket; served as a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1866-67;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to tte
Fortieth Congress as a Republican; defeated as the
Independent Republican candidate for the Forty-
first Congress; elected to the Forty-third Congress
and again defeated for the Forty-fourth Congress.
Nute, Alonzo, of Farmington, N. H., was born
at Milton, N. H., February 12, 1826; educated in
the common schools; at the age of 16 moved to
Natick, Mass. ; returned to New Hampshireinl848,
where he engaged in the manufacture of boots and
shoes at Farmington; in the spring of 1861 entered
the Union Army in the Sixth New Hampshire
Volunteers, and served until incapacitated for
duty, on the staffs of Generals Griffin and Rush
Hawkins; elected a member of the New Hamp-
shire house of representatives in 1866, and of the
State senate for 1867-68; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Cincinnatiin 1876 ; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Nutting, Newton. W. , was born at West Mon-
roe, Oswego County, N. Y., October 22, 1840; re-
ceived an academic education at Mexico, Oswego
County, N. Y. ; studied law; admitted to the bar,
and has since practiced; a member of the school
committee of the second district of Oswego County,
N. Y., from January 1, 1864, to January 1, 1867;
district attorney of Oswego County from January
1, 1869, to January 1, 1872; county judge of Os-
wego County from January 1, 1878, to March 4,
1883, when he resigned, having been elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; died
October 16, 1889.
Nye, James W., was born in Madison County,
N. Y., June 10, 1815; received a common school
education; studied law and practiced; held several
local offices; defeated as the Antislavery candidate
for the Thirty-ninth Congress; moved to Syra-
cuse, N. Y. ; appointed governor of Nevada Terri-
tory in 1861; elected a United States Senator from
Nevada as a Republican and reelected, serving
from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 1873; a short
time after leaving the United States Senate his
reason became impaired, and he died at White
Plains, N. Y., December 25, 1876.
Oakley, Thomas Jackson, was bom in Dutch-
ess County, N. Y., in 1783; graduated from Yale
College in 1801; studied law and began practice at
Poughkeepsie; surrogate of Dutchess County
1810-11; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist; a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1816,
1818-1820; attorney,-general of New York State;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twentieth Congress as a Clinton Democrat, but
resigned, after serving one year, to become judge
of the superior court of the State of New York,
which position he held until 1836; chief justice of
the supreme court of New York State 1846 until
he died at New York City, May 12, 1857.
Gates, William C, of Abbeville, Ala., was born
in Pike (now Bullock) County, Ala., November
30, 1835; self-educated; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1858; also to some extent engaged in
farming and milling business; entered the Confed-
erate army as captain of Company G, Fifteenth
Alabama Infantry, in July, 1861; appointed col-
onel in the provisional army of the Confederate
States for valor and skill displayed on the field,
May 1, 1863, and assigned to the command of his
old regiment; the Forty-eighth Alabama Regiment
was also placed under his command; wounded
four times slightly and twice severely, losing his
right arm in front of .Richmond; a delegate to the
national Democratic convention held in New York
in 1868 which nominated Seymour for the Presi-
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dency; member of the Alabama house of repre-
sentatives 1870-1872; unsuccessful candidate for
the nomination for governor in 1872; member of
the constitutional convention and chairman of its
judiciary committee in 1875; elected to the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; elected governor of Alabama in 1894;
brigadier-general of volunteers in the Spanish war
and stationed at Camp Meade, Pa. ; resigned and
resumed the practice of law.
O'Brien, James, of New York, N. Y., was born
m Kings County, Ireland, March 13, 1841; received
a common school education ; elected alderman of
the city of New York in 1864 and reelected in 1866;
elected sheriff of the city and county of New York
in 1867; elected State senator in 1871 as an Inde-
pendent Democrat; independent candidate for
mayor of the city of New York in 1873, but was
unsuccessful; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as an Anti-Tammany Democrat.
O'Brien, Jeremiah, was bom at Machias, Me.,
in 1768; received a limited education; farmer;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; de-
feated as a candidate for the Twenty-first Con-
gress; served six terms in the State legislature;
died at Boston, Mass., May 30, 1858.
O'Brien, William J. , was born at Baltimore,
Md., May 28, 1836; received a classical education;
studied law, and in 1858 began practice; held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Ochiltree, Thomas P., was the first native
Texan ever elected to the Congress of the United
States; attended the public schools; volunteered
in his 15th year as a private in Capt. John G.
Walker's company of Texan Rangers in the cam-
paign against the Apache tod Comanche Indians
in 1854-55; editor of the Jeffersonian in 1860-61;
a delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore conven-
tions of 1860; served with distinction in the Con-
federate army on the staffs Gen. Tom Green, Gen.
Dick Taylor, and General Sibley, and honorable
mention was made of his services under special
orders from Generals Longstreet, Taylor, Green,
and Sam. B. Maxey; after the cessation of hostili-
ties Colonel Ochiltree "accepted the situation" in
good faith, and was appointed United States mar-
shal of Texas by President Grant; editor of the
Houston Daily Telegraph in 1866-67; the author
of several pamphlets on Texas and her resources;
appointed commissioner of emigration to Europe
for Texas, and in that capacity paid .several visits
to the Continent; in the canvass of 1882 his Con-
gressional district embraced 37,600 square miles of
territory, containing 27 counties, reaching from
Galveston, on the Gulf, to Eagle Pass, on the Upper
Rio Grande; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as an Independent candidate ; moved to New York
City; died at Hot Springs, Va., November 25, 1902.
O'Connor, M. P., was born at Beaufort, S. C,
September 29, 1831; educated at and graduated
from St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y.; by pro-
fession a lawyer; served as a member of the State
legislature of South Carolina for seven years, from
1858 to 1865. having been four times reelected;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat,
and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress; died
April 26, 1881. ,
Odell, Benjamin B , jr., of Newburgh, N. Y.,
was born at Newburgh, January 14, 1854; educated
in the public schools, also at Bethany (W. Va. )
College and Columbia College, New York City;
in a commercial career, principally in the ice busi-
ness and electric lighting; for ten years represented
the Seventeenth district on the Republican State
committee and chairman of the executive commit-
tee; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress; elected governor of the State of New York
November, 1900, and reelected in 1902.
Odellj Moses P., was born at Tarry town, N. Y.,
February 24, 1818; received a liberal education;
merchant; served several years as entry clerk in
the New York custom-house and after securing
several promotions became public appraiser; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; appointed navy agent at the city of New York
in 1865; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., June 13, 1866.
Odell, N. Holmes, was born near Tarrytown,
N. Y., October 10, 1828; received a liberal educa-
tion; engaged in boating on theNorthRiver; served
several years in the State assembly; engaged in the
banking business atTarrytown; elected three times
county treasurer of Westchester County; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
O'Donnell, Jam.es, of Jackson, Mich., was born
at Norwalk, Conn., March 25, 1840; moved with
his parents to Michigan in 1848; enjoyed no edu-
cational advantages, but after commencing to learn
the printer's trade in 1856 made up this deficiency
by study after working hours; at the breaking out
of the war enlisted as a private in the First Michi-
gan Infantry, and served out his time, participat-
ing in the first battle of Bull Run; elected recorder
of the city of Jackson for four terms, 1863-1866;
established the Jackson Daily Citizen in 1865;
Presidential elector in 1872, and was designated
by the State electoral college as messenger to con-
vey the vote of Michigan to Washington; elected
mayor of Jackson in 1876 and reelected in 1877;
appointed in 1878 as aid-de-camp on the staff of
Governor Crosswell, with the rank of colonel;
elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
and Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican;
after leaving Congress he returned to Jackson,
Mich., and devoted his time to the publication of
the Jackson Daily Citizen, a newspaper he estab-
lished in 1864.
O'Perrall, Charles T. , of Harrisonburg, Va.,
was born in Frederick County, Va., October 21,
1840; at the age of 15 he was appointed clerk pro
tempore of the circuit court of Morgan County, Va. ,
to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of his
father, and at the age of 17 elected clerk of the
county court of this county for six years; in May,
1861, enlisted in the cavalry service of the Confed-
erate States as a private; passed through all the
grades of sergeant to colonel, and at the surrender
of Lee was in command of all the Confederate cav-
alry in the Shenandoah Valley; several times
wounded — once through the lungs; soon after the
close of the war studied law at Washington Col-
lege, Lexington, Va. ; graduated and located at
Harrisonburg; member of the general assembly of
Virginia 1871-1873; judge of the county court of
Rockingham County 1874-1880; Democratic State
canvasser 1880-1883; Democratic nominee for Con-
gress in the Seventh district in 1882, and according
to returns he received 11,941 votes against 12,146
votes for John Paul, the nominee of the Repub-
lican-Readjuster-Coalition party; contested upon
the ground of fraud and illegal voting, and was
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Feated by the Forty-eighth Congress May 5, 1884;
reelected to Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses; elected gov-
ernor of the State of Virginia August 17, 1893,
serving from January 1, 1894, to January 1, 1898.
Ogden, Aaron, was born at Elizabethtown,
N. J., December 3, 1756; graduated from Nassau
Hall in 1773; served in the Eevolutionary Army;
studied law and admitted to the bar; Presidential
elector in 1800; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey (vice James Schureman, re-
signed), serving from March 3, 1801, to March 3,
1803; governor of New Jersey in 1812; died at
Jersey City April 19, 1839.
Ogden, David A. , was a native of Morristown,
N. J. ; received a limited education ; studied law and
began practice at Madrid, N. Y. ; a member of the
state house of representatives 1814-15; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fifteenth
Congress; died at Montreal, Canada, June 9, 1829.
Ogden, Henry W. , of Benton, La., was born
at Abingdon, Ya., October 21, 1842; educated in
the common schools, working on his father's farm
in spring and summer and attending school in
winter; entered the Confederate service and served
through the war in the trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment; first lieutenant of Company D, Sixteenth
Missouri Infantry, and afterwards on the staff of
Brigadier-General Lewis, Second Brigade, Parsons'
division of Missouri Infantry; paroled at Shreve-
port on the 8th of June 1865; remained in Louisi-
ana and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member
of the constitutional convention in 1879 and of the
house of representatives 1880; reelected in 1884,
and was speaker of the house from 1884 to 1888;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat
to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of
N. C. Blanchard to be United States Senator; re-
elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-
gresses.
Ogle, Alexander (father of Charles Ogle and
grandfather of Andrew J. Ogle) , was born in Mary-
land, August 10, 1765; received a liberal education;
moved to Somerset, Pa.; member of the State
legislature of Pennsylvania 1806-1812; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth
Congress; died at Somerset, Pa., October 14, 1852.
Ogle, Andrew J., was born at Somerset, Pa.,
in 1822; received a liberal education; elected pro-
thonotary of Somerset County in 1843; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig; defeated for reelection
to the Thirty-second Congress; appointed charg^
d'affaires to Denmark January 22, 1852, but died
a few days later at Somerset, Pa.
Ogle, Charles, was born at Somerset, Pa., in
1798; received a hberal education; studied law and
began practice at Somerset; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig; reelected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress, but died, before he
took his seat, at Somerset, Pa., May 10, 1841.
Oglesby, Richard J., was born in Oldham
County, Ky., July 25, 1824; moved with his parents
in 1836 to Decatur, 111. ; received a limited educa-
tion; carpenter; studied law and in 1845 admitted
to practice; served in the Mexican war; spent two
years mining in California; returned to Illinois;
elected a State senator in 1860 and served one
session, when he resigned to enter the Union Army
as colonel; appointed brigadier-general, and in 1863
major-general, resigning in 1864; elected governor
of Illinois 1864-1869; again elected in 1872, but
resigned January 13, 1873, having been elected a
United States Senator from Illinois, and served
until March 3, 1879; died at Elkhart, 111., April 24,
1899.
O'Grady, James M. E., of Eochester, N. Y.;
was born at Eochester, N. Y., March 31, 1863;
educated in the Eochester schools; graduated from
the University of Eochester 1885; admitted as a
lawyer in the fall of 1885; school commissioner of
the city of Eochester from 1887 to 1892; member
of the New York State assembly from the second
Monroe district 1893-1898, and speaker of the
New York State assembly in 1897-98; elected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Eepublican.
O'Hara, James E., of Enfield, N. C, was bom
at New York City February 26, 1844; received an
academic education; studied law partly in North
Carolina and partly at Howard University; ad-
mitted to the bar of North Carolina in June, 1871;
engrossing clerk to the constitutional convention
of North Carolina in 1868; also to the legislature
of 1868-69; member of the State constitutional
convention of 1875; chairman of the board of
commissioners for the county of Halifax 1872-1876;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, but the cer-
tificate of election was given to W. H. Kitchin,
Democrat; elected almost without opposition to
the Forty-eighth Congress as a Eepublican, and
reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Ohliger, Iiewis P., of Wooster, Ohio, was
born at Eheinpfalz, Bavaria, January 3, 1843; em-
igrated to America October, 1854, and located at
Canton, Ohio, in 1857; moved to Wooster, Ohio,
'and engaged in the wholesale drug and grocery
business; elected county treasurer in 1875 and re-
elected in 1877; Democratic Presidential elector
in 1884; appointed postmaster of Wooster in No-
vember, 1885, and served until February, 1890;
appointed by Judges Dowell and Nicholas a trustee
of the Wooster and Lodi Railway; delegate to the
Democratic national convention in 1892; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of John G. War-
wick; took his seat December 5, 1892; internal
revenue collector of the Cleveland, Ohio, district
1893-1898.
Olcott, Simeon, was bom in Connecticut Octo-
ber 1, 1735; graduated from Yale College in 1761;
studied law, and began practice at Charlestown,
N. H. ; appointed chief justice of the court of com-
mon pleas in 1784; appointed judge of the superior
court in 1790, and in 1795 chief judge of the supe-
rior court; elected a United States Senator from
New Hampshire (vice Samuel Li vermore, resigned)
as a Federalist, serving from December 7, 1801, to
March 3, 1805; died at Charlestown, N. H., Feb-
ruary 22, 1815.
Olds, Edson B., was a native of Vermont;
received a liberal education; studied and practiced
medicine; served several years as a member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-second and
Thirty-third Congresses; defeated for reelection to
the Thirty-fourth Congress; arrested for disloyalty
and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette in 1862; while m
prison was elected a member of the Ohio State
house of representatives; died at Lancaster, Ohio,
January 24, 1869.
Olin, Abram B., was born at Shaftsbury, Vt.,
in 1808; graduated from AViUiams College, Massa-
chusetts, in 1835; studied law, and in 1838 began
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practice at Troy, N. Y. ; held several local offices;
elected a Renresentative from New York to the
Thirty-flfth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; a judge of the
supreme court of the District of Columbia 1865-
1878; died at Washington, D. C, July 7, 1879.
Olin, Grideon, was born in Rhode Island about
1750; moved to Vermont; received a limited educa-
tion; studied and practiced law; for several terms
a member of the State house of representatives and
one term as speaker; judge of the Bennington
County court; elected a Representative from Ver-
mont to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses; died at
Shaftsbury, Vt, August 6, 1822.
Olin, Henry, was born in Rhode Island in
1767; received a limited education; studied law
and practiced; a member of the State house of
representatives for several terms; delegate to the
State constitutional conventions of 1814, 1822, and
1828; associate judge of the Addison County court
1801-1806 and 1810-1824; elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Eighteenth Congress (vice
Charles Rich, deceased), serving from December
13, 1824, to March 3, 1825; died at SaUsbury, Vt.,
in 1837.
Oliver, Addison, was born in Washington
County, Pa., in 1833; graduated from Washington
College in 1850; moved to Arkansas, where he
taught school; returned to Pennsylvania; studied
law and admitted to the bar; began practice in
1857 in western Iowa; a member of the Iowa State
house of representatives in 1863 and the State sen-
ate in 1865; elected judge of the fourth judicial
circuit in 1868 and twice reelected; elected a Rep-
resentative from Iowa to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-iifth Congresses as a Republican.
Oliver, Andrew, was a native of Springfield,
N. Y.; graduated from Union 'College in 1835;
studied law, and in 1838 began practice at Penn
Yan; judge of the court of common pleas 1843-
1847; elected judge of the surrogate and county
courts in 1846; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; defeated as the American
candidate for reelection to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress.
Oliver, Mordecai, was born in Anderson
County, Ky., October 22, 1819; received a
common school education; studied law, and in
1842 began practice at Richmond, Mo.; circuit
attorney for the fifth judicial circuit of Missouri
in 1848; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty- third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as
a Whig.
Oliver, William M., was a native of Spring-
field, N. Y.; received a limited education; studied
law and began practice at Penn Yan; appointed
first judge of the court of common pleas for Yates
County in 1823, and reappointed in 1838; State
senator and lieutenant-governor in 1830; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Olmsted, Marlin Edgar, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
was born in Ulysses Township, Potter County, Pa. ;
educated in common schools and at Coudersport
Academy; at an early age appointed assistant cor-
poration clerk by Auditor-General (afterwards
Governor) Hartranft; one year later promoted to
corporation clerk, in charge of collection of taxes
from corporations under Pennsylvania's peculiar
revenue system; continued in same position by
Harrison Allen, auditor-general; read law at Har-
risburg; admitted to the bar of Dauphin County
November 25, 1878; to the bar of the supreme court
of Pennsylvania May 16, 1881, and to the bar of
the Supreme Court of the United States November
12, 1884; elected to represent Dauphin County in
the proposed constitutional convention in 1891;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
O'Neall, John H., of Washington, Ind., was
born near Newberry, S. C, October 30, 1838; left
an orphan at the age of 8 years; worked on a
farm till he was 21 years of age, attending the
country schools two and three months during the
winters; entered the Indiana State University in
1859, graduating therefrom in 1862; read law and
was admitted to the bar; graduated from the law
department of the Michigan University in 1864;
located in Washington the same year; represented
Daviess County in the State legislature in 1866;
appointed prosecuting attorney for the eleventh
judicial circuit in 1873; elected to the same office
in 1874, but resigned before his term was out;
elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses
as a Democrat; resumed the practice of law at
Washington, Ind.
O'Neil, Joseph H., of Boston, Mass., was born
at Fall River, Mass., March 23, 1853; received a
common school education; member of the Boston
school committee in 1875; member of the Massa-
chusetts house of representatives 1878-1882 and
1884; member of the board of directors for public
institutions for five years, the last eighteen months
being chairman of the board; city clerk of Boston
in 1887 and 1888; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
appointed assistant treasurer of the United States
at Boston by President Cleveland; president of the
Federal Trust Company of Boston.
O'Neill, Charles, was born at Philadelphia
March 21, 1821; graduated from Dickinson Col-
lege; studied and practiced law; a member of the
house of representatives of Pennsylvania in 1850-
1852 and 1860; member of the State senate of
Pennsylvania in 1853; elected to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-sev-
enth, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Republican; died at Philadelphia, Pa., November
25, 1893.
O'Neill, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 17, 1821; graduated from St. John's
College, Maryland; studied law, and in 1842 began
practice; moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, in
1844; elected prosecuting attorney for Muskin-
gum County in 1845; held various county offices;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat.
O'Neill, John J., was born June 25, 1846, of
Irish parents; received a common school education;
in the Government civil service during the war,
and afterwards engaged in manufacturing pursuits;
elected to the State legislature from St. Louis in
1872, and reelected in 1874 and 1876; elected to
the municipal assembly of St. Louis in 1879 and
reelected in 1881; elected to the Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-second Congresses
as a Democrat; Democratic nominee for the Fifty-
third Congress; according to the returns he re-
ceived 14,902 votes against 14,969 votes for Joy,
Republican, 241 votes for Follett, Populist, and 147
votes for Garrison, Prohibitionist; contested on
the ground of fraud and illegal voting and was
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seated April 3, 1894; resumed practice of law after
leaving Congress; died in 1898.
O'Reilly, Daniel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born
at the city of Limerick, Ireland, June 3, 1838; re-
ceived an academic education; arrived in this
country with his parents in July, 1856; settled in
Brooklyn, N. Y.; followed the business of city
weigher; elected, as an Independent Democrat, a
member of the Brooklyn board of aldermen for the
years 1873-74; reelected, as a regular Democrat,
for 1875, a one-year term; again elected alderman
for 1878-79 as an Independent Democrat; elected
to the Forty-sixth Congress.
Ormsby, Stephen, was bom in Virginia in 1765;
received a classical education; studied law and be-
gan practice in Kentucky; judge of the circuit
court; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Twelfth Congress; defeated for reelection to
the Thirteenth Congress by John Simpson, who
was soon afterwards killed; elected to the Thir-
teenth Congress; reelected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress; died at Louisville, Ky., September 6, 1846.
Orr, Alexander D. , was born at Alexandria,
Va., in 1765; moved to Mason County, Ky.; re-
ceived a limited education; served as a member of
the State house of representatives in 1792; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Second,
Third, and Fourth Congresses; died at Paris, Ky.,
June 21, 1835.
Orr, Benjamin, was born at Bedford, N. H.,
December 1, 1772; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1798; studied law and in 1801 began prac-
tice at Topsham, Me.; moved to Brunswick;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Fifteenth Congress; died at Brunswick, Me.,
September 5, 1828.
Orr, Jackson, was born at Fayette, Ohio, Sep- '
tember21, 1832; received a liberal education; mer-
chant; moved to Iowa and served as captain in
the Tenth Iowa Infantry in the Union Army;
member of the Iowa State legislature in 1868;
elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-
second and Forty-third Congresses as a Republican.
Orr, James L., was born at Claytonville, S. C,
May 12, 1822; received a classical education;
studied law and in 1843 began practice at Ander-
son, S. C. ; engaged in newspaper work; member
of the State house of representatives in 1844;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thir-
ty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; served in the Confederate Congress; elected
governor of South Carolina as a Republican;
United States circuit judge; delegate to the Re-
publican national convention at Philadelphia in
1864; minister to Russia; died at St. Petersburg,
May 6, 1873. "
Orr, Robert, was born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., in 1785; received a public school
education; served in the war of 1812; served two
terms as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Kittannine Pa
May 29, 1876. ^' ''
Orth., Godlove S., was born near Lebanon
Pa., April 22, 1817; educated' at Gettysburg Col-
lege, Pennsylvania; studied law and commenced
to practice in Indiana; member of the State
senate of Indiana in 1843-1848, serving one year
as president of that body; Presidential elector
m 1848; member of the peace conference in 1861;
served as captain of a company of volunteers dur-
ing the suppression of the rebellion; elected to
the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-
first, and Forty-third Congresses; upon the
adjournment of the Forty-third Congress was
appointed minister to Vienna; elected to the Forty-
sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republi-
can; died at Lafayette, Ind., December 16, 1882.
Oshorn, Thomas W. , was born at Scotch
Plains, N. J., Msfrch 9, 1836; moved with his
parents to New York in 1842, and located at
Wilna; received a classical education; studied and
practiced law; entered the Union Army as captain
in 1861; served until the close of the war, attain-
ing the rank of colonel; located in Florida, and
resumed the practice of law; held several local
offices; moved to Pensacola; elected United States
Senator from Florida as a Republican, serving
from June 80, 1868, to March 3, 1873.
Osborne, Edwin S., of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was
born at Bethany, Pa., August 7, 1839; educated at
the University of Northern Pennsylvania and at
the New York State and National Law School,
graduating in the class of 1860 with the degree of
LL. B.; by profession a lawyer; served m the
Union Army during the war; held the rank of
major-general, and was commander of the Depart-
ment of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, in 1883; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
and Fifty-first Congresses, as a Republican.
Osborne, John E., of Rawlins, Wyo., was
born at Westport, Essex County, N. Y., June 9,
1858; graduated from the high school of his native
town at the age of 18 years, after which he began
the study of medicine, and graduated from the
University of Vermont in the class of 1880;
moved to Rawlins, Wyo., immediately there-
after, and engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion; later engaged extensively in raising live stock
upon the open range; elected in 1883 to the Wyo-
ming Territorial legislature; appointed in 1888 by
Governor Moonlight to the position of chairman
of t^e Territorial penitentiary building commis-
sion; the same year elected mayor of the city of
Rawlins; selected as an alternate to the Democratic
national convention in 1892, and at the November
election of the same year was elected governor of
Wyoming; renominated by his party for a second
term, but declined the honor; chosen a member of
the bimetallic Democratic national committee for
the State of Wyoming in 1895; chairman of the
Wyoming delegation to the national convention at
Chicago in 1896; elected to the Fifty-fiftv Congress
as a Democrat.
Osborne, Thomas B., was born at Fairfield,
Conn., in 1797; graduated from Yale College in
1817; studied law and began practice at Fairfield,
Conn. ; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig;
moved to New Haven in 1848, and became professor
m the Yale Law School ; died at New Haven, Conn. ,
September 2, 1869.
Osgood, Gayton Pickman, was born at Salem,
Mass., July 4, 1797; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege m 1815; studied law and began practice in
Salem; moved to North Andover in 1819; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1«29-
1831; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; died
at Andover, Mass., June 26, 1861.
Osgood, Samuel, was born at Andover, Mass.,
February 14, 1748; graduated from Harvard Col-
BIOGEAPHIES.
725
lege m 1770; studied theology; merchant; served
several years as a member of the State house of
representatives; member of the provincial con-
gress; entered the Revolutionary Army as captain
and left the service as colonel and assistant quarter-
master; Delegate from Massachusetts to the Con-
tinental Congress ; first commissioner of the United
States Treasury 1785-1789; Postmaster-General
1789-1791; moved to New York City; member of
the State house of representatives 1800-1802 ; super-
visor of New York 1801-1803; naval officer at the
port of New York, where he died August 12,
1813. ^
Osmer, J. H., was born in England, January
22, 1833; emigrated to America with his parents
when a small boy and located at Harrisburg, Pa. ;
moved to Center County, Pa., a few years later;
received a limited education; worked on a farm;
taught school and eventually received an aca-
demic education; began the study of law in 1856,
and in 1858 admitted to the bar and began prac-
ticing at Elmira; moved to Franklin County in
1865; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Re-
publican; delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1876, but a severe illness prevented
him from attending; after the expiration of his
term in Congress he resumed the practice of law.
Otero, mariano S. , of New Mexico, was born
at Peralta, Valencia County, N. Mex., August 29,
1844; educated at the University of St. Louis, Mo. ;
engaged in commercial pursuits and stock raising;
probate judge from 1871 to 1879; nominated by
the Democratic convention as Delegate to the
Forty-fourth Congress, but declined; -elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican.
Otero, IfCiguel A., was born at Valencia, N.
Mex., June 21, 1829; graduated from St. Louis
■ University, Missouri; studied law, and in 1852
began practice at Albuquerque, N. Max.; a mem-
ber of the Territorial house of representatives;
declined the appointment of district attorney for
New Mexico; attorney-general for the Territory;
elected a Delegate from New Mexico Territory to
the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth
Congresses.
Otey, Peter J., was born at Lynchburg, Va.,
December 22, 1840; educated at the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute and graduated July 1, I860; while
a cadet he participated in the defense of Virginia
in the John Brown raid; on graduating he entered
the profession of engineering on the Virginia
and Kentucky Railroad; in April, 1861, he joined
the Confederate army and participated in the
Western campaign culminating at Fort Donelson
and Shiloh; returned with his command and was
with the Army of Northern Virginia and remained
in the infantry until the close of the war; organ-
ized and built the Lynchburg and Durham Rail-
road; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat;
died May 4, 1902, at Lynchburg, Va.
Otis, Harrison Gray, was born at Boston,
Mass., October 8, 1765; graduated from Harvard
College in 1783; studied law, and in 1786 was ad-
mitted to the bar and began practice at Boston;
served several years as a member. of the State
house of representatives and three years as speaker;
was State senator 1805-1811 and served as its pres-
ident; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses as a Federalist;
district attorney for Massachusetts; judge of the
court of common pleas 1814-1818; elected a United
States Senator as a Federalist, serving from 1817
to 1822, when he resigned; defeated as the Federal
candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1823;
mayor of Boston 1829-1832; died at Boston, Mass.,
October 28, 1848.
Otis, John, was born in Maine in 1801; gradu-
ated from Bowdoin College in 1823; studied law
and began practice at Hallowell; served several
years in both branches of the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Whig; died at Hallowell, Me. ,
October 17, 1856.
Otis, John Grant, of Topeka, Kans., was born
on a farm at Danby, Rutland County, Vt., Febru-
ary 10, 1838; took an academic course at Burr
Seminary, Manchester, Vt. ; attended one year at
Williams College, Massachusetts, and one year at
Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar of Rut-
land County, Vt., in the spring of 1859; moved to
Kansas in May same year and located at Topeka;
took an active part in recruiting the first colored
regiment of Kansas in 1862; member of infantry
company in Second Regiment of Volunteers at
time of Price raid; engaged in the dairy business
near Topeka; was a member of the Grange; mem-
ber of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union;
State agent of the Grange from 1873 to 1875, and
the State lecturer from 1889 to 1891; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a People's Party candi-
date.
Otis, Samuel Allyne (father of Harrison Gray
Otis), was born at Barnstable, Mass., November
24, 1740; graduated from Harvard College in 1759;
merchant in Boston; State representative in 1776;
member of the Massachusetts constitutional con-
vention; took an active part in Revolutionary
affairs; Delegate from Massachusetts to the Con-
tinental Congress 1787-88; for thirty years Secre-
tary of the United States Senate, and died, while
holding that position, at Washington, D. C. , April
22, 1814.
Otjen, Theobold, of Milwaukee, Wis., was born
at West China, St. Clair County, Mich., October 27,
1851; educated at the Marine City (Mich.) Acad-
emy and at a private school in Detroit; employed
as foreman in the rolling mill of the Milwaukee
Iron Company at Milwaukee from 1870 to the fall
of 1872; entered the law department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in October,
1873; graduated March 25, 1875, and admitted to
the bar at Ann Arbor; practiced law in Detroit
until the fall of 1883, when he moved to Milwau-
kee and engaged in the practice of law and in the
real estate business; elected a member of the com-
mon council of the city of Milwaukee in April,
1887; reelected for three successive terms, serving
seven years in all; trustee of the Milwaukee public
library from 1887 to 1891, and a trustee of the
Milwaukee public museum from 1891 to 1894;
candidate for comptroller of the dty of Milwaukee
in April, 1892, but defeated; elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Oury, Granville H. , of Florence, Ariz., was
born at Abingdon, Va. , March 12, 1825; emigrated
to Missouri in 1836; commenced the study of law
in 1846, and admitted to the bar at Bowling
Green in 1848; moved to Texas the same year,
and in 1849 emigrated to California, where for
some years was engaged in mining; took up his
residence in Arizona in 1856 ; commenced the prac-
tice of law in 1865; elected to the Territorial legis-
lature in 1866, 1873, and 1875; elected speaker of
the house the first two sessions; elected to the
726
CONGRESSIONAL DIBBOTORY.
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Outhwaite, Joseph H., of Columbus, Ohio, was
born in Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1841; edu-
cated in the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio,
taught two years in the high bchool of that city;
principal of a grammar school in Columbus, Ohio,
three years; read law while teaching, and admit-
ted to the bar in 1866; practiced law from 1867 to
1871 at Osceola, Mo. ; elected prosecuting attorney
of Franklin County, Ohio, in 1874, and again in
1876; appointed one of the trustees of the County
Children's Home from March, 1879, until July,
1883, and one of the trustees of the sinking fund
of the city of Columbus in 1883; reappointed in
1884 for a term of five years; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third
Congresses; appointed a member of the commis-
sion to codify the laws of the United States.
Outlaw, David, was a native of Bertie County,
N. C. ; graduated from the North Carolina Uni-
versity in 1824; studied law and began practice at
Windsor, N. C. ; served three years as a member
of the State house of representatives; held sev-
eral local ofiices; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and
Thirty-second Congresses as a Whig; defeated for
the Thirty-third Congress.
Outlaw, George, was a native of Bertie County,
N. C; received a liberal education; studied and
practiced law; elected a member of the house of
commons; member of the State legislature in
1796-97, and of the senate 1802, 1806-1808, 1810-
1814, 1817, 1821, and 1822; elected a Represent-
ative from North Carolina to the Eighteenth
Congress (vice H. G. Benton, resigned) serving
from January 19, 1825, to March 3, 1825; died
August 15, 1835.
Overstreet, James, was a native of Barnwell
District, S. C. ; received a liberal education; studied
and practiced law; held several local ofiices;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses; while
returning home from Washington, D. C., accom-
panied by his wife, he was taken ill on the road
near Salisbury, N. C, and died in a few hours,
April 24, 1822.
Overstreet, Jesse, of Indianapolis, Ind.,waa
born in Franklin, Ind., December 14, 1859; re-
ceived a common school and collegiate education,
graduating from the Franklin High School in 1877,
and from Franklin College, with the degree of
A. B., in 1882; received from his alma mater the
degree of A. M. in 1885; studied law under the
direction of his father, G. M. Overstreet, and his
partner, A. B. Hunter, and in 1886 was admitted
to the bar and entered the law firm of Overstreet
& Hunter, at Franklin; upon the death of Mr.
Hunter, August, 1891, he became full partner with
his father m the law firm of Overstreet & Over-
street; served as member of the Republican State
central committee of Indiana in the campaign of
1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Overton, Edward, jr., of Towanda, Pa., was
born at Towanda, Pa., February 4, 1836; gradu-
ated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1856;
admitted to the bar in May, 1858; entered the
Union Army in September, 1861, as major of the
Fiftieth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers;
promoted to heutenant-colonel in 1863, and from
that time commanded the regiment until mustered
out October, 1864; served as register in bankruptcy
from 1867 until elected, in 1876, to the Forty-fifth
Congress; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Overtoil, Walter H. , was born in Tennessee in
1783; received a public school education; entered
the Army May 3, 1808, as first lieutenant of infan-
try; promoted February 21, 1814, to be major of
the Third Rifles, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel;
resigned October 31, 1815 ; located in Louisiana and
became a planter; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Twenty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat; died near Alexandria, La., January 4, 1846.
Owen, Allen F., was a native of North Caro-
lina; moved to Talbotton, Ga. ; received a common
school education; held several local ofiices; elected
a Representative from Georgia to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Whig; consul-general to Habana.
Owen, George W., was born in Brunswick
County, Va., in 1798; received a liberal education;
moved to Mobile, Ala., and was mayor; elected a
Representative from Alabama to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; ■ collector
of the port of Mobile in 1829; died at Mobile, Ala.,
August 18, 1836.
Owen, James, was born in Bladen County,
N. C, December 7, 1784; received a limited edu-
cation; planter; member of the State house of
representatives 1808-1811; elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina to the Fifteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died at Wilmington, N. C,
September 4, 1865.
Owen, Kolbert Dale, was born at Glasgow,
Scotland, November 9, 1801; received a classical
education; came to this country with his parents
in 1823 and located at New Harmony, Ind., and
aided in the establishment of a social community;
was editor of the Free Enquirer, published at
New York 1828-1831; returned to New Harmony in
1832; a member of the State house of representa-
tives 1835-1838; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress;
defeated for reelection to the Thirtieth Congress;
appointed charge d'affaires at Nai)les in 1853, and
minister 1855-1858; became a spiritualist and lost
his reason; died at his summer home on Lake
George, June 25, 1877.
Owen, "William D., of Logansport, Ind., was
born at Bloomington, Ind.,' September 6, 1846;
minister of the Christian Church; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; elected
secretary of state on Republican ticket 1894.
Owens, George W., was a native of Georgia;
received a liberal education; studied law and be-
gan practice at Savannah; elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Twenty -fourth and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Unionist; died at
Savannah in 1856.
Owens, James "W. , of Newark, Ohio, was born
in Springfield Township, Franklin County, Ind.,
October 24, 1837; entered Miami I ^ni varsity at
Oxford, Ohio, in 1859, and graduated in 1862;
lawyer by profession; enlisted in the Army as a
private soldier in the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served during the first three months'
service; reenlisted and was made first lieutenant
Company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infan-
try, and on the reorganization of that regiment
was made captain of Company K; attended law
BIOGRAPHIES.
727
'Chool at Ann Arbor, Mich. ; elected prosecuting
attorney of Licking Countv, Ohio, in 1867, and
reelected in 1869; elected "to the Ohio senate in
1875, and reelected in 1877; elected president of
the senate; elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-
second Congresses as a Democrat.
Owens, "William Claiborne, of Georgetown,
Ky., was born in Scott County, Ky., October 17,
1849; graduated from the law department of Co-
lumbia College, New York, in 1872; elected county
attorney for Scott Count); in 1874, and resigned in
1877; served five terms in the Kentucky legisla-
ture, one term as speaker of the house of represent-
atives; Democratic elector in 1880, and delegate
from the State at large to the Chicago convention
in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
Owsley, Bryan Y. , was a native of Jamestown,
Ky.; received a common-school education; elected
a Eepresentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-
seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses as a Whig.
Paca, ■William, was born at Wye Hall, Md.,
October 31, 1740; graduated from Philadelphia
College in 1758; studied law in England and ad-
mitted to the bar; returned home and began
practice at Annapolis; member of the State house
of representatives 1771-1774; Delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1774-1779; State
senator 1777-1779; chief justice of Maryland
1778-1780; chief justice of the court of appeals
1780-1782; governor of Maryland 1782-1786; dele-
gate to the State convention in 1788; United States
judge for the district of Maryland from 1789 to
1799, when he died, at AVye Hall.
Pacheco, Komualdo, was born at Santa Bar-
bara, CaL, October 31, 1831; educated by private
tutors; engaged in nautical pursuits, subsequently
in agriculture; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1853; elected county judge in 1853,
serving four years; member of the State senate in
1851 and again in 1861; elected State treasurer in
1863; elected lieutenant-governor in 1871; became
governor when Governor Booth was elected to the
United States Senate; nominated on the Eepubli-
can ticket for the House of Representatives of the
Forty-fifth Congress, and, receiving the certificate
of election, took his seat as a member, but the
House subsequently declared Mr. Wigginton, his
competitor, elected; elected to the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Eepublican; minis-
ter to Guatemala under President Harrison; died
in January, 1899.
Packard, Jasper, was born in Mahoning
County, Ohio, February 1, 1832; accompanied his
parents to Indiana in 1835 and reared on a farm;
graduated from the University of Michigan in
1855; taught school; located at Laporte, Ind.;
studied law, and in 1861 admitted to the bar;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as a private and
mustered out in 1866 as a brigadier-general by
brevet for meritorious service; auditor of Laporte
County two years; elected a Eepresentative from
Indiana to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses as a Eepublican; died in
1899.
Packer, Asa, was born at Groton, Conn., De-
cember 29, 1806; received a public-school educa-
tion; moved to Springfield, Pa., in 1820; carpenter;
moved to Mauch Chunk in 1832; became largely
interested in the production of coal and in rail-
roads; member of the State house of representa-
tives; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses
as a Democrat; founded the Lehigh University;
delegate to the national Democratic convention at
New York in 1868.
Packer, Horace B. , of Wellsboro, Pa., was born
in Wellsboro, Pa. ; son of Dr. Nelson Packer; edu-
cated at Wellsboro Academy and Alfred Uni-
versity, New York; admitted to the bar and
practiced law; elected district attorney for three
yef.rs, and served one year by appointment just
prior to his election; elected to the Pennsylvania
house of representatives in 1884, and reelected
in 1886; elected to the State senate in 1888; pre-
sided over two Eepublican State conventions;
elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Eepublican.
Packer, John B. , was born at Sunbury, Pa.,
March 21, 1824; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced; district attorney 1845-
1847; served in the State legislature of Pennsyl-
vania 1850-51; elected a Eepresentative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-first, Forty-second,
Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses as a
Eepublican; declined a renomination; died at
Sunbury, Pa., July 7, 1891.
Paddock, Algernon S., was bom at Glens
Falls, Warren County, N. Y., November 9, 1830;
received an academic education; studied law;
moved to Nebraska in 1857; appointed Territorial
secretary Dy Abraham Lincoln in 1861, whichoffice
he held until the State was admitted into the
Union ; performed the duties of acting governor a
part of this time; elected to the United States Sen-
ate in 1875, holding that ofiice for six years; ap-
pointed a member of the Utah Commission in
June, 1882, by President Arthur, on which he
served until October 1, 1886, when he resigned;
elected to the United States Senate as a Eepubli-
can to succeed Hon. Charles H. Van Wyck, and
took his seat March 4, 1887, serving to March 3,
1893; died at Beatrice, Nebr., October 17, 1897.
Padgett, liemuel Phillips, of Columbia,
Tenn., was born November 28, 1855, at Columbia,
Tenn. ; attended the ordinary private schools of
the country till October, 1873, when he entered
the sophomore class of Erskine College, Due West,
S. C, graduating in 1876 with the degree of A. B. ;
began the study of law in September, 1876, in a
law office and licensed to practice in March, 1877,
but did not begin active practice until January,
1879, and since continued therein at Columbia;
one of the Democratic Presidential electors in
1884; elected to the State senate in 1898 and served
during the term; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
Page, Charles Harrison, of Scituate, E. I.,
was born at Gloucester, county of Providence,
E. I., July 19, 1843; attended the public schools
in winter and worked on a farm in summer until
he was 17 years of age; devoted all his time to
farming until he was 19 years of age, when he en-
listed as a private in Company A, Twelfth Eegi-
ment Ehode Island Volunteers; mustered out with
his regiment July 29, 1863, when he returned to
the farm and continued that business until 1868;
gave up farming and went to the State of Illinois,
where he resumed his studies at the Illinois State
Normal School at Bloomington, and the Southern
Illinois College at Carbondale; returning home to
Ehode Island in 1869, taught school in his native
town until the spring of 1870, when he entered the
law department of the University of Albany, in
New York, from which he graduated in 1871; ad-
mitted to the bar in the supreme court of New
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
York; returned to Bhode Island, and in 1872 was
admitted to the Ehode Island bar; elected to the
State house of representatives in 1872 and 1873 from
his native place ; elected to the State senate in 1874
and reelected in 1875; candidate for attorney-
general of the State in 1879 ; delegate to the national
Democratic convention in 1880 ; again elected to the
State senate in 1884; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention in 1884; nominated for Congress
in 1884, and, although his opponent was declared
elected by a small majority, he made a successful
contest and the seat was declared vacant; a special
election was ordered and he was elected by a plu-
rality of 295; took his seat and served about ten
days in the last session of Forty-ninth Congress;
elected to the State senate in 1885; delegate to the
national Democratic convention in 1888; again
elected to State senate in 1890; while a member of
the legislature served on important committees,
either judiciary or corporations; elected to Fifty-
second Congress at a special election; reelected to
Fifty-third Congress at a special election April 5,
1893.
Page, Horace Francis, of Placerville, Cal.7
was bom in Orleans County, N. Y., October 20,
1833; received a public school education; emigrated
to California in 1854; a stage proprietor and mail
contractor; unanimously nominated for the State
senate by the Republican convention of El Dorado
County in 1869, and defeated ; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses,
and reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress from the
Second Congressional district of the State of Cali-
fornia as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh Congress.
Page, Henry, of Princess Anne, Somerset
County, Md., was born in that county June 28,
1841; received his preparatory instruction at the
school of Anthony Bolivar, West Chester, Pa.;
entered the University of Virginia and remained
there parts of four years, leaving without complet-
ing the course upon the breaking out of the war
in 1861; entered upon the study of law, and ad-
mitted to the bar in 1864; began the practice of the
law in Princess Anne, in Somerset County; a mem-
ber of the constitutional convention in 1867, which
framed the present constitution of Maryland; ap-
pointed by the circuit court for Somerset County
State attorney for that county in 1870, to fill an
unexpired term; elected by the people to that
place in 1872, and by successive reelections in 1876
and 188Q; held the position until 1884; elector
at large on the Democratic ticket in 1888; elected
to' the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; re-
signed to become judge of the first judicial district
of Maryland.
Page, John, was born in Gloucester County,
Va., April 17, 1743; graduated from William and
Mary College in 1763; a Delegate to the Conti-
nental Congress in 1776; colonel in the Revolu-
tionary army; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the First Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Second, Third, and Fourth Con-
gresses; died at Richmond, Va., October 11, 1808.
Page, John, was born at Haverhill, N. H.,
May 21, 1787; received a liberal education; farmer;
held several local offices; member of the State
legislature several years; served five years as
register of deeds for Grafton County; elected a
United States Senator from New Hampshire (vice
Isaac Hill, resigned) , serving from June 13, 1836,
to March 3, 1837; several years State councilor;
governor of New Hampshire 1840-1842; died at
Concord, N. H., September 8, 1865.
Page, Maun, was born at Eosewell, Va., in
1749; a Delegate from Virginia to the Continental
Congress in 1777; died at Mansfield, Va.
Page, Robert, was born in Virginia in 1764;
received a limited education; a member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Sixth Congress as a
Federalist; died at Janesville, Va., January 1,
1840.
Page, Sherman, was a native of Connecticut;
attended the common schools; studied law and
practiced; moved to Unadilla, N. Y. ; a member
of the State house of representatives in 1827; judge
of the court of common pleas in Otsego Countyj
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at
Unadilla, N. Y.
Paige, David Raymond, was born at Madison,
Lake County, Ohio, April 8, 1844; graduated from
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1865; hard-
ware merchant; county treasurer four years 1875-
1879; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; died in New York City June 30, 1901.
Paine, Elijah, was born at Brooklyn, Conn.,
January 21, 1757; graduated from Harvard College
in 1781; studied law and began practice in 1784;
manufacturer; member of the constitutional con-
vention in 1786; member of the State house of
representatives 1787-1791 ; judge of the State su-
preme court 1791-1795; elected a United States
Senator from Vermont as a Federalist, serving
from 1795 to 1801 ; United States judge of the dis-
trict of Vermont from 1801 to April 28, 1842, when
he died, at Williamstown, Vt.
Paine, Ephraim, was a Delegate from New
York to the Continental Congress 1784-85.
Paine, HalbertE., was born at Chardon, Ohio,
February 4, 1826; graduated from Western Re-
serve College in 1845; studied law and in 1848
began practice at Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Mil-
waukee, Wis., in 1857; entered the Union Army
in May, 1861, as colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin
Volunteers; in January, 1863, promoted to the
rank of brigadier-general, and in the following
June lost his leg at Port Hudson; bre vetted major-
general in March and resigned in May, 1865;
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
as a Republican.
Paine, Robert T., was born at Edenton, N. C;
received a limited education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American.
Paine, Robert Treat, was born at Boston,
Mass., March 11, 1731; graduated from Harvard
College in 1749; studied theology; studied law, and
in 1759 began practice at Taunton; a member of
the colonial house of representatives in 1773; dele-
gate to the provincial congress 1774^75; Delegate
from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress
1774-1778; attorney-general of Massachusetts;
member of the executive council; delegate to the
constitutional convention in 1779; moved to Boston
in 1780; judge of the supreme court of Massachu-
setts 1790-1804; died at Boston, Mass., May 11,
1814. ' > y ,
Palen, Rufus, was a native of Sullivan County,
N. Y.; resided at Fallsburg, where he received
a limited education; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
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Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig; died at Albany,
N. Y., April 26, 1841. ■^'
Palfrey, John Gorham, was born at Boston,
Mass., May 2, 1796; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1815; studied theology and was ordained
minister of Brattle Square Church, Boston, June
17, 1818; editor of the North American Review
1835-1843; State representative 1842-43; secretary
of the State of Massachusetts 1844-1848; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig; defeated as the Free Soil can-
didate for reelection; postmaster at Boston 1861-
1866.
, Palmer, Beriah, was a native of New York;
received a public school education; studied and
practiced law; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1792-1795; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighth Congress.
Palmer, Frank W. , was born at Manchester,
Ind., October 11, 1827; received a limited educa-
tion; printer, and became editor of the Dubuque
Daily Times; elected State printer of Iowa in 1860,
1862, 1864, and 1866; edited the Iowa State Regis-
ter for a nvimberof years; elected a Representative/
from Iowa to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con-
gresses as a Republican; moved to Chicago, III.,
and became editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean;
postmaster at Chicago 1877-1882.
Palmer, George W. , wasbornatHoosick, N. Y.,
January 13, 1818; received a common school edu-
cation; studied law, and began practice at Platts-
burg; held several local oflSces; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Republican; delegate
to the national Republican convention at Baltimore
in 1864.
Palmer, Henry Wilber, of Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
was educated at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston,
Pa.; Fort Edward Institute, Fort Edward, N> Y.,
and the National Law School of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., graduating from the latter institution in/(
1860; admitted to the bar at Peekskill, N. Y., ih
1860, and at Wilkesbarre in 1861; served in the
Pay Department of the Union Army in the civil
war at New Orleans in 1862-63; member of the
constitutional convention of Pennsylvania in 1872-
73; attorney-general of the State from 1879 to
1883 ; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
■ Palmer, Jolin, was born at Hoosick, N. Y., in
1785; received a hberal education; studied law,
and began practice at Plattsburg in 1810; held sev-
eral local o£aces; elected aRepresenta:tivefromNew
York to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress; judge of Chnton .County
court; died December- 8, 1840.
Palmer, John McAuley, was born in Scott
County, Ky., September 13, 1817; moved with his
father to Madison County, 111., in 1831; attended
the common schools in Kentucky and Ilhnois,
and entered Alton (now Shurtleff) College m
1835, where he remained a year; taught school
and studied law in 1838; admitted to the bar in
December, 1839; elected probate judge of Macoupin
County in 1843 and 1848; member of the constitu-
tional convention of 1847; November, 1848, elected
county judge, which oflSce he held until 1852,
when he was elected to the State senate to fill a
vacancy; became an Independent candidate, lead-
ing the anti-Nebraska Democrats, and elected at
the session of the legislature in 1855; resigned
his seat in the senate; delegate to the Republican
State convention, and made its president; delegate
to the convention in 1856 in Philadelphia which
nominated John C. Fremont; one of the electors
at large on the Republican ticket in 1860, and
was elected; member of the peace conference at
Washington in 1861; had a long and honorable
civil-war record, serving as colonel, brigadier-
general, and major-general of volunteers; moved
to Springfield in 1867; elected governor of Illinois
in 1868; supported Horace Greeley in 1872 and
Samuel J. Tilden in 1876; one of the Democratic
visitors to Louisiana after the Presidential election
in 1876; delegate at large to national Democratic
convention in 1884; nominated by the Democrats
of the State a candidate for Senator in 1890; carried
the State by 30,000 plurality; 101 Democratic
members of the legislature were elected who voted
for him 153 ballots; on the 154th ballot the
Independents united with the Democrats, and he
was elected a United States Senator, serving until
March 3, 1897; resumed the practice of his pro-
fession; candidate for President as a Gold Demo-
crat in 1896; died at Springfield, 111., September
25, 1900.
Palmer, Thomas Witherell, of Detroit, Mich.,
was born there January 25, 1830; educated in the
public schools at Thompson's Academy at Palmer,
now St. Clair, Mich., and at the Michigan Univer-
sity; manufacturer and farmer; served on the
board of estimates of Detroit, and as State senator
in 1879-80; elected to the United States Senate as
a Republican, upon the eighty-first joint ballot of
the legislature, to succeed Hon. Thomas W. Ferry,
Republican, and took his seat December 3, 1883;
served until March 3, 1889; appointed United
States minister to Spain in 1889 by President Har-
rison, and two years later resigned; elected presi-
dent of the World's Columbian Exposition and
served throughout the entire exposition.
, Palmer, "William Adams, was born at Hebron,
Conn., September 12, 1791; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law, and began practice at Dan-
ville, Vt. ; served six years as member of the State
house of representatives, and two years as State
senator; served several years as clerk of the Cale-
donia County court; judge of the supreme court
1816-1818; elected a United States Senator from
Vermont (vice James Fisk, resigned), serving
from Octpber 18, 1818, to March 3, 1825; delegate
to the constitutional convention in 1828 and 1835;
governor of Vermont 1831-1835; died at Danville,
Vt., December 3, 1860.
Parke, Benjamin, was born in New Jersey,
September 2, 1777; received a limited education;
moved to that portion of the Northwestern Ter-
ritory which afterwards became the State of Indiana
in 1801; elected a Delegate from Indiana to the
Ninth and Tenth Congresses as a Democrat, serving
from December 12, 1805, to March 1, 1808, when he
resigned to become judge of the United States dis-
trict court; died at Salem, Ind., July 12, 1835.
Parker, Abraham X., of Potsdam, N. Y., was
born at Granville, Addison County, Vt. , November
14, 1831; a resident of St. Lawrence County, N. Y.,
over forty years; educated at St. Lawrence Acad-
emy and the Albany Law School, and, after being
admitted to practice, continued law studies at Buf-
falo and Syracuse; served in the New York assem-
bly 1863 and 1864, and asState senator in 1868-1871 ;
first elector at large on the Republican Presidential
ticket in 1876 ; secretary of the State Normal School
at Potsdam; received the honorary degree of A. M.
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from Middlebury College in 1880; elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fif-
tieth Congresses as a Republican; was First Assist-
ant Attorney-General for four years under Presi-
dent Harrison's Administration; returned to Pots-
dam, N. Y., where he resumed the practice of law.
Parker, Amasa J. , was born at Sharon, Conn. ,
inl807; graduated from Union College, New York;
studied law, and in 1828 began practice at Delhi,
N. Y. ; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1833, and a regent of the State University
in 1835; held several local offices; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Democrat; elected a justice of the
supreme court for the third district, 1847-1855;
appointed United States attorney for the district of
New York in 1859; died at Albany, N. Y., May 13,
1890.
Parker, Andrew, was a native of Mifilintown,
Pa.; received a common school education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Parker, Hosea W., was born at Dempster,
N. H., May 30, 1833; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and began practice in 1859; a
member of the New Hampshire State legislature
1859-60; moved to Claremont in 1860 and prac-
ticed his profession; delegate to the Democratic
national convention in 1868; elected a Representa-
tive from New Hampshire to the Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Parker, Isaac, was born at Boston, Mass., June
17, 1768; graduated from Harvard College in 1786;
studied law and began practice at Castine; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Fifth Congress; United States
marshal for the district of Maine; moved to Port-
land, Me. ; chief justice of the supreme court of
Maine 1814-1820; professor of law at Harvard Uni-
versity 1816-1827; died at Boston, Mass., May 26,
1830.
Parker, Isaac C. , was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, October 15, 1838; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and after being admitted to the
bar moved to Missouri in 1859 and began practice;
city attorney for St. Joseph, Mo., for three years;
served in the Union Army ; elected circuit attor-
ney in 1864 and resigned in 1867; elected circuit
judge for six years in 1868, but resigned in 1870;
elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses as a Re-
publican.
Parker, James, was born at Boston, Mass., in
1768; received a liberal education; studied medi-
cine and began practice at Gardiner, Me. (now
Massachuaette) ; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirteenth Congress as a
Democrat; elected to the Sixteenth Congress; died
at Gardiner, Me., November 9, 1837.
Parker, James, was born at Bethlehem, N. J.,
March 3, 1776; graduated from Columbia College,
New York, in 1793; moved to Perth Amboy in
1797; served eleven years as a member of the
State house of representatives; a Presidential
elector on the Jackson ticket in 1824; collector of
customs at Perth Amboy 1829-1833; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; served as a member of the different boundary
commissions to obtain a settlement of the boundary
question between New York and New Jersey;
delegate to the constitutional convention in 1844;
died at Perth Amboy, N. J., April 1, 1868.
Parker, John, was born at Charleston, S. C,
January 24, 1749; a Delegate from South Carolina
to the Continental Congress 1786-1788; died near
Charleston, S. C, April 20, 1822.
Parker, John Mason, was born at Granville,
N. Y., June 14, 1805; graduated from Middlebury
College, Vermont, in 1828; studied law and in
1830 began practice at Owego, N. Y.; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Whig.
Parker, Josiah, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a common school education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Congresses; died in Isle of Wight County, Va.,
March 21, 1810.
Parker, Nahum, was born in Cheshire County,
N. H., March 4, 1760; received a liberal educa-
tion; held several local offices; elected a United
States Senator from New Hampshire, serving from
October 26, 1807, to 1810, when he resigned; judge
of the court of common pleas for Hillsboro County
1822-1825; member of the State senate in 1828 and
its president; died at Fitzwilliam, N. H., Novem-
ber 12, 1839.
Parker, Kichard, was a native of Clarke County,
Va. ; received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Berry ville,Va. ; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; elected
judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
Parker, Richard E., was born in Westmore-
land County, Va., December 27, 1783; received a
public school education; studied law; admitted to
the bar and practiced; member of the State house
of representatives; for many years judge of the gen-
eral court and circuit court of Virginia; elected a
United States Senator from Virginia (in place of
Benjamin W. Leigh, resigned) ; served from Decem-
ber 15, 1836, to March 13, 1837, when he resigned,
having been elected by the legislature of Virginia
one of the judges of the court of appeals (in the
place of Tabney Carr, deceased); died at Rich-
mond, Va., September 6, 1840.
Parker, Richard Wayne, of Newark, N. J.,
was born August 6, 1848; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1867, and the law school of Colum-
bian College in 1869; admitted to the bar of New
Jersey in 1870, practicing with his father, Cort-
landt Parker; member of house of assembly 1885
and 1886; Republican candidate for the Fifty-
third, and elected to the Fifty-fourth. Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses, serving on the committees on Military Af-
fairs and the Judiciary.
Parker, Samuel W., was born in Jefferson
County, N. Y., September 9, 1805; graduated from
Miami University, Ohio, in 1828; studied law and
began practice at Connersville, Ind. ; held several
local offices; served in the Indiana State house of
representatives 1836-1841; State attorney for two
years; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses as
a Whig; Presidential elector 1844-1856.
Parker, Severn E. , was a native of Northamp-
ton County, Va. ; received a common school edu-
cation; studied and practiced law; held several
local offices, and served a number of years as a
BIOGRAPHIES .
731
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Six-
teenth Congress; died in Northampton Countv,
Va., October 21, 1836.
Parks, Gorham, was born in Massachusetts in
1793; graduated from Harvard College in 1813;
studied law and practiced at Bangor, Me.; held
several local oflaces; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; United States marshal
for ttie district of Maine 1838-1841; United States
attorney for the district of Maine in 1843 and re-
signed in 1845 to become United States consul at
Rio Janeiro, which position he held until 1849.
Parmenter, William, was born at East Cam-
bridge, Mass., March 30, 1789; received a liberal
education; held various local offices; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-
eighth Congresses; naval officer at the port of
Boston 1845-1849; died at East Cambridge, Mass.,
February 25, 1866.
Parrett, ■William F. , was born on a farm near
Blairsville, Posey County, Ind., August 10, 1825;
raised on the farm, attencling school in winter and
working on the farm in summer; completed a par-
tial course at Asbury (now De Pauw) University,
at Greencastle; began the study of law at Evans-
ville in 1847 and admitted to the bar after exam-
ination; remained in Evansville until 1852, when
he moved to Oregon, where he practiced law for
two years and a half, when he returned to Evans-
ville; moved to Boonville in 1855 and opened a
law office; Democratic Presidential elector for the
first district and cast the electoral vote of Indiana
for Buchanan in 1856; elected to the legislature in
1858 and served during the general and special
session; appointed by uovernor Willard judge of
the fifteenth circuit in 1859, to which position he
was elected for six years at the election following
his appointment; after his election returned to
Evansville; reelected for a term of six years in
1865; before the expiration of the second term
resigned; appointed judge of the first circuit by
Governor Hendricks in 1873 and elected to the
same position, and twice reelected, 1879 and 1884,
resigning the office in December, 1888; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second Congress; died at Evansville,
Ind., June 30, 1895.
Parris, Albion Keith., was born at Hebron,
Me., January 19, 1788; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1806; studied law and in 1809 began
practice at Paris, Me.; held several local offices;
served in both branches of the legislature; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Four-
teenth and Fifteenth Congresses as a Democrat,
serving from December 4, 1815, to 1818, when he
resigned; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1819; judge of probate for Cumberland
County in 1820; elected governor of Maine five
times and served from 1822 to 1827; United States
Senator from Maine, serving from December 3,
1827, to August 26, 1828, when he resigned; judge
of the supreme court of Maine 1828-1836; Second
Comptroller of the United States Treasury 1836-
1850; returned to Portland, Me.; mayor of the city
in 1852; died at Portland, Me., February 11, 1857.
Parris, Virgil Delphini, was a native of Maine;
received a liberal education; studied law and began
practice at Buckfield; member of the State house
of representatives 1833-1838; elected a Representa-
tive from Maine to the Twenty-fifth Congress (vice
T. J. Carter, deceased) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-sixth Ctongress; State senator in
1842^3, a part of the time as president pro tem-
pore and acting governor of the State; United
States marshal for the district of Maine 1844-1848;
died at Paris, Me., June 14, 1870.
Parrish,, Isaac, was a native of Ohio; resided
at Cambridge; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
again elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
Parrott, John F., was born in Greenland,
N. H., in 1768; received a common school educa-
tion; member of the State house of representatives;
held various local offices; defeated as the war can-
didate for the Thirteenth Congress; elected a Rep-
resentative from New Hampshire to the Fifteenth
Congress as a Democrat; elected a United States
Senator from New Hampshire, serving from 1819
to 1825; postmaster at Greenland, N. H., July 9,
1836.
Parrott, Marcus J., was born at Hamburg,
S. C, October 27, 1828; graduated from Dickinson
CoUege, Pennsylvania., m 1849; studied law and
began practice in Ohio; State representative 1853-
54; moved to Kansas and located at Leavenworth;
elected a Delegate from Kansas Territory to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Parsons, Edward Young', was bom in Mid-
dletown, Ky., December 12, 1842; received a clas-
sical education; studied law, and in 1865 began
practice at Henderson, Ky., but moved in a few
months to Louisville; never held a public office
until elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; died
before the expiration of his term, at Washington,
D. C, July 8, 1876.
Parsons, S.ichard C, was born at New Lon-
don, Conn., October 10, 1826; received a classical
education; moved to Ohio in 1846; studied law
and began practice in 1851; held various public
offices in Cleveland, Ohio; served several terms in
the State house of representatives, and one term
as speaker; declined the mission to Chile in 1861;
appointed consul at Rio Janeiro and resigned in
1862; collector of internal revenue at Cleveland for
four years; marshal of the Supreme Court of the
United States 1866-1872; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican, and defeated as the Republican candidate
for reelection.
Partridge, George, was born at Duxbury,
Mass., February 8, 1740; graduated from Harvard
College in 1762; studied theology; Delegate to the
Provincial Congress 1774-75; member of the State
house of representatives 1775-1779; Delegate from
Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1779-
1782 and 1783-1785; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the First Congress, resigning in
1790; died at Duxbury, Mass., July 7, 1828.
Partridge, Samuel, was a native of New York;
received a limited education; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Paschal, Thomas M., of Castroville, Tex., was
born at Alexandria, La. , December 15, 1845; moved
with his parents to Texas in the spring of 1846,
locating at San Antonio; sent to Danville, Ky., to
Centre College, April 4, 1861; graduated in class of
1866; returned to San Antonio; admitted to prac-
tice law in 1867; appointed city attorney of San
Antonio in 1867; appointed United States commis-
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sioner same year for west district of Texas; judge
of criminal district for San Antonio in 1868 and re-
signed same year; moved to Castroville in 1870,
and appointed same year to the office of district
attorney twenty-fourth district; moved to Brack-
ett, King County, in 1873, and practiced law till
1875, when elected judge twenty-fourth judicial
district, to which position he was reelected in 1880
and 1884; appointed by Governor Coke extradition
agent between the United States and Mexico in
1876, and reappointed by Governor Roberts in 1880 ;
returned to Castroville in 1875, and elected judge
of the thirty-eighth judicial district in 1888; inter-
ested in agricultural pursuits; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat ; resumed the practice
of law after leaving Congress.
Pasco, Samuel, of Monticello, Fla., was born
at London, England, June 28, 1834; when quite
young moved with his father to Massachusetts;
graduated from Harvard College in 1858, paying
his way by teaching school winters; went to Florida
in January, 1859, to take charge of the Waukeenah
Academy, near Monticello; entered the Confeder-
ate Army as a private in July, 1861; wounded and
captured at Missionary Ridge, and remained in
prison till March, 1865, when paroled; clerk of the
circuit court of his county 1866-1868, when ad-
mitted to the bar; elected a Democratic Presiden-
tial elector at large in 1880; president of the con-
stitutional convention in 1885; elected to the State
house of rejjresentatives in 1886; chosen speaker
at its organization in April, 1887; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
Charles W. Jones, and took his seat March 3, 1887;
reelected in 1893, serving until March 3, 1899; ap-
pointed a Nicaragua Canal commissioner in 1899.
Paterson, William, was born at sea in 1745;
graduated from Princeton College in 1763; studied
law and in 1769 began practice; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1776; attorney-
general of New Jersey 1776-1786; Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1780-81; elected a United
States Senator from New Jersey, serving from
March 4, 1789, to March 2, 1790, when he resigned;
governor of New Jersey 1791-1793; justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, serving from
March 4, 1793, until his death at Albany, N. Y.,
September 9, 1806.
Patten, JohnD., of Indiana, Pa., was elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat and
Greenbacker.
Patterson, David T., was born in Greene
County, Tenn., February 28, 1819; received a com-
mon school education; studied law and practiced;
engaged in manufacturing; elected a judge of the
circuit court in 1854 and 1862; elected a United
States Senator from Tennessee as a Conservative
serving from July 26, 1866, to March 4, 1869.
Patterson, George Robert, of Ashland, Pa.,
was born at Lewisto wn, Mifflin County, Pa. , Novem-
ber 9, 1863; educated in the public schools of that
place, and at Lewisto wn (Pa.) Academy; engaged
in mercantile pursuits after leaving school in 1880,
most of the time as a traveling salesman, first in
the hardware and afterwards in the flour and feed
busmess; agent for a Minneapolis mill, covering
territory in central Pennsylvania; elected to the
Intty-seventh Congress and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Republican.
Patterson, George W. , was born at London-
derry N. H., November 11, 1799; received a
liberal education; settled in Leicester, N. Y. in
1825 and engaged in farming and the manufacture
of farming implements; held several local offices;
eight years a member of the State legislature; two
years speaker of the house; moved to Chautauqua,
N. Y., in 1841; delegate to the national Repub-
lican conventions of 1856 and 1860; elected lieu-
tenant-governor of New York in 1848; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Republican.
Patterson, James W. , was born at Henniker,
N. H., July 2, 1823; received a classical education
and graduated from Dartmouth College; held sev-
eral local offices; member of the Stete house of
representatives in 1862; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress; elected a United States Senator
from New Hampshire, serving from 1867 to 1873;
professor at Dartmouth College; again a member
of the State house of representatives 1877-78; ap-
pointed State superintendent of public instruction
in 1885; died at Hanover, N. H., May 4, 1893.
Patterson, John, was a native of Tioga County,
N. Y.; received a common school education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Eighth Congress.
Patterson, Jolin, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, was
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Eight-
eenth Congress.
Patterson, John James, was born at Waterloo,
Pa., August 8, 1830; graduated from Jefferson Col-
lege, Pennsylvania, in 1848; engaged in editorial
work; for ten years editor of the Harrisburg Tele-
graph; engaged in banking; served several years
as a member of the State house of representatives;
served in the Union Army; moved to South Caro-
lina in 1869; elected a United States Senator from
South Carolina as a Republican, serving from
March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879..
Patterson, Josiah, of Memphis, Tenn., was
born April 14, 1837, in Morgan County, Ala.;
brought up on a farm; educated in the old field
schools, and attended for two years the Somerville
Academy; read law on his father's farm and ad-
mitted to practice in April, 1859; entered the
Confederate army in September, 1861, as first lieu-
tenant in the First Alabama Cavalry Regiment,
and in May, 1862, promoted to the rank of captain;
in December, 1862, promoted to the rank of colonel
and assigned to the command of the Kfth Alabama
Cavalry Regiment; comnianded a brigade of cav-
alry during the last year of the war; surrendered
the_ Fifth Alabama Cavalry Regiment May 19,
1865; returned to the practice of law and devoted
himself to his profession; located at Florence,
Ala., in January, 1867; located at Memphis,
Tenn., in March, 1872; elected to the lower
branch of the State legislature in 1882; elector on
the Democratic ticket in 1888; elected to the Fiftv-
second. Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses
as a Democrat; defeated for the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress as a Gold Democrat.
Patterson, Malcolm Rice, of Memphis, Tenn.,
was born at Somerville, Ala., June 7, 1861; grad-
uated with degree of M. A. from the Christian
Brothers' College, Memphis, and subsequently took
a special library course at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville; admitted to the bar in 1883; elected
district attorney for Shelby County in 1894 for a
period of eight years; resigned September 10, 1900,
after being nominated for Congress; elected to the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
BIOGBAPHIES.
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Patterson, Thomas, was a native of Lancaster
County, Pa.; received a liberal education; moved
to West Middleton; held several local oflaces;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Con-
gresses.
Patterson, Thomas J., was a native of New
York; resided at Rochester; received a public
school education; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
Whig.
Patterson, Thomas Macdonald, Democrat,
of Denver, Colo., was born in County Carlow, Ire-
land, November 4, 1840, and with his parents
came to the United States in 1849; received a com-
mon school education in New York City and
Astoria, Long Island; moved to Crawfordsville,
Ind., in 1853; worked in printing office there
three years, and at the bench as a watchmaker
and jeweler, for five years; entered Asbury, now
De Pauw, University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1862,
and later Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. ;
moved to Denver in 1872; elected city attorney in
the spring of 1874; elected the last Delegate to
Congress from the Territory of Colorado in 1874,
and elected Representative to Congress as a Demo-
crat from the State of Colorado in 1876; refused
to support Cleveland for President in 1892, and
aided in carrying Colorado for General Weaver;
united with, the People's Party in 1893, and dele-
gate to the Populist national convention in 1896,
and urged the nomination of both Bryan and
Stevenson by that body; elected a Bryan Presi-
dential elector in 1896; permanent chairman of the
national Populist convention of 1900; elected a
Bryan Presidential elector in 1900; elected to the
United States Senate January, 1901, by the joint
votes of Democrats, Silver Republicans, and Popu-
lists, and took his seat March 4, 1901 ; in his ac-
ceptance speech Mr. Patterson announced that he
would in the future act with the Democratic party.
Patterson, Walter, was a native of Columbia
County, N. Y. ; received a liberal education; re-
sided at Livingston, N. Y.; member of the State
house of representatives in 1818; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Seventeenth
Congress.
Patterson, William, was a native of Maryland;
moved to Mansfield, Ohio; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and practiced; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
Patterson, William, was born at London-
derry, N. H., June 4, 1789; in 1815 moved to
Genesee Valley, N. Y. ; received a liberal educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; served from
September 4, 1837, to August 18, 1838, when he
died.
Pattison, John M. , of Milford, Ohio, w^as born
in Clermont County, Ohio, June 13, 1847; entered
the Union Army at the age of 16 in 1864; gradu.
ated from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela-
ware, Ohio, in 1869; admitted to the bar of Hamil-
ton County, Cincinnati, in 1872; elected to the
State legislature from Hamilton County in 1873;
attorney for the committee of safety of Cincinnati
1874-187.6; elected vice-president and manager of
the Union Central Life Insurance Company of
Cincinnati in 1881 and president in 1891; elected
State senator to fill vacancy caused by the death
of Judge Ashbum, February, 1890; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Patton, David H. , of Remington, Ind., was
born in Fleming County, Ky., November 26, 1837;
educated at the Collegiate Institute at Waveland,
Ind. ; enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Indiana Regi-
ment in 1861, attaining the rank of colonel, and as
such mustered out with his regiment at the close
of the war; graduated from the Chicago Medical
College in 1867; practiced medicine; never held
any political office until elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat; moved to Oklahoma and
resumed the practice of medicine.
Patton, John, was born in Kent County, Del.,
in 1746; received a common school education;
served in the Revolutionary Army; Delegate from
Deleware to the Continental Congress 1785-86;
elected a Representative from Deleware to the
Third Congress, but unseated February 14, 1794,
when his seat was successfully contested by Wil-
liam Latimer; reelected to the Fourth Congress;
died at Dover, Del., June 17, 1801.
Patton, John, of Curwensville, Pa., was born
at Covington, Tioga County, Pa., January 6, 1823;
moved to Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa., in
1828; received a common school education; mer-
chant and lumberman 1844-1860; organized the
First National Bank of Curwensville m 1864 and
elected president; organized the Curwensville
Bank, which Succeeded the First National Bank,
and elected president; delegate to the national
Whig convention which met m Baltimore in 1852;
delegate to the Republican national convention
which met in Chicago in 1860; elected to the
Thirty-seventh Congress in 1860; Presidential
elector in 1864, and elected to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Republican.
Patton, John, jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
was born at Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa.,
October 30, 1850; prepared for College at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated from Yale
College in 1875; studied law at Columbia Law
School, New York City, graduating in 1877;
moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1878, and
practiced law; upon the death of Senator Francis
B. Stockbridge, April 30, 1894, appointed as a
Republican, May 5, 1894, by the governor of Mich-
igan, to serve as Senator until the election of a
successor by the legislature in January, 1895; took
his seat May 10, 1894, and served until January
15, 1895.
Patton, John Mercer, was born in Virginia
in 1796; graduated from Princeton College; grad-
uated from Philadelphia Medical College, but
never practiced; studied law and began practice
at Fredericksburg, Va.; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Twenty-first Congress (vice
P. P. Barbour, deceased) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congresses; moved to
Richmond, Va., and resumed practice; died at
Richmond, October 29, 1858.
Paul, John, of Harrisonburg, Va., was born in
Rockingham County, Va., June 30, 1839; received
a comnion school education; taught school in
Rockingham County in 1859-60; entered Roanoke
College, Virginia, in the fall of 1860, but left in
April, 1861, and entered the Confederate Army,
where he served during the war; after the war
studied law at the University of Virginia, gradu-
ating in the law class of 1867; elected Common-
wealth attorney of his native county in 1870, which
office he filled until 1877, when elected to the sen-
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CONGRESSIONAL BIEECTORY.
ate of Virginia; reelected to the senate in 1879;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Ee-
adjuster; reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress
, and unseated by C. T. O'Ferrall May 5, 1884; ap-
pointed judge of the. United States district court
for the western district of Virginia by President
Arthur.
Paulding, WilUam, was born at Tarrytown,
N. Y., in 1769; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at New York;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1821 ; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat; served in the
war of 1812 as brigadier-general; mayor of New
York City 1824-1826; died at Tarrytown February
11, 1854.
Pawling, Levi, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth Congress.
Payne, Henry B., of Cleveland, Ohio, was
born in Madison County, N. Y., November 30,
1810; educated at Hamilton College; studied law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice at
Cleveland in 1834; member of the State senate of
Ohio in 1849-50; Democratic candidate for the
United States Senatorship in the protracted con-
test of 1851, and for governor against Salmon P.
Chaseinl857; Presidential elector in 1848; dele-
gate to the national Democratic convention at
Cincinnati in 1856, and to that at Charleston in
1860 (and reported from the minority of the com-
mittee the resolutions which were adopted as the
platform), and was the chairman of the Ohio
delegation in the Baltimore convention in 1872;
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; member of
the Electoral Commission in 1876; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
George H. Pendleton, Democrat, and took his seat
March 4, 1885; served until March 3, 1891; died
at Cleveland, Ohio, September 9, 1896.
Fayne, Serene Elisha, of Auburn, N. Y., was
born at Hamilton, N. Y., June 26, 1843; graduated
from the university at Rochester in 1864; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1866, and practiced law at
Auburn; city clerk of Auburn 1868-1871; super-
visor of Auburn 1871-72: district attorney of
Cayuga County 1873-1879; president of the board
of education at Auburn 1879-1882; appointed a
member of the American-British joint high com-
mission in January, 1899; elected to the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; chairman Committee on Ways and Means
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Payne, William Winter, was born in Fauquier
County, Va., January 2, 1807; received a liberal
education; moved to Franklin County, Ala., in
1825; represented Franklin County in the State
legislature in 1831, and moved to Sumter County;"
elected a representative 1834-1838; defeated candi-
date for the State senate in 1839; again elected to
the State house in 1840; elected a Representative
from Alabama to the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-
eighth, and Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; moved to Virginia in 1847 and died there.
Paynter, Lemuel, was a native of Delaware;
received a common school education; moved to
Philadelphia, Pa.; held various local positions;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Paynter, Thomas H., of Greenup, Ky., was
born in Lewis County, Ky., December 9, 1851;
educated in the common schools of that county, at
Jacob Rand's Academy, and at Centre College,
Danville, Ky. ; lawyer, and engaged in his profes-
sion; appointed attorney for Greenup County in
1876, and held that office, under appointment,
until August, 1878, at which time elected to the
same office, which he held until 1882; elected to
the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Payson, Lewis E., of Pontiac, 111., was born
at Providence, R. I., September 17, 1840; moved
to Illinois in 1852; received a common school edu-
cation, with two years at Lombard University,
Galesburg, 111. ; studied law and admitted to the
bar at Ottawa, III., in 1862; moved to Pontiac in
January, 1865, and practiced law; judge of county
court 1869-1873; elected to the Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses as a Republican.
Peabody, Nathaniel, was born at Topstield,
Mass., March 1, 1741; received a liberal education;
studied medicine and began practice at Plaistow,
N. H., in 1761; resigned a royal commission to
enter the Revolutionary Army; elected a member
of the committee on safety January 10, 1776; ad-
jutant-general of the New Hampshire militia,
July 19, 1777, and commanded a brigade in Rhode
Island in 1779; Delegate from New Hampshire to
the Continental Congress 1779-80; member of the
State constitutional convention 1782-83; served
eight years as a member of the State legislature
and one year as speaker; died June 37,"l823, at
Exeter, N. H.
Pearce, Charles Edward, of St. Louis, Mo.,
was born at Whitesboro, Oneida County, N. Y.,
and subsequently became a resident in the city of
Auburn, county of Cayuga; educated at Fairfield
Seminary and Union College; enlisted in the Army
immediately after graduating; commissioned cap-
tain, Battery D, Sixteenth New York Heavy Artil-
lery, in 1863; promoted to the rank of major in
June, 1864; appointed to the staff of Maj. Gen.
A. H. Terry after the capture of Fort Fisher, and
on the occupation of Wilmington detailed as pro-
vost-marshal-general of the eastern district of
North Carolina; quit the Army in the fall of 1865;
settled in St. Louis in 1866, where he was admitted
to the bar, and began the practice of law in 1867;
retaining interest in military affairs, became com-
mander St. Louis National Guard in 1875; organ-
ized the First Regiment in 1877 and elected its
colonel; resigned in 1878; delegate to the Repub-
lican national convention of 1888, and advocated
the nomination of John Sherman as candidate for
President; appointed chairman Sioux Indian Com-
mission in 1891; went to India and Japan in 1894
to mvestigate the industries of the Orient; elected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Pearce, Dutee J., was born on the island of
Prudence, Rhode Island, April 10, 1789; graduated
from Brown University in 1808; studied law and
began practiceatNewport; held variouslocal offices;
Presidential elector onthe Monroe ticket in 1821;
several years a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Rhode
Island to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twentv-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Newijoft, R. I.,
May 9, 1849.
BIOGKAPHIE3.
735
Pearce, James Alfred, was bom at Alexan-
dria, Va., December 14, 1805; graduated from
Princeton Collea;e in 1822;' studied law, and in 1824
began practice at Cambridge, Md.; moved to
Louisiana in 1825 and engaged in planting; re-
turned to Kent County, Md., and resumed the
practice of law; served in the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Con-
gresses; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-sixth
Congress; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Whig; elected a United ' States Senator in
1843 as a Whig, and four times elected (the last
time as a Democrat), serving from March 4, 1841,
until December 20, 1862, when he died at Chester-
town, Md.
Pearce, Jolin J., was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; received a liberal education; ordained a
minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church when
only 18 years of age; continued in the ministry
as a member of the Wyoming and Philadelphia
conferences until 1854, when "eoted a Eepresenta-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as aWhig; declined a reelection.
Pearre, George Alexander, of Cumberland,
Md., was born at that city July 16, 1860; his early
education was had in private schools and at the
Allegany County Academy in Cumberland, whence
he went to St. James College, near Hagerstown,
Md., completing his education at Princeton Col-
lege and the University of West Virginia; studied
law for a year; entered the law school of the
Maryland University at Baltimore; received the
diploma of that institution and admitted to the
bar in 1882; in 1887 opened a law office in Cum-
berland; elected to the State senate in 1890,
and served in the sessions of 1890 and 1892; nom-
inated prosecuting attorney by the Eepublican
party in 1895 and elected; after a stubborn contest
in convention nominated, in 1898, on the one
thousand four hundred and seventy-fifth ballot as
the Eepublican candidate for Congress, and
elected; carried all the counties in the district for
the first time in its history, and Allegany County
by the largest majority it ever gave for a candidate,
except when his father was a candidate for judge;
carried the Democratic town of Cumberland by
over 600, also unprecedented in the history of
either party; reelected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Pearson, A. J. , of Woodsfield, Ohio, was born
at Centerville, Belmont County, Ohio, May 20,
1846; moved with his parents, at an early age, to
Beallsville, Monroe County, Ohio; educated in the
common schools of Beallsville and the ' Normal
School at Lebanon, Ohio; private soldier in Com-
pany I, One hundred and eighty-sixth Ohio Vol-
unteer Infantry during the civil war; read law;
admitted to the bar in September, 1868, and began
practice at Woodsfield; prosecuting attorney of
Monroe County for three successive terms; mem-
ber of the State senate for two years; probate
judge of Monroe County for six years; elected to
the Ffty-second Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-third Congress.
Pearson, Joseph, was a native of Salisbury,
N. C. ; received a liberal education; studied law,
and began practice at Salisbury; s'^rved two terms
in the house of commons of North Carolina;
elected a Eepresentative from North Carolina to
the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses
asaFederahst; while in Congress fought a duel with
Gen. J. C. Jackson, and on the second fire was
wounded; died at Salisbury, N. C, October 27, 1834.
Pearson, Kiclimond, of Asheville, N. C, was
born at RichmoncT Hill, N. C, January 26, 1852;
graduated from Princeton College in the class of
1872, delivering the valedictory oration; admitted
to the bar of North Carolina in 1874; in the same
year appointed United States consul to Verviers
and Liege, Belgium; resigned said oflSce in 1877;
member of the North Carolina legislature in 1885
and again in 1887; one of the originators of the
coalition which overwhelmed the Democratic
party in North Carolina in 1894; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as an Independent Protec-
tionist; reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses as a Eepublican, but in the Fifty-
seventh Congress the certificate of election was
given to William T. Crawford, Democrat; on a
contest was seated by the House May 10, 1900;
appointed United States consul to Genoa, Italy,
December 11, 1901; appointed by President
Eoosevelt in 1902 as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Persia.
Pease, Henry R., was born in Connecticut
February 19, 1835; received a liberal education;
taught school for eleven years; studied law and
practiced; entered the Union Army as a private
and attained the rank of captain; superintendent
of education of Louisiana while that State was
under military rule; appointed superintendent of
the education of freedmen in Mississippi in 1867;
elected superintendent of education of Mississippi
in 1869; elected a United States Senator from
Mississippi as a Eepublican (vice A. Ames, re-
signed) , serving from February 12, 1874, to March
3, 1875.
Peaslee, diaries Hazen, was born at Gilman-
ton, N. H., February 6, 1804; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1824; studied law and
began practice at Concord, N. H. ; served in the
New Hampshire State legislature; adjutant-general
of the militia; elected a Eepresentative from New
Hampshire to the Thirtieth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-
second Congresses; appointed collector of the port
of Boston in 1854; died at St. Paul, Minn., Sep-
tember 20, 1866.
Peck, Erasmus D., was born in Connecticut,
September 16, 1808; graduated from Berkshire
Medical College in 1829; moved to Ohio in 1830
and practiced medicine; served two terms in the
Ohio State legislature; elected a Eepresentative
from Ohio to the Forty-first Congress as a Eepub-
lican (vice T. H. Hoag, deceased) ; reelected to the
Forty-second Congress.
Peck, George W., was born in New York,
June4, 1818; received a classical education; moved
to Lansing, Mich. ; elected to the State house of
representatives in 1846 and 1847, serving as speaker
the last term; elected secretary of state of Mich-
igan; elected a Eepresentative from JMichigan to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection.
Peck, Jared V., of Port Chester, N. Y., was a
native of that State; received a common school
education; held several local offices; elected a
Eepresentative from New York to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Democrat.
Peck, Lucius Benedict, was born at Water-
bury, Vt., in 1804; received a classical education,
and attended the Military Academy at West Point
two years; studied law and began practice at
Barre, Vt., in 1826; moved to Montpelier, Vt.,
where he practiced his profession; elected a
Eepresentative from Vermont to the Thirtieth
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Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
first Congress; United States district attorney for
Vermont 1853-1857; president of the Vermont
and Canada Railroad; died at Lowell, Mass.,
December 28, 1866.
Peck, Luther C, was a native of Connecticut;
received a liberal education; moved to Pike, N. Y. ;
held various local offices; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whig- reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress;
diedatNunda, N. Y., February 16, 1876.
Peckham, Bufus "W., was born at Rensselaer,
N. Y., December 20, 1809; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practice at Albany,
N. Y.; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected a justice of the
supreme court for the third judicial district, and
served from 1861 to 1869; died at sea November
22, 1873.
Peddie, Thomas B. , was a native of Edinburgh,
Scotland; emigrated to America in 1833 and lo-
cated at Newark, N. J. ; received a libera? educa-
tion; engaged in manufacturing; served two terms
in the State legislature; twice elected mayor of
Newark; elected a Representative from New Jer-
sey to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Peek, Hermanus, was a native of Albany,
N. Y. ; moved to Schenectady, where he received
a liberal education; elected a Representative from
New York to the Sixteenth Congress.
Peel, Samuel W., of Bentonville, Ark., was
born in Iudej)endence County, Ark., September
13, 1832; received a common school education;
elected clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County,
Ark., in 1858 and again in 1860; entered the Con-
federate service in 1861 as a private, and elected
major of the Third Arkansas Infantry (State
troops) ; reentered th^ Confederate service in 1862
as a private, and elected colonel of the Fourth
Regiment Arkansas Infantry; at the close of the
war commenced the practice of law in the State
courts; appointed prosecuting attorney of the
fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas in 1873; upon
the adoption of the new constitution in 1874,
elected to the same place; elected to the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-
second Congresses as a Democrat.
Peelle, Stanton J., of Indianapolis, Ind., was
born near Richmond, Wayne County, Ind., Feb-
ruary 11, 1843; educated in the common schools
and seminaries of Indiana; lawyer by profession;
enlisted in Company G, Eighth Ilegiment Indiana
Volunteers, August 5, 1861, and served until De-
cember 10, 1862, when promoted to a second lieu-
tenantcy in Company K, Fifty-seventh Indiana
Infantry Volunteers, and served until mustered
out by reason of expiration of term of service;
deputy district attorney of Marion County, Ind.,
for two years; member of the Indiana State house
of representatives 1877-1879; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican; claimed to have
been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress, but
his seat was given to William E. English May 22,
1884.
Peery, William, was a Delegate from Delaware
to the Continental Congress 1785-86.
Peflfer, William Alfred, of Topeka, Kans., was
born on a farm in Cumberland County, Pa. , Sep-
tember 10, 1831; attended a public school; began
teaching at the age of 15 years; taught during the
winter and farmed in summer; moved to Indiana
June, 1853, and opened a farm in St. Joseph
County; moved to Missouri September, 1859, and
purchased a farm in Morgan County; because of
the war moved to Illinois February, 1862, and en-
listed as a private in Company F, Eighty-third
Illinois Infantry the following August; promoted
to second Ueutenant March, 1863; served as regi-
mental quartermaster and adjutant, post adjutant,
judge-advocate of a military commission, and
depot quartermaster in the engineer department
at Nashville; studied law odd hours during thtj,
war; mustered out of service June 26, 1865; began
practice of law at Clarksville, Tenn., August, 1865;
moved to Kansas January, 1870, and practiced
law there until 1878; elected to the State senate in
1874; Republican Presidential elector in 1880;
elected to the United States Senate as a member
of the People's Party ; took his seat March 4, 1891,
serving until March 3, 1897.
Pegram, John, was a native of Virginia; at-
tended the common schools; held various local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Fifteenth Congress (vice Peterson Goodwin,
deceased), serving from 1818 to 1819.
Peirce, Robert B. F., of Crawfordsville, Ind.,
was born at Laurel, Ind., February 15, 1843;
served in the war of the rebellion as second lieu-
tenant of Company H, One hundred and thirty-
fifth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers; graduated
from Wabash College in 1866; studied law at
Shelby ville, and entered upon its practice at Craw-
fordsville in 1867; elected prosecuting attorney in
1868, and reelected in 1870 and 1872; elected to
the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican; be-
came receiver of the T., St. L. and K. C. Rwy.
Pelham, Charles, was born in Person County,
N. C, March 12, 1835; moved with his parents to
Alabama in 1838; attended the common schools;
studied law, and began practice at Talladega in
1858; entered the Contederate army in 1862;
elected judge of the tenth judicial circuit in K68,
and while discharging the duties of that office
elected a Representative from Alabama to the
Forty-third Congress as a Republican.
Pelton, Guy K.. , was born at Great Barrington,
Mass., August 3, 1825; received a liberal educa-
tion; taught school; studied law, and began prac-
tice at New York in 1851; held various local of-
fices; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig; defeated
for the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Pence, Lafe, of Denver, Colo., was born at Co-
lumbus, Ind., December 23, 1857; after graduat-
ing from the common school at that place attended
college at Hanover, Ind., graduating with the class
of 1877; studied law and admitted to the bar De-
cember 23, 1878; practiced at Columbus until Sep-
tember, 1879, when he moved to Winfield, Kans. ;
lived there until March, 1881, when he moved to
Rico, Colo. ; practiced law at Rico until 1884, when
elected to the State legislature and, after the ses-
sion in 1885, located in Denver; appointed county
attorney for Arapahoe County in 1887 ; reappointed
county attorney in 1888; in 1892, in common with
nearly all Colorado Democrats, opposed the nom-
inee and platform of the Chicago Democratic con-
vention and declared for General Weaver and the
Omaha platform when the latter declared for silver;
nominated by the Populists and Silver Democrats
as candidate" for Congress October 26, 1892, and
elected in November to the Fifty-third Congress;
moved to New York State where he was interested
in railroading; returned to Denver, Colo., and
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737
later moved to San Francisco, where he resumed
the practice of law.
Pendleton, Edmund, was born in Caroline
County, Va., September 9, 1721; received a liberal
education; studied law and practiced; presiding
judge of tlie court of appeals; member of the Con-
tinental Congress 1774-75 ; member of the Virginia
constitutional convention of 1787, and its presi-
dent; died at Richmond, Va., October 23, 1803.
Pendleton, Edmund H. , of Hyde Park, N. Y. ;
was elected a Representative from that State to
the Twenty-second Congress as a Whig.
Pendleton, George C, of Belton, Tex., was
born in Coffee County, Tenn., April 23, 1845; at-
tended country schools in Warren County, Tenn. ;
for a few month s a student at Hannah High School,
in the same county ; afterwards attended the Wax-
ahachie Academy, in Ellis County, Tex., to which
State his father, Edmund Pendleton, moved in
1857; after arriving at manhood, became first a
drummer or commercial traveler, afterwards a
merchant and a farmer and dealer in real estate;
in the Confederate service as private in Fount's
Company, Burford's regiment. Parson's brigade,
Texas Cavalry; member of the eighteenth, nine-
teenth, and twentieth Texas legislatures and
speaker of the twentieth; elected lieutenant-
governor in 1890; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; engaged in the practice of law at Belton,
Tex.; elected president of the Temple National
Bank in April, 1899.
Pendleton, George H., was born at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, July 25, 1825; received an academic
education in the schools of Cincinnati and after-
wards in Europe; studied law, admitted to the
bar, and began practice at Cincinnati; member of
the State senate of Ohio in 1854 and 1855; Reprei-
sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-
sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Con-
gresses; Democratic candidate for Vice-President
on the ticket headed by George B. McClellan in
1864; Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio
in 1869; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to succeed Stanley Matthews, Repub-
lican, aiid took his seat March 18, 1879, serving
until March 3, 1885; minister to Germany in 1885;
died November 24, 1898, at Brussels, Belgium.
Peniileton, James M., was born at North
Stonington, Conn., January 10, 1822; received a
liberal education; merchant for seven years at
Westerly, R. I., and then engaged in banking
and insurance and manufacturing; served in the
Rhode Island State senate 1862-1865; delegate to
the national Republican convention at Chicago in
1868- Presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax
ticket in 1868; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican.
Pendleton, John O. , of Wheeling, Ohio County,
W Va was nominated for State senator for first
senatorial 'district in 1886 and defeated; elected to
the House of Representatives of the Fiity -first
Congress on November 6, 1888, and unseated Feb-
ruary 26, 1890; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third
Congress.
Pendleton, John S., was a native of Virginia;
resided at Oulpeper and there received a hberal
education; charge d'affaires to Chile. 1841-1844;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses as a Whig;
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charg^ d'affaires to the Argentine Confederation
1851-1854; died near Culpeper, Va., November 19,
1868.
Pendleton, Nathaniel Greene (father of
George H. Pendleton), was born at Savannah,
Ga., August, 1793; moved to New York City with
his parents; graduated from Columbia College in
1813; studied law and admitted to the bar; served
in the war of 1812; moved to Cincinnati in 1818
and resumed practice; member of the Ohio State
senate 1825-1829; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig;
defeated for the Twenty-eighth Congress; died at
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1861.
Peningrton, John B. , was born near Newcastle,
Del., December 20, 1825; received an academic
education at Newcastle and Newark, Del., and a
collegiate education at Jefferson College, Pa.;
went to Indiana and engaged in teaching; re-
turned to Delaware, studied law, and admitted
to practice in April, 1857; member of the State
house of representatives in 1857; clerk of the
house in 1859, 1863, and 1871; delegate to the
Democratic national conventions at Charleston
and Baltimore in 1860; appointed United States
attorney for the district of Delaware in 1868 by
President .Johnson, and attorney-general of the
State by Governor Ponder in 1874; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat;
died at Dover, Del., June 1, 1902.
Penn, Alexander G. , was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; moved to the parish
of St. Tammany, La., in 1812; a planter; served
in the Louisiana State house of representatives;
postmaster at New Orleans 1845-1849; elected a
Representative from Louisiana to the Thirty-first
Congress (vice J. H. Harmanson, deceased) as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-second Con-
gress; died at Washington, D. C, May 8, 1866.
Penn, John, was born in Caroline County, Va.,
May 17, 1741; received a limited education;
studied law, and in 1762 began practice; moved
to Granville County, N. C, in 1774; elected a
Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775;
reelected in 1777 and 1779; died in North Caro-
lina September 14, 1788.
Penniman, Ebenezer J. , was a native of New
York; received a limited education; printer;
moved to New York City and became a merchant;
moved to Plymouth, Mich., in 1835 and engaged
in mercantile pursuits; elected a Representative
from Michigan to the Thirty-second Congress as a
Whig and Freesoiler.
Pennington, Alexander CM., was born at
Newark, N. J. , July 10, 1810; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied lawand practiced; held variouslocal
ofiices; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses
as a Whig; served two terms in the New Jersey
State legislature; moved to New York City, and
died there January 25, 1867.
Pennington, William, was born at Newark,
N. J., May 4, 1796; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Newark; gov-
ernor of New Jersey 1837-1843; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Whig; defeated as the Republican
candidate for reelection to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress; died at Newark, N. J;, February 16, 1862.
Penny-backer, Isaac S., was born in Shenan-
doah County, Va., September 12, 1807; received a
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liberal eaucation; studied law and began practice
at Harrisonburg; held various local offices; elected
a Eepresentative from Virginia to the Twenty -fifth
Congress as a Democrat; United States judge for
the western district of Virginia; elected a United
States Senator from Virginia as a Democrat, serv-
ing from December 1, 1845, to January 12, 1847,
when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Penrose, Boies, of Philadelphia, Pa. , was born
there November 1, 1860; prepared for college by
private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia;
graduated from Harvard College in 1881; read
law with Wayne McVeagh and George Tucker
Bispham, and admitted to the bar in 1883; prac-
ticed his profession in partnership with S. Davis
Page and Edward P. Allinson, under the firm
name of Page, Allinson & Penrose; elected to the
Pennsylvania house of representatives from the
eighth Philadelphia district in 1884; in connection
with Edward P. Allinson, wrote, at the request of
Johns Hopkins University, for the university
studies in historical and political science, a History
of the City Government of Philadelphia; elected
to the Pennsylvania State senate from the sixth
Philadelphia district in 1886; reelected in 1890, and
again in 1894; elected president pro tempore of the
senate in 1889, and reelected in 1891; elected to
the United States Senate as a Republican to suc-
ceed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March
4, 1897; reelected for the term dl 1903 to 1909.
Perce, Iiegrand W. , was born at Buffalo,
N. Y., June 19, 1836; received a liberal education;
studied law an(jl admitted to the bar; entered the
Union Army in 1861; appointed second lieutenant
of the Sixth Michigan Volunteers, and captain in
June, 1862; brevetted major at Port Hudson in
May, 1863; brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colo-
nel in 1865; settled at Natchez, Miss.; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican.
Perea, Prancisco, was born at Padillas,
N. Mex., January 9, 1831; received a limited edu_
cation; elected a Delegate from New Mexico Terri_
tory to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican
Perea, Pedro, of Bernalillo, N. Mex., was
born at Bernalillo, N. Mex., April 22, 1852; edu-
cated at St. Michael's College, Santa Fe, N. Mex.,
Georgetown University, District of Columbia, and
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. ; all his life a
resident of Bernalillo; principally engaged in farm-
ing and sheep raising; at one time president of the
First National Bank of Santa Fe; four times a
member of the council of the New Mexico legis-
lature; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Republican. i
Perliam, Sidney, was born at Woodstock, Me.,
March 27, 1819; received a liberal education;
farmer; member of the State house of representa-
tives of Maine in 1854, and its speaker; held vari-
ous local offices; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses as a Republican; governor of
Maine 1871-1874; appraiser in thePortland custom-
house.
Perkins, Bishop, was a native of New Hamp-
shire; moved to Ogdensburg, N. Y., where he
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat.
Perkins, Bishop W., was born at Rochester,
Lorain County, Ohio, October 18,1841; received a
common school education, with a short attendance
at xvnox Academy, at Galesburg, 111. ; read law at
Ottawa, 111. ; admitted to the bar there in 1867, and
commenced practice; served four years as a soldier
in the Union Army, going out as sergeant in the
Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, and adjutant and
captain in the Sixteenth United States Colored In-
fantry for two years and six months; county
attorney of Labette Count}; in 1869; elected pro-
bate judge of the county in 1870 and again in
1872; appointed judge o"f the eleventh judicial
district of Kansas in February, 1873, and in
November of that year elected for the unexpired
term; reelected in November, 1874, and again
in November, 1878, holding the office for almost
ten years; elected to the Forty-eight, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republi-
can; appointed United States Senator in 1892 to
fill, until the election of his successor, the vacancy
caused by the death of Preston B. Plumb; died
June 20, 1894, at Washington, D. C.
Perkins, Elias, was born at Norwich, Conn.,
April 5, 1767; graduated from Yale College in 1786;
studied law and practiced a short time; elected a
Representative from Connecticut to the Seventh
Congress; served as judge of the New London
County court until he became ineligible by age;
mayor of New London 1829-1832; died at New
London, Conn., September 27, 1845.
Perkins, Greorg'e Clement, of Oakland, Cal.,
was born at Kennebunkport, Me., in 1839; reared
on a farm, with limited educational advantages; at
the age of 12 went to sea as a cabin boy; followed
this calling and that of a sailor for several years;
shipped "before the mast" on a sailing vessel
bound for San Francisco, Cal., in 1855; engaged in
mercantile business at Oroville; subsequently en-
gaged in banking, milling, mining, and the steam-
ship business, operating steamships on the coasts of
California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia,
Alaska, and Mexico; elected to the State senate in
1868, serving eight years; president of the Mer-
chants' Exchange in San Francisco; also of the San
Francisco Art Association ; director of the California
Academy of Sciences and other public institutions;
elected governor of California in 1879, serving until
January, 1883; appointed a United States Senator
July 24, 1893, to fill, until the election of his suc-
cessor, the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
Leland Stanford, and took his seat August 8, 1893;
elected by the legislature on the first ballot in Jan-
uary, 1895, to, fill the unexpired term; candidate
before the people of California for reelection in
1896 and received the indorsement of the Repub-
lican county conventions that comprised a majority
of the senatorial and assembly districts in the State;
when the legislature convened in joint convention
(January, 1897) "reelected on the first ballot; again
reelected on the first ballot for the term of six
years in January, 1903, receiving every vote of the
Republican members of the legislature; his elec-
tion made unanimous on motion of a Democratic
member of the legislature; at the time of his elec-
tion in 1897 and in 1903 absent from the State at-
tending Congressional duties in Washington.
Perkins, George D., of Sioux City, Iowa, was
born at Holly, Orleans County, N. Y., February
29,1840; moved at an early age to the West; learned
the printer's trade at Baraboo, Wis. ; in connection
with his brother started the Gazette at Cedar Falls
in 1860; enlisted as private soldier. Company B,
Thirty-first Iowa, August 12, 1862; discharged from
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., January 12, 1863; moved
to Sioux City in 1869 and became editor of the
Journal; a member of the Iowa senate 1874-1876;
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739
appointed United States marshal for northern dis-
trict of Iowa by President Arthur and removed by
President Cleveland; elected to the Fifty-second
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses
as a Republican.
Perkins, James Breck, of Rochester, N. Y
was^born at St. Croix Falls, AVis., November 4,
1847; educated in the Rochester common schools
and graduated from the University of Rochester
m 1867; admitted to the practice of the law in
December, 1868, and practiced his profession in
Rochester; elected city attorney of Rochester for
a term of two years in 1874, and reelected for a
second term in 1878; Mr. Perkins lived in Paris
1890-1895, engaged in work on French history; in
1887 his France under Mazarin was pubUshed; in
1892, France under the Regency; in 1897, France
under Louis XV, and in 1900 a Life of Richelieu
as one of the Heroes of the Nation Series; received
the degree of LL. D. from the University of Roch-
ester in 1897, and is a member of the National
Institutite of Arts and Letters; Mr. Perkins re-
turned to Rochester in 1895, and served in the
New York State assembly in 1898; elected to the
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Perkins, Jared, was a native of New Hamp-
shire; received a limited education at Winchester;
State councilor 1846-1849; served in the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Thirty-second Con-
gress as a Whig; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-third Congress; died at Nashua, N. H.,
October 14, 1854.
Perkins, John, was born in Louisiana July 1,
1819; graduated from Yale College in 1840; studied
law and began practice at iJew Orleans; traveled
in Europe; appointed a judge of the circuit court
in 1851; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; served
in the Confederate Congress.
Perrill, Augustus L., was a native of Vir-
ginia; moved to Lithopolis, Ohio; received a.lim-
ited education; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty -ninth Congress.
Perry, Aaron F., was born at Leicester, Vt.,
January 1, 1815; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Columbus, Ohio,
and later at Cincinnati; member of the State house
of representatives of Ohio in 1847-48; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican, serving from March 4,
1871, to 1872, when he resigned; died at Cmcm-
nati, Ohio, March 11, 1893.
Perry, Eli, was born at Cambridge, N. Y.,
December 25, 1799; received a common school
education; commenced business in Albany, N. Y.,
in 1827, and continued until 1852; city alderman
two years; served in the State legislature; mayor
of Albany 1851-1863; elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Forty-third Congress;
defeated for the Forty-fourth Congress; died at
Albany, N. Y., May 17, 1881.
Perry, John J. , was born at Portsmouth, N. H.,
August 2, 1811; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Oxford, Me.,
member of the State house of representatives 1839-
1843 and of the State senate, in 1846 and 1847;
elected a Representative from Maine to the
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a
Republican; delegate to the peace congress m
1861; edited the Oxford Democrat; moved to
Portland.
Perry, Nehemiah, was born at Ridgefield,
Conn., March 30, 1816; received a classical educa-
tion; moved to Newark, N. J., and engaged in the
clothing business; member of the State legislature
several years; elected a Representative from New-
Jersey to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Perry, Thomas, was born in Maryland in 1808;
received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Cumberland; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Twenty-nintb
Congress as a Democrat; circuit judge 1851-1861
and 1864-1871; died at Cumberland, JMd., June
27, 1871.
Perry, William Hayne, of Greenville, S. C;
was born at Greenville, S. C, June 9, 1837; re-
ceived his early education at Greenville Academy;
graduated from the Furman University, Greenville;
entered the South Carolina College at Columbia, but
left there before graduation and entered Harvard
College, from whence hegraduated in 1857; readlaw
with his father, at Greenville; admitted to the bar
and practiced; served during the whole war of the
rebellion in the Confederate cavalry service; mem-
ber of the State convention of South Carolina in
1865; member of the State legislature of South
Carolina in 1865-66; solicitor of the eighth judicial
circuit of South Carolina in 1868-1872; member of
the State senate of South Carolina from Greenville
County 1880-1884; elected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat.
Persons, Henry, of Geneva, Ga. ; was born in
Monroe County, Ga., in 1834; moved to Talbot
County, Ga., in 1836; graduated from the Univer-
sity of Georgia in 1855; farmer, never studied any
profession; captain of cavalry in the Confederate
service; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat; resumed the practice of law.
Peter, George, was born at Georgetown, D. C,
September 28, 1779; received a classical education
at Georgetown College; entered the U. S. Army
as second lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry in July,
1799; transferred to the artillery and promoted,
and in May, 1808, organized and commanded the
first light battery of artillery in the country; re-
signed June 11, 1809; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Fourteenth Congress (vice
A. C. Houson, resigned) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifteenth Congress; served in the State
house of representatives; elected to the Nineteenth
Congress, and defeated for the Twentieth Congress;
died near Damestown, Md., June 22, 1861.
Peters, John A., was born at Ellsworth, Me.,
October 9, 1822; graduated from Yale College;
studied and practiced law; member of the State
house of representatives 1862-1864; attorney-
general of the State 1864-1866; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Fortieth Congress as
a Republican; reelected to the Forty-first and
Forty-second Congresses' appointed a judge of the
supreme court of Maine in 1872; died in 1895.
Peters, Mason Summers, of Kansas City,
Kans., was born in Clay County, Mo., September
3, 1844; educated at William Jewell College, at
Liberty, Mo. ; admitted to the bar in 1875; moved
in 1886 to Wyandotte County, Kans. ; engaged in
the live-stock commission business; served four
years as clerk of the court of Clinton County, Mo. ;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat-
Populist.
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Peters, Bicliard, was born near Philadelphia,
Pa., June 22, 1744; graduated from Philadelphia
College; studied law and began practice at Phila-
delphia; entered the Revolutionary Army as cap-
tain, and soon afterwards transferred- by Congress
to the secretaryship of the board of war, which he
filled June 13, 1776, to June 8, 1781; Delegate from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1782-83;
judge "oE the district court of Pennsylvania 1789-
1828; died at Philadelphia August 22, 1828.
Peters, Samuel Kitter, of Newton, Kans., was
born in Walnut Township, Pickaway County,
Ohio, August 16, 1842; received a common school
education and about three years of a collegiate
education; enlisted in the Army in the fall of
1861, and mustered out in June, 1865, having held
successively the ofiices of sergeant, second lieuten-
ant, first lieutenant, adjutant, and captain; elected
in the fall of 1874 to the State senate of Kansas;
appointed in March, 1875, judge of the ninth judi-
cial district; elected to the same judgeship with-
out opposition in the fall of 1875, and reelected in
1879; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as Con-
gressman at large from Kansas as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-
first Congresses; resumed the practice of law.
Petrie, George, of Little Falls, N. Y., was a
native of that State; received a common school
education; elected a Representative from that
State to the Thirtieth Congress.
Petrikin, David, of Danville, Pa., was a native
of that State; received a liberal education; studied
law, and practiced; held various local oflBces;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Twenty -sixth Congress; died at Danville, Pa.,
March 1, 1847.
Pettibone, Augustus H. , of Greenevi'le,
Tenn., was born at Bedford, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, January 21, 1885;' educated at Hiram Col-
lege, Ohio, and at the University of Michigan,
graduating in 1859; studied law, and entered prac-
tice at La Crosse, Wis. ; entered the Federal Army
as a private in 1861; promoted to second lieu-
tenant, captain, and major of the Twentieth Wis-
consin Volunteers; resumed the practice of his
profession at Greeneville, Tenn., at the close of
the rebellion in 1865; elected attorney-general for
the first judicial circuit of Tennessee; Presidential
elector for the First Congressional district of Ten-
nessee on the Grant and Colfax electoral ticket in
1868; for several years assistant United States dis-
trict attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee;
elector for the State at large on the Hayes and
Wheeler ticket in 1876 ; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
Pettigrew, Ebenezer, of Coolspring, N. C,
was a native of that State; received a common
school education; held various local offices; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the
Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig.
Pettigrew, B., P., of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., was
born at Ludlow, Vt., July, 1848; moved with his
parents to Evansville, Rock County, Wis., in 1854;
attended the academy; entered Beloit College in
1866; member of the law class at the University of
AVisconsin in 1869; went to Dakota in July, 1869,
in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor
as a laborer; located at Sioux Falls, in said Terri-
tory; engaged in Government surveying and real-
estate business until 1875; engaged in the practice
of law; elected to the Dakota legislature as a mem-
ber of the council in 1877 and reelected in 1879;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Repub-
lican; elected to the Territorial council in 1884 and
1885; elected a United States Senator October 16,
1889, under the provisions of the act of Congress
admitting South Dakota into the Union, and took
his seat DecemVjer 2, 1889; reelected in 1895, serv-
ing until March 3, 1901.
Pettis, S. Newton, was born in Ashtabula
County, Ohio, in 1828; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1848 began practice at
Meadville, Pa. ; associate justice for the Territory
of Colorado 1861-62; returned to Meadville, Pa.;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Fortieth Congress (vice W. A. Finney, de-
ceased) as a Republican, serving from December
7, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Pettis, Spencer, was born in Virginia in 1802;
received a liberal education; studied law, and be-
gan practice at Fayette, Mo. ; held various local
offices; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Twenty-first Congress; died at St. Louis, Mo.,
August 26, 1831.
Pettit, Charles, was born in New Jersey in
1736; received a thorough English education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served sev-
eral years as secretary of the State of New Jersey;
assistant quartermaster in the Revolutionary
Army; declined the promotion to Quartermaster-
General; became an importing merchant at Phila-
delphia; member of the State house of representa-
tives; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Conti-
nental Congress 1785-1787; died at Philadelphia
September 4, 1806.
Pettit, John, was born at Sacketts Harbor,
N. Y., June 24, 1807; received a liberal education;
studied law, and moved to Lafayette, Ind., where
he began practice in 1838; served two terms as a
member of the Indiana State house of represent-
atives; United States district attorney; elected
a Representative from Indiana to the Twenty-
eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses
as a Democrat; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1850; Presidential elector on the
Pierce and King ticket in 1852; elected a United
States Senator from Indiana ( vice James Whit-
comb, deceased), serving from January 18, 1853,
to March 3, 1855; chief justice of the United States
courts in Kansas; elected in 1870 supreme judge
of Indiana; died at Lafayette, Ind., January 17,
1877.
Pettit, John U., was a native of New York;
graduated from Union College in 1839; studied
law, and began practice at Wabash, Ind., in 1841;
consul to Maranham, Brazil, 1850-1853; judge of
the circuit court; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-six
Congresses.
Pettus, Edmund Winston, of Selma, Ala.,
was born in Limestone County, Ala., July 6, 1821;
educated in the common schools of Alabama and
at Clinton College, in Smith County, Tenn.;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1842 and com-
menced practice at Gainesville, Ala. ; elected solic-
itor for the seventh circuit in 1844; served as a
lieutenant in the Mexican war; resigned the office
of solicitor in 1849 and went with a party of his
neighbors on horseback to California; elected
judge of the seventh circuit after his return to
Alabama in 1855, but resigned that office in 1858
and moved to Dallas County; resumed the prac-
tice of law; went into the Confederate army as
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741
major of the Twentieth Alabama Infantry in 1861,
and soon afterwards made lieutenant-colonel of
that regiment; made a brigadier-general of infan-
try in October, 1863, and served till the close of
the war in many battles; after the war returned
to his home and to the practice of law; in Novem-
ber, 1896, elected by the legislature of Alabama
a United States Senator as a Democrat for the term
commencing March 4, 1897; after his nomination
the opposition to his election was merely nominal;
received the entire vote of his party, and more;
reelected 1903.
Peyton, Bailie, was a native of Sumner County,
Tenn.; received a liberal education; studied law,
and began practice at Gallatin, Tenn. ; held vari-
ous local offices; elected a Eepresentative from
Tennessee to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; minister to Chili 1849-1853; moved
to New Orleans; United States attorney for Louisi-
ana; moved to California, and returned to Ten-
nessee; Presidential elector on the Bell and Everett
ticket in 1860; died in 1878.
Peyton, Joseph. H., was born in Sumner
County, Tenn., in 1813; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied medicine; practiced a short time,
and engaged in politics; held various local offices;
State senator; elected a Representative from Ten-
nessee to- the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, but died,
before taking his seat, at Gallatin, Tenn., Novem-
:berl2, 1845.
• Peyton, Samuel O. , was born in BuUittCounty,
Ky., in 1804; received a liberal education; grad-
' uated in medicine from the Transylvania Univer-
sity in 1827, and began practice at Hartford, Ky. ;
State representative in 1835; elected a Represent-
ative from Kentucky to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-first Congress; again elected to the Thirty-
fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses; died at Hart-
ford, Ky., January 4, 1870.
Phelan, James, of Memphis, Tenn., was born
at Aberdeen, Miss., December 7, 1856; moved
with his father, the Confederate senator, to Mem-
phis in 1867; received a private school education;
attended the Kentucky Military Institute, near
Frankfort, in 1871; entered the University of
Leipsic, Saxonv, in 1874; took the degree of Doc-
tor of Philosophy in February, 1878; returned to
Memphis; studied law, and began practice in 1881;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-first Congress.
Phelps, Charles E. , was born at Guilford, Vt.,
May 1, 1833; moved with his parents to Pennsyl-
vania in 1837, and to Maryland in 1841; received
a classical education at Princeton; studied law, and
in 1855 began practice in Baltimore; held several
cityoflaces; entered the Union Array in 1862 as
lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Regiment Mary-
land Volunteers, and in 1863 promoted to colonel;
brevetted brigadier-general May 8, 1864; taken
prisoner, but recaptured by (}enera,l Sheridan;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Union War candidate;
reelected to the Fortieth Congress as a Union Con-
servative candidate; retired to Baltimore and prac-
ticed his profession.
Phelps, Darwin, was born at East Granby,
Conn. ; moved to Ohio, where he received a liberal
education at Western University; studied law, and
located at Kittanning, Pa., where ^e began
practice in 1835; served one term in the btate
house of representatives; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Chicago in 1860; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican.
Phelps, Elisha", was born at Simsbury, Conn.,
November 7, 1779; graduated from Yale College
in 1800; studied law, and began practice at Sims-
bury; served several jeara in both branches of the
State legislature, serving as speaker of the house
in 1821 and 1829; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Sixteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses as a Democrat; State comp-
troller 1830-1834; appointed a commissioner to
revise and codify the State laws in 1835; died at
Simsbury, Conn., April 18, 1847.
Phelps, James, was born atColebrook, Conn.,
January 12, 1822; lawyer; member of the State
house of representatives 1853, 1854, and 1856,
and of the State senate 1858 and 1859; elected
a judge of the superior court of Connecticut in 1863
for a term of eight years, and reelected to a similar
term in 1871; elected a judge of the supreme court
of errors of the State in 1873, and resigned in 1875
upon his election to the Forty-fourth Congress;
member of the Forty-fifth Congress, and elected
to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; died Janu-
ary 15, 1900.
Phelps, John. Smith, was born at Simsbury,
Conn., December 22, 1814; graduated from Trinity
College, Hartford, Conn. ; studied law, and began
practice at Simsbury; moved to Springfield, Mo.,
in 1843; served in the Missouri State house of rep-
resentatives; elected a Representative from Mis-
souri to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses
as a Democrat; colonel in the Union Army; mili-
tary governor of Arkansas; defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress;
governor of Missouri 1877-1881; died at St. Louis,
Mo., November 20, 1886.
Phelps, Launcelot, of Hitchcockville, Conn.,
was a native of that State; received a common
school education; held various local offices; elected
a Representative from Connecticut to the Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses.
Phelps, Oliver, was born at Windsor, Conn.,
in 1749; received a liberal education; merchant at
Granville, Mass.; served in the commissary de-
partment of the Revolutionary Army; purchased,
in 1788, with associates, 2,200,000 acres of land in
the Genesee Valley, New York, and his system of
survey by township and ranges was adopted by the
General Gbvernment; purchased in 1795, with
others, 3,300,000 acres of land in Ohio, known as
the Western Reserve; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighth Congress; judge of
the circuit court; died at Canandaigua, N. Y., Feb-
ruary 21, 1809.
Phelps, Samuel Shethar, was born at Litch-
field, Conn., May 13, 1793; graduated from Yale
College in 1811; studied law; served in the war of
1812 as paymaster; began practicing at Middle-
bury, Vt.; member of the legislative council in
1831; judge of the supreme court of Vermont
1831-1838; elected a United States Senator from
Vermont as a Whig, serving from 1839 to 1851;
appointed a United States Senator (vice Wilham
Upham, deceased), serving from January 19, 1853,
until the Senate decided, March 16, 1854, that he
could not hold his seat by appointment; died at
Middlebury, Vt., March 25, 1855.
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CONGKESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
Phelps, Timothy G., was a native of New
York; received a liberal education; moved to Cali-
fornia and located at San Mateo; elected a Eepre-
sentative from California to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
Phelps, William W., was born in Oakland
County, 3Iich., June 1, 1826; graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1846; studied law, and
in 1848 began practice; edited a newspaper 1851-
1855; held various county offices; appointed regis-
ter of the United States land office at Red Wing,
Minn. ; elected a Representative from Minnesota
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; became
editor of the Red Wing Sentinel in 1860; died in
1873.
Phelps, William Walter, was born at New
York City August 24, 1839; graduated from Yale
College in 1860 and Columbia College Law School
in 1863; retired from the practice of law in 1868,
refusing a judgeship offered by Governor Fenton;
elected in 1872 a Representative to the Forty-third
Congress; candidate for reelection to the Forty-
fourth Congress, but defeated by 7 votes; delegate
at large to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1880; also in 1884; sent as minister to
Austria in 1881 and relinquished the position in
1882; elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican; declined
a renomination; at the Republican national con-
vention in 1888 needed only a few votes to have
secured for him the nomination for Vice-President;
appointed in 1889 by President Harrison one of
the Commissioners to represent the United States
at the International Congress on the Samoan ques-
tion, which met in Berlin; appointed minister to
Germany, serving until 1893; appointed a special
judge of the court of errors and appeals of the
State of New- Jersey; died June 17, 1894.
Philips, John F. , of Sedalia, Mo., was born in
Boone County, Mo., December 31, 1834; educated
at the State University of Missouri and at Centre
College, Danville Ky., graduating from the latter
institution in 1855; studied law; member of the
constitutional convention of Missouri in 1861;
commissioned colonel in 1862, and commanded a
regiment of cavalry in the Federal Army until the
close of the war; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention at New York in 1868; elected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; elected
January 10, 1880, to the Forty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
the death of A. M. Lay; appointed United States
judge of the western district of Missouri, by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Phillips, Fremont Orestes, of Medina, Ohio,
was born at Lafayette, Medina County, Ohio,
March 16, 1856; moved to Medina in 1873; re-
ceived his education in the Medina High School,
Medina Normal School, and Kenyon College; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1880, and engaged in the prac-
tice of law; held the office of probate judge of
Medina County; elected to the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress.
Phillips, Henry M. , was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., June 30, 1811; received a liberal education;
held various local offices; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress as
aDemocrat; defeated forthe Thirty-sixth Congress-
died August 3, 1884.
Phillips, John, of Hummelstown, Pa., was a
native of Chester County, Pa.; received a limited
education; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Seventeenth Congress as a Federalist.
Phillips, Philip, was born at Charleston, S. C,
December 13, 1807; received a classical education;
studied law and began practice at Charleston,
S. C, December 14, 1828; member of the South
Carolina State convention in 1832; served two
years as a member of the South Carolina State
legislature; moved to Mobile, Ala., where he
resumed the practice of law; member of the
Alabama State legislature in 1844 and 1851;
delegate to the national Democratic convention in
1852; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; declined
a renomination; resumed the practice of law at
Washington, D. C.
Phillips, Stephen Clarendon, was born at
Salem, Mass.,. November 1, 1801; graduated from
Harvard University in 1819; studied law, but
engaged in mercantile pursuits at Salem; served
in the State house of representatives 1824-1829 and
the senate in 1830; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Twenty -third Congress (vice
Rufus Choate, resigned) as a Whig; reelected to
the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses,
serving from December 1, 1834 to 1838, when he
resigned; mayor of Salem 1838-1842; defeated as
the Free Soil candidate for governor in 1848 and
1849; engaged in the lumbering business in Can-
ada; died on St. Lawrence River June 26, 1857.
Phillips, Thomas W., of Newcastle, Pa., was
born in that section of Beaver County now included
in Lawrence County, Pa., February 23, 1835; his
father died when he was 10 months old; brought
up on a farm; educated in the common schools,
supplemented by private instruction; shortly after
the discovery of^ petroleum entered the oil busi-
ness and in company with his brothers became
prominently identified with the petroleum indus-
try under the firm name of Phillips Brothers; when
the Producers' Protective Association was formed
in 1887 elected president of the association without
opposition, and continued to serve in that capacity
for three years; president of the Citizens' National
Bank of Newcastle and president of the electric
street railway of the same place; member of the
board 'of trustees of Bethany College, West Vir-
ginia, and of Hiram College, Ohio; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress ; member of the Industrial
Commission, appointed by President McKinley.
Phillips, William A., was born at Paisley,
Scotland, January 14, 1826; immigrated to the
United States in 1838 and located m New York
City;_ received a limited education; studied and
practiced law; engaged in newspaper work; moved
to Kansas; entered the Union Army in 1861 as
major; served in the Kansas State legislature;
elected a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses as
a Republican.
Philson, Robert, was a native of Ireland; emi-
grated to the United States and located in Penn-
sylvania; received a limited education; held various
offices; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Sixteenth Congress.
Phister, Elijah Conner, of Maysville, Ky.,
was born at that place October 8, 1822; educated
at the seminary of Rand and Richardson, Mays-
ville, Ky., and at Augusta College, Kentucky,
from which latter institution hegraduated in Aug-
ust, 1840; studied law, and commenced to practice
in 1844; elected mayor of Maysville in January,
1848; elected circuit judge in August, 1856, in the
tenth (now the fourteenth) judicial district of Ken-
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743
tucky, and served six years; elected to the legisla-
ture of Kentucky from Mason County in August,
1867, served two years, and reelected "m August,
1869, serving until 1871; appointed by Governor
Leslie one ot the commissioners to revise the stat-
utes of Kentucky in 1872, but declined; elected
in November, 1878, to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress.
Phoenix, J. Phillips, was a native of Morris-
town, N. J.; received a limited education; mer-
chant in New York City; held several ofBces under
the city government; Presidential elector on the
Harrison and Tyler ticket in 1841; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig; elected a member of the State
house of representatives in 1848; again elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-first
Congress; died in New York City, May 4, 1859.
