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Private Land Claims (Twenty-second Congress), Committee POLANCO-ABREU, Santiago, a Resident Commissioner on Public Lands (Twenty-third Congress);moved to Ken-from Puerto Rico; born in Bayamón, P.R., October 30,1920; tucky and resumed the practice of his profession in Lexing-attended elementary and high schools in Isabela, P.R.;Uni- ton; returned to Jackson, Miss., and continued the practiceversity of Puerto Rico, B.A., 1941, and LL.B., 1943; wasad- of law until his death on September 5, 1853; interment inmitted to the bar in 1943 and practiced law in Isabela and Jackson Cemetery. San Juan; legal adviser to the Tax Court of Puerto Rico, Bibliography: DAB; Smith, Suanna. "George Poindexter: A Political Bi- 1943-1944; member of the American Bar and Puerto Rico ography."Ph.D.dissertation,University of Southern ,1980; Bar Associations; one of the founders of the Institute for Swearingen, Mack. The Early Life of George Poindexter. : Democratic Studies in San José, Costa Rica; served in the Press, 1934. House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, POINDEXTER, Miles, a Representative and a Senator1949-1964; member of the Constitutional Convention of from Washington; born in Memphis, Tenn., April 22, 1868;Puerto Rico in 1951-1952; appointed speaker of the house, attended the Fancy Hill Academy, Rockbridge County, Va.,1963-1964; elected as a Popular Democrat to be Resident and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., grad-Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the Congress, uating in law from that university in 1891; settled in WallaNovember 3, 1964, for the term ending January 3, 1969; Walla, Wash., in 1891; was admitted to the bar and beganunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; resumed the the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Walla Wallapractice of law; was a resident of San Juan, P.R., until his County in 1892; moved to Spokane, Wash., in 1897 and con-death there on January 18, 1988; interment inMunicipal tinued the practice of law; assistant prosecuting attorney forCemetery, Isabela, P.R. Spokane County 1898-1904; judge of the superior court 1904- POLAND, Luke Potter, a Senator and a Representative 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congressfrom ; born in Westford, Vt., November 1, 1815; (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911); elected to the United Statesattended the common schools and Jericho Academy; taught Senate in 1910; reelected in 1916 and served from March 4, December 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in in 1922; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Interi-1836 and practiced in Morrisville, Vt.; register of probate Mines1839-1840; member of the State constitutional convention in or Department (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on 1844-1845; and Mining (Sixty-second, Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con-1843; prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County gresses), Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Ricojudge of the supreme court of Vermont 1848-1860, chief (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures in thejustice 1860-1865; when he resigned; appointedand subse- War Department (Sixty-thirdCongress), Committee onquently elected as a Republican to the Indian Depredations (Sixty-fifth Congress); appointed byto fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJacob Collamer President Warren Harding as Ambassador to Peru 1923-and served from November 21, 1865, to March 3, 1867; elect- 1928; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate ined to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses 1928; returned to his home, "Elk Cliff," Greenlee, Rock-(March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); unsuccessfulcandidate for bridge County, Va., where he died September 21, 1946; inter-reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress; chairman, Commit- ment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Lexington, Va. tee on Revisal and Unfinished Business(Fortieth Congress), Bibliography: DAB; Allen, Howard. Poindexter of Washington: A Study Committee on Revision of the Laws (Fortieth, Forty-firstand inProgressive Politics.Carbondale: SouthernIllinoisUniversityPress, Forty-third Congresses); member, of the Vermont houseof 1981. representatives 1878; trustee of the University of Vermont at Burlington and of the State AgriculturalCollege; presi- POINSETT, Joel Roberts, a Representative from South for twenty Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 2, 1779; spent hisdent of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury years; elected as a Republican tothe Forty-eighth Congress early childhood in England; returned to America in 1788;(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not a candidatefor attended private school at Greenfield Hill, Conn., and later Waterville, in Wandsworth, near London, England; studied medicine atrenomination; died at his country home near the , Scotland, and attended theLamoille County, Vt., July 2,1887; interment in Mount military school in Woolwich, England; returned to Charles-Pleasant Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, Vt. ton, S.C., in 1800; studied law for a few months; traveled Bibliography: DAB. extensively in Europe from 1801 to 1809, returning to the POLK, Albert Fawcett, a Representative from ; United States for short intervals; sent to byborn in Frederica, Kent County, Del., October 11,1869; at- President Madison in 1809 to investigate the prospects of thetended public and private schools; was graduated fromDela- revolutionists there in their struggle for independence fromware College (now the University ofDelaware), Newark, Spain; returned to Charleston, S.C., in 1816; member of theDel., in 1889; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1892 State house of representatives 1816-1819; served as presidentand began practice in Georgetown, Del.; attorneyfor the of the board of public works; declined the offer of commis-Delaware State senate in 1899; chairman of the Democratic sioner to South America by President Monroe; elected to thecounty committee of Sussex County 1902-1908,1915, and Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses and1916; also a member of the Democratic State committee served from March 4, 1821, to March 7, 1825, when heduring the same periods; member of the GeorgetownBoard resigned to enter the diplomatic service; Minister to Mexicoof Education 1905-1912; member and secretary ofthe Board 1825-1829; member of the State house of representatives,of Law Examiners of Sussex County 19 14-1921; elected as a 1830-1831; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President VanDemocrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4,1917-March Buren 1837-184 1; died near what is now Statesburg, Sumter3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin 1918 County, S.C., December 12, 1851; interment in the Church ofto the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed thepractice of law; the Holy Cross (Episcopal) Cemetery. moved to Wilmington, Del., in 1921 and continued the prac- Bibliography: DAB; Hruneni, George A., Jr."Palmetto Yankee Thetice of his profession; appointed United StatesCommissioner Public Life and Times of Joel Roberts Poinsett: 1824-1851." Ph.D. disserta- until his tion, University of , Santa Barbara, 1972; Rippy, James Fred.for the district of Delaware in 1929 and served Versatile American. Durham, N.C.: puke University retirement in 1951; died in Wilmington, Del., on February Joel R. Poinsett, Del. Press, 1935. 14, 1955; interment in Union Cemetery, Georgetown, 1658 Biographical Directory

POLK, James Gould, a Representative from ; bornonYale College in 1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in a farm in Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio, October1835 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; city counsel- 6, 1896; attended elementary school in Highland, Ohio;grad-or of St. Louis 1843; delegate to the Missouri State constitu- uated from New (Ohio) High School in 1915;duringtional convention in 1845; presidential elector on the Demo- the First World War, while attending the AgriculturalCol- cratic ticket in 1848; inaugurated as Governor of Missouri in lege of Ohio State University was inducted into themilitary service on September 5, 1918, and sent to Camp Sherman,January 1857 but soon afterward resigned, having been Ohio; was discharged on September 19, 1918, dueto a physi-elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; served cal disability; graduated from Ohio State University in 1919;from March 4, 1857, to January 10, 1862, when hewas principal of New Vienna (Ohio) High School 19 19-1920;su-expelled for disloyalty; during the Civil War servedas colo- perintendent of schools, New Vienna, 1920-1922; engaged innel in the Confederate Army; judge in the military courts of farming; graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield,the department of Mississippi in 1864 and 1865, until taken Ohio, in 1923; principal of Hillsboro (Ohio) High Schoolprisoner; resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., and 1923-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-secondanddied there April 16, 1876; interment in Bellefontaine Ceme- to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, l931-January 3,tery. 1941); was not a candidate for renomination in 1940;special Bibliography: DAB. assistant in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, POLK, William Hawkins (brother of James Knox Polk), a D.C., from October 1942 to May 1946; electedas a DemocratRepresentative from ; born in Maury County, to the Eighty-first and to the five succeeding CongressesandTenn., May 24, 1815; attended the city schools, Columbia, served from January 3, 1949, until his death in Washington,Tenn., and the University of at Chapel Hill D.C., April 28, 1959; interment in Highland Cemetery,High- land, Ohio. in 1832 and 1833; was graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; studied law; was admitted to the bar POLK, James Knox (brother of William HawkinsPolk), ain1839 and commenced practice in Columbia,Tenn.; Representative from Tennessee and 11th Presidentof themember of the State house of representatives 1842-1845; United States; born near Little Sugar Creek,MecklenburgMinister to the Kingdom of Naples and served from March County, N.C., November 2, 1795; moved to Tennesseein 180613, 1845, to August 31, 1847; served as major of the Third with his parents, who settled in what later becameMauryDragoons in the Mexican War in 1847 and 1848; electedas County; attended the common schools andwas tutored pri- an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress vately; was graduated from the University of NorthCarolina(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); resumed the practice of law; at Chapel Hill in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bardied in Nashville, Tenn., December 16, 1862; interment in in 1820 and commenced practice in Columbia,Tenn.; chiefGreenwood Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn. clerk of the State senate 182 1-1823; memberof the State Bibliography: Bergeron, Paul H. "My Brother's Keeper: William H. Polk house of representatives 1823-1825; electedto the' Nine- Goes to School." North Carolina Historical Review 44 (Spring 1967): 188- teenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonianto the Twentieth 204. through Twenty-fourth Congresses andas a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1825-March3, 1839); chair- POLLARD, Ernest Mark, a Representative from Nebras- man, Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-third Con-ka; born in Nehawka, Cass County, Nebr., April 15, 1869; attended the district school in Nehawka and was graduated gress); Speaker of the House of Representatives(Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses); didnot seek renomina-from Nebraska State University at Lincoln in 1893; engaged tion in 1838 having becomea candidate for Governor; Gover- in agricultural pursuits near Nehawka, Nebr.; member of nor of Tennessee 1839-1841; elected as a Democrat Presidentthe State house of representatives 1896-1899; president of of the United States in 1844;was inaugurated on March 4,the Nebraska Republican League in 1900; elected asa Re- 1845, and served until March 3, 1849; declinedto be a candi-publican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy date for renomination; died in Nashville, Tenn.,June 15,caused by the resignation of Elmer J. Burkett; reelected to 1849; interment within the grounds of theState capitol.the Sixtieth Congress and served from July 18, 1905, to Bibliography: DAB; Polk, James Knox. Correspondence of JamesK. Polk. March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 6 vols. Edited by Herbert Weaver, Paul H. Bergeron,and Wayne Cutler. to the Sixty-first Congress; delegate to the Republican Na- Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969; Sellers, CharlesG., Jr. James tional Convention in 1912; member of the State constitution- K. Polk. 2 vols. Princeton: Press, 1957-1966. al convention in 1920 and 1921; resumed agricultural pur- POLK, Rufus King, a Representative fromPennsylvania;suits; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1929; appointed secretary born in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., August23, 1866;of the State department of welfare and labor by Governor attended Webb's Academy, Culleoka, Tenn.;was graduatedWeaver in January 1929 and served until January 1931; died from Lehigh University, South Bethlehem,Pa., in 1887 andin Lincoln, Nebr., on September 24, 1939; interment in took a post-graduate course in mining engineering;settled inMount Pleasant Cemetery, Nehawka, Nebr. Danville, Montour County, Pa., and was employed as a POLLARD, Henry Moses, a Representative from Missou- chemist; held supervisory positions with severalsteel compa- nies and ultimately became engaged in the ri; born in Plymouth, Windsor County, Vt., June 14, 1836; manufacture ofattended the common schools; was graduated from Dart- structural iron; served as first lieutenant of CompanyF, Twelfth Regiment, VolunteerInfantry, in themouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1857; moved to Milwaukee, Spanish-American War; delegate to the DemocraticNationalWis., where he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861; Convention in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixthreturned to Vermont and served during the Civil War in the and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served fromMarch 4, as major in the Eighth Regiment, Vermont 1899, until his death in , Pa.,March 5, 1902;Volunteers; moved to Chillicothe, Mo., in 1865 andcom- interment in Fairview Cemetery, Danville, Pa. menced the practice of law; mayor in 1874; county attorney in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress POLK, Trusten, a Senator from Missouri; bornnear Brid-(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for geville, Sussex County, Del., May 29, 1811;attended thereelection to the Forty-sixth Congress; moved to St. Louis, common schools and a private academy; graduated fromMo., in 1879 and continued the practice of law in that city Biographies 1659 until his death on February 24, 1904; interment in Edgewoodof Benjamin R. Tiliman and served from November 6,1918, Cemetery, Chillicothe, Mo. to March 3, 1919; chairman, Committee on NationalBanks (Sixty-fifthCongress); resumed the practiceof law in POLLOCK,Howard Wallace, a Representative fromCheraw, S.C., and died there June 2, 1922; interment in St. Alaska; born in Chicago, Ill., April 11, 1920; attended Perkin-David's Cemetery. ston High School, Perkinston, Miss., 1935-1939; Junior Col- lege, Perkinston, Miss., 1939-1941; University of Santa Clara POLSLEY,Daniel Haymond, a Representative from West (Calif.) School of Law, 1952-1953; University of HoustonVirginia; born at Palatine, near Fairmont, Va. (now West (Tex.) School of Law, J.D., 1953-1955; postgraduate advanced ), November 28, 1803; attended the country schools; studies, Institute of Technology, Cambridge,completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to Mass., M.S., in industrial management; practicing attorney;the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Wellsburg, enlisted as a seaman in the in 1941, Brooke County, Va. (now West Virginia); edited the Western retired with rank of lieutenant commander in 1946; presi-Transcript 1833-1845; moved to Mason County in 1845 and dent, Alaska Gold and Other Products, Inc.; president,engaged in agricultural pursuits and practiced law; member Falcon Alaska Oil Co.; chairman of the board, Alaskan Sea-of the Wheeling loyal conventions of May 13 and June 11, foods,Inc.; Territorial representative, Alaska Territorial1861; chosen Lieutenant Governor of the "restored govern- Legislature, 1953-1955; Alaska State senator, 1961-1963 andment" of the State of Virginia in 1861; judge of the seventh 1965-1966; State senate minority whip, 1965-1966; member,judicial district of West Virginia 1863-1866; elected as a Alaska Republican State Central committee, 1960-1966; com-Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March mitteeman, Republican Southcentral District,1962-1966;3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; re- elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and Ninety-firstsumed the practice of his profession; died in Point Pleasant, Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); was not aMason County, W.Va., October 14, 1877; interment in Lone candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Con-Oak Cemetery. gress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination as Governor of Alaska; deputy administrator,National Oce- POMERENE,Atlee, a Senator from Ohio; born in Berlin, anic and Atmospheric Administration; delegate, United Na-Holmes County, Ohio, December 6,1863; attended the tions Law of the Sea Conference; served as president, Na-common schools and Vermillion Institute,Hayesville, Ohio; tional Rifle Association; is a resident of Arlington, Va. graduated from Princeton College in 1884 and from the Cin- cinnati Law School in 1886; was admitted to the bar in 1886 POLLOCK,James, a Representative from Pennsylvania;and commenced practice in Canton, Ohio; city solicitor1887- born in Milton, Pa., September 11, 1810; attended the Kirk-1891; prosecuting attorney of Stark County 1897-1900; Ohio patrick Private School at Milton; was graduated fromtax commissioner 1906-1908; unsuccessful candidatefor the Princeton College in 1831; studied law; was admitted to theDemocratic nomination for governor in 1908; elected lieuten- bar in Northumberland County, Pa., in 1833 and practicedant governor of Ohio in 1910 and served from Januaryuntil in Milton, Pa.; appointed deputy attorney general for North-April 1911, when he resigned to assume the duties ofUnited umberland County in 1836; judge of the court of commonStates Senator; elected as a Democrat to theUnited States pleas; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress to March 4, fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Frick; reelect-Senate in 1911; reelected in 1916 and served from 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate forreelection ed to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses and served Civil from April 5, 1844, to March 4, 1849; was not a candidate forin 1922 and again in 1926; chairman, Committee on renomination in 1848; appointed president judge of theService and Retrenchment (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourthCon- eighth judicial district on January 15, 1851, and served untilgresses), Committee on Privileges and Elections(Sixty-fifth the judgeship became an elective office; Governor of Penn-Congress), Committee on Corporations Organized in the Dis- sylvania 1855-1858; declined a renomination; member of thetrict of Columbia (Sixty-sixth Congress); moved toCleveland, peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in anOhio, in 1923 and resumed the practice of law; delegate effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; Direc-representing the United States at the Fifth Pan American tor of the Mint in Philadelphia 1861-1866 and 1869-1873;Congress in Chile in 1923; appointed by PresidentCalvin was the originator of the motto "In God we trust" for allCoolidge in 1924 as for the United States to coins of the United States large enough to contain the same;prosecute the Teapot Dome oil fraud cases; unsuccessful can- naval officer at Philadelphia in 1879; appointed chief super-didate for the Democratic nomination for President ofthe visor of election in 1886; died in Lock Haven, ClintonUnited States in 1928; appointed chairman of the Recon- County, Pa., April 19, 1890; interment in Milton Cemetery;struction Finance Corporation by President Milton, Pa. 1932-1933; resumed the practice of law in , Ohio; Bibliography: DAB. died in Cleveland, Ohio, November 12, 1937; interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio. POLLOCK,William Pegues, a Senator from South Caroli- Bibliography: DAB; Shriver, Philip. "The Making of a Moderate Pro- na; born near Cheraw, Chesterfield County, S.C., December gressive: ." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1954; 9, 1870; attended private and public schools and the Univer- Smith, Thomas. "The Senatorial Career of Atlee Pomerene of Ohio." Ph.D. sity of at Columbia; graduated from the law dissertation, Kent State University, 1966. department of that university in 1891; served as clerk of the Committee on the District of Columbia in the House of POMEROY,Charles, a Representative from ; born in Representatives 1891-1893; was admitted to the bar in 1893Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., September 3, 1825; re- and commenced practice in Cheraw, S.C.; also engaged inceived an academic education; studied law and practiced; agricultural pursuits; member, State house of representa-moved to Iowa in 1855 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; tives 1894-1898; presidential elector on the Democraticserved as receiver of the United States land office atFort Ticket in 1900; elected to the State house of representativesDodge, Iowa, from September 11, 1861, until March 3,1869, in 1902, 1904, and 1906; unsuccessful candidate for electionwhen he resigned; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first to the Sixty-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to theCongress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessfulcandi- United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathdate for renomination in 1870; was a claim agent until his 1660 Biographical Directory

death in Washington, D.C., February 11, 1891; intermentinCemetery, Elizabethtown, Essex County, N.Y., September 3, Oak Hill Cemetery. 1923. POMEROY, Samuel Clarke, a Senator from ; born POOL, Joe Richard, a Representative from ; born in in Southampton, Mass., January 3, 1816; attendedAmherstFort Worth, Tarrant County, Tex., February 18, 1911; at- College, Massachusetts, 1836-1838; moved to State tended the Dallas public schools and the University of in 1838 and taught school; returned to Southampton,Mass., Texas, 1929-1933; graduated from Southern Methodist Uni- in 1842; held various local offices; member, Statehouse ofversity School of Law, Dallas, Tex., in 1937; was admitted to representatives 1852-1853; organizer and financialagent ofthe Texas bar the same year and commenced the practice of the Emigrant Aid Co.; moved toKansas in 1854 and settled in Lawrence; moved to Atchison, law in Dallas, Tex.; served with the United States Armyas a Kans.;specialinvestigator,Air CorpsIntelligence,1943-1945; mayor of Atchison 1858-1859; member of the free Statecon- member of State house of representatives, 1953-1958; unsuc- vention at Lawrence in 1859; president of the relief commit-cessful candidate for the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958 and tee during the famine in Kansas in 1860 and 1861;upon the admission of Kansas as a State into the Union the Eighty-seventh Congress in 1960; elected as a Democrat was electedto the Eighty-eighth, Eighty-ninth, and Ninetieth Congress- as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected ines, and served from January 3, 1963, until his death in 1867 and served from April 4, 1861, to March 3, 1873;unsuc- cessful candidate for reelection in 1872; chairman, Commit-Houston, Tex., July 14, 1968; interment in Laurel Land Me- tee on Public Lands (Thirty-ninth through Forty-second Con-morial Park, Dallas, Tex. gresses); resided in Washington, D.C., for severalyears; died POOL, John (uncle of Walter Freshwater Pool), a Senator in Whitinsvjlle, Worcester County, Mass., August 27,1891; from North Carolina; born near Elizabeth City, Pasquotank interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, , Mass. County, N.C., June 16, 1826; was tutored at home and grad- Bibliography: DAB; Gambone, Joseph. "Samuel C. Pomeroyand theuated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Senatorial Election of 1861, Reconsidered." Kansas HistoricalQuarterly 37 in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and (Spring 1971): 15-32; Kitzhaber, Albert. "Gotterdammerung in Topeka:The Downfall of Senator Pomeroy." Kansas Historical Quarterly18 (August practiced in Elizabeth City, N.C., 1847-1856; also engaged in 1950): 243-78. agricultural pursuits; member, State senate 1856,1858, 1864-1865; unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor in POMEROY, Theodore Medad, a Representative fromNew1860; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865; York; born in Cayuga, N.Y., December 31, 1824;attended thepresented credentials dated December 29, 1865, as a Republi- common schools and Munro Collegiate Institute, Elbridge,can Senator-elect to the United States Senate on February 8, N.Y.; was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton,N.Y., 1866, but was not permitted to take his seat because the in 1842; studied law; was admitted to the barin 1846 andState had not been readmitted to representation; upon the commenced practice in Auburn, N.Y.; districtattorney ofreadmission of North Carolina was again elected to the Cayuga County 1850-1856; member of the Stateassembly inUnited States Senate and served from July 4, 1868, to March 1857; delegate to the Republican NationalConventions in3, 1873; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Com- 1860 and 1876, and servedas temporary chairman of themittee on Revolutionary Claims (Forty-second Congress); re- latter convention; elected as a Republicanto the Thirty- seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses sumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he (March 4,died August 16, 1884; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. 1861-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committeeon Expenditures Bibliography: DAB. in the Post Office Department (Thirty-eighthCongress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Thirty-ninthand For- POOL, Walter Freshwater (nephew of John Pool), a Rep- tieth Congresses); during the Fortieth Congresswas electedresentative from North Carolina; born at "Elm Grove," near Speaker of the House of Representativeson the last day ofElizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C., October 10, 1850; the session, March 3, 1869, servingone day only; declined toattended the public school conducted by his family and the be a candidate for renomination in 1868; firstvice presidentUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; moved with his and general counsel of the American ExpressCo. in 1868; parents to Elizabeth City, N.C., in 1870; studied law; was engaged in banking in Auburn, N.Y., after 1870;mayor ofadmitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Auburn in 1875 and 1876; member of the Statesenate inElizabeth City; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth 1878 and 1879; died in Auburn, N.Y., March 23,1905; inter-Congress and served from March 4, 1883, until his death in ment in Fort Hill Cemetery. Elizabeth City, N.C., on August 25, 1883, before the assem- POND, Benjamin, a Representative from New bling of Congress; interment in the Pool Cemetery,near York; bornElizabeth City, N.C. in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1768; attended thecommon schools; moved to Poultney, Vt., and thence to that part ofthe town POOLE, Theodore Lewis, a Representative from New of Crown Point (later Schroon) now comprised inthe town ofYork; born in Jordan, Onondaga County, N.Y., April 10, North Hudson, N.Y., in 1800; engaged inagricultural pur-1840; moved with his parents to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1842; suits; justice of the peace and supervisor in 1804;judge ofattended the common schools; during the Civil War enlisted the court of common pleas of Essex County in1808, withas quartermaster sergeant in the One Hundred and Twenty- residence in Schroon; member of the Stateassembly 1808-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, in July 1862; dis- 1810; elected as a Republican to theTwelfth Congresscharged as captain and brevet major July 3, 1865; county (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); served in the Warof 1812clerk of Onondaga County 1868-1870; United States pension and participated in the siege and Battle of Plattsburginagent for the western district of New York 1879-1888; com- September 1814 as a volunteer in Capt. RussellWalker'smander of the Department of New York, Grand Army of the company of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, New York Militia;Republic, in 1892; connected with various manufacturing elected to the Fourteenth Congress but died ofdisease, in- industries and corporations; director of the Bank of Syra- curred through exposure at the siege of Plattsburg,incuse; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress Schroon, N.Y., October 6, 1814, before the beginningof the(March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for congressional term; interment in Pine RidgeCemetery, reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; appointed North Hudson, Essex County, N.Y.; reintermentin RiversideUnited States marshal of New York in 1899 and served until Biographies 1661 his death in Syracuse, N.Y., December 23, 1900; interment inBardstown, KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 Oakwood Cemetery. and commenced practice in Louisville; declined the position of secretary of state tendered by Gov. John Breathitt in POPE, James Pinckney, a Senator from Idaho; born on a1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress farm near Jonesboro, Jackson Parish, La., March 31, 1884;(March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for attended the common schools; graduated from Louisianareelection in 1834; elected a member of the State house of Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La., in 1906 and from the lawrepresentatives in 1836; resumed the practice of law; died in department of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., inLouisville, Ky., May 4, 1841; interment in Cave Hill Ceme- 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced prac-tery. tice in Boise, Idaho; deputy collector of internal revenue 1916; city attorney of Boise 1916-1917; assistant attorney POPPLETON, Earley Franklin, a Representative from general of Idaho 1918-1919; member of the board of educa-Ohio; born in Belleville, Richland County, Ohio, September tion of Boise 1924-1929; mayor of Boise 1929-1933, when he29, 1834; pursued classical studies; educated at the Ohio resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Dem-Wesleyan University at Delaware; studied law; was admitted ocrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,to the bar and commenced law practice in Elyria, Ohio; 1933, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful candidate for renomi-moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1861 and continued the practice nation in 1938; appointed a director of the Tennessee Valleyof his profession; member of the State senate in 1870; elected Authority by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1939-1951;as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress(March 4, 1875- associated with law firm in Knoxville, Tenn.; member ofMarch 3,1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; re- board of directors, Federal Savings & Loan Association,sumed the practice of law; died in Delaware, Ohio, May 6, Knoxville, Tenn.; moved to Alexandria, Va., in 1963, where1899; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. he resided until his death there on January 23, 1966; inter- ment in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn. PORTER, , a Representative from Indiana; Bibliography: Sims, Robert C. "James P Pope, Senator from Idaho." born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, md., April 20, Idaho Yesterdays 15 (Fall 1971): 9-15. 1824; attended the public schools and the preparatory de- partment of Hanover (md.) College, and was graduated from POPE, John, a Senator and a Representative from Ken-Indiana Asbury University (now De Pauw University), tucky; born in Prince William County, Va., in 1770; complet-Greencastle, md., in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the ed preparatory studies; studied law; moved to Springfield,bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Indianapolis; city Ky.; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Washington,attorney 1851-1853; reporter of the Indiana SupremeCourt Shelby, and Fayette Counties; member, State house of repre-1853-1857; member of the city council 1857-1859; elected as sentatives 1802, 1806-1807; elected as a Republican to thea Republican to the Thirty-sixth andThirty-seventh Con- United States Senate and served from March 4, 1807, togresses (March 4, 1859-March 3,1863); declined to be a March 3,1813; served as President pro tempore of thecandidate for renomination in 1862; resumed the practice of Senate during the Eleventh Congress; member, State senatelaw; appointed First Comptroller of the Treasury March 5, 1825-1829; Territorial Governor of 1829-1835; re-1878, and served until 1880; Governor of Indiana1881-1885; sumed the practice of law in Springfield, KY.; elected as adelegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventhUnited States Minister to Italy 1889-1892; died in Indianapo- Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful can-lis, md., May 3, 1897; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. didate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; Bibliography: DAB. died in Springfield, Washington County, Ky., on July 12, 1845; interment in the cemetery at Springfield, Ky. PORTER, Alexander, a Senator from ; bornin Bibliography: Baylor, Orval. John Pope: Kentiwkian, His Life and Times County Donegal, Ireland, June 24, 1785; immigrated to the 1770-1845. Cynthiana, Ky.: The Hobson Press, 1943; Blakey, George T. United States in 1801 with an uncle, who settled in Nash- "Rendezvous with Republicanism: John T. Pope vs. in 1816." ville, Tenn.; received a limited schooling; studied law; was Indiana Magazine of History 62 (September 1966): 233-50. admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in the POPE, Nathaniel, a Delegate from Territory; bornAttakapas region of the ; delegate tothe in Louisville, Ky., January 5, 1784; attended Transylvaniaconvention which framed the first State constitution in1812; University, Lexington, KY.; studied law; was admitted to themember, lower branch of the Lousiana State legislature bar; settled in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., in 1804, where he com-1816-1818; judge of the State supreme court 1821-1833; elect- menced the practice of his profession; moved to Springfield,ed as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Ill.; appointed secretary of Illinois Territory by Presidentcaused by the death of Josiah S. Johnson and served from Madison in 1809; reappointed in 1813 and served fromDecember 19, 1833, until January 5, 1837, when he resigned March 7, 1809, until his resignation in 1816 to become Dele- due to ill health; continued the practice of law in Attakapas; gate; elected on September 5, 1816, a Delegate to Congressplanter; again elected to the United States Senate for the for a term of two years (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congress-term beginning March 4, 1843, but did not take his seatdue es); appointed register of the land office at Edwardsville, Ill.,to ill health; died in Attakapas, La., January 13, 1844;inter- on November 30, 1818, and served until March 3, 1819;ment on Oakland plantation in Franklin, La. appointed United States judge for the district of Illinois on Bibliography: DAB; Stephenson, Wendell. Alexander Porter, Whig Plant- March 3, 1819, and served in that capacity until his death; er of Old Louisiana. 1934. Reprint. New York: Da Cape Press,1969. unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States PORTER, Augustus Seymour (nephew of Peter Buell Senate in 1824; died in St. Louis, Mo., January 22, 1850;Porter), a Senator from ; born in Canandaigua, interment in the O'Fallon Burying Ground, on theN.Y., January 18, 1798; attended Canandaigua Academy, Bellefontaine Road. Canandaigua, N.Y.; graduated from Union College, Schenec- Bibliography: DAB. tady, N.Y., in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar and POPE, Patrick Hamilton, a Representative from Ken-commenced practice in , Mich.; recorder of Detroit tucky; born in Louisville, Ky., March 17, 1806; attended the1830; mayor of Detroit 1838; elected as a Whig to the United common schools and was graduated from St. Joseph College, States Senate on January 20, 1840, for the term beginning 1662 Biographical Directory

March 4, 1839, and served until March 3, 1845;was not a1860; pursued professional studies in Newton Theological candidate for renomination; chairman, Committeeon RoadsSeminary, Newton Center, Mass., and in Rochester Theologi- and Canals (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses),cal Seminary, Rochester, N.Y., 1861-1866; during the Civil Committee on Enrolled Bills (Twenty-seventh Congress);War enlisted in the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts moved to his father's residence in Niagara Falls, N.Y., inVolunteer Militia, in 1862 and was mustered out of service 1848; died at Niagara Falls, N.Y., September 18, 1872;inter-in July 1863; served on the United States Christian Commis- ment in Oakwood Cemetery. sion in 1863; engaged with his father in the manufacture of PORTER, Charles Howell, a Representative from Virgin-light locomotives at Pittsburgh, Pa., in May 1866 and ia; born in Cairo, Greene County, N.Y., June 21, 1833;com-became president of the company; president of the Pitts- pleted preparatory studies; was graduated from the law uni-burgh Y.M.C.A. 1868-1887; vice president of the Pittsburgh versity at Albany, N.Y., in 1853; was admitted to the bar inChamber of Commerce 1892-1906; elected as an Independent 1854 and commenced practice in Ashland, Greene County,Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- N.Y.; entered the Union Army in 1861as a member of theMarch 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the First Regiment, New York Mounted Rifles; settled in Nor-Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904; member of the board of trust- folk, Va.; served as city attorney for oneyear; Common-ees and president of the board of directors of the Western wealth attorney 1863-1867; moved to Richmond, Va., inPennsylvania Institute for the Blind in 1904; resumed the 1867; member of the constitutional convention of Virginia in manufacture of locomotives; member of the International 1867 and 1868; upon the readmission of Virginia torepresen-Committee of the Y.M.C.A. 1875-1921; trustee of the Carne- tation was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first andgie Institute 1890-192 1; trustee of the Crozier Theological Forty-second Congresses and served from January 26, 1870,Seminary 1871-1921; member of the Board of Fellows of to March 3, 1873; declined to be a candidate for renomina-Brown University from 1899 until his death in Washington, tion in 1872; engaged in the practice of law in New YorkD.C., April 10, 1921; interment in Allegheny Cemetery, Pitts- City and Beacon, N.Y.; died in Cairo, N.Y., July 9, 1897;burgh, Pa. interment in Cairo Cemetery. PORTER, James, a Representative from New York; born PORTER, CharlesOrlando,aRepresentativefromin Williamstown, Mass., April 18, 1787; was graduated from ; born in Klamath Falls, Kiamath County, Oreg.,Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1810; studied law; April 4, 1919; moved to Eugene, Lane County, Oreg., in 1923was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Skanea- and attended the public schools; graduated from Harvardteles, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1814 and 1815; University in 1941 and from in 1947;elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, served with the from privateto first1817-March 3, 1819); was not a candidate for renomination; lieutenant 1941-1945, with overseas service in Europe;majorresumed the practice of law; surrogate of Onondaga County in the Air Force Reserve (retired); law clerk in theUnited1822-1824; moved to Albany, N.Y., and served as register of States Court of Appeals in in 1947and 1948;the court of chancery until his death there February 7, 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1948; assistant to the director,interment in Greenwood Cemetery, , N.Y. American Bar Association's Survey of the LegalProfession, Boston, Mass., 1948-1951; practiced law in Eugene, Oreg., PORTER, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1951-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifthand toborn in that State; received a limited schooling; elected as a the Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, l957-January3, Republican to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused 1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960to theby the resignation of ; reelected to the Tenth Eighty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law;con- and Eleventh Congresses and served from December 8, 1806, sultant, Food for Peace, The , 1961;unsuccess- to March 4, 1811. ful candidate for nomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; unsuccessful candidate in 1966 for election PORTER, John Edward, a Representative from Illinois; to theborn in Evanston, Cook County, Ill., June 1, 1935; attended Ninetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate in 1972 forelec- tion to the Ninety-third Congress; unsuccessful candidate the public schools and graduated from Evanston Township inHigh School, 1953; attended Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 1976 for nomination to the Ninety-fifth Congress;unsuccess- ful candidate for nomination in 1980 to the UnitedStatesnology, Cambridge, Mass., 1953-1954; B.S. and B.A., North- Senate; is a resident of Eugene, Oreg. western University, Evanston, Ill., 1957; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1961; served in PORTER, Gilchrist, a Representative from Missouri;bornUnited States Army Reserves, 1958-1964; was admitted to in Windsor, near Fredericksburg, Va., November1, 1817;the Illinois bar in 1961; honor law graduate attorney, United received a limited schooling; studied law;was admitted toStates Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1961-1963; the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green,Mo.; private practice, Evanston, Iii., 1963-1979; representative, elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress(March 4,Illinois general assembly, 1973-1979; unsuccessful candidate 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelectioninfor election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; elected as 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; elected to the Thirty-a Republican to the Ninety-sixth Congress, by special elec- fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857);chairman,tion, January 22, 1980, to fill the vacancy caused by the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-fourth Congress);resignation of United States Representative Abner J. Mikva; circuit judge 1866-1880; resumed the practice of law; died inreelected to the four succeeding Congresses (January 22, Hannibal, Marion County, Mo., November 1, 1894; interment 1980, to January 3,1989); is a resident of Winnetka, Ill. in Riverside Cemetery. PORTER, Peter Augustus (grandson of , Henry Kirke, a Representative from Pennsylva-Porter), a Representative from New York; born at Niagara nia; born in Concord, N.H., November 24, 1840;attendedFalls, N.Y., October 10, 1853; taught by private teachers; public and private schools and was prepared forcollege atattended St. Paul's Schools, Concord, N.H., 1865-1871 and the New London Academy, New London, N.H.;was graduat-was graduated from Yale College in 1874; engaged in bank- ed from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1860;one ofing and was an extensive landowner; president of the village the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association inof Niagara Falls, N.Y., in 1878; member of the State assem- Biographies 1663 bly in 1886 and 1887; elected as an Independent RepublicanCattaraugus County in 1819, 1820, and 1824; servedthe in to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909);State senate in 1823; elected to the Nineteenth Congress declined to be a candidate for renomination; engaged in the(March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed the practice of law study and writing of history of the Niagara frontier; died inin Olean, N.Y.; again a member of the State senate 1828- Buffalo, N.Y., December 15, 1925; interment in Oakwood1831 and of the State assembly in 1838 and 1840; died in Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Olean Township, near the city of Olean, N.Y., about1840; interment in Mount View Cemetery, Olean, N.Y. PORTER,Peter Buell (grandfather of Peter Augustus Porter and uncle of Augustus Seymour Porter), a Represent- POSEY,Francis Blackburn, a Representative from Indi- ative from New York; born in Salisbury, Conn., August 14,ana; born in Petersburg, Pike County,md., April 28, 1848; 1773; was graduated from Yale College in 1791; studied lawattended the public schools, Blythewood Academy, and Indi- in Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar and commencedana Asbury (now De Pauw) University,Greencastle, md.; practice in Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1793; clerk of Ontariowas graduated from the law department ofthe Indiana Uni- County 1797-1804; member of the State assembly in 1802versity at Bloomington in 1869; was admitted to the bar the and again in 1828; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in the fall ofsame year and commenced practice inPetersburg, md.; dele- 1809; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfthgate to the Republican National Convention in 1884; unsuc- Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1813); declined to be acessful Republican candidate for election in 1888 to the candidate for renomination; appointed a canal commissionerFifty-first Congress; was subsequently elected to the Fiftieth in 1811; served in the ; major general of NewCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of York Volunteers 18 12-1815; presented a gold medal underAlvin P. Hovey and served from January 29, 1889, to March joint resolution of Congress dated November 3, 1814, "for3, 1889; resumed the practice of law in Evansville, md.; gallantry and good conduct in the several conflicts of Chip-surveyor of the port of Evansville1903-1913; died in Rock- pewa, Niagara, and Erie"; elected to theFourteenth Con- in gress and served from March 4, 1815, to January23, 1816, port, Spencer County, md., on October 31, 1915; interment when he resigned; secretary of state of New York in 1815Walnut Hills Cemetery, Petersburg, md. and 1816; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State POSEY,Thomas, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Fair- of New York in 1817; regent of the University of the State offax County, Va., July 9, 1750; received a limited schooling; New York 1824-1830; appointed Secretary of War in themoved to the western frontier of Virginia in 1769; served in Cabinet of President and served fromthe Virginia militia in the French and Indian wars; member June 21, 1828, to March 9, 1829; moved to Niagara Falls inof the Virginia committee of correspondence; at the out- 1836; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; died atbreak of the Revolutionary War was appointed captain in a Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., March 20, 1844; inter-Virginia regiment; promoted to the rank of major in1778 ment in Oakwood Cemetery. and the following year was made colonel; was at the surren- Bibliography: DAB; Grande, Joseph A. 'The Political Career of Peter der of Yorktown in 1781; held various county andmilitia Buell Porter, 1797-1829." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, offices; appointed brigadier general in 1793 and participated 1971. in campaigns against the Indians; moved to Kentuckyin PORTER,Stephen Geyer, a Representative from Pennsyl-1794; served in the State senate and was its presidingofficer vania; born near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, May 18,in 1805 and 1806; lieutenant governor of forfour 1869; moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settledyears; major general of Kentuckylevies after 1809; moved to in Allegheny (now Pittsburgh), Pa., in 1877; attended thethe Attakapas region of Louisiana; appointed tothe United common schools and Allegheny High School; studied medi-States Senate from Louisiana to fill the vacancycaused by cine for two years, after which he studied law; was admittedthe resignation of John N. Destréhan and served from Octo- to the bar in December 1893 and commenced practice inber 8, 1812, to February 4, 1813; unsuccessful candidatefor Pittsburgh; city solicitor of Allegheny 1903-1906; chairmanelection to fill the vacancy; Governor of Indiana Territory of the Republican State convention in 1912; elected as a18 13-1816; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Indiana; Republican to the Sixty-second and to the nine succeedingappointed Indian agent in 1816 and held the position until Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death;his death in Shawneetown, Ill., on March 19, 1818; inter- chairman,Committee onForeignAffairs(Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate forment in Westwood Cemetery. mayor of Pittsburgh in 1913; appointed in 1921 to represent Bibliography: DAB. the House of Representatives on the advisory committee to POST, George Adams, a Representative from Pennsylva- the Washington conference on armament limitations; repre-nia; born in Cuba, Allegany County, N.Y., September 1, sented the United States at the centennial of Brazil's inde-1854; pursued an academic course at Oswego Academy; pendence, in 1922; member and chairman of the Americanmoved to Susquehanna Depot, Pa.; secretary of the motive delegationtothe Second International Conference onpower department of the Erie Railway;elected burgess in Opium, at Geneva in 1923 and 1924; chairman of the For-February 1877 and served one year; studied law; was admit- eign Service Buildings Commission 1926-1930; died in Pitts-ted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Montrose, burgh, Pa., on June 27, 1930; interment in Highwood Ceme-Pa.; one of the owners and editors of the Montrose Democrat tery. 1883-1889; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Con- Bibliography: DAB. gress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); delegateto the Demo- PORTER,Timothy H., a Representative from New York;cratic National Convention in 1884; chairman of the Demo- born in New Haven, Conn.; completed preparatory studies;cratic State convention in 1885; moved to New York City in moved to New York and settled in Cattaraugus County;1889; engaged as a writer for the New York World; engaged member of the State assembly in 1816 and 1817; countyin the manufacture of railway equipment in 1892 and served judge of Cattaraugus County 1817-1820; studied law; wasas vice president and later presidentof the Standard Cou- admitted to the bar of Tioga and Cattaraugus Counties inpler Co.; founder and president of the Railway Business 1819 and commenced practice in Olean, N.Y.; first judge ofAssociation; chairman of the railroad committee of the the court of common pleas in 1819; district attorney forUnited States Chamber of Commerce; died in Somerville, 1664 Biographical Directory

Somerset County, N.J., on October 31, 1925; interment inApril 20, 1825; attended the public schools; clerk in the Evergreen Cemetery, Oswego, N.Y. county clerk's office; clerk of the supreme court at Nash- Bibliography: DAB. ville, Tenn.; moved to California in 1850 and settled in San POST, James Douglass, a Representative from Ohio; bornFrancisco; clerk in the customhouse at San Francisco 1850- near Milledgeville, Fayette County, Ohio, November 25,1853; moved to in 1854 and became interested in 1863; attended the common schools andwas graduated fromsilver mining; appointed by President Lincoln superintend- the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1882;ent of Indian affairs in 1863 and was civilian aide to General engaged in teaching for five years; studied law;was admittedHeintzelman the same year; when Arizona Territory was to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice at Washingtonformed was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Court House, Fayette County, Ohio; electedas a Democrat toCongress and served from December 5, 1864, to March 3, the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 19 11-1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1Thirty-ninth Congress; studied law; was admitted to the bar (Sixty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renominationin 1867 and commenced the practice of his profession in in 1914; resumed the practice of law at Washington CourtWashington, D.C.; appointed by President Hayes register of House, Ohio, and died there April 1, 1921; intermentinthe United States land office at Florence, Ariz., in 1878; Washington Cemetery. consular agent at El Paso, Tex., in 1890; died in Phoenix, POST, Jotham, Jr., a Representative from New York; bornAriz., June 24, 1902; interment in Arizona Cemetery; reinter- near Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y., April 4, 1771;wasment under a rock cairn erected by the State of Arizona at graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1792;the summit of Poston Butte, overlooking the town of Flor- studied medicine but did not practice; engaged in the drug- ence, Ariz., April 26, 1925. importing business in New York City; member of the board Bibliography: DAB; Gressinger, A.W. Charles D. Poston, Sunland Seer. of aldermen; served in the State assembly 1795 and1805- Globe, Ariz.: D.S. King, 1961; Poston, Lawrence, ed. 'Poston vs. Goodwin: 1808; director of the New York Hospital 1798-1802; elected A Document on the Congressional Election of 1865." Arizona and tke West as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813- 3 (Winter 1961): 351-54. March 3, 1815); died in New York City, May 15, 1817. POTTER, Allen, a Representative from Michigan; born in POST, Morton Everel, a Delegate from the Territory ofGalloway, Saratoga County, N.Y., October 2, 1818; attended Wyoming; born in West Henrietta (near Rochester), Monroethe common schools; moved to Adrian, Mich., in 1830 and to County, N.Y., December 25, 1840; pursuedan academicJonesville, Mich., in 1838; learned the trade of tinsmith; course in the Albion and Medina Academies, New York;moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1845 and engaged in the moved to Denver, Cob., in 1860 and engaged in the freight-retail hardware business until 1858, when he engaged in ing business between the Missouri River and Denver;en-banking and in the manufacture of gas; member of the State gaged in mining in Alder Gulch, Mont., in 1864;delegate tohouse of representatives in 1857; president of the village the Democratic National Convention in 1864;moved in 1867 council in 1859, 1863, 1870, and again in 1872; elected a to that portion of Dakota which is now Wyoming;countymember of the board of education in 1867, 1869, and 1871, commissioner of Laramie County 1870-1876; member oftheserving as president in 1869; member of the board of water Territorial legislative council 1878-1880; engaged in bankingcommissioners in 1872; unsuccessful Liberal candidate for and stock raising near Cheyenne, Wyo.; electedas a Demo-election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; elected as a crat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth CongressesDemocrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); declined to bea candidate forMarch 3, 1877); was not a candidate for reelection in 1876; renomination in 1884; resumed banking and stock raising;resumed banking activities; also financially interested in moved to California in 1895 and engaged in farmingandrailroads and Colorado mining enterprises; member of the fruit growing near Cucamonga and Alhambra;retired insewer commission 1880-1883; elected as the first mayor of 1916 and resided in Los Angeles, Calif., until 1928 whenheKalamazoo, in 1884; treasurer of the State asylum for the moved to Alhambra, Calif.; died in Alhambra, Calif.,Marchinsane; died in Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, 1885; interment in 19, 1933; interment in Inglewood Park Cemetery,Inglewood,the City Cemetery. Calif. POTTER, Charles Edward, a Representative and a Sena- POST, Philip Sidney, a Representative from Illinois;borntor from Michigan; born in Lapeer, Mich., October 30, 1916; in , Orange County, N.Y., March 19, 1833;pursuedattended the public schools; graduated from Eastern Michi- classical studies and was graduated from UnionCollege,gan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1938; administrator of Schenectady, N.Y., in 1855; entered the PoughkeepsieLawBureau of Social Aid, Cheboygan County, Mich., 1938-1942; School; was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1856;during the Civil War entered the Union Army and served in 1942 enlisted as a private in the with with thecombat service in the European Theater of Operations; seri- Fifty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Infantry; promotedthroughously wounded in France in 1945, resulting in the loss of the ranks to colonel; brevetted brigadier general ofVolun- teers December 16, 1864; awarded a Congressional Medalofboth legs; discharged from the service as a major in 1946; Honor, March 8, 1893, for action at the Battle ofNashville;engaged as vocational rehabilitation representative for the appointed consul to Vienna in 1866; promoted toconsulRetraining and Reemployment Administration with the general to Austria-Hungary in 1874; resigned in 1879;com-United States Labor Department until his resignation in mander of the department of Illinois, Grand Armyof the1947; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress in Republic, in 1886; elected as a Republican to the Fiftiethand1947 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick V. to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March4, Bradley; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and 1887, until his death, before the close of the Fifty-thirdserved from August 26, 1947, until his resignation November Congress, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 1895;inter- 4, 1952; elected to the United States Senate in 1952 to fill ment in Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill. the vacancy caused by the death of Arthur H. Vandenberg and served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1953; also POSTON, Charles Debrille, a Delegate from the Territoryelected in 1952 for the term commencing January 3, 1953, of Arizona; born near Elizabethtown, Hardin County,Ky.,and served until January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for Biographies 1665 reelection in 1958; engaged as an industrial consultant andWashington County, R.I., April 10, 1882; interment in the international securities executive; member of the Americanfamily burial ground. Battle Monuments Commission; resided in Queenstown, Md., Bibliography: DAB. until his death at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, POTTER, Emery Davis, a Representative from Ohio; born D.C., November 23, 1979; interment in Arlington Nationalin Providence, R.I., October 7, 1804; attended the district Cemetery, Arlington, Va. school and the academy in Herkimer County, N.Y.; studied POTTER, Clarkson Nott, a Representative from Newlaw in Cooperstown, N.Y.; was admitted to the New York York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., April 25, 1825; completedState bar at Utica in 1838 and commenced practice in Coop- preparatory studies and was graduated from Union College,erstown, N.Y.; moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1834 and continued Schenectady, N.Y., in 1842 and from Rensselaer Polytechnicthe practice of law; judge of the circuit court for the north- Institute as a civil engineer in 1843; served as a surveyor inern counties of Ohio; president judge of the courtof common Wisconsin in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar inpleas from 1834 to 1843, when he resigned; elected as a 1846 and commenced practice in New York City in 1847;Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843- elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first, Forty-second, andMarch 3, 1845); was not a candidate for renomination; mayor Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); de-of Toledo 1846-1848; member of the State house of repre- clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874; elected tosentatives 1848-1850; elected to the Thirty-first Congress the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3,1879); (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-fifth Con-Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-first Congress); was not a gress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878;candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law in president of the Democratic State conventions in 1875 andToledo; declined the appointment of judge of the Territory of 1877; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions inUtah in 1858; city solicitor of Toledo in 1861 and 1862; 1872 and 1876; unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Gover-member of the board of education in 1864 and 1865; member nor in 1879; trustee of Union College 1863-1882; president ofof the State senate 1874-1876 and served as president; re- the American Bar Association in 1881 and 1882; died in New tired from active practice in 1880; died in Toledo, Ohio, York City on January 23, 1882; interment probably in theFebruary 12, 1896; interment in Forest Cemetery. Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, N.Y. POTTER, John Fox, a Representative from Wisconsin; Bibliography: DAB; Vazzano, Frank P. "The Louisiana Question Resur- rected: The Potter Commission and the Election of 1876." Louisiana Histo- born in Augusta, Maine, May 11, 1817; attended the common ry 16 (Winter 1975): 39-57. schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced prac- POTTER, Elisha Reynolds (father of Elisha Reynoldstice in East Troy, Wis.; judge of Walworth County 1842-1846; Potter [1811-1882]), a Representative from Rhode Island;member of the State assembly in 1856; delegate to the Whig born in Little Rest (now Kingston), R.I., November 5, 1764;National Conventions in 1852 and 1856 and to the Republi- learned the blacksmith's trade and also engaged in agricul-can National Conventions in 1860 and 1864;elected as a tural pursuits; served as a private in the Revolutionary War;Republican to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-sev- attended Plainfield Academy; studied law; was admitted toenth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1863); chairman, the bar about 1789 and commenced practice in South King-Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-sixth Con- stown Township, R.I.; member of the State house of repre-gress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-seventh Con- sentatives 1793-1796 and served as speaker in 1795 andgress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the 1796; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Con-Thirty-eighth Congress; consul general of the United States gresses to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation ofto the British Provinces in North America from 1863 to Benjamin Bourn and served from November 15, 1796, until1866, residing in Montreal, Canada; practiced law in East his resignation in 1797; again a member of the State houseTroy, Wis., and died there May 18, 1899; interment in Oak of representatives 1798-1808 and speaker in 1802 and 1806-Ridge Cemetery. 1808; elected to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Con- gresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1815); from 1816 to 1835 POTTER, Orlando Brunson, a Representative from New was a member of the State house of representatives exceptYork; born in Charlemont, Franklin County, Mass., March the year 1818, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for10, 1823; attended the district school, Williams College, Wil- Governor of Rhode Island; died in South Kingston, R.I., Sep-liamstown, Mass., and the Dane Law School, Cambridge, tember 26, 1835; interment in the family burial ground atMass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and Kingston, R.I. commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; engaged in manufac- turing; moved to New York in 1853 and engaged in agricul- POTTER, Elisha Reynolds (son of Elisha Reynolds Pottertural pursuits; unsuccessful for election in 1878 to the Forty- [1764-1835]), a Representative from Rhode Island; born insixth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Little Rest (now Kingston), R.I., June 20, 1811; attended theCongress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); declined to be a Kingston Academy and was graduated from Harvard Uni-candidate for renomination in 1884; member of the Rapid versity in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832Transit Commission of New York City 1890-1894; died in and practiced in South Kingstown Township, R.I.; adjutantNew York City, January 2, 1894; interment in Greenwood general of the State 1835-1836; member of the State house ofCemetery. representatives 1838-1840; elected as a Law and Order Party candidate to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843- POTTER, Robert, a Representative from North Carolina; March 3, 1845); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfin-born in Granville County, near Williamsboro, N.C., about ished Business (Twenty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candi-1800; attended the common schools; midshipman in the date for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress;United States Navy 1815-1821; studied law; was admitted to served in the State senate 1847-1852 and 1861-1863; Statethe bar and practiced in Halifax, Halifax County, N.C.; commissioner of public schools from 1849 to 1854, when hemember of the State house of commons in 1826 and 1828; resigned; associate justice of the Rhode Island Suprememoved to Oxford, Granville County, N.C., in 1827 and contin- Court from March 16, 1868, until his death in Kingston,ued the practice of law; elected as a Jacksonian to the 1666 Biographical Directory

Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and served frompublic schools and the College of the City of New York 1927- March 4, 1829, until his resignation in November 1831;1929; was graduated from Brooklyn Law School of St. Law- again a member of the State house of commons from 1834 until his expulsion in January 1835; moved to Harrisonrence University in 1932; was admitted to the New York bar County, Tex., in 1835 and settled on a farm overlookingin 1933 and commenced practice in New York City; counsel Lake Soda, near Marshall; member of the convention thatto the New York Senate Committee on Affairs of the City of declared the independence of Texas March 2, 1836; duringNew York during the 1945 session; elected as a Republican the Texas Revolution was secretary of the navy in the cabi-to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); net of the Provincial President, David G. Burnett; represent-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty- ed the Red River District in the Texas Congress 1837-1841;first Congress; resumed the practice of law; appointed surro- participated in the Regulator-Moderator War in east Texasgate of Bronx County by Governor Dewey and served from as a leader of the Harrison County Moderators; his homeNovember 1951 to January 1953; special referee, Appellate being surrounded by the Regulators on March 2, 1842, heDivision, First Department, Supreme Court of State of New ran to the edge of Lake Soda and dived in, his body sinkingYork, June 1953 term; senior partner, Kadel, Wilson & to the bottom riddled with bullets; interred at "Potter'sPotts, until his death September 11, 1976, in Bronxville, Point," a bluff near his home; reinterred in the Texas StateN.Y.; interment in Ferncliff Mausoleum, Hartsdale, N.Y. Cemetery, at Austin, in 1931. Bibliography: DAB; Fisher, Ernest G. Robert Potter: Founder of the POTTS, Richard, a Delegate and a Senator from Mary- Texas Navy. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1976; Shearer, Ernest Charles. Robert land; born in Upper Marlboro, Md., July 19, 1753; moved Potter, Remarkable North Carolinian and Texan. Houston: University ofwith his family to the Barbados Islands in 1757; returned to Houston Press, 1951. and settled in Annapolis in 1761; studied law; POTTER, Samuel John, a Senator from Rhode Island;commenced practice in Frederick County, Md., in 1775; born in South Kingston Township, R.I., June 29, 1753;com-member of the committee of observation for Frederick pleted preparatory studies; studied law;was admitted to theCounty in 1776; clerk of the county court 1777-1778; military bar and practiced; deputy governor of Rhode Island 1790-aide to the Maryland Governor 1777; member, Maryland 1803; presidential elector in 1792 and 1796; electedas ahouse of delegates 1779-1780; Member of the Continental Republican to the United States Senate and served fromCongress in 1781; prosecuting attorney for Frederick, Mont- March 4, 1803, until his death in Washington, D.C., Octobergomery, and Washington Counties 1784; member, State 14, 1804; interment in the family burial ground, Kingstonhouse of delegates 1787-1788; declined the nomination for (formerly Little Rest), Washington County, R.I. State senator in 1787; member of the Maryland convention POTTER, William Wilson, a Representative from Penn-which ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788; sylvania; born at Potters Mills, Pa., December 18, 1792;com-appointed by President George Washington United States pleted preparatory studies in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa.,attorney for Maryland 1789-1791; chief judge of the fifth and was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.;judicial circuit of the State 179 1-1793; presidential elector in studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 and practiced1792; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy his profession; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth andcaused by the resignation of Charles Carroll of Carrollton Twenty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1837,and served from January 10, 1793, to October 24, 1796, when until his death, before the assembling of the Twenty-sixthhe resigned; again appointed chief judge of the fifth judicial Congress, in Bellefonte, Pa., on October 28, 1839; intermentcircuit 1796-1801; associate justice of the Maryland Court of in Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Pa. Appeals 1801-1804; resumed the practice of his profession; POTTLE, Emory Bemsley, a Representative from Newdied in Frederick, Md., November 26, 1808; interment in All York; born in Naples, Ontario County, N.Y., July 4, 1815;Saints' Parish Cemetery; reinterment in Mount Olivet Ceme- pursued classical studies at Penn Yan (N.Y.) Academy;stud-tery, . ied law; was admitted to the bar at New York City in 1838 Bibliography: DAB; Steiner, Lewis H. "A Memoir of Hon. Richard and commenced practice in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio; Potts." Maryland Historical Magazine 5 (March 1910): 63-8. returned to Naples, N.Y., and continued the practice of law; POU, Edward William (cousin of James Paul Buchanan), member of the State assembly in 1847; electedas a Republi-.a Representative from North Carolina; born in Tuskegee, can to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4,Macon County, Ala., September 9, 1863; moved to North 1857-March 3, 1861); again resumed the practice of hispro- fession; appointed by President Lincolna member of theCarolina with his parents, who settled in Smithfield in 1867; commission which prepared a bill providing fora tariff onreceived private instructions and attended the common wool; died in Naples, N.Y., April 18, 1891; interment in Roseschools and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ridge Cemetery. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced in Smithfield, Johnston County, N.C.; chairman of the POTTS, David, Jr., a Representative from Pennsylvania;Democratic executive committee of Johnston County in 1886; born at Warwick Furnace, about eight miles from Pottstown,solicitor of the fourth judicial district of North Carolina Chester County, Pa., November 27, 1794; completedprepara-1890-1901; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the tory studies in Pottstown; became an ironmaster;owner andFifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sev- manager of Warwick Furnace; member of the State house ofenth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and served representatives 1824-1826; elected as an Anti-Masonic candi- date to the Twenty-second and to the three succeeding Con- from March 4, 1901, until his death; chairman, Committee gresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1839); was not a candidateon Claims (Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Con- for renomination in 1838; resumed his former businesspur-gresses), Committee on Rules (Sixty-fifth, Seventy-second, suits; died at Warwick Furnace (now Warwick), Chesterand Seventy-third Congresses); delegate to the Democratic County, Pa., June 1, 1863; interment in Coventry Cemetery,National Convention in 1916; died in Washington, D.C., near Warwick. April 1, 1934; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States House of Representatives; interment in POTTS, David Matthew, a Representative from NewRiverside Cemetery, Smithfield, N.C. York; born in New York City, March 12, 1906; attended the Bibliography: DAB. Biographies 1667

POULSON, C. Norris, a Representative from California;from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1971; unsuccessful can- born and reared on a ranch near Haines, Baker County,didate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Con- Oreg., July 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Oregongress; died in Miami, Fla., April 4, 1972;cremated; ashes State College at Corvallis, and , Losscattered over South Bimini in the Bahamas. Angeles, Calif., 1923-1925; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in Bibliography: Dionisopoulos, P. Allan. Rebellion, Racism, and Represen- 1923; became a certified public accountant in 1933; member tation: The Adam Clayton Powell Case and Its Antecedents. DeKaib: of the California assembly 1938-1942; delegate to California Northern Illinois University Press, 1970; Powell, Adam Clayton. Adam by State Republican conventions on seven occasions; delegate toAdam. New York: The Dial Press, 1971. Republican National Convention, 1956; elected as a Republi- POWELL, Alfred H., a Representative from Virginia; can to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-Janu-born in Loudoun County, Va., March 6, 1781; was graduated ary 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 tofrom Princeton College; studied law; was admitted to the bar the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected in 1946 to the Eightiethand commenced the practice of his profession in Winchester, and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromVa., in 1800; member of the State senate 1812-1819; elected January 3,1947, until his resignation on June 11, 1953;to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); elected mayor of Los Angeles, Calif., in 1953 and again indelegate to the State constitutional convention in 1830; died 1957 and served from June 1953 to June 1961; unsuccessfulin Loudoun County, Va., in 1831. for reelection as mayor in 1961; California State Water Com- missioner, June 1963 to April 1969; resided in Tustin, Calif., POWELL, Cuthbert (son of Levin Powell), a Representa- until his death in Orange, Calif., on September 25, 1982;tive from Virginia; born in Alexandria, Va., March 4, 1775; cremated; ashes buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Baker,completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to Oreg. the bar and practiced in Alexandria; mayor of Alexandria; moved to Loudoun County; engaged in agricultural pursuits; POUND, Thaddeus Coleman, a Representative from Wis-held various local offices; served in the State senate 1815- consin; born in Elk, Warren County, Pa., December 6, 1833;1819; member of the State house of delegates in 1828 and moved with his parents to Monroe County, N.Y., in 1838;1829; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress later moved to Rochester, N.Y.; attended the common(March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); died in "Llangollen," Lou- schools, Milton (Wis.) Academy, and Rushford Academy, Al- legany County, N.Y.; moved to Rock County, Wis., in Maydoun County, Va., May 8, 1849; interment in the private 1856; engaged in the manufacture of lumber; president ofcemetery on his estate, "Llangollen," in Loudoun County, the Union Lumbering Co. and of the Chippewa Falls &Va. Western Railway Co.; member of the State assembly in 1864, POWELL, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1866, 1867, and 1869, and served the last year as speaker proborn in Towanda, Bradford County, Pa., June 23, 1828; com- tempore; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin in 1870 andpleted preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits; 1871; delegate to the Republican National Convention inpresident of the First National Bank of Towanda 1870-1889; 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,1877-March 3, 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1883); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Forty-seventhin 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; appointed special deputy Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882 tocollector of the port of Philadelphia in 1885 and served four the Forty-eighth Congress; president of the Chippewa Springyears;sheriffof Bradford County1889-1893;diedin Water Co.; died in a hospital in Chicago, Ill., on NovemberTowanda, Pa., April 24, 1904; interment in Oak Hill Ceme- 21, 1914; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls,tery. Wis. POWELL, Lazarus Whitehead, a Senator from Kentucky; POWELL, Adam Clayton, Jr., a Representative from Newborn near Henderson, Henderson County, Ky., October 6, York; born in New Haven, Conn., November 29, 1908; at-1812; attended the common schools; graduated from St. tended the public schools of New York City; was graduatedJoseph College, Bardstown, Ky., in 1833; studied law; was from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., in 1930, from Co-admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Henderson lumbia University, New York City, in 1932, and from thein 1835; member, State house of representatives 1836; presi- theological department of Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., in dential elector on the Democratic ticket 1844; unsuccessful 1934; studied four months in Europe, North Africa, and Asiacandidate for governor in 1848; 1851- Minor; was ordained to the ministry and officiated in New1855; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and York City beginning in 1931; member of the New York Cityserved from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1865; resumed the Council in 1941; publisher and editor of a newspaper in Newpractice of his profession; unsuccessful candidate for the York City 1941-1945; instructor at Columbia University Ex-United States Senate in 1867; died near Henderson, Ky., tension School, Department of Religious Education, 1932-July 3, 1867; interment in Fernwood Cemetery. 1940; editorial writer for a New York daily newspaper in Bibliography: DAB; Kentucky General Assembly. Biographical Sketch of 1934; cofounder of the National Negro Congress; member of Honorable Lazarus W. Powell. Frankfort: Yeoman Office, 1868. the Consumer Division, State of New York, Office of Price Administration, 1942-1944; member of the Manhattan Civil- POWELL, Leven (father of Cuthbert Powell), a Represent- ian Defense 1942-1945; elected as a Democrat to the Seven-ative from Virginia; born near Manassas, Prince William ty-ninth Congress; reelected to the eleven succeeding Con-County, Va., in 1737; studied in private schools; deputy sher- gresses and served from January 3, 1945, to February 28,iff of Prince William County; moved to Loudoun County in 1967, at which time he was excluded from membership in1763; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served as major in the the Ninetieth Congress pursuant to H.Res. 278; chairman,Revolutionary Army in 1775; appointed lieutenant colonel of Committee on Education and Labor (Eighty-seventh throughthe Sixteenth Regiment of the Continental Line in 1777; Eighty-ninth Congresses); elected as a Democrat in a specialresigned on account of ill health in 1778; member of the election held on April 11, 1967, to fill the vacancy caused byState house of delegates in 1779; was delegate to the Virgin- his exclusion but did not appear to be sworn in; reelectedia ratification convention in 1788; again a member of the November 5, 1968, to the Ninety-first Congress and servedState house of delegates in 1787, 1788, 1791, and 1792; elect- 1668 Biographical Directory

ed as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-attended the public schools, Union College, Barbourville, March 3, 1801); helped to build a turnpike from Alexandria,Ky., the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and Centre Va., to the upper country; died in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., on August 23, 1810; interment in Old PresbyterianCollege, Danville, KY.; was graduated from Valparaiso Uni- Graveyard. versity, Valparaiso, md.; attended West Point Military Acad- emy in 1890 and 1891; studied law; was admitted to the bar Bibliography: "Correspondence of Col. Leven Powell, M.C., Relatingto the Election of 1800." John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-in 1894 and commenced practice at Barbourville, KY.; super- Macon College 1 (1901): 54-63; Powell, Robert C., ed. A Biographical Sketch intendent of public schools for Knox County 1894-1899; of Col. Leven PowelL Alexandria, Va.: G.H. Ramey and Son, 1877. elected secretary of state of Kentucky in 1899 but was un- seated after a contest; convicted of complicity in the assassi- POWELL, Paulus, a Representative from Virginia; bornnation of Gov. in 1900 and sentenced to in Amherst County, Va., in 1809; attended private schoolsprison; was pardoned in 1908; author of "My Own Story" in and Amherst College, Amherst, Va.; held various local of- flees; member of the State house of delegates 1843-1849,1905; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the 1863, and 1864; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first andthree succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3,was not a candidate for renomination in 1918; delegate to 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to thethe Republican National Convention in 1912; moved to Thirty-sixth Congress; died in Amherst, Amherst County,Washington, D.C., and served as assistant counsel for the Va., June 10, 1874; interment in the private burying groundUnited States Shipping Board from 1921 until his death in of his brother-in-law on the estate, "Kenmore,"near Am-Baltimore, Md., July 25, 1932; interment in City Cemetery, herst, Va. Barbourville, Ky. POWELL, Samuel, a Representative from Tennessee; born POWERS, David Lane, a Representative from New in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., July 10, 1776;at-Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 29, 1896; attended the tended the common schools and Philadelphia (Pa.) College;public schools, and was graduated from Pennsylvania Mili- studied law; was admitted to the bar in Norristown, Pa.,tary College at Chester in 1915; during the First World War prior to 1800; moved to Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn.,was commissioned a second lieutenant on August 15, 1917; in 1800; established the first law school in Tennesseeat hispromoted to first lieutenant and served as battalion adjutant home; moved to Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1805 in the Eight Hundred and Seventh Pioneer Infantry; moved and practiced law; member of the superior court of law andto Trenton, N.J., in 1919 and engaged in the building busi- equity 1807-1809; judge of the first circuit court of Tennes-ness; member of the State house of assembly 1928-1930; see in 1812 and 1813; elected as a Republican to the Four-elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the six teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817);was not asucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until candidate for renomination in 1816; resumed the practice ofhis resignation on August 30, 1945, to become a member of law; again judge of the first circuit court 1819-1841; diedin Rogersville, Tenn., August 2, 1841; interment in the Oldthe Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey, a post he Presbyterian Cemetery. held until retirement in 1967; died in Feasterville, Pa., March 28, 1968; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, POWELL, Walter Eugene, a Representative from Ohio;N.J. born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, April 25, 1931;at- tended Hamilton public schools; A.B., Heidelberg College, POWERS, Gershom, a Representative from New York; Tiffin, Ohio, 1953; M.Ed., Miami (Ohio) University, 1961;born in Croydon, Sullivan County, N.H., July 11, 1789; at- educator in Butler County, Ohio, for twenty-fouryears;tended the common schools and was largely self-taught; clerk, city of Fairfield, Ohio, 1956-1957; member, Fairfieldtaught school in the town of Sempronius, Cayuga County, City Council, 1958; member, Ohio house of representatives,N.Y., while attending the local law school, from which he 1961-1967; member, Ohio State senate, 1967-1971; electedasgraduated in 1810; was admitted to the bar the same year a Republican to the Ninety-second and to the Ninety-thirdand commenced practice in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y.; Congresses (January 3, l971-January 3, 1975);was not aappointed superintendent of Auburn prison in 1820; first candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Con-judge of the court of common pleas of Cayuga County 1823- gress; is a resident of Middletown, Ohio. 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, POWER, Thomas Charles, a Senator from ; born 1831); chairman, Committee on near Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, May 22, 1839; attend-District of Columbia (Twenty-first Congress); declined to be a ed the common schools and studied civil engineering candidate for renomination in 1830; appointed inspector of at Sin-Auburn prison on April 2, 1830, and served until his death; siniwa College, Wisconsin; practiced engineering andtaught school three years; employed as asurveyor in Dakota indied in Auburn, N.Y., June 25, 1831; interment in North 1860; engaged in trade on the Missouri River 1861-1867;Street Cemetery. president of a line of steamers; moved to Fort Benton, Mont.; POWERS, Horace Henry, a Representative from Ver- settled in Helena in 1876; engaged in mercantilepursuitsmont; born in Morristown, Lamoille County, Vt., May 29, and in banking; member of the first constitutionalconven- 1835; attended Peoples Academy; was graduated from the tion of Montana in 1883; unsuccessful candidate forgovernorUniversity of Vermont at Burlington in 1855; studied law; of Montana in 1889; upon the admission of Montanaas a State into the Union was elected as was admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Hyde Park, a Republican to theVt., 1859-1862; member of the State house of representatives United States Senate and served from January 2, 1890,to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for renomination; chair-in 1858; prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County in 1861 man, Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Serviceand 1862; member of the council of censors in 1869; member (Fifty-second Congress); engaged in banking, stock raising,of the State constitutional convention in 1870; served in the and mercantile pursuits; died in Helena, Mont., February 16,State senate in 1872 and 1873; again a member of the State 1923; interment in Resurrection Cemetery. house of representatives in 1874 and served as speaker; judge of the supreme court of Vermont from December 1874 POWERS, Caleb, a Representative from Kentucky; bornto December 1890; trustee of the University of Vermont near Williamsburg, Whitley County, Ky., February 1, 1869;from 1883 until his death; delegate to the Republican Na- Biographies 1669 tional Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican to theand endowed the Poydras Asylum; died in Pointe Coupee, Fifty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,La., June 14, 1824; interment in Old St. Francis Cemetery; 1891-March 3, 1901); chairman, Committee on Pacific Rail- reinterment in the grounds of the Poydras High School, New roads (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses); unsuc-Roads, La. cessful candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed the Bibliography: DAB. practice of law in Morrisville, Vt.; died in Morrisville, Vt., PRACHT, Charles Frederick, a Representative from December 8, 1913; interment in Pleasant View Cemetery.Pennsylvania; born in Pitman, Schuylkill County, Pa., Octo- POWERS, Llewellyn, a Representative from Maine; bornber 20, 1880; attended the public schools; associated in the in Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine, October 14, 1836; at-toy novelty and notions business 1897-1914; children's agent tended the common schools of Pittsfield and St. Albansand investigator in the county commissioner's office 1915- Academy; was graduated from the Colburn Classical Insti-1929; served in the department of accounts under the clerk tute; attended Colby University, Waterville, Maine, and wasof quarters sessions in 1930 and 1931; personal property graduated from the law department of Union University,assessor in the board of revision department1932-1942; Albany, N.Y., in 1860; was admitted to the bar in Albany,member of the Republican executive ward committee since N.Y., and Somerset, Maine, in 1860 and commenced practice1904, serving as chairman for twenty-five consecutive years; in Houlton, Maine, in January 1861; prosecuting attorneyelected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (Jan- for Aroostook County 1864-187 1; collector of customs for theuary 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidatefor district of Aroostook 1868-1872; member of the State housereelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; died in of representatives 1873-1876, 1883, 1892, and 1895 andPhiladelphia, Pa., December 22, 1950; interment in Lawn- served as speaker during the last term; elected as a Republi-view Cemetery (Rockledge), Philadelphia, Pa. can to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the PRALL, Anning Smith, a Representative from New York; Forty-sixth Congress; Governor of Maine 1896-1900; electedborn in Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., September 17, as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the1870; attended the public schools and New York University; vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles A. Boutelle;employed as a clerk in a New York City newspaper office; reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con-was in charge of a real estate department of abank 1908- gresses and served from April 8, 1901, until his death in19 18; served as clerk of the first district municipal court; Houlton, Maine, July 28, 1908; interment in West Pittsfieldappointed a member of the New York City Board of Educa- Cemetery, near Pittsfield, Maine tion January 1, 1918, and served until December 31, 1921, and three times elected its president; commissioner of taxes POWERS, Samuel Leland, a Representative from Massa-and assessment in 1922 and 1923; delegate to the Democratic chusetts; born in Cornish, N.H., October 26, 1848; preparedNational Convention in 1924; elected as a Democrat to the for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., andSixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death was graduated from , Hanover, N.H., inof Daniel J. Riordan; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the 1874; studied law in the law school of the University of thefour succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, City of New York, and also in Worcester, Mass.; was admit-1923, to January 3, 1935; was not a candidate for renomina- ted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Boston,tion in 1934; served as a member and chairman of the Feder- Mass., in 1876; moved to Newton, Mass., in 1882; member ofal Communications Commission from January 15, 1935, until the Newton City Council 1883-1887, serving as president inhis death at his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1885 and 1886; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventhJuly 23, 1937; interment in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1905); Staten Island, N.Y. declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in PRATT, Charles Clarence, a Representative from Pennsyl- 1905 to conduct the impeachment proceedings againstvania; born in New Milford, Susquehanna County, Pa., April , judge of the United States District Court23, 1854; attended the rural schools in his community, Sedg- for the Northern District of Florida; resumed the practice ofwick Institute, Great Barrington, Mass., and was graduated law in Boston and resided in Newton, Mass.; trustee of Dart-from the State normal school at Bloomsburg, Pa.; became mouth College 1905-1915; member of the Massachusettsengaged in the lumber and oil businesses at New Milford in Board of Education in 1915-1919; member of the Massachu-1879; served as assessor, school director, and justice of the setts constitutional convention in 1918 and 1919; served inpeace; colonel on the respective staffsof Governors Stone, the State militia for ten years; trustee of the board of publicPennypacker, and Tener 1899-1907; elected as a Republican control for the operation of the Boston Elevated Railwayto the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March 3,1911); 1918-1928, serving as chairman 1923-1928; died in Newton,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty- Mass., on November 30, 1929; interment in Newton Ceme- second Congress; resumed his former business pursuits, re- tery, Newton Center, Mass. siding in Binghamton, N.Y., during the winters and in New Milford, Pa., during the summers; died in Binghamton, N.Y., POYDRAS, Julien de Lallande, a Delegate from the Terri-January 27, 1916; interment in New Milford Cemetery, New tory of Orleans; born in Nantes, France, April 3, 1740; com-Milford, Pa. pleted preparatory studies; served in the French Navy in his youth; was captured by the British in 1760 and taken to PRATT, Daniel Darwin, a Senator from Indiana; born in England; escaped on board a West Indian merchantman toPalermo, Maine, October 26, 1813; moved to New York with San Domingo, whence he immigrated to New Orleans, La.,his parents, who settled in Fenner, Madison County; attend- in 1768; wrote the first poetical work printed in Louisiana ined the public schools and Cazenovia Seminary; graduated 1779; president of the first legislative council of the Terri-from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1831; moved to tory of Orleans; founded the Female Orphan Asylum in NewIndiana in 1832 and taught school; settled in Indianapolis in Orleans; elected to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-1834 and was employed in the office of the secretary of March 3, 1811); president of the first State constitutionalState; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced convention; presidential elector for Madison in 1812; foundedpractice in Logansport, md., in 1836; member, State house of 1670 Biographical Directory

representatives in 1851, 1853; elected in 1868 as a Republi-tended the common schools and Foxcroft Academy; was can to the Forty-first Congress but resigned January 27,graduated from the law department of ; 1869, before the beginning of the congressional term, havingmoved to Charles City, Iowa, in 1862 and taught school; was been elected to the United States Senate; servedas a Repub-admitted to the bar in Mason City, Iowa, in 1862; during the lican in the Senate from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875;Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in August 1862 and chairman, Committee on Pensions (Forty-second and Forty-served in Company B, Thirty-second Regiment, Iowa Volun- third Congresses); appointed by President Ulysses Grantasteer Infantry, until March 1863, when he was discharged at Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1875-1876; died in Lo- gansport, Cass County, md., June 17, 1877; interment inFort Pillow, Tenn.; commenced the practice of law in Mount Hope Cemetery. Charles City, Iowa, in 1864; county superintendent of public Bibliography: Holliday, Joseph E. "Daniel D Pratt: and Legisla- schools of Floyd County in 1868 and 1869; member of the tor." Indiana Magazine of Histo,y 57 (June 1961): 99-126. State house of representatives 1870-1872; elected as a Re- publican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses PRATT, Eliza Jane, a Representative from North Caroli-(March 4, 1873-March 3,1877); was not a candidate for na; born in Morven, Anson County, N.C., March 5, 1902;renomination in 1876; president of the Republican State con- attended the public schools of Morven and Raeford, N.C.,vention at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1877; studied for the minis- and Queens College at Charlotte, N.C.;newspaper editor attry; was ordained and entered the ministry of the Methodist Troy, N.C., in 1923 and 1924; served as secretary to MembersEpiscopal Church in October 1877 and continued his ministe- of Congress from the Eighth Congressional District of Northrial duties until retired on account of age in October 1918; Carolina 1924-1946; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 22, 1931; interment in Oak ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofHill Cemetery. William 0. Burgin and served from May 25, 1946, to Janu- ary 3, 1947; was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; PRATT, James Timothy, a Representative from Connecti- employed with the Office of Alien Property, Washington,cut; born in Cromwell, Conn., December 14, 1802; attended D.C., from 1947 to 1951; with Department of Agriculturethe common schools; engaged in mercantile and agricultural from 1951 to 1954; with Library of Congress from 1954topursuits in Hartford, Conn.; enlisted in the "Horse Guard" 1956; secretary to Representative Kitchin of North Carolinain 1820; mayor 1826-1829; elected major of the First Regi- from 1957 to 1962; served as public relations head for North ment of Cavalry in 1834; colonel in 1836; brigadier general Carolina Telephone Company; resided in Wadesboro, N.C.;1837-1839; major general 1839-1846; adjutant general in died in Charlotte, N.C. May 13, 1981; interment in Raeford 1846; retired from mercantile pursuits and settled in Rocky City Cemetery, Raeford, N.C. Hill, Conn.; member of the State house of representatives in PRATT, Harcourt Joseph, a Representative fromNew 1847, 1848, and 1850; served in the State senate in 1852; York; born in Highland, Ulster County, N.Y., October23, again a member of the State house of representatives in 1866; attended the public schools and Claverack Academyat1857 and 1862; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Claverack, N.Y.; engaged in the lumber and coal business;Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candi- also interested in banking; member of the Board of Supervi-date for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; sors of Ulster County 1895-1897; member of the Stateassem-unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor in 1858 and bly in 1897; director of the First National Bank ofHighland1859; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Wash- since 1900 and of the Kingston Trust Co. since 1921;wasington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the president of the Board of Education of Highland, N.Y., 1908-impending war; again a member of the State house of repre- 1926; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth andto thesentatives in 1870 and 1871; engaged in agricultural pur- three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,1933); suits; died in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn., April 11, was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed his1887; interment in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. former business interests; died from injuries received inan automobile accident near Highland, N.Y., May 21, 1934; in- PRATT, Joseph Marmaduke, a Representative from Penn- terment in Highland Cemetery. sylvania; born in Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., September 4, 1891; moved with his parents to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1892; PRATT, Harry Hafl, a Representative from NewYork;attended the public schools and business colleges; was grad- born in Corning, Steuben County, N.Y., November11, 1864;uated from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1919; attended Corning Union School andwas graduated fromengaged in the manufacture of industrial and marine prod- Corning Free Academy in 1882; associate editor ofthe Cor-ucts; member of the Republican city committee of Philadel- ning Weekly Journal 1882-189 1 and of the Corning Dailyphia 1937-1946; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- Journal 1891-1906; editor of the same andmanager of theeighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Corning Journal Publishing Co. 1906-1919; supervisor ofCor-of James P. McGranery and served from January 18, 1944, ning in 1898 and 1899; delegate to the Republican Stateto January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in conventions in 1908 and 1910; postmaster of Corning from1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed his former September 8, 1905, to January 27, 1914; electedas a Republi-business pursuits in Philadelphia, Pa.; received the Republi- can to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4,can nomination for State senator in the second senatorial 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate forrenomina-district of Pennsylvania in 1946; died in Washington, D.C., tion in 1918; engaged in publicity work for the United Stateson July 19, 1946, while on a business trip; interment in Department of Labor and the War Risk Insurance BureauArlington Cemetery, Upper Darby, Pa. 1919-1921; public relations counselor for the Erie Railroad Co. 1923-1928, and managing editor of the Erie Railroad PRATT, Le Gage, a Representative from New Jersey; born Magazine; director of the Corning Free Libraryand thein Sterling, Worcester County, Mass., December 14, 1852; Chamber of Commerce; died in Corning, N.Y., November13, educated in the common schools; in 1869 entered upon a 1932; interment in Hope Cemetery. commercial career in Boston; subsequently moved with his parents to Chicago, Ill.; engaged in newspaper work in Chi- PRATT, Henry Otis, a Representative from Iowa; born incago 1884-1886; was employed for several years in the life- Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, February 11, 1838;at-insurance business in Texas; was subsequently transferred to Biographies 1671

Illinois and and continued in this business; in PRAY, Charles Nelson, a Representative from Montana; 1897 tendered his resignation and moved to East Orange,born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., April 6, 1868; N.J., and in 1903 accepted a position with an insuranceattended the public schools in Salisbury and Middlebury, company at Newark, N.J., being elected vicepresident,Vt.; graduate of the Middlebury High School; attendedMid- which office he held until elected to Congress; elected as adlebury (Vt.) College 1886-1888 and was graduated from the Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3,Chicago College of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and 1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to thecommenced practice at Fort Benton, Mont., in 1896; served Sixty-first Congress; resumed the insurance business andas assistant prosecuting attorney ofChouteau County in became connected with the Puritan Life Insurance Co., of1897 and 1898; elected prosecuting attorney in 1898 and Providence, R.I.; died in Newark, N.J., March 9, 1911; inter-reelected in 1900, 1902, and 1904; elected as a Republican to ment in Fairmount Cemetery. the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection PRATT, Ruth Sears Baker, a Representative from New of York; born in Ware, Mass., August 24, 1877; attended pri-in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed the practice vate schools and Wellesley (Mass.) College; moved to Green-law in Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., January 1, 1914; wich, Conn., in 1894 and to New York City in 1904; memberunsuccessful candidate for election to the United States of the board of aldermen of New York City in 1925, beingSenate in 1916; appointed judge of the United States District the first woman to serve; reelected in 1927 and served untilCourt of Montana on January 21, 1924, in which capacity he March 1, 1929; member of the Republican National Commit-served until his retirement in 1957; died in Great Falls, tee 1929-1943; delegate to the Republican National Conven-Mont., September 12, 1963; interment in Hillcrest Lawn Me- tions in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1940; delegate to the Republicanmorial Cemetery. State conventions in 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1936, and PRENTISS, John Holmes (brother of ), a 1938; served as president of the Woman's National Republi-Representative from New York; born in Worcester, Mass., can Club 1943-1946; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-April 17, 1784; attended local and private schools; foreman first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3,of the New York Evening Post in 1808; moved to Coopers- 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to thetown, Otsego County, N.Y., in October 1808; establishedthe Seventy-third Congress; was a resident of New York City;Freeman's Journal in the same year and served as editor; died at her home, The Manor House, Glen Cove, N.Y., appointed colonel of militia by Governor Clinton and served August 23, 1965; interment in Pratt Mausoleum. as division inspector on the staff of thecommander in chief; PRATT, Thomas George, a Senator from Maryland; bornpostmaster of Cooperstown from April 24, 1833, to February in Georgetown, Md. (now a part of Washington, D.C.), Febru-17, 1837; vice president of the Democratic State convention ary 18, 1804; completed preparatory studies and attendedat Albany; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifthand the Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and the Col-Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); was lege of New Jersey (now Princeton University); studied law;not a candidate for renomination in 1840; resumedhis was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Upperformer newspaper pursuits; also served as president ofthe Marlboro, Md., in 1823; member, State house of delegatesBank of Cooperstown; resided in Cooperstown, N.Y., until his 1832-1835; Whig presidential elector in 1836; appointeddeath in that city on June 26, 1861; interment inLakewood president of the executive council 1836; member, StateCemetery. senate 1838-1843; 1845-1848; moved PRENTISS, Samuel (brother of John Holmes Prentiss), a to Annapolis, Md., in 1848 and resumed the practice of law; Senator from Vermont; born in Stonington, Conn., March31, elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1849 to fill1782; moved to Northfield, Mass., in 1786; completed prepar- the vacancy caused by the resignation of ;atory studies and was instructed in the classicsby a private reelected in 1851 and served from January 12, 1850, to Vt.; was March 3, 1857; moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1864 and againtutor; studied law in Northfield and in Brattleboro, resumed the practice of his profession; unsuccessful candi-admitted to the bar in 1802 and practiced in Montpelier, Vt. date for election to the United States Senate in 1867; died in1803-1822; member, State house of representatives 1824- Baltimore, Md., November 9, 1869; interment in St. Anne's1825; associate justice of the supreme court of Vermont; Cemetery, Annapolis, Md. elected chief justice of the State supreme court in 1829; Bibliography: DAB. elected in 1831 as a Whig to the United States Senate; reelected in 1837 and served from March 4, 1831, to April 11, PRATT, Zadock, a Representative from New York; born1842, when he resigned to accept a judicial assignment; in Stephentown, N.Y., October 30, 1790; moved with hischairman, Committee on Patents and the PatentOffice parents to Windham (later Jewett), Greene County, in 1802;(Twenty-seventh Congress); originator and successful advo- received a limited schooling; engaged in tanning leather incate of the law to suppress dueling in the Districtof Colum- Greene County, where he established a town called Pratts-bia; judge of the United States District Court of Vermont yule; member of the State militia 1819-1823; justice of thefrom 1842 until his death in Montpelier, Vt., January15, peace in 1824; supervisor of the town of Windham in 1827;1857; interment in Green Mount Cemetery. member of the State senate in 1830; elected as a Democrat Bibliography: DAB; Binney, Charles. Memoirs of Judge Samuel Prentiss to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); of Montpelier, Vermont, and His Wife. Boston: n.p., 1883. elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,1845); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and PRENTISS, Seargeant Smith, a Representative from Mis- Grounds (Twenty-eighth Congress); resumed his former busi-sissippi; born in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, Sep- ness activities; also engaged in banking and agriculturaltember 30, 1808; attended Gorham (Maine) Academy and pursuits near Prattsville, Greene County, N.Y.; delegate towas graduated from Bowdoin College,Brunswick, Maine, in the Democratic National Convention in 1852; retired from1826; studied law in Gorham, Maine, and in , active business pursuits in 1860; died in Bergen, N.J., on Ohio; moved to Natchez, Adams County, Miss.; was admitted April 6, 1871; interment in the City Cemetery, Prattsville,to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Vicksburg, N.Y. Miss.; member of the State house of representatives 1836- Bibliography: DAB. 1837; contested the election of John F.H. Claiborne to the 1672 Biographical Directory

Twenty-fifth Congress and the election was set aside by themedical department of the University of Maryland at Balti- House; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused bymore in 1816; practiced his profession in Harford, Baltimore, this action and served from May 30, 1838, to March 3, 1839;and Cecil Counties; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; was not a candidate for renomination in 1838; unsuccessfulserved with a Maryland regiment as lieutenant in the War candidate for the United States Senate in 1839-1840;re-of 1812; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress sumed the practice of law at Vicksburg; moved to New Orle-(March 4, 1843-March 3,1845); was not a candidate for ans, La, in 1845 and resumed the practice of law; died atrenomination in 1844; resumed the practice of medicine and "Longwood," near Natchez, Miss., July 1, 1850; interment in the private burying ground at "Longwood." also engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Perryman, Bibliography: DAB; Dickey, Dallas C. Seargeant S. Prenti.ss, Whig Orator Harford County, Md., on August 2, 1868; interment in St. of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945; George's Churchyard, Spesutia Island, Md. Prentiss, George Lewis. A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss. 2 vols. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1886. PRESTON, Prince Hulon, Jr., a Representative from Georgia, born in Monroe, Walton County, Ga., July 5, 1908; PRESCOTT, Cyrus Dan, a Representative from Newattended the public schools of Statesboro, Ga.; was graduated York; born in New Hartford, Oneida County, N.Y., Augustfrom the law department of the University of Georgia at 15, 1836; pursued an academic course andwas graduatedAthens in 1930; was admitted to the bar the same year and from Utica Free Academy; studied law in Utica and incommenced practice in Statesboro, Ga.; member of the State Rome, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commencedhouse of representatives 1935-1938; during the Second World practice in Rome in 1860; moved to New York City in 1867War enlisted in September 1942 as a private in the United and was employed as a financial clerk ina wholesale house;States Army; was promoted through the ranks to captain, returned to Rome, N.Y., in 1868 and continued the practicebeing discharged October 13, 1945; elected judge of the city of law; member of the Board of Aldermen of Rome 1874-court of Statesboro in 1946 but did not serve, having been 1876; served in the State assembly in 1878; electedas aelected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congressesand to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-Janu- (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); was nota candidate forary 3,1961); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law in Rome,1960; died in Savannah, Ga., February 8, 1961; interment in N.Y.; attorney for the New York Central Railroad Co. forEastside Cemetery, Statesboro, Ga. over thirty years; died in Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., Octo-

ber 23, 1902; interment in Sauquoit Valley Cemetery,near PRESTON, William (nephew of ), a Repre-- Clayville, Oneida County, N.Y. sentative from Kentucky; born near Louisville, Ky., October 16, 1816; pursued preparatory studies and was graduated PRESSLER, Larry Lee, a Representative anda Senator from South Dakota; born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County,from St. Joseph's College, Kentucky; attended Yale College S.Dak., March 29, 1942; graduated, University of Southin 1835; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1838; was admitted to the bar and commenced Dakota, Vermillion, 1964; attended Oxford University,Eng-practice in Louisville, Ky., in 1839; served as lieutenant land, 1966, as a Rhodes scholar; receiveda graduate degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, colonel of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers in the war with Harvard,Mexico 1846-1848; delegate to the State constitutional con- 1971; graduated, Harvard Law School 1971; admittedto Dis- trict of Columbia bar in 1972 and commencedpractice;vention in 1849; member of the State house of representa- served in the United States Army 1966-1968; served inthetives in 1850; served in the State senate 1851-1853; elected Office of Legal Advisor to Secretary of State 1971-1974;as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy elected as a Republican in 1974 to the Ninety-fourthCon-caused by the resignation of Humphrey Marshall; reelected gress; reelected to the Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3,to the Thirty-third Congress and served from December 6, 1975-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelectionto1852, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful candidate for reelection the House of Representatives, but was elected in 1978to thein 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; Envoy Extraordinary United States Senate for the term commencing January3, and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain 1858-1861; during the 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January3, 1991. Civil War served in the Confederate Army and attained the rank of major general; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and PRESTON, Francis (father of William Campbell PrestonMinister Plenipotentiary from the Confederacy to Maximil- and uncle of and William Preston),ian, Emperor of Mexico, in 1864; again a member of the a Representative from Virginia; born in Greenfield, Bote-State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; died in tourt County, Va., August 2, 1765; was graduated from theLouisville, Ky., September 21, 1887; interment in Cave Hill College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.,in 1783;Cemetery. studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Mont- Bibliography: DAB. gomery and Washington Counties; member of the State house of delegates in 1788 and 1789; elected tothe Third PRESTON, William Ballard (nephew of Francis Preston), Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth Con-a Representative from Virginia; born in Smithfield, Va., gress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); declined to be a candi-November 25, 1805; was graduated from the College of Wil- date for renomination; settled in Abingdon, Va.,and re-liam and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1823; studied law and sumed the practice of law; againa member of the Statewas graduated from the at Charlottes- house of delegates 1812-1814; colonel of Volunteers in theville; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in War of 1812; served in the State senate 1816-1820; diedat1826; member of the State house of delegates 1830-1832; the home of his brother, William C. Preston, in Columbia,served in the State senate 1840-1844; again a member of the S.C., May 26, 1836; interment in Aspinvale Cemetery,nearState house of delegates in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Whig Seven Mile Ford, Va. to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); appointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President PRESTON, Jacob Alexander, a Representative fromTaylor and served from March 8, 1849, to July 22, 1850; Maryland; born in Bel Air, Harford County, Md., March12, delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1861; 1796; attended the common schools;was graduated from theserved in the Confederate States Congress; died in Smith- Biographies 1673 field, Va., on November 16, 1862; interment in Preston Cem-High School, and St. Louis (Mo.) University; sports editor etery on the former Smithfield Plantation, Blacksburg, Va. 1925-1927 and newspaper correspondent 1927-1933; member Bibliography: DAB. of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors 1929-198 1; sec- retary to Congressman Edwin M. Schaefer 1933-1943; enlist- PRESTON, William Campbell (son of Francis Preston), a Senator from South Carolina; born in Philadelphia, Pa., oned in the United States Army in October 1943 and served in December 27, 1794; studied under private tutors; attendedthe Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee, Va., until elected to (later Washington and Lee University),Congress in 1944; director, Edgemont Bank and Trust, East Lexington, Va., and graduated from South Carolina CollegeSt. Louis, Ill.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth (later the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1812;and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses and served traveled and studied in Europe for several years; studied lawfrom January 3, 1945, until his death in Camp Springs, Md., at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; returned to theon April 22, 1988; chairman, Committee on Standardsof United States in 1819; was admitted to the bar in VirginiaOfficial Conduct (Ninetieth through Ninety-fourth Congress- in 1820 and practiced; moved to Columbia, S.C., in 1822;es), Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Ninety-third Con- unsuccessful candidate for election in 1828 to the Twenty-gress), Committee on Armed Services (Ninety-fourth through second Congress; member, State house of representativesNinety-eighth Congresses); was a resident of Belleville, Ill.; 1828-1834; elected in 1833 as a Nullifier to the United Statesinterment in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ste- PRICE, David Eugene, a Representative from North Caro- phen D. Miller; reelected as a Whig in 1837 and served from November 26, 1833, until his resignation on November 29,lina; born in Johnson City, Tenn., August 17, 1940; attended 1842; chairman, Committee on the Library (Twenty-seventhpublic schools; attended Mars Hill College, N.C., 1957-1959; Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Twenty-seventhB.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1961; B.D., Congress); resumed the practice of law in Columbia, S.C.;, 1964; Ph.D., political science, Yale Universi- president of South Carolina College 1845-1851, when he re-ty, 1969; legislative aide to Senator E.L. Bartlett, 1963-1967; signed due to ill health; died in Columbia, S.C., on May 22,professor, Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1973-1986; staff 1860; interment in the Trinity Episcopal Churchyard, Co-director, Commission on Presidential Nomination, Democrat- lumbia, S.C. ic National Committee, 1981-1982; member, Democratic Na- Bibliography: DAB; Green, Edwin. William Campbell Preston. Columbia: tional Committee, 1983-1984; chairman, North Carolina np., 1946; Preston, William. Reminiscences of William C. Preston. Edited Democratic Party, 1983-1984; elected as a Democrat to the by Minnie Yarborough. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); 1933. is a resident of Chapel Hill, N.C. PREYER, Lunsford Richardson, a Representative from PRICE, Emory Hilliard, a Representative from Florida; North Carolina; born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C.,born in Bostwick, Putnam County, Fla., December 3, 1899; January 11, 1919; attended Greensboro High School, grad-attended the public schools of Duval County, Fla.; was grad- uated from Woodberry Forest School, Woedberry Forest,uated from Jacksonville (Fla.) Law College in 1986; was ad- Va.; Princeton University, A.B., 1941; Harvard Law School,mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in LL.B., 1949; during the Second World War served in UnitedJacksonville, Fla.; member of the city council of Jackson- States Navy in the Pacific; awarded Bronze Star; city judge,ville, Fla., 1929-1932; supervisor of registration of Duval 1953-1954; State superior court judge, 1956-1961; UnitedCounty, Fla., 1932-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- States district court judge, 1961-1963; candidate for Gover-ty-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, nor, 1964; senior vice president, trust officer, city executive1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- of North Carolina National Bank, Greensboro, N.C., 1964-tion in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed the pra- 1966; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to thetice of law and real estate pursuits; died in Jacksonville, five succeeding Congresses (January 3,1969-January 3,Fla., February 11, 1976; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. 1981); chairman, Select Committee on Ethics (Ninety-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 to PRICE, Hiram, a Representative from Iowa; born in the Ninety-seventh Congress; is a resident of Greensboro,Washington County, Pa., January 10, 1814; attended the N.C. common schools; was engaged in agricultural pursuits onhis father's farm for several years; employed as a bookkeeper PRICE, Andrew, a Representative from Louisiana; bornfor a large commission house near Pittsburgh, Pa., and on Chatsworth plantation, near Franklin, St. Mary Parish,equipped himself for mercantile life; moved to Davenport, La., April 2, 1854; attended various private schools; wasIowa, in 1844 and engaged in the mercantile business; served graduated from the law department of Cumberland Univer-as collector, treasurer, and recorder of ScottCounty, Iowa; sity, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1875 and from the law departmentwas president of the State Bank of Iowa1859-1866 and of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1877; was ad-became president of the First National Bank of Davenport mitted to the bar and practiced in St. Louis until 1880, whenin 1873; during the early days of the Civil War was appoint- he returned to Louisiana and engaged in sugar planting; wased by Governor Kirkwood as paymaster general of the Iowa a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888;troops, to whom he advanced large sums of money; elected elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress to fill theas a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth,and For- vacancy caused by the death of his father-in-law, Hon.tieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); chairman, Edward J. Gay; reelected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, andCommittee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-eighth Con- Fifty-fourth Congresses and served from December 2, 1889,gress), Committee on Pacific Railroads (Thirty-ninth and to March 3,1897; died at Acadia plantation, LafourcheFortieth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomi- Parish, La., on February 5, 1909; interment in Mount Olivetnation in 1868; president of the Davenport & St. Paul Rail- Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. road Co.; elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congress- PRICE, Charles Melvin, a Representative from Illinois; es in 1880 (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881);declined to accept born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., January 1, 1905;a renomination in 1880; appointed chief clerk forthe Indian attended the parochial schools, St. Louis (Mo.) UniversityOffice on April 13, 1881; appointed United States Commis- 1674 Biographical Directory

sioner of Indian Affairs during the administration of Presi-Monterey in 1846 and the first American to exercise judicial dent Garfield and served from May 6, 1881, to March 27,functions in California; naval agent 1848-1850; delegate to 1885; lived in Washington, D.C., until his death in that citythe first constitutional convention of California; returned to on May 30, 1901; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Daven-New Jersey; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second port, Iowa. Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candi- Bibliography: DAB. date for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; PRICE, Hugh Hiram (son of William Thompson Price), aGovernor of New Jersey 1854-1857; father of the public- Representative from Wisconsin; born at Black River Falls,school system of New Jersey; established a ferry from Wee- Jackson County, Wis., December 2, 1859; attended the gradehawken to New York; engaged in the quarrying business and high schools, and the University of Wisconsin at Madi-and in the reclamation of lands along the Hackensack River; son; engaged in milling and in the lumber business; memberdelegate to the peace convention held at Washington, D.C., of the city council in 1885 and 1886, and of the Jacksonin 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impend- County Board of Wisconsin in 1885 and 1886; secretary ofing war; died in Oakland, Bergen County, N.J., June 7, 1894; the Jackson County Agricultural Society in 1885; electedasinterment in Reformed Cemetery, Mahwah, N.J. a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy Bibliography: DAB. caused by the death of his father, William T Price, and PRICE, Samuel, a Senator from West Virginia; born in served from January 18 to March 3,1887; resumed his former business pursuits; member of the State senate ofFauquier County, Va., July 28, 1805; moved with his parents Wisconsin in 1889; moved to Silver City, N.Mex., in 1894 andto Preston County in 1815; received a preparatory training; engaged in silver mining; moved to Phoenix, Ariz., andstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced served as surveyor general of Arizona Territory for twothe practice of his profession in Nicholas and Braxton Coun- years; moved to Denver, Cob., and lived in retirement until ties; county clerk of Nicholas County 1830; prosecuting attor- his death on December 25, 1904; interment in Fairmontney 1833; member, State house of delegates 1834-1836; Cemetery. moved to Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1836 and to Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, in 1838; prosecuting attorney PRICE, Jesse Dashiell, a Representative from Maryland;for Braxton County 1836-1850; member, State house of dele- born in Whitehaven, Somerset (later Wicomico) County, Md.,gates 1847-1850, 1852; delegate to the constitutional conven- August 15, 1863; attended the public schools; engaged intions in 1850, 1851, and 1861; elected lieutenant governor of mercantile and manufacturing enterprises and in banking;Virginia in 1863 and served until the close of the Civil War; member of the city council of Salisbury in 1903; treasurer ofdelegate to the constitutinal convention of West Virginia in Wicomico County 1903-1907; member of the State senate1872 and was its president; appointed as a Democrat to the 1908-1916 and served as president of the senate andexUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death officio Lieutenant Governor 1912-1916, when he resigned toof Allen T. Caperton and served from August 26, 1876, to enter Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-thirdJanuary 26, 1877, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J.candidate in 1876 for election to fill the vacancy; died in Harry Covington; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W.Va., on February 25, 1884; fifth Congresses and served from November 3,1914, tointerment in the Stuart Burying Ground at Stuart Manor, March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918near Lewisburg, W.Va. to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; member of the Maryland State tax commission PRICE, Sterling, a Representative from Missouri; was 1923-1935; died at Ocean City, Md., May 14, 1939; intermentborn near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., on Sep- in Parsons Cemetery, Salisbury, Md. tember 20, 1809; completed preparatory studies and attended Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia; studied law; was admit- PRICE, Robert Dale, a Representative from Texas; bornted to the bar and practiced; moved to Fayette and later to in Reading, Lyon County, Kans., September 7, 1927; educat-Keytesville, Mo.; member of the State house of representa- ed in the public schools of Reading, Kans.; Statetives 1840-1844 and served as speaker; elected as a Demo- University, B.S., 1951; served four years active duty in thecrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, United States Air Force,1951-1955; flew twenty-seven.1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned to participate in combat missions during the Korean conflict; awarded Air the Mexican War; appointed colonel of the Second Regiment, Medal; returned to Texas after honorable discharge in 1955; Missouri Infantry, August 12, 1846; promoted to brigadier owned and operated a ranch in Texas; delegate, Texas Stategeneral of Volunteers July 20, 1847, and was honorably dis- Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, and 1968; delegate, Re-charged November 25, 1848; returned to Missouri and en- publican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republicangaged in agricultural pursuits on the Bowling Green prairie; to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding CongressesGovernor of Missouri 1853-1857; State bank commissioner (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate1857-186 1; elected presiding officer, Missouri State conven- for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;unsuc-tion, February 28, 1861; during the Civil War served in the cessful candidate for election in 1976 to the Ninety-fifthConfederate Army as a major general; after the war went to Congress; member, Texas State senate, 1978-1980; unsuccess-Mexico but later returned to Missouri; died in St. Louis, Mo., ful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred First Con-September 29, 1867; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. gress in 1988; is a resident of Pampa, Tex. Bibliography: DAB; Caste!, Albert. General Sterling Price and the Civil PRICE, Rodman McCamley, a Representative from New War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968; Jersey; born in Newton, Sussex County, N.J., May 5, 1816; Shaihope, Robert E. Sterling Price, Portrait of a Southerner. Columbia: attended the public schools of New York City and the Law- University of Missouri Press, 1971. renceville(N.J.) Academy; pursued classicalstudiesin PRICE, Thomas Lawson, a Representative from Missouri; Princeton College, but did not graduate; studied law;wasborn near Danville, Va., on January 19, 1809; attended the admitted to the bar; appointed purser in the Navy in 1840country schools; moved to Missouri in 1831 and settled in and was stationed in San Francisco; during the MexicanJefferson City; conducted stage lines and engaged in manu- War served as an officer of the Navy; prefect and alcalde offacturing and mercantile pursuits; first mayor of Jefferson Biographies 1675

City 1839-1842; unsuccessful candidate for the State senateConfederate Army and served as its captain until June 1862; in 1845; commissioned brevet major general of the Sixthpromoted to major, lieutenant colonel of Infantry, and to Division of Missouri Militia in 1847; elected Lieutenant Gov-colonel of Cavalry; commanded the Sixty-fourth Virginia ernor in 1849; member of the State house of representativesCavalry until the close of the war; was elected a member of 1860-1862; was one of the incorporators of the Capital Citythe State house of delegates in 1865 but the war prevented Bank and president of the Jefferson Land Co.; actively en-him from taking his seat; studied law; was admitted to the gaged in the promotion of various railway lines; brigadierbar in 1867 and commenced practice in Jonesville; member general of Volunteers in 1861 and 1862; elected as a Demo-of the State senate 187 1-1875; elected as a Democrat to the crat to the Thirty-seventh Congress tofill the vacancyForty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); contin- caused by the expulsion of John W. Reid and served fromued the practice of law in Jonesville, Lee County, Va., until January 21, 1862, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidatehis death there on May 17, 1900; interment in Hill Ceme- for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; delegate tery. to the Democratic National Convention in 1864 and 1868; died in Jefferson City, Mo., July 15, 1870; interment in a PRIEST, James Percy, a Representative from Tennessee; private cemetery; reinterment in Riverview Cemetery, Jef-born in Carters Creek, Maury County, Tenn., April 1, 1900; ferson City, Mo., in 1912. attended the public schools of Maury County, Tenn., Central Bibliography: DAB. High School, Columbia, Tenn., State Teachers' College, Mur- freesboro, Tenn., George Peabody College for Teachers, PRICE, William Pierce, a Representative from Georgia;Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Tennessee at Knox- born in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Ga., January 29, 1835;ville; taught school in Culleoka, Tenn., 1920-1926; member attended the common schools; was apprenticed to the print-of the editorial staff of the Nashville Tennessean 1926-1940; er's trade; moved to Greenville, S.C., in 1851; attendedelected as an Independent Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Furman University, Greenville, S.C., but left before graduat-Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the seven succeed- ing to take charge of the editorial department of the South-ing Congresses and had been renominated in the 1956 pri- ern Enterprise, a Greenville newspaper; studied law; wasmary election; served from January 3, 1941, until his death admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in in Nashville, Tenn., October 12, 1956; majority whip (Eighty- Greenville, S.C.; during the Civil War served in the Confed-first and Eighty-second Congresses); chairman, Committee erate Army as orderly sergeant in Kershaw's Second South Con- Carolina Regiment; member of the South Carolina house ofon Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-fourth representatives 1864-1866; moved to Dahlonega, Ga., in 1866;gress); interment in Woodlawn Memorial Park. member of the Georgia house of representatives 1868-1870; PRINCE, Charles Henry, a Representative from Georgia; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress to fill theborn in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, May 9, 1837; at- vacancy caused by failure to elect; reelected to the Forty-tended local schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; ap- second Congress and served from December 22, 1870, topointed postmaster in 1861; during the Civil War was cap- March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for renomination intain of Company C, Twenty-third Regiment, Maine Volun- 1872; again a member of the State house of representativesteer Infantry, from September 10, 1862, to July 15, 1863; 1877-1879, of the State senate in 1880 and 1881, and of thesettled in Augusta, Ga., in 1866 and was cashier of a bank; State house of representatives in 1894 and 1895; delegate toState superintendent of education; delegate to the State con- the Democratic National Convention in 1880; resumed thestitutional convention; upon the readmission of Georgia to practice of law; president of the board of trustees of Northrepresentation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Georgia Agricultural College 1870-1908; died in Dahlonega,Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869; Ga., November 4, 1908; interment in Hill Crest Cemetery.presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-first PRICE, William Thompson (father of Hugh Hiram Price),Congress but was not permitted to qualify; postmaster of a Representative from Wisconsin; born in HuntingdonAugusta 1870-1882; delegate to the Republican National County, Pa., June 17, 1824; attended the common schools;Conventions in 1872, 1876, and 1880; returned to Buckfield, was a clerk in a store in Hollidaysburg, Pa., and also studiedOxford County, Maine, in 1882 and engaged in mercantile law; moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1845, and in thepursuits; also engaged in the insurance business and in the following autumn moved to Black River Falls, Wis.; engagedmanufacture of brushes; member of the Maine State senate in lumbering and agricultrual pursuits; deputy sheriff ofin 1901; died in Buckfield, Maine, April 3, 1912; interment in Crawford County in 1849; member of the Wisconsin StateBuckfield Village Cemetery. assembly in 1851 and again in 1882; was admitted to the bar PRINCE, George Washington, a Representative from Illi- in 1852 and engaged in the practice of law; in 1854 moved to nois; born in Tazewell County, Iii., March 4, 1854; attended La Crosse, Wis., and operated a stage line between La Crossethe public schools; was graduated from Knox College, Gales- and Black River Falls; moved to Black River Falls and con-burg, Ill., in 1878; studied law; was admitted to the bar in tinued the practice of law until 1857; judge of Jackson1880 and commenced practice in Galesburg, Knox County, County in 1854 and 1859; under sheriff of Crawford CountyIll.; city attorney of Galesburg 1881-1883; chairman of the in 1855; county treasurer in 1856 and 1857; served in theRepublican county central committee of Knox County in State senate in 1857, 1870, and 1878-1881, and was president1884; member of the State house of representatives in 1888; of the Senate in 1879; collector of internal revenue 1863-reelected in 1890; unsuccessful candidate for attorney gener- 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-al of Illinois on the Republican ticket in 1892; elected as a ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until hisRepublican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy death at Black River Falls, Jackson County, Wis., Decembercaused by the death of Philip Sidney Post; reelected to the 6, 1886; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Fifty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and PRIDEMORE, Auburn Lorenzo, a Representative fromserved from December 2, 1895, to March 3, 1913; chairman, Virginia; born in Scott County, Va., June 27, 1837; receivedCommittee on Ventilation and Acoustics (Fifty-sixth Con- a limited education; completed preparatory studies; duringgress), Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mis- the Civil War raised a company of volunteer infantry for thesissippi River (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses), Commit- 1676 Biographical Directory

tee on Claims (Sixty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate PRINGLE, Benjamin, a Representative from New York; for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; moved toborn in Richfield Springs, Otsego County, N.Y., November 9, Los Angeles, Calif., in 1913 and continued the practice of1807; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- law; retired from active business pursuits in 1917 andre-ted to the bar in 1830 and practiced for a number of years; sided in Los Angeles, Calif., until his death in that cityonpresident of a bank in Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y.; judge September 26, 1939; interment in Inglewood Park Cemetery,of the Genesee County Court 1841-1846; elected as a Whig to Inglewood, Calif. the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, PRINCE, Oliver Hillhouse, a Senator from Georgia; born 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs in Montville, Conn., in 1787; completed preparatory studies;(Thirty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- moved to Georgia in 1796 with his parents, who settled intion in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; member of the Washington, Wilkes County; engaged in newspaper work;State assembly in 1863; appointed by President Lincoln in studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and commenced1863 judge of the court of arbitration in Cape Town, Africa, practice in Macon, Ga.; one of the five commissioners whounder the treaty with Great Britain of April 7, 1862, for the laid out the town of Macon in 1824; member, State senatesuppression of the African slave trade; appointed a member 1824; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyof the board of trustees of the State Institution for the Blind caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb and servedin 1873; died in Hastings, Dakota County, Minn., June 7, from November 7, 1828, to March 3, 1829; author and editor;1887; interment in the Old Cemetery, Batavia, N.Y. presided over the first railroad convention in Georgia and was one of the first stockholders and directors of the Georgia PRITCHARD, George Moore (son of Jeter Connelly Railroad Co.; abandoned the practice of law to become editorPritchard), a Representative from North Carolina; born near of the Georgia Journal in 1830; retired to Athens, Ga., inMars Hill in Madison County, N.C., January 4, 1886; attend- 1835; perished in the wreck of the packet ship Homeneared the public schools of Marshall, N.C., and Washington, Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., October 9, 1837, and the remains wereD.C., Emerson Institute, Washington, D.C., the University of never recovered. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the law department of Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Senator Oliver Prince." In Sena- the University of South Carolina at Columbia; was admitted tors From Georgia.pp.105-6. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976; Nirenstein, Virginia. With Kindly Voices: A Nineteenth Century Geor-to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Greenville, gia Family. Macon, Ga.: Tullous Books, 1984. S.C.; moved to Marshall, N.C., in 1910 and continued the practice of law; member of the North Carolina State house PRINCE, William, a Representative from Indiana; born inof representatives in 1916 and 1917; elected trustee of the Ireland in 1772; immigrated to the United States and settled University of North Carolina in 1917; solicitor of the nine-- in Indiana; studied law; served in the State senate in 1816; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1816;teenth judicial district 1919-1922; moved to Asheville, N.C., served as captain in the Battle of Tippecanoe; member of thein 1919 and continued the practice of law; chairman of the Buncombe County Republican committee in 1928; elected as State house of representatives in 1821 and 1822;was elected to the Eighteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823,a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929- until his death near Princeton, Gibson County, md., Septem-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination to the ber 8, 1824; interment in the Old Cemetery, near Princeton, Seventy-second Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate md. for election to the United States Senate in 1930; resumed the practice of law in Asheville and Marshall, N.C.; delegate to PRINDLE, Elizur H., a Representative from New York;the Republican National Convention in 1932; was an unsuc- born in Newtown, Conn., May 6, 1829; completedpreparato-cessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1948; ry studies; attended the local academy at Homer, N.Y.; stud-died in Asheville, N.C., April 24, 1955; interment in Pritch- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and practiced;ard Cemetery, Marshall, N.C. moved to New York and practiced law in Norwich, Chen- ango County; was district attorney of Chenango County, PRITCHARD, Jeter Connelly (father of George Moore N.Y., 1859-1863; member of the State assembly in 1863;Pritchard), a Senator from North Carolina; born in Jones- member of the State constitutional convention in 1867 andboro, Washington County, Tenn., July 12, 1857; apprenticed 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congressto the printer'strade; moved toBakersville,Mitchell (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); resumed the practice of law;County, N.C., in 1873; became joint editor and owner of the died in Norwich, N.Y., October 7, 1890; interment in MountRoan Mountain Republican; attended the Martins Creek Hope Cemetery. Academy in Tennessee; presidential elector on the Republi- PRINGEY, Joseph Colburn, a Representative from Okla-can ticket in 1880; elected to the State house of representa- homa; born in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., May 22,tives in 1884, 1886, and 1890; studied law; was admitted to 1858; attended the common schools; moved to Missouri inthe bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Marshall, N.C.; 1870; attended a business college in Sedalia, Mo.; movedto unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1888; un- Chandler, Lincoln County, Okla., in 1891; engaged in agricul-successful Republican candidate for United States Senator in tural pursuits and in the loan and insurance business;1891; president of the North Carolina Protective Tariff member of the Territorial senate in 1893; member of theLeague in 1891; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 board of regents of the University of Oklahomaat Normanto the Fifty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the in 1893 and 1894; delegate to the Republican National Con-United States Senate in 1894 to fill the vacancy caused by vention in 1900; county clerk of Lincoln County, Okla., 19 12-the death of Zebulon B. Vance; reelected in 1897 and served 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congressfrom January 23, 1895, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Commit- (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate fortee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-fourth and reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; actingpost- Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Patents (Fifty-sixth master of Chandler, Okia., in 1923 and 1924; resumed agri-and Fifty-seventh Congresses); justice of the supreme court cultural pursuits; died in Chandler, Okla.,on February 11,of the District of Columbia 1903-1904; judge of the United 1935; interment in Oak Park Cemetery. States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Judicial Circuit from Biographies 1677

1904 until his death in Asheville, N.C., on April 10, 1921;the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); interment in Riverside Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty- Bibliography: DAB. seventh Congress; served as a member of Board of Assess- ment Appeals, Lackawanna County, Pa.; director of veter- PRITCHARD, Joel McFee, a Representative from Wash- ans' affairs for fourteen years, Lackawanna County; resided ington; born in Seattle, King County, Wash., May 5, 1925;in Lake Ariel, Pa., where he died November 11, 1977; inter- attended the public schools; Marietta College, 1946-1947; served in the United States Army, 1944-1946, with rank ofment in St. Catherine's Cemetery, Moscow, Pa. sergeant; employed, Griffin Envelope Co., Seattle, Wash., PROSSER, William Farrand, a Representative from Ten- president, 1948-1971; member, State house of representa-nessee; born in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., on tives, 1953-1966; member, State senate, 1966-1970; delegate,March 16, 1834; received a limited schooling; taught school; Republican National Convention, 1956; elected as a Republi-studied law but never practiced; moved to California in 1854; can to the Ninety-third and to the five succeeding Congress-engaged in mining; returned to Pennsylvania in 1861; en- es (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1985); did notseek reelectiontered the Union Army November 30,1861, promoted to the Ninety-ninth Congress; is a resident of Seattle, Wash.through the ranks to colonel, and served throughout the PROCTOR, Redfield, a Senator from Vermont; born inCivil War; after the war settled on a farm near Nashville, Proctorsville, Windsor County, Vt., June 1, 1831; graduatedTenn.; elected to the State house of representatives, 1867- from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1851 and from1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress the Albany Law School in 1859; was admitted to the bar and(March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for practiced in Boston, Mass., in 1860 and 1861; during thereelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; postmaster Civil War enlisted in the Union Army as a major, promotedof Nashville 1872-1875; a director of the Tennessee, Edge- to colonel, and was mustered out in 1863; returned to Ver-field & Kentucky Railroad; appointed in 1872 as one of the mont, engaged in the practice of law, and became interestedState commissioners to the Centennial Exposition at Phila- in the development of the marble industry; member, Statedelphia in 1876 and sent on a special mission in 1873 to house of representatives 1867-1868; member, State senateassist in arranging participation of European countries in and president pro tempore 1874-1875; lieutenant governor ofthe exposition; published the Nashville Republican for sever- the State1876-1878; 1878-1880;al years; appointed by President Hayes in 1879 as special member, State house of representatives 1888; appointed Sec-agent of the Interior Department for Oregon, Washington, retary of War in the Cabinet of President Benjamin Harri-and Idaho and moved to Washington in the same year; son in 1889; resigned from the Cabinet in 1891 to becomedelegate to the first State constitutional convention of Wash- Senator; appointed in 1891 and subsequently elected as aington; chairman of the State harbor line commission; Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancymayor of North Yakima; city treasurer ofSeattle 1908-1910; caused by the resignation of George F. Edmunds; reelecteddied in Seattle, Wash., September 23, 1911; interment in in 1892, 1898, and 1904 and served from November 2, 1891,Lakeview Cemetery. until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1908; chair- man, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Fifty-fourth PROUTY, Solomon Francis, a Representative from Iowa; through Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairsborn in Delaware, Ohio, January 17, 1854; moved with his (Fifty-ninth Congress); interment in the City Cemetery, Proc-father to Marion County, Iowa, in 1855; attended the public tor, Rutland County, Vt. schools, Central University, Pella, Iowa, 1870-1873, Simpson Bibliography: DAB; Bowie, Chester W. ": A Biography." College, Indianola, Iowa, 1873-187 5, and was graduated from Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1980; Partridge, Frank. "Red- Central University in 1877; professor at Central University field Proctor." Vermont Historical Society Proceedings (1915): 59-123. 1878-1882; member of the State house of representatives in PROFFIT, George H., a Representative from Indiana;1880 and 1881; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 born in New Orleans, La., September 4, 1807; completedand commenced practice in Pella, Marion County, Iowa; preparatory studies; moved to Petersburg, Pike County, md.,moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1891 and engaged in the in 1828; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Petersburg andpractice of law; judge of the district court in 1899; unsuccess- Portersville, md.; studied law; was admitted to the bar andful candidate for election to Congress in 1902, 1904, and commenced practice in Petersburg, Ind.; member of the1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and Sixty- State house of representatives in 1831, 1832, and 1836-1838; third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); was not a elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventhcandidate for renomination in 1914; resumed the practice of Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not a candi-his profession; trustee of the Central University of Iowa; date for renomination in 1842; appointed by President Tylerdied in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, July 16, 1927; inter- as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary toment in Glendale Cemetery. Brazil and served from. June 7, 1843, to August 10, 1844, PROUTY, Winston Lewis, a Representative and a Senator when he returned home, the Senate having refused to con-from Vermont; born in Newport, Orleans County, Vt., Sep- firm his appointment; died in Louisville, Ky., September 7,tember 1, 1906; attended public schools, Bordentown (N.J.) 1847; interment in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Petersburg, md.Military Institute, and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; mayor PROKOP, Stanley A., a Representative from Pennsylva-of Newport 1938-1941; member, State house of representa- nia; born in Throop, Lackawanna County, Pa., July 29, 1909;tives 1941, 1945, 1947, serving as speaker in 1947; chairman attended the public schools of Dickson City and Throop;of Vermont State Water Conservation Board 1948-1950; offi- graduated from Villanova (Pa.) University with B.A. andcer and director of family-owned lumber andbuilding mate- B.S. degrees; entered the Second World War as a private inrial enterprises; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second the Thirtieth Infantry Division and was discharged as aCongress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan- captain; served as supervisor of Lackawanna, Pa.; member,uary 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); was not acandidate for re- North Pocono Joint School Board for ten years; commis-nomination in 1958; elected to the United States Senate in sioned an officer at the Adjutant General's Officer Candi-1958; reelected in 1964 and 1970, and served from January 3, date School, Ft. Washington, Md.; elected as a Democrat to1959, until his death in office, September 10, 1971; died in 1678 Biographical Directory

Boston, Mass.; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport,Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Vt. Houston and served from January 7 to November 23, 1880, Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 92nd Cong., 1st sess., when a successor was elected; elected as a Democrat to the 1971. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972. Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); de- PROXMIRE, William, a Senator from Wisconsin; born inclined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884; chairman, Lake Forest, Lake County, Ill., November 11, 1915; attendedCommittee on Territories (Forty-eighth Congress); retired to the public schools of Lake Forest and the Hill School, Potts-his farm near Athens, Ala., where he died August 5, 1900; town, Pa.; graduated, Yale University 1938, Harvard Busi-interment in the City Cemetery. ness School 1940, and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1948; during the Second World War served in the PRYOR, Roger Atkinson, a Representative from Virginia; Military Intelligence Service 1941-1946, member, Wisconsinborn near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., July 19, 1828; State assembly 1951-1952; businessman; unsuccessful Demo-was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in cratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, 1954,1845 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and 1956; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senatein 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and in 1957 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R.practiced a short time in Petersburg, but abandoned law on McCarthy and served from August 28, 1957, to January 3,account of ill health; engaged on the editorial staff of the 1959; reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976, and again in 1982Washington Union in 1852 and the Richmond Enquirer in for the term ending Jaunary 3, 1989; chairman, Committee1854; appointed special United States Minister to Greece in on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fourth,1854; returned and established The South in 1857; associated Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, and One-hundreth Congresses). himself with the staff of the Washington States; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy PRUYN, John Van Schaick Lansing, a Representativecaused by the death of William 0. Goode and served from from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., June 22, 1811;pur-December 7, 1859, to March 3, 1861; during the Civil War sued classical studies and was graduated from the Albanyserved in the Confederate Army as a colonel in 1861 and Academy in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar andbrigadier general in 1863; later resigned his commission and commenced practice in Albany in 1832; held several localreenlisted as a private soldier; member of the Virginia Con- offices; appointed a regent of the University of the State offederate House of Representatives; captured by the Union New York in 1844; unsuccessful candidate for election to thetroops in November 1864 and confined in Fort Lafayette, but Thirty-fourth Congress in 1854; member of the State senatesoon afterward was released; moved to New York City and in 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congresspracticed law 1866-1890; delegate to the Democratic Nation- to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Erastusal Convention in 1876; judge of the court of common pleas of Corning and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3,New York 1890-1894; justice of the New York Supreme 1865; elected to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-MarchCourt 1894-1899; retired upon reaching the age limit; ap- 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1864 andpointed official referee by the appellate division of the su- 1868; resumed the practice of law at Albany, N.Y.; chancel-preme court April 10, 1912, and served until his death in lor of the University of the State of New York from 1868New York City March 14, 1919; interment in Princeton Cem- until his death in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, N.Y.,etery, Princeton, N.J. November 21, 1877; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery, Bibliography: DAB; Holzman, Robert S. Adapt or Perish; The Life of Albany, N.Y. General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1976. Bibliography: DAB. PUCINSKI, Roman Conrad, a Representative from Illi- PRYOR, David Hampton, a Representative anda Senatornois; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., May 13, 1919; at- from Arkansas; born in Camden, Ouachita County, Ark.,tended the public schools in Chicago, Ill., Northwestern Uni- August 29, 1934; attended the public schools of Camden;versity 1938-1941, and John Marshall Law School 1945-1949; attended Henderson State Teachers College; graduated, Uni-staff reporter and writer for the Chicago Sun-Times 1939- versity of Arkansas 1957; graduated, University of Arkansas 1959; on November 1, 1940, enlisted as a private in the One Law School 1964; admitted to the bar in 1964 andcom- Hundred and Sixth Cavalry; served with the Twentieth menced practice in Camden; founder and publisher, Oua-Global (Superfort) Air Force; led his bomber group on the chita Citizen 1957-1960; elected State representative in 1960first B-29 bombing raid over Tokyo in 1944; awarded the and reelected in 1962 and 1964; elected as a Democrat to theDistinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with clusters; Eighty-ninth Congress, November 8, 1966, by special elec-served as chief investigator for a select committee of Con- tion, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Orengress investigating the Katyn Forest Massacre, 1952; elected Harris and at the same time elected to the Ninetieth Con-as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress; reelected to the gress; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and servedsix succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1973); from November 8, 1966, to January 3, 1973;was not a candi-was not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the United date for reelection in 1972 to the House of Representatives,States House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for thecandidate for election to the United States Senate; appointed United States Senate; Governor of Arkansas 1975-1979;to the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1978October 1974, and served until his reappointment, August for the term commencing January 3, 1979; reelected in 19841979, for a three year term; Alderman, Chicago, Ill., 1973 to for the term ending January 3, 1991. present; is a resident of Chicago, Ill. PRYOR, Luke, a Senator and a Representative from Ala- PUGH, George Ellis, a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincin- bama; born in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., July 5,nati, Ohio, November 28, 1822; attended private schools; 1820; moved with his parents to Limestone County in 1824;graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, in 1840; pursued academic studies; studied law; was admitted to thestudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Athens, Ala.; alsopractice the same year in Cincinnati, Ohio; served in the engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, State house ofMexican War as captain of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio Vol- representatives 1855-1856; appointed to the United Statesunteer Infantry; returned to Cincinnati and resumed the Biographies 1679 practice of law; member, State house of representativesmoved with his parents to Lewis County in 1852; attended 1848-1850; city solicitor 1850; State attorney general 1852-Chandler's Select School, Rand's Academy, and Centre Col- 1854; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andlege, Danville, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and served from March 4, 1855, to March 3, 1861; unsuccessfulcommenced practice in Vanceburg, Lewis County, KY.; city candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law in Cin-attorney in 1872 and 1873; master commissioner of the cir- cinnati; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election incuit court 1874-1880; county attorney 1878-1886; county 1863 as lieutenant governor and for election in 1864 to thejudge 1886-1890; delegate to the State constitutional conven- Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the State constitutionaltion in 1890 and 1891; member of the State senate in 1893 convention in 1873 but withdrew from its deliberations; re-and 1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty- tired from public life; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 19, 1876;fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, interment in . 1901); resumed the practice of law in Vanceburg, Ky., and Bibliography: DAB. died there April 17, 1922; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. PUGH, James Lawrence, a Representative and a Senator PUGSLEY, Cornelius Amory, a Representative from New from Alabama; born in Burke County, Ga., December 12,York; born in Peekskill, Westchester County, N.Y., July 17, 1820; moved with his parents to Alabama in 1824; pursued1850; attended the public schools and was instructed in an academic course in Alabama and Georgia; studied law;higher education by a private tutor; clerk and assistant post- was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice inmaster 1867-1870; engaged in the banking business in 1870; Eufaula, Ala.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; Demo-president of the board of trustees of the Peekskill Military cratic presidential elector in 1848, 1856, and 1876; elected toAcademy; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Con- the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1859, togress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; during the Civil Warfor reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; resumed joined the Eufaula Rifles, First Alabama Regiment, as abanking in Peekskill; president general of the Sons of the private; elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861 andAmerican Revolution in 1906 and 1907; delegate to the Na- reelected in 1863; after the war resumed the practice of law;tional Democratic Convention in 1908; president of the New member of the convention that framed the State constitu- tion in 1875; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket inYork State Bankers' Association in 1913; president of the 1876; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate toWestchester County National Bank, Peekskill, N.Y.; member fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Houston;of the Westchester County Park Commission; died in Peeks- twice reelected, and served from November 24, 1880, tokill, N.Y., on September 10, 1936; interment in Raymond March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman,Hill Cemetery, Carmel, N.Y. Committee on the Judiciary (Fifty-third Congress), Commit- PUGSLEY, Jacob Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; tee on Revolutionary Claims (Fifty-fourth Congress); retiredborn in Dutchess County, N.Y., January 25, 1838; moved to from active business and resided in Washington, D.C., untilOhio with his parents in 1839; was graduated from Miami his death there on March 9, 1907; interment in the FairviewUniversity, Oxford, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the Cemetery, Eufaula, Barbour County, Ala. bar and commenced practice in Dayton, Ohio; moved to PUGH, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornHillsboro and continued the practice of law; member of the in Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pa., June 2, 1761;State house of representatives 1880-1883; served in the State attended the common schools; served in the Revolutionarysenate in 1886 and 1887; elected as a Republican to the Army as a private, ensign, and captain; engaged in agricul-Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, tural and mercantile pursuits; justice of the peace; member1891); was not a candidate for renomination in 1890; resided of the State house of representatives 1800-1804; elected as ain Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, where he died Febru- Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses (March 4,ary 5, 1920; interment in Hillsboro Cemetery. 1805-March 3, 1809); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in PUJO, Arsène Paulin, a Representative from Louisiana; 1808 to the Eleventh Congress; register of wills and recorderborn near Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La., December 16, of deeds of Bucks County 1810-1821; died in Doylestown,1861; attended public and private schools; studied law; was Bucks County, Pa., on July 13, 1842; interment in the Pres-admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Lake byterian Churchyard. Charles, La.; delegate to the State constitutional convention PUGH, John Howard, a Representative from New Jersey;in 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the born in Unionville, Chester County, Pa., June 23, 1827; at-four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); tended the common schools and the Friends' School, West-chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Sixty- town, Pa.; taught school in Marietta, Pa., in 1847; was grad-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in uated from the medical department of the University of1912; resumed the practice of law in Lake Charles, La.; died Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1852; began the practice ofin New Orleans, La., December 31, 1939, while on a visit for his profession in Bristol, Pa., in 1852; moved to Burlington,medical treatment; interment in Orange Grove Cemetery, Burlington County, N.J., in 1854 and continued the practiceLake Charles, La. of medicine; during the Civil War served as a physician Bibliography: DAB. without compensation at the United States general hospital PULITZER, Joseph, a Representative from New York; in Beverly, N.J.; president of the Mechanics' National Bankborn in Makdo, near Budapest, Hungary, April 10, 1847; of Burlington for thirty-six years; elected as a Republican toreceived his early training from a private tutor; immigrated the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); Un-to the United States in 1864; enlisted as a private in the successful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixthUnion Army at the age of seventeen in the First Regiment, Congress; resumed the practice of medicine; member of theNew York (Lincoln) Cavalry, in Kingston, N.Y., September State board of education; died in Burlington, N.J., April 30, 30, 1864; mustered out in Alexandria, Va., June 5, 1865; 1905; interment in St. Mary's Churchyard. resumed civil life in St. Louis, Mo.; studied law and was PUGH, Samuel Johnson, a Representative from Ken-admitted to practice by the supreme court of Missouri; en- tucky; born in Greenup County, Ky., January 28, 1850;tered journalism in 1867 as a reporter on the St. Louis 1680 Biographical Directory

Westliche Post and became managing editor and part propri-owing to poor health and retired from active pursuits; died etor; elected to the Missouri legislature in 1869; delegate toin Norwich, N.Y., March 30, 1870; interment in Mount Hope the Reform Republican Convention at Cincinnati in 1872;Cemetery. member of the State constitutional convention in 1874; founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch December 10, 1878, and PURMAN, William James, a Representative from Florida; continued to own and publish it until his death; delegate toborn in Millheim, Centre County, Pa., April 11, 1840; attend- the Democratic National Convention in 1880; moved to Newed the common schools and completed his studies at Aarons- York City in the Spring of 1883 and bought the New Yorkburg Academy, Centre County, Pa.; taught school; studied World; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congresslaw at Lock Haven, Pa.; during the Civil War entered the and served from March 4, 1885, until April 10, 1886, whenUnion Army as a private and served on special duty at the he resigned; died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charles-War Department until transferred to Florida in 1865; was ton, S.C., October 29, 1911; interment in Woodlawn Ceme-admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in tery, New York City. Tallahassee, Fla.; member of the State constitutional con- Bibliography: DAB; Juergens, George. Joseph Pulitzer and the New York vention in 1868; served in the State senate 1869-1872; ap- World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966; Swanberg, W.A. Pulitz- pointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State senate er. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. as secretary of state in 1869, but declined; chairman of the PURCELL, Graham Boynton, Jr., a Representative fromFlorida Commission in 1869 for entering into negotiations Texas; born in Archer City, Archer County, Tex., May 5,for transfer of West Florida to the State of Alabama, which 1919; attended the public schools; Texas A&M College, B.S.,transfer was not ratified by Alabama; assessor of United 1946 and Baylor University Law School, Waco, Tex., LL.B.,States internal revenue for the district of Florida 1870-1872; 1949; entered the United States Army in 1941, serving asanchairman of the Republican State committee 1870-1872; Infantry officer in the Tunisian and Italian campaigns, andmember of the Republican National Committee 1876-1880; was discharged as a major in 1946; remained in active re-elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress and serves; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practiceserved from March 4, 1873, to January 25, 1875, when he of law in Big Spring, Tex., in 1949; appointed judge of theresigned; member of the State house of representatives for Eighty-ninth Judicial District Court of Texas in 1955 andone session and resigned when elected to Congress; elected elected to that office in 1956 and 1960, serving until 1962;to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960 and 1964;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty- elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, byfifth Congress; returned in 1878 to Millheim, Pa., and en- special election, January 27, 1962, to fill the vacancy causedgaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Boston, Mass., in by the resignation of Frank Ikard; reelected to the five1883; moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived in retire- succeeding Congresses and served from January 27, 1962, toment until his death on August 14, 1928; the remains were January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection incremated and the ashes deposited in a vault at Glenwood 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; resumed the practice ofCemetery. law; is a resident of Wichita Falls, Tex. PURNELL,, Fred Sampson, a Representative from Indi- PURCELL, William Edward, a Senator from Northana; born on a farm near Veedersburg, Fountain County, Dakota; born in Flemington, Hunterdon County,N.J.,md., October 25, 1882; attended the common schools and the August 3, 1856; attended the common schools; studied law;high school at Veedersburg; was graduated from the law was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1880 and com-department of Indiana University at Bloomington in 1904; menced practice in Flemington, N.J.; moved to Wahpeton,was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced Territory of Dakota, in 1881 and continued the practice ofpractice in Attica, Fountain County, md.; city attorney of law; was appointed by President Grover Clevelandas UnitedAttica 1910-1914; resumed the practice of his profession; States attorney for the Territory of Dakota in 1888; resignedunsuccessful candidate for election in 1914 to the Sixty- in 1889, having been elected a member of the constitutionalfourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth convention for the new State of North Dakota; district attor-and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917- ney of Richiand County, N.Dak., 1889-1891; member, StateMarch 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 senate 1907-1909; appointed as a Democrat to the Unitedto the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofSeventy-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Martin N. Johnson and the resignation of Fountain L.Attica, md.; moved to Washington, D.C., in April 1939 and Thompson and served from February 1, 1910, to February 1,served as an attorney in the General Accounting Office until 1911, when a successor was elected and qualified; unsuccess-his resignation on October 1, 1939; died in Washington, D.C., ful candidate for election; continued the practice of law until his death; appointed chairman of the Food ConservationOctober 21, 1939; interment in Rockfield Cemetery, near Commission in 1917; died in Wahpeton, Richland County,Veedersburg, md. N.Dak., November 23, 1928; interment in Calvary Cemetery. PURSELL, Carl Duane, a Representative from Michigan; born in Imlay City, Lapeer County, Mich., December 19, PURDY, Smith Meade, a Representative from New York;1932; educated in the public schools of Plymouth, Mich.; born in North Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., July 31,graduated from Plymouth High School, 1951; teacher-busi- 1796; attended the common schools; studied law;was admit-nessman; served in United States Army, 1957-1959; member, ted to the bar and commenced practice at Sherburne, N.Y.,Wayne County (Mich.) Board of Commissioners, 1969-1970; in 1819; moved to Norwich, N.Y., in 1827 and continued theserved in Michigan senate, 1971-1977; elected as a Republi- practice of law; appointed judge of the court of commoncan to the Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses pleas and surrogate of Chenango County in 1833 and served(January 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Plymouth, until his resignation in 1837; elected as a Democrat to theMich. Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845);was not a candidate for renomination in 1844; resumed the prac- PURTELL, William Arthur, a Senator from ; tice of law; elected judge and surrogate of Chenango Countyborn in Hartford, Conn., May 6, 1897; attended the public in 1847 and served until 1851; declined a renominationand parochial schools; during the First World War enlisted Biographies 1681 in the United States Army in 1918 and was discharged as ahis plantation, "Shallow Ford," in Yadkin County, N.C., July corporal in 1919; engaged as a salesman 1919-1929; organiz-30, 1867; interment in the family burial ground. er, president, treasurer, and general manager of the Holo- Krome Screw Corp.; also was director and officer of many PUSEY, William Henry Mills, a Representative from other business enterprises; unsuccessful candidate for theIowa; born in Washington County, Pa., on July 29, 1826; Republican nomination for governor in 1950; appointed as aattended the Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylva- Republican on August 29, 1952, to the United States Senatenia, and was graduated in 1847; studied law and was admit- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brien McMahonted to the bar but did not engage in extensive practice; and served from August 29, 1952, to November 4, 1952, when moved to Iowa and engaged in banking; member of the State a successor was duly elected; was not a candidate for elec-senate 1858-1862; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth tion to the vacancy; elected to the United State Senate No-Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candi- vember 4, 1952, for a full six-year term and served fromdate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; re- January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidatesumed banking activities; died in Council Bluffs, Pottawatta- for reelection in 1958; resumed manufacturing interests; re-mie County, Iowa, November 15, 1900; interment in Walnut sided in West Hartford, Conn., where he died May 31, 1978;Hill Cemetery. interment in Fairview Cemetery. PUTNAM, Harvey, a Representative from New York; born PURVIANCE, Samuel Anderson, a Representative fromin Brattleboro, Vt., January 5, 1793; attended the common Pennsylvania; born in Butler, Pa., January 10, 1809; afterschools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and receiving a preliminary education, entered college and pur-commenced practice in Attica, N.Y., in 1817; held several sued a partial course and then studied law; was admitted tolocal offices; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Butler, Pa.;to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Patterson moved to Warren County and was prosecuting attorney forand served from November 7, 1838, to March 3, 1839; ap- two years; returned to Butler, where he continued the prac- pointed surrogate of Genessee County in 1840, which office tice of law; delegate to the State constitutional convention ofhe held until the division of the county, when he was ap- 1837 and 1838; member of the State house of representativespointed surrogate of Wyoming County, serving until 1842; in 1838 and 1839; delegate to the Whig National Conventionmember of the State senate 1843-1846; elected as a Whig to in 1844 and to the Republican National Convention in 1856,the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847- 1860, 1864, and 1868; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourthMarch 3, 1851); was not a candidate for renomination in Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth1850; resumed the practice of law; died in Attica, Wyoming Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candi-County, N.Y., September 20, 1855; interment in Forest Hill date for renomination in 1858; moved to Pittsburgh in 1859 and continued the practice of law; served as attorney gener-Cemetery. al of Pennsylvania in 1861; resumed the practice of his PYLE, Gladys, a Senator from South Dakota; born in professionin Pittsburgh until1876, when he retired;Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., October 4, 1890; attended the member of the National Executive Committee of the Repub-public schools; graduated from Huron (S.Dak.) College in lican Party 1864-1868; member of the State constitutional1911; taught in the public high schools at Miller, Wessing- convention of 1872; unsuccessful candidate for election inton, and Huron, S.Dak., 1912-1918; first woman member of 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; died in Allegheny (now athe State house of representatives 1923-1927; served as sec- part of Pittsburgh), Pa., February 14, 1882; interment inretary of State of South Dakota 1927-193 1; unsuccessful can- Highwood (formerly Bellevue) Cemetery. didateforRepublicannominationforgovernor1930; PURVIANCE, Samuel Dinsmore, a Representative frommember of the State securities commission 193 1-1933; en- North Carolina; born on Masonboro Sound at Castle Fingaged in the life insurance business; elected as a Republican House, near Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., Janu-to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the ary 7, 1774; attended a private school; studied law; wasdeath of Peter Norbeck and served from November 9, 1938, admitted to the bar and practiced at Fayetteville, N.C.; alsoto January 3, 1939; was not a candidate for election in 1938 owned and operated a large plantation; member of the Stateto the full term; resumed the life insurance business and house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the Statealso engaged in farm management; member of the South senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayette-Dakota Board of Charities and Corrections 1943-1957; agent yule Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighthfor Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceCo.,1950 to Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the prac-present; is a resident of Huron, S.Dak. tice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River about 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West. PURYEAR, Richard Clãuselle, a Representative from Q North Carolina; born in Mecklenburg County, Va., February 9, 1801; moved with his parents to Surry County, N.C.; pur- QUACKENBUSH, John Adam, a Representative from sued classical studies; engaged in planting near Huntsville,New York; born in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, N.Y., N.C.; colonel of militia; magistrate of Surry County; servedOctober 15, 1828; attended the district schools and the local in the State house of commons in 1838, 1844, 1846, and inacademy in Stillwater, N.Y.; engaged in agricultural pur- 1852; member of the State senate; elected as a Whig to thesuits and was also interested in the lumber business; super- Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an American Partyvisor of Schaghticoke 1860-1862; chairman of the Board of candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853-Supervisors of Rensselaer County in 1862; member of the March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 State assembly in 1862; sheriff of Rensselaer County 1873- to the Thirty-fifth Congress; was a delegate to the Confeder-1876; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty- ate Provisional Congress which assembled at Richmond insecond Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was an 1861; delegate to the peace congress held in Philadelphiaunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty- after the Civil War; resumed agricultural pursuits; died onthird Congress; resumed agriculturalpursuits;died in 1682 Biographical Directory

Schaghticoke, N.Y., May 11, 1908; interment in the Citythe State house of representatives in 1811 and 1812; during Cemetery. the War of 1812, at his own expense, armed and equipped a QUARLES, James Minor, a Representative from Tennes-company of the Second Regiment, Kentucky Militia, which see; born near Louisa Court House, Louisa County, Va.,he commanded; appointed circuit judge by the Governor; February 8, 1823; attended the common schools; in 1833elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con- moved to Kentucky with his father who settled in Christiangresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his resignation County; completed preparatory studies; studied law;was ad-effective June 15, 1820; appointed receiver of public moneys mitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Clarks-for the Cape Girardeau land district, with offices at Jackson, ville, Tenn.; elected attorney general for the tenth judicialMo., and served from May 1821 to July 1824; returned to circuit in 1853 and served until 1859, when he resigned,Somerset, Ky., and engaged in agricultural pursuits and the having been elected to Congress; elected as an Oppositionpractice of law; member and speaker of the State house of Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- representatives in 1828; served in the State senate in 1840; March 3, 1861); resumed the practice of law; during the Civildied in Somerset, Ky., January 7, 1855; interment in the old War served in the Confederate Army in the brigade of hisBaptist Cemetery. brother, Brig. Gen. W.A. Quarles, until the close of thewar; moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1872 and continued the prac- QUAY, Matthew Stanley, a Senator from Pennsylvania; tice of law; elected judge of the criminal court in 1878 andborn in Dillsburg, York County, Pa., on September 30, 1833; served until 1882, when he resigned; resumed the practice ofattended Beaver and Indiana Academies and graduated from law; died in Nashville, Tenn., March 3, 1901; interment inJefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1850; taught school; Mount Olivet Cemetery. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Beaver, Pa.; prothonotary of Beaver County QUARLES, Joseph Very, a Senator from Wisconsin; born1856-1860; during the Civil War, served as a colonel of the in Southport (now Kenosha), Kenosha County, Wis., Decem-One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania ber 16, 1843; attended the common schools and the Universi-Volunteers, lieutenant colonel, assistant commissary gener- ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor; during the Civil War served inal, military State agent at Washington, private secretary to the Union Army in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Wisconsinthe Governor, and major and chief of transportation and Volunteers, and was mustered out as first lieutenant; grad-telegraphs; member, State house of representatives 1865- uated from the University of Michigan in 1866 and from its1867; owned and edited the Beaver Radical 1867-1872; secre- law department in 1867; was admitted to the bar in 1868 andtary of the Commonwealth 1872-1878, 1879-1882; recorder of commenced practice in Kenosha; district attorney for Keno- sha County 1870-1876; mayor of Kenosha 1876; member,the city of Philadelphia; State treasurer 1885-1887; elected State assembly 1879; member, State senate 1880-1882;in 1887 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelect- moved to Racine, Wis., and six years later made Milwaukeeed in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1899; his home; elected as a Republican to the United Statesunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1899; appointed by Senate and served from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1905;the Governor to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy was not a candidate for reelection in 1905; chairman, Com-in the term commencing March 4, 1899, caused by the fail- mittee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-sixthure of the legislature to elect, but by resolution of the Congress), Committee on the Census (Fifty-seventh andSenate on April 24, 1900, was declared not entitled to the Fifty-eighth Congresses); appointed United States districtseat; elected on January 15, 1901, to fill the existing vacan- judge for the eastern district of Wisconsin by Presidentcy, and served from January 16, 1901, until his death in in 1905, and served until his death inBeaver, Pa., May 28, 1904; chairman, Committee to Examine Milwaukee, Wis., October 7, 1911; interment in the CityBranches of the Civil Service (Fiftieth Congress), Committee Cemetery, Kenosha, Wis. on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on the Library (Fifty- QUARLES, Julian Minor, a Representative from Virgina;second Congress),Committee on Public Buildings and born near Ruther Glen, Caroline County, Va., September 25,Grounds (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee 1848; attended the primary schools in Caroline and Augustaon the Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of Execu- Counties and Pine Hill and Aspen Hill Academies, Louisative Departments (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congress- County, Va.; taught school three years and then atthndedes); interment in Beaver Cemetery. the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law; Bibliography: DAB; Kehi, James. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Staun- Quay of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981; ton, Augusta County, Va., in September 1874; judge of the Oliver, John W. "Matthew Stanley Quay." Western Pennsylvania Historical county court of Augusta County, Va., from January 1880 to Magazine 17 (March 1934): 1-12. June 1883, when he resigned; moved to , Minn., QUAYLE, J. Danforth (Dan), a Representative and a Sen- and practiced his profession for two years; returned toator from Indiana; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Staunton, Va., and continued the practice of law; electedas a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-md., February 4, 1947; attended the public schools of Hun- March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination intington, md.; graduated, DePauw University, Greencastle, 1900; member of the State constitutional convention in 1901;md., 1969; graduated, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1974; resumed the practice of law in Staunton, Va., until 1924;admitted to the Indiana bar in 1974 and commenced practice died in Staunton, Va., November 18, 1929; interment inin Huntington; served in the Indiana National Guard 1969- Thornrose Cemetery. 1975; associate publisher of the Huntington Herald Press; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; QUARLES, Tunstall, a Representative from Kentucky;reelected to the Ninety-sixth Congress (January 3, 1977- born in King William County, Va., about 1770; attended theJanuary 3, 1981); was not a candidate in 1980 for reelection local schools; moved with his parents to Woodford County,to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the Ky., about 1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar andUnited States- Senate for the term commencing January 3, practiced; member of the State house of representatives in1981; reelected in 1986 for the term ending January 3, 1993; 1796; moved to Somerset, Pulaski County, KY.; member ofchairman, Select Committee to Study the Committee System Biographies 1683

(Ninety-eighth Congress); Republican nominee for Vice1863; attended the public schools of Wilmington, Del.; moved President of the United States in 1988. to New York City in 1880 and engaged in journalism; editor of the Flushing (N.Y.) Times in 1883 and 1884; member of QUAYLE, John Francis, a Representative from Newthe editorial staff of the New York Tribune 1884-1894; York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on December 1, 1868; attendededitor in chief of the New York Press in 1895; elected as a the public schools, St. James Academy, and St. Francis Col- Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy lege, in Brooklyn; engaged in the retail butcher business;caused by the resignation of John R. Fellows; reelected to also became engaged in building construction in 1902; served the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from as deputy collector of internal revenue for the first district of New York from November 12, 1914, until February 19,January 30, 1894, to March 3, 1899; chairman, Committee on 1919, when he resigned to enter upon his duties as deputyExpenditures in the Department of State (Fifty-fourth and city clerk of Brooklyn Borough, in which capacity he servedFifty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection from March 1919 to February 1923, when he resigned; elect-in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; chairman of the Republi- ed as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the three suc-can State conventions in 1896 and 1902; delegate to the ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until hisRepublican National Convention in 1896, 1900, and 1904; death; had been reelected to the Seventy-second Congress;president of the Republican county committee 1896-1900; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 27, 1930; interment in St.studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1903; delegate to the John's Cemetery. State constitutional convention in 1915; engaged in the prac- tice of law in New York City until his death there July 1, QUEZON, Manuel Luis, a Resident Commissioner from1919; interment in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens the Philippine Islands; born in Baler, Province of Tayabas, County, N.Y. Philippine Islands, August 19, 1878; attended the public Bibliography: DAB. schools and the College of San Juan de Letran, Manila; studied law at the University of Santo Tomas; was admitted QUIGLEY, James Michael, a Representative from Penn- to the bar in April 1903; major in the Philippine Army andsylvania; born in Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, detailed to General Aguinaldo's staff; under the AmericanPa., March 30, 1918; attended the parochial schools of Mount Government held the office of prosecuting attorney for theCarmel; was graduated from Villanova College in 1939 and Province of Mindoro and was subsequently transferred tofrom Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., in 1942; was the Province of Tayabas; elected Provincial Governor ofadmitted to the bar in 1942 and commenced the practice of Tayabas and served from 1906 to 1907, when he resigned;law in Harrisburg, Pa.; served in the United States Navy delegate to the first Philippine Assembly and was the floor1943-1946, engaged in the Philippine and Okinawa cam- leader of his party in 1907 and 1908; elected by the National-paigns, and after V-J Day served with the occupation forces ist Party a Resident Commissioner to the United States inin Korea and China; resumed law practice in Harrisburg, 1909; reelected in 1912 and served from November 23, 1909,Pa.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the to October 15, 1916, when he resigned; member and presi-Eighty-second Congress in 1950; elected as a Democrat to the dent of the Philippine Senate 19 16-1935; elected President ofEighty-fourth Congress (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1957); the Philippine Islands on September 17, 1935, and servedunsuccessful candidate in 1956 for reelection to the Eighty- from the inauguration of the Commonwealth of the Philip-fifth Congress; in 1957 became administrative assistant to pines on November 15, 1935, until his death; escaped fromSenator Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania; assistant attorney Luzon in the Philippine Islands on February 20, 1942, in ageneral, Pennsylvania, 1958; elected to the Eighty-sixth Con- United States submarine after the Philippines had fallen togress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961);unsuccessful candi- the Japanese; died in Saranac Lake, N.Y., on August 1, 1944;date for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; remains interred temporarily in a mausoleum at Arlingtonappointed Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and (Va.) National Cemetery; subsequently reinterred in Ceme-Welfare for Federal and State matters on February 24, 1961, terio del Norte, Manila, Philippines. serving until January 1966; appointed Commissioner, Feder- Bibliography: DAB. al Water Pollution Control Administration, January 1966- QUIE, Albert Harold, a Representative from Minnesota;January 1968; vice president, United States Plywood-Cham- born on a farm in Wheeling Township, Rice County, nearpion Papers, Inc., 1968-1986; is a resident of Bethesda, Md. Dennison, Minn., September 18, 1923; attended the grade QUILLEN, James Henry, a Representative from Tennes- schools in Nerstrand and high school in Northfield; graduat- Va., Janu- ed from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., in 1950; servedsee; born near Kingsport, Tenn., in Scott County, as a pilot in the United States Navy 1943-1945; owner andary 11, 1916; moved to Kingsport in1927; attended the operator of a dairy farm; clerk, District 43 School Boardpublic schools and graduated from Dobyns-Bennett High 1949-1952; supervisor, Rice County Soil Conservation Dis-School in Kingsport in 1934; served in the United States trict 1950-1954; served in the State senate 1955-1958; electedNavy, 1942-1946; newspaper publisher, 1936-1944, in Kings- as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress, by special elec-port and Johnson City; president and chairman of board of tion, February 18, 1958, to fill the vacancy caused by thereal estate, mortgage loans, and insurance corporations in death of August H. Andresen; reelected to the ten succeed-Kingsport and Johnson City, Tenn., 1946 to present; member ing Congresses and served from February 18, 1958, to Janu-of the Tennessee State house of representatives, 1955-1962, ary 3, 1979; was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 butserving as minority floor leader in 1959; nominated as Re- was a successful candidate for andpublican speaker of house both in 1957 and 1961; delegate to served from January 1, 1979, until January 3, 1983; appoint-the Republican National Conventions in 1956, 1964, and ed to the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotia-1968; director of the Kingsport National Bank 1961-1982; tions, 1982; lecturer and teacher, 1983-1986; area director,elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the Prison Fellowship, Minnesota and North Dakota, 1986-1987;twelve succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, executive vice president, Prison Fellowship USA, 1987 to1989); is a resident of Kingsport, Tenn. present; is a resident of Minnetonka, Minn. QUIN, Percy Edwards, a Representative from Mississippi; QUIGG, Lemuel Ely, a Representative from New York;born near Liberty, Amite County, Miss., October 30, 1872; born near Chestertown, Kent County, Md., on February 12,attended the public schools; was graduated from Gillsburg 1684 Biographical Directory

Collegiate Institute, Amite County, Miss., in 1890 and fromin New York City in 1926, and from the law department of Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., in 1893; taught school inFordham University in New York City in 1929; was admit- McComb City, Pike County, Miss., in 1893 and 1894; studiedted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in New York law; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commencedprac-City; member of the New York State assembly 1936-1944; tice in McComb City; city attorney in 1895; delegate to theelected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (Janu- Democratic State conventions in 1899 and 1912; member ofary 8, 1945-January 3, 1947); was an unsuccessful candidate the State house of representatives 1900-1902; unsuccessfulfor reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; resumed the candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress;practice of law until January 1, 1949, when he became a elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the ninejustice of the municipal court of New York City; in 1955 was succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, untilelected a justice and in 1957 a chief justice of the city court his death in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1932; chair-of New York City, serving until 1960, then elected justice of man, Committee on Military Affairs (Seventy-second Con- the supreme court of the State of New York for a fourteen- gress); interment in the City Cemetery of Natchez, Miss.year term; died in Bronx, N.Y., December 23, 1974; inter- QUINCY, Josiah, a Representative from Massachusetts;ment in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J. born in Boston, Mass., February 4, 1772; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard QUINN, Terence John, a Representative from New York; University in 1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar inborn in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October 16, 1836; edu- 1793 and commenced the practice of his profession incated at a private school and the Boys' Academy in his Boston; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventhnative city; early in life entered the brewery business with and Eighth Congresses, served in the State senate in 1804his father and subsequently became senior member of the and 1805; elected as a Federalist to the Ninth and to thefirm; at the outbreak of the Civil War was second lieutenant three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1818);in Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment, New York State Mili- was not a candidate for renomination in 1812 to the Thir-tia Volunteers, which was ordered to the defense of Wash- teenth Congress; again served in the State senate 1813-1820;ington, D.C., in April 1861 and assigned to duty at Arlington member of the State house of representatives in 1821 andHeights; member of the common council of Albany 1869- 1822, serving the last year as speaker; delegate to the Massa-1872; elected a member of the State assembly in 1873; elect- chusetts State Constitutional convention in 1820; judge ofed as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress and served the Boston municipal court in 1822; mayor of Boston 1823-from March 4, 1877, until his death in Albany, N.Y., June 1829; president of Harvard University from 1829 to 1845;18, 1878; interment in St. Agnes' Cemetery. died in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., on July 1, 1864; interment in , Cambridge, Middle- QUINN, Thomas Vincent, a Representative from New sex County, Mass. York; born in Long Island City, Queens County, N.Y., March Bibliography: DAB; McCaughey, Robert A. Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864, the 16, 1903; attended the grade and high schools of Queens Last Federalist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974; Quincy, County, N.Y.; graduated from Fordham University Law Josiah. Menwir of the Life of Josiah Quincy. 1825. Reprint. New York: School in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1924 and com- DaCapo Press, 1971. menced the practice of law in New York City in June 1925; QUINN, James Leland, a Representative from Pennsylva-assistant district attorney of Queens County from September nia; born in Emlenton, Venango County, Pa., September 8,1931 to August 1934; assistant United States attorney, east- 1875; moved to Braddock, Allegheny County, Pa., with hisern district of New York, 1934-1947; Assistant Attorney parents in 1880 and attended St. Thomas School; employedGeneral of the United States from July 21, 1947, until his as a newspaper reporter 1891-1896; became owner and pub-resignation August 10, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from lisher of the Braddock (Pa.) Journal in 1896; member of theJanuary 3, 1949, until his resignation December 30, 1951, to State house of representatives 1983-1935; electedas a Demo- crat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (Jan- become district attorney of Queens County, N.Y., and served uary 3, l935-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate foruntil December 31, 1955; unsuccessful for the Democratic reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumednomination for district attorney of Queens County in 1955; the newspaper publishing business; died in Braddock, Pa.,appointed a city magistrate, April 30, 1957, and served until November 12, 1960; interment in Braddock Catholic Ceme-that office merged with the criminal court of New York City tery. in 1962; subsequently served as a judge of the criminal court until his retirement on September 15, 1972; was a resident of QUINN, John, a Representative from New York; born inVenice, Fla., until his death there on March 1, 1982. County Tipperary, Ireland, August 9, 1839; attended Clonmel College, Tipperary; immigrated to the United States in 1866 QUITMAN, John Anthony, a Representative from Missis- and settled in New York City; engaged in the real estate andsippi; born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., September building business; president of the West Side Electric Light1, 1799; pursued classical studies and was graduated from & Power Company and was one of the founders anda direc-Hartwick Seminary in 1816; instructor in Mount Airy Col- tor of the Homestead Bank of New York; servedas alege, Pennsylvania, in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the member of the New York State assembly in 1882; member ofbar; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1820, and thence to the board of aldermen 1885-1887; delegate to the DemocraticNatchez, Miss., in 1821, where he practiced law; member of the State house of representatives in 1826 and 1827; chancel- National Convention in 1884 and 1888; electedas a Demo-- crat to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3,lor of the State from 1828 until 1835, when he resigned; 1891); died in New York City on February 23, 1903; inter-member of the State constitutional convention in 1832; ment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. served in the State senate in 1835 and 1836 and was made its president; Acting Governor of Mississippi in 1835 and QUINN, Peter Anthony, a Representative from New York;1836; judge of the high court of errors and appeals in 1838; born in New York City, May 10, 1904; attended the St.during the Mexican War was appointed a brigadier general Brigid's and St. Raymond's School; was graduated fromof Volunteers July 1, 1846; commissioned a major general in Manhattan Preparatory School in 1922, Manhattan Collegethe Regular Army April 14, 1847, and honorably discharged Biographies 1685

July 20, 1848; Governor of Mississippi in 1850 and 1851;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Nineti- elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fiftheth Congress; unsuccessful candidate forWisconsin State Congresses and served from March 4, 1855, until his deathassembly in 1970; salesman, Central Electric Supply Co.; was on his plantation, "Monmouth," nearNatchez, Miss., Julya resident of Fond du Lac, Wis.until his death there Novem- 17, 1858, presumably from the effects of National Hotel dis-ber 9, 1983; interment in Estabrooks Cemetery, Fonddu Lac, ease contracted in Washington, D.C., during theinaugura- Wis. tion of President Buchanan; chairman, Committee on Mili- RADCLIFFE, Amos Henry, a Representative from New tary Affairs (Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses); in-Jersey; born in Paterson, N.J., January 16, 1870;attended terment in the Natchez City Cemetery. the New Bibliography: DAB; Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck. Life and Cor- the public schools of Paterson; was graduated from respondence of John A. Quitman. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Bros.,York Trade School; blacksmith and ornamental and struc- 1860; May, Robert E. John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. Baton Rouge: tural iron worker; sergeant in the National Guard of New Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Jersey 1888-1893; in 1896 became associatedwith his fa- ther's firm and in 1907 was made secretary of JamesRad- cliffe & Sons Co., a structural iron manufacturing company; R member of the State house of assembly 1907-1912; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1910,1911, and 1912; RABAIJT, Louis Charles, a Representative from Michigan;sheriff of Passaic County 19 12-1915; fish and gamecommis- born in Detroit, Mich., December 5, 1886; attended parochialsioner 1914-1919; mayor of Paterson 1916-1919;elected as a schools; was graduated from Detroit (Mich.) College in 1909, Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and from the Detroit College of Law in 1912; was admitted(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessfulcandi- to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Detroit;alsodate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighthCongress; engaged in the building business; delegate to the Democraticresumed active interests in Radcliffe & Sons Companyand National Conventions in 1936 and 1940; delegate to the In-was treasurer at the time of hisdeath; founder and a former terparliamentary Union at Oslo, Norway, in 1939; elected aspresident of the Franklin Trust Company, of Paterson,and a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the fivesucceedingserved as chairman of the board; in 1925 became amember Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1947); unsuccessfulof the Board of Standards and Appeals, Paterson,N.J.; died for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; elected toin Baleville, N.J., on December 29, 1950; intermentin Cedar the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses andLawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J. served from January 3, 1949, until his death in Hamtramck, RADCLIFFE, George Lovic Pierce, a Senator from Mary- Mich., on November 12, 1961; interment in Mount Olivet Dorchester Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. land; born on a farm at Lloyds, near Cambridge, County, Md., August 22, 1877; attended bothpublic and pri- RABIN, Benjamin J., a Representative from New York;vate schools; graduated from Cambridge(Md.) Seminary in born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., June 3, 1896; at-1893, from University, Baltimore,Md., in tended the public schools of his native city, and New York1897, from the graduate school of Johns Hopkinsin 1900, University until May 30, 1917, when he enlisted in theand from the law department of the Universityof Maryland United States Navy as a seaman; was subsequently commis-in Baltimore in 1903; principal of the Cambridge(Md.) Semi- sioned as an ensign and served until January 1919; dis-nary in 1900 and 1901; teacher inthe Baltimore City College charged as an ensign from the Naval Reserve in May 1921;in 1901 and 1902; was admitted to thebar in 1903 and reentered New York University and was graduated from thecommenced practice in Baltimore; also interested inbanking law department in 1919; was admitted to the bar the sameand farming; member of the Liquor LicenseCommission, year and commenced practice in New York City; counsel toBaltimore, 1916-19 19; member of theMaryland State Coun- the New York State joint legislative committee investigatingcil of Defense during the First World War; secretaryof state guaranteed mortgages in 1934 and 1935; counsel to the Mort-of Maryland in 1919 and 1920; regional adviser ofthe Public gage Commission of the State of New York 1935-1937andWorks Administration for Maryland, Delaware,Virginia, served as chairman 1937-1939; elected as a Democrat to theWest Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,Kentucky, and Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses and served fromthe District of Columbia in 1933 and 1934;elected as a January 3, 1945, until his resignation effective midnightDemocrat to the United States Senate in 1934;reelected in December 31, 1947, having been elected a justice of the New 1940 and served from January 3, 1935, toJanuary 3, 1947; York State Supreme Court and took the oath of office onwas an unsuccessfulcandidate for renomination in 1946; January 5, 1948; designated by the Governor as associateresumed banking and farming interests; activelyinvolved in justice of appellate division in January 1955 for the termcivic life; resided in Baltimore, Md., where hedied July 29, ending December 31, 1961; reelected for a fourteen-year1974; interment in Cambridge Cemetery,Cambridge, Md. term; died in Palm Beach, Fla., February 22, 1969; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Rochelle Park, N.J. RADFORD, William, a Representative from NewYork; born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., June24, 1814; RACE, John Abner, a Representative from Wisconsin;received a limited schooling; moved to New YorkCity in born in Fond du Lac, Wis., May 12, 1914; attended the public1829 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as aDemo- schools of Fond du Lac and the University of Wisconsin;crattothe Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses employed in the machine-tool industry as a specialist, 1942-(March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful candidatefor 1965; member of the State Coordinating Committee forreelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; resumedhis Higher Education, 1963-1964; member of the Wisconsinformer business pursuits; died in Yonkers,Westchester State Board of Vocational and Adult Education, 1960-1965;County, N.Y., January 18, 1870; interment in theOld Pres- elected Fond du Lac County supervisor in 1958 and reelectedbyterian Cemetery, Westfield, Union County, N.J. in 1960 and 1962; chairman of Fond du Lac County Demo- cratic Party, 1959-1965; vice chairman of the Sixth District RADWAN, Edmund Patrick, a Representative from New Democratic Party, 1961-1964; elected as a Democrat to theYork; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.,September 22, Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967);1911; attended the public schools; graduated fromthe Uni- 1686 Biographical Directory

versity of Buffalo Law School in 1934; athletic coachof Eastsucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1983); High School, Buffalo, N.Y., 1929-1934;was admitted to thewas an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1982; bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law inBuffalo, practices law in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washing- N.Y.; village attorney of Sloan, N.Y., 1938-1940;served as aton, D.C. corporal in the United States Army 1943-1945;member of the State senate from 1945 to December 31, 1950;elected as RAINES, John, a Representative from New York; born in a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the three succeed-Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y., May 6, 1840; attended ing Congresses (January 3, l951-January 3, 1959);was not athe public schools; taught school; studied law andwas grad- candidate for renomination in 1958; died in Buffalo,N.Y., uated from the Albany (N.Y.) Law School in 1861;was ad- September 7, 1959; interment in St. StanislausCemetery.mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Geneva, N.Y.; during the Civil War organized and RAGON, Heartsill, a Representative from Arkansas;born was cap- in Dublin, Logan County, Ark., March 20, 1885;attended thetain of Company G, Eighty-fifth Regiment, New York Volun- common schools, the Clarksville High School, the College ofteer Infantry, in 1861 and served in the Armies of the Poto- the Ozarks, Clarksville, Ark., and the University ofArkan-mac and North Carolina until July 1863; member of the sas at Fayetteville; was graduated from the law departmentState assembly 1881-1883 and in 1885; member of the State of Washington and Lee University, Lexington,Va.; was ad-senate 1886-1889; president of the board of education of mitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice inClarks- Canandaigua 1887-1909; delegate to the Republican National ville, Ark.; member of the State house ofrepresentativesConvention in 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first 1911-1913; district attorney 1916-1920;secretary of theand Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); Democratic State convention in 1918; chairman of theDemo-was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; elected to the cratic State convention in 1920; delegate to theDemocraticState senate in 1894 to fill an unexpired term; reelected and National Convention in 1920; electedas a Democrat to theserved continuously until his death; was president of the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding CongressesandState senate after 1904; died in Canandaigua, N.Y., Decem- served from March 4, 1923, until his resignationeffectiveber 16, 1909; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. June 16, 1933, having been appointed judge ofthe United Bibliography: DAB. States District Court for the Western District ofArkansas on May 12, 1933, in which capacity he served until his death RAINEY, Henry Thomas, a Representative from Illinois; born in Carroliton, Greene County, Ill., on August 20, 1860; in Fort Smith, Ark., September 15, 1940; intermentin Forest Park Cemetery. attended the public schools and Knox Academy and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) RAGSDALE, James Willard,a Representative from SouthCollege in 1883 and from the Union College of Law, Chicago, Carolina; born in Timmonsville, Florence County,S.C., De-Ill., in 1885; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced cember 14, 1872; attended the public schools;employed in apractice in Carrollton, Ill.; master in chancery for Greene railroad office at Wilmington, N.C., forseveral years; attend-County, Ill., from 1887 to 1895, when he resigned; electedas ed the University of South Carolinaat Columbia; studieda Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the eight succeeding law; was admitted to the bar in 1898and commenced prac-Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1921); unsuccessfully tice in Florence, Florence County, S.C.;engaged in agricul-contested the election of Guy L. Shaw to the Sixty-seventh tural pursuits and banking; trustee of theSouth CarolinaCongress; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected to the Industrial School; member of the State houseof representa-Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and tives 1899-1900; member of the Statesenate 1902-1904; un-served from March 4, 1923, until his death; majority leader successful candidate for attorney general of SouthCarolina(Seventy-second Congress), Speaker of the House of Repre- and for election in 1910 to the Sixty-secondCongress; electedsentatives (Seventy-third Congress); died in St. Louis, Mo.,on as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeedingAugust 19, 1934; interment in the Carroilton Cemetery, Car- Congresses and served from March 4, 1913,until his deathroliton, Ill. in Washington, D.C., July 23, 1919; intermentin Mount Bibliography: DAB; Block, Marvin W.Henry T. Rainey of Illinois." Hope Cemetery, Florence, S.C. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 65 (Summer 1972): 142-57; Wailer, Robert A. Rainey of Illinois: A Political Biography,19Ol-34. RAHALL, Nick Joe, II, a Representative fromWest Vir- Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. ginia; born in Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.,May 20, 1949; attended the public schools of Beckley; A.B., DukeUniversi- RAINEY, John William, a Representative from Illinois; ty, Durham, N.C., 1971; graduate studies,George Washing-born in Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1880; attended the public ton University, Washington, D.C., 1972;served in Office ofschools of his native city, De La Salle Institute, and the Majority Whip, United States Senate, 1971-1974;sales man-Kent College of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and ager for a radio station in Beckley, 1974; member, Boardofcommenced the practice of law in Chicago; assistant judge of Directors, Rahall Communications Corp.,of Beckley, 1974;the probate court of Cook County 1910-1912; clerk of the president, travel agency, 1975; delegate, DemocraticNation-circuit court 1912-1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- al Conventions, 1972, 1974; electedas a Democrat to thefifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses(JanuaryCharles Martin; reelected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, 3, l977-January 3, 1989); isa resident of Beckley, W.Va.and Sixty-eighth Congresses and served from April 2, 1918, until his death in Chicago, Ill., on May 4, 1923; interment in RAILSBACK, Thomas Fisher, a Representativefrom Illi-Calvary Cemetery. nois; born in Moline, Rock Island County, Ill.,January 22, 1932; attended the public schools of Moline,Ill., graduated RAINEY, Joseph Hayne, a Representative from South from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, in 1954;also graduat-Carolina; born in Georgetown, Georgetown County, S.C., ed from Northwestern University School ofLaw, Chicago,June 21, 1832; received a limited schooling; followed the Ill., in 1957; served in the United States Army,1957-1959; trade of barber until 1862, when upon being forced to work admitted to the bar in 1957 andcommenced practice;on the Confederate fortifications in Charleston, S.C., he es- member of the State house ofrepresentatives, 1962-1966; caped to the West Indies and remained there until the close elected as a Republican to the Ninetiethand to the sevenof the war; delegate to the State constitutional convention in Biographies 1687

1868; member of the State senate in 1870 but resigned; elect-ber 1, 1857; attended the public schools; moved with his ed as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill theparents to Owen County, md., in 1865; taught school for vacancy caused by the action of the House of Representa-several years; was graduated from the Central Normal Col- tives in declaring the seat of B. Franklin Whittemore vacantlege, Danville, md., in 1884; studied law; was admitted to the and was the first black to be elected to the House of Repre-bar in 1886 and began practice in Lebanon, md.; presidential sentatives; reelected to the Forty-second and to the threeelector on the Democratic ticket in 1888 and in 1892; presi- succeeding Congresses and served from December 12, 1870,dent of the Lebanon School Board 1908-19 11; Governor of to March 3, 1879; appointed internal-revenue agent of SouthIndiana 1913-1917; resumed the practice of law in Indianap- Carolina on May 22, 1879, and served until July 15, 1881,olis; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and when he resigned; engaged in banking and the brokerageserved from March 4, 1923, until his death near Indianapo- business in Washington, D.C.; retired from all business ac-lis, md., October 14, 1925; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, tivities in 1886, returned to Georgetown, S.C., and died thereLebanon, md. August 2, 1887; interment in the Baptist Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. RAMEY, Frank Marion, a Representative from Illinois; RAINEY, Lilius Bratton, a Representative from Alabama;born in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Ill., September 23, born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., July 27, 1876;1881; attended the public schools and was graduated from attended the common schools; moved to Fort Payne, De KaibHillsboro High School in 1900; also attended Eastern Illinois County, Ala.; was graduated from the Alabama PolytechnicNormal School at Charleston, Ill.; taught school in Hillsboro, Institute, Auburn, Ala., in 1899 and from the law depart-Ill., 1902-1905; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Illi- ment of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1902;nois in December 1907 and commenced practice in Hillsboro; was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commencedserved as city attorney of Hilisboro 1907-19 11; State's attor- practice in Gadsden, Ala.; elected a captain in the Alabama elected as a Re- National Guard in 1903; reelected and commissioned in 1906,ney of Montgomery County, Ill., 1920-1928; but resigned the command in 1907; city solicitor of Gadsdenpublican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 1911-1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress 3,1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930; to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John L. Burnett;served as assistant district attorney 193 1-1934; unsuccessful reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from Sep-candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con- tember 30, 1919, to March 3, 1923; declined to be a candidategress, in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, and in1938 to for renomination in 1922; trustee of the State department ofthe Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; was archives and history, Montgomery, Ala.; resumed the prac-appointed an examiner for the Illinois Commerce Commis- tice of law in Gadsden, Ala., until his death there Septembersion in 1942 and served until his death; died in Hilisboro, 27, 1959; interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Fort Payne, Ala.Ill., March 27, 1942; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. RAINS, Albert M., a Representative from Alabama; born RAMEY, Homer Alonzo, a Representative from Ohio; in Grove Oak, De Kaib County, Ala., March 11, 1902; attend-born on a farm near Sparta, South Bloomfield Township, ed the public schools, Snead Seminary, Boaz, Ala., StateMorrow County, Ohio, March 2, 1891; attended the grade Teachers College, Jacksonville, Ala., and the University ofand high schools; was graduated from Park College, Park- Alabama at Tuscaloosa; studied law; was admitted to the baryule, Mo., in 1913 and from the law school of Ohio Northern in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, Ala., in 1929;University at Ada in 1916; was admitted to the bar in 1917 deputy solicitor for Etowah County, Ala., 1930-1935; cityand commenced practice in Put-in-Bay, Ohio; member of the attorney for the city of Gadsden, Ala., 1935-1944; served as aState house of representatives 1920-1924; served in the State member of the State house of representatives 1941-1944;senate in 1925 and 1926; judge of the municipal court of elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the nineToledo, Ohio, 1926-1943; unsuccessful candidate for election succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1965);in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected as a Republi- was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninthcan to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, andEightieth Con- Congress; chairman of board, First City National Bank (latergresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful can- First Alabama Bank of Gadsden) until becoming chairmandidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress and emeritus in 1979; is a resident of Gadsden, Ala. for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; appointed in 1949 and subsequently elected judge of the municipal RAKER, John Edward, a Representative from California; born near Knoxville, Knox County, Ill., February 22, 1863;court of Toledo and served in that capacity until his death in moved with his parents to Lassen County, Calif., in 1873;Toledo, Ohio, April 13, 1960; interment in Ottawa Hills Me- attended the public schools and the State normal school atmorial Park.

San Jose 1882-1884; studied law; was admitted to the bar in RAMSAY, David (brother of Nathaniel Ramsey), a Dele-- 1885 and commenced practice in Susanville; moved to Al-gate from South Carolina; born in Dunmore, Lancaster turas December 6, 1886; district attorney of Modoc CountyCounty, Pa., April 2, 1749; attended the common schools, and 1895-1899; judge of the superior court of Modoc County fromwas graduated from the College of New Jersey (nowPrince- January 5, 1903, to December 19, 1910, when he resigned;ton University) in 1765; was graduated from the medical chairman of the Democratic State central committee 1908-department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- 1910; delegate to the Democratic National Convention atphia in 1773 and began practice in Cecil County, Md.; settled Denver in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-secondin Charleston, S.C., in 1773; member of the State house of and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served fromrepresentatives177 6-1783; served in the Revolutionary March 4, 1911, until his death in Washington, D.C., JanuaryArmy as surgeon of the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, 22, 1926; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De-- State militia; captured at the fall of Charleston in May 1780 partment of Justice (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee onand imprisoned at St. Augustine, Fla., for eleven months; Woman (Sixty-fifth Congress); interment in Susan-Member of the Continental Congress 1782-1783 and 1785- ville Cemetery, Susanville, Calif. 1786 and served as President pro tempore during the last RALSTON, Samuel Moffett, a Senator from Indiana; bornterm; unsuccessfully contested the election of William L. near New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on Decem-Smith to the First Congress (the first contested-election 1688 Biographical Directory

case); State historian and author of several historical works;burg, W.Va., where he lived from 1872 to 1879; studied law member of the State senate of South Carolina and servedasin Hackensack, N.J.; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and president of that body for seven years; shot bya maniac oncommenced practice in Hackensack, N.J.; county clerk of May 6, 1815, in Charleston, S.C., and died in that city May 8,Bergen County 1895-19 10; delegate to the Republican Na- 1815. tional Convention in 1908; president of the Hackensack Bibliography: DAB. Brick Co. 1909-1933; director of several banks; elected as a RAMSAY, Robert Lincoln, a Representative from WestRepublican to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses Virginia; born in Durham, England, March 24, 1877; immi-(March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921); was an unsuccessful candi- grated to the United States in 1881 with his parents, whodate for renomination in 1920; resumed the manufacture of settled in New Cumberland, Hancock County, W.Va.; attend-brick; died in Hackensack, N.J., April 10, 1933; interment in ed the public schools and was graduated from the law de-Hackensack Cemetery. partment of the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1901; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commencedprac- RAMSEY, Nathaniel (brother of David Ramsay), a Dele-- tice in New Cumberland; moved to Wellsburg, Brookegate from Maryland; born in Lancaster County, Pa., May 1, County, W.Va., in 1905 and continued the practice of law;1741; was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now city attorney of Follansbee, Brooke County, 1905-1930;pros-Princeton University) in 1767; a signer of the declaration of ecuting attorney of Brooke County 1908-1912 and 1916-1920;freemen of Maryland; delegate to the Maryland convention member of the board of governors for West Virginia Univer- of 1775; appointed captain in Smaliwood's Maryland Regi- sity 1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third,ment January 14, 1776; joined the Continental Army in July Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March4, 1776 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Third 1933-January 3, 1939); was an unsuccessful candidate forRegiment, Maryland Line, December 10, 1776; retired from reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumedthe Army January 1, 1781; practiced law in Cecil County, the practice of law in Wellsburg, W.Va.; elected to the Sev-Md., 1781-1783 and in Baltimore 1783-1790; Member of the enty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943);Continental Congress in 1786 and 1787; appointed United was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to theStates marshal for Maryland by President Washington and Seventy-eighth Congress; special assistant to the Unitedserved from 1790 to 1798; naval officer of the port of Balti- States Attorney General 1943-1945; assistant attorneygener-more 1794-1817; died in Baltimore, Md., October 23, 1817; al of West Virginia 1945-1948; elected to the Eighty-first andinterment in the burial ground of the First Presbyterian Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953);Church. unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952; resumed Bibliography: DAB. the practice of law and was assistant prosecutingattorney 1952-1956; died in Wheeling, W.Va., November 14, 1956; RAMSEY, Robert, a Representative from Pennsylvania; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Follansbee, W.Va. born in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pa., February 15, 1780; attended the public schools of Hartsville; member RAMSEY, Alexander, a Representative from Pennsylva- of the State house of representatives 1825-183 1; elected as a nia and a Senator from Minnesota; bornnear Harrisburg,Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833- Pa., September 8, 1815; attended thecommon schools andMarch 3, 1835); was not a candidate for reelection in 1834 to Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; studied law;was admitted tothe Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a Whig to the the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Harrisburg;sec- Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3,1843); retary to the electoral college of Pennsylvania in 1840; clerkwas not a candidate for reelection; engaged in agricultural of the State house of representatives in 1841; elected frompursuits; died in Warwick, Bucks County, Pa., December 12, Pennsylvania as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-1849; interment in Neshaminy Cemetery. ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); declined renomination in 1846; Territorial Governor of Minnesota RAMSEY, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1849-1853; mayor of St. Paul 1855; unsuccessful candidateborn at Sterretts Gap, Cumberland County, Pa., September for election as governor of Minnesota in 1857; Governorof7, 1779; attended the public schools; appointed surveyor for Minnesota 1860-1863; elected in 1863as a Republican to theCumberland County in 1803; clerk of the orphans' court of United States Senate; reelected in 1869 and served fromCumberland County; studied law; was admitted to the bar March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1875; chairman, Committeeonand commenced practice in Carlisle, Pa.; elected to the Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-ninth through Forty-thirdTwentieth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and served from ninth Congress); appointed Secretary of War in the CabinetMarch 4, 1827, until his death in Carlisle, Pa., September 29, of President Rutherford Hayes 1879-1881; chairman ofthe1831; interment in Ashland Cemetery. Edmunds Commission, dealing with the question of Mormon- ism and polygamy in Utah 1882-1886, when he resigned; RAMSEY, William Sterrett, a Representative from Penn- president of the Minnesota Historical Society 1849-1863,sylvania; born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., June 12, 1891-1903; delegate to the centennial celebration of the1810; pursued classical studies in the United States and adoption of the Federal Constitution in 1887; died in St.Europe; attaché of the American Legation in London; elected Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., April 22, 1903; interment inas a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from Oakland Cemetery. March 4, 1839, until his death before the commencement of Bibliography: Hayland, John C. " and the Republican the Twenty-seventh Congress, to which he had been reelect- Party,1855-1875."Ph.D.dissertation,UniversityofNebraska,1976; ed; died in Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1840; interment in Ryland, William Jesse. Alexander Ramsey: A Study of a Frontier PoliticianAshland Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa. and the Transition of Minnesota From Territory to State. Philadelphia: Harris and Partridge Co., 1941. RAMSEYER, Christian William, a Representative from Iowa; born near Collinsville, Butler County, Ohio, March 13, RAMSEY, John Rathbone, a Representative from New1875; moved to Davis County, Iowa, in 1887 and settled near Jersey; born in Wyckoff, Bergen County, N.J., April 25, 1862;Pulaski; attended the public schools; was graduated from the attended the public schools and a private school in Parkers-Southern Iowa Normal School in 1897 and from Iowa State Biographies 1689

Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1902; taught schoolgresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843);resumed the practice for nine years; was principal and later superintendent of theof law; appointed collector of customs for the port of Bath in Bloomfield High School; was graduated from the law depart-1849 and served until his death in Bath, Maine, October11, ment of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1906; was1859; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the RANDALL, Charles Hiram, a Representative from Cali- practice of law in Bloomfield, Iowa; prosecuting attorney offornia; born in Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebr., July23, Davis County 1911-1915; elected as a Republican to the 1865; attended the public schools; published newspapers at Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (MarchKimball and Harrisburg, Nebr., 1885-1892; railway mall 4, 1915-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- clerk 1892-1904; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1904; en- tion in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; served as com- missioner for the United States Court of Claims, Washing-gaged in newspaper work as editor and publisher; member of ton, D.C., from 1933 until his death in Washington, D.C., onthe Municipal Park Commission of Los Angeles in 1909 and 1943; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery,1910; member of the State assembly in 1911 and 1912; elect- November 1, ed as a Prohibitionist to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Bloomfield, Iowa. Sixty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, to RAMSPECK, Robert C. Word, a Representative fromMarch 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 Georgia; born in Decatur, De Kalb County, Ga., September 5,to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed work forthe ad- 1890; attended the public schools and the Donald Fraservancement of the prohibition movement; member of the city School at Decatur, Ga.; deputy clerk of the superior court ofcouncil of Los Angeles, Calif., from July 1, 1925, to July 1, Georgia 1907-1911; chief clerk of the post office in the1933; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to theSev- United States House of Representatives in 1911; secretary to enty-fourth Congress; died in Los Angeles, Calif., February Congressman William Schley Howard in1912; deputy18, 1951; interment in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glen- United States marshal for the northern district of Georgiadale, Calif. 1914-1916; chief deputy United States marshal 1917-1919; engaged in the insurance and real estate business 19 19-1921; RANDALL, Charles Sturtevant, a Representative from was graduated from the Atlanta (Ga.) Law School in1920; Massachusetts; born in New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., was admitted to the bar in 1920; engaged in the newspaperFebruary 20, 1824; attended a private school, the Friends business in 1922; solicitor for the city court of Decatur, Ga.,Academy, New Bedford, and also studied in France;joined 1923-1927; city attorney of Decatur 1927-1929; member ofthe gold rush to California in 1849 but returned two years the State house of representatives in 1929; elected as a Dem-later to engage in the commission and shipping business, ocrat to the Seventy-first Congress, by special election, Octo-from which he retired in 1872; served in the State senatein ber 2, 1929, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Leslie1883 and 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first, J. Steele; reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses andFifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889- served from October 2, 1929, until his resignation on Decem-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate forrenomination in ber 31, 1945, to become executive vice president of the Air1894; retired from his former business pursuits; died in New Transport Association; chairman, Committee on Civil Serv- Bedford, Mass., August 17, 1904; interment in theRural ice (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); ma-Cemetery. jority whip (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Con- RANDALL, Clifford Ellsworth, a Representative from gresses); chairman of the United States Civil Service Com-Wisconsin; born in Troy Center, Walworth County,Wis., mission from March 7, 1951, until his resignation on Decem-December 25, 1876; attended the public schools; wasgraduat- ber 31, 1952; vice president of Eastern Air Lines, Washing-ed from the public high school of East Troy, Wis.,in 1894 ton, D.C., January 1, 1953, to December 31, 1961; remained aand from the Whitewater Normal School in 1901;taught consultant for Eastern Air Lines until his retirement inschool at Lake Beulah, Troy Center, and Rochester,Wis.; 1966; died while on a visit to Castor, La., September 10, 1972;was graduated from the lawdepartment of the University of interment in Decatur City Cemetery, Decatur, Ga. Wisconsin at Madison in 1906; was admitted to thebar the RANDALL, Alexander, a Representative from Maryland;same year and commenced the practiceof law in Kenosha, born in Annapolis, Md., on January 3, 1803; educated underWis., judge of the municipal court 1909-1917;elected as a private tutors; was graduated from St. John's College, An-Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March4,1919- napolis, in 1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar andMarch 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for renominationin commenced practice in Annapolis, Md., in 1824; elected as a1920; resumed the practice of law in Kenosha, Wis.;elected Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-Marchcity attorney in 1921 and served until 1930,continued the 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1842; practice of law in Kenosha, Wis., until his deaththere on resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking at October 16, 1934; interment in Green Ridge Cemetery. Annapolis; auditor of the high court of chancery of Mary- RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, a Representative from Penn- land 1844-1848; delegate to the State constitutional conven-sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 10,1828; attend- tion in 1850; attorney general of Maryland from 1864 toed the common schools and the University Academyin 1868; died in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., Novem- Philadelphia; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the ber 21, 1881; interment in St. Anne's Cemetery. common council of Philadelphia 1852-1855;member of the RANDALL, Benjamin, a Representative from Maine; bornState senate in 1858 and 1859; served as amember of the in Topsham, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), No-First Troop of Philadelphia in 1861 and was in theUnion vember 14, 1789; pursued an academic course; was graduated Army three months of that year and again as captainin from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1809; studied1863; was promoted to provost marshal at Gettysburg;elect- law; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced prac-ed as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and to thethirteen tice in Bath, Maine; served in the State militia in Colonelsucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1868,until Reed's regiment stationed at Coxes Head in September 1814;his death; chairman, Committee on Appropriations(Forty- member of the Maine senate in 1833, 1835, and 1838; electedfourth, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses), as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventhCon-Committee on Public Expenditures (Forty-seventhCongress); 1690 Biographical Directory

Speaker of the House of Representatives (Forty-fourth1789; delegate to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia in through Forty-sixth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C.,1787; was appointed the first Attorney General of the United April 13, 1890; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadel-States, in the Cabinet of President Washington, on Septem- phia, Pa. ber 26, 1789; transferred to the State Department Bibliography: DAB; House, Albert V., Jr. "Contributions of Samuel J. as Secre- Randall to the Rules of the National House of Representatives." American tary of State on January 2, 1794, and served until August 19, Political Science Review 29 (October 1935): 837-41; House, Albert V."The 1795, when he was requested to resign following charges Political Career of Samuel Jackson Randall." Ph D dissertation, University(subsequently found to be false) preferred by Minister Fau- of Wisconsin, 1935. chet of France; was the principal counsel for when the latter was tried for treason; died in Clarke County, RANDALL, William Harrison, a Representative fromVa., September 12, 1813; interment in the Old Chapel Ceme- Kentucky; born near Richmond, Madison County, Ky.,Julytery, Millwood, Va. 15, 1812; completed preparatory studies; studied law;was Bibliography: DAB; Reardon, John J. . New York: admitted to the bar and commenced practice in London, Macmillan, 1975. Laurel County, Ky., in 1835; clerk of the circuitcourt and county court of Laurel County 1836-1844; electedas an Un- RANDOLPH, James Fitz (father of Theodore Fitz Ran- conditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninthdolph), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Middle- Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); district judgeofsex County, N.J., June 26, 1791; received a limited schooling; the fifteenth Kentucky district 1870-1880; died in London,learned the printing trade; edited the New Brunswick Fre- Ky., August 1, 1881; interment in the familycemetery atdonian 1812-1842; United States collector of internalreve- London, Ky. nue 1815-1846; clerk of the court of common pleas; member Bibliography: Hood, James Larry. "For the Union: Kentucky's Uncondi-of the State house of assembly in 1823 and 1824; elected to tionalUnionist Congressmen and the Development of the Republicanthe Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Party in Kentucky, 1863-1865." Register of the Kentucky HistoricalSociety death of George Holcombe; reelected to the Twenty-first and 76 (July 1978): 197-215. Twenty-second Congresses and served from December 1, RANDALL, William Joseph, a Representative fromMis- 1827, to March 3, 1833; president of a bank in New Bruns- souri; born in Independence, Jackson County, Mo., July16, wick, N.J.; died in Easton, Pa., January 25, 1872; interment 1909; graduated from William Chrisman HighSchool inin Easton Cemetery. 1927, Junior College of Kansas City, Mo., in 1929,University RANDOLPH, James Henry, a Representative from Ten- of Missouri in 1931, and Kansas City School of Law in1936; nessee; born near Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tenn., Octo- was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practiceber 18, 1825; attended New Market Academy and of law in Independence, Mo.; served from March 1943in the was grad- United States Army as a sergeant in the Southwest uated from Hoiston College, New Market, Tenn.; studied Pacificlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced prac- and the Philippines until discharged in December.1945; elected as judge of the Jackson County Court tice in Dandridge, Tenn.; member of the State house of in 1946, re-representatives in 1857, 1858, 1860, and 1861; served in the elected to six additional terms, and served untilMarch 1959; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress, State senate in 1865; elected judge of the second judicial by spe-circuit of Tennessee in 1869; reelected after the constitution- cial election, March 3, 1959, to fill thevacancy caused by the death of George H. Christopher; reelected al convention in 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty- to the eight suc- fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); engaged in ceeding Congresses and served from March 3,1959, to Janu- ary 3, 1977; chairman, Select Committee on Aging (Ninety-agricultural pursuits and milling; died in Newport, Cocke fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection County, Tenn., August 22, 1900; interment in Union Ceme- in 1976tery. to the Ninety-fifth Congress; resumed thepractice of law; is a resident of Independence, Mo. RANDOLPH, Jennings, a Representative and a Senator RANDELL, Choice Boswell (nephew of LuciusJeremiahfrom West Virginia; born in Salem, Harrison County, W.Va., Gartrell), a Representative from Texas; bornnear SpringMarch 8, 1902; attended the public schools; graduated from Place, Murray County, Ga., January 1, 1857;attended publicthe Salem (W.Va.) Academy in 1920 and Salem (W.Va.) Col- and private schools and the North GeorgiaAgricultural Col-lege in 1924; engaged in newspaper work in Clarksburg, lege at Dahionega; studied law;was admitted to the bar inW.Va., in 1924; associate editor of West Virginia Review at 1878 and commenced practice in Denison, GraysonCounty,Charleston in 1925; head of the department of public speak- Tex., in January 1879; moved to Sherman, Tex.,in 1882 anding and journalism at Davis and Elkins College at Elkins, continued the practice of law; electedas a Democrat to theW.Va., 1926-1932; trustee of Salem College and Davis and Fifty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses(MarchElkins College; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1930 to 4, 1901-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidatefor nomina-the Seventy-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to the tion to the United States Senate in 1912;resumed the prac-Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, tice of law; died in Sherman, Tex., October 19,1945; inter-1933-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ment in West Hill Cemetery. in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; chairman, Committeeon the District of Columbia (Seventy-sixth through Seventy- RANDOLPH, Edmund Jenings (nephew of PeytonRan-ninth Congresses), Committee on Civil Service (Seventy- dolph), a Delegate from Virginia; born inWilliamsburg, Va.,ninth Congress); professor of public speaking at Southeast- August 10, 1753; was graduated from the Collegeof Williamern University, Washington, D.C., 1935-1953, and dean of and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law;was admitted toSchool of Business Administration 1952-1958; assistant to the bar and commenced practice in Williamsburg;served inpresident and director of public relations, Capital Airlines, the Revolutionary Army andwas aide-de-camp to GeneralWashington, D.C., February 1947-April 1958; elected in 1958 Washington; attorney general of Virginia in 1776;Memberas a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- of the Continental Congress in 1779, 1781,and 1782; electedcy caused by the death of Matthew M. Neely; reelected in Governor of Virginia in 1786 but resigned in1788 to serve in1960, 1966, 1972, and again in 1978, and served from Novem- the State house of delegates in order that hemight partici-ber 5, 1958, to January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection; pate in the codification of the laws of Virginia in1788 andchairman,CommitteeonPublicWorks(Eighty-ninth Biographies 1691 through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Committee on Environ- RANDOLPH, Peyton (uncle of Edmund Jenings Ran- ment and Public Works (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Con-dolph), a Delegate from Virginia; born at Tazewell Hall, gresses); is a resident of Washington, D.C., and Elkins,Williamsburg, Va., in September 1721; received his early W.Va. education under private tutors; was graduated from the Col- lege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law at RANDOLPH, John, a Representative and a Senator fromthe Inner Temple, London, England, and was appointed Virginia; born in Cawsons, Prince George County, Va., JuneKing's attorney for Virginia in 1748; member of the Virginia 1773; known as to distinguishHouse of Burgesses 1764-1774 and served as speaker in 1766; him from kinsmen; studied under private tutors, at privatechairman of the committee of correspondence in 1773; presi- schools, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Universi-dent of the Virginia conventions of 1774 and 1775; Member ty), and Columbia College, New York City; studied law inof the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pa., September Philadelphia, Pa., but never practiced; engaged in several 1774, and elected its President but resigned October 22, ; elected to the Sixth and to the six succeeding Con-1774, to attend the Virginia House of Burgesses; reelected to gresses (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1813); one of the managersthe Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in May appointed by the House of Representatives in January 18041775 and again served as President; died in Philadelphia, to conduct the impeachment proceedings against John Pick-Pa., October 22, 1775; interment beneath the chapel of the ering, judge of the United States District Court for , and in December of the same year againstCollege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bibliography: DAB. United States; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1812 to RANDOLPH, Theodore Fitz (son of James Fitz Randolph), the Thirteenth Congress; chairman, Committee on Ways anda Senator from New Jersey; born in Mansfield,Tioga Means (Seventh through Ninth Congresses); elected to theCounty, Pa., June 24, 1826; attended the common schools of Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); not aNew Brunswick, N.J., engaged in the coal and iron business; candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress;moved to Vicksburg, Miss., and engaged in business in 1840; elected to the Sixteenth and to the three succeeding Con-returned to New Jersey and settled in Jersey City in 1852; gresses and served from March 4, 1819, until his resignation,became interested in mining and the transportation of ores effective December 26, 1825; appointed to the United Statesand was president of the Morris & Essex Railroad; member, Senate December 8, 1825, to fill the vacancy in the termState house of assembly 1859; member, State senate 1862- beginning March 4, 1821, caused by the resignation of James1863; Governor of New Jersey 1869-1872; elected as a Demo- Barbour and served from December 26, 1825, to March 3,crat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1827; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Senate in1875, to March 3, 1881; chairman, Committee on Military 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress); died in Morristown, Morris March 3, 1829); was not a candidate for reelection to theCounty, N.J., November 7, 1883; interment in Woodlawn Twenty-first Congress; chairman, Committee on Ways andCemetery. Means (Twentieth Congress); member of the Virginia consti- Bibliography: DAB. tutional convention at Richmond in 1829; appointed United States Minister to Russia by President and RANDOLPH, Thomas Mann, a Representative from Vir- served from May to September, 1830, when he resigned;ginia; born at "Tuckahoe," in Goochland County, Va., Octo- elected to the Twenty-third Congress and served from Marchber 1, 1768; received his early education from private teach- 1833, until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1833;ers; attended the College of Williamand Mary, Williams- interment at his residence, "Roanoke," in Charlotte County,burg, Va., and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1785- Va.; reinterment at "Hollywood," Richmond, Va. 1788; served in the State senate in 1793 and 1794; elected as Bibliography: DAB; Adams, Henry. John Randolph and the History of a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses(March 4, the United States. 1882. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972; Bruce, Wil- 1803-March 3,1807); colonel of the Twentieth Infantry ham Cabell. John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833. 1922. Reprint. 2 vols. during the War of 1812; member of the State house of dele- New York: Octagon Books, 1970. gates in 1819, 1820, and 1823-1825; Governor of Virginia 1819-1822; died at "Monticello," the home of Thomas Jeffer- RANDOLPH, Joseph Fitz, a Representative from New in the Jersey; born in New York City March 14, 1803; in earlyson, his father-in-law, on June 20, 1828; interment family burial ground. childhood moved with his parents to Piscataway, Middlesex Bibliography: DAB; Gaines, William Harris. Thomas Mann Randolph: County, N.J.; educated by private tutors and in private Jefferson's Son-in-Law. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, schools; prepared for the class of 1825 in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., but did not enter; studied law; was 1966. admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in HANEY, John Henry, a Representative from Missouri; Freehold, N.J.; prosecuting attorney for Monmouth Countyborn in Gravelton, Wayne County, Mo., September 28, 1849; about 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-attended Union School, Des Arc, Mo., and Woods School, sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-MarchVirginia Settlement, Mo.; judge of the county court of 1843); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary ClaimsWayne County 1880-1882; studied law; was admitted to the (Twenty-sixth Congress); was not a candidate for renomina-bar in 1881 and commenced practice at Greenville, Mo.; also tion in 1842; moved to New Brunswick in 1843 and resumedengaged in agricultural pursuits and as a stock raiser; pros- the practice of law; delegate to the State constitutional con- ecuting attorney of Wayne County 1882-1888; unsuccessful vention in 1844; member of the committee appointed by thecandidate for election in 1888 to the State house of repre- Governor in 1844 to revise the statutes of New Jersey;sentatives; delegate to all Republican State conventions moved to Trenton in 1845; associate justice of the State1884-1927; delegate to the Republican National Convention supreme court 1845-1852; member of the peace conventionin 1892; one of the board of regents of the State normal held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to prevent theschool, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1893-1895; elected as a Republi- impending war; moved to Jersey City in 1864; died in Jerseycan to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March4, 1895-March 3, City, N.J., on March 20, 1873; interment in Easton Ceme-1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the tery, Easton, Pa. Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Pied- 1692 Biographical Directory

mont, Mo.; unsuccessful candidate for circuit judge of the RANKIN, John Elliott, a Representative from Mississippi; twenty-first judicial district in 1898; again prosecuting attor-born near Bolanda, Itawamba County, Miss., March 29, 1882; ney of Wayne County in 1921 and 1922; died near Patterson, attended the common and high schools; was graduated from Wayne County, Mo., January 23, 1928; interment in thethe law department of the University of Mississippi at Masonic Cemetery, Piedmont, Mo. Oxford in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and RANGEL, Charles Bernard, a Representative from Newcommenced practice in West Point, Clay County, Miss.; York; born in New York City June 11, 1930; attended Newmoved to Tupelo, Miss., the following November and contin- York City public schools; B.S., New York University Schoolued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Lee County of Commerce, Washington Square, N.Y., 1957; LL.B. (J.D.), 1911-1915; also engaged as a lecturer and newspaper writer; St. John's Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1960; entered Unitedserved in the United States Army during the First World States Army in 1948 and was discharged as a staff sergeantWar; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in in 1952; admitted to the New York bar in 1960 andcom- 1932, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- menced practice in New York City; assistant United Statesseventh and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, Attorney, 1963; counsel to speaker of the New York State1921-January 3, 1953); chairman, Committee on World War assembly, 1965; counsel to the President's Commission toVeterans' Legislation (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Revise the Draft Laws, 1966; secretary, New York StateCongresses), Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Eighty-first Penal Law and Code Revision Commission; member, Newand Eighty-second Congresses); coauthor of bill to create the York State assembly, 1966-1970; electedas a Democrat toTennessee Valley Authority; unsuccessful candidate for re- the Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Congressesnomination in 1952; was an unsuccessful candidate for the (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); chairman, Select Commit-Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1947; tee on Narcotics Abuse and Control (Ninety-eighth, Ninety-resumed the practice of law; also interested in farming and ninth, and One Hundredth Congresses); isa resident of Newreal estate; died in Tupelo, Miss., November 26, 1960; inter- York City. ment in Greenwood Cemetery, West Point, Miss. RANKIN, Christopher, a Representative from Mississippi; Bibliography: DAB. born in Washington County, Pa., in 1788; completedprepara- RANKIN, Joseph, a Representative from Wisconsin; born tory studies at Canonsburg, Pa., moved to Georgia; taughta in Passaic, N.J., September 25, 1833; pursued an academic village school and studied law at thesame time; was admit-course; moved to Mishicott, Manitowoc County, Wis., in 1854 ted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Liberty,and engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the county Amite County, Miss.; member of the Territorial legislatureboard in 1859; member of the State assembly in 1860; during in 1813; moved to Natchez, Miss., in 1816 and practiced law;the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and was member of the State constitutional convention in 1817;un-chosen captain of Company D, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Wis- successful candidate for United States Senator in 1817; heldconsin Volunteer Infantry; after the war settled in Man- several local offices; elected to the Sixteenth andto theitowoc, Wis.; city clerk of Manitowoc 1866-1871; again a three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1819,member of the State assembly 187 1-1874; served in the State until his death in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1826;chair- man, Committee on Public Lands (Seventeenth throughsenate 1877-1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Nineteenth Congresses); interment in the Congressionaland Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, Cemetery. until his death in Washington, D.C., January 24, 1886; inter- ment in Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc, Wis. RANKIN, Jeannette, a Representative from Montana; born near Missoula, Missoula County, Mont., June 11,1880; RANNEY, Ambrose Arnold, a Representative from Massa- attended the public schools, andwas graduated from thechusetts; born in Townshend, Windham County, Vt., April University of Montana at Missoula in 1902; student atthe17, 1821; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, School of Philanthropy, New York City in 1908 and1909; N.H., in 1844; studied law in Woodstock, Vt.; was admitted social worker in Seattle, Wash., in 1909; engaged inpromot-to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; ing the cause of woman suffrage in the State of Washingtoncorporation counsel for the city 1855-1857; member of the in 1910, in California in 1911, and in Montana 1912-1914; State house of representatives in 1857, 1863, and 1864; elect- visited New Zealand in 1915 and workedas a seamstress ined as a Republican to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and order to gain personal knowledge of social conditions;electedForty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1887); un- as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-successful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth March 3, 1919); was the first woman to be electedto theCongress; resumed the practice of law; died in Boston, Mass., United States House of Representatives; did not seekre-March 5, 1899; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. nomination in 1918, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator;was also an unsuc- RANSDELL, Joseph Eugene, a Representative and a Sen- cessful candidate on an independent ticket for election to theator from Louisiana; born in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, United States Senate; engaged in social work; electedto theLa., October 7, 1858; attended the public schools and grad- Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, l941-January 3, 1943);uated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1882; stud- was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seven-ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and practiced at ty-eighthCongress;resumedlecturingandranching;Lake Providence, La., 1883-1889; district attorney for the member,NationalConsumersLeague;fieldworker,eighth judicial district of Louisiana 1884-1896; interested in Women's International League for Peace and Freedom;cotton planting and pecan groves; member of the levee member, National Council for Prevention of War; remainedboard, fifth levee district, 1896-1899; member of the State leader and lobbyist for peace and women's rights until herconstitutional convention in 1898; elected as a Democrat to death in Caj-mel, Calif., May 18, 1973; cremated; ashesscat-the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the tered on ocean, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. death of Samuel T. Baird; reelected to the Fifty-seventh and Bibliography: DAB; Josephson, Hannah. , First Lady in to the five succeeding Congresses and served from August Congress; A Biography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974; Schaffer, Ronald. 29, 1899, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for renomi- "Jeannette Rankin, Progressive-Isolationist." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton nation in 1912, having become a candidate for the United University, 1959. States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United States Biographies 1693

