Obituaries From Representatives and Senators (And Delegates) Whose Frist Service Was In The 43rd Congress (Part 1)
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Obituaries From Representatives and Senators (And Delegates) Whose
Frist Service Was In The 43rd Congress
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ALBERT, William Julian, (1816 - 1879)
ALBERT, William Julian, a Representative from Maryland; born in
Baltimore, Md., August 4, 1816; was graduated from Mount St. Mary's
College, near Emmittsburg, Md., in 1833; engaged in the hardware
business until 1855 and, later, in banking; was a prominent Union
leader in Maryland and worked to prevent the secession of the State;
one of the founders and directors of the First National Bank of
Maryland; director of several insurance companies, savings banks, and
manufacturing companies; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1866 to
the Fortieth Congress and in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; elected
as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1875); was not a candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress
in 1874; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Baltimore, Md.,
March 29, 1879; interment in Greenmount Cemetery.
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ALBRIGHT, Charles, (1830 - 1880)
ALBRIGHT, Charles, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Bucks
County, Pa., December 13, 1830; attended Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced
practice in Mauch Chunk, Pa.; moved to the Territory of Kansas in 1854
and participated in its early development; returned to Pennsylvania and
resumed the practice of law in Mauch Chunk in 1856; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1860 and 1872; during the Civil War
served in the Union Army and was promoted through the ranks to colonel
of the One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry; honorably mustered out May 24, 1865; recommissioned colonel
of the Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Militia July 3, 1863, and honorably
mustered out August 10, 1863; recommissioned colonel of the Two Hundred
and Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, September 4,
1864; honorably mustered out August 3, 1865; resumed the practice of
law in Mauch Chunk, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1874; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in
manufacturing in Mauch Chunk, Pa., until his death there September 28,
1880; interment in Mauch Chunk Cemetery.
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ASHE, Thomas Samuel, (1812 - 1887)
ASHE, Thomas Samuel, (nephew of John Baptista Ashe of North Carolina
and cousin of John Baptista Ashe of Tennessee and of William Shepperd
Ashe), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Hawfields, near
Graham, Alamance County (then a part of Orange County), N.C., July 19,
1812; attended Bingham's Academy, Hillsboro, N.C., and was graduated
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1832; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in
Wadesboro, Anson County, in 1835; member of the State house of commons
in 1842; solicitor of the fifth judicial district of North Carolina
1847-1851; elected to the State senate in 1854; Member of the
Confederate house of representatives 1861-1864; elected to the
Confederate senate in 1864, but did not serve due to the termination of
the Civil War; served as State councilor in 1866; unsuccessful
candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1868; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1877); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed the
practice of law at Wadesboro; elected associate justice of the State
supreme court in 1878; reelected in 1886 for a term of eight years and
served until his death in Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., on February 4,
1887; interment in East View Cemetery.
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BANNING, Henry Blackstone, (1836 - 1881)
BANNING, Henry Blackstone, a Representative from Ohio; born in Bannings
Mills, Ohio, November 10, 1836; attended the Clinton district school,
Mount Vernon Academy, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon,
Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted April 1861 in the Union Army as a
private; commissioned captain of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, June 5, 1861; colonel of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, June 25, 1862; honorably mustered out October 4,
1862; commissioned lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 1, 1863;
transferred to the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, April 5, 1863; colonel November 10, 1863; brevetted
brigadier general and major general of Volunteers March 13, 1865;
resigned January 1, 1865; member of the State house of representatives
in 1866 and 1867; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869 and resumed the
practice of law; elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third
Congress and as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on
Military Affairs (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth
Congress, and for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress;
resumed the practice of law; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10,
1881; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery.
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BARRERE, Granville, (1829 - 1889)
BARRERE, Granville, (nephew of Nelson Barrere), a Representative from
Illinois; born in New Market, near Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio,
July 11, 1829; attended the common schools, Augusta College, Augusta,
Ky., and was graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, in 1853
and commenced practice in Marion, Crittenden County, Ark.; moved to
Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., in 1855, and then to Canton, Fulton
County, Ill., the same year, and continued the practice of his
profession; member of the city board of education; member of the board
of supervisors of Canton; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law; died in Canton,
Fulton County, Ill., January 13, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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BASS, Lyman Kidder, (1836 - 1889)
BASS, Lyman Kidder, a Representative from New York; born in the town of
Alden, Erie County, N.Y., November 13, 1836; attended the common
schools and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in
1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced
practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; district attorney for Erie County 1865-1872;
renominated in 1871, but declined to accept; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1877); because of ill health declined to be a candidate
for renomination in 1876; moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1877 and
continued the practice of law; served as general counsel for the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad Co., from 1878 to 1884; died in New York City,
while on a visit, May 11, 1889; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery,
Buffalo, N.Y.
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BEGOLE, Josiah Williams, (1815 - 1896)
BEGOLE, Josiah Williams, a Representative from Michigan; born in
Groveland, Livingston County, N.Y., January 20, 1815; attended the
public schools in Mount Morris and Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, N.Y.;
moved to Flint, Genesee County, Mich., in August 1836; taught school in
1837 and 1838; engaged in agricultural pursuits from 1839 to 1856;
school inspector; justice of the peace and township treasurer; county
treasurer 1856-1864; engaged in the lumber business in 1863; member of
the State senate in 1870 and 1871; member of the city council for three
years; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia
in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the lumber business and
later engaged in the manufacture of wagons; also engaged in banking;
Governor of Michigan 1883-1885; resumed his former business activities;
died in Flint, Mich., June 5, 1896; interment in Glenwood Cemetery.
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BELL, Hiram Parks, (1827 - 1907)
BELL, Hiram Parks, a Representative from Georgia; born near Jefferson,
Jackson County, Ga., January 19, 1827; attended the public schools at
Cumming, Forsyth County, Ga.; taught school for two years, during which
time he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced
practice in Cumming; member of the secession convention in 1861 and
opposed the secession ordinance; commissioner from Georgia to solicit
the cooperation of Tennessee in the formation of a southern
confederacy; member of the State senate in 1861, but resigned to enter
the Confederate Army; during the Civil War was commissioned captain and
later promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Forty-third
Georgia Regiment; member of the Second Confederate Congress in 1864 and
1865; member of the Democratic State executive committee 1868-1871;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1875); delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; was
chosen a member of the Democratic National Committee from the State at
large; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Benjamin H. Hill and served from March 13, 1877,
to March 3, 1879; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878;
member of the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1899; served
in the State senate in 1900 and 1901; died in Atlanta, Ga., August 17,
1907; interment in Cumming Cemetery, Cumming, Ga.
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BERRY, John, (1833 - 1879)
BERRY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near Carey, in that
portion of Crawford County which is now Wyandot County, Ohio, April 26,
1833; attended the public schools, and Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware; was graduated from the law department of Cincinnati College,
Ohio, in 1857; was admitted to the bar in April 1857 and commenced
practice in Upper Sandusky; elected prosecuting attorney of Wyandot
County in 1862; reelected in 1864; mayor of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in
1864; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1874; resumed the practice of law in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where he
died May 18, 1879; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, near Upper Sandusky,
Ohio.
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BIERY, James Soloman, (1839 - 1904)
BIERY, James Soloman, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born on a
farm near Emlenton, Venango County, Pa., March 2, 1839; attended the
district schools, a select school of the county, and Emlenton (Pa.)
Academy; taught school for three years in the oil regions of
Pennsylvania; moved to Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., in 1861 and
continued teaching for eight years; studied theology for two years;
subsequently studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced
practice in Allentown; member of the State house of representatives in
1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874;
resumed the practice of law at Allentown and also engaged in literary
pursuits; died in Allentown, Pa., December 3, 1904; interment in
Fairview Cemetery.
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BLAND, Richard Parks, (1835 - 1899)
BLAND, Richard Parks, a Representative from Missouri; born near
Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., August 19, 1835; received an academic
education; moved to Missouri in 1855, thence to California, and later
to that portion of Utah which is now the State of Nevada; taught school
for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Virginia City; also interested in mining; treasurer of
Carson County from 1860 until the organization of the State government
of Nevada; returned to Missouri in 1865 and continued the practice of
law in Rolla; moved to Lebanon, Laclede County, in August 1869; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining
(Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures
(Forty-eighth through Fiftieth Congresses and Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses); sponsor of the Bland-Allison silver purchase
act of 1878; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death; in 1896 was
a prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination for President,
receiving two hundred and ninety votes; died in Lebanon, Mo., June 15,
1899; interment in Lebanon Cemetery.
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BLOUNT, James Henderson, (1837 - 1903)
BLOUNT, James Henderson, a Representative from Georgia; born near
Clinton, Jones County, Ga., September 12, 1837; attended private
schools in Clinton, Ga., and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; was graduated from the
University of Georgia at Athens in 1858; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Clinton, Jones County, Ga.;
moved to Macon, Ga., in 1872 and continued the practice of law; during
the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private in the Second
Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles, for two years, and was later
lieutenant colonel for two years; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the
nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1893); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-sixth
Congress), Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Fifty-second
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; appointed by
President Cleveland commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands on March 20,
1893; retired from that position in 1893 and devoted his time to his
plantation interests; died in Macon, Ga., March 8, 1903; interment in
Rose Hill Cemetery.
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BOGY, Lewis Vital, (1813 - 1877)
BOGY, Lewis Vital, a Senator from Missouri; born in Ste. Genevieve,
Mo., April 9, 1813; attended the public schools; employed as clerk in a
mercantile establishment; studied law in Illinois; graduated from
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1835 and commenced practice
in St. Louis; served in the Black Hawk War; member of the board of
aldermen of St. Louis in 1838; member, State house of representatives
1840-1841, 1854-1855; Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1867 and 1868;
president of the city council of St. Louis in 1872; one of the founders
of the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway, acting as president for two
years; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served
from March 4, 1873, until his death in St. Louis, Mo., September 20,
1877; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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BOWEN, Rees Tate, (1809 - 1879)
BOWEN, Rees Tate, (father of Henry Bowen), a Representative from
Virginia; born at "Maiden Springs," near Tazewell, Tazewell County,
Va., January 10, 1809; attended Abingdon Academy, Virginia; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; appointed brigadier general of the State
militia; member of the State house of delegates 1863-1865; magistrate
of Tazewell County for several years prior to the war and presiding
justice of the county court a portion of that time; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed agricultural
pursuits; died at his home, "Maiden Springs," in Tazewell County,
Va., August 29, 1879; interment in the family burying ground on his
estate, "Maiden Springs."