Pickens, Andrew, was born at Paxton, Pa.,
September 19, 1739; received a common-school
education; moved to South Carolina in 1752;
entered the Revolutionary Army as captain, and
attained the rank of brigadier-general; served in
the campaign against the Cherokee Indians in
1782; served several years as a member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Third Con-
gress; elected major-general of militia in 1795;
died in Pendleton District, S. C, August 17, 1817.
Pickens, Francis W. , was born at Tagaloo,
S. C, April 7, 1805; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1829 began practice in Edge-
field District; engaged in planting; served several
years as a member of the State house of represent-
atives; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Twenty-third Congress (vice George
McDuffie, resigned) as a NuUifier; reelected to the
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses; member of the State
house of representatives in 1844; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Cincinnati in
1856; minister to Russia 1858-1860; elected Con-
federate governor of South Carolina and took an
active part in the rebeUion; died at Edgefield,
S. C, January 25, 1869.
Pickens, Israel, was born in Cabarrus County,
N. C, January 30, 1780; moved to Burke County,
N. C; received a limited education; State senator
in 1809; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses as a Democrat; appointed register of
the land oflSceof Mississippi Territory inl817; gov-
ernor of Alabama 1821-1825; appointed a United
Sta.tes Senator from Alabama (vice Henry Cham-
bers, deceased), serving from April 10, 1826, until
December 21, 1826; died near Matanzas, Cuba,
April 24, 1827.
Pickering, Timothy, was born at Salem , Mass. ,
July 17, 1745; graduated from Harvard College in
1763; studied law and began practice at Salem;
appointed a judge of the court of common pleas
for Essex County in 1775 and judge of the provin-
cial maritime court; entered the Revolutionary
Army as colonel; appointed Adjutant-General
May 24, 1777; elected by Congress Quartermaster-
General (vice General Greene); Postmaster-Gen-
eral 1791-1794; appointed Secretary of War Janu-
ary 2, 1794, and Secretary of State December 10,
1795, holding the last position until May 10, 1800;
farmer in Pennsylvania; returned to Massachu-
setts in 1802; defeated candidate for the Eighth
Congress; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts (viceD. Foster, resigned) ; reelected,
serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1811;
defeated for reelection by J. V. Varnum in 1811;
member of the executive council; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Congresses as a Federalist; re-
turned to his farm near Wenham, Mass. ; died at
Salem, Mass., January 29, 1829.
Pickler, John A., of Faulkton, S. DakI, was
born near Salem, Washington County, Ind., Jan-
uary 24, 1844; moved at the age of 9 years with
his father to Davis County, Iowa; entered the
Army at the age of 18 and served three and a half
years — two years in the ranks of the Third Iowa
Cavalry, and mustered out as captain in that regi-
ment; subsequently served six months as major
of the One hundred and thirty-eighth United
States Iowa Cavalry; graduated from the literary
department of the Iowa State University in 1870,
and from Ann Arbor Law School in 1872; prac-
ticed law; elected district attorney of Adair County,
Mo., in the fall of 1872; moved to Muscatine,
Iowa, in 1874; Garfield elector. Second district
of Iowa, in 1880; elected to the Iowa legislature
in 1881; moved to Dakota in 1883; elected to the
Dakota- legislature in 1884, and elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses; resumed the practice of law.
Pickman, Benjamin, the third in direct succes-
sion of the same name and lineage in Salem, Mass.,
son of BenjaminandMary (Tappan) Pickman; bom
there on September 30, 1763, and married October
20, 1789, Anstiss, youngest daughter of Elias Hasket
and Elizabeth (Crowninshield) Derby; his grand-
father, for his eminent and efficient services in
promoting the expedition against Louisburg under
the command of Sir William Pepperell, received
from the assembly of the colony of Massachusetts
Bay a valuable piece of plate in token of their
approbation of his public spirit on the occasion;
prepared for Harvard College in 1778, but, on
account of his youth, did not enter until 1780;
graduated in 1784; in the spring of 1784 went to
England, where his father was, and after traveling
there went to France and passed a year at Dijon;
returning to this country, studied law under Chief
Justice Parsons, at Newburyport, and adriiitted to
the bar, but soon relinquished the practice of law
and engaged in commercial pursuits; his public
services were numerous and important; on Febru-
ary 22, 1797, delivered an oration in Salem; repre-
sentative of his native town in the general court
in 1801-2, and again in 1812-13, and senator in
1802-1804; member of the executive council of the
State in 1805-6, 1898-99, 1813-1815, and 1819-1821;
drafted the answers of the house to the governor's
speeches in several sessions; represented the south
district of Essex County, Mass., in the Eleventh
Congress, serving from May 22, 1809, to March 3,
1811; urged to become a candidate for governor of
the State in 1816, but declined; in 1820, member
of the convention to revise the constitution of the
State of Massachusetts; overseerof Harvard College
1810-1818; president of the directors of the Theo-
logical School at Cambridge, and on the 26th of
July, 1825, delivered an address at the laying of the
corner stone ot the divinity hall of that institution;
president of the Salem Athenseum, of the Bible
Society of Salem and its vicinity, of the Essex
Historical Society, and Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; died at Salem,
August 16, 1843.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
Pidcock, James Nelson, was born at White-
house, Hunterdon County, N. J., February 8,
1836; received a district school education; engaged
in civil engineering 1850-1857; farmer and dealer
in live stock after 1857; State senator from Hun-
terdon County 1877-1880; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress; died in 1899.
Pierce, Charles W. , was born in Nevir York in
1823; received a liberal education; moved to Illi-
nois; served as lieutenant of Illinois volunteer
infantry in the Union Army; after the war re-
mained' in Alabama and located at Demopolis;
held various public oflBces; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from Alabama to the Fortieth Congress.
Pierce, Franklin, was born at Hillsboro, N. H. ,
November 23, 1804; graduated from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1824; studied law and in 1827 began practice
at Hillsboro; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1829-1833, and served as speaker 1832-
1833; elected a Eepresentative from New Hamp-
shire to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; elected a United States
Senator from New Hampshire in 1837, and served
until 1842, when he resigned; resumed the practice
of law at Concord ; served ill the Mexican war as
colonel; commissioned brigadier-general in March
1847 and remained in Mexico until the close of the
war; member of the New Hampshire State consti-
tutional convention in 1850, and its president;
elected President of the United States, receiving
254 electoral votes against 42 votes for Winfield
Sc®tt, serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857;
died at Concord, N. H., October 8, 1869.
Pierce, Gilbert Ashville, was born at East
Otto, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. ; emigrated to
Indiana in 1854; attended Chicago University
and studied two years in the law department
of said institution; enlisted in Company H, Ninth
Indiana Volunteers, at the first call of the Pres-
ident, and elected second lieutenant of said com-
pany; at the expiration of the three months'
service appointed a captain and assistant quarter-
master by President Lincoln; was at Paducah, Fort
Donelson, Shiloh, Grand Gulf, and Vicksburg, and
entered the city at the capture, on July 4, 1863;
promoted to lieutenant-colonel in November, 1863;
appointed a colonel and inspector, and special com-
missioner of the War Department; was at Hilton
Head and Pocotaligo, S. C., and thence ordered to
the Department of the Gulf, where he served till
October, 1865; member of the Indiana legislature
in 1868; asssistant financial clerk of the United
States Senate 1869-1871; resigned to accept an ed-
itorial position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean; served
as associate editor and managing editor of that
paper for twelve years; became connected with
the Chicago News m 1883; appointed governor of
Dakota in July, 1884, which position he resigned
in November, 1886; at the meeting of the legisla-
ture of the State of North . Dakota in November,
1889, unanimously nominated by the Republicans
a United States Senator, and elected the following
day; died in Chicago, 111., February 15, 1901.
Pierce, Henry Lillie, was born at Stoughton,
Mass., August 23, 1825; received a classical educa-
tion; manufacturer; held various local offices;
member of the State house of representatives 1860-
1866; mayor of Boston 1873; elected a Eepresen-
tative from Massachusetts to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Republican (vice William Whiting,
deceased) ; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress;
declined a renomination ; mayor of Boston in 1878;
died at Boston, Mass., December 17, 1896.
Pierce, Joseph, was elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Seventh Congress;
resigned in 1802.
Pierce, Kice A., of Union City, Tenn., was
born at Dresden, Weakley County, Tenn., July 3,
1848; received an academic education; obtained
license to practice law from the supreme court at
Raleigh, N. C, in July, 1868; began practice at
Union City, Obion County, Tenn., in 1869; elected
district attorney-general of the twelfth judicial cir-
cuit in 1874; reelected in 1878 for the full term,
eight years; received the Democratic nomination
and elected to the Forty-eighth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, Fifty-flfth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Pierce, William, was born in Georgia about
1740; rfeceived a liberal education; served in the
Revolutionary Army with distinction and received
a sword from Congress; Delegate from Georgia to
the Continental Congress 1786-87; delegate from
Georgia to the convention which framed the Fed-
eral Constitution; died about 1806.
Pierson, Isaac, was born in Essex County,
N. J., August 15, 1770; graduated from Princeton
College in 1789; studied medicine and began prac-
tice at Orange, N. J.; elected a Eepresentative
from New Jersey to the Twentieth and Twenty-
first Congresses; died at Orange, N. J., September
22, 1833.
Pierson, Jeremiah H. , was a native of Essex
County, N. J.; received a liberal -education ; stud-
ied and practiced law; moved to Eamapo, N. Y. ;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat.
Pierson, Job, of Schaghticoke, N. Y., was a
native of New York; received a common school
education; held several local offices; elected a
Eepresentative from New York to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses.
Pierson, John J., of Mercer, Pa., was elected
a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
fourth Congress (vice John Banks, resigned), and
served from December 5, 18^6, to March 3, 1887.
Pigott, James P., of New Haven, Conn., was
born inthatcity ; graduated from Yale, academic, in
1878, and law school in 1880; lawyer; chairman of
the State delegation to the Democratic national
convention in 1888; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; resumed the practice of law
at New Haven, Conn.
Pike, Austin F., was born at Hebron, N. H.,
October 14, 1819; received an academic education;
studied law and admitted to the bar of JNIerrimack
County in July, 1845; actively practiced; member
of the New Hampshire house of representatives in
1850, 1851, 1852, 1865, and 1866, and speaker of the
house the last two years; member of the New
Hampshire senate in 1857 and 1858, and president
of the senate the last year; delegate to the Phila-
delphia convention which nominated General Fre-
mont in 1856; elected a Eepresentative to the
Forty-third Congress, serving from December 1,
1873, to March 3, 1875; elected tc the United States
Senate as a Republican, to succeed E. H. Rollins,
Republican, and took his seat December 3, 1883,
serving until his death, at Franklin, N. H., Octo-
ber 8, 1886.
Pike, Prederick A., was born at Calais, Me.,
December 9, 1817; received a thorough English
education; studied law, and in 1840 began practice
at Calais; one year edited the Calais Advertiser;
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served a number of years as a member of the State
legislature, and one year as speaker of the house;
prosecuting attorney for Washington County;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-
seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses as a Republican; again elected to the
State legislature; defeated as the Liberal Repub-
lican candidate for the Forty-third Congress; died
at Calais, Me., December 2, 1886.
Pike, James, was born at Salisbury, Mass.,
November, 1818; received a classical education;
studied theology and graduated from the Wesleyan
University, Conn.; minister 1841-1854; moved to
New Hampshire; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-
fifth Congresses as an American; after leaving
Congress resumed preaching and became presiding
elder of the Dover district.
Pile, ■William A., was born near Indianapolis,
Ind., February 11, 1829; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied theology and preached; member of
■the Missouri conference; entered the Union Army
in 1861 as chaplain of the Missouri Volunteers;
took command of the light battery in 1862; pro-
moted to the rank of brigadier-general, and served
until the close of the war; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress as a
Republican; defeated for reelection; governor of
New Mexico 1869-70; minister resident to Vene-
zuela 1871-1874, when he resigned; died at Mon-
rovia, Cal., July 7, 1889.
Pilstoury, Timothy, was born at Newbury,
Mass., April 12, 1789; attended the public schools;
captain of a brigade on a cruise to Europe; located
in Maine; served in the Maine legislature, and a
member of the executive council; defeated for
Congress; moved to Ohio, thence to Louisiana,
and thence to Brazonia, Tex. ; served in the house
of representatives and the senate of the Republic
of Texas; elected a Representative from Texas to
the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses as a
Calhoun Democrat; defeated for reelection; died
near Danville, Tex., November 2.S, 1858.
Pinckney, Charles, was born at Charleston,
S. C, March 9, 1758; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and began practice in 1779; mem-
ber of the provisional legislature 1779-80; taken
prisoner by the British in 1780; Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1777-78, and again in 1784-
1787; also a member of the United States consti-
tutional convention in- 1787; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1788 and 1790; gov-
ernor of South Carolina 1789-1792 and 1796-1798;
elected a United States Senator from South Caro-
lina as a Democrat, serving from 1797-1801; min-
ister to Spain 1803-1805; member of the State
legislature 1806; governor of South Carohna 1806-
1808; again a member of the State legislature
1810-1814; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat;
died at Charleston, S. C, October 29, 1824.
Pinckney, Henry Laurens, was born at
Charleston, S. C, September 24, 1794; gradnated
from South Carolina College in 1812; studied law,
and began practice at Charleston; member of the
State house of representatives 1816-1832; mayor
of Charleston; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Twenty-third Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress;
again mayor of Charleston 1839-40; collector of
the port of Charleston; died at Charleston, S. C,
February 3, 1863.
Pinckney, Thomas, was born at Charleston,
S. C, October 23, 1750; graduated from Oxford
University, England; studied law at the Temple
at London; admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice at Charleston, S. C, in 1773; major in the
Revolutionary Army, and captured at the battle
of Gum Swamp in 1780; governor of South Caro-
lina 1789-1792; minister to Great Britain January
12, 1792, to July 28, 1796; minister to Spain No-
vember 24, 1794, to November, 1795; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Fifth
Congress (vice William Smith, resigned), as a
Federalist; reelected to the Sixth Congress; ap-
pointed major-general in the war of 1812, and
served throughout the war; died at Charleston,
S. C, November 2, 1828.
Pindall, James, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a common-school education; held various
local ofiices; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist, serving from 1817 to 1820, when he resigned.
Pindar, John S. , of Cobleskill, N. Y., was born
at Sharon, Schoharie County, N. Y., November
18, 1835; educated in the common schools and at
RichmondvilleSeminary; studied law with Messrs.
Young & Ramsey, and admitted to the bar in 1865;
elected president of the village of Cobleskill in
1882, 1883, and 1884; chairman of the Democratic
county committee for ten years; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; resumed the
practice of law at Cobleskill, N. Y.
Pinkney, William, was born at Annapolis,
Md., March 17, 1764; received a classical educa-
tion; studiedmedicine, but did not practice; stud-
ied lawj and began practice in Harford County;
member of the State constitutional convention m
1788, and of the State house of delegates in 1789;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Second Congress, but objection was made on ac-
count of nonresidence, and he resigned; member
of ' the executive council of Maryland 1792-1795;
again a member of the house of delegates in 1795;
one of the commissioners at London under Jay's
treaty 1796-1804; attorney-general of Maryland
1805; joint minister to Great Britain with James
Monroe 1806-1807, and minister plenipotentiary
1807-1811; returned to Baltimore in 1811; served
in theState senate; Attorney-General of theUnited
States 1811-1814; wounded at the battle of Bladens-
burg; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Fourteenth Congress, serving from January 8,
1816, to April 23, 1816, when he resigned, having
been appointed minister to the Two Sicilies; min-
ister plenipotentiary to Russia 1816-1818; elected
a United States Senator from Maryland (vice A. C.
Hanson, deceased), serving from January 4, 1820,
until his death, at Washington, D. C, February
25, 1822.
Piper, William, of Pennsylvania, was elected
a Repraeentative from that State to the Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses.
Piper, William A., was bom in Franklin
County, Pa., in 1825; received a common school
education; moved to St. Louis, Mo.; served in the
Mexican war; moved to California in 1848 and in
1849 located at San Francisco, where he engaged
in mercantile pursuits; elected a Representative
from California to the Forty-fourth Congress a.= a
Democrat; defeated for reelection.
Pirce, William A., of Olneyville, R. I., was
born at Scituate, R. I., February 29, 1824; attended
district schools and worked in the mills and on the
farm alternately until 18 years old, then attended
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the Smithfield Seminary for nine months; taught
school; employed to take charge of the Simmons-
Yille factory store, buying and selling goods and
keeping the books; commenced the manufacture
of cotton goods in 1854, and continued the business
until 1863; appointed assessor of internal revenue
for the second district of Rhode Island in 1862,
which position he held until i\Jay, 1873; chosen
State senator from tlie town of Johnston in 1855;
elected a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1858, 1862, 1879, 1880, and 1881; and again
elected State senator in 1882; chairman of the
Ehode Island delegation in the Republican na-
tional convention at Chicago in 1880, and member
of the Republican national committee, 1880 and
1884; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Re-
publican; liis seat was declared vacant January 25,
1887.
Pitcher, Nathaniel, was born at Litchfield,
Conn., in 1777; received a limited education;
moved to Sandy Hill, N. Y. ; several years a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives; delegate
to the State constitutional convention of 1821;
lieutenant-governor of New York in 1826 and
acting governor (vice Governor Clinton, deceased),
1827-1829; elected a Representative from New
York to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Twenty-
second Congresses as a Democrat; died at Sandy
Hill, X. Y., May 25, 1836.
Pitkin, Timothy, was born at Farmington,
Conn., January 21, 1765; graduated from Yale
College in 1785; studied lav7and began practice at
New Haven; several years a member of the State
house of representatives and five years speaker;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses; died at
New Haven, Conn., December 18, 1847.
Pitman, Charles W., was a native of New
Jersey; received a common school education;
moved to Pottsville, Pa.; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first Congress aa
a Whig.
Pitney, Mahlon, of Morristown, N. J., was
born in that city February 5, 1858 ; entered Prince-
ton College in 1875 and graduated in 1879; studied
law for three years, and admitted to the bar in
1882; never a candidate for public oflBce until
1894, when elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as
a Republican ; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress ;
resigned January 10, 1899, taking his seat as a
State senator in New Jersey.
Plaisted, Harris M., was born at Jefferson,
N. H., November 2, 1828; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law, and in 1856 began practice at
Bangor, Me. ; served in the Union Army as colonel
brigadier-general, and major-general by brevet
member of the State legislature in 1867 and 1868,
delegate to the Republican national convention at
Chicago in 1868; attorney-general of Maine in
1873, 1874, and 1875; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Forty-fourth Congress (vice
Samuel F. Heresey, deceased), serving from De-
cember 6, 1875, to March 3, 1877; died in 1898.
Plant, David, was a native of Stratford, Conn •
graduated from Yale College in 1804; member of
the State house of representatives 1819-20 and
Its speaker; State senator 1821-1823; lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut 1823-1827; elected a
Representative from Connecticut to the Twentieth
Congress; died at Stratford, Conn., October 18,
Plants, Tobias A. , was born in Beaver County,
Pa., March 17, 1811; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Pomeroy, Ohio;
served several years as a member of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a
Federalist.
Plater, George, was born in Maryland in 1736;
graduated from William and Mary College in
1753; studied law and began practice at Annapolis,
Md. ; delegate from Maryland to the Continental
Congress 1778-1781 ; president of the State consti-
tutional convention which ratified the Federal
Constitution; governor of Maryland in 1792; died
at Annapolis, Md., February 10, 1792.
Plater, Thomas, was a native of Annapolis,
Md. ; received a limited education; studied and
practiced law; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Seventh and
Eighth Congresses.
Piatt, Jam.es H. , jr., was born at St. Johns,
Canada, July 13, 1837; his parents were American
citizens and residents of Vermont; received a lib-
eral education; graduated from the medical depart-
ment of the University of Vermont in 1859;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as first sergeant
of the Third Vermont Volunteers; served as cap-
tain; prisoner; appointed lieutenant-colonel and
assigned to duty as chief quartermaster of the
Sixth Corps, and declined; settled in Petersburg,
Va., April 6, 1865; elected a member of the con-
stitutional convention of Virginia in 1867; moved
to Norfolk; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican ; defeated as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Forty-fourth Congress.
Piatt, Jonas, was ))orn at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., June 30, 1769; received a limited educa-
tion; studied and practiced law; held various
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Sixth Congress; appointed a justice
of the supreme court of New York February 23
1814; died at Peru, N. Y., February 22, 1834.
Piatt, Orville H., of West Meriden, Conn.,
was bom at Washington, Conn., July 19, 1827;
received an academic education; studied law at
Litchfield; admitted to the bar in 1849, and prac-
ticed at Meriden; clerk of the State house of Con-
necticut in 1855-56; secretary of state of Connect-
icut m 1857; member of the State senate in
1861-62; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1864 and 1869, serving latter year as
speaker; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican, to succeed William H. Barnum, Dem-
ocrat (who had been elected to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Orris S. Ferry, Repub-
lican); took his seat March 18, 1879; reelected in
1885, 1891, 1897, and 1903.
Piatt, Thomas Collier, of Owego, N. Y., was
born there July 15, 1833; prepared for college at
the Owego Academy; member of the class of 1853
of Yale College, but was compelled to give up the
course in that institution on account of ill health;
received the honorary degree of M. A. from that
college in 1876; entered mercantile life, and active
therein; president of the Tioga National Bank
at Its organization; became largely interested
in the lumbering business in Michigan; county
clerk of the county of Tioga 1859-1861; elected
to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses:
elected United States Senator January 18 1881
and resigned that office May 16 of the same year'
chosen secretary and director of the United States
BIOGRAPHIES.
747
Express Company in 1879, and in 1880 elected
president of the company; member and president
oi the board of quarantine commissioners of New
York from 1880 to 1888; delegate to the national
Republican conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888,
1892, 1896, and 1900; member of the national Re-
publican committee; elected United States Senator
in 1896; took his seat March 4, 1897; reelected
January 21, 1903, to succeed himself, for the term
ending March 3, 1909.
Piatt, Zephauiah, ■ was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1740; received a thorough Eng-
lish education; studied law and practiced; a Dele-
gate from ^^ew York to the Continental Congress
1784-1786; district judge for several years; died at
Plattsburg, N. Y., September 12, 1807.
Pleasants, James, was born in Goochland
County, Va., October 24, 1769; received a classical
education; studied law and began practice at
Goochland; a State representative in 1796; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Congresses
as a Democrat; elected United States Senator from
Virginia (vice J. W. Eppes, resigned), serving
from December 14, 1819, to March 1, 1822, when
he resigned to become governor of Virginia; dele-
fate to the State constitutional convention 1829-30;
led near Goochland, Va., November 9, 1836.
Plowman, Th.omas Scales, of Talladega, Ala.,
was born June 8, 1843; joined the Confederate
army in May, 1862; enlisted in Company F, Fifty-
first Alabama Cavalry, and was engaged in all the
battles of the regiment from Murfreesboro to
Atlanta; severely wounded at the battle of Atlanta
on July 22, 1864; after ' the war engaged in the
mercantile business; three times mayor of Talla-
dega; represented his district at the national con-
vention 111 St. Louis in 1888; member of the Metho-
dist church; frequently represented his church at
the annual conferences and at the general confer-
ence; for a number o^ years president of the first
national bank of Talladega, which he organized;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
his seat successfully contested by W. F. Aldrich,
who was seated February 9, 1898.
Plumb, Preston B., was born in Delaware
County, Ohio, October 12, 1837; received a com-
mon school education; learned the art of printing
and afterwards aided in establishing the Xenia
News; moved to Kansas in 1856; established the
Emporia News; member of the Leavenworth con-
stitutional convention in 1859; admitted to the bar
in 1861; elected to the lower house in 1862 and
was chairman of the judiciary committee, and
subsequently reporter of the supreme court; in
August of the same year entered the service as
second lieutenant in the Eleventh Kansas Infantry,
and served successively as captain, major, and
lieutenant-colonel of that regiment; member and
speaker of the Kansas house of representatives in
1867, and also a member in the following year;
having relinquished the practice of law on account
of failing health, he became president of the Em-
poria National Bank in 1873; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed James
M. Harvev, Republican, and took his seat March
4, 1877; reelected in 1883 and 1888; died Decem-
ber 20, 1891.
Plumb, Ralph, of Streator, 111., was born at
Busti, Chautauqua County, N. Y., March 29, 1816;
educated in common schools; brought up a mer-
chant's cierk, and a merchant for eighteen years;
elected in 1855 a member of the lower house of
the Ohio legislature; studied law and admitted to
practice; served four years in the Union Army as
captain and quartermaster of volunteers during the
civil war, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel; en-
gaged in coal mining and railroad building; mayor
of Streator 1882-1885; elected to the Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican.
Plumer, Arnold, of Franklin, Pa., was a na-
tive of that State; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Plumer, George, of Robbstown, Pa., was a na-
tive of Allegheny County, Pa. ; received a limited
education; elected a Representative from that
State to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nine-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Plumer, William, was born at Newburyport,
Mass., June 25, 1759; moved with his parents to
Epping, N. H., in 1768; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and began practice in 1787 at
Epping; held various local positions; served eight
years in the State house of representatives and two
years as speaker; president of the State senate for
two years; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1791-92; held various offices; elected a
United States Senator from New Hampshire (vice
James Sheaf e, resigned), serving from December 6,
1802, to March' 3, 1807; governor of New Hamp-
shire 1812-13 and 1816-1819; Presidential elector in
1820; devoted the remainder of his life to literary
pursuits; died at Epping, N. H., December 22,
1850.
Plumer, William, was born at Epping, N. H.,
October 9, 1789; graduated from Cambridge Col-
lege in 1809; studied law and admitted to the bar,
but never practiced; served several years in both
branches of the State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Sixteenth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Seven-
teenth and Eighteenth Congresses; member of the
constitutional convention in 1850; died at Epping,
N. H., September 18, 1854.
Plummer, Franklin E., was a native of Vir-
gmia; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice at Westville, Miss.; held
various local oflices; elected a Representative from
Mississippi to the Twenty-second and Twenty-
third Congresses; died at Jackson, Miss., Septem-
ber 24^J802;____
Poe, Washington, was elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Twenty-ninth Congress
as a Whig; did not take his seat, and resigned.
Poehler, Henry , of Henderson, Minn. , was born
at Lippe-Detmold, Germany, August 22, 1833; re-
ceived a common school education; emigrated to
the United States in April, 1848, and settled in
Iowa; moved to Henderson, Sibley County, Minn.,
in 1853; engaged in mercantile business; elected a
member of the first State legislature in 1857-58,
and reelected in 1865; elected State senator for
1872-73, and reelected for 1876-77; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for
reelection; in 1886 was Democratic candidate for
State treasurer, and was defeated; in 1896 moved
to Los Angeles, Cal.
Poindexter, George, was born in Louisa
County, Va., in 1779; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice in the Territory of
Mississippi in 1802; held various offices; elected a
Delegate from Mississippi Territory to the Tenth,
Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses; United States
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
district judge for the Territory; served in the war
of 1812; elected a Representative from Missiasippi
to the Fifteenth Congress; governor of Mississippi
1819-1821; appointed United States Senator, vice
R. H. Adams, deceased; subsequently elected,
serving from Decembers, 1830, to March 3, 1835;
moved to Kentucky and practiced law at Lexing-
ton; returned to Jackson, Miss.; died at Jackson,
Miss., September 5, 1853.
Poinsett, Joel Roberts, was born at Charles-
ton, S. C, March 2, 1779; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied medicine in Europe; sent to South
America by President Madison in 1809 to investi-
gate the prospects of the revolutionists there; re-
turned to South Carolina; held various local
offices; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses
as a Federalist; minister to Mexico 1825-1829;
Secretary of War under President Van Buren
1837-1841; died at Stateburg, S. C, December 12,
1851.
Poland, Luke P., was born at Westf ord, Vt.,
November 1, 1815; received only a common school
and academic education; studied law, and ad-
mitted to the bar in December, 1836; register of
probate in 1839 and 1840, and prosecuting attor-
ney of Lamoille County in 1844 and 1845; mem-
ber of the constitutional convention in 1843 ; elected
a judge of the supreme court of Vermont in 1848,
and elected annualljr eighteen times, becoming
chief justice in 1860; in November, 1865, resigned
the office of chief justice and accepted an appoint-
ment to the Senate of the United States to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Judge CoUamer;
served in the Senate through the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress; elected to the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-
second, and Forty-third Congresses; elected to
the Vermont house of representatives in 1878;
elected by the legislature a trustee of the Uni-
versity of Vermont and State Agricultural College;
received the degree of doctor of laws from the Uni-
versity of Vermont in 1861 ; president of the First
National Bank of St. Johnsbury for twenty years;
chairman of the general council and executive
committee of the National Bar Association, elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican;
declined a renomination; died at his countrv place
in AVaterville, Vt., July 2, 1887.
Polk, James Knox, was born near Little Sugar
Creek, Mecklenburg County, N. C, November 2,
1795; moved with his parents to Tennessee in 1806;
graduated from the University of North Carolina
in 1818 with the highest honors; studied law, and
in 1820 admitted to practice; served in the Ten-
nessee State legislature 1823-1825; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Nineteenth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Twentieth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
and Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving as" Speaker
from December 7, 1835; governor of Tennessee in
1839; elected President of the United States in
1844 as a Democrat, serving from 1845 to 1849; de-
clined a renomination; died at Nashville, Tenn.,
June 15, 1849.
Polk, Rufus King', was born in Maury County,
Tenn., August 23, 1866; educated at Webb's Acad-
emy, Culleoka, Tenn., and Lehigh University,
South Bethlehem, Pa., graduating as mining engi-
neer; served as first lieutenant Company F, Twelfth
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in the
war with Spain; interested in the manufacture of
iron and steel as general manager of the Danville
Bessemer Company; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to tlie Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat, serving until his death
at Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1902.
Polk, Trusten, was born in Sussex County,
Del., May 29, 1811; graduated from Yale College
in 1831; studied law and began practice at St.
Louis, _Mo., in 1835; a delegate to the Missouri
State constitutional convention in 1845 ; inaugurated
as governor of Missouri in January, 1857, but soon
afterwards resigned; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Missouri as a Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1857, to January 10, 1862, when he was
expelled for <lisloyaltv; died at St. Louis, Mo.,
April 16, 1876.
Polk, WilUam H. (brother of James K. Polk),
was born in Maury County, Tenn., May 24, 1815;
graduated from the University of Tennessee;
studied law and began practice at Columbia in 1839;
minister to Naples 1845-1847; major in the Mexi-
can war 1847-48; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-secdnd Congress as a
Democrat; opposed secession; died at Nashville,
Tenn., December 16, 1862.
Pollard, Henry M., was born at Plymouth,
Vt., June 14, 1836; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1857; served in the Union Army as ma-
jor of the Eighth Regiment of Vermont Volun-
teers; moved to Chillicothe, Mo., in 1865; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-fifth
Congress as a Republican.
Pollock, James, was born at Milton, Pa., Sep-
tember 11, 1810; graduated from Princeton College
in 1831; studied law anS practiced ; resided at Mil-
ton; a judge of the court of common pleas; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig, vice Henry Frick, de-
ceased; reelected to the Twenty-ninth and Thir-
tieth Congresses; elected governor of Pennsylvania
as a Union Republican, serving fi-om 1855-1858;
delegate to the peace convention at Washington,
D. C, in 1861; director of the mint at Philadelphia
1861-1867; died at Look Haven, Pa., April 19, 1890.
Polsley, Daniel, was born near Fairmount,
Va., November 28, 1803; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced several years;
became a farmer; member of the West Virginia
constitutional convention in 1861; elected gov-
ernor of the loyal State of Virginia in 1861; elected
judge of the seventh judicial district of West Vir-
ginia; elected a Representative from West Virginia
to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican; died, at
Pomt Pleasant, W. Va., October 14, 1876.
Pomeroy, Cliarles, was born at Meriden,
Conn., September 3, 1825; received a liberal edu-
cation ; studied law and practiced ; engaged in farm-
ing; moved to Iowa in 1855; a Presidential elector
from Iowa on the Lincoln ticket in 1860 ; appointed
receiver of the United States land office at Fort
Dodgem 1861; elected a Representative from Iowa
to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Pomeroy, Samuel Clark, was born at South-
ampton, Mass., January 3, 1816; graduated from
Amherst College, Massachusetts; moved to New
York, where he resided several years and returned
to Massachusetts; held various local offices; mem-
ber of the legislature in 1852; moved to Kansas in
1854; settled in Lawrence and in 1859 was its
mayor; delegate to the national Republican con-
vention of 1856 and 1860; elected a United States
Senator from Kansas in 1861 and again in 1867 ■
defeated as a candidate for the United States Sen-
ate m 1873- died at Whitinsville, Mass., August
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749
Pomeroy, Theodore M., was born at Cayuga,
N. Y., December 31, 1824; received a classical
education and graduated from Hamilton College,
New York; studied law and practiced; district
attorney of Cayuga County 1850-1856; member of
the general assembly of New York in 1857; elected
a Kepresentative from New York to the Thirty-
seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses as a Republican.
Pond, Benjamin, was born in New York State;
received a limited education; a State representa-
tive 1808-1810; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat; again
elected to the Fourteenth Congress, but died be-
fore taking his seat, at Schroon Lake, N. Y., June
14, 1815.
Pool, John, was born in Pasquotank County,
N. C, June 16, 1826; graduated from the Uni-
versity of "North Carolina iri 1847; studied law
and practiced; elected a State senator in 1856,
1858, 1864, and 1865; was a member of the State
constitutional convention in 1865; elected a United
States Senator from North Carolina in 1865, but
not permitted to take his seat; again elected in
1868, and served until March 3, 1873; died at Wash-
ington, D. C, August 18, 1884.
Poole, Theodore Ii., of Syracuse, N. Y., was
born at Elbridge, Onondaga County, N. Y., of
New England ancestry, April 10, 1840; educated
in the common schools of his native county; en-
listed as quartermaster-sergeant in the One hun-
dred and twenty-second Regiment New York
Volunteers July, 1862; wounded at the battle of
Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 1864, losing his left
arm; discharged as captain and brevet major July
3, 1865; county clerk of Onondaga County 1868-
1870; United States pension agent for the western
district of New York from 1879 to 1888; com-
mander of the Department of New York, Grand
Army of the Republic, 1892; engaged in the
manufacture of salt and interested in various
manufacturing and other corporations; director of
the Bank of Syracuse; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican.
Pope, John, was born in Prince William
County, Va., in 1770; received a hberal education;
studied law, and moved to Springfield, Ky., where
he began practice; served several years as a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives; a Presi-
dential elector on the Jefferson ticket in 1801;
elected a United States Senator from Kentucky as
a Democrat, serving from 1807 to 1813; Territorial
governor of Arkansas 1829-1835; returned to
Springfield, Ky. ; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat; de-
feated for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress; died at Springfield, Ky., July 12, 1845.
Pope, Nathaniel, was born at Louisville, Ky.,
January 5, 1784; graduated from the Transylvania
University; studied law and in 1804 located at St.
Genevieve, Mo., where he began practice; moved
to Springfield, 111., and appointed secretary of
the Territory of Illinois in 1809; elected a Dele-
gate from that Territory to the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Congresses; appointed United States
iudse for the district of Illinois in 1818, and held
that position until he died, at St. Louis, Mo., Janu-
ary 23, 1850.
Pope, Patrick H., was born in 1808; resided
at Louisville, Ky. ; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-third Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection to the Twenty-fourth
Congress; died at Louisville, Ky., May 4, 1841.
Poppleton, Early P., was born in Richland
County, Ohio, September 29, 1834; received a
classical education; studied law and began prac-
tice at Elyria, Ohio; elected to the Ohio State
senate in 1870; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as
a Democrat.
Porter, Albert G. , was born at Lawrenceburg,
Ind., April 20, 1824; graduated from Asbury Uni-
versity in 1843; studied law and in 1845 began
practice at Indianapolis; held various local offices;
reporter of the Indiana supreme court in 1853;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a
Republican; appointed First Comptroller of the
Treasury March 5, 1878; died in 1897.
Porter, Alexander, was born in Ireland in
1786; came to the United States while quite young,
with his uncle, and located at Nashville, Tenn. ;
received a limited education ; studied law and began
practice at Attakapas, La.; delegate to the con-
vention which framed the State constitution ; judge
of the State supreme court for fifteen years; elected
a United States Senator from Louisiana as a Whig
(vice J. S. Johnston, deceased), serving from Janu-
ary 6, 1834, to January 5, 1837, when he resigned;
again elected to the United States Senate, serving
from December 4, 1843, to January 13, 1844, when
he died at Attakapas, La.
Porter, Augustus S. , was born at Canandaigua,
N. Y., January 18, 1798; graduated from Union
College in 1818; studied law and began practice at
Detroit, Mich.; mayor of Detroit in 1838; elected
a United States Senator from Michigan as a Whig,
serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1845;
moved to Niagara Falls, N. Y., in 1848, and died
there September 18, 1872.
Porter, Charles H. , was born at Cairo, N. Y.;
received a liberal education ; studied law and be-
gan practice in Greene County; entered the Union
Army in' 1861 ; moved to Norfolk, Va. ; held va-
rious local offices; member of the constitutional
convention of Virginia in 1867 and 1868; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Forty-first and
Forty-second Congresses as a Republican; defeated
for reelection to the Forty-third Congress as the
Independent candidate.
Porter, Gilchrist, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a limited education; moved to BowHng
Green, Mo.; elected a Representative from Mis-
souri to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig;
defeated as the Whig candidate for reelection to
the Thirty-third Congress; elected to the Thirty-
fourth Congress.
Porter, James, was born at Williamstown,
Mass.; graduated from Williams College; studied
law and began practice at Skaneateles, N. Y. ; served
two terms in the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fifteenth Congress; register of the court of chan-
cery at Albany, where he died.
Porter, John, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a limited education; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Ninth Congress
(vice M. Leib, resigned); reelected to the Tenth
and Eleventh Congresses.
Porter, Peter Buel, was born at Salisbury,
Conn., August 4, 1773; graduated from Yale College
in 1791 ; studied law and began practice at Canan-
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daigua, N. Y.; held various local offices; elected
a Bepreaentative from New York to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses as a Democrat; served as
a major-general in the war of 1812; elected to the
Fourteenth Congress, serving from December 4,
1815, to 1816, when he resigned; secretary of state
of New York 1815-16; appointed by John Quincy
Adams Secretary of War, serving from 1828 to
1829; died at Niagara Falls, N. Y., March 20, 1844.
Porter, Timotliy H. , was a native of New
Haven, Conn.; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and began practice at Clean, N. Y. ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1816-17,
and the State senate 1823; elected a Bepreaenta-
tive from New York to the Nineteenth Congress;
again a member of the State senate 1828-1831, and
of the State house of representatives 1838-1840.
Posey, Thomas, was born in Virginia July 9,
1750; received a limited education; held various
local offices; served in the French and Indian
war, also the Revolutionary war; appointed brig-
adier-general in 1793; moved to Kentucky; served
in the State senate; served as lieutenant-governor
of Kentucky for four years; moved to Louisiana;
appointed a United States Senator from Louisiana
(vice John N. Destrahan, resigned), serving from
December 7, 1812, to February 5, 1813; governor
of Indian Territory in 1813, and appointed Indian
agent in 1816 and held the position until hia death
at Shawneetown, 111., March 19, 1818.
Post, George A., of Susquehanna Depot, Pa.,
was born at Cuba, Allegany County, N. Y., Sep-,
tember 1, 1854; received an academic education;
for several years filled the position of secretary of
the motive power department of the Erie Railway;
studied law and admitted to practice; one of the
owners and editors of the Montrose Democrat;
elected burgess of Susquehanna Depot in February,
1877, and served one year; a candidate for Presi-
dential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1880;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; moved to New York City and entered the
railroad business.
Post, Jotham, was a native of New York;
graduated from Columbia College; member of
the State house of representatives 1794-1797;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist.
Post, Morton E., of Cheyenne, Wyo., was
born in Monroe County, N. Y., December 25,
1840; received an academic education; emigrated
to Colorado in 1860, and in 1867 moved to that
portion of Dakota now Wyoming; elected county
commissioner of Laramie County in 1870 and
reelected in 1872 without opposition; elected a
member of the legislative council in 1878; engaged
in business as a banker and stock grower; elected
to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; moved to southern California.
Post, Philip Sidney, was born at Florida, Or-
ange County, N. Y., March 19, 1833; received a
classical education, graduating from Union College,
Schenectady, N. Y., in 1855; entered the Pough-
keepsie law school; admitted to the bar in Illinois
in 1856; entered the Union Army in 1861 as second
lieutenant, Fifty-ninth Ulinoia Infantry; appointed
adjutant July 21, 1861 ; promoted to major January
1, 1862; severely wounded at the battle of Pea
Ridge, Ark., March 7, 1862; promoted to colonel
March 19, 1862; assigned to the command of the
First Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, October 1, 1862;
transferred to the command of the Second Brigade
Third Division, Fourth Army Corps,- August, 1864,
and commanded the division at the battle of Love-
joy Station; desperately wounded by a grape shot
at the battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864;
promoted on the same day brigadier-general by
brevet; in command of western Texas in 1865;
appointed consul to Vienna in 1866; promoted
consul-general to Austria-Hungary 1874; resigned
in 1879; commander Department of Illinois, Grand
Army of the Republic, in 1886; elected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican, serving
until his death January 6, 1895.
Poston, Charles D. , was born in Hardin
County, Ky., April 20, 1825; attended the public
schools; moved to California in 1850 and located
at San Francisco; clerk in the custom-house at
San Francisco for four years; moved to Arizona
in 1854; superintendent of Indian affairs; elected
a Delegate from Arizona to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Republican.
Potter, Allen, was born in Saratoga County,
N. Y., October 2, 1818; received a common school
education; moved to Michigan in 1838; located at
Kalamazoo in 1845; engaged in manufacturing and
banking; held various local offices; elected a Rep-
resentative from Michigan to the Forty-fourth
Congress as an Independent candidate, nominated
by the Democrats and Liberals.
Potter, Clarkson Nott, was born at Schenec-
tady, N. Y., April 25, 1825; graduated from Union
College in 1842; graduated from Rensselaer Insti-
tute as a civil engineer in 1843; surveyor in Wis-
consin; studied law and began practice in New
York City in 1847; elected a Representative from
New York; to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-
third, and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat;
died at New York City January 23, 1882.
. Potter, Elisha Keynolds, was born at South
Kingston, R. I., November 5, 1764; blacksmith,
farmer, and soldier; studied law and began prac-
tice at South Kingston; served several vears as a
member of the State house of representatives:
elected a Representative from Rhode Island to
the Fourth Congress (vice B. Bourne, resigned) as
a FederaUst; reelected to the Fifth Congress, serv-
ing from December 19, 1796, to 1797; when he
resigned; elected to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and
Thirteenth Congresses; defeated aa a candidate for
governor of Rhode Island in 1818; died at South
Kingston, R. I., September 26, 1835.
Potter, Elisha R. , was born at Kingston, R. I.,
June 20, 1811 ; graduated from Harvard College in
1830; served several years as a member of the
State house of representatives; adjutant-general of
the State in 1835 and 1836; elected a Representa-
tive from Rhode Island to the Twentv-eighth
Congress as a Whig; State commissioner of public
schools 1849-1854, when he resigned; judge of the
Rhode Island supreme court, March 16, 1868, to
his death, April 10, 1882.
Potter, Emery D., was a native of Ohio; stud-
ied law and began practice at Toledo, Ohio; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty -eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; elected to the Thirty-first Congress; district
judge of the Territory of Utah.
Potter, John F., was born at Augusta, Me.,
May 11, 1817; received a classical education; stud-
ied law and in 1857 began pragtice at East Troy,
N. Y.; served one term in the State house of rep-
resentatives; elected a Representative from Wis-
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751
consin to Oie Thirty-fifth Congress as a RepubUcan ;
reelected to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congresses; defeated as the Republican candidate
for reelection; appointed consul-general of the
United States to the British Provinces in North
America; died in 1899.
Potter, Orlando B. , was born at Charlemont,
Mass., March 10, 1823; educated at district school,
Williams College, and Dane Law School, Cam-
bridge; admitted to the bar at Boston, February
12, 1848; practiced law in Boston and Middlesex
County, Mass., five years, during which time he
became interested in manufacturing; moved to
New York in 1853; continued there in active and
extensive business until 1876, when Jie withdrew
from manufacturing and commercial business and
devoted himself to farming and to the care and
improvement of his property in New York; on
August 14, 1861 , he laid before Secretary Chase the
plan for our national banking system; nominated
for Congress in the Tenth Congressional district
of New York in 1878, but defeated; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Union Democrat; died
in 1894.
Potter, Robert, was born at Granville, N. C. ;
received a common school education; a midship-
man in the U. S. Navy 1815-1821; studied law
and began practice at Halifax, N. C. ; member of
the house of commons of North Carolina in 1826;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
Potter, Samuel J. , w^as born in Rhode Island
in 1750; received a liberal education; studied law
and practiced; Presidential elector in 1792 and
1797; elected a United States Senator from Rhode
Island, serving from March 4, 1803, to October 1,
1804, when he died.
Potter, ■William W., was born in 1790; re-
ceived a liberal education at Belief onte, Pa. , where
he resided; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but died,
before taking his seat, at Belief onte. Pa., October
28, 1839.
Pottle, Em.ory B., was a native of Naples,
N. Y.; received a classical education; studied law
and began practice at Naples, N. Y. ; a State rep-
resentative in 1847; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses as a Republican.
Potts, David, was born in Chester County, Pa.,
in 1793; received a liberal education atPottstown;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Whig; died at Potts-
town, Pa., January 17, 1863.
Potts, Bicliard, was born at Upper Marlboro,
Md., in July, 1753; a Delegate to the Continental
Congress from Maryland (vice Charles Carroll, re-
signed), serving from February 4, 1793, to March
1, 1796, when he resigned; died m Frederick
County, Md., November 26, 1808.
Pou, Edward "William, of Smithfield, N. C,
was born at Tuskegee, Ala., September 9, 1863;
Presidential elector in 1888; elected solicitor of
the fourth judicial district of North Carolina in
1890, 1894, and in 1898; while serving his third
term as solicitor was elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress and reelected to the Fifty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Pound, Thaddeus C, of Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
was born at Elk, Warren County, Pa., December
6, 1833; received an academic education at Milton
Academy, Wisconsin, and Rushford, Allegany
County, N. Y.; moved to Rock County, Wis., in
May, 1856, and resided there, engaged mainly in
the manufacture of lumber and the mercantile
business, being president of the Union Lumbering
Company and of the Chippewa Falls and Western
Railway; a member of the legislative assembly of
Wisconsin in 1864, 1866, 1867, and 1869, serving
the last year as speaker pro tempore; lieutenant-
governor of Wisconsin 1870-71; delegate to the
Republican national convention at Philadelphia
in 1872; elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Powel, Samuel, of Tennessee, "was elected a
Representative from that State to the Fourteenth
Congress.
Powell, Alfred H. , was born in Loudoun
County, Va., March 6, 1781; graduated from
Princeton College; studied law, and in 1800 began
practice at Winchester, Va. ; served several years
as a member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Nineteenth Congress; a delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention of 1830; died in 1831.
Powell, Cuthbert, was born at Alexandria,
Va., in 1779; received a liberal education; studied
and practiced law; mayor of Alexandria; moved
to Loudoun County; held various local offices;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; died at
Langoolen, Va., May 8, 1849.
Powell, Joseph, was born at Towanda, Pa.,
June 23, 1828; received a liberal education; mer-
chant; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat; de-
feated for reelection to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Powell, Lazarus /W., was born in Henderson
County, Ky., October 6, 1812; graduated from St.
Joseph College, Bardstown, in 1833; studied law,
and in 1835 began practice; served in the State
legislature as a member in 1836; a Presidential
elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844; .gov-
ernor of Kentucky 1851-1855; elected a United
States Senator from Kentucky as a Democrat, serv-
ing from 1859 to 1865; delegate to the national
Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died
near Henderson^ Ky., July 3^ 1867.
Powell, Levin, was born in Loudoun County,
Va., in 1738; received a liberal education; served
in the Revolutionary Army and rose to the rank
of lieutenant-colonel; a delegate to the State con-
vention which ratified the Federal Constitution;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Sixth
Congress as a Federalist; died at Bedford, Pa.,
August 6, 1810.
Powell, Paulus, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education at Amherst; held vari-
ous local ofiices; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-
third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses
aa a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-sixth Congress.
Power, Thomas C, of Helena, Mont., was
born on a farm near Dubuque, Iowa, May 22, .839;
received his primary education in the common
schools, and took a three years' course in civil
engineering at Sinsiniwa College, Wisconsin; fol-
lowed his profession summers and taught school
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CONGRESSIONAL DIRECT KY.
winters for three years; went with a surveying
party to Dakota in 1880; soon thereafter engaged
in the mercantile business on the Missouri Eiver,
and continued in that business till 1867, in which
year he located at Fort Benton; president of the
''Benton P." line of steamers; interested in cattle,
mines, and various mercantile companies; located
at Helena in 1878; elected a member of the first
constitutional convention of Montana in 1883;
delegate to the Eepublican national convention in
1888; nominated by the Republicans of his State
for governor in 1889, and defeated; elected to the
United States Senate January 2, 1890; took his
seat April 16, 1890; termi of service expired March
3, 1895.
PoTvers, Gersliom, of Auburn, N. Y., was
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
Powers, H. Henry, of Morrisville, Vt., was
born at Morristown, Lamoille County, Vt., May
29, 1835; graduated from the University of Ver-
montin 1855; admitted to the bar in 1858; a mem-
ber of the house of representatives of Vermont in
1858; prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County in
1861-62; member of council of censors of Vermont
in 1869; member of the constitutional convention
of the State in 1870; member of State senate
1872-78; speaker of the house of representatives
in 1874; judge of the supreme court of Vermont
from December, 1874, to December, 1890; elected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Republican.
Powers, Lewellyn, of Houlton, Me., was born
atPittsfield, Somerset County, Me., in 1839; gradu-
ated from the Colburu Classical Institute; attended
Colby University two years, and graduated from
the law department of the University of Albany,
K. Y.; Colb}' has since given him the honorary
degrees otA. M. and LL. D. ; admitted to the bar
in 1861, and began the practice of his profession at
Houlton; attorney for the State for the county of
Aroostook 1864-1871; collector of customs for the
district of Aroostook 1868-1872; member of the
house of representatives, State legislature, for six
terms, and speaker of the house one of them;
elected governor of Maine in 1896, and reelected
in 1898; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress from
the then Fourth district, and elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Republican in April, 1901,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Hon. Charles A. Boutelle; reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Powers, Samuel Leland, of Newton, N. H. , was
born at Cornish, N. H., October26, 1848; fitted for
college at Kimball Union Academy and at Phillips
Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1874; subsequently
studied law at the law school of the University of
the City of New York and at Worcester, Mass •
admitted to the bar in 1876; practiced law in Bos-
ton; member of the law firm of Powers, Hall &
Jones; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and
reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Poydras, Julien, was born at Nantes, France,
April 3, 1746; received a liberal education; founded
the Female Orphan Asylum at New Orleans-
elected a Delegate from Orleans Territory to the
Eleventh Congress; died at Pointe Coupee, La
June 25, 1824. '
Pratt, Daniel B., was born at Palermo, Me.,
October 26, 1813; moved with his parents to New
Vork; graduated from Hamilton College in 1831-
moved to Indiana in 1832; moved to Indianapolis,
Ind., in 1834; studied Ian, and in 1836 began
practice at Logansport, Ind. ; served as a member
of the Indiana State legislature in 1851 and 1853;
elected a Representative to the Forty-first Con-
gress; before taking his seat elected a United
States Senator from Indiana as a Republican, serv-
ing from 1869 to 1875; Commissioner of Internal
Revenue from May 15, 1875, to August 1, 1876; died
June 17, 1877, at Logansport, Ind.
Pratt, Henry O. , was born at Foxcraft, Me.,
February 11,1838; received a liberal education;
graduated from the law department of Harvard
University; moved to Iowa in 1862; served in the
Union Army; began the practice of law at Charles
City in 1864; a member of the State house of
representatives 1869-1871; elected a Representa-
tive from Iowa to the Forty-third and Forty-
fourth Congresses.
Pratt, James T., was bom at Middletown,
Conn., in 1805; received a limited education;
farmer; elected a Representative from Connecti-
cut to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Pratt, Thomas G. , was born at Washington,
D. C, February 18, 1804; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied la^w and began practice at Upper
Marlboro, Md. ; served several years as a member
of the State house of representatives, and six years
in the State senate; governor of Maryland 1844-
1847; elected a United States Senator from Mary-
land (vice R. Johnson, resigned), serving from
January 14, 1850, to March 3, 1857; a delegate to
the national Democratic convention in 1864; died
at Baltimore, Md., November 9, 1869.
Pratt, Zadock, was born atStephentown, N. Y.,
October 30, 1790; received a limited education;
tanner; served as a State senator in 1830; a Presi-
dential elector on the Van Buren ticket in 1836;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress; Presidential elector
on the Pierce ticket in 1852; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Baltimore in
1852; died at Bergen, N. J., April 6, 1871.
Prentiss, Jolm H., was born at Worcester,
Mass., April 17, 1784; printer; moved to Coopers-
town, N. Y., and published the Freeman's Jour-
nal 1808-1849; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Cooperstown, N. Y.,
June 26, 1864.
Prentiss, Samuel, was born at Stonington,
Conn., March 31, 1782; located at Northtield,
Mass.; received a liberal education; studied law
at Brattleboro, Vt., and began practicing at Mont-
peherin 1803; served as a State representative;
elected chief justice of the State supreme court in
1850; elected a United States Senator from Ver-
mont as a ^^'hig, serving from December 5, 1831,
to April 11, 1842, when he resigned; appointed
]udge of the United States district court of Ver-
mont in 1842 and occupied that position when he
died, at Montpelier, Vt., January 15, 1857.
1 ■^/®?J^®^' Sergeant Smith, was born at Port-
land, Me., September 30, 1808; graduated from
Bowdom College in 1826; studied law atGorham;
moved to Mississippi and began practice at Vicks-
burg; member of the State house of representa-
tives m 1835; elected a Representative from Mis-
sissippi to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig,
but the election was set aside by the House; again
BIOGRAPHIES.
758
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from
May 30, 1838, to March 3, 1839; moved to Louisi-
ana; died at Longwood, near Natchez, Miss.,
July 1, 1850.
Prescott, Cyrus D., of Rome, N. Y., was born
at New Hartford, Oneida County, N. Y., August
15, 1836; received an academic education; studied
law- at Utica, N. Y., and completed his legal
studies at Rome in 1859; member of the board of
aldermen of the city of Rome in 1874-1876; mem-
ber of the assembly of the State of New York in
1878; elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican.
Preston, Francis, was born in Greenfield, Va.,
August 2, 1765; received a liberal education; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Third and
Fourth Congresses; died at Columbia, 8. C, May
25, 1835.
Preston, Jacob A., of Perrymansville, Md.,
was a native of that State; received a common
school education; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-eighth Congress.
Preston, William, was born near Louisville,
Ky., October 16, 1816; graduated from St. Joseph's
College, Kentucky; studied law and began practice
at Louisville; served in the civil war as lieutenant-
colonel of Kentucky volunteiers; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; member of the
State house of representatives 1850-51 ; Presidential
elector on the Scott ticket in 1852; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the- Thirty-second
Congress (vice H. Marshall, resigned) as a "Whig;
reelected to the Thirty-third_Congress; minister to
Spain 1858-1861; served in {he Confederate army
and attained the rank of major-general; again
served in the State legislature in 1868; died at
Lexington, Ky., September 21, 1887.
Preston, "William Ballard, was born at Smith-
field, Va., November 25, 1805; received a limited
education; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; Secretary of
the Navy 1849-50; served in the Confederate con-
gress; died at Smithfleld, Va., November 14, 1862.
Preston, William Campbell, was born at
Philadelphia, Pa., December 27, 1794; graduated
from the College of South Carolina in 1812; stud-
ied law, and in 1823 began practice at Columbia,
S. C; served as a member of the State legislature;
elected a United States Senator from South Caro-
lina as a Calhoun Nullifier, serving from December
2, 1833, until December, 1842, when he resigned;
president of the College of South CaroHna 1846-
1851, and trustee 1851-1857; died at Columbia,
S. C, May 22, 1860.
Price, Andrew, of Lafourche Parish, La., was
born April 2, 1854, at Chatsworth Plantation, near
Franklin, St. Marys Parish, La. ; attended various
private schools and the collegiate department of
Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn. ; grad-
uated from the law department of the same uni-
versity in 1875; continued his legal studies for two
years in the law department of Washington Uni-
versity, at St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from this
university in 1877; practiced law in St. Louis until
the fall of 1880, when he returned to Louisiana;
engaged in sugar planting; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of his father-in-law,
Hon. Edward J. Gay; reelected to the Fifty-sec-
ond, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses.
Price, Hiram, was bom in Washington County,
Pa., January 10, 1814; received a common school
education; for sometime a merchant's clerk, then
for a few years a farmer; merchant in a small way
on his own account; moved to Davenport, Iowa, in
1844; elected president of the State Bank of Iowa in
1859, and continued in that position until 1866,
when the several branches were changed to national
banks; when the war of the rebellion broke out
and the State had no available funds, he quartered
and subsisted, from his individual means, about
5,000 infantry and cavalry for several months, at the
request of the governor; appointed paymaster-
general, the only ofiice of that rank the State has
ever had; elected a Representative from Iowa to
the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Con-
gresses as a Republican, declining arenomination;
president of the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad
Company, and resigned after two years' service;
elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died May 30, 1901.
Price, Hugh. H., of Black River Falls, Wis.,
was born at Black River Falls, Jackson County,
Wis., December 2, 1859; received a public school
education, with a short course in the University
of Wisconsin; engaged in milling and lumber busi-
ness; elected to the Forty -ninth Congress as a
Republican, to fill a vacancy caused by the death
of his father, Hon. William T. Price, and took his
seat February 2, 1887.
Price, Rodman M. , was born in Sussex County,
N. J., May 5, 1816; received a classical education
at Princeton College, but on account of illness did
not graduate; studied law and admitted to the
bar; purser in the Navy in 1840, and stationed at
San Francisco when gold was discovered in Cali-
fornia; returned to New Jersey; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat; defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for reelection; delegate to the
peace congress at Washington, D. C, in 1861; died
in 1894.
Price, Samuel, was born in Fauquier County,
Va., August 18, 1805; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Lewisburg; held
various local ofiices; served as a member of the State
house of representatives 1834-1836; prosecuting at-
torney for Braxton County 1836-1850; again served
in the State house of representatives 1847-1852,
excepting one year; delegate to the constitutional
convention 1850-51 and 1861; elected lieutenant-
governor of Virginia in 1863, and continued until
the close of the war; delegate to the constitutional
convention of West Virginia in 1872, its president;
appointed a United States Senator from Virginia
(vice A. T. Caperton, deceased), serving from De-
cember 4, 1876, to January 31, 1877; died at Lewis-
burg, W. Va., February 25, 1884.
Price, Sterling, was born in Prince Edward
Countr, Va., September 11, 1809; receiveda liberal
education; moved to Keytesville, Mo; elected a
Representative from Missouri to the Twenty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December 1,
1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned to take
command of a regiment of vohmteer cavalry for
the Mexican war; governor of Missouri 1853-1857;
served in the Confederate army ; after the war went
to Mexico, but returned to Missouri; died at St.
Louis, Mo., September 29, 1867.
Price, Thomas L. , was born near Danville, Va.,
January 19, 1809; received a limited education;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Thirty-seventh Congress (vice
H. Doc. 458-
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754
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOEY.
J. W. Reid, expelled) as a Democrat, serving from
January 21, 1862, to March 3, 1863; defeated for
reelection; a delegate to the national Democratic
convention at Chicago in 1864; died at Jefferson
City, Mo., July 15, 1870.
Price, William P. , was born January 29, 1835;
printer; attended Furman University, at Green-
ville, S. C, in 1854, but left before graduating to
take editorial charge of a newspaper; studied law
and in 1856 began practice at Greenville, S. C. ;
served several years as a member of the State leg-
islature; moved to Georgia in 1868; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
Price, William T., was born in Huntingdon
County, Pa., June 17, 1824; received a common
school education; lumberman and farmer; member
of the Wisconsin assembly in 1851 and 1882; mem-
ber of the Wisconsin senate in 1857, 1870-71,
1878-79, 1880-81; president of the Wisconsin sen-
ate 1879; county judge of Jackson County, Wis.,
in 1854 and 1859; Presidential elector in 1868;
elected a Representative from "Wisconsin to ■ the
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a' Re-
publican; died December 6, 1886.
Pridemore, A. L., was born in Scott County,
Va., June 27, 1837; farmer; received a liberal
education; served in the Confederate army, at-
taining the rank of colonel; after the close of the
war began the study of law, and practiced at
Jonesville; member of the Virginia State senate
1871-1875; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Prince, Charles H. , was born at Buckfield,
Oxford County, Me., May 9, 1837; received a
limited education ; merchant; captain in the Union
army; after the war located at Augusta, Ga. , where
he was cashier of a bank; State superintendent of
education; delegate to the State coi;stitutional
convention; elected a Representative from Geor-
gia to the Fortieth Congress as a Republican.
Prince, Georg'e W. , of Galesburg, 111. , was born
March 4, 1854, in Tazewell County, 111. ; attended
the public schools, and graduated from Knox Col-
lege, Galesburg, 111., in 1878; studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1880; elected city attorney
of Galesburg in 1881; chairman of the Republican
county central committee of Knox County in 1884;
elected a member of the lower house of the gen-
eral assembly of Illinois in 1888; reelected in 1890;
candidate for attorney-general of Illinois on the
Republican ticket in 1892; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican at a special elec-
tion held April 2, 1895, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Gen. Philip Sidney Post; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Prince, Oliver H. , was born in Connecticut
about 1787; received a liberal education; studied
law, and after being admitted to the bar moved to
Macon, Ga., where he began practicing; elected a
United States Senator from Georgia (vice Thomas
W. Cobb, resigned), serving from December 1,
1828, to March 3, 1829; died at sea October 9, 1837.
Prince, William, was elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Eighteenth Congress, serving
from December l,'1823-24; died in 1824 at Prince-
ton, Ind.
Prindle, Elizur H., was born at Newton,
Conn., May 6, 1829; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced; district attorney of
Chenango County, N. Y., 1860-1862; member of
the State assembly in 1863; member'of the State
constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868; elected
a Representative from New York to the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican; died at Nor-
wich, N. Y., October 7, 1890.
Pringle, Benjamin, was born at Richfield,
N. Y., November 9, 1807; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and practiced for a number
of years; became president of a bank at Batavia,
N. Y. ; judge of Genesee County court; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-third
and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1863;
appointed judge of the court of arbitration at
Cape Town under the treaty with Great Britain.
Pritchard, Jeter Connelly, of Marshall, N. C,
was born at Jonesboro, Tenn., July 12, 1857; re-
ceived a common school education at Martins
Creek Academy; apprenticed in the Jonesboro
Tribune-Herald office; moved to Bakersville,
Mitchell County, N. C, in 1873; joint editor and
owner of the Roan Mountain Republican until
1887, when he moved , to Marshall, Madison
County; Garfield elector in 1880; elected to the
legislature in 1884, 1886, and 1890; Republican
candidate for lieutenant governor in 1888, and the
Republican caucus nominee for United States Sen-
ator in 1892; delegate at large to the Minneapolis
convention in 1892; elected president of the North
Carolina Protective Tariff League in 1891; candi-
date for Congress in 1892; licensed to practice law
in 1887; became prominent • in the cooperation
movement in North Carolina in April, 1894, and
the success of that movement resulted in his elec-
tion to the United States Senate as a Republican,
to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Z. B.
Vance; reelected in 1897, serving until March
3, 1903; appointed judge of supreme court of the
District of Columbia, March 30, 1903.
Proctor, Kedfield, of Proctor, Vt., was born
at Proctorsville, Vt., June 1, 1831, of English
stock, descended from Robert Proctor, who came
from London to Salem, Mass., in 1635; graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1851, and from the
Albany Law School in 1859; enlisted in the Third
Regiment of Vermont Volunteers in 1861, of nhich
he was appointed quartermaster with the rank of
lieutenant; served on the staff of Gen. William F.
(Baldy) Smith as brigade and division quarter-
master; promoted major of the Fifth Regiment
and colonel of the Fifteenth; after being mustered
out returned to Vermont and engaged in the prac-
tice of law, and later became interested in the
development of the marble industry; representa-
tive in the State legislature in 1867-68 and 1888;
member of the State senate and president pro tem
of that body in 1874-75; lieutenant-governor of
the State from 1876 to 1878, and governor from
1878 to 1880; delegate to the Republican national
convention of 1884, and chairman of the Vermont
delegation in the same conventions of 1888 and
1896; appointed Secretary of War by President
Harrison in March, 1889; resigned from the cab-
inet in November, 1891, to accept the appoint-
men as United States Senator as a Republican, to
succeed George F. Edmunds, and was elected bv
the Vermont legislature October 18, 1892, to fill
both the unexpired and full terms; elected Octo-
ber 18, 1898, to succeed himself for the term
beginning March 4, 1899, and ending March 3,
1905.
Proffit, George H. , received a liberal educa-
tion; elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a
BIOGKAPHIES.
755
Whi^; appointed by President Tyler minister to
Brazil, serving from June 7, 1843, until August 10,
1844, when he returned home, the Senate refus-
ing to confirm his appointment; died at Louisville,
Ky., September 5, 1847.
Prosser, William F., was born at Williams-
port, Pa., March 16, 1834; received a limited edu-
cation; studied law but never practiced; moved to
California in 1854; engaged in mining; returned
to Pennsylvania in 1861 and entered the Union
Army as a private in the Anderson Troop; served
throughout the Vi^ar in the Army of the Cumber-
land; served as quartermaster of the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry until 1862, when he was
placed in command of one of its companies; trans-
ferred to the Second Tennessee Cavalry and adju-
tant during its organization; commissioned major
in March, 1863, lieutenant-colonel in March,
1864, and colonel in June, 1865; after the war
located on a farm near Nashville, Tenn. ; waa
elected a member of the Tennessee house of repre-
sentatives in 1867; a director of the Tennessee and
Pacific Railroad; in March, 1868, appointed one
.of the directors on the part of the State for the
Edgefield and Kentucky Eailroad; elected a Rep-
resentative from Tennessee to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican; defeated for reelection.
Pruyn, John V. L. , was born at Albany, N. Y. ,
June 22, 1811; received a classical education;
studied law and in 1832 began practice at Albany;
held several local offices; appointed a regent of tlae
State University in 1844, and in 1862 became
chancellor of the university and president of the
board of regents; a State senator in 1861; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
eighth Congress (vice E. Corning, resigned) as a
Democrat; elected to the Fortieth Congress; died
at Clifton Springs, N. Y., November 21, 1877.
Pryor, Luke, was born in Madison County,
Ala., July 5, 1820; received an academic educa-
tion; lawyer by profession, and an agriculturist;
member of the Alabama legislature 1855-56; ap-
pointed United States Senator from Alabama in
January, 1880, by the Governor of the State, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon.
George S. Houston, Senator elect; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; died in 1900.
Pryor, Roger A., was born in Dinwiddle
County, Va., July 19, 1828; graduated from
Hampden-Sydney College in 1845; studied law
and practiced a short time at Petersburg, but
abandoned the law on account of ill health;
engaged in newspaper work; on the editorial staff
of the Washington Union in 1852, and of the
Richmond Enquirer in 1855; appointed special
commissioner to Greece in 1855; returned home
and established The South in 1857, and after it
had failed, was on the staff of the Washington
States; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Thirty-sixth Congress (vice W. O. Goode,
deceased), serving from December 7, 1859 to
March 3, 1861; served in the Confederate army;
member of the Virginia Confederate house of rep-
resentatives; captured by the Union troops in
November, 1864, and confined m Fort Lafayette,
but soon afterwards released; moved to New
York city and practiced law.
Pueh, George Ellis, was born at Cincinnati,
Ohio, November 28, 1822; graduated from Miami
University in 1840; studied law, and m 1843 began
practice at Cincinnati, Ohio; served in the Mexi-
can war as captain of the Fourth Ohio Volunteers;
returned to Cincinnati and resumed the practice
of his profession; a member of the State legisla-
ture in 1848 and 1849; city solicitor in 1850; State
attorney-general in 1851 ; elected a United States
Senator from Ohio as a Democrat, serving from
December 3, 1855 to March 3, 1861 ; defeated as
the Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor
in 1863; defeated as the Democratic candidate for
the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the State
constitutional convention, but withdrew from its
deliberations and resumed the practice of law;
died at Cincinnati, July 19, 1876.
Pugh., J. Howard, was born in Chester County,
Pa., June 23, 1827; received a liberal education;
studied medicine, and graduated from the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania in
1852; began practicing at Burlington, N. J., in 1854;
elected president of the Mechanics' National Bank
of Burlington in 1869; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Pugh, James L. , of Eufaula, Ala., was born in
Burke County, Ga., December 12, 1820; received
an academic education in Alabama and Georgia;
moved to Alabama when 4 years old; licensed to
practice law in 1841, and so employed when elected
to the United States Senate; Taylor elector in 1848,
Buchanan elector in 1856, and State elector for
Tilden in 1876; elected to Congress without oppo-
sition in 1859; retired from the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress when Alabama ordained to secede from the
Union; joined the Eufaula Rifles in the First Ala-
bama Regiment as a private; elected to, the Con-
federate Congress in 1861, and reelected in 1863;
after the war resumed the practice of law ; presi-
dent of the State convention of the Democratic
party in 1874; member of the convention that
framed the State constitution of 1875; elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat to fill the
balance of the term made vacant by the death of
George S. Houston; took his seat December 6, 1880;
and reelected in 1884, and in 1890.
Pugh., John, was a native of Hilltown, Pa. ; re-
ceived a common school education; held various
local ofiices; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses.
Pugh, Samuel J. , of Vanceburg, Ky., was born
in Greenup County, Ky., January 28, 1850; re-
sided in Lewis County since 1852; educated at
Chandler's Select School, Rand's Academy, and
Centre College, Danville, Ky. ; practiced law; held
successively the offices of city attorney, 1872-73;
master commissioner of the circuit court, 1874-
1880; county attorney, 1878-1886; county judge,
1886-1890; delegate to the Kentucky constitutional
convention, 1890-91, and State senator, 1893-94;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-
sixth Congresses.
Pugsley, Cornelius Amory, of Peekskill,
N. Y.; was born at that place July 17, 1850; re-
ceived his early education in the public schools,
and later enjoyed private instruction; at the age
of 17 became clerk in the Peekskill post-office, and
from that position was soon promoted to be assist-
ant postmaster; engaged in the banking business;
president of the Westchester County National
Bank of Peekskill; one of the oldest banking insti-
tutions in the State of New York; member of the
Chamber of Commerce, New York City; president
of the board of trustees of the Field Library,
Peekskill; trustee and treasurer of the Peekskill
Military Academy; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat.
756
CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTORY.
Pugsley, Jacob J., of Hillsboro, Ohio; was
born in Dutchess County, N. Y. ; moved to Ohio
one year thereafter; graduated from Miami Uni-
versity; admitted to the bar; served m both
branches of the State legislature; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Repubhcan.
Pulitzer, Josepli, of New York City, was born
in Hungary April 10, 1847; received his early edu-
cation from a tutor; enhsted as a private in the
Union Army at the age of 17; studied law and ad-
mitted to practice by the supreme court of Mis-
souri ; elected to the Missouri legislature in 1869 and
to the constitutional convention in 1874 from St.
Louis; he entered journalism in 1867 as a reporter
on the St. Louis Westliche Post, a German paper
then edited by Carl Schurz; rose to the position of
managing editor and part proprietor; founded the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878 by purchasing the
Dispatch and uniting it with the Evening Post; in
the spring of 1883 he bought the New York World;
delegate to the Cincinnati convention in 1872 that
nominated Horace Greeley for the Presidency;
delegate to the Democratic national convention m
1880; member of the platform committee in that
convention from Missouri; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; resigned April 10,
1886.
Purdy, Smith. M. , of Norwich, was a native of
Chenango County, N. Y.; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Purman, 'Williain J., was born in Center
County, Pa., April 11, 1840; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law; entered the Union Army as a
private, and served on special duty at the War De-
partment until transferred to Florida in 1865; re-
mained in Florida, and elected a member of the
constitutional convention in 1868; a State senator;
judge of Jackson county icourt 1868-69; elected tn
the State senate and served 1869-1873; assessor of
United States internal revenue for the district of
Florida 1870-1872; elected a Representative from
Florida to the Forty-third Congress as a Republi-
can; reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress; de-
feated for the Forty-fifth Congress.
Purviance, Samuel A., was born at Butler,
Pa., November 8, 1809; received a classical educa-
tion;-studied law and beg;an practice at Butler,
Pa. ; delegate to the constitutional convention in
1836; member of the State house of representatives
in 1838-39; Presidential elector in 1848 on the
Taylor and Fillmore ticket; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Whig.
Purviance, Samuel D., was a native of North
Carolina; received a common school education;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Eighth Congress.
Puryear, RichardC. , was born in Mecklenburg
County, Va., February 9, 1801; received a classical
education; merchant; moved to Huntsville, N. C;
served in both branches of the State legislature;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as
a Whig; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-fifth
Congress; delegate from North Carolina to the
Confederate Provisional Congress which assembled
at Richmond in 1861.
Pusey, "William H. M., of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was born in Washington County, Pa., July
29, 1826; educated at Washington and Jefferson
College, graduating in the class of 1847; private
banker; member of the Iowa State senate from
1858 to 1862; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat.
Putnam, Harvey, was born in Genesee County,
N. Y., in 1793; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Attica; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-fifth Congress (vice
William Patterson, deceased), as a Whig, serving
from December 3, 1838, to March 3, 1839; a mem-
ber of the State senate 1843-1846; elected to the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses; died at At-
tica, N. Y., September 21, 1855.
auackenbusli, Jolin A., of Stillwater, N. Y.,
was born at Schaghticoke, N. Y., October 15, 1828;
educated in the district schools and at the academy
at Stillwater, N. Y. ; farmer and speculator in farm
products and lumber; elected supervisor of his
town 1860-1862; chairman of the board of super-
visors of the county of Rensselaer in 1862; elected
a member of the assembly from the Second district
of Rensselaer County in the fall of 1862; elected
sheriff of Rensselaer County in the fall of 1873, and
served three years; elected to the Fifty-first and
Fifty-second Congresses as a Republican.
Q,uarles, James M. , was born in Louisa County,
Va., February 8, 1823; moved with his father to
Kentucky in 1833; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced; moved to Clarksville,
Tenn.; State attorney for the tenth judicial dis-
trict; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Thirty-sixth Congress as a National American.
duarles, Joseph Very, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
was born at Kenosha, Wis. (then Southport),
December 16, 1843; entered the University of
Michigan in 1862, but in 1864 entered the army in
the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteers; mustered
out as first lieutenant Company C, and returned to
his studies, graduating in 1866; studied law, and
in 1868 formed at Kenosha a partnership with
0. 8. Head; district attorney for Kenosha County
for six years, mayor of Kenosha in 1876, member
of the assembly in 1879, and State senator from
1880 to 1882; moved to Racine; six years later
made Milwaukee his home, and there organized
the law firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles; elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican for
the term of 1899-1905.
Q,uarles, Julian Minor, of Staunton, Va., was
born September, 1848, in the county of Caroline,
Va. ; educated at Pine Hill and Aspen Hill acade-
mies, Louisa County, Va., and at the University
of Virginia; lawyer, and commenced the practice
of his profession in 1874 at Staunton; judge of the
county court of Augusta County, Va., for several
years, and resigned; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat.
Cluarles, Tunstall, was a native of Virginia;
received a common school education; moved to
Kentucky; studied law and practiced; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from December
1, 1817, to 1820, when he resigned; moved to Cape
Girardeau, Mo., and became receiver of public
moneys in the United States land offices.
Quay, Matthew Stanley, of Beaver, Pa. , was
born at Dillsburg, York County, Pa., September
30, 1833; prepared for college at Beaverand Indiana
academies; graduated from Jefferson College in
1850; admitted to the bar in 1854; elected prothon-
otary of Beaver County in 1856 and reelected in
1859; lieutenant in the Tenth Pennsylvania Re-
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serves; colonel of the One hundred and thirty-
fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; lieutenant-colonel
and assistant commissary-general; military State
agent at Washington; private secretary to the gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania; major and chief of trans-
portation and telegraphs; military secretary to the
governor of Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; member of
the legislature, 1865-1867; secretary of the Com-
monwealth 1872-1878; reeorderof the city of Phila-
delphia, and chairman of Republican State com-
mittee 1878-79; secretary of the Commonwealth
1879-1882; delegate at large to the Republican na-
tional conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; elected
State treasurer in 1885; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican to succeed John I. Mitchell,
and took his seat March 4, 1887; selected a mem-
ber of the Republican national committee and
chosen chairman thereof, and ex officio chairman
of the executive committee when the committee
organized in July, 1888, and conducted the suc-
cessful Presidential campaign of that year; dele-
gate to the Republican national convention of 1892
and voted against the renomination of Benjamin
Harrison; reelected to the Senate in 1893; defeated
for reelection in 1899 by a deadlock existing
throughout the session of the legislature; appointed
United States Senator by the governor of Pennsyl-
vania to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of
the legislature to elect, but the appointment was not
recognized by the Senate; on the day of his rejec-
tion by the Senate was nominated to succeed
himself by the Republican State convention of
Pennsylvania and reelected United States Senator
January 15, 1901; took his seat January 17, 1901.
Quigg, Lemuel E., of New York City, was
born in Cecil County, Md., February 12, 1863;
received a common school education in the public
schools of Wilmington, Del. ; moved to New York
City when about 17 years old and engaged at once
in newspaper work; after a year Of service as re-
porter of the New York Times he obtained con-
trol of the Flushing (L. I.) Times, and conducted
that paper successfully for several years; joined
the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in
1885; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Re-
publican to succeed Col. John R. Fellows, resigned,
at a special election held January 30, 1894; reelect-
ed to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses.
duincy , Josiah., was born at Boston, Mass. , Feb-
ruary 4, 1772; graduated from Harvard College in
1790; studied law and began practice at Boston; de-
feated as candidate for the Seventh and Eighth
Congresses and elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses as a Federalist; member of the
State senate 1813-1820, and in 1821 and 1822 of the
State house of representatives, serving the last year
as speaker; delegate to the constitutional conven-
tion of 1820; mayorof Boston 1823-1829; president
of Harvard College 1829-1845; died at Qumcy,
Mass., July 1, 1864.
Quinn, John, of New York City, was born in
Ireland August 9, 1839; immigrated tp the United
States at the close of the war; settled m New York
City where he entered enthusiastically mto the
agitation of that period for the education and im-
provement of the laboring classes; conspicuous as
one of the champions of the eight-hour law in
1868-1870; engaged in the real-estate and building
business; president of the West Side Electric Light
and Power Company and a director in the Home-
stead Bank of New York, being one of the founders
of the bank; elected to the legislature in 1882;
member of the board of aldermen for the years
1885-1887; delegate to the Democratic national
convention at Chicago in 1884 and to St. Louis in
1888; elected to the Fifty-flrst Congress as a Dem-
ocrat.
Quinn, Terence J., was born at Albany, N. Y.,
October 16, 1836; received a liberal education;
brewer; alderman for several years; second lieu-
tenant in the New York State militia, which was
sent to the defense of Washington in April, 1861,
and again in 1862; served in the State legislature
in 1874; elected a Representative from New York to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, serving
from October 15, 1877, to June 18, 1878, when he
died at Albany, N. Y.
ftuitman, John Anthony, was born at Rhine-
beck, N. Y., September 1, 1799; received a class-
ical education; studied law; professor of law in
Mount Airy College, Pa., in 1818; moved toChilli-
cothe, Ohio, in 1820; moved to Natchez, Miss., in
1821; member of the Statehouseof representatives
in 1827; appointed chancellor of the State in 1830;
elected for six years in 1832; resigned in 1835,
having been elected to the State senate, and made
president; acted as governor for a time; held vari-
ous local offices; served in the Mexican war as
brigadier-general and as major-general; chosen
Presidential elector on the Cass and Butler ticket
in 1848; governor of Mississippi 1850-51; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Thirty-
"fourth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty-fifth Congress, and served from December
1, 1855, until his death at ' ' Monmouth, ' ' his planta-
tion in Mississippi, July 17, 1858.
Kadford, William, was born at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., June 24, 1814; received a limited education;
moved to New York City in 1829 and became a
merchant; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; defeated
for the Fortieth Congress; died at Yonkers, N. Y.,
January 18, 1870.
Baines, John, of Canandaigua, N. Y., was born
at Canandaigua, N. Y., May 6, 1840; educated in
the public schools; taught school; studied law;
graduated from the Albany Law School in 1861;
entered upon the practice of the law at Geneva,
N. Y. ; raised Company G, Eighty-fifth Regiment
New York Volunteers in 1861, and served in the
armies of the Potomac and North Carolina as cap-
tain of that company until July, 1863; member of
the assembly of the State of New York in 1881, 1882,
and 1885; State senator in 1886-1889; president of
the board of education of Canandaigua; alternate
at large to the Republican national convention in
1888; elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second
Congresses as a Republican; elected to the New
York State senate in 1894-95 and 1898.
Rainey, Joseph H. , was born at Georgetown,
S. C. (where both his parents were slaves, but by
industry obtained their freedom), June 21, 1832;
received a limited education; barber; compelled
to work on the Confederate fortifications in 1862;
escaped to the West Indies, where he remained
until the" close of the war; returned to his native
town; elected a delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention in 1868; member of the State
senate in 1870, but resigned, having been elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican (vice B. F. Whitte-
more); reelected to the Forty-second, Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses;
died at Georgetown, S. C, August 1, 1887,
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Kamsay, David, was born in Pennsylvania
April 2, 1749; graduated from Princeton College
in 1765; studied medicine and practiced; located
at Charleston, S. C, in 1773; member of the State
house of representatives 1776-1783; served m the
Revolutionary Army as surgeon; captured at the
fall of Charleston in May, 1780, and imprisoned
for eleven months; Delegate from South Carolina
to the Continental Congress 1782-1786; served
several years in the State senate, and its presi-
dent; dibd at Charleston, S. 0., May 8, 1815.
Kamsay, Natlianiel, was born in Lancaster
County, Pa. May 1, 1751; graduated from New-
Jersey College in 1767; commanded a Maryland
regiment in the Revolutionary Army; taken pris-
oner at the fall of Charleston, S. C, and imprisoned
at St. Augustine; Delegate from Maryland to the
Continental Congress 1785-1787; died at Baltimore,
Md., October 28, 1817.
Kamsey, Alexander, was born near Harris-
burg, Pa., September 8, 1815; received a liberal
education; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twenty-eighth and. Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Whig; Territorial governor of
Minnesota 1849-1853; mayor of St. Paul in 1855;
governor of Minnesota 1859-1863; elected a United
States Senator from Minnesota as a Republican,
vice H. M. Rice, Democrat; reelected, serving
from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1875; Secre-
tary of War from 1879-1881; for four years chair-
man of Utah commission, appointed in 1882 ; Presi-
dent of Minnesota Historical Society; delegate to
centennial of Federal Constitution convention in
1887.
Ramsey, Robert, was a native of Pennsylva-
nia; received a public school education at Harts-
ville; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; elected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Ramsey, 'WiUiam, was born at Sterretts Gap,
Pa., September 7, 1779: received a limited educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Carlisle;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses as a Demo-
crat; died at Carlisle, Pa., September 5, 1831.
Ramsey, William S. , was born at Carlisle, Pa. ,
June 12, 1810; received a classical education; at-
tach^ to the American legation at London ; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
sixth Congress as a Van Buren Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-seventh Congress, but a few weeks
afterwards died at Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1840.
Randall, Alexander, of Annapolis, was a
native of Maryland; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a.
Whig.
R9,ndall, Benjamin, was born in Massachusetts
in 1789; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809;
studied law and in 1814 began practice at Bath,
Me. (then Massachusetts); member of the State
senate in 1833; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses as a Whig; appointed collector of cus-
toms for the port of Bath, and held the office at
the time of his death, October 14, 1857.
Randall, Charles S., of New Bedford, Mass.,
was born at New Bedford, Mass., February 20,
1824; educated at private school, Friends Acad-
emy, New Bedford, and in France; retired from
mercantile business in 1872; represented the Third
Massachusetts senatorial district in the State sen-
ate in 1883-84, elected to the Fiftv-flrst Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses.
Randall, Samuel J. , was born at Philadelphia
October 10, 1828; received an academic education;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the city
councils of Philadelphia fouryears; memberof the
State senate'of Pennsylvania in 1858-59; elected to
the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-
first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; elected Speaker of the House for the last
session of the Forty-fourth, for the Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses; reelected to the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses; died at Washington, D. C,
April 13, 1890.
Randall, William H., was a native of Ken-
tucky; received a liberal education; studied law;
in 1835 began practice at London, Kentucky;
clerk of the circuit and county courts of Laurel
County for several years; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-
ninth Congresses.
Randell, Choice B. , of Sherman, Tex., was
born in Georgia January 1, 1857; admitted to the
bar in 1878; moved to Texas in January, 1879;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and reelected ,
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Randolph, Edmund J. , was born in Virginia
August 10, 1753; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Williamsburg;
served in the Revolutionary Army; attorney-gen-
eral of Virginia in 1776; Delegate from Virginia
to the Continental Congress, 1779-1782; governor
of Virginia, 1786-1788; member of the convention
that framed the Federal Constitution; appointed
Attorney-General of the United States September
26, 1789; transferred to the State Department as
Secretary of State, January 2, 1794, but was in-
vited to resign in August, 1795, having lost the con-
fidence of the President; died in Clarke County,
Va., September 13, 1813.
Randolph, James F. , was born in Middlesex
County, N. J., June 26, 1791; received a limited
education; printer; edited the New Brunswick
Fredoniad, 1812-1842; member of the State house
of representatives; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Twentieth Congress ( vice George
Holcomb, deceased); reelected to the Twenty-first
and Twenty-second Congresses; president of a
bank at New Brunswick; died at Jersey City,
N. J., March 19, 1871.
Randolph, James H. , was born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., October 19, 1825; received a clas-
sical education; studied law and began practice
in 1850; elected to the State legislature 1857 and
1858, and again in 1860-61; elected to the senate
in 1865; elected judge of the second judicial cir-
cuit of Tennessee in 1869; reelected after the con-
stitutional convention in 1870; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Randolph, John, was born in Chesterfield
County, Va., June 2, 1773; received a classical ed-
ucation; studied law; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Sixth Congress as a State-
Rights Democrat; defeated as the anti-Mason can-
didate for the Thirteenth Congress; elected to the
Fourteenth Congrees; defeated for reelection to
the Fifteenth Congress; elected to the Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses; ap-
pointed a United States Senator (vice James Bar-
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hour, resigned), serving from December 9, 1825,
to March 3, 1827; defeated for reelection in 1827
to the United States Senate; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Twentieth Congress;
member of the Virginia constitutional convention;
minister to Russia May 26, 1830, to September 19,
1830, when he resigned; died at Philadelphia,
June 24, 1833.
Randolph, Joseph Fitz, was born in New
York in 1803; received a limited education; studied
law; began practice in 1825 at Freehold; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Whig; member of the State constitu-
tional convention in 1844; judge of the State su-
preme court 1845-1852; moved to Trenton; moved
to Jeo-sey City, where he died March 20, 1873.
Bandolph, Pejrton, was born near Williams-
burg, Va., in 1723; received a classical education;
studied law and practiced; served many years in
the Virginia house of burgesses, and was its
speaker several years; president of the Virginia
convention in 1773; delegate to the Continental
Congress at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1774, and elected
its president, but resigned on account of ill health;
reappointed to the Second Congress, which met at
Philadelphia in 1775, and again forced to resign
on account of ill health; retired to Virginia and
died at Philadelphia, Pa.; October 22, 177^.
Itandolph, Theodore F., of Morristown, N. J.,
was born at New Brunswick, N. J., June 24, 1826;
received an ordinary education at Rutgers Gram-
mar School; merchant; elected to the house of
assembly of the State legislature in 1859; to the
senate .of New Jersey in 1862 (short term), and
reelected in 1863 (full term) ; elected governor of
the State of New Jersey in 1869, serving until 1872;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat,
to succeed John P. Stockton, Democrat, and took
his seat March 4, 1875, serving until March 3,
1881.
Kandolph, Thomas IVCanu, was born in Vir-
ginia, October, 1, 1768; received a thorough Eng-
lish education; colonel of the Twentieth Infantry,
1813-14; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Eighth and Ninth Congresses as a Democrat;
governor of Virginia 1819-1822; died at Monticello,
the home of Thomas Jefferson, his father-in-law,
June 20, 1828.
Raney, John H., of Piedmont, Mo., was born
September 28, 1849, in the county of Wayne; re-
ceived a common school education; read law at
Greenville, Mo. ; admitted to the practice of law
in 1881 ; elected judge of the county court of Wayne
County and served one term; elected and served
three full terms as prosecuting attorney of said
county; Republican nominee for representative of
his county in 1888, but defeated; delegate from his
Congressional district to the national Republican
convention at Minneapolis in 1892; one of the
board of regents of the State Normal School located
at Cape Girardeau, Mo., by appointment of Gov-
ernor Stone, his term of service expiring 1895;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the
practice»of law at Piedmont, Mo.
Rankin, Christopher, was a native of Wash-
ington County, Pa.; received a liberal education;
moved to Natchez, Miss.; held several local ofiices;
elected a Representative from Mississippi to the
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nine-
teenth Congresses; died at Washington, D. C,
March 14, 1826.
Rankin, Joseph, of Manitowoc, Wis., was born
at Passaic, N. J., September 25, 1833; received an
academic education; served in the Union Army
three years; in the Wisconsin legislature eleven
years; elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; died January 24, 1886.
Ranney, Ambrose A., was born at Town-
shend, Vt., April 16, 1821; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in the class of 1844; studied law at
Woodstock, Vt. ; began practice in Boston in 1848;
corporation counsel for that city in 1855-56; mem^
her of the State house of representatives in 1857,
1863, and 1864; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican ; reelected to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses; after leaving Congress
he resumed the practice of law; died March 5,
1899, at Boston, Mass.
Ransdell, Joseph Eugene, of Lake Provi-
dence, La., was born at Alexandria, La., October?,
1858; received his early education in the public
schools of Alexandria; graduated from Union Col-
lege, Schnectady, N. Y., June, 1882; admitted to
the bar June, 1883; elected district attorney of the
eight judicial district of Louisiana in April, 1884,
which place he held for twelve years; member of
the levee board of the fifth Louisiana levee district
from May, 1896, until after his election to Congress
August 29, 1899; a prominent member of the State
constitutional convention of Louisiana, in the
spring of 1898, which framed a new constitution
for the State; interested in cotton planting as well
as law; took a most active interest in levee build-
ing on the Mississippi River for many years ; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat to fill the
unexj)ired term of Hon. S. T. Baird; reelected to
the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Ransier, Alonzo J. , was born at Charleston,
S. C, January 3, 1836; received a limited educa-
tion; held various local offices; elected a member
of the State constitutional convention of 1868;
member of the State house of representatives in
1869; Presidential elector on the Grant and Colfax
ticket in 1868; elected lieutenant-governor of
South Carolina in 1870; delegate to the national
Republican convention in 1872; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican; died at Charleston,
S. C, August 17, 1882.
Ransom, Matt W., of Northampton County,
N. C. (post-office, Weldon), was bom in Warren
County, N. C, October 8, 1826; received an aca-
demic education; graduated from the University
of North Carolina in 1847; studied law; admitted
to the bar; lawyer and planter; elected attorney-
general of North Carolina in 1852; resigned in 1855 ;
member of the legislature of North Carolina 1858-
1860; peace commissioner from the State of North
Carolina to the congress of Southern States at
Montgomery, Ala., in 1861; entered the Confed-
erate army, serving as lieutenant-colonel, colonel,
brigadier-general, and major-general, and surren-
dered at Appomattox; elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat in January, 1872, and took
his seat April 24, 1872; reelected in 1876, 1883, and
1889, serving from April 24, 1872, until March 3,
1895.
Rantoul, Robert, was born at Beverly, Mass.,
August 13, 1805; graduated from Harvard College
in 1826-; studied law; practiced at South Reading;
moved to Gloucester in 1833; member of the State
house of representatives 1833-1837; moved to Bos-
ton in 1838; United States district attorney for
Massachusetts from 1845-1849, when he resigned;
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
elected a United States Senator as a Democrat
(vice Daniel Webster, resigned), serving from
February 22, 1851, to March 3, 1851; elected a
Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Democrat, serving from De-
cember 1, 1851, to August 7, 1852, when he died
at Washington, D. C.
Rapier, James T., was born at Florence, Ala.,
in 1840; received a liberal education; studied law
and practiced; held various local offices; elected a
Eepresentative from Alabama to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; defeated for the Forty-
fourth Congress.
Eariden, James, was a native of Kentucky;
received a limited education; studied law, and be-
gan practice at Centerville, Ind.; served in both
branches of the Indiana State legislature; delegate
to the State constitutional convention; elected a
Bepresentative from Indiana to the Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig; died at
Cambridge City, Ind.
Eathbuu, George, was a native of Auburn,
N. Y. ; received a limited education; held various
local offices; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Raum, Green B., was born at Golconda, 111.,
December 3, 1829; received a limited education;
studied law, and began practice at Harrisburg;
entered the Union Army as major and attained the
rank of brigadier-general ; elected a Representative
from Illinois to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; defeated for reelection; United States com-
missioner of internal revenue 1876-1883; commis-
sioner of pensions 1889-1893; author of numerous
works.
Rawlins, Joseph Lafayette, of Salt Lake City,
was born in Salt Lake County, Utah, March 28,
1850; completed a classical course in the University
of Indiana, but, having gone to Utah, did not re-
turn for graduation; professor in the University of
Deseret, in Salt Lake City, Utah, for two years,
until 1875; admitted to the bar in that year and
followed the profession of the law until his election
as Delegate in 1892; elected a Delegate to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Fifty-fourth Congress; elected to the United States
Senate in 1897; took his seat March 4, 1897, serv-
ing until March 3, 1903.
Ray, George W., of Norwich, N. Y., was born
at Otsehc, Chenango County, N. Y., February 3,
1844; brought up on the farm and educated in the
common schools and at Norwich Academy ; private
in Company B, Ninetieth New York Volunteers,
and brigade clerk. First Brigade, First Division,
Nineteenth Army Corps; discharged at the close
of the war; studied law; admitted to practice in
November, 1867; largely interested in farming;
chairman of the Republican county committee of
his county; member of the Eepublican State com-
mittee in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Eepublican; member of the board of
education of Norwich Academy and Union Free
School; elected to the Fifty-second Congress; re-
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; re-
signed September 17, 1 902, to accept a United States
judgeship in western New York.
Ray, Joseph Warren, of Waynesburg, Pa.,
was born in Morris Township, Greene County, Pa.,
May 25, 1849; raised on a farm; educated in the
common schools and at Waynesburg College-
graduated from that institution in the classical
course in 1874; read law; admitted to practice in
the courts of Greene County in 1876; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Eepublican.
Ray, Ossian, was born at Hinesburg, Vt., De-
cember 13, 1835; moved to Irasburg, Vt., in early
childhood; received there and at Derby, Vt., a
common school and academic education; studied
law five years at Irasburg and at Lancaster, N. H.,
to which place he moved in 1854; admitted to the
bar in 1857; member of the State legislature in
1868 and 1869; solicitor for Coos County 1862-1872;
delegate at large to the Republican national con-
vention at Philadelphia in June, 1872; United
States attorney for the district of New Hampshire
from February 22, 1879, to December 23, 1880,
when he resigned; elected to fill the vacancy in
the Forty-sixth Congress caused by the death of
Hon. EvartsW. Farr; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
eighth Congress; died January 28, 1892.
Ray, William H. , was born in Dutchess County,
N. Y. , December 14, 1812 ; moved to Oneida County,
N. Y.,inl813; received a common school education;
moved to Illinois in 1834; merchant; engagedinthe
banking business in 1865; elected a Representative
from Illinois to the Forty-third Congress as a Re-
publican.
Raymond, Henry J. , was born at Lima, 1^. Y.,
January 24, 1820; received a liberal education;
graduated from the University of Vermont in 1840;
moved to New York City; interested in newspaper
work; a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1850; established the New York Times in
1851; lieutenant-governor of New York in 1856;
delegate to the national Republican convention in
1860; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican; died
at New York City, June 18, 1869.
Raymond, John Baldwin, was born at Lock-
port, Niagara County, N. Y., December 5, 1844;
moved to Tazewell County, 111., in 1853; enlisted
from that county as a private in the Thirty-first
Illinois Infantry, under Col. John A. Logan, in
1861; promoted to be captain of Company E of that
regiment after the siege of Vicksburg in 1863;
served through the war and remained in Missis-
sippi after the muster out; pubUshed the Missis-
sippi Pilot at Jackson, Miss., during the recon-
struction of that State and until 1877, when
appointed United , States marshal of Dakota; de-
clined a reappointment; elected a Delegate from
Dakota Territory to the Forty-eighth Congress as
a Republican; died January 3, 1886.
Rayner, Isidor, of Baltimore, Md., was born
April 11, 1850; educated at the University of Vir-
ginia; admitted to the bar in Baltimore; elected
to the Maryland legislature in 1878, and chosen
chairman of the Baltimore City delegation; elected
to the State senate from Baltimore City in 1886 for
four years; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-second and Fiftv-
third Congresses.
Rayner, Kenneth, was born in Bertie County,
N. C, in 1808; received a classical education; ad-
mitted to the bar, but never practiced; moved to
Hereford County; member of the State house of
representatives seven years; elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina to the Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses
as a Whig; Presidential elector on the Taylor and
Fillmore ticket in 1848; appointed solicitor of the
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Treasury in 1877; died at "Washington, D. C,
March 4, 1884.
Rea, David, was born in Ripley County, Ind.,
January 19, 1831; received a liberal education;
moved to Missouri in 1842; studied law; began
practice at Savannah, Mo. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Missouri to the Forty-fourth and Forty-
fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Rea, John, was born in Pennsylvania in 1755;
received a liberal education; served in the Revo-
lutionary Army; several years a member of the
Pennsylvania State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses; defeated for the
Twelfth Congress; elected to the Thirteenth Con-
gress; died at Chambersburg, Pa., February 6,
1829.
Bead, Almon H., was born at Shelburne, Vt.,
June 12, 1790; graduated from Williamstown Col-
lege; studied law; began practice at Montrose, Pa. ;
served in both branches of the State legislature;
State treasurer in 1840; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat; died at
Montrose, Pa., June 3, 1844.
Read, Georgre, was born in Cecil County, Md.,
September 17, 1733; received a liberal education;
studied law and in 1752 began practice at New-
castle, Del. ; Delegate from Delaware to the Conti-
nental Congress 1774-1777; a delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1776, and its president;
delegatefromDelaware to theFederal constitutional
convention; a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives,1779 and 1780; elected a United States
Senator from Delaware, serving from March 4,
1789, to December 18, 1793, when he resigned;
chief justice of Delaware- died at Newcastle,
Del., September 21, 1798.
Read, J. , was a Delegate from Pennsylvania to
the Continental Congress 1787-88.
Read, Jacob, was born in South Carolina m
1752; received a liberal education; studied law in
England; practiced at Charleston, S. C. ; served in
the Revolutionary Army as colonel; member of
the State house of representatives; Delegate from
South Carolina to the Continental Congress 1783-
1786; elected a United States Senator from South
Carolina as a Federalist, serving from 1795 to 1801;
judge of the United States court for the district of
South Carolina, serving from 1801 until he died at
Charleston, S. C, July 17, 1816.
Read, Nathan, was born at "Warren, Mass., July
2 1759- graduated from Harvard College in 1781;
studied medicine; inventor; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Sixth Congress
(vice Samuel Sewall, resigned) as a Federalist; re-
elected to the Seventh Congress; moved to a farm
near Belfast, Me.; judge of the court of common
pleas; died near Belfast, Me., January 20, 1849.
Read, "William B., was born in Hardin Coun-
tv Ky December 14, 1820; received a liberal
education; studied law, and in 1849 began practice
at Hodgensville; served several years as a State
senator- defeated as thi Democratic candidate for
lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1863; delegate
to the Democratic national conventions at Charles-
ton and Baltimore in 1860, and Chicago in 1864;
served as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1867-1869; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Forty-second and Forty-
third Congresses as a Democrat.
Reade, Edwin G. , was born in Orange County,
N. C, November 13, 1812; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law, and in 1836 began practice at
Roxboro, N. C. ; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirty-fourth Congress as
an American; president of the reconstruction
convention which met at Raleigh in 1865.
Reading, Jolin R. , was born in Philadelphia
County, Pa., November 1, 1826; received a liberal
education; studied medicine and began practice;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-first Congress as a Democrat; election was
successfully contested by his opponent, C. N.
Taylor, who took the seat December 5, 1870;
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the
Forty-second Congress.
Ready, Ch.arles, was bornat Readville, Tenn.,
December 22, 1802; graduated from Greenville
College; studied law and practiced; member of the ^
State house of representatives in 1835; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Congresses; defeated for election
to the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Reagan, Jolin H., of Palestine, Tex., was born
in Sevier County, Tenn., October 8, 1818; received
a common-school and limited collegiate education;
lawyer and farmer ; settled in the Republic of Texas
in May, 1839; deputy surveyor of the public lands
1839-1843; elected to the State house of represent-
atives for two years in 1847; elected judge of the
district court for six years in 1852; resigned, and
reelected for six years in 1856; elected Represent-
ative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from the First
district of Texas; reelected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress; elected to the secession convention of
Texas in 1861; elected, with others, by that con-
vention deputy to the provisional congress of the
Confederacy; appointed postmaster-general of
the provisional government of the Confederacy
March 6, 1861; reappointed on the permanent
organization of the Confederate government in
1862 and occupied the position until the close of
the war; also appointed acting secretary of the
treasury of the Confederate government for a
short time preceding the close of the war; mem-
ber of the State constitutional convention of 1875;
elected to the Forty-fourth, FortJ^-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh , Forty-eighth , and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Samuel B. Maxey, Dem-
ocrat, and took his seat March 4, 1887; after leav-
ing the United States Senate returned to Texas
and appointed a member of the railroad commis-
sion of the State of Texas.
Reding, Jolin B., was oorn at Haverhill,
N. H.; received a liberal education; studied law
and practiced; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat; naval storekeeper
at Portsmouth 1853-1858; mayor of Portsmouth;
served in the State house of representatives; died
at Portsmouth, N. H., October 8, 1892.
Reed, Ch.arles H., was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; attended the public schools; engaged in
steamboating on the lakes; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a "Whig; died at Erie. Pa.. December
16, 1871.
Reed, Edward C, was born at Fitzwilliam,
N. H., March 8, 1793; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1812; studied law; began practice at
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Homer, X. Y., in 1814; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-second Congress as
a Democrat.
Reed, Isaac, was born at Waldoboro, Me., in
1810; received a limited education; merchant; six
years a member of the State house of representa-
tives; defeated for the Thirty-second Congress;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-
second Congress ( vice Charles Andrews, deceased)
as a Whig; elected State treasurer in 1856.
Bead, Jolm, was born at West Bridgewater,
Mass., September 2, 1781; graduated from Brown
University in 1803 ; tutor in that institution for two
years ; studied law and began practice at Yarmouth ;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a Feder-
alist; reelected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-sec-
ond, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
and Twenty -sixth Congresses; lieutenant-governor
of Massachusetts 1845-1851; died at West Bridge-
water, Mass. , November 25, 1860.
Beed, John, was born at Framingham, Mass.,
November 11, 1751; graduated from Yale in 1772;
studied theology, and ordained in 1780; moved to
West Bridgewater, Mass. ; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Congresses; died at West Bridgewater, Mass. , Feb-
ruary 17, 1831.
Beed, Joseph., was born at Trenton, N. J.,
August 27, 1741 ; graduated from Princeton College
in 1757; studied law at the Temple, in London;
returned in 1762 and began practice at Trenton;
took an active part in pre-Revolutionary affairs;
president of the Pennsylvania convention in Jan-
uary, 1775; accompanied General Washington to
Cambridge as his aid-de-camp and military secre-
tary in July, 1775; served during the campaign of
1776; Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continen-
tal Congress 1777-78;' president of the State of
Pennsylvania 1778-1781; died at Philadelphia
March 5, 1785.
Beed, Joseph B. , of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
born in Ashland County, Ohio, March 12, 1835;
educated in the common schools and at the academy
at Hayesville, Ohio; lawyer by profession; settled
in Iowa in 1857; served during the war of the re-
bellion as an officer in -the Second Battery, Iowa
Light Artillery, from July, 1861, to June, 1865;
member of the Iowa State senate in 1866 and 1868;
judge of the district court from September 1, 1872,
to January 1, 1884, and judge of the supreme court
of the State from the latter date to March 1, 1889;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Beed, Philip, was born in Kent County, Md.,
about 1760; received a liberal education; captain
in the Revolutionary Army ; elected a United States
Senator from Maryland (vice Robert Wright, re-
signed), serving from December 29, 1806, to March
3, 1813; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Fifteenth Congress; elected to the Seventeenth
Congress (having successfully contested the seat of
Jeremiah Causden) , and served from March 20
1822, to March 8, 1823; died at Huntingville, Md.,
November 2, 1829.
Beed, Robert B., wasanativeof Pennsylvania;
received a liberal education; studied medicine;
began practice at Washington, Pa. ; member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-flrst
Congress as a Whig; died at Harrisburg, Pa., De-
cember 15, ] 864.
Beed, Thomas B. , was a native of Kentucky;
received a classical education; studied law and
began practice at Lexington; moved to Natchez,
Miss. ; elected a United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi (vice D. Holmes, resigned), serving from
March 11, 1826, to March 3, 1827; reelected, and
while on his way to Washington, D. C, died at
Lexington, Ky., November 26, 1829.
Beed, Thomas B., was born at Portland, Me.,
October 18, 1839; graduated from Bowdoin College,
Maine, in 1860; studied law; acting assistant pay-
master, U. S. Navy, from April 19, 1864, to Novem-
ber 4, 1865; admitted to the bar in 1865 and com-
menced practice at Portland; member of the State
house of representatives 1868-69 and of the State
senate in 1870; attorney-general of Maine 1870-
1872; city solicitor of Portland 1874-1877; elected
to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
and Fifty-sixth Congresses; Speaker of the House
of Representatives in the Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth,
and Fifty-fifth Congresses; resigned in 1899; moved
to New York City and engaged in the practice of
law; died December 7, 1902, at Washington, D. 0.
Beed, William, was born at Marblehead, Mass. ,
in 1777; received a limited education; merchant;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twelfth Congress as a Federalist; reelected to
the Thirteenth Congress; died at Marblehead,
Mass., February 18, 1837.
Beeder, William Augustus, of Logan, Phillips
County, was born August 28, 1849, in Cumberland
County, Pa. ; emigrated to Ipava, Fulton County,
111., where, at the age of 14 years, he began teach-
ing in the public schools, a vocation he followed
until 33 years of age, the last ten years of his work
being in Kansas, where he was principal of the
Beloit public schools; engaged in the banking
business in the city of Logan, Kans., August 18,
1876; in 1890, in partnership with A. H. Ellis and
J. J. Wiltrout, purchased an extensive tract of
land on the Solomon River and established the
largest irrigation farm in the State of Kansas; op-
erated as a cattle and hog ranch; elected to the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Beese, David A., was a native of South Caro-
lina; received a limited education; moved to
Monticello, Ga. ; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig.
Beese, Seaborn, of Sparta, Ga., was born at
Madison, Morgan County, Ga., November 28, 1846;
educated partly at the University of Georgia,
M-hich institution he left in his senior year, 1868;
practiced law; elected representative in the gen-
eral assembly of Georgia in 1872 for the term of
two years; solicitor-general of the northern judi-
cial circuit from 1877 to 1880; Presidential elector
on the Hancock ticket in 1880; elected as a Dem-
ocrat to fill the vacancv in the Forty-seventh Con-
gress caused by the resignation of A. H. Stephens
after his election as governor of Georgia; reelected
to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
Beeves, Henry A. , was born at Sag Harbor,
N. Y., December 7, 1832; graduated from Union
College, New York, in 1852; studied law; admitted
to the bar; edited the Republican at Greenport in
1858; elected a Representative from New York to
the Fort}-first Congress as a Democrat.
Beeves, Walter, of Streator, 111., was born
September 25, 1848, near Brownsville, Pa. ; moved
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to Illinois in 1856; lived on a farm; became a
teacher and lawyer; elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Reid, Charles Chester, was born at Clarks-
ville, Johnson County, Ark., June 15, 1868; en-
'tered the State University at Fayetteville in 1883;
entered the law department of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, at Nashville, Tenn., in 1885, and received the
degree of bachelor of laws from that institution in
1887; won the university's medal for oratory;
began the practice of law at Morrillton; elected
prosecuting attorney of his judicial district in 1894;
reelected in 1896; voluntarily retired from ofiice in
1898; elected a Eepresentative from Arkansas to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Keid, David Settle, was born in Rockingham
County, N. C, April 19, 1813; studied law, and in
1843 began practice; member of the State senate
1835-1840; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; defeated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of North Carolina in
1848; elected governor of North Carolina in 1850,
and reelected in 1852; elected a United States
Senator from North Carolina, serving from 1854 to
1859; delegate to the peace congress in 1861.
Beid, James "Wesley, was born at Wentworth,
Rockingham County, N. C, June 11, 1849; received
an academic education; tutor in Emory and Henry
College, Virginia, from which he graduated in 1869 ;
studied law; admitted to the bar June; 1873; lawyer
and farmer; elected county treasurer of Rocking-
ham County, N. C, in August, 1874, and contin-
uously elected to said ofiice until he resigned the
same in November, 1884; elected to serve out the
unexpired term of Governor A.M. Scales, resigned,
in the Forty-eighth Congress at the special election,
January 15, 1885; reelected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; resigned December 31, 1886;
moved to Idaho in 1887 and engaged in the practice
of law; died January 1, 1902.
Held, John W., was born at Lynchburg, Va.,
June 14,' 1821; received a common school educa-
tion; moved to Missouri in 1840; studied law;
began practice in 1844; captain in the Mexican
war- two years a member of the State legislature;
elected a Eepresentative from Missouri to the
Thirtv-seventh Congress as a Democrat, and
served during the first session, from July 4, 1861,
to August 6, 1861; entered the Confederate army;
expelled the first day of the second session, De-
cember 2, 1861.
Beid, Bobert Baymond, was born in Beaufort
District, S. C, September 8; 1789; moved to Au-
gusta, Ga.; studied law; practiced; elected a Rep-
fesentative from Georgia to the Fifteenth Congress
(vice John Forsyth, elected Senator) as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Congresses; mayor of Augusta; judge o_t the supe-
rior court of Georgia; appointed United States
TdgeTr the district of east Florida in 1832; gover-
nor of the Territory of Florida 1839-1841; presi-
dent of the convention which framed a constitu-
tion for the State of Florida; died at Tallahassee,
Fla., July 1,1844.
BeiUy, James B., of Pottsville, Pa., was born
in West Brunswig Township, Schuylkill County,
Pa., August 12, 1845; educated at the Pottsville
High School, from which he graduated in 18bA
read law; admitted to the bar January H, 1«69, at
Pottsville; elected district attorney of SchuyJkiU
County October 8, 1871, and served until January
1, 1875; elected to the Forty-fourth and Forty ^fifth
Congresses; delegate to the Democratic national
convention in 1880; nominated by the Democratic
county convention for law judge of his county in
1881 and again in 1882, and also as the candidate
for Congress in 1884, but was defeated at the elec-
tion; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and
Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; resumed
the practice of his profession after leaving Congress.
Beilly, John, was born at Abnerville, Indiana
County, Pa., February 22, 1836; received a limited
education; entered the service of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company April 10, 1854; appointed su-
perintendent of transportation April 1, 1865; re-
signed upon being elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat; defeated for reelection; president of
the board of city commissioners of Altoona in
1872-73; president of the Bells Gap Railroad Com-
pany in 1872-73.
Beilly, Wilson, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a common school education; studied law
and practiced ; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-sixth
Congress.
Beily, Luther, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a liberal education ; studied medicine and
began' practice at Harrisburg; held various local
ofiices; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; died
at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1839.
Belfe, James H., was a native of Virginia;
moved to Missouri; received a limited education;
studied medicine and began practice at Caledonia,
Mo.; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Twenty-eighth and Twenty -ninth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Bencher, Abraham, was a native of Wake
County, N. C. ; graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1822; studied law; practiced in
Chatham County; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second ,
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fiftt
Congresses as a Whig; elected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; charge d'affaires to Portugal
1843-1847; governor of the Territory of New
Mexico 1857-1861.
Bevels, Hiram B. , was born at Fayetteville,
N. C, September 1, 1822; unable to obtain an edu-
cation in his own native State, moved to Indiana
and attended the Quaker Seminary in Union
County; became a preacher; lectured among his
people in the State of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and
Missouri; preaching at Baltimore, Md., at the
breaking out of the civil war and assisted in the
organization of the first two colored regiments in
Maryland; taught school in St. Louis; went to
Vicksburg and assisted in managing the freedmen
affairs; organized churches and lectured; returned
to Mississippi and located at Natchez; held vari-
ous local offices; elected a United States Senator
from Mississippi as a Republican, serving from
February 25, 1870, to March 3, 1871; president of
, Alcora Agricultural University, Rodney, Miss.;
moved to Richmond, Ind., and became pastor of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church ; died Jan-
uary 16, 1901, at Aberdeen, Miss.
Beyburn, John Edgar, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
was born at New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio,
February 7, 1845; educated by private tutor, and
at Saunders Institute, West Philadelphia; studied
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law; admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1870;
member of the house of representatives of Penn-
sylvania, sessions 1871, 1874-1876; elected a mem-
ber of the senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four
years from December 1, 1876, and reelected No-
vember, 1880; elected president pro tempore for
the session of 1883; reelected senator November,
1884, and again elected November, 1888, for a
term of four years; elected as a Republican to
fill the unexpired term of Hon. William D. Kelley
to the Fifty-first Congress February 18, 1890; re-
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-
fourth Congresses.
Beynolds, Edwin B.., was born at Fort Ann,
N. Y., February 16, 1816; received a classical edu-
cation; principal of the Albion Academy, Orleans
County, N. Y., for six years; county superinten-
dent 1843-1845; studied law; began practice at
Albion; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-sixth Con^ress(viceS. M. Burroughs,
deceased) as a Republican; judge and surrogate
of Orleans County, 1863-1868.
Reynolds, Gideon, was a native of New York;
resided at Hoosick; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig.
Reynolds, James B., of Clarksville, Tenn.,
was elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Congresses.
Reynolds, John, was born in Montgomery
County, Pa., February 26, 1789; located with his
parents in the vicinity of Kaskaskia, 111., in 1800;
received a classical education; studied law; began
practice at Cahokia in 1812; elected a justice of the
Illinois supreme court in 1818; member of the
State house of representatives 1827-1829; elected
governor of Illinois in 1881, and in 1832 took the
field as commander of the State militia in the
Black Hawk war; appointed a Representative from
Illinois to the Twenty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat (vice Charles Slade, deceased); elected to the
Twenty-fourth Congress; defeated for reelection to
the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses; again a
member of the State house of representatives in
1846 and 1852, serving the last term as speaker;
died at Belleville, 111., May 8, 1865.
Reynolds, John H., was born at Morean,
N. Y., June 21, 1819; received a liberal education;
studied law; began practice at Albany in 1843;
postmaster of Albany in 1853; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; resumed the practice of law; ap-
pointed a judge of the commission of appeals of
the State, which position he held until the expira-
tion of the court by constitutional limitation July
1, 1875; died at his country residence at Kinder-
hook, September 24, 1875.
Reynolds, Joseph, was a native of Virgil, N. Y. ;
received a liberal education; member of the State
house of representatives in 1819; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat.
Rhea, John, was born in 1753; moved to Sul-
livan County, Tenn. ; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and
Thirteenth Congresses as a Democrat; appointed
United States commissioner to treat with the Choc-
taws in 1816; again elected to the Fifteenth, Six-
teenth, and Seventeenth Congresses; died May 27,
1832.
Rhea, John S., of Eussellville, Ky., was born
in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., March 9, 1855;
educated at Bethel College, Eussellville, Ky., and
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. ;
lincensed to practice law in the fall of 1873; elected
prosecuting attorney for Logan County in 1878;
again elected in 1882; elected Presidential elector
on the Democratic ticket in 1884 for the Third dis-
trict of Kentucky and elector for the State at large
in',1888; delegate from the Third district to the
national Democratic convention in 1892, and voted
against the nomination of Grover Cleveland; dele-
gate from the State at large to the national Demo-
cratic convention in 1896; put the name of Senator
J. C. S. Blackburn in nomination before the con-
vention for President; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Democratic-Populist; reelected to
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Rhea, William Francis, of Bristol, Va., was
born in Washington County, Va., 1860; worked
on a farm and attended Oldfield School; attended
college about three years; studied law; admitted
to the bar; soon afterwards elected judge of the
county court of Washington County; served four
years; elected to the State senate; served four
years; elected judge of the city court of Bristol;
resigned the city judgeship and resumed the prac-
tice of law in 1895; elected to the Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, was born at Beau-
fort, S. C, December 24, 1800; receiveii a liberal
education; studied law; began practice at Beau-
fort in 1824; up to this time he had been known
by his family name of Smith, but he dropped it
and resumed the name of an ancestor, Rhett;
attorney-general of South Carolina; elected a Rep-
resentative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twentv-
eighth. Twenty-ninth, and thirtieth Congresses
as a Democrat; elected a United States Senator
from South Carolina (vice J. C. Calhoun, deceased),
serving from January 6, 1851-52, when he resigned;
delegate to the South Carolina secession conven-
tion in 1861; moved to St. James Parish; died
there September 14, 1876.
Ricaud, James B., was born at Baltimore,
Md., February 11, 1808; graduated from Washmg-
ton College, Md.; studied law; began practice at
Chestertown, Md. ; member of the State house of
representatives in 1834 and the State senate 1836-
1844; Presidential elector in 1836 on the Harrison
ticket and again in 1844 on the Clay ticket; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty- fijth Congresses as an Ameri-
can; died at Chestertown, Md., January 24, 1866.
Rice, Alexander Hamilton, was born at New-
ton, Mass., August 30, 1818; graduated from Union
College in 1844; paper manufacturer at Boston;
mayor of Boston in 1856 and 1857; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts'to the Thirty-sixth,
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth', and Thirty-ninth
Congresses as a Republican; governor of Massachu-
setts 1876-1878; died at Boston, Mass., July 22,
1895. > J !
Rice, Americus "V., was born at Perry ville,
Ashland County, Ohio, November 18, 1835; re-
ceived a classical education; graduated from Union
College, New York, in 1860; law student when he
enlisted in the Union Army in 1861; received
various promotions and attained the rank of brig-
adier-general of United States Volunteers; dis-
charged from the service January, 1866; manager
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of private banking house; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention at Baltimore in 1872;
elected a Bepresentative from Ohio to the Forty-
fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Rice, Benjamin F., was born at East Otto,
Cattaraugus County, N. Y., May 26, 1828; received
a liberal education; studied and practiced law;.
moved to Kentucky and practiced his profession;
member of the Kentucky State legislature in
1855-56; Presidential elector in 1856; moved to
Minnesota in 1860; captain in Minnesota Volun-
teers in the Union Army, serving three years; set-
tled at Little Rock, Ark., in 1864; resumed the
practice of law ; active in organizing the Bepub-
lican party in Arkansas; elected a United States
Senator from Arkansas as a Eepublican, serving
from June 3, 1868, to March 3, 1873.
Rice, Edmund, was born at Waitsfield, Vt.,
February 14, 1819; received a common school edu-
cation; went to Kalamazoo, Mich., November,
1838; read law; appointed register of the court of
chancery in 1841 for the third circuit; appointed
master in chancery; appointed clerk of the su-
preme court, third circuit; served as register and
master until 1845, when the court was abolished,
and clerk until 1849; enlisted to serve in the Mexi-
can war in 1847; commissioned first lieutenant,
Compa.iy A, First Eegiment Michigan Volunteers;
detailed as acting assistant commissary subsistence
and acting assistant quartermaster; mustered out
in August, 1848; moved to St. Paul in July, 1849,
and practiced law till 1856; president of the Minne-
sota and Pacific Railroad Company from 1857 till
1863; St. Paul and Pacific Bailroad 1863 till 1872,
and trustee till 1879; president St. Paul and
Chicago 1863 till 1877; member of the Territorial
legislature 1851; State senatorl864-1866, 1874-1876;
member of the State house of representatives 1867,
1872, 1877, and 1878; mayor of St. Paul 1881-1883;
reelected in 1885, and resigned in February, 1887;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat;
died July 11, 1889.
Rice, Edward Y., was born in Logan County,
Ky., February 8, 1820; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law "and practiced; moved to Illinois
and located in Montgomery County; elected county
recorder in 1847; member of the State legislature
of Illinois 1849-50; judge of the Montgomery
County court for two years; appointed master in
chancery for that county from 1853 to 1857, when he
was elected judge of the eighteenth circuit of Illi-
nois, and reelected in 1861 and 1867; member of
the constitutional convention of the State of Illi-
inois in 1869-70; elected a Bepresentative from
Illinoisto theForty-second Congress asa Democrat.
Rice, Henry M., was born at Waitsfield, Vt.,
November 29, 1816; received a liberal education;
resided in the Territories of Iowa, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota; elected a Delegate from Minnesota
Territory to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; elected a United States
Senator from Minnesota, serving from May 12,
1858, to March 3, 1863; elected treasurer of Bam-
say County in 1878; died in 1894.
Rice, John B., was born at Fremont, Ohio;
physician and surgeon, lecturer on military sur-
gery and obstetrics in the Charity Hospital Medical
Colleo-e and medical department of the University
of Wooster at Cleveland, Ohio; served on the
medical staff during the rebellion as assistant,
surgeon of the Tenth, and surgeon of the Seventy-
second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and as surgeon-
in-chief of division in the Fifteenth Army Corps
and of the district of Memphis; elected a Bepre-
sentative from Ohio to the Forty-seventh Congress
as a Bepublican; died at Fremont, Ohio, January
14, 1893.
Bice, John B., was born at Easton, Md., in
1809; received a limited education; went on the
stage in New York in 1839; moved to Chicago,
111.; manager of a theater; retired from the stage
in 1857; elected mayor of Chicago in 1865 and
1867; elected a Bepresentative from Illinois to
the Forty-third Congress as a Bepublican, serving
from December 1, 1873, to December 16, 1874,
when he died at Norfolk, Va.
Rice, John H. , was born at Mount Vernon,
Me., February 5, 1816; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law; interested in lumbering opera-
tions; began the practice of law in 1848; State
attorney 1852-1860; elected a Bepresentative from
Maine to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and
Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Bepublican ; collector
of customs at the port of Bangor, Me , 1867-1871;
moved to Washington, D. C. ; practiced law.
Rice, John M. , was a native of Floyd County,
Ky., and resided at Louisa; received a limited
education; member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1859 and 1867; elected a Bepresentative
from Kentucky to the Forty-first and Forty-second
Congresses as a Democrat.