Senate in 1912, reelected in 1918 and 1924, and served fromCongresses), Committee on Railroads (Forty-sixth Congress), March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate forCommittee on Private Land Claims (Forty-ninth through renomination in1930; chairman, Committee on PublicFifty-second Congresses); United States Minister to Mexico Health and National Quarantine (Sixty-third through Sixty-1895-1897; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died near Gar- fifth Congresses), Committee on and Itsysburg, Northampton County, N.C., on October 8, 1904; in- Tributaries (Sixty-sixth Congress); in 1920 founded a print-terment in the private burying ground on his estate, ing firm in Washington, D.C., and served as a director until"Verona," near Weldon, Halifax County, N.C. 1931 when he returned to Lake Providence, La.; engaged in Bibliography: DAB. the real estate business, cotton planting, and pecan growing; RANTOUL, Robert, Jr., a Senator and a Representative member of the board of supervisors, Louisiana State Univer-from Massachusetts; born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805; sity and Agricultural College at Baton Rouge, 1940-1944;attended the common schools and Phillips Andover Acade- died in Lake Providence, La., July 27, 1954; interment in Harvard Universi- Lake Providence Cemetery. my, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Bibliography: Flynn, George Q. 'A Louisiana Senator and the Under-ty in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and wood Tariff." Louisiana History 10 (Winter 1969): 5-34; LaBorde, Andras.commenced practice in Salem; moved to South Reading in A National Southerner: Ransdell of Louisiana. New York: Benziger, 1951. 1830, to Gloucester in 1832, and to Boston in 1838, and practiced law; member, State house of representatives 1835- RANSIER, Alonzo Jacob, a Representative from South1839; member of the commission to revise the laws of Massa- Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., January 3, 1834; receivedchusetts; member of the State board of education 1837-1842; a limited schooling; employed as shipping clerk in1850; United States district attorney for Massachusetts 1846-1849; member of a convention of the Friends of Equal Rights atelected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the Charleston in 1865 and was deputed to present the memorialvacancy caused by the resignation ofDaniel Webster and there framed to Congress; member, State house of represent-served from February 1 to March 3, 1851; elected as a Demo- atives, 1868-1869; member of the State constitutional con-crat to the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, vention in 1868 and 1869; Lieutenant Governor of South1851, until his death in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 1852; Carolina in 1870; president of the Southern States Conven- interment in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass. tion at Columbia in 1871; delegate to the Republican Nation- Bibliography: DAB; Bulkley, Robert D., Jr. "Robert Rantoul, Jr., 1805- al Convention in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty- 1852: Politics and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts." Ph.D. disserta- third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); United States tion, Princeton University, 1971; Rantoul, Robert, Jr. Memoirs, Speeches internal-revenue collector for the second district of Southand Writings of Robert Rantoul, Jr. Edited by Luther Hamilton. Boston: Carolina in 1875 and 1876; died in Charleston, S.C., on J.P. Jewett and Co., 1854. August 17, 1882; interment in Unity Friendship Cemetery. RAPIER, James Thomas, a Representative from Alabama; RANSLEY, Harry Clay, a Representative from Pennsylva-born a free black in Florence, Lauderdale County, Ala., No- nia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 5, 1863; attendedvember 13, 1837; educated by private tutors in Alabama and the public and private schools; engaged in mercantile pur-studied in Canada; studied law and was admitted to the bar; suits; served in the State house of representatives 189 1-1894;taught school; returned to the South and traveled as a corre- member of the Select Council of Philadelphia for sixteenspondent for a northern newspaper; became a cotton planter years and president for eight years; delegate to the Republi-in Alabama in 1865; appointed a notary public by the Gover- can National Convention in 1912; sheriff of Philadelphianor of Alabama in 1866; member ofthe first Republican County 1916-1920; chairman of the Republican city commit-convention held in Alabama and was one of the committee tee 1916-1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixththat framed the platform; member of the State constitution- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J.al convention at Montgomery in 1867; unsuccessful candi- Hampton Moore; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to thedate for secretary of state in 1870; appointed assessorof seven succeeding Congresses and served from November 2,internal revenue in 1871; appointed State commissioner to 1920, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-the Vienna Exposition by the Governor of Alabama in 1873; tion in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed his inter- commissioner on the part of the United States to the est in mercantile pursuits until his death in Philadelphia,World's Fair in Paris; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Pa., November 7, 1941; interment in West Laurel Hill Ceme- third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful tery. candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Con- gress; appointed collector of internal revenuefor the second RANSOM, Matt Whitaker (cousin of Wharton Jacksondistrict of Alabama on August 8, 1878, and served until his Green), a Senator from North Carolina; born in Warrendeath in Montgomery, Ala., May 31, 1883; interment in Cal- County, N.C., October 8, 1826; attended a private academy;vary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Bibliography: Feldman, Eugene. Black Power in Old Alabama: The Life Hill in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-and Stirring Times of James Rapier, Afro.American Congressmanfrom menced practice in Warrenton, N.C.; presidential elector on Alabama, 1839-1883. Chicago: Museum of African-American History, 1968; the Whig ticket in 1852; attorney general of North Carolina Schweninger, Loren. James P. Rapier and Reconstruction. Chicago: Univer- 1852-1855, when he resigned; member, State house of com- sity of Chicago Press, 1978. mons 1858-1861; peace commissioner to the Provisional Con- gress at Montgomery, Ala., in 1861; entered the Confederate RARICK, John Richard, a Representative from Louisiana; Army and served throughout the Civil War, attaining theborn in Waterford, Elkhart County, md., January 29, 1924; rank of major general; moved to Weldon, N.C., in 1866;attended Goshen High School, Goshen, md., Ball State planter and lawyer; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedTeacher's College, Muncie, md., and Louisiana State Univer- States Senate in 1872 to fill the vacancy in the term com-sity; served in the United States Army for three years in the mencing March 4, 1871; reelected in 1876, 1883, and 1889Second World War during which time he was captured and and served from January 30, 1872, to March 3, 1895; unsuc-later escaped from a German prison camp; awarded the cessful candidate for reelection; served as President pro tern-Bronze Star and the Purple Heart; graduated from Tulane pore of the Senate during the Fifty-third Congress; chair-University School of Law in 1949; admitted to practice law man, Committee on Commerce (Forty-sixth and Fifty-thirdin Louisiana in 1949; elected district judge of the Twentieth 1694 Biographical Directory

Judicial District, June 28, 1961; resigned judgeship May 15,Cayuga County, N.Y., January 5, 1870; interment in Fort 1966, to declare his candidacy for Congress; electedas aHill Cemetery. Democrat to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Con- gresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful can- RAUCH, George Washington, a Representative from Indi- didate for renomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourthCon-ana; born on a farm near Warren in Salamonie Township, gress; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidateHuntington County, md., February 22, 1876; attended the for the American Independent Party presidential nomina-common schools and Valparaiso (md.) Normal School (now tion in 1976; unsuccessful Independent candidate for electionValparaiso University); was graduated from the Northern in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; American IndependentIndiana Law School at Valparaiso in 1902; was admitted to Party nominee for United States president in 1980; isathe bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in resident of St. Francisville, La. Marion, Grant County, md.; elected as a Democrat to the RARIDEN, James, a Representative from Indiana; bornSixtieth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February 14, 1795;1907-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in received a limited schooling; moved to Brookville, md., and1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of his thence to Salisbury; deputy clerk of court; studied law;wasprofession in Marion, md., served on the board of directors admitted to the bar in 1818 and began practice in Center-of the Motor Securities Corporation and as president and yule, md., in 1820; prosecuting attorney 1822-1825; served intreasurer of the Davis Records Co.; appointed a Federal bank the State senate in 1823; member of the State house ofreceiver for banks in Swayzee, Sheridan, and Marion, md., representatives in 1829, 1830, 1832, and 1833; electedas aserving from 1930 to 1939; member of the city school board Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses1927-1933; died in Marion, md., November 4, 1940; inter- (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); moved to Cambridge City,ment in Masonic Cemetery, Warren, md. md., in 1846; delegate to the State constitutionalconvention RAUM, Green Berry, a Representative from Illinois; born in 1850; died in Cambridge City, Wayne County, md.,Octo- in Golconda, Pope County, Iii., December 3, 1829; attended ber 20, 1856; interment in Riverside Cemetery. the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in RATCHFORD, William Richard, a Representative from1853 and practiced in Golconda 1853-1856; moved to Kansas Connecticut; born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., Mayin 1856 and practiced his profession for two years; returned 24, 1934; attended the public schools of Danbury; B.A.,Uni-to Illinois and settled in Harrisburg; during the Civil War versity of Connecticut, Storrs, 1956; J.D., Georgetown Lawserved in the Union Army as major in the Fifty-sixth Regi- School, Washington, D.C., 1959; served in the Connecticutment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and attained the rank of National Guard, 1959-1965; admitted to the Connecticut barbrigadier general; resigned his commission May 6, 1865, and in 1959 and commenced practice in Danbury, in 1960;servedengaged in railroad building; elected as a Republican to the in the Connecticut house of representatives, 1962-1974andFortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); unsuccess- was speaker, 1969-1973; unsuccessful candidate for electionful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Con- in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; chairman,Governor'sgress; United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blue Ribbon Committee on Nursing Homes, 1975-1976;com- 1876-1883; United States Commissioner of Pensions 1889- missioner on aging, 1977-1978; delegate, Connecticut State1893; engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, Ill., until his Democratic conventions, 1960-1974; delegate, Democraticdeath there on December 18, 1909; interment in Arlington National Conventions, 1972 and 1984; electedas a DemocratNational Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. to the Ninety-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses Bibliography: DAB. (January 3, l979-January 3, 1985); unsuccessfulcandidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress; isa resident of RAVENEL, Arthur, Jr., a Representative from South Danbury, Conn. Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 29, 1927; B.S., College of Charleston, 1950; served in the U.S. Marine Corps, RATHBONE, Henry Riggs (grandson of Ira Harris),a Rep-1945-1946; realtor and general contractor; member, South resentative from Illinois; born in Washington, D.C., Febru-Carolina State house of representatives, 1953-1958; South ary 12, 1870; was graduated from Phillips Academy, Ando-Carolina State senate, 1980-1986; elected as a Republican to ver, Mass., in 1887, from Yale University in 1892, and fromthe One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3, the law department of the University of Wisconsinat Madi-1989); is a resident of Mount Pleasant, S.C. son in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; delegate to the Republican National RAWLINS, Joseph Lafayette, a Delegate from the Terri- Convention in 1916; elected asa Republican to the Sixty-tory of Utah and a Senator from Utah; born at Mill Creek, eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses andservedSalt Lake County, Utah, March 28,1850; attended the from March 4, 1923, until his death; chairman, Committeecommon schools and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-pursued a classical course at Indiana University, Blooming- ninth Congress); nominated for reelection in 1928;died atton, md.; professor at the University of Deseret, Salt Lake Chicago, Ill., on July 15, 1928; interment in RosehillCeme-City, Utah, 1873-1875; studied law; was admitted to the bar tery. in 1875 and commenced practice in Salt Lake City, Utah; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, RATHBUN, George Oscar, a Representative from New1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in York; born in Scipioville, near Auburn, N.Y., in 1803;at-1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to tended the Auburn schools and was graduated from Hamil-the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1897, to ton College; studied law; was admitted to the bar andcom-March 3, 1903; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; con- menced practice in Auburn; member of the Stateassembly; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and tinued the practice of law; withdrew from public life and Twenty-active business in 1921; died in Salt Lake City, Utah, May ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); chairman,24, 1926; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery. Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-eighth Con- Bibliography: Harrow, Joan. "Joseph L. Rawlins, Father of Utah State- gress), Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-ninth Congress); hood." Utah Historical Quarterly 44 (Winter 1976): 59-75; Rawlins, Joseph resumed the practice of his profession; died in Auburn, L. The Unfavored Son: The Autobiography of Joseph L. Rawlins. np. 1956. Biographies 1695

RAWLS, Morgan, a Representative from Georgia; bornwar claims with Allies; member and vicepresident of State near Statesboro, Bulloch County, Ga., June 29, 1829; attend- Teachers College Board 1921-1923; moved to Dongan Hills, ed the common schools and pursued an academic course;N.Y., and became associated with the American Telephone engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Guyton, Ga., in& Telegraph Co., 1923-1951; resumed the practice of law in 1856; unsuccessful Union candidate for delegate to the con- New York City; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third vention of 1860, which passed the ordinance of secession;and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953- enlisted in the Confederate Army as a captain of Infantry;January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection in 1962 elected colonel of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, Georgia Infan-to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law; try, in 1863; member of the State house of representativesresided in Staten Island, N.Y., where he died May 21, 1975; 1863-1865, 1868-1872, 1886-1889, and 1896-1904; member ofremains were cremated and ashes placed in his home. the State reconstruction convention in 1865; presented cre- dentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Forty-third RAY, Joseph Warren, a Representative from Pennsylva- Congress and served from March 4, 1873, to March 24, 1874, nia; born near Nineveh, Morris Township, Greene County, when he was succeeded by Andrew Sloan, who contested hisPa., May 25, 1849; attended the common schools and was election; served in the office of the Clerk of the House ofgraduated from Waynesburg (Pa.) College in 1874; studied Representatives 1874-1882 and 1891-1895; engaged in agri-law; was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced prac- cultural pursuits; died in Guyton, Effingham County, Ga.,tice in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa.; elected as a Repub- October 18, 1906; interment in Guyton Cemetery. lican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890; re- RAWSON, Charles Augustus, a Senator from Iowa; bornsumed the practice of law in Waynesburg, Pa.; trustee of in Des Moines, Iowa, May 29, 1867; attended the publicWaynesburg College from 1902 until his death; elected presi- schools and Grinnell (Iowa) College; engaged in banking anddent judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania the insurance business and also in the manufacture of clayin 1915 and served until 1926; declined to be a candidate for products; member of the board of trustees of Grinnell Col-reelection; again resumed the practice of law in Waynes- lege; State chairman of the war work council of the Youngburg, Pa., where he died September 15, 1928; interment in Men's Christian Association and served overseas with thatGreenmont Cemetery. organization during the First World War; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy RAY, Ossian, a Representative from New Hampshire; caused by the resignation of William S. Kenyon and servedborn in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vt., December 13, from February 24 to December 1, 1922, when a successor was1835; moved to Irasburg, Vt., in early childhood; attended elected and qualified; was not a candidate for election to fillthe common schools and an academy in Derby, Vt.; studied this vacancy; member of the Republican National Committee law in Irasburg and in Lancaster, N.H., to which latter place 1924-1932; resumed the manufacture of clay products; alsohe moved in 1854; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and interested in banking; died in Des Moines, Iowa, Septemberpracticed in Essex and Coos Counties; solicitor for Coos 2, 1936; interment in Woodland Cemetery. County 1862-1872; member of the State house of representa- tives in 1868 and 1869; delegate to the Republican National RAY, George Washington, a Representative from NewConvention in 1872; United States attorney for the district of York; born in Otselic, Chenango County, N.Y., February 3,New Hampshire from February 22, 1879, to December 23, 1844; attended the common schools and Norwich Academy; 1880, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the private in Company B, Ninetieth New York Volunteers, andForty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death brigade clerk, First Brigade, First Division, Nineteenthof Evarts W. Farr; reelected to the Forty-seventh and Forty- Army Corps, during the Civil War; discharged at the close ofeighth Congresses and served from January 8,1881, to the war; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Novem-March 3, 1885; did not seek renomination in 1884; died in ber 1867; chairman of the Republican county committee ofLancaster, N.H., January 28, 1892; interment in the Summer Chenango County; member of the Republican State commit-Street Cemetery. tee in 1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); member of the RAY, Richard Belmont, a Representative from Georgia; board of education of Norwich Academy and Union Freeborn in Fort Valley, Crawford County, Ga., February 2, 1927; School; elected to the Fifty-second and to the five succeedingattended public schools of Crawford County; graduated from Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, to September 11,Crawford County High School, Roberta, Ga., 1944; served in 1902; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements ofthe United States Navy, 1944-1946; farmer, 1946-1950; small the Mississippi River (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee onbusinessman, 1950-1972; mayor, Perry, Ga., 1964-1970; presi- Invalid Pensions (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on thedent, Georgia Municipal Association, 1969; administrative Judiciary (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses); resignedassistant to United States Senator Sam Nunn, 1972-1982; from Congress to accept the United States judgeship for theelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth, Ninety-ninth, northern district of New York, in which capacity he servedand One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, until his death in Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., January1989); is a resident of Perry, Ga. 10, 1925; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. RAY, William Henry, a Representative from Illinois; born RAY, John Henry, a Representative from New York; bornin Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y., December 14,1812; in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn., September 27, 1886;moved to Oneida County, N.Y., in 1813 with his parents who attended the public schools; was graduated from the Univer-settled in Utica; attended the common schools; moved to sity of Minnesota in 1908 and from Harvard Law School inRushville, Ill., in 1834; engaged in mercantile pursuits; also 1911; was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1912 and com-interested in banking; member of the first State board of menced practice in Minneapolis, Minn.; assistant trust offi-equalization 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty- cer of Wells Dickey Trust Co. in 1918 and 1919; served as athird Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); resumed his first lieutenant in Judge Advocate General's Departmentformer business pursuits in Rushville, Schuyler County, Ill., 1918-1919; assistant to special representative of Secretary ofand died there January 25, 1881; interment in Rushville War Newton D. Baker in 1919, concerned with United StatesCemetery. 1696 Biographical Directory

RAYBURN, Samuel Taliaferro, a Representative from(N.Y.) Business College in 1865 and 1866; enlisted as a pri- Texas; born near Kingston, Roane County, Tenn., January 6,vate in the Thirty-first Regiment, Illinois Infantry, in 1861; 1882; moved to Fannin County, Tex., in 1887 with hispar- promoted to captain of Company E of that regiment after ents who settled near Windom; attended the rural schoolsthe siege of Vicksburg in 1863; served throughout the war and was graduated from the East Texas Normal College,and settled in Mississippi; published the Mississippi Pilot at Commerce, Tex., in 1903; studied law at the University ofJackson, Miss., during the reconstruction of that State and Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1908 andcom-until 1877; assistant State treasurer 1873-1875 appointed menced practice in Bonham, Fannin County, Tex.; memberUnited States marshal of Dakota Territory in 1877, with of the State house of representatives 1907-1913, and servedheadquarters at Yankton, later at Fargo, and served until as speaker during the last two years; elected as a Democrat1882; declined a reappointment; elected as a Republican to to the Sixty-third and to the twenty-four succeeding Con-the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); gresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death;unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commercewheat raising; died in Fargo, Dak. (now North Dakota), Jan- (Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congress- es); majority leader (Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Con-uary 3, 1886; interment in the public vault in Rock Creek gresses), minority leader (Eightieth and Eighty-third Con-Cemetery, Washington, D.C. gresses); elected Speaker of the House of Representatives RAYNER, Isidor, a Representative and a Senator from September 16, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the deathMaryland; born in Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1850; attended of Speaker William B. Bankhead; reelected Speaker in theprivate schools, the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first,and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, andlaw; admitted to the Maryland bar in 1871; member, State Eighty-seventh Congresses; died in Bonham, Tex., Novemberhouse of delegates 1878-1884; member, State senate 1885- 16, 1961; interment in Willow Wild Cemetery. 1886; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March Bibliography: DAB; Champagne, Anthony. Congressman . 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press,1984; Hardeman, D.B., and Donald C.Bacon. Rayburn: A Biography. Austin: Texas Monthly in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; elected to the Fifty-second Press, 1987. and Fifty third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895), declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894, attor RAYFIEL, Leo Frederick, a Representative from Newney general of Maryland 1899-1903; elected as a Democrat York; born in New York City, March 22, 1888; attended thein 1905 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1911 and grade and high schools; was graduated from the New Yorkserved from March 4, 1905, until his death in Washington, University Law School in 1908; was admitted to the bar inD.C., November 25, 1912; chairman, Committee on Indian 1918 and commenced practice in Brooklyn, N.Y.; memberofDepredations (Sixty-second Congress); interment in Rock the New York State assembly 1939-1944; electedas a Demo-Creek Cemetery. crat to the Seventy-ninth Congress; reelected to the Eighti- Bibliography: DAB; Rayner, Isidor. Essays of isidor Rayner. Baltimore: eth Congress and served from January 3, 1945, until his John Murphy Co., 1914; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 62nd Cong., resignation on September 13, 1947, having been appointed,a 3rd sess., 1912-1913. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914. judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern RAYNER, Kenneth, a Representative from North Caroli- District of New York, in which capacity he served until hisna; born in Bertie County, N.C., June 20, 1808; attended death; died in Wayne, N.J., November 18, 1978; intermentin Wellward Cemetery, Farmingdale, N.Y. Tarborough Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829; moved to Hertford County and practiced; member of RAYMOND, Henry Jarvis, a Representative from Newthe State constitutional convention in 1835; member of the York; born in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., January 24,State house of commons in 1835, 1836, 1846, 1848, and 1850; 1820; attended the common schools; was graduated fromtheelected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and University of Vermont at Burlington in 1840; moved to NewTwenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); York City and studied law; engaged in journalism;was con-was not a candidate for renomination in 1844; member of nected with the New York Tribune 1841-1848, with the Cou-the State senate in 1854; appointed by President Grant as rier and Enquirer 1848-1850, and with Harper's Magazine incourt commissioner of Alabama claims at its organization 1850; member of the State assembly in 1850 and 1851andand served until its dissolution; Solicitor of the United served as speaker in the latter year; established the NewStates Treasury 1877-1884; died in Washington, D.C., March York Times in 1851; delegate to the Whig National Conven- 4, 1884; interment in the Old City Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. tion in 1852; Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1854; Bibliography: DAB. declined a renomination; delegate to the Republican Nation- REA, David, a Representative from Missouri; born near al Convention in 1860; again a member of the Stateassem-New Marion, Ripley County, md., January 19, 1831; attend- bly in 1862 and served as speaker; electedas a Republican toed the common schools; moved to Missouri with his parents, the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867);who settled in Andrew County in 1842; engaged in agricul- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1866; resumedtural pursuits near Rosendale; taught school in the country newspaper activities with the New York Times; died in New1849-1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862 and York City June 18, 1869; interment in Greenwood Cemetery,commenced practice in Savannah, Mo., in 1863; during the Brooklyn, N.Y. Civil War enlisted in the Union Army and served successive- Bibliography: DAB; Brown, Ernest Francis. Raymond of the Times. New York: Norton, 1951; Dodd, Dorothy. Henry J. Raymond and the New York ly as first lieutenant, captain, quartermaster, and lieutenant Times During Reconstruction. Chicago: distributed by University of Chicagocolonel; resumed the practice of his profession in Savannah; Libraries, 1936. member of the board of education; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875- RAYMOND, John Baldwin, a Delegate from the TerritoryMarch 3, 1879); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection of Dakota; born in Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y., Decem-in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; engaged in the practice ber 5, 1844; moved with his parents to Tazewell County, Ill.,of law in Savannah, Mo., until his death in that city on June in 1853; attended the public schools and the Poughkeepsie13, 1901; interment in the City Cemetery. Biographies 1697

REA, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born atStates Senate and served from March 4, 1795, to March 3, "Rea's Mansion," near Chambersburg, Pa., January 27, 1755;1801; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; served as Presi- completed preparatory studies; served as lieutenant and cap-dent pro tempore of the Senate during the Fifth Congress; tam with the Cumberland County (Pa.) Militia during thedied in Charleston, S.C., July 17, 1816; interment in the Revolutionary War; commissioned thefirstcoroner offamily cemetery at "Hobcaw," in Christ Church Parish, near Franklin County, Pa., on October 20, 1784; member of theCharleston, S.C. State house of representatives in 1785, 1786, 1789, 1790, Bibliography: DAB. 1792, 1793, 1801, and 1802; county auditor in 1793 and 1794; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the three READ, Nathan, a Representative from Massachusetts; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1811); wasborn in Warren, Mass., July 2, 1759; attended the common an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1810 totheschools and was graduated from Harvard University in 1781; Twelfth Congress; served in the War of 1812 as major gener-taught school in Beverly and Salem and was elected a tutor al of the Eleventh Division of Militia; elected to the Thir-in Harvard University, where he continued until 1787; teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofopened an apothecary store in Salem; interested in an iron Robert Whitehill and served from May 11, 1813, to March 3,factory at Danvers, Mass.; elected as a Federalist to the 1815; member of the State senate in 1823 and 1824, when he Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation resigned; died in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., Feb-of Samuel Sewall; reelected to the Seventh Congress and ruary 26, 1829; interment in Rocky Spring Churchyard, nearserved from November 25, 1800, to March 3, 1803; was not a Chambersburg, Pa. candidate for renomination in 1802; judge of the court of common pleas of Essex County in 1803; moved toBelfast, READ, Almon Heath, a Representative from Pennsylva-Maine, in 1807; judge of the county court of Hancock County nia; born in Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vt., June 12,in 1807; instrumental in establishing Belfast Academy and 1790; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown,served as trustee for forty years; died near Belfast, Waldo Mass., in 1811; county clerk 1815-1820; studied law; wasCounty, Maine, January 20, 1849; interment in Grove Ceme- admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice intery, Belfast, Maine. Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pa.; member of the State Bibliography: DAB. house of representatives 1827-1832; served in the State senate 1833-1837; State treasurer in 1840; elected as a Demo- READ, William Brown, a Representative from Kentucky; crat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancyborn in Hardin County, near Hodgenville, Ky., December 14, caused by the death of Davis Dimock, Jr.; reelected to the1817; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- Twenty-eighth Congress and served from March 18, 1842,ted to the bar and commenced practice in Hodgenville, Ky., until his death in Montrose, Pa., June 3, 1844; interment inin 1849; member of the State senate 1857-1865; unsuccessful Montrose Cemetery. candidate for election as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1863; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at READ, George, a Delegate and a Senator from Delaware;Charleston and Baltimore in 1860 and at Chicago in 1864; born near North East, Cecil County, Md., September 18,member of the State house of representatives 1867-1869; 1733; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit-elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second and Forty-third ted to the bar and began practice in New Castle, Del., inCongresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful can- 1752;attorney generalforlower Delaware 1763-1774;didate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice ofhis member, provincial assembly 17 65-1777; Member of the Con-profession; died in Hodgenville, Ky., August 5, 1880; inter- tinental Congress 1774-1777; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; president of the State constitutional conven-ment in Red Hill Cemetery. tion in 1776; vice president of the State under this constitu- READE, Edwin Godwin, a Representative from North tion; member, State house of representatives 1779-1780;Carolina; born on a farm in Person County, N.C., November judge of the United States Court of Appeals in admiralty13, 1812; completed preparatory studies; engaged inagricul- cases 1782; representative at the Annapolis convention 1786;tural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 delegate from Delaware to the Federal Constitutional Con-and commenced practice in Roxboro, Person County, N.C.; vention; elected to the United States Senate in 1789, reelect-elected as the candidate of the American Party to the ed in 1790, and served from March 4, 1789, to September 18,Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); de- 1793, when he resigned, having been appointed chief justiceclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856; served in of Delaware; served until his death in New Castle, Del.,the Confederate Senate in 1863 by appointment of Governor September 21, 1798; interment in Immanuel Churchyard.Vance; president of the reconstruction convention which met Bibliography: DAB; Boughner, D. Terry, Jr."George Read and thein Raleigh in 1865; associate justice of the supreme courtof Founding of Delaware State, 1781-1798." Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic Uni- North Carolina 1868-1879; engaged in banking in Raleigh, versity, 1970; Read, William T. Life and Correspondence of George Read. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1870. N.C., and died there October 18, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. READ, Jacob, a Delegate and a Senator from South Caro- Bibliography: DAB. lina; born at "Hobcaw" plantation in Christ Church Parish, near Charleston, S.C., in 1752; completed preparatory stud- READING, John Roberts, a Representative from Pennsyl- ies; studied law and was admitted to the bar; studied invania; born in Somerton, Philadelphia County, Pa., Novem- England 1773-1776; joined other Americans in London inber 1, 1826; completed preparatory studies; was graduated 1774 in a petition against the Boston port bill; returned tofrom the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., in the United States and served South Carolina in various1847 and began practice in Somerton, Pa.; later graduated military and civil capacities during the Revolutionary War;from Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, Pa., and practiced sent with other Americans as a prisoner of the British to St.homeopathy; presented credentials as a Democratic Member- Augustine 1780-1781; member, State assembly 1782, and ofelect to the Forty-first Congress and served from March 4, the privy council 1783; Member of the Continental Congress1869, to April 13, 1870, when he was succeeded by Caleb N. 1783-1785; member, South Carolina house of representativesTaylor, who contested his election; unsuccessful Democratic and served as speaker; elected as a Federalist to the Unitedcandidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; 1698 Biographical Directory

died in Philadelphia, Pa., February 14, 1886; intermentin REAMS, Henry Frazier, a Representative from Ohio; born the William Penn Cemetery, Somerton, Pa. in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., January 15, 1897; READY, Charles (uncle of William T. Haskell),a Repre- attended the public schools of Tennessee; during First World sentative from Tennessee; born in Readyville, RutherfordWar enlisted as a private in 1918 and served with the Fifty- (now Cannon) County, Tenn., December 22, 1802; attendedeighth Field Artillery, United States Army, until discharged the common schools and was graduated from Greenevilleas a lieutenant in 1919; graduated from the University of (Tenn.) College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825Tennessee at Knoxville in 1919 and from Vanderbilt Univer- and commenced practice in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; member ofsity Law School, Nashville, Tenn., in 1922; was admitted to the State house of representatives in 1835; electedas a Whigthe Tennessee bar in 1920 and commenced the practice of to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a candidate oflaw in Nashville; moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1922, admitted the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifthto the Ohio bar in 1923, and continued the practice of law; Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); unsuccessfulcan-delegate to Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932, didate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress;1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956; prosecuting attorney of resumed the practice of law; died in Murfreesboro, Ruther-Lucas County, Ohio, 1933-1937; member of Toledo Port Com- ford County, Tenn., June 4, 1878; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. mission 1939-1945; collector of internal revenue at Toledo, Ohio, 1942-1944; State director of public welfare in 1945 and REAGAN, John Henninger, a Representative anda Sena-1946; president and treasurer of Community Broadcasting tor from Texas; born in Sevierville, Sevier County, Tenn.,Co. 1937-1960; also interested in the banking business; trust- October 8, 1818; attended the common schools and privateee of Bowling Green State University 1948-1957; delegate to academies; moved to Texas in 1839, joined the republic'sthe Council of Europe at Strasbourg in 1951 and to the army, and participated in campaigns against the CherokeeInterparliamentary Union Conferences in Washington, D.C., Indians; deputy State surveyor of the public lands 1839-in 1953 and in Vienna, Austria, in 1954; elected as an Inde- 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848andpendent to the Eighty-second and to the Eighty-third Con- practiced in Buffalo and Palestine, Tex.; member, Stategresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful can- house of representatives 1847-1849; judge of the districtdidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; court 1852-1857, when he resigned; electedas a Democrat toresumed the practice of law; chairman of board, Reams the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-Broadcasting Corp. since 1965; died in Oakland, Calif., Sep- March 3, 1861); elected to the secession convention of Texastember 15, 1971; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, in 1861; deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confeder-Ohio. acy; postmaster general of the Confederacy from 1861 until the close of the war; also appointed Acting Secretaryof the REAVIS, Charles Frank, a Representative from Nebras- Treasury of the Confederacy for a short time precedingtheka; born in Falls City, Richardson County, Nebr., September close of the war; imprisoned at Fort Warren forseveral5, 1870; attended the public schools and Northwestern Uni- months after the war; member of the Stateconstitutionalversity, Evanston, Ill.; studied law; was admitted to the bar convention in 1875; elected as a Democrat to theForty-in 1892 and commenced practice in Falls City; prosecuting fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March4, 1875-attorney of Richardson County 1894-1896; elected as a Re- March 3, 1887); had been reelected to the FiftiethCongresspublican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding but resigned March 4, 1887, to become Senator;chairman,Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, to June 3, 1922, Committee on Commerce (Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,Forty-when he resigned; appointed in June 1922 special assistant eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses); electedas a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1887,to the Attorney General in the prosecution of so-called war fraud cases and served until June 1, 1924; moved to Lincoln, until June 10, 1891, when he resigned; returned toTexas and was appointed a member of the railroad Nebr., in 1924 and continued the practice of law; died in commission ofLincoln, Nebr., May 26, 1932; interment in Steele Cemetery, the State and served as chairman 1897-1903; diedin Pales- tine, Anderson County, Tex., March 6, 1905;interment inFalls City, Nebr. East Hill Cemetery. REBER, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born Bibliography: DAB; Proctor, Ben. Not Without Honor: The Lifeof John in South Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., Febru- H. Reagan. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962; Reagan, JohnH. ary- 1, 1858; attended the public schools, and was graduated Menwirs with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War.Edited by Walter Flavius. 1906. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1973. from the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1875; taught school for several years and was later employed REAMES, Alfred Evan, a Senator from Oregon; borninas a bookkeeper; deputy county treasurer of Schuylkill Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oreg., February 5,1870; at-County 1882-1884; engaged in the manufacture of hosiery in tended the public schools, the University of thePacific, SanPottsville 1885-1917 and also interested in banking; elected Jose, Calif., and the atEugene; grad-as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- uated from the law department of Washington and LeeUni-gresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee versity, Lexington, Va., in 1893; was admitted to the bartheon Mileage (Sixty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for same year and commenced practice in Eugene, Oreg., and inrenomination in 1922; resumed banking activities in Potts- various places in the State; served as districtattorney ofville, Pa., and served as president of the Reber Investment Jackson, Josephine, Kiamath, and Lake Counties,Oreg.,Co.; died in Pottsville, Pa., on September 26, 1931; interment 1900-1908; returned to Medford, Oreg., in 1908 andcontin-in the Charles Baber Cemetery. ued the practice of law; also engaged in mining;appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy REDDEN, Monroe Minor, a Representative from North caused by the resignation of andservedCarolina; born in Hendersonville, Henderson County, N.C., from February 1, to November 8, 1938, whena successor wasSeptember 24, 1901; attended the public schools; was grad- elected; was not a candidate for election in 1938to fill theuated from the law school of Wake Forest College, Wake vacancy; resumed the practice of law; died in Medford,Forest, N.C., in 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year Oreg., on March 4, 1943; interment in SiskiyouMemorial and commenced practice in Hendersonville, N.C.; chairman Park. of Henderson County Democratic committee 1930-1946; Biographies 1699 chairman of the State Democratic executive committee 19421917 and served with the American Expeditionary Forces to 1944; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth, Eighty-first,from October 1917 to July 1919; was decorated with the and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; re-Purple Heart, and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm; sumed the practice of law; president of the Southern Herit-director of the School of Business Administration of New age Life Insurance Co., 1956-1959; chairman, board of direc-York University in 1919 and 1920; elected as a Republican to tors of Home Bank and Trust Company; is a resident ofthe Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses Hendersonville, N.C. (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; elected to REDFIELD, William Cox, a Representative from Newthe Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses York; born in Albany, N.Y., June 18, 1858; moved with his(March 4, 1933-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for parents to Pittsfield, Mass., in 1867; attended the publicrenomination in 1946; delegate to the Republican National schools and received home instruction; employed in theConventions in 1928, 1932, 1936,1940,1944, and 1948; Pittsfield post office and later as a traveling salesman for alawyer, banker, and publisher; member of the Board of Re- paper company; went to New York City at the age of nine-gents of the in 1945 and 1946; chair- teen and was employed in the stationery and printing busi-man of the Republican National Committee1946-1948; un- ness; leaving this in 1883, he became connected with thesuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate manufacture of steel and iron forgings in Brooklyn, N.Y.; interested in many other manufacturing concerns and bank-in 1948; elected to the Eighty-second and to the five succeed- ing and life insurance companies; delegate to the Golding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his Democrats National Convention at Indianapolis in 1896; un-death in Bethesda, Md., March 19, 1961; chairman, Special successful candidate as a Gold Democrat for election in 1896 Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (Eighty-third Con- to the Fifty-fifth Congress; commissioner of public works for gress); interment in Monte Vista Burial Park, Johnson City, Tenn. Brooklyn Borough in 1902 and 1903; elected as a Democrat Bibliography: DAB; Hicks, John H. "Congressional Career of B. Carroll to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); Reece, 1920-1948." Master's thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1968. unsuccessful candidate for nomination as Vice President of the United States and therefore declined to be a candidate REECE, Louise Goff (wife of Brazilla Carroll Reece, for renomination to Congress in 1912; appointed Secretary ofdaughter of Guy D. Goff, and granddaughter of Nathan Commerce in the Cabinet of President Wilson and servedGoff), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Milwaukee, from March 4, 1913, to November 1, 1919, when he resigned;Wis., November 6, 1898; educated at Miss Treat's School, engaged in banking and the investment and insurance busi- Milwaukee Downer Seminary, and Miss Spence's School, ness in New York City and Brooklyn, N.Y.; died in NewNew York City; member of the board of the First Peoples York City, June 13, 1932; interment in the Albany RuralBank, Johnson City, Tenn.; chairman of the board of Carter Cemetery, Albany, N.Y. County Bank, Elizabethton, Tenn.; proprietor and manager Bibliography: DAB. of Goff Properties, Clarksburg, W.Va.; elected as a Republi- can to the Eighty-seventh Congress May 16,1961, to fill the REDING, John Randall, a Representative from New Brazilla Carroll Hampshire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., October 18, 1805; at-vacancy caused by the death of her husband, tended the common schools; was apprenticed to the printer'sReece, and served until January 3, 1963; was not a candidate trade and subsequently became an editor; elected as a Demo-for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; re- crat to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congressesmained active in State and national politics; businesswoman (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); naval storekeeper at Ports-with wide interests in Tennessee and West Virginia; died in mouth 1853-1858; mayor of Portsmouth in 1860; member ofJohnson City, Tenn., May 14, 1970; interment in Monte the State house of representatives 1867-1870; died in Ports-Vista Burial Park. mouth, N.H., October 8, 1892; interment in Haverhill Ceme- REED, Charles Manning, a Representative from Pennsyl- tery, Haverhill, N.H. vania; born in Erie, Erie County, Pa., April 3, 1803; attended REDLIN, Rolland W., a Representative from Norththe public schools and was graduated from Washington Col- Dakota; born in Lambert, Richiand County, Mont., Februarylege, Washington, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar 29, 1920; educated in grade school in Lambert, Mont., highin Philadelphia in 1824 but did not practice; engaged in school in Minneapolis, Minn., the University of Washington,business in Erie with his father, an owner of vessels on the Seattle, Wash., and took extension courses at Minot (N.Dak.)Great Lakes; appointed colonel of militia in 1831 and briga- State University; owns and operates a farm near Crosby,dier general at the expiration of his commission; member of Divide County, N.Dak.; was a candidate for State house ofthe State house of representatives in 1837 and 1838; elected representatives in 1952; elected to the State senate andas a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress(March 4, 1843- served from 1959 through 1963; elected as a Democrat to theMarch 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967);to the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed shipping on the unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Nineti-Great Lakes; also engaged in banking, mercantile pursuits, eth Congress; war on hunger consultant, Agency for Interna-and railroad business 1846-1849; died in Erie, Pa., December tional Development, 1967; vice president and agricultural16, 1871; interment in Erie Cemetery. representative for Minot First Western Bank; served in the REED, Chauncey William, a Representative from Illinois; State senate, 1973 to present; is a resident of Minot, N.Dak.born in West Chicago, Du Page County, Ill., June 2, 1890; REECE, Brazilla Carroll (husband of Louise G. Reece), aattended the public schools and Northwestern University, Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Butler,Evanston, Ill.; city treasurer of West Chicago, Ill., in 1913 Johnson County, Tenn., December 22, 1889; attended theand 1914; was graduated from the Webster College of Law, public schools, Watauga Academy, Carson-Newman College,Chicago, Ill., in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same year New York University, and the University of London; assist-and commenced practice in Naperville, Ill.; during the First ant secretary and instructor in the New York University inWorld War served as a sergeant of Infantry, Eighty-sixth 1916 and 1917; during the First World War enlisted in MayDivision; resumed practice of law at Naperville, Ill.; served 1700 Biographical Directory

as State's attorney of Du Page County 1920-1935; chairman from August 8, 1922, to January 3, 1935; unsuccessful candi- of Du Page County Republican central committee 1926-1934;date for reelection in 1934; chairman, Committee on Expend- elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the tenituresin Executive Departments (Sixty-ninth Congress), succeethng Congresses, and served from January 3, 1935,Committee on Military Affairs (Seventieth through Seventy- until his death in Bethesda, Md., February 9, 1956; chair-second Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Pitts- man, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-third Congress);burgh, Pa.; died in Sarasota, Fla., February 10, 1953; inter- interment in Glen Oak Cemetery, West Chicago, Ill. ment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. REED, Clyde Martin, a Senator from Kansas; bornnear Bibliography: DAB. Champaign, Champaign County,Ill.,October19,1871; REED, Edward Cambridge, a Representative from New moved with his family to Labette County, Kans., in 1875;York; born in Fitzwilliam, N.H., March 8, 1793; attended the attended the public schools; taught schoolone year; servedcommon schools; was graduated from Dartmouth College, in the railway mail service 1889-1910, rising through allHanover, N.H., in 1812; served in the War of 1812 under grades to field superintendent of divisions at Cleveland andGovernor Marcy; studied law in Troy, N.Y.; was admitted to Cincinnati, Ohio, New Orleans, La., Omaha, Nebr., and St.the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Homer, N.Y.; Paul, Minn., and superintendent, Railway Adjustment Divi-secretary of the board of trustees of Cortland Academy, sion, Post Office Department; resigned in 1917 tomanageHomer, N.Y.,1822-1870;districtattorneyof Cortland and publish a newspaper at Parsons, Kans.; secretary to theCounty 1827-1836; was admitted to the court of chancery in Governor of Kansas 1919; member of Kansas Industrial1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress Court 1920; chairman of the Kansas Public Utilities Commis-(March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); resumed the practice of law; sion 1921-1924; Governor of Kansas 1929-1931; practicedex-associate judge of the court of common pleas of Cortland tensively before the Interstate Commerce Commission; elect-County 1836-1840; again district attorney in 1856; moved to ed as a Republican in 1938 to the United States Senate,Ithaca, N.Y., in 1875 and resumed the practice of his profes- reelected in 1944, and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Parsons, Kans., November 8, 1949; unsuccessfulsion; died in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., on May 1, 1883; canthdate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination ininterment in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer, Cortland County, 1942; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. N.Y. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Ad4resses. 81st Cong., 2ndsess., REED, Eugene Elliott, a Representative from New Hamp- 1950-1951. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950. shire; born in Manchester, N.H., April 23, 1866; attended the REED, Daniel Alden, a Representative from New York;public schools and received instruction from private tutors; born in Sheridan, Chautauqua County, N.Y., September 15,studied law; director and officer of numerous New England 1875; attended the public schools in Sheridan and in Silverand New York corporations and engaged in construction Creek, N.Y.; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca,contracting business; alderman of Manchester 1899-1903 and N.Y., in 1898; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1900 mayor 1903-19 11; Democratic National and State committee- and practiced in Silver Creek and later in Dunkirk,N.Y.; man for twelve years; delegate to Democratic National Con- attorney for the excise department of the State of New Yorkventions in 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1924; unsuccessful candi- 1903-1909; sent by the Government of the United Statesondate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; elect- a special mission to France in 1917 and 1918; director of theed as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, Dunkirk Trust Co.; lecturer on commercial and civicsub- 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in jects; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth andto the1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; appointed by President twenty succeeding Congresses and served from March4, Wilson on the Philippine Commission and served as secre- 1919, until his death; chairman, Committeeon Industrialtary of commerce and police in 1916; negotiated the pur- Arts and Expositions (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committeeonchase and was first president under the Philippine owner- Education (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses),ship of Manila railroads; returned to the United States in Committee on Ways and Means (Eighty-thirdCongress), 1918; unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-third 1918; engaged in the general export business in New York Congress); delegate to the Interparliamentary Unionmeet-19 19-1922; vice president of United Life & Accident Insur- ing in Rome, Italy, in 1948, and represented theUnitedance Co., Concord, N.H., 1922-1931; National Recovery Ad- States at subsequent meetings in Sweden, Switzerland,andministration director for New Hampshire in 1933 and 1934; France; died in Washington, D.C., February 19, 1959;inter-State director, National Emergency Council and Federal ment in Sheridan Cemetery, Sheridan, N.Y. Housing Agency 1934-1939; member, New Hampshire Emer- Bibliography: DAB; Bulkley, Peter B. "Daniel A. Reed: A Study inCon- gency Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Committee in 1936; servatism." Ph.D. dissertation, Clark University, 1972. member New Hampshire Disaster Relief Committee in 1938; regional director for New England, Office of Government REED, David Aiken, a Senator from Pennsylvania;born in Pittsburgh, Pa., December 21, Reports, in 1939 and 1940; died at Manchester, N.H., Decem- 1880; attended privateber 15, 1940; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery. schools; graduated from Shadyside Academy,Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1896, from Princeton University, Princeton,N.J., in REED, Isaac, a Representative from Maine; born in Wal- 1900, and from the University of Pittsburgh Law Schoolindoboro, Maine, August 22, 1809; prepared for college at 1903; was admitted to the bar in 1903 andpracticed inBloomfield Academy, but by preference became a merchant- Pittsburgh, Pa., 1903-19 17; chairman of the Pennsylvaniaship builder; also engaged in banking; town clerk of Waldo- Industrial Accidents Commission 19 12-1915; during theFirstboro 1836-1838; served in the State senate in 1839, 1840, World War served as major in the field artillery 1917-1919;1850, and 1863; member of the State house of representa- resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh in 1919;appointedtives in 1842, 1843, and 1846; president of the town board as a Republican on August 8, 1922, and elected on November1843-1868; selectman 1849-1853, 1855, and 1856; member of 7, 1922, to the United States Senate to fill thevacancy in thethe State board of agriculture and a trustee of the Maine term ending March 3, 1923, caused by the death of WilliamInsane Hospital; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 E. Crow, and on the same daywas elected for the termto the Thirty-second Congress; subsequently elected as a commencing March 4, 1923; reelected in 1928, and servedWhig to the Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy Biographies 1701 caused by the death of Charles Andrews and served fromSeptember 2, 1781; was graduated from Brown University, June 25, 1852, to March 3, 1853; unsuccessful candidate forProvidence, R.I., in 1803; tutor of languages in that institu- Governor of Maine in 1854 and 1855; resumed shipbuilding;tion for two years and principal of the Bridgewater (Mass.) State treasurer in 1856; upon the dissolution of the WhigAcademy in 1806 and 1807; studied law; was admitted to the Party became a Democrat; again a member of the Statebar and commenced practice in Yarmouth, Mass.; elected as house of representatives in 1870 and 1871; died in Waldo-a Federalist to the Thirteenth and FourteenthCongresses boro, Lincoln County, Maine, September 19, 1887; interment(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); elected to the Seventeenth in Central Cemetery. through Twenty-third Congresses, elected as an Anti-Mason- ic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a REED, James Alexander, a Senator from Missouri; bornWhig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses on a farm near Mansfield, Richiand County,Ohio, November(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on 9, 1861; moved with his parents to Cedar Rapids, LinnRevisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress); County, Iowa, in 1864; attended the public schools and Coedeclined to be candidate for reelection in 1840; Lieutenant College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; studied law; was admitted toGovernor of Massachusetts 1845-1851; died in West Bridge- the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1887 and continued thewater, Plymouth County, Mass., November 25, 1860. practice of law; counselor of Kansas City 1897-1898; pros- REED, Joseph, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; was born ecuting attorney of Jackson County 1898-1900, when he re-in Trenton, N.J., August 27, 1741; attended Philadelphia signed; mayor of Kansas City 1900-1904; elected as a Demo-Academy; was graduated from the College of New Jersey crat to the United States Senate in 1910; reelected in 1916(now Princeton University) in 1757; studied law; was admit- and again in 1922 and served from March 4, 1911, to Marchted to the bar in 1762; was a law student in the Temple in 3, 1929; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; chair-London; returned in 1767 and commenced practice in Tren- man, Committee on Manufactures (Sixty-third throughton, N.J.; moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in October 1770; Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings andmember of the committee of correspondence in 1774; presi- Grounds (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Standards,dent of the Pennsylvania convention in January 1775; ac- Weights and Measures (Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed thecompanied General Washington to Cambridge as his aide-de- practice of his profession in Kansas City, Mo.; died at hiscamp and military secretary in July 1775; servedduring the summer home near Fairview, Oscoda County, Mich., Septem-campaign of 1776 as adjutant general of the Army from ber 8, 1944; interment in Mount Washington Cemetery, nearJune 5, 1776, to January 22, 1777; Member of the Continen- Kansas City, Mo. Bibliography: DAB; Meriwether, Lee. Jim Read, Senatorial Immortal. tal Congress in 1778; president of the supreme executive Webster Groves, Mo.: International Mark Twain Society, 1948; Mitchell, council of Pennsylvania 1778-1781; trustee of the University Franklin D. "The Re-Election of Irreconcilable James A. Reed." Missouri of Pennsylvania, 1782-1785; died in Philadelphia March 5, Historical Review 60 (July 1966): 416-35. 1785; interment in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery. REED, James Byron, a Representative from Arkansas; Bibliography: DAB. born near Lonoke, Lonoke County, Ark., January 2, 1881; attended the rural schools of his county and Hendrix College REED, Joseph Rea, a Representative from Iowa; born in and was graduated from the law department of the Universi-Ashland County, Ohio, March12,1835;attended the ty of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1906; was admitted to thecommon schools and VermillionInstitution, Hayesville, bar in 1906 and commenced the practice of law in Lonoke,Ohio, 1854-1857; moved to Adel, Dallas County, Iowa, in Ark.; member of the State house of representatives in 1907;1857; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and prosecuting attorney of the seventeenth judicial district ofengaged in the practice of law at Adel until 1861; enlisted as Arkansas 1912-1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first lieutenant in the Second Battery, Iowa Light Artillery, eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofin July 1861, promoted to captain in October 1864, and Lewis E. Sawyer; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and Seventiethserved until June 10, 1865; resumed the practice of law in Congresses and served from October 20, 1923, to March 3,Adel; member of the State senate in 1866 and 1868; moved to 1929; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928; re-Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1869; judge of the district court sumed the practice of law in Lonoke, Ark.; moved to Little1872-1884; judge of the supreme court of the State 1884- Rock, Ark., in 1931 and continued the practice of law until 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress his death there on April 27, 1935; interment in Lonoke(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for Cemetery, Lonoke, Ark. reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; chief justice REED, John (father of John Reed [1781-1860]), a Repre-of the court of private land claims in 1891-1904; resumed the sentative from Massachusetts; born in Framingham, Mass.,practice of law in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, November 11,1751; moved with his parents to TiticutIowa, where he died on April 2, 1925; interment in Walnut Parish, in the northwestern part of Middleboro, Mass., inHill Cemetery. 1756; was graduated from Yale College in 1772; studied the- REED, Philip, a Senator and a Representative from Mary- ology; was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1780;land; born near Chestertown, Kent County, Md., in 1760; served as chaplain in the United States Navy for two years;completed preparatory studies; served in the Revolutionary moved to West Bridgewater, Mass., in1780, where heArmy, attaining the rank of captain of infantry; member, became pastor of the First Congregational Society, whichState house of delegates 1787; sheriff of Kent County 1791- position he retained until his death; elected as a Federalist1794; member of the executive council 1805-1806; elected as to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1795-a Republican to the United States Senatein 1806 to fill the March 3, 1801); was not a candidate for renomination invacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Wright;reelect- 1800; again resumed his ministerial duties; died in Wested the same year and served from November 25, 1806, to Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., on February 17, 1831;March 3, 1813; lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-first Regi- interment in the Old Graveyard. ment, Maryland Militia, in the War of 1812 and lieutenant REED, John (son of John Reed [1751-1831]), a Representa-colonel commandant of the First Regiment, Maryland Mili- tive from Massachusetts; born in West Bridgewater, Mass.,tia, in 1814; elected to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1702 Biographical Directory

1817-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inschools and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Uni- 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; successfully contested theversity); studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- election of Jeremiah Cosden to the Seventeenth Congressmenced practice in Lexington in 1808; moved to Natchez, and served from March 19, 1822, to March 3, 1823; died inMiss., in 1809; city clerk in 1811; unsuccessful candidate for Huntingtown, Kent County, Md., November 2, 1829; inter-Delegate to Congress in 1813; attorney general of Mississippi ment in the cemetery of Christ Church, near Chestertown,1821-1826; elected to the State house of representatives in Md. 1825 but declined to take his seat; elected to the United REED, Robert Rentoul, a Representative from Pennsylva-States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of nia; born in Washington, Pa., March 12, 1807; completedDavid Holmes and served from January 28, 1826, to March preparatory studies; was graduated from Washington and3, 1827; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1827; again Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., in 1824 and from theelected to the United States Senate in 1828 and served from medical department of the University of Pennsylvania inMarch 4, 1829, until his death in Lexington, Ky., November 1829; began the practice of medicine in Washington, Pa.;26, 1829; interment in the Old Baptist Cemetery. elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); member of the State house of repre- REED, William, a Representative from Massachusetts; sentatives in 1883 and 1864; died near Washington, Wash-born in Marblehead, Mass., June 6, 1776; received a limited ington County, Pa., on December 14, 1864; interment ineducation; engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as a Fed- Washington Cemetery. eralist to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1815); member of the board of the Andover REED, Stuart Felix, a Representative from West Virginia;Theological Seminary; trustee of Dartmouth College, Hano- born near Philippi, Barbour County, W.Va., January 8, 1866;ver, N.H.; resumed mercantile pursuits; died in Marblehead, attended the common schools; taught in country schools;wasEssex County, Mass., February 18, 1837; interment in a pri- graduated from the Fairmont State Normal School in 1885vate burying ground on Harris Street. and from the law department of the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1889; founded and edited the REEDER, William Augustus, a Representative from Athenaeum (college journal) in 1889; editor of the TelegramKansas; born near Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa., in Clarksburg 1890-1898; member of the State senate 1895-August 28, 1849; moved with his parents to Ipava, Fulton 1899; postmaster of Clarksburg 1897-1901; president of theCounty, Ill., in 1853; attended the public schools; taught board of trustees of Broaddus College 1901-1908; member ofschool inIllinois1863-1871; moved toBeloit, Mitchell the International Tax Conference at Louisville, Ky., in 1909; County, Kans., in 1871; principal of the Beloit public schools secretary of State of West Virginia 1909-1917; president of1871-1879; moved to Logan, Phillips County, Kans., in 1880 the Association of American Secretaries of State in 1915;and engaged in banking; also interested in irrigation farm- elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the threeing 1891-1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1925); chair- to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Jus- 1911); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Fifty-seventh, Fifty- tice (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committeeon District of Co- eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee on the Irri- lumbia (Sixty-eighth Congress); declined to bea candidategation of Arid Lands (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); for renomination in 1924; engaged in literary pursuits;re-was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; sided in Washington, D.C., until his death there July 4, 1935;moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1911 and to Beverly Hills, interment in Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.Calif., in 1913, where he engaged in banking and in the real estate business until 1926; died in Beverly Hills, Calif., on REED, Thomas Brackett, a Representative from Maine; November 7, 1929; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Holly- born in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, October 18, wood, Calif. 1839; attended the public schools; was graduated from Bow- doin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1860; studied law;acting REES, Edward Herbert, a Representative from Kansas; assistant paymaster, United States Navy, from April 19,born on a farm near Emporia, Lyon County, Kans., June 3, 1864, to November 4, 1865; was admitted to the bar in 18651886; attended the public schools and the Kansas State and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member oftheTeachers' College at Emporia; taught school in Lyon County, State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; servedinKans., 1909-1911; clerk of the court of Lyon County, Kans., the State senate in 1870; attorney general of Maine 1870-1912-1918; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and 1872; city solicitor of Portland 1874-1877; electedas a Repub-commenced practice in Emporia, Kans.; also engaged in agri- lican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Con-cultural pursuits; member of the State house of representa- gresses and served from March 4, 1877, to September 4,tives1927-1933; served in the State senate 1933-1935; 1899, when he resigned; chairman, Committeeon the Judici-member of the Kansas Judicial Council 1933-1937; elected as ary (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Rules (Fifty-a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the eleven succeed- first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses); Speaker of theing Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1961); chairman, House of Representatives (Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (Eightieth fifth Congresses); moved to New York City and engaged inand Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for re- the practice of his profession; died in Washington, D.C.,onnomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Emporia, December 7, 1902; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Port-where he died October 25, 1969; interment in Maplewood land, Maine. Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Offenberg, Richard Stanley. "The Political Career of ." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1963; REES, Rollin Raymond, a Representative from Kansas; Reed, Thomas Brackett. Reed's Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentaryborn in Camden, Preble County, Ohio, January 10, 1865; Law. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1894; Robinson, William A Thomas moved with his parents to Ottawa County, Kans., in 1867; B. Reed: Parliamentarian. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930. attended the public schools; was graduated from the agricul- tural college at Manhattan, Kans., in 1885; studied law; was REED, Thomas Buck, a Senator from Mississippi; bornadmitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in near Lexington, Ky., May 7,1787; attended the publicMinneapolis, Kans.; prosecuting attorney of Ottawa County Biographies 1703

1895-1899; member of the State house of representativesbia in 1931; was admitted to the bar the same year and 1899-1903; judge of the thirtieth judicial district1903-1910;commenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.; entered on active resigned to become a candidate for Congress;elected as aduty in July 1942 as captain, Corps of Engineers,Missouri Republican to the Sixty-second Congress (March4, 1911-River Division, subsequently serving in India, Burma, and March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin 1912China; promoted through the ranks to lieutenant colonel to the Sixty-third Congress;resumed the practice of law inand relieved from active duty April 23, 1946; resumedthe Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kans.; moved to Californiaandpractice of law; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth engaged in banking and ranching; died in Anaheim, Calif.,Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful on May 30, 1935; intermentin Fairhaven Cemetery, Orange,candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; Calif. practiced law in Kansas City, Mo., and Washington, D.C.; senior vice president, Utah Construction & Mining Co., San REES, Thomas Mankell, a Representative from Califor- 1925; educatedFrancisco, Calif.; director and secretary of Marcona Corpora- nia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 26, tion and Affiliates; was a resident of Pauma Valley, Calif., in local public schools; B.A., Occidental College,1950; attend- ed University of California Law School, 1951;admitted tountil his death in La Jolla, Calif., on April 15, 1987; cremat- the California bar in 1973; served as a combat infantrymaned; ashes buried at St. Francis Church, Pauma Valley. with General Patton's Third Army during the SecondWorld REEVES, Henry Augustus, a Representative from New War; president of Compania del Pacifico, a Latin AmericanYork; born in Sag Harbor, N.Y., December 7, 1832; attended export firm; State assemblyman, 1954-1962; State senator,private schools in Sag Harbor, the Southampton Academy, 1962-1965; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for three years, 1960, 1964, and 1968; elected as a Democrat to theEighty-and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., ninth Congress, by special election, December 15, 1965, tofillin 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar;edited the the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Roosevelt;Republican Watchman in Greenport from 1858 untilhis reelected to the five succeeding Congresses, and served fromdeath; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-firstCongress December 15, 1965, to January 3, 1977; was not a candidate(March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); resumed newspaper inter- for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; com- ests; supervisor of Southold Town 1872-1894;member of the menced the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and SanState assembly in 1887; member of the State commissionin Jose, Calif.; president, Community Development and Man- N.Y., agement, San Jose, Calif.; is a resident of Santa Cruz, Calif.lunacy 1889-1897; died in Greenport, Suffolk County, March 4, 1916; interment in Southampton Cemetery,South- REESE, David Addison, a Representative from Georgia; ampton, N.Y. born in Charlotte, N.C., March 3, 1794; attended the public Bibliography: Bethauser, Margaret O'Connor. "Henry A. Reeves:The schools and was instructed in the classics by a private tutor; Career of a Conservative Democratic Editor, 1858-1916."Journal of Long studied medicine; was graduated from the Jefferson Medical Island History 9 (Spring 1973): 34-43. College, Philadelphia, Pa., and commenced practice in Elber- REEVES, Walter, a Representative from Illinois;born ton, Ga.; moved to Monticello, Ga., and continued the prac-near Brownsville, FayetteCounty, Pa., September 25, 1848; tice of medicine; member of the State senate in 1829, 1830,moved with his parents to Illinois in 1856, where they set- 1834, 1835, and 1836; member of the board of trustees of thetled upon a farm in La Salle County; attendedthe public University of Georgia at Athens for twenty-five years; elect-schools; taught school; studied law; was admitted tothe bar ed as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- commenced practice in March 3, 1855); moved to Auburn, Ala., and resumed thein Mount Vernon, Ill., in 1875, and Streator, Ill.; elected as a Republican to theFifty-fourth and practice of medicine; died in Auburn December 16, 1871; 4, 1895-March 3, interment in Hopewell Cemetery, West Point, Troup County,to the three succeeding Congresses (March 1903); chairman, Committee on Patents(Fifty-seventh Con- Ga. gress); was not a candidate for renomination in1902; unsuc- REESE, Seaborn, a Representative from Georgia; born incessful candidate for the Republican nominationfor Gover- Madison, Morgan County, Ga., November 28, 1846; attendednor in 1900; resumed the practiceof law; died in Streator, La a private school for boys in Hancock County and the Univer-Salle County, Ill., April 9, 1909; intermentin Riverview sity of Georgia at Athens, which institution he left in hisCemetery. senior year, 1868; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Madison, Ga.; moved to REGAN, Kenneth Mills, a Representative fromTexas; Augusta and then to Sparta; member of the General Assem-born in Mount Morris, Ogle County, Ill.,March 6, 1893; bly of Georgia 1872-1874; solicitor general of the northernattended the public schools and Vincennes (md.)University; judicial circuit 1877-1880; elected as a Democrat to theduring the First World War served as a flyer inthe United Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by theStates Army Signal Corps; in 1920 engaged inthe real estate resignation of Alexander H. Stephens; reelected to the Forty-business and as an oil operator in Pecos, Tex.;alderman of eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses and served from Decem-the city of Pecos; mayor of Pecos 1929-1932;member of the ber 4, 1882, to March 3, 1887; chairman, Committee on Ex- State senate 1933-1937; during the SecondWorld War penditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-ninth Con-served as an intelligence officer in the Air Corpsand was gress); judge of the northern judicial circuit 1893-1900; dieddischarged with the rank of captain; moved to Midland, in Sparta, Hancock County, Ga., March 1, 1907; interment inTex., and continued oil operations; elected as a Democratto the Methodist Church Cemetery. the Eightieth Congress to fill the vacancycaused by the resignation of Robert Ewing Thomason; reelected tothe REEVES, Albert Lee, Jr., a Representative from Missouri; and born in Steelville, Crawford County, Mo., on May 31, 1906;Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-third Congresses, attended the public schools of Kansas City, Mo.; was grad-served from August 23, 1947, to January 3, 1955; unsuccess- uated from William Jewel! College, Liberty, Mo., in 1927;ful candidate for renomination in 1954 to theEighty-fourth taught at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., in 1927 and 1928;Congress; representative of Texas railroadsin Washington, student at Harvard University in 1928 and 1929; was grad-D.C.; died in Santa Fe, N.Mex., on August 15,1959; inter- uated from the University of Missouri Law School at Colum- ment in Resthaven Memorial Park, Midland, Tex. 1704 Biographical Directory

REGULA, Ralph Straus, a Representative from Ohio;bornCollege of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andcom- in Beach City, Stark County, Ohio, December 3, 1924;attend-menced practice in Aurora, Ill.; prosecuting attorney of ed the public schools; B.A., Mount Union College, Alliance,Kane County 1904-1908; State's attorney 1904-1908; assist- 1948; LL.B., William McKinley School of Law, Canton,Ohio,ant United States attorney at Chicago 1908-1910; member of 1952; served in the United States Navy, 1944-1946;admittedthe State house of representatives in 1911 and 1912; chair- to the Ohio bar in 1952 and commenced practice in Navarre;man of the Kane County Republican central committee member, State board of education, 1960-1964; member, State19 14-1916; secretary of the League of Illinois Municipalities house of representatives, 1965-1966; member, Statesenate,in 1916 and 1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth 1967-1972; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1972;and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-Janu- elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and to theseven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1989); isary 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Flood Conrol (Sixty- a resident of Navarre, Ohio. ninth through Seventy-first Congresses);was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; engaged in the general practice of REID, Charles Chester, a Representative from Arkansas;law at Chicago and Aurora, Ill.; died in Aurora, Ill., on born in Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark., June 15,1868; January 25, 1945; interment in Spring Lake Cemetery. attended the public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1883-1885; was graduated from the law de- REID, Harry, a Representative and a Senator from partment of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., inNevada; born in Searchlight, Nev., December 2, 1939; grad- 1887; was admitted to the bar thesame year and commenceduated, Southern Utah State College 1959 Utah State Urn practice in Morrillton, Ark.; prosecuting attorney of Conwayversity 1961, and George Washington School of Law, Wash- County 1894-1898; voluntarily retired from office in1898 ington, D.C., 1964; admitted to the Nevada bar in 1963 and and resumed the practice of law; electedas a Democrat topracticed;cityattorney,Henderson,Nev.,1964-1966; the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeedingCongressesmember, Nevada State assembly 1969-1970; lieutenantgov- (March 4, 1901-March 3,1911); was not a candidate forernor 1970-1974; chairman, Nevada Gaming Commission renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress;again1977-198 1 elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Con engaged in the practice of his profession in Little Rock,Ark.,gress in 1982; reelected to the Ninety-ninth Congress and where he died on May 20, 1922; interment in OaklandCeme-served from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1987;was not a tery. candidate for reelection in 1986 to the House of Representa tives but was elected to the United States Senate for the REID, Charlotte Thompson,a Representative from Illi-term ending January 3, 1993. nois; born Charlotte Leota Thompson, September 27,1913, in Kankakee, Ill.; moved to Aurora, Ill.; attended thepublic REID, James Randolph, a Delegate from Pennsylvania, schools of Aurora and Illinois College at Jacksonville,Ill.;born in Hamiltonban Township, York (now Adams) County, professional singing career with NBC under thename ofPa., August 11, 1750; graduated from Princeton University Annette King; active in civic, community,and political af-with a bachelor of arts degree; served in the Revolutionary fairs; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighthCongress; Army as a lieutenant and later was promoted to major in reelected to the four succeeding Congresses andserved from"congress' Own" Regiment; received a land grant for serv- January 3, 1963, until her resignation October7, 1971, toices during the Revolution; Member of the Continental Con- become a member of the Federal CommunicationsCommis-gress 1787-1789; died in Middlesex, Cumberland County, Pa., sion, and served in that capacity until July1976; member,January 25, 1789. President's Task Force on International PrivateEnterprise, 1983-1985; member, board of overseers, HooverInstitution, REID, James Wesley, a Representative from North Caroli- 1984 to present; is a resident of Aurora, Ill. na; born in Wentworth, Rockingham County, N.C., June 11, 1849; pursued an academic course; was gtaduated from REID, David Settle (nephew of ThomasSettle), a Repre-Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1869 and subse- sentative and a Senator from North Carolina; bornnearquently taught in the same college; studied law; was admit- Reidsville, Rockingham County, N.C.,on April 19, 1813; at-ted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Went- tended the common schools andan academy; studied law;worth, N.C.; treasurer of Rockingham County 1874-1884; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice inelected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill Wentworth, N.C., the followingyear; member, State senatethe vacancy caused by the resignation of Alfred M. Scales; 1835-1842; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-eighth andreelected to the Forty-ninth Congress and served from Janu- Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March3, 1847); wasary 28, 1885, to December 31, 1886, when he resigned; moved not a candidate for renomination; unsuccessfulcandidate forto Lewiston, Idaho, in 1887 and engaged in the practice of governor in 1848; elected Governor in 1850 and 1852; electedlaw; member of the State constitutional convention in 1889 as a Democrat to the United States Senate to filla vacancyand vice president of that body; president of the board of in the term commencing March 4, 1853,caused by the fail- trustees of the Lewiston State Normal College from 1893 ure of the legislature to elect, and served from December 6,until his death; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- 1854, until March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidatefor reelec- tion in 1896 and 1900; died in Lewiston, Nez Perce County, tion; chairman, Committee on Patents and thePatent OfficeIdaho, January 1, 1902; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. (Thirty-fifth Congress); delegate to thepeace convention held at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devisemeans to REID, John William, a Representative from Missouri; prevent the impending war; member of the Stateconstitu-born near Lynchburg, Bedford County, Va., June 14, 1821; tional convention in 1875; practiced lawat Reidsville, N.C.,attended the common schools; moved to Missouri in 1840; and died there June 19, 1891; interment inGreenviiew Ceme-taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar and tery. commenced practice in Jefferson City, Mo., in 1844; served Bibliography: DAB. as captain in the Mexican War; member of the State house of representatives 1854-1856; elected asa Democrat to the REID, Frank R., a Representative from Illinois;born inThirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1861, to Aurora, Kane County, Ill., April 18, 1879;attended theDecember 2, 1861; withdrew from the House of Representa- public schools, the University of Chicago, andthe Chicagotives on August 3, 1861, and was expelled by the Thirty- Biographies 1705 seventh Congress on December 2, 1861, for having taken upand was graduated from the Bunker Hill School, Pottsville, arms against the Union; during the Civil War served in thePa., in 1862; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 Confederate Army as volunteer aide to General Price; ap-and commenced practice in Pottsville; district attorney of pointed a commissioner to adjust claims against the Confed-Schuylkill County 187 1-1875; elected as a Democrat to the erate Government; settled in Kansas City, Mo.; resumed theForty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875- practice of his profession and engaged in banking; died atMarch 3, 1879); resumed the practice of law in Pottsville, Lees Summit, Jackson County, Mo., November 22, 1881; in-Pa.; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; terment in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo. unsuccessful candidate for law judge of Schuylkill County in 1881 and again in 1882; unsuccessful Democratic candidate REID, Ogden Rogers, a Representative from New York;for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; elected to born in New York City, June 24, 1925; student, Deerfield Congresses Academy, 1940-1943; Yale University, A.B., 1949; fellow oftheFifty-first,Fifty-second,and Fifty-third Brandeis University and Bar-Ilan University, Israel; associ-(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on ated with the New York Herald-Tribune as president ofPacific Railroads (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); Societe Anonyme and president, editor and director, 1953-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty- 1959; enlisted as a private in the United States Army infourth Congress; United States marshal for the eastern dis- 1943 and discharged as a first lieutenant in 1946; captain,trict of Pennsylvania 1896-1900; again resumed the practice United States Army Reserve, inactive; United States Ambas-of law in Pottsville, Pa.; unsuccessful candidate for justice of sador to Israel, 1959-1961; chairman, New York State Com-the superior court in 1913; died in Pottsville, Schuylkill mission for Human Rights, 1961-1962; trustee, Hampton In-County, Pa., May 14, 1924; interment in St. Patrick's No. 3 stitute; member of advisory council, School of InternationalCemetery. Affairs, Columbia University; vice president of National In- REILLY, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born stitute of Social Sciences; director of Atlantic Council of thein Abnerville, Indiana County, Pa., February 22, 1836; re- United States; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses; changed party affili-ceived home instruction and attended the public schools; ation to Democrat effective March 22, 1972; reelected as aentered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. April Democrat to the Ninety-third Congress (January 3, 1963-10, 1854; appointed superintendent of transportation April 1, January 3, 1975); was not a candidate for reelection in 19741865; served until his resignation in 1875, having been elect- to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but was a candidate for nomi-ed to Congress; president of the Bells Gap Railroad Co. 187 1- nation for Governor of New York until he withdrew from 1873; president of the board of city commissioners of Altoona the race; commissioner of Environmental Conservation forin 1872 and 1873; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth the State of New York from January 1975 to May 1976; is aCongress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candi- resident of Purchase, N.Y. date for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; again superintendent of transportation of the Pennsylvania Rail- REID, Robert Raymond, a Representative from Georgia;road Co. and served from 1877 until his resignation in 1885; born in Prince William Parish, Beaufort District, S.C., Sep-moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1881; interested in various tember 8, 1789; attended South Carolina College at Colum-business enterprises; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 19, bia; moved to Augusta, Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the1904; interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. bar and began practice in 1810; elected judge of the superior court of Georgia in 1816 and served until he was elected to REILLY, Michael Kieran, a Representative from Wiscon- Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congresssin; born in Empire, Fond du Lac County, Wis., July 15, to ifil the vacancy caused by the resignation of John For-1869; attended the public schools; was graduated from Osh- syth; reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresseskosh Normal School in 1889, from the University of Wiscon- and served from February 18, 1819, to March 3, 1823; wassin at Madison in 1894, and from the law department of the not a candidate for renomination; judge of the middle circuitlatter university in 1895; was admitted to the bar the same court of Georgia 1823-1825; judge of the city court of Augus-year and commenced practice in Fond du Lac,Wis.; district ta 1827-1832; United States judge for the district of eastattorney of Fond du Lac County in 1899 and 1900; city Florida 1832-1839; Governor of the Territory of Floridaattorney 1905-19 10; delegate to the Democratic National 1839-184 1; president of the convention which framed a con-Conventions in 1908 and 1924; elected as a Democrat to the stitution for the State of Florida; died in Blackwood, nearSixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1913- Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., July 1, 1841. March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice oflaw; REIFEL, Benjamin, a Representative from South Dakota;again elected to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacan- born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation near Parmelee, reelected to the Todd County, S.Dak., September 19, 1906; attended Toddcy caused by the death of Florian Lampert; County rural schools; B.S., South Dakota State College, 1932;Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses and M.A., 1949, and a Ph.D., 1952, in public administration, Har- served from November 4, 1930, to January 3, 1939; unsuc- vard University; served in the United States Army as acessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth lieutenant colonel from 1942 to 1945, with service in Europe;Congress; resumed the practice of his chosen profession; died employed by the Department of the Interior since 1933, re-in a hospital in Neptune, N.J., October 14, 1944; interment signing as Aberdeen area administrator in the Bureau ofin Woodlawn Cemetery, Woodlawn, N.Y. Indian Affairs in March 1960; elected as a Republican to the REILLY, Thomas Lawrence, a Representative from Con- Eighty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu-necticut; was born in New Britain, Hartford County, Conn., ary 3, 1961-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelec-September 20, 1858; attended the common schools and was tion in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; is a resident ofgraduated from the Connecticut State Normal School in Aberdeen, S.Dak. 1876; assistant town clerk of New Britain in 1876; moved REILLY, James Bernard, a Representative from Pennsyl-with his parents to Meriden, Conn., in 1877; studied law for vania; born in Pinedale, West Brunswick Township, Schuyl-a year; employed as a bookkeeper forseveral years; engaged kill County, Pa., August 12, 1845; attended the public schools as a newspaper correspondent until 1886; oneof the found- 1706 Biographical Directory

ers of the Meriden Journal in 1886 and became the citythe district of Missouri February 17, 1841; elected as a Dem- editor; member of the Meriden Board of Education 1896-ocrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses 1903; chairman of the town committee in 1900;mayor of(March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); continued the practice of Meriden 1906-1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-medicine in Caledonia, Washington County, Mo., until his second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3,death there September 14, 1863; interment in the Methodist 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to theCemetery. Sixty-fourth Congress; employed in the Internal Revenue Service in 1916 and 1917; elected sheriff of New Haven REMANN, Frederick, a Representative from Illinois; born County in 1918; reelected and served until his death in Newin Vandalia, Fayette County, Ill., May 10, 1847; attended the Haven, Conn., July 6, 1924; interment in Sacred Heart Cem-common schools of Vandalia and the Mifflin (Pa.) Academy; etery, Meriden, Conn. was graduated from the Iron City Business College, Pitts- REILLY, Wilson, a Representative from Pennsylvania;burgh, Pa., in April 1865; during the Civil War served as was born in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pa., August 8,corporal in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third Regi- 1811; attended the common schools; engaged ment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry; again attended Mifflin as a hatter inAcademy in 1866 and 1867 and was graduated from Illinois Waynesboro and Chambersburg, Pa.; studied law;was admit- ted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Chambers-College at Jacksonville in 1868; returned to Vandalia and burg, Pa.; prosecuting attorney of Franklin County 1842-engaged in mercantile pursuits; served as county supervisor 1845; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1854of Fayette County and as alderman of Vandalia; delegate to to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected to the Thirty-fifthnumerous Republican State conventions; member of the Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); chairman, Commit-State house of representatives in 1877 and 1878; elected as a tee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-fifthRepublican to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858to March 4, 1895, until his death in Vandalia, Ill., July 14, the Thirty-sixth Congress; became captain of the McClure1895, before the convening of Congress; interment in South Rifles, which joined the Pennsylvania Reserve CorpsatHill Cemetery. Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa.; resumed the practice of law; RENCHER, Abraham, a Representative from North Caro- died in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., August 26,lina; born near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., August 12, 1885; interment in Falling Spring Cemetery. 1798; tutored at home and attended the common schools and REILY, Luther, a Representative from Pennsylvania;Pittsboro (N.C.) Academy; was graduated from the Universi- born in Myerstown, Pa., October 17, 1794; completedprepar-ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1822; studied law; was atory studies; studied medicine and began practice in Harris- admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in burg; held various local offices; in the War of 1812 servedasPittsboro, Chatham County, N.C.; elected as a Jacksonian to a private in Capt. R.M. Crane's company of Pennsylvaniathe Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, as an Anti- Volunteers from August 3 to September 7, 1814, andasJacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congress- surgeon's mate in Maj. Gen. R. Watson'scompany fromes, and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, September 7 to December 5, 1814; resumed the practiceof1829-March 3, 1839); declined to be a candidate for renomi- medicine; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con-nation in 1838; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress gress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); again resumed the(March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); declined to be candidate for practice of his profession; died in Harrisburg, Pa.,on Febru-renomination in 1842 on account of ill health; Minister to ary 20, 1854; interment in Harrisburg Cemetery. Portugal 1843-1847; appointed Governor of by President Buchanan and served from 1857 to 1861; retired to REINECKE, Edwin, a Representative from California;his home in Pittsboro, N.C.; died in Chapel Hill, N.C., on born in Medford, Jackson County, Oreg., January 7, 1924;July 6,1883; interment in St. Bartholomew's Protestant attended public schools in Beverly Hills, Calif.; graduatedEpiscopal Churchyard, Pittsboro, N.C. from California Institute of Technology at Pasadenain 1950, bachelor of science degree (mechanical engineering);enlisted RESA, Alexander John, a Representative from Illinois; in the United States Navy in November 1942 andwas dis-born in Chicago, Ill., August 4, 1887; attended the public charged as a radio technician second class in February 1946;schools of Chicago, Ill., and St. Joseph's College, Kirkwood, was in officers' training (V-12) at time of discharge; profes-Mo.; was graduated from the John Marshall Law School, sional mechanical engineer in California, since 1952;presi-Chicago, Ill., in 1911; was admitted to the bar the same year dent of Febco, Inc., manufacturers of lawn irrigationequip-and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill., assistant corpora- ment, 1964; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth,tion counsel of the city of Chicago, serving as head of the Ninetieth, and Ninety-first Congresses, and served from Jan-appeals division and public improvement division 1937-1944; uary 3, 1965, until his resignation, January 21, 1969; ap-member of the faculty of the John Marshall Law School pointed Lieutenant Governor of Californiaon January 8, 1918-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Con- 1969, and served until October 2, 1974; unsuccessfulcandi-gress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candi- date for nomination for Governor of California 1974; vice-date for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; re- chairman, California Republican party, 1981-1983, chair-turned to practice of law and retired December 31, 1959; man, 1983-1985; is a resident of Lake Tahoe, Calif. died in Evanston, Ill., July 4, 1964; interment in Calvary RELFE, James Hugh, a Representative from Missouri;Cemetery. born in Virginia October 17, 1791; moved to Washington RESNICK, Joseph Yale, a Representative from New York; County, Mo., about 1816 with his father, who settledinborn in Ellenville, Ulster County, N.Y., July 13, 1924; edu- Caledonia; received a limited schooling; studied medicinecated in electronics; during the Second World War served as and practiced in Caledonia, Mo.; appointeda member of thea radio officer in the United States Merchant Marine; found- commission to adjust Spanish land claims to fill thevacancyer and chairman of the board of Channel Master Corp.; occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Lewis F. Linn; memberengaged in electronics and plastic research and develop- of the State house of representatives 1835-1844; served inment; member of Ellenville School Board; elected as a Demo- the Black Hawk War; appointed United States marshal forcrat to the Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses (January Biographies 1707

3, 1965-January 3, 1969); was not a candidate for reelection REVERCOMB, William Chapman, a Senator from West to the House of Representatives in 1968 but was an unsuc-Virginia; born in Covington, Alleghany County, Va., July 20, cessful candidate for nomination to the United States1895; attended the public schools at Covington, Va.; attended Senate; returned to business interests; died in Las Vegas,Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., 1914-1916; Nev., while enroute to California on a business trip, Octobergraduated from law department of the University of Virgin- 6,1969;intermentin Hebrew Aid Society Cemetery,ia at Charlottesville in 1919; was admitted to the bar the Wawarsing, N.Y. same year and practiced in Covington, Va.; during the First REUSS, Henry Schoellkopf, a Representative from Wis-World War enlisted in the United States Army and served consin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., February 22, 1912; attendedas a corporal 1917-1919; moved to Charleston, W.Va., in Milwaukee schools; was graduated from Cornell University,1922 and continued the practice of law; chairman of the Ithaca, N.Y., A.B., 1933 and from Harvard Law School,State judicial convention of 1936; elected as a Republican to LL.B., 1936; was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commencedthe United States Senate in 1942 and served from January the practice of law in Milwaukee, Wis.; assistant corporation3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for re- counsel for Milwaukee County in 1939 and 1940; assistantelection in 1948 and for election in 1952; chairman, Commit- general counsel for Office of Price Administration, Washing- tee on Public Works (Eightieth Congress), Special Committee ton, D.C., in 1941 and 1942; entered the United States Armyon the Roof and Sky Lights (Eightieth Congress);elected to as a private in January 1943; commissioned a second lieuten- the United States Senate in 1956 to fill the vacancy caused ant in November 1943 and served with the Sixty-third andby the death of Harley M. Kilgore and served from Novem- Seventy-fifth Infantry Divisions until 1945; chief of priceber 7, 1956, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for control, Office of Military Government for Germany, inreelection in 1958 and for the gubernatorial nomination in 1945; awarded the Bronze Star Medal; engaged in private law practice 1936-1955; deputy general counsel for the Mar-1960; resumed the practice of law; resided in Charleston, shall Plan in Paris in 1949; special prosecutor, MilwaukeeW.Va., where he died October 6, 1979; interment in Sunset County Grand Jury in 1950; lecturer at Wisconsin StateMemorial Park, South Charleston, W.Va. College in 1950 and 1951; member of Milwaukee School REYBURN, John Edgar (father of William Stuart Rey- Board in 1953 and 1954; personal counsel to the secretary ofburn), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New state for reapportionment and redistricting case in 1953;Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, February 7, 1845; was instruct- president of White Elm Nursery Co., Hartland, Wis., 1949- 1953; director of Marshall & lIsley Bank, Milwaukee, Wis.,ed by a private tutor and attended Saunders Institute, West 1946-1948, and Niagara Share Corp., Buffalo, N.Y., 1947-Philadelphia, Pa.; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1949; member of legal advisory committee, National Re-1870 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; member of sources Board, Washington, D.C., 1948-1952; unsuccessfulthe State house of representatives in 1871 and 1874-1876; candidate for mayor of Milwaukee in 1960; elected as amember of the State senate 1876-1892 and served as presi- Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the thirteen succeed-dent pro tempore during the session of 1883; elected as a ing Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1983); was not aRepublican to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Banking,caused by the death of William D. Kelley; reelected to the Currency, and Housing (Ninety-fourth Congress), CommitteeFifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fifth andserved from February 18, 1890, to March 3, 1897; unsuccess- Ninety-sixthCongresses);JointEconomicCommitteeful candidate for renomination in 1896; elected to the Fifty- (Ninety-seventh Congress); is an attorney in Washington,ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of D.C.; is a resident of Washington, D.C. Robert Adams; reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served REVELS, Hiram Rhodes, a Senator from Mississippi; afrom November 6, 1906, to March 31, 1907, when he re- Negro, born of free parents in Fayetteville, Cumberlandsigned, having been elected mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.; County, N.C., who claimed September 27, 1827, as his date ofserved as mayor from April 1, 1907, to December 4, 1911; birth; attended various schools and seminaries and Knoxengaged in manufacturing in Philadelphia, but retained a College, Bloomington, Ill.; barber; ordained a minister in theresidence in Washington, D.C., where he died on January 4, African Methodist Episcopal Church at Baltimore, Md., in1914; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. 1845; carried on religious work in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri; accepted a pastorate in REYBURN, William Stuart (son of John Edgar Reyburn), Baltimore, Md., in 1860; at the outbreak of the Civil Wara Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, assisted in recruiting two regiments of Negroes in Maryland;Pa., December 17, 1882; attended the Hill School, Pottstown, served in Vicksburg, Miss., as chaplain of a Negro regimentPa.; was graduated from Yale University in 1904 and from and organized Negro churches in that State; established athe law department of Georgetown University, Washington, school for freedmen in St. Louis, Mo., in 1863; settled inD.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced prac- Natchez, Miss., in 1866; elected alderman in 1868; member,tice in Washington, D.C.; member of President Taft's party State senate 1870; upon the readmission of Mississippi towhich visited the Philippines, Japan, and China in 1905; representation was elected as a Republican to the Unitedserved in the State house of representatives from 1909 until States Senate and served from February 23, 1870, to MarchMay 25, 1911, when he resigned; electedas a Republican to 3, 1871; first Negro Senator; secretary of State ad interim ofthe Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Mississippi in 1873; president of the Alcorn Agriculturaldeath of Joel Cook and served from May 23, 1911, to March College, Rodney, Miss., 1876-1882; moved to Holly Springs,3, 1913; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912; Marshall County, Miss., and continued his religious work;resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., died in Aberdeen, Miss., January 16, 1901; interment in Hilland subsequently retired from active business pursuits; re- Crest Cemetery, Holly Springs, Miss. sided in Aiken, Aiken County, S.C., and later moved to his Bibliography: DAB; Gibbs, Warmoth. "Hiram R. Revels and His Times." Quarterly Review of Higher Education Among Negroes 8 (January 1940): estate "Black Hill," Old Lyme, Conn.; died in New Haven, 25-37, 8 (April 1940): 64-91; Thompson, Julius. Hiram R. Revels, 1827- Conn., on July 25, 1946; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1901: A Biography. New York: Arno Press, 1982. Philadelphia, Pa. 1708 Biographical Directory

REYNOLDS, Edwin Ruthyin, a Representative from Newpublic schools in Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls), N.Y., and York; born at Fort Ann, N.Y., February 16, 1816; pursuedBennington, Vt.; engaged in civil engineering; was graduated classical studies; was principal of Albion Academy, Orleansfrom Kinderhook Academy in 1840; studied law; was admit- County, N.Y., for six years; was county superintendent 1843-ted to the bar and began practice in Kinderhook in 1843; 1845; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 andmoved to Albany in 1851 and continued the practice of law; commenced practice in Albion, N.Y., in 1846; electedas aelected as an Anti-Lecompton Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill thevacancy caused by the death of Silas M. Burroughs and served fromCongress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate December 5, 1860, to March 3, 1861; judge and surrogate offor renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of his profes- Orleans County 1864-1868; resumed the practice of law; diedsion; appointed a judge of the commission of appeals of the in Albion, N.Y., July 4, 1908; interment in Mount AlbionState in 1873, which position he held until the expiration of Cemetery. the court by limitation July 1, 1875; died in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., September 24, 1875; interment in REYNOLDS, Gideon, a Representative from New York;Kinderhook Cemetery. born in Petersburg, N.Y., August 9, 1813; educated in pri- vate schools; moved with his father to Hoosick in 1836 and REYNOLDS, John Merriman, a Representative from engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Stateas- Pennsylvania; born near Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pa., sembly in 1839; sheriff of Rensselaer County, N.Y., 1843-March 5, 1848; attended the public schools; was graduated 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-firstfrom the first Pennsylvania State Normal School in 1867 Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); was not a candi-and from Columbian (now George Washington) University, date for renomination in 1850; resumed agricultural pursuitsWashington, D.C., in 1895; principal of public schools of in Rensselaer County; delegate to the Republican NationalBedford, Pa., 1867-1869; studied law; was admitted to the Conventions in 1856 and 1860; member of the Republicanbar February 15, 1870, and commenced practice in Bedford, State central committee; was appointed internalrevenuePa.; publisher of the Bedford Gazette 1872-1880; member of collector for the fifteenth district of New Yorkon Septemberthe State house of representatives in 1873 and 1874; pros- 1862, and served until March 31, 1865, when he resigned;ecuting attorney of Bedford County 1875-1879; president of member of the board of supervisors of Hoosick in 1875; diedthe board of education of Bedford 1884-1900; delegate to the in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N.Y., July 13, 1896; inter-Democratic National Conventions in 1888 and 1892; engaged ment in the Hoosick Rural Cemetery. in the banking business in 1893; Assistant Secretary of the REYNOLDS, James B., a Representative from Tennessee;Interior from April 15, 1893, to June 1, 1897; elected as a born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1779; attended theRepublican to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Con- common schools; immigrated to the United States and set- gresses and served from March 4, 1905, to January 17, 1911, tled in Clarksville, Tenn.; studied law;was admitted to thewhen he resigned to accept the office of Lieutenant Gover- bar in 1804 and practiced; electedas a Republican to thenor of Pennsylvania, which office he held from 1911 to 1915; Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); electedresumed the practice of law and again engaged in banking to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825);in Bedford, Pa.; member of the commission to revise the resumed the practice of law; died in Clarksville, Tenn., Junebanking laws of the State of Pennsylvania 1917-1925; died in 1851; interment in the City Cemetery. Bedford, Pa., September 14, 1933; interment in Bedford Cem- etery. REYNOLDS, John, a Representative from Illinois; born in Montgomery County, near Philadelphia, Pa., February 26, REYNOLDS, Joseph, a Representative from New York; 1788; moved to Illinois in 1800 with his parents, whosettledborn in Easton, Washington County, N.Y., September 14, in the vicinity of Kaskaskia; pursued classical studies; stud-1785; completed academic studies; moved to Virgil, N.Y., in ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practicein1809; engaged in agricultural pursuits; organized a company Cahokia, Ill., in 1812; elected a justice of the Illinois Su- of riflemen for service in the War of 1812; was major, cole-- preme Court in 1818; unsuccessful candidate for election tonel, and brigadier general in the State troops; justice of the the United States Senate in 1823; member of the State housepeace 1815-1837; member of the State assembly in 1818; of representatives 1827-1829; Governor of Illinois from De-judge of Cortland County 1821-1839; supervisor of the town cember 6, 1830, to November 17, 1834, when he resigned,of Cortlandville 1825-1835; elected as a Jacksonian to the having been elected to Congress; in 1832 took the fieldasTwenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); first commander of the State militia in the Black Hawk War;president of the village of Cortland in 1864; died in Cortland, elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congressto fillCortland County, N.Y., September 24, 1864; interment in the the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Slade; reelectedCortland Rural Cemetery. to the Twenty-fourth Congress and served from December 1, 1834, to March 3, 1837; unsuccessful candidate for reelection REYNOLDS, Robert Rice, a Senator from North Carolina; in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; electedas a Democratborn in Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., June 18, 1884; to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (Marchattended the public schools, Weaverville (N.C.) College, and 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); again a member of the State housethe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studied of representatives in 1846 and 1852 and served duringthelaw; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced prac- latter term as speaker; unsuccessful candidate for electiontotice in Asheville, N.C.; served as prosecuting attorney of the the State senate in 1848; unsuccessful candidate for Statefifteenth judicial district of North Carolina 1910-1914; un- superintendent of schools in 1858; engaged innewspapersuccessful candidate for nomination for lieutenant governor work; died in Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.,on May 8,in 1924 and for United States Senator in 1926; presidential 1865; interment in Walnut Hill Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Harper, Josephine L. elector in 1928 on the Democratic ticket; elected as a Demo- "John Reynolds, The 'Old crat on November 8, 1932, to the United States Senate to fill Ranger' of Illinois, 1788-1865." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinoisat Urbana.Champaign, 1949. the vacancy caused by the death of Lee S. Overman for the term ending March 3, 1933, and on the same day was elected REYNOLDS, John Hazard, a Representative from Newfor the term beginning March 4, 1933; reelected in 1938 and York; born in Moriah, N.Y., June 21, 1819; attended theserved from December 5, 1932, to January 3, 1945; was not a Biographies 1709 candidate for renomination in 1944; chairman, CommitteeFifty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1901, to on the District of Columbia (Seventy-seventh Congress),March 25, 1902, when he was succeeded by J. McKenzie Committee on Military Affairs (Seventy-seventh and Seven-Moss, who contested his election; elected to the Fifty-eighth ty-eighth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for the United Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); was not a candidate States Senate in 1950; practiced law in Washington, D.C.,for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of his profes- and operated a large estate near Asheville, N.C.; died insion in Russellville; appointed circuit court judge in 1913 Asheville, N.C., February 13, 1963; interment in Riversideand subsequently elected in 1915 and served until January Cemetery. 1, 1922; died in Russeliville, Ky., on July 29, 1924; interment Bibliography: DAB; Pleasants, Julian. "The Senatorial Career of Robertin Maple Grove Cemetery. Rice Reynolds." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1971. RHEA, William Francis, a Representative from Virginia; REYNOLDS, Samuel Williams, a Senator from Nebraska;born on a farm near Bristol, Washington County, Va., April born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., August 11, 1890;20, 1858; attended rural and private schools; was graduated attended the public schools; engaged in the wholesale coalfrom King College, Bristol, Tenn., in 1878; studied law; was business in Omaha, Nebr., in 1908; served in the Air Service during the First World War 1917-1918; during the Secondadmitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in World War served as a colonel in the Army Specialist CorpsBristol, Va.; judge of the Washington County Court 1880- as director of corps activities in Omaha 1942-1943; appointed1885; member of the State senate 1885-1888; judge of the as a Republican to the United States Senate tofill thecity court of Bristol; resigned in 1895 and resumed the prac- vacancy caused by the death of Hugh Butlerand servedtice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and from July 3, 1954, to November 7, 1954; was not a candidateFifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); un- for election to fill the vacancy; resumed wholesale coal busi-successful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth ness; member, Omaha City Council, 1957-1958; a resident ofCongress; resumed the practice of law in Bristol, Va.; moved Omaha, Nebr., until his death there on March 20, 1988;to Richmond, Va., when appointed a member of theState interment in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. corporation commission in 1908 and served until 1925; died in Richmond, Va, March 23, 1931; interment in Hollywood RHEA, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born in the parish of Langhorn, County Londonderry, Ireland, inCemetery. 1753; immigrated to the United States in 1769 with his RHETT, Robert Barnwell a Representative and a Senator parents, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Pineyfrom South Carolina; born Robert Barnwell Smith in Beau- Creek, Md., in 1771 and to eastern Tennessee in 1778; com-fort, S.C., December 21, 1800; completed preparatory studies; pleted preparatory studies and was graduated from Prince-studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- ton College in 1780; member of the Patriot force in thetice in Beaufort in 1824; elected to the State house of repre- Battle of King's Mountain in October 1780; clerk of thesentatives for St. Bartholomew's Parish in 1826, 1828,1830, Sullivan County Court in the proposed andand 1832; elected attorney general of South Carolina in 1832; subsequently in North Carolina 1785-1790; member of theelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and to thefive house of commons of North Carolina; was a delegate to thesucceeding Congresses (March4,1837-March3,1849); State convention that ratified the Federal Constitution inchanged his name to Robert Barnwell Rhett in1838; 1789; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1789; delegatemember of the Nashville convention in 1850; elected as a to the constitutional convention of Tennessee in 1796; attor-Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy ney general of Greene County, Tenn., in 1796; member of thecaused by the death of John C. Calhoun and servedfrom State house of representatives in 1796 and 1797; elected as aDecember 18, 1850, until his resignation effective May 7, Republican to the Eighth and to the five succeeding Con-1852; delegate to the South Carolina secession convention in gresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1815); chairman, Committee 1860; delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congressin on the Post Office and Post Roads (Tenth through Thir-1861; chairman of the committee which reported the consti- teenth Congresses), Committee on Pensions and Revolution-tution of the Confederate States; moved to St. JamesParish, ary Claims (Fifteenth through Seventeenth Congresses); ap- 14, pointed United States commissioner to treat with the Choc-La., in 1867; died in St. James Parish, La., on September 1876; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. taw Nation in 1816; elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Bibliography: DAB; Barnwell, John. "Hamlet to Hotspur: Lettersof Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); ac- to Robert Barnwell Rhett." SouthCarolina tively connected with higher education in Tennessee; retired Historical -Magazine 77 (October 1976): 236-56; White, Laura. Robert Barn. from active pursuits and resided on the Rhea plantation well Rhett, Father of Secession. 1931. Reprint. Gloucester, Mass.: P.Smith, near Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn., where he died May 1965. 27, 1832; interment in the Blountville Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Hamer, Marguerite B. "John Rhea of Tennessee." RHINOCK, Joseph Lafayette, a Representative from Ken- East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 4 (January 1932): 35-44; tucky; born in Owenton, Owen County, Ky., January 4,1863; Jordan, Robert D. "Some Phases of the Private Life and Public Career ofmoved to Covington, KY.; attended the Covington public John Rhea." Master's thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1952. schools; engaged in the oil-refining business; president of the RHEA, John Stockdale, a Representative from Kentucky;Covington Public Library Board two terms; member of the born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., March 9, 1855; pur-city council of Covington; mayor 1893-1900; elected as a sued preparatory studies; attended Bethel College, Russell-Democrat to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-firstCon- ville, Ky., and Washington and Lee University, Lexington,gresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); was not acandidate Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedfor renomination in 1910; for twenty-two years was connect- practice in 1873; prosecuting attorney for Logan County ined with theatrical enterprises in New York City and Cincin- 1878 and 1882; presidential elector on the Democratic ticketnati, Ohio, serving as vice president, secretary, and treasur- in 1884 and 1888; delegate to the Democratic National Con-er of the Shubert theatricalcompanies; vice president of the ventions in 1892 and 1896; elected as a Democrat to theLoew theatrical enterprises; became actively interested in Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-Marchhorse racing and racetrack corporations; died at his home, 3, 1901); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the"Bonnie Crest," New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y., on 1710 Biographical Directory

September 20, 1926; interment in Highland Cemetery, Coy-Washington County 1900-1904; elected as a Republican to ington, Ky. the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was RHOADS, Samuel, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born inan unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixti- Philadelphia, Pa., in 1711; received a limited schooling andeth Congress; mayor of Potosi in 1908 and 1909; member of became a carpenter and builder; member of the city councilthe State house of representatives 1908-19 10; delegate to the in 1741; member of the provincial assembly 1761-1764 andRepublican National Convention in 1908; member of the 1771-1774; commissioner to a conference of western IndiansMissouri State Board of Law Examiners 1912-1914; elected and the Six Nations at Lancaster, Pa., in 1761; Member ofto the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, the Continental Congress in 1774; mayor of Philadelphia in1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Mines and 1774; founder and member of board of managers of theMining (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Pennsylvania Hospital 175 1-1781; director of the Philadel- reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed phia Library; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 7, 1784. assistant to the Comptroller General of the United States at Washington, D.C., and served from April 1, 1923, until his RHODES, George Milton, a Representative from Pennsyl-death in that city, December 25, 1928; interment in the vania; born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., February 24, Masonic Cemetery, Potosi, Mo. 1898; attended Reading public schools; during the First World War served in the United States Army; printer, Read- RIBICOFF, Abraham Alexander, a Representative and a ing Eagle Co., 1913-1927; business manager, Reading LaborSenator from Connecticut; born in New Britain, Hartford Advocate, 1927-1942; A.F. of L. labor representative; editorCounty, Conn., April 9, 1910; attended the public schools and and manager of The New Era, 1942-1949; president of Feder-New York University; graduated from the University of Chi- ated Trades Council, A.F. of L. Central Labor Union 1928-cago Law School in 1933 and was admitted to the bar the 1951; member of the Reading Housing Authority 1938-1948;same year; member, Connecticut legislature 1938-1942; judge delegate to Socialist National Conventions in 1928 and 1932,of Hartford Police Court 1941-1943 and 1945-1947; chair- and to Democrat National Conventions in 1952 and 1956;man, assembly of municipal court judges for the State of elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the nineConnecticut in 1941 and 1942; member of the Charter Revi- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1969);sion Commission of the city of Hartford in 1945 and 1946; was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-firsthearing examiner, Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Congress; resided in Reading, Pa., where he died October 23,Act 1937-1939; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and 1978; interment in Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reiffton, Pa.Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952 and was un- RHODES, John Jacob (father of John Jacob Rhodes III),a Representative from Arizona; born in Council Grove, Morrissuccessful for election to fill a vacancy in the United States County, Kans., September 18, 1916; attended the publicSenate; Governor of Connecticut 1955-1961, when he was schools; was graduated from , sworn in as Secretary of the Department of Health, Educa- Man-tion, and Welfare in the Cabinet of President John Kennedy; hattan, Kans., in 1938 and from Harvard Law Schoolin 1941; was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1942 and the elected to the United States Senate in 1962; reelected in Arizo-1968 and again in 1974, and served from January 3, 1963, to na bar in 1945; commenced practice of law in Mesa, Ariz., inJanuary 3, 1981; was not a candidate for reelection in 1980; 1946; served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, September5, 1941, to June 28, 1946; staff judge advocate of Arizona Nationalchairman, Committee on Government Operations (Ninety- fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses), Committee on Govern- Guard 1947-1952; vice chairman, Arizona Board ofPublic Welfare in 1951 and 1952; delegate, Republican mental Affairs (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); Nationalpractices law in New York City; is a resident of Cornwall Conventions, 1952, 1964, and 1968; electedas a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the fourteen succeeding CongressesBridge, Conn. Bibliography: Ribicoff, Abraham America Can Make It! New York: Ath- (January 3, l953-January 3, 1983); minority leader(Ninety- eneum, 1972;Ribicoff, Abraham. Politics: The AmericanWay.Boston: third through Ninety-sixth Congresses);was not a candidate Allyn and Bacon, 1973. for reelection in 1982; returned to the practice of law;is a resident of Mesa, Ariz. RICAUD, James Barroll, a Representative from Mary- land; born in Baltimore, Md., February 11, 1808; attended RHODES, John Jacob, III (son of John Jacob Rhodes),athe common schools and was graduated from Washington Representative from Arizona; born in Mesa, Ariz., Septem-College, Chestertown, Kent County, Md., in 1828; studied ber 8, 1943; graduated from Landon School, Bethesda,Md.,law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced prac- 1961; B.A., Yale University, 1965; J.D., University ofArizonatice in Chestertown; member of the State house of delegates College of Law, Tucson, 1968; admitted to the ArizonaStatein 1834; served in the State senate 1836-1844; presidential bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Mesa;captain, U.S.elector on the Whig tickets in 1840 and 1844; elected as the Army, 1968-1970, with service in Vietnam; MesaBoard ofcandidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and Education, 1973-1976; served with Central Arizona WaterThirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); re- Conservation District, 1983-1986; electedas a Republican tosumed the practice of his profession; appointed associate the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, l987-January3, judge of the second Maryland judicial district in 1864 by 1989); is a resident of Mesa, Ariz. Governor Bradford and served during the May term; died in Chestertown, Md., on January 24, 1866; interment in St. RHODES, Marion Edwards, a Representative fromMis- souri; born on a farm near Glen Allen, Bollinger County,Paul's Church Cemetery. Mo., January 4, 1868; attended the public schools andWill RICE, Alexander Hamilton, a Representative from Massa- Mayfield College; was graduated from the Statenormalchusetts; born in Newton Lower Falls, Mass., August 30, school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1891 and from Stansbury1818; was graduated from Union College in 1844; engaged in College in 1893; taught school; studied law;was admitted tothe manufacture of paper at Boston; mayor of Boston in the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Potosi, Washing-1856 and 1857; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth ton County, Mo., in 1898; delegate to all Republican Stateand to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859- conventions from 1896 to 1920; prosecuting attorney ofMarch 3,1867); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs Biographies 1711

(Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); was not a can-1866 and 1874-1876; member of the State house of represent- didate for renomination in 1866; resumed his former busi-atives in 1867, 1872, 1877, and 1878; elected mayor of St. ness pursuits in Boston; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyal-Paul and served from 1881 to 1883; again elected mayor in ist Convention in 1866; delegate to the Republican National1885 and served until February 1887, when he resigned; Convention in 1868; Governor of Massachusetts 1876-1878;elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, died in Boston, Mass., July 22, 1895; interment in Newton1887-March 3, 1889); was an unsuccessful candidate for re- Cemetery, Newton, Mass. election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; retired from Bibliography: DAB. public and political activities; died at White Bear Lake, Ramsey County, Minn., on July 11, 1889; interment in Oak- RICE, Americus Vespucius, a Representative from Ohio;land Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn. born in Perryville, Ashland County, Ohio, on November 18, Bibliography: DAB. 1835; pursued classical studies; attended Antioch College and was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in RICE, Edward Young, a Representative from Illinois; 1860; studied law; commissioned as captain in the Twenty-born near Russeliville, Logan County, Ky., February 8, 1820; first Ohio Infantry April 27, 1861, and promoted through thepursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to the ranks to brigadier general in 1865; manager of a privatebar in 1844; moved to Montgomery County, Ill., and com- banking house in Ottawa, Ohio; delegate to the Democraticmenced practice in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Ill.; elect- National Convention in 1872; elected as a Democrat to theed county recorder in 1847; member of the State house of Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4,1875-representatives in 1849 and 1850; judge of the Montgomery March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Invalid PensionsCounty Court in 1851 and 1852; master in chancery 1853- (Forty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination1857; elected judge of the eighteenth circuit of Illinois in in 1878; president of A.V. Rice & Co., a banking concern of1857 and reelected in 1861 and 1867; member of the State Ottawa; director in various business enterprises; appointedconstitutional convention in 1869 and 1870; elected as a pension agent for Ohio in 1893 and served from May 1, 1894,Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871- until the fall of 1898; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1899March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in and engaged in banking and various other enterprises; ap-1872; resumed the practice of law in Hilisboro and Spring- pointed purchasing agent of the United States Censusfield, Ill.; died in Hillsboro, Ill., April 16, 1883; interment in Bureau, which position he held at the time of his death inOak Grove Cemetery. Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1904; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. RICE, Henry Mower (brother of ), a Delegate and a Senator from Minnesota; born in Waitsfield, Vt., No- RICE, Benjamin Franklin, a Senator from Arkansas; bornvember 29, 1816; attended common schools and academies in in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., on May 26, 1828;Detroit and Kalamazoo, Mich.; resided in the Territories of attended private schools; studied law; was admitted to theIowa and Wisconsin; moved to the Territory of Minnesota in bar and practiced in Irvine, Estill County, KY.; member,1839; post sutler for the United States Army at Fort Atkin- State house of representatives 1855-1856; presidential elec-son, Iowa; engaged in the fur business; negotiated a treaty tor on the Republican ticket in 1856; moved to Minnesota inwith the Winnebago and Chippewa Indians in 1847; settled 1860; during the Civil War served in the Union Army as ain St. Paul in 1848; through his personal influence secured captain and was promoted to judge advocate in the Minneso-the consent of the objecting Sioux Indians to confirmation of ta Volunteers; settled in Little Rock, Ark., in 1864 and re-the treaty of 1851 whereby all of Minnesota west of the sumed the practice of law; active in organizing the Republi-Mississippi River and south of Ojibway County was opened can Party in Arkansas; appointed chairman of the commit-to white settlers; elected as a Democratic Delegate to the tee to prepare a code of practice for the State in 1868; uponThirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853- the readmission of the State of Arkansas to representationMarch 3, 1857); was not a candidate for renomination in was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and1856; upon the admission of Minnesota as a State into the served from June 23, 1868, to March 3, 1873; chairman,Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-second Congress); Senate and served from May 11, 1858, to March 3, 1863; was resumed the practice of law in Arkansas; because of illnot a candidate for reelection in 1862; member of the board health moved to Colorado in 1875; moved to Washington,of regents of the 1851-1859; unsuc- D.C., in 1882, where he continued the practice of law untilcessful candidate for election as Governor of Minnesota in his death; died in Tulsa, Okla., January 19, 1905; interment1865; president of the State historical society; president of in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. the board of public works; treasurer of Ramsey County 1878- RICE, Edmund (brother of Henry Mower Rice), a Repre-1884; United States commissioner in making several Indian sentative from Minnesota; born in Waitsfield, Vt., Februarytreaties 1887-1888; died while on a visit in , 14, 1819; attended the common schools; moved to Kalamazoo, Tex., January 15, 1894; interment in Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn. Mich., in November 1838; studied law; was admitted to the Bibliography: DAB; Marshall, William "Henry Mower Rice." Minnesota bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo; register Historical Society Collections 9 (1901): 654-58. of the court of chancery in 1841; master in chancery in 1845; enlisted to serve in the Mexican War in 1847; commissioned RICE, John Birchard, a Representative from Ohio; born first lieutenant of Company A, First Regiment, Michiganin Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, June 23, 1832; attended Volunteers; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in July 1849; clerk ofthe common schools of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and the State supreme court, third circuit, in 1849; member ofOberlin College, Ohio; was graduated from the medical de- the Territorial house of representatives in 1851; practicedpartment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in law until 1856; elected commissioner of Ramsey County in1857; took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical Col- 1856; president of the Minnesota & Pacific Railroad Co.lege, Philadelphia, Pa., and at Bellevue Hospital, New York 1857-1863 and of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad 1863-1872City, in 1859; lecturer on military surgery and obstetrics in and trustee of the latter in 1879; president of the St. Paul &the Charity Hospital Medical College and the medical de- Chicago Railroad 1863-1877; served in the State senate 1864-partment of the University of Wooster in Cleveland, Ohio; 1712 Biographical Directory

served on the medical staff during the Civil War as assistantof 1858 to California, Moniteau County, Mo.; served during surgeon of the Tenth and surgeon of the Seventy-secondthe Civil War, 1861-1865, in the United States Infantry Vol- Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; also surgeon in chief ofunteer Service from Missouri; received gradual promotions a division in the Fifteenth Army Corps and of the district offrom first lieutenant to colonel; returned to Missouri in the Memphis; appointed a trustee of the State hospital, Toledo,spring of 1866 and resumed the practice of his profession in Ohio; member of the Board of Health of Fremont, Ohio;Tipton, Moniteau County, Mo.; was circuit judge 1868-1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congresselected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3,1883); was not a candidate for(March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; engaged in the practice of medicine inrenomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law in Boon- Fremont, Ohio; died in Fremont, Ohio, January 14, 1893;yule, Mo., until his death in that city November 7, 1895; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. interment in Tipton Cemetery, Tipton, Mo. RICE, John Blake, a Representative from Illinois; born in RICE, Thomas, a Representative from Massachusetts; Easton, Talbot County, Md., May 28, 1809; received a limitedborn in Pownalborough (now Wiscasset), Maine (then a part schooling; went on the stage in New York in 1839; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1847 and was manager of a theater; alsoof Massachusetts), March 30, 1768; was graduated from Har- managed theaters in Bangor, Maine, Buffalo, N.Y., and Mil-vard University in 1791; studied law; was admitted to the waukee, Wis.; retired from the stage in 1857 and from theat-bar in Suffolk County, Mass., in 1794 and commenced prac- rical management in 1861; mayor of Chicago 1865-1869;tice in Winslow, Maine, the following year; appointed in elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress and1807 by the supreme judicial court of Maine one of the served from March 4, 1873, until his death in Norfolk, Va.,examiners of counselors and attorneys for Kennebec County; December 17, 1874; interment in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago,member of the State house of representatives in 1814; elect- Ill. ed as a Federalist to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congress- es (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candidate for RICE, John Hovey, a Representative from Maine; born inreelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; resumed the Mount Vernon, Maine, February 5,1816; attended thepractice of law; died in Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine, common schools; clerk in the office of the register of deeds,August 25, 1854; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Water- Augusta, Maine, 1831-1841; engaged in the mercantile busi-yule, Maine. ness; deputy sheriff; aide-de-camp to General Bachelor in the "Aroostook War," the northeastern boundary dispute with RICE, William Whitney, a Representative from Massachu- Great Britain, in 1838; moved to Piscataquis County, Maine,setts; born in Deerfield, Franklin County, Mass., on March 7, in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar andcom- 1826; attended Gorham Academy, Maine, and was graduated menced practice in Piscataquis County in 1848; prosecutingfrom Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1846; preceptor attorney for Piscataquis County 1852-1860; delegate to thein Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, 1847-1851; studied law Republican National Convention in 1856; elected as a Repub-in Worcester; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and com- lican to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninthmenced practice in that city, appointed judge of insolvency Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1867); chairman, Com-for Worcester County in 1858 mayor of the city of Worcester mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-eighth andin 1860; district attorney for the middle district of Massachu- Thirty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate forre-setts 1869-1874; member of the State house of representa- nomination; United States collector of customs at the port oftives in 1875; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Bangor, Maine, 1861-1871; moved to Washington, D.C.,to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, where he practiced law for twelve years; thence to New1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the York City in 1884 and practiced until 1899; moved to Chica-Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Worcester, go, Ill., in May 1899 and remained there until his death onMass., and died there March 1, 1896; interment in the Rural March 14, 1911; intermentin Oakwood Cemetery. Cemetery. RICE, John McConnell, a Representative from Kentucky; RICH, Carl West, a Representative from Ohio; born in born in Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Ky., February 19, 1831;Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 12, 1898; at- received a limited schooling; was graduated froma Louis-tended Walnut Hills High School; University of Cincinnati ville law school in 1852; was admitted to the bar in 1853 andCollege of Liberal Arts, A.B., 1922, and from the college of commenced practice in Pikeville, Ky.; superintendent oflaw of the same university, LL.B., 1924; was admitted to the schools of Pike County in 1854; elected prosecuting attorneybar in 1924 and commenced the practice of law in Cincin- of Pike County in 1856; member of the State house ofrepre-- nati; instructor on the faculty of the University of Cincin- sentatives in 1858; moved to Louisa, Lawrence County, Ky.,nati; assistant city solicitor and assistant prosecutor of Cin- in 1860; again a member of the State house of representa-cinnati, 1925-1929; served three terms as prosecuting attor- tives in 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first andney of Hamilton County, 1938-1947; served nine years in the Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873);wascity council of Cincinnati, serving as mayor for three terms, not a candidate for renomination in 1872; resumed the prac-1947-1956; judge of the Common Pleas Court of Hamilton tice of law in Louisa, Ky.; appointed judge of the LawrenceCounty; president and chairman of the board of the Cincin- County criminal court in 1883; was elected to thesame officenati Royals Professional Basketball Team; elected as a Re- in 1884; reelected in 1890 and served until his death inpublican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963- Louisa, Ky., September 18, 1895; interment in Pine HillJanuary 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Cemetery. 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of RICE, Theron Moses, a Representative from Missouri;law; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 26, 1972; interment in born in Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio, on September 21,Spring Grove Cemetery. 1829; attended the academy in Chester, Ohio; taught in the RICH, Charles, a Representative from Vermont; born in district school during the winter months; studied law; wasWarwick, Hampshire County, Mass., on September 13, 1771; admitted to the bar in June 1854 and practiced for aboutreceived a limited schooling; moved to Shoreham, Addison three years in Mahoning County, Ohio; moved in the springCounty, Vt., in 1787; member of the State house of repre- Biographies 1713 sentatives 1800-1811; was county judge for six years; electedunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nine- as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-teenth Congress; returned to Detroit and officiated as grand March 3, 1815); elected to the Fifteenth and to the threevicar; died in Detroit, Mich., September 13, 1832; interment succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, untilin the cemetery of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne. his death in Shoreham, Vt., on October 15, 1824; interment Bibliography: DAB; Pargellis, Stanley McCrory. Father Gabriel Richard. in the family vault on his farm near Shoreham, Vt. (Cass Lectureship Series, 1948). Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1950. RICH, , a Representative from Michigan; born RICHARDS, Charles Lenmore, a Representative from in Conneautville, Crawford County, Pa., April 23, 1841;Nevada; born in Austin, Lander County, Nev., October 3, moved with his parents to Addison County, Vt., in 1846 and1877; attended the public schools in Nevada and Pennsylva- to Elba, Lapeer County, Mich., in 1848; attended the publicnia and was graduated from the law department of Stanford schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member and chair-University, California, in 1901; studied law; was admitted to man of the board of supervisors of Lapeer County 1869-1872;the bar and commenced practice in Tonopah, Nev., in 1901; member of the State house of representatives 1873-1881 andserved as district attorney of Nye County in 1903 and 1904; served as speaker during the last two terms; delegate to themember of the State house of representatives in 1919; moved Republican State conventions in 1873, 1875, and 1878; servedto Reno, Nev., in 1919; chairman of the Democratic State in the State senate from January 1, 1881, until March 21,committee in 1922; councilor from Nevada to the United 1881, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;States Chamber of Commerce from March 29, 1923, to May elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill20, 1924; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress the vacancy caused by the resignation of Omar D. Conger(March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for and served from April 5, 1881, to March 3, 1883; unsuccess-reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; practiced law ful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con-in Reno, Nev., until his death there on December 22, 1953; gress; State railroad commissioner 1887-189 1; delegate to theinterment in Mountain View Cemetery. Republican National Conventions in 1884 and 1892; Gover- nor of Michigan 1892-1896; United States collector of cus- RICHARDS, Jacob, a Representative from Pennsylvania; toms at Detroit from February 16, 1898, to January 30, 1906;born near Chester, Delaware County, Pa., in 1773; was grad- was elected State treasurer of Michigan to fill a vacancy anduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia served from January 23, 1908, to January 1, 1909; collectorin 1794; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1795 and of customs at Port Huron, Mich., from December 11, 1908, tocommenced practice in Philadelphia; elected as a Republican May 30, 1913; died in St. Petersburg, Fla., on March 28,to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803- 1926; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lapeer, Mich.March 3, 1809); was commissioned as colonel of militia in Delaware County, Pa.; engaged in the practice of law until RICH, Robert Fleming, a Representative from Pennsylva-his death near Chester, Pa., July 20, 1816. nia; born in Woolrich, Clinton County, Pa., June 23, 1883; attended the public schools, Dickinson Seminary, Williams- RICHARDS, James Alexander Dudley, a Representative port, Pa., and Williamsport (Pa.) Commercial College; wasfrom Ohio; born in Boston, Mass., March 22, 1845; spent his graduated from Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy in 1902 and at-early life in Boston and New York City, where he received a tended Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1903-1906; engagedcommon school education, moved to New Philadelphia, Tus in the woolen-mills business in 1906; also engaged in bank-carawas County, Ohio, in 1861; studied law; wasadmitted to ing and became financially interested in various businessthe bar in 1867 and commenced practice in New Philadel- and manufacturing enterprises; delegate to the Republicanphia; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress National Conventions in 1924, 1952, and 1956; member of(March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on the board of trustees of Dickinson College 1912-1958, of LockExpenditures in the Post Office Department (Fifty-third Con- Haven (Pa.) Teachers College 1918-1928, of Lock Haven (Pa.)gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 ta the Hospital 1920-1951, and of Lycoming College 1931-1963;Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wash- elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fillington, D.C., and subsequently returned to New Philadel- the vacancy caused by the death of Edgar R. Kiess; reelectedphia, Ohio, and continued the practice of his profession; died to the Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congressesin New Philadelphia, on December 4, 1911; interment in the and served from November 4, 1930, to January 3, 1943; didEast Fair Street Cemetery. not seek renomination in 1942; elected to the Seventy-ninth, RICHARDS, James Prioleau, a Representative from Eightieth, and Eighty-first Congresses (January 3, 1945-Jan-South Carolina; born in Liberty Hill, Kershaw County, S.C., uary 3, 1951) was not a candidate for renomination in 1950;August 31, 1894; attended the county schools and Clemson general manager of Woolrich Woolen Mills, 1930-1959, presi- College, Clemson, S.C.; during the First World War served dent, 1959-1964, chairman of the board, 1964-1966, when he overseas as a private, corporal, sergeant, and secondlieuten- became honorary chairman; died at Jersey Shore, Pa., Aprilant in the Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, 28, 1968; interment in Woolrich Cemetery, Woolrich, Pa.One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Thirtieth Division, RICHARD, Gabriel, a Delegate from Michigan Territory;1917-1919; was graduated from the law department of the born in La Ville de Saintes, France, October 15, 1767; pur-University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1921; was ad- sued classical studies; studied theology in the seminary ofmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Augers, France, and in Paris, and was ordained as a priestLancaster, S.C.; judge of the probate court of Lancaster on October 15, 1790; immigrated to the United States in 1792County, S.C., 1923-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- and settled in Baltimore, Md.; professor of mathematics inty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, St. Mary's College, Maryland; sent by Bishop Carroll as a1933-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on Foreign Af- missionary to the Indians in the Northwest Territory andfairs (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses); was not was stationed in what is now Kaskaskia, Ill., and later as aa candidate for reelection in 1956 to theEighty-fifth Con- missionary in Detroit, Mich.; published a periodical in thegress; delegate to the Japanese Peace Conferenceand United French language entitled "Essais du Michigan"; was electedStates delegate to the United Nations in 1953; special assist- to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); ant to President Eisenhower, January 1957-January 1958, 1714 Biographical Directory

for the Middle East, with rank of ambassador; resumed the1833; attended the common school and the local academy at practice of law; resided in Lancaster, S.C., where he diedMacedon; was graduated from Yale College in 1856; studied February 21, 1979; interment in Liberty Hill Presbyterianlaw in Rochester, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1859, and Church Cemetery, Liberty Hill, S.C. practiced; entered the Union Army in 1861, and served over Bibliography: Lee, Joseph Edward. "'America Comes First with Me': The three years; moved to Angelica, N.Y., in 1866; elected as a Political Career of Congressman James P. Richards, 1932-1957." Ph.D. dis- sertation, University of South Carolina, 1987. Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for RICHARDS, John (brother of Matthias Richards),a Rep-reelection in 1882; resumed the practice of law in Angelica, resentative from Pennsylvania; born in New Hanover, Phila-N.Y., where he died on June 21, 1904; interment in Angelica delphia County, Pa., April 18, 1753; educated under privateCemetery. tutors; served as magistrate during the Revolutionary War; appointed justice of the peace for Philadelphia County June RICHARDSON, George Frederick, a Representative from 6, 1777, and served until his death; judge of the court ofMichigan; born in Jamestown, Ottawa County, Mich., July 1, common pleas for Montgomery County in 1784; delegate to1850; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787; electedas aand mercantile pursuits; elected township clerk eight years Republican to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1795-March 3,in succession; member of the State house of representatives 1797); was not a candidate for renomination in 1796;was an1885-1887, 1891, and 1892, and served as speaker in the two ironmaster and also engaged in mercantile and agriculturallast-named years; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1893; pursuits; member of the State senate 1801-1807; died in Newelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, Hanover, Pa., November 13, 1822; interment in Faulkner1893-March 3, 1895); declined to be a candidate for renomi- Swamp (Lutheran) Church Cemetery. nation in 1894; operated a dairy farm in Grand Rapids; RICHARDS, John, a Representative from New York; bornmoved to Kennewick, Wash., in 1904 and engaged in agricul- in Wales April 13, 1765; immigrated to the United Statestural pursuits and in the transfer, livery, and fuel business; was twice elected mayor of Kennewick and also served as and settled in Johnsburg, Warren County,, N.Y.; receiveda limited schooling; member of the State assembly from Janu-chairman of the school board; moved to Ellensburg, Wash., ary 29, 1811, to April 8, 1811; State surveyor 1810-1812;and in 1916 engaged in agricultural pursuits; retired to pri- delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; elect-vate life in 1919 and made his home in Bellevue, Wash., ed to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3,where he died on March 1, 1923; interment in the Odd 1825); died at Lake George, Warren County, N.Y., April 18, Fellows Cemetery, Ellensburg, Wash. 1850. RICHARDSON, Harry Alden, a Senator from Delaware; RICHARDS, Mark, a Representative from Vermont; bornborn in Camden, Kent County, Del., January 1, 1853; moved in Waterbury, Conn., July 15,1760; received a limitedwith his parents to Dover, Kent County, in 1856; attended schooling; enlisted during the Revolutionary War in 1776;the common schools and the academy in East Greenwich, settled in Boston after the Revolution and engaged inmer- R.I.; worked in his father's canning and packing establish- cantile and mechanical pursuits; moved to Westminster, Vt.,ment at Dover, Del., became a partner, and assumed entire in 1796; member of the State house of representatives 1801-control in 1894; elected State senator in 1888; president of 1805; sheriff of Windham County 1806-1810; member ofthethe First National Bank of Dover; also interested in public- Governor's council in 1816; electedas a Republican to theservice corporations; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3,Governor of Delaware in 1890; elected as a Republican to the 1821); again a member of the State house of representativesUnited States Senate in 1907 and served from March 4, 1824-1826, 1828, and 1832-1834; Lieutenant Governor of Ver- 1907, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection; mont in 1830 and 1831; died in Westminster, Vt.,. August 10,chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil 1844; interment in the Bradley tomb, Old Cemetery. Service (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on RICHARDS, Matthias (brother of John Richards),a Repre- sentative from Pennsylvania; born near Pottstown, NwPrinting (Sixty-second Congress); again engaged in the man- Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pa.,on Februaryufacture of canned food products; died in Dover, Del., June 26, 1758; completed preparatory studies under privatetutor-16, 1928; interment in Lakeside Cemetery. ing; served during the Revolutionary Waras a private in RICHARDSON, James Daniel, a Representative from Col. Daniel Udree's second battalion, Berks County Militia,Tennessee; born in Rutherford County, Tenn., March 10, from August 5, 1777, until January 5, 1778; major ofthe1843; attended the country schools and Franklin College, Fourth Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, in 1780;ap-near Nashville; during the Civil War entered the Confeder- pointed justice of the peace in 1788 and held this office forate Army before graduating from college and served nearly forty years; judge of Berks County Courts in Pennsylvaniafour years, the first year as a private and the remaining 1791-1797; inspector of customs in 1801 and 1802; electedas a Republican to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses (Marchthree years as adjutant of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Tennes- 4, 1807-March 3, 1811); was not a candidate for renomina-see Infantry; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- tion in 1810; appointed collector of revenue for the ninthmenced practice January 1, 1867, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; district of Pennsylvania in 1813; clerk of the orphans' courtmember of the State house of representatives, 1871-1873; for Berks County in 1823; was appointed associate judge ofserved in the State senate, 1873-1875; delegate to the Demo- Berks County Courts by Governor Shuize; engaged inmer-cratic National Conventions in 1876, 1896, and 1900; presid- cantile pursuits in Reading, Pa., until his death in that cityed as permanent chairman at the last-named convention; on August 4, 1830; interment in the Charles Evans Ceme-chairman of the Democratic congressional committee in tery. 1900; editor and compiler of the Government publication entitled "Messages and Papers of the Presidents"; elected as RICHARDSON, David Plunket, a Representative froma Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the nine succeeding New York; born in Macedon, Wayne County, N.Y., May 28,Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1905); minority leader Biographies 1715

(Fifty-seventh Congress); died in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Julytended the public schools; during the Civil War served in the 24, 1914; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Confederate Army; paroled in April 1865 in Marietta, Ga.; Bibliography: DAB. member of the Alabama house of representatives 1865-1867; RICHARDSON, James Montgomery, a Representativestudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced from Kentucky; born in Mobile, Ala., July 1, 1858; moved topractice in Huntsville, Ala.; judge of the probate and county Glasgow, Ky., in early youth and resided with his uncle;courts of Madison County, Ala., 1875-1886; delegate to the attended the common schools; became editor of the GlasgowDemocratic National Convention in 1904; elected as a Demo- (Ky.) Times in 1878; delegate to the Democratic Nationalcrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Convention in 1896; member of the State house of represent-the resignation of Joseph Wheeler; reelected to the Fifty- atives in 1896; served as prison commissioner from 1900 toseventh and to the six succeeding Congresses and served 1905, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;from August 6, 1900, until his death in Atlantic City, N.J., elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4,where he had gone for the benefit of his health, on March 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection;31, 1914; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Sixty-second resumed newspaper activities; postmaster at Glasgow fromand Sixty-third Congresses); interment in Maple Hill Ceme- May 22, 1913, to May 9, 1922; died in Glasgow, Ky., Februarytery, Huntsville, Ala. 9, 1925; interment in Glasgow Cemetery. RICHARDSON, William Alexander, a Representative and RICHARDSON, John Peter, a Representative from Southa Senator from Illinois; born near Lexington, Fayette Carolina; born at Hickory Hill, S.C., April 14, 1801; wasCounty, Ky., January 16, 1811; attended an academy at graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1819;Walnut Hill, Ky., Centre College at Danville, Ky., and Tran- studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-sylvania University at Lexington, Ky.; taught school; studied tice in Fulton, S.C.; member of the State house of represent-law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced prac- atives, 1825-1833; judge of the circuit court; elected as atice in Shelbyville, Ill.; State's attorney 1834-1835; member, Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancyState house of representatives 1836-1838, 1844-1846, and caused by the death of Richard I. Manning; reelected as aserved as speaker in 1844; member, State senate 1838-1842; Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from De-presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844; during cember 19, 1836, to March 3, 1839; Governor of South Caroli-the Mexican War enlisted as a captain and was promoted to na 1840-1842; died in Fulton (later Pinewood), Sumterthe rank of major; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1849; elected as a County, S.C., January 24, 1864. Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress tofill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen A. Douglas; reelected RICHARDSON, John Smythe, a Representative fromto the Thirty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses South Carolina; born on the Bloomhill plantation, nearand served from December 6, 1847, to August 25, 1856, when Sumter, Sumter County, S.C., February 29, 1828; pursued anhe resigned; chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty- academic course in Cokesbury, S.C., and was graduated fromsecond and Thirty-third Congresses); elected to the Thirty- South Carolina College (now the University of South Caroli-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his na) at Columbia in 1850; studied law; was admitted to theresignation on January 29, 1863, having previously been bar in 1852 and began practice in Sumter, S.C.; during theelected Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Civil War entered the Confederate Army as a captain ofSenate in 1863 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Infantry; later promoted to adjutant of the Twenty-thirdStephen A. Douglas and served from January 30, 1863, to Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, and served until theMarch 3, 1865; was not a candidate for renomination in close of the war in 1865; member of the State house of1864; engaged in newspaper work; died in Quincy, Adams representatives 1865-1867; appointed agent of the State ofCounty, Ill., December 27, 1875; interment in Woodland South Carolina in 1866 to apply for and receive the landCemetery. script donated to South Carolina by Congress; delegate to Bibliography: Thavenet, Dennis. "William Alexander Richardson, 1811- the Democratic National Convention in 1876; elected as a 1875." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1967. Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); master in equity for Sumter RICHARDSON, William Blame, a Representative from County 1884-1893; died at his country home, "Shadyside,"New Mexico; born in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif., near Sumter, S.C., February 24, 1894; interment in SumterNovember 15, 1947; attended schools of Mexico City, Mexico; Cemetery. graduated from Middlesex School, Concord, Mass., 1966; B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1970; M.A., Fletcher RICHARDSON, Joseph, a Representative from Massachu-School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Mass., 1971; congres- setts; born in Billerica, Mass., February 1, 1778; attendedsional and Federal employee, 197 1-1978; executive director, public and private schools; was graduated from DartmouthNew Mexico State Democratic Party and Bernalillo County, College, Hanover, N.H., in 1802; teacher in CharlestownN.Mex., Democratic Party, 1978; international business con- 1804-1806; studied theology; was ordained a minister andsultant, 1978-1982; unsuccessful candidate for election to the assigned to the first parish of the Unitarian Church inNinety-seventh Congress, 1980; elected as a Democrat to the Hingham July 2, 1806; delegate to the State constitutionalNinety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu- convention in 1820; member of the State house of represent- ary 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Santa Fe, atives in 1821 and 1822; served in the State senate in 1823, N.Mex. 1824, and 1826; elected to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); declined to be a RICHARDSON, William Emanuel, a Representative from candidate for renomination in 1830 to the Twenty-secondPennsylvania; born on a farm (the old Daniel Boone home- Congress; resumed his ministerial duties; died in Hingham,stead) near Stonersville, in Exeter Township, Berks County, Plymouth County, Mass., on September 25, 1871; intermentPa., on September 3,1886; moved to Bernville, Berks in Old Ship Cemetery. County, Pa., with his parents at an early age, where he attended the public schools; was graduated from Princeton RICHARDSON, William, a Representative from Alabama;University in 1910, and from the law department of Colum- born in Athens, Limestone County, Ala., May 8, 1839; at-bia University, New York City, in 1913; was admitted to the 1716 Biographical Directory

bar the same year and commenced practice in Reading, Pa.,orderly sergeant and promoted to captain of Company A, in 1914; served with Ambulance Americaine, in Belgium andFiftieth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; afterward major in the France in 1915, and with Squadron A, New York Cavalry, onSixty-fourth Virginia Regiment for a time, and was subse- the Mexican border in 1916; during the First World War wasquently promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the commissioned a second lieutenant on August 15, 1917, andsame regiment; member of the State house of delegates in served with the Eightieth Cavalry Division, United States 1874 and 1875; was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Army, and later with the Seventh Machine Gun Battalion,Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); county judge of Third Division, and was discharged a first lieutenant onScott County 1886-1892; delegate to the State constitutional September 15, 1919; after the war resumed the practice ofconvention at Richmond in 1901 and 1902; chief counsel of law in Reading, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad for a number of years; third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-Januaryalso engaged in banking; died in Baltimore, Md., April 30, 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936;1910; interment in Estil Cemetery, Gate City, Va. attended the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Buda- pest, Hungary, in 1936; again practiced law in Reading, Pa.; RICHMOND, Jonathan, a Representative from New York; died in Wyomissing, Pa., November 3, 1948; interment inborn in Dartmouth, Mass., July 31, 1774; completed prepara- Schwartzwald Cemetery, Jacksonwald, Pa. tory studies; moved to western New York in 1813 and settled in Aurora, Cayuga County; sheriff of Cayuga County, N.Y., RICHARDSON, William Merchant, a Representative fromfrom 1808 to 1812; United States internal revenue collector; Massachusetts; born in Pelham, Hillsborough County, N.H.,elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, January 4, 1774; was graduated from Harvard University in1821); died in Aurora, Cayuga County, N.Y., July 28, 1853; 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedinterment in Aurora Cemetery. practice in Groton, Mass., in 1804; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- RICKE'11S, Edwin Darlington, a Representative from nation of Joseph B. Varnum; reelected to the ThirteenthOhio; born near Maxville, Perry County, Ohio, August 3, Congress and served from November 4, 1811, to April 18,1867; attended the public schools; for twelve years was a 1814, when he resigned; moved to Portsmouth, Rockinghamteacher and superintendent of schools; studied law; was ad- County, N.H., in 1814; United States attorney in 1814; ap-mitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Logan, pointed chief justice of New Hampshire in 1816 and servedHocking County, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- until his death; died in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H.,fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); was an un- March 15, 1838; interment in the Old Cemetery. successful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Bibliography: DAB. Congress; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- RICHMOND, Frederick William, a Representative fromgresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful New York; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., Novembercandidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; 15, 1923; attended Mattapan (Mass.) Elementary School; was resumed the practice of law; delegate to the Republican graduated from Roxbury (Mass.) Memorial High School,National Convention in 1928; died in Logan, Ohio, on July 3, 1940; B.A., Boston University, 1945; served in the United 1937; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. States Navy, 1943-1945; pursued a career in business; served RIDDICK, Carl Wood, a Representative from Montana; as deputy finance chairman, Democratic National Commit- born in Wells, Faribault County, Minn., February 25, 1872; tee, 1958-1960; budget director, New York State Council onattended the common schools; was graduated from Menomi- the Arts, 1965-1975; New York City human rights commis-nee (Mich.) High School in 1890; attended Albion (Mich.) sioner, 1964-1970; New York City taxi and limousinecom- College and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; editor and missioner, 1970-1972; New York City councilman, 1973-1974; publisher of the Winamac (md.) Republican 1899-19 10; sec- delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964; electedas aretary of the Indiana Republican State central committee in Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding1906 and 1908; moved to Montana and settled on a home- Congresses, and served from January 3, 1975, until his resig-stead in Fergus County in 1910; engaged in wheat and cattle nation on August 25, 1982; is a resident of New York City.raising 1910-1918; county assessor of Fergus County, Mont., RICHMOND, Hiram Lawton, a Representative from19 15-1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Pennsylvania; born in Chautauqua, Chautauqua County,Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); did N.Y., May 17, 1810; received his early education fromanot seek renomination in 1922, but was an unsuccessful private instructor and in the common schools; studied medi-candidate for election to the United States Senate; former cine two years with his father; attended Allegheny College,president of the National Republic, a magazine published in Meadville, Pa., in 1834 and 1835 but did not graduate; stud-Washington, D.C.; owned and operated a home development ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced theat Sylvan Shores on South River, Riva, Md.; moved to Flori- practice of law in Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.; in earlyda; died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 9, 1960; interment in manhood was a staunch Whig but united with the Republi-Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery, Annapolis, Md. can Party upon its organization; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was RIDDLE, Albert Gallatin, a Representative from Ohio; not a candidate for renomination in 1874; member of thewas born in Monson, Mass., May 28, 1816; moved with his board of trustees of Allegheny College for manyyears; re-parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio, in sumed the practice of law; died in Meadville, Pa., February1817; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- 19, 1885; interment in Greendale Cemetery. ted to the bar in 1840 and began practice in Geauga County; prosecuting attorney of that county 1840-1846; member of RICHMOND, , a Representative fromthe State house of representatives 1848-1850; moved to Virginia; born in Turkey Cove, Lee County, Va., FebruaryCleveland, Ohio, in 1856; elected as a Republican to the 27, 1842; attended Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.;Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in thenot a candidate for renomination in 1862; consul at Matan- circuit and county courts of Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties,zas, Cuba, in 1863 and 1864; returned to Washington, D.C., Va., and in the court of appeals at Wytheville, Va.; served asand again engaged in the practice of law; was retained by Biographies 1717 the State Department to aid in the prosecution of John H.schools and the College of the City of New York; was grad- Surratt as one of the accomplices in the murder of Presidentuated from the St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y.; stud- Lincoln; law officer of the District of Columbia 1877-1889;ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in died in Washington, D.C., May 16, 1902; interment in RockNew York City; secretary to the president of Manhattan Creek Cemetery. Borough 1898-1902; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- Bibliography: DAB; Riddle, Albert G. Recollections of War Times: Re- eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); owing to ill miniscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860-1865. G.P. Putnam's health was not a candidate for renomination in 1904; re- Sons, 1895. sumed the practice of law; died in New York City, May 29, RIDDLE, George Read, a Representative and a Senator1906; interment in Calvary Cemetery. from Delaware; born in New Castle, Del., in 1817; pursued classical studies and attended Delaware College; studied civil RIDGE, Thomas Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl- engineering and engaged in the construction of railroads andvania; born in Munhall, Allegheny County, Pa., August 26, canals; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and1945; attended St. Andrew's School, Erie, Pa.; graduated commenced practice in Wilmington, Del., the same year;from Cathedral Prep School, Erie, 1963; B.A., Harvard Uni- commissioner to retrace the Mason and Dixon line in 1849;versity, 1967; J.D., Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., deputy attorney general 1849-1850; elected as a Democrat to1972; served in the United States Army, staff sergeant, the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4,1968-1970; admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, 1972 and com- 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inmenced practice in Erie; assistant district attorney, Erie 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; chairman, Committee on County, 1972-1982; delegate, Pennsylvania State Republican Engraving (Thirty-third Congress); elected to the Unitedconvention, 1983; delegate, Republican National Convention, States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to James A. Bayard and served from February 2, 1864, untilthe two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, his death in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 1867; interment in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, 1989); is a resident of Erie, Pa. Del. RIDGELY, Edwin Reed, a Representative from Kansas; RIDDLE, Haywood Yancey, a Representative from Ten-born near Lancaster, Wabash County, Ill., May 9, 1844; at- nessee; born in Van Buren, Hardeman County, Tenn., Junetended district school in the winter months; during the Civil 20, 1834; completed preparatory studies and was graduatedWar enlisted as a private in Company C, One Hundred and from Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1854; ad-Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1862; pro- junct professor of mathematics and languages at that insti-moted to sergeant and served until the end of the war; tution; was graduated from the law department of Cumber-moved to Girard, Kans., in 1869 and engaged in general land University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1857 and was admittedmerchandising and in agricultural pursuits; left the Republi- to the bar in Ripley, Miss., the same year; moved to Smithcan Party in 1876 because of its financialpolicy; lived in County, Tenn., in 1858 and engaged in agricultural pursuits;Ogden, Utah, from 1889 to 1893 and then returned to enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 andKansas; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty- served throughout the war, the last year on the staffs ofsixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); was not a Brigadier Generals Wright and Mackall; moved to Lebanon,candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed agricultural Wilson County, Tenn., in 1865 to practice law, but was em- pursuits in Mulberry, Crawford County, Kans.; died in ployed as a deputy clerk in the chancery clerk's office forGirard Kans, April 23, 1927, interment in Girard Cemetery five years; appointed clerk for a term of six years in 1870 and served until December 31, 1875; elected as a Democrat RIDGELY, Henry Moore, a Representative and a Senator to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused byfrom Delaware; born in Dover, Del., August 6, 1779; complet- the death of Samuel M. Fite; reelected to the Forty-fifthed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar Congress and served from December 14, 1875, to March 3,in 1802 and began practice in Dover; secretary of Stateof 1879; died in Lebanon, Tenn., March 28, 1879; interment inDelaware 1817-1827; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Cedar Grove Cemetery. and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1815); RIDDLEBERGER, Harrison Holt, a Senator from Virgin-was not a candidate for renominationin 1814; returned to ia; born in Edinburg; Shenandoah County, Va., October 4,Dover, Del., and resumed the practice of law; elected to the 1844; attended the common schools; served three yearsUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death during the Civil War in the Confederate Army as second andof Nicholas Van Dyke and served from January 12, 1827, to first lieutenant of Infantry and as captain of Cavalry; re-March 3, 1829; was not a candidate for reelection; continued turned to Edinburg and became editor of the Tenth Legionthe practice of law; died in Dover, Del., August 6,1847; Banner; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-interment in the Episcopal Cemetery. menced practice in Woodstock, Va.; member, State house of delegates 1871-1875; Commonwealth attorney of Shenando- RIDGELY, Richard, a Delegate from Maryland; born in ah County 1876-1880; member, State senate 1879-1882;Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel County, Md., August editor of the Shenandoah Democrat and later of the Virgin- 3, 1755; attended St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; assist- ian at Woodstock; presidential elector on the Democraticant clerk of the council of safety in 1776, and laterclerk; ticket in 1876 and on the Readjuster ticket in 1880; electedstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1780 and commenced as a Readjuster to the United States Senate in 1881 andpractice in Baltimore; advocate in the Maryland Court of served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1889; chairman,Chancery; elected a Member of the Continental Congress in Committee on Manufactures (Forty-eighth through Fiftieth1784 and 1785, but did not attend; served in the State senate Congresses); died in Woodstock, Va., January 24, 1890; inter-1786-1791; resumed the practice of law in Baltimore; ap- mentinCedarwood Cemetery,Edinburg, Shenandoahpointed judge of the county court July 30, 1811, which posi- County, Va. tion he held until his death in Howard County, Md., Febru- RIDER, Ira Edgar, a Representative from New York; bornary 25, 1824; interment on the "DorseyHall" estate, near in Jersey City, N.J., November 17, 1868; attended the publicColumbia, Howard County, Md. 1718 Biographical Directory

RIDGWAY, Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; bornon RIFE, John Winebrenner, a Representative from Pennsyl- Staten Island, N.Y., May 6,1783; attended the publicvania; born in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pa., August 14, schools; learned the trade of carpenter; moved to Cayuga1846; attended the common schools; learned the trade of County, N.Y., in 1811 and engaged in the manufacture oftanner; enlisted July 15, 1864, as a private in Company D, plows; settled in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1822One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania and established an iron foundry; member of the State house of representatives 1828-1832; electedas a Whig to theVolunteer Infantry, and served until honorably discharged Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresseson November 6, 1864; member of the city council in 1871; (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate forburgess of Middletown, Pa., in 1877 and 1878; member of the reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; member ofState house of representatives in 1885 and 1886; president of the State board of equalization; director of the Clinton Bankthe Middletown & Hummeistown Railroad Co.; elected as a for twenty years; member of the city council; died in Colum-Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses bus, Ohio, February 1, 1861; interment in Green Lawn Cem-(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for etery. renomination; died in Middletown, Pa., April 17, 1908; inter- ment in Middletown Cemetery. RIDGWAY, Robert, a Representative from Virginia; born in Lynchburg, Amherst County, Va., April 21, 1823; attended RIGGS, James Milton, a Representative from Illinois; Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.;was graduated fromborn on a farm near Winchester,Scott County, Ill., April 17, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law;1839; attended the common schools and Eureka (Ill.) College was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Libertyin 1862 and 1863; engaged in agricultural pursuits and (now Bedford), Va.; edited the Bedford Sentinel; moved totaught school; sheriff of Scott County from December 1, Richmond, Va., in 1853; edited the Richmond Whig until the 1864, to December 1, 1866; studied law; was admitted to the outbreak of the Civil War, when he retired to Amherst;bar December 28, 1867, and commenced practice in Winches- elected as a Whig to the Fortieth Congress, butas recon-ter, Scott County, Ill.; secretary of the Winchester School struction measures were not completed was not permittedtoBoard 1868-1884 and served as president 1889-1892; member qualify; elected as a Conservative to the Forty-first Congressof the State house of representatives in 1871 and 1872; in July 1869; took his seat January 27, 1870, andservedState's attorney for Scott County 1872-1876; mayor of Win- until his death at cool Well, Amherst County, Va., Octoberchester in 1876 and 1877; was elected as a Democrat to the 16, 1870; interment in the family cemetery at Amherst,Va.Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- RIEGLE, Donald Wayne, Jr., a Representative anda Sen-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in ator from Michigan; born in Flint, Genesee County, Mich.,1886; resumed the practice of law in Winchester, Ill.; presi- February 4, 1938; attended public schools of Flint, Mich.;dent of the State bar association in 1891; delegate to several attended Flint Junior College and Western University; grad-State conventions; was elected judge of Scott County in 1922; uated, University of Michigan 1960; receiveda graduatereelected in 1926 and served until 1930 when he retired from degree from Michigan State University 1961; pursuedgradu-active pursuits; died in Winchester, Ill., November 18, 1933; ate studies at Harvard Business School; businessman; facul-interment in Winchester Cemetery. ty member, Michigan State University, Boston University, and Harvard University; elected RIGGS, Jetur Rose, a Representative from New Jersey; as a Republican to theborn near Drakesville (now Ledgewood), Morris County, N.J., Ninetieth Congress in 1966; reelected to the threesucceeding Congresses; changed party affiliation to Democrat in 1973;June 20, 1809; received an academic education; was graduat- reelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congressanded from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons served from January 3, 1967, until his resignation Decemberin 1837 and commenced practice in Newfoundland, N.J.; 30, 1976; was not a candidate for reelection to the Houseofmember of the State general assembly in 1836; one of the Representatives, but was elected in 1976 to the Unitedfounders of the District Medical Society of Passaic County, States Senate for the term commencing January 3,1977; N.J., in 1844 and served as president 1846-1848; moved to subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 30,1976, California in 1849 and was in charge of the hospital at to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip A. Hart forSutters Fort; returned to New Jersey and settled in Paterson the term ending January 3, 1977; reelected in 1982 forthein 1852; member of the State senate in 1855-1858; elected as term ending January 3, 1989. an Anti-Lecompton Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3,1861); was not a candidate for RIEHLMAN, Roy Walter, a Representative fromNewrenomination in 1860; resumed the practice of medicine in York; born in Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y.,August 26,Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., later moved to Drakesville 1899; attended the public schools of Tully, N.Y.;was grad-(now Ledgewood), N.J., and died there November 5, 1869; uated from the Manlius Military Academy, Manlius, N.Y., inintermentinthePresbyterianCemetery,Succasunna, 1919 and the Central City Business School, Syracuse,N.Y.,Morris County, N.J. in 1921; operated a general store and servedas postmaster of Nedrow, N.Y., 1921-1923; in 1923 becameowner and opera- RIGGS, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born in tor of a bakery at Tully, N.Y.; member of Tully BoardofNorfolk, Conn., January 16, 1789; attended the common Education 1933-1938; member of the board of supervisorsofschools and schools of Latin and Greek; was apprenticed to Onondaga County 1938-1943; county clerk ofOnondagathe carpenter's trade; studied medicine in the village of County 1943-1946; member of the advisory board oftheTorringford, Litchfleld County, Conn., and received his diplo- Marine Midland Trust Co., Tully, N.Y.;area board of direc- ma in May 1812; also attended medical lectures given by Dr. tors, Lynchburg College, Va.; electedas a Republican to theBenjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- Eightieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January3, phia, Pa., in 1812; practiced in East Winsted, Conn.; moved 1947-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionto Vernon, Oneida County, N.Y., in 1813 and later to Homer, in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; vice president,Lu-MarN.Y., continuously practicing his profession; also engaged in Enterprises, Inc.; resided in Ormond Beach, Fla., until hisbusiness as a retail druggist and in 1828 in the sale of dry death there July 16, 178; interment in Tully Cemetery,goods; served as secretary of the Cortland County Medical Tully, N.Y. Society 1820-1823 and as president in 1825 and 1826; ap- Biographies 1719 pointed postmaster of Homer by President Jackson on Aprilnear Myrtle Beach, S.C., January 1,1962; interment in 25, 1829, and served until August 7, 1839; was elected as aSumter Cemetery, Sumter, S.C. Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841- RINAKER, John Irving, a Representative from Illinois; March 3, 1843); resumed the practice of medicine; also oper-born in Baltimore, Md., November 1, 1830; moved with his ated a flour mill; died in Homer, Cortland County, N.Y.,parents to Springfield, Ill., in December 1836; attended the November 6, 1870; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. Illinois College for one term and was graduated from RIGNEY, Hugh McPheeters, a Representative from Illi-McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., in 1851; studied law; was nois; born in Arthur, Moultrie County, Ill., July 31, 1873;admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in attended the local schools and was graduated from the highCarlinville, Ill.; raised and organized the One Hundred and school of his native city; apprenticed to the printer's tradeTwenty-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in and worked as a journeyman; editor and owner of the1862; commissioned colonel September 4, 1862; commanded a Arthur (Ill.) Graphic-Clarion 1900-1925; served as city treas-brigade in the Sixteenth Corps of the Army of the Tennes- urer 1910-1911; member of the school board1910-1916; see, and was brevetted brigadier generalFebruary 13, 1865; chairman of Moultrie County Democratic central committeedelegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1876 1930-1934 and reelected chairman in 1942; member of theand 1884; chairman of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse State house of representatives 1935-1937; elected as a Demo-Commissioners of Illinois 1885-1889; successfully contested crat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-Januaryas a Republican the election of FinisE. Downing to the 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to theFifty-fourth Congress and served from June 5,1896, to Seventy-sixth Congress; engaged in the real estate brokerageMarch 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 business 1939-1943; appointed to a position in the office ofto the Fifty-fifth Congress; returned to Carlinville, Ill., and the secretary of state on September 15, 1943, and servedresumed the practice of law; died in Eustis, Lake County, until his death in Springfield, Ill., October 12, 1950; inter-Fla., January 15, 1915; interment in the City Cemetery, ment in Arthur Cemetery, Arthur, Ill. Carlinville, Ill. RIKER, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born RINALDO, Matthew John, a Representative from New in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., April 8, 1743; attended theJersey; born in Elizabeth, Union County, N.J., September 1, common schools; member of the Newtown committee of cor-1931; B.S., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1953; respondence in 1774; was supervisor of Suffolk County inM.B.A., Seton Hall University Graduate School of Business 1783; lieutenant of Light Horse in the Revolution; memberAdministration, South Orange, N.J., 1959; D.P.A., New York of the State assembly in 1784; elected as a Republican to theUniversity, School of Public Administration, 1979; member, Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-Union Township Zoning Board of Adjustment, 1962-1963; tion of John Smith and served from November 5, 1804, to March 3, 1805; elected to the Tenth Congress (March 4,Union County Board of Freeholders, 1963-1964; State senate, 1807-March 3, 1809); died in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y.,1967-1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and May 19, 1823; interment in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery.to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-Janu- ary 3, 1989); is a resident of Union, N.J. RILEY, Corinne Boyd (wife of John Jacob Riley), a Repre- RINGGOLD, Samuel, a Representative from Maryland; sentative from South Carolina; born in Piedmont, Greenvilleborn in Chestertown, Md., January 15, 1770; received a lim- County, S.C., July 4, 1893; attended the public schools andited schooling; moved to Washington County, Md., and set- graduated from Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1915; agricul- taught in the secondary schools of South Carolina for thir-tled at Fountain Rock, near Hagerstown; engaged in teen years, 19 15-1937; field representative, South Carolinatural pursuits; member of the State house of delegates in State Text Book Commission, 1938-1942; associated with Ci-1795; served in the State senate 1801-1806; judge of the levy vilian Personnel Office, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, S.C.,court of Washington County 1806-1810 and 1822-1826; ap- 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Con-pointed a brigadier general in the Maryland Militia on July gress, by special election, April 10, 1962, to fill the vacancy7, 1810; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress to caused by the death of her husband, John J. Riley, andfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Roger Nelson; served from April 10, 1962, to January 3, 1963; was not areelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con-served from October 15, 1810, to March 3, 1815; served in the gress; resided in Sumter, S.C., where she died April 12, 1979;War of 1812; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con- cremated; ashes interred in Sumter Cemetery. gresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); resumedagricultural pursuits; died in Frederick, Frederick County, Md., October RILEY, John Jacob, (husband of Corinne Boyd Riley) a18, 1829; interment in Fountain Rock Cemetery, near Ha- Representative from South Carolina; born on a farm near gerstown, Washington County, Md. Orangeburg, S.C., February 1, 1895; attended the public schools in Orangeburg County; was graduated from Wofford RIORDAN, Daniel Joseph, a Representative from New College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1915; taught in the Orange-York; born in New York City July 7, 1870; attended the burg city schools 1915-1917, and at Clemson (S.C.) Agricul-public schools until 1886, when he entered Manhattan Col- tural and Mechanical College in 1917 and 1918; during thelege, from which he graduated in 1890; engaged in the real- First World War served in the United States Navy as aestate business; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth seaman, second class, and as a yeoman, third class, in 1918Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); elected a member and 1919; engaged in the real estate and insurance businessof the State senate in 1902 and again in 1904; elected to the in Sumter, S.C., 1919-1945; secretary of a building and loanFifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- association 1923-1945; delegate to Democratic State conven-nation of Timothy D. Sullivan and on the same day was tions 1928-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninthelected to the Sixtieth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-first and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1949);and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948; elected toNovember 6, 1906, until his death in Washington, D.C., April the Eighty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and28, 1923; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, served from January 3, 1951, until his death at Surfside,N.Y. 1720 Biographical Directory

RIPLEY, (brother of James Wheelock1918; was employed in the Treasury Department, Washing- Ripley), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Hanover,ton, D.C., 1919-1922; was graduated from the law depart- N.H., April 15, 1782; was graduated from Dartmouth Col-ment of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1922; lege, Hanover, N.H., in 1800; studied law;was admitted towas admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in the bar and commenced practice in Waterville, Maine(a Central Falls, R.I., the same year; served as probate judge of district of Massachusetts until 1820);was a member of theCentral Falls 1929-1931, as coroner of Lincoln, R.I., in 1931 Massachusetts house of representatives in 1807 and 1811 andand 1932, and as judge of the eleventh district court of served as speaker the last term; moved to Portland, Maine,Rhode Island 1932-1935; delegate to the Republican State in 1812; member of the ; served inthe War of 1812, being commissioned lieutenant colonel of theconventions in 1936, 1940, and 1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Twenty-first Infantry March 12, 1812; colonel March 12,the resignation of Francis B. Condon and served from 1813; brigadier general April 15, 1814; brevetted majorgen- era! on July 25, 1814; by a resolution of Congress datedAugust 6, 1935, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate November 3, 1814, was presented a gold medal in honor offor reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; elected his military service; resigned from the Army February 1,to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1820, and settled in Jackson, La., where he resumed the1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the private practice of law; member of the State senate; electedSeventy-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress; reelected asPawtucket, R.I.; died in Saylesville, in the township of Lin- a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served fromcoln, R.I., December 26, 1943; interment in St. Francis Ceme- March 4, 1835, until his death in West Feliciana Parish, La.,tery, Pawtucket, R.I. on March 2, 1839; interment in a private cemetery at St. Francisville, La. RISLEY, Elijah, a Representative from New York; born Bibliography: DAB. in Connecticut on May 7, 1787; completed preparatory stud- ies; moved to Fredonia, Chautauqua County, N.Y., in 1807; RIPLEY, James Wheelock (brother of Eleazar Wheelockengaged in mercantile pursuits;sheriff of Chautauqua Ripley), a Representative from Maine; born in Hanover,County 1825-1828; supervisor of town of Pomfret in 1835; N.H., March 12, 1786; attended the common schools andengaged in the culture of garden seeds 1833-1853; elected as Fryeburg (Maine) Academy; studied law;was admitted to thea Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, bar and commenced practice in Fryeburg, Maine (until 18201851); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; major a part of Massachusetts); served in the War of 1812; membergeneral in the State militia; died in Fredonia, Chautauqua of the Massachusetts house of representatives 18 14-1819;County, N.Y., January 9, 1870; interment in the East Main elected from Maine to the Nineteenth Congressto fill theStreet Cemetery. vacancy caused by the resignation of and on the same day was elected to the Twentieth Congress;reelect- RITCHEY, Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; born in ed as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congressand servedBedford County, Pa., January 19, 1801; moved to Somerset, from September 11, 1826, to March 12, 1830,when he re- Ohio; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural signed; resumed the practice of law; collector ofcustoms forpursuits; treasurer of Perry County in 1835, 1837, and 1839; the district of Passamaquoddy, Maine, from December16, elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1830, until his death in Fryeburg, Oxford County,Maine,1847-March 3, 1849); elected to the Thirty-third Congress June 17, 1835; interment in the Village Cemetery. (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); engaged in agricultural pur- RIPLEY, Thomas C., a Representative from New York;suits near Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, until his death on born in Schaghticoke, N.Y.; receiveda limited schooling;March 9, 1863; interment in the Zion Methodist Episcopal studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced inHartsCemetery, Madison Township, Perry County, Ohio. Falls, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninthCongress RITCHIE, Byron Foster (son of Ritchie), a to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. HerrickRepresentative from Ohio; born in Grafton, Lorain County, and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847;was notOhio, January 29, 1853; moved with his parents to Toledo, a candidate for renomination in 1846. Ohio, in 1860; was graduated from the Toledo High School in RISENHOOVER, Theodore Marshall,a Representative1870; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and from Oklahoma; born in East Libertynear Stigler, Haskellcommenced practice in Toledo; elected as a Democrat to the County, Okla., November 3, 1934; attended publicschools inFifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuc- Yuma, Ariz., and Stigler; attended the University ofAla-cessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth bama, 1960-196 1; B.A., Northeast Oklahoma StateUniversi-Congress; resumed the practice of law in Toledo, Ohio; elect- ty, 1965; served in the United States Air Force, 1955-1963;ed judge of the court of common pleas of Lucas County, pursued career as newspaper publisher; in 1965 becamepartOhio, in 1914; reelected in 1916 and again in 1922, and owner and president of printing businesses in Tahlequah,served until his death in Toledo, Ohio, August 22, 1928; Okia.; served as Oklahoma crime commissioner,second dis-interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. trict, 1970-1974; delegate, Democratic National Mid-term Convention, 1974; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- RITCHIE, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; fourth and to the Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3,1975-born in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa., August 19, January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for renominationin 1812; was graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; isa resident of Tahle-Pa., in 1829, and subsequently at Heidelberg, Germany; stud- quah, Okla. ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pa.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- RISK, Charles Francis, a Representative from Rhode third and Thirty-fourth Congresses and elected as a Republi- Island; born in Central Falls, Providence County,R.I., can to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, August 19, 1897; attended the public and high schools; 1859);chairman,Committee onRevolutionaryClaims worked in textile plants; during the First World Warserved(Thirty-fourth Congress); was appointed associate judge of in the United States Army as a private at Camp Meigs inthe court of common pleas of Allegheny County in 1862 and Biographies 1721 served nine months; resumed the practice of his profession;Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843- died in Pittsburgh, Pa., January 24, 1867. March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination in 1846; editor and publisher of the Adler, a German newspa- RITCIIIE, James Monroe (father of Byron Foster Ritchie),per, at Reading; died in Reading, Berks County,Pa., Novem- a Representative from Ohio; born in Dunfermline,Scotland,ber 24, 1851; interment in the Charles Evans Cemetery. July 28, 1829; immigrated to the United States in 1832 with his parents, who settled in St. Lawrence County, N.Y.; his RIVERA, Luis Muñoz, a Resident Commissioner from early schooling was limited and he received instruction atPuerto Rico; born in Barranquitas, P.R., July 17, 1859; at- home from his father and mother; studied law; was admittedtended the common schools; engaged in commerce and gen- to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Toledo, Ohio;eral business; founded La Democracia, a daily newspaper, in delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880;Ponce, P.R., in 1889; was sent to Madrid in 1896 as a special elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congressrepresentative to confer with the Liberal Party of Spain on (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate forestablishing home rule in Puerto Rico; one of the founders of renomination in 1882; again resumed the practice of histhe Liberal Party in Puerto Rico in 1897; appointed secre- profession in Toledo, Ohio, and died there August 17, 1918;tary of state under the home-rule government and president interment in Grafton Cemetery, Grafton, Lorain County,of the cabinet in 1897; created and organized the insular Ohio. police; resigned in 1898, when American sovereignty was declared, but his resignation not being accepted, he contin- RITCIIIE, John, a Representative from Maryland; born inued to serve until 1899; representative of his party to Wash- Frederick, Frederick County, Md., August 12, 1831; complet-ington, D.C., regarding the establishment of free-trade rela- ed preparatory studies at the Frederick Academy; com-tions between the United States and Puerto Rico; organized menced the study of medicine but abandoned it for law;the Federal Party in 1900 and on its dissolution in 1902 attended the law department of Harvard University; wasorganized the Unionist Party; founded the Porto Rico Jour- admitted to the bar and began practice in Frederick in 1854;nal in 1900; published the Porto Rico Herald in New York captain of the Junior Defenders (militia) and was ordered byCity in 1901; served in the Puerto Rico House of Delegates President Buchanan to the scene of John Brown's raid at1906-19 10; presided over a special commission of the house Harpers Ferry; served as State's attorney for Frederickof delegates which was sent to Washington, D.C., in 1909; County 1867-187 1; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-secondelected as a Unionist a Resident Commissioner to the United Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candi-States in 1910; reelected in 1912 and 1914 and served from date in 1872 for reelection to the Forty-third Congress; re- sumed the practice of law in Frederick; appointed by Gover-March 4, 1911, until his death in San Juan, P.R., November nor Hamilton on March 16, 1881, chief judge of the sixth15, 1916; interment in San Antonio de Padua's Cemetery, judicial circuit and associate justice of the court of appealsBarranquitas, P.R. to fill the unexpired term of Judge Richard Bowie; elected in Bibliography: DAB. November 1881 to this office for a term of fifteen years and RIVERS, Lucius Mendel, a Representative from South served until his death in Frederick, Md., October 27, 1887;Carolina; born in Gumville, Berkeley County, S.C., Septem- interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. ber 28, 1905; attended the public schools, the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., and the University of South RITTER, Burwell Clark (uncle of Walter Evans), a Repre-Carolina at Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar sentative from Kentucky; born near Russellville, Barren in 1932 and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.;member County, Ky., January 6, 1810; received a limited schooling;of the State house of representatives 1933-1936; delegate to member of the State house of representatives in 1842 andthe Democratic National Convention in 1936; elected as a 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth CongressDemocrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the fifteen succeed- (March 4, 1865-March 3,1867); was not a candidate foring Congresses, serving from January 3, 1941, until his renomination in 1866; engaged in agricultural pursuits; dieddeath in Birmingham, Ala., December 28, 1970; chairman, in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., October 1, 1880; in- Committeeon Armed Services(Eighty-ninththrough terment in Hopewell (later known as Riverside) Cemetery.Ninety-first Congresses); interment in St. Stephen Episcopal RrL'TER, Donald Lawrence, a Representative from Penn-Church Cemetery, St. Stephen, S.C. sylvania; born in New York City, October 21, 1940; attended RIVERS, Ralph Julian, a Representative from Alaska; the public schools in the Bronx, N.Y.; B.S., Lehigh Universi-born in Seattle, King County, Wash., May 23, 1903; attended ty, Bethlehem, Pa., 1961; M.S., Massachusetts Institute ofgrammar school in Flat, Alaska, andFranklin High School, Technology, Cambridge, 1963; and from the same school,Seattle, Wash.; gold miner, Flat, Alaska, 1921-1923; graduat- Sc.D., 1966; research assistant, M.I.T., 1961-1966; scientificed from the University of Washington at Seattle, LL.B., exchange fellow, United States National Academy of Sci-1929; was admitted to Washington State bar in 1930; prac- ences-Soviet Academy of Sciences, Baikov Institute, Moscow,ticed law in Seattle, Wash., in 1930 and 1931; was admitted U.S.S.R., 1967-1968; assistant professor, California Stateto the Alaska bar in 1931 and practiced law in Fairbanks, Polytechnic University, and contract consultant, private in-Alaska, 1931-1933; United States district attorney, fourth dustry, 1968-1969; metallurgy professor and assistant to thejudicial division, district of Alaska, from 1933 until his resig- vice president for research, Lehigh University, 1969-1976;nation in 1944; elected attorney general of Alaska in 1945 manager of research program development, Lehigh Universi-and served until 1949; chairman of Employment Security ty, 1976-1978; engineering consultant to industry; elected asCommission of Alaska 1950-1952; mayor of Fairbanks 1952- a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding1954; president, League of Alaskan Cities, in 1954; member Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Alaska Territorial senate in 1955; second vice president of of Coopersburg, Pa. Alaska Constitutional Convention at College, Alaska, in 1955 RITTER, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornand 1956; delegate, Democratic National Conventions in in Exeter, Pa., February 6, 1779; received a limited school-1960, 1964, and 1968; United States Representative-elect ing; apprenticed as a printer; member of the State constitu-under Alaska-Tennessee Plan, Washington, D.C., provisional tional convention in 1836; elected as a Democrat to thebasis, pending statehood, in 1957 and 1958; upon the admis- 1722 Biographical Directory

sion of Alaska as a State into the Union was electedas a RIVES, Zeno John, a Representative from Illinois; born Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeedingnear Greenfield, Hancock County, md., February 22, 1874; Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1967); unsuccessfulmoved with his parents to Litchfield, Montgomery County, candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress;Ill., in 1880; attended the public schools; studied law; was resumed law practice at Fairbanks, 1967-1969; died in Che- halis, Wash., August 14, 1976; cremated; ashes interred atadmitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Litchfield, Ill.; appointed city clerk in June 1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4,1905- RIVERS, Thomas, a Representative from Tennessee; born March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 in Franklin County, Tenn., September 18, 1819; receivedanto the Sixtieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in academic education and attended La Grange College, Ala- Litchfield,Ill.; was postmaster of Litchfield1912-1916; bama; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 andmoved to Decatur, Macon County, Ill., in 1919, and engaged commenced practice in Somerville, Tenn.; served formanyin the practice of law and also the real estate business; died years in the State militia ranking as brigadier general; elect- in Decatur, Ill., September 2, 1939; interment in Graceland ed as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-Cemetery. fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857);was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; continued the practice RIXEY, John Franklin, a Representative from Virginia; of law until his death on his plantation near Somerville,born in Culpeper County, Va., August 1, 1854; attended the Tenn., March 18, 1863; interment in the Somerville Ceme-common schools, Bethel Academy, and the University of tery. Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the RIVES, Francis Everod, a Representative from Virginia;bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Culpeper, Va.; Com- born in Prince George County, near Petersburg, Dinwiddiemonwealth attorney for Culpeper County, Va., 1879-1891; County, Va., January 14, 1792; completed preparatory stud-elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the four ies; engaged in planting and in the building andmanage-succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until ment of railways in Virginia and North Carolina; member ofhis death in Washington, D.C., February 8, 1907, before the the State house of delegates 1821-183 1; served in the Stateclose of the Fifty-ninth Congress; had been reelected to the senate 1831-1836, 1848-1851; elected as a Democrat to theSixtieth Congress; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Cul- Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-peper, Va. March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twenty- sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination; RIZLEY, Ross, a Representative from Oklahoma; born on mayor of Petersburg, Va., from May 6, 1847, to May 5, 1848;a farm near Beaver, Okla., July 5, 1892; attended the public died in Petersburg, Va., December 26, 1861; intermentinschools; taught in the rural schools of Beaver County, Okia., Blandford Cemetery. in 1909 and 1910; served as a deputy register of deeds of Beaver County, Okla., in 1911 and 1912; was graduated from RIVES, William Cabell, a Representative anda Senatorthe law department of the University of Kansas City, from Virginia; born at "Union Hill," Amherst County,Va.,Kansas City, Mo., in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same May 4, 1793; attended Hampden-Sidney College inVirginiayear and commenced practice in Beaver, Okla.; elected and graduated from the College of William and Mary,Wil-county attorney of Beaver County in 1918 and served until liamsburg, Va., in 1809; studied law;was admitted to the bar1920, when he resigned and moved to Guymon, Texas about 1814 and commenced practice in Charlottesville, Albe-County, Okla., and resumed the practice of law; member of marle County; delegate to the State constitutionalconven-the Guymon Board of Education 1924-1932; city attorney of tion in 1816; member, State house of delegates 1817-1820,Guymon 1928-1938; member of the State senate 1931-1934; 1822-1823; moved to "Castle Hill," Albemarle County,in 1821; elected to the Eighteenth and to the three unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Oklahoma succeedingin 1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until hisresigna- tion in 1829; Minister to France 1829-1832; electedas ato the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-Janu- Jacksonian to the United States Senate to fill thevacancyary 3, 1949); chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Ex- caused by the resignation of Littleton W. Tazewell andpenditures (Eightieth Congress); delegate to the Republican served from December 10, 1832, to February 22, 1834,whenNational Conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1948; was not a he resigned; again elected to the United States Senateto fillcandidate for renomination in 1948 but was unsuccessful for the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Tylerandelection to the United States Senate; solicitor for the Post served from March 4, 1836, to March 3, 1839; chairman, Office Department, Washington, D.C., from March to Decem- Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ber 1953; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture from December fifth Congresses); subsequently reelectedas a Whig on Janu-1953 until his resignation December 16, 1954; member of the ary 18, 1841, for the term beginning March 4, 1839, andCivil Aeronautics Board from February 25, 1955, until April served until March 3, 1845; chairman, Committeeon Foreign15, 1956, when he resigned; judge of the United States Dis- Relations (Twenty-seventh Congress); again Ministertotrict Court for the western district of Oklahoma from 1956 France 1849-1853; member of thepeace convention of 1861until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla, March 4, 1969; held in Washington, D.C., inan effort to devise means tointerment in Elmhurst Cemetery, Guymon, Okla. prevent the impending war; delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, Ala., and ROACH, Sidney Cram, a Representative from Missouri; Richmond, Va., in 1861; member of the house ofrepresenta-born at Linn Creek, Camden County, Mo., on July 25, 1876; tives from Virginia in the Second Confederate Congress; diedattended the public schools and the St. Louis Law School on his plantation, "Castle Hill," near Charlottesville, Va.,(now Washington University) in St. Louis; was admitted to April 25, 1868; interment in the private burial groundon thethe bar in 1897 and commenced practice at Linn Creek, Mo.; family estate. prosecuting attorney for Camden County 1898-1909; member Bibliography: DAB; Dingledine, Raymond C. 'The Political Career of of the board of directors of the National Bank of Linn Creek William Cabell Rives." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1947;1900-1924; member of the State house of representatives Wingfield, Russell S. "William Cabell Rives." Richmond College Historical 1909-1913; delegate to the Republican National Convention Papers 1 (June 1915): 57-72. in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Biographies 1723

Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4,1921-March 3,1925); 22, 1887; attended the public schools and the Greenville chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofSeminary; founder and president of the Greenville Milling Justice (Sixty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate forCo.; served as president of the Kentucky Retail Lumbermen reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; moved to St. in 1908 and of the Tn-State Lumber Dealers' Association in Louis, Mo., December 27, 1924, and resumed the practice of1909; elected mayor of Greenville and served from 1918 to law; died at Kansas City, Mo., June 29, 1934; interment in1922; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress Roach Cemetery near Roach, Mo. and served from March 4, 1929, until his death, before the convening of Congress; died in Louisville, Ky., April 5, 1929; ROACH, William Nathaniel, a Senator from Northinterment in the family lot in Evergreen Cemetery, Green- Dakota; born in Washington, D.C., September 25, 1840; at-ville, Ky. tended the public schools and Georgetown University, Wash- ington, D.C.; clerk in the quartermaster's department during ROBB, Edward, a Representative from Missouri; born in the Civil War; moved to Dakota Territory in 1879 and set-Brazeau, Perry County, Mo., March 19, 1857; attended the tled in Larimore; interested in mail contracts for severalcommon schools, Brazeau (Mo.) Academy, Fruitland (Mo.) years; member, Territorial house of representatives 1885;Normal Institute, and the University of Missouri at Colum- unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor at the firstbia; was graduated from the law department of the Universi- State election in 1889 and again in 1891; elected as a Demo-ty of Missouri in March 1879; was admitted to the bar in crat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,1879 and commenced practice in Perryville; elected prosecut- 1893, to March 3, 1899; unsuccessful candidate for reelection;ing attorney of Perry County in 1880 and reelected in 1882; discontinued active business pursuits and lived in retirementmember of the State house of representatives 1884-1886; in Washington, D.C.; died in New York City on September 7,assistant attorney general of the State 1889-1893; elected as 1902; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington,a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding D.C. Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful can- ROANE, John (father of John Jones Roane), a Representa-didate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; tive from Virginia; born at "Uppowac," King Williamdelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908; County, Va., February 9, 1766; completed preparatory stud-resumed the practice of law until his death in Perryville, ies; member of the State house of delegates 1788-1790 and inMo., March 13, 1934; interment in Home Cemetery. 1792; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1788; ROBBINS, Asher, a Senator from Rhode Island; born in elected as a Republican to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thir-Wethersfield, Conn., October 26, 1757; graduated from Yale teenth Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1815); engaged inCollege in 1782; tutor in Rhode Island College (now Brown agricultural pursuits; elected to the Twentieth Congress andUniversity) 1782-1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congressin 1792 and began practice in Providence, R.I.; moved to (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); elected to the Twenty-fourthNewport in 1795; appointed United States district attorney Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); died at his resi-in 1812; member, State assembly 1818-1825; elected as a dence, "Uppowac," King William County, Va., November 15,Whig to the United States Senate in 1825 to fill the vacancy 1838; interment in the family burying ground, Rumford, Va.caused by the resignation of James De Wolf; reelected in ROANE, John Jones (son of ), a Representa- 1827 and 1833 and served from October 31, 1825, to March 3, tive from Virginia; born in Essex County, Va., October 31, 1839; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty- 1794; completed preparatory studies; attended Rumfordsecond Congress); member, State assembly 1840-1841; post- Academy in King William County, Va., and Princeton Col-master of Newport, Newport County, R.I., from 1841 until lege, New Jersey, but did not graduate; engaged in agricul-his death in that city February 25, 1845; interment in Burial tural pursuits; served in the War of 1812 as a private in theGround Common. Fourth Regiment, Virginia Militia; member of the State ROBBINS, , a Representative from Penn- house of delegates 1820-1823; elected as a Jacksonian to thesylvania; born at Robbins Station, Westmoreland County, Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3,1833); Pa., September 27, 1860; attended the public schools, Indiana clerk in the United States Patent Office 1836-1851; special(Pa.) Normal School, and Eldersridge (Pa.) Academy; was agent in the Treasury Department 1855-1867; died in Wash-graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, Washing- ington, D.C., December 18, 1869; interment in Glenwoodton, Pa., in 1881 and from the law department of Columbia Cemetery. College, New York City, in 1884; was admitted to the bar in ROANE, William Henry (grandson of Patrick Henry), a1884 and commenced practice in Greensburg, Pa.; also en- Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Virgin-gaged in banking and coal-mining enterprises; member of ia, September 17,1787; completed preparatory studies;the State senate 1888-1892; chairman of the Republican member, State house of delegates 1812-1815; elected as acounty committee in 1885; member of the Pennsylvania Na- Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-tional Guard; served as major of Volunteers in the Spanish- March 3,1817); was not a candidate for renomination;American War in 1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- member of the executive council of Virginia; elected as afifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancycandidate for renomination in 1898; resumed the practice of caused by the resignation of Richard E. Parker and servedhis profession in Greensburg, Pa.; elected to the Sixty-fifth from March 14, 1837, to March 3, 1841; chairman, Commit-Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his death; tee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-fifth Congress); un-had been reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress; died in Som- successful candidate for reelection in 1841; engaged in agri-erset, Somerset County, Pa., January 25, 1919; interment in cultural pursuits; died in Tree Hill, near Richmond, Va.,St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pa. May 11, 1845; interment in the private cemetery of the ROBBINS, Gaston Ahi, a Representative from Alabama; Lyons family in Hanover County, Va. born in Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C., September 26, 1858; ROARK, Charles Wickliffe, a Representative from Ken-moved to Randolph County, N.C.; attended Trinity College at tucky; born in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Ky., JanuaryDurham and was graduated from the University of North 1724 Biographical Directory

Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1879; studied law; was admitted1760; manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1756-1758 and to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Selma, Ala.;1766-1776; member of the council of safety; first brigadier elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4,general of Pennsylvania troops in 1776; Member of the Con- 1893-March 3, 1895); presented credentials as a Member-tinental Congress from 1777 to 1779; moved to Alexandria, elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4,Va., in 1785; died in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., on 1895, to March 13, 1896, when he was succeeded by WilliamJanuary 5, 1795; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery. F. Aldrich, who contested his election; presented credentials Bibliography: DAB. to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1899, to March 8, 1900, when he was again succeeded by William ROBERTS, Anthony Elimaker (grandfather of Robert F. Aldrich, who contested his election; resumed the practiceGrey Bushong), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born of law in New York City, where he died on February 22,near Barneston Station, Chester County, Pa., on October 29, 1902; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Statesville, N.C. 1803; received a limited schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pa., 1816-1839; ROBBINS, George Robbins, a Representative from Newmoved to Lancaster, Pa., in 1839; sheriff of Lancaster County Jersey; born near Allentown, Monmouth County, N.J., Sep-1839-1842; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1842 to the tember 24, 1808; received a good literary education;wasTwenty-eighth Congress; was appointed United States mar- graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadel-shall for the eastern district of Pennsylvania on May 16, phia in 1837 and commenced the practice of medicine in1850, and served until March 29, 1853; elected as an Inde- Falsington, Bucks County, Pa.; moved to Hamilton Square, N.J., the same year and continued the practice of medicine;pendent Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelect-a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855- ed as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1855-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination;1858; was active in organization of the Republican Party in resumed the practice of his profession; died in HamiltonPennsylvania; engaged in operating his real estate holdings Square, N.J., February 22, 1875; interment in the Presbyteri-in Lancaster and was executor for various estates; died in an Church Cemetery. Lancaster, Pa., on January 23, 1885; interment in the Lan- caster Cemetery. ROBBINS, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Bustleton (now a part of Philadelphia), near Lower ROBERTS, Brigham Henry, a Representative from Utah; Dublin, Pa., in 1808; attended the public schools; student atborn in Warrington, Lancashire, England, March 13, 1857; the Gunmere Academy in Burlington, N.J.; moved to Phila-immigrated to the United States in 1866 with his parents, delphia in 1836 and engaged in the manufacture of steel;who settled in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah; attended the member of the board of commissioners of the district ofdistrict schools; was graduated from Deseret University, Salt Kensington and served as president several years; electedasLake City, in 1878; taught school for several years and later a Democrat to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-worked as associate and editor in chief of the Salt Lake third Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1855); declined toHerald; member of the State constitutional convention be a candidate for renomination in 1854; unsuccessful candi-which framed the organic law of Utah in 1894; unsuccessful date for office of mayor of Philadelphia in 1862; resumed theDemocratic candidate for election in 1895 to the Fifty-fifth steel manufacturing business and held several municipalCongress; presented credentials as a Democratic Member- offices; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-elect to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for renomination1899, to January 25, 1900, when the seat was declared in 1876; member of the board of education and servedasvacant because Roberts was a polygamist; author of numer- president for many years; president and director of the Ken-ous historical, biographical, and doctrinal works; served on sington National Bank; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 27,the State board of equalization tax department in 1916 and 1880; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. subsequently ordained as a minister of the gospel; during the First World War served as chaplain of the One Hundred ROBBINS, William McKendree, a Representative fromand Forty-fifth Regiment, Field Artillery; served as presi- North Carolina; born in the old homestead near Trinity,dent of the Eastern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Randolph County, N.C., October 26, 1828; pursued classicalChrist of Latter Day Saints in Brooklyn, N.Y.; died in Salt studies; attended Old Trinity College and was graduatedLake City, Utah, September 27, 1933; interment in Center- from Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, about 1850; studiedville Ward Cemetery, Centerville, Davis County, Utah. law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commencedprac- Bibliography: DAB; White, William Griffin, Jr. "The Feminist Campaign tice the same year in Eufaula, Ala.; served fouryears asfor the Exclusion of Brigham Henry Roberts from the Fifty-sixth Con- major in the Fourth Alabama Regiment of the Confederate gress." Journal of the West 17 (January 1978): 45-52. Army during the Civil War; member of the State senate in 1868 and 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, ROBERTS, Charles Boyle, a Representative from Mary- Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-land; born in Uniontown, Carroll County, Md., on April 19, March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in1842; was graduated from Calvert College, New Windsor, the Department of War (Forty-fourth Congress); appointedMd., in 1861; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864 by President Cleveland as the southern commissioneron theand commenced practice in Westminster, Carroll County, Gettysburg Battle Field Commission in 1894, which positionMd.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty- he held until his death in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C.,onfifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman, May 5, 1905; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Statesville,Committee on Accounts (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con- N.C. gresses); elected attorney general of Maryland in 1883, serv- ing one term; elected associate judge of the fifth judicial ROBERDEAU, Daniel, a Delegate from Pennsylvania;district in 1891; appointed chief judge of the district to fill born on the island of St. Christopher, West Indies, in 1727;the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Miller and in 1893 immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia,was elected for the full term of fifteen years; died in West- Pa., in boyhood; completed preparatory studies; engaged inminster, Md., September 10, 1899; interment in the Catholic the lumber business; member of the State assembly 17 56-Cemetery. 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ROBERTS, CharlesPatrick,a Representativefromand from the law school of Boston University; was admitted Kansas; born in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kans., April 20,to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Boston; 1936; attended the public schools; graduated from Holtonmember of the city council of Chelsea in 1887 and 1888; High School, 1954; B.A., Kansas State University, Manhat-member of the State house of representatives in 1894 and tan, Kans., 1958; served in the United States Marine Corps, 1896; served in the State senate in 1897 and 1898; elected as captain, 1958-1962; newspaper publisher, Litchfield Park,a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to theeight succeeding Ariz., 1962-1967; administrative assistant, United StatesCongresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1917); chairman, Com- Senator , 1967-1968; administrative assistant,mittee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-first Congress); unsuc- United States Congressman Keith Sebelius, 1968-1980; elect-cessful candidate for renomination in 1916; after retiring ed as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the threefrom public life practiced law in Washington, D.C., until his succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); isdeath on February 27, 1924; interment in Woodlawn Ceme- a resident of Dodge City, Kans. tery, Everett, Middlesex County, Mass. ROBERTS, Clint Ronald, a Representative from South ROBERTS, Herbert Ray, a Representative from Texas; Dakota; born in Presho, Lyman County, S.Dak., January 30,born in Collin County, near McKinney, Tex., March 28, 1913; 1935; attended the public schools; graduated from Preshograduated from McKinney High School; attended Texas High School, 1952; attended Black Hills State College, Spear-A.&M. University, North Texas State University, and Uni- fish, S.Dak., 1952-1953; farmer-rancher; owner of clothingversity of Texas; served on the staff of Speaker Sam Ray- store; served in the South Dakota senate, 1972-1978; unsuc-burn of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., cessful nominee in 1978 for Governor; South Dakota secre-1941-1942; served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant tary of agriculture, 1979-1980; elected as a Republican to thecommander from 1942 to 1945 in the Pacific and European Ninety-seventh Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983);theaters; recalled to active duty in the Korean conflict; cap- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-tain, United States Naval Reserve; businessman with diver- eighth Congress; director, South Dakota Energy Office, Jan-sified interests including farming; served in the State senate, uary 1987 to present; is a resident of Presho, S.Dak. 1955-1962, and was president pro tempore, 1961; elected as a ROBERTS, Edwin Ewing, a Representative from Nevada;Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special elec- born in Pleasant Grove, Sutter County, Calif., December 12,tion, January 30, 1962, to fill the vacancy caused by the 1870; attended the public schools and was graduated fromdeath of Sam Rayburn; reelected to the nine succeeding the State normal school at San Jose, Calif., in 1891; taughtCongresses and served from January 30, 1962, to January 3, school at Hollister, Calif., 1891-1897, and at Empire, Nev.,1981; chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Ninety- 1897-1899; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1899 andfourth through Ninety-sixth Congresses); was not a candi- commenced practice in Carson City, Nev.; also engaged indate in 1980 for reelection to the Ninety-seventh Congress; is the newspaper publishing business; district attorney ofa resident of Denton, Tex. Ormsby County 1900-19 10; elected as a Republican to the ROBERTS, Jonathan, a Representative and a Senator Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); did not seek renomination in 1918,from Pennsylvania; born near Norristown, Pa., August 16, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States 1771;privately tutored; apprenticed as a wheelwright; Senate; delegate to the Republican National Convention inmember, State house of representatives 1799-1800; member, 1912 and 1924; resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev., inState senate 1807-1811; elected as a Republican to the 1920; elected mayor of Reno in 1923; reelected in 1927 andTwelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March again in 1931 and served until his death; unsuccessful candi-4, 1811, to February 24, 1814, when he resigned, having been date for nomination as United States Senator in 1926 andelected Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States for Governor in 1930; died in Reno, Nev., December 11, 1933; Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mi- interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. chael Leib; reelected in 1815 and served from February 24, 1814, to March 3, 1821; chairman, Committee on Claims ROBERTS, Ellis Henry, a Representative from New York;(Fourteenth through Sixteenth Congresses), Committee to born in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., September 30, 1827;Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixteenth Con- attended the common schools and the Whitestown (N.Y.)gress), Committee on Public Buildings (Sixteenth Congress); Seminary; was graduated from Yale College in 1850; princi-member, State house of representatives 1823-1826; collector pal of Utica Free Academy in 1850 and 1851; editor andof customs at the port of Philadelphia 1841-1842; died on his proprietor of the Utica Morning Herald 1851-1889; delegatefarm, "Robertsville," King of Prussia, Montgomery County, to the Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1868, andPa., on July 24, 1854; interment in the Roberts family ceme- 1876; member of the State assembly in 1866; elected as atery near Norristown, Pa. Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses Bibliography: DAB; Roberts, Jonathan. "Memoirs of a Senator from (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for Pennsylvania: Jonathan Roberts, 1771-1854." Edited by Robert Klein. The reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed hisPennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 61 (October 1937): 446- former newspaper activities in Utica, N.Y.; Assistant Treas-74, 62 (January 1938): 64-97, 62 (July 1938): 213-48, 62 (July 1938): 361- urer of the United States 1889-1893; president of the Frank- 409, 62 (October 1938): 502-51. un National Bank of New York City 1893-1897; appointed ROBERTS, Kenneth Allison, a Representative from Ala- Treasurer of the United States on July 1, 1897, and servedbama; born in Piedmont, Calhoun County, Ala., November 1, until June 30, 1905, when he resigned; again engaged in1912; attended the public schools and Samford College, Bir- banking; died in Utica, N.Y., January 8, 1918; interment inmingham, Ala.; was graduated from the University of Ala- Forest Hill Cemetery. bama Law School in 1935; was admitted to the bar in 1936 Bibliography: DAB. and commenced the practice of law in Anniston, Ala.; prac- ROBERTS, Ernest William, a Representative from Massa-ticed law in Talladega 1937-1942; elected to the State senate chusetts; born in East Madison, Maine, November 22, 1858;in 1942, but resigned the same year to enter the United attended the public schools in Chelsea, Mass.; was graduatedStates Navy and served until discharged as a lieutenant in from Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass., in 1877, 1945 with service in both Atlantic and Pacific Theaters; 1726 Biographical Directory

president, Piedmont Development Co., 1945-1950; member oftion December 30, 1966; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs and city attorneynation in 1966; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Defense of Piedmont, Ala., 1948-1950; elected as a Democrat to theProduction (Eighty-fifth, Eighty-seventh, and Eighty-ninth Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (JanuaryCongresses), chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency 3, 1951-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-(Eighty-sixth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); served as tion in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; counsel, Vehicleconsultant to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Equipment Safety Commission, 1965-197 1; member, Nation-Development 1966-1968; retired and resided in Lexington, al Highway Safety Advisory Committee, 1966-1969; isa resi- Va., until his death there November 1, 1971; interment in dent of Anniston, Ala. Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., ROBERTS, Robert Whyte, a Representative from Missis- 1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972. sippi; born in Kent County, Del., November 28, 1784;re- ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admitted to the ROBERTSON, Alice Mary, a Representative from Oklaho- bar; shortly after reaching his majority moved to Tennessee,ma; born at Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Indian Ter- where he was elected a circuit judge; moved to Limestoneritory (now Tullahassee, Okla.), January 2, 1854; self-taught County, Ala. in 1822, and to Scott County, Miss., in 1826,in early life under the supervision of missionary parents; and settled near Hillsboro; engaged in agricultural pursuits;attended Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y.; clerk in the Indian commenced the practice of law in Hillsboro; circuit judge ofOffice, Washington, D.C., 1873-1879; returned to Indian Ter- Scott County 1830-1838; member of the State house ofrepre-ritory and taught in the school at Tullahassee and later in sentatives 1838-1844 and served as speaker in 1842 andthe Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1880-1882; again 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth andreturned to and established Nuyaka Mis- Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847);re-sion; engaged in teaching at Okmulgee, Okla., and had sumed the practice of law; also engaged in planting; diedoncharge of a boarding school for Indian girls, which developed his plantation, "Long Avenue," near Hilisboro, Miss., Janu- into Henry Kendall College (now the ); ary 4, 1865; interment in a private cemetery on the RobertsGovernment supervisor of Creek Indian schools 1900-1905; plantation. postmaster of Muskogee, Okia., 1905-1913; elected as a Re- ROBERTS, William Randall, a Representative from Newpublican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921- York; born in County Cork, Ireland, February 6, 1830; immi-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection grated to the United States in July 1849; receiveda limitedin 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed by President schooling; merchant in New York City until 1869 when heHarding a welfare worker at Veterans' Hospital No. 90 at retired; president of the Fenian Brotherhood in 1865 andMuskogee in May 1923; died in Muskogee, Okia., on July 1, aided in the foray into Canada the followingyear, for which1931; interment in Greenhill Cemetery. he was arrested by the Government; elected Bibliography: DAB; James, Louise B. "Alice Mary Robertson-Anti-Femi- as a Democrat nist Congresswoman." Chronicles of Oklahoma 55 (Winter 1977-1978): 454- to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 62; Stanley, Ruth M. "Alice M. Robertson, Oklahoma's First Congresswom- 1871-March 3, 1875); member of the board of aldermen ofan." Chronicles of Oklahoma 45 (Autumn 1967): 259-89. New York City in 1877; unsuccessful candidate for sheriff in 1879; appointed as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- ROBERTSON, Charles Raymond, a Representative from potentiary to Chile by President Cleveland on April 2, 1885,North Dakota; born on a farm near Madison, Wis., on Sep- and served until August 19, 1889; died in New York Cityontember 5, 1889; assisted his father on a grain and stock farm August 9, 1897; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Islandin Columbia County, Wis., while attending public schools at City, N.Y. Arlington and Poynette, Wis.; was graduated from Parker Bibliography: DAB. College, Winnebago, Minn.; held executive positionsin wholesale and retail department stores throughout Minneso- ROBERTSON, Absalom Willis, a Representative andata and the Dakotas; delegate to the Republican National Senator from Virginia; born in Martinsburg, BerkeleyConvention in 1940; member of the Republican State execu- County, W.Va., May 27, 1887; moved to Lynchburg, Va., with his parents in 1891; attended the public schools of Lynch-tive committee; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sev- burg and Rocky Mount, Va.; graduated from the Universityenth Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccess- of Richmond, Richmond, Va., in 1907, and from its law de-ful candidate for renomination in 1942; engaged in the retail partment in 1908; was admitted to the bar in 1908 andbusiness in Bismarck, N.Dak.; again elected to the Seventy- commenced practice in Buena Vista, Rockbridge County,ninth and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948; re- Va.; moved to Lexington, Rockbridge County, Va., in 1919sumed the merchandising business in Bismarck, N.Dak., and and continued the practice of law; member, Statesenate 1916-1922; during the First World War served in the Unitedpaint manufacturing in Washington, D.C.; in 1949 was States Army as assistant camp adjutant at Camp Lee, Va.,named an advisory member of the Hoover Commission on and in the Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D.C., withthe reorganization of the Government; died in Bismarck, the rank of major 1917-1919; served as Commonwealth'sN.Dak., February 18, 1951; interment in Lakewood Ceme- attorney for Rockbridge County 1922-1928; chairman of thetery, Minneapolis, Minn. State commission of game and inland fisheries 1926-1932; ROBERTSON, Edward Vivian, a Senator from Wyoming; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress; reelect-born in Cardiff, Wales, May 27, 1881; attended schools in ed to the six succeeding Congresses and served from MarchWales; served in the Third Battalion of the Welsh Regiment 4, 1933, until November 5, 1946, when he resigned;wasduring the Boer War 1899-1902; engaged in mechanical and nominated to the Eightieth Congress in 1946 but withdrew,electric power engineering 1902-1912; immigrated to the having received the nomination for United States Senator;United States in 1912 and settled in Park County, Wyo.; elected in 1946 as a Democrat to the United States Senatetoengaged in the raising of livestock and the mercantile busi- fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1949, causedness at Cody, Wyo., 1912-1942; elected as a Republican to by the death of ; reelected in 1948, 1954, andthe United States Senate in 1942, and served from January 1960, and served from November 6, 1946, until his resigna-3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for re- Biographies 1727 election in 1948; retired from political and public life; was aAndrew Stevenson; reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth resident of Cody, Wyo., until 1958 when he moved to Pendle-and Twenty-fifth Congresses and served from December 8, ton, Oreg., where he thed April 15, 1963; interment in Mount1834, to March 3, 1839; judge of the circuit court of chancery Hope Cemetery, Baker, Oreg. for Henrico County, Va., for several years; delegate to the peace convention held at Washington, D.C.,in 1861 in an ROBERTSON, Edward White (father of Samuel Matthewseffort to devise means to prevent the impending war; Robertson), a Representative from Louisiana; born nearmember of the State senate, 1861-1863; died at "Mount Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., on June 13, 1823; movedAthos," near Lynchburg, Va., July 5, 1873; interment in a with his parents to Iberville Parish, La., in 1825; attended the country schools and the preparatory department of Cen-private cemetery at "Mount Athos." tenary College, Jackson, La.; attended Augusta College, Ken- Bibliography: DAB. tucky, in 1842; entered Nashville (Tenn.) University and ROBERTSON, Samuel Matthews (son of Edward White commenced the study of law in 1845; served in the War withRobertson), a Representative from Louisiana;born in Mexico in 1846 as orderly sergeant in the Second Regiment,Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, La., January 1, 1852; attended Louisiana Volunteers; member of the State house of repre-Magruder's Collegiate Institute, Baton Rouge, La., and was sentatives 1847-1849; was graduated from the law depart-graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1874; stud- ment of the University of Louisiana in 1850; was admitted toied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced the bar the same year and practiced in Iberville and Eastpractice in Baton Rouge, La.; elected a member of the State Baton Rouge Parishes; again elected to the State house ofhouse of representatives in 1879; member of the faculty of representatives in 1853; State auditor of public accountsthe Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Me- 1857-1862; entered the Confederate service in March 1862 as chanical College in 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Fifti- captain of a company which he had raised for the Twenty-eth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his seventh Regiment, Louisiana Infantry; resumed the practicefather, Edward White Robertson; reelected to the Fifty-first of law in Baton Rouge; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,December 5, 1887, to March 3, 1907; chairman, Committee 1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on the Mississip- River (Fifty- pi Levees (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Levees andon Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-sixth Con-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination gress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 toin 1906; resumed the practice of law in Baton Rouge; super- the Forty-eighth Congress; elected to the Fiftieth Congressintendent of the Louisiana School for the Deaf and Dumb and served from March 4, 1887, until his death in Baton1908-1911; died in Baton Rouge, La., December 24, 1911; Rouge, La., on August 2, 1887, before the Congress assem-interment in Magnolia Cemetery. bled; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. ROBERTSON, Thomas Austin, a Representative from ROBERTSON, George, a Representative from Kentucky;Kentucky; born in Hodgenville, Larue County, Ky., Septem- born near Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., November 18,ber 9, 1848; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated 1790; pursued preparatory studies and attended Transylva-from Cecilian College and afterwards from the law depart- nia University, Lexington, Ky., until 1806; studied law; wasment of the University of Louisville; was admitted to the bar admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in in 1871 and commenced practice at Hodgenville, KY.; county Lancaster, KY.; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth,attorney of Larue County 1874-1877; member of the State Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses and served fromhouse of representatives in 1877 and 1878; Commonwealth March 4, 1817, until his resignation in 1821, before the con-attorney of the eighteenth judicial district 1878-1883; elected vening of the Seventeenth Congress; chairman, Committeeas a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninthCongress- on Private Land Claims (Fifteenth Congress); member of thees (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman,Committee on State house of representatives 1822-1827, serving four yearsExpenditures in the Department of War (Forty-ninth Con- as speaker; declined the appointment as Governor of Arkan-gress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; re- sas Territory tendered by President Monroe and the diplo-sumed the practice of law at Elizabethtown, Hardin County, matic posts of United States Minister to Colombia in 1824Ky., and died there July 18, 1892; interment in Red Hill and to Peru in 1828; secretary of state of Kentucky in 1828; Cemetery, Hodgenville, Ky. appointed associate justice of the court of appeals of Ken- tucky in 1829 and served as chief justice from 1829 to 1834, ROBERTSON, Thomas Boiling (brother of John Robert- when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Lexington,son), a Representative from Louisiana; born at "Bellefield," KY.; professor of law in 1834-1857; near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., February27, 1779; elected as a Whig a member of the State house of represent-was graduated from the College of Williamand Mary, Wil- atives in 1848, 1851, and 1852, and served as speaker in theliamsburg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 two last-named years; justice of the court of appeals for theand commenced practice in Petersburg, Va.; moved to the second district of Kentucky 1864-187 1 and acting chief jus-Territory of Orleans in 1807; appointed by President Jeffer- tice part of the time; died in Lexington, Ky., May 16, 1874;son secretary of the Territory of Louisianaand served from interment in Lexington Cemetery. 1807 to 1811; upon the admission of the Territory into the Bibliography: DAB. Union as the State of Louisiana, was elected as a Republican ROBERTSON, John (brother of Thomas Bolling Robert-to the Twelfth and to the three succeeding Congresses and son), a Representative from Virginia; born at "Bellefield,"served from April 30, 1812, to April 20, 1818, when he re- near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., April 13, 1787; com- signed; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Fourteenth pleted preparatory studies and was graduated from the Col-and Fifteenth Congresses); Governor of Louisiana from De- lege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law;cember 18, 1820, until his resignation on November 15, 1822; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Richmond, Va.;attorney general of Louisiana in 1822; judge of the United attorney general of Virginia; elected to the Twenty-thirdStates Court for the District of Louisiana 1825-1827; re- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofturned to Petersburg, Va.; died at White Sulphur Springs, 1728 Biographical Directory

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(now West Virginia), October 5, 1828; interment in Cope-the practice of law in Camden, N.J.; elected as a Republican land Hifi Cemetery. to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, Bibliography: DAB. 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures ROBERTSON, Thomas James, a Senator from Southin the Department of the Navy (Forty-seventh Congress); Carolina; born near Winnsboro, Fairfield County,S.C., unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty- August 3, 1823; completed preparatory studies and graduat-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Trenton, ed from South Carolina College (now the University of SouthN.J., where he died September 27, 1897; interment in Belvi- Carolina) at Columbia in 1843; engaged in planting; memberdere Cemetery, Belvidere, N.J. of the State constitutional convention in 1865; upon the Bibliography: DAB. readmission of the State of South Carolina to representation ROBIE, Reuben, a Representative from New York; born in 1868 was elected as a Republican to the United Statesin Corinth, Orange County, Vt., July 15, 1799; attended the Senate; reelected in 1871 and served from July 15, 1868, tocommon schools; at the age of twenty moved to Bath, Steu- March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman,ben County, N.Y.; engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1822; Committee on Manufactures (Forty-second through Forty-town clerk 1825-1830; supervisor in 1831 and 1832; appoint- fourth Congresses); retired from public life and active busi-ed postmaster in 1837, holding the office for four years; ness due to ill health; died in Columbia, S.C., October 13,treasurer of Steuben County 1844-1847; elected as a Demo- 1897; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. crat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, ROBERTSON, William Henry, a Representative from1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; re- New York; born in Bedford, N.Y., October 10, 1823; attendedsumed mercantile pursuits in Bath, Steuben County, N.Y., the common schools and Bedford Union Academy, at Bed-where he died January 21, 1872; interment in Grove Come- ford; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 andcom-tery. menced practice at White Plains, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1849 and 1850; served in the State senate in ROBINSON, Arthur Raymond, a Senator from Indiana, 1854 and 1855; judge of Westchester County, N.Y., 1855-born in Pickerington, Fairfield County, Ohio, on March 12, 1867; inspector of the Seventh Brigade New York State Mili-1881; attended the common schools; graduated from the Ohio tia 1860-1866; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Con-Northern University at Ada in 1901, the Indiana Law School gress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate forat Indianapolis in 1910, and the University of Chicago, Chi- renomination; unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorialcago, Ill., in 1913; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and nomination in 1872 and 1879; again a member of the Statecommenced practice in Indianapolis, md.; member, State senate 1872-1881 and president pro tempore 1874-1881; col-senate 1914-1918, and was the Republican floor leader lector of the port of New York 1881-1885; againa member ofduring the entire period; during the First World War served the State senate in 1888 and 1889; died in Katonah, N.Y.,in the army as a first lieutenant, captain, and major; served December 6, 1898; interment in Union Cemetery, Bedford,in France in the Army of Occupation; resumed the practice N.Y. of law; judge of Marion County Superior Court 1921-1922; Bibliography: DAB. resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, md., in 1922; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate and ROBESON, Edward John, Jr., a Representative from Vir-subsequently elected on November 2, 1926, to fill the vacan- ginia; born in Waynesville, Haywood County, N.C., August 9,cy caused by the death of Samuel M. Ralston; reelected in 1890; moved from Wythe County, Va., with hisparents to1928, and served from October 20, 1925, to January 3, 1935; Cartersville, Ga., in 1891; attended the public schools inwas an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; chair- Quitman, Marietta, and Sparta, Ga.; graduated from theman, Committee on Pensions (Seventieth through Seventy- University of Georgia at Athens in 1910; civil engineer insecond Congresses); practiced law in Indianapolis, md., until Bay Minette, Ala., and Ironwood, Mich., 1910-1915;em-his death there March 17, 1961; interment in Washington ployed with the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & DryPark Cemetery East. Dock Co. from 1915 until his retirement April 30, 1950,as vice president and personnel manager; electedas a Demo- ROBINSON, Christopher, a Representative from Rhode crat to the Eighty-first Congress to fill the vacancy causedIsland; born in Providence, R.I., on May 15, 1806; was grad- by the death of Schuyler Otis Bland; reelected to the Eighty-uated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1825; stud- second and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedied law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced from May 2, 1950, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidatepractice in Woonsocket, R.I.; attorney general of Rhode for renomination in 1958; was a resident of Newport News,Island in 1854; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Va., until 1964, at which time he returned to Waynesville,Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candi- N.C.; died in Pascagoula, Miss., on March 10, 1966; inter-date for reelection; Minister to Peru 1861-1866; delegate ment in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesville, N.C. from Rhode Island to the Loyalist Convention held in Phila- ROBESON, George Maxwell (nephew of George Clifforddelphia in 1866; died in Woonsocket, R.I., October 3, 1889; Maxwell), a Representative from New Jersey; born at Oxfordinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Furnace, near Belvidere, Warren County, N.J., March 16, Bibliography: DAB. 1829; pursued an academic course and was graduated from ROBINSON, Edward, a Representative from Maine; born Princeton College in 1847; studied law; was admitted to thein Cushing, Maine, November 25, 1796; self-educated while bar in 1850 and practiced in Newark and subsequently inengaged in seafaring; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Camden; appointed prosecuting attorney for Camden CountyThomaston, Maine, in 1837; member of the State senate in in 1858; was active in organizing the State troops for service1836 and 1837; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Con- in the Civil War and was commissioned brigadier general bygress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Governor Parker; elected attorney general of New Jersey inCilley and served from April 28, 1838, to March 3, 1839; 1867 and served until his resignation June 22, 1869; appoint-engaged in mercantile pursuits, banking, and shipbuilding ed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Grantuntil his death in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine, Febru- and served from June 25, 1869, to March 12, 1877; resumedary 19, 1857; interment in Thomaston Cemetery. 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ROBINSON, George Dexter, a Representative from Mas-printing; moved to Kenton, Ohio, December 31, 1845; edited sachusetts; born in Lexington, Mass., January 20, 1834; at-and published the Kenton Republican; chief clerk of the tended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School,Ohio house of representatives in 1856; enlisted in Company Cambridge, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard Univer-G, Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 17, sity in 1856; principal teacher at the Chicopee High School1861, and rose through the ranks to colonel; chairman of the 1856-1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Cam-Republican State executive committee of Ohio 1877-1879; bridge, Mass., in 1866 and commenced practice in Chicopee,appointed commissioner of railroads and telegraphs in Ohio Hampden County, Mass.; member of the State house of rep-in January 1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sev- resentatives in 1874; served in the State senate in 1876;enth and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three1881, to January 12, 1885, when he resigned; secretary of succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, tostate of Ohio 1885-1889; died in Kenton, Ohio, January 14, January 7, 1884, when he resigned, having been elected1892; interment in Grove Cemetery. Governor; Governor of Massachusetts 1884-1887; resumed the practice of his profession in Springfield, Mass.; died in ROBINSON, James Wallace, a Representative from Ohio; Chicopee, Mass., February 22, 1896; interment in Fairviewborn in the township of Carby, near Unionville Center, Cemetery. Union County, Ohio, on November 26, 1826; attended the common schools and Marysville Academy; was graduated ROBINSON, James Carroll, a Representative from Illi- from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1848 and from nois; born near Paris, Edgar County, Ill., August 19, 1823;the Cincinnati Law School in 1851; was admitted to the bar moved to Clark County, Ill., with his parents in 1825; re-in the latter year and commenced practice in London, Ohio; ceived a limited schooling; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served as a corporal during the Mexican War; studied law;prosecuting attorney of Union County for two terms; moved was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice into Marysville, Ohio, in 1855; member of the State house of Marshall, Clark County, Ill.; elected as a Democrat to therepresentatives 1860-1862, and in 1864 was elected to fill an Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Congressesunexpired term; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1865); did not seek renomination inCongress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candi- 1864, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor ofdate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; illinois; resumed the practice of law in Marshall; moved toresumed the practice of his profession; died in Marysville, Sangamon County, Ill., in 1869 and continued the practice ofUnion County, Ohio, June 28, 1898; interment in Oakdale law in Springfield; elected to the Forty-second and Forty-Cemetery. third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); chairman, ROBINSON, James William, a Representative from Utah; Committee on Mileage (Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighthborn in Coalville, Summit County, Utah, January 19, 1878; Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination inattended public schools; graduated from Brigham Young 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice ofUniversity, Provo, Utah, and from the law school of the law; appointed a member of the Illinois Board of LivestockUniversity of Chicago in 1912; principal of Uinta Academy, Commissioners in 1886; died in Springfield, Ill., November 3,Vernal, Utah, and of the Wasatch High School, Heber, Utah; 1886; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. admitted as member of the bar of the State of Utah in 1912; ROBINSON, James Kenneth, a Representative from Vir-engaged in practice of law in Provo, Utah County, Utah, ginia; born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., May 14,1912-1933; county attorney of Utah County 1918-1921; 1916; attended the public schools of Winchester, Va.; B.S.,Democratic candidate for attorney general of Utah in 1924; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., 1937; servedmember of the board of regents of the University of Utah as infantryman in the United States Army, 1941-1945; dis-1925-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to charged with the rank of major; elected to the Virginia Statethe six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, senate in 1965; reelected to a four-year term in 1967; chair- 1947); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Seventy-sixth man, Republican delegation to the 1968 and 1969 generaland Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Roads (Sev- assembly; orchardist and fruit packer with real estate andenty-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful can- other business interests in the Winchester area; elected as adidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; Republican to the Ninety-second and to the six succeedingserved as director of grazing in the Office of Land Manage- Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1985); did not seekment, Interior Department, Washington, D.C., from January reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress; is a resident of3, 1947, to January 31, 1949; returned to Salt Lake City, Winchester, Va. Utah; died in Escondido, Calif., December 2, 1964; interment ROBINSON, James McClellan, a Representative from In-in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah. diana; born on a farm near Fort Wayne, Allen County, md., ROBINSON, John Buchanan, a Representative from May 31, 1861; attended the public schools; studied law; wasPennsylvania; born in Allegheny City, Pa., May 23, 1846; admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Fortstudied with a private tutor at the University of Pittsburgh, Wayne, md.; prosecuting attorney for the thirty-eighth judi-and Amherst (Mass.) College; enlisted in the Union Army in cial circuit of Indiana 1886-1890; resumed the practice of1864, but resigned to accept an appointment to the United law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the threeStates Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., from which he succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); unsuc- was graduated in 1868, and served in the Navy until he cessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninthresigned in 1875; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Congress; continued the practice of law in Fort Wayne, md.,1876 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to until 1908; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1911; died in LosMedia, Pa., in 1878 and continued the practice of law; editor Angeles, January 16, 1942; interment in Lindenwood Ceme-of the Delaware County Gazette in 1881 and 1882; newspa- tery, Fort Wayne, Ind. per correspondent; owner of the Media Ledger; memberof ROBINSON, James Sidney, a Representative from Ohio;the State house of representatives 1885-1887; served in the born near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, October 14,State senate in 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- 1827; attended the common schools; acquired the art ofsecond, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1730 Biographical Directory