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BRADLEY, Nathan Ball, (1831 - 1906)
BRADLEY, Nathan Ball, a Representative from Michigan; born in Lee,
Berkshire County, Mass., May 28, 1831; moved with his parents to Lorain
County, Ohio, in 1835; attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin
in 1849; employed in a sawmill in the pine region; returned to Ohio in
1850 and built and operated a sawmill until 1852, when he moved to
Lexington, Mich., and engaged in the manufacture of lumber; moved to
St. Charles, in the Saginaw Valley, in 1855 and engaged in the lumber
industry; purchased a mill in Bay City, Mich., which he operated from
1858 to 1864; engaged in the salt industry in Bay City; 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 in 1865;
member of the State senate 1866-1868; engaged in banking in 1867; vice
president of the First National Bank of Bay City; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to
the Forty-fifth Congress; again engaged in the lumber business in Bay
City and also was instrumental in establishing the first beet-sugar
factory in the State; died in Bay City, Bay County, Mich., November 8,
1906; interment in Elm Lawn Cemetery.
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BROMBERG, Frederick George, (1837 - 1930)
BROMBERG, Frederick George, a Representative from Alabama; born in New
York City June 19, 1837; moved with his parents to Mobile, Ala., in
February 1838; attended the public schools; was graduated from Harvard
University in 1858; studied chemistry at Harvard University 1861-1863;
tutor of mathematics at Harvard University 1863-1865; appointed
treasurer of the city of Mobile in July 1867 by Maj. Gen. John Pope,
who commanded the department, and served until January 19, 1869; member
of the State senate 1868-1872; appointed postmaster of Mobile in July
1869 but was removed in June 1871; chairman of the Alabama delegation
to the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati in 1872; elected as
a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1875); unsuccessfully contested the election of Jeremiah Haralson to
the Forty-fourth Congress; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877
and commenced practice in Mobile, Ala.; Alabama commissioner of the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; president of the
State bar association in 1906; died in Mobile, Ala., on September 4,
1930; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
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BUCKNER, Aylett Hawes, (1816 - 1894)
BUCKNER, Aylett Hawes, (nephew of Aylett Hawes and cousin of Richard
Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes), a Representative from Missouri; born
in Fredericksburg, Va., December 14, 1816; attended Georgetown College,
Washington, D.C., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
engaged in teaching for several years; moved to Palmyra, Mo., in 1837;
served as deputy sheriff; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1838
and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Mo.; became editor of the Salt
River Journal; elected clerk of the Pike County Court in 1841; moved to
St. Louis, Mo., in 1850 and continued the practice of law; attorney for
the Bank of the State of Missouri in 1852; appointed commissioner of
public works in 1854 and served until 1855; returned to Pike County and
settled on a farm near Bowling Green; elected judge of the third
judicial circuit in 1857; delegate to the convention held in
Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the
impending war; moved to St. Charles, Mo., in 1862 and became interested
in the manufacture of tobacco in St. Louis; also engaged in mercantile
pursuits; moved to Mexico, Audrain County; member of the Democratic
central committee in 1868; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the
five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885); chairman,
Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on
Banking and Currency (Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884 and
retired from public life; died in Mexico, Mo., February 5, 1894;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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BURLEIGH, John Holmes, (1822 - 1877)
BURLEIGH, John Holmes, (son of William Burleigh), a Representative from
Maine; born in South Berwick, York County, Maine, October 9, 1822;
attended the local academy; became a sailor when sixteen years of age
and commanded a ship on foreign voyages from 1846 until 1853 when he
engaged in woolen manufacturing at South Berwick, Maine; also engaged
in banking; member of the State house of representatives in 1862, 1864,
1866, and again in 1872; delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was an unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1876; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits;
died in South Berwick, Maine, December 5, 1877; interment in the
Portland Street Cemetery.
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BURROWS, Julius Caesar, (1837 - 1915)
BURROWS, Julius Caesar, a Representative and a Senator from Michigan;
born in North East, Erie County, Pa., January 9, 1837; moved with his
parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio; attended district school, Kingsville
Academy, and Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio; studied law;
admitted to the bar at Jefferson, Ohio, in 1859; moved to Richland,
Kalamazoo County, Mich., in 1860; principal of the Richland Seminary;
commenced the practice of law in Kalamazoo in 1861; raised an infantry
company in 1862; served as its captain until the fall of 1863; elected
circuit court commissioner in 1864; prosecuting attorney for Kalamazoo
County 1866-1870; declined appointment as supervisor of internal
revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin in 1868; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-third
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874; elected to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3,
1883); chairman, Committee on Territories (Forty-seventh Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882; elected a Republican to
the Forty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1885, until his resignation on January 23, 1895, having been
elected Senator; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of
Mississippi River (Fifty-first Congress); elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Francis B. Stockbridge; reelected in 1899 and 1905 and served from
January 24, 1895, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination; chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United
States (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses), Committee on
Privileges and Elections (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first
Congresses); member of the National Monetary Commission and its vice
chairman 1908-1912; retired from active business pursuits and political
life; died in Kalamazoo, Mich., November 16, 1915; interment in
Mountain Home Cemetery.
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CAIN, Richard Harvey, (1825 - 1887)
CAIN, Richard Harvey, a Representative from South Carolina; born in
Greenbrier County, Va., April 12, 1825; moved with his father to
Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831 and attended school; entered the ministry,
and was a pastor in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1861 to 1865; moved to South
Carolina in 1865 and settled in Charleston; delegate to the
constitutional convention of South Carolina in 1868; member of the
State senate 1868-1872; manager of a newspaper in Charleston in 1868;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1878; appointed a bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880 and served until his death
in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887; interment in Graceland Cemetery.
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CALDWELL, John Henry, (1826 - 1902)
CALDWELL, John Henry, a Representative from Alabama; born in
Huntsville, Ala., April 4, 1826; attended the common schools of
Huntsville and Bacon College, Harrodsburg, Ky.; taught school in
Limestone County, Ala., four years; moved to Jacksonville, Ala., in
1848; was principal of the Jacksonville Female Academy 1848-1852 and of
the Jacksonville Male Academy 1853-1857; edited the Jacksonville
Republican in 1851 and 1852 and assumed the editorship of the Sunny
South in 1855; member of the State house of representatives in 1857 and
1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced
practice in Jacksonville, Ala.; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Confederate Army and organized Company A of the Tenth Alabama Regiment,
from St. Clair and Calhoun Counties, and served throughout the war;
promoted to major and then to lieutenant colonel; served in the Army of
Virginia; elected solicitor for the tenth judicial circuit in 1863 but
was deposed by the Provisional Governor in 1865; reelected the same
year, and in 1867 was removed from office for refusing to obey military
orders; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); chairman, Committee on
Agriculture (Forty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1876; resumed the practice of law; died in
Jacksonville, Ala., September 4, 1902; interment in Jacksonville
Cemetery.
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CANNON, George Quayle, (1827 - 1901)
CANNON, George Quayle, (father of Frank Jenne Cannon), a Delegate from
the Territory of Utah; born in Liverpool, England, January 11, 1827;
attended the common schools; immigrated to the United States in 1842
with his parents, who settled in Nauvoo, Ill.; moved to Great Salt Lake
(then Mexican territory), Utah, in 1847; went to California in 1849 and
a year later to the Hawaiian Islands as a missionary; returned to Salt
Lake City in 1854; learned the art of printing; editor of the Western
Standard in 1856 and 1857 and of the Deseret News 1867-1874 and
1877-1879; member of the Territorial council 1865, 1866, and 1869-1872;
member of the board of regents of the Deseret University (now the
University of Utah) and later chancellor; elected by the constitutional
convention in 1872 a delegate to present the constitution and memorial
to Congress for admission of the Territory as a State into the Union;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); contested the election of
Allen G. Campbell to the Forty-seventh Congress, but the House, on
April 20, 1882, decided that neither was entitled to the seat; returned
to Salt Lake City; director of the Union Pacific Railroad and a member
of the board of directors of several financial and industrial
enterprises at the time of his death; died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April 12, 1901; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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CANNON, Joseph Gurney, (1836 - 1926)
Painting by William T. Smedley, 1912, Collection of U.S. House of
Representatives
CANNON, Joseph Gurney, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Guilford, Guilford County, N.C., May 7, 1836; moved with his parents to
Bloomingdale, Ind., in 1840; completed preparatory studies; studied law
at the Cincinnati Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and
commenced practice in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1858; moved to Tuscola,
Ill., in 1859; State's attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial
district of Illinois from March 1861 to December 1868; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in
the Post Office Department (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on
Appropriations (Fifty-first Congress); moved to Danville, Ill., in
1878; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second
Congress; elected to the Fifty-third and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on
Appropriations (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses),
Committee on Rules (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses);
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-eighth through
Sixty-first Congresses); received fifty-eight votes for the
presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1908; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the
Sixty-third Congress; again elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); declined
renomination for Congress at the end of the Sixty-seventh Congress;
retired from public life; died in Danville, Vermilion County, Ill.,
November 12, 1926; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery.
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CARPENTER, Lewis Cass, (1836 - 1908)
CARPENTER, Lewis Cass, a Representative from South Carolina; born in
Putnam, Conn., February 20, 1836; attended the public schools; moved to
New Jersey, where he taught school; appointed State inspector of public
schools in New Jersey in 1863; at an early age began writing for the
press, and was connected with the New York papers for several years;
went to Washington, D.C., in 1864 and was employed in the Treasury
Department; studied law at Columbian (now George Washington)
University; was admitted to the bar and practiced; Washington newspaper
correspondent; moved to Charleston, S.C., in 1867 and became editor of
the Charleston Courier; assisted in establishing the Charleston
Republican in 1868; secretary to United States Senator William H.
Buckingham, of Connecticut, 1868-1873; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Robert B. Elliott and served from November 3, 1874, to March 3, 1875;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-fifth Congress; moved
to Denver, Colo., in 1878, and thence, in 1879, to Leadville, where he
edited a newspaper; appointed supervisor of the census for Colorado in
1880; appointed United States post-office inspector in 1881 and
resigned in 1883; engaged in the insurance business 1883-1890; resumed
the practice of law; died in Denver, Colo., March 6, 1908; interment in
Fairmount Cemetery.