Rice, Theron M., was born at Mecca, Trum-
bull County, Ohio, September 21, 1829; entered
the academy at Chester, Ohio, where he remained
four years, teaching a district school during the
winter months; left Chester with a view of enter-
ing college; continued his teaching, employing his
leisure hours in reading law; admitted to the bar
in June, 1854, and practiced for about three years
in Mahoning County, Ohio; moved in the spring
of 1858 to California, Moniteau County, Mo.;
served in the war of the rebellion, from the spring
of 1861 to the fall of 1865, in the United States
Infantry Volunteer service from Missouri, receiv-
ing gradual promotion from first lieutenant to
colonel, inclusive; employed actively in the field
with his command, following and sharing the for-
tunes of the Fifteenth Army Corps until the end;
returning to Missouri in the spring of 1866, renewed
the practice of his profession at Tipton, Moniteau
County; elected in 1868 circuit judge, and per-
formed the duties for one term of six years; an
earnest Eepublican until 1876 ; elected a Bepresent-
ative from Missouri to the Forty-seventh Congress
as aNational Greenbacker; died November 15, 1895.
Rice, Thomas, was a native of Massachusetts;
graduated from Harvard College in 1791 ; studied
law and practiced; elected a Bepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses; died in 1854.
Rice, William W. , was born at Deerfield,
Mass., March 7, 1826; fitted for college at Gorham
Academy, Maine; graduated from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1846; preceptor in Leicester Academy,
Massachusetts; studied law at Worcester; admitted
to the bar and practiced at Worcester; appointed
judge of insolvency for the county of Worcester in
1858; mayor of the city of Worcester in 1860; dis-
trict attorney for the middle district of Massachu-
setts 1869-1874; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1875 ; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Con-
gresses; resumed the practice of law until he died
at Worcester, Mass., March 1, 1896.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIRECTOEY.
Bich, diaries, was born in Hampshire County,
Mass., in 1771; moved to Shoreham, Vt. ; received
a limited education; held various local offices;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat; elected to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth
Congresses, serving from December 1, 1817, to Oc-
tober 15, 1824, when he died at Shoreham, Vt.
Rich, John T. , of Elba, Mich., was born at
Conneautville, Crawford County, Pa., April 23,
1841; received an academic education; moved with
his parents to Addison County, Vt., in 1846, and
to Elba, Lapeer County, Mich., in 1848; farmer;
member and chairman of the board of supervisors
of Lapeer Comity; elected to the Michigan house
of representatives in 1872 and reelected in 1874,
1876, and 1878; speaker of the house during the
last two terms; elected to the State senate in 1880;
resigned his seat in the senate March 21, 1881;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress April 5,
1881, as a Eepublican, to fill the vacancy caused
by the election of Hon. Omar D. Conger to the
United States Senate; after leaving Congress ap-
pointed collector of customs at Detroit; served on
the railroad commission of Michigan; elected gov-
ernor of that State.
Eichards, Gabriel, was born at Saintes, France,
October 15, 1764; received a classical education;
studied theology; emigrated to the United States
in 1798; professor in mathematics at St. Marys
College, Maryland; sent by Bishop Carroll as a
missionary to Kaskaskia, 111.; went to Detroit,
Mich., in 1798, where he published a periodical
in the French language, entitled Essais du Michi-
gan, and some Roman Catholic books; elected
Delegate from Michigan Territory to the Eight-
eenth Congress; returned to Detroit and officiated
as grand vicar of the bishop of Ohio; died at De-
troit, Mich., September 13, 1832.
Kicliards, Jacob, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Eighth, Ninth, and
Tenth Congresses.
Bichards, James A. D., of New Philadelphia,
Ohio, was born at Boston, Mass., March 22, 1845;
spent his early life in Boston and New York City;
went to Ohio in 1861; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1867; elected to the Fifty-third Con-
gres as a Democrat; after leaving Congress re-
sumed the practice of law.
Eichdrds, John, was a native of New York;
resided at Johnsburg; received a, limited educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Eighteenth Congress.
Bichards, John, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fourth Congress, having
successfully contested the election of James Morris
serving from January 18, 1796, to March 3, 1797. '
Bichards, Mark, was a native of New Haven
Conn.; received a limited education; moved to
Vermont; served eight years as a member of the
State house of representatives; Presidential elector
on the Madison ticket in 1813; elected a Repre-
sentative from Vermont to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses as a Democrat; elected lieu-
tenant-governor of Vermont in 1830.
Bichards, Matthias, was born in 1757; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied and practiced
law; judge of Berks County court in Pennsylvania
1788-1797; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses- died
in 1830.
Bichardsou, David P., of Angelica, N. Y., was
born at Macedon, N. Y., May 28, 1833; graduated
from Yale College in 1856; studied law at Roches-
ter; admitted to the bar in 1859; entered the Union
Army in 1861, and served between three and four
years; moved to Angelica in 1866; elected to the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Re-
publican; resumed the practice of law at Angelica,
N. Y.
Bichardson, George F. , of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was born at Jamestown, Ottawa County,
Mich., July 1, 1850; received his education in the
common schools; elected township clerk eight
years in succession; elected to the Michigan legis-
lature in 1884, and again in 1890; the Democrats
controlled the organization of the house, and he
was elected speaker pro tempore; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress by the Democrats and' Popu-
lists.
Bichardson, James Daniel, of Murfreesboro,
Tenn., was born in Rutherford County, Tenn.,
March 10, 1843; educated at good country schools
and at Franklin College, near Nashville; entered
the Confederate army before graduating; served
in the army nearly four years, the first year as
private and the remaining three as adjutant of the
Fort^-fifth Tennessee Infantry; read law and began
practice January 1, 1867, at Murfreesboro; elected
to the Tennessee legislature; took his seat in Oc-
tober, 1871; and elected speaker of the house;
elected to the State senate, 1873-74; grand master
of Masons in Tennessee, 1873-74; grand high priest
of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of the
State, 1882; Grand Commander of the Supreme
Council, thirty-third degree Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Free Masonry (Mother Council of
the World); delegate to the St. Louis Democratic
convention in 1876; to the Chicago Democratic
convention in 1896, and also to the Kansas City
Democratic convention in 1900, over which he
presided as permanent chairman; in February,
1900, made chairman of the Democratic Congres-
sional committee; editor and compiler of Messages
and Papers of the Presidents; nominee in caucus
of the Democratic members of the House of Rep-
resentative in the Fiftv-sixth and Fiftv-seventh
Congresses for Speaker; elected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, Fiftv-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Bichardson, John Peter, was born at Hickory
Hill, S. C, April 14, 1801; graduated from South
Carolina College in 1819; studied law; began prac-
tice at Fulton, S. C. ; member of the State house
of representatives; judge of the circuit court; was
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Twenty-fourth Congress (vice R. T. Manning,
deceased), as a State Rights Democrat; reelected to
the Twenty-fifth Congress; governor of South
Carolina 1840-1842; died at Fulton, S. C, January
24, 1864. •'
Bichardson, John S., was born near Sumter,
b C, February 29, 1828; received an academic
education at Cokesbury, S. C; entered the South
Carolina College in 1847; graduated in 1850;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852; settled
at Sumter, S. C; lawyer and farmer; at the be-
ginning of the war entered the Confederate serv-
ice as a captain of infantry and served as such
under Gen. (then Colonel) J. B. Kershaw until
alter the first battle of Manassas, where he was
wounded; after recovering from his wound re-
turned to the army and served as adjutant of' the
iwenty-third South Carolina Regiment- elected a
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767
member of the State legislature in 1865, and served
as such until 1867; appointed the agent of the
State of South Carolina in 1866 to apply for and
receive the land script donated to South CaroUna
by Congress; delegate from South Carolina to the
St. Loms national Democratic copvention in 1876;
elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died February 24, 1894.
Richardson, Joseph, was born at Billerica,
Mass., February 1, 1778; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1802; studied theology; ordained
over the first parish in Hingham July 2, 1806;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1820; member of the State house of representatives
in 1821 and 1822 and of the State senate 1823, 1824,
and 1826; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Con-
gresses; died at Hingham, Mass., September 25,
1871.
Richardson, William, of Huntsville, Ala.,
entered the Confederate army; judge of the court
of probate and county court of Madison County,
Ala. , from 1875 to 1886; Democratic elector for the
State at large in 1888; elected to the second session
of the Fifty-sixth Congress and to the Fifty-seventh
Congress; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat.
Richardson, William A. , was born in Fayette
County, Ky., October 11, 1811; graduated from
Transylvania University; studied law, and began
practice at Eushville, 111. ; moved to Quincy; served
in both branches of the legislature; speaker of the
house one year; Presidential elector on the Polk
ticket in 1844; enlisted as captain in the Mexican
war, and promoted to the rank of major; elected
a Representative from Illinois to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-
fourth Congresses, serving from December 6, 1847,
to August 25, 1856, when he resigned; governor of
Nebraska Territory 1857-58, when he resigned;
elected a United States Senator from Illinois (vice
S. A. Douglas, deceased), as a Democrat, serving
from January 30, 1863, to March 3, 1865; died at
Quincy, 111., December 27, 1875.
Richardson, William M., was born at Pel-
ham, N. H., January 4, 1774; graduated from
Harvard College in 1797; studied law; began prac-
tice at Groton, Mass. ; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Congresses, resignmg April 18, 1814; moved to
Portsmouth in 1814; appointed chief justice of New
Hampshire in 1816; died at Chester, N. H., March
23, 1838.
Richey, Thomas, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; moved to Somerset, Ohio; received a lim-
ited education ; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; again
elected to the Thirty-third Congress.
Richmond, Hiram L. , was born in Chautauqua
County, N. Y., May 17, 1810; received a liberal
education; studied medicine; studied law, and m
1838 began practice at Meadville, Pa.; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican.
Richmond, James Buchanan, of Estilhdlle,
Va., was born at Turkey Cove, Lee County, V a.;
received a limited education at Emory and Henry
College; practiced law in the circuit and county
courts of Lee, Scott, and Wise counties, va., and
in the court of appeals at Wytheville, Va.; held
the office of orderly sergeant and captain of Com-
pany A, Fiftieth Virginia Infantry, during the first
year of the war, in the command of Gen. John B.
Floyd, of Virginia; afterwards major of the Sixty-
fourth Virginia Regiment for a timej promoted to
lieutenant-colonel Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment
some time before the close of the war; elected to
the Forty-eixth Congress as a Democrat.
Richmond, Jonathan, was born at Bristol,
Mass., in 1774; received a liberal education; moved
to Aurora, Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1818; United
States internal-revenue collector; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Sixteenth Con-
gress; died at Aurora, N. Y., July 29, 1865.
Riddle, Albert Gallatin, was born at Monson,
Mass., May 28, 1816; moved to Newbury, in the
Western Reserve of Ohio in 1817; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and began practice in
Geauga County; moved to Cleveland in 1850;
elected prosecuting attorney of Geauga County in
1840, 1842, and 1844; elected a member of the
State legislature in 1848, and again in 1849; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; consul at Matanzas,
Cuba, a few months; returned to Washington,
D. C., and resumed the practice of law; died at
Washmgton, D. C, May 16, 1902.
Riddle, George Reade, was bom at Newcastle,
Del., in 1817; received a classical education; stud-
ied civil engineering; several years engaged in the
construction of railroads and canals; studied law,
and began practice at Wilmington Del., in 1848;
commissioner in 1849 to retrace "Mason and
Dixon's line;" delegate to several national Demo-
cratic conventions; elected a Representative from
Delaware to the Thirty-second and-. Thirty-third
Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for reelection
to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected a United
States Senator from Delaware (vice James A. Baiy-
ard, resigned), serving from February 2, 1864, to
March 29, 1867, when he died at Washington, D. C.
Riddle, Haywood Yancey, was bom at Van
Buren, Hardeman County, Tenn., June 20, 1834;
received a classical education; studied law, and in
1857 began practice at Ripley, Miss.; moved to
Smith County, Tenn., in 1858; served in the Con-
federate army; moved to Lebanon; employed in
the county clerk's office for five years; reappointed
for six years in 1870, but resigned; elected a Rep-
resentative from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat (vice S. M. Fite, deceased) ;
reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Riddletoerger, Harrison H., was born at
Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Va., October 4,
1844; received a common school education; served
three years in the Confederate States army as sec-
ond and first lieutenant of infantry and as captain
of cavalry; lawyer by profession; served as Com-
monwealth attorney of his county for two terms;
also two terms of two years each in the house of
delegates and one term of four years in the State
senate; since 1870, editor of three newspapers, the
Tenth Legion, the Shenandoah Democrat, and
The Virginian; member of the State committee of
the Conservative party until 1875; Presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket of 1876, and the
same on the Readjuster ticket of 1880; elected to
the United States Senate as a Readjuster in 1881,
in the place of John W. Johnston, Conservative,
and took his seat December 3, 1883, serving until
March 3, 1889; died at Woodstock, Va., January
24, 1890.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIEEOTORY.
Bidgeley, Henry Moore, was born at Dover,
Del., in 1788; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Dover; elected a Rep-
resentative from Delaware to the Twelfth and Thir-
teenth Congresses as a Federalist; elected a United
States Senator from Delaware (vice N. Van Dyke,
deceased), serving from Januarv 23, 1827, to March
3, 1829; died at Dover, Del., August 7, 1847.
Bidgely, Edwin Bead, of Pittsburg, Crawford
County, Kans., was born May 9, 1844, near Lancas-
ter, Wabash County, 111. ; education was acquired in
the local district school during the winter months;
early in 1862, at the age of 18, enlisted as a private
in Company C, One hundred and fifteenth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry; served continuously to the
end of the war; in company with his brother
moved to Girard, Kans., in 1869, where they en-
gaged in, general merchandising under the firm
name of Ridgely Brothers; lived in Ogden, Utah,
from 1889 to 1893; quit the Eepublican party in
1876 because of its financial policy; elected to the
Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Bidgely, Bichard, was a Delegate frorn Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1785-86.
Bidgway, James, resided at Columbus, Ohio;
held several local ofiices; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig.
Bidgway, Joseph., was born on Staten Island,
New York, May 6, 1783; received a public school
education; carpenter; moved to Cayuga County,
N. Y., in 1811; moved to Columbus, Ohio, and estab-
lished an iron foundry; member of the State house
of representatives 1828-1832; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig.
Bidgway, Bobert, was born in Virginia; re-
ceive.d a classical education; claimed to have been
elected a Representative from Virginia to the For-
tieth Congress, but not admitted to his seat; re-
elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Conserva-
tive; died at Cool Well, Va., October 17, 1869.
Eife, John W., of Middletown, Pa., was born
in Middletown, Dauphi^ County, Pa., August 14,
1846; received a common school education; learned
the trade of tanner; member of the One hundred
and ninety-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-
teers; member of the house of representatives of
Pennsylvania, 1885-86; president of the Middle-
town and Hummelstown Railroad Company;
elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Biggs, James M., of Winchester, 111., was
born in Scott County, III, April 17, 1839; received
a common school and a partial collegiate education ;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced;
elected sheriff of Scott County in November, 1864,
and served two years; represented Scott County
in the house of the twenty-seventh general assem-
bly of Illinois, 1871-72; elected State attorney for
Scott County in November, 1872, and served four
years; elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Biggs, Jetur B., was born in Morris County,
N. J., June 20, 1809; received a hberal education-
studied medicine and graduated from the New
York Medical College; practiced medicine; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives one term;
went to Cahforniain 1849; returned to Paterson'
N. J.; State soiator of New Jersey 1855-1858-
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Eepublican; died at
Drakesville, N. J., November 5, 1869.
Biggs, Lewis, was a native of Cortland
County, N. Y.; received a limited education; held
various local ofiices; elected a Representative
from New York, to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat.
Biker, Samuel, was a native of Long Island,
New York; received a limited education; member
of the State house of representatives in 1784 ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Eighth
Congress (vice John Smith, elected Senator),
serving from November 5, 1804, to March 3, 1805;
elected to the Tenth Congress.
Binaker, John Ir-ving, of Carlinville, 111., was
born at Baltimore, Md. ; moved to Illinois; studied
at Illinois College for one term, and then went to
McKendree College, Lebanon, 111.; graduated in
1851; studied law; admitted to the bar; located at
Carlinville; served in the Union Army; practiced
in the various courts of the State of Illinois and
in the United States courts held m that State;
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States in 1881; raised and organized the
One hundred and twenty-second Regiment Illi-
nois Volunteer Infantry in 1862; mustered into
the military service of the United States Septem-
ber 4, 1862, as colonel of that regiment; served
three years, till the close of the war; commanded
a brigade in the Sixteenth Corps of the Army
of the Tennessee for a considerable part of the
time of service; made brevet brigadier-general
for gallant and meritorious service in the field;
served as Presidential elector on the Republican
ticket twice— in 1872 as elector for the Seventeenth
Congressional district of Illinois and in 1876 as
elector for the State at large; delegate to the
Republican national convention in 1876, and
again in 1884; member of the board of railroad
and warehouse commissioners of Illinois under
Governor Oglesby from 1885 to 1889; elected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; seated
at the end of a contest with Finis Ewing Down-
ing, who was unseated June 5, 1896; returned to
Carlmville, 111., and resumed the practice of law.
Biuggold, Samuel, was born at Chestertown,
Md., January 15, 1770; resided at Hagei-stown; re-
ceived a limited education; State senator; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Eleventh
Congress (vice Roger Nelson, resigned) as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Con-
gresses; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
io°<S?™^®®^' '^i^dat Hagerstown, Md„ October 18,
Biordan, Daniel J. , of New York, was born in
Hester street, m the Eighth Congressional district;
attended the public schools of the district until
1886, when he entered Manhattan College; gradu-
ated therefrom in 1890; engaged in the real estate
business; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
Bipley, Eleaaar Wheelock, was born at Han-
over, NH., April 15, 1782; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1800; studied law; began practic-
ing at WaterviUe, Mass. (now Maine) ; member of
the State house of representatives in 1807 and 1811-
moved to Portland m 1812; State senator; served
m the war of 1812 and attained the rank of major-
general; superintended the construction of fortifi-
cations in the Southwest until he resigned in 1820
residing at Jackson, La. ; member of the Louisiana
State senate; elected a Representative from Louisi-
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769
ana to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at West Feliciana La
March 2, 1839. ' "
Ripley, James W. , was a native of Massachu-
setts (now Maine); received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Fryeburg; served
in the war of 1812; member of the State house of
representatives; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Nineteenth Congress (vice Enoch
Lincoln, resigned) as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serving
from December, 1826, to March 12, 1830, when he
resigned on account of ill health; appointed col-
lector of customs for Passamaquoddy district of
Maine; died June 17, 1835.
Bipley, Thomas C. , was bom at Schaghticoke,
N. Y.; received a limited education; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
ninth Congress (vice E. P. Herrick, deceased),
serving from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847.
Risley, Elijah, was born in Connecticut in
1780; moved to Chautauqua County, N. Y.; re-
ceived a liberal education; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; died at Fredonia,
N. Y., January 9, 1870.
Ritchie, Bjrron F., of Toledo, Ohio, was born
at Grafton, Ohio, January 29, 1853; moved to
Toledo in 1860; received his education in the pub-
lic schools of that city, graduating from the Toledo
High School in 1870; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1874; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as
a Democrat.
Ritchie, David, was born at Canonsburg, Pa.,
August 19, 1812; graduated from Jefferson College
in 1829; studied law; began practice at Pittsburg
in 1835; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania, to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Republican; county
judge for one year; died at Pittsburg, Pa., Janu-
ary 24, 1867.
Ritchie, James Monroe, of Toledo, Ohio, was
born at Dunfermline, Scotland, July 28, 1829;
emigrated to the United States in 1832; early edu-
cation limited; lawyer hy profession and practice;
delegate to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1880; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican; after leaving Congress re-
sumed the practice of law at Toledo, Ohio.
Ritchie, John, was born at Frederick, Md.i
August 12, 1831; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; abandoned it for law; admitted
to the bar and began practice at Frederick in 1854;
Presidential elector on the Breckenridge and Lane
ticket in 1860; elected to serve four years as State
attorney for Frederick County in 1867; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection.
Ritter , Burwell C. , was born in Barren County,
Ky., January 6, 1810; received a limited educa-
tion; farmer; served two terms in the State house
of representatives; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Con-
servative. ,
Ritter, John, was born at Exeter, Pa. , February
6, 1779; received a limited education; printer;
member of the State constitutional convention of
1836; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con-
gresses asa Democrat; died at Reading, Pa. , Novem-
ber 24, 1851.
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Rivers, Thomas, was a native of Tennessee;
resided at Somerville; received a limited education;
held various local offices; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Thirty-fourth Congress as
an American.
Rives, Francis E., was born in Virginia; re-
sided at Littleton; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-flfth and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat; declined a renomination; died at Little-
ton, November 30, 1861.
Rives, William Cabell, was born in Nelson
County, Va., May 4, 1793; graduated from William
and Mary College; studied law under Thomas
Jefferson; admitted to the bar and practiced; dele-
gate to the State convention in 1816; member of
the State house of representatives 1817-18, and
1819 and 1822 ; elected Representative from Virginia
to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses as a Democrat; minister to France
1829-1832; elected a United States Senator from
Virginia (vice L. W. Tazewell, resigned) as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from January 4, 1833, to 1834,
when he resigned; again elected a United States
Senator from Virginia, vice John Tyler, resigned;
reelected, serving from March 14, 1836, to March
3, 1845; again minister to France 1849-1853;
served as a delegate from Virginia to the Con-
federate Provisional Congress at Richmond in
1861; representative from Virginia to the first
and second Confederate Congresses; died near
Charlottesville, Va., April 25, 1868.
Rixey, John Franklin, of Brandy, Culpeper
County, Va., was born in Culpeper County, Va.,
August 1, 1854; educated in the common schools.
Bethel Academy, and the University of Virginia;
lawyer and farmer; Commonwealth attorney for
Culpeper County twelve vears; elected to the
Fifty^flfth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat. ' '
Roach, William Nathaniel, was born at
Washington, D. C, September 25, 1840; educated
in the city schools and at Georgetown College;
clerk in the Quartermaster's Department during
the war; moved to Dakota Territory in 1879; in-
terested in mail contracts for several years; took
up land in Dakota and engaged in agriculture;
mayor of Larimore from 1883 to 1887; member of
the Territorial legislature of the session of 1885;
Democratic candidate for governor at the first State
election; defeated; renominated at the next elec-
tion; again defeated; electedUnited States Senator
from North Dakota February 20, 1893; took his
seat March 4, 1893, serving until March 3, 1899;
moved to New York City, where he died Septem-
ber 7, 1902.
Roane, John, was born in Virginia in 1754;
received a liberal education; Presidential elector
on the Washington ticket; member of the State
house of representatives; delegate to the State
constitutional convention; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat; died at his resi-
dence in King William County, Va,, November
15, 1838.
Roane, John, was a native of Virginia; elected
a Representative from that State to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses.
Roane, John J., was a native of Virginia;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-second Congress.
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0ONGKE8SIONAL DIRECTORY.
Roane, William H., was bom in Virginia in
1788; received a liberal education; held various
local offices; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia
to the Fourteenth Congress as a Democrat; elected
a United States Senator from Virginia (vice R. E.
Parker, resigned), serving from September 4, 1837,
to March 3, 1841; died at Tree Hill, near Bich-
mond, Va., May 11, 1845.
Robb, Edward, of Perryville, Mo., was born
at Brazeau, in Perry County, Mo., March 19, 1857;
educated in the common schools, Brazeau Academy,
Pruitland Normal Institute, and the Missouri State
University; graduated from the law department of
the Missouri State University in March, 1879; lo-
cated in Perryville; elected prosecuting attorney
of Perry County in 1880, and reelected in 1882;
elected a member of the legislature in 1884 and
1886; appointed assistant attorney-general of the
State in January, 1889, by Gen. John M. Wood;
elected to the Fifty -fifth. Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Bobbins, Asher, was born at Wethersfleld,
Conn., October 26, 1757; tutor in the Providence
College (nowBrownUniversity) 1783-1788; studied
law; began practice at Providence; moved to New-
port in 1795; appointed United States district at-
torney in 1812; member of the State legislature
1818-1825; elected a United States Senator from
Khode Island as a AVhig (vice James De Wolf,
resigned); reelected, serving from December 5,
1825, to March 3, 1839; again member of the State
legislature; died at Newport, K. I., February 25,
1845.
Bobbins, Edward Everett, of Greensburg,
Pa., was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., Sep-
tember 27, 1860; educated in the public schools,
in Indiana Normal School, and Eldersridge Acad-
emy; graduated from Washington and Jefferson
College in the class of 1881; registered as a law
student at Greensburg in the same year, and in
1882 entered the Columbia Law School in New
York; admitted to the Westmoreland bar April 8,
1884; engaged in the practice of law; nominated
for district attorney in 1886; elected in 1888 to the
State senate, and served in that body till 1892;
chairman Republican county committee in 1885;
major and quartermaster of the Second Brigade,
State Militia; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress
as a Republican.
Bobbins, G-aston A., of Dallas County, Ala.,
was born September 26, 1859; moved to North
Carolina; entered the University of North Caro-
lina in 1877; graduated in 1879; studied law; ad-
mitted to practice law in the supreme court of
North Carolina in 1880; returned then to Selnia,
Ala.; Presidential elector on the Cleveland and
Hendricks ticket in 1884; elected to the Fifty-third
and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; seat
successfully contested by W. F. Aldrich, and
unseated March 13, 1896; reelected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress, but his seat was again successfully
contested by W. I\ Aldrich.
Bobbins, George E., was born near Allen-
town, Monmouth County, N. J., September 24,
1812; graduated from the Jefferson Medical Col-
lege, Philadelphia, in 1837; practiced; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Whig.
Bobbins, John, was born near Philadelphia;
received a limited education; steel manufacturer
at Philadelphia; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second,
and Thirty-third Congresses as a Democrat; de-
clined reelection; elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress.
Bobbins, William M. , was bom in Randolph
County, N. C; received a classical education;
studied and practiced law; officer in the Confed-
erate army; served in the North Carolina State
senate in 1868 and 1870; elected a Eepresentative
from North Carolina to the Forty-third Congress
as a Conservative Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.
Boberdeau, Daniel, was born on the Island of
St. Christopher in 1727; received a liberal educa-
tion; engaged in the lumber business; elected a
Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress, serving from 1777 to 1779; served in the
Revolutionary Army as colonel; died at Win-
chester, Va., June 5, 1795.
Boberts, Anthony E., was born in Chester
County, Pa., in 1803; received a limited education;
moved to Lancaster, Pa., and employed as a clerk
in a store; sheriff of Lancaster County 1839-1842;
United States marshal for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania 1849-1853; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-
fifth Congresses as a Whig.
Boberts, Charles B., was born at Uniontown,
Md., April 19, 1842; graduated from Calvert Col-
lege, New Windsor, Md., 1861; studied law;
Presidential elector on the Seymour ticket in 1868;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; died in 1899.
Boberts, Ellis H., was born at Utica, N. Y.,
September 30, 1827; printer; graduated from Yale
College in 1850; became editor of the Utica Morn-
ing Herald in 1851 ; delegate to the national Repub-
lican convention of 1868; member of the State
legislature of New York in 1867; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses as a Republican; defeated
for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Boberts, Ernest W., of Chelsea, Mass., was
born at East Madison, Me., November '22, 1858;
educated in the public schools of Massachusetts and
Highland Military Academy, of Worcester, Mass. ;
graduated from Boston University Law School;
admitted to the bar in 1881; member of the city
council of Chelsea in 1887 and 1888; elected a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts house of representatives
of 1894, 1895, and 1896; elected a member of the
Massachusetts senate of 1897 and 1898; elected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican ; reelected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Boberts, Jonathan, was born at Upper Merion,
Pa., August 16, 1771; received a limited education;
served in both branches of the Pennsylvania State
legislature; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses,
serving from November 4, 1811, to February 28,
1814; resigned, having been elected a United States
Senator from Pennsylv£^nia (vice M. Leib, re-
signed), and served until March 3, 1821; appointed
collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia by
President Harrison; removed by President Tyler;
died at Philadelphia July 21, 1854.
Boberts, Bobert W. , was a native of Delaware;
received a limited education; moved to Scott
County, Miss., and located at Hillsboro; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth Congre^p.
BIOGRAPHIES.
771
Koberts, WiUiam Randal, was born in Cork
County, Ireland, February 6, 1830; emigrated to
the United States in July, 1849; received a limited
education; merchant in New York Citv; elected
a Representative from New York to tlie Forty-
second and Forty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Bobertson, Edward White, was born near
Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., June 13, 1823;
moved in 1825 to Iberville Parish, La. ; educated
at country schools and the preparatory department
of Centenary College, Louisiana; entered Augusta
College, Kentucky, in 1842; entered the Nashville
University, Tennessee; commenced the study of
law in 1845; served in the war with Mexico in 1846
as orderly sergeant of the Second Louisiana Volun-
teers, a six months' regiment; member of the State
house of representatives in 1847 to 1849 ; entered the
law department of the University of Louisiana;
graduated in 1850 ; practiced law in Iberville Parish ;
again elected to the State house of representatives
in 1853; elected State auditor of public accounts
in 1857; reelected in 1858; held the office until
1862, entered thp Confederate service in March,
1862, as captain of a company which he had raised
for the Twenty-seventh Louisiana Infantry; par-
ticipated in the bombardments, engagements, and
siege at Vicksburg from May 18, 1862, to the sur-
render; served in the battle of Baton Eouge,
August 5, 1862, as volunteer aid to General Bug-
gies; captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863; after the
war resumed practice of law at Baton Rouge;
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Fif-
tieth Congresses as a Democrat; died at Washing-
ton, D. C, August 2, 1887.
Kobertson, George, was born in Mercer
County, Ky., November 18, 1790; graduated from
Transylvania University; studied law and began
practice at Lancaster, Ky. ; held various local
offices; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives, 1822-
1827, serving four years as speaker; elected State
secretary of state in 1828; chief justice of Ken-
tucky, 1829-1833; resumed the practice of law at
Lexington, Ky., and died there May 16, 1874.
Robertson, John, was born near Petersburg,
Va., in 1787; resided at Richmond; received a
liberal education; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-third Congress (vice An-
drew Stevenson, resigned) as a Whig; reelected to
the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses;
died at Mount Athos, Va., July 5, 1873.
Robertson, Samuel Matthews, of Baton
Eouge, La., was born in the town of Plaquemine,
La., January 1, 1852; received his preparatory
education at the Collegiate Institute of Baton
Rouge; graduated from the Louisiana State Uni-
versity in 1874; completed a course of law study;
admitted to practice in 1877; elected a member of
the State legislature from the parish of East Baton
Rouge in 1879; elected a member of the faculty of
the Louisiana State University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College in 1880; filled the chair
of natural history in that institution and the posi-
tion of commandant of cadets; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat to fill the vacfincy
created by the death of his father, E. W. Robert-
son- reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Robertson, Thomas A., of Elizabethtown,
Ky.,was bom at Hodgensville, Larue County,
Ky., September 9, 1848; graduated from Cecilian
College, and afterwards from. Law University at
Louisville; served one term iu' the Kentucky leg-
islature; several times elected Commonwealth
attorney of the eighteenth judicial district; re-
signed, and elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty -ninth Con-
gress.
Robertson, Thomas Boiling, was born near
Petersburg, Va., in 1773; graduated from William
and Mary College in 1807; appointed United
States district judge for Louisiana; moved to New
Orleans; elected a Representative from Louisiana
to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif-
teenth Congresses as a Democrat, serving from
December 23, 1812, to 1818, when he resigned; died
at White Sulphur Springs, November 5, 1828.
Robertson, Thomas J. , was born in Fairfield
County, S. C, August 3, 1823; graduated from
South Carolina Coflege; planter; Union sympa-
thizer during the rebellion; member of the State
constitutional convention; elected a United States
Senator from South Carolina as a Republican to
fill an unexpired term; reelected, serving from
1868 to 1877; died in 1897.
Robertson, 'William H. , was born at Bedford,
N. Y., October 10, 1823; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; member of the
State assembly in 1849-50; State senator 1854-55;
judge of Westehester County, N. Y., for twelve
years; Presidential elector in 1860; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republicanj died in 1898.
Robeson, George M., was born at Oxford,
N. J., in 1827; received an academic education;
graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1850, and practiced at
Newark and afterwards at Camden; appointed
prosecutor of the pleas for Camden County in 1858;
appointed attorney-general of New Jersey in 1867,
and served until he resigned, June 22, 1869, to
accept the position of Secretary of the Navy, which
he held until 1877; resumed the practice of law;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
died September 27, 1897.
Robie, Reuben, was a native of Vermont;
moved to Bath, Steuben County, N. Y. ; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Democrat.
Robinson, Christopher, was a native of Rhode
Island; graduated from Brown University in 1825;
studied law, and practiced; State attorney-general;
elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as an American Republican;
defeated for the Thirty-seventh Congress; minis-
ter to Peru 1861-1865.
Robinson, Edward, was born in 1796; received
a liberal education; merchant at Thomaston, Me.;
served two years in the State senate; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Whig (vice Jonathan Cilley, de-
ceased), serving from April 28, 1838, to March 3,
1839; Presidential elector on the Harrison ticket
in 1840; died at Thomaston, Me., February 20,
1857.
Robinson, George D., was born at Lexington,
Mass., January 20, 1834; prepared for college at
Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge, Mass. ; grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1856; principal
teacher at the Chicopee High School 1856-1865;
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CONGRESSIONAL DIBEOTOEY.
studied law; admitted to the bar at Cambridge,
Mass. ; commenced practice at Chicopee in 1866;
member of the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives in 1874, and of the State senate in 1876;
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Eepub-
lican; resigned January 7, 1884, to become governor
of Massachusetts; resumed the practice of his pro-
fession; died February 22, 1896.
Kobinson, James C, was born in Edgar
County, 111., in 1822; studied law; admitted to
practice in 1834; served as a private in the Mexican
war; elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,Thirty-eighth, Forty-
second, and Forty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Bobinson, James M. , of Fort Wayne, Ind., was
born on a farm in Allen County, 12 miles south of
the city of his residence; his early education was
obtained in the district school in the country, but
at the age of 10 years moved to the city, where he
attended the public schools till 14 years of age,
when he became collector of a newspaper of which
he had been a carrier boy for several years; at the
age of 15 took employment in a shop at Fort Wayne
as a machine hand; while workmg at his trade
studied law; quitting the shop in 1881, entered the
office of Judge Walpole G. Oolerick, who was then
in Congress, and admitted to practice in the State
and United States courts in 1882; unanimously
nominated for prosecuting attorney and elected in
1886 and 1888, filling that position for four years;
defeated in 1892 for the Congressional nomination
by Hon. W. F. McNagny, who served in Congress,
but unanimously nominated by the Democrats in
1896 and elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress; re-
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Bobinson, James S., was born on a farm near
Mansfield, in Richland County, Ohio, October 14,
1827; received a common school education; learned
the art of printing; moved to Kenton, Ohio, De-
cember 31, 1845; the following January commenced
the publication of the Kenton Republican, which
he edited and published; elected chief clerk of the
Ohio house of representatives in 1856; enlisted in
Company G, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
April 18, 1861; chosen first lieutenant of the com-
pany, and on April 26, 1861, promoted to captain;
served with his company and regiment under
MoClellan, participating in the battlp of Rich
Mountain, October 26, 1861; appointed major of
the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; pro-
moted to be lieutenant-colonel in April, 1862, and
promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment August
29, 1862; brevetted a brigadier-general December
14, 1864; appointed a brigadier-general January 12,
1865, and brevetted a major-general March 3, 1865;
chairman of the Republican State executive com-
mittee of Ohio 1877-1879; appointed commissioner
of railroads and telegraphs in Ohio in January,
1880; elected to the Forty -seventh Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress; resigned January 12, 1885, having been
elected secretary of state of Ohio, to which posi-
tion he was reelected; died January 14, 1892.
Robinson, James W., was born in Union
County, Ohio, November 28, 1826; graduated from
Jefferson College, in Pennsylvania, in 1848, and
the Cincinnati Law School in 1851; practiced at
Mary svi lie, Ohio; served three terms in the Ohio
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Forty-third Congress as a Republican;
defeated for the Forty-fourth Congress.
Bobiuson, John B., of Media, Pa., was born
in Allegheny City, Pa., May 23, 1846; graduated
from the United States Naval Academy in 1868;
lawyer; elected to the State legislature from Dela-
ware County in 1884; reelected in 1886; elected to
the State senate in 1889; elected to the Fifty-
second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses
as a Republican; in May, 1900, appointed United
States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsyl-
vania.
Kobinson, John L., was a native of Kentucky;
received a liberal education; moved to Rushville,
Ind. ; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Con-
gresses as a Democrat; appointed United States
marshal for the southern district of Indiana in
1853; held the position until his death, at Rush-
ville, March 21, 1860.
Bobinson, John M. , was born in Kentucky in
1793; received a limited education; studied law,
and began practice at Carmi, 111.; judge of the
State supreme court; elected a United States
Senatorfrom Illinois (vice John McLean, deceased)
as a Democrat; reelected, serving from January 4,
1831, to March 3, 1841; died at Ottawa, 111., April
27, 1843.
Bobinson, John S., of Madison, Nebr., was
born at Wheeling, W. Va., May 4, 1856; educated
in the public schools of that city; mechanic; com-
menced the study of law in 1879; admitted to the
bar by the supreme court of West Virginia in 1880;
moved West in 1884 and settled at Madison, Nebr.,
where he again took up the practice of his profes-
sion; elected county attorney of Madison County in
1886; reelected in 1890; elected judge of the ninth
judicial district of Nebraska in 1893; reelected in
1895; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for the Fifty-
eighth Congress.
Bobinson, Jonathan, was born at Hardwick,
Mass., August 24, 1756; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law; began practice at Bennington,
Vt; chief justice of Vermont 1801-1807; elected a
United States Senator from Vermont (vice Israel
Smith, resigned), serving from October 26, 1807,
to March 2, 1815; died at Bennington, Vt, No-
vember 3, 1819.
Bobinson, Milton S. , was born at Versailles,
Ind., April 20, 1832; received a limited education;
studied law; began practice at Anderson, Ind., in
1851; Presidential elector on the Republican ticket
in 1856; appointed a director of the Michigan City
prison in 1861; resigned after a few months; en-
tered the Union Army in September, 1861, as
lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-seventh Indiana
Volunteer Infantry; promoted colonel of the
Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in 1862,
and subsequently brevetted brigadier-general;
elected State senator 1866-1870; delegate to the
national Republican convention at Philadelphia
in 1872; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Forty-fourth and Forty-flfth Congresses as a
Republican.
Bobinson, Moses, was born at Hardwick,
Mass., March 15, 1741; received a classical educa-
tion; moved to Vermont; studied law; practiced;
chief jiistice of Vermont in 1778; governor of Ver-
mont 1789-90; elected a United States Senator
from Vermont as a Democrat, serving from Octo-
ber 24, 1791, to March, 1796, when he resigned;
died at Bennington, Vt., May 26, 1813.
BIOGRAPHIES.
773
Robinson, Orville, was a native of Mexico,
N. Y. ; received a liberal education; State repre-
sentative in 1834, 1836, and 1837; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; again elected a member
of the State legislature in 1856.
Robinson, Thiomas, was a native of Sussex
County, Del.; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Delaware to the Twenty-
sixth Congress; died at Georgetown, Del., October
28, 1843.
Robinson, 'Wimam E., was born at Unagh,
near Cookstown, in the County Tyrone, Ireland,
May 6, 1814; entered Yale College in 1837; grad-
uated in the cl£^s of 1841 with the degree of A. B. ;
connected for two years with the Yale Law School,
and in 1844 received from Yale the degree of A. M. ,
but devoted a considerable portion of his time to
lecturing before literary associations; soon after
the establishment of the New York Tribune be-
came one of its assistant editors, and in 1843 its
regular and only Washington correspondent; also
wrote Washington correspondence for the Rich-
mond ( Va. ) Whig, the Boston Atlas, the Louisville
Journal, and other papers; admitted to the New
York bar in 1854, and afterwards to the Supreme
Court of the United States; practiced law in New
York City; appointed by President Lincoln as-
sessor of internal revenue for the third (Brooklyn)
district of New York in 1862; frequently ran for
the New York assembly and for the judiciary
against ring nominations; elected a Representa-
tive to the Fortieth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat; died at Brook-
lyn, N. Y., January 23, 1892.
Robison, David F., of Chambersburg, Pa.,
was a native of that State; received a limited edu-
cation; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig.
Rocbester, William B. , was a native of Wash-
ington County, Md.; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Bath, N. Y.;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventeenth Congress; State circuit judge from
April 21 , 1833, until 1836, when he resigned ; de-
feated as a candidate for governor; drowned in the
wreck of the steamer Pulaski off the coast of North
Carolina June 15^ 1838.
Rockbill, William, was a native of New Jer-
sey; received a limited education; moved to Fort
Wayne, Ind. ; elected a Representative from Indi-
ana to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat.
Rockwell, Francis W., of Pittsfleld, Mass.,
was born at Pittsfleld, Mass., May 26, 1844; edu-
cated in the public schools and at Edwards' Place
School at Stockbridge, Mass.; graduated from
Amherst College in 1868 and Harvard Law School
in 1871; practiced law at Pittsfleld; appointed one
of the special justices of the district court of cen-
tral Berkshire in 1873, resigning in 1875; elected
to the Massachusetts house of representatives in
1879; elected to the Massfichusetts senate in 1881
and 1882; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as
a Republican, to fill a vacancy caused by the res-
ignation of Hon. George D. Robinson, who had
been elected governor of Massachusetts, a special
midwinter election being held, the legislature
having passed an act legalizing the same; reelected
to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-
gresses; after leaving Congress resumed the prac-
tice of law at Pittsfleld, Mass.
Rockwell, Hosea H., of Elmira, N. Y., was
born in Tioga County, Pa., in 1840; educated in
the common schools; served as private in Twenty-
third New York Volunteers; studied law; admitted
to the bar in Elmira in 1869; member of assembly
in 1877, and served on the judicia,ry committee;
several years city attorney of Elmira; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; resumed
the practice of law at Elmira, N. Y., after the expi-
ration of his term in Congress.
Rockwell, John A., was born at Norwich,
Conn., August 27 1803; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1822; studied law; practiced at Norwich;
twice elected to the State senate; judge of the
county court; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Con-
gresses as a Whig; defeated for reelection; died at
Washington, D. C, February 10, 1861.
Rockwell, Julius, was born at Colebrook,
Conn., April 26, 1805; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1826; studied law; began practice at Pitts-
field, Mass., in 1830; member of the State house of
representatives 1834-1838, serving three years as
speaker; State bank commissioner 1838-1840;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Whig; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1853; appointed
a United States Senator from Massachusetts (vice
Edward Everett, resigned), serving from June 15,
1854, to February 10, 1855; Presidential elector on
the Fillmore ticket in 1856; again a member of the
State house of representatives in .1858; appointed
a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in
1859; died at Lenox, Mass., May 19, 1888.
Rodenberg', William A., of East St. Louis,
111., was born near Chester, Randolph County,
HI., October 30, 1865; -educated in the public
schools; graduated from Central Wesleyan Col-
lege, Warrenton, Mo., in the spring of 1884; en-
gaged in the profession of teaching; attended the
St. Louis Law School; admitted to the bar; dele-
gate to the Republican national convention of 1896
at St. Louis; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress
as a Republican.
Rodey, Bernard Shandon, of Albuquerque,
N. Mex., was born in 1856 in County Mayo, Ire-
land; taken by parents to Canada in 1862; early
years occupied in mining, farming, and merchan-
dising; clerked in railroad ofiice and read law in
Boston, Mass. ; moved to New Mexico in the spring
of 1881; private secretary for railroad manager;
court stenographer of second district of New Mex-
ico in J. 882; admitted to the bar of New Mexico in
1883; practiced law there; city attorney of Albu-
querque 1888-89; member of the Territorial legis-
lative council (senate) in 1889, and author of the
bill creating the University, School of Mines, Agri-
cultural College, and other institutions; member
of the constitutional convention of New Mexico in
1890; elected a Delegate to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Rodman, William, was born at Bensalem, Pa.,
October 7, 1757; received a liberal education;
served in the Revolutionary war and commanded
a company during the whisky insurrection ; several
years a member of the State legislature; elected a
Representative from PennsyljS'ania to the Twelfth
Congress; died at Bensalem, Pa., July 27, 1824.
Rodney, Caesar, was born at Dover, Del, Oc-
tober 7, 1728; received a liberal education; studied
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law; practiced; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives for several years; Delegate to the
Continental Congress in 1774; served in the Revo-
lutionary Army; again elected as a Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1777-78; reelected, but before
taking his seat elected president of Delaware 1778-
1782; died at Dover, Del., June 29, 1784.
Bodney, Csesar A., was born at Dover, Del.,
January 4, 1772; received a liberal education;
studied law; began practice at Wilmington, Del.;
elected a Representative from Delaware to the
Eighth Congress as a Democrat; appointed Attor-
ney-General of the United States by President
Jefferson and continued by President Madison,
serving from 1807 to 1811; served in the war of
1812; sent to South America by President Monroe
as one of the commissioners to investigate and
report on the propriety of recognizing the inde-
pendence of the Spanish-American Republics;
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, serving from
December 3, 1821, to Januarj' 24, 1822; elected to
the United States Senate, and served until January
27, 1823, when he resigned, having been appointed
minister plenipotentiary to Buenos Ayres; died at
his post June 10, 1824.
Rodney, Daniel, was born in Delaware in
1764; received a limited education; Presidential
elector in 1809; governor of Delaware 1814-1817;
elected a Rej5resentative from Delaware to the
Seventeenth Congress (vice C. A. Rodney,
resigned), serving from December 2, 1822, to
March 3, 1823; appointed a United States Senator
from Delaware (vice N. Van Dyke, deceased),
serving from December 4, 1826, to January 23,
1827; died in Delaware, September 2, 1846.
Bodney, George B., was born at Newcastle,
Del., in 1803; graduated from Princeton College
in 1820; elected a Representative from Delaware
to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Con-
gresses as a AVhig; delegate to the peace congress
at Washington in 1861; died at Newcastle, Del.,
June 18, 1883.
Rodney, Thomas, was born in Delaware, June
4, 1744; Delegate from Delaware to the Conti-
nental Congress 1781-1783 and 1785-1787; ap-
pointed United States judge for Mississippi Terri-
tory in 1803; died at Rodney, Miss., January 2,
1811.
Rogers, Andrew J., was born a,t Hamburg,
N. J., July 1, 1828; received a liberal education;
studied law and in 1852 began practice; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-
eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Rogers, Anthony A. C, was born in Sumner
County, Tenn., February 14, 1821; received a lim-
ited education; merchant; moved to Arkansas in
1854; candidate of the Union men for delegate to
the State convention in 1861; earnestly opposed
secession; arrested for his loyalty, imprisoned, and
forced to give bonds to answer the charge of ' ' trea-
son against the Confederate government; " elected
a Representative from Arkansas to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, but was not allowed to take his
seat, his State not having been loyally recon-
structed; elected to the Forty-first Congress as the
People's candidate; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for reelection.
Rogers, Charles, was a native of New York-
received a liberal education at Sandy Plill ; served
in the State house of representatives in 1833-1837-
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig.
Rogers, £d-ward, was born in Connecticut in
1787; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice at Madison, N. Y. ; held vari-
ous local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; died at Galway, N. Y., May 23, 1857.
Rogers, James, was a native of South Carolina;
graduated from South Carolina College in 1813;
studied law and began practice at Yorkville; held
various local offices; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Union Democrat; defeated for reelection; elected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses.
Rogers, John, was a native of Maryland; Dele-
gate from Maryland to the Continental Congress
1775-76; died at Annapolis, September 23, 1789.
Rogers, John, was born at Caldwell, N. Y.,
May 9, 1813; received a liberal education; manu-
facturer; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Rogers, John Henry, of Fort Smith, Ark.,
was born in Bertie County, N. C, October 9, 1845;
moved to Mississippi in 1852; joined the Ninth
Mississippi Regiment, Volunteers, Confederate
States army, as a private, in March, 1862; pro-
moted to first lieutenant in same regiment, and
served through the war; educated at Center Col-
lege, Danville, Ky., and at the University of Mis-
sissippi, at Oxford, graduating from the latter
college in the class of 1868; admitted to practice
law at Canton, Miss., in 1868; moved to Fort
Smith, Ark., in 1869; elected circuit judge in 1877;
reelected in 1878, and resigned in May, 1882;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Fortj-ninth, Fiftieth, and
Fifty-first Congresses; declined a reelection and
returned to the practice of law; member of the
Arkansas Democratic State convention in 1892;
delegate at large to the national Democratic con-
vention in 1892; appointed United States district
judge for the western district of Arkansas by
President Cleveland in November, 1896.
Rogers, Sion H., was born in Wake County,
N. C, September 30, 1825; graduated from North
Carolma University in 1846; studied la-w; began
practice at Raleigh; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig; served in the Confederate army; elected to
the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection; died at Raleigh, N. C, August 14,
1874.
Rogers, Thomas J., was born at Waterford,
Ireland, in 1781; emigrated to the United States
in 1784; located in Pennsylvania; printer; editor;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
fifteenth Congress (vice John Ross, resigned) as
a Democrat; reelected to the Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, and Eighteenth Congresses, serving from
March 24 1818, to April 26, 1824, when he resigned;
appointed register and recorder of deeds for North-
ampton County, Pa.; died at New York Citv, De-
cember 7, 1832. ^
Rogers, "William Findlay, was born in Forks
Township, near the borough of Easton, Pa.,
March 1, 1820; received a common school edu-
cation; entered a printing office at Easton, Pa •
foreman m the office of the Buffalo Daily Courier-
at the breaking out of the rebellion captain of
a company of State militia, -which tendered its
services to President Lincoln ; his company formed
one of the Twenty-first Regiment New York Vol-
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unteers; on its organization unanimously elected
colonel; served with his regiment until mustered
out of service in 1863; appointed commissioner
of enrollment, and afterwards provost-marshal of
the Thirty-second district of New York; elected
comptroller of the city of Buffalo in 1867, and
mayor of the city of Buffalo in 1869; appointed
secretary and treasurer of the park commissioners
in 1871 ; nominated for the State senate in 1878,
but declined; brevetted brigadier-general United
States Volunteers in 1865 for "faithful and meri-
torious services;" major-general of the Fourth
Division National Guards, State of New York;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors'
Home at Bath, N. Y., 1887-1897; died at Buffalo,
N. Y., December 16, 1899.
Rollins, Edward H., was born October 3,
1824, in that portion of Somersworth, N. H.,
which is now Eollinsford; received an academic
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits; chair-
man of tlie Republican State committee of New
Hampshire at its original organization, and for
many succeeding years; member of the State leg-
islature 1855-1857, serving the last two years as
speaker of the house; chairman of the New Hamp-
shire delegation at the national Republican con-
vention at Chicago in 1860, which nominated
Lincoln and Hamlin; Representative from New
Hampshire to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth,
and Thirty-ninth Congresses; elected secretary of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company in May, 1869,
and treasurer in April, 1871, resigning those posi-
tions before taking his seat in the Senate; elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican, to
succeed Aaron H. Cragin, Republican; took his
seat March 5, 1877, and served until March 4, 1883;
died on the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire, July
81, 1889.
. SoUins, James Sidney, was born in Madison
County, Ky., April 19, 1812; graduated from the
University of Indiana in 1830; studied law, and
began practice in Boone County, Mo. ; served sev-
eral years in both branches of the State legislature;
defeated as the Whig candidate for governor in
1857; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses
as a Conservative; died near Columbia, Mo., Jan-
uary 9, 1888.
Roman, J. Dixon, was a native of Maryland;
received a thorough English education; studied
law and began practice at Hagerstown; president
of the Hagerstown Bank; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; Presidential elector on the Taylor and Fill-
more ticket in 1849 and on the Buchanan and
Breckinridge ticket in 1857; died near Hagerstown,
Md., January 19, 1867.
Romeis, Jacob, of Toledo, Ohio, was born at
Weisenbach, Kingdom of Bavaria, in Germany,
December 1, 1835; attended the village schools
until April, 1847, when he came with his parents
to America; attended the public and select schools
of Buffalo, N. Y. ; engaged in shipping business
and railroading; elected to the board of aldermen
in the city of Toledo in 1874, reelected in 1876,
and president of the board in 1877; elected mayor
of Toledo in 1879, reelected in 1881, and again in
1883; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress.
Romero, Trinidad, was born at Santa Fe, N.
Mex., June 15, 1835; received a common school
education; merchant; member of the Territorial
house of representatives in 1863; probate judge of
San Miguel County, N. Mex. ; elected a Delegate
from New Mexico to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Roosevelt, James I. , was born at New York,
December 14, 1795; graduated from Columbia Col-
lege in 1815; studied law, and in 1818 began prac-
tice at New York; .councilman; held several local
offices; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1835 and 1840; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat; declined a reelection; engaged in
the cultivation of his farm; elected a justice of the
supreme court for the New York district in 1851,
serving until 1859; United States attorney for the
district of. New York; died at New York City
April 5, 1875.
Roosevelt, Robert B. , was born at New York
City August 7, 1829; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at New York; fish
commissioner of the State of New York; edited
for several years the New York Citizen; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat.
Root, Erastus, was born at Hebron, Conn.,
March 16, 1773; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1793; studied law and began practice at
Delhi, N. Y. ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1798-1802; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighth and Eleventh Con-
gresses as a Democrat; State senator 1812-1815;
elected to the Fourteenth Congress (having suc-
cessfully contested the election of John Adams),
serving from December 13, 1815, to March 3, 1817;
again a member of the State house of representa-
tives 1818-1822; elected lieutenant-governor in
1822 and defeated for reelection in 1823; again a
member of the State house of representatives in
1830; elected to the Twenty-second Congress; de-
feated as the Whig candidate to the Twenty-sixth
Congress; major-general of militia; again State
senator 1840-1844; died at New York City Decem-
ber 24, 1846.
Root, Jesse, was born at Coventry, Conn.,
December 28, 1736; graduated from Princeton in
1756; preacher; studied law, and in 1763 began
practice at Hartford, Conn. ; lieutenant-colonel in
the Revolutionary Army; Delegate from Connecti-
cut to the Continental Congress 1778-1783; ap-
pointed a judge of the superior court in 1789 and
its chief justice in 1796, serving until 1807, when
he resigned; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; died at Coventry, Conn., March 29,
1822.
Root, Joseph M., was born at Brutus, N. Y.,
October 7, 1817; received a classical education;
studied law and in 1829 began practice at Norwalk,
Ohio; held various local offices; member of the
State senate in 1840; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-ninth Congress as an Inde-
pendent Whig; reelected to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-first Congresses.
Roots, Iiogan H. , was born in Perry County,
111., March 26, 1841; received a liberal education
and graduated from the Illinois State Normal
University in 1862 ; assisted in recruiting the Eighty-
first Illinois Volunteers; served in various respon-
sible positions in the Army until the close of the
war; settled in Arkansas and engaged in planting
and trading; elected a Representative from Arkan-
sas to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses as a
Republican; defeated for reelection; died at Little
Rock, Ark., May 30, 1893.
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Bose, Bobert L., was born at Geneva, N. Y.,
October 12, 1804; received a limited eduwition;
farmer; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Clay Democrat.
Bose, Eobert S. , was born in Henrico County,
Va in 1772 received a common school educa-
tion; removed to Geneva, N. Y.; member of the
State house of representatives in 1811, 1820, and
1821- elected a Representative from New York to
the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first
Congresses; died at Waterloo, N. Y., November
24, 1835.
Bosecrans, William Starke, was born in
Kingston, Ohio, September 6, 1819; educated at
the United States Mihtary Academy at West Point,
graduating July 1,.1842; second lieutehant United
States Corps of Engineers to April, 1843; assistant
to Colonel De Eussy at Fort Monroe to August,
1843; assistant professor at the Mihtary Academy
1844-1847; in charge of the fortifications at New-
port, B. I., 1847-1852, and also in charge of
surveys and reports for the improvement of New
Bedford Harbor, Providence Harbor, and Taun-
ton River; civil and constructing engineer at the
navy-yard at Washington, D. C, 1852; resigned
in 1853; consulting engineer and manufacturer of
coal oil and prussiate of potash 1853-1861, com-
missioned chief engineer of the State of Ohio,
with the rank of colonel, June 10, 1861; and
colonel of United States Volunteer Infantry m
June, 1861; brigadier-general, U. S. Army 1861-
1867; second in command to General McClellan
in West Virginia, his brigade winning the battle
of Rich Mountain, which established the su-
premacv of the Union in West Virginia; com-
mander of the Department of the Ohio, embracing
the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and West
Virginia, 1861-62, during which time West Virginia
was firmly established as a State and freed from
guerrilla warfare, for which he received unanimous
votes of thanks from the legislatures of Ohio and
West Virginia; appointed to succeed General Pope
in command of the httle Army of the Mississippi,
and won the battle of luka, September 19, 1862;
commissioned major-general of volunteers August
16, 1862, and the commission was subsequently
antedated March 19, 1862; won the battle of Cor-
inth October 3 and 4, 1862, pursuing the enemy
until recalled by General Grant, who was at Jack-
son, Tenn., 75 miles away; relieved from the com-
mand of the district October 19, and ordered to
Cincinnati; placed in command of the Fourteenth
Army Corps, October 27, 1862, and also of the
Department of the Cumberland; reorganized the
command, repaired the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, fortified Nashville as a primary depot,
and won the battle of Stone River December 30,
1862-January 1,1863; fortified Murfreesboro as a
secondary depot; made the campaign of Tulla-
homa June 23-July 4, 1863, driving the Confeder-
ate Army of the Mississippi out of its strong
intrenched camps across the Tennessee River into
Georgia; rebuilt railroads and bridges, crossed
the Cumberland Mountains, fought the battle of
Chickamauga September 19 and 20, 1863, and took
and held Chattanooga; ordered to Cincinnati to
await orders October 19, 1863; president of the fair
at which §325,000 was raised for the Sanitary Com-
mission; took command of the Department of
Missouri January 28, 1864; repelled the invasion of
General Price, secured order atid a fair election;
relieved December 16, 1864; kept waiting for or-
ders until mustered out of the volunteer service;
resigned his brigadier-general's commission m 1867
and went to Oahfornia; declined the offer of the
directorship of the branch mint in 1867, and the
Democratic nomination for governor of California;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress; regis-
ter of the Treasury 1885-1893; restored to the
rank of brigadier-general and retired in 1889; died
March 11, 1898.
Boss, David, was born in Maryland about 1750;
Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Con-
gress 1786-87.
Boss, Edmund G. , was born at Ashland, Ohio,
December 7, 1826; received a limited education;
printer; moved to Kansas and became editor of
the Kansas Tribune; member of the constitutional
convention in 1859; entered the Union Army as a
private and attained the rank of major; appointed
United States Senator from Kansas as a Repub-
Ucan (vice J. H. Lane, deceased),. serving froip
July 25, 1866, to March 4, 1871.
Boss, George, was born at Newcastle, Del.,
in 1730; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice at Lancaster, Pa. ; member of
the colonial house of representatives in 1768; Dele-
o-ate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Con-
gress 1774-1777; appointed in April, 1779, judge of
the court of admiralty for Pennsylvania; died at
Lancaster, Pa., July 16, 1779.
Boss, Henry H. , was born in Essex County,
N. Y., May 9, 1790; graduated from Columbia
College, New York, in 1808; studied law, and
began practice at Essex, N. Y.; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Nineteenth Con-
gress as aAVhig; county judge of Essex County in
1847-48; Presidential elector on the Taylor and
Fillmore ticket in 1848; died at Essex, N. Y., Sep-
tember 14, 1862.
Boss, James, was born in York County, Pa.,
July 12, 1762; received a liberal education and
taught school; studied law, and in 1784 began
practice at Philadelphia; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1790; elected a United
States Senator from Pennsylvania as a Federalist,
serving from April 24, 1794, to March 3, 1803;
died near Pittsburg, Pa., November 27, 1847.
Boss, John, was a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Eleventh Congress, serving from
May 22, 1809, to March 3, 1811; elected to the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses, serving from
December 4, 1815, to February 24, 1818, when he
resigned to iDecome president-judge of the judicial
district in which he resided.
Boss, Jonathan, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., was
born in Waterford, Vt., April 30, 1826; educated
in the public schools, St. Johnsbury Academy,
and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1851; taught
school; read law; admitted to the bar in 1856;
returned to St. Johnsbury and practiced until
1870, when elected to the bench of the supreme
court; chosen chief justice in 1890; represented St.
Johnsbury in the lower house of the legislature
1865, 1866, and 1867, and in 1870 elected to the
senate; elevated to the bench while in that body;
appointed Senator January 11, 1899, by Governor
Smith to succeed the late Justin S. Morrill.
Boss, Lewis B. , was born in Seneca County,
N. Y., December 8, 1812; moved to Illinois; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and prac-
ticed ; member ot the State legislature of Illinois in
in 1840, 1841, 1844, and 1845; Presidential elector
in 1848 ; member of the Illinois State constitutional
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convention in 1861; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirty-eight, Thirty-ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses; died in 1895.
Ross, Miles, of New3runswick, N. J., was born
in Earitan Township, Middlesex County, N. J.,
April 30, 1828, received a practical English educa-
tion; engaged in the vessel business; filled nearly
all of the local positions of his neighborhood; for
two years a member of the State legislature of
New Jersey; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forth-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat.
Ross, Sobieski, was born in Coudersport, Pa.,
May 16, 1828; received a liberal education; civil
engineer; engaged in farming; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses as a Republican; died
October 25, 1877.
Ross, Thomas, was a native of Pennsylvania;
graduated from Princeton College in 1823; resided
at Doylestown; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second
Congresses as a Democrat.
Ross, Thomas R., was born in 1789; received
a liberal education; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Lebanon, Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and
Eighteenth Congresses; lost his eyesight in 1866;
died on his farm near Lebanon, Ohio, June 28,
1869.
Rothwell, Gideon F., was born in Callaway
County, Mo., in 1836; graduated from the Univer-
sity of the State of Missouri; lawyer; elected to
the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law at
Moberly, Mo. ; Presidential elector in 1884 on the
Democratic ticket; appointed in 1889 member of
the board of curators of the University of Missouri,
of which board he was president 1890-1894; died
January 18, 1894, at his home in Moberly, Mo.
Rousseau, Lovell H. , was born near Stanford,
Ky., August 4, 1818; received a limited education;
studied law, and in 1841 began practice at Bloom-
field, Ind. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1844-45; captain in the Mexican war;
served in the Indiana State senate; returned to
Kentucky and began practice at Louisville; served
in the Kentucky State senate; served in the Union
Army; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican,
serving from December 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866,
when he resigned, having assaulted Representa-
tive Grinnell, of Iowa, in the Capitol; subsequently
reelected, and took his seat Decembers, 1866, serv-
ing until March 3, 1867; appointed brigadier-gen-
eral in the Regular Army and assigned to duty in
Alaska; while visiting friends in New Orleans, be-
fore starting, his conduct led General Sheridan,
who was in command then, to make complaint
against him; returned from Alaska to testify in
the impeachment trial, and was himself assigned
to the command from which Sheridan was re-
moved; died at New Orleans January 7, 1869.
Rowan, John, was born in Pennsylvania in
1773; moved to Louisville, Ky., and received a
limited education; studied law and practiced; sec-
retary of the State of Kentucky in 1804; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Tenth Con-
gress, serving from January 9, 1809, to March 3,
1809; judge of the court of appeals in 1819; elected
a United States Senator from Kentucky, serving
rom December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1831; minister
to Naples from January 3, 1848, to January 1,
1850; died at Louisville, Ky., July 13, 1853.
Rowe, Peter, of Schenectady, N. Y., was a
native of that State; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Rowell, Jonathan H., of Bloomington, 111.,
was born at Haverhill, N. H., February 10, 1833;
graduated from Eureka College, Illinois, and the
law department of the University of Chicago;
lawyer; State attorney of the eighth judicial cir-
cuit of Illinois 1868-1872; Presidential elector on
the Garfield and Arthur ticket in 1880; served
three years as a company officer in the Seventeenth
Illinois Infantry; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses; resumed
the practice of law after leaving Congress.
Rowland, Alfred, of Lumberton, N. C, was
born at Lumberton, Robeson County, N. C, Feb-
ruary 9, 1844; received a common school educa-
tion; entered the Confederate army in May, 1861,
and served as a lieutenant in Company D, Eight-
eenth Regiment of North Carolina State troops
till May 12, 1864; captured in battle of Spottsyl-
vania Court-House on that day, and afterwards
imprisoned at Fort Delaware till June, 1865; studied
law;, obtained county court license in January,
1867, and supreme court license in January, 1868;
elected by the county court register of deeds for
Robeson County in 1867; member of the general
assembly of North Carolina 1876-77, and again in
1880-81; Cleveland and Hendricks elector for the
Sixth Congressional district in 1884; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
^o the Fifty-first Congress.
Royce, Homer E., was born at Berkshire, Vt.,
June 14, 1820; studied law, and in 1842 began prac-
tice at Berkshire, Vt. ; member of the State house
of representatives 1846-47; State prosecuting at-
torney in 1848 ; served in the State senate 1849-1851 ;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Re-
publican; elected associate justice of the supreme
court of Vermont in 1870; appointed chief justice
in 1882, and on account of ill health resigned in
1890; died at St. Albans, Vt., April 24, 1891.
Royse, Iiemuel W. , of Warsaw, Ind., was born
January 19, 1848, in Kosciusko County, Ind. ; at-
tended common schools; by studying at home
acquired sufficient knowledge to teach school in
the winter seasons; began reading law; admitted
to the bar in 1874, at Warsaw, Ind. ; elected prose-
cuting attorney for the thirty-third judicial circuit
of Indiana in 1876; elected mayor of the city of
Warsaw in 1885 and held this office until 1891; on
the Republican electoral ticket in 1884; member
of the Republican State central committee 1886-
1890; delegate to the Minneapolis convention
which nominated Harrison for his second term in
1892; elected to the Fiftj'-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Rucker, William W. , of Keytesville, Mo., was
born February 1, 1855, near Covington, Va. ; at
the beginning of the war moved to West Virginia;
attended the common schools; moved to Chariton
County, Mo. ; engaged in teaching district schools;
continued the study of law; admitted to the bar
in 1876; elected prosecuting attorney of Chariton
County in 1886, which office he held for three
consecutive terms and until nominated for circuit
judge of the twelfth judicial circuit; elected circuit
judge for a term of sis years in 1892, which posi-
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tion he held when nominated for Congress; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Buffin, Thomas, was a native of Edgecombe
County, N. C. ; graduated from Chapel Hill Uni-
versity; studied law and began practice at Golds-
boro; circuit attorney 1844-1848; elected a Eepre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Thirty-third,
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; retired from the House on
the secession of North Carolina; delegate to the
Confederate provisional congress at Eichmond in
July, 1861; served in the Confederate army; died
at Alexandria, Va., October 8, 1863.
Buggies, Benjamin, was born in Windham
Coimty, Conn., in 1783; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Marietta,
Ohio; moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio; elected
president judge of the court of common pleas for
the third judicial circuit in 1810; elected a United
States Senator from Ohio as a Democrat, and twice
reelected, serving from March 4, 1815, to March 2,
1833; Presidential elector on the Harrison ticket
in 1836; died at St. Clairsville, Ohio, September
2, 1857.
Buggies, Charles H., was born in Litchfield
County, Conn., in 1790; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Kingston,
N. Y. ; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1820; elected a Representative from New-
York to the Seventeenth Congress; judge of the
Dutchess County court; again elected a member of
the State house of representatives; elected a judge
of the court of appeals, November 8, 1853, and re-
signed August 30, 1855; died at l?oughkeepsie,
N. Y., June 16, 1865.
Buggies, John, was born at Westboro, Mass.i
in 1790; graduated from Brown University in 1813;
studied law and began practice at Skowhegan, Me. ;
moved to Thomaston in 1818 ; member of the State
house of representatives 1823-1831, and its speaker
1825-1829 and 1831; judge of the district court of
Maine; elected a United States Senator from Maine
(vice Peleg Sprague, resigned), as a Democrat,
serving from February 6, 1835, to March 3, 1841;
died at Thomaston, Me., June 20, 1874.
Buggies, Nathaniel, was born in Massachu-
setts in 1761; graduated from Harvard College in
1781; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist; re-
elected to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con-
gresses; died at Roxbury, Mass., Decemberl9, 1819.
Bumple, John Nicholas William, was born
near Fostoria, Ohio, March 4, 1841; attended public
schools, afterwards Western College, Iowa, and
later the normal department of the Iowa State
University; enlisted in Company H, Second Iowa
Cavalry, August, 1861, and remained in the Army
until October, 1865, entering as private and being
mustered out as captain; participated in the battles
of Island No. 10, New Madrid, siege of Corinth,
Sheridan's battle of Rienzi, charge at Farmington,
luka, Corinth, Grierson's raid, Tupelo, in front of
Hood's advance on Nashville, Franklin, Colum-
bia, Nashville, etc.; admitted to practice law in
February, 1867; member of the State senate at the
adjourned session of the fourteenth, and also in the
fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth general as-
semblies; member of the board of regents of the
State University for six years, also curator of the
State Historical Society; member of city council,
mayor, city solicitor, member of school board, and
many other minor positions; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Republican, serving until he
died, at Chicago, 111., January 31, 1903.
Bumsey, Benjamin, was born about 1730;
Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Con-
gress 1785-1787.
Bumsey, David, of Bath, N. Y., was a native
of that State; received a limited education; held
several local offices; eleated a Representative from
New York to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Con-
gresses as a Whig.
Bumsey, Edward, of Greenville, Ky., was a
native of that State; received a liberal education;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
froto Kentucky to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whig.
Bunk, John, of Kingwood, N. J., was a native
of that State; received a liberal education; Presi-
dential elector on the Harrison and Tyler ticket in
1840; elected a Representative from New Jersey to
the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig.
Buppert, Jacob, jr., of New York City, was
born August 5, 1867, in the city of New York; edu-
cated at the Columbia Grammar School; brewer;
member of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard
of New York, before his appointment as aid-de-
camp (with the rank of colonel) on the staff of
Governor Hill, and subsequently as senior aid on
the staff of Governor Flower; elected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fiftv-eighth Congress.
Bush, Benjamin, was born near Philadelphia,
Pa., December 24, 1745; graduated from Princeton
College in 1760; studied medicine in Europe; re-
turned and began practice at Philadelphia in
August, 1769; held several professorships in the
Philadelphia Medical College; Delegate from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1776-
77; entered the Revolutionary Army as surgeon-
general of the middle department; made phy-
sician-general in July, 1777 ; resigned in February,
1778; delegate the State constitutional convention
which adopted the Federal Constitution; treasurer
of the United States mint at Philadelphia from
1799 until his death at that city, April 19, 1813.
Busk, Henry "Welles, of Baltimore, Md., was
born at Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1852; edu-
cated in private schools and at the Baltimore City
College, graduating from the latter in 1866, and
from the Maryland University Law School in
1882, with the degree of LL. B. ; admitted to the
bar and practiced law in Baltimore; six years a
member of the Maryland house of delegates, and
four years a member of the Maryland senate;
elected to fill the unexpired term of William H.
Cole, deceased, in the Forty-ninth Congress; re-
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a: Dem-
ocrat.
Busk, Jeremiah M., was born in Morgan
County, Ohio, June 17, 1830; received a limited
education; moved to Vernon County, Wis., in
1853; held various local offices; member of the
Wisconsin State legislature in 1862; major of the
Twenty-fifth AVisconsin Volunteers in July, 1862;
promoted to the colonelcy; bre vetted brigadier-
general at the close of the war; elected bank
comptroller of Wisconsin 1866-67, and again elected
for 1868-69; elected a Representative from Wis-
consin to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican; Secretary of
Agriculture March 5, 1889, to March 5, 1893; died
in 1893.
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779
Rusk, Thomas J., was born at Camden, S. C,
August 8, 1802; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice in Georgia; moved
to Texas in 1835; delegate to the convention which
declared for the independence of Texas in 1835;
first secretary of war of the new republic; at the
battle of San Jacinto took command of the forces
after General Houston was wounded, retaining it
until October, 1836, when he resumed his duties
as secretary of war; chief justice of the supreme
court of Texas 1838-1842; president of the conven-
tion that confirmed the annexation of Texas to the
United States in 1845; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Texas as a Democrat, serving from
March 26, 1846, to July 29, 1856, when he died,
at Nacogdoches, Tex.
Buss, John, was born at Ipswich, Mass., in
1764; received a liberal education; moved to Hart-
ford, Conn. ; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Con-
fresses as a Democrat; died at Hartford, Conn.,
une 22, 1832.
Russell, Benjaxnin Edward, of Bainbridge,
Ga.j was born at Monticello, Fla., October 5, 1845;
moved to Decatur County, Ga., in 1854; educated
in the common schools; entered the Confederate
army as a drummer boy in the First Georgia Reg-
iment; upon the disbanding of this regiment, im-
mediately enlisted in the Eighth Florida Regiment,
continuing with it the last three years of the war
with the rank of first lieutenant; captured at the
battle di Sailors Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865, and
imprisoned at Johnsons Island, Ohio, until all of
the Confederate armies had surrendered; entered
the printing business; editor of the Bainbridge
Democrat; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1877; delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention in 1880; mayor of Bainbridge in
1881-82; representative in the legislature 1882-83;
postmaster at Bainbridge 1885-1890; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-"fourth Congress; after leaving Congress
engaged in newspaper work and again became
editor of the Bainbridge Democrat.
Russell, Charles Addison, was born at Worces-
ter, Mass., March 2, 1852; received a public school
and collegiate education, graduating from Yale
College in the class of 1873; woolen manufacturer;
aid-de-camp (colonel) on Governor Bigelow's staff
1881-82; member of the house of the general
assemblv of Connecticut, in 1883; secretary of state
of Connecticut 1885-86; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses,
and nominated for the Fifty-eighth Congress, but
died before the election, at Killingly, Conn.,
October 23, 1902.
Russell, David, was born in Massachusetts in
1800; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice at Salem, N. Y.; served as a
member of the State house of representatives 1826
and 1830; district attorney for the northern judicial
district of New York; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-
fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig;
died at Salem, N. Y., November 24, 1861.
Russell, Daniel Lindsay, of Wilmington,
N. C, was born in Brunswick County, N. C,
August 7, 1845; educated at the Bingham School
in Orange County, N. C, and the university at
Chapel Hill; studied law; licensed to practice in
June, 1866; elected to the State legislature in
August, 1864, and reelected in October, 1865!
elected judge of the superior courts for the fourth
judicial circuit in April, 1868, and served six years;
elected in 1871 to the constitutional convention
from the county of Brunswick; again elected to
the legislature in November, 1876, from Bruns-
wick County; delegate to the Republican conven-
tion at Cincinnati in 1876; Hayes elector for the
State at large in 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a National; elected governor of North
Carolina in 1896.
Russell, Gordon, of Tyler, Tex., was born of
Georgia parents, at Huntsville, Ala. ; educated at
the Sam Bailey Institute, Griffin, Ga., and the
Crawford High School, Dalton, Ga., and after a
two years' course at the University of Georgia,
received from that institution the degree of A. B.;
member of the Phi Delta Theta Greek letter fra-
ternity and of the Phi Kappa Debating Society;
chosen an ni versary orator of the Phi Kappa Society ;
taught school at Dalton, Ga.; read Law; admitted
to the bar by the superior court for Whitfield
County; moved to Texas in the latter part of 1879
and located in Van Zandt County; moved to Tyler,
Smith/ County, in 1895; elected county judge of
Van Zandt County in 1884, and at the end of one
term voluntarily relinquished that office to resume
the practice of his profession; elected district at-
torney of the seventh judicial district of Texas,
composed of the coimties of Gregg, Smith, Upshur,
Van Zandt, and Wood, in 1892; reelected to that
office in 1894; elected district judge of the seventh
judicial district of Texas in 1896, and reelected to
that office without any opposition in 1900; nomi-
nated as the Democratic candidate in the new
Third Congressional district for the Fifty-eighth
Congress in August, 1902, and upon the death of
Hon. R. C. De Graffenreid was elected to fill out
the remainder of his term in the Fifty-seventh
Congress; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Russell, James M., was born at York, Pa.,
November 10, 1786; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Bedford, Pa. ;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-seventh Congress (vice Joseph Lawrence,
deceased), as a Whig, serving from January 3,
1842, to March 3, 1843; died at Bedford, Pa.,
December 20, 1870.
Russell, Jeremiah, was born at Saugerties,
N. Y., in 1776; received a limited education; held
several local offices; Presidertial elector on the
Van Buren ticket in 1836; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; died at Saugerties, N. Y.,
.in 1867.
Russell, John, of Oswego County, N. Y., was a
native of that State; elected a Representative from
New York to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses.
Russell, JohnE., of Leicester, Mass., was born
at Greenfield, Mass., January 20, 1834; engaged
in farming; elected secretary of the Massachusetts
State board of agriculture in 1880; five times re-
elected, serving until elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Russell, Jonathan, was born at Providence,
R. I., in 1771; graduated from Brown University
in 1791; studied law and admitted to the bar, but
did not practice; merchant; minister to Norway
and Sweden January 18, 1814, to October 16, 1818;
commissioner to negotiate a treaty of peace with
Ghent in 1814; returned home and settled at
Mendon, Mass.; elected a Representative from
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Massachusetts to the Seventeenth Congress as a
Democrat; died at Milton, Mass., February 19, 1832.
Russell, Joseph., of Warrensburg, N. Y., was a
native of that State; received a limited education;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second Congresses as a
Democrat.
Kussell, Samuel L., of Bedford, Pa., was a
native of Pennsylvania; received a liberal educa-
tion; held various local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-third
Congress as a Whig.
Russell, ■William, was a native of Ireland;
emigrated to the United States and located at
West Union, Ohio; received a limited education;
held several local offices; elected a Eepresentative
from Ohio to the Twentieth, Twenty-flrst, and
Twenty-second Congresses; defeated for the
Twenty-third Congress; moved to Portsmouth,
Ohio, and elected to the Twenty-seventh Con-
gress as a Whig; died at Portsmouth, Ohio, Octo-
ber 2, 1845.-
Russell, William A. , was born at Wells River,
Mass., April 22, 1831; received an academic educa-
tion; commenced manufacturing paper at Exeter,
N. H., in 1852, and moved in 1852 to Lawrence;
member of the State house of representatives in
1869; delegate to, the Republican national conven-
tions in 1868 and 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; after leav-
ing Congress devoted his time to the manufacture
of paper on a large scale; died at Boston, Mass.,
January 10, 1899.
Russell, ■William F. , was born at Saugerties,
N. Y. ; received a liberal education; merchant;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat.
Rust, Albert, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and began
practice at Eldorado, Ark. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Arkansas to the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for reelection; elected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress; brigadier-general in the
Confederate army; died April 3, 1870.
Rutherford, Robert, was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Third and Fourth Congresses; defeated for
reelection to the Fifth Congress.
Rutherfurd, John, was born at New York City
in September, 1760; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1776; studied law and began practice at
Edgerston, N. J. ; Presidential elector in 1798, 1813,
and 1821; elected a United States Senator from
New Jersey, serving from October 24, 1791, to Feb-
ruary, 1798, when he resigned; died at Rutherford,
N. J., February 23, 1840.
Rutledge, Edward, was born at Charleston,
S. C, November 23, 1749; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law at the Temple in London; began
practice in Charleston in 1773; Delegate from
South Carohna to the Continental Congress 1774-
1777; appointed a member of the first board of
war in_ June, 1776; captain of a company of vol-
unteer infantry in the Revolutionary Army; taken
prisoner when the British captured Charleston,
and imprisoned at St. Augustine a year; exchanged ;
governor of South Carohna from 1798 until Jan-
uary 23, 1800, when he died at Charleston, H. C.
Rutledge, John (father of John Rutledge), was
bornatOharleston,S.C.,inl739; received a classical
education; studied law at the Temple in London;
emigrated to the United States and located at
Charleston, S. C, where he began the practice of
law in 1761; Delegate from South Carolina to the
Provincial Congress at New York in 1765; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress 1774-1777; elected
president of South Carolina 1776-1778, and gov-
ernor 1779-1782; again elected a Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1782-83; elected one of the
State chancellors in 1784; member of the State
. convention to ratify the Federal Constitution; re-
ceived the electoral vote of South Carolina for
Vice-President in 1789; associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, serving from 1789-
1791; elected chief, justice of South Carolina 1790,
and resigned in 1795; nominated by President
Washington in 1795 to be Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, but the Senate
refused to confirm him; died at Charleston, S. C,
July 23, 1800.
Rutledgre, John (son of John Rutledge), was
born at Charleston, S. 0. , in 1766; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practice at
Charleston, S. C. ; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from South Carolina to the Fifth
and Sixth Congresses as a Federalist; died at Phil-
adelphia September 1, 1819.
Ryall, D. B., was a native of Trenton, N. J.;
received a liberal education; studied law and be-
gan practice at Freehold, N. J. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat.
Ryan, James W., of Pottsville, Pa., was bom
in Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, Pa.,
October 16, 1858; moved to Mahanoy City with his
parents when a small boy, where he attended the
public schools during the winter and was em-
ployed about the coal mines as a mule driver until
he reached the age of 16, at which time his father
engaged in farming in Butler Township, Schuyl-
kill County; then attended the high school of
Frackville, and after graduating taught in the
public schools; commenced the study of law and
admitted to the bar in 1884; elected district attor-
ney in 1892, and served until January, 1896; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Ryan, Thomas, of Topeka, Kans., was bom
at Oxford, N. Y., November 25, 1837; lived in
Bradford County, Pa., from infancy until 1865,
when he moved to Topeka, Kans. ; received' an
academic education; entered the Volunteer Army
of the United States in 1862 and mustered out in
the fall of 1864 on account of wounds received
in the battle of the Wilderness; admitted to the
practice of law in 1861; county attorney in Kansas
for eight successive years; assistant United States
attorney for Kansas 1873-1877; elected to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses as a
Republican; served four years as minister to the
Republic of Mexico; appointed First Assistant
Secretary of the Interior by President McKinley.
Ryan, -William, of Port Chester, N. Y., was
born m Tipperary, Ireland, in 1840; came to this
country with his parents, who settled at Stan-
wich. Conn., in 1844; attended district schools
during winter and worked on farms in summer
until the spring of 1859, when he went to the
Rocky Mountains; continued prospecting, mining
and Indian campaigning until 1861, when he
returned home and settled in Port Chester- mem-
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781
ber of the State assembly 1891-92; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a "Democrat.
Byan, William Henry, of Buffalo, iST. Y., was
bom at Hopkinton, Mass., May 10, 1860; moved
to Buffalo with his parents in 1866; educated in
the public schools and high school; engaged in
boot and shoe business; elected to the board of
supervisors of Erie County in 1894, and reelected
in 1897; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Ryon, John W., of Pottsville, Pa., was born
in Tioga County, Pa., March 4, 1825; educated in
the common schools, at Millville A cademy , Orleans
County, N. Y., and at Wellsboro Academy, Wells-
boro, Pa. ; studied law, and admitted to the bar
in 1847, and practiced; elected district attorney of
Tioga County in 1850; reelected in 1853, and held
the office until 1856; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat.
St. Clair, Arthur, was born at Thurso, Scot-
land, in 1734; received a classical education; stud-
ied medicine; came to America in 1758 with the
British troops, and resigned hiscommissioninl762;
settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1764 and
engaged in the lumber business; held several local
offices; commissioned colonel of the militia in 1775,
and sent to Fort Pitt to treat with the Indians;
served in the Bevolutionary Army ; a Delegate from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1785-
1787, the last year as president; appointed gov-
ernor of the Northwest Territory in 1788; located
at and named the city of Cincinnati; appointed
general in chief of the army in 1791, and resigned
in 1792; died at Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818.
St. John, Charles, was born in Orange County,
N. Y., October 8, 1818; received a common school
education; engaged in lumbering on the Delaware
' River; merchant; elected a Representative from
New York to the Fort^-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican; Presidential elector
in 1880; died at Port Jervis, N. Y., July 6, 1881.
St. John, Daniel "B. , was born at Sharon,
Conn., October 8, 1808; received a limited educa-
tion; at an early age employed by his uncle in his
mercantile and resil estate establishment at Monti-
cello, N. Y. ; succeeded to the business in 1831;
elected to the State assembly as a Henry Clay
Whig in 1840; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; moved
to Newburgh, N. Y. ; delegate to the national union
convention at Baltimore in 1860; defeated for
Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1860; elected
a State senator in 1875; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876; died
in New York City February 18, 1890.
St. John, Henry, was a native of New York;
received a limited education; moved to Tiffin,
Ohio; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
St. Martin, Louis, was born in St. Charles
Parish, La., in 1820; educated at St. Mary's Col-
lege, Missouri, and Jefferson College, Louisiana;
entered a notary's office with the purpose of study-
ing law and becoming a notary; elected in 1846
to the legislature of Louisiana; appointed the
same year register of the United States land office
for the southeastern district of Louisiana by
President Polk; elected a second time to the leg-
islature; after two. years' service elected to the
Thirty-second Congress from the First district of
Louisiana; at the end of his term he embarked
in mercantile pursuits, and soon thereafter was
appointed register of voters for the city of New
Orleans; in 1866 nominated by the Democratic
Earty and elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress;
is seat in the House of Representatives, however,
was denied him, as it was held that Louisiana was
not a State in the Union; elected to the Forty-flrst
Congress in 1868, but the election was contested
and sent back to the people; delegate to the na-
tional Democratic conventions that nominated
Pierce, Seymour, Tilden, and Hancock; Presi-
dential elector on the Tilden ticket; for several
years occupied a position in the municipal govern-
ment of New Orleans; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; died at New Orleans,
February 9, 1893.
Sabin, Alvah, was born at Georgia, Vt. , Octo-
ber 23, 1793; received a classical education; stud-
ied theology; served ten years as a member of the
State house of representatives; secretary of the
State of Vermont in 1841; elected a Representa-
tive from Vermont to the Thirty-third and Thirty-
fourth Congresses as a Whig.
Sabin, Dwight May, was born April 25, 1844,
at Marseilles, Lasalle County, 111.; reared on a
farm, attending the country school during the win-
ter, also studied the higher branches of mathe-
matics and civil engineering; engaged in lumbering
and the general manufacture of railroad cars and
agricultural machinery; served three sessions in
the popular branch of the legislature and two terms
in the State senate of Minnesota previous to his
election to the United States Senate; member of
the national Republican committee for Minne-
sota, and delegate to the national Republican con-
ventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880, respectively;
elected chairman of the Republican national com-
mittee December 12, 1883; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed William
Windom, Republican, and took his seat March 3,
1883, serving until March 3, 1889; died December
23, 1902, at Chicago, 111.
Sabine, Lorenzo, was born at Lisbon, N. H.,
February 28, 1803; received a liberal education;
merchant at Eastport, Me. ; served three years as
a member of the Maine State house of representa-
tives; moved to Massachusetts; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Thirty-second Congress (vice Benjamin
Thomas, deceased) as a Whig, serving from De-
cember 28, 1852, to March 3, 1853; resided at Bos-
ton, where he died April 14, 1877.
Sackett, William A., was born at Aurelius,
N. Y., November 18, 1812; resided at Seneca Falls;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses as a
Whig"; died in 1895.
Sadler, Thomas William, of Prattville, Ala.,
was born near Russellville, Franklin County, Ala.,
April 17, 1831; moved with his parents to Jeffer-
son County, Ala., in 1833; received an academic
education; moved to Autauga County, Ala., in
1855; engaged in mercantile pursuits until the be-
ginning of the late war between the States; volun-
teered and served in the division of the Confeder-
ate army commanded by Gen. Joseph Wheeler;
engaged in agricultural pursuits and the practice
of law since 1865; county superintendent of educa-
tion from 1875 to 1884; Hancock elector in 1880;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Sage, Ebenezer, was born in Connecticut; re-
ceived a classical education, graduating from Yale
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College in 1778; moved to New York, and settled
at Sag Harbor; elected a Representative from New
York to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth
Congresses as a Democrat, serving from May 22,
1809, to March 2, 1815; claimed to have been
elected to the Sixteenth Congress, and took his
seat, but the House gave it to James Guyon, jr.,
so that he only served from December 6, 1819, to
January 14, 1820; died at Sag Harbor, N. Y.,
January 20, 1834.
Sage, Russell, was born in Oneida County,
N. Y., August 4, 1816; received a public school
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Troy,
N. Y.; an alderman of that city 1841-1848; for
some years treasurer of Rensselaer County ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig,
serving from December 5, 1853, to March 3, 1857;
moved to New York City; engaged in the bank-
ing business and became very wealthy.
Sailly, Peter, was born at Lorraine, France;
emigrated to the United States in 1783, and located
at Plattsburg, N. Y., where he engaged in busi-
ness; elected a Representative from New York to
the Ninth Congress as a Democrat, serving from
December 2, 1805, to March 3, 1807; appointed
by President Jefferson collector of customs at
Plattsburg in 1807, and held the office until he
died there May 2, 1826.
Salmon, Joshua S. , was born near Mount Olive,
Morris County, N. J. , February 2, 1846; attended the
seminaries at Charlotteville, N. Y., and Schooleys
Mountain, N. J. ; also took a course at the Albany
Law School, and graduated therefrom in 1873; upon
graduation admitted by the supreme court of New
York as an attorney and counselor at law of that
State; after spending a time in the office of Charles
E. Scofield, of Jersey City, returned to his native
county and settled at Boonton; admitted as an
attorney in New Jersey in 1875, and afterwards as
a counselor, arid on December 21, 1894, admitted
as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme
Court of the United States; prosecutor of the
pleas for Morris County from April, 1893, to April,
1898; elected to the State legislature in 1877;
Democratic candidate for State senator in 1883;
one of the organizers of the Boonton National
Bank in 1890, and a director of the bank; elected
to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat; died at Boonton, N. J., May 6, 1902.
Saltonstall, lieverett, was born at Haverhill,
Mass., June 13, 1783; received a classical education,
graduating from Harvard College in 1802; studied
law; admitted to the bar, and. commenced prac-
tice at Salem in 1805; defeated as the Whig candi-
date from the Essex South district in 1820; a mem-
ber of the State senate in 1831; mayor of Salem
1836-1838; a Presidential elector on the Webster
ticket in 1837; elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Twenty-fifth Congress (in place
of Stephen C. Phillips, resigned ) as aWhig; reelected
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses, serving from December 5, 1838, to March
3, 1843; an active member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and other literary and historical
associations; published an historical sketch of
Haverhill; died at Salem, Mass., May 8, 1845.
Samford, William J. , was born at Greenville,
Meriwether County, Ga., September 16, 1844;
moved in early childhood to Chambers County,
Ala. ; received a limited education, having left the
University of Georgia at 17 years of age to enter the
Confederate army; enlisted as a private in the
Forty-sixth' Alabama Regiment; made first lieu-
tenant, and commanded a company at the sur-
render; alternate Presidential elector for the Third
Alabama district in 1872; commenced the practice
of law in 1871; delegate from the Thirteenth sena-
torial district to the constitutional convention of
1875 ; a member of the electoral college of Alabama
in 1876, and voted for Tilden and Hendricks;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
elected a representative from Lee County, Ala., to
the general assembly in 1882; elected State senator
from the twentv-seventh senatorial district of Ala-
bama in 1884; "elected president of the Alabama
State senate in 1886; reelected to the State senate
in 1892; nominated for governor of Alabama by
the Democratic State convention in 1900; died in
1901.
Sammons, Tliomas, was born in Montgomery
County, N. Y. ; received a public school education;
served as an officer in the Revolutionary war;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Eighth and Ninth Congresses as a Democrat;
defeated as the Democratic candidate for the Tenth
Congress; elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth
Congresses; died at Johnstown, N. Y.
Sample, Samuel C, was born in Maryland;
moved to Indiana, and settled at South Bend;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig.
Sampson, Ezekiel S. , was born in Huron
County, Ohio, December 6, 1831; received his
early education in public schools, later in a private
school at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and at Knox Col-
lege, Illinois; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice at Sigourney, Iowa, in 1856;
prosecuting attorney in 1856-1858; entered the
Union Army as captain in the Fifth Iowa Infantry
in 1861, and lieutenant-colonel in the same regi-
ment when mustered out in 1864; member of the
State senate of Iowa in 1866; judge of the sixth dis-
trict of Iowa from January, 1867, until January,
1875; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Re-
publican.
Sam.pson, Zabdiel, was born at Plympton,
Mass.; received a classical education, graduating
from Brown University in 1803; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar, and commenced practice at
Plympton; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from
December 1, 1817, to May 15, 1820, when he re-
signed, having been appointed collector of customs
at Plymouth, Mass. ; remained in that office until
he died, at Plymouth, Mass., July 19, 1828.
Samuels, Green B. , was born in Shenandoah
County, Va., in 1806; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and became a successful practi-
tioner; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; resumed
practice; elected a judge of the circuit court in
1850, and of the court of appeals; died at Rich-
mond, Va., January 5, 1859.
Sandidge, John M., was born in Franklin
County, Ga., January 7, 1817; moved to Louisiana
and became a planter; State representative 1846-
1855, and two years as speaker; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1852; elected a
Representative from Louisiana to the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Sanders, Wilbur F., of Helena, Mont., was
born at Leon, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., May 2.
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1834; educated in the common and high schools
of his native State; taught school in New York;
moved to Ohio in 1854, where he continued in
that work; studied law at Akron, Ohio, and ad-
mitted to the bar in 1856; recruited a company of
infantry and a battery in the summer of 1861, and
in October following was commissioned a first
lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Ohio, of which regi-
ment he was made adjutant; acting assistant
adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. James W.
Forsyth; assisted in 1862 in the construction of
defenses along the railroads south of Nashville; ill
health compelled his resignation, and he located
in Idaho (now Montana) , where he engaged in the
practice of law and became interested in mining and
stock raising; Republican candidate for Delegate
to Congress in 1864, 1867, 1880, and 1886; delegate
to the Eepublican national conventions in 1868,
1872, 1876, and 1884; a member of the legislative
assembly of Montana from 1872 till 1880, inclusive;
appointed United States attorney for Montana by
President Grant in 1872, but declined the office;
elected to the United States Senate, as a Repub-
lican, January 1, 1890, and took his seat April 16,
1890, serving until March 3, 1893.
Sandford, Thomas, was born in Westmoreland
County, Va., in 1762; received a classical educa-
tion; moved to Kentucky in 1792; delegate to the
State 'constitutional convention in 1799; member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Eighth and
Ninth Congresses; died December 10, 1808.
Sands, Joshua, was born in Queens County
N. Y.,inl758; received a limited education; State
senator 1792-1799; collector of customs at the port
of New York in 1797; elected a Representative
from New York to the Eighth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; died September 13, 1835.
Sanford, James T. , was a native of Virginia;
attended the common schools; moved to Columbia,
Tenn.; elected a Representative from Tennessee
' to the Eighteenth Congress.
Sanford, John, of Amsterdam, N. Y., was born
at Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., Jan-
uary 18, 1851; graduated from Yale College in
1872; elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second
Congresses as a Republican; after his retirement
from Congress engaged in the manufacture of car-
pets at Amsterdam, N. Y.
Sanford, John, was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; mem-
ber of the State senate in 1851 ; died at Amsterdam,
N. Y., October 7, 1857.
Sanford, Jonah, was a native of New York;
member of the State house of representatives 1827-
1830; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat
Sanford, Nathan, was born at Bridgehampton,
Long Island, November 5, 1777; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practice in New
York City; United States commissioner in bank-
ruptcy in 1802; United States attorney for the dis-
trict of New York 1803-1816; member of the State
house of representatives in 1815 and its speaker;
State senator 1812-1815; elected a United States
Senator from New York as a Democrat 1815-1821;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1821 ; chancellor of New York from August 1, 1823,
until January, 1826, when he resigned; again
elected United States Senator from New York
1826-1831 ; died at Flushing, N. Y. , October 17, 1838.
Sanford, Stephen, was born in Montgomery
County, N. Y., May 26, 1826; received a classical
education; carpet manufacturer; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-first Con-
gress as a Republican.
Sapp, William Fletcher, was born at Dan-
ville, Ohio, November 20, 3824; received a public
school and academic education; studied law at
Mount Vernon, Ohio; admitted to the bar in
June, 1850, and practiced at Mount Vernon;
elected prosecuting attorney in 1854, and re-
elected in 1856; moved in 1860 to Omaha, Nebr.,
appointed in 1861 adjutant-general of Nebraska
Territory, and subsequently elected a member of
the territorial legislative council; entered the
Union Army in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel of the
Second Nebraska Cavalry, and served until he
was mustered out; moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa,
where he practiced law; member of the State
house of representatives in 1865; appointed by
President Grant United States district attorney
for the district of Iowa in 1869, serving until 1873;
elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died November 22, 1890.
Sapp, "William R., was a native of Ohio;
received a common school education; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-third and
Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Whig.
Sargent, Aaron A. , was born in Newburyport,
Mass., September 28, 1827; printer; moved to Cal-
ifornia in 1849; studied law, and in 1854 admitted to
the bar; district attorney for Nevada County, Cal.,
1855-56; elected a Representative from California
to the Thirty-seventh Congress; elected to the
Forty-first and Forty- second Congresses; elected
a United States Senator as a Republican (vice
C. Cole, Republican), serving from March 4, 1873,
to March 3, 1879; appointed United States min-
ister to Germany in 1882 by President Garfield, and
held the office till the action of the German
authorities in excluding American pork from the
Empire made his incumbency personally distaste-
ful, and resigned; declined the mission to Russia;
returned home and died at San Francisco, Cal.,
August 14, 1887.
Sauerhering, Edward, of Mayville, Wis., was
born at Mayville, Wis., June 24, 1864; educated
in the Mayville public schools and high school;
graduated from the Chicago College of Pharmacy
in 1885; elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-
fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Saulsbury, Eli, was born in Kent County, Del.,
December 29, 1817; attended common and select
schools and an irregular course at Dickinson Col-
lege; studied and practiced law; a member of the
State legislature of Delaware 1853-54; elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
William Saulsbury, Democrat, and took his seat
March 4, 1871; reelected in 1876 and 1883, serving
until March 3, 1889; died at Washington, D. C,
March 22, 1893.
Saulsbury, Willard, was born in Kent County,
Del., June 2, 1820; received a classical education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; appointed
attorney-general of Delaware in 1850; delegate to
the Democraticnational convention in 1856; elected
a United States Senator from Delaware, serving
from 1859 to 1871; appointed chancellor of the
State in 1874, which office he occupied until his
death April 6, 1892.
Saunders, Alvin, was born in Fleming County,
Ky., July 12, 1817; received a common school and
t
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academic education; moved to Mount Pleasant,
Iowa (tiien a part of Wisconsin Territory), in
1836; postmaster at that place for seven years,
during which time he studied law, but never
entered upon its practice, preferring to engage in
mercantile and banking pursuits; member of the
constitutional convention under which Iowa was
admitted into the Union as a State; member of
the State senate for eight years; member of the
first Eepublican convention ever held in Iowa;
delegate to the Republican national convention
at Chicago which nominated Lincoln and Ham-
lin in 1860; one of the commissioners appointed
by Congress to organize the Pacific Railroad Com-
pany; appointed governor of the Territory of Ne-
braska by President Lincoln in 1861 and held
the office until the State was admitted into the
Union in 1867 ; delegate to the Republican national
convention at Chicago in 1868 which nominated
Grant and Colfax ; elected to the United States Sen-
ate as a Eepublican, to succeed Phineas W. Hitch-
cock, Republican, and took his seat March 5, 1877,
serving until March 3, 1883; died November 1,
1899.
Saunders, Bomulus Mitcliell, was born in
Caswell County, N. C, March 3, 1791; received a
classical education; studied law, .and in 1812 be-
gan practice; member of the house of commons of
North Carolina 1815, 1817, and 1819, serving two
years as speaker; elected a Representative to the
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; declined a reelection; attorney-general of
the State in 1828; elected judge of the superior
court in 1835, and resigned in 1840 on accepting
the nomination on the Democratic ticket for gov-
ernor, but was defeated; elected to the Twenty-
seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses; minister
to Spain 1846-1849; again elected a member of
the State house of representatives; died at Ralfeigh,
N. C, April 21, 1867.
Savage, Joh.ii, was born in New York in 1779;
received a common school education; served in
the State house of representatives in 1814; elected
a Representative from New York to the Four-
teenth and Fifteenth Congresses as a Democrat;
United States district attorney; State comptroller
1821-1823; chief justice of the State supreme court
1823-1827; United States assistant treasurer at
Xew York City; Presidential elector on the Polk
and Dallas ticket in 1845; died at Utica, N. Y.,
October 19, 1863.
Savage, John H., was born at McMinnville
Tenn., October 9, 1815; education was limited;
served as a private in the Seminole war; studied
law, and began practice at Smithville, Tenn. ; major
of the Fourteenth United States Infantry in the
Mexican war, and promoted to lieutenant-colonel;
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses; « de-
clined a reelection; elected to the Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Congresses.
Savage, John Simpson, was born in Clermont
County, Ohio, October 30, 1841; studied law, and
began practice at Wilmington in 1865; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; defeated for reelection.
Sawtelle, Culleu, was born at Norridgewock,
Me.; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825;
studied law, and in 1829 began practicmg at Nor-
ridgewock; register of probate 1830-1838; State
senator 1843^4; elected a Representative from
Maine to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; elected to the Thirty-first Congress.
Sawyer, Frederick Adolphus, was born at
Bolton, Mass., December 12, 1822; graduated from
Harvard College in 1844; taught school for several
years in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachu-
setts, and in 1859 took charge of the normal
school in Charleston, S. C. ; given a pass for him-
self and family through the lines and allowed to
return to the North in 1864; returned to Charles-
ton and' was active in advancing reconstruction
measures in 1865; appointed collector of internal
revenue in the second South Carolina district in
May, 1865; elected a United States Senator from
South Carolina 1868-1873; appointed Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury 1873-1876; died in
Sewanee, Tenn., July 31, 1891.
Sawyer, John Gilbert, was born at Brandon,
Vt., June 5, 1825; educated in the common schools
and at Millville Academy; studied law; admitted
to the bar and practiced; justice of the peace from
January 1 , 1852, to April, 1858; district attorney of
Orleans County from January 1, 1863, to January
1, 1866; judge" and surrogate of Orleans County
from January 1, 1868, to January 1, 1884; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican and
reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses;
resumed the practice of law at Albion, N. Y., and
died there September 5, 1898.
Sawyer, Lemuel, was born in Camden County
N. C, in 1777; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Elizabeth, N. C. ;
member of the State house of representatives in
1800 and 1801 ; Presidential elector on the Jefferson
ticket in 1804; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Tenth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses;
elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seven-
teenth Congresses; defeated for reelection; elected
to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; de-
feated for reelection to the Twenty-first Congress;
died at Washington, D. C. , January 9, 1852.
Sawyer, Philetus, was born at Whiting, Vt.,
September 22, 1816; moved with his family to New
York in the following year; received a common
school education; went to Wisconsin in 1847 and
engaged in the lumber business; member of the
legislature of Wisconsin in 1857 and 1861 ; mayor of
Oshkosh in 1863 and 1864; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Baltimore in 1864, at
Cincinnati in 1876, and at Chicago in 1880; Rep-
resentative to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-
first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses;
elected to the United States Senate as a Republi-
can, to succeed Angus Cameron, Eepublican, and
took his seat March 4, 1881; reelected in 1887,
serving until March 3, 1893; died at his home in
Oshkosh, Wis., March 29, 1900. C^ \\
Sawyer, Samuel L. , was born at Mount Ver-
non, N. H., November 27, 1813; graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1833; admitted to the bar
at Amherst, N. H., in 1836; settled at Lexington,
Mo., in 1838; elected circuit attorney of the sixth
judicial circuit of Missouri in 1848, and reelected
in 1852; elected a delegate to the Missouri con-
stitutional convention in 1861; delegate to the
national Democratic convention in 1868; elected
judge of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit in 1871
and reelected in 1874; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as an Independent Democrat; died April
1, 1890.
Sawyer, Samuel T., was born in Chowan
County, N. C, in 1800; studied law and began
practice at Edenton; State representative 1829-
1832; elected a Representative from North Caro-
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hna to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
deteated for reelection; moved to Norfolk, Va.,
and engaged in newspaper work; died November
29, 1865.
Sawyer, Wimam, was a native of St. Marys,
Ohio; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses.
Say, Benjamin, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
in 1'56; elected a Representative from that State
to the Tenth Congress, vice Joseph Clay, resigned;
reelected to the Eleventh Congress, and resigned
m 1809; died at Philadelphia, Pa., April 23, 1813.
Sayers, Josepli D., of Bastrop, Tex., was born
at Grenada, Miss., September 23, 1841; moved
with his father to Bastrop, Tex., in 1851; educated
at the Bastrop Military Institute; entered the Con-
federate army in 1861 and served continuouslv
until April, 1865, when the war terminated; taught
school, and at the same time studied law at Bas-
trop, Tex. ; admitted to the bar in 1866 and became
a partner of Hon. George W. Jones; served as a
member of the State senate in the session of 1873;
chairman of the Democratic State executive com-
mittee during the years 1875-1878; lieutenant-
governor of Texas in 1879 and 1880; elected to the
Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty -fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses; resigned
January 16, 1899, to become governor of Texas.
Sayler, Henry B., was born in Montgomery
County, Ohio, March 31, 1836; moved to Clinton
County, Ind., where, he received a common school
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
served in the Union Army as lieutenant, captain,
and major; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Forty-third Congress as a Republican; died
at Huntington, Ind., June 18, 1900.
Sayler, Milton, was born at Lewisburg, Preble
County, Ohio, November 4, 1831; received a
classical education; studied law and practiced;
member of the Ohio State legislature 1862-63;
■ member of the city council of Cincinnati in 1864-
65; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Scales, Alfred Moore, was born in Rocking-
ham County, N. C, November 26, 1827; not a
graduate, but received a classical education at the
Caldwell Institute in Greensboro, and at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1851; elected county attorney of
Rockingham County; member of the legislature
of North Carolina in 1852-53 and in 1856-57; Pres-
idential elector (for the State at large) on the
Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; member of
the House of Representatives in the Thirty-fifth
Congress of the United States; volunteered at the
beginning of the late civil war as a private in
the Confederate army, afterwards promoted and
served as captain, colonel, and brigadier-general;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; resigned December 30, 1884, to be-
come governor of North Carolina; governor of
North Carolina 1884-1888; died February 9, 1892.
Scammon, John F., was born at Saco, Mass.
(now Maine), October 24, 1786; attended the
Eublic schools; merchant; member of the State
ouse of representatives 1817, 1820, and 1821; col-
lector of customs at Saco 1829-1841; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Twenty-ninth
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Congress as a Democrat; member of the State
senate in 1855; died at Saco, Me., May 23, 1858.
Scarborough, Robert Bethea, of Conway, S. C. ,
was born at Chesterfield, S. C. , October 29, 1861 ; had
only an academic education; admitted to the bar
May 27, 1884, and immediately thereafter located
at Conway, at which place he actively engaged in
the practice of law ; first public service was in 1896,
when he was elected State senator from Horry
County; was elected president pro tempore of the
senate in 1898; on the death of Governor William
Ellerbeinl899, Hon. M. B. McSweeney, lieutenant-
fovernor, became governor of the State, and Mr.
carborough, by virtue of his office, became presi-
dent of the senate and lieutenant-governor, which
place hefilled until hiselection to Congress; elected
to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Schell, Biichard, was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y.,
in May, 1810; received a liberal education; mer-
chant; moved to New York in 1830 and became a
wholesale dry goods merchant; member of the
State senate in 1857; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-third Congress ( vice D. B.
Mellish, deceased) as a Democrat.
Schenok, Abraham H. , was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1777; received a classical educa-
tion; State representative 1804-1806; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fourteenth
Congress as a Democrat; engaged in manufactur-
ing; died February 20, 1831.
Schenck, Ferdinand S. , was born in Middle-
sex County, N. J., February 11, 1790; received a
liberal education; studied medicine and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives 1829-
1831; elected a Representative from New Jersey to
the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat
on a general ticket; reelected to the Twenty-fourth
Congress; member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1844; died at Camden, N. J,, May 17,
1860.
Schenck, Robert C, was bom at Franklin,
Ohio, Octoioer 4, 1809; graduated from Miami
University in 1827, and was a tutor for three
years; studied law and practiced at Dayton, Ohio;
member of the Ohio legislature in 1841-42; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses; ap-
pointed minister to Brazil, and also accredited to
Uruguay, Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as brigadier-
general; promoted to mafor-general; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
as a Republican; minister to Great Britain 1870-
1876, when he resigned; died at Washington,
D. C, March 23, 1890.
Schermerhorn, Abraham M. , was a native of
Rochester, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
held several local ofiices; member of the State
house of representatives in 1848; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirty-first and
Thirty -second Congresses as a Whig; died at
Rochester, N. Y., August 22, 1855.
Schermerhorn, Simon J., of Schenectady,
N. Y., was born at Rotterdam, Schenectady Coun-
ty, N. Y., September 26, 1827; received his edu-
cation principally in the schools of his native
town; extensively engaged in -arming; supervisor
of his town at different times; elected without
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opposition to the State legislature from Schenec-
tady County in 1862; interested in banking, being
a director and trustee of local banks; on the Cleve-
land electoral ticket in 1888; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
Schirm, Charles Reginald, of Baltimore, Md.,
was born in that city_ August 12, 1864; received
his preliminary education in the pubUc schools of
his native city; in 1880, at the age of 16, began a
four years' apprenticeship at iron molding; from
1884 to 1888 pursued a course of study at Wash-
ington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa.,
and for several years thereafter taught school in
Pennsylvania and Maryland; admitted to the
Baltimore County bar, on examination, March 6,
1896; member of the house of delegates of Mary-
land 1898-1900; appointed counsel to the board of
police commissioners for Baltimore city March,
1899, which place he held until May, 1900, when
the board became Democratic; elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Eepublican; defeated for
reelection to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Schleicher, Gustave, was born at Darmstadt,
Germany, November 19, 1823 ; educated in the
University of Giessen; became a civil engineer
and employed in the construction of several Euro-
pean railroads; emigrated to Texas in 1^47, and in
1850 settled at San Antonio; member of the State
house of representatives in 1853 and 1854, and
State senator 1859-1861; elected a Representative
from Texas to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Washington,
D. C, January 11, 1879.
Schley, ■William, was born at Frederick City,
Md., December 15, 1786; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1812 began practice at
Augusta, Ga. ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1830; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Twenty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat; governor of Georgia 1835-1837; died at Au-
gusta, Ga., November 20, 1858.
Schoolcraft, John L. , was a native of Albany,
N. Y. ; received a limited education; merchant;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Thirty-second Congress; died at St. Catherines,
Canada, May 11, 1860.
Schoonmaker, Cornelius C, was born at
Rochester, N. Y., in June, 1745; received a limited
education; member of the Stale house of repre-
sentatives 1777-1790; elected a Representative
from New York to the Second Congress; again a
member of the State house of representatives in
1795; died at Shawangunk, N. Y., in 1796.
Schoonmaker, Marius, was born at Kingston,
N. Y., April 24, 1811; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-second Congress as
a Whig.
Schultz, Emanuel, of Dayton, Ohio, was born
in Berks County, Pa. , July 25," 1819; moved in 1838
to Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, where
he lived an active business life; manufacturer; a
member of the State constitutional convention in
1873; elected in 1875 a member of the State legis-
lature and served two years; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican.
Schumaker, John G., was born at Claverack,
N. Y., June 27, 1826; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice in 1847; moved to
Brooklyn; district attorney for Kings County; cor-
poration counsel for the city of Brooklyn in 18'62-
1864; member of the State constitutional conven-
tions of 1862 and 1867; elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-first Congress as a
Democrat; elected a member of the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat and Liberal, and reelected
to the Forty-fourth Congress.
Schuneman, Martin G. , was a native of Ulster
County, N. Y. ; received a common school educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Ninth Congress.
Schureman, James, was born in New Jersey
in 1757; graduated from Rutgers College in 1775;
served in the Revolutionary Army; Delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1786-87;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
First Congress as a Federalist; elected to the Fifth
Congress; elected a United States Senator from
New Jersey (vice John Ruth erf urd, resigned),
serving from December 3, 1799, to February 6, 1801,
when he resigned; mayor of New Brunswick;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Thirteenth Congress; died January 23, 1824, at
New Brunswick, N. J.
Schurz, Carl, was born at Liblar, Germany,
March 2, 1829; received a classical education; emi-
grated to the United States in 1852 and located in
New York; delegate to the Chicago convention of
1860; appointed minister to Spain in 1861, but
soon afterwards resigned; appointed brigadier-
general of volunteers in the Union Army; engaged
in newspaper work after the war in Missouri; dele-
gate to the Chicago convention in 1868; elected a
United States Senator from Missouri as a Republi-
can (vice J. B. Henderson) 1869-1875; Secretary
of the Interior 1877-1881; editor of New York
Evening Post 1881-1884; contributed to Harper's
Weekly 1892-1898; president of National Civil
Service Reform League 1892-1901; author.
Schuyler, Philip, was born at Albany, N. Y.,
November 22, 1733; received a liberal education;
served in the Revolutionary Army; Delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1775-1777;
appointed major-general in 1775, but became in-
volved in military disputes and resigned in 1779;
again a Delegate to the Continental Congress 1778-
1781; elected a Dnited States Senator from New
York as a Federalist from March 4, 1789, to March
3, 1791; again elected a United States Senator,
serving from May 15, 1797, to January 3, 1798,
when he resigned; died at Albany, N. Y., Novem-
ber 18, 1804.
Schuyler, Philip J., was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1768; received a limited educa-
tion; elected a Representative from New York to
the Fifteenth Congress; died at New York Feb-
ruary 21, 1835.
Schwartz, John, was born in Berks County,
Pa., October 27, 1793; attended the public schools;
served in the war of 1812 as a heutenant; mer-
chant; became a farmer; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress
as an anti-Lecompton Democrat, serving from
December 5, 1859, to June 20, 1860, when he died,
at Reading, Pa.
Scofield, Glenni W., was born in Chautau-
qua County, N. Y., Mardi 11, 1817; graduated
from Hamilton College in 1840; studied law, and
began practice in Warren, Pa.; member of the
Pennsylvania State assembly 1850-51, and the State
senate 1857-1859; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-ninth, For-
tieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Fortv'-third
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Congresses; appointed Register of the Treasury
1878-1881; appointed a judge of the Court of
Claims, which position he occupied until a few
weeks before his death, which occurred at War-
ren, Pa., August 30, 1891.
Scott, Cbarles Frederick, of lola, Kans., was
born on a farm in Allen County, Kans., Septem-
ber 7, 1860; educated in the common schoofe and
at the State University of Kansas, being graduated
from the latter institution in 1881 with the degree
of B. S., receiving his master's degree some years
later; went West, and spent the next year and a
half in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, en-
gaging chiefly in clerical work; in the latter part
of 1882 returned to Tola, the county seat of his
native county, and bought a small interest in the
lola Register, a weekly newspaper; in the course
of five years he acquired entire control of the
paper; appointed regent of the university in 1891
for a term of four years and has been twice reap-
pointed; elected as a Republican to the State sen-
ate of Kansas in 1892 and served for four years;
represented his Congressional district on the Re-
pubUcan electoral ticket in 1896; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as Representative at large
from the State of Kansas, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress.
Scott, Charles L. , was born at Richmond,
Va., January 23, 1827; graduated from William
and Mary College; studied law, and began practice
at Richmond, Va. ; went to California in 1849; re-
sumed the practice of law in 1851 at Sonora;
elected a Representative from California to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Scott, Gustavus, was born in Prince William
County, Va. ; farmer; a Delegate from Maryland
to the Continental Congress 1784-85; died at
Washington, D. C, in 1801.
Scott, Harvey D., was a native of Ohio; at-
tended the public schools; moved to Terre Haute,
Ind. ; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Indiana to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Scott, John, was born in Hanover County, Va.,
in 1782; graduated from Princeton College in 1805;
studied law, and began practice at Ste. Genevieve,
Mo., in 1806; elected a Delegate from Missouri
Territory to the Fourteenth Congress, serving from
December 2, 1816, to January 13, 1817, when his
seat was declared vacant; elected a Delegate to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 3, 1821, Missouri be-
coming a State; elected a Representative to the
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; died October 1, 1861.
Scott, Jolm, was a native of Huntingdon County,
Pa. ; farmer; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-first Congress.
Scott, John, was born at Alexandria, Pa., July
14, 1824; attended the common schools; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1846 and practiced
prosecuting attorney from 1846 to 1849; member
of the State legislature in 1862; elected a United
States Senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican
(vice C. R. Buckalew, Democrat), serving from
March, 1869, to March 4, 1875; moved to Pittsburg
and became general solicitor of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company; died at Pittsburg, Pa., March
22, 1889.
Scott, John G., was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 26, 1819; received a liberal education;
moved to Missouri and engaged in mining; defeated
as the Democratic candidate as a Representative
from Missouri to the Thirty-eighth Congress by
J. W. Noell; Mr. Noell dying, Mr. Scott was elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Scott, John Morin, was born in New York in
1730; received a liberal education; was secretary
of state of New York 1778-79; a Delegate from
New York to the Continental Congress 1780-1788;
died in New York, Sept. 14, 1784.
Scott, Ifathan Bay, of Wheeling, W. Va., was
born December 18, 1842, in Guernsey County,
Ohio; received a common school education; en-
listed in the Army in 1862 and was mustered out
in 1865; after the war engaged in the manufacture
of glass at Wheeling, W. Va., where he resided;
president of the Central Glass Works and presi-
dent of the Dollar Savings Bank of that city ; elected
to the city council in 1880 and served two years as
president of the second branch; elected in 1882 to
serv.e four years in the State senate, and reelected
in 1886; selected as a member of the Republican
national committee in 1888, and a member of the
executive committee a greater portion of the time;
appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue by
President McKinley, and entered that office Janu-
ary 1, 1898; elected to the United States Senate as
a Republican on January 25, 1899.
Scott, Owen, of Bloomington, 111., was born in
Jackson Township, Efiingham County, 111., July
6, 1848; brought up on a farm and received a com-
mon school education; became a teacher in the
public schools; elected superintendent of schools
for Effingham County, and served in that capacity
eight years; admitted to the bar by the Illinois
supreme court, January 10, 1874, and practiced law
for ten years, leaving this to engage in newspaper
work ; published the Effingham Democrat, leaving
it to become proprietor and manager of the Bloom-
ington Daily and Weekly Bulletin; elected city
attorney and mayor of Effingham, deputy col-
lector of internal revenue; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; moved to Decatur,
111., where he edited the Decatur Herald.
Scott, Thomas, was a native of Pennsylvania;
attended the public schools; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the First and Third
Congresses.
Scott, ■William L. , was born at the city of
Washington, D. C, July 2, 1828, his parents being
residents of Virginia; received a common school
education; settled in Erie, Pa., in 1848, and was
employed as a clerk in the sliipping business; en-
gaged, in 1850, in the coal and shipping business,
owning and running several vessels on the lakes;
subsequently became largely interested in the
manufacture of iron and the mining of coal, as
well as in the construction and operationof rail-
roads; district delegate to the national Democratic
convention held m the city of New York in
1868, and a delegate at large from the State of
Pennsylvania to the Democratic national conven-
tion held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880, and also
represented the State of Pennsylvania on the
Democratic national committee from 1876 to 1884;
elected mayor of the city of Erie in 1866, and
again in 1871, and was elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, supported by Independ-
entRepublicans; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress;
died September 19, 1891.
Scoville, Jonathan, of New York, was born at
Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn.; educated in
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various educational establishments in Massachu-
setts, including the scientific department of Har-
vard University; commenced business in Canaan,
Conn. , in 1854, asan iron manufacturer and miner of
iron ore; moved to Buffalo in 1860, vphere heiestab-
lished a large car-wheel factory; the succeeding
year established a second one in Toronto, Canada;
elected to fill vacancy in the Forty-sixth Congress
in place of R. V. Pierce, resigned; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress.
Scranton, George W., was born it Madison,
Conn., May 11, 1811; received a liberal education;
moved to Belvidere, N. J.; a clerk; engaged in
the iron manufacture, and in 1840 began smelting
ore with anthracite coal at Slocum, Pa. (now
Scranton) ; president of two railroad companies;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a
Whig; died at Scranton, Pa., March 24, 1861.
Scranton, Joseph A., of Scranton, Pa., was
born at Madison, Conn., July 26, 1838; moved to
Pennsylvania in 1847; received an academic edu-
cation; collector of internal revenue 1862-1866;
postmaster at Scranton 1874-1881; delegate to the
Republican national convention at Philadelphia
in 1872; founded the Scranton Daily Republican
in 1867; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as
a Republican, and reelected to the Forty-ninth,
Fifty-first, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses
as a Republican.
Scudder, Henry J., was born at Northport,
K. Y., in 1825; graduated from Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn., in 1846; studied law and prac-
ticed in New York; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-third Congress; died at
New York City February 12, 1886.
Scudder, Isaac W., was born at Ehzabeth,
N. J., in 1818; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Jersey City;
held several local offices; elected as a Representa-
tive from New Jersey to the Forty-third Congress
as a Republican.
Scudder, John A. , was born in New Jersey in
1767; received a liberal education; studied medi-
cine and practiced; held several local oflices and
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Eleventh Congress, vice James Cox, deceased;
moved to Indiana and died November 6, 1836.
Scudder, Nathaniel, was born near Hunting-
ton, N. Y., May 10, 1733; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1751; served several terms in the
State house of representatives; Delegate from New
Jersey to the Continental Congress 1777-1779;
killed while resisting an invading party of British
at Shrewsbury, N. J., October 17, 1781.
Scudder, Townsend, of Glen Head, in the
town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, N. Y., was
born at Northport, Suffolk County, N. Y., July
26,1865; educated mainly abroad; graduated from
Columbia Law School, New York, in the class of
1888; admitted to the bar of New York in 1889;
served four terms as counsel for Queens County-
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Scudder, Treadwell, was born at Islip, N. Y. ;
received a limited education; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Fifteenth Congress;
State representative in 1828.
Scudder, Zeno, was born at Barnstable, Mass.,
August 18, 1807; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Barnstable-
served in both branches of the legislature; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
second and Thirty-third Congresses, resigning
March 1, 1854, on account of ill health; died at
Barnstable, Mass., June 26, 1857.
Scull, Ed-ward, of Somerset, Pa., was born at
Pittsburg, Pa., in 1818; received a common school
and academic education; studied law, and admit-
ted to the bar in 1844; moved to Somerset in
1846 and practiced law until 1857, wheri he was
elected prothonotary and clerk of the court for a
term of three years; on March 4, 1863, apjjointed
collector of internal revenue by President Lincoln ;
removed by President Johnson September, 1866;
appointed assessor of internal revenue by Presi-
dent Grant April, 1869; appointed collector March
22, 1873, and served in that capacity until August,
1883, when the district was consolidated with
another; published and edited the Somerset Her-
ald since 1852; delegate to the national Republican
convention at Baltimore in 1864, at Cincinnati in
1876, and at Chicago in 1884; elected to the Fif-
tieth Congress as a Republican, and reelected to
the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses.
Scurry, Bicliardson, was a native of Tennessee;
moved to Texas, and elected a Representative
from that State to the Thirty-second Congress.
Seaman, Henry J. , was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as an American.