1891-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection intives in 1818; died in Bennington, Vt., on November 3, 1819; 1898; president of the League of Republican Clubs of Penn-interment in the Old Cemetery, Old Bennington, Vt. sylvania 1891-1897; member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy in 1893; delegate to the Re- ROBINSON, Joseph Taylor, a Representative and a Sena- publican National Conventions in 1892, 1896, and 1908;tor from Arkansas; born on a farm near Lonoke, Lonoke United States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylva-County, Ark., August 26, 1872; attended the common schools, nia 1900-1914; resided in Philadelphia, Pa., where he diedthe University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and the law January 28, 1933; interment in Allegheny Cemetery, Pitts-department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; burgh, Pa. was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Lonoke, Ark.; member, State general assembly 1895; presi- ROBINSON, John Lame, a Representative from Indiana;dential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1900; elected as a born near Maysville, Mason County, Ky., May 3, 1813; at-Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding tended the public schools; moved to Rush County, md.; en-Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, to January 14, gaged in the mercantile business in Milroy, md.; county1913, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; clerk of Rush County, md., 1841-1845; elected as a Democratchairman, Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second Con- to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congressesgress); Governor of Arkansas from January to March 1913, (March 4, 1847-March 3,1853); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congress-when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected to es); appointed by President Pierce as United States marshalthe United States Senate in 1913 to fill the seat vacated by for the southern district of Indiana in 1853; reappointed bythe death of Senator Jeff Davis; reelected in 1918, 1924, President Buchanan in 1858 and served until his death;1930, and 1936 and served from March 4, 1913, until his appointed brigade inspector of the fourth military district ofdeath; minority leader 1923-1933; majority leader 1933-1937; Indiana in 1854; trustee of Indiana University at Blooming-chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury De- ton 1856-1859; died at Rushville, md., March 21, 1860; inter-partment (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Commit- ment in East Hill Cemetery. tee on Claims (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ROBINSON, John McCracken, a Senator from Illinois;ticket in 1928; died in Washington, D.C., July 14, 1937; fu- born near Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., April 10, 1794;neral services were held in the Chamber of the United attended the common schools and graduated from Transyl-States Senate; interment in Roselawn Memorial Park in vania University at Lexington, KY.; studied law; was admit-Little Rock, Ark. ted to the bar and began practice in Carmi, Ill., in 1818; Bibliography: DAB; Grant, Gilbert R. "Joseph Robinson in Foreign Af- judge of the State supreme court; served as general in the fairs." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 9 (Autumn 1950):133-71; Towns, State militia; elected in 1830 as a Jacksonian to the United Stuart. "Joseph T. Robinson and Arkansas Politics: 1912-1913." Arkansas States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Historical Quarterly 24 (Winter 1965): 291-307. McLean; reelected in 1835 and served from December 11, ROBINSON, Leonidas Dunlap, a Representative from 1830, to March 3, 1841; was not a candidate for reelection;North Carolina; born in Gulledge Township, Anson County, chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-secondN.C., April 22, 1867; attended the common schools; moved to Congress), Committee on Militia (Twenty-second throughWadesboro in 1888; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congress-1889 and practiced in Wadesboro; delegate to every Demo- es); elected an associate justice of the State supreme court incratic State convention 1888-1941; mayor of Wadesboro 1843 and served until his death two months later in Ottawa,1890-1893; member of the State house of representatives in Ill., April 25, 1843; interment in the Old Graveyard, Carmi,1894 and 1900; appointed solicitor of the thirteenth judicial Ill. district in 1901; elected to the same office in 1902 and served in that capacity until 1910, when he resigned; became presi- ROBINSON, John Seaton, a Representative from Nebras-dent of the Bank of Wadesboro in 1910; delegate to the ka; born in Wheeling, W.Va., May 4, 1856; attended the Democratic National Conventions in 1912, 1920, and 1924; public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar by theelected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Con- supreme court of West Virginia in 1880; moved to Madison,gresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921); declined to be a Nebr., in 1884; prosecuting attorney of Madison Countycandidate for renomination; resumed banking and also en- 1886-1888 and 1890-1892; judge of the ninth judicial districtgaged. in agricultural pursuits; died in Wadesboro, N.C., No- 1893-1895; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth andvember 7, 1941; interment in Eastview Cemetery. Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903);was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902; died in ROBINSON, Milton Stapp, a Representative from Indi- Madison, Nebr., on May 25, 1903; interment in Crownhillana; born in Versailles, Ripley County, md., April 20, 1832; Cemetery. received a limited schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and began practice in Anderson, md.; presi- ROBINSON, Jonathan (brother of ), a Sen-dential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856; appointed a ator from Vermont; born in Hardwick, Mass., August 11,director of the Indiana State Penitentiary at Michigan City 1756; received a limited schooling; moved to Bennington, Vt.,in 1861, but resigned after a few months; entered the Union in 1761; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1796 andArmy in September 1861 as lieutenant colonel of the Forty- commenced practice in Bennington, Vt.; town clerk 1795-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served 1801; member, State house of representatives 1789-1802;until March 29, 1864; brevetted brigadier general March 13, judge of the Vermont probate court 1795-1798; chief justice1865; served in the State senate 1866-1870; delegate to the of the supreme court of Vermont 1801-1807; elected in 1807Republican National Convention in 1872; elected as a Repub- as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill thelican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March vacancy caused by the resignation of ; reelected4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomina- in 1809 and served from October 10, 1807, to March 3, 1815;tion in 1878; resumed the practice of law; appointed associ- was not a candidate for reelection in 1814; again judge of theate justice of the appellate court of Indiana in March 1891; probate court 1815-1819; member, State house of representa-subsequently appointed chief justice and served until his Biographies 1731 death in Anderson, md., July 28, 1892; interment in Maple-public safety, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, wood Cemetery. 1974-1975; police chief, city of Jacksonville, Ark., 1975-1979; director of public safety, State of Arkansas, 1979-1980; sher- ROBINSON, Moses (brother of Jonathan Robinson), a Sen-iff of Pulaski County, Ark., 1980-1984; elected as a Democrat ator from Vermont; born in Hardwick, Mass., on March 22,to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (Janu- 1741; pursued classical studies; moved to Bennington, Vt., inary 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofJacksonville, 1761; town clerk of Bennington 1762-1781; studied law andArk. practiced; member of the Vermont council of safety; colonel of militia during the Revolutionary War; served on the Gov- ROBINSON, William Erigena, a Representative from New ernor's council 1778-1785; chief justice of Vermont 1778-York; born in Unagh, near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ire- 1789, save one year; sent to the Continental Congress asland, May 6, 1814; attended the classical school in Cooks- State agent to adjust the controversy with New York intown and Belfast College in 1834; immigrated to the United 1782; Governor of Vermont 1789-1790; upon the admission ofStates and settled in New York City in November 1836; was Vermont as a State into the Union was elected to the Unitedgraduated from Yale College in 1841; connected for two States Senate and served from October 17, 1791, to Octoberyears with the Yale Law School; engaged in lecturing before 15, 1796, when he resigned; member, State house of repre-literary associations; assistant editor of the New York Trib- sentatives 1802; resumed the practice of his profession atune in 1843 and its only Washington correspondent, writing Bennington, Vt., where he died on May 26, 1813; intermentunder the name of "Richelieu"; also wrote Washington cor- in the Old Bennington Cemetery. respondence for other papers; was admitted to the New York Bibliography: DAB. bar in 1854 and practiced law in New York City; appointed ROBINSON, Orville, a Representative from New York;by President Lincoln assessor of internal revenue for the born in Richfield, Oswego County, N.Y., October 28, 1801;third district of New York in 1862; elected as a Democrat to completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted tothe Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); re- the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Mexico, N.Y.;sumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-seventh and justice of the peace of Mexico, N.Y., in 1828; town clerk inForty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); died 1829; surrogate of Oswego County 1830-1838; member of thein Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 23, 1892; interment in Green- State assembly in 1834, 1836, and 1837; district attorney ofwood Cemetery. Oswego County 1841-1843; supervisor of the town of Mexico ROBISON, David Fullerton (nephew of David Fullerton), in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Con- a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Antrim Town- gress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); moved to Oswego, N.Y., ship, near Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa., May 28, 1816; in 1847; recorder of Oswego in 1853; again a member of theattended the public schools; taught school; studied law; was State assembly in 1856 and served as speaker; collector ofadmitted to the Franklin County bar in 1843 and com- customs for the district of Oswego 1858-1860; died inmenced practice in Chambersburg, Pa., elected as a Whig to Oswego, N.Y., December 1,1882; interment in Riversidethe Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); Cemetery. was not a candidate for renomination; continued the prac- ROBINSON, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from Dela-tice of law in Chambersburg, Pa., until his death there June ware; born in Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., in 1800;24, 1859, presumably from the effects of poison secretly attended the common schools and was graduated fromplaced in food served at a banquet in Washington, D.C., Princeton College; studied law; was admitted to the bar induring the inauguration of President Buchanan; interment 1823 and commenced practice in Georgetown, Del.; treasurerin Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa. of Sussex County in 1825; levy court commissioner in 1831 ROBISON, Howard Winfield, a Representative from New and 1832; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Con-York; born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., October 30, 1915; gress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); died in Georgetown,attended the public schools of Owego, N.Y.; graduated from Del., October 28, 1843; interment in the Old Cemetery of St.Cornell University in 1937 and from the law school of the George's Chapel. same university in 1939; was admitted to the bar in 1939 and ROBINSON, Thomas John Bright, a Representative fromcommenced the practice of law in Owego, N.Y.; served in the Iowa; born in New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wis., AugustUnited States Army Counter Intelligence Corps 1942-1946; 12, 1868; moved with his parents to Hampton, Iowa, in 1870;county attorney of Tioga County from 1946 until elected to attended the public schools and the Hampton High School;Congress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Con- engaged in agricultural pursuits; president of the Citizensgress, by special election, January 14, 1958, to fill the vacan- National Bank of Hampton 1907-1923; member of thecy caused by the resignation of W. Sterling Cole;reelected to Hampton Board of Education and board of trustees of Cor-the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January nell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa; member of the State14, 1958, to January 3, 1975; was not a candidate for reelec- senate 1912-1916; delegate to many Republican State con-tion in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; vice president for ventions; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and tocongressionalrelations,American Railroad Association, the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3,1975-1987; was a resident of Rehoboth Beach, Del., until his 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to thedeath there on September 26, 1987; interment in Evergreen Seventy-third Congress; engaged in the real estate and in-Cemetery, Owego, N.Y. vestment business; died in Hampton, Iowa, January 27, 1958; ROBSION, John Marshall (father of John Marshall Rob- interment in Hampton Cemetery. sion, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; ROBINSON, Tommy Franklin, a Representative from Ar-born near Berlin, Bracken County, Ky., January 2, 1873; kansas; born in Little Rock, Ark., March 7, 1942; attendedattended the common schools, the National Northern Uni- North Little Rock public schools; B.A., University of Littleversity, Ada, Ohio, and Holbrook College, Knoxville, Tenn.; Rock; served in the U.S. Navy, 1959-1963; served with Northgraduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Little Rock Police Department and Arkansas State Police,Ohio, and from the law department of Centre College, Dan- 1963-1971; U.S. Marshal Service, 1971-1974; director ofville, Ky., in 1900; taught in the public schools of Kentucky 1732 Biographical Directory

for several years and in Union College, Barbourville, Ky.;Democrat to the United States Senate in 1984 for the term was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice atending January 3, 1991. Barbourville, Ky., president of the First National Bank of Barbourville, KY.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth ROCKEFELLER, Lewis Kirby, a Representative from and to the five succeeding Congresses and served fromNew York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., November 25, 1875; March 4, 1919, until January 10, 1930, when he resigned toattended the public schools; was graduated from New York serve as United States Senator; chairman, Committee onState College, Albany, N.Y., in 1898; principal of grammar Mines and Mining (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Con-school at North Germantown, N.Y.; employed in finance gresses); appointed as a Republican to the Senate to fill thebureau of New York State Department of Public Instruction vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick M. Sackett1898-1904; chief accountant, municipal accounts bureau, in and served from January 11 to November 30, 1930;unsuc-State comptroller's office, 1905-1915; deputy State tax com- cessful candidate for election to the vacancy and also for themissioner 19 15-1921; deputy State commissioner of taxation full term in 1930; resumed the practice of law; elected to theand finance 1921-1933; engaged in accounting and auditing Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses andbusiness in 1933; delegate to the Republican National Con- served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Barbourville,vention in 1936; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Ky., February 17, 1948; interment in Barbourville Cemetery.Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip A. ROBSION, John Marshall, Jr. (son of John Marshall Rob-Goodwin; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh sion), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Barbourville,Congresses and served from November 2, 1937, to January 3, Knox County, Ky., August 28, 1904; graduated from Union1943; was not a candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed College Academy, Barbourville, Ky., in 1919; George Wash-activities as an accountant and tax consultant in Chatham, ington University, Washington, D.C., J.D., 1926; attendedN.Y.; died in Canaan, N.Y., on September 18, 1948; inter- Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and the Nationalment in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y. War College; congressional secretary 1919-1928;was admit- ROCKEFELLER, Nelson Aldrich (grandson of Nelson ted to the bar in 1926; settled in Louisville, Ky., in 1928;Wilmarth Aldrich and uncle of John D. Rockefeller IV), a chief of law division, United States Bureau of Pensions,Vice President of the United States; born in Bar Harbor, 1929-1935; returned to Louisville and engaged in theprac-Hancock County, Maine, July 8, 1908; attended Lincoln tice of law; served in the United States Army 1942-1946School of Teachers' College at Columbia University, New with overseas service in Africa, Italy, and Austria; servedasYork, N.Y., 1926; graduated, Dartmouth College 1930; en- special circuit judge in Kentucky by appointment of bothgaged in oil, real estate, and banking businesses, and family political parties 1946-1952; general counsel of Kentucky Re-philanthropic activities; served variously as trustee, treasur- publicans 1938-1942; delegate, Republican National Conven-er, president, chairman of the board of Museum of Modern tions, 1952, 1956, and 1960; elected as a Republican to theArt in New York City 1932-1975; director, Office of Inter- Eighty-third,Eighty-fourth,and Eighty-fifthCongresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidateAmerican Affairs 1940-1944; Assistant Secretary of State for Latin-American Affairs 1944-1945; returned to family phil- for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress;unsuc- cessful gubernatorial candidate in 1959; trustee for the Ken-anthropic activities and helped establish American Interna- tucky Jockey Club and engaged in the practice of law; isational Association; member and chairman of President's Ad- resident of Louisville, Ky. visory Committee on Government Organization 1953-1958; Under Secretary of the United States Department of Health, ROCHESTER, William Beatty, a Representative fromEducation, and Welfare 1953-1954; Special Assistant to the New York; born in Hagerstown, Md., January 29, 1789; at-President for Foreign Affairs 1954-1955; Governor of New tended the public schools and was graduated from CharlotteYork 1959-1973; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Hall, St. Marys County, Md.; was aide-de-camp to Generalpresidential nomination in 1964, 1968, and 1972; nominated McClure in the War of 1812; studied law; was admitted toby President Gerald R. Ford on August 20, 1974, under the the bar and began practice in Bath, N.Y.; moved to Angelica,provisions of the twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitu- N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1816-1818; elected totion, to be the Forty-first Vice President of the United the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses and served fromStates; confirmed by the Congress and took the oath of office March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1823; State circuiton December 19, 1974, and served until January 20, 1977, judge for the eighth circuit from April 21, 1823, until 1826,when the term ended; returned to family philanthropic ac- when he resigned; unsuccessful Democratic candidate fortivities and worked extensively on his art collection in New Governor in 1826; secretary to special Envoy ExtraordinaryYork, N.Y., where he died January 26, 1979; cremated; ashes and Minister Plenipotentiary, Colombia, in 1826; Chargéinterred at the family estate, Pocantico Hills, N.Y. d'Affaires to Central America in 1827; settled in Buffalo, Bibliography: Kramer, Michael, and Roberts, Sam "I Never Wanted to N.Y., in 1828; president of the branch bank of the Unitedbe Vice President of Anything:" An Investigative Biography of Nelson States at Buffalo, N.Y.; president of the Bank of Pensacola, Rockefeller. New York: Basic Books, 1976; Persico, Joseph. The Imperial Fla.; director of the Alabama & Florida Railroad Co. in 1837 Rockefeller. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. and 1838; was lost in the wreck of the steamer Pulaski off the coast of North Carolina June 14, 1838. ROCKHILL, William, a Representative from Indiana; born in Burlington, N.J., February 10, 1793; attended the ROCKEFELLER, John Davison (Jay) (nephew of Nelsonpublic schools; moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1822; engaged Aldrich Rockefeller and great-grandson of Nelson Aldrich),ain agricultural pursuits; commissioner of Allen County, Ind., Senator from West Virginia; born in New York City, Junein 1825 justice of the peace; member of the first city council 18, 1937; graduated, Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H., 1954; of Fort Wayne and also city assessor; member of the State graduated, Harvard University1961; VISTA volunteer,house of representatives 1834-1837; served in the State Emmons, W. Va., 1964-1966; member, West Virginia housesenate 1844-1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth of delegates 1966-1968; secretary of State of West VirginiaCongress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); resumed agricultur- 1968-1972; president, West Virginia Wesleyan College 1973-al pursuits; died at Fort Wayne, Allen County,Ind., January 1976; Governor of West Virginia 1976-1985; electedas a15, 1865; interment in Lindenwood Cemetery. Biographies 1733

ROCKWELL, Francis Williams (son of ), aBerkshire County, Mass., May 19, 1888; interment in Lenox Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pittsfield, Berk-Cemetery. shire County, Mass., on May 26, 1844; attended the public schools and Edwards Place School, Stockbridge, Mass.; was ROCKWELL, Robert Fay, a Representative from Colora- graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1868 and fromdo; born in Cortland, N.Y., February 11, 1886; attended the the law department of Harvard University in 1871; com-public schools of New York State, the Hill School, Potts- menced the practice of law in Pittsfield in 1871; appointedtown, Pa., and Princeton University; moved to Paonia, Cob., one of the special justices of the district court of centralin 1907 and engaged in cattle raising and fruit growing; Berkshire in 1873, resigning in 1875; served in the Statemember of the State house of representatives 1916-1920; house of representatives in 1879; served in the State senateserved in the State senate 1920-1924 and 1938-1941; Lieu- in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighthtenant Governor 1922-1924; unsuccessful candidate for Gov- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofernor in 1930; member of the State board of agriculture George D. Robinson; reelected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,1932-1946; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Fifty-first Congresses and served from January 17, 1884,Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward to March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection inT. Taylor; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice ofand Eightieth Congresses and served from December 9, 1941, law in Pittsfield, Mass., until 1916 when he retired; presi-to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in dent of the City Savings Bank 1893-1916; delegate to the1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed cattle ranching in Republican National Convention in 1900; member of theColorado; chairman of the board of directors of Tuttle & Greylock Reservation Commission 1898-1926; died in Pitts-Rockwell Co., Hornell, N.Y., and Rockwell Co., Corning, field, Mass., June 26, 1929; interment in Pittsfield Cemetery.N.Y.; died in Maher, Cob., September 29, 1950; interment in Hornell Cemetery, Hornell, N.Y. ROCKWELL, Hosea Hunt, a Representative from New York; born in Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pa., on May 31, RODDENBERY, Seaborn Anderson, a Representative 1840; attended the common schools; served as a private infrom Georgia; born near Bainbridge, Decatur County, Ga., the Twenty-third Regiment, New York Volunteers, in 1861January 12, 1870; moved to Thomas County in early child- and 1862; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 andhood; attended the common schools and Mercer University, commenced practice in Elmira, N.Y.; member of the StateMacon, Ga., for three years; taught at South Georgia College assembly in 1877; city attorney of Elmira; elected as a Demo- one year; member of the State house of representativesin crat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3,1892 and 1893 and declined to be a candidate for reelection; 1893): was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; dele- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; chair-practice in Thomasville, Thomas County, Ga.; president of man of the Democratic State convention in 1896; resumedthe board of education of Thomas County 1895-1898; ap- the practice of law in Elmira, N.Y.; died in Elmira, Che-pointed judge of the county court of Thomas County in 1897 mung County, N.Y., December 18, 1918; interment in Wood-and served four years; declined reappointment; mayor of lawn Cemetery. Thomasville in 1903 and 1904; elected as a Democrat to the ROCKWELL, John Arnold, a Representative from Con-Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death necticut; born in Norwich, Conn., August 27, 1803; attendedof James M. Griggs; reelected to the Sixty-second and Sixty- the common schools; was graduated from Yale College inthird Congresses and served from February 16, 1910, until 1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced inhis death in Thomasville, Ga., September 25, 1913; inter- Norwich; member of the State senate in 1839; judge of thement in Laurel Hill Cemetery. county court; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and RODENBERG, William August, a Representative from Il- Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); chair-linois; born near Chester, Randolph County, Ill., October 30, man, Committee on Claims (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccess-1865; attended the public schools; was graduated from Cen- ful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Con-tral Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mo., in 1884; taught for gress; engaged in the practice of law before the court ofseven years; attended the St. Louis LawSchool; was admit- claims of the United States at Washington, D.C., until histed to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in East St. death in that city on February 10, 1861; interment in YanticLouis, St. Clair County, Ill.; delegate to the Republican Na- Cemetery, Norwich, Conn. tional Conventions in 1896, 1908, 1916, and 1920; elected as a ROCKWELL, Julius (father of Francis Williams Rock-Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899- well), a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts;March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 born in Colebrook, Conn., April 26, 1805; attended privateto the Fifty-seventh Congress; appointed a member of the schools; graduated from Yale College in 1826; studied law;United States Civil Service Commission by President McKin- was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pitts-ley March 25, 1901, and served until April 1, 1902, when he field, Mass., in 1830; member, State house of representativesresigned; resumed the practice of law in East St. Louis, also 1834-1838, and served three years as speaker; State bankfinancially interested in various business enterprises; elected commissioner 1838-1840; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,(March 4, 1903-March 3,1913); chairman, Committee on 1843-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate for renominationIndustrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-first Congress); unsuc- in 1850; delegate to the State constitutional convention incessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third 1853; appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacan-Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the three suc- cy caused by the resignation of Edward Everett and servedceeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); chair- from June 3, 1854, to January 31, 1855, when a successorman, Committee on Flood Control(Sixty-sixth and Sixty- was elected; presidential elector on the Republican ticket inseventh Congresses); engaged in the practice of law in Wash- 1856; member, State house of representatives 1858, andington, D.C.; died in Alpena, Mich., while on a visit, Septem- served as speaker; appointed a judge of the superior court ofber 10, 1937; interment in , Washing- Massachusetts in 1859 and resigned in 1886; died in Lenox,ton, D.C. 1734 Biographical Directory

RODEY, Bernard Shandon, a Delegate from the Territorydied at "Flushing" near Bristol, Bucks County, Pa., July 27, of New Mexico; born in County Mayo, Ireland, March 1,1824; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery (later known as 1856; immigrated with his parents to Canada in 1862; at-the St. James Burying Ground). tended the public schools at Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Canada; studied law in Boston, Mass.; moved to Albuquer- RODNEY, Caesar (brother of , uncle of que, N.Mex., in 1881; was private secretary to the generalCaesar Augustus Rodney, and cousin of George Brydges manager of the A.&P Railroad; court stenographer of theRodney), a Delegate from Delaware; born in Dover, Del., second district of New Mexico in 1882; was admitted to theOctober 7, 1728; completed preparatory studies; engaged in bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Albuquerque; cityagricultural pursuits; high sheriff of Kent County 1755-17 58; attorney of Albuquerque in 1887 and 1888; member of thejustice of the peace; judge of all lower courts; captain in the Territorial senate in 1889; member of the constitutionalcon- Kent County Militia in 1756; superintendent of the printing vention of New Mexico in 1890; elected as a Republican toof Delaware currency in 1759; member of the State assembly the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4,1762-1769; superintendent of the loan office in 1769; associ- 1901-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inate justice of the Delaware Supreme Court 1769-1777; 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; delegate to the RepublicanMember of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; a signer of National Convention in 1908; judge of the Federal Court ofthe Declaration of Independence; served in the Revolution- Puerto Rico 1906-1910; United States attorney for theary Army as a brigadier general; elected President of Dela- second division of Alaska 1910-1913; appointed on March 6,ware and served from 1778 to 1782; elected to the Continen- 1912, as special assistant United States attorney, westerntal Congress in 1782 and 1783 but did not serve; died in district of Washington, to assist in the prosecution of coalDover, Del., June 26, 1784; interment on his farm, "Byfield," frauds in Alaska, and served until December 16, 1913;re-near Dover; reinterment in Christ Churchyard, Dover, Del. sumed the practice of law; died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo Bibliography: DAB; Frank, William, and Hancock, Harold "Caesar Rod- County, N.Mex., March 10,1927; interment in Fairviewney's Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary: An Evaluation." Delaware Cemetery. History 18 (Fall-Winter 1976): 63-76; Rodney, Caesar. Letters To and From , 1756-1784. Edited by George Ryden. 1933. Reprint. New RODGERS, Robert Lewis, a Representative from Pennsyl- York: DaCapo Press, 1970. vania; born in El Dorado, Butler County, Kans., June 2, 1875; raised on a farm near Jamestown, Mercer County, Pa.; RODNEY, Caesar Augustus (son of Thomas Rodney, attended district school and Fredonia (Pa.) Institute; duringcousin of George Brydges Rodney, and nephew of Caesar the War with Spain enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Regi-Rodney), a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; taught in the dis-born in Dover, Del., January 4, 1772; completed preparatory studies and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania trict schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; movedto Erie, Erie County, Pa., in 1914 and engaged in the insur-at Philadelphia in 1789; studied law; was admitted to the bar ance, real estate, and mortgage business; elected as a Repub-and began practice in Wilmington, Del., in 1793; member, lican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Con-State house of representatives 1796-1802; elected as a Re- gresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1947); unsuccessfulcan-publican to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, didate for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; 1805); was not a candidate for renomination in 1804; one of resided in Erie, Pa., until his death there May 9,1960; the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in interment in Rocky Glen Cemetery, Adamsville, Pa. January 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against , judge of the United States District RODINO, Peter Wallace, Jr., a Representative from NewCourt for New Hampshire, and in December of the same Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., June 7, 1909;year against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Su- attended the McKinley Grammar School and Barringerpreme Court of the United States; Attorney General of the High School; graduated from the University of NewarkandUnited States in the Cabinet of Presidents from the New Jersey Law School in 1937;was admitted toand 1807-1811, when he resigned; served in the bar in 1938 and commenced the practice of law inthe War of 1812; member of the Delaware Committee of Newark; teacher, public speaking and citizenship classes,Safety in 1813; member, State senate 1815-1816; was sent to Y.M.C.A. and Federation of Clubs, Newark, N.J., 1930-1932;South America by President James Monroe as one of the managing editor of the Jersey Review in 1934 and 1935;commissioners to investigate and report on the propriety of enlisted in the United States Army March 10, 1941, andrecognizing the independence of the Spanish-American Re- served with the First Armored Division in North Africa andpublics; elected to the Seventeenth Congress and served Italy and on military missions with the Italian Army; dis-from March 4, 1821, to January 24, 1822, when he resigned; charged as a captain in April 1946; awarded Bronze Star forelected to the United States Senate and served from Janu- military operations, War Cross, and Knight of Order ofary 24, 1822, to January 29, 1823, when he resigned; appoint- Crown from Italy; unsuccessful candidate in 1946 to theed Minister Plenipotentiary to in 1823, and Eightieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-firstserved until his death in , June 10, 1824; inter- and to the nineteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-ment in British Cemetery, Victoria district; reinterred, 1923, January 3,1989); chairman, Committee on the Judiciaryin British Cemetery, Charcarita district, Buenos Aires, Ar- (Ninety-third through One Hundredth Congresses); isa resi-gentina. dent of Newark, N.J. Bibliography: DAB. RODMAN, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; RODNEY, Daniel, a Representative and a Senator from born in Bensalem Township, near Bristol, Bucks County,Delaware; born in Lewes, Sussex County, Del., September 10, Pa., October 7, 1757; completed preparatory studies; served1764; received a limited schooling; engaged in mercantile in the Revolutionary War as a private and subsequentlyaspursuits; associate judge of the court of common pleas 1793- brigade quartermaster; commandeda company during the1806; presidential elector on the Federalist ticket in 1808; Whisky Rebellion in 1794; justice of thepeace 1791-1800;Governor of Delaware 1814-1817; elected to the Seventeenth member of the State senate 1804-1808; electedas a Republi-Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of can to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813);Caesar A. Rodney and served from October 1, 1822, to March Biographies 1735

3, 1823; appointed to the United States Senate to fill theing and engineering business; director of FlushingNational vacancy caused by the death of Nicholas VanDyke andBank; chairman of the Democratic County Committee of served from November 8, 1826, to January 12, 1827, when aQueens County 1939-1952; delegate to the Democratic Na- successor was elected; thed in Lewes, Del.,September 2,tional Conventions in 1940, 1948, and 1960; entered the 1846; interment in St. Peter's Churchyard. United States Army in July 1943 with rank of major and Bibliography: Turner, D.H.B., ed. Rodney's Diary and Other Delaware was assigned to duty with the Corps ofEngineers, and Records. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1911. served until January 1945, when he was honorably dis- charged with the rank of lieutenant colonel to enter Con- RODNEY, George Brydges (cousin of Caesar Rodney, Seventy-ninth Congress Caesar Augustus Rodney, and Thomas Rodney), a Represent-gress; elected as a Democrat to the ative from Delaware; born in Lewes, Del., April 2, 1803;(January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for received a liberal education and was graduated from Prince-renomination in 1946; resumed his former business pursuits; ton College in 1820; register in chancery and clerk of thedied in Hollywood, Fla., April 22, 1967; interment in Mount orphans' court of Sussex County 1826-1830; studied law; wasSt. Mary's Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y. admitted to the bar in 1828 and engaged in practice in New ROE, Robert A., a Representative from New Jersey; born Castle; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-in Wayne, Passaic County, N.J., February 28, 1924; attended eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); resumedlocal schools and Oregon State and Washington State Uni- the practice of law; delegate to the peace convention held inversities; during the Second World War served with Army Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to prevent the im-Infantry communications and reconnaissance forces in the pending war; died in New Castle, New Castle County, Del.,European Theater; chairman, board of directors, Morris June 18, 1883; interment in the Immanuel Churchyard. Canal & Banking Co.; committeeman, Wayne Township, RODNEY, Thomas (father of Caesar Augustus Rodney,1955-1956; mayor, Wayne Township, 1956-1961; Passaic brother of Caesar Rodney, and cousin of George BrydgesCounty Freeholder, 1959-1963; director, board of Chosen Rodney), a Delegate from Delaware; born near Dover, KentFreeholders, 1962-1963; member, Governor's cabinet of New County, Del., June 4, 1744; justice of the peace in 1770 andJersey as commissioner, Conservation and Economic Devel- 1784; member of the assembly to elect delegates in 1774;opment Department, 1963-1969; elected as a Democrat to the member of the council of safety in 1775; colonel of DelawareNinety-first Congress, by special election, November 4, 1969, Militia during the Revolutionary War; chief justice of Kentto fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofCharles S. County Court in 1778; register of wills in 1779; Member ofJoelson; reelected to the nine succeeding Congresses and the Continental Congress 1781-1782 and 1786; member ofserved from November 4, 1969, to January 3, 1989; chair- the State assembly in 1787 and served as speaker; superin-man, Committee on Science, Space,and Technology (One tendent of Kent County Almshouse in 1802; appointed anHundredth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for the Demo- associate justice of the supreme court of Delaware on De-cratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey, 1977; is a cember 17, 1802, and served until August 1803, when heresident of Wayne, N.J. resigned, having been appointed United States judge for Mis- sissippi Territory; died in Natchez, Miss., January 2, 1811. ROEMER, Charles Elson (Buddy), III, a Representative Bibliography: DAB; Rodney, Thomas. Anglo.American Law on the Fron- from Louisiana; born in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La., Octo- tier: Thomas Rodney and His Territorial Cases. Edited by William Basker-ber 4, 1943; attended the public schools; graduated from yule Hamilton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1953. Bossier High School, 1960; B.S., Harvard University, 1964, and M.A., 1967; businessman, farmer, banker; elected dele- ROE, Dudley George, a Representative from Maryland;gate, Louisiana Constitutional convention, 1972;delegate, born in Sudlersville, Queen Annes County, Md., March 23,Louisiana State Democratic convention,1979;delegate, 1881; attended the public schools; was graduated from Wash-Democratic National Convention, 1972; elected as a Demo- ington College, Chestertown, Md., in 1903 and from the lawcrat to the Ninety-seventh and to the three succeedingCon- department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore ingresses and served from January 3, 1981,until his resigna- 1905; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced prac-tion on March 14, 1988; elected Governor of Louisiana in tice in Baltimore, Md.; served in the State house of delegates1987 for the four-year term beginning March 14, 1988; is a 1907-1909; member of the State senate 1923-1935 and 1939-resident of Bossier City, La. 1943, serving as Democratic floor leader 1939-1943; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928; elected as a ROGERS, Andrew Jackson, a Representative from New Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-Jersey; born in Hamburg, Sussex County, N.J., July 1, 1828; January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inattended the common schools; employed as clerk in a hotel 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; farmer, banker, and grainand in a country store; engaged in teaching for two years; dealer in Sudlersville, Md.; director and later president ofstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced Sudlersville Bank of Maryland; resigned in 1967 but contin-practice in La Fayette, Sussex County, N.J.; moved to ued as chairman of the board of directors until his deathNewton, N.J., in 1857 and continued the practice of law; January 4, 1970, in Chestertown, Md.; interment in Sudlers-elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth ville Cemetery, Sudlersville, Md. Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful can- didate for reelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; moved ROE, James A., a Representative from New York; born into New York City in 1867 and became counsel for the cityin Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., July 9, 1896; attended theimportant litigation; moved to Denver, Cob., in 1892; served public and parochial schools; studied law, engineering, andas police commissioner of the cityof Denver; returned to accounting; was graduated from the United States School ofNew York City in 1896 and died there on May 22, 1900; Military Aeronautics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., ininterment in Woodlawn Cemetery. August 1917; during the First World War enlisted on Sep- tember 17, 1917, as a private in the United States Army Air ROGERS, Anthony Astley Cooper, a Representative from Corps, was promoted to lieutenant and instructor of ad-Arkansas; born in Clarksville, Sumner County, Tenn., Feb- vanced flying, and was discharged on January 4, 1919; realruary 14, 1821; received a limited schooling;engaged in mer- estate and insurance broker; also interested in the contract-cantile pursuits; moved to Arkansas in 1854; candidate of 1736 Biographical Directory

the Union supporters for delegate to the State convention in ROGERS, Edith Nourse (wife of ), a 1861; opposed secession; arrested for his loyalty,was impris-Representative from Massachusetts; born in Saco, York oned, and forced to give bond to answer the charge of "trea-County, Maine, in 1881; attended the common schools; was son against the Confederate Government"; elected to thegraduated from the Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass., and Thirty-eighth Congress but was not allowed to take his seat,from Madame Julien's School, Paris, France; served with the his State not having been readmitted; moved to Chicago, Ill., in the care of disabled soldiers of the in 1864 and engaged in the real estate business; returnedtoFirst World War 19 17-1922; appointed a personal represent- Arkansas in 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-firstative of President Harding in the care of disabled veterans Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candi-in 1922, and was reappointed by President Coolidge in 1923; date for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress;president, board of trustees, Rogers Hall School, Lowell, postmaster at Pine Bluff, Ark., from January 7, 1881, to JulyMass.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to 24, 1885; again engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Losfill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, John Angeles, Calif., in 1888 and died there July 27, 1899; inter-Jacob Rogers; reelected to the Seventieth and to the sixteen ment in Rosedale Cemetery. succeeding Congresses and served from June 30, 1925, until ROGERS, Byron Giles, a Representative from Colorado;her death in Boston, Mass., September 10, 1960; chairman, born in Greenville, Hunt County, Tex., August 1,1900; Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Eightieth and Eighty-third moved with his parents to Oklahoma in April 1902; attendedCongresses); interment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass. the public schools of Checotah, Okla.; during the First World Bibliography: DAB. War served as a private in the Infantry, United States ROGERS, Edward, a Representative from New York; born Army; attended the University of Arkansas in 1918, thein Cornwall, Conn., on May 30, 1787; completed preparatory University of Oklahoma 19 19-1922, and the University ofstudies and was graduated from Williams College, Williams- Colorado 1923 and 1924; was graduated from the law schooltown, Mass., in 1809; moved to New York State about the of the University of Denver, LL.B., 1925, and commenced theclose of the War of 1812; was graduated from Yale College; practice of law in Las Animas, Cob.; city attorney of Lasstudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- Animas 1929-1933; member of the State house of representa-tice in Madison, N.Y.; delegate to the State convention to tives 1932-1935, serving as speaker in 1933; county attorneyrevise the constitution in 1822; judge of the court of common of Bent County, Cob., in 1933; on legal staff of Agriculturalpleas for Madison County; elected as a Democrat to the Adjustment Administration and National Recovery Adminis-Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); re- tration, Washington, D.C., in 1933 and 1934; assistant Unitedsumed the practice of law; also engaged in literary pursuits; States attorney of Colorado 1934-1936, and attorney generaldied in Gabway, Saratoga County, N.Y., May 29, 1857; inter- 1936-1941; public member War Labor Board 1942-1945;ment in Madison Cemetery, Madison, N.Y. elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to theten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1971); ROGERS, George Frederick, a Representative from New unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to theYork; born in Harwood, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 1887; Ninety-second Congress; was a resident of Denver, Cob.attended the public schools in Canada and Rochester, N.Y.; until his death there December 31, 1983; intermentinimmigrated to the United States in 1899 and settled in Roch- Mount Lindo Cemetery near Tiny Town, Cob. ester, N.Y.; food merchant in Rochester, N.Y., 1911-1943; ROGERS, Charles, a Representative from New York; bornsupervisor of Monroe County, N.Y., in 1934 and 1935; served in Northumberland, Saratoga County, N.Y., April 30, 1800;in the State senate in 1937 and 1938; member of the Genesee State Park Commission 1942-1948; elected as a Democrat to attended Granville Academy and was graduated from Unionthe Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1818; studied law;was admit- ted to the bar but did not engage in extensive practice;1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the served in the State assembly in 1833 and 1837; unsuccessfulEightieth Congress and for election in 1948 to the Eighty- candidate for election to the State senate; electedas a Whigfirst Congress; retired and resided in Rochester, N.Y.; died in to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,Coburg, Ontario, Canada, November 20, 1948; interment in 1845); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-Riverside Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. ment of State (Twenty-eighth Congress); was nota candidate ROGERS, Harold Dallas, a Representative from Ken- for renomination in 1844; retired from public life; affiliatedtucky; born in Barrier, Wayne County, Ky., December 31, with the Republican Party; died in Sandy Hill (now Hudson1937; attended the public schools; graduated from Wayne Falls), Washington County, N.Y., January 13, 1874; inter-County High School, 1955; attended Western Kentucky Uni- ment in Union Cemetery, near Sandy Hill. versity, Bowling Green, 1956-1957; A.B., University of Ken- ROGERS, Dwight Laing (father of Paul G. Rogers),atucky, Lexington, Ky., 1962; LL.B., University of Kentucky Representative from Florida; born near Reidsville, TattnablLaw School, 1964; served in the Kentucky and North Caroli- County, Ga., August 17, 1886; attended the public schoolsna Army National Guard, 1956-1964; admitted to the Ken- and Locust Grove Institute at Locust Grove, Ga.;was grad-tucky bar in 1964 and commenced practice in Somerset; uated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1909 andcommonwealth attorney, Pulaski and Rockcastbe Counties, from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga.,1969-1980; delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1976, in 1910; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced1980, and 1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sev- practice in Ocilla, Ga.; moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., inenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1925 and continued the practice of law; member of the State1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Somerset, Ky. house of representatives 1930-1938, serving as speakerpro ROGERS, James, a Representative from South Carolina; tempore in 1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninthborn in what is now Goshen Hill Township, Union County, and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from Janu- S.C., October 24, 1795; completed preparatory studies and ary 3, 1945, until his death; had been reelected to thewas graduated from South Carolina College (now the Uni- Eighty-fourth Congress; died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., De-versity of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1813; studied law; cember 1, 1954; interment in Lauderdale Memorial Park.was admitted to the bar and began practice in Yorkville Biographies 1737

(now York), S.C.; held various local offices; elected as a Jack-the Twenty-ninth Training Battery, Tenth Training Battal- sonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-Marchion,FieldArtillery, Fourth Central Officers'Training 3, 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to theSchool, and served until honorably discharged on November Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- 29, 1918; died in Washington, D.C., March 28, 1925; inter- sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-Marchment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass. 3, 1843); died in South Carolina on December 21, 1873; inter- ment in what was formerly called the Irish Graveyard at ROGERS, Paul Grant, (son of Dwight L. Rogers), a Repre- Kings Creek A.R.P. Church near Newberry, S.C. sentative from Florida; born in Ocilla, Irwin County, Ga., June 4, 1921; at the age of four years moved with his parents ROGERS, John, a Delegate from Maryland; born in An-to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; attended the public schools; was napolis, Anne Arundel County, Md., in 1723; received a lib-graduated from the University of Florida at Gainesville, in eral schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar and1942; during the Second World War served in the Field commenced practice; member of the committee of safety inArtillery, United States Army, with service in the European 1774 and 1775; member of the Maryland provincial conven-Theater; studied law at George Washington University, tions in 1774, 1775, and 1778; one of the trustees of theWashington, D.C., in 1946, and graduated from the Universi- Lower Marlboro Academy in 1775; second major of battalion, ty of Florida in 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and Prince Georges County; Member of the Continental Congresscommenced the practice of law in West Palm Beach, Fla.; in 1775 and 1776; judge of the court of admiralty in 1776;elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress, by member of the executive council on the organization of thespecial election, January 11, 1955, to fill the vacancy caused State government in February 1777; chancellor of Marylandby the death of his father, Dwight L. Rogers; reelected to the from March 10, 1778, until his death in Upper Marlboro,eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 11, Prince Georges County, Md., September 23, 1789. 1955, to January 3, 1979; was not a candidate for reelection ROGERS, John, a Representative from New York; born inin 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of Caldwell, N.Y., May 9, 1813; completed preparatory studies;law; member of the board of Merck & Co. and Mutual Life moved to Black Brook, Clinton County, in 1832 and engagedInsurance Co. of New York; is a resident of West Palm in the manufacture of iron; supervisor of the town of BlackBeach, Fla. Brook for ten years and held other local offices; elected as a ROGERS, Sion Hart, a Representative from North Caroli- Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-na; born near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.,September 30, March 3, 1873); resumed manufacturing activities; died at1825; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the "Rogers Place," near Fort Edward, Washington County,the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1846; N.Y., May 11, 1879; interment in the family burial groundstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced on his estate at Moreau, near Fort Henry, N.Y. practice in Raleigh; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third ROGERS, John Henry, a Representative from Arkansas;Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); declined to be a born near Roxobel, Bertie County, N.C., October 9, 1845;candidate for renomination in 1854; solicitor of the Raleigh moved to Mississippi in 1852 with his parents, who settleddistrict of the superior court; served in the Confederate near Madison Station; attended the common schools; joinedArmy as a lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of North the Ninth Mississippi Volunteer Regiment, Confederate serv-Carolina State Troops in 1861; was commissioned colonel of ice, as a private in March 1862; promoted to first lieutenantthe Forty-seventh North Carolina Infantry April 8,1862; in the same regiment and served throughout the war; at-resigned January 5, 1863, upon being elected attorney gener- tended Centre College, Danville, Ky., and was graduatedal of the State of North Carolina; served in that capacity from the law department of the University of Mississippi atuntil 1866; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Oxford in 1868; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and com-Forty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- menced practice in Canton, Miss.; moved to Fort Smith,second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful Ark., in 1869 and practiced law; elected circuit judge in 1877;candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; reelected in 1878 and resigned in May 1882; elected as adied in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., on August 14, 1874; Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeedinginterment in the City Cemetery. Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); chairman, Com- mittee on Mileage (Fiftieth Congress); declined to be a candi- ROGERS, Thomas Jones (father of William Findlay date for renomination; resumed the practice of law in FortRogers), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Water- Smith, Ark.; member of the Democratic State convention inford, Ireland, in 1781; immigrated to the United States in 1892; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in1784 with his parents, who settled in Easton, Pa.; learned 1892; appointed United States district judge for the westernthe printing trade; editor and owner of the Northampton district of Arkansas by President Cleveland on November 27,Farmer 1805-1814; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth 1896, and served until his death in Little Rock, Ark., onCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of April 16, 1911; interment in Oak Cemetery, Fort Smith,John Ross; reelected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Sebastian County, Ark. Eighteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1818, to April 20, 1824, when he resigned; trustee of Lafayette Col- ROGERS, John Jacob (husband of ),lege 1826-1832; register and recorder of deeds for Northamp- a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Mid-ton County, Pa., from 1828 to 1830; served as brigadier gen- dlesex County, Mass., August 18, 1881; attended the publiceral in the State militia; United States naval officer at the schools, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1904port of Philadelphia; died in New York City December 7, and from the law department of that university in 1907; was1832; interment in the graveyard of the New Market Street admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practiceBaptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., reinterment in Glenwood in Lowell in 1908; member of the Lowell city government inCemetery in 1851. 1911; school commissioner in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and ROGERS, Walter Edward, a Representative from Texas; served from March 4, 1913, until his death; during the Firstborn in Texarkana, Miller County, Ark., July 19, 1908; at- World War enlisted on September 12, 1918, as a private withtended the public schools in McKinney, Tex.; attended 1738 Biographical Directory

Austin College, Sherman, Tex., in 1926, and the law schoolUniversity of Maine at Orono in 1916; was admitted to the of the University of Texas at Austin until 1935; was admit-bar the same year and practiced in Sanbornville and Roches- ted to the bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law inter, N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 1936 in Pampa, Tex.; city attorney of Pampa 1938-1940;1917, 1919, and 1921; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- district attorney of the thirty-first judicial district of Texas,eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful 1943-1947; delegate to Texas State Democratic conventions,candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; 1950-1956, and 1960; delegate to National Democratic Con-resumed the practice of his profession in Concord, N.H.; ventions from 1952 to 1964; elected as a Democrat to themoderator of the town of Wakefield, N.H., 1928-1945; elected Eighty-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Janu-January 5, 1932, to fill the vacancy in the Seventy-second ary 3, 1951-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelec-Congress caused by the death of Fletcher Hale; reelected to tion in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resumed the practicethe Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served of law; president, Independent Natural Gas Association offrom January 5, 1932, to January 3, 1937; was not a candi- America; is a resident of Chevy Chase, Md. date for renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate ROGERS, Will, a Representative from Oklahoma; born onfor election to the United States Senate in 1936; resumed the a farm near Bessie, Washita County, Oklahoma Territorypractice of law in Concord, N.H., until 1943, when he moved (now Oklahoma), December 12, 1898; attended the publicto Sanbornville, N.H., and continued practice until his death schools, and Southwestern Teachers College, Weatherford,in Wolfeboro, N.H., September 25, 1945; interment in Lovell Okla.; Central Teachers College, Edmond, Okia., B.S., 1926Lake Cemetery, Sanbornville, N.H. and A.B., 1929; and from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, M.S., 1930; teacher in the public schools at Bessie, ROGERS, William Vann, Jr., a Representative from Cali- Okla., 1917-1919; principal of the public schools at Bartles-fornia; born in New York City October 20, 1911; attended ville, OkIa., 19 19-1923; superintendent of schools in severalthe grade and high schools at Beverly Hills, Calif.; B.A., Oklahoma school districts, 1923-1932; elected as a DemocratStanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., 1935; owner and pub- to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresseslisher, Beverly Hills Citizen, 1935-1953; second lieutenant in (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943); chairman, Committee onthe Field Artillery, Reserve Officers Training Corps 1935- Indian Affairs (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh Con-1940; enlisted as a private in the United States Army in gresses); while serving as a Representative at large was anJune 1942; commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artil- unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1941 to fill thelery in July 1942; assigned to the Eight Hundred and vacancy caused by the death of Sam C. Massingale in theNinety-ninth Tank Destroyer Battalion and served until De- Seventh District for the Seventy-seventh Congress;-was not acember 1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth candidate for renomination in 1942; admitted to OklahomaCongress and served from January 3, 1943, until his resigna- bar in 1942; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomi- tion May 23, 1944, to return to the United States Army, nation of secretary of state of Oklahoma in 1943; employedserving as a lieutenant in the Eight Hundred and Four- by the Department of the Interior 1943-1945; assistant toteenth Tank Destroyer Battalion until March 1, 1946; unsuc- the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., in 1946 andcessful for election to the United States Senate in 1946; 1947; hearing examiner, Department of Agriculture, Maydelegate, Democratic National Conventions in 1948, 1952, 1947 until retirement in 1968; engaged in building and realand 1956; writer, active in radio and television programs; estate management; was a resident of McLean, Va. until hismember, California State Park Commission 1958-1960, chair- death August 3, 1983 in Falls Church, Va.; cremated, ashesman, 1960-1962; appointed Special Assistant to the Commis- interred at National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va. sioner of Indian Affairs, 1967-1969; is a resident of Beverly Hills, Calif. ROGERS, William Findlay (son of Thomas Jones Rogers), a Representative from New York; born in Forks Township, ROHRBOUGH, Edward Gay, a Representative from West near the borough of Easton, Pa., March 1, 1820; moved withVirginia; born in 1874, near Buckhannon, Upshur County, his parents to Philadelphia, where he attended thecommonW.Va.; attended the public schools and West Virginia Wes- schools; returned to Easton, Pa., and entered a printingleyan College at Buckhannon; graduated from Allegheny office in 1832; returned to Philadelphia in 1834 and contin-College, Meadville, Pa., in 1900 and from Harvard Universi- ued working at his trade; established a paper at Honesdale,.ty in 1906; later studied at the University of Chicago; in- Pa., in 1840; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1846; was foreman instructor at West Virginia Wesleyan College and at West the office of the Buffalo Daily Courier; established and man-Virginia University at Morgantown; taught school in Brook- aged the Buffalo Republic in 1850; member of Company D,ville, Pa., in 1900 and 1901, and at Glenville (W.Va.) State Buffalo City Guard, in 1846; served in the Civil WarasNormal School1901-1907;vicepresidentof Fairmont colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers;(W.Va.) State Teachers College in 1907 and 1908; president mustered out in 1863; comptroller of the city of Buffalo inof Glenville (W.Va.) State Teachers College 1908-1942; also 1867 and mayor in 1869; secretary and treasurer of the parkengaged in banking; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- commissioners in 1871; nominated for the State senate ineighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was an 1878, but declined; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighthunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy- Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not a candidateninth Congress; elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress for renomination in 1884; superintendent of the Soldiers'(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate and Sailors' Home at Bath, N.Y., from 1887 to 1897; died infor reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; died in Buffalo, N.Y., on December 16, 1899; interment in ForestWashington, D.C., December 12, 1956; interment in Stal- Lawn Cemetery. naker Cemetery, Glenville, W.Va. ROGERS, William Nathaniel, a Representative from New ROLLINS, Edward Henry, a Representative and a Sena- Hampshire; born in Sanbornville, Carroll County, N.H., Jan-tor from New Hampshire; born in Somersworth (Rollins- uary 10, 1892; attended the public schools, Brewster Freeford), Strafford County, N.H., October 3, 1824; attended the Academy, Wolfeboro, N.H., and Dartmouth College, Han-common schools and academies in Dover, N.H., and South over, N.H.; was graduated from the law department of theBerwick, Maine; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Concord, Biographies 1739

N.H.; member, State house of representatives 1855-1857, andvillage schools; immigrated in 1847 to the United States with served as speaker; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-his parents, who settled in Erie County, N.Y., and attended seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses (Marchthe public and select schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; engaged in the 4, 1861-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomina-shipping business and railroading; moved to Toledo, Ohio, in tion in 1866; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Thirty-1856; elected to the board of aldermen of the city of Toledo eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); secretary and treasurerin 1874; reelected in 1876 and served as president of the of the Union Pacific Railroad Co.; elected in 1876 as a Re-board in 1877; mayor of Toledo 1879-1885; elected as a Re- publican to the United States Senate and served from Marchpublican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-4, 1885-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection tion; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh Con-in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; engaged in fruit growing gress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-near Toledo; died in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, March 8, seventh Congress); president of the Boston, Concord & Mon-1904; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. treal Railroad Co. 1886-1889; founder of the First National ROMERO, Trinidad, a Delegate from the Territory of Bank of Concord, N.H., and of the banking house of E. H.New Mexico; born in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County (then a part Rollins & Sons, of Boston, Mass.; died on Isle of Shoals, N.H.,of the Republic of Mexico), N.Mex., June 15, 1835; educated July 31, 1889; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord,by private tutors; engaged in merchandising, freighting with N.H. Bibliography: DAB; Lyford, James. Life of Edward H. Rollins. Boston: ox teams from Kansas City to Santa Fe, and later in stock D. Estes and Company, 1906. raising; member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1863; probate judge of San Miguel County, N.Mex., in ROLLINS, James Sidney, a Representative from Missouri;1869 and 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth born in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., April 19, 1812;Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate completed preparatory studies; attended Centre College,for renomination in 1878; appointed United States marshal Danville, Ky., and was graduated from the University ofby President Harrison and served from November 13, 1889, Indiana at Bloomington in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Columbia,to May 30, 1893; engaged in mercantile pursuits and stock Mo.; served as major in the Black Hawk War; member of theraising on his ranch near Wagon Mound, N.Mex.; died in State house of representatives 1838-1840, 1854, and 1867;Las Vegas, San Miguel County, N.Mex., August 28, 1918; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1844; served ininterment in Calvary Cemetery. the State senate 1846-1848; unsuccessful candidate for Gov- ROMJUE, Milton Andrew, a Representative from Missou- ernor in 1848 and 1857; elected as a Constitutional Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress and reelected as a Unionistri; born in Love Lake, Macon County, Mo., December 5, 1874; to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865);attended the public schools and the Kirksville State Normal resumed the practice of his profession; delegate to the Phila-School; was graduated from the law department of the Uni- delphia Union Convention in 1866; president of the board ofversity of Missouri at Columbia in 1904; was admitted to the curators of the University of Missouri from 1869 to 1886,bar the same year and commenced practice in Macon, when he resigned; died in Columbia, Boone County, Mo.,Macon County, Mo.; city attorney of Higbee, Randolph January 9, 1888; interment in Columbia Cemetery. County, Mo., in 1904 and 1905; judge of the Macon County Bibliography: DAB; Wood, James M., Jr. "James Sidney Rollins of Mis-probate court 1907-1915; delegate to the Democratic State souri: A Political Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1952. conventions 1920-1940; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth ROLPH, Thomas, a Representative from California; born in San Francisco, Calif., January 17, 1885; attended theand Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921); public schools; graduated from Humboldt Evening Highunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty- School; in 1912 founded a building materials sales agency,seventh Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the nine which he headed until his death; elected as a Republican tosucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3,1943); the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (Janu-chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads ary 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for re-(Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses); unsuccess- election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; returned toful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth his building material sales agency; died in San Francisco,Congress; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in Calif., May 10, 1956; interment in Cypress Lawn Memorialfarming and stock raising; died in Macon, Mo., January 23, Park, Colma, San Mateo County, Calif. 1968; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. ROMAN, , a Representative from Maryland; ROMULO, Carlos Peña, a Resident Commissioner from born in Chester County, Pa., August 11, 1809; attended thethe Commonwealth of the Philippines; born in Camiling, common schools and a private school at West NottinghamTarlac, Philippine Islands, January 14, 1899; was graduated (now Nottingham); moved to Cecil County, Md.; studied lawfrom the University of the Philippines at Manila in 1918, in Frederick, Md.; was admitted to the bar in 1834 andfrom Columbia University at New York City in 1921, and commenced practice in Hagerstown, Md.; member of thefrom Notre Dame (md.) University in 1935; member of the State senate in 1847; elected as a Whig to the Thirtiethfaculty of the University of the Philippines 1923-1928; Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); presidential electorauthor, editor, and publisher at Manila, Philippine Islands, on the Whig ticket in 1848 and on the Democratic ticket in1922-1941; also interested in a broadcasting corporation; sec- 1856; again resumed the practice of law in Hagerstown;retary to Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine president of the Old Hagerstown Bank from 1851 until hisSenate, in 1922; member of the independence missions to the death; member of the peace convention held in Washington,United States in 1921, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1933, and 1937; D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent themember of the Board of Regents of the University of the impending war; died near Hagerstown, Washington County,Philippines 1929-1941; secretary of Information and Public Md., January 19, 1867; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.Relations and member of the President's war cabinet in 1943 ROMEIS, Jacob, a Representative from Ohio; born in Wei-and 1944; member of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission senbach, Bavaria, Germany, December 1, 1835; attended the 1944-1946; secretary of public instruction from October 1944 1740 Biographical Directory

to February 1945; aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthursapequa; councilman, town of Oyster Bay, 1965-1967; comp-- at Bataan, Corregidor, and Australia; promoted to brigadiertroller, Nassau County, 1968-1972; delegate, New York State general in the Philippine Army in September 1944; appoint-Republican convention, 1968; delegate, Republican National ed Resident Commissioner to the United States August 10,Convention, 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joaquinthird Congress (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1975); unsuccess- M. Elizalde and served until July 4, 1946, when the office offul candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Resident Commissioner terminated; appointed by PresidentCongress; justice, New York State supreme court, since his Roxas on July 9, 1946, as permanent delegate of the Repub- election in November 1977; is a resident of Massapequa, lic of the Philippines to the United Nations; Ambassador toN.Y. the United States 1952-1953 and 1955-1962; secretary of foreign affairs 1949-1951; president of the United Nations ROONEY, Frederick Bernard, a Representative from General Assembly in 1949 and 1950, and of United NationsPennsylvania; born in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pa., Security Council in 1957; president, University of Philip-November 6, 1925; attended the public schools; graduated pines and concurrently secretary of education, 1962-1968;from the Bethlehem High School in 1944; served in the president, Philippine Academy of Arts and Science, 1962;United States Army from February 1944 to April 1946, with secretary of foreign affairs, 1969-1984; was a resident ofservice in Europe as a paratrooper; B.A., University of Geor- Manila, Philippines, until his death there December 15,gia at Athens, 1950; engaged in the real estate and insur- 1985; interment in Heroes' Cemetery. ance business in 1950; elected to two terms in the State RONAN, Daniel John, a Representative from Illinois; bornsenate and served from November 5, 1958, until his resigna- in Chicago, Ill., July 13, 1914; attended parochial schools;tion August 6, 1963; elected as a Democrat, by special elec- graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1933, fromtion, July 30, 1963, to the Eighty-eighth Congress to fill the Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., in 1938, and took postgradu-vacancy caused by the death of Francis E. Walter; reelected ate work at Loyola University, 1939-1941 and 1947-1948;to the seven succeeding Congresses, and served from July 30, served in United States Army Air Corps communications in1963, to January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- the China-Burma-India Theater in 1942 to 1945; member oftion in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; established a con- the State house of representatives, 1948-1952; alderman,sulting business; is a resident of Washington, D.C. 1951-1964; was appointed acting ward committeeman in ROONEY, John James, a Representative from New York; 1959, elected in 1960, and reelected in 1964; member of thehorn in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 29, 1903; attended the Chicago Planning Commission, 1959-1964; elected as a Dem- parochial schools and St. Francis Preparatory School and ocrat to the Eighty-ninth, Ninetieth, and Ninety-first Con-College; the law department of Fordham University, New gresses, and served from January 3, 1965, until his death inYork, N.Y., LL.B., 1925; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and Chicago, Ill., August 13, 1969; interment in Queen of Heavencommenced practice in Brooklyn, N.Y.; served as assistant Mausoleum, Hillside, Ill. district attorney in Brooklyn 1940-1944; elected as a Demo- RONCALIO, Teno, a Representative from Wyoming; borncrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, by special election June in Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyo., March 23, 1916;6, 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. attended the public schools; employee of the United StatesCullen; reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and Senate Library, 1940-1941; enlisted in the United Statesserved from June 6, 1944, until his resignation on December Army (Infantry) and served overseas in North Africa, Sicily,31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the and Europe, in the First Division, December 1941-MarchNinety-fourth Congress; resided in Washington, D.C., until 1946; graduated from the University of Wyoming at Laramiehis death there on October 26, 1975; interment in Hoiy Cross in 1947; admitted to the Wyoming bar in 1947 andcom-Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. menced the practice of law in Cheyenne, Wyo.; deputypros- ecuting attorney of Laramie County, 1950-1956; chairman of ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano, Jr. (son of President the Wyoming Democratic Central committee, 1957-196 1; del- Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of James Roosevelt), a egate to Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, 1964,Representative from New York; born in Campobello, New and 1968; national committeeman 1969 and 1970; engaged inBrunswick, Canada, August 17, 1914; graduated from Groton banking; member of the International Joint Commission,School, Harvard University in 1937, and the University of United States-Canada, 1961-1964; elected as a Democrat toVirginia Law School at Charlottesville in 1940; was admitted the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3,to the bar in 1942; was called from the Naval Reserve on 1967); was not a candidate for renomination to the NinetiethMarch 13, 1941, to active duty as an ensign in the United Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election toStates Navy and served in North Africa, Europe, and the the United States Senate in 1966; elected in 1970 to thePacific; discharged from active duty in January 1946; award- Ninety-second Congress; reelected to the three succeedinged the Purple Heart Medal and the Silver Star; member of a Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his resig- law firm in New York City since 1946; vice president of nation December 30, 1978; was not a candidate for reelectionPresident Truman's Committee on Civil Rights in 1947 and in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of1948; chairman of mayor's committee on unity in New York law; served as Special Master in Wyoming's Big Horn adju-City in 1948 and 1949; delegate to Democratic National Con- dication of Indian Water Rights, 1979-1982; is a resident ofventions in 1952 and 1956; elected as a Liberal Party candi- Cheyenne, Wyo. date to the Eighty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sol Bloom; reelected as a Democrat to the RONCALLO, Angelo Dominick, a Representative fromEighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses and served from New York; born in Port Chester, Westchester County, N.Y.,May 17, 1949, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for May 28, 1927; attended the public schools, and Peekskillrenomination in 1954, but was unsuccessful for the Demo- (N.Y.) Military Academy, 1943; B.A., Manhattan College,cratic gubernatorial nomination; unsuccessful candidate for 1950; J.D., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1953;election for attorney general of New York in 1954; resumed served in the United States Army, 1944-1945; admitted tothe practice of law in New York City; engaged in the auto- the New York bar in 1955 and commenced practice in Mas-mobile import business in 1958; appointed by President Ken- Biographies 1741 nedy as chairman of Appalachian Regional Commission,representing the city of New York for the New York and 1963; appointed by President Kennedy as Undersecretary ofBrooklyn Bridge from 1879 to 1882; died in Sayville, Suffolk Commerce, 1963; appointed by President Johnson as firstCounty, N.Y., on June 14, 1906; interment in Greenwood Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. sion, 1965; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York Bibliography: DAB. State for Liberal Party in 1966; businessman and farmer; ROOSEVELT, Theodore (great-great-grandson of Archi- was a resident of Millbrook, N.Y., until hisdeath in Pough-bald Bulloch and nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt), a keepsie, N.Y., on August 17, 1988. Vice President and 26th President of the United States; born ROOSEVELT, James (son of President Franklin D. Roose-in New York City, October 27, 1858; privately tutored; grad- velt and brother of Franklin D Roosevelt, Jr.), a Representa-uated from Harvard University in 1880; studied law; trav- tive from California; born in New York City December 23,eled abroad; member, New York, State Assembly 1882-1884; 1907; attended schools in New York and St. Albans School ofmoved to North Dakota and lived on his ranch; returned to Washington, D.C.; was graduated from Groton School inNew York City in 1886; appointed by President Benjamin 1926 and from Harvard University in 1930; in 1930 becameHarrison a member of the United States Civil Service Com- an insurance broker in Boston, Mass.; organizedRoosevelt &mission 1889-1895, when he resigned to become president of Sargent, Inc., and served as president until January 1937;the New York Board of Police Commissioners; resigned this secretary to father, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1937position upon his appointment by President William McKin- and 1938; motion picture industry November 1938-Novem-ley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897-1898, when he ber 1940; went on active duty as a captain in the Unitedresigned to enter the war with Spain; organized the First States Marine Corps in November 1940; promoted to colonelRegiment, United States Volunteer Cavalry,popularly April 13, 1944, and served in the Pacific Theater; releasedknown as Roosevelt's Rough Riders; Governor of New York from active duty in August 1945; brigadier general United1899-1900; elected Vice President of the United States on States Marine Corps Reserve, retired; rejoined Roosevelt &the Republican ticket headed by William McKinley in 1900 Sargent, Inc., as executive vice president and established anand was inaugurated March 4, 1901; upon the death of Presi- office in Los Angeles, Calif., in June 1946; served as chair-dent McKinley on September 14, 1901, became President of man of the board, Roosevelt & Haines, Inc.; was an unsuc-the United States; elected President of the United States in cessful Democratic candidate for Governor of California in1904, was inaugurated March 4,1905, and served until 1950; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions inMarch 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960; elected as a Democrat to theParty for President of the United States in 1912 and 1916; Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses andengaged in literary pursuits; died at Oyster Bay, Nassau served from January 3, 1955, to September 30, 1965; unsuc-County, N.Y., January 6, 1919; interment in Young's Memo- cessful candidate for Democratic nomination for mayor ofrial Cemetery. Los Angeles, Calif., in April 1965; resigned from Congress Bibliography: DAB; Blum, John Morton. The Republican Roosevelt. Cam- effective September 30, 1965, to become United States repre- bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977; Morris, Edmund.The Rise sentative to United Nations Economic and Social Council, of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan,1979. resigning in December 1966; public relations consultant; is a resident of Newport Beach, Calif. ROOT, Elihu, a Senator from New York; born in Clinton, Oneida County, N.Y., February 15,1845; attended the ROOSEVELT, James I. (uncle of Robert Barnwell Roose-common schools; graduated fromHamilton College, Clinton, velt), a Representative from New York; born in New YorkN.Y., in 1864; taught in the Rome (N.Y.) Academyin 1865; City December 14, 1795; was graduated from Columbia Col-was graduated from the lawschool of the University of the lege, New York City, in 1815; studied law; was admitted toCity of New York in 1867; was admitted to the bar inthe the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in New York City;same year and commenced practice inNew York City; councilman; member of the State assembly in 1835 and 1840;United States attorney for the southern district of NewYork elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress1883-1885; delegate to the State constitutional convention in (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for1894; appointed Secretary of War by PresidentWilliam renomination in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; studiedMcKinley 1899-1904; appointed Secretary of State by Presi- foreign law in the courts of England, Holland, and France;dent Theodore Roosevelt 1905-1909; elected as a Republican justice of the supreme court of the State of New York 1851-to the United States Senate and served from March4, 1909, 1859; served one term as ex officio judge of the State court ofto March 3, 1915; declined to be a candidate forreelection; appeals in 1859; appointed United States district attorneychairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of for southern New York by President Buchanan and servedState (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Industrial Exposi- in 1860 and 1861; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died intions (Sixty-second Congress); resumed the practice of lawin New York City on April 5, 1875; interment in GreenwoodNew York City; author; president of the Carnegie Endow- Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. ment for International Peace 1910-1925; awarded theNobel ROOSEVELT, Robert Barnwell (nephew of James I. Roo-Peace Prize for 1912; president of The Hague Tribunalof sevelt and uncle of Theodore Roosevelt), a RepresentativeArbitration between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Por- from New York; born in New York City August 7, 1829;tugal, concerning church property, in 1913; president of the completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted toNew York State constitutional convention in 1915; appointed the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in New York City;by President to be Ambassador Extraordi- fish commissioner of the State of New York 1868-1888; fornary at the head of a special diplomaticmission from the several years edited the New York Citizen; elected as aUnited States to Russia in 1917; Commissioner Plenipoten- Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-tiary to the Conference on Limitation of Armament at March 3, 1873); appointed by President Cleveland as Minis-Washington, D.C., 1921-1922; member of the Committee of ter to The Hague and served from 1888 to 1890; treasurer ofInternational Jurists, which, on invitation of the Council of the Democratic National Committee in 1892; member of thethe League of Nations, reported the plan for a new Perma- Board of Aldermen of New York City; served as trusteenent Court of International Justice in 1921; died inNew 1742 Biographical Directory

York City, February 7, 1937; interment in Hamilton CollegeSandusky, Erie County, Ohio, April 7, 1879; interment in Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y. Oakland Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Jessup, Philip. . 1938. Reprint. 2 vols. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964; Leopold, Richard. Elihu Root and the ROOTS, Logan bit, a Representative from Arkansas; Conservative Tradition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. born near Tamaroa, Perry County, Ill., March 26, 1841; com- ROOT, Erastus, a Representative from New York; born inpleted preparatory studies and was graduated from the Illi- Hebron, Conn., March 16, 1773; was graduated from Dart-nois State Normal University in 1862; assisted in recruiting mouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1793; taught school forthe Eighty-first Illinois Volunteers and served in the Army several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1796until the close of the Civil War; settled in Arkansas and and commenced practice in Delhi, N.Y.; member of the Stateengaged in planting and trading; upon the readmission of assembly 1798-1802; elected as a Republican to the EighthArkansas to representation was elected as a Republican to Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); resumed theprac-the Fortieth Congress; reelected to the Forty-first Congress tice of law; elected to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-and served from June 22, 1868, to March 3, 1871; unsuccess- March 3, 1811); chairman, Committee on Claims (Eleventhful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Con- Congress); appointed in 1811 a member of the commission togress; served as president of the First National Bank of revise and codify the laws of New York State; served in theLittle Rock, Ark., until his death in that city May 30, 1893; State senate 18 12-1815; successfully contested the election ofinterment in Oakland Cemetery. to the Fourteenth Congress and served from December 26, 1815, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committee ROSE, Charles Grandison, III, a Representative from on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fourteenth Con-North Carolina; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, gress); again a member of the State assembly 1818-1822;N.C., August 10, 1939; attended the public schools; A.B., member of the State constitutional convention of 1821; Lieu- Davidson (N.C.) College, 1961; LL.B., University of North tenant Governor of New York State 1822-1824; unsuccessfulCarolina Law School, Chapel Hill, 1964; admitted to the candidate for reelection in 1824; again becamea member ofNorth Carolina bar in 1964 and commenced practice in Ra- the State assembly 1826-1828, and in 1830, and servedasleigh; chief district court prosecutor for the Twelfth Judicial speaker during the terms in 1827 and 1828; electedas aDistrict, 1967-1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 183 1-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, March3,1833);chairman, Committee on Agriculture1973-January 3,1989); is a resident of Fayetteville, N.C. (Twenty-second Congress); unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; again served ROSE, John Marshall, a Representative from Pennsylva- in the State senate 1840-1844; died in New York City De-nia; born in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., on May 18, cember 24, 1846; interment in the Old (High Street) Ceme-1856; attended the public schools; was graduated from Wash- tery, Delhi, N.Y. ington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., in 1880; Bibliography: DAB. taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Johnstown; member of the State ROOT, Jesse, a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Coven- house of representatives in 1889; declined reelection; elected try, Tolland County, Conn., December 28, 1736;was graduat- ed from Princeton College in 1756; studied theology in Ando-as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty- ver; was ordained as a minister and preached from 1758 toseventh Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1923); declined 1763; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1763 andto be a candidate for renomination in 1922; died in Washing- commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; captain, lieutenantton, D.C., April 22, 1923; interment in Grandview Cemetery, colonel, and adjutant general in the Revolutionary Army;Johnstown, Pa. Member of the Continental Congress 1778-1782; State'sat- ROSE, Robert Lawson (son of Robert Selden Rose and torney 1785-1789; appointed a judge of the superior court inson-in-law of Nathaniel Allen), a Representative from New 1789 and served as chief justice from 1796 to 1807, when he resigned; member of the State house of representativesYork; born in Geneva, N.Y., October 12, 1804; received a 1807-1809; delegate to the State constitutional convention inlimited schooling; moved to Allens Hill, N.Y., and engaged 1818; died in Coventry, Conn., March 29, 1822; interment inin agricultural pursuits; held several local offices; elected as Nathan Hale Cemetery, South Coventry, Tolland County,a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March Conn. 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); resumed agricultural pursuits; re- Bibliography: DAB. turned to Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y.; subsequently moved to Pleasant Grove, near Funkstown, Washington ROOT, Joseph Mosley, a Representative from Ohio; bornCounty, Md., in 1868 and engaged in the manufacture of in Brutus, Cayuga County, N.Y., October 7, 1807; pursuedpaper until his death there March 14, 1877; interment in classical studies; studied law in Auburn, N.Y.; movedtoRose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Md. Ohio in 1829; was admitted to the bar in 1830 andcom- menced practice in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio; elected ROSE, Robert Selden (father of Robert Lawson Rose), a prosecuting attorney of Huron County in 1837; member ofRepresentative from New York; born in Amherst County, the State senate in 1840 and 1841; electedas a Whig to theVa., February 24, 1774; attended the common schools; moved Twenty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Thirtieth Congressto Seneca County, N.Y., in 1803 and settled at Fayette, near and reelected as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-firstGeneva, N.Y.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851); chairman, Commit-the State assembly in 1811, 1820, and 1821; member of the tee on Expenditures in the Department of the TreasuryState constitutional convention in 1821 at Albany; elected to (Thirtieth Congress); presidential electoron the Republicanthe Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823- ticket in 1860; appointed United States attorney for theMarch 3, 1827); elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the northern district of Ohio in 1861; againa member of theTwenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); later State senate in 1869; Democratic delegate to the Statecon-affiliated with the Whig Party; again resumed agricultural stitutional convention in 1873; unsuccessful Democraticcan-pursuits; died in Waterloo, Seneca County, N.Y., while at- didate for probate judge of Erie County in 1875; died intending a session of the circuit court, on November 24, 1835; Biographies 1743 interment in the Old Pulteney Street Cemetery; reintermentWashington,D.C.;intermentatBeth-David Cemetery, in Glenwood Cemetery, Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y. Elmont, N.Y. ROSECRANS, William Starke, a Representative from ROSIER, Joseph, a Senator from West Virginia; born in California; born in Kingston, Ross County, Ohio, SeptemberWilsonburg, Harrison County, W.Va., January 24, 1870; at- 6, 1819; completed preparatory studies; was appointed to thetended the public schools; graduated from Salem (W.Va.) United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838 andCollege in 1895; teacher of the village school at Bristol, graduated in1842; brevetted second lieutenant, UnitedW.Va., 1890; principal of the public schools of Salem, W.Va., States Corps of Engineers, July 1, 1842; second lieutenant1891-1892; superintendent of schools of Harrison County, April 3,1843; assistant professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy 1843-1847; in charge ofW.Va., 1893-1894; member of the faculty of Salem (W.Va.) various Government surveys and improvements 1843-1853;College 1894-1896; teacher in the State normal school at resigned from the Army April 1, 1854; engaged as an archi-Glenville, W.Va., 1896-1897; member of the faculty of the tect and civil engineer, with residence in Cincinnati; presi-State Teachers' College, Fairmont, W.Va., 1897-1900; super- dent of the Coal River Navigation Co., Kanawha County, Va.intendent of schools of Fairmont, W.Va., 1900-1915; presi- (now West Virginia), in 1856; organized the Preston Coal Oildent of Fairmont State College, Fairmont, W.Va., 1915-1945, Co. in 1857 and engaged in the manufacture of kerosene;and then president emeritus; during the First World War during the Civil War reentered the service on June 7, 1861,served as county food administrator 1917-19 18; consultant as colonel of the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteeron education for the Works Progress Administration 1933- Infantry; commissioned brigadier general, United States1937; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate Army, May 16, 1861; major general, United States Volun-to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Matthew M. teers, March 21, 1862; resigned from the United States ArmyNeely and served from January 3, 1941, to November 17, March 28, 1867; moved to California and settled in Los Ange- les; United States Minister to Mexico in 1868 and 1869;1942, when a duly elected successor qualified; unsuccessful again engaged in civil engineering; president of the Safetycandidate for election to the unexpired term; resumed his Powder Co., Los Angeles, Calif., in 1875; elected as a Demo-former pursuits; elected to the State house of delegates in crat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses1946; died in Fairmont, W.Va., October 7, 1951; interment in (March 4, 1881-March 3,1885); chairman, Committee onI.O.O.F. Cemetery, Salem, W.Va. Military Affairs (Forty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate Bibliography: Maddox, Robert F. "The Martin-Rosier Affair," Capitol for renomination in 1884; regent of the State university in Studies 5 (Spring 1977): 57-69. 1884 and 1885; Register of the Treasury 1885-1893; reap- ROSS, David, a Delegate from Maryland; born in Prince pointed brigadier general on the retired list, United States Georges County, Md., February 12, 1755; appointed by Gen- Army (act of Congress, February 27, 1889), and retirederal Washington major of Grayson's additional Continental March 1,1889; died near Redondo, Los Angeles County,regiment January 1, 1777, and served until December 20, Calif., March 11, 1898; interment in Rosedale Cemetery;1777, when he resigned; upon the death of his father devoted reinterment in the Arlington National Cemetery, May 17,his time to the management of the family estate; studied 1902. Bibliography: DAB; Lamers, William M The Edge of Glory: A Biogra- law; was admitted to the bar in 1783 and commenced the phy of General William S. Rosecrans. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1961. practice of his profession in Frederick County, Md.; Member of the Continental Congress 1787-1789; died in Frederick ROSENBLOOM, Benjamin Louis, a Representative fromCounty, Md., in 1800. West Virginia; born in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pa., June 3, 1880; attended the public schools; was graduated ROSS, Edmund Gibson, a Senator from Kansas; born in from the North Braddock High School; attended the Univer-Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, December 7, 1826; appren- sity of West Virginia at Morgantown; studied law; was ad-ticed as a printer in Sandusky, Ohio; moved to Milwaukee, mitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Wheel-Wis., in 1849 and was connected with the Milwaukee Senti- ing, Ohio County, W.Va., in 1905; member of the Statenel; moved to Topeka, Kans., in 1856, to lead the "free state" senate 1914-1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sev-movement; published the Topeka Tribune 1856-1858, and enth and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3,established the Kansas State Record 1859; member of the 1925); was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, havingState constitutional convention 1859-1861; promoter and di- become a candidate for the United States Senate; unsuccess- ful candidate for the Republican nomination for Unitedrector of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; during States Senator in 1924; resumed the practice of his profes-the Civil War entered the Union Army as a private in 1862 sion in Wheeling; weekly newspaper publisher 1933-1935;and was mustered out as major in 1865; editor of the Kansas councilman and vice mayor of Wheeling, W.Va., 1935-1939;Tribune 1865-1866; appointed and subsequently elected as a retired from law practice in 1951; died in Cleveland, Ohio,Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy March 22, 1965. caused by the death of James H. Lane and served from July 19, 1866, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- ROSENTHAL, Benjamin Stanley, a Representative fromtion; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Fortieth Con- New York; born in New York City June 8, 1923; attendedgress), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-first Congress); public schools, Long Island University, and City College; served in the United States Army, 1943-1946; LL.B., Brook-his vote against the impeachment of President Andrew lyn Law School, 1949; LL.M., New York University, 1952;Johnson in 1868 was considered the one vote essential for admitted to the New York bar in 1949 and commencedthe President's acquittal and Ross was vilified by Republi- practice in New York City; admitted to the Supreme Courtcans for his stand; affiliated with the Democratic party after bar in 1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh1872; publisher of several newspapers 1871-1893; unsuccess- Congress, by special election, on February 20, 1962, to fillful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1880; moved to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lester Holtzman;Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1882; appointed Governor of the reelected to the eleven succeeding Congresses, and servedTerritory of New Mexico by President Grover Cleveland in from January 20, 1962 until his death on January 4, 1983 in1885 and served four years; died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo 1744 Biographical Directory

County, N.Mex., May 8, 1907; interment in Fairview Ceme-Easton, Northampton County, Pa., January 31, 1834; inter- tery. ment in a private cemetery on the family estate, "Ross Bibliography: DAB; Kennedy, John F. "Edmund Ross." In Profiles in Common," Ross Township, Pa. Courage. New York: Harper, 1961; Ross, Edmund. Hi.story of the Impeach- ment Trial of . Sante Fe, N.M.: New Mexican Printing ROSS, Jonathan, a Senator from Vermont; born in Water- Co., 1896. ford, Caledonia County, Vt., April 30, 1826; attended the ROSS, George, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born inpublic schools and St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy; graduated New Castle, Del., May 10, 1730; completed preparatory stud-from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1851; principal ies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1750 and com-of the Chelsea and Craftsbury Academies 1851-1856; studied menced practice in Lancaster, Pa.; member of the coloniallaw; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in St. assembly 1768-1776; delegate to the State convention inJohnsbury until 1870; State's attorney for Caledonia County 1774; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1777; a1862-1863; appointed a member of the State board of educa- signer of the Declaration of Independence; appointed judgetion 1866-1870; member, State house of representatives of the court of admiralty for Pennsylvania in April 1779 and1865-1867; member, State senate 1870; judge of the supreme served in that capacity until his death near Philadelphia,court of Vermont 1870-1890; chief justice of the State of Pa., July 14, 1779; interment in Christ Church BuryingVermont 1890-1899; appointed as a Republican to the Ground, Philadelphia, Pa. United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death Bibliography: DAB. of Justin S. Morrill and served from January 11, 1899, to October 18, 1900, when a successor was elected; was not an ROSS, Henry Howard, a Representative from New York;active candidate for reelection in 1900; chairman, Committee born in Essex, Essex County, N.Y., May 9, 1790; instructedto Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Fifty-sixth Con- by private tutors; was graduated from Columbia College,gress); chairman of the board of State railroad commission- New York City, in 1808; studied law; was admitted to theers 1900-1902; died in St. Johnsbury, Vt., February 23, 1905; bar and commenced practice in Essex, N.Y.; during the Warinterment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. of 1812 served as second lieutenant and adjutant in the Thirty-seventh Infantry Regiment, New York State Militia, ROSS, Lewis Winans, a Representative from Illinois; born at the Battle of Boquet River, Wilisboro, N.Y., and at thenear Seneca Falls, Seneca County, N.Y., December 8, 1812; Battle of Plattsburg, N.Y.; subsequently rose to the rank ofmoved to Illinois and settled in Lewistown; completed pre- major general; elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4,paratory studies and attended Illinois College at Jackson- 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed the practice of law iii Essex,ville in 1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 N.Y.; county judge of Essex County in 1847 and 1848; presi-and commenced practice in Lewistown, Ill.; member of the dential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; resumed theState house of representatives in 1840, 1841, 1844, and 1845; practice of his profession; died in Essex, N.Y., September 14,member of the State constitutional conventions in 1861 and 1862; interment in a vault on his family place, "Hickory1870; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty- Hill," Essex, N.Y. ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; re- ROSS, James, a Senator from Pennsylvania; bornnearsumed the practice of law; died in Lewistown, Ill., October Delta, Peachbottom Township, York County, Pa., July 12,20, 1895; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. 1762; attended a classical school near Delta and later became an instructor of Latin in what is now Washington ROSS, Miles, a Representative from New Jersey; born in and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa.; studied law;wasRaritan Township, Middlesex County, N.J., April 30, 1827; admitted to the bar in 1784 and commenced practice inreceived a practical English training; engaged with his Washington, Washington County, Pa.; delegate to the Statefather in the transportation of freight by water and in the constitutional convention in 1789 and 1790; elected as acoal business; one of the chosen freeholders of New Bruns- Federalist to the United States Senate in 1794 to fill thewick, N.J., 1859-1864; member of the State house of assem- vacancy caused by the Senate declaring the election ofbly in 1863 and 1864; director of several banks; member of Albert Gallatin void; reelected and served from April 24,the board of street commissioners in 1865 and 1866; mayor 1794, to March 3, 1803; served as Presidentpro tempore ofof New Brunswick 1867-1869; elected as a Democrat to the the Senate during the Fifth Congress moved to PittsburghForty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March in 1795; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Pennsylvania4, 1875-March 3,1883); chairman, Committee on Militia in 1799, 1802, and 1808; resumed the practice of law; died in(Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candi- Pittsburgh, Pa., November 27, 1847; interment in Alleghenydate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; Cemetery. delegate at large to the Democratic National Conventions in Bibliography: DAB; Brownson, James I. The Life and Times of Senator 1884, 1888, and 1892; engaged in the wholesale and retail James Ross. Washington, Pa.: Historical Society of Washington, 1910. coal business; died in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, ROSS, John (father of Thomas Ross), a RepresentativeN.J., on February 22, 1903; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. from Pennsylvania; born in Solebury, Bucks County, Pa., ROSS, Robert Tripp, a Representative from New York; February 24, 1770; studied law in West Chester, Pa.;wasborn in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., June 4, 1903; admitted to the bar in 1792 and engaged in practice inattended the public schools; moved to New York City in 1929 Easton, Pa.; member of the State house of representatives inand engaged as a druggist; for seventeen years associated 1800; clerk of the orphans' court and recorder 1800-1803;with a large drug firm in managerial and executive posi- county register 1800-1809; burgess of Easton in 1804; electedtions; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate March 3,1811); elected to the Fourteenth and Fifteenthfor reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; engaged Congresses and served from March 4, 1815, to February 24,in the manufacture of clothing and athletic equipment; un- 1818, when he resigned to become president judge of thesuccessful candidate for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second seventh judicial district of the State; was transferred to theCongress; subsequently elected to the Eighty-second Con- State supreme bench in 1830 and served until his death ingress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the Biographies 1745 resignation of T. Vincent Quinn and served from FebruaryInfantry 1946-1948; served in the State house of representa- 19, 1952, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for re-tives in the sixty-eighth general assembly in 1952; delegate, election in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; Deputy Assist-Illinois State Democratic convention every four years since ant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs from March1952; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960, 1964, 1954 to March 1956; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Leg-1968, 1972, and 1976; member of State senate, 1954-1956; islative and Public Affairs from March 1956 to March 1957;elected as a Democrat to the Eighty sixth and to the four assistant borough works commissioner, Queens, N.Y., fromteen succeeding Congresses (January 31959-January 3 March 1957 to January 1958; vice president, Merchandising1989); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Ninety- Apparel Company, 1959-1968; resided in Jackson Heights,seventh through One Hundredth Congresses), Joint Commit- N.Y., until his death there on October 1, 1981; interment attee on Taxation (Ninety-seventh through One Hundredth Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, N.C. Congresses); is a resident of Chicago, Ill. ROSS, Sobieski, a Representative from Pennsylvania; ROTH, Tobias Anton (Toby), a Representative from Wis- born in Coudersport, Potter County, Pa., May 16, 1828; at-consin; born in Strasburg, Emmons County, N.Dak., October tended the common schools and Coudersport Academy; en-10, 1938; graduated from St. Mary's High School, Menasha, gaged in civil engineering and the real estate business; alsoWis, 1957 B A, Marquette University Milwaukee, 1961, interested in agricultural pursuits; appointed associate judgeserved in the United States Army Reserve, 1962-1969 with in 1852; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third andrank of lieutenant; realtor; served in the Wisconsin State Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); de- legislature,19'72-1978;electedas a Republican to the clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumedNinety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu the real estate business; died in Coudersport, Pa., Octoberary 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Appleton,Wis. 24, 1877; interment in Eulalia Cemetery. ROTH, William Victor, Jr., a Representative and a Sena- ROSS, Thomas (son of John Ross), a Representative fromtor from Delaware born in Great Falls Cascade County, Pennsylvania; born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa.,Mont., July 22, 1921; attended the public schools of Helena, December 1, 1806; attended the Doylestown, Pa., schools; wasMontgraduated, University of Oregon 1944, graduated graduated from Princeton College in 1823; studied law; wasHarvard Business School 1943; graduated, Harvard Law admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice inSchool 1949; admitted to the California bar in 1950 and the Doylestown, Pa.; appointed deputy attorney general of theDelaware bar in 1958 served in the United States Army State for Bucks County in 1829; frequently a candidate of1943-1946; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and the Democratic Party and also affiliated with the Anti-Ma-Ninety-first Congresses and served from January 3, 1967, sonic Party; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first anduntil his resignation December 31 1970, was not a candidate Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); re-for reelection to the House of Representatives, but was elect- sumed the practice of law in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa.;ed in 1970 to the United States Senate for the term com- died July 7, 1865; interment in Doylestown Cemetery. mencing January 3, 1971; subsequently appointed January 1, ROSS, Thomas Randolph, a Representative from Ohio;1971, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. born in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pa., OctoberWilliams for the term ending January 3, 1971; reelected in 26, 1788; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was1976 and again in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; admitted to the bar and began practice in Lebanon, Warrenchairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs (Ninety-sev- County, Ohio, in 1810; elected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,enth through Ninety ninth Congresses) and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1825); ROTHERMEL, John Hoovera Representative from chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished BusinessPennsylvania; born in Richmond Township, Berks County, (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses); unsuccessful can-Pa., March 7, 1856; attended the common schools and pur- didate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress;sued an academic course at Brunner's Business College, resumed the practice of law in Lebanon; lost his eyesight inReading, Pa.; taught school in Blandon Township 1876-1881; 1866; died on his farm near Lebanon, Ohio, June 28, 1869;served as a member of the faculty at Brunner's Scientific interment in Lebanon Cemetery. Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and ROSSDALE, Albert Berger, a Representative from Newcommenced practice in Reading, Pa.; assistant district attor- York; born in New York City October 23, 1878; attended theney of Reading, Pa., 1886-1889; county solicitorof Berks public schools; clerk in the New York post office 1900-1910;County 1895-1898; unsuccessful candidate for judge of the president of the New York Federation of Post Office Clerkscourt of common pleas in 1899; elected as a Democrat to the in 1906 and 1907 and vice president of the national organiza-Sixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, tion in 1908 and 1909; engaged in the wholesale jewelry1907-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Expenditures business in 1910; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sev-in the Department of Commerce and Labor (Sixty-second enth Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessfulCongress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth CongressCommerce (Sixty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for and for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; delegatereelection in 1914; resumed the practice of law; died in Read- to the Republican State conventions in 1922 and 1924; dele-ing, Pa., in August 1922; interment in the Charles Evans gate to the Republican National Convention in 1924; againCemetery. engaged in the wholesale jewelry business; moved to Sandy ROTHWELL, Gideon Frank, a Representative from Mis- Hook, Conn., in 1939 and to Bronxville, N.Y., in 1946; died insouri; born near Fulton, Callaway County, Mo., on April 24, Eastchester, Westchester County, N.Y., April 17, 1968; inter- 1836; was graduated from the University of Missouri at Co- ment in Maimonides Cemetery, Elmont, N.Y. lumbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864 and ROSTENKOWSKI, Daniel David, a Representative fromcommenced practice in Huntsville, Randolph County, Mo.; Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., January 2, 1928; graduatedelected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, from St. John's Military Academy in 1946 and attended1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- Loyola University; served in Korea with the United Statestion in 1880; resumed the practice of law in Moberly, Mo.; 1746 Biographical Directory

appointed in 1889 a member of the board of curators of therated from the service in June 1952; elected prosecuting University of Missouri, and served as its president 1890-attorney of Huntington County in 1954 for a four-year term 1894; died in Moberly, Mo., on January 18, 1894; intermentand served until elected to Congress; vice president of the in Oakland Cemetery. board of trustees of Huntington College 1958-1960; elected as ROUDEBUSH, Richard Lowell, a Representative from In-a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the four succeeding diana; born on a farm in Hamilton County, near Noblesville,Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1969); unsuccessful md., January 18, 1918; attended Hamilton County schools;candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; graduated from Butler University, Indianapolis, md., inresumed the practice of law; elected to the Ninety-second 1941; served in the United States Army from November 18,and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971- 1941, to August 12, 1944, as a demolition specialist for theJanuary 3, 1977); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Ordnance Department in Middle Eastern, North African,1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; Director, regional and and Italian Campaigns; farmer; partner in livestock commis-intergovernmental operations for the Environmental Protec- sion company; National Commander of Veterans of Foreigntion Agency, 1977-1979; resumed the practice of law in 1979; Wars in 1957-1958; chairman of Indiana Veterans Commis-chairman of the board of Huntington College, 1981-1987; is a sion, 1954-1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sev-resident of Huntington, md. enth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate in 1970 forre- ROUSSEAU, Love!! Harrison, a Representative from Ken- election but was an unsuccessful candidate for election totucky; born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Ky., August 4, the United States Senate; administrator of Veterans Affairs,1818; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- Veterans Administration, 197 1-1977; is a resident of Nobles-ted to the bar in 1841 and began practice in Bloomfield, md.; ville, md. member of the Indiana State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; captain in the Mexican War; served in the ROUKEMA, Margaret Scafati, a Representative from NewIndiana State senate 1847-1849; returned to Kentucky in Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., September 19,1849 and resumed the practice of law in Louisville; member 1929; attended the public schools; graduated from Westof the Kentucky State senate 1860-1861; served as a colonel, Orange High School, 1947; B.A., Montclair State College,brigadier general, and major general in the Union Army Montclair, N.J., 1951; graduate work, Montclair State Col-during the Civil War and resigned November 17, 1865; elect- lege,1951-1953, and attended Rutgers University, Newed as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Con- Brunswick, N.J., 1975; teacher, 1951-1955; vice president,gress and served from March 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866, when Ridgewood, N.J., Board of Education, 1970-1973; president,he resigned, after having made an assault upon Representa- Ridgewood Republican Club, 1977-1978; electedas a Republi-tive Grinnell, of Iowa, in the Capitol Building; censured by can to the Ninety-seventh and to the three succeeding Con-the House of Representatives on July 24, 1866, for his as- gresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofsault on Grinnell; was subsequently reelected to fill the Ridgewood, N.J. vacancy caused by his own resignation and took his seat ROUSE, Arthur Blythe, a Representative from Kentucky;December 3, 1866, and served until March 3, 1867; appointed born in Burlington, Boone County, Ky., June 20, 1874;at-a brigadier general in the Regular Army with the brevet tended the public schools; was graduated from Hanover Col- rank of major general on March 27, 1867, and assigned to lege, Indiana, in 1896 and from the Louisville Law School induty in Alaska; on July 28, 1868, was placed in command of 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commencedprac-the Department of Louisiana and served in that capacity tice in Burlington; in 1907 became the first secretary of theuntil his death in New Orleans, La., January 7, 1869; inter- Kentucky State Racing Commission and served fouryears;ment in Arlington National Cemetery. served as State revenue commissioner under Gov. Ruby Laf- Bibliography: DAB; Dawson, Joseph G. "General Lovell H. Rousseau foon; secretary to Representative Daniel Lynn Gooch and and Louisiana Reconstruction." Loui.siana History 20 (Fall 1979): 373-91. Representative Joseph L. Rhinoch; member of the Democrat- ROUSSELOT, John Harbin, a Representative from Cali- ic State executive committee from 1903 to 1910; electedas afornia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., November 1, 1927; attend- Democrat to the Sixty-second and to theseven succeedinged the public schools of San Marino and South Pasadena, Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1927);was not a candi-Calif.; A.B., Principia College, Elsah, Ill., 1949; life insurance date for renomination in 1926; chairman of the Democraticunderwriter, 1949-1952; assistant to public relations direc- National Congressional Committee from 1921 until here-tor, Pacific Finance Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., 1954-1955; signed in December 1924; resumed the practice of law inoperated a public relations consultant firm in Los Angeles, Erlanger, KY.; operated several bus companies; appointedCalif., 1954-1958; Director of public information, Federal clerk of the United States District Court for the EasternHousingAdministration, District of Kentucky on October 8, 1935, and served until his Washington,D.C.,1958-1960; resignation due to ill health in January 1953; died in Lexing-deputy to chairman of Board of Equalization, State of Cali- ton, Ky., January 25, 1956; interment in Lexington Ceme- fornia,1956;delegate, Republican National Convention, tery. 1956; member of executive committee, Republican State cen- tral committee, 1956-1957; vice chairman, Los Angeles ROUSH, John Edward, a Representative from Indiana;County Republican Central committee, 1956-1958; elected as born in Barnsdall, Osage County, Okia., September 12, 1920;a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January 3, moved with parents to Huntington, md., in 1924; attended 1961-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for reelection the public schools in Huntington; was graduated from Hun-in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; management consult- tington College in 1942; served as an Infantry officer withant in the fields of marketing, management systems, and the United States Army 1942-1946; graduated from Indianagovernment relations, 1967-197 0; elected to the Ninety-first University School of Law in 1949; was admitted to the bar inCongress, by special election, June 30, 1970, to fill the vacan- 1949 and commenced the practice of law in Huntington, md.;cy caused by the death of Glenard P. Lipscomb; reelected to served one term in the Indiana State legislature in 1949; inthe six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1950 was recalled to active duty in the United States Army1971, to January 3, 1983; was an unsuccessful candidate for and served as a Counterintelligence Corps agent untilsepa-reelection in 1982; special assistant to President Reagan, Biographies 1747

1983; president, National Council of Savings Institutions, 1884; moved with his parents to Ludlow, Ky., in 1885; 1985 to present; is a resident of Arlington, Va. attended the common schools; was graduated from Ludlow High School in 1901; attended Kentucky State College at ROUTZOHN, Harry Nelson, a Representative from Ohio;Lexington 1902-1904; salesman of lubricating oils 1904-1907; born in Dayton, Ohio, November 4, 1881; attended the publicattended the Cincinnati Business College and was graduated grade schools; served one year at the blacksmith trade;in accountancy in 1907; engaged as an auditor in Cincinnati became court page in common pleas court of Montgomery County, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 19041907-1910 and in Chicago 1910-1912; moved to Evansville, and commenced practice in Dayton, Ohio; assistant countymd., in 1913 and was employed as chief clerk for the Indiana prosecutor of Montgomery County, Ohio, 1906-1909; taughtRefining Co. 19 13-1918; member of the Indiana State house law at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1923-1930;of representatives 19 19-1923; elected as a Republican to the probate judge 1917-1929; assistant United States district at-Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March torney 1930-1932; delegate to the Republican National Con- 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful for reelection in 1930 to ventions in 1928 and 1932; captain in the Officers' Reservethe Seventy-second Congress; engaged as commercial agent Corps 1925-1935; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-for a truck line; died in Evansville, md., March 22, 1934; sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); was aninterment in Locust Hill Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy- seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in Dayton, ROWE, Edmund, a Representative from Ohio; born in Ohio; appointed Solicitor for the Department of Labor,Sherrodsville, Carroll County, Ohio, December 21, 1892; at- Washington, D.C., and served from March 6, 1953, until histended the public schools; worked in the coal mines 1905- death in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1953; interment in Me- 1909, in the rubber industry 1909-1913, and at the machinist morial Park Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. trade 1913-1916; during the First World War served in the United States Navy, 1917-1919; owner of a bowling academy ROWAN, John (uncle of Robert Todd Lytle), a Representa-1919-1929; engaged in the real estate business in 1920 and tive and a Senator from Kentucky; born near York, Yorkthe insurance business in 1928; organizer of the Rowe Oil & County, Pa., July 12, 1773; moved to Kentucky around 1783;Chemical Co. in 1936; member of the city council of Akron, received a thorough classical training; studied law in Lexing-Ohio, 1928-1942, serving one term as president; elected as a ton; was admitted to the bar in 1795 and commenced prac-Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943- tice in Louisville; member of the second State constitutionalJanuary 3, 1945); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelec- convention held at Frankfort in 1799; secretary of State oftion in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress and for election Kentucky 1804-1806; elected as a Republican to the Tenthin 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; member of the Ohio Congress (March 4, 1807-March 3,1809); member, StateGeneral Assembly 1955-1959; unsuccessful candidate for house of representatives 1813-1817, 1822, 1824; judge of the resided in court of appeals 1819-1821; elected to the United Statesmayor of Akron in 1957; real estate broker; Senate and served from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1831;Akron, Ohio, where he died October 4, 1972; interment in chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Con-Glendale Cemetery. gress); appointed commissioner for carrying out the treaty of ROWE, Frederick William, a Representative from New 1839 with the Republic of Mexico; president of the KentuckyYork; born at Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, N.Y., Historical Society from 1838 until his death in Louisville,March 19, 1863; attended the common schools; was graduat- Ky., July 13, 1843; interment in the family burial ground ated from De Garmo Institute in 1882 and from Colgate Uni- Federal Hill, near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky. versity, Hamilton, N.Y., in 1887; studied law; was admitted Bibliography: DAB; Fackler, Stephen. "John Rowan and the Demise of to the bar in New York City in 1889 and practiced in Brook- Jeffersonian Republicanism in Kentucky, 1819-1831." Register of the Ken- lyn and New York City until 1904, when he became interest- tucky Historical Society 78 (Winter 1980): 1-26. ed in the development of real estate in Brooklyn; president ROWAN, Joseph, a Representative from New York; bornof several companies, including a street railway company; in New York City September 8, 1870; attended the publicdirector of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn; elected as a schools; was graduated from Columbia College Law School inRepublican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth 1891; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced theCongresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); was not a candi- practice of law in New York City; elected as a Democrat todate for renomination in 1920; resumed his former business the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); wasactivitiesin New York City; died in Rockville Centre, not a candidate for renomination in 1920; continued theNassau County, N.Y., June 20, 1946; interment in Green- practice of his profession in New York City until his deathwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. there on August 3, 1930; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. ROWE, Peter, a Representative from New York; born in ROWAN, William A., a Representative from Illinois; bornCrescent, Saratoga County, N.Y., March 10, 1807; completed in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 24, 1882; was grad-preparatory studies and was graduated from Schenectady uated from St. Patrick Grade School and St. Patrick High(N.Y.) Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; chief audi- School and attended the University of Chicago; employed in a steel plant after graduation; associated with a daily com-tor of the New York Central Railroad; mayor of Schenectady munity newspaper in Chicago, becoming city editor and1846-1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Con- editor, 1907-1927; served as alderman of the tenth ward ofgress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855);died in Schenectady, Chicago 1927-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-N.Y., April 17, 1876; interment in Vale Cemetery. eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-Janu- ROWELL, Jonathan Harvey, a Representative from Illi- áry 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 tonois; born in Haverhill, Grafton County, N.H., February 10, the Eightieth Congress; appointed United States Comptroller1833; attended Rock Creek School; was graduated from of Customs at Chicago, Ill., on January 21, 1947, in whichEureka College, Illinois; during the Civil War served as a capacity he served until 1953; died in Chicago, Ill., May 31,company officer in the Seventeenth Regiment,Illinois Vol- 1961; interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth, Ill.unteer Infantry; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ROWBOTTOM, Harry Emerson, a Representative from1866 and commenced practice in Bloomington, Ill.; State's Indiana; born in Aurora, Dearborn County, md., Novemberattorney of the eighth judicial circuit of Illinois 1868-1872; 1748 Biographical Directory

elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the threeshire 1945-1953; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1958 succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); chair-to the Eighty-sixth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for man, Committee on Elections (Fifty-first Congress); unsuc-nomination for the United States Senate in 1960; engaged in cessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-secondthe real estate business until his death in Manchester, N.H., Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Bloomington,October 5, 1967; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery. McLean County, Ill., May 15, 1908; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. ROY, William Robert, a Representative from Kansas; born in Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., February 23, ROWLAND, Alfred, a Representative from North Caroli- 1926; attended the Lexington, Ill., public schools; B.S., Illi- na; born in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., February 9,nois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, 1945; B.M., North- 1844; attended the common schools; entered the Confederatewestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1948; M.D., Army in May 1861 and served as a lieutenant in Companysame university,1949; J.D., Washburn University Law D, Eighteenth Regiment of North Carolina State Troops,School, Topeka, Kans., 1970; served in the United States Air until May 12, 1864; imprisoned at until JuneForce, 1953-1955; discharged with rank of captain; practiced 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and medicine in Topeka, Kans., 1955-1970; elected as a Democrat commenced practice in Lumberton; register of deeds forto the Ninety-second and to the Ninety-third Congresses Robeson County in 1867; member of the State house of rep- resentatives in 1876, 1877, 1880, and 1881; elected as a Dem- (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); was not a candidate in ocrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4,1974 for reelection but was an unsuccessful candidate for 1887-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renominationelection to the United States Senate; unsuccessful candidate in 1890; resumed the practice of law; died in Lumberton,for election to the United States Senate in 1978; resumed the N.C., August 2, 1898; interment in Meadow Brook Cemetery.practice of medicine in Topeka; is a resident of Topeka, Kans. ROWLAND, Charles Hedding, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Hancock, Washington County, Md., ROYBAL, Edward Ross, a Representative from Califor- December 20, 1860; moved to Huntingdon County, Pa., innia; born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.Mex., Febru- 1866 and to Houtzdale, Pa., in 1874; attended the publicary 10, 1916; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1922; attended schools; president of the Moshannon Coal Mining Co. and ofthe public schools; graduated from Roosevelt High School in the Pittsburgh & Susquehanna Railroad Co.; electedas a1934; joined the Civilian Conservation Corps until April 1, Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses1935; trained in business administration at the University of (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); declined to be a candidate forCalifornia in Los Angeles and at Southwestern University in renomination in 1918; died in Philipsburg, Centre County,Los Angeles; public health educator with the California Tu- Pa., on November 24, 1921; interment in the Philipsburgberculosis Association, 1942-1944; served in the United Cemetery. States Army from April 1944 to December 1945; director of health education for the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis ROWLAND, James Roy, Jr., a Representative from Geor-and Health Association, 1945-1949; member of the city coun- gia; born in Wrightsville, Johnson County, Ga., February 3,cil of Los Angeles, 1949-1962, and served as president pro 1926; attended Wrightsville Primary School; graduated fromtempore from July 1961; president of Eastland Savings & Wrightsville High School, 1943; attended Emory at Oxford,Loan Association, 1958-1968, chairman of the board 1968 to Oxford, Ga., 1943; South Georgia College, Douglas, 1946; Uni-present; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to versity of Georgia, Athens, 1946-1948; M.D., Medical Collegethe twelve succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January of Georgia, Augusta, 1952; served in the United States 3,1989); chairman, Select Committee on Aging (Ninety- Army, sergeant, 1944-1946; physician; elected to the Georgiaeighth through One Hundredth Congresses); is a resident of house of representatives, 1976-1982; electedas a DemocratPasadena, Calif. to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); isa resident of Dublin, ROYCE, Homer Elihu, a Representative from Vermont; Ga. born in East Berkshire, Franklin County, Vt., June 14, 1819; attended the local academies of St. Albans and Enosburg, ROWLAND, John, a Representative from Connecticut;Vt.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced born in Waterbury, Conn., May 24, 1957; graduated frompractice in East Berkshire, Vt., in 1844; member of the State Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, 1975; B.S., Villanovahouse of representatives in 1846 and 1847; State prosecuting University (Pa.), 1979; insurance agent; Connecticut generalattorney in 1848; served in the State senate 1849-1851, 1861, assembly, 1981-1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-Jan-Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was uary 3, 1989); is a resident of Waterbury, Conn. not a candidate for renomination in 1860; again a member of ROY, Alphonse, a Representative from New Hampshire;the State senate in 1861 and 1868; elected associate justice of born in St. Simon, Province of Quebec, Canada, October 26,the supreme court of Vermont in 1870; was appointed chief justice of that court in 1882, and served until 1890, when he 1897; moved to Manchester, N.H., in 1901; attended theparo- chial schools; engaged in the real estate business; served resigned; died in St. Albans, Vt., April 24, 1891; interment in asCalvary Cemetery, East Berkshire, Vt. alderman 1925-1931; member of the State house ofrepre- sentatives 1925-1931; served as executive councilor of New ROYER, William Howard, a Representative from Califor- Hampshire 1933-1937; successfully contestedas a Democratnia; born in Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho, April 11, 1920; the election of Arthur B. Jenks to the Seventy-fifth Congress attended the public schools; graduated from Sequoia High and served from June 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939;unsuccess-School, Redwood City, Calif., 1938; B.S., Santa Clara (Calif.) ful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixthUniversity, 1941; graduate work, Oklahoma A.&M. College Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh(now Oklahoma State University), Stiliwater, Okia., 1943; Congress; appointed sealer of weights and measures of Man-served in the United States Army Air Corps, 1943-1945; chester, N.H., in 1943 and served until his resignation inrealtor; city councilman, Redwood City, Calif., 1950-1966; 1945; United States marshal for the district of New Hamp-mayor, Redwood City, Calif., 1956-1960; member, board of Biographies 1749

attended the public schools, Princeton College, and the Geor- supervisors, San Mateo County,Calif., 1972-1979; elected as Ninety-sixth Congress, by special elec-gia Military Academy at Marietta; served in theConfederate a Republican to the War; tion, April 3, 1979, to fill the vacancycaused by the death ofArmy from March 24, 1864, until the close of the Civil United States Representative LeoJ. Ryan and served fromreturned to Athens; was graduated from the law department April 3, 1979, to January 3, 1981;unsuccessful candidate forof the University of Georgia at Athens in 1868; was admitted reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventhCongress; regionalto the bar in 1871 and commenced practice inAthens, representative, U.S. Department ofTransportation, 198 1-Clarke County, Ga.; was appointed by PresidentCleveland 1982; is a resident of Redwood City,Calif. as assistant United States district attorneyfor the northern district of Georgia in 1893 and resided in Atlanta;returned ROYSE, Lemuel Willard, a Representativefrom Indiana; of law; elected md., January 19,to Athens in 1912 and continued the practice born near Piercethn, Kosciusko County, as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourthCongress to fill the vacan- 1847; attended the common schools;studied law; was admit- practice in Warsaw,cy caused by the death of Samuel J.Tribble and served from ted to the bar in 1874 and commenced January 11 to March 3, 1917; was not a candidate for re- Kosciusko County, md.; prosecuting attorneyfor the thirty- third judicial circuit of Indiana in1876; mayor of Warsawnomination in 1916; engaged in the practice of law until his 1885-1891; member of the Republican Statecentral commit-death in Athens, Ga., November 18, 1926; interment in tee from 1886 to 1890; delegate tothe Republican NationalOconee Cemetery. Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican tothe Fifty- 4, 1895-March 3, RUCKER, William Wailer, a Representative from Missou- fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March ri; born near Covington, Alleghany County, Va.,February 1, 1899); chairman, Committee on Elections No.2 (Fifty-fifth1855; moved with his parents to western Virginiain 1861; Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renominationin 1898;attended the common schools; moved to Chariton County, resumed the practice of law in Warsaw, md.; judgeof the schools; Kosciusko County Circuit Court 1904-1908; resumedtheMo., in 1873; engaged in teaching in the district and servedstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1876 andcommenced practice of his profession; reelected circuit judge prosecuting from 1920 to 1932; again resumed thepractice of law untilpractice in Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.; December 18,attorney of Chariton County 1886-1892; judgeof the twelfth his retirement in 1940; died in Warsaw, md., Fifty-sixth 1946; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. circuit 1892-1899; elected as a Democrat to the and to the eleven succeeding Congresses(March 4, 1899- RUBEY, Thomas Lewis, a Representative from Missouri;March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Electionof Presi- born in Lebanon, Laclede County, Mo., September 27,1862; dent, Vice President, and Representatives(Sixty-second attended the common schools; was graduated from the Uni-through Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessfulcandidate for versity of Missouri at Columbia in 1885;superintendent ofreelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress;resumed the schools of Lebanon, Mo., 1886-1891; teacher in theMissouripractice of law in Keytesville, Mo.; alsoengaged in agricul- School of Mines 1891-1898; member of the State houseoftural pursuits; died in Keytesville, Mo., May 30,1936; inter- representatives in 1891 and 1892; moved to La Plata, Macon County, Mo., in 1898 and organized a bank; served in thement in the City Cemetery. State senate 1901-1903; elected president of the senate in RUDD, Eidon Dean, a Representative fromArizona; born 1903 and upon the resignation of Lt. Gov. John A. Lee inin Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Ariz., July 15,1920; attend- that year became Lieutenant Governor, serving in that ca-ed the public schools of Arizona; graduatedfrom Clarkdale pacity until 1905; returned to Lebanon in 1905 and engaged(Ariz.) High School, 1939; B.A., Arizona StateUniversity, in banking; president of the State Bank, Lebanon, Mo., fromTempe, 1947; J.D., University of Arizona, Tucson,1949; ad- 1914 until his death; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-mitted to the Arizona bar in 1949 and commencedpractice second and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,in Tucson; served in the United StatesMarine Corps, 1942- 1911-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1946; special agent, Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, 1950- 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected to the Sixty-1970; member, Maricopa County, Ariz., Board ofSupervisors, eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses and served1972-197 6; delegate, Arizona State Republicanconventions, from March 4, 1923, until his death in Lebanon, Mo., on1973-1976; elected as a Republican to theNinety-fifth and November 2, 1928; interment in Lebanon Cemetery. to the four succeeding Congresses(January 3, 1977-January RUCKER, Atterson Walden, a Representative from Colo-3, 1987); was not a candidate for reelectionin 1986; resumed rado; born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., April 3,the practice of law; is a resident ofScottsdale, Ariz. 1847; moved in early youth with his parents to Missouri; RUDD, Stephen Andrew, a Representativefrom New attended the common schools; served four years in the Con-York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 11,1874; attended federate Army during the Civil War; studied law; was admit- the public schools and the New YorkPreparatory School; ted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Lexington,studied law at the Brooklyn Law Schoolof St. Lawrence Mo., the following year; moved to Baxter Springs, Kans., inUniversity, Brooklyn, N.Y.; was admitted to thebar in 1914 1873 and resumed the practice of law; moved to Leadville,and commenced practice in Brooklyn; memberof the New Cob., in 1879 and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a Demo- the court of recordsYork City Board of Aldermen 1922-1930; was also interested in mining; judge of crat to the Seventy-second Congress tofill the vacancy of Lake County in 1881 and 1882; moved to Aspen, Pitkincaused by the death of David J. O'Connell;reelected to the County, Cob., in 1885 and became largely interested in theSeventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses andserved development of mining projects; elected as a Democrat to the Brooklyn, N.Y., Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4,1909-from March 4, 1931, until his death in March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inMarch 31, 1936; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. 1912; returned to Colorado and settled in Denver; resumed RUDMAN, Warren Bruce, a Senator fromNew Hamp- the practice of his profession; died near Mount Morrison,shire; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.,May 18, 1930; Jefferson County, Cob., on July 19, 1924; interment in theattended the public schools of Nashua, N.H.;graduated, Littleton Cemetery, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Cob. Valley Forge Military School, Wayne, Pa.,1948; graduated, Boston RUCKER, Tinsley White, a Representative from Georgia;Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 1952; graduated, born near Farm Hill, Elbert County, Ga., March 24, 1848;College Law School, Boston, Mass., 1960;served in the 1750 Biographical Directory

United States Army Infantry 1952-1954; admittedto thelaw and was also interested in agricultural pursuits; New Hampshire bar in 1960 and commenced died in practiced inSt. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, September2, 1857; Nashua; served as legal counsel to the Governor 1970;attor-interment in Union Cemetery. ney general of New Hampshire 1970-1976; practiced law, Manchester, N.H., 1976-1980; electedas a Republican to the RUGGLES, Charles Herman, a Representative from New United States Senate, November 4, 1980, for thesix-yearYork; born in New Milford, Conn., February 10, 1789;com- term commencing January 3, 1981; subsequentlyappointedpleted preparatory studies; studied law;was admitted to the by the Governor, December 29, 1980, to fill thevacancybar and began practice in Kingston, N.Y.; memberof the caused by the resignation of John A. Durkin for thetermState assembly in 1820; elected to the Seventeenth Congress ending January 3,1981; reelected in 1986 for the term(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); circuit judge and vice chan- ending January 3, 1993; chairman, Select Committeeoncellor of the second judicial district of New York1833-1846; Ethics (Ninety-ninth Congress). moved to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y.; memberof RUFFIN, James Edward, a Representative from Missouri;the State constitutional convention in 1846; judge ofthe born on a farm near Covington, Tipton County, Tenn.,JulyDutchess County court; again electeda member of the State 24, 1893; in 1905 moved to Missouri with hisparents, whoassembly; judge of the court of appeals 1847-1855; diedin settled in Aurora, Lawrence County; attendedthe gradePoughkeepsie, N.Y., June 16, 1865. schools; was graduated from the Aurora High Schoolin 1912 RUGGLES, John, a Senator from Maine; born in West- and from Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in 1916;taughtboro, Mass., October 8, 1789; attended thecommon schools; school at Nickerson (Kans.) College in 1917; duringthe Firstgraduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1813; World War was commissioned a first lieutenant on Novem-studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedprac- ber 27, 1917; served in the Fifty-third Regiment,Pioneertice in Skowhegan, Maine, in 1815; moved to Thomaston, Infantry, overseas with the First and Thirty-fifthDivisions,Maine, in 1817; member, State house of representatives and was discharged on June 3, 1919;was graduated from the1823-1831, and served as speaker 1825-1829, 1831; justice of law department of Cumberland University,Lebanon, Tenn.,the supreme judicial court of Maine 1831-1834; electedas a in 1920; was admitted to the bar thesame year and com-Jacksonian to the United States Senate to fill the menced practice in Springfield, Mo.; served vacancy as assistant citycaused by the resignation of Peleg Sprague, and at thesame attorney 1926-1928; elected as a Democrat to theSeventy-time was elected for the full term beginning March 4, 1835, third Congress (March 4, l933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessfuland served from January 20, 1835, to March 3, 1841;was an candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourthunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840; chairman, Congress; appointed special assistant to theAttorney Gener- al of the United States Committee on Patents and Patent Office (Twenty-fifth Con- on May 9, 1935, assigned to thegress); framer of the bill for the reorganization of the United criminal division of the Department of Justice,and servedStates Patent Office in 1836; resumed the practice of law in until August 1953; resumed the practiceof law in Spring- Thomaston, Knox County, Maine; also engaged as field, Mo., where he died April 9, 1977;interment in East an inven- Lawn Cemetery. tor, orator, and writer; died in Thomaston, Maine,on June 20, 1874; interment in Elm Grove Cemetery. RUFFIN, Thomas, a Representative from North Carolina; RUGGLES, Nathaniel, a Representative from Massachu- born in Louisburg, Franklin County(formerly a part of Edgecombe County), N.C., September 9, setts; born in Roxbury, Mass., November 11, 1761; pursued 1820; attended thepreparatory studies; was graduated from Harvard University common schools; was graduated from the law departmentof the University of North Carolina at Chapel in 1781; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced Hill in 1841; waslaw in Roxbury, Mass.; appointed judge of the general admitted to the bar the sameyear and commenced practice ses- in Goldsboro, N.C.; circuit attorney sions in 1807; chief justice of Massachusetts in 1808;was of the seventh judicialelected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and district of the State of Missouri 1844-1848;returned to Goldsboro, N.C., in 1850; elected Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1819); died in as a Democrat to theRoxbury, Mass., December 19, 1819. Thirty-third and to the three succeedingCongresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); delegate to theConfederate Provi- RUMPLE, John Nicholas William, a Representative from sional Congress at Richmond in July 1861;during the CivilIowa; born near Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio, March4, War served in the Confederate Armyas colonel of the First1841; attended the public schools, Western College, Iowa, North Carolina Cavalry; mortally woundedin action at Bris-and the Iowa State University; enlisted in Company H, toe Station, near Alexandria, Va., and diedwhile a prisonerSecond Iowa Cavalry, in August 1861 and remained in the of war at Alexandria on October 13, 1863;interment in theArmy until October 1865, when mustered outas captain; private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead,near Louisburg,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced N.C. practice in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa; member of the RUGGLES, Benjamin, a Senator from Ohio;born in Ab-State senate 1873-1878; member of the board of regents of ington, Windham County, Conn., February21, 1783; complet-the State University of Iowa 1880-1886; curator of the State ed preparatory studies; studied law;was admitted to the barHistorical Society of Iowa 1881-1885; member of the city and began practice in Marietta, Ohio, in1807; moved to St.council; mayor of Marengo, Iowa, in 1885 and 1886; attorney Clairsville, Ohio; presiding judge ofthe court of commonfor the city council of Marengo 1896-1900; member of the pleas for the third judicial circuit1810-1815; elected as aschool board; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Republican to the United States Senate in1815; reelected inCongress and served from March 4, 1901, until his death in 1821 and again in 1827 and served fromMarch 4, 1815, toChicago, Ill., January 31, 1903; interment in the Odd Fellows March 3, 1833; was nota candidate for renomination inCemetery, Marengo, Iowa. 1832; chairman, Committeeon the Militia (Fifteenth Con- RUMSEY, Benjamin, a Delegate from Maryland; born in gress), Committee on Claims (Seventeenth, Eighteenth,andBohemia Manor, Cecil County, Md., October 6, 1734; attend- Twentieth through Twenty-second Congresses);presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1836; ed Princeton College; member of the Maryland convention of resumed the practice ofDecember 29, 1775; was appointed by the provincialconven- Biographies 1751 tion colonel of the Lower Battalion of Harford County inN.J., in 1854; and engaged in the milling businessand mer- 1776; member of the council of safety in 1776; Member of thecantile pursuits; died in Lambertville, September22, 1872; Continental Congress 1776-1777; chief justice of the Mary-interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Rosemont,Hunterdon land Court of Appeals from 1778 to 1805, when he resigned;County, N.J. died in Joppa, Harford County, Md., March 7, 1808; inter- RUNNELS, Harold Lowell, a Representative fromNew ment in the Old St. John's Cemetery. Mexico; born in Dallas, Dallas County, Tex, March17, 1924; RUMSEY, David, a Representative from New York; bornattended the Dallas public schools, and Cameron StateAgri- in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., December 25, 1810; at-cultural College, Lawton, Okla.; enlisted in theUnited tended school at Auburn, N.Y., and Hobart College atStates Army Air Force Reserve as a private,December 1942- Geneva, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831July 1943; employed by Federal Bureau of Investigation, and commenced practice in Bath, N.Y.; surrogate of SteubenWashington, D.C., 1942; manager, Magnolia Amusement Co., County 1840-1844; held many local offices; elected as a WhigMagnolia, Ark., 1945-1951; moved to Lovington, N.Mex.,in to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March4, 1847-1951 and became partner in Southland Supply Co., in1952; March 3, 1851); delegate to the State constitutional conven- formed Runnels Mud Co., in 1953, and RunCo Acidizing& tion in 1867; member of the commission to propose amend-Fracturing Co., in 1964; a founder of the PermianBasin ments to the State constitution in 1872; appointed in 1873 asPetroleum Association, 1960; member, New Mexico senate, an associate justice of the State supreme courtto fill a1960-1970; delegate to New Mexico State Democratic con- vacancy; elected to the same office in thefall of that year;ventions, 1960-1979; elected as a Democrat to theNinety- died in Bath, Steuben County, N.Y., March 12, 1883; inter-second and to the four succeeding Congresses andserved ment in private cemetery on the Rumsey place. from January 3, 1971, until his death in NewYork City Gardens, RUMSEY, Edward, a Representative from Kentucky; bornAugust 5, 1980; interment in Rest Haven Memorial in Botetourt County, Va., November 5, 1796; moved when aLovington, N.Mex. child with his parents to Christian County, KY.; completed RUPLEY, Arthur Ringwalt, a Representative fromPenn- preparatory studies in Hopkinsville; moved to Greenville,sylvania; born in West Fairview, Cumberland County,Pa., KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedNovember 13, 1868; attended the Harrisburg Academyand practice in Greenville; held several local offices; member ofthe Cumberland Valley State Normal School,Shippensburg, the State house of representatives in 1822; elected as a WhigPa.; was graduated from the DickinsonSchool of Law, Car- to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839);lisle, Pa., in 1890; was admitted to the bar in1891 and again resumed the practice of his profession; died in Green-practiced; chairman of the Republican county committee ville, Muhlenberg County, Ky., on April 6, 1868; interment1895-1898; district attorney of Cumberland County1895- in the Old Caney Station Cemetery, near Greenville, Ky.1899; county and city solicitor 1900-1906; delegateto the RUMSFELD, Donald Henry, a Representative from Illi-Republican State convention in 1910 and to theRepublican nois; born in Chicago, Iii., July 9, 1932; Princeton University,National Convention in 1912; elected as aRepublican to the A.B., 1954; received a commission in the United States NavySixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3,1915); resumed and served as a naval aviator and flight instructor, 1954-the practice of law and specialized inpublic-service work; 1957; administrative assistant to Congressman David Denni-died in Carlisle, Pa., on November 11,1920; interment in son in 1958, and on the staff of Congressman RobertGriffinAshland Cemetery. in 1959; investment broker in Chicago, Ill., 1960-1962; elect- RUPPE, Philip Edward, a Representative fromMichigan; ed as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress; reelectedborn in Laurium, Houghton County, Mich.,September 29, to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January1926; graduated from high school in 1944;Navy V-12 pro- 3, 1963, until his resignation May 25, 1969, to join the Cabi- gram, Central Michigan Universityand University of Michi- net of President Richard M. Nixon as an Assistant andgan, 1944-1946; graduated fromYale University in 1948; Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and servedserved in United States Navy during Koreanconflict as until 1970; Counsellor to President Nixon, 1970-1973; ap-lieutenant (jg); director, Houghton NationalBank, Commer- pointed Director of the Cost of Living Council in October elected 1971; Ambassador and Permanent Representative to thecial National Bank of L'Anse and R.L. Polk and Co.; as a Republican to theNinetieth and to the five succeeding North Atlantic TreatyOrganization,197 3-1974; WhiteCongresses (January 3, 1967-January 3,1979); was not a House chief of staff, 1974-1975; Secretary of Defense from Ninety-sixth Con- November 20, 1975, to January 20, 1977; chief executivecandidate for reelection in 1978 to the gress; unsuccessful candidate for theUnited States Senate in officer, G.D. Searle & Co., Skokie, Ill., 1977-1985; senior resident of advisor, William Blair & Co., Chicago, 1985 to present;1982; president of Woodlak Company to 1986; is a member, President's General Advisory Committee on ArmsBethesda, Md. Control and advisor to the government on national security RUPPERT, Jacob, Jr., a Representative from NewYork; affairs, 1983-1984; Special Presidential Ambassador to theborn in New York City, August 5, 1867; attended theColum- Middle East, 1983-1984; is a resident of Chicago, Ill. bia Grammar School; engaged in the brewingbusiness with RUNK, John, a Representative from New Jersey; born inhis father in 1887; served as a private in theSeventh Regi- Milltown (now Idell), Hunterdon County, N.J., July 3, 1791;ment, National Guard of New York, 1886-1889;appointed a attended the district schools; took charge of the mills andcolonel on the staff of Gov. David B. Hill, serving as aide-de- general store on his father's property in Milltown, N.J.;camp; subsequently served as senioraide on the staff of Gov. member of the board of chosen freeholders from KingwoodRoswell P. Flower 1892-1895; elected as a Democrat tothe 1825-1833; unsuccessful candidate for sheriff in 1830; highFifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses(March 4, sheriff of Hunterdon County 1836-1838; elected as a Whig to1899-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for renomination the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847);in 1906; resumed his activities in the brewingbusiness and unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 to the Thirtiethbecame president of his father's company in 1915;served as Congress; unsuccessful candidatefor Governor of Newpresident of the United States Brewers Association19 11- Jersey in 1850; moved to Lambertville, Hunterdon County, 1914; financially interested in various business andreal 1752 Biographical Directory

estate holdings; served as president of the Astoria SilkCleveland; died in Viroqua, Vernon County, Wis., on Novem- Works; purchased and became president of the NewYorkber 21, 1893; interment in Viroqua Cemetery. Yankees on December 31, 1914, and served in thatcapacity Bibliography: DAB. until his death in New York City, January 13, 1939;inter- ment in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, RUSK, Thomas Jefferson, a Senator from Texas; born in N.Y. Pendleton District, S.C., December 5, 1803; self-taught; stud- ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in RUSH, Benjamin, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; borninGeorgia; moved to Nacogdoches, Tex., in 1835; delegate to Byberry Township, near Philadelphia, Pa., January4, 1746; educated under private tutors and at the convention which declared for the independence of a private school inTexas in 1836; first Secretary of War of thenew Republic; at Nottingham, Md.; was graduated from Princeton Collegeinthe Battle of San Jacinto took command of the forces and 1760; studied medicine in Philadelphia, Edinburgh,London, and Paris, and commenced practice in Philadelphia retained command until October 1836, when he resumed his induties as Secretary of War; member of the Second Congress August 1769; held several professorships in thePhiladelphia Medical College; Member of the Continental Congressinof the Republic of Texas; chief justice of thesupreme court 1776 and 1777; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; of Texas 1838-1842; appointed major general of militia of the entered the Revolutionary Armyas surgeon general of theRepublic of Texas in 1843; president of the convention that Middle Department in April 1777; made physiciangeneral inconfirmed the annexation of Texas to the United States in July 1777; resigned in February 1778; resumed thepractice 1845; upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union of medicine; delegate to the Pennsylvania ratificationcon- was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate; vention, 1787; founder of the Pennsylvania Hospitalinreelected in 1851 and 1857 and served from February 21, Philadelphia; president of the Philadelphia MedicalSociety; 1846, until his death, by suicide, in 1857; served as President vice president and one of the founders of thePhiladelphiapro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-fifth Congress; Bible Society; one of the founders of DickinsonCollege atchairman, Committee on EnrolledBills(Thirtieth and Carlisle, Pa.; assisted in the establishment of thePhiladel-Thirty-first Congresses), Committee on the Militia (Thirtieth phia dispensary in 1786; treasurer of the United StatesMintCongress), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirtieth Con- at Philadelphia from 1799 until his death in that cityAprilgress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-first 19, 1813; interment in Christ Church BuryingGround. through Thirty-fifth Congresses); died in Nacogdoches, Tex., Bibliography: DAB; Goodman, Nathan G. Benjamin Rush,Physician and July 29, 1857; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Citizen, 1746-1813. Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 1934; Bibliography: DAB; Clarke, Mary. Thomas ,J. Rusk: Soldier, Statesman, Hawke, DavidF. Benjamin Rush, Revolutionary Gadfly.Indianapolis: Jurist. Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1971; Huston, Cleburne. Tow. Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. ering Texan: A Biography of Thomas J. Rusk. Waco: Texian Press, 1971. RUSK, Harry Welles, a Representative fromMaryland; RUSS, John, a Representative from Connecticut; was born born in Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1852;attended privatein Ipswich, Mass., on October 29, 1767; completed preparato- schools; was graduated from the Baltimore CityCollege inry studies; moved to Hartford, Conn.; engaged in mercantile 1866 and from the Maryland University Law Schoolat Balti-pursuits; elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congress- more in 1882; was admitted to the bar in 1873 andcom- es (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for menced practice in Baltimore; member of theState house ofreelection in 1823; unsuccessful candidate for election in delegates in 1876, 1878, and 1880; served in the Statesenate1823 to the State house of representatives; elected to the 1882-1884; delegate to the Democratic NationalConventionState house of representatives in 1824; elected judge of the in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninthCongressHartford Probate Court in 1824 and served until 1830; re- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of WilliamH. Cole;sumed his former business pursuits; died in Hartford, Conn., reelected to the Fiftieth and to the foursucceeding Congress-June 22, 1833; interment in the Old North Cemetery. es and served from November 2, 1886, to March 3, 1897; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Fifty-secondand Fifty- RUSSELL, Benjamin Edward (cousin of Rienzi Melville third Congresses); declined to bea candidate for renomina-Johnston), a Representative from Georgia; born in Monticel- tion in 1896; chairman of the Democratic Statecentral com-1, Jefferson County, Fla., on October 5, 1845; moved with mittee for Baltimore from 1898 to 1908, whenhe resigned;his parents to Decatur County, Ga., in 1854; attended the resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, Md.,where hecommon schools; entered the Confederate Army as a drum- died on January 28, 1926; interment inGreenmount Ceme-mer boy in the First Georgia Regiment; upon the disbanding tery. of this regiment he immediately enlisted in the Eighth Flori- da Regiment and continued with it during the last three RUSK, Jeremiah McLain,a Representative from Wiscon-years of the war, with the rank of first lieutenant; entered sin; born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio,June 17, 1830;the printing business; editor of the Bainbridge (Ga.) Demo- received a limited schooling; moved to VernonCounty, Wis., in 1853 and engaged in agricultural crat; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1877; pursuits; sheriff of Viro-delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; qua, Wis., 1855-1857; coroner in 1857; member of the Statemayor of Bainbridge in 1881 and 1882; member of the State assembly in 1862; became major in the Twenty-fifthRegi-house of representatives in 1882 and 1883; postmaster of ment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, August 14, 1862;lieu- tenant colonel September 16, 1863; musteredout June 7,Bainbridge 1885-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- 1865; bank comptroller of Wisconsin 1866-1869; third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, elected as a1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; Republican to the Forty-second, Forty-third,and Forty- re- fourth Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1877);chairman,sumed the publication of the Bainbridge Democrat; died in Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-third Congress); Bainbridge, Decatur County, Ga., December 4, 1909; inter- wasment in Oak City Cemetery. not a candidate for renomination in 1876; Governorof Wis- consin 1882-1889; appointed Secretary of Agriculturein the RUSSELL, Charles Addison, a Representative from Con- Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrisonand served fromnecticut; born in Worcester, Mass., March 2, 1852; attended March 5, 1889, to March 5, 1893, the lasttwo days of thethe public schools; was graduated from Yale College in 1873; service being in the succeeding Cabinet of PresidentGrovercity editor of the Worcester Press 1873-1879 and associate Biographies 1753 editor of the Worcester Spy in 1879 and 1880; moved to RUSSELL, Donald Stuart, a Senator from South Caroli- Killingly, Conn., in 1879 and engaged in the manufacture ofna; born in Lafayette Springs, LafayetteCounty, Miss., Feb- woolen products; aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Hobart B.ruary 22, 1906; moved with hisfamily to Chester, S.C., in Bigelow in 1881; member of the State house of representa-1914; attended the public schools; graduated from the Uni- tives in 1883; secretary of state of Connecticut in 1885 andversity of South Carolina at Columbia in 1925, and fromthe 1886; was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and to thelaw school of the same university in 1928; was admitted to seven succeeding Congresses and servedfrom March 4, 1887,the bar and commenced the practice of law in Union,S.C., in until his death; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in1928; took graduate work in law at the University of Michi- the Department of War (Fifty-seventh Congress); had beengan in 1929; moved to Spartanburg,S.C., in 1930 and contin- renominated as the Republican candidate for reelection inued law practice until 1942; went to Washington, D.C.,and 1902; died in Killingly, Conn., October 23, 1902; interment inworked in the War Department and as assistant to the the High Street Cemetery, Dayville, Killingly, Conn. Director of Economic Stabilization 1942-1943; served inthe RUSSELL, CharlesHinton,aRepresentativefromUnited States Army as a major in 1944; Deputy Director, Nevada; born in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., DecemberOffice of War Mobilization and Reconversion, in 1945; Assist- 27, 1903; attended the public schools; was graduated fromant Secretary of State for Administration1945-1947; re- Elko County High School in 1922 and the University ofsumed law practice in Spartanburg, S.C.; presidentof the Nevada at Reno in 1926; taught school in 1926 and 1927;University of South Carolina 1952-1957; Governor of South employed in a mine office in Ruth, Nev., in 1928 and 1929;Carolina from November 1962, until his resignation on April editor of a newspaper since 1929; served in the State assem-22, 1965; was immediately appointed as a Democrat to the bly 1935-1940; member of the State senate 1941-1946, resign-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ing in 1946 to become a candidate for Congress; served asof Olin D. Johnston and served from April 22, 1965,until president pro tempore of the State senate in 1943; elected asNovember 8, 1966; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3,1947- 1966 to complete the term; United States district judgefor January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inSouth Carolina, until appointed United Statescircuit judge 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; member of the staff of thefor the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 1971; is a residentof Joint Congressional Committee on Foreign Economic Coop-Spartanburg, S.C. eration in Washington, D.C., in 1949 and 1950; Governor of Nevada from January 1, 1951, to January 5, 1959; director of RUSSELL, Gordon James, a Representative from Texas; International Cooperation Administration mission to Para-born in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., December22, guay December 15, 1959, serving until July 1,1963; assistant1859; attended the common schools, the SamBailey Insti- to president of University of Nevada, August 1963 to Janu-tute, Griffin, Ga., and Crawford HighSchool, Dalton, Ga.; ary 1, 1968; is a resident of Carson City, Nev. was graduated from the Universityof Georgia at Athens in 1877; taught school in Dalton, Ga.; studied law; wasadmitted RUSSELL, Daniel Lindsay, a Representative from Northto the bar in 1878 and commenced practicein Dalton; moved Carolina; born on Winnabow plantation, Brunswick County,to Texas in 1879 and later, in 1884,settled in Van Zandt near Wilmington, N.C., on August 7, 1845; received hisearlyCounty; elected county judge in 1890 and at theend of one education from private teachers and attended the Binghamterm relinquished the office to resume the practiceof law in School in Orange County, N.C.; entered the University ofWilisport, Tex.; district attorney of the seventhjudicial dis- North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but left upon the outbreak oftrict 1892-1896; judge of the seventh judicialdistrict 1896- the Civil War; served as a captain in the Confederate Army;1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventhCongress to member of the State house of commons 1864-1866; studiedfill the vacancy caused by the death of Reese C. deGraffen- law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced prac-reid; reelected to the Fifty-eighth and to thethree succeed- tice in Wilmington, N.C.; judge of the superior courts for theing Congresses and served from November4, 1902, to June fourth judicial circuit 1868-1874; elected as a delegate to the14, 1910, when he resigned to become UnitedStates district State constitutional convention in 1871; member of the Statejudge of the eastern district of Texas, whichoffice he held house of representatives in 1876; delegate to the Republicanuntil his death in Kerrville, Kerr County, Tex.,September National Convention in 1876; elected as a Greenbacker to Tyler, Smith the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was14, 1919; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, not a candidate for renOmination in 1880; Governor of NorthCounty, Tex. Carolina 1896-1900; resumed the practice of law and also RUSSELL, James McPherson (father of SamuelLyon engaged in agricultural pursuits; died on Belville plantation, Russell), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born inYork, near Wilmington, N.C., May 14, 1908; interment in thePa., November 10, 1786; moved with his parents to afarm family burying ground, Hickory Hill, Onslow County, N.C.near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.;attended the classical Bibliography: Crow, Jeffrey J., and Robert F. Durden. Maverick Repubh- academy of James Ross in Chambersburg; studiedlaw; was éan in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell.admitted to the bar of Franklin County in 1807; wasadmit- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. ted to the Bedford County bar in 1808 and commenced prac- RUSSELL, David Abel, a Representative from New York;tice in Bedford, Pa.; first burgess of BedfordBorough in 1818 born in Petersburg, N.Y., in 1780; completed preparatoryand 1819; member of the State constitutional conventionin studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-1837; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congressto menced practice in Salem, N.Y.; appointed justice of thefill the vacancy caused by the death of HenryBlack and peace in 1807; admitted to practice as counselor in 1809; served from December 21, 1841, to March 3, 1843; wasnot a district attorney for the northern judicial district of Newcandidate for renomination in 1842; resumed the practiceof York in 1813; member of the State assembly in 1816, 1830,law; trustee of the Bedford Academy and secretaryof the and 1833; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Co.; died in Bedford,Pa., fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3,November 14, 1870; interment in Bedford Cemetery. 1841); chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-sixth Con- gress); died in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., November RUSSELL, Jeremiah, a Representative from New York; 24, 1861; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. born in Saugerties, N.Y., January 26, 1786; received alimit- 1754 Biographical Directory

ed schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits, the realestateConvention in 1884; member of the State house of represent- business, and banking; served several timesas supervisor;atives 1886-1890 and served as speaker pro tempore of the member of the State assembly in 1842; electedas a Demo-house in 1886 and as speaker in 1888; elected as a Democrat crat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844to theunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty- Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed banking; died in Sauger- first Congress; elected to the Sixty-second and to the three ties, Ulster County, N.Y., September 30, 1867; intermentin Mountain View Cemetery. succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919);was not a candidate for renomination; died in Charleston, Mo., RUSSELL, John, a Representative from New York; bornOctober 22, 1922; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. in Branford, Conn., September 7, 1772; attended the public school; moved to New York State; studied medicine and RUSSELL, Joshua Edward, a Representative from Ohio; practiced a short time in Cooperstown, N.Y.; county clerk ofborn near Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, on August 9, 1867; Otsego County 1801-1804; elected as attended the common schools and Sidney High School; stud- a Republican to theied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced Ninth and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3,1809); presidential elector on the Clinton ticket in 1812; engaged inpractice in Sidney; member of the city board of education in mercantile pursuits; died in Cooperstown, Otsego County,1894 and 1895; city solicitor 1895-1899; member of the State N.Y., August 2, 1842; interment in Christ Churchyard. senate 1905-1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); was an unsuccess- RUSSELL, John Edwards, a Representative from Massa-ful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Con- chusetts; born in Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass., Janu-gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Sidney, Ohio, ary 20, 1834; was instructed by private tutors; returned toJune 21, 1953; interment in Graceland Cemetery. Massachusetts and became interested in mail transportation west of the Mississippi River and in steamship lineson the RUSSELL, Leslie W., a Representative from New York; Pacific coast; engaged in agricultural pursuits; electedsecre-born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., April 15, 1840; tary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture inattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to 1880; reelected five times; electedas a Democrat to thethe bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Canton; delegate Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); delegatetoto the State constitutional convention of 1867; district attor- the Democratic National Convention in 1892;unsuccessfulney of St. Lawrence County in 1869; member of the board of candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1893and 1894;regents of the University of the State of New York 1878- member of the Deep Waterways Commission; died in Leices-1891; county judge of St. Lawrence County 1877-1881; attor- ter, Worcester County, Mass., October 28, 1903; intermentinney general of New York 1881-1883; practiced law in New Pine Grove Cemetery. York City 1883-1891; elected to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, to September 11, 1891, when RUSSELL, Jonathan, a Representative fromMassachu-he resigned, having been elected justice of the supreme court setts; born in Providence, R.I., February 27, 1771;was grad-of the State of New York; resigned as justice on October 1, uated from Brown University (then Rhode IslandCollege), 1902; died in New York City on February 3, 1903; interment Providence, R.I., in 1791; studied law;was admitted to thein Evergreen Cemetery, Canton, N.Y. bar, but did not practice; engaged in mercantilepursuits; appointed by President Madison to the DiplomaticService in RUSSELL, Richard Brevard, Jr., a Senator from Georgia; France in 1811; transferred to England,where he wasborn in Winder, Barrow County, Ga., November 2, 1897; Chargé d'Affaires when war was declared against theUnitedattended the public schools; graduated from the Seventh States in 1812; Minister to Norway and Sweden fromJanu- DistrictAgriculturaland MechanicalSchool,Powder ary 18, 1814, to October 16, 1818; one of the five commission-Springs, Ga., in 1914, from Gordon Institute, Barnesville, ers that negotiated the treaty of peace at Ghent with GreatGa., in 1915, and from the law department of the University Britain in 1814; returned to the United States in1818 andof Georgia at Athens in 1918; was admitted to the bar and settled in Mendon, Mass.; writer and orator; memberof thecommenced practice at Winder, Ga., in 1919; served with the State house of representatives in 1820; electedto the Seven-United States Naval Reserve in 1918; member, State house teenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823);chairman,of representatives 1921-1931, serving as speaker 1927-1931; Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventeenth Congress);diedGovernor of Georgia 1931-1933; elected as a Democrat to the in Milton, Norfolk County, Mass., February17, 1832; inter-United States Senate January 12, 1933, to fill the vacancy ment in the family plot on his estate in Milton. caused by the death of William J Harris; reelected in 1936, Bibliography: DAB. 1942, 1948, 1954, 1960, and 1966 and served from January 12, 1933, until his death, January 21, 1971; served as President RUSSELL, Joseph, a Representative from New York;born in that State and resided in Warrensburg, N.Y.; pro tempore of the Senate during the Ninety-first and received aNinety-second Congresses; chairman, Committee on Immi- limited schooling; sheriff of Warren County fromNovember 1834 to November 1837; member of the gration (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses), State assembly inCommittee on Manufactures (Seventy-ninth Congress), Com- 1840; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninthCongress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); again electedto the Thirty-mittee on Armed Services (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853). through Ninetieth Congresses), Committee on Appropria- tions (Ninety-first Congress); died January 21, 1971, in Wash- RUSSELL, Joseph James, a Representative from Missou-ington, D.C.; interment in Russell Memorial Park, Winder, ri; born near Charleston, Mississippi County,Mo., August 23, Ga. 1854; attended the public schools and CharlestonAcademy; Bibliography: Kelly, Karen. "Richard B. Russell: Democrat From Geor- was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in gia." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1979; Potenziani, Charleston, Mo.; graduated from the law departmentof the David D. "Look to the Past: Richard B. Russell and the Defense of South- University of Missouri at Columbia in 1880; schoolcommis- ern White Supremacy." Ph.D dissertation, University of Georgia, 1981. sioner for Mississippi County in 1878 and 1879;prosecuting RUSSELL, Richard Manning, a Representative from Mas- attorney 1880-1884; delegate to the DemocraticNationalsachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass., March 3, 1891; attend- Biographies 1755 ed the Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.; graduated from RUSSELL, William Augustus, a Representative from Mas- Harvard University, 1914 and from Harvard Law School,sachusetts; born at Wells River, Orange County, Vt.,April 1917; during the First World War served from August 15,22, 1831; pursued an academic course in Franklin, N.H.; 1917, as a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred andengaged in the manufacture of paper in Exeter, N.H., in Third Field Artillery and as a first lieutenant and communi- 1852; moved to Lawrence, Mass., in 1852, where he contin- cations officer of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Field Ar- ued in that business; member of the State house of repre- tillery Brigade, with service in France, and was dischargedsentatives in 1869; delegate to the Republican National Con- on February 20, 1919; was admitted to thebar in 1919 andventions in 1868 and 1876; elected as a Republican to the commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; member of the Cam-Forty-sixth,Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighthCongresses bridge City Council in 1926 and 1927; mayor of Cambridge(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); after leaving Congress devot- 1930-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Con-ed his time to the manufacture of paper; died in Boston, gress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937);unsuccessful candi-Mass., January 10, 1899; interment in Bellevue Cemetery, date for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, forLawrence, Essex County, Mass. election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; re- RUSSELL, William Fiero, a Representative from New sumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; resided in Essex,York; born in Saugerties, Ulster County, N.Y., January 14, Mass., where he died February 27, 1977; interment in Pine1812; completed preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile Hill Cemetery, Tewksbury, Mass. pursuits and banking; founder and president of the Sauger- ties Bank; served as postmaster of Saugerties from October RUSSELL, Sam Morris, a Representative from Texas;19, 1836, to January 25, 1841; member of the State assembly born on a farm near Stephenville, Erath County, Tex.,in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress August 9, 1889; attended the rural schools and the John(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); appointed as naval agent for Tarleton College, Stephenville, Tex.; taught school in Eraththe port of New York City in 1859; resumed the banking County, Tex., 1913-1918; also engaged in agricultural pur-business; died in Saugerties, N.Y., April 29, 1896; interment suits; during the First World War served as a private in thein Mountain View Cemetery. Forty-sixth Machine Gun Company, United States Army, in 1918 and 1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1919 RUSSO, Martin Anthony, a Representative from Illinois; and commenced practice in Stephenville, Tex.; served asborn in Chicago, Ill., January 23, 1944; graduated from St. county attorney of Erath County, Tex., 19 19-1924; districtIgnatius, Chicago, 1961; B.A., DePaul University, Chicago, attorney of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1924-1928;1965; J.D., same university, 1967; admitted to the Illinois bar served as judge of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1928-in 1967 and commenced practice in Chicago; served asassist- 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and toant State's attorney, Cook County, Ill., 1971-1973;elected as the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3,a Democrat to the Ninety-fourthand to the six succeeding 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to theCongresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is aresident Eightieth Congress; resumed the practice of law, Democraticof South Holland, Ill. county chairman, 1953-1955; resided in Stephenville, Tex., RUST, Albert, a Representative from Arkansas; wasborn until his death there October 19, 1971; interment in Eastin Virginia; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was Memorial Cemetery. admitted to the bar and commenced practice in El Dorado, RUSSELL, Samuel Lyon (son of James McPherson Rus-Union County, Ark.; member of the State house of repre-- sell), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Bedford,sentatives 1842-1848 and 1852-1854; elected as a Democrat Pa., July 30, 1816; attended the common schools and Bedfordto the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4,1855-March 3, 1857); Academy; was graduated from Washington College, Pennsyl-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty- vania, in 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837fifth Congress; elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March4, and commenced practice in Bedford; prosecuting attorney of1859-March 3, 1861); brigadier general in the Confederate Bedford County during the 1840s; elected as a Whig to theArmy during the Civil War; resumed the practiceof his Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); wasprofession; died in El Dorado, Ark., April 3, 1870; interment not a candidate for renomination; resumed the practice ofin the Old Methodist Cemetery. law in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa.; became a Republican Caroli- upon the organization of that party in 1856; member of the RUTH, Earl Baker, a Representative from North na; born in Spencer, Rowan County, N.C.,February 7, 1916; State constitutional convention in 1873; member of the town 1934; council and the school board; died in Bedford, Pa., Septem-graduated from Central High School, Charlotte, N.C., A.B., 1938, M.A., 1942, Ph.D., 1955, University ofNorth ber 27, 1891; interment in Bedford Cemetery. Carolina; teacher and coach, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Char- RUSSELL, William, a Representative from Ohio; born inlotte, N.C., 1938-1940; entered the United States Navy as an Ireland in 1782; immigrated to the United States and settledensign, resigned as lieutenant; three terms on Salisbury City in West Union, Ohio; received a limited schooling; held sev-Council, Salisbury, N.C., 1963-1968; served as mayor pro eral local offices; member of the State house of representa- tempore, June 1967 to November 1968; elected as aRepubli- tives in 1809, 1810, and 1811-1813; served in the State senatecan to the Ninety-first and to the twosucceeding Congresses 1819-1821; electedas a Jacksonian to the Twentieth,(January 3, 1969-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1827-for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; appoint- March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 ed Governor of American Samoa by Secretary of the Interi- to the Twenty-third Congress; moved to Portsmouth, Sciotoor, Rogers C.B. Morton, andserved from February 1975 to County, Ohio; was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventhSeptember 1976; is a resident of Salisbury, N.C. Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; retired to his farm on Scioto RUTHERFORD, Albert Greig, a Representative from Brush Creek, where he died September 28, 1845; intermentPennsylvania; born in Watford, Ontario Province, Canada, in the old section of Rushtown Cemetery, Rushtown, SciotoJanuary 3, 1879; immigrated to the United States in 1883 County, Ohio. with his parents, who settled in Carbondale, Pa.; attended 1756 Biographical Directory

the public schools, Blair Academy, Blairstown, N.J., andthe College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in Scranton-Lackawanna Business College; was graduated from1779; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the law department of the University of Pennsylvaniaatpractice in New York City in 1784; moved to a farm near Philadelphia in 1904; was admitted to the bar October 10, Allamuchy, Warren County, N.J., in 1787; presidential elec- 1904, and commenced practice in Scranton, Pa.; affiliatedtor in 1788; member, State general assembly 1788-1789; with the Democratic Party; served as deputy prothonotary of Lackawanna County, Pa., 1907-1914; moved to Honesdale,elected in 1790 to the United States Senate; reelected in Wayne County, Pa., in 1918 and continued the practice of1796 and served from March 4, 1791, to December 5, 1798, law; enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1904;when he resigned; president of the Board of Proprietors of served as a lieutenant colonel of the Second PennsylvaniaEast Jersey 1804-1840; appointed by the New York legisla- Reserve Militia in 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sev-ture as commissioner to lay out the city of New York north enty-fifth,Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congressesof Fourteenth Street 1807-18 11; moved to a large farm on and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in Wash-the banks of the Passaic River in 1808, which he called ington, D.C., on August 10, 1941; interment in Glen Dyberry"Edgerston"; appointed by the New Jersey legislatureas Cemetery, Honesdale, Pa. commissioner to determine the route and cost of a canal to connect the Delaware and Raritan Rivers in 1816; served as RUTHERFORD, J.T., a Representative from Texas; borna commissioner to determine the boundary lines between the in Hot Springs, Ark., May 30, 1921; moved to Odessa, Tex.,States of New Jersey and New York and New Jersey and in 1934 and attended the public schools; servedas an enlist-Pennsylvania 1826-1833; died at his home, "Edgerston," ed man in the United States Marine Corps 1942-1946withNew Jersey, February 23, 1840; interment in the family twenty-eight months overseas; awarded the Purple Heartvault in the burying ground of Christ Church, Belleville, Medal; retired as a major in the United States MarineCorpsEssex County, N.J. Reserve; student at San Angelo (Tex.) College in 1946and 1947 and Sul Ross State College, Alpine, Tex., in 1947and RUTLEDGE, Edward (brother of John Rutledge and uncle 1948; attended Baylor University Law School, Waco, Tex.,of John Rutledge, Jr.), a Delegate from South Carolina; born 1948-1950; partner in industrial electrical construction firmin Christ Church Parish, S.C., November 23, 1749; completed and owner of advertising company; served in the State housepreparatory studies; studied law at the Middle Temple in of representatives 1948-1952; member of the StatesenateLondon; returned to South Carolina; was admitted to the bar 1952-1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth,andand commenced practice in 1773; Member of the Continental to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-Janu-Congress 1774-1776; a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ary 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 toence; was a delegate to the first provincial congress in 1775 the Eighty-eighth Congress; consultant;is a resident of Odessa, Tex., and Arlington, Va. and to the second provincial congress 1775-1776; appointed a member of the first board of war in June 1776; member of RUT11ERFORD, Robert, a Representative from Virginia;the general assembly in 1778; elected a Member of the Conti- born in Scotland, October 20, 1728; completedpreparatorynental Congress in 1779 but did not take his seat; captain in studies and was educated at the Royal College ofEdinburgh;the Charleston Battalion of Artillery in the Militia of South immigrated to the United States and settledin BerksCarolina in the Revolution; taken prisoner when the British County, Tenn., and subsequently moved to Virginia;delegatecaptured Charleston May 12, 1780, imprisoned at St. Augus- to the conventions in Richmond and Williamsburg, Julyandtine until July 1781, when he was exchanged; member of the December 1775 and May 1776; served in the StatesenateState house of representatives in 1782, 1786, 1788, and 1792; 1776-1790; elected to. the Third Congress andreelected as amember of the State constitutional convention in 1790 and Republican to the Fourth Congresses (March 4, 1793-Marchwas author of the act abolishing the law of primogeniture in 3, 1797); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1796to the1791; was tendered the appointment of Associate Justice of Fifth Congress; settled on his estate "Flowing Spring"nearthe United States Supreme Court in 1794 by President Charles Town, Va. (now West Virginia) and residedthereWashington, but did not accept; elected Governor of South until his death in October 1803; intermenton "FlowingCarolina and served from December 6, 1798, until his death Spring" estate near Charles Town. in Charleston, S.C., January 23, 1800; interment in St. Phil- RUTHERFORD, Samuel, a Representative fromGeorgia;ip's Churchyard. born near Culloden, Crawford County, Ga., March15, 1870; Bibliography: DAB. attended the public schools at Culloden and Washingtonand RUTLEDGE, John (brother of Edward Rutledge and Lee University, Lexington, Va.;was graduated from the lawfather of John Rutledge, Jr.), a Delegate from South Caroli- department of the University of Georgia at Athensin 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedna; born in Christ Church Parish, S.C., in 1739; pursued practice in Forsyth, Monroe County, Ga.; classical studies; studied law in Charleston and later at the mayor of ForsythMiddle Temple in London; returned to Charleston, S.C., and for three consecutive years; member of the State houseofcommenced practice in 1761; elected to the provincial assem- representatives in 1896 and 1897; solicitor of the city court ofbly in 1762; attorney general pro tempore in 1764 and 1765; Forsyth 1898-1900; interested in banking 1901-1916;served in the State senate in 1909 and 1910; resumed thepractice ofdelegate to the Stamp Act Congress at New York City in law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits;again a1765; continued the practice of law; Member of the Continen- member of the State house of representatives 1921-1924;tal Congress 1774-1775; served as President and commander elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to thethreein chief of South Carolina 1776-1778 and as Governor 1779- succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until1782; again a Member of the Continental Congress in 1782 his death in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1932;chair-and 1783; elected one of the State chancellors in 1784; dele- man, Committee on Election of President, Vice President,gate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; member of and Representatives (Seventy-second Congress); intermentinthe State ratification convention in 1788; received the elec- Oakland Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga. toral vote of South Carolina for Vice President in 1789; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1789- RUTHERFURD, John, a Senator from New Jersey; born1791; elected chief justice of South Carolina in 1790 and in New York City on September 20, 1760; graduatedfromserved until 1795, when he resigned; nominated in 1795 to be Biographies 1757

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and1948-1962, and was minority leader for six years, 1956 to presided at the August term, but the Senate on December1962; delegate to State conventions every two years, 1940- 15, 1795, refused to confirm him; died in Charleston, S.C.,1970; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, July 23, 1800; interment in St. Michael's Churchyard. and 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Con- Bibliography: DAB; Barry, Richard H. Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina. gress February 13, 1962, to fill the vacancycaused by the 1942. Reprint. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. death of Louis C. Rabaut, and reelected in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress, serving from February 13, 1962, RUTLEDGE, John, Jr. (son of John Rutledge and nephewuntil January 3, 1965; was an unsuccessful candidate for of Edward Rutledge), a Representative from South Carolina;renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed born in Charleston, S.C., in 1766; received private instruc-the practice of law; circuit court judge, Wayne County, tion and also attended school in Charleston and Philadel-Mich., 1976-1985; visiting judge, circuit court of Michigan, phia; studied law with his father; was admitted to the bar1985 to present; is a resident of St. Clair Shores, Mich. about 1787 and practiced in Charleston, S.C.; also engaged as a planter; member of the State house of representatives RYAN, James Wilfrid, a Representative from Pennsylva- 1788-1794 and in 1811; unsuccessful candidate for election innia; born in Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., 1794 to the Fourth Congress; elected as a Federalist to theOctober 16, 1858; moved to Mahanoy City with his parents, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4, 1797-Marchwhere he attended the public schools; was graduated from 3,1803); unsuccessful candidate for election to the Thir-the high school of Frackville, Pa.; engaged in teachingin the teenth Congress; commanded a company of the Twenty-public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1884 eighth Regiment, South Carolina Militia, in 1799; promotedand commenced practice in Pottsville, Pa.; elected district to major and in 1804 succeeded to the command of theattorney in 1892 and served until January 1896; elected as a regiment and served as its commander in the War of 1812;Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March commanded the Seventh Brigade from 1816 until his death;3, 1901); resumed the practice of law; died in Mahanoy City, died in Philadelphia, Pa., September 1, 1819. Pa., on February 26, 1907; interment in the HolyRosary Bibliography: Furlong, Patrick J. "John Rutledge, Jr., and the ElectionCemetery, Frackville, Pa. of a Speaker of the House in 1799." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 24 (July 1967): 432-36; Ratzlaff, Robert K. "John Rutledge, Jr., South RYAN, Leo Joseph, a Representative from California; Carolina Federalist, 1766-1819." PhD dissertation, University of Kansas,born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebr., May 5, 1925; at- 1975. tended schools in Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, RYALL, Daniel Bailey, a Representative from Newand Wisconsin; A.B., Creighton University, Omaha,Nebr., Jersey; born in Trenton, N.J., January 30, 1798; completed1949; M S, same university, 1951; served in the United preparatory studies at Trenton, N.J.; attended TrentonStates Navy in ComSubPac, Pacific Theater,1943-1946; Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1820 andteacher and school administrator; city councilman,1956- commenced practice in Freehold, N.J.; member of the State 1962; served as mayor, South San Francisco, Calif.,1962; general assembly 1831 and 1833-1835 and served as speakermember, California State assembly, 1962-1972; delegate to 1833-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Con-California State Democratic conventions, 1956-1972; delegate gress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); resumed the practice ofto Democratic National Conventions,1964-1968; elected as a law; died in Freehold, Monmouth County, N.J., December 17,Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the threesucceeding 1864; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. Congresses and served from January 3, 1973,until his death November 18, 1978, in an ambush at the airstrip of Port RYAN, Elmer James, a Representative from Minnesota;Kaituma, Guyana; interment in Golden GateNational Cem- born in Rosemount, Dakota County, Minn., May 26, 1907;etery, San Bruno, Calif. attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis RYAN, Thomas, a Representative from Kansas; bornin in 1929; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-Oxford, Chenango County, N.Y., November 25,1837; moved menced practice in South St. Paul, Minn.; city attorney ofwith his parents to Bradford County, Pa.; attendedDickson South St. Paul 1933-1934; delegate to the Democratic Na-Seminary in Williamsport, Pa.; studied law; wasadmitted to tionál Conventions in 1936 and 1940; elected as a Democratthe bar in 1861; during the Civil War servedin the Union to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Con-Army 1862-1864; moved to Topeka, Kans., 1865;prosecuting gresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful can-attorney of Shawnee County 1865-1873;assistant United didate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Con-States attorney for Kansas 1873-1877; elected as aRepubli- gress; resumed the practice of law; entered active duty incan to the Forty-fifth and to thesix succeeding Congresses the United States Army on June 23, 1942, as a lieutenant inand served from March 4, 1877, to April 4, 1889, whenhe the Selective Service; was promoted to captain and trans-resigned; Minister to the Republic of Mexico 1889-1893; ap- ferred to the Judge Advocate General's department, laterpointed First Assistant Secretary of the Interior byPresi- promoted to major and was discharged on October 1, 1945;dent McKinley in 1897, reappointed by PresidentTheodore again resumed the practice of law in South St. Paul, Minn.;Roosevelt, and served in that capacity until 1907, whenhe died in an automobile accident on Highway 35, five mileswas sent to Muskogee, Okia., as thepersonal resident repre- north of Somerset, Wis., February 1, 1958; interment insentative of the Secretary of the Interior; died inMuskogee, Rosemount Cemetery, Rosemount, Minn. Okla., April 5, 1914; interment in Topeka Cemetery,Topeka, Kans. RYAN, Harold Martin, a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., February 6, 1911; RYAN, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative fromNew graduated from St. Joseph's High School in 1929; attendedYork; born in New York City June 17, 1890; attendedthe Ferris Institute from 1929 to 1930 and Michigan State Col-public schools and the College of the City of NewYork; was lege from 1930 to 1932; University of Detroit Law School,graduated from the scientific school of Fordham University, J.D., 1935; admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced theNew York City, in 1908 and from the law departmentof that practice of law in Detroit; assistant prosecuting attorney ofinstitution in 1911; was admitted to the bar in1912 and Wayne County in 1945 and 1946; served in the State senatecommenced practice in New York City; was wounded while 1758 Biographical Directory

serving as an aviator in France during the First WorldWar;County, N.Y., and Welisboro Academy, Welisboro, Pa.; stud- elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventhCongress ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate forpractice in Lawrenceville, Pa.; district attorney of Tioga reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; delegatetoCounty 1850-1856; during the Civil War assisted in the orga- the State convention in 1922; resumed the practiceof law;nization of Company A of the famous Bucktail Regiment; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924;appointed by Governor Curtin paymaster with the rank of special deputy attorney general of New York in 1925;servedmajor in the reserve corps; moved to Pottsville, Pa., and as counsel to the Alien Property Custodian 1925-1930; affili-resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the ated with the Democratic Party in 1926; resumedthe prac- tice of law and was a special deputy attorney of New York;Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); presi- dent of the Pennsylvania National Bank for severalyears; retired in 1950 to Coral Gables, Fla.; died in Miami,Fla.,also interested in various other business enterprises; died in November 10, 1968; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., March 12, 1901; interment in St. Patrick's (No. 3) Cemetery. RYAN, William, a Representative from New York; bornin RYTER, Joseph Francis, a Representative from Connecti- Tipperary, Ireland, March 8, 1840; immigrated to theUnitedcut; born in Hartford, Conn., February 4, 1914; attended the States with his parents, who settled in Stanwich, Conn.,in 1844; attended the district schools; in the spring of 1859parochial schools and St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, went to the Rocky Mountains and engaged in prospecting,Conn.; was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1935 and from Hartford (Conn.) College of Law in 1938; mining, and also in campaigns against the Indiansuntilwas admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in 1861, when he returned East and settled in PortChester, Westchester County, N.Y.; engaged in agricultural Hartford, Conn.; assistant clerk of Hartford Police Court pursuits1939-1941, and of Hartford City Court 1941-1943; delegate to and teaching and later in mercantile pursuits;supervisor of the town of Rye 1883-1885; member of the State the Democratic National Convention in 1940; president of assembly inPulaski Federation of Democratic Clubs of Connecticut 1939- 1891 and 1892; elected as a Democrat to theFifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); 1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress unsuccessful candi- (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); was an unsuccessful can- date for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress;re- sumed business as a merchant in Port Chester, N.Y.; didate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress;re- presi-sumed the practice of his profession; resided in West Hart- dent of the Port Chester Savings Bank and presidentof the village of Port Chester in 1912; died in Crescent ford, Conn., where he died February 5, 1978; interment in City, Fla.,Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield, Conn. February 18, 1925; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery,Green- wich, Conn.

RYAN, William Fitts, a Representative from NewYork; S born in Albion, Orleans County, N.Y., June 28, 1922;attend- ed the Albion schools; graduated from PrincetonUniversity SABATH, Adolph Joachim, a Representative from Illinois; in 1947 and from Columbia Law School in 1949;was admit-born in Zabori, Czechoslovakia, April 4, 1866; attended the ted to the bar and commenced the practice of lawin Newschools of his native town; immigrated to the United States York City in 1949; assistant district attorney,New Yorkin 1881 and settled in Chicago, Ill.; was graduated from the County, 1950-1957 and 1957-1961; served inthe UnitedChicago College of Law in 1891; was admitted to the bar in States Army in the Thirty-second Infantry Divisionas an1892 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; ward commit- artillery officer with the rank of first lieutenantfrom 1943teeman and district leader in Chicago 1892-1944; appointed to 1946, in the South Pacific; delegate, Democratic Nationaljustice of the peace for the city of Chicago in 1895; police Convention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to theEighty-sev-magistrate 1897-1906; member of the central and executive enth Congress; reelected to the five succeedingCongressescommittees of the Democratic Party from 1909 to 1920; dele- and served from January 3, 1961, until hisdeath in Newgate to all the Democratic State conventions 1890-1952; dele- York City, September 17, 1972; intermentin St. Thomasgate to all Democratic National Conventions 1896-1944; Church Cemetery, Croom, Md. elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the twenty- three succeeding Congresses, but died before the convening RYAN, William Henry, a Representative from NewYork; born in Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Mass., May of the Eighty-third Congress; served from March 4, 1907, 10, 1860;until his death in Bethesda, Md., November 6, 1952; chair- moved to Buffalo, N.Y., with his parents in 1866;attended the grade and high schools; engaged in the retailshoe busi-man, Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic(Sixty-third ness and later in the general insurance and bonding busi-through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Seven- ness; elected to the board of supervisors of Erie County inty-sixth through Seventy-ninth and Eighty-first and Eighty- 1894; reelected in 1897, and servedas chairman in 1898;second Congresses); interment in Forest Home Cemetery, elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth andto the fourForest Park, Ill. succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1909); Bibliography: DAB; Boxerman, Burton A. "Adolph Joachim Sabath in unsuc-Congress: The Early Years, 1907-1932." Journal of the Illinois State His- cessful candidate for renomination in 1908; delegateto the torical Society 66 (Autumn 1973): 327-40; Boxerman, Burton A. "Adolph Democratic National Conventions in 1904 and 1924;resumedJoachim Sabath in Congress: The Roosevelt and Truman Years." Journal the insurance and bonding business in Buffalo,N.Y., and of the Illinois State Historical Society 66 (Winter 1973): 428-43. also engaged in banking; member of the gradecrossing and terminal commission 19 19-1939; member of the Allegany SABIN, Alvah, a Representative from Vermont; born in State Park Commission 1930-1939; died in Buffalo,N.Y., Georgia, Franklin County, Vt., October 23, 1793; attended November 18, 1939; interment in Mount CalvaryCemetery, the common schools and Burlington College; member of the at Pine Hill, near Buffalo, N.Y. State militia and served during the War of 1812; studied theology in Philadelphia; was graduated from Columbian RYON, John Walker, a Representative fromPennsylva-College (now George Washington University), Washington, nia; born in Elkland, Tioga County, Pa., March4, 1825;D.C., in 1821; was ordained a minister and preached at Cam- attended the common schools, Miliville Academy,Orleansbridge, Westfield, and Underhill until 1825, when here- Biographies 1759 turned to Georgia, Vt.; was pastor of the Georgia Baptistence of State Legislatures; president,National Legislative Church over forty years; member of the State house of repre-Conference; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixthand to sentatives 1826-1835, 1838-1840, 1847-1849, 1851, 1861, andthe four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1862; served in the State senate in 1841, 1843, and 1845;1989); is a resident of Minneapolis. secretary of state of Vermont in 1841; elected as a Whig to SACKETT, Frederic Mosley, a Senator from Kentucky; the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, the 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Revisal andborn in Providence, R.I., December 17, 1868; attended Unfinished Business (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a can-public schools; graduated from Brown University at Provi- didate for renomination in 1856; delegate to the first Anti-dence in 1890 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and SlaveryNationalConvention;county commissionerof Franklin County in 1861 and 1862; moved to Sycamore, Decommenced practice in Columbus, Ohio, the same year; Kaib County, Ill.,in 1867 and continued his ministerialmoved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1897, to Louisville, Ky., in duties; died in Sycamore, Ill., January 22, 1885; interment in1898, and continued the practice of his profession until1907; Georgia Plain Cemetery, Georgia Plain, Vt. was also interested in the mining ofcoal and the manufac- ture of cement; president of the Louisville Gas Co.and of the SABIN, Dwight May, a Senator from Minnesota; bornLouisville Lighting Co. 1907-1912; member of the Boardof near Marseilles, La Salle County, Ill.,April 25, 1843; movedTrade of Louisville, serving as president in 1917, 1922, and to Connecticut with his parents in 1857; attended the coun-1923; director of the Louisville Branch of the Federal Re-- try schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; served inserve Bank 1917-1924; during the FirstWorld War served as the Union Army during the Civil War; employed as a clerkfederal food administrator for Kentucky 1917-1919; member in Washington, D.C.; returned to Connecticut in 1864 andof the Kentucky State Board of Charities and Corrections engaged in agricultural pursuits and also the lumber busi-1919-1924; elected as a Republican to the United States ness; moved to Stillwater, Minn., in 1868; engagedin lum- bering and the general manufacture of railroad cars andSenate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925, to January9, agricultural machinery; member, Minnesota State senate1930, when he resigned, having been appointedAmbassador 1872-1875; served in the State house of representatives into Germany by President Herbert Hoover, inwhich capacity 1878 and 1881; chairman of the Republican National Com-he served from 1930 to 1933, when he resigned; chairman, mittee 1883-1884; elected as a Republican to the UnitedCommittee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Sev- States Senate and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3,entieth and Seventy-first Congresses); resumed his former 1889; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; chair- business activities; died on May 18, 1941, in Baltimore,Md.; man, Committee to Examine Branches of the CivilServiceinterment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Railroads (Fiftieth Bibliography:Burke,Bernard. Senator and Diplomat:The Public Congress); engaged in the coal, lumber, and manufacturing Career of Frederick M. Sackett." Filson Club HistoryQuarterly 61 (April business; died in Chicago, Ill., on December 22, 1902; inter- 1987): 185-216. ment in Fairview Cemetery, Stiliwater, Washington County, SACKETT, William Augustus, a Representative from New Minn. York; born in Aurelius, near Auburn, N.Y.,November 18, SABINE, Lorenzo, a Representative from Massachusetts;1811; attended private schools and Aurora Academy;moved born in New Concord (now Lisbon), N.H., February 28, 1803;to Seneca Falls, Seneca County, N.Y., in1831; studied law; moved to Boston, Mass, with his parents in 1811 and towas admitted to the bar in 1834and commenced practice at Hampden, Maine, in 1814; completed preparatory studies; at Seneca Falls; elected as a Whig to theThirty-first and the age of eighteen moved to Eastport, Maine, and becameThirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); re- employed as a clerk and afterward engaged in mercantilesumed the practice of law at Seneca Falls, N.Y.;moved to pursuits; editor of the Eastport Sentinel; founder of the East-Saratoga Springs in 1857; register in bankruptcyduring the port Lyceum; incorporator of Eastport Academy and East-term of the 1867 bankruptcy law; died atSaratoga Springs, port Athenaeum; member of the Maine house of representa-N.Y., September 6, 1895; interment in Greenridge Cemetery. tives in 1833 and 1834; deputy collector of customs at East- port 1841-1843; moved to Framingham, Mass., in 1848, SACKS, Leon, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born having been appointed trial justice; elected as a Whig to thein Philadelphia, Pa., October 7, 1902; attended thepublic Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by theschools; was graduated from the Wharton School of theUni- death of Benjamin Thompson and served from December 13,versity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1923,and from 1852, to March 3, 1853; was not a candidate for the Thirty-the law department of the University of Pennsylvaniain third Congress; moved to Roxbury, Mass., having been ap-1926; was admitted to the bar in 1926 andcommenced the pointed secretary of the Boston Board of Trade; also servedpractice of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; appointed deputy attor- as special agent of the United States Treasury Department;ney general of Pennsylvania inFebruary 1935 and served died in Roxbury, Mass., April 14, 1877; interment in Hillsideuntil January 1937; elected as a member of theDemocratic Cemetery, Eastport, Washington County, Maine. State committee in 1936 and served until 1942;elected as a Bibliography: DAB. Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the twosucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1943); was an unsuc- SABO, Martin Olav, a Representative from Minnesota;cessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventh-eighth born in Crosby, Divide County, N.Dak., February 28, 1938;Congress; served at Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Train- attended the Alkabo public schools; graduated from Alkabo from High School, North Dakota, 1955; B.A., Augsburg College,ing Command, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Minneapolis, Minn., 1959; graduate studies, University ofJanuary 4, 1943, to January 10, 1946; resumed the practice Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1960; served in the Minnesotaof his profession; member of State VeteransCommission house of representatives, 1960-1978; served as house minori- 1951-1969; chairman, registration commission of Philadel- ty leader, 1969-1972; speaker of the house, 1973-1978; Presi-phia 1952-1965; member of Military ReservationsCommis- dential appointee on the National Advisory Commission onsion 1957-1967; died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 11,1972; Intergovernmental Relations; president, National Confer-interment in Shalom Memorial Park. 1760 Biographical Directory

SADLAK, Antoni Nicholas, a Representative from Con-gress were presented but he did not qualify, and on January necticut; born in Rockville, Tolland County, Conn., June 13, 14, 1820, James Guyon, Jr., successfully contested his elec- 1908; attended the parochial school;was graduated fromtion; resumed the practice of medicine at Sag Harbor, N.Y.; George Sykes Manual Training and High School in 1926anddelegate to the State constitutional convention of 1821; died from the Georgetown University School of Law, Washington,at Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, N.Y., January 20, 1834; in- D.C., in 1931; special inspector for the Department of Justiceterment in the Old Burying Ground; reinterment in Oakland from July 1941 to December 1942; assistantsecretary-treas-Cemetery. urer of the Farmers' Production Credit Association, Hart- Bibliography: Harmond, Richard. "Ebenezer Sage of Sag Harbor: An Old ford, Conn., 1944-1946; secretary to former Representative Republican in Young America, 1812-1834." New- York Historical Society Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz in 1939, 1940, 1943, and 1944; Quarterly 57 (October 1973): 309-25; Harmond, Richard J. "A Reluctant served in the United States Naval Reserve in New Guinea, War Hawk: Ebenezer Sage of Sag Harbor, Long Island, and the Coming of the Philippines, and China from March 1944 to April 1946;the War of 1812." Journal of Long Island History 14 (Fall 1977): 48-53. educational supervisor in the Connecticut Department of SAGE, Russell, a Representative from New York; born in Education from July 1, 1946, to September 15, 1946; electedShenandoah, Oneida County, N.Y., August 4, 1816; moved as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the five succeedingwith his parents to Durhamville in 1818; attended the public Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); unsuccessfulschools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Troy, N.Y.; treas- candidate for reelection in 1958; regional assistantmanager,urer of Rensselaer County 1844-1851; alderman of Troy Veterans' Administration, Hartford, Conn., from March 30,1845-1848; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1959, to May 2, 1960; engaged in lecturing and legislative1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth consultation; in 1966 elected judge of probate for the Elling- Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); was nota candi- ton-Vernon District and served until his death, October 18,date for renomination in 1856; moved to New York City in 1969, in Rockville, Conn.; interment in St. Bernard'sCeme- tery. 1863; became president and director of several railroad com- panies and financial institutions; died in Lawrence, Long SADLER, Thomas William, a Representative from Ala-Island, N.Y., July 22, 1906; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, bama; born near Russeliville, Franklin County, Ala.,AprilTroy, N.Y. 17, 1831; moved with his parents to Jefferson County,Ala., Bibliography: DAB; Sarnoff, Paul. Russell Sage: The Money King. New in 1833; pursued an academic course; movedto Autauga York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1965. County, Ala., in 1855 and engaged in mercantilepursuits; SAlK!, Patricia Fukuda, a Representative from Hawaii; during the Civil War volunteered and served in thedivisionborn in Hilo, Hawaii, May 28, 1930; attended public schools; of the Confederate Army commanded by Gen. Joseph Wheel-B.S., University of Hawaii, 1952; teacher; member, Hawaii er; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admit-State house of representatives, 1968-1974; Hawaiii State ted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice inPrattville,senate, 1974-1982; elected as a Republican to the One Hun- Ala.; county superintendent of education 1875-1884;electeddredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3,1989); is a as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-resident of Honolulu. March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate forrenomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; died inPrattville, Au- SAILLY, Peter, a Representative from New York; born in tauga County, Ala., October 29, 1896; interment inOak HillLorraine, France, April 20, 1754; immigrated to the United Cemetery. States in 1783 and settled in Plattsburg, N.Y.; engaged in mercantile pursuits and as a fur trader; also engaged in the SADOWSKI, George Gregory,a Representative frommanufacture of potash and in the shipping of lumber; associ- Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., March 12, 1903;attendedate justice of the court of common pleas 1788-1796; commis- the Ferry School, Detroit, Mich., and high schoolin Foley,sioner of highways and school commissioner in 1797 and Ala.; was graduated from Northeastern High School,Detroit,1798; supervisor of schools in 1799 and 1800; member of the Mich., in 1920 and from the law department of theUniversi-State assembly in 1803; judge of Clinton County 1804-1806; ty of Detroit in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1926andelected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress (March 4, commenced practice in Detroit; also interested in thereal1805-March 3, 1807); declined a renomination in 1806; collec- estate and building businesses; member of the Statesenatetor of customs at Plattsburg from 1807 until his death there in 1931 and 1932; member of the StateDemocratic centralMarch 16, 1826; interment in Riverside Cemetery. committee 1930-1936; delegate to the DemocraticNational Conventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948; electedas a ST. CLAIR, Arthur, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth,and Seventy-in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, March 23, 1734 (old style); fifth Congresses (March 4, l933-January 3, 1939);unsuccess-attended the University of Edinburgh and studied medicine; ful for renomination in 1938; elected to theSeventy-eighthpurchased a commission as ensign in the Sixtieth Foot, May and to the three succeeding Congresses (January3, 1943-13, 1757, and came to America; served under Gen. Amherst January 3, 1951); unsuccessful for renominationin 1950;at the capture of Louisburg July 26, 1758, and under Gen. owner of two golf clubs in Michigan; died in Utica, Mich.,James Wolfe at Quebec in 1759; resigned April 16, 1762; October 9, 1961; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery,De- settled in Ligonier Valley, Pa., in 1764, where he erected troit, Mich. mills; surveyor of the district of Cumberland in 1770; justice of the court of quarter sessions and of common pleas; SAGE, Ebenezer, a Representative from New York;bornmember of the proprietary council, justice, recorder, and in Chatham (now Portland), Conn., August 16, 1755;receivedclerk of the orphans' court; prothonotary of Bedford and his early education from a private tutor andwas graduatedWestmoreland Counties; served in the Pennsylvania Militia from Yale College in 1778; studied medicine;commencedand Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;was a practice in Easthampton, Suffolk County, N.Y.,in 1784;member of the Pennsylvania council of censors in 1783; moved to Sag Harbor, N.Y., about 1801; electedas a Republi-Member of the Continental Congress 1786-1787, and its can to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth CongressesPresident in 1787; appointed Governor of the Northwest Ter- (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1815); was nota candidate forritory upon its formation in 1789 and served until November reelection; credentials of his election to the SixteenthCon- 22, 1802; named commander of Federal Troops, March 4, Biographies 1761

1791; returned to Ligonier Valley, Pa., and engaged in the ST. JOHN, Henry, a Representative from Ohio;born in iron business; died near his old home, "Hermitage," nearWashington County, Vt., July 16, 1783; received alimited Youngstown, Pa., August 31, 1818; interment in Generalschooling; served during the War of 1812; moved toWooster, Arthur St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pa. Ohio, in 1815, to Crawford County, Ohio, in1828, and in Bib1iography DAB; Smith, William H. The St. Clair Papers. The Life 1837 to Seneca County, where he engaged inagricultural arid Public Services of Arthur St. Clair, Soldier of the Revolutionary War; pursuits, milling, and storekeeping near Tiffin, Ohio;elected President of Continental Congress; the Governor of the Northwestern Terri-as a Democrat to theTwenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con- tory; with his correspondence and other papers. 1882. Reprint. NewYork: gresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); wasnot a candidate Da Capo Press, 1971. for renomination; resumed agricultural pursuits;resided in ST. GEORGE, Katharine Price Collier, a Representative Tiffin, Ohio, where he died in May 1869. from New York; born Katharine Delano Price Collier, July ST. MARTIN, Louis, a Representative fromLouisiana; 12, 1894, in Bridgnorth, England; at the age of two came toborn in St. Charles Parish, La., on May 17, 1820;attended United States with her parents, who had been living abroad, Louisi- and resided in Tuxedo, Orange County, N.Y.; attended pri-St. Mary's College, Missouri, and Jefferson College, vate schools; at the age of eleven returned to Europeandana; entered a notarial office andstudied law until appoint- was educated in England, France, andGermany; returned toed a clerk in the post office at New Orleans; elected a Tuxedo, N.Y., in 1914; member of the town board of Tuxedomember of the State house of representatives in1840; ap- Park 1926-1949; member, treasurer, vice chairman, andpointed by President Polk register of the United Statesland chairman of the Orange County Republican committee 1942-office for the southeastern district of Louisiana in1846 and 1948; delegate to the Republican National Convention inserved until 1849; member of the State house of representa- 1944; member of the Tuxedo Park Board of Education 1926-tives 1846-1850; elected as a Democrat to theThirty-second 1946, serving as president 1930-1946; elected as a Republican Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not acandidate to the Eightieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (Jan-for reelection in 1852; engaged in mercantilepursuits; ap- uary 3, 1947-January 3, 1965); was anunsucessful candidatepointed register of voters for the city of New Orleansby for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; chair-Gov. Robert C. Wickliffe and reappointed by Gov.Thomas 0. man, Tuxedo town committee; was a residentof TuxedoMoore; credentials of election to the Thirty-ninthCongress Park, N.Y., until her death there May 2, 1983; interment inwere presented, but as the Statehad not been readmitted to St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo Church Cemetery. representation, did not qualify; presented credentials as a ST GERMAIN, Fernand Joseph, a Representative fromMember-elect to the Forty-first Congress, but the Housede- cided that no valid election had been held; delegate tothe Rhode Island; born in Blackstone, Worcester County, Mass., and January 9, 1928; attended parochial schools in Woonsocket,Democratic National Conventions in 1852, 1868, 1876, R.I., and graduated from Our Lady of Providence Seminary1880; again engaged in mercantile pursuits;elected as a High School in 1945, from Providence College in 1948, andDemocrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4,1885-March Boston University Law School in 1955; enlisted in the3, 1887); was connected with the office ofpublic accounts in United States Army in 1949 and served until 1952; elected tothe city hail at the time of his death; diedin New Orleans, the Rhode Island house of representatives in 1952, andLa., February 9, 1893; interment inSt. Vincent de Paul served until 1961; was admitted to the bar and commencedCemetery. the practice of law in Rhode Island in 1956; elected as a from Con- Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the thirteen succeed- ST. ONGE, William Leon, a Representative necticut; born in Putnam, Windham County,Conn., October ing Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1989); chairman, Putnam; graduat- Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-9, 1914; attended the secondary schools of ed from Tufts University, Medford, Mass., in1941 and from seventh through One Hundredth Congresses); is a resident of Hartford in Woonsocket, R.I. the University of Connecticut School of Law at 1948; enlisted in the United States Army in 1942,serving in ST. JOHN, Charles, a Representative from New York;the Army Air Corps in North Africa andEurope, and was born at Mount Hope, Orange County, N.Y., October 8, 1818;discharged as a flight engineer in September1945; was ad- attended the common schools and Goshen and Newburghmitted to the bar in 1948 and commenced thepractice of law (N.Y.) Academies; engaged in lumbering on the Delawarein Putnam in 1948; judge of probate court,1948-1962; served River and in mercantile pursuits and banking at Port Jervis,in the State house of representatives,1941-1942; mayor of N.Y.; served as internal revenue collector and later as presi-the city of Putnam, 1961-1962; judge ofcity court of dent of the Barrett Bridge Co.; elected as a Republican toPutnam, 1955-1961; prosecutor of city courtof Putnam, the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-1949-1951; member of board of education of Putnam,1939- March 3, 1875); resumed his former business activities; died1941; chairman and executive director ofredevelopment in Port Jervis, N.Y., July 6, 1891; interment in Laurel Groveagency of city of Putnam, 1956-1958;corporation counsel of Cemetery. Putnam; elected as a Democrat to theEighty-eighth and to ST JOHN, Daniel Bennett, a Representative from Newthe three succeeding Congresses, and servedfrom January 3, York; born in Sharon, Conn., October 8, 1808; engaged in1963, until his death in Groton, Conn., May 1,1970; inter- mercantile pursuits and the real estate business at Monticel-ment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Putnam, Conn. lo, N.Y., in 1831; member of the State assembly in 1840; SALINGER, Pierre Emil George, a Senator fromCalifor- elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847- 1925; attended March 3, 1849); moved to Newburgh, N.Y.; delegate to thenia; born in San Francisco, Calif., June 14, San Francisco State College 1942-1943; graduatedfrom the Constitutional-Union National Convention in 1860; unsuc- editorial cessful Democratic candidate for election to the Thirty-sev-University of San Francisco 1947; employed on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle 1942-1943,resigned to enth Congress in 1860; member of the State senate in 1875; subchaser in delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876;enlist in the United States Navy; commanded a chief registrar in the banking department of New Yorkthe Pacific Theater of Operations during theSecond World State; died in New York City February 18, 1890; intermentWar and was honorably discharged with therank of lieuten- in Woodlawn Cemetery, Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y.ant (jg) in 1946; returned to the editorialstaff of the San 1762 Biographical Directory

Francisco Chronicle 1946-1955; lecturer in journalismatfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Mills College, Oakland, Calif., 1951-1955; westcoast editorPhillips; reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh and contributing editor of Collier's Magazine 1955-1956;in-Congresses and served from December 5, 1838, to March 3, vestigator, Senate Select Committee To Investigate Improper1843; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- Activities in Labor-Management Relations 1957-1959;joinedment of the Navy (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee on the staff of Senator John F. Kennedy in 1959 andserved asManufactures (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful can- his press officer in the 1960 presidential campaign;appoint-didate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; again a ed press secretary to President John F. Kennedyon January 20,1961, and continued inthis capacity for Presidentmember of the State house of representatives in 1844; over- Lyndon B. Johnson until his resignation March 19, 1964, seer of Harvard University 1835-1845; died in Salem, Essex toCounty, Mass., May 8, 1845; interment in Harmony Grove run for the United States Senate; appointed as a DemocratCemetery. to the United States Senate to fill thevacancy caused by the death of and served from August 4, 1964,until SALTONSTALL, Leverett (great-grandson of Leverett Sal- his resignation December 31, 1964; wasan unsuccessful can-tonstall [1783-1845]), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in didate in 1964 for election to the full term;corporate execu-Chestnut Hill, Middlesex County, Mass., September 1, 1892; tive; a correspondent for the Frenchnews magazine, L'Ex-attended the public schools and Noble and Greenough press; bureau chief, ABC News, Paris, France; isa residentSchool, Dedham, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University of Paris, France. in 1914 and from its law school in 1917; during the First Bibliography:Salinger,Pierre.With Kennedy.GardenCity,N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966. World War served in the United States Army asa first lieutenant 1917-1919; was admitted to the bar in 1919, and SALMON, Joshua S., a Representative from NewJersey;commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; member of the board born at Mount Olive, Morris County, N.J., February2, 1846; of aldermen of Newton, Mass., 1920-1922; assistant district at an early age moved with his parents to the villageofattorney of Middlesex County, Mass., 1921-1922; member, Bartley; attended the district school; taught school fortwoState house of representatives 1923-1936, servingas speaker years; completed an academic course at the Charlotteville1929-1936; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of (N.Y.) Seminary and at Schooley's Mountain Seminary, NewMassachusetts in 1936; Governor of Massachusetts 1939- Jersey, where he afterward becamean instructor; was grad-1945; chairman of the National Governors' Conference in uated from the Albany (N.Y.) Law School in 1873;was ad-1944; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, mitted to the New York bar in 1873, to the NewJersey barNovember 7, 1944 to fill the vacancy in the term ending in 1875, and commenced practice in Jersey City,N.J.; movedJanuary 3, 1949, caused by the resignation of Henry Cabot to Boonton, Morris County, and practiced there and inMor-Lodge, Jr., but did not assume office until January 4, 1945, ristown; held several county offices; member ofthe Stateafter completion of his term as Governor; reelected in 1948, house of assembly in 1877 and 1878; prosecutingattorney of1954, and again in 1960, and served from January 4, 1945, to Morris County 1893-1898; delegate to theDemocratic Na-January 3, 1967; was not a candidate for reelection in 1966; tional Convention in 1900; electedas a Democrat to theRepublican whip 1949-1957; chairman, Committee on Armed Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses andserved fromServices(Eighty-thirdCongress), Republican Conference March 4, 1899, until his death in Boonton, N.J., May6, 1902;(Eighty-fifth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); trustee and interment in Greenwood Cemetery. director of several mutual investment funds and charities; SALMON, William Charles, resided in Dover, Mass., where he died June 17, 1979; inter- a Representative from Ten-ment in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass. nessee; born near Paris, Henry County, Tenn.,on April 3, 1868; attended the public schools, Edgewood Bibliography: Saltonstall, Leverett. Salty: Recollections of a Yankee in Normal School, Politics. Boston: The Boston Globe, 1976. Dickson College, and Valparaiso Universityat Valparaiso, md.; was graduated in law from CumberlandUniversity, SAMFORD, William James, a Representative from Ala- Lebanon, Tenn., in 1897; was admitted to thebar the samebama; born in Greenville, Meriwether County, Ga., Septem- year and commenced practice in Columbia, Maury County,ber 16, 1844; moved in early childhood with his parents to Tenn.; taught in public and private schools forsix years andChambers County,Ala.;attended a privateschoolin also engaged in agricultural pursuits; servedas special cir-Auburn, Ala., and the University of Georgia at Athens in cuit judge of the eleventh judicial circuit ofTennessee in1860; enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 as a private 1908; president of the Columbia Board of Education19 12- in the FoFty-sixth Alabama Regiment; promoted to first lieu- 1922; commanded an Artillery battery duringthe Firsttenant and was in command of a company at the close of the World War; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighthCon- war; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and com- gress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); died in Washington,menced practice in Opelika, Lee County, Ala., in 1867; dele- D.C., on May 13, 1925; interment in RoseHill Cemetery,gate to the State constitutional convention in 1875; elected Columbia, Tenn. as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879- SALTONSTALL, Leverett (great-grandfather ofLeverettMarch 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in Saltonstall [1892-1979]); a Representative from 1880; again resumed the practice of his profession; member Massachu- of the State house of representatives in 1882; served in the setts; born in Haverhill, Mass., June 13, 1783; pursuedclassi- cal studies; attended Phillips Exeter Academy, State senate 1884-1886 and in 1892 and was its president in Exeter, N.H.,1886; Governor of Alabama in 1900 and 1901; president of and was graduated from Harvard University in1802; studied law; was admitted to the bar andcommenced practice inthe board of trustees of the University of Alabama; died in Salem in 1805; unsuccessful candidate for election Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 11, 1901; interment in Rosemere Cem- in 1820 toetery, Opelika, Ala. the Seventeenth Congress; delegate to the Stateconstitution- al convention in 1820; member of the Statehouse of repre- SAMMONS, Thomas (grandfather of John Henry Starin), sentatives in 1813, 1814, 1816, 1822, 1829, and 1834;served ina Representative from New York; born in Shamenkop, the State senate 1817-1819, 1831, and 1832,and was its president in 1831 and 1832; first Ulster County, N.Y., October 1, 1762; attended the rural mayor of Salem, Mass.,schools; served as an officer in the Revolutionary War;en- 1836-1838; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifthCongress togaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the State constitu- Biographies 1763 tional convention in 1801; member of the council of appoint-Mount Carmel, Pa.; president and general managerof the ment; served as lieutenant, captain, and major in the StateShamokin-Mount Carmel Transit Co. 1908-1924; retired in militia; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth1925 and moved to Brooklyn, N.Y.; died in Mount Carmel, Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3,1807); unsuccessfulPa., on March 7, 1930; interment in Mount CarmelCeme- Democratic candidate for reelection; elected to the Eleventhtery. and Twelfth Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1813); re- SAMUELS, Green Berry (cousin of Isaac Samuels Penny- sumed agricultural pursuits; died on the Sammons home-backer), a Representative from Virginia; born near Red stead, in Montgomery County, near Johnstown, N.Y., No- Banks, Shenandoah County, Va., February 1, 1806; pursued vember 20, 1838; interment on the homestead in the Simeonclassical studies; studied law; was admitted to the Pennsyl- Sammons Cemetery. vania bar in 1827 and commenced the practice of law; re- SAMPLE, Samuel Caidwell, a Representative from Indi-sided at Woodstock, Va.; elected as a Democrat to the ana; born in Elkton, Cecil County, Md., onAugust 15, 1796;Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); re- attended the rural school; learned the trade of carpenter andsumed the practice of law; member of the State constitution- assisted his father, who was a contractor; moved with hisal convention in 1850 and 1851; elected judge of the circuit father's family to Connersville, md., about 1823; studied law;court in 1850 and of the court of appeals in 1852;died in was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commencedpractice inRichmond, Va., on January 5, 1859; interment in the Old South Bend, St. Joseph County, md.; elected prosecutingLutheran Graveyard, Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va. attorney in 1834; elected judge of the ninth judicial circuit in 1836 and served until 1843, when he resigned; was the first SANBORN, John Carfield, a Representative from Idaho; president of the First National Bank of South Bend; electedborn in Chenoa, McLean County, Ill., September 28,1885; as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4,1843-attended the public schools; was graduated from Oberlin March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 (Ohio) College in 1908 and Columbia University Law School, to the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of hisNew York City in 1912; engaged in agricultural pursuits; profession in South Bend, md., and died there December 2,trustee of Hagerman District 1921-1924; 1855; interment in the City Cemetery. served in the State house of representatives 1921-1929; member of the State senate 1939-1941; elected as a Republi- SAMPSON, Ezekiel Silas, a Representative from Iowa;can to the Eightieth and Eighty-firstCongresses (January 3, born in Huron County, Ohio, December 6, 1831; moved to1947-January 3, 1951); did not seek renomination to the Keokuk County, Iowa, in 1843; attended the public schools,Eighty-second Congress but was unsuccessful in 1950 and Howe's Academy in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Knox Col-1956 for the Republican nomination for United States Sena- lege, Illinois; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856tor; resumed agricultural pursuits; presidentof Hagerman and commenced practice in Sigourney, Keokuk County,Farms, Inc.; member of board of directors of Idaho Farm Iowa; prosecuting attorney 1856-1858; enlisted in the UnionBureau Federation; legislative representative before the1959 Army as captain in the Fifth Regiment, Iowa Volunteerand 1961 sessions of Idaho legislature; died in Boise,Idaho, Infantry, in 1861 and was lieutenant colonel of the same Hagerman, regiment when mustered out in 1864; returned to the prac-May 16, 1968; interment in Hagerman Cemetery, tice of law in Sigourney, Iowa; member of the State senate Idaho. in 1866; judge of the sixth district of Iowa from January SANDAGER, Harry, a Representative from Rhode Island; 1867 to January 1875; elected as a Republican to the Forty-born in Providence, R.I., April 12, 1887; attended thepublic fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3,schools at Cranston, R.I., and Georgetown University,Wash- 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to theington, D.C.; was graduated from George WashingtonUni- Forty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession;versity, Washington, D.C., in 1922; newspaper reporter1905- died in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa, October 7, 1892;1918; secretary to Congressman Walter R. Stiness1918-1922; interment in West Cemetery. returned to Providence, R.I., and served as an office execu- tive 1922-1931; member of the State house ofrepresentatives SAMPSON, Zabdiel, a Representative from Massachu- engaged in setts; born in Plympton, Mass., August 22, 1781; pursued1928-1936; moved to Cranston, R.I., in 1931 and business as an automobile dealer; elected as a Republicanto classical studies and was graduated from Brown University,the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January3, Providence, R.I., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the 1940 to the bar in 1806 and commenced practice in Plymouth; elected as1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses andSeventy-seventh Congress and for election in 1942 to the served from March 4, 1817, to July 26, 1820, when he re-Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed the automobile business until his death; member of the Republican NationalCommit- signed; appointed collector of customs at Plymouth, Mass., 24, 1955; July 26, 1820, and served until his death there July 19, 1828;tee 1941-1944; died in Cranston, R.I., December interment in Burial Hill Cemetery. interment in St. Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, R.I. SAMUEL, Edmund William, a Representative from Penn- SANDERS, Archie Dovell, a Representative from New sylvania; born in Blaenavon, Wales, on November 27, 1857;York; born in Stafford, Genesee County, N.Y., June 17, 1857; immigrated to the United States with his parents, who set- attended the common schools, Le Roy Academy and Buffalo tled in Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pa., in 1859; attendedCentral High School; in 1873 became a partner with his the public schools; engaged in coal mining; learned the drugfather in the produce business at Stafford, N.Y.;elected business and began the study of medicine; was graduatedhighway commissioner of Stafford in 1894 and supervisorin from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia March1895; member of the State assembly in 1895 and 1896;dele- 13, 1880, and commenced practice in Mount Carmel, Pa.;gate to many State conventions; delegate to theRepublican school director of Mount Carmel 1890-1894; elected as aNational Convention in 1896 and 1924; appointed by Presi- Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4,1905-dent McKinley as collector of internal revenue forthe March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906twenty-eighth district of New York in 1898 and served until to the Sixtieth Congress and for election in 1908 to the1913; Republican State committeeman for the Thirtieth Con- Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of medicine ingressional District in 1900 and 1901; member of the State 1764 Biographical Directory

senate in 1914 and 1915; elected as a Republican to theenth Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943);was an Sixty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March4, unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed 1917-March 3,1933); chairman, Committee on the Postthe practice of law; also interested in banking; died in Baton Office and Post Roads (Seventy-first Congress);was not aRouge, La., November 29, 1960; interment in Roselawn Me- candidate for renomination in 1932; returned to Stafford,morial Park. N.Y.; was serving as chairman of the Genesee CountyRe- publican Committee at the time of his death in Rochester, SANDERS, Morgan Gurley, a Representative from Texas; N.Y., on July 15, 1941; interment in Stafford Rural Ceme- born near Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt County, Tex., on July 14, tery, Stafford, N.Y. 1878; attended the public schools; graduated from Alamo SANDERS, Everett, a Representative from Indiana; bornInstitute and taught school for three years; owned and pub- near Coalmont, Clay County, md., March 8, 1882; attendedlished a weekly newspaper; studied law at the University of the public schools and the Indiana State Normal SchoolatTexas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andcom- Terre Haute; was graduated from the law departmentofmenced practice in Canton, Tex.; member of the State house Indiana University at Bloomington in 1907;was admitted toof representatives 1902-1906; prosecuting attorney of Van the bar the same year and practiced his profession in TerreZandt County 19 10-1914; district attorney of the seventh Haute, md.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth andtojudicial district of Texas in 1915 and 1916; voluntarily re- the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March3, tired and resumed the practice of law in Canton, Van Zandt 1925); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1924;County, Tex.; delegate to many Democratic State conven- was director of the speakers' bureau of the Republican Na-tions; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the tional Committee in 1924; appointed secretary to Presidenteight succeeding Congresses (March 4,1921-January 3, on March 4, 1925, and served untilMarch 4,1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938;re- 1929; served as Republican National Chairman from 1932tosumed the practice of law in Canton, Tex., until his death; 1934; resumed the practice of law in Washington,D.C., died in Corsicana, Tex., January 7, 1956; interment in Hill- where he died May 12, 1950; interment in HighlandLawncrest Cemetery, Canton, Tex. Cemetery, Terre Haute, md. SANDERS, Newell, a Senator from Tennessee; born on a SANDERS, Jared Young (father of Jared Young Sanders,farm near Bloomington, Owen County, md., July 12, 1850; Jr.), a Representative from Louisiana; bornnear Morganattended the rural schools; graduated from Indiana Univer- City, St. Mary Parish, La., January 29, 1869; attendedthesity at Bloomington in 1873; owned and operated a book public schools; was graduated from the law departmentofstore in Bloomington, md., 1873-1877; moved to Chattanoo- Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1893;was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Newga, Tenn., in 1877 and became a manufacturer of agricultur- Orleans; elected as an antilottery member of the State houseal implements; member of the school board 1881-1882; alder- of representatives in 1892 and served until 1904, being man 1882-1886; president of the Chattanooga Plow Co. 1882- elect-1901; member of the board of directors of the Nashville, ed speaker in 1900; member of the Stateconstitutional con- vention in 1898; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway; appointed as a Republican 1904-to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the 1908; Governor 1908-1912; elected to the UnitedStates Senate July 6, 1910, to fill thevacancy caused by the deathdeath of Robert L. Taylor and served from April 11, 1912, to of Samuel D. McEnery, but did not qualify,preferring toJanuary 24, 1913, when a successor was elected; was not a finish term as Governor; elected asa Democrat to the Sixty-candidate for election; chairman, Committee on National fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4,1917-March 3,Banks (Sixty-second Congress); continued his former manu- 1921); was not a candidate for renomination in1920; memberfacturing pursuits in Chattanooga until 1927, when he re- of the State constitutional convention in 1921;resumed thetired from active pursuits; died at his home on Lookout practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for the DemocraticMountain, Tenn., January 26, 1939; interment in Forest nomination for United States Senator in 1920 and 1926;died Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn. in Baton Rouge, La., March 23, 1944; intermentin Franklin Bibliography: Terra!, Rufus. Newell Sanders: A Biography. Kingsport, Cemetery, Franklin, La. Tenn.: Kingsport Press, 1935. SANDERS, Jared Young, Jr. (son of Jared YoungSand- SANDERS, Wilbur Fiske, a Senator from Montana; born ers), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Franklin,St.in Leon, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., May 2, 1834; attended Mary Parish, La., April 20, 1892; attended thepublic schools,the common schools; taught school in New York; moved to Dixon Academy, Covington, La., and Washingtonand LeeOhio in 1854, where he continued teaching; studied law in University, Lexington, Va.; was graduated fromthe Louisi-Akron, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1856; during ana State University at Baton Rouge in 1912, and from thethe Civil War recruited a company of infantry and a battery law department of Tulane University, NewOrleans, La., inof artillery in the summer of 1861 and was commissioned a 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1914 andcommenced prac-first lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Infantry, tice in Baton Rouge, La.; during the First World Warservedof which regiment he was made adjutant; assisted in 1862 in in the United States Army from May 1917to April 1919 asthe construction of defenses along the railroads south of captain of the Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry,Nashville; settled in that part of Idaho which later became Eighty-seventh Division; member of the State house ofrepre- Montana; engaged in the practice of law and also became sentatives 1928-1932; elected to the State senate in 1932andinterested in mining and stock raising; unsuccessful Republi- served until elected to Congress; electedas a Democrat tocan candidate for election in 1864, 1867, 1880, and 1886 as a the Seventy-third Congress to fill thevacancy caused by theDelegate to Congress; member, Territorial house of repre- death of Bolivar E. Kemp; reelected to the Seventy-fourthsentatives of Montana 1873-1879; upon the admission of Congress and served from May 1, 1934, to January 3,1937; Montana as a State into the Union was elected as a Republi- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936;resumedcan to the United States Senate and served from January 1, the practice of law; delegate to the DemocraticNational1890, to March 3, 1893; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; Conventions in 1940 and 1944; elected to the Seventy-sev-chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Fifty-second Con- Biographies 1765 gress); died in Helena, Mont., July 7, 1905; interment inJanuary 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Forestvale Cemetery. New Jersey in 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Bibliography: DAB. 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resident of Cape May Court House, N.J., until his death there August 26, SANDFORD, James T., a Representative from Tennessee; born in Virginia; attended the common schools; moved to1985; interment in Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery. Columbia, Tenn.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected to SANDS, Joshua, a Representative from New York; born in the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); un-Cow Neck (now Sands Point), Queens County, Long Island, successful candidate for reelection in 1825 to the NineteenthN.Y., October 12, 1757; received a limited schooling; served Congress; contributed a part of his wealth to the establish-as captain in the American Army during the Revolutionary ment of Jackson College at Columbia, Tenn. War; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the State SANDFORD, Thomas, a Representative from Kentucky;senate 1792-1799; collector of customs at the port of New born in Westmoreland County, Va., in 1762; pursued classi-York in 1797; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress cal studies; served in the Revolutionary War; settled on the(March 4, 1803-March 3,1805); was not a candidate for highlands back of Covington, Ky., in 1792 and engaged inrenomination; president of the board of trustees of the vil- agricultural pursuits; delegate to the State constitutionallage of Brooklyn in 1824; elected to the Nineteenth Congress convention in 1799; member of the State senate 1800-1802;(March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sep- served in the State house of representatives in 1802; electedtember 13, 1835; interment in St. Paul's Church Cemetery, as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (MarchEastchester, N.Y.; reinterment in Greenwood Cemetery, 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); drowned in the Ohio River nearBrooklyn, N.Y., in 1852. Covington, Ky., on December 10, 1808; interment in High- SANFORD, John (father of Stephen Sanford and grandfa- land Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, near Covington, Kentonther of John Sanford [1851-1939]), a Representative from County, Ky. New York; born in Roxbury, Conn., June 3, 1803; received a SANDIDGE, John Milton, a Representative from Louisi-good education; moved to Amsterdam, N.Y., in 1821; taught ana; born near Carnesville, Franklin County, Ga., Januaryschool in Amsterdam and afterward in Mayfield, where he 7, 1817; moved to Louisiana and became a planter; served asalso engaged in mercantile pursuits; returned to Amsterdam colonel in the Mexican War; member of the State house ofand continued in commercial pursuits until 1840; elected as representatives 1846-1855 and served two years as speaker;a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March4, 1841- delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1852; elect-March 3, 1843); founder of a carpet manufacturing firm in ed as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Con-New York, but the factory was destroyed by fire in 1849, gresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committeewhereupon he retired from active business; died in Amster- on Private Land Claims (Thirty-fifth Congress); serveddam, Montgomery County, N.Y., on October 4, 1857; inter- throughout the Civil War as colonel of Bossier Cavalry; sur-ment in Green Hill Cemetery. rendered the archives of the State to the Federal authorities in the absence of Gov. Henry W. Allen; died in Bastrop, SANFORD, John (son of Stephen Sanford and grandson of Morehouse Parish, La., on March 30, 1890; interment inJohn Sanford [1803-1857]), a Representative from New York; born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., January 18, Christ Church Cemetery. 1851; attended the common schools, Amsterdam Academy, SANDLIN, John Nicholas, a Representative from Louisi-and Poughkeepsie Military Institute; was graduated from ana; born near Minden, Webster Parish, La., on FebruaryYale College in 1872; engaged with his father in the carpet 24, 1872; attended the public schools; studied law, was admit- manufacturing industry in Amsterdam, N.Y.; elected as a ted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Minden,Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses La.; prosecuting attorney for the second district of Louisiana(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for 1904-1910; judge of the second judicial district of Louisianarenomination in 1892; resumed former business pursuits; 1910-1920; delegate to the Democratic National Conventiondelegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and tointerested in the breeding of race horses and owner of the the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-January 3,Sanford Racing Stable; member of the New York Racing 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936, but wasCommission; died in Saratoga, N.Y., September 26, 1939; an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United Statesinterment in Green Hill Cemetery, Amsterdam, N.Y. Senator; engaged in the practice of law; died Minden, La., December 25, 1957; interment in Minden Cemetery; SANFORD, John W.A., a Representative from Georgia; born near Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga., August 28, SANDMAN, Charles William, Jr., a Representative from1798; attended the Baldwin County schools, and Yale Uni- New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 23, 1921;versity; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Union graduated from Cape May High School, Temple University,Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress and served from Philadelphia,Pa., and Rutgers University Law School,March 4, 1835, to July 25, 1835, when he resigned, before the Newark, N.J.; admitted to New Jersey bar in 1949; served asconvening of Congress, to assist in the removal of the Chero- solicitor for Cape May City, N.J.; with Armed Forces of thekee Indians; served in the War in 1836 with the United States as navigator in the Army Air Corps, Europeanrank of major general; elected to the State senate in 1837, Theater, during the Second World War; elected to the Newbut resigned before taking his seat; served as secretary of Jersey State senate in November 1955, reelected in 1959 andstate of Georgia 1841-1843; member of the State convention 1963; elected a delegate to the Republican National Conven-of 1850; died in Milledgeville, Ga., September 12, 1870; inter- tions in 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; majority leader of thement in Milledgeville Cemetery. New Jersey State senate in 1964 and 1965; chairman of the New Jersey State Narcotics Investigating Committee, 1962- SANFORD, Jonah (great-grandfather of Rollin Brewster 1967; delegate to the New Jersey Constitutional convention,Sanford), a Representative from New York; born in Corn- March-April 1966; elected as a Republican to the Ninetiethwall, Vt., November 30, 1790; attended the district schools; and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-moved to Hopkinton, N.Y., in 1811; enlisted as a volunteer 1766 Biographical Directory

and participated in the battle at Plattsburg, September 11,can National Convention in 1876; died in Amsterdam, N.Y., 1814; appointed justice of the peace in 1818 and served forFebruary 13, 1913; interment in Green Hill Cemetery. twenty-two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Franklin County; supervisor of Hopkinton 1823- SANFORD, Terry, a Senator from North Carolina; born in 1826; commissioned a captain of Volunteer Cavalry in 1827;Laurinburg, N.C., August 20, 1917; attended Presbyterian promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1828, colonel in 1831, andJunior College; graduated, University of North Carolina, brigadier general of State militia in 1832 and 1833; memberChapel Hill, 1939; graduated, University of North Carolina of the State assembly in 1829 and 1830; elected as a Jackso-Law School 1946; special agent, Federal Bureau of Investiga- nian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy causedtion 1941-1942; parachute infantry, United States Army by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and served from1942-1945; North Carolina National Guard 1948-1960; assist- November 3, 1830, to March 3, 1831; judge of the court ofant director, Institute of Government, University of North common pleas 1831-1837; delegate to the convention toCarolina 1946-1948; lawyer in private practice 1948-1960, revise the State constitution in 1846; became a Republican1965-1969, 1985-1986; North Carolina State senator 1953- upon the formation of that party in 1856; raised a regiment1955; Governor of North Carolina 1961-1965; president of during the Civil War and was elected its colonel; died inDuke University 1969-1985; elected as a Democrat to the Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., on December 25,United States Senate on November 4, 1986, for the unex- 1867; interment in Hopkinton Cemetery. pired term of John East ending January 3, 1987, and for the six-year term ending January 3, 1993. SANFORD, Nathan, a Senator from New York; born in Bridgehampton, Long Island, N.Y., November 5, 1777; com- SANTANGELO, Alfred Edward, a Representative from pleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to theNew York; born in New York City June 4, 1912; attended bar in 1799 and commenced practice in New York City;public schools; A.B., City College of New York, 1935; LL.B, United States commissioner in bankruptcy in 1802; UnitedColumbia University School of Law, 1938; admitted to the States attorney for the district of New York 1803-18 16;New York bar in 1939 and commenced practice in New York member, State assembly 1808-1809, 1811, and served asCity; assistant district attorney, 1945; New York State sena- speaker in the latter year; member, State senate 1812-1815;tor, 1947-1950 and 1953-1956; elected as a Democrat to the elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andEighty-fifth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January served from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1821; chairman,3, 1957-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (Fifteenth andtion in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed the Sixteenth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Fif-practice of law; delegate to New York State Constitutional teenth Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixteenth Con-convention, 1967; resided in Bronx, N.Y.; died in Orlando, gress); delegate to the State constitutional convention inFla, March 30, 1978; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Wood- 1821; chancellor of New York 1823-1826, when he resigned,side, N.Y. having been elected Senator; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, SANTINI, James David, a Representative from Nevada; 1825, and served from January 14, 1826, to March 3, 1831;born in Reno, Washoe County, Nev., August 13, 1937; grad- was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee onuated from Manogue High School, Reno, 1955; B.S., Univer- Foreign Relations (Nineteenth Congress); resumed theprac-sity of Nevada, Reno, 1959; J.D., Hastings College of Law, tice of law in Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., and died there San Francisco, Calif., 1962; admitted to the Nevada bar in October 17, 1838. 1962 and commenced practice in Las Vegas; served in the Bibliography: DAB. United States Army, 1963-1966; Clark County, Nev., deputy district attorney, 1966-1968; Clark County public defender, SANFORD, Rollin Brewster (great-grandson of Jonah1968-1970; served as Las Vegas, Nev., justice of the peace, Sanford), a Representative from New York; born in Nichol- 1970-1972; district court judge of Clark County, 1972-1974; yule, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., May 18, 1874; attended theowner and teacher, Nevada Bar Review, 1969-1974; delegate, public schools; was graduated from the Albany (N.Y.) HighDemocratic National Convention, 1974; elected as a Demo- School in 1893, from Tufts College, Medford, Mass., in 1897,crat to the Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding Con- and from the Albany Law School in 1899; was admitted togresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); was not a candi- the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Albany, N.Y. date for reelection to the United States House of Representa- member of the New York National Guard 1901-1906;pros-tives but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United ecuting attorney of Albany County 1908-1914; electedas aStates Senate; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Republican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixthUnited States Senate in 1986; resumed the practice of law in Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); declined to beaWashington, D.C.; is a resident of Potomac, Md. candidate for reelection in 1920; resumed the practice of law; member of the New York State Board of Law Examiners SAPP, William Fletcher (nephew of William R Sapp), a 1921-1940; died in Loudonville (town of Colonie), Albany,Representative from Iowa; born in Danville, Knox County, N.Y., May 16, 1957; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery,Ohio, November 20, 1824; attended the public schools and Cemetery Avenue, Menands, Albany, N.Y. Martinsburg Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon, Ohio; SANFORD, Stephen (son of John Sanford [1803-1857] andunsuccessful candidate for prosecuting attorney of Knox father of John Sanford [1851-1939]), a Representative fromCounty in 1850; elected prosecuting attorney of Knox County New York; born in Mayfield, Fulton County, N.Y., May 26,in 1854 and 1856; moved to Omaha, Nebr., in 1860; appoint- 1826; attended the common schools and local academy ated adjutant general of Nebraska Territory in 1861; member Amsterdam, N.Y., Georgetown College, Washington, D.C.,of the Territorial legislative council; entered the Union for two years, and the United States Military Academy atArmy in 1862 as lieutenant colonel of the Second Nebraska West Point, N.Y.; engaged in the carpet manufacturing busi-Cavalry and served until mustered out; moved to Council ness from 1844 until his death; elected as Republican to the Bluffs, Iowa, and resumed the practice of law; member of the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); declinedState house of representatives in 1865; United States district to be a candidate for renomination; delegate to the Republi- attorney for Iowa 1869-1873; elected as a Republican to the Biographies 1767

Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-MarchLegislative Reference, Maryland General Assembly 1961; ad- 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; re-ministrative assistant to chairman, President's Council of sumed the practice of law; died in Council Bluffs, Iowa,Economic Advisers 1962-1963; executive director, Charter November 22, 1890; interment in Mound View Cemetery,Revision Commission of Baltimore City 1963-1964; member, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Maryland house of delegates 1967-197 1; elected as a Demo- SAPP, William Robinson (uncle of William F. Sapp), acrat to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970; reelected to the Representative from Ohio; born at Cadiz, Ohio, March 4,Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses (January 3, 197 1- 1804; moved to Knox County, where he attended the publicJanuary 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection to the schools; engaged in the mercantile business in Danville;House of Representatives, but was elected in 1976 to the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commencedUnited States Senate for the term commencing January 3, practice at Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio; prosecuting1977; reelected in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; attorney of Holmes County; moved to Mount Vernon, Knoxchairman, Joint Economic Committee (One-hundreth Con- County, in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Con-gress). gress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth SARGENT, Aaron Augustus, a Representative and a Sen- Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candi-ator from California; born in Newburyport, Essex County, date for reelection; assessor of internal revenue for the thir-Mass., September 28, 1827; attended the common schools; teenth district 1869-1872; collector of internal revenue fromapprenticed to a cabinetmaker; worked as a printer in Phila- 1872 until his death in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, delphia, Pa.; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1847 and became January 3, 1875; interment in Mound View Cemetery. secretary to a Member of Congress; moved to California in SARASIN, Ronald Arthur, a Representative from Con-1849 and settled in Nevada City in 1850; employed on the necticut; born in Fall River, Bristol County, Mass., Decem-staff of the Nevada Daily Journal and later became owner of ber 31, 1934; attended the public schools of Connecticut; B.S.,the paper; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1960; J.D., University ofcommenced practice in Nevada City, Calif.; district attorney Connecticut Law School, 1963; served in the United Statesfor Nevada County 1855-1856; member, State senate 1856; Navy during the Korean conflict, 1952-1956; attained rankelected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress of petty officer, second class; admitted to the Connecticut bar(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); declined to be a candidate for in 1963 and commenced practice in New Haven; served asrenomination in 1862; elected as a Republican to the Forty- town counsel for Beacon Falls, 1963-1972; assistant professorfirst and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, of law at New Haven College, 1963-1966; member, State1873); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872, having house of representatives,1968-1972;assistant minority leader, 1970-1972; delegate, Connecticut State Republicanbecome a candidate for United States Senator; elected as a conventions, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1974; delegate, RepublicanRepublican to the United States Senate and served from National Convention, 1976; elected as a Republican to theMarch 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for Ninety-third, Ninety-fourth, and Ninety-fifth Congressesreelection; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for(Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty- reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress, but was anfifth Congress); engaged in the practice of law in San Fran- unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Connecti- cisco 1879-1882; Minister to Germany 1882-1884, when he cut; is a resident of Beacon Falls, Conn. resigned; declined to accept the appointment of Minister to Russia; returned to California in 1884 and resumed the prac- SARBACHER, George William, Jr., a Representative fromtice of law; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomi- Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 30, 1919; nation for Senator in 1885; died in San Francisco, Calif., attended the public schools; was graduated from Olney HighAugust 14, 1887; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. School in 1938 and from Temple University, Philadelphia, Bibliography: DAB. Pa., in 1942; enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served from January 1942 to January 1947; was commis- SASSCER, Lansdale Ghiselin, a Representative from sioned a lieutenant and later a captain and served overseasMaryland; born in Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges County, in the Southwest Pacific for two and a half years; whileMd., September 30, 1893; attended the public schools, Cen- serving on active duty was elected to Congress; elected as atral High School, Washington, D.C., and Tome School, Port Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-Janu-Deposit, Md.; was graduated from Dickinson Law School, ary 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 toCarlisle, Pa., in 1914; was admitted to the bar the same year the Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 to theand commenced practice in Upper Marlboro, Md.; served Eighty-second Congress; director of highway safety for Penn-during the First World War 1917-1919, being overseas for sylvania; president and chairman of board of directors of thethirteen months as a first lieutenant in the Fifty-ninth Ar- National Scientific Laboratories, Inc., Washington, D.C., andtillery; resumed the practice of law; member of the State NSL Electronics, Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; served assenate 1922-1938, serving as president in 1935 and 1937; an industry consultant; at the time of his death, was servingdelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1924 as chairman of the Postal Service management advisoryand 1936; vice chairman of the committee on reorganization team; died March 4, 1973, in Bethesda, Md. of the State government in 1939; elected as a Democrat to SARBANES, Paul Spyros, a Representative and a Senatorthe Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the from Maryland; born in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Md.,death of Stephen W. Gambrill; reelected to the Seventy- February 3, 1933; attended the public schools of Salisbury;seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses and served graduated, Princeton University 1954; attended Balliol Col-from February 3, 1939, to January 3, 1953; was not a candi- lege, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes scholar 1954-1957; grad-date for renomination in 1952 but was unsuccessful for the uated, Harvard Law School 1960; admitted to the Marylandnomination for United States Senator; resumed the practice bar in 1960 and commenced practice in Baltimore; law clerk,of law; was a resident of Upper Marlboro, Md., until his United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Judicial Circuitdeath there on November 5, 1964; interment in Trinity Cem- 1960-1961; legislative draftsman, Maryland Department ofetery. 1768 Biographical Directory

SASSER, James Ralph, a Senator from Tennessee; born inthe bar in 1857 and practiced in Dover; elected as a Demo- Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., September 30, 1936; attend-crat to the United States Senate in 1870; reelected in 1876 ed the public schools of Nashville; attended the University ofand again in 1883 and served from March 4, 1871, to March Tennessee 1954-1955; graduated, Vanderbilt University, 3,1889; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Nashville, 1958; graduated, Vanderbilt Law School 1961; ad- Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty-sixth Con- mitted to the Tennessee bar in 1961 and commenced practice gress), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-seventh through in Nashville; served in the United States Marine Corps Re-Fiftieth Congresses); resumed the practice of his profession; serve 1957-1963; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesdied in Dover, Kent County, Del., March 22, 1893; interment Senate in 1976 for the term commencing January 3, 1977;in Silver Lake Cemetery. reelected in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989. Bibliography: DAB. SAVI'ERFIELD, Dave Edward, Jr. (father of David E. SAULSBURY, Willard, Sr. (brother of Eli Saulsbury, Satterfield III), a Representative from Virginia; born infather of Willard Saulsbury, Jr.), a Senator from Delaware; Richmond, Va., September 11, 1894; attended the publicborn in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Del., June 2, 1820; schools; was graduated from the law department of the Uni-attended the common schools, Dickinson College, Carlisle, versity of Richmond, in 1916; was admitted to the bar thePa., and Delaware College (now the ), same year and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.;Newark, Del.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and during the First World War enlisted in the United Statescommenced practice in Georgetown, Del.; attorney general of Navy in 1917; was transferred to the Naval Flying CorpsDelaware 1850-1855; elected as a Democrat to the United and commissioned as a first lieutenant; lieutenant com-States Senate in 1858; reelected in 1864 and served from mander, United States Naval Reserve Force, 1917-1919;March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for Commonwealth's attorney for Richmond, Va., 1922-1933; re- reelection; resumed the practice of law; chancellor of the signed to return to the private practice of law; electedas a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancyState from 1874 until his death in Dover, Del., April 6, 1892; caused by the death of Andrew J. Montague; reelected to theinterment in Christ Episcopal Churchyard. Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and Bibliography: DAB. served from November 2, 1937, until his resignation on Feb- SAULSBURY, Willard, Jr. (son of Willard Saulsbury, Sr., ruary 15, 1945, to become general counsel and executivenephew of Eli Saulsbury), a Senator from Delaware; born in director of the Life Insurance Association of America at NewGeorgetown, Sussex County, Del., April 17, 1861; attended York City, died in Richmond, Va., December 27, 1946; inter-private schools and the University of Virginia at Charlottes- ment in Hollywood Cemetery. ville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; president of the SATTERFIELD, David Edward, III (son of David Edward Satterfield, Jr.), a Representative from Virginia; born inNew Castle Bar Association and chairman of the board of Richmond, Va., December 2, 1920; educated in the publiccensors; interested in banking and sundry business organiza- schools, St. Christopher's Preparatory School, the Universitytions; member of the Democratic National Committee 1908- of Richmond, and the University of Virginia at Charlottes-1920; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States ville; served in the United States Navy from January 1942Senator in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, and 1911; elected as to December 1945; member of the Naval Air Reserve sincea Democrat to the United States Senate in 1913 and served 1946; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1948 andfrom March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candi- commenced the practice of law in Richmond, Va.; assistantdate for reelection in 1918; served as President pro tempore United States attorney, 1950-1953; councilman, city of Rich-of the Senate during the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Con- mond, 1954-1956; served in the State house of delegates,gresses; chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular Survey 1960-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-JanuaryPacific Inlands and Puerto Rico(Sixty-fifthCongress); 3, 1981); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to themember of the advisory committee of the Conference on Ninety-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law inLimitation of Armaments in Washington, D.C., 1921-1922; Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va.; isa resident of Rich-member of the Pan American Conference in Santiago, Chile, mond, Va. in 1923; engaged in the practice of law in Wilmington, Del., and Washington, D.C., until his death in Wilmington, Del., SAUERHERING, Edward, a Representative from Wiscon-February 20, 1927; interment in Christ Episcopal Church- sin; born in Mayville, Dodge County, Wis., June 24, 1864;yard, Dover, Del. attended the public schools; was graduated from the Chicago Bibliography: DAB College of Pharmacy in 1885; engaged in the drug business in Chicago, Ill., for three years; returned to Mayville, Wis., SAUND, Dalip Singh, a Representative from California; and continued in the same business; electedas a Republicanborn in Amritsar, India, September 20, 1899; educated in to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-boarding schools; University of Punjab, A.B., 1919; came to March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination inthe United States in 1920 to attend the University of Califor- 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; superintendent of thecom- nia and graduated in 1922 receiving M.A. and Ph.D. degrees; mission of public works of Mayville 1909-19 18; engaged inlettuce farmer in the Imperial Valley of California, 1930- the construction of waterworks; justice of thepeace 1912-1953; also distributor of chemical fertilizer in Westmoreland, 1920; died in Mayville, Wis., on March 1, 1924; interment inCalif., since 1953; became a citizen of the United States in Graceland Cemetery. 1949 and less than a year later was elected judge of Justice Court, Westmoreland Judicial District, county of Imperial, SAULSBURY, Eli (brother of Willard Saulsbury, uncle ofbut was denied seat, not having been a citizen one year Willard Saulsbury, Jr.), a Senator from Delaware; born inwhen elected; elected judge of the same court in 1952 and Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Del., December 29, 1817;served until his resignation January 1, 1957; delegate to attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Car-Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, and 1960; lisle, Pa.; member, State house of representatives 1853-1854;elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the two moved to Dover, Del., in 1856; studied law; was admitted tosucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1963); Biographies 1769 unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-the public schools; was graduated from the University of eighth Congress; died April 22, 1973, in Hollywood, Calif.;Wisconsin at Madison in 1902; taught school at Lake Geneva interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Calif. (Wis.) High School 1902-1905 and at Northern Illinois State Bibliography: Saund, Dalip Smgh. Congressman From India. New York: Normal School at De Kalb in 1905 and 1906; was graduated Dutton, 1960. from the law department of the University of Wisconsin in SAUNDERS, Alvin (grandfather of William Henry Harri-1909; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced son [1896- }), a Senator from Nebraska; born in Flemingpractice in Madison, Wis.; district attorney of Dane County, County, Ky., July 12, 1817; attended the common schools andWis., 1915-1919; secretary to Gov. John J. Blame in 1921; pursued an academic course; moved with his father to Illi-delegate to the International Conference on the St. Law- nois in 1829 and to Mount Pleasant, Iowa (then a part ofrence Deep Waterway between the United States and Wisconsin Territory), in 1836; postmaster of Mount PleasantCanada, in 1921, and to the Mississippi Valley Conference on for seven years; studied law but never entered upon itsMississippi River Improvement, in 1921; served in the State practice; engaged in mercantile pursuits and banking; dele-senate 1925-1929; elected as a Progressive to the Seventy- gate to the State constitutional convention in 1846; member,fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-Janu- State senate 1854-1856, 1858-1860; one of the commissionersary 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to appointed by Congress to organize the Pacific Railroad Co.;the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected to the Seventy-seventh Governor of the Territory of Nebraska 1861-1867; elected asand Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 5, 1877, to March 3, 1883; chairman, Committee on1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, but was Territories (Forty-seventh Congress); died in Omaha, Nebr.,unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate on the November 1, 1899; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Progressive ticket; resumed the practice of law until his Bibliography: DAB. retirement in 1955; died in Madison, Wis., on June 16, 1966; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. SAUNDERS, Edward Watts, a Representative from Vir- ginia; born near Rockymount, Franklin County, Va., October SAVAGE, Charles Raymon, a Representative from Wash- 20, 1860; received his early education under private teachers;ington; born on a farm at La Farge, Vernon County, Wis., attended Bellevue High School, Bedford County, Va., andApril 12, 1906; attended the public schools; took special was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottes-courses in mechanics, building construction, business law, ville in 1882; studied law; was admitted to the bar andand salesmanship; moved to Washington State and engaged commenced practice in Rockymount, Va., in 1883; member ofin the building construction and logging businesses; member the State house of delegates 1887-1901 and served as speak-of the State house of representatives, 1939-1945, 1951-1959, er in 1899; elected judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of1963-1967, and 1969-1976; delegate to State Democratic con- Virginia in 1901 and judge of the seventh circuit in 1904; ventions twelve times from 1938 to 1970; delegate, Democrat- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill theic National Convention, 1944; elected as a Democrat to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Claude A. Swanson;Seventy-nineth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); reelected to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congress-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eighti- es and served from November 6, 1906, to February 29, 1920, when he resigned, having been elected judge of the Stateeth Congress and also unsuccessful in a special election in supreme court of appeals, which position he held until hisJune 1947 to the Eightieth Congress, and for election in 1948 death in Rockymount, Franklin County, Va., on Decemberto the Eighty-first Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nom- 16, 1921; interment in High Street Cemetery. ination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; continued his logging pursuits; district manager of an insurance society; SAUNDERS, Romulus Mitchell, a Representative fromengaged in real estate business; resided in Shelton, Wash., North Carolina; born near Milton, Caswell (then Orange)where he died January 14, 1976; interment in Shelton Me- County, N.C., March 3, 1791; attended the common schoolsmorial Park. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809- 1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Nashville, SAVAGE, Gus, a Representative from Illinois; born in Tenn., in 1812 and commenced practice in Milton, N.C.;Detroit, Mich., October 30, 1925; attended the public schools member of the State house of commons in 1815, 1817, andof Chicago; graduated from Wendell Phillips High School, 1819, and served two years as speaker; trustee of the Univer-Chicago, Ill., 1943; B.A., Roosevelt College, Chicago, 1951; sity of North Carolina 1819-1864; moved to Raleigh, N.C., inserved in the United States Army, 1943-1946; graduate 1823; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress;work, Roosevelt College, 1952; attended Chicago-Kent Col- reelected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresseslege of Law, Chicago, 1952-1953; worked as a journalist, (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); declined to be a candidate for 1954-1979, and was editor and publisher, Citizen Community reelection; attorney general of the State 1828-183 1; judge ofNewspapers, 1965-1979; a founder and chief strategist of the superior court 1835-1840; unsuccessful candidate forblack political independent movement in Midwest; campaign Governor of North Carolina in 1840; elected as a Democratmanager, Midwest League of Negro Voters, 1960; chairman, totheTwenty-seventhand Twenty-eighthCongressesProtest at the Polls, 1963; chairman, Southend Voters Con- (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); chairman, Committee on theference, Chicago, 1960; chairman, Committee for a Black Judiciary (Twenty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuccessful candidate for the United StatesMayor, Chicago, 1976; unsuccessful candidate for election in Senate in 1842 and 1852; Minister to Spain 1846-1849; again1970 to the Ninety-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to a member of the State house of commons 1850-1852; judge ofthe Ninety-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses the superior court of North Carolina 1852-1856; member of(January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Chicago, the board of commissioners to revise the laws of North Caro-Ill. lina; died in Raleigh, N.C., April 21, 1867; interment in Old SAVAGE, John, a Representative from New York; born in City Cemetery. Salem, Washington County, N.Y., February 22, 1779; attend- Bibliography: DAB. ed the common schools; was graduated from Union College, SAUTHOFF, Harry, a Representative from Wisconsin;Schenectady, N.Y., in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the born in Madison, Dane County, Wis., June 3, 1879; attendedbar in 1800 and commenced practice in Salem, N.Y.; district 1770 Biographical Directory

attorney for the fourth New York district 1806-18 11 andfirst Congress), Committee on Education and Labor (Forty- 1812 and 1813; member of the State assembly in 1814; elect- second Congress); Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1873- ed as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con- 1874; employed in the United States Coast Survey 1874-1880; gresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); chairman, Committeespecial agent of the War Department 1880-1887; conducted a on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fifteenth Congress);preparatory school in Ithaca, N.Y., and gave private instruc- district attorney of Washington County 1818-1820; Statetion to students in Cornell University; moved to Tennessee comptroller 182 1-1823; chief justice of the State supremeand became president of a company at Cumberland Gap to court 1823-1836; appointed Treasurer of the United States inpromote the sale of agricultural lands in that vicinity; died 1828 but did not accept; presidential elector on the Demo-suddenly at Shawnee, Tenn., July 31, 1891; interment in cratic ticket in 1844; died in Utica, N.Y., October 19, 1863;"Sawyer Heights," on the property of his land company, interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. near East Cumberland Gap. SAVAGE, John Houston, a Representative from Tennes- see; born in McMinnville, Tenn., on October 9, 1815; attend- SAWYER, Harold Samuel, a Representative from Michi- ed the common schools; served as a private in the Seminolegan; born in San Francisco, Calif., March 21, 1920; attended War; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedthe public schools of the San Francisco Bay area; graduated practice in Smithville, Tenn.; colonel of State militia; attor-from Mann Junior College (now College of Mann), Kent- ney general of the fourth Tennessee district 1841-1847;field, Calif., 1940 and University of California, Berkeley, major of the Fourteenth United States Infantry during the1940; J.D., Hastings College of Law, University of California, Mexican War and subsequently promoted to lieutenant colo-San Francisco, 1943; admitted to the California bar in 1943 nel; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-and Michigan bar in 1946 and commenced practice in Grand second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); declinedRapids; served in the United States Navy, 1941-1945; private to be a candidate for reelection; elected to the Thirty-fourthpractice of law, Grand Rapids, 1945-1975; member, Michigan and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); Law Revision Commission, 1968-1976; Kent County (Mich.) colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment Tennessee Infantry, in theprosecuting attorney, 1975-1976; elected as a Republican to Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of thethe Ninety-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan- State house of representatives 1877-1879 and 1887-1891 anduary 3, 1977-January 3, 1985); did not seek reelection to the the State senate 1879-1881; died in McMinnville, Tenn., onNinety-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in April 5, 1904; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Grand Rapids; is a resident of Rockford, Mich. SAVAGE, John Simpson, a Representative from Ohio; SAWYER, John Gilbert, a Representative from New York; born in Clermont County, Ohio, October 30, 1841; attendedborn in Brandon, Rutland County, Vt., June 5, 1825; attend- the public schools; taught school; studied law; was admitteded the common schools and Millville (N.Y.) Academy; moved to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Wilmington,to Albion, N.Y., in 1845; superintendent of schools for Orle- Clinton County, Ohio, the same year; elected as a Democratans County, N.Y., 1848-1851; studied law; was admitted to to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Albion, N.Y.; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-justice of the peace of Barre, Orleans County, N.Y., 1851- fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Wilming-1862; prosecuting attorney of Orleans County 1862-1865; ton, Ohio, November 24, 1884; interment in Sugar Grovejudge and surrogate of Orleans County 1867-1883; delegate Cemetery. to several Republican State conventions; elected as a Repub- SAWTELLE, Cullen, a Representative from Maine; bornlican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses in Norridgewock, Maine, September 25, 1805; received his(March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on early education under private tutors and was graduatedExpenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fifty-first Con- from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; studiedgress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1890; re- law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and practiced in Nor-sumed the practice of his profession in Albion, N.Y., and ridgewock until 1841; register of probate 1830-1838; memberdied there September 5, 1898; interment in Mount Albion of the State senate 1842-1844; elected as a Democrat to theCemetery. Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chair- SAWYER, Lemuel, a Representative from North Carolina; man, Committee on Revisaland UnfinishedBusinessborn in Camden County, near Elizabeth City, N.C., in 1777; (Twenty-ninth Congress); elected to the Thirty-first Congressattended Flatbush Academy, Long Island, N.Y., and was (March 4, 1849-March 3,1851); chairman, Committee ongraduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-first Congress); attorney andHill in 1799; attended the University of Pennsylvania at credit manager for several mercantile firms in New YorkPhiladelphia for a time; studied law; was admitted to the bar City 1852-1882; died in Englewood, Bergen County, N.J.,in 1804 and commenced practice in Elizabeth City, N.C.; November 10, 1887; interment in Brookside Cemetery. member of the State house of commons in 1800 and 1801; SAWYER, Frederick Adoiphus, a Senator from Southelected as a Republican to the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Carolina; born in Bolton, Worcester County, Mass., Decem-Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1813); elected to the ber 12, 1822; attended the public schools; graduated fromFifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, Harvard University in 1844; taught school in New England 1817-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844-1859; took charge of the State normal school at1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; elected to the Nineteenth Charleston, S.C., in 1859; returned to the North during theand Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); Civil War; returned to Charleston in February 1865 and wasunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty- active in advancing reconstruction measures; appointed col-first Congress; department clerk in Washington, D.C., until lector of internal revenue in the second South Carolina dis-his death in that city on January 9, 1852; interment in the trict 1865; upon the readmission of the State of South Caroli-family burying ground at Lambs Ferry, Camden County, na to representation was elected as a Republican to theabout four miles from Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, United States Senate and served from July 16, 1868, toN.C. March 3, 1873; chairman, Committee on Education (Forty- Bibliography: DAB. Biographies 1771

SAWYER, Lewis Ernest, a Representative from Arkansas;served until April 6,1858; moved to Washington, D.C.; born in Shelby County, Ala., June 24, 1867; moved with hisduring the Civil War was appointed, September 17, 1861, parents to Lee County, Miss.; attended the public schoolscommissary with the rank of major in the Confederate serv- and was graduated from the University of Mississippi atice and served until August 2, 1862; died in Bloomfield, Oxford; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-Essex County, N.J., November 29, 1865. menced practice at Friars Point, Miss., in 1895; mayor of Friars Point from 1896 until he enlisted in the Spanish- SAWYER, Thomas Charles, a Representative from Ohio; American War in June 1898; served in the Philippine Is-born in Akron, Ohio, August 15,1945; attended public lands during the war; resumed the practice of law in luka,schools; B.A., University of Akron, 1968; M.A., same univer- Miss., in 1900; moved to Hot Springs, Ark., in 1908 andsity, 1970; public school teacher; legislative agent, Public continued the practice of his profession; member of the StateUtilities Commission; member, Ohio State house of repre- house of representatives in 1913 and 1915 and was its speak-sentatives, 1977-1983; mayor, Akron, 1984-1986; elected as a er in the latter year; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-Democrat to the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987- eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until hisJanuary 3, 1989); is a resident of Akron, Ohio. death at Hot Springs, Ark., May 5, 1923; interment in Holly- SAWYER, William, a Representative from Ohio; born in wood Cemetery. Montgomery County, Ohio, August 5, 1803; apprenticed to a SAWYER, Philetus, a Representative and a Senator fromblacksmith in 1818 and worked in Dayton, Ohio, and near Wisconsin; born in Whiting, Rutland County, Vt., SeptemberGrand Rapids, Mich.; moved to Miamisburg, Ohio, in 1829; 22, 1816; moved with his parents to Crown Point, N.Y., inmember of the State house of representatives 1832-1835 and 1817; attended the common schools; moved to Fond du Lacserved as speaker in 1835; unsuccessful candidate for elec- County, Wis., in 1847 and engaged in the lumber business;tion to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses; member, Wisconsin assembly 1857, 1861; mayor of Oshkoshmoved to St. Marys, Ohio, in 1843; elected as a Democrat to 1863-1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth andthe Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845- to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3,March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination; dele- 1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874;gate to the State constitutional convention 1850-1851; again chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Forty-seconda member of the State house of representatives in 1856; Congress), Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-third Con- receiver of the land office of the Otter Trail district in gress); elected as a Republican to the United States SenateMinnesota 1855-186 1; trustee of Ohio Agricultural and Me- in 1881; reelected in 1887 and served from March 4, 1881, tochanical College (later Ohio State University) 1870-1874; March 3, 1893; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman,mayor and justice of the peace of St. Marys 1870-1877;died Committee on Railroads (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con-at St Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, September 18, 1877; gresses), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Fiftiethinterment in Elm Grove Cemetery. through Fifty-second Congresses); resumed his former busi- ness pursuits; died in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wis., SAXBE, William Bart, a Senator from Ohio; born in Me- March 29, 1900; interment in the family vault at Riverside,chanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, June 24, 1916; at- Oshkosh. tended the public schools in Mechanicsburg; enlisted in Ohio Bibliography: DAB; Current, Richard N. Pine Logs and Politics: A Life National Guard 1937; active military duty, Second World of , 1816-1900. Madison: State Historical Society of Wiscon- War 1940-1945, and Korean conflict 1951-1952; graduated sin, 1950. from Ohio State University in 1940 and from that universi- SAWYER, Samuel Locke, a Representative from Missou-ty's law school in 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and ri; born in Mount Vernon, N.H., November 27, 1813; wascommenced practice in Columbus, Ohio; member, Ohio State graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1833;house of representatives 1947-1954; Ohio attorney general studied law; was admitted to the bar in Amherst, N.H., in1957-1958, 1963-1968; chairman, Ohio Crime Commission 1836; moved to Lexington, Mo., in 1838 and practiced; elect-1967-1968; elected as a Republican to the United States ed circuit attorney of the sixth judicial circuit of Missouri inSenate in 1968, and served from January 3, 1969, until his 1848 and reelected in 1852; delegate to the Missouri constitu-resignation January 3, 1974, to become Attorney General of tional convention in 1861; delegate to the Democratic Na-the United States from January 4, 1974, to February 2, 1975; tional Convention in 1868; elected judge of the twenty-fourthAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to India judicial circuit and served from 1871 until February 15,1975-1977; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of 1876, when he resigned; elected as an Independent DemocratMechanicsburg, Ohio. to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); did not seek renomination in 1880; practiced law and en- SAXTON, Hugh James, a Representative from New gaged in banking; died in Independence, Mo., March 29,Jersey; born in Nicholson, Pa., January 22, 1943; attended 1890; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. public schools; B.A., East Stroudsburg State College (Pa.), 1965; graduate work, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., SAWYER, Samuel Tredwell, a Representative from North1968; public school teacher, 1965-1968; entered the real Carolina; born in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., in 1800;estate business in 1965 and owned a realty company in New attended Edenton Academy and the University of NorthJersey; New Jersey house of assembly, 1976-1981; State Carolina at Chapel Hill; studied law; was admitted to thesenate, 1982-1984; elected as a Republican by special elec- bar and commenced practice in Edenton; member of thetion November 6, 1984, to the Ninety-eighth Congress to fill State house of representatives 1829-1832; served in the Statethe vacancy caused by the death of Edwin B. Forsythe and senate in 1834; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Con-at the same time elected to the Ninety-ninth Congress; re- gress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chairman, Committeeelected to the One Hundredth Congress (November 6, 1984- on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twenty-fifth Congress); January 3, 1989); is a resident of Vincentown, N.J. unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress; moved to Norfolk, Va., and resumed the practice SAY, Benjamin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; of law; editor of the Norfolk Argus for several years; ap-born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 28, 1755; attended the pointed collector of customs at Norfolk on May 16, 1853, andFriends schools; was graduated from the medical department 1772 Biographical Directory

of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1780and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1929, and Dickinson and practiced in that city; was also an apothecary; served in Law School, Carlisle, Pa., in 1933; was admitted to the bar in the Revolutionary War; was a fellow of the College of Physi- 1934 and commenced the practice of law in Johnstown, Pa.; cians of Philadelphia, of which he was one of the founders inelected city solicitor of Johnstown, Pa., in 1938 and served 1787, and was treasurer from 1791 to 1809; member of theuntil 1940; enlisted in the United States Navy on August 6, Pennsylvania Prison Society and president of the Pennsylva- 1943, commissioned a lieutenant (jg.) in 1943, and discharged nia Humane Society; elected as a Republican to the Tenthin January 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofCongress, by special election, September 13, 1949, to fill the Joseph Clay; reelected to the Eleventh Congress and servedvacancy caused by the death of Robert L. Coffey; reelected to from November 16, 1808, until his resignation in June 1809;the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from Septem- died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 23, 1813. ber 13, 1949, until his death in Houston, Tex., October 28, Bibliography: DAB. 1973; interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, Pa. SAYERS, Joseph Draper, a Representative from Texas; SCALES, Alfred Moore, a Representative from North born in Grenada, Grenada County, Miss., September 23, Carolina; born in Reidsville, Rockingham County, N.C., No- 1841; moved with his father to Bastrop, Tex., in 1851; attend- ed Bastrop Military Institute; entered the Confederate Armyvember 26, 1827; pursued classical studies; attended the in 1861 and served throughout the Civil War, attaining theCaidwell Institute, Greensboro, N.C., and the University of rank of major; taught school; studied law; was admitted toNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1845 and 1846; studied law; the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Bastrop, Tex.;was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced in Madison, member of the State senate 1873-1879; chairman of theN.C.; solicitor of Rockingham County in 1853; member of the Democratic State executive committee 1875-1878; Lieuten-State house of commons in 1852, 1853, 1856, and 1857; elect- ant in 1879 and 1880; elected as a Demo-ed as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, crat to the Forty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses1857-March 3, 1859); presidential elector on the Democratic and served from March 4, 1885, until his resignationonticket of John C. Breckinridge in 1860; volunteered as a January 16, 1899; chairman, Committee on Appropriationsprivate in the Confederate Army and served throughout the (Fifty-third Congress); Governor of Texas 1899-1903; re-Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier general; resumed sumed the practice of his profession in Austin, Travisthe practice of law in Greensboro, N.C.; member of the State County, Tex.; member of the State board of regents of thehouse of representatives 1866-1869; elected as a Democrat to University of Texas at Austin in 1913; chairman of the Statethe Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses and industrial accident board in 1914 and 1915; member of theserved from March 4, 1875, to December 30, 1884, when he State board of legal examiners 1923-1925; appointedaresigned, having been elected Governor; chairman, Commit- member of the State pardon board in 1927 and served untiltee on Indian Affairs (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Con- his death in Austin, Tex., May 15, 1929; interment in Fair-gresses); served as Governor of North Carolina 1884-1888; view Cemetery, Bastrop, Tex. engaged in banking in Greensboro, N.C., and died there on February 9, 1892; interment in Green Hill Cemetery. SAYLER, Henry Benton (cousin of ),a Rep- resentative from Indiana; born in Montgomery County, SCAMMAN, John Fairfield, a Representative from Maine; Ohio, March 31, 1836; moved to Clinton County, md.; attend-born in Wells, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), Oc- ed the common schools of the county; studied law;was ad-tober 24, 1786; attended the common schools; engaged in mitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Eaton,mercantile pursuits; member of the Massachusetts house of Preble County, Ohio; during the Civil War served in therepresentatives in 1817; member of the Maine house of rep- Union Army as lieutenant, captain, and major; electedas aresentatives in 1820 and 1821; collector of customs in Saco, Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-Maine, 1829-1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomiantion inninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chairman, 1874; judge of the Twenty-eighth judicial circuit court ofCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treas- Indiana 1875-1900; died in Huntington, Huntington County,ury (Twenty-ninth Congress); served in the State senate in md., June 18, 1900; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. 1855; died in Saco, York County, Maine, May 22, 1858; inter- ment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. SAYLER, Milton (cousin of Henry Benton Sayler),a Rep- resentative from Ohio; born in Lewisburg, Preble County, SCANLON, Thomas Edward, a Representative from Penn- Ohio, November 4, 1831; attended the public schools;pur-sylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., September 18, 1896; at- sued classical studies and was graduated from Miami Uni-tended the public schools, Forbes School, and Duquesne Uni- versity, Oxford, Ohio, in 1852; studied law at the Cincinnativersity, Pittsburgh, Pa.; learned the pressman's trade and Law School; was admitted to the bar and commencedprac-was employed on Pittsburgh newspapers 1914-1936; during tice in Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the State house ofrepre-- the First World War served as a private, first class, in the sentatives in 1862 and 1863; member of the city council ofUnited States Army from September 6, 1918, to May 14, Cincinnati in 1864 and 1865; elected as a Democrat to the1919; delegate to the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union 1920- Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March1940; member of the Allegheny County Board for the Assess- 4, 1873-March 3,1879); chairman, Committee on Publicment and Revision of Taxes 1936-1941; elected as a Demo-

Lands (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate forre-- crat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; moved to New(January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate York City and resumed the practice of his profession; died inforreelectionin1944tothe Seventy-ninth Congress; that city November 17, 1892; interment in Spring Grovemember of the Boards of Viewers of Allegheny County, Pa.; Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. died in Pittsburgh, Pa., August 9, 1955; interment in North SAYLOR, John Phillips, a Representative from Pennsyl-Side Catholic Cemetery. vania; born in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, Pa.; SCARBOROUGH, Robert Bethea, a Representative from July 23, 1908; attended the public schools in Johnstown, Pa.;South Carolina; born in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, was graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1925, Franklin S.C., October 29, 1861; attended the common schools and Biographies 1773

Mullins (S.C.) Academy; taught school; studied law; was ad-employed in the office of the Allis-Chalmers Co.; during the mitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice inFirst World War enlisted in the Thirteenth Engineers on Conway, S.C.; county attorney of Horry County 1885-1893;May 24, 1917, and served twenty-two months in France; served as clerk of the county board 1885-1890; member ofengaged as a locomotive engineer on the Chicago & North the South Carolina State senate in 1897 and 1898 and wasWestern Railroad; member of Wauwatosa School Board, dis- elected president pro tempore in 1898; Lieutenant Governortrict No. 11; member of the State assembly in 1921; elected of South Carolina in 1899; elected as a Democrat to theas a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeed- Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901- ing Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 8, 1933); unsuccessful March 3, 1905); declined to be a candidate for renominationcandidate for reelection in 1932 and for election in 1934 to in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice ofthe Seventy-fourth Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth law in Conway, S.C., and was also interested in banking;Congress; elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, served as chairman of the board of regents of the South1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Carolina State Hospital; died in Conway, Horry County, S.C.,in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and for election in on November 23, 1927; interment in Lake Side Cemetery.1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; unsuccessfully contest- SCHADEBERG, Henry Carl, a Representative from Wis-ed the election of Thaddeus F.B. Wasielewski in the Seventy- consin; born in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wis., Octobereighth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1952 12, 1913; graduated from Manitowoc public schools; Carrollto the Eighty-third Congress, in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth College, Waukesha, Wis., B.A., 1938, and Garrett BiblicalCongress, and in 1957 for the senatorial nomination to fill a Institute, Evanston, Ill., B.D., 1941; clergyman; served in thevacancy; engaged in the sale of automotive electrical equip- United States Navy as a chaplain from 1943 to 1946 and inment and in the insurance business in Oak Park, Ill.; died in the Korean conflict from 1952 to 1953; captain in the UnitedPewaukee, Wis., June 9, 1962; interment in Arlington Park, States Naval Reserve until retirement in 1969; elected as aMilwaukee, Wis. Republican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Con- SCHALL, Thomas David, a Representative and a Senator gresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful can-from Minnesota; born in Reed City; Osceola County, Mich., didate for reelection in 1964; delegate, Republican State con-June 4, 1878; moved with his mother to Campbell, Minn., in ventions since 1960; delegate, Republican National Conven-1884; attended the common schools, but ran away to join the tion, 1964; elected to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Con-circus; attended Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., 1898- gresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful can-1899; graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minne- didate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress;apolis in 1902 and from St. Paul College of Law in 1904; was was a resident of Rockbridge Baths, Va., until his deathadmitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice at there December 11, 1985; ashes buried at Hill-Valley Ranch.Minneapolis; in 1907 lost his sight as the result of an electric SCHAEFER, Daniel, a Representative from Colorado;shock but continued the practice of his profession; elected as born in Guttenberg, Clayton County, Iowa, January 25, 1936;a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to thefour succeeding attended public schools; B.A., Niagara University, NiagaraCongresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925); was not a candi- Falls, N.Y., 1961; attended the Potsdam University, Pots-date for renomination, having become a candidate for the dam, N.Y., 1961-1964; served in the United States MarineUnited States Senate; chairman, Committee on Alcohol Corps, sergeant, 1955-1957; public relations consultant; elect-Liquor Traffic (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Flood ed to the Colorado general assembly, 1977-1978; Colorado Control (Sixty-eighth Congress); elected in 1924 as a Republi- senate, 1979-1983; delegate, Colorado State Republican con-can to the United States Senate; reelectedin 1980 and ventions, 1972-1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Washington, eighth Congress, by special election, March 29, 1983, to fillD.C., December 22, 1935, as the result of being struck by an the vacancy caused by the death of -automobile; chairman, Committee on Interoceanic Canals man-elect John L. Swigert; reelected to the Ninety-ninth and(Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses); interment in One Hundredth Congresses (March 29, 1983-January 3,Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn. 1989); is a resident of Lakewood, Cob. Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 74th Cong., 2nd sess., 1936. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1936. SCHAEFER, Edwin Martin, a Representative from Illi- nois; born in Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill., May 14, 1887; SCHELL, Richard, a Representative from New York; born attended the public schools, Western Military Academy,in Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck County, N.Y., May 15, 1810; com- Alton, Ill., and the University of Illinois at Urbana; waspleted preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits; graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., inmoved to New York City in 1830 and became a wholesale 1910; chemical engineer with Morris & Co., packers, East St.dry-goods merchant; member of the State senate in 1857; Louis, Ill., 1913-1916, assistant general superintendent 1916-elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress to fill the 19 18, and general superintendent 1919-1928; assistant re-vacancy caused by the death of David B. Mellish andserved corder of deeds of St. Clair County, Ill., 1928-1930; countyfrom December 7, 1874, to March 3, 1875; resumed mercan- treasurer of St. Clair County, Iii., 1930-1932; delegate to thetile pursuits; died in New York City, November 10, 1879; Democratic State conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936; elect-interment in the Old Dutch Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y. ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four suc- SCHENCK, Abraham Henry (uncle of Isaac Teller), a Rep- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943); was notresentative from New York; born in Matteawan, Dutchess a candidate for renomination in 1942; member of the boardCounty, N.Y., January 22, 1775; received a thorough English of directors of Griesediech-Western Brewery Co., Belleville,education; became engaged in the manufacture of machin- Ill., at the time of his death; died in St. Louis, Mo., Novem-ery; member of the State assembly 1804-1806; elected as a ber 8, 1950; interment in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville,Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815- Ill. March 3, 1817); engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods; SCHAFER, John Charles, a Representative from Wiscon-died in Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 1, 1831; inter- sin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 7, 1893; attended thement in the Dutch Reform Churchyard, Beacon (formerly public schools of Wauwatosa and West Allis High School;Fishkill Landing), N.Y. 1774 Biographical Directory

SCHENCK, Ferdinand Schureman, a Representative from SCHERER, Gordon Harry, a Representative from Ohio; New Jersey; born in Millstone, Somerset County, N.J., Feb-born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 26, ruary 11, 1790; completed preparatory studies; studied medi-1906; Salmon P. Chase College of Law, LL.B., in 1929 and cine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York,attended the University of Cincinnati; was admitted to the graduating in 1814; commenced practice at Six-Mile RunOhio bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law in (now Franklin Park), N.J.; member of the State generalCincinnati;assistantprosecuting attorneyof Hamilton assembly 1829-1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-MarchCounty 1933-1941; director of safety in Cincinnati in 1943 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomination; trustee ofand 1944; member of the city planning commission in 1945 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1841-1861; memberand 1946; member of the city council 1945-1949; elected as a of the State constitutional convention in 1844; judge of theRepublican to the Eighty-third and to the four succeeding State court of errors and appeals 1845-1857; unsuccessfulCongresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1963); was not a Republican candidate for the State senate in 1856; continuedcandidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con- the practice of medicine; died in Camden, N.J., May 16, 1860;gress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to Republican interment in a private cemetery at Pleasant Plains (nearNational Conventions, 1964 and 1968; chairman, Hamilton Franklin Park), N.J. County, Ohio, Republican Party, 1962-1968; member, U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1970-1973, and served SCHENCK, Paul Fornshell, a Representative from Ohio;on the executive board, 1974-1975; U.S. representative to the born in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, April 19,United Nations, 1972-1973; was a resident of Cincinnati, 1899; moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1908 and graduated from Steele High School in 1917; two years of college training;Ohio, until his death there on August 13, 1988. teacher in Steele High School 1917-1919; automotive service SCHERLE, William Joseph, a Representative from Iowa; business from 1919 to 1923; automotive training teacher andborn in Little Falls, Herkimer County, N.Y., March 14, 1923; faculty manager of athletics at Roosevelt High School, 1923graduated from St. Mary's Academy in New York; attended to 1929; director of recreation, city of Dayton, 1929-1935;Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Tex., 1945-1947; established own real estate, mortgage loan, and insuranceserved in the Second World War, 1942-1946, and in the business in September 1935; member of the board of educa-United States Naval Reserve, 1947-1954; assistant division tion 1941-1950, serving as president for seven years; vicemanager with George D. Barnard Co., Dallas, Tex., 1947; chairman of the Dayton Safety Council in 1946 and 1947;became a grain and livestock farmer, 1948; chairman, Mills president Dayton Real Estate Board 1947-1949; electedas aCounty Republican Central committee, 1956-1964; served in Republican to the Eighty-second Congress to fill thevacancy caused by the resignation of Edward F. Breen; reelected tothe State house of representatives, 1960-1966; elected as a the Eighty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (No-Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding vember 6, 1951-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate inCongresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful 1964 for reelection to the Eighty-ninth Congress; died incandidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Con- Dayton, Ohio, November 30, 1968; interment in Woodlandgress; deputy admnistrator, United States Department of Cemetery. Agriculture, 1975-1977; president of a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., 1977-1987; is a resident of Henderson, SCHENCK, Robert Cumming, a Representative fromIowa. Ohio; born in Franklin, Ohio, October 4, 1809; attended the rural schools and was graduated from Miami University, SCHERMERHORN, Abraham Maus, a Representative Oxford, Ohio, in 1827; became a professor in that universityfrom New York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., December 11, 1827-1829; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and1791; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from commenced practice in Dayton, Ohio; member of the StateUnion College, Schenectady, in 1810; studied law; was admit- house of representatives 1839-1843; electedas a Whig to theted to the bar in 1812; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1813; Twenty-eighth and tothe three succeeding Congressesengaged in banking; supervisor of Rochester in 1834; mayor (March 4, 1843-March 3,1851); chairman, Committee onin 1837; member of State assembly in 1848; elected as a Roads and Canals (Thirtieth Congress); was not a candidateWhig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses for renomination; Minister to Brazil and also accredited to(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); died at Savin Rock, near Uruguay, Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay, 1851-New Haven, Conn., August 22, 1855; interment in Mount 1853; entered the Union Army May 17, 1861, and servedasHope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. brigadier general of Volunteers; promoted to major general September 18, 1862, to date from August 30, 1862; resigned SCHERMERHORN, Simon Jacob, a Representative from his commission in the Army on December 3, 1863, to takeNew York; born in Rotterdam, Schenectady County, N.Y., his seat in Congress; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-September 25, 1827; attended the common schools; engaged eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedin agricultural pursuits; supervisor of the town of Rotterdam from March 4, 1863, to January 5, 1871, when he resigned toin 1856; served two terms as school commissioner; member accept a position in the diplomatic service; chairman, Com-of the State assembly in 1862 and 1865; a director and mittee on Military Affairs (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninthtrustee in local banks; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- Congresses), Committee on Ways and Means (Fortieth andthird Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); was not a Forty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelectioncandidate for renomination in 1894; retired to his farm in in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; Minister to Great Brit- Rotterdam, N.Y., and died there July 21, 1901; interment in ain from December 1870 until March 1876, when here-Viewland Cemetery. signed; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in 1866; member of the Alabama Claims Commission in 1871; SCHEUER, James Haas, a Representative from New resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where heYork; born in New York City February 6, 1920; attended the died March 23, 1890; interment in Woodland Cemetery,New York Fieldston and Ethical Culture schools; graduated Dayton, Ohio. from Swarthmore (Pa.) College in 1946, from the Columbia Bibliography: DAB; Joyner, Fred B. "Robert Cumming Schenck, First University Law School, New York City, in 1948, and from Citizen and Statesman of the Miami Valley." Ohio State ArchaeologicalHarvard Graduate School of Business Administration in and Historical Quarterly 58 (July 1949): 286-97. 1943; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and began the practice Biographies 1775 of law in 1949; served as a flight instructor in the Unitedand was employed in the construction of several European States Army, 1943-1945; economist for the Foreign Economicrailroads; immigrated to the United States in 1847 and set- Administration in 1945 and 1946; member of the legal stafftled in San Antonio, Tex., in 1850; member of the State for the Office of Price Stabilization, 1951-1957; writer andhouse of representatives in 1853 and 1854; served in the lecturer; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomina-State senate 1859-1861; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- tion to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; elected as afourth and Forty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, Democrat-Liberal to the Eighty-ninth and to the three suc-1875, until his death; chairman, Committee on Railways and ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973); Un- Canals (Forty-fifth Congress); had been reelected in 1878 to successful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Ninety-the Forty-sixth Congress; died in Washington, D.C., January third Congress; served as president, National Alliance for10, 1879; interment in the United States National Cemetery, Safer Cities, 1972-1973; president, National Housing Confer-San Antonio, Tex. ence,1972-1974; elected as a Democrat-Liberal to the Ninety-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January SCHLEY, William, a Representative from Georgia; born 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); chairman, Select Committee onin Frederick, Frederick County, Md., December 15, 1786; in Population (Ninety-fifth Congress); is a resident of Douglas-childhood moved with his parents to Georgia; completed pre- ton, N.Y. paratory studies; attended the local academies in Louisville and Augusta, Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and SCHIFFLER, Andrew Charles, a Representative fromcommenced practice in Augusta, Ga., in 1812; served as West Virginia; born in Wheeling, W.Va., August 10, 1889;judge of the superior court 1825-1828; member of the State attended the public schools; studied law in law offices inhouse of representatives in 1830; elected as a Jacksonian to Wheeling, W.Va.; was admitted to the bar and commencedthe Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served practice in Wheeling in 1913; referee in bankruptcy, north-from March 4, 1833, to July 1, 1835, when he resigned, ern district of West Virginia, 19 18-1922; prosecuting attor-having been nominated for Governor; Governor of Georgia ney of Ohio County, W.Va., 1925-1932; chairman of the Ohio 1835-1837; president of the Georgia Medical College at Au- County Republican committee 1936-1938; elected as a Re-gusta; died near Augusta, Ga., November 20, 1858; interment publican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939- January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inin the family burying ground at Richmond Hill, near Augus- 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; elected to the Seven-ta, Ga. ty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuc- SCHMIDHAUSER, John Richard, a Representative from cessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninthIowa; born in the Bronx, New York City, January 3, 1922; Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wheeling, W.Va., attended public schools in New York and Maryland; moved and remained active in his profession until his death thereto Salisbury, Md., with parents in 1934; served in the United March 27, 1970; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery. States Navy from August 1941 to December 1945; B.A., Uni- SCHIRM, Charles Reginald, a Representative from Mary-versity of Delaware at Newark, 1949, and from the Universi- land; born in Baltimore, Md., August 12, 1864; attended thety of Virginia at Charlottesville, M.A., 1952 and Ph.D. in public schools; commenced, but did not complete, an appren-1954; professor of constitutional law at State University of ticeship at iron molding; attended Washington and JeffersonIowa, 1954-1964; precinct committeeman and Democratic College, Washington, Pa.; taught school in Pennsylvania andcounty chairman of Johnson County, Iowa; elected as a Dem- Maryland; studied law; was admitted to the Baltimoreocrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January County bar in 1896 and practiced; member of the State3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the house of delegates 1898-1900; counsel to the board of policeNinetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nomination commissioners of the city of Baltimore in 1899 and 1900;in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; taught constitutional elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congresslaw at the University of Iowa, 1967-1973; professor of law, (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate forUniversity of Southern California, 1973 to present; is a resi- reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; delegate todent of Carpenteria, Calif. the Bull Moose National Convention in 1912; continued the SCHMITT, Harrison Hagan, a Senator from New Mexico; practice of law in Baltimore, Md., until his death there onborn in Santa Rita, Grant County, N.Mex., July 3, 1935; November 2, 1918; interment in Loudon Park Cemetery.attended the public schools; graduated, California Institute SCHISLER, Darwin Gale, a Representative from Illinois;of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., 1957; Fulbright fellowship born on a farm in Indian Point Township, Knox County, Ill.,student at the University of Oslo (Norway), 1957-1958; doc- March 2, 1933; attended Indian Point public schools; grad-torate in geology, Harvard University 1964; geologist, United uated from Abingdon High School in 1951; served in theStates Geological Survey, Department of the Interior 1964- United States Air Force, 1952-1955, serving ten months1965; astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- overseas in France; graduated from Western Illinois Univer- tration 1965-1975; elected as a Republican to the United sity in March 1959; began teaching and coaching at London States Senate in 1976, and served from January 3, 1977, to Mills Junior High School in 1959 and then was employed asJanuary 3, 1983; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in principal, 1960-1964; was graduated from Northeast Missou- 1982; consultant in science, technology and public policy ri State Teachers College at Kirksville in 1962; elected as a1983 to the present; is a resident of Albuquerque, N.Mex. Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965- SCHMITZ, John George, a Representative from Califor- January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection innia; born in Milwaukee, Wis., August 12, 1930; graduated 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; appointed by Gov. Ottofrom Marquette University High School, 1948; B.S., Mar- Kerner to head Illinois Office of Intergovernmental Coopera-quette University, 1952; M.A., California State College at tion, 1967-1969; member, Illinois general assembly, 1968-Long Beach, 1960; served as a Marine Corps jet fighter and 1980; is a resident of London Mills, Ill. helicopter pilot, 1952-1960; lieutenant colonel, United States SCHLEICHER, Gustave, a Representative from Texas;Marine Corps Reserve, 1960-1983; instructor in philosophy was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 19, 1823;and political science, Santa Ana (now Rancho Santiago) Col- attended the University of Giessen; became a civil engineerlege, 1960 to present; elected to the California State senate, 1776 Biographical Directory

1964, reelected 1966; elected as a Republican, by specialand died in Toledo, Ohio, March 12, 1939, while attending a election, June 30, 1970, to the Ninety-first Congress to filllabor meeting; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, the vacancy caused by the death of James B. Utt; reelected Wis. to the Ninety-second Congress and served from June 30, 1970, to January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- SCHOEPPEL, Andrew Frank, a Senator from Kansas; nation in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress, but was Ameri-born on a farm in Barton County, near Chaflin, Kans., No- can Party nominee for the presidency that year; unsuccess-vember 23,1894; attended the district schools in Ness ful candidate for nomination in 1976 to the Ninety-fifthCounty; attended the University of Kansas 1916-19 18; left Congress; member, California State senate, 1978-1982; isaschool during the First World War and enlisted in the Naval resident of Washington, D.C. Air Service; following the armistice entered the University SCHNEEBELI, Gustav Adoiphus, a Representative fromof Nebraska Law School and graduated in 1922; was admit- Pennsylvania; born in Neusalz, Germany, May 23, 1853; im-ted to the Kansas bar in 1923 and commenced practice in migrated to the United States with his parents, who settledNess City, Kans.; county attorney of Ness County; mayor of in Bethlehem, Pa.; attended the Moravian Parochial School;Ness City; chairman of the Corporation Commission of the later moved to Nazareth, Pa., and entered upon a mercantileState of Kansas 1939-1942; Governor of Kansas 1943-1947; career; founded the knit-goods industry of the Nazarethpracticed law in Wichita, Kans.; elected as a Republican to Waist Co.; in 1888 he established a lace manufacturing com-the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, and pany, of which he became sole owner; elected as a Republi-again in 1960 and served from January 3, 1949, until his can to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3,death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., January 21, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the1962; interment in Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kans. Sixtieth Congress; continued in the lace manufacturing busi- Bibliography: DAB; Koppes, Clayton. "Oscar L. Chapman and McCarthy- ness until his death in Nazareth, Northampton County, Pa., ism." Colorado Magazine 56 (Winter-Spring 1979): 35-44; U.S. Congress. February 6, 1923; interment in Moravian Cemetery. Memorial Addresses. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Govern- ment Printing Office, 1962. SCHNEEBELI, Herman Theodore, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa., SCHOOLCRAFT, , a Representative from July 7, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated fromNew York; born in Albany, N.Y., in 1804; received a limited Mercersburg Academy in 1926, Dartmouth College in 1930,schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as a Whig and Amos Tuck School in 1931; commission distributor, Gulfto the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, Oil Corporation and automobile dealer in Williamsport, Pa.;1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination served as a captain, Ordnance Department, 1942-1946; elect-in 1852chosen president of the Commercial Bank at ed as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress, by specialAlbany, N Y, and served from 1854 until his death, delegate election, April 26, 1960, to fill the vacancy caused by theto the Republican National Convention in 1860; died while death of United States Representative Alvin R. Bush;re-returning to his home from the convention at Chicago, in St. elected to the eight succeeding Congresses and served fromCatherines, Ontario, Canada, July 7, 1860; interment in the April 26, 1960, to January 3, 1977; was not a candidate forRural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y. reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; resided in Willliamsport, Pa., until his death in Philadelphia, Pa.,on SCHOONMAKER, Cornelius Corneliusen (grandfather of May 6, 1982; interment at Wildwood Cemetery, Williams-Marius Schoonmaker), a Representative from New York; port, Pa. born in Shawangunk (now Wallkill), Ulster County, N.Y., in June 1745; received a limited schooling; became a surveyor SCHNEIDER, Claudine, a Representative from Rhodeand engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the com- Island; born Claudine Cmarada in Clairton, Pa., March 25,mittees of vigilance and safety during the Revolutionary 1947; attended parochial schools; studied at the University ofWar; served in the State assembly 1777-1790; member of the Barcelona, Spain, and Rosemont College (Pa.); B.A., Wind-State ratification convention in 1788; elected to the Second ham College (Vt.), 1969; attended University of Rhode IslandCongress (March 4, 1791-March 3, 1793); again a member of School of Community Planning; founder, Rhode Island Com-the State assembly in 1795; died in Shawangunk, N.Y., in mittee on Energy, 1973; executive director, Conservationthe spring of 1796; interment in Old Shawangunk Church- Law Foundation, 1974; federal coordinator, Rhode Islandyard at Bruynswick, in Shawangunk (now Wallkill), Ulster Coastal Zone Management Program, 1978; producer and host of public affairs television program, Providence, R.I., 1978-County, N.Y. 1979; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to SCHOONMAKER, Marius (grandson of Cornelius Come- the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3,liusen Schoonmaker), a Representative from New York; born 1989); is a resident of Narragansett, R.I. in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., April 24, 1811; attended SCHNEIDER, George John, a Representative from Wis-the common schools, Kingston Academy, and was graduated consin; born in the town of Grand Chute, Outagamie County;from Yale College in 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1833 Wis., October 30, 1877; moved to Appleton with his parents,and commenced practice in Kingston, N.Y.; member of the attended the public schools of Appleton, Wis.; learned theState senate in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Whig to the trade of paper making; vice president of the InternationalThirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); de- Brotherhood of Paper Makers 1909-1927; member of theclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed executive board of the Wisconsin State Federation of Laborthe practice of law in Kingston, N.Y.; auditor of the canal 1921-1928; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighthdepartment of New York State in 1854 and 1855; superin- through Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3,tendent of the banking department 1854-1856; president of 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to thethe Kingston Board of Education for nine years; president of Seventy-third Congress; elected as a Progressive to the Sev-the village of Kingston in 1866, 1869, and 1870; delegate to enty-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-the State constitutional convention in 1867; president of the January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inboard of directors of Kingston; died in Kingston, N.Y., Janu- 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed labor activitiesary 5, 1894; interment in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery. 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SCHROEDER, Patricia Scott, a Representative from Colo-1826; completed preparatory studies in the Lenox (Mass.) rado; born Patricia Nell Scott in Portland, MultnomahAcademy; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- County, Oreg., July 30, 1940; attended the public schools ofmenced practice in 1847; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1853 Texas, Ohio, and Iowa; B.A., University of Minnesota, Min-and continued the practice of law; district attorney for Kings neapolis, 1961; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1964; admitted toCounty 1856-1859; corporation counsel for the city of Brook- the Colorado bar in 1964 and commenced practice in Denver;lyn 1862-1864; member of the State constitutional conven- lecturer and law instructor, 1969-1972; elected as a Demo-tions in 1862, 1867, and 1894; delegate to the Democratic crat to the Ninety-third and to the seven succeeding Con-National Convention in 1864; elected as a Democrat to the gresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofForty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not Denver, Cob. a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected to the Forty- SCHUEITE, Bill, a Representative from Michigan; bornthird and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, in Midland, Mich., October 13, 1953; attended public schools;1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1976;Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law, 1979; admit-Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 23, 1905; interment in Green- ted to the Michigan bar and commenced practice in Midlandwood Cemetery. in 1979; delegate to Michigan State Republican conventions, SCHUMER, Charles Ellis, a Representative from New 1972, 1974, and 1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 23, 1950; attended ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-Jan-the public schools; graduated from Madison High School, uary 3, 1989); is a resident of Sanford, Mich. Brooklyn, 1967; A.B., Harvard University, 1971; J.D., Har- SCHUETZ, Leonard William, a Representative from Illi-vard Law School, 1974; admitted to the New York bar in nois; born in Posen, Germany (later Poland), November 16,1975; served in the New York State assembly, 1975-1980; 1887; in 1888 immigrated to the United States with hiselected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and to the father, who settled in Chicago, Ill.; attended the publicthree succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, schools, Lane Technical High School, and Bryant and Strat-1989); is a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. ton Business College, Chicago, Ill.; engaged as a stenogra- SCHUNEMAN, Martin Gerretsen, a Representative from pher and secretary until 1906, when he became associatedNew York; born in Catskill, Albany (now Greene) County, with Swift & Co. in an executive capacity; organized theN.Y., February 10, 1764; educated by his father; justice of Schuetz Construction Co. in 1923 and served as its presidentthe peace of Albany County in 1792; engaged in mercantile and treasurer; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-secondpursuits and owned an inn at Madison; supervisor for Cats- and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from Marchkill in Albany and Greene Counties in 1797, 1799, and 1802; 4, 1931, until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 13,member of the State assembly from Ulster County 1798-1800 1944; interment in St. Adabert's Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. and from Greene County in 1803; delegate from Greene SCHULTE, William Theodore, a Representative from In-County to the State constitutional convention in 1801; elect- diana; born in St. Bernard, Platte County, Nebr., August 19,ed as a Republican to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805- 1890; attended the public schools of St. Bernard, Nebr.;March 3, 1807); resumed his former business pursuits; died moved with his parents to Hammond, md., where he attend-in Catskill, N.Y., February 21, 1827; interment in the Old ed high school and received a business training; engaged inCemetery, Madison (now Leeds), N.Y. the theatrical business until 1918; also interested in agricul- tural pursuits; member of the city council of Hammond, SCHUREMAN, James, a Delegate, a Representative, and a md., 1918-1922; resumed the theatrical business until 1932;Senator from New Jersey; born in New Brunswick, N.J., elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the fourFebruary 12, 1756; attended the common schools, and grad- succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943); Un-uated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1775; successful candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seven-engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the Revolutionary ty-eighth Congress, coordinator of field operations in theArmy; member, State general assembly 1783-1785, 1788; del- labor division of the War Production Board, Washington,egate to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1786; Member of the Continental Congress in 1786 and 1787; elect- D.C., 1942-1944; returned to Lake County, md., and engageded to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); in agricultural pursuits, engaged in the automobile businesspresident of New Brunswick in 1792; elected to the Fifth at Michigan City, md., from October 1947 to March 1949;Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3,1799); elected to the sales representative of a construction machinery firm; diedUnited States Senate as a Federalist on February 14, 1799, in Hammond, md., on December 7, 1966; interment in St.to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Ruther- Andrew's Cemetery. furd, but did not qualify until later, preferring to serve out SCHULZE, Richard Taylor, a Representative from Penn-his term in the House; served as Senator from March 4, sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 7, 1929; graduat-1799, to February 16, 1801, when he resigned; mayor of New ed from Haverford High School, February 1948; attendedBrunswick 1801-1813; member of the State council 1808- University of Houston, 1948-1949; extension student, Villan- 1810; elected to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813- ova (Pa.) University, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.,March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for renomination in 1968; entered the appliance business in Paoli, Pa., in 1950;1814; again elected mayor and served from 1821 until his served in the United States Army, 1951-1953; served as reg- death; died in New Brunswick, January 22, 1824; interment ister of wills and clerk of orphans court -in Chester County, in First Reformed Church Cemetery. Pa., 1967-1969; member, Pennsylvania house of representa- tives, 1969-1974; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- SCHURZ, Carl, a Senator from Missouri; born in Liblar, fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; was educated at the 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Berwyn, Pa. gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; having taken part in the German revolutionary movement of 1848, SCHUMAKER, John Godfrey, a Representative from Newhe was compelled to flee from Germany; was a newspaper York; born in Claverack, Columbia County, N.Y., June 27,correspondent in Paris and later taught school in London; 1778 Biographical Directory

immigrated to the United States in 1852 and settled into January 3, 1798, when he resigned because of ill health; Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Watertown, Wis., in 1855; stud- died in Albany, N.Y., November 18, 1804; interment in ied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Milwau-Albany Rural Cemetery. kee, Wis.; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor Bibliography: DAB; Bush, Martin. Revolutionary Enigma: A Re.Apprais- and governor of Wisconsin; appointed Minister to Spain in al of General Philip Schuyler. Port Washington, N.Y.: I.J. Friedman, 1969; 1861 but resigned in 1862; during the Civil War was appoint-Loosing, Benson. The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler. 1893. Reprint. ed brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army; en- New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. gaged in newspaper work after the war in St. Louis, Mo.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and SCHWABE, George Blame (brother of Max Schwabe), a served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; was not aRepresentative from Oklahoma; born in Arthur, Vernon candidate for reelection in 1874; served in the Cabinet ofCounty, Mo., July 26, 1886; attended the country and town President Rutherford Hayes as Secretary of the Interiorschools of Pettis County, Mo., and Sedalia (Mo.) High School; 1877-1881; editor of the New York Evening Post 1881-1884; in 1910 was graduated from the law department of the Uni- contributor to Harper's Weekly 1892-1898; president of theversity of Missouri at Columbia; was admitted to the bar the National Civil Service Reform League 1892-1901; engaged insame year and commenced practice in Columbia, Mo.; moved literary pursuits; died in New York City, May 14, 1906;to Nowata, Okia., in 1911 and continued the practice of law; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N.Y. mayor of Nowata, Okla., in 1913 and 1914; member of the Bibliography: DAB; Schurz, Carl. Reminiscences. 3 vols. New York: The Nowata Board of Education 1918-1922; member of the State McClure Company, 1907-1908; Trefousse, Hans L. Carl Schurz: A Biogra. house of representatives from Nowata County 1918-1922, phy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. serving as speaker in 1921 and 1922; moved to Tulsa, Okia., SCHUYLER, Karl Cortlandt, a Senator from Colorado;in 1922 and continued the practice of law; chairman of the born in Colorado Springs, Cob., April 3, 1877; attended theRepublican county committee of Tulsa County, Okia., 1928- Colorado Springs public schools; worked on the Colorado1936; delegate to all Republican State conventions after 1912 Midland Railroad; graduated from the law school of theand to the Republican National Convention in 1936; elected University of Denver in 1898; was admitted to the bar theas a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Con- same year and commenced practice in Colorado Springs; ingresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful can- 1905 moved to Denver, Cob., where he continued the prac-didate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; tice of law; trustee of the University of Denver and of Colo-elected to the Eighty-second Congress and served from Janu- rado Woman's College at Denver, Cob.; unsuccessful candi-ary 3, 1951, until his death in Alexandria, Va., April 2, 1952; date for the Republican nomination for United States Sena-interment in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla. tor in 1920; elected on November 8, 1932, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the SCHWABE, Max (brother of George Blame Schwabe), a death of Charles W. Waterman and served from December 7, Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Colum- 1932, to March 3, 1933; at the same election was an unsuc-bia, Boone County, Mo., December 6, 1905; attended the cessful candidate for the full term beginning March 4, 1933;public schools and the University of Missouri at Columbia; resumed the practice of law in Denver; was struck by anengaged in the life insurance business in Columbia, Mo., automobile and killed in New York City, July 31, 1933;1926-1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Cob. Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943- January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in SCHUYLER, PhilipJeremiah(sonofPhilipJohn1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; Missouri State director, Schuyler), a Representative from New York; born in Albany,Farmers Home Administration, United States Department N.Y., January 21, 1768; received a limited schooling underof Agriculture, 1953-1961; operated a livestock farm in Co- private tutors; engaged in agriculture in Dutchess County;lumbia; is a resident of Columbia, Mo. member of the State assembly in 1798; elected as a Federal- ist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); SCHWARTZ, Henry Herman (Harry), a Senator from Wy- was not a candidate for reelection in 1818; resumed agricul-oming; born on a farm near Fort Recovery, Mercer County, tural pursuits; died in New York City February 21, 1835;Ohio, May 18, 1869; educated in the public schools of Mercer interment on the Schuyler estate near Rhinebeck, DutchessCounty and Cincinnati, Ohio; engaged in the newspaper County, N.Y.; reinterment in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery,business at Fort Recovery, Ohio, 1892-1894 and at Sioux Poughkeepsie. Falls, S.Dak., 1894-1896; studied law; was admitted to the SCHUYLER, Philip John (father of Philip Jeremiahbar in 1895 and commenced practice in Sioux Falls; member, Schuyler), a Delegate and a Senator from New York; born inSouth Dakota house of representatives 1896-1897; chief of Albany, N.Y., November 20, 1733; attended the commonthe field division of the United States General Land Office, schools of Albany and studied under a private tutor in Newat Spokane, Wash., and Helena, Mont., 1897-1907; special Rochelle, N.Y.; served in the British Army and was commis-assistant to the Attorney General in 1907; chief of field sioned captain in 1755; appointed chief commissary in 1756;service, General Land Office, Washington, D.C., 1907-1910; resigned from the British Army in 1757; rejoined in 1758asmoved to Casper, Wyo., in 1915; president of the Casper a major; sent to England to settle colonial claims in 1758;Board of Education and the Natrona County High School returned in 1763 and engaged in the lumber business inBoard 1928-1934; member, Wyoming State senate 1933-1935; Saratoga, N.Y.; built the first flax mill in America; member,unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States New York assembly 1768; Member of the Continental Con- Senate in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States gress 1775, 1777, and 1779-1780; appointed one of the fourSenate in 1936 and served from January 3, 1937, to January major generals in the Continental Army in 1775 and re- 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chair- signed in 1779; member, New York State senate 1780-1784,man, Committee on Pensions (Seventy-seventh Congress); ap- 1786-1790; elected to the United States Senate and servedpointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the National from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; unsuccessful candi-Mediation Board 1943-1947; resumed the practice of law in date for reelection; member, State senate 1792-1797; electedCasper, Wyo., until his death there April 24, 1955; interment to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1797,in Highland Cemetery. Biographies 1779

SCHWARTZ, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania;to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., October 27, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the 1793; received a limited schooling; at the age of ten yearsEighty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Nine- was apprenticed to a merchant in Reading, Pa., and becametieth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967- a partner at the expiration of his apprenticeship; served inJanuary 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the War of 1812 as a major; engaged in the manufacture of1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; founder and president of iron products; elected as an Anti-Lecompton Democrat to thethe Capitol Historical Society, 1962 to present; founder and Thirty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1859, untilpresident, Republican Heritage Foundation; is a resident of his death in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1860; interment inArlington, Va. Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pa. SCHWERT, Pius Louis, a Representative from New York; SCHWEIKER, Richard Schultz, a Representative and aborn in Angola, Erie County, N.Y., November 22, 1892; at- Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Norristown, Montgom-tended the public schools in Angola and Lafayette High ery County, Pa., June 1, 1926; graduated, Pennsylvania StateSchool, Buffalo, N.Y.; was graduated from Wharton School University 1950; during the Second World War, enlisted inof Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., the United States Navy and served aboard an aircraft carri-in 1914; played professional baseball with the New York er 1944-1946; ten years of business experience as manufac- turing and sales executive; elected as a Republican to theAmerican League Ball Club 1914-1917; during the First Eighty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan-World War served in the United States Navy as a yeoman, uary 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); was not a candidate for re-first class, and later was commissioned as an ensign; en- election in 1968, but was elected to the United States Senategaged in mercantile and banking pursuits in Angola; presi- in 1968; reelected in 1974, and served from January 3, 1969,dent of the Bank of Angola, N.Y., 1921-1931; member of the to January 3, 1981; was not a candidate for reelection infirst salary survey committee of Erie County in 1932; moved 1980; Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabi- to Buffalo, N.Y., and served as county clerk 1933-1938; elect- net of President Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1983; president,ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh American Council of Life Insurance 1983 to present; is aCongresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death resident of McLean, Virginia. in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1941; interment in Forest Bibliography: Landes, Burton. Making of a Senator, 1974; A Biography Avenue Cemetery, Angola, N.Y. of Richard S. Schweiker. Trappes, Pa.: Landes, 1976. SCOBLICK, James Paul, a Representative from Pennsyl- SCHWELLENBACH, Lewis Baxter, a Senator from Wash-vania; born in Archbald, Lackawanna County, Pa., May 10, ington; born in Superior, Douglas County, Wis., September1909; attended the public school and St. Thomas High 20, 1894; moved to Spokane, Wash., with his parents in 1902;School, Scranton, Pa.; Fordham University, New York City, attended the grade and high schools in Spokane and grad-B.S., 1930 and took postgraduate work at Columbia Universi- uated from the law department of the University of Wash-ty, New York City; member of the Department of Public ington at Seattle in 1917; assistant instructor at the Univer-Assistance Board of Lackawanna County, Pa.; elected as a sity of Washington 1916-1917; during the First World War served from 1918, as a private in the Twelfth Regiment,Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy United States Infantry, until discharged as a corporal incaused by the resignation of John W. Murphy and at the 1919; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced prac-same time was elected to the Eightieth Congress and served tice in Seattle, Wash.; unsuccessful candidate for nominationfrom November 5, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful for governor in 1932; delegate to the Interparliamentarycandidate for renomination in 1948; resumed former busi- Union at The Hague in 1938; elected as a Democrat to theness pursuits; engaged as consultant to food industry; was a United States Senate and served from January 3, 1935, toresident of Archbald, Pa., until his death there on December December 16, 1940, when he resigned; was not a candidate 1981; interment in Mother of Sorrows Cemetery, Finch for renomination in 1940, having been appointed UnitedHill, Pa. States district judge for the eastern district of Washington, SCOFIELD, Glenni William, a Representative from Penn- in which capacity he served until his resignation to becomesylvania; born in Dewittville, Chautauqua County, N.Y., on Secretary of Labor; appointed Secretary of Labor by Presi- dent Harry S. Truman and served from 1945 until his deathMarch 11, 1817; attended the common schools; learned the in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1948;printing trade; returned to classical study and was graduat- interment in Washelli Cemetery, Seattle, Wash. ed from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1840; engaged in Bibliography: DAB; Libby, Justin H. "Anti-Japanese Sentiment in the teaching; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and Pacific Northwest: Senator Schwellenbach and Congressman Coffee At- commenced practice in Warren, Pa.; district attorney 1846- tempt to Embargo Japan, 1937-1941." Mid.America 58 (October 1976): 167- 1848; member of the State house of representatives 1849- 74. 1851; affiliated with the Republican Party in 1856; served in SCHWENGEL, Frederick Delbert, a Representative fromthe State senate 1857-1859; appointed president judge of the Iowa; born on a farm near Sheffield, Franklin County, Iowa,eighteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1861; elected May 28, 1906; attended the rural schools in West Fork Town-as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the five succeed- ship and high schools in Chapin and Sheffield, Iowa; grad-ing Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1875); chairman, uated from Northeast Missouri Teachers College at Kirks-Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Thirty- ville in 1930, and attended Iowa University graduate schoolninth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-first, 1933-1935; athletic coach and instructor of history and polit- Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses); was not a candi- ical science in public schools of Shelbina and Kirksville, Mo.,date for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law 1930-1937; engaged in the insurance business in Davenport,in Warren; appointed Register of the Treasury by President Iowa, from 1937 to 1954; served in the Missouri NationalHayes and served from 1878 to 1881; associate justice of the Guard 1929-1936; member of the State house of representa- United States Court of Claims 1881-1891; died in Warren, tives 1945-1955; member, Iowa Development Commission,Warren County, Pa., August 30, 1891; interment in Oakland 1949-1955; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth andCemetery. 1780 Biographical Directory

SCOTT, Byron Nicholson, a Representative from Califor-Congress assembled, having been appointed president and nia; born in Council Grove, Morris County, Kans., March 21,judge of the court of common pleas. 1903; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1924, from the Univer- SCOTT, Frank Douglas, a Representative from Michigan; sity of Southern California at Los Angeles in 1930, and fromborn in Alpena, Alpena County, Mich., on August 25, 1878; the National University School of Law in 1949; taught schoolattended the public schools; was graduated from the law at Tucson, Ariz., 1924-1926; moved to Long Beach, Los Ange-department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in les County, Calif., in 1926 and taught school until 1934; 1901; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced delegate to the California Democratic State Conventionspractice in Alpena; city attorney of Alpena in 1903 and 1904; 1934-1940; delegate to the Democratic National Conventioncity prosecutor 1906-1910; member of the State senate 1911- at Philadelphia in 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seven-1914 and served as president pro tempore in 1913 and 1914; ty-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-Jan-elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the five uary 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1927); chair- to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to theman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Sixty- Seventy-seventh Congress; secretary of the California Stateninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in Highway Commission in 1939 and 1940; engaged in the con-1926; resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, struction business in 1941 and 1942; served with the War Production Board in Washington, D.C., 1942-1945; admittedD.C.; died in Palm Beach, Fla., February 12, 1951; interment to the District of Columbia bar in 1949 and practiced law inin Evergreen Cemetery, Alpena, Mich. Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1979; is a resident SCOTT, George Cromwell, a Representative from Iowa; of Sun City, Calif. born near East Kendall (now Morton), Monroe County, N.Y., SCOTT,CharlesFrederick,aRepresentativefromAugust 8, 1864; moved to Iowa in 1880; attended the country Kansas; born near lola, Allen County, Kans., on Septemberschools and the high school at Dallas Center, Iowa; studied 7, 1860; attended the common schools; was graduated fromlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced prac- the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1881; went to Colo-tice in Le Mars, Iowa, in 1888; moved to Sioux City in 1901 rado, New Mexico, and ArFiona, and was engaged chiefly inand continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to clerical work; returned to lola, Kans., in 1882 and edited thethe Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the lola Register; appointed regent of the University in 189 1-death of Elbert H. Hubbard; reelected to the Sixty-third 1900; member of the State senate 1892-1896; elected as aCongress and served from November 5, 1912, to March 3, Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding1915; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911); chairman, Com-Sixty-fourth Congress; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress mittee on Agriculture (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses);(March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-renomination in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Sioux second Congress; appointed one of five delegates to the Inter-City; appointed by President Harding judge of the United national Institute of Agriculture at Rome in 1911; lecturedStates District Court for the Northern District of Iowa and on Chautauqua platform in 1913, 1915, and 1916; delegate toserved from March 4, 1922, until his retirement on Novem- the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1932;un-ber 1, 1943; died in Sioux City, Iowa, October 6, 1948; inter- successful candidate for nomination to the United Statesment in Graceland Park Cemetery. Senate in 1918 and again in 1928; resumed newspaper work until his death in lola, Kans., on September 18, 1938; inter- SCOTT, Gustavus (grandfather of William Lawrence ment in lola Cemetery. Scott), a Delegate from Maryland; born at "Westwood," SCOTT, Charles Lewis, a Representative from California;Prince William County, Va., in 1753; went with his brother born in Richmond, Henrico County, Va., January 23, 1827;to Scotland in 1765 and studied at King's College, Aberdeen, attended the public schools and Richmond Academy and wasScotland; entered the Middle Temple, London, England, in graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williams-1767, and completed his law studies in 1771; returned to burg, Va., in 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar inMaryland in the latter year and settled in Somerset County, 1847 and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.; moved toMd., where he practiced law; delegate to the Annapolis con- California in 1849 and engaged in gold mining; resumed thevention in 1774 and 1775; member of the Association of the practice of his profession in Sonora, Calif., in 1851; memberFreemen of Maryland; member of the first State constitu- of the State assembly 1854-1856; elected as a Democrat totional convention in 1776 moved to Dorchester County the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-member of the house of delegates in 1780; elected to the March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for reelection; duringContinental Congress in 1784, but did not attend; resumed the Civil War served as a major in the Fourth Regiment,the practice of law; moved to Montgomery County in 1794; Alabama Volunteer Infantry, of the Confederate Army; afterone of the commissioners to superintend the erection of the the war engaged in agricultural pursuits in Wilcox County,public buildings in Washington, D.C., 1794-1800; died in Ala., and from 1869 to 1879 was engaged in journalism; wasWashington, D.C., December 25, 1800; interment on his farm a delegate to every Democratic National Convention fromin Virginia. the end of the Civil War to 1896; appointed by President Bibliography: DAB. Cleveland on August 10, 1885, Minister Resident to Venezu- ela and consul general at Caracas and served until his resig- SCOTT, Hardie (son of John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott), a nation, effective March 8,1889; returned to the UnitedRepresentative from Pennsylvania; born in Cynwyd, Mont- States and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his deathgomery County, Pa., June 7, 1907; was graduated from Taft near Mount Pleasant, Monroe County, Ala., April 30, 1899;School, Watertown, Conn., in 1926, from Yale University in interment in the private cemetery of Mrs. Robert G. Scott at1930, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School Cedar Hill, Ala. at Philadelphia in 1934; was admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; elected as a Repub- SCOTT, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; elect-lican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Con- ed to the Fifteenth Congress but resigned in 1817, before thegresses (January 3, 1947-a-January 3, 1953); was not a candi- Biographies 1781 date for renomination in 1952; resumed the practice of law;from August 4, 1817, to March 3, 1821; upon the admission is a resident of Edgemont, Pa. of Missouri as a State into the Union was elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses and SCOTT, Harvey David, a Representative from Indiana;served from August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1827; chairman, born near Ashtabula, Union County, Ohio, October 18, 1818;Committee on Public Lands (Nineteenth Congress); unsuc- attended the public schools and the Asbury (now De Pauw)cessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth University at Greencastle, md.; studied law; was admitted toCongress; resumed the practice of law; died in Ste. Gene- the bar and commenced practice in Terre Haute, md.; heldvieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., October 1, 1861. several local offices; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); resumed the SCOTT, John (son of John Scott [1784-1850]), a Senator practice of law; judge of the circuit court of Vigo Countyfrom Pennsylvania; born in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, 1881-1884; moved to California in 1887; died in Pasadena,Pa., July 24, 1824; attended the common schools and Mar- Calif., July 11, 1891; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.shall College, Chambersburg, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and practiced in Huntingdon, Pa., 1846- SCOTT, Hugh Doggett, Jr., a Representative and a Sena-1869; prosecuting attorney 1846-1849; member of the reve- tor from Pennsylvania; born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., on November 11, 1900; attended public andnue commission in 1851; member, State house of representa- private schools; graduated, Randolph-Macon College, Ash-tives 1862; elected as a Republican to the United States land, Va., 1919 and the law department of the University ofSenate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; Virginia at Charlottesville 1922; was admitted to the bar inwas not a candidate for reelection in 1875; chairman,Com- 1922 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; duringmittee on Claims (Forty-third Congress); moved to Pitts- the First World War enrolled in the Student Reserve Offices'burgh, Pa., in 1875; general counsel of the Pennsylvania Training Corps and the Students' Army Training Corps; as-Railroad 1875-1877 and general solicitor 1877-1895; died in sistant district attorney of Philadelphia, Pa., 1926-1941;Philadelphia, Pa., November 29, 1896; interment in Wood- member of the Governor's Commission on Reform of thelands Cemetery. Magistrates System 1938-1940; during the Second World SCOTT, John Guier, a Representative from Missouri; born War was on active duty for two years with the United Statesin Philadelphia, Pa., December 26, 1819; completed prepara- Navy with final rank of commander; author; vice presidenttory studies; was graduated from Bethlehem Academy, of the United States Delegation to the InterparlimentaryPennsylvania, in civil engineering; moved to Missouri in Union; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Con- 1842; general manager of the Iron Mountain Co. at Iron gress; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3,Mountain; established the Irondale Iron Co. at Irondale in 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection1858; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1862 in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed the practiceto the Thirty-eighth Congress; subsequently elected as a of law; chairman of the Republican National CommitteeDemocrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy 1948-1949; elected to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the caused by the death of John W. Noell and served from five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; engaged in the drug 1959); was not a candidate for reelection but was elected inbusiness in St. Louis; resumed mining, and built furnaces, at 1958 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1964 andScotia, Crawford County, Mo., in 1868 and at Nova Scotia a again in 1970, and served from January 3, 1959, to January moved to east 3, 1977; was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; Republi-year later; returned in 1870 to St. Louis; can whip 1969; minority leader 1969-1977; chairman, SelectTennessee about 1880; died at Oliver Springs, Roane County, Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-Tenn., May 16, 1892; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, second Congress); lawyer; is a resident of Washington, D.C.St. Louis, Mo. Bibliography: Scott, Hugh D., Jr. Come to the Party. Englewood Cliffs, SCOTT, John Mona, a Delegate from New York; born in N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968; Scott, Hugh D., Jr. How to Run for Public Office New York City in 1730; attended the common schools; was and Win! Washington, D.C.: National Press, 1968. graduated from Yale College in 1746; studied law; was ad- SCOTT, John (father of John Scott [1824-18961), a Repre- mitted to the bar in 1752 and commenced practice in New sentative from Pennsylvania; born at Marsh Creek, nearYork City; one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty; alder- Gettysburg, Pa., December 25, 1784; moved to Alexandria,man 1756-1761; member of the NewYork General Commit- Pa., in 1806; engaged as tanner and shoemaker; served astee in 1775; member of the Provincial Congress 1775-1777; major in the War of 1812; member of the State house ofbrigadier general in the Revolutionary War; member of the representatives in 1819 and 1820; elected as a Jacksonian tocommittee to draw up a constitution for the State of New the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831);York in 1776; elected associate justice of the supreme court unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-secondof New York in 1777, but declined to accept the position; Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; retired frommember of the State senate 1777-1782; secretary of state of business in 1842; died in Alexandria, Huntingdon County,New York 1778-1784; Member of the Continental Congress Pa., on September 22, 1850; interment in Alexandria Ceme-1780 and 1782; died in New York City September 14, 1784; tery. interment at the north entrance of Trinity Church. Bibliography: DAB. SCOTT, John, a Delegate and a Representative from Mis- souri; born in Hanover County, Va., May 18, 1785; moved SCOTT, John Roger Kirkpatrick (father of Hardie Scott), with his parents to Indiana Territory in 1802; was graduateda Representative from Pennsylvania; born inBloomsburg, from Princeton College in 1805; studied law; was admitted toColumbia County, Pa., July 6, 1873; moved with his parents the bar and commenced practice in Ste. Genevieve, Mo., into Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and later to Philadelphia; attended the 1806; presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the Four-public schools; was graduated from the Central High School teenth Congress from the Territory of Missouri and servedof Philadelphia in 1893; attended the law school of the Uni- from August 6, 1816, to January 13, 1817, when the electionversity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; was admitted to the was declared illegal and the seat vacant; elected as a Dele- bar in December 1895 and commenced the practice of law in gate to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and servedPhiladelphia; member of the State house of representatives 1782 Biographical Directory

in 1899 and again in 1909, 1911, and 1913; electedas ato the Fifty-third Congress; moved to Decatur, Ill., in 1899 Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congressesand managed the Decatur Herald until 1904, when he en- and served from March 4, 1915, until his resignation, effec-gaged in the insurance business; retired from the insurance tive January 5, 1919; resumed the practice of his profession;business in 1921 to become secretary of the Masonic Grand died in Philadelphia, Pa., December 9, 1945; interment inLodge of Illinois, which position he held until his death in West Laurel Hills Cemetery. Decatur, Ill., December 21, 1928; interment in Oak Ridge scorr, Lon Allen, a Representative from Tennessee; Cemetery, Effingham, Ill. born on a farm near Cypress Inn, Wayne County, Tenn., SCOTT, Ralph James, a Representative from North Caro- September 25, 1888; moved with his parents to Savannah,lina; born in Surry County, near Pinnacle, N.C., October 15, Hardin County, Tenn.; attended the public schools and Sa-1905; educated in the public schools; Wake Forest College, vannah (Tenn.) Institute; was graduated from the law de-LL.B., 1930; was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced partment of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., inthe practice of law in Danbury, N.C.; member of the State 1915; engaged in mercantile pursuits and the real estate andhouse of representatives, 1936-1937; delegate to State Demo- lumber business; member of the State house of representa-cratic conventions, 1936-1968; chairman, Democratic Execu- tives 1913-1917 and served as minority floor leader in 1915tive Committee of Stokes County, 1936-1970; solicitor of the and 1917; represented Tennessee in the prosecution of Attor-twenty-first judicial district of North Carolina 1938-1956; ney General Estes in an impeachment proceeding before theelected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the four State senate; resigned as a State representative and enlistedsucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1967); as a private in the United States Marine Corps during thewas not a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth First World War; was promoted to a lieutenancy; electedas a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-Congress; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922Danbury, N.C., until his death there August 5, 1983; inter- to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed his former businessment in Pannacle Baptist Church cemetery. pursuits and resided in Savannah, Tenn., until his death SCOTT, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylvania; there on February 11, 1931; interment in Savannah Ceme-born in Chester County, Pa., in 1739; as a child moved with tery. his parents to Lancaster County; attended the rural schools; SCOTT, Nathan Bay, a Senator from West Virginia; bornstudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to near Quaker City, Guernsey County, Ohio, December 18,Westmoreland county in 1770 and settled on Dunlaps Creek, 1842; attended the common schools; engaged in miningnearnear the Monongahela River; justice of the peace in 1773; Colorado Springs, Cob., 1859-1862; during the Civil Warmember of the first Pennsylvania Assembly in 1776; member of the supreme council in 1777; upon the formation of Wash- entered the Union Army in 1863 as a corporal; appointedington County in 1781 was appointed prothonotary and sergeant in 1864, promoted to regimental commissaryser- geant in 1865, and mustered out in 1865; engaged in theserved until March 28, 1789, when he resigned, having been manufacture of glass in Wheeling, W.Va.; also engaged inelected to Congress; commissioned a justice of Washington banking; member of the city council 1881-1883 and servedasCounty on November 21, 1786; member of the State ratifica- president1881-1883;member,Statesenate tion convention in 1787; elected to the First Congress (March 1883-1890;4, 1789-March 3, 1791); declined to be a candidate for reelec- member of the Republican National Committee in 1888;ap- pointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue by President Wil-tion in 1790; again a member of the State assembly in 1791; liam McKinley in 1898, and served until February1899, elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); when he resigned to become Senator; electedas a Republi-died in Washington, Pa., March 2, 1796; interment in the old can to the United States Senate in 1899; reelected in 1905graveyard on First Walnut Street; reinterment in Washing- and served from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1911;unsuccess-ton Cemetery. ful candidate for renomination; chairman, Committeeon SCOTT, William Kerr, a Senator from North Carolina; Mines and Mining (Fifty-seventh through Fifty-ninthCon-born in Haw River, Alamance County, N.C., April 17, 1896; gresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-attended the public schools of Hawfields, N.C.; graduated ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); appointeda memberfrom North Carolina State College at Raleigh in 1917; of the Lincoln Memorial Commission in 1911; engagedinduring the First World War served as a private in the Field banking in Washington, D.C., until his deathon January 2,Artillery, United States Army, in 1918; farmer and dairy- 1924; remains were cremated and the ashes deposited inaman; Alamance County farm agent 1920-1930; master, mausoleum in Rock Creek Cemetery. North Carolina State Grange 1930-1933; regional director, SCOTT, Owen, a Representative from Illinois; bornon aFarm Debt Adjustment Program of Resettlement Adminis- farm in Jackson Township, Effingham County, Ill.,on Julytration 1934-1936; North Carolina State Commissioner of 6, 1848; attended the common schools,a private school inAgriculture 1937-1948; Governor of North Carolina 1949- Kinmundy, and the State normal school in Normal, Ill.;1952; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate taught school; superintendent of schools for EffinghamNovember 2, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of County, Ill., 1873-1881; studied law; was admitted to the barWillis Smith, and at the same time was elected to a full in 1873 and commenced practice in Effingham, Ill.; engagedterm beginning January 3, 1955, and served from November in newspaper work; published the Effingham Democrat;29, 1954, until his death in Burlington, N.C., April 16, 1958; mayor of Effingham in 1882; city attorney in 1883 and 1884;interment in Hawfields Presbyterian Church Cemetery near moved to Bloomington, Ill., in 1884 and became proprietorMebane, N.C. and manager of the Bloomington Daily and Weekly Bulle- Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 85 Cong., 2nd tins; deputy collector of internal revenue by appointment ofsess., 1958. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1958. President Cleveland 1885-1889; chairman of the Illinois SCOTT, William Lawrence (grandson of Gustavus Scott), a Democratic convention at Springfield, Ill., in 1888; electedasRepresentative from Pennsylvania; born in Washington, a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-D.C., July 2, 1828; attended the common schools and Hamp- March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892den-Sidney Academy in Virginia; page in the House of Rep- Biographies 1783 resentatives 1840-1846; moved to Erie, Pa., in 1846 and wasborn in Madison, New Haven County, Conn., July 26, 1838; employed as a shipping clerk until 1850; was subsequentlymoved with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1847; attended engaged in shipping, coal mining, iron manufacturing, bank-Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; attended Yale College ing, and railroad construction; had extensive land holdings1857-1861; collector of internal revenue 1862-1866; founded and was interested in the raising of cattle; mayor of Erie inthe Scranton Daily Republican in 1867; delegate to the Re- 1866 and again in 1871; unsuccessful candidate for electionpublican National Convention in 1872; postmaster of Scran- in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress and in 1876 to the Forty- ton from March 19, 1874, to May 5, 1881; elected as a Repub- fifth Congress; elected a member of the Democratic Nationallican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, Committee in 1876, 1880, and 1884; delegate to the Demo- 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the cratic National Conventions in 1876, 1880, and 1888; electedForty-eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses(March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for (March 4, 1885-March 3,1889); chairman, Committee onreelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; elected to the Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fiftieth Con-Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); chair- gress); was renominated in 1888 and again in 1890 but eachman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of time declined to be a candidate because of the condition of his health; director in a number of railroad companies andState (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- president of the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad at the time oftion in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the news- his death in Newport, R.I., September 19, 1891; interment inpaper business in Scranton; elected to the Fifty-third and Erie Cemetery, Erie, Pa. Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1893-March 3,1897); Bibliography: DAB. chairman, Committee on Territories (Fifty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in1896; resumed the SCOTT, William Lloyd, a Representative and a Senatorpublication and editorship of the Scranton Republican; treas- from Virginia; born in Williamsburg, Va., July 1, 1915; re-urer of Lackawanna County 190 1-1903; died in Scranton, ceived a law degree from George Washington University;Lackawanna County, Pa., October 12, 1908; interment in employed by federal government 1934-1961, principally asForest Hill Cemetery. trial attorney with Department of Justice; engaged in pri- vate practice of law, Fairfax, Va., 1961-1966; elected as a SCRANTON, William Warren, a Representative from Republican to the Ninetieth Congress; reelected to the twoPennsylvania; born in Madison, New Haven County, Conn., succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3,1973); July 19, 1917; attended the Hotchkiss school; Yale Universi- was not a candidate for reelection, but was elected in 1972 toty, B.A., 1939; Yale Law School, LL.B., 1946; served as a pilot the United States Senate, and served from January 3, 1973,(captain) in the United States Army Air Corps, with over- until his resignation January 1, 1979; was not a candidateseas service in Africa, the Middle East, and SouthAmerica, for reelection in 1978; is a resident of Fairfax, Va. 1941-1945, retired as lieutenant colonel; associated with the SCOVILLE, Jonathan, a Representative from New York;International Textbook Co., and Haddon Craftsman, Inc., born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., July 14, 1830;1947-1952, rising to position of vice president; president of attended various educational institutions in Massachusetts,the Scranton-Lackawanna Trust Co., 1954-1956; chairman of including the scientific department of Harvard University;the board of Northeastern Pennsylvania Broadcasting, Inc., engaged in business in Canaan, Conn., in 1854 as an iron1953-1959; special assistant to Secretary of State Christian manufacturer and mine owner; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., inA. Herter, 1959 and 1960; elected as a Republican to the 1860 and established a car-wheel foundry, and the next yearEighty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1963); established another in Toronto, Canada; elected as a Demo-was not a candidate for renomination in1962, but was a crat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused bysuccessful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, and the resignation of Ray V. Pierce; reelected to the Forty-served from January 15, 1963, to January 17, 1967; candidate seventh Congress and served from November 12, 1880, tofor Republican presidential nomination in 1964; delegate and March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for renomination inchairman of Judiciary Committee, Pennsylvania Constitu- 1882; mayor of Buffalo in 1884 and 1885; died in New Yorktional Convention, 1967-1968; vice chairman, President's City, March 4, 1891; interment in Salisbury Cemetery, Salis-Commission on insurance for Riot-torn Areas, 1967; United bury, Conn. States Ambassador, 1969; member, President's Advisory Committee on Arms Limitation and Disarmament; Repre- SCRANTON, George Whitfield (second cousin of Josephsentative of the United States to the United Nations, March Augustine Scranton), a Representative from Pennsylvania;15, 1976, to January 19, 1977; is a resident of Dalton, Pa. born in Madison, New Haven County, Conn., May 11, 1811; Bibliography: Wolf, George D. William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania attended the common schools and Lee's Academy; moved to Statesman. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981. Belvidere, N.J., in 1828 and became a teamster; subsequent- ly engaged in mercantile pursuits; from 1835 to 1839 was SCRIVNER, Errett Power, a Representative from Kansas; interested in agricultural pursuits and in the latter yearborn in Newton, Harvey County, Kans., March 20, 1898; engaged in the manufacture of iron, and began experiment-attended the grade schools and was graduated from Manual ing with the practicability of smelting ore by means of an- Training High School, Kansas City, Mo.; during the First thracite coal in Slocum (now Scranton), Pa.; founder of theWorld War enlisted in Battery B, One Hundred and Twenty- Lackawanna Iron & Coal Co. and the city of Scranton, Pa.;ninth Field Artillery, in July 1917; served overseas in 1918 projected and constructed the Northumberland division ofand 1919; awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart Medals; the Lackawanna Railroad; president of two railroad compa-was graduated from the law department of the Universityof nies; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-Kansas at Lawrence in 1925; was admitted to the bar the seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, until hissame year and commenced practice in Kansas City,Kans.; death in Scranton, Pa., March 24, 1861; interment in Dun-elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eight Congress, by more Cemetery. special election, September 14, 1943, to fill the vacancy Bibliography: DAB. caused by the death of U.S. Guyer; reelected to the seven SCRANTON, Joseph Augustine (second cousin of Georgesucceeding Congresses and served from September 14, 1943 Whitfield Scranton), a Representative from Pennsylvania;to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1784 Biographical Directory

1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; special assistant to the SCUDDER, Hubert Baxter, a Representative from Califor- comptroller, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., fromnia; born in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, Calif., November 5, January 1959 to March 1960; Deputy Assistant Secretary of1888; graduated from the public schools; supplemented Defense, Public Affairs, from March 7, 1960, to January 20,school training with correspondence courses, night schools, 1961; city commissioner, Cocoa Beach, 1970; resided in Cocoa Beach, Fla., until his death there May 5, 1978; cremated;and reading of law; superintendent of utilities for the city of entombment in a crypt at Florida Memorial Gardens, Rock-Sebastopol from July 1, 1912, to November 4, 1920; served in ledge, Fla. the United States Coast Artillery from May to December 1918; engaged in the insurance and real estate business in SCROGGY, Thomas Edmund, a Representative fromNovember 1920; elected city councilman of Sebastopol in Ohio; born in Harveysburg, Warren County, Ohio, March 18,April 1924 and mayor in 1926; member of the California 1843; attended the public schools; engaged in manufacturing;State assembly from January 1925 to January 1940; appoint- enlisted in July 1861 as a private in Company H, Thirty-ed real estate commissioner of the State of California in ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served inJanuary 1943 and resigned March 1, 1948; president of the that capacity and as corporal; honorably discharged andNational Association of License Law Officials from Novem- mustered out at Camp Dennison in March 1865; in Juneber 1947 to September 1948; elected as a Republican to the 1865 engaged in the retail business in Xenia, Ohio;was elected justice of the peace in 1869 and served one term;Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January studied law; was admitted to the bar September 8, 1871, and3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomina- commenced practice in Xenia, Ohio; served three termsastion in 1958; engaged in the real estate and insurance busi- clerk and three terms as solicitor of the city of Xenia;ness; died in Sebastopol, Calif., July 4, 1968; interment in common pleas judge in 1898, and again elected for a term ofSebastopol Cemetery. five years beginning February 1904 from which he resigned SCUDDER, Isaac Williamson, a Representative from New upon his election to Congress; elected as a Republican to theJersey; born in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), N.J., in 1816; Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the practicecompleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to of his profession; moved to Tulsa, Okia., in 1912, where hethe bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Elizabeth, N.J.; died March 6,1915; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery,moved to Jersey City; prosecutor of the pleas of Hudson Xenia, Ohio. County 1845-1855; appointed as a member of the first police commission of Jersey City, in 1866; elected director and SCRUGHAM, James Graves, a Representative and a Sena-counsel of the New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Co. tor from Nevada; born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky.,May 14, 1866, and director of the United New Jersey Rail- January 19, 1880; attended the public schools and graduatedroad & Canal Co. May 21, 1872; elected as a Republican to from the engineering department of the University of Ken-the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was tucky at Lexington in 1906; served in an engineeringcapac- ity successively in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Ill., and Sannot a candidate for reelection in 1874; appointed solicitor of Francisco, Calif.; professor of mechanical engineering, Engi-the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. for Hudson County, N.J., neering College, University of Nevada, at Reno, 1903-19 14June 23, 1875; died in Jersey City September 10, 1881; inter- and dean 19 14-1917; commissioned as a major in the Unitedment in St. John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union County, States Army in 1917 and was promoted to the rank of lieu-N.J. tenant colonel in 1918; State engineer of Nevada 1917-1923; SCUDDER, John Anderson, a Representative from New State public service commissioner 1919-1923; Governor of Nevada 1923-1927; editor and publisher of the Nevada StateJersey; born in Freehold, Monmouth County, N.J., March 22, Journal 1927-1932; special adviser to the Secretary of the1759; completed preparatory studies, and was graduated Interior on development projects in 1927;from Princeton College in 1775; studied medicine and com- elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the fourmenced practice in Monmouth County, N.J.; during the Rev- succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, toolutionary War served as surgeon's mate in the First Regi- December 7, 1942, when he resigned to becomea Senator;ment of Monmouth County, in 1777; secretary of the New elected as a Democrat to the United States Senateon No-Jersey Medical Society in 1788 and 1789; member of the vember 3, 1942, to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofState general assembly 1801-1807; elected as a Republican to for the term ending January 3, 1947, andthe Eleventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the served from December 7, 1942, until his death at the Uniteddeath of James Cox and served from October 31, 1810, to States Naval Hospital in San Diego, Calif., June 23, 1945;March 3, 1811; was not a candidate for renomination to the interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev. Twelfth Congress; resumed the practice of medicine; moved Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 79th Cong., 2ndsess., to Kentucky after 1810 and to Daviess County, md., in 1819; 1946. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948. died in Washington, Daviess County, md., November 6, 1836; SCUDDER, Henry Joel (uncle of Townsend Scudder),ainterment in the Old City Cemetery. Representative from New York; born in Northport, Suffolk County, N.Y., on September 18, 1825; attended the district SCUDDER, Nathaniel, a Delegate from New Jersey; born school and Huntington Academy; was graduated from Trini-at Monmouth Court House, Monmouth County, N.J., May ty College, Hartford, Conn., in 1846; studied law; was admit-10, 1733; was graduated from Princeton College in 1751; ted to the bar in 1848 and practiced in New York City;studied medicine and commenced practice in Monmouth commissioned captain in the Thirty-seventh Regiment, NewCounty, N.J.; member of the committee of safety; delegate to York National Guard, in 1862 and served throughout thethe Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1774; member of Civil War; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-the State general assembly, serving as speaker in 1776; lieu- gress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); declined to be a candi- tenant colonel of the New Jersey Militia in 1776 and colonel date for renomination in 1874; trustee of Trinity College forin 1781; Member of the Continental Congress 1778-1779; over twenty years; resumed the practice of law in New Yorktrustee of Princeton College 1778-178 1; was killed October City, where he died February 10, 1886; interment in the 17,1781, at Blacks Point, near Shrewsbury, Monmouth family cemetery at Northport, Suffolk County, N.Y. County, N.J., while resisting an invading party of the British Biographies 1785

Army; interment in Tennent Church Graveyard, Tennent,tember 19, 1868; attended the public schools, and Seton Hall N.J. College, South Orange, N.J.; engaged in the towing and Bibliography: DAB. transportation business; member of the board of education 1893-1895; mayor of South Amboy, N.J., in 1909 and 1910; SCUDDER, Townsend (nephew of Henry Joel Scudder), a Representative from New York; born in Northport, Suffolkelected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the four County, N.Y., July 26, 1865; attended preparatory schools insucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1921); dele- Europe; was graduated from Columbia Law School, Newgate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912; again York City, in 1888; was admitted to the bar in 1889 andmayor of South Amboy, from 1921 until his deathin that commenced practice in New York City; corporation counselcity December 14, 1921; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery. for Queens County, N.Y., 1893-1899; elected as a Democrat SCURRY, Richardson, a Representative from Texas; born to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901);in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tenn., November 11, 1811; edu- declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 andcated by private tutors; studied law; was admitted to the bar resumed the practice of law; elected to the Fifty-eighth Con-about 1830 and commenced practice in Covington, Tipton gress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); was not a candidate for renomination in 1904; justice of the State supreme court forCounty, Tenn.; moved to Texas and settled in Clarksville, the second judicial district 1907-1920; again resumed thewhere he continued the practice of law; delegate to the State practice of his profession in New York City; State parkconvention at Washington, Tex., which issued the Texas dec- commissioner and vice president of the Long Island Statelaration of independence; a pioneer in the formation of State Park Commission 1924-1927; appointed to the State supremegovernment; took an active part in the Texan War; elected court bench by Gov. Alfred E. Smith in February 1927;as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress(March 4, 1851- subsequently nominated by the two major political parties toMarch 3, 1853); resumed the practice of law; died in Hemp- succeed himself for the full term of fourteen years; electedstead, Waller (formerly Austin) County, Tex., April 9, 1862; on November 8, 1927, and served until January 1, 1936,interment in Hempstead Cemetery. when he retired; died in Greenwich, Conn., February 22, SEAMAN, Henry John, a Representative from New York; 1960; interment in Putnam Cemetery. born in Marshland (now Greenridge), Staten Island, N.Y., SCUDDER, Tredwell, a Representative from New York;April 16, 1805; engaged in agricultural pursuits; promoter of born in Islip, Suffolk County, N.Y., January 1, 1778; attend-Richmond village in 1836; elected as the candidate of the ed the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; townAmerican Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, supervisor of Islip in 1795, 1796, and 1804-1815; member of1845-March 3, 1847); director of the Staten Island Railroad the State assembly in 1802, 1810, 1811, 1814, and 1815; elect-in 1851; secretary of the Plank Road Co. in 1856; constructed ed as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4,the bridge over Fresh Kills; died on Staten Island, N.Y., May 1817-March 3, 1819); was not a candidate for renomination3, 1861; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. in 1818; resumed agricultural pursuits; again served in the State assembly in 1822 and 1828; again town supervisor of SEARING, John Alexander, a Representative from New Islip 1824-1833; died in Islip, N.Y., October 31, 1834; inter-York; born in North Hempstead, N.Y., May 14, 1805; com- ment in that village. pleted preparatory studies; sheriff of Queens County, N.Y., 1843-1846; member of the State assembly in 1854; elected as SCUDDER, Zeno, a Representative from Massachusetts;a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress(March 4, 1857- born in Osterville, Barnstable County, Mass., August 18,March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Thirty- 1807; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination ted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Falmouth,in 1858; died in Mineola, Nassau County, N.Y., May 6, 1876; Mass.; member of the State senate 1846-1848, serving asinterment in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, N.Y. president; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty- third Congresses and served from March 4, 1851, until his SEARLE, James, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in resignation on March 4, 1854, because of an accident, fromNew York City in 1730; completed preparatory studies; en- the effects of which he never recovered; died in Barnstable,gaged in business at Madeira in 1757; moved to Philadel- Mass., June 26, 1857; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Oster-.phia, Pa., in 1762; one of the managers of the United States yule, Mass. lottery 1776-1778; member of the Navy board in 1778; SCULL, Edward, a Representative from Pennsylvania;Member of the Continental Congress 1778-1780; trustee of born in Pittsburgh, Pa., February 5,1818; attended thethe University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 1779-178 1; common schools and pursued an academic course; studiedwas commissioner to France and Holland to negotiate aloan law; was admitted to the bar in 1844; moved to Somerset,for the State of Pennsylvania 1780-1782, but was unsuccess- Pa., in 1846 and practiced until 1857, prothonotary and clerkful; located in New York City in 1784 as agent for an import- of the court for three years; appointed collector of internaling house; returned to Pennsylvania in 1785; died in Phila- revenue by President Lincoln in 1863; removed by Presidentdelphia, Pa., on August 7, 1797; interment in St. Peter's Johnson in September 1866; delegate to the Republican Na-Churchyard. tional Conventions in 1864, 1876, and 1884; appointed asses- Bibliography: DAB. sor of internal revenue by President Grant in April 1869; SEARS, William Joseph, a Representative from Florida; again appointed collector, on March 22, 1873, and servedborn in Smithville, Lee County, Ga., December 4, 1874; until August 1883, when the district was consolidated withmoved with his parents to Ellaville, Ga., and thence to Kis- another; published and edited the Somerset Herald 1852-simmee, Osceola County, Fla., in January 1881; attended the 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, andpublic schools; was graduated from Florida State College at Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1893); diedLake City in 1895 and frOm Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., July 10, 1900; intermentin 1896; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and in Union Cemetery. commenced practice in Kissimmee, Fla.; mayor of Kissim- SCULLY, Thomas Joseph, a Representative from Newmee 1907-1911; superintendent of public instruction of Osce- Jersey; born in South Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J., Sep-ola County 1905-1915; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- 1786 Biographical Directory

fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-uated from Columbia College, Tennessee, about 1834; studied March 3, 1929); chairman, Committee on Education (Sixty-law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inHelena, Ark., in 1835; later became a cotton planter; pros- 1928; resumed the practice of his legal profession at Kissim-ecuting attorney 1835-1837; circuit judge 1840-1843; associ- mee, Fla.; moved to Jacksonville, Fla., and continued theate justice of the State supreme court 1843-1845; member practice of law; elected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-and president of the State senate 1846-1847; presidential fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937);was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; associate.elector on the Democratic ticket in 1846; appointed in 1848 member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals of the Veterans'and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Administration in Washington, D.C., from 1937 until hisSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chester retirement in October 1942; died in Kissimmee, Fla., MarchAshley; reelected in 1853 and 1859 and served from May 12, 30, 1944; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. 1848, to July 11, 1861, when he was expelled for support of the Confederate insurrection; chairman, Committee on Man- SEARS, Willis Gratz, a Representative from Nebraska;ufactures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses), Com- born in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio, August 16, 1860;mittee on Indian Affairs (Thirty-third through Thirty-sixth attended the common schools; moved to Nebraska in 1879Congresses); returned to Helena, Ark., where he resided and studied law at the University of Kansas at Lawrence;during the Civil War and practiced law; after federal troops was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced the practiceoccupied Helena, Ark., moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1864 of his profession in Tekamah, Burt County, Nebr.; prosecut-and resumed the practice of law; died in Memphis, Tenn., ing attorney for Burt County 1895-190 1; member of theMay 20, 1865; interment near Helena, Ark., in the Dunn State house of representatives 1901-1904, servingas speaker in 1901; elected as judge of the fourth judicial district ofFamily burying ground; in 1877, the Senate revoked the Nebraska, November 6, 1903, and served until March 10,resolution of expulsion and paid the full amount of compen- 1923, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;sation to Sebastian's children. elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the three SEBELIUS, Keith George, a Representative from Kansas; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1931); chair-born in Almena, Norton County, Kans., September 10, 1916; man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Jus-attended Almena grade and high schools; A.B., Fort Hays tice (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Elections No. 3Kansas State College, 1941; J.D., George Washington Univer- (Seventy-first Congress); was an unsuccessful candidate forsity Law School, 1939; admitted to practice in Kansas and renomination in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress;re- sumed the practice of law; again elected judge of the fourthDistrict of Columbia; served in the Armed Forces of the judicial district of Nebraska and served from 1932 to 1948; United States as private to master sergeant, lieutenant to died in Omaha, Nebr., on June 1, 1949; interment in Teka- major (AUS), Second World War and Korean conflict, USAR mah Cemetery, Tekamah, Nebr. (retired); city councilman, mayor, city attorney; State sena- tor, 1962-1968; legislative counsel, 1964-1968; elected as a SEATON, Frederick Andrew, a Senator from Nebraska;Republican to the Ninety-first and to the five succeeding born in Washington, D.C., December 11, 1909; attended theCongresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1981); was not a public schools in Manhattan, Kans., and Kansas State Col-candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con- lege at Manhattan; president of Seaton Publishing Co., Hast-gress; resided in Norton, Kans. until his death there on ings, Nebr., and publisher of Hastings Daily Tribune; alsoAugust 5, 1982; interment at Norton Cemetery. interested in several daily and weekly newspapers andoper- ating radio and TV stations; member, State senate 1945- SECCOMBE, James, a Representative from Ohio; born in 1949; chairman of legislative council 1947-1949; secretarytoMineral City, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 12, 1893; Republican presidential candidate Alfred M. Landon in 1936;moved with his parents to Canton, Ohio, in 1906; attended trustee of Hastings College and University of Nebraskathe public schools in Mineral City and Canton, Ohio; during Foundation; appointed as a Republican to the United Statesthe First World War served in the United States Army from Senate December 10, 1951, to fill the vacancy caused by theJuly 17, 1917, with service overseas, until discharged April death of Kenneth S. Wherry and served from December 10,10, 1919; worked in various factories as machinist and fore- 1951, to November 4, 1952; was nota candidate for electionman from 1913 to 1932; attended the Y.M.C.A. night school to the vacancy; Assistant Secretary of Defense 1953-1955;of automobile engineering in 1930 and 1931; member of the administrative assistant to President Dwight EisenhowerCanton City Council 1928-1933, serving as vice president, from February to June 1955, then made deputy assistant, inpresident, and mayor; delegate to the Republican State con- which capacity he served until May 1956; Secretary of theventions at Canton, Ohio, in 1932, 1934, and 1936; elected Interior 1956-1961; resumed the publishing business; died inmayor of Canton in 1935 and served until his resignation in Minneapolis, Minn., January 16, 1974; interment in Park-December 1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth view Cemetery, Hastings, Nebr. Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); was an unsuc- SEAVER, Ebenezer, a Representative from Massachu- cessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-sev- setts; born in Roxbury, Mass., July 5, 1763; was graduatedenth Congress; served as State tax examiner, Canton, Ohio, from Harvard University in 1784; engaged in agriculturalin 1941 and 1942; director of Stark County Board of Elec- pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1794-tions, 1942-1970; president of the Ohio Association of Elec- 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the fourtion Officials in 1959; died in Canton, Ohio, August 23, 1970; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1813);unsuc-interment in North Lawn Cemetery. cessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; member of the State constitutional convention in SECREST, Robert Thompson, a Representative from 1820; again a member of the State house of representativesOhio; born on a farm near Senecaville, Noble County, Ohio, in 1822, 1823, and 1826; died in Roxbury, Mass., March 1,January 22, 1904; attended the public schools; was graduated 1844. from Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, in 1926; grad- uated from Washington, D.C., College of Law in 1938, from SEBASTIAN, William King, a Senator from Arkansas;Columbia University, New York City, in 1943, and British born in Centerville, Hickman County, Tenn., in 1812; grad-School of Civil Affairs, Wimbledon, England, in 1943; princi- Biographies 1787 pal of Senecaville (Ohio) High School 1926-1930; superin-Mass.; during the Revolutionary War served in the expedi- tendent of schools of Murray City, Ohio, in 1931 and 1932;tion against Canada in 1776; member, State house of repre- member of the State house of representatives in 1931 andsentatives 1780, 1782-1783; member, State senate 1784-1785; 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to theMember of the Continental Congress 1785, 1786, and 1788; four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933,member, State house of representatives 1787-1788, and until his resignation on August 3, 1942; lieutenant com-served as speaker; delegate to the State convention that mander in the United States Navy and later promoted toadopted the Federal Constitution in 1788; elected to the First commander and served until February 28, 1946, in England,and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from Africa, Italy, and the Pacific as military government officer;March 4, 1789, until his resignation in June 1796; elected as unsuccessful candidate for election in 1946 to the Eightietha Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Congress; engaged as a legal supervisor at the Library ofcaused by the resignation of and served from Congress from December 15, 1946, until his resignation inJune 11, 1796, to March 3, 1799; served as President pro June 1947; elected to the Eighty-first, Eighty-second andtempore of the Senate during the Fifth Congress; elected to Eighty-third Congresses and served from January 3, 1949,the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); Speaker until his resignation September 26, 1954; had been renomi-of the House of Representatives, Sixth Congress; judge of the nated in the primary election May 4, 1954, to the Eighty-supreme court of Massachusetts 1802-1813; died in Boston, fourth Congress; member of Federal Trade CommissionMass., January 24, 1813; interment in the family cemetery, 1954-1961; director of commerce, State of Ohio, January 15,Stockbridge, Mass. 1962, to August 31, 1962; elected to the Eighty-eighth and Bibliography: DAB; Welch, Richard. , Federalist: A Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); Political Portrait. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Nineti- eth Congress; in 1969 elected a member, Ohio State senate, SEELEY, John Edward, a Representative from New for the term ending in January 1973; member, nationalYork; born in Ovid, Seneca County, N.Y., August 1, 1810; council, , 1978-1987; is a resident of Cam-attended Ovid Academy and was graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1835; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- bridge, Ohio. menced practice in Monroe, Mich.; returned to Ovid, N.Y., in SEDDON, James Alexander, a Representative from Vir-1839; supervisor of Ovid in 1842; county judge and surrogate ginia; born in Falmouth, Va., July 13, 1815; studied underof Seneca County, N.Y., 1851-1855; delegate to the Republi- private tutors and was graduated from the law departmentcan National Convention in 1856; elected as a Republican to of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1835; wasthe Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); admitted to the bar about 1838 and commenced practice inresumed the practice of his profession in Ovid, N.Y., and Richmond, Va.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninthdied there March 30, 1875; interment on his farm near Ovid. Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; elected to the Thirty- SEELY-BROWN, Horace, Jr., a Representative from Con- first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); declined to benecticut; born in Kensington, Montgomery County, Md., May a candidate for renomination; member of the peace conven-12, 1908; attended the public schools of Hoosick, N.Y.; was tion held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devisegraduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1929; means to prevent the impending war; delegate from Virginiastudent at Yale University in 1929 and 1930; taught school to the Provisional Confederate Congress at Richmond, Va.,in Hoosick, N.Y., 1930-1932 and in New Lebanon, N.Y., in July 1861; appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of1932-1934; moved to Pomfret, Conn., in 1934 and taught the Confederate States on November 20, 1862; retired inschool until 1942; delegate to the Republican State conven- January 1865; died at "Sabot Hill," Goochland County, Va.,tions in 1938, 1940, and 1942; served as Air Operations Offi- August 19, 1880; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich-cer, Carrier Aircraft Service Unit No. 2, from February1943 mond, Va. to January 1946; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1946; Bibliography: DAB; Curry, Roy W. "James A Seddon, A Southern Pro-elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January totype." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (April 1955): 123- 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- 50; O'Brien, Gerald F.J. "James A. Seddon, Statesman of the Old South." tion in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Ph.D dissertation, University of Maryland, 1963. Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu- SEDG WICK, Charles Baldwin, a Representative fromary 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); unsuccessfulcandidate for re- New York; born in Pompey, Onondaga County, N.Y., Marchelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; elected in 1960 15, 1815; attended Pompey Hill Academy, and Hamilton Col-to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1961-January 3, lege, Clinton, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 but was 1848 and commenced practice in Syracuse, N.Y.; elected as aan unsuccessful candidate for the United StatesSenate in Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congress-1962; resumed agricultural pursuits; resided in Pomfret es (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee onCenter, Conn., until his death in Boca Raton, Fla. on April 9, Naval Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candi-1982; interment in Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Porn- date for renomination in 1862; engaged for the next twofret Center, Conn. years in codifying naval laws for the Navy Department at SEELYE, Julius Hawley, a Representative from Massa- Washington, D.C.; resumed the practice of law in Syracuse,chusetts; born in Bethel, Fairfield County, Conn., September N.Y., where he died February 3, 1883; interment in Oakwood14, 1824; was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in Cemetery. 1849; studied theology, and was graduated from Auburn Bibliography: Field, Earle. "Charles B. Sedgwick's Letters From Wash- Theological Seminary in 1852; ordained as a minister in 1853 ington, 1859-1861." Mid-America 49 (April 1967): 129-39. and became pastor of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch SEDGWICK, Theodore, a Delegate, a Representative, andChurch, Schenectady, N.Y., 1853-1858; professor of mental a Senator from Massachusetts; born in West Hartford,and moral philosophy in Amherst College 1858-1876; accept- Conn., May 9, 1746; attended Yale College; studied theologyed an invitation to deliver a course of lectures in India in and law; was admitted to the bar in 1766 and commenced1872; elected as an Independent to the Forty-fourth Congress practice in Great Barrington, Mass.; moved to Sheffield,(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for 1788 Biographical Directory

reelection; member of the commission to revise the tax lawswas admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in of Massachusetts; president of Amherst College 1876-1890;Akron, Ohio; also interested in the manufacture of rubber died in Amherst, Mass., May 12, 1895; interment in Wild-and tires and served as a director in various manufacturing wood Cemetery. companies; served as a trustee of Wittenberg College; elected Bibliography: DAB. as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Con- SEERLEY, John Joseph, a Representative from Iowa;gresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candi- born on a farm near Toulon, Stark County, Ill., March 13,date for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; 1852; in 1854 moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled onresumed the practice of law; died in Akron, Ohio, February a farm in Keokuk County; attended the common schools;1, 1945; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. was graduated from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in SEIBERLING, John Frederick (cousin of Francis Seiber- 1875; principal of the Iowa City High School in 1876;was graduated from the law department of the University ofling), a Representative from Ohio; born in Akron, Summit Iowa in 1877; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and com-County, Ohio, September 8, 1918; attended the public schools menced practice in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa;of Akron, and Staunton Military Academy, Virginia; A.B., city solicitor of Burlington 1885-1890 and 1893-1895; unsuc-Harvard University, 1941; LL.B., Columbia Law School, New cessful Democratic candidate for election in 1888 to theYork, 1949; enlisted as a private in the United States Army Fifty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-and served from March 1942 to March 1946, rising to rank of second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuccessfulmajor; admitted to the New York bar in 1950 and com- candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress;menced practice in New York; associate with New York resumed the practice of law in Burlington, Iowa; also inter-firm, 1949-1954; volunteer service with New York Legal Aid ested in banking and agricultural pursuits; delegate to theSociety, 1950; corporate attorney, private industry, 1954- Democratic National Convention in 1920; died in Burlington, 1970; member, Tn-County Regional Planning Commission, Iowa, on February 23, 1931; interment in Aspin Grove Ceme-Akron, Ohio, 1964-1970; elected as a Democrat to the tery. Ninety-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Janu- ary 3, 1971-January 3, 1987); was not a candidate for reelec- SEGAR, , a Representative from Virgin-tion in 1986; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of ia; born in King William County, Va., June 1, 1804; attendedAkron, Ohio. the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; held several local offices; member of the State SELBY, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Illinois; house of delegates 1836-1838, 1848-1852, and 1855-1861;pre-born in Delaware County, Ohio, December 4, 1840; attended sented credentials as a Unionist Member-elect to the Thirty-the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in seventh Congress from an election held on October 24, 1861,1869 and commenced the practice of his profession in 1875; but the House on February 11, 1862, decided hewas notsheriff of Jersey County, Ill., 1864-1866; published the Jersey entitled to the seat; subsequently elected to thesame Con-County Democrat 1866-1870; county clerk 1869-1877; mayor gress and served from March 15, 1862, to March 3, 1863;of Jerseyville, Ill., two terms; State attorney for Calhoun presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-eighthCounty 1888-1900; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sev- Congress, but was declared not entitled to the seat by resolu-enth Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); resumed the tion of May 17, 1864, presented credentialson February 17,practice of law; State's attorney; died in Hardin, Calhoun 1865, as a United States Senator-elect to fill thevacancy inCounty, Ill., March 10, 1917; interment in Hardin Cemetery. the term commencing March 4, 1863, caused by the death of Lemuel J. Bowden, but was not permitted to take his seat; SELDEN, Armistead Inge, Jr., a Representative from Ala- presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-firstbama; born in Greensboro, Hale County, Ala., February 20, Congress, but was not permitted to qualify; unsuccessful1921; attended the public schools; graduated from Greens- Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifthboro High School in 1938 and from the University of the Congress; member of Spanish Claims Commission, 1877-South, Sewanee, Tenn., in 1942; served in the United States 1880; died on a steamer while en route from Norfolk, Va.,toNavy from August 1942 until March 1946, with 31 months Washington, D.C., April 30, 1880; interment in St. John'saboard ship, primarily in the North Atlantic, and was dis- Cemetery, Hampton, Va. charged as a lieutenant; lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve; entered the University of Ala- SEGER, George Nicholas, a Representative from Newbama School of Law and graduated in 1948; was admitted to Jersey; born in New York City January 4, 1866; attended the public schools; settled in Passaic, N.J., in 1899 and engagedthe bar in 1948 and commenced practice in Greensboro, Ala.; in the building business; member of the board of educationmember of the State house of representatives in 1951 and of Passaic 1906-1911; mayor of Passaic 1911-1919; delegate1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress; to the Republican National Convention in 1916; president ofreelected to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, the New Jersey League of Municipalities in 1917 and 1918;1953-January 3, 1969); was not a candidate in 1968 for re- city director of finance 1919-1923; member of the Council ofelection to the United States House of Representatives but National Defense during the First World War; electedas awas an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the eight succeedingStates Senate; resumed the practice of law until October Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death1970; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Inter- in Washington, D.C., on August 26, 1940; interment innational Security Affairs), October 1970-February 1973; Am- Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. bassador to New Zealand, Fiji, The Kingdom of Tonga, and Western Samoa, 1974-1979; was an unsuccessful Republican SEIBERLING, Francis (cousin of John Frederick Seiber-candidate for nomination to the United States Senate from ling), a Representative from Ohio; born in Des Moines, Iowa,Alabama in 1980; president, American League for Exports September 20, 1870; moved with his parents to Wadsworth,and Security Assistance,1980-1985; was a resident of Summit County, Ohio, in 1873; attended the public schoolsGreensboro, Ala., and Falls Church, Va., until his death in and Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and was graduat-Birmingham, Ala., November 14, 1985; interment in Greens- ed from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1892; studied law;boro City Cemetery, Greensboro, Ala. 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SELDEN, Dudley, a Representative from New York; wasthe common schools; learned the blacksmith trade; moved to graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1819;Rochester, N.Y., in 1824 and engaged in the manufacture of studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced theiron; member of the Board of Supervisors of Monroe County practice of his profession in New York City in 1831; memberseveral terms; elected alderman in 1841; member of the of the State assembly in 1831; elected as a Jacksonian to thecommon council in 1843, 1856, and 1871; county treasurer of Twenty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1833, toMonroe County 1848-1851 and 1854; elected as an Independ- July 1, 1834, when he resigned; died in Paris, France, No-ent Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867- vember 7, 1855; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook-March 3,1869); in 1868 established the Rochester Daily lyn, N.Y. Chronicle, which was merged with the Rochester Democrat SELDOMRIDGE, Harry Hunter, a Representative fromand Chronicle in 1870; trustee of the Monroe County Savings Colorado; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 1, 1864; attend-Bank; died in Rochester, N.Y., January 27, 1883; interment ed the public schools of Philadelphia; moved to Coloradoin Mount Hope Cemetery. Springs, Cob., in February 1878; was graduated from Colora- do College at Colorado Springs in 1885; city editor of the SEMMES, Benedict Joseph, a Representative from Mary- Colorado Springs Gazette 1886-1888; engaged in the grainland; born in Charles County, Md., November 1, 1789; at- and hay business in 1888; delegate to the Democratic Na-tended the rural schools and a medical college in Philadel- tional Convention in 1896; member of the State senate 1896-phia; was graduated from Baltimore Medical School in 1811; 1904; member and president of the State charter conventioncommenced practice in Piscataway, Prince Georges County, at Colorado Springs in 1909; elected as a Democrat to theMd., and later engaged in farming; member of the State Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuc-house of delegates 1825-1828 and served as speaker; served cessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourthin the State senate; elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty- Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; receiver ofsecond Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); again a the Mercantile National Bank of Pueblo 1915-1923; appoint-member of the State house of delegates in 1842 and 1843; ed public trustee of El Paso County, Cob., by Governorlived in retirement until his death at Oak Lawn, Prince

Sweet; died at Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Cob., No-- Georges County, Md., February 10, 1863. vember 2, 1927; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. SEMPLE, James, a Senator from Illinois; born in Green SELLS, Sam Riley, a Representative from Tennessee;County, Ky., January 5, 1798; moved with his parents to born in Bristol, Sullivan County, Tenn., August 2, 1871;Clinton County; received private instruction and attended attended the rural schools and King College in Bristol,the common schools; enlisted in the Army in 1814; ensign in Tenn., 1885-1890; studied law; was admitted to the bar andthe Kentucky Militia in 1816; moved to Edwardsville, Ill., in commenced practice in Bbountville, Tenn.; served as a pri-1818 and to Chariton, Mo., in 1819, where he engaged in vate in Company F, Third Regiment, Tennessee Volunteerbusiness; elected as a commissioner of the loan office; stud- Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; moved to John-ied law in Louisville, KY.; was admitted to the bar and son City, Tenn., and engaged in the lumber business;commenced practice in Clinton County, KY.; returned to Ed- member of the State senate 1909-1911; elected as a Republi-wardsville, Ill., in 1827 and continued the practice of law; can to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Congress-member, State house of representatives 1828-1833, serving es (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on private, adjutant, and Pensions (Sixty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate foras speaker four years; served as a renomination in 1920; delegate to the Republican Nationaljudge advocate during the Black Hawk War; attorney gener- Conventions in 1912 and 1916; resumed the lumber businessal of Illinois in 1833; unsuccessful candidate for election in in Johnson City, Tenn.; also engaged in the manufacture of1836 to the United States Senate; moved to Alton, Ill., in shale brick and in numerous other business enterprises; died1837; Chargé d'Affaires to Colombia 1837-1842; judge of the in Johnson City, Tenn., November 2, 1935; interment in OakState supreme court 1842-1843; appointe4 and subsequently Hill Cemetery. elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of SamuelMcRoberts and SELVIG, Conrad George, a Representative from Minneso-served from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847; was not a ta; born in Rushlord, Fillmore County, Minn., October 11,candidate for renomination in 1846; chairman, Committee 1877; attended the public schools and was graduated fromon Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-ninthCongress); returned Rushford High School in 1895; in the war with Spain servedto Alton and engaged in the real estate business;moved to as a private with the Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry;Jersey County, Ill., in 1853 and founded the town of Elsah; taught rural and village schools; was graduated from thecontinued in the real estate business; also engaged in liter- University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1907; superin-ary pursuits; died in Elsah, Ill., December20, 1866; inter- tendent of schools at Harmony and Glencoe, Minn., 1901-ment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. 1910; delegate to the Republican State convention in 1908; was appointed director of the University of Minnesota SENER, James Beverley, a Representative from Virginia; Northwest School of Agriculture and Experiment Station,born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., May 18, Crookston, Minn., in 1910; president of various Red River1837; attended private schools and in 1859 was graduated Valley farm and community development organizations;from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was grad- elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, anduated in law from Washington College (now Washington and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933);Lee University) at Lexington in 1860; was admitted to the unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-bar the same year and commenced practice in Fredericks- third Congress; moved to Santa Monica, Calif., in 1935; viceburg, Va.; sheriff of Fredericksburg in 1860; sergeant of the president of the National Hearing Society and was the soci-city of Fredericksburg 1863-1865; army correspondent of the ety's legislative chairman; died in Santa Monica, Calif.,Southern Associated Press with the army of Gen. Robert E. August 2, 1953; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Crookston,Lee; became editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Ledger in Minn. 1865; delegate to the Republican National Convention in SELYE, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress Chittenango, Madison County, N.Y., July 11, 1803; attended(March 4, 1873-March 3,1875); chairman, Committee on 1790 Biographical Directory

Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-third Con-succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to thea resident of Menomonee Falls, Wis. Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of his profes- sion; served as chief justice of Wyoming Territory 1878-1882; SENTER, William Tandy, a Representative from Tennes- died in Washington, D.C., on November 18, 1903; intermentsee; born at Bean Station, Grainger County, Tenn., May 12, in Citizens Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va. 1801; attended the common schools; held several local of- fices; engaged in agricultural pursuits; minister in the Meth- SENEY, George Ebbert, a Representative from Ohio; bornodist Episcopal Church South, Holston Conference; member in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., May 29, 1832; movedof the State constitutional convention which met at Nash- with his parents to Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, in Novem-ville from May 19 to August 30, 1834; elected as a Whig to ber 1832; attended Norwalk (Ohio) Seminary; studied law;the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); was admitted to the bar in 1853 and practiced in Tiffin;resumed agricultural pursuits and ministerial work; died at judge of the court of common pleas in 1857; in July 1862,Panther Springs, Hamblen County, Tenn., August 28, 1848; enlisted in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Ohio Vol-interment in Senter Memorial Church Cemetery. unteer Infantry; was subsequently commissioned first lieu- tenant and acted as quartermaster of the regiment until SERGEANT, John (son of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, near the close of the Civil War; delegate to the Democraticgrandfather of John Sergeant Wise and Richard Alsop Wise, National Convention in 1876; elected as a Democrat to theand great-grandfather of John CramKunkel), a Representa- Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchtive from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomina-5, 1779; attended the common schools and the University of tion in 1890; resumed the practice of his profession in Tiffin,Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; was graduated from Prince- Seneca County, Ohio, where he died June 11, 1905; inter-ton College in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ment in Greenlawn Cemetery. 1799 and practiced in Philadelphia for fifty years; deputy attorney general for Philadelphia in 1800; commissioner of SENEY, Joshua, a Delegate and a Representative frombankruptcy for Pennsylvania in 1801; member of the State Maryland; born near Church Hill, Queen Annes County,house of representatives 1808-18 10; elected as a Federalist to Md., March 4, 1756; attended the common schools, andwas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the phia in 1773; studied law; was admitted to the bar anddeath of Jonathan Williams; reelected to the Fifteenth, Six- practiced; high sheriff of Queen Annes County in 1779;teenth, and Seventeenth Congresses and served from Octo- member of the State house of delegates 1785-1787; Memberber 10, 1815, to March 3, 1823; chairman, Committee on the of the Continental Congress in 1788; engaged in agriculturalJudiciary (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses); was not a pursuits; elected to the First and Second Congresses andcandidate for reelection; president of the Pennsylvania served from March 4, 1789, until his resignation May 1,Board of Canal Commissioners in 1825; envoy to the Panama Congress in 1826; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 1792, to accept a judicial appointment; chief justice ofthe third judicial district of Maryland, 1792-1796; diednear4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; Church Hill, Queen Annes County, Md., October 20, 1798;unsuccessful National-Republican candidate for election as interment in a private cemetery on the Everett farm, be-Vice President of the United States in 1832; president of the tween Church Hill and Sudlersville, Md. State constitutional convention in 1838; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Con- SENNER, George Frederick, Jr.,a Representative fromgresses and served from March 4, 1837, until his resignation Arizona; born in Miami, Gila County, Ariz., November24, on September 15, 1841; chairman, Committee on the Judici- 1921; graduated from Miami High School in 1940; studiedatary (Twenty-sixth Congress); died in Philadelphia, Pa., No- Arizona State University in Tempe and graduated from thevember 23, 1852; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. University of Arizona Law School in Tucson in 1952; enlisted Bibliography: DAB. in the United States Marine Corps in May 1942,served twenty-seven months in the South Pacific, and SERGEANT, Jonathan Dickinson (father of John Ser- was dis-geant), a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., charged in October 1945 with the rank of sergeant;was admitted to the bar in October 1952 and engaged in thein 1746; moved with his parents to Princeton, N.J., in 1758; practice of law in Miami, Ariz.; assistant attorney, city ofcompleted preparatory studies; was graduated from Prince- Miami, 1952-1954; county attorney, Gila County, 1954-1957;ton College in 1762 and from the University of Pennsylvania member of Arizona Corporation Commission from Augustat Philadelphia in 1763; studied law; was admitted to the bar 1957 to January 1963, serving as chairman, 1958-1961; elect- in 1767 and commenced practice in Princeton, N.J.; surro- ed as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninthgate of Somerset County, N.J., in 1769; secretary of the State Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); unsuccessfulprovincial convention in 1774; member of the New Jersey candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress;Provincial Congress, 1775 and 1776; secretary from May 24 resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Lukeville, Ariz.to May 30, 1775, treasurer from August 17 to October 3, 1775, and member of the committee of safety from August 17 SENSENBRENNER, Frank James, Jr.,a Representativeto October 3, 1775; appointed as a member of the committee from Wisconsin; born in Chicago, Ill., June 14, 1943;graduat-that drafted the first constitution of New Jersey in 1776; ed from Milwaukee Country Day School (high school),1961; Member of the Continental Congress from February 14 to A.B., Stanford University, California, 1965; staff membertoJune 22, 1776, when he resigned; again elected a Member of United States Representative J. Arthur Younger, California,the Continental Congress on November 30, 1776, and served 1965; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison,until his resignation on September 6, 1777, to accept the 1968; admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1968 and commencedoffice of attorney general of Pennsylvania; moved to Phila- practice in Cedarburg; private practice of law, 1970-1975;delphia, Pa., in 1777; member of the council of safety of served in the Wisconsin assembly, 1969-1975; State senate,Pennsylvania in 1777; attorney general of Pennsylvania 1975-1979 and was assistant minority leader, 1977-1979; del-1777-1780; counsel for the State in the Wyoming land con- egate, Wisconsin State Republican conventions, 1965-1988;troversy with Connecticut in 1782; died in Philadelphia, Pa., elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the fourOctober 8, 1793; interment in the Presbyterian Churchyard, Biographies 1791 then located at Fourth and Pine Streets; reinterment inWentworth, Rockingham County, N.C., March 10, 1865; at- Laurel Hill Cemetery in 1878. tended the public schools and Georgetown College, District Bibliography: DAB. of Columbia; studied law in Greensboro, N.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice at Wentworth, SESSINGHAUS, Gustavus, a Representative from Missou-N.C.; solicitor of the ninth judicial district 1886-1894; elected ri; born in Koela, Prussia, November 8, 1838; pursued pre- Fifty-fourth Congress- paratory studies; immigrated to the United States and set-as a Republican to the Fifty-third and tled in St. Louis, Mo.; during the Civil War served as aes (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on private in Company A, Fifth Regiment, United States Re-Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fifty-fourth Congress); serve Corps, Missouri Volunteer Infantry; member of theunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty- school board 1878-1880; successfully contested as a Republi-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in can the election of Richard G. Frost to the Forty-seventhAsheville, N.C.; appointed by the Department of Justice as Congress and served two days only, March 2 and 3, 1883;special attorney to the United States Court of Customs in unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-New York City in 1909, and served in that capacity until eighth Congress; engaged in the milling business; died in St.1910; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina Louis, Mo., November 16, 1887; interment in Bellefontainein 1912; died in Asheville, N.C., January 20, 1919; interment Cemetery. in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C. SESSIONS, Walter Loomis, a Representative from New SEVERANCE, Luther, a Representative from Maine; born York; born in Brandon, Rutland County, Vt., October 4,in Montague, Mass., October 26, 1797; moved with his par- 1820; as a child was brought to Chautauqua County, N.Y.;ents to Cazenovia, N.Y., in 1799; attended the common attended the common schools of the county and Westfieldschools; learned the printer's trade in Peterboro, N.Y.; estab- (N.Y.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar inlished the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine, in 1825; 1849 and commenced the practice of his profession inmember of the State house of representatives in 1829, 1839, Panama, Chautauqua County, N.Y.; engaged in teaching;1840, 1842, and 1848; served in the State senate in 1835 and commissioner of schools for several years; member of the1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty- State assembly in 1853 and 1854; served in the State senateninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); vice presi- in 1860, 1861, 1866, and 1867; supervisor of the town ofdent of the Whig National Convention in 1848; United States Harmony, Chautauqua County, N.Y., 1870-1872; elected as acommissioner to the Sandwich Islands 1850-1854; died in Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third CongressesAugusta, Maine, January 25, 1855; interment in Forest (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate forGrove Cemetery. reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March SEVIER, Ambrose Hundley (cousin of Henry Wharton 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Conway), a Delegate and a Senator from Arkansas; born in tion in 1886 and for the nomination in 1890; engaged in theGreene County, Tenn., November 4, 1801; completed prepar- practice of his profession in Jamestown and Panama, N.Y.;atory studies; moved to Missouri in 1820 and to Little Rock, appointed commissioner of the State of New York to theArk., in 1821; clerk of the Territorial house of representa- World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill., in 1893; diedtives; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and in Panama, N.Y., on May 27, 1896; interment in Forest Hillpracticed; member, Territorial house of representatives Cemetery. 1823-1827, serving as speaker in 1827; elected as a Delegate to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the SETTLE, Evan Evans, a Representative from Kentucky;death of Henry W. Conway; reelected to the Twenty-first born in Frankfort, Ky., December 1,1848; attended theand to the three succeeding Congresses and served from public schools; was graduated from Louisville High School inFebruary 13, 1828, to June 15, 1836, when the Territory was June 1864; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 andadmitted as a State into the Union; elected as a Democrat to commenced practice in Owenton, Owenton County, KY.;the United States Senate in 1836; reelected in 1837 and 1843 elected prosecuting attorney of Owenton County in 1878, and served from September 18, 1836, until his resignation on 1882, and 1886; resigned in 1887; member of the State houseMarch 15, 1848; served as President pro tempore of the of representatives 1887-1890; delegate to the Democratic Na-Senate during the Twenty-ninth Congress; chairman, Com- tional Convention in 1888; elected as a Democrat to themittee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from MarchCongresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-ninth 3, 1897, until his death in Owenton, Ky., November 16, 1899;and Thirtieth Congresses); was appointed Minister to Mexico interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. to negotiate the treaty of peace between that Republic and SETTLE, Thomas, (grandfather of Thomas Settle [1865-the United States 1848; died on his plantation near Little 19191 and uncle of ), a Representative fromRock, Pulaski County, Ark., December 31, 1848; interment in North Carolina; born near Reidsville, Rockingham County,Mount Holly Cemetery, where the State erected a monu- N.C., March 9, 1789; educated by private tutors; studied law;ment to his memory. was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in Bibliography: DAB; Walton, Brian. "Ambrose Hundley Sevier in the Wentworth, N.C.; member of the State house of commons inUnited States Senate, 1836-1848." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 32 (Spring 1816; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth 1973): 25-60. Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); declined to be a SEVIER, John, a Representative from North Carolina and candidate.for reelection; resumed the practice of law; againfrom Tennessee; born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham a member of the State house of commons, in 1826 and 1827, County, Va., September 23, 1745; attended the common and served as speaker in the last session; judge of the superi-schools and the academy at Fredericksburg, Va.; moved with or courts of North Carolina in 1832; died in Rockinghamhis brothers to Watauga County, N.C., in 1773 and settled on County, N.C., August 5, 1857; interment in the Settle familythe Hoiston River, N.C. (now Tennessee); county clerk and graveyard, near Reidsville, N.C. district judge 1777-1780; elected Governor of "the pro- SETTLE, Thomas (grandson of Thomas Settle [1789-claimed" State of Franidin in March 1785 and served for 18571), a Representative from North Carolina; born nearthree years; elected from North Carolina to the First Con- 1792 Biographical Directory

gress and served from June 16, 1790, until March 3, 1791; SEWARD, William Henry, a Senator from New York; appointed in 1791 as brigadier general of militia for theborn in Florida, Orange County, N.Y., on May 16, 1801; after Washington district of the territory south of the Ohio; uponpreparatory studies, graduated from Union College in 1820; the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union wasstudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- chosen Governor and served from 1796 to 1801, and again from 1803 to 1809; appointed in 1798 as brigadier general oftice in Auburn, N.Y., in 1823; member, State senate 1830- the Provisional Army; served one term in the State senate1834; unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor in 1834; Gov- 1810-1811; elected as a Republican from Tennessee to theernor of New York 1838-1842; elected as a Whig to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and servedUnited States Senate in 1849; reelected as a Republican in from March 4, 1811, until his death; appointed in 1815 as1855 and served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1861; one of the commissioners to determine the boundary be-unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for tween Georgia and the Creek territory in Alabama andpresident in 1860; Secretary of State in the Cabinets of served until his death, near Fort Decatur, Ala., SeptemberPresidents and Andrew Johnson 1861- 24, 1815; interment at Fort Decatur, Ala.; reinterred in1869; while Secretary of State concluded the convention with Knoxville, Tenn., in 1889. Great Britain for the settlement of the Alabama claims and Bibliography: DAB; Driver, Carl S. "John Sevier, A Pioneer of the Old the treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; died in Southwest." Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1929.. Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., October 10, 1872; interment SEWALL, Charles S., a Representative from Maryland;in Fort Hill Cemetery. born in Queen Annes County, Md., in 1779; attended the Bibliography: DAB; Seward, William Henry. William Henry Seward. common schools; served in the Forty-second Regiment, Edited by Frederick Seward. 3 vols. New York: Derby and Miller, 1891; Maryland Militia, in the War of 1812; served in the State Van Deusen, Glyndon. William Henry Seward. New York: Oxford Univer- house of delegates; was member of the State senate; elected sity Press, 1967. as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the SE WELL, William Joyce, a Senator from New Jersey; vacancy caused by the death of George E. Mitchell andborn in Castlebar, Ireland, December 6, 1835; immigrated to served from October 1, 1832, to March 3, 1833; electedas athe United States in 1851, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy which was caused by the death of James W. Williams andChicago, Ill.; moved to Camden, N.J., in 1860; during the served from January 2 to March 3, 1843; moved to HarfordCivil War, served with the New Jersey Volunteers, begin- County, Md.; died at Rose Hill, Harford County, Md.,onning as a captain in 1861 brevetted brigadier general and November 3, 1848. major general in 1865; awarded the Congressional in 1896, "for having assumed command of a brigade SEWALL, Samuel, a Representative from Massachusetts;at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863"; after the war became born in Boston, Mass., December 11, 1757; attended theconnected with railroads in New Jersey; member, State common schools and was graduated from Harvard College insenate 1872-1881, serving as president in 1876, 1879-1880; 1776; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedelected as a Republican to the United States Senate and practice in Marblehead, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives 1784 and 1788-1796; elected as a Federalistserved from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; unsuccessful to the Fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thecandidate for reelection in 1887, and for election to the resignation of ; reelected to the Fifth andUnited States Senate in 1889 and 1893; chairman, Commit- Sixth Congresses and served from December 7, 1796, untiltee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con- his resignation on January 10, 1800; one of themanagersgresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-ninth Con- appointed by the House of Representatives in 1798 tocon-gress), Committee on the Library (Forty-ninth Congress); one duct the impeachment proceedings against William Blount,of the national commissioners for New Jersey to the World's a Senator from Tennessee; associate judge of the supremeColumbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893; was in command court of Massachusetts 1801-18 13 and served as chief justiceof the Second Brigade of the National Guard of New Jersey; in 1813 and 1814; died in Wiscasset, Maine, June 8, 1814;appointed a member of the Board of Managers of the Na- interment in Ancient Cemetery; reinterment in the familytional Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; again elected tomb at Marblehead, Mass. to the United States Senate in 1895; reelected in 1901, and SEWARD, James Lindsay, a Representative from Georgia;served from March 4, 1895, until his death in Camden, N.J., born in Dublin, Laurens County, Ga., on October 30, 1813;December 27, 1901; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills attended the common schools; moved with his parents to(Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); interment in Thomas County in 1826; studied law; was admitted to theHarleigh Cemetery. bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Thomasville, Thomas Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 57th Cong., 2nd County, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives sess., 1902-1903. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903. 1835-1839, 1847, 1848, 1851, and 1852; elected as a Democrat SEXTON, Leonidas, a Representative from Indiana; born to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congress-in Rushville, Rush County, Ind., May 19, 1827; attended the es (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate forpublic schools of his native county and was graduated from renomination in 1858; resumed the practice of law and alsoJefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1847; studied law in engaged as a planter; delegate to the Democratic Statecon- ventions in 1858, 1859, and 1.860; served in the State senateRushville and in 1848 and 1849 attended the Cincinnati Law 1859-1865; delegate to the Democratic National ConventionsSchool; was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1850 and com- at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; member of the board ofmenced the practice of his profession in Rushville Ind, trustees of Young's Female College 1860-1886 and of themember of the State house of representatives in 1856; elect- University of Georgia at Athens 1865-1886; delegate to theed Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and served from January reconstruction constitutional convention in 1865; delegate to1873 to January 1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty- the Democratic Conservative Convention in 1870; delegate tofifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful the State constitutional convention in 1877; died in Thomas-candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; ville, Ga., on November 21, 1886; interment in Laurel Hilldied in Parsons, Labette County, Kans., July 4, 1880; inter- Cemetery. ment in East Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Ind. 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SEYBERT, Adam, a. Representative from Pennsylvania;for renomination in 1888; died, while on a visit, in Washing- born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 16,1773; attended theton, D.C., April 7, 1906; interment in Lakeview Cemetery, common schools; completed the medical course at the Uni-Brockport, N.Y. versity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1793 and contin- ued studies in Europe, where he attended schools in Edin- SEYMOUR, Horatio (uncle of Origen Storrs Seymour), a burgh, Gottingen, and Paris; returned to Philadelphia andSenator from Vermont; born in Litchfield, Conn., May 31, devoted himself to chemistry and mineralogy; elected as a1778; attended the common schools and graduated from Yale member of the American Philosophical Society in 1797;College in 1797; taught school in Cheshire, Conn.; pursued elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress to fill thelegal studies in Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Say; reelect-bar in 1800 and commenced the practice of law in Middle- ed to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and servedbury, Vt.; postmaster of Middlebury 1800-1809; member, from October 10, 1809, to March 3, 1815; chairman, Commit-State executive council 1809-18 14; State's attorney for Ad- tee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twelfth Congress);dison County 1810-1813, 1815-1819; elected to the United elected to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3,States Senate in 1821; reelected in 1827 and served from 1819); visited Europe 1819-1821 and again in 1824 and set-March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1833; was not a candidate for tled in Paris, France, where he died May 2, 1825. reelection; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Bibliography: DAB. Contingent Expense (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congress- es), Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-second Congress); un- SEYMOUR, David Lowrey, a Representative from Newsuccessful Whig candidate for governor of Vermont in 1836; York; born in Wethersfield, Conn., December 2, 1803; pur-judge of the probate court 1847-1856; died in Middlebury, sued preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale CollegeAddison County, Vt., November 21, 1857; interment in West in 1826; tutor at Yale College 1828-1830; studied law; wasCemetery. admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced the practice of Bibliography: Carroll, Howard. "Horatio Seymour." In Twelve Ameri- his profession in Troy, N.Y.; member of the State assembly cans: Their Lives and Times. pp. 1-48. 1883. Reprint. Freeport: Books for in 1836; district attorney of Rensselaer County from October Libraries Press, 1971. 14, 1839, to October 14, 1842; master in chancery in 1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March SEYMOUR, Origen Storrs (father of Edward Woodruff 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman, Committee on Revolution- Seymour and nephew of Horatio Seymour), a Representative ary Pensions (Twenty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candi-from Connecticut; born in Litchfield, Conn., February 9, date for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress;1804; attended the public schools and was graduated from elected to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-MarchYale College in 1824; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-second1826 and commenced practice in Litchfield, Conn.; served as Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 tocounty clerk 1836-1844; member of the State house of repre- the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of his pro-sentatives in 1842, 1849, and 1850, and served as speaker in fession; unsuccessful candidate in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty- Congress; member of the constitutional convention of Newthird Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); judge of the York in 1867; died in Lanesboro, Berkshire County, Mass.,superior court of Connecticut 1855-1863; unsuccessful Demo- on October 11, 1867; interment in Mount Ida Cemetery,cratic candidate for Governor in 1864 and 1865; judge of the Troy, N.Y. State supreme court in 1870, chief justice in 1873, and served until retired by age limitation in 1874; chairman of the SEYMOUR, Edward Woodruff (son of Origen Storrs Sey-commission to settle the boundary dispute between Connecti- mour), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Litch-cut and New York in 1876; again a member of the State field, Conn., August 30, 1832; attended the public schools andhouse of representatives in 1880; died in Litchfield, Conn., was graduated from Yale College in 1853; studied law; wasAugust 12, 1881; interment in East Cemetery. admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in Litchfield and Bridgeport, Conn.; member of the State house of representa- SEYMOUR, Thomas H., a Representative from Connecti- tives in 1859, 1860, 1870, and 1871; served in the Statecut; born in Hartford, Conn., September 29, 1807; atten4ed senate in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighththe public schools, and was graduated from Middletown and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887);(Conn.) Military Academy in 1829; studied law; was admitted resumed the practice of his profession; appointed as a judgeto the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Hartford, of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1889; died in Litchfield,Conn.; editor of the Jeffersonian in 1837 and 1838; judge of Conn., on October 16, 1892; interment in East Cemetery.probate 1836-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); declined the SEYMOUR, Henry William, a Representative from Michi-renomination in 1844; served in the Mexican War; commis- gan; born in Brockport, Monroe County, N.Y., July 21, 1834;sioned major in the Connecticut Infantry March 16, 1846, attended the public schools, Brockport Collegiate Institute,and in the Ninth United States Infantry April 9, 1847; lieu- and Canandaigua Academy and was graduated from Wil-tenant colonel of the Twelfth Infantry August 12, 1847; un- liams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; studied law insuccessful candidate for Governor of Connecticut in 1849; Albany, N.Y., taking lectures at Albany Law School; wasGovernor of Connecticut 1850-1853; Minister to Russia 1853- admitted to the bar in May 1856, but never practiced; en-1858; again an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1863; gaged in mercantile pursuits in Brockport; moved to Michi- died in Hartford, Conn., September 3, 1868; interment in gan in 1872 and settled in Sault Ste. Marie, where he en-Cedar Hill Cemetery. gaged in the manufacture of reapers and subsequently in the Bibliography: DAB. manufactureof lumber and inagriculturalpursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1880-1882; SEYMOUR, William, a Representative from New York; member of the State senate 1882-1884 and 1886-1888; elect-born in Connecticut about 1780; moved to Windsor, Broome ed as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacan-County, N.Y., about 1793; attended the public schools; stud- cy caused by the death of Seth C. Moffatt and served fromied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and commenced February 14, 1888, to March 3, 1889; unsuccessful candidatepractice in Binghamton, N.Y.; returned to Windsor in 1807; 1794 Biographical Directory

justice of the peace 1812-1828; in 1833, upon his appoint-had been renominated in the Republican primary election ment as first judge of the court of common pleas of BroomeAugust 3, 1954, to the Eighty-fourth Congress; died in Wash- County, returned to Binghamton; elected as one of the firstington, D.C., August 17, 1954; interment in Memorial Park trustees of the village in 1834; elected as a Jacksonian to theCemetery, Battle Creek, Mich. Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3,1837); again served as first judge of the court of common pleas in SHAFFER, Joseph Crockett, a Representative from Vir- Broome County until 1847; resumed the practice of his pro-ginia; born near Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., January 19, fession in Binghamton, where he died December 28, 1848;1880; attended the Wytheville public schools; was graduated interment in Binghamton Cemetery. from Plummer College, Wytheville, Va., in 1902 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Char- SHACKELFORD, John Williams, a Representative fromlottesville in 1904; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and North Carolina; born in Richlands, Onslow County, N.C.,commenced practice in Wytheville, Va.; served as Common- November 16, 1844; attended the common schools and Rich-wealth attorney of Wythe County 1908-1912; assistant lands (N.C.) Academy; during the Civil War entered theUnited States district attorney 1920-1924 and served as Confederate Army at the age of seventeen and servedUnited States district attorney for the western district of throughout the war, attaining the rank of lieutenant;Virginia 1924-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- member of the State house of representatives 1872-1878;first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful served in the State senate 1878-1880; was elected to presidecandidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Con- over the convention that nominated him for Congress ingress; United States district attorney for the western district 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress,of Virginia from 1931 until his resignation in 1932; resumed and served from March 4, 1881, until his death in Washing-the practice of law; stockholder and officer in Wythe County ton, D.C., January 18, 1883; interment in the Wallace Grave-National Bank; delegate to the Republican National Conven- yard, Richlands, N.C. tion in 1940; died in Abingdon, Va., October 19 1958; inter- SHACKLEFORD, Dorsey William, a Representative fromment in St. John's Church Cemetery, Wytheville, Va. Missouri; born near Sweet Springs, Saline County, Mo., SHAFROTH, John Franklin, a Representative and a Sen- August 27, 1853; attended the public schools and Williamator from Colorado; born in Fayette, Mo., June 9,1854; Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.; taught school 1877-1879; stud-attended the common schools and graduated from the Uni- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commencedversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1875; studied law; was practice in Boonville, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Cooper County, Mo., 1882-1886 and 1890-1892; judge of the four-admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in teenth judicial circuit of Missouri from June 1, 1892, untilFayette, Mo.; moved to Denver, Cob., in 1879 and continued his resignation on September 9, 1899, having been elected tolaw practice; city attorney 1887-1891; elected as a Republi- Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congresscan to the Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected as a Silver Repub- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. Bland;lican to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con- reelected to the Fifty-seventh and to the eight succeedinggresses; presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect Congresses, and served from August 29, 1899, to March 3,to the Fifty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, 1919; chairman, Committee on Roads (Sixty-third throughuntil his resignation on February 15, 1904, when he declared Sixty-fifth Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate forhis conviction that his opponent, Robert W. Bonynge, had renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; moved tobeen duly elected; Governor of Colorado 1908-1912; elected Jefferson City, Mo., in 1919 and continued the practice ofas a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from law; died in Jefferson City, Mo., on July 15, 1936; intermentMarch 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Mo. reelection; chairman, Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); SHAFER, Jacob K., a Delegate from the Territory ofCommittee on the Philippines (Sixty-fifth Congress); chair- Idaho; born near Broadway, Rockingham County, Va., De-man of the War Minerals Relief Commission from 1919 to cember 26, 1823; was graduated from Washington College,1921; died in Denver, Cob., February 20, 1922; interment in Lexington, Va., in 1843; and from the law school of L.P.Fairmount Cemetery. Thompson in Staunton, Va., in 1846; moved to Stockton, Bibliography: DAB. Calif., in 1849; was admitted to the bar and practiced; dis- trict attorney of the fifth judicial district of California in SHALLENBERGER, Ashton Cokayne, a Representative 1850; mayor of Stockton in 1852; judge of the San Joaquinfrom Nebraska; born in Toubon, Stark County, Ill., December County Court 1853-1862; moved in 1862 to what later23, 1862; attended the common schools and the University of became Idaho Territory; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Illinois at Urbana; moved to Stromsburg, Polk County, first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessfulNebr., in 1881, to Osceola, Polk County, Nebr., in 1883, and candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law;to Alma, Harlan County, Nebr., in 1887; engaged in banking moved to Eureka, Nev., where he died November 22, 1876;and also in stock raising; temporary chairman of the Demo- interment in the Masonic Cemetery. cratic State conventions in 1897 and 1919; elected as a Dem- ocrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, SHAFER, Paul Werntz, a Representative from Michigan; 1903); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the born in Elkhart, md., April 27, 1893; moved with his parentsFifty-eighth Congress; Governor of Nebraska 1908-19 11; un- to Three Rivers, Mich., and attended the public schools;successful Democratic candidate for election in 1912 to the student at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich., and studiedUnited States Senate; elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty- law by correspondence with the Blackstone Institute of Chi-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful cago, Ill.; reporter, editor, and publisher of newspapers incandidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; Elkhart, md., Battle Creek, Mich., and Bronson, Mich.;delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; member of Indiana State Militia in 1916 and 1917; municipalelected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Con- judge in Battle Creek, Mich., 1929-1936; electedas a Repub-gresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candi- lican to the Seventy-fifth and to the eight succeeding Con-date for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; gresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death;elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses Biographies 1795

(March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); was an unsuccessful candi- the public schools; graduate of Battery Commander School date for renomination in 1934; resumed banking and alsoat Fort Sill, Ark., in 1917; during the First World War engaged in agricultural pursuits and the breeding of short-served as a lieutenant in the Forty-fifth Field Artillery, horn cattle; died in Franklin, Nebr., while on a visit, Febru- United States Army, in 1917 and 1918; was graduated from ary 22, 1938; interment in Alma Cemetery, Alma,Nebr.Yale University, in 1920; taught mathematics at Carlton Academy, Summit, N.J., in 1920 and 1921 and in New SHALLENBERGER, William Shadrack, a RepresentativeHaven, Conn., 1921-1934; educational and athletic adviser of from Pennsylvania; born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa., November 24, 1839; attended the public schoolsthe New Haven Boys Club 1926-1928; graduated from the and Mount Pleasant Academy; was graduated from Lewis-law department of Yale University in 1928; was admitted to burg University (now Bucknell University), Lewisburg, Pa.,the bar in 1928 and- commenced practice in New Haven; in 1862; engaged in mercantile pursuits; during the Civilcaptain in the Artillery Reserves 1923-1935; adjutant in the War enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 in the One Hun-Connecticut National Guard 1929-1935; major on the staff of dred and Fortieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan-Gov. Wilbur L. Cross 1931-1935; lecturer at the Catholic try, and soon afterward was appointed adjutant of the regi-University of America in Washington, D.C., 1941-1945; elect- ment; mustered out of the service in October 1864 and agained as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three engaged in mercantile pursuits in Rochester, Pa.; chairmansucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); of the Beaver County Republican committee in 1872 andunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy- 1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,eighth Congress; receiver for the Hartford Empire Co. from and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3,1942 to 1946; resumed the practice of law; elected November 1883);chairman, Committee on PublicBuildings and5, 1949, as judge of probate for the towns of New Haven, Grounds (Forty-seventh Congress); appointed by PresidentEast Haven, North Haven, Orange, and Woodbridge, Conn., McKinley as Second Assistant Postmaster General andserving until his death in New Haven, Conn., April 4, 1965; served from 1897 to 1907; died in Washington, D.C., April 15,interment in St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Conn. 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. SHANNON, James Michael, a Representative from Massa- SHAMANSKY, Robert Norton, a Representative fromchusetts; born in Methuen, Essex County, Mass., April 4, Ohio; born in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, April 18,1952; attended parochial school in Lawrence; graduated from 1927; attended the public schools; B.A., Ohio State Universi-Phillips Academy, Andover, 1969; B.A., Johns Hopkins Uni- ty, Columbus, 1947; LL.B., Harvard University, 1950; served in the United States Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, spe- versity, Baltimore, Md., 1973; J.D., George Washington Uni- cial agent, 1950-1952; admitted to Ohio bar in 1950 andversity, Washington, D.C., 1975; admitted to the Massachu- commenced practice in Columbus; unsuccessful candidate forsetts bar, 1975, Washington, D.C., bar, 1976, and commenced election in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; elected as apractice in Lawrence, Mass., in 1976; aide to United States Democrat to the Ninety-seventh Congress (January 3, 1981-Representative Michael Harrington and intern to United January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inStates Representative F. Bradford Morse; elected as a Demo- 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; resumed the practice ofcrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the two succeeding Congress- law; is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. es (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985); wasnot a candidate for reelection in 1984 to the Ninety-ninth Congress but was SHANKLIN, George Sea, a Representative from Ken-an unsuccessful candidate for nomination tothe United tucky; born in Jessamine County, Ky., December 23, 1807;States Senate; resumed the practice of law; elected attorney attended a private school at Nicholasville, KY.; studied law;general of Massachusetts in 1986 for the four-year term was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Nicho-beginning in 1987; is a resident of Lawrence, Mass. lasville; member of the State house of representatives in 1838 and 1844; appointed Commonwealth attorney in 1854; SHANNON, Joseph Bernard, a Representative from Mis- again a member of the State house of representatives, andsouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., March 17, 1867; attended the served from 1861 to 1865; elected as a Democrat to thepublic schools of St. Louis and Spalding Business College, Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); retiredKansas City, Mo.; moved with his parents to Girard, Kans., to his farm in Jessamine County, where he died April 1,in early youth; upon the death of his father moved to 1883; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Kansas City, Mo., in 1879; became constable in- the justice court in 1890; was city market-master in 1892 andserved SHANKS, John Peter Cleaver, a Representative from Indi- and ana; born in Martinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), June 17,two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 1826; pursued an academic course; studied law; was admittedcommenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.; chairman of the to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Portland, md.,Democratic State committee in 1910; delegate to the Demo- in 1849; prosecuting attorney of Jay County in 1850 andcratic National Conventions in 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1851; member of the State house of representatives in 1855;1932, and 1940; member of the Missouri constitutional con- during the Civil War served in the Union Army as a colonelventions in 1922 and 1923; elected as a Democrat to the and aide-de-camp; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-Seventy-second and the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); unsuccess-1931-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination ful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighthin 1942; died in Kansas City, Mo., March 28, 1943; interment Congress; elected to the Fortieth and to the three succeedingin Calvary Cemetery. Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman, Com- Bibliography: Blackmore, Charles P. "Joseph B. Shannon, Political Boss mittee on Militia(Forty-firstCongress); Committee on and Twentieth-Century 'Jeffersonian'." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia Uni- Indian Affairs (Forty-second Congress); unsuccessful candi- versity, 1953. date for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of his SHANNON, , a Representative from New profession; was again a member of the State house of repre-York; born in New London, Conn., February 12, 1839; was sentatives in 1879; died in Portland, Jay County, md., Janu-graduated from the grammar and high schools at Biddeford, ary 23, 1901; interment in Green Park Cemetery. Maine, and from Waterville College (now Colby College), SHANLEY, James Andrew, a Representative from Con-Maine; during the Civil War enlisted in Company H, Fifth necticut; born in New Haven, Conn., April 1, 1896; attendedRegiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, June 24, 1861; appoint- 1796 Biographical Directory

ed first lieutenant October 10, 1861; aide-de-camp to GeneralCongress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate Slocum March 15, 1862; captain and assistant adjutantgen-for renomination in 1854; Governor of Kansas Territory in era! of Volunteers October 2, 1862; honorably discharged1855 and 1856; engaged in the practice of law in Lawrence, February 10, 1866; appointed secretary of the United StatesKans., where he died August 30, 1877; interment in Oak Hill legation at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1871, and served untilCemetery. March 1875, when he resigned; took charge of the Botanical Bibliography: DAB; Day, Donald Eugene. "A Life of , Garden Railroad Co. in 1876, an American enterprise in Governor of Ohio, Diplomat, Territorial Governor of Kansas." Ph D disser- Brazil, of which he subsequently became the vice president, tation, Ohio State University, 1978. general manager, and president; returned to the United States in 1883 and was graduated from the law department SHARON, William, a Senator from Nevada; born in of Columbia College, New York City, in 1885; was admittedSmithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, January 9, 1821; attend- to the New York bar in 1886 and commenced practice ined Athens College; moved to St. Louis, Mo.; studied law; was New York City; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-admitted to the bar and practiced; engaged in mercantile ter Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua, Salvador, and Costa Ricapursuits in Carroliton, Greene County, Ill.; moved to Califor- in 1891, and served until April 1893; elected as a Republican nia in 1849 and engaged in business in Sacramento; moved to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-to San Francisco in 1850 and was a dealer in real estate; March 3, 1899); declined to be a candidate for renominationmoved to Virginia City, Storey County, Nev., in 1864 as in 1898; resumed the practice of his profession in New Yorkmanager of the branch of the Bank of California and became City; retired in 1903 and moved to Brockport, Monroeinterested in silver mining elected as a Republican to the County, N.Y., where he died October 5, 1920; interment inUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to Lake View Cemetery. March 3, 1881; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-fifth Congress); resided in San Francisco, Calif., until SHANNON, Thomas (brother of Wilson Shannon),a Rep-his death on November 13, 1885; interment in Laurel Hill resentative from Ohio; born in Washington County, Pa., No-Cemetery. vember 15, 1786; attended the public schools; moved to Ohio Bibliography: Kronmger,Robert. Sarah and theSenator.Berkeley, with his parents, who settled in Belmont County in 1800; Calif.: Howell-North, 1964. engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Barnesville, Bel- mont County, Ohio, in 1812 and engaged in mercantilepur- SHARP, Edgar Allan, a Representative from New York; suits; during the War of 1812 served as captain of Belmontborn in Patchogue, Suffolk County, N.Y., June 3, 1876; at- County Company in Colonel Delong's regiment; member oftended the public and high schools; engaged as a clerk in the the Ohio house of representatives 1819-1822, 1824, and 1825; post office at Patchogue, N.Y., 1898-1906 and served as as- elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill thevacancy causedsistant postmaster 1906-19 18; in charge of construction work by the resignation of David Jennings and served from De-for the Knights of Columbus in France and England from cember 4, 1826, to March 3, 1827; was nota candidate forApril 1918 to January 1920; engaged in the real estate and renomination in 1827; returned to Barnesville, Ohio, andinsurance business in Patchogue, N.Y., and as real estate became a leaf-tobacco merchant; served in the Statesenateappraiser for Suffolk County 1920-1944; auctioneer 1929- 1829 and 1837-1841; died in Barnesville, Belmont County,1944; also interested in banking; member of the zoning and Ohio, March 16, 1843; interment in Green Mount Cemetery.planning board of Brookhaven, N.Y., 1930-1933; supervisor of Brookhaven, N.Y., 1935-1943; elected as a Republican to SHANNON, Thomas Bowles, a Representative from Cali-the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, fornia; born in Westmoreland County, Pa., September 21,1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; re- 1827; attended the public schools; moved to Illinois in1844sumed his former business pursuits; died in Patchogue, N.Y., and to California in 1849; engaged in mercantile pursuits;November 27, 1948; interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, member of the State assembly in 1859, 1860, and 1862; elect- Coram, N.Y. ed as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committeeon Expenditures SHARP, Philip Riley, a Representative from Indiana, born in the Department of the Interior (Thirty-eighth Congress);in Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1942; attended Washington Ele- was not a candidate for renomination in 1864; appointedmentary School, Elwood, md.; graduated from Wendell Will- surveyor at the port of San Francisco August 11, 1865, andkie High School, Elwood, 1960; attended DePauw University, served four years; again a member of the State assembly inGreencastle, md., 1961; B.S., Georgetown University School 1871 and 1872, and served as speaker the firstyear; appoint-of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C., 1964; graduate work, ed by President Grant collector of customs at San Francisco,Exeter College, Oxford University, 1966; Ph.D., Georgetown Calif., and served from July 1, 1872, to August 10, 1880;University, 1974; aide to United States Senator Vance resumed mercantile pursuits; died in San Francisco, Calif.,Hartke, 1964-1969; assistant and later associate professor, February 21, 1897; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Ball State University, Muncie, md., 1969-1974; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the six succeeding SHANNON, Wilson (brother of Thomas Shannon),a Rep- resentative from Ohio; born at Mount Olivet, BelmontCongresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident County, Ohio, February 24, 1802; attended Ohio University,of Muncie, md. Athens, Ohio, 1820-1822 and Transylvania College, Lexing- SHARP, Solomon P., a Representative from Kentucky; ton, Ky., in 1823; studied law; was admitted to the bar inborn in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., in 1780; moved 1830 and began practice in St. Clairsville, Ohio;unsuccessfulwith his parents to Kentucky; pursued preparatory studies; candidate for election in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress;engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted prosecuting attorney for Belmont County 1833-1835; Stateto the bar in 1809 and began practice in Russeilville, Ky.; prosecuting attorney in 1835; Governor of Ohio 1838-1840;member of the State house of representatives 1809-1811, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1840; again Governor 1817, and 1818; entered the War of 1812 as captain of a of Ohio 1842-1844; unsuccessful candidate for the Unitedcompany which he organized and later was made a colonel States Senate in 1842; United States Minister to Mexico inof militia; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and 1844 and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-thirdFourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); chair- Biographies 1797 man, Committee on Private Land Claims (Fourteenth Con-loans; president of the Missouri constitutional convention in gress); again a member of the State house of representatives1922 and 1923; died in Neosho, Mo., September 27, 1943; in 1817 and 1818; resumed the practice of law; moved tointerment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Frankfort, Ky., in 1820; attorney general of Kentucky 1820- SHATTUC, William Bunn, a Representative from Ohio; 1824; again served in the State house of representatives inborn in North Hector, Schuyler County, N.Y., June 11, 1841; 1825; assassinated in Frankfort, Ky., November 7, 1825; in- moved to Ohio in 1852 with his parents, who settled near terment in the State Cemetery. Sandusky; attended the public schools; enlisted in Company SHARP, William Graves, a Representative from Ohio;I, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, August 13, born in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, March 14, 1861, as second lieutenant; mustered out February 21, 1863, 1859; moved with his parents to Elyria, Ohio; was graduatedas first lieutenant; assistant and afterwardgeneral passen- from the public schools and from the law department of theger agent of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.1865-1894; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; was admittedmember of the State senate in 1895; elected as a Republican to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Elyria,to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses Ohio; served as prosecuting attorney of Lorain County, Ohio,(March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on 1885-1888; also interested in the manufacture of charcoal,Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-sev- pig iron, and chemicals; unsuccessful Democratic candidateenth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; delegate to1902; died in Madisonville, near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 13, the Democratic National Convention in 1904; elected as a1911; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, to July 23, 1914, SHAW, Aaron, a Representative from Illinois; born near when he resigned to become Ambassador to France, inGoshen, Orange County, N.Y., December 19, 1811; attended which capacity he served until April 14, 1919; returned toMontgomery Academy, New York; studied law in Goshen, Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, and engaged in literary pur-N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced prac- suits; died in Elyria, Ohio, November 17, 1922; interment intice in Lawrenceville, Ill.; delegate to the first Internal Im- Ridgelawn Cemetery. provement Convention of Illinois, elected State's attorney by Bibliography: DAB. the Legislature of Illinois in 1842, member of the State house of representatives in 1850; elected as a Democrat to SHARPE, Peter, a Representative from New York; bornthe Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); was in that State; completed preparatory studies; member of thenot a candidate for renomination in 1858; again amember of Columbia County Medical Society in 1807; represented Newthe State house of representatives in 1860; circuit judge of York County as a member of the State assembly 1814-1821,the fourth judicial district of Illinois 1863-1869; elected to and served as speaker in 1820 and 1821; delegate to thethe Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); State constitutional convention in 1821; credentials of his in 1884; resumed the election to the Seventeenth Congress were presented, but hewas not a candidate for renomination did not qualify, and on December 12, 1821, Cadwallader D.practice of law; died in Olney, Richland County, Ill., January Colden successfully contested his election; elected to the7, 1887; interment in Haven Hill Cemetery. Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); unsuc- SHAW, Albert Duane, a Representative from New York; cessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenthborn in Lyme, Jefferson County, N.Y., December 21, 1841; Congress. attended Belleville and Union Academies and St. Lawrence SHARPE, William, a Delegate from North Carolina; bornUniversity, Canton, N.Y.; enlisted as a private in Company near Rock Church, Cecil County, Md., December 13, 1742;A, Thirty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in June pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to the1861 and served out the term of enlistment; appointed a bar and commenced practice in Mecklenburg County, N.C.special agent of the War Department in 1863, stationed at in 1763; also engaged in surveying; moved to Rowan (nowprovost marshal's headquarters in Watertown, N.Y., and Iredell) County; member of the Provincial Congress in 1775;served until the close of the war; member of the State as- sembly in 1866; appointed colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regi- aide to General Rutherford in the Indian campaign in 1776 resigned to and was one of four commissioners appointed by Governorment, New York National Guard, in 1867, and Caswell to form a treaty with the Indians in 1777; delegateaccept the position of United States consul at Toronto, to the convention in Halifax in 1776 and helped to frame theCanada, in 1868; promoted to United States consul at Man- first constitution of the State; Member of the Continentalchester, England, in 1878; elected department commander of Congress 1779-1781; member of the State house of represent-the Grand Army of the Republic of New York in 1896; atives in 1781 and 1782; died near Statesville,Iredellunanimously elected commander in chief at the national County, N.C., on July 1, 1818; interment in Snow Creekencampment in 1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- Graveyard. sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Chickering; reelected to the Fifty-seventh Con- SHARTEL, Cassius McLean, a Representative from Mis-gress and served from November 6, 1900,until his death in souri; born in Crawford County, Pa., April 27, 1860; movedWashington, D.C., on February 10, 1901, before the close of with his parents to Knox County, Mo., and resided therethe Fifty-sixth Congress; interment in Brookside Cemetery, until 1873; moved with his parents to Chautauqua County,Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y. Kans.; attended the common schools and Kansas State Agri- cultural College at Manhattan; taught school; studied law; SHAW, Eugene Clay, Jr., a Representative from Florida; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice inborn in Miami, Dade County, Fla., April 19, 1939; attended Sedan, Kans.; moved to Nevada, Mo., in 1887 and then tothe public schools; graduated from Miami Edison Senior Neosho, Newton County, Mo., the same year and continuedHigh School, 1957; B.A., Stetson University, Deland, Fla., the practice of law; delegate to the Republican National1961; M.B.A., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1963; J.D., Conventions in 1900 and 1936; elected as a Republican to theStetson University College of Law, 1966; admitted to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was notFlorida bar in 1966 and commenced practice in Fort Lauder- a candidate for renomination in 1906; interested in farmdale; assistant city attorney, Fort Lauderdale, 1968; chief 1798 Biographical Directory

city prosecutor, 1968-1969; associate municipal judge, 1969-October 17, 1857; interment in the Lower Cemetery, Lanes- 1971; city commissioner, 1971-1973; vicemayor, 1973-1975;boro, Mass. mayor, 1975-1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, SHAW, Henry Marchmore, a Representative from North 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Carolina; born in Newport, R.I., November 20, 1819; complet- SHAW, Frank Thomas, a Representative from Maryland;ed preparatory studies; was graduated from the medical de- born in Woodsboro, Frederick County, Md., October 7, 1841;partment of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia attended the common schools and was graduated from thein 1838 and began practice in Indiantown, Camden County, N.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress medical department of the University of Marylandat Balti- more in 1864; engaged in the practice of medicine in Union-(March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for town, Carroll County, Md., until November 1873; electedreelection to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected to the clerk of the circuit court for Carroll County in 1873; reelect-Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuc- ed in 1879 and served until 1885, when he resigned; electedcessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress; as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congressesserved as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); chairman, CommitteeonWar and was killed near New Bern, N.C., November 1, 1864; Accounts (Fiftieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate forre-interment in the cemetery at Shawboro, Currituck County, nomination in 1888; member of the State house of delegates N.C. in 1890; State tax commissioner 1890-1894; appointed by President Cleveland as collector of customs for theport of SHAW, John Gilbert, a Representative from North Caroli- Baltimore and served from May 5, 1894, to May 24, 1898;na; born near Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., Janu- adviser to the clerk of the circuit court 1915-1921; resided inary 16, 1859; attended the common schools; engaged in the Westminster, Carroll County, Md., until his death, Februarynaval-stores business; studied law; was admitted to the bar 24, 1923; interment in Westminster Cemetery. in 1888 and commenced practice in Fayetteville; member of the State house of representatives in 1888; prosecuting attor- SHAW, George Bullen, a Representative from Wisconsin;ney for Cumberland County 1890-1894; elected as a Demo- born in Alma, Allegany County, N.Y.,on March 12, 1854;crat to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, moved to Eau Claire, Wis., in 1856 with his father; attended1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the the public schools and was graduated from the InternationalFifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Fayette- Business College, Chicago,Ill.,in 1871; engaged in theyule, N.C., until his death in that city on July 21, 1932; lumber manufacturing business; member of the Commoninterment in Cross Creek Cemetery. Council of Eau Claire 1876-1887;mayor of Eau Claire in 1888 and 1889; delegate to the Republican NationalConven- SHAW, Samuel (father of Henry Shaw), a Representative tion in 1884; supreme chancellor of the Knights ofPythias offrom Vermont; born in Dighton, Mass., in December 1768; the World from July 1890 to August 1892; electedas areceived a limited schooling; moved to Putney, Vt.; studied Republican to the Fifty-third Congress and servedfrommedicine and commenced practice in Castleton, Vt., in 1789; March 4, 1893, until his death in Eau Claire, Wis.,Augustmember of the State house of representatives 1800-1807; 27, 1894; interment in Lake View Cemetery. elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress to fill the SHAW, Guy Loren, a Representative from Illinois; bornvacancy caused by the resignation of James Witherell; re- on a farm near Summer Hill, Pike County, Ill., May 16,elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served 1881; attended the public schools and the Collegeof Agricul-from September 6, 1808, to March 3, 1813; served in the ture of the University of Illinois at Urbana; engaged inUnited States Army as hospital surgeon from April 6, 1813, agricultural pursuits and the development of overflow landsto June 15, 1815, when he was honorably discharged; rein- along the Illinois River; delegate to the State constitutionalstated on September 13, 1815; appointed post surgeon April convention in 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-18, 1818, and resigned on December 31, 1818; died in Claren- seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923);unsuccess- don Springs, Rutland County, Vt., October 23, 1827; inter- ful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighthCon-ment in Castleton Cemetery, Castleton, Vt. gress; engaged in the real estate business in Beardstown, SHAW, Tristram, a Representative from New Hampshire; Cass County,Ill., and Urbana, Champaign County,Ill.; moved to Normal, McLean County, Ill., and continuedagri-born in Hampton, Rockingham County, N.H., May 23, 1786; cultural pursuits, farm management, and the realestatecompleted preparatory studies; held several local offices in business; died in Normal, Ill., May 19, 1950; intermentinExeter, N.H.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill. Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); died in Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H., March 14, 1843; SHAW, Henry (son of Samuel Shaw),a Representativeinterment in Bride Hill Cemetery, Hampton, N.H. from Massachusetts; born near Putney, WindhamCounty, Vt., in 1788; completed preparatory studies; studied law;was SHAYS, Christopher, a Representative from Connecticut; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Albany,born October 18, 1945, in Stamford, Conn.; attended public N.Y., in 1810; moved to Lanesboro, Mass., in 1813; electedasschools in Darien, Conn.; B.A., Principia College, Elsah, Ill., a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses1968; M.B.A., New York University, 1974; M.P.A., New York (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidatefor University, 1978; served in the Peace Corps as a teacher in renomination in 1820; member of the State house ofrepre-the Fiji Islands,1968-1970; executive aide to Trumbull sentatives 1824-1830 and 1833; served in the Statesenate in(Conn.) first selectman, Larry Heimann, 1971-1972; member, 1835; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of MassachusettsConnecticut house of representatives, 1974-1987; elected as a in 1845; moved to New York City in 1848; memberof theRepublican to the One Hundredth Congress in a special Board of Education of New York City in 1849;member ofelection held August 18, 1987, to fill the vacancy caused by the New York City Common Council 1850-1851; memberofthe death of Stewart B. McKinney; sworn in on September 9, the New York State Assembly in 1853; movedto Newburgh,1987, for the term ending January 3, 1989; is a resident of N.Y., in 1854; died in Peekskill, Westchester County,N.Y.,Stamford, Conn. Biographies 1799

SHEAFE, James, a Representative and a Senator fromFederal Savings and Loan Assoc.; is a resident of Chicago, New Hampshire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., November 16,Ill. 1755; completed preparatory studies and graduated from SHEFFER, Daniel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Harvard College in 1774; engaged in mercantile pursuits;born in York, Pa., May 24, 1783; attended the common member, State house of representatives 1788-1790; member,schools and Harvard University; studied medicine in Phila- State senate 1791, 1793, 1799; member, State executive coun-delphia and commenced practice at York Springs, Adams cil 1799; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress (MarchCounty, Pa.; associate judge of Adams County, Pa.,1813- 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1801, until his resignation on1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress June 14, 1802; unsuccessful candidate for governor of New(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; resumed the Hampshire in1816;died in Portsmouth, Rockinghampractice of his profession; was a delegate to the Democratic County, N.H., December 5, 1829; interment in St. John'sNational Convention in 1848; died at York Springs, Pa., Church Cemetery. February 16, 1880; interment in the Old Lutheran Cemetery. SHEAKLEY, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania; SHEFFEY, Daniel, a Representative from Virginia; born born in Sheakleyville, Mercer County, Pa., April 24, 1829; classi- attended the common schools and Meadville (Pa.) Academy;in Frederick, Frederick County, Md., in 1770; pursued cal studies; apprenticed as a shoemaker in his father's shop; learned the trade of cabinetmaker; moved to California inmoved to Wytheville, Va., in 1791; worked at his trade and 1851 and engaged in the mining of gold; returned to Penn- July sylvania and settled in Greenville in 1855; engaged in mer-at the same time studied law; was admitted to the bar cantile pursuits and in 1864 in the production and shipment1, 1802, and commenced the practice of his profession in Wytheville; moved to Abbeville and later to Staunton, where of petroleum; school director of Greenville, Pa., 1864-1868; house elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (Marchhe continued the practice of law; member of the State 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionof delegates 1800-1804; served in the State senate 1804-1808; in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; appointed United Stateselected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three commissioner of schools of Alaska by President Cleveland insucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817); again July 1887 and served five years; studied law and was admit-a member of the State house of delegatesin 1822 and 1823; ted to the bar in the United States District Court of Alaskadied in Staunton, Augusta County, Va., December 3,1830. in 1888; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in SHEFFIELD, William Paine (father of William Paine 1892; Governor of Alaska 1893-1897; again returned toSheffield [1857-1919]), a Representative and a Senator from Greenville, Pa., in 1898; mayor of Greenville 1909-1913;Rhode Island; born in New Shoreham, Block Island,New- elected justice of the peace in 1914 and served until hisport County, R.I., August 30, 1820; completed preparatory death in Greenville, Pa., on December 10, 1917; interment instudies; attended Kingston Academy, RhodeIsland, and Shenango Valley Cemetery. graduated from the law department of Harvard University SHEATS, Charles Christopher, a Representative fromin 1843; was admitted to the bar in 1844and commenced Alabama; born in Walker County, Ala., April 10, 1839; at-practice in Newport, R.I.; delegate to the Stateconstitutional tended the common schools; elected a member of the seces-conventions in 1841 and 1842; member, State house of repre- sion convention in 1860 but refused to sign the ordinance ofsentatives 1842-1845, 1849-1853, 1857-1861; moved toTiver- secession; member of the State house of representatives inton, R.I.; returned to Newport, R.I.; elected as aRepublican 1861 and expelled for his adherence to the Union in 1862;to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4,1861-March 3, was imprisoned on a charge of treason by the Confederate1863); resumed the practice of law; appointed in 1871 oneof authorities, but could not obtain a trial, and was not re-the commissioners to revise the State laws; member,State leased until after the close of the Civil War; unsuccessfulhouse of representatives 1875-1884; appointed as aRepubli- candidate for election in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress;can to the United States Senate tofill the vacancy caused by member of the constitutional convention in 1865; studiedthe death of Henry B. Anthony and served fromNovember law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced prac-19, 1884, to January 20, 1885; resumed the practiceof his tice in Decatur; appointed by President Grant consul atprofession; died in Newport, R.I., June 2, 1907; intermentin Elsinore, Denmark, May 31, 1869, and served until elected tothe Island Cemetery. Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con- SHEFFIELD, William Paine (son of William Paine Shef- gress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate field [1820-1907]), a Representative from Rhode Island;born for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; died inin Newport, R.I., June 1, 1857; attended PhillipsAcademy, Decatur, Morgan County, Ala., May 27, 1904; interment inAndover, Mass., 1869-1873 and was graduated from Brown McKendree Cemetery, near Decatur. University, Providence, R.I., in 1877; studied law at theUni- SHEEHAN, Timothy Patrick, a Representative from Illi-versity of Paris and the law department of HarvardUniver- nois; born in Chicago, Ill., February 21, 1909; attended St.sity; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced prac- Pius Grammar School and Joseph Medill High School;tice in Newport, R.I.; commissioner to extend citizenship to Northwestern University, B.S.C., 1931; began work with foodthe Narragansett Tribe of Indians in 1880; appointedcolonel importers and wholesalers in 1932; elected as a Republicanon the staff of Gov. George PeabodyWetmore; member of to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congressesthe State house of representatives 1885-1887, 1889,1890, (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate1894-1896, and 1899-1901; member of the commission to for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; unsuc-revise the State constitution in 1897; elected as a Republican cessful Republican candidate for mayor of Chicago in 1959to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March3, 1911); and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty- resumed his importing and wholesale business; delegate tosecond Congress and in 1912 for election to the Sixty-third Republican NationalConventions1964-1984;chairman,Congress; member of the Republican National Committeein Cook County Republican Party, 1964-1968; president, 197 1- 1913; member of the committee to revise the State constitu- 1983, and chairman of the board, 1984 to present, Peerlesstion in 1918; died in Exeter, Washington County, R.I., Octo- 1800 Biographical Directory

ber 19, 1919; interment in the Island Cemetery, Newport,Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y., on August 15, 1908; R.I. interment in Lakeview Cemetery. SHELBY, Richard C., a Representative anda Senator SHELL, George Washington, a Representative from from Alabama; born in Birmingham, Ala., May 6, 1934;at-South Carolina; born near Laurens, Laurens County, S.C., tended the public schools; graduated, University of AlabamaNovember 13, 1831; attended the common schools and Laur- 1957; graduated, University of Alabama School of Law1963; ens Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits; entered the admitted to the Alabama bar in 1961 and commencedprac-Confederate Army as a private in April 1861 and served tice in Tuscaloosa; city prosecutor, Tuscaloosa 1963-1971; United States Commissioner, Northern District of Alabamathroughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of captain; 1966-1970; member, Alabama State senate 1970-1978; elect-resumed agricultural pursuits; member of the State Demo- ed as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978;cratic executive committee in 1886 and 1887; chosen presi- reelected to the three succeeding Congresses and serveddent of the State Farmers' Association in 1888; clerk of court from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1987;was not a candi-of Laurens County 1888-1896; elected as a Democrat to the date for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1986,Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4,1891- March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Ventilation and but was elected to the United States Senate for theterm ending January 3, 1993. Acoustics (Fifty-third Congress); was not a candidate forre-- nomination in 1894; retired to his plantation near Laurens, SHELDEN, Carlos Douglas, a Representative from Michi-Laurens County, S.C., and died there December 15, 1899; gan; born in Walworth, Walworth County, Wis., June 10,interment in Chestnut Ridge Cemetery. 1840; moved with his parents to Houghton County, Mich., in 1847; attended the Union School, Ypsilanti, Mich., andre- SHELLABARGER, Samuel, a Representative from Ohio; turned to his home in the fall of 1861; served throughouttheborn near Enon, Clark County, Ohio, on December 10, 1817; Civil War as captain in the Twenty-third Regiment,Michi- attended the county schools and was graduated from Miami gan Volunteer Infantry; at the end of his service returned toUniversity, Oxford, Ohio, in 1841; studied law; was admitted Houghton and engaged in mining and the realestate busi-to the bar and commenced practice in Springfield, Ohio, in ness; member of the State house of representatives in 1892; 1846; member of the State house of representatives in 1852 served in the State senate in 1894; electedas a Republican toand 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Con- theFifty-fifth,Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congressesgress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidateforfor reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected renomination in 1902; died in Houghton, Mich., June 24,to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865- 1904; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. March 3, 1869); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868; Minister to Portugal from April 21 to December 31, SHELDON, Lionel Allen, a Representative fromLouisi- 1869; again elected to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, ana; born in Worcester, Otsego County, N.Y., August 30, 1871-March 3,1873); chairman, Committee on Commerce 1828; moved with his parents to Lagrange,Ohio; attended(Forty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomina- the district school and Oberlin College, Ohio,1848-1850 andtion in 1872; member of the United States Civil Service was graduated from the Fowler Law School, Poughkeepsie, Commission in 1874 and 1875; continued the practice of law N.Y., in 1853; was admitted to the bar thesame year anduntil his death in Washington, D.C., August 7, 1896; inter- commenced practice in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio;probatement in Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio judge of Lorain County, Ohio, in 1856 and 1857;delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856, 1880,and 1896; SHELLEY, Charles Miller, a Representative from Ala- commissioned brigadier general of the militia by Governorbama; born in Sullivan County, Tenn., December 28, 1833; Chase; served in the Union Army during the CivilWar;moved with his father to Selma, Ala., in 1836; receiveda appointed lieutenant colonel of the Forty-secondRegiment,limited schooling; became an architect and builder; entered Ohio Volunteer Infantry, November 27, 1861,and promotedthe Confederate Army in February 1861 as lieutenant and to the rank of colonel March 14, 1862; settled inNew Orle-was stationed first at Fort Morgan and afterward attached ans, La., and practiced law 1864-1879; elected asa Republi- to the Fifth Alabama Regiment; was commissioned brigadier can to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con-general; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty- gresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committeesixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); presented on Militia (Forty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidatecredentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress, for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;returnedbut the election was contested by James Q. Smith and the to Ohio in 1879; Governor of the Territory of New Mexicoseat declared vacant July 20, 1882; subsequently elected to 1881-1885; one of the receivers of the Texasand Pacificfill the vacancy thus caused and served from November 7, Railway 1885-1887; moved to Los Angeles, Calif.,in 1888 and1882, to March 3, 1883; presented credentials as a Member- engaged in the practice of law; moved to Pasadena,Calif., elect to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, and died in that city January 17, 1917; remainswere cremat-1883, to January 9, 1885, when he was succeeded by George ed. H. Craig, who contested the election; returned to Birming- ham, Jefferson County, Ala., and engaged in promoting the SHELDON, Porter, a Representative fromNew York; born in Victor, Ontario County, N.Y.,on September 29, 1831;industrial interests of that region until his death in that city completed preparatory studies; studied law; January 20, 1907; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Talla- was admitted todega, Ala. the bar in 1854 at Batavia, N.Y., and commencedpractice in Randolph, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.; movedto Rockford, SHELLEY, John Francis, a Representative from Califor- ill., in 1857 and continued the practice of law;member ofnia; born in San Francisco, Calif., September 3, 1905; attend- the Illinois constitutional convention in 1861;returned toed the parochial and public schools; graduated from the law Jamestown, N.Y., in 1865 and continued thepractice of law;school of the University of San Francisco in 1932; was admit- elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March4,ted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Califor- 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate forrenomina-nia; elected to the State senate in 1938, and reelected in tion in 1870; resumed the practice of his profession;died in1942, serving as Democratic floor leader 1938-1946;unsuc- Biographies 1801 cessful Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor in SHEPARD, William Biddle, a Representative from North 1946; president of San Francisco Labor Council from Janu-Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., May 14, 1799; completed ary 1937 to May 1949 and then became secretary;electedpreparatory studies; attended the University of North Caro-- president of the California American Federation of Labor inlina at Chapel Hill in 1813; was graduated from the Univer- 1947, reelected in 1948 and 1949; delegate to the Democraticsity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; studied law; wasad- National Conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, andmitted to the bar and commenced practice in Camden 1960; served in temporary service, United States CoastCounty, later removing to Elizabeth City, Pasquotank Guard, during the Second World War on detached duty;County, N.C.; also engaged in banking; elected tothe elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress, by spe-Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses and elected as cial election November 8, 1949, to fill the vacancy caused bya Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress(March 4, 1829- the death of Richard J. Welch; reelected to the seven suc-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on District of Colum- ceeding Congresses and served from November 8, 1949, untilbia (Twenty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for re- his resignation January 7, 1964, having been elected mayornomination in 1836; member of the State senate 1838-1840 of San Francisco, taking office January 8, 1964, and servingand 1848-1850; member of the board of trustees of the Uni- until January 8, 1968; legislative advocate for San Franciscoversity of North Carolina 1838-1852; died in Elizabeth City, at State legislature, February 1969 until his death Septem-N.C., June 20, 1852; interment in St. Paul's Churchyard, ber 1, 1974, in San Francisco, Calif.; interment in Holy CrossEdenton, N.C. Cemetery, Colma, Calif. SHEPLER, Matthias, a Representative from Ohio; born in SHELTON, Samuel Azariah, a Representative from Mis-Westmoreland County, Pa., November 11, 1790; received a souri; born near Waterloo, Lauderdale County, Ala., Septem- ber 3, 1858; moved with his widowed mother to Websterlimited schooling, served in the War of 1812, moved to Ohio County, Mo., in 1869; attended the common schools, Moun-in April 1818 and settled in Bethlehem Township, Stark thin Dale Academy, and the Seymour and Marshfield HighCounty; engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace Schools; taught school; engaged in agricultural pursuitsforthirtyyears; county commissioner for two terms; 1881-1930; clerk of the circuit court of Webster Countymember of the State house of representatives in 1829; served 1895-1899; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andin the State senate in 1832; elected as a Democrat to the commenced practice in Marshfield, Webster County, Mo.;Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chair- postmaster of Marshfield 1906-1910; prosecuting attorney ofman, Committee on Revisaland Unfinished Business Webster County 1914-1916; chairman of the Republican(Twenty-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for re-- county committee for four terms; elected as a Republican tonomination in 1838; moved to Navarre, Stark County, Ohio, the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923);in 1860, where he died April 7, 1863; interment in Shepler declined to be a candidate for reelection; resumed the prac- Church Cemetery, near Navarre, Ohio. tice of law in Marshfield, Mo., where he died September 13, 1948; interment in Marshfield Cemetery. SHEPLEY, Ether, a Senator from Maine; born in Groton, Mass., November 2, 1789; attended Groton Academy and SHEPARD, Charles Biddle, a Representative from Northgraduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1811; Carolina; born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., Decemberstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 andbegan 5, 1808; attended private schools of his native city and waspractice in Saco, Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachu- graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapelsetts); member, Massachusetts general court 1819; delegate Hill in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828to the Maine constitutional convention in1820; United and commenced practice in New Bern, N.C.; elected to theStates attorney for the district of Maine 1821-1833;moved to State house of representatives to fill out the unexpired termPortland, Maine; elected as a Jacksonian to the United of Charles Spaight and served in 1831 and 1832; elected as aStates Senate and served from March 4, 1833, to March 3, Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and reelected as a Demo- crat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3,1836, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Engrossed 1841); resumed the practice of his profession; died in NewBills (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); justice of Bern, N.C., October 25, 1843; interment in Cedar Grove Cem-the supreme court of Maine 1836-1848, chief justice 1848- 1855; was not a candidate for renomination in 1854; appoint- etery. ed sole commissioner to revise the public laws of Maine m SHEPARD, William, a Representative from Massachu-1856; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Port- setts; born in Westfield, Mass., December 1, 1737; attendedland, Cumberland County, Maine, January 15, 1877; inter- the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; servedment in Evergreen Cemetery. in the French and Indian wars for six years; member of the Bibliography: DAB. committee of correspondence for Westfield in 1774; lieuten- ant colonel of Minutemen in April 1775; entered the Conti- SHEPPARD, Harry Richard, a Representative from Cali- nental Army in May 1775 as lieutenant colonel; commis-fornia; born in Mobile, Ala., January 10, 1885; attended the sioned colonel of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment Octo-public schools; studied law; employed in transportation de-- ber 6, 1776, and served throughout the Revolutionary War;partment of the Santa Fe Railroad; active committee member of the State house of representatives in 1785 andmember of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; engaged 1786; selectman for Westfield, Mass., 1784-1787; chosenin the copper business in Alaska; president andgeneral major general of the Fourth Division, Massachusetts Militia,manager of King's Beverage andKing's Laboratories Corps. in 1786 and defended Springfield Arsenal during Shays' Re-of California until 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- bellion; member of the Governor's counëil of Massachusettsty fifth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 1792-1796; appointed in 1796 to treat with the Penobscot3, 1937-January 3 1965); was not a candidate forrenomina- Indians and in 1797 with the Six Nations; elected as a Feder-tion in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; died in Washing- alist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4,ton, D.C., April 28, 1969; interment in NationalMemorial 1797-March 3, 1803); resumed his agricultural pursuits; diedPark, Falls Church, Va. in Westfield, Mass., November 16, 1817; interment in the Mechanic Street Cemetery. SHEPPARD, John Levi (father of and Bibliography: DAB. great-grandfather of Connie Mack, III), a Representative 1802 Biographical Directory

from Texas; born in Bluifton, Chambers County, Ala., April SHERBURNE, John Samuel, a Representative from New 13, 1852; moved with his mother to Morris County, Tex.;Hampshire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1757; was graduat- attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted toed from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1776 and the bar and commenced practice in Daingerfield, Morrisfrom the law department of Harvard University; was admit- County, Tex., in 1879; district attorney of the fifth judicialted to the bar and commenced practice in Portsmouth, N.H., district of Texas 1882-1888; district judge of thesame dis-in 1776; served in the Revolutionary Army and attained the trict 1888-1896; temporary chairman of the Democraticrank of brigade major of staff; elected to the Third Congress State convention in 1892; appointed delegate to the Bimetal- lic Convention in Chicago in 1893; delegate to the Democrat-and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress ic National Convention in 1896; elected as a Democrat to the(March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); United States district ättor- Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served fromney for New Hampshire 1801-1804; appointed judge of the March 4, 1899, until his death in Texarkana, Bowie County,United States District Court for the District of New Hamp- Tex., October 11, 1902; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.shire and served from May 1804 until his death in Ports- mouth, N.H., August 2, 1830. SHEPPARD, Morris (son of John Levi Sheppard), a Repre- sentative and a Senator from Texas; born in Wheatville, SHEREDINE, Upton, a Representative from Maryland; Morris County, Tex., May 28, 1875; attended thecommonborn near Baltimore, Baltimore County, Md., in 1740; moved schools of various Texas towns; graduated from the Universi-to a farm near Liberty, Frederick County, Md., in 1754; ty of Texas at Austin in 1895, from the law department ofpursued academic studies; delegate to the State constitution- the same university in 1897, and from the law department ofal convention in 1776; member of the State house of dele- Yale University in 1898; was admitted to the bar andcom-gates in 1777; served in the State senate 1776-1781; judge of menced practice in Pittsburg, Camp County, Tex., in 1898;the county court of appeals in 1777; member of the special moved to Texarkana in 1899 and continued the practice ofcourt which tried, convicted, and sentenced Tories July 25, his profession; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh1781; judge of the orphans court of Frederick County in 1777 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of hisand served many years; associate judge of the fifth judicial father, John L. Sheppard; reelected to the Fifty-eighth anddistrict in 1791; elected to the Second Congress (March 4, to the four succeeding Congresses and served from Novem- 1791-March 3, 1793); appointed in 1798 commissioner of the ber 15, 1902, to February 3, 1913, when he resigned; chair-fourth division of Maryland for the valuation of land and man, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-houses and the enumeration of slaves; died on his estate, second Congress); elected as a Democrat to the United States"Midhill," near Liberty, Frederick County, Md., January 14, Senate on January 29, 1913, to fill thevacancy in the term1800; interment in a private cemetery on his estate. ending March 3, 1913, caused by the resignation of Joseph W. Bailey, and on the same day was also elected for the SHERIDAN, George Augustus, a Representative from term commencing March 4, 1913; reelected in 1918, 1924,Louisiana; born in Millbury, Mass., February 22,1840; 1930, and again in 1936, and served from February 3, 1913,moved with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in 1858; completed until his death in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1941; Democrat-preparatory studies; engaged in the publishing business; ic whip 1929-1933; chairman, Committee on Expenditures induring the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army and served the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourthas captain of Company D, Eighty-eighth Regiment, Illinois