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CASON, Thomas Jefferson, (1828 - 1901)
CASON, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Indiana; born near
Brownsville, Union County, Ind., September 13, 1828; moved to Boone
County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832;
attended the common schools; taught school in Boone County for several
years; studied law in Crawfordsville; was admitted to the bar in 1850
and commenced practice in Lebanon, Ind.; member of the State house of
representatives 1861-1864; member of the State senate 1864-1867;
appointed by Governor Baker common pleas judge of Boone County in April
1867 and was subsequently elected to the same office in October 1867
for a term of four years; declined reelection and resumed the practice
of law; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1876; resumed the practice of law in Lebanon, Ind.;
retired in 1897 and moved to Washington, D.C., where he died July 10,
1901; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Boone County, Ind.
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CAULFIELD, Bernard Gregory, (1828 - 1887)
CAULFIELD, Bernard Gregory, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Alexandria, Va., October 18, 1828; received a classical education; was
graduated from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., in 1848 and from
the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in
1850; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced the practice of law
in Lexington, Ky.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1853 and continued the
practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John B. Rice;
reelected to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from February 1,
1875, to March 3, 1877; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice (Forty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1876; resumed the practice of law; moved to Dakota
Territory in 1878 and settled in Deadwood; continued the practice of
law and became a large landowner; died in Deadwood, Territory of Dakota
(now South Dakota), December 19, 1887; interment in Calvary Cemetery,
St. Louis, Mo.
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CHITTENDEN, Simeon Baldwin, (1814 - 1889)
CHITTENDEN, Simeon Baldwin, a Representative from New York; born in
Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., March 29, 1814; attended Guilford
Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven 1829-1842; moved
to New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1842;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress;
vice president of the New York City Chamber of Commerce 1867-1869;
elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-third Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stewart L. Woodford;
reelected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and
as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses and
served from November 3, 1874, to March 3, 1881; unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; retired from
public life; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 14, 1889; interment in
Greenwood Cemetery.
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CLARK, Amos, Jr., (1828 - 1912)
CLARK, Amos, Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., November 8, 1828; engaged in business in New York City, with
residence in Elizabeth, where he was largely interested in real estate;
member of the city council of Elizabeth in 1865 and 1866; served in the
State senate 1866-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; retired to his
residence in Norfolk County, Mass., but retained business interests in
Elizabeth, N.J.; died in Boston, Mass., October 31, 1912; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth, N.J.
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CLARK, John Bullock, Jr., (1831 - 1903)
CLARK, John Bullock, Jr., (son of John Bullock Clark), a Representative
from Missouri; born in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., January 14, 1831;
attended Fayette Academy, and the University of Missouri at Columbia;
spent two years in California for travel and adventure; returned to the
East, and was graduated from the law department of Harvard University
in 1854; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Fayette, Mo., from
1855 until the commencement of the Civil War, when he entered the
Confederate Army as a lieutenant; promoted successively to the rank of
captain, major, colonel, and brigadier general; resumed the practice of
law in Fayette, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to
the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-fourth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; clerk of the House of
Representatives 1883-1889; engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D.C., until his death there, September 7, 1903; interment
in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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CLAYTON, Charles, (1825 - 1885)
CLAYTON, Charles, a Representative from California; born in Derbyshire,
England, October 5, 1825; attended the public schools; alcalde of Santa
Clara, Calif., 1849-1850; founded, Santa Clara flour mills; miller;
member of the California state assembly, 1863-1866; member of the board
of supervisors of San Francisco, Calif., 1864-1869; United States
surveyor of customs of the port and district of San Francisco, Calif.,
1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination to the
Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; California state prison director,
1881-1882; died on October 4, 1885, in Oakland, Calif.; interment in
Mountain View Cemetery, Calif.
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CLEMENTS, Isaac, (1837 - 1909)
CLEMENTS, Isaac, a Representative from Illinois; born near Brookville,
Franklin County, Ind., March 31, 1837; attended the common schools; was
graduated from the Indiana Asbury College (now De Pauw University),
Greencastle, Ind., in 1859; studied law in Greencastle; moved to
Illinois and taught school; entered the Union Army in July 1861 and
served as second lieutenant of Company G, Ninth Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry; remained in the service over three years; was twice
promoted; appointed register in bankruptcy in June 1867; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth
Congress; appointed a United States penitentiary commissioner in 1877;
United States pension agent at Chicago, Ill., from March 18, 1890,
until November 4, 1893; moved to Normal, Ill., in 1899; superintendent
of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal, Ill.; died in Danville,
Vermilion County, Ill., May 31, 1909; interment in Home Cemetery.
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CLYMER, Hiester, (1827 - 1884)
CLYMER, Hiester, (nephew of William Hiester and cousin of Isaac
Ellmaker Hiester), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near
Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pa., November 3, 1827;
attended primary schools at Reading and was graduated from Princeton
College in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Berks County
April 6, 1849, and practiced in Reading and Berks County until 1851,
when he moved to Pottsville, Schuylkill County; returned to Reading in
1856; represented Berks County on the board of revenue commissioners of
the State in January 1860; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions at Charleston and at Baltimore in 1860; member of the State
senate from October 1860 until March 1866, when he resigned;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election as Governor in 1866;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; member of the
State board of charities in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1881); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War
(Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Forty-fourth
Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State
(Forty-sixth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880;
after his retirement from Congress was vice president of the Union
Trust Co. of Philadelphia and president of the Clymer Iron Co.; died in
Reading, Pa., on June 12, 1884; interment in the Charles Evans
Cemetery.
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COBB, Stephen Alonzo, (1833 - 1878)
COBB, Stephen Alonzo, a Representative from Kansas; born in Madison,
Somerset County, Maine, June 17, 1833; attended the common schools;
moved with his father to Minnesota in 1850; studied languages and
prepared for college; entered Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., in 1854,
where he was a student for two years; was graduated from Brown
University, Providence, R.I., in 1858; settled in Wyandotte, Wyandotte
County, Kans., in 1859 and commenced the practice of law; entered the
Union Army in 1862; became captain and commissary sergeant of
Volunteers on May 18, 1864; brevetted major August 16, 1865, and
honorably discharged on September 23, 1865; mayor of Wyandotte in 1862
and again in 1868; served in the State senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870;
member of the State house of representatives in 1872 and served as
speaker; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to
the Forty-fourth Congress; died in Wyandotte (now a part of Kansas
City), Kans., August 24, 1878; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Kansas
City, Kans.
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CONOVER, Simon Barclay, (1840 - 1908)
CONOVER, Simon Barclay, a Senator from Florida; born in Middlesex
County, N.J., September 23, 1840; attended an academy in Trenton, N.J.;
studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia;
graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville,
Tenn., in 1864; during the Civil War served in the medical department
of the Union Army; appointed acting assistant surgeon in 1866, assigned
to Lake City, Fla; resigned from the medical department of the Army
upon readmission of the State of Florida into the Union; delegate to
the State constitutional convention in 1868; was appointed State
treasurer in 1868, serving one term; a member of the Republican
National Committee 1868-1872; member, State house of representatives
1873, and served as speaker; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; was not
a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills
(Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses); resumed the practice of his
profession; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1880;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1885; appointed
United States surgeon at Port Townsend, Wash., in 1889; became
president of the board of regents of the Agricultural College and
School of Sciences of the State of Washington in 1891; practiced
medicine in Port Townsend, Wash., until his death, April 19, 1908;
interment in the Masonic Cemetery.
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COOK, Philip, (1817 - 1894)
COOK, Philip, a Representative from Georgia; born in Twiggs County,
Ga., July 30, 1817; was graduated from Oglethorpe University, Georgia,
and from the law department of the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville in 1840; practiced in Forsyth, Ga., in 1841 and 1842;
moved successively to Sumter, Lanier, and Oglethorpe Counties, and
continued the practice of law until 1869; served in the State senate in
1859, 1860, 1863, and 1864; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a
private; was successively commissioned as first lieutenant, lieutenant
colonel, colonel, and, in August 1863, brigadier general, and served
throughout the Civil War; member of the State convention in 1865; moved
to Americus, Sumter County, Ga., in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); resumed the practice of law
in Americus, Ga.; State capitol commissioner 1883-1889; elected
secretary of state of Georgia in 1890 and served until his death in
Atlanta, Ga., May 24, 1894; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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CORWIN, Franklin, (1818 - 1879)
CORWIN, Franklin, (nephew of Moses Bledso Corwin and Thomas Corwin), a
Representative from Illinois; born in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio,
January 12, 1818; attended private schools; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1839 and practiced in Wilmington, Ohio; member of the
Ohio house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; served in the State
senate 1847-1849; moved to Peru, La Salle County, Ill., in 1857; member
of the Illinois house of representatives and served as speaker; elected
as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1875); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the
Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in Peru,
Ill., until his death there on June 15, 1879.
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CREAMER, Thomas James, (1843 - 1914)
CREAMER, Thomas James, a Representative from New York; born near
Garadice Lake, Ireland, May 26, 1843; immigrated to the United States
and took up his residence in New York City; attended the public
schools; shipping clerk in a dry-goods house in 1860; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State assembly
1865-1867; served in the State senate 1868-1871; city tax commissioner
for five years; acted as counsel for State commissions to revise the
tax laws; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874;
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the practice of
law in New York City, and died there August 4, 1914; interment in
Greenwood Cemetery.
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CRITTENDEN, Thomas Theodore, (1832 - 1909)
CRITTENDEN, Thomas Theodore, (nephew of John Jordan Crittenden), a
Representative from Missouri; born near Shelbyville, Shelby County,
Ky., January 1, 1832; attended the primary schools at Cloverport, Ky.;
was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855; served as
registrar of Franklin County in 1856; studied law in Frankfort, Ky.;
was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Lexington,
Mo.; served in the Union Army from 1862 to 1864, being commissioned
captain and later lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Missouri Cavalry
Militia Regiment; moved to Warrensburg in 1865 and continued the
practice of law; appointed attorney general of Missouri by Gov. Willard
P. Hall in 1864 to fill out the unexpired term of Aikman Welch,
deceased; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874;
again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3,
1879); Governor of Missouri 1881-1885; moved to Kansas City in 1885 and
continued the practice of law; United States consul general at the city
of Mexico from April 5, 1893, to 1897; referee in bankruptcy from 1898
until his death in Kansas City, Mo., May 29, 1909; interment in Forest
Hill Cemetery.