Searing-, John A. , was born at North Hamp-
stead, N. Y., May 14, 1805; received a liberal edu-
cation; sheriff of Queens County in 1848; member
of the State house of representatives in 1853;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; died at
Minneola May 6, 1876.
Searle, James, was born in New York City
about 1730; received a liberal education; engaged
in the lottery business at Philadelphia 1776-1778;
Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental
Congress 1778-1780; died at Philadelphia August
7, 1797.
Seaver, Ebenezer, was born at Roxbury,
Mass., January 8, 1763; graduated from Harvard
College in 1784; member of the State house of
representatives 1794-1802; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Eighth Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses; defeated for
reelection to the Thirteenth Congress; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1820; died
at Roxbury, Mass., March 1, 1844.
Sebastian, William K., was born at Vernon,
Tenn., in 1814; graduated from Columbia College,
Tenn.; studied law, and began practice at Helena,
Ark.; prosecuting attorney 1835-1837; circuit
judge 1846; elected a United States Senator from
Arkansas (vice Chester Ashley, deceased) as a
Democrat, serving from 1848 to 1861, when he was
expelled with the other Southern Senators; did
not take any part in the Confederate movements,
and after the Federal troops occupied Helena
moved to Memphis, Tenn. , where he died May 20,
1865; the Senate subsequently revoked the resolu-
tion of expulsion and paid his full salary to his
children.
Seddon, James Alexander, was born at Fal-
mouth, Va., July 13, 1815; graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1835; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Democrat; declined a
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reelection; member of the peace convention in
1861; delegate from Virginia to the Provisional
Confederate Congress at Richmond in July, 1861;
died in Goochland County, Va., August 19, 1880.
Sedgwick, Charles B., was bom at Pompey,
JN. \., March, 1815; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Syracuse, N. Y. ;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-seventh Congress.
Sedgwick, Theodore, was born at West Hart-
ford, Conn., May 9, 1746; received a classical edu-
cation; studied theology, but abandoned it for
law; began practicing at Barrington, and later
moved to Sheffield; served in the Revolutionary
expedition against Canada in 1776; for several
years a member of the colonial and State house of
representatives; Delegate from Massachusetts to
the Continental Congress 1785-86; elected a Rep-
resentative from Massachusetts to the First, Second,
Third, and Fourth Congresses, serving from June
15, 1789, to December 6, 1796, when he resigned
to become United States Senator (vice George
Cabot, resigned), serving until March, 1799; dele-
gate to the State convention that adopted the Fed-
eral Constitution in 1788; elected a Representative
from Massachusetts to the Sixth Congress and
elected Speaker of the House; judge of the su-
preme court of Massachusetts until his death,
January 24, 1813, at Boston.
Seeley, Joh.n. E., was born at Ovid, N. Y.,
August 1, 1810; graduated from Yale College;
studied and practiced law; elected county judge
and surrogate of Seneca County in 1851-1855;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican.
Seeley, Julius H. , was born at Bethel, Conn.,
September 14, 1824; graduated from Amherst Col-
lege in 1849; studied theology; ordained in 1853;
pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church,
Schenectady, N. Y., 1853-1858; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Forty-fourth
Congress without nomination from any political
party; declined a reelection; accepted an invita-
tion to deliver a course of lectures in India in
1872; member of the commission to revise the tax
laws of Massachusetts; died at Amherst, Mass.,
May 12, 1895.
Seerley, John J., of Burlington, Iowa, was
born at Toulon, 111., March 13, 1852; graduated
from the State University of Iowa, degree A. B.,
in 1875; principal of the Iowa City high school in
1876; graduated from the law department of the
State University of Iowa in 1877; lawyer by pro-
fession; city solicitor of Burlington for six years;
candidate of the Democratic party for Congress in
1888; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Segar, Joseph Ei , was born in King William
County, Va., June 1, 1804; received a limited edu-
cation; held several local offices; served for sev-
eral years as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a tJnionist; elected a United
States Senator from Virginia (vice L. J. Bowden,
deceased), and in December, 1864, presented his
credentials, but not admitted to his seat; defeated
as the Republican candidate for the Forty-fifth
Congress; died in 1885.
Selhy, Thomas Jefferson, of Hardin, Calhoun
County, 111., was born in Delaware County, Ohio,
December 4, 1840; received a common school edu-
cation; a lawyer; admitted to practice in 1869, but
not commencing the practice of law until 1875;
elected sheriff of Jersey County, 111., serving from
1864 to 1866; owned and published the Jersey
County Democrat from 1866 to 1870; served as
county clerk of the same county from 1869 to 1877;
mayor of the city of Jersey ville two terms; State
attorney for Calhoun County from 1888 to 1900;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Selden, Dudley, was a lawyer; elected a Repre-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Democrat, serving from December
2, 1833, to July 1, 1834, when he resigned; died at
Paris, France, November 7, 1835.
Selye, Lewis, was born at Chittenango, N. Y.,
July 11, 1808; attended the common schools; man-
ufacturer; moved to Rochester, where he held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Fortieth Congress as an Inde-
pendent Republican.
Semmes, Benedict I., was born in Charles
County, Md., November 1, 1789; graduated from
the Baltimore Medical School in 1811; practiced
a few years at Piscataway, Md., but relinquished
it and became a farmer; member of the State
house of representatives 1825, 1827, and 1828;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twenty-flrst and Twenty-second Congresses as a
Clay Democrat; again a member of the State
house of representatives in 1842 and 1843.
Semple, James, was born in Green County,
Ky., January 5, 1798; moved to Illinois in 1827;
member of the State house of representatives 1828-
1833; attorney-general of Illinois 1833; charg6
d'affaires to Colombia, October 14, 1837, to April 1,
1842; appointed United States Senator from Illinois
(vice Samuel McRoberts, deceased) , as a Demo-
crat, and subsequently elected, serving from De-
cember 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847; died at Elsah,
111., December 20, 1866.
Sener, James B. , was born at Fredericksburg,
Va., May 18, 1837; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced; held several local of-
fices; an army correspondent of the Southern
Associated Press with General Lee's army; delegate
from Virginia to the national Republican conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1872; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Forty-third Congress as
a Republican.
Seney, George E., of Tiffin, Ohio, was born at
Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., May 29, 1832,
and moved with his parents to Tiffin in November,
1832; educated at Norwalk (Ohio) Seminary; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1853; practiced at Tiffin;
candidate for Presidential elector on the Buchanan
and Breckinridge ticket in 1856; elected judge of
the court of common pleas of the third judicial
district in 1857; in July, 1862, enlisted in the
One hundred and first Ohio Regiment, and sub-
sequently commissioned a first lieutenant, and
acted as quartermaster of the regiment until near
the close of the war; delegate to the Democratic
national convention at St. Louis in 1876; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-
first Congresses.
Seney, Joshua, was born on the eastern shore
of Maryland in 1750; received a classical education;
a Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Con-
gress 1787-88; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the First Congress, serving from March 4,
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1789, to May 1, 1792, when he resigned; Presiden-
tial elector in 1792; died in Maryland in 1799.
Senter, ■Williara T., was born in Grainger
County, Tenn., in 1802; received a common school
education; held several local offices; elected a
Eepresentative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig; died at Panther
Springs, Tenn., August 28, 1849.
Sergeant, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 5, 1779; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1795; studied law and practiced at Phila-
delphia for fifty years; appointed commissioner
of bankruptcy in 1801; deputy attorney -general of
Pennsylvania; elected a Eepresentativefrom Penn-
sylvania to the Fourteenth Congress as a Federal-
ist; reelected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and
Seventeenth Congresses; an envoy to the Panama
congress; elected to the Twentieth Congress; can-
didate on the AVhig ticket for Vice-President with
Henry Clay in 1832, and defeated; elected to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses, resigning September 15, 1841; declined
the mission to England offered by President Har-
rison; died at Philadelphia November 25, 1852.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson, was born at
Newark, N. J., in 1746'; graduated from New Jer-
sey College in 1762; studied law and began prac-
tice at Newark, N. J. ; Delegate from New Jersey
to the Continental Congress 1776-77; appointed
attorney-general of Pennsylvania in July, 1777;
moved to Philadelphia; died at Philadelphia Octo-
ber 8, 1793.
Sessions, Walter L., was born at Brandon,
Vt. ; rais«d on a farm; received a common school
education; studied law and practiced his profes-
sion; commissioner of schools for several years;
member of the assembly of the State of New York
1853-54; member of the State senate of New York
in 1859 and in 1865; a Bepresentative from New
York to the Forty-second and Forty-third Con-
gresses, and elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Republican ; was commissioner from New York
State to the World's Fair; died May 27, 1897.
Sessinghaus, Gustave, of St. Louis, Mo., suc-
cessfully contested the seat of E. G. Frost in the
Forty-eighth Congress, and took his seat March 2
1883.
Settle, EvanE., was born at Frankfort, Ky.,
December 1, 1848; received early education at
the classical school of B. B. Sayre, a celebrated
educator of Frankfort, Ky., and graduated from
Louisville High School in June, 1864; licensed to
practice law in 1870, and practiced his profession
at Owenton, Owenton County, Ky. ; elected county
attorney in 1878; reelected in 1882 and again in
1886; resigned in 1887, and twice elected to the
Kentucky legislature, and served in that body in
sessions of 1887-88 and 1889-90; delegate to the
national Democratic convention held at St. Louis
in 1888; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Oonwress
but died November 16, 1899.
Settle, Thomas, was born in Rockingham
County, N. C, in 1791; studied law and began
practice at Wentworth; a member of the State
house of representatives 1816, 1826-1828, the last
year as speaker; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Fifteenth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Sixteenth Congress;
declined a reelection; judge of the superior courts
of law and equity in 1832; died in Eockiugham
County, N. C, August 5, 1857.
Settle, Thomas, of Eeidsville, N. C, was born
in Eockingham County, N. C, March 10, 1865;
educated in the public schools of North Carolina
and Florida and then at Georgetown College, Dis-
trict of Columbia; studied law at Greensboro, N. C. ,
and admitted to the bar in October, 1885; nomi-
nated by the Eepubliean party for solicitor of the
ninth judicial district, comprising eight counties,
in August, 1886, and elected; renominated by the
Eepublicans in 1890 and elected; nominated by
the Republicans for Congress in 1892 and elected,
and reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Severance, Luther, was born at Montague,
Mass., October 28, 1797; moved to New York;
attended the public schools; printer; established
the Kennebec Journal at Augusta, Me., in 1823;
member of the house of representatives of Maine
in 1829 and the senate 1835-36; again of the house
1839-40; elected a Representative from Maine to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig on the
second trial; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress; United States commissioner to the Sandwich
Islands 1850-1854; died at Augusta, Me., January
25, 1855.
Sevier, Ambrose H., was born in Greene
County, Tenn., November 10, 1801; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and began practicing
at Little Rock, Ark.; member of the Territorial
house of representatives and senate; elected a Del-
egate from Arkansas Territory to the Twentieth
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses;
■elected a United States Senator from the State
of Arkansas as a Democrat, and reelected, serving
until March 15, 1848, when he resigned; minister
to Mexico, serving from March 14, 1848, to June 4,
1848; returned to Arkansas, and died December 31,
1848, at Little Rock.
Sevier, John, was born in Rockingham County,
Va., September 23, 1745; received a limited educa-
tion; settled on the Holsten River, North Carolina
(now Tennessee), in 1769; served in the Revolu-
tionary war, and the Creek war in 1789; governor
of Tennessee 1796-1801, 1803-1809; elected a Eep-
resentative from North Carolina to the First Con-
gress as a Democrat; elected a Eepresentative from
Tennessee to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Con-
gresses; one of the commissioners to locate the
boundaries of the Creek territory, and died, while
performing that service, at Fort Decatur. Ala
September 24, 1815. *
Sewall, Charles S. , was born at Elkton, Md •
received a common school education; held several
local offices; elected a Eepresentative from Mary-
land to the Twenty-second Congress (vice G. E
^io^i? . k.'^®'^®^®*^)' serving from December 3,
1832, to March 2, 1833; reelected to the Twenty-
seventh Congress to fill out the unexpired term of
James W. Williams, deceased; took his seat Jan-
uary 7, 1843; served to March 3, 1843.
Sewall, Samuel, was born at Boston, Mass.,
December 11, 1757; graduated from Harvard Col-
M^®Ki"i, !P',?*"'^^^'^ 1^^' ^"d began practice at
Marblehead, Mass. ; elected a Eepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses
resigning January 10, 1800, to become judge of
the supreme court of Massachusetts; appointed
?«lf l^fJjP® °^ *^^* '=°^''t i"! 1«13, died 5une 8,
1814, at Wiscasset, Me.
Seward, James L., was a native of Georgia:
received a liberal education; studied law, and be-
gan practice at Thomasviile, Ga.; member of the
State legislature 1836-1842, elected a Eepresenta-
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791
tive from Georgia to the Thirty-third Congress as
a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses.
Se-ward, ■William H., was born at Florida,
N. Y., May 16, 1801; graduated from Union College
in 1820; studied law, and began practice at Auburn,
N. Y., in 1823; member of the State senate 1830-
1834; defeated as the Whig candidate for governor
in 1834; governor of New York 1838-1842; elected
a United States Senator from New York as a Whig,
serving from March 4, 1849, until he resigned to
enter President Lincoln's Cabinet as Secretary of
State, March 5, 1861, serving until March 3, 1869;
died at Auburn, N. Y., October 10, 1872.
Se-well, James, was elected a Eepresentative
from Maryland to the Twenty-seventh Congress
(vice James S. Williams, deceased), serving from
January 1, 1843, to March 3, 1843.
Sewell, William J. , was born in Ireland Decem-
ber 6, 1835, and came to this country at an early age;
engaged in mercantile pursuits, and at the outbreak
of the civil war commissioned captain of the Fifth
New Jersey Volunteers; served during the war,
and brevetted brigadier-general for distinguished
services at Chancellorsville and major-general for
gallant services during the war; wounded at Chan-
cellorsville and Gettysburg; after the war became
connected with railroads in New Jersey; elected
State senator from Camden County in 1872; re-
elected in 1875 and again in 1878; president of the
senate 1876, 1879, and 1880; while a member of the
legislature elected to the United States Senate in
1881, as the successor of Senator Theodore F. Ran-
dolph, and served until the close of his term in 1887;
elected a delegate to the Republican national con-
ventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892, and on
each occasion made chairman of his delegation;
one of the national commissioners for New Jersey
of the World's Fair at Chicago; vice-president of
the Board of Managers of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; in command of the
Second Brigade of the National Guard of New
Jersey, and also connected with the management of
various banks, trust companies, and philanthropic
societies; elected to the United States Senate in
1895, to succeed Hon. John R. McPherson; re-
elected in 1901; died December 27, 1901.
Sexton, Leonidas, was born atRushville, Ind.,
May 19, 1827; graduated from Jefferson College,
Pennsylvania, in 1847; studied law, and began prac-
ticing at Rushville; member of the State house of
representatives in 1856; lieutenant-governor of In-
diana 1873-1877; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Seybert, Adam, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
May 16, 1773; received a classical education; elect-
ed a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses,
and reelected to the Fifteenth Congress; died at
Paris, France, Mat 2, 1825.
Seymour, David Lowrey, was born at Weth-
ersfleld, Conn., December 2, 1803; graduated from
Yale College in 1826; tutor at Yale College 1828-
1830; studied law, and began practice at Troy,
N. Y.; member of the State house of representa-
tives, 1836; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; elected to the Thirty-second Congress; died
at Lanesboro, Mass., October 11, 1857.
Seymour, Edward WoodrufF, was born at
Litchfield, Conn., August 30, 1832; graduated from
Yale College in 1853; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1856 and practiced law; member of the
Connecticut house of representatives in 1859, 1860,
1870, and 1871; member of the Connecticut senate
1876; elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; after leaving Congress
he resumed the practice of law; in November,
1889, was appointed a judge of the supreme court
of Connecticut; died October 16, 1892, at Litchfield,
Conn.
Seymour, Henry William, of Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich., was born at Brockport, Monroe County,
N. Y., 1834; attended the Brockport Collegiate
Institute and Canandaigua Academy; entered Wil-
liams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1851, and
graduated from that institution in 1855; studied
law at Albany, N. Y. , taking lectures at the Albany
Law School; admitted to practice May, 1856; en-
gaged for a time in the manufacture of reapers, and
subsequently in the manufacture of lumber and in
farming; elected to the Michigan State house of
representatives from the Cheboygan district in
1880; elected State senator in 1882 from the thir-
tieth district; reelected from the same district in
1886; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Repub-
lican, to succeed Hon. Seth C. Moffett, deceased;
took his seat March 3, 1888.
Seymour, Horatio, was born at Litchfield,
Conn., May 31, 1778; graduated from Yale College
in 1797; studied law, and began practice at Middle-
bury, Vt. ; held several local offices; elected a
United States Senator from Vermont as a Clay
Democrat, serving from December 3, 1821, to
March 2, 1833; diedatMiddlebury,Vt., November
21, 1857.
Seymour, Origan S., was born at Litchfield,
Conn., February 9, 1804; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Litchfield;
member of the State house of representatives and
its speaker in 1850; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third
Congresses; judge of the superior court of Con-
necticut for several years; died at Litchfield,
Conn., August 12, 1881.
Seymour, Thomas H. , was born at Hartford,
Conn., in 1808; graduated from Middletown Mil-
itary Academy; studied law and began practice at
Hartford; engaged in newspaper work; a judge;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; served in
the Mexican war as major of a New England
regiment; Presidential elector on the Pierce and
King ticket in 1852; governor of Connecticut 1850-
1853; minister to Russia 1853-1858; died at Hart-
ford, Conn., September 3, 1868.
Seymour, William, was a native of Connecti-
cut; moved to Binghamton, N. Y. ; received a lib-
eral education; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Shackelford, John W., was elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; died at Washington,
D. 0., January 18, 1883.
Shackleford, Dorsey W., of Jefferson City,
Mo., was born August 27, 1853, in Saline County,
Mo. ; educated in the public schools of the State,
and was a teacher in 1877-1879, during which
period he studied law; began practice at Boon ville.
Mo., May 9, 1879; served as prosecuting attorney
of Cooper County two terms, from 1882 to 1886,
and from 1890 to 1892; elected and served as judge
of the fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri from
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June 1, 1892, to September 9, 1899; resigned his
judicial position to take his place in the Fifty-sixth
Congress, to which he had been elected August
29, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. Richard P. Bland; reelected to the Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat.
Shafer, Jacob K., was born in Rockingham
County, Va., December 26, 1823; received a liberal
education; graduated from the law school of L. P.
Thompson, at Stanton, in 1846; moved to Stockton,
Cal., and began practice; elected district attorney
of the fifth judicial district of California in 1850;
mayor of Stockton in 1852; judge of San Joaquin
County, Cal., court 1853-1862; moved to Wash-
ington (now Idaho) Territory in 1862; elected a
Delegate from Idaho Territory to the Forty-first
Congress as a Democrat.
Shafroth, JohnF., of Denver, Colo., was born
at Fayette, Mo., June 9, 1854; entered the Uni-
versity of Michigan in the fall of 1872, and gradu-
ated from the literary department in the class of
1875; studied lawinhisnative town; admitted to the
bar in August, 1876; practiced law at Fayette, Mo.,
until October, 1879, when he moved to Denver,
Colo.; in April, 1887, elected city attorney of Den-
ver, and reelected to the same position in April,
1889; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Silver Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Shallenberger, Ashton C, of Alma, Nebr.,
was born at Toulon, Stark County, 111., in 1862;
educated in the common schools of his native town
and at the University of Illinois; moved to Ne-
braska in 1881, locating first in Polk County;
moved in 1887 to Alma, Harlan County, and en-
gaged in banking and stock raising; elected Dem-
ocratic memberofthe Nebraska Bimetallic League ;
temporary chairman of the Democratic State con-
vention in 1897; elected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress, being the candidate of the Democratic, Pop-
ulist, and Silver Republican parties.
Shallenberger, 'Williain S. , of Rochester, Pa.,
was born atMountPleasant, Westmoreland County,
Pa. , November 24, 1839 ; educated in public schools
and at Lewisburg University; entered the Union
Army- in 1862 in the One hundred and fortieth
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and soon after-
wards appointed adjutant of the regiment; wound-
ed in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
and the Wilderness; mustered out of service in Oc-
tober, 1864, on account of disability from wounds
received; chairman of the Beaver County Repub-
lican committee in 1872 and 1874; elected to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Shankliu, George S., was a native of Ken-
tucky; received a libera! education; held several
local offices; Presidential elector on the McClellan
and Pendleton ticket in 1864; elected a Represent-
ative from Kentucky to the Thirty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat.
Shanks, John P. C. , was born at Martinsburg,
Va., June 17, 1826; received an academic educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; began
practice in Indiana; member of the Indiana State
legislature i; 1854; served in the Union Army;
raised the Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer
Cavalry and commanded it until given command
of a brigade of cavalry; mustered out September
22, 1865, with the rank of brevet major-general;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican; elected
to the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses; died January 22, 1901.
Shannon, Kichard Cutts, of New York City,
was born at New London, Conn,, February 12,
1839; graduated from Waterville (Me.) College
(now Colby University), and served as a volunteer
in the Union Army during the civil war; appointed
secretary of the United States legation at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil in 1871, and served until March,
1875, when he resigned; took charge of the Botan-
ical Garden Railroad Company in 1876, an Ameri-
can enterprise in Brazil, of which he subsequently
became the vice-president and general manager
and finally the president; graduated from the law
school of Columbia College in 1885, and, having
been admitted to the New York bar, became a
member of the firm of Purrington & Shannon;
appointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to the Repub-
lics of Nicaragua, Salvador, and Costa Rica in 1891
and served until April, 1893; an alumni trustee of
Colby University; elected to the Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Shannon, Thomas, resided at Barnesville,
Ohio; a member of the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Nineteenth Con-
gress to fill the unexpired term of David Jennings,
resigned, serving from December 4, 1826, to March
3, 1827.
Shannon, Thomas B. , was bom in Westmore-
land County, Pa., in 1827; attended the public
schools; moved to Illinois in 1844 and to California
in 1849; merchant; served four years in the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Cali-
fornia to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican; collector of customs at San Francisco.
Shannon, Wilson, was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, February 24, 1802; graduated from Transyl-
vania College, Kentucky; studied law and began
practice at St. Clairsville, Ohio; State prosecuting
attorney in 1835; governor of Ohio 1838-1840 and
1842-1844; minister to Mexico 1844-45; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; governor of Kansas 1855-56;
died at Lawrence, Kans., August 31, 1877.
Sharon, William, was born at Smithfleld,
Ohio, January 9, 1821; raised on a farm; entered
Athens College in 1842, and remained there two
years; studied law; admitted to the bar at St.
Louis, and commenced practice; his healtli failing,
he engaged in mercantile pursuits at CarroUton,
111. ; moved to California in 1849, and commenced
business at Sacramento; went to San Francisco in
1850, where he operated in real estate; moved to
Nevada in 1864, as the manager of the branch of
the Bank of California, and became largely inter-
ested in mines; elected to the United States Senate
as a Republican to succeed W. M. Stewart, Repub-
lican, serving from March 4, 1875, to March 3,
1881; died November 13, 1885.
Sharp, Solomon P., was born in Virginia in
1780; moved to Kentucky, where he attended
the public schools; studied law, and in 1799 began
practice; served several terms in the State house
of representatives; attorney-general of Kentucky;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; while a member of the legislature was
assassinated in November, 1835.
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Sharpe, Peter, was a native of New York; re-
ceived a liberal education; member of the State
house of representatives 1814-1820; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1821; received
the certificate of election as a member of Congress
from New York in the Seventeenth Congress; seat
was successfully contested by Cadwallader D.
Golden; reelected to Eighteenth Congress.
Sharpe, William, was born in Cecil County,
Md., December 13, 1742; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law, and began practice at Meck-
lenburg, County, N. C, in 1763; Delegate from
North Carohna to the Continental Congress 1779-
1782; died in Iredell County, N. C, July 1, 1818.
Shattuc, "William B., of Madisonville, Ohio,
was born at North Hector, N. Y., June 11, 1841;
moved to Ohio when 11 years old, and received
his education in the public schools; commissioned
officer in the Union Army during the rebellion, in
the army of the frontier; for thirty years previous
to 1895 an oflBcer in the railway traffic service;
elected one of the State senators" from Hamilton
County to the seventy-second general assembly in
1895; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses.
Shaw, Aaron, was born in Orange County,
N. Y . , in 181 1 ; educated at Montgomery Academy,
New York; studied law with Judge Morrell at
Goshen, N. Y.; moved to Lawrence County, 111.,
in 1833; a delegate to the first internal improve-
ment convention of Illinois; elected State attorney
by the legislature of Illinois; three times a mem-
ber of the Illinois State legislature; elected circuit
judge of the fourth judicial district of Illinois, and
served six years; elected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress, and elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; died January 8, 1887.
Shaw, Albert Duane, was born at the tQwn of
Lyme, Jefferson County, N. Y., December 27, 1841;
educated at ■ Belleville, Union Academy, and Can-
ton University; enlisted as a private in Company
A, Thirty-fifth New York volunteers, in June,
1861, serving out the term of enlistment; appointed
a special agent of the War Department in 1863,
stationed at provost-marshal's headquarters at
Watertown, N. Y., thus serving until the close
of the great war in 1865; elected member of the
State assembly in 1866, serving one term; ap-
pointed colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Na-
tional Guard, State of New York, in 1867, by
Governor R. E. Fenton, and resigned to accept the
position of United States consul atToronto, Canada,
in 1868; promoted to Manchester, England, in 1878;
elected department commander of the Grand
Army of the RepubUc of New York in 1896; unan-
imously elected commander in chief of the national
encampment in 1899; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Republican to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of C. A. Chickering; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress, but died before taking his
seat, February 8, 1901.
Shaw, Frank T., of Westminster, Md., was
born at Woodsboro, Frederick County, Md., Octo-
ber 7, 1841; received a common school education;
graduated from the medical department of the
University of Maryland in 1864; located at Union-
town, Carroll County, Md., where he practiced his
profession until November, 1873, when he was
elected clerk of the circuit court for Carroll County
for the term of six years; reelected to the same
position in 1879; nominated in 1880 for Represent-
ative to the Forty-seventh Congress, but declined;
for many years a member of the Democratic State
central committee of Maryland; elected to the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat;
a member of the State legislature in 1890; elected
State tax commissioner in 1890, which position he
held until 1894, when he was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland collector of customs at the port of
Baltimore.
Shaw, George B., was born at the town of
Alma, Allegany County, N. Y., March 12, 1854;
educated in the public schools; lumber manufac-
turer; mayor of Eau Claire, Wis., in 1888 and 1889;
delegate to the national Republican convention in
Chicago in 1884; supreme chancellor Knights of
Pythias of the World from July, 1890, to August,
1892; elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a
Republican; died August 27, 1894.
Shaw, Henry, was born in Windham County,
Vt., in 1788; received a liberal education; studied
law, and in 1810 began practice at Lanesboro,
Mass.; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses;
declined arenomination; served eighteen years in
the State house of representatives; Presidential
elector in 1833; moved to New York City in 1848;
member of the State house of representatives in
1853; moved to Newbury in 1854; died at Peekskill,
N. Y., October 17, 1857.
Shaw, Henry M. , was born at Newport, R. I.,
November 20, 1819; received a' liberal education;
graduated from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania, and began practice at
Indiantown, N. C. ; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat; elected .to the Thirty-fifth Congress;
served in the Confederate army and was killed
near Newbern, N. C, February 23, 1864.
Shaw, John G., of Fayetteville, N. C, was
born January 16, 1859, near Fayetteville, N. C. ;
attended the. common schools of his county; en-
gaged in the naval-store business for some time
after he was of age; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1888; elected a member of the general
assembly the same year; located at Fayetteville;
elected county attorney for Cumberland County in
1890, and held the position for four years; Demo-
cratic candidate for Presidential elector in 1892,
and was elected; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; after leaving Congress he
resumed the practice of law.
Shaw, Samuel, was born at Dighton, Mass.,
December, 1768; received a limited education;
moved to Putney, Vt., and studied medicine;
began practicing medicine at Castleton, Vt., in
1799; imprisoned for a bitter denunciation of Pres-
ident Adams, but liberated by the people; a mem-
beir of the State house of representatives in 1799;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses; served
in the U. S. Army as surgeon; died at Clarendon,
Vt., October 22, 1827.
Shaw, Tristam, was born at Exeter, N. H., in
1787; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-
seventh Congresses; died at Exeter, N. H., March
14, 1843.
Sheafe, James, was born at Portsmouth, N. H.,
November 16, 1755; received a liberal education;
merchant; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Sixth Congress as a Federalist;
elected a United States Senator from New Hamp-
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shire, serving from December 7, 1801, to 1802,
when he resigned; defeated for governor in 1816;
died at Portsmouth, N. H., December 5, 1829.
Sheakley, James, was born at Sheakleyville,
Pa., April 24, 1830; received a classical education;
went to California in 1849; returned to Pennsyl-
vania in 1854 and engaged in mercantile pursuits;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Sheats, Charles Christopher, was born in
Walker County, Ala., April 10, 1839; received a
limited education; elected a member of the seces-
sion convention in 1860 and refused to sign the
ordinance of secession; elected a member of the
lower house of the general assembly of Alabama in
1861, and expelled for his adherence to Unionism
in 1862; imprisoned for treason by the Confeder-
ates, could not obtain a trial, and was not released
until after the close of the war; elected a member
of the constitutional convention in 1865; admitted
to the bar in 1867 ; Presidential elector on the Grant
ticket; consul to Denmark in 1869; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Republican.
Shaffer, Daniel, of York, Pa., was elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Sheffey, Daniel, was born at Frederick, Md.,
in 1770; received a classical education; located at
Abbeville, and studied law; admitted to the bar;
served in the house of delegates; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses as a Fed-
eralist; died in Staunton, Va., Decembers, 1830.
Shefla.eld, William P. , was born at New Shore-
ham, R. I., August 80, 1820; received a liberal
education; studied law, and began practice at JSTew
Shoreham; delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1841 and 1842; member of the State
house of representatives in 1845; moved to Tiver-
ton, and again elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives 1849-1853; moved to Newport, and again
elected to the State house of representatives 1857-
1861; elected a Representative from Rhode Island
to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Union candi-
date; again served a number of years in the State
house of representatives; appointed a Senator from
Rhode Island in the place of Henry B. Anthony,
deceased, serving from November 19, 1884, to Feb-
ruary 22, 1885.
Sheldeu, Carlos Douglas, of Houghton,
Houghton County, Mich., was born at Walworth,
Walworth County, Wis., June 10, 1840; seven
years later moved with his parents to Houghton
County, Lake Superior district, Mich.; educated
in the Union School, Ypsilanti, Mich., and re-
turned to his home in the fall of 1861; served
through the war of the rebellion as captain in the
Twenty-third Michigan Infantry; at the close of
the war returned to Houghton and entered mer-
cantile life with his father; selected to represent
his district in the lower branch of the Michigan
legislature in 1892, and promoted to the State sen-
ate in 1894; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as
a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-sisth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Sheldon, liionel A., was born in Otsego
County, N. Y., August 30, 1829; moved with his
parents to Ohio, where he received a Uberal edu-
cation; graduated from Oberlin College; studied
law, and admitted to the bar; began practice at
Elyria; judge of the probate court one term; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention in
1856; commissioned brigadier-general of the militia
by Governor Chase; entered the Union Army in
August, 1861, as captain of cavalry, and soon chosen
major of the Second Ohio Cavalry; by transfer
became lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-second
Ohio Infantry and afterwards colonel; brigade
commander under General Sherman; placed in
command of the Second Brigade of the Ninth
Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps in 1863;
after the war he settled in New Orleans, where he
resumed the practice of law; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the Forty-first Congress as
a Republican, and reelected to the Forty-second
and Forty-third Congresses.
Sheldon, Porter, was born at Victor, N. Y.,
September 29, 1831; received a liberal education;
studied law, and practiced at Randolph, N. Y.;
moved to Rockport, 111., in 1857, and practiced
until 1865, when he returned to Chautauqua,
N. Y. ; member of the Illinois constitutional con-
vention in 1861; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-first Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Shell, George W., of Laurens, S. C, was bom
in Laurens County, S. C, November 13, 1831;
worked on a farm and attended country school
until 18 years of age; continued to farm until the
war; entered the Confederate army in April, 1861,
and remained in the service until the surrender at
Appomattox; served as private, lieutenant, and
captain; after the war resumed farming; served as
clerk of court for six years; elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
died December 15, 1899.
Shellabarger, Samuel, was born in Clark
County, Ohio, December 10, 1817; graduated from
the Miami University ; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Springfield, Ohio; member of the State house
of representatives 1852-53; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress as
a Republican; defeated for reelection to the Thirty-
eighth Congress; elected to the Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congresses; minister to Portugal April 21,
1869, to December 31, 1869; elected to the Forty-
second Congress; died in 1896.
Shelley, Charles M., of Selma, Ala., was born
in Sullivan County, Tenn., December 28, 1833;
moved to Alabama with his father in 1836; received
a limited education; brought up to the trade of an
architect and builder, and afterwards followed
that business; entered the Confederate service in
February, 1861, as lieutenant, and was stationed
first at Fort Morgan, and afterwards attached to
the Fifth Alabama Regiment; after further service
commissioned brigadier-general, and served under
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and General Hood; after
the war returned to his occupation; elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Representative from Ala-
bama, and reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Democrat; received a certificate of reelection
to the Forty-seventh Congress; unseated July 20,
1882, and, the seat being declared vacant, reelected
as a Democrat November 7, 1882; received the cer-
tificate of election to the Forty-eighth Congress,
but was unseated January 9, 1885.
Shepard, Charles, was born at Newbern, N. C,
December 5, 1807; graduated from Chapel Hill in
1827; elected a Representative to the Twenty-fifth
and Twentv-sixth Congresses as a Democrat; died
at Newbern, N. C, October 31, 1843.
Shepard, William, was born at Westfield,
Mass., December 1, 1737; volunteered in defense of
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the frontier settlements against the incursions of the
French and Indians in 1754; two years later was
appointed to the office of sergeant; when 21 years
old was lieutenant under General Abercrombie, and
a year later was promoted to a captaincy under
General Amherst; served six years in the French
war, taking part in the battles of Fort William
Henry, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Isle aux Noix,
St. Johns, and Montreal; returned to Westfleld and
to civilian pursuits; one of the committee of corre-
spondence for Westfleld, in 1774, to carry out the
resolves of the provincial congress, and lieutenant-
colonel of minute men in April, 1775; entered the
colonial army in May, 1775, as lieutenant-colonel
in the regiment commanded by Col. Timothy
Danielson; commissioned colonel of the Fourth
Massachusetts Eegiment in 1776; when the British
landed at Pells Point he was appointed by Wash-
ington to guard the retreat of the troops from
Long Island, and was wounded by a musket ball;
served with Washington during the retreat through
New Jersey ^nd the subsequent successes at Tren-
ton, Princeton, and Monmouth; dispatched to the
northern army under Gates, and took part in the
battles which led to the surrender of Burgoyne on
October 17, 1777, and in the retreat from Rhode
Island in 1778; commanded a brigade under Gen-
eral Lafayette in 1780, which he retained until
the close of the war, in 1783, having participated
in twenty -two battles; elected to the lower branch
of the general court of Massachusetts in 1785 and
1786; chosen major-general of the fourth division,
Massachusetts militia in 1786, and in the same
year was summoned from his farm to assume com-
mand of the National forces at Springfield, Mass.,
on the outbreak of Shay's rebellion, where his
gallant and successful defense of the Springfield
Arsenal was largely instrumental in suppressing
the rebellion; complimented by the general court
of Massachusetts for his gallantry; appointed in
1796 by the governor of Massachusetts to treat
with the Penobscot Indians, and by the National
Government, in 1797, with the Six Nations;
Presidential elector for the first and second elec-
tions under the Constitution (Washington's terms)
1788 to 1792; member of the governor's council of
Massachusetts 1792 to 1796; member from Massa-
chusetts to the National House of Eepresentatives
for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses; died
at Westfleld, Mass., November 11, 1817.
Sliepaxd, William Biddle, was born at New-
bem, N. C, in 1799; graduated from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina; studied law, and began
practice at Elizabeth City; elected a Representa-
tive from North Carolina to the Twentieth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; declined another election; member«of
the North Carolina senate 1838-1848; died at Eliza-
beth City, N. C, June 20, 1852.
Shepley, Ether, was born at Groton, Mass.,
November 2, 1789; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1811; studied law and began practice in
Saco (now Maine, then in Massachusetts) ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1819;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1820; United States attorney for the district of
Maine 1821-1833; moved to Portland; elected a
United States Senator from Maine as a Democrat
from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1836, when he
resigned to become justice of the supreme court of
Maine, and subsequently chief justice; died at
Portland, Me,, January 15, 1877.
Slieplor, Matthias, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; moved to Ohio and settled at Bethlehem;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Van Buren Democrat.
Sheppard, John Levi, was born April 13, 1852,
at Bluffton, Chambers County, Ala. ; attended the
common schools; studied law, and began practic-
ing at Daingerfield, Morris County, Tex., in 1879;
elected district attorney of the fifth judicial district
in 1882, holding that office for six consecutive
years; nominated by the l)emocratic party in 1888
for district judge of the same district and elected,
which position he held for eight years; temporary
chairman of the Democratic State convention in
1892; appointed by the governor as one of the
Texas delegates to the bimetallic . convention at
Chicago in 1893; delegate to the Democratic na-
tional convention at Chicago in 1896, and later the
Texas member of the Presidential notification
committee, which met at New York City in August,
1896; retired from the bench in the winter of
1896-97, and became the senior member of the law
firm of Sheppard, Jones & Sheppard; elected to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat; died October 11, 1902, at Eureka
Springs, Ark.
Sheppard, Morris, of Texarkana, Tex., was
born May 28, 1875, at Wheatville, Morris County,
Tex. ; student in the common schools of Dainger-
field, Pittsburg, Cumby, Austin, and Linden; en-
tered the University of Texas in September, 1891,
where he remained six years, obtaining the de-
grees of B. A. in 1895 and LL. B. in 1897; entered
Yale University in September, 1897, taking the
degree of LL. M. in 1898, winning the Wayland
prize debate, Yale law school, 1898, delivering the
master's oration, commencement Yale law school,
1898; elected sovereign banker, or national treas-
urer. Woodmen of the World, at Memphis, Tenn.,
in 1899; elected the first president of the Texas
fraternal congress at Dallas in 1901; began the
practice of law at Pittsburg, Tex., in 1898, and
moved to Texarkana in 1899, where he continued
to follow his profession; literary editor Texas
Woodman and Woodman Journal, of San Antonio
and Dallas, respectively; elected to the Fifty -sev-
enth Congress, at a special election held Novem-
ber 15, 1902, to fill out the unexpired term of his
father, Hon. John L. Sheppard, deceased; also
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as ^ Demo-
crat.
Sheppard, Augustine H. , was born at Rock-
ford, N. C. ; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practicing in Surry County; mem-
ber of the house of commons of North Carolina
1822-1826; elected a Representative to the Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congresses; de-
feated for the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected to
the Twenty-seventh, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses.
Sherburne, John Samuel, was born at Ports-
mouth, N. H., in 1757; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1776; studied law, and began practice at
Portsmouth; served in the Revolutionary army
and lost a leg at the battle of Butts Hill; elected
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
Third and Fourth Congresses; United States attor-
ney for the district of New Hampshire 1801-1804;
United States judge for the district of New Hamp-
shire from May, 1804, until his death, at Ports-
mouth, N. H., August 2, 1830.
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Sheredine, tTpton, was elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Second Congress.
Sheridan, George A., was born at Millbury,
Mass., February 22, 1840; received a liberal edu-
cation; moved to Illinois; entered the Union
Army as captain; moved to Louisiana in 1866;
sheriff of Carroll Parish in 1867; elected a Repre-
sentative from Louisiana to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Liberal; appointed recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia in 1878.
Sherman, James Schoolcraft, of Utica, N. Y.,
was born at Utica, N. Y., October 24, 1855; re-
ceived an academic and collegiate education, grad-
uating from Hamilton College in the class of 1878;
admitted to the bar in 1880; practiced law; presi-
dent of the Utica Trust and Deposit Company,
and president of the New Hartford Canning Com-
pany; mayor of Utica in 1884; delegate to the Re-
publican national convention in 1892; chairman of
New York State Republican convention in 1895
and again in 1900; elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Sherman, John, was born at Lancaster, Ohio,
May 10, 1823; received an academic education;
studied law, and admitted to the bar May 11, 1844;
delegate to the national Whig conventions of 1848
and 1852, and presided over the first Republican
convention in Ohio in 1855; Representative to the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-flfth, Thirty-sixth, and
Thirty-seventh Congresses; Republican candidate
for Speaker winter of 1859-60; elected to the Sen-
ate in March, 1861, and reelected in 1866 and 1872;
appointed Secretary of the Treasury in March,
1877, and served during President Hayes's Ad-
ministration; elected to the United States Senate
as a Republican, to succeed Allen G. Thurman,
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1881; re-
elected in 1886, and again in 1892; resigned March
4, 1897, to become Secretary of State; resigned
April 25, 1898; died October 22, 1900.
Sherman, Judson W. , was a native of New
York; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Sherman, Roger, was born at Newton,
April 19, 1721; attended the public schools; shoe-
maker, and worked at his trade at New Milford,
Conn.; studied law and began practice in 1754;
judge of the court of common pleas in Litchfield
County; moved to New Haven in 1761; judge of
the court of common pleas in New Haven County
1765-1789; Delegate from Connecticut to the Con-
tinental Congress 1774r-1784; delegate to the Fed-
eral constitutional convention of 1787; elected
a Representative from Connecticut (vice W. S.
Johnson, resigned), serving from October 24,
1791, to July 23, 1793, when he died at New
Haven, Conn.
Sherman, Socrates N., was a native of Ver-
mont; moved to Ogdensburg, N. Y.; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Republican.
Sherrill, Eliakim, was a native of New York;
received a public school education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig.
Sherrod, William C, was born at Courtland
Ala., August 17, 1835; graduated from Chapel
Hill College, North Carolina; planter; State rep-
resentative of Alabama 1859-60; served in the
Confederate army; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Sherwin, John C, of Aurora, 111., was born in
St. Lawrence County, N. Y., February 8, 1838; re-
ceived an academic education at Gouverneur
Wesleyan Seminary in New York and Lombard
University in Illinois; studied law; twice elected
to the oflBice of county clerk of Kane County, 111. ;
city attorney for Aurora; served three years in
the war of the rebellion in the Eighty-ninth Illi-
nois Volunteers; discharged at the close of the
war; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress.
Sherwood, Henry, was born at Bridgeport,
Conn., October 9, 1817; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and practiced successfully; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Sherwood, Isaac B., was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., August 13, 1835; received a classi-
cal education; studied law; moved to Bryan, Ohio,
in 1857, and established the Williams County Ga-
zette; probate judge; resigned to enter the tJnion
Army as a private; after four months commissioned
lieutenant in the One hundred and eleventh Ohio
Volunteer Infantry; appointed adjutant, major,
lieutenant-colonel, andbrevetted brigadier-general;
after the war resumed newspaper work; elected
secretary of state of Ohio 1868 and 1870; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Republican.
Sherwood, Samuel, was a native of New York;
received a liberal education; studied law, and prac-
ticed at Delhi, N. Y.; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirteenth Congress as a Feder-
alist; died in New York City November 8, 1862.
Sherwood, Samuel B., was born in Connecti-
cut in 1767; graduated from Yale College in 1786;
studied law, and began practice atSaugatuck, Conn. ;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Fifteenth Congress; died at Saugatuck, Conn.,
April 27, 1833.
Shlel, George K., was a native of Ireland;
emigrated to the United States and located in
Oregon; elected a Representative from Oregon to
the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Shields, Benjamin G., resided at Demopolis,
Ala.; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Whig; charg6 d'affaires in Venezuela
1845-1850.
Shields, Ebenezer J. , was a native of Georgia;
moved to Tennessee and located at Pulaski; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Whie-
died May 20, 1846.
Shields, James, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, in 1810; emigrated to the United States;
studied law and located' at Kaskaskia, 111.; served'
in the State house of representatives in 1836;
auditor of State 1839, and supreme court judge in
1 843; General Land Office Commissioner 1845-1847 •
served through the Mexican war; brevetted major-
general; United States Senator from Illinois as a
Democrat 1849-1855; moved to Minnesota; elected
a United States Senator from Minnesota, servins
from 1858 to 1859; moved to California; served in
the Union Army; located in Carroll County, Mc;
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appomted adjutant-general of the State in 1877;
United States Senator from Missouri from Janu-
ary 24, 1879, to March 3, 1879; died at Ottumwa,
Iowa, June 1, 1879.
Shields, James, of Dicks Mills, Ohio; was
elected a Representative from that State to the
Twenty-first Congress as a JackSon Democrat;
died July 17, 1831.
Shinn, ■William N. , was a native of New Jersey ;
farmer; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat, and reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
Shipberd, Zebulon B. , was a native of Wash-
ington County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirteenth Congress as a
Federalist.
Shippen, William, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., October 1, 1712; graduated from Princeton
College in 1754; studied medicine in Europe, and
on his return to Philadelphia founded the Medical
School of Philadelphia; Delegate to the Continen-
tal Congress 1778-1780; died at Germantown, Pa.,
November 4, 1801.
Shively, Benjamin F., of South Bend, Ind.,
was born in St. Joseph County, Ind., March 20,
1857; taught school 1874-1880; engaged in journal-
ism; accepted the secretaryship of the National
Antimonopoly organization in 1883; elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress as a National Anti-
monopolist, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of William H. Calkins; reelected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses
as a Democrat; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date for governor of Indiana in 1896.
Slxotoer, Francis E., was born at Salem, N. C,
March 12, 1831 ; graduated from the University of
North Carolina in 1851; studied law, and began
practice in 1854; served in both branches of the
North Carolina State legislature; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses as a Democrat.
Shoemaker, Lazarus D., was born at Kings-
ton, Pa., November 5, 1819; graduated from Yale
College in 1840; studied law, and began practice at
Wilkesbarre,Pa.; State senator 1866-1868; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
second Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-third Congress.
Shonk, George W. , of Plymouth, Pa. , was bom
at Plymouth, Pa., April 26, 1850; educated at
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., and Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn., graduating from
the latter institution in the class of 1873; admitted
to the bar of Luzerne County, Pa., September 29,
1876; practiced hiS profession at Wilkesbarre;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Shorter, Eli S., was born at Monticello, Ga.,
March 15, 1823; graduated from Yale College in
1843; studied law, and practiced at Eufaula;
became a planter; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress. '
Shoup, George L. , of Salmon City, Idaho, was
born at Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pa., June
15, 1836; educated in the public schools of Free-
port and Slate Lick; moved with his father to
Illinois in June, 1852; engaged in farming and
stock raising near Galesburg until 1858; moved to
Colorado in 1859; engaged in mining and mercan-
tile pursuits until 1861; in September, 1861, en-
listed in Captain Backus' s independent company
of scouts, and soon thereafter commissioned second
lieutenant; during the autumn and winter of 1861
engaged in scouting along the base of the Rocky
Mountains; ordered to Fort Union, N. Mex., in
the early part of 1862; kept on scouting duty on
the Canadian, Pecos, and Red rivers until the
spring of 1863; during this time promoted to a
first lieutenancy; ordered to the Arkansas River;
had been assigned in 1862 to the Second Colorado
Regirnent of Volunteer Infantry, but retained on
duty in the cavalry service; assigned to the First
Colorado Regiment of Cavalry in May, 1863;
elected to the constitutional convention to prepare
a constitution for the proposed State of Colorado
in 1864; immediately after performing this service
returned to active "duty in the Army; commis-
sioned colonel of the Third Colorado Cavalry in
September, 1864, and mustered out in Denver
with the regiment at the expiration of term of
service; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Vir-
ginia City, Mont., in 1866, and during the same
year established a business at Salmon City, Idaho;
engaged in mining, stock raising, mercantile,
and other business in Idaho; member of the Ter-
ritorial legislature during the eighth and tenth
sessions; delegate to the national Republican con-
vention in 1880; member of the Republican
national committee 1880-1884; United States com-
missioner for Idaho at the World's Cotton Centen-
nial Exposition at New Orleans, La., in 1884-85;
again piaced on the Republican national commit-
tee in 1888; appointed governor of Idaho Terri-
tory, 1889, which position he held until elected
governor of the State of Idaho October ], 1890;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican December 18, 1890, and took his seat Decem-
ber 29, 1890; reelected in 1895, serving until
March 3, 1901.
Showalter, Joseph Baltzell, of Butler, Pa.,
was born in Fayette County, Pa., February 11,
1851; received a public school and academic edu-
cation, and taught school for six years;' studied
medicine at Long Island College Hospital, Brook-
lyn, and at the College of Physicians andSurgeons,
Baltimore, graduating from the latter institution;
practiced medicine for a number of years at Chi-
cora, Pa. ; engaged in the production of petroleum
and natural gas; elected to the Pennsylvania
house of representatives in 1886 as a Republican
for a term of two years; elected to the Pennsylva-
nia State senate in 1888 for a term of four years;
chairman of committee on health and sanitation;
elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses,
and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress as a
Republican.
Shower, Jacob, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-third Congress as an Independent.
Shuford, Alonzo Craig, of Newton, N. C, was
born in Catawba County, N. C, March 1, 1858;
educated in the common schools of the county
and at Newton College; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; joinedthe Alliance in 1889; made county
lecturer and later district lecturer; elected dele-
gate to the labor conference in St. Louis in Feb-
ruary, 1892; also delegate for the State at large to
the Populist convention in Omaha July 4, same
year; elected vice-president of the State Alliance
in 1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Populist; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Sibley, Henry H., was born at Detroit Mich.,
February 20, 1811; received a limited education; an
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Indian trader; elected a Delegate from Wisconsin
Territory to the Thirtieth Oongress; elected a
Delegate from Minnesota Territory to the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Congresses; governor of
Minnesota 1858; served in the Union Army and
brevetted major-general; died at St. Paul, Minn.,
February 18, 1891.
Sibley, Jonas, was born at Sutton, Mass.,
March 7, 1762; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; served seventeen successive
years as a member of the State house of represent-
atives; State senator in 1819; Presidential elector
in 1820; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Eighteenth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection; died at Sutton, Mass.,
February 10, 1834.
Sibley, Joseph. Crocker, of Franklin, Venango
County, Pa. , was born at Friendship, N. Y. , Feb-
ruary 18, 1850; manufacturer and farmer; elected
to the Fifty-third and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Sibley, Mark H. , was born at Great Barring-
ton, Mass., in 1796; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1814 began practice at Canan-
daigua,N.Y.; State representative 1834-35; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Whig; State senator in 1841;
county judge in 1847; died at Canandaigua, N. Y.,
September 8, 1852.
Sibley, Solomon, was born at Sutton, Mass.,
October 7, 1769; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1795 raoved to Marietta, Ohio,
where he began practice; moved to Detroit in 1797;
elected a Representative from Michigan Territory
to the Sixteenth Congress (vice W. W. Wood-
bridge, resigned); reelected to the Seventeenth
Congress; appointed judge of the State supreme
court 1824-1836; died at Detroit, Mich., April 4,
1846. ' F ,
Sickles, Daniel Edg'ar, of New York City,
was born at the city of New York October 20, 1825;
printer; studied law in the New York University;
member of assembly 1847; major Twelfth National
Guards 1852; corporation attorney 1853; secretary
of legation, London, 1853-1855; State senator 1856-
57; nominated by Democratic caucus for United
States Senator 1856; elected to Thirty-sixth Con-
gress 1856; reelected 1858; entered the Army April,
1861; colonel First Excelsior Brigade June, 1861-
brigadier-general September, 1861; served through
Peninsular campaign 1862, commanding Excelsior
Brigade in Hooker's Division, Third Corps; major-
general November, 1862, commanding Second Di-
vision, Third Corps; under Heintzelman, covering
General McClellan's communications, Antietam
campaigns; commanded Third Army Corps in
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns; com-
manded Department of South Carolina and Second
military district, embracing North and South
Carolina, 1865-1867; appointed colonel Forty-
second Infantry, U. S. Army (Veteran Reserve
Corps) 1866; mustered out of volunteer service
January, 1868; transferred to the retired list on
account of wounds received in battle, with the
rank of major-general, U. S. Army. April 1869-
special mission to South American Republics 1865-
minister to Holland 1866 (declined) ; minister to
Mexico 1869 (declined); minister to Spain 1869-
1875; chairman of New York State civil service
commission 1888-89; sheriff of New York 1890-
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat'
Sickles, Nicholas, was a native of Kinderhook,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Democrat;
died at Kingston, N. Y., May 13, 1845.
Sill, Thomas H., was a native of Connecticut;
received a liberal education; studied law, and be-
gan practicing at Erie, Pa., in 1812; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Nine-
teenth Congress (vice Patrick Farrelly, deceased)
as a Whig; elected to the Twenty-first Congress;
Presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore
ticket in 1848.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, was born in Essex County,
Mass., in 1773; received a liberal education; mer-
chant; held several local ofiices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses as a Democrat; member of
the State house of representatives in 1821 and of the
senate 1823-1825; elected a United States Senator
as a Democrat (vice James Lloyd, resigned), serv-
ing from 1826 to 1835; died at Salem, Mass., July
1, 1850.
Silvester, Peter H. , was a native of New York;
received a limited education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from New York
to the First Congress; State senator 1797-1800;
died at Kinderhook, N. Y., January 30, 1845.
Simkins, Illdred, was born in Edgefield Dis-
trict, S. C, August 29, 1779; received a classical
education; studied law, and began practice at
Edgefield Courthouse in 1806; served several
terms in the State legislature; elected a Represent-
ative from South Carolina to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses; declined a reelection; died
in Edgefield District, S. C, in 1832.
Simmons, Furnifold M., of Newbern, N. C,
was born in Jones County, N. C. , January 20, 1854;
graduated from Trinity College in North Carolina
m 1873; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
November, 1875; moved to Newbern, N. C, in
1876, where he practiced his profession; elected to
the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; appointed
collector of internal revenue for the fourth collec-
tion district of North Carolina in 1893, and served
in that office during the term of JMr. Cleveland;
in the campaigns of 1892, 1898, and 1900 chairman
of the Democratic executive committee of the
State; received the degree of LL. D. from Trinity
College, North Carolina, June, 1901; elected to
the United States Senate to succeed Hon. Marion
Butler, Populist, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
Simmons, George A., .was born in New
Ha,mpshire m 1791; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1816; studied law, and began practice
at Keeseville, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
died at Keesevilie, N. Y., October 27, 1857.
Simmons, James Fowler, was born at Little
Compton, R. I., September 10, 1795; received a
classical education; farmer; served in the lower
branch of the State legislature 1828-1841; United
States Senator from Rhode Island 1841-1847;
again elected, serving from December 7, 1857, to
December, 1862, when he resigned; died at John-
son, R. I., July 10, 1864.
Simms, William E., of Paris, Ky., was a
native of that State; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
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799
Simon, Joseph, of Portland, Oreg., was born
in Germany in 1851, and came to this country with
his parents when but 1 year old, going to Oregon
m 1857; has continuously resided in the city of
Portland ; obtained his education in the public
schools of Portland; admitted to the bar in 1872;
member of the law firm of Dolph, Mallory &
Simon; elected to the city council of Portland in
1877, and served as a member of that body three
years; elected secretary of the Republican State
central committee in 1878, and managed the State
campaign of that year; chosen chairman of the
Republican State central committee of Oregon in
1880, 1884, and 1886, and had charge of the State
and national campaigns of those years in Oregon;
delegate to the Republican national convention
which met at Minneapolis in 1892, and selected as
the member of the national committee for Oregon;
elected to the State senate from Multnomah
County in 1880, 1884, 1888, 1894, and 1898; chosen
president of the senate at the sessions of 1889,
1891, 1895, and 1897 and at the special session of
1898, and, the State having no lieutenant-governor,
he presided over the senate and over the joint
conventions of both houses; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican October 6, 1898, to
fill a vacancy that had existed since March 4,
1897, serving until March 3, 1903.
Simouds, William Edg^ar, of Canton, Conn.,
was born at Cbllinsville, in the town of Canton,
county of Hartford, Conn., November 24, 1842;
educated in the Collinsville graded and high
schools, and graduated from the Connecticut State
Normal School, at New Britain, and the Yale Law
School; engaged in the practice of law at Hart-
ford, and filled the lectureship on patent law at
the Yale Law School; author of different books
pertaining to patent law; member of the Con-
necticut nouse of representatives in 1883, and
house chairman of the joint standing committee on
railroads; speaker of the house for the session of
1885; enlisted as a private in Company A, Twenty-
fifth Connecticut Regiment of Infantry, August
18, 1862; promoted to be sergeant-major before
muster into the United States service; promoted
to be second lieutenant of Company I of his regi-
ment at the battle of Irish Bend, La., April 24,
1863; discharged from service by reason of expira-
tion of his term, August 26, 1863; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; secured the
passage through the House of Representatives of
an international copyright bill; France made him
a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1893; Com-
missioner of Patents 1891-1893; died at Hartford,
Conn., March 14, 1903.
Simons, Samuel, was born at Bridgeport,
Conn., in 1777; received an academic education;
held several local offices and taught school;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; died at
Bridgeport, Conn., January 13, 1847.
Simonton, Charles Bryson, of Covington,
Tenn., was born in Tipton County, Tenn., Sep-
tember 8, 1838; graduated from Erskme College,
South Carolina, in August, 1859; enlisted as a pri-
vate in the Confederate service in April, 1861;
subsequently elected second lieutenant, and after-
wards captain; severely wounded in the battle of
Perryville, October 8, 1862, and disabled from any
further active duty during the war; elected clerk
of the circuit court of Tipton County in March,
1870; admitted to the bar, and began the practice
of law in May, 1873; member of the house of rep-
resentatives of Tennessee in 1877 and 1878; at one
time edited the Tipton Record, a paper published
at Covington, Tipton County, Tenn. ; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-seventh Congress; Presidential elector
on the Democratic ticket in 1892; appointed by
President Cleveland United States district attorney
for the western district of Tennessee in 1895,
serving until 1898.
Simonton, William, was a native of Hummels-
town. Pa.; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-sixth Congress; died at South Hanover,
Pa., May 18, 1846.
Simpkins, John, was born at New Bedford,
Mass., June 27, 1862; attended the public schools
of Yarmouth; prepared for college at St. Mark's
School, Southboro; graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1885; served in the Massachusetts senate
in 1890 and 1891 ; Presidential elector for Harrison
and Reid in 1892; president of the Republican club
of Massachusetts in 1892 and 1893, and member of
the Massachusetts Republican State committee in
1892, 1893, and 1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth' Congress; died March 27, 1898.
Simpson, Jerry, of Medicine Lodge, Kans.,
was born in the Province of New Brunswick,
March 31, 1842; when 6 years of age his parents
moved to Oneida County, N. Y. ; at the age of 14
began life as a sailor, which pursuit he followed
for twenty-three years; during his career as a sailor
had command of many large vessels on the Great
Lakes; during the early part of the civil war served
for a time in Company A, Twelfth Illinois Infantry,
but contracting a disease he left the service; drifted
to Kansas in 1878 and lived 6 miles from Medicine
Lodge, Barber County, where he engaged in farm-
ing and stock raising; Republican originally, cast-
inghis first vote for the second election of Abraham
Lincoln; twice ran for the Kansas legislature on
the Independent ticket in Barber County, but de-
feated both times by a small plurality; nominated
to the Fifty-second Congress by the People' s Party,
and elected by the aid of the Democrats, who in-
dorsed his nomination; reelected to the Fifty- third
and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Simpson, John, was elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirtieth Congress, but did
not take his seat, as he served as captain in the
war of 18 12, and was massacred at the River Raisin,
January 22, 1813.
Simpson, KichardF., was a native of South
Carolina; graduated from the University of South
Carolina in 1816; studied law, and began practice
at Pendleton; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
ei^th. Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Sims, Alexander Dromgoole, was born in
Brunswick County, Va., June 11, 1803; graduated
from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.; took
charge of the Darlington (S. C.) Academy in 1826;
studied law, and began practice at Darlington;
member of the State house of representatives
1840-1844; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Con-
gresses, serving until December 1, 1845, when he
died, at Kingstree, S. C, November 11, 1848.
Sims, Leonard H. , was a native of North Car-
olina; received a limited education; moved to
Springfield, Mo. ; held several local offices; elected
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a Representative from Missouri to the Twenty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Sims, Thetus Willrette, was born April 25,
1852, in Wayne County, Tenn.; reared on a farm;
educated at Savannah College, Savannah, Tenn. ;
graduated from the law department of the Cum-
berland University at Lebanon, Tenn., June 1876;
located at Linden, Tenn.; elected county superin-
tendent of public instruction for Perry County,
Tenn., in 1882, and held that office for two years;
chosen an elector on the Cleveland and Steven-
son ticket in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty- sevent and Fifty-eighth Congresses as
a Democrat.
Singiser, Theodore F. , of Boise City, Idaho,
was born at Churchtown, Cumberland County,
Pa., March 15, 1845; received a common school
education, and learned the art of printing; entered
the military service of the United States as a pri-
vate in Company E, Sixth Begiment Pennsylvania
Reserves, June 6, 1861; engaged with his regiment
in the campaigns and battles of the Army of the
Potomac up to and including Antietam ; honorably
discharged in February, 1863; reentered the Army
in June, 1863, as captain of Company A, Twentieth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in active
service with his command until the spring of 1865,
when honorably discharged'; after the close of the
war engaged in mercantile and editorial pursuits;
assistant assessor of internal revenue 1866-67;
studied law and admitted to the bar; employed in
the United States Treasury from June, 1875, to 1879;
appointed receiver of public moneys at Oxford,
Idaho, in February, 1879, vacating said office to
accept the secretaryship of the Territory, to which
he was appointed December 22, 1880; acting gov-
ernor of Idaho during the winter of 1881-82;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Repub-
lican; after leaving Congress engaged in mining.
Singleton, James W. , of Quincy, 111., was
born at Paxton, Va., November 23, 1811; educated
at the Wincbester (Va. ) Academy; moved to
Illinois in 1833; la wyer by profession ; served six
terms in the legislature; member of the conven-
tion of 1847 that formed the constitution; also a
member of the constitutional convention of 1861;
elected brigadier-general of Illinois militia in
1844; president of and constructed the Quincy
and Toledo Railroad; also president of and con-
structed the Quincy, Alton and St. Louis Rail-
road; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Singleton, Oth.o B. , was born in Jessamine
County, Ky., October 14, 1814; received a classi-
cal education, graduating from St. Joseph's Col-
lege, Bardstown, Ky. ; studied law and graduated
from the Lexington Law School and practiced law;
moved to Mississippi in 1838; member of the Mis-
sissippi house of representatives two years, and of
the Mississippi senatesixyearsj Presidential elector
on the Pierce and King ticket in 1852; Representa-
tive from Mississippi to the Thirty-third, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses, retiring Janu-
ary 12, 1861; a representative from Mississippi in
the Confederate Congress 1861-1865; elected to the
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses
as a Democrat; died in 1889.
Singleton, Thomas D., was a native of South
Carolina; received a common school education;
held several local ofiices; elected a Representa-
tive from South Carolina to the Twenty-third
Congress as a Nullifier, and died, before taking his
seat, in 1833.
Sinnickson, Clement H. , was born in Salem
County, N. J., September 16, 1834; graduated from
Union College, New York, in 1855; studied law,
and in 1858 began practice at Salem, N. J. ; cap-
tain in the Union Army; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Forty-fourth and Forty-
fifth Congresses as a Republican.
Sinnickson, Thomas, was born in Salem
County, N. J., in 1745; received a liberal educa-
tion; merchant; captain in the Revolutionary
Army; held several local offices; member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the First and Fifth
Congresses; died at Salem, N. J., May 15, 1817.
Sinnickson, Thomas, was born at Salem, N. J.,
December 13, 1786; merchant; studied law and
practiced; member of the State house of represent-
atives; judge of the court of common pleas for
twenty years; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Twentieth Congress (vice H. Thomp-
son, deceased) ; died at Salem, N. J.
Sipe, "William Allen, of Pittsburg, Pa., was
born near Harrisonville, Fulton County, Pa., July
1, 1844 ; received his education in the public schools
of his native county and at the Cassville Academy,
Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pa. ; read law; ad-
mitted to the bar in August, 1865, practiced law in
Huntingdon till January, 1867, when he moved to
Indianapolis, Ind., where he practiced till Decem-
ber, 1868; moved to Pittsburg, Pa., December,
1868, where he practiced law; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat to fill the unex-
pired term of A. K. Craig, deceased; took his seat
December 5, 1892; reelected to the Fifty-third
Congress.
Sitgreaves, Charles, was born at Easton, Pa.,
April 22, 1803; moved with his parents to New
Jersey in 1806; received a classical education; stud-
ied law and practiced; member of the State assem-
bly 1831-1833; member of the legislative council
1834-35; State senator of New Jersey 1851-1854;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; engaged in banking and railroading; died at
Phillipsburg, Pa., March 17, 1878.
Sitgreaves, John, was born in Newberii, N. C,
about 1740; studied law and began practice in his
native town; served in the Revolutionary Army;
member of the Continental Congress 1784-85;
member of the house of commons 1786-1789;
United States district attorney for North Carolina
in 1789 and occupied the position until he died, at
Halifax, N. C, March 4, 1802.
Sitgreaves, Samuel, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., March 16, 1764; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Easton, Pa. ; del-
egate to the State constitutional convention in
1790; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses as a Federal-
ist, serving from 1795 to 1798, when he resigned to
become a commissioner to treat with Great Brit-
ain; died at Easton, Pa., April 4, 1824.
Skelton, Charles, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; moved to Trenton, N. J., where he held
several- local ofiices; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Thirty-second and
Thirty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Skiles, William Woodburn, of Shelby, Ohio,
was born at Stoughstown, Cumberland County, Pa.,
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December 11, 1849; with his parents moved to
Richland County in 1854; his early education
obtained in the district schools; afterwards took a
full college course at Baldwin University, Berea,
Ohio, graduating in 1876; admitted to the bar
July 24, 1878, and immediately opened an office at
Shelby; prominently connected with financial and
manufacturing institutions of Shelby, but devoted
hie time entirelj; to his law practice; active in
State politics, being at one time a member of the
Republican State central committee and of minor
committees; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Skinner, Charles R., of Watertown, N. Y.,
was born at Union Square, Oswego County, N. Y.,
August 4, 1844; received a common school and
academic education; journalist; elected member
of the board of education of the city of Watertown
in 1875, reelected in 1878, and again" in 1881; served
in the New York assembly 1877-1881; chairman
of the committee on railroads in the sessions of
1880 and 1881 ; elected in 1881 to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Warner Miller; reelected to
the Forty-eighth; after leaving Congress became
editor of the Watertown Daily Republican, which
position he held until January 1, 1896, when he
became city editor of the Watertown Daily Times;
in April, 1886, appointed deputy State superin-
tendent of public instruction and served six years;
in 1892 appointed supervisor of teachers' training
classes and teachers' institutes in the State depart-
ment of public instruction, serving until April,
1895, at which time he was elected State superin-
tendent of public instruction; reelected in 1898;
elected president of the National Educational As-
sociation in 1896.
Skinner, Harry, of Greenville, N. C, was born
in Perquimans County, N. C, May 25, 1855; at-
tended the Hertford Academy; read law at the
Kentucky University 1874-75, and licensed to
practice in North Carolina in 1876; resided in
Greenville, N. C, and practiced his profession;
chosen by unanimous vote as town councilman in
1878; elected to the lower house of the North Caro-
lina legislature in 1890, and served as chairman of
the committee on internal improvements, on the
judiciary committee, and chairman of the house
branch of the committee on redistricting the State;
served as chairman of the Democratic executive
committee of his county, chairman of tlje Demo-
cratic executive committee of the First Congres-
sional district, and on the State central committee;
chairman of the Populist executive committee of
his county and on the State central committee;
trustee of the State University; elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Populist; reelected to
the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Skinner, Richard, was born at Litchfield,
Conn., May 30, 1778; received a liberal education;
graduated from the Litchfield Law School and ad-
mitted to the bar; began practice at Manchester,
Vt , in 1800; State attorney for Bennington County
in 1801; judge of the probate 1806-1812; elected
a Representative from Vermont to the Thirteenth
Congress; associate judge of the State supreme
court in 1815, and chief justice in 1816; member
of the State house of representatives and speaker
in 1818; governor of Vermont 1820-1823; chief
justice of the supreme court of Vermont 1824-1829;
died at Manchester, Vt, May 23, 1833.
Skinner, Thomas Gregory, of Hertford, N. C,
was born January 21, 1842, in Perquimans County,
N. C. ; educated at the University of North Caro-
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lina; student at law 1866-67; obtained license to
practice law of the supreme court of North Car-
olina, January, 1868; never held a civil or mili-
tary office; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress,
as a Democrat, November 20, 1883, to fill vacancy
caused by death of Hon. W. F. Pool; reelected to
the Forty-ninth and Fifty-first Congresses; re-
sumed the practice of law after leaving Congress;
elected to the State senate of North Carolina in 1898.
Skinner, Thomson J. , was a native of Massa-
chusetts; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Fourth
(vice T. Sedgwick, resigned), Fifth, and Eighth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Slade, Charles, received a public school educa-
tion; held several local oflSces; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Twenty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat, serving from December 2, 1833,
to July, 1834, when he died in Knox County, Ind.
Slade, 'William, was born at Cornwall, Vt.,
May 9, 1786; graduated from Middlebury College
in 1807; studied law, and began practice in 1810
at Middlebury; engaged in editorial work; Presi-
dential elector on the Madison ticket in 1812; sec-
retary of state 1815-1823; judge of the Addison
County court; elected a Representative from Ver-
montto the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-
fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-
seventh Congresses as a Whig; reporter of decisions
of the State supreme court; governor of Vermont
,1844-1846; died at Middlebury, Vt., January 18,
1859.
Slater, James H., was born in Sangamon
County, 111., December 28, 1826; received a com-
mon school education; migrated to California in
1849; settled in Oregon in 1850; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1854; clerk of the district
court of the Territory of Oregon for Benton County
1853-1856; elected a member of the legislative as-
sembly of that Territory in 1857, and again in
1858, and at the same time elected a member of
the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon;
elected district attorney for the fifth judicial dis-
trict in 1866; elected Presidential elector on the
Seymour ticket in 1868; elected a Representative
from Oregon to the Forty-second Congress;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat
to succeed John H. Mitchell, Republican, and took
his seat March 18, 1879, serving until March 3,
1885; after retiring from the United States Senate
resumed the practice of law; appointed as one of
the railroad commissioners of Oregon in 1889 and
served two years; died January 28, 1899.
Slayden, James L., of San Antonio, Tex., was
born June 1, 1853, in Graves County, Ky.; edu-
cated in the country schools of his native Stateand
at Washington and Lee University, Virginia; cot-
ton merchant; member of the twenty-third legis-
lature of Texas in 1892; declined reelection; elected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses. •
Slaymaker, Amos, was born at London Lands,
Pa., March 11, 1755; received a limited education;
served in the Revolutionary Army; farmer; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thir-
teenth Congress to fill the unexpired term of James
Whitehill, resigned, serving from December 12,
1814, to March 2, 1815; died at Salisbury, Pa.,
June 12, 1837.
Siemens, 'William F., of Monticello, Ark., was
born in Weakley County, Tenn., March 15, 1830;
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educated at Bethel College; moved to Arkansas in
1852; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1855 and
practiced until 1861; member of the Arkansas
State convention in 1861; entered the Confederate
army in July, 1861, and served through the war,
after which resumed the practice of law; elected
district attorney in 1866, and legislated out of office
in 1868; elected a Representative from the Second
Congressional district of Arkansas to the Forty-
fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses as
a Democrat.
Slidell, Jolin, was born in New York in 1793;
received a liberal education; studied law and began
practice at New Orleans; United States district
attorney 1829-1833; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a
State Rights Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress, and resigned November 10, 1845,
having been appointed minister to Mexico, but
that Government refused to accept him; elected
United States Senator from Louisiana (vice Pierre
Soul6, resigned) and reelected, serving from 1853
to 1861; retired from the Senate and afterwards
expelled; arrested at Habana on the English mail
steamer Trent while on his way to England, and
brought to the United States and confined in Fort
Warren; soon released and sailed for England
January 1, 1862; died at London, July 29, 1871.
Slingerland, John I., was born in Albany
County, N. Y., March 1, 1804; attended the pub-
lic schools; farmer; State representative in 1843;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; died at Albany,
October 26, 1861.
Sloan, A. Scott, was born at Morris ville, N. Y.;
in 1820; received an academic education; studied
law and began practice at Morrisville; clerk of
Madison County court in 1847; moved in. 1854 to
Wisconsin and located at Beaverdam; member of
the Wisconsin house of , representatives in 1856;
appointed judge of the circuit court in 1858; elected
a Representative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Republican; died in 1895."
Sloan, Andrew, was born at McDonough, Ga.,
June 10, 1845; received a classical education; stud-
ied law and began practice in 1866; moved to
Savannah; deputy collector of customs; resumed
the practice of law; elected a Representative from
Georgia in 1872, but Morgan Rawls received the
certificate of election and obtained the seat; con-
tested and obtained the seat March 24, 1874.
Sloan, Ithamar C. , was a native of Madison
County, N. Y. ; received a pubKc school education;
studied law, and began practice at Janesville,
Wis., in 1854; elected a Representative from Wis-
consin to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, as a Republican; died in 1898.
Sloan, James, was a native of New Jersey;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth
Congresses; died in Gloucester County, N. J.
November, 1811. '
Sloane, John, was born at York, Pa., in 1779;
moved to Ohio; received a liberal education; State
representative 1804-1806; United States receiver
of public moneys at Canton 1808-1816, and at
Wooster 1816-1819; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; clerk of
the court of common pleas for seven years; secre-
tary of state for Ohio three years; United States
Treasurer 1850-1853; died at Wooster, Ohio Mav
15, 1856. ' •
Sloane, Jonathan, was a native of Massachu-
setts; moved to Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Congresses as a Whig.
Slocum, Henry Warner, was born at Delphi,
N. Y., September 24, 1827; graduated from West
Point in 1852 and became second lieutenant. First
Artillery; served in the Seminole war, and pro-
moted to first lieutenant; resigned his commis-
sion October 31, 1856; settled at Syracuse, N. Y.,
and admitted to the bar, having studied law while
in the Army; elected to the State legislature in
1859; entered the Union Army as colonel of the
Twenty-seventh New York Volunteers; wounded
at the first battle of Bull Run; promoted to brig-
adier-general, major-general of Volunteers; re-
signed his commission September 28, 1865, and
returned to Brooklyn; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for secretary of state of New York;
Presidential elector in 1868; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-first and Forty-
second Congresses as a Democrat; elected a Rep-
resentative at large from New York to the Forty-
eighth Congress; died at Brooklyn, N. Y., April
14, 1894.
Slocumb, Jesse, was born in North Carolina in
1782; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses
as a Federalist; died at AVashington, D. C., Decem-
ber 20, 1820.
Sloss, Joseph H. , was born at Somerville, Ala. ,
October 12, 1826; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Edwardsville,
111., in 1849; member of the legislature 1858-59;
returned to Alabama; served in the Confederate
army; mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala.; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Forty-second
Congress as a Conservative Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-third Congress; defeated for the Forty-
fourth Congress.
Small, John Humphrey, of Washington, X. C. ,
was born August 29, 1858, at Washington, N. C. ;
educated in the schools of Washington, and at
Trinity College, North Carolina; left college in
1876 and taught school from 1876 to 1880; licensed
to practice law in January, 1881; elected reading
clerk of the State senate in 1881; elected superin-
tendent of public instruction of Beaufort County
in the latter part of 1881; elected and continued
to serve as solicitor of the inferior court of Beau-
fort County from 1882 to 1885; proprietor and
editor of the Washington Gazette from 1883 to
1886; attorney of the board of commissioners of
Beaufort County from 1888 to 1896; member of
the city council from May, 1887, to Maj-, 1890, and
for one year during that period was mavor of
Washington; chairman of the Democratic execu-
tive committee of the First Congressional district
in 1888; chairman of the Democratic executive
committee of Beaufort County from 1889 to 1898;
Democratic Presidential elector in the First Con-
gressional district in 1896; for several years chair-
man of the public school committee of Washing-
ton; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Small, William B., was a native of Limington,
Me.; received a thorough English education;
studied law, and in 1846 began practice at New-
market, N. H.; solicitor of Rockingham County;
State senator in 1870; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Fortv-third Congress-
died April 7, 1875.
BIOGRAPHIES.
803
Smalls, Robert, of Beaufort, S. C, was bom
at Beaufort, S. C, April 5, 1839; being a slave,
was debarred by statute from attending school,
but educated himself with such limited advantages
as he could secure; moved to Charleston in 1851,
worked as a rigger, and led a seafaring life; be-
came connected in 1861 with the Planter, a steamer
plying in Charleston Harbor as a transport, which
he took over Charleston bar in May, 1862, and de-
livered her and his services to the commander of
the United States blockading squadron; appointed
pilot in the U. S. Navy, and served in that capacity
on the monitor Keokuk in the attack on Fort Sum-
ter; served as pilot in the Quartermaster's Depart-
ment; promoted as captain for gallant and meri-
torious conduct December 1, 1863, and placed in
command of the Planter, serving until she was put
out of commission in 1866; elected a member of the
State constitutional convention of 1868; elected a
memberoftheStatehouseofrepresentativesinl868,
and of the State senate, to fill a vacancy, in 1870,
and reelected in 1872 ; appointed lieutenant-colonel
of the Third Ee^ment South Carolina State Militia;
afterwards appointed brigadier-general of the Sec-
ond Brigade South Carolina State Militia, and sub-
sequently appointed major-general of the Second
Division South Carolina State MiUtia, which ofiice
he held until the reorganization of the militia in
1877, under the Democratic administration of the
State; delegate to the national Republican con ven-
vention at Philadelphia in 1872 which nominated
Grant and Wilson, and also to the national Repub-
lican convention which met at Cincinnati in 1876
and nominated Hayes and Wheeler; elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress, reelected to the Forty -fifth
Congress and defeated as a candidate for the Forty-
sixth Congress; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress; the certificate of election was given to his
opponent, but the House decided that he had re-
ceived, as the Republican candidate, 14,393 votes,
against 12,904 for George D. Tillman, Democrat,
and he was seated July 19, 1882; reelected to the
Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Edmund W. M. Mackey; reelected to
the Forty-ninth Congress; appointed collector of
the port of Beaufort, S. C.
Smart, Epbraim. K. , was born at Prospect,
Mass. (now Searsport, Me.), in 1813; received a
liberal education; studied law and began practice
at Camden; postmaster at Camden in 1838; State
senator 1841 and 1842; moved in 1843 to Missouri,
and returned to Camden in 1845; again served one
term as postmaster of Camden; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Thirtieth and Thirty-
second Congresses as a Democrat; collector of cus-
toms at Belfast 1853-1858; again a member of the
State house of representatives 1858, and of the sen-
ate 1862; moved to Biddeford in 1869 and estab-
lished the Maine Democrat.
Smart, James S., was born at Baltimore, Md.,
June 14, 1842; graduated from Jefferson College,
Pennsylvania, in 1863; served in the Union Army
1861-1865; engaged in newspaper work; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Smelt, Dennis, was a native of Georgia; re-
ceived a limited education; elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Ninth, Tenth, and Elev-
enth Congresses.
Smilie, John, was born in Ireland in 1741;
emigrated to Pennsylvania when quite young; re-
ceived a common school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Third Con-
gress; Presidential elector in 1797; elected to the
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh,
and Twelfth Congresses; died at Washington, D.
C, December 30, 1812.
Smith, A. Herr, of Lancaster, Pa., was born
in Manor Township, Lancaster County, March 7,
1815_; graduated from Dickinson College in 1840;
studied law at Lancaster; admitted to the bar in
1842, and followed his profession; elected to the
house of representatives of the State of Pennsyl-
vania in 1843, and reelected in 1844; elected to the
State senate in 1845; elected to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses, and re-
elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and
Forty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Smith, Albert, was born at Hanover, Mass.,
January 3, 1793; graduated from Brown Univer-
sity in 1813; studied law and began practice at
Portland in 1817; a member of the State house of
representatives in 1820; United States marshal for
the district of Maine 1830-1838; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection; died
at Boston, Mass., May 29, 1867.
Smith, Albert, was a native of Batavia, N. Y. ;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Smith, Arthur, was born in Isle of Wight
County, Va., November 15, 1785; graduated from^
William and Mary College; studied law, but did
not practice; served in the war of 1812; State rep-
resentative; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Con-
gresses; died at Smithfield, Va., March 30, 1853.
Smith, Ballard, was a Representative from
Virginia to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Six-
teenth Congresses.
Sm.ith, Bernard, was born at Norristown,
N. J., in 1776; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; postmaster at New Bruns-
wick; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Sixteenth Congress; appointed register of
the land office at Little Rock; died at Little Rock,
Ark., July 16, 1835.
Smith, Caleb Blood, was born at Boston, Mass. ,
April 16, 1808; accompanied his parents to Ohio
in 1814; graduated from the Miami University;
studied law and began practice at Connersville,
Ind. ; founded and edited the Indiana Sentinel in
1832; State representative 1833-1836, the last year
as speaker; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth
Congresses; Presidential elector in 1840; moved
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he practiced law;
Presidential elector on the Fremont ticket in 1856;
Secretary of the Interior under President Lincoln
1861-62, and resigned to become judge for the
district of Indiana; died at Indianapolis, Ind.,
January 7, 1864.
Smith, Charles Brooks, was born in Wood
County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 24,
1844; received a common school education; enlisted
in the Union Army at the age of 19, and mustered
out in 1865; twice elected mayor of the city of
Parkersburg; elected sheriff and treasurer of the
county of Wood in 1880, and served a term of four
years; delegate at large to the national Republican
convention at Chicago in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; died Decem-
ber 7, 1899.
804
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOET.
Smith, Daniel, was born in Fauquier County,
Va. , about 1 740; one of the earliest settlers in Ten-
nessee; appointed by President Washington sec-
retary of the territory south of the Ohio River
January 7, 1790; a general of militia; appointed
a United States Senator from Tennessee (in place
of Andrew Jackson, resigned), serving from De-
• cember 3, 1798, to March 3, 1799; elected a Senator
from Tennessee, serving from December 2, 1805,
to 1809, when he resigned; died in Sumner Countv,
Tenn., July 16, 1818.
Smith, David Highbaugh, of Hodgensville,
Larue County, Ky., was born December 19, 1854,
in Hart County, Ky., near Hammonville; edu-
cated in the public schools of that vicinity and at
the colleges at Horse Cave, Leitchfield, and Hart-
ford, all in Kentucky ; practiced law; elected
county attorney for Larue County in August, for
the term of four years; elected superintendent of
common schools for Larue County in October,
1878; resigned the oflBce of county attorney, and
in August, 1881, elected to represent Larue County
in the house of representatives of the general as-
sembly for two j^ears; elected to represent the
thirteenth senatorial district in the State senate in
August, 1885, for the term of four years; reelected
in August, 1889, for four years; while in the State
senate chairman of general statutes committee and
member of committees on rules and judiciary; the
new constitution, adopted by the State in 1891,
created the office of president pro tempore of the
senate; at the first meeting of the senate thereafter
he was chosen unanimously by the Democratic
members for that position and elected for the term
of two years, at the end of which term was again the
unanimous choice of the Democrats for the place,
and again elected for a second term of two years;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Smith, Delazon, was born at Berlin, N. Y.,
in 1816; graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in
1837; studied law and admitted to the bar; edited
the True Jeffersonian, at Rochester, N. Y., and
the AVestern Empire, at Dayton, Ohio; moved to
Iowa Territory in 1846 and preached; moved from
there to Oregon Territory" in 1852; member of the
Territorial house of representatives in 1854-1856;
delegate to the constitutional convention in 1857;
elected a United States Senator from Oregon as a
Democrat and served from February 14, 1859, to
March 3, 1859; died at Portland, Oreg., Novem-
ber 18, 1860.
Smith, Dietrich C, of Pekin, 111., was born at
Ostfriesland, Hanover, April 4, 1840; emigrated
to the United States and resided in Pekin, 111.,
after 1849; entered the Union Army in 1861; lieu-
tenant of Company I, Eighth Illinois Volunteer
Infantry; left the service as captain of Company
C, One hundred and thirty-ninth lUinois Volun-
teer Infantry; member of the thirtieth general
assembly of the State of Illinois; for many years
a banker and manufacturer and some experience
in the construction and management of railroads
in Illinois; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress
as a Republican; after expiration of his term in
Congress engaged in the banking business.
Smith, Edward Henry, was born at Smith-
town, Long Island, in 1809; attended the public
schools; farmer; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Fusion candidate.
Smith, Francis O. J. , was born at Brentwood,
N. H., November 23, 1806; received a limited edu-
cation ; studied law and began practice at Portland;
member of the State house of representatives in
1831 and of the State senate in 1833, and its presi-
dent; elected a Representative from Maine to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses;
defeated for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress; died at Deering, Me., October 14, 1876.
Smith, George, of Pennsylvania, was elected
a Representative from that State to the Eleventh
and Twelfth Congresses.
Smith, George L., was born in Hillsboro
County, N. H., December 11, 1840; received a lib-
eral eduction; served in the Union Army; after
the war located at Louisiana and engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits; held several local offices; engaged
in newspaper work; elected a Representative from
Louisiana to the Forty-third Congress, vice Samuel
Peters, deceased.
Smith, George W., of ^urphysboro, IlL, was
born in Putnam County, Ohio, August 18, 1846;
raised on a farm in Wayne County, 111., to which
his father moved in 1850; learned the trade of
blacksmithing; attended the common schools;
graduated from the literary department of McKen-
dree College at Lebanon, 111., in 1868; read law
in Fairfield, 111., after which he entered the law
department of the university at Bloomington, Ind. ,
from which he graduated in 1870; admitted to the
practice of law by the supreme court of Illinois
the same year; Republican elector for his Con-
gressional dittrict in 1880 (then the Eighteenth)
and cast the vote of the district for Garfield and
Arthur; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Smith, Gerrit, was born in Utica, N. Y., March
6, 1797; graduated from Hamilton College in 1818;
studied law and admitted to the bar in 1853;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as an Ultra Abolitionist:
died in New York City December 28, 1874.
Smith, Green Clay, was born at Richmond,
Ky., July 2, 1832; graduated from Transylvania
University in 1849; studied law, and began prac-
tice in 1852; a second lieutenant in the Mexican
war; enlisted in the Union Army as cblonel in
1861; appointed brigadier-general in 1862 and
major-general in 1863; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Union candidate; reelected to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, serving until 1866, when he resigned to
become governor of Montana, which position he
held until 1869; ordained to the ministry of the
Baptist Church in 1869 and settled at Frankfort,
Ky. ; became an evangelist, and in 1876 was the
candidate of the National Prohibition party for
President of the United States; pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church at Washington,
D. C, in 1890, and died there June 29, 1895.
Smith, H. Boardman, was born at Whiting-
ham, Vt., August 18, 1826; received a classical ed-
ucation; graduated from Williams College, Mass.,
in 1847; studied law, and began practice in New
York; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses as a Republican.
BIOGRAPHIES.
805
Snuth, Henry Cassorte, of Adrian, Mich.;
graduated from Adrian College in 1878; admitted
to the practice of the law September 25, 1880;
elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fiftv-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican.
_ Smith., Henry, of Milwaukee, Wis., was bom
in the city of Baltimore, Md., July 22, 1838; the
same year moved with his parents to Massillon,
Stark County, Ohio; moved to Milwaukee in 1845;
received a public school education; millwright;
member of the common council of Milwaukee
from 1868 till 1872; member of the Wisconsin leg-
islature in 1878; again a member of the comimon
council from 1880 till 1882; city comptroller from
1882 till 1884, and from that date a member of the
common council until February 14, 1887; elected
to the Fiftieth Congress as the People's Party
candidate.
Smith, Hezeklah B. , was born at Bridgewater,
Vt., July 24, 1816; received a common school edu-
cation; learned the trade of a cabinetmaker; for
many years engaged in perfecting and manufactur-
ing wood-working machinery; elected to thfr Forty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat and Greenbacker;
died at Smith ville, N. J., November 3, 1887.
Smith., Hiram Y., was born at Piqua, Ohio,
March 22, 1843; received an academic education,
and graduated from the Albany Law School in
1866; admitted to the bar and commenced practice
at Des Moines^ Iowa, in 1866; district attorney of
the fifth judicial district of Iowa 1875-1879; mem-
ber of the State senate in the nineteenth and
twentieth general assemblies 1882-1884; elected
■ to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
John A. Kasson; died November 4, 1895.
Smith, Isaac, was a native of Pennsylvania
and a Representative from that State to the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Democrat.
.Smith, Isaac, born at Trenton, N. J., in 1736;
graduated from Princeton College in 1755; studied
law and practiced; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Fourth Congress as a Federalist;
a judge of the superior courts of New Jersey; died
at Trenton, N. J., August 29, 1807.
Smith, Israel, was born at Suffield, Conn. , April
4, 1759; graduated from Yale College in 1781;
studied law, and began practice at Rupert, Vt.;
moved to Rutland, Vt. ; delegate to the constitu-
tional convention in 1791; elected a Representa-
tive from Vermont to the Second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Third and Fourth Con-
gresses; appointed chief justice of the supreme
court in 1797; elected to the Seventh Congress;
elected a United States Senator from Vermont
1803-1807, when he resigned to become governor
of Vermont 1807-8; Presidential elector in 1809;
died at Rutland, Vt., December 2, 1810.
Smith, James, was born in Ireland in 1720;
when 9 years of age came to the United States with
his father and located in Pennsylvania; attended
the public schools; studied law, and began practice
at Shippingport, but afterwards moved to York;
raised a company for the purpose of resisting Great
Britain in 1774; delegate to the Pennsylvania con-
vention of January, 1775 ; member of the Continen-
tal Congress 1776-1778; member of the State house
of representatives in 1780; died at York, Pa,, July
11, 1806.
Smith, James, jr., of Newark, N. J., was born
in that city June 12, 1851; manufacturer of patent
and enameled leather in Newark; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
Hon. Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, serving from
March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1899.
Smith, James S., was a native of Orange
County, N. C. ; studied medicine and practiced at
Hillsboro; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses
as a Democrat.
Smith, Jedediah K., was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1770; received a liberal education; studied
law and practiced; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Tenth Congress; died in
1828.
Smith, Jeremiah, was born at Peterboro, N. H. ,
November 29, 1759; received a classical education
at Rutgers College, New Jersey, where he gradu-
ated in 1780; served in the Revolutionary Army;
studied law and began practice at Dover, N. H.;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses;
United Sfates district attorney for the district of
New Hampshire 1798-1800; Presidential elector in
1809; governor of New Hampshire 1809-10; died
at Dover, N. H., Septemler21, 1842.
Smith, J. Hyatt, was born at Saratoga, N. Y.,
April 10, 1824; elected a Representative from New
York to the Forty-seventh Congress as the Inde-
pendent candidate; died at Brooklyn, K. Y., De-
cember 7, 1886.
Smith, John, was born at Barre, Mass., August
14, 1789; attended the common schools; moved
to St. Albans, Vt. ; studied law, and in 1810 began
practice; State attorney for Franklin County 1826-
1832; served nine years as member of the general
assembly, and speaker three terms; elected a Rep-
resentative from Vermont to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection;
became interested in constructing railroads; died
at St. Albans, Vt, November 26, 1858.
Smith, John, was born in Hamilton County,
Ohio, in 1735; elected a United States Senator
from Ohio as a Democrat 1803-1808; resigned;
charged with having been connected with Burr
and Blennerhassett, and came near being expelled
from the Senate; died in Hamilton County, Ohio,
July 10, 1816.
Smith, John, was born at Brookhaven, N. Y.,
February 12, 1752; received a liberal education;
State representative 1784-1799; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Fifth Congress
(vice J. N. Haven, deceased) as a Democrat;
reelected to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Con-
gresses, resigning February 23, 1804, when he took
his seat in the United States Senate (vice De Witt
Clinton, resigned), serving to March 3, 1813;
United States marshal for the district of Xew
York 1813-1816; died at Brookhaven, X. Y.,
August 12, 1816.
Smith, John, was a native of Virginia; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and
Thirteenth Congresses; died in March, 1886.
Smith, John A. , was born at Hillsboro, Ohio,
September 23, 1814; received a classical education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the State legislature in 1841 and 1842; member of
the State constitutional convention of Ohio in 1851;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-
first and Forty-second Congresses.
806
CONGRESSIONAL DIEECTOET.
Smith, John Amhler, was born at Village
View, Va., September 23, 1847; received a liberal
education; studied law, and in 1867 began prac-
tice- held several local offices; elected a repre-
sentative to the State senate in 1869; elected a
Eepresentative from Virginia to the Forty -third
Congress as a Republican; resumed the practice of
law in Washington, D. C, and died there January
6, 1892.
Smith, John Cotton, was born at Sharon,
Conn., February 12, 1765; graduated from Yale
College in 1783; studied law, and began practice at
Sharon; State representative 1793, 1796, 1800,
serving the last year as speaker; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Sixth Congress
(vice J. Brace, resigned) as a Federalist; reelected
to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses,
resigning in August, 1806; judge of the supreme
court in 1809; lieutenant-governor in 1810; gov-
ernor of Connecticut 1813-1818; died at Sharon,
Conn., December 7, 1845.
Smith, John Q. , was born in Warren County,
Ohio November 5, 1824; attended the common
schools; farmer; State senator 1860-1861 and 1872-
1873; State representative 1862 and 1863; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican.
Smith, John Speed, was born in Jessamine
County, Ky., July 31, 1792; received a common
school education; served in the Indian campaign
in 1813 under General Harrison; member of the
State house of representatives in 1819; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Seventeenth
Congress as a Democrat; again a member of the
State house of representatives and one term as
speaker; United States attorney for the district of
Kentucky; died at Richmond, Ky., June 6, 1854.
Smith, John T., was a native of Philadelphia,
Pa., received a common school education; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Smith, Jonathan B., was bom at Philadel-
phia, Pa., February 21, 1742; received a thorough
English education and graduated from Princeton
College in 1760; Delegate from Pennsylvania to
the Continental Congress 1777-78; died at Phila-
delphia, Pa., June 16, 1812.
Smith, Joseph S. , was born in Fayette County,
Pa., June 20, 1824; attended the common schools;
studied law and practiced ; prosecuting attorney for
the third judicial district of Washington Territory
in 1855; elected to the legislature and speaker of
the house of that Territory; United States district
attorney of Washington Territory for two years;
resigned, and moved to Oregon;' elected a Repre-
sentative from Oregon to the I'orty-flrst Congress
as a Democrat.
Smith, Josiah, was born at Pembroke, Mass. ,
in 1745; graduated from Harvard College in 1774;
studied and practiced law; "a member of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Seventh Congress; died March 28,
1803.
Smith, Marcus Aurelius, of Tucson, Ariz.,
was born near Cynthiana, Ky., January 24, 1852;
educated at the Transylvania University, Lexing-
ton, Ky.; lawyer by profession; moved to Arizona
in 1881, and the following year was elected prose-
cuting attorney of his district; elected to the Fif-
tieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-flfth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Smith, Melancthon, was born at Jamaica,
N Y., in 1724; a Representative from New York
to the Continental Congress 1785-1788; died at
New York City, July 29, 1798.
Smith, Merri-wether, was born at Bathurst,
Va., in 1730; received a liberal education; served
several years as a member of tha colonial and State
house of representatives; delegate to the Revolu-
tionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; delegate to
the State convention that adopted the Federal
Constitution; Delegate from Virginia to the Conti-
nental Congress 1778-1782; died January 25, 1790.
Smith, Nathan, was born at Woodbury,
Conn., January 8, 1769; received a thorough
English education; studied law and began practice
at New Haven; served several years as a member
of the State house of representatives; delegate to
the Hartford convention of Federalists in 1814',
United States attorney for Connecticut; elected a
United States Senator from Connecticut as a Whig,
serving from December 2, 1833, to December 6,
1835, when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Sm?th, Nathaniel, was born at Woodbury,
Conn., January 6, 1762; attended the public
schools; studied law and practiced at Woodbury;
served in both branches of the State legislature;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Fourth and Fifth Congresses as a Federalist; judge
of the supreme court of Connecticut 1796-1819:
died at Woodbury, Conn., March 9, 1822.
Smith, O'Brien, elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the Ninth Congress.
Smith, Oliver Hampton, was born hear Tren-
ton, N. J., October 23, 1794; moved to Indiana in
1817, and attended the public schools; studied law,
and began practice at Indianapolis; a member of
the State house of representatives in 1822; prose-
cuting attorney for the third judicial district 1824
and 1825; elected a Representative from Indiana
to the Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
defeated for reelection ; United States Senator from
Indiana as a Whig 1837-1843; died at Indianapo-
lis, Ind., March 19, 1849.
Smith, Perry, was born at Woodbury, Conn.,
May 12, 1783; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practice at New Milford, Conn.;
served several years as a member of the State
house of representatives; a judge of probate;
elected a United States Senator from Connecticut
as a Democrat, serving from 1837 to 1843; died at
New Milford, Conn., June 8, 1852.
Smith, R. Barnwell, of South Carolina, was a
Representative from that State to the Thirty-
seventh Congress.
Smith, Richard, was born at Burlington, N. J.,
March 22, 1735; a Delegate from New Jersey to
the Continental Congress 1774-1776; died near
Natchez, Miss., in 1803.
Smith, Robert, was born at Peterboro, N. H. ;
June 12, 1802; attended the public schools; farmer,
moved to Illinois and located at Alton; served in
the Sta,te house of representatives 1836-1840;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; elected to the Thirty-fifth
Congress; died at Alton, 111., December 21, 1867.
Smith, Samuel, was born at Peterboro, N. H.,
in 1767; received a limited education; wall-paper
manufacturer; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Thirteenth Congress; died at
Peterboro, N. H., January 17, 1842.
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Smith, Samuel, was elected a Representative
trom Pennsylvania to the Ninth, Tenth, and
iiileventh Congresses.
Smith, Samuel, was born at Lancaster, Pa.,
July 27, 1752; attended the public schools; served
m the Revolutionary war as captain, major, and
colonel; member of the State legislature; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses as a
Democrat; elected a United States Senator from
Maryland, serving from 1803 to 1815; served in the
war of 1812;. elected to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses, resigning
to become a United States Senator, and served from
1822 to 1833; mayor of Baltimore; died April 22,
1839, at Baltimore, Md.
Smith, Samuel A., of Doylestown, Pa., was
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-second Congress.
Smith, Samuel A. , was born in Monroe County,
Tenn. , June 26, 1822; received a limited education;
studied law and began practice at Charleston,
Tenn.; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at Baltimore in 1848; elected a Represent-
ative from Tennessee as a Democrat to the Thirty-
third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses;
appointed by President Buchanan Commissioner
of the General Land Office in 1860.
Smith, Samuel William, of Pontiac, Mich.,
was born in the township of Independence, Oak-
land County, Mich., August 23, 1852; educated at
Clarkston and Detroit, and, after admission to the
bar of Oakland County, graduated from the law
department of the University of Michigan; elected
prosecuting attorney of Oakland County in 1880,
and reelected in 1882 ; elected State senator in 1884;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Smith, Thom.as, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth Congress.
Smith, Thom.as, was born near Aberdeen, Scot-
land, in 1745; came to the United States and located
at Bedford, Pa. , February 9, 1769; held several local
offices; served in the Revolutionary Army; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1776;
served in the State house of representatives; mem-
ber of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; judge
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania 1794-1809;
died at Philadelphia, Pa., June 16, 1809.
Smith, Thomas, was born in Pennsylvania in
1800; moved to Indiana; tanner; attended the
public schools; located at Versailles, Ind. ; State
senator; elected a Representative from Indiana to
the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-
ninth Congresses; defeated as the Democratic can-
didate for the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Smith, Truman, was born at Woodbury, Conn.,
November 27, 1791; graduated from Yale in 1815;
studied law and in 1818 began practice at Litch-
field; served in the State house of representatives
1831, 1832, and 1834; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-
seventh Congresses as a Whig; Presidential elector
in 1844; elected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
Congresses; elected a United States Senator from
Connecticut, serving from 1849 to 1854, when he
resigned; moved to New York; died at Stamford,
Conn., May 3, 1884.
Smith, Walter Inglewood, of Council Bluffs,
Pottawattamie County, Iowa, was born at Council
Bluffs July 10, 1862; received a common school
education and studied law; admitted to practice
December, 1882; elected judge of the fifteenth
judicial district of Iowa in November, 1890, and
reelected in 1894 and 1898; elected in November,
1900, to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Hon. Smith McPherson, and at the same time
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress; reelected to
the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Smith, William, was bom at Baltimore, Md. , in
1730; a Delegate from Maryland to the Continental
Congress 1777-78; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the First Congress as a Federalist;
Auditor of the Treasury July 16, 1791, to Novem-
ber 27, 1791; died at Baltimore, Md., March 27,
1814.
Smith, William, was a native of South Caro-
lina;, received a thorough English education; held
several offices; elected a Representative from
South Carolina to the First, Second, Third,
Fourth, and Fifth Congresses as a Federalist;
resigned July 10, 1797, to become minister to
Portugal; died September 9, 1801.
Smith, William, was born in North Carolina
in 1762; moved to South Carolina; received a
classical education; studied law, and began prac-
tice in York District, S. C. ; held several local
offices; served in both branches of the legislature;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Fifth Congress as a Democrat; elected a United
States Senator (vice J. Taylor, resigned) as a
Democrat, and reelected in 1817, serving until
1823; defeated for reelection; again elected United
States Senator (vice J. Gaillard, deceased) , serving
from 1826 to 1831; defeated for reelection; declined
the offer of judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States; moved to Huntsville, Ala., in 1833;
declined the appointment of associate justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States in 1836;
member of the state legislature 1835-1839; died
at Huntsville June 10, 1840.
Smith, William, was a native of Chesterfield,
Va. ; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses.
Smith, William, was born in King George
County, Va., September 6, 1797; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practice at Cul-
peper; member of the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Twenty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat (after contesting
the seat of Linn Banks); governor of Virginia
1845-1848; elected a Representative to the Thirty-
third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth
Congresses; served in the Confederate Congress;
again a member of the State legislature; governor
of Virginia in 1863; died in Warrenton, Va., May
18, 1887.
Smith, William Aldeu, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was born at Dowagiac, Mich., May 12,
1859; received a common school education; moved
with his parents to Grand Rapids in 1872; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1883; member of the
Republican State central committee in 1888, 1890,
and 1892; general counsel of the Chicago and West
Michigan, and Detroit, Grand Rapids and West-
ern railroad companies 1886-1901; president of
the Grand Rapids Herald Company; first vice-
president of the People's Savings Bank, of Grand
Rapids; honored with the degree of master of arts
by Dartmouth College in June, 1901 ; elected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
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seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Smith, William Alexander, was born in War-
ren County, N. C, January 9, 1828; attended the
public schools; farmer; member of the constitu-
tional convention in 1865; State senator in 1870;
president of the North Carolina Eailroad in 1868,
and of the Yadkin River Railroad ; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican.
Smith, William E., was born at Augusta, Ga.,
March 14, 1829; received an academic education;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1848, under a
special act of the legislature, and practiced; also a
planter; elected ordinary of Dougherty County,
Ga., in 1853; elected solicitor-general of the south-
west circuit in 1858, and the same year appointed
by Governor Brown to fill the unexpired term of
John W. Evans; nominated as the candidate of the
Union party in Dougherty County for the State
convention in 1860, but declined in favor of Hon.
Lett Warren; entered the Confederate army as a
volunteer in the Fourth Georgia Volunteers, after
the State seceded; elected captain in April, 1862;
elected to the Confederate Congress in 1863; elected
to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth
Congresses as a Democrat; after leaving Congress
resumed the practice of law; died March 11, 1890,
at Albany, Ga.
Smith, William J. , was born at Birmingham,
England, September 24, 1823; emigrated to the
United States and located in Orange County,
N. Y. ; printer; moved to Tennessee in 1846, and
served in a regiment from that State in the Mex-
ican war; located at Hardeman County and en-
gaged in horticulture; served in the Union Army
during the civil war; member of the State house
of representatives and of the State senate; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican.
Smith, William N. H. , was born at Murfrees-
boro, N. C, September 24, 1812; graduated from
Yale College in 1834; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Murfreesboro in 1839; held several local
offices; member of the State house of represent-
atives of North Carolina in 1840 and of the State
senate in 1848; for nine years solicitor of the first
judicial district of North Carolina; again elected a
member of the State house of representatives in
1858, but resigned, having been elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a State Rights American; served in
the Confederate Congress; appointed chief justice
of the supreme court of North Carolina January
10, 1878, and reelected; died at Raleigh, N. C,
November 14, 1889.
Smith, William Russell, was born at Tusca-
loosa, Ala., August 8, 1813; received a classical
education; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practice in 1834 at Greensboro, Ala. ; served
in the campaign against the Creek Indians in 1836;
moved to Tuscaloosa in 1836, and engaged in news-
paper work; mayor in 1839; member of the State
house of representatives 1842-43; elected brigadier-
general of militia; judge of the seventh judicial
circuit; elected a Representative from Alabama to
the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth
Congresses as a Democrat; defeated for reelection;
member of the State constitutional convention in
1861; opposed secession; served in the Confeder-
ate Congress; died in 1896.
Smith, William Stephens, was born at New
York City in 1755; graduated from New Jersey
College in 1774; served in the Revolutionary Army
as aid-de-camp to General Sullivan in 1776; secre-
tary of legation at London; surveyor of the port of
New York; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirteenth Congress; died atLebanon,
N. Y., June 10, 1816.
Smith, Worthingrton C, was born at St.
Albans, Vt., April 23, 1823; received a classical
education; stuaied law, but did not practice; manu-
facturer; member of the State house of representa-
tives of "Vermont in 1863; State senator 1864-65;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Fortieth, Forty-flrst, and Forty-second Congresses
as a Republican.
Smithers, Nathaniel B., was born at Dover,
Del., October 8, 1818; graduated from Lafayette
College, Pa., in 1836; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Dover in 1840; secretary of state of Delaware
a few months, when he resigned, having been
elected a Representative from Delaware to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican; delegate
to the national Republican convention at Balti-
more in 1864; died in 1896.
Smyser, Martin Luther,, of Wooster, Ohio, •
was born at Plaine Township, Wayne County,
Ohio, April 3, 1851; reared on a farm; educated in
the common schools and at Wittenberg College,
Springfield, Ohio, graduating therefrom in 1870;
read law, and admitted to practice by the supreme
court in 1872; elected prosecuting attorney of
Wayne County, Ohio, in October, 1872, and served
one term; member of the County Republican com-
mittee for twelve years; alternate to the Repub-
lican national convention in 1884, delegate to the
convention of 1888; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Republican.
Smyth, Alexander, was born on the island of
Rathlin, Ireland, in 1765; when 10 years of age
came to the United States and located in Botetourt
County, Va.; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practice at Abingdon; moved to
Wythe County ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1792, 1796, 1800, 1804, and 1808;
Inspector-General of the Army in 1812; resumed
the practice of law; again a member of the State
house of Representatives; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven-
teenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, and Twentv-first
Congresses; died at Washington, D. C, April 17,
1830.
Smyth, George W., was a native of North
Carolina; moved to Texas; elected a Representa-
tive from Texas to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Democrat.
Smyth, William, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, January 3, 1824; received a liberal edu-
cation; came to the United States and located in
Pennsylvania in 1838; moved to Iowa in 1844;
studied law, and began practice at Marion, Iowa,
m 1847; prosecuting attorney of Linn County for
several years; judge of the district court for the
fourth judicial district of Iowa; chairman of the
commission to revise and codify the laws of the
State; served two years in the Union Army;
elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-
first Congress as a Republican; died September
oUj 18/0.
Snapp, Henry, was born in Livingston County,
N. Y., June 30, 1822; received a common school
education; moved to Homer, 111., where he studied
law, and began practice at Joliet; State senator,
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1869-1871; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican.
Sneed, William H. , was a native of Knoxville,
Tenn.; received a liberal education; studied law
and practiced; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an
American.
Snider, Samuel Prather, of Minneapolis,
Minn., was born at Mount Gilead, Ohio, October
9, 1845; educated at Oberiin College, Ohio; left
the latter institution in 1861, and at the age of 16
enlisted as a private Soldier in the Sixty-fifth Ohio
"Volunteer Infantry; served with his regiment in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi; served in west Tennessee as captain
in the Thirteenth United States Colored Infantry;
after the civil war engaged in commercial pursuits,
and became a resident of Minnesota in 1876; organ-
ized and built the Midland Railway, and engaged
in farming, mining, and manufacturing; served in
the Minnesota legislature 1884-1888; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Snodgrass, Charles Edward, of Crossville,
Tenn., was born in Sparta, White County, Tenn.,
December 28, 1866; educated in the common
schools of Tennessee and by self -effort at home;
studied law and admitted to the bar; commenced
practice at Crossville, Tenn. , in the year 1888 ; never
held or sought any other elective office until elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Snodgrass, Henry C, of Sparta, Tenn., was
born in White County, Tenn., in 1848; educated at
the Sparta Academy, and afterwards studied law at
the university in Lebanon, Tenn. ; commenced the
practice of law in Sparta, Tenn. ; attorney -general
of the fifth judicial circuit for eight years; elected
to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses as
a Democrat; resumed the practice of law after
leaving Congress.
Snodgrass, John Fryall, was born in Berkeley
County, Va. (now West Virginia), March 2, 1804;
received a liberal education; studied law, and be-
gan practice at Parkersburg; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1850; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; died at Parkersburg June 5,
1854.
Snook, John S., of Paulding, Ohio, was born
on a farm near Antwerp, Paulding County, Ohio,
December 18, 1862; lived on the farm until 21
years of age, attending the Antwerp graded schools,
from which he graduated in 1880; entered the Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he
remained three years; entered the law school of
the Cincinnati College in 1886, where he graduated
in May, 1887, and on the 26th day of that month
admitted by the supreme court to practice iu the
State of Ohio; began practice at Antwerp, Ohio,
and in November, 1890, moved to Paulding, where
he afterwards resided; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat.
Snover, Horace G., of Port Austin, Huron
County, Mich., was born at Romeo, Macomb
County, Mich., September 21, 1847; received his
early education in the public schools of Romeo
and in the Dickenson Institute, located there;
graduated from the literary department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, in the classical course, in 1869,
and from the law department in 1871; admitted to
the bar in 1871; engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession, except for two years, during which he
was principal of the public schools of Port Austin,
Mich., to which place he moved in the fall of 1874;
probate judge of Huron County from January 1,
1881, to January 1, 1885; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress; engaged in the banking and
real estate business.
Snow, Herman W. , of Sheldon, 111., was born
in Laporte County, Ind., July 3, 1836; brought
up in Kentucky until 13 years old; worked on a
farm five years; educated himself entirely; taught
school several years; admitted to the bar; enlisted
as a private in the One hundred and Thirty-ninth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served in Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, and rose to the rank of cap-
tain; after expiration of first enlistment reenlisted
in the One hundred and fifty-first Illinois Infantry,
and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel; served
in most of the Southern States; provost-marshal-
general of Georgia on Major-General Steedman's
staff; with his regiment when Brigadier-General
Wofford surrendered 10,400 Confederate troops to
Steedman at Kingston, Ga. ; at the expiration of
service resumed teaching in the Chicago High
School for three years; elected to the Illinois leg-
islature; traveled extensively in the United States;
elected to the Fifty-second. Congress as a Demo-
crat; elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of
Representatives for the Fifty-third Congress.
Snow, William W. , was born in Massachusetts;
moved to Oneonta, N. Y. ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-second Congress
as a Democrat.
Snyder, Adam W., was born in 1801; served
several years in the Illinois State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Illinois
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Van Buren Dem-
ocrat; defeated for reelection; Democratic candi-
date for governor of Illinois, but died before the
election. May 14, 1842, at Belleville.
Snyder, Charles Philip, of Charleston, W. Va.,
was bom at Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va.,
June 9, 1847; received an academic education;
studied law, and practiced; elected prosecuting
attorney of Kanawha County, W. Va., in 1876, for
a term of four years, and reelected to the same
office in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat, at a special election, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon.
John E. Kenna; reelected to the Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congresses.
Snyder, John, of Selinsgrove, Pa., was elected
a Representative from that State to the Twenty-
seventh Congress.
Snyder, Oliver P., was born, in Missouri
November 13, 1833; received a liberal education;
moved to Arkansas in 1853; studied law and
practiced; served as a member of the general
assembly of Arkjansas 1864-65; delegate to the
constitutional convention in 1867; Presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1868; served
four years in the State senate; one of the com-
mittee to revise and rearrange the statutes of
Arkansas in 1868; elected a Representative from
Arkansas to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican.
Sollers, Augustus B. , was a native of Mary-
land; elected a Representative from Maryland to
the Twenty-seventh and Thirty-third Congresses
as a Whig.
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Somers, Peter J., of Milwaukee, Wis., was
born at Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County,
Wis., April 12, 1850; in his early years received
such education as the common schools of that
day afforded, and afterwards a normaT school and
academic education; read law; admitted to the
bar in 1874, and engaged in the practice of his
profession; elected attorney of the city of Mil-
waukee in 1882 and served two years; elected to
the common council in 1890, and upon its organ-
ization elected president; appointed trustee of the
public library; elected mayor of the city of Mil-
waukee in December, 1890, and was reelected in
1892; in politics always a Democrat; at the special
election held April 4, 1893, to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Hon. John L. Mitchell
to the United States Senate, elected to the Fifty-
third Congress; resumed the practice of law.
Somes, Daniel E. , was a native of New Hamp-
shire; moved to Biddeford, Me., and engaged in
manufacturing; mayor of Biddeford 1855-1857;
president of the City Bank 1856-1858; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Thirty-sixth
Congress as a Republican.
Sorg, Paul J., was born at Wheeling, W. Va.,
September 23, 1840; his parents originally came
from Hesse-Cassel, Germany, in 1830; in 1852
moved to Cincinnati, where young Sorg_ appren-
ticed himself toamolder; rudiments of his educa-
tion were obtained at a night school in Cincinnati;
in the sixties began the manufacture of tobacco
on a small scale in Cincinnati; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Democrat, at a special elec-
tion, to fill the unexpired term of the late George
W. Houk; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress; ■
died May 27, 1902, at Middletown, Ohio.
Soule, Nathan, was a native of New York;
member of the State house of representatives in
1837;. elected a Representative from New York to
the Twenty-second Congress.
Soule, Pierre, was bom at Castillon, France,
in September, 1802; received a liberal education;
imprisoned for publishing revolutionary articles,
but escaped and came to the United States, and
reached New Orleans in 1825; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar; held several local offices; elected
a United States Senator from Louisiana (vice A.
Barrow, deceased), serving from February 3 to
March 3, 1847; again elected, serving from Decem-
ber 3, 1849, to April 11, 1853, when he resigned;
minister to Spain 1853-1855; died at New Orleans
March 26, 1870.
Southard, Henry, was born on Long Island in
October, 1749; moved with his parents to Basking-
ridge, N. J., and worked on a farm; served nine
years as a member of the State legislature; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Seventh
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses; elected
to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Con-
gresses; died at Baskingridge, N. J., June 2, 1842.
Southard, Isaac, was born in New Jersey;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Twenty-second Congress as a Clay Democrat.
Southard, James Harding, of Toledo, Ohio,
was born on a farm in Washington To wnship, Lucas
County, Ohio, January 20, 1851; attended the
public schools and Cornell University, where he
graduated in 1874; began to studjf law in 1875, and
admitted to practice in 1877; assistant prosecuting
attorney of Lucas County; afterwards twice elected
prosecuting attorney of said county; elected to the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress as a Republican.
Southard, Milton I., was a native of Licking
County, Ohio; received a liberal education; grad-
uated from Denison University, at Granville, Ohio;
studied law and practiced; prosecuting attorney
for Muskingum County 1867-1871; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Forty-third Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses.
Southard, Samuel L., was born at Basking-
ridge, N. J., June 9, 1787; graduated from Prince-
ton College in 1804; studied law and began practice
at Kensington, N. J.; appointed law reporter by
the State legislature; served one week as a member
of the State legislature, when he , resigned to
become associate justice of the supreme court of
New Jersey; Presidential elector in 1820; elected
a United States Senator from New Jersey (vice
J. J. Wilson, resigned) as a Whig, serving from
February 16, 1821, to March 3, 1823; Acting Secre-
tary of the Treasury March 7, 1825, to July 1, 1825;
also for a short time was Secretary of War; attorney-
general of New Jersey; governor of New Jersey in
1832; again elected a United States Senator, serv-
ing from December 2, 1883, to May 3, 1842, when
he resigned; died at Fredericksburg, Va., June 26,
1842.
Southgate, "William "W. , was a native of Cov-
ington, Ky.; received a liberal education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; Presi-
dential elector in 1840 and 1844; died at Coving-
ton, Ky., December 26, 1844.
Southwick, Greorg'e N. , of Albany, N. Y., was
born at Albany, N. Y., March 7, 1863; early edu-
cation was acquired at private school and later at
public school No. 6; entered the Albany High
School in 1875, whence he graduated in 1879; in
the fall of 1880 entered Williams College, whence
he graduated in 1884; entered the Albany Law
School; early in 1885 entered the service of the
Albany Morning Express, in both an editorial and
a reportorial capacity; represented the Associated
Press as reporter of proceedings in the senate or
assembly during the legislative sessions of 1886,
1887, and 1888; in the last-mentioned year became
managing editor of the Morning Express, and early
in 1889 of the Albany_ Evening Journal; Mr. South-
wick's literary activity has extended beyond the
field of the daily papers, with which he has been
connected as editor, reporter, or correspondent;
has been an occasional contributor to the columns
of the magazines, among others the North Ameri-
can Re\ lew; his political career began in the cam-
paign of 1884 with voluntary contributions of
editorial articles to the Albany Morning Express
in the interest of James G. Blaine; stumped Albany
County for Benjamin Harrison and Republican
principles in 1888; secured the Congressional nomi-
nation in 1894, and won at the election; reelected
to Congress; again a candidate for Congress in
1898, but was defeated by Martin H. Glynn; Mr.
Southwick and Mr. Glynn were again the con-
testants in 1900, the former winning, being elected
to the Fifty-seventh Congress; reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
Sowden, "William H. , of Allentown, Pa. , was
elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses
as a Democrat.
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811
Spaight, Ricliard Dobbs, was born at New-
bern, N. C, March 25, 1758; educated at the Uni-
versity of Glasgow; returned home in 1778 and
joined the Continental Army as aid-de-camp to
General Caswell; menjber of the North Carolina
house of commons 1781-1786 and 1792, and Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress in 1782-1784; del-
egate to the constitutional convention which
framed the Federal Constitution; governor of
North Carolina in 1792; elected a Representative
from North Carohna to the Fifth Congress (vice
Nathan Bryan, deceased); reelected to the Sixth
Congress; wounded in a duel, and died September
6, 1802, at Newbern, N. C.
Spaight, Richard Dobbs (son of Richard
Dobbs Spaight), was born at Newbern, N. C, in
1796; graduated from the University of North
Carolina in 1815; studied law and practiced; served
in both branches of the State legislature; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the Eight-
eenth Congress; again a member of the State sen-
ate 1824-1834; governor of North Carohna 1835-
1837; died at Newbern, N. C, November 2, 1850.
Spalding, Burleigh Folsom, of Fargo, N. Dak. ,
was born at Craf tsbury, Orleans County, Vt., De-
cember 3, 1853 ; worked as clerk in stores four years
in Glover and St. Johnsbury, Vt.; subsequently
educated at the Lyndon Literary Institute, Lyn-
don, Vt. , and Norwich University, the military col-
lege of the State of Vermont, where he graduated
in 1877; read law at 2vIontpelier, Vt., and, after
admission to the bar in March, 1880, moved to
Fargo, and practiced his profession; superintend-
ent of public instruction of Cass County, Dakota
Territory, from 1882 to 1884; member of com-
mission elected by the legislature ot 1883 to re-
locate capital of the Territory of Dakota and build
capitol; member of the North Dakota constitu-
tional convention in 1889, and a member of the
joint commission provided by the enabling act to
divide the property and archives of the Territory
of Dakota between the States of North and South
Dakota; twice elected chairman of the Republican
State central committee, and also served as chair-
man of the Cass County Republican committee;
the degree of master of arts was conferred on him
in 1897 ; elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
Spalding, George, of Monroe, Mich., was born
in Scotland in 1837; emigrated with his parents to
the United States in 1843; settled at Buffalo, N. Y. ,
where he attended the public schbols; accompa-
nied his parents to Monroe, Mich. ; taught school
in the winter of 1860-61 ; mustered into the United
States service June 20, 1861, as a private in Com-
pany A, Fourth Regiment Michigan Volunteer In-
fantry; mustered out of service October 24, 1865;
postmaster of Monroe, Mich., from 1866 to 1870;
special agent of the Treasury Department from 1871
to 1875; elected mayor of Monroe, Mich., 1876;
president of the board of education; admitted to
the bar by examination in 1878; elected director of
the First National Bank of Monroe, Mich., 1876;
appointed its cashier 1877; continued as director
and cashier until 1892, when he was elected presi-
dent; appointed member of the board of control
State Industrial Home for Girls, 1885, for six years,
and reappointed in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress; appointed postmaster at Monroe,
Mich., by President McKinley.
Spalding, Kufus P. , was born at West Tisbury,
Mass., May 3, 1798; graduated from Yale College;
studied law, and began practice in Trumbull
County, Ohio; held several local offices; member
of the State legislature of Ohio 1839^0 and 1841-
42, serving one term as speaker of the house; for
several years judge of the supreme court of Ohio;
resumed practice of law at Cleveland; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; died at Cleveland, Ohio, August 29, 1886.
Spalding, Thomas, was elected a Representa-
tive from Georgia to the Ninth Congress (after a
contest with Cawles Mead) ; took his seat Decem-
ber 25, 1805, serving until 1806, when he resigned.
Spangler, David, was elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at
Coshocton, Ohio, October 18, 1856.
Spangler, Jacob, was born in 1768; received a
limited education; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Fifteenth Congress as a Whig,
resigning April 20, 1818; died at York, Pa., June
17, 1843.
Sparkman, Stephen M., of Tampa, Fla., was
born July 29, 1849, in Hernando County, Fla. ;
brought up on a farm; educated in the common
schools of Florida, and taught school for about
three years, from the age of 18 to 21, for the pur-
pose of assisting in his education; read law; ad-
mitted to practice in October, 1872; State attorney
for the sixth judicial circuit for nine years, from
1878 to 1887; member of the, State and Congres-
sional committees from 1890 to 1892, when he was
elected chairman; tendered the circuit judgeship
for the sixth judicial circuit of Florida by Gov-
ernor Perry in 1888, and the position of associate
judge on the supreme court bench in 1891 by Gov-
ernor Fleming, both of which were declined;
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Sparks, "William A. J., of Oarlyle, 111., was
born near New Albany, Ind., November 19, 1828;
his parents moved to Illinois in 1836 and shortly
thereafter died; in early boyhood depended on
his own exertions, labored on a farm, and at 'n-
tervals attended country schools; subsequently
taught school, and graduated from McKendree
College, Illinois, in 1850; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in 1851; appointed by President Pierce
in 1853 United States land receiver for the Ed-
wardsville (111.) land office and held that office
until 1856; elected Presidential elector in 1856;
elected to the State house of representatives in
1856 and 1857 and to the State senate from the
fourth senatxjrial district 1863 and 1864; delegate
to the national Democratic convention at New
York in 1868; elected to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Forty-
sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Spaulding, Sllbridge G. , was born at Summer
Hill, N. Y., February 24, 1809; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practicing at
Buffalo, N. Y.; held several city offices; mayor of
Buffalo in 1847; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1848; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig;
treasurer of the State of New York 1854-55; elected
a Representative to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Union candidate; reelected to the Thirty-seventh
Congress; returned to Buffalo, where in 1864 he
organized the Farmers' and Mechanics' National
Bank.