Congresses), Committee on the Census (Sixty-fourth andVolunteer Infantry, until October 28, 1864, when he re-- Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claimssigned; moved to New Orleans, La., in 1866; served as briga- (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Seven- dier general of militia on Governor Warmouth's staff; sheriff ty-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); interment inof Carroll Parish, La., in 1867; elected as a Liberal Republi- Hillcrest Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex. can to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, Bibliography: Bailey, Richard. "Morris Sheppard of Texas: Southern Pro- 1875); appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Colum- gressive and Prohibitionist." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1980; Dude, Escal F "Political Career of Morris Sheppard, 1875-1941." bia May 17, 1878; and served until May 17, 1881, when he Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1958. resigned; died in the National Soldiers' Home, Virginia, Oc-

tober 7, 1896; interment in the Arlington National Ceme-- SHEPPERD, Augustine Henry, a Representative fromtery. North Carolina; born in Rockford, Surry County, N.C., Feb- ruary 24, 1792; completed preparatory studies; studied law; SHERIDAN, John Edward, a Representative from Penn- was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Surrysylvania; born in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., County, N.C.; member of the State house of representativesSeptember 15, 1902; attended the public schools; was grad- 1822-1826; elected to the Twentieth through Twenty-thirduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Congresses and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth andin 1925 and from the law department of Temple University, Twenty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3,1839); Philadelphia, Pa., in 1931; was admitted to the bar in 1931 chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofand commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; served as the Navy (Twenty-first Congress), Committee on Expendi-deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania 1934-1937 member tures in the Department of War (Twenty-second Congress),of the Board of Revision of Taxes of Philadelphia County in Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State1937; Pennsylvania counsel for Delaware River Bridge Com- (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessfulmission in 1938 and 1939; delegate to the Democratic Na- candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Con-tional Conventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; elected as a gress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh CongressDemocrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy (March 4, 1841-March 3,1843); chairman, Committee oncaused by the death of J. Burrwood Daly; reelected to the Public Expenditures (Twenty-seventh Congress); electedas aSeventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Con- Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4,gresses and served from November 7, 1939, to January 3, 1847-March 3, 1851); declined to be a candidate for reelec-1947; was not a candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eight- tion in 1850; resumed the practice of his profession; died atieth Congress; resumed the practice of law; colonel, United "GoodSpring,"Salem(nowWinston-Salem),ForsythStates Air Force (retired), 1954-1962; member of County County, N.C., July 11, 1864; interment in Salem Cemetery.Board of Law Examiners 1954-1965; consul general, Princi- Biographies 1803 pality de Monaco (Philadelphia); was a resident of Philadel-Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-ninth through Fifty- phia, Pa., until his death there on November 12, 1987; inter-second and Fifty-fourth Congresses); appointed Secretary of ment in Arlington National Cemetery. State in the Cabinet of President William McKinley and served from March 1897, until his resignation in April 1898; SHERLEY, Joseph Swagar, a Representative from Ken-retired to private life; died in Washington, D.C., October 22, tucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., November1900; interment in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Richland 28, 1871; attended the public schools; was graduated fromCounty, Ohio. the Louisville High School in 1889 and from the law depart- Bibliography: DAB; Burton, Theodore. . 1906. Reprint. ment of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1891; New York: AMS Press, 1972; Sherman, John. Recollections of Forty Years was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced inthe House, Senate, and Cabinet.1895. Reprint. 2 vols. New York: practice in Louisville, KY.; elected as a Democrat to the Greenwood Press, 1968. Fifty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Appropria- SHERMAN, Judson W., a Representative from New York; tions (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-born in that State in 1808; completed preparatory studies; tion in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; director of theheld several local offices in Angelica, N.Y., where he resided; division of finance of the United States Railroad Administra-clerk of Allegany County, N.Y., 1831-1837; deputy treasurer tion from April 1919 to September 1920, when he resigned;of the State of New York about 1850; elected as a Republi- resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died whilecan to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,1857-March 3, on a visit in Louisville, Ky., February 13, 1941; interment in1859); appointed captain and commissary of subsistence of Cave Hill Cemetery. Volunteers on September 7, 1861, was assigned to duty with Brigadier General WoOd's brigade, and resigned his commis- SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft, a Representative fromsion November 9, 1861; died at Angelica, Allegany County, New York and a Vice President of the United States; bornN.Y., on November 12, 1881; interment in Until the Day in Utica, N.Y., October 24, 1855; attended the public schools; pursued academic and collegiate courses and graduated fromDawn Cemetery. Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1878; studied law; was SHERMAN, Lawrence Yates, a Senator from Illinois; born admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice innear Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, November 8, 1858;moved Utica, N.Y.; president of the Utica Trust & Deposit Co. andwith his parents to Illinois in 1859; attended the common of the New Hartford Canning Co.; mayor of Utica 1884;schools, Lee's Academy in Coles County, and McKendree elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con-College, Lebanon, Ill.; studied law; was admitted to the bar gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candi-in 1882 and commenced practice in Macomb, Ill.; city attor- date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;ney 1885-1887; judge in McDonough County1886-1890; elected to the Fifty-third and to the seven succeeding Con- member, State house of representatives 1897-1905, and gresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1909); was not a candidateserved as speaker 1899-1903; lieutenant governor and ex for reelection, having been nominated as the Republicanofficio president of the State senate 1905-1909; president of candidate for Vice President on the ticket with Williamthe State board of administration of public charities 1909- Taft; elected Vice President of the United States in 1908 and19 13; continued the practice of law in Springfield, Ill.; elect- served from March 4, 1909, until his death; had been re-ed in 1913 as a Republican to the United States Senate to nominated for Vice President in June 1912; died in Utica,fill the vacancy caused by the unseating of William Lorimer; Oneida County, N.Y., October 30, 1912; interment in Forestreelected in 1914 and served from March 26, 1913, to March Hill Cemetery. 3, 1921; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 62nd Cong., 3rd (Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Spring- sees., 1912-1913. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. field, Ill.; moved to Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1924 and contin- SHERMAN, John, a Representative and a Senator fromued the practice of law; also engaged in the investment Ohio; born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, on May 10,business; retired from active business pursuits in 1933; died 1823; attended the common schools and an academy in Ohio;in Daytona Beach, Fla., September 15, 1939; interment in left school to work as an engineer on canal projects; studiedMontrose Cemetery, Effingham County, Ill. law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and began practice in Mansfield, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853; elected SHERMAN, Roger (grandfather of William Evarts), a Del- as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the three suc-egate, a Representative, and a Senator from Connecticut; ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1855, to Marchborn in Newton, Mass., April 19, 1721; moved with his par- 21, 1861, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Waysents to Stoughton (now Canton), Mass., in 1723; attended the and Means (Thirty-sixth Congress); elected in 1861 as a Re-public schools; learned the shoemaker's trade; moved to New publican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyMilford, Conn., in 1743; surveyor of New Haven County in caused by the resignation of Salmon P. Chase; reelected in1745; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1754 and 1866 and 1872 and served from March 21, 1861, until hispracticed; member Connecticut assembly 17 55-1756, 17 58- resignation on March 8, 1877; chairman, Committee on Agri-1761, 1764-1766; justice of the peace for Litchfield County culture (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses), Com-1755-1761, and of the quorum 1759-1761; moved to New mittee on Finance (Thirty-eighth and Fortieth throughHaven, Conn., in June 1761; justice of the peace and member Forty-fourth Congresses); appointed Secretary of the Treas-of the court 1765-1766; member, State senate 1766-1785; ury in the Cabinet of President Rutherford Hayes in Marchjudge of the superior court 1766-1767, 1773-1788; member of 1877, and served until March 1881; elected as a Republicanthe council of safety 1777-1779; Member of the Continental to the United States Senate in 1881 in the place of James A.Congress 1774-1781, and 1784; a signer of the Declaration of Garfield, who had been elected President of the UnitedIndependence and a member of the committee which drafted States; reelected in 1886 and 1892 and served from March 4,it; member of the committee to prepare the Articles of Con- 1881, until his resignation on March 4, 1897; Republicanfederation; the only Member of the Continental Congress caucus chairman 1893-1897; served as President pro temporewho signed the Declaration of 1774, the Declaration of Inde- during the Forty-ninth Congress; chairman, Committee onpendence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal the Library (Forty-seventh through Forty-ninth Congresses),Constitution; mayor of New Haven from 1784 until his 1804 Biographical Directory

death; delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention atrenomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law; died at Philadelphia in 1787; elected to the First Congress (March 4,Benton Harbor, Mich., January 1, 1904; interment in Spring 1789-March 3, 1791); elected to the United States Senate toLake Cemetery, Aurora, Ill. fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William S. Johnson and served from June 13, 1791, until his death in SHERWOOD, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylva- New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1793; interment in the Newnia; born in Bridgeport, Conn., October 9, 1813; moved with Haven City Burying Ground. his parents to Catharine, Chemung County, N.Y., in 1817; Bibliography: DAB; Boardman, Roger S. Roger Sherman, Signer and attended the common schools; during the Texas war for Statesman. 1938. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971; Collier, Christo- independence served in the Texas Army under pher. Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Rev- in 1836 and 1837; moved to Tioga County and settled in olution. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Welisboro, Pa., in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar SHERMAN, Socrates Norton, a Representative from Newin 1847 and practiáed his profession in Wellsboro; elected York; born in Barre, Washington County, Vt., July 22, 1801;burgess of Wellsboro; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- attended the grade schools and high school; studied medicinesecond Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful and was graduated from Mount Castleton Medical College incandidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; 1824; moved to Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., inpresident of the Wellsboro & Lawrenceville Railroad and of 1825 and engaged in the practice of medicine; electedas athe Pennsylvania division of the Pine Creek road; died in Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa., on November 10, 1896; inter- March 3, 1863); declined to be a candidate for renominationment in the Wellsboro Cemetery. in 1862; during the Civil War was mustered into the service as major and surgeon of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New SHERWOOD, Isaac R., a Representative from Ohio; born York Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out October 7,in Stanford, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 13, 1835; attend- 1865, as brevet lieutenant colonel, United States Volunteers;ed the common schools, the Hudson River Institute, Claver- resumed the practice of medicine at Ogdensburg, N.Y.,ack, N.Y., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the where he died February 1, 1873; interment in OgdensburgOhio Law College, Poland, Ohio; editor of the Williams Cemetery. County Gazette, Bryan, Ohio, in 1857; elected probate judge of Williams County in October 1860; resigned at the begin- SHERRILL, Eliakim, a Representative from New York;ning of the Civil War and enlisted April 22, 1861, as a born in Greenville, Ulster County, N.Y., February 16, 1813; private in the Fourteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- attended the public schools; tanner and farmer; held severaltry, and promoted through the ranks to lieutenant colonel; local offices; major in the State militia; electedas a Whig tohonorably mustered out June 27, 1865; settled in Toledo, the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,1849); Ohio, and was editor of the Toledo Daily Commercial; politi- member of the State senate in 1854; during the Civil Warcal editorial writer on the Cleveland Leader; secretary of organized the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New Yorkstate of Ohio in 1868 and 1870; organized and established the Volunteer Regiment and became its colonel; commanded theBureau of Statistics of the State of Ohio in 1869; elected as a Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps, afterRepublican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873- Colonel Willard's death on July 2, 1863, at the Battle ofMarch 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in Gettysburg, until he was mortally woundedon July 3, 1863,1874; proprietor and editor of the Toledo Journal 1875-1884; and died the next day; interment in the Washington Streetelected probate judge of Lucas County in 1878 and 1881; Cemetery, Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y. editor of the Canton News-Democrat 1885-1895; elected as a SHERROD, William Crawford, a Representative fromDemocrat to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congress- Alabama; born in Courtland, Lawrence County, Ala.,Augustes (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on 17, 1835; attended the common schools,a preparatory schoolInvalid Pensions (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congress- at Edgefield, N.C., and the University of North Carolinaates); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Chapel Hill in 1851 and 1852; returned to CourtlandandSixty-seventh Congress; again elected to the Sixty-eighth engaged in planting; member of the State house ofrepre-Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candi- sentatives in 1859 and 1860; delegate to the Democratic Na-date for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; re- tional Convention at Charleston, S.C., in 1860; duringthetired from public life and returned to Toledo, Ohio, where he Civil War served as a colonel under Gen. N.B. Forrestin thedied October 15, 1925; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Confederate Army; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Bibliography: DAB. Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871);was not a candidate SHERWOOD, Samuel, a Representative from New York; for renomination in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress;againborn in Kingsbury, Washington County, N.Y., April 24, 1779; engaged in planting; member of the State senate in 1875;completed preparatory studies; began the study of law at the moved to Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Tex., in 1893,en-age of fifteen in Kingston, Ulster County, and in 1798 moved gaged in farming and ranching, and died thereon March 24,to Delhi, Delaware County, N.Y., where he continued his 1919; interment in Riverside Cemetery. legal studies; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced SHERWIN, John Crocker, a Representative from Illinois;in Delhi, N.Y.; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate born in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., February8, 1838; was educated in the common schools, Gouverneur Wes-for renomination to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed the leyan Seminary in New York, and Lombard College,Gales-practice of his profession in Delhi and in New York City, burg, Ill.; studied law; was admitted to the bar andprac-where he moved in 1830; retired from active practice in ticed; county clerk of Kane County, Ill.; servedas city attor-1858; died in New York City on October 31, 1862; interment ney of Aurora, Ill.; enlisted in the Union Army during thein Woodlawn Cemetery, Delhi, N.Y. Civil War in the Eighty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer SHERWOOD, Samuel Burr, a Representative from Con- Infantry, and served until the close of thewar; elected as anecticut; born in Northfield Society (later Weston), Conn., Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh CongressesNovember 26, 1767; graduated from Yale College in 1786; (March 4, 1879-March 3,1883); was not a candidate forstudied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice in Biographies 1805 that part of Fairfield which is now Westport, Conn.; membertice in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Ill.; member, State of the State house of representatives 1809-1815; served inhouse of representatives 1836; auditor of the State1839; the State senate in 1816; elected as a Federalist to thejudge of the supreme court of Illinois 1843; Commissionerof Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); resumedthe General Land Office 1845-1847; during the Mexican War the practice of his profession until 1831, when he retiredwas commissioned brigadiergeneral of Volunteers in 1846, from professional life; died in Westport, Fairfield County,brevetted major general in 1847, and honorably discharged Conn., on April 27, 1833; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.in 1848; appointed Governor of Oregon Territory by Presi- dent James Polk in 1848 and resigned in 1849; elected as a SHIEL, George Knox, a Representative from Oregon;Democrat to the United States Senate from Illinois for the born in Ireland in 1825; immigrated to the United Statesterm commencing March 4, 1849; upon his appearance to and settled in New Orleans, La.; moved to Ohio; studied law;take his seat on March 5, 1849, a resolution was presented was admitted to the bar and practiced;moved to Oregon inraising the question of his eligibility; took his seat on March 1854 and practiced law in Salem; successfully contested as a6, 1849, but on March 15, 1849, the Senate declared his Democrat the election of Andrew J. Thayer to the Thirty-election void on the ground that he had not been a citizen of seventh Congress and served from July 30, 1861, to March 3,the United States the number of years required by theCon- 1863; was not a candidate for renomination in 1862; wasstitution; immediately elected for the same term and served barred from practicing law, as he would not take the oath offrom October 27, 1849, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful candi- allegiance, and lived in retirement until he was accidentallydate for reelection; chairman, Committee on the Districtof killed in Salem, Marion County, Oreg., December 12, 1893;Columbia (Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses), Com- interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. mittee on Military Affairs (Thirty-second and Thirty-third SHIELDS, Benjamin Glover, a Representative from Ala-Congresses); moved to Minnesota in 1855; upon the admis- bama; born in Abbeville, S.C., in 1808; moved with his fathersion of Minnesota as a State into the Union was elected as a to Clarke County, Ala.; resided in Demopolis, MarengoDemocrat to the United States Senate and served from May County, Ala.; completed preparatory studies; member of the 11, 1858, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidatefor reelec- State house of representatives in 1834; elected as a Democrattion; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Cl&ms(Thirty- to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3,fifth Congress); moved to California; during the Civil War 1843); commissioned in 1845 by President Polk United Statesserved in the Union Army as brigadier general of volunteers Chargé d'Affaires to Venezuela, where he remained untilfrom 1861 to 1863, when he resigned and returned toCalifor- January 7, 1850; moved to Texas and engaged in plantingnia; moved to Carroliton, Mo., and resumed the practiceof until his death. law; member, State house of representatives 1874, 1879; ad- jutant general of Missouri 1877; served asrailroad commis- SHIELDS, Ebenezer J., a Representative from Tennessee;sioner; elected as a Democrat to the United StatesSenate born in Georgia, December 22, 1778; moved to Tennessee infrom Missouri on January 22, 1879, to fill the vacancy 1809 and settled on Robertson Fork Creek near Lynnville,caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy andserved from Giles County; completed preparatory studies; was graduatedJanuary 27, 1879, to March 3, 1879; declined to be acandi- from the University of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1827; studieddate for renomination; died in Ottumwa, WapelloCounty, law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inIowa, June 1, 1879; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery,Car- Pulaski, Tenn.; member of the State house of representativesroliton, Carroll County, Mo. 1833-1835; elected as a White supporter to the Twenty- Bibliography: DAB; Condon, William, Life of Major General James fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifthShields. Chicago: Press of Blakely Printing Co., 1900; Curran,Judith. "The Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candi- Career of James Shields, an Immigrant Irishman inNineteenth Century date for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; America." PhD dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College, 1980. resumed the practice of law in Pulaski, Tenn.; moved to SHIELDS, John Knight, a Senator from Tennessee;born Memphis, Tenn., in 1844 and continued the practice of hisat "Clinchdale," near Bean's Station,Grainger County, profession; died near La Grange, Fayette County, Tex., AprilTenn., August 15, 1858; was educated by private tutors;stud- 21, 1846. ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 andpracticed in SHIELDS, James (uncle of James Shields [1810-1879]), aGrainger and adjoining counties until 1893; chancellorof the Representative from Ohio; born in Banbridge, County Down,twelfth chancery division 1893-1894; resumed the practiceof Ireland, April 13, 1762; received a good common-school edu-law in Morristown, Hamblen County, Tenn.;associate justice cation; entered the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1782of the supreme court of Tennessee 1902-1910,chief justice and was graduated in 1786; attended medical college for two1910-19 13, when he resigned, having been nominated as a years; immigrated to the United States in July 1791 andcandidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to theUnited settled in Frederick County, Va., where he taught school;States Senate in 1913; reelected in 1918 andserved from moved to Butler County, Ohio, in 1801; returned to VirginiaMarch 4, 1913, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidatefor and became a citizen of the United States in 1804; returnedrenomination in 1924; chairman, Committee on Canadian to Ohio in 1807; member of the State house of representa-Relations (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses),Commit- tives 1806-1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-firsttee on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress),Committee Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); was killed throughon Transportation and Sale of MeatProducts (Sixty-sixth the accidental overturning of a stagecoach near Venice,Congress); resumed the practice of law in Knoxville, Tenn.; Butler County, Ohio, August 13, 1831; interment in Venicedied at his country estate, "Clinchdale," nearKnoxville, Cemetery, Venice, Ohio. September 30, 1934; interment in Memorial Cemetery, Knox- ville, Tenn. SHIELDS, James (nephew of James Shields [1762-1831]), a Bibliography: DAB. Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri; born in Alt- more, County Tyrone, Ireland, in either 1806 or 1810; attend- SHINN, William Norton, a Representative fromNew ed a hedge school, private schools, and pursued classicalJersey; born in Burlington County, N.J., October24, 1782; studies; immigrated to the United States about 1826; studiedattended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pur- law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced prac-suits; sheriff of Burlington County 1825-1828; memberof the 1806 Biographical Directory

State general assembly in 1828; served in the State council SHIRAS, George, III, a Representative from Pennsylva- 1829-183 1; chairman of the Democratic State centralcom- nia; born in Allegheny, Pa., January 1, 1859; attended the mittee in 1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-thirdpublic schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; was and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1833-March 3,graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1881 and 1837); resumed agricultural pursuits; president of the Bur-from the law department of Yale College in 1883; was admit- lington Agricultural Association in 1853 and 1854; electeda director of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Co.; died inted to the Connecticut and Pennsylvania bars in 1883 and Mount Holly, Burlington County, N.J., on August 18, 1871;commenced the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, Pa.; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery. member of the State house of representatives in 1889 and 1890; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination SHIPHERD, Zebulon Rudd, a Representative from Newfor Congress in 1890; elected as an Independent Republican York; born in Granville, Washington County, N.Y., Novem-to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); ber 15, 1768; completed preparatory studies; studied law;wasdid not seek renomination in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Con- admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Granville,gress; engaged in biological research and wildlife photogra- N.Y.; was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congressphy; died in Marquette, Mich., March 24, 1942; interment in (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); resumed the practice of hisPark Cemetery. profession in Granville; trustee of Middlebury College, Midd- lebury, Vt., 1819-1841; moved to Moriah, Essex County, SHIVELY, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative and a about 1830, where he died November 1, 1841; interment inSenator from Indiana; born near Osceola, St. Joseph County, the Moriah Corners Cemetery. md., March 20, 1857; attended the common schools and the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, md.; taught SHIPLEY, George Edward, a Representative from Illi-school 1874-1880; engaged in journalism 1880-1884; secre- nois; born in Richland County, near Olney, Ill., April 21,tary of the National Anti-Monopoly Association in 1883; 1927; attended the East Richland High School, Olney, Ill.,president of the board of Indiana University in 1884; elected and graduated from Olney (Ill.) High School in 1950;servedas a National Anti-Monopolist to the Forty-eighth Congress as a private in the United States Marine Corps from Decem- to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. ber 1944 until discharged in May 1947, with service intheCalkins and served from December 1, 1884, to March 3, 1885; South Pacific; chief deputy sheriff of Richland County, Ill.,graduated from the law department of the University of 1950-1954 and sheriff 1954-1958; owner ofa restaurant inMichigan at Ann Arbor in 1886; was admitted to the bar and Olney, Ill.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth andtocommenced practice in South Bend, md.; elected as a Demo- the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, l959-January3, crat to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978to the(March 4, 1887-March 3,1893); was not a candidate for Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Olney, Ill. renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law in South SHIPPEN, William, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; bornBend, md.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in Philadelphia, Pa., October 1, 1712; pursuedpreparatoryof Indiana in 1896; unsuccessful candidate for election in studies; studied medicine and practiced his professionin1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Philadelphia; was one of the founders of the Public AcademyUnited States Senate in 1909; reelected in 1914 and served and a trustee in 1749; was one of the twenty-four foundersoffrom March 4, 1909, until his death in Washington, D.C., the College of Philadelphia, which afterward becametheMarch 14, 1916; chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads University of Pennsylvania, and a trustee 1749-1779;one of(Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Pensions (Sixty-third the founders of the College of New Jersey(now Princetonand Sixty-fourth Congresses); interment in the Brookville University) and a trustee from 1765 to 1796;was a memberCemetery, Brookville, Pa. of the American Philosophical Society, of which hewas vice Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 64th Cong., 2nd sess., president in 1768 and for many years thereafter; Memberof 1916-1917. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917. the Continental Congress 1779-1780; resumed the practiceof medicine in Philadelphia; died in Germantown, Pa., Novem- SHOBER, Francis Edwin (father of Francis Emanuel ber 4, 1801; interment in the First Presbyterian ChurchShoher), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. Salem (now Winston-Salem), N.C., March 12, 1831; attended the common schools and the Moravian School, Bethlehem, SHIPSTEAD, Henrik, a Senator from Minnesota; borninPa.; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Burbank, Kandiyohi County, Minn., January 8, 1881;attend-Chapel Hill in 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ed the public schools at New London, Minn., andthe State1853 and commenced practice in Salisbury, N.C., in 1854; normal school at St. Cloud, Minn.; graduated from themember of the State house of commons in 1862 and 1864; dental department of Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.,served in the State senate in 1865; elected as a Democrat to in 1903 and practiced dentistry in Glenwood, Minn.,1904-the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869- 1920; mayor of Glenwood 1911-1913; member, Statehouse ofMarch 3,1873); was not a candidate for renomination in representatives 1917; moved to Minneapolis in 1920 andre-1872; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875; sumed the practice of dentistry; unsuccessful candidate forcounty judge of Rowan County in 1877 and 1878; appointed the United States Congress in 1918 and forgovernor in 1920;Chief Clerk of the United States Senate in the Forty-fifth elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket in 1922 to theUnitedCongress; upon the death of Secretary John C. Burch in the States Senate; reelected in 1928, 1934, andas a RepublicanForty-seventh Congress was appointed Acting Secretary of in 1940 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3,1947; the Senate and served from October 24, 1881, to March 3, unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; chairman,1883; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in Committee on Printing (Seventieth through Seventy-second1880 and 1884; again a member of the State senate in 1887; Congresses); died in Alexandria, Minn., June 26, 1960;inter-resumed the practice of his profession; died in Salisbury, ment in Kinkead Cemetery. Rowan County, N.C., May 29, 1896; interment in Oakdale Bibliography: DAB; Lorentz, Sister Mary Rene. ": Min- Cemetery. nesota Independent, 1923-1946." Ph.D.dissertation,Catholic University, 1963; Ross, Martin. Shipstead of Minnesota. Chicago: Packard andCompa- SHOBER, Francis Emanuel (sonof Francis Edwin ny, 1940. Shober), a Representative from New York; born in Salisbury, Biographies 1807

N.C., October 24, 1860; studied under private tutors; waswas graduated from Baker University, BaldwinCity, Kans., graduated from St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N.Y., inin 1919 and from Boston (Mass.) University in 1922; attended 1880; engaged in ministerial and educational work in Dut-Harvard University, Heidelberg University, the University chess County, N.Y.; reporter on the News-Press of Pough-of Berlin, Germany, and Oxford University, Oxford, Eng- keepsie; pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church at Barrytown, land; professor of ethics, psychology, and political philosophy N.Y., 1880-1891; editor of the Rockaway Journal at Farat Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans., in 1923, 1924, and Rockaway, N.Y.; member of the editorial staff of the New1926-1928; pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, York World; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Con-Springfield, Mo., in 1927; elected as a Republican to the gress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuc- for renomination in 1904; deputy tax appraiser of the Statecessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second of New York in 1907 and 1908; resumed newspaper work; Congress; resumed his former professional pursuits; delegate editor of the New York American until his death in Newto the Republican National Convention in 1932; unsuccessful York City October 7, 1919; interment in Worcester Ceme-candidate in 1932 for nomination to the United States tery, Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn. Senate; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the ten succeed- SHOEMAKER, Francis Henry, a Representative froming Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1957); chairman, Minnesota; born on a farm in Flora Township, RenvilleCommittee on Armed Services (Eighty-third Congress); un- County, Minn., April 25, 1889; self-educated with mother'ssuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth assistance; engaged in agricultural pursuits and worked forCongress; congressional delegate to inspect concentration many farm and labor organizations; charter member andcamps in Germany in 1945; Assistant Secretary of theArmy organizer of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party; assisted infrom March 15, 1957, to January 20, 1961; was president organizing the Federated Farmer-Labor Party at Chicago inemeritus, National Rivers and Harbors Congress, and a lec- 1924; was nominated for Vice President of the United States,turer; resided in Washington, D.C., where he died November but declined; editor and publisher of the People's Voice,19, 1979; interment in Galena Cemetery, Galena, Mo. Green Bay, Wis., 1921-1927, and of the Organized Farmer, Red Wing, Minn., in 1928; elected as a Farmer-Laborite to SHORT, Don Levingston, a Representative from North the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935);Dakota; born in Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, June 22, was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seven-1903; moved with parents to a ranch in Billings County, ty-fourth Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate fornear Medora, N.Dak., in February 1904; attendedMedora nomination for United States Senator; then became an un-public schools and St. James School, Faribault, Minn.; agri- successful Independent candidate for reelection to the Seven-cultural short course at Montana State College at Bozeman ty-fourth Congress; unsuccessful for election in 1942 to thein 1918 and 1919; graduated from Pillsbury Military Acade- Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits nearmy, Owatonna, Minn., in 1921; student atthe University of North Redwood, Minn.; died in Minneapolis, Minn., July 24,Minnesota 1922-1926; farmer and rancher; county supervi- 1958; interment in Zion Cemetery, Flora Township, Renvillesor, Farm Security Administration,in1937 and 1938; County, Minn. member, North Dakota State assembly, 1957; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh, and Eighty- SHOEMAKER, Lazarus Denison, a Representative fromeighth Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965); unsuc- Pennsylvania; born in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., No-cessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth vember 5, 1819; attended Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pa., andCongress; resumed cattle ranching until retirement; was a Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; was graduated from Yaleresident of Beach, N.Dak., until his death in Dickinson, College in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842N.Dak., on May 10, 1982; interment in Medora Cemetery, and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; member of the State senate 1866-1870; elected as a Republican to theMedora, N.Dak. Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 187 1- SHORTER, Eli Sims, a Representative from Alabama; March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pen-born in Monticello, Jasper County, Ga., March 15, 1823; sions (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomi-attended the common schools and was graduated in law nation in 1874; resumed the practice of his profession; alsofrom Yale College in 1844; was admitted to the bar and engaged in banking; died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 9,commenced practice in Eufaula, Ala., in 1844; also engaged 1893; interment in Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, Luzernein agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- County, Pa. fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, SHONK, George Washington, a Representative from1859); resumed the practice of law in Eufaula, Ala.; during Pennsylvania; born in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa., Aprilthe Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of 26, 1850; attended the public schools and Wyoming Semi-the Eighteenth Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry; died nary, Kingston, Pa.; was graduated from Wesleyan Universi-in Eufaula, Ala., April 29, 1879; interment in Fairview Cem- ty, Middletown, Conn., in 1873; studied law; was admitted toetery. the bar of Luzerne County, Pa., September 29, 1876, and SHORTRIDGE, Samuel Morgan, a Senator from Califor- commenced the practice of law in Wilkes-Barre; elected as ania; born in Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, August 3, Republican to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-1861; moved to California with his parents, who settled in March 3, 1893); declined to be a candidate for renominationSan Jose in 1875; attended the public schools and the Hast- in 1892; again resumed the practice of his profession inings College of Law at San Francisco, Calif.; was admitted to Wilkes-Barre; was also interested in coal mining in Pennsyl-the bar in 1884 and commenced the practice of law in San vania; died in Washington, D.C., on a business trip AugustFrancisco,Calif.; presidential elector on the Republican 14, 1900; interment in Shawnee Cemetery, Plymouth, Pa.ticket in 1888, 1900, and again in 1908; elected as a Republi- SHORT, Dewey Jackson, a Representative from Missouri;can to the United States Senate in 1920; reelectedin 1926 born in Galena, Stone County, Mo., April 7, 1898; attendedand served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933; unsuccess- the public school, Galena High School, and Marionville (Mo.)ful candidate for renomination in 1932; chairman, Commit- College; during the First World War served in the Infantry;tee on Privileges and Elections (Seventieth through Seventy- 1808 Biographical Directory

second Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-Council, 1963-1967, serving as president, 1965-1967; mayor, second Congress); resumed the practice of law; special attor-Missoula, Mont., 1967-1970; owner-operator, laundry and dry ney, Justice Department, Washington, D.C., 1939-1943; diedcleaning business, 1954-1967; employed in agriculture serv- in Atherton, Calif., January 15, 1952; interment in Oak Hillice department, Montana Flour Mills, 1953-1954; member, Cemetery, San Jose, Calif. Governor's (Montana) Crime Commission, 1969-1970, and SHOTT, Hugh Ike, a Representative and a Senator fromMontana League of Cities and Towns, 1967-1970; elected as West Virginia; born in Staunton, Augusta County, Va., Sep-a Republican to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Con- tember 3, 1866; attended the Staunton public schools;ap-gresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful can- prenticed as a printer; later became a reporter and editorialdidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; writer; moved to Bluefield, W.Va., in 1893; servedas a clerkdirector, Union Pacific Railroad, Washington, D.C., 1975- in the railway mail service in 1895; became publisher and 1984; is a resident of Missoula, Mont. editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph in 1896; postmaster of Bluefield 1903-19 12; member of the West Virginia Semi- SHOUSE, Jouett, a Representative from Kansas; born in centennial Commission in 1912 and 1913; elected as a Repub-Midway, Woodford County, Ky., December 10, 1879; moved lican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresseswith his parents to Mexico, Mo., in 1892; attended the public (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); was an unsuccessful candi- schools and the University of Missouri at Columbia; moved date for reelection in 1932 and for election to the Unitedto Lexington, Ky., in 1898 and engaged in newspaper work States Senate in 1936; elected as a Republican to the Uniteduntil 1911; moved to Kinsley, Kans., in 1911 and engaged in States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofagricultural pursuits and livestock raising; vice president Matthew M. Neely and served from November 18, 1942, toand treasurer of the Mexican lines of the Kansas, Mexico & January 3, 1943; was not a candidate for the full term;Orient Railroad; director of the Kinsley Bank; member of continued as editor and publisher of the Bluefield Dailythe State senate 1913-1915; elected as a Democrat to the Telegraph until his death in Bluefield, W.Va., October 12,Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4,1915- 1953; interment in Monte Vista Cemetery. March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; Assist- ant Secretary of the Treasury from March 5, 1919, to No- SHOIJP, George Laird, a Senator from Idaho (great-grand-vember 15, 1920; delegate to the Democratic National Con- father of Richard Gardner Shoup); born in Kittanning, Arm-ventions in 1920, 1924, and 1932; chairman, Democratic Na- strong County, Pa., June 15,1836; attended the publictional Executive Committee, 1929-1932; engaged in the prac- schools of Freeport and Slate Lick; moved to Illinois in 1852;tice of law in Kansas City, Mo., and Washington, D.C.; in engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raisingnear1953 became chairman of the board of Anton Smit and Co., Galesburg, Ill., until 1858; moved to Colorado in 1859;en- gaged in mining and mercantile pursuits until 1861; duringInc., of New York; retired in 1965; died in Washington, D.C., June 2, 1968; cremated and interred in Lexington Cemetery, the Civil War enlisted in an independentcompany of scouts and soon thereafter was commissioned a second lieutenant;Lexington, Ky. scouted throughout New Mexico and Colorado andon the SHO WALTER, Joseph BaltzeII, a Representative from Canadian, Pecos, Arkansas and Red Rivers; promotedto firstPennsylvania; born near Smithfield, Fayette County, Pa., lieutenant; given leave of absence to attend theconventionFebruary 11, 1851; attended the public schools and Georges to prepare a constitution for the proposed State of ColoradoCreek Academy at Smithfield; taught school in West Virgin- in 1864; returned to active duty, commissioned colonel, andia, Indiana, and Illinois 1867-1873; moved to Chicora, Pa., in mustered out in Denver in 1864; engaged in mercantilepur-1873 and engaged in the production of petroleum and natu- suits in Virginia City, Mont., in 1866 and later in Salmonral gas; studied medicine at Long Island College Hospital, City, Idaho; Lemhi county treasurer and superintendentofBrooklyn, N.Y., in 1883; was graduated from the College of schools; member, Territorial house of representatives 1874;Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., in 1884; practiced member, Territorial council 1878; member of the Republicanmedicine in Chicora, Pa., from 1884 to 1890, when he again National Committee 1880-1884, 1888-1892; United Statesengaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas; commissioner for Idaho at the World's Cotton Centennialmember of the State house of representatives in 1887 and Exposition in New Orleans, La., in 1884 and 1885; Governor1888; served in the State senate 1889-1892; elected as a of Idaho Territory 1889-1890; upon the admission ofIdaho as a State into the Union was elected its first Governor, Octo-Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy ber 1, 1890, but resigned in December of that caused by the death of James J. Davidson; reelected to the year, havingFifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from been elected Senator; elected as a Republican to the UnitedApril 20, 1897, to March 3, 1903; was not a candidate for States Senate in 1890; reelected in 1895 and servedfrom December 18, 1890, to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate reelection; resumed his former business pursuits and resided for reelection in 1900; chairman, Committeeon Educationin Butler, Pa.; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., and then to Wash- and Labor (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committeeon Territoriesington, D.C.; also engaged in the development of land in (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses); died in Boise, Idaho,southern Florida; died in Washington, D.C., December 3, December 21, 1904; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. 1932; interment in North Cemetery, Butler, Pa. Bibliography: DAB; Mathews, W.B. Sketch of the Life and Services of SHOWER, Jacob, a Representative from Maryland; born the Hon. George L. Shoup. Washington, D.C.: B.S. Adams, 1900; U.S. Con- gress. Memorial Addresses at Erection of Statue. 61st Cong., 2nd sass.,in Manchester, Baltimore County, Md., February 22, 1803; 1909-1910. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910. was a drummer boy in the War of 1812; attended private schools at Emmitsburg, Md., and was graduated from the SHOUP, Richard Gardner (great-grandson of Georgemedical department of the University of Maryland at Balti- Laird Shoup), a Representative from Montana; born inmore in 1825; commenced the practice of his profession in Salmon, Lemhi County, Mont., November 29, 1923;attendedCarroll County, Md.; charter member of the first Andrew the Salmon public schools; B.S., University of Montana,Mis- Jackson Club in the State in 1824; Democratic member of soula, Mont., 1950; served in the United States Army, Euro-the State house of delegates 1834-1840; clerk of the circuit pean Theater, Field Artillery, 1943-1946; served in thecourt of Carroll County 1842-1850; delegate to the State Korean conflict, 1951-1952; elected alderman, Missoula Cityconstitutional convention in 1851; elected as a Democrat to Biographies 1809 the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855);1917; was commissioned a second lieutenant in August 1917 resumed medical practice; died in Manchester, Md., May 25,and assigned to the One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry 1879. Regiment of the Thirtieth Combat Division; commissioned a first lieutenant in January 1918 and served in the United SHREVE, Milton William, a Representative from Penn-States and France; was discharged at Camp Jackson, S.C., sylvania; born in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pa., MayApril 28, 1919; was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 3, 1858; attended the Edinboro State Normal School andAugust 1920 and commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.; Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; was graduated from Buck-chairman of Buncombe County board of elections 1940-1942; nell University, Lewisburg, Pa., in 1884; studied law; wasserved in the State house of representatives 1945-1947; State admitted to the bar in Erie County and commenced practice in Erie, Pa.; district attorney of Erie County 1899-1902;superior court judge 1947-1949; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third,Eighty-fourth,and Eighty-fifthCongresses member of the State house of representatives 1907-1912 and(January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); had been renominated for in the session of 1911 succeeded to the speakership; electedthe Eighty-sixth Congress but later withdrew because of ill as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913- March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914health; resumed the practice of law; resided in Asheville, to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law inN.C., until his death there on December 8, 1962; interment Erie; also engaged in banking and interested in several man-in Riverside Cemetery. ufacturing plants; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth SHULL, Joseph Horace, a Representative from Pennsyl- Congress; reelected as an Independent Republican to thevania; born at Martins Creek, Northampton County, Pa., Sixty-seventh Congress and as a Republican to the Sixty-August 17, 1848; attended the public schools and Blair Hall, eighth through Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1919-Blairstown, N.J.; took a special course at Lafayette College, March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 Easton, Pa.; was graduated from the University of New York to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of lawand in 1873 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in Erie, Pa., until his death there on December 23, 1939;both in New York City; taught in the public schools of interment in Erie Cemetery. Pennsylvania for four years; studied law; was admitted to SIIRIVER, Garner E., a Representative from Kansas;the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Stroudsburg, born in Towanda, Butler County, Kans., July 6, 1912; attend-Monroe County, Pa.; editor of the Monroe Democrat 1881- ed the public schools of Towanda and Wichita; moved to1886; member of the State senate 1886-1891; elected as a Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., in 1925; University ofDemocrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- Wichita, B.A., 1934 (postgraduate study at University ofMarch 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in Southern California in 1936), and Washburn Law School, 1904; resumed the practice of law and medicine; was a con- LL.B., 1940 and J.D., 1970; worked for a drug company intract surgeon during the First World War; died in Strouds- Wichita, 1934-1936; teacher at South Haven High School inburg, Pa., August 9, 1944; interment in Stroudsburg Ceme- 1936 and 1937; was admitted to the bar in Wichita in Febru-tery. ary 1940; served for three years in the United States Navy SHULTZ, Emanuel, a Representative from Ohio; born in as an enlisted man and officer, 1943-1946; State representa-Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., July 25, 1819; attended the tive, 1947-1951; State senator, 1953-1960; elected as a Repub-public schools; apprenticed to the trade of shoemaker; moved lican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeedingto Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1838; engaged Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977); unsuccessfulin mercantile pursuits, banking, and the manufacture of candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; convention in minority staff director and legal counsel for the Senate Vet-paper; member of the State constitutional erans' Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C., March 1977-1873; member of the State house of representatives 1875- 1980, and general counsel, 198 1-1982; resumed the practice1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress of law; is a resident of Wichita, Kans. (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; again engaged in paper making; ap-- SHUFORD, Alonzo Craig, a Representative from Northpointed postmaster of Miamisburg and served from August Carolina; born on a farm near Newton, Catawba County,2, 1889, to January 17, 1894; died in Miamisburg, Ohio, N.C., March 1, 1858; attended the common schools andNovember 5, 1912; interment in Hill Grove Cemetery. Newton College; engaged in agricultural pursuits; joined the Farmers Alliance in 1889 and was a county and district SHUMWAY, Norman David, a Representative from Cali- lecturer; delegate to the labor conference at St. Louis, Mo.,fornia; born in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz., July 28, in February 1892; also a delegate to the Populist convention1934; educated in the Stockton public schools; graduated at Omaha, Nebr., in July 1892; elected vice president of the from Stockton High School, 1952; A.A., Stockton (Calif.) Col- State Alliance in 1894; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-lege, 1954; B.S., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1960; fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3,J.D., Hastings College of Law, University of California, San 1899); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898; re-Francisco, 1963; admitted to the California bar in 1964 and sumed agricultural pursuits near Newton, N.C.; presidential commenced practice in Downey, Calif.; appointed to the San elector on the Progressive ticket in 1924; retired from activeJoaquin County Board of Supervisors by Governor Reagan, business pursuits in 1928 and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C.,1974; elected in 1974, and reelected in 1976; elected as a where he died on February 8, 1933; interment in Chapel HillRepublican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Cemetery. Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Stockton, Calif. SHUFORD, George Adams, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., Sep- SHUSTER, E.G. (Bud), a Representative from Pennsylva- tember 5, 1895; attended the public schools and the Universi- nia; born in Glassport, Allegheny County, Pa., January 23, ty of North Carolina 1913-19 15; graduated from the Univer- 1932; attended the public schools in Glassport; B.S., Univer- sity of Georgia at Athens in 1917; was admitted to thesity of Pittsburgh, 1954; M.B.A., Duquesne University, Pitts- Georgia bar in 1917; during the First World War entered theburgh, 1960; Ph.D., economics and management, American first officers' training camp at Fort McPherson, Ga., in MayUniversity, Washington, D.C., 1967; served in the Infantry, 1810 Biographical Directory

United States Army, 1954-1956; founder, computer softwareSutton, Worcester County, Mass., February 5, 1834; inter- company; delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1976,ment in Center Cemetery. 1980, 1984, and 1988; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, SIBLEY, Joseph Crocker, a Representative from Pennsyl- 1973-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Everett, Pa. vania; born in Friendship, Allegany County, N.Y., February 18, 1850; in 1859 moved with his parents to Boston, N.Y.; SIBAL, Abner Woodruff, a Representative from Connecti-attended the county schools and the local academies at cut; born in Ridgewood, Queens County, N.Y., April 11, 1921;Springville and Friendship; taught school and studied medi- graduated from Norwalk High School in 1938; Wesleyancine; engaged in the oil-refining business in Franklin, Pa., University, A.B., 1943, and St. John's Law School, LL.B., 1949; enlisted in the United States Army in March 1943,and also in manufacturing and agricultural pursuits; mayor served in the European and Pacific Theaters, and of Franklin, Pa., in 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- was dis-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful charged as a first lieutenant in September 1946;was admit- ted to the Connecticut bar in 1949 and to the Federal bar incandidate of the Democratic and Populist Parties for reelec- 1965; prosecuting attorney in Norwalk City Court, 1951-tion in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress and for election in 1955;corporation counsel,cityof Norwalk, 1959-1960;1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the member of State senate, 1956-1960, serving as minorityFifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); elected leader the last two years; chairman of the Connecticut Com-as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty- mission on Corporation Law in 1959; delegate to each Con-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); chairman, necticut Republican State Convention from 1952 to 1968;Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth delegate to Republican National Convention, 1964; electedasCongresses); declined renomination in 1906; was nominated a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Con-for Congress in 1910, but declined to make the campaign gresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); was an unsuccess-because of ill health; chairman of the Republican State con- ful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Con-vention in 1902; resumed his former manufacturing and ag- gress; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Avon,ricultural pursuits; died at his home, "River Ridge Farm," Conn. near Franklin, Pa., May 19, 1926; interment in Franklin Cemetery. SIBLEY, Henry Hastings (son of Solomon Sibley),a Dele- Bibliography: DAB. gate from the Territories of Wisconsin and Minnesota; born in Detroit, Mich., February 20, 1811; attended the Detroit SIBLEY, Mark Hopkins, a Representative from New Academy and also studied under private tutors; studied law;York; born in Great Barrington, Mass., in 1796; completed moved to Sault Ste. Marie in 1828 and engaged inmercan-preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar tile pursuits until 1829, when he moved to Mackinac andand commenced practice in Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1814; entered the service of the American Fur Co.; justice of themember of the State assembly in 1834 and 1835; elected as a peace in 1831; moved to the mouth of the Minnesota RiverWhig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, in 1834 and engaged in fur trading; electedas a Delegate1839); member of the State senate in 1841; judge of Ontario from the Territory of Wisconsin to the Thirtieth CongresstoCounty 1847-1851; resumed the practice of his profession; fill the vacancy caused by the disqualification of John H.died in Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y., September 8, Tweedy and served from October 30, 1848, to March 3, 1849;1852; interment in West Avenue Cemetery. upon the formation of the Territory of Minnesota was elect- ed as a Delegate to the Thirty-first and Thirty-secondCon- SIBLEY, Solomon (father of ), a gresses and served from July 7, 1849, to March 3, 1853;Delegate from the Territory of Michigan; born in Sutton, declined to be a candidate for renomination; member of theMass., October 7, 1769; completed preparatory studies, and Territorial Legislature of Minnesota in 1855; member of thein 1794 was graduated from the College of Rhode Island at constitutional convention of Minnesota in 1857, and servedProvidence; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1795 and as president; Governor of Minnesota 1858-1860; regent of thecommenced practice in Marietta, Ohio; moved to Detroit, State university 1860-1869 and president of theboard ofMich., in 1797 and continued the practice of law; was a regents 1876-1891; served in the Union Armyas brigadiermember of the Territorial legislature of Northwest Territory general of Volunteers from 1862 until hewas honorablyin 1799; mayor of Detroit, Mich., in 1806; president of the mustered out April 30, 1866; moved to St. Paul, Minn.; inter-board of trustees of Detroit in 1815; auditor of Michigan ested in banking, railroads, and other publiccorporations;Territory 1814-1817; United States attorney, Michigan Terri- president of the St. Paul Gas Co. in 1866; president of thetory, by appointment of President Madison 1815-1823; elect- Minnesota Historical Society 1879-1891; unsuccessful candi-ed to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by date for election to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointedbythe resignation of William W. Woodbridge; reelected to the President Arthur in 1883 as president of the commissiontoSeventeenth Congress and served from November 20, 1820, settle damage claims of the Ojibway Indians resulting fromto March 3, 1823; was not a candidate for reelection in 1822; the construction of national reservoirs; died in St. Paul,judge of the supreme court of Michigan Territory 1824-1837; Minn., February 18, 1891; interment in Oakland Cemetery.resumed the practice of law; died in Detroit, Mich., April 4, Bibliography: DAB; Jorstad, Erling T. "The Life of Henry Hastings 1846; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Sibley." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1957. SICKLES, Carlton Ralph, a Representative from Mary- SIBLEY, Jonas, a Representative from Massachusetts;land; born in Hamden, New Haven County, Conn., June 15, born in Sutton, Mass., on March 7, 1762; completedprepara-1921; graduated from Roosevelt High School, Washington, tory studies; selectman 1801-1803 and again in 1819; townD.C., in 1939, Georgetown University in 1943, and from the moderator 1802-1827; town treasurer 1806-1816; member oflaw school of the same university in 1948; served with the the State house of representatives 1806-1822 and 1827-1829; Chinese Combat Command, United States Army, 1943-1946, member of the State senate in 1826; delegate to the Statewith service in India and China; served as a captain in 1951 constitutional convention in 1820; elected to the Eighteenthand 1952, during the Korean conflict, with the United States Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); unsuccessfulcandi-Air Force in the Office of Special Investigations; admitted to date for reelection; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died inthe bar in 1949 and began the practice of law in Washing- Biographies 1811 ton, D.C., and adjacent Maryland; taught at Georgetownand 1936; resumed the practice of law; appointed as a magis- University Law School, 1960-1966; served in the Marylandtrate of New York City on July 4, 1939, and served until house of delegates, 1955-1962; member, joint commission toSeptember 14, 1940, when he was appointed to the bench; establish regional transit compact, Washington Metropolitanjustice of the domestic relations court of New York City Transit Authority, 1955-1966, chairman, 1960-1966; delegate until his death in that city on June 29, 1947; interment in to Democratic National Conventions in 1964 and 1968; elect-Field Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. ed as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); was not a SIEMINSKI, Alfred Dennis, a Representative from New candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth CongressJersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., August 23, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for1911; attended the public schools, New York Military Acade- Governor of Maryland; resumed the practice of law; dele-my, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. and HunSchool, Prince- gate, Maryland Constitutional Convention, 1967-1968; presi- ton, N.J.; was graduated from Princeton University in 1934; dent, Carday Associates, Inc.; member, Maryland State Plan- student, Harvard Law School in 1935 and 1936; comptroller ning Commission; member, Washington Metropolitan Areaand vice president of Brunswick Laundry, Jersey City, N.J., Transit Authority; was an unsuccessful candidate in 1986 forsince 1937; entered the United States Army as a private in nomination to the One Hundredth Congress; is a resident of1942; served in Italian campaign with the Ninety-second Rockville, Md. Buffalo Division in 1944 and 1945; captain, Military Govern- ment Division in Austria, in 1945 and 1946; served with SICKLES, Daniel Edgar, a Representative from NewTenth Corps in Korea in 1950; discharged to Infantry Re- York; born in New York City October 20, 1819; attendedserve as a major in 1950 and promoted to lieutenantcolonel New York University; apprenticed as a printer; studied law;in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in New York City; member of the State assembly in 1847;the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, corporation attorney in 1853; secretary of the legation at1959); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1958; ad- London by appointment of President Franklin Pierce 1853-ministrative vice president of the Hun School; engaged in 1855; member of the State senate in 1856 and 1857; electedadministrative education and project development; worked as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress-at the Medical and General Reference Library, Veterans' es (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate forAdministration, Washington, D.C., 1962-1973; is a resident of renomination in 1860; served in the Civil War as colonel ofVienna, Va. the Seventeenth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, SIKES, Robert Lee Fulton, a Representative from Flori- and brigadier general and major general of Volunteers; re-da; born in Isabella, near Sylvester, Worth County, -Ga., tired with rank of major general April 14, 1869; awarded theJune 3, 1906; attended the public schools; University of Medal of Honor October 30, 1897, for action at the Battle ofGeorgia at Athens, B.S., 1927 and University of Florida at Gettysburg; intrusted with a special mission to the SouthGainesville, M.S., 1929; engaged in the publishing business American Republics in 1865; chairman of the New Yorkat Crestview, Fla., 1933-1946; served in the State house of State Civil Service Commission in 1888 and 1889; sheriff ofrepresentatives 1936-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Sev- New York City in 1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-enty-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessfulJanuary 3, 1941, until his resignation on October 19, 1944, to for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resided inenter the United States Army during the Second World New York City until his death there May 3, 1914; intermentWar; delegate, Interparliamentary Conference in Warsaw, in Arlington National Cemetery. 1959; elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen suc- Bibliography: DAB; Swanberg, W.A. Sickles the Incredible. New York: ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1979); was Scribner, 1956. not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth SICKLES, Nicholas, a Representative from New York;Congress; is a resident of Crestview, Fla. born in Kinderhook, Ulster County, N.Y., September 11, Bibliography: Sikes, Bob. He-Coon, the Bob Sikes Story. Pensacola, Fla.: 1801; attended private schools and Kinderhook Academy; Perdido Bay Press, 1984. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Kingston, N.Y.; elected as a Jacksonian to the SIKORSKI, Gerald Edward, a Representative from Min- Twenty-fourth Congress (December 7, 1835-March 3, 1837);nesota; born in Breckenridge, Wilkin County, Minn., April prosecuting attorney of Ulster County, N.Y., in 1836 and26, 1948; graduated from Breckenridge High School, 1966; 1837; served as surrogate of Ulster County from January 1,B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1970; J.D., Uni- 1844, until his death in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., Mayversity of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, 1973; admit- 13, 1845; interment in Houghtaling Burying Ground. ted to the Minnesota bar, 1973 and commenced practice in Stillwater, 1974; elected, Minnesota senate, 1976-1982; elect- SIEGEL, Isaac, a Representative from New York; born ined as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate to the Ninety- New York City April 12, 1880; attended the public schoolseighth, Ninety-ninth, and One Hundredth Congresses (Janu- and pursued a supplementary course of study in New Yorkary 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a residentof Stillwater, City; was graduated from New York University Law SchoolMinn. in 1901; was admitted to the bar May 26, 1902, and com- menced practice in New York City; was appointed special SILER, Eugene, a Representative from Kentucky; born in deputy attorney general for the prosecution of electionWilliamsburg, Whitley County, Ky., June 26, 1900; attended frauds in 1909 and 1910; elected as a Republican to thethe public schools; graduated from Cumberland College, Wil- Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchliamsburg, Ky., in 1920 and from the University of Kentucky 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on the Censusat Lexington in 1922; law student at Columbia University in (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); was not a candi-1922 and University of Kentucky until 1924; was admitted to date for renomination in 1922; during the First World Warthe bar in 1923 and commenced the practice of law in Wil- was a member of the overseas commission which visitedliamsburg, KY.; during the First World War served as an France and Italy during July and August 1918; delegate toenlisted man in the United States Navy, and in the Second the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1920, 1924,World War served as a captain in the United States Army 1812 Biographical Directory

1942-1945; elected judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky SILVESTER, Peter (grandfather of Peter Henry Silves- in 1945 and served until January 1, 1949; unsuccessful Re-ter), a Representative from New York; born at Shelter publican candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1951; trust-Island, Long Island, N.Y., in 1734; completed preparatory ee of Cumberland College; director of the Bank of Williams- studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1763 and burg and Kingsport Grocery Co.; elected as a Republican topracticed in Albany, N.Y.; member of the Albany Common the Eighty-fourth and to the four succeeding CongressesCouncil in 1772; member of the committee of safety in 1774; (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate inserved in the First and Second Provincial Congresses in 1775 1964 for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress;was aand 1776; moved to Kinderhook, N.Y., and practiced law; resident of Williamsburg, Ky., until his death in Louisville, Ky., on December 5, 1987; interment in Highland Cemetery,appointed judge of the court of common pleas of Columbia Williamsburg. County in 1786; regent of the University of the State of New York 1787-1808; elected to the First and Second Congresses SILJANDER, Mark Deli, a Representative from Michigan;(March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); served in the State assembly born in Chicago, Cook County, Iii., June 11, 1951; attendedin 1788; member of the State senate 1796-1800; again served the public schools; graduated from Oak Park-River Forestin the State assembly 1803-1806; retired from public life; High School, 1969; B.S., Western Michigan University, Kala-died in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., October 15, mazoo, 1972; M.A., same university, 1973; trustee, Fabius1808; interment in Old Van Schaack Cemetery, over which Township Board, St. Joseph County, 1972-1976; real estatethe Reformed Dutch Church was built in 1814. broker; served in the Michigan State house of representa- tives, 1977-1981; delegate, Republican National Convention, SILVESTER, Peter Henry (grandson of Peter Silvester), a 1980; elected as Republican to the Ninety-seventh Congress,Representative from New York; born in Kinderhook, Colum- by special election, April 21, 1981, to fill the vacancy causedbia County, N.Y., February 17, 1807; attended Kinderhook by the resignation of David A. Stockman; reelected to theAcademy, and was graduated from Union College, Schenec- two succeeding Congresses (April 21, 1981, to January 3,tady, N.Y., in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1987); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in1830 and practiced his profession in Coxsackie, N.Y.; elected 1986; delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, Sep- as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses tember 1987-September 1988; president of a consulting firm(March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); retired and lived on one of in Washington, D.C., and operates an import-export firm;his farms in Coxsackie, Greene County, N.Y., until his death radio commentator; is a resident of Reston, Va. on November 29, 1882; interment in Kinderhook Cemetery, SILL, Thomas Hale, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y. born in Windsor, Conn., October 11, 1783; completedprepar- SIMKINS, Eldred, a Representative from South Carolina; atory studies and was graduated from Brown University,born in Edgefield, S.C., August 30, 1779; attended a private Providence, R.I., in 1804; studied law; was admitted to theacademy at Willington, Abbeville District, S.C., and was bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Ohio;graduated from South Carolina College (now the University moved to Erie, Pa., in 1813 and resumed the practice of law; of South Carolina) at Columbia; attended Litchfield (Conn.) member of the staff of General Wallace and alsoa memberLaw School for three years; was admitted to the bar in 1805 of the Minutemen of the State militia; deputy United Statesand commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C., in 1806; member marshal1816-1818; deputyattorney generalin1819; member of the State house of representatives in 1823; elect-of the State house of representatives; served in the State ed to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused bysenate 1810-1812; Lieutenant Governor of the State 1812- the death of Patrick Farrelly and served from March 14, 1814; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to 1826, to March 3, 1827; elected to the Twenty-first Congressfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Cal- (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); declined to be a candidate forhoun; reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from renomination in 1830; president of the United States branchJanuary 24, 1818, to March 3, 1821; chairman, Committee on bank at Erie, Pa., in 1837; member of the State constitution-Public Expenditures (Sixteenth Congress); declined to be a al convention in 1837 and 1838; presidential electoron thecandidate for renomination; again a member of the State Whig ticket in 1848; postmaster of Erie, Pa., 1847-1853;house of representatives, 1828-1829; resumed the practice of served as a director of the Erie Academy formore thanhis profession and also engaged in planting; died in Edge- thirty years; engaged in the practice of his profession untilfield, Edgefield County, S.C., November 17, 1831; interment his death in Erie, Pa., on February 7, 1856; interment inin Cedar Fields, the family burial ground, near Edgefield, Erie Cemetery. S.C. SILSBEE, Nathaniel, a Representative anda Senator SIMMONS, Furnifold McLendel, a Representative and a from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass.,on January 14,Senator from North Carolina; born on his father's plantation 1773; attended private schools; went tosea and became a seanear Polloksville, Jones County, N.C., January 20, 1854; at- captain, ship owner and merchant; held several local officestended a private school and Wake Forest (N.C.) College; in Salem and Boston; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenthgraduated from Trinity College (now Duke University), Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); was nota candi-Durham, N.C., in 1873; studied law; was admitted to the bar date for renomination; elected to the State house ofrepre-in 1875; moved to New Bern, Craven County, N.C., in 1876 sentatives in 1821; member, State senate 1823-1825, servingand commenced the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to as president; presidential elector in 1824; elected to thethe Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuc- United States Senate in 1826 to fill the vacancy caused bycessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first the resignation of James Lloyd; reelected in 1829 and servedCongress and for election to Congress in 1890; resumed the from May 31, 1826, to March 3, 1835; declined to bea candi-practice of his profession in New Bern; appointed by Presi- date for reelection; chairman, Committeeon Commercedent Grover Cleveland as collector of internal revenue for (Twenty-third Congress); Whig presidential elector in 1836;the fourth district of North Carolina 1893-1897; elected as a resumed mercantile pursuits in Salem, Mass., where he diedDemocrat to the United States Senate in 1900; reelected in on July 14, 1850; interment in Harmony Grove Cemetery.1906, 1912, 1918, and again in 1924, and served from March Bibliography: DAB. 4, 1901, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- Biographies 1813 nation in 1930; chairman, Committee on Disposition of Use-lege of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1915; was less Executive Papers (Sixty-first Congress), Committee onadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice Engrossed Bills (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses),in Gering, Nebr.; elected prosecuting attorney of Scotts Bluff Committee on Finance (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Con- County in 1916; during the First World War enlisted in the gresses), Committee on Additional Accommodations for theArmy on October 15, 1917, and was commissioned as a Library of Congress (Sixty-sixth Congress); resided in Newsecond lieutenant in the Air Service March 12, 1918, being Bern, N.C., until his death there on April 30, 1940; inter-discharged January 14, 1919; elected as a Republican to the ment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, Bibliography: DAB; Rippy, J. Fred, ed. F.M. Simmons: Statesman of the 1923-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in New South. Durham: Duke University Press, 1936. 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election to the SIMMONS, George Abel, a Representative from NewUnited States Senate in 1934 and again in 1936; resumed the York; born in Lyme, N.H., September 8, 1791; attended thepractice of law in Lincoln, Nebr.; elected chief justice of district school; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Han-Nebraska in 1938; deputy judge, administrative tribunal of over, N.H., in 1816; moved to Lansingburg, Rensselaerthe International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, County, N.Y., and was principal of the local academy; stud-in 1955; retired January 1963, after more than twenty-four ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commencedyears' service as chief justice; returned to private law prac- practice in Keeseville, Essex County, N.Y.; member of thetice in Lincoln; died December 27, 1969, in Lincoln, Nebr.; State assembly 1840-1842; member of the State constitution-interment in Fairview Cemetery, Scottsbluff, Nebr. al convention in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); SIMMS, Albert Gallatin (husband of Ruth Hanna McCor- chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-fourth Con-mick), a Representative from New Mexico; born in Washing- gress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1856; resumedton, Hempstead County, Ark., October 8, 1882; attended pri- the practice of his profession in Keeseville, N.Y., where hevate schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; died October 27, 1857; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.moved to Monterrey, Mexico, in 1906 and was employed as an accountant; moved to Silver City, N.Mex.,in 1912; stud- SIMMONS, James Fowler, a Senator from Rhode Island;ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and practiced law born on a farm near Little Compton, Newport County, R.I.,at Albuquerque, N.Mex., until 1919; member of the city September 10, 1795; attended a private school in Newport,council 1920-1922; member and chairman of the board of R.I.; moved to Providence, R.I., in 1812; employed in variouscounty commissioners of Bernalillo County, 1920-1922; en- manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts;gaged in banking, serving as president of a national bank in engaged in the manufacture of yarn at Simmonsville, N.H.,Albuquerque, 1920-1924, and as president of a mortgage in 1822; moved to Johnston, R.I., in 1827 and resumed thecompany in 1924; member of the New Mexico houseof repre- manufacture of yarns and engaged in agricultural pursuits;sentatives 1925-1927; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- member, State house of representatives 1828-1841; elected asfirst Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful a Whig to the United States Senate and served from Marchcandidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-secondCon- 4, 1841, to March 3, 1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-gress; member of the RepublicanNational Committee 1932- tion in 1846 and for election in 1850 to the United States 1934; banker, farmer, and rancher; was a resident of Albu- Senate; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-sev-querque, N.Mex., where he diedDecember 29, 1964; inter- enth and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Printing (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); returned toment in Fairview Park Cemetery. Johnston, R.I., and resumed his former pursuits; again elect- SIMMS, William Emmett, a Representative fromKen- ed to the United States Senate as a Republican and servedtucky; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., January from March 4, 1857, to August 15, 1862, when he resigned;2, 1822; attended the public schools, and was graduated from chairman, Committee on Patents and the Patent Officethe law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, (Thirty-seventh Congress); resumed his former manufactur-Ky., in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and com- ing pursuits; died in Johnston, R.I., July 10, 1864; intermentmenced practice in Paris, Bourbon County, KY.; served as in North End Cemetery, Providence, R.I. captain throughout the Mexican War; member of the State SIMMONS, James Samuel (nephew of Milton Georgehouse of representatives 1849-1851; was elected as a Demo- Urner), a Representative from New York; born near Liberty,crat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, Frederick County, Md., November 25, 1861; attended the1861); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the public schools and the local academy at Liberty; was grad-Thirty-seventh Congress; on October 21, 1861, was appointed uated from Frederick College; moved to Roanoke, Va., into the temporary rank of colonel in the ConfederateArmy; 1880 and engaged in the real estate business; moved to Niag-appointed lieutenant colonel in the Provisional Army of the ara Falls, N.Y., in 1894 and continued in the real estateConfederate States, December 24, 1861, and was assigned to business; chairman of the Republican city committee in 1907 the First Battalion, Kentucky Cavalry; resigned February and 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and17, 1862, having been chosen Senator from Kentucky tothe Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1913); un-Confederate States Congress; member of the Senate of the successful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-thirdFirst and Second Confederate Congresses and also served in Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention inPresident Davis' Cabinet; engaged in agricultural pursuits; 1912; resumed the real estate business in Niagara Falls,died on his estate, "Mount Airy," near Paris, Bourbon N.Y., and also, in 1927, in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he diedCounty, Ky., June 25, 1898; interment in Paris Cemetery. November 28, 1935; interment in Riverdale Cemetery, Lewis- SIMON, Joseph, a Senator from Oregon; born in Bechth- ton, N.Y. eim, Germany, February 7, 1851; immigrated to the United SIMMONS, Robert Glenmore, a Representative from Ne-States with his parents, who settled in Portland, Oreg., in braska; born in Scotts Bluff County, near Scottsbluff, Nebr.,1857; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted December 25, 1891; attended the public schools and Hastingsto the bar in 1872 and commenced practice inPortland, (Nebr.) College 1909-1911; was graduated from the law col-Oreg.; member of the city council 1877-1880; member, State 1814 Biographical Directory

senate 1880-1898, frequently serving as president; memberTennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, in 1861; subsequent- of the National Republican Committee 1892-1896; electedasly became second lieutenant and then captain; was severely a Republican to the United States Senate October 8, 1898, towounded in the Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862, and fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1897, and disabled from any further active duty during the war; elect- served until March 3, 1903; was not a candidate for reelec-ed clerk of the circuit court of Tipton County in March 1870; tion; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation ofstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced Arid Lands (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses);mayor of Portland 1909-19 11; resumed the practice of law; died inpractice in Covington, Tenn.; member of the State house of Portland, February 14, 1935; interment in Beth Israel Ceme-representatives in 1877-1879; editor of the Tipton Record in tery. Covington, Tipton County, Tenn.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, SIMON, Paul Martin, a Representative and Senator from1879-March 3, 1883); chairman of the Democratic State con- Illinois; born in Eugene, Lane County, Oreg., November 29,vention in 1886; president of the Covington city school board 1928; attended the public schools of Eugene and Concordia1892-1903; United States district attorney for the district of Academy High School, Portland, Oreg.; attended the Univer-Tennessee 1895-1898; died in Covington, Tenn., June 10, sity of Oregon, Eugene, 1945-1946 and Dana College, Blair, 1911; interment in Munford Cemetery. Nebr., 1946-1948; pursued career as anewspaper editor and publisher in Troy, Ill., eventually buildinga chain of four- SIMONTON, William, a Representative from Pennsylva- teen weeklies; served in the United States Army 195 1-1953;nia; born in West Hanover Township, near Harrisburg, Pa., teacher at Sangamon State University, Springfield,Ill.,February 12, 1788; received his early education from his 1972-1973, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy Insti-mother and later attended a private school; was graduated tute of Government 1973; served in the Illinois house offrom the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- representatives 195-1963 and in the Illinois State senatevania at Philadelphia in 1810 and practiced his profession 1963-1968; lieutenant governor of Illinois 1969-1973; author;while residing on his farm near Hummeistown, Dauphin elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974;County, Pa.; elected auditor of Dauphin County in 1823 and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,served three years; one of the original supporters of the free- 1975-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for reelection inschool system established by the act of 1834; elected as a 1984 to the House of Representatives, butwas elected to the United States Senate for the term ending January 3, 1991;Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomi-(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); died in South Hanover, Pa., nation in 1988. May 17, 1846; interment in the Old Hanover Cemetery, north of Shellsville, Pa. SIMONDS, William Edgar, a Representative fromCon- necticut; born in Collinsville, town of Canton, Hartford SIMPKINS, John, a Representative from Massachusetts; County, Conn., November 24, 1842; attended thepublicborn in New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., June 27, 1862; school and Collinsville High School, andwas graduated fromattended the public schools of Yarmouth and St. Mark's Connecticut State Normal School at New Britain in1860; School, Southboro, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard Uni- taught school; enlisted as a private in Company A,Twenty-versity in 1885; served in the State senate in 1890 and 1891; fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry,August 18,president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts in 1892 1862; promoted to sergeant major before beingmustered intoand 1893; member of the Republican State committee 1892- the United States service; promoted to second lieutenantof1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty- Company I of his regiment April 24, 1863;was graduatedfifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his from Yale Law School in 1865;was admitted to the bar anddeath in Washington, D.C., on March 27, 1898; interment in commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; member of the StateWoodside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Mass. house of representatives in 1883 and 1885, and servedas speaker in the latter year; elected asa Republican to the SIMPSON, Alan Kooi (son of Milward Lee Simpson), a Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891);unsuc-Senator from Wyoming; born in Denver, Denver County, cessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-secondCob., September 2,1931; attended Cody, Wyo., public Congress; United States Commissioner of Patents 1891-1893; schools; graduated, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., resumed the practice of his profession; died inHartford,1954 graduated, University of Wyoming Law School 1958; Conn., March 14, 1903; interment in Canton CenterCeme-admitted to the Wyoming bar in 1958 and commenced prac- tery, Canton, Conn. tice in Cody; served in the United States Army, Infantry, SIMONS, Samuel, a Representative from Connecticut;1954-1956; assistant attorney general of Wyoming 1958- born in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1792; pursuedan academic1959; city attorney, Cody, Wyo., and United States Commis- course; held several local offices; taught school; studied med-sioner 1959-1969; member, Wyoming house of representa- icine and commenced practice in Bridgeport,Fairfieldtives 1964-1977; elected as a Republican to the United States County, Conn.; member of the State house ofrepresentativesSenate, November 7, 1978, for the six-year term commencing in 1830; director of the Housatonic Railroad; trustee oftheJanuary 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the Governor, Bridgeport Savings Bank; elected asa Democrat to theJanuary 1, 1979, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,1845); tion of Clifford P. Hansen for the term ending January 3, chairman, Committee on Engraving (Twenty-eighthCon- 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991; gress); resumed the practice of medicine in Bridgeport,Republican whip 1985 to the present. Conn., where he died January 13, 1847; interment in Moun- tain Grove Cemetery. SIMPSON, Edna Oakes (wife of Sidney E. Simpson), a Representative from Illinois; born in Carroliton, Greene SIMONTON, Charles Bryson, a Representative from Ten-County, Iii., October 26, 1891; elected as a Republican to the nessee; born in Tipton County, Tenn., September 8, 1838;Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); did was graduated from Erskine College, Due West, S.C., innot seek renomination in 1960; was a resident of Carroliton, August 1859; enlisted as a private in Company C,NinthIll., until her death in Alton, Ill., on May 15, 1984. Biographies 1815

SIMPSON, James, Jr., a Representative from Illinois; bornGoverning Boards of State Universities and Allied Institu- in Chicago, Ill., January 7, 1905; attended St. Paul's Schooltions in 1950 and served as president in 1952 and 1953; in Concord, N.H., 1919-1922, Westminster School, Salisbury,elected as a Republican to the United States Senate Novem- Conn., 1922-1925, and later a student at Harvard University;ber 6, 1962, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sena- director of Marshall Field & Co., 1931-1960; elected as ator-elect Keith Thomson in the term ending January 3, 1967; Republican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-was not a candidate for reelection in 1966;retired; is a January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inresident of Cody, Wyo. 1934; was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1939; owner and Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Tributes to Milward L. Simpson of Wyo- operator of farms near Wadsworth, Lake County, Ill., and ming. 89th Cong., 2nd sess., 1966. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Rapidan, Culpeper County, Va.; entered the United States Office, 1966. Marine Corps in 1943 and served thirty-six months, with SIMPSON, Richard Franklin, a Representative from twenty-four months in the Pacific area, and was dischargedSouth Carolina; born in Laurens, S.C., March 24, 1798; was as a captain; civilian aide to Secretary of the Army Robertgraduated from South Carolina College (now the University Stevens in 1953 and 1954; died at his farm near Wadsworth,of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1816; studied law; was Ill., February 29, 1960; interment in Graceland Cemetery,admitted to the bar in 1819 and began practice in Pendleton, Chicago, Ill. S.C.; held several local offices; served as major during the SIMPSON, Jeremiah, a Representative from Kansas; bornSeminole War in 1835; member of the State senate 1835- on Prince Edward Island, Canada, March 31, 1842; moved1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty- with his parents to Oneida County, N.Y., in 1848; attendedninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, the public schools; at the age of fourteen became a sailor1849); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1848; and followed nautical pursuits from 1856 to 1879; served inengaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the secession the Civil War in Company A, Twelfth Regiment, Illinoisconvention in 1860 and signed the ordinance of secession; Volunteer Infantry; moved to Barber County, Kans., in 1878died in Pendleton, Anderson County, S.C., October 28, 1882; and settled near Medicine Lodge; engaged in farming andinterment in the family cemetery near that city. stock raising; on two occasions was an unsuccessful candi- date for election on the Independent ticket to the Kansas SIMPSON, Richard Murray, a Representative from Penn- house of representatives from Barber County; elected as asylvania; born in Huntingdon, Pa., August 30, 1900; attended Populist to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congressesthe public schools; was graduated from the University of (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate forPittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1923 and from Georgetown reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; elected to theLaw School, Washington, D.C., in 1942; during the First Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuc-World War served as a private in the Three Hundred and cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixthFirst Company, Tank Corps; engaged in the insurance busi- Congress; resumed his former pursuits; died in Wichita,ness 1923-1937; served in the Statehouse of representatives Kans., October 23, 1905; interment in Maple Grove Ceme- 1935-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Con- tery. gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofBenjamin K. Bibliography: DAB; Bicha, Karel Denis. ": Populist With-Focht; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and to the ten succeed- out Principle." Journal of American History 54 (September 1967): 291-306. ing Congresses and served from May 11, 1937, until his SIMPSON, Kenneth Farrand, a Representative from Newdeath in Bethesda, Md., January 7, 1960; interment in River- York; born in New York City May 4, 1895; attended privateview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pa. schools in New York City and Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; SIMPSON, Sidney Elmer (husband of Edna Oakes Simp- was graduated from Yale University, in 1917 and from theson), a Representative from Illinois; born in Carrollton, law department of Harvard University in 1922; during theGreene County, Ill., September 20, 1894; attended the public First World War served as captain, Three Hundred andschools and was graduated from Carrollton High School; Second Field Artillery, with one year of overseas service;during the First World War served in the United States commandant, American School Detachment University ofArmy, with overseas service; owner of Simpson Motor Co. Aix-Marseilles, in 1919; was admitted to the bar in 1922 andand Simpson Bus Co.; served as chairman of the Greene commenced practice in New York City; assistant UnitedCounty Republican Committee; member of the executive States attorney, southern district of New York, 1925-1927;committee of the County Chairman's Association of Illinois; chairmanof Republicancounty committee1935-1940; member of Republican National Conventions in 1936 andcity treasurer of Carroliton, Ill., for one term; member of 1940; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Con-Carroliton Board of Education; elected as a Republican to gress and served from January 3, 1941, until his death inthe Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses New York City, January 25, 1941; interment in Hudson Cityand served from January 3, 1943, until his death; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty-third Congress); Cemetery, Hudson, N.Y. had been renominated to the Eighty-sixth Congress; died in SIMPSON, Milward Lee (father of Alan Kooi Simpson), aPittsfield, Ill., October 26, 1958; interment in Carroilton City Senator from Wyoming; born in Jackson, Teton County, Cemetery, Carroilton, Ill. Wyo., November 12, 1897; attended the public schools of Wood River, Meeteetse, and Cody; graduated from the Uni- SIMS, Alexander Dromgoole (nephew of George Coke versity of Wyoming at Laramie in 1921; attended HarvardDromgoole), a Representative from South Carolina; born University Law School 1921-1925; during the First Worldnear Randals Ordinary, Brunswick County, Va.,June 12, War served as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, United1803; attended the rural schools of his native county and at States Army; admitted to the bar in 1926 and practiced lawthe age of sixteen entered the University of North Carolina in Cody, Wyo., until 1955; member, State house of represent- at Chapel Hill; was graduated from Union College, Schenec- atives 1926-1927; Governor of Wyoming 1955-1959; resumedtady, N.Y., in 1823; read law with General Dromgoole in law practice in 1959; appointed member of the board ofBrunswick County, Va., and later was admitted to practice; trustees of University of Wyoming in 1939 and served asmoved to South Carolina in 1826 and settled in Darlington; president 1943-1954; member of the National Association ofassumed charge of Darlington (S.C.) Academy in 1827; was 1816 Biographical Directory

admitted to the bar of South Carolina in 1829 and practiced1871; moved with his parents to Cooperstown, Griggs in Darlington; also engaged in literary pursuits; member ofCounty, N.Dak., in 1883; attended the public schools and was the State house of representatives 1840-1843; electedas agraduated from Mayville (N.Dak.) State Normal School; su- Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses andperintendent of schools of Cooperstown, N.Dak., 1896-1898; served from March 4, 1845, until his death; had been reelect-register of deeds of Griggs County 1899-1905; organized the ed in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; died in Kingstree,First National Bank of Binford and served as cashier 1905- Williamsburg County, S.C., November 22, 1848; interment in 1908; moved to Kenmare, Ward County, in March 1908; en- First Baptist Cemetery, Darlington, Darlington County, S.C.gaged in agricultural pursuits and in the real estate busi- SIMS, Hugo Sheridan, Jr., a Representative from Southness; member of the State house of representatives 1915- Carolina; born in Orangeburg, S.C., October 14, 1921; attend-1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the ed the public schools; graduated from Wofford College, Spar-seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-January 3, tanburg, S.C., in 1941; editor of the Times and Democrat,1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; Re- daily newspaper, Orangeburg, S.C., in 1941 and 1942; enlist-publican member of the Special Mexican Claims Commission ed in the United States Army as a private in April 1942;1936-1939; died in Miami, Fla., September 5, 1943; the re- commissioned a captain in November 1944 and commandedmains were cremated and the ashes deposited under a red Company A, Five Hundred and First Parachute Infantry,flowering hibiscus on the grounds of his home. One Hundred and First Airborne Division; discharged in October 1945 after serving overseas from January 1944 to SINGISER, , a Delegate from the September 1945; awarded the Distinguished Service CrossTerritoryof Idaho; born in Churchtown, Cumberland and Silver Star; graduated from the law school of the Uni-County, Pa., March 15, 1845; attended the common schools; versity of South Carolina at Columbia in 1947; was admittedlearned the art of printing; enlisted in the Union Army as a to the bar August 28, 1947, and commenced the practice ofprivate in Company E, Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Re- law in Orangeburg, S.C.; member of the State house ofrep-serves, June 6, 1861; assistant assessor of internal revenue in resentatives in 1947 and 1948; elected as a Democrat to the1866 and 1867; engaged in mercantile and editorial pursuits; Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951);un-studied law; was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., in successful candidate for renomination in 1950; reentered the1878; employed in the United States Treasury from June 1, Army on January 3, 1951, as a captain and served until1875, to May 31, 1879; appointed receiver of public moneys December 1951; resumed the practice of law from 1951 untilat Oxford, Idaho, in February 1879; engaged in mining in 1965; president of Management and Investment Corporation,Idaho and Utah; secretary of the Territory of Idaho in 1880; 1965-1983; is a resident of Orangeburg, S.C. Acting Governor of Idaho during the winter of 1881-1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March SIMS, Leonard Henly, a Representative from Missouri;4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection born in Burke County, N.C., February 6, 1807; receiveda limited schooling; moved to Rutherford County, Tenn., inin 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; receiver of public 1830 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of themoneys at Mitchell, Dak. (now South Dakota), 1885-1889; Tennessee house of representatives for two terms; settledagain engaged in mining, and resided at Salt Lake City, near Springfield, Green County, Mo., in 1839 and continuedUtah, until his death in Chicago, Ill., on January 23, 1907; agricultural pursuits; member of the Missouri State house ofinterment in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Cum- representatives 1842-1846; elected as a Democrat to theberland County, Pa. Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847);re- SINGLETON, James Washington, a Representative from turned to Rutherford County, Tenn., in 1847 and continuedIllinois; born in Paxton, Frederick County, Va., November farming; moved to Independence County, Ark., in 1859,set-23, 1811; attended Winchester (Va.) Academy; moved to tled on a farm near Batesville, and engaged in cotton raisingMount Sterling, Brown County, Ill., in 1834; studied medi- and farming; served in the Arkansas State senate 1866-1870cine and practiced; studied law; was admitted to the bar in and 1874-1878; died on his plantationnear Batesville, Inde-1838 and commenced practice in Mount Sterling; engaged in pendence County, Ark., February 28, 1886; interment in the family plot on his farm. agricultural pursuits; elected brigadier general of the Illinois Militia in 1844 and took a conspicuous part in the so-called SIMS, Thetus Wilirette, a Representative from Tennessee;Mormon War; delegate to the State constitutional conven- born near Waynesboro, Wayne County, Tenn., April 25,tions in 1847 and 1861; member of the State house of repre- 1852; attended a private school at Martins Mills; moved withsentatives 1850-1854; moved to Quincy, Adams County, Ill., his parents to Savannah, Hardin County, Tenn., in 1862;in 1854; was again a member of the State house of represent- attended Savannah (Tenn.) College andwas graduated fromatives in 1861; was appointed in 1862 by Governor Yates as a the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon,member of the commission to confer with the British and Tenn., in June 1876; was admitted to the bar thesame yearCanadian authorities on the establishment of continuous and commenced practice in Linden, Perry County, Tenn.;water communication between the United States and superintendent of public instruction for Perry County,Canada; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Tenn., 1882-1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifthForty-first Congress; constructed the Quincy & Toledo and and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-the Quincy, Alton & St. Louis Railroads and served as presi- March 3, 1921); chairman, Committeeon War Claims (Sixty-dent of both companies; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- second Congress), Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, merce (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re-1883); returned to his farm near Quincy, Ill., and engaged in nomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumedfarming; moved to Baltimore, Md., about 1891, and died the practice of law in Lexington, Henderson County, Tenn.;there on April 4, 1892; interment in Mount Hebron Ceme- retired from active business pursuits in 1930 and movedtotery, Winchester, Frederick County, Va. Washington, D.C., where he died December 17, 1939; inter- Bibliography: DAB. ment in Rock Creek Cemetery. SINGLETON, Otho Robards, a Representative from Mis- SINCLAIR, James Herbert, a Representative from Northsissippi; born near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., Oc- Dakota; born near St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, October 9,tober 14, 1814; attended the common schools; was graduated Biographies 1817 from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., and from the lawOreg.; elected to the State senate in 1909 and 1911; elected department of the University of Lexington; was admitted toas a Republican to the Sixty-third and tothe seven succeed- the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Canton, Madisoning Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his County, Miss.; member of the State house of representativesresignation effective May 31, 1928; chairman, Committee on in 1846 and 1847; served in the State senate 1848-1854;Public Lands (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses), elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4,Committee on Patents (Seventieth Congress); appointed by 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection;President Coolidge on April 18, 1928, as a judge of the elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses andUnited States Court of Claims, at Washington, D.C., in served from March 4, 1857, until January 12, 1861, when hewhich capacity he served until his death in Washington, withdrew; Representative from Mississippi in the Confeder-D.C., July 20, 1929; interment in St. Peters Cemetery, The ate Congress 1861-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Dalles, Oreg. fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875- March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in SIPE, , a Representative from Pennsylva- 1886; died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1889; intermentnia; born near Harrisonville, Fulton County, Pa., July 1, in Canton Cemetery, Canton, Madison County, Miss. 1844; attended the public schools, and Cassville Academy, Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pa.; enlisted in the Union SINGLETON, Thomas Day, a Representative from SouthArmy in 1862 and served in Company K, One Hundred and Carolina; born near Kingstree, S.C.; attended the commonForty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; schools; member, State house of representatives, 1826-1833; studied law; was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third Congress andwas discharged for disability the same year; served without having qualified, from March 3, 1833, untiladmitted to the bar in August 1865 and practiced in Hun- his death in Raleigh, N.C., November 25, 1833, while entingdon, Pa.; moved to Indianapolis, lad., in January 1867, to route to Washington, D.C.; interment in Congressional Cem-Pittsburgh, Pa., in December 1868, and continued the prac- etery, Washington, D.C. tice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Con- gress to fill the vacancy caused by thedeath of Alexander K. SINNICKSON, Clement Hall (grandnephew of ThomasCraig; reelected to the Fifty-third Congress and served from Sinnickson [1744-1817]), a Representative from New Jersey;December 5, 1892, to March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate born in Salem, Salem County, N.J., September 16, 1834;for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed attended private schools, and the Polytechnic Institute atthe practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pa., until he retired in Troy, N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, New York,1921; moved to San Diego, Calif., where he died on Septem- in 1855; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 andber 10, 1935; interment in Highwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, commenced the practice of law in Salem, N.J.; during the Civil War served as captain in the Union Army; elected as aPa. Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses SIROVICH, William Irving, a Representative from New (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); resumed the practice of law York; born in York, York County, Pa., March 18, 1882; in Salem; delegate to the Republican National Convention inmoved to New York City with his parents in 1888; attended 1880; appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1896the public schools; was graduated from the College of the and reappointed in 1901 and 1906; died in Salem, N.J., onCity of New York in 1902 and from the College of Physicians July 24, 1919; interment in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York City, in SINNICKSON, Thomas (granduncle of Clement Hall Sin-1906; commenced the practice of medicine in New York City nickson and uncle of Thomas Sinnickson [1786-1873]), a Rep-in 1906; also engaged as a lecturer, editor, and playwright, resentative from New Jersey; born near Salem, Salemseveral of his plays being produced on Broadway; member of County, N.J., December 21, 1744; completed preparatorythe fifth district school board 1906-1926;appointed as a studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served as captain inmember of the commission to inquire into the subject of the Revolutionary Army; held several local offices; memberwidows' pensions and of the State pension commission in of the State general assembly in 1777, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1787,1913; appointed a member of the State charities convention and 1788; elected to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-in 1914; served as superintendent of PeoplesHospital, New March 3, 1791); elected as a Federalist to the Fifth CongressYork City, 1910-1927; appointed commissioner of child wel- (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); died in Salem, N.J., May 15,fare in 1919 and served until 1931; unsuccessful candidate 1817; interment in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery. for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the six succeedingCon- SINNICKSON, Thomas (nephew of Thomas Sinnicksongresses and served from March 4,1927, until his death; [1744-1817]), a Representative from New Jersey; born inchairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-secondthrough Salem, Salem County, N.J., December 13, 1786; completedSeventy-sixth Congresses); president of the Industrial Na- preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits; judge oftional Bank, New York City, 1929-1932; delegate to the In- the court of errors and appeals of New Jersey; member ofterparliamentary Union Congress held at Bucharest, Ruma- the State general assembly; judge of the court of common pleas for twenty years; elected to the Twentieth Congress tonia, in 1931; died in New York City December 17, 1939; fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hedge Thompson andinterment in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Long served from December 1, 1828, to March 3, 1829; died inIsland, N.Y. Salem, Salem County, N.J., February 17, 1873; interment in SISISKY, Norman, a Representative from Virginia; born St. John's Episcopal Cemetery. in Baltimore, Md., June 9, 1927; attended Belview Elementa- SINNOTT, Nicholas John, a Representative from Oregon;ry School, Richmond, Va.; graduated fromJohn Marshall born in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oreg., December 6, 1870;High School, Richmond, 1944; B.S., Virginia Commonwealth attended the public schools and Wasco Independent Acade-University, Richmond, 1949; served in the United States my at The Dalles; was graduated from the University ofNavy, 1945-1946; executive, soft drink bottling industry, Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1892; studied law; was admitted to1949-1982; elected to the Virginia house of delegates, 1974- the bar in 1895 and commenced practice at The Dalles,1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the 1818 Biographical Directory

two succeeding Congresses (January 3,1983-January 3,risburg, Pa., May 23, 1935; interment in East Harrisburg 1989); is a resident of Petersburg, Va. Cemetery. SISK, Bernice Frederic, a Representative from California; SITGREA YES, Charles, a Representative from New born in Montague, Tex., December 14, 1910; at theage of sixJersey; born in Easton, Pa., April 22, 1803; moved with his years moved with his parents to Donley County, Tex.; at-parents to New Jersey in 1806; pursued classical studies; tended the Whitefish School and high school at Abernathystudied law; was admitted to the bar in Easton in 1824 and and Meadow, Tex.; attended Abilene Christian College 1929-commenced practice in Phillipsburg, Warren County, N.J.; 1931; assisted his father in the operation ofa cotton farm;member of the State general assembly 1831--1833; major moved to the San Joaquin Valley of California in 1937 andcommandant in the State militia 1828-1838; member of the was employed in a food processing plant until 1941; servedtown council in 1834 and 1835; served in the State senate as a civilian flight dispatcher at the Sequoia Air Force train- ing field, Visalia, Calif., from 1941 to 1945; employed with1851-1854; president of the Belvidere & Delaware Railroad LeMoss-Smith Tire Co. in Fresno, Calif., 1945-1954; electedCo.; mayor of Phillipsburg, N.J., in 1861 and 1862; president of the National Bank of Phillipsburg 1856-1878; elected as a as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the eleven suc-Democrat tothe Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1979);was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth(March 4, 1865-March 3,1869); was not a candidate for Congress; is a resident of Fresno, Calif. renomination in 1868; engaged in banking and railroading; died in Phillipsburg, N.J., March 17, 1878; interment in SISSON, Frederick James, a Representative from NewSeventh Street Cemetery, Easton, Pa. York; born in Wells Bridge, Otsego County, N.Y., March 31, 1879; attended the public schools at Unadilla, N.Y.;was SITGREAVES, John, a Delegate from North Carolina; graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1904;born in England in 1757; attended Eton College; immigrated principal of Vernon (N.Y.) High School 1904-1910; studiedto the United States and settled in New Bern, N.C.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commencedprac-law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in tice in Utica, N.Y.; sheriff's attorney in 1913 and corporationNew Bern, N.C.; during the Revolutionary War attained the counsel for the city of Utica in 1914; unsuccessful candidaterank of lieutenant, later serving as military aide to General for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and in 1928Caswell; commissioner in charge of confiscated property;as- to the Seventy-first Congress; member of the Whitesborosistant clerk, first State senate of North Carolina in 1777; (N.Y.) Board of Education 1925-1933, servingas presidentclerk of the State senate in 1778 and 1779; Member of the 1926-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third andContinental Congress in 1785; member of the State house of Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937);commons in 1784, 1786, 1787, and 1788, serving as speaker in unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-1787 and 1788; United States district judge for North Caroli- fifth Congress; continued the practice of law in Utica, N.Y.,na from December 20, 1790, until his death in Halifax, N.C., and Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1945; diedinMarch 4, 1802; interment in the Colonial Cemetery. Washington, D.C., October 20, 1949; interment inMount Olivet Cemetery, Whitesboro, N.Y. SITGREAVES, Samuel, a Representative from Pennsylva- nia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1764; pursued clas- SISSON, Thomas Upton, a Representative from Mississip-sical studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Phila- pi; born near McCool, Attala County, Miss., September22, delphia, Pa., September 3,1783, and began practice in 1869; moved with his father to Choctaw County, Miss.;at-Easton, Pa., in 1786; delegate to the State constitutional tended the common schools and the French CampAcademy,convention in 1790; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth and Mississippi; was graduated from Southwestern PresbyterianFifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1795, until his University, Clarkesville, Tenn., in 1889; principal ofCarth-resignation in 1798; one of the managers appointed by the age High School in 1889 and 1890 and of the graded schoolsHouse of Representatives in 1798 to conduct the impeach- of Kosciusko, Attala County, Miss., 1890-1892; studied lawatment proceedings against Senator William Blount; appointed the University of Mississippi at Oxford andwas graduatedUnited States commissioner to Great Britain under the Jay from the law department of Cumberland University,Leba-treaty, regarding British claims, August 11, 1798; burgess of non, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn., inEaston 1804-1807; treasurer of Northampton County 1816- 1894 and commenced practice in Winona, Montgomery1819; resumed the practice of law; president of the Easton County, Miss.; member of the State senate in 1898;districtBank 1815-1827; died in Easton, Pa., April 4, 1827; inter- attorney of the fifth judicial district 1903-1907; electedas ament in Easton Cemetery. Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the six succeedingCon- gresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candi- SITTLER, Edward Lewis, Jr., a Representative from date for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress;diedPennsylvania; born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1923; intermentin OakPa., April 21, 1908; moved with his parents to Uniontown, Hill Cemetery, Winona, Miss. Fayette County, Pa., in August 1908; attended the public schools; A.B., Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1930; SITES, Frank Crawford, a Representative from Pennsyl-salesman for an ice cream company 1931-1937; elected to the vania; born in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa.,De- Uniontown School Board in 1934 and served as president of cember 24, 1864; moved with his parents to Harrisburg,Pa., the board in 1936 and 1937; became field underwriter for in 1875; attended the public schools; learnedthe trade ofMutual Life Insurance Co. of New York in 1937; enlisted as watchmaker and jeweler; and afterward engaged in thata private in the United States Army in February 1943 and business at Harrisburg; director on the Harrisburg schoolserved in the Ordnance Department in the European Thea- board 1903-1912; appointed postmaster of Harrisburg Juneter until released to the Inactive Reserve as a captain in 3, 1913, and served until his successorwas appointed JuneAugust 1946; mayor of Uniontown 1948-1951; elected as a 20, 1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth CongressRepublican to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951- (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidateforJanuary 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; returnedto1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; resumed insurance busi- Harrisburg and engaged in the bond business; died in Har-ness; served as Republican State committeeman for Fayette Biographies 1819

County, 1960-1972; minority Fayette County Commissioner,manufacturing enterprises; president of the Citizens Bank 1968-1971; resided in Uniontown, Pa., until his death infrom 1893 until his death; president and member of the city Pittsburgh, Pa., December 26, 1978; interment in Sylvanschool board 1885-1904; member of the Republican State Heights Cemetery, Uniontown, Pa. central committee 1900-1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from SKAGGS, David Evans, a Representative from Colorado;March 4, 1901, until his death in Shelby, Richland County, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1943; B.A., WesleyanOhio, January 9, 1904; chairman, Committee on Patents University, Middletown, Conn., 1964; LL.B., Yale University(Fifty-eighth Congress); interment in Oakland Cemetery. Law School, 1967; served in U.S. Marine Corps, 1963-1965; major, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 1965-1968; admitted to SKINNER, Charles Rufus, a Representative from New the New York State bar in 1968 and the Colorado State barYork; born in Union Square, Oswego County, N.Y., August in 1971; practiced law in Boulder, Cob.; aide to U.S. Repre-4, 1844; attended the common schools and Clinton Liberal sentative Timothy Wirth, 1975-1977; served in ColoradoInstitute; was graduated from Mexico Academy, N.Y., in house of representatives, 1980-1986; elected as a Democrat1866; taught in the common schools; editor of the Watertown to the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3,Daily Times 1870-1874; member of the board of education of 1989); is a resident of Boulder, Cob. Watertown, N.Y., 1875-1884; member of the State assembly 1877-1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Con- SKEEN, Joseph Richard, a Representative from New of Warner Mexico; born in Roswell, Chaves County, N.Mex., June 30,gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 1927; attended public and parochial schools; graduated fromMiller; reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress and served O'Dea High School, Seattle, Wash., 1944; B.S., Texas A&Mfrom November 8, 1881, to March 3, 1885; was not a candi- University, College Station,1950; served in the Uniteddate for renomination in 1884; member of the Board of States Navy, 1945-1946, and United States Air Force Re-Visitors to the United States Military Academy at West serve, 1949-1952; engineer, 1951; businessman, 1952-1960;Point in 1884; editor of the Watertown Daily Republican served in the New Mexico senate, 1960-1970; chairman, New 1885-1886; city editor of the Watertown Daily Times 1886; Mexico Republican Party, 1962-1965; delegate, New Mexicodeputy State superintendent of public instruction 1886-1892; State Republican conventions, 1960-1970; delegate, Republi-supervisor of teachers' training classes and teachers' insti- can National Convention, 1964; won as a write-in candidatetutes in the State department of public instruction 1892- in 1980 election to the United States House of Representa-1895; State superintendent of public instruction 1895-1904; tives after the courts denied him a position on the ballot;elected president of the National Education Association in elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the1897; assistant appraiser of merchandise for the port of New three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3,York 1906-1911; librarian of the State assembly in 1913 and 1989); is a resident of Picacho, N.Mex. 1914 and served as legislative librarian 1915-1925; died in Peiham Manor, N.Y., June 30, 1928; remains were cremated SKELTON, Charles, a Representative from New Jersey;and the ashes interred in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, born in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pa., April 19,N.Y. 1806; moved to Trenton, N.J., about 1829; attended the coun- Bibliography: DAB. try schools and Trenton Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1835; was graduated SKINNER, Harry (brother of Thomas Gregory Skinner), a from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1838 andRepresentative from North Carolina; born near Hertford, commenced the practice of his profession in that city; re-Perquimans County, N.C., May 25, 1855; attended Hertford turned to Trenton, N.J., in 1841; superintendent of theAcademy and was graduated from the law department of the public schools of Trenton in 1848; elected as a Democrat toUniversity of Kentucky at Lexington; was admitted to the the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4,bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Greenville, Pitt 1851-March 3, 1855); member of the common council 1873-County, N.C.; member of the town council in 1878; member 1875; died in Trenton, N.J., May 20, 1879; interment in Cityof Governor Jarvis' staff and served as aide-de-camp 1879- 1886; chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Cemetery, Hamilton Square, Mercer County, N.J. the First Congressional District 1880-1890; chairman of the SKELTON, Isaac Newton, IV, a Representative from Mis- Democratic executive committee of Pitt County 1880-1892; souri; born in Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo., Decembermember of the State house of representatives in 1891 and 20, 1931; attended the public schools of Lexington and Went-1892; chairman of the Populist executive committee of Pitt worth Military Academy in Lexington; graduated from Lex-County 1892-1896; member of the State central committee ington High School, 1949; A.B., 1953, LL.B., 1956, University1892-1896; trustee of the University of North Carolina at of Missouri, Columbia; attended the University of Edin-Chapel Hill 1890-1896; elected as a Populist to the Fifty- burgh, Scotland, 1953; admitted to the Missouri bar in 1957fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, and commenced practice in Lexington; served as Lafayette1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the County prosecuting attorney, 1957-1960; special assistantFifty-sixth Congress; United States district attorney for the State attorney general, 1961-1963; served in Missouri Stateeastern district of North Carolina 1902-19 10; resumed the senate, 1971-1977; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifthpractice of his profession in Greenville, N.C.; died in Green- and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-ville, N.C., May 19, 1929; interment in Cherry Hill Ceme- January 3, 1989); is a resident of Lexington, Mo. tery. Bibliography: DAB. SKILES, William Woodburn, a Representative from Ohio; born in Stoughstown, Cumberland County, Pa., December 11, SKINNER, Richard, a Representative from Vermont; born 1849, moved with his parents to Richiand County, Ohio, inin Litchfield, Conn., May 30, 1778; completed preparatory 1854; attended the district schools; taught school for severalstudies and was graduated from Litchfield Law School; was years; was graduated from Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in in 1876; studied law; was admitted to the bar July 24, 1878,Manchester, Vt.; State's attorney for Bennington County and commenced the practice of his profession in Shelby,1801-1813 and 1819; judge of probate for the Manchester Ohio; interested as a stockholder and director in variousdistrict 1806-1813; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth 1820 Biographical Directory

Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); unsuccessful candi-18, 1915; attended the public schools in Charleston, W.Va., date for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress;re-and Virginia Military Institute at Lexington; member of sumed the practice of law; assistant judge of the Statesu-Kanawha County Court 1948-1952; Kanawha County asses- preme court in 1815 and 1816; declined the office of chiefsor 1952-1958; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and justice in 1817; member of the State house of representativesto the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, in 1815 and 1818, serving as speaker in the latteryear;1959, until his death March 17, 1980, in Alexandria, Va.; Governor of Vermont 1820-1823; chief justice of thesupremeinterment in Cunningham Memorial Park, St.Albans, court of Vermont from 1823 until 1828, when he retired;W.Va. interested in public education and served as president of the northeastern branch of the American Educational Society; SLADE, Charles, a Representative from Illinois; born in trustee of Middlebury College; died in Manchester, Benning-England; immigrated to the United States with his parents, ton County, Vt., May 23, 1833; interment in Deliwood Ceme-who settled in Alexandria, Va.; attended the public schools; tery. moved to Carlyle, St. Clair County, Ill.; engaged in mercan- SKINNER, Thomas Gregory (brother of Harry Skinner),atile pursuits; held several local offices; member of the State Representative from North Carolina; born near Hertford,house of representatives in 1820 and 1826; elected as a Jack- Perquimans County, N.C., January 22, 1842; attended pri-sonian to the Twenty-third Congress and served from March vate schools, Friends Academy, Belvidere, N.C., Homers4, 1833, until his death near Vincennes, md., July 26, 1834. Military School, Oxford, N.C., and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; entered the Confederate Army in SLADE, William, a Representative from Vermont; born in May 1861 and served with the First Regiment, North Caroli-Cornwall, Vt., May 9, 1786; attended the public schools, and na Volunteers, until the close of the Civil War, attaining thewas graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1807; stud- rank of lieutenant; studied law; was admitted to the bar inied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced 1868 and commenced practice in Hertford, N.C.; electedas apractice in Middlebury; engaged in editorial work; estab- Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress on November 20,lished and was the editor of the Columbian Patriot 1814- 1883, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Walter F.1816; secretary of state of Vermont 1815-1822; judge of the Pool; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress and served fromAddison County Court; clerk in the Department of State, November 20, 1883, to March 3, 1887; again elected to theWashington, D.C., 1823-1829; elected as an Anti-Masonic Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); declinedcandidate to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy to be a candidate for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-caused by the death of Rollin C. Mallary; reelected as an second Congress; resumed the practice of his profession inAnti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third and Twenty- Hertford, N.C.; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- fourth Congresses and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth tion in 1892 and 1904; member of the State senate in 1899through Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from No- and 1900; died in Baltimore, Md., on December 22, 1907;vember 1, 1831, to March 3, 1843; reporter of decisions of the interment in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hertford, N.C. State supreme court in 1843 and 1844; Governor of Vermont SKINNER, Thomson Joseph, a Representative from Mas-1844-1846; corresponding secretary of the Board of National sachusetts; born in Colchester, Conn., May 24, 1752; complet-Popular Education 1846-1859; died in Middlebury, Addison ed preparatory studies; moved to Massachusetts; member ofCounty, Vt., on January 18, 1859; interment in West Ceme- the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1781, 1785,tery. 1789, 1800, and 1801; served in the State senate 1786-1788, Bibliography: DAB. 1790-1797, 1802, and 1803; delegate to the State ratification SLATER, James Harvey, a Representative and a Senator convention in 1788; judge of the court of common pleasfrom Oregon; born near Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., 1788-1807; State treasurer in 1806 and 1807; electedas aDecember 28, 1826; attended the common schools; moved to Republican to the Fourth Congress to fill thevacancy causedCalifornia in 1849; settled in Corvallis, Oreg., in 1850; stud- by the resignation of Theodore Sedgwick; reelected to theied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854; clerk of the district Fifth Congress and served from January 27, 1797, to Marchcourt of the Territory of Oregon for Benton County 1853- 3, 1799; elected to the Eighth Congress and served from1856; member, Territorial assembly 1857-1858; member, March 4, 1803, to August 10, 1804, when he resigned; died inState house of representatives 1859; published the Oregon Boston, Mass., on January 20, 1809. Weekly Union at Corvallis 1859-1861; district attorney for SKUBITZ, Joe, a Representative from Kansas; born inthe fifth judicial district of Oregon in 1868; presidential Frontenac, Crawford County, Kans., May 6, 1906; attendedelector on the Democratic ticket in 1868; elected as a Demo- grade school in Ringo, Kans., and high schools in Girard andcrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, Frontenac, Kans.; Kansas State College, Pittsburgh, Kans.,1873); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and B.S., 1929 and M.S., 1934; attended law school at Washburnserved from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885; resumed the University, Topeka, Kans., in 1938, and graduated from thepractice of law in La Grande, Oreg.; member of the State law school of George Washington University, Washington,railroad commission 1889-1891; died in La Grande, Oreg., D.C., LL.B., 1944; was admitted to the bar in 1944 andcom-January 28, 1899; interment in Masonic Cemetery. menced practice in Kansas and the District of Columbia; administrative assistant to Senator Clyde M. Reed, 1939- SLATTERY, JamesCharles,a Representative from 1949; and Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel, 1949-1962; delegate, Kansas; born in Good Intent, Atchison County, Kans., Republican National Convention, 1960; electedas a Republi-August 4, 1948; attended public schools in Atchison, Kans.; can to the Eighty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Con-attended the Netherlands School of International Business gresses and served from January 3, 1963, until his resigna-and Economics, 1969; B.S., Washburn University, Topeka, tion December 31, 1978; was not a candidate for reelection inKans., 1970; J.D., Washburn University Law School, Topeka, 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Wichita,1974; realtor; admitted to the Kansas bar, 1975 and com- Kans. menced practice in Topeka; elected to the Kansas house of representatives, 1972-1978; elected as a Democrat to the SLACK, John Mark, Jr., a Representative from West Vir-Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu- ginia; born in Charleston, Kanawha County, W.Va., Marchary 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Topeka, Kans. 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SLATTERY, James Michael, a Senator from Illinois; bornhouse of representatives in 1892; declined to be a candidate in Chicago, Ill., July 29, 1878; attended the parochial schoolsfor renomination; engaged in agricultural pursuits and and St. Ignatius College, Chicago, Ill.; employed as a secre- mining; appointed by Andrew Carnegie as one of the origi- tary with the building departments of the city of Chicago innal trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International 1905; graduated from Illinois College of Law at Chicago inPeace in October 1910; president of the American Peace 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedSociety for several years; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- practice in Chicago, Ill.; member of the faculty, Illinois Col- fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897- lege of Law 1909-1912; superintendent of public service,March 3, 1919); declined renomination in 1918; managed an Cook County, Ill., 19 10-1912; secretary of Webster College oforchard in Virginia, a ranch in Texas, and mines in Mexico; Law, Chicago, Ill., 1912-1914; counsel for the Lincoln Parkdied in San Antonio, Tex., February 24, 1924; interment in Commission 1933-1934 and for the Chicago Park DistrictMission Park Cemetery. 1934-1936; chairman, Illinois Commerce Commission 1936- Bibliography: Pohi, James W. "Slayden's Defeat: A Texas Congressman 1939; appointed as a Democrat to the United States SenateLoses Bid as Wilson's Secretary of War." Military History of Texas and to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Hamilton the Southwest 10 (1912): 43-56. Lewis and served from April 14, 1939, to November 21, 1940, when a duly elected successor qualified; was an unsuccessful SLAYMAKER, Amos, a Representative from Pennsylva- candidate for election to fill the vacancy; resumed the prac-nia; born in London Lands, Lancaster County, Pa., on March tice of law in Chicago, Ill.; died at his summer home at Lake11, 1755; received a limited schooling; engaged in agricultur- Geneva, Wis., August 28, 1948; interment in Calvary Ceme-al pursuits; built and operated a hotel on the Lancaster and tery, Evanston, Ill. Philadelphia pike; during the Revolutionary War served as an ensign in the company of Capt. John Slaymaker; member SLAUGHTER, D. French, Jr., a Representative from Vir-of an association formed for the suppression of Tory activi- ginia; born in Culpeper, Va., May 20, 1925; attended publicties in Lancaster County; justice of the peace of Salisbury schools in Culpeper County; attended Virginia Military Insti-Township; county commissioner 1806-1810; served in the tute and received his B.A. from the University of Virginia;State senate in 1810 and 1811; elected as a Federalist to the LL.B., University of Virginia, 1953; served in the U.S. ArmyThirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- from 1943 to 1947; awarded the Purple Heart; was admittednation of James Whitehill and served from October 11, 1814, to the bar and practiced law in Culpeper; member, board ofto March 3, 1815; died in Salisbury, Lancaster County, Pa., visitors, University of Virginia, 1978-1982, and served asJune 12, 1837. rector, 1980-1982; aide to the secretary of the army, 1981- 1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and the SLEMONS, William Ferguson, a Representative from Ar- One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3,kansas; born near Dresden, Weakley County, Tenn., March 1989); is a resident of Culpeper, Va. 15, 1830; attended Bethel College; moved to Arkansas in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and SLAUGHTER, Louise M., a Representative from Newpracticed in Monticello, Drew County; member of the Arkan- York; born Louise McIntosh in Harlan County, Ky., Augustsas State convention in 1861; entered the ConfederateArmy 14, 1929; B.S., University of Kentucky, 1951; M.S., samein July 1861 and served as colonel in Price's Cavalry university, 1953; served in Monroe County (N.Y.) legislature,throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice of law; dis- 1976-1979; regional coordinator for New York Department oftrict attorney 1866-1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- State, 1976-1979; cordinator, regional office of New Yorkfourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, lieutenant governor, 1979-1982; member, New York State 1875-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination assembly, 1982-1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun-in 1880; resumed the practice of his profession in Monticello, dredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3,1989); is aArk.; county and probate judge of Drew County 1903-1907; resident of Fairport, N.Y. justice ofthe peace 1908-1918; died in Monticello, Ark., De- SLAUGHTER, Roger Caidwell, a Representative fromcember 10, 1918; interment in Union Ridge Cemetery, near Missouri; born near Odessa, Lafayette County, Mo., July 17,Monticello, Ark. 1905; attended the public schools at Independence, Mo.; A.B., Princeton University, 1928; read law in the office of Hon. SLEMP, Campbell (father of Campbell Bascom Slemp), a Henry L. Jost, Kansas City, Mo., and attended the KansasRepresentative from Virginia; born near Turkey Cove, Lee City School of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1932 andCounty, Va., December 2, 1839; attended a private school commenced practice in Kansas City; served as assistant pros-and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.; interested in ecutor of Jackson County, Mo., 1932-1936; member of theagricultural pursuits and also engaged in the real estate board of directors of the school district of Kansas City, Mo.,business; during the Civil War served in the Confederate 1940-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth andArmy as captain and lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-first to the Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, Virginia Battalion and colonel of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946 tocomposed of Infantry and Cavalry; member of the house of the Eightieth Congress; member, State Democratic Commit-delegates 1879-1882; unsuccessful Republican candidate for tee, 1960-1962; resumed the practice of law in Kansas City,Lieutenant Governor in 1889; elected as a Republican to the Mo.; appointed magistrate judge of Lafayette County in 1972;Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses and served died, June 2, 1974, on his farm near Odessa, Mo.; intermentfrom March 4, 1903, until his death in Big Stone Gap, Wise in Greenton Cemetery, Odessa, Mo. County, Va., October 13, 1907; interment in the family ceme- tery in Lee County, Va. SLAYDEN, James Luther (uncle of Maury Maverick), a Representative from Texas; born inMayfield, Graves SLEMP, Campbell Bascom (son of ), a County, Ky., June 1, 1853; upon the death of his father inRepresentative from Virginia; born at Turkey Cove, Lee 1869 moved with his mother to New Orleans, La.; attendedCounty, Va., September 4, 1870; attended the public schools; the common schools and Washington and Lee University,was graduated from Virginia Military Institute atLexington Lexington, Va.; moved to San Antonio, Tex., in 1876; becamein 1891; studied law in the University of Virginia at Char- a cotton merchant and ranchman; member of the Statelottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced 1822 Biographical Directory

practice at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.; commandant of(W.Va.) College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 cadets at Marion Military Institute for one year; professor ofand practiced; solicitor of Henry County in 1866; moved to mathematics at Virginia Military Institute for several years,Savannah, Ga.; deputy collector of customs in 1867; resigned, resigning in 1901 to enter professional and business life atand resumed the practice of law; assistant United States Big Stone Gap, Va.; was chairman of the Republican Statedistrict attorney in 1869; later appointed district attorney committee from 1905 to1918, when he was elected aand served until 1872, when he resigned, acting at the same member of the Republican National Committee; was electedtime as local counsel for the United States in regard to the as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancycotton claims and also with the mixed commission on British caused by the death of his father, Campbell Slemp;wasand American claims; successfully contested as a Republican reelected to the Sixty-first and to the six succeeding Con-the election of Morgan Rawls to the Forty-third Congress gresses and served from December 17, 1907, to March 3,and served from March 24, 1874, to March 3, 1875; moved to 1923; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1922;was appointed secretary to President Calvin Coolidge on Septem- New Mexico in 1881 and settled in Silver City, where he ber 4, 1923, and served until March 4, 1925, when he re-died September 22, 1883; interment in the City Cemetery. signed; continued the practice of his profession in Big Stone SLOAN, Andrew Scott (brother of Ithamar Conkey Sloan), Gap, Va., and in Washington, D.C., until 1932, when hea Representative from Wisconsin; born in Morrisville, Madi- retired and resided at Big Stone Gap, Va.; died August 7,son County, N.Y., June 12, 1820; attended the public schools 1943, in Knoxville, Tenn.; interment in the family cemetery and Morrisville Academy; studied law; was admitted to the at Turkey Cove, Va. bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Morrisville, N.Y.; Bibliography: DAB; Hathorn, Guy B. "The Political Career of C. Bascom clerk of the Madison County Court 1847-1849; moved to Slemp." Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1950. Wisconsin in 1854 and settled at Beaver Dam, Dodge County, SLIDELL, John, a Representative and a Senator fromwhere he continued the practice of law; member of the State Louisiana; born in New York City in 1793; graduated fromassembly in 1857; mayor of Beaver Dam in 1857, 1858, and Columbia College (later Columbia University), New Yorkagain in 1879; appointed in 1858 as judge of the circuit court City, in 1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Newfor the third district; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- York City; practiced law and engaged in business; moved toseventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was not a New Orleans around 1819 and engaged in law and business;candidate for renomination in 1862; resumed the practice of unsuccessful candidate for election in 1828 to the Twenty-law; unsuccessful candidate of the Union Party for election first Congress; United States district attorney 1829-1833;un-in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; clerk of the United successful candidate for the United States Senate in 1834,States District Court for Wisconsin 1864-1866; judge of the 1836, and 1848; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighthDodge County Court 1868-1874; attorney general of Wiscon- and Twenty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4,sin 1874-1878; judge of the circuit court for the thirteenth 1843, until his resignation November 10, 1845; chairman,judicial district from January 1882 until his death; died at Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-eighth Con- Beaver Dam, Wis., on April 8, 1895; interment in Oakwood gress); appointed Minister to Mexico in 1845, but thatgov-Cemetery. ernment refused to accept him; offered the mission to Cen- tral America in 1853, but declined; electedas a Democrat to SLOAN, Charles Henry, a Representative from Nebraska; the United States Senate in 1853 to fill the vacancy causedborn in Monticello, Jones County, Iowa, May 2, 1863; attend- by the resignation of Pierre Soule; was reelected, and serveded the public schools and was graduated from the Iowa State from December 5, 1853, to February 4, 1861, when here-Agricultural College at Ames in 1884; moved to Fairmont, signed; chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-Nebr., the same year; superintendent of the city schools fourth Congress); on November 8, 1861, while ona diplomat-1884-1887; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and ic mission from the Confederate States to England andcommenced practice in Fairmont; moved to Geneva, Fill- France, was taken from the British mail steamer Trent,more County, in 1891 and continued the practice of law; sailing from Havana to England, and confined in Fortdirector of the Geneva State Bank; prosecuting attorney of Warren, Boston Harbor; was later released and sailed forFillmore County 1890-1894; member of the State senate Paris; died in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, July 9, 1871;1894-1896; chairman of the Republican State convention in interment in the private cemetery of the Saint-Roman1903; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the family at Villejuif, near Paris, France, in the Départementthree succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); de la Seine. did not seek renomination in 1918; elected to the Seventy- Bibliography: DAB; Diket, Albert L. Senator and the Com- first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful munity He Represented in Washington, 1853-1861. Washington, D.C.: Uni- for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; re- versity Press of America, 1982; Sears, Louis. John Slidell. Durham: Duke University Press, 1925. sumed the practice of law in Geneva, Nebr., and also en- gaged in banking; died in Geneva, Nebr., on June 2, 1946; SLINGERLAND, John I., a Representative from Newinterment in Geneva Cemetery. York; born in Jerusalem, Albany County, N.Y., March 1, 1804; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural SLOAN, Ithamar Conkey (brother of Andrew Scott Sloan), pursuits; member of the State assembly in 1843 and 1844;a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Morrisville, Madi- elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-son County, N.Y., May 9,1822; attended the common March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination inschools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Oneida 1848; resumed agricultural pursuits; againa member of theCounty, N.Y. in 1848 and commenced practice; moved to State assembly, in 1860 and 1861; died in Slingerland, N.Y.,Janesville, Wis., in 1854 and resumed the practice of his October 26, 1861; interment in the Slingerland familymau-profession; district attorney of Rock County, Wis., 1858-1862; soleum. elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty- ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); moved to SLOAN, Andrew, a Representative from Georgia; born inMadison, Wis., in 1875; dean of the law department of the McDonough, Henry County, Ga., June 10, 1845; attended theUniversity of Wisconsin; special counsel for the State of common schools, Marshall College, Griffin, Ga., and BethanyWisconsin 1874-1879 in the Granger law cases; died in Biographies 1823

Janesville, Rock County, Wis., December 24, 1898; intermentpleas and quarter sessions of the county; register of deeds in Oak Hill Cemetery. 1802-1808; elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth and Six- teenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his SLOAN, James, a Representative from New Jersey; borndeath in Washington, D.C., December 20, 1820; interment in in that State; engaged in agricultural pursuits; assessor ofCongressional Cemetery. Newton township for several years; held several other local offices; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and SLOSS, Joseph Humphrey, a Representative from Ala- Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1809); was not abama; born in Somerville, Ala., October 12, 1826; completed candidate for renomination; died in Elmira, N.Y., Septemberpreparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar 7, 1811. and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; moved to Ed- wardsville, Ill., in 1849; member of the Illinois State house of SLOANE, John, a Representative from Ohio; born inrepresentatives in 1858 and 1859; returned to Alabama; York, Pa., in 1779; moved to Ohio in early youth; completedduring the Civil War served in the Confederate Army; preparatory studies; member of the State house of represent- atives 1803-1805 and in 1807; colonel of militia in the War ofmayor of Tuscumbia, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the 1812; United States receiver of public moneys at Canton,Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 187 1- Ohio, 1808-1816 and at Wooster 1816-1819; elected to theMarch 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 Sixteenth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,to the Forty-fourth Congress; appointed United States mar- 1819-March 3,1829); chairman, Committee on Electionsshal for the northern district of Alabama February 10, 1877, (Seventeenth through Twentieth Congresses);appointedand served until September 6, 1882; clerk of the Federal clerk of the court of common pleas of Wayne County in 1831court at Huntsville, Ala.; engaged in agricultural pursuits and served several years; secretary of state of Ohio 1841-near Huntsville; moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he died 1844; Treasurer of the United States from November 27,January 27, 1911; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Hunts- 1850, to April 6, 1853; died in Wooster, Ohio, May 15, 1856;ville, Ala. interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. SMALL, Frank, Jr., a Representative from Maryland; SLOANE, Jonathan, a Representative from Ohio; born inborn on a farm in Temple Hills, Prince Georges County, Peiham, Mass., in November 1785; completed preparatoryMd., July 15, 1896; attended the public schools and received studies and was graduated from Williams College, Williams-technical education at the National Automobile College in town, Mass., in 1812; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1914 and 1915; operated several farms; engaged in banking 1816 and commenced practice in Ravenna, Ohio; was alsoand the automobile business 1923-1957; served in the State general agent of the Tappan family for the sale of lands;house of delegates in 1927 and 1928; member of the board of prosecuting attorney of Portage County in 1819; member ofcounty commissioners 1930-1934; member of the Republican the State house of representatives 1820-1822; served in theState Central committee 1934-1942, serving as chairman for State senate in 1826 and 1827; elected as an Anti-Masonicfour years; member of the Maryland Racing Commission candidate to the Twenty-third Congress and reelected as a1937-1952, serving as chairman in 1951 and 1952; president Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-Marchof Clinton Bank, Clinton, Md., 1928-1972; delegate, Republi- 3, 1837); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836;can Conventions, 1940, 1944, and 1956; elected as aRepubli- retired from business activities on account of ill health; diedcan to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3,1953-January in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, April 25, 1854; interment3,1955); was unsuccessful for reelection in 1954 to the in Evergreen Cemetery. Eighty-fourth Congress; engaged in real estate, 1954-1973; Maryland Commissioner of Motor Vehicles from April 29, SLOCUM, Henry Warner, a Representative from New1955, to April 15, 1957; vice president of the Equitable Trust York; born in Delphi, Onondaga County, N.Y., September 24,Co. of Baltimore; died in Washington, D.C., October 24, 1973; 1827; was graduated from the United States Military Acade- interment in Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton, Md. my at West Point and commissioned as a second lieutenant, First Artillery, July 1, 1852; served in the Seminole War and SMALL, John Humphrey, a Representative from North was promoted to first lieutenant March 3, 1855; resigned hisCarolina;bornin Washington, Beaufort County,N.C., commission October 31, 1856; settled in Syracuse, N.Y.; stud- August 29, 1858; attended private schools and Trinity Col- ied law while in the Army; was admitted to the bar in 1858lege (later Duke University), Durham, N.C.; taught school and practiced in Syracuse, N.Y.; member of the State assem-1876-1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and bly in 1859; entered the Union Army as colonel of thecommenced practice in Washington, N.C.; elected reading Twenty-eighth New York Volunteers in May 1861; promotedclerk of the State senate in 1881; superintendent of public to major general and resigned his commission September 28,instruction of Beaufort County, N.C., in 1881; solicitor of the 1865, and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he continued theinferior court of Beaufort County 1882-1885; editor of the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for secre-Washington Gazette 1883-1886; attorney of the Board of tary of state of New York; elected as a Democrat to theCommissioners of Beaufort County 1888-1896; member of Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4,1869-the city council 1887-1890; mayor of Washington, N.C., in March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination in1889 and 1890; delegate to all Democratic State conventions 1872; resumed the practice of law; was appointed presidentfrom 1889 to 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth of the department of city works in 1876; elected as a Repre-and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March sentative at Large from New York to the Forty-eighth Con-3, 1921); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Sixty- gress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); died in Brooklyn, N.Y., fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination April 14, 1894; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. in 1920; resumed the practice of his profession in Washing- Bibliography: DAB. ton, D.C., until 1931; returned to Washington, N.C., where he died on July 13, 1946; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. SLOCUMB, Jesse, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Spring Bank, Dobbs (later Wayne) County, N.C., in SMALL, William Bradbury, a Representative from New 1780; completed preparatory studies; engaged in agriculturalHampshire; born in Limington, Maine, May 17, 1817; moved pursuits; held several local offices; member of the court ofwith his parents to Ossipee, N.H.; attended the public 1824 Biographical Directory

schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; studiedgress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commencedprac-renomination in 1874; appointed collector of internal reve- tice in Newmarket, N.H.; solicitor of Rockingham County,nue for the northern district of New York and served from N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 1865;March 31, 1883, until November 9,1885; member of the served in the State senate in 1870; elected as a RepublicanRepublican State central committee for many years; died in to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);Cambridge, Washington County, N.Y., September 17, 1903; was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed theinterment in Woodland Cemetery. practice of law and also engaged in banking; died in New- market, N.H., April 7, 1878; interment in Riverside Ceme- SMATHERS, George Armistead (nephew of William H. tery. Smathers), a Representative and a Senator from Florida; born in Atlantic City, N.J., November 14, 1913; moved to SMALLS, Robert, a Representative from South Carolina;Miami, Fla., in 1919; attended the public schools of Dade born in Beaufort, S.C., April 5, 1839; moved to Charleston,County, Fla.; graduated from the University of Florida at S.C., in 1851; appointed pilot in the United States Navy andGainesville in 1936 and from its law school in 1938; was served throughout the Civil War; member of the Statecon- stitutional convention in 1868; served in the State house ofadmitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in representatives, 1868-1870; member of the State senateMiami, Fla.; assistant United States district attorney 1940- 1870-1874; delegate to the Republican National Convention1942; during World War II served in the United States in 1872 and 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourthMarine Corps from May 1942 until discharged as a major in and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879);October 1945; special assistant to the U.S. attorney general unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-from October 1945 until his resignation in January 1946 to sixth Congress; successfully contested the election of Georgebegin his campaign for Representative in Congress; elected D. Tiliman to the Forty-seventh Congress and served fromas a Democrat to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses July 19, 1882, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1951); was not a candidate for reelection in 1882; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress torenomination in 1950; elected to the United States Senate in fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edmund W.M.1950; reelected in 1956 and again in 1962, and served from Mackey; reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress and servedJanuary 3, 1951, until January 3, 1969; was not a candidate from March 18, 1884, to March 3, 1887; unsuccessful forfor reelection in 1968; chairman, Special Committee on reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; collector of theAging (Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses), Select port of Beaufort, S.C., 1897-1913; died in Beaufort, S.C., Feb-Committee on Small Business (Ninetieth Congress); resumed ruary 22, 1915; interment in the Tabernacle Baptist Churchthe practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Miami, Fla.; is Cemetery. a resident of Washington, D.C., and Miami, Fla. Bibliography: DAB; Uya, Okun Edet. From to Political Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. SMATHERS, WilliamHowell(uncleof GeorgeA. Smathers), a Senator from New Jersey; born on a plantation SMART, Ephraim Knight, a Representative from Maine;near Waynesville, Haywood County, N.C., January 7, 1891; born in Prospect (now Searsport), Maine, September 3, 1813;attended the public schools and Washington and Lee Univer- attended the common schools; completed preparatory studiessity, Lexington, Va.; graduated from the law department of under private tutors and attended Maine Wesleyan Semi-the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1911; was nary at Readfield; studied law; was admitted to the bar inadmitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in 1838 and commenced practice in Camden, Knox County,Atlantic City, N.J.; judge of the common pleas court of At- Maine; appointed postmaster of Camden in 1838; member oflantic City, N.J., 1922-1932; member of the State supreme the State senate in 1841 and 1842; appointed aide-de-campcourt commission since 1923; special master in chancery in with the rank of lieutenant colonel on the staff of Governor1924; first assistant attorney general of New Jersey 1934- Fairfield in 1842; moved to Missouri in 1843 and continued1936; elected to the State senate in 1935; elected as a Demo- the practice of his profession; returned to Camden, Maine,crat to the United States Senate for the term beginning the following year and resumed the practice of law; againJanuary 3, 1937, but was not sworn in until April 15, 1937, appointed postmaster of Camden in 1845; elected as a Demo-being a member of the State senate until that time, and crat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,served until January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for re- 1849); elected to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-election in 1942; engaged in the practice of law in Atlantic March 3, 1853); collector of customs at Belfast 1853-1858;City, N.J., until his retirement; returned to Waynesville, established the Maine Free Press in 1854, and servedasN.C., where he resided until his death in Asheville, N.C., editor for three years; member of the State house ofrepre-September 24, 1955; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, sentatives in 1858; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Maine in 1860; again served in the State senate in 1862;Waynesville, N.C. moved to Biddeford, York County, Maine, in 1869 and estab- SMELT, Dennis, a Representative from Georgia; born lished the Maine Democrat; died in Camden, Maine, Septem-near Savannah, Ga., about 1750; received a limited school- ber 29, 1872; interment in the Mountain Street Cemetery.ing; participated in the Revolutionary War; elected as a SMART, James Stevenson, a Representative from NewRepublican to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused York; born in Baltimore, Md., June 14, 1842; moved with hisby the resignation of Joseph Bryan; reelected to the Tenth parents to Coila, Washington County, N.Y., in 1849; attendedand Eleventh Congresses and served from September 1, Cambridge (N.Y.) Academy and Union College, Schenectady, 1806, to March 3, 1811; was not a candidate for reelection to N.Y., and was graduated from Jefferson College, Canons-the Twelfth Congress. burg, Pa., in 1863; entered the Union Army in January 1864 SMILIE, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born as first lieutenant in the Sixteenth Regiment of New Yorkin Ireland in 1741; immigrated to the United States and Heavy Artillery; promoted to a captaincy, andwas honor-settled in Pennsylvania in 1760; attended the public schools; ably discharged in August 1865; engaged innewspaper workserved in the Revolutionary War; moved to Fayette, Pa., in at Cambridge, N.Y., in 1865 and published the Washington1780; was a member of the State house of representatives County Post; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-1784-1786; member of the State constitutional convention in Biographies 1825

1790; served in the State senate from 1790 to 1793, when heheld several local offices; member of the State assembly in resigned; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-1840; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty- March 3, 1795); elected as a Republican to the Sixth and toninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); moved to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,Milwaukee, Wis., in 1849 and resumed the practice of law; 1799, until his death; had been reelected to the Thirteenthjustice of the peace 1851-1859; judge of the Milwaukee Congress, but died in Washington, D.C., December 30, 1812,County Court 1859-1870; died in Milwaukee, Wis., August before the close of the Twelfth Congress; interment in the27, 1870; interment in Forest Home Cemetery. Congressional Cemetery. SMITH, Albert Lee, Jr., a Representative from Alabama; SMITH, Abraham Herr, a Representative from Pennsylva-born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., August 31, nia; born near Millersville, Manor Township, in Lancaster1931; attended the public schools; B.S., Auburn (Ala.) Uni- County, Pa., March 7, 1815; attended Professor Beck's Acade-versity, 1954; served in the United States Navy, Lt. (jg.), my at Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa.; was graduated from1954-1956; life insurance underwriter; delegate, Alabama Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1840; studied law; wasState Republican convention, 1968; delegate, Republican Na- admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice intional Conventions, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1984; unsuccessful Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.; member of the Statecandidate for election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; house of representatives in 1843 and 1844; served in theelected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Congress (Jan- State senate in 1845; elected as a Republican to the Forty-uary 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); unsuccessfulcandidate for third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; unsuccess- March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Forty-ful candidate in 1984 for the United States Senate; appoint- seventh Congress); unsuccessful for renomination in 1884;ed by President Reagan to the Federal Council on the Aging resumed the practice of law; died in Lancaster, Pa., Febru-in 1985; is a resident of Birmingham, Ala. ary 16, 1894; interment in Woodward Hill Cemetery. SMITH, Arthur, a Representative from Virginia; born at SMITH, Addison Taylor, a Representative from Idaho;"Windsor Castle," near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, born near Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, September 5,Va., November 15, 1785; attended an academy at Smithfield, 1862; attended the public schools of Cambridge, Ohio; wasVa., and was graduated from the College of William and graduated from the Cambridge High School in 1882, fromMary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the the Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1883, from the law department of George Washington University,bar in 1808 and commenced practice in Smithfield, Va.; also Washington, D.C., in 1895, and from the National Lawengaged in agricultural pursuits; served as colonel in the School, Washington, D.C., in 1896; was admitted to the Dis- War of 1812; member of the State house of delegates 1818- trict of Columbia bar in 1899 and to the Idaho bar in 1905;1820; elected to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses secretary to Senator George Laird Shoup 1891-1901 and to(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); was not a candidate for Senator Weldon B. Heyburn 1903-1912; secretary to the Re-renomination in 1824; resumed the practice of law; member publican State central committee of Idaho 1904-19 11; regis-of the house of delegates 1836-1841; died in Smithfield, Va., ter of the United States land office at Boise, Idaho, in 1907March 30, 1853; interment in the family burying ground on and 1908; member of the Republican National congressionalWindsor Castle estate, near Smithfield, Va. committee 19 17-1927; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- SMITH, Ballard, a Representative from Virginia; born in third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 19 13-Hanover County, Va.; served as lieutenant in the Army March 3,1933); chairman, Committee on Alcohol Liquorduring the Revolutionary War; member of the State house of Traffic (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Commit-delegates 1810-1813; elected as a Republican to the Four- tee on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-teenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815- eighth Congresses), Committee on Irrigation and Reclama-March 3, 1821); again a member of the State house of dele- tion (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuc- cessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-thirdgates 1824-1826, 1836, and 1837. Congress; associate member of the Board of Veterans' Ap- SMITH, Benjamin A., II, a Senator from Massachusetts; peals of the Veterans' Administration from 1934 until hisborn in Gloucester, Essex County, Mass., March 26, 1916; retirement in 1942; director of the Columbia Institution forattended Gloucester public schools and graduated from Gov- the Deaf (now Gallaudet College), Washington, D.C., fromernor Dummer Academy; graduated fromHarvard Universi- 1937 until his death; died in Washington, D.C., July 5, 1956;ty in 1939; during the Second World War served as a lieuten- interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. ant in the United States Navy with service in the Pacific SMITH, Albert, a Representative from Maine; born inTheater 1941-1945; president of Merchants Box Factory, Hanover, Mass., January 3,1793; attended the commonCape Ann Fisheries, Inc., United Fisheries Co., Gloucester schools and was graduated from Brown University, Provi-By-Products, Inc., and Gloucester Community Pier Associa- dence, R.I., in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar andtion, Inc.; mayor of Gloucester, Mass., 1954-1955; appointed commenced practice in Portland, Maine, in 1817; member ofas a Democrat to the United States Senate on December27, the State house of representatives in 1820; was United1960, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John F. States marshal for the district of Maine 1830-1838; electedKennedy and served until November 6, 1962; was not a as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-candidate for election to fill the vacancy in 1962; is a resi- March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840dent of Gloucester, Mass. to the Twenty-seventh Congress; died in Boston, Mass., on SMITH, Bernard, a Representative from New Jersey; born May 29, 1867; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cam- in Morristown, N.J., July 5, 1776; completed preparatory bridge, Mass. studies; collector of customs in 1809 and 1810; postmaster of SMITH, Albert, a Representative from New York, born inNew Brunswick 1810-1819; elected to the Sixteenth Congress Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y., June 22, 1805; completed(March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); did not seek renomination in preparatory studies; moved to Batavia, Genesee County,1820; appointed register of the land office at Little Rock, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced;Ark., in 1821, and settled in that State; secretary to the 1826 Biographical Directory

Governor of Arkansas 1825-1828; appointed by Governor1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty- Izard as subagent of the Quapaw Indians in 1825, and servedsecond Congress in 1890; became engaged in the fire insur- until his death in Little Rock, Ark., July 16, 1835; intermentance business; died in Parkersburg, Wood County, W.Va., in Mount Holly Cemetery. December 7,1899; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. SMITH, Caleb Blood, a Representative from Indiana; born SMITH, Christopher Henry, a Representative from New in Boston, Mass., April 16, 1808; moved with his parents toJersey; born in Rahway, Union County, N.J., March 4, 1953; Ohio in 1814; attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,graduated from St. Mary's High School, Perth Amboy, 1971; 1825-1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Connersville, Fayette County, md.;B.S., Trenton (N.J.) State College, 1975; attended Worcester founded and edited the Indiana Sentinel in 1832; member ofCollege, England, 1974; businessman; executive director, the State house of representatives 1833-1837, 1840, and 1841,New Jersey Right-to-Life Committee, Inc., 1976-1978; legisla- and served as speaker in 1836; unsuccessful candidate fortive agent, New Jersey State legislature, 1979; unsuccessful the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1841; elected as a Whig tocandidate for election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresseselected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the (March 4, 1843-March 3,1849); chairman, Committee onthree succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, Territories (Thirtieth Congress); appointed by President Za-1989); is a resident of Hamilton Township, N.J. chary Taylor a member of the board to investigate claims of SMITH, Clyde Harold (husband American citizens against Mexico; moved to Cincinnati, of Margaret Chase Ohio, and practiced his profession; member of the peaceSmith), a Representative from Maine; born on a farm near convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort toHarmony, Somerset County, Maine, June 9, 1876; moved devise means to prevent the impending war; appointed Sec-with his parents to Hartland, Maine, in 1891; attended the retary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Lincolnrural schools and Hartland (Maine) Academy; taught school; and served from March 5, 1861, to January 1, 1863, when heserved in the State house of representatives 1899-1903 and resigned to become judge of the United States District Court19 19-1923; engaged in the retail clothing and hardware busi- for the District of Indiana, in which capacity he served untilness in 1901; superintendent of schools of Hartland 1903- his death in Indianapolis, Marion County, md., January 7,1906; member of the board of selectmen of Hartland 1904- 1864; interment in the City Cemetery, Connersville, md.1907; moved to Skowhegan, Maine, having been elected sher- Bibliography: DAB; Bochin, Hal W. "Caleb B. Smith's Opposition to the iff of Somerset County and served from 1905 to 1909; en- Mexican War." Indiana Magazine of History69 (June1973):95-114; gaged in the retail sales of automobiles, the hardware and Thomas, Richard J. "Caleb Blood Smith: Whig Orator and Politician-Lin- plumbing business, and the newspaper publishing business coln's Secretary of Interior." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1969. in Skowhegan; later engaged in banking and the real estate SMITH, Charles Bennett, a Representative from Newbusiness; member of the board of selectmen of Skowhegan York; born in Sardinia, Erie County, N.Y., September 14,1914-1932; served in the State senate 1923-1929; chairman 1870; attended the district schools, and was graduated fromof the State highway commission 1928-1932; member of the Arcade Academy in 1886; engaged in agricultural pursuits,Governor's council 1933-1937; elected as a Republican to the subsequently became a railroad telegraph operator, andSeventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from later pursued newspaper work in Buffalo; reporteron theJanuary 3, 1937, until his death in Washington, D.C., April Buffalo Courier 1890-1893; became managing editor of the8,1940; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Hartland, Buffalo Times in 1894; editor of the Buffalo Evening En-Maine. quirer and the Buffalo Morning Courier; appointeda member of the Buffalo Board of School Examiners and SMITH, Daniel, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Staf- served two years as its chairman; elected as a Democrat toford County, Va., October 29, 1748; attended William and the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding CongressesMary College, Williamsburg, Va.; became a surveyor; moved to Augusta County, Va.; deputy surveyor of Augusta County (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committeeon Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second Congress), Committeeon Ex-in 1773; fought in the Indian wars 1774; major of the Wash- penditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-fourthington County militia; high sheriff of Augusta County in Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-fifth Congress);un-1780; commissioned colonel in the Second Battalion and successful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixthfought in several battles of the Revolution; moved to Sumner Congress; engaged in commercial and industrial pursuits inCounty, Tenn., at the close of the war; laid out the town of Buffalo, N.Y.; superintendent of Standards and Purchases,Nashville; member of the North Carolina convention which Albany, N.Y., 'from 1935 until his death in Wilmingtonratified the United States Constitution 1789; appointed by Notch, Essex County, N.Y., May 21, 1939; interment inPresident George Washington secretary of the territory Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, Erie County, N.Y. south of the Ohio River in 1790; member of the constitution- al convention of 1796 to draw up a constitution for the new SMITH, Charles Brooks, a Representative from West Vir-State of Tennessee; made the first map of Tennessee; general ginia; born in Elizabeth, Wirt County, Va. (now West Virgin-of State militia; appointed as a Republican to the United ia), February 24, 1844; attended a private school at Parkers-States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of burg; enlisted on March 1, 1864, in Company I of the FirstAndrew Jackson and served from October 6, 1798, to March West Virginia Cavalry of the Union Army; promoted to3, 1799; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate second lieutenant of the company March 5, 1864, andwasand served from March 4, 1805, to March 31, 1809, when he honorably discharged on July 8, 1865; engaged in themer-resigned; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died at his home, cantile business; recorder of Wood County in 1875; member"Rock Castle," near Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tenn., of the city council of Parkersburg, W.Va., in 1876;mayor of Parkersburg 1878-1880; June 16, 1818; interment in the family burial ground near sheriff and treasurer of Woodhis home. County 1880-1884; delegate at large to the Republican Na- Bibliography: Durham, Walter. Daniel Smith: Frontier Statesman. Galla- tional Convention in 1888; successfully contestedas a Repub- tin, Tenn.: Sumner County Library Board, 1976; Sioussat, St. George, ed. lican the election of James Monroe Jackson to the Fifty-first"The Journal of Daniel Smith."Tennessee Historical Magazine (March Congress and served from February 3, 1890, to March 3, 1915): 40-65. Biographies 1827

SMITH, David Highbaugh, a Representative from Ken- ing; died in Pekin, Ill., April 18, 1914; interment in Lakeside tucky; born near Hammonville, Hart County, Ky., DecemberCemetery. 19, 1854; attended the public schools and the colleges at SMITH, Edward Henry, a Representative from New York; Horse Cave, Leitchfield, and Hartford, KY.; studied law; wasborn in Smithtown, Long Island, Suffolk County, N.Y., May admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in5, 1809; attended private schools; engaged in agricultural Hodgenville, Larue County, Ky.; superintendent of commonpursuits; served as justice of the peace in the township of schools for Larue County in 1878; county attorney for LarueSmithtown 1833-1843, assessor 1840-1843, and supervisor County 1878-1881; member of the State house of representa-1856-1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Con- tives 1881-1883; served in the State senate 1885-1893, and as for president pro tempore 1891-1893; elected as a Democrat togress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate the Fifty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Marchrenomination in 1862; resumed farming in Suffolk County, 4, 1897-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for renomina-N.Y.; died in Smithtown, N.Y., August 7, 1885; interment in tion in 1906; one of the managers appointed by the House ofSt. James' Protestant Episcopal Cemetery, St. James, Long Representatives in 1905 to conduct the impeachment pro-Island, N.Y. ceedings against Charles Swayne, judge of the United States SMITH, Ellison DuRant, a Senator from South Carolina; District Court for the Northern District of Florida; resumedborn in Lynchburg, Sumter (now Lee) County, S.C., August the practice of law; president of the Farmers' National Bank1, 1864; attended the private and public schools of Lynch- of Hodgenville, KY.; died in Hodgenville, Ky., December 17,burg, Stewart's School at Charleston, S.C., and the Universi- 1928; interment in Red Hill Cemetery. ty of South Carolina at Columbia; graduated from Wofford College at Spartanburg, S.C., in 1889; member, State house SMITH, Delazon, a Senator from Oregon; born in Newof representatives 1896-1900; unsuccessful candidate for the Berlin, Chenango County, N.Y., October 5, 1816; graduatedUnited States Congress 1901; engaged in mercantile and from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1837; studied law and wasagricultural pursuits; one of the principal figures in the admitted to the bar; in 1838 established the New Yorkorganization of the Southern Cotton Association in 1905; Watchman in Rochester, N.Y., of which he was editor forfield agent and general organizer in the cotton protective two years; published and edited the True Jeffersonian andmovement 1905-1908 and became known as "Cotton Ed"; the Western Herald in Rochester in 1840, and in 1841 found- ed the Western Empire in Dayton, Ohio; special Unitedelected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1908; States commissioner to Quito, Ecuador, 1842-1845; moved toreelected in 1914, 1920, 1926, 1932, and again in 1938, and the Territory of Iowa in 1846 and entered the ministry;served from March 4, 1909, until his death; unsuccessful moved to the Territory of Oregon in 1852; edited the Oregoncandidate for renomination in 1944; chairman, Committee Democrat; member, Territorial house of representativeson Transportation Routes to the Seaboard(Sixty-second Con- 1854-1856; delegate to the State constitutional convention ingress),Committee on Immigration (Sixty-third through 1857; upon the admission of Oregon as a State into theSixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Interstate Commerce Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States(Sixty-fifth and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Con- servation of Natural Resources (Sixty-sixth Congress), Com- Senate and served from February 14 to March 3, 1859; un-mittee on Agriculture and Forestry (Seventy-third through successful candidate for reelection; died in Portland, Oreg.,Seventy-eighth Congresses); died in Lynchburg, S.C., on No- on November 19, 1860; interment in the City Cemetery,vember 17, 1944; interment in St. Lukes Cemetery. Albany, Linn County, Oreg. Bibliography: Smith, Seldon. "Ellison DuRant Smith: A Southern Pro- SMITH, Dennis Alan (cousin of Steven Douglas Symms), a gressive 1909-1929." Ph.D. dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1970; Representative from Oregon; born in Ontario, Maiheur U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 79th Cong., 1st sess., 1945. Washington, County, Oreg., January 19, 1938; attended the public schools; D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947. graduated from Grant Union High School, 1956; B.A., Wil- SMITH, Francis Ormand Jonathan, a Representative lamette University, Salem, Oreg., 1961; served in the Unitedfrom Maine; born in Brentwood, N.H., November 23, 1806; States Air Force, 1958-1960 and 1962-1967, with service inattended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; studied Vietnam; pilot, Oregon Air National Guard, 1960-1962; co-law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in pilot/flight engineer, commercial air line, 1967-1976; electedPortland, Maine, in 1826; division advocate of the fifth divi- as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the threesion of the circuit court-martial in Maine 1829-1834; served succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); isin the State house of representatives in 1831; member of the a resident of Salem, Oreg. State senate in 1833 and served as its president; elected as a SMITH, Dietrich Conrad, a Representative from Illinois;Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congress- born in Ost Friesland, Hanover, Germany, April 4, 1840;es and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress(March 4, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who set-1833-March 3, 1839); chairman, Committee on Commerce tled in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., about 1850; attended the(Twenty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- public schools of Pekin, Ill., and Quincy College, Quincy, Ill.;tion in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; assisted Professor during the Civil War served in the Union Army as lieuten- Morse in perfecting and introducing the electric telegraph; ant in Company I, Eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer In- again a member of the State house of representatives in fantry; left the service as captain of Company C, One Hun-1863 and 1864; died in Deering (later Woodfords), Maine, dred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry;October 14, 1876; interment on his estate, "Forest Home"; reinterment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine organizer of the German College at Mount Pleasant in 1874; Bibliography: Gaffney, Thomas L. "Maine's Mr. Smith: A Study of the member of board of trustees of that institution for manyCareer of Francis 0 J Smith, Politician and Entrepreneur." Ph.D. disser- years; member of the State house of representatives 1876- tation, University of Maine, 1979. 1878; engaged in banking and manufacturing and also in the construction and management of railroads in Illinois; elected SMITH, Francis Raphael, a Representative from Pennsyl- as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4,vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 25, 1911; attend- 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ined the parochial school and was graduated from Roman 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; again engaged in bank-Catholic High School, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1929, from St. 1828 Biographical Directory

Joseph's College, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1933, and from thesubsequently tendered his resignation on February 9, 1928; law department of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., inunsuccessful candidate for election in 1930 to the Seventy- 1938; bank examiner with Pennsylvania State Banking De-second Congress; member of the Republican National Com- partment in 1938 and 1939; unsuccessful candidate for elec-mittee in 1932; continued in real estate and insurance busi- tion in 1938 to the State house of representatives; electedasness and agricultural pursuits; chairman of the board of a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3,directors of the First National Bank of Dwight, Ill., until his 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelectiondeath there August 30, 1950; interment in Oak Lawn Ceme- in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; United Statesmar-tery. shal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania from January Bibliography: DAB. 29, 1943, until his resignation on April 30, 1945;was appoint- ed collector of internal revenue at Philadelphia on May 1, SMITH, Frank Owens, a Representative from Maryland; 1945, and served in that capacity until 1952; insurancecom-born in Smithville, Calvert County, Md., August 27, 1859; missioner,CommonwealthofPennsylvania,1955-1983; attended the private and public schools of the county, North chairman of Democratic City Committee of PhiladelphiaMount Institute, West Virginia, and Bethel Military Acade- 1965 to 1968; elected member of Board of Revision of Taxesmy, Virginia; served in the United States Revenue Service of Philadelphia and member of Board of View of Philadel-at Baltimore, Md., during the first Cleveland administration; phia; was a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., until his deathorganized the Calumet Canning Co. in 1889 and engaged in a there on December 9, 1982; interment in Holy Sepulchregeneral merchandise business in 1890; engaged in manufac- Cemetery. turing flour and feed 1898-1910; appointed State tobacco SMITH, Frank Ellis, a Representative from Mississippi;inspector by Governor Warfield in 1904 and reappointed in born in Sidon, Leflore County, Miss., February 21, 1918;1906; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State senate attended the public schools of Sidon and Greenwood, Miss.;in 1911; chief engrossing clerk of the State senate in 1911; was graduated from Sunflower Junior College, Moorhead,elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, Miss., in 1936 and from the University of Mississippi in 1941;1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- entered the United States Army as a private on February 9,tion in 1914; engaged in fruit growing in Dunkirk, Calvert 1942; graduate of Field Artillery officers candidate school;County, Md., until his death on January 29, 1924; interment served in Europe as a captain with the Two Hundred andin Mount Zion Cemetery, Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Forty-third Field Artillery Battalion, Third Army; was dis- Md. charged to Reserves as a major of Field Artilleryon Febru- SMITH, Frederick Cleveland, a Representative from Ohio; ary 13, 1946; managing editor, Greenwood Morning Star inborn in Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 29, 1884; 1946 and 1947; student at American University, Washington,attended the public schools; graduated in osteopathy at D.C., in 1946; legislative assistant to United States SenatorKirksville, Ohio, and practiced there for several years; went John Stennis 1947-1949; member of State senate 1948-1950;abroad and continued his study of medicine in Frankfurt, elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to the fiveGermany, and in Vienna, Austria; in 1917 was licensed to succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1951,practice medicine and surgery in the State of Ohio and until his resignation November 14, 1962; unsuccessful forcommenced practice at Marion, Ohio; mayor of Marion, renominationin1962totheEighty-eighthCongress;Ohio, from January 1936 until January 1, 1939, when he member, Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority,resigned; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to November 14, 1962, to May 18, 1972; associate director, Illi-the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, nois State Board of Higher Education, 1973-1974; visiting1951); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; re- professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1977-1979; specialsumed his medical profession; died in Marion, Ohio, July 16, assistant to Governor William Winter of Mississippi, 1980-1956; interment in Marion Cemetery. 1983; elected life fellow, Southern Regional Council, 1984; is a resident of Jackson, Miss. SMITH, George, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Bibliography: Smith, Frank B.Congressman from Mississippi.New York: elected as a Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Con- Pantheon Books, 1964; Smith, Frank E.The Politics of Conservation.New gresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1813). York: Pantheon Books, 1966. SMITH, George Joseph, a Representative from New York; SMITH, Frank Leslie, a Representative anda Senator-born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., November 7, 1859; elect from Illinois; born in Dwight, Livingston County, Ill.,attended the public schools; engaged in banking and the November 24, 1867; attended the public schools of Dwight;manufacturing business in New York City and Kingston; taught school for several years; engaged in banking, realchairman of the Republican county committee in 1898; treas- estate, insurance, and agricultural pursuits; Dwight villageurer of the Republican State committee in 1899; delegate to clerk 1894; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenantgovernorthe Republican National Convention in 1909; elected as a

1904; internal-revenue collector 1905-1909; electedas a Re-- publican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-MarchRepublican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- 3, 1921); was not a candidate for renomination in 1920, butMarch 3, 1905); declined to be a candidate for reelection; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomina-engaged in the real estate and wholesale grocery business in tion for United States Senator; resumed his former businessNew York City; died in Atlantic City, N.J., December 24, pursuits; chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission1913; interment in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y. 1921-1926; appointed as a Republican to the United States SMITH, George Luke, a Representative from Louisiana; Senate in 1926 to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofborn in New Boston, Hilisboro County, N.H., December 11, William B. McKinley in the term ending March 3, 1927;1837; completed preparatory studies and attended Union presented credentials as a Senator-designate butwas notCollege, Schenectady, N.Y.; during the Civil War served in permitted to qualify, due to charges of "fraud andcorrup-the Union Army; at the close of the war moved to Shreve- tion" in his campaign; presented credentialsas a Senator-port, La., and engaged in mercantile pursuits; held several elect to the United States Senate for the term beginninglocal offices; member of the State house of representatives March 4, 1927, but again was not permitted to qualify and1870-1872; proprietor of the Shreveport Southwestern Tele- Biographies 1829 gram; president of the Shreveport Savings Bank & Trust Co.;was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1920, to the Oklahoma elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fillbar in 1922, and commenced practice in Oklahoma City, the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-electOkla.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to Samuel Peters and served from November 24, 1873, tofill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert P. Hill and March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 served from December 10, 1937, to January 3, 1939; was not to the Forty-fourth Congress; appointed collector of customsa candidate for renomination in 1938, but was an unsuccess- at the port of New Orleans by President Hayes and servedful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United from May 4, 1878, to February 20, 1879; moved to HotStates Senator; resumed the practice of law in Oklahoma Springs, Ark., and engaged in the real estate business untilCity, where he died May 26, 1953; interment in Rose Hill his death in that city on July 9, 1884; interment in the WestMausoleum. Street Cemetery, Milford, N.H. SMITH, Green Clay (son of John Speed Smith), a Repre- SMITH, George Ross, a Representative from Minnesota;sentative from Kentucky; born in Richmond, Madison born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn., May 28, 1864;County, Ky., July 4, 1826; pursued academic studies; served attended the public schools and Sauk Centre (Minn.) Acade-in the Mexican War; commissioned second lieutenant in the my; was graduated from the law school of the University ofFirst Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, June 9, 1846; Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1893; was admitted to the barwas graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, in 1893 and commenced practice in Minneapolis; member ofKy., in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 the State house of representatives in 1903; judge of theand commenced practice in Covington, KY.; was school com- probate court of Hennepin County, Minn., 1907-19 13; electedmissioner 1853-1857; member of the State house of repre- as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congress-sentatives 1861-1863; commissioned colonel of the Fourth es (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate forRegiment, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, April 4, 1862; briga- reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed thedier general of Volunteers July 2, 1862; resigned December practice of law and taught law classes at Minneapolis-Min-1, 1863; brevetted major general of Volunteers March 13, nesota Law School; died in Minneapolis, Minn., November 7,1865; elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty- 1952; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery. eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March SMITH, George Washington, a Representative from Illi-4, 1863, until his resignation in 1866; chairman, Committee nois; born in Putnam County, Ohio, August 18, 1846; movedon Militia (Thirty-ninth Congress); appointed byPresident with his father to Wayne County, Ill., in 1850; learned theJohnson as Governor of Montana Territory and served from blacksmith trade; attended the common schools and wasJuly 13, 1866, until April 9, 1869, when he resigned; moved graduated from the literary department of McKendree Col-to Washington, D.C., where he was ordained to the Baptist lege, Lebanon, Ill., in 1868; studied law in Fairfield, Ill.; wasministry; was the candidate of the National Prohibition graduated from the law department of the Indiana Universi-Party in 1876 for President of the United States; pastor of ty at Bloomington in 1870; was admitted to the bar the samethe Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., from year and commenced practice in Murphysboro, Jackson1890 until his death, June 29, 1895; interment in Arlington County, Ill.; master in chancery 1880-1888; elected as a Re-National Cemetery. publican to the Fifty-first and to the nine succeeding Con- Bibliography: Hood, James Larry. 'For the Union: Kentucky's Uncondi- gresses and served from March 4, 1889, until his death intional Unionist Congressmen and the Development of the Republican Murphysboro, Ill., November 30, 1907, before the convening Party in Kentucky, 1863-1865." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society of the Sixtieth Congress; chairman, Committee on Private 76 (July 1978): 197-215. Land Claims (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); SMITH, H. Allen, a Representative from California; born interment in the City Cemetery. in Dixon, Lee County, Ill., October 8, 1909; attended the SMITH, Gerrit, a Representative from New York; born inpublic schools; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1924 and Utica, N.Y., March 6, 1797; moved to Peterboro in 1806;attended Hollywood High School and the University of Cali- attended an academy in Clinton, N.Y.; was graduated fromfornia at Los Angeles; University of Southern California, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1818; studied law; en-A.B., 1930 and the law school of the same university, LL.B., gaged in the management of a large estate which he inherit-1933; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and practiced law in ed; delegate to the State conventions in 1824 and 1828; un-Los Angeles, Calif., until December 1935; special agent for successful Liberty Party candidate for governor in 1840; un- the Federal Bureau of Investigation from December 1935 successful presidential candidate in 1848; was admitted tountil August 1942; manager of plant protection, Lockheed the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Peterboro, N.Y.;Aircraft Corp., from August 1942 to August 1944; resumed elected as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-third Congressthe practice of law in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1944; member of and served from March 4, 1853, until August 7, 1854, whenthe State assembly 1948-1956; delegate, every State Republi- he resigned; resumed the practice of his profession, and wascan convention since 1948; delegate, Republican National a publicist and philanthropist; he revived the Anti-Dram-Conventions, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and parliamentarian at shop Party, but was a delegate to the Republican National1968 convention; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Convention in 1872 and supported Grant; died in New Yorkand to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957- City December 28, 1874; interment in Peterboro Cemetery,January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 Peterboro, Madison County, N.Y. to the Ninety-third Congress; is a resident of Glendale, Calif. Bibliography: DAB; Harlow, Ralph V. Gerrit Smith, Philanthropist and SMITH, Henry, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Reformer. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1939. Baltimore, Md., July 22, 1838; moved with his parents to SMITH, Gomer Griffith, a Representative from Oklaho-Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, and later, in 1844, to Milwau- ma, born on a farm near Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo.,kee, Wis.; attended the public schools; became a millwright; July 11, 1896; attended the common and high schools ofmember of the common council of Milwaukee 1868-1872; Missouri;was graduatedfrom Rockingham Academy,served in the State assembly in 1878; again a member of the Kansas City, Mo., in 1915; taught in a country school nearcommon council 1880-1882 and 1884-1887; city comptroller Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Mo., 1916-1918; studied law;1882-1884; elected as a Labor Party candidate to the Fiftieth 1830 Biographical Directory

Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candi-member of the State senate 1882-1884; elected as a Republi- date for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; was ancan to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused architect and builder; elected a member of the board ofby the resignation of John A. Kasson and served from De- aldermen of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1898 and served until hiscember 2, 1884, to March 3, 1885; was not a candidate for death in Milwaukee, Wis., September 16, 1916; remains werereelection to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice cremated and the ashes interred in Union Cemetery. of law; died in Des Moines, Iowa, November 4, 1894; inter- SMITH, Henry Cassorte, a Representative from Michigan;ment in Woodland Cemetery. born in Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y., June 2, 1856; SMITH, Hoke, a Senator from Georgia; born in Newton, moved with his father to a farm near Palmyra, LenaweeCatawba County, N.C., September 2, 1855; educated princi- County, Mich., in 1857; attended the common schools; waspally by his father, a professor at the University of North graduated from Adrian College, Michigan, in 1878; taughtCarolina at Chapel Hill; studied law in Atlanta, Ga.; was school; studied law; was admitted to the bar September 25,admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in 1880, and commenced practice in Adrian, Lenawee County,Atlanta, Ga.; became owner of the Atlanta Evening Journal Mich.; city attorney of Adrian; delegate to the Republicanin 1887 and served as editor and president until 1900; ap- National Convention in 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-pointed Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President March 3, 1903); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Grover Cleveland and served from 1893 to 1896; resumed the tion in 1902; resumed the practice of law in Adrian, Mich.,practice of law in Atlanta, Ga.; president of the Atlanta and died there on December 7, 1911; interment in Oakwood Board of Education 1896-1907; Governor of Georgia 1907- Cemetery. 1909; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908; again Governor from July 1911, until his resignation in November SMITH, Henry P., III, a Representative from New York;1911, having previously been elected Senator; elected as a born in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, N.Y., SeptemberDemocrat to the United States Senate on July 12, 1911, to 29, 1911; attended the public schools and the Nichols Schoolfill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander S. Clay, of Buffalo; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,but did not assume these duties until later, preferring to N.H., in 1933 and from Cornell University Law School,continue as Governor; reelected to the Senate in 1914 and Ithaca, N.Y., in 1936; was admitted to the bar in 1936 and served from November 16, 1911, to March 3, 1921; unsuccess- practiced law in Ithaca, until 1941 and then in North Tona-ful candidate for renomination in 1920; chairman, Commit- wanda; elected mayor of North Tonawanda in Novembertee on Education and Labor (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth 1961 and served until his resignation in January 1963 toCongresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury accept appointment as Niagara County judge, surrogate andDepartment (Sixth-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of family court judge for one year; elected as a Republican tohis profession in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Ga.; died in the Eighty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Jan-Atlanta, Ga., November 27, 1931; interment in Oakland uary 3, 1965-January 3, 1975); was not a candidate for re-Cemetery. election in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; chairman, Bibliography: DAB; Carageorge, Ted. "An Evaluation of Hoke Smith U.S. section, International Joint Commission, United States and Thomas E. Watson as Georgia Reformers." Ph.D. dissertation, Univer- and Canada, 1975-1978; executive director and chairman,sity of Georgia, 1963; Grantham, Dewey. Hoke Smith and the Politics of Association to Unite the Democracies, 1981 to present; isa the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. resident of Washington, D.C. SMITH, Horace Boardman, a Representative from New SMIT11, Hezekiah Bradley, a Representative from NewYork; born in Whitingham, Windham County, Vt., August Jersey; born in Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vt., July 24,18, 1826; pursued classical studies and was graduated from 1816; attended the common schools; learned the trade ofWilliams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1847; studied law; cabinetmaker; settled in Lowell, Mass., about 1840 anden- was admitted to the bar in 1850 and began practice in gaged in the manufacture of woodworking machinery; tookElmira, N.Y.; held several local offices; judge of Chemung out more than forty patents for original inventions; movedCounty in 1859 and 1860; elected as a Republican to the to Smithville, Burlington County, N.J., in 1865 and contin-Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 187 1- ued the manufacture of wood-working machinery; alsoman-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty- ufactured the Star bicycle; made the first steam-driven vehi-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in cle operated in New Jersey; elected asa Democrat to the1874; resumed the practice of law in Elmira, Chemung Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881);unsuc-County, N.Y., until 1883; justice of the supreme court of New cessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventhYork State 1883-1888; retired to his home at Elmira, where Congress; resumed his former business activities; member ofhe died on December 26, 1888; interment in Woodlawn Cem- the State senate 1883-1885; died in Smithville, N.J., Novem-etery. ber 3, 1887; interment in the Pine Street Cemetery, Mount Holly, Burlington County, N.J. SMITH, Howard Alexander (uncle of Peter H. Dominick), a Senator from New Jersey; born in New York City, Janu- SMIT11, Hiram Ypsilanti, a Representative from Iowa;ary 30, 1880; attended the Cutler School in New York City; born in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, March 22, 1843; movedgraduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the with his parents to Rock Island, Ill., in 1850, and to Deslaw department of Columbia University in 1904; was admit- Moines, Iowa, in 1854; attended the public schools; in 1861ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in enlisted in the State militia for service against the Indians;New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, Cob., in 1905 appointed a clerk in the Post Office Department, Washing-and continued the practice of law until 1917; during the ton, D.C., and served from January 1862 to February 1864;First World War served in the United States Food Adminis- transferred to the Treasury Department, from which here-tration in Colorado and Washington, D.C.; member of post- signed in August 1865; was graduated from the Albanywar relief organizations in 1918; moved to Princeton, N.J., in (N.Y.) Law School in 1866; was admitted to the bar thesame1919 and served as executive secretary of Princeton Univer- year and commenced practice in Des Moines, Iowa; districtsity until 1927; lecturer in the department of politics at attorney of the fifth judicial district of Iowa 1875-1879;Princeton University 1927-1930; resumed the practice of law Biographies 1831 in New York City 1932-1941; member of the Republicanupon the admission of Vermont as a State into theUnion National Committee 1942-1943; elected in 1944 as a Republi-was elected to the Second Congress; reelected tothe Third can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in theand Fourth Congresses and served from October 17, 1791, to term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the death of W.March3,1797;unsuccessfulcandidateforreelection; Warren Barbour; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952, andmember, State house of representatives 1797; chief justice of served from December 7, 1944, to January 3, 1959; was not athe State supreme court 1797-1798; elected to the Seventh candidate for renomination in 1958; chairman, CommitteeCongress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); did not seek re- on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-third Congress); specialnomination, having become a candidate for Senator; elected consultant on foreign affairs to the Secretary of State 1959-as a Republican to the United States Senate and servedfrom 1960; died in Princeton, N.J., October 27, 1966; interment inMarch 4, 1803, until his resignation on October 1, 1807, Princeton Cemetery. having been elected Governor; Governor of Vermont 1807- Bibliography: Leary, William, Jr. "Smith of New Jersey: A Biography of H. Alexander Smith, United States Senator From New Jersey, 1944-1959." 1808; died in Rutland, Vt., December 2, 1810; interment in Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1966. the West Street Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. SMITH, Howard Worth, a Representative from Virginia; born in Broad Run, Fauquier County Va., February 2, 1883; SMITH, James, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in attended the public schools; was graduated from Bethel Mili-Ireland in 1713; immigrated to the United States with his tary Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901 and from the lawfather in 1727 and settled in Pennsylvania; pursued classical department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesvillestudies; attended the Philadelphia Academy (now the Uni- in 1903; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commencedversity of Pennsylvania); worked as a surveyor in Cumber- practice in Alexandria, Va.; assistant general counsel, Alienland County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1745 Property Custodian, in 1917 and 1918; served as Common-and began practice in Shippensburg, Pa.; moved to York, wealth attorney of Alexandria, Va., 1918-1922; judge of thePa., and engaged in the manufacture of iron; delegate to the corporation court of Alexandria 1922-1928; judge of the six-provisional conference in Philadelphia; delegate to the State teenth judicial circuit of Virginia 1928-1930; also engaged inconvention in January 1775; organized the Pennsylvania Mi- banking, farming, and dairying; elected as a Democrat to thelitia and the two regiments of the Flying Camp in Perth Seventy-second and to the seventeen succeeding CongressesAmboy, N.J., in 1776; Member of the Continental Congress (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1967); chairman, Committee on1776-1778; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); spon-member of the State house of representatives in 1780; briga- sor of the Smith Act of 1940; unsuccessful candidate fordier general of State militia; State councilor; resumed the renomination in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resumedpractice of his profession in York, Pa., and died there on the practice of law in Alexandria, Va., where he died Octo-July 11, 1806; interment in the First Presbyterian Church- ber 3, 1976; interment in Georgetown Cemetery, Broad Run,yard. Va. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: Dierenfield, Bruce J. Keeper of the Rules; Congressman Howard W Smith of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va.: The University Press SMITH, James, Jr., a Senator from New Jersey; born in of Virginia, 1981. Newark, N.J., June 12, 1851; attended private schools and SMITH, Isaac, a Representative from New Jersey; born inSt. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del.; engaged in the dry- Trenton, N.J., in 1740; was graduated from Princeton Col-goods and importing business, later becoming a manufactur- lege in 1755; teacher in that institution 1755-1758; studieder of leather in Newark, N.J.; memberof the board of alder- medicine and commenced practice in Trenton, N.J.; colonelmen of Newark 1883-1887; declined thenomination for in the Hunterdon County Militia in 1776 and 1777; electedmayor of Newark in 1884; president of thefirst board of as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1795-works of Newark; elected as a Democrat to the United March 3, 1797); appointed by President Washington a com-States Senate and served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, missioner to treat with the Seneca Indians in 1797; associate1899; chairman, Committee on the Organization, Conduct justice of the supreme court of New Jersey 1777-1804; firstand Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-third president of the Trenton Banking Co. 1805-1807; died inCongress); resumed the manufacture of leather, and also Trenton, Mercer County, N.J., on August 29, 1807; intermentengaged in banking and newspaper publishing; unsuccessful in the First Presbyterian Churchyard. candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1911; SMITH, Isaac, a Representative from Pennsylvania; borndied in Newark, N.J., April 1, 1927; interment in Holy Sep- in Chester County, Pa., January 4, 1761; attended theulcher Cemetery. common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Level Bibliography: DAB. Corners, Lycoming County, Pa.; member of the State house SMITH, James Strudwick, a Representative from North of representatives 1806-1808; elected as a Republican to theCarolina; born near Hilisboro, Orange County, N.C., October Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); resumed15, 1790; attended a private school near Hilisboro and Hills- agricultural pursuits and also engaged in the occupation ofboro Academy; was graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- millwright; died on his farm at Level Corners, near Jerseylege, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1818, and practiced medicine near Shore, Lycoming County, Pa., April 4, 1834; interment in theHillsboro and later near Chapel Hill, Orange County; elected Pine Creek Presbyterian Churchyard; reinterment in Jerseyas a Republican to the Fifteenth andSixteenth Congresses Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa. (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on SMITH, Israel, a Representative and a Senator from Ver-Accounts (Sixteenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for mont; born in Suffield, Conn., April 4, 1759; graduated fromrenomination; resumed the practice of medicine; member of Yale College in 1781; studied law; was admitted to the barthe State house of commons in 1821 and 1822; delegate to and commenced practice in Rupert, Vt.; member, Statethe State constitutional convention in1835; died near house of representatives 1785, 1788-1791; moved to Rutland,Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1859; interment in a private Vt.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1791;cemetery on his farm. 1832 Biographical Directory

SMITH, James Vernon, a Representative from Oklahoma;when he resigned; died in St. Francisville, Louisiana, July born in Oklahoma City, Okla., July 23, 1926; educated in 30, 1824. Tuttle public schools and attended Oklahoma College of Lib- Bibliography: DAB; Wilhelmy, Robert W. "Senator John Smith and the eral Arts at Chickasha, Okla.; engaged in farming and cattleAaron ." Cincinnati Hthtorical Society Bulletin 28 (Spring raising; served as member, board of regents, Oklahoma 1970): 39-60. Four-Year Colleges; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth SMITH, John, a Representative from Virginia; born at Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1969); unsuccessful"Shooter's Hill," near Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Va., candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress;May 7, 1750; moved to Frederick County, Va., in 1773 and nominated by President Nixon to be Administrator of Farm-engaged in planting at "Hackwood," near Winchester; com- ers Home Administration, confirmed by the Senate Marchmissioned a justice of the peace in 1773; served in Dunmore's 16, 1969, and served until his resignation in 1973; died inaWar with the Indians in 1774, the Revolutionary War, and wheat field fire at his farm northwest of Chickasha, June 23,the War of 1812; member of the State house of delegates 1973; interment in Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, Okla. 1779-1783; served in the State senate 1791-1794; elected as a SMITH, Jedediah Kilburn, a Representative from NewRepublican to the Seventh and to the six succeeding Con- Hampshire; born in Amherst, N.H., November 7, 1770; com-gresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1815); resumed agricultural pleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to thepursuits; died at "Rockville," near Middletown, Frederick bar and commenced practice at Amherst in 1800; member ofCounty, Va., on March 5, 1836; interment in the family burying ground at "Hackwood," near Winchester, Va.; rein- the State house of representatives in 1803; member of theterred in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va., in 1890. State senate 1804-1806 and 1809; electedas a Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1809);unsuc- SMITH, John, a Representative and a Senator from New cessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1810;coun-York; born in Mastic, Long Island, N.Y., February 12, 1752; cilor 1810-1815; postmaster at Amherst from May 19, 1819,completed preparatory studies; member, State assembly until his successor was appointed on March 15, 1826; associ-1784-1799; delegate to the State convention which adopted ate justice of the court of common pleas 1816-1821, and ofthe Federal Constitution in 1788; elected to the Sixth Con- the court of sessions 1821-1823; chief justice of the court ofgress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan N. sessions 1823-1825; died in Amherst, Hillsborough County,Havens; reelected to the Seventh and Eighth Congresses and N.H., December 17, 1828. served from February 6, 1800, until his resignation, effective February 23, 1804; elected as a Republican on February 4, SMITH, Jeremiah (brother of Samuel Smith, of New1804, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused Hampshire, and uncle of Robert Smith), a Representativeby the resignation of De Witt Clinton; reelected, and served from New Hampshire; born in Peterboro, N.H., Novemberfrom February 23, 1804, to March 3, 1813; United States 29, 1759; received instruction from a private tutor; attendedmarshal for the district of New York 1813-1815; major gen- Harvard College in 1777; during the Revolutionary Wareral of the New York Militia at the time of his death in served under General Stark in the Battle of Bennington;Mastic, Long Island, N.Y., August 12, 1816; interment in the entered Queen's (now Rutgers) College, New Jersey, fromfamily cemetery on Smiths Point, N.Y. which he was graduated in 1780; studied law;was admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced practice in Peterboro, SMITH, John (father of Worthington Curtis Smith), a Rep- N.H.; member of the State house of representatives 1788-resentative from Vermont; born in Barre, Mass., August 12, 1791; member of the constitutional convention in 1791 and1789; attended the common schools; moved to St. Albans, 1792; elected to the Second and Third Congresses and electedVt.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and com- as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses andmenced practice in St. Albans, Vt.; State's attorney for served from March 4, 1791, until his resignation July 26,Franklin County 1826-1832; member of the State house of 1797; chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Busi-representatives 1827-1837, and served as speaker from 1831 ness (Fifth Congress); moved to Exeter, N.H.; United Statesto 1833; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress district attorney for New Hampshire from 1797 to 1800;(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for judge of probate of Rockingham County 1800-1802; appoint-reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; engaged ed, under authority of the act of February 13, 1801, byin the construction of railroads; died in St. Albans, Vt., President Adams judge of the United States circuit courtNovember 26, 1858; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. February 20, 1801, and served until March 8, 1802, when the SMITH, John Ambler, a Representative from Virginia; court was abolished by the act of that date; chief justice ofborn at Village View, near Dinwiddie Court House, Dinwid- the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire 1802-die County, Va., September 23, 1847; attended the rural 1809; Governor of New Hampshire in 1809 and 1810; Chiefschool and was educated at David Turner's high school at Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of New HampshireRichmond; was graduated from the law department of the 1813-1816; resumed the practice of law, from which here-Richmond (Va.) College; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and tired in 1820; president of a bank and treasurer of Phillipscommenced the practice of law in Richmond, Va.; appointed Exeter Academy; moved to Dover, and died there Septembercommissioner in chancery of the courts of Richmond in 1868; 21, 1842; interment in Winter Street (also called Old) Ceme- served as Commonwealth attorney of Charles City and New tery, Exeter, N.H. Kent Counties; member of the State senate in 1869; elected Bibliography: DAB. as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873- SMITH, John, a Senator from Ohio; born in either Virgin-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in ia or Ohio around 1735; prepared for the ministry, andwas1874; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; pastor in various Baptist congregations in Virginia and Ohiomember of the immigration commission to London; died in by 1790; member of the Northwest Territorial legislatureWashington, D.C., on January 6, 1892; interment in Glen- 1799-1803; upon the admission of Ohio as a State into thewood Cemetery. Union was elected as a Republican to the United States SMITH, John Armstrong, a Representative from Ohio; Senate and served from April 1, 1803, to April 25, 1808,born in Hillsboro, Ohio, September 23, 1814; pursued classi- Biographies 1833 cal studies and was graduated from Miami University,United States in 1855 with his parents, who settled near Oxford, Ohio, in 1834; studied law; was admitted to the barPlymouth, Ohio; attended the public schools; moved to Char- in 1835 and commenced practice in Hilisboro, Ohio; servedlotte, Mich., in 1867; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the State house of representatives in 1841; member of thealso worked as a mason; was graduated from the academic State constitutional convention of Ohio in 1850; elected as adepartment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses1879 and from the law department in 1880; was admitted to (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); resumed the practice of law;the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Detroit; prosecut- member of the State constitutional convention of 1873; dieding attorney of Eaton County 1885-1888; president of the in Hilisboro, Ohio, March 7, 1892; interment in HilisboroFirst National Bank of Charlotte in 1898; also engaged in Cemetery. manufacturing and agricultural pursuits; member of the board of aldermen in 1903; member of the State constitution- SMITH, John Cotton, a Representative from Connecticut;al convention in 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- born in Sharon, Conn., on February 12, 1765; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale College insecond and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar and began prac- 1911-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on Labor (Sixty- tice in Sharon, Conn., in 1787; member of the State house ofsixth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination; elect- representatives in 1793, 1796, and 1800, and served as speak-ed to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused er in 1800; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress toby the death of William H. Frankhouser; reelected to the fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of JonathanSixty-eighth Congress and served from June 28, 1921, until Brace; reelected to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congress-his death in Charlotte, Mich., March 30, 1923; interment in es and served from November 17, 1800, until his resignationMaple Hill Cemetery. in August 1806; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventh SMITH, John Quincy, a Representative from Ohio; born through Ninth Congresses); judge of the supreme court ofnear Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio,November 5, 1824; Connecticut in 1809; Lieutenant Governor in 1810; Governorattended the common schools and Miami University, Oxford, 1813-1818; unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the Fed-Ohio; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State eralist ticket in 1817; president of the American Board ofsenate in 1860 and 1861; served in the State house of repre- Commissioners for Foreign Missions; president of the Con-sentatives in 1862 and 1863; again a member of the State necticut Bible Society; retired to his estate near Sharon,house of representatives in 1872 and 1873; elected as a Re- Litchfield County, Conn., where he died December 7, 1845;publican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March interment in Hillside Cemetery. 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Bibliography: DAB. Forty-fourthCongress; UnitedStates Commissionerof SMITH, John Hyatt, a Representative from New York;Indian Affairs 187 5-1877; appointed United States consul born in Saratoga, N.Y., April 10, 1824; taught by his father;general to Montreal, Canada, and served from 1878 until he employed for a time as a clerk in Detroit, Mich., and later asresigned in 1882; died in Oakland, Clinton County, Ohio, a bank clerk in Albany, N.Y., and while in the latter posi-December 30, 1901; interment in Miami Cemetery, Waynes- tion studied theology; after ordination his first pastorate wasville, Ohio. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1848; officiated in Cleveland, Ohio, for three years, in Buffalo, N.Y., 1855-1860, and in Philadel- SMITH, John Speed (father of Green Clay Smith), a Rep- phia, Pa., 1860-1866; during the Civil War served in Virginiaresentative from Kentucky; born near Nicholasville, Jessa- with the United States Christian Commission in 1862; chap-mine County, Ky., July 1, 1792; attended a private school in lain of the Forty-seventh Regiment, National Guard of NewMercer County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1812 York, in 1869; continued his ministerial duties in Brooklyn,and commenced practice in Richmond, KY.; during the War N.Y., 1866-1880; elected as an Independent candidate to theof 1812 enlisted as a private, and subsequently promoted to Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); ap- major; aide-de-camp to General Harrison with the rank of pointed by President Arthur a commissioner to inspect thecolonel; member of the State house of representatives in Pacific Railroad, after which he resumed a pastorate in1819; elected to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy Brooklyn, N.Y., where he died December 7, 1886; interment caused by the resignation of George Robertson and served in Greenwood Cemetery. from August 6, 1821, to March 3, 1823; was not a candidate for renomination in 1822; again a member of the State house SMITH, John Joseph, a Representative from Connecticut;of representatives in 1827, 1830, 1839, 1841, and 1845, and born in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., January 25,served as speaker in 1827; United States district attorney for 1904; attended the public schools; B.A., Yale University,Kentucky 1828-1832; member of the State senate 1846-1850; 1925; law department of the same university, LL.B., 1927;died in Richmond, Ky., June 6, 1854; interment in Richmond research fellow, Yale Law School, 1927-1928; was admittedCemetery. to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in Waterbury, Conn.; served in the Field Artillery Reserves 1925-1935; SMITH, John T., a Representative from Pennsylvania; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress; re-born in Philadelphia, Pa.; attended the common schools of elected to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromhis native city; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth January 3, 1935, until his resignation on November 4, 1941,Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845). having been appointed a United States district judge for the SMITH, John Walter, a Representative and a Senator district of Connecticut; appointed judge for the Second Cir-from Maryland; born at Snow Hill, Md., February 5, 1845; cuit Court of the United States on September 2, 1960, andattended private schools and Union Academy; engaged in served until November 6, 1971, when he retired to become athe lumber business in Maryland, Virginia, and North Caro- senior judge; resided in West Hartford, Conn., until hislina; president of the First National Bank of Snow Hill and death in Waterbury, Conn., February 16, 1980; interment indirector in many business and financial institutions; elected Calvary Cemetery, Waterbury. to the State senate in 1889, 1893, and 1897, and served as SMITH, John M. C., a Representative from Michigan;president in 1894; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth born in Belfast, Ireland, February 6, 1853; immigrated to theCongress and served from March 4, 1899, until his resigna- 1834 Biographical Directory

tion on January 12, 1900; Governor of Maryland 1900-1904;United States attorney for Washington Territory by Presi- elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill thedent Buchanan March 12, 1857; returned to Salem, Oreg., in vacancy caused by the death of Whyte;1858 and practiced law for twelve years; elected as a Demo- reelected in 1909 and 1914 and served from March 25, 1908,crat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful for reelection in 1920; chair- 1871); moved to Portland, Oreg., in 1870 and resumed the man, Committee to Investigate Trespassers Upon Landpractice of his profession; unsuccessful Democratic candidate (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on the District of Colum- for Governor of Oregon in 1882; died in Portland, Oreg., July bia (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee13, 1884; interment in Riverview Cemetery. to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-sixth Con- gress); retired to private life and died in Baltimore, Md., SMITH, Josiah, a Representative from Massachusetts; April 19, 1925; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery,born in Pembroke, Mass., February 26, 1738; was graduated Snow Hill, Md. from Harvard College in 1774; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State house of repre- SMITH, Jonathan Bayard, a Delegate from Pennsylvania;sentatives in 1789 and 1790; served in the State senate 1792- born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 21, 1742; receivedan English education, and was graduated from Princeton Col-1794 and in 1797; State treasurer in 1797; elected as a Re- lege in 1760; secretary of the Philadelphia Committee ofpublican to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, Safety 1775-1777; Member of the Continental Congress in1803); was not a candidate for renomination in 1802; died in 1777 and 1778; prothonotary of the court of common pleas inPembroke, Plymouth County, Mass., April 4, 1803; interment 1777 and 1778; appointed justice of the court of commonin Pembroke Cemetery. pleas in 1778; one of the founders in 1779 of the University SMITH, Lamar Seeligson, a Representative from Texas; of the State of Pennsylvania and a member of its board ofborn in San Antonio, Tex., November 19, 1947; graduated trustees until its consolidation in 1791 with the College offrom Texas Military Institute, San Antonio, 1965; B.A., Yale Philadelphia into, the University of Pennsylvania, serving asUniversity, 1969; J.D., Southern Methodist University School a trustee of the latter institution until his death; also aof Law, Dallas, Tex., 1975; intern, Small Business Adminis- trustee of Princeton College from 1779 until 1808; served ontration,Washington,1969-1970; business and financial the board of aldermen of Philadelphia 1792-1794; auditorwriter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1970-1972; admitted general of Pennsylvania in 1794; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,to the Texas State bar in 1975 and commenced practice in June 16, 1812; interment in the graveyard of the SecondSan Antonio; member, Texas State house of representatives, Presbyterian Church. 1981-1982; Bexar County commissioner, 1982-1985; elected Bibliography: DAB. as a Republican to the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, SMITH, Joseph Francis, a Representative from Pennsyl 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident of San Antonio, Tex. vania; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., Janu- ary 24, 1920; attended St. Anne's Parochial School, Philadel- SMITH, Lawrence Henry, a Representative from Wiscon- phia; graduated from Northeast Catholic High School, Phila-sin; born in Racine, Boone County, Wis., September 15, 1892; delphia, 1939; attended St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia,attended the public schools and the State Teachers College, 1940-1942; served in the United States Army, sergeant,Milwaukee, Wis.; graduated from the Marquette University 1942-1945; accountant; administrative assistant to UnitedLaw School, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1923; was admitted to the States Congressman James Byrne, 1965-1970; served in thebar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Pennsylvania legislature, 1970-1981; elected asa DemocratRacine, Wis.; during the First World War served as a first to the Ninety-seventh Congress, July 21, 1981, by speciallieutenant of Infantry, Thirty-second Division, 1917-19 19; election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofelected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress to Raymond F. Lederer, and served from July 21, 1981, tofill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen Bolles; re- January 3, 1983; unsuccessful candidate for renomination toelected to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding the Ninety-eighth Congress; Democratic City chairman,Congresses and served from August 29, 1941, until his death Philadelphia, 1983-1986; is a resident of Philadelphia, Pa.in the , Washington, D.C., January 22, 1958; interment in West Lawn Memorial Park, Racine, Wis. SMITH, Joseph Luther, a Representative from West Vir- ginia; born in Marshes (now Glen Daniel), Raleigh County, SMITH, Lawrence Jack, a Representative from Florida; W.Va., May 22, 1880; attended public and private schools;born' in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., April 25, 1941; at- editor and owner of the Raleigh Register, Beckley, W.Va.,tended public schools in East Meadow, N.Y.; attended the until 1911; also engaged in the real estate and bankingNew York University, New York City, 1958-1961; LL.B. and business; mayor of Beckley 1904-1929; member of the StateJ.D., Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1964; admitted to senate 1909-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-firstthe New York bar, 1964 and commenced practice in New and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-York City; admitted to the Florida bar, 1972; elected to the January 3,1945); chairman, Committee on Mines andFlorida house of representatives, 1978-1982; elected as a Mining (Seventy-second through Seventy-eighth Congresses);Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding was not a candidate for renomination in 1944; engaged inCongresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident banking administrative business, and was a resident of Beck-of Hollywood, Fla. ley, W.Va., until his death on August 23, 1962; interment in Sunset Memorial Park. SMITH, Madison Roswell, a Representative from Missou- ri; born on a farm near Glenallen, Bollinger County, Mo., SMITH, Joseph Showalter, a Representative from Oregon;July 9, 1850; attended the public schools and Central College born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., June 20, 1824;in Fayette, Mo.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in attended the common schools; moved to Oregon City in the1874; taught school; began the practice of law at Marble spring of 1844; moved to Salem, Oreg., and taught school;Hill, Bollinger County, Mo., in 1877; prosecuting attorney of studied law and was admitted to the bar; moved to Olympia,Bollinger County 1878-1882; served in the State senate 1884- Wash., in 1853; was elected to the Territorial house of repre-1888; declined to be a candidate for reelection; served as sentatives in 1856, and served as speaker; was appointededitor of reports for the St. Louis court of appeals for four Biographies 1835 years and resigned; delegate to the Democratic National SMITH, Martin Fernard, a Representative from Washing- Conventions in 1896 and 1912; elected as a Democrat to theton; born in Chicago, Ill., May 28, 1891; attended the public Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccess-schools, Lewis Institute, Chicago, Ill., and Northwestern Uni- ful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Con-versity, Evanston, Ill.; moved to Hoquiam, Wash., in 1911 gress; organizer and secretary of the Federal Trust Co., of St.and completed law studies commenced in Chicago; was ad- Louis, 1909-1912; Minister to Haiti from 1912 until his resig-mitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Ho- nation in 1914; continued the practice of his profession inquiam, Wash.; served as municipal judge of Hoquiam 1914- Farmington, Mo., where he died June 18, 1919; interment in1917; during the First World War served as a private in the the Masonic Cemetery. Coast Artillery Corps from October 9, 1918, to December 15, SMITH, Marcus Aurelius, a Delegate and a Senator from1918; member of the city council 1926-1928; mayor of Ho- Arizona; born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., Janu-quiam 1928-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third ary 24, 1851; attended the common schools; taught school inand to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-Janu- Bourbon County, Ky.; graduated from Transylvania Univer-ary 3, 1943); chairman, Committee on Pensions(Seventy- sity, Lexington, Ky., in 1872 and from the law department ofsixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candi- the University of Kentucky at Lexington; was admitted todate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; the bar and practiced; prosecuting attorney for the city ofdelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936; Lexington; moved to San Francisco and practiced law 1879-appointed a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals, 1881; moved to Tombstone, Ariz., in 1881 and continued the Justice Department, on April 1, 1943, and served until his practice of law; prosecuting attorney for the Tombstone dis-resignation on April 29, 1944; unsuccessful candidate in 1944 trict 1882; elected as a Democrat a Delegate to the Fiftiethfor the Democratic nomination for United States Senator; and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-appointed special assistant to the Attorney General of the March 3, 1895); elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, United States on September 26, 1944, and served until his 1897-March 3, 1899); elected to the Fifty-seventh Congressdeath in Bethesda, Md., October 25, 1954; interment in Ar- (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); elected to the Fifty-ninth andlington National Cemetery. Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for election to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, and SMITH, Melancton, a Delegate from New York; born in Fifty-eighth Congresses; upon the admission of Arizona as aJamaica, Long Island, N.Y., May 7, 1744; was educated by State into the Union was elected as a Democrat in 1902 tohis parents; engaged in business in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; dele- the United States Senate for the term ending March 3, 1915;gate to the First Provincial Congress in New York, May 22, reelected in 1914 and served from March 27, 1912 to March1775; served in the Continental Line Regiment which was 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920; chair-organized June 30, 1775; organized and became captain of man, Committee on Conservation of Natural Resourcesthe Dutchess County Minutemen; secret service commission- (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Irrigation and Recla-er and sheriff of Dutchess County, N.Y., in1777 and 1778; mation of Arid Lands (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congress-moved to New York City in 1785 and engaged in mercantile es), Committee on Printing (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committeepursuits; Member of the Continental Congress 1785-1787; on the Geological Survey (Sixty-sixth Congress); appointed inmember of the State ratification convention at Poughkeepsie 1921 by President Woodrow Wilson as a member of thein 1788; served in the State assembly in 1791; died in New International Joint Commission created to prevent disputesYork City July 29, 1798; interment in Jamaica Cemetery, regarding the use of the boundary waters between theJamaica, Queens County, N.Y. United States and Canada, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1924; interment in Battle Grove SMITH, Meriwether, a Delegate from Virginia; born at Cemetery, Cynthiana, Ky. "Bathurst," near Dunnsville, Essex County, Va., in 1730; Bibliography: Fazio, Steven A. "Marcus Aurelius Smith: Arizona Dele- completed preparatory studies; was a signer of the West- gate and Senator." Arizona and the West 12 (Spring 1910): 23-62. moreland Association in 1766; member of Essex Committee in 1774 SMITH, Margaret Chase (wife of Clyde Harold Smith), aon Safety in 1774; member of the house of burgesses Representative and a Senator from Maine; born Margaretand 1775; delegate to the Revolutionary conventions of 1775 Madeline Chase, December 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, Somer-and 1776; member of the State house of delegates 1776-1778; set County, Maine; attended the public schools; taughtmember of the Continental Congress 1778-1779 and 1781; school in Skowhegan, Maine, in 1916 and 1917; businessagain a member of the State house of delegates in 1781, executive for country weekly newspaper and a woolen com-1782, 1785, and 1788; delegate to the State ratification con- pany 1919-1930; secretary to husband while he was in Con-vention in 1788; died at "Marigold," near Ozeana, Essex gress 1937-1940; lieutenant colonel, Air Force Reserve 1950-County, Va., January 25, 1790; interment on his estate at 1958; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress,"Bathurst," near Dunnsville, Essex County, Va. by special election, June 3, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused SMITH, Nathan (brother of Nathaniel Smith and uncle of by the death of her husband, Clyde H. Smith; reelected toTruman Smith), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Wood- the four succeeding Congresses and served from June 3,bury, Conn., January 8, 1770; received a modest education; 1940, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1948 to the United Sates Senate; reelectedread law; was admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced in 1954, 1960, and again in 1966, and served January 3, 1949,the practice of his profession in New Haven, Conn.; prosecut- until January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelectioning attorney for New Haven County 1817-1835; delegate to in 1972; chairwoman, Special Committee on Rates of Com-the State constitutional convention in 1818; unsuccessful pensation (Eighty-third Congress), Republican Conferencecandidate for governor of Connecticut in 1825; appointed (Ninetieth through Ninety-second Congresses); visiting pro-United States attorney for the district of Connecticut 1828- fessor for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Founda-1829; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and tion 1973-1976; is a resident of Skowhegan, Maine. served from March 4, 1833, until his death in Washington, Bibliography: Graham, Frank. Margaret Chase Smith: Woman of Cour-D.C., December 6, 1835; interment in the Grove Street Ceme- age. New York: John Day Company, 1964; Smith, Margaret Chase. Decla-tery, New Haven, Conn.

ration of Conscience. Edited by William C. Lewis, Jr. New York: Double-- Bibliography: DAB; Smith, Emily, ed. Life and Letters of Nathan Smith. day, 1972. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. 1836 Biographical Directory

SMITH, Nathaniel (brother of Nathan Smith and uncle ofthe bar and commenced the practice of law in New Milford, Truman Smith), a Representative from Connecticut; born inConn., in 1807; member of the State house of representatives Woodbury, Conn., January 6, 1762; attended the commonin 1822-1823, 1835-1836; judge of probate court 1833-1835; schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits and was alsoapostmaster of New Milford 1829-1837; elected as a Democrat cattle dealer; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1787to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1837, and commenced the practice of his profession in Woodbury,to March 3,1843; chairman, Committee on Agriculture Conn.; member of the State house of representatives 1789-(Twenty-fifth Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims 1795; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Con-(Twenty-sixth Congress); died in New Milford, Litchfield gresses (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1799); declined to be aCounty, Conn., on June 8, 1852; interment in Center Ceme- candidate for renomination in 1798; served in the Statetery. senate 1800-1805; judge of the supreme court of Connecticut 1806-1819; delegate to the Hartford Convention of 1814; died SMITH, Ralph Tyler, a Senator from Illinois; born in in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Conn., March 9, 1822; inter-Granite City, Madison County, Ill., October 6, 1915; attended ment in the Episcopal Church Cemetery. public schools in Granite City; graduated from Illinois Col- Bibliography: DAB. lege at Jacksonville in 1937 and from Washington Universi- SMITH, Neal Edward, a Representative from Iowa; bornty Law School at St. Louis in 1940; was admitted to the bar in Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa, March 23, 1920; attendedin 1940 and commenced practice in Granite City; enlisted in the public schools of Packwood, Iowa, Missouri Universitythe United States Naval Reserve immediately after Pearl College of Liberal Arts in 1945 and 1946, Syracuse Universi-Harbor, ordered to active duty in July 1942, commissioned ty Schools of Public and Business Administration 1946-1948;an ensign in October 1942 and served until January 1946; graduated from Drake University Law School in 1950;wasresumed the practice of law in Alton, Ill., in 1946; elected to admitted to the bar in 1950 and commenced the practice ofthe Illinois general assembly in 1954, and was reelected for law in Des Moines, Iowa; also lives on and operatesa farmseven succeeding terms; majority whip in 1963; elected in Polk County; served in the Army Air Force 1942-1945;speaker in 1967 and reelected in 1969; appointed as a Repub- awarded nine battle stars, Air Medal, four oak leaf clusters,lican September 17, 1969, to fill the vacancy in the United and Order of the Purple Heart; assistant county attorney forStates Senate created by the death of Everett McKinley Polk County, Iowa, in 1951 and 1952; national president,Dirksen and served until November 3, 1970; unsuccessful Young Democratic Clubs of America, 1953-1955; chairman,candidate for election to fill the unexpired term in 1970; Polk County Welfare Board, 1953-1954; elected asa Demo-resumed the practice of law; died in Alton, Ill., August 13, crat to the Eighty-sixth and to the fourteen succeeding Con-1972; interment in Sunset Hill Cemetery Mausoleum, Ed- gresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1989); chairman, Specialwardsville, Ill. Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Ninety-third Con- gress), Committee on Small Business (Ninety-fifth and SMITH, Richard, a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Ninety-sixth Congresses); is a resident of Altoona, Iowa. Burlington, N.J., March 22, 1735; educated under private teachers and in Friends' schools; studied law; was admitted SMITH, O'Brien, a Representative from South Carolina;to the bar in 1762 and practiced in Philadelphia, Pa., and born in Ireland about 1756; came to South Carolina follow-later in Burlington, N.J.; commissioned county clerk of Bur- ing the Revolutionary War, taking the oath of allegiance tolington on December 7, 1762; Member of the Continental the Government of the United States July 31, 1784; memberCongress from July 23, 1774, to June 12, 1776, when he of the State assembly, 179 1-1799; served in the State senateresigned; member of the State council in 1776; elected treas- in 1803; elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congressurer of New Jersey and served from 1776 to February 15, (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); died April 27, 1811; inter-1777, when he resigned; moved to Laurens, N.Y., in 1790 and ment in the burial ground of the colonial Chapel of Ease ofthence to Philadelphia in 1799; died near Natchez, Miss., St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County,near Jackson- boro, S.C. September 17, 1803; interment in Natchez Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. SMITH, Oliver Hampton, a Representative anda Senator SMITH, Robert (nephew of Jeremiah Smith and Samuel from Indiana; born on Smith's Island, near Trenton, N.J.,Smith of New Hampshire), a Representative from Illinois; October 23, 1794; attended the common schools; movedwest,born in Peterborough, Hilisboro County, N.H., June 12, 1802; eventually settling in Lawrenceburg, md., in 1818; studiedattended the public schools and New Ipswich Academy; law; was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commencedprac- tice in Connersville, Ind.; member, State house of represent-taught school; engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1822 and in atives 1822-1824; prosecuting attorney for the third judicialthe manufacturing of textile goods in Northfield, N.H., in district 1824-1825; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March1823; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionmoved to Illinois and settled in Alton in 1832 and again in 1828; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate andengaged in mercantile pursuits; elected captain in the State served from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1843; chairman,militia in 1832; extensive land owner and engaged in the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-sixth Congress), Com-real estate business; member of the State house of represent- mittee on Public Lands (Twenty-seventh Congress);unsuc-atives 1886-1840; elected enrolling and engrossing clerk of cessful candidate for reelection; moved to Indianapolis, md.,the State house of representatives in 1840 and 1842; elected and resumed the practice of law; declined to bea candidateas a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con- for governor of Indiana in 1845; engaged in the railroadgresses and as an Independent Democrat to the Thirtieth business in Indianapolis; died in Indianapolis, md., March Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Commit- 19, 1859; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. tee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-ninth Congress); elected as Bibliography: DAB. a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857- March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Thirty- SMITH, Perry, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Wood-fifth Congress); served as paymaster during the Civil War; bury, Conn., May 12, 1783; completed preparatory studies;died in Alton, Ill., December 21, 1867; interment in Alton studied law at the Litchfield Law School; was admitted toCity Cemetery. 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SMITH, Robert Barnwell, a Representative and a Senatorator in town meetings 1794-1811; elected as a Federalist to from South Carolina. (See RHETI', Robert Barnwell.) the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for renomination in 1814; resumed his SMITH, Robert C., a Representative from New Hamp-former business pursuits, and in 1828 engaged in the manu- shire; born in Trenton, N.J., March 30, 1941; attended publicfacture of paper and cotton goods; died in Peterboro, N.H., schools in Allentown and Trenton, N.J.; B.S., Lafayette Col-April 25, 1842; interment in the Village Cemetery. lege, Easton, Pa., 1965; served in the United States Navy from 1965 to 1967 with one year of duty in Vietnam; taught SMITH, Samuel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; as- school; engaged in real estate business; unsuccessful candi-sociate judge of Erie County, Pa., from 1803 to 1805, when he date for election to the Ninety-eighth Congress; elected as aresigned; elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress to Republican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Con-fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John B. C. gresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofLucas; reelected to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses and Tuftonboro, N.H. served from November 7, 1805, to March 3, 1811; unsuccess- SMITH, Robert Freeman, a Representative from Oregon;ful candidate for reelection in 1810 to the Twelfth Congress. born in Portland, Multnomah County, Oreg., June 16, 1931; SMITH, Samuel A., a Representative from Pennsylvania; attended public schools in Burns, Oreg.; B.A., Willametteborn in Harrow, Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, Pa., University, Salem, Oreg.,1953; rancher; elected to thein 1795; attended the common schools; commissioned justice Oregon house of representatives, 1960-1972; Oregon's repre-of the peace for the Rockhill-Milford district before he was sentative on President's Public Land Review Commission,twenty-one years of age; register of wills for Bucks County 1965-1969; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1980;1824-1829; was brigade inspector of militia for the Bucks elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and the twoand Montgomery County district; resigned in 1832; elected as succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); isa Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the a resident of Burns, Oreg. vacancies caused by the resignations of and SMITH, Samuel,a Representative and a Senator fromSamuel D. Ingham; reelected to the Twenty-second Congress Maryland; born in Carlisle, Pa., July 27, 1752; moved withand served from October 13, 1829, to March 3, 1833; member his family to Baltimore, Md., in 1759; attended a privateof the State senate 1841-1843; was appointed associate judge academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the Rev-of the courts of Bucks County by Governor Porter in 1844 olutionary War as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel;and served until 1849; engaged in mercantile pursuits in engaged in the shipping business; member, State house ofDoylestown, Pa., and later in Point Pleasant, Pa.; died in delegates 1790-1792; at the time of the threatened war withPoint Pleasant, Bucks County, Pa., May 15, 1861; interment France in 1794 was appointed brigadier general of militiain the Presbyterian Churchyard, Doylestown, Pa. and commanded Maryland's quota during the Whisky Rebel- SMITH, Samuel Axley, a Representative from Tennessee; lion; during the War of 1812 served as major general ofborn in Monroe County, Tenn., June 26, 1822; received a militia in the defense of Baltimore; elected to the Third andlimited education; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3,to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Cleveland, 1803); did not seek renomination in 1802, having become aTenn.; district attorney general 1845-1850; delegate to the candidate for Senator; chairman, Committee on Commerce Democratic National Convention in 1848; elected as a Demo- and Manufactures (Fifth through Seventh Congresses); elect-crat to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Con- ed to the United States Senate as a Republican in 1802,gresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candi- reelected in 1808, and served from March 4, 1803, to Marchdate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; ap- 3, 1815; served as President pro tempore of the Senatepointed by President Buchanan to be Commissioner of the during the Ninth and Tenth Congresses; elected to the Four-General Land Office and served from January 18 to Febru- teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Governor of Nicholas R. Moore; reelected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth,ary 12, 1860, when he resigned; appointed by the and Seventeenth Congresses and served from January 31,of the State of Tennessee on November 16, 1861, an agent to 1816, to December 17, 1822, when he resigned, having beencollect arms for the Confederate Army; died at Ladd elected Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures inSprings, Polk County, Tenn., November 25, 1863; interment the Department of the Treasury (Fourteenth Congress), Com-in Amos Ladd's Burial Ground. mittee on Ways and Means (Fifteenth through Seventeenth SMITH, Samuel William, a Representative from Michi- Congresses); elected to the United States Senate to fill thegan; born in Independence Township, OaklandCounty, vacancy caused by the death of William Pinkney; reelectedMich., August 23, 1852; attended the common schools in in 1826 and served from December 17, 1822, to March 3,Clarkston and Detroit; began teaching school in 1869; served 1833; served as President pro tempore of the Senate duringas superintendent of schools in Waterford Township,Mich., the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses); chairman, Com-in 1875 and at the same time served as principal of the mittee on Finance (Eighteenth and Twentieth throughschool at Waterford, Mich.; studied law; was admitted to the Twenty-second Congresses); mayor of Baltimore, Md., 1835-bar in 1877 and was graduated from the law department of 1838; retired from public life; died in Baltimore, April 22,the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1878; com- 1839; interment in the Old Westminster Burying Ground.menced the practice of law in Pontiac, Mich.; prosecuting Bibliography: Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Re- attorney of Oakland County 1880-1884; served in the State public. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,1971; Pancake, John. senate 1885-1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Samuel Smith and the Politics of Business, 1782-183.9. University, Ala.: and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897- University of Alabama Press, 1972. March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on District of Colum- SMITH, Samuel (brother of Jeremiah Smith and uncle ofbia (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); was not a candidate Robert Smith), a Representative from New Hampshire; bornfor reelection to the Sixty-fourth Congress; moved to Detroit, in Peterboro, N.H., November 11, 1765; attended PhillipsMich., in 1913 and continued the practice of law; died in Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Phillips Academy, Ando-Detroit, Mich., June 19, 1931; interment in Oak Hill Ceme- ver, Mass.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served as moder-tery, Adrian, Mich. 1838 Biographical Directory

SMITH, Sylvester Clark, a Representative from Califor-1904 and 1905; one of the founders of the Bank of Ridgely nia; born near Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, Augustand served as its first president; elected as a Democrat to 26, 1858; attended the district schools and Howe's Academythe Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); un- at Mount Pleasant; taught school in Winfield, Iowa; movedsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth to California in 1879 and engaged in agricultural pursuits;Congress; was a delegate to the Farmers' National Congress taught school in Colusa and Kern Counties in 1883; studiedof the United States held at Madison, Wis., in 1908 and at law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced prac- Lincoln, Nebr., in 1910; land commissioner of Maryland tice in Bakersfield, Calif.; edited the Kern County Echo;1908-19 12; appointed internal revenue agent for the district resumed the practice of law; member of the State senateof Maryland in 1915 and served until January 1, 1920; re- 1894-1902; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1902 to thetired in 1922, and resided in Ridgely, Caroline County, Md.; Fifty-eighth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-died in Newark, Del., May 1, 1932; interment in Denton ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedCemetery, Ridgely, Md. from March 4, 1905, until his death in Los Angeles, Calif., January 26, 1913; interment in Union Cemetery. SMITH, Thomas Francis, a Representative from New York; born in New York City, July 24, 1865; attended the SMITH, Thomas, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; borncommon schools, St. Francis Xavier College, Manhattan Col- near Cruden, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1745; pursued pre-lege, and the New York Law School from 1899 to 1901; paratory studies; attended the University of Edinburgh,reporter on the New York World and the New York Trib- Scotland; immigrated to the United States and settled inune; clerk of the city court 1898-1917; was admitted to the Bedford, Pa., February 9, 1769; deputy surveyor in 1769;bar in 1911 and commenced practice in New York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced thedelegate to the State constitutional convention in 1915 and practice of his profession in 1772; deputy register of willsto the Democratic National Convention in 1916; elected as a and prothonotary in 1773; justice of the peace in 1774;Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy member of the committee of correspondence in 1775; servedcaused by the death of Michael F. Conry; reelected to the in the Revolutionary Army as a deputy colonel of militia;Sixty-sixth Congress and served from April 12, 1917, to delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1776;March 3, 1921; was not a candidate for renomination in member of the State house of representatives 1776-1780;1920; public administrator of New York from April 1, 1921, Member of the Continental Congress 178 1-1782; judge of the until his death in a taxicab accident in New York City April court of common pleas in 1791; judge of the Pennsylvania11, 1923; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, Supreme Court 1794-1809; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,on March 31, 1809; interment in Christ Churchyard. N.Y. SMITH, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylvania; SMITH, Thomas Vernor, a Representative from Illinois; born in Pennsylvania; resided in Tinicum Township, Dela-born in Blanket, Brown County, Tex., April 26, 1890; attend- ware County, Pa.; member of the State house of representa-ed the public schools; was graduated from the University of tives in 1806 and 1807; elected as a Federalist to the Four-Texas at Austin in 1915 and from the University of Chicago, teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); moved toChicago, Ill., in 1922; during the First World War entered Darby Township (later Darby Borough) in 1815; justice of thethe military service September 3,1918, and served as a peace at the time of his death in Darby, Delaware County,private in the United States Army until discharged on Janu- Pa., on January 29, 1846; interment in St. James's (Oldary 28, 1919; member of the faculty of Texas Christian Uni- versity 1916-1918, the University of Texas 1919-1921, and Swedes) Cemetery, Paschall (now a part of Philadelphia), Pa.the University of Chicago 1923-1948; author of numerous SMITH, Thomas, a Representative from Indiana; born inbooks; editor of the International Journal of Ethics 193 1- Fayette County, Pa., May 1, 1799; moved to Rising Sun, md., 1948; member of the State senate 1935-1938; chairman of in 1818; learned the trade of tanner; moved to Versailles,the Illinois Legislative Council in 1937 and 1938; elected as a md., in 1821 and established a tanyard; became a colonel inDemocrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939- the militia; member of the State house of representatives inJanuary 3,1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829, 1830, and 1833-1836; served in the State senate 1836-1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; served in the Army of 1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congressthe United States, as a lieutenant colonel and later as a (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate forcolonel, from 1943 to 1946; served as director of education of election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; elected tothe Allied Control Commission in Italy from November 24, the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4,1943, to November 11, 1944; in 1948 resumed his profession 1843-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renominationas a writer and teacher at the University of Syracuse, Syra- in 1846; delegate to the State constitutional convention incuse, N.Y., until his retirement in 1959; resided in Hyatts- 1850; died in Versailles, Ripley County, Ind., April 12, 1876;ville, Md., until his death there May 24, 1964; interment in interment in Cliff Hill Cemetery. Arlington National Cemetery. SMITH, Thomas Alexander, a Representative from Mary- Bibliography: DAB. land; born near Greenwood, Sussex County, Del., September SMITH, Truman (nephew of Nathan Smith and Nathaniel 3, 1850; moved with his parents to Ridgely, Md., in 1856;Smith), a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; attended the public schools and Denton (Md.) Academy;born in Roxbury, Conn., November 27, 1791; completed pre- taught school in Delaware, Maryland, and Michigan;re-paratory studies; graduated from Yale College in 1815; stud- turned to Ridgely, Md., where he was postmaster fromied law; was admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced August 4, 1885, to November 25, 1889; engaged in themer-practice in Litchfield, Conn.; member, State house of repre- cantile business; member of the board of school commission-sentatives 1831-1832, 1834; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- ers for Caroline County 1889-1893; member of the Statesixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March senate in 1894 and 1896; was chief of the Maryland Bureau3, 1843); declined renomination in 1842; presidential elector of Statistics and Information 1900-1904; first vice presidenton the Whig ticket in 1844; elected to the Twenty-ninth and of the National Association of Labor Statisticians in 1903Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3,1849); de- and 1904; member of the board of State aid and charities inclined the appointment of Secretary of the Interior in the Biographies 1839