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CROOKE, Philip Schuyler, (1810 - 1881)
CROOKE, Philip Schuyler, a Representative from New York; born in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., March 2, 1810; was graduated from Dutchess Academy
in Poughkeepsie; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and
commenced practice in Brooklyn, N.Y.; moved to Flatbush in 1838; member
of the Board of Supervisors of Kings County 1844-1852 and 1858-1870,
and chairman of the board in 1861, 1862, 1864, and 1865; presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852; elected a member of the
general assembly as a Republican in 1863; served forty years in the
National Guard of the State of New York, from private to brigadier
general, and during the Civil War commanded the Fifth Brigade, National
Guard, in Pennsylvania in June and July 1863; elected as a Republican
to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law; died
in Flatbush, N.Y., March 17, 1881; interment in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
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CROUNSE, Lorenzo, (1834 - 1909)
CROUNSE, Lorenzo, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Sharon,
Schoharie County, N.Y., January 27, 1834; attended a seminary at
Charlotteville, N.Y.; taught school; moved to Fort Plain, N.Y., in
1855; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857; during the Civil
War raised a battery of light artillery in 1861 and entered the Army as
its captain; wounded, and resigned after a year's service; moved to
Nebraska Territory in 1864; member of the Territorial house of
representatives in 1866; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1866; elected associate justice of the State supreme
court in 1867; at the expiration of his term was elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1876;
collector of internal revenue for the district of Nebraska from March
15, 1879, to March 30, 1883; appointed Assistant Secretary of the
United States Treasury on April 27, 1891, and served until his
resignation on October 31, 1892; Governor of Nebraska 1892-1895; died
in Omaha, Nebr., May 13, 1909; interment in City Cemetery, Fort
Calhoun, Washington County, Nebr.
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CROZIER, Robert, (1827 - 1895)
CROZIER, Robert, a Senator from Kansas; born in Cadiz, Harrison County,
Ohio, October 13, 1827; attended the public schools and an academy;
studied law in Carrollton, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1848;
prosecuting attorney of Carroll County 1848-1850; moved to Leavenworth,
Kans., in 1856, where he established the Leavenworth Daily Times and
also engaged in the practice of law; member, Territorial council
1857-1858; appointed United States attorney for the district of Kansas
by President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1864, when he resigned; chief justice
of Kansas supreme court 1864-1867; cashier and manager of the First
National Bank of Leavenworth; appointed as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Alexander Caldwell and served from November 24, 1873, to February 12,
1874, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for election;
resumed the practice of his profession in Leavenworth, Kans.; district
judge of the first judicial district of Kansas 1876-1892; member of the
board of directors of the Kansas Historical Society 1886-1889; died in
Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kans., October 2, 1895; interment in
Mount Muncie Cemetery.
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CRUTCHFIELD, William, (1824 - 1890)
CRUTCHFIELD, William, a Representative from Tennessee; born in
Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn., November 16, 1824; attended the
common schools; moved to McMinn County, Tenn., in 1840 and remained
there four years; settled in Jacksonville, Ala., in 1844 and engaged in
agricultural pursuits; became a permanent resident of Chattanooga in
1850; during the Civil War never enlisted but served in the Union Army
as honorary captain in the Chickamauga campaign; was with General
Thomas during the siege of Chattanooga, and was an assistant to General
Steedman and other commanders until the close of the war; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed agricultural
pursuits; died in Chattanooga, Tenn., January 24, 1890; interment in
the family lot in Old Citizens Cemetery.
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DANFORD, Lorenzo, (1829 - 1899)
DANFORD, Lorenzo, a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington
Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on October 18, 1829; attended the
common schools and a college at Waynesburg, Pa., for two years; studied
law; was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio,
in September 1854, and commenced practice there; presidential elector
on the American Party ticket in 1856; prosecuting attorney of Belmont
County from 1857 to 1861, when he resigned to enlist in the Fifteenth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private; commissioned a
lieutenant and later a captain, and served until honorably discharged
in August 1864; resumed the practice of his profession in St.
Clairsville; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of his
profession; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in St.
Clairsville, Ohio, June 19, 1899; chairman, Committee on Immigration
and Naturalization (Fifty-fifth Congress); interment in the Methodist
Episcopal Cemetery.
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DAVIS, Alexander Mathews, (1833 - 1889)
DAVIS, Alexander Mathews, a Representative from Virginia; born in Old
Mount Airy, Wythe County, Va., January 17, 1833; attended the old field
schools and was privately tutored; was graduated from Emory and Henry
College, Emory, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and
commenced practice in Wytheville, Va.; moved to Independence, Grayson
County, Va.; captain of Company C, Forty-fifth Virginia Infantry,
Confederate Army, in 1861; major in 1862; lieutenant colonel in 1864;
captured near the close of the war and held prisoner on Johnson's
Island, Lake Erie; member of the State senate 1869-1871; presented
credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Forty-third Congress
and served from March 4, 1873, to March 5, 1874, when he was succeeded
by Christopher Y. Thomas, who contested his election; resumed the
practice of law; died in Independence, Grayson County, Va., September
25, 1889; interment in the Davis family burial ground.
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DE WITT, David Miller, (1837 - 1912)
DE WITT, David Miller, a Representative from New York; born in
Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., November 25, 1837; moved to New York in
1845 with his parents, who settled in Brooklyn; attended the public
schools of Brooklyn, a select school at Saugerties, and the local
academy at Kingston; was graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick,
N.J., in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and
commenced practice in Kingston, N.Y.; principal of New Paltz Academy
(later a State normal school) in 1861 and 1862; district attorney of
Ulster County 1863-1870; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1875); was not a candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of
law and also engaged in literary pursuits; assistant corporation
counsel of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1878-1881; member of the State assembly in
1883; corporation counsel of Kingston in 1884; surrogate of Ulster
County from November 20, 1885, to December 31, 1886; again engaged in
the practice of law; died in Kingston, N.Y., June 23, 1912; interment
in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery.
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DENNIS, George Robertson, (1822 - 1882)
DENNIS, George Robertson, a Senator from Maryland; born in Whitehaven,
Somerset County, Md., April 8, 1822; graduated from the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., and entered the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville; studied medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; graduated in 1843 and practiced in
Kingston, Md., for many years; later devoted himself to agricultural
pursuits; member, State senate 1854; member, State house of delegates
1867; member, State senate 1871; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, until March 3, 1879; died
in Kingston, Somerset County, Md., on August 13, 1882; interment in St.
Andrew's Churchyard, Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md.
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DOBBINS, Samuel Atkinson, (1814 - 1886)
DOBBINS, Samuel Atkinson, a Representative from New Jersey; born near
Vincentown, Burlington County, N.J., April 14, 1814; attended private
and public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Mount
Holly, N.J., in 1838 and continued farming; high sheriff of Burlington
County 1854-1857; member of the State house of assembly 1859-1861;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864; trustee of
Pennington (N.J.) Seminary 1866-1886, serving as president of the board
of trustees for ten years; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed agricultural pursuits; died
in Mount Holly, N.J., May 26, 1886; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery.
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DORSEY, Stephen Wallace, (1842 - 1916)
DORSEY, Stephen Wallace, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Benson,
Rutland County, Vt., February 28, 1842; moved to Ohio and settled in
Oberlin; attended the public schools; during the Civil War served in
the Union Army; returned to Ohio and settled in Sandusky; was employed
by the Sandusky Tool Co. and subsequently became its president; elected
president of the Arkansas Railway Co.; moved to Arkansas and settled in
Helena; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served
from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for
reelection; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fifth
Congress); member of the Republican National Committee in 1880; engaged
in cattle raising and mining in New Mexico and Colorado; subsequently
moved to Los Angeles, Calif., and resided there until his death on
March 20, 1916; interment in Fairmont Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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DURHAM, Milton Jameson, (1824 - 1911)
DURHAM, Milton Jameson, a Representative from Kentucky; born near
Perryville, Mercer County (now Boyle County), Ky., May 16, 1824;
attended the common schools; was graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De
Pauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1844; taught school for several
years; was graduated from the Louisville (Ky.) Law School in 1850; was
admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in
Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; circuit judge of the eighth judicial
district in 1861 and 1862; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879);
chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-fourth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice
of law in Danville, Ky.; appointed First Comptroller of the Treasury of
the United States on March 20, 1885, and served until the office was
discontinued on April 22, 1889; moved to Lexington, Ky., in 1890 and
engaged in banking; appointed deputy clerk, Internal Revenue Service,
at Lexington, Ky., in 1901 and served until his death in that city on
February 12, 1911; interment in Belleview Cemetery, Danville, Ky
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EATON, William Wallace, (1816 - 1898)
EATON, William Wallace, a Senator and a Representative from
Connecticut; born in Tolland, Conn., October 11, 1816; educated in the
common schools and by private instruction; moved to Columbia, S.C., and
engaged in mercantile pursuits; returned to Tolland, Conn.; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice; clerk of
courts of Tolland County 1846-1847; member, State house of
representatives 1847-1848, 1853, 1863, 1868, 1870-1871, 1873-1874;
served as speaker in 1853 and 1873; member, State senate 1859; moved to
Hartford, Conn., in 1851; clerk of courts of Hartford County 1851 and
1854; city attorney 1857-1858; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
United States Senator in 1860; chief judge of the city court of
Hartford 1863-1864, 1867-1872; appointed as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A.
Buckingham and served from February 5, 1875, to March 3, 1875; elected
for the full term beginning March 4, 1875, and served until March 3,
1881; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-sixth Congress);
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March
3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884; resumed the
practice of law; died in Hartford, Conn., September 21, 1898; interment
in Spring Grove Cemetery.
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EDEN, John Rice, (1826 - 1909)
EDEN, John Rice, a Representative from Illinois; born in Bath County,
Ky., February 1, 1826; moved with his parents to Indiana; attended the
public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and
commenced practice in Sullivan, Ill.; prosecuting attorney for the
seventeenth judicial district of Illinois 1856-1860; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth
Congress; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois in
1868; elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on War
Claims (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law in
Sullivan, Ill.; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4,
1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886;
again engaged in the practice of law; died in Sullivan, Moultrie
County, Ill., June 9, 1909; interment in Greenhill Cemetery.