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Spaulding, Oliver L., of St. Johns, Mich.,
. was born at Jaffrey, N. H., August 2, 1833; grad-
uated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1855, and
moved to Michigan; admitted to the bar in 1858;
elected regent of the University of Michigan in
the same year; entered the Union Army in 1862
as captain in the Twenty-third Regiment Michi-
gan Volunteers; successively promoted to be
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brevet
brigadier-general, and mustered out of service in
July, 1865; elected secretary of state of Michigan
in 1866 and reelected in 1868; a member of the
Bepublican State committee 1871-1878; appointed
special agent of United States Treasury Depart-
ment in 1875, and held the position until he took
his seat in the Forty-seventh Congress, to which
he was elected as a Republican.
Speed, Thomas, was elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Fifteenth Congress.
Speer, Emory, of Athens, Ga., was borii at
Culloden, Monroe County, Ga., Septembers, 1848;
received a classical education and graduated from
the University of Georgia in August, 1869; read
law at the school of the university; entered the
Confederate army when 16 years of age as a vol-
unteer in the Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Lewis
Brigade, and remained with that command until
the surrender of the Confederate forces; began
the practice of law at Athens in the winter of 1869;
appointed solicitor-general for the State in 1873
for the 11 counties embraced in the western ju-
dicial circuit; after holding this office three years
resigned; defeated for Congress in the election to
fill the vacancy caused by the election of B. H.
Hill to the United States Senate; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Forty-seventh Congress as an Independent
Democrat; district judge of the southern Federal
judicial district of Georgia.
Speer, Robert Hilton, was born at Cassville,
Pa., September 8, 1838; received an academic
education; studied law, and in 1859 began practice
at Huntingdon; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Democrat; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention in 1872 and 1880; died
at New York City January 17, 1890.
Speer, Thomas J., was born in Monroe
County, Ga., August 31, 1837; received a common
school education; merchant; held several offices
under the Confederate government; member of the
constitutional convention of Georgia in 1867-68;
elected to the State senate 1868-1870; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican; died August 18, 1872.
Speight, Jesse, was born in Greene County,
N. C, September 22, 1795; received a public school
education; served several terms in both branches
of the State legislature, and for a number of years
was speaker of the house; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; moved to Plymouth, Miss.,
and elected to the State house of representatives
and chosen speaker; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Mississippi as a Democrat, serving from
December 1, 1845, to May 1, 1847, when he died,
at Columbus, Miss.
Spence, John S., was born near Snow Hill,
Md., February 29, 1788; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced at Berlin, Md. •
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Eighteenth Congress as a
Democrat; elected to the Twenty-second Congress;
elected a United States Senator from Maryland
(•i'ice R. H. Goldsborough, deceased), serving from
January 11, 1837, to October 24, 1840, when he died.
Spence, Thomas A., was born in Accomac
County, Va., February 20, 1810; graduated from
Yale College in 1829; studied law and began prac-
ticing at Snowhill, Md. ; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig; assistant at-
torney-general for the Post-Office Department 1872-
1877; died at Washington, D. C, November 10,
1877.
Spencer, Ambrose, was born at Salisbury,
Conn., December 13, 1765; attended Yale College,
and graduated from Harvard in 1763; studied law,
and began practice at Hudson, N. Y.; served in
both branches of the New York legislature; assist-
ant attorney-general in 1796 and State attorney-
general in 1802; Presidential elector in 1809; chief
justice of the State supreme court 1810-1823; re-
sumed practice; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-first Congress as a Demo-
crat; mayor of Albany one year; president of the
national Whig convention at Baltimore in 1844;
died at Lyons, N. Y., March 13, 1848.
Spencer, Elijah, was a native of Columbia
County, N. Y. ; received a limited education ;
member of the State house of representatives in
1819; elected a Representative from New York to
the Seventeenth Congress.
Spencer, George E., was born in Jefferson
County, N. Y., November 1, 1836; received a clas-
sical education; studied law, and in 1857 began
practice in Iowa; entered the Union Army as a
captain, and when he resigned from the service,
July 4, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general for
gallantry on the field; appointed register in bank-
ruptcy for the fourth district of Alabama in May,
1867; elected aUnited States Senator from Alabama
as a Republican, and reelected, serving from July
25, 1868, to March 3, 1879; died at Washington,
D. C, February 19, 1893.
Spencer, James B., was born at Salisbury,
Conn., April 26, 1781; received a limited educa-
tion; served in the war of 1812 as captain; served
two years in the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; died at Fort
Covington, N. Y., March 26, 1848.
Spencer, James Grafton, of Port Gibson,
Miss. , was born near that place September 13, 1844;
entered Oakland College in 1861, and after passing
the freshman class entered the Confederate army as
a private in Cowan's battery of light artillery,
serving until the close of the war in the Army of
the Mississippi and Tennessee; returned to his
home and began farming; in 1892 was sent as a
representative to the State legislature, serving two
sessions; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat.
Spencer, John Canfield, was born at Hudson,
N. Y., January 8, 1788; graduated from Union
College in 1806; studied law, and in 1809 began
practice at Canandaigua, N. Y. ; served in the war
of 1812; postmaster at Canandaigua; assistant at-
torney-general for the western part of New York
in 1815; elected a Representative from >'ew York
to the Fifteenth Congress as a Democrat; member
of the State house of representatives 1820-21, and
one year as speaker; State senator 1824-1828;
again a member of the State house of representa-
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tives in 1832; eecretary of state; appointed Secre-
tary of War by President Tyler October 12, 1841,
serving until March 3, 1843, when he was trans-
ferred to the Treasury Department, resigning May
2, 1844; died at Albany, N. Y., May 18, 1855.
Spencer, Joseph, was born at East Haddam,
Conn., in 1714; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law, and practiced a number of years; held
several local offices; judge of probate in 1753;
served in the French war in 1758; member of the
Connecticut council in 1776; brigadier-general in
the Continental Army; made major-general August
9, 1776, and resigned June 14, 1778, because Con-
gress had ordered an investigation of his military
conduct in 1777; Delegate from Connecticut to the
Continental Congress in 1779; elected a member of
the Connecticut council in 1780, and was annually
reelected until he died, at East Haddam, Conn.,
January 13, 1789.
Spencer, Bichard, was a native of Maryland;
received a common school education; elected a
Eepresentative from Maryland to the Twenty-first
Congress ias a Clay Democrat.
Spencer, 'Williani B. , was born at Catahoula,
Parish, La., February 5, 1835; graduated from Cen-
tenary College, also from the law department of
the University of Louisiana; practiced at Harrison-
burg, La., 1857-1861; served in the Confederate
army; elected a Representative from Louisiana to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, defeat-
ing Frank Morey; Mr. Morey was given the cer-
tificate of election, but his seat successfully con-
tested by Mr. Spencer, who was seated May 31,
1876, and served until January 8, 1877, when he
resigned.
Sperry, liO'wis, was born at East Windsor Hill,
town of South Windsor, Hartford County, Conn.,
January 23, 1848; attended district school; pre-
pared for college at Monson Academy, Monson,
Mass.; graduated from Amherst College in the
class of 1873; on graduating from college entered
the law office of Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde, Hart-
ford; admitted to the bar in March, 1875; opened
an office in Hartford ; elected to represent his native
town in the legislature in 1876; elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
Sperry, Nehemiah D., of New Haven, Conn.,
was born at Woodbridge, New Haven County,
Conn., July 10, 1827; received his education in the
common schools and at the private school of ]*rof.
Amos Smith, at New Haven; worked on a farm
and in a mill; taught school for several years;
commenced business on his own account in 1847;
elected a member of the common council in 1853;
elected an alderman of the city in 1854; elected
selectman of the town of New Haven in 1853;
elected secretary of state in 1855; reelected in 1856:
a member of the convention that renominated
Abraham Lincoln in 1864; made a member of the
Kepublican national committee; elected a member
of the executive committee, and chosen secretary
both of the national and executive committees;
chairman of the Republican State committee for a
series of years; president of the State convention
that nominated Grant electors; chairman of the
recruiting committee of New Haven during the
war; nominated postmaster by Abraham Lincoln
in 1861 and continued in office until the first elec-
tion of Grover Cleveland; renominated by Presi-
dent Harrison for postmaster and served until the
reelection of President Cleveland, making in all
twenty-eight years and two months; president of
the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven; nomi-
nated for Congress in 1894, and elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Spight, Thomas, of Ripley, Miss., was born
and raised on a farm in Tippah County, Miss.;
attended the common and high schools of the
county, and in 1859 entered college at Purdy,
Tenn., and at the end of one year entered the
Lagrange (Tenn.) Synodical College; entered the
Confederate army as a private, and became cap-
tain of his company before he was 21 years old;
returned home to find all the property of Ids
father's estate swept away as a result of the war;
commenced teaching school and farming, and
at the same time studying law; admitted to the
bar and practiced his profession at Ripley; repre-
sented his county in the Mississippi legislature
from 1874 to 1880, and in the latter year district
Presidential elector on the Hancock ticket; elected
district attorney of the third judicial district, com-
posed of seven counties, which position he held until
1892, when he voluntarily retired ; elected as a Dem-
ocrat for an unexpired term in the Fifty-fifth Con-
gress; reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Spink, Cyrus, was elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican, but died before taking his seat.
Spink, S. L., was born at Whitehall, N. Y.,
March 20, 1831; received a liberal education;
taught school several years; studied law and began
practice at Burlington, Iowa, in 1856; moved to
Paris, 111., in 1860, and began the publication of the
Prairie Beacon; served m the State legislature;
appointed secretary of the Territory of Dakota in
April, 1865, and reappointed in 1866, serving until
1869, when he was elected a Delegate from Dakota
Territory to the Forty-first Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Spinner, Francis E., was born at German
Flats, N. Y., January 21, 1802; received a classical
education; engaged in banking; entered the State
militia and promoted to the rank of major-general;
held several public offices; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Republican;
appointed by President Lincoln Treasurer of the
United States March 16, 1861, and reappointed by
Presidents Johnson and Grant, resigning July 1,
1875; suggested and successfully urged the em-
ployment of women in the Treasury Department;
when, on resigning, his accounts were specially
examined at his request, an apparent shortage of
1 cent was discovered; claimed an even balance,
and on reexamination proved that he was right;
died at Jacksonville, Fla., December 31, 1890.
Spinola, Francis B. , was born at Stony Brook,
Long Island, N. Y., March 19, 1821; educated at
the Quaker Hill Academy, in Dutchess County;
five times elected an alderman; three times a su-
pervisor; served six years as member of the assem-
bly of the State of New York, and four years as a
senator; appointed brigadier-general of volunteers
October 2, 1862, "for meritorious conduct in re-
cruiting and organizing a brigade of four regiments,
and accompanying them to the field;" honorably
discharged from the service August, 1865, after
having been twice wounded; delegate to the De-
mocratic national convention which met in Charles-
ton in the spring of 1860, and alternate to the
Democratic national convention of 1884; connected
with a number of insurance and banking institu-
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tions, and engaged in manufacturing business;
elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-eecond Con-
gresses; died at Washington, D. C, April 12, 1891.
Spooner, Henry J., of Providence, R. I., was
born at Providence, R. I., August 6, 1839; received
his earlier education and prepared for college in
the public schools of his native city; graduated
from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1860;
studied law at law school, Albany, N. Y., and in
office of Thurston & Ripley, Providence; entered
the Union Army in 1862 as second lieutenant in
the Fourth Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteer
Infantry, serving in the armies of the Potomac
and the James, and mostly in the Ninth Army
Corps; soon after the battle of Antietam was pro-
moted to first lieutenant and adjutant of the same
regiment; mustered out of service in 1865; in the
same year admitted to the bar of the supreme
court of Rhode Island; engaged in the successful
practice of law in Providence, R. I. ; commander
of the Departmentof Rhode Island, Grand Army of
the Republic in 1877; representative from the city
of Providence to the general assembly of Rhode
Island, by seven successive elections, from 1875 to
1881, inclusive, serving upon committees on judi-
ciary, militia, etc. ; speaker of the Rhode Island
house of representatives two years, by successive
elections, 1879-1881 ; elected to the Forty -seventh
Congress as a Republican, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by resignation of Nelson W. Aldrich,
elected United States Senator; reelected to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses; defeated for the Fifty-second ; elected
member of the general assembly of Rhode Island
in 1902 as a Democrat.
Spooner, John C, of Madison, Wis., was born
at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Ind., January
6,. 1843; moved with his father'sfarhily to Wiscon-
sin and settled at Madison June 1, 1859; gradu-
ated from the State University in 1864; private in
Company D, Fortieth Regiment, and captain of
Company A, Fiftieth Regiment, Wisconsin Infan-
try Volunteers; brevetted major at the close of
service; private and military secretary of Governor
Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin; admitted to the
bar in 1867, and served as assistant attorney-gen-
eral of the State until 1870, when he moved to
Hudson, where he practiced law from 1870 until
1884; member of the assembly from St. Croix
County in 1872; member of the board of regents of
Wisconsin University; elected United States Sen-
ator to succeed Angus Cameron, Republican, for
the term beginning March 4, 1885; chairman of
the Wisconsin delegation to national Republican
convention in 1888; succeeded as United States
Senator March 4, 1891, by WiUiam F. Vilas, Demo-
crat, receiving, however, the full vote of the
Republican members of the legislature for reelec-
tion; chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to
national Republican convention at Minneapolis in
1892; unanimously nominated as Republican
candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1892, but
was defeated; moved from Hudson to Madison in
1893; actively engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession from 1892 to 1897; unanimously nominated
in Republican caucus January 13, 1897, and duly
elected January 27, 1897, United States Senator
for the term beginning March 4, 1897; tendered by
President McKinley, in December, 1898, position
in his Cabinet, as Secretary of the Interior (vice
Cornelius N. BHss, resigned), and declined it; also
tendered in 1898, by President McKinley, mem-
bership of the United States and British Joint
High Commission, and declined it; tendered bv
President McKinley, January 3, 1901, position of
Attorney-General, to take office March 4, 1901, and
declined it; in communication to Republicans of
Wisconsin, July 6, 1900, announced unalterable
purpose not to be a candidate for reelection; Janu-
ary 27, 1903, was, notwithstanding, elected for
another term, beginning March 4, 1903.
Sprague, Charles Franklin, was born at Bos-
ton, Mass., June 10, 1857; fitted for college in the
Boston schools and graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1879; subsequently studied law at the
Harvard Law School and Boston University; mem-
ber of the Suffolk bar; member of the common
council of the city of Boston in 1889 and 1890; in
the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1891
and 1892; member of, and latterly chairman of,
the board of park commissioners of the city of
Boston in 1893 and 1894; member of the Massa-
chusetts senate in 1895 and 1896, serving as chair-
man of the committee on metropolitan' affairs;
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Fifty-sixlh Congress, serving until
March 3, 1901; died at Providence, R. I., in 1901.
Sprag'ue, Peleg:, was born at Rochester, Mass.,
December 10, 1756; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1786; studied law and began practice in
1787 at New Bedford; moved to Keene, N. H.;
solicitor for Cheshire County; effected a Represent-
ative from New Hampshire to the Fifth Congress,
vice Jeremiah Smith, resigned; declined a renomi-
nation, and died in April, 1800.
Sprague, Peleg, was born at Duxbury, Mass.,
April 27, 1793; graduated from Harvard College in
1812; studied law and began practice at Augusta and
later at Hallo well. Me. ; member of the State house
of representatives 1821 and 1822; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Nineteenth Congress
as a Whig; reelected to the Twentieth Congress;
elected a United States Senator from Maine, serv-
ing from December 7, 1829, to January 1, 1835,
when he resigned; resumed practice at Boston in
1840; Presidential elector; United States district
judge of Massachusetts 1841-1865; died at Boston,
Mass., October 13, 1880.
Sprague, William, was born at Cranston, R. I.,
November 3, 1799; received a classical education;
merchant; served for many years as a member of
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Rhode Island to the Twenty-
fourth Congress and declined a reelection ; governor
of Rhode Island 1838-39; elected a United States
Senator from Rhode Island (vice N. F. Dixon, de-
ceased), serving from February 18, 1842, to Janu-
ary 17, 1844, when he resigned; a Presidential
elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1848;
died at Providence, R. I., October 19, 1856.
Sprague, WiUiam, was a native of Rhode
Island; moved to Michigan; received a limited
education; held several local offices; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Thirtv-flrst
Congress as a Free Soiler.
Sprague, WiUiam, was born at Cranston, R. I.,
September 12, 1830; received a liberal education;
manufacturer; governor of Rhode Island 1860,
1861, and 1862; served in the Union Army; elected
a United States Senator from Rhode Island as a
Republican, and reelected, serving from March 4
1863, to March 3, 1875.
Sprague, William P., was born in Morgan
County, Ohio, May 21, 1827; received a limited
education; merchant; engaged in banking at Mc-
Connellsville; member of the State senate of Ohio
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1860-61 and 1862-63; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses as a Republican; died in 1899.
Sprigg, James C, was a native of Maryland;
received a liberal education ; moved to Shelby ville,
Ky. ; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-seventh
Congress.
Sprigg, Michael C, was born at Frostburg,
Md. ; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; served several terms in the Maryland
State legislature; president of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company ; a Presidential elector on the
Monroe ticket in 1820; elected a Representative
from Maryland to the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Congresses; died at Cumberland, Md., December
28, 1845.
Sprigg, Bichard, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Fourth Congress, vice G. Durall, resigned; re-
elected to the Fifth and Seventh Congresses.
Sprigg, Thomas, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
TRird and Fourth Congresses.
Spriggs, John Thomas, was born at Peter-
borough, Northamptonshire, England, 1827; grad-
uated from Union College; lawyer by profession;
county treasurer and district attorney of Oneida
County; served twice as mayor of Utica; elected
to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses
as a Democrat; died December 23, 1888. ,
Springer, William M., of Springfield, 111.,
was born in Sullivan County, Ind., May SO, 1836;
moved to Illinois with his parents in 1848; gradu-
ated from the Indiana State University, Bloom-
ingtou, in 18.58; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in 1859; secretary of the State constitutional
convention of Illinois in 1862; a member of the
State legislature in 1871 and 1872; elected to the
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
flrs.t, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; resumed the practice of law in Wash-
ington, D. C., after the expiration of his term in
Congress.
Spruance, Presley, was born in Delaware in
1785; manufacturer at Smyrna, Del.; president of
the State senate; elected a United States Senator
from Delaware as a Whig; died at Smyrna, Del.,
February 13, 1863.
Squire, Watson C. , of Seattle, Wash., was born
at Cape Vincent, N. Y., 1838; prepared for college
in the seminaries at Fulton and Fairfield, that
State; graduated from the Wesleyan University, at
Middletown, Conn., in 1859; principal of the Mo-
ravia Institute at Moravia, N. Y. ; enlisted in Com-
pany F, Nineteenth New York Infantry, in 1861,
for three months' service; promoted to first lieu-
tenant; after five months' service was mustered
out; studied law and admitted to practice in the
supreme court of Ohio in June, 1862; raised a
company of sharpshooters, of which he was com-
missioned captain; in the battles of Chickamauga,
Chattanooga, Nashville, Resaca, and other erigage-
ments; made judge-advocate of the district of
Tennessee, with headquarters at Nashville; subse-
quently engaged with the Remington Arms Com-
pany; purchased large interests in Washington
Territory in 1876, and became a citizen of Seattle
in 1879; appointed governor of the Territory of
Washington July 2, 1884, and served three years;
contributed largely to the development of the
Territory; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican November 21, 1889, under the provi-
sions of the act of Congress admitting Washington
Territory and other States into the Union; took
his seat December 2, 1889; reelected in 1891, serv-
ing from November 20, 1889, to March 3, 1897.
Stackhouse, Eli Thomas, was born in Marion
County, S. C, March 27, 1824; educated in the
country schools, which he attended a few months
each year, and worked the remainder of the year
oif his father's farm; taught school four years, be-
tween the ages of 19 and 23; left his farm in 1861
to respond to the call of his State -for soldiers;
served in Longstreet's Corps, Army Northern Vir-
ginia, and was surrendered as colonel of his regi-
ment; before reconstruction was three times elected
to represent his county in the State legislature;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Demo-
crat; died June 14, 1892.
Stahle, James A., of Emigs ville. Pa., was
born in West Manchester Township, York County,
Pa., January 11, 1830; received a common school
and academic education; enlisted August 24, 1861,
as captain of Company A, Eighty-seventh Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers; promoted to major January 1,
1863, and to lieutenant-colonel May 9, 1863; hon-
orably discharged at expiration of term of service,
October 13, 1864; deputy collector of internal rev-
enue at York for more than fifteen years; elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; re-
sumed farming after the expiration of his term in
Congress.
Stahlnecker, William G. , was born at Auburn,
Cayuga County, N. Y., June 20, 1849; received an
academic education; engaged in mercantile busi-
ness, and a member of the New York Produce Ex-
change; elected mayor of Yonkers in March, 1884,
for a term of two years; delegate to the Democratic
State convention held at Saratoga, N. Y., in June,
1884; also to the national Democratic convention
held at Chicago, 111., in July, 1884; elected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Yonkers, N. Y.,
March 26, 1902.
Stallings, Jesse F. , was born near the village
of Manningham, Butler County, Ala., April 4,
1856; graduated from the University of Alabama
in 1877; studied law at the law school of the Uni-
versity of Alabama; admitted to practice in the
supreme court in April, 1879; commenced the
practice of law in Greenville; elected by the legis-
lature of Alabama solicitor for the second judicial
circuit in November, 3886, for a term of six years;
resigned the office of solicitor in September, 1892,
to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress;
delegate to the national Democratic convention
.which was held in St. Louis in 1888; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Con-
Stallworth, James A. , was born in Conecuh
County, Ala., April 7, 1822; received a thorough
English education; studied law and practiced;
served two terms in the State house of represent-
atives; elected solicitor of the second judicial cir-
cuit of Alabama in 1849 and 1853; elected a Rep-
resentative from Alabama to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat, serving
from December 1, 1857, until his withdrawal Jan-
uary 21, 1861; died at Evergreen, Ala., in 1862.
Stanard, Edwin O., was born at Newport,
N. H., January 5, 1832; when quite young moved
with his parents to the Territory of Iowa, and re-
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ceived a limited education; went to St. Louis;
taught school three terms in Illinois; graduated
from a commercial college at St. Louis in 1855;
engaged in the commission business in 1856; en-
gaged in milling business at St. Louis; lieutenant-
governor of Missouri for two years; elected a
Representative from Missouri to the Forty-third
Congress as a Regular Republican.
Stanberry, 'Williaiu, was born in Essex
''County, N. J. ; received a common school educa-
tion; moved to Ohio and held several local offices;
? elected a Representative from Ohio to the Twen-
tieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses;
died at Newark, Ohio, January 27, 1872.
Standifer, James, was elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Eighteenth Congress as a
Whig; elected to the Twenty -first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses; re-
elected to the Twenty-fifth Congress, but died
near Kingston, Tenn., August 24, 1837, while on
his way to Washington, D. C, to take his seat.
Standiford, Elisha D. , was born in Jefferson
County, Ky., December 28, 1831; attended the
common schools; studied medicine; engaged in
banking and manufacturing; State senator of
Kentuclky in 1868 and 1871; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Forty-third Congress
as a Democrat; elected president of the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern Railroad; died at
Louisville, Ky., July 26, 1887.
Stanford, Leland, was born in Albany County,
N. Y., March 9, 1824; received an academic edu-
cation; after three years' study admitted to prac-
tice law in the supreme court of the State of
New York; moved to Port Washington, in the
northern part of the State of Wisconsin, where he
engaged in the practice of his profession for four
years; a fire in the spring of 1852 destroying his
law library and other property, he went to Cali-
fornia, where he became associated in business
with his brothers, three of whom had preceded
him to the Pacific coast; at first in business at
Michigan Bluffs, and in 1856 moved to San Fran-
cisco to engage in mercantile pursuits on a large
scale; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Chicago in 1860; elected governor of Cali-
fornia, and served from December, 1861, to
December, 1863; as president of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company he superintended its construc-
tion over the mountains, building 530 miles of it
in 293 days; interested in other railroads on the
Pacific slope, in agriculture, and in manufactures;
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
lican, and took his seat March 4, 1885; reelected
in 1890, serving to June 21, 1893, when he died, at
Palo Alto, Cal.
Stanford, Richard, was born in North Carolina
in 1768; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Fifth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Sixth
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses; died at
Georgetown, D. C, April 9, 1816.
Stanly, Edward, was born at Newbern, N. C.
about 1811; studied law and admitted to the bar;
served three terms in the house of commons of the
State legislature and one term as speaker; attorney-
general of North Carolina in 1847; elected a Whig
Representative to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses; elected to the
!:rJ^7.,^^ and Thirty-second Congresses; moved
to California and practiced law; for a few months
military governor of North Carolina in 1862, but
resigned and returned to California; died at San
Francisco, Cal., July 12, 1872.
Stanly, John, was born in North Carolina; a
member of the house of commons from Newbern
in 1798 and 1799; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Seventh Congress; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the
Eleventh Congress; again a member of the house
of commons of North Carolina 1812-1815, 1818,
1819, 1823, 1825, and 1826; died at Newbern, N. C,
August 3, 1834.
Stanton, Benjamin, was born at Mount Pleas-
ant, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 4, 1809; studied
law and in 1834 began practice at Bellefontaine; a
member of the State senate in 1841 and 1842;
delegate to the State constitutional convention;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig; elected to the Thirty-
fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses;
lieutenant-governor of Ohio in 1862.
Stanton, Frederick P. , was born at Alexan-
dria, Va., December 22, 1814; received a classical
education; graduated from Columbia College;
taught school; studied law and began practice at
Memphis, Tenn.; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-
first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses;
appointed governor of Kansas 1858-1861; moved
to Virginia, and subsequently settled in Florida;
died near Ocala, Fla. , June 4, 1894.
Stanton, Joseph, was born at Charlestown,
R. I., July 19, 1739; served in the expedition
against Canada in 1759; member of the general
assembly of Rhode Island 1768-1774; served as
colonel in the Revolutionary Army; delegate to
the constitutional convention in 1790; elected a
United States Senator from Rhode Island as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from June 25, 1790, to March 3,
1793; again a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1794-1800; elected a Representative
from Rhode Island to the Seventh, Eighth, and
Ninth Congresses; died at Charlestown, R. I., in
1807.
Stanton, Richard H. , was born at Alexandria,
Va., September 9, 1812; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Mavsville,
Ky.; postmaster at Maysville; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; Presidential elector on the Buchanan
ticket in 1856; State attorney for his judicial dis-
trict in 1858; delegate to the national Democratic
convention at New York in 1868; elected district
judge 1868-1874.
Starin, John H., of Fultonville, N. Y., was
born atSammonsville, Fulton County (then apart
of Montgomery County), August 27, 1825; received
an academic education; commenced the study of
medicine in 1842; established and conducted the
drug and medicine business at Fultonville from
1845 to 1858; postmaster at Fultonville, N. Y., from
1848 to 1852; largely engaged in the transportation
business through the city, river, and harbor, and
waters of Long Island Sound; director of the North
River Bank, New York City, and the Mohawk
River National Bank; greatly and personally in-
terested in agriculture and stock raising; elected to
the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a
Republican; engaged in railroading and became
verjr successful; member of the New York City
rapid transit commission.
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817
Stark, Benjamin, was born at New Orleans,
l^a., June 26, 1820;, received a classical education;
merchant; moved to Oregon in 1845; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; member of the Territo-
rial house of representatives in 1851, and State
house of representatives; appointed a United
states Senator from Oregon (vice E. D. Baker, de-
ceased) as a Democrat, serving from February 27,
1862, to December 1, 1862; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national conventions of 1864 and 1868; moved
to Connecticut; died October 10, 1898.
Stark, "William Ledyard, of Aurora, Nebr.,
was born at Mystic, New London County, Conn.,
July 29, 1853, of Pilgrim stock; graduated from
the Mystic Valley Institute, at Mystic, Conn., in
1872; afterwards went to Wyoming, Stark County,
111.; taught school and clerked in a store; attended
the Union College of Law, Chicago, 111., foreighteen
months; admitted to the bar by the supreme court
of Illinois in January, 1878; moved to Aurora,
Nebr., in February, 1878; superintendent of the
city schools for nearly two years; deputy district
attorney for two years; appointed once and elected
live times judge of the county court of Hamilton
County, Nebr.; declined a sixth nomination for
that office in 1895; served as major and judge-
ad vjocate-general of the Nebraska National Guard;
elected to the Fifty-flfth and Fifty-sixth Con-
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress, being the candidate of the People's, Inde-
pendent, Democratic, and Silver Eepublican
parties.
Starkweather, David A., was a native of
Connecticut; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Canton, Ohio; elected
a Eepresentetive from Ohio to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Twenty-
ninth Congress; defeated for reelection to the
Thirtieth Congress; a Presidential elector on the
Caas and Butler ticket in 1848; minister to Chile
1854-1857.
Starkvreatlier, George A., was a native of
Connecticut; moved to Cooperstown, N. Y.;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirteenth Congress.
Stark-weather, Henry H. , was born at Pres-
ton, Conn., April 29, 1826; received a common
school education; studied law and practiced;
member of the State legislature in 1856; delegate
to the national Eepublican conventions of 1860
and 1868; appointed postmaster at Norwich, Conn.,
in 1865 and reappointed by President Johnson,
but resigned in 1866; elected a Eepresentative
from Connecticut to the Fortieth, Forty-first,
Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Eepublican; died at Washington,
D. C, January 28, 1876.
Starr, John F., was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
in 1818; received a liberal education; moved to
Camden, N. J., in 1844; merchant; elected a Eep-
resentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Eepublican.
Stearns, Asahel, was born at Lunenburg,
Mass., June 17, 1774; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1797; studied law, and began practice at
Chelrpsford, Mass.; held several local offices;
elected a Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the
Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist; professor of
law at Harvard College 1817-1829, when he re-
signed; died at Cambridge, Mass., February 5, 1839.
Stearns, Ozora P., v/as bom at Dekalb, N. Y.,
January 15, 1832; two years at Oberlin College;
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graduated from the University of Michigan in
1858, and from the law department of that univer-
sity ill 1860, and then commenced -practice; elected
attorney for Olmstead County in 1861; served in
the Union Army during the civil war as a lieuten-
ant in the Ninth Minnesota Infantry and as colo-
nel of the Thirty-ninth U. S. Colored Troops;
elected a United State Senator from Minnesota as
a Eepublican to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Daniel S. Norton and took his seat Janu-
ary 23, 1871; died in 1896.
Stebbins, Henry G. , was born in New York in
1812; received a liberal education; engaged in
banking; elected a Eepresentative from New York
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, serv-
ing from December 7, 1863, to October, 1864, when
he resigned. '
Stedman, William, was born in Massachusetts
in 1765; graduated from Harvard College in 1784;
studied law and in 1787 began practice; held sev-
eral local offices; State representative in 1802;
elected a Eepresentative from Massachusetts to
the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Con-
gresses, serving until 1810, when he resigned; died
at Newburyport, Mass., in 1831.
Steele, Georg'e W., of Marion, Ind., was born
in Fayette County, Ind., December 13, 1839; edu-
cated in the common schools and at the Ohio
Western University, at Delaware, Ohio; read law;
admitted to the bar, and practiced in Hartford
City, Ind., from April 11 to 21, 1861, when he
enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Eegiment, but
could not be mustered into this regiment on
account of excess in numbers; mustered into the
Twelfth Indiana on May 2, 1861, and served in
this regiment and the One hundred and first
Indiana until the close of the war — the first year
in the Army of the Potomac, the latter three in
the Army of the Cumberland, and with Sherman
to the sea; mustered out as lieutenant-colonel in
July, 1865; commissioned and served in the Four-
teenth United States Infantry from February 23,
1866, to February 1, 1876, mainly in CaUfornia,
Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and
Utah; resigned and engaged in farming and pork
packing until 1882; established the First National
Bank of Marion, Ind., and became its president;
declined the appointment as director of the Union
Pacific Eailroad; the first governor of Oklahoma,
and resigned after serving twenty months; elected
a member of the Board of Managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1890;
reelected in 1896 and 1902; member of the Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses."
Steele, John, was born at Salisbury; N. C,
November 1, 1764; received a liberal education;
became a farmer; member of the State house of
representatives in 1787-88, 1794-95, 1806, 1811, and
1813; elected a Eepresentative from North Caro-
lina to the First and Second Congresses as a Fed-
eralist; appointed Comptroller of the Treasury
July 1, 1796; reappointed by President John
Adams, and resigned December 15, 1802; again
elected to the State house of representatives and
died the same day, August 14, 1815, at Salisbury,
N. C.
Steele, John B. , was born at Delhi, N. Y.,
March 28, 1814; graduated from Williams College,
Massachusetts; studied law and began practice at
Cooperstown, N. Y.; district attorney for Otsego
County; moved to Kingston; judge of Ulster
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County; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty -seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; died at Kingston, N. Y., Septem-
ber 24, 1866.
Steele, Joh.li N., was born in Maryland; re-
sided at Vienna; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twenty-third Congress (vice Littleton P. Dennis,
deceased), as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
fourth Congress.
Steele, Walter Leak, of Rockingham, N. C,
was bom at Steeles Mills (now Littles Mills), Rich-
mond County, N. C. , April 18, 1823 ; educated partly
at Randolph-Macon College, at Wake Forest Col-
lege, and then at the University of North Carolina,
where he graduated in 1844; elected a member of
the State house of commons in 1846, 1848, 1850, and
1854, and of the State senate in 1852 and 1858; dele-
gate to the national Democratic conventions at
Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; secretary of the
State convention of 1861 which passed the ordi-
nance of secession ; Democratic candidate for Presi-
dential elector in the sixth district in 1872; elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress and reelected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Steele, Williain G., was born in Somerset
County, N. J., December 17, 1820; received an
academic education; banker; elected a Represent-
ative from New Jersey to the Thirty-seventh and
Thirty-eighth Congresses.
Steele, William B. , was born at New York City
July 24, 1842; received a liberal education; studied
law and practiced; served in the Union Army;
moved to Wyoming Territory and elected a mem-
ber of the legislative council in 1871, and resigned
in 1873; elected a Delegate from Wyoming Territory
to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses as
a Democrat.
Steenrod, Lewis, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a common school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to. the Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses.
Stenger, William S. , was born at London, Pa.,
February 13, 1840; graduated from Franklin and
Marshall College in 1858; studied law and in 1860
began practicing in Chambersburg; district attor-
ney of Franklin County 1862-1871; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.'
Stephens, Abraham P. , was a native of New
York; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Dejnocrat.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, was born in
that part of Wilkes County, Ga., which now forms
a part of Taliaferro County, February 11, 1812;
graduated from the University of Georgia, at Ath-
ens, in 1832; taught school eighteen months; ad-
mitted to the bar at Crawfordsville in 1834; member
of the house of representatives of the Georgia leg-
isljiture from Taliaferro County 1836-1841; mem-
ber of the State senate from the same county in
1842; elected to the secession convention of Georgia
in 1861 ; opposed and voted against the ordinance
of secession in that body, but gave it his support
after it had been passed by the convention against
his judgment as to its policy; elected by that con-
vention to the Confederate Congress which met at
Montgomery, Ala., February 4, 1861, and chosen
Vice-President under the Provisional Government
by that Congress; elected Vice-President of the
Confederate States for the term of six years, under
what was termed the permanent Government, in
November, 1861; visited the State of Virginia on a
mission under the Confederate Government in
April, 1861, upon the invitation of that State; one
of the commissioners on the part of the Confeder-
ate Government at the Hampton Roads confer-
ence in February, 1865 ; elected as a Representative
to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-
fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses; elected to the
Senate of the United States in 1866 by the first
legislature convened under the new constitution,
but was not allowed to take his seat; elected to
the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Ambrose R. Wright; elected to
the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat, serving
until his resignation in 1882; elected governor of
Georgia in 1882; died at Atlanta, Ga., March 4,
1888.
Stephens, John H. , of Vernon, Tex., was
born in Shelby County, Tex. ; educated at Mans-
field, Tarrant County, Tex.; graduated from the
law department of Cumberland University, Leb-
anon, Tenn., in June, 1872, and practiced at
Montague, Montague County, and Vernon, Wil-
barger County, Tex. ; served as a State senator in
the twenty-first and twenty-second legislatures of
Texas; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Stephens, Philander, was born at Montrose,
Pa.,iul788; received a limited education; electeda
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-
first and Twenty-second Congresses as a Jackson
Democrat; died at Springfield, Pa., July 8, 1842.
Stephenson, Benjamin, was a native of Ken-
tucky; in 1809 moved to Illinois and located in
Randolph County; held several local oflBces; served
in the war of 1812; elected a Delegate from
Illinois Territory to the Thirteenth Congre,ss
(vice Shadrack Bond, resigned); reelected to the
Fourteenth Congress.
Stephenson, Isaac, of Marinette, Wis., was
born in York County, near Fredericton, New
Brunswick, June 18, 1829; received a common
school education; lumberman and banker; moved
to Wisconsin and settled at Milwaukee; engaged
in the lumber business at Escanaba, Mich., for
twelve years, with headquarters at Milwaukee; in
the spring of 1858 moved to Marinette, AVis. ; held
various local offices; member of the Wisconsin
legislature in 1866 and 1868; elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses.
Stephenson, James, was born at Gettysburg,
Pa., March 20, 1764; moved to Martinsburg, Va. ;
volunteer rifleman under General St. Clair in his
Indian expedition; brigade inspector; member of
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Eighth Congress
as a Federalist; elected to the Eleventh Congress-
elected to the Seventeenth Congress (vice Thomas
Van Swearingen, deceased); reelected to the
l^ighteenth Congress; died at Martinsburg, Va.,
August 7, 1833. *
Stephenson, Samuel M., of Menominee,
Mich., was born in New Brunswick in 1831-
moved to Maine with his parents when 6 years of
age; moved to Delta County, Mich., in 1846
where he engaged in lumbering; moved to his
present place of residence in 1858, and built the
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second sawmill on the river; largely interested in
real estate, lumbering, general merchandising, and
farmmg; president First National Bank, and an
officer m the Kirby Carpenter Company, of Me-
nominee, and an officer in the Stephenson Bank-
ing Company, of Marinette, Wis. ; chairman of the
board of supervisors of Menominee County for
several years; representative in the State legisla-
ture 1877-78, and a member of the senate 1879-80
and 1885-86; Presidential elector in 1880 on the
Bepubhcan ticket, and a delegate to the national
Republican convention in 1884 and 1888; elected
to the Fifty-flrst, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Sterigere, Jolin B. , was born at Upper Dublin,
Pa.; moved to Morristown; received a liberal edu-
cation; held several local offices; elected a Bepre-
sentatite from Pennsylvania to the Twentieth
Congress as a Jackson Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-first Congress.
Sterling, Ausel, was a native of New London
County, Conn.; resided at Sharon; elected a Rep-
resentative from Connecticut to the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Congresses.
Sterling, Micah., was bom at Lyme, Conn., in
1781; graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied
law and began practice at Adams; moved to
Watertown, N. Y.; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventeenth Congress; died at Watertown, N. Y.,
April 10, 1844.
Sterrett, Samuel, was born in Maryland in
1756; received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Baltimore, where he held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Second Congress; died at Baltimore
July 12, 1833.
Stetson, Charles, was born at New Ipswich,
N. H.,, November 7, 1801; taken by his parents to
Hampden, Me., in 1802; graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1823; studied law and began practice at
Hampden; moved to Bangor in 1833; judge of the
Bangor municipal court in 1834; elected a member
of the State council 1845-1848; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Thirty-first Congress
as a Democrat.
Stetson, Lemuel, was a native of New York;
received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice at Keeseville; member of the State
house of representatives three terms; elected to
the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; county
judge of Clinton County 1847-1851; again a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives.
Stevens, Aaron P., was born at Derry, N. H.,
August 9, 1819; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served four
terms in the New York State legislature; held
several local offices; served in the tJnion Army as
major of the First New Hampshire Volunteers
and brigadier-general by brevet; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire to the Fortieth
and Forty-first Congresses as a Republican; again
elected to the State legislature and served several
terms; died at Nashua, N. H., May 10, 1887.
Stevens, Bradford N. , was born at Webster,
N. H., January 3, 1813; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1835; taught school six years;
moved to Bureau County, 111., in 1846; merchant
and a farmer; held several county offices; elected
a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-second
Congress as an Independent Democrat.
Stevens, Charles A., was elected a Repre-
sentative from Massachusetts to the Forty-third
Congress (in place of Alvah Crocker, deceased) as
a Republican, serving from January 27, 1875, to
March 3, 1875.
Stevens, Frederick Clement, of St. Paul,
Minn., was born at Boston, Mass., January 1,
1861; educated in common schools of Rockland,
Me. ; graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Me., in 1881; from law school of the State Univer-
sity of Iowa in 1884; admitted to the bar in 1884,
and commenced practice in St. Paul; elected to
the State legislature of Minnesota for sessions of
1888-89 and 1890-91; elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Stevens, Hestor L., was born at Lima, N. Y.,
October, 1803; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Rochester, N. Y. ; moved
to Pontiac, Mich. ; elected a Representative from
Michigan to the Thirty -third Congress as a Demo-
crat; died at Georgetown, D. C., May 7, 1864.
Stevens, Hiram S., was born at Weston, Vt.,
in 1832; received a limited education; located in
that part of New Mexico now Arizona, in 1856;
member of the Territorial legislature of Arizona
1868-1873; elected a Delegate from Arizona to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as an
Independent.
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, was bom at Andover,
Mass., March 28, 1818; graduated from West Point
in 1839; entered the Corps of Engineers; served
on the staff of General Scott in Mexico; an assistant
in the Coast Survey; governor of Washington Ter-
ritory 1853-1857; elected a Delegate from Wash-
ington Territory to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses as a Democrat; entered the Union
Army as colonel of the Seventy-ninth New York
Highlanders; appointed brigadier-general, major-
general, and commanded a division; wounded at
the second battle of Bull Run; died at Chantilly,
Va., September 1, 1862.
Stevens, John, was born in New York City
about 1708; a Delegate from New Jersey to the
Continental Congress in 1784; died in Mav 1792.
Stevens, James, was born at Fairfield, Conn.,
in 1768; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; post-
master at Stamford, Conn., in 1822; died at Stam-
ford, Conn., April 16, 1835.
Stevens, Moses T., was born at North An-
dover, Essex County, Mass., October 10, 1825; grad-
uated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1842;
entered Dartmouth College same year, and left
that institution in 1843 to learn business of manu-
facturing woolen goods, and engaged in that busi-
ness in North Andover; member of the Massachu-
setts house of representatives in 1861 and of the
senate in 1868; president of Andover National
Bank; elected to the Fifty -second and Fifty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Stevens, Robert S. , was born in Attica, now
Wyoming County, N. Y., March 27, 1824; received
an academic education; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in 1856; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; after the expiration of
his term in Congress retired from public life on
account of ill health; died February 23, 1893, at
Attica, N. Y.
Stevens, Thaddeus, was born at Danville, Vt.,
April 4, 1792; graduated from Dartmouth College;
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moved to Pennsylvania in 1814; studied law and
began practice; served in the Pennsylvania State
legislature 1833-1835, 1837, and 1841; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1838; ap-
pointed a canal commissioner in 1838; moved to
Lancaster, Pa., in 1842; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-first Congress as
a Whig; reelected to the Thirty-second Congress;
elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses;
died at Washington, D. C, August 11, 1868.
Stevenson, Adlai E., of Bloomington, 111.,
was born in Christian County, Ky., October 23,
1835; moved to Bloomington, 111., in 1852; edu-
cated at the Illinois Wesleyan University and at
Centre College, Kentucky; lawyer by profession;
master in chancery at Woodford County, 111., from
1861 to 1865; State attorney for the twenty-third
judicial circuit from 1864 to 1868; Representative
from Illinois to the Forty-fourth Congress; ap-
pointed by the President a member of the board
of visitors to West Point in 1877; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress by the National Greenback
and Democrat parties; delegate to the national
Democratic conventions 1884 and 1892; First As-
sistant Postmaster General 1885-1889; Vice-Pres-
ident of the United States 1893-1897; member of
the commission to Europe to try to secure inter-
national bimetallism in 1897; defeated for Vice-
President of the United States in 1900 on the Dem-
ocratic ticket.
Stevenson, Andrew, was born in Culpeper
County, Va., in 1784; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Richmond,
Va. ; member of the State house of representatives
1804-1820; speaker of the house of representatives
several years; elected a Representative from Vir-
ginia to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third
Congresses as a Democrat, serving until June 2,
1834, when he resigned; served as Speaker of the
House 1827-1834; minister to Great Britain 1836-
1841; died in Albemarle County, Va., Januarv 25.
1857. ■
Stevenson, James S., was born in York
County, Pa.; received a Hberal education ; studied
law and practiced; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; died at
Pittsburg, Pa., October 17, 1831.
Stevenson, Job E., was born in Ross County,
Ohio, February 10, 1831; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; mem-
ber of the Ohio State senate 1863-1865; moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Forty-first and Forty-second
Congresses as a Republican.
Stevenson, John W. , was born at Richmond,
Va., May 4, 1812; graduated from the University
of Virginia in 1834; moved to Kentucky in 1841;
county attorney; a representative in the legisla-
ture of Kentucky for several years; member of the
Kentucky constitutional convention which framed
the present constitution; Presidential elector in
1852 and 1856; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat: elected lieutenant-governor
of Kentucky in 1867; elected governor in 1868-
elected a United States Senator from Kentucky as
a Democrat 1871-1877; died at Covington Kv
August 10, 1886. ' ■^''
Stewart, Alexander, of Wausau, AVis. was
born September 12, 1829, in York County,' New-
Brunswick, and received a comnion school educa-
tion at that place; moved to what is now Mar-
athon County in 1849 and settled where the city
of Wausau is now located, engaging in the lum-
ber business; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress
as a Republican, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth
and Fifty-sixth Congresses.
Stewart, Andrew, was born in Fayette County,
Pa., June, 1792; received a public school educa-
tion; studied law, and began practiceatUniontown;
United States attorney for the western district of
Pennsylvania; served three years as'a member of
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; elected to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses; defeated for
reelection; elected to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-
ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses; died at Union-
town, Pa., July 16, 1872.
Stewart, Archibald, was a Delegate from New
Jersey to the Continental Congress 1784-85.
Stewart, Archibald, was born in Virginia; re-
ceived a limited education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
as the Democratic candidate for reelection.
Stewart, Charles, was born at Memphis, Tenn.,
May 30, 1836; by profession a lawyer; elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second
Congresses as a Democrat; after his retirement
from Congress resumed the practice of law; died
September 21, 1895.
Stewart, David, was born at Baltimore, Md.,
September 13, 1800; received a thorough English
education; studied law and practiced; appointed a
United States Senator from Maryland {vice R.
Johnson, resigned), serving from December 8,
1849, to January 14, 1850; died at Baltimore, Md.,
January 5, 1858.
Stewart, Jacob H., was born at Clermont,
N. Y., January 15, 1829; moved with his parents
to Peekskill, N. Y.; received a limited education-
studied medicine and graduated from the Univer-
sity Medical College of New York City; moved to
to St. Paul, Mmn., in 1855; member of the State
senate of Minnesota 1858-59; surgeon in the Union
Army; captured at the first battle of Bull Run
paroled, and allowed to care for wounded at
ioci®L£^"''^'^' Hospital; mayor of St. Paul in
i«7n' ^fh \^^^~^^'^^' postmaster of St. Paul 1865-
1870; elected a Representative from Minnesota to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican; died at
!>t. Paul, Mmn., August 25, 1884.
:„^HZ^'^*' James, was born in North Carolina
^iJA' i^'^ei'^ed a common school education;
thlw^f^ Representative from North Carolina to
the J<ifteenth Congress; died February 3, 1842.
(^owT^m'^^^m^^ ^.■' ^'^' ^°™ i" Dorchester.
County, Md. November 24, 1808; received a
it clbnT*' Mil «*"died law and began practice
at Cambridge, Md. ; member of the State house of
ML^vlf^^^'^'^ «lf,«ted a Representative from
ThTr^i livth°P^'' Thirty-fourthfThirty.fifth, and
ihirty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat:
Stewart, James Fleming, of Paterson N T
was born at Paterson, N. J June 15 185] ■' tf
ended public and private school n Paterson and
the University of the Citv of New York and e^d
uated from the law school of the latter 'iSfon
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in 1870; practiced law in New York Citv until
1875; tnree times appointed recorder of Paterson
(the criminal magistrate of the city), which office
he occupied at the time of hia election to Con-
gress; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Fifty-flfth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Stewart, John, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Sixth Congress, vice
Thomas Hartly, deceased; reelected to the
Seventh and Eighth Congresses.
Stewart, John, was born at Chatham, Conn.,
in 1795; received a liberal education; farmer;
studied law and admitted to practice; served for
several years as a member of the State legislature;
judge of the county court; elected a Representa-
tive from Connecticut to the Twenty-eighth Con-
gress; died at Chatham, Conn. , Septemberl6, 1860.
Stewart, John D. , was born in Fayette County,
Ga., August 2, 1833; received a common school
^ education; attended Marshall College two years;
taught school two years at Griffin, during which
time read law, and admitted to practice m 1856;
elected probate judge and served as such five years;
lieutenant and captain in the Thirteenth Georgia
Regiment during the late war; member of the
Georgia legislature 1865-1867; ordained a minister
of the Baptist Church in 1871 ; mayor of Griffin
1875-76; judge of the superior court from Novem-
ber 7, 1879, until January 1, 1886; twice elected
judge by the legislature without opposition; re-
signed to become a candidate for Congress; trus-
tee of Mercer University, Georgia, and of Theo-
logical Seminary, Louisville, Ky. ; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses as a Democrat;
died January 28, 1894, at Griffin, Ga.
Stewart, John Knox, of Amsterdam, N. Y.,
was born in the town of Perth, Fulton County,
N. Y., October 20, 1853; moved to Amsterdam
with his parents in early life; educated in the
public schools and at Amsterdam Academy; left
school to take charge of his father's estate; entered
the knitting mill of Schuyler & Blood; purchased
the half interest formerly owned by Mr. Schuyler
in 1888, and at the death of Mr. Blood became
sole proprietor of the Chuctanunda Hosiery Mills,
Amsterdam; one of the original sewer commis-
sioners of the city ; for a long time a director of
the Farmers' National Bank of Amsterdam, and
the Chuctanunda Gas Light Company; also vice-
president of the Amsterdam board of trade;
elected member of the assembly from Montgomery
County in 1889; elected to the Fifty-sixth Con-
- gross and reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress
as a Republican.
Stewart, John W., of Middlebury, Yt., was
born at Middlebury, Vt.; graduated from Middle-
bury College in 1846; studied law and admitted to
the bar in 1850; prosecuting attorney of the
county three years; member of the Vermont
house of representatives eight years; speaker of
the house four years; a member of the senate two
years- governor of the State of Vermont two
years' 1870-1872; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress and reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law.
Stewart, Lewis, of Piano, 111., was born in
Wayne County, Pa., November 20, 1824; received
a common ' school education; read law and ad-
mitted to the bar; moved with his parents m
1838 to Kendall County, 111. ; engaged in farming
and manufacturing; Democratic candidate for
governor in 1876; elected to the Fifty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Stewart, Thomas E. , was born at New York
City September 22, 1824; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; held
several local offices; member of the State assembly
of New York in 1864 and 1865; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Fortieth Congress.
Stewart, William, was born at Mercer, Pa.,
September 16, 1811; graduated from Jefferson Col-
lege; studied law and began practice at Mercer,
Pa.; served in the State senate for three years;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses as a
Republican.
Stewart, William ]y[orris, of Carson City,
Nov., was born at Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y.,
August 9, 1827; moved with his parents while a
small child to Mesopotamia Township, Trumbull
County, Ohio; attended Lyons Union School and
Farmington Academy; teacher of mathematics in
the former school while yet a pupil; with the
little money thus earned and the assistance of
James C. Smith, one of the judges of the supreme
court of New York, he entered Yale College, re-
maining there until the winter of 1849-50, when,
attracted by the gold discoveries in California, he
found hia way thither, arriving at San Francisco
in May, 1850; immediately engaged in mining
with pick and shovel in Nevada County, and in
this way accumulated some money; in the spring
of 1852 he commenced the study of law under
John R. McConnell, and in Deceihber following
was appointed district attorney, to which office he
was elected at the general election of the next
year; appointed attorney-general of California in
1854; moved to Virginia City, Nov., in 1860, where
he was largely engaged in early mining litigation
and in the development of the Comstock lode;
chosen a member of the Territorial council in 1861;
elected a member of the constitutional convention
in 1863; elected to the United States Senate in
1864, taking his seat February 1, 1865, and i-i^elected
in 1869; resumed the practice of law in Nevada,
Ualifornia, and the Pacific coast generally in 1875,
and was thus engaged when elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican in 1887 to succeed
James G. Fair, Democrat, and took his seat jNIarch
4, 1887; was reelected in 1893 and 1899.
Stiles, John D. , was born in Lu?erne County,
Pa., January 15, 1823; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1844 began practice;
held several local offices; delegate to the national
convention which nominated Mr. Buchanan for
President in 1856, to the Philadelphia national
Union convention in 1866, and the Democratic
convention in 1868; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress (vice
T. B. Cooper, deceased) as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty -eighth Congress; elected to the
Forty-first Congress.
Stiles, William. H. , was born at Savannah, Ga. ,
in January, 1808; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Savannah; soli-
citor-general for the eastern district of Georgia
1833-1836; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
charge d'affaires to Austria 1845-1849; served in
the Confederate army as colonel; died at Savannah,
Ga., December 20, 1865.
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Stillwell, Thomas N. , was born at Stillwell,
Ohio, August 29, 1830; received a thorough Eng-
lish education; studied law and began practice at
Anderson, Ind. ; member of the State legislature
in 1836; served in the Union Army; elected a Eep-
resentative from Indiana to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican; minister resident to Vene-
zuela 1867-68; died at Anderson, Ind., January
14, 1874.
Stivers, IKoses Dunning, was born near
Beemerville, Sussex County, N. J., December 30,
1828; educated at Mount Retirement Seminary, in
Wantage, Sussex County, JST. J.; worked on his
father's farm in summer and taught school during
the winter; engaged in mercantile pursuits for
seven years; elected county clerk of Orange
Coimty in 1864, and served three years; appointed
by President Grant in 1869 collector of United
States internal revenue for the eleventh district
of New York; became proprietor of the Orange
County Press in 1868; also one of the proprietors
and editors of the Middletown Daily Press; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention in
1880; president of the New York State Press Asso-
ciation in 1887 ; for many years a trustee of the New
York State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane
at Middletown; trustee and secretary of the Mid-
dletown Savings Bank; director of the Merchants
and Manufacturers' National Bank of Middletown;
Republican candidate for Congress in the Fif-
teenth district of New York in 1884; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; died in 1895.
Stockbridg'e, Francis B. , was born at Bath,
Me., April 9, 1826; received a common school edu-
cation; clerk in a wholesale house in Boston from
1843 till 1847, when he went to Chicago and opened
a lumber yard, being interested in sawmills in
Michigan; moved to Allegan County, Mich., in
1851, taking charge of his mills; elected to the leg-
islature in 1869, and to the senate in 1871; elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican to
succeed Omar D. Conger, Republican, and took his
seat March 4, 1887; reelected in 1893, serving until
his death, April 80, 1894.
Stocktaridge, Henry, jr. , of Baltimore, Md.,
was born at Baltimore City, Md., September 18,
1856; fitted for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass. ; entered Amherst College in
the fall of 1873, graduating therefrom in the class
of 1877; entered the Law School of the University
of Maryland, and received the degree of LL. B.
from that institution in the class of 1878; admitted
to the practice of law, which profession he fol-
lowed; in April, 1887, became one of the editorial
staff of the Baltimore American; in December,
1882, appointed an examiner in equity by the
supreme bench of Baltimore City; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Stockdale, Thomas Bingland, was born in
Greene County, Pa.; of Irish descent; spent his
boyhood on his father's farm; graduated from
Jefierson College in 1856, and from the law depart-
ment of the University of Mississippi in 1859; set-
tled in Pike County, Miss., in 1857; enlisted as a
private in the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry in
1861; elected successively lieutenant, adjutant,
and major of that regiment; elected major of Stock-
dale's battalion of cavalry in 1863, and commanded
the outposts of the army at Port Hudson till it was
invested; made lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth
Mississippi Cavalry in 1864; at the close of the war
returned to Summit, where he engaged in the prac-
tice of law; member of the national Democratic
convention in 1868; Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1872, and again in 1884;
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat; ap-
pointed judge of the supreme court of Mississippi
December 1, 1896; died at Summit, Miss., January
8, 1899.
Stockslager, Strother M., of Oorydon, Ind.,
was born at Mauckport, Harrison County, Ind.,
May 7, 1842; attended common schools, Corydon
High School, and the State University at Bloom-
ington; taught school; second lieutenant and cap-
tain in the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry; deputy
county auditor two years; deputy county clerk two
years; appointed by Andrew Johnson as assessor
of internal revenue; studied law, and admitted to
the bar at Corydon in 1871, where he resided and
practiced his profession; editor of the Oorydon
Democrat; member of the Indiana State senate
1874-1878; elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-
eighth Congresses as a Democrat; appointed assist-
ant commissioner of the General Land Office in
1884, which position he held until the resignation
of Commissioner Sparks, when he was appointed
Commissioner of the General Land Office; resigned
March 4, 1889, but remained in charge until June
20, 1889, when his resignation was accepted; re-
sumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C. ;
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Third
Indiana district in 1894 and defeated.
Stockton, John P., was born at Princeton,
N. J., August 2, 1826; graduated from Princeton
College in 1843; studied law and began practice in
1849; held several local offices; in 1858 appointed
minister resident at Rome, but in 1861 recalled at
his own request; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey in 1865 for a term of six years,
but a year later that body declared his election to
have been informal, and his seat was declared va-
cant; again elected a United States Senator as a
Democrat ( vice F. T. Frelinghuysen), servingfrom
1869 to 1875; elected State attorney-general in 1877.
Stockton, Richard, was born at Princeton,
N. J., October 1, 1730; graduated from Princeton
College in 1748; studied law, and began practice at
Princeton in 1754; held several local jiositions;
Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Con-
gress 1776-77; died near Princeton, N. J., Febru-
ary 28, 1781.
Stockton, Richard (son of Richard Stockton
and father of John P. Stockton and Robert F.
Stockton), was born at Princeton, N. J., April 17,
1764; graduated from Nassau Hall in 1779; studied
law and began practice at Princeton, N. J. ; elected
a United States Senator from New Jersey as a
FederaUst, serving from December 6, 1796, to March
3, 1799; declined a reelection; elected a Represent-
ative from New Jersey to the Thirteenth Congress,
and declined a reelection; died at Princeton, N. J.,
March 7, 1828.
Stockton, Robert Field (son of Richard Stock-
ton), was born at Princeton, N. J., August 20,1795;
attended Princeton College; entered the U. S. Navy
in 1811 and attained the rank of commodore; sent
to the Pacific coast in October, 1845; conquered
California in 1846; returned home and resigned
his commission; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey as a Democrat, serving from 1851
to 1853, when he resigned; died at Princeton, N. J.,
October 7, 1866.
Stoddard, Ebenezer, was born at West Wood-
stock, Conn., May 6, 1786; graduated from Brown
University in 1806; studied law and began practice
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at West Woodstock; served several years in the
btate legislature; one year as lieutenant-governor;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses; died at
Woodstock, Conn., August 11, 1848.
Stoddart, John T., was born in Charles County,
Md., m 1790; graduated from Princeton College in
1810; served in the war of 1812; member of the
State house of representatives; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Twenty-third Con-
gress as a Jackson Democrat; died in Charles
County, Md., July 19, 1870. ^
Stokely, Samuel, was a native of Ohio; re-
ceived an academic education; studied law and
began practice at Steuben ville, Ohio; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig.
Stokes, J. William, was born in Orangeburg
County, S. C, in 1853; brought up to farm life,
attending the ordinary schools of his county and
_ town until he was 19 years of age; graduated
' from Washington and Lee University, Virginia,
in 1876, and taught school for twelve years,
graduating in the meantime in medicine from
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; returned to the
farm in 1889; assisted in organizing the farmers,
and president of the State Farmers' Alliance two
terms; elected to the State senate in 1890; delegate
at large to the national Democratic convention at
Chicago in 1892, and Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket the same year; defeated for the
Democratic nomination in the old First Congres-
sional district in 1892 by a small majority; nomi-
nated without opposition in the Democratic pri-
maries in the Seventh Congressional district in
1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-flfth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses; died July 7, 1901.
Stokes, Montford, was born in North Caro-
lina in 1760; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; elected a United States Sen-
ator from North Carolina (vice James Turner,
resigned) as a Democrat, and reelected, serving
from December 16, 1816, to March 3, 1823; State
senator in 1826 and a State representative in 1829
and 1830; governor of the State 1830-31 ; re-'
signed to superintend the removal of the Indians
west of the Mississippi River; Indian agent for
Arkansas Territory, where he died in 1842.
Stokes, William B., was born in Chatham
County, N. C, September 9, 1814; received a
public school education; farmer; served several
years in both branches of the legislature; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-
sixth Congress as a Whig; entered the Union
Army in 1862 as major of Tennessee Volunteers
and promoted to colonel and subsequently bre-
vetted major-general; elected to the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, and defeated
as the RepubUcan candidate for the Forty-second
Congress.
Stone, Alfred P. , was a inerchant at Colum-
bus, Ohio; elected a Representative from ObiOjto
the Twenty-eighth Congress (vice H. A. Moore,
deceased); appointed acting treasurer of Ohio in
1856; appointed collector of internal revenue for
the Columbus district of Ohio in 1862; died at
Columbus, Ohio, August 1, 1865.
Stone, Charles W., of Warren, Pa., was born
at Groton, Mass., June 29, 1843; fitted for college
at Lawrence Academy, Groton, and graduated from
Williams College in 1863; admitted to the bar in
1867, and engaged in the practice of law; appointed
county superintendent of schools of Warren
County in 1865; member of the Pennsylvania
house of representatives 1870-71; member of the
Pennsylvania senate 1877-78; lieutenant-governor
of that State from 1879 to 1883 ; appointed secretary
of the Commonwealth January 18, 1887, which
office he resigned to accept the nomination for
Congress; elected as a Republican to the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. L. F. Watson; re-
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, and Fifty-flfth Congresses.
Stone, X>avid, was born at Hope, N. C, Febru-
ary 17, 1770; graduated from Princeton College in
1788; studied law, and in 1790 began practicing;
served several years in the State house of repre-
sentatives; judge of the supreme court of North
Carolina 1795-1798; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Sixth Congress as a Demo-
crat; elected a United States Senator from North
Carolina, serving from 1801 to 1806, when he re-
signed to become a judge of the supreme court of
the State; governor of North Carolina 1808-1810;
again elected a United States Senator in 1813, but
resigned; died at Raleigh, N. C, October 7, 1818.
Stone, Eben F., was born at Newburyport,
Mass., in 1822; graduated from Harvard Univer-
sity in 1843, and at the law school of the university
in 1846;- commenced the practice of law in New-
buryport in 1847; served in both branches of the
Massachusetts legislature; held office, both civil
and military, under the United States, and in the
war of the rebellion commanded the Forty-eighth
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
during its term of service; served two years as
chairman of the Republican State committee of
Massachusetts; elected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses; after his retirement
from Congress he returned to Newburyport, Mass.,
where he spent the remainder of his life practic-
ing law; died January 22, 1895.
Stone, Frederick, was born in Charles County,
Md., February 7, 1820; graduated from St. John's
College at Annapolis; studied law and admitted
to the bar; appointed by the legislature aa one of
the commissioners to revise the rules of pleading
and practice in, the State courts; member of the
State house of representatives 1864-65; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Fortieth
and Forty-first Congresses as a Democrat; died
in 1899.
Stone, James W. , was born at Taylorsville,
Ky., in.l813; received a common school education;
studied and practiced law; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; elected to
the Thirty-second Congress; died at Taylorsville,
Ky., October 13, 1854.
Stone, John W. , of Grand Rapids, Mich., was
born at Wadsworth, Medina -County, Ohio, July
18, 1838; received an academic education; moved
to Allegan County, Mich., in 1856; commenced
the study of law in 1859; elected county clerk of
Allegan County in 1860; admitted to the bar in
January, 1862; reelected county clerk in 1862;
elected prosecuting attorney in 1864 and reelected
twice, holding the office six years; elected presi-
dent of Allegan village in 1872; elected circuit judge
of the twentieth judicial circuit of Michigan in
April, 1873, which office he held until November
1, 1874, when he resigned;, moved to Grand Rap-
ids to enter upon the practice of law; elected to
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the Forty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Republican ; resumed the
practice of law at Houghton, Mich.
Stone, Joseph C. , was born at Westport, N. Y. ,
July 30, 1829; moved to Iowa Territory in 1844;
attended the public schools; graduated from the
medical department of the St. Louis University,
Missouri, in 1854; enlisted as a private in the
Union Army and made adjutant of the First Iowa
Cavalry; promoted to captain and assistant ad-
jutant-general of volunteers in 1862; resumed the
practice of law; elected a Representative from
Iowa to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Stone, Michael Jenifer (brother of Thomas
Stone), was born in Charles County, Md., about
1750; received a liberal education; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the First Congress;
died in Charles County, Md., in 1812.
Stone, Thomas (brother of Michael J. Stone),
was born at Pointon Manor, Charles County, Md.,
in 1743; received a liberal eduqation; studied law
and began practicing at Frederick, Md., in 1764;
moved to Charles County, Md., in 1771; served
several years as State senator; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1775-1779
and 1784-85; died at Alexandria, Va., Octobers,
1787.
Stone, ■William, was a native of Delphi, Tenn. ;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig.
Stone, William Alexis, of Allegheny, Pa.,
was born in Delmar Township, Tioga County,
Pa., April 18, 1846; educated at the State Normal
School, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa.; served in
the civil war as second lieutenant of Company A,
One hundred and eighty-seventh Pennsylvania
Volunteers; after the war lieutenant-colonel in
the Xational Guard of the State; studied law
at Wellsboro, Pa.; admitted to the bar in 1870;
practiced law at AVellsboro and Pittsburg, Pa.;
district attorney of Tioga County and United
States attorney for the western district of Penn-
sylvania; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as
a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses; resigned Janu-
ary, 1899, having been elected governor of Penn-
sylvania, and served from 1899 to 1903.
Stone, 'William H., was born at Schanugunk,
X. Y., November 7, 1828; received a liberal educa-
tion; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1848, and became
a manufacturer; president of the St. Louis Hot
Pressed Nut and Bolt Company; member of the
State assembly; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat; elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress; died in 1901.
Stone, William J., of Nevada, Mo., was born
n Madison County, Ky., May 7, 1848; educated
at the University of Missouri; lawyer by profes-
sion; prosecuting attorney of Vernon County from
1873 to 1874; elector on the Tilden and Hendricks
ticket in 1876; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-
first Congresses; elected governor of Missouri;
elected in January, 1903, to the United States
Senate as a Democrat for the term 1903-1909, tak-
ing his seat March 5, 1903.
Stone, William Johnson, of Kuttawa, Ky.,
was born June 26, 1841, in Lyon (then Caldwell)
County, Ky. ; educated in the common schools of
the county and at Q. M. Tyler's Collegiate Insti-
tute at Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky.; farmer by occu-
pation; elected a member of the State house of
representatives in 1867, 1875, and 1883; speaker
of the house during his second term; elected to
the Forty-ninth Congress as a Regular DemocTat;
reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
and Fifty-third Congresses.
Storer, Bellamy, was born at Portland, Me.,
March 9, 1798; graduated from Bowdoin College;
studied law and began practice at Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1817; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a Whig; declined
a renomination; Presidential elector on the Clay
ticket in 1844; served three terms as judge of the
superior court for the district of Cincinnati; died
at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1, 1875.
Storer, Bellamy, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born
at Cincinnati August 28, 1847; graduated from
Harvard College in 1867, and from the law school
of Cincinnati College in 1869; admitted to the bar in
April, 1869; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-
third Congresses as a Republican; United States
minister to Belgium 1897-1899, and appointed
United States minister to Spain in 1899; appointed
minister to Austria-Hungary in 1902.
Storer, Clement, was born at Kennebunk, Me. ,
in 1760; received a liberal education ; studied med-
icine and began practice at Portsmouth, N. H.;
captain of militia, and held successive commissions
to that of major-general; served several years in
the State house of representatives and one year as
speaker; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Tenth Congress; elected a United
States Senator (vice Jeremiah Mason, resigned),
serving from 1817 until March 3, 1819; died at
Portsmouth, N. H., November 21, 1830.
Storm, Frederic, of Bayside, N. Y., was born
in Alsace in 1844, and came to this country with
his parents when he was 2 years old; received
education in the public schools of New York City;
elected a member of the State constitutional con-
vention in 1894; elected to the State assembly
in 1895; for sixteen years a member of county
Republican committee, and three times its chair-
man; secretary of the Owl Commercial Company;
founder of the Flushing Hospital; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Storm, John B. , was born in JNIonroe County,
Pa., in 1838; graduated from Dickinson College in
1861 ; studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1863 ;
county superintendent of public schools for seven
years; elected to the Forty-'second, Forty-third,
Forty -eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrat; appointed president-judge of the forty-
third judicial district of Pennsylvania; died August
15, 1901.
Storrs, Henry R., was born at Middletown,
Conn., September 3, 1787; graduated from Yale
College in 1804; studied law and began practice at
Utica, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses as a
Federalist; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
and Twentieth Congresses; moved to New York
and resumed the practice of law; died at New
Haven, Conn., July 29, 1837.
Storrs, William Lucius, was born at Middle-
town, Conn., March 25, 1795; graduated from
Yale College in 1814; studied law, and in 1817
began practice in Middletown; member of the
state legislature 1827-1829 and 1834, serving as
speaker the last year; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Twenty-first and Twenty-
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second Congresses; elected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress but resigned in June, 1840, to become
associate judge of the court of errors; professor of
law at Yale College 1846-47; chief justice of the
court of errors from 1856 until June 25, 1861, when
he died, at Hartford, Conn.
Story, Joseph, was born at Marblehead, Mass.,
September 18,1779; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege m 1798; studied law, and began practice at Sa-
lem in 1801; served in the State house of representa-
tives 1805-1807; elected a Representative from Mas-
sachusetts to the Tenth Congress as a war Demo-
crat vice Jacob Crowninshield, deceased; again
a member of the State house of representatives in
1811, and speaker; received the degree of doctor
of laws from Harvard, Brown, and Dartmputh
colleges; associate justice of the supreme court,
which he held until he died, at Cambridge, Mass!,
September 10, 1845.
Stoughton, William L., was born in New
York, March 20, 1827; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; held several
local offices; United States district attorney for
the district of Michigan in March, 1861, and re-
signed in few months to enter the Union Army;
served as colonel and brigadier-general, and pro-
moted to the rank of major-general by brevet;
attorney-general for Michigan 1867-68; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Forty-firpt
and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican;
died at Sturgis, Mich., June 6, 1888.
Stout, Byron Gray, was born in Ontario
County, N. Y., in 1829; moved to Michiganip 1831;
graduated from the literary department of the
Michigan State University in 1851; spent three
years in charge of the schools, in the meantime
reading la w ; elected to the State legislature in.l854 ;
reelected in 1856, and chosen speaker of the house;
State senator in 1860; president pro tempore of the
senate; member of the Philadelphia convention of
1866, sad of the national Democratic conventions
of 1868, 1880, and 1888; engaged in private bank-
ing prior to 1869; elected a Representative from
Michigan to the Fifty-second Congress as a Demo-
ocrat; died June 19, 1896.
Stout, Lansing, was born at Pamelia, N. Y.,
March 27, 1828; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1851 moved to California, where
he began practice; member of the State bouse of
representatives 1856; moved to Portland, Oreg., in
1857; judge of the Multnomah County court in
1858; elected a Representative from Oregon to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; again a
member of the State house of representatives; died
at Portland, Greg., in 1870.
Stover, John H., was born at Aaronsburg,
Center County, Pa., April 24, 1833; received a lib-
eral education; studied law and in 1857 began
practice at Aaronsburg; held several local offices;
entered the Union Army in 1861 as a private, and
successively chosen captain and major; commis-
sioned colonel of the One hundred and eighty-
fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; after the war
moved to Versailles, Mo. ; elected a Representative
from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican (vice Joseph W. McClurg, resigned), serving
from December 7, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Stow, Silas, was born in Lewis County, N. Y. ;
resided at Lowville; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat.
Stowell, William H. H. , was born in Windsor,
Vt., July 26, 1840; received a classical education;
merchant; moved to Virginia in 1865; appointed
collector of internal revenue for the fourth district
in 1869; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Republican.
Stower, John G. , was a native of Madison,
N. Y. ; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twentieth Con-
gress as a Jackson Democrat; member of the State
senate 1833-34.
Strader , Peter W. , was born in Warren County,
N. J., November 6, 1818; taken to Ohio in 1819
by his parents; received a common school educa-
tion; printer; employed on a steamboat on the
Mississippi River 1835-1848; elected a Representa-
tive from Ohio to the Forty-first Congress as a
Democrat.
Strait, Horace B. , was born in Potter County,
Pa., January 26, 1835; received a common school
education; moved to Indiana in 1846, and from
there to Minnesota in 1855; entered the Union
Army in 1862 as captain in the Ninth Minnesota
Infantry; promoted to major of said regiment in
1864, serving at the close of the war as inspector-
general on the staff of General McArthur; elected
mayor of Shakopee in 1870 and reelected in 1871
and 1872; trustee of the Minnesota Hospital for the
Insane 1866; engaged in mercantile, manufactur-
ing, and banking pursuits; president of the First
JSational Bank of Shakopee; elected to the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Re-
publican; died near El Paso, Tex., February 25,
1894.
Strait, Thomas Jefferson, of Lancaster, S. C,
was born in Chester District, 8. C, December 25,
1846; educated at Maysville, S. C, and Cooper
Institute, Mississippi; entered the Confederate
service in 1862 in the fifteenth year of his age, and
served in Company A, Sixth Regiment of Infantry,
until November, 1863; transferred to Company
H, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Gist's Brigade, and
served as a sergeant therein until the close of the
war; graduated from the South Carolina Medical
College with distinction in 1885; elected State sen-
ator of South Carolina in 1890; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as an Alliance Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of medicine.
Stranahan, J. S. T. , was born at Peterboro,
N. Y., April 25, 1808; received a common school
education; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a AVhig;
died in 1898.
Strange, Kobert, was born in Virginia, Sep-
tember 20, 1796; graduated from the Hampden-
Sidney College; studied law, and practiced at Fay-
etteville, N. C. ; served several years as a member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
United States Senator from North Carolina as a
Democrat ( vice W. P. Mangum, resigned) , serving
from December 15, 1836, until 1840, when he re-
signed, Mr. Mangum being at once reelected his
successor; died at Favetteville, N. C, February
19, 1854.
Stratton, Charles C. , was born in New Jer-
sey in 1796; received a common school education;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; received the
certificate of election to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress, but not allowed to take his seat; elected to
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the Twenty-seventh Congress; engaged in farm-
ing; died at Sweden boro, N. J., March 30, 1859.
Stratton, John, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a common school education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Seventh Congress.
Stratton, John L. N. , was born at Mount
Holly, N. J., in 1817; graduated from Princeton
College in 1836; studied law and began practice
at Mount Holly; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Re-
publican; reelected to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress; delegate to the National Loyalists conven-
tion at Philadelphia in 1868; died at Mount Holly,
N. J., May 17, 1889.
Stratton, Nathan T. , WTas a native of Mullica
Hill, N. J.; attended the common schools; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New Jersey to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Strauh, Christian M. , was a native of Penn-
sylvania; was elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat.
Straus, Isidor, of New York City, was born in
the Palatinate of Bavaria, February 6, 1845; came
to this country in 1854 with his mother and set-
tled in Talbotton, Ga. ; educated at CoUinsworth
Institute and preparing to enter the West Point
Military Academy when the breaking out of the
war prevented him from doing so; moved to New
York City in 1865; entered the firm of R. H. Macey
& Co., New York, in 1888, and the firm of Abra-
ham & Straus, of Brooklyn, in 1893; elected at a
special election held on January ,30, 1894, to fill
the unexpired term of Ashbel P. Fitch to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat and took his
seat February 14, 1894.
Strawbridge, James D., was born in Montour
County, Pa., in 1824; graduated from Princeton
College in 1844; graduated in medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1847; entered the
Army as a brigade surgeon of volunteers, and
served throughout the civil war; prisoner at Libby
Prison three months; after the war, resumed his
practice; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fortv-third Congress as a Republican ;
died at Danville, Pa., July 19, 1890.
Street, Bandall S. , was born at Catskill, N. Y.,
in 1780; received a classical education; studied
law, and began practice at Poughkeepsie; State at-
torney for his judicial district in 1810 and again
in 1813; lieutenant-colonel of militia in the war of
1812; elected a Representative from New York to
the Sixteenth Congress as a Democrat; resumed
practice in 1823 at Monticello, N. Y., where he
died November 21, 1841.
Strickland, Randolph, was born in Dansville
Livingston County, N. Y., February 4, 1823; at-
tended the common schools; taught school; moved
to Michigan in 1844; studied law, and in 1849 began
practice; prosecuting attorney for Clinton County
in 1852, 1854, 1856, and 1858; State senator in
1861 and 1862; provost-marshal 1863-1865; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention in 1856
and 1868; elected a Representative from Michigan
to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican.
Strode, Jesse B., of Lincoln, Nebr., was born
in Farmers Township, 111., February 18, 1845-
attended public school; enlisted as a private sol-
dier in the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry in January
1864, and with his regiment during the Atlanta
campaign, the march to the sea, through the
Carolinas and Virginia, and the grand review at
Washington; mustered out of the Army in July,
1865, and immediately thereafter entered Abing-
don (111.) College, where he remained for about
three years, when made principal of the graded
schools of Abingdon, which position he continued
to occupy for about eight years; twice elected
mayor and six times councilman of the city of
Abingdon; studied law during vacations while
teaching; moved to Plattsmouth, Nebr., May 1,
1879, and there admitted to the bar in November,
1879; elected district attorney in 1882 and served
two terms; moved to Lincoln in 1887 and practiced
law there until November, 1892, when elected
judge of the district court; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress; devoted himself to the prac-
tice of his profession after leaving Congress.
Strohm, John, was born in Pennsylvania,
October 16, 1793; received a limited education;-
taught school for several years; located at Provi-
dence, Pa. ; served as a member of the State house
of representatives 1831-1833; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-ninth Con-
gress as a Whig; reelected to the Thirtieth Con-
Strong, Caleb, was born at Northampton,
Mass., January 9, 1745; graduated from Harvard
College in 1764; studied law and admitted to the
bar; began practicing in 1792; member of the
State house of representatives 1776-1778; State
senator 1780-1786; member of the national con-
vention which framed the Constitution of the
United States; member of the Massachusetts con-
stitutional convention which ratified the Constitu-
tion of the United States in 1787-88; elected a
United States Senator as a Federalist, and reelected,
serving from 1789-1796 when he resigned; gover-
nor of Massachusetts 1812-1816; died at North-
ampton, Mass., November 7, 1819.
Strong, James, was born at Windham, Conn.,
in 1783; graduated from the University of Ver-
mont in 1806; moved to New York and located at
Hudson; elected a Representative from New York
to the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Congresses as a Federalist; died at
Chester, N. J., August 8, 1847.
Strong, Jedediah, was born at Litchfield,
Conn., November 7, 1738; Delegate from Con-
necticut to the Continental Congress 1782-1784:
died at Litchfield, Conn., August 21, 1802.
Strong, Julius L., was born at Bolton, Conn.
November 8, 1828; educated at Union College
studied law, and in 1853 began practice at Hartford
rnember of the legislature of Connecticut 1852-53;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Forty-first Congress as a Republican; reelected to
the Forty-second Congress, serving until Septem-
ber 7, 1872, when he died, at Hartford, Conn.
^*'^S?if ' ^^tl^er M., of Kenton, Ohio, was born
near Tiffln, Seneca County, Ohio, June 23, 1838;
attended common school and Aaron Schuyler's
academy at Republic, and ta,ught school; enlisted
as a private m the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry early in 1861 ; elected captain of Company
Or and promoted to major and lieutenant-colonel;
constantly at the front and took part in most of the
battles of the Army of the Cumberland; senior
oHicer of the regiment and in command thereof
frona about the time of the fall of Atlanta until after
the battle of Nashville, but could not be commis-
sioned colonel because the regiment had become
BIOGRAPHIES.
827
greatly reduced in numbers by service; resigned
March 13, 1865, on account of wound; studied laW,
and admitted to the bar by the supreme court of
Ohio, January 30, 1867; soon after located at Ken-
ton, where he remained in the practice of his pro-
fession; member of the board of education for
many years; elected to the senate of the State of
Ohio in 1879 and reelected in 1881 ; appointed judge
of the court of common pleas by Governor Charles
Foster, to All a vacancy; elected to the Fifty-third
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress.
Strong, Selah B. , was born at Setauket, N. Y.,
May 1, 1792; graduated from Yale College in 1811;
studied law, and in 1814 began practice; State at-
torney for Suffolk County; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty ^eighth Congress
as a Democrat; judge of the supreme court for the
second judicial district from June 7, 1847, to June
7, 1849; died at Setauket, N. Y. , November 29, 1872.
Strong, Solomon, was born in Massachusetts
in 1779; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1812-13; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses; judge of the court of common pleas
1818-1842; again a member of the State legislature
1843-44; died September 16, 1850.
Strong, Stephen, was a native of Connecticut;
moved to New York; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-nintli Congress as a Democrat.
Strong, Theron R., was born at Salisbury,
Conn., November 7, 1802; moved to Palmyra,
N. Y. ; received a common school education; held
several local offices; elected a member of the State
house of representatives in 1842; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; died at New York City
May 15, 1873. '
Strong, William, was born in Windham
County, Conn.; receiv^ a liberal education;
studied law and located in Vermont, where he
began practice; eight years a member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representa-
tive from Vermont to the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Congresses as a Democrat; reelected to the Six-
teenth Congress.
Strong, William, was born at Somers, Conn.,
May 6, 1808; graduated from Yale in 1828; studied
law, and in 1832 admitted to the bar at Philadel-
phia; began practice at Reading; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-first Congresses as a Democrat; fifteen
years judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania;
resigned in 1868 and resumed practice; appointed
a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
in 1870 and resigned in 1880; died August 19, 1895.
Strother, George F., was born in Culpeper
County, Va.; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Culpeper; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Fifteenth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Six-
teenth Congress, but resigned February 10, 1820,
having been appointed receiver of public moneys
at St. Louis, Mo.
Strother, James French, was bom in Cul-
peper County, Va., September 4, 1811; received
a liberal education; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Culpeper, Va. ; served ten years as a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives, and
part of the time as speaker; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1850; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig; died at Culpeper September
21, 1860.
Strouse, Myer, was born in Germany, Decem-
ber 16, 1825; came to the United States in 1832
with his father and located at Pottsville, Pa. ; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law, and ad-
mitted to the bar; edited the North American
Farmer at Philadelphia 1848-1852; began prac-
ticing law at Pottsville in 1853; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth Congresses; died at Pottsville,
Pa., February 11, 1878.
Strowd, William F., of Pittsboro, N. C, was
born in Orange County, N. C, December 7, 1832;
educated at the Bingham School, High Hill Acad-
emy, and at the Graham Institute; brought up on
a farm; moved to Chatham County in 1861; elected
to the State constitutional convention in 1875;
nominated by the Populists for Congress in 1892
in the Fourth Congressional district; again nom-
inated by the Populists in 1894, and elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress.
Struhle, Isaac S., of Lemars, Iowa, was born
near Fredericksburg, Va., November 3, 1843; re-
ceived a common school education and, after the
war, a partial course in the Iowa State University;
enlisted at the age of 17, and served three years as
a private in Company F, Twenty-second Iowa In-
fantry; studied law, and admitted to practice in
1870 in Ogle County, 111. ; settled at Lemars, Iowa,
in the spring of 1872; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses.
Strud-wick, William, was a native of North
Carolina; received a limited education; held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Fourth Congress (vice Ab-
salom Tatum, resigned) , serving from December
13, 1796, to March 3, 1797.
Stuart, Alexander H. H. , was born at Staun-
ton, Va., April 2, 1807; graduated from William
and Mary College; studied law, and in 1828 began
practice at Staunton; served in the State house of
representatives 1836-1838; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Whig; Presidential elector on the Clay ticket
in 1844, and the Taylor ticket in 1848; Secretary
of the Interior 1850-1853; member of the State sen-
ate 1857-1861; delegate to the national Union con-
vention in 1866; claimed to have been elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Ninth Con-
gress, but not admitted to his seat; died at Staun-
ton, Va., February 13, 1891.
Stuart, Andrew, was a native of Pennsylvania;
moved to Steuben ville, Ohio; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Stuart, Archibald, was a native of Virginia;
resided at Mount Airy; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a
Whig.
Stuart, Charles E., was born in Columbia
County, N. Y., November 25, 1810; studied law,
and moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he began
the practice of his profession; served five years in
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Michigan to the Thirtieth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection ; elected
to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses;
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elected a United States Senator from Michigan,
serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1859;
died at Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1887.
Stuart, David, was born at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
March 12, 1816; moved to Michigan and located,
at Detroit; elected a Eepresentative from Michi-
gan to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat;
died at Detroit, Mich., September 19, 1868.
Stuart, John T., was born in Fayette County,
Ky., November 10, 1807; graduated from Centre
College, Kentucky, in 1826; studied law, and began
practice at Springfield, 111. ; two years a member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Twenty-sixth
and Twentv-seventh Congresses as a Whig; elected
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; died
at Springfield, 111., November 28, 1885.
Stuart, Philip, was born in Maryland in 1760;
received a liberal education; served in the Revo-
lutionary Armv; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
and Fifteenth Congresses; died at Washington,
D. C, August 14, 1830.
Stump, Herman, of Belair, Md., was born on
Oakington Farm, in Harford County, August 8,
1837; after receiving a classical education studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1856; commenced
practice at Belair, the county town of Harford;
interested in agricultural pursuits; elected to the
State senate in 1878, and made president of that
body in 1880; presided over the Democratic State
convention in 1879; elected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress; after leaving Congress resumed
the practice of his profession at Belair, Md.
Sturgeon, Daniel, was born atUniontown, Pa.,
October 27, 1789; elected a United States Senator
from Pennsylvania as a Democrat, and reelected,
serving from December 2, 1839, to March 3, 1851;
United States treasurer at Philadelphia; died at
Uniontown, Pa., July 2, 1878.
Sturges, Jonathan, was born at Fairfield,
Conn., August 23, 1740; graduated from Yale
College in 1759; studied law, and began practice
at Fairfield; elected a Representative from Con-
necticut to the First Congress; reelected to the
Second Congress; judge of the State supreme court
1793-1805; died at Fairfield, Conn., October 4,
1819.
Sturgis, Lewis Burr, was born at Fairfield,
Conn., in 1762; graduated from Yale College in
1782; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses; moved to Norwalk, Ohio, where he
died March 30, 1844.
Sturtevant, John C, of Conneautville, Pa.,
was born in Spring Township, Crawford County,
Pa., February 20, 1835; received a common school
education ; engaged in teaching and farming for a
number of years; frequently elected to various
local ofiices; officer in the house of representatives
at Harrisburg 1861, 1862, and 1864; elected a mem-
ber of the house of representatives for the session
of 1865, and reelected for the session of 1866; elected
delegate to the Republican State convention in
1865, and reelected for six times, the last in 1890;
Presidential elector in 1888; moved to Conneaut-
ville in 1867; engaged in the hardware business,
which he followed until 1873; engaged in manu-
facturing and milling until 1888; appointed cashier
of the First National Bank of Conneautville in 1874;
elected president of the sanie bank in 1875; elected'
to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Sullivan, George, was born at Durham, N. H.,
August 29, 1771; graduated from Harvard College
in 1790; studied law, and began practice at Exeter
in 1793; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1805; attorney-general of New Hampshire
1805-6; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Twelfth Congress; again a member
of the State house of representatives in 1813; State
senator in 1814-15; again attorney-general 1816-
1835; died at Exeter, N. H., June 14, 1838.
Sullivan, James, was born at Berwick, Mass.
(now Maine), April 22, 1744; received a liberal
education; studied law, and admitted to the bar;
began practice at Biddeford; active in Revolution-
ary movements; member of the provincial con-
gress of Massachusetts in 1775; judge of the
superior court in 1776; Delegate from Massachu-
setts to the Continental Congress in 1782; judge
of probate for Suffolk County; State attorney-
general 1790-1807; governor of Massachusetts
1807-8; died at Boston, Mass., December 10, 1808.
Sullivan, John, was born at Berwick, Me.,
February 17, 1740; received a limited education;
studied law, and began the practice of his profes-
sion at Durham; took an active part in pre-
Revolutionary movements; Delegate to the Con-
tinental Congress 1774-75; brigadier-general and
promoted to major-general, but resigned in 1779
again Delegate to the Continental Congress 1780-81
attorney-general of New Hampshire 1782-1786
president of that State 1786-87; member of the
convention that ratified the Federal Constitution,
and also speaker of the State house of represent-
atives; Presidential elector in 1789; again chosen
president of New Hampshire; judge of the United
States district court of New Hampshire; died af
Durham, N. H., January 23, 1795.
Sullivan, Will V^n Amherg, of Oxford,
Miss., was born December 18, 1857, near Winona,
Miss.; received his education near Sardis, in
Panola County, at a country school, at the Uni-
versity of Mississippi, and at ^'anderbilt Univer-
sity, Nashville, Tenn. ; graduated from the latter
institution in 1875; completed the two years' law
course during his university period; began the
practice of law in the fall of 1875 at Austin, in
Tunica County, where he continued to reside till
March, 1877, when he moved to Oxford, Miss., at
which place he continued in the practice of law;
never a candidate for any office; member of the
Democratic national convention in 1892, and by
the national Democratic convention of 1896, at
the request of the State of Mississippi, elected a
member for Mississippi of the national Democratic
executive committee; nominated for Congress,
though not a candidate for the position, but a
deadlock between the four aspirants having con-
tinued for several days, the nomination was
tendered to and accepted by him; elected to the
Frfty-flfth Congress as a Democrat; was appointed
and sworn in as United States Senator Irom the
State of Mississippi on May 31, 1898, as successor
of Senator E. C. Walthall, deceased; elected by
the legislature January, 1900, to fill out the term,
serving until March 4, 1901.
SuUoway, Cyrus Adams, of Manchester,
N. H., was born at Grafton, N. H., June 8, 1839;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; studied law at Franklin, N. H.; admitted to
the bar in 1863; member of the New Hampshire
BIOGRAPHIES.
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house of representatives 1872-73 and 1887-1893;
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, anS Fifty-eighth Congresses as a
Republican.
Sulzer, William, of New York City, was born
at Elizabeth, N. J., March 18, 1863; received his
education in the public schools and at Columbia
College; admitted to the bar in 1884; elected to
the legislature 1889-1894; leader of the majority
•of the assembly in 1892; speaker of the assembly
in 1893; leader of the minority of the assembly in
1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a.
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Summers, G-eorge W., was born in Fairfax
County, Ya., received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Kanawha; State repre-
sentative 1830-1840; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-
eighth Congresses as a Whig; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1850; judge of the
eighteenth judicial circuit of Pennsvlvania 1852-
1858.
Sumner, Charles, was born at Boston, Mass.,
January 6, 1811 ; received a classical education,
graduating from Harvard College in 1830; studied
law, graduating from the Cambridge Law School
in 1834; admitted to the bar, and commenced
practice in Boston; appointed reporter of the
United States circuit court; lectured at the Cam-
bridge Law School 1835-1837; traveled in Europe
1837-1840; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts, after a prolonged contest, by a
coalition of Democrats and Free-Soilers (to succeed
Daniel Webster, Whig); reelected in 1857, 1863,
and 1869, serving from December 1, 1851, until
his death, at Washington, D. C, March 11, 1874;
revisited Europe in 1857, and again in 1872; pub-
lished an edition of Dunlap on Admiralty, three
volumes of Circuit Court Reports, an edition of
Reese's Chancery Reports, and a large number of
speeches and orations.
Sumner, Charles Allen, of San Francisco, Cal. ,
was born at Great Barrington, Mass., August 2,
1835; educated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. ;
studied law; admitted to the bar, and engaged on
patent cases; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as Congressman at large from California as a
Democrat.
Sumner, Daniel H., of Waukesha, Wis., was
born at Malone, Franklin County, N. Y., Septem-
ber 15, 1837; received a common school education;
.studied law; admitted to the bar in Michigan in
1868; settled in Waukesha, Wis., in 1870, where
he practiced; elected district attorney of Waukesha
County, and served in 1876 and 1877 ; elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat.
Sumter, Thomas, was born in Virginia July 14,
1736; moved to South Carolina, where he received
a common school education; engaged in the war
against the Cherokees; colonel of a regiment in
the Revolutionary Army, and promoted to the
rank of brigadier-general in 1870; voted the thanks
of Congress Januarv, 1781; opposed to ratifica-
tion in conventions of the Federal Constitution;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the First, Second, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses;
elected a United States Senator from South Caro-
lina as a Democrat (vice Charles Pmckney, re-
signed) , serving from December 19, 1801, to March
3, 1809; again elected, and resigned in 1810; died
at South Mount, S. C, June 1, 1832.
Sumter, Thomas D., was a native of Fennsyl-
vania; moved to Statesbury, S. C. ; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Sutherland, George, of Salt Lake City, Utah,
was born March 25, 1862, in Buckinghamshire,
England; received a common school and academic
education; studied law at the University of Michi-
gan, being admitted to practice in the supreme
court of that State in March, 1883; State senator
from the sixth (Utah) senatorial district in the
first State legislature; elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
Sutherland, Jabez G. , was born in Onondaga
County, N. Y., October 6, 1825; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practicing in
1848; prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County,
Mich., in 1848-49; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention 1850 and 1867; member of the
State house of representatives in 1853; circuit
judge 1863 and 1869; elected a Representative
from Michigan to the Forty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Sutherland, Joel B. , was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1791; received a liberal education; held sev-
eral local oflSces; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Twentieth Congress as a
Jackson Democrat; reelected, to the Twenty-first,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth
Congresses; defeated as a Whig candidate for the
Twenty-fifth Congress; died at Philadelphia, Pa.,
November 15, 1861.
Sutherland, Josiah, was born at Hudson,
N. Y. ; received -a, limited education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Sutherland, Koderick Dhu, of Nelson, Nebr.,
was born April 27, 1862, at Scotchgrove, Jones
County, Iowa; received his education principally
in the common schools, attending a few terms at
Amity College, College Springs, Iowa; admitted
to the bar in Nuckolls County, Nebr., in 1888;
elected county attorney in 1890, and reelected in
1892 and 1894; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress
as a Populist; reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress;
after leaving Congress returned to Nelson, Nebr.,
and practiced law.
Swan, John, was a native of North Carolina;
received a liberal education; Delegate from North
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1787-88.
Swan, Samuel, was borii in Somerset County,
N. J., in 1771; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses; died at
Brunswick, N. J., August 24, 1844.
Swann, Edward, of New York, was born March
10, 1862, and educated in the city of New York,
graduating from Columbia College with the degree
of master of arts in 1886; graduated from the de-
partment of law of Columbia College in 1887; en-
gaged in the general practice of law in the city of
New York; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Amos J. Cummings.
Swann, Thomas, was born at Alexandria, Va.,
in 1805; received a classical education; studied
law; moved to Baltimore; became a conductor on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and in 1847
chosen its president, and resigned in 1853; also
president of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad;
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OONGBESSIONAL DIEECTOEY.
mayor of Baltimore 1856-1858; governor of Mary-
land 1864-1866; elected a United States Senator in
1866, but declined to leave the governor's chair;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-
fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat;
died near Leesburg, Va., July 24, 1883.
Swanson, Claude A., of Chatham, Va., vi^as
born at Swansonville, Pittsylvania County, Va.,
March 31, 1862; attended the public schools until
he attained the age of 16, at which time he taught
public school for one year, then attended for one
session the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College; studied law at the University of Virginia,
graduating with the degree of bachelor of laws in
1886; practiced law at Chatham, Va.; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Swanwick, John, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fourth and Fifth Con-
gresses; died in 1798.
Swart, Peter, was born at Schoharie, N. Y. ;
received a common school education; studied law
and practiced; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1798-99 ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Tenth Congress; member of the
State senate 1817-1820.
Swearingen, Henry, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; moved to Smithfield, Ohio; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Twenty-fifth Congress vice Daniel Kilgore,
resigned; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress.
Swearing-en, Thomas V. , was a native of Jef-
ferson County, Va. ; received a common school
education; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses;
died at Shepherdstown, Va., June 7, 1822.
Sweat, Lorenzo D. M. , was born in Parson-
ville, Me., May 26, 1818; graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1837; studied law, and began practice
at New Orleans, La.; returned to Portland; held
several local offices; State senator in 1862; elected
a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the Thirty-
ninth and Fortieth Congresses; delegate from
Maine to the national Union convention at Phila-
delphia in 1868.
Sweeney, W. N. , was born in Kentucky May
5, 1832; received a common school education;
studied law and practiced; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Forty-first Congress-
died in 1895. '
Sweeny, George, was born in Pennsylvania,
and moved to Bucyrus, Ohio; elected a Represent-
ative from Ohio to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-
seventh Congresses.
Sweet, "Willis, of Moscow, Idaho, was born at
Alburg Springs, Vt., January 1, 1856; educated
m the common schools and attended the Nebraska
State University three years; learned the printer's
trade at Lincoln, Nebr. ; located at Moscow, Idaho
in September, 1881, where he engaged in the
practice of law; appointed United States attornev
for Idaho in May, 1888; appointed associate jus-
tice of the supreme court of Idaho November 25
1889, which position he held until the admission
of Idaho into the Union; elected to the unexpired
term of the Fifty-first Congress as a RepubHcan-
reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses.
Sweetser, Charles, was a native of Vermont;
moved to Delaware, Ohio; elected a Eepresenta^
tive from Ohio to theThirty-firstand Thirty-second
Congresses as a Democrat.
Sweney, Joseph Henry, of Osage, Iowa, was
born in Warren County, Pa., October 2, 1845;
edu'.a,ted in the public schools of Pennsylvania
and Iowa, by private study, and at the Iowa State
University; graduated from the law department
of that university with honors; lawyer by profes-
sion; engaged for a time in banking, and carried
on farming in connection with the practice of law;
sergeant in Company K, Twenty-seventh Regi-
ment Iowa Infantry, in which company he served
for three years; colonel of the Sixth Regiment
National Guard of Iowa for four years, and briga-
dier and inspector-general of the State, resigning
after his election to Congress; elected State senator
in 1883 and reelected in 1887; elected president pro
tempore in 1886; in the twenty-first and twenty-
second general assemblies served as chairman of
the senate railway committee, and during his entire
service in the senate was a member of the judiciary
and military committees; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Republican.
Swift, Benjamin, was born at Amenia, N. Y.,
April 5, 1781; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Bennington, Vt. ; moved
to Manchester and then to St. Albans; member
of the State house of representatives four years;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses aa a Whig;
elected a United States Senator from Vermont,
serving from December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1839;
died November 11, 1847, at St. Albans, Vt.
Swift, Zephaniah, was born at Wareham,
Mass., in February, 1759; graduated from Yale
College in 1778; studied law and began practice at
Windham, Conn.; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Third and Fourth Congresses;
secretary of the French mission in 1800; appointed
a judge of the supreme court in 1801 and chief jus-
tice 1806-1819; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives; died at AVarren, Ohio, September
27, 1823.
Swinburne, John, was born at Deer River,
Lewis County, N. Y., May 30, 1820; received his
earlier education at the public schools and acad-
emies of Denmark and Lowville, Lewis County,
and the academy at Fairfield, Herkimer County;
graduated from the Albany Medical College in the
spring of 1847 and commenced practice as a physi-
cian and surgeon; appointed in 1861 chief medical
officer on the staff of Gen. John F. Rathbone, and
placed m charge of the depot for recruits at Albany ■
appointed by Governor Morgan, in May 1862
auxiliary volunteer surgeon at the front with the
rank of medical superintendent of New York
wounded troops, and reappointed June 13 by Gov-
ernor Seymour; appointed by the Surgeon-General
otthe United States and assigned to duty at Savage
Station by General McClellan; taken prisoner of
war June 29, 1862; appointed by Governor Sey-
mour in 1864 health officer of the port of New
io^^ V^,",. '•^appointed by Governor Fenton in
18bb holding the position six years; in charge of
Uie American Ambulance Corps during the siege of
Pans by the Prussians in 1870-71; elected miyor
ot Albany as an independent candidate in 1882 and
counted out, but after fourteen months' litigation
was awarded the office by the courts; elected to
the Forty-ninth Congress on the Republican and
1889''"^ ^^ Albany, N. Y., March 28,
xmjuJiAJrtllJilS.
Swoope, Jacob, was a native of Virginia; re-
ceived a common school education; held several
local offices; elected a Bepresentative from Vir-
ginia to the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist.
Swope, John A., of Gettysburg, Pa., was born
at Gettysburg December 25, 1827; graduated from
Princeton College in 1847; studied medicine, but
relinquished the practice of it after a few years, in
order to engage in mercantile pursuits; became
president of the Gettysburg National Bank in
1879; engaged in manufacturing and agricultural
pjirsuits; elected to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
William A. Duncan for the Forty-eighth Congress;
reelected at a special election to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat.
Swope, Samuel F., was a native of Kentucky;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American.
Sykes, George, of Mount Holly, N. J., was a
native of that State; received a common school
education; elected a Representative from New
Jersey to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Sykes, James, was born at Dover, Del., March
27, 1761; Delegate from Delaware to the Conti-
nental Congress 1777-78; died at Dover, Del.,
October 18, 1822.
Sylvester, Peter, was born at Kinderhook,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from New York to the First and
Second Congresses.
Sylvester, Peter H. , was born at Kinderhook,
N. Y., February 17, 1807; graduated from Union
College in 1827; studied law and began practice at
Coxsackie, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Thirty-first Congress.
Symes, George G., was born in Ashtabula
County, Ohio, April 28, 1840; received a common
school education ; studied law ; admittted to the bar,
and practiced continuously after the close of the
civil war, except when on the bench; enlisted .as
private in Company B, Second Regiment of Wis-
consin Volunteers, April 12, 1861; wounded in the
first battle of Bull Run; adjutant of the Twenty-
fifth Wisconsin Infantry; in the Sioux Indian cam-
paign of 1862; in the Vicksburg campaign of 1863
and the Atlanta campaign of 1864, and wounded at
the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864; commissioned
colonel of the Forty-fourth Regiment of Wisconsin
Volunteers in August, 1864; commanded the post
at Paducah, Ky., during the summer of 1865, and
mustered out with his regiment at Madison, Wis.,
about September 1, 1865; practiced law at Paducah,
Ky., from January 1, 1866, until appointed associate
justice of the supreme court of Montana Territory in
April, 1869; resigned said judgeship in December,
1870, to take effect February 1, 1871; resumed and
continued the practice of law, at Helena, Mont.,
until February, 1874; then moved to Denver, Colo. ;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress; after leav-
• ng Congress devoted his time to the management
'of his personal interests; died November 3, 1893.
Symmes, John Cleves, was born on Long
Island, July 21, 1742; received a liberal education;
chairman of the committee of safety of Sussex
County in 1774; member of the legislative council;
served in the Revolutionary Army; chief justice of
the State supreme court 1777-1787; Delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental Congress 1785-86;
moved to the Northwest Territory and settled at
North Bend, below Cincinnati; appointed by Con-
gress one of the three judges of the Northwest
Territory in 1788, and held the position until
Ohio became a State; died at Cincinnati February
26, 1814.
Sypher, Jay Hale, was born in Pennsylvania,
July 22, 1837; received a classical education; stud-
ied law and admitted to practice; entered the
Union Army as a private and rose to the rank of
brigadier-general; located in Louisiana in January,
1866; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Chicago which nominated Grant and Col-
fax; elected a Representative from Louisiana to
the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-
third Congresses as a Republican; seat successfully
contested by Effingham Lawrence, who was given
his seat March 3, 1875.
Taber, Stephen, was born at Dover, N. Y.,
March 7, 1821; received a liberal education; moved
to Queens County and became a farmer; member
of the New York State legislature 1860-61; elected
a Bepresentative from New York to the Thirty-
ninth and Fortieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Taber, Thomas, was born at Dover, N. Y.,
May 19, 1785; attended the common schools;
farmer; served in the State house of representa-
tives in 1826; elected a Bepresentative from New
York to the Twentieth Congress (vice Thomas J.
Oakley, resigned) as a Democrat; died at Dover,
N. Y., March 21, 1862.
Tabor, Horace A. W., was born at Holland,
Vt., November 26, 1830; received a common school
education and instruction from a private tutor;
brought up on a farm; went to Massachusetts
to learn the stonecutter's trade; moved to Kansas
in 1855; member of the Topeka legislature when
it was dispersed by order of President Pierce;
moved to Colorado in 1859; engaged in mercantile
pursuits; mayor of Leadville 1878-79; lieutenant-
governor of Colorado 1879-1883; elected to the
tFnited States Senate to fill the unexpired term of
H. M. Teller (which had been temporarily filled
bythe appointment of George M. Chilcott), taking
his seat Febmary 1, 1883; served until March 3,
1883; died at Denver, Colo., April 10, 1899.
Taffe, John, was born at Indianapolis, Ind.,
January 30, 1827; received a liberal education;
studied law, and admitted to the bar at Indian-
apolis; moved to Nebraska in 1856; served in both
branches of the Nebraska Territorial assembly;
served in the Union Army as major of the Second
Nebraska Cavalry; elected a Representative from
Nebraska to the Fortieth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second
Congresses.
Taft, Charles P. , of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born
in that city December 21, 1843; went through
common schools; graduated from Andover (Mass. )
Academy in 1860, from Yale College in 1864, and
from the Columbia College Law School of New
York in 1866; went to Germany and took a degree
at the University of Heidelberg in 1868; elected a
member of the house of representatives of the gen-
eral assembly of Ohio in 1871; editor of the Cin-
cinnati Times-Star; member of the board of sink-
ing-fund trustees of the city of Cincinnati; elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Taggart, l^amuel, was born at Londonderry,
N. H., March 24, 1754; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1774; studied theology, and pastor of a
church at Colerain, Mass., for a number of years;
elected a Bepresentative from Massachusetts to
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the Eighth Congress as a Federalist; reelected to
the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fourteenth Congresses; died at Colerain,
Mass., April 25, 1825.
Tait, Charles, was bom in Louisa County, Va.-,
in 1768; received a liberal education; studied law
and began practice in Georgia; judge of the supe-
rior court o£ Georgia; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Georgia (vice John Milledge, resigned)
as a Democrat; moved to Wilcox County, Ala.,
where he died October 7, 1835.
Talbert, WiUiam Jasper, of Parksville, S. O.,
was born in Edgefield County, S. C, in 1846; edu-
cated in the schools of his native county and Due
West Academy, Abbeville; served in the Confed-
erate army throughout the war; engaged in farm-
ing; elected to the legislature in 1880 and 1882
and to the State senate in 1884; superintendent of
the State penitentiary; held various positions in
the Farmers' Alliance; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Democrat.
Talbot, Ish.ain, was born in Bedford County,
Va., in 1773; received a liberal education; studied
law, and commenced practice at Frankfort, Ky. ;
member of the State senate 1812-1815_; elected a
United States Senator from Kentucky ( vice J. Bled-
soe, resigned), serving from February 2, 1815, to
March 3, 1819; again elected a United States Sen-
ator (vice William Logan, resigned), serving from
November 27, 1820, to March 3, 1825; died near
Frankfort, Ky., September 25, 1837.
Talbot, Silas, was born at Dighton, Mass., in
1751; received a liberal education; captain in the
Revolutionary Army; promoted to the rank of
major; commissioned captain in the Continental
Navy September 17, 1779; moved to New York;
member of the State house of representatives 1792-
93; elected a Representative from New York to
the Third Congress as a Federalist; again commis-
sioned by President Washington captain in the
U. S. Navy, and resigned in September, 1800; died
at New York City June 30, 1813.
Talbott, Albert G-. , was born in Kentucky;
received a liberal education and located at Dan-
ville; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
fifth Congress as an American.
Talbott, J. Frederick C, of Towson, Md., was
born near Lutherville, Baltimore County, Md.,
July 29, 1843; received a public school education;
began the study of law in 1862; joined the Confed-
erate army in 1864 and served in the Second
Maryland Cavalry until the close of the war; ad-
mitted to the bar September 6, 1866; elected pros-
ecuting attorney for Baltimore County in 1871 for
the term of four years; renominated in 1875 and
defeated; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at St. Louis in 1876; elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; State
insurance commissioner 1889-1893; elected to the
Fifty-third and Fifty-eighth Congresses.
Taliaferro, Benjamin, was born in Virginia in
1750; received a limited education; served in the
Revolutionary Army in the rifle corps commanded
by General Morgan; captured by the British at
Charleston; after independence had been estab-
lished located in Georgia; member of the State
senate; delegate to the constitutional convention
of 1798; elected a Representative from Georgia to
the Sixth and Seventh Congresses, serving until
1802, when he resigned; judge of the superior
court; died in Wilkes County, Ga., September 3,
1821. ^
Taliaferro, James Piper, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
was born at Orange, Va., September 30, 1847;
educated in Virginia, leaving the school of Wil-
liam Dinwiddle, at Greenwood, in 1864, to volun-
teer in the Confederate army, in which he served,
until the war ended; resumed his studies, moving
to Jacksonville, Fla. ; engaged in the lumber busi-
ness; president of the First National Bank of
Tampa; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat April 19, 1899, for the term 1899-1905.
Taliaferro, John, was born in Spottsylvania
County, Va., in 1768; received a liberal education;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Seventh Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; Presidential elector on the Jefferson ticket
in 1805; elected to the Twelfth Congress (success-
fully contesting the seat of John P. Hungerford),
serving from December 2, 1811, to March 3, 1813;
Presidential elector on the Monroe ticket in 1821;
elected to the Eighteenth Congress, vice W. L.
Ball, deceased; reelected to the Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses; elected to
the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,
and Twenty-seventh Congresses; librarian of the
Treasury Department at Washington 1850-1853;
died at " Hagley " (his residence in King George
County, Va.) August 12, 1853.
Tallmadge, Benjamin, was born at Brook-
haven, N. Y., February 25, 1754; received a clas-
sical education; taught school; entered the Revo-
lutionary Army as lieutenant in a Connecticut
regiment, and rose to the rank of colonel; engaged
in mercantile pursuits in Litchfield, Conn.; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth
Congresses as a Federalist; died at Litchfield,
Conn., March 17, 1835.
Tallmadge, Frederick Augustus, was born at
Litchfield, Conn., August 29, 1792; graduated from
Yale College in 1811 ; studied law, and began prac-
tice at New York in 1813; served in the war of 1812;
held several local offices; State senator 1837-1840;
recorder of the city of New York 1841-1846; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig; again recorder of the city of
New York 1848-1851 ; superintendent of the Metro-
politan police 1857-1862; clerk of the New York
court of appeals 1862-1865; died at Litchfield,
Conn., September 17, 1869.
Tallmadge, James, was born at Stanfordville,
N, Y., January 28, 1778; graduated from Brown
University in 1798; studied law and practiced;
served in the war of 1812; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fifteenth Congress as a
Democrat; declined a renomination; delegate to
the State constitutional convention of 1821; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1824;
lieutenant-governor of New York 1826-27; died at
New York City September 29, 1853.
Tallmadge, Nathaniel P. , was born at Chat-
ham, N. Y., February 8, 1795; graduated from
Union College; studied law, and began practice at
Poughkeepsie; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1828, and of the State senate 1830-
1833; elected a United States Senator from New
York as a Conservative Democrat, serving until
June 17, 1844, when he resigned; appointed by
President Tyler governor of Wisconsin Territory
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833
September 13, 1844, serving from 1844 to 1846;
died at Battlecreek, Mich., November 2, 1864.
T T^ll™f-^', ^^^^S, was born at Tiverton, E. I.,
■ L 'J'^\' '•eceived a limited education; served
h^ii Revolutionary war on the privateer Trum-
buu, and lost an arm in an engagement in 1780;
captured and imprisoned 1781-1783; became a
merchant at Bath, Mass. (now Maine); elected a
Kepresentative from Massachusetts to the Twelfth
Congress as a Democrat; declined a reelection;
State senator of Maine 1821-22; died at Bath, Me.;
March 12, 1840.
Tannehill, Adamson, was born in Frederick
County, Md., in 1752; served in the Eevolutionary
Army; moved to Pennsylvania and became a
farmer near Pittsburg; held several local offices;
brigadier-general of Pennsylvania Volunteers in
the United States service in 1812; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirteenth
Congress aa a Democrat; died near Pittsburg, Pa.,
July 7, 1817. , ^ '
Tanner, Adolplius H. , was born at Granville,
N. Y., May 23, 1833; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Whitehall,
N. Y. ; entered the Union Army in 1862 as a cap-
tain, and made lieutenant-colonel of the One
hundred and twenty-third Regiment of New
York Volunteer Infantry; elected a Representative
from New York to the Forty-flrst Congress as a
Republican.
Tappan, Benjamin, was , born at Northamp-
ton, Mass., May 25, 1773; attended the public
schools; printer and engraver; studied law, and
began practice at Steubenville, Ohio; member of
the State house of representatives in 1803; served
in the war of 1812; held several local positions;
county judge and judge of the fifth Ohio circuit
court of common pleas; United States district
judge of Ohio in 1833; a United States Senator
from Ohio as a Democrat 1839-1845; died at Steu-
benville, Ohio, April 12, 1857.
Tappan, Mason W., was born at Newport,
N. H., October 20, 1817; received an academic
education; studied law, and in 1841 began practice;
served in the State house of representatives 1853-
1855; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-
sixth Congresses as a Republican; served in the
Union Army as colonel of the First New Hamp-
shire Volunteers; again elected to the State legis-
lature 1860-61; resumed the practice of law;
appointed attorney-general of the State in 1876,
which position he held until he died, at Bradford,
N. H., October 24, 1886.
Tartoox, John Kemble, was born near Law-
rence, Mass., May 6, 1838; received a classical
education; engaged in newspaper work; served
in the Union Army; member of the State house
of representatives 1868, 1870, and 1871, and of the
State senate in 1872; mayor of Lawrence in 1873
and 1874; elected a Representative from Massa-
chusetts to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat; defeated for the Forty-fifth Congress; died
May 28, 1887.
Tarr, Christian, was born at Baltimore, Md. ;
moved to Pennsylvania; received a limited educa-
tion; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses.
Tarsney, John C, of Kansas City, Mo., was
born in Lenawee County, Mich., November 7,
1845; attended the common schools; enlisted in
the Fourth Regiment Michigan Infantry in August,
1862; mustered out of the service in June, 1865,
and entered the high school at Hudson, Mich.;
graduated March, 1869, from the law department
of the University of Michigan; practiced law at
Hudson, Mich., until 1872; moved to Kansas City,
Mo. ; city attorney of Kansas City in 1874 and 1875;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat,
and reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses; received the certificate of election to
the Fifty-fourth Congress, but after a contest the
seat was given to E. T. Van Horn; associate jus-
tice of he supreme court of Oklahoma 1896-1899.
. Tarsney, Timotliy E. , of East Saginaw, Mich.,
was born at Ransom, Hillsdale County, Mich.,
February 4, 1849, educated in the common schools;
marine engineer; read law; entered the law de-
partment of Michigan University and graduated
in 1872; justice of the peace 1873-74; city attorney
1875-1878, when he resigned; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to
the Fiftieth Congress; moved to Detroit, Mich.;
engaged in the practice of law; corporation coun-
sel for Detroit, Mich.
Tate, Parish Carter, of Jasper, Ga., was born
at Jasper, Pickens County, Ga., November 20,
1856; educated in the common schools and in the
North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega,
Ga.; admitted to the bar in 1880; member of the
general assembly of Georgia six years; chairman
of the judiciary committee, of the railroad com-
mittee, and member of the special committee to
redistrict the State; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Tate, Magnus, resided in Berkeley County,
Va.; elected a Eepresentative from Virginia to
the Fourteenth Congress as a Federalist.
Tatnall, Edward E. , was a native of Savan-
nah, Ga.; received a liberal education; held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses.
Tatnall, Josiah, was born at Bona venture, Ga.,
in 1762; received a liberal education; at the com-
mencement of the Eevolutionary war returned to
Georgia and enlisted under General Wayne; col-
onel of a regiment of State troops in 1793 for pro-
tection against the Indians; several years a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives; elected a
United States Senator from Georgia (vice James
Jackson, resigned), serving from 1796 to 1799; ap-
pointed brigadier-general of State troops in 1800;
died at Nassau, New Providence, June 6, 1803.
Tatum, Absalom, was elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Fourth Congress, serv-
ing from December 7, 1795, to 1796, when he re-
signed.
Taul, Micah, was a native of Virginia; moved
to Kentucky; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Fourteenth Congress.
Taulbee, "William Preston, of Saylersville,
Ky. , was born in Morgan County, Ky., October 22,
1851 ; educated in private country schools; studied
for the ministry and for the law; admitted to the
bar in 1881; elected clerk of the Magoffin County
court in 1878 and 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Fiftieth Congress; declined a third term; died
March 11, 1890, at Washington, D. C.
Tawney, James A., of Winona, Minn., was
born in Mount Pleasant Township, near Gettys-
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burg, Adams County, Pa., January 3, 1855; at the
age of 15 entered the blacksmith shop of his
father as an apprentice; subsequently learned the
trade of machinist; left Pennsylvania in July,
1877, arriving at Winona August 1, vi'here he was
employed as a blacksmith and machinist until
January 1, 1881, when he commenced the study
of law; admitted to the bar July 10, 1882; entered
the law school of the University of Wisconsin in
September following; elected to the State senate
of Minnesota in 1890; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Tayler, Robert Walker, of Lisbon, Ohio, was
born at Youngstown, Ohio, November 26, 1852;
graduated from Western Reserve College, June,
1872; in September of that year commenced teach-
ing in the high school at New Lisbon (now
Lisbon), and elected superintendent of schools
in 1873 and 1874; editor of the Buckeye State
newspaper at New Lisbon from January, 1875, to
November, 1876; admitted to the bar in April,
1877, and elected prosecuting attorney of Colum-
biana County in 1880; reelected in 1882; served
until January, 1886; elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Republican; nominated as Republican
candidate for Representative to the Fifty-eighth
Congress and declined; engaged in the practice of
his profession at Youngstown, Ohio.
Taylor, Abner, was born in Maine; contractor,
builder, and merchant; member of the State leg-
islature for one term (thirty-fourth); delegate
to the national Republican convention in 1884;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Republican, and reelected to the
Fifty-second Congress; died at Washington, D. C,
April 14, 1903.
Taylor, Alexander Wilson, was born in In-
diana County, Pa., March 22, 1815; received a
classical education; studied law, and began prac-
tice in 1841; elected clerk of the court of Indiana
County in 1845, and reelected in 1848; member of
the State legislature 1859-60; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third Con-
gress as a Republican.
Taylor, Alfred Alexander, of Johnson City,
Tenn., was bom near Elizabethton, Carter County,
Tenn., in 1849; educated at Edge Hill and at Pen-
nington, N. J. ; read law, and admitted to the bar
in 1870; elected to the legislature in 1875; candi-
date for elector on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket
in 1876; candidate for elector on the Garfield and
Arthur ticket in 1880; nominated for governor in
1886, and defeated by his brother, Robert L. Tay-
lor, the Democratic nominee; elected to the Fifty-
first Congress as a Republican, and reelected to
the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; a
' ' ^£cturer.
:«
Taylor, Arthur H., was born February 29,
1852, at Caledonia Springs, Canada; moved with
his parents to Yates County, N. Y". ; moved to the
city of Indianapolis and commenced the study of
law; admitted to the bar and practiced; elected
prosecuting attorney for the eleventh judicial cir-
cuit of Indiana in 1880 and 1882; elected to the
Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Taylor, Caleb N. , was born in Berks County,
Pa., July 27, 1813; received a liberal education;
farmer; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-first
Congress and took his seat April 13, 1870, after
successfully contesting the election of John R.
Reading, and served until March 3, 1871.
Taylor, Ezra B., of Warren, Ohio, was bom
at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, July 9, 1823;
worked on the farm, having the advantages of
neighborhood common schools; attended select
schools and academies; read law; commenced the
practice of law in his native county in 1845; elected
Iptosecuting attorney in 1854; moved to Warren,
ICTrumbull County, Ohio, in 1861; appointed com-
mon pleas judge for the ninth judicial district in
March, 1877; elected in October, 1877, for a full
term; General Garfield having been elected Presi-
dent, resigned his membership of the Forty-sixth
Congress on the 8th day of November, 1880, and
Mr, Taylor was, on the 30th day of November,
elected to fill the vacancy so caused; elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty -first, and Fifty-second Congresses as a Repub-
lican; resumed the practice of law after leaving
Congress.
Taylor, Creorge, was born in Ireland in 1716;
received a limited education; came to the United
States in 1736; engaged in the manufacture of iron
in Pennsylvania; member of the colonial house of
epresentatives 1764-1769; colonel of militia; ap-
pointed judge of the county court in 1770; again a
member of the provincial house of representatives
in 1775; Delegate to the Continental Congress from
Pennsylvania in 1776-77; moved to Easton, Pa.,
and died there February 23, 1781.
Taylor, George, was born at Wheeling, Va.,
October 19, 1820; received a liberal education;
studied medicine; studied law, and in 1840 moved
to Indiana, where he practiced until 1844, when
he moved to Alabama; moved to Brooklyn, N. Y.,
in 1848, where he practiced; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; de-
feated for the Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed
practice at Washington, D. C.
Taylor, George Wasliington, of Demopolis,
Marengo County, Ala., was born Januarv 16, 1849,
m Montgomery County, Ala.; educated at the
South Carohna University, Columbia, S. C. ; law-
yer; admitted to practice at Mobile, Ala., Novem-
ber, 1871; entered the army as a Confederate
soldier m November, 1864, being then a student
at the academy in Columbia, S. C. ; served a few
weeks with the South Carolina State troops on the
coast near Savannah, and then enlisted in Com-
pany D, First Regiment South Carolina Cavalry,
and served as a courier till the end of the war;
left the South Carohna University at 18; taught
school and studied law at the same time; elected
to the lower house of the general assembly of
Alabama m 1878; elected State solicitor in 1880,
and reelected m 1886; declined a third term-
elected to theFifty-fifth, Fifty -sixth. Fifty-seventh'
andJ^ifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat; chair-
man of the Alabama State Democratic convention
in 1901.