Cabinet of President ; elected to the UnitedCarolina senate from Spartan District 1810-1818; died in States Senate as a Whig and served from March 4, 1849,Spartan District June 22, 1837; probably buried in Glenn until his resignation May 24, 1854; resumed the practice ofSprings section of Spartanburg. his profession in New York City in 1854, with residence in Stamford, Conn.; appointed by President Abraham Lincoln SMITH, William, a Representative from Virginia; born in as judge of the court of arbitration, under the treaty of 1862Chesterfield, Va.; completed preparatory studies; member of with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave tradethe State house of delegates in 1782; elected to the Seven- 1862-1870; retired from active business life in 1872; died inteenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., May 3, 1884; interment in 1821-March 3, 1827). Woodland Cemetery. SMITH, William, a Senator from South Carolina; born Bibliography: DAB. around 1762, probably in North Carolina; attended several SMITH, Virginia Dodd, a Representative from Nebraska;private academies; studied law and was admitted to the bar born Virginia Dodd in Randolph, Fremont County, Iowa,in 1784; settled in Pinckneyville, S.C., and later in Yorkville June 30, 1911; attended Manti Rural School (elementary) in(now York), S.C., and practiced law; also was engaged as a Fremont County, Iowa; graduated from Shenandoah (Iowa)planter; member, State senate 1802-1808, and served as High School; B.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1936;president of that body 1806-1808; judge of the South Caroli- lecturer before agricultural and civic groups; member,na Circuit Court 1808-1816; elected December 4, 1816, as a United States Department of Agriculture's Home EconomicsRepublican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Research Advisory Committee, 1950-1960; delegate to Whitecaused by the resignation of John Taylor; on the same day House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960; chairwom-was elected for the term commencing March 4, 1817, and an, Presidential Task Force on Rural Development, 1971-served from December 4, 1816, to March 3, 1823; unsuccess- 1972; served on Advisory Board, Educational Resources In-ful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on the formation Center, Clearinghouse on Rural Education andJudiciary (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses); member, Small Schools, United States Department of Health, Educa-State house of representatives 1824-1825; again elected to tion, and Welfare, 1972-1974; served on Census Advisorythe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the Committee on Agricultural Statistics, United States Depart-death of and served from November 29, 1826, ment of Commerce, 1973; delegate, Republican National Con-to March 3, 1831; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in ventions, 1956-1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-1830; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenti- fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,eth Congress); member, State senate 1831-1832; moved to 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Chappell, Nebr. Louisiana in 1832, and to a farm near Huntsville, Madison SMITH, Walter Inglewood, a Representative from Iowa;County, Ala., in 1833; member, Alabama house of represent- born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, July 10,atives 1836-1840; declined the appointment of Associate Jus- 1862; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit-tice of the Supreme Court of the United States tendered by ted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in CouncilPresident Andrew Jackson in 1829 and 1836; presidential Bluffs, Iowa; judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Iowaelector on the Democratic ticket in 1836; died at his estate 1890-1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Con-"Calhoun Place," on the Maysville Pike, near Huntsville, gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of SmithAla., June 26, 1840; interment in the family burial ground McPherson and on the same day was elected to the Fifty-on the estate; reinterment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Hunts- seventh Congress; reelected to the Fifty-eighth and to theville, Ala. four succeeding Congresses and served from December 3, Bibliography: DAB; Davis, Richard W. 'William Smith: A Study in the 1900, to March 15, 1911, when he resigned to accept an Politics of Dissent." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1964; Smith, appointment on the bench; appointed by President Taft to beCaroline. "Jacksonian Conservative: The Later Years of William Smith, United States circuit judge for the eighth judicial circuit and 1826-1840." Ph.D. dissertation, Auburn University, 1977. served from March 16, 1911, until his death in Council SMITH, William, a Representative from Virginia; born in Bluffs, Iowa, on January 27, 1922; interment in FairviewMarengo, King George County, Va., September 6, 1797; at- Cemetery. tended private schools in Virginia and Plainfield Academy Bibliography: DAB. in Connecticut; studied law; was admitted to the bar and SMITH, William, a Delegate and a Representative fromcommenced practice in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., in Maryland; born in Donegal Township, Lancaster County,1818; established a line of United States mail and passenger Pa., April 12, 1728; moved to Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1761;post coaches through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in appointed a member of the committee of correspondence in1831; member of the State senate from 1836 to 1841, when 1774; member of the committee of observation in 1775; onehe resigned; successfully contested as a Democrat the elec- of a committee appointed by Congress to constitute a navaltion of Linn Banks to the Twenty-seventh Congress and board in 1777; Member of the Continental Congress in 1777;served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843; unsuccessful engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected to the First Congresscandidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); First Auditor of the Unitedgress; moved to Fauquier County; Governor of Virginia States Treasury July 16 to November 27, 1791; member of1846-1849, and unsuccessful candidate for election to the the State senate in 1801; died in Baltimore, Md., on MarchUnited States Senate during that period; moved to Califor- 27, 1814; interment in the Old Westminster Graveyard. nia in April 1849; president of the first Democratic State convention in 1850; returned to Virginia in December 1852; SMITH, William, a Representative from South Carolina;elected to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Con- born in Bucks County, Pa., September 20, 1751; removed togresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); during the Civil War South Carolina with his father in 1765; planter, of Spartanserved in the Confederate Army as colonel of the Forty- District; fought in the Revolutionary War; county courtninth Regiment of Virginia Infantry, and subsequently was judge, 1785-1797; South Carolina senate from Spartan Dis-promoted to brigadier general and major general; served in trict 1790-1796; elected as a Republican to Fifth Congressthe Confederate Congress in 1862; again Governor of Virgin- (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); again a member of the Southia in 1864; returned to his estate, "Monterosa," near War- 1840 Biographical Directory renton, Va., in June 1865; engaged in agricultural pursuits; SMITH, William Jay, a Representative from Tennessee; member of the State house of delegates 1877-1879; died inborn in Birmingham, England, September 24, 1823; immi- Warrenton, Va., May 18, 1887; interment in Hollywood Cem-grated to the United States and settled in Orange County, etery, Richmond, Va. N.Y.; attended the common schools; learned the printing Bibliography: DAB; Fahrner, Alvin A. "The Public Career of William trade; moved to Tennessee in 1846; during the Mexican War, 'Extra Billy' Smith." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina,in 1847, served in a regiment from that State; moved to 1953. Hardeman County, Tenn., and engaged in horticulture; SMITh, William Alden, a Representative and a Senatorduring the Civil War served in the Union Army 1861-1865; from Michigan; born in Dowagiac, Cass County, Mich., Maydelegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865; 12, 1859; attended the common schools; moved with his par-member of the State house of representatives, 1865-1867; ents to Grand Rapids in 1872; appointed a page in the Michi-served in the State senate, 1867-1869 and 1885-1887; survey- gan house of representatives in 1875; studied law; was admit-or of the port of Memphis, Tenn., 1871-1883; elected as a ted to the bar and commenced practice in Grand Rapids inRepublican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 1883; general counsel of the Chicago & West Michigan Rail-3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; engaged in way and the Detroit Lansing & Northern Railroad; assistantthe real estate business and in banking; delegate to the secretary of the Michigan State senate in 1883; State gameRepublican National Convention in 1876; died in Memphis, warden 1887-1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served fromTenn., November 29, 1913; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. March 4, 1895, until his resignation, effective February 9, SMITH, William Loughton, a Representative from South 1907, having been elected Senator; chairman, Committee onCarolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1758; attended prepara- Expenditures in the Department of State (Fifty-sixth Con-tory schools in England 1770-1774; studied law in the Middle gress), Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-seventh andTemple at London, England, in 1774; pursued higher studies Fifty-eighth Congresses); elected as a Republican to thein Geneva 1774-1778; returned to Charleston, S.C., in 1783; United States Senate January 15, 1907, for the term begin-was admitted to the bar in 1784 and commenced practice in ning March 4, 1907; subsequently elected on February 6, 1907, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1907,Charleston; engaged in agricultural pursuits on his estate caused by the death of Russell A. Alger; reelected in 1913,near Charleston; member of the privy council in 1784; and served from February 9, 1907, to March 3, 1919; was notmember of the State house of representatives 1787-1788; a candidate for renomination in 1918; chairman, Committeewarden of the city of Charleston in 1786; elected to the First, on Canadian Relations (Sixty-first Congress), Committee onSecond and Third Congresses and elected as a Federalist to Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee to Examinethe Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from March 4, Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth1789, until July 10, 1797, when he resigned; chairman, Com- Congresses); constructed a railroad in Michigan in 1898 andmittee on Elections (Third Congress), Committee on Ways became owner of the Lowell & Hastings Railroad in 1900;and Means (Fourth and Fifth Congresses); appointed United owner and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald in 1906;States Minister to Portugal and Spain on July 10, 1797, and chairman of the board of directors of a transit companyserved until September 9, 1801, when he took leave of ab- operating a line of steamboats from Chicago to various Lakesence; commissioned Minister to the Ottoman Porte on Feb- Michigan ports; died in Grand Rapids, Mich., on October 11,ruary 11, 1799, but did not reach that court; returned to 1932; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Charleston; unsuccessful Federalist candidate for election in Bibliography: Wade, Wyn Craig. "The Senator and the Shipwreck." 1804, 1806, and 1808 to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Michigan History 63 (November/December 1979): 10-19. Congresses; lieutenant in the State militia in 1808; again a SMITH, William Alexander, a Representative from Northmember of the State house of representatives in 1808; presi- Carolina; born in Warren County, N.C., January 9, 1828;dent of the Santee Canal Co.; vice president of the Charles- attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pur-ton Library Society and of the St. Cecilia Society; died in suits; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865;Charleston, S.C., December 19, 1812; interment in St. Phil- member of the State senate in 1870; president of the Northip's Churchyard. Carolina Railroad in 1868 and of the Yadkin River Railroad; Bibliography: DAB; Rogers, George C. Evolution of a Federalist: William elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March Loughton Smith of Charleston 1758-1812. Columbia: University of South 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); died in Richmond, Va., May 16, 1888; Carolina Press, 1962. interment in Hollywood Cemetery. SMITH, William Nathan Harrell, a Representative from SMITH, William Ephraim, a Representative from Georgia;North Carolina; born in Murfreesboro, N.C., September 24, born in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., March 14, 1829;1812; attended the common schools in Murfreesboro, N.C., pursued an academic course; studied law; was admitted toKingston, R.I., and Coichester and East Lyme, Conn.; was the bar in 1846, under a special act of the legislature, andgraduated from Yale College in 1834 and from Yale Law practiced in Albany, Ga.; also a planter; ordinary of Dough-School in 1836; was admitted to the bar and commenced erty County, Ga., in 1853; solicitor general of the southwestpractice in Murfreesboro, N.C., in 1839; held several local circuit 1858-1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Con-offices; was a member of the State house of commons in federate Army as a first lieutenant in the Fourth Georgia1840, 1858, 1865, and 1866; served in the State senate in Volunteer Infantry; elected captain in April 1862; elected to1848; solicitor of the first judicial district of North Carolina the house of representatives of the Second Confederate Con-for eight years; elected as an Opposition Party candidate to gress in 1863; declined the office of circuit judge of Georgiathe Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-unsuccessful candidate for Speaker, lacking one vote of elec- fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3,tion; served in the Confederate Congress 1862-1865; delegate 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; re-to the Democratic National Convention at New York City in sumed the practice of law; president of the Democratic State1868; chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court convention in 1886; served in the State senate 1886-1888; 1878-1889; died in Raleigh, N.C., November 14, 1889; inter- died in Albany, Dougherty County, Ga., March 11, 1890; ment in Oakwood Cemetery. interment in Oakview Cemetery. 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SMITH, William Orlando, a Representative from Pennsyl-in 1776; was on the staff of General Lafayette in 1780 and vania; born in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pa., June 13, 1781, and then transferred to the staff of General Washing- 1859; attended the public schools; learned the printing trade;ton; secretary of the Legation at London in 1784; returned to publisher of the Reynoldsville Herald 1876-1879; worked inAmerica in 1788; appointed by President Washington to be the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1879-United States marshal for the district of New York in 1789, 1884; returned to Punxsutawney, Pa., in 1884 and successive-and later supervisor of revenue; one of the originators of the ly edited the Punxsutawney Tribune and the PunxsutawneySociety of the Cincinnati, and served as its president 1795- Spirit; member of the State house of representatives 1889-1797; appointed by President John Adams surveyor of the 1898; editor of the Bradford (Pa.) Daily Era in 1891; pur-port of New York in 1800; moved to Lebanon, N.Y., in 1807; chased a half interest in the Punxsutawney Spirit in Janu-elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, ary 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and1813-March 3, 1815); presented credentials of his election to Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); wasthe Fourteenth Congress, but he did not qualify, and on not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed newspa-December 13, 1815, Westel Willoughby, Jr., successfully con- per interests in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pa.; diedtested his election; died in Smith Valley, town of Lebanon, in Cleveland, Ohio, May 12, 1932; interment in Circle HillMadison County, N.Y., on June 10, 1816; interment in the Cemetery, Punxsutawney, Pa. Lines Hill Cemetery, between Smyrna and Sherburne, N.Y. SMITH, William Robert, a Representative from Texas; Bibliography: DAB. born near Tyler, Smith County, Tex., August 18, 1863; at- SMITH, Willis, a Senator from North Carolina; born in tended the country schools, and was graduated from SamNorfolk, Va., December 19, 1887; at the death of his father, Houston Normal Institute, Huntsville, Tex., in 1883; studiedmoved with his mother to North Carolina in 1889 and at- law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced in Tylertended the public schools in Elizabeth City; graduated from until February 1888; moved to Colorado, Mitchell County,Atlantic Collegiate Institute, Elizabeth City, N.C., in 1905, Tex., and continued the practice of law; judge of the thirty-Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C., in second judicial district of Texas 1897-1908; was elected as a1910, and from the law school of Duke University in 1912; Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the six succeeding Con-was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced the practice gresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committeeof law in Raleigh, N.C.; during the First World War served on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Sixty-second through Sixty-in the United States Army at Fort Monroe, Va.; inheritance fourth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renominationtax attorney of North Carolina 1915-1920; member, State in 1916; moved to El Paso, Tex., in October 1916 and prac-house of representatives 1928-1932, serving as speaker 1931; ticed his profession; appointed United States district judgemember of commission preparing rules for federal courts in for the western district of Texas and served from April 12,North Carolina in 1933; observer at Nuremburg Trials in 1917, until his death in El Paso, Tex., August 16, 1924;1946; United States delegate to the Interparliamentary interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Union in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1951, and served as chairman SMITH, William Russell, a Representative from Alabama;of the American delegation to the Interparliamentary Union born in Russeilville, Ky., March 27, 1815; moved at an earlyin Bern, Switzerland, in 1952; elected as a Democrat to the age to Huntsville, Ala.; pursued classical studies and attend-United States Senate on November 7, 1950, to fill the vacan- ed the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; studied law;cy caused by the death of J. Melville Broughton andserved was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greens-from November 27, 1950, until his death in the naval hospi- boro, Ala., in 1835; served as captain of Alabama Statetal at Bethesda, Md., June 26, 1953; interment in Oakwood troops in the campaign against the Creek Indians in 1836;Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he continued the practice Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., of law and also engaged in newspaper work; founded and 1954. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954. edited the Mirror; mayor of Tuscaloosa in 1839; author of SMITH, Wint, a Representative from Kansas; born in several books and plays; member of the State house of repre- Mankato, Jewel! County, Kans., October 7, 1892; attended sentatives 1841-1843; elected brigadier general of militia inthe public schools and was graduated from the Mankato 1845; judge of the seventh judicial circuit in 1850 and 1851;High School; during the First World War served in the elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-second Congress, as aUnited States Army as a combat Infantry officer from May Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, and as an American11, 1917, to September 4, 1919, with twenty-four months' Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4,service overseas; University of Kansas at Lawrence, A.B., 1851-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1920; Yale University Law School, LL.B., 1922; was admitted 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; member of the State con-to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Kansas City, stitutional convention in 1861 and voted against secession;Kans., was admitted to practice in all Federal courts, includ- during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army asing the United States Supreme Court in 1934; assistant at- colonel of the Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment; Representa-torney general 1931-1940; attorney for Kansas Highway tive in the First and Second Confederate Congresses; presi-Commission 1932-1940; during the Second World War served dent of the University of Alabama 1869-187 1; resumed theas lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the Six practice of his profession and engaged in historical and liter-Hundred and Thirty-fifth Tank Destroyer Battalion from ary pursuits; died in Washington, D.C., on February 26, 1896;May 1941 to December 1945, with twenty-two months' serv- interment in Tuscaloosa, Ala.; reinterment in Mount Olivetice overseas; retired as brigadier general; resumed the prac- Cemetery, Washington, D.C. tice of law; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to Bibliography: DAB. the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, SMITH, William Stephens, a Representative from New1961); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960 to the York; born on Long Island, N.Y., November 8, 1755; wasEighty-seventh Congress; returned to his home in Mankato graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princetonand engaged in farming and ranching; died in Wichita, University) in 1774; studied law for a short time; served inKans., April 27, 1976; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General SullivanMankato, Kans. 1842 Biographical Directory

SMITH, Worthington Curtis (son of John Smith, of Ver-February 9, 1941; interment in Provo Burial Park, Provo, mont), a Representative from Vermont; born in St. Albans,Utah. Franklin County, Vt., April 23, 1823; pursued classical stud- Bibliography: Allen, James B. "The Great Protectionist, Senator Reed ies, and was graduated from the University of Vermont at Smoot of Utah." Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Fall 1977): 325-45; Morrill, Burlington in 1843; studied law, but did not practice; en- Milton R. ", Apostle in Politics." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia gaged in the iron trade; during the Civil War assisted in University, 1950. raising the First Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry; SMYSER, Martin Luther, a Representative from Ohio; member of the State house of representatives in 1863; servedborn on a farm in Plaine Township, Wayne County, Ohio, in the State senate in 1864 and 1865, and was elected presi- dent pro tempore of that body in 1865; elected as a Republi- April 3, 1851; attended the common schools and was grad- can to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congressesuated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1870; (March 4, 1867-March 3,1873); president of St. Albansstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and practiced Foundry Co.; died in St. Albans, Vt., January 2, 1894; inter-in Wooster; elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne County in ment in Greenwood Cemetery. 1872 and served one term; delegate to the Republican Na- tional Conventions in 1884 and 1888; elected to the Fifty-first SMITHERS, Nathaniel Barratt, a Representative fromCongress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candi- Delaware; born in Dover, Del., October 8, 1818; was graduat-date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; re- ed from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, in 1836; studiedsumed the practice of law in Wooster; elected to the Fifty- law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful Dover, Del., in 1840; secretary of State of Delaware Januarycandidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; 20 to November 23, 1863; elected as an Unconditional Union- continued the practice of law in Wooster, Ohio, until his ist to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy causeddeath in that city May 6, 1908; interment in Wooster Ceme- by the death of William Temple and served from Decembertery. 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- tion in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; resumed the prac- SMYTH, Alexander, a Representative from Virginia; born tice of law in Dover; delegate to the Republican Nationalon the Island of Rathlin, Ireland, in 1765; immigrated to the Convention in 1864; died in Dover, Kent County, Del., Janu-United States and settled in Botetourt County, Va., in 1775; ary 16, 1896; interment in the Old Methodist Cemetery.completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Abingdon, Va.; moved to SMITHWICK, John Harris, a Representative from Flori-Wythe County, Va.; member of the State house of delegates da; born near Orange, Cherokee County, Ga., July 17, 1872;in 1792, 1796, 1801, 1802, and 1804-1808; served in the State attended the public schools; was graduated from Reinhardtsenate in 1808 and 1809; served in the United States Army Normal College, Waleska, Ga., in 1895 and from the lawfrom 1808 to 1813; resumed the practice of his profession; department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., inagain a member of the State house of delegates in 1816, 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced the1817, 1826, and 1827; elected as a Republican to the Fif- practice of his profession in Moultrie, Ga.; moved to Pensaco-teenth Congress and reelected to the three succeeding Con- la, Fla., in 1906 and continued the practice of his profession;gresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1825); elected to the Twenti- elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the threeeth and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); unsuc-1827, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1830; cessful candidate for renomination in 1926; engaged in theinterment in the Congressional Cemetery. real estate business in Fort Myers, Lee County, Fla., and in Washington, D.C.; retired in 1932 and resided in Moultrie, SMYTH, George Washington, a Representative from Ga., until his death on December 2, 1948; interment in West-Texas; born in North Carolina, May 16, 1803; moved with his view Cemetery. parents to Alabama, and later to Murfreesboro, Tenn.; at- tended the common schools and the college at Murfreesboro; SMOOT, Reed, a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lakemoved to Texas, then a part of the Republic of Mexico, in City, Utah, January 10, 1862; moved with his parents to1828, and settled in the municipality of Bevell, Zavalas Provo, Utah County, Utah, in 1874; attended MormonColony (now Jasper County); appointed by the Mexican Gov- church schools and academies and graduated from theernment as surveyor, and later made commissioner of titles; Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University)delegate to the General Consultation of Texas at San Felipe at Provo in 1879; engaged in banking, mining, livestock rais-de Austin in 1835; member of the Texas State convention ing, and in the manufacture of woolen goods; electedas aand a signer of the declaration of independence of Texas in Republican to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in1836; also a signer of the constitution of the Republic of 1908, 1914, 1920, and again in 1926, and served from MarchTexas; appointed by President Lamar, of Texas, commission- 4, 1903, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-er in charge of the boundary line between the Republic of tion in 1932; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixtieth Con-Texas and the United States; engaged in agricultural pur- gress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-first and Sixty-secondsuits; deputy in the Congress of the Republic of Texas in Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second and1845, and assisted in framing the constitution of the State of Sixty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in theTexas; elected commissioner of the general land office of the Interior Department (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Con-State in 1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third gresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); declined a renomi- seventh Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixty-eighthnation to the Thirty-fourth Congress; served in the Confeder- through Seventy-second Congresses); co-author of the Smoot- ate Army during the Civil War; member of the State consti- Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, intutional convention in 1866; died in Austin, Tex., February 1933 and retired from active business pursuits; servedas one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter21, 1866, while attending a session of the convention; inter- Day Saints (Mormon Church) and at the time of his deathment in the State Cemetery. was next in line to succeed the president of the quorum and SMYTH, William, a Representative from Iowa; born in third to succeed the president; died in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Eden, County Tyrone, Ireland, January 3, 1824; attended the Biographies 1843 rural schools; completed preparatory studies; immigrated toer and afterward became secretary and manager of a paper the United States in 1838 with his parents, who settled incompany in Potsdam; in 1904 organized the Canton Lumber Pennsylvania; moved to Iowa in 1844; attended the Universi-Co. in Potsdam; president and manager of cheese manufac- ty of Iowa at Iowa City; studied law; was admitted to the barturing company of New York City; owner of a power plant in 1847 and commenced practice in Marion, Iowa; prosecut-in Higley Falls, N.Y.; director of the Northern New York ing attorney of Linn County 1848-1853; was appointed judgeTrust Co., the Agricultural Insurance Co. of Watertown, of the district court for the fourth judicial district of Iowa inN.Y., and Gould Pumps, Inc., Seneca Falls, N.Y.; vice presi- 1853 and served until his resignation in 1857; resumed thedent of the Northern New York Development League 1908- practice of law; in 1858 served as chairman of the commis-1910; member of the Republican State committee 1914-1944; sion to codify and revise the State laws; during the Civildelegate to all Republican National Conventions 19 16-1940, War served in the Union Army for two years as colonel ofserving as chairman in 1932 and 1936; president, board of the Thirty-first Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry; electedtrustees of Clarkson College, Potsdam, N.Y., 1920-1945; as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress and served fromelected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill March 4, 1869, until his death; renominated in 1870 and wasthe vacancy caused by the death of Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.; a candidate for reelection at the time of his death; died inreelected to the Sixty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Con- Marion, Iowa, September 30, 1870; interment in Oak Shadegresses and served from November 2, 1915, to January 3, Cemetery. 1939; chairman, Committee on War Claims (Sixty-seventh SNAPP, Henry (father of Howard Malcolm Snapp), a Rep-Congress), Committee on Rules (Sixty-eighth through Seven- resentative from Illinois; born in Livonia, Livingston County,ty-first Congresses); minority leader (Seventy-second through N.Y., June 30, 1822; moved with his parents to Rochester,Seventy-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina- N.Y., in 1825; attended the common schools of that city;tion in 1938; publisher of the Potsdam Courier-Freeman moved to Homer, Will County, Ill., in 1833, where he com-newspaper 1934-1949; in 1941 became owner and manager of pleted his common-school education; studied law; was admit-New York State Oil Co., of Kansas; died in Potsdam, N.Y., ted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Joliet,February 2, 1958; interment in Bayside Cemetery. Will County, Ill.; member of the State senate from 1869 to Bibliography: DAB; Barone,Louis A."Republican House Minority 1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress Leader Bertrand H. Snell and the Coming of the , 1931-1939." to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Burton C. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969. Cook and served from December 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873; SNIDER, Samuel Prather, a Representative from Minne- declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1872; re-sota; born in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, October sumed the practice of his profession in Joliet, Ill., where he9, 1845; attended the public schools, the local high school at died on November 26, 1895; interment in Oakwood Ceme-Mount Gilead, Ohio, and Oberlin College, Ohio; during the tery. Civil War enlisted as a private soldier in the Sixty-fifth SNAPP, Howard Malcolm (son of Henry Snapp), a Repre-Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; after the war engaged sentative from Illinois; born in Joliet, Will County, Ill., Sep-in commercial pursuits in New York; moved to Minnesota in tember 27, 1855; attended the Eastern Avenue school and1876 and settled in Minneapolis; organized and built the Forest University in Chicago, Ill., 1872-187 5; studied law;Midland Railway in southern Minnesota; engaged in agricul- was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice intural pursuits and the mining of iron ore; member of the Globe, Ariz.; returned to Joliet, Ill., and continued the prac-State house of representatives 1884-1888; elected as a Re- tice of law; master in chancery for Will County, Ill., frompublican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1884 to 1903; elected chairman of the Will County Republi-1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the can central committee in 1893; delegate to the RepublicanFifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National National Conventions in 1896 and 1908; was elected as aConvention in 1892; retired and resided in Minneapolis, Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeedingMinn., until his death September 24, 1928; interment in Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); was not a candi-Lakewood Cemetery. date for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of law SNODGRASS, Charles Edward (nephew of Henry Clay in Joliet, Ill.; died in Joliet, Ill., August 14, 1938; intermentSnodgrass), a Representative from Tennessee; born near in Elmhurst Cemetery. Sparta, White County, Tenn., December 28, 1866; attended SNEED, William Henry, a Representative from Tennes-the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar see; born in Davidson County, Tenn., August 27, 1812; com-and commenced practice in Crossville, Tenn., in 1888; elected pleted preparatory studies; moved with his father's family toas a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congress- Rutherford County, Tenn.; studied law; was admitted to thees (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Murfreesboro, Tenn.;renomination in 1902; judge of the fifth judicial circuit of member of the State senate 1843-1845; moved to Knoxville,Tennessee; appointed and subsequently elected judge of the Tenn., in 1845 and resumed the practice of law; elected ascourt of appeals upon the reorganization of that court and the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourthserved from 1925 to 1934; retired to private life in Crossville, Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); chairman, Commit-Tenn., where he died August 3, 1936; interment in the Cross- tee on Mileage (Thirty-fourth Congress); declined to be aville City Cemetery. candidate for renomination in 1856 and also for nomination SNODGRASS, Henry Clay (uncle of Charles Edward Snod- as circuit judge; resumed the practice of law; died in Knox-grass), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Sparta, ville, Tenn., September 18, 1869; interment in the Old GrayWhite County, Tenn., March 29, 1848; attended Sparta Acad- Cemetery. emy; studied law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; SNELL, Bertrand Hollis, a Representative from Newwas admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in York; born in Colton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., DecemberSparta, Tenn.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; during 9, 1870; attended the public schools; was graduated from thethe Civil War served as a private in the Confederate Army; State normal school at Potsdam, N.Y., in 1889 and fromattorney general of the fifth judicial circuit 1878-1884; elect- Amherst (Mass.) College in 1894; began work as a bookkeep-ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con- 1844 Biographical Directory

gresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candi-business; died in Gorham, Maine, February 12, 1958; inter- date for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; dele-ment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine. gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; re- sumed the practice of his profession in Sparta, White SNOW, Herman Wilber, a Representative from Illinois; County, Tenn.; moved to Gould, Okia., and engaged in agri-born in Michigan City, La Porte County, md., July 3, 1836; cultural pursuits; died in Altus, Okla., April 22, 1931; inter-moved with his parents to Madisonville, KY.; attended the ment in Altus Cemetery. public schools; moved to Sheldon, Iroquois County,Ill.; taught school several years; studied law; was admitted to the SNODGRASS, John Fryall, a Representative from Virgin-bar and practiced; during the Civil War enlisted as a private ia; born in Berkeley County, Va. (now West Virginia), March in the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, Illinois 1804; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was ad-Volunteer Infantry; rose to the rank of captain; reenlisted in mitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Par-the One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment, Illinois Volun- kersburg, Va.; delegate to the State constitutional conven-teer Infantry, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant tion in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-colonel; provost marshal general of Georgia on Major Gener- third Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until hisal Steedman's staff; at the expiration of his service taught in death in Parkersburg, Va. (now West Virginia), June 5, 1854.the Chicago High School for three years; returned to Shel- SNOOK, John Stout, a Representative from Ohio; borndon and engaged in banking; member of the State house of near Antwerp, Paulding County, Ohio, on December 18,representatives 1872-1874; elected as a Democrat to the 1862; was graduated from the Antwerp grade schools inFifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuc- 1881; attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware,cessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Ohio; was graduated from the law school of Cincinnati Col-Congress; Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives lege in May 1887; was admitted to the bar the same yearduring the Fifty-third Congress; moved to Kankakee, Kanka- and began practice in Antwerp, Ohio; moved to Paulding,kee County, Ill., and resumed banking; died in Kankakee, Ohio, in 1890 and continued the practice of his profession;Ill., August 25, 1914; interment in Mound Grove Cemetery. elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1905); was not a candi- SNOW, William W., a Representative from New York; date for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of lawborn in Heath, Franklin County, Mass., April 27, 1812; at- in Paulding; delegate to the Democratic National Conven-tended the public schools; learned the trade of wool-carder tions in 1912 and 1932; judge of the court of common pleasand cloth dresser; moved to Oneonta, Otsego County, N.Y., 1913-1915; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4,in 1831; engaged in the wool-carding business in 1841 and 1917-March 3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for re-the following year entered the tin and hardware business; election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; again engagedalso engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State in the practice of his profession; judge of the court ofassembly in 1844; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second common pleas from 1930 to 1938, when he retired; died inCongress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); again a member of Paulding, Ohio, September 19, 1952; interment in Live Oakthe State assembly in 1870; served as supervisor of the town Cemetery. of Oneonta in 1873 and 1874; served as State excise commis- sioner in 1877; member of the village board of trustees; SNOVER, Horace Greeley, a Representative from Michi-engaged in banking; died in Oneonta, N.Y., September 3, gan; born in Romeo, Macomb County, Mich., September 21,1886; interment in Riverside Cemetery. 1847; attended the public schools and Dickenson Institute at Romeo; was graduated from the academic department of the SNOWE, Olympia Jean, a Representative from Maine; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1869 and from theborn Olympia Jean Bouchles, Augusta, Kennebec County, law department in 1871; was admitted to the bar andprac-Maine, February 21, 1947; attended St. Basil's Academy, ticed in Wichita, Kans., in 1871 and 1872; moved to Romeo,Garrison, N.Y., 1962; graduated from Edward Little High Mich., in 1873 and to Port Austin, Huron County, Mich., inSchool, Auburn, Maine, 1965; B.A., University of Maine, 1874 and continued the practice of law; also engaged inOrono, 1969; businesswoman; district office manager for Rep- banking; principal of the public schools of Port Austin forresentative William S. Cohen; Auburn Board of Voter Regis- two years; probate judge of Huron County from January 1,tration, 1971-1973; served in Maine house of representatives, 1881, to January 1, 1885; elected as a Republican to the1973-1976; State senate, 1976-1978; delegate, Maine State Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-MarchRepublican convention, 1976; delegate, Republican National 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898;Convention, 1976; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- moved to Port Huron, Mich., where he died July 21, 1924;sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, interment in Lakeside Cemetery. 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Auburn, Maine. SNOW, Donald Francis, a Representative from Maine; SNYDER, Adam Wilson, a Representative from Illinois; born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, September 6,born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., October 6, 1799; 1877; attended the public schools of his native city;wasattended the common schools; moved to Cahokia, Ill., in graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 19011817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1820 and and from the law school of the University of Maine at Oronocommenced practice in Cahokia; appointed prosecuting at- in 1904; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commencedtorney for the first judicial district in 1822; resigned in 1823; practice in Bangor, Maine; city solicitor of Bangor 1906-19 10engaged in agricultural pursuits 1824-1832; member of the and prosecuting attorney of Penobscot County 19 11-1913;State senate in 1830; reelected in 1832; served as a captain elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first find Seventy-throughout the Black Hawk War; moved to Belleville, Ill., in second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccess-1833; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1834 to the ful candidate for renomination in 1932; engaged in literaryTwenty-fourth Congress;elected as a Democrat to the work in Washington, D.C., 1933-1935; moved to Gorham,Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 8, 1839); was Cumberland County, Maine, in 1936 and engaged in poultrynot a candidate for renomination in 1838; elected to the farming until 1945; secretary for the E.C. Jones InsuranceState senate in 1840, and resigned in 1841; nominated as a Corp., Portland, Maine, and later had his own insurancecandidate for Governor of Illinois, but died before the elec- Biographies 1845 tion; died in Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill., May 14, 1842;attended the public schools; graduated from duPontManual interment in Green Mount Cemetery, near Belleville, Ill.High School; studied at the University of Louisvilleand graduated from the Jefferson School of Law (now partof the SNYDER,Charles Philip, a Representative from WestUniversity of Louisville School of Law), LL.B. and J.D.,1950; Virginia; born in Charleston, Kanawha County, Va. (nowwas admitted to the bar andcommenced the practice of law West Virginia), June 9, 1847; pursued an academic course;in Louisville, Ky., in 1950; city attorney ofJeffersontown, studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; prosecut-Ky., 1954-1958; elected magistrate of the firstdistrict of ing attorney of Kanawha County, W.Va., 1876-1884; electedJefferson County for two terms, January 1958 to January as a Democrat to the Forty-eighthCongress to fill the vacan-1962; engaged in farming, real estate, insurance, andalso in cy caused by the resignation ofJohn E. Kenna; reelected tothe residential construction business; delegate,Republican the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and served fromNational Convention, 1968, 1976, 1980 and 1984; elected as a May 15, 1883, to March 3, 1889; judge of the criminal courtRepublican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3,1963- of Kanawha County 1890-1896; United States consul to reelection in Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico, 1897-1901; died in Vineland,January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected in 1966 tothe Cumberland County, N.J., August 21, 1915; interment in 3, Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va. Ninetieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 1967-January 3, 1987); was not a candidate for reelectionin SNYDER,Homer Peter, a Representative from New York;1986; is a resident of Oldham County, Ky. born in Amsterdam, Amsterdam County, N.Y., December 6, 1863; attended the common schools; was employed in various SNYDER,Melvin Claude, a Representative from West capacities in knitting mills until 1887; moved to Little Falls,Virginia; born in Albright, Preston County, W.Va., October N.Y., in 1887 and continued employment in knitting mills;29, 1898; attended the public schools; during the FirstWorld engaged in the manufacture of knitting machinery in 1890War enlisted in the United States Army and served as a and, later, of bicycles and other wheeled vehicles; directorprivate in 1918; was graduated in 1923 from theWest Vir- and vice president of the Little Falls National Bank; servedginia University Law School at Morgantown; wasadmitted one term as school commissioner in 1895 and twoterms asto the bar the same year and commencedpractice in King- fire and police commissioner of Little Falls in 1910 and 1911;wood, W.Va.; mayor of Kingwood in 1926; prosecuting attor- unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-thirdney for Preston County,W.Va., 1929-1944; served in the Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and toUnited States Army from January 6, 1941, until hisdis- the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3,charge as a colonel on January 30, 1946; directorof Surplus 1925); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-sixthProperty for Division of Territories and IslandPossessions, through Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on World WarDepartment of Interior, in 1946; was elected as aRepublican Veterans' Legislation (Sixty-eighth Congress); was not a can- to the Eightieth Congress (January 3,1947-January 3, 1949); didate for reelection in 1924; delegate to the Republicanunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to theEighty- National Conventions in 1916 and 1920; resumed his formerfirst Congress and for election in 1950 tothe Eighty-second manufacturing pursuits; died in Little Falls, N.Y., DecemberCongress; circuit court judge, eighteenthjudicial circuit, 30, 1937; interment in the Church Street Cemetery. West Virginia, January 1, 1953-October 1,1971; served as a SNYDER,John, a Representative from Pennsylvania;member of the West Virginia JudicialCouncil and had born in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pa., January 29, 1793;served as president of the West Virginia JudicialAssocia- attended the rural schools; served in the War of 1812 astion; resided in Kingwood, W.Va., where hedied August 5, captain of Selinsgrove Rifle Volunteers, Pennsylvania Mili-1972; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. tia; connected with the Snyder Spring Oil Co. and paper SNYDER,Oliver P., a Representative from Arkansas; mills; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, completed preparatory 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for reelection toborn in Missouri November 13, 1833; the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed former business pur-studies; moved to Arkansas in 1853; engaged inscientific and literary pursuits and at the same timestudied law; was suits; died in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pa. August 15, Bluff; member of 1850; interment in the New Lutheran Cemetery. admitted to the bar and practiced in Pine the State house of representatives in 1864and 1865; delegate SNYDER,John Buell, a Representative from Pennsylva-to the State constitutional convention in1867; served in the nia; born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Somer-State senate 1868-187 1; member of the committeeto revise set County, Pa., July 30, 1877; attended the public schools,and rearrange the statutes of Arkansas in 1868;elected as a and the summer sessions of Harvard University, and Colum-Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-thirdCongresses bia University, New York City; was graduated from Lock(March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessfulcandidate for Haven (Pa.) Teachers College; principal of schools at Stoyes-renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of hisprofession; town, Rockwood, and Berlin, Somerset County, 1901-1906,elected treasurer of Jefferson County in1882 and served and of Perry Township Union High School 1906-1912; west-until his death in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County,Ark., No- ern Pennsylvania manager for an educational publisher,vember 22, 1882; interment in Bellewood Cemetery. 1912-1932; member of the board of education of Perry Town- ship, Pa., 1922-1932; legislative representative for Pennsyl- SOLARZ,Stephen Joshua, a Representative from New vania school directors during sessions of the State legisla-York; born in New York City, September 12,1940; attended ture 1921-1923; member of the National Commission of Onepublic schools in New York City; B.A., BrandeisUniversity, Hundred for Study and Survey of Rural Schools in theWaltham, Mass., 1962; M.A., public law andgovernment, United States 1922-1924; elected as a Democrat to the Sev-Columbia University, New York, 1967; taughtpolitical sci- enty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and servedence at Brooklyn (N.Y.) College,1967-1968; served in the from March 4, 1933, until his death in Pittsburgh, Pa., onNew York State assembly, 1969-1974; delegate,Democratic February 24, 1946; interment in Mount Washington Ceme-National Mid-term Convention, 1974; elected as aDemocrat tery, Perryopolis, Pa. to the Ninety-fourth and to the six succeedingCongresses of Brooklyn, SNYDER,Marion Gene, a Representative from Kentucky;(January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., January 26, 1928; N.Y. 1846 Biographical Directory

SOLLERS, Augustus Rhodes, a Representativefromestablished the Eastern Journal, later known as the Union Maryland; born near Prince Frederick, Calvert County,Md., and Journal; engaged in the manufacture of loom harnesses, May 1, 1814; studied law; was admitted to the barin 1836reed twine, and varnishes; mayor of Biddeford 1855-1857; and commenced practice in Prince Frederick; elected as apresident of the City Bank of Biddeford 1856-1858; electedas Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4,1841-Marcha Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- 3, 1843); resumed the practice of law; delegateto the StateMarch 3, 1861); member of the peace convention of 1861 held constitutional convention in 1851; elected to the Thirty-thirdin Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); resumedthe prac- means to prevent tice of law at Prince Frederick, and died the impending war; engaged in the practice of patent law in near there Novem-Washington, D.C., until his death in that city on February ber 26, 1862; interment in St. Paul's Churchyard,near Prince Frederick, Md. 13, 1888; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. SOLOMON, Gerald Brooks Hunt,a Representative from SORG, Paul John, a Representative from Ohio; born in New York; born in Okeechobee, VIa., August14, 1930; at-Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), September 23, 1840; at- tended the public schools in Delmar, N.Y.; attended Sienatended the common schools; moved with his parents to Cin- College, Albany, 1949-1950; attended St. Lawrence Universi- cinnati, Ohio, in 1852; apprenticed to the molder's trade; ty, Canton, 1953-1954; served in United StatesMarineattended night school in Cincinnati; engaged in the tobacco Corps, 1951-1952; founding partner of insuranceand invest-manufacturing industry in 1864; served in the Union Army ment firm 1963; member, New York State assembly, 1973-during the Civil War; electedas a Democrat to the Fifty- 1978; Queensbury town supervisor and WarrenCounty legis-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of lator, 1968-1972; delegate, New York StateRepublican con-George W. Houk; reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and vention, 1974; delegate, Republican National Convention,served from May 21, 1894, to March 3, 1897; was nota 1976; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixthand to thecandidate for renomination in 1896; settled in Middletown, four succeeding Congresses (January 3,l979-January 3,Ohio, and resumed his former business activities; died in 1989); is a resident of Glens Falls, N.Y. Middletown, Ohio, on May 28, 1902; interment in Woodside Cemetery. SOMERS, Andrew Lawrence, a Representative fromNew York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 21, 1895;attended St. SOSNOWSKI, John Bartholomew, a Representative from Teresa's Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn CollegePreparato-Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., December 8, 1883; attended ry School, Manhattan College, and New York Universityinthe parochial and Army schools; during the Spanish-Ameri- New York City; engaged in dry color andchemical business;can War enlisted as a private in the Seventh Regiment, during the First World War enlistedon July 18, 1917, as aUnited States Cavalry, and served in Cuba and the Philip- hospital apprentice, second class, United StatesNaval Re-pine Islands; after the close of the war continued in the serve Force; subsequently served as ensign in the Navalservice and was on detached duty at the United States Mili- Reserve Flying Corps and was then appointeda naval avia-tary Academy, West Point, N.Y.; was honorably discharged tor on September 17, 1918; proceeded to foreignservice onon December 26, 1906; returned to Detroit, Mich., and en- September 30, 1918, and served until honorablydischargedgaged in the real estate and brokerage business; captain and March 4, 1919; delegate to the DemocraticNational Conven-adjutant in the Thirty-first Regiment, Infantry, National tion in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninthand toGuard of Michigan, from 1909 to 1916, with serviceon the the twelve succeeding Congresses andserved from March 4,Mexican border in 1916; member and chairman of the board 1925, until his death in St. Albans, LongIsland, N.Y., Aprilof water commissioners of the city of Detroit 1918-1924; 6,1949; chairman, Committeeon Coinage, Weights, andelected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March Measures (Seventy-second through Seventy-eighthCongress-4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- es), Committee on Mines and Mining (Seventy-ninthCon-tion in 1926; resumed the real estate and brokerage business gress), Committee on Public Lands (Eighty-firstCongress); in Detroit, Mich.; delegate to the Republican National Con- interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn,N.Y. ventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; unsuccessful candi- date for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, in SOMERS, Peter J., a Representative from Wisconsin;born at Menominee Falls, Waukesha County, Wis., April 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress, and in 1946 to the 12, 1850; Eightieth Congress; hearing examiner, Michigan Liquor Con- attended the common schools, the WhitewaterNormal School, and the Waukesha Academy; studied trol Commission, 1947-1951; died in Detroit, Mich., July 16, law; was admit-1968; interment in Sweetest Heart of Mary Cemetery. ted to the bar in 1874 and commencedpractice in Milwau- kee, Wis.; attorney of the city of Milwaukee1882-1884; elect- SOULE, Nathan, a Representative from New York; born ed to the common council in 1890, andupon its organizationin that State; resided at Fort Plain; completed preparatory became its president; mayor of Milwaukee 1890-1893;electedstudies; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Con- as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill thevacancygress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); member of the State caused by the resignation of John L. Mitchelland servedassembly in 1837. from August 27, 1893, to March 3, 1895;was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed thepractice of law in SOUL, Pierre, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Castil- Milwaukee; moved to Reno, Nev., in 1905 andcontinued thelon-en-Couserans, near Bordeaux, France, August 31, 1801; practice of law; chairman of the State Democraticcentralattended the Jesuit College at Toulouse and later an acade- committee from 1907 to 1909; appointed districtjudge ofmy in Bordeaux; exiled to Navarre at the age of fifteen for Esmeralda County in 1908, and elected in 1910for the termanti-Bourbon activity and worked as a shepherd boy in the ending January 1, 1914; again engaged inthe practice ofPyrennes for a year; pardoned in 1818 and returned to law; died in Los Angeles, Calif., February15, 1924; inter-school in Bordeaux; studied law in Paris and practiced;en- ment in Calvary Cemetery. gaged in journalism; imprisoned for publishing revolutionary articles in 1825, but escaped to England; went to Haiti in SOMES, Daniel Eton, a Representative from Maine;born1825, and then to the United States; after travelling around in Meredith (now Laconia), N.H., May 20, 1815;received anthe nation, commenced the practice of law in New Orleans, academic education; moved to Biddeford, Maine,in 1846;La.; member, State senate 1846; electedas a Democrat in Biographies 1847

1846 to the United States Senate to if! the vacancy caused(Eleventh Congress); elected to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, by the death of and served from Januaryand Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); 21 to March 3, 1847; again elected to the United Statesresumed farming; died in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, Senate and served from March 3, 1849, to April 11, 1853,N.J., May 22, 1842; interment in Basking Ridge Cemetery. when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-second Congress); Minister to Spain from 1853 until SOUTHARD, Isaac (son of Henry Southard and brother of his resignation in 1855; author of the Ostend Manifesto inSamuel Lewis Southard), a Representative from New Jersey; 1854, outlining the attitude the United States should take inborn in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N.J., August 30, regard to Cuba; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, 1783; educated at the classical school of his native city; La.; was opposed to secession, but abided by the action of hisengaged in the general merchandise business until 1814; State; when New Orleans was captured, he was arrested andappointed deputy collector of internal revenue for Somerset imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, N.Y., for several months; pa-County; appointed a major of the Second Battalion, Second roled to Boston and fled to the Bahamas; travelled to Rich-Regiment, Somerset Brigade, on February 17, 1815; was a mond, Va., to aid the Confederacy; moved to Havana, Cuba,director in the State bank at Morristown, N.J.; appointed but subsequently returned to New Orleans, La., and diedone of the lay judges of the court of common pleas of Somer- there March 26, 1870; interment in St. Louis Cemetery No.set on November 13, 1820; commissioned a justice of the 2. peace on November 16, 1820; moved to Somerville, N.J.; Bibliography: DAB; Ettinger, Amos. The Mnsion to Spain of Pierrecounty clerk of Somerset County 1820-1830; elected as an Soule 1853-1855. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932; Moore, John Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, Preston. "Pierre Soulé: Southern Expansionist and Promoter." Journal of1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Southern History 21 (May 1955): 203-23. 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; appointed a master and SOUTH, Charles Lacy, a Representative from Texas; bornexaminer in chancery by Gov. Elias P. Seeley in 1833; colo- on a farm near Damascus, Washington County, Va., July 22,nel in the New Jersey State Militia; State treasurer of New 1892; moved with his parents to Callahan County, Tex., inJersey 1837-1843; resided in Trenton, N.J., for several years; 1898 and to Coleman County, Tex., in 1914; attended thelived in retirement until his death in Somerville, N.J., Sep- public schools and Simmons University at Abilene, Tex., intember 18, 1850; interment in the Old Cemetery. 1915 and 1916; taught in the Coleman County, Tex., public SOUTHARD, James Harding, a Representative from Ohio; schools 19 14-1920; served as superintendent of schools ofborn near Toledo, Washington Township, Lucas County, Coleman County 1921-1925; studied law and was admitted toOhio, January 20, 1851; attended the public schools and was the bar in 1925; served as county judge 1925-1931 and asgraduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1874; district attorney for the thirty-fifth judicial district 1930-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to thepractice in Toledo, Ohio; appointed assistant prosecuting at- three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3,torney of Lucas County in 1882; twice elected prosecuting 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in the firstattorney of the county, and served in that office six years; primary in 1942 and later withdrew; engaged in the practiceelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five of law in Coleman, Tex.; member of the State house ofsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1907); chair- representatives in 1947 and 1948; was a resident of Austin, (Fifty- Tex., from 1948 until his death there on December 20, 1965;man, Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures interment in Coleman Cemetery, Coleman, Tex. sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candi- date for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; resumed SOUTHALL, Robert Goode, a Representative from Vir-the practice of law in Toledo, Ohio, until his death there ginia; born at Amelia Court House, Amelia County, Va.,February 20, 1919; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. December 26, 1852; attended the Washington Academy and High School of Amelia County; deputy clerk of Nottaway SOUTHARD, Milton Isaiah, a Representative from Ohio; County in 1873 and 1874; was graduated from the law de-born in Hanover, Licking County, Ohio, October 20, 1836; partment of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville incompleted preparatory studies; was graduated from the 1876; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced prac-Denison University, Granville, Ohio; studied law; was admit- tice at Amelia Court House; prosecuting attorney for Ameliated to the bar in 1863 and commenced practice in Toledo, County, Va., 1884-1902; delegate to the Democratic NationalOhio; prosecuting attorney for Muskingum County, Ohio, Conventions in 1888 and 1896; member of the State house of1867-1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty- delegates 1899-1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3,1879); chairman, Committee on Territories (Forty-fourth 1907); resumed the practice of his profession in AmeliaCongress); moved to New York City and practiced law; died County, Va.; served as a judge of the fourth judicial circuitin Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, May 4, 1905; inter- court of Virginia from January 1912, until his death inment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Baltimore, Md., May 25, 1924; interment in Amelia Ceme- SOUTHARD, Samuel Lewis (son of Henry Southard and tery, Amelia Court House, Va. brother of Isaac Southard), a Senator from New Jersey; born SOUTHARD, Henry (father of Isaac Southard and Samuelin Basking Ridge, Somerset County, N.J., June 9, 1787; at- Lewis Southard), a Representative from New Jersey; born intended the village school; graduated from the College of New Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., October 7, 1747; moved withJersey (now Princeton College) in 1804; engaged as tutor by his parents to Basking Ridge, N.J., in 1755; attended thea family near Fredericksburg, Va., in 1805; studied lawand common schools and worked on a farm; served as a privatewas admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1809; returned to and later as wagon master during the Revolutionary War;New Jersey and commenced practice in Flemington in 1811; engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace 1787-member, State general assembly 1815; associate justice of 1792; member of the State general assembly 1797-1799 andthe New Jersey Supreme Court 1815-1820; moved to Tren- in 1811; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and to theton, N.J.; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republi- four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1811);can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancycaused by chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Businessthe resignation of James J. 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26, 1821, to March 3, 1823, when he resigned, having beenunsuccessful Republican candidate to the Fifty-ninth Con- tendered a Cabinet portfolio by President James Monroe;gress in 1904; elected solicitor of Lehigh County in 1906; died Secretary of the Navy 1823-1829; Secretary of the Treasuryin Allentown, Pa, March 3, 1907; interment in Union Ceme- ad interim in 1825; Secretary of War ad interim in 1828;tery. attorney general of New Jersey 1829-1833; Governor of New Jersey 1832-1833, when he resigned to become Senator; SPAIGHT, Richard Dobbs (father of Richard Dobbs elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1833;Spaight, Jr., and grandfather of Richard Spaight Donnell), a reelected in 1838, and served from March 4, 1833, until hisDelegate and a Representative from North Carolina; born in death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during New Bern, N.C., March 25, 1758; received his early schooling the Twenty-seventh Congress; chairman, Committeeonin Ireland and attended the University of Glasgow in Scot- Naval Affairs (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses);land; returned home in 1778 and joined the Continental thed in Fredericksburg, Va., June 26, 1842; interment in theArmy as aide-de-camp to General Caswell; member of the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Bibliography: North Carolina House of Commons 1779-1783; Member of DAB;Birkner, Michael. Samuel L. Southard:Jeffersonian the Continental Congress 1783-1785; delegate to the Consti- Whig.Rutherfurd,N.J.:FarleighDickinsonUniversityPress,1984; Ershkowitz, Herbert. "Samuel L. Southard: A Case Study of Whig Leader- tutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and to the State ship in the Age of Jackson." New Jersey History 88 (Spring 1970): 5-24. ratification convention in 1788; Governor of North Carolina 1792-1795; elected as a Republican to the Fifth Congress to SOUTIIGATE, William Wright, a Representative fromfill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan Bryan; re- Kentucky; born in Newport, Campbell County, Ky., Novem-elected to the Sixth Congress and served from December 10, ber 27, 1800; educated in private schools and by private1798, to March 3, 1801; member of the State senate in 1801 tutors; was graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky.; moved to Covington, Kenton County, KY.; studied law;and 1802; was wounded in a with John Stanly, his was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice insuccessor in Congress, from the effects of which he died on Lexington, KY.; prosecuting attorney 1825-1827; member ofSeptember 6, 1802, in New Bern, N.C.; interment in the the State house of representatives in 1827, 1832, and 1836;family sepulcher at "Clermont," near New Bern, N.C. elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, SPAIGHT, Richard Dobbs, Jr. (son of Richard Dobbs 1837-March 3, 1839); resumed the practice of law; died inSpaight), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Covington, Ky. December 26, 1849; interment in LindenNew Bern, N.C., in 1796; attended the New Bern Academy Grove Cemetery. and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at SOUTIIWICK, George Newell, a Representative from NewChapel Hill in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in York; born in Albany, N.Y., March 7, 1863; attended private1818 and commenced practice in New Bern; member of the and public schools; was graduated from the Albany HighState house of commons November 15, 1819-December 25, School in 1879 and from Williams College, Williamstown,1819; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823- Mass., in 1884; attended the Albany Law School; began workMarch 3, 1825) unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 for the Albany Morning Express in 1885; official reporter ofto the Nineteenth Congress; member of the State senate in the legislature for the Associated Press 1886-1888; in 18881820-1822, 1825-1835; Governor of North Carolina December became managing editor of the Morning Express and in 1889 10, 1835-December 31, 1836; delegate to the Democratic of the Albany Evening Journal; chairman of the RepublicanState convention in 1835; engaged in agricultural pursuits; State convention in 1896; elected as a Republican to thedied in New Bern, N.C., November 17, 1850; interment in Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-Marchthe family sepulcher at "Clermont," near New Bern, N.C. 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Bibliography:DAB. Fifty-sixth Congress; elected to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911); SPALDING, Burleigh Folsom, a Representative from chairman, Committee on Education (Fifty-eighth throughNorth Dakota; born on a farm near Craftsbury, Orleans Sixtieth Congresses); was not a candidate for renominationCounty, Vt., December 3, 1853; attended the Lyndon Liter- in 1910; died in Albany, N.Y., October 17, 1912; interment inary Institute, Lyndon, Vt., and was graduated from Norwich Albany Rural Cemetery. University, Northfield, Vt., in 1877; studied law in Montpe- her, Vt.; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced SOWDEN, William Henry, a Representative from Penn-practice in Fargo, Dak. (now North Dakota); superintendent sylvania; born in Liskeard, England, June 6, 1840; immigrat- ed to the United States in 1846 with his father, who settledof public instruction of Cass County, Dak.,1882-1884; in Philadelphia; later went to live with friends in Allentown,member of the commission to relocate the capital of the Pa.; attended the public schools and Allentown Academy;Territory of Dakota and build the capitol in 1883; member of served in the Civil War as a corporal in Company D, Onethe North Dakota constitutional convention in 1889; chair- Hundred and Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan-man of the Republican State central committee of North try, and served from August 13, 1862, to May 19, 1863;Dakota 1892-1894 and of the Cass County Republican com- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and aftermittee 1896-1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth graduation from Harvard Law School in 1865 commencedCongress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); did not seek re- practice in Allentown, Pa.; served as solicitor of Lehighnomination in 1900; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress County in 1868; district attorney in 1872-1874; unsuccessful(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1874; unsuccessfulrenomination in 1904; appointed in 1907 and elected in 1908 candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress;an associate justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; citybecame chief justice in 1911 and served until 1915; resumed solicitor of Allentown in 1886; elected as a Democrat to thethe practice of law in Fargo, N.Dak., in 1915; delegate to Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3,most Republican Territorial and State conventions 1888- 1889); was not a candidate for reelection in 1888; resumed1933; delegate to the Republican National Convention in the practice of law; city solicitor of Allentown 1900-1902;1924; died in Fargo, N.Dak., March 17, 1934; interment in delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900;Riverside Cemetery. 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SPALDING, George, a Representative from Michigan;moved with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1802;attend- born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, on November 12,ed the public schools; worked at the blacksmith'strade; en- 1836; immigrated to the United States in 1843 with hisgaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to parents, who settled in Buffalo, N.Y.; attended the publicthe bar in 1824 and commenced practice in.Zanesville; un- schools; moved to Monroe, Mich.; taught school in 1860 andsuccessful candidate for election to the State house of repre- 1861; entered the United States Army June 20, 1861, as asentatives in 1830; moved to Coshocton, Ohio, in1832 and private in Company A, Fourth Regiment, Michigan Volun- teer Infantry, and was promoted through the ranks to colo-continued the practice of law; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian nel, Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry; appointed postmaster ofto the Twenty-third Congress and reelected as aWhig to the Monroe, Mich., July 27, 1866, and served until December 15,Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); de- 1870; special agent of the Treasury Department 1871-1875;clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836 and for the mayor of Monroe in 1876; president of theboard of educa-nomination for Governor of Ohio in 1844; died in Coshocton, tion; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1878;Ohio, on October 18, 1856; interment in South LawnCeme- member of the board of control of the State Industrial Hometery. for Girls 1885-1897; was elected as a Republican to the Fifty- fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, SPANGLER, Jacob, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1899); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898;born in York, Pa., November 28, 1767; attended theYork again appointed postmaster of Monroe, Mich., on FebruaryCounty Academy; engaged in surveying; served as a trum- 20, 1899, and served until February 13, 1907; resumed thepeter in Captain McClellan's light horse company ofYork in practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; York 1795- president of the First National Bank of Monroe, Mich., until1799; county commissioner in 1800; postmaster of his death there September 13, 1915; interment in Woodlawn1812; deputy surveyor of York County 1796-1815;again the Cemetery. county commissioner in 1814; elected as a Republican to Fifteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1817, until his SPALDING, Rufus Paine, a Representative from Ohio;resignation on April 20, 1818; surveyor general of Pennsylva- born in West Tisbury, Mass., May 3, 1798; was graduatednia 1818-1821; commander of the State militia,with title of from Yale College in 1817; studied law and was admitted to Har- the bar; moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1820 and commencedgeneral; chief escort of General Lafayette from York to practice; moved to Warren, Ohio, in 1821 and practiced hisrisburg on his visit to the United States in 1825;clerk of profession until 1835, when he moved to Ravenna, Ohio, andYork County Court until 1830; again surveyor generalof continued the practice of law; member of the State house ofPennsylvania from 1830 to 1836; died in York, Pa., June 17, representatives 1839-1842, and served one term as speaker; 1843; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. associate judge of the Ohio Supreme Court 1849-1852; re- sumed the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio; elected as a SPARKMAN, John Jackson, a Representative and a Sena- Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortiethtor from Alabama; born on a farm nearHartselle, Morgan Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); was not a candi- County, Ala., December 20, 1899; attended therural schools date for renomination in 1868; resumed the practice of law;and helped on the family farm; during the FirstWorld War died in Cleveland, Ohio, August 29, 1886; interment in Lakewas a member of the StudentsArmy Training Corps; grad- View Cemetery. uated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosain 1921 SPALDING, Thomas, a Representative from Georgia;and from its law school in 1923; was admitted tothe bar in born in Frederica, St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Ga.,1925 and commenced practiceinHuntsville, Madison March 26, 1774; attended the common schools of Georgia and County, Ala.; instructor at Huntsville (Ala.)College 1925- Florida and a private school in Massachusetts; studied law; 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifthand to the was admitted to the bar about 1790, but did not practice; 3, 1937, engaged extensively in agricultural pursuits; member of thefive succeeding Congresses and served from January State house of representatives in 1794; member of the Stateto November 5, 1946, when he resigned;majority whip in constitutional conventionin1798; moved to McIntosh1946; was reelected to the Eightieth Congress onNovember County, Ga., in 1803; served in the State senate; successfully5, 1946, and at the same time was elected tothe United contested as a Republican the election of Cowles Mead to theStates Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathof John Ninth Congress and served from December 24, 1805, untilH. Bankhead II for the term ending January 3,1949; follow- his resignation in 1806; trustee of the McIntosh Countying the election resigned from the House ofRepresentatives Academy in 1807; one of the founders of the Bank of Darienand began duties in the Senate November 6, 1946;reelected and of the branch in Milledgeville, Ga., and president for served from many years; engaged in the planting of sea-island cotton,in 1948, 1954, 1960, 1966, and again in 1972, and residing on Sapelo Island, Ga.; commissioner on the part ofNovember 6, 1946, to January 3, 1979; was not a candidate the State of Georgia to determine the boundary line betweenfor reelection in 1978; chairman, Select Committee onSmall Georgia and the Territory of Florida in 1826; commissionerBusiness(Eighty-first,Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth from the Federal Government to Bermuda to negotiate rela-through Ninetieth Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Commit- tive to property taken or destroyed in the South by thetee on Inaugural Arrangements (Eighty-sixthCongress), British in the War of 1812; president of the convention atchairman, Committee on Banking and Currency(Ninetieth Milledgeville, Ga., in 1850 which resolved that the State ofand Ninety-first Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee Georgia would resist any act of Congress abolishing slavery and Ninety-third Con- and died, while en route home, at the residence of his son,on Defense Production (Ninety-first near Darien, Ga., January 5, 1851; interment in St. An-gresses), Committee on Banking, Housing, and UrbanAffairs drew's Cemetery. (Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses), Committee on Bibliography: DAB; Coulter, E. Merton. Thomas Spalding of Sapelo. Foreign Relations (Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congress- University, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1940. es); representative of the United States to the FifthGeneral SPANGLER, David, a Representative from Ohio; born inAssembly of the United Nations in 1950; unsuccessful Demo- Sharpsburg, Washington County, Md., on December 2, 1796;cratic nominee for Vice President of the United Statesin 1850 Biographical Directory

1952; died in Huntsville, Ala., November 16, 1985;intermentary 24, 1809; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was in Maple Hill Cemetery. Huntsville, Ala. admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Bibliography: Sparkman, John. "The Role of the Senate in Determining Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y.; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in Foreign Policy." In The Senate Institution. Edited by NathanielPreston. pp. 31-39. New York: Van Nostrant Reinhold, 1969. Sparkman, Mrs. Ivo 1834; mayor of Buffalo in 1847; member of the Stateassem- Hall Journeys With the Senator. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, bly in 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress 1977. (March 4, 1849-March 3,1851); was not a candidate for SPARKMAN, Stephen Milancthon, a Representative fromrenomination in 1850; treasurer of the State of New York in Florida; born on a farm in Hernando County, Fla., July29, 1854 and 1855; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth 1849; attended the common schools; taught school 1867-1870;and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced 1863); was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the practice in Tampa, Fla.; State's attorney for the sixthjudi-Thirty-eighth Congress; organized the Farmers & Mechanics' cial circuit 1878-1887; declined the position of circuitjudgeNational Bank in Buffalo in 1864; died in Buffalo, N.Y., May for the sixth judicial circuit in 1888 and also theappoint-5, 1897; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. ment of associate justice of the supreme court of the Statein Bibliography: DAB. 1891; member of the county Democratic executivecommittee 1890-1894 and served as chairman in 1890 and1891; SPAULDING, Oliver Lyman, a Representative from member of the State Democratic executive committee1892-Michigan; born in Jaffrey, Cheshire County, N.H., August 2, 1896, serving as chairman; delegate to the DemocraticNa-1833; completed preparatory studies, andwas graduated tional Convention in 1892; electedas a Democrat to thefrom Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1855; moved to Michigan and Fifty-fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March4,taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 1895-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committeeon Rivers andand commenced practice in St. Johns, Mich.; regent of the Harbors (Sixty-second through Sixty-fourth Congresses);didUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1858-1864; during the not seek renomination in 1916; resumed the practiceof lawCivil War served in the Union Army as a captain in the in Tampa, Fla.; president of the board of portcommissioners Twenty-third Regiment, Michigan Volunteers and promoted until 1920; died in Washington, D.C., September 26,1929; to colonel; resumed the practice of law in St. Johns, Mich.; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Tampa, Fla. secretary of state of Michigan 1866-1870; member of the SPARKS, Charles Isaac, a Representative from Kansas;Republican State committee 187 1-1878; declined the position born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township,Booneof United States district judge of the Territory of Utah in County, Iowa, December 20, 1872; educated inthe rural1871; special agent of the United States Treasury Depart- schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa;was graduatedment 1875-1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sev- from the law department of the State Universityof Iowa atenth Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful Iowa City in 1896; was admitted to the bar thesame yearcandidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con- and commenced practice in Boone, Iowa; servedas prosecut-gress; chairman of the commission sent to the Sandwich ing attorney of Boone County 1899-1902; chairmanof theIslands to investigate alleged violations of the Hawaiianrec- Republican county committee in 1898; movedto Goodland,iprocity treaty in 1883; again a special agent of the United Sherman County, Kans., in 1907 and continuedthe practiceStates Treasury in 1885, 1889, and 1890; Assistant Secretary of law; served as city attorney andwas a member of theof the Treasury 1890-1893 and 1897-1903; president of the Goodland School Board; judge of the thirty-fourthjudicialfirst International American Customs Congress, held in New district of Kansas 1915-1929; electedas a Republican to theYork City in January 1903; again a special agent of the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses(March 4, 1929-United States Treasury 1903-1909; customs agent 1909-1916; March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin 1932died in Washington, D.C., July 30, 1922; interment in Arling- to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed thepractice of lawton National Cemetery. in Goodland, Kans., until his death thereon April 30, 1937; interment in the Goodland Cemetery. SPEAKS, John Charles, a Representative from Ohio; born SPARKS, William Andrew Jackson, in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio, February 11, a Representative1859; attended the public schools; engaged in milling and the from Illinois; born near New Albany, md.,November 19, 1828; moved with his parents to Illinois in 1836;attended thelumber business; fish, game, and conservation officer of Ohio public schools; taught school andwas graduated from1907-19 18; member of the Ohio National Guard for more McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., in 1850; studiedlaw; wasthan forty years, advancing from private to brigadiergener- admitted to the bar in 1851 and commencedpractice inal; during the Spanish-American War served as major of the Carlyle, Ill.; United States land receiver for theEdwardsvilleFourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in (ill.) land office 1853-1856; member of the Statehouse ofthe Puerto Rican campaign; commanded the Second Brigade representatives in 1856 and 1857; served in the Statesenateof the Ohio National Guard on the Mexican Border in 1916; in 1863 and 1864; delegate to the DemocraticNational Con-during the First World War commanded the Seventy-third vention in 1868; elected as a Democrat to theForty-fourthBrigade, Thirty-seventh Division; unsuccessful candidate for and to the three succeeding Congresses(March 4, 1875-election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; electedas a March 3, 1883); chairman, Committeeon Expenditures inRepublican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding the Department of the Interior (Forty-fifthCongress), Com- Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1931); unsuccessfulcan- mittee on Military Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress);did notdidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress, seek renomination in 1882; resumed thepractice of law;and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, and appointed by President Cleveland as Commissionerof thein 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; died in Columbus, United States General Land Office and servedfrom MarchOhio, November 6, 1945; interment in Union Grove Ceme- 26, 1885, to March 26, 1888; resumed thepractice of law attery, Canal Winchester, Ohio. Carlyle and Springfield, Ill.; died in St. Louis,Mo., May 7, 1904; interment in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery,Carlyle, Ill. SPEARING, James Zacharie, a Representative from Lou- Bibliography: DAB. isiana; born in Alto, Cherokee County, Tex., April 23, 1864; moved with his parents to New Orleans, La., in 1866; attend- SPAULDING, ,a Representative from Newed the public schools; left school and went to work in 1877; York; born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, N.Y.,on Febru- was graduated from the law department of Tulane Universi- Biographies 1851 ty, New Orleans, La., in 1886; was admitted to the bar in1862; attended the country schools, Allegheny College, Mead- 1886 and commenced practice in New Orleans; member ofville, Pa., and the Westminster College, New Wilmington, the Orleans Parish school board 1908-1912; member of thePa.; was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, State board of education 19 12-1916; again a member of theWashington, Pa., in 1887; studied law; was admitted to the Orleans Parish school board 1916-1920, serving as presidentbar in 1889 and commenced practice in Oil City, Venango in 1919 and 1920; alternate delegate to the Democratic Na-County, Pa.; district attorney of Venango County 189 1-1893; tional Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to thecity solicitor of Oil City 1895-1906; member of the State Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death house of representatives in 1897 and 1898; elected as a Re- of H. Garland Dupré; reelected to the Sixty-ninth, Seventi-publican to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March eth, and Seventy-first Congresses and served from April 22,3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the 1924, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Sixty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Oil City, tion in 1930; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans,Pa.; moved to New York City in 1918 and continued the La., where he died November 2, 1942; interment in Metairiepractice of law; assistant general counsel for the Standard Cemetery. Oil Co. 19 18-1922, general counsel and member of the board SPECTER, Arlen, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born inof directors 1922-1928, and vice president 1928-1932; retired Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., February 12, 1930; attend-from active business pursuits in 1932; died in New York ed the public schools; graduated, University of Pennsylvania,City, August 3, 1933; interment in Kensico Cemetery, near University Park, 1951; graduated, Yale University LawWhite Plains, N.Y. School 1956; served in the United States Air Force 1951- SPEER, Robert Milton, a Representative from Pennsylva- 1953; admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1956 and com-nia; born in Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pa., September 8, menced practice in Philadelphia; assistant district attorney1838; attended Cassville Academy; taught school; studied of Philadelphia 1959-1964; assistant counsel, Warren Com-law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced prac- mission, Washington, D.C., 1964; district attorney of Phila-tice in Huntingdon, Pa.; elected assistant clerk of the State delphia 1966-1974; resumed the practice of law 1974-1980;house of representatives in 1863; elected as a Democrat to admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1979 and to the Districtthe Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871- of Columbia bar in 1983; elected as a Republican to theMarch 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in United'States Senate in 1980 for the term commencing Jan-1874; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in uary 3, 1981; reelected in 1986 for the term ending January1872 and 1880; resumed the practice of law and in 1876 1993. became one of the proprietors of the Huntingdon Monitor; SPEED, Thomas, a Representative from Kentucky; bornunsuccessful candidate for election in 1880 to the Forty- in Charlotte County, Va., October 25, 1768; taught by hisseventh Congress; died in New York City January 17, 1890; father; moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1782; em-interment in Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pa. ployed in the office of the clerk of the general court; engaged SPEER, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Geor- in mercantile pursuits at Danville and Bardstown in 1790;gia; born in Monroe County, Ga., August 31, 1837; attended also engaged in agricultural pursuits; clerk of the Bullittthe common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits and as and Nelson circuit courts; served as major of Volunteers in 1861 and reelected the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Fifteentha planter; elected justice of the peace in Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candi-in 1865; appointed collector of Confederate taxes for Pike date for reelection; resumed agricultural pursuits; contribut-County in June 1863, serving until the cessation of hostil- ed articles to the National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C.;ities; elected justice of the inferior court for Pike County in member of the State house of representatives in 1821, 1822, 1865, serving until July 1868; delegate to the State constitu- and again in 1840; was a member of the Whig Party when ittional convention 1867-1868; member of the State senate was organized; died on his farm, near Bardstown, Nelson1868-1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Con- County, Ky., February 20, 1842; interment on his farm, "Cot-gress and served from March 4, 1871, until hisdeath in tage Grove," near Bardstown, Ky. Barnesville, Lamar County, Ga., August 18, 1872; interment in Zebulon Street Cemetery. SPEER, Emory, a Representative from Georgia; born in Culloden, Monroe County, Ga., September 3, 1848; pursued SPEIGHT, Jesse, a Representative from North Carolina classical studies and was graduated from the University ofand a Senator from Mississippi; born in Greene County, Georgia at Athens in 1869; entered the Confederate Army atN.C., September 22, 1795; attended the country schools; the age of sixteen as a volunteer in the Fifth Kentuckymember, State house of commons 1820, and served as speak- Regiment, Lewis brigade, and remained with that commander; member, State senate 1823-1827; electedfrom North throughout the Civil War; studied law; was admitted to theCarolina to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Athens, Ga.; solicitorCongresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837); was not a candi- general of Georgia 1873-1876; unsuccessful candidate fordate for renomination; moved to Plymouth, Miss.; member, election to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the unexpiredState senate 1841-1844, and served as president; elected as a term of Benjamin H. Hill; elected as an Independent Demo-Democrat to the United States Senate from Mississippi and crat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (Marchserved from March 4, 1845, until his death in Columbus, 1879-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionMiss., May 1, 1847; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills in 1882; United States attorney for the northern district of(Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee to Audit and Control Georgia 1883-1885; district judge of the southern Federalthe Contingent Expense (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment judicial district of Georgia 1885-19 18; dean of Mercer Uni-in Friendship Cemetery. versity Law School 1893-1918; died in Macon, Ga., December SPELLMAN, Gladys Noon, a Representative from Mary- 13, 1918; interment in Riverside Cemetery. land; born Gladys Blossom Noon in New York City, March 1, Bibliography: DAB. 1918; attended public schools in New York City and Wash- SPEER, Peter Moore, a Representative from Pennsylva-ington, D.C.; attended George Washington University, Wash- nia; born near Oil City, Venango County, Pa., December 29,ington, D.C.; graduate school, United States Department of 1852 Biographical Directory

Agriculture; taught in Prince Georges (Md.) County schools;to the bar and commenced practice at Snow Hill, Md.; elect- member, Prince Georges County Board of Commissioners,ed as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843- 1962-1970; councilwoman at large, 1971-1974; appointed byMarch 3, 1845); was not a candidate for renomination; later President Lyndon B. Johnson to Advisory Commissiononaffiliated with the Republican Party; owned large iron-ore Intergovernmental Relations, 1967; president, National Asso-properties in Worcester County; judge for Worcester County ciation of Counties, 1972; elected as a Democrat to theand the twelfth judicial circuit 1857-1867; practiced law in Ninety-fourth Congress; reelected to the three succeedingSalisbury, Wicomico County, Md.; assistant attorney general Congresses and served from January 3, 1975, until removedfor the Post Office Department 1872-1877; died in Washing- from Congress by H. Res. 80, February 24, 1981, due toanton, D.C., on November 10, 1877; interment in Makamie incapacitating illness; was a resident of Laurel, Md., untilMemorial Church Cemetery, Snow Hill, Worcester County, her death in Rockville, Md., on June 19, 1988; interment inMd. Arlington National Cemetery. SPENCER, Ambrose (father of ), a SPENCE, Brent, a Representative from Kentucky; born inRepresentative from New York; born in Salisbury, Litchfield Newport, Campbell County, Ky., December 24, 1874; attend-County, Conn., December 13, 1765; attended Yale College, ed public and private schools; was graduated from the lawand was graduated from Harvard University in 1783; studied department of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ohio, in 1895; was admitted to the bar the sameyear and commenced practice in Newport, KY.; member of the StateHudson, Columbia County, N.Y.;cityclerk1786-1793; senate 1904-1908; city solicitor of Newport, Ky., 1916-1924;member of the State assembly 1793-1795; served in the State elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to thesenate 1795-1804; assistant attorney general in 1796; attor- fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3,ney general of New York 1802-1804; justice of the State 1963); chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Sev-supreme court 1804-1819 and chief justice 1819-1823; re- enty-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, andsumed the practice of law in Albany, N.Y.; elected to the Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); was notaTwenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); chair- candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con- man, Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-first Congress); un- gress; resided in Fort Thomas, Ky., until his death there onsuccessful candidate for reelection; one of the managers ap- September 18,1967; interment in Evergreen Cemetery,pointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct Southgate, Ky. the impeachment proceedings against James H.Peck, United States judge for the district of Missouri; mayor of SPENCE, Floyd Davidson, a Representative from SouthAlbany 1824-1826; moved to Lyons, N.Y., in 1839 and en- Carolina; born in Columbia, Richiand County, S.C., April 9,gaged in agricultural pursuits; president of the Whig Nation- 1928; attended the Lexington, S.C., public schools; A.B., Uni-al Convention at Baltimore in 1844; died in Lyons, N.Y., versity of South Carolina, Columbia, 1952; LL.B., law schoolMarch 13, 1848; interment in Lyons Rural Cemetery. of the same university, 1956; editor, South Carolina Law Bibliography: DAB. Quarterly; enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve, and commissioned upon graduation from college; attained rank SPENCER, Elijah, a Representative from New York; born of captain, United States Naval Reserve; formergroup com-in Columbia County, N.Y., in 1775; received a limited educa- mander, Naval Reserve units, Columbia, S.C.; admitted totion; moved to Jerusalem (later Benton), N.Y., in 1791 and the South Carolina bar in 1956 and commenced practice inengaged in agricultural pursuits; supervisor of the town of West Columbia; member, South Carolina house of represent-Benton 1810-1819; member of the State assembly in 1819; atives, 1956-1962; elected to South Carolina senate, 1966-elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 1970, and served as minority leader; delegate, South Caroli-3, 1823); again supervisor of Benton 1826-1828; member of na State Republican conventions, 1964 to present; delegate,the State constitutional convention in 1846; resumed agricul- Republican National Conventions, 1964-1984; electedas atural pursuits; died in Benton, N.Y., December 15, 1852; Republican to the Ninety-second and to the eight succeedinginterment in Lake View Cemetery, Penn Yan, N.Y. Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); isa resident of Lexington, S.C. SPENCER, George Eliphaz, a Senator from Alabama; born in Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y., November 1, SPENCE, John Selby (uncle of Thomas Ara Spence),a1836; pursued classical studies; attended Montreal College, Representative and a Senator from Maryland; bornnearCanada; moved to Iowa; secretary of the State senate in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md., February 29, 1788;at-1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and tended the common schools; graduated from the medicalpracticed; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel-a captain, and when he resigned in 1865 was brevetted brig- phia in 1809 and practiced in Worcester County, Md.;adier general for gallantry on the field; resumed the practice member, State house of delegates; member, State senate; of law in Decatur, Ala.; appointed register in bankruptcy for elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3,the fourth district of Alabama 1867; upon the readmission of 1825); elected as a Whig in 1836 to the Twenty-second Con-Alabama to representation in 1868 was elected as a Republi- gress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); elected as a Whig tocan to the United States Senate; reelected in 1872, and the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theserved from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1879; chairman, Com- death of Robert H. Goldsborough; reelected in 1837, andmittee on the District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress), served from December 31, 1836, until his deathnear Berlin,Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-fifth Congress); retired Worcester County, Md., October 24, 1840; interment in theto his ranch in Nevada; died in Washington, D.C., February Episcopal Churchyard. 19, 1893; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort SPENCE, Thomas Ara (nephew of John Selby Spence),aMyer, Va. Representative from Maryland; born near Accomac Court Bibliography: Woolfolk, Sarah Van V. "George E. Spencer: A Carpetbag- House, Accomac County, Va., February 20, 1810; pursued ger in Alabama" Alabama Review 19 (January 1966): 41-52. academic studies and attended a local academy;was grad- SPENCER, George Lloyd, a Senator from Arkansas; born uated from Yale College in 1829; studied law; was admittedin Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Mo., March 27, 1893; moved to Biographies 1853

Okolona, Ark., in 1902; attended the public schools, Peddiestudies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; School at Hightstown, N.J., and Henderson College at Arka-held several local offices; judge of probate in 1753; served in deiphia, Ark.; during the First World War served in thethe French war in 1758; member of the Connecticut Council United States Navy as a seaman, second class, in 1918;in 1776; brigadier general in the Continental Army; commis- lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reservesioned major general August 9, 1776, and resigned June 14, 1931-1943; moved to Hope, Ark., in 1921 and engaged in1778, because Congress had ordered an investigation of his banking and farming; appointed as a Democrat to themilitary conduct in 1777; Member of the Continental Con- United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-gress in 1779; again a member of the Connecticut Council in nation of John E. Miller and served from April 1, 1941, to1780 and was annually reelected until his death in East January 3, 1943; was not a candidate for nomination to theHaddam, Conn., on January 13, 1789; interment in Milling- full term; during the Second World War served in theton Green Cemetery; reinterment in Nathan Hale Park in United States Navy in 1943; director, Arkansas-Louisiana 1904. Gas Co., Shreveport, La.; commissioner, Southwest Arkansas Bibliography: DAB. Water District; Arkansas executive vice president of Red River Valley Association; chairman of board and former SPENCER, Richard, a Representative from Maryland; president of First National Bank of Hope, Ark.; died inborn at "Spencer Hall," Talbot County, Md., October 29, Hope, Ark., January 14, 1981; interment in Rosehill Gar-1796; attended the common schools; studied law in Baltimore dens. and was admitted to the Talbot County bar in 1819; moved to his farm, "Solitude," near St. Michaels, Md., in 1822 and SPENCER, James Bradley, a Representative from Newengaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house York; born in Salisbury, Conn., April 26, 1781; received aof delegates 1823-1825; engaged in literary pursuits and in limited education; moved to Franklin County, N.Y., and set-1828 he contributed to the establishment of the Eastern tled in Fort Covington; raised a company for the War of 1812, and served as Captain in the Twenty-ninth UnitedShore Whig and controlled that paper until 1834; elected as States Infantry; appointed a local magistrate in 1814; surro-a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829- gate of Franklin County 1828-1837; appointed loan commis-March 3, 1831); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830 sioner in 1829; member of the State assembly in 1831 andto the Twenty-second Congress; again a member of the State 1832; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congresshouse of delegates in 1833 and 1834; was an unsuccessful (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); died in Fort Covington, N.Y.,candidate for reelection in 1835; moved to Georgia in 1837 March 26, 1848; interment probably in the Old Cemeteryand engaged in cotton planting; moved to Alabama in 1852 near Fort Covington. and settled at "Cottage Hill," near Mobile, where he died September 3, 1868; interment probably on his estate, "Cot- SPENCER, James Grafton, a Representative from Missis-tage Hill." sippi; born near Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Miss., Sep- tember 13, 1844; attended private schools and Oakland Col- SPENCER, Selden Palmer, a Senator from Missouri; born lege in 1861; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confeder-in Erie, Pa., September 16, 1862; attended the public schools ate Army as a private in Cowan's battery of Light Artillery;of Erie; graduated from Yale College in 1884 and from the served until the close of the Civil War in the Army ofWashington University Law School, St. Louis, Mo., in 1886; Mississippi and Tennessee; returned to his home and en- was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house ofSt. Louis; professor of medical jurisprudence in the Missouri representatives 1892-1894; elected as a Democrat to. theMedical College at St. Louis in 1886; member, State house of Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); en- representatives 1895-1896; judge of the circuit court of St. gaged in the real estate and insurance business; died in PortLouis 1897-1903; captain in the Missouri Home Guard and Gibson, Miss., February 22, 1926; interment in Wintergreenchairman of the draft board 1917-1918; elected as a Republi- Cemetery. can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J Stone; reelected in 1920 and served SPENCER, John Canfield (son of Ambrose Spencer), afrom November 6, 1918, until his death; chairman, Commit- Representative from New York; born in Hudson, N.Y., Janu-tee on Claims (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), ary 8, 1788; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady,Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-seventh Congress), Com- N.Y., in 1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809mittee on Privileges and Elections (Sixty-seventh through and commenced practice in Canandaigua, N.Y.; served in theSixty-ninth Congresses); died at Walter Reed Hospital, War of 1812; Judge Advocate General in 1813; postmaster of Canandaigua, N.Y.; assistant attorney general for westernWashington, D.C., on May 16, 1925; interment in Bellefon- New York in 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenthtame Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); was not a candidate SPENCER, William Brainerd, a Representative from Lou- for renomination in 1818; member of the State assembly inisiana; born on "Home Plantation," in Catahoula Parish, 1820 and 1821, and served one year as speaker; served in theLa., February 5, 1835; received his early schooling under State senate 1824-1828; special attorney general to prosecuteprivate tutors; was graduated from Centenary College, Jack- the abductors of Morgan; again a member of the State as-son, La., in 1855 and from the law department of the Univer- sembly in 1831 and 1832; secretary of state of New York insity of Louisiana at New Orleans in 1857; was admitted to 1839; appointed Secretary of War by President Tyler Octoberthe bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Harrisonburg, 12, 1841, and served until March 3, 1843; Secretary of theLa.; served in the Confederate Army, with the rank of cap- Treasury March 3, 1843, to May 2, 1844, when he resigned;tain, until 1863, when he was captured; remained a prisoner nominated by President Tyler to the United States Supremeof war at Johnsons Island, Ohio, until the close of the Civil Court on January 9, 1844, but was rejected by the Senate;War; resumed the practice of law in Vidalia, La., in 1866; died in Albany, N.Y., May 17, 1855; interment in Albanysuccessfully contested as a Democrat the election of Frank Rural Cemetery. Morey to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from June 8, Bibliography: DAB. 1876, to January 8, 1877, when he resigned to accept a SPENCER, Joseph, a Delegate from Connecticut; born injudicial appointment; appointed associate justice of the Lou- East Haddam, Conn., October 3, 1714; completed preparatory isiana Supreme Court January 9, 1877, which position he 1854 Biographical Directory

held until his resignation April 3, 1880; again resumed theOhio, in 1815; taught school for several years in Kendall, practice of law in New Orleans, La.; died in Jalapa, Mexico,Stark County, Ohio; appointed deputy surveyor of Wayne February 12, 1882; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, BatonCounty in October 1815 and served until December 1816; Rouge, La. county surveyor from 1816 to 1821, serving also for a time as SPERRY, Lewis, a Representative from Connecticut; borndistrict surveyor; county auditor in 1820 and 1821; member at East Windsor Hill, town of South Windsor, Conn., Janu-of the State house of representatives in 1821 and 1822; em- ary 23, 1848; attended the district school and Monson Acade-ployed in the register's office at Wooster 1822-1824; appoint- my, Monson, Mass.; was graduated from Amherst College,ed register by President Monroe in 1824; reappointed by Amherst, Mass., in 1873; studied law; was admitted to thePresident Adams in 1828 and served until 1832; engaged in bar in March 1875 and commenced practice in Hartford,mercantile pursuits in Wooster; member of the State board Conn.; member of the State house of representatives in 1876;of equalization in 1846; delegate to the Whig National Con- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-thirdvention in 1852; appointed by Governor Chase one of the Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful can-directors of the Ohio Penitentiary in 1856; elected as a Re- didate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress;publican to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from again resumed the practice of his profession in Hartford,March 4, 1859, until his death in Wooster, Wayne County, Conn.; died at East Windsor Hill, town of South Windsor,Ohio, on May 31, 1859; interment in Wooster Cemetery. Hartford County, Conn., June 22, 1922; interment in South SPINK, Solomon Lewis, a Delegate from the Territory of Windsor Cemetery. Dakota; born in Whitehall, Washington County, N.Y., March SPERRY, Nehemiah Day, a Representative from Con-20, 1831; completed preparatory studies and was graduated necticut; born in Woodbridge, New Haven County, Conn.,from Castleton (Vt.) Seminary; taught school several years; July 10, 1827; attended the common schools and a privatestudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced school in New Haven; engaged in agricultural pursuits andpractice in Burlington, Iowa; moved to Paris, Ill., in 1860 worked in a mill; taught school for several years; becameaand became the editor and publisher of the Prairie Beacon; member of a building and contracting firm; member of themember of the State house of representatives in 1864; moved common council in 1853; alderman of the city in 1854; secre-to Yankton, Dak., in 1865, having been appointed by Presi- tary of state of Connecticut in 1855 and 1856; delegate to thedent Lincoln, as secretary of the Territory of North Dakota, Republican National Conventions in 1856, 1864, and 1888;in which position he served until 1869; was elected as a member and secretary of the national and executive commit-Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March tees; chairman of the Republican State committee for a3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the number of years; chairman of the recruiting committee ofForty-second Congress; resumed the practice of his profes- New Haven during the Civil War; appointed July 16, 1861,sion in Yankton, S.Dak.; unsuccessful candidate for election by President Lincoln as postmaster of New Haven; reap-in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; died in Yankton, S.Dak., pointed and served until removed by President ClevelandSeptember 22, 1881; interment in the City Cemetery. January 20, 1886; again postmaster at New Haven and served from January 9, 1890, until March 15, 1894; elected SPINNER, Francis Elias, a Representative from New as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeed-York; born in Mohawk, German Flats, Herkimer County, ing Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1911); chairman,N.Y., January 21, 1802; was educated by his father; served Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic (Fifty-sixth throughan apprenticeship at both harness making and candy Sixty-first Congresses); was not a candidate for renominationmaking; engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1824; entered the in 1910; died in New Haven, Conn., on November 13, 1911;State militia and was subsequently promoted to the rank of interment in Evergreen Cemetery. major general; appointed deputy sheriff in 1829; sheriff of Bibliography: DAB. Herkimer County 1834-1837; appointed one of the commis- sioners for the construction of the State lunatic asylum at SPIGHT, Thomas, a Representative from Mississippi; bornUtica in 1838; engaged in banking as cashier and later presi- near Ripley, Tippah County, Miss., October 25, 1841; attend-dent of the Mohawk Bank; State inspector of turnpikes; ed the common schools, Ripley Academy, Purdy (Tenn.) Col-commissioner and supervisor of schools; appointed auditor lege, and the La Grange (Tenn.) Synodical College; enlistedand deputy naval officer in charge of the port of New York in the Confederate Army as a private in 1861; promoted toin 1845 and served four years; elected as a Democrat to the the rank of lieutenant the same year; in 1862 becamecap-Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty- tain of Company B, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Mississippi Vol-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, unteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war;1861); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Thirty-sixth Con- taught school and also engaged in agricultural pursuits;gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860 to the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commencedThirty-seventh Congress; appointed by President Lincoln as practice in Ripley, Miss.; member of the State house ofrep-Treasurer of the United States and served from March 16, resentatives 1874-1880; established the Southern Sentinel in1861, until his resignation on July 1, 1875; successfully urged 1879, retiring from the newspaper business fiveyears later;the employment of women in the Treasury Department; died prosecuting attorney of the third judicial district 1884-1892;in Jacksonville, Fla., December 31,1890; interment in elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill theMohawk Cemetery, Mohawk, N.Y. vacancy caused by the resignation of William V. Sullivan; Bibliography: DAB. reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Con- gresses and served from July 5, 1898, to March 3, 1911; SPINOLA, Francis Barretto, a Representative from New unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; againre-York; born at Stony Brook, Long Island, N.Y., March 19, sumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in1821; attended Quaker Hill Academy in Dutchess County; religious work until his death in Ripley, Miss., January 5,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced 1924; interment in Ripley Cemetery. practice in Brooklyn, N.Y.; elected alderman of the second ward in Brooklyn in 1846 and 1847; reelected in 1849 and SPINK, Cyrus, a Representative from Ohio; born in Berk-served for four years; member of the State assembly in 1855; shire County, Mass., March 24, 1793; moved to Stark County,served in the State senate 1858-1861; delegate to the Demo- Biographies 1855 cratic National Convention at Charleston in 1860; harborfor governor of Wisconsin in 1892; moved to Madison in commissioner; during the Civil War was appointed brigadier1893; again elected to the United States Senate in 1897; general of Volunteers October 2, 1862; honorably dischargedreelected in 1903 and served from March 4, 1897, until his from the service in August 1865; engaged in the insuranceresignation, effective April 30, 1907; chairman, Committee business and banking; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth,on Relations with Canada (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses and served fromon Rules (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); en- March 4, 1887, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 14,gaged in the practice of law in New York City; declined the 1891; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. positions of Secretary of the Interior and Attorney General in the Cabinet of President William McKinley in 1898 and SPONG,William Belser, Jr., a Senator from Virginia;1901; declined the position of Secretary of State in the Cabi- born in Portsmouth, Va., September 29, 1920; attended thenet of President ; practiced law in New public schools of Portsmouth, Va.; attended Hampden-York City; died in New York City, June 11, 1919; interment Sydney College, University of Virginia, and University ofin Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis. Edinburgh, Scotland; studied law; served in the Army Air Bibliography: DAB; Fowler, Dorothy. John Coit Spooner: Defender of Corps, Eighth Air Force, 1942-1945; admitted to the bar in Presidents. New York: University Publishers, 1961; Parker, James. "Sena- 1947 and commenced the practice of law in Portsmouth, Va.; tor John C. Spooner, 1887-1907." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mary- lecturer in law and government, College of William and land, 1972. Mary, 1948-1949; member, State house of delegates 1954- 1955; member, State senate 1956-1966; chairman of the Vir- SPRAGUE,Charles Franklin (grandson of Peleg Sprague ginia Commission on Public Education 1958-1962; elected as[1793-1880]), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1966, for the six-Boston, Mass., June 10, 1857; attended the public schools and year term commencing January 3, 1967; subsequently ap-was graduated from Harvard University in 1879; studied law pointed by the Governor, December 31, 1966, to fill the va-at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University and cancy caused by the resignation of A. Willis Robertson forwas admitted to the bar in Boston; member of the Boston the term ending January 3, 1967; served from December 31,Common Council in 1889 and 1890; member of the State 1966, to January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-house of representatives in 1891 and 1892; served as chair- tion in 1972; lawyer; law professor and dean, Marshall-man of the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston Whyte School of Law, College of William and Mary 1976-in 1893 and 1894; served in the State senate in 1895 and 1985; is a resident of Williamsburg, Va. 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty- sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); declined to SPOONER,Henry Joshua, a Representative from Rhodebe a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Island; born in Providence, R.I., August 6, 1839; attended theCongress; died in Providence, R.I., on January 30, 1902; in- common schools and was graduated from Brown University,terment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown, Mass. Providence, R.I., in 1860; studied law; entered the Union Army in 1862 as second lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment, SPRAGUE,Peleg, a Representative from New Hampshire; Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry; served in the Armies ofborn in Rochester, Mass., December 10, 1756; clerked in a the Potomac and the James, mostly in the Ninth Armystore in Littleton, Mass.; attended Harvard College, and was Corps; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commencedgraduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1783; practice in Providence, R.I.; commander of the departmentstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1785 and commenced of Rhode Island, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1877;practice in Winchendon, Mass.; moved to Keene, N.H., in member of the State house of representatives 1875-1881,1787; selectman 1789-1791; county solicitor for Cheshire serving as speaker 1879-1881; elected as a Republican to theCounty in 1794; member of the State house of representa- Forty-seventh Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by thetives in 1797; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress to resignation of Nelson W. Aldrich; reelected to the Forty-fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Smith eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedand served from December 15, 1797, to March 3, 1799; de- from December 5, 1881, to March 3, 1891; chairman, Com-clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1798; died in mittee on Accounts (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candi-Keene, N.H., April 20, 1800; interment in the Washington date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;Street Cemetery. again a member of the State house of representatives in 1902; resumed the practice of law in Providence, R.I., and SPRAGUE,Peleg (grandfather of Charles Franklin Spra- died in that city February 9, 1918; interment in Swan Pointgue), a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Cemetery. Duxbury, Mass., April 27, 1793; graduated from Harvard University in 1812; studied law at Litchfield, Conn.; was SPOONER,John Coit, a Senator from Wisconsin; born inadmitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, md., January 6,1843; Augusta, Maine; moved to Hallowell, Kennebec County, moved to Wisconsin with his parents, who settled in Madi-Maine, in 1817 and continued the practice of law; member, son in 1859; attended the common schools and graduatedMainehouseofrepresentatives1821-1822;corporate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1864;member of the Maine Historical Society; elected to the Nine- during the Civil War enlisted as a private and was brevettedteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served major at the close of the war; private and military secretaryfrom March 4, 1825, until his resignation, effective March 3, to the Governor of Wisconsin; studied law; was admitted to1829, having been elected Senator; elected to the United the bar in 1867 and served as assistant attorney general ofStates Senate and served from March 4, 1829, to January 1, the State until 1870; moved to Hudson, Wis., and practiced1835, when he resigned; again resumed the practice of law in law 1870-1884; member, State assembly 1872; member of theBoston, Mass., in 1840; presidential elector on the Whig board of regents of Wisconsin University; elected as a Re-ticket in 1840; United States district judge of Massachusetts publican to the United States Senate and served from March1841-1865; died in Boston, Mass., October 13, 1880; inter- 4, 1885, to March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-ment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. tion; chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-ninth through Bibliography: DAB; Sprague, Peleg. Speeches and Addresses.Boston: Fifty-first Congresses); unsuccessful Republican candidate Sampson and Co., 1858. 1856 Biographical Directory

SPRAGUE, William (uncle of William Sprague [1830-convention, 1972-1980; delegate, Democratic National Con- 1915]), a Representative and a Senator from Rhode Island;vention, 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth born in Cranston, R.I., November 3, 1799; pursued classicaland to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983- studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member, StateJanuary 3, 1989); is a resident of York, S.C. house of representatives, serving as speaker 1832-1835; elect- ed as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835- SPRIGG, James Cresap (brotherof Michael Cresap March 3, 1837); declined to be a candidate for renominationSprigg), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Frostburg, in 1836; Governor of Rhode Island 1838-1839; elected as aMd., in 1802; completed preparatory studies; moved to Shel- Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy causedbyville, Shelby County, KY.; studied law; was admitted to the by the death of Nathan F. Dixon and served from Februarybar and practiced; held several local offices; member of the 18, 1842, to January 17, 1844, when he resigned; chairman,State house of representatives 1830-1834 and 1837-1840; Committee on Enrolled Bills (Twenty-seventh Congress);elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; engaged in1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate as an Independ- the manufacture of cotton and paint; died in Providence,ent for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; on October 19, 1856; interment in Swan Point Ceme- resumed the practice of law; again a member of the State tery. house of representatives in 1852, and served until his death SPRAGUE, William, a Representative from Michigan;in Shelbyville, Ky., October 3, 1852; interment in Grove Hill born in Providence, R.I., February 23, 1809; attended theCemetery. public schools; moved to Michigan and settled in Kalamazoo; SPRIGG, Michael Cresap (brotherof James Cresap studied theology and was ordained as a minister; presidingSprigg), a Representative from Maryland; born in Frostburg, elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo district,Md., July 1, 1791; completed preparatory studies; held a 1844-1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congressnumber of local offices; member of the State house of dele- (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); retired to his farm neargates in 1821, 1823, 1837, 1840, and 1844; president of the Oshtemo, Kalamazoo County, Mich.; died in Kalamazoo,Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. in 1841 and 1842; elected as a Mich., September 19, 1868; interment in Mountain HomeJacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses Cemetery. (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on SPRAGUE, William (nephew of William Sprague [1799-Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twentieth and Twenty- 1856]), a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Cranston, R.I.,first Congresses); died in Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., September 12, 1830; attended the common schools and Irving December 18, 1845; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Institute, Tarrytown, N.Y.; engaged in the calico-printing SPRIGG, Richard, Jr. (nephew of Thomas Sprigg), a Rep- business and the manufacture of locomotives; Governor ofresentative from Maryland; born in Prince Georges County, Rhode Island 1860-1863; head of a Rhode Island regimentMd.; member of the State house of delegates in 1792 and that was one of the first to answer the call for troops in1793; elected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress to fill 1861; tendered a commission as brigadier general in 1861,the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gabriel Duval; but declined; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1862; reelected in 1868 and served from March 4,reelected to the Fifth Congress and served from May 5, 1796, 1863, to March 3, 1875; was not a candidate for renomina-to March 3, 1799; elected to the Seventh Congress and served tion; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Thirty-eighthfrom March 4, 1801, until his resignation February 11, 1802; through Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Public Landsappointed associate judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals (Forty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for governoron January 27, 1806 of Rhode Island in 1883; engaged in agricultural pursuits SPRIGG, Thomas (uncle of Richard Sprigg, Jr.), a Repre- near Narragansett Pier, R.I.; died in Paris, France, Septem-sentative from Maryland; born in Prince Georges County, ber 11, 1915; interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence,Md., in 1747; served during the Revolutionary War as ensign R.I. in the Maryland Battalion of the Flying Camp from Septem- Bibliography: DAB; Belden, Thomas. So Fell the AngeLs. Boston: Little ber to December 1776; appointed the first register of wills of Brown, 1956. Washington County, Md., in 1777, and served until Septem- SPRAGUE, William Peter, a Representative from Ohio;ber 29, 1780, when he resigned; appointed lieutenant of born near Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, May 21, 1827; at-Washington County by the Governor and Council of Mary- tended the country schools; engaged in mercantile pursuitsland December 21, 1779; elected to the Third Congress and when quite young and continued in active business untilreelected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1864; member of the State senate 1860-1863; moved to1793-March 3, 1797); died in Washington County, Md., De- McConnelsville, Ohio, in 1866, and engaged in banking; cember 13, 1809. elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was nota candi- SPRIGGS, John Thomas, a Representative from New date for renomination in 1874; resumed the banking busi-York; born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, ness at Malta, Ohio; died in McConnelsville, Morgan County,April 5, 1825; immigrated to the United States with his Ohio, March 3, 1899; interment in Riverview Cemetery. parents, who settled in Whitesboro, Oneida County, N.Y., in 1836; attended Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., and was SPRATT, John McKee, Jr., a Representative from Southgraduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1848; Carolina; born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C., No-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced vember 1, 1942; attended York Elementary School, York,practice in Whitesboro, N.Y.; prosecuting attorney of Oneida S.C.; graduated from York High School, 1960; A.B., Davidson County in 1853; county treasurer in 1854; delegate to the College, Davidson, N.C.,1964; M.A., Marshall Scholar,Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in1860; Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1966; LL.B., Yale Lawmayor of Utica 1868-1880; delegate to the Democratic Na- School, 1969; served, United States Army, 1969-1971; admit-tional Convention in 1872 and 1880; elected as a Democrat to ted to the South Carolina bar, 1971 and commenced practicethe Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- in York; banker; delegate, South Carolina State DemocraticMarch 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Forty- Biographies 1857 ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in SPROUL, Elliott Wilford, a Representative from Illinois; 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law;born in Apohaqui, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada, died in Utica, N.Y., December 23, 1888; interment in Whites-December 28, 1856; attended the public schools; moved to boro Cemetery, Whitesboro, N.Y. Boston, Mass., in 1879 and to Chicago, Ill., in 1880, and engaged in the building and contracting business; was natu- SPRINGER, Raymond Smiley, a Representative from In-ralized in 1886; member of the Chicago City Council 1896- diana; born on a farm in Rush County, near Dunreith, md.,1899; delegate to the Republican National Convention in April 26, 1882; attended the public schools, Earlham College, Richmond, md., and Butler University, Indianapolis, md.;1920; member of the board of directors of the Chicago Public was graduated from the Indiana Law School at IndianapolisLibrary 1919-1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- in 1904; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commencedseventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, practice in Connersville, Fayette County, md.; county attor- 1921-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in ney of Fayette County, md., 1908-1914; judge of the thirty-1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; resided in Chicago, Ill., seventh judicial circuit of Indiana 1916-1922; during theuntil his death there on June 22, 1935; interment in Mount First World War served as a captain of Infantry, Eighty-Hope Cemetery. fourth Division, in 1918; lieutenant colonel of the Officers' SPROUL, William Henry, a Representative from Kansas; Reserve Corps 19 18-1946; unsuccessful candidate for Gover-born on a farm near Livingston, Overton County, Tenn., nor of Indiana in 1932 and 1936; elected as a Republican toOctober 14, 1867; attended the public schools and Alpine the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses andAcademy in Overton County, Tenn.; in 1883 moved to served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Connersville,Kansas with his parents, who settled in Cherokee County; md., August 28, 1947; interment in Dale Cemetery. worked on a farm and in the mines; attended high school at SPRINGER, William Lee, a Representative from Illinois;Columbus, Kans., and the Kansas Normal College at Fort born in Sullivan, md., April 12, 1909; attended the publicScott; taught school at Columbus 1888-1892; was graduated schools of Sullivan and Culver Military Academy at Culver,from the Kansas State University Law School in 1894; was hid.; DePauw University, Greencastle, md., B.A., 1931; lawadmitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in school of the University of Illinois, LL.B., 1935; was admittedSedan, Kans.; prosecuting attorney of Chautauqua County to the bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law in1897-1901; mayor of Sedan 1921-1923; engaged in agricultur- 1936 in Champaign, Ill.;State's attorney of Champaignal pursuits and stock raising; was also interested in the oil County, Ill., 1940-1942; served in the United States Navyand gas business; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth from March 1942 as an officer, with nineteen months' for-and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923- eign duty, until discharged as a lieutenant in the NavalMarch 3, 1931); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining Reserve on September 22, 1945; county judge of Champaign(Seventy-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomina- County 1946-1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-tion, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nominationfor second and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3,United States Senator in 1930; resumed his former business 1951-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; member of the Federalpursuits; died in a hospital in Kansas City, Mo., December Power Commission, May 1973-December 1975; member of27, 1932; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Sedan, Kans. the Federal Election Commission from May 1976 to March SPRUANCE, Presley, a Senator from Delaware; born in 1979; is a resident of Champaign, Ill. Kent County, Del., September 11, 1785; pursued preparatory SPRINGER, William McKendree, a Representative fromstudies; engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits Illinois; born near New Lebanon, Sullivan County, md., Mayin Smyrna, Del.; delegate to the State constitutional conven- 30, 1836; moved to Jacksonville, Ill., with his parents intion in 1831; member, State senate 1828, 1840, 1846, and 1848; attended the public schools in New Lebanon and Jack-served as its president; elected as a Whig to the United sonville and the Illinois College at Jacksonville; was grad-States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, to March 3, uated from the University of Indiana at Bloomington in1853; was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 andhis business pursuits; died in Smyrna, Del., February 13, practiced in Lincoln and Springfield, Ill.; secretary of the1863; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery. State constitutional convention in 1862; traveled in Europe SQUIRE, Watson Carvosso, a Senator from Washington; 1868-187 1; member of the State house of representatives inborn in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, N.Y., May 18, 1838; 1871 and 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourthattended the public schools, Falley Seminary, Fulton, N.Y., and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March and Fairfield Seminary, Herkimer County, N.Y.; graduated 1895); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1859; prin- partment of State (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses),cipal of the Moravia (N.Y.) Institute; during the Civil War Committee on Elections (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-eighthenlisted in Company F, Nineteenth Regiment, New York Congress), Committee on Claims (Forty-ninth Congress),Volunteer Infantry, in 1861; promoted to the rank of first Committee on Territories (Fiftieth Congress), Committee onlieutenant, and was mustered out the same year; graduated Ways and Means (Fifty-second Congress), Committee onfrom the Cleveland Law School in 1862; was admitted to the Banking and Currency (Fifty-third Congress); was an unsuc-bar the same year and commenced practice in Cleveland, cessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourthOhio; raised a company of sharpshooters, of which he was Congress; again resumed the practice of law in Washington,commissioned captain; made judge advocate of the district of D.C., in 1895; United States judge for the northern district ofTennessee, with headquarters in Nashville; discharged with Indian Territory and chief justice of the United States Courtthe rank of captain in 1865 and subsequently brevetted of Appeals of Indian Territory by appointment of Presidentmajor, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; subsequently em- Cleveland 1895-1900; again engaged in the practice of hisployed with the Remington Arms Co.; purchased large hold- profession in Washington, D.C., where he died on Decemberings in the Territory of Washington in 1876 and moved to 1903; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.Seattle in 1879; Governor of the Territory of Washington Bibliography: DAB. 1884-1887; upon the admission of Washington as a State into 1858 Biographical Directory

the Union in 1889 was elected as a Republican to the Unitedther's farm; taught school for several years; later engaged in States Senate; reelected in 1891, and served from Novemberagricultural pursuits; enlisted in the Confederate Army Jan- 20, 1889, to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-uary 9, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War, attaining tion in 1897; chairman, Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-the rank of colonel of the Eighth Regiment, South Carolina second and Fifty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Transpor-Volunteers; member of the State house of representatives tation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-second Congress);re-1863, 1865-1866; member of the first board of trustees of tired from the practice of law and devoted his time toman- Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Caro- agement of his properties in Seattle; organizer and president of the Union Trust Co. and the Squire Investment Co.; diedlina in 1887; first president of the South Carolina State in Seattle, Wash., June 7, 1926; interment in Washelli Ceme-Farmers' Alliance in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the tery. Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until Bibliography: DAB. his death in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1892; interment in Little Rock Cemetery, Little Rock, S.C. STACK, Edmund John, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., January 31, 1874; attended thegram- STAEBLER, Neil Oliver, a Representative from Michigan; mar and high schools of Chicago; was graduated from theborn in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich., July 11, law department of Lake Forest (Ill.) University in 1895;was1905; attended the public schools; graduated from Ann Arbor admitted to the bar the same year and commenced theHigh School in 1922 and from the University of Michigan in practice of his profession in Chicago, Ill.; appointed assistant1926; engaged in the oil business until 1951; in real estate corporation counsel of Chicago and, later, chief trial attor-and land development since 1946; served in the Office of ney; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixti-Price Administration in the building materials branch in eth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second1942 and 1943; served as a lieutenant in the United States Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candi- Navy, 1943-1945; consultant to Federal Housing Expediter date for renomination in 1912; resumed the practice of law;in 1946; chairman of Democratic State Central committee of died in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1957; interment in CalvaryMichigan, 1950-1961; member of Democratic National Com- Cemetery, Evanston, Ill. mittee, 1961-1964 and 1965-1968; visiting professor, Univer- sity of Massachusetts, in 1962; elected as a Democrat to the STACK, Edward John, a Representative from Florida;Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., April 29, 1910; at- tended the public schools; B.A., Lehigh University, Bethle-was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-ninth Con- hem, Pa., 1931; J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School,gress, but was an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in Philadelphia, 1934; M.A., in public law and government,1964; member of the Federal Election Commission from Columbia University, New York City, 1938; instructor inApril 1975 to October 1978; is a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich. economics, Hunter College of the University of the City of STAFFORD, Robert Theodore, a Representative and a New York; builder, real estate investor; banking profession;Senator from Vermont; born in Rutland, Vt., August 8, 1913; admitted to the New York bar in 1934 and commencededucated in the public schools of Rutland; graduated, Mid- practice in New York City; served in the United States Coastdlebury College 1935; attended the University of Michigan Guard,1942-1946;citycommissioner-mayor,PompanoLaw School; graduated, Boston University Law School 1938; Beach, 1965-1969; sheriff, Broward County, 1968-1978; dele-Rutland County prosecuting attorney 1938-1942; during the gate,Florida State Democratic conventions,1977-1978; Second World War served on active duty in the United member, Democratic National Finance Council, 1976-1978;States Navy as a lieutenant commander 1942-1946, and elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth Congress (Januaryduring the Korean conflict 1951-1953; captain in the United 3, 1979-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate forrenomi-States Navy Reserve; Rutland County State's attorney 1947- nation in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; resumed the1951; deputy State attorney general 1953-1955; State attor- practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for electionto theney general 1955-1957; lieutenant governor 1957-1959; Gov- Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; isa resident of Pompano Beach, Fla. ernor of Vermont 1959-1961; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in 1960; reelected to the five suc- STACK, Michael Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl-ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1961, until vania; born in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, Septemberhis resignation from the House of Representatives, Septem- 29, 1888; attended the national school of his nativecity;ber 16, 1971, to accept appointment the same day to the immigrated to the United States in 1903 and settledinUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death Philadelphia, Pa.; attended St. Joseph's College, Philadel- of Winston L. Prouty; elected by special election January 7, phia, Pa., and was graduated from St. Mary's University,1972, to complete the unexpired term ending January 3, Baltimore, Md., in 1910; employed bya railroad company at1977; reelected in 1976 and again in 1982 for the term Detroit, Mich., 19 10-1917; during the First World War enlist-ending January 3, 1989; chairman, Committee on Environ- ed on July 17, 1917, as a private in the Medical Detachment,ment and Public Works (Ninety-seventh through Ninety- Three Hundred and Sixtieth Infantry; after thewar becameninth Congresses). engaged in the real estate business in Philadelphia, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy- STAFFORD, William Henry, a Representative from Wis- fifth Congresses (January 3, l935-January 3, 1939);unsuc-consin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., October 12, 1869; attended cessful Democratic candidate for renomination in 1938 andthe public schools, and was graduated from Harvard Univer- was an unsuccessful Royal Oak candidate for reelection insity Law School in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the realestatecommenced practice in Milwaukee, Wis.; elected as a Repub- business; died in Philadelphia, Pa., December 14, 1960; inter-lican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Con- ment in St. Denis Cemetery, Havertown, Pa. gresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candi- date for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of his STACKHOUSE, Eli Thomas, a Representative from Southprofession in Milwaukee, Wis.; elected to the Sixty-third, Carolina; born in Little Rock, Marion County, S.C., MarchSixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4,1913- 27, 1824; attended the common schools; workedon his fa-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 Biographies 1859 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; elected to the Sixty-seventh Con-delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; gress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidateelected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the three for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and forsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1893); en- election in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; elected to thegaged in the practice of law; died in Yonkers, N.Y., March Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-26, 1902; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inN.Y. 1932 and for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1938; resumed the practice of law; died in Mil- STALBAUM, Lynn Ellsworth, a Representative from Wis- waukee, Wis., April 22, 1957; interment in Forest Homeconsin; born on a farm near Waterford, Racine County, Wis., Cemetery. May 15, 1920; attended the public schools; graduated from the Racine County Agricultural School in 1936; employed STAGGERS, Harley Orrin (father of Harley Orrin Stag-with the United States Department of Agriculture in Racine gers, Jr.), a Representative from West Virginia; born inCounty, 1936-1944, serving as administrative officer from Keyser, Mineral County, W.Va., August 3, 1907; attended1937; served in the United States Navy 1944-1946; feed sales- the public schools of Mineral County, W.Va.; was graduatedman 1946-1951; secretary-treasurer of the Racine Milk Pro- from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1931; gradu-ducers Cooperative Association and manager of the Harmo- ate work at Duke University in 1935; coach and teacher ofny Dairy Co., 1951-1964; elected to the State senate in 1954 science at Norton (Va.) High School 1931-1933; head coachand reelected in 1958 and 1962; served as caucus chairman of Potomac State College, Keyser, W.Va., 1933-1935; sheriffin 1957, 1959, and 1961, and as assistant minority leader in of Mineral County, W.Va., 1937-1941; right-of-way agent,1963; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress State Road Commission of West Virginia, in 1941 and 1942;(January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate West Virginia State Director, Office of Government Reportsfor reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress and for (later Office of War Information) in 1942; lieutenant com- election in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; legislative con- mander in the United States Naval Air Corps with servicesultant to rural electric and dairy cooperatives, 1968-1985; is as a navigator in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters of War 1942-1946; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and toa resident of Bethesda, Md. the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January STALKER, Gale Hamilton, a Representative from New 3, 1981); chairman, Committee on Interstate and ForeignYork; born in Long Eddy, Sullivan County, N.Y., November Commerce (Eighty-ninth through Ninety-sixth Congresses);7, 1889; attended the grade and high schools, Scranton (Pa.) was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-Business College, and the night schools of New York City; seventh Congress; is a resident of Keyser, W.Va. moved to Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., and engaged in STAGGERS, Harley Orrin, Jr. (son of Harley Orrin Stag-the lumber business and also in banking; elected as a Repub- gers), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Wash-lican to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congress- ington, D.C., on February 22, 1951; graduated from Keyseres (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); was not acandidate for High School, 1969; B.A., Harvard University, 1974; J.D.,renomination in 1934; was a resident of Palm Bay, Fla., West Virginia University School of Law, Morgantown,until his death November 4, 1985; interment in Hillside W.Va., 1977; admitted to West Virginia bar in 1977 andCemetery, Ormond Beach, Fla. commenced practice as an assistant attorney general in STALLINGS, Jesse Francis, a Representative from Ala- Charleston; administrative assistant, Democratic Nationalbama; born near Manningham, Butler County, Ala., April 4, Convention, 1976; elected to West Virginia senate, 1980-1856; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from 1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to thethe University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1877; studied two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3,law at that university; was admitted to the bar in April 1880 1989); is a resident of Keyser, W.Va. and commenced practice in Greenville, Ala.; elected by the STAHLE, James Alonzo, a Representative from Pennsyl-legislature of Alabama as solicitor for the second judicial vania; born in West Manchester Township, York County,circuit in November 1886 and served until his resignation in Pa., January 11, 1829; attended the common schools andSeptember 1892; delegate to the Democratic National Con- York Academy; learned the printing trade; later became avention in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and merchant tailor; organized the Ellsworth Zouaves in 1861to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, and in August of that year, together with his company of1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; re- forty recruits, enlisted as Company A in the Eighty-seventhsumed the practice of his profession in Birmingham, Ala.; Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until hispresident of the Lincoln Reserve Life Insurance Co. 1912- discharge October 13, 1864; deputy collector of internal reve- 1928: died in Birmingham, Ala., on March 18, 1928; inter- nue at York, Pa., from May 3, 1869, to July 3, 1885; engaged ment in Elmwood Cemetery. in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was not a STALLINGS, Richard Howard, a Representative from candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed agriculturalIdaho; born in Ogden, Utah, October 7, 1940; attended public pursuits; died on his estate near York, Pa., December 21,schools in Ogden; mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of 1912; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa. Latter-Day Saints to New Zealand, 1960-1962; B.S., Weber State College, 1965; M.S., Utah State University, 1968; grad- STAHLNECKER, William Griggs, a Representative fromuate studies, Colorado College, 1968; taught history at Ricks New York; born in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., June 20,College, 1969-1984; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- 1849; moved with his parents to Brooklyn and later to Newninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-Jan- York City; pursued an academic course and attended theuary 3, 1989); is a resident of Rexburg, Idaho. University of New York in New York City; studied law; was admitted topractice;engagedinmercantilepursuits; STALL WORTH, James Adams, a Representative from member of the New York Produce Exchange; moved to Yon-Alabama; born in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Ala., April 7, kers in 1880; mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., 1884-1886; delegate to1822; attended Old Field Piney Woods Schools; engaged as a the Democratic State convention at Saratoga in June 1884;planter; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and 1860 Biographical Directory

commenced practice in Evergreen, Ala.; member of the StateState house of representatives 1913-1917, serving as speaker house of representatives 1845-1848; solicitor for the secondin 1917; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate judicial circuit of Alabama in 1850 and 1855; unsuccessfulin 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927; candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress;unsuccessful candidate for reelection on the Independent elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixthticket in 1926; chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to January 21,the Civil Service (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee on 1861, when he withdrew; died near Evergreen, ConecuhPublic Lands and Surveys (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed County, Ala., August 31, 1861; interment in Evergreen Cem-his former business pursuits; died in Weiser, Idaho, April 13, etery. 1945: interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. STANARD, Edwin Obed, a Representative from Missouri; STANFILL, William Abner, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Newport, Sullivan County, N.H., January 5, 1832;born in Barbourville, Knox County, Ky., January 16, 1892; moved with his parents to the Territory of Iowa in 1836;attended the public schools and Union College; graduated completed preparatory studies; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1853; taught school in Illinois in 1854 and 1855; was graduat-from the law department of the University of Kentucky at ed from St. Louis (Mo.) Commercial College in 1855; engagedLexington in 1912; was admitted to the bar the same year in the commission business in 1856 and later in the millingand commenced practice in Barbourville, KY.; moved to business at St. Louis; Lieutenant Governor of Missouri 1869-Hazard, Ky., in 1916 and continued the practice of law; 1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congressmember of the board of regents of Morehead State Teachers (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate forCollege 1927-1931; member of the board of governors of the reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; engaged inKentucky Children's Home at Lyndon, Ky., 1933-1936; ap- the manufacture of flour; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 12,pointed as a Republican to the United States Senate, No- 1914; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. vember 19, 1945, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Albert B. Chandler and served from November 19, STANBERY, William, a Representative from Ohio; born 1945, to November 5, 1946, when a successor was elected; in Essex County, N.J., August 10, 1788; received an academicwas not a candidate for nomination to the vacancy in 1946; education; studied law in New York City and was admittedresumed the practice of law; retired; resided in Lexington, to the bar; moved to Ohio in 1809; settled in Newark, Lick-Ky., where he died June 12, 1971; interment in Hillcrest ing County, and practiced law; member of the State senateMemorial Park. in 1824 and 1825; elected to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Wilson; reelect- STANFORD, Leland, a Senator from California; born in ed as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress andas anWatervliet, N.Y., March 9,1824; pursued an academic Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress and servedcourse; studied law; was admitted to practice in 1848; moved from October 9, 1827, to March 3, 1833; censured by theto Port Washington, Wis., the same year and engaged in the Twenty-second Congress on July 11, 1832, for use ofunpar-practice of law; moved to California in 1852 and opened a liamentary language; unsuccessful candidate for renomina-general store for miners first in Cold Springs and then in tion in 1832; resumed the practice of law; died in Newark,1855 moved to Sacramento and engaged in mercantile pur- Ohio, January 23, 1873; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.suits on a large scale; one of the "big four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad, serving as its president in 1863; STANDIFER, James, a Representative from Tennessee;involved in several railroads in the West; founder of Leland born in Sequatchie Valley, near Dunlap, Tenn.; attended theStanford Junior University; Governor of California 1861- common schools and was graduated from the University of1863; returned to private business; elected as a Republican Tennessee at Knoxville; elected to the Eighteenth Congressto the United States Senate in 1885; reelected in 1891 and (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); elected asa Jacksonian toserved from March 4, 1885, until his death in Palo Alto, the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses,as aCalif., June 21, 1893; chairman, Committee on Public Build- White supporter to the Twenty-fourth Congress, andas aings and Grounds (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses); Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4,interment in a masoleum on the grounds of Stanford Uni- 1829, until his death near Kingston, Tenn., August 20, 1837,versity. while on his way to Washington, D.C.; interment in the Bibliography: DAB; Clark, George. Leland Stanford, War Governor of Baptist Cemetery, Kingston, Tenn. California and Founder of Stanford University. Stanford: Stanford Univer- STANDIFORD, Elisha David, a Representative from Ken-sity Press, 1931; Tutorow, Norman. Leland Stanford: Man of Many Ca- tucky; born near Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., December reers. Menlo Park, Calif.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1971. 28, 1831; attended the common schools and St. Mary's Col- STANFORD, Richard (grandfather of William Robert lege, near Lebanon, KY.; was graduated from the KentuckyWebb), a Representative from North Carolina; born near School of Medicine and commenced practice in Louisville;Vienna, Md., March 2, 1767; completed preparatory studies; abandoned the practice of medicine and engaged in agricul-moved to Hawfields, N.C., about 1793 and established an tural pursuits and other enterprises; member of the Stateacademy; elected as a Republican to the Fifth and to the senate in 1868 and 1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1797, third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); declinedauntil his death in Georgetown, D.C., April 9, 1816; chairman, renomination in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; presidentCommittee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Thirteenth of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. 1875-1879;en- Congress); interment in Congressional Cemetery, Washing- gaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; died in Louis- ton, D.C. ville, Ky., July 26, 1887; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. STANGELAND, Arlan Ingehart, a Representative from STANFIELD, Robert Nelson, a Senator from Oregon;Minnesota; born in Fargo, Cass County, N.Dak., February 8, born in Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oreg., July 9, 1877; at-1930; moved to Minnesota in 1936; educated in the public tended the public schools and the State normal school atschools of Moorhead, Minn.; graduated from Moorhead High Weston, Oreg.; engaged in the livestock industry and alsoSchool,1948;farmer, Wilkin County, Minn.; member, interested in banking in Echo and Baker, Oreg.; member,Barnesville (Minn.) School Board, 1976-1977; served in Mm- Biographies 1861 nesota house of representatives, 1966-1975; delegate, Minne-gaged in the practice of law in Albany, N.Y., 1980-1981, and sota State Republican conventions, 1964-1968; elected as ain Kenmore, N.Y., 1981-1986; is a resident of Kenmore, N.Y. Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress, by special election, STANLY, Edward (son of John Stanly), a Representative February 22, 1977, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-from North Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., January 10, tion of Robert Selmer Bergland; reelected to the five suc-1810; attended New Bern Academy and was graduated from ceeding Congresses (February 22, 1977, to January 3, 1989);the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, is a resident of Barnesville, Minn. Norwich University, in 1829; studied law; was admitted to STANLEY, Augustus Owsley, a Representative and a Sen-the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Washington, ator from Kentucky; born in Shelbyville, Ky., May 21, 1867;Beaufort County, N.C.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, attended the State college at Lexington, Ky., and graduatedTwenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1889; professor of1837-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on Expenditures belles-lettres at Christian College and principal of Mackvilleon Public Buildings (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee on Academy 1891-1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar inMilitary Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful 1894 and commenced practice in Flemingsburg, KY.; presi-candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- dential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1900; elected as agress; member of the State house of representatives1844- Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the five succeeding Con-1846, 1848, and 1849, serving as speaker in 1844-1846; attor- gresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candi- ney general of North Carolina in 1847; elected to the Thirty- date for reelection to the Sixty-fourth Congress; Governor offirst and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, Kentucky 1915-19 19, when he resigned, having been elected1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States SenateThirty-third Congress; moved to California in 1853 and prac- in 1918 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of 011ie Jamesticed law in San Francisco; unsuccessful Republican candi- for the term commencing March 4, 1919, but, preferring todate for Governor of California in 1857; during the Civil War continue as Governor, did not qualify until May 19, 1919,was appointed Military Governor of easternNorth Carolina and served until March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate forMay 26, 1862, with rank of brigadier general, and served reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washing- ton, D.C.; member of the International Joint Commissionuntil March 2, 1863, when he resigned; returned to Califor- 1930-1933, chairman 1933-1954; died in Washington, D.C.,nia and resumed the practice of law; died in San Francisco, August 12, 1958; interment in Frankfort Cemetery, Frank-Calif., July 12, 1872; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif. fort, Ky. Bibliography: DAB; Brown, Norman D. Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tar- Bibliography: DAB; Ramage, Thomas. ": Early heel "Conqueror". University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1974. Twentieth-Century Kentucky Democrat." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1968. STANLY, John (father of Edward Stanly), a Representa- STANLEY, Thomas Bahnson, a Representative from Vir-tive from North Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., April 9, ginia; born on a farm near Spencer, Henry County, Va., July1774; received his early education from private tutors; at- 16, 1890; attended the local public schools and Eastmantended Princeton University; studied law; was admitted to Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; engaged in furniturethe bar in 1799 and practiced; clerk and master in equity; manufacturing since 1924; dairy farmer and livestock breed-member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; er; member of State house of delegates 1930-1946, serving aselected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress (March 4, speaker 1942-1946; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-1801-March 3,1803); elected to the Eleventh Congress ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation(March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); resumed the practice of his of Thomas G. Burch and at the same time was elected to theprofession; again a member of the State house of commons Eightieth Congress; reelected to the Eighty-first, Eighty-1812-1815, 1818, 1819, 1823-1825, and 1826; died in New second, and Eighty-third Congresses, and served from No- Bern, N.C., August 2, 1834; interment in Episcopal Ceme- vember 5, 1946, until his resignation February 3,1953, tery. having entered the campaign for Governor; chairman, Com- mittee on House Administration (Eighty-second Congress); STANTON, Benjamin, a Representative from Ohio; born elected Governor of Virginia for the term commencing Janu-in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 4, 1809; ary 1954 and ending January 1958; trustee of Randolph-pursued academic studies; learned the tailor's trade; studied Macon College; vice president and director of First Nationallaw; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced prac- Bank, Bassett, Va.; chairman, Commission on State andtice in Bellefontaine, Ohio; member of the State senate in Local Revenues and Expenditures (a tax study commission);1841 and 1843; delegate to the State constitutional conven- resumed his business of furniture manufacturing; died intion in 1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress Martinsville, Va., July 10, 1970; interment in Roselawn(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); elected as a Republican to Burial Park. the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3,1861); chairman, Committee on STANLEY, Winifred Claire, a Representative from NewMilitary Affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress); Lieutenant Gover- York; born in New York City August 14, 1909; attended thenor of Ohio in 1862; moved to Martinsburg,W.Va., in 1865, public schools in New York City and Buffalo, N.Y.; Universi-and practiced law; moved to Wheeling, W.Va., in 1867 and ty of Buffalo, B.A., 1930 and from its law school LL.B., 1933,continued the practice of law; died in Wheeling, W.Va., June and J.D., 1933; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and com-2, 1872; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. menced practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; first woman to serve as assistant district attorney of Erie County, N.Y., 1938-1942; STANTON, Frederick Perry, a Representative from Ten- elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (Jan-nessee; born in Alexandria, Va., December 22,1814; pursued uary 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for re-classical studies, and was graduated from Columbian College nomination in 1944; appointed counsel to the New York(now George Washington University), Washington, D.C.,in State Employees' Retirement System January 1, 1945, and1833; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar served until April 1, 1955; assistant attorney general, Newand commenced practice in Memphis, Tenn.; elected as a York State Law Department, Albany, N.Y., 1955-1979; en-Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and to the four succeeding 1862 Biographical Directory

Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1855); chairman, Com- STANTON, William Henry, a Representative from Penn- mittee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-sylvania; born in New York City July 28, 1843; moved with gresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-third Congress);his parents to Carbondale, Pa., and subsequently to Arch- Governor of Kansas Territory 1858-1861; moved to Virginiabald, Pa.; attended the public schools in Archbald and St. and subsequently settled in Florida; died in Stanton, Fla.,John's College, near Montrose, Pa.; studied law; was admit- June 4, 1894; interment in South Lake Weir Cemetery,ted to the bar in Scranton, Pa., in 1868 and commenced South Lake Weir, Fla. practice in that city; prosecuting attorney of the mayor's Bibliography: DAB. court of Scranton 1872-1874; served in the State senate in STANTON, James Vincent, a Representative from Ohio;1875 and 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 27,Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 1932; attended Ohio parochial schools; served in the UnitedWinthrop W. Ketchum and served from November 7, 1876, States Air Force, 1950-1954; A.B., University of Daytonto March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for election to the (Ohio), 1958; J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1961;Forty-fifth Congress; elected judge of the Luzerne County admitted to the Ohio bar in 1961 and commenced practice inCourt of Common Pleas in 1877; served with Judges Harding Cleveland; member, Cleveland City Council, 1959-1970,serv-and Handley at the organization of the courts of the newly ing as president from 1964 to 1970; elected as a Democrat tocreated county of Lackawanna October 24, 1878; resigned in the Ninety-second, Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congress-1879; resumed the practice of law in Scranton, Pa., and died es (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate inthere March 28, 1900; interment in West Side Catholic Cem- 1976 for reelection to the United States House of Represent- etery. atives but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law in STARIN, John Henry (grandson of Thomas Sammons), a Washington, D.C., 1977-1981; executive vice president ofRepresentative from New York; born in Sammonsville, Delaware North Companies in Buffalo, N.Y., 1981-1988;re-Fulton County (then a part of Montgomery County), N.Y., sumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1988; isaAugust 27, 1825; pursued an academic course in Esperance, resident of Potomac, Md. N.Y.; began the study of medicine in 1842; established and conducted a drug and medicine business in Fultonville 1845- STANTON, John William, a Representative from Ohio; born in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, February 20, 1924; 1858; postmaster of Fultonville, N.Y., 1848-1852; founder attended St. Mary's grade school; graduated from Culverand president of the Starin City River & Harbor Transporta- Military Academy, Culver, md., in 1942; entered the Schooltion Co.; director of the North River Bank, New York City, of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington,and the Mohawk River National Bank; also interested in D.C., in July 1942; left studies and entered the United Statesagriculture and stock raising; elected as a Republican to the Army in December 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater;Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); president of Fultonville National Bank 1883-1909; discharged January 1, 1946, with the rank of captain;re- sumed education and graduated from Georgetown Universi-engaged in railroading; member of the New York City Rapid ty in 1949; engaged in the retail automobile business in 1949;Transit Commission; died in New York City March 21, 1909; elected Lake County Commissioner in 1956 and reelectedininterment in Starin mausoleum, Fultonville Cemetery, Ful- 1960; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth and tonville, N.Y. to the Bibliography: DAB. eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January3, 1983); counselor to the president of the World Bank; isa STARK, Benjamin, a Senator from Oregon; born in New resident of Washington, D.C. Orleans, La., June 26, 1820; pursued classical studies and STANTON, Joseph, Jr., a Senator anda Representativegraduated from Union School, New London, Conn., and from Rhode Island; born in Charlestown, R.I., July 19, 1739;Hebron Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New served in the expedition against Canada in 1759; member,York City 1835-1848, and also studied law; moved to San State house of representatives 1768-1774; servedas colonelFrancisco, Calif., and engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1849 in the Revolutionary Army; delegate to the Stateconstitu-and 1850, moving to Portland, Oreg., the latter year; was tional convention in 1790; elected to the United Statesadmitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Senate and served from June 7, 1790, to March 3, 1793;Portland, Oreg.; member, Territorial house of representa- member, State house of representatives 1794-1800; electedastives 1852; served in the Oregon Indian hostilities in 1853 a Republican to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresseswith the rank of colonel; member, State house of representa- (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1807); died in Charlestown, R.I., intives 1860; appointed as a Democrat to the United States 1807; interment in the family cemetery. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Baker and served from October 29, 1861, to September 12, STANTON, Richard Henry, a Representative from Ken-1862, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for tucky; born in Alexandria, Va., September 9, 1812; complet- election; resumed the practice of law; moved to New London, ed preparatory studies; attended Alexandria Academy; stud-Conn.; member of the board of aldermen of New London, ied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice inConn., 1873-1874; member, State house of representatives Maysville, Ky., in 1835; editor of the Maysville Monitor1874; member of the Connecticut State Prison Commission; 1835-1842; postmaster of Maysville, electedas a Democrat todied in New London, Conn., October 10, 1898; interment in the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third CongressesCedar Grove Cemetery. (March 4, 1849-March 3,1855); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-first and Thirty-second STARK, Fortney Hillman (Pete), Jr., a Representative Congresses), Committee on Elections (Thirty-third Congress);from California; born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 11, unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-1931; attended the public schools of Wisconsin; B.S., Massa- fourth Congress; State's attorney 1858-1861; delegate to thechusettsInstituteof Technology,Boston,Mass.,1953; Democratic National Convention in 1868; district judgeM.B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1960; served in 1868-1874; resumed the practice of law until his retirementthe United States Air Force, 1955-1957, with rank of cap- in 1885; died in Maysville, Ky., March 20, 1891; interment intain; banker; founder and president, Security National Bank, Maysville Cemetery. Walnut Creek, Calif., 1963-1972; chairman of the board, Se- Biographies 1863 curity Capital Corp., 1963-1972; delegate, California Stateattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to Democratic convention, 1972; alternate delegate, Democraticthe bar and commenced practice in Norwich, Conn.; member National Convention, 1972; elected as a Democrat to theof the State house of representatives in 1856; delegate to the Ninety-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Janu-Republican National Conventions in 1860 and 1868; postmas- ary 3, 1973-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Oakland, Calif.ter of Norwich, Conn., 1861-1865; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the four succeeding Congresses and STARK, William Ledyard, a Representative from Nebras-served from March 4, 1867, until his death in Washington, ka; born in Mystic, New London County, Conn., July 29,D.C., on January 28, 1876; chairman, Committee on District 1853; was graduated from Mystic Valley Institute, Mystic,of Columbia (Forty-second Congress); interment in Yantic Conn., in 1872; moved to Wyoming, Stark County, Ill.; taught school and clerked in a store; attended the Union College ofCemetery, Norwich, Conn. Law, Chicago, Ill.; was admitted to the bar by the supreme STARNES, Joe, a Representative from Alabama; born in court of Illinois in January 1878; moved to Aurora, Nebr., inGuntersville, Marshall County, Ala., March 31, 1895; attend- February 1878; served as superintendent of city schools;ed the public schools; taught school in Marshall County, deputy district attorney; judge of the Hamilton CountyAla., 1912-1917; during the First World War served overseas Court; served as a major and judge advocate general of theas a second lieutenant in the Fifty-third Infantry,Sixth Nebraska National Guard; unsuccessful Populist candidateDivision, in 1918 and 1919; was graduated from the law for election in 1895 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; elected as adepartment of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in Populist to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con-1921; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced gresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful Fusion-practice at Guntersville, Ala.; member of the One Hundred ist candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Con-and Sixty-Seventh Infantry, Alabama National Guard, since gress; retired and resided in Aurora, Nebr.; died at Tarpon1923, advancing through the ranks to colonel; member of the Springs, Fla., November 11, 1922; interment in the CityState board of education 1933-1949 and became vice chair- Cemetery, Aurora, Nebr. man in January 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- STARKEY, Frank Thomas, a Representative from Minne-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, sota; born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., February 18, 1935-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- 1892; attended the public schools; business representative oftion in 1944; served as a colonel of Infantry in the European the Milk Drivers Union 1917-1933 and 1942-1944; memberTheater of Operations and in the Army of Occupation from of the State house of representatives 1923-1933, serving asJanuary 4, 1945, until discharged on February 22, 1946; chief clerk in 1933; member of the State Industrial Commis-resumed the practice of law in Guntersville, Ala.; died in sion 1933-1939; vice president of the Minnesota State Feder-Washington, D.C., January 9, 1962; interment in City Ceme- ation of Labor for twelve years, serving as director of itstery, Guntersville, Ala. research division 1939-1942; member of the Ramsey County Civil Service Commission 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat STARR, John Farson, a Representative from New Jersey; to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3,born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1818; completed prepar- 1947); unsuccessful for reelection in 1946 to the Eightiethatory studies; moved to Camden, N.J., in 1844; one of the Congress; writer for trade magazines; commissioner, Depart-founders of the Camden Iron Works; engaged in mercantile ment of Employment Security, St. Paul, Minn., 1955-1965;pursuits; president of the First National Bank of Camden for died in St. Paul, Minn., May 14, 1968; cremated; ashes in-over thirty years, up to the time of his death; elected as a terred in Calvary Cemetery. Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3,1867); was not a candidate for STARKWEATIIER, David Austin, a Representative fromrenomination in 1866; died in Atlantic City, N.J., August 9, Ohio; born in Preston, Conn., January 21, 1802; received an1904; interment in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N.J. academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Mansfield, Ohio; moved to STATON, David Michael, a Representative from West Vir- Canton, Ohio, in 1827 and continued the practice of law; ginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, W.Va., February judge of one of the higher courts in Stark County, Ohio;11, 1940; attended the public schools; graduated from Par- member of the State house of representatives 1833-1835;kersburg High School,1958; attended Concord College, served in the State senate 1836-1838; elected as a DemocratAthens, W.Va., 1961-1963; served in the United States Army to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); National Guard, 1957-1965; data processing manager; vice resumed the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio; elected topresident, Kanawha Valley Bank, Charleston, W.Va., 1972- the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847);1980; delegate, West Virginia State Republican conventions, unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 to the Thirtieth1976-1980; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1980; Congress; chairman of the Democratic National Conventionunsuccessful candidate for election in 1978 to the Ninety- in 1852; Minister to Chile 1854-1857; lived in retirementsixth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sev- until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 12, 1876; inter-enth Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); unsuccess- ment in Lake View Cemetery. ful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth STARKWEATHER, George Anson, a Representative fromCongress; chief political advisor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, New York; born in Preston, Conn., May 19, 1794; attended1984 to present; is a resident of Alexandria, Va. the common schools and was graduated from Union College, STAUFFER, Simon Walter, a Representative from Penn- Schenectady, N.Y., in 1819; studied law; was admitted to thesylvania; born in Walkersville, Frederick County, Md., bar and practiced in Cooperstown, N.Y.; elected as a Demo- August 13,1888; attended the public schools; attended crat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,Conway Hall, Carlisle, Pa., in 1906 and 1907; graduated from 1849); again resumed the practice of his profession in Mil- Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1912; moved to York, Pa., waukee, Wis., 1853-1868; died in Cooperstown, N.Y., Octoberin 1915; engaged in the manufacture of lime, crushed stone, 15, 1879; interment in Lakewood Cemetery. and refractory dolomite 19 16-1936; trustee of Dickinson Col- STARKWEATHER, Henry Howard, a Representativelege from 1930 until his death; president of National Lime from Connecticut; born in Preston, Conn., April 29, 1826; Association, Washington, D.C., 1936-1946; chairman of York 1864 Biographical Directory

City Housing Authority 1949-1952; vice president and chair-in 1944, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republi- man of executive committee, York County Gas Co., 1950-can nomination for United States Senator; engaged in for- 1960; owner of a large tract of woodland and engaged ineign educational work; in 1942 became a director of the timbering operations 1947-1960; elected as a Republican toRumford Printing Co. of Concord, N.H.; moved to Exeter, the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955);N.H., in 1948, where he died June 4, 1956; interment in was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to theExeter Cemetery. Eighty-fourth Congress; elected to the Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate STEARNS, Ozora Pierson, a Senator from Minnesota; for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; residedborn in De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., January 15, in York, Pa., where he died September 26, 1975; interment 1881; moved to Ohio in 1833 with his parents, who settled in in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Lake County; attended Oberlin (Ohio) College, and graduat- ed from the University of Michigan in 1858 and from the STEAGALL, Henry Bascom, a Representative from Ala- bama; born in Clopton, Dale County, Ala., May 19, 1873;law department of that university in 1860; was admitted to attended the common schools and the Southeast Alabamathe bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Rochester, Agricultural School at Abbeville; was graduated from theMinn.; elected prosecuting attorney of Olmstead County in law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa1861; mayor of Rochester 1866-1868; served in the Union in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-Army during the Civil War as a lieutenant, and then colo- menced practice in Ozark, Ala.; county solicitor of Dalenel; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on County 1902-1908; member of the State house of representa-January 18, 1871, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tives in 1906 and 1907; member of the State DemocraticDaniel S. Norton and served from January 23 to March 3, executive committee 1906-19 10; prosecuting attorney of the1871; was not a candidate for reelection; moved to Duluth, third judicial circuit 1907-19 14; delegate to the Democratic Minn., in 1872 and practiced law; judge of the eleventh National Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to thejudicial district of Minnesota 1874-1895; regent of the Uni- Sixty-fourth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses andversity of Minnesota at Minneapolis 1890-1895; died in Pa- served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington,cific Beach, Calif., June 2, 1896; remains were cremated in D.C., November 22, 1943; chairman, Committee on BankingLos Angeles and the ashes interred in Forest Hill Cemetery, and Currency (Seventy-second through Seventy-eighth Con-Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn. gresses); co-sponsor of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932; inter- ment in the City Cemetery, Ozark, Ala. STEBBINS, Henry George, a Representative from New Bibliography: DAB; Key, Jack Brien. "Henry B. Steagall: The Conserva- York; born in Ridgefield, Conn., September 15, 1811; attend- tive as a Reformer." Alabama Review 17 (July 1964): 198-209. ed private schools; moved to New York; engaged in banking; colonel of the Twelfth Regiment; president of the Dramatic STEARNS, Asahel, a Representative from Massachusetts;Fund Association; president of the Academy of Music; elect- born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 17, 1774; was graduateded as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from Harvard University in 1797; studied law; was admittedfrom March 4, 1863, until his resignation on October 24, to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Chelmsford,1864; engaged as a stock broker; president of the New York Mass.; member of the State senate in 1813; moved toStock Exchange; appointed president of the Central Park Charlestown, Mass., in 1815; elected as a Federalist to theCommission; died in New York City December 9, 1881; inter- Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); servedment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. in the State house of representatives in 1817; professor of law at Harvard University from 1817 to 1829; again served STECK, Daniel Frederic, a Senator from Iowa; born in as a member of the State senate in 1830 and 1831; died inOttumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, December 16, 1881; attend- Cambridge, Mass., February 5, 1839; interment in Mounted the common schools; graduated from the law department Auburn Cemetery. of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1906; was admitted Bibliography: DAB. to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Ot- tumwa; during the First World War, served in France as a STEARNS, Foster Waterman, a Representative from Newcaptain; resumed the practice of law in Ottumwa; successful- Hampshire; born in Hull, Plymouth County, Mass., July 29,ly contested as a Democrat the election of Smith W. Brook- 1881; attended the public schools; was graduated from Am-hart to the United States Senate and served from April 12, herst (Mass.) College in 1903, Harvard University, in 1906,1926, to March 3, 1931; was an unsuccessful candidate for and Boston College in 1915; librarian of the Museum of Finereelection in 1930; resumed the practice of his profession; Arts, Boston, Mass., 1913-1917; State librarian of Massachu-special assistant to the United States Attorney General setts in 1917; during the First World War servedas a first1933-1947; retired; died in Ottumwa, Iowa, December 31, lieutenant with the Sixteenth Infantry, First Division, and at the General Headquarters of the American Expeditionary 1950; interment in Ottumwa Cemetery. Forces in France from November 27, 1917, until discharged STEDMAN, Charles Manly, a Representative from North August 5, 1919; assistant military attaché to Belgium inCarolina; born in Pittsboro, Chatham County, N.C., January 1919; served in the Department of State, Washington, D.C.,29, 1841; moved with his parents to Fayetteville, N.C., in in 1920 and 1921; third secretary of the American Embassy,1853; attended Pittsboro Academy and Donaldson Academy attached to the United States High Commission, in Constan-at Fayetteville; was graduated from the University of North tinople 1921-1923; second secretary of the American Embas-Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1861; during the Civil War served sy at Paris in 1923 and 1924; librarian of Holy Cross College,as a private in the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Worcester, Mass., 1925-1930; moved to Hancock, N.H., inCompany, First North Carolina Regiment, and later as 1927; member of the State house of representatives in 1937major in the Forty-fourth North Carolina Regiment; re- and 1938; delegate to the Republican National Conventionsturned to Chatham County and taught school at Pittsboro in 1940 and 1948; Regent of the Smithsonian Institutionone year; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and 1941-1945; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth, Sev-commenced practice in Wilmington, N.C., in 1867; delegate enty-seventh, and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3,to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; Lieutenant 1939-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for renominationGovernor of North Carolina 1884-1888; unsuccessful candi- Biographies 1865 date for nomination as Governor in 1888 and again in 1903;Stevens College of Business in 1875; studied law; was admit- moved to Asheville, N.C., in 1891, to Greensboro, N.C., inted to the bar on May 16, 1881, and commenced practice in 1898, and continued the practice of law; president of theEaston, Pa.; member of the board of education 1889-1893; North Carolina Bar Association in 1900 and 1901; director ofcity solicitor 1889-1895; delegate to the State constitutional the North Carolina Railroad in 1909 and 1910, during whichconvention in 1891; president of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso- time he served as president; trustee of the University ofciation in 1914; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, North Carolina 1899-1915; elected as a Democrat to theSixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March Sixty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses and3, 1921); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1920; served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Washington,resumed the practice of law in Easton, Pa.; served as a D.C., September 28, 1930; interment in Cross Creek Ceme-director of the Lehigh Valley Transit Co. and of the Pennsyl- tery, Fayetteville, N.C. vania Motor Co.; died in Easton, Pa., March 19, 1933; inter- STEDMAN, William, a Representative from Massachu-ment in Easton Cemetery. setts; born in Cambridge, Mass., January 21, 1765; was grad- STEELE, John, a Representative from North Carolina; uated from Harvard University in 1784; studied law; wasborn in Salisbury, N.C., November 16, 1764; attended Clio's admitted to the bar in 1787 and practiced in Lancaster,Nursery, near Statesville, N.C., and the English School, Charlestown, and Worcester; appointed justice of the peaceSalisbury, N.C.; farmer; assessor in 1784; town commissioner in 1790; town clerk of Lancaster 1795-1800; member of thein 1787; member of the State house of commons in 1787, State house of representatives in 1802; executive chancellor1788, 1794, 1795, 1806, and 1811-1813; delegate to the Hills- of Lancaster, 1803-1807; elected as a Federalist to theborough convention in 1788; special commissioner from Eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedNorth Carolina to treat with the Cherokee and Chickasaw from March 4, 1803, until his resignation July 16, 1810; clerkIndians from 1788 to 1790; delegate to ratification conven- of Worcester County Courts 1810-1816; late in life moved totion in Fayetteville, 1789; elected to the First and Second Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., where he died AugustCongresses and served from April 19, 1790, until March 3, 31, 1831; interment in Old Hill Burying Ground. 1793; appointed Comptroller of the Treasury July 1, 1796; STEED, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Okla-reappointed by both President John Adams and President homa; born on a farm near Rising Star, Eastland County,Jefferson and served until December 15, 1802, when he re- Tex., March 2, 1904; attended the public schools of Konawa,signed; member of the board of commissioners to determine Okia.; connected with Oklahoma daily newspapers forthe boundary line between North Carolina and Georgia twenty years, including four years as managing editor of1805-1814; died August 14, 1815, in Salisbury, N.C., having Shawnee News and Star; enlisted on October 29, 1942, as abeen on the same day again elected to the State house of private in Antiaircraft Artillery and released from activecommons; interment in Chestnut Hill Cemetery. duty in May 1944 with rank of second lieutenant; joined Bibliography: DAB; West, William Shepherd. "John Steele: Portrait of a Office of War Information July 1, 1944, and served with Moderate Southern Federalist." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North information division in India-Burma Theater until December Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972. 1945; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the STEELE, John Benedict, a Representative from New fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3,York; born in Delhi, N.Y., March 28, 1814; attended Dela- 1981); chairman, Committee on Small Business (Ninety-ware Academy at Delhi and was graduated in lawfrom fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; was admitted to the to the Ninety-seventh Congress; was a resident of Shawnee,bar of Otsego County in 1839 and commenced practice in Okia., until his death on June 8, 1983; interment at Restha-Cooperstown, N.Y.; district attorney of Otsego County 184 1- yen Cemetery, Shawnee, OkIa. 1847; moved to Kingston in 1847; elected special judge of STEELE, George Washington, a Representative from In-Ulster County in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- diana; born near Connersville, Fayette County, md., Decem-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March ber 13, 1839; attended the common schools and Ohio Wesley-3, 1865); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in an University at Delaware; studied law; was admitted to the1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; was again a candidate for bar and commenced practice in Hartford City, md.; duringthe nomination in 1866, but died on the eve of the primary; the Civil War served with the Twelfth Indiana Regimentwas accidentally killed in Rondout, near Kingston,N.Y., and the One Hundred and First Indiana Regiment from MaySeptember 24,1866; interment in Wiltwyck Cemetery, 1861, until the close of the war; commissioned and served inKingston, N.Y. the Fourteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, from Feb- ruary 23, 1866, to February 1, 1876; resigned and engaged in STEELE, John Nevett, a Representative from Maryland; agricultural pursuits and pork packing until 1882; first Gov-born in Weston, Dorchester County, Md., February 22, 1796; ernor of in 1890 and 1891; elected as aresided on an estate called "Indian Town," near Vienna, Republican to the Forty-seventh and to the three succeedingMd.; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889); member of theted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Dorchester Board of Managers of the National Military Home fromCounty, Md.; member of the State house of delegates 1822- April 21, 1890, to December 10, 1904; elected to the Fifty-1824, 1829, and 1830; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1895-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Manufactures death of Littleton P. Dennis; reelected to the Twenty-fourth (Fifty-seventh Congress); governor of the National MilitaryCongress and served from May 29, 1834, to March 3, 1837; Home in Marion, md., from December 11, 1904, to May 31,unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of Maryland in 1915, when he resigned; died in Marion, Grant County, md.,1838; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Cambridge, July 12, 1922; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Md., August 13, 1853; interment in Christ Protestant Episco- pal Church Cemetery. STEELE, Henry Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl- vania; born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., May 10, STEELE, Leslie Jasper, a Representative from Georgia; 1860; attended the public schools, and was graduated fromborn near Decatur, De Kaib County, Ga., November 21, 1868; 1866 Biographical Directory

attended the public and private schools of Decatur and wasSomerville, Somerset County, N.J., April 22, 1892; interment graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1893; taughtin Somerville City Cemetery. school 1893-1898; was graduated from the law department of Georgia University, Athens, Ga., in 1899; was admitted to STEELE, William Randolph, a Delegate from the Terri- the bar the same year and commenced practice in Decatur,tory of Wyoming; born in New York City, July 24, 1842; Ga.; member of the De Kalb County Board of Educationreceived an academic education; studied law; was admitted 1902-1921; mayor of Decatur 1915-1920; served in the Stateto the bar and practiced; during the Civil War served in the house of representatives 1915-1919; city and county attorneySecond Army Corps from 1861 to 1865; discharged with the 1921-1925; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and Sev-rank of captain and brevet lieutenant colonel; moved to the enty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1927, untilTerritory of Wyoming in 1869 and engaged in the practice of his death in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 1929; intermentlaw in Cheyenne; elected as a member of the Territorial in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Ga. legislative council in 1871 and served until March 4, 1873, STEELE, Robert Hampton, a Representative from Con-when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected necticut; born in Hartford, Conn., November 3, 1938; attend-as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congress- ed the Wethersfield, Conn., public schools; B.A., Amherstes (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for College, Mass., 1960; M.A., Columbia University, N.Y., 1963;reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; moved to securities analyst, The Travelers Insurance Company, 1968-Deadwood, S.Dak., and resumed the practice of law; mayor 1970; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Congressonof Deadwood 1894-1896; died in Deadwood November 30, November 3, 1970, by special election, to fill the vacancy1901; interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery. caused by the death of William L. St. Onge and at the same time elected to the Ninety-second Congress; reelected to the STEELMAN, Alan Watson, a Representative from Texas; Ninety-third Congress, and served from November 3, 1970, toborn in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., March 15, 1942; January 3, 1975; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974attended the public schools of Arkansas; B.A., Baylor Uni- to the Ninety-fourth Congress; unsuccessful candidate forversity, Waco, Tex., 1964; M.L.A., Southern Methodist Uni- Governor of Connecticut in 1974; is a resident of Ledyard,versity, Dallas, Tex., 1971; Visiting Fellow, John F. Kennedy Conn. Institute of Politics, Harvard University, November 1972; group president, Asia-Pacific, Alexander Proudfoot PLC, STEELE, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Iowa;1977 to present; executive director, President's Advisory born near Rushville, Rush County, md., March 19, 1853; attended the public schools and Axline Seminary, Fairfax,Council on Minority Business Enterprise, 1969-1972; dele- Iowa; taught school in central and western Iowa; studied lawgate to Texas State Republican conventions, 1968, 1972; at Sheldon, Iowa; engaged in the hardware business and inelected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and Ninety- banking at Wayne, Nebr.; county clerk of Wayne County,fourth Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1977); was Nebr., 1884-1886; moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1897 andnot a candidate in 1976 for reelection but was an unsuccess- became a livestock commission merchant; electedas a Demo-ful candidate for election to the United States Senate; is a crat to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3,resident of Dallas, Tex., and the Republic of Singapore. 1917); unsuccessfully contested the election of George C. STEENERSON, Halvor, a Representative from Minnesota; Scott to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed businessas com- mission merchant; unsuccessful candidate for election inborn at Pleasant Springs, near Madison, Dane County, Wis., 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; died in Sioux City, Iowa,June 30, 1852; moved with his parents to Sheldon, Houston March 20, 1920; interment in Graceland Park Cemetery.County, Minn., in 1853; attended the county schools and the high school in Rushford, Minn.; studied law at the Union STEELE, Walter Leak, a Representative from NorthCollege of Law in Chicago; was admitted to the bar in 1878 Carolina; born at Steeles Mills (later Littles Mills),nearand commenced practice in Lanesboro, Minn.; moved to Rockingham, Richmond County, N.C., April 18, 1823; attend-Crookston, Polk County, Minn., in 1880; prosecuting attor- ed the common schools, Randolph-Macon College, Lynch-ney of Polk County 1881-1883; city attorney of Crookston; burg, Va., and Wake Forest (N.C.) College;was graduatedmember of the State senate 1883-1887; delegate to the Re- from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill inpublican National Conventions in 1884 and 1888; elected as 1844; member of the State house of commons in 1846, 1848, a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding 1850, and 1854; trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1852 until his death; served in the State senate in 1852 Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1923); chairman, Com- and 1858; delegate to the Democratic National Conventionsmittee on Militia (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), Com- at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; secretary of the Statemittee on Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-sixth and Sixty- convention in 1861 which passed the ordinance of secession;seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; vice president of the practice in Rockingham, N.C.; elected as a Democrat to theAmerican group of the Interparliamentary Union; resumed Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-Marchthe practice of law in Crookston, Minn., and died there 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880November 22, 1926; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. to the Forty-seventh Congress; engaged in cotton manufac- STEENROD, Lewis, a Representative from Virginia; born turing and banking; died in Baltimore, Md., on October 16,near Wheeling, Ohio County, Va. (now West Virginia), May 1891; interment in Leak Cemetery, near Rockingham, Rich-27, 1810; attended the common schools; studied law; was mond County, N.C. admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in STEELE, William Gaston, a Representative from NewWheeling; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth, Jersey; born in Somerville, Somerset County, N.J., DecemberTwenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 17, 1820; attended the public schools and Somerville Acade-1839-March 3, 1845); served in the State senate from 1853 to my; engaged in banking; elected as a Democrat to the1856; resumed the practice of his profession; died near Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., October 3, 1862; interment March 3, 1865); engaged in the brokerage business; died inin Stone Church Cemetery, Elm Grove, W.Va. Biographies 1867

STEERS, Newton Ivan, Jr., a Representative from Mary-delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a land; born in Glen Ridge, Essex County, N.J., January 13,Republican to the Ninetieth and to the six succeeding Con- 1917; attended the public schools of White Plains, N.Y.;gresses and served from January 3, 1967, until his death graduated from the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., 1935;December 4, 1978, in Washington, D.C., before the opening of B.A., Yale University, 1939; Certificate of Advanced Meteor-the Ninety-sixth Congress; interment in Lake View Memori- ology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1943; J.D.,al Park, Oshkosh, Wis. Yale Law School, 1948; admitted to the New York bar in 1958 and the District of Columbia bar in 1967; served in STEIWER, Frederick a Senator from Oregon; born on a United States Army Air Corps, 1941-1946; employed by E.I.farm near Jefferson, Marion County, Oreg., October 13, 1883; du Pont, 1939-1941, and GAF Corp., 1948-1951; Unitedattended the public schools; graduated from Oregon State States Atomic Energy Commission, 1951-1953; president ofAgricultural College at Corvallis in 1902 and from the Uni- several investment companies in New York, 1953-1965;versity of Oregon at Eugene in 1906; studied law; was admit- served as Maryland Insurance Commissioner, 1967-1970; inted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Pendleton, 1970, became Maryland Assistant Secretary, Licensing andUmatilla County, in 1909; also interested in agricultural Regulation; member, , 197 1-1977; delegate,pursuits; deputy district attorney 1909-19 10, district attor- Republican National Convention, 1964 and 1984; elected as aney 1912-1916; member, State senate 1916-1917; enlisted in Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3, 1977-the United States Army during the First World War and January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inserved from 1917 to 1919 in the Sixty-fifth Field Artillery, 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Bethesda,with rank of first lieutenant; elected as a Republican to the Md. United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932 and served

from March 4, 1927, until January 31, 1938, when he re-- STEFAN, Karl, a Representative from Nebraska; born onsigned; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive a farm near Zebrakov, Bohemia, March 1, 1884; immigratedDepartments (Seventy-second Congress); continued the prac- to the United States in 1885 with his parents, who settled intice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death there Febru- Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr.; attended the public schools ary 3, 1939; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort in Omaha, Nebr., and later the Y.M.C.A. night school; pri-Myer, Va. vate in the Illinois National Guard; lieutenant in the Ne- braska National Guard; served as inspector of telegraph in STENGER, William Shearer, a Representative from Penn- Philippine Constabulary 1904-1906; moved to Norfolk, Nebr., sylvania; born in Fort London, Franklin County, Pa., Febru- in 1909; served as telegrapher and later as city editor of theary 13, 1840; attended the public schools; was graduated Norfolk Daily News until 1924; radio commentator and con-from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1858; tributor to newspapers and magazines until 1934; presidentstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced of the Stefan Co., publishers' agent for magazines and news-practice in Chambersburg, Pa.; executive director of the papers; member of congressional committee aiding inaugura-Philadelphia Record; district attorney of Franklin County tion of Philippine Commonwealth Government, Manila, P. I.,1862-1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and 1935;delegatetothe Interparliamentary Union,Oslo, Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); unsuc- Norway, in 1939; official adviser, United Nations Confer-cessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth ence, San Francisco, Calif., in 1945; elected as a RepublicanCongress; resumed the practice of his profession; secretary of to the Seventy-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congressesthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1883-1887; died in and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Wash-Philadelphia, Pa., March 29, 1918; interment in Falling ington, D.C., October 2, 1951; interment in Prospect HillSpring Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Cemetery, Norfolk, Nebr. STENGLE, Charles Irwin, a Representative from New STEIGER, Sam, a Representative from Arizona; born inYork; born in Savageville, Accomack County, Va., December New York City, March 10, 1929; attended grade and high5, 1869; attended the public schools; was graduated from schools in New York City; attended Cornell University,Goldey College, Wilmington, Del., in 1890; chaplain of the Ithaca, N.Y., and Colorado A.&M., Fort Collins, Cob.; was aDelaware house of representatives in 1898; engaged in news- commissioned officer in the United States Army serving as apaper work in Norfolk and Fredericksburg, Va., and in New tank platoon leader in Korea; was awarded the Silver StarYork City 1910-19 17; secretary of the municipal civil service and the Purple Heart; engaged in ranching and horse breed-commission of New York City from January 1, 1918, to ing in Prescott, Ariz.; served two terms in the State senateJanuary 1, 1923, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to in 1960-1964; was Vietnam war correspondent for two localthe Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); newspapers in 1965; elected as a Republican to the Ninetiethwas not a candidate for renomination in 1924 to the Sixty- and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-ninth Congress; appointed by President Coolidge in 1925 as a January 3, 1977); was not a candidate in 1976 for reelectionlieutenant colonel, Specialist Reserves, attached to The Ad- but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Unitedjutant General's Office; editor of the National Farm News; States Senate; special assistant to Governor ,legislative representative of the American Federation of 1987-1988; is a resident of Prescott, Ariz. Government Employees from 1934 until his retirement in August 1953; died at Shaftos Corner, New Shrewsbury, N.J., STEIGER, William Albert, a Representative from Wiscon-November 23, 1953; interment in Monmouth Memorial Park. sin; born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wis., May 15, 1938; attended Rose C. Swart Campus School and Oshkosh STENHOLM, Charles Walter, a Representative from High School; B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1960; chairmanTexas; born in Stamford, Jones County, Tex., October 26, College Service Committee, Young Republican National Fed-1938; attended Stamford public schools; graduated from eration, 1959-1961; elected to the State assembly from theStamford High School, 1957; A.S., Tarleton State Junior Col- first district of Winnebago County in 1960; reelected in 1962,lege, 1959; B.S., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1961; M.S., 1964, and 1966; president, Steiger-Rathke Development Co.;Texas Tech University, 1962; farmer; teacher, vocational ag- member, board of directors, Oshkosh Motor Lodge, Inc.; as-riculture, Avoca, Tex., 1962-1965; executive vice president of sistant chief page, Republican National Convention, 1960;an agriculture commodity promotion group, 1966-1968; gen- 1868 Biographical Directory era! manager of a rura! electric cooperative, 1968-1977;1883; interment in a vault in Oakland Cemetery; reinter- State Democratic executive committeeman, Thirtieth senato-ment on his estate, "Liberty Hall," near Crawfordville, Ga. rial district; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1972; Bibliography: DAB; Von Abele, Rudolph R. Alexander H. Stephens, A elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the four Biography. New York: Knopf, 1946. succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is STEPHENS, Ambrose Everett Burnside, a Representative a resident of Avoca, Tex. from Ohio; born in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, STENNIS, John Cornelius, a Senator from Mississippi; Ohio, June 3, 1862; attended the public schools and Chicker- born near De Kaib, Kemper County, Miss., August 3, 1901;ing's Institute of Cincinnati; studied law; was admitted to attended the county schools; graduated, Mississippi Statethe bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Cincinnati; cap- College 1923; graduated, University of Virginia Law Schooltain in the Ohio National Guard 1901-1903 and colonel in 1928; admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in1910 and 1911; clerk of the Hamilton County Courts 1911- De Kalb, Miss.; member, State house of representatives1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the 1928-1932; district prosecuting attorney 1932-1937; circuitthree succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, judge 1937-1947; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesuntil his death; had been reelected to the Seventieth Con- Senate on November 4, 1947, to fill the vacancy caused bygress; died in North Bend, Ohio, February 12, 1927; inter- the death of Theodore G. Bilbo and served from November 5, ment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cleves, Hamilton County, 1947, to January 3, 1953; reelected in 1952, 1958, 1964, 1970, Ohio. 1976, and again in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; STEPHENS, Dan Voorhees, a Representative from Ne- President pro tempore of the Senate during the One-hun-braska; born in Bloomington, Monroe County, md., on No- dreth Congress; chairman, Select Committee on Standardsvember 4, 1868; attended the common schools and Valpar- and Conduct (Eighty-ninth through Ninety-third Congresses),aiso College, Indiana; settled in Fremont, Dodge County, Committee on Armed Services (Ninety-first through Ninety-Nebr., in 1887; studied law; taught school; county superin- sixth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (One-hun-tendent of schools in Dodge County 1890-1894; author of dreth Congress). books on education; engaged in agricultural pursuits, manu- STEPHENS, Abraham P., a Representative from Newfacturing, publishing, and banking; delegate to the Demo- York; born near New City, Rockland County, N.Y., Februarycratic National Conventions in 1904, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 18, 1796; justice of the peace; elected as a Democrat to the1932; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress to Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); diedfill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Latta; in Nyack, Rockland County, N.Y., November 25, 1859; inter-elected to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Con- ment in Oak Hill Cemetery. gresses and served from November 7, 1911, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty- STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton (great-great-uncle ofsixth Congress; resumed his former businesspursuits; Robert Grier Stephens, Jr.), a Representative from Georgia;member of the State board of education of Nebraska 1923- born near Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Ga., on Febru-1926; died in Fremont, Nebr., January 13, 1939, and the ary 11, 1812; attended private and public schools; was grad-remains were cremated. uated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1832; taught school eighteen months; studied law; was admitted to STEPHENS, Hubert Durrett, a Representative and a Sen- the bar in Crawfordville in 1834; member of the State houseator from Mississippi; born in New Albany, Union County, of representatives 1836-184 1; served in the State senate inMiss., July 2, 1875; attended the public schools and graduat- 1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress to filled from the law department of the University of Mississippi the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mark A. Cooper;at Oxford in 1896; was admitted to the bar the same year reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth through Thirty-firstand commenced practice in New Albany; district attorney Congresses, as a Unionist to the Thirty-second Congress,as afor the second district of Mississippi 1907-1910; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and as a Democrat to theDemocrat to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses and served fromCongresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1921); was not a candi- October 2, 1843, to March 3, 1859; chairman, Committee ondate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; Territories (Thirty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate forchairman, Committee on Elections (Sixty-fourth Congress), renomination in 1858; member of the secession convention ofCommittee on Claims (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the Georgia in 1861, which elected him to the Confederate Con-practice of law in New Albany; elected as a Democrat to the gress, and was chosen by that Congress as Vice President ofUnited States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and served the provisional government; elected Vice President of thefrom March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935; unsuccessful candi- Confederacy; one of the commissioners representing the Con- date for renomination in 1934; chairman, Committee on federacy at the Hampton Roads conference in FebruaryCommerce (Seventy-third Congress); director of the Recon- 1865; after the Civil War was imprisoned in Fort Warren,struction Finance Corporation 1935-1936; continued the Boston Harbor, for five months, until October 1865; electedpractice of law in Washington, D.C., until 1941, when he to the United States Senate in 1866 by the first legislatureretired to his farm in Union County, Miss., and engaged in convened under the new State constitution, but did notagricultural pursuits; died March 14, 1946, at his country present his credentials, as the State had not been readmittedhome near New Albany, Miss.; interment in Pythian Ceme- to representation; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-thirdtery. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ambrose STEPHENS, John Hall, a Representative from Texas; was R. Wright; reelected to the Forty-fourth and to the threeborn in Shelby County, Tex., on November 22, 1847; attend- succeeding Congresses and served from December 1, 1873,ed the common schools in Mansfield, Tarrant County, Tex.; until his resignation November 4, 1882; chairman, Commit-was graduated from Mansfield College, and from the law teeon Coinage,Weights, and Measures (Forty-fourthdepartment of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in through Forty-sixth Congresses); elected Governor of Georgia1872; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced in in 1882 and served until his death in Atlanta, Ga., March 4,Montague, Montague County,and Vernon,Wilbarger Biographies 1869

County, Tex.; member of the State senate 1886-1888; re- STEPHENSON,Benjamin, a Delegate from Illinois Terri- sumed the practice of law in Vernon, Tex.; elected as atory; born in Kentucky; moved to Illinois Territory in1809 Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the nine succeeding Con-and settled in Randolph County; appointed as the first sher- gresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committeeiff of Randolph County by Governor Edwards June 28, 1809; on Indian Affairs (Sixty-second through Sixty-fourth Con-moved to Edwardsville, Madison County, and engaged in the gresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916;general mercantile business; appointed adjutant general of moved to Monrovia, Los Angeles County, Calif., in 1917, andthe Territory in 1813; served as a colonel in two campaigns died there November 18, 1924; interment in East View Cem-during the War of 1812; elected on September 3, 1814, to etery, Vernon, Tex. Congress for a term of two years (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1816; STEPHENS,Philander, a Representative from Pennsylva-served as receiver of public moneys in the land office at nia; born near Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pa., in 1788; received a limited education; engaged in agricultural andEdwardsville from April 29, 1816, until his death; delegate to mercantile pursuits; coroner in 1815; county commissioner inthe convention in 1818 which framed the first State constitu- 1818; sheriff in 1821; member of the State house of repre-tion; president of the Bank of Edwardsville in 1819; died in sentatives in 1824 and 1825; elected as a Jacksonian to theEdwardsville, Ill., October 10, 1822. Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829- STEPHENSON,Isaac (brother of Samuel Merritt Ste- March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Expenditures inphenson), a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; the Department of the Treasury (Twenty-second Congress);born in Yorkton near Fredericton, in York County, New was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; resumed agri-Brunswick, Canada, June 18, 1829; attended the common cultural and mercantile pursuits; died probably in Spring-schools; settled in Marinette, Wis., in 1858 and engaged in yule, Susquehanna County, Pa., July 8, 1842; interment inthe lumber business; held various local offices; member, Wis- Stephens Burying Ground, Dimock Township, Susquehannaconsin State assembly 1866, 1868; founder and president of County, Pa. the Stephenson Banking Co. in 1873; elected as a Republican STEPHENS,Robert Grier, Jr. (great-great-nephew of Al-to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses exander Hamilton Stephens), a Representative from Georgia;(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., August 14, 1913; at-renomination in 1888; resumed the lumber business in Mar- tended the public schools; graduated from Boys High Schoolinette, Wis.; elected in 1907 as a Republican to the United in 1931; University of Georgia, A.B., 1935, and M.A., 1937,States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of and the University of Georgia Law School, LL.B., 1941; at-John C. Spooner; reelected in 1909 and served from May 17, tended the University of Hamburg, Germany, on an ex- 1907, to March 3, 1915; chairman, Committee on Expendi- change student scholarship in 1935-1936; taught history attures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-first Con- University of Georgia, 1936-1940; served in the Unitedgress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-second Congress), States Army, with overseas duty, September 1941 to MarchCommittee to Investigate Trespassers Upon Indian Lands 1946; released from active duty with rank of lieutenant colo-(Sixty-third Congress); died in Marinette, Wis., on March 15, nel, the last assignment being on the legal staff of Mr.1918; interment in Forest Home Cemetery. Justice Jackson at the Nuremberg trials of major Nazi war Bibliography: DAB; Stephenson, Isaac. Recollectionsof aLong Life, criminals; resumed teaching career, 1946-1947, at University 1829-1915. Chicago: Donnelley Company, 1915. of Georgia and University of Georgia Law School; engaged in James, a Representative from Virginia; the practice of law in Athens, Ga., 1946-1961; city attorney STEPHENSON, of Athens, 1947-1950; member of the State senate, 1951-born in Gettysburg, Pa., March 20, 1764; moved to Martins- 1953; member of the State house of representatives, 1953-burg, Va. (now West Virginia); volunteer rifleman under 1959; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964; elect-General St. Clair in his Indian expedition in 1791; brigade ed as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the seveninspector; member of the State house of delegates 1800-1803; succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977);elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth1803-March 3, 1805); again a member of the State house of Congress; is a resident of Athens, Ga. delegates in 1806 and 1807; elected to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); elected to the Seventeenth STEPHENS,William Dennison, a Representative fromCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas California; born in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, DecemberVan Swearingen; reelected to the Eighteenth Congress and 26, 1859; attended the public schools and was graduatedserved from October 28, 1822, to March 3, 1825; died in from Eaton High School; taught country school; studied law;Martinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), August 7, 1833. engaged in the construction and operation of railroads in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Louisiana 1880-1887; moved to Los STEPHENSON,Samuel Merritt (brother of Isaac Stephen- Angeles, Calif., in 1887; engaged in the wholesale and retailson), a Representative from Michigan; born in Hartland, in grocery business 1888-1909; was a member of the board ofCarleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, December 23, education in 1906; major and commissary of the First Bri- 1831; moved with his parents to Maine, and later, in 1846, to gade, California National Guard, 1904-19 14; president of theDelta County, Mich., and engaged in lumbering; moved to Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1907; mayor of LosMenominee, Mich., in 1858; interested in real estate, lumber- Angeles in 1909; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seconding, general merchandising, and agricultural pursuits; was Congress; reelected to the Sixty-third Congress and reelectedchairman of the board of supervisors of Menominee County as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth Congress and servedfor several years; member of the State house of representa- from March 4, 1911, to July 22, 1916, when he resigned,tives in 1877 and 1878; served in the State senate in 1879, having been appointed Lieutenant Governor of California;1880, 1885, and 1886; delegate to the Republican National served as Lieutenant Governor from January 2 to March 15,Conventions in 1884 and 1888; elected as a Republican to the 1917, when he became Governor; Governor of CaliforniaFifty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-1923; was admitted to the bar in 1920; resided in Los1889-March 3, 1897); resumed the lumber business; died in Angeles, Calif., until his death on April 25, 1944; intermentMenominee, Mich., July 31, 1907; interment in Riverside in Rosedale Cemetery. 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STERETT, Samuel, a Representative from Maryland; bornCounty, Ill., February 1, 1857; attended the public schools, in Carlisle, Pa., in 1758; moved with his parents to Balti-and was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University at more, Md., in 1761; completed preparatory studies; was grad-Bloomington in 1881; superintendent of the public schools of uated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia;Lexington, Ill., 1881-1883; studied law; was admitted to the held several local offices; member of the independentcompa-bar in December 1884 and commenced practice in Blooming- ny (military) of Baltimore merchants in 1777; appointed pri-ton, vate secretary to the President of Congress in November Ill.;State's attorney of McLean County 1892-1896; 1782; member of the State senate in 1789; elected to themember of the Republican State central committee 1896- Second Congress (March 4, 1791-March 3, 1793); secretary of1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slaveryfour succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representa- in 1791; member of the Baltimore committee of safety intives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings 1812; served as captain of an independentcompany at the Battle of North Point September 12, 1814; grand marshal atagainst Robert W. Archbald, judge of the United States Com- Baltimore at the laying of the foundation stone of the Balti-merce Court; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the more & Ohio Railroad, July 4, 1828; died in Baltimore, Md.,Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty- July 12, 1833; interment in the burying ground of Westmin-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his ster Church. death near Pontiac, Ill., as the result of an automobile acci- dent, October 17, 1918; interment in Park Hill Cemetery, STERIGERE, John Benton, a Representative from Penn-Bloomington, Ill. sylvania; born in Upper Dublin Township, near Ambler, Montgomery County, Pa., July 31, 1793; worked ona farm STERLING, Micah (brother of Ansel Sterling), a Repre- and attended school; taught at Puffs Church School; appoint-sentative from New York; born in Lyme, Conn., November 5, ed justice of the peace in 1818; member of the State house of1784; was graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied law representatives 182 1-1824; studied law; was admitted to theat the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar November 17, 1829, and commenced practice in Norris-bar in 1809 and commenced the practice of law in Adams, town, Pa.; elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelectedJefferson County, N.Y.; moved to Watertown, N.Y., in 1809 as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4,and continued the practice of his profession; held several 1827-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committeeon Private Landlocal offices; treasurer of the village of Watertown in 1816; Claims (Twenty-first Congress); delegate to the Stateconven-served as a director of the Jefferson County Bank; elected to tion to revise the constitution in 1838; member of the Statethe Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); senate 1839 and 1843-1846; delegate to the Democratic Na-resumed the practice of law; member of the State senate tional Convention in 1852; edited the Register; appointed by1836-1839; died in Watertown, N.Y., April 11, 1844; inter- the State assembly as chairman of a commission to improvement in Brookside Cemetery. the town of Norristown; died in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., October 13, 1852; interment in Upper Dublin STERLING, Thomas (brother of John Allen Sterling), a Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ambler, Pa. Senator from South Dakota; born near Amanda, Fairfield County, Ohio, February 21, 1851; moved with his parents to STERLING, Ansel (brother of Micah Sterling),a Repre-McLean County, Ill., in 1854; attended the public schools and sentative from Connecticut; born in Lyme, New Londongraduated from Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington County, Conn., February 3,1782; attended the commonin 1875; superintendent of schools of Bement, Ill., 1875-1877; schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1805andstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced commenced practice in Salisbury, Conn.; moved to Sharon,practice in Springfield, Ill.; city prosecuting attorney 1880- Litchfield County, in 1808 and continued the practice of his188 1; moved to the Territory of Dakota and located in North- profession; member of the State house of representatives inville, Spink County, in 1882; moved to Redfield in 1886 and 1815, 1818-1821, 1825, 1826, 1829, and 1835-1837, andservedcontinued the practice of law; district attorney of Spink as clerk of the house in the sessions of 1815 and 1818-1820;County, Dak., 1886-1888; member of the State constitutional elected to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congressesconvention in 1889; member, State senate 1890; dean of the (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); resumed legal practice; chief justice of the court of common pleas of Litchfield Countycollege of law of the University of South Dakota at Vermil- 1838-1840; died in Sharon, Conn., November 6, 1853; inter-lion 1901-1911; elected in 1913 as a Republican to the United ment in Sharon Burying Ground. States Senate; reelected in 1918, and served from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for renomina- STERLING, Bruce Foster, a Representative from Pennsyl-tion in 1924; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Re- vania; born in Masontown, Fayette County, Pa., Septembertrenchment (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Civil Serv- 28, 1870; attended the public schools of Masontown and theice (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Post Office and California State Normal School, California, Pa.;was graduat-Post Roads (Sixty-eighth Congress); engaged in the practice ed from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown inof law in Washington, D.C., and also served on the faculty of 1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1896andNational University Law School; appointed by President commenced practice in Uniontown, Pa.; member of the StateCalvin Coolidge in 1925 as field secretary of the Commission house of representatives in 1906; delegate to the Democraticfor the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of National Conventions in 1912, 1920, and 1924; electedas athe Birth of George Washington; died in Washington, D.C., Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-MarchAugust 26, 1930; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected STETSON, Charles, a Representative from Maine; born in register of wills and clerk of the orphans court of FayetteNew Ipswich, Hillsborough County, N.H., November 2, 1801; County, Pa., in 1935, 1939, and 1943; died at Uniontown, Pa.,moved with his parents to Hampden, Penobscot County, on April 26, 1945; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Maine, in 1802; attended Hampden Academy and was grad- uated from Yale College in 1823; studied law; was admitted STERLING, John Allen (brother of ),ato the bar and commenced practice in Hampden in 1826; Representative from Illinois; born near Le Roy, McLeanadmitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in Biographies 1871

1828; held various local offices; moved to Bangor, Maine, inbroadcloths at Ware, Hampshire County, Mass., in 1841; 1833; judge of the Bangor Municipal Court 1834-1839;member of the State house of representatives in 1853; dele- member of the common council of Bangor in 1843 and 1844;gate to the Republican National Conventions in 1860 and member of the State executive council 1845-1848; elected as1868; served as a member of the Governor's council 1867- a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-1870; unsuccessful for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inCongress; was subsequently elected as a Republican to the 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed the practice ofForty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death his profession; affiliated with the Republican Party in 1860;of and served from January 27 to March 3, died in Bangor, Maine, March 27, 1863; interment in Mount1875; resumed the manufacturing business; died in New Hope Cemetery. York City April 7, 1892; interment in Aspen Grove Ceme- STETSON, Lemuel, a Representative from New York;tery, Ware, Mass. born in Champlain, Clinton County, N.Y., March 13, 1804; STEVENS, Frederick Clement, a Representative from attended the public schools and Plattsburg Academy; studiedMinnesota; born in Boston, Mass., January 1, 1861; moved law; was admitted to the bar in 1824 and commenced prac-with his parents to Searsport, Maine; attended the common tice in Keeseville, Essex County, N.Y.; member of the Stateschools of Rockland; was graduated from Bowdoin College, assembly in 1835, 1836, and 1842; district attorney of ClintonBrunswick, Maine, in 1881 and from the law department of County 1838-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1884; was admitted to eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman,the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in St. Paul, Minn.; Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-eighth Con-member of the State house of representatives 1888-1891; gress); member of the State constitutional convention inelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight 1846; again a member of the State assembly in 1846; movedsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915); unsuc- to Plattsburg, N.Y., in 1847; judge of Clinton County 1847- 1851; delegate to the Democratic National Convention atcessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Baltimore in 1860; resumed the practice of law; died inCongress; engaged in the practice of law until his death in Plattsburg, N.Y., May 17, 1868; interment in Riverside Cem-St. Paul, Minn., July 1, 1923, interment in Oakland Ceme- etery. tery. STEVENS, Aaron Fletcher, a Representative from New STEVENS, Hestor Lockhart, a Representative from Hampshire; born in Londonderry, Rockingham County,Michigan born in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., October 1, N.H., August 9, 1819; attended Pinkerton Academy, Derry,1803; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- N.H., and Crosby's Nashua Literary Institute, Nashua, N.H.;ted to the bar and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.; at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to the trade of machin-major general of militia of western New York; moved to ist and worked as a journeyman for several years; studiedPontiac, Mich.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inCongress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); resumed the prac- Nashua, Hillsborough County, N.H.; member of the Statetice of law in Washington, D.C.; died in Georgetown, D.C., house of representatives in 1845; held several local offices;May 7, 1864; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. during the Civil War served in the Union Army as major of STEVENS, Hiram Sanford, a Delegate from the Territory the First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, asof Arizona; born in Weston, Windsor County, Vt., March 20, colonel of the Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infan-1832; received a limited education; farmer; in 1851 enlisted try, and was brevetted brigadier general; delegate to thein Company I, First United States Dragoons for service in Whig National Convention in 1852; president of the commonNew Mexico; participatedin engagements against the council of Nashua in 1853 and 1854; solicitor of HillsboroughApaches in 1852 and 1854; honorably discharged at Fort County 1856-1861; city solicitor of Nashua in 1859, 1860,Thorn, N.Mex., in 1856, moving to Tucson, Ariz., where he 1865, 1872, and 1875-1877; elected as a Republican to theengaged in general merchandising and the supplying of Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3,forage for the Army; elected to the Arizona Territorial house 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to theof representatives in 1868; served in the Territorial council Forty-second Congress; again a member of the State house of1871-1873; assessor and supervisor of Pima County; served representatives 1876-1884; resumed the practice of law; diedas treasurer of Tucson in 1871; elected as a Democrat to the in Nashua, N.H., May 10, 1887; interment in Nashua Ceme-Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875- tery. March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in STEVENS, Bradford Newcomb, a Representative from Il-1878; engaged in mercantile pursuits and cattle growing; linois; born in Boscawen, Merrimack County, N.H., Januarydied in Tucson, Ariz., March 22, 1893; interment in Old 3, 1813; attended schools in New Hampshire and at Montre-Tucson Cemetery; reinterment in Evergreen Cemetery. al, Canada, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1835; taught school six years in Hopkins- STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls (cousin of Charles Abbot Stevens ville, Ky., and New York City; moved to Bureau County, Ill.,and Moses Tyler Stevens), a Delegate from the Territory of in 1846; engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits;Washington; born in North Andover (then a part of Ando-- county surveyor; mayor of Tiskilwa, Ill.; elected as a Demo-ver), Essex County, Mass., March 25, 1818; attended Phillips crat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3,Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from the 1873); resumed mercantile and agricultural pursuits; died inUnited States Military Academy at West Point in 1839; en- Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Ill., November 10, 1885; interment tered the Corps of Engineers and served on the staff of in Mount Bloom Cemetery. General Scott in Mexico; assistant in charge of the Coast Survey Office in Washington, D.C.; organized and command- STEVENS, Charles Abbot (brother of Moses Tyler Stevens ed the northern Pacific exploration party which explored and cousin of Isaac Ingalls Stevens), a Representative fromand surveyed the route for a railway from St. Paul to Puget Massachusetts; born in North Andover (then a part of Ando-Sound in 1853; resigned his commission as major in the ver), Essex County, Mass., August 9, 1816; attended FranklinCorps of Engineers to become Governor; Governor of the Academy at North Andover; manufacturer of flannels andTerritory of Washington from 1853 to 1857; was a candidate 1872 Biographical Directory

for the Democratic nomination to Congress in 1855, butJune 18, 1874; moved with his parents to Lisbon, Grafton withdrew; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth andCounty, N.H., in 1876; attended the public schools, Boston Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); wasLatin School, Harvard University, and Harvard Law School; not a candidate for renomination in 1860; delegate to thewas admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Balti-Lisbon, N.H.; member of the State house of representatives more in 1860; during the Civil War entered the Union Armyin 1909, 1911, 1913, and 1923; member of the State constitu- as a colonel of the Seventy-ninth New York Highianders;tional convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the appointed brigadier general and later major general in com-Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was not mand of a division; killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virgin-a candidate for renomination in 1914, but was an unsuccess- ia, September 1, 1862; interment in Island Cemetery, New-ful candidate for the United States Senate in 1914; special port, R.I. counsel of the Federal Trade Commission 1915-1917; United Bibliography: DAB; Hazard, Joseph Taylor. Companion of Adventure; A States representative to the Allied Maritime Transport Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington Territory.Council in 1917 and 1918; vice chairman of the United States Portland, Ore.: Binfords and Mart, 1952; Richards, Kent D. Isaac I.Ste- vens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Shipping Board 19 17-1920; delegate to the Democratic Na- Press, 1979. tional Conventions in 1920 and 1924; appointed adviser in foreign affairs to the King of Siam in January 1926, in STEVENS, James, a Representative from Connecticut;which capacity he served until 1935, except for a six-month born in that part of Stamford which is now the town of Newperiod during 1933 when he was a member of the Federal Canaan, Fairfield County, Conn., July 4, 1768; studied law;Trade Commission; member of the Federal Tariff Commis- was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Stam-sion 1935-1942, serving as chairman 1937-1942; died at Indi- ford, Conn.; member of the State house of representativesanapolis, md., May 18, 1942; interment on the grounds of the 1804, 1805, 1808-1810, 1814, 1815, 1817, and 1818; judge offamily residence at Landaff, N.H. probate, Stamford district, in 1819; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); justice of the peace STEVENS, Robert Smith, a Representative from New at Stamford 1819-1826; postmaster of Stamford, Conn., fromYork; born in Attica, Wyoming County, N.Y., March 27, May 17, 1822 to October 5, 1829; judge of Fairfield County1824; prepared for college under a tutor; pursued an academ- Court in 1823; resumed the practice of law in Stamford,ic course; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846; Conn., and died there April 4, 1835; interment in St. John'smoved to Kansas, and engaged in the practice of law; subse- and St. Andrew's Episcopal Cemetery. quently became extensively interested in real estate, in the development of coal lands, and in the management and STEVENS, John, a Delegate from New Jersey; born inbuilding of railroads; member of the State house of repre- Perth Amboy, N.J., in 1715; merchant and shipowner; en- sentatives; retired from active business pursuits in 1880 and gaged in trading with the West Indies and Madeira; largereturned to New York; engaged in agricultural pursuits; landowner and mine owner in Hunterdon, Union, and Som- elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March erset Counties; member of the general colonial assembly in4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1751; was a member of the defense committee to protectin 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed agricultural New York and New Jersey against Indian depredations;pursuits; died in Attica, Wyoming County, N.Y., on February commissioner to the Indians in 1758; paymaster of Colonel23, 1893; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. Schuyler's regiment, the "Old Blues," 1756-1760; as a resi- dent of New York City in 1765 was one of the committee of STEVENS, Thaddeus, a Representative from Pennsylva- four who prevented the issue of stamps; in 1774 was appoint- nia; born in Danville, Caledonia County, Vt. April 4, 1792; ed a commissioner to define the boundary line between Newattended Peacham Academy and the University of Vermont York and New Jersey; vice president of the council of Newat Burlington; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Han- Jersey 1770-1782; served as president of the council of Eastover, N.H., in 1814; moved to Pennsylvania in 1814; studied Jersey proprietors in 1783; Member of the Continental Con-law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced prac- gress in 1784; presided over the State ratification conventiontice in Gettysburg; member of the State house of representa- December 18, 1787; died in Hoboken, Hudson County, N.J.,tives 1833-1835, 1837, and 1841; delegate to the State consti- May 10, 1792; interment in the Frame Meeting House Ceme-tutional convention in 1838; appointed as a canal commis- tery, Hunterdon County, N.J. sioner in 1838; moved to Lancaster, Pa., in 1842; elected as a Whig totheThirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses STEVENS, Moses Tyler (brother of Charles Abbot Stevens(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); elected as a Republican to and cousin of Isaac Ingalls Stevens), a Representative fromthe Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and Massachusetts; born in North Andover (then a part of Ando-served from March 4, 1859, until his death; chairman, Com- ver), Essex County, Mass., October 10, 1825; attended Frank-mittee on Ways and Means (Thirty-seventh and Thirty- lin Academy at North Andover; was graduated from Phillipseighth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Thirty- Academy, Andover, in 1842; attended Dartmouth College,ninth and Fortieth Congresses); chairman of the managers Hanover, N.H., in 1842 and 1843; engaged in the manufac-appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868 to con- ture of woolen goods in North Andover; served as presidentduct the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, of the Andover National Bank; member of the Massachu-President of the United States; died in Washington, D.C., on setts State house of representatives in 1861; served in theAugust 11, 1868; interment in Shreiner's Cemetery, Lancas- Massachusetts State senate in 1868; elected as a Democrat toter, Pa. the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 189 1- Bibliography: DAB; Brodie, Fawn. ,Scourge of the March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination in South. New York: Norton, 1959; Current, Richard N. Old Thad Stevens, A 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed his interests in Story of Ambition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1942. the manufacturing business; died in North Andover, Mass., March 25, 1907; interment in Ridgewood Cemetery. STEVENS, Theodore F. (Ted), a Senator from Alaska; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, - md., November 18, STEVENS, Raymond Bartlett, a Representative from New1923; attended Oregon State College and Montana State Col- Hampshire; born in Binghamton, Broome County, N.Y., lege; graduated, University of California, Los Angeles 1947; Biographies 1873 graduated, Harvard Law School 1950; served in the Unitedfourth Congress), Select Committee on Ethics (Ninety-fifth States Air Force in the Second World War in China 1943-and Ninety-sixth Congresses); resumed the practice of law; 1946; admitted to the bar in California in 1950, to the Dis-unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois in trict of Columbia bar in 1951, and to the Alaska bar in 1957; 1982 and 1986; is a resident of Hanover, Ill. practiced law in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1953; legislative counsel, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 1956; assistant to STEVENSON, Andrew (father of John White Stevenson), the Secretary of the Interior 1958; chief counsel, Departmenta Representative from Virginia; born in Culpeper County, of the Interior 1960; returned to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1961Va., January 21, 1784; pursued classical studies; attended and practiced law; elected to State house of representativesthe College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied in 1964, reelected in 1966, serving as speaker pro temporelaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in and majority leader; appointed as a Republican to theRichmond, Va.; member of the State house of delegates United States Senate, December 24, 1968, to fill the vacancy1809-1816 and 1818-1821 and served as speaker 1812-1815; caused by the death of E.L. Bartlett, and was subsequentlyunsuccessful candidate in 1814 and 1816 for election to Con- elected on November 3, 1970, to complete the unexpiredgress; elected to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected to the term ending January 3, 1973; reelected in 1972, 1978, andEighteenth through Twentieth Congresses and reelected as a again in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991; Republi-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Con- can whip 1977-1985; chairman, Republican Senatorial Cam-gresses and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation, paign Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress), Select CommitteeJune 2,1834; Speaker of the House of Representatives on Ethics (Ninety-eighth and Ninety-ninth Congresses). (Twentieth through Twenty-third Congresses); Minister to Great Britain 1836-184 1; engaged in agricultural pursuits at STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing (great-grandfather of Adlai"Blenheim," Albemarle County, Va.; in 1845 was elected a Ewing Stevenson III), a Representative from Illinois and amember of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia Vice President of the United States; born in Christianat Charlottesville, and in 1856 was elected rector; died at his County, Ky., October 23, 1835; moved with his parents tohome, "Blenheim," January 25, 1857; interment in Ennis- Bloomington, Ill., in 1852; attended Illinois Wesleyan Uni-cothy Cemetery, Albemarle County, Va. versity at Bloomington and Centre College, Danville, Ky., Bibliography: DAB; Wayland, Francis Fry. , Democrat studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced and Diplomat, 1785-1857. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, practice in Metamora, Woodford County, Ill.; master in 1949. chancery 1860-1864; presidential elector on the Democratic STEVENSON, James S., a Representative from Pennsyl- ticket in 1864; district attorney 1865-1868; elected as a Dem- ocrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3,vania; born in York County, Pa., in 1780; completed prepara- 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to thetory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and prac- Forty-fifth Congress; elected to the Forty-sixth Congressticed; member of the State house of representatives in 1822 (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate forand 1823; president of the board of canal commissioners of reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; First As-the State, which position he held until the time of his death; sistant Postmaster General 1885-1889; elected Vice Presi- elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March dent of the United States on the Democratic ticket headed4, 1825-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection by Grover Cleveland in 1892; was inaugurated March 4,in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; engaged in manufac- 1893, and served until March 3, 1897; was an unsuccessfulturing in Pittsburgh, Pa., until his death in that city October Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United16, 1831; interment in First Presbyterian Cemetery. States in 1900 and for governor of Illinois in 1908; retired STEVENSON, Job Evans, a Representative from Ohio; from public and political activities and resided in Blooming-born in Yellow Bud, Ross County, Ohio, February 10, 1832; ton, Ill.; died in Chicago, Ill., June 14, 1914; interment incompleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill. the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in Bibliography: DAB; Schiup, Leonard C. "The Political Career of theChillicothe, Ohio; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; First Adlai E. Stevenson." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, 1973; Stevenson, Adlai. Something of Men I Havemember of the State senate 1863-1865; solicitor of Chilli- Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical and cothe 1859-1862; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1864 Retrospective. Chicago; A.C. McClurg and Co., 1909. to the Thirty-ninth Congress; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865; was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing, III (great-grandson of AdlaiForty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); re- Ewing Stevenson), a Senator from Illinois; born in Chicago, sumed the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio; resided in Cook County,Ill.,October 10,1930; attended grammarLexington and Corinth, KY.; died in Corinth, Ky., July 24, schools in Illinois, and Milton Academy, Massachusetts;1922; interment in Yellow Bud Cemetery, Yellow Bud, Ohio. graduated from Harvard College in 1952, and from the law department of the same university in 1957; entered United STEVENSON, John White (son of Andrew Stevenson), a States Marine Corps as a private in 1952, served as a tankRepresentative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Rich- platoon commander in Korea, discharged as a first lieuten-mond, Va., May 4, 1812; attended Hampden-Sidney Acade- ant in 1954 and from the Reserves in 1961 with the rank ofmy, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia captain; law clerk to justice of Illinois Supreme Court 1957-at Charlottesville in 1832; studied law; was admitted to the 1958; was admitted to the bar in 1957 and commenced prac-bar and commenced practice in Vicksburg, Miss; moved to tice in Chicago, Ill.; member, Illinois house of representa-Covington, Kenton County, Ky., in 1841; county attorney; tives 1965-1967; treasurer, State of Illinois 1967-1970; elect-member, State house of representatives 1845-1849; delegate ed as a Democrat to the United States Senate on Novemberto the State constitutional convention in 1849; one of three 3, 1970, to fill the unexpired term caused by the death ofcommissioners appointed to revise the civic and criminal United States Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen; reelectedcode of the State 1850-1851; presidential elector on the in 1976, and served from November 17, 1970, to January 3,Democratic ticket in 1852 and in 1856; elected as a Democrat 1981; was not a candidate for reelection in 1980; chairman,to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, Select Committee on the Senate Committee System (Ninety-1857-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 Biographical Directory

1860; lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1867; became Gov-attended the common schools; in 1838 moved with his par- ernor in 1867, upon the death of the Governor and wasents to Kendall County, Ill.; studied law; was admitted to the subsequently elected Governor in 1868 and served until 1871,bar about 1860 but never practiced; engaged in agricultural when he resigned, having been elected a Senator; elected aspursuits and became an extensive landowner; also engaged a Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromin the manufacture of harvesters, mowers, and binders at March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; was not a candidate forPiano and later at West Pullman; unsuccessful Democratic reelection; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claimscandidate for Governor of Illinois in 1876; elected as a Demo- (Forty-fourth Congress); professor in the Cincinnati Lawcrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, School; president of the American Bar Association 1884-1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the 1885; died in Covington, Ky., August 10, 1886; interment inFifty-third Congress and for election in 1894 to the Fifty- Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. fourth Congress; resumed his former manufacturing activi- Bibliography: DAB. ties; also interested in agricultural pursuits; died in Plano, STEVENSON, William Francis, a Representative fromKendall County, Ill., August 27, 1896; interment in Plano South Carolina; born in what is now Loray, near Statesville,Cemetery. Iredell County, N.C., November 23, 1861; attended the public STEWART, Alexander, a Representative from Wisconsin; schools and was tutored by his father; teacher in the publicborn in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada, schools in 1879 and 1880; was graduated from Davidson Col-September 12, 1829; attended the common schools of his lege, Davidson, N.C., in 1885; again engaged in teaching innative city; moved to Marathon County, Wis., in 1849, and Cheraw, S.C., 1885-1887, studying law at the same time; wassettled where the city of Wausau is now located; engaged in admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice inthe lumber business; delegate to the Republican National Chesterfield, S.C., the same year; moved to Cheraw in 1892Convention in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- and continued the practice of law; member of the Democrat-fourth,Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, ic executive committee of Chesterfield County 1888-19 14,1895-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination serving as chairman 1896-1902; mayor of Cheraw in 1895in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; resided in Washing- and 1896; member of the State house of representativeston, D.C., until his death on May 24, 1912; interment in Pine 1897-1902, serving as speaker 1900-1902; declined to be aGrove Cemetery, Wausau, Wis. candidate for reelection; interested in various business enter- prises in Chesterfield County; district counsel for the Sea- STEWART, Andrew (father of Andrew Stewart [1836- board Air Line Railway 1900-19 17; member of the Democrat- 1903]), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Un- ic State executive committee 1901-1942; general counsel foriontown, Fayette County, Pa., on June 11, 1791; received a the State dispensary commission 1907-1911; again a membergood education; taught school; was graduated from Washing- of the State house of representatives 1911-1914; electedas aton College (now Washington and Jefferson College), Wash- Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill thevacancyington, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1815 and caused by the death of Representative-elect David E. Finley;commenced practice in Uniontown; member of the State reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Con-house of representatives 1815-18 18; was appointed by Presi- gresses and served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1933;dent Monroe as United States attorney for the western dis- was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 totrict of Pennsylvania and served from 1818 to 1820, when he the Seventy-third Congress; member of the Federal Homeresigned; elected to the Seventeenth and to the three suc- Loan Bank Board, Washington, D.C., 1933-1939, servingasceeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); elected as chairman in 1933; died in Washington, D.C., on February 12,an Anti-Masonic candidatetothe Twenty-second and 1942; interment in St. David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); un- Cheraw, S.C. successful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty- fourth Congress; was elected as a Whig to the Twenty- STEVENSON, William Henry, a Representative from Wis-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, consin; born in Kenosha, Wis., September 23, 1891; moved to1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Manufactures La Crosse, Wis., with his parents in 1894; attended the grade(Thirtieth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomi- and high schools; was graduated from Teachers College, Lanation; affiliated with the Republican Party; unsuccessful Crosse, Wis., in 1912; taught in the high schools of Hoimen,candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; Neillsviile, and Madison, Wis., 1912-1916; was graduatedlargely interested in building and real estate until his death from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1919 andin Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., July 16, 1872; interment from its law department in 1920; was admitted to the bar inin Union Cemetery. 1920 and commenced practice in Richiand Center, Wis.;ap- Bibliography: DAB. pointed circuit court commissioner and divorce counsel of Richland County in 1922 and served until 1924; district at- STEWART, Andrew (son of Andrew Stewart [1791-1872]), torney of Richland County 1924-1926; moved to La Crosse,a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Uniontown, Wis., in 1930 and continued the practice of his profession;Fayette County, Pa., April 6, 1836; attended Sewickley Acad- served as district attorney of La Crosse County, Wis., 1935-emy, Sewickley, Pa., and Madison College, Uniontown, Pa.; 194 1; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and tostudied medicine and attended Jefferson Medical College, the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3,Philadelphia, Pa.; during the Civil War enlisted as a private 1949); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination inin the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; admitted to practice beforetry, and served throughout the war; unsuccessful candidate United States Supreme Court in 1946; resumed the practicefor election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; presented of law; resided in Onalaska, Wis., until his death in Lacredentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Fifty-second Crosse, Wis., March 19, 1978; cremated; ashes interred inCongress and served from March 4, 1891, to February 26, Onalaska Cemetery. 1892, when he was succeeded by Alexander K. Craig, who contested his election; unsuccessful candidate for election to STEWARD, Lewis, a Representative from Illinois; bornthe Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the near Hollisterville, Wayne County, Pa., November 21, 1824;death of Alexander K. Craig; engaged in the manufacture of Biographies 1875 paper pulp and lumber; died in Stewarton, Fayette County,elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the four Pa., November 9, 1903; interment in Union Cemetery, Un- succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893); was iontown, Pa. not a candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the prac- tice of his profession in Houston, Tex.; died in San Antonio, STEWART, Arthur Thomas (Tom), a Senator from Ten- nessee; born in Dunlap, Sequatchie County, Tenn., JanuaryTex., September 21, 1895; interment in Glenwood Cemetery, 11, 1892; attended the public schools, Pryor Institute, Jasper,Houston, Tex. Tenn., and Emory (Ga.) College; graduated from the law STEWART, David, a Senator from Maryland; born in Bal- department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; wastimore, Md., September 13, 1800; completed preparatory admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice instudies; attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Birmingham, Ala.; returned to Jasper, Tenn., in 1915; movedUniversity), and graduated from Union College, Schenecta- to Winchester, Tenn., in 1919 and continued the practice ofdy, N.Y., in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar about law; district attorney general of the eighteenth circuit of1821 and commenced practice in Baltimore, Md.; appointed Tennessee 1923-1939, when he resigned, having previouslyas a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy been elected Senator; elected as a Democrat to the Unitedcaused by the resignation of Reverdy Johnson and served States Senate on November 8, 1938, for the term endingfrom December 6, 1849, to January 12, 1850, when a succes- January 3, 1943, to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofsor was elected; was not a candidate for election to fill the Nathan L. Bachman, but, preferring to continue as districtvacancy; resumed the practice of his profession in Baltimore, attorney general, did not assume his senatorial duties untilMd., where he died January 5, 1858; interment in the Stew- January 16, 1939; reelected in 1942 and served from Januaryart vault in "Old Westminster" Burying Ground. 16, 1939, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for re- nomination in 1948; chairman, Committee on Interoceanic STEWART, David Wallace, a Senator from Iowa; born in Canals (Seventy-ninth Congress); resumed the practice ofNew Concord, Muskingum County, Ohio, January 22, 1887; law; died in Nashville, Tenn., October 10, 1972; interment inattended the common schools; graduated from Geneva Col- Memorial Park Cemetery, Winchester, Tenn. lege, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1911; high school teacher and STEWART, Bennett McVey, a Representative from Illi-athletic coach 1911-1914; graduated from the law depart- nois; born in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., August 6,ment of the University of Chicago in 1917; was admitted to 1912; attended the public schools in Huntsville and Birming- the bar the same year and commenced practice in Sioux ham; B.A., Miles College, Birmingham, 1936; assistant prin-City, Iowa; during the First World War served overseas as a cipal, Irondale High School, 1936; associate professor of soci-first sergeant 1918-19 19; discharged; resumed the practice of ology, Miles College, 1938; insurance executive, insurancelaw in Sioux City, Iowa; president of the Sioux City Chamber company, 1940; Illinois director, insurance company, 1950;of Commerce in 1925; appointed August 7, 1926, as a Repub- inspector, Chicago Building Department, 1968; rehabilitationlican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused specialist, Chicago Department of Urban Renewal, 1968;by the death of Albert B. Cummins, and was subsequently elected alderman, Chicago City Council, Twenty-first ward,elected November 2, 1926, to complete the unexpired term 1971; elected Democratic ward committeeman, Twenty-first ending March 3, 1927, and served from August 7, 1926, until ward, 1972; reelected alderman, 1975; reelected ward com-March 3, 1927; was not a candidate for renomination in mitteeman, 1976; delegate, Illinois State Democratic conven-1926; resumed the practice of his profession; president of the tions, 1971-1978; delegate, Democratic National Conventions,board of trustees of Morningside College 1938-1962; died in 1972-1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth Con-Sioux City, Iowa, February 10, 1974; interment in Logan gress (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candi-Park Cemetery. date for renomination in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con- STEWART, Donald Wilbur, a Senator from Alabama; gress; administrative assistant to Mayor Jane Byrne of Chi-born in Munford, Talladega County, Ala., February 8, 1940; cago, 1981-1983; is a resident of Chicago, Ill. attended the Munford and Anniston public schools; graduat- STEWART, Charles, a Delegate from New Jersey; born ined from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1962, and Gortlea, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1729; immigrated to thefrom the University of Alabama law school 1965; admitted to United States in 1750; engaged in agricultural pursuits; wasthe Alabama bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Annis- commissioned lieutenant colonel of militia in Hunterdonton; served in the United States Army, first lieutenant 1965; County, N.J., April 10, 1771; commissioned colonel of a bat-United States magistrate 1967-1970; member, Alabama talion of Minutemen on February 15, 1776; appointed com-houseof representatives1970-1974; member, Alabama missary general of issues by the Continental Congress onsenate 1974-1978; elected as a Democrat to the United June 18, 1777; Member of the Continental Congress in 1784States Senate, November 7, 1978, to complete the unexpired and 1785; died in Flemington, N.J., on June 24, 1800; inter-term of James B. Allen ending January 3, 1981; served from ment in Old Stone Church, Bethlehem Township, HunterdonNovember 8, 1978, until his resignation January 2, 1981; County, N.J. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980; is a resident of Anniston, Ala. STEWART, Charles, a Representative from Texas; born in Memphis, Tenn., May 30, 1836; moved to Texas in 1845 with STEWART, Jacob Henry, a Representative from Minneso- his parents, who settled in Galveston; attended the commonta; born in Clermont, Columbia County, N.Y., January 15, schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and1829; moved with his parents to Peekskill, N.Y.; attended commenced the practice of law in Marlin, Falls County,the common schools and was graduated from Phillips Acade-- Tex.; prosecuting attorney for the thirteenth judicial districtmy, Peekskill; attended Yale College; studied medicine and from 1856 to 1860; delegate to the secession convention inwas graduated from the University Medical College of New 1861; enlisted in the Confederate Army and served through-York City in 1851; commenced the practice of medicine in out the Civil War, first in the Tenth Regiment of TexasPeekskill, N.Y.; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1855; medical Infantry and later in Baylor's Cavalry; moved to Houston inofficer of Ramsey County in 1856; member of the State 1866 and resumed the practice of law; was city attorney ofsenate in 1858 and 1859; during the Civil War served as a Houston 1874-1876; member of the State senate 1878-1882;surgeon in the Union Army in 1861; surgeon general of the 1876 Biographical Directory