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ELKINS, Stephen Benton, (1841 - 1911)
ELKINS, Stephen Benton, (father of Davis Elkins), a Delegate from the
Territory of New Mexico and a Senator from West Virginia; born in Perry
County, Ohio, September 26, 1841; moved with his parents to Westport,
Mo.; attended the public schools and graduated from the law department
of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1860; during the Civil War
enlisted in the Union Army as a captain in the Kansas Militia; moved to
the Territory of New Mexico in 1864; admitted to the bar in 1864 and
commenced practice in Messila, N.Mex.; member, Territorial house of
representatives 1864-1865; district attorney for the Territory of New
Mexico 1866-1867; attorney general of the Territory 1867; United States
district attorney for the Territory 1867-1870; elected as a Republican
Delegate to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876;
moved to Elkins, W.Va., which he founded, around 1890; extensive
interests in developing natural resources and industry in West
Virginia; appointed Secretary of War by President Benjamin Harrison
1891-1893; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
February 1895; reelected in 1901 and 1907, and served from March 4,
1895, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 4, 1911; chairman,
Committee on the Geological Survey (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Fifty-seventh through
Sixty-first Congresses); interment in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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FIELD, Moses Whelock, (1828 - 1889)
FIELD, Moses Whelock, a Representative from Michigan; born in
Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., February 10, 1828; moved with his
parents to Cato, Cayuga County, N.Y.; attended the public schools, and
was graduated from the academy in Victor, N.Y.; moved to Detroit,
Mich., in 1844 and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits;
alderman of Detroit 1863-1865; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful for
reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; instrumental in
organizing the Independent Greenback Party, having called the national
convention at Indianapolis, Ind., May 17, 1876; regent of the
University of Michigan in 1888; lived on his farm, "Linden Lawn,"
in the township of Hamtramck, a suburb of Detroit, where he died March
14, 1889; interment in Woodmere Cemetery.
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FORT, Greenbury Lafayette, (1825 - 1883)
FORT, Greenbury Lafayette, a Representative from Illinois; born in
French Grant, Scioto County, Ohio, October 17, 1825; moved with his
parents to Marshall County, Ill., in April 1834; completed preparatory
studies and attended Rock River Seminary; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Lacon, Ill.; elected sheriff
in 1850; clerk of Marshall County in 1852; county judge in 1857; was
appointed a second lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, on April 30, 1861; promoted through the ranks to
lieutenant colonel and quartermaster; brevetted major and lieutenant
colonel of Volunteers March 13, 1865; member of the State senate in
1866; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1880; retired from public life; died in
Lacon, Ill., January 13, 1883; interment in Lacon Cemetery.
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FREEMAN, James Crawford, (1820 - 1885)
FREEMAN, James Crawford, a Representative from Georgia; born in Clinton
(later Gray), Jones County, Ga., April 1, 1820; attended the common
schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Griffin, Ga., in
1865 and continued in farming operations; engaged in mercantile
pursuits and in banking; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); moved to Atlanta, Ga., and
again engaged in mercantile pursuits; died in Atlanta, Ga., September
3, 1885; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
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GLOVER, John Montgomery, (1822 - 1891)
GLOVER, John Montgomery, (uncle of John Milton Glover), a
Representative from Missouri; born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky.,
September 4, 1822; attended the public schools in Kentucky; moved to
Missouri in 1836 with his parents, who settled in Knox County, near
Newark, and continued his schooling; attended Marion and Masonic
Colleges, Philadelphia, Mo.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; moved to California in 1850 and
continued the practice of his profession; returned to Knox County, Mo.,
in 1855 to take charge of his father's affairs; during the Civil War
served as colonel of the Third Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Cavalry,
from September 4, 1861, until February 23, 1864, when he resigned on
account of impaired health; collector of internal revenue for the third
district of Missouri from December 1, 1866, until March 3, 1867;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-fifth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; died near Newark, Knox County, Mo., November 15,
1891; interment on his farm near Newark, Mo.; reinterment in Woodland
Cemetery, Quincy, Ill.
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GORDON, John Brown, (1832 - 1904)
GORDON, John Brown, a Senator from Georgia; born in Upson County, Ga.,
February 6, 1832; attended private schools and the University of
Georgia at Athens; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1853 and
commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga.; engaged in coal mining; upon the
outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as captain of
Infantry and rose to lieutenant general; resumed the practice of law in
Atlanta, Ga.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1868;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1873; reelected in
1879 and served from March 4, 1873, until May 26, 1880, when he
resigned to promote the building of the Georgia Pacific Railroad;
chairman, Committee on Commerce (Forty-sixth Congress); Governor of
Georgia 1886-1890; again elected to the United States Senate and served
from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1897; declined to be a candidate for
reelection; chairman, Committee on Coastal Defenses (Fifty-third
Congress); engaged in lecturing and literary work; died in Miami, Fla.,
January 9, 1904; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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GUNCKEL, Lewis B., (1826 - 1903)
GUNCKEL, Lewis B., a Representative from Ohio; born in Germantown,
Montgomery County, Ohio, October 15, 1826; pursued preparatory studies;
was graduated from Farmer's College in 1848 and from the law school
of Cincinnati College in 1851; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Dayton, Ohio, in 1851; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1856; member of the State senate 1862-1865; appointed by
Congress a member of the Board of Managers of the National Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1864; reappointed in 1870 to serve six
years; in 1871 appointed United States commissioner to investigate
frauds practiced on the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians; elected
as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,
1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the
Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died in
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, October 3, 1903; interment in Woodland
Cemetery.
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GUNTER, Thomas Montague, (1826 - 1904)
GUNTER, Thomas Montague, a Representative from Arkansas; born near
McMinnville, Warren County, Tenn., September 18, 1826; pursued
classical studies and was graduated from Irving College in 1850;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in
Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark., in 1853; during the Civil War
served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment,
Arkansas Volunteers; prosecuting attorney for the fourth judicial
circuit 1866-1868; successfully contested as a Democrat the election of
William W. Wilshire to the Forty-third Congress; reelected to the
Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from
June 16, 1874, to March 3, 1883; chairman, Committee on Private Land
Claims (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Congresses); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law in
Fayetteville, Ark., and died there January 12, 1904; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery.
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HAGANS, John Marshall, (1838 - 1900)
HAGANS, John Marshall, a Representative from West Virginia; born in
Brandonville, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), August 13, 1838;
attended the public schools; studied law at Harvard University; was
admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Morgantown;
elected prosecuting attorney for Monongahela County in 1862, 1863,
1864, and 1870; law reporter for the supreme court of appeals from
January 1864 to March 4, 1873; mayor of Morgantown 1866, 1867, and
1869; member of the State constitutional convention in 1871; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination; member of the State house of
delegates 1879-1883; elected judge of the second judicial district in
1888 and served until his death in Morgantown, W.Va., June 17, 1900;
interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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HAGER, John Sharpenstein, (1818 - 1890)
HAGER, John Sharpenstein, a Senator from California; born near
Morristown, in German Valley, Morris County, N.J., March 12, 1818;
completed preparatory studies and graduated from the College of New
Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1836; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1840 and practiced in Morristown, N.J.; moved to California
in 1849 and engaged in mining; practiced law in San Francisco; member
of the State constitutional convention in 1849; member, State senate
1852-1854, 1865-1871; elected State district judge for the district of
San Francisco in 1855 and served until l86l; elected a regent of the
University of California in 1871; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Eugene
Casserly and served from December 23, 1873, to March 3, 1875; was not a
candidate for renomination; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1879; collector of customs of the port of San Francisco
1885-1889; died in San Francisco on March 19, 1890; interment in
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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HAILEY, John, (1835 - 1921)
HAILEY, John, a Delegate from the Territory of Idaho; born in Smith
County, Tenn., August 29, 1835; attended the common schools; moved in
1848 to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Dade County; crossed
the plains to Oregon in 1853; enlisted as a private on the outbreak of
the Rogue River Indian War in 1855 and subsequently promoted to
lieutenant; moved to Idaho in 1862; engaged in agricultural pursuits,
stock raising, and mining; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1874; member of the Territorial council of Idaho in
1880 and served as its president; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
(March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; appointed warden of the Idaho
Penitentiary in 1899; died in Boise, Idaho, April 10, 1921; interment
in the Masonic Cemetery.
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HAMILTON, Robert, (1809 - 1878)
HAMILTON, Robert, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Hamburg,
Sussex County, N.J., December 9, 1809; attended the common schools;
moved to Newton, N.J., in 1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1836 and commenced practice in Newton; prosecutor of pleas of Sussex
County 1848-1858, 1868, and 1869; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; member of the State
house of assembly 1863 and 1864 and served as speaker; president of the
Merchant's National Bank 1865-1878; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877);
resumed the practice of law; director of the Morris & Essex Railroad
Co.; died in Newton, Sussex County, N.J., March 14, 1878; interment in
Newton Cemetery.
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HARRIS, Benjamin Winslow, (1823 - 1907)
HARRIS, Benjamin Winslow, (father of Robert Orr Harris), a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in East Bridgewater, Mass.,
November 10, 1823; pursued an academic course and was graduated from
Dane Law School, Harvard University, in 1849; was admitted to the bar
in Boston in 1850 and commenced practice in East Bridgewater; served in
the State senate in 1857; member of the State house of representatives
in 1858; district attorney for the southeastern district of
Massachusetts from July 1, 1858, to June 30, 1866; collector of
internal revenue for the second district of Massachusetts from June 30,
1866, to March 1, 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and
to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883);
chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-seventh Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law in
East Bridgewater, Plymouth County; judge of probate for the county of
Plymouth 1887-1906; died in East Bridgewater, Mass., on February 7,
1907; interment in Union Cemetery.
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HARRIS, Henry Richard, (1828 - 1909)
HARRIS, Henry Richard, a Representative from Georgia; born in Sparta,
Hancock County, Ga., February 2, 1828; moved to Greenville, Meriwether
County, Ga., in 1833; attended an academy in Mount Zion, Hancock
County, Ga., and was graduated from Emory College at Oxford, Ga., in
1847; member of the State constitutional convention in 1861; during the
Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress
(March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in
1886; appointed by President Cleveland as Third Assistant Postmaster
General of the United States and served from April 1, 1887, to March
18, 1889; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Odessadale,
Meriwether County, Ga., October 15, 1909; interment in Greenville
Cemetery, Greenville, Ga.