Taylor, Isaac Hamilton, of Carrollton, Ohio,
was born near New Harrisburg, Carroll County,
Ohio, April 18, 1840- received a common school
and academic education; studied law; lawyer-
clerk of courts in Carroll County, Ohio, from Jan-
uary, 1870 until February, 1877; elected to the
I'orty-ninth Congress as a Republican.
- "^^7}°^' ^°^^' '^^ bo™ in Orange County, Va.,
in 1750; received a Hmited education; farmer- held
several local^oflices; appointed a United States
Senator as a Democrat (vice Richard Henry Lee
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835
resigned), and reelected, serving from December
12, 1793, until 1794, when he resigned; again ap-
pointed a United States Senator (vice S. T. Mason,
deceased), serving from October 17, 1803, to De-
cember 13, 1803; elected a United States Senator
(vice James Pleasants, resigned), serving from
December 30, 1822, until he died, in Caroline
County, Va., August 20, 1824.
Taylor, John, was born at Columbia, S. C,
May 4, 1770; graduated from Princeton College
in 1790; studied law, and in 1793 began practice at
Columbia; also engaged in planting; held several
local oflSces; elected a Eepresentative from South
Carolina to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses,
resigning December 31, 1810, having been elected
a United States Senator (vice Thomas Sumter,
resigned), and served until 1816, when he resigned;
elected a Eepresentative to the Fourteenth Con-
gress; defeated for the Fifteenth and Seventeenth
Congresses; State senator in 1822; governor of
South Carolina 1826-1828; died at Columbia, S. C,
April 16, 1832.
Taylor, Joh.n J. , was a native of Massachusetts;
moved to Oswego, N. Y. ; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat.
Taylor, John L. , was born in Stafford County,
Va., March 7, 1805; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Chillicothe,
Ohio, in 1829; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig; reelected to
the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third
Congresses; a clerk in the Interior Department in
1870; died September 6, 1870.
Taylo_-, John May, of Lexington, Tenn., was
born there May 18, 1838; educated at the academy
at Lexington and at Union Univerity, Murfrees-
boro, Tenn. ; studied law, and graduated from the
law school of Cumberland University, at Lebanon,
Tenn. ; lawyer ; elected first lieutenant. Confed-
erate States army, in June, 1861, and promoted to
captain; elected major of the Twenty-seventli Ten-
nessee Regiment in 1862; elected mayor of Lexing-
ton in May, 1869; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention of Tennessee in 1870; elected
attorney-general of the eleventh judicial circuit of
Tennessee in 1870 and served eight years; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Taylor, JohnW., was born in Charlton, N. Y.,
March 26, 1784; graduated from Union College
in 1803; studied, law, and began practice at Ball-
ston Springs; member of the State legislature
1812-13 ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses as a Democrat; Speaker of the House
during the second session of the Sixteenth Con-
gress, and also of the Nineteenth Congress; moved
to Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1843, where he
died September 8, 1854.
Taylor, Jonathan, was a native of Connecti-
cut; moved to Newark, Ohio; held several local
ofiices; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Taylor, Joseph D., of Cambridge, Ohio, was
born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 7, 1830;
educated in the common schools and at Madison
College; taughtschool; served as examiner; studied
law at Cincinnati; admitted to the bar in 1859;
graduated from the Cincinnati Law College m 1860;
entered the Army as captain in the Eighty-eighth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry; served as judge-advocate
at Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and other places;
judge-advocate of the department of Indiana;
twice elected prosecuting attorney of Guernsey
County; president of the Cambridge school board
seven years; president of the Guernsey National
Bank; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' con-
vention in 1866; represented his district in the
national Republican convention in 1876 as alter-
nate and in 1880 as delegate; lay delegate to the
last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as
a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. J. T. Updegraff; reelected to the
Forty-eighth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second
Congresses as a Republican.
Taylor, Miles, was a native of New York; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law, and began
practice at Donaldsonville, La. ; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Louisiana to
the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth
Congresses as a Democrat, serving until February 5,
1861, when he retired from the House.
Taylor, Nathaniel G. , was born in Carter
County, Tenn. , December 29, 1819; graduated from
Princeton College in 1840; studied law and prac-
ticed; Presidential elector on the Scott ticket in
1853; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Thirty-third Congress (vice B. Campbell, de-
ceased) as a Whig; Presidential elector on the
Bell and Everett ticket in 1860; elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress; was Commissioner of In-
dian Affairs, serving from March 26, 1867, to
April 21, 1869.
Taylor, Nelson, was born at South Norwalk,
Conn., June 8, 1821; received a liberal education;
captain in the First New York Volunteers in the
Mexican war 1846-1848; located at Stockton, Cal. ;
elected State senator in 1849; held several local
offices; returned to New York and studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1860; served in the
Union Army and attained the rank of brigadier-
general; resumed the practice of law; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat; died at South Nor-
walk, Conn., January 16, 1894.
Taylor, Bobert, was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Virginia to
the Nineteenth Congress.
Taylor, Robert Ij., of Jonesboro, Tenn., was
born at Happy Valley, Carter County, Tenn.,
July 31, 1850; educated at Pennington, N. J.,
and at the East Tennessee Wesleyan University,
Athens, Tenn. ; licensed to practice law in July,
1878; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as aDem-
ocrat; defeated for the Forty-seventh and Forty-
eighth Congresses; editor of the Johnson City
Comet in 1884; Presidential elector in 1884 on the
Democratic ticket; appointed United States pen-
sion agent at Knoxville, Tenn., by President
Cleveland in 1885; elected governor of Tennessee
in 1886, defeating his brother, A. A. Taylor, who
was the Republican candidate; reelected governor
in 1888; again Democratic Presidential elector in
1892; an unsuccessful candidate for the United
States Senate in January, 1893; again elected gov-
ernor of Tennessee in 1896; again defeated for the
United States Senate.
Taylor, Vincent Albert, of Bedford, Ohio,
was born in Bedford December 6, 1845; educated
in the common schools; enlisted May, 1864, in
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Company H, One hundred and fiftieth Ohio
'' Volunteer Infantrj-, and in August of the same
year in Company H, One hundred and seventy-
seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in
that regiment until the close of the war, when he
began business as a manufacturer; served two
years, 1888 and 1889, in the Ohio senate; elected
to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican.
Taylor , Waller , was born in Lunenburg County,
Va., before 1786; received a liberal education;
moved to Indiana and located at Vincennes; Ter-
ritorial judge in 1806; served as aid-de-camp to
General Harrison in the war of 1812, and was at
the battle of Tippecanoe; elected a United States
Senator from Indiana as a Democrat, and re-
elected, serving from 1816 to 1825; died at Lunen-
burg, Va., August 26, 1826.
Taylor, 'Williain, was born in Connecticut in
1793 ; moved with his parents to Onondaga County,
N. Y. ; attended the pubhc schools; studied medi-
cine and practiced; elected a Representative from
New York to the Tweuty-third, Twenty-fourth,
and Twenty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; served -
in the State house of representatives in 1841 and
1842; died at Manlius, N. Y., September 6, 1843.
Taylor, ■William, was a native of Alexandria,
Va. ; received a liberal education; studied law and
began practice in Rockingham County, Va. ; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Mrginia to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; died January 17, 1846,
at Washington, D. C.
Taylor, William P. , was born at Fredericks-
burg, Va. ; received a limited education; held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Twenty-third Congress as a Whig;
defeated for the Twenty-fourth Congress.
Taylor, Zachary, of Covington, Tenn., was
born in Haywood County, Tenn., May 9, 1849;
received such early education as the common
schools of the country afforded; entered the Vir-
ginia Military Institute in December, 1868, and
graduated as senior captain July 4, 1872; entered
the law school of Cumberland University at Leb-
anon, Tenn., in January, 1873, and graduated in
January, 1874; began the practice of law at Cov-
ington in 1878; elected to the forty-second general
assembly of Tennessee as a senator, from the coun-
ties of Tipton, Fayette, and Shelby, in November,
1880; postmaster at Covington from July 1, 1883,
to January 1, 1885, when he resigned, having been
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican; after leaving Congress moved to Memphis,
Tenn. , where he engaged in general life insurance
business; delegate to the Republican national con-
vention in 1896.
Tazewell, Henry, was born in Brunswick
County, Va., in 1753; graduated from William and
Mary College; studied law, and in 1773 began prac-
tice ; member of the provincial house of burgesses
in 1775; a delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention of 1776; judge of the high court of appeals
in 1793; elected a United States Senator from Vir-
ginia (vice John Taylor, resigned), serving from
December 29, 1794, to January 24, 1799, when he
died at Philadelphia, Pa.
Tazewell, Littleton Walker, was born at
Williamsburg, Va., December 17, 1774; graduated
from AVilliam and Mary College in 1791; studied
law, and began practice at Williamsburg in 1796;
served in theState house of representatives in 1798;
moved to Norfolk, Va., in 1801; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Sixth Congress
(vice John Marshall, resigned) as a Democrat;
one of the commissioners of claims under the
treaty with Spain ceding Florida in 1820; declined
the mission to Great Britain; elected a United
States Senator from Virginia (vice John Taylor,
resigned), serving from December 29, 1824, to July
16, 1832, when he resigned; died at Norfolk, Va.,
March 6, 1860.
Teese, Frederick H., was born at Newark,
N. J., October 21, 1823; graduated from Princeton
College in 1843; studied law, and began practice
at Newark; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1860-61; speaker one year; appointed
presiding judge of the court of common pleas of
Essex County in 1864, and reappointed in 1869;
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat.
Telfair, Edward, was born in Scotland in 1785;
received a classical education; emigrated to Amer-
ica and located in the province of Virginia in 1735;
moved to Halifax, N. C. ; established a commission
house at Savannah, Ga., in 1766; a Delegate from
Georgia to the Continental Congress 1777-1779
and 1780-1783; died at Savannah, Ga., September
17, 1807.
Telfair, Thomas, was born at Savannah, Ga. ;
graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied
law, and began practice at Savannah, Ga. ; elected
a Representative from Georgia to the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Congresses; died at Savannah,
Ga., April 2, 1818.
Teller, Henry M. , of Central City, Colo., was
born in Allegany County, N. Y., May 23, 1830;
studied law; admitted to the bar in New York
and practiced; moved to Illinois in 1858, and from
there to Colorado in 1861 ; elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, and took his seat
December 4, 1876; reelected December 11, 1876;
resigned April 17, 1882, to become Secretary of
the Interior, and served until March 3, 1885; again
elected to the United States Senate as a Repub-
hcan, and took his seat March 4, 1885; reelected in
1891; a Republican in politics, but withdrew from
the national Republican convention at St. Louis
in June, 1896, because of dissatisfaction at the
financial plank of the platform; reelected in 1897
as an Independent Silver Republican; reelected
iu 1903 as a Democrat.
Teller, Isaac, was born in Dutchess County,
N. Y., in 1798; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-third Congress (vice Gil-
bert Dean, resigned) as a Whig, serving from
December 4, 1854, to March 3, 1855; died at Mat-
teawan, N. Y., April 30, 1868.
Temple, William, was born in Queen Anne
County, Md., February 28, 1815; received a liberal
education; merchant at Smyrna, Del. ; member of
the State house of representatives in 1844; chosen
speaker; by the death of the governor and presi-
dent of the senate, acting governor of Delaware;
State senator 1845-1854; elected a Representative
from Delaware to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat, but died before taking his seat, at
Smyrna, Del., August 8, 1863.
Ten Eyck,, Egbert, was born in Rensselaer
County, N. Y., April 18, 1779; graduated from
Wilham and Mary College; studied law and began
practice at Watertown, N. Y.; member of the
State house of representatives 1812-13, and speaker
one year; delegate in 1832 to the constitutional-
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convention; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses;
judge of the Jefferson County courts; died at
Watertown, N. Y., April 11, 1844.
AT^^^KT-^y?^' *^°^"- °-' "^^ born at Freehold,
JN. J March 12, 1814; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1835 began practice at Mount
lloliy, N. J.; was prosecuting attorney for Bur-
lington County 1839-1849; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1844; elected a United
States Senator from New Jersey as a Republican,
serving from December 5, 1859, to March 3, 1865;
appointed a member of a commission to' revise the
New Jersey constitution in 1875; died at Mount
Holly, N. J., August 24, 1879.
Tenney, Samuel, was born in Byfleld, Mass.,
November 27, 1748; graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1772; studied medicine; began practicing at
Exeter, N. H. ; surgeon in the BevolutionaryArmy;
returned to Exeter and became judge of probate for
Rockingham County; elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Sixth Congress, vice
William Gordon, resigned; reelected to the Sev-
enth, Eighth, aud Ninth Congresses; died at Exeter,
N. H., February 6, 1816.
Terrill, 'William, was born at Fairfax County,
Va., about 1778; received a classical education;
served several terms in the State legislature; held
various local offices; elected a Representative from
Georgia to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses
as a Democrat; declined a reelection; died at
Sparta, Ga., July 4, 1855.
Terry, Nathaniel, was born at Enfield, Conn.,
in 1768; graduatedfrom Yale College in 1786; held
several county and State offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Connecticut to the Fifteenth Con-
gress; died at New Haven, Conn., June 14, 1844.
Terry, William, was born in Amherst County,
Va., August 14, 1824; graduated from the Univer-
sity of Virginia in 1848; taught school; studied law,
and began practicing at Wytheville in 1851; en-
gaged in newspaper work; served in the Confed-
erate army; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Forty-second Congress as a Conservative;
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; died Sep-
tember 5, 1888, near Wytheville, Va.
Terry, 'William Leake, of Pulaski, Ark., was
bom in Anson County, N. C, September 27, 1850;
when 7 years of age moved with his parents to
Tippah County, Miss. , and thence to Arkansas in
1861 ; received his preparatory education at Bing-
ham's Military Academy, North Carolina; admitted
to Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1869; gradu-
ated in June, 1872; studied law; admitted to the
bar in November, 1873; elected to city council in
April, 1877; elected to the State senate in Septem-
ber, 1878; elected president of senate at close of
session in March, 1879; served eight terms as city
attorney of Little Rock; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses;
reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress without
opposition; defeated for renomination.
Test, Jolin, was a native of Salem, N. J.; re-
ceived a common school education; studied law
and began practice at Brookville, Ind. ; held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses as a Clay Democrat; defeated for reelection
to the Twentieth Congress; elected to the Twenty-
first Congress as a Whig; presiding judge of an
Indiana circuit court; moved to Mobile, Ala. ; died
near Cambridge City, Ind., October 9, 1849. I
Thacher, George, was born at Yarmouth,
Mass. (afterwards Maine), April 12, 1754; gradu-
ated from Harvard College in 1776; studied law
and began practice at York in 1778; moved to
Biddeford in 1782; Delegate from Massachusetts
to the Continental Congress 1787-88; elected a
Representative from the Maine district of Massa-
chusetts to the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
and Sixth Congresses; a judge of the supreme
court of Massachusetts, and afterwards of Maine
1800-1824; delegate to the constitutional conven-
tion of Maine in 1819; died at Biddeford, Me.,
April 6, 1824.
Thacher, Samuel, was born at Cambridge,
Mass., July 1, 1776; graduated from Harvard
College in 1793; studied law, and in 1797 began
practice at New Gloucester; moved to Warren in
1800; a member of the State house of representa-
tives 1801-1811; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Seventh Congress, vice Silas
Lee, resigned; reelected to the Eighth Congress;
sheriff of Lincoln County 1814-1821; again a mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1824;
moved to Bangor, Me., in 1866, and died there
July 19, 1872.
Thayer, Eli, was bom at Mendon, Mass., June
11, 1819; graduated from Brown University in
1843; a member of the State house of represent-
atives 1853-54; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress and defeated as the Republican candidate
for the Thirty-seventh Congress; died in 1899.
Thayer, John M., was born at Bellingham,
Mass., January 24, 1820; graduated from Brown
University; studied law; admitted, to the bar;
moved to Nebraska in 1854; brigadier-general and
major-general of the Territorial forces operating
against the Indians 1855-1861; captured the Paw-
nees and placed them on reservations 1859;
colonel and brigadier-general U. S. Vohmteers
1861-1865; member of constitutional convention
of Nebraska; elected a United States Senator from
Nebraska as a Republican, serving from 1867 to
1871; governor of Wyoming Territory 1875 to 1878;
department commander of theG. A. R. of Nebraska
1886; elected governor of Nebraska, serving from
January, 1887, to January, 1891.
Thayer, John B,., of Worcester, Mass., was
born at Douglass, Mass., March 9, 1845; attended
the common schools in Douglass; later fitted for
college at Nichols Academy, in Dudley, Worces-
ter County; entered Yale College in 1865, and
graduated in the class of 1869; after leaving col-
lege began the study o^ law; admitted to the bar
in 1871, and at once began the practice of his pro-
fession in Worcester; elected to both branches of
the city government; trustee of the Worcester
City Hospital for eight years; one of the trustees
of Nichols Academy for fifteen years; elected rep-
resentative to the general court of Massachusetts for
two terms, in 1880 and 1881; elected to the Massa-
chusetts senate for two terms, in 1890 and 1891;
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Thayer, M. Russell, was born at Petersburg,
Va., January 27, 1819; graduatedfrom the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in 1840; studied law and be-
gan practice at Philadelphia; elected a Represent-
ative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congresses as a Republican; declined
a renomination; appointed judge of the district
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court of Philadelphia in 1867; elected for a term
of ten years in 1868; appointed president-judge of
the court of common pleas of Philadelphia in 1874.
Theaker, Thomas C, was born in York
County, Pa., February 1, 1812; received a liberal
education; moved to Bridgeport, Ohio, m 1830;
machinist; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; de-
feated for reelection; Commissioner of Patents
1865-1868; died at Oakland, Md., July 16, 1883.
Thibodeaux, Bannon G., was a native of
Louisiana; sugar planter; received a limited edu-
cation; held several local offices; elected a Rep- ^
resentative from Louisiana to the Twenty-ninth
and Thirtieth Congresses; died March 11, 1866.
Thomas, Benjamin F., was born at Boston,
Mass., February 12, 1813; moved to Worcester in
1819; graduated from Brown University in 1830;
studied law, and in 1833 began practice at Worces-
ter; held several local offices; a member of the
State house of representatives in 1842; judge of
probate 1844-1848; Presidential elector on the
Whig ticket in 1848; judge of the Massachusetts
supreme court 1853-1859, when he resigned to
engage in the practice of law; elected a Represent-
ative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Conservative Unionist; resumed
practice; nominated by Governor Bullock for chief
justice of ilassachusetts in 1868, but the nomina-
tion was not confirmed by the council; president
of the American Antiquarian Society; made a doc-
tor of laws by both Harvard and Brown universi-
ties; died at Salem, Mass., September 27, 1878.
Thomas, Charles K.., was born in Carteret
County, X. C, February 7, 1827; graduated from
the University of North Carolina in June, 1849;
studied law and began practice; one of the judges
of the superior court in April, 1868; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Forty-second
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
third Congress.
Thomas, Charles Randolph, of Newbern,
N. C, was born at Beaufort, N. C, August 21,
1861; son of the late Judge Charles R. Thomas,
who was a member of the Forty-second and Forty-
third Congresses; educated at the Newbern Acad-
emy, the school of Prof. Charles B. Young, known
as the Emerson Institute, Washington, D. C, and
the University of North Carolina, graduating in
1881 ; studied law, first with his father, and then
at the law school of Judges R. P. Dick and John H.
Dillard, at Greensboro, N. C. ; admitted to the bar
in October, 1882; member of the house of repre-
sentatives of the North Carolina legislature in 1887 ;
served six years as attorney for the county of
Craven, from 1890 to 1896; elected by the State
legislature a trustee of the University of North
Carolina in 1893; member of the State Democratic
executive committee; elected Democratic Presi-
dential elector in 1896; elected to the Fifty-sixth,
and reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Thomas, Christopher Y. , was born in Pittsyl-
vania County, Va., March 24, 1818; received a
liberal education; studied law, and began practice
at Martinsville, Va., in June 1844; served four
years in the Virginia State legislature; member of
the constitutional convention in 1867 ; again elected
in 1869 to the State legislature of Virginia; elected
a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; defeated for the Forty-
fourth Congress.
Thomas, David, was a native of Washington
County JS. Y.; received a liberal education; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1794-1800;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses as
a Democrat, serving until May 1, 1808 when he
resigned; treasurer of the State of New York
1812-13.
Thomas, Francis, was born in Frederick
County, Md., February 3, 1799; graduated from
St. John's College, Annapolis; studied law, and
began practice at Frankville; member of the State
house of representatives 1822, 1827, and 1829 the
last year as speaker; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twenty-second Congress as a
Democrat; again elected to the Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth
Congresses; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal for two years ; governor of Maryland 1841-44;
a delegate in 1850 to the State constitutional con-
vention; elected a Representative to the Thirty-
seventh Congress as a Union Republican; reelected
to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses; collector of internal revenue 1870-1872;
minister to Peru from 1872 to 1875; died January
22, 1876, near Franklinville, Md.
Thomas, Georg-e M., of Vanceburg, Ky., was
born in Lewis County, Ky., November 23, 1828;
received a common school education; studied law,
and admitted to the bar in 1851; elected county
attorney of Lewis County as a Whig in 1854, and
served four years; elected to the State legislature in
1859 and reelected in 1861 ; elected Commonwealth
attorney for the tenth judicial district, and served
six years; Presidential elector in 1864; also in 1868
and 1872; elected county judge in 1868; the Re-
publican candidate for lieutenant-governor in 1871 ;
elected to the legislature in 1872 and 1873; elected
circuit judge in the fourteenth judicial district in
1874 and served six years; appointed United States
district attorney by President Garfield in May,
1881, and served four years; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Republican; appointed solicitor of
internal revenue by President McKinley.
Thomas, Henry F. , of Allegan, Mich. , was born
in the township of Tompkins, Jackson County,
Mich., December 17, 1843; entered Albion College
in 1859; enlisted in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry
as a private in 1862 ; promoted to the position of
first sergeant of Company D, and in July, 1864,
promoted to be second lieutenant; renewed his
studies at Ypsilanti Normal School; entered the
medical department of the State University, grad-
uating in the spring of 1868; commenced practice
at Constantine, St. Joseph County, Mich., remain-
ing about a year, when he moved to Allegan;
elected a member of the State house of representa-
tives 1873-74; delegate to the Republican national
convention from the Fifth district in 1884; Albion
College conferred upon him the degree of master
of arts in 1882; elected to the Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Republican; returned
to Allegan, Mich., and resumed the practice of
medicine; devoted part of his time to the manage-
ment of a creamery and his farms.
Thomas, Isaac, was elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Fourteenth Congress.
Thomas, James Houston, was born in Iredell
County, N. C, September 22, 1808; graduated
from Columbia College, Tennessee, in 1830; studied
law and began practice at Columbia, Tenn. ; attor-
ney-general of Tennessee 1836-1842; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Thirtieth
BIOGRAPHIES.
and Thirty-first Congresses as a Democrat; de-
feated for reelection; elected to the Thirty-sixth
Congress.
Tliomas, Jesse B., was born at Hagerstown,
Md., in 1777; elected a Delegate from Indiana
Territory (which included Illinois) to the Tenth
Congress (vice Benjamin Park, resigned), serving
from December 1, 1808, to March 3, 1809; ap-
.pomted judge of the United States court for the
northwestern judicial district; elected one of the
first United States Senators from Illinois, serving
from December 4, 1818, to March 3, 1829; moved
to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he died May 4, 1853.
Thomas, Jolin C. , was ^ected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Sixth Congress.
Thomas, John L., was born at Baltimore,
Md., May 20, 1835; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Baltimore; held
several -city and county oflBces; State attorney in
1863; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1863; elected a Eepresentative from Mary-
land to the Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican;
defeated as the Republican candidate for reelection;
collector of the port of Baltimore; died at Balti-
more, Md,, October 15, 1893.
Thomas, John R., of Metropolis, 111., was
bom at Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, 111.,
October 11, 1846; received a common school edu-
cation; served in the Union Army during the war
of the rebellion; rose from the rank of priyate to
that of captain of infantry; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1869; elected and served as State
attorney from 1872 to 1876; elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses.
Thomas, Lot, of Storm Lake, Iowa, was born
on a farm in Fayette County, Pa. , October 17, 1843;
remained on the farm until August, 1864, at-
tending district school during the winter, when he
entered Vermillion Institute, at Hayesville, Ohio;
remained in that institution until the fall of 1868,
when he went to Iowa and taught school a couple
of terms at New Virginia, Warren County; read
law, and on January 1, 1870, entered the law de-
partment of the Iowa State University at Iowa
City; remained in that institution two terms, and
in August of that year came to Buena Vista County
and located at Storm Lake; practiced law, having
been admitted to the bar while in Iowa City; con-
tinued in the practice until January, 1885, when
he went on the bench of the fourteenth judicial
district of Iowa, having been elected to that posi-
tion; continued on the district bench until August
26, 1898, when he resigned to accept the Repub-
lican nomination for Representative in Congress;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Thomas, Ormstoy B. , of Prairie du Chien, Wis. ,
was born at Sandgate, Bennington County, Vt.,
August 21, 1832; went to Wisconsin in 1836; re-
ceived a common school education; studied law
and graduated from the National Law School of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; admitted to the bar at
Albany, N. Y., in 1856; district attorney of Craw-
ford County, Wis., several terms; member of the
Wisconsin assembly in 1862, 1865, and 1867, and
of the Wisconsin State senate in 1880 and 1881 ;
Presidential elector in 1872; in the Union Army,
and served as captain of Company D, Thirty-first
Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican, re-
elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses;
resumed the practice of law.
Thomas, Philemon, was born in North Caro-
lina in 1764; received a limited education; moved
to Kentucky, where he was a member of the State
legislature; settled on the banks of the Lower Mis-
sissippi River, and in 1810 became the leader of
an uprising against the Spanish authorities, who
exercised authority over what is now Mississippi
and Louisiana; settled at Baton Rouge; elected a
Representative from Louisiana to the Twenty-
second and Twenty-third Congresses; died atBaton
Rouge, November 18, 1847.
Thomas, Philip Francis, was born in Talbot
County, Md., September 12, 1810; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and began practice
at Easton, Md., in 1831; member of the State con-
stitutional convention in 1836; member of the
State house of delegates 1838, 1843, and 1845;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twenty-sixth Congress; elected governor of Mary-
land in 1847; appointed Commissioner of Patents
February 16, 1860; Secretary of the Treasury
1860-61; elected a United States Senator from
Maryland, but was not admitted to his seat;
elected a Representative to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; died at Baltimore, Md.,
October 2, 1890.
Thomas, Richard, was born at Philadelphia
in 1745; received a common school education;
served in the Revolutionary Army ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Fourth Con-
gress; reelected to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses;
died at Philadelphia in 1832.
Thomasson, "William P. , was born in Henry
County, Ky.; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practice at Corydon, Ind. ; served
in the Indiana State legislature; in 1841 moved to
Louisville; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Whig; declined a renomination;
moved to Chicago, 111., where he resumed the
practice of law; served in the Union Army as
colonel of an Illinois regiment of volunteer in-
fantry.
Thompson, Albert Clifton, of Portsmouth,
Ohio, was born at Brookville, Jefferson County,
Pa., January 23, 1842; educated in the common
schools of his native town and at Jefferson College,
Cannonsburg, Pa.; studied law; admitted to the
bar December 13, 1864; elected probate judge of
Scioto County, Ohio, in October, 1869; elected,
common pleas judge of the seventh judicial dis-
trict of Ohio in October, 1881; served in the Union
Army as second lieutenant of Company B, One
hundred and fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; pro-
moted to captain of Company K, in the same reg-
iment, November 28, 1861, and served until March
23, 1863, when he was discharged for wounds
received in battle; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fiftieth
and Fifty-first Congresses; after leaving Congress
resumed the practice of law; appointed by the
President in 1897 chairman of the commission to
revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of
the United States; appointed United States judge
for the southern district of Ohio in September,
1898.
Thompson, Benjamin, was born at Charles-
town, Mass., August 5, 1798; received a public
school education; merchant; held several local
offices; served several years in both branches of
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the State legislature; elected a Eepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Whig; declined a reelection; elected to the Thirty-
second Congress, serving from December 1, 1851,
to September 24, 1852, when he died, at Charles-
town, Mass.
Thompson, Charles P. , was born at Braintree,
Mass., July 30, 1827; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1854 admitted to the bar;
began practicing at Gloucester in 1857; member
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelec-
tion to the Forty-fifth Congress; defeated as the
Democratic candidate for governor of Massachu-
setts in 1880 and in 1881; judge of the superior
court of Massachusetts; died at Gloucester, Mass.,
January 19, 1894.
Thompson, Charles Winston, of Tuskegee,
Ala., was born in Macon County, near Tuske-
gee, Ala., December 30, 1860; educated in the
common schools of the county, at the Park High
School at Tuskegee, Ala., and at Bryant & Strat-
ton's Business College, Louisville, Ky.; appointed
by Governor Joseph F. Johnston in 1896 a member
ol his staff, as lieutenant-colonel, and served in
that capacity until the end of his term ; member
of the Methodist Church; president of the bank
of Tuskegee; county superintendent of education
for Macon County from 1886 to 1888; chosen with-
out opposition to represent the twenty-sixth sena-
torial district in the senate of Alabama in 1898;
elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Thompson, Georgre W. , was born at St. Clairs-
ville, Ohio, May 14, 1806; graduated from Jeff erson
College in 1826; studied law and began practice;
appointed United States attorney for the district of
Virginia in 1849; elected a Eepresentative from
Virginia to the Thirty-second Congress as a Dem-
ocrat, serving from December 1, 1851, to July 30,
1852, when he resigned to become judge of the cir-
cuit court; died near Wheeling, W. Va., February
24, 1888.
Thompson, Hedge, was born at Salem, N. J.,
in 1779; elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Twentieth Congress; died at Salem, N. J.,
July 28, 1828.
Thompson, Jacob, wasborn in Caswell County
N. C, May 15, 1810; graduated from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, and afterwards served as a
tutor; studied law, and in 1835 began practice in
Mississippi; elected a Eepresentative from Missis-
sippi to the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat
on a general ticket; reelected to the Twenty-sev-
enth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
and Thirty-first Congresses; de'clined a reelection;
Secretary of the Interior under President Bu-
chanan, March 6, 1857, until he resigned, January
8, 1861; served in the Confederate army; governor
of Mississippi 1862-1864; special agent of the Con-
federate Government in Canada; died at Memphis,
Tenn., March 24, 1885.
Thompson, James, was born at Middlesex,
Pa., October 1, 1806; received a liberal education;
printer; studied law, and in 1828 began practice at
Erie, Pa. ; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1832-1834; speaker of the house 1834; Presi-
dential elector on the A'an Buren ticket in 1836;
presiding judge of the judicial district court 1838-
1844; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-ninth, Tliirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses; resumed practice; judge of the su-
preme court of Pennsylvania 1847-1852; made a
chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania
1866; died at Philadelphia, Pa., January 28, 1874.
Thompson, Joel, was a native of Albany
County, N. Y. ; received a common school educa-
tion at Smyrna, N. Y. ; served several years in the
State house of representatives; elected a Eepre-
sentative from New York to the Thirteenth Con-
gress as a Federalist.
Thompson, John, was a native of Stillwater,
N. Y. ; received a common school education; held
several local offices; elected a Eepresentative from
New York to the Sixth Congress as a Democrat;
again elected to the Tenth and Eleventh Con-
gresses.
Thompson, John, was born at Ehinebeck,
N. Y., July 4, 1809; graduated from Union- and
Yale colleges; studied law and began practice at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Eepublican; died at New Hamburg,. N. Y., June
1, 1890.
Thompson, John B. , was born near Harrods-
burg, Ky., December 14, 1810; received a liberal
education; studied law and practiced at Harrods-
burg; held several local offices; elected a Eepre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-sixth Con-
gress (vice S. H. Anderson, deceased) as a Whig;
elected to the Twenty-seventh, Thirtieth, and
Thirty-first Congresses; elected a United States
Senator from Kentucky, serving from March 4,
1853, to March 3,1859; died at Harrodsburg, Ky.,
January 7, 1874.
Thompson, John M., was born in Butler
County, Pa., January 4, 1830; received a classical
education; studied law, and in 1855 began practice
at Butler, Pa. ; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1859-60, one year as speaker; entered
the Union Army and served as major and subse-
quently as lieutenant-colonel of the One hundred
and thirty-fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers; delegate to the Eepublican national con-
vention which nominated U. S. Grant; elected a
Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-
third Congress as a Eepublican, vice E. McJunkin,
deceased; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Thompson, Mark, was a Representative from
New Jersey to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses.
Thompson, Philip, was a native of Kentuckv;
received a limited education; held several local
oflJces; elected a Eepresentative from Kentucky
to the Eighteenth Congress; died February 20, 1829.
Thompson, Philip B., jr., of Harrodsburg,
Ky., was born there October 15, 1845; by profes-
sion a lawyer; elected to the Forty-sixth, Fortv-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses as a Demo-
crat; located at Washington, D. 0.
Thompson, PhiUp B., was born in Culpeper
County, Va. in 1776; served several vears as a mem-
ber of the State legislature; elected' a Eepresenta-
tive from Virginia to the Seventh, Eighth, and
Nmth Congresses; died in Kanawha County, Va.,
July 22, 1857.
Thompson, Richard "W., wasborn in Culpeper
C^ounty, Va., June 9, 1809; received a classical
education; moved to Kentucky in 1831; clerk in a
store; moved to Lawrence County, Ind.; taught
school; studied law, and in 1834 began practicing
at Bedford, Ind., member of the State house ol
representatives 1834-35; State senator 1836-37;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
BIOGRAPHIES.
841
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; Presidential
elector in 1840 on the Harrison and Tvler ticket;
elected to the Thirtieth Congress as a'Whig; de-
clined a renomination; declined the Austrian mis-
sion; declined the recordership of the General
Land Office offered him hy President Fillmore ; dele-
gate to the national Republican convention of 1869
at Chicago; Presidential elector on the Lincoln
and Johnson ticket in 1864; delegate to the national
Repubhcan convention at Chicago in 1868, and at
Cincinnati in 1876; Secretary of the Navy under
President Hayes, March 12, 1877-1881, resigning
to become chairman of the American Committee
of the Parl&ma Canal Company; director of the
Panama Railroad Company; died February 9,
1900.
Thompson, Robert A., was born at Kanawha,
Va. (now West Virginia); received a liberal edu-
cation; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Virginia to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Democrat; defeated for reelection to the
Thirty-first Congress; moved to California, and
appointed State land^commissioner.
Thompson, Thomas Ir., of Santa Rosa, Cal.,
was born at Charleston, Va. (now West Virginia),
May 31, 1838; educated in the common schools
and in a printing office; at the age of 16 moved to
California and engaged in the printing business;
for thirty-two years a printer, editor, and pub-
lisher; purchased the Sonoma Democrat (founded
in 1857) in 1860, and was the editor of that paper;
delegate to the Democratic national convention at
Cincinnati in 1880; elected secretary of state in
1882; served four years in that capacity and de-
clined a second term; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Thompson, Thoxaas W., was born at Boston,
Mass., March 15, 1766 graduated from Harvard
College in 1786; studied law and practiced at Salis-
bury, N. H., 1790-1810, when he moved to Con-
cord and practiced until 1819; member of the State
house of representatives 1813-14, and speaker;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Ninth Congress; State treasurer of New Hamp-
shire in 1809; appointed United States Senator
(vice Nicholas Oilman, deceased), serving from
September 19, 1814, to March 3, 1817; died at Con-
cord, N. H., October 1, 1821.
Thompson, Waddy, was born at Pickensville,
S. C, September 8, 1798; graduated from South
Carolina College in 1814; studied law and prac-
ticed; member of the State tegislature; Presidential
elector on the Floyd ticket in 1833; elected a Repre-
sentative from South Caroli na to the Twenty-fourth ,
Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a
Whig; minister to Mexico 1842-1844; died at Tal-
lahassee, Fla., November 23, 1868.
Thompson, Wiley, was a native of Amelia
County, Va. ; moved to Elberton, Ga. ; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen-
tieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses
as a Democrat.
Thompson, William, was born in Pennsylvania
inl813; received a limited education; moved tolowa
and located at Mount Pleasant; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Thirty -first Congress, but his seat was successfully
contested by Jesse D. Brown, Whig, who was seated
June 29, 1850; entered the Union Army as captain
and successfully promoted to the rank of major
and colonel; brevetted brigadier-general and com-
manded a brigade of cavalry; appointed captain of
cavalry in the Regular Army; died October 7, 1897.
Thompson, William G. , of Marion, Iowa, was
born in Butler County, Pa., January 17, 1830;
raised on a farm, receiving a common school edu-
cation until 19 years of age, when he attended the
Witherspoon Institute at Butler, Pa. , for two years;
studied Jaw at Butler, I'a. ; admitted to the bar
October 15, 1853; emigrated to Iowa in the fall of
1853 and located at Marion; elected prosecuting
attorney for his own county in 1854 for two years;
elected to the State senate in 1856 for four years;
entered the service of the United States as major
of the Twentieth Iowa Volunter Infantry in 1862;
elector at large in the Presidential campaign of
1864; elected district attorney for eighth judicial
district and served seven years; appointed chief
justice of Idaho January 13, 1879, and resigned
in April, 1879, and immediately afterwards nomi-
nated by the Republicans of the Fifth district to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon.
Rush Clark, and at the following October election
was elected; reelected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress.
Thomson, Alexander, was born in Franklin
County, Pa., January 12, 1788; sickle maker;
studied law, and began practice at Chambersburg;
held several local offices; member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Eighteenth Congress,
vice John Todd, resigned; reelected to the Nine-
teenth Congress, serving from December 6, 1824,
to May 1, 1826, when he resigned; mayor of Lan-
caster; president judge of the circuit until 1838;
died at Chambersburg August 2, 1848.
Thomson, John, was born in Franklin County,
Pa., in 1777; received a liberal education; studied
medicine and moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, where
he practiced; served several years as a member of
the State house of representatives; elected a Rep-
resentative from Ohio to the Nineteenth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses as a Democrat; died at New
Lisbon, Ohio, December 2, 1852.
Thomson, John R. , was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., September 25, 1800; educated at Princeton
College, but left in the junior year to engage in
mercantile pursuits; went to China in 1817, and
became a merchant at Canton in 1820; United
States consul at that port 1823-1825; returned
home, and made a director in the New Jersey
Canal Company; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey as a Democrat, and reelected,
serving from December 5, 1853, to September 13,
1862, when he died, at Princeton, N. J.
Thorington, James, was born in North Caro-
lina in 1816; graduated from the University of
Alabama; studied law and moved to Davenport,
Iowa, where he began practice; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican; United
States consul to Aspinwall 1871-1883; died at
Santa Fe, N. Mex., June 13, 1887.
Thornburgh, Jacob M. , was born at New-
market, Tenn., July 3, 1837; received a liberal
education; studied law, and began practice at
Knoxville in May, 1862; entered the Union Army
as a private, and promoted until he became colonel
of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry in June, 1863;
returned to Jefferson County, Tenn., and practiced
his profession; moved to Knoxville in 1867; ap-
pointed atto/ney-general of the third judicial
circuit of Tennessee, and elected in 1869 and 1870;
842
CONGRESSIONAL JDIEECTOKY.
elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died at Knoxville, Tenn.,
September 19, 1890.
Thomtoii, Anthony, was born in Bourbon
County, Ky., November 9, 1814; graduated from
Miami University, Ohio; studied law, and began
practice at Shelby ville, 111. ; delegate to the State
constitutional convention 1847 and 1862; member
of the State legislature in 1850; elected a Repre-
sentative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Thornton, Matthew, was born in Ireland in
1714; emigrated to America when quite young;
located at Worcester, Mass.; received a liberal
education; studied medicine, and practiced at Lon-
donderry, y. H.; colonel of a regiment of militia;
delegate to the convention which declared the
province of New Hampshire to be a sovereign
State, and made its president; Delegate to the
Continental Congress 1776-1778; signer of the
Declaration of Independence; held several local
offices; judge of the supreme court of New Hamp-
shire 1780-1782; State representative in 1783, and a
State senator in 1784; died at Newburyport, Mass.,
June 24, 1803.
Thorp, Bobert T., of Mecklenburg County,
Va. , was born in Granville County, N. C. , March 12,
1850; prepared for college at the Horner Academy,
Oxford, N. C. ; took the collegiate and law course
at the "University of Virginia, graduating with the
degree of B. L. in 1870, being awarded at the same
time the debater's medal of the Jefferson Society;
began the practice of law at Boydton, the county
seat of Mecklenburg, in 1871; appointed by the
court Commonwealth attorney for that county in
1877 to fill an unexpired term; elected to the same
position for four successive terms, thus filling that
office for eighteen years; nominated for Congress
by the Republican party by acclamation in 1894;
the certificate of election was awarded to his Demo-
cratic competitor, "W. R. McKenney, whose right
to a seat in the Fifty-fourth Congress was contested
by Mr. Thorp, and was seated by the House;
again the nominee of the Republican party in
1896 for the Fifty-fifth Congress; again denied the
certificate and again contested the election and
declared by resolution of the House to have been
elected a member of the Fifty-fifth Congress, and
took his seat March 23, 1898.
Throckmorton, James W. , was born at Sparta,
Tenn., February 1, 1825; emigrated to Texas in
1841; lawyer; elected to the State legislature of
Texas in 1851, and served continuously as repre-
sentative and senator until 1861; member of the
secession convention of Texas; served as captain
and major in the Confederate service from the
spring of 1861 until November, 1863, when again
returned to the senate; appointed by the governor'
brigadier-general of State troops in 1864, and com-
mander on the northwest border of the State;
delegate to the constitutional convention under
President Johnson's proclamation, and chosen the
presiding officer of that body; elected governor of
the State of Texas for a term of four years; inaugu-
rated August 8, 1866, and removed by order of Gen-
eral Sheridan August 9, 1867; elected a Representa-
tive to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses,
and elected to the Forty-eighth and reelected to
the Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat; died at
McKmney, Tex., April 21, 1894.
Throop, Enos T., was born at Johnstown,
N. Y., August 21, 1784; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law, and began practice at Auburn,
N. Y. ; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Fourteenth Con-
gress as a Democrat; resigned in June, 1816; ap-
pointed a circuit judge April 21, 1823; elected
lieutenant-governor of New York in 1828, and be-
came governor of New York when Martin Van
Buren was made Secretary of State of the United
States, March 12, 1829; elected governor of New
York 1830-1832; minister to Naples 1838-1842;
died near Auburn, N. Y., November 1, 1874.
Thropp, Joseph Earlston, of Everett, Pa.,
was born at Valley Forge, Chester County, Pa.;
educated in the public schools, and graduated as
a civil engineer from the Polytechnic College of
the State of Pennsylvania in 1868; engaged in
his profession in Minnesota, reaching the rank of
division engineer within sixteen months; entered
the iron business in 1870; nominated and elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fifty-
sixth Congress as a Republican.
Thruston, Buckner, was born in Virginia in
1763; received a liberal education: moved to Ken-
tucky; studied law, and began practice at Frank-
fort; declined the appointment of United States
judge of the court of the Territory of Orleans;
elected a United States Senator from Kentucky as
a Democrat, serving from December 2, 1805, to
July 1, 1809, when he resigned; judge of the
United States circuit court for the District of Co-
lumbia; died at Washington, D. C. , August 30, 1845.
Thurman, Allen Gr. , was born at Lynchburg,
Va., November 13, 1813; moved to Ohio in 1819;
received an academic education; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1835; Representative from
Ohio to the Twenty-ninth, Congress; elected a
judge of the supreme court of Ohio in 1851; chief .
justice of that court 1854-1856; Democratic candi-
date for governor of Ohio in 1867; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat; took his seat
March 4, 1869; reelected in 1874; member of the
electoral commission of 1876; unsuccessful Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice-President of the United
States in 1888; died at Columbus, Ohio, December
12, 1895.
Thurman, John B., was a native of New York
City; graduated from Columbia College in 1835;
moved to Warren County, N. Y.; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig; died
at Chestertown, N. Y., in 1854.
Thurston, Benjamin B., was born at Hopkm-
ton, R. I., June 29, 1804; attended the public
schools; merchant; served fourteen years as a
member of the State house of representatives;
Presidential elector on the Van Buren ticket in
1837; heutenant-governor in 1838; elected a Rep-
resentative from Rhode Island to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection;
elected to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and
Thirty-fourth Congresses; after leaving Congress
moved to New London, Conn.
Thurston, John Mellen, of Omaha, Nebr.,
was born at MontpeKer, Vt., August 21, 1847;
his parents moved to Wisconsin in 1854; edu-
cated in the public schools and at Wayland
University, Beaver Dam, Wis., supporting him-
self by farm work, driving teams, and other man-
ual labor; admitted to the bar May 21, 1869, and
m October of the same year located in Omaha-
elected a member of the city council in 1872
city attorney of Omaha in 1874, and a member of
the Nebraska legislature in 1875; member of the
BIOGKAPHIES.
843
Republican national convention in 1884 and tem-
porary chairman of the Republican national con-
L.«^n.''.r.h^ n' .P'J^ident of the Republican
.^^^l ,^,t ^t"?'*?"^ ®*^*«« 1889-1891; assistant
f"°™7 °^ l^e Union Pacific Railway Oompany
i™i i'-^?'^ ''i February, 1888, appointed gen-
r.1^ ^^'f-^°'' ^^ *^^ ^'lion Pacific system, and
held that position at the time of his election to
tne benate; Republican caucus nominee for United
btates Senator m the Nebraska legislature in Jan-
uary, 1893, and received the entire partv vote,
lacking 5 votes of election; January 1, 1895, was
tendered m writing the unanimous vote of the
entire Kepublican membership in the legislature^
and elected January 15, 1895, for the term com-
mencing March 4, 1895, serving until March 3,
1901; appointed United States commissioner to the
bt. IjOuis Exposition March 6, 1901.
Thurston, Samuel E. , was a native of Maine;
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1843; studied
law, and began practice at Linn City, Oreg.; elected
a Delegate from Oregon Territory to the Thirty-
first Congress as a Democrat; died April 9, 1851.
_ Tibtatts, Jolm "W. , was born at Lexington, Ky . ,
ml802; received a classical education; studied law
and began practice at Newport, Ky. ; held several
local ofiices; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; served in the Mexican
war as colonel; died at Newport, Ky., July 5, 1852.
Tibbitts, George, was born at Warwick, R. I.,
January 14, 1763; received a classical education;
studied law and practiced; member of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from New
York to the Eighth Congress; again elected to the
State house of representatives in 1820; died at
Troy, N. Y., July 19, 1849.
Tichenor, Isaac, was born at Newark, N. J.,
February 8, 1754; graduated from Princeton Col-
lege in 1775; studied law, and appointed assistant
commissary-general and stationed at Bennington,
Vt., where he was admitted to the bar; began
practice; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1781-1784; State councilor 1787-1792; mem-
ber of the council of censors in 1792; judge of the
State supreme court 1791-1794, and its chief justice
1795-96; elected a United States Senator (vice
Moses Robinson, resigned) as a Federalist, serv-
ing from 1796 to 1797, when he resigned; governor
of Vermont 1797-1807 and 1808-1809; again
elected a Senator, serving from December 4, 1815,
to March 3, 1821; died at Bennington, Vt., De-
cember 11, 1838.
Tiffin, Sd'ward, was born at Carlisle, England,
June 19, 1766; came to the United States in 1786
and located at Oharlestown, Va. ; graduated from
the medical department of the University of Penn-
sylvania in 1789; moved to Chillioothe, Ohio, in
1798; member of the Territorial house of repre-
sentatives in 1799, and its speaker; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1802; elected
first governor of the State in 1803, and reelected
two years later; elected a United States Senator
from Ohio as a Democrat, serving from October
26, 1807, to 1809, when he resigned; Commissioner
of the General Land Ofiice 1812-1814; resigned to
become surveyor-general of the Northwest Terri-
tory, which position he held until 1828; died at
Chillicothe, Ohio, August 9, 1829.
Tift, Nelson, of Albany, Ga., was elected a
Representative from that State to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican.
Tilden, Daniel R. , was a native of Connecticut;
attended the public schools; moved to Ravenna,
Ohio; held several local ofiices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Ohio to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses as a Whig.
Tilghman, Matthew, was born in Queen Anne
County, Md., February 17, 1718; Delegate from
Maryland to the Continental Congress 1774-1777;
died in Queen Anne County, Md., May 4, 1790.
Tillinghast, Joseph L., was bom at Taunton,
Mass., in 1790; removed to Rhode Island and re-
ceived a classical education; graduated in 1819 from
Brown University; studied law and began practice
at Providence, R. I.; served several years as a
member of the State house of representatives and
was speaker several terms; elected a Representative
from Rhode Island to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses; died at
Providence, R. I., December 30, 1844.
Tillinghast, Thomas, was born at East Green-
wich, R. I., August 21, 1742; received a liberal
education; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1772-73; held several ofiices under
Revolutionary authorities; again a State represent-
ative 1778-1780; judge of the court of common
pleas in 1779; associate justice of the State supreme
court 1780-1797; elected a Representative from
Rhode Island to the Fifth Congress, vice E. R.
Potter, resigned; elected to the Seventh Congress;
died at East Greenwich, R. I., August 26, 1821.
Tillman, Benjamin Ryan, of Trenton, S. C,
was born in Edgefield County, S. C, August 11,
1847; received an academic education under the
instruction of George Golphin at Bethany, in the
same county; quit school in July, 1864, to join the
Confederate army, but was stricken with a severe
illness, which caused the loss of his left eye and
kept him an invalid for two years; followed farm-
ing as a pursuit; elected governor in November,
1890, and reelected in 1892; entered the race for
the Senate against General Butler, in 1894 and the
two canvassed the State, county by county, with
the result that Tillman was elected as a Democrat
by the general assembly by a vote of 131 to 21 for
Butler; reelected in 1901 ; term will expire in 1907.
Tillman, George D. , was born near Curryton,
Edgefield County, S. C, August 21, 1826; after
receiving an academic education at Penfleld, Ga.,
and at Greenwood, S. C, he entered Harvard Uni-
versity, but did not graduate; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1848; practiced at Edge-
field until the civil war broke out; volunteered in
the Third Regiment of South Carolina State troops
in 1862, and shortly after its disbandment entered
the Second Regiment of South Carolina Artillery,
in which he served as a private until the close of
the war; elected to the State house of representa-
tives of South Carolina in 1854-55, and again in
1864; chosen a member of the State constitutional
convention in 1865, held under the reconstruction
proclamation of President Johnson; elected State
senator from Edgefield County in 1865, under that
constitution; likewise a member of the Democratic
State executive committee of South Carolina in
1876; Democratic candidate in the Fifth district of
South Carolina for the Forty-fifth Congress, and
unsuccessfully contested the seat of his competitor,
Robert Smalls, in that Congress; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; received a
certificate of election to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress, but his seat was successfully contested by
Robert Smalls; reelected to the Forty-eighth,
844
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTOKY.
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second
Congresses; died February 2, 1902.
Tillman, Lewis, was born in Bedford County,
Tenn., August 18, 1816; received a limited educa-
tion; farmer; served in the Seminole war as a
private; clerk of the circuit court 1852-1860; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-first
Congress as a Republican.
Tilton, James, was born in Kent County,
Del., June 1, 1745; received a hberal education;
graduated from the Philadelphia Medical School
in 1771; began, the practice of his profession at
Dover, Del. ; entered the Revolutionary Army as
surgeon of a regiment, and in 1777 was commis-
sioned Surgeon-General; after peace was declared
he returned to Dover where he resumed the practice
of his profession; Delegate from Delaware to the
Continental Cong:-ess 1783-1785; served several
years as a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army
1813-1815; died near Wilmington, Del., May
14, 1822.
Tipton, John, was born in Sevier County,
Tenn., August 14, 1786; moved to Indiana where
he bought a small farm, paying for it by splitting
rails; served with the "Yellow Jackets" in the
Tippecanoe campaign; sheriff of Harrison County,
Ind., in 1815; served in the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1821 ; elected a United States Senator
from Indiana, vice James Noble, deceased; again
elected for a full term and served from January 3,
1832, until he died April 5, 1839, at Logansport,
Ind.
Tipton, Thomas F., was born in Franklin
County, Ohio, August 29, 1833; moved to McLean
County, 111., in 1843; studied law and began
practice; State attorney for the eighth judicial
district of Illinois 1867-68; elected circuit judge
of the eighth judicial circuit in 1870 and on the
reorganization elected circuit judge of the four-
teenth judicial circuit; elected a Representative
from Illinois to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Tipton, Thomas W. , was born at Cadiz, Ohio,
August 5, 1817; received a classical education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; served in the
State legislature one year; went to Nebraska and
elected to a constitutional convention of Nebraska;
member of the Territorial council of Nebraska in
1860; studied theology; chaplain in the Union
Army; elected a United States Senator from Ne-
braska and reelected, serving from 1867 to 1875;
died in 1899.
Tirrell, Charles Cluiney, of Natick,
was born at Sharon, Mass., December 10, 1844;
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1866; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1870 at Boston; elected to the
general court of Massachusetts from Weymouth
m 1872 and to the Massachusetts senate from the
fourth Middlesex district for two terms, in 1881
and 1882; Presidential elector in 1888; elected to
the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses as
a Republican.
Titus, Obadiah, of Washington, N. Y., was
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Todd, Albert M., of Kalamazoo., Mich., was
born at the family farm home near Nottawa, St.
Joseph County, Mich., June 3, 1850; his early life
was spent on the farm, where he attended the
district school until about 15 years of age, after
which he attended the Sturgis High School, from
which he graduated; studied some time at the
Northwestern University; elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress by aunion of the Democratic, Union
Silver, People's, and National parties.
Todd, John, was born at Hartford, Conn., in
1779; received a common school education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Congresses; president-judge of the court of com-
mon pleas for the sixteenth judicial district; asso-
ciate judge of the State supreme court; died at
Bedford, Pa., April 4, 1830.
Todd, John B. S. , was born at Lexington, Ky.,
April 4, 1814; moved with his parents to Illinois
in 1827; graduated from West Point in 1837; sec-
ond lieutenant in the Sixth Infantry July 1, 1837;
first lieutenant December 10, 1837, and captain
November 8, 1843; resigned and became an Indian
trader; settled in Dakota Territory ; Delegate from
Dakota Territory to the Thirty-seventh Congress;
candidate for reelection to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress, and after a successful contest with William
Jayne, who had received the certificate of election,
took his seat, serving from July 4, 1861, to March
3, 1862; appointed brigadier-general in the Union
Army in 1862; again a Delegate in 1863-65 died at
Yankton, Dakota Territory, January 5, 1872.
Todd, Icemuel, was born July 29, 1817, at Car-
lisle, Pa; received a classical education ami gradu-
ated from Dickinson College; studied law and ad-
mitted to the bar in 1841 ; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
defeated as the Union candidate for reelection;
served in the Union Army; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third Con-
gress; died at Cariisle, Pa., May 12, 1891.
Toland, Greorge W. , was a native of Philadel-
phia, Pa.; graduated from Princeton College in
1816; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as
a Whig.
Tomkins, Caleb, was born in Westchester
County, N. Y.; State representative 1804-1806;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses.
Tomkins, Christopher, of Glasgow, Ky., re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law and prac-
ticed; elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses;
died at Glasgow, Ky., in 1845.
Tomkins, Cydnor B., was born in Belmont
County, Ohio, November 8, 1810; graduated from
the Ohio University; studied law, and began prac-
tice at McConnellsville; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses as a Republican.
Tomlinson, Gideon, was born at StrattoVl,
Conn., December 31, 1780; graduated from Yale
College in 1802; studied law, and began practice
at Fairfield; elected a Representative fiom Con-
necticut to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eight-
eenth, and Nineteenth Congresses; governor of
Connecticut 1827-1831, when he resigned to be-
come a United States Senator from Connecticut,
serving from 1831 to 1837; died at Fairfield, Conn.,
October 8,, 1854.
Tomlinson, Thomas A. , was a native of New
York; received a limited education; served as a
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member of the State house of representatives
1835-36; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twenty-seventh Congress as^ Whig.
Tompkins, Arthur Sidney, of Nyack, N. Y.,
was born August 26, 1865, in Schoharie County,
N. Y. ; attended the public schools of Olarkstown
and Nyack until 1878; studied law at Nyack and
Tarry town ; admitted to the bar as an attorney and
counselor at law of the State of New York in 1886;
elected police justice of the village of Nyack in
1887, and served until 1^89; elected member of
assembly of Eockland County, and served in the
the assembly of 1890; elected county judge of
Eockland County in 1893, which office he held
until his election to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Tompkins, Daniel D. , was born at Scarsdale,
N. Y., June 21, 1774_; graduated from Columbia
College in 1795; studied law, and in 1797 began
practice in New York; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention in 1801; member of the State
house of representatives in 1803; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Ninth Congress
as a Democrat, but resigned before taking his seat,
having been appointed a judge of the State supreme
court 1804-1807; elected Vice-President on the
Monroe ticket in 1817, and again in 1821; delegate
to the State constitutional convention 1821, and
its president; died on Staten Island, New York,
June 11, 1825.
Tompkins, Emmett, of Columbus, Ohio, was
born at ^IcConnelsviUe, Morgan County, Ohio,
September 1, 1853; moved to Athens County;
educated in the pubUc schools and at the Ohio
University; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1875; elected city solicitor and mayor of Athens;
twice elected prosecuting attorney of, and twice
elected member of the legislature from Athens
County; moved to Columbus in 1889; elected to
the Fifty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Tompkins, Patrick W. , was a native of Ken-
tucky; received a limited education; studied law,
and began practice at Vicksburg, Miss. ; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Thirtieth
Congress as a Whig; moved to California; died
at San Francisco, May 16, 1853.
Tongue, Thomas H. , was born in Lincolnshire,
England, June 23, 1844; moved with his parents to
Washington County, Oreg., November 23, 1859;
educated at Pacific University, Forestgrove, Wash-
ington County, Oreg., andgraduated in June, 1868;
moved to Hillsboro in that year and began the
study of law; admitted to the bar in September,
1870, and engaged in the practice of his profession;
permanent chairman of tne State EepubHcan con-
vention in 1890; in February, 1892, elected presi-
dent of the State organization of Republican clubs
and served for a term of two years; delegate to the
national Republican convention at Minneapolis in
1892, and the Oregon vice-president of that con-
veAtion; again the permanent chairman of the
State Republican convention in 1894; member of
State central committee; chairman of the Con-
gressional committee of the First Congressional
district of Oregon from the time of its-organization
"until 1896; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Republican on the first Monday in June, 1896;
reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty -eighth Congresses; died at Washington,
D. C, January 11, 1903.
Toole, Joseph. Kemp, of Helena, Mont., was
born at Savannah, Mo., May 12, 1851; received his
education in the public schools at St. Joseph, Mo.,
and at the Western Military Academy at Newcas-
tle, Ky. ; studied law; admitted to the bar and
practiced; elected district attorney of the third
judicial district in Montana in 1872; reelected in
1874 without opposition; elected in 1881 to the
twelfth legislative assembly of Montana as a mem-
ber of the council from Lewis and Clarke County;
chosen president of the council; elected a member
of the constitutional convention which met in
Helena in January, 1884; elected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat.
Toombs, Robert, was born in Wilkes County,
Ga., July 2, 1810; graduated from Union College,
New York; studied law, and began practicing at
Washington, Ga., in 1828; held several local of-
fices; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a State Rights Whig;
reelected to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-
second Congresses; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Georgia as a State Rights Democrat and
reelected, serving from March 4, 1853, to March
3, 1861, when he was expelled; served in the
Provisional Congress and Secretary of State of the
Confederate States; served in the Confederate
army; after the war he escaped arrest and went
to Europe; while in England admitted to the bar;
practiced law; returned to his home in Georgia in
1867, but refused to take the oath of allegiance to
the United States; for the remainder of his life de-
barred from all rights and privileges of citizenship;
died at Washington, Ga., December 15, 1885.
Toucey, Isaac, was boHi at Newtown, Conn.,
November 5, 1796; received a classical education;
studied law, and in 1818 began practice at Hart-
ford; State attorney for Hartford County 1822-
1825; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses
as a Democrat; defeated as the Democratic candi-
date for reelection; again attorney for Hartford
County 1842-1844; defeated as the Democratic
candidate for governor of Connecticut in 1845,
and again in 1846; elected to the legislature; again
defeated for governor in 1847; Attorney-General
of the United States 1848-49; State senator in
1850 and a member of the house of representatives
in 1852; elected a United States Senator from
Connecticut as a Democrat, serving from May 14,
1852, to March 3, 1857; Secretary of the Navy un-
der President Buchanan 1857-1861; died at Hart^
ford, Conn., July 30, 1869.
Towne, Charles A., of Duluth, Minn., was
born November 21, 1858, in Oakland County,
Mich.; educated in common schools and the Uni-
versity of Michigan; admitted to the bar in 1886;
moved to Duluth in 1890; elected t,o the Fifty-fourth
CongressasaRepublican; appointed a United States
Senator from Minnesota to fill vacancy caused by
death of C. K. Davis, serving from December 10,
1900, to January 28, 1901.'
Towns, George W. B., w4s born in Wilkes
County, Ga., May 4, 1801; received a limited edu-
cation; studied law, and in 1824 began practice in
Alabama; returned to Talbotton, Ga., in 1826;
served several years as a member of the State
house of representatives; elected a Representative
from Georgia to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Union Democrat, serving from December 7, 1835,
to September 1, 1836, when he resigned; elected
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected to the
Twentvrninth Congress (vice Washington Poe, re-
signed) as a Democrat; governor of Georgia 1847-
1851; died at Macon, Ga., July 15, 1854.
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Townseud, Amos, was born in Fayette County,
Pa., in 1831; mo'\*ed at an early age to Ohio and
became a citizen of Cleveland ; for ten years a mem-
ber of the city council, serving seven of those years
as its president ; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1873; elected to the Forty-fifth Con-
gress; reelected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican; died at St.
Augustine, Fla., March 17, 1895.
Tovrasend, Charles Champlin, of New Brigh-
ton, Pa., was born at Allegheny City, Pa., Novem-
ber 24, 1841; received a common school education;
manufacturer of wire rivets and wire nails; served
two years in the Army during the rebellion as a
private in Company A, Ninth Eegiment Pennsyl-
vania Reserve Volunteer Corps, and afterwards as
adjutant of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Townsend, DwigM, was born at New York
City in 1826; received an academic education; mer-
chant; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-eighth Congress (vice Henry G. Steb-
bins, resigned), serving from Decembers, 1864, to
March 3, 1865; elected to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Democrat; died in 1899.
Towusend, George, was a native of Queens
County, N. Y.; resided at Oyster Bay; elected a
Representative from New York to the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Congresses as a Democrat.
Townsend, Hosea, of Silver Cliff, Colo., was
born at Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, June 16,
1840; after ;preparation entered Western Reserve
College, Ohio, in 1860; left school to enter the
Army, and enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry in
1861; promoted to lieutenant, and resigned in 1863
on account of disability; admitted to the bar at
Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced the practice of
law at Memphis, Tenn., in 1865; elected to the
legislature of that State in 1869 as a Republican
and served one term; moved to Colorado in 1879,
and elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Townsend, James, was a native of Queens
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
New York to the Second Congress, but died at
Oyster Bay before taking his seat, in May, 1791.
Townsend, Martin I., was born at Hancock,
Mass., February 6, 1810; graduated from Williams
College, Massachusetts, in 1833; moved to Troy,
N. Y. ; studied law, andin 1836 was admitted to the
bar; district attorney for Rensselaer County 1842-
1845; member of the constitutional convention
1867-68; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as
a RepubUcan; died March 8, 1903.
Townsend, Washington, was born at West-
chester, Pa., in 1813; received a liberal education;
teller in a bank; studied law, and in 1844 began
practice; deputy attorney under Attorneys-General
Darragh and Cooper; cashier of the Bank of Ches-
ter 1849-1857, when he resigned to resume prac-
tice of law; delegate to the national Whig conven-
tion at Baltimore in 1852 and the Chicago national
Republican convention in 1860; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first
Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Republican; died at Westchester Pa
March 18, 1895. ' "
Townshend, Norton S., was born in England
December 25, 1815; came to the United States and
located at Avon, Ohio; received a liberal educa-
tion; elected a Representative froAi Ohio to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Democrat; died in
1895.
Townshend, Richard W. , was born in Prince
George County, Md., April 30, 1840; went to
Washington City when 10 years of age, and was
there educated in public and private schools;
moved to Illinois in 1858; taught school in Fayette
County; studied law at McLeansboro; admitted to
the bar in 1862; clerk of the circuit court of Ham-
ilton County 1863-1868; prosecuting attorney for
the twelfth judicial circuit 1868-1872; moved in
1873 from McLeansbpro to Shawneetown; mem-
ber of the Democratic State central committee of
Illinois 1864-65, 1874-75; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention at Baltimore in 1872;
elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Democrat;, died March 9, 1889.
Tracewell, Robert J., of Corydon, Ind., was
born in Warren County, Va., May 7, 1852, and
moved with his parents to Harrison County, Ind.,
in 1854; received a collegiate education, graduat-
ing from Hanover College, Indiana, in 1874; en-
tered his father's law office at Corydon; elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican; re-
nominated for Congress but defeated; appointed
Comptroller of the Treasury by President McKin-
ley in 1897.
Tracey, Charles, of Albany, N. Y., was born
in thecity of Albany May 27, 1847; received his
education at the Albany Academy, from which
he graduated in 1866; served in the Papal Zouaves
at Rome, Italy, portions of the years 1867-1870;
appointed aid-de-camp to Governor Tilden, of
New York, January 1, 1877; appointed manager
of the House of Refuge at Hudson, N. Y., by Gov-
ernor Cleveland, and reappointed to the same
office by Governor Hill in 1886; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Nicholas T. Kane;
took his seat December 5, 1887; reelected to the
Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con-
Traoey, John P., of Springfield, Mo., was born
m Wayne County, Ohio, September 18, 1836;
raised on a farm and educated in the public schools
of Ohio and Indiana; commenced reading law at
18 and teaching school at 19; moved to Missouri
at 22; enlisted as a private in the Union Army
March 1, 1862; mustered out with the rank of first
lieutenant March 10, 1865; commissioned lieuten-
ant-colonel of Enrolled Militia in April, 1865; ad-
mitted to the bar in May; settled in Stockton and
engaged in the practice of law; moved to Spring-
field in 1874 and engaged in journalism as the ed-
itor of a Republican newspaper; on the Grant
electoral ticket in 1868; Republican candidate for
railroad commissioner in 1878; commissioned
United States marshal for the western district of
Missouri February 4, 1890, and served until March
4, 1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a
Repubhcan; after leaving Congress he became en-
gaged in newspaper work at Springfield, Mo.
Tracy, Albert H. , was born at Norwich, Conn. ,-
June 17, 1793; received a classical education; stud-
ied medicine; moved to New York State in 1811;
studied law and in 1815 admitted to the bar; began
practice at Buffalo; elected a Representative from
New York to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and
Eighteenth Congresses as a Democrat; declined a
Cabinet position under President John Q. Adams-
State senator 1830-1837; defeated as a Whig can-
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didate for United States Senator in 1839; tendered
a seat m the Cabinet by President Tyler, but de-
clmed; died at Buffalo, N. Y., September 12, 1859.
Tracy, Andrew, was a native d Vermont; re-
ceived a classical education ; studied law and began
practice at Woodstock, Vt. ; served several years
in both branches of the legislature; elected a Rep-
resentative from Vermont to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a "Whig; died at Woodstock, October 28,
1868.
Tracy, Henry W. , was born in Luzerne County,
Pa., September 24, 1807; received a liberal educa-
tion; farmer and merchant; delegate to the na-
tional Republican convention in 1860; State repre-
sentative in 1861-62 ; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress as an
Independent Republican.
Tracy, Phineas L., was born at Norwich,
Conn., December 25, 1786; graduated from Yale
College in 1806; studied law, and began practice
atBatavia, N. Y., in 1813; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twentieth, Twenty-
first, and Twenty-second Congresses as a Democrat;
appointed presiding judge of Genesee Countjr,
N. Y., in 1841, and continued in that office until
1846, when he retired from professional life; died
at Batavia, N. Y., December 23, 1876.
Tracy, ITri, was a native of Franklin, Conn.;
graduated from Yale College in 1789; moved to
New York and located at Oxford; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Tracy, TJriali, was born at Franklin, Conn.,
February 2, 1755; graduated from Yale College in
1778; studied law and began practice at Litchfield;
served several years as a member of the State
house of representatives; speaker of the house in
1793; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the Third and Fourth Congresses, serving from
December 2, 1793, to December 6, 1796, when he
resigned, having been elected a United States Sen-
ator, vice Jonathan Trumbull, resigned; took his
seat in the Senate, and served until July, 19, 1807,
when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Trafton, Mark, was born at Bangor, Me., Aug-
ust 1, 1810; received a liberal education; studied
theology; pastor of a church at Westfield, Mass.;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the
Thirty -fourth Congress as an American; defeated
as the American candidate for the Thirty-fifth
Congress; resumed his ministerial duties, and was
pastor of a church at Mount Wallaston; died in
1901.
Train, Cbarles B. , was born at Framingham,
Mass., October 18, 1817; graduated from Brown
University in 1837; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Framingham; district attorney for six years;
member of the State house of representatives 1847-
48; elected a Representative from Massachusetts
to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; served in
the Union Army as a volunteer aid-de-camp to
General McClellan; moved to Boston; again served
in the State house of representatives 1868-1871;
attorney-general of Massachusetts 1871-1878; died
in 1896.
Trapier, Paul, was a Delegate from South
Carolina to the Continental Congress 1777-78.'
Treadwell, John, was born at Farmington,
Conn., November 23, 1745; graduated from Yale
College in 1767; studied law and began practice at
Farmington; State representative 17 76-1 785; mem-
ber of the Continental Congress 1785-86; member
of the State council 1786-1797; lieutenant-governor
of Connecticut in 1798; judge of probate 1789-1809;
died at Farmington, Conn., August 19, 1823.
Tredway, William M., of Danville, Va.; re-
ceived a liberal education ; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection.
Tredwell, Thomas, was bom at Smithtown,
Long Island, in 1742; graduated from Princeton
College in 1764; studied law and began practice at
Plattsburg; delegate to the provisional congress of
New York 1774-75; delegate to the State constitu-
tional convention 1776-77; member of the State
house of representatives 1777-78; judge of the
court of probate 1786-87; State senator 1786-1789;
d^egate to the State constitutional convention of
1788; elected a Representative from New York to
the Second and Third Congresses; delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1891 ; State sen-
ator 1803-1807; died at Plattsburg, N. Y., January
30, 1832.
Treloar, Williani M., of Mexico, Mo., was
born on a farm near Linden, Iowa County, Wis.,
September 21, 1850; received his primary educa-
tion in the common schools of his native county;
moved to Iowa in 1864, where he attended the
high school and the Iowa Wesleyan University at
Mount Pleasant; moved to Missouri and taught
English and music in Mount Pleasant College,
Huntsville, in 1872; located at Mexico, Audrain
County, in 1875, where he engaged in teaching,
filling important positions in the Synodical Female
College, at Fulton, Hardin College, and the public
schools of Mexico; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; appointed postmaster
at Mexico, Mo., April, 1898.
Tremain, Lyman, was born at Durham, N. Y.,
Junel4, 1819; received a liberal education; studied
law, and in 1840 began practice at Albany ; held sev-
eral local offices; elected attorney-general of New
York in 1858; elected a- Representative from New
York to the Forty-third Congress as a Repub-
lican; died at New York City November 30, 1878.
Trezvant, James, was a native of Sussex Coun-
ty, Va. ; received a liberal education; studied law,
and began practice at Jerusalem, Va. ; attorney-
general for the State of Virginia; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1820; served
in the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses; died in
Southampton County, Va., September 2, 1841.
Trig'g, Abram, of Virginia, was elected a Rep-
resentative from that State to the Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses.
Trigg', Connally P., of Abingdon, Va., was
born at Abingdon, Va., September 18, 1847; law-
yer; elected Commonwealth attorney for Wash-
ington County in 1872, which position he held
until he resigned in 1884; elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Trigg, John, of Virginia, was elected a Rep-
resentative_ from that State to the Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, and Eighth Congresses, serving from
May 15, 1797, to May 17, 1804, when he died.
Trimble, Carey A., was born at Hillsboro,
Ohio, September 13, 1813; graduated from the
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CONGKE88IONAL DIRECTORY.
Ohio University in 1833; studied medicine and
graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College in
1836; tutor for four years; on account of failing
health became a farmer; elected a Representative
from Ohio ti:) the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; defeated for reelection.
Trimble, David, was born in Frederick County,
Va., in June, 1782; graduated from William and
Mary College; studied law and began practice at
Mount Sterling, Ky.; served in the war of 1812;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
Nineteenth Congresses as a Democrat; died at
Trimble's Furnace, Ky., October 26, 1842.
Trimble, John, was born in Roane County,
Tenn., February 7, 1812; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law and began practice at Nash-
ville; attorney-general of Tennessee 1836-1842;
State representative 1843-44 and a State senator
1845-46 and 1859-1861, when he resigned; again
elected 1865-1867, when he resigned; United
States attorney from 1862 to 1864, when he re-
signed; elected a Representative from Tennessee
to the Fortieth Congress as a National Republican.
Trimble, Lawrence S. , was born at Fleming,
Ky., August 26, 1825; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and began practice at Paducah;
State representative 1851-52; judge of the equity
and criminal court of the first judicial circuit of
Kentucky 1856-1860; president of the New Or-
leans and Ohio Railroad Company 1860-1865;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
as a Democrat.
Trimble, South, of Frankfort, Ky., was born in
AVolfe County, Ky., April 13, 1864; educated in the
public schools of Frankfort and Excelsior Insti-
tute, located near that city; farmer by occupation;
elected to the Kentucky house of representatives
in 1898 and again in 1900, being elected speaker in
the last-named year; served in that capacity dur-
ing the memorable Goebel contest; elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Trimble, William A., was born at Woodford,
Ky., April 4, 1786; graduated from the Transyl-
vania College; studied law, and began practice at
Highland, Ohio; major of volunteers in the war
of 1812; appointed major of the Sixth United
States Infantry in 1813; lieutenant-colonel of the
First United States Infantry from 1814 until
elected a United States Senator from Ohio, serv-
ing from December 6, 1819, to December 13, 1821,
when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Triplett, Philip, was a native of Virginia;
moved to Kentucky and located at Owensboro;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses as
a Whig.
Trippe, Robert P., was a native of Georgia;
graduated from Franklin College; studied law,
and began practice at Forsyth; elected a Repre-
sentative from Georgia to the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; died in
1900. -
Trotter, James P., was born in Brunswick
County, Va., November 5, 1802; elected a United
States Senator from Mississippi (vice John Black,
resigned) as a Democrat, serving from February
19, 1838, to July 10, 1838, when he resigned; died
at Holly Springs, Miss., March 9, 1866.
Trotti, S. W., was a native of Barnwell, S. C;
received a common school education; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
seventh Congress (vice S. H. Butler, resigned),
serving from December 17, 1842, to March 3, 1843.
Troup, George Mcintosh, was born at Mcln-
toshBluff, Ala., Septembers, 1780; graduated from
Princeton College; studied law, and in 1799 began
practice at Savannah; State representative 1800-
1805; elected a Representative from Georgia to the
Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Con-
gresses; elected a United States Senator from
Georgia (vice W. W. Bibb, resigned) as a State
Rights Democrat, serving from 1816 to 1819 and re-
signed; again elected a United States' Senator,
serving from 1829 to 1833; died in Laurens County, \
Ga., May 3, 1856.
Trout, Michael C, of Sharon, Pa., was elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Democrat; defeated as the
Democratic candidate for reelection to the Thirty-
fourth Congress.
Trowbridge, Rowland E. , was bom at Elmira,
N. Y., June 18, 1821; moved to Michigan; gradu-
ated from Kenyon College, Ohio; farmer; State
senator 1856-1860; elected a Representative from
Michigan to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.
Trumbo, Andrew, was born in Bath County,
Ky., September 13, 1799; attended the public
schools; studied law, and began practice in 1824 at
Owingsville; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a Whig;
Presidential elector in 1848 on the Taylor and
Fillmore ticket.
Trumbull, Jonathan, was born at Lebanon,
Conn., March 26, 1740; graduated from Harvard
College in 1759; member of the colonial legislature
of Connecticut; appointed by the Continental Con-
gress paymaster of the Northern Military Depart-
ment in 1775; member of General Washington's
staff; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the First Congress as a Federalist; reelected to
the Second Congress, and October 24, 1791, was
chosen Speaker; reelected to the Third Congress;
elected United States Senator (vice S. M. Mitchell,
resigned), serving from 1795 to 1796, when he re-
signed, having been elected lieutenant-governor of
Connecticut 1789-1795; became governor in May,
1798, on account of the death of Governor Wolcott,
and was elected eleven terms as a Federalist; died
August 7, 1809.
Trumbull, Joseph (brother of Jonathan Trum-
bull), was born at Lebanon, Conn., March 11,
1737; graduated from Harvard College in 1756;
Delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Con-
gress 1774-75; served in the Revolutionarv Army
as Commissary-General 1775-1777; died at Leba-
non, Conn., July 23, 1778.
Trumbull, Joseph' (son of Jonathan Trum-
bull), was born at Lebanon, Conn., December 7,
1782; graduated from Yale in 1801; studied law,
and in 1804 began practice at Hartford; made pres-
ident of the Hartford Bank in 1828; State repre-
sentative in 1832; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twenty -third Congress (vice
W. W. Ellsworth, resigned) as a Whig; elected to
the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses;
again a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1848; governor of Connecticut 1849-50;
again elected to the State house of representatives
in 1851; died at Hartford, Conn., August 4, 1861.
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Trumbull, Lyman, was born at Colchester,
Conn., October 12, 1813; studied law, and began
practice m Illinois; member of the legislature of
illmois in 1840; secretary of stateof Illinois 1841^2;
justice of the supreme court of Illinois 1848-1853;
elected a Representativefrom Illinois to theThirty-
tourth Congress; elected a United States Senator
irom Illinois as a Republican (vice James Shields,
democrat; , and twice reelected, serving from De-
cember 3, 1855 to March 3, 1873; died at Chicago,
-111., June 25, 1896.
Tuck, Amos, was born at Parsonsfield, Me. ;
gradua,ted from Dartmouth College in 1835; tutor;
studied law and began practice at Exeter, N. H.;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Thirtieth Congress as an Independent; re-
elected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-
gresses; defeated for the Thirty-third Congress;
appointed naval oflScer of the port of Boston by
President Lincoln.
Tucker, Ebenezer, was born at Burlington,
N. J., in 1758; received a common school educa-
tion; served in the Revolutionary Armv; held
several local oflflces; moved to Tuckerton;" elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Nine-
teenth and Twentieth Congresses; judge of the
court of common pleas; died at Tuckerton, N. J.,
September 5, 1845.
Tucker, George, was born in Bermuda in 1775;
moved to Virginia; graduated from William and
Mary College in 1797; studied law, and began
practice at Lynchburg, Va. ; State representative;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the Six-
teenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses
without opposition; professor in the University of
Virginia 1825-1845; died at Charlottesville, Va.,
April 10, 1861.
Tucker, Henry St. George, was born at Wil-
liamsburg, Va., December' 29, 1780; received a
classical education; studied law and began practice
at Winchester, Va. ; elected a Representative from
Virginia to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con-
gresses; president of the Virginia court of appeals;
professor of law at the University of Virginia 1841-
1845; died at Winchester, Va., August 28, 1848.
Tucker, Henry St. George, of Staunton, Va.,
was born at Winchester, Va., April 5, 1853; edu-
cated at Washington and Lee University, Lexing-
ton, Va , graduating with the degree of A. M. in
1875, and with the degree of B. L. in 1876; prac-
ticed law in Staunton; had never held any public
office before his election to Congress; elected to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses; elected professor of constitutional law
in Washington and Lee University, of Lexington,
Va., to fill a vacancy caused by the death of his
father.
Tucker, John Bandolph, was born at Win-
chester, December 24, 1823; educated at the Uni-
versity of Virginia; lawyer; attorney-general of
Virginia 1857-1865; professor of equity and public
law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington;
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth , Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,' and Forty-ninth
Congresses as a Democrat; elected professor of con-
stitutional law in Washington and Lee University,
at Lexington, Va.; died • February 12, 1897, at
Lexington, Va.
Tucker, Starling, was a native of Halifax
County, N. C. ; moved to Mountain Shoals, S. C. ;
received a limited education; held several local I
offices; elected a Representative from South Caro-
lina to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; died at Mountain Shoals, S. C.,
February 4, 1834.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor, was born in Bermuda
in 1745; moved to South Carolina; .Delegate from
South Carolina to the Continental Congress 1787-88;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the First and Second Congresses; United States
Treasurer from December 1, 1810, until May 2, 1828,
when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Tucker, Tilghman M., was a native of North
Carolina; received a liberal education ; studied law
and began practice at Columbus, Miss. ; member
of the State house of representatives; governor
of Mississippi 1841-1843; elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Twenty-eighth Congress as
a Democrat; died in Alabama April 30, 1859.
Tufts, John Q,., was born near Aurora, Ind.,
July 12, 1840; moved with his parents to Iowa
in 1852; received a classical education; farmer;
member of the Iowa legislature 1869, 1871, and
1873; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
TuUy, Pleasant B., of Gilroy, Cal., was born
in Henderson County, Tenn., March 21, 1829;
educated in public and private schools; at the age
of 9 his father moved to Phillips County, Ark.;
went to California in 1853 and engaged in mining
four years; resided at Gilroy after 1857; studied
law; elected a delegate at large to the State con-
stitutional convention in 1879, and served on the
judiciary, the revenue, and the taxation commit-
tees; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Turley, Thomas Battle, of Memphis, Tenn.,
was born at Memphis April 5, 1845; served through
the civil war as a private in the Confederate army;
graduated from the law department of the Univer-
sity of Virginia in 1867 and immediately began
the practice of law at Meniphis; held no civil
office until appointed to the United States Senate
as a Democrat, July 20, 1897, to succeed Senator
Isham G. Harris, deceased; elected by the legisla-
ture to fill out the unexpired term, and sworn in
February 14, 1898, serving until March 3, 1901.
Turner, Benjamin Sterling, was born in
Halifax County, N. C, March 17, 1825; slave;
received no early education because the laws of
that State made it criminal to educate slaves;
moved to Alabama in 1830, where by clandestine
study he obtained a fair education; became a mer-
chant; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from Alabama to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican; defeated for the Forty-third
Congress.
Turner, Charles, was a native of Massachu-
setts; graduated from Harvard College, studied
theology arid became pastor of a parish in Dux-
bury, Mass. ; elected a Representative from Massa-
achusetts to the Eleventh Congress (successfully
contesting the seat of William Baylies) as a War
Democrat; reelected to the Twelfth Congress;
defeated for reelection.
Turner, Charles H., of New York, N. Y., was
born atWentworth, N. H., May 26, 1861; received
his primary education in the district schools of his
native State; moved to New York in November,
1879; employed for six months on the elevated
railroad ; drove an ice wagon for two years ; entered
the class of 1886 in Columbia College, and pursued
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a course of two years; after leaving college re-
engaged in the ice business, and continued therein
till he became a candidate for State senator in 1888;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat
to succeed Frank T. Fitzgerald, resigned.
Turner, Daniel (son of James Turner), was
born in Warren County, N. C, September 21, 1796;
received a liberal education; entered the Military
Academy at West Point in 1813 and appointed
lieutenant of artillery in 1814; resigned his com-
mission in 1815; student for two years at William
and Mary College, Virginia; member of the house
of commons of North Carolina 1819-1823; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Twen-
tieth Congress; died at Mare Island, Cal., July 21,
1860.
Turner, Erastus J. , of Hoxie, Kans., was born
at Lockport, Erie County, Pa., December 26, 1846;
attended college at Henry, 111., 1859-60; enlisted
in Company E, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, in 1864,
and remained till the close of the war; a student
at the Adrian College, Michigan, 1866-1868; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1871; moved to Kansas in
1879; elected a member of the legislature in 1881
and 1883; elected secretary of the Kansas board of
railroad commissioners April 1, 1883, which posi-
tion he resigned August 1, 1886, to accept the
nomination for Congress, and elected to the Fif-
tieth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-first Congress.
Turner, George, of Spokane, Wash., was born
at Edina, Mo., February 25, 1850; educated in the
common schools; lawyer; United States marshal
for the southern and middle districts of Alabama
1876-1880; associate justice of the supreme court
for the Territory of Washington from July 4, 1884,
till February 15, 1888; member of the constitu-
tional convention which framed the constitution
for the State of Washington; prior to the campaign
of 1896 was a Republican in politics, but in that
campaign left the Republican party and supported
Mr. Bryan for President; assisted, as a Silver Re-
publican, in that year, to organize a fusion of Sil-
ver Republicans, Democrats, and Populists to
oppose the Republican party; these elements, thus
united, having carried the State of Washington
for Mr. Bryan and elected a majority of the legis-
lature, was by them elected to the United States
Senate as a Fusionist, and took his seat March 4,
1897; his term of service expired March 3, 1903,
when President Roosevelt appointed him a mem-
ber of the Alaska Boundary Commission.
Turner, Henry G., of Quitman, Ga., was
elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Turner, James, was born in Southampton
County, Va., in 1766; moved with his father to
Warren County, N. C, in 1770; received a com-
mon school education; private in the Revolution-
ary Army; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1797-1800, and of the State senate 1801-2;
governor of North Carolina 1802-1805; elected a
United States Senator in 1805 as a Democrat, and
reelected, serving from 1805 to 1816, when he re-
signed on account of ill health; died at Blooms-
bury, N. C, January 15, 1824.
Turner, James, was a native of Maryland; re-
ceived a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection.
Turner, Oscar, was born at New Orleans, La.,
Februarys, 1825; his father moved with his family
to Fayette County, Ky., in 1826; Oscar Turner set-
tled on a farm in Ballard County, 18 miles from
the county seat, in 1843; studied law in the law
department of Transylvania University at Lexing-
ton, Ky., in 1847; practiced until 1861; elected
Commonwealth attorney in 1851, held the posi-
tion four years, and resigned; elected to the State
senate of Kentucky in 1867 and served four years;
a number of years chairman of the Democratic
central committee of Ballard County, and chair-
man of the Congressional committee of the First
Congressional district, known as the Gibraltar dis-
trict of Democracy, and long represented by Linn
Boyd; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as an
Independent Democrat; reelected to the Forty-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; died in
1896.
Turner, Oscar, of Jefferson County, Ky., was
born at Woodlands, Ballard County, Ky., October
19, 1867; attended the common schools of the
neighborhood till some time after his father was
elected to Congress, when he went to Washing-
ton and attended the public schools for two or
three sessions; returned to Kentucky, where he at-
tended the Louisville Rugby School for three or
four years; studied law at the University of Louis-
ville and the University of Virginia, receiving his
degree when 19 years old; traveled very exten-
sively, and began the practice of law in 1891 at
Louisville, Ky., in which profession he was en-
gaged when elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat.
Turner, Smith S. , was born in Warren County,
Va., November 21, 1842; cadet at the Virginia
Military Institute when the civil war commenced,
and subsequently given an honorary diploma;
joined the Confederate army in 1861; served with
Gen. T. J. Jackson as drill officer during the first
year of his service, and as an officer of Pickett's
division during the remainder of the war; once
wounded, and, about the close of the war, badly
injured and disfigured by an explosion of gunpow-
der; taught mathematics in a female seminary at
Winchester, Va. , for two years after the war; stud-
ied law, and admitted to the bar in 1869; member
of the Virginia legislature 1869-1872; for a number
of years prosecutmg attorney for Warren County,
Va. ; for eight years a member of the State board
of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute;
elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat,
to succeed Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall, resigned, at
a special election held January 30, 1894; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress; died April 8, 1898.
Turner, Thomas, of Mount Sterling, Ky., was
born at Richmond, Ky., September 10, 1821; edu-
cated at the Richmond Academy and at Centre
College, Danville, where he graduated in Septem-
ber, 1840; studied law, and began practicing at
Richmond; moved in November, 1854, to Mount
Sterling, Ky.; appointed Commonwealth attor-
ney in March, 1846, and resigned in 1849; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1861-
1863; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress and re-
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
died in 1900.
Turner, Thomas J., was born in Trumbull
County, Ohio, April 5, 1815; received a limited
education; moved to Butler Countv, Pa., in 1825,
and worked on a farm; moved to St. Paul, De-
catur County, Ind., in 1833, and later to Freeport,
111.; studied law and practiced; judge of probate
in 1842; postmaster in 1844; elected State district
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851
attorney in 1845; elected a Representative from
Illinois to the Thirtieth Congress as a Democrat;
member of the State house of representatives in
loo4, and was speaker.
Turney, Hopkins L., was born in Smith
County, Tenn., October 3, 1797; tailor; served in
the Seminole war; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Winchester; member of the State house of
representatives 1828-1838; elected a Bepresenta-
tive from Tennessee to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-
sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses; a United
States Senator from Tennessee 1845-1851; died at
Winchester, Tenn., August 1, 1857.
Turney, Jacob, was born at Greensburg, Pa.,
February 18, 1825; received a limited education;
printer; studied law and began practice at Greens-
burg; elected district attorney for Westmoreland
County in 1850 and 1853; Presidential elector on
the Buchanan ticket in 1856 ; State senator for three
years; elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylva-
nia to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses
as a Democrat; died at Greensburg, Pa., October
4, 1891.
Turpie, David, of Indianapohs, Ind., was
born in Hamilton Countv, Ohio, July 8, 1829;
graduated from Kenyon College in 1848; studied
law, and admitted to practice at Logansport, Ind.,
in 1849; appointed by Governor Wright, judge of
the court of common pleas in 1854, and judge of
the circuit court in 1856, both of which offices he
resigned; member of the legislature of Indiana in
1852 and 1858; elected a United States Senator in
1863 for the unexpired term of J. D. Bright, and
immediately succeeding J. A. Wright, who served
by appointment of the governor; elected a mem-
ber of the house of representatives of the general
assembly of Indiana, and served as speaker of that
body 1874-75; appointed one of the three commis-
sioners to revise the laws of Indiana in 1878, serv-
ing as such three years; appointed United States
district attorney for the State of Indiana in Au-
gust, 1886, and served as such until March 3, 1887;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat
February 2, 1887, and took his seat March 4, 1887;
reelected in 1893, serving until March 3, 1899.
Turpin, Iiouis W. , of Newbern, Ala., was
born in Charlottesville, Va., February 22, 1849;
moved to Perry County, Ala., in 1858; cotton
planter; tax assessor of Hale County seven years;
served as chairman of the Democratic executive
committee of • his county six years, and was ex
officio a member of the district executive com-
mittee; a candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Congress in 1882, and defeated; elected to the
Fifty-flrst Congress as a Democrat; unseated June
4, 1890, by McDuffie; elected to the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses.
Turrell, Joel, was born in Vermont in 1795;
graduated from Middlebury College in 1816; moved
to Oswego, N. Y.; State representative in 1831;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat; died at Oswego, N. Y., December 26,
1859.
Tuthill, Joseph H., was born at Blooming
Grove, N. Y., February 11, 1811; attended the
public schools; merchant; president of a glass
company; clerkof Ulster County 1843-1847; mem-
oer of Ulster County board of supervisors for sev-
eral years; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat; died
at Ellenville, N. Y., July 27, 1877.
Tuthill, Selah, was born in Ulster County,
N. Y., in 1775; received a liberal education;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Seventeenth Congress, but died September 7, 1821,
before taking his seat.
Tweed, William M., was born at New York
City April 3, 1823; received a liberal education;
chair maker; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat;
member of the board of supervisors for New York
County in 1858; defeated as the Peace candidate for
sheriff in 1861; held several local positions; State
senator 1868-1870; tried in 1874 on charges of offi-
cial embezzlement, found guilty, and sentenced to
twelve years' imprisonment; escaped in December,
1875, and captured in Spain; brought back to the
United States on a man-of-war; died at New York
City April 12, 1878.
Tweedy, John H., was born in Connecticut;
graduated from Yale College; studied law, and in
1836 began practice at Milwaukee,. Wis. ; delegate
to the convention which framed the State consti-
tution in 1846; elected a Delegate from Wisconsin
Territory to the Thirtieth Congress as a Whig;
defeated as the Whig candidate for governor in
1848; died at Milwaukee, Wis., November 12, 1891.
Tweedy, Samuel, a native of Connecticut, was
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Twenty-third Congress.
Twichell, Ginery, was born at Athol, Mass.,
August 26, 1811; received a liberal education; in-
terested in the carrying of mails and stage coaches;
engaged in railroading; elected a Representative
J from Massachusetts to the Fortieth, Forty-first,
and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican;
died at Brookline, Mass., July 23, 1883.
Tyler, Asher, was born at Bridgewater, N. Y.,
May 10, 1798; graduated from Hamilton College
in 1817; studied law and began practice at Elli-
cottville; held several local offices; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Twenty-eighth
Congress as a Whig; moved to Elmira and engaged
in railroad operations; died at Elmira, N. Y.,
August 10, 1875.
Tyler, D. Gardiner, of Charles City County,
Va., was, born at East Hampton, Long Island, New
York, in 1846; entered Washington College, Lex-
ington, Va., in 1862, leaving there in 1863 to join
the Confederate army; served as a private in the
Army of Northern Virginia, surrendering at Ap-
pomattox; went to Europe in October, 1865, and
pursued a course of classical studies at Oarlsruhe,
Grand Duchy of Baden; returned to the United
States in the autumn of 1867, and again entered
Washington College; graduated from the law
school of that institution in 1869; director of State
lunatic asylum at Williamsburg, Va., 1884-1887;
visitor of William and Mary College; Presidential
elector on Democratic ticket in 1888; elected to
State senate in 1891; elected to the Fifty -third
and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; again
elected to the State senate.
Tyler, James M. , of Brattleboro, Vt., was born
at Wilmington, Vt., April 27, 1835; educated at
Brattleboro Academy; graduated from the Law
University of Albany, N. Y., and admitted to the
bar of Vermont in September, 1860; member of
the State legislature of Vermont in 1863 and 1864;
State attorney in 1866 and 1867; trustee of the
Vermont Asylum for the Insane in 1875; elected
to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as
a Republican; resumed the practice of law; ap-
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pointed one of the judges of the supreme court of
the State in September, 1887.
Tyler, Jolin, was born in Charles City County,
Va., March 29, 1790; graduated from "William and
Mary College in 1806; studied law and practiced;
member of the State house of representatives 1811-
1816; elected a Kepresentative from Virginia to the
Fourteenth Congress ( vice John Clop ton , deceased )
as a State Eights Democrat; reelected to the Fif-
teenth and Sixteenth Congresses; again a member
of the State house of representatives 1823-1825;
governor of Virginia 1825-1827; a United States
Senator from Virginia 1827-1836, when he re-
signed; joined the Whig party, and elected Vice-
President on the Harrison ticket in 1840; became
President of the United States after the death of
President Harrison April 4, 1841; delegate to the
peace convention in 1861; renounced allegiance to
the United States, and delegate to the Confederate
Provisional Congress in 1861; elected to the Con-
federate Congress, but died before taking his seat,
at Richmond, Va., January 18, 1862.
Tyner, James N., was born at Brook ville, Ind.,
January 17, 1826; received an academic education,
graduating in 1844; spent ten years in business;
studied law, and began its practice at Peru, Ind. ;
secretary of the State senate for four successive
sessions, commencing in 1857; Presidential elector
in 1860; special agent of the Post-Office Depart-
ment 1861-1866; elected a Eepresentative from
Indiana as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress
at a special election (occasioned by the election
of D. D. Pratt to the United States Senate), and
reelected to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses; appointed by President Grant gover-
nor of Colorado, but declined; accepted the posi-
tion of Second Assistant Postmaster-General, serv-
ing from February 26, 1875, to July 12, 1876, and
Postmaster-General, serving from July 12, 1876, to
March 3, 1877; appointed by President Hayes
First Assistant Postmaster-General, serving from
March 16, 1877, to his resignation in October, 1881;
assistant attorney-general for the Post-Office De-
partment 1889-1893, and from May, 1897, to 1903;
delegate to the International Postal Congresses at
Paris in 1878, and at Washington in 1897.
Tyson, Jacob, was born in Montgomery County,
Pa., in 1793; received a common school education;
moved to New York and located at Richmond;
member of the State senate in 1828; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Eighteenth
Congress.
Tyson, Job Roberts, was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., February 8, 1803; received a liberal
education; taught school; studied law, and began
practice at Philadelphia; held several local offices;
served in the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Whig; died at Wood-
lawn Hall, Pa., June 27, 1858.
XTdree, Daniel, was a native of Philadelphia,
Pa. ; received a common school education; moved
to Berks County and became a merchant; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1799-
1805; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, vice
John M. Hyneman, resigned; elected to the Six-
teenth Congress, vice Joseph Heister, resigned;
elected to the Seventeenth Congress, vice Ludwig
Worman, deceased; reelected to the Eighteenth
Congress; died at Reading, Pa., July 22, 1828.
TJnderhill, John Quincy, of New Rochelle,
JN. Y., was born in that place February 19, 1848;
educated in private and public schools and at the
College of the City of New York; engaged in the
business of fire insurance; president and trustee
of his native village several times; elected to the
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat.
Trnderhill, Walter, was a native of New York
City; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Thirty-first Congress as a Whig.
Underwood, John W. H. , was born in Elbert
County, Ga., November 20, 1816; received a lib-
eral education; studied law and began practice at
Rome, Ga., in 1834; delegate to the State consti-
tutional convention of 1850; member of the State
house of representatives in 1857, and was speaker;
elected a Eepresentative from Georgia to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; retired from
the House January 23, 1861, and joined the Con-
federacy; after the war resumed the practice of
law at Rome, Ga. ; for several years a judge of the
superior and supreme courts of Georgia, and a
member of President Arthur's tariff commission;
died at Rome, Ga., July 18, 1888.
Underwood, Joseph. Sogers, was born in
Goochland County, Va., October 24, 1791; moved
with his uncle to Kentucky in 1803; educated at
the University of Lexington; studied law; served
in the war of 1812; admitted to the bar and began
practice at Glasgow, Ky.; held several local
offices; member of the State house of represen-
tatives 1816-1819; moved to Bowling Green in
1823; Presidential elector on the Clay ticket in
1824; again a member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1825-26; judge of the State court of
■appeals 1828-1835; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as
a Whig; elected a United States Senator from
Kentucky as a Whig, serving from 1847 to 1853;
died near Bowling Green, Ky., August 23, 1876.
Underwood, Oscar W., of Birmingham, Ala.,
was born at Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky.,
May 6, 1862; educated at Rugby School, Louisville,
and the University of Virginia; commenced the
practice of law at Birmingham September, 1884;
chairman of Democratic executive committee for
the Ninth district in the campaign of 1892; nomi-
nated in 1894 and elected to the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; seat was successfully contested
by Truman H. Aldrich, Republican and Populist:
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses. '
Underwood, Warner L. , was born in Gooch-
land County, Va., August 7, 1808; graduated from
the University of Virginia in 1830; studied law
and began practice at Bowling Green, Ky. ; moved
to Texas in 1833, and in 1840 returned to Ken-
tucky; member of the State house of representa-
tives m 1848, and the State senate in 1849; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirtv-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses as an American;
declined a reelection.
Updegraff, Jonathan T. , was born in Jefferson
County Ohio; educated in the common schools and
at i ranklin College in that State; farmer and physi-
cian; studied medicine and graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, and afterwards at the
medical schools of Edinburgh and Paris; practiced
his profession, but devoted a lai-ge share of his time
and interests to agricultural pursuits ; served as a sur-
geon in the Union Army during the lattei- part of
the war; Presidential elector in 1872; memberofthe
Ohio senate in 1872 and 1873; temporary president
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of the Republican State convention in 1873, and
chairman of the State Eepublican central commit-
tee in 1875; delegate to the national Refiublican
convention in 1876; elected to the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican; died
November 30, 1882.
TJpdegraff, Thomas, of McGregor, Iowa, was
born in Tioga County, Pa., April 3, 1834; received
an academic education; appointed clerk of the
district court of Clayton County, Iowa, in April,
1856; elected to that office the same year and re-
elected in 1858; admitted to the bar and entered
upon the practice of law in 1861 ; member of the
State house of representatives and chairman of the
committee on judiciary in 1878; elected to the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Re-
publican; member of the board of education and
city solicitor of McGregor; delegate to the national
Republican convention in 1888, and member of the
notification committee; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
TJpliam, Charles 'Weiitworth., was born at
St. Johns, New Brunswick, May 4, 1802; gradu-
ated from Harvard College in 1821; merchant;
studied theology; clergyman at Salem, Mass.,
1824-1844; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives 1840-1849; defeated as the Whig can-
didate for the Thirty-second Congress; mayor of
Salem in 1852; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1853; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-third Congress; de-
feated for reelection; State senator 1857-58; again
a member of the State house of representatives
1859-60; published Letters on the Logos (1828),
Lectures on Witchcraft (1832), Life of John C.
Fremont, and other works; died at Salem, Mass.,
June 14, 1875.
TTpham, George B. , was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1769; graduated from Harvard College in
1789; served several years as a member of the
State house of representatives, and two years as
speaker; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Seventh Congress; died at
Claremont, N. H., February 10, 1848.
Upham, Jabez, was a native of Massachusetts;
graduated from Harvard College in 1785; studied
law, and began practice at Claremont, N. H. ; moved
to Brookfleld, Mass., and practiced law; membe,r
of the State house of representatives; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Tenth
Congress; reelected to the Eleventh Congress; died
at Brookfleld, Mass., in 1811.
trpham, Nathaniel, was bom at Deerfield,
N. H., June 9, 1774; received a classical education;
merchant; served as a member of the State house
of representatives, also of the executive council;
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died at Rochester, N. H.,
July 10, 1829.
TTpham, William, was born at Leicester, Mass.,
in August, 1792; moved to Vermont in 1802 with
his parents; graduated from the University of Ver-
mont; studied law, and began practice at Mont-
pelier, Vt., in 1812; served two years in the State
house of representatives; State attorney for Wash-
ington County in 1829; again a member of the
State house of representatives in 1830; elected a
United States Senator from Vermont as a Whig,
serving from 1843 to 1853; died at Washington,
D. C, January 14, 1853.
Upson, Columbus, of San Antonio, Tex., was
born in Onondaga County, N. Y., October 17, 1829;
educated a lawyer; admitted to the bar at Syracuse,
N. Y., in 1851; settled in Texas in 1854; engaged
in the practice of law; served in the Confederate
army as a volunteer, with rank of colonel, on the
staff of Gen. W. H. C. Whiting; appointed by
the Confederate Government associate justice of
Arizona in 1862; Democratic elector in 1876; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Gustave
Sphleicher, and reelected to ihe Forty-seventh
Congress; resumed the practice of law.
Upson, Charles, was born at Southington,
Conn., March 19, 1821; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law and admitted to the bar;
began practice at Coldwater, Mich. ; held several
local offices; prosecutingattorney two years; mem-
ber of the State senate 1855-56; elected attorney-
general of Michigan 1861 and 1862; elected a Rep-
resentative from Michigan to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Upson, William H. , was born at Worthington,
Franklin County, Ohio, January 11, 1823; received
a classical education, and in 1842 graduated from
Western Reserve College; studied law, and began
practice at Akron, Ohio; State senator 1854-55;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-
first and Forty-second Congresses as a Republican.
Upton, Charles Horace, was born at Belfast,
Me., August 23, 1812; moved to Falls Church, Va.;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Republican; died at Geneva, Switzerland, June 17,
1877.
Urner, IVEilton G. , of Frederick, Md., was born
in Liberty District, Frederick County, Md., July
29, 1839; spent his boyhood upon his father's farm;
educated in the common schools and at Free-
land Seminary, Montgomery County, Pa., and
Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa.; tiught
school; studied law, and admitted to the bar in
1863; elected State attorney for his native county
in 1871, serving four years; Republican Presiden-
tial elector at large for Maryland in 1876; elected
to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses
as a Republican.
Vail, George, was born in Morristown, N. J.,
July 21, 1809; received a liberal education; manu-
facturer of telegraph instruments; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-third and
Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat; consul
at Glasgow; died at Morristown, N. J., May 23,
1875.
Vail, Henry, was a native of New York; elected
a Representative from New York to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat; died at Troy, N. Y.,
June 25, 1833.
Valentine, Edward K., of West Point, Nebr.,
was born at Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa,
June 1, 1843; received a common school education;
learned the printer's trade, and worked at the
same until the breaking out of the war in 1861;
enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois Infantry;
promoted to second lieutenant, and honorably dis-
charged; in the spring of 1863 reenlisted as a pri-
vate in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry; promoted to
adjutant of the regiment, and served until June,
1866, having been twice brevetted for "efficient
and meritorious services;" located in Nebraska in
1866; appointed register of the United States land
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CONGEESSIOKAL DIRECTORY.
office at Omaha in 1869; studied law, admitted to
the bar, and engaged in practice until the fall of
1875, when elected judge of the sixth judicial dis-
trict, serving as such until elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.
Valk, Williani W., was a native of South
Carolina; moved to Flushing, N. Y.; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an American.
Vallandighain, Clement L., was born at
New Lisbon, Ohio, July 29, 1820; received a clas-
sical education; moved to Maryland, and for two
years the preceptor of an academy at Snow Hill;
returned to Ohio in 1840; studied law, and in 1842
began practice at Dayton, Ohio; edited the Daily
Empire 1847-1849; delegate to the national Dem-
ocratic convention at Cincinnati in 1856; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress (after a successful contest of the election of
Lewis D. Campbell) as a Democrat; again elected
to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses;
defeated for the Thirty-eighth Congress by R. C.
Schenck, Republican; arrested by the Union mil-
itary authorities in 1863 for treasonable utterances
and banished to the Confederate States; went
from Wilmington to Bermuda and thence to Can-
ada, where he remained until after the war; during
his exile was defeated as the Democratic candidate
for governor of Ohio; delegate from Ohio to the
national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1864
and in New York in 1868; died at Lebanon, Ohio,
June 17, 1871.
Van Aernam, Henry, was born at Marcellus,
N. Y., March 11, 1819; received an academic edu-
cation; studied medicine at the Geneva and Wil-
loughby Medical colleges; by profession a phy-
sician and surgeon; member of the legislature of
the State of New York in 1858; surgeon in the
Union Volunteer Army 1862-1864; Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-ninth and For-
tieth Congresses; Commissioner of Pensions 1869-
1871 ; elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; resumed the practice
of his profession at Franklinville, N. Y. ; died June
1, 1894.
Van Allen, James Q,. , was a native of Rensse-
laer County, N. Y. ; attended the public schools;
member of the State house of representatives in
1804; elected a Representative from New York to
the Tenth Congress.
Van Allen, John E. , was a native of Rensse-
laer County, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Congresses; State repre-
sentative 1800-1801.
Van Alstjme, Thomas J., of Albany, N. Y.,
was born at Richmondville, Schoharie County,
N. Y., July 25, 1827; educated in the common
school of the village, and at Moravia Academy,
Hartwick Seminary, and Hamilton College, grad-
uating in 1848; studied law at Albany, and admit-
ted to practice in 1849; county judge of Albany
County; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Van Auken, Daniel M., was born in Pike
County, Pa., January 15, 1826; received a classical
education; studied law and began practice at Mil-
ford, Pa. ; prosecuting attorney for Pike County,
1855-1859; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses as
a Democrat.
Van Buren, John, was a native of Ulster
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education;
studied law and began practice at Kingston, N. Y. ;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat; died at Kingston, N. Y., January
16, 1855.
Van Buren, Martin, was born at Kinderhook,
N. Y., December 5, 1782; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law, and in 1803 bejgan practice at
Kinderhook; moved to Hudson in 1809; State
senator 1813-1820; attorney-general of the State
of New York 1815-1819; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention in 1821; elected a United
States Senator from New York as a Democrat,
serving from 1821 to 1828, when he resigned to be-
come governor of New York; resigned March 12,
1829, to become Secretary of State of the United
States, and resigned August 1, 1831, having been
appointed minister to Great Britain, but the Sen-
ate rej ected the nom ination ; elected Vice-President
in 1832; elected President of the United States in
1836; defeated as the Democratic candidate in
1840 for reelection; the antislavery candidate for
President in 1848; died at Kinderhook, N. Y.,
July 24, 1862.
Van Cortlandt, Philip, was born at Cortlandt
Manor, N.Y., September 1, 1749; received aglaggical
education; became a civil engineer; served in thg---
Revolutionary Army and mustered out of the
service as brigadier-general; delegate to the State
convention which adopted the Federal Constitu-
tion in 1788; served several years in both branches
of the State legislature; elected a Representative
from New York to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses;
died at Cortlandt Manor, N. Y., November 5, 1831.
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, was born at Cortlandt
Manor, N. Y., August 29, 1762; received a com-
mon school education; State representative 1793-
1795; elected a Representative from New York to
the Twelfth Congress as a Democrat; died at Cort-
landt Manor, N. Y., in July, 1848.
Van Dyke, John, was born at Leamington,
N. J., April 3, 1807; received a liberal educa,tion;
studied law and began practice at New Brunswick;
mayor of New Brunswick ; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-first Congress;
judge of the New Jersey supreme court; died at
Wabasha, Minn., December 24, 1878.
Van Dyke, Nicholas, was born in Newcastle
County, Del., September 25, 1738; elected a Dele-
gate from Delaware to the Continental Congress
1777-1782; died in Newcastle County, Del., Feb-
ruary 19, 1789.
Van Dyke, Nicholas, was born at Newcastle,
Del. , December 20, 1769; graduated from Princeton
College in 1788; held several local offices; elected
a Representative from Delaware to the Tenth and
Eleventh Congresses; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Delaware, serving from December 1,
1817, to May 21, 1826, when he died, at New-
castle, Del.
Van Eaton, Henry S., was born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, September 14, 1826; graduated from
Illinois College; moved to Woodville, Miss., in
1848, where he taught school and studied law-
elected district attorney in 1858, and to the State
legislature in 1859; served on the Confederate side-
resumed the practice of law; appointed chancellor
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of the tenth Mississippi district in 1880; elected to
the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrat; died May 30, 1898.
Van Gaasbeck, Peter, was born in Ulster
County, N. Y.; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thu'd Congress.
Van Horn, Burt, was born at Newfane, N. Y.,
October 28, 1823; farmer; received a liberal educa-
tibn; member of the State house of representatives
1858-1860 ; elected a Representative from New York
to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses as a Republican.
Van Horn, George, of Cooperstown, N. Y.,
was born m Otsego County, N. Y., February 5,
1850; educated in the common schools, the Coop-
erstown Seminary, and the New Berlin Academy;
studied law and admitted to the bar in February,
1871 ; elected clerk of the county of Otsego in 1881,
and reelected in 1884; twice elected supervisor of
Otsego; member of the Democratic county com-
mittee; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat.
Van Horn, R. T., of Kansas City, Mo., was
born at East Mahoning, Indiana County, Pa.,
May 19, 1824; attended the ordinary schools; at
15 years of age entered the office of the Indiana
j (Pa. ) Register, serving four years as an apprentice;
moved to Ohio in 1844, and to Missouri in 1855,
where he established the Kansas City Journal;
^^ elected mayor of that city as the Union candidate
/^ / in 1861, and again in 1865; served during the war
n 'las an officer of the Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry;
7r\ (elected to the Missouri senate in 1862; elected to
the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Con-
gresses; coUel^tor ol internal revenue of the Sixth
district of Missouri 1875-1881; delegate to the
Republican national conventions of 1864, 1868,
1872, 1876, and 1880; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress (being seated after a contest in
place of J. C. Tarsney).
Van Home, Archibald, was elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Tenth and Elev-
enth Congresses. '
Van Home, Espy, was bom in Lycoming
County, Pa. ; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses; died at Williamsport, Pa., June 25, 1829.
Van Home, Isaac, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; served in the Revolutionary Army; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Sev-
enth and Eighth Congresses; receiver of public
moneys at Zanesville, Ohio.
Van Houton, Isaac B., was a native of Rock-
land County, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-third Congress as a
Democrat; died at Clarkestown, N. Y.
Van Ness, John P., was born at Ghent, N. Y.,
in 1770; received a liberal education; studied law,
and admitted to the bar, but never practiced;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Seventh Congress as a Democrat; lost his seat in
Congress by accepting the position as major of the
militia of the District of Columbia, January 17,
1803; elected mayor of Washington, D. C; held
several local positions; died at Washington, D. C,
March 7, 1847.
Van Rensselaer, Henry, was born at Albany,
N Y., in 1810; graduated from West Point Mili-
tary Academy in 1831; commissioned brevet sec-
ond lieutenant of the Fifth United States Infantry,
July 1, 1831, and resigned January 27, 1832;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; served in the
Union Army as a colonel; died at Cincinnati, Ohio,
March 23, 1864.
Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, was bom in New
York in 1741; graduated from Princeton College
in 1758; took an active interest in the Revolution-
ary war; elected a Representative from New York
to the First Congress; Presidential elector in 1801;
lieutenant-governor of New York 1801-1804; died
at Albany, N. Y., February 22, 1810.
Van Rensselaer, Killiau K., was born in
Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1763; received a lib-
eral education; elected a Representative from New
York to the Seventh Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh
Congresses; died at Albany, N. Y., June 18, 1845.
Van Rensselaer, Solomon, was born in Rens-
selaer County, N. Y., Augusts, 1774; received a lib-
eral English education ; entered the United States
Army; promoted to be captain; again promoted to
bemajor January 8, 1799, and mustered out in June,
1800; adjutant-general of New York in 1801, 1810,
and 1813; served in the war of 1812 as lieutenant-
colonel of New York Volunteers; elected a Rep;,__
resentative from New York to the Sjxteeiitff^
Congress as a Federalist; reelected't6 the Seven-
teenth Congress, serving from December 6, 1819,
to January 14, 1822, when he resigned to become
postmaster at Albany; died near Albany, April
23, 1852.
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, was bom at New •
York, November 1, 1765; graduated from Harvard
College in 1782; served in the State senate 1791-
1795; lieutenant-governor of New York 1795-18P1;
major-general of volunteers in the war of 1812 ;
member of the canal comnfission 1816-1839, serv-
ing fourteen years as its president; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Seventeenth
Congress (vice Solomon Van Rensselaer, resigned)
as an Adams man; reelected to the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; died at
Albany, N. Y., January 26, 1839.
Van Schaick, Isaac W. , was born at Coxsackie,
Greene County, N. Y., December 7, 1817; received
such an education as the common schools afforded;
engaged in the manufacture of flour; filled various
local offices in his native State; moved to Wiscon-
sin in 1861; elected to the Milwaukee common
council in 1871; elected to the Wisconsin assembly
1872-1874; elected to the Wisconsin senate 1877-78,
1879-80, and 1881-82; elected to the Forty-ninth
and Fifty -first Congresses as a Republican; died
August 22, 1901.
Van Trump, Philadelph, was born at Lan-
caster, Ohio, November 15, 1810; received a lim-
ited education; learned the art of printing; became
editor of the Lancaster Gazette and Enquirer;
delegate to the national Whig convention in 1852;
president of the Bell and Everett State convention
in 1860; judge of the court of common pleas 1862-
1866; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses
as a Democrat.
Van Valkenburg, Robert B., was born in
Steuben County, N. Y., September 4, 1821; received
a liberal education; studied law, and began prac-
ticing at Bath, N. Y. ; member of the State house
of representatives 1852, 1857, and 1858; organized
seventeen regiments for the civil war; elected a
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CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOKY.
Representative from New York to the Thirty-
seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; took the field as colonel of the One hundred
and seventh Begiment of New York Volunteers,
and was its commander at the battle of Antietam;
minister to Japan 1866-1869; died at Suwanee
Springs, Fla., August 2, 1888.
Van Voorhis, Henry Clay, of Zanesville,
Ohio, was born in Licking Township, Muskingum
Countv, Ohio, May 11, 1852; educated in the pubhc
schools and at Denison University; admitted to
the bar in 1874; delegate to the Republican national
convention at Chicago in 1884; elected to the Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Repub-
lican.
Van Voorhis, John, of Rochester, N. Y., was
horn at Decatur, Otsego County, N. Y., October 22,
1828; brought up on a farm and received an aca-
demic education; studied and practiced law at
Rochester; member of the board of education m
1857, and city attorney in 1859 ; appointed collector
of internal revenue in 1862 ; member of the national
Repubhcan convention at Baltimore in 1864;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Republi-
can, and elected to the Forty-seventh and Fifty-
third Congresses; resumed the practice of law at
Rochester, N. Y.
Van Vorhes, Nelson H., was born in Wash-
ington County, Pa., January 23, 1822; moved in
1832 to Athens County, Ohio; farmer; an apprentice
to a printer for six years; engaged in publishing a
newspaper for a number of years; member of the
State house of representatives 1850-1872; served
four years as speaker of the house; elected probate
judge in 1854, but soon resigned; defeated in 1858
as a Whig candidate for Congress; delegate to the
national Republican convention at Chicago in 1860;
entered the Union Army as a private in 1861, and
mustered out as colonel; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses.
Van "Winkle, Peter G. , was born at New York
City, September 7, 1808; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1835 began practicing at
Parkersburg, W. Va. ; became treasurer and later
president of a railroad company in 1852; mem-
ber of the State constitutional convention in 1850;
member of the Wheeling reorganization conven-
tion in 1861 ; member of the State constitutional
convention which framed the constitution of West
Virginia; served in the State house of representa-
• tives in 1863; elected a United States Senator from
West Virginia as a Union man 1863-1869; died at
Parkersburg, W. Va., April 15, 1872.
Van Wyck, Charles H. , was born at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., May 10, 1824; graduated from Rut-
gers College, New Jersey; studied and practiced
law; district attorney of Sullivan County from 1850
to 1856; entered the Union Army as colonel of the
Tenth Legion, or Fifty-sixth New York Volun-
teers, and commanded it during the war of the
rebellion, receiving the rank of brigadier-general;
elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, For-
tieth, and Forty-first Congresses; moved to Ne-
braska in 1874; delegate to the constitutional con-
vention in 1876; member of the State senate 1876-
1880; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican for the term 1881-1887; defeated as
the Populist candidate for governor of Nebraska
in 1892; died at Washington, D. C, October 24,
1895.
Van Wyck, William W., was born in Dutch-
ess County, N. Y. ; elected a Representutive from
New York to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Congresses as a Democrat.
Vance, John, was a native of Pennsylvania;
moved to Urbana, Ohio; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Seventeenth Congress.
Vance, John L. , was born at Gallipolis, Ohio,
July 19, 1839; received a public school education;
studied law and began practice at Gallipolis, Ohio;
enlisted in^the Union Army in 1861 and served as
captain, and in December, 1864, mustered out of
the service as commandant of his regiment; dele-
gate to the national Democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1872; established the GalUpolis Bul-
letin in 1867; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat, and
defeated for reelection.
Vance, Joseph, was bom in Washington
County, Pa., March 21, 1786; received a common
school education; merchant; moved to Urbana,
Ohio; served several years as a member of the
State house of representatives; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1820; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
and Twenty-third Congresses as a Democrat; gov-
ernor of Ohio in 1836; elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress; delegate to the national
Whig convention of 1848 ; died near Urbana, Ohio,
August 24, 1852.
Vance, Robert B., was a native of Buncombe
County, N. C. ; moved to Nashville, Nash County,
N. C; attended the common schools; held several
local positions; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Eighteenth Congress as a
Democrat.
Vance, Robert Brank, was bom in Buncombe
County, N. C, April 24, 1828; educated in English
studies only in the ordinary schools of the coun-
try; farmer; clerk of the court of pleas and quar-
ter sessions from 1848 to 1856; elected captain of a
company in the Confederate service in 1861; twice
elected colonel of the Twenty-ninth North Caro-
lina Regiment, and appointed brigadier-general in
1863; elected a Representative from North Caro-
lina to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died in 1899.
Vance, Robert J., was born at New York City
March 15, 1854, of Scotch parents; educated in
the common schools of New York City and in the
New Britain high schools; editor by profession;
city clerk of New Britain from 1878 to 1887, when
he resigned; member of the Connecticut legis-
lature in 1886; member of the Democratic Stete
committee; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat; engaged in newspaper work and be-
came editor of the New Britain Herald; died in
June, 1902.
Vance, Zebulon B. , was born in Buncombe
County, N. C, May 13, 1830; educated at Wash-
ington College, Tennessee, and at the University
of North Carolina; studied law; admitted to the
bar in January, 1852, and elected county attorney
for Buncombe County; member of the State
house of commons in 1854; Representative from
North Carohna to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses; entered the Confederate army as
captain in May, 1861, and made colonel in August,
1861; elected governorof North Carolina in August,
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1862, and reelected in August, 1864; elected to the
United States Senate in November, 1870, but -was
refused admiseion, and resigned in January, 1872;
Democratic nominee for the United States Senate
in 1872, but was defeated; again elected governor
of North Carolina in 1876; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat in place of A. S. Mer-
rimon. Democrat, and took his seat March 18, 1879;
reelected in 1884 and in 1890, serving until his
death, April 14, 1894.
Vanderpoel, Aaron, was born at Kinderhook,
N. Y., February 5, 1799; received a classical edu-
cation; studied law, and began practice at Kinder-
hook in 1820; State representative 1826-1830;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Twenty-fourth Congress, defeated for the
Twenty-fifth, and elected to the Twenty-sixth
Congress; died at New York City, July 18, 1871.
Vanderveer, Abraliain, was born in Kings
County, N. Y., in 1781; received a common school
education; elected a Rejjresentative from New
York to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
died at Brooklyn, N. Y., July 21, 1839.
Vandever, William, was a native of Maryland;
attended the public schools; moved to Iowa and
located at Dubuque; elected a Eepresentative f rom
Iowa to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Eepublican.
Vandever, William, was born at Baltimore,
Md., March 31, 1817; received a common school
and academic education; moved to Illinois in 1839,
to Iowa in 1851, and to California in 1884; lawyer
by profession; elected a Eepresentative to Con-
gress from Iowa in 1858, and reelected in 1860;
upon the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, left
his seat in Congress and entered the Union Army
as colonel of the Ninth Regiment Iowa Infantry;
promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862,
and brevetted a major-general in 1865; appointed
by President Grant an Indian inspector in 1873
and served four years; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Eepublican; died in
July, 1893.
Vandiver, Willard Duncan, of Cape Girar-
deau, Mo., was born in Hardy County, Va. (now
West Virginia), March 30, 1854; educated in the
common schools and at Central College, Fayette,
Mo. ; his early days were spent on the farm, but
after graduation he was elected professor of natural
science in Bellevue Institute, and three years later
became its president; accepted the chair of science
in the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau
in 1889, and in 1893 became its president; elected
to the Fifty-flfth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Vanmeter, Jolin J., was a native of Ohio;
elected a Eepresentative from that State to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Whig.