State of Minnesota 1857-1863; mayor of St. Paul in 1864,house of representatives in 1830; served in the State senate 1868, and 1872-1874; postmaster of St. Paul 1865-1870; elect-1832-1837; judge of the county court of Middletown; elected ed as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4,as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination1843-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in in 1878; surveyor general of Minnesota 1879-1882; resumed 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed shipbuilding the practice of medicine in St. Paul, Minn., and died therepursuits; again a member of the State senate in 1846; again August 25, 1884; interment in Oakland Cemetery. served in the house of representatives in 1854; died in Chat- STEWART, James, a Representative from North Carolina;ham, Middlesex County, Conn., September 16, 1860; inter- born in Scotland November 11, 1775; received a liberal edu-ment in Union Hill Cemetery at Middle Haddam, Chatham, cation; immigrated to the United States and settled nearConn. Stewartsville, Richmond County, N.C.; engaged in mercan- STEWART, John David, a Representative from Georgia; tile and agricultural pursuits; member of the State house ofborn near Fayetteville, Fayette County, Ga., August 2, 1833; commons in 1798 and 1799; served in the State senate 1802-attended the common schools and Marshall College, Griffin, 1804 and 1813-1815; elected as a Federalist to the FifteenthGa.; taught school two years in Griffin, Spalding County, Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexan-Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and com- der McMillan and served from January 5, 1818, to March 3,menced practice in Griffin, Ga.; probate judge of Spalding 1819; resumed mercantile and agricultural pursuits; diedCounty 1858-1860; lieutenant and captain in the Thirteenth near Laurinburg, Richmond County, N.C., on December 29,Georgia Regiment during the Civil War; member of the 1821; interment in the Old Stewartsville Cemetery, nearState house of representatives 1865-1867; studied theology; Laurinburg. was ordained as a minister of the Baptist Church in 1871; STEWART, James Augustus, a Representative from Mary-mayor of Griffin in 1875 and 1876; judge of the superior land; born at "Tobacco Stick" (now Madison), Dorchestercourt from November 7, 1879, to January 1, 1886, when he County, Md., November 24, 1808; attended the local schools;resigned to become a candidate for Congress; elected as a studied law in Baltimore, Md.; was admitted to the bar inDemocrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1829 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Dorchester1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- County, Md.; also engaged in the building of ships andtion in 1890; engaged in the practice of his profession until houses; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1838 to thehis death in Griffin, Ga., January 28, 1894; interment in Oak Twenty-sixth Congress; member of the State house of dele-Hill Cemetery. gates 1843-1845; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855- STEWART, John George, a Representative from Dela- March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Patents (Thirty-ware; born in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., June 2, fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in1890; attended the public schools of Wilmington and the 1860; resumed the practice of his profession in Cambridge;University of Delaware at Newark; engaged in the landscape member of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and chiefconstruction business 1919-1942; member of the Delaware justice of the circuit court from 1867 until his death inAthletic Commission 193 1-1934; commissioner on the Dela- Cambridge, Md., April 3, 1879; interment in Christ Protes-ware Emergency Relief Commission in 1934; elected as a tant Episcopal Church Cemetery. Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935- January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in STEWART, James Fleming, a Representative from New1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; member of the staff of Jersey; born in Paterson, N.J., June 15, 1851; attended thethe United States Senate Committee on the District of Co- public and private schools of Paterson; was graduated fromlumbia 1947-1951; special engineer to the lands division of the law department of the University of New York at Newthe Department of Justice and Corps of Engineers in 1952 York City in 1870; was admitted to the bar the same yearand 1953; civil engineer in Hollywood, Fla., in 1954; appoint- and commenced the practice of law in New York City; re-ed Architect of the Capitol August 16, 1954; assumed duties turned to Paterson, N.J., and continued the practice of lawOctober 1, 1954, and served until his death in Washington, in 1875; recorder (criminal magistrate) of the city of Pater-D.C., May 24, 1970; interment in Lower Brandywine Ceme- son 1890-1895; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourthtery, Centerville, New Castle County, Del. and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895- March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in STEWART, John Knox, a Representative from New York; the Department of the Navy (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-sev-born in Perth, Fulton County, N.Y., October 20, 1853; moved enth Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelec-with his parents to Amsterdam in 1860; attended the public tion in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; resumed the prac-schools and Amsterdam Academy; engaged in the manufac- tice of law in Paterson, N.J., where he died on January 21,ture of paper until 1885, when he engaged in the manufac- 1904; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery. ture of textiles; sewer commissioner of the city 1885-1890; a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Amsterdam and STEWART, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania;of the Chuctanunda Gas Light Co.; vice president of the completed preparatory studies; member of the State house ofAmsterdam Board of Trade; member of the State assembly representatives 1789-1796; elected as a Republican to thein 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty- Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofseventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); unsuc- Thomas Hartley; reelected to the Seventh and Eighth Con-cessful candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the gresses and served from January 15, 1801, to March 3, 1805;manufacture of textiles and continued in that business until died in Elmwood, near York, Spring Garden Township, Pa.,his death in Amsterdam, N.Y., June 27, 1919; interment in in 1820; interment on his estate near Elmwood. Greenhill Cemetery. STEWART, John, a Representative from Connecticut; STEWART, John Wolcott, a Representative and a Senator born in Chatham, Conn., February 10, 1795; completed pre-from Vermont; born in Middlebury, Addison County, Vt., paratory studies; became engaged in shipbuilding and in theNovember 24, 1825; graduated from the Middlebury Acade- mercantile business in Middle Haddam; member of the Statemy in 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and Biographies 1877 commenced practice in Middlebury, Vt.; prosecuting attor-candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Con- ney of Addison County 1852-1854; member,State house ofgress; resumed the practice ofhis profession in New York representatives 1856, 1865-1867, 1876, serving as speakerCity; chairman of the Liberal Republican general committee 1865-1867, 1876; member, State senate 1861-1862; Governorof New York City in 1872; park commissioner of NewYork of Vermont 1870-1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-City 1874-1876; died in New York City on January 9, 1904; eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,interment in Center Cemetery, New Milford, Litchfield 1883-March 3, 1891); declined to be a candidate for renomi- County, Conn. nation in 1890; engaged in the banking business at Middle- bury; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate STEWART, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; March 24, 1908, to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofborn in Mercer, Mercer County, Pa., September 10, 1810; Redfield Proctor and served from March 24, 1908, to Octoberattended the public schools; was graduated from Jefferson 21, 1908, when a successor was elected; retired from politicalCollege, Canonsburg, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the life and active business pursuits and resided in Middlebury,bar and commenced practice in Mercer, Pa.; member of the Vt., until his death on October 29, 1915; interment in WestState senate; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3,1861); Cemetery. chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of STEWART, Paul, a Representative from Oklahoma; bornWar (Thirty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law; in Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark., February 27, 1892;died in Mercer, Pa., on October 17, 1876; interment in moved with his parents to Poteau, Indian Territory, in 1894Mercer Cemetery. and to Red River County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now a part of McCurtain County, Okia.) in 1897; self-educat- STEWART, William Morris, a Senator from Nevada; born ed; entered the mercantile business at the age of thirteen atin Galen, near Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y., August 9,1827; Spencerville, Indian Territory; in 1910 moved his mercantilemoved with his parents to Mesopotamia Township, Trumbull business to Haworth, Okia., where he continued its oper-County, Ohio; attended Lyons Union School and West Farm- ation until 1919; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and com-ington Academy; teacher of mathematics at LyonsUnion menced the practice of law; postmaster at Haworth 19 14-School; attended Yale College 1849-1850; moved toSan 1922; served in the Oklahoma State house of representativesFrancisco, Calif., in 1850 and engaged in gold mining in 1922-1926; moved to Antlers Okia., in 1929; editor, owner,Nevada County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1852 and publisher of the Antlers (Okia.) American, a weeklyand commenced practice in Nevada City, Calif.; district at- newspaper, 1929-1950; member of the State senate 1926-torney 1852; attorney general of California 1854;moved to 1942, serving as Democratic floor leader in 1929 and 1930Virginia City, Nev., in 1860; involved in early mining litiga- and as president pro tempore in 1933 and 1934; Acting Gov-tion and in the development of the Comstock lode; member, ernor in 1933; engaged in cattle raising, farming, and hotelTerritorial council 1861; member of the State constitutional business; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth andconvention in 1863; upon the admission of Nevada as aState Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1947);into the Union was elected as a Republican tothe United was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eighti-States Senate in 1864; reelected in 1869 andserved from eth Congress; resumed newspaper publishing business untilDecember 15, 1864, to March 3, 1875; did not seek reelection; his death in Antlers, Okia., on November 13, 1950; inter-chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads(Forty-second ment in City Cemetery. Congress), Committee on Railroads (Forty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Nevada and California;again STEWART, Percy Hamilton, a Representative from Newelected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1887; Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., January 10,reelected in 1893 and 1899, as a Silver Republican, and 1867; attended the public schools; was graduated from Yaleserved from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1905; chairman, College in 1890 and from Columbia Law School, New YorkCommittee on Mines and Mining (Fiftieth throughFifty- City in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same year andsixth Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs(Fifty-sev- commenced practice in New York City; mayor of Plainfield,enth and Fifty-eighth Congresses); declined to be acandidate N.J., in 1912 and 1913; chairman of the Union County Demo-for reelection in 1905; died in Washington, D.C.,April 23, cratic committee in 1914 and of the Washington Rock Park1909; remains were cremated and the ashes depositedin Commission of New Jersey 1915-1921; member of the NewLaurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif. Jersey State Board of Education 1919-1921 and of the New Bibliography: DAB; Elliott, Russell R. Servant of Power: A Political Bi- Jersey State Highway Commission 1923-1929; delegate to ography of Senator William M Stewart. Reno: University of NevadaPress, the Democratic National Conventions in 1920 and 1928; 1983; Stewart, William M. Reminiscences of Senator William M.Stewart of elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill Nevada. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1908. the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest R. Ackerman and STIGLER, William Grady, a Representative from Oklaho- served from December 1, 1931, to March 3, 1933; was not ama; born in Stigler, Haskell County,Indian Territory (now candidate for renomination in 1932, but was an unsuccessfulOklahoma), July 7, 1891; attended the public schools; was candidate for election to the United States Senate; resumedgraduated from Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, the practice of law until his retirement in 1941; died inOkla., in 1912; attended the law school of the Universityof Plainfield, N.J., June 30, 1951; interment in Hillside Ceme-Oklahoma at Norman; during the First World Warserved as tery. a second lieutenant in the ThreeHundred and Fifty-seventh STEWART, Thomas Elliott, a Representative from NewInfantry of the Ninetieth Division in 1918 and 1919,with York; born in New York City September 22, 1824; completedoverseasservice;attended the University of Grenoble, preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar inFrance, in 1919; was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in1920 1847 and commenced practice in New York City; member ofand commenced practice in Stigler, Okla.; city attorney of the board of education in 1854; served in the State assemblyStigler, Okla., 1920-1924; served in the State senate1924- in 1865 and 1866; member of the Republican State commit-1932, serving as president pro tempore in 1931; lieutenant tee 1866-1868; elected as a Conservative Republican to thecolonel in the Forty-fifth Division of the OklahomaNational Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); was not aGuard 1925-1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- 1878 Biographical Directory

eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation1898-1913; member of the State senate 1904-1909; chairman of Jack Nichols; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and to theof the commission to revise the statutes of Rhode Island in three succeeding Congresses and served from March 28,1909; United States attorney for the district of Rhode Island 1944, until his death in Stigler, Okia., August 21, 1952;inter-1911-1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to ment in Stigler Cemetery. the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, Bibliography: DAB. 1923); was not a candidate for renomination in 1922; lived in STILES, John Dodson, a Representative from Pennsylva-retirement in Warwick, R.I., until his death there March 17, nia; born in Town Hill, Luzerne County, Pa., January 15,1924; interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I. 1822; completed preparatory studies; studied law;was admit- ted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in Allentown, Lehigh STINSON, K. William, a Representative from Washington; County; elected district attorney of Lehigh County in 1853born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Mich., April 20, 1930; and served three years; delegate to the Democratic Nationalattended the public schools and Grand Rapids Junior College Convention in 1856, 1864, and 1868; was alsoa delegate tofor two years; graduated in 1952 from the University of the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866;Michigan at Ann Arbor; entered executive training program elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress of Westinghouse Electric Corp.; enlisted in the United States to fillNavy in January 1953, attended Officers' Candidate School the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Cooper;re- elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from Juneand served until June 1956; employed with Westinghouse 3, 1862, to March 3, 1865; elected to the Forty-first CongressElectric Corp. at Seattle, Wash., 1956-1959; manufacturer's (March 4, 1869-March 3,1871); was not a candidate forrepresentative in the marine and sporting goods business, renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in1959-1962; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Con- Allentown, Pa., October 29, 1896; interment inFairviewgress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candi- Cemetery. date for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; isa resident of Battle Ground, Wash. STILES, William Henry (grandson of Joseph Clay),a Rep- resentative from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., January 1, STIRK, Samuel, a Delegate from Georgia; born in Savan- 1808; completed preparatory studies; studied lawat Yalenah, Ga.; clerk of executive council in 1777; lieutenant colo- College; was admitted to the bar in 1831 andcommenced nel in Georgia militia 1778-1779; elected as a Delegate to the practice in Savannah, Ga.; solicitor general for theeasternContinental Congress on August 16, 1781, but did not attend; district of Georgia 1833-1836; electedas a Democrat to theattorney general of Georgia in 1781 and reelected in 1783; Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845);ap-justice of Chatham County 1786-1789. pointed on April 19, 1845, by President Polkas Chargé d'Af- faires to Austria and served until October 1849; STIVERS, Moses Dunning, a Representative from New resumed theYork; born near Beemerville, Sussex County, N.J., December practice of law in Savannah; member of the State houseof representatives and served as speaker in 1858; delegate from30, 1828; attended common and private schools and Mount the State at large to the commercialcongress held at Mont-Retirement Seminary in Wantage, Sussex County, N.J.; gomery, Ala., in 1858; delegate to the Democratic Nationalmoved with his father to Ridgebury, N.Y., in 1845 and com- Convention at Baltimore in 1860; servedas colonel in thepleted his education; taught school; engaged in mercantile Confederate Army during the Civil War; engaged in literarypursuits in Ridgebury and later in Middletown, N.Y., 1855- pursuits; died in Savannah, Ga., December 20, 1865;inter- 1864; clerk of Orange County 1864-1867 and resided in ment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Goshen, N.Y.; returned to Middletown and became proprie- Bibliography: Harwell, Christopher L. "William Stiles: GeorgiaGentle- tor of the Orange County Press in 1868 and was also one of man-Politician." Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1959. the proprietors and editors of the Middletown Daily Press; appointed by President Grant as United States collector of STILWELL, Thomas Neel, a Representative fromIndiana;internal revenue for the eleventh district of New York in born in Stilwell, Ohio, August 29, 1830; receiveda thorough1869 and served until 1883; delegate to the Republican Na- English education; attended Oxford and College Hill Col-tional Convention in 1880; engaged in banking; unsuccessful leges; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852andRepublican candidate for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth began practice in Anderson, md.; member of the StatehouseCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis of representatives in 1856; served in the Union ArmyduringBeach and for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; the Civil War; elected as a Republican to theThirty-ninthelected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867);was not a candidate1889-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination for renomination in 1866; Minister Resident to Venezuelainin 1890; engaged in banking; died in Middletown, N.Y., Feb- 1867 and 1868; served as president of the FirstNationalruary 2, 1895; interment in Hillside Cemetery. Bank of Anderson, md., until his death; died in Andersonas the result of a gunshot wound January 14, 1874;interment STOBBS, George Russell, a Representative from Massa- in Maplewood Cemetery. chusetts; born in Webster, Worcester County, Mass., Febru- ary 7,1877; attended the public schools of Webster, and STINESS, Walter Russell, a Representative fromRhode Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from Island; born in Smithfield, Providence County, R.I., MarchHarvard University, in 1899 and from its law department in 13, 1854; attended the public schools andwas a student at1902; was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced prac- Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1873 and 1874;servedtice in Worcester, Mass.; special justice for the central dis- in the city council in 1875; was graduated from BostonUni-trict court of Worcester 1909-1916; captain in the State versity Law School in 1877; was admitted to the bartheGuard of Massachusetts 19 17-1920; assistant district attor- same year and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.;ney for the middle district of Massachusetts 1917-1921; elect- member of the State house of representatives 1878-1881;ed as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Sev- clerk of the justice court of Providence 1879-1885;aide-de-enty-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not camp on the staff of Gov. A.O. Bourn 1883-1885; State rail-a candidate for renomination in 1930; one of the managers road commissioner 1888-1891; assistant judge advocategen-appointed by the House of Representatives in 1926 to con- eral of Rhode Island 1888-1898; judge advocategeneralduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. Eng- Biographies 1879 lish, judge of the United States District Court for the East-1946; educated in the public schools of St. Joseph, Mich. ern District of Illinois; major and subsequently lieutenantgraduated from Lakeshore High School, 1964; B.A., Michigan colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department, Offi-State University, East Lansing, Mich., 1968; graduate stud- cers' Reserve Corps, 1927-1942; delegate to the Interparlia-ies, Harvard University, 1968-1970, 1974-1975; served as spe- mentary Congress, London, England, in 1930; delegate to thecial assistant to United States Representative John Ander- Republican National Convention in 1932, and to the Republi-son of Illinois, 1970-1972; executive director,United States can State conventions in 1940 and 1942; resumed the prac-House of Representatives Republican Conference, 1972-197 5; tice of law in Worcester, Mass.; died in Worcester, Mass.,elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress; reelect- December 23, 1966; interment in Rural Cemetery. ed to the Ninety-sixth and Ninety-seventh Congresses and STOCKBRIDGE, Francis Brown, a Senator from Michi-served from January 3, 1977, until his resignation January gan; born in Bath, Maine, April 9,1826; attended the27, 1981; Director of the Office of Management and Budget common schools; clerk in a wholesale house in Boston 1843-1981-1985; managing director, Salomon Brothers, Inc., New 1847; moved to Chicago, Ill., and opened a lumber yard;York City, 1985 to present; is a resident of Greenwich, Conn. moved to Saugatuck, Allegan County, Mich., in 1851 and STOCKMAN, Lowell, a Representative from Oregon; born engaged in the operation of sawmills; also interested in mer- April 12, cantile pursuits; moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1863 andon a farm near Helix, Umatilla County, Oreg., engaged in the lumber business; member, State house of1901; attended the public schools at Pendleton, Oreg.; was representatives 1869; member, State senate 1871; elected asgraduated from at Corvallis in a Republican to the United States Senate in 1887; reelected1922; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1922; member of in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, until his death inthe Pendleton School Board and the Oregon Liquor Control Chicago, Ill., on April 30, 1894; chairman, Committee onCommission; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Fisheries (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses); inter- and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943- ment in Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich. January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 53rd Cong., 3rd sess., 1952; resumed farming until 1959; member of the Theodore 1894-1895. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895. Roosevelt Centennial Commission, 1956-1959; vice president of Oregon Fiber Products, Inc., and treasurer of Pilot Rock STOCKBRIDGE, Henry, Jr., a Representative from Mary-Lumber Co.; moved to Bellevue, Wash., in 1959 and operated land; born in Baltimore, Md., September 18, 1856; attended interment on public and private schools and Williston Academy, East-a trailer court until his death August 9, 1962; hampton, Mass.; was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) Col-University of Washington property near Pack Forest, Wash. lege in 1877 and from the law school of the University of STOCKSLAGER, Strother Madison, a Representative Maryland at Baltimore in 1878; was admitted to the bar infrom Indiana; born in Mauckport, Harrison County, md., the latter year and commenced practice in Baltimore; em-May 7, 1842; attended the common schools, Corydon High ployed on the editorial staff of the Baltimore Herald andSchool, and Indiana University at Bloomington; taught later with the Baltimore American; appointed as an examin-school; served in the Union Army during the Civil War as er in equity by the supreme bench of Baltimore in Decembersecond lieutenant and captain in the Thirteenth Indiana 1882; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first CongressVolunteer Cavalry, which he had assisted to organize; was (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); declined to be a candidate for mustered out as captain and returned to Mauckport; deputy renomination in 1890; served as United States commissioner county auditor of Harrison County 1866-1868; deputy county of immigration for the port of Baltimore 1891-1893; electedclerk of Harrison County 1868-1870; appointed by President judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore in November 1896Andrew Johnson as assessor of internal revenue in 1867, but and served until 1911; regent of the University of Marylandwas not confirmed by the United StatesSenate; studied law; 1907-1920; appointed judge of the Maryland Court of Ap- 1871 and prac- peals on April 13, 1911, and was elected in November 1911was admitted to the bar in Corydon, md., in for a term of fifteen years; died in Baltimore, Md., March 22,ticed in Indiana and Kentucky; member of the State senate 1924; interment in Loudon Park Cemetery. 1874-1878; editor of the Corydon Democrat 1879-1882; elect- Bibliography: DAB. ed as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); chairman, Com- STOCKDALE, Thomas Ringland, a Representative frommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-eighth Con- Mississippi; born near West Union Church, Greene County,gress); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in Pa, March 28, 1828; was graduated from Jefferson College,1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of Canonsburg, Pa., in 1856; moved to Pike County, Miss., inlaw in Corydon; appointed assistant commissioner of the 1857 and taught school; was graduated from the UniversityGeneral Land Office on October 1, 1885, and commissioner of Mississippi at Oxford in 1859; studied law; was admittedon March 27, 1888; resigned March 4, 1889, butremained in to the bar in 1859 and practiced in Woodville, Miss., 1859-charge until June 20, 1889; continued the practice of law in 1861; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate ArmyWashington, D.C.; was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate as a private in the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry in 1861,for election in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; delegate to being promoted successively to lieutenant, adjutant, andthe Democratic National Convention in 1896; served as legal major of that regiment; at the close of the war resumed the practice of law in Summit, Miss.; delegate to the Democraticexpert in the Department of Labor in 1918; resumed the National Convention in 1868; elected as a Democrat to thepractice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death there on Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,June 1, 1930; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. 1887-March 3, 1895); was an unsuccessful candidate for re- STOCKTON, John Potter (son of Robert Field Stockton, nomination; appointed judge of the State supreme court De-grandson of Richard Stockton [17 64-1828], great-grandson of cember 1, 1896; died in Summit, Pike County, Miss., JanuaryRichard Stockton [1730-1781]), a Senator from New Jersey; 8, 1899; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. born in Princeton, N.J., August 2, 1826; attended private Bibliography: DAB. schools and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now STOCKMAN, David Alan, a Representative from Michi- Princeton University) in 1843; studied law; was admitted to gan; born in Fort Hood, Bell County, Tex., November 10,the bar in 1846 and practiced in Princeton and Trenton, 1880 Biographical Directory

N.J.; State reporter to the court of chancery 1852-1858;1866; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Wash- United States Minister to Italy 1858-1861; practiced law inington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the Trenton, N.J.; presented credentials as a Democratic Sena-impending war; retired from public life; died in Princeton, tor-elect to the United States Senate and served from MarchN.J., October 7, 1866; interment in Princeton Cemetery. 15, 1865, to March 27, 1866, when, the election being in Bibliography: DAB; Bayard, Samuel. A Sketch of the Life of Com. dispute, the Senate declared the seat vacant; again electedRobert F. Stockton. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1856; Stockton, Thomas as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromCoates. The Stockton Family of New Jersey. Washington, D.C.: Carnahan March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; resumed the practice of his Press, 1911. profession; attorney general of New Jersey 1877-1897; died in New York City January 22, 1900; interment in Princeton STODDARD, Ebenezer, a Representative from Connecti- Cemetery, Princeton, N.J. cut; born in Union, Tolland County, Conn., May 6, 1785; Bibliography: DAB; Stockton, Thomas Coates. The Stockton Family ofattended Woodstock Academy in 1802 and in 1803, and was New Jersey. Washington, D.C.: Carnahan Press, 1911. graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced STOCKTON, Richard (father of Richard Stockton [1764-practice in West Woodstock, Conn.; elected to the Seven- 1828], grandfather of Richard Stockton Field and Robertteenth and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, Field Stockton, and great-grandfather of John Potter Stock-1825); served in the State senate 1825-1827; Lieutenant Gov- ton), a Delegate from New Jersey; born at "Morven,"nearernor of Connecticut in 1833 and 1835-1837; practiced law; Princeton, Somerset County, N.J., October 1, 1730; attendeddied in West Woodstock, Conn., on August 19, 1847; inter- Nottingham Academy in Cecil County, Md., and was grad-ment in Bungay Cemetery. uated in the first class from Princeton College, in 1748; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1754 and commenced STODDERT, John Truman, a Representative from Mary- practice in Princeton, N.J.; member of the executive councilland; born in Smith Point, Nanjemoy, Charles County, Md., of New Jersey from November 2, 1768, to June 17, 1776;October 1, 1790; studied under private teachers and was associate justice of the State supreme court from Februarygraduated from Princeton College in 1810; studied law; was 28, 1774, to June 17, 1776; Member of the Continental Con-admitted to the bar and practiced; served in the War of gress in 1776; a signer of the Declaration of Independence;1812; member of the State house of delegates in 1820; elected unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey onas a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, August 31, 1776; elected chief justice of the Statesupreme1833-March 3, 1835); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died court on August 31, 1776, but declined the office; resumedat the "Wicomico House," West Hatton estate, in Charles the practice of law; died at "Morven," near Princeton, N.J.,County, Md., July 19, 1870; interment in the family burying February 28,1781; interment in Stoney Brook Meetingground on his estate. House Burial Ground near Princeton, N.J. Bibliography: DAB. STOKELY, Samuel, a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington, Pa., January 25, 1796; attended private schools; STOCKTON, Richard (son of Richard Stockton [1730-was graduated from Washington College (now Washington 178 1], father of Robert Field Stockton, and grandfatherofand Jefferson College), Washington, Pa., in 1813; studied John Potter Stockton), a Senator anda Representative fromlaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Jersey; born in Princeton, N.J., April 17, 1764;tutoredSteubenville, Ohio, in 1817; United States land receiver in privately; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now1827 and 1828; member of the State senate in 1837 and 1838; Princeton University) in 1779; studied law;was admitted toelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, the bar in 1784 and commenced practice in Princeton, N.J.;1841-March 3, 1843); resumed the practice of law in Steu- elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill thebenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he died May 23, vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Frelinghuy-1861; interment in Union Cemetery. sen and served from November 12, 1796, to March 3, 1799; declined to be a candidate for reelection; unsuccessful candi- STOKES, Edward Lowber, a Representative from Penn- date for governor of New Jersey in 1801, 1803, and 1804;sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 29, 1880; at- elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4,tended the public schools and was graduated from St. Paul's 1813-March 3, 1815); declined to be a candidate for renomi- School, Concord, N.H.; employed as a clerk for a trust com- nation to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed the practice ofpany and later engaged as an investment dealer; unsuccess- his profession; died at "Morven," near Princeton, Mercerful candidate for election to the State house of representa- County, N.J., March 7, 1828; interment in Princeton Ceme-tives in 1930; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second tery, Princeton, N.J. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Bibliography: DAB; Stockton, Thomas Coates. The Stockton Family ofGraham; reelected to the Seventy-third Congress and served New Jersey. Washington, D.C.: Carnahan Press, 1911. from November 3, 1931, to January 3, 1935; was not a candi- STOCKTON, Robert Field (son of Richard Stockton {1764-date for renomination but was a gubernatorial candidate in 1828], father of John Potter Stockton, grandson of Richard1934, a candidate for Congress in 1950, and a candidate for Stockton [1730-1781]), a Senator from New Jersey; born inmayor and councilman at large in 1952; engaged in invest- Princeton, N.J., August 20, 1795; was privately tutored; at-ment banking until his retirement in 1955; resident of New- tended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Universi-town Square, Pa.; died November 8, 1964; interment in St. ty); entered the United States Navy in 1811, served in theDavid's Church Burial Grounds, Radnor Township, Pa. War of 1812, the war with Algiers, and the Mexican War; STOKES, James William, a Representative from South was sent to the Pacific coast in 1845 and, in cooperation withCarolina; born near Orangeburg, S.C., December 12, 1853; the land forces, captured the Mexican capital of Californiaattended the common schools and was graduated from and organized a civil government; attained the rank ofcom-Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1876; modore; returned home and resigned his commission in 1850;taught school for twelve years; was graduated in medicine elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andfrom Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; engaged in served from March 4, 1851, until his resignationon Januaryagricultural pursuits in 1889; president of the State Farm- 10, 1853; president of the Delaware & Raritan Canal 1853-ers' Alliance; member of the State senate in 1890; delegate Biographies 1881 to the Democratic National Convention in 1892; unsuccessfulCongresses and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1871; candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty- presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to thesecond Congress; supervisor of internal revenue for Tennes- Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, tosee; resumed the practice of law;died in Alexandria, Tenn., June 1, 1896, when the seat was declared vacant; elected toMarch 14, 1897; interment in East View Cemetery. fill the vacancy thus caused; reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from STOLL, Philip Henry, a Representative from South Caro- November 3, 1896, until his death in Orangeburg, Orange-lina; born in Little Rock, Marion (now Dillon) County, S.C., burg County, S.C., July 6, 1901; interment in SunnysideNovember 5, 1874; attended the public schools; was graduat- Cemetery. ed from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1897; teacher in the public schools 1897-1901; studied law; was admitted to STOKES, Louis, a Representative from Ohio; born inthe bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Kingstree, Wil- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 23, 1925; edu-liamsburg County, S.C.; member of the State house of repre- cated at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University,sentatives 1905-1906; solicitor of the third judicial circuit 1946-1948; J.D., Cleveland Marshall Law School, 1948-1953;from 1908 to 1917, when he resigned; chairman of the Demo- served in the United States Army, 1943-1946; was admittedcratic county committee and member of the Democratic to the bar in 1953 and commenced practice in Cleveland,State committee 1908-1918; commissioned as a major in the Ohio; lecturer and writer for universities and bar associa-Judge Advocate General's Department of the United States tions; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to theArmy in 1917; promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3,1918 and served throughout the First World War; elected as 1989);chairman,SelectCommittee onAssassinations (Ninety-fifth Congress), Committee on Standards of Officiala Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress tofill the vacancy Conduct (Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses), Per-caused by the death of J. Willard Ragsdale; reelected to the manent Select Committee on Intelligence (One HundredthSixty-seventh Congress and served from October 7, 1919, to Congress); is a resident of Warrensville Heights, Ohio. March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of law; again a member, State STOKES, Montfort, a Senator from North Carolina; bornhouse of representatives, 1929-193 1; elected as a judge of the in Lunenburg County, Va, March 12, 1762; served in thethird judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1931 and served Revolutionary War in the Continental Navy; was captureduntil December 6, 1946, when he retired; died in Columbia, by the British and confined for seven months on the BritishS.C., October 29, 1958; interment in Williamsburg Presbyte- prison ship Jerseyin New York Harbor; after the Revolu-rian Cemetery, Kingstree, S.C. tionary War settled in North Carolina and engaged in plant- ing; clerk of the State senate 1786-1791; clerk of the superior STONE, Alfred Parish, a Representative from Ohio; born court of Rowan County, N.C.; elected as United States Sena-in Worthington, Mass., June 28, 1813; attended the common tor in 1804, but declined; trustee of the University of Northschools; moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1832 and engaged in Carolina at Chapel Hill 1805-1838; about 1812 settled inmercantile pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- Wilkesboro, N.C.; elected in 1816 to the United States Senateeighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of JamesHeman A. Moore and served from October 8, 1844, toMarch Turner; elected at same time for the full term and served3, 1845; was not a candidate for renomination; appointed from December 4, 1816, to March 3, 1823; chairman, Com- State treasurer by Governor Chase in 1857 to fill the vacan- mittee on Post Office and Post Roads (Fifteenth throughcy caused by the resignationof W.H. Gibson; was elected SeventeenthCongresses);member,Statesenate1826; and reelected to the same office and served until 1862; ap- member, State house of representatives 1829-1830; Governorpointed as collector of internal revenue for theColumbus of North Carolina 1830-1832, when he resigned; appointeddistrict of Ohio in 1862 and served until his death in Colum- by President Andrew Jackson in 1832 as a member of thebus, Ohio, August 2, 1865; interment in Green Lawn Ceme- Board of Indian Commissioners and resided at Fort Gibsontery. in what is now Oklahoma; was later appointed as a commis- sioner to negotiate treaties with various tribes of Indians in STONE, Charles Warren, a Representative from Pennsyl- the West and Southwest; appointed agent for the Cherokeevania; born in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., June 29, Indians 1837-1842, when he was made subagent for the Sen-1843; attended Lawrence Academy at Groton, and was grad- ecas, Shawrkees, and Quapaws; died at Fort Gibson, Novem-uated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1863; ber 4, 1842; interment in Fort Gibson Cemetery. moved to Pennsylvania in 1863 and settled in Warren; su- Bibliography: DAB; Foster, William. "The Career of in perintendent of schools of Warren County in 1865; studied North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 16 (1939): 237-72. law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced prac- STOKES, William Brickly, a Representative from Tennes-tice in Warren; trustee of Pennsylvania State College; see; born in Chatham County, N.C., September 9, 1814; at-member of the State house of representatives in 1870 and tended the common schools; moved to Tennessee; engaged in1871; served in the State senate in 1877 and 1878; Lieuten- agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of repre-ant Governor of Pennsylvania 1879-1883; appointed secre- sentatives 1849-1852; served in the State senate in 1855 andtary of the Commonwealth on January 18, 1887, and served 1856; elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-until his resignation to accept nomination for Congress; sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); entered theelected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the Union Army May 15, 1862, as major of Tennessee Volun-vacancy caused by the death of Lewis F.Watson; reelected teers; promoted to colonel and subsequently brevetted majorto the Fifty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses general; honorably discharged March 10, 1865; studied law;and served from November 4, 1890, to March 3, 1899; chair- was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in man, Committee on Coinage, Weights,and Measures (Fifty- Alexandria, De Kalb County, Tenn.; upon the readmission offourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for the State of Tennessee to representation was elected as anreelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; unsuccessful Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress andcandidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1898; resumed reelected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-firstthe practice of law; died at his home near Warren, Pa., 1882 Biographical Directory

August 15, 1912; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Pleasantbar in 1841 and began practice in Port Tobacco, Md.; ap- Township, Warren County, Pa. pointed by the legislature in 1852 as one of the commission- STONE, Claudius Ulysses, a Representative from Illinois;ers to revise the rules of pleading and practice in the State born on a farm in Menard County, near Greenview, Ill., Maycourts; member of the State house of delegates in 1864 and 11, 1879; attended the rural school and Western Normal1865; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first College, Bushnell, Ill.; at the age of seventeen taught in theCongresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful can- Bee Grove rural school in Menard County forone year;didate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; principal of Brimfield (Ill.) Public Schools for twoyears;associate judge of the court of appeals 1881-1890; died near during the Spanish-American War servedas a corporal inLa Plata, Md., October 17, 1899; interment in Mount Rest Company K, Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from MayCemetery, La Plata, Md. 1898 to May 1899 with service in Cuba; studied law at the STONE, James W., a Representative from Kentucky; born University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at George Wash- ington University, Washington, D.C.; elected superintendentin Taylorsville, Spencer County, Ky., in 1813; attended the of schools for Peoria County, Ill., in 1902, reelected in 1906common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and and served until 1910; president of the Association of Countypracticed; held several local offices; member of the State Superintendents of Schools of Illinois in 1909; was admittedhouse of representatives in 1837 and 1839; elected as a Dem- to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Peoria, Ill.;ocrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917);un-Twenty-ninth Congress; elected to the Thirty-second Con- successful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifthgress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate Congress; postmaster of Peoria from 1917 until he resignedfor reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; died in in October 1920 to practice law; master in chancery of theTaylorsville, Ky., October 13, 1854. circuit court of Peoria County from June 5, 1928, to January STONE, John Wesley, a Representative from Michigan; 20, 1945; editor and publisher of the Peoria Star from 1938born in Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, July 18, 1838; until 1949; died in Peoria, Ill., November 13, 1957; intermentattended the public schools and Spencer (Ohio) Academy; in Parkview Memorial Cemetery. moved to Allegan County, Mich., in 1856; elected county STONE, David, a Representative anda Senator fromclerk of Allegan County in 1860; studied law; was admitted North Carolina; born at "Hope," near Windsor, Bertieto the bar in January 1862 and practiced; reelected county County, N.C., February 17, 1770; attended Windsor Academyclerk in 1862; prosecuting attorney 1864-1870; president of and graduated from The College of New Jersey (now Prince-Allegan Village in 1872; circuit judge of the twentieth judi- ton University) in 1788; studied law; was admitted to the barcial circuit of Michigan from April 1873 until his resignation in 1790 and commenced practice in Halifax, N.C.;member,on November 1, 1874; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and State house of commons 1791-1794; judge of thesupremepracticed law; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and court of North Carolina 1794-1798; elected to the Sixth Con-Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); was gress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); elected as a Republican not a candidate for renomination in 1880; appointed by to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1801,President Chester A. Arthur as United States attorney for until his resignation about February 17, 1807;once again athe western Michigan district in 1882; moved to Houghton, judge; Governor of North Carolina 1808-1810; member,StateMich., in 1887 and resumed the practice of law; elected house of commons 1811-1812; again electedto the Unitedcircuit judge of the twenty-fifth Michigan circuit in April States Senate and served from March 4, 1813,until his1890 and served until December 31, 1909; elected justice of resignation on December 24, 1814; resumed the practiceofthe State supreme court in April 1909 for the term ending law; died on his plantation near Raleigh, WakeCounty,December 31, 1917; reelected in 1916 and served until his N.C., October 7, 1818; interment in the family burialgrounddeath in Lansing, Mich., March 24, 1922; interment in Park on the banks of the Neuse River, near Raleigh, N.C. Cemetery, Marquette, Mich. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. STONE, Eben Francis, a Representative from Massachu- STONE, Joseph Champlin, a Representative from Iowa; setts; born in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass., August3, born in Westport, Essex County, N.Y., July 30, 1829; moved 1822; attended North Andover Academy andwas graduatedto in 1844; attended the public schools; was from Harvard University in 1843 and fromHarvard Lawgraduated from the medical department of St. Louis Univer- School in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1847and com-sity, Missouri, in 1854 and practiced; during the Civil War menced practice in Newburyport, Mass.; president of theenlisted as a private in the Union Army and was made common council in 1851; served in the State senate in 1857,adjutant of the First Iowa Cavalry; promoted to captain and 1858, and 1861; enlisted in the Union Army during theCivilassistant adjutant general of Volunteers in 1862 and served War and commanded the Forty-eighth Regiment, Massachu-until the end of the war; resumed the practice of medicine in setts Volunteer Militia; mayor of Newburyport in 1867;Burlington, Iowa; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth member of the State house of representatives in 1867,1877, Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); again engaged in 1878, and 1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh,the practice of his profession; died in Burlington, Iowa, De- Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881-cember 3, 1902; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery. March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renominationin 1886; resumed the practice of law in Newburyport, Mass., STONE, Michael Jenifer (brother of Thomas Stone and where he died January 22, 1895; interment in OakhillCeme- grandfather of Frederick Stone), a Representative from tery. Maryland; born at "Equality," near Port Tobacco, Charles County,Md.,in1747;completedpreparatorystudies; STONE, Frederick (grandson of Michael Jenifer Stone),amember of the State house of delegates 1781-1783; member Representative from Maryland; born in Charles County, Md.,of the State ratification convention in 1788; elected to the February 7, 1820; was graduated from St. John'sCollege, First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); appointed Annapolis, Md., in 1839; studied law;was admitted to thejudge of the first judicial district of Maryland in 1791; died Biographies 1883 in Charles County, Md., in 1812; interment on his estate,Volunteer Infantry; after the war became a lieutenant colo- "Equality," near Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. nel in the State National Guard; studied law in Welisboro, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and practiced in Wells- STONE, Richard Bernard, a Senator from Florida; born inboro and Pittsburgh, Pa.; district attorney of Tioga County New York City, September 22, 1928; attended Dade County, from 1874 to 1876, when he resigned and moved to Pitts- Fla., public schools; graduated from Harvard Universityburgh, Pa.; served as United States attorney for the western 1949 and from Columbia University Law School 1954; admit-district of Pennsylvania 1880-1886; elected as a Republican ted to the Florida bar in 1955 and commenced practice into the Fifty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses Miami; city attorney of Miami 1966; member, State senate 1967-1970; Florida secretary of State 1970-1974; elected as aand served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation on Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974, for the six-November 9, 1898; Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to year term commencing January 3, 1975; subsequently ap-1903; resumed the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, pointed by the Governor, January 1, 1975, to fill the vacancyPa.; prothonotary of the eastern district of Pennsylvania and caused by the resignation of Edward Gurney for the termserved from January 1, 1916, until his death in Philadelphia, ending January 3, 1975; served from January 1, 1975, untilPa., on March 1, 1920; interment in Welisboro Cemetery, his resignation December 31, 1980; unsuccessful candidateWelisboro, Pa. for reelection in 1980; Ambassador at Large and Special STONE, William Henry, a Representative from Missouri; Envoy to Central America 1983-1984; attorney and banker;born in Shawangunk, N.Y., November 7, 1828; attended the is a resident of Washington, D.C. common schools; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1848 and en- STONE, Thomas (brother of Michael Jenifer Stone), a Del-gaged in the manufacture of iron; became president of the egate from Maryland; born at Poynton Manor, CharlesSt. Louis Hot Pressed Nut & Bolt Company upon its organi- County, Md., in 1743; completed preparatory studies; studiedzation in 1867; served in the Missouri State house of repre- law; was admitted to the bar in 1764 and commenced prac-sentatives; member of the St. Louis Board of Water Commis- tice in Frederick, Md.; moved to Charles County, Md., insioners from July 5, 1871, to November 15, 1873, when he 1771; member of the State senate 1779-1783; Member of theresigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Dem- Continental Congress in 1775, 1776, 1778, and 1784; a signerocrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March of the Declaration of Independence; died in Alexandria, Va.,4, 1873-March 3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Expendi- October 5, 1787; interment in the garden of his estate, Habretures in the Post Office Department (Forty-fourth Congress), de Venture, Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. Committee on Manufactures (Forty-fourth Congress); was Bibliography: DAB. not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth STONE, Ulysses Stevens, a Representative from Oklaho-Congress; resumed business interests; died in Asbury Park, ma; born on a farm near Weldon, De Witt Township, DeN.J., July 9, 1901; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Witt County, Iii., December 17, 1878; moved with his parentsLouis, Mo. to Jones, Okla., in 1894; attended the country schools and STONE, William Joel, a Representative and a Senator the University of Oklahoma at Norman; engaged in thefrom Missouri; born near Richmond, Madison County, Ky., banking business at Jones, Okla., 1894-1905 and as an oilMay 7, 1848; attended the public schools of Richmond, KY.; operator at Norman and Oklahoma City in 1905; was angraduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Oklahoma in 19181867; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and and for election to the United States Senate in 1926; electedcommenced practice in Bedford, md.; moved to Columbia, as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4,Mo., where he was city attorney for a few months in 1870, 1929-March 3, 1931); was an unsuccessful candidate for re-and later in the same year moved to Nevada, Mo., and election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for elec-continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of tion in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed activi-Vernon County, Mo., 1873-1874; presidential elector on the ties as an oil operator and also interested in investmentsDemocratic ticket in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the and real estate; died in Oklahoma City, Okia., December 8,Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1962; remains were cremated; interment in Rose Hill Abbey.1885-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination STONE, William, a Representative from Tennessee; bornin 1890; chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Con- in Sevier County, Tenn. (then North Carolina), January 26,gress); Governor of Missouri 1893-1897; moved to Jefferson 1791; completed preparatory studies; held several local of-City, Mo., in 1893; member of the Democratic National Com- fices; was a captain in the Creek War and served withmittee 1896-1904, serving as vice chairman 1900-1904; General Jackson in the ; was present-moved to St. Louis in 1897 and continued the practice of law; ed a cane by Congress for bravery in the Battle of Tippeca-returned to Jefferson City in 1903; elected as a Democrat to noe; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1836 to thethe United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908, and Twenty-fifth Congress; subsequently elected to the Twenty-again in 1914, and served from March 4, 1903, until his fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofdeath; chairman, Committee on Additional Accommodations James Standifer and served from September 14, 1837, tofor the Library (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Revo- March 3, 1839; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to thelutionary Claims (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Cor- Twenty-sixth Congress; died in Delphi (later Davis), Sequat-porations Organized in the District of Columbia (Sixty- chie County, Tenn., February 18, 1853; interment in thesecond Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Sixty- family burying ground at Delphi. third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., STONE, William Alexis, a Representative from Pennsyl-April 14, 1918; interment in Deepwood Cemetery, Nevada, vania; born nearWellsboro, Delmar Township, TiogaVernon County, Mo. County, Pa., April 18, 1846; attended the public schools and Bibliography: Town, Ruth. Senator William I Stone and the Politics of the State normal school at Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa.; Compromise. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979; U.S. Congress. served in the Civil War as second lieutenant of Company A, Memorial Addresses. 65th Cong., 3rd sess. 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Government Printing Office, 1919. 1884 Biographical Directory

STONE, , a Representative from Ken-public schools; graduated from Stanford University, Palo tucky; born in Kuttawa, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Ky.,Alto, Calif., 1898; editor and publisher of Santa Barbara June 26,1841; attended the common schools and Q.M.News-Press and its predecessors; rancher and citrus fruit Tyler's Collegiate Institute in Cadiz, Trigg County; studiedgrower; postmaster, Santa Barbara, Calif., 1914-1921; ap- law; during the Civil War served as captain in the Confeder-pointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the ate Army; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of thevacancy caused by the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo State house of representatives in 1867, 1875, and 1883, serv- ing as speaker in 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939; was ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-not a candidate for election for the full term; resumed news- March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fifti-paper business; member, California Crime Commission 1951- eth Congress); engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kuttawa,1952; member of the board of regents of University of Cali- Lyon County; Confederate pension commissioner of Ken-fornia 1955-1960; died in Santa Barbara, Calif., October 12, tucky in 1912 and served until his death in Frankfort, Ky.,1971; interment in Santa Barbara Cemetery. March 12, 1923; interment in New Bethel Cemetery, Lyon Bibliography: Storke, Thomas. California Editor. Los Angeles: Western- lore Press, 1958; Storke, Thomas. I Write for Freedom. Fresno: McNally County, Ky. and Loftin, 1963. STORER, Bellamy (father of Bellamy Storer [1847-1922)), a Representative from Ohio; was born in Portland, Maine, STORM, Frederic, a Representative from New York; born March 26, 1796; attended private schools in his native city;in Alsace, France, July 2, 1844; immigrated to the United entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1809; studiedStates in 1846 with his parents, who settled in New York law in Boston; was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1817City; attended the public schools of New York City; engaged and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year;in the cigar manufacturing business; member of the State elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4,constitutional convention in 1894; elected to the State assem- 1835-March 3, 1837); declined to be a candidate for renomi-bly in 1895; member of the Queens County Republican com- nation in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; professor inmittee 1894-1900 and was three times its chairman; founder Cincinnati Law School 1855-1874; judge of the superior courtof Flushing Hospital; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- of Cincinnati from its organization in 1854 until 1872, whenseventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccess- he resigned; resumed the practice of law, and died in Cincin-ful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Con- nati, Ohio, on June 1, 1875; interment in Spring Grove Cem-gress; after leaving Congress engaged in banking in Bayside; etery. founded the Bayside National Bank in 1905 and was its STORER, Bellamy (son of Bellamy Storer [1796-1875] and president until his resignation in 1920; resided in Bayside, uncle of ), a Representative from Ohio;Flushing, N.Y., until his death in that city on June 9, 1935; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 28, 1847; attended theinterment in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y. common schools of that city and Dixwell's private Latin STORM, John Brutzman, a Representative from Pennsyl- school, Boston, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard Univer-vania; born in Hamilton Township, Monroe County, Pa., sity in 1867 and from the law school of Cincinnati College inSeptember 19, 1838; attended the common schools, and was 1869; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commencedprac- tice in Cincinnati; assistant United States attorney for thegraduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1861; southern district of Ohio in 1869 and 1870; electedas astudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and commenced Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congressespractice in Stroudsburg, Monroe County; county superin- (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); was not a candidate fortendent of public schools for seven years; elected as a Demo- renomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law; Assistantcrat to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March Secretary of State in 1897; Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomina- ter Plenipotentiary to Belgium from May 4, 1897, to Apriltion in 1874; elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth 11, 1899, to Spain from April 12, 1899, to September 26, 1902,Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); was not a candi- and to Austria-Hungary from September 26, 1902, to Marchdate for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; 1906; resumed the practice of law; died in Paris, France,president judge of the forty-third judicial district of Pennsyl- November 12, 1922; interment in Le Cimetière Neuf, Marve- vania; died in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa., on August jols, France. 13, 1901; interment in Stroudsburg Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. STORRS, Henry Randolph (brother of William Lucius STORER, Clement, a Representative and a Senator fromStorrs), a Representative from New York; born in Middle- New Hampshire; born in Kennebunk, Maine, September 20,town, Conn., September 3, 1787; was graduated from Yale 1760; completed preparatory studies; studied medicine inCollege in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 Portsmouth, N.H., and in Europe; engaged in the practice ofand commenced practice in Champion, Jefferson County, medicine in Portsmouth; captain of militia and held succes-N.Y.; later practiced in Whitesboro and Utica, N.Y.; elected sive ranks to that of major general; member, State house ofas a Federalist to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses representatives 1810-1812, serving one year as speaker;(March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4,renomination in 1820; elected to the Eighteenth and to the 1807-March 3, 1809); elected as a Republican to the Unitedthree succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1831); States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Mason and served from June 27, 1817, to March 3,chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Nineteenth Con- 1819; chairman, Committee on the Militia (Fifteenth Con-gress); one of the managers appointed by the House of Rep- gress); high sheriff of Rockingham County 18 18-1824; died in resentatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceed- Portsmouth, N.H., November 21, 1830; interment in Northings against James H. Peck, United States judge for the Cemetery. district of Missouri; presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Oneida County 1825-1829; moved to New York City STORKE, Thomas More, a Senator from California; bornand practiced law; died in New Haven, Conn., July 29, 1837; in Santa Barbara, Calif., November 23, 1876; attended theinterment in Grove Street Cemetery. Biographies 1885

STORRS, William Lucius (brother of Henry Randolphcommon schools; was graduated from theUniversity of Storrs), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Middle-Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1851; studied law; superintendent town, Conn., March 25, 1795; was graduated from Yale Col-and principal of Pontiac High School in 1853 and 1854; lege in 1814; studied law and was admitted to the bar inmember of the State house of representatives in 1855 and Whitestown, N.Y., in 1817; returned to Connecticut the same1857, serving as speaker in the latter year; member of the year and commenced practice in Middletown; member of theState senate in 1860 and served as president pro tempore; State house of representatives 1827-1829 and again in 1834;member of the Union Convention of Conservatives at Phila- served as speaker in 1834; elected to the Twenty-first anddelphia in 1866; delegate to the Democratic National Con- Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833);ventions in 1868, 1880, and 1888; engaged in private banking was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; elected as aprior to 1869; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from MarchCongress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate 1839 until his resignation in June 1840; appointed associatefor reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; president judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1840 and promot-of the Oakland County Bank 1893-1896; died in Pontiac, ed to chief justice in 1856, in which capacity he served untilOakland County, Mich., June 19, 1896; interment in Oak his death; professor of law in the Wesleyan University atHill Cemetery. Middletown 1841-1846; professor of law at Yale College in 1846 and 1847; died in Hartford, Conn., June 25, 1861; inter- STOUT, Lansing, a Representative from Oregon; born in ment in Old North Cemetery. Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., March 27, 1828; attend- ed the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar; STORY, Joseph, a Representative from Massachusetts;moved to Placer County, Calif., in 1852 and commenced the born in Marblehead, Mass., September 18, 1779; attendedpractice of law; member of the California assembly in 1855; Marblehead Academy; was graduated from Harvard Univer- sity in 1798; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1801moved to Portland, Oreg., in 1857 and continued the practice and commenced practice in Salem; member of the Stateof his profession; judge of the Multnomah County Court in house of representatives 1805-1807; elected as a Republican1858; was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the(March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for death of and served from May 23, 1808,renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of his profession to March 3, 1809; was not a candidate for renomination inin Portland; elected to the Oregon senate in June 1868 and 1808; again a member of the State house of representativesserved until his death in Portland, Multnomah County, in 1811, and served as speaker; published commentaries onOreg., March 4, 1871; interment in Riverview Cemetery. the Constitution, and also other works; appointed by Presi- STOUT, Tom, a Representative from Montana; born in dent Madison as an Associate Justice of the Supreme CourtNew London, Rails County, Mo., May 20, 1879; attended the of the United States and served from 1811 until his death;common schools, Warrenburg (Mo.) State Normal School, elected as an overseer of Harvard University in 1818 and asand the University of Missouri at Columbia; taught school; professor of law in the same institution in 1829, a positionstudied law; was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1901 but which he held until his death; delegate to the State constitu-did not practice; moved to Lewistown, Mont., in 1902; en- tional convention in 1820; declined the position of chief jus-gaged in the newspaper business and was editor and publish- tice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1831; died iner of the Fergus County Democrat 1902-1916 and theLewis- Cambridge, Mass., September 10, 1845; interment in Mounttown Democrat News 19 16-1946; delegate to the Democratic Auburn Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Dunne, Gerald T. Justice and the Rise National Convention in 1908 and to all State conventions of the Supreme Court. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970; Story, Joseph. from 1904 to 1946; member of the State senate of Montana Joseph Story; A Collection of Writings By and About An Eminent Ameri- 1911-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and can Jurist. Edited by Mortimer D. Schwartz and John C. Hogan. New Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3,1917); York: Oceana Publications, 1959. chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for STOUGHTON, William Lewis, a Representative fromrenomination in 1916; member of the Montana Public Serv- Michigan; born in Bangor, N.Y., March 20, 1827; attendedice commission 1930-1932; elected to the State house of rep- Kirkland, Painesville, and Madison Academies in Ohio; stud- ied law in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan 1849-1851; was ad-resentatives in 1942, 1944, and 1946; editoral writer for the mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sturgis, Mich.,Billings (Mont.) Gazette from 1947 to 1960; resided in Bil- in 1851; prosecuting attorney 1855-1859; delegate to the Re-lings, Mont., until his death there on December 26, 1965; publican National Convention in 1860; appointed by Presi-interment in Mountview Cemetery. dent Lincoln as United States district attorney for the STOVER, John Hubler, a Representative from Missouri; Michigan district in March 1861, but resigned a few monthsborn in Aaronsburg, Center County, Pa., April 24, 1833; later to enter the Union Army; served as colonel and briga-completed preparatory studies at Bellefonte Academy; stud- dier general and was promoted to the rank of major generalied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced by brevet; resigned in August 1864 because of ill health andpractice in Bellefonte, Pa.; held several local offices; district resumed the practice of his profession in Sturgis, St. Josephattorney of Center County 1860-1862; enlisted in the Union County, Mich., in 1865; member of the Michigan State Con-Army in 1861 as a private, and was successively a captain stitutional convention in 1867; attorney general of Michiganand a major; commissioned as a colonel of the One Hundred in 1867 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-firstand Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873);try; after the war moved to Versailles, Morgan County, Mo., again engaged in the practice of his profession in May 1874;and resumed the practice of law; district attorney of Morgan died in Sturgis, Mich., on June 6, 1888; interment in OakCounty from 1866 to 1868; elected as a Republican to the Lawn Cemetery. Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- STOUT, Byron Gray, a Representative from Michigan;tion of Joseph W. McClurg and served from December 7, born in Richmond, Ontario County, N.Y., January 12, 1829;1868, to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renomina- moved with his parents to Michigan in 1831; attended thetion in 1868; resumed the practice of his profession; engaged 1886 Biographical Directory

in the real estate business and was also interested in miningfacturing, and banking; elected as a Republican to the Forty- pursuits at Versailles, Mo.; delegate to the Centennial Expo-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, sition at Philadelphia in 1878; unsuccessful candidate for1873-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; died at Aurora1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; elected to the Forty-sev- Springs, Mo., October 27, 1889; interment in the City Ceme-enth, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, tery, Versailles, Morgan County, Mo. 1881-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Militia (Forty- STOW, Silas, a Representative from New York; born inseventh Congress); resumed banking at Shakopee and also Middlefield, Middlesex County, Conn., December 21, 1773;engaged in agricultural pursuits; died February 25, 1894, on attended the common schools; studied law, but neverprac-a train at Juarez, Mexico, en route to the United States; ticed; moved to Lowville, Lewis County, N.Y., and engagedinterment in Valley Cemetery, Shakopee, Minn. in agricultural pursuits; became land agent for Nicholas STRAIT, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from South Low and moved to Oneida County in 1797; appointed judgeCarolina; born in Chester District, S.C., December 25, 1846; of Oneida County, January 28, 1801; returned to Lewisattended the common schools of Mayesville, S.C., and Cooper County; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth CongressInstitute, Mississippi; during the Civil War entered the Con- (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); sheriff of Lewis County in 1814 and 1815; judge of the same county 1815-1823; died infederate Army in 1862 and served throughout the war, first Lowville, N.Y., January 19, 1827; interment in East Statein Company A, Sixth Regiment of Infantry, and later as Street Burying Ground. sergeant in Company H, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Gist's bri- gade; engaged in agricultural pursuits; taught school in Ebe- STO WELL, , a Representativenezer, York County, S.C., in 1880; was graduated from South from Virginia; born in Windsor, Vt., July 26, 1840; attendedCarolina Medical College at Charleston in 1885 and prac- the public schools in Boston, Mass., and was graduated fromticed medicine; member of the State senate 1890-1893; elect- Boston Latin School in 1860; engaged in mercantile pursuits;ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty- moved to Virginia in 1865; collector of internalrevenue forfifth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful the fourth district in 1869; elected as a Republican to thecandidate for renomination in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Con- Forty-second,Forty-third,andForty-fourthCongressesgress; resumed the practice of his profession in Lancaster, (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate forS.C., and died there on April 18, 1924; interment in Westside renomination in 1876; delegate to the Republican NationalCemetery. Convention in 1876; moved to Appleton, Wis., in 1880 and engaged in paper manufacturing; moved to Duluth, Minn., STRANAHAN, James Samuel Thomas, a Representative in 1886 and engaged in paper and steel manufacturing;from New York; born in Peterboro, Madison County, N.Y., president of the Manufacturers Bank of West Duluth 1889-April 25, 1808; attended the common schools and Cazenovia 1895; correspondent in Paris, France, for variousnewspa-Seminary; founded the town of Florence, Oneida County, pers; moved to Amherst, Mass., in 1914, where he died onN.Y., in 1832; engaged in the lumber business; postmaster of April 27, 1922; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Florence; member of the State assembly in 1838; moved to City. Newark, N.J., in 1840; engaged in building railroads; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1845; elected alderman of that city in STOWER, John G., a Representative from New York;1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress born in Madison, Madison County, N.Y.; completedprepara-(March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for tory studies; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Con-reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; appointed as gress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); member of the Statea member of the metropolitan police commission on January senate in 1833 and 1834. 1, 1857; presidential elector on the Republican tickets in STRADER, Peter Wilson, a Representative from Ohio;1860 and 1888; president of the board of trustees of Prospect born in Shawnee, Warren County, N.J., November 6, 1818;Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.; director of the first Brooklyn Bridge moved with his parents to Lebanon, Ohio, in 1819; attendedand presided at its dedication May 28, 1884; died at his the common schools; worked in a printing office for threesummer home at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., September 3, 1898; years; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1835; connected withinterment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. the steamboat interests on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers Bibliography: DAB. as a clerk and an engineer 1835-1848; general ticket agent of STRANG, Michael Lathrop, a Representative from Colora- the Little Miami Railroad 1848-1867; elected asa Democratdo; born in Bucks County, Pa., June 17, 1929; tutored at to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871);home; A.B., Princeton University, 1956; graduate work at was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed hisUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland, 1956-1957; served as a former business interests; moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, insecond lieutenant, United States Army, 1950-1953; rancher; 1876, where he died February 25, 1881; interment in Springinvestment banker, 1957-1985; elected as a Republican to Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. the Ninety-ninth Congress (January 3,1985-January 3, STRAIT, Horace Burton, a Representative from Minneso- 1987); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1986; ta; born in Potter County, Pa., January 26, 1835; attendedresumed horse and cattle ranching; consultant on natural the common schools; moved with his parents to Indiana inresources and taxes; is a resident of Carbondale, Cob. 1846; settled near Jordan, Minn., in 1855 and engaged in STRANGE, Robert, a Senator from North Carolina; born agricultural pursuits; moved to Shakopee, Minn., in 1860in Manchester, Va., September 20, 1796; attended private and conducted a general store; entered the Union Army inschools in Virginia, New Oxford Academy, and Washington 1862 as captain in the Ninth Regiment, Minnesota Volun-College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, teer Infantry, being promoted to major in 1864; served at theVa.; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia; close of the war as inspector general on the staff of Generalmoved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1815; studied law; was admit- McArthur; honorably discharged in 1865; trustee of Minneso-ted to the bar and practiced in Fayetteville; member, State ta Hospital for the Insane in 1866; mayor of Shakopee inhouse of commons 1821-1823, 1826; judge of the superior 1870, 1871, and 1872; engaged in mercantile pursuits,manu-court of North Carolina 1827-1836; elected as a Democrat to Biographies 1887 the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the STRATTON, Samuel Studdiford, a Representative from resignation of Willie P. Mangum and served from DecemberNew York; born in Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y., Sep- 5, 1838, to November 16, 1840, when he resigned; chairman,tember 27, 1916; at age of three months moved with parents Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Twenty-sixthto Schenectady, N.Y.; attended the public schools of Schenec- Congress); resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, Cum-tady and Rochester, N.Y., and Blair Academy, Blairstown, berland County, N.C.; solicitor for the fifth judicial district ofN.J.; graduated from University of Rochester in 1937, Haver- North Carolina; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Fay-ford (Pa.) College in 1938, and Harvard University in 1940; etteville, N.C., February 19, 1854; interment in the familyexecutive secretary to Representative Thomas H. Eliot of burial ground at "Myrtle Hill," near Fayetteville, N.C. Massachusetts, 1940-1942; commissioned an ensign in the STRATTON, Charles Creighton (uncle of Benjamin Frank-United States Naval Reserve on June 26, 1942; served in the lin Howey), a Representative from New Jersey; born inSouthwest Pacific Theater as naval combat intelligence offi- Swedesboro, Gloucester County, N.J., March 6, 1796; attend-cer on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur; separated from ed the common schools; was graduated from Rutgers College,the service as a lieutenant in 1946; twice awarded the New Brunswick, N.J., in 1814; engaged in agricultural pur-Bronze Star Medal with combat V; at the close of the war suits; member of the State general assembly in 1821, 1823,interrogated Japanese supreme commander in the Philip- and again in 1829; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifthpines, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was later hanged as a Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); presented creden-war criminal; deputy secretary-general of the Far Eastern tials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-sixth Congress, butCommission, Washington, D.C., 1946-1948; elected city coun- the House declined to seat him; reelected to the Twenty-cilman of Schenectady, N.Y., in 1949, reelected in 1953 and seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); was not aserved until 1956; recalled to active naval duty as a lieuten- candidate for renomination in 1842; member of the Stateant commander and served as instructor at the Naval Intel- constitutional convention in 1844; Governor of New Jerseyligence School, Washington, D.C., 1951-1953; currently holds from January 21, 1845, to January 17, 1848; resumed agricul- rank of captain in United States Naval Reserve; member of tural pursuits; resided in Europe in 1857 and 1858; died inSchenectady Municipal Housing Authority 1950-1955, serv- Swedesboro, N.J., March 30, 1859; interment in the Episco-ing as chairman in 1951; mayor of Schenectady 1956-1959; pal Cemetery. member of board of trustees, University of Rochester; regis- STRATTON, John, a Representative from Virginia; borntered representative with First Albany Corporation, 1957- at "Old Castle," near Eastville, Northampton County, Va.,1958; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the August 19, 1769; attended the common schools; studied law;fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State1989); is a resident of Schenectady, N.Y.. house of delegates 1789-1792; elected as a Federalist to the STRATTON, William Grant, a Representative from Illi- Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); died innois; born in Ingleside, Lake County, Ill., February 26, 1914; Norfolk, Va., May 10, 1804; interment in St. Paul's Churchattended the public schools and was graduated from the Cemetery. University of Arizona at Tucson in 1934; elected as a Repub- STRATTON, John Leake Newbold, a Representative fromlican to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 194 1-Jan- New Jersey; born in Mount Holly, Burlington County, N.J.,uary 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in1942; November 27, 1817; attended private schools at Mount Holly;State treasurer of Illinois in 1943 and 1944, and 1950-1952; prepared for college at Mendham; was graduated fromserved as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in 1945 Princeton College in 1836; studied law; was admitted to theand 1946; elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress (January bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Mount Holly; elected3, 1947-January 3, 1949); was not a candidate for renomina- as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con- tion in 1948; delegate to the Republican National Conven- gresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not a candidatetions in 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1976; elected governor of Illi- for renomination in 1862; resumed the practice of law; dele- nois in 1952; reelected in 1956 and served from January 12, gate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at1953, to January 9, 1961; was an unsuccessful candidate for Philadelphia in 1866; president of the Farmers' Nationalreelection in 1960; engaged in livestock farming at Cantrall, Bank of Mount Holly in 1875; died in Mount Holly, N.J., onIll.; vice president, Canteen Corporation; vice president, Chi- May 17, 1899; interment in St. Andrews Cemetery. cago Bank of Commerce; is a resident of Chicago, Ill. STRATTON, Nathan Taylor, a Representative from New STRAUB, Christian Markie, a Representative from Penn- Jersey; born in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, N.J., sylvania; born in Milton, Pa., in 1804; studied law; was ad- near Swedesboro, March 17, 1813; attended the commonmitted to the bar; prothonotary of Schuylkill County in 1845; schools; moved to Mullica Hill, N.J., in 1829 and clerked in asheriff of Schuylkill County in 1849; elected as a Democrat store, becoming a partner of his employer in 1835; conductedto the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); his own business 1840-1886; member of the State generalmember of the State senate 1856-1858; died in Washington, assembly 1843-1844; justice of the peace 1844-1847; also en-D.C.; interment in Pottsville, Pa. gaged in the real estate business and in agricultural pur- suits; held several local offices; elected as a Democrat to the STRAUS, Isidor, a Representative from New York; born Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-in Otterberg, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, February 6, 1845; March 3, 1855) was not a candidate for renomination inimmigrated to the United States in 1854 and settled in Tal- 1854; again engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as abotton, Ga.; attended Collinsworth Institute; moved to New member of the Harrison Township committee in 1865; servedYork City in 1865 and engaged in mercantile pursuits and as State tax commissioner; trustee of the State reform schoollater became owner of R.H. Macy and Company; elected as a for boys at Jamesburg, N.J., 1865-1887; delegate to theDemocrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphiacaused by the resignation of Ashbel P. Fitch and served from in 1866; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1880 to theJanuary 30, 1894, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for Forty-seventh Congress; died in Mullica Hill, N.J., March 9,reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the 1887; interment in the Baptist Cemetery. mercantile business in New York City; member of the New 1888 Biographical Directory

York and New Jersey Bridge Commission; perished in theserved until his death in Lincoln, Ill., December 5, 1942; wreck of the steamship on April 15, 1912; the bodyinterment in Union Cemetery. was subsequently recovered and interred in the family vault Bibliography: Lindstrom, Andrew F. "Lawrence Stringer: A Wilson Dem- in Beth-El Cemetery, Fresh Pond Road, Brooklyn, N.Y. ocrat." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 66 (Spring 1973): 20- Bibliography: DAB. 40. STRAWBRIDGE, James Dale, a Representative from STRINGFELLOW, Douglas R., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Liberty Township, Montour County,Utah; born in Draper, Utah, September 24, 1922; attended Pa., April 7, 1824; attended the common schools; was grad-the public schools; moved to Odgen, Utah, in 1935 and grad- uated from Princeton College in 1844 and from the medicaluated from high school in 1941; attended Weber College in department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel-1941 and 1942, Ohio State University in 1943, and the Uni- phia in 1847; engaged in the practice of medicine at Dan-versity of Cincinnati in 1943 and 1944; entered the military ville, Pa.; during the Civil War entered the Army as aservice on November 4, 1942; separated as a private, first brigade surgeon of Volunteers and served throughout theclass, on November 8,1945; awarded the Purple Heart war; resumed the practice of medicine at Danville; elected asMedal; State chairman of the Young Republican League in a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-1946; served a Latter Day Saint's Mission in Northern Cali- March 3, 1875); again engaged in the practice of his profes-fornia in 1947 and 1948; announcer and executive for radio sion; died in Danville, Pa., July 19, 1890; interment in Fair-station 1949-1952; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- view Cemetery. third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955); renomi- nated in 1954 but withdrew and was not a candidate for STREET, Randall S., a Representative from New York;reelection to the Eighty-fourth Congress; engaged as a news- born in Catskill, N.Y., in 1780; pursued classical studies;caster, Mutual Broadcasting System, Intermountain Net- studied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice inwork; died in Long Beach, Calif., October 19, 1966; interment Poughkeepsie; district attorney for the second judicial dis-in Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, Ogden, Utah. trict from February 1810 to February 1811 and from March STRODE, Jesse Burr, a Representative from Nebraska; 1813 to February 1815; lieutenant colonel of militia in theborn in Farmers Township, Fulton County, Ill., February 18, War of 1812; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4,1845; attended the public and high schools and was graduat- 1819-March 3, 1821); moved to Monticello, N.Y., about 1825;ed from Abingdon (Ill.) College; during the Civil War enlist- continued the practice of law until his death in Monticello,ed in Company G, Fiftieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer In- N.Y., November 21, 1841; interment in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.fantry, September 10, 1861, and served throughout the war; STRICKLAND, Randolph, a Representative from Michi-principal of the graded schools of Abingdon 1865-1873; was gan; born in Dansville, N.Y., February 4, 1823; attended thetwice elected mayor and six times councilman of Abingdon; common schools; moved to Michigan in 1844 and taughtstudied law; moved to Plattsmouth, Nebr., May 1, 1879; was school in Ingham County; studied law; was admitted to theadmitted to the bar in November 1879 and commenced prac- bar in 1849 and commenced practice in De Witt, Clintontice in Plattsmouth; district attorney 1882-1888; moved to County, Mich.; moved to St. Johns, Clinton County, andLincoln in 1887 and practiced law; judge of the district court continued the practice of law; elected prosecuting attorneyin 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and for Clinton County in 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, and 1862;Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); was member of the State senate in 1861 and 1862; provostmar-not a candidate for renomination in 1898; resumed the prac- shal of the Sixth Congressional District 1863-1865; delegatetice of law; prosecuting attorney for the third district of to the Republican National Conventions in 1856 and 1868;Nebraska; department commander of the Grand Army of the elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4,Republic in 1919 and 1920; died in Lincoln, Nebr., on No- 1869-March 3, 1871); was an unsuccessful candidate forre-vember 10, 1924; interment in Wyuka Cemetery. nomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in STROHM, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Battle Creek, Mich., May 5,1880; interment in De Wittborn in Little Britain (later Fulton) Township, near Center- Cemetery, De Witt, Mich. ville, Lancaster County, Pa., October 16, 1793; attended the STRINGER, Lawrence Beaumont, a Representative frompublic schools; taught school for several years; moved to Illinois; born near Atlantic City, N.J., February 24, 1866;Providence, Pa.; member of the State house of representa- moved with his parents to Lincoln, Ill., in 1876; attended thetives 1831-1833; served in the State senate 1834-1842, being public schools; was graduated from Lincoln University (laterspeaker in 1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and Lincoln College) in 1887; reporter on a local paper; memberThirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); survey- of the State house of representatives 1890-1892; entered theor and justice of the peace in Providence Township for sever- Chicago College of Law (law department of Lake Forest Uni-al years; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852; versity), and was graduated in 1896; returned to Lincoln, Ill.,delegate to the State convention in 1869; died in Lancaster, in 1898 and commenced practice; delegate to the DemocraticPa., September 12, 1884; interment in the Mennonite Ceme- State convention in 1900 and served as chairman; member oftery. the State senate 1900-1904; unsuccessful Democratic candi- STRONG, Caleb, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in date for Governor of Illinois in 1904; appointed chief justiceNorthampton, Mass., January 9, 1745; studied under private of the Illinois State Court of Claims in 1905 and served untiltutors; graduated from Harvard College in 1764; studied law; 1913; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nominationwas admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1772; for United States Senator in 1908; elected as a Democrat toNorthampton selectman; member of the committee of corre- the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); didspondence and safety throughout the Revolution; member, not seek renomination in 1914, but was an unsuccessfulState house of representatives 1776-1778; member, State candidate for United States Senator; resumed the practice ofsenate 1780-1788; county attorney 1776-1800; elected to the law; unsuccessful candidate for justice of the supreme courtContinental Congress in 1780, but did not attend; member of of Illinois in 1924; elected judge of Logan County in 1918 andthe national convention in Philadelphia which framed the Biographies 1889

Constitution of the United States; member of the Massachu-of representatives in 1855; prosecuting attorney in 1864 and setts constitutional convention which ratified the Constitu-1865; president of the common council; elected as a Republi- tion of the United States; elected to the United Statescan to the Forty-first and Forty-secondCongresses and Senate in 1789; reelected in 1793, and served from March 4,served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Hartford, 1789, to June 1, 1796, when he resigned; Governor of Massa- Conn., September 7, 1872; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. chusetts 1800-1807 and 1812-1816; died in Northampton, STRONG, Luther Martin, a Representative from Ohio; Mass., November 7, 1819; interment in Bridge Street Ceme-born near Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, June 23, 1838; attend- tery. Bibliography: DAB; Lodge, Henry Cabot. A Memoir of Caleb Strong. ed the common schools and Aaron Schuyler's Academy, Re- public, Ohio; taught school; enlisted in the Forty-ninth Regi- Cambridge, Mass.: J. Wilson and Son, 1879. ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and served until STRONG, James, a Representative from New York; bornMarch 13, 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar by the in Windham, Conn., in 1783; was graduated from the Uni-supreme court of Ohio January 30, 1867;moved to Kenton versity of Vermont at Burlington in 1806; moved to Hudson,and practiced his profession; member of the board of educa- Columbia County, N.Y.; elected to the Sixteenth Congresstion; was elected to the State senate in 1879 and 1881; ap- (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); elected to the Eighteenthpointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1823-Foster in 1883 to fill an unexpired term; elected as a Repub- March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Territories (Nine-lican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, teenth and Twentieth Congresses); died in Chester, Morris 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- County, N.J., on August 8, 1847. tion in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; engaged in agricul- STRONG, James George, a Representative from Kansas;tural pursuits; died in Kenton, Ohio, April 26, 1903; inter- born in Dwight, Livingston County, Ill., April 23, 1870; at-ment in Grove Cemetery. tended the public schools of Dwight, Ill., 1876-1879, the Epis- STRONG, Nathan Leroy, a Representative from Pennsyl- copal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Dak., 1879-1880, thevania; born in Troy (now Summerville), Jefferson County, public school at St. Marys, Kans., 1882-1887, and BakerPa., November 12, 1859; attended the public schools; was a University, Baldwin, Kans., 1887-1889; moved to Bluetelegraph operator and railroad agent 1877-1894; studied Rapids, Kans., in 1891; engaged in the real estate, loan, andlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced prac- insurance businesses; also studied law; was admitted to thetice in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pa., in 1893; district bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Blue Rapids; also the de- interested in mercantile and agricultural pursuits; city attor- attorney of Jefferson County 1895-1900; engaged in ney 1896-1911; organized the Blue Rapids Telephone Co. invelopment of mineral lands in Jefferson and Armstrong 1905; assistant attorney general of Marshall County in 1911Counties 1901-1916; president of the Mohawk Mining Co.; and 1912; delegate to the Republican National Conventionsengaged in banking; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- in 1912 and 1928; organized and developed the Marshallfifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917- County Power & Light Co. in 1912; member of the schoolJanuary 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin board 1913-1916; prosecuting attorney of Marshall County in1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed his former 1916 and 1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth andbusiness activities; died in Brookville, Pa., December 14, to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,1939; interment in Brookville Cemetery. 1933); chairman, Committee on War Claims (Sixty-eighth STRONG, Selah Brewster, a Representative from New through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful for renomi-York; born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, N.Y., May1, nation in 1932; appointed first assistant treasurer of the1792; received a preliminary education and was graduated Home Owners' Loan Corporation in 1933 and served untilfrom Yale College in 1811; studied law; was admitted tothe his death in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1938; inter-bar in 1814 and began practice in New York City; duringthe ment in Fairmount Cemetery, Blue Rapids, Kans. War of 1812 was commissioned as an ensign and quarter- STRONG, Jedediah, a Delegate from Connecticut; born inmaster in the Tenth Regiment, Third Brigade,New York Litchfield, Conn., November 7, 1738; was graduated fromCity and County Troops, and in 1815 was promoted succes- Yale College in 1761; studied law; was admitted to the bar in sively to lieutenant and captain; master in chancery in 1817; 1764 and commenced the practice of his profession in Litch- moved to Brookhaven in 1820; district attorney for Suffolk field; member of the State house of representatives 177 1-County from 1821 to 1847, except for nine months in1830; 1801; town clerk 1773-1789; member of the committee onappointed judge advocate of the First Division of the New inspection in 1774 and 1775, and was made commissary ofYork State Infantry in 1825; elected as a Democrat to the supplies for the Army in 1775; clerk of the State house ofTwenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); was representatives 1779-1788; associate judge of the Litchfieldnot a candidate for renomination in 1844; resumed the prac- County Court 1780-179 1; elected to the Continental Congresstice of law; judge of the supreme court for the secondjudi- in 1782, 1783, and 1784, but did not attend; delegate to thecial district from June 7, 1847, to January 1, 1860; member Connecticut ratification convention in 1788; served as aof the State constitutional convention in 1867; died in Setau- member of the Governor's council, or upper house, in 1789ket, Long Island, N.Y., November 29, 1872; interment onhis and 1790; died in Litchfield, Conn., August 21, 1802; inter-estate. ment in the West Burying Ground. STRONG, Solomon, a Representative from Massachusetts; STRONG, Julius Levi, a Representative from Connecticut;born in Amherst, Mass., March 2, 1780; was graduated from born in Bolton, Tolland County, Conn., November 8, 1828;Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1798; studied law; attended Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., andwas admitted to the bar in Northampton,Mass., in 1800 and Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.; member of the Statecommenced the practice of law; member of the State senate house of representatives in 1852; served in the State senatein 1812 and 1813; judge of the circuit court of common pleas in 1853; studied law at National Law School, Balston Spa,in 1818 and judge of the court of common pleas from 1821 N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced prac- until his resignation in 1842; elected as a Federalist to the tice in Hartford, Conn.; again a member of the State houseFourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 1890 Biographical Directory

3, 1819); was not a candidate for renomination in 1818; againgraduated from Yale College in 1828; taught school in New a member of the State senate in 1843 and 1844; died inHaven, Conn.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 Leominster, Mass., on September 16, 1850; interment in Ev-and commenced practice in Reading, Pa.; elected as a Demo- ergreen Cemetery. crat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, STRONG, Stephen, a Representative from New York;1847-March 3,1851); chairman, Committee on Elections born in Lebanon, Conn., October 11, 1791; moved to New(Thirty-first Congress); did not seek renomination in 1850; York; attended Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; studied law; associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania 1857- was admitted to the bar in 1822 and practiced; district attor-1868; practiced law in Philadelphia, Pa.; appointed as an ney of Tioga County 1836-1838 and 1844-1847; judge ofAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Tioga County 1838-1843; elected as a Democrat to thein 1870 and served until December 1880, when he retired; Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chair-resumed the practice of law; died at Lake Minnewassa, N.Y., man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofAugust 19, 1895; interment in Charles Evans Cemetery, State (Twenty-ninth Congress); resumed the practice of lawReading, Pa. in Owego, N.Y.; again judge of Tioga County 1855-1859; Bibliography: DAB. moved to Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., in 1861 and STROTHER, George French (father of James French practiced law; died in Watertown, N.Y., April 15, 1866. Strother [18 11-1860] and great-grandfather of James French STRONG, Sterling Price, a Representative from Texas;Strother [1868-1930]), a Representative from Virginia; born born on a farm near Jefferson City, Cole County, Mo.,in Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Va., in 1783; attended the August 17, 1862; moved to Texas in 1871 with hisparents,College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied who settled in Montague County; attended the rural schoolslaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in of Montague County, Tex., and was graduated from East-Culpeper; member of the State house of delegates 1806-1809; man's National Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., inelected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con- 1884; county clerk of Montague County 1884-1888 and 1898-gresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his resignation 1904; engrossing clerk of the State senate in 1889;countyFebruary 10, 1820; receiver of public moneys at St. Louis, and district clerk of Hale County 1889-1892; traveling sales-Mo.; died in St. Louis November 28, 1840; interment in man 1892-1898 and 1911-1932; cashier in the National BankChrist Church Cemetery; reinterment in Bellefontaine Cem- of Bowie, Tex., 1908-1911; member of Texas State Democrat- etery in 1860. ic executive committee 1900-1902; unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1930; electedas a Democrat STROTHER, James French (sonof George French to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3,Strother and grandfather of James French Strother [1868- 1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; died1930]), a Representative from Virginia; born in Culpeper, in Dallas, Tex., March 28, 1936; interment in Old OakCliffVa., September 4, 1811; completed preparatory studies and Cemetery. attended St. Louis University, Missouri; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Washington, STRONG, Theron Rudd (cousin of William StrongofRappahannock County, Va.; member of the State house of Pennsylvania), a Representative from New York; bornindelegates 1840-1851, serving as speaker in 1851; delegate to Salisbury, Conn., November 7, 1802; attended thecommonthe State constitutional convention in 1850; elected as a schools; studied law at Litchfield Law School;was admittedWhig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Palmyra,1853); resumed the practice of law in Culpeper, Va.; died Wayne County, N Y; master and examiner in chanceryfornear Culpeper, Va., September 20, 1860; interment in the several years; held several local offices; districtattorney ofMasonic Cemetery. Wayne County from 1835 to 1839; electedas a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3,1841); STROTHER, James French (grandson of James French member of the State assembly in 1842; associate justiceofStrother [1811-1860] and great-grandson of George French the supreme court of New York 1851-1859 and judgeof theStrother), a Representative from West Virginia; born near court of appeals in 1859; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1860Pearisburg, Giles County, Va., June 29, 1868; attended the and resumed the practice of his profession; returnedto Newpublic schools, Pearisburg Academy, and Virginia Agricul- York City in 1867 and continued the practice of law untilhistural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg; deputy collector death May 14, 1873; interment in Mount HopeCemetery,of internal revenue at Lynchburg, Va., 1890-1893; studied Rochester, N.Y. law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in STRONG, William, a Representative from Vermont; bornPearisburg; settled in Welch, McDowell County, W.Va., in in Lebanon, Conn., in 1763; moved with hisparents to Hart-1895 and continued the practice of law; United States com- ford, Vt.; in 1764; self-educated; engaged extensivelyin landmissioner 1897-1901; appointed judge of the criminal court surveying; member of the State house of representativesinof McDowell County by Gov. Albert B. White on January 1, 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1802; sheriff of Windsor Countyfrom1905; was thrice elected and served until September 30, 1924, 1802 to 1810; elected as a Republican to the Twelfthandwhen he resigned, having been nominated for Congress; Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1815);againelected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth a member of the State house of representatives 1815-1818; Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); was not a candi- judge of the supreme court of Windsor County 1819-1821;date for renomination in 1928; died in Welch, W.Va., April elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3,10, 1930; interment in Monte Vista Cemetery, Bluefield, 1821); member of the council ofcensors in 1834; died inW.Va. Hartford, Windsor County, Vt., January 28, 1840; interment in Quechee Cemetery. STROUSE, Myer, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Oberstrau, Bavaria, Germany, December 16, 1825; STRONG, William (cousin of Theron Rudd Strong),a Rep-immigrated to the United States in 1832 with his father, resentative from Pennsylvania; born in Somers, Conn., Maywho settled in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa.; attended 6, 1808; attended Munson Academy, Massachusetts, andwasprivate schools; edited the North American Farmer in Phila- Biographies 1891 delphia 1848-1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar incredentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress 1855 and commenced practice in Pottsville; elected as ain 1865 but was not admitted; chairman of the committee of Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congressesnine, which was instrumental in restoring Virginia to the (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate forUnion in 1870; member of the State house of delegates from renomination in 1866; resumed the practice of law; was at-1874 to 1877; rector of the University of Virginia from 1874 torney and solicitor for the "Molly Maguires," a secret orga-to 1882; president of the Virginia Historical Society; re- nization in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, in 1876 andsumed the practice of law; died in Staunton, Va., February 1877; died in Pottsville, Pa., February 11, 1878; interment in13, 1891; interment in Thornrose Cemetery. Odd Fellows Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Robertson, Alexander F. Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1807-1891: A Biography. Richmond: The William Byrd Press, 1925. STROWD, William Franklin, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Chapel Hill, Orange County, N.C., STUART, Andrew, a Representative from Ohio; born near December 7, 1832; attended the country schools, BinghamPittsburgh, Pa., August 3, 1823; moved to Pittsburgh with private school at Melvane, the local academy at High Hill,his mother in 1834; received limited schooling; worked in a and Graham Institute; moved to Chatham County in 1861newspaper office; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1850; was and engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the Civil Wareditor of the American Union 1850-1857; elected as a Demo- served as a private in the Confederate Army; member of thecrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, State constitutional convention in 1875; unsuccessful Popu-1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; engaged in the list candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress;shipping business on the Gulf of Mexico and in the transpor- elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-tation of mails and supplies from Leavenworth, Kans., to gresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); was not a candidateSanta Fe, N.Mex.; resided in Washington, D.C., from 1869 for renomination in 1898; resumed agricultural pursuits inuntil his death, April 30, 1872; interment in Union Ceme- Chatham County; discontinued activities in 1908 and lived intery, Steubenville, Ohio. retirement until his death December 12, 1911, in Chapel Hill, N.C.; interment in Chapel Hill Cemetery. STUART, Archibald (cousin of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart), a Representative from Virginia; born in Lynchburg, STRUBLE, Isaac S., a Representative from Iowa; bornVa., December 2, 1795; attended private schools and complet- near Fredericksburg, Va., November 3, 1843; moved to Iowaed preparatory studies; served as an officer in the War of with his parents, who settled in Johnson County; attended1812; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in the common schools; during the Civil War enlisted at theLynchburg, Campbell County, Va.; member of the State age of seventeen and served three years as a private inhouse of delegates in 1830 and 1831; delegate to the State Company F, Twenty-second Iowa Regiment, Volunteer Infan- conventions of 1829, 1830, 1850, and 1851; elected as a Demo- try; attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City; studiedcrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced prac-1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the tice in Ogle County, Ill.;settled in Le Mars, PlymouthTwenty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; served County, Iowa, in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-in the State senate 1852-1854; died at his home, "Laurel eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,Hill," Patrick County, Va., September 20, 1855; interment in 1883-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Territoriesthe Stuart family cemetery at Laurel Hill, Patrick County, (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- tion in 1890; resumed the practice of law; died in Le Mars,Va. Iowa, on February 17, 1913; interment in Le Mars Cemetery. STUART, Charles Edward, a Representative and a Sena- tor from Michigan; born near Waterloo, ColumbiaCounty, STRUD WICK, William Francis, a Representative fromN.Y., November 25, 1810; studied law; was admitted to the North Carolina; born at "Stag Park," near Wilmington, Newbar in 1832 and commenced practice in Waterloo; moved to Hanover County, N.C.; received a limited education; engagedMichigan in 1835 and settled in Kalamazoo; member, State in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the State convention inhouse of representatives 1842; elected as a Democrat to the 1789; served in the State senate 1792-1797; held several local offices; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress to fillThirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the vacancy caused by the resignation of Absalom TatomEdward Bradley, who never qualified, and served from De- and served from November 28, 1796, to March 3, 1797;cember 6, 1847, to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful candidate for member of the State house of representatives 1801-1803;reelection in 1848; elected to the Thirty-second Congress resumed agricultural interests; died in North Carolina in(March 4, 1851-March 3,1853); chairman, Committee on 1812; interment in a private cemetery on his estate at "Haw- Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-second Con- fields," Orange County, N.C. gress); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1859; was not a STUART, Alexander Hugh Holmes (cousin of Archibaldcandidate for renomination; served as President pro tempore Stuart), a Representative from Virginia; born in Staunton,of the Senate during the Thirty-fourth Congress; chairman, Va., April 2, 1807; attended Staunton Academy and the Col-Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth lege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; was graduatedCongresses); resumed the practice of law; during the Civil from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1828;War raised and equipped the Thirteenth Regiment, Michi- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commencedgan Volunteer Infantry, of which he was commissionedcolo- practice in Staunton; member of the State house of delegatesnel, but resigned because of ill health; died in Kalamazoo, 1836-1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Con-Mich., May 19, 1887; interment in Mountain Home Ceme- gress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidatetery. for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; served as Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President STUART, David, a Representative from Michigan; born in Fillmore from September 16,1850, to March 6,1853; Brooklyn, N.Y., March 12, 1816; studied law; was admitted member of the State senate 1857-1861; member of the Stateto the bar and commenced practice in Detroit, Mich.; elected secession convention in 1861; delegate to the National Con-as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress(March 4, 1853- vention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866; presentedMarch 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in 1892 Biographical Directory

the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-third Congress);un-Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy- successful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his fourth Congress; moved to Chicago, Ill.; enlisted in thedeath in Washington, D.C., February 28, 1937; interment in Union Army and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of theSanta Maria Cemetery, Santa Maria, Calif. Forty-second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, July 22, 1861; colonel of the Fifty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer STUCKEY, Williamson Sylvester, Jr., a Representative Infantry, October 31, 1861; appointed brigadier general offrom Georgia; born in Eastman, Dodge County, Ga., May 25, Volunteers November 29, 1862, but the Senate declined to1935; attended Woodward Academy; University of Georgia, confirm the nomination March 11, 1863; resigned April 3, B.B.A., 1956; University of Georgia, LL.B., 1959; president, 1863; resumed the practice of law in Detroit, Mich., and died Stuckey's Stores, Inc., 1958-1966, Stuckey Pecan Co., 1958- there September 12, 1868; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. 1966, Stuckey Investments, Inc., 1958-1966; Stuckey Timber- lands, Inc., 1958-1966; elected as a Democrat to the Nineti- STUART, John Todd, a Representative from Illinois; borneth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967- near Lexington, Ky., November 10, 1807; was graduatedJanuary 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1826; studied law;wasto the Ninety-fifth Congress; chairman, Stuckey's Corp., 1985 admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice into present; is a resident of Eastman, Ga. Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill.; subsequently becamea law partner of Abraham Lincoln; major in the Black Hawk STUDDS, Gerry Eastman, a Representative from Massa- War in 1832; member of the State house of representativeschusetts; born in Mineola, Nassau County, N.Y., May 12, 1832-1836; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the1937; attended the public schools in Cohasset and Derby Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixthAcademy in Hingham, Mass.; B.A., Yale University, 1959; and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3,M.A.T., history, same university, 1961; teacher at St. Paul's 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; memberSchool, Concord, N.H.; Foreign Service Officer, United States of the State senate 1848-1852; was the unsuccessful Constitu-Department of State, 196 1-1962; member, President Kenne- tional-Union candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1860; elect-dy's White House staff, 1962-1963; legislative assistant to ed as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4,Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., 1964; State Coordinator 1863-March 3, 1865); resumed the practice of law; died inof United States Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., November 23, 1885; in-primary campaign, 1968; delegate, Democratic National Con- terment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. vention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and Bibliography: DAB. to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-Janu- STUART, Philip, a Representative from Maryland; bornary 3, 1989); is a resident of Cohasset, Mass. near Fredericksburg, Va., in 1760; completed his preparatory education; moved to Maryland; served in the Revolutionary STUDLEY, Elmer Ebenezer, a Representative from New Army as a lieutenant in the Third Continental Dragoons;York; born on a farm near East Ashford, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., September 24, 1869; attended the district wounded at Eutaw Springs September 8, 1781; transferredtoschools; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, Baylor's dragoons November 9, 1782; lieutenant, SecondAr- tillerists and Engineers, June 5, 1798; resigned November 15,N.Y., in 1894; reporter on Buffalo newspapers in 1894 and 1800; served in the War of 1812; electedas a Federalist to1895; commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Two Hundred the Twelfth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchand Second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, serv- ing in Cuba in 1898 and 1899; studied law; was admitted to 4, 1811-March 3, 1819); died in Washington, D.C., August14, 1830; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. the bar in 1895 and practiced in Buffalo, N.Y., 1895-1898; moved to Raton, Colfax County, N.Mex., in 1899 and prac- STUBBLEFIELD, Frank Albert, a Representative fromticed law until 1917; served as a Republican in the Territori- Kentucky; born in Murray, Calloway County, Ky., April 5,al house of representatives in 1907; member of the New 1907; attended the public schools; student at University ofMexico Statutory Revision Commission in 1907; district at- Arizona in 1927; B.S., University of Kentucky College oftorney of Colfax and Union Counties, N.Mex., in 1909 and Commerce, 1932; engaged in the retail drug businessin1910; delegate to the Progressive National Convention at Murray, Ky., in 1933; member of city council, Murray,Ky.,Chicago in 1916; moved to New York City in 1917 and con- 1939-1942; served as a lieutenant in the United StatesNavytinued the practice of law; deputy attorney general of New from 1944 until September 1945; member of the KentuckyYork in 1924; United States commissioner for the eastern Railroad Commission, 1951-1955; reelected to four-yeartermdistrict of New York in 1925 and 1926; elected as a Democrat in 1955, but resigned December 31, 1958, torun for Congress;to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to theseven1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; re- succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,1959, sumed the practice of law; appointed by President Franklin until his resignation December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candi-D. Roosevelt in February 1935 as a member of the Board of date for renomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;Veterans' Appeals and served until his death in Flushing, resided in Murray, Ky., where he died October 14, 1977;Long Island, N.Y., on September 6, 1942; interment in Flush- interment in Murray City Cemetery. ing Cemetery. STUBBS, Henry Elbert, a Representative from California; STULL, Howard William, a Representative from Pennsyl- born in Nampa, Coleman County, Tex., March 4, 1881;at-vania; born on a farm near Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., tended the public schools in Groesbeck, Tex., and PhillipsApril 11, 1876; attended the public schools, Johnstown High University, Enid, Okia.; was ordained a minister of theSchool, and State Normal School (later State Teachers' Col- Christian Church in 1911 and served as pastor of the Chris-lege), Indiana, Pa.; employed as a store clerk 1887-1894 and tian Church in Frederick, Okla., 1911-1914 and 1918-1921,as a railroad clerk in 1894 and 1895; taught school at Fern- and in Kingfisher, Okia., 1914-1917; moved to California indale and Dale, Pa., 1895-1897; served as post office clerk at 1921 and served as pastor of the Christian Church in Tulare,Johnstown in 1897 and 1898 and as assistant postmaster Calif., 1921-1923 and of the Santa Maria (Calif.) Christian1899-1904; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1905 and served as Church from 1923 until elected to Congress; electedas aan assistant division chief in the United States Treasury Biographies 1893

Department 1905-1908; was graduated from the law depart-house of representatives in 1772 and 1773-1784; justice of ment of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,the peace in 1773; Member of the Continental Congress in in 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-1786; judge of the probate court for the district of Fairfield menced practice in Colville, Stevens County, Wash., in 1909;in 1775; again a member of the State house of representa- prosecuting attorney of Stevens County, Wash., in 1911,tives in 1786; elected to the First and Second Congresses 1912, 1915, and 1916; delegate to the Republican State con-(March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); associate justice of the State vention in 1916; returned to Johnstown, Pa., in 1917 andsupreme court 1793-1805; died in Fairfield, Fairfield County, continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to theConn., October 4,1819; interment in the Old Burying Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by theGround. resignation of J. Russell Leech and served from April 26, 1932, to March 3, 1933; was not a candidate for renomina- STURGES, Lewis Burr (son of Jonathan Sturges), a Rep- tion in 1932; resumed the practice of law; died in Johnstown,resentative from Connecticut; born inFairfield,Conn., Pa., April 22, 1949; interment in Grandview Cemetery. March 15, 1763; was graduated from Yale College in 1782; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven; returned to STUMP, Herman, a Representative from Maryland; bornFairfield, Conn., in 1786; clerk of the probate court for the on Oakington farm, in Harford County, Md., August 8, 1837;district of Fairfield 1787-179 1; member of the State house of pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to therepresentatives 1794-1803; elected as a Federalist to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Bel Air, Md.; alsoNinth Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the interested in agricultural pursuits; elected to the Stateresignations of Calvin Goddard and ; reelect- senate in 1878, serving as president in 1880; chairman of theed to the Tenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and Democratic State convention in 1879; elected as a Democratserved from September 16, 1805, to March 3, 1817; moved to to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4,Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, where he died March 30, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for renomination;1844; interment in St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard. appointed Superintendent of Immigration by President Cleveland April 8, 1893, and served until July 16, 1897; STURGISS, George Cookman, a Representative from resumed the practice of law in Bel Air, Md.; died at hisWest Virginia; born in Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, home near Bel Air, Md., January 9, 1917; interment in St. August 16, 1842; attended country schools; moved to Morgan- Mary's Cemetery, Emmorton, Md. town, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1859; attended Mononga]ia Academy, Morgantown, W.Va., and taught in that school for STUMP, Robert Lee (Bob), a Representative from Arizo- na; born in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz., April 4, 1927;a short time; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1863 attended the public schools in Phoenix; graduated from Tol-and commenced practice at Morgantown; during the Civil leson (Ariz.) Union High School, 1947; B.S., Arizona StateWar served as a clerk under Maj. James V. Boughner, pay- University, Tempe, 1951; cotton farmer; served in Unitedmaster of United States Volunteers; county superintendent States Navy, 1943-1946; member of Arizona legislature,of free schools 1865-1869; member of the West Virginia house, 1959-1967, senate, 1967-1976, president, 1975-1976;house of delegates 1870-1872; prosecuting attorney of the elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the twocounty 1872-1880; Republican nominee for Governor of the succeeding Congresses; reelected as a Republican to theState in 1880; appointed by President Harrison as United Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu-States attorney for the district of West Virginia in 1889 and ary 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Tolleson, Ariz.served four years; first president of the State board of trade and of the State association for the promotion of good roads; STURGEON, Daniel, a Senator from Pennsylvania; bornelected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- in Mount Pleasant, York (later Adams) County, Pa., Octobergresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candi- 27, 1789; attended the common schools; moved to westerndate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; Pennsylvania in 1804 with his parents, who settled neartrustee of American University, Washington, D.C.; was in- Pittsburgh; graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg,strumental in the construction of the Morgantown & King- Pa. (later Washington and Jefferson College), and Jeffersonwood Railroad; judge of the circuit court 1912-1920; engaged Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; commenced the practicein the practice of law at Morgantown, Monongalia County, of medicine in Uniontown, Pa., in 1813; appointed countyW.Va., until his death on February 26, 1925; interment in coroner; member, State house of representatives 1818-1824;Oak Grove Cemetery. member, State senate 1825-1830, serving as president 1828- 1830; auditor general of Pennsylvania 1830-1836; State treas- STURTEVANT, John Cirby, a Representative from Penn- urer 1838-1839; elected as a Democrat to the United Statessylvania; born in Spring Township, Crawford County, Pa., Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4,February 20, 1835; attended the common schools; engaged in 1839, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; reelect-teaching and farming; officer in the State house of repre- ed in 1844 and served from January 14, 1840, to March 3,sentatives at Harrisburg in 1861, 1862, and 1864; delegate to 1851; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Commit-seven Republican State conventions from 1865 to1890; tee on Patents and the Patent Office (Twenty-sixth Con-member of the State house of representatives in 1865 and in gress), Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-ninth through1866; moved to Conneautville, Pa., in 1867; engaged in the Thirty-first Congresses); appointed by President Franklinhardware business until 1873, and in manufacturing and Pierce as treasurer of the in Philadel-milling until 1888; also engaged in banking, serving as cash- phia, Pa., 1853-1858; engaged in banking; died in Union-ier and president of the First National Bank of Conneaut- town, Fayette County, Pa., July 3, 1878; interment in Oakville; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress Grove Cemetery. (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; resumed banking interests in Con- STURGES, Jonathan (father of Lewis Burr Sturges), aneautville, Crawford County, Pa., and died there December Delegate and a Representative from Connecticut; born in 20, 1912; interment in Conneautville Cemetery. Fairfield, Conn., August 23, 1740; was graduated from Yale College in 1759; was admitted to the bar in May 1772 and SULLIVAN, Christopher Daniel, a Representative from commenced practice in Fairfield, Conn.; member of the State New York; born in New York City, July 14, 1870; attended 1894 Biographical Directory

the public schools, St. James Parochial School, and St.same year and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; Mary's Academy, in New York City; engaged in the real-member of the State senate 1900-1902; elected as a Demo- estate business in 1904; elected as a member of the Statecrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, senate in 1906; reelected in 1908, 1910, 1912, and 1914, and1903-March 3, 1907); declined to be a candidate for renomi- served until 1916, when he was elected to Congress; wasnation; resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; ap- elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the elevenpointed a member of the Boston Finance Commission in July succeeding Congresses (March 4,1917-January 3,1941); 1907 and served until the commission expired; in June 1909 chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofbecame chairman of the permanent finance commission; re- Labor (Sixty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomi-signed in 1914 to become corporation counsel of Boston; nation in 1940; resided in New York City, until his deathlecturer on municipal government in Harvard University in there August 3, 1942; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Wood-1912 and 1913; lecturer at Boston University Law School side, Long Island, N.Y. 1920-1925; resumed the practice of his profession in Boston; SULLIVAN, George (son of John Sullivan and nephew ofdied in Scituate, Mass., May 31, 1927; interment in Holy James Sullivan), a Representative from New Hampshire; Cross Cemetery, Maiden, Mass. born in Durham, N.H., August 29, 1771; was graduated from Harvard University in 1790; studied law; was admitted to SULLIVAN, John Berchmans (husband of Leonor Kretzer the bar and commenced practice in Exeter, RockinghamSullivan), a Representative from Missouri; born in Sedalia, County, N.H., in 1793; member of the State house of repre-Pettis County, Mo., October 10, 1897; attended St. Patrick's sentatives in 1805; attorney general of New Hampshire inparochial school in Sedalia, Mo.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1805 and 1806; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Con- 1910; was graduated from Gonzaga Hail (St. Louis Universi- gress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); again a member of thety High School) in 1914 and from St. Louis University in State house of representatives in 1813; served in the State1918; during the First World War enlisted in the United senate in 1814 and 1815; again attorney general of the StateStates Army and served as a private in the Infantry; was 1816-1835; died in Exeter, N.H., April 14, 1838; interment ingraduated from the law department of the St. Louis Univer- the Old Cemetery (Winter Street). sity in 1922; was admitted to the bar in 1921 and commenced Bibliography: DAB. practice in St. Louis, Mo.; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1940; associate city counselor SULLIVAN, James (brother of John Sullivan and uncle ofof St. Louis 1936-1938; secretary to the mayor of St. Louis George Sullivan), a Delegate from Massachusetts; born in1938-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Berwick, Maine (then a part of Massachusetts), April 22,Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful 1744; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit-candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Con- ted to the bar about 1782 and commenced practice in Bidde-gress; elected to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, ford; King's attorney for York County; active in pre-Revolu-1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection tionary movements; member of the Provincial Congress ofin 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; special assistant to the Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775; member of the generalUnited States Attorney General in 1947 and 1948; elected to court in 1775 and 1776; justice of the superior court 1776-the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served 1782; elected to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783from January 3, 1949, until his death in Bethesda, Md., but did not attend; member of the executive council in 1787;January 29, 1951; interment in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, judge of probate for Suffolk County in 1788; State attorney general 1790-1807; Governor of Massachusetts in 1807 andMo. 1808; died in Boston, Mass., December 10, 1808; interment in SULLIVAN, Leonor Kretzer (wife of John Berchmans Sul- Central Boston Common Cemetery. livan), a Representative from Missouri; born Leonor Alice Bibliography: DAB. Kretzer, August 21, 1902, in St. Louis, Mo.; attended public SULLIVAN, John (brother of James Sullivan and fatherand private schools; also attended Washington University, of George Sullivan), a Delegate from New Hampshire; bornSt. Louis, Mo., night classes for training in selected and in Somersworth, N.H., February 17, 1740; receiveda limitedspecial subjects; taught business arithmetic and accounting education; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-and also served as director of the St. Louis Comptometer menced practice in Durham in 1760; Member of the Conti-School; served as administrative aide to her husband, John nental Congress in 1774 and 1775; during the RevolutionwasB. Sullivan, 1942-1951, and as secretary to Representative appointed as a brigadier general; later promoted to majorIrving of Missouri until May 1952, when she resigned to general, and from June 1775 until early in 1780; againacampaign for congressional nomination; elected as a Demo- Member of the Continental Congress in 1780 and 1781; attor-crat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Con- ney general of New Hampshire 1782-1786; President of Newgresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1977); chairman, Com- Hampshire in 1786 and 1787; member of the state ratifica-mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Ninety-third and tion convention in 1788; speaker of the State house of repre-Ninety-fourth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection sentatives; again chosen President of New Hampshire; ap-in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; is a resident of St. pointed by President Washington judge of the United StatesLouis, Mo. District Court of New Hampshire in September 1789 and SULLIVAN, Maurice Joseph, a Representative from held that office until his death in Durham, N.H., JanuaryNevada; born in San Rafael, Mann County, Calif., December 23, 1795; interment in the Sullivan family cemetery. 7, 1884; attended the parochial school and Sacred Heart Bibliography: DAB; Sullivan, John. Letters and Papers of Major General John Sullivan, Continental Army. 3 vols. Edited by Otis G. Hammond. College, San Francisco,Calif.;Lieutenant Governor of Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1930-39. Nevada 1915-1926 and 1939-1942; during the First World War was adjutant general of Nevada, disbursing officer of SULLIVAN, John Andrew, a Representative from Massa-the United States Government, and draft executive of chusetts; born in Boston, Mass., May 10, 1868; attended theNevada; colonel in the United States Army 1922-1932; was common and high schools; was graduated from the Bostonadmitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in University Law School in 1896; was admitted to the bar theCarson City, Nev.; also a mining operator; principal owner of Biographies 1895 the Wood-Sullivan Hardware Co.; elected as a Democrat to D.C.;died in Oxford, Miss., March 21, 1918; interment in St. the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3,Peter's Cemetery. 1945); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944; re- SULLOWAY, Cyrus Adams, a Representative from New sumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev., until his deathHampshire; born in Grafton, Grafton County, N.H., June 8, there August 9, 1953; interment in Mater Dolorosa Ceme-1839; attended the common schools, Colby Academy, and tery. Kimball Academy; studied law in Franklin, N.H.; was admit- SULLIVAN, Patrick Joseph, a Senator from Wyoming;ted to the bar in 1863 and commenced practice in Manches- born on a farm west of Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, Marchter, N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 17, 1865; immigrated to America in 1888, landed in New1872, 1873, and 1887-1893; elected as a Republican to the York, and moved on to the Territory of Wyoming; engagedFifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March in sheep raising in Rawlins, Carbon County; moved to4, 1895-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on Expendi- Casper, Natrona County, in 1892; interested in banking, thetures in the Department of Justice (Fifty-fifth Congress), production of oil, and various other enterprises; member,Committee on Invalid Pensions (Fifty-sixth through Sixty- State house of representatives 1894-1896, 1898-1900; mayorsecond Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in of Casper 1897-1898; appointed as a Republican to the1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathand Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, of Francis E. Warren and served from December 5, 1929, tountil his death in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1917; inter- November 20, 1930, when a successor was elected and quali-ment in the City Cemetery, Franklin, N.H. fied; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; continued his former business pursuits until his death in SULZER, Charles August (brother of William Suizer), a Santa Barbara, Calif., April 8, 1935; interment in HighlandDelegate from the Territory of Alaska; born in Roselle, Cemetery, Casper, Wyo. Union County, N.J., February 24, 1879; attended the public schools, Pingry School, Elizabeth, N.J., Berkeley Academy, SULLIVAN, Patrick Joseph, a Representative from Penn-New York City, and the United States Military Academy, sylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., OctoberWest Point, N.Y.; during the Spanish-American War served 12, 1877; attended public and parochial schools; employed inwith the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry; the Homestead Axle Works, Homestead, Pa., 1890-1900, andmoved to Alaska in 1902 and engaged in mining; member of in the steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pa., 1900-1909; member ofthe Alaska Territorial senate in 1914; presented credentials the city council 1906-1909; served as alderman 1910-1929;as a Democratic Delegate-elect to the Sixty-fifth Congress police magistrate 1916-1923; member of the board of assess-and served from March 4, 1917, to January 7, 1919, when he ment and tax revision, Allegheny County, Pa., 1923-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-was succeeded by James Wickersham, who contested his second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccess-election; presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the ful candidate for renomination in 1932; city police magis-Sixty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1919, until trate in Pittsburgh, Pa., from 1936 until his death therehis death in Sulzer, Alaska, April 28, 1919, before the con- December 31, 1946; interment in Calvary Cemetery. vening of Congress; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Eliza- beth, N.J. SULLIVAN, Timothy Daniel, a Representative from New York; born in New York City July 23, 1862; attended the SULZER, William (brother of Charles August Suizer), a public schools; engaged in the real estate and theatricalRepresentative from New York; born in Elizabeth, N.J., business; elected to the State assembly in 1886 and servedMarch 18, 1863; attended the public schools and Columbia until 1894; member of the State senate 1894-1903; elected asCollege, New York City; studied law; was admitted to the a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congressesbar in 1884 and commenced practice in New York City; and served from March 4, 1903, to July 27, 1906, when hemember of the State assembly 1889-1894; speaker in 1893; resigned; served in the State senate in 1908 and 1910; electeddelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, to the Sixty-third Congress but never took his seat; commit-1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1912; elected as a Democrat to ted on January 10, 1913, to a sanitarium in Yonkers, N.Y.;the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and escaped from the care of three nurses at his brother's homeserved from March 4, 1895, to December 31, 1912; chairman, in East Chester, N.Y., and was struck and killed by a loco-Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second Congress); re- motive near Peiham Parkway, New York City, on Augustsigned, having been elected Governor of New York for the 31, 1913; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City,term commencing January 1, 1913, and served until October N.Y. 18, 1913, when he was removed from office; elected as an Bibliography: DAB. independent to the State assembly November 4, 1913; inde- pendent candidate for Governor in 1914; declined the nomi- SULLIVAN, William Van Amberg, a Representative andnation for President in 1916 by the American Party; engaged a Senator from Mississippi; born near Winona, Montgomeryin the practice of law in New York City until his death there County, Miss., December 18, 1857; attended the common schools in Panola County and the University of MississippiNovember 6, 1941; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Hill- side, N.J. at Oxford; graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Bibliography: DAB; Wesser, Robert F. "Impeachment of a Governor: Tenn., in 1875; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and com- William Sulzer and the Politics of Excess." New York History 60 (October menced practice in Austin, Tunica County; moved to Oxford, 1979): 407-38. Lafayette County, Miss., in 1877; member of the board of city aldermen; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Con- SUMMERS, George William, a Representative from Vir- gress and served from March 4, 1897, to May 31, 1898, whenginia; born near Alexandria, Va., March 4, 1804; attended he resigned, having been appointed Senator; appointed andschool at Charleston, Va. (now West Virginia) and Washing- subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United Stateston College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexing- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward C.ton, Va.; was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens Walthall and served from May 31, 1898, to March 3, 1901;in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 and retired from active business and resided in Washington,commenced practice in Charleston, Va.; member of the State 1896 Biographical Directory

house of delegates 1830-1832 and 1834-1836; elected asaappointed November 26, 1862, to be captain and assistant Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congressesquartermaster of United States Volunteers, and served until (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate forhis resignation on March 30, 1864; moved to Virginia City, reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; elected as aNev.; member of the State senate 1865-1868 and served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850; un-president pro tempore for one session; returned to San Fran- successful Whig candidate for Governor in 1851; judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit of Virginia 1852-1858; member ofcisco in 1868 and became editor of the Herald; was elected as the peace conference held at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in ana Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883- effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; dele-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 gate to the secession convention in 1861 at Richmond, Va.;to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Charleston,died in San Francisco, Calif., January 31, 1903; interment in W.Va., September 19, 1868; interment in Walnut Grove Cem-the George H. Thomas Post plot at the Presidio. etery, Putnam County, W.Va. SUMNER, Daniel Hadley, a Representative from Wiscon- Bibliography: DAB. sin; born in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., September 15, SUMMERS, John William, a Representative from Wash-1837; moved to Michigan in 1843 with his parents, who ington; born near Valeene, Orange County, md., April 29,settled in Richland; attended the common schools and Prai- 1870; attended the public schools; was graduated from therie Seminary, Richiand, Mich.; studied law; was admitted to Southern Indiana Normal College at Mitchell, md., in 1889the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo, and from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville inMich.; moved to Oconomowoc, Wis., in 1868 and practiced 1892; pursued postgraduate studies in the Louisville Medicallaw; also published the La Belle Mirror; moved to Wauke- College and in New York, London, Berlin, and the Universi- sha, Wis., in 1870 and continued the practice of his profes- ty of Vienna, Austria; commenced the practice of medicinesion; town superintendent of schools; member of the county in Mattoon, Ill.; moved to Walla Walla, Wash., in 1908 andboard of supervisors; district attorney of Waukesha County continued the practice of medicine; also engaged in agricul- tural pursuits and fruit raising; member of the State housein 1876 and 1877; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth of representatives in 1917; elected as a Republican to theCongress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not a candidate Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,for renomination in 1884; resumed the practice of law; died 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inin Waukesha, Wis., May 29, 1903; interment in Prairie 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, and for election in 1934 Home Cemetery. to the Seventy-fourth Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy- SUMNER, Jessie, a Representative from Illinois; born in fifth Congress; resumed former pursuits; died in WallaMilford, Iroquois County, Ill., July 17, 1898; attended the Walla, Wash., on September 25, 1937; interment in Moun- tain View Cemetery. public schools; was graduated from Girton School, Winnetka, Ill., in 1916 and Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in 1920; SUMNER, Charles, a Senator from Massachusetts; born instudied law at the University of Chicago, Columbia Universi- Boston, Mas&, January 6, 1811; attended the Boston Latinty, New York City, and Oxford University, England; also School; graduated from Harvard University in 1830 andstudied briefly at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from the Harvard Law School in 1833; was admitted to theand New York University School of Commerce in New York bar the following year and commenced the practice of law inCity; was admitted to the bar in 1923 and practiced in Chica- Boston, Mass.; lectured at the Harvard Law School 1836-go, Ill.; employed at the Chase National Bank in New York 1837; traveled extensively in Europe 1837-1840; declined theCity in 1928; returned to Milford, Ill., in 1932 and resumed Whig nomination in 1846 for election to the Thirtieth Con-the practice of law; served as county judge of Iroquois gress; one of the founders of the Free-Soil Party in 1848;County, Ill., in 1937; director of Sumner National Bank, unsuccessful candidate for election in 1848 on the Free-SoilSheldon, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth ticket to the Thirty-first Congress; elected to the Unitedand to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939- States Senate in 1851 as a Free-Soiler; reelected asa Repub- lican in 1857, 1863, and 1869 and served from April 24, 1851,January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in until his death in 1874; as a result of his inflamatory "Crime1946; resumed position as vice president and later president Against Kansas" speech, was assaulted by Representativeof Sumner National Bank; is a resident of Milford, Ill. Preston Brooks of South Carolina, May 22, 1856, while in his SUMNERS, Ilatton William, a Representative from Texas; seat in the Senate, and was absent on account of injuriesborn near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., May 30, 1875; received until December 1859; chairman, Committee on For-moved to Garland, Dallas County, Tex., in 1893; studied law; eign Relations (Thirty-seventh through Forty-first Congress-was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in es), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty-secondDallas, Tex.; elected prosecuting attorney of Dallas County Congress); removed as chairman of the Committeeon For- eign Relations in 1871 as a result of differences with Presi-in 1900 and served two terms; president of the district and dent Ulysses S. Grant over policy in Santo Domingo; died incounty attorney's association of Texas in 1906 and 1907; Washington, D.C., March 11,1874; interment in Mountelected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the sixteen Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-January 3,1947); Bibliography: DAB; Donald, David Herbert. and thechairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-second Coming of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1960; Donald, David Herbert.through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man. New York: Knopf, 1970. renomination in 1946; retired from public activities; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his death there April 19, 1962; SUMNER, Charles Allen, a Representative from Califor-interment in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Garland, Tex. nia; born in Great Barrington, Mass., on August 2, 1835; Bibliography: DAB; Patenaude, Lionel V. "Garner, Sumners, and Con- attended Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; studied law;was nally: The Defeat of the Roosevelt Court Bill in 1937." Southwestern His. admitted to the bar and engaged in patent practice; moved torical Quarterly 74 (July 1970): 36-51; Porter, David. "The Battle of the to California in 1856 and settled in San Francisco; editor ofTexas Giants: Hatton Sumners, Sam Rayburn, and the Logan-Walter Bill the Herald and Mirror in 1861; during the Civil Warwas of 1939." Texana 12 (1973): 349-61. Biographies 1897

SUMTER, Thomas (grandfather of Thomas De Lage 1980; interment in Restland Memorial Park, East Hanover, Sumter), a Representative and a Senator from South Caroli-N.J. na; born near Charlottesville, Va., August 14, 1734; received a limited schooling; fought in skirmishes against the Indi- SUNIA, Fofó losefa Fiti, the first Delegate from Ameri- ans; moved to South Carolina about 1760 and opened acan Samoa; born in Fagasá, Pago Pago, American Samoa, crossroads store near Nelson's Ferry; justice of the peace;March 13, 1937; attended the public schools in Samoa; B.A., served with the South Carolina troops throughout the Revo-University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1960; administrative officer, lution; elected to the privy council in 1782; elected a Dele-Samoan affairs-liaison functions for Governor, translator, in- gate to the Continental Congress in 1783, but declined toterpreter,1961-1966;electioncommissioner,American accept; served several terms in the State house of represent-Samoa, 1962-1970; founder, Samoan News, 1964; director, atives; delegate to the State convention which ratified thetourism for Government of American Samoa, 1966-1972; sen- Constitution, which he opposed; planter; elected to the Firstator, Legislature of American. Samoa, 1970-1978; president and Second Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); de-and chairman, American Samoan Development Corporation, feated for reelection in 1792; elected as a Republican to the1965-1971; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses and served from Marchto the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-Janu- 4, 1797, to December 15, 1801, when he resigned; elected as aary 3, 1989); is a resident of Pago Pago, American Samoa. Republican to the United States Senate in December 1801 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Pinck- SUTHERLAND, Daniel Alexander, a Delegate from the ney; reelected in 1805 and served from December 15, 1801,Territory of Alaska; born in Pleasant Bay on Cape Breton until his resignation on December 16, 1810; retired fromIsland, Canada, April 17, 1869; moved with his parents to public life and lived on his plantation, "South Mount," nearEssex, Mass., in 1876; attended the public schools; was em- Stateburg, S.C.; died at "South Mount," June 1, 1832; inter-ployed as a grocer's clerk, and subsequently engaged in the ment in the private burial ground on the family estate.fish business; moved to Circle City, Alaska, in 1898, to Nome Bibliography: DAB; Bass, Robert. Gamecock: The Life and Campaigns of in 1900, and thence to Juneau in 1909; engaged in mining General Thomas Sumter. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961;and fishing; member of the Territorial senate 1912-1920, Gregorie, Anne. Thomas Sumter. Columbia, S.C.: The R.L. Bryon Co., 1931.serving as president in 1915; during the First World War SUMTER, Thomas De Lage (grandson of Thomas Sumter),enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve; elected as a a Representative from South Carolina; born in Germantown,Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Pa., November 14, 1809; attended the common schools atCongresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1931); was not a candi- Edgehill, near Stateburg, S.C.; was graduated from thedate for renomination in 1930; purchasing agent for the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., inOgontz (Pa.) School 1931-1950; died in Abington, Pa., March 1835; entered the United States Army as first lieutenant the24, 1955; remains were cremated and deposited in St. Paul's Church Cemetery, Elkins Park, Pa. same year and served until 1841, attaining the rank of cole-- nel; engaged in the war against the Seminole Indians; moved SUTHERLAND, George, a Representative and a Senator to Stateburg, S.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixthfrom Utah; born in Buckinghamshire, England, March 25, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3,1862; immigrated to the United States in 1863 with his 1843); was not a candidate for renomination; engaged inparents, who were Mormon converts, and settled in Spring- teaching, surveying, and agricultural pursuits; connected asvile, Utah County, Utah; received a common-school educa- agent with the South Carolina Railroad Co.; died on histion; miner; studied law at the University of Michigan at plantation, "South Mount," near Stateburg, S.C., July 2,Ann Arbor; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced 1874; interment in the private burial ground on his estate.practice in Provo, Utah; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of SUNDQUIST, Donald Kenneth, a Representative fromProvo, Utah, in 1890; unsuccessful candidate for Territorial Tennessee; born in Moline, Rock Island County, Ill., Marchrepresentative in Congress in 1892; member, State senate 15, 1936; attended public schools in Moline; B.A., Augustana 1897-1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Con- College, Rock Island, Ill., 1957; served in the United Statesgress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); declined to be acandi- Navy, 1957-1959; Naval Reserve, 1959-1963; businessman;date for reelection in 1902; elected as a Republican to the delegate, Republican National Convention, 1976, 1980; elect-United States Senate in 1904; reelected in 1910, and served ed as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the twofrom March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candi- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); isdate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Cuban Rela- a resident of Memphis, Tenn. tions (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expend- SUNDSTROM, Frank Leander, a Representative fromitures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-third and Sixty- New Jersey; born in Massena, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., January 5, 1901; attended the public schools; newspaper re-fourth Congresses); president of the American Bar Associa- porter and editor 1918-1920; was graduated from Cornelltion 1916-1917; appointed by President Warren Harding in University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1924; football coach at IndianaSeptember 1922 an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court University at Bloomington in 1924; engaged in the bankingof the United States; entered upon the duties of that office and brokerage business in New York City in 1925-1969;in October 1922 and served until his retirement on January chairman of the East Orange (N.J.) Republican Committee18, 1938; died in Stockbridge, Mass., July 18, 1942; interment 1940-1946; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth,in the Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.; remains subse- Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-quently moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Bibliography: DAB; Paschal,Joel.Mr.Justice Sutherland, A Man January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Against the State. 1951. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; Suth- 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; vice president and direc- erland, George. Constitutional Power and World Affairs.1919. Reprint. tor, Schenley Distillers, 1954-1969; vice president and direc- New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970. tor of public relations, Schenley Industries, Inc., 1955-1969; vice president of the Tobacco Institute, 1969-1976; consult- SUTHERLAND, Howard, a Representative and a Senator ant for a group of United States distillers, 1976-1980; residedfrom West Virginia; born near Kirkwood, St. Louis County, in Chatham, N.J., until his death in Summit, N.J., May 23,Mo., September 8, 1865; attended the public schools of the 1898 Biographical Directory

county and the city of St. Louis; graduated from Westmin-district school, and was graduated from Union College, Sche- ster College, Fulton, Mo., in 1889; edited a daily and weeklynectady, N.Y.,in 1824; studied law in Waterford and newspaper at Fulton; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1890;Hudson; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced employed in the Census Office; studied law at Columbianpractice in the village of Johnstown, Livingston Township, (now George Washington) University, Washington, D.C.; N.Y.;district attorney for Columbia County 1832-1843; moved to Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va., in 1893; engagedmoved to Hudson, N.Y., in 1838 and continued the practice in the coal and railroad business and later in the coal andof law; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress timberland business; member, State senate 1908-19 12; elect-(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for ed as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Con-renomination; moved to New York City in 1857 and contin- gresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); did not seek renomi-ued the practice of law; associate justice of the supreme nation in 1916, having become a candidate for Senator; elect-court of New York 1857-1871; member and presiding judge ed as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1916 andof the court of general sessions 1872-1878; resumed the prac- served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee ontice of law in New York City and died there May 25, 1887; the Census (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Enrolledinterment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Bills (Sixty-seventh Congress); resumed his former business SUTHERLAND, Roderick Dhu, a Representative from activities in Elkins, W.Va.; vice president of the West Vir-Nebraska; born in Scotch Grove, Jones County, Iowa, April ginia Board of Trade; chairman of the West Virginia Good27, 1862; attended the common schools and Amity College, Roads Commission; member of the board of trustees of DavisCollege Springs, Iowa; taught school; studied law; was admit- and Elkins Presbyterian College; appointed Alien Propertyted to the bar in 1888 and commenced practice in Nelson, Custodian by President Calvin Coolidge 1925-1933, when he Nuckolls County, Nebr.; prosecuting attorney of Nuckolls resigned and retired from public life; was a resident ofCounty 1890-1896; served as chairman of the Populist State Washington, D.C., until his death March 12, 1950; intermentconvention in 1899; appointed by Governor Poynter a dele- in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va. gate to the trust conference held in Chicago in September Bibliography: Casdorph, Paul D. "Howard Sutherland's 1920 Bid for the 1899; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Presidency." West Virginia History 35 (1973-1974): 1-25. Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful can- SUTHERLAND, Jabez Gridley, a Representative fromdidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; Michigan; born in Van Buren, Onondaga County, N.Y., Octo-delegate to the Populist National Convention in 1900; dele- ber 6, 1825; completed preparatory studies; studied law; wasgate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900 and admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in1908; resumed the practice of his profession in Nelson, Saginaw, Mich.; prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County,Nebr.; died in Kansas City, Kans., October 18, 1915; inter- Mich., in 1848 and 1849; delegate to the State constitutionalment in Evergreen Cemetery, Nelson, Nebr. conventions in 1850 and 1867; member of the State. house of representatives in 1853; judge of the tenth circuit court of SUTPHIN, William Haistead, a Representative from New Michigan from 1863 to 1871, when he resigned to enterJersey; born in Browntown, Middlesex County, N.J., August Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Con-30, 1887; attended the public schools of Matawan, N.J., and gress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate forthe Woods Business College, Brooklyn, N.Y.; attended the renomination in 1872; moved to Salt Lake City in 1873;officers training camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., in 1915; mayor of resumed the practice of law; a member of the faculty ofMatawan, Monmouth County, N.J., 1915-1916 and 1921- what is now the University of Utah in 1889; president of the1926; served on the Mexican border in 1916 with B Troop, Territorial Bar Association in 1894 and 1895; moved to Cali-First Squadron, New Jersey Cavalry; during the First World fornia in 1897; died in Berkeley, Calif., November 20, 1902;War served in France from December 1917 to May 1919; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.discharged as captain in the Air Service; factory representa- tive for asphalt roofing 1920-1931; elected as a Democrat to SUTIIERLAND, Joel Barlow, a Representative fromthe Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses Pennsylvania; born in Gloucester County, N.J., February 26,(March 4, 1931-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for 1792; attended the common schools, and was graduated fromreelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; vice presi- the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1812;dent of the M.J. Merkin Paint Co., in New York City; retired served in the War of 1812 as assistant surgeon to thein 1951 and resided in Berlin, Md.; died in Salisbury, Md., "Junior Artillerists of Philadelphia," transferred to the line,October 14, 1972; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. and was appointed in 1814 lieutenant colonel of rifles in the State militia; member of the State house of representatives SUTTON, James Patrick, a Representative from Tennes- 1813-1816; founder of Jefferson Medical College at Philadel-see; born on a farm near Wartrace, Bedford County, Tenn., phia; served in the State senate in 1816 and 1817; abandonedOctober 31, 1915; attended the public schools of Wartrace, medicine for the practice of law; elected as a Jacksonian toTenn., and Cumberland University Law School, Lebanon, the Twentieth and to the four succeeding Congresses (MarchTenn.; graduated from Middle Tennessee State College at 4, 1827-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on CommerceMurfreesboro in 1939; served in the United States Navy, (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful1942-1946; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Whig candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifthStar, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster; elected as a Demo- Congress and for election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Con-crat to the Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-third Con- gress; associate judge of the court of common pleas of Phila-gresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful can- delphia, Pa., in 1833 and 1834; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,didate for the Democratic nomination for United States Sen- November 15, 1861; interment in the Old Pine Street Presby-ator in 1954; investment securities broker. terian Church Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. SWAN, Samuel, a Representative from New Jersey; born near Scotch Plains, Somerset County, N.J., in 1771; studied SUTHERLAND, Josiah, a Representative from New York;medicine, and practiced in Boundbrook, N.J., 1800-1806 and born in the township of Stanford, near the village of Stiss-in Somerville, N.J., 1806-1809; commissioned as sheriff of ing, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 12, 1804; attended theSomerset County October 13, 1804, for two years; county Biographies 1899 clerk 1809-1820; elected to the Seventeenth and to the fourSenate in 1866, but did not serve, preferring to continue as succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1831); didGovernor; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and to the not seek renomination in 1830 to the Twenty-second Con-four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1879); gress; affiliated with the Whig Party; resumed the practicechairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Forty-fourth and of medicine; died at Boundbrook, N.J., August 24, 1844; in-Forty-fifth Congresses); died on his estate, "Morven Park," terment in the De Groot vault in the Presbyterian Ceme-near Leesburg, Va., July 24, 1883; interment in Greenmount tery. Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. SWANK, Fletcher B., a Representative from Oklahoma; Bibliography: DAB. born near Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, April 24, 1875; SWANSON, Charles Edward, a Representative from Iowa; moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian Territory, inborn on a farm near Galesburg, Knox County, Ill., January 1888; attended an academy in Noble, Okla., and University3, 1879; in 1890 moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled of Oklahoma at Norman; superintendent of schools of Cleve-on a farm in Ringgold County; attended the public schools of land County, Okla., 1903-1907; private secretary to Congress-Galesburg, Ill., and Clearfield, Iowa; was graduated from man in 1907 and 1908; attended the law depart-Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1902, and from the law ment of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1907department of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in and 1908, and was graduated from Cumberland University,1907; principal of schools, Altona, Ill., 1902-1904; was admit- Lebanon, Tenn., in 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909ted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in Council and commenced practice in Norman, Cleveland County,Bluffs, Iowa; prosecuting attorney of Pottawattamie County, Okla.; judge of the county court of Cleveland County, Okla.,Iowa, 1915-1922; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first 19 11-1915; judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Oklaho-and to the Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March ma from 1915 to September 1920, when he resigned; elected3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeed-Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seven- ing Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Con-ty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; chairman, gress; elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Con-City Board of Tax Review, 1949-1968; died in Council Bluffs, gresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candi-Iowa, August 22, 1970; interment in Walnut Hill Cemetery. date for renomination in 1934; died in Norman, Okia., SWANSON, Claude Augustus, a Representative and a March 16, 1950; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Senator from Virginia; born in Swansonville, Va., March 31, SWANN, Edward, a Representative from New York, born 1862; attended the public schools; taught school; attended near Madison, Madison County, Fla, March 10, 1862; attend-the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now the ed the common schools and was graduated from the lawVirginia Polytechnic Institute) at Blacksburg; graduated department of Columbia College (now University), New Yorkfrom Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., in 1885 and City, in 1886; was admitted to the bar the same year andfrom the law department of the University of Virginia at commenced practice in New York City; elected as a Demo-Charlottesville in 1886; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and crat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy causedcommenced practice in Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Va.; by the death of Amos J. Cummings and served from Novem-elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the six suc- ber 4, 1902, to March 3, 1903; was not a candidate for re-ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, until his nomination in 1902; resumed the practice of law in Newresignation, effective January 30, 1906; unsuccessful candi- York City; elected judge of the court of general sessions,date for nomination as governor in 1901; Governor of Virgin- New York City, and served from January 1, 1908, until hisia 1906-1910; appointed as a Democrat to the United States resignation in 1916; district attorney for New York CountySenate in August 1910, to fill the vacancy in the term 1916-1922; retired from public and political activities; diedending March 3,1911, caused by the death of John W. in Sewalls Point, Jensen Beach, Fla., September 19, 1945;Daniel; again appointed, on February 28, 1911, and subse- interment in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Fernandina,quently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fla. John W. Daniel, who had been reelected for the term com- SWANN, John, a Delegate from North Carolina; born inmencing March 4, 1911; reelected in 1916, 1922, and in 1928, Pasquotank County, N.C., in 1760; attended the College ofand served from August 1, 1910, until March 3, 1933, when William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., about 1780; appointedhe resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Commit- a Delegate to the Continental Congress to fill the vacancytee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-third through caused by the resignation of John Baptista Ashe and servedSixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty- from March 22 to November 1, 1788; engaged in agricultural fifth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- pursuits; urged the adoption by North Carolina of the pro-ment of the Navy (Sixty-sixth Congress); Secretary of the posed Constitution of the United States; died in 1793; inter-Navy in the Cabinet of President Franklin D Roosevelt from ment on the grounds of his plantation, "The Elms," in Pas-1933 until his death at Rapidan Camp in the Blue Ridge quotank County, N.C. Mountains, near Criglersville, Madison County, Va., July 7, 1939; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the SWANN, Thomas, a Representative from Maryland; bornUnited States Senate; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, in Alexandria, Va., February 3, 1809; attended ColumbianRichmond, Va. College (now George Washington University), Washington, Bibliography: DAB; Ferrell, Henry C. Jr. Claude A. Swanson: A Politi- D.C., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; stud- cal Biography. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985. ied law; was appointed by President Jackson as secretary of the United States Neapolitan Commission; moved to Balti- SWANWICK, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; more, Md., in 1834; director and president of the Baltimoreborn in 1740; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadel- & Ohio Railroad 1847-1853; president of the Northwesternphia, Pa., and was also interested in literature, having pub- Virginia Railroad; mayor of Baltimore 1856-1860; elected bylished a volume of poetry; elected as a Republican to the the Union Party as Governor of Maryland and served fromFourth and Fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1795, 1865 to 1869; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesuntil his death in Philadelphia, Pa., August 1, 1798; chair- 1900 Biographical Directory

man, Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (Fourthadmitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Orle- Congress); interment in St. Peter's Churchyard. ans, La., in 1841; returned to Maine and settled in Portland; Bibliography: Baumann, Ronald M. "John Swanwick: Spokesman forheld several local offices, including city solicitor, 1856-1860; 'Merchant-Republicanism' in Philadelphia, 1790-1798." Pennsylvania Maga- member of the State senate in 1862; elected as a Democrat zine of History and Biography 97 (April 1973): 131-82. to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); SWART, Peter, a Representative from New York; born inunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty- Schoharie, N.Y., July 5, 1752; attended the common schools;ninth Congress and for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Con- studied law; was admitted to the New York bar and com-gress; delegate to the Union National Convention at Phila- menced the practice of law in Schoharie; judge of the courtdelphia in 1868; while attending the Democratic National of common pleas of Schoharie County in 1795; member ofConvention in 1872 was chosen a member of the National the New York State assembly in 1798 and 1799; elected as acommittee and served four years; honorary commissioner to Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4, 1807-March 3,the World's Expositions at Paris in 1867 and at Vienna in 1809); sheriff of Schoharie County in 1810 and 1813; served1873; died in Portland, Maine, July 26, 1898; interment in in the New York State senate 1817-1820; resumed the prac-Evergreen Cemetery. tice of his profession in Schoharie, N.Y., and died there on November 3, 1829; interment in the Old Stone Fort Ceme- SWEENEY, David McCann (Mac), a Representative from tery. Texas; born in Wharton, Tex., September 15, 1955; attended public schools; B.A., University of Texas, 1978; attended Uni- SWARTZ, Joshua William, a Representative from Penn-versity of Texas School of Law, 1979-1981; served on the sylvania; borninLower Swatara Township, Dauphinstaff of Senator , 1977-1978, and Governor John County, Pa., June 9, 1867; raised on his father's farm; at-B. Connally, 1979-1980; director of administrative operations tended the rural schools, Lebanon Valley College, and Wil-at the White House, 1981-1983; elected as a Republican to liamsport Commercial School; was graduated from the lawthe Ninety-ninth and to the One Hundredth Congresses department of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1892; was(January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Wharton, admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practiceTex. in Harrisburg, Pa.; member of the State house of representa- tives 19 15-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth SWEENEY, MartinLeonard(fatherof RobertE. Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); declined to becomeSweeney), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland, a candidate for reelection in 1926; resumed the practice ofCuyahoga County, Ohio, April 15, 1885; attended the paro- law until his death in Harrisburg, Pa., May 27, 1959; inter-chial and public schools; was graduated from the Cleveland ment in Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang, Pa. Law School of Baldwin-Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914; employed as a laborer 1901-1903; as a hoisting engi- SWASEY, John Philip, a Representative from Maine;neer 1904-1908, and as a salesman 1910-1913; member of the born in Canton, Oxford County, Maine, September 4, 1839;State house of representatives in 1913 and 1914; was admit- attended the Canton public schools, Dearborn Academy,ted to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Hebron Academy, Maine State Seminary, and Tufts College,Ohio; judge of the municipal court of Cleveland 1924-1932; Medford, Mass.; during the Civil War enlisted in the Uniondelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1932; Army and was appointed first lieutenant of Company K,elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill Seventeenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry; studiedthe vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Mooney; law; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and commenced prac-reelected to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding tice in Canton; town clerk and treasurer of Canton in 1866Congresses and served from November 3, 1931, to January 3, and 1867; county attorney of Oxford County, Maine, 1868-1943; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; un- 1870; assessor of internal revenue in 1869 and 1870; membersuccessful for Democratic nomination for mayor of Cleve- of the State house of representatives in 1874; served in theland, Ohio, in 1933 and in 1941, and for the gubernatorial State senate in 1875 and 1876; member of Governor Robie'snomination in 1944; practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, until council in 1883 and 1884; elected on November 3, 1908, as ahis death there May 1, 1960; interment in Calvary Cemetery. Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy Bibliography: DAB. caused by the resignation of Charles E. Littlefield and at the same time was elected to the Sixty-first Congress and served SWEENEY, Robert E. (son of Martin Leonard Sweeney), a from November 3, 1908, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful can-Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga didate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress;County, Ohio, November 4, 1924; attended St. Ignatius High resumed the practice of his profession at Canton, Maine,School in Cleveland; Georgetown University, Washington, where he died May 27, 1928; interment in Pine Grove Ceme-D.C.; Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, and Cleveland- tery. Marshall Law School, Cleveland, Ohio; studied law; served in the United States Army, 1943-1946; was admitted to the SWEARINGEN, Henry, a Representative from Ohio; bornbar in 1951 and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland, in the Panhandle of Virginia about 1792; moved to Ohio andOhio; assistant director of law, city of Cleveland, 1951-1954; settled near Steubenville; sheriff of Jefferson County, Ohio,special counsel to the attorney general of Ohio, 1958-1962; 1824-1828 and 1830-1832; elected as a Democrat to theDemocratic nominee for attorney general of Ohio in 1962 Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-and 1966; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Con- nation of Daniel Kilgore; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Con-gress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate gress and served from December 3, 1838, to March 3, 1841;for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resumed died on board ship while en route to his home from thethe practice of law; appointed in 1976 as Commissioner of State of California and was buried at sea. Cuyahoga County for the unexpired term ending in 1977; elected to a full term beginning in 1977; unsuccessful candi- SWEAT, Lorenzo De Medici, a Representative fromdate for reelection in 1980; is a resident of Bay Village, Ohio. Maine; born in Parsonsfield, Maine, May 26, 1818; was grad- uated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1837 and SWEENEY, William Northcut, a Representative from from the law department of Harvard University in 1840; wasKentucky; born in Liberty, Casey County, Ky., May 5, 1832; Biographies 1901 attended the common schools and Bethany (W.Va.) College;braska at Lincoln, and the Lincoln (Nebr.) Business College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commencedemployed as a court reporter in western Nebraska in 1899 practice in Liberty, KY.; moved to Owensboro, Daviessand 1900; wholesale grocer in Nebraska City 1902-1909; en- County, in 1853; prosecuting attorney of Daviess Countygaged in the newspaper publishing business at Nebraska 1854-1858; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket ofCity, Nebr., in 1909; delegate to the Progressive National Douglas and Johnson in 1860; elected as a Democrat to theConvention in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was re-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of nominated in 1870, but declined to accept the nomination;George H. Heinke and served from April 9, 1940, to January resumed the practice of law in Owensboro, Ky., and died3, 1941; was not a candidate for renomination in 1940; re- there April 21, 1895; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. sumed the newspaper publishing business in Nebraska City, SWEENY, George, a Representative from Ohio; born nearNebr., until his death in Community Hospital, Wickenburg, Gettysburg, Pa., February 22, 1796; pursued academic stud-Ariz., April 4, 1964; interment in Wyuka Cemetery, Nebras- ies and was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.;ka City, Nebr. studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- SWEET, Thaddeus C., a Representative from New York; tice in Gettysburg in 1820; moved to Bucyrus, Crawfordborn in Phoenix, Oswego County, N.Y., November 16, 1872; County, Ohio, in 1830; prosecuting attorney of Crawfordattended the public schools; was graduated from Phoenix County in 1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixthAcademy and High School; entered business and for two and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3,years served as a traveling salesman; in 1895began the 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; re-manufacture of paper and was president of the Sweet Paper sumed the practice of his profession; moved to Geneseo,Manufacturing Co.; also engaged in banking; town clerk of Henry County, Ill., in 1853, and continued the practice ofPhoenix 1896-1899; member, New York State assembly, law; returned to Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1856; was again elected1910-1920, serving as speaker 1914-1920; elected as a Repub- prosecuting attorney of Crawford County; retired from thelican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused practice of his profession and engaged in literary and scien-by the death of Luther W. Mott; reelected to the Sixty-ninth tific pursuits; died in Bucyrus, Ohio, October 10, 1877; inter-and Seventieth Congresses and served from November 6, ment in Oakwood Cemetery. 1923, until his death as the result of an airplane accident at SWEET, Burton Erwin, a Representative from Iowa; bornWhitney Point, Broome County, N.Y., May 1, 1928; chair- on a farm near Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, Decemberman, Committee on Expenditures in the Departmentof War 10, 1867; attended the common schools and the Iowa State(Sixty-ninth Congress); interment in the Rural Cemetery, Normal School at Cedar Falls; was graduated from CornellPhoenix, N.Y. College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1893 and from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1895; SWEET, Willis, a Representative from Idaho; born at was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice inAlburg Springs, Vt., January 1, 1856; attended the common Waverly, Iowa; city solicitor of Waverly 1896-1899; memberschools and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; learned of the State house of representatives 1900-1904; delegate tothe printer's trade in Lincoln, Nebr.; moved to Moscow, the Republican National Convention in 1904; member of theLatah County, Idaho, in September 1881; studied law; was Republican State central committee 1902-1906; elected as aadmitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeedingMoscow; appointed United States attorney for Idaho in May Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); did not seek re-1888; judge of the first judicial district of Idaho from Novem- nomination in 1922, having become a candidate for Senator;ber 19, 1889, to January 1, 1890; appointed associate justice unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in the Re-of Idaho Supreme Court November 25, 1889; first president publican primary election of 1922 and again in 1924; re-of the board of regents of the University of Idaho 1889-1893; sumed the practice of law; died in Waverly, Iowa, January 3,upon the admission of Idaho as a State into theUnion was 1957; interment in Harlington Cemetery. elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress; reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and served SWEET, Edwin Forrest, a Representative from Michigan;from October 1, 1890, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate born in Dansville, Livingston County, N.Y., November 21,for renomination in 1894; unsuccessful candidate for election 1847; attended the common schools; was graduated from theto the United States Senate in 1896; resumed the practice of literary department of Yale College in 1871 and from thehis profession in Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho; law department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor inattorney general for Puerto Rico 1903-1905; editor of a news- 1874; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced prac- paper in San Juan, P.R., from 1913 until his death there tice in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1876; member of the board ofJuly 9, 1925; interment in Santurce Cemetery. education 1899-1906; mayor of Grand Rapids 1904-1906; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress (March SWEETSER, Charles, a Representative from Ohio; born 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin Dummerston, Vt., January 22, 1808; moved with his par- in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; Assistant Secretary ofents to Delaware, Ohio, in 1817; attended the public schools; Commerce 1913-1921; unsuccessful candidate for Governorengaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to of Michigan in 1916; member of the board of education ofthe bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Delaware, Dela- Grand Rapids 1923-1926; member of the city commissionware County, Ohio; elected as a Democrat to theThirty-first 1926-1928; operated a grain and stock ranch in Northand Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); Dakota; resided in Grand Rapids, Mich., until 1928 when hechairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-second retired and moved to Ojai, Calif., where he died April 2,Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Delaware, 1935; interment in Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.Ohio, April 14, 1864; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. SWEET, John Hyde, a Representative from Nebraska; SWENEY, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Iowa; born in Milford, Otsego County, N.Y., September 1, 1880;born in Warren County, Pa., October 2, 1845; attended the moved to Palmyra, Nebr., with his parents in 1885; attendedpublic schools of Pennsylvania and Iowa; was graduated the Palmyra grade and high schools, the University of Ne-from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa 1902 Biographical Directory

City in 1880; was admitted to the bar the same year and1887; attended the public schools of Baldwin County, Ala., commenced practice in Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa; alsothe University Military School, Mobile, Ala., and the Uni- engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; during theversity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; engaged in the lumber Civil War enlisted in the Union Army and servedas ser-industry in Alabama; member, Alabama house of represent- geant in Company K, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Iowa Vol-atives 1931-1935; member, State senate 1935-1939; State unteer Infantry; colonel of the Sixth Regiment Nationalhighway director 1943-1946; appointed as a Democrat to the Guard of Iowa for four years and brigadier and inspectorUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death general of the State; member of the State senate 1883-1891,of John H. Bankhead II and served from June 15, 1946, to serving as president pro tempore in 1886; electedas a Re-November 5, 1946, when a successor was elected; was not a publican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3,candidate for election to the vacancy in 1946; member, State 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to thesenate 1947-1951; president of Southern Pine Association Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in Osage,1954-1955; president, Swift-Hunter Lumber Co., of Atmore, Iowa; died while on a visit in Norfolk, Va., November 11,Ala.; retired and resided in Atmore, Ala.; died in New Orle- 1918; interment in Osage Cemetery, Osage, Iowa. ans, La., September 10, 1972; interment in Oak Hill Ceme- SWICK, Jesse Howard, a Representative from Pennsylva- tery, Atmore, Ala. nia; born near New Brighton, Beaver County, Pa., August 6, 1879; attended the public schools and Geneva College, SWIFT, Oscar William, a Representative from New York; Beaver Falls, Pa.; taught school in Beaver County, Pa., 1895-born in Paines Hollow, Herkimer County, N.Y., April 11, 1900; graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Phila-1869; moved to Michigan with his parents, who settled in delphia in 1906; moved to Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1906 andAdrian in 1877; attended the public schools and the Univer- commenced the practice of medicine; president of the Beaversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was graduated from the New Falls Bureau of Health 1907-19 14; during the First WorldYork Law School, New York City, in 1896; was admitted to War served as a first lieutenant and later asa captain in thethe bar in 1897 and commenced practice in New York City; Medical Corps of the United States Army, withoverseaselected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth service, from August 31, 1917, to May 9, 1919; resumed theCongresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful can- practice of medicine in Beaver Falls, Pa.; also interested indidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; banking and the manufacturing of steel products; member ofresumed law practice in New York City; died in Brooklyn, the Beaver Falls City Council 1925-1927; elected asa Repub-N.Y., June 30, 1940; interment in Kensico Cemetery, Valhal- lican to the Seventieth and to the three succeeding Congress-la, N.Y. es (March 4, 1927-January 3, 1935); was an unsuccessful SWIFT, Zephaniah, a Representative from Connecticut; candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con-born in Wareham, Plymouth County, Mass., February 27, gress; resumed the practice of medicine until August 1945,1759; moved with his parents to Lebanon, New London when he retired; died in Beaver Falls, Pa., November 17,County, Conn.; completed preparatory studies; was graduat- 1952; interment in Concord Cemetery, North Sewickleyed from Yale College in 1778; studied law; was admitted to Township, Beaver County, Pa. the bar and commenced practicein Windham, Conn.; SWIFT, Allan Byron, a Representative from Washington;member of the State house of representatives 1787-1793, born in Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., September 12, 1935;serving as speaker in 1792; clerk of the house for four ses- attended the Pierce County public schools; graduated fromsions; elected to the Third Congress and reelected as a Fed- Lincoln High School, Tacoma, 1953; attended Whitman Col-eralist to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, lege, Walla Walla, 1953-1955; B.A., Central Washington Uni- 1797); resumed the practice of law at Windham; also en- versity, Ellensburg, Wash., 1957; broadcaster; public affairsgaged in literary pursuits; secretary of the French mission director, KVOS-TV; administrativeassistantto Unitedin 1800; judge of the supreme court in 1801 and chief justice States Representative Lloyd Meeds, 1965-1969; member, Bel-1806-1819; member of the Hartford Convention in 1814; lingham City Charter Revision; chairman and member, Bel-again a member of the State house of representatives 1820- lingham Citizens' Advisory Committee on Schools; member,1822; died in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, September 27, Bellingham Housing Authority; elected asa Democrat to the 1823; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January Bibliography: DAB. 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Bellingham, Wash. SWINBURNE, John, a Representative from New York; SWIFT, Benjamin, a Representative and a Senator fromborn at Deer River, Lewis County, N.Y., May 30, 1820; at- Vermont; born in Amenia, N.Y., April 3, 1781; moved withtended the public schools and academies in Denmark and his father to Bennington, Vt., in 1786; completed preparato-Lowville, Lewis County, and in Fairfield, Herkimer County; ry studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 andwas graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1847 and commenced practice in Bennington; moved to Manchestercommenced practice as a physician and surgeon; during the and then to St. Albans in 1809; practiced law and alsoen- Civil War was appointed a medical officer; appointed by gaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; member, StateGovernor Seymour in 1864 health officer of the port of New house of representatives 1813, 1825, 1826; elected to theYork and reappointed by Governor Fenton in 1866, holding Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-the position six years; in charge of the American Ambulance March 3, 1831); was not a candidate for renomination inCorps during the siege of Paris by the Prussians in 1870 and 1830; elected to the United States Senateas a Whig and1871; elected mayor of Albany in 1882 and counted out, but served from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1839;was not aafter fourteen months' litigation was awarded the office by candidate for renomination in 1839; resumed the practice ofthe courts; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Con- law and agricultural pursuits; died in St. Albans, Vt.,ongress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); resumed the practice of November 11, 1847; interment in the Old Cemetery, Southhis profession; died in Albany, N.Y., March 28, 1889; inter- Main Street. ment in Albany Rural Cemetery. SWIFT, George Robinson, a Senator from Alabama; born SWINDALL, Charles, a Representative from Oklahoma; at Swift Post Office, Baldwin County, Ala., December 19,born at College Mound, near Terrell, Kaufman County, Tex., Biographies 1903

February 13, 1876; attended the public schools and Vander-Staunton, Va., in 1789 and engaged in the mercantile busi- bilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; was graduated from theness; held several local offices; elected the first mayor of law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.,Staunton under the new charter of 1801; reelected in 1804; in 1897; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, menced practice in Woodward, Okia.; prosecuting attorney1809-March 3, 1811); declined to be a candidate for renomi- of Day (later Ellis) County 1898-1900; returned to Woodwardnation in 1810; died in Staunton, Va., in 1832; interment in in 1900 and continued the practice of law; delegate to theTrinity Episcopal Churchyard. Republican National Convention in 1916; elected as a Repub- lican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused SWOOPE, William Irvin (nephew of John Patton), a Rep- by the death of Dick T. Morgan, and served from Novemberresentative from Pennsylvania; born in Clearfield, Clearfield 2, 1920, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- County, Pa., October 3, 1862; attended the public schools, nation in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed theHill School, Pottstown, Pa., and Phillips Academy, Andover, practice of law in Woodward, Okla.; appointed April 26,Mass.; was graduated from the law department of Harvard 1924, judge of the twentieth judicial district of Oklahoma, inUniversity in 1886; was admitted to the bar December 6, which capacity he served until 1929; justice of the State1886, and practiced law in Minnesota, Nebraska, and also at supreme court 1929-1934; resumed the practice of law inBellefonte, Pa. where he was elected burgess; returned to Oklahoma City, Okia., until his death there June 19, 1939;Clearfield, Pa., in 1892 and continued the practice of law; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. county chairman and district attorney for Clearfield County SWINDALL, Patrick L., a Representative from Georgia;190 1-1907; delegate to the Republican National Convention born in Gadsden, Ala., October 18, 1950; attended publicin 1916; deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania 1919- schools; B.A., University of Georgia, 1972; J.D., University of1923; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty- Georgia School of Law, 1975; practiced law in Atlanta, Ga.,ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); chairman, 1975-1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth andCommittee on Invalid Pensions (Sixty-ninth Congress); de- One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3,clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed 1989); is a resident of Stone Mountain, Ga. the practice of law in Clearfield, Pa., until his death there October 9, 1930; interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. SWING, Philip David, a Representative from California; born in San Bernardino, Calif., November 30, 1884; attended SWOPE, Guy Jacob, a Representative from Pennsylvania; the public schools and was graduated from Stanford Univer-born in Meckville, Berks County, Pa., December 26, 1892; sity in 1905; first lieutenant in the California Nationalattended the public schools, Keystone State Teachers Col- Guard 1906-1908; studied law; was admitted to the bar inlege, Kutztown, Pa., and Columbia University School of 1907 and commenced practice in San Bernardino; city attor- International Affairs; taught school in Lebanon County, Pa., ney of Brawley, Calif., in 1908 and 1909; deputy district1909-1913; served as United States internal revenue agent attorney of Imperial County 1908-19 11 and district attorney1913-1918; engaged as a public accountant 1919-1934; budget 1911-1915; chief counsel of the Imperial Irrigation Districtsecretary of Pennsylvania 1935-1937; elected as a Democrat 1916-1919; judge of the superior court of Imperial Countyto the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1919-1921; delegate to the Republican State conventions at1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Sacramento, Calif., 1920-1932, serving as chairman in 1926;Seventy-sixth Congress; engaged as an accountant in 1939; during the First World War served as a private in the Offi- auditor of Puerto Rico from January 15, 1940, to February 2, cers Training Camp at Camp Taylor, Ky., in 1918; elected as1941; Governor of Puerto Rico from February 3, 1941, to a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeedingAugust 6, 1941; director of the Division of Territories and Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Com-Island Possessions, Interior Department, from August 7, mittee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department1941, to October 15, 1942; district director, Office of Price (Sixty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for renominationAdministration, Harrisburg, Pa., from October 16, 1942, to in 1932; resumed law practice; appointed a member of theJuly 27, 1943; served as a lieutenant commander and later California State Water Resources Board (now Californiaas a commander in the United States Naval Reserve, Mili- Water Commission) in 1945; reappointed in 1950 and servedtary Government Branch, 1943 to 1946; engaged as a civilian until 1958; died in San Diego, Calif., August 8, 1963; inter- chief, National Government Division, General Headquarters, ment in Greenwood Memorial Park. Tokyo, Japan, from February 12, 1947, to March 9, 1948; SWITZER, Robert Mauck, a Representative from Ohio;specialassistant to Pennsylvania State treasurer from born near Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, March 6, 1863;August 1, 1948, to May 3, 1949; served as special assistant to attended the district schools, Gallia Academy, and Riothe American High Commissioner in Germany from July Grande College; taught school 1883-1887; deputy sheriff of1949 to March 1954; was an unsuccessful candidate for elec- Gallia County 1888-1892; attended the law departments oftion in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; certified public the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and the Ohioaccountant; director and comptroller of Lake Asphalt & Pe- State University of Columbus; was admitted to the bar introleum Co. of Pennsylvania 1956-1961; deputy State treas- 1892 and commenced practice in Gallipolis, Ohio; prosecut-urer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, May 1, 1961-May 3, ing attorney of Gallia County 1893-1900; delegate to the1965; died in New York City July 25, 1969; interment in Old Republican National Conventions in 1900 and 1920; electedKlopp's Church Cemetery, Hamlin, Pa. as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the three succeed- ing Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); was an unsuc- SWOPE, John Augustus, a Representative from Pennsyl- cessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixthvania; born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., December 25, Congress; resumed the practice of law; city solicitor of Gal- 1827; attended the common schools at Gettysburg, Pa., and lipolis, Ohio; died in Gallipolis, Ohio, on October 28, 1952;Mount St. Mary's Academy, Emmitsburg, Md.; was graduat- interment in Mound Hill Cemetery. ed from Princeton College in 1847 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- SWOOPE, Jacob, a Representative from Virginia; born inphia, but discontinued the practice of medicine after a few Philadelphia, Pa.; attended the common schools; moved toyears and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Baltimore; re- 1904 Biographical Directory

turned to Gettysburg and became president of the Gettys-Militia in 1756; member of the council of safety in 1776; burg National Bank in 1879; also engaged in manufacturingdelegate to the State constitutional convention held at New and agricultural pursuits; elected in 1884 as a Democrat toCastle, Del., in 1776; member of the Continental Congress in the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the1777; clerk of the peace 1777-1792; prothonotary of Kent death of William A Duncan and served from December 23,County 1777-1793; served in the State council in 1780; 1884, to March 3, 1885; subsequently elected in 1885 to themember of the State legislature which ratified the Federal Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the deathConstitution on December 7, 1787; again a delegate to the of Mr. Duncan, who had been reelected, and served fromState constitutional convention in 1790; judge of the High November 3, 1885, to March 3, 1887; was not a candidate forCourt of Errors and Appeals of Delaware; died in Dover, renomination in 1886; moved to Washington, D.C., and en-Del., April 4, 1792; interment in the burial ground of Christ gaged in banking until his death there on December 6, 1910;Church. interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. SYMES, George Gifford, a Representative from Colorado; SWOPE, King, a Representative from Kentucky; born inborn in Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 28, 1840; attended the Danville, Boyle County, Ky., August 10, 1893; attended thecommon schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and common schools; was graduated from Centre College, Dan- ville, Ky., in 1914 and from the law department of thepracticed; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1916; was admittedCompany B, Second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, April to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Lexington,12, 1861; adjutant of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Wisconsin KY.; enlisted and served during the First World War asInfantry; commissioned colonel of the Forty-fourth Regi- captain of Infantry; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ment, Wisconsin Volunteers, in August 1864; practiced law sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofin Paducah, KY.; associate justice of the supreme court of Harvey Helm and served from August 2, 1919, to March 3,Montana Territory 1869-1871; resumed the practice of law 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to thein Helena, Mont.; moved to Denver, Cob., in 1874; elected as Sixty-seventh Congress; appointed aide-de-camp with thea Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses rank of colonel on the staff of Gov. Edwin P. Morrow in(March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); engaged in the management 1919; resumed the practice of law; chairman of the Republi-of his estate and in the practice of law; died in Denver, Cob., can executive committee of Fayette County, Ky., 1928-1931;November 3, 1893; interment in Fairmount Cemetery. appointed and subsequently elected a judge of the circuit SYMINGTON, James Wadsworth (son of Stuart Syming- court of the twenty-second judicial district of Kentucky andton), a Representative from Missouri; born in Rochester, served from 1931 to 1940; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1935 and 1939; delegate to the RepublicanMonroe County, New York, September 28, 1927; attended St. National Conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1944; chairman ofBernard's School in New York City, St. Louis Country Day the Republican State convention in 1936; member of theSchool and Deerfield Academy; B.A., Yale, 1950; LL.B., Co- judicial council of Kentucky 1931-1940; died in Lexington,lumbia Law School, 1954; United States Marine Corps, pri- Ky., April 23, 1961; interment in Lexington Cemetery. vate first class, 1945-1946; assistant city counselor of St. Louis, Mo., 1954-1955; practiced law in St. Louis, Mo., 1955- SWOPE, Samuel Franklin, a Representative from Ken-1958; United States Foreign Service, London, England, 1958- tucky; born in Bourbon County, Ky., March 1, 1809; attended1960; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., 1960- the rural schools of Bourbon and Scott Counties and the1961; deputy director, Food for Peace, White House, 1961- Georgetown (Ky.) College; studied law; was admitted to the1962; administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. bar March 1, 1830, and commenced practice in Georgetown,Kennedy, 1962-1963; director, President's Committee on Ju- KY.; moved to Falmouth, Pendleton County, Ky., in 1832 andvenile Delinquency, 1965-1966; consultant, President's Com- continued the practice of law; member of the State house ofmission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, representatives 1837-1839 and in 1841; served in the State1965-1966; chief of protocol, Department of State, 1966-1968; senate 1844-1848; elected as a candidate of the Americanelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the three Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3,succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1977); 1857); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; affili-was not a candidate in 1976 for reelection to the United ated with the Republican Party in 1856; engaged in theStates House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful practice of law at Falmouth, Ky., until his death April 19,candidate for nomination to the United States Senate; re- 1865; interment in Riverside Cemetery. sumed the practice of law; is a resident of Washington, D.C. SYKES, George, a Representative from New Jersey; born SYMINGTON, Stuart (father of James Wadsworth Sy- near Sykesville, Burlington County, N.J., September 20,mington), a Senator from Missouri; born in Amherst, Hamp- 1802; educated by private teachers; became a surveyor andshire County, Mass., June 26, 1901; soon after his birth the conveyancer; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighthfamily moved to Baltimore, Md.; attended the public schools; Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,1845); elected to theenlisted as a private in the United States Army at seventeen Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by theyears of age and was discharged as a second lieutenant; death of Samuel G. Wright, and served from November 4,graduated from Yale University in 1923, and worked sum- 1845, to March 3,1847; resumed his former pursuits;mers as a reporter on a Baltimore newspaper; went to Roch- member of the council of properties of West Jersey; memberester, N.Y., and worked as an iron moulder and lathe opera- of the State assembly 1877-1879; died near Columbia, Mans-tor 1923-1926, studying mechanical and electrical engineer- field Township, Burlington County, N.J., February 25, 1880; interment in Upper Springfield Cemetery, near Wright-ing at night and by correspondence; executive with several stown, N.J. radio and steel companies 1926-1937; moved to St. Louis, Bibliography: DAB. Mo., and became president of the Emerson Electric Manufac- turing Co. 1938-1945; chairman of Surplus Property Board SYKES, James, a Delegate from Delaware; born in 1725;1945; Surplus Property Administrator 1945-1946; Assistant studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-Secretary of War for Air 1946-1947; first Secretary of the tice; lieutenant in Capt. Caesar Rodney's company of DoverAir Force 1947-1950; chairman of National Security Re- Biographies 1905 sources Board 1950-1951; Reconstruction Finance Corpora-that neither was entitled to the seat; subsequently elected to tion Administrator 195 1-1952, from which office he resignedthe Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy thus created; to run for nomination as United States Senator; elected as areelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from No- Democrat to the United States Senate in 1952; reelected invember 7, 1870, to March 3, 1873; presented credentials as a 1958, 1964, and again in 1970, and served from January 3,Member-elect to the Forty-third Congress and served from 1953, until his resignation December 27, 1976; was not aMarch 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, when he was succeeded by candidate for reelection in 1976; unsuccessful candidate forEffingham Lawrence, who contested the election; chairman, the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960; is a resi-Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treas- dent of New Canaan, Conn. ury (Forty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for elec- Bibliography: Martin, Ralph and Plaut, Edward. Front Runner, Darktion in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the prac- Horse. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960; Weilman, Paul. Stuart Syming- tice of law in Washington, D.C.; died in Baltimore, Md., May ton: Portrait of a Man With a Mi,sion. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 9, 1905; interment in the Arlington National Cemetery. 1960. SYMMES, John Cleves, a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y., July 21, 1742; completed T preparatory studies; moved to New Jersey; chairman of the committee of safety of Sussex County in 1774; member of the TABER, John, a Representative from New York; born in State council in 1778; served in the Revolutionary Army;Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., May 5, 1880; attended the chief justice of the State supreme court 1777-1787; Memberpublic schools; was graduated from Yale University in 1902 of the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786; moved to theand from New York Law School in 1904; was admitted to the Northwest Territory and settled in North Bend, below Cin-bar November 15, 1904, and commenced practice in Auburn, cinnati; appointed one of the three judges of the NorthwestN.Y.; supervisor of Cayuga County in 1905 and 1906; special Territory in 1788 and held the position until Ohio was ad-judge of the county court 1910-1918; delegate to the Republi- mitted into the Union; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Februarycan National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1936; chairman 26, 1814; interment in Congress Green Cemetery, Northof the Cayuga County Republican committee 1920-1925; Bend, Ohio. president of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce in 1922; Bibliography: DAB. elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the nine- SYMMS, Steven Douglas, a Representative and a Senatorteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1963); from Idaho; born in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, April 23,chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eightieth and 1938; attended the public schools; graduated, University ofEighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina- Idaho, Moscow, 1960; served in the United States Marinetion in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; practiced law in Corps 1960-1963; private pilot; fruit rancher; co-editor ofAuburn, N.Y., where he died November 22, 1965; interment Idaho Compass 1969-1972; elected as a Republican to thein Fort Hill Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Henderson, Cary S. "Congressman John Taber of Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the three suc- Auburn: Politics and Federal Appropriations, 1923-1962." Ph.D. disserta- ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1981); was tion, Duke University, 1964. not a candidate in 1980 for reelection to the House of Repre- sentatives, but was elected to the United States Senate for TABER, Stephen (son of Thomas Taber II), a Representa- the term commencing January 3, 1981; reelected in 1986 fortive from New York; born in Dover, Dutchess County, N.Y., the term ending January 3, 1993. March 7,1821; completed preparatory studies; moved to Queens County and engagedinagriculturalpursuits; SYNAR, Michael Lynn, a Representative from Oklahoma;member of the State assembly in 1860 and 1861; elected as a born in Vinita, Craig County, Okla., October 17, 1950; at-Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses tended Muskogee public schools; graduated from Muskogee(March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); assisted in organizing the High School, 1968; B.S., University of Oklahoma, Norman,Long Island North Shore Transportation Co. in 1861 and 1972; LL.B., University of Oklahoma Law Center, 1977; served as its president for several years; director of the Long Rotary International Scholar, Graduate School of Economics,Island Railroad Co.; became the first president of the Roslyn University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1973; M.A., NorthwesternSavings Bank in 1876 and served in this capacity for a University, Evanston, Ill., 1974; rancher; real estate broker;number of years; died in New York City April 23, 1886; admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1976 and commenced prac-interment in Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y. tice in Muskogee; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979- TABER, Thomas, II (father of Stephen Taber), a Repre- January 3, 1989); is a resident of Muskogee, Okia. sentative from New York; born in Dover, Dutchess County, N.Y., May 19, 1785; attended the common schools; engaged SYPHER, Jacob Hale, a Representative from Louisiana;in agricultural pursuits; member of the State assembly in born near Millerstown, Perry County, Pa., June 22, 1837;1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congress to received a liberal education, and was graduated from Alfredfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas J. (N.Y.) University in 1859; taught school in Cleveland, Ohio;Oakley and served from November 5, 1828, to March 3, 1829; entered the Union Army as a private in Company A, Firstdied in Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y., March 21, 1862; interment Ohio Light Artillery, and later served as colonel of the Elev-in the Friends Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y. enth United States Colored Heavy Artillery; after the war bought a plantation in northern Louisiana, but about two TABOR, Horace Austin Warner, a Senator from Colorado; years later commenced the study of law; was admitted to theborn in Holland, Orleans County, Vt., November 26, 1830; bar and practiced in New Orleans, La.; delegate to the Re-attended the common schools; worked at the stonecutter's publican National Convention in 1868; upon readmission oftrade in Maine and Vermont; moved to Kansas in 1855 and the State of Louisiana to representation was elected as asettled in Riley County; engaged in agricultural pursuits; Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from Julymember, Kansas legislature 1856-1857; in 1859 joined the 18, 1868, to March 3, 1869; contested the election of Louis St.Pike's Peak gold rush and moved to Denver, Cob.; followed Martin to the Forty-first Congress, but the House decidedgold discoveries around the West; discovered silver instead 1906 Biographical Directory

and made several important strikes; settled in Leadville,March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in Cob.; engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits; postmas-1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the newspaper ter of Leadville 1878; mayor 1878-1879; treasurer of Lakebusiness in Cincinnati; delegate to the Republican National County; lieutenant governor of Colorado 1879-1883; electedConventions in 1908 and 1912; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, De- as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill thecember 31, 1929; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry M. Teller and Bibliography: DAB. served from January 27 to March 3, 1883; was not a candi- date for reelection; postmaster of Denver, Cob., from 1898 TAFT, Kingley Arter, a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleve- until his death April 10, 1899; interment in Mount Calvaryland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 19, 1903; attended the Cemetery. public schools of Cleveland; graduated from Amherst Col- Bibliography: DAB; Gandy, Lewis. The Tabors, A Footnote of Western lege, Amherst, Mass., in 1925 and from the law school of History. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934; Smith, Duane. HoraceHarvard University in 1928; was admitted to the bar in Tabor: His Life and Legend. Boulder: Associated University Press, 1973. 1928;practiced law inCleveland, Ohio, through 1948; member, Ohio house of representatives 1933-1934; member, TACKETT, Boyd Anderson, a Representative from Arkan- sas; born near Black Springs, Montgomery County, Ark.,Shaker Heights board of education 1940-1942, serving as May 9, 1911; moved with his parents to Glenwood, Pikepresident in 1942; during the Second World War was com- County, Ark., and attended the public schools; student atmissioned as a captain in the United States Army in 1942; Arkansas Polytechnic College at Russellville 1930-1932, Oua-promoted to major in 1945; separated from the service in chita College, Arkandelphia, Ark., in 1932 and 1933, and1946; trustee of Baldwin-Wallace College and the Welfare graduated from the University of Arkansas Law School atFederation of Cleveland; elected as a Republican to the Fayetteville in 1935; was admitted to the bar in 1935 andUnited States Senate on November 5, 1946, to fill the vacan- practiced law in Glenwood, Murfreesboro, and Nashville,cy in the term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the resig- Ark.; member of the State legislature 1937-1941; electednation of Harold H. Burton; served from November 6, 1946, prosecuting attorney of the ninth judicial circuit of Arkan-until January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for election to the sas and served from January 1, 1941, until enlistment in thefull term; justice of the Ohio Supreme Court 1948-1962, chief Armed Services; served as a corporal in the United Statesjustice from 1962 until his death March 28, 1970, in Colum- Army Signal Corps from October 4, 1943, until discharged onbus, Ohio; interment in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, November 5, 1944; resumed law practice in Nashville, Ark.; Ohio. State police commissioner, Little Rock, Ark., 1945-1948; TAFT, Robert, Jr. (son of Robert , grandson elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-secondof President William Howard Taft, and grandnephew of Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3,1953); was not aCharles Phelps Taft), a Representative and a Senator from candidate for renomination in 1952 but was unsuccessful forOhio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, February the Democratic gubernatorial nomination; resumed the prac-26, 1917; attended Cincinnati public and private schools; tice of law in Texarkana, Ark., until his retirement in 1980;graduated from Yale University in 1939 and from Harvard was a resident of Nashville, Ark., from 1983 until his deathUniversity Law School in 1942; during the Second World there on February 23, 1985; interment in Restland MemorialWar served as an officer in the United States Navy 1942- Park. 1946; was admitted to the bar in 1946 and commenced the TAFFE, John, a Representative from Nebraska; born inpractice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio; elected to Ohio house of Indianapolis, md., January 30, 1827; completed preparatoryrepresentatives in 1955, 1957, 1959 and 1961, and was major- studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Indianapolis,ity floor leader 1961-1962; elected as a Republican to the md.; moved to Nebraska in 1856; member of the TerritorialEighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); house of representatives in 1858 and 1859; member of thewas not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Territorial council in 1860 and 1861 and served as president;Congress in 1964, but was an unsuccessful candidate for during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army and servedelection to the United States Senate; elected to the Ninetieth as major in the Second Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Cav-Congress; reelected to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, alry; returned to Omaha, Nebr.; elected as a Republican to1967-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection to theFortieth,Forty-first,andForty-secondCongressesthe House of Representatives but was elected as a Republi- (March 4, 1867-March 3,1873); chairman, Committee oncan to the United States Senate in 1970; served from Janu- Territories (Forty-second Congress); resumed the practice ofary 3, 1971, until his resignation December 28, 1976; unsuc- law; receiver of the public land office in North Platte, Nebr.,cessful candidate for reelection in 1976; practices law in where he died March 14, 1884; interment in Prospect HillCincinnati and Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Cincinnati, Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. Ohio. TAFT, Charles Phelps (brother of President William TAFT, Robert Alphonso(sonof President William Howard Taft, uncle of Robert Alphonso Taft and granduncleHoward Taft, nephew of , and father of of Robert Taft, Jr.), a Representative from Ohio; born inRobert Taft, Jr.), a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 21, 1843; attended the commonOhio, September 8, 1889; attended the public schools of Cin- schools and was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover,cinnati, Ohio, and of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Taft Mass., in 1860, from Yale College in 1864, and from Colum-School, Watertown, Conn.; graduated from Yale University bia College Law School of New York in 1866; was admittedin 1910 and from Harvard University Law School in 1913; to the bar in 1866; went to Germany and was graduatedwas admitted to the Ohio bar in 1913 and commenced prac- from the University of Heidelberg in 1867; commenced thetice in Cincinnati, Ohio; director in a number of business practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869; member of theenterprises in Cincinnati; assistant counsel, United States State house of representatives 1871-1873; became owner andFood Administration 1917-1918; counsel, American Relief editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star in 1879; member of theAdministration 1919; member, Ohio house of representatives board of sinking-fund trustees of the city of Cincinnati for1921-1926, serving as speaker and majority leader 1926; sixteen years and served as president 1898-1908; elected as amember, Ohio Senate 1931-1932; elected as a Republican to Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and Biographies 1907 again in 1950 and served from January 3, 1939, until hisin 1916 to fill the vacancy; chairman, Committee on Forest death; majority leader 1953; co-chairman, Joint CommitteeReservations and Game Protection (Sixty-fourth Congress); on the Economic Report (Eightieth Congress), chairman,resumed his former business pursuits in Indianapolis and Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eightieth Con-French Lick, md.; banker; died in Indianapolis, md., on gress), Republican Policy Committee (Eightieth throughMarch 6, 1929; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. Eighty-second Congresses); sponsored the Taft-Hartley Act, Bibliography: DAB. designed to create equity in collective bargaining between labor and management; unsuccessful candidate in1944, TAGUE,Peter Francis, a Representative from Massachu- 1948, and 1952 for the Republican presidential nomination;setts; born in Boston, Mass., June 4, 1871; attended the died in New York City, July 31, 1953; memorial servicespublic schools; engaged in the blacksmith and contractor were held in the rotunda of the Capitol; interment in Indiansupply business and later in the manufacture of chemicals; Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. member of the Boston Common Council 1894-1896; member Bibliography: DAB; Berger, Henry. "Bipartisanship, Senator Taft, andof the State house of representatives in 1897 and 1898 and in the Truman Administration."PoliticalScience Quarterly 90 (Summer 1913 and 1914; served in the State senate in 1899 and 1900; 1975): 221-37; Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Muffin, 1972. Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); successfully con- TAGGART,Joseph, a Representative from Kansas; borntested the election of John F. Fitzgerald to the Sixty-sixth near Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa, June 15, 1867; at-Congress; unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 1917; elected tended the district school; moved to Salina, Kans., in 1885;to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses and served was graduated from the Salina Normal University in 1890;from October 23, 1919, to March 3, 1925; was an unsuccessful taught school in Bavaria, Kans., in 1892 and 1893; studiedcandidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced theresumed the manufacture of chemicals in Boston, Mass.; practice of his profession in Salina, Kans., moving shortlyappointed assessor of Boston in 1930; chairman of the elec- thereafter to Kansas City, Kans.; prosecuting attorney oftion commission of Boston in 1930; appointed postmaster in Wyandotte County 1907-1911; elected as a Democrat to the1936 and served until his death in Boston, Mass., September Sixty-second Congress tofill the vacancy caused by the17, 1941; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass. death of Alexander C. Mitchell; reelected to the Sixty-third TAIT,Charles, a Senator from Georgia; born near the and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from November 7,present town of Hanover, Hanover County, Va., February 1, 1911, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate for reelection1768; moved to Georgia in 1783 with his parents, who settled in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; served as captain in thenear Petersburg; completed preparatory studies; attended Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army during theWilkes Academy, Washington, Ga., 1786-1787, and Cokes- First World War; resumed the practice of law in Kansasbury College, Abingdon, Md., 1788; professor of French in City, Kans.; appointed judge of the Kansas Court of Industri-Cokesburg College 1789-1794; studied law while teaching al Relations in 1924; died in Wadsworth, Kans., on Decemberand was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1795; rector and 3, 1938; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison,professor at Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga., 1795-1798; Kans. commenced the practice of law in Elbert County in 1798; TAGGART,Samuel, a Representative from Massachusetts;presiding judge of the western circuit court of Georgia 1803- born in Londonderry, N.H., March 24, 1754; completed pre-1809; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to paratory studies; was graduated from Dartmouth College,fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of ; Hanover, N.H., in 1774; studied theology and was licensed towas reelected in 1813 and served from November 27, 1809, to preach in 1776; was ordained to the Presbyterian ministryMarch 3, 1819; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Four- on February 19, 1777, and installed as pastor of a church inteenth and Fifteenth Congresses); moved to Wilcox County, Colrain, Mass.; journeyed as a missionary through westernAla., in 1819; appointed by President James Monroe as New York; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth and to theUnited States district judge for Alabama 1820-1826, when he six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1817);resigned; engaged as a planter near Claiborne, Ala.; declined was not a candidate for renomination in 1816; continued hisa mission to Great Britain in 1828; died near Claiborne, Ala., service as pastor of the Colrain Presbyterian Church untilOctober 7, 1835; interment in Dry Forks Cemetery on his October 28, 1818, when he resigned; died on his farm incountry estate, Wilcox County, Ala. Colrain, Franklin County, Mass., April 25, 1825; interment Bibliography: DAB; Mellichamp, Josephine. "Charles Tait." In Senators in Chandler Hill Cemetery. From Georgia. pp. 66-69. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976; Bibliography: Taggart, Samuel. "Letters of : Representa- Moffat, Charles. Charles Tait: Planter, Politician, and Scientist of the Old tive in Congress, 1803-1814." Edited by George H. Hayiies. Proceedings ofSouth. Nashville: n.p., 1948. the American Antiquarian Society 33 (April 1923): 113-226. TALBERT,William Jasper, a Representative from South TAGGART,Thomas, a Senator from Indiana; born inCarolina; born near Edgefield, Edgefield County, S.C., Octo- County Monaghan, Ireland, November 17, 1856; immigratedber 6, 1846; attended the common schools in Greenwood and to the United States in 1861 with his parents, who settled inDue West Academy at Abbeville, and was graduated from Xenia, Greene County, Ohio; attended the common schoolsErskine College, Due West, S.C.; served in the Confederate while working on the railroad; moved to Garrett, md., inArmy as a private, Company F, Fifth South Carolina Re- 1874 and to Indianapolis, md., in 1877 and was employed inserves, as a substitute for his father B.M. Talbert, who was a restaurant and later engaged in the restaurant and hoteldischarged December 17, 1862; enlisted at Richmond, Va., business; auditor of Marion County 1886-1894; mayor of In-September 15, 1864, as a private, Company B, Infantry Regi- dianapolis 1895-1901; member of the Democratic Nationalment, Hampton Legion, South Carolina; engaged in agricul- Committee 1900-1916, and served as chairman 1900-1908;tural pursuits near Parksville, McCormick County, S.C.; president of the French Lick Hotel Co.; appointed as a Dem-member of the State house of representatives 1880-1883; ocrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy causedserved in the State senate 1884-1888; superintendent of the by the death of Benjamin F. Shively and served from MarchState penitentiary 1891-1893; delegate to the Democratic 20 to November 7, 1916; unsuccessful candidate for electionNational Convention in 1892; mayor of Parksville 1895-1900; 1910 Biographical Directory

Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and in New York City; served in thepired term; reelected in 1950 and served until January 1955; War of 1812 and commanded a company of home guards infarmer; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate defense of New York; elected as a Republican to the Fif-in 1956; reelected in 1962, 1968, and again in 1974, and teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofserved from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1981; unsuccess- Henry B. Lee and served from June 6, 1817, to March 3,ful candidate for reelection in 1980; denounced by the Senate 1819; author of amendment, passed by the House on Febru-in 1979 for financial misconduct; chairman, Committee on ary 17, 1819, prohibiting further introduction of slaves intoAgriculture and Forestry (Ninety-second through Ninety- Missouri; declined to be a candidate for renomination infifth Congresses), Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; delegate to the State consti-Forestry (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); resumed tutional conventions in 1821 and 1846; member of the Statethe practice of law; is a resident of Hampton, Ga. assembly in 1824; Lieutenant Governor of New York 1824- Bibliography: Talmadge, Herman. Talmadge: A Political Legacy, A Poli- 1826; president of New York University 1830-1846; died in tician's Life. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1987; Talmadge, Herman You New York City September 29, 1853; interment in Marble and Segregation. Birmingham: The Vulcan Press, 1955. Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. TANNEHILL, Adamson, a Representative from Pennsyl- vania; born in Frederick County, Md., May 23, 1750; attend- TALLMADGE, Nathaniel Pitcher, a Senator from Newed the public schools; served in the Revolutionary War as York; born in Chatham, Columbia County, N.Y., February 8,captain of riflemen; moved to Pennsylvania and engaged in 1795; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., inagricultural pursuits near Pittsburgh; held several local of- 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1818 andfices; brigadier general of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the commenced practice in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; member, StateUnited States service from September 25 to December 31, assembly 1828; member, State senate 1830-1833; electedas a1812; elected as a Republican to the, Thirteenth Congress Jacksonian to the United States Senate in 1833; reelectedas a Democrat in 1839, and served from March 4, 1833, to June(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); unsuccessful candidate for 17, 1844, when he resigned, having been appointed by Presi-reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed dent John Tyler to be Governor of Wisconsin Territory, withfarming; died near Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., De- residence in Fond du Lac; served as Governor of Wisconsincember 23, 1820; interment in the churchyard of the First Territory until his removal from office in May 1845; devotedPresbyterian Church; reinterment in Allegheny Cemetery, himself to writing religious tracts; died in Battle Creek,Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1849. Mich., November 2, 1864; interment in Rienzi Cemetery, TANNER, Adoiphus Hitchcock, a Representative from Fond du Lac, Wis. New York; born in Granville, Washington County, N.Y., TALLMAN, Peleg, a Representative from Massachusetts;May 23, 1833; completed preparatory studies; studied law; born in Tiverton, R.I., July 24, 1764; attended the publicwas admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in schools; served in the Revolutionary Waron the privateerWhitehall, N.Y.; during the Civil War entered the Union Trumbull, and lost an arm in an engagement in 1780;wasArmy in 1862 as a captain; was subsequently commissioned captured and imprisoned in England and Ireland 1781-1783;lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bath, Maine (until 1820aRegiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served until district of Massachusetts); elected asa Republican to thethe close of the war; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); declined tofirst Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); resumed the be a candidate for renomination; overseer of Bowdoin Col-practice of law in Whitehall, Washington County, N.Y., and lege, Brunswick, Maine, 1802-1840; member of the Mainedied there January 14, 1882; interment in Evergreen Ceme- senate in 1821 and 1822; died in Bath, Maine, March 12,tery, Salem, N.Y. 1840; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery; reinterment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Mass. TAPPAN, Benjamin, a Senator from Ohio; born in North- ampton, Mass., May 25, 1773; attended the public schools; TALLON, Robert Mooneyhan, Jr. (Robin),a Representa-apprenticed as printer and engraver; traveled to the West tive from South Carolina; born in Hemingway, WilliamsburgIndies; studied painting with Gilbert Stuart; studied law; County, S.C., August 8, 1946; attended public schools; attend-was admitted to the bar in Hartford, Conn., and commenced ed the University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1964-1965;practice in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1799; member, State senate clothing business owner and real estate broker; delegate,1803-1805; moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1809 and contin- White House Conference on Small Business, 1979-1980;ued the practice of law; served in the War of 1812; held elected, South Carolina house of representatives, 1980-1982; several local offices; county judge; judge of the fifth Ohio elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the twoCircuit Court of Common Pleas 1816-1823; presidential elec- succeeding Congresses (January 3, l983-January 3, 1989); istor on the Democratic ticket in 1832; United States district a resident of Florence, S.C. judge of Ohio 1833; elected as a Democrat to the United TALMADGE, Herman Eugene, a Senator from Georgia;States Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contin- born on a farm near McRae, Telfair County, Ga., August9, 1913; attended the public schools in McRae; receiveda lawgent Expense (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congress- degree from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1936;es), Committee on the Library (Twenty-seventh Congress); was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practicecensured by the Senate in 1844 for breech of confidence for of law in Atlanta, Ga.; volunteered for service in the Unitedpassing copies of a proposed treaty with Texas to the press; States Navy in 1941; saw extensive action in the Pacificdied in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 20, 1857; theater, attained rank of lieutenant commander andwasinterment in Union Cemetery. discharged in November 1945; upon the death of his father, Bibliography: DAB; Ratcliffe, Donald J., ad. "The Autobiography of Ben- jamin Tappan." Ohio History 85 (Spring 1976): 109-57. Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was elected to thegover- norship by the State legislature in 1947; served sixty-seven TAPPAN, Mason Weare, a Representative from New days, then vacated the office due to a decision of the StateHampshire; born in Newport, Sullivan County, N.H., Octo- supreme court; elected in September 1948 to fill the unex-ber 20, 1817; moved to Bradford, N.H., with his parents; Biographies 1911 attended private schools and the Hopkinton and Meriden TARSNEY, Timothy Edward, a Representative from Academies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 andMichigan; born in Ransom, Hillsdale County, Mich., Febru- commenced practice in Bradford, N.H.; served in the Stateary 4, 1849; attended the commonand high schools; worked house of representatives 1853-1855; elected as a candidate ofon the Government roads in Tennesseeuntil the close of the the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and re-Civil War, when he returned to Michigan and settled in elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixthSaginaw; was employed as an engineer in a sawmill; became Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); chairman, Com-a marine engineer in 1867; wasgraduated from the law mittee on Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); was not a candi-department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in date for renomination in 1860; during the Civil War served1872; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced in the Union Army as colonel of the First Regiment, Newpractice in East Saginaw, Mich.; elected justice of the peace Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; again a member of the Statein 1873; city attorney from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned; house of representatives in 1860 and 1861; resumed the prac-unsuccessful candidate for election in 1880 to the Forty- tice of law; appointed attorney general of the State in 1876,seventh Congress; delegate at large to the Democratic Na- which position he held until his death in Bradford, Merri-tional Convention in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the mack County, N.H., October 25, 1886; interment in PleasantForty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, Hill Cemetery. 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1893 and TARBOX, John Kemble, a Representative from Massachu-resumed the practice of law; corporation counsel of Detroit setts; born in Methuen, near Lawrence, Mass., May 6, 1838;1900-1908; died in Detroit, Mich., June 8, 1909; interment in pursued classical studies; engaged in newspaper work; stud- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and practiced;Calvary Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich. during the Civil War served in the Union Army as first TARVER, Malcolm Connor, a Representative from Geor- lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteergia; born in Rural Vale, Whitfield County, Ga., September Infantry; member of the State house of representatives in25, 1885; attended the public schools; was graduated from 1868, 1870, and 1871; served in the State senate in 1872;the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in mayor of Lawrence in 1873 and 1874; elected as a Democrat1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);practice in Dalton, Ga.; member of the State house of repre- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-sentatives 1909-1912; served in the State senate in 1913 and fifth Congress; city solicitor of Lawrence, Mass., in 1882 and1914; judge of the superior courts, Cherokee Circuit, Ga., 1883; State insurance commissioner 1884-1887; died in1917-1927; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to Boston, Mass., May 28, 1887; interment in Bellevue Ceme-the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927-January 3, tery, Lawrence, Mass. 1947); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; re- TARR, Christian, a Representative from Pennsylvania;sumed the practice of law; died in Dalton, Ga., March 5, born in Baltimore, Md., May 25, 1765; received a limited1960; interment in West Hill Cemetery. schooling; moved to Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1794 and TATE, Farish Carter, a Representative from Georgia; born engaged in agricultural pursuits; engaged in the manufac-in Jasper, Pickens County, Ga., November 20, 1856;attended ture of pottery in Fayette County, Pa.; elected as a Republi- the common schools and North Georgia Agricultural College can to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4,in Dahlonega, Ga.; studied law; was admitted to the barin 1817-March 3, 1821); member of the State house of repre-1880 and commenced practice at Jasper, Ga.; member of the sentatives in 1821 and 1822; appointed on October 31, 1827,general assembly of Georgia 1882-1887; member of the superintendent of the road which had been built by theDemocratic State executive committee 1884-1887 and 1890- United States Government from Cumberland, Md., to Wheel-1892; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1888; ing, Va. (now West Virginia), and served until March 20,elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the five 1829; died in Washington Township, Fayette County, Pa.,succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1905); unsuc- February 24, 1833; interment in the Methodist Graveyard,cessful candidate for renomination in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Brownsville, Pa. Congress; appointed United States district attorney for the TARSNEY, John Charles, a Representative from Missouri;northern district of Georgia by President Theodore Roose- born in Medina, Lenawee County, Mich., November 7, 1845;velt; reappointed by President Taft, and served from 1905 to attended the common schools; during the Civil War enlisted1913; resumed the practice of law in Jasper, Ga., and died in the Fourth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, inthere February 7, 1922; interment in the Tate family ceme- August 1862; mustered out of the service in June 1865; at-tery. tended high school in Hudson, Mich.; was graduated from TATE, Magnus, a Representative from Virginia; born in the law department of the University of Michigan at AnnBerkeley County, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1760; studied Arbor in 1869; was admitted to the bar the same year andlaw; was admitted to the bar and practiced; engaged in commenced practice in Hudson, Mich.; moved to Kansasagricultural pursuits; appointed justice of the Berkeley City, Mo., in 1872; city attorney of Kansas City in 1874 andCounty Court May 19, 1798; sheriff of Berkeley County in 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,1819 and 1820; member of the house of delegates of Virginia and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895);in 1797, 1803, 1809, and 1810; elected as a Federalist to the chairman, Committee on Labor (Fifty-second Congress); pre-Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); died sented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Con-near Martinsburg, Va. (now WestVirginia), March 30, 1823. gress and served from March 4, 1895, to February 27, 1896, when he was succeeded by Robert T. Van Horn, who contest- TATGENHORST, Charles, Jr., a Representative from ed his election; appointed by President Cleveland associateOhio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 19, justice of the supreme court of Oklahoma Territory in 18961883; educated in the public schools of Cincinnati; was grad- and served until 1899; returned to Kansas City, Mo., in 1899uated from Cincinnati Law School in 1910; was admitted to and resumed the practice of law; died in Kansas City, Mo.,the bar the same year and commenced practice in Cincin- September 4, 1920; interment in Mount St. Mary's Cemetery.nati; assistant city solicitor for Cincinnati 1914-1919; moved 1912 Biographical Directory

to Cleves, Ohio, in 1919 and continued the practice of law;attended the Dubuque County private schools; graduated elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congressto fill thefrom Wahlert High School, 1968; B.A., Loras College, Du- vacancy caused by the death of Ambrose E.B. Stephens andbuque, 1972; J.D., University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa served from November 8, 1927, to March 3, 1929;was not aCity, 1974; admitted to the Iowa bar and commenced prac- candidate for renomination in 1928; again resumed theprac- tice of his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio; elected judge of tice in Dubuque in 1974; served in the Iowa general assem- thebly, 1975-1978; delegate, Iowa State Republican conventions, court of appeals of the first appellate district of Ohioon November 3, 1936, and served until February 8, 1937;Ohio1972-1978; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1976; State bar examiner 1938-1942; in January 1941 becameaelected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four member of the Ohio State Banking Board; director of Cincin- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is nati Street Railway Co. and Sullivan Electric Co.; diedina resident of Dubuque, Iowa. Cincinnati, Ohio, January 13, 1961; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. TAUL, Micah (grandfather of Taul Bradford), a Represent- ative from Kentucky; born in Bladensburg, Md., May 14, TATOM, Absalom, a Representative from North Carolina;1785; moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787; attended born in that State in 1742; sergeant in the Greenville(N.C.) private school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1801 Militia in 1763; during the Revolutionary Warwas commis-and commenced practice in Monticello, KY.; clerk of Wayne sioned first lieutenant in tie First North Carolina Continen-County Courts in 1801; served as a colonel of Wayne County tal Regiment September 1, 1775; promoted to therank ofVolunteers in the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to captain June 29, 1776; resigned from the ContinentalArmythe Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3,1817); on September 19, 1776; enlisted as assistant quartermasterdeclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816; re- and keeper of the arsenal in the State serviceat Hilisbor-sumed the practice of law; moved to Winchester, Tenn., in ough, N.C., August 15, 1778; was contractor for Hilisborough1826 and continued the practice of law; moved to Mardis- in 1778; major of detachment of the North CarolinaLight Horse February 12, 1779; was clerk of Randolph Countyyule, Talladega County, Ala., in 1846 and engaged in agricul- Court in 1779; elected to the State house ofcommons, buttural pursuits until his death there on May 27, 1850; inter- was unseated because he already held the office of countyment on his plantation at Mardisville. clerk; was district auditor for Hilisborough in 1781;one of TAULBEE, William Preston, a Representative from Ken- three commissioners appointed by Congress tosurvey lands granted to Continental soldiers in the western territorytucky; born near Mount Sterling, in Morgan County, Ky., (later Tennessee) in 1782; private secretary to Gov. ThomasOctober 22, 1851; attended the common schools and was Burke in 1782; State tobacco agent in 1782; electedsurveyortutored by his father; was ordained for the ministry and of North Carolina by the Continental Congress in May1785; admitted to the Kentucky conference of the Methodist Epis- commissioner to sign State paper money in December1785; copal Church South; elected clerk of the Magoffin County served as a delegate to the constitutional conventionin 1788;Court in 1878 and reelected in 1882; studied law and was elected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress andservedadmitted to the bar in 1881; elected as a Democrat to the from March 4, 1795, to June 1, 1796, when heresigned;Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, again served in the State house ofcommons 1797-1802; died1889); was not a candidate for renomination; was shot by in Raleigh, N.C., on December 20, 1802; interment inthe OldCharles E. Kincaid in the Capitol Building, Washington, City Cemetery. D.C., February 28, 1890, and died from the effects of the TATTNALL, Edward Fenwick,a Representative fromwounds at Providence Hospital, in that city, March 11, 1890; Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., in 1788; educated in interment in the family burying ground near Mount Ster- Eng-ling, Ky. land; held several local offices; solicitor general fromNovem- ber 1816 to September 1817, when he resigned; Bibliography: Klotter, J. C. "Sex, Scandal, and Suffrage in the Gilded member of Age." Historian 42 (February 1980): 225-43. the State house of representatives in 1818 and 1819;elected to the Seventeenth and to the three succeeding Congresses TAURIELLO, Anthony Francis, a Representative from and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignationin 1827New York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., August 14, before the convening of the Twentieth Congress; firstcap-1899; attended the public schools; was graduated from the tain of the Savannah Volunteer Guards; died in Savannah,law school of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in Chatham County, Ga., November 21, 1832; intermentin Bon- aventure Cemetery. 1929; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1929 and com- menced the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn.; member of TATTNALL, Josiah, a Senator from Georgia; bornat Bon-the Erie County (N.Y.) Board of Supervisors from October aventure, near Savannah, Ga., in 1762; completedpreparato- 1933 to December 1937, and Buffalo Common Council 1938- ry studies; went with his father to England at the outbreak1941; deputy city treasurer 1942-1945; examiner for Recon- of the Revolutionary War and attended Eaton College;ranstruction Finance Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y., from April away from England and enlisted in the Continental Army in1946 to November 1946 and with War Assets Administration 1782; colonel of a regiment of Georgia State troops in1793 from November 1946 to May 1947; again a member of the for protection against the Indians andwas promoted to brig-Buffalo Common Council in 1948; delegate to the Democratic adier general in 1801; member, State house ofrepresenta-National Convention in 1936; elected as a Democrat to the tives 1795-1796; elected as a Republican to the UnitedStatesEighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); was Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationofan unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the James Jackson and served from February 20, 1796,to MarchEighty-second Congress, and for election in 1952 to the 3, 1799; Governor of Georgia 1801-1802; died in Nassau,NewEighty-third Congress; retail liquor dealer; again elected a Providence, British West Indies, June 6, 1803; intermentin Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. member of Buffalo Common Council and served from 1954 to 1957; appointed to Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority in Bibliography:Mellichamp, Josephine."Josiah Tattnall."InSeantors From GEorgia. pp. 43-46. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, November 1961 on which he served until 1973; wasa resi- 1976. dent of Buffalo, N.Y., until his death there December 21, TAUKE, Thomas Joseph, a Representative fromIowa; 1983; interment in United German and French Cemetery, born in Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, October11, 1950;Buffalo, N.Y. Biographies 1913

TAUZIN, Wilbert Joseph (Billy), a Representative fromchairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Fifty-fifth through Louisiana; born in Chackbay, Lafourche Parish, La., JuneFifty-seventh Congresses); declined to be a candidate in 1902 14, 1943; attended the public schools; graduated from Thibo-for renomination; resumed the practice of law in Youngs- daux High School, Thibodaux, La., 1961; B.A., Nicholls Statetown, Ohio; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to be University, Thibodaux, 1964; J.D., Louisiana State Universi-United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio ty, Baton Rouge, 1967; legislative aide, Louisiana senate,February 2, 1905; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and died there 1963-1967; admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1967 and com-November 25, 1910; interment in Lisbon Cemetery, Lisbon, menced practice in Houma; served in the Louisiana house ofOhio. representatives, 1972-1980; elected as a Democrat, by special election, May 17, 1980, to the Ninety-sixth Congress to fill TAYLOR, Abner, a Representative from Illinois; born in the vacancy caused by the resignation of David C. Treen,Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, in 1829; moved with his reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (May 17, 1980-parents to Champaign County, Ohio, in 1832, thence to Fort January 3, 1989); is a resident of Thibodaux, La. Dodge, Iowa, and subsequently to Chicago, Ill., in 1860; en- gaged in extensive contracting, building, and mercantile pur- TAVENNER, Clyde Howard, a Representative from Illi-suits, and participated in the construction of the Texas State nois; born in Cordova, Rock Island County, Ill., February 4,capitol; member of the Illinois house of representatives from 1882; attended the common schools; learned the printer's1884 to 1886; delegate to the Republican National Conven- trade; engaged as editorial writer; director of publicity fortion in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and the Democratic National Congressional Committee in 1910Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was and 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-not a candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the build- fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); chairman,ing and contracting business; died in Washington, D.C., Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office DepartmentApril 13, 1903; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. (Sixty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; founded a monthly maga- TAYLOR, Alexander Wilson, a Representative from Penn- zine, the Philippine Republic, in Washington, D.C., in 1923,sylvania; born in Indiana, Indiana County, Pa., March 22, and also engaged in the publishing business; visited Europe,1815; pursued classical studies; attended the Indiana Acade- the Near East, and the Far East in 1931 and 1932 as amy and Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa.,and was grad- member of a mission from the Philippine Islands; legislativeuated from the law school at Carlisle, Pa.; was admitted to analyst to the House Committee on Rules in 1939; died inthe bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pa.; Washington, D.C., February 6, 1942; interment in the Con-clerk of the court of Indiana County 1845-1848; member of gressional Cemetery. the State house of representatives in 1859 and 1860; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress(March 4, 1873- TAWNEY, James Albertus, a Representative from Minne-March 3, 1875); again resumed the practice of law; died in sota; born in Mount Pleasant Township, near Gettysburg, Indiana, Pa., May 7, 1893; interment in Greenwood Ceme- Adams County, Pa., January 3, 1855; apprenticed with histery. father as a blacksmith; subsequently learned the trade of machinist; moved to Winona, Minn., August 1, 1877, where TAYLOR, Alfred Alexander (son of Nathaniel Green he was employed as a blacksmith and machinist until Janu-Taylor and brother of Robert Love Taylor), a Representative ary 1, 1881; attended the law department of the Universityfrom Tennessee; born in Happy Valley, Carter County, of Wisconsin at Madison; was admitted to the bar in 1882Tenn., August 6, 1848; attended Duffield Academy, Eliza- and commenced practice in Winona, Winona County, Minn.;bethton, Tenn., Buffalo Institute (later Milligan College), member of the State senate of Minnesota in 1890; elected asTennessee, and the schools of Edge Hill and Pennington a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the eight succeedingSeminary, New Jersey; studied law; was admitted to the bar Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1911); majority whipin 1874 and commenced practice in Jonesboro, Washington (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-eighth Congresses); chairman, Com-County, Tenn.; member of the State house of representa- mittee on Appropriations (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-firsttives, 1875-1877; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Gov- Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inernor in 1886, being defeated by his brother, Robert;dele- 1910; member of the International Joint Commission, cre-gate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; elected ated to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundaryas a Republican to the Fifty-first,Fifty-second, and Fifty- waters between the United States and Canada, from Marchthird Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); declined to 11, 1911, until his death, serving as chairman of the Unitedbe a candidate in 1894 for renomination; engaged in the States section from September 17, 1911, to December 1, 1914;practice of law in Johnson City, Tenn.; engaged as a lecturer died at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Mo., June 12, 1919;and also interested in agricultural pursuits; Governor of interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minn. Tennessee 1921-1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection Bibliography: DAB. in 1922; again engaged in lecturing and in agricultural pur- TAYLER, Robert Walker, a Representative from Ohio;suits and resided at Milligan College, Carter County, Tenn.; born in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, November 26,died while on a visit in Johnson City, Tenn., November 25, 1931; interment in Monta Vista Cemetery. 1852; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Bibliography: DAB; Taylor, Robert L., Jr. "Apprenticeship in the First Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1872; taught in District: Bob and Aif Taylor's Early Congressional Races." Tennessee His- the high school in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio; superin- torical Quarterly 28 (Spring 1969): 24-41. tendent of schools 1873-1875; editor of the Buckeye State, in New Lisbon, Ohio, 1875-1876; was admitted to the bar in TAYLOR, Arthur Herbert, a Representative from Indiana; April 1877 and commenced practice in East Liverpool, Co-born at Caledonia Springs, Canada, February 29,1852; lumbiana County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Columbianamoved with his parents to Yates County, N.Y., in 1856; County 1880-1885; resumed the practice of law in Lisbon,attended the local school; taught school for several years; Ohio; moved to New York in 1890; returned to Lisbon inmoved to Indianapolis, md., in 1869; studied law; was admit- 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to theted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Indianapo- three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903);lis, md.; moved to Petersburg, md., in 1874 and continued 1914 Biographical Directory

the practice of law; prosecuting attorney for the eleventhcan to the Seventy-eighth and to the eight succeeding Con- judicial circuit of Indiana 1880-1884; electedas a Democratgresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1961); was not a candi- to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);date for renomination in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Con- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Albany, N.Y., fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Petersburg,October 16, 1977; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, md., until his death February 20, 1922; interment in WalnutN.Y. Hills Cemetery. TAYLOR, , Jr., a Representative from TAYLOR, Benjamin Irving, a Representative from NewOhio; born in Columbus, Ohio, August 10, 1869; attended the York; born in New York City December 21, 1877; attendedpublic schools and was graduated from the Columbus High the public schools; was graduated from the high school inSchool; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and New Rochelle, N.Y., and from Columbia Law School in Newcommenced practice in Columbus; prosecuting attorney of York City in 1899; was admitted to the bar thesame yearFranklin County 1899-1904; elected as a Republican to the and commenced practiceinPort Chester, Westchester County, N.Y.; supervisor of Harrison, Westchester County,Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress1905-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; continued the practice of reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed thelaw in Columbus, Ohio, until his death there March 10, 1938; practice of law in Port Chester, N.Y.; again elected supervi-interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. sor of Harrison, N.Y., in 1921, and served in that capacity, TAYLOR, Edward Thomas, a Representative from Colora- with the exception of two years, until December 1945; dieddo; born on a farm near Metamora, Woodford County, Ill., in Harrison, N.Y., September 5, 1946; interment in KensicoJune 19, 1858; attended the common schools of Illinois and Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. Kansas, and was graduated from the high school at Leaven- TAYLOR, Caleb Newbold, a Representative from Pennsyl worth, Kans., in 1881; moved to Leadville, Lake County, vania; born near Newportville, Bristol Township, BucksCob.; principal of Leadville High School in 1881 and 1882; County, Pa., July 27, 1813; completed preparatory studies;was graduated from the law department of the University of engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Whig StateMichigan at Ann Arbor in 1884; was admitted to the bar the convention at Harrisburg in 1832; unsuccessful candidate forsame year and commenced the practice of law in Leadville, election to Congress in 1848, 1850, and again in 1852; dele-Cob.; superintendent of schools of Lake County in 1884; gate to the Republican National Convention in 1860; electeddeputy district attorney in 1885; moved to Glenwood Springs, as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-Cob., in 1887; resumed the practice of his profession; district March 3, 1869); successfully contested the election of John R. attorney of the ninth judicial district 1887-1889; member of Reading to the Forty-first Congress and served from Aprilthe State senate 1896-1908, and served as president pro 13, 1870, to March 3, 1871; engaged in banking; president oftempore for one term; city attorney 1896-1900; county attor- the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks County, Bristol, Pa.,ney in 1901 and 1902; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- from 1875 until his death at his home, "Sunbury Farm,"first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and served near Newportville, Bristol Township, Pa., November 15,from March 4, 1909, until his death in Denver, Cob., Sep- 1887; interment in the Friends Burying Ground, Bristol, Pa.tember 3, 1941; chairman, Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Appropriations TAYLOR, Chester William (sonof Samuel Mitchell(Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); inter- Taylor), a Representative from Arkansas; born in Verona,ment in a mausoleum in Rosebud Cemetery, Glenwood Lee County, Miss., July 16, 1883; moved to Pine Bluff, Ark.,Springs, Cob. with his parents; attended the public schools in Pine Bluff, Ark.; studied law at Georgetown University Law School, TAYLOR, Ezra Booth, a Representative from Ohio; born Washington, D.C.; deputy State auditor 1908-1910; deputyin Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, July 9, 1823; attended the secretary of state in 1911; deputy State treasurer in 1911common and select schools and academies; studied law; was and 1912; secretary to his father 1913-1921; electedas aadmitted to the bar and commenced practice in Portage Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill thevacancyCounty in 1845; elected prosecuting attorney in 1854; moved caused by the death of his father, Samuel M. Taylor, andto Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1861; enrolled as a served from October 31, 1921, to March 3, 1923;was not aprivate in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio candidate for renomination in 1922; engaged in the generalInfantry, on April 27, 1864; was mustered into service on insurance business at Pine Bluff, Ark., and lateras an offi-May 5, 1864, and was honorably discharged on August 20, cial in the State department of conservation at Little Rock,1864; elected judge of the court of common pleas for the until his death in Pine Bluff, Ark., July 17, 1931; intermentninth judicial district of Ohio and served from March 1877 in Bellewood Cemetery. to September 1880, when he resigned; elected as a Republi- TAYLOR, Dean Park, a Representative from New York;can to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by born in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., January 1, 1902;the resignation of James A. Garfield; reelected to the Forty- attended the public schools and Colgate University, Hamil-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses and served ton, N.Y.; was graduated from Union University Depart- from December 13, 1880, to March 3, 1893; chairman, Com- ment of Law, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1926; was admitted tomittee on the Judiciary (Fifty-first Congress); declined to be the bar the same year and commenced practice in Troy,a candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice N.Y.; served as assistant United States attorney, northernof his profession; died in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, district of New York, 1927-1930; chairman of the RensselaerJanuary 29, 1912; interment in the Warren mausoleum at County Republican Committee, 1938-1952; delegate to theOakwood Cemetery. Republican National Convention in 1940; chairman, New TAYLOR, Gene, a Representative from Missouri; born York State Republican Committee, 1953-1954; trustee ofnear Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Mo., February 10, 1928; at- Russell Sage College; director of the Union National Banktended the public schools; attended Southwest Missouri and of the Niagara Mohawk Power Co.; electedas a Republi-State College, Springfield, 1945-1947; served in the One Biographies 1915

Hundred and Eighth Cavalry, Missouri National Guard,and served from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1951; unsuc- 1948-1949; automobile dealer, 1958-1973; mayor, Sarcoxie,cessful candidate for renomination in 1950; unsuccessful can- Mo., 1954-1960; Republican National committeeman, 1966-didate for Vice President of the United States on the Pro- 1972; delegate, Missouri State Republican conventions, 1960,gressive Party ticket in 1948; unsuccessful Democratic candi- 1964, 1968, and 1972; delegate, Republican National Conven- date for election to the United States Senate in 1954 and for tions, 1960-1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-thirdthe nomination in 1956; president of Coryell Construction and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-Co. 1950-1952, and of Taylor Topper, Inc.; died in Millbrae, January 3, 1989); is a resident of Sarcoxie, Mo. Calif., April 28, 1984; interment in Skylawn Cemetery, San Mateo, Calif. of Millbrae, Calif. TAYLOR, George, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Bibliography: Peterson, Frank Ross. Prophet Without Honor: Glen Taylor Ireland in 1716; pursued academic studies; immigrated to and the Fight for American Liberalism. Lexington: University Press of the United States in 1736 and settled at Warwick Furnace Kentucky, 1974; Taylor, Glen Hearst. The Way It Was With Me. Secaucus, and later at Coventry Forge, Chester County, Pa.; engaged N.J.: L. Stuart, 1979. in the manufacture of iron; moved to Durham, Pa., in 1755; justice of the peace in 1757, 1761, and 1763; moved to Easton, TAYLOR, Herbert Worthington, a Representative from Pa., in 1763; member of the provincial assembly 1764-1769;New Jersey; born in Belleville, Essex County, N.J., February justice of the peace for Northampton County 1764-1772; ap-19, 1869; attended the public schools, and was graduated pointed judge of the county court in 1770; again a member offrom the law school of the University of New York, New the provincial assembly in 1775; colonel of PennsylvaniaYork City, in 1891; was admitted to the New York bar the Militia in 1775; returned to Durham in 1775; Member of thesame year and to the New Jersey bar in 1897, and practiced Continental Congress in 1776; signer of the Declaration ofin New York City and Newark, N.J.; member of the common Independence; member of the First Supreme Executivecouncil of Newark 1899-1903; member of the State assembly Council in 1777; returned to Easton, Pa., in 1780, where hein 1904 and 1905; chairman of the Essex County Republican died February 23, 1781; interment in St. John's Lutherancommittee 1913-1917; delegate to the Republican National Church Cemetery; reinterment in the Easton Cemetery. Convention in 1916; county counsel of Essex County 19 16- Bibliography: DAB. 1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for TAYLOR, George, a Representative from New York; bornrenomination in1922; resumed the practice of law in in Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), October 19, 1820;Newark, N.J.; elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, completed preparatory studies; studied medicine and law;1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in was admitted to the bar and practiced in Indiana; moved to Alabama in 1844, and to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1848, where he1926; resumed the practice of law in Newark, N.J., where he continued the practice of law; held several local offices;died on October 15, 1931; interment in East Ridgelawn Cem- elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,etery, Delawanna, N.J. 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in TAYLOR, Isaac Hamilton, a Representative from Ohio; 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice ofborn near New Harrisburg (later Hibbetts), Carroll County, law in Washington, D.C., until his death there January 18,Ohio, April 18, 1840; attended the common schools and com- 1894; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. pleted an academic course; studied law; was admitted to the TAYLOR, George Washington, a Representative frombar in 1867 and commenced practice in Carroilton, Ohio; Alabama; born on "Roselawn" plantation near Montgomery,clerk of court in Carroll County, Ohio, 1870-1877; elected as Montgomery County, Ala., January 16, 1849; attended pri-a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March4, 1885- vate schools; while a schoolboy in Columbia, S.C., enlisted inMarch 3,1887); was not a candidate for renomination in the Confederate Army in November 1864, and served until1886; moved to Canton, Ohio, and resumed the practice of the end of the war; was graduated from the University oflaw; delegate to the Republican National Convention in South Carolina at Columbia in1867; taught school in1892; judge of the court of common pleas from 1889 to 1901, Mobile, Ala., and studied law; was admitted to the bar inwhen he resigned; engaged in the practice of his profession Mobile, Ala., in November 1871 and commenced practice inin Canton, Ohio, until 1922; died at Congress Lake, near Butler, Choctaw County, Ala., in 1872; member of the StateHartville, Stark County, Ohio, December 18, 1936; interment house of representatives in 1878 and 1879; State solicitor forin Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio. the first judicial circuit of Alabama 1880-1892; declined a TAYLOR, James Alfred, a Representative from West Vir- third term; moved to Demopolis, Marengo County, Ala., inginia; born near Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, September 1883; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the25, 1878; attended the public schools; employed in a printing eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915);office in Ironton, Ohio; moved to Alderson, W.Va., and en- was not a candidate for renomination in 1914; resumed thegaged in the newspaper business; moved from Greenbrier practice of law in Demopolis, Ala.; chairman of the StateCounty to Fayette County in 1905; served as a noncommis- Democratic convention which called the constitutional con- sioned officer in the West Virginia National Guard 1908- vention in 1901; was a delegate to the Democratic National1911; member of the State house of representatives 1916- Convention in 1920; died in Rome, Ga., while on a visit in 1918, 1920-1922, 1930-1932, and 1936-1938, serving as speak- that city, on December 21, 1932; interment in Oakwood Cem- er 1930-1932; elected as a Democrat to theSixty-eighth and etery, Montgomery, Ala. Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was TAYLOR, Glen Hearst, a Senator from Idaho; born inan unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 tothe Sev- Portland, Oreg., April 12, 1904; moved to a homestead nearentieth Congress; resumed the newspaper publishing busi- Kooskia, Idaho, as a child; attended the public schools ofness; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for thegubernatori- Idaho; joined a dramatic stock company in 1919; owner andal nomination in 1928; served as secretary of the West Vir- manager of various entertainment enterprises 1926-1944;ginia Liquor Commission 1941-1945; elected a member of the country-western singer; unsuccessful Democratic candidateFayette County Board of Education in 1946 for a six-year for election to the United States Senate in 1940 and 1942;term; died in Montgomery, W.Va., on June 9, 1956; inter- elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944ment in Huse Memorial Park, Fayetteville, W.Va. 1916 Biographical Directory