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HARRISON, Horace Harrison, (1829 - 1885)
HARRISON, Horace Harrison, a Representative from Tennessee; born in
Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn., on August 7, 1829; attended Carroll
Academy and completed the course in the ancient classics under a
private instructor; moved with his parents to McMinnville in 1841;
clerk of the county court; master of the chancery court; register of
deeds; clerk of the State senate in 1851 and 1852; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in McMinnville;
moved to Nashville in 1859 and continued the practice of law; United
States district attorney 1863-1866; chancellor in the Nashville
division in 1866; judge of the State supreme court in 1867 and 1868;
again United States district attorney in 1872 and 1873; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1880; member of the State legislature in 1880
and 1881; died in Nashville, Tenn., December 20, 1885; interment in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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HARVEY, James Madison, (1833 - 1894)
HARVEY, James Madison, a Senator from Kansas; born near Salt Sulphur
Springs, Monroe County, Va., (now West Virginia), September 21, 1833;
attended the common schools in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa; became a
civil engineer; moved to Kansas in 1859 and engaged in agricultural
pursuits; served with the Union Army during the Civil War as captain in
the Fourth and Tenth Regiments of Kansas Volunteer Infantry 1861-1864;
member, State house of representatives 1865-1866; member, State senate
1867-1868; Governor of Kansas 1868-1872; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Alexander Caldwell and served from February 2, 1874, to March 3, 1877;
government surveyor in New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Oklahoma; resumed
agricultural pursuits; died near Junction City, Kans., April 15, 1894;
interment in Highland Cemetery, Junction City, Kans.
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HATCHER, Robert Anthony, (1819 - 1886)
HATCHER, Robert Anthony, a Representative from Missouri; born in
Buckingham County, Va., February 24, 1819; attended private schools in
Lynchburg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Kentucky and
commenced practice at New Madrid, Mo., in 1847; circuit attorney for
several years; member of the State house of representatives 1850 and
1851; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army and
attained the rank of major; delegate to the State convention in 1862;
member of the Confederate Congress in 1864 and 1865; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Public
Expenditures (Forty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law; died
in Charleston, Mo., December 4, 1886; interment in Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
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HATHORN, Henry Harrison, (1813 - 1887)
HATHORN, Henry Harrison, a Representative from New York; born in
Greenfield, Ulster County, N.Y., November 28, 1813; attended the common
schools and was graduated from the public schools of Greenfield;
discoverer of the "Hathorn Mineral Spring"; sheriff of Saratoga
County 1853-1856 and 1862-1865; engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Saratoga Springs 1839-1849; supervisor of Saratoga Springs 1858, 1860,
1866, and 1867; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and
Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); again became
engaged in the mineral-water business; died at Saratoga Springs,
Saratoga County, N.Y., February 20, 1887; interment in Greenridge
Cemetery.
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HENDEE, George Whitman, (1832 - 1906)
HENDEE, George Whitman, a Representative from Vermont; born in Stowe,
Lamoille County, Vt., November 30, 1832; attended the common schools of
Morrisville, Vt., and People's Academy; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Morrisville, Vt.; prosecuting
attorney of Lamoille County in 1858 and 1859; member of the State house
of representatives in 1861 and 1862; during the Civil War served as
deputy provost marshal; served in the State senate 1866-1868;
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1869 and acted as Governor after the
death of Governor Washburn; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third,
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice
of law; national-bank examiner 1879-1885; interested in the breeding of
Morgan horses; died in Morrisville, Vt., on December 6, 1906; interment
in Pleasant View Cemetery.
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HERSEY, Samuel Freeman, (1812 - 1875)
HERSEY, Samuel Freeman, a Representative from Maine; born in Sumner,
Oxford County, Maine, April 12, 1812; attended the common schools of
Sumner and Buckfield; taught school 1828-1831; was graduated from
Hebron Academy in 1831; removed to Bangor the same year; engaged in the
merchandise business in Lincoln in 1833 and in Milford in 1837; engaged
in the lumber business in Stillwater, Maine, in 1842 and in Bangor in
1850; member of the State house of representatives in 1842, 1857, and
1865; member of the executive council 1852-1854; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1860; member of the Republican
National Committee 1864-1868; member of the State senate in 1868 and
1869; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Maine in 1870; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses and served
from March 4, 1873, until his death in Bangor, Maine, February 3, 1875,
before the close of the Forty-third Congress; interment in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
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HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood, (1816 - 1895)
HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood, (grandson of Roger Sherman, son of Samuel
Hoar, brother of George Frisbie Hoar, father of Sherman Hoar, and uncle
of Rockwood Hoar), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in
Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816; pursued classical studies and was
graduated from Harvard University in 1835; was admitted to the bar in
1840 and commenced practice in Concord and Boston, Mass.; served in the
State senate in 1846 as an anti-slavery Whig; judge of the court of
common pleas 1849-1855; judge of the State supreme court 1859-1869;
Attorney General of the United States from March 1869 until his
resignation in June 1870; nominated in 1869 by President Grant as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court but was not confirmed by the
Senate; member of the joint high commission which framed the treaty of
Washington in 1871 under which the tribunal was provided for to settle
the Alabama claims; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in
1874; resumed the practice of his profession in Concord and Boston,
Mass.; member of the board of overseers of Harvard University
1868-1882; died in Concord, Mass., January 31, 1895; interment in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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HODGES, Asa, (1822 - 1900)
HODGES, Asa, a Representative from Arkansas; born near Moulton,
Lawrence County, Ala., January 22, 1822; moved to Marion, Ark.;
attended La Grange College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1848 and practiced until 1860; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1867; served in the State house of representatives in
1868; member of the State senate 1870-1873; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; engaged
in agricultural pursuits; died near Marion, Ark., June 6, 1900;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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HOSKINS, George Gilbert, (1824 - 1893)
HOSKINS, George Gilbert, a Representative from New York; born in
Bennington, N.Y., December 24, 1824; completed preparatory studies;
engaged in mercantile pursuits; for a number of years town clerk of
Bennington and justice of the peace; postmaster of Bennington, N.Y.,
1849-1853 and 1861-1866; member of the State assembly in 1860, 1865,
and 1866, and served as speaker in 1865; removed to Attica, N.Y., in
1867; commissioner of public accounts 1868-1870; appointed collector of
internal revenue for the twenty-ninth district of New York May 1, 1871,
and served until March 4, 1873; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth
Congress; Lieutenant Governor of New York 1880-1883; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1880; died in Attica, N.Y., June 12,
1893; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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HOWE, Albert Richards, (1840 - 1884)
HOWE, Albert Richards, a Representative from Mississippi; born in
Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass., January 1, 1840; pursued classical
studies; enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 as a private in the
Forty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was
promoted through the ranks to major until his discharge on November 30,
1865; settled in Como, Panola County, Miss., in 1865 and engaged in
cotton planting; member of the Mississippi constitutional convention in
1868; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868; appointed
treasurer of Panola County in 1869; member of the State house of
representatives 1870-1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; moved to Illinois in
1875 and engaged in the brokerage business in Chicago, where he died
June 1, 1884; interment in Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Mass.
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HUBBELL, Jay Abel, (1829 - 1900)
HUBBELL, Jay Abel, a Representative from Michigan; born in Avon, Mich.,
September 15, 1829; attended the district schools; was graduated from
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1853; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1855; moved to Ontonagon, Mich., in November
1855 and engaged in the practice of law; elected district attorney of
the Upper Peninsula in 1857 and 1859; moved to Houghton, Mich., in
February 1860 and continued the practice of law until 1870; prosecuting
attorney of Houghton County 1861-1867; 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 as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-seventh
Congress); member of the State senate 1885-1887; served as circuit
judge of the twelfth judicial circuit from January 1, 1894, to December
31, 1899, when he resigned; died in Houghton, Mich., October 13, 1900;
interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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HUNTON, Eppa, (1822 - 1908)
HUNTON, Eppa, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born near
Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va., September 22, 1822; attended New
Baltimore Academy; taught school three years; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Brentsville, Va.; served as
colonel, and later general, in the Virginia militia; Commonwealth
attorney for Prince William County 1849-1861; member of the Virginia
convention at Richmond in February 1861 and advocated secession;
entered the Confederate Army as colonel of the Eighth Regiment,
Virginia Infantry; promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of
Gettysburg and served through the remainder of the Civil War; resumed
the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1880; chairman, Committee on
Revolutionary Pensions (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on the
District of Columbia (Forty-sixth Congress); appointed a member of the
Electoral Commission created by act of Congress in 1877 to decide the
contests in various States in the presidential election of 1876;
resumed the practice of law; appointed and subsequently elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John S. Barbour and served from May 28, 1892, to March 3,
1895; was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed the
practice of law in Warrenton, Va.; died in Richmond, Va., October 11,
1908; interment in Hollywood Cemetery.
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HURLBUT, Stephen Augustus, (1815 - 1882)
HURLBUT, Stephen Augustus, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Charleston, S.C., November 29, 1815, completed preparatory studies;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and practiced; served as
adjutant of a South Carolina regiment in the Florida War; moved to
Belvidere, Ill., in 1845; Whig delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1847; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848 and
on the Republican ticket in 1868; member of the State house of
representatives in 1859, 1861, and 1867; served in the Union Army
1861-1865; appointed brigadier general of Volunteers May 17, 1861, and
major general September 17, 1862; mustered out June 20, 1865; one of
the founders of the Grand Army of the Republic and served as commander
in chief 1866-1868; Minister Resident to the United States of Colombia
1869-1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection as an independent Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress in
1876; appointed Minister to Peru in 1881 and served until his death in
Lima, Peru, March 27, 1882; interment in Belvidere Cemetery, Belvidere,
Ill.
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HYDE, Ira Barnes, (1838 - 1926)
HYDE, Ira Barnes, a Representative from Missouri; born near Guilford,
Chenango County, N.Y., January 18, 1838; attended the public schools
and the Norwich Academy; when fifteen years of age moved with his
parents to East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and later entered
Oberlin (Ohio) College; studied law; was admitted to the bar by the
Minnesota Supreme Court in 1861 and commenced practice in St. Paul,
Minn., in 1862; during the Civil War served in the Union Army; enlisted
as a private in Company F, First Regiment of Minnesota Mounted Rangers,
and served until the regiment was mustered out; also served in the
campaigns against the Sioux Indians along the northwestern frontier;
moved to Washington, D.C., in 1865 and resumed the practice of law;
moved to Princeton, Mo., in 1866; appointed prosecuting attorney of
Mercer County in 1872; delegate to many State conventions; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth
Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884;
resumed the practice of law in Princeton, Mo.; also engaged in banking;
died in Princeton, Mo., December 6, 1926; interment in Princeton
Cemetery.