Vansant, Joshua, was born at Baltimore, Md.,
in 1804- received a liberal education; postmaster
in Baltimore 1839-1841 ; member of the State house
of representatives in 1845; elected a Representa-
tive from Maryland to the Thirty-third Congress
as a Democrat;" member of the State constitutional
convention; mayor of Baltimore in 1871, and again
in 1873; appointed city comptroller of Baltimore
in 1876.
Varnum, James Mitchell, was born at Dracut,
Mass., December 17, 1748; graduated from Rhode
Island College in 1769; studied law, and began
practicing at East Greenwich, E. I.; served m the
Revolutionary Army; elected a Delegate from
Rhode Island to the Continental Congress 1780-
1782 and 1786-87; apppinted a judge of the United
States court in the Northwest Territoiy ; moved to
Marietta, Ohio, in 1788, and died there January
10, 1789.
Varnum, John, was born in Essex County,
Mass., in 1783; graduated from Harvard College;
studied law, and began practicing at Haverhill,
Maes.; elected a Representative from Massachu-
setts to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-
first Congresses; moved to Niles, Mich., where he
died July 23, 1836.
Varnum, Joseph Bradley, was born at Dra-
cut, Mass., January 29 1750; received a liberal
education; served in Revolutionary war; served
in both branches of the State legislature; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and
Eleventh Congresses; served two terms as Speaker
of the House; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts 1811-1817; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1820; died September
21, 1821.
Vaughan, William W. , was elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Forty-second
Congress as a Democrat; died at Memphis, Tenn.,
August 19, 1878.
Vaux, Richard, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 19, 1816; educated by private tutors;
read law ; secretary of legation under Hon. Andrew
Stevenson, United States minister at London; ap-
pointed recorder of the city of Philadelphia in
1842; elected mayor of Philadelphia in 1856; head
of the Democratic electoral ticket of Pennsylvania
three times; nominated for Congressman in 1858;
president of the board of directors of Girard Col-
lege; president of the board of inspectors of the
Eastern State Penitentiary of Philadelphia; elected
to fill the unexpired term of Samuel J. Randall,
deceased, in the Fifty-first Congress, as a Demo-
crat; died March 22, 1895.
Veeder, William D., was bom at Guilderland,
Albany County, N. Y., May 19, 1835; received a
liberal education; studied law, and began practice
at Brooklyn in 1858; served in the State assembly
1865-66; delegate to the Democratic State con-
yedtion in 1875 and 1877; member of the New
York State constitutional convention 1867-68;
surrogate of Kings County, N. Y., 1867-1877;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Vehslage, John H. G., of New York, N. Y.,
was born at New York City on December 20, 1842;
received a public school education; entered the
coal and wood business in 1865; joined the Third
Cavalry, New York National Guard, in 1863, and
was commissioned captain February 15, 1864; ap-
pointed captain, and continued in service until
1880; member of assembly; elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress as a Democrat.
Venable, Abraham B. , was born in Prince
Edward County, Va., in 1760; graduated from
Princeton College in 1780; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Second, Third, Fourth,
and Fifth Congresses; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Virginia (vice S. T. Mason, deceased),
serving from December 13, 1803, to June 7, 1804,
when he resigned; died at Richmond, Va., De-
cember 26, 1811.
Venable, Abraham Watkins, was born in
Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799;
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graduated from Hampden-Sidney College in 1816;
studied medicine, and graduated from Princeton
College in 1818; studied law, and began practice
in 1821; Presidential elector in 1832 and 1836;
elected a Representative from North Carolina to
the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Con-
gresses; Presidential elector in 1860 on the Breck-
inridge and Lane ticket; delegate Irom North
Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress
in 1861; died at Oxford, N. C, February 24, 1876.
Venable, Edward Carrington, of Petersburg,
Va., was born in Prince Edward County, Va.,
January 31, 1853; educated at McCabe's Univer-
sity High School, in Petersburg, and at the Uni-
versity of Virginia; taught school for three years;
settled in Petersburg in 1876; manufacturer of to-
bacco; member of the Democratic State central
committee and of the Democratic executive com-
mittee of A^irginia; claimed to have been elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat over Prof.
John Mercer Langston, Independent Eepublican;
his seat was contested by Langston, and he was
unseated September 23, 1890.
Verplanck, Daniel C. , was born in Dutchess
County, N. Y., in 1761; resided at Fishkill, where
he received a liberal education; studied law and
practiced; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses;
judge of the court of common pleas 1828-1830;
died near Fishkill, N. Y., March 29, 1834.
Verplanck, Gulian C, was born in New York
City August 6, 1786; received a classical education
and in 1801 graduated from Columbia College;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of the
State house of representatives 1820-1822; elected a
Representative from New York to the Nineteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Con-
gresses as a Democrat; defeated as a Whig candi-
date for mayor of New York City in 1834; mem-
ber of the State senate 1838-1841; died at New
York City March 18, 1870.
Verree, John P., was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1819; received a liberal education; iron
manufacturer; member of the Philadelphia city
council for six years; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican.
Vest, Georg'e Graham, of Kansas City, Mo..
was born at Frankfort, Ky., December 6, 1830;
graduated from Centre College, Kentucky, in 1848,
and the law department of the Transylvania Uni-
versity, at Lexington, Ky., in 1853; moved the
same year to Missouri, and began the practice of
law in central Missouri; Presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1860; member of the Missouri
house of representatives 1860-61; member of the
House of Representatives of the Confederate Con-
gress for two years and a member of the Confed-
erate Senate for one year; elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat, in the place of James
Shields, Democrat (who had been elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy
Democrat), and took his seat March 18, 1879- re-
elected in 1885, 1891, and 1897, serving until March
o, 1903.
Vibbard, Chauncey, was born November il,
1811, at Gal way, Saratoga County, N. Y.; received
a limited education; became a railroad freight and
ticket agent, subsequently superintendent of the
New York Central Raifroad; elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as a Democrat; died June 6, 1891.
Vickers, George, was born in Chestertown
Md., November 19, 1801; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1832 began practice; dele-
gate to the Whig national convention at Baltimore
in 1852; major-general of the State militia in 1861;
Presidential elector in 1864 on the McClellan
ticket; member of the State senate 1866-67; elected
a United States Senator from Maryland as a Con-
servative Democrat ( vice Philip Francis Thomas,
rejected), serving from March 9, 1868, to March 3,
1873; died at Chestertown, Md., October 8, 1879.
Vidal, Michael, was born in France; received
a liberal education and emigrated to the Republic
of Texas; delegate to the Louisiana State constitu-
tional convention in 1868; elected a Representa-
tive from Louisiana to the Fortieth Congress.
Viele, Egbert L. , of New York City, was born
at Waterford, Saratoga County, N. Y, June 17,
1825; received his early education at the Albany
Academy, Albany, N. Y. ; graduated from the
United States Military Academy, West Point,
June 17, 1847; appointed brevet second lieutenant
in the Second United States Infantry, and subse-
quently second and first lieutenant in the First
United States Infantry; served in the Mexican
war and in campaigns against the Indians in the
Southwest until 1853, when he resigned and be-
came a civil and military engineer; appointed State
engineer of New Jersey in 1855; appointed engi-
neer in chief of Central Park, New York, in 1856;
appointed engineer of Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
in 1860; appointed captain of the engineer corps
of the Seventh New York Regiment in 1860; ap-
pointed brigadier-general of United States Volun-
teers in 1861; military governor of Norfolk, Va.,
in 1862; appointed president of the department of
pubUc parks in New York City in 1884; Fellow of
the Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American
Geographical Society, Fellow of the National
Academy of Design; member of the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of Sciences; the
author of numerous papers on geography, sanitar
tion, and engineering; elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat.
Vilas, William F. , of Madison, Wis., was born
at Chelsea, Orange County, Vt., July 9, 1840;
moved with his father's family to Wisconsin, and
settled at Madison, June 4, 1851; graduated from
the State University in 1858; from the law depart-
ment of the University of Albany, N. Y., in 1860;
admitted to the bar by the supreme court of New '
York and by the supreme court of Wisconsin in
the same year, and began the practice of law at
Madison, July 9, 1860; captain of Company A,
Twenty-third Regiment Wisconsin Infantry Vol-
unteers, and afterwards major and lieutenant-colo-
nel of the regiment; professor of law of the law
department of the State university; regent of the
university 1880-1885; one of three revisers ap-
pointed by the supreme court of Wisconsin in 1875
who prepared the existing revised bodv of the
statute law adopted in 1878; member of assembly
in the Wisconsin legislature in 1885; delegate to
the Democratic national conventions of 1876, 1880,
1884, and permanent chairman of the latter; Post-
master-General from March 7, 1885, to January 16,
1888, and Secretary of the Interior to March 6,
1889; elected January 28, 1891, United States Sen-
ator as a Democrat for the term of 1891-1897- ed-
ited several Wisconsin Supreme Court Reports-
resumed the practice of law. '
Vincent, William D., of Clay Center, Kans.,
was born on a farm near Dresden, Tenn., October
11, 1852; moved with his parents to Riley County
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Kans., in 1862; educated in the public schools and
in the State Agricultural College at Manhattan;
engaged m mercantile business at Clay Center;
elected member of the city council in 1880; one of
the nominees of the Greenback party for Presi-
dential elector in 1884; member of the State board
ot railroad commissioners in 1893 and 1894; mem-
ber of the national committee of the People's
Party; elected to the Fifty-flfth Congress as a
Vining', John, was born at Dover, Del., De-
cember 23, 1758; a Delegate from Delaware to the
Continental Congress 1784-1786; elected a Repre-
sentative from Delaware to the First Congress; re-
elected to the Second Congress; elected a United
btates Senator from Delaware from December 2,
1793, to March 6, 1798, when he resigned; died at
Dover, Del., in February, 1802.
Vinton, Samuel F., was born at South Hadley,
Mass., September 25, 1792; graduated from Wil-
liams College, Massachusetts, in 1814; studied law,
and m 1816 began practice at Gallipolis, Ohio;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Eighteenth Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-
fourth Congresses; Presidential elector on the
Harrison ticket; elected to the Twentv-eighth
Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses; ap-
pointed by President Lincoln in 1862 to appraise
the slaves emancipated in the District of Colum-
bia; died at Washington, D. C, May 11, 1862.
Voorh.ees, Charles Stewart, of Colfax, Wash.,
was born at Covington, Ind., June 4, 1853; gradu-
ated from Georgetown College, District of Colum-
bia, June 26, 1873; studied law and admitted to the
bar at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1875; reached Wash-
ington Territory April 6, 1882, locating at Colfax;
elected prosecuting attorney for Whitman County
November 4, 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fiftieth
Congress.
Voorlxees, Daniel W., was born in Butler
County, Ohio, September 26, 1827; graduated from
the Indiana Asbury University in 1849; studied
law and commenced practice in 1851; appointed
United States district attorney for Indiana in 1858,
and held the office for three years; elected to
the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth
(in which his seat was successfully contested).
Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses; defeated
as a Democratic candidate for the Forty-fifth Con-
gress; appointed to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Oliver P. Morton, Republican; took his seat
November 12, 1877, and subsequently elected by
the legislature for the unexpired term and for the
full term ensuing; reelected in January, 1885,
and in 1891, serving until March 3, 1897; died at
Washington, D. C, April 10, 1897.
Voorhis, Charles H. , was born at Spring Val-
ley, Bergen County, N. J., March 13, 1833; grad-
uated from Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1853;
admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1856 and as
counselor at law in 1859; appointed in 1868 pre-
siding judge for Bergen County, N. J. ; elected a
Representative from' New Jersey to the Forty-
sixth Congress as a Republican; died in 1896.
Vose, Roger, was born in New Hampshire in
1766; graduated from Harvard University in 1790
studied law, and began practice at Walpole, N. H.
served ii,! both houses of the State legislature
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to
the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist; reelected
to the Fourteenth Congress; died at Walpole,
N. H., October 28, 1841.
Vreeland, Edward. Butterfield, of Salamanca,
N. Y., was born at Cuba, Allegany County, N. Y., ■
in 1857; received an academic education; served
as superintendent of the schools of Salamanca
1877-1882; admitted to the practice of law in 1881;
president of the Salamanca National Bank; engaged
in the banking, oil, and insurance business; elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Warren B.
Hooker; reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Vroom, Peter D , was born at Hillsboro Town-
ship, N. J., December 12, 1791; graduated from
Columbia College, New York, in 1808 studied law,
and in 1813 began practicing; member of the State
house of representatives 1826-27 and 1829; elected
governor of New Jersey as a Jackson Democrat in
1829 an 1831; defeated for reelection in 1832, but
again elected 1833 and 1836; claimed to have been
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, but not admitted to his seat;
elected to the Twenty-sixth Congress, and took his
seat March 10, 1840, serving until March 3, 1841;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1844; Presidential elector on the Pierce and King
ticket in 1852; minister to Prussia 1853-1857; del-
egate to the peace convention in 1861; Presidential
elector on the Seymour ticket in 1868; died at
Trenton, N. J., November 18, 1873.
Wachter, Frank C, of Baltimore, Md., was
born in that city September 16, 1861; educated in
private schools; learned the trade of clothing cut-
ter, and afterwards engaged in the business; ap-
pointed by Mayor Hooper a member of the jail
board of Baltimore City in 1896, and served as
such for the full term of two years; candidate for
police commissioner of Baltimore City before the
legislature of 1898, and succeeded in getting the
Republican caucus nomination; his election, how-
ever, was prevented by fourteen members who
combined with the Democrats not to go into a
joint convention, thus preventing the election of a
commissioner and resulting in the Democratic
commissioner holding over; elected a Representa-
tive to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses as a Republican.
Waddell, Alfred Moore, was born September
16, 1834, at Hillsboro, N. C; attended Caldwell In-
stitute, and graduated from the University of North
Carolina in 1853; studied law and admitted to the
bar; clerk of a court of equity 1858-1861; delegate
to the national convention at Baltimore which nom-
inated Bell and Everett, in 1860, engaged in news-
paper work; edited the Wilmington Daily Herald
1860-61; lieutenant-colonel of cavalry in the Con-
federate army; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Waddill, Edmund, jr. , of Henrico County, Va.,
was born in Charles City County, Va., May22, 1855;
at an earljr age entered the clerk's office of the
courts of his native county with his father, who
for some thirty-five years was clerk of the said
courts; deputy clerk of the courts of said county,
and ot New Kent, Hanover, and Henrico counties,
and of the circuit court of the city of Richmond;
entered upon the practice of the law in 1878;
elected by the legislature of Virginia judge of the
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county court of Henrico in 1880; resigned this office
in 1883 to accept the office of United States attorney
for the eastern district of Virginia, which position
he filled till 1885; elected in the latter year to the
legislature, in which body he served till he re-
signed to take his seat in the Fifty-first Congress;
Eepublican nominee for Congress in 1886, and de-
feated by his two opponents combining against
him two days before the election; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Waddill, James Richard, of Springfield, Mo.,
was born at Springfield, Mo., November 22, 1842;
educated in the private schools and the college of
his native place; enlisted as a private in the Union
Army in 1861; rose to a first lieutenancy, and re-
signed in 1863; resumed the study ot law; admitted
to the bar in 1864; elected prosecuting attorney of
Greene County for two years in November, 1874;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat;
after leaving Congress engaged in the mining busi-
ness at Joplin, Mo.
Wade, Benjamin F., was born near Spring-
field, Mass., October 27, 1800; attended the com-
mon schools; moved to Ohio, and taught school;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
ticing in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and held sev-
eral county offices; State serjator 1837-38; presi-
dent of the third judicial court of Ohio in 1847;
elected a United States Senator from Ohio, and
reelected, serving from 1857 to 1869; died at Jef-
ferson, Ohio, March 2, 1878.
Wade, Edward, was born at West Springfield,
Mass., November 22, 1808; received a limited edu-
cation; moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1821,
where he studied law; began practicing at Jeffer-
son, Ohio, in 1827; moved to Cleveland in 1837;
elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Free Soil candidate; reelected
to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Eepublican; re-
elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses; died at Cleveland, Ohio, August 7, 1862.
Wade, William H., of Springfield, Mo., was
born in Clark County, Ohio, November 3, 1835;
raised on a farm; educated in common schools and
at Grove School Academy; farmer; enlisted in the
Union Armv April 17, 1861, and mustered out
April 26, 1866; moved to Missouri in May, 1866,
and engaged in farming; member of the State
house of representatives of Missouri 1881-1884;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican on Fusion ticket; reelected to the Fiftieth
and Fifty-first Congresses.
Wadleigh, Balnbridge, was born at Bradford,
N. H., January 4, 1831; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1850;
served eight years in the State legislature; elected
a United States Senator from New Hampshire as
a Republican, serving from 1873 to 1879; resumed
practice of law at Boston, and died there January
24, 1891.
Wadsworth., James, was born at Durham,
Conn., July 6, 1730; received a thorough English
education, and graduated from Yale College in
1748; held several local offices; served in the
Revolutionary Army; Delegate to the Continental
Congress from Connecticut 1783-1786; died at
Durham, Conn., September 22, 1817.
Wadsworth, James W., of Geneseo, N. Y.,
was born at Philadelphia, Pa., October 12, 1846;
elected to the Forty-seventh Congress in 1881 to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of E. G.
Lapham; reelected to the Forty-eighth, Fifty-sec-
ond, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, was born at Hartford,
Conn in 1743; received a common school educa-
tion; prominently identified with pre-Revolution-
ary movements, and served in the Army; Delegate
from Connecticut to the Continental Congress 1786-
1788; elected a Representative from Connecticut
to the First Congress as a Federalist; reelected to
the Second and Third Congresses; died at Hart-
ford, Conn., April 30, 1804.
Wadsworth, Peleg, was born at Duxbury,
Mass., May 6, 1748; received a liberal education,
and in 1769 graduated from Harvard College; be-
came a merchant; served in the Revolutionary
Army; moved to Portland, Mass. (now Maine), in
1784, and became a land agent; served in the State
senate in 1792; elected a Representative from that
part of Massachusetts which is now Maine to the
Third Congress; reelected to the Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses
moved in 1807 to Oxford County, Me.; died at
Hiram, Me., November 18, 1829.
Wadsworth, William Henry, of Maysville,
Ky., was born at Maysville, Mason County, Ky.,
July 4, 1821; received his early education in the
town and county private schools; graduated ( A. B. )
from Augusta College, Bracten County, Ky., in
1841; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1846, and
engaged in the practice; created LL. D. by Centre
College, Kentucky; member of the Kentucky
State senate 1853-1856; president of the electoral
college of Kentucky in 1860; United States com-
missioner under the treaty of Washington with
Mexico for the adjustment of claims; member of
the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Repub-
lican. '
Wagener, David D. , wasanativeof Easton,Pa. ;
attended the common schools; merchant; estab-
lished the Easton Bank, and for several years was
its president; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Waggaman, George A., was born in Somer-
set County, Md., in 1782; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practice at New
Orleans; interested in sugar growing; served sev-
eral years as secretary of the State of Louisiana;
elected a United States Senator from Louisiana
(vice Edward Livingston, resigned) as a Whig
1832-1835; died at New Orleans, March 22, 1843.
Wagner, Peter J. , was a native of New York;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-sixth Congress as a Whig.
Wagoner, George R. C, of Missouri, success-
fully contested the seat of James J. Butler in the
Fifty-seventh Congress and took his seat February
26, i903.
Wait, John Turner, was born at New Lori-
don, Conn., August 27, 1811, received a mercantile
training in early life, and afterwards was at Trinity
College, Hartford, for two years; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1836, and commenced to
practice at Norwich; State attorney for the county
of New London 1842-1844 and 1846-1854; president
of the bar association of that county at its organiza-
tion; first elector at large as a War Democrat, in
1864, on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket, member
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of the State senate in 1865 and 1866, serving the last
year as president pro tempore; member of the
State house of representatives in 1867, 1871, and
1873, serving as speaker the first year and subse-
quently declining that position; elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hon. H. H. Starkweather; elected
to the Forty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and
Forty-ninth Congresses as a Republican; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law;
died April 21, 1899.
Wakefield, James B., of Blue Earth City,
Minn., was born at Winsted, Conn., March, 1828;
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1846;
studied law in Painesville, Ohio, and commenced
practice at Delphi, Ind., in 1852; moved to Minne-
sota in 1854; elected to the State house of repre-
sentatives in 1858 and 1863; again elected in 1865,
and speaker of that body in session of 1866; mem-
ber of the senate in 1867 and 1868, and reelected
for 1869 and 1870; resigned in 1869, and appointed
receiver of United States land office at Winnebago
City, Minn. ; resigned in 1875, and elected in the
fall lieutenant-governor for a term of two years;
reelected in 1877; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-ninth
Congress.
"Wakemaii, Abram., was bom at Fairfield,
Conn., May 31, 1824; received a liberal education
and graduated from Herkimer Academy; studied
law, and in 1847 began practice at New York City;
served two terms in the State house of representa-
tives; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion in 1856; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an Ameri-
can; at the outbreak of the civil war raised the
Eighty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers and elected
its colonel, but soon after resigned; postmaster at
New York City; died June 29, ,1889.
Wakeman, Seth, was born in Franklin, Vt.,
January 15, 1811; received a common school edu-
cation;"moved to Batavia, N. Y., where he studied
and practiced law ; prosecuting attorney for Genesee
County 1851-1857; served in the State assembly
1856-57; member of the constitutional convention
1867-68; elected a Representative from New York
to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican.
Walbridge, David S. , was born at Bennington,
Vt., July 30, 1802; received a limited education;
merchant, and engaged in farming ; moved to Kala-
mazoo, Mich., in 1842; elected a Representative
from Michigan to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress;
died at Kalamazoo, Mich., June 15, 1868.
Walbridge, Henry S., was born in 1809;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig; died m 1869.
Waltoridge, Hiram, was born at Ithaca, N. Y.,
February 2,. 1821; moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1886,
where he attended the public schools; studied law,
and in 1842 began practicing at Toledo; moved to
New York in 1847 and became a merchant; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Democrat ; defeated as the Union
candidate for the Thirty-eighth Congress; died at
New York City, December 6, 1870.
Walden, Hiram, was born at Rutland, Vt.,
August 29, 1800; attended the public schools;
moved to Schoharie County, N. Y. ; major-general
of the militia; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1836; supervisor of the county of
Schoharie in 1842; elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-first Congress as a Dem-
ocrat.
Walden, IVCadison H. , was born in Adams
County, Ohio, October 6, 1836; received an aca-
demic education; graduated from the Wesleyan
University at Delaware, Ohio, in 1859; moved to
Iowa; served in the Union Army, 1861-1865, as
captain; served in the Iowa State house of repre-
sentatives 1866-67, and in the State senate 1868-69;
lieutenant-governor of Iowa in 1870 ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Iowa to the Forty-second Con-
gress as a Republican.
Waldo, lioren P., was born at Canterbury,
Conn., February 2, 1802; received a common
school education; studied law; began practice in
1825 at Tolland, Conn.; State attorney for Tol-
land County 1837-1849; served six years in the
State legislature; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Thirty-first Congress as a Dem-
ocrat; Commissioner of Pensions under President
Pierce 1853-1856, when he resigned to become
judge of the supreme court of Connecticut.
Waldron, Henry, was born at Albany, N. Y.,
October 11, 1819; received a classical education
and graduated from Rutgers College, New Jersey,
in 1836; moved to Michigan in 1837; member of
the State le^slature in 1843; elected a Representa-
tive from Michigan to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-
fifth, Thirty-sixth, Forty-second, Forty-third, and
Forty-fourth Congresses as a Republican.
Wales, Georg'e E. , was a native of Windham
County, Vt.; received a limited education; held
several local offices; member of the State house
of representatives 1818-1824; served as speaker of
the house two years; elected a Representative
from Vermont to the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Congresses; probate judge of Hartford 1843-1848.
Wales, Jolin, was born at New Haven, Conn.,
July 31, 1783; elected a United States Senator
from Delaware (vice J. M. Clayton, resigned), serv-
ing from 1849 to 1851; died at Wilmington, Del.,
December 3, 1863.
Walker, Amasa, was born at Woodstock,
Ooiin., May 4, 1799; received a liberal education;
moved to North Brookfleld, Mass. ; moved to Bos-
ton and engaged in mercantile pursuits 1825-1840;
served in both branches of the legislature; served
two terms as secretary of the State of Massachu-
setts; member of the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1853; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a
Republican, vice G. F. Bailey; deceased; Presiden-
tial elector on the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in
1860; died at North Brookfleld, Mass., October
29, 1875.
Walker, Benjamin, was born in England in
1753; elected a Representative from New York to
the Seventh Congress as a Democrat; died at Utica,
N. Y., January 13, 1818.
Walker, Charles C. B., was born at Drews-
ville, N. H., June 27, 1824; received a liberal edu-
cation; moved to Corning, N. Y., in 1848, and
postmaster there 1856-1860; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Charleston in
1860 and at Baltimore in 1872; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat.
Walker, David, was a native of Kentucky;
elected a Representative from that State to the
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CONGKESSIONAL DIEECTORY.
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving from
December 1, 1817, to March 1, 1820, when he died,
at Washington, D. C.
Walker, Felix, was born in Hampshire County,
Va., July 19, 1753; moved to North Carohna, and
in company with Daniel Boone, explored Kentucky
1774-75; returned to North Carolina and located
in Euth'erford County; member of the State house
of representatives 1799-1806; elected a Eepresenta-
tive from North Carolina to the Fifteenth, Six-
teenth, and Seventeenth Congresses; defeated for
-reelection; moved to Mississippi, where he died
in 1863.
Walker, Francis, was elected a Representative
from Virginia to the Third Congress.
Walker, Freeman, was born in Charles City
County, Va., October 25, 1780; received a liberal
education; held several local offices; elected a
United States Senator from Georgia (vice John
Forsyth, resigned) as a Democrat, serving from
December 15, 1819, to August 8, 1821, when he
resigned; died September 23, 1827, at Augusta, Ga.
Walker, George, was born in Culpeper County,
Va., in 1768; attended the pubUc schools; ap-
pointed a United States Senator from Kentucky
(vice G. M. Bibb, resigned), serving from Octo-
ber 10, 1814, to February 2, 1815; died at Nicho-
lasville, Ky., in 1819.
Walker, Gilbert Carlton, was born at Bing-
hamton, N. Y. , August 1, 1832 ; received a thorough
English education, and graduated from the Hamil-
ton ColleTge, New York, in 1854; studied law, and
admitted to the bar in 1855; practiced in New
York and Chicago ; mo ved to Norfolk, Va. , in 1864
and engaged in banking; governor of "Virginia
1869-1874; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as
a Conservative; died at New York City May 11,
1885.
Walker, Isaac P., was born in Virginia in
1813; received a hmited education; held several
local offices; elected a United States Senator from
"Wisconsin as a Democrat, serving irom June 26,
1848, to March 3, 1855; died at Milwaukee, Wis.,
April 1, 1872.
Walker, James Alexander, was born in
Augusta County, Va., August 27, 1832; educated
at the Virginia Military Institute; studied law at
the University of Virginia during the sessions of
1854 and 1855; began practice of law in Pulaski
County, Va., in 1856; entered the Confederate
army in April, 1861, as captain of the Pulaski
Guards, afterwards Company C, Fourth Virginia
Infantry, Stonewall Brigade; promoted to lieu-
tenant-colonel and assigned to the Thirteenth
Virginia Infantry in July, 1861; promoted to
colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry in
March, 1862, and promoted to brigadier-general
and assigned to command of the "Stonewall
Brigade" in May, 1863; commanded Early's old
division at the surrender at Appomattox; severely
wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House May 12,
1864; elected Commonwealth attorney for Pulaski
County in 1860; represented Pulaski County in the
house of delegates of Virginia 1871-72; elected
lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1877; elected to
the Fiftj'-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a
Republican; died at Wytheville, "Va., October 20,
1901.
Walker, James D., of Fayetteville, Ark., was
born in Logan Courjty, Ky., December 13, 1830;
moved to Arkansas in 1847; received his educa-
tion in the private schools in Kentucky and at
Ozark Institute, Arkansas; studied law, and ad-
mitted to practice at Fayetteville, Ark., in 1850; in
the war of the rebellion espoused the Southern
cause and was colonel of a regiment; after the war
resumed the practice of his profession; sohcitor-
general of the State of Arkansas, which office he
resigned, and continued the practice of his profes-
sion at Fayetteville; chosen a Presidential elector
for the State at large in 1876, and voted for Tilden
and Hendricks; elected to the United States Sen-
ate as a Democrat to succeed Stephen W. Dorsey^
Republican, and took his seat March 18, 1879.
Walker, James Peter, was born in Lauderdale
County, Tenn., March 14, 1851; moved to Missouri
in 1867, and elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress;
died July 20, 1890.
Walker, John, was born at Castle Hill, Albe-
marle County, Va., February 13, 1744; received a
limited education; studied law and practiced; ap-
pointed a United States Senator from Virginia (in
the place of W. Grayson, deceased), serving from
May 4, 1790, to December 6, 1790; died in Orange
County, Va., December 2, 1809.
Walker, John William.s, was born in Virginia
in 1789; graduate of Princeton College in 1806;
studied law and practiced at Huntsville, Ala.;
elected a United States Senator from Alabama,
serving from 1819 to 1822; died at Huntsville, Ala.,
April 23, 1823.
Walker, Joseph Henry, of Worcester, Mass.,
was born at Boston, Mass., December 21, 1829;
worked on boots and shoes in his father's factory;
admitted to partnership of the firm of Joseph
Walker & Co. at Worcester in 1850; engaged in
boot and shoe manufacturing till 1887; retired
from business in Worcester; estabUshed the busi-
ness of manufacturing leather in Chicago, 111., in
1868; several times a member of the city council
of Worcester and of the Massachusetts legislature;
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; defeated for the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Walker, Percy, was a native of Huntsville,
Ala.; received a liberal education; graduated from
the medical department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1835; began practice at Mobile,
Ala.; served in the campaign against the Creek
Indians; studied law and practiced at Mobile; four
years State attorney for the sixth judicial district;
member of the State house of representatives
1839, 1847, and 1853; elected a Representative from
Alabama to the Thirty-fourth Congress as an Amer-
ican; declined a renomination.
Walker, Bobert J., was born at Northumber-
land, Pa., July 23, 1801; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1819; studied law, and
began, practice at Pittsburg in 1821; moved to
Mississippi in 1826 and located at Madisonville;
appointed a United States Senator from ^Mississippi
as a Democrat, and elected, serving from Febru-
ary 22, 1836, to March 5, 1845, when he resigned;
Secretary of the Treasury 1845-1849; appointed
governor of Kansas in 1857, but soon resigned;
financial agent to Europe in 1863; died at Wash-
ington, D. C, November 11, 1869.
Walker, Robert J. C, of Williamsport, Pa.,
was born in Chester County, Pa., October 20,
1838; educated at East Hampton and Old Cam-
bridge, Mass.; graduated from Dane Hall, Har-
vard University, in 1858; admitted to the Phila-
BIOGRAPHIES.
863
adelphia bar October 20, 1859, and to the Supreme
Court of the United States February 21, 1862;
elected a director of the first school district of Penn-
sylvania; twice elected to the councils of Philadel-
phia, and chairman of the committee on finance;
for a considerable time owner and editor of the
Saturday Evening Post, the oldest literary journal
in the United States; moved to Williamsport in
1878, and actively engaged in large land, lumber,
and coal interests; elected to the Forty-seventh
Congress as a Republican.
"Walker, "William A., was a native of New
Hampshire; attended the common schools; moved
to New York City; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; died Decem-
ber 18, 1861.
"Wall, Garret D., was born at Middletown,
N. J. , March 10, 1783; received a liberal education;
studied law, and in 1807 admitted to the bar;
began practice at Burlington, N. J. ; clerk of the
supreme court 1812-1817; quartermaster-general
of the State 1815-1837; served in the State legisla-
ture; United States district attorney for New Jersey
in 1829; elected but declined to serve as governor
of New Jersey; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey as a Democrat 1835-1841; died at
Burlington, N. J., November 22, 1850.
"Wall, James W., was born at Trenton, N. J.,
May 26, 1820; graduated from Princeton College in
1838; studied Taw, and in 1841 began practice at
Trenton; moved to Burlington, and in 1854 mayor
of the city; elected a United States Senator from
New Jersey (vice John R. Thomson, deceased) as
a Democrat, serving from January 21j 1863, to
March 3, 1863; died at Elizabeth, N. J., June 9,
1872.
"Wall, "William, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
March 20, 1801; received a limited education;
learned the trade of ropemaker and moved to Kings
County, Long Island, in 1822; elected a Repre-
sentative from New^ York to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican ; died at Brooklyn, N. Y. ,
April 20, 1872.
"Wallace, Alexander S., was born in York
Countv, S. C, December 30, 1810; received a lim-
ited education; planter; served several terms in
the State legislature; elected a Representative
from South Carolina to the Forty-first, Forty-sec-
ond, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses.
"Wallace, Daniel, was a native of Union
County, S. C.; received a limited education; studied
law and practiced; engaged in farming; elected a
Representative from South Carolina to the Thir-
tieth Congress (vice J. A. Black, deceased) ; re-
elected to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-
gresses; died June 28, 1893.
"Wallace, David, was born in Lancaster County,
Pa., Aprir4, 1799; when quite young moved with his
parents to Ohio, where he received a military edu-
cation; graduated from West Point Military Acad-
emy in 1820; served in the Regular Army, and
resigned in 1822; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., and
studied law; admitted to the bar; served two terms
in the State house of representatives; governor of
Indiana 1837-1840; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; defeated for reelection; delegate to the
State constitutional convention; died at Indian-
apolis, Ind., September 3, 1859.
"Wallace, James, was a native of Dauphin
County, Pa. ; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Four-
teenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses.
"Wallace, John "W., was born at Beaver Falls,
Pa., December 20, 1818; received a liberal educa-
tion; guaduated from the Jefferson Medical Col-
lege at Philadelphia in 1846; practiced at Darling-
ton, and in 1850 moved to Newcastle; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress as a Re-
publican; defeated for reelection; served in the
Union Army; Presidential elector in 1872 on the
Grant and Wilson ticket; elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Republican.
"Wallace, Jonathan H., of New Lisbon, Ohio,
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1828;
educated at Washington College, Pa. ; studied law
and admitted to the bar; commenced the practice
of law in New Lisbon ; elected prosecuting attorney
of Columbiana County in 1851 and reelected in
1853; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat; the certificate of election having been
issued to William McKinley by the canvassing
board at Columbus on account of alleged irregu-
larities in the certified returns, Wallace contested
the election, and was awarded his seat May 28,
1884.
"Wallace, Nathaniel Dick, of New Orleans,
La., was born at Columbia, Tenn., October 27,
1845; sent at 9 years of age to Europe and there
educated; spent four years (the requisite time for
a degree course) at Trinity College, Dublin, and
graduated in 1865, standing fourth in the class;
returned home two years afterwards; entered into
the commission business in 1878; twice elected
president of the New Orleans Produce Exchange;
active in manufacturing interests; never a candi-
date for political honors until nominated and
elected a Representative from Louisiana to the
Forty-ninth Congress to succeed Governor Hahn,
deceased.
"Wallace, Kodney, was born at New Ipswich,
N. H., December 21, 1823; educated in the com-
mon schools of New Hampshire; manufacturer
of paper; selectman of Fitchburg in 1864, 1865,
and 1867; representative to the general court of
Massachusetts in 1873; councilor of state of Mas-
sachusetts in 1880, 1881, and 1882; elected to the
Fifty-first Congress as a Republican; died Feb-
ruary 27, 1903, at Fitchburg, Mass.
"Wallace, "William A., was born at Clearfield,
Pa. , November 28, 1827; received an academic edu-
cation; read law and practiced ; member of the State
senate of Pennsylvania 1862-1875, having been
elected five times in succession, and speaker of the
senate in 1871; member of the national Democratic
convention of 1864, and senatorial delegate and
chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation in the
national Democratic convention of 1872; member
of the commission to sugg^t amendments to the
constitution of Pennsylvania in 1874; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed
John Scott, Republican, and took his seat March
4, 1875; died May 22, 1896.
"Wallace, "William Copeland, was born at
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 21, 1856; graduated from
Wesleyan University in 1876, and Columbia Col-
lege Law School in 1878; assistant United States
attorney for the southern district of New York
1880-1883; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a
Repubhcan; died September 4, 1901.
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKECTOKY.
Wallace, William H., was born in Miami
County, Ohio, July 17, 1811; educated in Indiana;
moved to Iowa in 1837; served one year as speaker
of the Iowa State house of representatives; moved
to Washington Territory in 1853 and served several
years in the State legislature; governor of Wash-
ington Territory in 1861; elected a Delf^ate from
Washington Territory to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress; appointed governor of Idaho Territory in
1863, and elected a Delegate from Idaho Territory
to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Walley, Samuel H., was born at Boston,
Mass., August 31, 1805; graduated from Harvard
College in 1826; studied law and practiced; en-
gaged in banking; eight years a member of the
State house of representatives, two years of which
he was speaker; elected a Bepresentative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-third Congress as a
Whig; defeated for reelection; defeated as the
' Whig candidate for governor in 1855; died at
Nantasket Beach, Mass., August 27, 1877.
Walling, Ansel T. , was born in Otsego County,
N. Y., January 10, 1824; moved to Erie County,
Pa. , where he received a limited education ; learned
the art of printing; moved in 1843 to Ohio and
engaged in newspaper work; clerk of the legis-
lature 1851-52; studied law, and in 1852 admitted
to the bar; moved to Iowa and became editor of
the Keokuk Daily Times 1855-1858; delegate to
the Democratic national convention 1856; returned
to Ohio in 1861 and located at Circleville, where
he resumed the practice of law; State senator in
1865; member of the house of representatives in
1867, serving as speaker pro tempore; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat; died in 1896.
Walls, Joslah T., was born at Winchester,
Va., December 30, 1842; received a limited edu-
cation; farmer; member of the constitutional con-
vention in 1868; State senator 1869-1872; received
a certificate of election as a Representative from
.Florida to the- Forty-second Congress, but his
seat was successfully contested by Silas L. Niblaok,
January 29, 1873; elected a Representative from
Florida to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Wain, Kobert, was born at Philadelphia, Pa.,
February 22, 1765; received a limited education;
merchant; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fifth Congress (vice John Swanwick,
deceased) as a Federalist; reelected to the Sixth
Congress; died January 24, 1836, at Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Walsh., Michael, was born in Ireland March
7, 1810; graduated from Trinity College, Dublin;
emigrated to America, and located at Baltimore;
learned the trade of lithographic printer, and
moved to New York; member of the State house
of representatives in 1839; established The Knick-
erbocker publication, which was stopped after two
years by his conviction for the publication of a
libel; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; died
at New York March 17, 1859.
Walsh, Patrick, was born in Ballingarry,
County Limerick, Ireland, January 1, 1840; his
parents and family settled in Charleston, S. C.;
journeyman printer in 1857; while learning his
trade attended night school; earned suflScient
money at his trade to enable him to enter George-
town College, District of Columbia, in 1859, where
he remained until April 15, 1861,when he returned
to Charleston and entered the State military serv-
ice; moved to Augusta in 1862, and for thirty-two
years was connected with the press of that city,
most of the time as manager and editor of the Au-
gusta Chronicle, which was established in 1785;
appointed agent of the New York Associated Press
in 1866, in which position he continued until 1892,
when elected treasurer, and afterwards general
manager of the Southern Associated Press; elected
a member of the city council of Augusta in 1870;
served as member of the State legislature from
Richmond County in 1872, 1874, and 1876; elected
a delegate at large to the Democratic national con-
vention at Chicago in 1884; served four years as a
member of the Democratic national executive com-
mittee; appointed by President Harrison as one of
the Democratic members at large of the World's
Columbian Commission; appointed Senator from
Georgia, as a Democrat, by Governor William J.
Northen April 2, 1894, to succeed the late Senator
Alfred H. Colquitt, and took his seat on April 9;
died at Augusta, Ga., in 1900.
Walsh, Thomas Yates, was a native of Balti-
more, Md.; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Thirty-
second Congress as a Whig; defeated for reelection.
Walsh, William, was born in Ireland May 11,
1828; emigrated to America in 1842 and located
in Virginia; graduated from Mount St. Mary's Col-
lege of Maryland; studied law, and in 1850 ad-
mitted to the bar in Virginia; began practicmg at
Cumberland, Md., in 1852; Presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket in 1860 and 1872; member
of the State constitutional convention 1867; elected
a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-
fourth Congress; reelected to the Forty-fifth Con-
Walthall, Edward Gary, was born at Rich-
mond, Va., April 4, 1831; received an academic
education at Holly Springs, Miss.; studied law
at Holly Springs; admitted to the bar in 1852,
and commenced the practice of law the same
year at Cofteeville, Miss.; elected in 1856 dis-
trict attorney for the tenth judicial district of
Mississippi, and reelected in 1859; resigned that
office in the spring of 1861 and entered the Con-
federate service as a lieutenant in the Fifteenth
Mississippi Regiment; soon after elected lieuten-
ant-colonel of that regiment; in the spring of 1862
elected colonel of the Twenty-ninth Mississippi
Regiment; prdinoted to brigadier-general in De-
cember, 1862, and major-general in June, 1864;
after the surrender practiced law at Coffeeviile
until January, 1871, when he moved to Grenada,
and continued the practice there until March,
1885; appointed to, the United States Senate as a
Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, appointe'd Secretary
of the Interior; took his seat March 12, 1885;
elected by the legislature in January, 1886, for
the unexpired term; reelected in January, 1888,
and again in January, 1892; resigned January 18,
1894, on account of his ill health; reentered the
Senate in March, 1895; died April 21, 1898, at
Washington, D. C.
Walton, Charles W. , was born at Mexico, Me.,
December 9, 1819, attended the common schools;
studied law, and in 1843 began practicing at
Mexico; attorney for Oxford County 1847-1851;
moved to Auburn in 1855, attorney for Andros-
coggin County 1857-1860; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress aa a
Republican, serving from July 4, 1861, to May 26,
1862, when he resigned to become judge of the
State supreme court.
BIOGRAPHIES.
865
^Tx^^i*?^' ^^ekiel P., was born at Montpelier,
Vt, February 17, 1812; attended the public
schools; apprenticed to a printer; studied law,
and admitted to the bar; served in the State sen-
ate; elected a Representative from Vermont to the
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh
Congresses as a Republican; delegate to the
mtional Republican convention at Philadelphia in
1864.
Walton, George, wasbornin Frederick County,
Va., in 1740; attended the public schools; studied
law, and in 1774 began practice at Augusta, Ga.;
Delegate from Georgia to the Continental Congress
1776-1781; served in the Revolutionary war and
captured at Savannah ; governor of G eorgia in 1779;
chief justice of Georgia 1783; delegate to the con-
vention to frame a Federal Constitution in 1787,
but declined; again governor in 1789, and again
chief justice in 1793; appointed a United States
Senator from Georgia (vice James Jackson, re-
signed), 179rw96; died at Augusta, Ga., February
2, 1804. , ® ,
Walton, Matthew, of Kentucky; received a
limited education; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses;
died January 18, 1819.
Walworth, Beuben Hyde, was born at Boz-
rah, Conn., October 26, 1788; moved to a farm
near Hoosick, N. Y., in 1796; attended the com-
mon schools; studied law, and in 1811 began prac-
tice at Plattsburg; brigade-major in the war of
1812; elected a Representative from New York to
the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat; appointed
judge of the fourth circuit; appointed chancellor
of the State of New York in 1828; left his bench
when the ofiSce of chancellor was abolished; died
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., November 27, 1867.
Wang'er, Irving Price, of Norristown, Pa.,
was born in North Coventry, Chester County, Pa.,
March 5, 1852; commenced the study of law at
Norristown in 1872, and admitted to the bar De-
cember 18, 1875; elected burgess of Norristown in
1878; delegate to the Republican national conven-
tion in 1880; elected district attorney of Mont-
gomery County in 1880 and again in 1886; elected
to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican..
Ward, Aaron, was born at Sing Sing, N. Y.,
July 5, 1790; received a liberal education; served
in the war of 1812; studied law, and admitted to
the bar; district attorney for Westchester County;
served in the State militia as colonel, brigadier-
general, and major-general; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and
Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat; dele-
gate to the State constitutional convention in 1846;
defeated on the Democratic ticket for secretary of
state in 1855; died at Georgetown, D. C, March
2, 1867.
Ward, Andrew H. , was a native of Harrison
County, Ky. ; received a limited education; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-
ninth Congress (vice William Smith, resigned) at
a special election.
Ward, Artemas, sr., was born at Shrewsbury,
Mass. , November 27, 1727; graduated from Harvard
College in 1748; lieutenant-colonel in the provin-
cial army against Canada; member of the Mas-
sachusetts house of representatives; major-general
in the Revolutionary Army; state councilor in 1777;
Delegate to the Continental Congress 1779-1781 ; on
account of ill health did not take his seat; again a
member of the State house of representatives 1776-
1791; and in 1785 speaker; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Second and Third
Congresses as a Federalist; died at Shrewsbury,
Mass., October 28, 1800.
Ward, Artemas, jr., was born at Shrewsbury,
Mass., January 9, 1762; graduated from Harvard
College in 1783; studied law and practiced; moved
to Boston in 1809; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirteenth Congress as a
Peace candidate; reelected to the Fourteenth Con-
gress; chief justice of the court of common pleas
1820-1839; served in the State legislature; di«d at
Boston, October 7, 1847.
Ward, Elijah, was born at Sing Sing, N. Y.,
September 16, 1816; received a classical education ;
studied law, and in 1843 began practice; member
of the national Democratic convention at Cincin-
nati in 1856; elected a Representative from New-
York to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection; elected to the Thirty-sev-
enth Congress; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress; defeated for reelection; elected to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for
reelection; died at Roslyn, N. Y., February 7,
1882. ,
Ward, Hamilton, was born at Salisbury, N. Y. ,
July 3, 1829; received a classical education; studied
law, and began practice at Belmont; appointed in
1862 by the governor to raise and equip troops for
the civil war; elected a Representative from New
York to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-
first Congresses; died in 1898.
Ward, James H., of Chicago, 111., was born at
Chicago November 30, 1853; educated in the pub-
lic schools of Chicago, and afterwards attended the
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, graduating in
1873; attended the Union College of Law at Chi-
cago, graduating in 1876; admitted to the bar in
July, 1876, and began practice; elected supervisor
of the town of West Chicago in 1879; elector on
the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Ward, Jasper D. , was a native of Chicago, 111. ;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican; defeated for re-
election.
Ward,' Jonathan, was a native of Westchester
County, N. Y.; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fourteenth Congress as a Democrat.
Ward, Marcus Ii., was born at Newark, N. J.,
November 9, 1812; received a limited education;
manufacturer; delegate to the national Republican
convention in 1860 at Chicago and in 1864 at Bal-
timore; Presidential elector on the Republican
ticket in 1864; defeated for governor of New Jer-
sey in 1862; elected governor 1865-1868; elected a
Representative from New Jersey to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican; died at Newark, N. J.,
April 25, 1884.
Ward, Matthias, was born in Elbert County,
Ga., about 1800; attended the public schools in
Madison County, Ala. ; studied law and admitted to
the bar; moved to the Republic of Texas; served in
the Texas congress, and, after the annexation, a
State senator; appointed a United States Senator
from Texas (vice J. P. Henderson, deceased) as a
State Rights Democrat 1858-1860; died at Raleigh,
N. C, October 13, 1861.
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"Ward, Samuel, was born at Newport, E. I.,
May27,1725; received a limited education; farmer;
member of the provincial house of representatives
1756-1759; chief justice of Rhode Island in 1761,
and elected governor in 1762, 1765, and 1767;
founded the Khode Island College, and later the
Brown University; Delegate from Rhode Island to
the Continental Congress 1774-75; died at Philadel-
phia March 26, 1776.
Ward, Thomas, was born in New Jersey in
1765; received a liberal education; studied law and
practiced; elected a Representative from New Jer-
sey to the Thirteenth Congress as a Democrat, and
reelected to the Fourteenth Congress; died at
Newark, N. J., February 4, 1842.
Ward, Thomas B., was born at Marysville,
Union County, Ohio, April 27, 1835; his parents
moved to Lafayette, Ind., in May, 1836; educated
at Wabash College, Indiana, and at Miami Uni-
versity, Oxford, Ohio; graduated from the last-
named institution in June, 1855; studied law at
Lafayette, Ind., and admitted to the bar in 1857;
elected mayor of Lafayette in 1861, and reelected
in 1863, serving four years; served one term as
clerk to the citv of Lafayette and three terms as
city attorney of' that city; appointed by Governor
Hendricks, in 1875, judge of the superior court of
Tippecanoe County, Ind., then newly created, and
elected to that position in 1876, serving five years
in all as judge; elected to the Forty-eighth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth
Congress; died January 1, 1892.
"Ward, "William, was born at Philadelphia, Pa. ,
January 1, 1837; educated at Girard College, Phila-
delphia; learned the art of printing in the office
of the Delaware County Republican, at Chester,
serving there four years; studied law; admitted to
the bar in August, 1859, and engaged in the prac-
tice of law, conveyancing, land business, and
banking; member of the city council of Chester
and city solicitor, but never held any other public
offices; elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, a,nd
Forty-seventh Congresses as a Republican; died
February 27, 1895.
"Ward, "William Lukens, of Port Chester,
N. Y., was born at Greenwich, Conn., September
2, 1856; educated at Friends' Seminary, New York
City, and afterwards at the School of Mines, Co-
lumbia College, class of 1878; devoted all his busi-
ness life to manufacturing; Presidential elector in
1896; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Re-
publican.
"Ward, "William T., was a native of Kentucky;
attended the common schools; held several local
offices; elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig.
"Ward-well, Daniel, was born in Bristol, R. I. ,
May 28, 1791 ; graduated from Brown University
inl'811; studied'law and began practicing at Rome,
N. Y. ; judge of the court of common pleas for Jef-
ferson County, N. Y. ; served four terms in the
State assembly ; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and
Twenty-fourth Congresses; died at Rome, N. Y.,
March 27, 1878.
"Ware, Nicholas, was born in Caroline County,
Va., in 1769; received a thorough English educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; ap-
pointed a United States Senator from Georgia
(vice Freeman Walker, resigned), and elected,
serving from December 11, 1821, to September 7,
1824, when he died at New York City.
"Warfleld, Henry B., was born in Anne Arun-
del County, Md., in 1781; received a liberal edu-
cation; held several local offices; elected a Rwre-
sentative from Maryland to the Sixteenth Con-
gress as a Federalist; reelected to the Seventeeoth
Ind Eighteenth Congresses; died at Frederick,
Md., March 18, 1839.
"Warner, Adoniram J., of Marietta, Ohio, was
born in Wales, N. Y., January 13, 1834; educated
at Beloit, Wis., and at the New York Central
College, New York; principal of the Lewiston
Academy, and superintendent of pubhc schools
of Mifflin County, and principal of Mercer Union
Schools, Pennsylvania, 1856-1861; at the beginning
of the war raised a company consisting in part of
students; mustered into the United States service
as captain in July, 1861; promoted to lieutenant -
colonel and colonel of the Tenth Regunent, Pennsyl-
vania Reserve Corps; in several important battles,
being severely wounded at Antietam; bre vetted
brigadier-general; studied law and admitted to
the bar at Indianapolis, Ind., in 1865, but never
took up the practice; elected to the Forty-sixth,
Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Democrat.
"Warner, Hiram, was born in Hampshire
County, Mass., October 29, 1802; received a good
common school education and in addition acquired
some knowledge of the classics; in 1819 moved to
Georgia and taught school for three years; studied
law, and in 1825 began practice at Knoxville, in
Crawford County; served in the general assembly
1828-1831, when he declined a reelection; elected
judge of the State superior court, serving from
1833 to 1840; judge of the State supreme court
1845-1853, when he resigned; elected a Repre-
sentative from Georgia to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat; declined a reelection; died
at Atlanta, Ga., in 1881.
"Warner, Jolin De "Witt, of New York City,
was born in Yates County, N. Y., in 1851; worked
on a farm till 17 years of age, during which time
he managed to prepare himself for college; entered
Cornell University the first day it opened, in Oc-
tober, 1868, and graduated therefrom in 1872; after
leaving college edited the Ithaca Daily Leader for
a few months; professor in the Ithaca and Albany
academies, each two years; studied law at the
Albany Law School, from which he graduated,
and admitted to the bar in June, 1876; moved
to New York in that year; member of the Albany
Institute , w hich publish ed his historical researches ;
author of several tariff-reform publications and
magazine articles; elected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat.
"Warner, Levi, was born at Wethersfield, Conn.,
October 10, 1831 ; received a liberal education and
studied law at Yale and Dane law schools; began
practicing in 1859 at Fairfield, Conn.; elected a
Representative from Connecticut to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat, vice W. H. Barnum,
resigned; reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
"Warner, Kichard, of Lewisburg, Tenn., was
born in 1835; received an ordinary English educa-
tion, and in 1857-58 attended the law school at
Lebanon, Tenn., from which he graduated; com-
menced the practice of law at Lewisburg in the
latter part of 1858, and remained in the practice
until the beginning of the civil war; enlisted as a
private in Col. Mat. Martin's regiment, and, al-
though offered many offices, refused them all, and
fought through the war as a private soldier; re-
turned home and resumed the practice of law in
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1865; elected a delegate to the constitutional con-
vention that framed the new constitution of Ten-
nessee in 1870; member of the State house of
representatives in the fall of 1878; elected to the
J; orty-seventh Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Forty-eighth Congress.
Warner, Samuel L. , was born at Wethersfleld,
Conn., in 1829; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law, and in 1853 began practice at Middletown;
member of the State house of representatives in
1857; delegate to the national Democratic conven-
tions at Baltimore and Charleston in 1860; mayor
of Norwich 1861-1865; elected a Representative
from Connecticut to the Thirty-ninth Congress as
a Republican.
Warner, Vespasian, of Clinton, 111., was bom
ai Mount Pleasant, now Farmer City, Dewitt
County, 111. , April 23, 1842 ; moved with his parents
in 1848 to Clinton, 111.; attended common and
select schools in Clinton and Lombard University
at Galesburg, 111. ; studying law at Clinton, when,
on June 13, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier
in Company E, Twentieth IlUnois Volunteer In-
fantry; remained an enlisted man and carried a
musket in that company until February 5, 1862,
when commissioned a second lieutenant; remained
in the service until July 13, 1866, when mustered
out, then being a captain and brevet major; served
in the Army of the Tennessee, receiving a gunshot
wound at Shiloh, until the evacuation of Atlanta,
when, bein^ disabled, ordered North, and from
there, early in 1865, ordered on the Plains, where
a campaign was being conducted against hostile
Indians, wjiere he served until mustered out; im-
mediately on leaving the service entered the law
department of Harvard University, from which
he graduated in 1868; returned to Clinton and
commenced the practice of law; colonel and jud^e-
advocate-general of Illinois through the adminis-
trations of Governors Hamilton, Oglesby, and
Fifer; elected a Republican Presidential (Elector in
1888; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses
as a Republican.
Warner, Willard, was born at Granville, Ohio,
September 4, 1826; received a classical education,
and in 1845 graduated from Marietta College, Ohio;
served in the Union Army, and mustered out as
major-general in July, 1865; served in the Ohio
State senate; moved to Alabama and held several
local oflaces; elected a United States Senator from
Alabama as a Republican, serving from June 25,
1868, to March 3, 1871; returned to Ohio.
Warner, William, of Kansas City, Mo., was
born in Wisconsin in 1841; educated at Lawrence
University, Wisconsin, and Michigan University;
lawyer; served three and a half years in the Union
Army in the Thirty-third and Forty-fourth Wiscon-
sin Infantry; elected city attorney of Kansas City,
Mo., in April, 1867, and circuit attorney for the
counties of Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Cass,
Pettis, and Saline, Mo., in November, 1868; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., in 1871; Presidential elector
on the Grant ticket in 1872; appointed United
Stales attorney for the western district of Mis-
souri in 1882; received the votes of the Repub-
lican members of the Missouri legislature in 1885
for United States Senator; elected to the Forty-
ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican;
delegate to the Republican national convention
in 1896; first department commander of Missouri
and national commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic 1888-89.
Warnock, William Robert, of Urbana, Ohio,
was bom at Urbana August 29, 1838; attended
public schools at Urbana, and graduated from the
high school there in 1855; taught school in 1856
and in 1858 at Urbana; graduated from Ohio Wes-
leyan University in July, 1861, receiving the de-
gree of A. B., and in 1864 received the degree of
A. M. from the same university; commenced the
study of law in 1861, but suspended that to enter
the Army, July 21, 1862, as captain of Company
G, Ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infan-
try; promoted to be major of the same regiment
July 28, 1863, for gallantry at Vicksburg, and bre-
vetted lieutenant-colonel March 15, 1865, for gal-
lantry at the battle of Nashville; chief of staff for
the .eastern district of Mississippi from April to
August, 1865; served one year in the Fifteenth
Army Corps and two years in the Sixteenth Army
Corps; mustered out of service August 14, 1865,
and resumed the study of law; admitted to prac-
tice in May, 1866; elected prosecuting attorney in
the fall of 1867, and served for two terms, from
January, 1868, to January, 1872; elected State
senator to represent the eleventh Ohio district and
served for the years 1876 and 1877; elected judge
of the court of common pleas in the second judicial
district of Ohio in 1879, and reelected in 1884, and
served ten years, from November, 1879, to Novem-
ber, 1889; in 1901 received from Ohio Wesleyan
University the degree of LL. D. ; served two
terms as junior vice-commander of the Ohio Com-
mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ;
served two terms as commander of the Ohio Com-
mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
being elected May 1, 1898, and reelected May
1, 1899; charter member of W. A. Brand Post,
G. A. R., Urbana, and served two terms as its com-
mander; president of the National Bank of Ur-
bana; elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
Warren, Cornelius, was bom in Putnam
County, N. Y., in 1790; received a liberal educa-
tion; held several local offices; elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Thirtieth Congress
as a Whig; died at Cold Spring, N. Y., July 28,
1849.
Warren, Edward A., was born in Greene
County, Ala., May 2, 1818; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practice in Missis-
sippi; served as a member of the Mississippi State
house of representatives 1845-46; moved to Arkan-
sas in 1847 and located at Camden, where he prac-
ticed his profession; member of the Arkansas
house of representatives 1848-49, the last year as
speaker; elected a Representative from Arkansas
to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth Congresses as
a Democrat; died in Nevada County, Ark., July 2,
1875.
Warren, Francis Emroy, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
was born at Hinsdale, Mass., June 20, 1844; re-
ceived a common school and academic education;
enlisted in 1862 in .the Forty-ninth Massachusetts
Regiment of Infantry, and served as private and
noncommissioned officer in that regiment until it
was mustered out of service; received Congres-
sional medal of honor for gallantry on battlefield
at siege of Port Hudson; afterwards captain in the
Massachusetts militia; engaged in farming and
stock raising in Massachusetts until early in 1868,
when he moved to Wyoming (then a part of the
Territory of Dakota); became interested in real
estate, mercantile, live stock, and lighting busi-
ness; president of the senate of the Wyoming
legislature in 1873-74, and member of the senate
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in 1884-85; twice member of the council, and also
mayor of the city of Cheyenne, and served three
terms as treasurer of Wyoming; member of the
Wyoming delegation to the national Republican
convention at Chicago in 1888, and chairman of
the Wyoming delegation to the national Repub-
lican convention at Philadelphia in 1900; chairman
of the Republican Territorial central committee,
and chairman State central committee of Wyo-
ming in 1896; appointed governor of Wyoming by
President Arthur in February, 1885, and removed
by President Cleveland in November, 1886; again
appointed governor of Wyoming by President
Harrison in March, 1889, and served until the
Territory was admitted as a State, when elected
the first governor of the State; elected to the
United States Senate November 18, 1890, as a
Republican; took his seat December 1, 1890, and
served until the expiration of his term, March 3,
1893; reelected January 23, 1895, and again in
1901.
Warren, Joseph M., w-as born at Troy, N. Y.,
in 1813; received a liberal education, and gradu-
ated from the Washington (now Trinity) College
at Hartford, Conn. ; elected mayor of Troy in 1852;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat.
Warren, Lett, was born in Burke County, Ga. ,
October 30, 1797; attended the common schools;
studied law, and admitted to practice in 1821;
moved to Marion; served in the State house of
representatives in 1824 and in the State senate in
1830; elected to the State house of representatives
in 1831; judge of the inferior court of Georgia
1831-1834; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Con-
gresses as a Whig; died at Albany, Ga., June 17,
1861.
Warren, William Wirt, was bom at Brighton,
Mass. , February 27, 1834 ; pursued classical studies,
and graduated from Harvard College in 1854;
studied law, and in 1857 admitted to practice; as-
sessor of internal revenue in the seventh Massa-
chusetts revenue district; delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention in 1868; member of the
State senate of Massachusetts in 1870; elected a
Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-
fourth Congress as a Democrat; defeated for re-
election.
Warwick, Jolin G. , was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, December 23, 1830; came to America in
1850 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; interest-
ed in milling, mining, and farming; elected lieu-
tenant-governor of Ohio in 1883; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat; died August
14, 1892.
Washburn, Cadwallader Colden, was born
at Livermore, Me., April 22, 1818; received a
liberal education; moved to Wisconsin, and lo-
cated at Mineral Point, where he studied law;
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Republican; delegate froni Wisconsin
to the peace convention in 1861; served in the
Union Army as colonel, brigadier-general, and
major-general; elected to the Fortieth and Forty-
flrat Congresses; governor of Wisconsin 1872-1874;
died at Eureka Springs, Ark. , May 14, 1882.
Washburn, Henry D. , was born in Windsor
County, Vt., March 28, 1832; received a limited
education; tanner; studied law and admitted to the
bar; moved to Vermilion County, Ind.; county
auditor 1854-1861; served in the Union Army as
captain, colonel, and brigadier-general; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Republican, and took his seat after
a successful contest with D. W. Voorhees, who had
been given the certificate of election; reelected to
the, Fortieth Congress.
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ashburn, Israel, was born at Livermore,
Me., June 6, 1813; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the State house of representatives 1842; elected a
Representative from Maine to the Thirty-second,
Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and
Thirty-sixth Congresses as a Republican; resigned
his seat in the Thirty-sixth Congress January 1,
1861, having been elected governor of Maine
1861-62; declined a reelection; collector of cus-
toms at Portland, Me., 1863-1867; published in
1874 Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal,
of Livermore, Me. ; died at Philadelphia, Pa., May
12, 1883.
Washburn, Kuel (uncle of Cadwallader C,
ElihuB., and Israel Washburn), was born at Rayn-
ham, Mass., May 21, 1793; received a classical
education, graduating from Brown University in
1814; moved to Livermore, Me.; studied law; ad-
mitted to the bar in 1818, and commenced practice
at Livermore; regiaterof probate forOxford County
1821-1823; member of the State senate in 1827 and
1828; claimed to have been elected a Representative
from Maine to the Twenty-first Congress as a
Whig by 5 majority, but theHouse of Representa-
tives gave the seat to his competitor, James W.
Ripley, a Democrat; grand master of Masons in
Maine; member of the executive council in 1829;
member of the State house of representatives
1832-1835 and 1841; judge of probate for Andro-
scoggin County 1856-1859; died at Livermore, Me.,
March 4, 1878.
Washburn, William B. , was born at Winch-
endon, Mass., January 31, 1820; graduated from
Yale College in 1844; moved to Greenfield and
engaged in banking; served in both branches of
the legislature; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth.
Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses
as a Republican, resigning January 1, 1872, to be-
come governor of Massachusetts; reelected gov-
ernor m 1872 and 1873, resigning May 1, 1874,
having been chosen United States Senator (vice
Charles Sumner, deceased), serving until March,
3, 1875; president of the Greenfield National Bank;
trustee of Smith College at Northampton; director
of the Connecticut River Railroad; corporate
member of the American Board of Commissioners
of Foreign Missions; alumni trustee of Yale Col-
lege 1872-1881; first president of the Connecticut
Valley Congregational Club, 1882; trustee of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College and member
of the board of overseers of Amherst College;
built a free library for his townspeople, and re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Harvard College
inl872; died at Springfield, Mass., October 5, 1887.
Washburn, William Drew, of Minneapolis,
Mmn., was born at Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Me., January 14, 1831; reared on a farm,
attending common school and fitting for college
in winter and working on a farm in summer until
the age of 20, graduating from Bowdoin College
in 1854; read law; moved to the West and located
at Minneapolis, Minn., in 1857; engaged in the
practice of law and other pursuits until 1861 when
appointed United States surveyor-general of Min-
nesota by President Lincoln, which office he held
tor four years, residing at St. Paul during that
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time; after the expiration of his term of office re-
turned to Minneapolis; engaged in the different
manufacturmg mdustries of that city ; director and
large owner and for many years managing agent
of the Minneapolis Water Power Company; prin-
cipal .projector and later the president of the Min-
neapohs and St. Louis Railway Company; elected
to the legislature of Minnesota in 1858 and 1871;
elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and
Forty-eighth Congresses as a Eepublican; elected
to the United States Senate to succeed Dwight
May Sabin, and took his seat March 4, 1889.
^^' ' Wasbtourne, Elihu Benjamin, was born at
Livermore, Oxford County, Me., September 23,
1816; received a common school education; prin-
ters' apprentice; assistant editor of the Kennebec
Journal, Augusta; studied law, and in 1839 ad-
mitted to the bar; moved to Galena, 111., in 1840,
where he practiced his profession; delegate to the
Whig convention in Baltimore in 1844, and in
1852 to the convention which nominated General
Scott for the Presidency ; elected a Eepresentative
from Illinois to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-
eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first
Congresses; appointed Secretary of State by Pres-
ident Grant, but resigned a few days afterwards
to accept the mission to France; on the declara-
tion of the Franco- Prussian war he was asked to
protect with the American flag the diplomatic
headquarters of the various German States in Paris
and the records they contained, as well as the
persons and property of the German residents in
the city; remained in Paris during the siege and
was the only foreign minister that continued at
his post during the days of the commune; giving
protection to not only Germans, but to all the
foreigners left by their ministers; served as minis-
ter until 1877, when he returned to Illinois; while
his remains were lying in state the German flag
was displayed at the foot of the catafalque by the
express desire of the Emperor; died at Chicago,
111., October 22, 1887.
"Washington, George, was born in Westmore-
land County, Va., February 22, 1732; educated by
a private tutor; became a land surveyor; entered
the military service of Virginia in 1751, and re-
mained in the field until the close of theFrench war;
member of the colonial house of burgesses 1760-
1775; Delegate from Virginia to the Continental
Congress 1784-85; chosen Commander in Chief
July 3, 1775; resigned his commission December
23, 1783; president of the convention that framed
the Federal Constitution; elected President and
reelected President of the United States, serving
from 1789 to 1797; died at Mount Vernon, Va.,
December 14, 1799.
Washington, George C, was born in West-
moreland County, Va., August 20, 1789; graduated
from Harvard College; studied law and admitted
to the bar; farmer; elected a Representative from
Maryland to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-
second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con-
gresses; died at Georgetown, D. C, July 17, 1854.
Washington, Joseph B., of Cedarhill, Tenn.,
was born at Wessyngton, the family homestead,
Robertson County, Tenn., November 10, 1851;
educated at home and at Georgetown College,
District of Columbia, from whence he graduated
June 26 1873; studied law with the first law class
organized at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in
1874; gave up his law studies to engage m farm-
ing; elected a member of the house of representa-
tives of the legislature in November, 1876; elector
on the Hancock and English ticket for the Fourth
Congressional district in 1880; elected to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and
Fifty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat.
Washington, William H. , was born in Wayne
County, N. C, February 7, 1813; studied law, and
in 1835 admitted to the bar; began practice at
Newbern; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; declined a reelection; served in the State
house of representatives 1843 and 1846, and in the
State senate 1848, 1850, and 1852; died at New-
beme, N. C, August 12, 1860.
Waters, Russell Judson, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
was born June 6, 1843, at Halifax, Vt.; moved at
the age of 4 to Franklin County, Mass. ; his early
life was spent in factory and on the farm, attend-
ing district schools as he could find time; learned
the machinist trade at Sherburne Falls, Mass.;
taught school at Charlemont Center, Mass. ; grad-
uated from Franklin Institute, same State, where
he was later engaged as professor of Latin and
mathematics; studied law, and admitted to the
bar in 1863, continuing in the practice of his pro-
fession until 1886; went to California for his health;
located at Redlands, and moved to Los Angeles
in 1894; engaged in the development of the south-
ern part of the State; president of the Pasadena
Consolidated Gas Company, president of the Los
Angeles Directory Company, treasurer of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, vice-presi-
dent of the Citizens' Bank, and connected with
many other public institutions; elected a Repre-
sentative from California to the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Watkins, Albert G. ,' was born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., May 5, 1818; graduated from Hol-
ston College, Tennessee; studied law, and began
practice at Panther Springs, Tenn.; member of
the State house of representatives in 1845; Presi-
dential elector in 1848; elected a Representative
from Tennessee to the Thirty-first Congress as a
Whig, and reelected to the Thirty-second Congress;
defeated tor reelection to the Thirty-third Con-
gress; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, and reelected to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress.
Watmough, John G. , was born at Wilmington,
Del. , December 6, 1 793 ; pursued classical studies and
graduated from Princeton College and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; served in the war of 1812;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
Twenty-second Congress; reelected to the Twenty-
third Congress; high sheriff of Philadelphia
1835-36; survevor of the port of Philadelphia
1841-1845; died at Philadelphia November 27,
1861.
Watson, Cooper K. , was a native of Ohio; re-
ceived a limited education; held several local
offices; elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Watson, David K., of Columbus, Ohio, was
born on a farm near London, Madison County,
Ohio, June 18, 1849; graduated from Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871, and two years later
from the law department of the University of
Boston; assistant United States district attorney
for the southern district of Ohio during the Ad-
ministration of President Arthur; nominated by
the Republican Sta,te convention of Ohio for
attorney-general in 1887, and renominated by
acclamation in 1889; appointed by Attorney-
General Miller special counsel for the United
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States in the suits brought by the Government
against the Pacific railroads in 1892; elected to
the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Watson, James, was a native of New York
City; received a liberal education; studied and
practiced law; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives 1791, 1794, 1795, and 1796; member
of the State senate in 1798; elected a United States
Senator from New York (vice John Sloss Hobart,
resigned) as a Democrat, serving from December
11, 1798, to March 19, 1801; resigned to accept the
position of United States navy agent at New York.
■Watson, James E., of Rushville, Ind., was
born in A\^inchester, Randolph County, Ind., No-
vember 2, 1864; graduated from the Winchester
High School in 1881 ; entered De Pauw University
the same year, and remained in that institution
until the year 1885, when he returned home and
took up the study of law; admitted to the bar in
1886, and engaged in the practice of his profession;
member of the Knights of Pythias and was grand
chancellor of the order; elected president of the
State Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1892 and reelected in 1893; candidate
on the Republican ticket for Presidential elector
in 1892; moved to Rushville in 1893 and formed
a partnership in the practice of law with Hon.
Gates Sexton; contested for the nomination for
secretary of state in 1894, and second in a list of
strong candidates before the convention; elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican over
the veteran William S. Holman; reelected to
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses.
Watson, Lewis F. , was born in Crawford
Coimty, Pa., April 14, 1819; received an academic
education; engaged in mercantile pursuits; for fif-
teen years an extensive operator in lumber and in
the production of petroleum; elected president of
the Warren Savings Bank at its organization in
1870; elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh,
and Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican; died
August 14, 1890.
Watson, Thomas E. , of Thomson, Ga., was
born in Columbia County, Ga., Septembers, 1856;
received a common school education, and then
sent to Mercer University, Macon, Ga. ; taught
school two years; read law and admitted to the bar;
commenced practice at Thomson, Ga., November,
1876; member of the Georgia legislature 1882-83;
Democratic elector for the State at large in 1888;
besides the practice of law largely interested in
farming; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; candidate for Vice-President on the
Populist ticket in 1896, and defeated.
Watterson, Harvey M. (father of Henry Wat-
terson), was born in Bedford County, Tenn.,
NovemlDer 23, 1811 ; received a classical education ;
established and edited a pajjer in Shelbyville,
Tenn., in 1831; elected to the State legislature in
1835; elected a Representative from Tennessee to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress; declined
a reelection; sent by President Tyler on a diplo-
matic mission to Buenos Ayres, where he remained
for a year; on his return elected to the legislature
and became speaker; editor and proprietor of the
Nashville Union 1847-1851, and became editor of
the Washington Union in 1851 ; delegate from Ten-
nessee to the national Democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1860, and also one of the electors;
practiced law at Washington, D. C. ; died at Louis-
ville, Kv., October 1, 1891.
Watterson, Henry, was born at Washington,
D. 0., February 16, 1840; received a liberal educa-
tion; became a journalist; his first newspaper
employment was on the Washington States, a
Democratic paper; returned to Tennessee in 1861
and edited the Republican 'Banner, at Nashville;
entered the Confederate service; edited the Chat-
tanooga Rebel; moved to Louisville in 1867; pur-
chased the Louisville Journal, which he consoli-
dated with the Courier, and became publisher of
the Louisville Courier- Journal; elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat (vice E. Y.
Parsons, deceased), serving from August 12, 1876,
to March 3, 1877.
Watts, John, was born at New York City Au-
gust 27, 1749; received a limited education; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1791-1793 ;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Third Congress; died at New York City September
3, 1836.
Watts, John S. , was born in Boone County,
Ky., January 19, 1816; moved to Indiana, where
he received a liberal education and graduated
from the University of Indiana; studied law and
began practice; served in the State house of rep-
resentatives; appointed associate justice of the
United "States court in New Mexico 1851-1856,
when he resigned; elected a Delegate from New
Mexico to the Thirty-seventh Congress; took an
active part in equipping troops for the Union
Army; appointed chief justice of the supreme court
of New Mexico in 1868 by President Johnson.
Waugh, Dan, of Tipton, Ind., was born March
7, 1842; brought up on a farm in Wells County,
Ind., until the breaking out of the war; received
a comnion school education; served for three
years as a private in Company A, Thirty-fourth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry; after the war at-
tended a private school for two years during the
summer and taught in the public schools during
the winter; studied law while working on a farm;
admitted to the bar and settled in Tipton in 1867;
practiced his profession until 1884, when elected
to the office of judge of the thirty-sixth judicial
circuit for six years; elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Wayne, Anthony, was born at East Town,
Pa. , January 1, 1745; received a limited education;
farmer; member of the colonial house of repre-
sentatives in 1773; served in the Revolutionary
Army; after the war moved to Georgia, and located
upon a tract of land donated him by that State as a
recompense for his military service; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1787; elected a
Representative from Georgia to the Second Con-
gress, but on March 21, 1792, his seat was declared
vacant by the House; declined to be a candidate for
reelection; again entered the service of the United
States Army as major-general and general in chief
of the Army; concluded a treaty August 3, 1795,
with the hostile Indians northwest of the Ohio
River; died at Presque Isle, Pa. , December 15, 1 796.
Wayne, Isaac, was born in Warren County,
Pa., in 1770; received a common school education;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth Congress as a Federalist ; died in Ches-
ter County, Pa., October 25, 1852.
Wayne, James Moore, was born at Savannah,
Ga., in 1790; graduated from Princeton College
in 1808; studied law and admitted to the bar; be-
gan practicing at Savannah in 1810; served two
terms in the State house of representatives; mayor
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of Savannah in 1823; judge of the superior court
1824-1829; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Twenty-first Congress as a Jackson Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twenty-second and Twenty-
third Congresses; resigned January 13, 1835,
havmg been appointed associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court; died at Washing-
ton, t). C, July 5, 1867.
Weadock, Thomas A. E., of Bay City, Mich.,
was borh January 1, 1850, at Ballygarret, County
Wexford, Ireland; his parents emigrated to Amer-
ica during his infancy and settled at St. Marys,
Ohio, soon afterwards moving to a farm near St.
Marys, where they resided until their death; edu-
cated in the common schools; on the return of his
elder brother from the Army in 1865 went to Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, and began to learn the printingtrade;
dishkingthis business, returned and attended the
Union School at St. Marys for a year; taught
school in the counties of Auglaize, Shelby, and
Miami for the period of five years; entered the
law department of Michigan University in 1871;
read law during the vacation at Detroit, and
graduated bachelor of laws in March, 1873; in
that year, after further study at Detroit, admitted
to the bar, and in 1873 located at Bay City; as-
sisted in making an abstract of title to the real
estate in Bay County; in 1874 began the practice
of law in Bay City; appointed prosecuting attorney
of Bav County in 1877, and served till December
31, 1878; mayor of Bay City from April, 1883, to
April, 1885; member of the board of education of
Bay City for a short time; elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
resumed the practice" of law after leaving Congress.
Weakley, Kobert, was born in Halifax County,
Va., July 20, 1764; elected a Eepresentative from
Tennessee to the Eleventh Congress; died near
Nashville, Tenn., February 4, 1845.
Weaver, Archibald J. , was born at Dundaff,
Susquehanna County, Pa., April 15, 1844; worked
by the month as a farm hand from the time he
was 9 years old until he was 17; educated at
Wyoming Seminary, Pa., and one of the faculty
of that institution 1864r-1867; studied law at Har-
vard University, and admitted to practice law at
Boston, Mass., in January, 1869; moved to Falls
City, Nebr., in the spring of 1869; elected to the
constitutional convention of that State in 1871;
elected district attorney for the first district of
Nebraska in 1872; member of the constitutional
convention of Nebraska in 1875; elected judge of
the first judicial district of Nebraska in 1875;
reelected in 1879, and resigned in 1883; elected to
the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses as a
Republican; died April 18, 1887.
Weaver, James B., of Bloomfleld, Iowa, was
born at Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833; received a
common school education; studied law and gradu-
ated from the Cincinnati Law School in April,
1856; enlisted as a private in the Second Iowa In-
fantry in April, 1861; elected first lieutenant of
CompanyGof that regiment; promoted majorOcto-
ber 3, 1862, and commissioned colonel of that regi-
ment October 12, 1862, the colonel and lieutenant-
colonel having both been killed in the battle of
Corinth, Miss. ; brevetted brigadier-general of vol-
unteers forgallantrvon the field, to date from March
13 1864; elected district attorney for the second
judicial district of Iowa in January, 1867, and held
the office six years, when it was abolished bylaw;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Green-
backer; nominated in 1880 at Chicago by the Na-
tional party as their candidate for President of the
United States, and received about 350,000 votes;
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress by the Na-
tionals and Democrats, having been nominated
and supported by both; reelected to the Fiftieth
Congress by the Democratic and Greenback-Labor
parties, having been nominated by both; People's
Party candidate for President in 1892, receiving 22
electoral votes; mayor of Colfax, Iowa.
Weaver, Walter L. , of Springfield, Ohio, was
bom in Montgomery County, Ohio, April 1, 1851;
educated at the public schools, Monroe Academy,
and Wittenberg College, graduating from the lat-
ter institution in 1870; immediately pursued the
study of law, and admitted to the bar by the
supreme court of his native State in 1872 and
immediately began practice; elected prosecuting
attorney for Clark County in 1874, 1880, 1882, and
1885; elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses as a Republican; after leaving Con-
gress resumed the practice of law.
Webber, George W., was born at Newbury,
Yt. , November 25, 1825; received a common school
education; engaged in farming, lumbering, manu-
facturing, mercantile pursuits, and banking; elected
to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican;
died January 15, 1900.
Weber, John B., of Buffalo, N. Y., was born
there September 21, 1842; educated in the public
and private schools and the Central School of
Buffalo; enlisted in the civil war as a private in
the Forty-fourth Regiment of New York Volun-
teers, August 7, 1861, and rapidly promoted, attain-
ing the rank of colonel of the Eighty-ninth United
States Colored Infantry; participated in many im-
portant engagements; assistant postmaster of Buf-
falo in 1871-1873; elected sheriff of Erie County for
1874-1876; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses as a Republican; commissioner of im-
migration at the port of New York 1890-1893; ap-
pointed commissioner-general of the Pan-American
Exposition.
Webster, Daniel, was born at Salisbury, N. H.,
January 18, 1782; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1801; studied law, and in 1805 began prac-
tice at Salisbury; moved to Portsmouth in 1807
where he practiced; elected a Eepresentative from
New Hampshire to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Congresses; moved to Boston in 1816; Presidential
elector in 1820; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1821; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Congresses; elected a United States Senator from
Massachusetts and reelected, serving from 1827 to
1841; resigned, having been appointed Secretary
of State by President Harrison and again by Presi-
dent Tyler 1841-1843; again elected United States
Senator from Massachusetts 1845-1850, when he
again resigned, having been appointed Secretary
of State by President Fillmore, and served until
his death at Marshfield, Mass., October 24, 1852.
Webster, Edvsrin H. , was born in Harford
County, Md., March 31, 1829; received a classical
education; member of the State senate 1855-1859;
Presidential elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1856;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Thirty-sixth Congress as a Republican, and re-
elected to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and
Thirty-ninth Congresses, but resigned, having been
appointed collector of customs at the port of Bal-
timore in 1865; died at Belair, Md., April 24, 1893.
Webster, Taylor, was a native of Pennsylvania;
moved to Ohio where he received a limited educa-
tion; elected a Eepi'esentative from Ohio to the
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Twenty-third Congress as a Jackson Democrat;
reelected to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Weeks, Edgar, of Mount Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich. , was born at Mount Clemens, Au-
gust 3, 1839; received his education in the public
schools of Mount Clemens; learned the trade of a
printer and followed that business until about 18
years of age, when began the study of law at Mount
Clemens, and admitted to the bar in January, 1861 ;
at the outbreak of the civil war enlisted in Com-
pany B of the Fifth Michigan Volunteer Infantry,
June 19, 1861, and made first sergeant of the com-
pany; promoted to first lieutenant and adjutant of
the Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry in
1862; promoted to be captain in the same regiment
in 1863; in December of that year, on account of
injuries received in the service, was mustered out;
appointed assistant inspector-general of the Third
Brigade, Second Division, Eeserve Corps, Army
of the Cumberland, under Gen. Gordon Granger
in 1863, and participated in the movements from
Nashville to Chattanooga until after the battle of
Chickamauga; on returning to civil life became
one of the proprietors of a Eepublican newspaper,
of which he was editor; resumed the practice of
law at Mount Clemens in 1866; twice elected pros-
ecuting attorney, and afterwards appointed judge
of probate of Macomb County; candidate for Con-
gress in 1884, but defeated; elected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses as a Eepublican.
Weeks, John W. , was born atGreenland, N. H. ,
in 1799; received a limited education; carpenter;
recruited a company for the Eleventh United
States Infantry and served as its captain in the
war of 1812; promoted to the rank of major; re-
turned to Coos County, N. H., where he held sev-
eral local offices; elected a Eepresentative from
New Hampshire to the Twenty-first and Twenty-
second Congresses; died at Lancaster, N. H., m
1853.
Weeks, Joseph, was a native of Massachusetts;
moved to Eichmond, N. H. ; held several local of-
fices in Cheshire County; elected a Eepresentative
from New Hampshire to the Twenty-fourth Con-
gress as a Democrat and reelected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress.
Weems, John C. , was born at Waterloo, Cal-
vert County, Md. ; elected a Eepresentative from
Maryland to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con-
gresses, serving from February 7, 1826, to March
3, 1829.
Weig'htman, Richard Hanson, was born in
Maryland in 1818; attended the West Point Mili-
tary Academy 1835-1837; served as captain in the
Mexican war; moved to New Mexico; elected a
Delegate from New Mexico to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Democrat; died near Wilsons Creek,
Mo., August 10, 1861.
Welch, Adonijah S., was born at East Hamp-
ton, Conn., April 12, 1821; moved to Michigan
and graduated from the University of Michigan in
1846; studied law and admitted to the bar; pre-
ferred teaching, and a;ppointed principal of the
Jonesville High School in 1847; appointed princi-
pal of the Michigan State Normal School in 1851;
moved to Florida and became chairman of the State
Eepublican committee in 1865; elected a United
States Senator from Florida as a Eepublican, serv-
ing from July 2, 1868, to March 3, 1869; moved to
Iowa and chosen president of the Iowa State Agri-
cultural College; died at Pasadena, Cal., March
15, 1889.
Welch, Frank, was a native of Massachusetts;
born February 10, 1836; graduated from Boston
High School; adopted profession of engineering;
moved to Nebraska in 1857; member of Territorial
and State legislatures; register of land office at
West Point, Nebr., 1871-1876; elected a Delegate
from Nebraska to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Eepublican; died before the expiration of his term
at Neligh, Nebr., September 4, 1878.
Welch, John, was bom in Harrison County,
Ohio, October 28, 1805; received a liberal educa-
tion and graduated from Franklin College; studied
law, and in 1833 began practice at Athens, Ohio;
member of the State senate 1846-47; elected a
Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirty-second
Congress as a Whig.
Welch, William W., was born at Norfolk,
Conn., December 10, 1818; studied medicine and
graduated from the medical department of Yale
College in 1838; began practicing at Norfolk;
served in both branches of the State legislature;
elected a Eepresentative from Connecticut to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American.
Welker, Martin, was born in Knox County,
Ohio, April 25, 1819; attended the common schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; judge of the
sixth judicial district 1852-1857; moved to Wooster
in 1857; lieutenant-governor of Ohio in 1857 and
declined a renomination; colonel in the Union
Army; elected a Eepresentative from Ohio to the
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
as a Eepublican.
Wellborn, Marshall J., was born in Putnam
County, Ga., May 29, 1808; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and practiced; held several
local offices; elected a Eepresentative from Georgia
to the Thirty-first Congress as a Democrat; died
at Columbus, Ga., October 16, 1874.
Wellborn, Olin, of Dallas, Tex., was elected to
the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and
Forty-ninth Congresses as a Democrat.
Waller, John B. , was born in Ohio in 1812;
received a public school education; elected a Eep-
resentative from Ohio to the Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses
as a Democrat; moved to California; a United
States Senator from California 1852-1857; gov-
ernor of California 1858-1860; minister to Mexico
1860-61; delegate to the national Democratic con-
vention at Chicago in 1864; died at New Orleans
August 7, 1875.
Weller, Luman H. , of Nashua, Iowa, was born
at Bridge water. Conn., August 24, 1833; received a
common school and academic education; also a
course at State Normal School, New Britain, C!onn.,
and Literary Institute, Suffield, Conn. ; went AVest
in 1859 and located in Chickasaw County, Iowa,
where he tilled the soil in the daytime an^ studied
law, politics, and theology at night; defeated as
an independent candidate for the State legislature
in 1867; elected a Eepresentative from Iowa to
the Forty-eighth Congress as a National.
Welling'ton, George L., of Cumberland, Md.,
was born of German parentage at Cumberland,
Allegany County, Md., January 28, 1852; attended
a German school for a brief period, otherwise self-
educated; at the age of 12 began work in a canal
store in Cumberland; appointed to a clerkship in
the Second National Bank of Cumberland in 1870;
later became teller; appointed treasurer of Alle-
gany County in 1882 and served until 1888; again
appointed in 1890; delegate to the national Eepub-
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873
hcan conventions of 1884 and 1888: nominated by
the Republican party for comptroller of Maryland
in 1889, and defeated after an active canvass; ap-
pointed by President Harrison assistant treasurer
of the United States at Baltimore in July, 1890;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1897;
served until March 3, 1903.
Wells, Alfred, was born at Dagsboro, Del.,
May 27, 1814; received a classical education;
studied law, and began practice at Ithaca, N. Y. ;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress as a
Republican; died at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1867.
Wells, Daniel, was a native of Maine; attended
the pubhc schools; moved to Milwaukee, Wis.,
inl836; engaged in banking and lumbering; elected
a Representative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-
third and Thirty-fourth Congresses as a Democrat;
died at Milwaukee in 1858.
Wells, Erastus, was born in Jefferson County,
N. Y., December 2, 1823; received a public
school education; at the age of 19 went to
St. Louis; established the first omnibus line in
that city, and subsequently inaugurated the first
street railroad company; fifteen years a member
of the city council; president of the Missouri Rail-
road Company and of the West End Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company, and a director in sev-
eral other incorporated companies; Representative
from Missouri to the Forty-first, Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died October 2, 1893.
Wells, Guilford Wiley, was born in Livings-
ton County, N. Y., February 18, 1840; received a
classical education; graduated in law from Colum-
bian College, District of Columbia; served in the
Union Army 1861-1865; mustered out as lieutenant-
colonel; for several years United States attorney
for the northern district of Mississippi; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-fourth
Congress as an Administration Republican.
Wells, John, was a native of New York; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law, and began
practice at New York City; held several local of-
fices; elected a Representative from New York to
the Thirty-second Congress as a Whig; died at
New York.
Wells, John S., was born at Durham, N. H.,
October 18, 1803; received a limited education;
studied law, and began practice at Exeter; served
several years in the State house of representatives,
part of the time as speaker; appointed a United
States Senator from New Hampshire (vice Moses
Norris), serving from January 22, 1855, to March
3, 1855; died at Exeter, N. H., August 1, 1860.
Wells, Owen A., of Fond du Lac, Wis., was
born in Catskill, Greene County, N. Y., February
4, 1844, and moved to Fond du Lac with his parents
whenaboy; educated in publicandprivateschools;
lawyer by profession, and also engaged in farming
and stockraising; collector of internal revenue for
the third Wisconsin district under Grover Cleve-
land for two years, until the district was consoli-
dated with the Milwaukee district; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at St- Louis in
1888; always a Democrat, and elected as such to
the Fifty-third Congress; resumed the practice of
law after leaving Congress.
Wells, William H. , was born in Pennsylvania
about 1760; received a liberal education; studied
law and practiced; elected a United States Senator
from Delaware (vice Joshua Clayton, deceased),
serving from 1799 to 1804, when he resigned; again
elected United States Senator (vice J. A. Bayard,
resigned), serving from 1813 to 1817; died March
11, 1829, at Millsboro, Del.
. Wemple, Edward, of Fultonville, N. Y., waa
born at Fultonville October 23, 1843; educated at
Union College, graduating with the class of 1866;
studied law for a time, but became a manufacturer
in the foundry business; supervisor of his native
town 1874-1876; member of^ the New York State
legislature 1877-78, serving on the committees of
railroads, villages, and the library; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Democrat; served one term in the
State senate; elected comptroller of the State of
New York in 1887 and served two terms. '
Wendover, Peter H., was a native of New
York; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; member of the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from New
York to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth
Congresses as a Democrat; died at New York Sep-
tember 20, 1834.
Wentworth, John, was born at Somersworth,
N. H., July 17, 1745; graduated from Harvard
University in 1768; studied law, and began practice
at Dover, N. H. ; member of the State house of
representatives 1776-1780; Delegate from New
Hampshire to the Continental Congress 1778-79;
member of the State council 1780-1784; member
of the State senate 1784-1787; died at Dover, N. H.,
January 10, 1787.
Wentworth, John, was born at Sandwich,
N. H., March 5, 1815; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1836; moved to Chicago and engaged
in newspaper work; studied law and practiced;
elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-
first, and Thirty-third Congresses as a Democrat;
mayor of Chicago 1857-1860; delegate to the State
constitutional convention of 1861; elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress as a Republican; received
the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth College in
1867; died at Chicago, 111., October 16, 1888.
Wentworth, Tappan, was born at Dover,
N. H., September 24, 1802; received a liberal ed-
ucation; studied law, and in 1826 began practicing
at Great Falls, N. H.; moved to Lowell in 1833,
and elected to the common council of Lowell
1836-1841; elected to the State house of represent-
atives 1851, 1859, 1863, and 1864; to the State senate
1848, 1849, 1865, and 1866; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Thirty- third Con-
gress; defeated for reelection; died at Boston,
Mass., June 12, 1875.
West, Benjamin, was born in Plymouth
County, Mass., April 8, 1746; graduated from
Harvard College in 1768; became a preacher in
1771, but soon took up the study of law at Lan-
caster; admitted to the bar in 1773; began prac-
tice at Charlestown, N. H.; delegate to the con-
vention which framed the Federal Constitution;
a Representative from New Hampshire to the
First Congress, but declined to serve; died July
27, 1817, at Charlestown, N. H.
West, George, was born in Devonshire County,
England, February 17, 1823; received a common
school education; came to this country in Febru-
ary, 1849; paper manufacturer; served five terms
in the New York State aasemblv 1872-1876; dele-
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gate to the Eepublican national convention at
Chicago in 1880; president of the First National
Bank, Ballston Spa, N. Y . ; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-seventh, Forty-
ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican;
after the expiration of hia term in Congress
returned to Ballston Spa, N. Y., and continued
actively and very successfully in his business of
paper and paper-bag manufacturing; owing to ill
health he retired; died September 20, 1901.
West, J. Rodman, was born at New Orleans,
September 19, 1822; attended the University of
Pennsylvania; captain in the Mexican war; emi-
grated to California in 1849 and engaged in news-
paper work; entered the Union Army as lieuten-
ant-colonel and attained the rank of brevet major-
feneral; moved to Texas and then to New Orleans;
eld several local offices; elected a United States
Senator from Louisiana as, a Republican, serving
from 1871 to 1877; died at Washington, D. 0.,
November 1, 1898.
■Westbrook, John, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Democrat.
Westbrook, Theodoric R., was a native of
New York; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at Kingston, N. Y. ; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirty-
third Congress as a Democrat.
Westcott, James D., was born at Alexandria,
Ya., May 10, 1802; moved to New Jersey, where
he received a liberal education; studied law and in
1824 began practice; secretary of the Florida Ter-
ritory 1830-1834; United States attorney for the
middle district of Florida 1834-1836; served in the
Territorial house of representatives; delegate to
the State convention 1838 and 1839; elected a
United States Senator from Florida as a Democrat,
serving from 1845 to 1849; died at Montreal, Can-
ada, January 12, 1880.
Westerlo, Rensselaer, was born at Albany,
N. Y., in 1775; graduated from Columbia College
in 1795; studied law and admitted to the bar;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Fifteenth Congress as a Federalist; died at Albany,
N. Y., April 18, 1851.
Wethered, John, was a native of Maryland;
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twenty-eighth Congress.
Wetmore, George Peabody, of Newport, R. I. ,
was born during a visit of his parents abroad at
London, England, August 2, 1846; graduated from
Yale College in 1867, receiving the degree of A. B.,
and that of A. M. in 1871; studied law at Columbia
College Law School and graduated in 1869, receiv-
ing the degree of LL. B. ; admitted to the bar of
Rhode Island and of New York in 1869; trustee
of the Peabody Museum of Natural History in Yale
University, and nominated a fellow of the univer-
sity in 1888, but declined; trustee of the Peabody
Education Fund, president of the Newport Hospi-
tal, and a director of other associations; first
Presidential elector of Rhode Island in 1880 and
in 1884; member of the State committee to receive
the representatives of France on the occasion of
their visit to Rhode Island in 1881; member of the
commission to build a new State house; governor
of Rhode Island in 1885-86, 1886-87, and defeated
for a third term in 1887, receiving, however, a
greater number of votes than at either of the two
preceding elections when successful ; defeated on
the eighth ballot for United States Senator in 1889;
elected to the Senate to succeed Nathan F. Dixon
June 13, 1894, receiving a unanimous vote from
the general assembly in the senate, house, and
joint assembly, and reelected in 1900.
Wever, Jolin M., of Plattsburg, N. Y., was
born at Ganges, Allegan County, Mich., February
24, 1847; received his education at common schools
and at Albion College; entered Union Army at age
of 16; served in Army of Cumberland and Army
of the Ohio; at close of war located in New York
State and entered into banking business; elected
county treasurer of Clinton County in 1884 and re-
elected in 1887 ; elected to the Fifty-second Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-third Con-
gress; after the expiration of his term in Congress
became cashier of the Merchants' National Bank
of Plattsburg, N. Y.
Weymouth, George Warren, of Fitchburg,
Mass., was born August 25, 1850, at West Ames-
bury, now Merrimac, Mass. ; educated in the pub-
lic schools, graduating from the high school of that
place; interested in several different kinds of bus-
iness, giving most of his time to the Fitchburg
Steel Ball Company as president and general man-
ager; director of the Fitchburg National Bank and
trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank; director of
the Fitchburg and Leominster Street Railway, and
also of the Orswell Mills and Nockege Mills; ex-
president of the Fitchburg Board of Trade; one
year in the city council of Fitchburg; in the State
legislature of 1896, and delegate to the national
Republican convention at St. Louis in 1896; elected
to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican; re-
elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Whaley, Kellian V. , was born in Onondaga
County, N. Y., May 6, 1831; moved to Ohio, and
attended the public schools; moved to Virginia
in 1842 and engaged in lumbering; elected a Rep-
resentative from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; served in the Union
Army; elected a Representative from West Vir-
ginia to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty -ninth Con-
gresses; delegate to the national Republican
convention in Baltimore in 1864; collector of cus-
toms at Brazos de Santiago, Tex., in 1868.
Whallon, Reuben, was born in New Jersey in
1777; moved to New York; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Twenty-third Congress
as a Jackson Democrat; died at Split Rock, N. Y.,
April 15, 1843.
Wharton, Jesse, was born in Albemarle Coun-
ty, Va., about 1760; elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Tenth Congress; appointed a
United States Senator from Tennessee (vice G. W.
Campbell, resigned), serving from April 9, 1814,
to December 4, 1815; died at Nashville, Tenn.,
July 22, 1833.
Wheaton, Horace, was a native of Pompey,
N. Y.; received a limited education; held several
local offices; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-eighth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
Wheaton, Laban, was born at Mansfield, Mass.,
in 1754; graduated from Harvard College in 1774;
studied law, and began practice at Norton, Mass. ;
judge of the county court; elected a Representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Eleventh Congress
as a Federalist; reelected to the Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, and Fourteenth Congresses; died at Nor-
ton, Mass., March 23, 1846.
Wheeler, Charles Kennedy, of Paducah, Ky.,
was born in Christian County, Ky., about 5 miles
BIOGRAPHIES.
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from Hopkinsville, on a farm, April 18, 1863;
worked on the farm during the summer and at-
tended neighborhood schools until the age of 13;
matriculated at the Southwestern University, of
Clarksville, Tenn., and graduated from that insti-
tution in the winter of 1879, and from the Leb-
anon Law School, of Lebanon, Tenn., in the sum-
mer of 1880; located atPaducah, Ky., in August,
1880, and engaged in the practice of his profession;
Democratic elector for the First Congressional dis-
trict of Kentucky in 1892; elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses as
a Democrat.
Wheeler, Ezra, was born in Chenango County,
N. Y., in 1820; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and began practice at Berlin, Wis. ; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives in 1852;
county judge 1854-1862; elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Wheeler, Frank W., of West Bay City, Mich.,
was born at Chaumont, Jefferson County, N. Y.,
March 2, 1853; received a common school educa-
tion; moved with his parents when 11 years of
age to East Saginaw, Mich. ; learned the first prin-
ciples of boat building in his father's yard in East
Saginaw, and while thus engaged conceived a de-
sire to become master of one of the vessels he had
assisted in building; his career as master was suc-
cessful, and he became master of the Saginaw
River Tug Association; engaged with his lather
extensively in shipbuilding at the bay cities in
1877; elected a Representative from Michigan to
the Fifty-first Congress as a Republican.
Wheeler, Grattan H. , was born at Wheeler,
N. Y.; received a liberal education; State repre-
sentative 1822, 1824, and 1826, and State senator
1828-1831; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-second Congress; died at
Wheeler, N. Y., in 1852.
Wheeler, Hamilton K. , of Kankakee, 111., was
born at Ballston, N. Y., August 5, 1848, emigrat-
ing with his parents to Illinois in 1852; received
his education in the public and private schools of
• Illinois, and at 23 years of age admitted to the bar
of Kankakee County, 111.; elected to the State
senate of Illinois from the sixteenth senatorial
district in 1884; one of the 103 who took an active
part in the famous Senatorial contest in Illinois
which resulted in the election of General Logan
to the United States Senate; elected to the Fifty-
third Congress as a Republican;. resumed practice
of law after leaving Congress; delegate to the Re-
publican national conventions in 1896 and 1900.
Wheeler, Harrison H., was bom in Lapeer
County, Mich., March 22, 1839; received a com-
mon school education, and at the age of 18 years
commenced teaching school winters and working
upon a farm summers until the fall of 1861, when
he enlisted as a private in Company C, Tenth Reg-
iment Michigan Volunteer Infantry; in June,
1862, promoted to second lieutenant same com-
pany, and in April, 1863, promoted to first heuten-
ant Company E, same regiment; in April, 1865,
promoted to captain Company F, same regiment;
wounded at Buzzards Roost Gap, Kenesaw Moun-
tain, and at Jonesboro, Ga., during the Atlanta
campaign; elected clerk of Bay County, Mich.,
in 1866; admitted to the bar in 1868; elected State
senator for Bay and adjoining counties in 1870,
and reelected in 1872; after the session of the leg-
islature in 1873 moved to Ludington, Mason
County, Mich., and appointed circuit judge in
1874 by Governor Bagley; at the first election
thereafter elected tothesameofiice without oppo-
sition; resigned in June, 1878, and resumed prac-
tice of law at Ludington; elected to the Fifty-
second Congress as a Democrat; died July 29, 1896.
Wheeler, John, was born at Derby, Conn., in
1823; attended the common schools; moved to
New York City in 1853 and became a merchant;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Wheeler, Joseph, of Wheeler, Ala., was born
at Augusta, Ga., September 10, 1836; graduated'
from West Point in 1859; lieutenant of cavalry, and
served in New Mexico; resigned in 1861; lieutenant
of artillery in the Confederate army; successively
promoted to the command of a regiment, brigade,
division, and army corps, and in 1862 assigned to
the command of the army corps of cavalry of the
Western Army, continuing in that position till the
vi^ar closed; by joint resolution of the Confederate
Congress received the thanks of that body for suc-
cessful military operations, and for the defense of
the city of Aiken received the thanks of the State
of South Carolina; May 11, 1864, became the senior
cavalry general of the Confederate armies; ap-
pointed professor of philosophy Louisiana State
Seminary in 1866, which he declined; lawyer and
planter; appointed major-general of volunteers
by President McKinley May 4, 1898, and assigned
to command of Cavalry Division, U. S. Army;
on June 24, with 900 men, fought and defeated
Lieutenant-General Linares at Las Guasimas, the
enemy having over 2,000 regular Spanish troops;
at the battle of San Juan, July 1 and 2, senior offi-
cer in immediate command on the field, and senior
member of commission which negotiated the sur-
render of Santiago and 23,000 Spanish soldiers;
assigned to command of United States forces at
Montauk, Long Island, August 18, and on October
5 assigned to the command of the Fourth Army
Corps; August 31, 1899, in command of First
Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Corps, in the
Philippines; engaged with enemy at Santa Rita
September 9 and also on September 16, also in
capture of Porao, September 28, and in the various
engagements with the enemy at Angeles, October
10 to 17, inclusive; in the advance upon and cap-
ture of Bamban, N ovember 11 , and the minor expe-
ditions to Camiling, November 23, and expedition
to Sulipa and San Ignacio; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and
Fifty-fifth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress; failed to qualify, and William
Richardson was elected to fill his place; retired in
1900 as a brigadier-general of the Regular Army.
Wheeler, William A., was born at Malone,
N. Y., June 30, 1819; received a liberal education;
studied la w and practiced ; for several years district
attorney for Franklin County, N. Y. ; member of
the New York assembly 1850-51; member of the
State senate 1858-59; delegate to the New York
State constitutional convention 1867-68; elected
a Representative from New York to the Thirt)'-
seventh Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-
fourth Congresses; elected Vice-President of the
United States on the Hayes ticket in 1876; died at
Malone, N. Y., June 4, 1887.
Whipple, Thomas, was born in Berkshire
County, Mass., in 1788; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied medicine, and began practicing at
Wentworth, N. H. ; elected a Representative from
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New Hampshire to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; died at
Wentworth, N. H., January 23, 1835.
Whipple, ■William, was born at Kittery,
Mass. (afterwards Maine), January 14, 1730;
sailor, and engaged in the slave trade a number of
years; left the sea and engaged in mercantile pur-
suits at Portsmouth, N. H. ; elected a Delegate to
the Continental Congress 1775-76 and 1778; a
signer of the Declaration of Independence; de-
clined a reelection; member of the State assembly
1780-1784; appointed judge of the State supreme
' court in 1782; died November 28, 1785, at Ports-
mouth, N. H.
WMtcomb, James, was born at Stockbridge,
Vt., December 1, 1791; graduated from Transyl-
vania University; studied law, and began practice
at Bloomington, Ind., in 1824; prosecuting attor-
ney for Monroe County in 1826; State senator
1830-1836; appointed by President Jackson Com-
missioner of the General Land Office 1836-1841;
resumed the practice of law at Terre Haute, Ind. ;
governor 1843-1848; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Indiana as a Democrat 1849-1852, when
he died, at New York City, October 4, 1852.
White, Addison, was a native of Kentucky;
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Whig.
White, Albert S. , was born at Blooming Grove,
N. y., October 24, 1803; graduated from Union
College in 1822'; studied law, and began practice
at Lafayette, Ind., in 1825; clerk of the State
house of representatives in Indiana for five years;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig; president of sev-
eral railroads; elected a United States Senator
from Indiana 1839-1845; declined a reelection;
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Republican; judge of the United
States court for the district of Indiana in 1864;
died at Stockwell, Ind., September 4, 1864.
White, Alexander, was born at Franklin,
Tenn., October 16, 1816; moved to Alabama; re-
ceived an academic education; served in the Semi-
nole war in 1836; studied law and practiced;
elected a Representative from Alabama to the
Thirty-second Congress as a Union Whig, defeat-
ing Samuel F. Rice, State Rights Democrat; mem-
ber of the State constitutional convention in 1865;
member of the general assembly in 1872; elected
a Representative at large to the Forty-third Con-
gress; defeated for reelection; appointed an associ-
ate justice of the United States court for the Ter-
ritory of Utah in 1875.
White, Alexander, was born in Rappahannock
County, Va., in 1738; Delegate from Virginia to
the Continental Congress 1786-1788; elected a
Representative from Virginia to the First and Sec-
ond Congresses; died at Woodville, Va., Septem-
ber 19, 1804.
White, Alexander Colwell, of Brookville,
Pa., was born near Kittanning, Armstrong County,
Pa., December 12, 1833; raised on a farm, attend-
ing public school in winter until the age of 20
years, when he commenced teaching school in
winter and attended in summer the Jacksonville
Institute and the Dayton Union Academy; moved
to Jefferson County in 1860, where he studied law;
admitted to practice in December, 1862; served in
the Union Army as a private in Company I, Eighth
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; elected dis-
trict attorney in 1867 and reelected in 1870; elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican; after
leaving Congress resumed the practice of law.
White, Allison, was born in Pennsylvania
December 21, 1816; attended the public schools;
studied law and admitted to the bar; began prac-
tice at Lockhaven, Conn.; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fifth Con-
gress as a Democrat; defeated for reelection.
White, Bartow W., was a native of West-
chester County, N. Y.; elected a Representative
from New York to the Nineteenth Congress.
White, Benjamin, was a native of Maine; at-
tended the common schools; farmer; served two
terms in the State house of representatives; elected
a Representative from Maine to the Twenty -eighth
Congress as a Democrat.
White, Campbell P. , was a native of New York ;
received a limited education; merchant; elected a
Representative from New York to the Twenty-
first Congress as a Jackson Democrat; reelected to
the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses;
appointed quartermaster-general of New York
State Militia January 24, 1831; died at New York
February 12, 1859.
White, Chilton A. , was born at Georgetown,
Ohio, February, 1826; received a limited educa-
tion; served in the Mexican war; studied law,
and in 1848 began practice at Georgetown, Ohio;
two years prosecuting attorney for Brown County;
member of the State senate 1859-60; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-
eighth Congress; defeated for reelection.
White, David, was born in 1785; received a
liberal education; studied law and practiced at
Newcastle, Ky. ; elected a Representative from
Kentucky to the Eighteenth Congress; died in
Franklin County, Ky., February 17, 1835.
White, Edward Douglas, was born at Nash-
ville, Tenn. , in March, 1795; moved with his father
to Attakapas Parish, La. ; received a public school
education; studied law; admitted to the bar, and
commenced practice at Donaldsonville; appointed
judge at New Orleans, and moved there; elected
a Representative from Louisiana to the Twenty-
first, Twenty-second, andTwenty-third Congresses,
serving from December 7, 1829, to November 15,
1834, when he resigned, having been elected gov-
ernor; governorof Louisiana 1834-1838; moved to
Thibodeauxville; elected to the Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses; died at New Orleans
April 18, 1847.
White, Edward Douglass, was born in the
parish of Lafourche, La., November 3, 1845; edu-
cated at Mount St. Marys, near Emmitsburg, Md.,
at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and at
Georgetown College, District of Columbia; served
in the Confederate army; licensed to practice law
by the supreme court of Louisiana in December,
1868;_ elected State senator in 1874; appointed
associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana
in 1878; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed James B. Eustis; took his
seat March 4, 1891; resigned March, 1894, havmg
been appointed associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States; took his seat March
12, 1894.
White, Francis, was a native of Virginia,
elected a Representative from that State to the
Thirteenth Congress.
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White, Frederick Edward, of Webster, Iowa,
was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1844; his father
died when he was 10 years old; came to America
with his mother in 1857, and settled on a farm in
Keokuk County, Iowa; up to the breaking out of the
war worked as a farm hand; early in the winter
of 1861 enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and
rejected on account of not being quite 18 years
bid; enlisted February, 1862, in the Thirteenth
Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the
war; mustered out in August, 1865; returned
home, and bought land and engaged in farming
and stock raising; never held a public office;
elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat.
White, Georg^e E., of Chicago, 111., was bom in
Massachusetts in 1848; after graduating from col-
lege at the age of 16 enlisted as a private soldier
in the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Veteran Vol-
unteers, in which he served under General Grant,
in the Army of the Potomac, from the battle of
the Wilderness until the surrender of General Lee;
after the close of the war entered a commercial
college at Worcester, Mass. ; moved to Chicago in
1867; a year later engaged in the lumber business
on his own account, which he pursued with much
success; head of the extensive hard-wood lumber
firm of George E. White & Co. ; director in State
and national banks; served as alderman of Chi-
cago and as State senator; elected to the Fifty -
fourth Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress.
White, George Henry, of Tarboro, N. C, was
born at Eosindale, Bladen County, N. C. , December
18, 1852; attended the public schools of his State,
and later trained under Prof. D. P. Allen, presi-
dent of the Whitten Normal School, at Lumber-
ton, N. C. ; afterwards entered Howard University,
Washington, D. 0. ; graduated from the eclectic
department of that institution in the class of 1877;
read law while taking academic course, and licensed
to practice in all the courts of North Carolina by the
supreme court January, 1879; principal of one of
the State normal and other schools in the State;
elected to the house of representatives in 1880 and
to the State senate in 1884; elected solicitor and
prosecuting attorney for the second judicial dis-
trict of North Carolina for four years in 1886, and
for a like term in 1890; candidate for Congress in
the Second district in 1894, and nominated, but
withdrew in the interest of harmony in his party;
elected to the Fifty -fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses
as a Eepublican.
White, Harry, of Indiana, Pa., was born in
Indiana County, Pa., January 12, 1834;. received
a collegiate education, graduating in 1854; studied
law; admitted to the bar in June, 1855; commenced
practice at Indiana, Pa., and continued until the
commencement of hostilities in 1861; entered the
Union Army as major of the Sixty-seventh Penn-
sylvania Infantry; elected, while serving in the
Army, a State senator, serving in the winter of
1862-63; returned to his command, and at the bat-
tle of Winchester, in June, 1863, when Lee was on
his Gettysburg campaign, was captured; the fall
election of 1863 made a tie in the State senate with-
out his vote, and active efforts were made to secure
his exchange, but without success, the Confederate
Government refusing, and sent him to solitary
confinement at Salisbury, N. C; before he left
Libby Prison, however, he sent his resignation as
State senator clandestinely to Pennyslvania, con-
cealed in a Testament, by a surgeon; remained in
prison sixteen months, and made his escape, reach-
ing the Federal lines near Atlanta; in October, 1864,
returned to his command and served until the end
of the war, having meanwhile been promoted to the
colonelcy of his regiment and brevetted brigadier-
general; reelected to the State senate in the fall
of 1865 for three years; reelected in 1868 for three
years and in 1871 for three years, serving as
speaker of the senate at the close of the term of
1871; nominated in 1872 as Congressman at large
and delegate at large to the constitutional con-
vention, but declined the Congressional nomina-.
tion, bujt was elected to that convention; elected
to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses as a
Eepublican.
White, Hug'h, was born at New York City in
1799; received a public school education; farmer;
founded Whitestone, Oneida County, N. Y.;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con-
gresses; died near Troy, N. Y., October 6, 1870.
White, Hugh Iiawson, was born in Iredell
County, N. C.,. October 30, 1773; moved to Knox
County, Tenn., in 1786; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1795 began practice at
Knoxville, Tenn.; judge of the State supreme
court 1801-1807; State senator 1807-1817; appointed
United States district attorney in 1808; elected
judge of the supreme court 1809-1815; chosen
president of the State bank in 1815; elected a
United States Senator from Tennessee (vice Andrew
Jackson, resigned), and reelected, serving from
1825 to 1833; chosen President pro tempore of the
Senate in 1832; received the electoral votes of
Tennessee and Georgia in 1836 for President of the
United States; again elected a United States Sena-
tor from Tennessee in 1836 for six years, but
resigned January 13, 1840; died at Knoxville,
Tenn., April 10, 1840.
White, James, was a native of North Carolina;
moved to Tennessee, where he received a limited
education; elected a Delegate from the territory
south of the Ohio Eiver to the Third Congress;
delegate to the State constitutional convention.
White, James B., was born in Stirlingshire,
Scotland, in June, 1835; emigrated to the United
States in 1854 ; received a common school education
while in Scotland ; calico printer and tailor until the
breaking out of the war of the rebellion, when he
sold out his business and enlisted as a private in
Company I, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteers; elected
captain by the company, and served in that capacity
till December, 1862, when he resigned; while in
the Army served in General McCook's division,
under Buell and Eosecrans, in the Kentucky and
Tennessee campaigns, and participated in the bat-
tle of Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, and the march
back to the relief of Louisville, and the Perry ville
campaign; wounded at the ^battle of Shiloh April
7, 1862; elected a member of the common council
of the city of Fort Wayne in 1874_; elected a Eep-
resentative from Indiana to the Fiftieth Congress
as a Eepublican; died October 9, 1897, at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
White, James Bamford, of Irvine, Ky., was
born in Clark County, Ky., June 6, 1842; worked
at farming, and attended the common schools, but
received his early education mainly at Mount Zion
Academy, Macon County, 111.; entered the Con-
federate army in the fall of 1863, serving in the
commands of Generals Breckenridge and Morgan
until the close of the civil war; taught school at
intervals, and studied law; admitted to the bar in
1867, and engaged in the practice of the profession;
held the oflBce of county attorney; nominated in
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July, 1900, for Kepresentative to the Fifty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat from the Tenth Kentucky
district, and elected.
White, Jolin, was born in Kentucky in 1805;
received a limited education; studied law and
began practice at Kichmond, Ky. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth
Congress as aWhig; reelected to the Twenty-fifth,
Twentv-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth
Congresses without opposition; Speaker of the
House during the Twenty-seventh Congress; died
at Bichmond, Ky., September 22, 1845.
White, John D., of Manchester, Ky., was born
January 16, 1849, in Clay County, Ky., on the
farm which he later cultivated; educated in a pri-
vate school until 1865, and at Eminence College
and Kentucky University until 1870; graduated,
1872, in law from Michigan University, and in the
medical department of that institution the follow-
ing session studied chemistry and anatomy pre-
paratory to making criminal law a specialty; dur-
ing the Presidential campaign of 1872 canvassed
southeastern Kentucky; declined a nomination for
clert of the court of appeals of Kentucky in 1874,
and the same year unanimously nominated and
elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Repub-
lican; declined a renomination; chairman of the
Kentucky Republican State convention at Louis-
ville, 1879, and the same year elected to the State
legislature of Kentucky; resigned for cause in
1880; indorsed and reelected without opposition
during the sitting of the legfslature; chairman of
the Kentucky delegation to the Republican na-
tional convention at Chicago in 1880; nominated
as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1880,
and as the Republican candidate for United States
Senator in 1881; elected to the Forty -seventh and
Forty-eighth Congresses as a Republican.
White, Joseph L. , was a native of Cherry
Valley, N. Y. ; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practice at Madison, Ind.; elected
a Representative from Indiana to the Twenty-
seventh Congress; moved to New York and
practiced law; became a manufacturer; died Jan-
uary 12, 1861.
White, Joseph M., was born in Franklin
County, Ky., May 10, 1781; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practicing at Pensa-
cola, Fla. ; elected a Delegate from Florida to the
Nineteenth CongressaaaDemocrat; reelected to the
Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-
third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses; defeated for
the Twenty-fifth Congress; died at St. Louis, Mo.,
October 19, 1839.
White, Joseph W. , was born at Cambridge,
Ohio, October 2, 1822; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and in 1844 began practice at
Cambridge; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat;
defeated for reelection.
White, Iieonard, was born at Haverhill, Mass.,
in 1767; graduated from Harvard College in 1787;
served in the State house of representatives for
several years; held numerous local offices; elected
a Representative from Massachusetts to the Twelfth
Congress; cashier of a bank; died at Haverhill,
:\Iass., October 10, 1849.
White, Michael D., was born in Clark County,
Ohio, September 8, 1827; moved to Indianain 1829
and located in Tippecanoe County, where he was
raised on a farm; received a classical education;
studied law and practiced; served as county pros-
ecuting attorney; four years a State senator;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
White, Mile, of Chatfield, Minn., was born at
Fletcher, Franklin County, Vt., August 17, 1830;
educated in common schools; merchant; elected
to the State senate of Minnesota 1872-1876 and
1881-82; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Republican; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress;
defeated for Congress in 1898.
White, Phillips, was born in New Hampshire
about 1730; a Delegate from New Hampshire to
the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783; died
in New Hampshire in 1783.
White, Thineas, was born in Hampshire
County, Mass., in 1770; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1797; studied law and began practice at
Pomfret, Vt.; register of probate for Windsor
County 1800-1809; county attorney in 1813 ; served
in both branches of the legislature for eight years;
elected a Representative from Vermont to the Sev-
enteenth Congress; died at Putney, Vt., in 1847.
White, Samuel, was born at Wilmington, Del.,
in 1770; received a liberal education; held several
local offices; appointed a United States Senator
from Delaware as a Federalist, serving from Feb-
ruary 28, 1801, until January 14, 1802, when he
was elected, serving until his death, at Wilming-
ton, Del., November 4, 1809.
White, Stephen Mallory, was born at San
Francisco, Cal., January 19, 1853; raised on a
farm in Santa Cruz County, Cal.; educated in
grivate and common schools, and at St. Ignatius
ollege in San Francisco, and Santa Clara Col-
lege, Santa Clara County, Cal., from which
latter institution he graduated in 1871; studied
law, and admitted to practice before the supreme
court of California April 14, 1874; elected district
attorney of his county in 1882; during the latter
year nominated in a strong Republican district
for the State senate and elected for the term of four
years; chosen president pro tempore' of the senate
during both sessions of his incumbency; upon the
death of Governor Bartlett in 1888, the president
of the senate, Lieutenant-Governor Waterman, be-
came governor, and Mr. White thereafter dis-
charged the functions of lieutenant-governor;
delegate at large to the national convention in
1892; and as a member of the notification com-
mittee made the address to Vice-President Steven-
son at Madison Square Garden; caucus nominee
of the Democratic members of the California legis-
lature for the United States Senate in 1890, receiv-
ing all the votes of his partisans in that body; the
legislature, which convened in 1895, consisted of
59 Democrats, 51 Republicans, 8 Populists, 1 non-
partisan, and 1 Independent; when the joint Sen-
atorial convention of the two houses was held,
Mr. White was elected on the first ballot, receiv-
ing 61 votes, which represented the entire Demo-
cratic membership, 1 nonpartisan, and 1 Populist;
took his seat March 4, 1893; died at Los Angeles,
Cal., February 21, 1901.
White, Stephen V., of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
born in Chatham County, N. C, August 1, 1831;
moved with his parents to Illinois in the autumn
of 1831, and settled in what is now Jersey County,
near the present site of Otterville; attended tlie
free school founded by Dr. Silas Hamilton at that
place; worked on his father's farm and in his
gristmill until the summer of 1849, when he
entered the preparatory school of Knox College at
Galesburg, 111. ; entered college in June, 1850, and
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graduated as bachelor of arts in June, 1854; on
leaving college kept books in a mercantile house
in St. Louis, Mo., for about eight months, when
he entered the law office of John A. Kasson;
admitted to practice law in Missouri in November,
1856; on being admitted to the bar, moved the
same month to Des Moines, Iowa, where he
actively engaged in the practice of law till January
1, 1865, when he moved to New York City; be-
came a member of the New York Stock Exchange,
and engaged as banker and broker; never a candi-
date for any elective office until his nomination
on the Republican ticket for the Fiftieth Congress,
and elected as a Republican.
White, William J., of Cleveland, Ohio, was
born m Canada, October 7, 1850; came to this
country in 1857; received such education as the
district schools afforded; at an early age entered
business as a wholesale dealer and manufacturer;
also owned large vessel interests,- and interested
largely in banking, farming, stock raising, and
various other business entei prises; elected mayor
of West Cleveland as a Repubhcan in 1889; elected
to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican.
WMteaker, Jolm, of Pleasant Hill, Oreg., was
born in Dearborn County, Ind., May 4, 1820;
raised on a farm and self-educated; engaged in
farming and stock raising; went to the Pacific
coast in 1849 and settled in Oregon in 1852; elected
judge of probate for Lane County in 1855; elected
to the Territorial legislature in 1857, and in 1858
elected governor of the new State of Oregon, which
office he held until 1862; elected to the State
house of representatives in 1866, reelected in 1868,
and served as speaker, and again reelected in 1870;
appointed a member of the State board of equali-
zation in 1872, and chairman thereof, and in
the same year appointed a member of the com-
mission to examine, report upon, and, if approved,
receive the locks and canal at the falls of the
Willamette River; elected a State senator in 1876
for four years, and served as president of the ses-
sions of 1876 and 1878; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; appointed collector of the
port of Portland, Oreg., by President Cleveland
during his first term.
Whitehead, Thomas, was bom at Clifton, Va.,
December 27, 1825; received a limited education;
merchant; studied law, and began practicing at
Amherst; engaged in farming; elected prosecuting
attorney for Amherst County in 1866, and reelected
in 1869, resigning in November, 1873; elected State
senator in 1865, but did not qualify; served in the
Confederate army 1861-1865; elected a Represent-
ative from Virginia to the Forty-third Congress as
a Conservative, indorsed by the Republicans.
Whitehill, James, was a native of Lancaster
County, Pa. ; received a liberal education; studied
law and began practice at his home; elected judge
of the Lancaster County court; elected a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirteenth
Congress, serving from May 24, 1813, to Septem-
ber 1, 1814, when he resigned; died at Straaburg,
Pa., March 5, 1822.
Whitehill, John, was born in Pennsylvania in
1821; received a liberal education; elected a Rep-
resentative from Pennsylvania to the Eighth and
Ninth Congresses; died in September, 1815.
Whitehill, Robert, was born at Pequea, Pa.,
July 29, 1738; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and
Twelfth Congresses; died at Lauther Manor, Cum-
berland County, Pa., April 8, 1813.
Whitehouse, John 0. , was born in Rochester,
N. H., July 19, 1817; received a limited education;
moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and became a merchant
and manufacturer; elected a Representative from
New York to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses as a Liberal.
Whitelaw, Robert H., of Cape Girardeau,
Mo., was born January 30, 1854, in Essex County,
Va. ; moved from there to Cape Girardeau in 1859;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat,
to fill the unexpired term of Hon. James Peter
Walker, deceased, and took his seat December 1,
1890.
Whiteley, RichardHenry, was born in Ireland,
December 22, 1830; emigrated to Georgia in 1836;
educated himself and engaged in manufacturing
from boyhood; studied law, and in 1860 admitted to
the bar; opposed secession of the State, but after
the adoption of the ordinance entered the Con-
federate army and served until 1865, when he
surrendered, attaining the rank of major; elected
a member of the State constitutional convention
in 1867; elected to the United States Congress in
1868, but the House refused him his seat; elected
by the legislature to the United States Senate in
1870, but not admitted to his seat; elected a Rep-
resentative from Georgia to the Forty-first, Forty-
second, and Forty-third Congresses; defeated for
the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses; died
at Boulder, Colo., September 26, 1890.
Whiteley, William G. , was a native of Newark,
Del. ; graduated from Princeton College in 1838;
studied law, and began practice at Newcastle;
elected a Representative from Delaware to the
Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Whiteside, Jenkin, was born at Lancaster,
Pa., in 1782; elected a United States Senator from
Tennessee (vice Daniel Smith, resigned), serving
from 1809 to 1811, when he resigned; died at
Nashville, Tenn., September 25, 1822.
Whiteside, John, was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses.
Whitfield, John W., was born in Tennessee;
moved to Tecumseh, Kans.; elected a Delegate
from Kansas Territory to the Thirty-third Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-fourth
Congress, but after an unsuccessful contest by
Andrew H. Reeder the seat was declared vacant
August 1, 1856.
Whiting, Justin Rice, was bom at Bath,
Steuben County, N. Y., February 18, 1847; when
2 years of age moved with his parents to St.
Clair; received his preparatory education at the
Union School, and admitted to the Michigan
.University in 1863, at the age of 16; left col-
lege at the close of the sophomore year; mer-
chant and manufacturer; elected mayor of St.
Clair in 1879; elected State senator in 1882,
and elected to the Fiftieth Congress by the com-
bined votes of Democrats and Greenbackers;
reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-
third Congresses; Democratic candidate for gov-
ernor in 1898 and defeated; Democratic candidate
for Congress in 1900 and defeated; chairman of
the Democratic State central committee; died at
St. Clair, Mich., January 31, 1903.
Whiting, Richard H. , was bom at West Hart-
ford, Conn., January 17, 1826; attended the com-
mon schools; served in the Union Army 1862-
1866; assessor of internal revenue for the fifth
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district of Illinois 1870-1873; collector of internal
revenue for the same district 1873-1875; elected a
Eepresentative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth
Congress.
Whiting, William, was bomatOoncord, Mass. ,
March 3, 1813; graduated from Harvard College
in 1833; studied law, and began practice at Boston ;
solicitor of the War Department 1862-1865 ; elected
a Eepresentative from Massachusetts to the Forty-
third Congress as a Republican, but died before
taking his seat, June 29, 1873.
Whiting, William, of Holyoke, Mass., was
born at Dudley, Mass., May 24, 1841; educated in
the public schools, including high school; paper
manufacturer and president of the Holyoke Bank;
elected to the Massachusetts State senate in 1873;
elected treasurer of Holyoke 1876-77; delegate
to the national Bepublican convention of 1876;
elected mayor of Holyoke 1878-79; elected to the
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses
as a Bepublican; after leaving Congress devoted
himself to his paper mills; commissioner to the
Paris Exposition in 1900.
Whitman, Ezekiel, was bom at East Bridge-
water, Mass., March 9, 1776; graduated from
Brown University in 1795; studied law and began
practice at Portland, Mass. (now Maine) ; elected
a Representative from Maine district to the Eleventh
Congress as a Federalist; member of the executive
council in 1815 and 1816; delegate to the conven-
tion that framed the State constitution of Maine;
elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seven-
teenth Congresses; resigned June 1, 1822; defeated
for the Twenty-sixth Congress; judge of the
superior court; chief justice of Maine 1841-1848;
died at East Bridgewater, Mass., August 1, 1866.
Whitman, Xjemuel, was born in Connecticut
in 1780; graduated from Yale College in 1800;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Eighteenth Congress; died at Farmington, Conn.,
November 18, 1841.
Whitmore, Greorge W., was born in McMinn
County, Tenn., August 26, 1824; received a public
school education; moved to Texas in 1848; stud-
ied law, and admitted to the bar; State representa-
tive 1852, 1853, and 1858; favored the Union cause
and imprisoned by the rebels; district attorney for
the ninth judicial district in 1866; appointed regis-
ter in bankruptcy in 1867 ; elected a Representative
from Texas to the Forty-first Congress as a Repub-
lican.
Whitney, Thomas K.. , was born at New York
City in 1804; received a classical education, and
engaged in newspaper work ; State senator 1854-55;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; died at
New York April 12, 1858.
Whittemore, Benjamin F. , was born at Mai-
den, Mass., in 1824; received a liberal education;
studied theology and became a minister in the
Methodist-Episcopal Church; chaplain in the
Union Army; after the war located in South Caro-
lina; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1867; founded the New Era at Darlington;
State senator; elected a Representative from South
Carolina to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses,
serving until February 23, 1870, when he resigned.
Whittemore, Elisha, was a native of Rocking-
ham County, N. H.; received a liberal education;
moved to New York and elected a Eepresentative
from New York to the Nineteenth Congress.
Whitthorne, Washington Curran, was bom •
in Marshall County, Tenn., April 19, 1825; gradu-
ated from East Tennessee University, Knoxville,
Tenn., in 1843; studied law; member of the State
senate of Tennessee 1855-1858 ; elected in 1859 to the
lower house of the general assembly of Tennessee,
and presiding officer thereof; upon the Breckin-
ridge electoral ticket for the State at large in 1860;
assistant adjutant-general in the provisional army
of Tennessee in 1861, and afterwards adjutant-
general of the State, which position he held under
Governor Harris until the close of the civil war;
his disabilities were removed by act of Congress
approved July, 1870; elected to the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,
and Forty-seventh Congresses as a Democrat; ap-
pointed to th^ United States Senate as a Democrat
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Hon. H. E. Jackson; took his seat April 26, 1886,
and elected when the legislature met to fill out the
unexpired term, receiving the unanimous nomina-
tion of his party; his term as Senator expired March
3, 1887 ; had been previously elected to the House of
Representatives in the Fiftieth Congress; reelected
to the Fifty-first Congress; died at Columbia,
Tenn., September 21, 1891.
Whittlesey, Elisha, was born at Washington,
Conn., October 19, 1783; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and in 1806 began practice at
Canfield, Ohio; prosecuting attorney for sixteen
years; served in the war of 1812; State represent-
ative 1820-21; elected a Representative from Ohio
to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected to the Nine-
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth
Congresses, resigning July 9, 1838; appointed Sixth
Auditor of the Treasury by President Taylor 1849-
1857; reappointed by President Lincoln in 1861,
and held the office until January 7, 1863, when he
died, at Washington, D. C.
Whittlesey, Frederick, was bom at Washing-
ton, Conn., June 12, 1799; graduated from Yale
in 1818; studied law, and in 1821 began practicing
at Rochester, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Congresses; vice-chancellor of the eighth judicial
district of New York 1839-1847; appointed a jus-
tice of the State supreme court June 30, 1847;
died at Rochester, N. Y., September 19, 1851.
Whittlesey, Thomas T., was a native of Con-
necticut; graduated from Yale College; studied
law, and began practice at Danbury, Conn.; elected
a Representative from Connecticut to the Twenty-
fourth Congress (vice Z. Wildman, deceased) as a
Van Buren Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress; defeated for the Twenty-sixth
Congress.
Whittlesey, William A., was a native of
Connecticut; graduated from Yale College; studied
law, and began practice at Marietta, Ohio; elected
a Eepresentative from Ohio to the Thirty-first
Congress as a Democrat.
Whjrte, W. Pinkney, of Baltimore, Md., was
bom in that city August 9, 1824; educated at
Baltimore College and by private tutors; served
eighteen months in the banking house of George
Peabody; studied law at the Harvard Law School,
and admitted to the Baltimore bar in 1846; mem-
ber of the legislature of Maryland 1847-48; judge-
advocate of a court-martial at the Naval Academy
in 1848; elected comptroller of the State of Mary-
land in 1853, and declined a reelection in 1855;
Democratic candidate for Congress in 1857 against
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881
the Know-Nothings, and contested the seat, hut
defeated in the House by a small majority;
refused to claim any pay as a contestant, although
the report of the Committee on Elections was
against the sitting member; delegate to the
Democratic convention in 1868; appointed to the
United States Senate by the governor of Mary-
land to fill the vacancy occasioned by the appoint-
ment of Eeverdy Johnson as minister to Great
Britain; took his seat July 14, 1868, and served
until March 4, 1869; elected governor of Maryland
for four years in November, 1871, and resigned the
ofBce to enable the legislature to elect his successor
on his having been elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat, to succeed W. T. Hamilton,
Democrat; received the degree of LL. D. in June,
1874, from the University of Maryland; took his
■ seat in the Senate March 4, 1875, and served until
March 3, 1881.
Wick, ■William W. , was born at Canonsburg,
Pa., February 23, 1796; received a liberal educa-
' tion; taught school; studied medicine and then
law, and began practicing law in Fayette County,
Ind., in 1820; secretary of the State of Indiana in
1825; State attorney for the fifth judicial circuit
1829-1831; president-judge 1832-1835; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Twenty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
ninth and Thirtieth Congresses; postmaster at
Indianapolis 1853-1857; died in Frankhn County,
Ind., May 16, 1868.
Wickes, Eliphalet, was bom in Suffolk County,
N. Y. ; elected a Representative from New York to
the Ninth Congress.
■Wickham, Charles P. , of Norwalk, Ohio, was
born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, September
15, 1836; printer in his youth; educated in the pub-
lic schools of Norwalk and at the Norwalk Acad-
emy; studied law and graduated from the Cincin-
nati Law School; admitted to the bar in 1858 and
practiced law at Norwalk; enlisted as a private in
Company D, Fifty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteers,
in September, 1861, and mustered out of the serv-
ice on the 11th of July, 1865; attained to the rank
of first lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-
colonel; while a major was commissioned lieuten-
ant-colonel by brevet; by the President, for "gal-
lant and meritorious services in the Carolinas;"
resumed the practice of law in Norwalk in July,
1865; elected prosecuting attorney in 1866 and re-
elected in 1868; elected judge of the court of com
mon pleas of the fourth judicial district in 1880
and reelected in 1885 as a RepubUcan, in a strongly
Democratic subdivision, which office he resigned
in 1886; elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Re-
.publican; reelected to the Fifty-first Congress.
Wickliffe, Charles A., wasbornatBardstown,
Ky., June 8, 1788; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Bardstown;
State representative 1812-13 and 1822-23; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Eighteenth
Congress as a Clay Democrat; reelected to the
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-
second Congresses; elected to the State house
of representatives in 1834, and speaker; lieuten-
ant-governor of Kentucky in 1836; became gov-
ernor at the death of Governor Clark m 1839;
Postmaster-General under President Tyler 1841-
1845; sent on a secret mission by President Polk
to the Republic of Texas in 1845; elected a Repre-
sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-seventh
Congress as a Union Whig; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at Chicago in 1864; died in
Howard County, Md., October 31, 1869.
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Widgery, William, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1753; attended the common schools; sailor;
served in the Revolutionary war; moved to Port-
land, Mass. (now Maine) ; State representative 1789,
1791, 1793, 1794, and 1797; member of the execu-
tive council in 1806 and 1807; judge of the court
of common pleas 1813-1822; elected a Representa-
tive from Maine district of Massachusetts to the
Twelfth Congress as a War Democrat; defeated for
reelection; moved to Boston and died there August
7, 1822.
Wigfall, Louis T. , was born in Edgefield Dis-
trict, S. C, April 21, 1816; received a classical edu-
cation ; studied law, and began practice at Marshall,
Tex. ; elected a United States Senator from Texas as
a Democrat (vice J. P. Henderson, deceased) 1860-
61; expelled from the Senate July 11, 1861; served
in the Confederate army; represented Texas in the
Confederate Congress; after the war moved to Lon-
don, and a short time afterwards returned to Balti-
more, where he was admitted to the bar December
1, 1873; died at Galveston, Tex., February 18, 1874.
Wigginton, Peter Dinwiddle, was born at
Springfield, 111., September 6, 1839; received a
liberal education; studied law, admitted to the bar,
and began practice at Merced, Cal. ; elected a Rep-
resentative from California to the Forty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat and reelected to the
Forty-fifth Congress; attempted to revive the old
American party in 1886, and as candidate for gov-
ernor of California received more than 8,000 votes;
died in Oakland, Cal., July 7, 1890.
Wike, Scott, of Pittsfield, 111., was born at
Meadville, Pa., April 6, 1834; moved with his
parents to Quincy, 111., in 1838, and to Pike
County in 1844; educated at Lombard University,
Galesburg, graduating therefrom in 1857; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in 1858; graduated
from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in
1859, and commenced the practice of law the same
year at Pittsfield; twice elected to the legislature
of Illinois and served from 1863 to 1867; member of
the Forty-fourth Congress; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress; an Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury under President Cleveland (second ad-
ministration); died near Barry, 111., January 15,
1901.
Wilber, David, was born near Quaker Street,
Schenectady County, N. Y., October 5, 1820; re-
ceived a common school education; commenced
life by working as a farm laborer and then work-
ing land on shares; became the owner of real estate
and engaged largely in the lumber trade and farm-
ing; commenced the hop business in 1848 and
extensively engaged in the trade; one of the direc-
tors of the Second National Bank at Cooperstown,
N. Y. ; was president of the Wilber National Bank
at Oneonta; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-
sixth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses as a
Republican; delegate to the Republican national
convention at Chicago in 1880; died April 1, 1890.
Wilber, David F., of Oneonta, N. Y., was
born at Milford, Otsego County, N. Y., December
7, 1859; son of David Wilber, above; graduated
from Cazenovia (N. Y. ) Seminary in 1879; engaged
in the hop business with his father in 1880, and
largely interested in farming and stock breeding,
devoting especial attention to the Holstein-Friesiari
strain of cattle; twice represented Oneonta in the
board of supervisors; member of the New York
State tuberculosis commission in cattle in 1894;
director of the Wilber National Bank of Oneonta;
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president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of
Imerica and of the American Cheviot Sheep Asso-
ciation of the United States and Canada; trustee
of the Oazenovia Seminary; elected to thel'itty-
fourth Congress as a Republican; reelected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress.
"Wiltoour, Isaac, was a native of Little Gomp-
ton E I -received a liberal education; studied law
and admitted to the bar; elected a Representative
from Rhode Island to the Tenth Congress; acting
governor of Rhode Island in 1806.
Wilcox, Jeduthan, was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1769; elected a Representative from New
Hampshire to the Thirteenth Congress as a Fed-
eralist and reelected to the Fourteenth Congress;
died at Orford, N. H., in July, 1838.
"Wilcox, John A. , was born in North Carolina
April 18, 1819; moved to Tennessee, where he was
educated in the common schools; moved to Mis-
sissippi and located at Aberdeen; secretary of the
State senate; served !n the Mexican war as heu-
tenant, adjutant, and lieutenant-colonel; elected a
Representative from Mississippi to the Thirty-
second Congress aa a Union Whig; defeated for
reelection; moved to Texas in 1853; represented
Texas in the Confederate Congress; died at Rich-
mond, Va., February 7, 1364.
Wilcox, Iieonard, was born at Hanover, N. H.,
January 29, 1799; graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1817; studied law and began practice at
Orford; State representative; judge of the supe-
rior court; appointed a United States Senator from
New Hampshire (vice Franklin Pierce, resigned)
and elected as a Democrat, serving from 1842 to
1843; died at Orford, N. H., in 1850.
Wilcox, Robert William, of Honolulu, was
a native Hawaiian; born in Honuaula, island
of Maui, February 15, 1855; his father was a
native of Newport, R. I., and his ancestors were
originally established in this country in 1630; his
mother was a pure native of Honuaula, island of
Maui, adescendant of Lonomakaihonua, brotherto
King Kaulahea, of Maui; educated in a common
school called "Haleakala Boarding School," Ma-
kawao, island of Maui, and later received academic
education at the Royal Military Academy, Turin,
Italy, 1881-1885, becoming sublieutenant of artil-
lery; entered the Royal Application School for
Engineer and Artillery Officers at Turin in 1885,
and recalled by the Hawaiian Government in 1887;
elected to the legislature as representative from
Wailuku, island of Maui, in 1880; from Honolulu
in 1890, and from Koolauloa, island of Oahu, in
1892; elected to Congress November 6, 1900, as the
first Delegate from Hawaii to the second session
of the Fifty-sixth Congress, and at the same time
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Wilcox, Washin^on F., of Chester, Conn.,
was born at Killingworth, Conn.; jirepared for
college at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven;
graduated from the Yale Law School in 1862; ad-
mitted to the bar the same year in Middlesex
County, and opened a law office at Deep River, at
which place he continued the practice of law;
elected a member of the Connecticut house of rep-
resentatives in 1862 and 1863; elected to the State
senate in 1875 and 1876; appointed State attorney
in 1875, and held that office continuously for eight
years; elected to the Fifty-first Congress aa a Dem-
ocrat; reelected to the Fifty-second Congress; re-
sumed the practice of law; appointed one of the
State railroad commissioners of Connecticut for
four years in 1897.
Wilde, Richard Henry, was born at Dublin,
Ireland, September 24, 1789; came to America in
1797 and located at Baltimore; received a limited
education; moved to Augusta, Ga., and studied
law; admitted to the barin 1809; attorney-general
of Georgia; elected a Representative from Georgia
to the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Congresses aa a
Democrat; defeated for the Nineteenth Congress;
elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third Congresses; defeated for the Twenty-
fourth Congress; moved to New Orleans in 1843 to
act as professor of law in the University of Loui-
siana; died at New Orleans, September 10, 1847.
Wilder, A. Carter, was born at Mendon, Mass.,
March 18, 1828; received a liberal education;
moved to Leavenworth, Kans., in 1857 and became
a merchant; delegate froin Kansas to the Repub-
Ucan national convention at Chicago in 1860; elect-
ed a Representative from Kansas to the Thirty-
eighth Congress as a Republican; delegate to the
Republican national convention at Baltimore m
1864; died at San Francisco, Cal., December 23,
1875.
Wildman, Zalmon, was born at Danbury,
Conn., in 1775; received a liberal education; held
several local offices; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twenty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat, serving from December 7, 1835, to De-
cember 10, 1835, when he died, at Washington, D. C.
Wildrick, Isaac, was a native of New Jersey;
received a limited education; elected a Representa-
tive from New Jersey to the Thirty-first Congress
aa a Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-second
Congress.
Wiley, Ariosto Appling, of Montgomery,
Ala., was born November 6, 1848, at Clayton, Bar-
bour County; reared in Pike County; graduated
from Emory and Henry College, Virginia, in June,
1871, and in October, 1872, located at the city of
Montgomery and engaged in the practice of law;
elected to the house of representatives of the State
legislature from Montgomery County in 1882, and
almost continuously from that time until elected to
Congress served in the general assembly of the
State, either in the house or the senate; at the time
of his election to the Fifty-seventh Congress was a
State senator from the twenty-eighth district; on
June 9, 1898, President McKinley appointed him
lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Regiment, U. S. Vol-
unteer Infantry, one of the ten so-called immune
regiments organized under special act of Congress;
served an enlistment of eleven months in Cuba;
legal adviser and chief of staff of Gen. Henry W.
Lawton at Santiago, and assisted Gen. Leonard
A\'ood in the establishment of civil government in
the eastern province; elected to the Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Wiley, James S., was a native of Maine;
graduated from Waterville College in 1836; studied
law, and began practice at Dover; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Thirtieth Congress as
a Democrat.
Wiley, John M. , of Colden, N. Y., was born
in Ireland, August 11, 1846; emigrated to Amer-
ica with his parents when 4 years old, and settled
in Erie County, N. Y. ; received a common school
education; worked on his father's farm until 18
years of age; bought and sold cattle until 21 years
of age, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits
and real estate business; elected to the legislature
in 1871 and 1872; delegate from that district to
several national Democratic conventions; elected.
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883
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat; ap-
pointed by President Cleveland consul to France.
"Wilkin, James W. , was born in Orange
County, N. Y., in 1762; graduated from Princeton
College in 1785; studied law and began practicing
at Goshen, N. Y.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1800; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses; county clerk of Orange County 1819-
1821; died at Goshen, N. Y., February 23, 1845.
Wilkin, Samuel J., was born in Orange
County, N. Y., in 1790; graduated from Princeton
College in 1812; studied law, and began practice
at Goshen; State representative 1824 and 1825;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-second Congress as a Democrat; died at
Goshen, N. Y., March 11, 1866.
Wilkins, Beriah., of Urichsville, Ohio, was born
in Union County, Ohio, July 10, 1846; received a
common school education in the public schools at
Marysville, Ohio; banker; elected in 1879 to rep-
resent the eighteenth senatorial district in the Ohio
senate; elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat; after leaving
Congress devoted his time to newspaper work,
becoming the owner and publisher of the Wash-
ington Post, at Washington, D. C.
Wilkins, William, was born at Carlisle, Pa.,
December 20, 1779; graduated from Dickinson Col-
lege; studied law, and in 1800 began practice at
Pittsburg; president of the Bank of Pittsburg and
the Pittsburg Manufacturing Company; served in
the State militia as brigadier-general; State repre-
sentative in 1819; defeated as the candidate for the
Twentieth Congress; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Pennsylvania as a Democrat 1831-1834,
when he resigned to become minister to Russia;
returned home in 1835; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, resigning February 14, 1844, to
enter President Tyler' s Cabinet as Secretary of War
1844r-45; State senator in 1857; died at Homewood,
Pa., June 23, 1865.
Wilkinson, Morton S. , was born in Skaneat-
eles, Onondaga County, N. Y., January 22, 1819;
received a limited education; moved to Illinois in
1837 and employed in railroad work two years;
returned to Skaneateles and studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1842 at Syracuse; moved to St. Paul,
Minn., in 1847, and elected to the first legislature
of Minnesota Territory in 1849; appointed one of
the board of commissioners to prepare a code of
laws for the Territory, which was adopted; elected
aUnited States Senator from Minnesota as a Repub-
lican 1859-1865; defeated for reelection; elected a
Representative from Minnesota to the Forty-first
Congress as a Repubhcan; State senator in 1874-
1878; died at St. Paul, Minn., February 4, 1894.
Wilkinson, Theodore Stark, of Plaquemines
Parish, La., was born there December 18, 1847;
received a common school education before and
during a portion of the war; attended Washington
College, Lexington, Va., for two years; became
engaged in sugar planting in 1870; member of the
school board of Plaquemines Parish; member and
president of the board of levee commissioners for
the third levee district; elected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-
first Congress.
Willard, Charles W., was born in Lyndon,
Vt June 18, 1827; graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1851; studied law and in 1853 began
practicing at Montpelier; secretary of the State of
Vermont 1855-56; declined a reelection; State sen-
ator 1860-61; elected a Representative from Ver-
mont to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican;
reelected to the Forty-second and Forty-third
Congresses.
Willard, Georg'e, was bom at Bolton, Vt.,
March 20, 1824; received a classical education;
professor for two years in Kalamazoo College;
engaged in newspaper work; member of the Mich-
igan State board of education 1857-1863; regent
of the Michigan University for ten years; elected
to the State legislature in 1866; elected a member
of the constitutional convention in 1867; delegate
from Michigan to the national Republican con-
vention in 1872; elected a Representative from
Michigan to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con-
gresses as a Republican.
Willey, Calvin, was born at East Haddam,
Conn., September 15, 1776; received a limited
education; studied law and began practice at Staf-
ford; State representative for nine years and a
State senator two years; moved to Tolland, Conn.,
in 1808; postmaster at Tolland four years; elector
on the John Quincy Adams ticket in 1824; elected
a United States Senator from Connecticut, serving
from 1825 to 1831; died at Stafford, Conn., August
23, 1858.
Willey, Waitman T. , was born in Monongalia
County, Va., October 18, 1811; graduated from
Madison College, Pennsylvania; studied law and
admitted to the bar; held several local offices;
delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention
in 1861; elected a United States Senator from Vir-
ginia in 1861; delegate to the State constitutional
convention of the State of West Virginia; elected
a Senator from West Virginia in 1863, and re-
elected, serving from 1863 to 1871; died May 3,
1900.
Williams, Ahram P., of San Francisco, Cal.,
was born at Nsw Portland, Somerset County, Me.,
February 3, 1832; received a common school and
academic education; taught school until 22 years
old, when he moved to Fairfield, Somerset County,
Me., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved
to California in 1858 and began mining in Tou-
lumne County; resumed mercantile business in
1859, and moved to San Francisco in 1861, where
he has since resided; importer, stock raiser, and
farmer; one of the founders of the San Francisco
Board of Trade, and its first president; member
of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce;
chosen chairman of the finance committee and
treasurer of the Republican State committee of
California in 1880, and elected chairman of the
State committee in 1884; elected United States
Senator by the California legislature to succeed
George Hearst, who was appointed by Governor
Stoneman, and took his seat December 6, 1886, and
served until March 3, 1887.
Williams, Alpheus S., was born at Saybrook,
Conn., September 20, 1810; graduated from Yale in
1831; studied law, and began practice at Detroit;
judge of probate 1840-1844; editor of the De-
troit Daily Advertiser 1843-1847; appointed post-
master of Detroit in 1849; lieutenant-colonel in
the Mexican war, and on the breaking out of the
civil war became a major-general of militia, and
afterwards made a brigadier-general in the Army;
minister resident at San Salvador 1866-1869;
elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Dem-
ocrat; died at Washington, D. 0., December 20,
1878.
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CONGBB8SIOWAL DIEECTORY.
"Williams, Andrew, was bom at Ormstown,
Canada, August 27, 1828; received a limited edu-
cation; came to the United States in October, 1848;
became a manufacturer at Plattsburg, N. Y., in
1855; elected a Eepresentative from New York to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Eepublican; re-
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Williams, Archibald H. A., of Oxford, N. C,
was born in Franklin County, N. C, October 22,
1842; received his education in the neighborhood
schools of his State and at Emory and Henry Col-
lege, Virginia; enlisted as a private in the Confed-
erate army in 1861 ; served four years in the Army
of Northern Virginia, and at the surrender at
Appomattox was captain of his company; severely
wounded at Gettysburg; taken prisoner, but eluded
the vigilance of his captors, and returned to his
command ; after the war engaged in farming and
merchandising; instrumental in building the Ox-
ford and Henderson Railroad, which was for sev-
eral years under his management; treasurer and
also one of the directors of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum ; director of the Odd Fellows' Orphan Asy-
lum; twice represented Granville County in the
legislature; elected to the Fifty-second Congress
as a Democrat.
Williams, Beuiamin, was born in North Car-
olina in 1754; received a classical education; served
in the Revolutionary Army as captain and colonel;
for a number of years a member of the State house
of representatives; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Third Congress; governor
of North Carolina 1799-1802 and 1807-8; member
of the State senate 1808-9; died in Moore County,
N. C, July 20, 1814.
Williams, Charles Or., of Janesville, Wis. , was
born at Royalton, N. Y. , October 18, 1829; received
an academic education, and studied law at Roch-
ester in that State; moved to Wisconsin in 1856,
and entered upon the practice of his profession;
Presidential elector in 1868, and elected to the
State senate in that year; reelected to the State
senate in 1870, and twice chosen president pro
tempore of that body; elected to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican; resumed the
practice of law after leaving Congress.
Williams, Christopher H. , was a native of
Tennessee; received a liberal education; elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-first,
and Thirty-second Congresses as a Whig.
Williams, David B,., was born at Robbins
Neck, S. C, MarchlO, 1776; graduated from Brown
University in 1797; studied and practiced law;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Ninth Congress; reelected to the Tenth Con-
gress and again to the Twelfth Congress as a War
Democrat; brigadier-general in the United States
Army July 9, 1813, to April 6, 1814; governor of
South Carolina 1814-1816; died in Lynchs Creek
S. C, November 15, 1830.
Williams, Elihu S., of Troy, Ohio, was born
in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, January
24, 1835; received a common school education, and
was a student at Antioch College two vears; read
law in Dayton ; enlisted as a private in the Seventy-
first Ohio Volunteer Infantry in October, 1861;
commissioned first lieutenant February 14, 1862;
promoted to captain February 10, 1863; detailed
to the command of the military post at Carthage,
Tenn., September, 1863, and remained there till
the close of the war; attorney-general of the sixth
judicial district of Tennessee from April, 1865, till
1867; elected to the Tennessee house of representa-
tives in 1867, and served one term; moved to Troy,
Ohio, in January, 1875; elected to the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses as a Republican.
Williams, George Fred., of Dedham, Mass.,
was born at Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass., July
10, 1852; graduated from Dedham High School in
1868, from Dartmouth in 1872, and studied at the
universities of Heidelberg and Berlin; admitted
to the bar in October, 1875; edited Williams's Cita-
tions of Massachusetts Cases in 1878, and volumes
10 to 17 of the Annual Digest of the United States
1880-1887; elected to the Massachusetts legislature
in 1889; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; resumed the practice of law; Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts but
defeated.
Williams, G-eorge H. , was born at New Leb-
anon, N. Y., March 23, 1823; received a liberal
education; studied law; moved to Iowa, where he
began the practice of his profession; judge of the
first judicial district of Iowa 1847-1852; Presiden-
tial elector in 1852; chief justice of the Territory
of Oregon in 1853 and again in 1857, resigning;
member of the constitutional convention of Ore-
gon in 1858; elected a United States Senator from
Oregon as a Union Republican 1865-1 871; Attorney-
General of the United States 1872-1875; nominated
by President Grant Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, but the name was
withdrawn.
Williams, Henry, was bom at Taunton, Mas? ,
in November, 1804; received a liberal education;
studied law, and iDegan practicing at Taunton;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Democrat; de-
feated for reelection; again elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress; State senator two years, and
served in the State house of representatives three
years.
Williams, Hezeklah, was born at Woodstock,
Vt., in 1798; graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1820; studied law and began practice at Castine;
register of probate for Hancock County 1824-1838;
State senator 1839-1841; elected a Representative
from Maine to the Twenty-ninth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirtieth Congress;
died at Castine, Me., October 24, 1856.
Williams, Isaac, was born in Otsego County,
N. Y.; received a limited education; elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirteenth,
Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Congresses.
Williams, James, was born at Philadelphia,
Pa., August 4, 1825; received a liberal education;
moved to Delaware in 1844; farmer; State legisla-
tor in 1856 and 1862; State senator in 1866 and 1871;
member of the national Democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1872; elected a Eepresentative from
Delaware- to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat; reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
Williams, James D., was born in Pickaway
County, Ohio, January 16, 1808; moved to Indiana
and located in Knox County in 1818; farmer; State
representative 1843, 1847, 1851, 1856, and 1868,
and State senator 1858, 1862, and 1870; delegate
to the national Democratic convention at Balti-
more in 1872; elected a Representative from Indi-
ana to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Democrat,
servmg until December 1, 1876, when he resigned
to become governor of Indiana; died at Indianap-
olis, Ind., November 20, 1880.
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885
_ WiUiams, James R., of Carmi, 111., was born
in White County, 111., December 27, 1850; gradu-
ated from the Indiana State University, Blooming-
ton, in 1875, and from the Union College of Law,
Chicago, in 1876; engaged in the practice of his
profession at Carmi; master in chancery 1880-1882,
and county judge of White County 1882-1886;
nominee for elector on the Cleveland and Thur-
man ticket; elected to the Fifty-first Congress, at
a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. R. W. Townshend; reelected to the
Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev-
enth, and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
■Williams, James W. , was born in Maryland
in 1787; received a liberal education; speaker of
the State house of representatives in 1830, and
served several years as member; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Twenty-seventh
Congress as a Democrat, serving from May 31,
1841, to December 2, 1842, when he died.
Williams, Jared, was born in Montgomery
County, Md., March 4, 1766; received a classical
education; farmer; memberof the Statehouseof rep-
resentatives in 1811 and 1817; elected a Representa-
tive from Virginia to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
and Eighteenth Congresses as a Jackson Demo-
crat; Presidential elector on the Jackson and Cal-
houn ticket in 1829; died near Newton, Va.,
January 2, 1831.
Williams, Jared W., was born at West Wood-
stock, Conn., December 22, 1796; graduated from
Brown University in 1818; studied law, and began
practicing at Lancaster, N. H. ; member of the
State house of representatives in 1830, 1831, 1835,
and 1836, and of the State senate 1832, 1833, and
1834; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Con-
gresses as aDemocrat; governor of New Hampshire
1847-1849; appointed a United States Senator from
New Hampshire (vice C. G. Atherton, deceased)
1853-1855; died at Lancaster, N. H., September
29, 1864.
Williams, Jere N., was born in Barbour
County, Ala., in April, 1820; graduated from the
University of South Carolina; studied law and
practiced; served in the Confederate army; elected
a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat.
Williams, John, was a native of Hanover
County, Va. ; carpenter; moved to North Carolina,
where he studied law and practiced; Delegate to
the Continental Congress 1777-78; died in Gran-
ville County, N. C, October 10, 1799.
Williams, John, was a native of Washington
County, N. Y. ; colonel in the Revolutionary Army;
memberof the New York State senate in 1777, but
expelled for misconduct; again a member of the
State senate 1782-1793; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses.
Williams, John, was born in Surry County,
N. C, January 29, 1778; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Knoxville,
Tenn. ; served as colonel in the war of 1812 under
General Jackson; elected a United States Senator
from Tennessee (vice G. W. Campbell, resigned)
1815-1823; appointed charg6 d'affaires to Central
America 1825-26; memberof the State senate; died
near Knoxville, Tenn., August 10, 1837.
Williams, John, was born at Utica, N. Y., in
1807; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Roches-
ter, N. Y.,-May, 1853-54; elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress
as a Democra,t; major-general of militia; city treas-
urer of Rochester 1871-1875; died March 26, 1875.
Williams, John M. S., was born at Richmond,
Va., August 14, 1818; educated at Boston; mer-
chant; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1856 and the State senate 1858; Presidential
elector in 1868; elected a Representative from
Massachusetts to the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican; defeated for reelection.
Williams, John S. , was born in Montgomery
County, Ky., in 1820; graduated from Oxford Col-
lege, Ohio, in 1839; studied and practiced law at
Paris, Ky. ; served in the Mexican war, first as cap-
tain of an independent company attached to the
Sixth Infantry, U. S. Army, and afterwards as
colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Kentucky Vol-
unteers; elected to the Kentucky legislature in
1857 and again in 1875; entered the Confederate
army as colonel in 1861; made brigadier-general
in April, 1862, and surrendered with the army of
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in Georgia; farmer;
served his party several times as delegate to na-
tional conventions and as a Presidential elec-
tor; elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat to succeed Thomas C; McCreery, Demo-
crat, and took his seat March 19, 1879, serving to
March 3, 1885; died July 17, 1898.
Williams, John Sharp, of Yazoo, Miss., was
born July 30, 1854, at Memphis, Tenn. ; his mother
having died, his father being killed at Shiloh, and
Memphis being threatened with capture by the
Federal Army, his family moved to the family
homestead of his mother in Yazoo County, Miss. ;
received a fair education at private schools, theKen-
tucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky. , the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the
University of Virginia, and the University of
Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany; subsequently
studied law under Professors Minor and Southall
at the University of Virginia, and in the oflSce of
Harris, McKisick & Turley in Memphis; got license
to practice in the courts of law and chancery of
Shelby County, Tenn., in 1877; moved in Decem-
ber, 1878, to Yazoo City, Miss., where he engaged
in the practice of his profession and the varied
pursuits of a cotton planter; delegate to the Chicago
convention in 1892; elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Williams, Jonathan, was born at Boston, Mass. ,
May 26, 1750; attended the common schools; en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law and
practiced; located at Philadelphia; judge of the
court of common pleas; entered the U. S. Army
in February, 1801, as major of engineers, and re-
signed June 20, 1803, as lieutenant-colonel of engi-
neers; colonel of engineers 1808-1812, when he
resigned; elected a Representative from Pennsyl-
vania to the Fourteenth Congress but died at Phila-
delphia, before taking his seat, May 16, 1815.
Williams, Joseph li., was born in Tennessee
about 1800; received a liberal education; elected
a Representative from Tennessee to the Twenty-
fifth Congress as a Whig; reelected to the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses.
Williams, Lemuel, was a native of Massachu-
setts; graduated from Harvard College in 1765;
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to
the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses.
Williams, LeTwis, was born in Surry County,
N. C, February 1, 1786; graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in 1808; member of the
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CONGBESSIONAL DIKECTOKY.
Louse of commons 1813-14; elected a Repre-
sentative from North Carolina to the Fourteenth
Congress; reelected to the thirteen successive
Congresses, receiving the title of "Father of the
House;" died February 23, 1842, at Washington,
D. C.
Williams, Marmaduke, was born in Caswell
County, N. C, April 6, 1772; received a liberal edu-
cation; studied law and began practice; elected a
Eepresentative from North Carolina to the Eighth,
Ninth, and Tenth Congresses; moved to Madison
County, Ala., in 1810, and to Tuscaloosa in 1818;
member of the constitutional convention in 1819;
candidate for governor in 1819 and defeated; judge
of the Tuscaloosa County court 1832-1842; died at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 29, 1850.
Williams, Morgan B., of Wilkesbarre, Pa. ,
was born at Rhandir-Mwyn, parish of Llanfair-ar-
y-Bryn, Carmarthenshire, Wales, September 17,
1831; attended the pubUc schools of his native
town, and inJVIarch, 1856, emigrated to Australia,
arriving at Melbourne in the latter part of June
after a voyage of 103 days; returned to Wales in
August, 1861, and in March, 1862, emigrated to
Scranton, Pa. ; worked in the mines at Scranton
until September, 1865, when he moved to Wilkes-
barre; appointed to the position of piine superin-
tendent for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company, which position he held for fourteen
years; subsequently he leased a tract of coal land in
the vicinity of Wilkesbarre and organized a com-
pany known as the Bed Ash Coal Company; vice-
president and general manager of the company ;
member of the school board, and served as a mem-
ber of the city council for twelve years; alternate
delegate to the national Republican convention at
Chicago in 1884; elected to the senate of Pennsyl-
vania in 1884; member of the World's Fair Com-
mission; elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Williams, Nathan, was a native of Oneida
County, N. Y.; received a liberal education and
held several loCal offices in Oneida County; elected
a Representative from New York to the Ninth
Congress; member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1818.
Williams, Keuel, was born at Hallowell, Me.,
June 2, 1783; received a liberal education; studied
law, and began practice at Augusta; member of
the State house of representatives 1822-1826, and
the senate 1827-28, and again of the house 1829-
1832; elected a United States Senator from Maine
as a Democrat (vice E. Shepley, resigned) 1837-
1843; manager of a railroad for twelve years; died
at Augusta, Me., July 25, 1862.
Williams, Kicliard, was born at Findlay, Ohio,
November, 15, 1836; moved to Oregon in 1851;
received a liberal education; studied law, and ad-
mitted to the bar in 1858; began practicing at
Portland; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican.
Williams, Robert, was born in Surry County,
N. C, July 12, 1773; received a liberal education;
studied law and admitted to practice; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Fifth,
Sixth, and Seventh Congresses; appointed land
commissioner for Mississippi in 1803; Territorial
governor of Mississippi 1805-1809; moved to Louis-
iana, where he, died about 1820.
Williams, Sherrod, was a native of Kentucky;
received a liberal education; elected a Representa-
tive from Kentucky to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-
fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses as a Whig.
Williams, Thomas, was born at Greensburg,
Pa., August 28, 1806; graduated from Dickinson
College in 1828; studied and practiced law; served
several years in both branches of the State legisla-
ture; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Conresses as a Republican.
Williams, Thomas, of Wetumpka, Ala., was
born in Greenville County, Va., August 11, 1825;
moved to Wetumpka in 1835; received a limited
education; planter and lawyer; member of the
legislatnre in 1878; elected to the Forty-sixth Con-
gress as a Democrat, representing the Fifth district
of Alabama; reelected to the Forty-seventh and
Forty-eighth Congresses.
Williams, Thomas H.,was born in Virginia
about 1795; moved to Mississippi and located at
Pontotoc; served in the State legislature; appointed
and afterwards elected a United States Senator
from Mississippi as a Democrat (vice F. J. Trotter,
resigned), serving from 1838 to 1839.
Williams, Thomas Hill, was born in North
Carolina about 1780; received a liberal education;
studied law and practiced ; register of the land oflace
for the Territory of Mississippi in 1805; collector of
custom at New Orleans; delegate to the State con-
stitutional convention; elected a United States
Senator from Mississippi as a Democrat 1817-1829;
moved to Tennessee, where he died, in Robertson
County about 1840.
Williams, Thomas Scott, was born at Weth-
ersfield. Conn., June 26, 1777; graduated from
Yale College in 1794; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Mansfield; moved to Hartford in 1803;
served several terms in the State house of repre-
sentatives; elected a Representative from Connec-
ticut to the Fifteenth Congress; appointed in 1829
an associate judge of the supreme court of errors
and of the superior court, and in 1834 appointed
chief justice, holding the position until 1847;
mayor of Hartford 1831-1835; died at Hartford,
Conn., December 15, 1861.
Williams, Thom.as W. , was born at Stoning-
ton, Conn., September 28, 1789; received a liberal
education; moved to New London and engaged in
business; elected a Representative from Connecti-
cut to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses; Presidential elector on the Taylor
and Fillmore ticket in 1848.
Williams, William, was born at Lebanon,
Conn., April 18, 1731; graduated from Harvard
University in 1751; Delegate from Connecticut to
the Continental Congress 1776-1778 and 1783-84;
died at Lebanon, Conn., August 2, 1811.
Williams, William, was born at Carlisle, Pa.,
May 11, 1821; received a liberal education; stud-
ied law and began practice in Indiana; treasurer
of Kosciusko County in 1850; director of the
Michigan City State prison in 1850; served in the
Union Army; elected a Eepresentative from Indi-
ana to the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses as a Republican.
Williams, William, was born at Bolton, Conn.,
September 6, 1815; received a limited education;
engaged in banking; railroad manager and presi-
dent at Buffalo, N. Y. ; State representative 1866-67 ;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Forty-second Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection.
Williams, William B. , was born at Pittsford,
I N. Y., July 28, 1826; received a liberal education;
BIOGRAPHIES.
8»<
Studied law and practiced; moved to Allegan,
Mich., in 1855; elected judge of probate in 1856
and 1860; State senator 1866 and 1868; member of
the constitutional convention in 1867; elected a
Representative from Michigan to the Forty-third
Congress as a Republican at a special election
held in November, 1873, to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of W. D. Foster; reelected to the
Forty-fourth Congress.
Williams, William Elza, of Pittsfield, 111.,
was born at Detroit, 111., May 5, 1857; educated
m the district school and at Illinois College, at
Jacksonville, 111.; hved on a farm until he ar-
rived at age, when he commenced the study of
law and followed the legal profession; elected to
the office of State attorney in his native county of
Kke in 1886, for an unexpired term, and reelected
to a full term in 1888; elected' to the Fifty-sixth
Congress as a Democrat.
Williamson, Hugh, was born at West Not-
tingham, Pa., December 5, 1735; graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1757; studied
theology and licensed to preach in 1758, but on
account of ill health resigned in 1760; went to
Edinburgh and studied medicine; returned to
Philadelphia and practiced until 1773, when he
returned to England; returned to America, and
was surgeon-general of the North Carolina troops;
member of the house of commons of North Caro-
lina in 1782; elected to the Continental Congress
in 1784-85 and 1786; delegate to the convention
which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787;
elected a Representative to the First Congress as a
Federalist, and reelected to the Second Congress;
moved to New York, and died there May 22, 1819.
William.soii, William Durkee, was born >t
Canterbury, Conn., July 31, 1779; graduated from
Brown University in 1804; studied law, and began
practicing at Bangor, Me., in 1807; State attorney
for Hancock County 1808-1815; State senator 1816-
1820, member of the first senate of Maine under
its constitution in 1820; acted as governor; elected
a Representative from Maine to theSeventeenth
Congress as a Democrat; judge of |he probate 1827-
1840; bank commissioner 1838-1841; died at Ban-
gor, Me. , May 27, 1846.
Willie, AsaH., was born at Washington, Ga.,
October 11, 1829; received an academic education;
moved to Washington Countj;, Tex., in 1846;
studied law, and in 1848 admitted to the bar;
elected district attorney of the third judicial dis-
trict of Texas 1852-1854; served in the Confederate
army; elected a Representative from Texas to the
Forty-third Congress as a Democrat; died in 1899.
Willing, Thomas, was born at Philadelphia
December 19, 1731; received a liberal education;
studied law at London, at the Temple, and returned
home, engaging in mercantile pursuits; mayor of
Philadelphia; judge of the supreme court; mem-
- ber of the colonial house of representatives; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress 1775-76; president
of the Bank of North America; died at Philadelphia
January 19, 1821.
Willis, Albert S. , was born in Shelby County,
Ky., January 22, 1843; received his early education
in common schools and graduated from the Louis-
ville Male High School in I860; taught school for
four years; studiedlaw and graduated fromtheLou-
isville Law School in 1866; elected attorney for Jef-
erson County in 1874; elected a Representative
from Kentucky to the Forty-flfth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Con-
gresses as a. Democrat; appointed minister to Hon-
olulu by President Cleveland, and died there
January 6, 1897. '
Willis, Benjamin A., was born at Roslyn,
N. Y., March 24, 1840; graduated from Union Col-
lege in 1861; studied law and in 1861 admitted to
the bar; entered the Union Army; captain and
subsequently became colonel of the Twelfth Regi-
ment of New York State Volunteers; elected a
Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses as a Democrat; devoted
himself to law and the real estate business; died
at New York City October 15, 1886.
Willis, Francis, was born in Frederick County,
Va., January 5, 1725; received a liberal education;
elected a Representative from Georgia to the Sec-
ond Congress; moved to Maury County, Tenn.,
where he died January 25, 1829.
Willis, Jonathan Spencer, of Milford, Del.,
was born at Oxford, Talbot County, Md., April 5,
1830; educated in the district schools and under
private tutors; taught school seven years, and then
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; served charges in Maryland, Delaware,
Philadelphia, NewYork City, and Stamford, Conn. ;
retired from the ministry in 1884 and settled on a
farm near Milford, Del. ; extensively engaged in
fruit growing; raised a Democrat, but separated
from that party during the war of the rebellion;
nominated for Congress by the Republican party
of "Delaware in 1892, but failed of an election; re-
nominated in 1894, and elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican.
Willits, Edwin, was born at Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N. Y., April 24, 1830; moved to Michigan
in September, 1836; graduated from the Michigan
University in June, 1855; located at Monroe in
April, 1856; studied law, and admitted to the bar
in December, 1857, and practiced at Monroe;
elected prosecuting attorney for Monroe County
in 1860, and held the office till December 31, 1862;
elected a member of the State board of education
in 1860, and reelected in 1866, holding the position
twelve years; on the commission to revise the
constitution of the State in 1873; appointed post-
master of Monroe, January 1, 1863, by Abraham
Lincoln, and removed by Andrew Johnson Octo^
ber 15, 1866; editor of the Monroe Commercial
1856-1861; elected a Representative from New
York to the Forty-flfth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-
seventh Congresses as a Republican; died in 1896.
Willoughby, Westel, was elected a Represent-
ative from New York to the Fourteenth Congress,
after contesting the seat of William Smith, Demo-
crat, and took his seat December 3, 1815.
Wilmot, David, was born at Bethany, Pa., Jan-
uary 20, 1814; received a liberal education; studied
law, and in 1834 began practicing at Towanda,
Pa.; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses; presiding judge of the thirteenth
judicial district 1853-1861 ; delegate to the national
Republican convention in 1856; defeated for gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania on the Republican ticket in
1857; delegate to the national Republican conven-
tion at Chicago in 1860; elected a United States
Senator from Pennsylvania as a Republican (vice
S . Cameron , resigned ) , serving from 1 861 to 1863 ; ap-
pointed judge of the United States Court of Claims
in 1863; died at Towanda, Pa., March 16, 1868.
Wilshire, William W., was born September
8, 1830, in Gallatin County, 111. ; received a common
CONGRESSIONAL DIBECTOET.
school education; studied law, and in 1859 began
practicing; entered the Union Army in 1862 as
major of the One hundred and twenty-sixth
Illinois Infantry; after the war located at Little
Rock, Ark.; resumed the practice of law; ap-
pointed in 1867 solicitor-general of the State; chief
justice of the supreme court 1868-1871; returned
to practice; elected a Representative from Arkan-
sas to the Forty-third Confess as a Republican,
but his seat was contested and given to his oppo-
nent, T. M. Gunter, June 16, 1874; reelected to
the Forty-fourth Congress as a Conservative.
Wilson, Alexander, was a native of Virginia;
received a liberal education; member of the State
legislature; elected a Representative from Virginia
to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses.
Wilson, Benjamin, of Wilsonburg, W. Va.,
was born in Harrison County, Va. (now West
Virginia), April 30, 1825; educated at the North-
western Virginia Academy at Clarksburg; attended
law school at Staunton; admitted to the bar in
1848 and practiced; Commonwealth attorney for
Harrison County 1852-1860; member of the State
constitutional convention of Virginia in 1861;
Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket for
the State at large in 1868; member of the State
constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1871 ;
one of the delegates from the State at large to
the national Democratic convention at Baltimore
in 1872; elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty -sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses a§ a
Democrat.
Wilson, Bdgdr, of Boise City, Idaho, was born
in Armstrong Xlounty, Pa., February 25, 1861;
attended Michigan University at Ann Arbor for
three years, and graduated from the law depart-
ment of that institution in the class of 1884; went
to Idaho the same year and located at Boise City,
forming a law partnership with Fremont Wood;
elected city attorney of Boise City in 1887 and dis-
trict attorney in 1888; served as member of the
constitutional convention which framed the State
constitution in 1890; elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress as a Republican; elected to the Fifty -
sixth Congress as a Silver Republican, with Dem-
ocratic indorsement.
Wilson, Edg'ar C, was born at Morgantown,
Va.; elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-third Congress as a Whig; died at Mor-
gantown, Va. , in May, 1860.
Wilson, Ephraim K., of Snow Hill, Md., was
elected a Representative from Maryland to the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses.
Wilson, Ephraim King', was born at Snow
Hill, Md., December 22, 1821; educated at Union
Academy, Snow Hill, and at Washington Acad-
emy, Princess Anne, Md., and graduated from
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1841; studied
law and practiced twenty years; member of the
Maryland house of delegates in 1847; elector for
Pierce and King in 1852; a Representative in the
Forty-second Congress; judge of the first judicial
circuit of Maryland 1878-1884; elected to the
United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed
James B. Groome, Democrat, and took his seat
March 4, 1885; died February 24, 1891, at Wash-
ington, D. C.
Wilson, Eugene M., was born in Morgan
County, Va., December 25, 1833; graduated from
Jefferson College in 1852; studied law and admit-
ted to the bar; began practicing at Minneapolis,
Minn., in 1855; United States attorney for the
district of Minnesota 1857-1861; served in the
Union Army as captain; elected a Representative
from Minnesota to the Forty-first Congress as a
Democrat; died in Nassau, New Providence, April
10, 1890.
Wilson, Frank E., M. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was born in 1857, at Roxbury, Delaware County,
N. Y.; elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Wilson, Francis Henry, of Brooklyn, N. Y. , was
born in Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y.;
lived first ten years at Utica, N. Y., and then moved
with his parents to the Westmoreland farm,
where he attended the district school for several
years, and then prepared for college at Dr. Ben-
jamin W. Dwight's preparatory school, Clinton,
N. Y. ; entered Yale College in 1863 and graduated
in 1867; taught in a preparatory school for col-
lege for four years and then took the law course
at the Columbia College Law School; began the
practice of law in New York City; took a promi-
nent part in the organization of the Union League
Club of Brooklyn, of which organization he was
president for four successive years; elected to the
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Repub^
Ucan; resigned September 30, 1897, to accept the
postmastership of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wilson, George W., of London, Ohio, was
born at Brighton, Clark County, Ohio, February
22, 1840; besides attending common school, was
three years a student at Antioch College, Yellow
Springs, Ohio; enlisted in the Ninety-fourth Regi-
ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry August 8, 1862; com-
missioned second and afterwards first lieutenant in
the same regiment; received a commission from
the President as first lieutenant in the First Regi-
ment of United States Veteran Volunteer Engi-
neers, July 2, 1864, and afterwards appointed cap-
tain in same regiment; mustered out about Octo-
ber 1, 1865; admitted to the bar August 7, 1866,
and practiced; in October following elected prose-
cuting attorney of Madison County, Ohio, for two
years, and reelected a second term; elected mem-
ber of house of representatives of the general as-
sembly of Ohio in October, 1871; elected member
of Ohio senate from the eleventh district in Octo-
ber, 1877; elected to the Fiftv-third and Fifty-
fourth Congresses as a Republican; resumed the
practice of law at London, Ohio, after leaving
Congress.
Wilson, Henry, was born in Dauphin Countv,
Pa., in 1778; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; died at Allentown, Pa., August 13, 1826.
Wilson, Henry, was born at Farmington, N. H
February 16, 1812; his parents' name was Colbath
and his name was Jeremiah Jones Colbath mitil
he was 17 years of age, when he had it changed
by the legislature to Henry Wilson; received an
academic education; learned the shoemaker's
trade; member of the Massachusetts State house
of representatives 1841-42; member of the State
senate 1844 1845, 1846, 1850, 1851, and 1852, and
president of the senate two years; delegate to
the national Whig convention at Philadelphia in
1848 and withdrew; delegate to the Free Soil
national convention at Pittsburg in 1851 and its
president; defeated in 1852 as the Free Soil candi-
date for Congress; delegate to the constitutional
convention of 1853; defeated as the Free Soil can-
didate for governor; elected a United States Sen-
ator from Massachusetts by a coalition of Free
Sellers, Americans, and Democrats, and three
IiL\J\XDi am.J.i!>Q
times reelected, serving from 1855 until he re-
igned in 1873; in 1861 he raised, and commanded,
^l\,^ ^1^^4 ^^^ Twenty-second Regiment Mas-
sacnusetts Volunteers; elected Vice-President of
the United States in 1872; died in the Capitol at
sp,?f f ^*°J^! \^-' ^o'^epber 22, 1875; author of
several publications relating to slavery.
Wasoa, Isaac, served in the war of 1812 as
captain of cavalry; resided in Genesee County,
;■ 'i'?,'^?.^'" °L^^^ S'ate liouse of represent-
atives 1816-17, and the State senate 1818-1821;
elected a Eepresentative from New York to the
rJSo . T Congress, serving from December 1,
1823, to January 17, 1824, his seat having been
successfully contested by Parmenio Adams; moved
to Batavia, 111., where he died October 25, 1848.
Wilson, James, was bom near St. Andrews,
Scotland, September 14, 1742; received a classical
education; emigrated to the United States and
located at Philadelphia; studied law, and admitted
to the bar in 1768; practiced in various places in
Pennsylvania and located at Philadelphia; active
in pre-Revolutionary movements; Delegate from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1775-
1778, 1782-83, and 1785-1787; delegate from
Pennsylvania to the convention which framed
the Federal Constitution, also a delegate to the
State convention which adopted it; justice of the
United States Supreme Court; appointed professor
of law in the Universitv of Pennsylvania in 1790;
died at Edenton, N. C," August 28, 1798.
Wilson, James, was born in 1757; graduated
from Harvard College in 1789; studied law and
admitted to the bar; began practice at Keene,
N. H. ; elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Eleventh Congress as a Federalist;
died at Keene, N. H., January 4, 1839.
Wilson, James, was born at Fairfield, Pa.,
April 28, 1779; attended the public schools; cabi-
netmaker; justice of the peace 1811-1822; elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to
the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; again
a justice of the peace 1830-1859; died at Gettys-
burg, Pa., July 19, 1868.
Wilson, James, was born in New Hampshire;
graduated from Middlebury College in 1820;
studied law and began practice at Keene; served
several terms in the State house of representatives,
and speaker in 1828; elected a Representative from
New Hampshire to the Thirtieth Congress as a
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-first Congress and
resigned September 9, 1850; moved to California.
Wilson, James, was born at Crawfordsville,
Ind April 9, 1822; graduated from Wabash Col-
lege in 1842; studied law and in 1845 began prac-
tice at Crawfordsville; served in the Mexican war;
elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Thirtv-fifth Congress as a Republican, reelected to
the Thirty-sixth Congress; minister to Venezuela
1866 until he died, August 8, 1867.
Wilson, James, of Traer, Tama County, Iowa,
was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 16, 1835;
came to the United States in 1852, settling in Con-
necticut with his parents; went to Iowa m .1855,
locating in Tama County, where, as early as 1861,
he engaged in farming; elected to the State legis-
lature, and served in the twelfth, thirteenth, and
fourteenth general assemblies, being speaker of
the house in the last-mentioned assembly; elected
to Congress in 1872, and served in the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, and Forty-eighth Congresses; his
seat was successfully contested inthe Forty-eighth
Congress by Benjamin T. Frederick, who took his
seat March 3, 1885; in. the interim between the
Forty-fourth and Forty-eighth Congresses served
as a member of the railway commission; regent
of the State University 1870-1874, and for the six
years previous to becoming Secretary of Agriculture
was director of the agricultural experiment station
and professor of agriculture in the Iowa Agricul-
tural College at Ames; appointed and confirmed
Secretary of Agriculture March 5, 1897.
Wilson, James T. , was born at Newark, Ohio,
October 19, 1828; received an academic education;
studied law, and commenced practice in Iowa;
member of the constitutional convention of Iowa
in 1856; member of the State legislature in 1857,
1859, and 1861, serving the last year as president
of the senate; elected a Representative from Iowa
to the Thirty-seventh Congress for the unexpired
term of S. R. Curtis; reelected to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses, serving
from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1869; elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican to
succeed James Wilson McDill, Republican, and
took his seat December 4, 1883; reelected in 1888,
serving until March 3, 1895; died April 22, 1895.
Wilson, James J. , was born in Essex County,
N. J., in 1775; received a liberal education; engaged
in newspaper work; adjutant-general of the State
of New Jersey; elected a United States Senator
from New Jersey as a Democrat 1815-1821; post-
master at Trenton, N. J.; member of the State
house of representatives in 1822; died at Trenton,
N. J., July 28, 1824.
Wilson, Jeremiah. M. , was born in Warren
County, Ohio, November 25, 1828; received a lib-
eral education; studied law and practiced; moved
to Indiana; judge of the court of common pleas
1860-1865; judge of the circuit court in October,
1865; elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican; reelected
to the Forty -third Congress; after leaving Congress
practiced law at Washington, D. C, where he died
September 24, 1901.
Wilson, Joh.n, was born in 1777; graduated
from Harvard College in 1799; studied law and
began practice at Belfast, Me. ; elected a Represent-
ative from the Maine district of Massachusetts to
the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist; elected
to the Fifteenth Congress; died at Belfast, Me.,
July 9, 1848.
Wilson, John, was a native of South Carolina
and resided at Golden Grove; elected a Represent-
ative from South Carolina to the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses; defeated
for reelection.
Wilson, John F., of Prescott, Ariz., was born
in Giles County, Tenn., May 7, 1846; educated at
Ehuhama, Alh,.; lawyer by profession; moved
from Alabama to Arkansas in 1866; member of
the legislature of that State during the years 1877
and 1878; elected prosecuting attorney for the
fourth judicial district of that State in 1884, and
served in 1885 and 1886; moved in 1887 to the
Territory of Arizona; elected to the constitutional
convention called by the legislature for the year
1891; appointed attorney-general for the Territory
by Governor Franklin in 1896, and served in 1896
and 1897; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
Wilson, John Henry, of Barboursville, Ky.,
was born January 30, 1846; graduated from Tus-
890
CONGKESSIONAL DIBECTORY.
culum College, Tennessee, June, 1870; studied law
and admitted to the bar in September, 1871;
elected to the State senate in August, 1883, for a
term of four years, and elected to the Fifty-flrst
Congress as aEepublican; reelected to the Fifty-
second Congress.
Wilson, John Ii.-, of Spokane Falls, Wash.,
was born at Crawfordsville, Ind., August 7, 1850;
received a primary education in the common
schools; graduated from Wabash College in 1874;
studied law; elected a representative to the State
legislature of Indiana in 1880 from Montgomery
County; appointed by President Arthur receiver of
public moneys at Spokane Falls, and served four
years and four months; elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as a Republican, being the first member
of Congress elected from the State of Washington;
reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-
gresses; resigned to become United States Senator
February 18, 1895, serving until March 3, 1899.
■Wilson, Joh.n T., was born in Highland
County, Ohio, April 16, 1811; received a limited
education; merchant; became a farmer; captain
in the Union Army; State senator 1863-1866;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth
Congress as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-
first and Forty-second Congresses.
Wilson, Nathan, was a native of Washington
County, N. Y., and resided at Salem; elected a
Representative from New York to the Tenth Con-
gress (vice David Thomas, resigned), serving from
November 7, 1808, to March 3, 1809.
Wilson, Robert, of St. Joseph, Mo., wag ap-
pointed a United States Senator from Missouri
(vice W. P. Johnson, expelled) as a Unionist
1862-63.
Wilson, Robert P. C, of Platte City, Mo., was
born at Boonville, Cooper County, Mo.; when a
small boy was taken by his parents to Platte
County; educated at William Jewell College, Lib-
erty, Mo., and at Centre College, Danville, Ky.,
from which latter institution he graduated; read
law; located at Seguin, Tex., where he began prac-
tice; remained in Texas a few years and returned
North; located in Leavenworth, Kans., in 1860;
one of the Democratic members of the house of
representatives from Leavenworth County in the
fljst general assembly of that State; during that
year returned to Missouri; elected a member from
Platte County to the twenty-sixth general assem-
bly, and made speaker of the house; elector for
Greeley and Brown in 1872, but on the death of
Greeley cast his vote for Hendricks, of Indiana;
State senator from the third district 1876-1880;
delegate to the Democratic national convention at
St. Louis in 1888; president of the school board
of his town, and elected, as a Democrat, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. James
N. Burnes, to the Fifty-first Congress; reelected to
the Fifty-second Congress.
Wilson, Stanyarne, of Spartanburg, S. C, was
born at Yorkville, S. C. ; educated at Kings Moun-
tain Military School and Washington and Lee Uni-
versity, Virginia; admitted to the bar by act of the
legislature in 1880, he then being a minor; located
at Spartanburg in 1881; closely adhered to the
practice of law and, incidentally, to politics; also
interested in cotton manufactures, gold mining
iron works, and agriculture; elected to the lower-
house of the State legislature in 1884 and 1890,
and to the State senate in 1892, serving in the lat-
ter body as chairman of the judiciary committee;
nominated for Congress at the Democratic primary
election in August, 1894; elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses as a
Democrat.
Wilson, Steph.en F. , was born in Columbia,
Pa., September 4, 1821; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law and admitted to the bar; held
several local oflSlces; State senator 1863-1865, serv-
ing one session after he had been elected a Repre-
sentative to Congress; delegate to the national
Republican convention at Baltimore in 1864;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses.
Wilson, Thomas, was a native of Virginia;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twelfth Congress as a Federalist; died January
24, 1836.
Wilson, Thomas, was ,born in 1772; elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thir-
teenth Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to
the Fourteenth Congress; died at Erie, Pa.,
October 4, 1824.
Wilson, Thomas, of Winona, Minn., was born
in Ireland, May 16, 1827; received a common
school and collegiate education, graduating from
Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1852; studied
law, and admitted to the bar in February, 1855;
moved to Winona in April, 1855; elected district
judge in 1857, and held the office until 1864, when
appointed by the governor associate justice of the
supreme court of the State; elected chief justice of
the State in 1864, and held the office till July, 1869,
when he resigned; followed the practice of law;
elected a member of the State house of represent-
atives in 1880; declined the nomination for Con-
gress from the First Congressional district in 1882;
State senator 1882-1885; Democratic nominee for
United States Senator the following winter; elected
to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat.
Wilson, William, was a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses.
Wilson, WilUam, was born in Hillsboro
County, N. H.; attended the public schools;
moved to Ohio; elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con-
gresses; died at Newark, Ohio, May 29, 1827.
Wilson, William L., was born in Jefferson
County, Va. (now West Virginia), May 3, 1843; ed-
ucated at Charlestown Academy, and at Columbian
College, District of Columbia, where he graduated
in 1860, and at the Universitv of Virginia; served
in the Confederate army; after the close of the
war for several years professor in Columbian
College, durmg which time he graduated from its
law school, and on the overthrow of the lawyers'
test oath in West Virginia resigned and entered
upon the practice of law at Charlestown; delegate
in 1880 to the national Democratic convention at
Cmcmnati, and an elector for the State at large on
the Hancock ticket; chosen president of the West
Virgmia University, and entered upon the oflice
September 4, 1882, but on September 20 was
nominated for a seat in the Forty-eighth Congress,
and elected, as a Democrat; resigned the presi-
dency of the State University with the beginning
? T '?.*^i'°^'"®®^^°°^^ ^^^^' received the degree of
LL. D. from the Columbian Universitv in 1883-
reelected to the Fortv-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first'
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses; Post^
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master-General under President Cleveland 1895-
1897; president of the Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va. ; died at Lexington,
Va., October 17, 1900.
Winans, Edwin B., was bom at Avon, N. Y.,
May 16, 1826; educated at Albion College, Michi-
gan; farmer by occupation; member of the Mich-
igan legislature 1861-1865; elected a delegate to
the constitutional convention held at Lansing, May
15, 1867; probate judge of Livingston County
1876-1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth Con-
gress; at the expiration of his term in Congress
retired to his farm in Livingston County, Mich. ;
elected governor of Michigan as a Democrat in
1890; returned to his farm in 1893, and died there
July 4, 1894.
■Winans, James January, was bom at Mays-
■ville, Ky., June 7, 1818; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law, and began practicing at Xenia,
Ohio; held several local offices; State senator in
1857, and representative in 1863; appointed judge
of the court of common pleas in 1864 and elected
for a full term of five years in 1866; elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Forty-flrst Con-
gress as a Republican.
Winans, John, was bom at Vernon, Sussex
County, N. J., September 27* 1831; studied law
and admitted to the bar; alderman of the city of
Janesvilleinl861; cityattomeyfiveterms, between
1865 and 1875 ; member of the State legislature from
the city of Janesville in 1874 and 1882; delegate
from Wisconsin to the Democratic national conven-
tion held at Chicago in 1864; member of Governor
Taylor's staff 1874^75 with the rank of colonel;
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as an Inde-
pendent Democrat; moved to South Dakota, where
he died.
Wincliester, Boyd, was born in Louisiana,
September 23, 1836; received a classical education;
studied law, and began practice at Louisville, Ky. ;
elected a State senator in August, 1867; elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-first
and Forty-second Congresses.
Windom, William, was born in Belmont
County, Ohio, May 10, 1827; received an academic
education; studied law at Mount Vernon, Ohio;
practiced his profession in that State and in Min-
nesota until 1859; elected prosecuting attorney for
Knox County in 1852; moved to Minnesota in 1855;
Representative in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Con-
gresses; appointed by the governor of Minnesota
in July, 1870, to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
Daniel S. Norton, deceased, in the Senate of the
United States; subsequently elected as a Repub-
lican, and reelected in 1877; resigned March 4, 1881,
having been appointed Secretary of the Treasury
by President Garfield, and reelected to fill the va-
cancy caused by his resignation, taking his seat
December 5, 1881, and served to March 3, 1883;
moved to New York City; Secretary of Treasury
from March 5, 1889, until his death, at New York
City January 29, 1891.
Winfleld, Charles H., was born at Crawford,
N. Y., April 22, 1822; received a liberal education
studied law, and began practice at Goshen, NY
district attorney for Orange County 1850-1856,
elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Thirty-ninth Congress.
Wing, Austin E., was bom in Hampshire
County, Mass., in 1791; received a common school
education; moved to Michigan; elected a Delegate
from Michigan Territory to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses; moved to Monroe, Mich.;
elected to the Twenty-second Congress; after Mich-
igan was admitted as a State, served as United
States marshal for that district; died at Cleveland,
Ohio, August 25, 1849.
Wingate, Joseph F. , was born in Maine dis-
trict of Massachusetts; received a limited educa-
tion; became a merchant at Bath, Me.; member
of the State house of representatives 1818-19; col-
lector of customs at the port of Bath 1820-1824;
elected a Representative from Maine to the Twen-
tieth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Twenty-first Congress.
Wingate, Paine, was born at Amesbury, Mass.,
May 14, 1739; graduated from Harvard College in
1759; studied theology and preached; moved to
Stratham, N. H., and became a farmer; elected to
the State house of representatives; Delegate from
New Hampshire to the Continental Congress 1787-
88; elected a United States Senator from New
Hampshire 1789-1793; elected , a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Third Congress; judge
of the superior court of New Hampshire 1798-1809;
.died at Stratham, N. H., March 7, 1838.
Winn, Thomas Elisha, of Gwinnett County,
Ga., was born in Clarke County, that State, May
21, 1839; bred to the farm and pursuits of husban-
dry; received an academic education in the schools
about his home and at Emory and Henry College,
Virginia, wher6 he finished his course of studies in
1860; read law, and admitted to practice in the
courts of Georgia; elected solicitor of the county
court of Milton County; entered the Confederate
army as first lieutenant in 1861; soon promoted to
captain, afterwards major, and finally lieutenant-
colonel, Twenty-fourth Georgia Regiment, serving
with Lee's army until the surrender; began farm-
ing in 1868; county school commissioner of public
schools of Gwinnett County from 1876 to August
16, 1890, when he resigned the office; elected to
the Fifty-second Congress as an Alliance man and
Democrat.
Winslow, Warren, was Jjorn at Fayetteville,
N. C, January 1, 1810; graduated from Chapel
Hill University in 1827; studied law, and began
practice at Fayetteville; served in the State senate
and as speaker of that body, and became acting
governor when Governor Reid was elected to the
United States Senate; elected a Representative from
North Carolina to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses; died at Fayetteville, N. C, June
11, 1863.
Winston, Joseph, was bom in Louisa County,
Va., June 17, 1746; moved to Stokes County, N. C.,
in 1766; served in the Revolutionary Army; State
senator in 1790, 1791, 1802, 1807, and 1812; elected
a Representative from North Carolina to the Third
Congress; elected to the Eighth and Ninth Con-
gresses; died near Germantown, N. C, April 21,
1815.
Winter, Elisha J. , was elected a Represents^
tive from New York to the Thirteenth Congress
as a Federalist.
Winthrop, Bobert Charles, was born at Bos-
ton, Mass., May 12, 1809; graduated from Harvard
College in 1828; studied law, and practiced at Bos-
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CONGRESSIONAL DIKEOTOEY.
ton; member of the State house of representatives,
and its speaker for three years; elected a Repre-
sentativelrom Massachusetts to the T>yenty-sixth
Congress (vice Abbott Lawrence, resigned) as a
Whig; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress,
and resigned May 25, 1842; subsequently reelected
to the ^twenty-eighth. Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth,
and Thirty-first Congresses, resigning July SO, 1»&U,
having been appointed aUnited States Senator from
Mass^husetts (vice Daniel Webster, resided),
serving to February 7, 1851 ; Speaker of the House
during the Thirtieth and a portion of the Thirty-
first Congresses; died at Boston November 16, 1894.
Wise, George D., of Richmond, Va., was born
in Accomac County, Va., June 4, 1831; graduated
from Indiana University; studied law at William
and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va., and prac-
ticed at Richmond; captain in the Confederate
Army ; Commonwealth attorney of the city of Rich-
mond from 1870 until he resigned, in 1880; elected
to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third
Congresses as a Democrat.
Wise, Henry Alexander, was born at Drum-
mondtown, Va., Decembers, 1806; graduated from
Washington College, Pennsylvania, m 1825 ; stuaied
law, and began practice at Nashville, Tenn. ; re-
turned to Virginia in 1830 ; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from Virginia to the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses as a
Jackson Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses as
a Whig; reelected to the -Twenty-eighth Congress
as a Tyler Democrat, resigning February 18, 1844,
to become minister to Brazil 1844-1847; Presiden-
tial elector on the Cass and Butler ticket in 1848;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1850; Presidential elector on the Pierce and King
ticket in 1852; governor of Virginia 1856-1860;
served in the Confederate army; resumed the prac-
tice of law at Richmond, Va., and died there Sep-
tember 12, 1876.
Wise, John Sergeant, of Richmond, Va., was
born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 25, 1846;
educated at the Virginia MiUtary Institute and
University of Virginia; studied law; lawyer; lieu-
tenant in the provisional army. Confederate States;
United States attorney for eastern district of Vir-
ginia from May, 1882, until March, 1883, when he
resigned to accept the position of Congressman at
large froni Virginia to the Forty-eighth Congress,
to which he was elected as a ReadjUster.
Wise, Korgan R., of Waynesburg, Pa., was
born June 7, 1830, at West Bethlehem, Washing-
ton County, Pa. ; his father, Joseph Wise, brought
him up as a practical farmer; crossed the Plains in
a company of 28 men, under Capt. George W.
Reed, and engaged in mining gold in the Territory
of California in 1850; while there volunteered,
under Major Stammins, to defend the miners
against the depredations of the Indians; returning
to Pennsylvania, graduated from Waynesburg Col-
lege in 1856; elected a member of the State house of
representatives in 1874 and reelected in 1876, serv-
ing four years; one of a corporation organized in
Philadelphia, composed of some of the ablest men
in the State, which issued the Greenback Herald
in 1875; elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as an
anti-Bank Democrat; reelected to the Forty-sev-
enth Congress.
Wise, Richard Alsop, son of Gen. Henry A.
Wise, was born at Philadelphia, September 2,
1843; educated in private schools in Richmond
and at Dr. Gessner Harrison's University School;
also studied at William and Mary College for two
years, which place he left before graduation to
join the Confederate army at the commencement
of the war, and served to the end, part of the
time as a private in Stuart's cavalry; at the
close of the war was assistant inspector-general of
Wise's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia; grad-
uated in medicine from the Medical College of Vir-
ginia in 1867, and practiced his profession; ap-
pointed professor of chemistry and physiology in
1869 in the College of William and Mary, which
conferred the honorary degree of master of arts
upon him; appointed assistant physician of the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in 1878; two
years after that resigned from the college; cap-
tain of the Wise Light Infantry of Williamsburg,
and as senior officer commanded the Fourth Vir-
ginia Infantry Regiment at the centennial at York-
town in 1881; elected superintendent of the East-
ern Lunatic Asylum in 1882, and served until the
spring of 1884; elected as a Republican to the Vir-
mnia legislature in 1885, and served during the
sessions of 1885, 1886, and 1887 ; elected clerk of the
circuit and county courts of the city of Williams-
burg and county of James City in 1887, which
place he held for six years; RepubUcan nominee
for the Fifty-fifth Congress in the Second district
in 1896; the certificate was given to his Democratic
opponent, William A. Young, but after a contest
was declared elected, and took the oath of office
on the 26th day of April, 1898; reelected to the
Fifty-si?;th Congress, but the certificate of election
was given to William A. Young; after a contest, Mr.
Wise was seated April 26, 1900; died December
21, 1900.
Wisner, Henry, was born at Goshen, N. Y.,
about 1725; a Delegate from New York to the Con-
tinental Congress 1774-1776; died at Goshen,N. Y.,
in 1790.
Witcher, John S. , was born in Cabell County,
Va. (now West Virginia), July 15, 1839; received
a limited education; held several local offices;
entered the Union Army aa second lieutenant and
mustered out June 30, 1865, with the rank of
brigadier-general; member of the State legislature
in 1865; secretary of the State of West Virginia
1866-1869; elected a Representative from West
Virginia to the Forty-first Congress as a Republican;
defeated for reelection.
Witherell, James, was born at Mansfied, Mass.,
June 16, 1759; received a liberal education; served
in the Revoluntary Army; studied and practiced
law; State representative 1798-1803; executive
councilor 1803-1807; elected a Representative from
Vermont to the Tenth Congress as a Democrat,
resigning May 1, 1808, having been appointed
United States judge for the Territory of Michigan;
died at Detroit, Mich., January 9, 1838.
Withers, Robert E., of Wytheville, Va., was
born in Campbell County, Va., September 18,
1821 ; graduated from the medical department of
the University of Virginia in 1841; practiced his
profession in his native county until 1858, when
he moved to Danville, Va. ; Whig in politics, and
a Union man until the passage of the ordinance
of secession by Virgina; entered the Confederate
army as major of infantry in April, 1861, and dur-
ing the same year promoted colonel of the Eight-
eenth Virginia Regiment, which he commanded
until retired in consequence of numerous disabling
wounds, and appointed to command the post at
Danville, Va., which position he held until the
close of the war; moved in January, 1866, to
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Lynchburg, Va., and established a daily political
paper, devoted to the interests of the Conservative
party, which he continued to edit until 1868, when
nominated for governor by the Conservative con-
vention at Richmond, and canvassed the State in
opposition to the Underwood constitution, which
themihtary authorities refused to submit to a vote
of the people; withdrew in 1869 in favor of Gilbert
C. Walker; nominated for governor by the Liberal
Republicans; appointed elector for the State at
large on the Greeley ticket in 1872; elected
lieutenant-governor as a Conservative in 1873;
elected to the United States Senate as a Conserva-
tive, to succeed John F. Lewis, Republican, and
took his seat March 4, 1875; appointed consul at
Hongkong, China, in 1885; resigned in 1889 and
returned to Virginia.
Witherspoon, John, was born at Gifford, Scot-
land, February 5, 1722; graduated from the Uni-
versity of Edmburgh in 1742; studied theology
and preached; emigrated to America and became
president of Princeton College in 1768; Delegate
from New Jersey to the Continental Congress
1776-1783; died near Princeton, N. J., September
15, 1794.
"Witherspoon, Robert, was elected a Repre-
sentative from South Carolina to the Eleventh
Congress as a Democrat.
Witte, "William Henry, was born in Morris
County, N. J., May 7, 1818; moved to Bucks
County, Pa., and received a common school edu-
cation; moved to Philadelphia in 1840 and became
a merchant; elected a Representative from Penn-
sylvania to the Thirty-third Congress as a Demo-
crat; engaged in newspaper work, and died at
Philadelphia November 24, 1876.
Wolcott, Edvsrard Oliver, of Denver, Colo., was
born at Long Meadow, Mass., March 26, 1848;
served for a few months as private in the One
hundred and fiftieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers
in 1864; entered Yale College in 1866, but did not
graduate; graduated from Harvard Law School in
1871, and moved to Colorado; lawyer; elected
district attorney and a member of the State senate
in the same year; elected to the United States
Senate as a Republican to succeed Thomas M.
Bowen, Republican, and took his seat March 4,
1889; reelected in 1895, serving until March 3,
1901 ; resumed the practice of law in Colorado.
Wolcott, Erastus, was bom at East Windsor,
Conn., September 21, 1722; served in the Revolu-
tionary Army as brigadier-general; judge of the
State supreme court of Connecticut; Delegate from
Connecticut to the Continental Congress, but did
not serve; died at East Windsor, Conn. , September
14, 1793.
Wolcott, Oliver, was born at Windsor, Conn.,
November 26, 1726; graduated from Yale College
in 1747; studied medicine; held several local
offces; studied law and practiced; judge of the
court of common pleas and of the Litchfield County
probate court; Delegate from Connecticut to the
Continental Congress 1775-1778 and 1780-1784;
fovernor of Connecticut 1796-97; died at LitCh-
eld, Conn., December 1, 1797.
Wolf, George, was born in Allen Township,
Northampton County, Pa., August 12, 1777; re-
ceived a liberal education; studied law, and ad-
mitted to the bar and practiced at Easton, Pa. ;
member of the State house of representatives;
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Eighteenth Congress (vice Thomas T. Rogers, re-
signed) as a Democrat; reelected to the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Congresses; appointed First Comp-
troller of the Treasury of the United States 1836-
1838; collector of customs at Philadelphia in 1838
and until March 17, 1840, when he died.
Wolf, William P. , was born in Stark County,
Ohio, December 1, 1833; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law and began practice at Tipton,
Iowa, in 1859; superintendent of public schools;
State legislator 1863-64; served in the Union Army
as captain; appointed assistant assessor of internal
revenue in 1865; member of the State senate in
1867; elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Forty-first Congress (vice William Smyth, de-
ceased), serving from December 6, 1870, to March
3, 1871.
Wolfe, Simeon K. , was born in Floyd County,
Ind., February 14, 1824; graduated from the law
department of the University of Indiana, at
Bloomington, in 1850; practiced; Presidential
elector in 1856; State senator for four years; dele-
gate to the Democratic national convention in
1860; engaged in newspaper work; elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Forty-third
Congress as a Democrat.
Wolford, Frank L. , was born in Adair County,
Ky., September 2, 1817; educated in the common
schools; by profession a lawyer; served in the
house of representatives in the general assembly
of Kentucky in the years 1847, 1848, 1865, and
1866; elected Presidential elector for the State at
large in 1864 and 1868; colonel of the First Ken-
tucky Cavalry 1861-1864; adjutant-general of the
State of Kentucky 1867-68;- elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-ninth Congress; died at Columbia, Ky.,
August 2, 1895.
Wolverton, Simon P., of Sunbury, Pa., was
born January 28, 1837, in Rush Township, North-
umberland County, Pa. ; educated in the common
schools, at Danville Academy, and graduated from
Lewisburg University in 1860; after graduating
took charge of Sunbury Academy and also read law ;
admitted to the bar in 1862 and practiced his pro-
fession at Sunbury; raised a company of emergency
men, of which he was made captain in 1862, and
served in the Eighteenth Regiment of Pennsylvania
Volunteers; chosen captain of Company F, Thirty-
sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in June,
1863; elected to the State senate in 1878 and re-
elected in 1880 and 1884, when he declined further
nomination to that office; nominated for United
States Senator by the Democrats of both houses in
1884; elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a
Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress;
resumed the practice of law after the expiration of
his term in Congress.
Wood, Abiel, was bornat Wiscasset, in the Maine
district of Massachusetts, in 1 772 ; education limited ;
merchant; ^tate representative 1807-1811; elected
a Representative from Maine district of Massachu-
setts to the Thirteenth Congress as a Federalist;
again a State representative in 1816; delegate to
the constitutional convention of Maine in 1819;
State councilor of Maine 1820-21; died at Belfast,
Me., November 2, 1834.
Wood, Alan, was born at Philadelphia, July
6, 1834; received a liberal education; manufacturer;
became a banker; elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress as a
Republican.
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CONGBESSIONAL DIEEOTORY.
Wood, Amos E., was born at Ellisburg,, N. Y.,
in 1810; education limited; moved to Ohio, and
in 1833 located on a farm in Sandusky County;
State representative for two years; State senator
one year; elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirty-first Congress (vice R. Dickinson, de-
ceased) as a Democrat; died November 19, 1850,
at Fort Wayne, Ind., before the expiration of his
term.
Wood, Beujamin, of New York City, was born
at Shelby ville, Ky., October 13, 1820; received a
public school education; moved to the city of New
York; published and edited the Daily News; mem-
ber of the State senate in 1866 and 1867; elected
to the Thirty-seventh Congress and reelected to
the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Democrat; died in 1900.
Wood, Benson, of EflSngham, 111., was born in
Susquehanna County, Pa., in 1839; received ^
common school and academic education; at the
age of 20 went to Illinois, and for two years was
principal of a village school in Lee County; Illinois
soldier in the war of the rebellion, attaining the
rank of captain of infantry; graduate of the law
department of the University of Chicago; engaged
in the practice of law; delegate to the Republican
national conventions in 1876 and 1888; mayor of
the city of EflBngham and representative in the
general assembly of Illinois; elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress on the Republican ticket; after
his retirement from Congress resumed the practice
of law.
Wood, Bradford B,., was born at Westport,
Conn., September 30, 1800; graduated from Union
College in 1824; studied law, and began practice
at Albany, N. Y. ; elected a Representative from
New York to the Twenty-ninth Congress; minister
to Denmark 1861-1865; died at Albany, N. Y.,
September 26, 1889.
Wood, Fernando, was born of Quaker parent-
age at the city of Philadelphia, June 14, 1812; his
father moved to New York in 1820, where Mr.
Wood afterwards resided; when 19 vears of age
commenced business as a shipping inerchant, re-
tiring with an ample fortune in 1850; three times
elected mayor of New York, serving in that office
during the years 1855, 1856, 1857, 1861, and 1862;
elected to the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-eighth
Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Tammany Democrat; reelected to the
Forty-seventh Congress, but died before taking
his seat, at Hot Springs, Ark., February 13, 1881.
Wood, John, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., in
1816; received a limited education; merchant-
became an iron manufacturer; elected a Represen-
tative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Con-
gress as a Republican.
Wood, John J. , was born in Rockland County
JN. Y.; elected a Representative from New York
to the Twentieth Congress as a Jackson Democrat.
Wood, John M. , was born at Minisink NY
November 17, 1818; received a liberal education-
contractor; State representative; elected a Repre-
sentative from Maine to the Thirty-fourth Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to Thirty-fifth
Congress; died at Boston, Mass., December 24
1864. '
Wood, Joseph, was born in Pennsylvania; a
Delegate from Geoi-gia to the Continental Con-
gress 1777-1779; died at Sunbury, Ga., in 1789
Wood, Silas, wasborninSuffolk County, N.Y.,
in 1769; received a classical education, and in 1789
graduated from Princeton College; studied law
and began practice at Huntington; elected a Rep-
resentative from New York to the Sixteenth, Sev-
enteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses as a Democrat; died at Huntington,
N. Y., March 2, 1847.
Wood, Thomas J., of Crown Point, Ind., was
born in Athens County, Ohio, September 30, 1844;
raised on a farm; taught school two years; studied
law at Terre Haute, Ind.; graduated from the
law department of Michigan University in 1867;
located at Crown Point, Ind., November, 1867, and
practiced there in all the courts, State and Fed-
eral; elected corporation treasurer m 1870, and re-
elected; elected prosecuting attorney; reelected in
1874; elected to the State senate in 1878 for four
years; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a
Democrat.
Wood, Walter A., was bom at Mason, N. H.,
October 23, 1815; received a common school educar
tion; moved to New York and became an inventor
and manufacturer of reapers, mowers, and binders;
never held public office until elected a Representa-
tive from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress
as a Republican; reelected to the Forty-seventh
Congress; after expiration of his term in Congress,
returned to Hoosick Falls, N. Y., where he died
January 15, 1892.
Woodard, Fred A., of Wilson, N. C, was
born in Wilson County, N. C, February 12, 1854;
read law at the law school of Chief Justice Bell
Pearson; licensed in 1873, and resided in Wilson,
N. C, and practiced his profession; vice-president
of the First National Bank of Wilson; elected to
the Fifty-third Congress as a Democrat; reelected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Woodbridg-e, Frederick E. , was born at Ver-
gennes, Vt., August 29, 1819; graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1840; studied law and
practiced; State representative 1849, 1857, and
1858; held several local offices; State auditor 1850-
1852; prosecuting attorney 1854-1858; engaged in
railroading; State senator 1860 and 1861; a Repre-
sentative from Vermont to the Thirty-eighth,
Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses as a Repub-
lican; died at Vergennes, Yt, April 26, 1888.
Woodbridgre, William, was born at Norwich,
Conn., August 20, 1780; received a limited educa-
tion; moved to Ohio, but in a few years returned
to Connecticut and studied law at Litchfield- ad-
mitted to practice in 1806; State representative in
1 onl' ■,?,!i*^®^S"'™S attorney for New London County
1808-1814; State senator 1808-1814; moved to Dfr-
troit, Mich., having been appointed secretary of
Michigan Territory ; elected a Delegate from Mich-
igan Territory to the Sixteenth Congress, serving
from December, 1819, to 1820, when he resigned!
^iooP,oo„*'^®.^'^P®"°'' °°"'''^ o^ Michigan Territory
18^8-1832; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1835; State senator in 1837; gov-
ernor of Michigan 1840-41; a United States Sen-
ator froin Michigan 1841-1847; tied at Detroit,
Mich., October 20, 1861. '
Woodburn, William, of Virginia Citv, Nev.,
was born m the County Wicklow, Ireland," in 1838-
emigrated to this country in 1849; educated at St.
Charles College, State of Maryland; admitted to the
bar in 1866; district attorney of Storey Countv
Nev., m 1871 and 1872; elected a Representative
^°^ Nevada to the Forty-fourth, Forty-ninth, and
J^iftieth Congresses as a Republican.
BIOGRAPHIES.
895
Woodbury, Levi, was born at Francistown,
■IN. H., December 22, 1789; graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1809; studied law and began
practice at Francistown; appointed judge of the
superior court of New Hampshire in 1816; moved
to Portsmouth; governor of New Hampshire 1823-
^7; State representative 1825 and speaker; aUnited
btates Senator as a Democrat 1825-1831 ; State sena-
tor 1831, but declined; Secretary of the Navy 1831,
and m 1834 transferred to theTreasury Department,
serving until 1841; appointed chief justice of the
superior court of New Hampshire, but declined;
again a member of the United States Senate
1841-1845; resigned, having been appointed a
justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(vice Joseph Story, deceased), serving until he
died at Portsmouth, N. H., September 4, 1851.
Woodcock, David, was a native of Berkshire
County, Mass. ; attended the public schools; moved
to Seneca County and later to Tompkins County,
N. Y. ; member of the State house of representa-
tives 1814-15; elected a Eepresentative from New
York to the Seventeenth Congress as a Democrat;
again a member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1826;' elected a Representative to the
Twentieth Congress.
Woodford, Stewart L. , was born in New York
City September 3, 1835; graduated from Columbia
College in 1854; studied law, and began practice
in New York City; assistant attorney for the
United States at New York City in 1861; served
in the Union Army; lieutenant-colonel of the One
hundred and twenty-seventh New York Volun-
teers and later colonel, and brigadier-general;
first Union military commander of Charleston,
S. C, and of Savannah, Ga. ; lieutenant-governor
of New York in 1866; president ojE the electoral
college in 1872; elected a Eepresentative from
New York to the Forty-third Congress as a Re-
publican, but resigned July 1, 1874, having been
appointed United States attorney for the southern
district of New York.
Woodman, Charles W., of Chicago, 111., was
born in Aalborg, Denmark, March 11, 1844; re-
ceived his early education in the schools of his
native country; followed the sea 1860-1863;
arrived in Philadelphia in 1863 and enlisted in the
Gulf Squadron of the U. S. Navy; went to Chi-
cago in 1865; read law, and graduated from the
law department of Chicago University in 1871;
appointed prosecuting attorney of the lower courts
in 1877; appointed justice of the peace by the
judges of Cook County in 1881 ; admitted to practice
in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1883;
elected to th e Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican.
Woodruff, George C, was born at Litchfield,
Conn., December 1, 1805; graduated from Yale
College in 1825; studied law, and began practice
at Litchfield; postmaster at Litchfield for fourteen
years; State representative; elected a Representa-
tive from Connecticut to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress as aDemocrat; defeated for the Thirty-eighth
Congress.
Woodrtiff, John, was born at Hartford, Conn.,
February 12, 1826; received a limited education;
elected a Representative from Connecticut to the
Thirty-fourth Congress as an American; reelected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress; collector of internal
revenue for the second district of Connecticut;
died at New Haven, Conn., May 20, 1868.
Woodruff, Thomas M. , was elected a Repre-
sentative from New York to the Twenty-ninth
Congress.
Woods, Henry, was a native of Pennsylvania;
received a limited education; took an active part
in pre-Revolutionary affairs; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Sixth and Seventh
Woods, John, was born in Dauphin County,
Pa., in 1774; moved with his parents to Ohio,
where he attended the common schools; studied
law, and began practice at Hamilton, Ohio; elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses; engaged in newspaper
work; elected State auditor; died at Hamilton,
Ohio, July 30, 1855.
Woods, Samuel Davis, of Stockton, San Joa-
quin County, Cal., was born at Mount Pleasant,
Maury County, Tenn., on September 19, 1845;
reached California in February, 1850; educated in
the public schools, and admitted to practice in
the supreme court of California in April, 1875;
actively engaged in the practice of his profession
in the city of Stockton and in the city and county
of San Francisco; elected to the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Marion De Vries; reelected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress.
Woods, William, was born in Washington
County, N. Y., in 1790; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; State represent-
ative 1823-1825; elected a Representative from
New York to the Eighteenth Congress; died at
Bath, N. Y., August 7, 1837.
Woodson, Samuel H. , of Lexington, Ky., was
elected a Representative from I^entucky to the
Seventeenth Congress; defeated for reelection.
Woodson, Samuel H. , was born in Jessamine
County, Ky., October 24, 1815; graduated from
Centre College; studied law, and practiced at In-
dependence, Mo.; State representative 1853-54;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1855; elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-fifth Congress as an American ; reelected
to the Thirty-sixth Congress.
Woodward, George W. , was born at Bethany,
Pa., March 26, 1809; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practicing at Wilkesbarre,
Pa. ; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion in 1837; president-judge of the fourth judicial
district 1841-1851; judge of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania 1852-1867; defeated as a Democrat
for governor in 1863; elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Fortieth Congress as a
Democrat, vice Charles Denison, deceased; re-
elected to the Forty-first Congress; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at New York in
1868; delegate to the State constitutional conven-
tion; died at Rome, Italy, May 10, 1875.
Woodward, Gilbert M., of La Crosse, Wis.,
was born at Washington, D. C. , December 25, 1835;
received a common school education; studied law;
admitted to the bar and practiced; served in the
Union Army during the war of the rebelliona little
over three years, and in that time was private, first
sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, adju-
tant of the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry;
served, by detail, as acting aid-de-camp on the
staff of the First Brigade, First Division, First
Arthy Corps, and in the same capacity on the staff
of the First Division, Fifth Army Corps; district
attorney of La Crosse County 1866-1873; mayor of
the city ol La Crosse 1874 and 1875; city attorney of
thecityof La Crosse 1876-1882; elected to the Forty-
eightH Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
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Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law;
Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsm
in 1886 and defeated; delegate to the national
Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1888.
Woodward, Joseph A., was a native of South
Carolina; received a limited education; elected a
Kepresentative from South Carolina to the Twenty-
eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-flrst, and
Thirty-second Congresses.
Woodward, William, was elected a, Represent-
ative from South Carolina to the Fourteenth Con-
Woodworth., James H., was born at Green-
field, N. Y., December 4, 1804; received a limited
education; moved to Fabius, N. Y., and taught
school; became a merchant; moved to Erie, Pa.,
in 1827; moved to Chicago in 1833; member of the
Illinois State senate in 1839,. and State house of
representatives 1842; two years mayor of Chicago;
elected aKepresentati ve from Illinois to the Thirty-
fourth Congress as a Republican.
Woodworth., Laurin D., was born in Wind-'
ham County, Ohio, September 10, 1837; received
a classical education; studied law, and in 1859 ad-
mitted to the bar; practiced at Youngstown, Ohio;
major in the Union Army; State senator 1867 and
1869; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses as a
Republican.
Woodworth, William W. , was a native of
Connecticut; moved to Hyde Park, N. Y. ; received
a limited education; held several local offices;
elected a Representative from New York to the
Twenty-ninth Congress as a Democrat.
Woom.er, Ephraim M. , of Lebanon, Pa., was
born at Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pa., January
14, 1844; received a common school education;
enlisted in Company A, Ninety-third Regiment
Peimsylvania Volunteers, in September, 1861; pro-
moted to sergeant; wounded twice at Salem
Heights, and lost his left leg in the battle of the
Wilderness, May 5, 1864; discharged from hospital
September 9, 1865; taught school until 1869, when
elected clerk of the orphan's court of Lebanon
County for a term of three years; cashier of the
Peoples' Bank, of Lebanon; member of the coun-
cils of the borough of Lebanon 1883-1885; presi-
dent of select councils of the city of Lebanon
1885-1889; delegate to the Republican national
convention of 1888; elected to the Fifty -third Con-
gress as a Republican; reelected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress.
Wooten, Dudley Goodall, of Dallas, Tex., was
born in Greene County, Mo. ; moved to Texas in
early infancy during the civil war; educated in
private schools at Paris and at Princeton Univer-
sity, taking the degrees of A. B. and A. M., and
the Boudinot Historical Fellowship at the latter;
afterwards fellow at Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, and took the law course at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, where he received the highest
honors of the institution in debate and literary
composition!; admitted to the bar and practiced
law at Austin, where he was prosecuting attorney;
moved to Dallas in 1888; Presidential elector at
large on the Democratic ticket in 1892, and can-
vassed in the Northwest and Middle West under
the auspices of the Democratic national committee
in the campaigns of 1892, 1896, and 1900; elected
to the legislature of Texas in 1898; delegate to the
Chicago trust conference in 1899; delegate to the
National Civic Federation at Buffalo in 1901'
author of A Complete History of Texas for Schools,
Colleges, and General Use, and editor of Compre-
hensive History of Texas; one of the founders and
second president of the Texas State Historical
Association; elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress
as a Democrat at a special election held July 13,
1901, to succeed R. E. Burke, deceased.
Worcester, Samuel T., was born at Hollis,
N. H., August 30, 1804; graduated from Cambridge
University in 1830; studied law, and began prac-
tice at Norwalk, Ohio; member of the State senate
1848-49; judge of the court of common pleas
1859-60 ; elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-seventh Congress as a Republican.
Word, Thomas J., was a native of Surry
County, N. C. ; member of the State house of rep-
resentatives in 1832; moved to Mississippi and
located at Pontotoc; elected a Represeintative from
Mississippi to the Twenty-fifth Congress as a Whig.
Worman, Ludwig, was a native of Bucks
County, Pa.; received a limited education; tan-
ner; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Seventeenth Congress, serving f rpm Decem-
ber 3, 1821, to September 21, 1822, when he died.
Wortendyke, Jacob R. , was bom at Chestnut
Ridge, N. J., November 27, 1818; graduated from
Rutgers College in 1839; taught for ten years;
studied law and began practice at Jersey City;
held several local offices; elected a Representative
from New Jersey to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a
Democrat; died at Jersey City, N. J., November
7, 1868.
Worthingijon, Henry G. , was born at Cumber-
land, Md., February 9, 1828; received a liberal
education; studied law and began practice in Tuo-
lumne County, Cal. ; located at San Francisco,
Cal. ; member of the State house of representar
tives in 1861 ; moved to Nevada in 1862 and located
at Austin; elected a Delegate to the Thirty-eighth
Congress from Nevada, serving from December 7,
1863, to December 21, 1864, when he took his seat
as a Representative from the new State of Nevada,
serving to March 3, 1865; minister to Uruguay and
the Argentine Republic, 1868-69, by appointment
of President Johnson ; bearer ajt President Lincoln's
funeral.
Worthington, John T. H., was a native of
Maryland; received a limited education; elected a
Representative from Maryland to the Twenty-
second Congress as a Democrat; defeated for the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses;
elected to the Twenty fifth and Twenty-sixth
Congresses; died in Baltimore Countv, Md., April
27, 1849.
Worthington, Nicholas Ellsworth, of Peoria,
111., was born in Brooke County, W. Va., March
30, 1836; graduated from Allegheny College, Penn-
sylvania; lawyer by profession; county superin-
tendent of schools of Peoria Countv 1865-1872;
member of the State board of education of Illinois
1869-1872; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress aa
a Democrat; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.
Worthington, Thomas, was born in Jefferson
County, Va., July 16, 1773; received a liberal edu-
cation; moved to Ross County, Ohio, in 1798; dele-
gate to the State convention in 1803; elected a
United States Senator from Ohio as a Democrat,
serving from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1807;
again elected (vice R. J. Meigs, resigned), serving
from January 8, 1811 to 1814, w-hen he resigned;
governor of Ohio 1814-1818; died at New York
City June 20, 1827.
BIOGRAPHIES.
897
Worthington, Thomas C. , was a native of
irmce George County, Md.; received a limited
education; elected a Representative from Mary-
land to the Nineteenth Congress; died at Frederick,
Md., June 19, 1827.
Wren, Thomas, was a native of McArthurs-
town, Ohio; received a limited education; studied
law and admitted to the bar; held several local
oflicea; resident of El Dorado County, Cal., 1855-
1857; city attorney of Austin, Nev., 1874-1876;
member of the State legislature in 1875; elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican.
Wright, Augustus R., was born at Wrights-
boro, Ga., June 16, 1813; received a liberal educa-
tion; studied law, and began practice at Rome,
Ga. ; elected circuit judge in 1842 and reelected,
but resigned; elected a Representative froip Geor-
gia to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Democrat;
served as a member of the Confederate Congress.
Wright, Ashley Bascom, was born at Hins-
dale, Berkshire County, Mass., May 2t>, 1841; re-
ceived his education in the public schools and
Lincoln Academy, at Hinsdale; moved to North
Adams in 1861, at which time he was appointed
chief deputj collector of internal revenue for the
tenth district of Massachusetts; resigned in 1865
and engaged in mercantile business; elected se-
lectman; elected county commissioner for the
county of Berkshire in 1884, serving for three
years, chairman one year; elected to the exec-
utive council of Massachusetts in 1890; reelected
in 1891; served on committees on pardons, finance,
military, and charitable institutions; elected to the
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses
as a Republican; died August 14, 1897.
Wright, Charles Frederick, of Susquehanna,
Susquehanna County, Pa., was born in Forest Lake
Township, Susquehanna County, Pa., May 3, 1856;
spent his time on a farm and in attending school
until 1870; attended the Montrose Academy, grad-
uating in 1874; elected teller of the First National
Bank of Montrose, Pa., in 1875; resigned in 1881
to take charge of other interests; elected assistant
cashier of the First National Bank of Susquehanna
Depot in 1882, and on the death of his brother in
1894 promoted to be cashier; delegate to the St.
Louis Republican convention in 1896; elected to
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses as a Republican.
Wright, Daniel B., was a native of Tennessee;
moved to Salem, Miss. ; elected a Representative
from Mississippi to the Thirty-third Congress as
a Democrat; reelected, to the Thirty-fourth
Congress.
Wright, Edwin R. V. , was born at Hoboken,
N. J., January 2, 1812; received a liberal educa-
tion; printer; engaged in the newspaper work in
1835; studied law, and began practice at Hoboken
in 1835; State senator in 1843; district attorney
for Hudson County 1851-1855; elected a -Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Thirty-ninth
Congress as a Democrat; died at Jersey City, N. J.,
January 19, 1876.
Wright, George G. , was bom at Bloomington,
Ind., March 24, 1820; graduated from the State
University at Bloomington; studied law, and in
1840 moved to Iowa, where he began practice;
held several local offices; State senator 1849, and
served two terms; chosen chief justice of the su-
preme court in 1854, and elected to the same bench
in 1860 and 1865; elected a United States Sena-
tor from Iowa as a Republican vice James B.
Howell, Republican; elected to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of J. W. Grimes, and
served from 1871 to 1877; died in 1896.
Wright, George W. , was born at Concord,
Mass. ; received a public school education; merchant
at Boston; engaged in newspaper work; moved to
California in 1849; elected a Representative from
California to the Thirty-first Congress and served
from September 11, 1850, to, March 3, 1851.
Wright, Hendrick B. , was born at Plymouth,
Luzerne County, Pa., April 24, 1808; received his
primary education at the Wilkesbarre grammar
school; graduated from Dickinson College in
1829; studied law; admitted to the bar in Noveni-
ber, 1831, and commenced practice; appointed
district attorney for Luzerne County in 1834 by
Attorney-General George M. Dallas; member of
the State house of representatives 1841-1843,
serving the last year as speaker; a delegate at
large to the national Democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1844, which nominated Polk and
Dallas, serving as temporary and permanent
chairman; delegate to the subsequent national
Democratic conventions which nominated
Cass, Pierce, Buchanan, Douglas, Seymour, and
Tilden; elected to the Thirty-third and Thirty-
seventh Congresses; author of A Practical Treatise
on Labor, published in 1871, and Historical
Sketches of Plymouth, Pa., published in 1873;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, and reelected
to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Democrat and Na-
tional; died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., September 2, 1881.
Wright, John C, was born at Wethersfleld,
Conn., in 1783; received a liberal education;
printer; studied law, and began practice at Steu-
benville, Ohio; judge of the State supreme court;
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Eight-
eenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses; de-
feated for reelection; engaged in newspaper work
and for some years proprietor of the Cincinnati
Gazette; delegate to the peace congress; died at
Washington, D. C, February 13, 1861.
Wright, John V. , was born in McNairy County,
Tenn., June 28, 1828; received a liberal education;
studied law, and began practice at Purdy, Tenn.;
elected a Representative 'from Tennessee to the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con-
gresses as a Democrat.
Wright, Joseph A. , was born at Washington,
Pa., April 17, 1810; moved to Indiana, where he
graduated from the University of Indiana; studied
law, and in 1829 began practice at Rockville, Ind. ;
State representative in 1833 and a State senator in
1840; elected a Representative from Indiana to the
Twenty-eighth Congress as a Democrat; defeated
for reelection; governor of Indiana 1849-1857;
minister to Prussia 1857-1861, and again appointed,
servingfrom 1865 until his death, at Berlin, Prussia,
May 11, 1867.
Wright, Myron B. , was born at Forest Lake,
Susquehanna County, Pa., June 12, 1847; received
a common school and academic education; taught
school in winter of 1865-66; employed as clerk in
the First National Bank of Susquehanna in the
spring of 1866; elected assistant cashier of bank
in 1867, and elected cashier in 1869; largely in-
terested in several financial, business,and manu-
facturing enterprises; elected to the Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses as a
Republican; died November 13, 1894.
Wright, Robert, was born in Kent County, Md. ,
about 1765; attended the common schools; studied
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law and began practice at Queenstown; elected a
United States Senator from Maryland as a Demo-
crat, serving from 1801 to 1806, when he resigned;
elected a Eepresentative from Maryland to the
Eleventh (vice Joljn Brown, resigned). Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Con-
gresses; district judge; died at Queenstown, Md.,
September 7, 1826.
Wright, Samuel G., was born in 1787; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
ninth Congress but died before taking his seat
July 30, 1845.
Wright, Silas, was born at Amherst, Mass.,
May 24, 1795; graduated from Middlebury Col-
lege in 1815; studied law, and began practice at
Canton, N. Y., in 1819; surrogate of Rockland
County from February 4, 1821, to January 1, 1824;
State senator 1824-1827; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twentieth Congress as a
Democrat; successfully contested the election of
George Fisher in the Twenty-first Congress, but
refused to take his seat, preferring to act as comp-
troller of the State of New York 1829-1833; elected
a United States Senator from New York (vice W.
L. Marcy, resigned), and reelected, serving from
1833 to 1844, when he resigned to become gov-
ernor of New York; governor of New York 1844-
1846; defeated for reelection; died at Canton, N.Y.,
August 27, 1847.
Wright, Turbett, was a Delegate from Mary-
land to the Continental Congress 1781-82.
Wright, William, was born at Clarkstown,
Rockland County, N. Y. , in 1794 ; attended the pub-
lic schools; learned the saddler's trade; began
business at Bridgeport, Conn., in 1815; moved to
Newark, N. J., mayor of Newark 1840-1843; elected
a Representative from New Jersey to the Twenty-
eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses; elected a
United States Senator from New Jersey as a Demo-
crat, serving from 1853 to 1859 ; again elected United
States Senator, serving from December 7, 1863, to
November 1, 1866, when he died at Newark, N. J.
Wurts, John, was a native of Morris County,
N. J.; graduated from Princeton College in 1813;
moved to Philadelphia,, Pa. ; elected a Representa-
tive from Pennsylvania to the Nineteenth Con-
gress; died at Rome, Italy, April 23, 1861.
Wynkoop, Henry, was born in Northampton
County, Pa., March 2, 1737; Delegate from Penn-
sylvania to the Continental Congress in 1779;
elected a Eepresentative from Pennsylvania to the
First Congress; died in Bucks County, Pa., March
25, 1816.
Wynn, Richard, was born in eastern Virginia
about 1750; received a limited education; moved
to Georgia; entered the Revolutionary Army as
lieutenant, and attained the rank of major-general;
elected a Representative from South Carolina to
the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses; died in Ten-
nessee in 1813.
Wynns, Thomas, was born in Hertford County,
N. C, in 1764; received a limited education;
planter; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1787 and a State senator 1790-1800; Presi-
dential elector in 1801; elected a Representative
from North Carolina to the Seventh, Eighth, and
Ninth Congresses; Presidential elector in 1809-
died at Winton, N. C, June 3, 1825.
Wythe, George, was born in Elizabeth City
County, Va., in 1726; education limited; studied
law and admitted to practice; several years a
member of the house of burgesses; Delegate to the
Continental Congress in 1775; speaker of the Vir-
ginia house of delegates in 1777, and during the
same year judge of the high court of chancery;
Presidential elector on the Jefferson tickets in
1801 and 1805; died June 8, 1806, at Richmond, Va.
Yancey, William Lowndes, was born at Ogee-
chee Shoals, Ga., August 10, 1814; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and began practice in
South Carolina; moved in 1837 to Wetumpka, Ala.,
where he engaged in newspaper work; State repre-
sentative; elected a Representative from Alabama
to the Twenty-eighth Congress (vice D. H. Lewis,
appointed Senator) as a State Rights Democrat; re-
elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress, but resigned
September 1, 1846; moved to Montgomery, where
he resumed the practice of law; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Baltimore in
1848, at Cincinnati in 1856, and Charleston in 1860;
Presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in
1856; delegate to the State convention of Alabama
in 1861; served in the Confederate Congress; died
on his plantation near Montgomery, Ala., Julv 28,
1863.
Yancey, Bartlett, was bom in Caswell
County, N. C, about 1780; graduated from the
University of North Carolina; studied law and
practiced; elected a Representative from North
Carolina to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Con-
gresses; elected a State senator in 1817, and re-
elected annually until his death, which occurred
in Caswell County, N. C, August 30, 1828.
Yancy, Joel, resided at Glasgow, Ky. ; elected
a Representative from Kentucky to the Twentieth
Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the
Twenty-first Congress.
Yaple, George L., of Mendon, Mich., was born
in Leonidas, St. Joseph County, Mich. , February
20, 1851; moved with his parents to Mendon, in
the same county, in 1857; graduated from the
Northwestern University at Evanston, 111.; studied
law and admitted to the bar in 1872; engaged in
farming and the practice of law; defeated as the
Greenback candidate for Congress in 1880; elected
to the Forty-eighth Congress on the Union ticket.
Yardley, Robert M., was born at Yardley,
Bucks County, Pa., October 9, 1850; received an
academic education; studied law; admitted to the
bar at Doylestown in 1872, and practiced; elected
district attorney in 1879; delegate to the Repub-
Hcan national convention in 1884; elected to the
Fiftieth Congress as a Republican, and reelected
to the Fifty-first Congress; died at Doylestown,
Pa., December 8, 1902.
Yates, Abraham, was bom at Albany, N. Y.,
August 23, 1724; received a liberal education; del-
egate to the first, second, third, and fourth pro-
visional congresses at New York 1775-1777; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress 1787-88; died at
Albany, N. Y., June 30, 1796.
Yates, John B., was born at Schenectady,
N. Y., February 1, 1784; elected a Representative
from New York to the Fourteenth Congress as a
Democrat; died at Chittenango, N. Y., July 11,
1836.
Yates, Peter W., was born in Albany, N. Y,;
a Delegate from New York to the Continental
Congress 1785-1787.
Yates, Richard, was born at Warsaw, Ky.,
January 18, 1818; graduated from Illinois College;
BIOGBAPHIES.
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studied law and admitted to the bar; member of
the Illinois State legislature 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845,
1848, and 1849; elected a Representative from
Illmois to the Thirtv-second Congress as a Whig;
reelected to the THirty-third Congress: defeated
for reelection; governor of Illinois 1861-1865;
elected a United States Senator from Illinois as a
Union Republican, serving from 1865 to 1871;
died at St. Louis, Mo., November 27, 1873.
Yeaman, G-eorge H., was born in Hardin
County, Ky., November 1, 1829; received a lib-
eral education; studied law, and began practice
at Owensboro, Ky., in 1852; judge of Davis County
in 1854; member of the State house of representa-
tives in 1861; elected a Representative from Ken-
tucky to the Thirty-seventh Congress (vice J. S.
Jackson, deceased) as a Unionist; reelected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; defeated for the Thirty-
ninth Congress; minister to Denmark 1865-1870.
Yeates, Jesse J. , was born in Hertford County,
N. C, Ma,y 29, 1829; received a classical educa-
tion; studied law and practiced; held several local
offices; elected a member of the house of commons
of North Carolina in 1860 as a Whig; served in the
Confederate army; solicitor of the first judicial qir-
cuit of North Carolina 1861-1866; elected to the
State constitutional convention in 1871; elected a
Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-
fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.
Yell, Archibald, was born in Kentucky in
1797; moved to Fayetteville, Ark.; received a lib-
eral education; studied law and practiced; held
several local offices; appointed one of the United
States Territorial judges; elected a Representative
from Arkansas to th^ Twenty-fourth Congress as
a Van Buren Democrat; reelected to the Twenty-
fifth Congress (defeating Ringgold) ; elected to the
Twenty-ninth Congress, resigning July 1, 1846, to
serve in the Mexican war; killed at the battle of
Buena Vista, February 23, 1847.
Yoakum, Charles H., of Greenville, Tex., was
born In Lincoln County, Tex., in 1850; educated
at Larissa College, Cherokee County; began the
practice of law in 1874; elected county attorney
for Rains County in 1876; moved to Hunt County
in 1883; elected district attorney for the eighth
judicial district in 1886 and reelected in 1888;
elected to the State senate in 1892 for four years;
elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Demo-
crat; returned to Texas and resumed the practice
of law; moved to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1900.
Yocum, SethH., was born in Columbia County,
Pa., August 2, 1834; graduated from Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1860; entered the United
States service in the civil war as a private, and
promoted to first lieutenant; elected to the ^orty-
sixth Congress as a National and Republican; died
March 29, 1896, at Santa Monica, Cal.
Yoder, Samuel S., of Lima, Ohio, was born
at Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, August 16, 1841;
received a common school and academic educa-
tion; enlisted in the Union Army, in the One hun-
dred and twenty-eighth Ohio Infantry, rose to the
rank of lieutenant, and served till the end of the
war; studied medicine and practiced his profes-
sion; elected mayor of Bluffton, Ohio; member of
State Democratic executive committee; elected
judge of the probate court of Allen County, Ohio,
and served from February, 1882, till October, 1886,
when he resigned; elected to the Fiftieth Con-
gress as a Democrat; reelected to the Fifty-first
Congress; Sergeant-at-Arma of thes. Fifty-second
Congress; located at Washington, D. C.
York, Tyre, of Traphill, N. C, was born at
Rockford, Surry County, N. C, May 4, 1836; re-
ceived a common school education; studied medi-
cine; student of the Charleston Medical College of
South Carolina; returned home, and commenced
practice; moved to Wilkes County in 1859; Union
man, and served during the latter part of the war
as surgeon of home guards, and at the close of the
war in 1865 elected to the State legislature; served
for eighteen years either in the house of represent-
atives or State senate; elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress as a Liberal Democrat, indorsed by the
Republicans.
Yorke, Thomas J. , was a native of New Jer-
sey; attended the public schools; elected a Repre-
sentative from New Jersey to the Twenty-fifth
Congress as a Whig; held the certificate of elec-
tion to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but refused ad-
mission; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
Yost, Jacob, of Staunton, Va., born there April
1, 1853; received a primary education; entered a
printing office and learned the trade of printer;
followed civil engineering; returned to journalism;
candidate for Republican elector in 1880; Repub-
lican nominee for Congress in 1884; elected mayor
of the city of Staunton in May, 1886; elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-fifth Congresses as a Republican.
yost, Jacob S. , was born in Pennsylvania in
1801; elected a Representative from Pennsylvania
to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con-
gresses; appointed United States marshal for the
eastern district of Pennsvlvania; died at Potts-
town, Pa., March 7, 1872."
Youmans, Henry Melville, of Saginaw, Mich. ,
was born at Otego, Otsego County, N. Y., May 15,
1832; received a common school education; in the
employ of the York and Erie Railroad Company,
Susquehanna division, for ten years; moved to
East Saginaw, Mich., in 1862; engaged in the
manufacture of lumber and salt; elected mayor of
East Saginaw for the years 1886-87; held all the
positions of honor under the municipal govern-
ment of East Saginaw; elected to the Fifty-second
Congress as a Democrat; served in the State sen-
ate 1897-98.
Young:, Augustus, was born at Arlington, Vt. ,
March 20, 1785; received a liberal education;
studied law and commenced practice at Stowe;
member of the State house of representatives for
twelve sessions and of the State senate for three
terms; State attorney for Orleans County and
judge of probate; elected a Representative from
Vermont to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a
Whig; declined a reelection; resumed practice;
moved to St. Albans in 1847 and died there June
17, 1857.
Young, Bryan B., was a native of Kentucky;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Twenty-ninth Congress.
Young, Casey, was born in Madison County,
Tenn. ; a lawyer by profession; elected a Repre-
sentative from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth Con-
gresses as a Democrat; died in 1898.
Young, Ebenezer, was born at Killingly,
Conn., in 1784; graduated from Yale College in
1806; member of the State senate 1823-1825; mem-
ber of the State house of representatives 1826-1828;
chosen speaker; elected a Representative from
Connecticut to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
and Twenty-third Congresses; died at West Kil-
lingly, Conn. , August 18, 1851.
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COKGBESSIONAL DIBECTOBT.
Young, James Bankin, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
was born at Philadelphia March 10, 1847; edu-
cated in the public schools, entering the Central
High School in 1862; enlisted with a number of
the professors and students in June, 1863, in the
Thirty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, and served
during the Gettysburg campaign; made a tour of
the Southern States soon after the war as a corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune; served as
chief of the Washington bureau of the New York
Tribune from June, 1866, to December, 1870; chief
executive clerk of the United States Senate from
December, 1873, to March, 1879; chief clerk of the
Department of Justice from September, 1882, to
December, 1883; again chief executive clerk of the
United States Senate from December, ,1883, to
April, 1892; one of the founders of the Philadel-
phia Evening Stal- in 1866; elected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress as a Eepublican; reelected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
Young', John, was born at Chelsea, Vt., June
12, 1802; moved to New York City in 1806 and
located at Conesus, where he received a public
school education; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1829, and began practice at Geneseo, N. Y.;
member of the State house of representatives in
1833, 1844, and 1845; elected a Representative
from New York to the Twenty-fourth Congress
as a Whig, vice P. C. Fuller, resigned; declined a
reelection; elected a Representative from New
York to the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig;
governor of New York State 1847-1849; delegate
to the Whig national convention of 1848; assistant
treasurer of the United States at New York; died
at New York City April 23, 1852.
Young, John D., was born in Bath County,
Ky., September 22, 1823; received a limited educa-
tion; studied law, and admitted to the bar; farmer;
elected judge of Bath quarterly court in 1858;
elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Fortieth Congress, but was refused his seat; elected
to the Forty-first Congress as a Democrat.
Young, Pierce M. B. , was born at Spartanburg,
S. C, November 15, 1839; studied law; student at
West Point Military Academy, and resigned two
months before graduating to enter the Confederate
army as second lieutenant, and surrendered in 1865
as a major-general; returned to Georgia and elected
a Representative from Georgia to the Fortieth,
Forty-first, and Forty-third Congresses as a
Democrat; died in 1896.
Young, Kichard M. , was born in Kentucky
in 1796; a Presidential elector on the Jackson and
Calhoun ticket in 1829; a United States Senator
from Illinois as a Democrat 1837-1843; Commis-
sioner of General Land Office 1847-1850; Clerk of
the House of Representatives in the Thirty-first
Congress; died at Washington, D. C, about 1852.
Young, Thomas L. , was born at Killyleagh,
County Down, Ireland, December 14, 1832; emi-
grated to the United States when a boy; entered
the U. S. Army during the Mexican war, and served
until 1857; studied law, and taught school at Cin-
cinnati until the commencement of the war of the
rebellion; entered the volunteer army in 1861 as
first lieutenant, and promoted to captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-
general, successfvely; admitted to the bar in 1865;
appointed assistant city auditor of Cincinnati;
member of the State house of representatives for
two years; elected recorder of Hamilton County in
1867; appointed supervisor of internal revenue in
1868; delegate to the Republican national conven-
tion at Chicago in 1868; elected State senator in
1871; elected Ueutenant-governor in 1875; suc-
ceeded President Hayes as governor of Ohio in 1877;
elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as a Repub-
lican; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress;
died July 20, 1888, at Cincinnati, Ohio,
Young, Timothy R., was a native of New
Hampshire; graduated from Bowdoin College in
1835; moved to Marshall, 111. ; elected a Represent-
ative from Illinois to the Thirty-first Congress as
a Democrat.
Young, William A., of Norfolk, Va., was born
there Mav 17, 1860; educated inithe schools of
Norfolk, and began the study of law; entered
mercantile pursuits; chairman of the Democratic
party of the city; clerk of the circuit and corpora-
tion courts of the city of Norfolk; delegate to the
national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1892;
claimed to have been elected to the Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses as a Democrat, but his seat
was successfully contested in each by Richard A.
Wise, Republican, who was seated April 26, 1898,
and April 26, 1900.
Young, "William S. , a native of Nelson County,
Ky., was elected a Representative from Kentucky
to the Nineteenth Congress as a Democrat.
Yulee, David Iievy. {See David Levy.)
Zenor, William T. , of Corydon, Ind., was bom
in Harrison County, Ind.; educated in the com-
mon schools and at the seminary of Prof. James G.
May; commenced the study of law at New Albany;
admitted to the bar, and formed a law partnership
in 1870 at Corydon; moved to Leavenworth, Craw-
ford County, Ind., in 1871; appointed by Governor
Williams prosecuting attorney for the third judi-
cial circuit, and also elected twice to this office;
elected judge of said circuitin 1884, and reelected;
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses as a Democrat.
Ziegler, Edward Banner, of York, York
County, Pa., was born March 3, 1844, at Bedford,
Bedford County, Pa.; educated at Pennsylvania
College, Gettysburg, and graduated in 1865; after^'
teaching in the York County Academy admitted a
member of the York County bar November 4, 1868;
elected commissioner's clerk in 1871,; elected dis-
trict attorney of York County, and served three
years; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress as a
Democrat.
ZoUicoffer, Felix K., was born in Maury
County, Tenn.j May 19, 1812; received a limited
education; printer; engaged in newspaper work;
elected State printer for Tennessee in 1835; comp-
troller of the State treasury 1845-1849; State sena-
tor in 1849; elected a Representative from Tennes-
see to the Thirty-third Congress as a State Rights
Whig; reelected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-
fifth Congresses; delegate to the peace convention
of 1861; served in the Confederate army; died near
Mill Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862.
Zubly, John Joachim, was born at St. Gall,
Switzerland, August 27, 1724; emigrated to Georgia;
ordained a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
at Savannah in 1760;prominent revolutionist; Dele-
gate to the Continental Congress in 1775, and op-
posed the Declaration of Independence; denounced
as a traitor by Judge Chase, and resigned; returned
to Georgia and was accused of having furnished
information to Sir James Wright, the royal gov-
ernor, and narrowly escaped severe punishment;
died at Savannah, Ga,, July 23, 1781.
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