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HYNES, William Joseph, (1843 - 1915)
HYNES, William Joseph, a Representative from Arkansas; born in County
Clare, Ireland, March 31, 1843; immigrated to the United States in 1854
and settled in New York; attended the public schools of Massachusetts;
learned the art of printing; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1870 and commenced practice in Little Rock, Ark.; elected as a Liberal
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth
Congress; moved to Chicago in 1876 and resumed the practice of his
profession; retired from the practice of law in 1910 and moved to Los
Angeles, Calif., where he remained until his death, April 2, 1915;
interment in Calvary vault.H
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INGALLS, John James, (1833 - 1900)
INGALLS, John James, a Senator from Kansas; born in Middleton, Essex
County, Mass., December 29, 1833; attended the public schools in
Haverhill, Mass., and was privately tutored; graduated from Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1857; moved to Kansas in 1858; member of the State constitutional
convention 1859; secretary of the Territorial Council 1860; secretary
of the State senate 1861; during the Civil War served as judge advocate
of the Kansas Volunteers; member, State senate 1862; unsuccessful
candidate for lieutenant governor of Kansas in 1862 and 1864; edited
the Atchison Champion 1863-1865 and aided in founding the Kansas
Magazine; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1872;
reelected in 1879 and again in 1885 and served from March 4, 1873, to
March 3, 1891; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1890; chairman, Committee on Pensions
(Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on the District of
Columbia (Forty-seventh through Fifty-first Congresses); devoted his
time to journalism, literature, and farming until his death in East Las
Vegas, N.Mex., August 16, 1900; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery,
Atchison, Kans.
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JEWETT, Hugh Judge, (1817 - 1898)
JEWETT, Hugh Judge, (brother of Joshua Husband Jewett), a
Representative from Ohio; born at Deer Creek, near Darlington, Md., on
July 1, 1817; completed preparatory studies and attended Hopewell
Academy, Chester County, Pa.; studied law in Elkton, Cecil County, Md.;
was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in St.
Clairsville, Ohio; moved to Columbus, Ohio, and thence to Zanesville,
Ohio, in 1848; president of the branch State bank in 1852; United
States attorney for the southern district of Ohio in 1854; member of
the state senate in 1853; member of the State house of representatives
in 1855; president of the Central Ohio Railroad Co. in 1857; organized
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Co.; one of the
organizers of the Pennsylvania Railroad; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1861 and for United States Senator in
1863; member of the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869;
general counsel of the Pennsylvania Railway system in 1871; elected as
a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873,
until June 23, 1874, when he resigned to become president of the Erie
Railroad Co.; retired from public life and resided in New York City;
died while on a visit in Augusta, Ga., March 6, 1898; interment in
Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio.
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JONES, John Percival, (1829 - 1912)
JONES, John Percival, a Senator from Nevada; born at 'The Hay,'
Herefordshire, England, January 27, 1829; immigrated the same year to
the United States with his parents, who settled in the northern part of
Ohio; attended the public schools in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to
California and engaged in mining and farming in Trinity County; sheriff
of the county; member, State senate 1863-1867; moved to Gold Hill,
Nev., in 1868; engaged in mining; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1873; reelected in 1879, 1885, 1891, and 1897 and
served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1903; declined to be a candidate
for reelection; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent
Expenses (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and Forty-seventh
through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Epidemic Diseases
(Fifty-third through Fifty-seventh Congresses); resumed his former
business activities; retired to his home in Santa Monica, Calif.; died
in Los Angeles, Calif., November 27, 1912; interment in Laurel Hill
Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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KNAPP, Robert McCarty, (1831 - 1889)
KNAPP, Robert McCarty, (brother of Anthony Lausett Knapp), a
Representative from Illinois; born in New York City April 21, 1831;
moved with his parents to Jerseyville, Ill., in 1839; attended the
common schools and the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Ky.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in
Jerseyville; member of the State house of representatives in 1867;
mayor of Jerseyville 1871-1876; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress
(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); again an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died in Jerseyville,
Jersey County, Ill., June 24, 1889; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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LAWRENCE, Effingham, (1820 - 1878)
LAWRENCE, Effingham, (cousin of Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence), a
Representative from Louisiana; born in Bayside, near Flushing, Long
Island, N.Y., March 2, 1820; attended schools in Bayside and Flushing;
moved to Louisiana about 1843; engaged in planting and the refining of
sugar; member of the State house of representatives; successfully
contested as a Democrat the election of Jacob Hale Sypher to the
Forty-third Congress and took his seat on March 3, 1875, the last day
of the session; resumed agricultural pursuits; died on Magnolia
plantation, Plaquemines Parish, La., December 9, 1878; interment in
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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LAWSON, John Daniel, (1816 - 1896)
LAWSON, John Daniel, a Representative from New York; born in
Montgomery, Orange County, N.Y., February 18, 1816; attended the public
schools; moved to New York City and was employed as a clerk in a
dry-goods store; later, in 1843, engaged in mercantile pursuits;
delegate to every Republican State, county, and district convention for
thirty years; delegate to every Republican National Convention from
1868 to 1892; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection;
resumed his former business pursuits; died in New York City January 24,
1896; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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LEWIS, Barbour, (1818 - 1893)
LEWIS, Barbour, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Alburg, Vt.,
January 5, 1818; attended the common schools; was graduated from
Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1846; taught school in Mobile,
Ala.; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University; was
admitted to the bar and practiced; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1860; enlisted in the Union Army August 1, 1861, and
served as captain of Company G, First Missouri Volunteers; appointed by
the military authorities judge of the civil commission court at
Memphis, Tenn., in 1863; discharged from the service November 15, 1864;
president of the commissioners of Shelby County, Tenn., 1867-1869;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to
the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Memphis,
Tenn.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1878; appointed to the United States
land office at Salt Lake City, Utah; resigned this position in 1879 and
moved to Whitman County, Territory of Washington, where he engaged in
agricultural pursuits and stock raising; died in Colfax, Wash., July
15, 1893; interment in Colfax Cemetery.
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LOFLAND, James Rush, (1823 - 1894)
LOFLAND, James Rush, a Representative from Delaware; born in Milford,
Del., November 2, 1823; received a classical education and was
graduated from Delaware College (now the University of Delaware) at
Newark in 1845; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and
commenced practice in Milford; secretary of the State senate in 1849;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1853; secretary of
state of Delaware 1855-1859; paymaster in the United States Army
1863-1867; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to
the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in
Milford, Kent County, Del., on February 10, 1894; interment in the Odd
Fellows Cemetery.
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LOWNDES, Lloyd, Jr., (1845 - 1905)
LOWNDES, Lloyd, Jr., a Representative from Maryland; born in
Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 21,
1845; attended the common schools; was graduated from Allegheny
College, Meadville, Pa., in 1865 and from the law department of the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1867; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Cumberland, Md.; elected as a Republican
to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; engaged
in banking; Governor of Maryland 1895-1899; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1898; died in Cumberland, Md., January 8, 1905; interment
in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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LUTTRELL, John King, (1831 - 1893)
LUTTRELL, John King, a Representative from California; born near
Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., June 27, 1831; attended the common
schools; moved with his parents to a farm in Alabama in 1844; moved to
Missouri in 1845 with his parents, who settled on a farm near St.
Joseph; moved to California in 1852 and engaged in mining; settled in
Yolo County and engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Prairie City
(later Folsom) in 1853, to El Dorado County in 1854 and thence to
Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, and to Alameda County; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Oakland in 1856; justice
of the peace in Brooklyn (now a part of Oakland) in 1856 and 1857;
moved to Siskiyou County in 1858 and purchased a ranch near Fort Jones;
engaged in agricultural pursuits, mining, and the practice of law;
sergeant at arms of the State assembly in 1865 and 1866; member of the
State house of representatives in 1871 and 1872; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate for reelection; resumed
the practice of law, farming, and mining; member of the board of State
prison directors, 1887-1889; appointed United States Commissioner of
Fisheries and special agent of the United States Treasury for Alaska in
1893; died in Sitka, Alaska, on October 4, 1893; interment in Fort
Jones Cemetery, Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, Calif.
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LYNCH, John Roy, (1847 - 1939)
LYNCH, John Roy, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Vidalia,
Concordia Parish, La., September 10, 1847; after his father's death
moved with his mother to Natchez, Miss., in 1863, where they were held
as slaves; after emancipation engaged in photography and attended
evening school; appointed by Governor Ames as a justice of the peace in
1869; member of the State house of representatives 1869-1873 and served
the last term as speaker; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1872, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1900; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to
the Forty-fifth Congress; successfully contested the election of James
R. Chalmers to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from April 29,
1882, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882
to the Forty-eighth Congress; returned to his plantation in Adams
County, Miss., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; chairman of the
Republican State executive committee 1881-1889; member of the
Republican National Committee for the State of Mississippi 1884-1889;
temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in
1884; Fourth Auditor of the Treasury for the Navy Department under
President Harrison 1889-1893; studied law; was admitted to the
Mississippi bar in 1896; returned to Washington, D.C., in 1897, where
he practiced his profession until 1898, when he was appointed a major
and additional paymaster of Volunteers during the Spanish-American War
by President William McKinley; was appointed by President McKinley as a
paymaster in the Regular Army with the rank of captain in 1901; was
promoted to major in 1906; retired from the Regular Army in 1911; moved
to Chicago, Ill., in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession
until his death in that city on November 2, 1939; interment in
Arlington National Cemetery.
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MacDOUGALL, Clinton Dugald, (1839 - 1914)
MacDOUGALL, Clinton Dugald, a Representative from New York; born near
Glasgow, Scotland, June 14, 1839; immigrated to Canada in 1842 with his
parents, who later settled in Auburn, N.Y.; pursued an academic course;
studied law; engaged in banking 1856-1869; commissioned captain in the
Seventy-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, September 16,
1861; lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, New
York Volunteer Infantry, August 20, 1862; colonel January 3, 1863;
brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers February 25, 1865; honorably
mustered out June 4, 1865; appointed postmaster of Auburn, N.Y., in
1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1876; served as United States marshal of the northern
judicial district of New York 1877-1885 and 1901-1910; died in Paris,
France, May 24, 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
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MAGEE, John Alexander, (1827 - 1903)
MAGEE, John Alexander, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Landisburg, Perry County, Pa., October 14, 1827; attended the common
schools and was graduated from New Bloomfield Academy; engaged in the
printing business and for a number of years published the Perry County
Democrat; member of the State house of representatives in 1863;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868, 1876, and 1896;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1875); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1874 to the
Forty-fourth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in
New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa., November 18, 1903; interment in
Bloomfield Cemetery.
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MAGINNIS, Martin, (1841 - 1919)
MAGINNIS, Martin, a Delegate from the Territory of Montana; born near
Pultneyville, Wayne County, N.Y., October 27, 1841; moved with his
parents to Minnesota in 1852; pursued an academic course; attended
Hamline University, but left to take charge of a Democratic newspaper;
enlisted as a private in the First Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer
Infantry, April 18, 1861; promoted to first lieutenant in September
1862 and to captain in July 1863; appointed major of the Eleventh
Minnesota Volunteers in September 1864 and ordered to join the Army of
the Cumberland, where he served under the command of General Thomas
until mustered out with his regiment in July 1865; moved to Helena,
Mont., in 1866; engaged in mining and subsequently in publishing and
editing the Helena Daily Gazette; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March
3, 1885); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1890 to the
Fifty-first Congress; presented credentials on May 25, 1900, as a
Senator-designate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
William A. Clark, but was not seated; State commissioner of mineral
land 1890-1893; died in Los Angeles, Calif., March 27, 1919; interment
in Resurrection Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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MARTIN, James Stewart, (1826 - 1907)
MARTIN, James Stewart, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Estillville (now Gate City), Scott County, Va., August 19, 1826;
attended the common schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.;
moved to Salem, Marion County, Ill., in 1846; served during the Mexican
War in Company C, First Regiment of Illinois Volunteers; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Salem, Ill.;
clerk of Marion County Court; during the Civil War served in the Union
Army; commissioned colonel of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment,
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 18, 1862; brevetted brigadier
general of Volunteers February 26, 1865; honorably mustered out June 7,
1865; judge of Marion County Court; appointed by President Grant as
United States pension agent April 13, 1869; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; commissioner of the Southern Illinois
Penitentiary at Menard in 1879; died in Salem, Ill., November 20, 1907;
interment in East Lawn Cemetery.
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McDILL, Alexander Stuart, (1822 - 1875)
McDILL, Alexander Stuart, a Representative from Wisconsin; born near
Meadville, Crawford County, Pa., on March 18, 1822; attended Allegheny
College; was graduated from Cleveland Medical College in 1848 and
practiced medicine in Crawford County, Pa., 1848-1856; moved to Plover,
Portage County, Wis., in 1856; member of the State assembly in 1862;
member of the board of managers of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the
Insane 1862-1868; served in the State senate in 1863 and 1864; medical
superintendent of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane 1868-1873
and in 1875; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March
4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the
Forty-fourth Congress; died near Madison, Wis., November 12, 1875;
interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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McDILL, James Wilson, (1834 - 1894)
McDILL, James Wilson, a Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in
Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, March 4, 1834; attended the common
schools, Hanover College, and Salem Academy; graduated from Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853; studied law in Columbus, Ohio, and
was admitted to the bar in 1856; moved to Afton, Iowa, and commenced
practice; elected superintendent of Union County, Iowa, in 1859;
elected county judge of Union County in 1860; clerk in the office of
the Third Auditor of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1862-1865, when he
resigned and returned to Iowa; circuit judge and then district judge of
the third judicial circuit of Iowa; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed the
practice of law in Afton, Iowa; member of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners of the State of Iowa 1878-1881, 1883-1885; appointed and
subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel J. Kirkwood and
served from March 8, 1881, until March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for
reelection; appointed by President Benjamin Harrison a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission and served from 1892, until his death in
Creston, Iowa, February 28, 1894; interment in Graceland Cemetery.
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McFADDEN, Obadiah Benton, (1815 - 1875)
McFADDEN, Obadiah Benton, a Delegate from the Territory of Washington;
born in West Middletown, Washington County, Pa., November 18, 1815;
attended the public schools and McKeever Academy, West Middletown, Pa.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice;
member of the State house of representatives in 1843; elected
prothonotary of Washington County; appointed associate justice of the
supreme court of the Territory of Oregon in 1853 and of the Territory
of Washington in 1854 and served as chief justice of the latter from
1858 to 1861; member of the legislative council and chosen its
president in 1861; resumed the practice of law in Olympia, Wash., and
also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1874; died in Olympia, Wash., June 25, 1875;
interment in the Masonic Cemetery.
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McLEAN, William Pinkney, (1836 - 1925)
McLEAN, William Pinkney, a Representative from Texas; born in Copiah
County, Miss., August 9, 1836; moved with his mother to Marshall, Tex.,
in 1839; attended private schools and was graduated from the law
department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1857;
was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced the practice of his
profession at Jefferson, Marion County, Tex.; member of the State house
of representatives in 1861; resigned to enter the Confederate Army as a
private; was promoted to captain and then major, and served throughout
the Civil War; again a member of the State house of representatives in
1869; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874;
resumed the practice of law in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Tex.;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1875; elected judge of
the fifth judicial district in 1884; declined to be a candidate for
reelection; appointed by Governor Hogg a member of the first State
railroad commission in 1891; resigned and moved to Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., in 1893; resumed the practice of his profession; died in
Fort Worth on March 13, 1925; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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McNULTA, John, (1837 - 1900)
McNULTA, John, a Representative from Illinois; born in New York City
November 9, 1837; pursued an academic course; visited the West Indies
and Europe; moved to Attica, Fountain County, Ind., in 1853 and to
Bloomington, Ill., in 1859; engaged in the manufacture of cigars;
studied law; during the Civil War served in the Union Army with the
First Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry and the Ninety-fourth
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry; was admitted to the bar in 1865
and commenced the practice of law in Bloomington, Ill.; member of the
State senate 1869-1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice
of law; died in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1900; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
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MELLISH, David Batcheller, (1831 - 1874)
MELLISH, David Batcheller, a Representative from New York; born in
Oxford, Worcester County, Mass., January 2, 1831; attended the public
schools; became a printer in Worcester; taught school in Massachusetts,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania; proofreader in New York City; reporter on
the New York Tribune; stenographer to the police board of New York City
for ten years; appointed assistant appraiser of merchandise for the
port of New York in 1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in Washington,
D.C., on May 23, 1874; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Auburn, Mass.
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MERRIMON, Augustus Summerfield, (1830 - 1892)
MERRIMON, Augustus Summerfield, (father-in-law of Lee Slater Overman),
a Senator from North Carolina; born at "Cherryfields," near
Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., September 15, 1830; received a
limited education; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852 and
commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.; prosecuting attorney of Buncombe
and other counties in western North Carolina; member, State house of
commons 1860-1861; entered the Confederate Army upon the outbreak of
the Civil War as a captain; resigned in the fall of 1861 to become
solicitor for the eighth judicial district of North Carolina 1861-1865;
judge of the superior court 1866-1867; settled in Raleigh, N.C., in
1867 and resumed the practice of law; declined to be a candidate for
Governor of North Carolina in 1868; unsuccessful candidate for
associate justice of the State supreme court in 1868; unsuccessful
candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1872; elected as a Democrat
to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3,
1879; was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the
practice of law at Raleigh, N.C.; associate judge of the supreme court
of North Carolina 1883-1889; served as chief justice of the court from
1889 until his death in Raleigh, N.C., November 14, 1892; interment in
Oakwood Cemetery.
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MILLIKEN, Charles William, (1827 - 1915)
MILLIKEN, Charles William, a Representative from Kentucky; born near
Murray, Calloway County, Ky., August 15, 1827; moved with his parents
to Simpson County, Ky., in 1829 and settled near Franklin; pursued
preparatory studies, and was graduated from Wirt College, Sumner
County, Tenn., in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850
and commenced practice in Franklin, Ky.; prosecuting attorney of
Simpson County 1857-1862; Commonwealth attorney of the fourth judicial
district of Kentucky from 1867 until his resignation on February 24,
1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Public
Expenditures (Forty-fourth Congress); declined to be a candidate for
reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of
law; referee in bankruptcy for the Bowling Green (Ky.) district and
served from September 28, 1907, until his death in Franklin, Simpson
County, Ky., October 16, 1915; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery.
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MILLS, Roger Quarles, (1832 - 1911)
MILLS, Roger Quarles, a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born
in Todd County, Ky., March 30, 1832; attended the common schools; moved
to Texas in 1849; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1852 and
commenced practice in Corsicana, Tex.; member, State house of
representatives 1859-1860; enlisted in the Confederate Army and served
throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel of the Tenth
Regiment, Texas Infantry; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and
to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1873, until
his resignation on March 28, 1892, having been elected Senator;
chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Fifty-second Congress); elected to the
United States Senate in 1892 to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of John H. Reagan; reelected in 1893 and served from March
23, 1892, to March 3, 1899; was not a candidate for reelection; died in
Corsicana, Tex., September 2, 1911; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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MITCHELL, John Hipple, (1835 - 1905)
MITCHELL, John Hipple, a Senator from Oregon; born John Mitchell Hipple
in Washington County, Pa., June 22, 1835; moved with his parents to
Butler County, Pa., in 1837; attended public and private schools and
Witherspoon Institute; taught school; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1857 and practiced; moved to California and then to Portland, Oreg.,
in 1860; practiced law in Portland under the name of John Hipple
Mitchell; corporation attorney of Portland 1861; member, State senate
1862-1866, serving the last two years as president; unsuccessful
candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1866; elected as
a Republican in 1872 to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; after his election, opponents tried to
prevent his seating, charging him with bigamy, desertion, and living
under an assumed name, but a Senate committee decided the charges did
not merit investigation; chairman, Committee on Railroads (Forty-fifth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States
Senate in 1882; again elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate on November 18, 1885, for the term beginning March 4, 1885;
reelected in 1891 and served from December 17, 1885, until March 3,
1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on
Railroads (Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on
Claims (Fifty-second Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elections
(Fifty-fourth Congress); resumed the practice of law; again elected as
a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901,
until his death in Portland, Oreg., December 8, 1905; chairman,
Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Fifty-eighth Congress);
at the time of his death, had been indicted and convicted of having
received fees for expediting the land claims of clients before the
United States Land Commissioner and an appeal was pending; interment in
Riverview Cemetery.
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MOORE, William Sutton, (1822 - 1877)
MOORE, William Sutton, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near
Amity, Amwell Township, Washington County, Pa., November 18, 1822;
attended the rural schools, and was graduated from Washington (now
Washington and Jefferson) College, Washington, Pa., in 1847; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in November 1848 and commenced practice in
Washington, Pa.; prothonotary of Washington County 1854-1857; delegate
to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1856; also
engaged in the newspaper business as editor and part owner of the
Reporter in 1857; treasurer of Washington County 1863-1866; elected as
a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; died in Washington, Pa.,
December 30, 1877; interment in Washington Cemetery.