TAYLOR, James Willis, a Representative from Tennessee;the Columbia Theological Seminary (Presbyterian); died at born near Lead Mine Bend, Union County, Tenn., August 28,Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., April 16, 1832; interment in 1880; attended the public schools, Holbrook Normal College,the family burial ground at Columbia, S.C. Fountain City, Tenn., and the American Temperance Uni- versity, Harriman, Tenn.; taught school for severalyears; TAYLOR, John, a Representative from South Carolina; was graduated from the law department of Cumberland Uni-member, State house of representatives, 1802-1805; elected versity, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1902; was admitted to the bar theas a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815- same year; moved to La Follette, Campbell County, Tenn.,March 3, 1817); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1816 and commenced practice; postmaster at La Follette 1904-to the Fifteenth Congress and for election in 1820 to the 1909; served as mayor 1910-1913 and in 1918 and 1919;Seventeenth Congress. insurance commissioner for the State of Tennessee in 1913 and 1914; chairman of the Republican State executivecom- TAYLOR, John Clarence, a Representative from South mittee in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican to theCarolina; born in Honea Path, Anderson County, S.C., Sixty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and servedMarch 2, 1890; attended the public schools and Fruitland from March 4, 1919, until his death; chairman, CommitteeInstitute, Hendersonville, N.C.; was graduated from the law on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-eighthdepartment of the University of South Carolina at Columbia and Sixty-ninth Congresses); member of the Republican Na-in 1919; during the First World War attended the Officers' tional Executive Committee 1929-1939; died in La Follette,Training School at Camp Johnston, Fla., in 1918 and was Tenn., November 14, 1939; interment in Woodlawn Ceme-discharged into the Reserves at the end of the war; was tery. admitted to the bar in 1919; engaged in agricultural pur- suits; clerk of court and register of deeds for Anderson TAYLOR, John, a Senator from Virginia; known as "JohnCounty, S.C., from 1920 until elected to Congress; elected as Taylor of Caroline" to distinguish him from others of thea Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seven- same name; born in either Orange or Caroline County, Va.,ty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); was an probably on December 19, 1753; educated by private tutors;unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Sev- studied at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,enty-sixth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; Va., 1770-1772; studied law; was admitted to the bar andmember, South Carolina State senate, 1951-1954 and 1959- commenced practice in Caroline County in 1774; served in 1962; resident of Anderson, S.C., until his death there March the Revolutionary War as major and colonel; member, State25, 1983; interment in Garden of Memories, Honea Path, house of delegates 1779-1785, with the exception of 1782, S.C. and 1796-1800; retired from the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected in 1792 to the United States TAYLOR, John James, a Representative from New York; Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rich-born in Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., April 27, 1808; ard Henry Lee; reelected in 1793 and served from Octoberattended the common schools, New Ipswich Academy, and 1792, until his resignation on May 11, 1794; presidentialGroton Academy; was graduated from Harvard University elector in 1797; appointed to the United States Senateas ain 1829; engaged in teaching for a short time; moved to Troy, Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ste-N.Y., in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 vens T. Mason and served from June 4 to December 7, 1803,and commenced practice in Greene, Chenango County, N.Y.; when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for elec-moved to Owego, N.Y., in 1834 and continued the practice of tion to fill the vacancy; elected in 1822 to the United Stateslaw; appointed district attorney of Tioga County in 1838, and Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofserved until 1843, when he resigned; member of the village James Pleasants; reelected in 1823, and served from Decem-board of trustees in 1839, 1843, and 1848; first chief engineer ber 18, 1822, until his death in Caroline County, Va., Augustof the fire department in 1844; member of the State constitu- 21, 1824; political theorist; interment on "Hazeiwood" farm,tional convention in 1846; unsuccessful candidate for elec- near Port Royal, Caroline County, Va. tion in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Bibliography: DAB; Hill, Charles william, Jr. The Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline. Rutherfurd, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4,1853- Press, 1976; Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline. Columbia, S.C.: March 3, 1855); resumed the practice of his profession; ten- University of South Carolina Press, 1980. dered the appointment of commissioner to settle the north- western boundary of the United States by President Frank- TAYLOR, John, a Representative and a Senator fromun Pierce, but declined the position; unsuccessful Democrat- South Carolina; born near Granby, S.C., May 4, 1770; attend-ic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1858; ed Mount Zion Institute, Columbia, S.C., andwas graduatedpresident of the village of Owego in 1859; engaged in bank- from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)ing; elected vice president and later president of the South- in 1790; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1793 andern Central Railway Co., later the Auburn division of the commenced practice in Columbia, S.C.; also engaged inLehigh Valley Railroad Co.; died in Owego, Tioga County, planting; member, State house of representatives 1796-1802,N.Y., July 1, 1892; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. 1804-1805; circuit court solicitor 1805-1806; servedas first intendant of Columbia 1806-1807; elected asa Republican to TAYLOR, John Lampkin, a Representative from Ohio; the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses and served from Marchborn in Stafford County, near Fredericksburg, Va., March 7, 4, 1807, until his resignation on December 30, 1810; elected1805; completed preparatory studies; studied law in Wash- as a Republican to the United States Senate on Decemberington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and com- 1810, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofmenced practice in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, in 1829; Thomas Sumter; was also elected on December 20, 1810, for major general in the State militia for several years; elected the full term beginning March 4, 1811, and served fromas a Whig to the Thirtieth and to the three succeeding December 31, 1810, until his resignation in November 1816;Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1855); served as a clerk member, State senate 1818-1826; Governor of South Caroli- in the Interior Department from May 1,1870, until his na 1826-1828; trustee of South Carolina College (now thesudden death at his desk in Washington, D.C., September 6, University of South Carolina) at Columbia and director of1870; interment in the family burying ground on the Taylor Biographies 1917 ancestral estate, "Mansfield," near Louisa, Louisa County,at Antrim; taught school 1854-1856, and was principal of the Va. Fairview High School in 1857; studied law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; was graduated TAYLOR,John May, a Representative from Tennessee;from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860 and commenced born in Lexington, Henderson County, Tenn., May 18, 1838;practice in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, the same attended the Male Academy in Lexington and the Unionyear; owner of the Guernsey Times 1861-1871; duringthe University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; was graduated from theCivil War entered the Union Army as a captain in the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1861; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was judge menced practice in Lexington; enlisted in the Confederateadvocate of the Department of Indiana in 1863 and 1864; Army; was elected first lieutenant in June 1861 and promot-citizen judge advocate in Indianapolis, md., in 1865; pros- ed to captain; elected major in the Twenty-seventh Tennes-ecuting attorney of Guernsey County, Ohio, 1863-1866; dele- see Regiment in 1862; mayor of Lexington in 1869 and 1870;gate to the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in1866; delegate to the State constitutional convention of Tennesseemember of the Cambridge School Board 1870-1877; delegate in 1870; attorney general of the eleventh judicial circuit ofto the Republican National Conventions in 1876 and 1880; Tennessee 1870-1878; delegate to the Democratic Nationalelected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill Convention in 1880; member of the State house of represent-the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan T. Updegraff; atives in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from Jan- eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3,uary 2, 1883, to March 3, 1885; unsuccessful candidatefor 1887); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; elected to the ment of the Navy (Forty-ninth Congress); member of theFiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, State senate in 1892; resumed the practice of law; was ap- 1887-March 3, 1893); died in Cambridge, Ohio, September 19, pointed judge of the criminal court for the eleventh judicial1899; interment in the South Cemetery. circuit in 1895 and subsequently elected for a six-year term, serving until the court was abolished; elected in August 1902 TAYLOR,Miles, a Representative from Louisiana; born in as a judge of the court of chancery appeals (name changed toSaratoga Springs, N.Y., July 16, 1805; received a liberal court of civil appeals by the legislature); reelected in 1910education; moved to Bayou Lafourche, La.; studied medicine, for a period of eight years and served until his death; died inbut never practiced; studied law; was admitted to the bar Lexington, Tenn., February 17, 1911; interment in Lexingtonand commenced practiceinDonaidsonville,Ascension Cemetery. Parish, La.; moved to New Orleans, La., about 1847; held several local offices; appointed by the Governor in 1849 as a TAYLOR,John W., a Representative from New York;member of a committee to revise the Civil Code, the Code of born in Charlton, N.Y., March 26, 1784; received his earlyProcedure, and the Statutes of Louisiana; elected as a Demo- education at home; was graduated from Union College, Sche-crat to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con- nectady, N.Y., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bargresses and served from March 4, 1855, toFebruary 5, 1861, in 1807 and commenced practice in Baliston Spa, N.Y.; orga-when he withdrew; chairman of the Douglas National Exec- nized the Ballston Center Academy; justice of the peace inutive Committee in 1869; resumed the practice of law in 1808; member of the State assembly in 1812 and 1813; elect-New Orleans, La.; died in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., September ed as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and reelected23, 1873; interment on the family plantation, "Front Scat- to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3,tery," near Belle Alliance, Assumption Parish, La. 1833); chairman, Committee on Elections (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses), Committee on Revisal and Unfinished TAYLOR,Nathaniel Green (father of Alfred Alexander Business (Fifteenth Congress), Committee on Elections (Six-Taylor and Robert Love Taylor), a Representative from Ten- teenth Congress); Speaker of the House of Representativesnessee; born in Happy Valley, Carter County, Tenn., Decem- (Sixteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); unsuccessful candi-ber 29, 1819; was educated in private schools and Washing- date for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress;ton College, near Jonesboro, Tenn.; was graduated from resumed the practice of law in Baliston Spa, N.Y.; memberPrinceton College in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the of the State senate in 1840 and 1841, but resigned in conse-bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Elizabethton, Carter quence of a paralytic stroke; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, inCounty, Tenn.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Con- 1843, and died there September 18, 1854; interment in thegress to fill the vacancy caused by thedeath of Brookins City Cemetery, Baliston Spa, Saratoga County, N.Y. Campbell, who never qualified, and served from March 30, Bibliography: DAB; Spann, Edward K. "John W. Taylor, The Reluctant 1854, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful candidate for reelection Partisan, 1784-1854." Ph.D dissertation, New York University, 1957. in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; presidential elector on TAYLOR,Jonathan, a Representative from Ohio; bornthe Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and Everett in 1860; near Mansfield, Conn., in 1796; moved to Newark, Ohio;member of the relief association formed for the aid of war completed an academic course; studied law; was admitted tosufferers in east Tennessee and lectured in their behalf the bar and commenced practice in Newark; appointed bythroughout the East; upon the readmission of Tennessee to the Governor a commissioner to settle the boundary disputerepresentation was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-ninth between Ohio and Michigan; brigadier general in the StateCongress and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1867; militia; member of the State house of representatives 183 1-was not a candidate for renomination in 1866,Commissioner 1833; served in the State senate 1833-1836; elected as aof Indian Affairs from March 26, 1867, to April 21, 1869, Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-when he retired, and devoted himself to farming and preach- March 3, 1841); died in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, ining; died in Happy Valley, Carter County, Tenn., April 1, April 1848; interment in the Old Cemetery; reinterment in1887; interment in the old Taylor private cemetery. Cedar Hill Cemetery. TAYLOR,Nelson, a Representative from New York; born TAYLOR,Joseph Danner, a Representative from Ohio;in South Norwalk, Conn., June 8,1821; attended the born in Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio, Novembercommon schools; enlisted for the Mexican War as acaptain 7, 1830; attended the common schools and Madison Collegein the First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, 1918 Biographical Directory

August 1, 1846, and was sent to California in 1846 justant in 1946; member of the North Carolina general assembly before the outbreak of the war; was honorably mustered out1947-1949 and 1951-1953; Buncombe County attorney 1949- September 18, 1848; remained in California and engaged in1960; member of board of trustees of Asheville, Biltmore business at Stockton; member of the State senate 1850-1856; College 1949-1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth president of the board of trustees of the State insane asylumCongress, by special election, June 25, 1960, to fill the vacan- 1850-1856; elected sheriff of San Joaquin County in 1855;cy caused by the death of David M. Hall; reelected to the moved to New York City; was graduated from the law de-eight succeeding Congresses, and served from June 25, 1960, partment of Harvard University in 1860; was admitted toto January 3, 1977; was not a candidate for reelection in the bar and practiced; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; is a resident of Black election in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress;was commis-Mountain, N.C. sioned colonel of the Seventy-second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, July 23, 1861; brigadier general of Vol- TAYLOR, Samuel Mitchell (father of Chester William unteers September 7, 1862; resigned from the service Janu-Taylor), a Representative from Arkansas; born near Fulton, ary 19, 1863; resumed the practice of law in New York City;Itawamba County, Miss., May 25, 1852; attended the public elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress (Marchschools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Tupelo, 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionMiss., and commenced practice in 1876; member of the State in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; moved to South Norwalk,house of representatives in 1879 and 1880; moved to Pine Conn., in 1869 and continued the practice of law; servedBluff, Jefferson County, Ark., in 1887, where he continued several times as city attorney; died in South Norwalk, Fair-the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of the eleventh field County, Conn., January 16, 1894; interment in River- judicial district of Arkansas 1888-1892; delegate to the side Cemetery. Democratic National Convention in 1896; elected as a Demo- TAYLOR, Robert, a Representative from Virginia; born atcrat to the Sixty-third Congress; subsequently elected to the Orange Court House, Va., April 29, 1763; completedprepara-Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- tory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1783nation of Joseph T. Robinson; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and commenced practice at Orange Court House, Va.; heldand to the three succeeding Congresses and served from several local offices; member of the State senate 1804-1815,January 15, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., Sep- and served as president pro tempore; elected to the Nine-tember 13, 1921; interment in Bellewood Cemetery, Pine teenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827);was not aBluff, Ark. candidate for renomination in 1826; devoted his attention to TAYLOR, Vincent Albert, a Representative from Ohio; the management of his plantation; died on his estate,born in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, December 6, 1845; "Meadow Farm," in Orange County, Va., July 3, 1845; inter-attended the common schools; enlisted in Company H, One ment in the family burying ground at "Meadow Farm."Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in TAYLOR, Robert Love (son of Nathaniel Green TaylorMay 1864 and in August of the same year in Company H, and brother of Alfred Alexander Taylor), a RepresentativeOne Hundred and Seventy-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volun- and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Happy Valley, Carterteer Infantry, and served until the close of the Civil War; County, Tenn., July 31, 1850; attended Pennington Seminaryengaged in manufacturing pursuits; member of the Ohio in New Jersey, and Buffalo Institute, Milligan, Tenn.; stud- senate 1888-1890; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second ied law in Jonesboro, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1878Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate and practiced in Elizabethton and Jonesboro; electedas afor renomination in 1892; president of the Taylor Chair Co., Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-Marchand a resident of Bedford, Ohio, until his death there De- 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 andcember 2, 1922; interment in Bedford Cemetery. for election in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; practiced law and also engaged in the newspaper business in Johnson TAYLOR, Waller, a Senator from Indiana; born in Lunen- City, Tenn., in 1880; presidential electoron the Democraticburg County, Va., before 1786; attended the common schools; ticket in 1884 and 1892; pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn.,studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Vir- 1885-1887; Governor of Tennessee 1887-1891; resumed theginia; member, State house of delegates 1800-1802; moved to practice of law in Chattanooga, Tenn.; lecturer; Governor ofVincennes, Ind., in 1804 and continued the practice of law; Tennessee 1897-1899; elected as a Democrat to the Unitedappointed chancellor of Indiana Territory in 1807; appointed States Senate in 1907 and served from March 4, 1907,untilmajor in the Territorial militia in 1807; served in the Army his death in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1912; chairman,during the War of 1812 and was promoted to adjutant gener- Committee on the Geological Survey (Sixty-second Congress);al in 1814; upon the admission of Indiana as a State into the interment in the Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.; rein- Union in 1816 was elected as a Republican to the United terred in Monta Vista Cemetery, Johnson City, Tenn., inStates Senate; reelected, and served from December 11, 1816, 1938. to March 3, 1825; died in Lunenburg County, Va., August 26, Bibliography: DAB; Robinson, Daniel. Bob Taylor and the Agrarian 1826; interment in the family burial ground near Lunen- Revolt in Tennessee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935;burg, Va. Taylor, James. The Life and Career of Senator Robert Love Taylor (Our Bob). Nashville: The Bob Taylor Publishing Co., 1913. TAYLOR, William, a Representative from Virginia; born in Alexandria, Va. (then included in the District of Colum- TAYLOR, Roy Arthur, a Representative from North Caro-bia), April 5, 1788; completed preparatory studies; studied lina; born in Vader, Lewis County, Wash., January 31, 1910; law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in moved to Candler, N.C., in 1910 and attended the publicStaunton, Va.; moved to Lexington, Va., in 1813; became a schools of Buncombe County, N.C.; graduated from Ashe-member of the bar; Commonwealth attorney for the county ville-Biltmore College in 1929, Maryville College in 1931, andcourt of Rockbridge 1817-1843; Commonwealth attorney for from Asheville University Law School in 1936;was admittedthe circuit court of Pocahontas County 1817-1843; member to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law inof the house of delegates in 1821; elected as a Democrat to Asheville, N.C.; during the Second World War served in thethe Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses and served United States Navy from 1943 until dischargedas a lieuten-from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., Biographies 1919

January17,1846;chairman, Committee on Accountsliamsburg in 1791; studied law; was admitted to the bar in (Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses); interment in1796 and commenced practicein James City County; the Congressional Cemetery. member, State house of delegates 1798-1800; elected to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation TAYLOR, William, a Representative from New York;of John Marshall and served from November 26, 1800, to born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., October 12, 1791;March 3, 1801; moved to Norfolk, Va., in 1802; member, moved with his parents to Onondaga County, N.Y.; attendedGeneral Assembly 1804-1806; member, Virginia House of the public schools; studied medicine and was admitted toDelegates 1816-1817; one of the commissioners of claims practice; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Con-under the treaty with Spain ceding Florida in 1821; elected gress; reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress and as ain 1824 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1833-caused by the death of John Taylor; reelected in 1829, and March 3, 1839); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensionsserved from December 7, 1824, to July 16, 1832, when he (Twenty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of his chosenresigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senate profession; member of the State assembly in 1841 and 1842;during the Twenty-second Congress; chairman, Committee delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1846; diedon Foreign Relations (Twentieth throughTwenty-second in Manlius, N.Y., September 16, 1865; interment in ChristCongresses); delegate to the State convention in 1829; Gover- Church Cemetery. nor of Virginia from 1834 until his resignationin 1836; TAYLOR, William Penn, a Representative from Virginia;retired from public life; died in Norfolk, Va., May 6, 1860; born in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va.; received ainterment on his estate on the Eastern Shore of Virginia; limited schooling; held several local offices; elected as anreinterment in 1866 in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Va. Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, Bibliography: DAB; Grigsby, Hugh. Discourse on the Life and Character 1833-March 3, 1835); was an unsuccessful candidate for re- of Honorable Littleton Wailer Tazewell. Norfolk: J.D. Ghiselin, Jr., 1860; election in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; died at Peterson, Norma L. Littieton Wailer Tazeweil. Charlottesville: University "Hayfield," Caroline County, Va., near Fredericksburg, Va.; of Virginia Press, 1983. interment in the family graveyard at "Hayfield." TEAGUE, Charles McKevett, a Representative from Cali- TAYLOR, Zachary, a Representative from Tennessee;fornia; born in Santa Paula, Ventura County, Calif., Septem- born near Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., May 9,ber 18, 1909; attended the public schools; was graduated 1849; attended J.I. Hall's School near Covington, Tenn., andfrom Stanford University in 1931 and from Stanford Law was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lex-School in 1934; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and com- ington as senior captain July 4, 1872, and from the lawmenced the practice of law in Los Angeles and Ventura, department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., inCalif.; served in the United States Air Force 1942-1946; January 1874; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-awarded Air Force commendation ribbon; director of McKe- tice in Covington, Tenn., in 1878; served in the State senate,vett Corp. and Teague-McKevett Co.; elected as a Republican 1881-1883; postmaster of Covington, Tenn., from July 1,to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses, 1883, to January 1, 1885, when he resigned; elected as aand served from January 3, 1955, until his death January 1, Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-1974, in Santa Paula, Calif.; cremated; ashes interred in March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886family plot in Santa Paula Cemetery. to the Fiftieth Congress; moved to Memphis, Tenn., and TEAGUE, Olin Earl, a Representative from Texas; born in engaged in the general life insurance business; delegate toWoodward, Woodward County, Okla., April 6, 1910; attended the Republican National Convention in 1896; moved to Sanelementary and high school in Mena, Ark.; B.A., Texas Agri- Antonio, Tex.; died in Ellendale, Shelby County, Tenn., Feb- cultural and Mechanical College at College Station, 1932; ruary 19, 1921; interment in Zachary Taylor National Ceme-employed in the post office at College Station, Tex., 1932- tery, Springfield, Ky. 1940; enlisted, on October 5, 1940, in the United States TAZEWELL, Henry (father of Littleton Wailer Tazewell),Army, being commissioned a first lieutenant; commanded a Senator from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Va.,the First Battalion, Three Hundred and Fourteenth Infan- November 27, 1753; attended the rural schools; graduatedtry, Seventy-ninth Division; awarded the Silver Star with from the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg intwo clusters, Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart with two 1770; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedclusters; was discharged as a colonel at Walter Reed General practice in 1773; member, provincial house of burgessesHospital September 6, 1946; elected as a Democrat to the 1775; raised and was commissioned captain of a troop ofSeventy-ninth Congress, by special election, August 24, 1946, cavalry in the Revolutionary War; delegate to the Stateto fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Luther A. constitutional convention of 1775 and 1776; member, GeneralJohnson; reelected to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and Assembly 1778-1785; judge of the State supreme court 1785-served from August 24, 1946, until his resignation December 1793, chief justice 1789-1793; judge of the high court of31, 1978; chairman, Select Committee on Education, Train- appeals 1793; elected in 1794 to the United States Senate toing, and Loan Programs of World War II Veterans (Eighty- fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Taylor,first and Eighty-second Congresses), Committee on Veterans' reelected in 1798, and served from December 29, 1794, untilAffairs (Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second Congresses), his death; served as President pro tempore of the SenateCommittee on Science and Astronautics (Ninety-third Con- during the Third and Fourth Congresses; died in Philadel-gress), Committee on Science and Technology (Ninety-fourth phia, Pa., January 24, 1799; interment in Christ Churchand Ninety-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelec- Cemetery. tion in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resided in Wash- Bibliography: DAB. ington, D.C., until his death in Bethesda, Md., January 23, 1981; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. TAZEWELL, Littleton Wailer (son of ), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in Wil- TEESE, Frederick Halstead, a Representative from New liamsburg, Va., December 17, 1774; privately tutored; wasJersey; born in Newark, N.J., October 21, 1823; was graduat- graduated from the College of William and Mary at Wil-ed from Princeton College in 1843; studied law; was admitted 1920 Biographical Directory

to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Newark, N.J.;mittee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Con- member of the State house of assembly in 1860 and 1861,gress), Committee on Pensions (Forty-seventh Congress); ap- serving as speaker in 1861; presiding judge of the court ofpointed Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President common pleas of Essex County from 1864 until his resigna-Chester Arthur 1882-1885; elected as a Republican to the tion in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Con-United States Senate in 1885 and 1891, as a Silver Republi- gress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); declined the nomina-can in 1897, and as a Democrat in 1903, and served from tion for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress;re-March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1909; declined to be a candidate sumed the practice of law; died in New York City January 7,for renomination; chairman, Committee on Mines and 1894; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.Mining (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Patents (Fifti- TEIGAN, Henry George, a Representative from Minneso-eth through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Privi- ta; born in Forest City, Winnebago County, Iowa, August 7,leges and Elections (Fifty-second Congress), Committee on 1881; attended the public schools, Luther Academy, AlbertClaims (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee Lea, Minn., and Central College, Pella, Iowa;was graduatedon Private Land Claims (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Con- from Valparaiso (md.) University in 1908; taught in thegresses); member of the United States Monetary Commission Iowa rural schools 1900-1904, at Des Lacs, N.Dak., in 19091908-1912; engaged in the practice of law until his death in and 1910, and at Logan, N.Dak., 1912-1913; secretary ofDenver, Cob., February 23, 1914; interment in Fairmount North Dakota State Socialist Party 1913-1916; moved toCemetery. Minneapolis, Minn., in 1917; secretary of National Nonparti- Bibliography: DAB; Ellis, Elmer. Henry Moore Teller: Defender of the san League 1916-1923; secretary to Senator West. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1941; Holsinger, M. Paul. "Henry 1923-1925; editor and newspaper writer 1923-1933; served inM. Teller and the Edinunds-Tucker Act." Colorado Magazine 48 (Winter 1971): 1-14. the State senate 1933-1935; elected as a Farmer-Laboriteto the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, TELLER, Isaac (nephew Of Abraham Henry Schenck), a 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to theRepresentative from New York; born in Matteawan, Dutch- Seventy-sixth Congress and in 1940 for election to the Seven-ess County, N.Y., February 7, 1799; completed preparatory ty-seventh Congress; resumed newspaper and editorial workstudies; held several local offices; elected as a Whig to the in Minneapolis, Minn., until his deathon March 12, 1941;Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- interment in Hillside Cemetery. nation of Gilbert Dean and served from November 7, 1854, TELFAIR, Edward (father of Thomas Telfair),a Delegateto March 3, 1855; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in from Georgia; born in "Town Head," Scotland, in 1735;wasMatteawan (now Beacon), N.Y., April 30, 1868; interment in graduated from the Kirkcudbright Grammar School and sub-the Rural Cemetery, Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y. sequently acquired a thorough commercial training; immi- TELLER, Ludwig, a Representative from New York; born grated to the United States in 1758 as agent ofa commercialin New York City (Borough of Manhattan), N.Y., June 22, house and settled in Virginia; moved to Halifax, N.C.; estab- 1911; educated in the public schools; graduated from New lished a commission house in Savannah, Ga., in 1766;York University in 1936 and from the law school of the member of the council of safety in 1775 and 1776; delegate tosame university in 1935; was admitted to the bar in 1936 and the Provincial Congress at Savannah in 1776; member of the committee of intelligence and other important committees incommenced the practice of law in New York City; expert 1776; Member of the Continental Congress 1778, 1780, 1781, consultant to Labor Relations Board, War Department, in and 1782; one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation 1942;trial examiner, New York State Labor Relations and a delegate to the State ratification convention; commis-Board, 1942-1946; served as a senior lieutenant in the sioner to treat with the Cherokee Indians in 1783; designat-United States Navy as communications officer in Atlantic ed agent on the part of Georgia to settle the northern bound-convoy, and as labor relations officer, Ninth Naval District, ary of the Commonwealth in February 1783; Governor ofChicago,Ill.,1943-1945; lieutenant commander, United Georgia in 1786 and 1790-1793; died in Savannah, Ga., Sep-States Naval Reserve; served on the faculty of New York tember 17, 1807; interment in Bonaventure Cemetery. University Law School 1947-1950 and professor of law at Bibliography: DAB; Coulter, E. Merton. "Edward Telfair." Georgia His New York Law School in 1950; member of the State assem- torical Quarterly 20 (June 1936): 99-124. bly 1950-1956; elected .as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961); TELFAIR, Thomas (son of Edward Telfair),a Representa-was unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination in 1960 and tive from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., March 2, 1780;also for election as a Liberal candidate to the Eighty-seventh was graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied law;Congress; resumed the practice of law in New York City was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Savan-until his death October 4, 1965; interment in Union Fields nah, Ga.; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth andCemetery, Jamaica, Queens County, N.Y. Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); died in Savannah, Ga., February 18, 1818; interment in Bonaven- TEMPLE, , a Representative from Pennsyl- ture Cemetery. vania; born in Belle Center, Logan County, Ohio, March 31, 1864; attended the common schools; was graduated from TELLER, Henry Moore, a Senator from Colorado; born inGeneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1883 and from the Granger, Allegany County, N.Y., May 23, 1830; attendedCovenanter Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., in 1887, Rushford and Alfred Academies in New York; taught school;pastor of churches at Baxter, Leechburg, and Washington, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Binghamton,Pa.; professor of political science at Washington and Jeffer- N.Y., in 1858; moved to Illinois in 1858 and to Colorado inson College, Washington, Pa., 1898-1913; elected as a Pro- 1861; major general of Colorado militia 1862-1864; involvedgressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, in railroad and real estate development;upon the admission1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to succeed him- of Colorado as a State into the Union in 1876was elected asself in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected as a Repub- a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected, andlican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused served from November 15, 1876, until his resignationonby the death of William M. Brown; reelected to the Sixty- April 17, 1882, to accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Corn-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served Biographies 1921 from November 2, 1915, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful can-for election as a Republican in 1948, 1950, 1952, and 1954; didate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;resumed practice in Hamtramck, Mich.; died in Hamtramck, professor of international relations in Washington and Jef-Mich., August 31, 1963; interment in Arlington National ferson College from 1933 until his retirement in 1947; diedCemetery. in Washington, Pa., January 11, 1955; interment in Wash- TEN EYCK, Egbert, a Representative from New York; ington Cemetery. born in Schodack, Rensselaer County, N.Y., April 18, 1779; TEMPLE, William, a Representative from Delaware; bornwas graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in Queen Anne County, Md., February 28, 1814; completedin 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and preparatory studies; moved to Smyrna, Del., and engaged incommenced practice in Watertown, N.Y.; member of the mercantile pursuits; member of the State house of represent-State assembly in 1812 and 1813 and served as speaker; atives in 1844 and served as speaker; served in the Statesupervisor of Jefferson County in 1816; trustee of the village senate 1845-1854; Acting Governor of Delaware from Mayof Watertown in 1816; one of the incorporators of the Jeffer- 1846 to January 1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-son County National Bank; first secretary of theJefferson eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, until hisCounty Agricultural Society in 1817; president of the village death before the convening of the Congress; died in Smyrna,of Watertown in 1820; delegate to the State constitutional Del., May 28, 1863; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery.convention in 1822; elected to the Eighteenth Congress TEMPLETON, Thomas Weir, a Representative from(March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); presented credentials as a Pennsylvania; born in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa., No- Member-elect to the Nineteenth Congress and served from vember 8, 1867; attended the public schools and was graduat-March 4 to December 15, 1825, when he was succeeded by ed from Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; studied law; wasDaniel Hugunin, Jr., who contested his election; was judge of admitted to the bar in 1899 but did not practice; prothono-the Jefferson County courts for nine years; died in Water- tary of Luzerne County 1904-1907; engaged in business as atown, Jefferson County, N.Y., April 11, 1844; interment in florist at Kingston; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifthBrookside Cemetery. Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate TEN EYCK, John Conover, a Senator from New Jersey; for renomination in 1918; superintendent of grounds andborn in Freehold, Monmouth County, N.J., March 12, 1814; buildings at the State capitol in 1920-1923; resumed thecompleted preparatory studies under private tutors; studied florist business in Kingston, Pa.; died in Plymouth, Pa., Sep-law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced prac- tember 5, 1935; interment in Edgehill Cemetery, West Nanti-tice in Burlington, N.J.; prosecuting attorney for Burlington coke, Pa. County 1839-1849; delegate to the State constitutional con- TENER, John Kinley, a Representative from Pennsylva-vention in 1844; elected as a Republican to the United States nia; born in County Tyrone, Ireland, July 25, 1863; immi-Senate and served from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1865; grated to the United States with his parents, who settled inunsuccessful candidate for reelection; appointed a member of Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1872; attended the public and higha commission to revise the New Jersey constitutionin 1875, schools; was employed by manufacturing firms and corpora-and for a time was president of the commission; died in tions in and about Pittsburgh; engaged as a professionalMount Holly, N.J., August 24, 1879; interment in St. An- baseball player 1885-1890; entered the banking business indrew's Cemetery. Charleroi, Pa., in 1901, serving as cashier and later as presi- dent of the First National Bank; elected as a Republican to TEN EYCK, Peter Gansevoort, a Representative from the Sixty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1909, toNew York; born in Bethlehem, Albany County, N.Y., No- January 16, 1911, when he resigned, having been electedvember 7, 1873; was educated in the common schools in Governor; Governor of Pennsylvania 1911-1915; president ofNormansville, the Albany Academy, and the Rensselaer the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs 19 14-Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.; engaged in civil and signal 19 18; elected as director of the Philadelphia National Leagueengineering for fifteen years; signal engineer of the New Baseball Club in 1931; engaged in the insurance businessYork Central Lines; chief engineer of the Federal Railway until his death; died in Pittsburgh Pa., May 19, 1946; inter-Signal Co. in 1903 and later its vice president and general ment in Howewood Cemetery. manager; served seven years in the Third Signal Corps, Third Brigade, National Guard of New York; elected as a TENEROWICZ, Rudolph Gabriel, a Representative fromDemocrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March Michigan; born in Budapest, June 14, 1890; immigrated to3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the the United States in 1892 with his parents, who settled inSixty-fourth Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Adrian, Pa.; attended the parochial schools in that city, St.Convention in 1920; elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Orchard Lake, Mich., St.(March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); declined to be a candidate for Bonaventure's College, Allegany, N.Y., and St. Ignatius Col-renomination in 1922; engaged in agricultural pursuits near lege, Chicago, Ill.; was graduated in medicine from LoyolaAlbany, N.Y.; died at his summer residence at Altamont, University, Chicago, Ill., in 1912; practiced medicine in Chi-N.Y., September 2, 1944; interment in the Rural Cemetery, cago, Ill., 1912-1923; during the First World War servedAlbany, N.Y. from September 10, 1917; as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army until his discharge on TENNEY, Samuel, a Representative from New Hamp- December 26, 1918; captain in the Medical Reserve Corpsshire; born in Byfield, Mass., November 27, 1748; attended 1919-1934; postgraduate course in surgery at Illinois PostDummer Academy, Byfield, Mass.; was graduated from Har- Graduate School at Chicago, Ill., moved to Hamtramck,vard College in 1772; taught school in Andover, Mass.; stud- Wayne County, Mich., in 1923 and continued the practice ofied medicine and began practice in Exeter, N.H.; surgeon in medicine; mayor of Hamtramck 1928-1932 and 1936-1938;the Revolutionary War; returned to Exeter at the close of member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors forthe war and continued the practice of his profession; dele- seven years; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth andgate to the State constitutional convention in 1788; judge of Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3,probate for Rockingham County 1793-1800; elected as a Fed- 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 anderalist to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by 1922 Biographical Directory

the resignation of William Gordon; reelected to the Seventh,County, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives Eighth, and Ninth Congresses and served from December 8,1810-1813; held various local offices; elected as a Republican 1800, to March 3, 1807; chairman, Committee on Revisal andto the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817- Unfinished Business (Eighth and Ninth Congresses); pursuedMarch 3, 1821); declined to be a candidate for renomination literary, historical, and scientific studies; died in Exeter,in 1820; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Sparta, N.H., February 6, 1816; interment in the Old Cemetery.Ga., July 4, 1855; interment in Sparta Cemetery. TENZER, Herbert, a Representative from New York; born TERRY, David Dickson (son of William Leake Terry), a in New York City, November 1,1905; attended publicRepresentative from Arkansas; born in Little Rock, Pulaski schools; graduated from New York University Law School inCounty, Ark., January 31, 1881; attended the public schools, 1927; was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced thethe Bethel Military Academy in Fauquier County, Va., and practice of law in the same year; January 1, 1937, organizedthe University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was graduated and became senior partner in a law firm in New York City;from the law department of the University of Arkansas at elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and NinetiethFayetteville in 1903; later attended the University of Chica- Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1969); was nota candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress;go, Chicago, Ill.; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and com- trustee of Yeshiva University; chairman, Nassau Countymenced practice in Little Rock, Ark.; during the First World board of ethics, 1969-1983; vice chairman, New York StateWar enlisted on June 5, 1918, later commissioned a second special advisory committee on medical malpractice, 1975;lieutenant of Infantry, and was discharged on December 20, chairman, New York State board of social welfare, 1977-1918; member of the Little Rock School Board 1929-1933; 1983; is a resident of Lawrence, Long Island, N.Y. member of the State house of representatives in 1933; elect- ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the TERRELL, George Butler, a Representative from Texas;vacancy caused by the resignation of Heartsill Ragon; re- born in Alto, Cherokee County, Tex., December 5, 1862; at-elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding tended the public schools, Sam Houston Teachers' College,Congresses and served from December 19, 1933, to January Huntsville, Tex., and Baylor University, Waco, Tex.; taught3, 1943; was not a candidate for renomination in 1942, but school in Cherokee County, Tex., 1886-1903; member of thewas an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United State teachers' examining board in 1897 and 1902, and of theStates Senator; engaged in the practice of law; director of State textbook commission in 1903; engaged in agriculturalthe Division of Flood Control Water and Soil Conservation of pursuits and in stock raising near Alto, Tex., in 1903;the Arkansas Resources and Development Commission 1945- member of the State house of representatives 1898-1902,1953; died in Little Rock, Ark., October 6, 1963; interment in 1906-1912, 1916-1920, 1930-1932; elected commissioner ofag-Mount Holly Cemetery. riculture of Texas in 1920, serving by reelection until 1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March TERRY, John Hart, a Representative from New York; 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomina-born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., November 14, tion in 1934; resumed agricultural pursuits and resided at1924; attended public and private schools in Syracuse; pre- Alto, Tex., until his death there on April 18, 1947; intermentlaw, University of Notre Dame, 1945; LL.B. (J.D.), Syracuse in the Old Palestine Cemetery, near Alto, Tex. University, 1948; entered the United States Army in Sep- tember 1943 as a private and served in European Theater of TERRELL, James C., a Representative from Georgia; bornOperations with rank of regimental sergeant major; received in Franklin County, Ga., November 7, 1806; studied law;wasBronze Star with clusters, and Purple Heart; discharged admitted to the bar by an act of the legislature andprac-with rank of first lieutenant, 1946; admitted to the New ticed in Carnesville, Ga.; member of the State house ofrep-York bar in 1948 and commenced practice in Syracuse; ad- resentatives 1830-1834; elected on a Union ticket to themitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court and Twenty-fourth Congress and served from March 4 to July 8,the District of Columbia; elected and reelected to six consec- 1835, when he resigned, before Congress convened,on ac-utive terms to Onondaga County Board of Supervisors, 1948- count of ill health; died at Carnesville, Franklin County, Ga.,1958; appointed assistant secretary to the Governor of New December 1, 1835. York, 1959-1961; member, Inter-Group Relations Advisory TERRELL, Joseph Meriwether, a Senator from Georgia;Council of New York State Division of Housing and Commu- born in Greenville, Meriwether County, Ga., June 6, 1861;nity Renewal, 1961-1962; elected and reelected to five con- attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted tosecutive terms as member of New York State assembly, the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Greenville, Ga.;1963-1970; chairman, New York State United Services Orga- member, State house of representatives 1884-1887; member,nization, 1970; assistant secretary, New York State Republi- State senate 1890; attorney general of Georgia 1892-1902;can convention, 1958, and delegate in 1962; elected as a Governor of Georgia 1902-1907; resumed the practice of lawRepublican to the Ninety-second Congress (January 3, 197 1- in Atlanta, Ga.; appointed as a Democrat to the UnitedJanuary 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofto the Ninety-third Congress; senior vice president, general Alexander S. Clay and served from November 17, 1910, tocounsel and secretary, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 1973- July 14, 1911, when he resigned; again resumed the practice1987; resumed the practice of law in Syracuse; is a resident of his profession in Atlanta, Ga., and died there Novemberof Syracuse and Vero Beach, Fla. 17, 1912; interment in the City Cemetery, Greenville, Ga. Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Joseph Terrell." In Senators From TERRY, Nathaniel, a Representative from Connecticut; Georgia. pp. 196-99. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976. born in Enfield, Conn., January 30,1768; attended the common schools, Dartmouth College, and was graduated TERRELL, William, a Representative from Georgia; bornfrom Yale College in 1786; studied law; was admitted to the in Fairfax County, Va., in 1778; moved with his parents tobar in 1790 and commenced practice in Enfield; moved to Georgia; pursued classical studies; was graduated from theHartford in 1796; commander of the Governor's Foot Guard medical department of the University of Pennsylvania atof Hartford 1802-1813; judge of the Hartford County Court Philadelphia and commenced practice in Sparta, Hancockfrom 1807 to 1809, when he resigned; member of the State Biographies 1923 house of representatives 1804-1815; elected as a Federalist toentered the service as a private in 1942; became combat the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3,1819); intelligence officer with the Fourteenth United States Air member of the State constitutional convention in 1818; presi-Force's Flying Tigers with twenty-five combat missions in dent of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. 1810-1835; presidentthe China-Burma-India Theater and was discharged as a of the Hartford Bank 1819-1828; mayor of Hartford 1824-major in 1946; president of Tewes Plastics Corp., Waukesha, 1831; served as a general in the State militia; died in NewWis., since 1947; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Haven, Conn., June 14, 1844; interment in Old North (SpringCongress (January 3, 1957-January 3,1959); unsuccessful Grove) Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; is a resident of Waukesha, Wis. TERRY, William, a Representative from Virginia; born in Amherst County, Va., August 14, 1824; attended an "old THACHER, Thomas Chandler, a Representative from field school" in Amherst County; was graduated from theMassachusetts; born in Yarmouth Port, Mass., July 20, 1858; University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1848; taughtattended the public schools; was graduated from Adams school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 andAcademy, Quincy, Mass., in 1878 and from Harvard Univer- commenced practice in Wytheville, Va.; engaged in newspa-sity in 1882; became engaged in the wool business at Boston per work; served in the Confederate Army as a lieutenant inin 1882; president of the Barnstable County Agricultural the Fourth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to majorSociety; president of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Asso- in 1862, colonel in February 1864, and commissioned briga- ciation; chairman of the Yarmouth Port Planning Board; dier general May 20, 1864; resumed the practice of law inserved as chairman of the Provincetown Tercentenary Com- Wytheville; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Con- mission in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third gress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candi- for renomination in 1872; elected to the Forty-fourth Con- date for reelection in 1914; writer on business topics and also gress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidateengaged in his former business pursuits; died in Boston, for renomination in 1876; delegate to the Democratic Nation-Mass., April 11, 1945; interment in Woodside Cemetery, Yar- al Convention in 1880; resumed the practice of law; drownedmouth Port, Mass. while trying to ford Reed Creek, near Wytheville, Va., Sep- tember 5, 1888; interment in East End Cemetery, Wythe- THATCHER, George, a Delegate and a Representative ville, Va. from Massachusetts; born in Yarmouth, in the county of Barnstable, Mass., April 12, 1754; prepared for college by a TERRY, William Leake (father of David Dickson Terry), aprivate instructor; was graduated from Harvard College in Representative from Arkansas; born near Wadesboro, Anson1776; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1778 and County, N.C., September 27, 1850; moved with his parents tocommenced practice in York, Maine; moved to Biddeford, Tippah County, Miss., in 1857 and to Pulaski County, Ark.,Maine, in 1782; Member of the Continental Congress 1787- in 1861; attended Biugham's Military Academy, North Caro-1789; elected to the First Congress; reelected to the Second lina, and was graduated from Trinity College, North Caroli-and Third Congresses and reelected as a Federalist to the na, in June 1872; studied law; was admitted to the bar inFourth through Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, Novmeber 1873 and practiced; member of the city council 1801); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Busi- 1877-1879; member of the State senate in 1878 and 1879,ness (Fifth Congress); did not seek renominationin 1800, serving as president of the senate in the session of 1879; cityhaving accepted a judicial appointment; district judge in attorney of Little Rock, Ark., 1879-1885; unsuccessful candi-Maine 1792-1800; associate judge of the supreme court of date for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; elected asMassachusetts 1800-1820; delegate in 1819 to the constitu- a Democrat to the Fifty-second and to the four succeedingtional convention of Maine, which until 1820 was a district Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful can-of Massachusetts; again a judge of the supreme court of didate for renomination in 1900; resumed the practice of lawMaine 1820-1824; died in Biddeford, Maine, April 6, 1824; in Little Rock, Ark., and died there November 4, 1917; inter-interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. ment in Calvary Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. TEST, John, a Representative from Indiana; born in THATCHER, Maurice Hudson, a Representative from Salem, N.J., November 12, 1771; moved with his parents toKentucky; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., August 15, Philadelphia, Pa., and attended the common schools; moved 1870; moved to Butler County, Ky., and settled near Morgan- to Fayette County, Pa., and operated Fayette Chance Fur- town in 1874; attended public and private schools; engaged nace for several years; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and thenin agricultural pursuits; was employed in a newspaper office to Brookville, Franklin County, md., and operated a gristand in various county offices; elected clerk of the circuit mill; studied law; was admitted to the bar and began prac-court of Butler County in 1892 and served from January 1, tice in Brookville, md.; held several local offices; judge of the1893, until his resignation in 1896; studied law in Frankfort, third district circuit 1816-1819; elected to the EighteenthKy.; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced prac- and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827);tice in Frankfort; assistant attorney general of Kentucky unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twenti-1898-1900; moved toLouisville,Ky., in1900; assistant eth Congress; elected to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4,United States attorney for the western district of Kentucky 1829-March 3, 1831); presiding judge of the Indiana circuit1901-1906; State inspector and examiner for Kentucky 1908- court; moved to Mobile, Ala., and resumed the practice of19 10; member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and civil law; died near Cambridge City, Wayne County, md., Octobergovernor of the Canal Zone 1910-1913; resumed the practice 9, 1849; interment in Cambridge City, md. of law in Louisville, Ky.; member of the board of public TEWES, Donald Edgar, a Representative from Wisconsin;safety 1917-1919 and department counsel 1919-1923 for the born in Merrill, Lincoln County, Wis., August 4, 1916; wascity of Louisville; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth graduated from Trinity Lutheran School, Merrill Highand to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March School, Valparaiso (md.) University in 1938, and from Uni-3, 1933); in 1932 was nominated for the House of Representa- versity of Wisconsin Law School in 1940; was admitted totives, but subsequently relinquished that nomination to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Merrill, Wis.;become his party's candidate for the United States Senate 1924 Biographical Directory

but was unsuccessful; resumed the practice of law in Wash-Forty-third Congress; died in Worcester, Mass., April 15, ington, D.C.; vice president and general counsel of the 1899; interment in Hope Cemetery. Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventative Bibliography: DAB; Andrews, Horace. "Kansas Crusade: and Medicine, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1939-1969, honorary presi- the New England Emigrant Aid Company." New England Quarterly 35 dent and general counsel, 1969-1972; died January 6, 1973, (December 1962): 497-514. in Washington, D.C.; interment in Frankfort Cemetery, THAYER, Harry Irving, a Representative from Massachu- Frankfort, Ky. setts; born in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Mass., Septem- THATCHER, Samuel, a Representative from Massachu-ber 10, 1869; attended the public schools of Hanover, Mass.; setts; born in Cambridge, Mass., July 1, 1776; was graduatedengaged in the leather business; organizer and president of from Harvard University in 1793; studied law; was admittedthe Thayer-Ross Co.; president of the New England Shoe and to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in New Glouces- Leather Association 1916-1921; was president of the Tan- ter, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts); moved toners' Council of the United States in 1920 and 1921; was a Warren in 1800; member of the Massachusetts house ofrep- delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924; resentatives 1801-1811; was elected as a Federalist to theelected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Wakefield, tion of ; reelected to the Eighth Congress andMiddlesex County, Mass., March 10, 1926; interment in served from December 6, 1802, to March 3, 1805;was anLakeside Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1804 to the Ninth THAYER, John Alden (son of Eli Thayer), a Representa- Congress; sheriff of Lincoln County, Maine, 1814-1821;tive from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., Decem- member of the Maine house of representatives in 1824; ber 22, 1857; attended the grade and high schools of Worces- moved to Bangor, Maine, in 1860, and died there July 18,ter; was graduated from Harvard University in 1879; taught 1872; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. school; studied law at Columbia College of Law at New York THAYER, Andrew Jackson,aRepresentativefromCity; was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced prac- Oregon; born in Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., Novembertice in Worcester; clerk of the central district court of 27, 1818; attended the common schools; studied law;wasWorcester 1892-1897; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice insecond Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful Lima; crossed the continent in 1853 and settledon a farmcandidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; near Corvallis, Benton County, Oreg.; resumed the practicedelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912; of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; appointedappointed postmaster of Worcester, Mass., in February 1915, by President Buchanan United States attorney for the dis-and served until his death in Worcester, Mass., July 31, trict of Oregon on March 2, 1859, and resigned after six 1917; interment in Hope Cemetery. months' service, having become a candidate for Congress; THAYER, John Milton (uncle of Arthur Laban Bates), a presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to theSenator from Nebraska; born in Bellingham, Mass., January Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4 to July24, 1820; graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., 30, 1861, when he was succeeded by George K. Shiel, whoin 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; contested his election; district attorney for the second dis-editor of a journal; moved to Nebraska in 1854, engaged in trict of Oregon 1862-1864; served as circuit judge of theagricultural pursuits, and practiced law in Omaha; brigadier second judicial district of Oregon from 1870 until his deathgeneral and major general of the Territorial forces operating in Corvallis, Oreg., April 28, 1873; interment in Crystal Lakeagainst the Pawnee Indians 1855-1861; member, Territorial Cemetery. State senate 1860; delegate to the State constitutional con- THAYER, Eli (father of John Alden Thayer), a Represent-vention in 1860; during the Civil War served in the Union ative from Massachusetts; born in Mendon, WorcesterArmy as colonel and then brigadier general of the First County, Mass., June 11, 1819; attended the common schools,Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry; brevetted major the academies in Bellingham and Amherst, Mass., and thegeneral of Volunteers in 1865; member of the State constitu- Worcester Manual Labor School; taught school in Douglas,tional convention in 1866; upon the admission of Nebraska Mass., in 1835 and 1836 and in Hopkington, R.I., in 1842;as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the had charge of the boys' high school in Providence, R.I., inUnited States Senate and served from March 1, 1867, to 1844; was graduated from Brown University at ProvidenceMarch 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1871; in 1845 and was an instructor in Worcester Academy 1845-chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-first Con- 1848; studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did notgress); appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Governor practice; founded the Oread Collegiate Institute, a school forof the Territory of Wyoming 1875-1879; Governor of Nebras- young women, in 1848; member of the Worcester Schoolka 1887-1891; resumed the practice of law in Lincoln, Nebr., Board in 1852; alderman of Worcester in 1852 and 1853;and died there March 19, 1906; interment in Wyuka Ceme- member of the State house of representatives in 1853 andtery. 1854; while in the legislature secured a charter, and origi- Bibliography: DAB; Curtis, Earl G. "John Milton Thayer." Nebraska nated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Co., History 29 (March/June 1948): 134-50. which had for its purpose the sending out ofan advance THAYER, John Randolph, a Representative from Massa- colony of antislavery settlers to Kansas; elected asa Repub-chusetts; born in Douglas, Worcester County, Mass, March lican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March9, 1845; attended the common schools and Nichols Academy 4, 1857-March 3,1861); chairman, Committee on Publicin Dudley, Worcester County, and was graduated from Yale Lands (Thirty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate forre-College in 1869; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 election in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; delegateand commenced practice in Worcester, Mass.; served in the accredited from Oregon to the Republican National Conven-city council 1874-1876 and as alderman 1878-1880; was one tion in 1860; engaged in railroad and other businesspur-of the trustees of Nichols Academy for fifteen years; was an suits; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 to theunsuccessful candidate for district attorney in 1876; member Biographies 1925 of the State house of representatives in 1880 and 1881; un-eighth Congress and for election in 1944 to the Seventy- successful candidate for mayor of Worcester in 1886; servedninth Congress; engaged in real estate and investment busi- in the State senate in 1890 and 1891; unsuccessful candidateness; resided in San Diego, Calif., where he diedMay 6, 1975; for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; elected as aentombment in Holy Cross Mausoleum. Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); was not a candi- THISTLEWOOD, Bonaparte, a Representative date for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of lawfrom Illinois; born near Harrington, Kent County, Del., in Worcester, Mass., where he died December 19, 1916; inter-March 30, 1837; attended the public schools; moved to ment in the Rural Cemetery. Mason, Ill., in 1858 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; enlisted in the Union Army in 1862; captain of Company C, THAYER, Martin Russell, a Representative from Pennsyl- Ninety-eighth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry; served vania; born in Dinwiddie County, near the city limits ofin the Army of the Cumberland, in Wilder's brigade, and Petersburg, Va., January 27, 1819; attended the Mountwith Wilson's Cavalry Corps; returned to Mason and re- Pleasant Classical Institute in Amherst, Mass., and Amherstsumed business pursuits; moved to Cairo, Ill., and engaged in College; moved with his father to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1837;the commission business; mayor of Cairo, Ill., 1879-1883 and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania atagain 1897-1901; department commander of the Grand Philadelphia in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar inArmy of the Republic for Illinois in 1901; elected as a Repub- 1842 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; commissionerlican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by to revise the revenue laws of Pennsylvania in 1862; electedthe death of George W. Smith; reelected to the Sixty-first as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Con-and Sixty-second Congresses and served from February 15, gresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); chairman, Committee1908, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for reelection on Private Land Claims (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninthin 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; retired and was a resi- Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination indent of Cairo, Ill., until his death in that city September 15, 1866; resumed the practice of law; judge of the district court1915; interment in Beech Grove Cemetery, Mounds, Ill. of Philadelphia 1867-1874; president judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia from 1874 until his resigna- THOM, William Richard, a Representative from Ohio; tion in 1896; elected by the judges of the common pleas courtborn in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, July 7, 1885; attended prothonotary of Philadelphia in 1896; also engaged in liter-the public schools; engaged as a newspaper reporter 1905- ary pursuits; died in Philadelphia, Pa., October 14, 1906;1909; attended Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, interment in St. James the Less Church Cemetery. 1909-1911; served as private secretary to Congressman John J. Whitacre 1911-1913; member of the United States House THEAKER, Thomas Clarke, a Representative from Ohio;of Representatives Press Galleries in 1915 and 1916; was born in York County, Pa., February 1, 1812; attended the common schools; moved to Bridgeport, Belmont County,graduated from the law department of Georgetown Universi- Ohio, in 1830; became a machinist and wheelwright; wasty, Washington, D.C., in 1916; was admitted to the bar in elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March1917 and commenced practice in Canton, Ohio; member of 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was an unsuccessful candidate forthe park commission of Canton 1920-1932; unsuccessful can- reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; member ofdidate for the Democratic nomination to Congress in 1920; the board of commissioners to investigate the Patent Officeelected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, in 1864, and later was appointed a member of the board ofand Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, examiners in chief; served as Commissioner of Patents from1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the August 17, 1865, to January 20, 1868; engaged in the prac-Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected tice of patent law in Washington, D.C., until his death into the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January Oakland, Md., July 16, 1883; interment in Weeks Cemetery,3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the near Bridgeport, Ohio. Seventy-eighth Congress; elected to the Seventy-ninth Con- gress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947);unsuccessful candi- THIBODEAUX, Bannon Goforth, a Representative fromdate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; re- Louisiana; born on St. Bridget plantation, near Thibodeaux,sumed the practice of law; delegate to the Democratic Na- Terrebonne Parish, La., December 22, 1812; attended thetional Convention in 1956; died in Canton, Ohio, August 28, country schools; studied law in Hagerstown, Md.; was admit-1960; interment in West Lawn Cemetery. ted to the bar and commenced practice in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, La.; member of the State constitution- THOMAS, Albert (husband of Lera Millard Thomas), a al conventions in 1845 and 1852; held several local offices;Representative from Texas; born in Nacogdoches, Tex., April electedtothe Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses12, 1898; attended the public schools; during the First World (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); resumed the practice of lawWar served as a second lieutenant in the United States in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, La.; sugar planterArmy; was graduated from Rice Institute, Houston, Tex., in and manufacturer; died in Terrebonne Parish, La., March 5,1920 and from the law department of the University of 1866; interment in the Half-way Cemetery, near Houma, La.Texas at Austin in 1926; was admitted to the bar in 1927 and began practice in Nacogdoches, Tex.; county attorney of Na- THILL, Lewis Dominic, a Representative from Wisconsin;cogdoches County, Tex., 1927-1930; assistant United States born in Milwaukee, Wis., October 18, 1903; attended thedistrict attorney for the southern district of Texas 1930- public and parochial schools and was graduated from Mar- 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the quette University, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1926; attended Har- fourteen succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, vard Graduate School, and Northwestern University, Evans- 1937, until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 15, ton, Ill.; was graduated from the law department of the1966; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Seventy-sixth University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1931; was admitted toCongress); interment in Veterans' Administration Cemetery, the bar in 1932 and commenced practice in Milwaukee, Wis.; Houston, Tex. elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and the Seven- ty-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943); THOMAS, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., February 12, 1813; 1926 Biographical Directory

moved with his parents to Worcester in 1819; attended Lan-ney in 1875 and 1876; member of the Democratic National caster Academy, and was graduated from Brown University,Committee 1884-1896; unsuccessful candidate for election to Providence, R.I., in 1830; studied law in Cambridge, Mass.;the United States House of Representatives in 1884, to the was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice inSenate in 1888 and 1895, and to the governorship in 1894; Worcester, Mass.; held several local offices; member of theGovernor of Colorado 1899-1901; elected as a Democrat to State house of representatives in 1842; commissioner ofthe United States Senate in 1913 to fill the vacancy caused bankruptcy in 1842; judge of probate 1844-1848; presidentialby the death of Charles J. Hughes, Jr.; reelected in 1914, and elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; judge of the Massachu-served from January 15, 1913, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful setts Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, when he resigned;candidate on the Nationalist ticket for reelection in 1920; continued the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; electedas achairman, Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-third and Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill thevacancySixty-fourthCongresses), Committee on Coast Defenses caused by the resignation of Charles F. Adams and served(Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Pacific Railroads (Sixty- from June 11, 1861, to March 3, 1863; declineda renomina- sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Denver, tion; again engaged in the practice of law; nominated byCob., June 24, 1934; the remains were cremated and the Governor Bullock for chief justice of thesupreme court ofashes interred in Fairmount Cemetery. Massachusetts in 1868, but the nomination was notcon- Bibliography: DAB; Thomas, Sewell. Silhouettes of Charles S. Thomas, firmed by the council; died at his home in Beverly Farms, Colorado Governor and US. Senator.Caidwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Mass., September 27, 1878; interment in Forrest Hill Ceme- 1959. tery, Boston, Mass. THOMAS, Christopher Yancy, a Representative from Vir- THOMAS, Charles Randolph (father of Charles Randolphginia; born in Pittsylvania County, Va., March 24, 1818; Thomas [1861-1931]), a Representative from North Carolina;attended the common schools, and was graduated from a born in Beaufort, Carteret County, N.C., February 7, 1827;private academy in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the attended a private school in Hillsboro, N.C., andwas grad-bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Martinsville, Henry uated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCounty, Va.; served in the State senate 1860-1864; member in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 andof the commission to settle the boundary line between Vir- commenced practice in Beaufort, N.C.; moved to New Bern,ginia and North Carolina; treasurer of Henry County; pros- N.C., and continued the practice of law; member of the Stateecuting attorney for Henry County; member of the State constitutional convention in 1861; secretary of state of Northconstitutional convention in 1868; elected to the State house Carolina in 1864; appointed by the Governor president of theof delegates in 1869; successfully contested as a Republican Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad in 1867; judge of thethe election of Alexander M. Davis to the Forty-third Con- superior court 1868-1870; elected as a Republican to thegress and served from March 5, 1874, to March 3, 1875; Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 187 1-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty- March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for renomination infourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Mar- 1874; resumed the practice of law in New Bern, N.C., andtinsville, Va., February 11, 1879; interment in the family died there February 18, 1891; interment in Cedar Grovecemetery at Leatherwood, Henry County, Va. Cemetery. THOMAS, David, a Representative from New York; born THOMAS, Charles Randolph (son of Charles Randolphin Pelham, Mass., June 11, 1762; completed preparatory Thomas [1827-1891]), a Representative from North Carolina;studies; served as a volunteer in 1777; joined the Fifth Mas- born in Beaufort, Carteret County, N.C., August 21, 1861;sachusetts Regiment as a corporal in 1781, and later became attended New Bern (N.C.) Academy and Emerson Institute,sergeant in the Third Massachusetts Regiment; moved to Washington, D.C.; was graduated from the University ofSalem, Washington County, N.Y., in 1784, where he conduct- North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1881; studied law with hised a tavern for several years; commissioned captain in the father and at the law school of Judges R.P. Dick and JohnState militia in 1786; rose to the rank of major general of H. Dillard at Greensboro, N.C.; was admitted to the bar inthe northern division of the Militia of New York in 1805; 1882 and commenced practice in New Bern, N.C.; member ofengaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the State assem- the State house of representatives in 1887; attorney forbly 1794 and 1798-1800; supervisor of the town of Salem Craven County 1890-1896; elected by the State legislaturea1797-1800; justice of the peace 1798-1801, 1804, and 1811; trustee of the University of North Carolina in 1893; memberelected as a Republican to the Seventh and to the three of the Democratic State executive committee; electedas asucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1801, to Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Con-May 1, 1808, when he resigned; served as treasurer of the gresses (March 4, 1899-March 3,1911); declined to be aState of New York from February 5, 1808, to February 8, candidate for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of1810, and again from February 18, 1812, to February 10, law in New Bern, N.C.; delegate to the Democratic National1813; moved to Providence, R.I., where he died November 27, Convention in 1924; moved to Waynesville, Haywood County,1831; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, N.Y. N.C., in 1925 and practiced law; appointed in September Bibliography: DAB. 1926 as emergency judge of the superior court by the Gover- nor of North Carolina; resumed the practice of law in THOMAS, Elbert Duncan, a Senator from Utah; born in Waynesville, N.C.; died in Norfolk, Va., March 8, 1931; inter-Salt Lake City, Utah, June 17, 1883; attended the public ment in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C. schools; graduated from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City in 1906 and from the graduate department of the Uni- THOMAS, Charles Spalding, a Senator from Colorado;versity of California, Berkeley, 1924; served as a missionary born in Darien, McIntosh County, Ga., December 6, 1849;of the Church of Latter Day Saints in Japan 1907-1912; attended private schools in Georgia and Connecticut; servedstudent traveler in Asia and Europe 1912-1913; instructor of briefly in the Confederate Army; graduated from the lawLatin and Greek at the University of Utah 1914-1916 and department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor insecretary of board of regents 1917-1922; served as major, 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1871; moved to Coloradoinspector general's department, Utah National Guard, and and commenced practice in Denver, Cob.; Denver city attor-United States Reserves 19 17-1926; professor of political sci- Biographies 1927 ence at the University of Utah 1924-1933; author; elected as17, 1843; attended the common schools and Albion (Mich.) a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932;reelected inCollege in 1859; enlisted in 1862 during the Civil War as a 1938 and again in 1944 and served from March 4, 1933, toprivate in the Seventh Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Caval- January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for reelection inry; was promoted to first sergeant ofCompany D, and in 1950; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Seven-July 1864 to second lieutenant; renewed his studies in the ty-fifth through Seventy-eighth Congresses), Committee onYpsilanti Normal School; was graduated from the medical Military Affairs (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee ondepartment of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1868 Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-first Congress); appointedand commenced practice in Constantine, St. Joseph County, high commissioner of United States trust territories of theMich.; moved to Allegan, Mich., in 1870; member of the Pacific and served from 1951, until his death in Honolulu,State house of representatives in 1873 and 1874; served in Hawaii, February 11, 1953; interment in City Cemetery, Saltthe State senate in 1875 and 1876; delegate to the Republi- Lake City, Utah. can National Convention in 1884; elected as aRepublican to Bibliography: DAB; Thomas, Elbert D. The Four Fears. Chicago: Ziff- the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893- Davis Company, 1944; Thomas, Elbert D. "The Senate During and Since March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the War." Parliamentary Affairs 3 (Winter 1949): 114-26. the Department of the Navy (Fifty-fourth Congress); was an THOMAS, Elmer, a Representative and a Senator fromunsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896; surgeon in Oklahoma. (See THOMAS, John William Elmer) the Michigan Soldiers' Home in 1907 and 1908; member of the Michigan pardon board in 1909 and 1910; died in Alle- THOMAS, Francis, a Representative from Maryland; borngan, Mich., April 16, 1912; interment inOak Hill Cemetery, in that part of Frederick County, Md., close to South Moun- tain, known as Merryland tract, February 3, 1799; attendedAnn Arbor, Mich. St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; studied law; was admit- THOMAS, Isaac, a Representative from Tennessee; born ted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Frank-in Sevierville, Tenn., November 4, 1784; after the deathof ville, Md.; member of the State house of delegates in 1822,his parents he moved to Winchester, Tenn., in 1800; self- 1827, and 1829, and served the last year as speaker; electededucated; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1808 and as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second through Twenty-practiced in Winchester; elected as a Republican to the fourth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifthFourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); moved and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1841);to Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., in 1819; resumed the chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-fourth andpractice of law; purchased vast tracts of land adjoining Alex- Twenty-fifthCongresses),Committee on Naval Affairsandria and became one of the largest landowners and slave- (Twenty-sixth Congress); president of the Chesapeake & Ohioholders in Louisiana; was the first man to introduce the Canal Co. in 1839 and 1840; Governor of Maryland 1841-cultivation of sugar cane in central Louisiana; also engaged 1844; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Gover-in mercantile pursuits and in the operation of sawmills and nor in 1844; member of the Maryland State Constitutionalsteamboats; served as brigadier general of the Louisiana convention in 1850; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-Militia; served in the State senate 1823-1827; moved to Cali- seventh Congress, as an Unconditional Unionist to thefornia in 1849; returned to Alexandria, La., where he died on Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, and as a Republi-February 2, 1859; interment in the Flint lot, in Rapides can to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1869); served as a delegate to the Loyalist Convention at Philadel-Cemetery, Pineville, La. phia in 1866; collector of internal revenue 1870-1872; United THOMAS, James Houston, a Representative from Tennes- States Minister to Peru from March 25, 1872, to July 9, 1875; see; born in Iredell County, N.C.,September 22, 1808; attend- retired from public and professional life and devoted hised the rural schools; was graduated from Jackson College, time to agricultural pursuits; was killed by a locomotiveColumbia Tenn., in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the while walking on the railroad tracks near Frankville, Md.,bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Columbia, Tenn.; January 22, 1876; interment in a vault in Rose Hill Ceme-attorney general of Tennessee 1836-1842; elected as a Demo- tery, Cumberland, Md. crat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, Bibliography: DAB. 1847-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in THOMAS, George Morgan, a Representative from Ken-1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected to the Thirty- tucky; born near Poplar Flat, Lewis County, Ky., Novembersixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); resumed the 23, 1828; educated in the common schools; taught school twopractice of law in Columbia, Tenn.; died near Fayetteville, years; was school commissioner from 1850 to 1859; studiedLincoln County, Tenn., on August 4, 1876; interment in St. law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced; electedJohn's Cemetery, Ashwood, Maury County, Tenn. prosecuting attorney of Lewis County in 1854 and served for THOMAS, Jesse Burgess, a Delegate from Indiana Terri- four years; a member of the State house of representativestory and a Senator from Illinois; born in Shepherdstown, Va. 1859-1863; Commonwealth attorney for the tenth judicial(now West Virginia) in 1777; studied law in Mason County, district 1862-1868; county judge in 1868; unsuccessful Repub-Ky., where he also served as county clerk until 1803; moved lican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky into Lawrenceburg, Indiana Territory in 1803 and practiced 1871; again a member of the State house of representativeslaw; appointed deputy attorney general of Indiana Territory in 1872 and 1873; circuit judge of the fourteenth judicialin 1805; member, Territorial house of representatives 1805- district 1874-1880; United States district attorney 1881-1885;1808, and served as speaker 1805-1808; elected as a Delegate elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4,from Indiana Territory to the Tenth Congress to fill the 1887-March 3, 1889); appointed Solicitor of Internal Revenuevacancy caused by the resignation of BenjaminParke and by President McKinley on May 20, 1897, and served untilserved from October 22, 1808, to March 3, 1809; moved to May 31, 1901; died in Vanceburg, Lewis County, Ky., Janu-Kaskaskia in 1809, then to Cahokia, and later to Edwards- ary 7, 1914; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. ville,Ill.; upon the organization of Illinois Territory was THOMAS, Henry Franklin, a Representative from Michi-appointed judge of the United States court for the north- gan; born in Tompkins, Jackson County, Mich., Decemberwestern judicial district 1809-18 18; delegate to the State 1928 Biographical Directory

constitutional convention in 1818 and served as president ofdred and Sixth Infantry, and first lieutenant and captain in that body; upon the admission of Illinois as a State into theHeadquarters, Regimental Staff of the Fiftieth Infantry, Union in 1818 was elected as a Republican to the United1917-1919; engaged in investment securities pursuits 1920- States Senate; reelected in 1823, and served from December1938 and in the insurance business in New York City since 3, 1818, to March 3, 1829; declined to bea candidate for1938; member of the borough council of Allendale, N.J., in reelection in 1829; chairman, Committeeon Public Lands1925; mayor of Allendale 1926-1930; member of State house (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses); moved to Mountof assembly 1935-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seven- Vernon, Ohio, in 1829; committed suicide in Mount Vernon,ty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served Ohio, May 3, 1853; interment in Mound View Cemetery.from January 3, 1937, until his resignation January 2, 1950, Bibliography: DAB; Suppiger, Joseph E. "Jesse Burgess Thomas: Illinois' Pro-Slavery Advocate." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1970. following conviction on charges of salary fraud; chairman, Committee on Un-American Activities (Eightieth Congress); THOMAS, John, a Senator from Idaho; bornon a farm ineditor and publisher of three weekly newspapers in Bergen Phillips County, Kans., January 4, 1874; attended the ruralCounty, N.J., 1951-1955; real estate solicitor in 1955 and schools and the Central Normal College at Great Bend,1956; defeated for the Republican nomination for Congress Kans.; taught school, serving as superintendent of schools ofin 1954; engaged in investment securities; moved to St. Pe- Phillips County, Kans., 1898-1903; register of land officeattersburg, Fla., where he died November 19, 1970; cremated; Colby, Kans., 1906-1909; moved to Gooding, Idaho, in 1909;ashes interred in Elmgrove Cemetery, Mystic, Conn. engaged in banking and livestock business;mayor of Good- Bibliography: Carlson, Lewis H. "J. Parnell Thomas and the House ing 1917-1919; member of the Republican National Commit- Committee on Un-American Activities,1938-1948."Ph.D.dissertation, tee 1925-1933; appointed and subsequently electedas a Re- Michigaii State University, 1967. publican to the United States Senate to fill thevacancy caused by the death of Frank R. Gooding and served from THOMAS, John Robert, a Representative from Illinois; June 30, 1928, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidateforborn in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill., October 11, reelection in 1932; chairman, Committeeon Irrigation and1846; attended the common schools and Hunter Collegiate Reclamation (Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses);Institute, Princeton, md.; served in the Union Army during resumed former business pursuits; again appointed and sub-the Civil War, and rose from the rank of private to that of sequently elected to the United States Senate to fill thecaptain of Company D, One Hundred and Twentieth Regi- vacancy caused by the death of William E. Borah; reelectedment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; studied law; was admit- in 1942, and served from January 27, 1940, until his death inted to the bar in 1869 and practiced; city attorney of Metrop- Washington, D.C., November 10, 1945; interment in Elm-olis, Ill., 1869 and 1870; served as State's attorney 1871-1874; wood Cemetery, Gooding, Idaho. elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and to the four Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 79th Cong., 2ndsess., succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1889); chair- 1946. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948. man, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Missis- THOMAS, John Chew, a Representative from Maryland;sippi River (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law in Musko- born in Perryville, Cecil County, Md., October 15, 1764;at-gee, Okla.; United States judge in the Indian Territory from tended private schools; was graduated from the UniversityofJune 30, 1897, to June 30, 1901; nominated for judge of the Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1783; moved to "Fairland,"supreme court by the first Republican State convention of in Anne Arundel County, Md., about 1789; studied law;ad-Oklahoma, but declined the nomination; member of the mitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Pa., December 15,1787, but did not engage in extensive practice; electedas a Feder-Oklahoma State Code Commission 1908-19 10; resumed the alist to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801);practice of law in Muskogee, Olda; died in McAlester, Okia., declined to be a candidate for reelection; moved to Pennsyl-January 19, 1914; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Musko- gee, Okia.; reinterment in Arlington National Cemetery. vania; died near Leiperville, Pa., May 10, 1836; intermentin the Friends Cemetery, near Chester, Pa. THOMAS, John William Elmer, a Representative and a THOMAS, John Lewis, Jr., a Representative from Mary-Senator from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Greencastle, Putnam County, md., September 8, land; born in Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1835; completedpre- 1876; attended the paratory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar incommon schools; graduated from the Central Normal Col- 1856 and commenced practice in Cumberland, Md.;citylege (now Canterbury), Danville, md., in 1897 and from the counselor of Cumberland in 1856 and 1857; moved to Balti-graduate department of DePauw University, Greencastle, more, Md., in 1857 and continued the practice of law; citymd., in 1900; studied law; was admitted to the Indiana bar solicitor of Baltimore 1860-1862; delegate to the State consti-in 1897 and to the Oklahoma bar in 1900, and commenced tutional convention in 1863; State's attorney 1863-1865;practice in Oklahoma City, Okla.; moved to Lawton, Okla., elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninthin 1901 and continued the practice of law; member, State Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofsenate 1907-1920, serving as president pro tempore 1910- Edwin H. Webster and served from December 4, 1865,to 1913; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1920 to the March 3, 1867; was an unsuccessful Republican candidate forSixty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- reelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; collector of theeighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, port of Baltimore, Md., from 1869 to 1873, and from 1877to1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926, having 1882; died in Baltimore, Md., on October 15, 1893; intermentbecome a candidate for United States Senator; elected as a in Greenmount Cemetery. Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, 1938, and again in 1944, and served from March 4, THOMAS, John Parnell, a Representative from New1927, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- Jersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., Januarynation in 1950; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sev- 16, 1895; attended the public schools of Allendale, N.J.,theenty-fourth through Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee high school at Ridgewood, N.J., and the University of Penn-on Agriculture and Forestry (Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth sylvania at Philadelphia; during the First World War servedand Eighty-first Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs overseas as a second lieutenant in Company B, Three Hun-(Seventy-eighth Congress); engaged in the practice of law in Biographies 1929

Washington, D.C., until August 1957; returned to Lawton,(March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); died in Baton Rouge, La., Okia., where he died September 19, 1965; interment in High- November 18, 1847; interment in the Old American Grave- land Cemetery. yard; reinterment in the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge, Bibliography: DAB; Manheimer, Eric. "The Public Career of ElmerLa. Thomas." Ph.D.dissertation,University of Oklahoma,1953; Thomas, Elmer. Autobiography of an Enigma. New York: Pageant Press, 1965. THOMAS, Phillip Francis, a Representative from Mary- land; born in Easton, Talbot County, Md., September 12, THOMAS, Lera Millard (wife of Albert Thomas), a Repre- 1810; attended the academy in Easton, and was graduated sentative from Texas; born Lera Millard, August 3, 1900, infrom Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1830; studied law; Nacogdoches, Tex.; attended Brenau College, Gainesville,was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Ga., and the University of Alabama; member of the Houston ; first woman elected to CongressEaston, Md.; delegate to the State constitutional convention from the State of Texas; elected as a Democrat to thein 1836; member of the State house of delegates in 1838, Eighty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the1843, and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth death of her husband, Albert Thomas, and served fromCongress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); declined to be a March 26, 1966, until January 3, 1967; was not a candidatecandidate for renomination in 1840; resumed the practice of for renomination; is a resident of Nacogdoches, Tex. law; Governor of Maryland 1848-1851; judge of the land office court of eastern Maryland; Comptroller of the United THOMAS, Lot, a Representative from Iowa; born nearStates Treasury 1851-1853; collector of the port of Balti- Markleysburg, Fayette County, Pa., October 17, 1843; attend-more, Md., 1853-1860; United States Commissioner of Pat- ed the public schools and Vermillion Institute, Hayesville,ents from February 16 to December 10, 1860; appointed Sec- Ohio; moved to Iowa in 1868; taught school in New Virginia,retary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Buchanan Warren County; attended the law department of the Univer-and served from December 10, 1860, to January 11, 1861; sity of Iowa at Iowa City, and was admitted to the bar inagain a member of the State house of delegates in 1863; 1870; moved to Buena Vista County and settled at Stormpresented credentials as a Senator-elect to the United States Lake in 1870; practiced law; judge of the fourteenth judicialSenate for the term beginning March 4, 1867, but was not district of Iowa from 1885 until his resignation August 26,seated; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress 1898, having become a candidate for Congress; elected as a(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for Republican to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighthrenomination in 1876; unsuccessful candidate for election to Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful can- the United States Senate in 1878; again elected a member of didate for renomination in 1904; died on a train near Yuma,the State house of delegates in 1878 and 1883; delegate to Ariz., March 17, 1905, while en route to Los Angeles, Calif.;the Democratic State convention in 1883; resumed the prac- interment in Storm Lake Cemetery, Storm Lake, Iowa. tice of law in Easton, Md.; died in Baltimore, Md., October 2, THOMAS, Ormsby Brunson, a Representative from Wis- 1890; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Easton, Md. consin; born in Sandgate, Bennington County, Vt., August Bibliography: DAB. 21, 1832; moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1836; at- THOMAS, Richard, a Representative from Pennsylvania; tended the common schools and Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt.; was graduated from the National Law School, Pough-born in West Whiteland, Pa., December 30, 1744; educated at keepsie, N.Y., in 1856; was admitted to the bar in Albany,home by private teachers; served in the Revolutionary Army N.Y., in 1856 and commenced practice in Prairie du Chien,as colonel of the First Regiment, Chester County Volunteers; Wis.; district attorney of Crawford County, Wis.; served inelected as a Federalist to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Con- the Union Army during the Civil War as captain of Compa-gresses (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1801); engaged in agricul- ny D, Thirty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry;tural pursuits; died in Philadelphia, Pa., January 19, 1832; member of the State assembly in 1862, 1865, and 1867;interment in the Friends Western Burial Ground. served in the State senate in 1880 and 1881; elected as a THOMAS, Robert Lindsay, a Representative from Geor- Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con-gia; born in Patterson, Pierce County, Ga., November 20, greases (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee1943; attended public schools; B.A., University of Georgia, on War Claims (Fifty-first Congress); was an unsuccessfulAthens, 1965; served in the Georgia National Guard, 1966- candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;1972; investment banker; farmer; elected as a Democrat to resumed the practice of law in Prairie du Chien, Wis., andthe Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses died there October 24, 1904; interment in Evergreen Ceme-(January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Screven, tery. Ga. THOMAS, Philemon, a Representative from Louisiana; THOMAS, Robert Young, Jr., a Representative from Ken- born in Orange County, Va., February 9, 1763; attended thetucky; born near Russellville, Logan County, Ky., July 13, common schools; served in the Revolutionary War; moved to1855; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Kentucky and settled in Mason County; delegate to the con- Bethel College, Russeilville, Ky., in 1878; studied law; was vention which framed the constitution of the State of Ken-admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in tucky; member of the Kentucky house of representativesCentral City, KY.; also engaged in journalism; member of the 1796-1799; served in the State senate 1800-1803; moved toState house of representatives in 1886 and 1887; elected Louisiana in 1806 and settled on the banks of the lowerCommonwealth attorney for the seventh judicial district of Mississippi River; member of the Louisiana house of repre-Kentucky in 1903 for a term of six years; elected as a Demo- sentatives; leader of an uprising against the Spanish au-crat to the Sixty-first and to the eight succeeding Congresses thorities, who exercised authority over what is now Missis-and served from March 4, 1909, until his death at Red sippi and Louisiana, and commanded the forces which cap-Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tenn., September 3, 1925; tured the Spanish fort at Baton Rouge in 1810; major gener-interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, Ky. al of Louisiana Militia in 1814 and 1815 and served in that capacity in the War of 1812; moved to Baton Rouge, La.; THOMAS, William Aubrey, a Representative from Ohio; elected to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congressesborn in Y Bynea, near Llanelly, Wales, June 7, 1866; immi- 1930 Biographical Directory

grated to the United States in 1868 with his parents, whodon, md., before he was twenty-one years of age; member of settled in Niles, Ohio; attended the public schools of Niles,the State house of representatives 1818-1820; prosecuting Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and Rensselaer Poly-attorney of Corydon in 1818; moved to Louisville, Ky., in technic Institute, Troy, N.Y.; analytical chemist at Niles1841; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty- 1886-1888; engaged in the iron and steel business; presidentninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); declined to of the Mahoning Steel Co.; secretary and director of thebe a candidate for renomination; moved to Chicago, Ill., and Niles Fire Brick Co.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-resumed the practice of law; during the Civil War served in eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationthe Union Army in the Seventy-first Regiment, New York of Charles W.F. Dick; reelected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth,Volunteer Infantry; died near La Grange, Oldham County, and Sixty-first Congresses and served from November 8,Ky., December 29, 1882; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, 1904, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelectionLouisville, Ky. in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; moved to Jenifer, Ala., in 1918, and continued his interest in the manufacture of THOMPSON, Albert Clifton, a Representative from Ohio; iron, steel, and firebrick; president of the Jenifer Iron Co.;born in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pa., January 23, 1842; died in Talladega, Ala., September 8, 1951; interment inattended the common schools and Jefferson College, Canons- Oakhill Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio. burg, Pa.; studied law; served in the Union Army during the Civil War as second lieutenant of Company B, One Hundred THOMAS, William David, a Representative from Newand Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; pro- York; born in Middle Granville, Washington County, N.Y., March 22, 1880; attended the grade and high schools; wasmoted to captain of Company K in the same regiment No- graduated from the Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany,vember 28, 1861, and served until March 23, 1863, when he N.Y., in 1904; moved to Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County,was discharged on account of wounds received in the second N.Y., in 1905 and was employed as a pharmacist, later en-Battle of Bull Run; resumed the study of law; was admitted gaging in the retail drug business; also interested in bank-to the bar December 13, 1864, and commenced practice in ing; served as town clerk 1917-1925; member of the StatePortsmouth, Ohio, in 1865; elected probate judge of Scioto assembly in 1925 and 1926; served as treasurer of RensselaerCounty, Ohio, in October 1869; elected common pleas judge County 1927-1933; chairman of the Republican county com-of the seventh judicial district of Ohio in October 1881; mittee 1927-1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofFifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuc- James S. Parker; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congresscessful candidate for renomination in 1890; resumed the and served from January 30, 1934, until his death in Wash-practice of law; appointed by President McKinley chairman ington, D.C., May 17, 1936; interment in Maple Grove Ceme- of the commission to revise and codify the criminal and tery, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. penal laws of the United States June 21, 1897; appointed United States judge for the southern district of Ohio Septem- THOMAS, William Marshall, a Representative from Cali-ber 13, 1898, and served until his death in Cincinnati, Ohio, fornia; born in Wallace, Shoshone County, Idaho, Decemberon January 26, 1910; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, 6,1941; attended the public schools in San Pedro andPortsmouth, Ohio. Garden Grove; A.A., Santa Ana Community College, 1961; B.A., San Francisco State University, 1963; M.A., San Fran- THOMPSON, Benjamin, a Representative from Massachu- cisco State University, 1965; professor, Bakersfield Commu- setts; born in Charlestown, Mass., August 5, 1798; attended nity College, 1965-1974; served in California State assembly,the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member 1974-1978; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth andof the State house of representatives 1830-1831 and 1833- to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 1836; served in the State senate in 1841; elected as a Whig to 3, 1989); is a resident of Bakersfield, Calif. the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; elected THOMASON, Robert Ewing, a Representative from Texas;to the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, born in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., May 30, 1879;1851, until his death in Charlestown, Mass., September 24, moved to Gainesville, Cooke County, Tex., with his parents1852; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, in 1880; attended the public schools; was graduated fromD.C. Southwestern University, Georgetown, Tex., in 1898 and from the law department of the University of Texas at THOMPSON, Charles James, a Representative from Ohio; Austin, LL.D., 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andborn in Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio, January 24, commenced practice in Gainesville, Tex.; prosecuting attor-1862; attended the public schools and the Ohio Wesleyan ney of Cooke County, Tex., 1902-1906; moved to El Paso,University, Delaware, Ohio; learned the art of printing Tex., in 1911 and continued the practice of law; member of1876-1879; worked as a journeyman printer in various cities the State house of representatives 1917-1921, and served asin Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois 1879-1884; returned to Wapa- speaker in 1920 and 1921; mayor of El Paso 1927-1930; elect-koneta in 1885 and was employed as a bookkeeper until ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected1889; moved to Defiance, Ohio, in 1889 and was owner and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,publisher of the Defiance Express until 1902; member of the 1931, until his resignation on July 31, 1947, having beenRepublican State central committee in 1893 and 1894; post- appointed United States district judge for the western dis-master of Defiance 1898-1915; unsuccessful candidate for trict of Texas; retired as senior judge; resided in El Paso,mayor in 1915; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Tex., until his death there November 8, 1973; interment inand to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March Restlawn Cemetery. 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; retired from business pursuits; THOMASSON, William Poindexter, a Representativedied in Albuquerque, N.Mex., while on a visit, March 27, from Kentucky; born in New Castle, Henry County, Ky., October 8, 1797; completed preparatory studies; served in1932; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Defiance, Ohio. Captain Duncan's company in the War of 1812; studied law; THOMPSON, Charles Perkins, a Representative from was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cory-Massachusetts; born in Braintree, Norfolk County, Mass., Biographies 1931

July 30, 1827; attended the public schools, the Hollis Insti-public relations counsel; delegate to the Texas State Demo- tute of Braintree, and Amherst (Mass.) College; studied law;cratic convention in 1936; organized the Fifteenth Battalion, was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice inMarine Corps Reserve, in Galveston County, Tex., in 1936 Gloucester, Mass., in 1857; United States assistant districtand was called to active duty on November 1, 1940; served as attorney from 1855 to 1857; member of the State house ofa lieutenant colonel with the Second Marine Division in the representatives in 1871 and 1872; delegate to the DemocraticPacific and later returned to Marine Headquarters to head National Convention in 1872; elected as a Democrat to theDivision of Reserve; promoted to colonel on October 18, 1942, Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuc-and placed on the retired list on June 1, 1946; resumed his cessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifthactivities as a public relations counsel; elected to the Eighti- Congress; resumed the practice of law; city solicitor ofeth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Gloucester, Mass., in 1874, 1875, 1877, and 1879; unsuccessfulJoseph J. Mansfield; reelected to the Eighty-first and to the Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1880eight succeeding Congresses and served from August 23, and again in 1881; served as judge of the superior court of1947, to January 3, 1967; was not a candidate for reelection Massachusetts from 1885 until his death in Gloucester,in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; director, Washington, Mass., January 19, 1894; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.D.C., office, Tenneco, Inc., 1968-1974; resided in Galveston, THOMPSON, Charles Winston, a Representative fromTex., until his death there on December 16, 1981; interment Alabama; born near Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala., Decem-in Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery. ber 30, 1860; attended the common schools and Park High THOMPSON, Fountain Land, a Senator from North School in Tuskegee, Ala.; was graduated from Bryant andDakota; born near Scottsville, Macoupin County, Ill., Novem- Stratton's Business College, Louisville, Ky., in 1878; engagedber 18, 1854; moved to Girard, Ill., in 1865; attended the in mercantile pursuits; president of the Bank of Tuskegee,public schools in Girard; studied law and was admitted to Ala.; county superintendent of education for Macon County 1886-1888; appointed in 1896 lieutenant colonel on the staffthe bar, but did not engage in extensive practice; member of of Gov. Joseph F. Johnston and served in that capacity untilthe board of supervisors of Macoupin County; engaged in the end of the Governor's term; member of the State senatemercantile pursuits; moved to Dakota Territory and settled in 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh andon a farm near Cando, Towner County, in 1888; judge of Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, untilTowner County Court 1890-1894; engaged in the real estate his death in Washington, D.C., March 20, 1904; interment inbusiness and banking in Cando and also in agricultural pur- suits; school director; member of the Cando Board of Alder- the City Cemetery, Tuskegee, Ala. men; mayor of Cando; appointed as a Democrat to the THOMPSON, Chester Charles, a Representative from Illi-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death nois; born in Rock Island, Ill., September 19, 1893; attendedof Martin N. Johnson and served from November 10, 1909, the grade and high schools; engaged in the plastering con-to January 31, 1910, when he resigned; resumed his former tracting business 1910-1932; during the First World Warbusiness activities in Cando, until his retirement in 1921; served as a corporal in Headquarters Company of themoved to Los Angeles, Calif., where he resided until his Twenty-fifth Coast Artillery in 1918 and 1919; treasurer ofdeath on February 4, 1942; interment in Hollywood Ceme- Rock Island County, Ill., 1922-1926; mayor of Rock Islandtery. 1927-1933; member of the Democratic State central commit- tee 1930-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, THOMPSON, Frank, Jr., a Representative from New Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March4, Jersey; born in Trenton, Mercer County, N.J., July 26, 1918; 1933-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionattended parochial and public schools and Wake Forest in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; appointed on Novem-(N.C.) College, 1941 and the Wake Forest Law School; served ber 15, 1939, as president and chairman of the board of thein the United States Navy 1941-1948; received three combat Inland Waterways Corporation, and served until his resigna-decorations for action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa; command- tion August 15, 1944; president of the American Waterwaysed the United States Naval Reserve Battallion 4-22 and Operators, Inc., from August 1944 until his retirement incompleted a seventeen-month tour of active duty, from 1957; member and chairman, Jury Commission of RockAugust 1950 to January 1952, on the staff of the commander, Island County since 1961; member and committee chairman,Eastern Sea Frontier, and released from active duty January Board of Supervisors, Rock Island County, from 1965 until1, 1952; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and commenced the his death in Rock Island, Ill., January 30, 1971; interment inpractice of law in Trenton, N.J.; member of the State house Chippiannock Cemetery. of assembly 1950-1954, serving as assistant minority leader in 1950 and minority leader in 1954; elected as a Democrat THOMPSON, Clark Wallace, a Representative fromto the Eighty-fourth Congress; reelected to the twelve suc- Texas; born in La Crosse, Wis., August 6, 1896; moved toceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until Oregon in 1901 with his parents, who settled in Cascadehis resignation December 29, 1980; chairman, Joint Commit- Locks; attended the common schools and the University oftee on Printing (Ninety-fourth and Ninety-sixth Congresses), Oregon at Eugene; during the First World War enlisted as aCommittee on House Administration (Ninety-fourth, Ninety- private on May 25, 1917, in the United States Marine Corps;fifth, and Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate promoted to corporal on December 20, 1917, and served untilfor reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; is a honorably discharged on December 15, 1918; commissioned a resident of Alexandria, Va. second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on December 16, 1918; moved to Galveston, Tex., in 1919; engaged in the THOMPSON, George Western, a Representative from Vir- insurance business until 1920 and the retail dry goods busi-ginia; born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, May 14, 1806; was grad- ness 1920-1931, when he was engaged as a public relationsuated from Jefferson (now Washington and Jefferson) Col- counsel; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congresslege, Pennsylvania, in 1824; studied law in Richmond, Va.; to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clay Stone Briggs,was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in serving from June 24, 1933, to January 3, 1935; was not aSt. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1828; moved to western Virginia in candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed activities as a1837; appointed deputy postmaster at Wheeling in 1838; ap- 1932 Biographical Directory pointed on a commission to settle jurisdiction of the Ohioed the common schools in Smyrna, N.Y.; studied law; was River between Virginia and Ohio; United States attorney foradmitted to the bar and practiced in Duanesburg, and Sher- the western district of Virginia by appointment of Presidentburne, N.Y.; served in the Revolutionary Army in 1779 and Polk 1848-1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second1780; member of the State assembly in 1798, 1803, and 1804, Congress and served from March 4, 1851, until his resigna-serving one term as member from Albany County and two tion on July 30, 1852; was elected judge of the circuit courtterms as member from Chenango County; assistant justice of of Virginia in 1852 and reelected in 1860; was removed fromthe court of common pleas of Chenango County from July office in 1861 on refusal to take the oath of office to support1799 to June 1807, when he became judge of Chenango what he believed unconstitutional action to set up theCounty, serving until March 16, 1814; elected as a Federalist present State of West Virginia; retired from the practice ofto the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); his profession and resided on his estate near Wheeling, Ohioresumed the practice of law in Sherburne, N.Y.; died in County, W.Va., until his death February 24, 1888; intermentBrooklyn, N.Y., February 8, 1843; interment in Greenwood in Elm Grove Cemetery, Wheeling, W.Va. Cemetery. THOMPSON, Hedge, a Representative from New Jersey; THOMPSON, John, a Representative from New York; born in Salem, N.J., January 28, 1780; pursued an academicborn in Litchfield, Conn., March 20, 1749; attended the course; was graduated from the medical department of thecommon schools; at the age of fourteen moved with his University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1802 andparents to Stiliwater, N.Y.; appointed justice of Stiliwater practiced his profession in Salem; member of the GeneralTownship in 1788; member of the State assembly in 1788 Assembly of New Jersey in 1805; served in the State counciland 1789; elected as a Republican to the Sixth Congress in 1819; appointed associate judge of Salem County, N.J., in(March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); delegate to the New York 1815 and again in 1824; served as collector for Salem County from 1826 to 1828; elected to the Twentieth Congress andState Constitutional Convention in 1801; was appointed by served from March 4, 1827, until his death in Salem, N.J., onGovernor Clinton in 1791 as first judge of Saratoga County July 23, 1828; interment in St. John's Protestant Episcopaland held this office until 1809; elected to the Tenth and Churchyard. Eleventh Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1811); died in Stillwater, Saratoga County, N.Y., in 1823; interment in a THOMPSON, Jacob, a Representative from Mississippi;cemetery at Stillwater, N.Y. born in Leasburg, Caswell County, N.C., May 15, 1810; at- Bibliography: DAB. tended the public schools and Bingham Academy in Orange County; was graduated from the University of North Caroli- THOMPSON, John, a Representative from New York; na at Chapel Hill in 1831; member of the faculty of theborn in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., July 4, 1809; was University of North Carolina in 1831 and 1832; studied law;graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., and later was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice infrom Yale College; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Pontotoc, Miss., in 1835; elected as a Democrat to thecommenced practice in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; elected as a Re- Twenty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (Marchpublican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 4, 1839-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on Indian Af-3, 1859); resumed the practice of law; died in New Hamburg, fairs (Twenty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re-Dutchess County, N.Y., June 1, 1890; interment in Pough- election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; appointed tokeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. the United States Senate in 1845, but never received the THOMPSON, John Burton, a Representative and a Sena- commission; appointed Secretary of the Interior in the Cabi-tor from Kentucky; born near Harrodsburg, Ky., December net of President Buchanan and served from March 6, 1857,14, 1810; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was to January 8, 1861, when he resigned; served as inspectoradmitted to the bar and practiced in Harrodsburg, KY.; Com- general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; con- monwealth attorney;member,State senate1829-1833; fidential agent of the Confederacy to Canada in 1864 andmember, State house of representatives 1835, 1837; elected 1865; settled in Memphis, Tenn., in 1868 and managed theas a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy affairs of his extensive holdings; died in Memphis, Tenn.,caused by the death of Simeon H. Anderson; reelected to the March 24, 1885; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Twenty-seventh Congress and served from December 7, 1840, Bibliography: DAB. to March 3, 1843; elected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first THOMPSON, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania;Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); chairman, Com- born in Middlesex, Butler County, Pa., October 1, 1806; com-mittee on the Militia (Thirtieth Congress); lieutenant gover- pleted preparatory studies; learned the printer's trade; stud-nor of Kentucky 1852; elected by the American party to the ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commencedUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1853, to practice in Erie, Pa.; member of the State house of repre-March 3, 1859; died in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., sentatives 1832-1834 and in 1855 and served as speaker inJanuary 7, 1874; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery. 1834; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1838; presiding judge of sixth judicial district court 1838-1844; THOMPSON, John McCandless(brotherof William elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, andGeorge Thompson), a Representative from Pennsylvania; Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851); chair-born near Butler, Butler County, Pa., January 4, 1829; at- man, Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-second Congress);tended the common schools and Witherspoon Institute; stud- was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; resumed theied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began practice practice of his profession; associate justice of the supremein Butler, Pa.; member of the State house of representatives court of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1866, and served as chiefin 1859 and 1860, and served one year as speaker; entered justice of that court from 1866 to 1872; again engaged in thethe Union Army during the Civil War and served as major practice of law; died in Philadelphia, Pa., January 28, 1874;and subsequently as lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred interment in Woodlands Cemetery. and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- try; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868; THOMPSON, Joel, a Representative from New York; bornelected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill in Stanford, Dutchess County, N.Y., October 3, 1760; attend-the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ebenezer McJun- Biographies 1933 kin and served from December 22, 1874, to March 3, 1875;Va., June 9, 1809; pursued classical studies; moved to Louis- elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3,ville, Ky., in 1831; clerked in a store; moved to Lawrence 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; re-County, md., in 1831; taught school; studied law; was admit- sumed the practice of his profession; died in Butler, Pa.,ted to the bar in 1834 and began practice in Bedford, Law- September 3, 1903; interment in Butler Cemetery. rence County, md.; member of the State house of representa- THOMPSON,Joseph Bryan, a Representative from Okla-tives 1834-1836; served in the State senate 1836-1838 and for homa; born near Sherman, Grayson County, Tex., April 29,a short time as president pro tempore; elected as a Whig to 1871; attended the public schools, and was graduated fromthe Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); Savoy College in Fannin County, Tex., in 1890; studied law;was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; moved to was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice inTerre Haute, md., in 1843; city attorney in 1846 and 1847; Purcell, Indian Territory; moved to Ardmore, Indian Terri-elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847- tory; appointed commissioner for the United States court inMarch 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirtieth 1893 and returned to Purcell, Indian Territory; resigned inCongress); declined a renomination; commander of Camp 1897; moved to Pauls Valley and resumed the practice ofThompson, md., and provost marshal 1861-1865; appointed law; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions inby President Lincoln collector of internal revenue for the 1900, 1904, and 1908; member of the Democratic Territorialseventh district of Indiana and served one term; delegate to committee 1896-1904; chairman of the Democratic Statethe Republican National Convention in 1868 and 1876; judge committee in 1906 and 1908; served in the State senateof the fifth Indiana circuit court 1867-1869; appointed Secre- 1910-19 14; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,tary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Hayes and 1913, until his death on a train near Martinsburg, W.Va.,served from March 12, 1877, until his resignation December while en route to his home at Pauls Valley, Okla., Septem- 21,1880; chairman of the American Committee of the ber 18, 1919; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, PaulsPanama Canal Co. in 1881; director of the Panama Railroad Valley, Okia. Co. 1881-1888; died in Terre Haute, md., February 9, 1900; interment in High Lawn Cemetery. THOMPSON,Philip, a Representative from Kentucky; Bibliography: DAB; Neely, Mark E. "Richard W. Thompson: The Persist- born on Shawnee Run, near Harrodsburg, Mercer County, ent ." Indiana Magazine of History 72 (June 1976): 95-122; Ky., August 20, 1789; received a limited education; served asRoll, Charles. Colonel Dick Thompson: The Persistent Whig. Indianapolis: a lieutenant in the War of 1812; held several local offices; Indiana Historical Bureau, 1948. studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- tice in Hartford, Ohio County, KY.; moved to Owensboro, THOMPSON,Robert Augustine (father of Thomas Larkin Daviess County, KY.; member of the State house of repre-Thompson), a Representative from Virginia; born near Cul- sentatives; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4,peper Court House, Culpeper County, Va., February 14, 1823-March 3, 1825); resumed the practice of law in Owens-1805; attended a private school at Gallipolis, Ohio, and the burg, Ky., where he died November 25, 1836; interment inUniversity of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va.; studied law; the Moseley burying ground on Firth Street; reinterment inwas admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Rural Hill (later Elmwood) Cemetery in 1856. Charleston, Kanawha County, Va. (now West Virginia); member of the State senate 1839-1846; elected as a Demo- THOMPSON,Philip Burton, Jr, a Representative fromcrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, Kentucky; born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., Octo- ber 15, 1845; attended the common schools and the Universi-1849); declined to be a candidate for reelection; delegate to ty of Kentucky at Lexington; during the Civil War enteredthe Democratic National Convention in 1852; member of the the Confederate Army at the age of sixteen and servedboard of visitors to the University of Virginia in 1852; moved throughout the war; studied law; was admitted to the bar into San Francisco,Calif., in 1853; appointed in 1853 a 1866 and commenced practice in Harrodsburg; was city at-member of a commission to settle private land claims in torney of Harrodsburg 1867-1869; was appointed in 1869 andCalifornia; appointed by the Governor a reporter of the Cali- subsequently elected Commonwealth attorney for the thir-fornia Supreme Court in 1870; member of the justices' court teenth judicial district of Kentucky, serving until 1874; re-of San Francisco from 1870 until his death in San Francisco, elected in 1874 and served until 1878, when he resigned,Calif., August 31, 1876; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to Ruth, a Representative from Michigan; born the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses THOMPSON, (March 4, 1879-March 3,1885); chairman, Committee onin Whitehall, Muskegon County, Mich., September 15, 1887; Expenditures in the Department of War (Forty-eighth Con-attended the public schools; graduated from Muskegon Busi- gress); delegate to the Democratic National Convention inness College in 1905; studied law while employed in a law 1884; moved to New York City and resumed the practice ofoffice 1918-1924; was admitted to the bar; registrar of pro- law; died in Washington, D.C., December 15, 1909; intermentbate court of Muskegon County for eighteen years; judge of in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Ky. probate, Muskegon County, 1925-1937; member of the State house of representatives 1939-194 1; with Social Security THOMPSON,Philip Rootes, a Representative from Vir-Board, Washington, D.C., in 1941 and 1942, Labor Depart- ginia; born near Fredericksburg, Va, March 26, 1766; wasment in 1942, Adjutant General's Office 1942-1945; Head- educated by private tutors; was graduated from the Collegequarters Command, Frankfurt, Germany, and Copenhagen, of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; wasDenmark, in 1945 and 1946; member and chairman State admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fairfax, Va.;Prison Commission for Women for four years; private prac- member of the State house of delegates 1793-1797; elected astice of law in Michigan; elected as a Republican to the a Republican to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth CongressesEighty-second, Eighty-third, and Eighty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1807); resumed the practice of law;(January 3, 1951-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate died in Kanawha County, Va. (now West Virginia), July 27,for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; re- 1837; interment at Coals Mouth (now St. Albans), W.Va.turned to Whitehall, Mich.; from 1965 to 1970, a patient at THOMPSON,Richard Wigginton, a Representative fromPlainwell Sanitorium, Allegan County, where she died April Indiana; born near Culpeper Court House, Culpeper County,5, 1970; interment in Oakhurst Cemetery, Whitehall, Mich. 1934 Biographical Directory

THOMPSON,Standish Fletcher, a Representative frommember, State house of representatives 1807-1808, 1813- Georgia; born in College Park, Fulton County, Ga., February1814, and served as speaker 1813-1814; elected as a Federal- 5, 1925; attended the public schools and Russell High Schoolist to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); in East Point, Ga., graduated from Emory University in 1949State treasurer of New Hampshire 1809-1811; elected to the and from Woodrow Wilson College of Law in 1957; wasUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death admitted to the bar in 1958 and commenced the practice ofof Nicholas Gilman and served from June 24, 1814, to March law in East Point, Ga.; president of an insurance firm;3, 1817; died in Concord, N.H., on October 1, 1821; interment served in the United States Army Medical Corps in 1943;in the Old North Cemetery. served as navigator with the Air Rescue Service in the United States Army Air Corps,1944-1946; during the THOMPSON,Waddy, Jr., a Representative from South Korean conflict, 1950-1953, served as pilot with the UnitedCarolina; born in Pickensville (now Pickens), Ninety-sixth States Air Force; elected to the Georgia general assembly asDistrict, S.C., January 8, 1798; moved to Greenville with his State senator from the thirty-fourth senatorial district inparents in his infancy; received his early education in neigh- 1964; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to theboring schools, and was graduated from South Carolina Col- two succeeding Congresses (January 3,1967-January 3,lege (now the University of South Carolina), at Columbia in 1973); was not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and began United States House of Representatives but was an unsuc-practice in Edgefield, S.C.; moved to Greenville, S.C., and cessful candidate for election to the United States Senate;continued the practice of law; member of the State house of resumed the practice of law in Atlanta; owns and operates arepresentatives, 1826-1829; elected solicitor of the western trucking company; member, Atlanta Regional Commission,circuit in 1830; brigadier general of militia in 1832; elected 1985; is a resident of Marietta, Ga. as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Warren R. Davis; reelect- THOMPSON,Theo Ashton, a Representative fromed as Louisi-a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congress- ana; born in Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, La., March 31,es and served from September 10, 1835, to March 3, 1841; 1916; attended the public schools and the Louisiana Statechairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Twenty-sixth Con- University 1932-1934, completing course in higher account-gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840; ap- ing; traveling auditor for State highway commission 1934-pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 1940; transferred to State reorganization plan; Louisianato Mexico and served from February 10, 1842, to March 9, representative at the national assembly of the States in the1844; moved to Madison, Fla., and engaged in cotton plant- development of the civil defense program in Chicago, Ill., ining; appointed solicitor general of a circuit in 1868; died 1942; served in the United States Army Air Force 1942-1946;while on a visit to Tallahassee, Fla., November 23, 1868; served as State budget officer and financial adviser to theinterment in the Episcopal Cemetery. Louisiana Legislature, 1948-1952; chairman of the board of Bibliography: DAB. trustees of the State employees retirement system 1947- 1953; represented the United States Department of State in THOMPSON,Wiley, a Representative from Georgia; born Louisiana in training foreign representatives in principles ofin Amelia County, Va., September 23, 1781; moved to Elber- democracy in 1950 and 1951; elected as a Democrat to theton, Elbert County, Ga.; served as a commissioner of the Eighty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and servedElbert County Academy in 1808; served in the State senate from January 3, 1953, until his death July 1, 1965, in an 1817-1819; was appointed major general of the Fourth Divi- automobile accident in Gastonia, N.C.; interment in Evange- sion of the Georgia Militia in November 1817 and served line Memorial Park Cemetery, Ville Platte, La. until November 1824, when he resigned; elected to the Sev- enteenth through Nineteenth Congresses and elected as a THOMPSON,Thomas Larkin (son of Robert AugustineJacksonian to the Twentieth through Twenty-second Con- Thompson), a Representative from California; born ingresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1833); was a delegate to the Charleston, Va. (now West Virginia), May 31, 1838; attendedState constitutional convention in 1833; agent to Seminole the common schools and Buffalo Academy, Virginia (nowIndians; appointed in 1834 to superintend the removal of West Virginia); moved to California in 1855 and settled inSeminoles from Florida; killed by band of Seminoles led by Sonoma County; established the Petaluma Journal the sameOsceola at Fort King, Fla., on December 28, 1835; interment year; purchased the Sonoma Democrat in 1860, and was thein the private burial ground on his estate at Elberton, Ga. editor of that paper; delegate to the Democratic National Bibliography: DAB. Convention in 1880 and 1892; secretary of state of California 1882-1886; declined to be a candidate for renomination; THOMPSON,William, a Representative from Iowa; born elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4,in Fayette County, Pa., November 10, 1813; attended the 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in common schools; moved to Iowa and settled in Mount Pleas- 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; appointed on April 4, 1891,ant; member of the Territorial house of representatives in commissioner from California to the World's Fair at Chica-1843; secretary of the State constitutional convention in go; Minister to Brazil from April 24, 1893, to May 27, 1897;1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Calif., February 1, 1898;(March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); presented credentials as a interment in the Rural Cemetery. Member-elect to the Thirty-first Congress and served from Bibliography: DAB. March 4, 1849, to June 29, 1850, when the seat was declared vacant; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post THOMPSON,Thomas Weston, a Representative and aOffice Department (Thirty-first Congress); served in the Senator from New Hampshire; born in Boston, Mass., MarchUnion Army during the Civil War; commissioned captain in 15, 1766; attended Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass.; grad-the First Iowa Volunteer Cavalry on July 31, 1861; promoted uated from Harvard University in 1786; studied law; wasto major on May 18, 1863, and colonel on June 20, 1864; admitted to the bar in 1791 and practiced in Salisbury, N.H.,brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers on March 13, 1865, 1791-1810; postmaster of Salisbury, N.H., 1798-1803; trusteerecommissioned captain in the Seventh Cavalry, Regular of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1801-1821; moved toArmy, on July 28, 1866, and retired from the Army on Concord, N.H., in 1810 and continued the practice of law;December 15, 1875; editor of the Iowa State Gazette; died in Biographies 1935

Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., on October 6, 1897; inter-tion to the United States Senate in 1918; chairman, Commit- ment in Tacoma Cemetery. tee on Expenditures in the Departments of Commerce and Bibliography: Schmidt, Louis B. "The Miller-Thompson Election Con- Labor (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in test." Iowa Journal of History 12 (January 1914): 34-127. the Department of Commerce (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth THOMPSON, William George (brother of John McCand-Congresses), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent less Thompson), a Representative from Iowa; born nearExpense (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law Butler, Butler County, Pa., January 17, 1830; attended theat Kansas City, Kans., in 1919; moved to Tulsa, Okia., in common schools and the Witherspoon Institute in Butler,1923 and practiced law in Kansas City and Tulsa; moved to Pa.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853; movedWashington, D.C., in 1927, where he continued the practice to Iowa the same year and settled in Marion, Linn County,of law, and died there on February 9, 1928; interment in where he commenced the practice of law; prosecuting attor-Glenwood Cemetery. ney of Linn County 1854-1856; member of the State senate 1856-1860; served during the Civil War as major of the THOMSON, Alexander, a Representative from Pennsylva- Twentieth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in 1862; dis-nia; born in Franklin County, Pa., January 12, 1788; appren- trict attorney for the eighth judicial district for six years;ticed as a sickle maker; moved to Bedford, Pa.; received a appointed chief justice of the Territory of Idaho and servedlimited schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar in from January 13, 1879, until his resignation in April of that1816 and commenced practice in Chambersburg, Franklin year; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress toCounty, Pa.; held several local offices; member of the State fill the vacancy caused by the death of ; reelectedhouse of representatives; elected to the Eighteenth Congress to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from October 14,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of ; 1879, to March 3, 1883; declined to be a candidate for re-reelected to the Nineteenth Congress and served from De- nomination in 1882; served on the city council of Marion;cember 6, 1824, to May 1, 1826, when he resigned; mayor of member of the State house of representatives 1885-1887;Lancaster, Pa.; president judge of the sixteenth judicial dis- judge of the eighteenth judicial district of Iowa 1894-1906;trict of Pennsylvania 1827-1841; professor in the law school moved to Kenwood Park, Linn County, Iowa, in 1896 andof Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.; died in Chambersburg, died there April 2, 1911; interment in Oak Shade Cemetery,Pa., August 2, 1848; interment in Falling Spring Presbyteri- Marion, Iowa. an Cemetery. THOMPSON, William Henry, a Senator from Nebraska; THOMSON, Charles Marsh, a Representative from Illi- born in Perrysville, Ashland County, Ohio, December 14,nois; born in Chicago, Ill., February 13, 1877; attended the 1853; attended the common schools and received private in-public schools and the Chicago Manual Training School; was struction; attended Upper Iowa University at Fayette 1872-graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, Washing- 1875, and graduated from the law department of the Stateton, Pa., in 1899 and from the Northwestern University Law University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1877; was admitted to theSchool, Evanston, Ill., in 1902; was admitted to the bar in bar the same year and commenced practice at Brush Creekthe latter year and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; (now Arlington), Iowa; moved to Grand Island, Hall County,elected a member of the city council in 1908, 1910, and again Nebr., in 1881 and continued the practice of law; also inter- ested in banking; city attorney of Grand Island 1887-1888;in 1912; elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress unsuccessful candidate for election in 1890 to the Fifty-(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for second Congress; member of the board of trustees of Grandreelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected judge Island College in 1893; mayor of Grand Island 1895-1898;of the circuit court of Cook County in 1915; reelected in member of the Democratic National Committee 1896-19001921; appointed justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois in and 1920-1924; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ne-1917; reappointed in 1921 and served until June 1927; re- braska in 1902; member of the State commission for erectionsumed the practice of his profession in Chicago; trustee of of a new capitol; judge of the supreme court of Nebraskathe Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Co. from 1933 to 1924-1931; appointed as a Democrat to the United States1939, when he was appointed trustee of the Chicago & North Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert B.Western Railroad, in which capacity he served until his Howell and served from May 24, 1933, to November 6, 1934,death; died in Chicago, Ill., December 30, 1943; interment in when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for elec-Rosehill Cemetery. tion to this vacancy; retired to private life; died in Grand THOMSON, Edwin Keith, a Representative from Wyo- Island, Nebr., on June 6, 1937; interment in Grand Islandming; born in New Castle, Weston County, Wyo., February Cemetery. 8, 1919; attended the public schools in Beulah, Wyo., and THOMPSON, William Howard, a Senator from Kansas;Spearfish, S.Dak.; was graduated from the University of Wy- born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, md., Octoberoming Law School in 1941; called to active duty on March 14, 1871; moved with his parents to Nemaha County, Kans.,24, 1941; commanded Second Battalion, Three Hundred and in 1880; attended the public schools; graduated from theSixty-second Infantry Regiment, Ninety-first Division; re- Seneca Normal School in 1886 and from the Lawrence Busi-leased from active duty as a lieutenant colonel on January ness College in 1891; official court reporter of the twenty-24, 1946; was admitted to the bar in 1941 and commenced second judicial district of Kansas 1891-1894; studied law;the practice of law in Cheyenne, Wyo., in February 1946; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice indelegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952; Seneca; clerk of the Kansas Court of Appeals in Topeka andmember of the State house of representatives 1952-1954; practiced law 1897-1901; moved to lola, Kans., in 1901 andelected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, continued the practice of law; county attorney of Allenand Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, County; moved to Garden City in 1905; judge of the thirty-1955, until his death; did not seek renomination to the second judicial district of Kansas 1906-1913, when he re-Eighty-seventh Congress but was elected to the United signed, having been elected Senator; elected as a DemocratStates Senate on November 8, 1960, for the term commenc- to the United States Senate in 1912 and served from Marching January 3, 1961; died in Cody, Wyo., December 9, 1960; 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-interment in Arlington National Cemetery. 1936 Biographical Directory

THOMSON, John, a Representative from Ohio; born inRepublican to the Eighty-seventh Congress; reelected to the Ireland, November 20, 1780; immigrated with his parents tosix succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1961, the United States in 1787; completed preparatory studies;until his resignation December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candi- studied medicine, and in 1806 moved to New Lisbon, Ohio,date for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; and practiced; served in the State senate in 1814, 1815, andmember, Federal Election Commission, April 1975 to June 1817-1820; member of the State house of representatives in1979 and January 1981 to December 1981; was a resident of 1816; elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-McLean, Va., until his death in Washington, D.C., on April March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 18262, 1988; interment in Richland Center Cemetery, Richland to the Twentieth Congress; elected as a Jacksonian to theCenter, Wis. Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomina- THONE, Charles, a Representative from Nebraska; born tion in 1836; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Newin Hartington, Cedar County, Nebr., January 4, 1924; J.D., Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana County, Ohio, December 2,University of Nebraska Law School, Lincoln, 1950; admitted 1852; interment in New Lisbon Cemetery. to the Nebraska bar in 1950 and commenced practice in Lincoln; president, Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce, THOMSON, John Renshaw, a Senator from New Jersey;1952; Infantry NCO and officer during the Second World born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 25, 1800; attended theWar; administrative assistant to United States Senator common schools in Princeton, N.J., and the College of NewRoman L. Hruska, 1954-1959; chairman, Lincoln Human Jersey (now Princeton University); went to China in 1817Rights Commission, 1966-1969; State chairman, Nebraska and became a merchant in Canton; United States consul atRepublican Party, 1959-1962; delegate at large, Republican that port 1823-1825; returned to the United States and set-National Conventions, 1952, 1956, and 1972; elected as a tled in Princeton, N.J.; director and secretary of the Dela- ware & Raritan Canal Co.; connected with the PhiladelphiaRepublican to the Ninety-second and to the three succeeding & Trenton Railroad Co. as president and later as treasurer;Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1979); was not a member of the State constitutional convention in 1844; un-candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Con- successful Democratic candidate for governor of New Jerseygress, but was elected Governor of Nebraska in 1978 and in 1844; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senateserved from January 4, 1979, until January 6, 1983; was an to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert F. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982; is a resident of Stockton; reelected in 1857, and served from March 4, 1853,Lincoln, Nebr. until his death in Princeton, N.J., September 12, 1862; chair- THORINGTON, James, a Representative from Iowa; born man, Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty- in Wilmington, N.C., May 7, 1816; moved with his parents to sixth Congress), Committee on Pensions (Thirty-sixth Con-Montgomery, Ala., in 1827; attended the common schools, gress); interment in the Princeton Cemetery. the military school in Fayetteville, N.C., 1830-1832, and the THOMSON, Mark, a Representative from New Jersey; University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 1832-1835; studied law born in Norriton Township, near Norristown, Montgomeryin Montgomery, Ala.; engaged in trading and trapping on County, Pa., in 1739; engaged in milling; was justice of thethe upper Missouri and Columbia Rivers 1837-1839; moved peace of Sussex County in 1773; member of the provincialto Davenport, Iowa, in 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1844 convention in 1774 and of the Provincial Congress in 1775;and commenced practice in Davenport; mayor of Davenport was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment,1843-1847; probate judge of Scott County 1843-1851; clerk of Sussex County (N.J.) Militia, July 22, 1775; lieutenant colo-the district court of Scott County 1846-1854; elected as a nel in Col. Charles Stewart's Battalion of Minutemen Febru-Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, ary 15, 1776; colonel of the First Regiment, Sussex County1857); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; affili- Militia, July 10, 1776; colonel of the Battalion of Detachedated with the Republican Party; sheriff of Scott County New Jersey Militia July 18, 1776; member of the State gen-1859-1863; recorder 1864-1868; was appointed consul at eral assembly in 1779; served in the State council 1786-1788;Aspinwall, Colombia, January 21, 1873; appointed commer- appointed lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff ofcial agent at the same city May 27, 1873, and served in both Gov. Richard Howell, of New Jersey, June 10, 1793; elected positions until October 21, 1882; died while on a visit to his as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4,daughter at Santa Fe, N.Mex., June 13, 1887; interment in 1795-March 3,1799);died in Marksboro, Sussex (laterOakdale Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa. Warren) County, N.J., December 14, 1803; interment in the THORKELSON, Jacob, a Representative from Montana; Presbyterian Church Cemetery. born in Egersund, Norway, September 24, 1876; attended THOMSON, Vernon Wallace, a Representative from Wis-elementary schools; immigrated to the United States in 1892 consin; born in Richland Center, Richland County, Wis., No-and studied navigation; engaged as a navigator in 1896 and vember 5,1905; graduated from Richland Center Highserved as master of ocean-going ships 1900-1907; served with School in 1923; attended Carroll College in Waukesha, 1923-the Virginia Naval Reserve 1897-1899; was graduated from 1925; graduated from University of Wisconsin in1927; the College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Mary- taught at Viroqua High School, 1927-1929; graduated fromland, at Baltimore in 1911, and served as a member of the the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1932; engaged infaculty 1911-1913; moved to Dillon, Beaverhead County, private practice of law, Richland Center, Wis., 1932-1951;Mont., in 1913, to Warmsprings, Deer Lodge County, Mont., assistant district attorney of Richland County, 1933-1935,in 1915, and to Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont., in 1920, and city attorney, 1933-1937, and again, 1942-1944; mayor ofand practiced medicine and surgery; served in the United Richland Center from April 1944 to February 1951; memberStates Naval Reserve 1936-1939 with rank of lieutenant of the State assembly, 1935-1951, serving as speaker, 1939-commander; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth 1945, and as Republican floor leader, 1945-1951; State attor-Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful ney general, 1951-1957; Governor of Wisconsin from Janu-candidate for renomination in 1940; resumed the practice of ary 7, 1957, to January 5, 1959; delegate, Republican Nation-medicine and surgery; unsuccessful candidate for the Repub- al Conventions, 1936, 1940, 1952, and 1956; elected as alican nomination for United States Senator in 1942 and for Biographies 1937

Governor in 1944; died in Butte, Mont., November 20, 1945;Pineville, La., the McGruder Institute, Baton Rouge, La., interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. and the Louisiana Seminary (afterwards the State universi- THORNBERRY, William Homer, a Representative fromty) at Pineville until 1863; enlisted in the Confederate Army Texas; born in Austin, Travis County, Tex., January 9, 1909;and served until the close of the Civil War in Company B, attended the public schools; was graduated from the Univer-Second Louisiana Cavalry; engaged in agricultural pursuits sity of Texas in 1932 and from the law school of the sameuntil 1877; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and university in 1936; was admitted to the bar in 1936 andcommenced practice in Rapides Parish; judge of Rapides commenced the practice of law in Austin, Tex.; member ofParish 1878-1880; delegate to the State constitutional con- the State house of representatives 1936-1941; district attor-vention in 1898; member of the board of supervisors of the ney of the fifty-third judicial district of Texas from 1941State university 1904-1910; appointed as a Democrat to the until his resignation in 1942 to serve in the United StatesUnited States Senate on August 27, 1910, and subsequently Navy; served in the United States Navy from July 1942 untilelected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. discharged as a lieutenant commander in February 1946;McEnery and served from December 7, 1910, to March 3, member of the Austin City Council 1946-1948, serving as1915; was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate; chair- mayor pro tempore in 1947 and 1948; delegate at large to theman, Committee on Fisheries (Sixty-third Congress); appoint- Democratic National Conventions in 1956 and 1960; electeded by President Woodrow Wilson a member of the Board of as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seven succeed-Ordnance and Fortification and served from 1915 to 1917; ing Congresses and served from January 3, 1949 until hisresumed the practice of law in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, resignation December 20, 1963; sworn in as United StatesLa., and died there December 28, 1917; interment in Rapides district judge for the western district of Texas on DecemberCemetery, Pineville, La. 21, 1963, serving until he was sworn in as United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals of the THORNTON, Matthew, a Delegate from New Hampshire; Fifth Judicial Circuit on July 3, 1965, in which capacity he isborn in Ireland in 1714; immigrated to the United States in now serving; nominated to the United States Supreme Court1716 with his father, who settled in Wiscasset, Maine; moved in 1968, but the nomination was withdrawn at his requestto Worcester, Mass.; completed preparatory studies; studied when a vacancy in the position to which he was nominatedmedicine and commenced practice in Londonderry, N.H., in failed to occur; is a resident of Austin, Tex. 1740; surgeon of New Hampshire troops in the expedition THORNBURGH, Jacob Montgomery, a Representativeagainst Cape Breton; member of the New Hampshire Assem- from Tennessee; born in New Market, Jefferson County,bly when it was organized in 1758 and again in 1760 and Tenn., July 3, 1837; completed preparatory studies; studied1761; justice of the peace; delegate to the first Provincial law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced prac-Congress in 1775 and served as its president; chairman of tice in Jefferson County; during the Civil War entered thethe committee of safety in 1775; speaker of the general Union Army as a private and was promoted to lieutenantassembly from January 5 to September 12, 1776; colonel of colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Caval-the State militia during the Revolutionary War; Member of ry, July 11, 1863; returned to Jefferson County, Tenn., andthe Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777; a signer of the practiced law; moved to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1867; appointedDeclaration of Independence; chief justice of the court of attorney general of the third judicial circuit of Tennessee incommon pleas; judge of the superior court of New Hamp- 1866, and elected in 1868 and 1870; United States commis-shire 1776-1782; moved to Exeter, N.H., in 1779; member of sioner at the International Exposition held at Vienna, Aus-the general assembly in 1783; served in the State senate in tria, in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third,1784; State councilor in 1785; moved to Merrimack, N.H., in Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-1789, where he purchased a farm and spent his remaining March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination inyears in literary pursuits; died in Newburyport, Mass., June 1878; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in24, 1803; interment in Thornton's Ferry Cemetery, Merri- 1872, 1876, and 1880; retired from public life and resumedmack, N.H. the practice of law in Knoxville, Tenn., where he died Sep- Bibliography: DAB. tember 19, 1890; interment in the Old Gray Cemetery. THORNTON, Raymond Hoyt, Jr. (Ray), a Representative THORNTON, Anthony, a Representative from Illinois;from Arkansas; born in Conway, Faulkner County, Ark., born near Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., November 9, 1814;July 16, 1928; attended public schools at Leola and Sheridan, attended the common schools and Centre College, Danville,Grant County, Ark.; University of Arkansas, 1945-1947; KY.; was graduated from Miami University, Ohio, in 1834;B.A., Yale University, 1950; attended law school at the Uni- studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-versity of Texas, 1950-1951; J.D., University of Arkansas, tice in Shelbyville, Ill., in 1836; major of militia during the1956; served in the United States Navy during the Korean war with Mexico; delegate to the State constitutional con-conflict, 1951-1954, attained the rank of lieutenant; admitted ventions in 1847 and 1862; member of the State house ofto the Arkansas bar in 1956 and commenced practice in representatives in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-Sheridan and Little Rock; served as deputy prosecuting at- ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not atorney, sixth judicialcircuit,1956-1957; delegate, from candidate for renomination in 1866; resumed the practice ofGrant and Jefferson Counties to the Seventh Constitutional law; justice of the supreme court of Illinois from 1870 toConvention of Arkansas, 1969-1970; attorney general of Ar- 1873, when he resigned; president of the State bar associa-kansas, 1971-1973; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- tion for four terms; chairman of the State board of arbitra-third, Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, tion 1895-1897; died in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ill., on1973-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate in 1978 for re- September 10, 1904; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. election to the United States House of Representatives but THORNTON, John Randolph, a Senator from Louisiana;was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United born on Notoway plantation, near Bayou Goula, IbervilleStates Senate; president, Arkansas State University, 1980- Parish, La., August 25, 1846; moved with his parents to1984; president, University of Arkansas, 1984 to present; is a Rapides Parish, La., in 1853; attended Parker Seminary,resident of Fayetteville and Sheridan, Ark. 1938 Biographical Directory

THORP, Robert Taylor, a Representative from Virginia; THROOP, Enos Thompson, a Representative from New born near Oxford, Granville County, N.C., March 12, 1850; York; born in Johnstown, Montgomery County, N.Y., August attended Homer Academy, Oxford, N.C., and was graduated21, 1784; attended the common schools; studied law; was from the law department of the University of Virginia atadmitted to the bar in 1806 and commenced practice in Charlottesville in 1870; was admitted to the bar in 1870 andAuburn, N.Y.; clerk of Cayuga County 1811-1815; elected as commenced practice in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress and served from in 1871; Commonwealth attorney for that county 1877-1895;March 4, 1815, to June 4, 1816, when he resigned; unsuccess- successfully contested as a Republican the election of Wil-ful candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Con- liam R. McKenney to the Fifty-fourth Congress and servedgress; circuit judge of New York 1823-1827; elected Lieuten- from May 2, 1896, to March 3, 1897; successfully contestedant Governor of New York in 1828, and became Governor the election of Sydney P. Epes to the Fifty-fifth Congresswhen was appointed Secretary of State of and served from March 23, 1898, to March 4, 1899; unsuc-the United States March 12, 1829; elected Governor of New cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixthYork and served from 1830 to 1833; naval officer of the port Congress; moved to Norfolk, Va., and continued the practiceof New York 1833-1838; appointed Chargé d'Affaires to the of law; moved to Virginia Beach, Va., in 1934 and diedTwo Sicilies on February 6, 1838, and served until January November 26, 1938; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery,12, 1842; engaged in the management of his large estate and Norfolk, Va. resided in Kalamazoo, Mich., 1847-1867; returned to his THORPE, Roy Henry, a Representative from Nebraska;estate "Willowbrook," near Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., born near Greensburg, Decatur County, md., December 13,and died there November 1, 1874; interment in St. Peter's 1874; attended the country schools and Greensburg (md.)Churchyard, Auburn, N.Y. High School; studied pharmacy, medicine, and law; engaged Bibliography: DAB. in evangelistic work and was known as "The boy tramp THROPP, Joseph Earlston, a Representative from Penn- orator of 1896"; was employed as a salesman in Du Quoin,sylvania; born in Valley Forge, Chester County, Pa., October Ill., 1897-1904, and in Shenandoah, Iowa, 1905-1919; engaged4, 1847; attended the public schools and Friends Central in secret-service work in the State of Iowa in 1917 and 1918;High School, Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated as a civil moved to Nebraska in 1919 and settled in Lincoln, where heengineer from the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania in resumed the occupation of salesman; elected as a Republican1868; went to the Middle Northwest and engaged in his to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused byprofession, constructing docks at Duluth and Fond du Lac, the resignation of C. Frank Reavis and served from Novem-Wis., attaining the position of railroad division engineer; ber 7, 1922, to March 3, 1923; was not a candidate for re-moved to Conshohocken, Pa., in 1870 and engaged in the nomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress; unsuccessful candi-manufacture of pig iron; subsequently became owner of the date for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; trav-Earlston Furnaces, Everett, Pa., in 1888; elected as a Repub- eled as a sales organizer and later engaged in the insurancelican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, business; died in Lincoln, Nebr., September 19, 1951; inter-1901); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 ment in Wyuka Cemetery. to the Fifty-seventh Congress; retired from active business THROCKMORTON, James Webb, a Representative frompursuits and resided in Washington, D.C., and Miami, Fla.; Texas; born in Sparta, White County, Tenn., on February 1,died while on a visit in Quebec, Canada, July 27, 1927; 1825; attended the common schools; moved with his father tointerment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. Collin County, Tex., in 1841; studied medicine in Princeton, THRUSTON, Buckner, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Ky., and practiced in Collin County; served as surgeonPetsoe Parish, Gloucester County, Va., February 9, 1763; during the Mexican War; studied law; was admitted to thepursued preparatory studies; graduated from William and bar and commenced practice in McKinney, Collin County,Mary College at Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; moved to Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1851-Lexington, Fayette County, Va. (now Kentucky), in 1788; 1856; served in the State senate 1856-1861; member of thewas admitted to the bar and began the practice of law; secession convention of Texas in 1861; during the Civil Warmember, Virginia assembly 1789; after Kentucky was orga- served as captain and major in the Confederate Army fromnized as a State was elected clerk of the first State senate in the spring of 1861 until November 1863; brigadier general of1792; appointed one of Kentucky's three commissioners to State troops in 1864 and commander on the northwestsettle the boundary dispute between the States of Kentucky border of the State; again a member of the State senate inand Virginia; district judge of Kentucky 1791; judge of the 1865; delegate to the reconstruction convention under Presi-circuit court 1802-1803; appointed United States judge of the dent Johnson's proclamation and chosen the presiding offi-court of the Territory of Orleans in 1804, but declined; elect- cer of that body in 1866; elected Governor of Texas and wased as a Republican to the United States Senate and served inaugurated August 8, 1866; removed by order of Generalfrom March 4, 1805, to December 18, 1809, when he resigned, Sheridan August 9, 1867; resumed the practice of law inhaving been appointed to a judicial position; appointed judge Collin County, Tex.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Colum- fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-fifthbia and served from January 1810, until his death in Wash- Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878;ington, D.C., on August 30, 1845; interment in the Congres- resumed the practice of his profession; elected to the Forty-sional Cemetery. eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, THURMAN, Allen Granberry, a Representative and a Sen- 1887); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-ator from Ohio; born in Lynchburg, Va., November 13, 1813; ninth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renominationmoved with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1819; attend- in 1886; unsuccessful candidate for election as United Statesed the Chillicothe Academy; private secretary to the Gover- Senator in 1881; resumed the practice of law; delegate to thenor 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and Democratic National Convention in 1892; died in McKinney, practiced in Ross County, Ohio; elected as a Democrat to the Collin County, Tex., April 21, 1894; interment in PecanTwenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); de- Grove Cemetery. clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; resumed Biographies 1939 the practice of law; associate justice of the supreme court ofmember of the State house of representatives 1831-1837; Ohio 1851-1854, chief justice 1854-1856; unsuccessful Demo-Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 1838; elected as a cratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1867; elected as aDemocrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, Democrat to the United States Senate in 1868; reelected in1849); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the 1874, and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1881;Thirty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- served as President pro tempore of the Senate during thesecond and Thirty-third Congresses and as a candidate of the Forty-sixth Congress; chairman, Committee on Private LandAmerican Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, Claims (Forty-second through Forty-fifth Congresses), Com-1851-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Expenditures mittee on the Judiciary (Forty-sixth Congress); appointed ain the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-second Congress), member of the Electoral Commission to decide the contestsCommittee on Patents (Thirty-third Congress), Committee on in various States in the presidential election of 1876; unsuc-Accounts (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for cessful candidate for reelection to the United States Senaterenomination in 1856; after leaving Congress moved to New in 1881; resumed the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio; appointed by President James Garfield a member of theLondon, Conn.; member of the board of aldermen in 1862 international monetary conference in Paris in 1881; unsuc-and 1863; member of the State house of representatives in cessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on1869 and 1870; resumed mercantile pursuits; died in New the Democratic ticket in 1888; died in Columbus, FranklinLondon, Conn., May 17, 1886; interment in Cedar Grove County, Ohio, December 12, 1895; interment in Green LawnCemetery. Cemetery. THURSTON, John Mellen, a Senator from Nebraska; born Bibliography: DAB; Carroll, Howard. "Allen Thurman." InTwelve in Montpelier, Vt., August 21, 1847; moved with his parents Americans: Their Lives and Times. pp. 331-54. 1883. Reprint. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971; Hare, John S. "Allen G. Thurman:to Madison, Wis., in 1854 and two years later to Beaver A Political Study." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1933. Dam, Wis.; attended the public schools and graduated from Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wis.; studied law; was THURMAN, John Richardson, a Representative fromadmitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in New York; born in New York City October 6, 1814; wasOmaha, Nebr.; member, city council 1872-1874; city attorney graduated from Columbia College in 1835; moved to Warrenof Omaha 1874-1877; member, State house of representatives County, near Chestertown, N.Y., and engaged in agricultural1875-1877; appointed assistant attorney of the Union Pacific pursuits; held several local offices; elected as a Whig to theRailroad in 1877 and general solicitor in 1888; presidential Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3,1851); de-elector on the Republican ticket in 1880; unsuccessful Re- clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; devotedpublican candidate for United States Senator in 1893; elect- his attention to the management of his estate; died ated as a Republican to the United States Senate and served Friends Lake, Chester Township, Warren County, N.Y., Julyfrom March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901; was not a candidate 24, 1854; interment in the family cemetery; reinterment infor reelection; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Fifty- Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y. sixth Congress); appointed United States commissioner to THURMOND, James Strom, a Senator from South Caroli-the St. Louis Exposition in 1901; moved to Washington, D.C., na; born in Edgefield, S.C., December 5, 1902; attended theand resumed the practice of law; returned to Omaha, Nebr., public schools; graduated, Clemson College 1923; taught inand practiced law until his death August 9, 1916; remains South Carolina high schools 1923-1929; Edgefield Countywere cremated at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr., and superintendent of education 1929-1933; studied law and wasthe ashes interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washing- admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1930; city and countyton, D.C. attorney 1930-1938; member, State senate 1933-1938; circuit judge 1938-1942; served in the United States Army 1942- THURSTON, Lloyd, a Representative from Iowa; born in 1946, in Europe and in the Pacific; major general, UnitedOsceola, Clarke County, Iowa, March 27, 1880; attended the States Army Reserve; again circuit judge, but resigned inpublic schools; during the Spanish-American War enlisted May 1946; Governor of South Carolina 1947-1951; unsuccess- on June 13, 1898, as a private in Company I, Fifty-first ful States Rights candidate for President of the UnitedRegiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served with this States in 1948; unsuccessful candidate for the Democraticcompany during the Philippine Insurrection, and was honor- nomination for United States Senator in 1950; practiced lawably discharged on November 2, 1899; was graduated from in Aiken, S.C., 1951-1955; appointed as a Democrat to thethe law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City United States Senate to complete the term of Charles E.in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- Daniel, who resigned, and served from December 24, 1954, to menced practice in Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa; captain in January 3, 1955; had been previously elected as a write-inthe National Guard of Iowa 1902-1906; prosecuting attorney candidate in November 1954 for the term commencing Janu-of Clarke County 1906-1910; during the First World War ary 3, 1955, and ending January 3, 1961, but due to a prom-served with the rank of captain in Company C, Twenty-sixth ise made to the voters in the 1954 election, he resigned as ofBattalion, United States Guards, at Fort Crook, Nebr.; April 4, 1956; again elected as a Democrat in November 1956member of the State senate 1920-1924; elected as a Republi- to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and servedcan to the Sixty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses from November 7, 1956, to January 3, 1961; reelected in(March 4, 1925-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for 1960, 1966, 1972, 1978, and again in 1984, for the termrenomination in 1938, but was an unsuccessful candidate for ending January 3, 1991; changed from the Democratic to thethe Republican nomination for United States Senator; re- Republican Party in 1964; President pro tempore of thesumed the practice of law in Osceola, Iowa; died in Des Senate during the Ninety-seventh through the Ninety-ninthMoines, Iowa, May 7, 1970; interment in Maple Hill Ceme- Congresses; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Ninety-tery, Osceola, Iowa. seventh through Ninety-ninth Congresses). THURSTON, Samuel Royal, a Delegate from the Terri- THURSTON, Benjamin Babock, a Representative fromtory of Oregon; born in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Rhode Island; born in Hopkinton, R.I., June 29, 1804; attend-Maine, April 15, 1816; attended Wesleyan Seminary, Read- ed the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits;field, Maine, and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; was 1940 Biographical Directory graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1843;Bank of Ebensburg since 1938; elected as a Republican to the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commencedSeventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu- practice in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine; moved toary 3, 1939-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for re- Burlington, Iowa, in 1845 and continued the practice of law;election in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; returned to editor of the Iowa Gazette; moved to Oregon City, Oreg., inEbensburg and resumed his banking career as president and 1849 and engaged in the practice of his profession; when thechairman of the board of the First National Bank; died Territory of Oregon was formed was elected as a DemocratDecember 31, 1969, in Ebensburg, Pa.; interment in Lloyd to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851);Cemetery. died while at sea April 9, 1851, en route to his home from Washington, D.C., and was buried in Acapulco, Mexico; rein- TICHENOR, Isaac, a Senator from Vermont; born in terment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Salem, MarionNewark, N.J., February 8, 1754; completed preparatory stud- County, Oreg. ies; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Prince- ton University) in 1775; studied law in Schenectady, N.Y.; THYE, Edward John, a Senator from Minnesota; born onappointed assistant commissary general in 1777 and was a farm near Frederick, Brown County, S.Dak., April 26, 1896; moved in early childhood to Minnesota with his par-stationed in Bennington, Vt.; was admitted to the bar and ents who settled on a farm near Northfield, Rice County;commenced practice in Bennington, Vt., at the close of the attended the public schools and business college; during theRevolutionary War; member, State house of representatives First World War enlisted as a private in the United States1781-1785, serving as speaker 1783-1784; agent from the Army Air Corps in 1917 and promoted through the ranks toState to the Continental Congress to present Vermont's second lieutenant with overseas service; farmer and tractorclaim for admission into the Union 1782-1789; State council- expert, Minneapolis, Minn.; salesman 1920-1922; appraiseror 1786-1791; one of the commissioners to settle the bounda- for Federal land bank 1933-1934; deputy commissioner ofry question with New York in 1790; associate justice of the agriculture for State of Minnesota 1939-1942; elected lieu-State supreme court 1791-1796, chief justice 1794-1796; tenant governor of Minnesota in 1942 and succeeded to gov-elected in 1796 as a Federalist to the United States Senate to ernorship in 1943; elected Governor in 1944 and served untilfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Moses Robin- January 1947; elected as a Republican to the United Statesson; reelected for the term commencing March 4, 1797, and Senate in 1946, reelected in 1952, and served from Januaryserved from October 18, 1796, to October 17, 1797, when he 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for re-resigned, having been elected Governor; Governor of Ver- election in 1958; chairman, Select Committee on Small Busi-mont 1797-1807, 1808-1809; unsuccessful candidate for re- ness (Eighty-third Congress); resumed his agricultural inter-election in 1809; again elected as a Federalist to the United ests and maintained an active interest in Republican politicsStates Senate and served from March 4, 1815, to March 3, and civic affairs; died in Northfield, Minn., August 28, 1969;1821; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Ben- interment in Oaklawn Cemetery. nington, Vt., December 11, 1838; interment in the Village Cemetery, Old Bennington, Vt. TIBBATTS, John Wooleston, a Representative from Ken- Bibliography: DAB. tucky; born in Lexington, Ky., June 12, 1802; pursued classi- cal studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and TIERNAN, Robert Owens, a Representative from Rhode commenced practice in Newport, Campbell County, Ky.; heldIsland; born in Providence, Povidence County, R.I., February several local offices; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-24, 1929; attended LaSalle Academy; Providence College, eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-MarchA.B., 1953; Catholic University Law School of Washington, 3, 1847); served as colonel in the Mexican War; resumed theD.C., J.D., 1956; was admitted to the bar in 1956 and com- practice of law in Newport, Ky., and died there July 5, 1852;menced practice in Providence, R.I.; elected to the Rhode interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Island general assembly, 1960, and reelected in 1962, 1964, TIBBITS, George, a Representative from New York; bornand 1966; elected as a Democrat to the Ninetieth Congress, in Warwick, R.I., January 14, 1763; pursued classical studies;March 28, 1967, by special election, to fill the vancancy engaged in business in Lansingburg, N.Y., in 1784; moved tocaused by the death of John E. Fogarty; reelected to the Troy, N.Y., in 1797 and became engaged in extensive mer-three succeeding Congresses and served from March 28, cantile pursuits; member of the State assembly in 1800;1967, until January 3, 1975; unsuccessful candidate for re- elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4,nomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; member, 1803-March 3, 1805); was not a candidate for renominationFederal Election Commission, April 1975 to November 1981; in 1804; member of the State senate 1815-1818; unsuccessfulpracticed law in Washington, D.C., and Rhode Island, 1981- Federalist candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York 1986; resumed the practice of law in Providence, R.I., 1986 to in 1816; was a member of the commission on State prisonspresent; is a resident of South Kingston, R.I. which rendered a favorable report on the Auburn Prison TIERNEY, William Laurence, a Representative from Con- system in 1824; member of the commission which had chargenecticut; born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., August of the construction of Sing Sing Prison; mayor of Troy, N.Y.,6, 1876; attended the public schools; was graduated from from 1830 to 1836; died in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y.,Fordham University, New York City, in 1898 and from New July 19, 1849; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. York Law School in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1900 TIBBOTT, Harve, a Representative from Pennsylvania;and commenced practice in New York City; moved to born near Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa., May 27, 1885;Denver, Cob., in 1905 and to Greenwich, Conn., in 1912, attended the public schools; was graduated from the schoolcontinuing the practice of law; judge of Greenwich court of pharmacy of the University of Pittsburgh in 1906; en-1912-1914; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Con- gaged in the retail drug business and as a pharmacist ingress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate Ebensburg, Pa., in 1906; treasurer of the William Pennfor reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; re- Highway Association1913-1915;treasurerof Cambriasumed the practice of law in Greenwich, Conn., and New County, Pa., 1932-1935; member of the Republican StateYork City; State counsel for the Home Owners' Loan Corpo- committee in 1936 and 1937; president of the First Nationalration in 1934 and 1935; engaged in banking and the prac- Biographies 1941 tice of law in Greenwich, Conn., until his death there Aprilprosecuting attorney of Portage County 1838-1841; elected as 13, 1958; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery. a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); delegate to the Whig Nation- TIFFIN, Edward, a Senator from Ohio; born in Carlisle,al Convention in 1848 and 1852; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, England, June 19, 1766; attended the common schools; stud-in 1852; elected probate judge of Cuyahoga County and ied medicine; immigrated to the United States in 1784 andserved from 1855 to 1888; died in Cleveland, Ohio, March 4, settled in Charles Town, Va. (now West Virginia); attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia;1890; remains were cremated at Buffalo, N.Y., and the ashes practiced medicine, in Charles Town; entered the ministry ofdeposited in the Buffalo Crematory. the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1792; moved to Chilli- TILGHMAN, Matthew, a Delegate from Maryland; born at cothe, Ohio, in 1796 and engaged in preaching and the prac-the "Hermitage," near Centerville, Queen Annes County, tice of medicine; member, Territorial house of representa-Md., February 17, 1718; was tutored privately; justice of the tives 1799-180 1, serving as speaker; president of the conven- peace for Talbot County; member of the Maryland House of tion that formed the constitution of Ohio in 1802; elected asDelegates 1751-1777, serving as speaker 1773-1775; president the first Governor of the State in 1803 and reelected in 1805;of the Revolutionary convention that directed the affairs of elected as a Republican to the United States Senate andthe colony 1774-1777; member of the committee appointed to served from March 4,1807, to March 3, 1809, when hedraw up the protest against the Stamp Act; chairman of the resigned; member, State house of representatives 1809-18 10,committee of correspondence in 1774; Member of the Conti- 1810-1811, serving as speaker; resumed the practice of medi- cine in Chillicothe, Ohio; appointed by President Jamesnental Congress 1774-1776; was summoned from his seat in Madison as the first Commissioner of the General LandCongress to attend the convention at Annapolis, Md., con- Office and served from 1812 to 1814; with the consent of thevening June 21, 1776, and served as president of that body; President and the Senate he exchanged offices with Josiahchairman of the committee of safety in 1775; chairman of Meigs and became surveyor general of the Northwest Terri-the committee which prepared the first declaration and tory, which position he held until removed by Presidentcharter of rights and plan of government (constitution) for Andrew Jackson in 1829; died in Chillicothe, Ross County,the State of Maryland; elected as a member of the State Ohio, August 9, 1829; interment in Grand View Cemetery.senate in 1777; reelected, but resigned before the expiration Bibliography: DAB; Comegys, C.G. Reminiscences of . Chil- of his term; was an extensive land owner and engaged in licothe: Bond and Son Printers,1869; Gilmore, W.E. Life of Edwardplanting; died at his home "Rich Neck," near Claiborne, Tiffin, First Governor of Ohio. Chillicothe: Homey and Son, 1897. Talbot County, Md., May 4, 1790; interment in the family cemetery at "Rich Neck." TIFT, Nelson, a Representative from Georgia; born in Bibliography: DAB. Groton, Conn., July 23, 1810; attended the village school; moved to Key West, Fla., with his father in 1826, to Charles- TILLINGHAST, Joseph Leonard (cousin of Thomas Til- ton, S.C., in 1830, and engaged in the mercantile business;linghast), a Representative from Rhode Island; was born in moved to Georgia and engaged in mercantile pursuits atTaunton, Mass., in 1791; moved to Rhode Island and pursued Augusta, Richmond County, in 1835, at Hawkinsville, Pulas-classical studies; published the Providence Gazette in 1809; ki County, in March 1836, and at Albany, Baker (nowstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and began Dougherty) County, in October 1836; founder of the Augustapractice in Providence, R.I.; member of the State house of (Ga.) Guards in 1835; founder of the city of Albany, Ga., inrepresentatives 1826-1833, serving as speaker 1829-1832; 1836; served as justice of the peace; delegate from Bakerelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and County to the State convention held in Milledgeville, Ga., inTwenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); 1839, to reduce the membership of the State legislature;was not a candidate for renomination; trustee of Brown elected to the Baker County Inferior Court on July 5, 1840;University at Providence 1833-1844; died in Providence, R.I., reelected in January 1841 and again in 1849; elected colonelDecember 30, 1844; interment in North Burial Ground. of Baker County (Ga.) Militia in 1840; member of the State house of representatives in 1841, 1847, and 1851-1852; found- TILLINGHAST, Thomas (cousin of Joseph Leonard Til- er in 1845 of the Albany Patriot and served as editor andlinghast), a Representative from Rhode Island; born in East publisher until 1858; during the Civil War was connectedGreenwich, R.I., August 21, 1742; completed preparatory with the Confederate States Navy Supply Department withstudies; member of the State house of representatives in the rank of ëaptain; upon the readmission of Georgia to1772 and 1773; held several offices under Revolutionary au- representation was elected as a Democrat to the Fortieththorities; again a member of the State house of representa- Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869;tives 1778-1780; judge of the court of common pleas in 1779; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-firstmember of the council of war; associate justice of the State Congress, but was not permitted to qualify; contested thesupreme court 1780-1797; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth subsequent election of Richard H. Whiteley to the Forty-firstCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Congress, but no action was taken thereon; conducted anElisha R. Potter and served from November 13, 1797, to extensive plantation and operated lumber, flour, and corn-March 3, 1799; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Con- meal mills; also instrumental in promoting the building ofgress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); died in East Green- several railroads, serving as president; delegate to the Statewich, R.I., August 26, 1821; interment in Tillinghast Ceme- constitutional convention in 1877; died in Albany, Doughertytery. County, Ga., on November 21, 1891; interment in Oakview TILLMAN, Benjamin Ryan (brother of George Dionysius Cemetery. Tillman), a Senator from South Carolina; born near Trenton, TILDEN, Daniel Rose, a Representative from Ohio; bornEdgefield County, S.C., August 11, 1847; pursued an academ- in Lebanon, Conn., November 5, 1804; attended the publicic course; left school in 1864 to join the Confederate Army, schools; resided several years in Virginia and South Caroli-but was stricken with a severe illness; engaged in agricultur- na; moved to Garrettsville, Ohio, about 1828, and thence toal pursuits; GOvernor of South Carolina 1890-1894; estab- Warren, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1836lished Clemson College and Winthrop College while Gover- and commenced practice in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio;nor; member of the State constitutional convention in 1895; 1942 Biographical Directory elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1894;schools and pursued an academic course; served in the Semi- reelected in 1901, 1907, and 1913 and served from March 4,nole War as a private; engaged in agricultural pursuits; 1895, until his death; censured by the Senate in 1902 afterclerk of the circuit court of Bedford County 1852-1860; colo- assaulting another Senator on the Senate floor; chairman,nel of State militia before the Civil War; editor of a newspa- Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fifty-seventh throughper in Shelbyville, Tenn.; clerk and master of the chancery Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Five Civilized Tribescourt 1865-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first of Indians (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Commit-Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate tee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Con-for renomination in 1870; engaged in agricultural pursuits; gresses); an outspoken populist, Tiliman was known asdied in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., May 3, 1886; "Pitchfork Ben" during his years in the Senate; died ininterment in Willow Mount Cemetery. Washington, D.C., July 3, 1918; interment in Ebenezer Ceme- tery, Trenton, S.C. TILLOTSON, Thomas, a Representative from New York; Bibliography: Neal, Diane. "Benjamin Ryan Tiliman: The South Caroli-born in Maryland in 1750; received a thorough education; na Years, 1847-1894." Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State University, 1976; Sim- studied medicine and practiced; during the Revolutionary kins, Francis. Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolinian.1944. Reprint. War was commissioned first lieutenant in the Maryland Mi- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. litia in 1776; appointed by Congress as physician and sur- TILLMAN, George Dionysius (brother of Benjamin Ryangeon general of the Northern Department of the Army in Tiliman), a Representative from South Carolina; born near1780 and served until the close of the war; settled in New Curryton, Edgefield County, S.C., August 21, 1826; pursuedYork and engaged in the practice of medicine; member of an academic course in Penfield, Ga., and in Greenwood, S.C.;the State assembly from Red Hook, Dutchess County, from attended Harvard University, but did not graduate; studied1788 to 1790; served in the State senate 1791-1799; member law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced prac-of the council of appointment in 1791; elected to the Seventh tice in Edgefield, S.C.; member of the State house of repre-Congress, but did not qualify or take his seat and resigned sentatives, 1854-1855 and 1864; enlisted during the CivilAugust 10, 1801; secretary of state of New York from August War and served in the Third Regiment of South Carolina 10, 1801, to March 15, 1806, and from February 16, 1807, to State troops in 1862; shortly after its disbandment enteredJune 31, 1808; died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., the Second Regiment of South Carolina Artillery, in whichMay 5, 1832; interment in the vault in the rear of Rhinebeck he served until the close of the war; again a member of theReformed Dutch Church. State house of representatives in 1864; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865, held under the reconstruc- TILSON, John Quillin, a Representative from Connecti- tion proclamation of President Johnson; served in the Statecut; born in Clearbranch, Unicoi County, Tenn., April 5, senate in 1865; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to1866; attended public and private schools at Flag Pond, in the Forty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-his native county, and also at Mars Hill, Madison County, sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3,1881); presentedN.C.; was graduated from Carson-Newman College, Jefferson credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-seventh CongressCity, Tenn., in 1888, from Yale University, New Haven, and served from March 4, 1881, to June 19, 1882, when heConn., in 1891, and from the law department of the same was succeeded by Robert Smalls, who contested the election;university in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and elected to the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Con-commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; enlisted as a gresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committeevolunteer during the war with Spain and served as second on Patents (Fifty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidatelieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Volunteer for renomination in 1892; engaged in agricultural pursuitsInfantry; member of the State house of representatives and also as a publicist; member of the State constitutional1904-1908, serving as speaker the last two years; elected as a convention in 1895; unsuccessful candidate for election asRepublican to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses Governor of South Carolina in 1898; died in Clarks Hill,(March 4, 1909-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for McCormick County, S.C., February 2, 1902; interment in thereelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; served on the Bethlehem Baptist Church Community Cemetery. Mexican border as lieutenant colonel of the Second Infantry, Connecticut National Guard, in 1916; elected to the Sixty- TILLMAN, John Newton, a Representative from Arkan-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served sas; born near Springfield, Greene County, Mo., Decemberfrom March 4, 1915, until his resignation on December 3, 13, 1859; attended the common schools; was graduated from1932; majority leader (Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy- the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1880; taughtfirst Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and1932; delegate to the Republican National Convention in commenced practice in Fayetteville, Washington County,1932; resumed practice of law in Washington, D.C., and New Ark.; clerk of the circuit court of Washington County 1884-Haven, Conn.; special lecturer at Yale University on parlia- 1889; served in the State senate 1888-1892; prosecuting at-mentary law and procedure; died in New London, N.H., torney of the fourth judicial circuit 1892-1898; judge of theAugust 14, 1958; interment in private burial grounds on the same circuit court 1900-1905; president of the University offamily farm, Clearbranch, Tenn. Arkansas 1905-1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- Bibliography: DAB; Sweeting, Orville J. "John Q. Tilson and the Re-Ap- fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-portionment Act of 1929." Western Political Quarterly 9 (June 1956): 434- March 3, 1929); one of the managers appointed by the House 53- of Representatives in 1926 to conduct the impeachment pro- ceedings against George W. English, judge of the United TILTON, James, a Delegate from Delaware; born in Kent States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois; didCounty, Del., June 1, 1745; attended Nottingham Academy, not seek renomination in 1928; died in Fayetteville, Ark.,Maryland; was graduated from the medical department of March 9, 1929; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. the University of Pennsylvania in 1771 and commenced practice in Dover, Del.; entered the Revolutionary Army as TILLMAN, Lewis (nephew of Barclay Martin), a Repre-surgeon, and in 1777 was in charge of the military hospital sentative from Tennessee; born near Shelbyville, Bedfordat Princeton, N.J.; after peace was declared resumed the County, Tenn., August 18,1816; attended the commonpractice of his profession in Dover, Del.; Member of the Biographies 1943

Continental Congress 1783-1784; moved to Wilmington, Del.;United States Senate on December 9, 1831, to fill the vacan- Government commissioner of loans 1785-1801; served several cy caused by the death of James Noble; reelected in 1832 years as a member of the State house of representatives;and served from January 3, 1832, to March 3, 1839; due to Surgeon General of the United States Army 1813-1815; diedpoor health declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1838; near Wilmington, Del., May 14, 1822; interment in Wilming-chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-fifth ton and Brandywine Cemetery. Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-fifth Con- Bibliography: DAB. gress); died in Logansport, Cass County, md., on April 5, TIMBERLAKE, Charles Bateman, a Representative from1839; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. Colorado; born in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, Sep- Bibliography: DAB; Blackburn, Glen A. "The Papers of John Tipton." tember 25, 1854; attended the common schools and Earlham Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1928; Robertson, Nellie and Dorothy Riker, eds. The John Tipton Papers. 3 vols. Indianapolis: The Indiana His- College, Richmond, md., 1871-1874; taught school; moved to torical Bureau, 1942. Colorado in 1885, and settled near Holyoke, Phillips County; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; member TIPTON, Thomas Foster, a Representative from Illinois; of the Republican State committee 1892-1910; superintend-born near Harrisburg, Franklin County, Ohio, August 29, ent of schools of Phillips County 1889-1895; county clerk1833; attended the public schools; moved with his parents to 1895-1897; appointed receiver of the United States landMcLean County, Ill., in 1843; studied law; was admitted to office at Sterling, Cob., on July 1, 1897, and served untilthe bar in 1854 and commenced the practice of law; State April 30, 1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourthattorney for the eighth judicial district of Illinois in 1867 and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-and 1868; elected circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inin 1870, and upon the reorganization of the circuit court 1932; engaged in banking in Sterling, Cob., until his deathunder the new constitution was reelected circuit judge of the there on May 31, 1941; interment in Grand View Cemetery,fourteenth judicial circuit; elected as a Republican to the Fort Collins, Cob. Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); unsuc- TINCHER, Jasper Napoleon, a Representativefromcessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Kansas; born near Browning, Sullivan County, Mo., Novem-Congress; again elected circuit judge and served from 1891 to ber 2, 1878; moved with his parents to Medicine Lodge, 1897; resumed the practice of law; died in Bloomington, Barber County, Kans., in 1892; attended the common andMcLean County, Ill., February 7, 1904; interment in Ever- high schools; taught school in Hardtner, Kans., from 1896green Cemetery. until February 1899; worked and studied in a law office and was admitted to the bar in May 1899; commenced the prac- TIPTON, Thomas Weston, a Senator from Nebraska; born tice of law in Medicine Lodge, Kans.; also interested inin Cadiz, Ohio, August 5, 1817; attended Allegheny College, farming and stock raising; elected as a Republican to theMeadville,. Pa.; pursued classical studies and graduated from Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1840; studied law; was 1919-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renominationadmitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced the practice of in 1926; moved to Hutchinson, Kans., in 1926 and practicedlaw; member, State house of representatives 1845; appointed law until his death there on November 6, 1951; interment into a position in the United States Land Office 1849-1852; Memorial Park Cemetery. resumed the practice of law in McConnelsville, Ohio, in 1853; was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal TINKHAM, George Holden, a Representative from Massa-Church in 1856; moved to Brownsville, Nebr., about 1859 and chusetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 29,joined the Congregational Church; member of the Nebraska 1870; attended the public and private schools; was graduated from Harvard University in 1894; member of the Bostonconstitutional convention in 1859; member, Territorial coun- Common Council in 1897 and 1898; studied law at Harvardcil 1860; during the Civil War was appointed chaplain of the Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commencedFirst Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865; as- practice in Boston; member of the board of aldermen 1900-sessor of internal revenue for Nebraska in 1865; member of 1902; served in the State senate 1910-1912; served overseasthe State constitutional convention in 1867; upon the admis- during the First World War; elected as a Republican to thesion of Nebraska as a State into the Union was elected as a Sixty-fourth and to the thirteen succeeding CongressesRepublican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1869 (March 4, 1915-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate forand served from March 1, 1867, to March 3, 1875; resumed renomination in 1942; continued the practice of law inthe practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Boston, Mass., until his retirement; died in Cramerton, N.C.,Nebraska in 1880; died in Washington, D.C., November 26, August 28, 1956; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston,1899; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mass. Bibliography: Tipton, Thomas. Forty Years of Nebraska At Home and In Bibliography: DAB. Congress. Lincoln: State Journal Co., 1902. TIPTON, John, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sevier- TIRRELL, Charles Quincy, a Representative from Massa- yule, Sevier County, Tenn., August 14, 1786; received a limit-chusetts; born in Sharon, Norfolk County, Mass., December ed schooling; moved to Harrison County, md., in 1807 and10, 1844; attended the common schools, and was graduated engaged in agricultural pursuits; served with the "Yellowfrom Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1866; served as Jackets" in the Tippecanoe campaign and subsequently at-principal of Peacham (Vt.) Academy for one year and of the tained the rank of brigadier general of militia; sheriff ofhigh school at St. Johnsbury, Vt., for two years; studied law; Harrison County, md., 1816-1819; member, State house ofwas admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in representatives 1819-1823; one of the commissioners toBoston, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives select a site for a new capital for Indiana in 1820; commis-in 1872; moved to Natick, Mass., in 1873; served in the State sioner to determine the boundary line between Indiana andsenate in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Republican to the Illinois 1821; appointed United States Indian agent for theFifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and Pottawatamie and Miami tribes 1823; laid out the city ofserved from March 4, 1901, until his death in Natick, Mass., Logansport, md., in 1828; elected as a Democrat to theJuly 31, 1910; interment in Dell Park Cemetery. 1944 Biographical Directory

TITUS, Obadiah, a Representative from New York; born TODD, John Blair Smith, a Delegate from the Territory in what is now Milibrook, Dutchess County, N.Y., Januaryof Dakota; born in Lexington, Ky., April 4, 1814; moved with 20, 1789; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-his parents to Illinois in 1827; attended private schools; was menced practice in the town of Washington, Dutchessgraduated from the United States Military Academy, West County; served as captain of Infantry in the War of 1812;Point, N.Y., in 1837; commissioned second lieutenant in the elected county judge; elected sheriff of Dutchess County inSixth Infantry July 1, 1837, first lieutenant December 10, 1828; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress1837, and captain November 8, 1843; served in the Seminole (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate forWar 1837-1842 and in the war with Mexico; resigned from reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in the town of Washington, Dutchessthe Army September 16, 1856; became an Indian trader and County, N.Y., September 2, 1854; interment in Nine Part-settled in Fort Randall, Dak.; studied law; was admitted to ners (Friends) Burial Ground at Millbrook, N.Y. the bar in 1861 and commenced the practice of law in Yank- ton, Dak.; appointed brigadier general of Volunteers in the TOBEY, Charles William, a Representative and a SenatorUnion Army September 19, 1861, which appointment ex- from New Hampshire; born in Roxbury, Mass., July 22, 1880;pired July 17, 1862; when the Territory of Dakota was attended the public schools and Roxbury (Mass.) Latinformed was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh School; moved to Temple, N.H., in 1903 and engaged in theCongress and served from December 9, 1861, to March 3, raising of poultry; also engaged in insurance, agriculture, 1863; successfully contested the election of William Jayne to banking, and manufacturing; member, State house of repre-the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from June 17, 1864, to sentatives1915-1916,1919-1920,1923-1924,serving asMarch 3, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 speaker 1919-1920; member, State senate, serving as presi-to the Thirty-ninth Congress; engaged in mercantile pursuits dent 1925-1926; Governor of New Hampshire 1929-1930; trustee of Colby Junior College, New London, N.H.; electedand the practice of his profession; served as speaker of the as a Republican to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, andTerritorial house of representatives in 1866 and 1867; unsuc- Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939);cessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Forty-first Con- was not a candidate for renomination in 1938; elected to thegress; died in Yankton County, Dak. (now South Dakota), United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and again inJanuary 5, 1872; interment in Yankton Cemetery. 1950 and served from January 3, 1939, until his death; chair- Bibliography: Wilson, Wesley C. "General John B.S. Todd, First Dele- man, Committee on Banking and Currency (Eightieth Con-gate, Dakota Territory." North Dakota History 31 (July 1964): 189-94. gress), Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce TODD, Lemuel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born (Eighty-third Congress); United States adviser, UNESCOin Carlisle, Pa., July 29, 1817; pursued classical studies, and Conference in Paris 1952; member of the United States dele-was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1839; gation to the International Monetary Conference held instudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944; died in the naval hospital atpractice in Carlisle; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- Bethesda, Md., July 24, 1953; interment in Miller Cemetery, Temple, N.H. fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 83rd Cong., 2ndcandidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; sess., 1954. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954. during the Civil War served in the Union Army as major of the First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps; TOD, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born ininspector general of Pennsylvania on the Governor's staff; Hartford, Conn., in 1779; attended the common schools andelected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March Yale College; moved to Bedford, Pa., in 1800; taught school4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomina- while studying law; was admitted to the bar in 1803 andtion in 1874; resumed the practice of law; died in Carlisle, commenced practice in Bedford, Pa.; clerk to the countyCumberland County, Pa., May 12, 1891; interment in Ash- commissioners of Bedford County in 1806 and 1807; member of the State house of representatives 1810-1813, servingland Cemetery. twice as speaker; served in the State senate and acted as TODD, Paul Harold, Jr., a Representative from Michigan; president 1814-1816; elected to the Seventeenth and Eight-born in Kalamazoo, Mich., September 22, 1921; attended eenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1821, until hisKalamazoo schools; graduated from Cornell University, resignation in 1824; chairman, Committee on ManufacturesIthaca, N.Y., in 1943; founder of Kalamazoo Spice Extraction (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses); presiding judge ofCo. in 1958; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Con- the court of common pleas for the sixteenth judicial districtgress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candi- 1824-1827; appointed associate judge of the State supreme court in 1827; died in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., Marchdate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; execu- 27, 1830; interment in Bedford Cemetery. tive officer, Planned Parenthood Association, 1967-1970; Bibliography: DAB. president of spice company since 1970; unsuccessful candi- date for election in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; is a TODD, Albert May, a Representative from Michigan; bornresident of Kalamazoo, Mich. near Nottawa, St. Joseph County, Mich., June 3, 1850; at- tended the district school and was graduated from Sturgis TOLAN, John Harvey, a Representative from California; (Mich.) High School; studied at Northwestern University,born in St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., January 15, 1877; Evanston, Ill.; moved to Kalamazoo, Mich.; engaged in busi-attended the public schools; moved to Anaconda, Mont., in ness as a manufacturing chemist; unsuccessful Prohibition1897; was graduated from the law department of the Univer- candidate for Governor in 1894; elected as a Democrat to thesity of Kansas at Lawrence in 1902; was admitted to the bar Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuc-the same year and commenced the practice of law in Ana- cessful Democratic candidate for reelection in 1898 to theconda, Mont.; attorney of Deer Lodge County, Mont., 1904- Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed his former manufacturing pur-1906; moved to Oakland, Calif., in 1914 and continued the suits in Kalamazoo; founded a museum of art and a librarypractice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth of ten thousand rare books and illuminated manuscripts;and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935- died in Kalamazoo, Mich., October 6, 1931; interment inJanuary 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in Mountain Home Cemetery. 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; died in Westwood, Calif., on Biographies 1945

June 30, 1947; interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hay-1780; completed preparatory studies and graduated from ward, Calif. Yale College in 1802; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fairfield, Conn., in 1807; clerk of TOLAND, George Washington, a Representative fromthe State house of representatives in 1817; member, State Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 8, 1796;house of representatives 1818, serving as speaker; elected to attended the common schools; was graduated from Princetonthe Sixteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March College in 1816; held several local offices; elected as a Whig4, 1819-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on Commerce to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Con-(Nineteenth Congress); Governor of Connecticut 1827-183 1, gresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); died in Philadelphia,when he resigned; elected to the United States Senate and Pa., January 30, 1869; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery.served from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1837; chairman, TOLL, Herman, a Representative from Pennsylvania;Committee on Pensions (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth born in Kiev, Russia, March 15,1907; graduated fromCongresses); trustee of Trinity College 1832-1836; retired to Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pa.; wasprivate life; died in Fairfield, Conn., October 8, 1854; inter- admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law inment in the Old Congregational Cemetery, Stratford, Conn. Philadelphia, Pa., in 1930; member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Philadelphia Housing Association, and the TOMLINSON, Thomas Ash, a Representative from New board of directors of the Crusader Savings & Loan Associa-York; born in New York City in March 1802; attended the tion; in 1950 was elected to the State legislature from theschools of Champlain and Plattsburgh, N.Y.; studied law; sixteenth legislative district in Philadelphia and reelected inwas admitted to the bar and commenced practicein Keese- 1952, 1954, and 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ville, N.Y., in 1823; mill owner and dealer in lands; served as sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,colonel in the State militia; member of the State assembly in 1959-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in1835 and 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); resumed the prac- July 26, 1967; interment in Roosevelt Memorial Park. tice of law and also engaged in the real estate business; unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate in TOLLEFSON, Thor Carl, a Representative from Washing- 1859; died in Keeseville, N.Y., June 18, 1872; interment in ton; born in Perley, Norman County, Minn., May 2, 1901;Evergreen Cemetery. moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1912; attended the public schools; was graduated from Lincoln High School in 1924 TOMPKINS, Arthur Sidney, a Representative from New and from the University of Washington Law School at Seat-York; born in Middleburg, Schoharie County, N.Y., August tle in 1930; was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced26, 1865; moved with his parents to West Nyack, N.Y., in practice in Tacoma, Wash; prosecutor of Pierce County1866; attended the public schools of Clarkstown and Nyack 1938-1946; delegate to the Republican State conventions inuntil 1878; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, and 1944; was elected as a Republicancommenced practicein Nyack, Rockland County, N.Y.; to the Eigthieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (Jan-police justice of Nyack, N.Y., 1887-1889; elected chairman of uary 3, 1947-January 3, 1965); was an unsuccessful candi-theRockland County Republicancommitteein1888; date for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-eighth Congress;member of the State assembly in 1890; delegate to all Repub- appointed director of fisheries for the State of Washington;lican State conventions from 1888 to 1906; delegate or alter- special assistant to the Governor in charge of internationalnate to all Republican National Conventions from 1888 to fisheries negotiations; resident of Tacoma, Wash., until his1900; county judge and surrogate of Rockland County 1893- death there December 30, 1982; interment in Mountain View1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty- Memorial Park. seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); was not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the practice of TOLLEY, Harold Sumner, a Representative from Newlaw in Nyack, N.Y.; elected justice of the supreme court of York; born in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pa., January 16,New York in 1906; reelected in 1920 and 1934; raised to the 1894; moved with his parents to Binghamton, N.Y., in 1903;appellate division of the supreme court of New York in attended the public schools; was graduated from SyracuseJanuary 1930 and served until his retirement in 1936; died University, New York, in 1916; studied for the ministry andin Nyack, N.Y., January 20, 1938; interment in Oak Hill took a postgraduate course at Drew Theological Seminary,Cemetery. Madison, N.J.; director of religious education at the Metro- politan (Methodist Episcopal) Temple, New York City, in TOMPKINS, Caleb (brother of Daniel D. Tompkins), a 1916 and 1917; abandoned the ministry to enlist in the mili-Representative from New York; born near Scarsdale, West- tary forces of the United States during the First World Warchester County, N.Y., December 22, 1759; member of the and served from May 13, 1917, to July 25, 1919, attaining theState assembly 1804-1806; judge of the court of common rank of captain of Infantry; was commissioned a captain inpleas and county court of Westchester County 1807-1811 and the United States Officers' Reserve Corps; engaged in the1820-1824; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and retail shoe business; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); died in ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessfulScarsdale, Westchester County, N.Y., January 1, 1846; inter- candidate for renomination in 1926; delegate to the Republi-ment in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, White can State convention in 1926; resumed his former businessPlains, N.Y. pursuits; commissioner of public welfare, city of Bingham- TOMPKINS, Christopher, a Representative from Ken- ton, from January 1932 to April 1937; in 1937 was appointedtucky; born in Green County, Ky., March 24, 1780; complet- area director for New York State Department of Social Wel-ed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar fare, assigned to the western New York area, and servedand commenced practice in Glasgow; member of the State until his death; died in Kenmore, N.Y., May 20, 1956; inter-house of representatives in 1805; elected as an Anti-Jackso- ment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. nian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses TOMLINSON, Gideon, a Representative and a Senator(March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); again a member of the State from Connecticut; born in Stratford, Conn., December 31,house of representatives in 1835 and 1836; presidential elec- 1946 Biographical Directory tor on the Whig ticket in 1837; resumed the practice of law;tion; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced died in Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., August 9, 1858; inter-practice in Vicksburg, Warren County, Miss.; judge of the ment in the family burying ground at Glasgow. circuit court; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress Bibliography: Doutrich, Paul E., III. "A Pivotal Decision: The 1824 Gu-(March 4, 1847-March 3,1849); chairman, Committee on bernatorial Election in Kentucky." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 56 (January 1982): 14-29. Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Thirtieth Con- gress); moved to California during the gold rush of 1849; died TOMPKINS, Cydnor Bailey (father of Emmett Tompkins), in San Francisco, Calif., May 8, 1853; interment in Yerba a Representative from Ohio; born near St. Clairsville, Bel-Buena Cemetery. mont County, Ohio, November 8, 1810; moved with hispar- ents to Morgan County in 1831 and settled near McConnels- TONGUE, Thomas H., a Representative from Oregon; yule; completed preparatory studies, andwas graduatedborn in Lincolnshire, England, June 23, 1844; attended the from the Ohio University at Athens in 1835; studied law;public schools in England; immigrated to the United States was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice inwith his parents, who settled in Washington County, Oreg., McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio; served as recorder ofNovember 23, 1859; attended Tualatin (Wash) Academy, and McConnelsville in 1840; prosecuting attorney of Morganwas graduated from the Pacific University, Forest Grove, County 1848-1851; street commissioner of McConnelsville inWashington County, Oreg., in 1868; moved to Hilisboro, 1850; member of the Republican State convention in 1855;Washington County, Oreg., in 1868; studied law; was admit- elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixthted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Hillsboro; Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Com-chairman of the Republican State convention in 1890; served mittee on Militia (Thirty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candi-in the State senate 1888-1892; delegate to the Republican date for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of law;National Convention in 1892; again chairman of the Republi- died in McConnelsville, Ohio, July 23, 1862; interment incan State convention, in 1894; elected as a Republican to the McConnelsville Cemetery. Fifty-fifth,Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and TOMPKINS, Daniel D. (brother of Caleb Tompkins),aserved from March 4, 1897, until his death; chairman, Com- Representative from New York and a Vice President of themittee on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Fifty-sixth and Fifty- United States; born in Fox Meadows (later Scarsdale), West-seventh Congresses); had been reelected to the Fifty-eighth chester County, N.Y., June 21, 1774; completed preparatoryCongress; died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1903; inter- studies; graduated from Columbia College, New York City,ment in the private family cemetery adjoining the Masonic in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 andCemetery at Hillsboro, Oreg. began practice in New York City; delegate to the State TONRY, Richard Alvin, a Representative from Louisiana; constitutional convention in 1801; member, State assemblyborn in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., June 25, 1935; 1803; elected to the Ninth Congress, but resigned before theattended the Catholic schools of New Orleans; graduated beginning of the congressional term to acceptan appoint- ment as associate justice of the State supreme court, infrom Jesuit High School, 1953; attended Springfield College, which capacity he served from 1804 to 1807; Governor ofMobile,Ala.,A.B.,1960,M.A.,1962; graduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1962; J.D., Loyola New York 1807-1817; declined an appointmentas Secretary of State of the United States tendered by President JamesUniversity, New Orleans, 1967; admitted to the Louisiana Madison; elected Vice President of the United Stateson thebar in 1967 and commenced practice in Arabi; engaged in ticket with James Monroe in 1816; reelected in 1820 andprivate practice of law in Arabi and Chalmette, La., 1967- served from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1825; delegate to the1976; served in Louisiana house of representatives, 1976; State constitutional convention in 1821, servingas its presi-elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress and dent; died in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N.Y., June 11,served from January 3, 1977, until he resigned May 4, 1977, 1825; interment in the Minthorne vault inSt. Mark'sfollowing allegations of receiving illegal campaign contribu- Churchyard, New York City. tions; returned to Louisiana to campaign for the special Bibliography: DAB; Irwin, Ray W. Daniel D.Tompkins: Governor ofelection to fill his own seat, but lost the nomination in June New York and Vice President of the United States. New York: New-York 1977; unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana house of repre- Historical Society, 1968. sentatives, 1983; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Arabi, La. TOMPKINS, Emmett (son of Cydnor Bailey Tompkins),a Representative from Ohio; born in McConnelsville, Morgan TONRY, Richard Joseph, a Representative from New County, Ohio, September 1, 1853; moved to Athens County,York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 30, 1893; educated Ohio, in 1865; attended the public schools and Ohio Univer- in the public schools, Randolph Military Academy, Mont- sity at Athens; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875clair, N.J., and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the and commenced practice in Athens, Ohio; city solicitor inFirst World War served as a sergeant in the United States 1876 and 1877; mayor of Athens 1877-1879; prosecuting at-Marine Corps 1917-1921; engaged in the real estate and the torney of Athens County in 1879; delegate to the Republicaninsurance brokerage business in 1921; served in the State State conventions in 1879, 1881, and 1883; member of the State house of representatives 1886-1890; moved to Colum-assembly 1922-1929; member of the New York City Board of bus, Ohio, in 1889; member of the board of trustees of OhioAldermen 1930-1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- University; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Con-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937); unsuc- gress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); resumed the practice ofcessful candidate for renomination in 1936; delegate to the law in Columbus, Ohio; appointed trustee of Ohio UniversityDemocratic State conventions in 1938, 1940, 1942, and 1946; in 1908; died in Columbus, Ohio, December 18, 1917; remainsjournal clerk of the House of Representatives 1943-1946; in were cremated in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the ashes returned1947 was appointed a commissioner of appraisal for the cor- to his home in Columbus, Ohio. poration counsel in the city of New York; real estate and insurance broker; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 17, 1971; TOMPKINS, Patrick Watson, a Representative from Mis-interment in United States Military Cemetery, Long Island, sissippi; born in Kentucky in 1804; receiveda limited educa-N.Y. 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TOOLE, Joseph Kemp, a Delegate from the Territory ofnology Assessment, 1976-1977; United States Ambassador to Montana; born in Savannah, Andrew County, Mo., May 12,the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Or- 1851; attended the public schools in St. Joseph, Mo., and theganization (UNESCO), Paris, France, 1977-1979; Special As- Western Military Academy, Newcastle,KY.; moved tosistant to the President, The White House, 1979-1981; dele- Helena, Mont., in 1870; studied law; was admitted to the bargate, California State Democratic conventions, 1968-1983; in 1871 and commenced practice in Helena, Mont.; districtdelegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1984 and 1988; attorney of the third judicial district of Montana 1872-1876;unsuccessful candidate for election in 1974 to the Ninety- member of the Territorial house of representatives 1879-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth 1881; member and president of the Territorial council 1881-and two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1883; delegate to the State constitutional conventions at 1989); is a resident of La Puente, Calif. Helena, Mont., in 1884 and 1889; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885- TORRICELLI, Robert Guy, a Representative from New March 3, 1889); did not seek renomination in 1888, havingJersey; born in Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., August 26, become a gubernatorial candidate; elected as the first Gover-1951; graduated from Storm King School, Cornwall on the nor of Montana and served from November 8, 1889, untilHudson, N.Y., 1970; A.B., Rutgers University, New Bruns- January 1, 1893; resumed the practice of law in Helena;wick, N.J., 1974; J.D., Rutgers School of Law, 1977; M.P.A., delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892Harvard University, 1980; admitted to the New Jersey bar, and 1904; again elected Governor in November 1900; reelect-1978; assistant to the Governor of New Jersey, 1975-1977; ed in 1904 and served from January 7, 1901, until April 1,counsel to Vice President Mondale, 1978-1980; elected as a 1908, when he resigned on account of ill health; lived inDemocrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding retirement, dividing his time between his home in Helena,Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident Mont., and San Francisco, Calif.; died in Helena, Mont.,of New Milford, N.J. March 11, 1929; interment in Resurrection Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. TOUCEY, Isaac, a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn., No- TOOMBS, Robert, a Representative and a Senator fromvember 15, 1792; pursued classical studies; studied law; was Georgia; born in Wilkes County, Ga., July 2, 1810; attendedadmitted to the bar in 1818 and began practice in Hartford, the University of Georgia at Athens and graduated fromConn.; prosecuting attorney of Hartford County 1822-1835; Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1828; studied law atelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admittedCongresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful can- to the bar and commenced practice in Washington, Wilkesdidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; County, Ga., in 1830; commanded a company in the Creekprosecuting attorney of Hartford County 1842-1844; unsuc- War in 1836; member, State house of representatives 1837- cessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Connecticut in 1840, 1841-1843; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and1845, but was elected to that office by the legislature in to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3,1846; defeated for Governor in 1847; appointed Attorney 1853); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate inGeneral of the United States in the Cabinet of President 1852; reelected in 1858 and served from March 4, 1853, toJames K. Polk 1848-1849; member, State senate 1850; February 4, 1861, when he withdrew in support of the Con-member, State house of representatives 1852; elected as a federacy; member of the State sovereignty convention atDemocrat to the United States Senate for the term com- Milledgeville, Ga., in 1861; during the Civil War served inmencing March 4, 1851, and served from May 12, 1852, to the Confederate Provisional Congress; Secretary of State ofMarch 3, 1857; declined to be a candidate for reelection; the Confederate States; brigadier general in the Confederateappointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Army; in order to avoid arrest at the end of the Civil War,James Buchanan 1857-1861; resumed the practice of his pro- fled to Havana and then to London; returned to his home infession; died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., July 30, Washington, Ga., in 1867; delegate to the State constitution- al convention in 1877; died in Washington, Ga., December 1869; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 15, 1885; interment in Rest Haven Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB; Phillips, Ulrich. The Life of Robert Toombs. 1913. TOU VELLE, William Ellsworth, a Representative from Reprint. New York: B.Franklin,1968; Thompson, William Y RobertOhio; born in Celina, Mercer County, Ohio, November 23, Toombs of Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966. 1862, attended the public schools and was graduated from TORRENS, James H., a Representative from New York;Celina High School in 1879; appointed postmaster of Celina, born in New York City, September 12, 1874; elected as aOhio, on May 27, 1885, and served until June 14, 1888, when Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancya successor was appointed; was graduated fromCincinnati caused by the resignation of Joseph A. Gavagan; reelected toLaw School in 1889; was admitted to the bar the same year the Seventy-ninth Congress and served from February 29,and commenced practice in Celina; elected as a Democrat to 1944, to January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for renomina-the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4,1907- tion in 1946; died in New York City, April 5, 1952; intermentMarch 3, 1911); did not seek renomination in 1910; resumed in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, N.Y. the practice of law; president of the First National Bank of Celina; died in Celina, Ohio, August 14, 1951; interment in TORRES, Esteban Edward, a Representative from Califor-North Grove Cemetery. nia; born in Miami, Gila County, Ariz., January 27, 1930; attended public schools of East Los Angeles, Calif.; attended, TOWE, Harry Lancaster, a Representative from New East Los Angeles College, 1959; California State UniversityJersey; born in Jersey City, N.J., November 3, 1898; attended at Los Angeles, 1963; attended University of Maryland, Col-the public schools of Passaic, N.J., and the United States lege Park, 1965, American University, Washington, D.C.,Naval Academy 1918-1920; was graduated from New Jersey 1966; served in the United States Army, sergeant, first class,Law School at Newark in 1925; was admitted to the bar the 1949-1953; U.A.W. representative and international laborsame year and commenced practice in Rutherford, N.J.; consultant, 1954-1968; community affairs organizer, 1968-United States commissioner 1929-193 1; special assistant at- 1974; U.A.W. official, 1975-1976; consultant, Office of Tech-torney general of New Jersey 1931-1934; member of the 1948 Biographical Directory

State house of assembly in 1941 and 1942; electedas a Re-near Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., on November 21, 1858; publican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeedingattended the common schools; graduated from the Universi- Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resig-ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; studied law; was nation September 7, 1951, to become an assistant attorneyadmitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in general of New Jersey, in which capacity he served untilMarquette, Mich.; moved to Duluth, Minn., in 1890 and con- October 31, 1953; engaged in the practice of law in Hacken-tinued the practice of law; judge advocate general of Minne- sack, N.J.; secretary and general counsel of publishing firm of Medical Economics, Inc., 1960 to 1969; is a resident ofsota 1893-1895; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Kinnelon, N.J. Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful inde- pendent candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth TOWELL, David Gilmer, a Representative from Nevada;Congress and for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; born in Bronxville, Westchester County, N.Y., June 9, 1937;declined the nomination for Vice President of the United attended Bronxville and New York City schools; B.A., Uni- States by the national conventions of the Populist and Silver versity of Pacific, Stockton, Calif.,1960; served in theRepublican Parties in 1900; appointed as a Democrat to the Nevada Air National Guard, 1960-1966; real estate broker;United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death elected chairman, Douglas County Republican Central Com- of Cushman K. Davis and served from December 5, 1900, to mittee, 1970; delegate, Nevada State Republicanconven-January 28, 1901, when a successor was elected and quali- tions, 1968, 1970, and 1972; elected as a Republican to thefied; moved to New York City in 1901 and resumed the Ninety-third Congress (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1975);practice of law; elected as a Democrat from New York to the unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety- fourth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election to theFifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); died in United States Senate in 1976; resumed real estate business;Tucson, Ariz., October 22, 1928; interment in Evergreen is a resident of Gardnerville, Nev. Cemetery, Tucson, Ariz. Bibliography: DAB; Schiup, Leonard. "Charles A. Towne and the Vice- TOWER, John Goodwin, a Senator from Texas; born in Presidential Question of 1900." North Dakota History 44 (Winter 1977): 14- Houston, Harris County, Tex., September 29, 1925; educated 20. in the public schools of Houston and Beaumont, Tex.; enlist- TOWNER, , a Representative from Iowa; ed in the Navy during the Second World War in 1943,saw action in the Pacific, and was discharged with the rank ofborn in Belvidere, Boone County, Ill., October 23, 1855; at- seaman first class in 1946; graduated from Southwesterntended the public and high schools of Belvidere, the Univer- University, Georgetown, Tex., 1948, and witha graduatesity of Chicago, and Union College of Law; was admitted to degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.,the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Prescott, Adams 1953; attended London School of Economics and PoliticalCounty, Iowa; moved to Corning, Adams County, Iowa, in Science; member of the faculty of Midwestern University,1880, having been elected county superintendent of schools, Wichita Falls, Tex., 1951-1960; elected as a Republican toin which capacity he served until 1884, when he resumed the United States Senate, May 27, 1961, to fill the vacancythe practice of law; elected judge of the third judicial district caused by the resignation of Lyndon B. Johnson for the termof Iowa in 1890 and served until January 1, 1911; lectured ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966, 1972, and again inon constitutional law in the University of Iowa 1902-1911; 1978, and served from June 15, 1961, to January 3, 1985; didelected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the six not seek reelection; chairman, Republican Policy Committeesucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, to (Ninety-third through Ninety-eighth Congresses), CommitteeApril 1,1923, when he resigned to become Governor of on Armed Services (Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Con-Puerto Rico, in which capacity he served until his resigna- gresses); appointed a member of the United Statesarmstion on September 29, 1929; chairman, Committee on Insular negotiation team in Geneva, Switzerland, by PresidentAffairs (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congress); resumed 1985; chairman, President's Special Reviewthe practice of law in Corning, Iowa, until his death on Board ("Tower Commission") 1987; is a resident of Washing-November 23, 1937; interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery. ton, D.C. Bibliography: Tower, John G. A Program for Conservatives. New York: TOWNS, Edolphus, a Representative from New York; MacFadden-Bartell Corp., 1962. born in Chadbourn, Columbus County, N.C. July 21, 1934; TOWEY, Frank William, Jr., a Representative from Newattended the public schools of Chadbourn, N.C.; B.S., North Jersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., NovemberCarolina A&T, Greensboro, N.C. 1956; Master of Social Work 5, 1895; attended Manresa Hall Grammar School and St.degree, Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y., 1973; served, Peters High School, Jersey City, N.J.; was graduated fromUnited States Army, private, 1956-1958; public school teach- Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in 1916 and from theer; hospital administrator, 1965-1971; deputy president, Bor- law department of Fordham University, New York City inough of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1976-1982; elected as Democrat to 1919; commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry,the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses United States Army, in September 1918, and served until(January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Brooklyn, honorably discharged in January 1919; was admitted to the N.Y. bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Newark, N.J.; elect- ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, TOWNS, George Washington Bonaparte, a Representative 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionfrom Georgia; born in Wilkes County, Ga., May 4, 1801; in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practicereceived a limited education; studied law; was admitted to of law; member of State of New Jersey Selective Appealthe bar in 1824 and began practice in Montgomery, Ala.; Board from October 1940 to April 1947; assistant to thereturned to Georgia in 1826 and continued the practice of Attorney General of the United States, Department of Jus-law at Talbotton; member of the State house of representa- tice, at New York City, 1943-1955; resided in Caldwell, N.J.; tives in 1829 and 1830; served in the State senate 1832-1834; died in Montclair N.J., September 4, 1979; interment inelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and Acacia Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash. served from March 4, 1835, to September 1, 1836, when he resigned; reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con- TOWNE, Charles Arnette, a Representative and a Senatorgress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chairman, Committee from Minnesota and a Representative from New York; bornon Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-fifth Congress); Biographies 1949 was not a candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-March 3, 1865; elected to the Forty-second Congress (March sixth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth4, 1871-March 3, 1873); resumed his former business pur- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofsuits in 1875; died in New York City October 29, 1899; inter- Washington Poe and served from January 5, 1846, to Marchment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 3, 1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; Governor of Georgia 1847-1851; resumed TOWNSEND, Edward Waterman, a Representative from the practice of law; died in Macon, Ga., July 15, 1854; inter-New Jersey; born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 10, 1855; ment in Rose Hill Cemetery. attended private and public schools in that city; went to San Francisco, Calif., in 1875 and engaged in newspaper and TOWNSEND, Amos, a Representative from Ohio; born inliterary work; moved to New York City in 1893 and contin- Brownsville, Fayette County, Pa., in 1821; attended theued his reportorial and literary pursuits; in 1900 became a common schools of Pittsburgh, Pa.; clerked in a store inresident of Montclair, Essex County, N.J.; author of novels, Pittsburgh; moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1839 and engagedplays, short stories, as well as a textbook on the Constitution in mercantile pursuits; served as United States marshalof the United States; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- during the Kansas troubles; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, insecond and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1858 and engaged in the wholesale grocery business; member1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the of the city council 1866-1876, serving as president for sevenSixty-fourth Congress; served as postmaster of Montclair, years; member of the State constitutional convention inN.J., 1915-1923; moved to New York City in 1924 and re- 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,sumed newspaper and literary pursuits; member of the Na- and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,1877-March 3,tional Institute of Arts and Letters; died in New York City 1883); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-March 15, 1942; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Utica, seventh Congress); declined renomination; member of a wholesale foodpacking firm; died while on a visit to St. Au- N.Y. gustine, Fla., March 17, 1895; interment in Lake View Ceme- TOWNSEND, George, a Representative from New York; tery, Cleveland, Ohio. born in Lattingtown, township of Oyster Bay, Queens County, N.Y., in 1769; engaged in agricultural pursuits; TOWNSEND, Charles Champlain, a Representative fromelected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Pennsylvania; born in Allegheny (now a part of Pittsburgh),Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); died in Latting- Pa., November 24, 1841; attended the common schools and Western University, Pittsburgh, Pa.; manufacturer of wiretown, township of Oyster Bay, Queens County, N.Y., August rivets and nails; served two years in the Union Army during17, 1844. the Civil War as a private in Company A, Ninth Regiment, TOWNSEND, Hosea, a Representative from Colorado; Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps, and later as adju-born in Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, June 16, 1840; tant of the First Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry; elected asattended the common schools and Western Reserve College, a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-Cleveland, Ohio, in 1860; enlisted in the Second Regiment, March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination inOhio Volunteer Cavalry, in 1861; promoted to lieutenant, 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; again engaged in manu-but resigned in 1863 on account of disability; studied law; facturing; died in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pa., onwas admitted to the bar in Cleveland,Ohio, in 1864 and July 10, 1910; interment in Grove Cemetery. commenced practice in Memphis, Tenn., in 1865; member of TOWNSEND, Charles Elroy, a Representative and a Sen-the State house of representatives in 1869; moved to Colora- ator from Michigan; born near Concord, Jackson County,do in 1879 and settled in Silver Cliff in 1881; elected as a Mich., August 15, 1856; attended the common schools inRepublican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses Concord and Jackson and the University of Michigan at Ann(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful for renomina- Arbor; taught school at Concord 1881-1886; register of deedstion in 1892; delegate to the Republican National Conven- 1886-1897; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 andtion in 1892; United States judge for the southern district of commenced the practice of his profession in Jackson, Mich.;the Indian Territory 1897-1907; died in Ardmore, Okla., elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the threeMarch 4, 1909; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk, succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); elect- Huron County, Ohio. ed to the United States Senate in 1910; reelected in 1916 and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful TOWNSEND, John Gillis, Jr., a Senator from Delaware; candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee onborn on a farm in Worcester County, Md., near Selbyville, Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-second Congress), Commit-Del., May 31, 1871; attended the rural schools; moved to tee on Expenditures in the War Department (Sixty-fifth Con- Selbyville, Sussex County, Del., in 1895 and engaged in gress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-sixthbanking; also interested in manufacturing and agricultural and Sixty-seventh Congresses); appointed in 1923 as apursuits; member, State house of representatives 1901-1903; member of the International Joint Commission created toGovernor of Delaware 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to regulate the use of the boundary waters between the Unitedthe United States Senate in 1928; reelected in 1934 and States and Canada, in which capacity he served until hisserved from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful death in Jackson, Mich., August 3, 1924; interment in Maplecandidate for reelection in 1940; chairman, Committee to Grove Cemetery, Concord, Mich. Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Seventy-second Congress); member of the Mount Rushmore National Memo- TOWNSEND, Dwight, a Representative from New York;rial Commission 1939-1940; trustee of several colleges and born in New York City September 26, 1826; was educated atuniversities; resumed banking, agricultural pursuits, and the the grammar school of Columbia College, New York City;raising and processing of poultry and vegetables; was a resi- engaged in the sugar business in the early sixties; memberdent of Selbyville, Del.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 10, of the original board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society1964; interment in Red Men's Cemetery, Selbyville, Del. from 1859 to 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation TOWNSEND, Martin Ingham, a Representative from New of Henry G. Stebbins and served from December 5, 1864, toYork; born in Hancock, Mass., February 6, 1810; moved with 1950 Biographical Directory

his parents to Williamstown, Mass, in 1816; attended theCounty 1863-1868; prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judi- common schools, and was graduated from Williams College, cial circuit of Illinois 1868-1872; member of the Democratic Williamstown, Mass., in 1833; studied law;was admitted toState central committee in 1864, 1865, 1874, and 1875; dele- the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Troy, N.Y.; dis-gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; moved trict attorney of Rensselaer County 1842-1845; delegate toto Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill., in 1873 and resumed the State constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868; regentthe practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth of New York University 1873-1903; elected asa Republicanand to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4,4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1889; 1875-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate for renomi-chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of nation in 1878; United States district attorney for the north-the Navy (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Af- ern district of New York 1879-1887; member of the Statefairs (Fiftieth Congress); interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. constitutional convention in 1890; retired from legal practice in 1901; died in Troy, N.Y., March 8, 1903; interment in TRACEWELL, Robert John, a Representative from Indi- Oakwood Cemetery. ana; born near Front Royal, Warren County, Va., May 7, TOWNSEND, Washington, a Representative from Penn-1852; moved with his parents to Corydon, Harrison County, sylvania; born in West Chester, Chester County, Pa., Janu-md., in 1854; attended the public schools of Corydon and was ary 20, 1813; attended a private school and West Chestergraduated from Hanover (md.) College in 1874; studied law; Academy; engaged as a bank teller 1828-1844; studied law;was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice inCorydon, Ind.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth West Chester, Pa.; prosecuting attorney of Chester County inCongress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candi- 1848; deputy attorney under Attorneys General Darragh anddate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; ap- Cooper; cashier of the Bank of Chester County 1849-1857;pointed by President McKinley as Comptroller of the Treas- delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852; delegateury and served from March 4, 1897, to June 15, 1914, when to the Republican National Convention in 1860; elected asahe resigned; moved to Evansville, Ind., in 1914 and resumed Republican to the Forty-first and to the three succeedingthe practice of law; elected judge of the superior court of Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); chairman, Com-Vanderburg County, md., in 1918; renominated in 1922, but mittee on Public Lands (Forty-third Congress); was notadied in Evansville, md., on July 28, 1922, before the election; candidate for renomination in 1876; again resumed theprac-interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Corydon, Harrison tice of his profession in West Chester, Chester County, Pa.;County, Ind. president of the Bank of Chester County 1879-1894; died in TRACEY, Charles, a Representative from New York; born West Chester, Pa., March 18, 1894; interment in Oaklandin Albany, N.Y., May 27, 1847; was graduated from the Cemetery, near West Chester. Albany Academy in 1866; served in the Papal Zouaves at TOWNSHEND, Norton Strange, a Representative from Rome, Italy, portions of the years 1867-1870; appointed aide- Ohio; born in Clay-Coaton, Northamptonshire, England, De-de-camp to Governor Tilden, of New York, January 1, 1877; cember 25, 1815; in 1830 immigrated to the United Statesappointed manager of the House of Refuge in Hudson, N.Y., with his parents, who settled in Avon, Ohio; educated him- by Governor Cleveland and reappointed by Governor Hill in self by the use of his father's library; taught a district school1886; engaged in the distilling business; elected as a Demo- for a short time; was graduated from the University of Phy- crat to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by sicians and Surgeons in New York in 1840; delegate to thethe death of Nicholas T. Kane; reelected to the Fifty-first, World's Antislavery Convention in London, England, inFifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and served from No- 1840; studied medicine in the hospitals of London, Paris,vember 8, 1887, to March 3, 1895; was an unsuccessful candi- Edinburgh, and Dublin; engaged in the practice of medicinedate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; re- in Avon, Ohio, in 1841; moved to Elyria, Ohio; memberofsumed business activities in Albany and Rochester, N.Y.; the State house of representatives in 1848 and 1849; delegatedied at Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, N.Y., on March 24, to the State constitutional convention in 1850; electedas a1905; interment in St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N.Y. Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851- March 3, 1853); member of the State senate in 1854 and TRACEY, John Plank, a Representative from Missouri; 1855; medical inspector of the United States Army with theborn in Wayne County, Ohio, September 18, 1836; attended rank of lieutenant colonel 1863-1865; engaged in agricultur-the public schools of Ohio and Indiana; studied law; taught al pursuits near Avon, Ohio; director of the State board ofschool; moved to Missouri in 1858; enlisted as a private in agriculture 1858-1869 and 1886-1889; professor of agricul-the Union Army March 1, 1862, and served until March 10, ture in Iowa Agricultural College in 1869; appointed in 18701865, when he was mustered out with the rank of first as one of the first trustees of Ohio Agricultural and Mechan-lieutenant; commissioned lieutenant colonel of Missouri En- ical College; resigned in 1873 to become professor of agricul-rolled Militia in April 1865; was admitted to the bar in May ture in the new State college and served until his resigna-1865 and commenced practice in Stockton, Cedar County, tion in 1892, when he became professor emeritus; died inMo.; moved to Springfield, Greene County, Mo., in 1874 and Columbus, Ohio, July 13, 1895; interment in Protestant Cem- engaged in journalism; unsuccessful candidate for railroad etery, Avon Center, Ohio. commissioner in 1878; commissioned United States marshal for the western district of Missouri February 4, 1890, and TOWNSHEND, Richard Wellington, a Representativeserved until March 4, 1894; elected as a Republican to the from Illinois; born near Upper Marlboro, Prince GeorgesFifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuc- County, Md., April 30, 1840; moved to Washington, D.C., incessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth 1846; attended public and private schools;page in the HouseCongress; member of the State house of representatives in of Representatives; moved to Cairo, Alexander County, Ill., 1903 and 1904; superintendent of the Soldiers' Home at St. in 1858; taught school in Fayette County; studied law;wasJames, Mo., in 1909 and 1910; engaged in newspaper work in admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice inSpringfield, Mo., where he died July 24, 1910; interment in McLeansboro, Ill.; clerk of the circuit court of HamiltonHazeiwood Cemetery. 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TRACY, Albert Hailer (brother of Phineas Lyman Tracy),elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress (March 4, a Representative from New York; born in Norwich, Conn.,1805-March 3, 1807); elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth June 17, 1793; pursued classical studies; studied medicine;Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1813); appointed first moved to New York State in 1811; abandoned medicine andjudge of Chenango County July 8, 1819, and served until studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-February 1823; died in Oxford, N.Y., July 21, 1838; inter- tice in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1815; elected to the Sixteenth, Sev-ment in Riverview Cemetery. enteenth, and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1825); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- TRACY, Uriah, a Representative and a Senator from Con- partment of the Treasury (Seventeenth Congress); membernecticut; born in Franklin, Conn., February 2, 1755; graduat- of the State senate 1830-1837; unsuccessful Whig candidateed from Yale College in 1778; studied law; was admitted to for election to the United States Senate in 1839; died inthe bar in 1781 and commenced practice in Litchfield, Conn.; Buffalo, N.Y., September 19, 1859. major general of militia; member, State general assembly 1788-1793, serving as speaker 1793; State's attorney for TRACY, Andrew, a Representative from Vermont; born in Hartford, Vt., December 15, 1797; attended Royalton andLitchfield County 1794-1799; elected to the Third and Randolph Academies, and also Dartmouth College, Hanover,Fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1793, until his N.H., for two years; taught school; studied law; was admittedresignation, effective October 13, 1796; elected as a Federal- to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Quechee,ist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by Windsor County, Vt.; moved to Woodstock, Vt., in 1838 andthe resignation of ; reelected in 1801 and continued the practice of law; member of the State house of1807, and served from October 13, 1796, until his death; representatives 1833-1837; served in the State senate inserved as President pro tempore of the Senate during the 1839; was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 toSixth Congress; chairman, Committee on Claims (Third and the Twenty-seventh Congress; again a member of the StateFourth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., July 19, 1807; house of representatives 1843-1845 and served as speaker;interment in Congressional Cemetery. elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, Bibliography: DAB. 1853-March 3, 1855); declined to be a candidate for renomi- nation in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; resumed the TRAEGER, William Isham, a Representative from Cali- practice of his profession; died in Woodstock, Vt., on Octoberfornia; born in Porterville, Tulare County, Calif., February 28, 1868; interment in Old Cemetery on River Street. 26, 1880; attended the grammar and high schools of Porter- ville; during the Spanish-American War served as a private TRACY, Henry Wells, a Representative from Pennsylva-in Company E, First Battalion, California Infantry, later nia; born in Ulster Township, Bradford County, Pa., Septem-known as Sixth Regiment, California Volunteer Infantry, ber 24, 1807; completed preparatory studies; attended Angel-and served from May 11 to December 15, 1898; was graduat- ica Seminary in Allegany County, N.Y.; studied law; engageded from Stanford University in 1901; moved to Los Angeles in mercantile pursuits and as a road contractor in Standingin 1902 and engaged as athletic coach at Pomona College Stone, Pa., Havre de Grace, Md., and Towanda, Pa.; delegate and later at the University of California; attended the law to the Republican National Convention in 1860; member ofdepartment of the University of Southern California at Los the State house of representatives in 1861 and 1862; elected as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth CongressAngeles; deputy United States marshal 1903-1906; deputy (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); collector of the port of Phila-sheriff of Los Angeles County 1907-1911; was admitted to delphia in 1866; resumed mercantile pursuits; died at Stand-the bar in 1909 and commenced the practice of law; deputy ing Stone, Bradford County, Pa., April 11, 1886; interment inclerk of the California Supreme Court 1911-1921; sheriff of the Brick Church Cemetery, Wysox, Pa. Los Angeles County 1921-1932; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); TRACY, Phineas Lyman (brother of Albert Hailer Tracy),unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy- a Representative from New York; born in Norwich, Conn.,fourth Congress; died in Los Angeles, Calif., January 20, on December 25, 1786; was graduated from Yale College in1935; interment in Rosedale Cemetery. 1806; engaged in teaching for two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in the TRAFICANT, James A., Jr., a Representative from Ohio; village of Madison, Madison County, N.Y.; moved to Batavia,born in Youngstown, Ohio, May 8, 1941; attended public and Genesee County, about 1815 and continued the practice ofparochial schools in Youngstown; B.S., University of Pitts- law; elected to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancyburgh, 1963; M.S., administration, 1973, and M.S., counsel- caused by the resignation of David E. Evans; reelected as aning, Youngstown State University, 1976; executive director, Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-Mahoning County Drug Program, Inc., 1971-1981; sheriff, second Congresses and served from November 5, 1827, toMahoning County, 1981-1985; elected as a Democrat to the March 3, 1833; declined to be a candidate for renomination;Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, appointed presiding judge of Genesee County Court in 1841,1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Poland, Ohio. and continued in that office until 1846, when he retired from public life; died in Batavia, N.Y., December 22, 1876; inter- TRAFTON, Mark, a Representative from Massachusetts; ment in Batavia Cemetery. born in Bangor, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), TRACY, Un, a Representative from New York; born inAugust 1, 1810; completed preparatory studies; studied theol- Norwich, West Farms (later Franklin), Conn., February 8, ogy and was ordained pastor of a church in Westfield,Mass.; 1764; was graduated from Yale College in 1789; became aelected as the candidate of the American Party to the Presbyterian clergyman and missionary to the Indians;Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); un- moved to Oxford, N.Y., in 1791; first principal of Oxfordsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Academy in 1794; first sheriff of Chenango County andCongress; resumed his ministerial duties and was pastor of a served from 1798 until his resignation in August 1801; elect-church in Mount Wollaston, Norfolk County, Mass.; died in ed county clerk and served from 1801 to 1815; member of theWest Somerville, Middlesex County, Mass., March 8, 1901; State assembly in 1803; first postmaster of Oxford 1802-1805;interment in Peabody Cemetery, Springfield, Mass. 1952 Biographical Directory

TRAIN, Charles Russell, a Representative from Massachu-gress and the committee of safety for Georgetown, S.C.; setts; born in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817; attend-member of the South Carolina general assembly in 1776; ed the common schools, Framingham Academy, and wasjustice of the peace in 1776; served in the Revolutionary War graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1837;as captain of the Georgetown Artillery; elected to the Conti- studied law at Harvard University; was admitted to the barnental Congress in 1777, but did not attend; died at his home and commenced practice in Framingham, Mass., in 1841;near Georgetown, S.C., on July 8, 1778; interment in the member of the State house of representatives in 1847 andchurchyard of Prince George, Winyah, Georgetown, S.C. 1848; district attorney 1848-1854; declined the appointment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United TRAXLER, Jerome Bob, a Representative from Michigan; States in 1852; delegate to the State constitutionalconven- born in Kawkawlin, Bay County, Mich., July 21, 1931; at- tion in 1853; delegate to the Republican National Conven- tended the public schools in Bay City, Mich.; B.A., Michigan tion in 1856 and 1864; member of the Governor's council inState University, East Lansing, 1953; LL.B., Detroit College 1857 and 1858; elected as Republican to the Thirty-sixth andof Law, 1959; admitted to the Michigan bar in 1960 and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); commenced practice in Bay City; served in the United States chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and GroundsArmy, 1953-1955; served as assistant Bay County prosecutor, (Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses); was not a can-1960-1962; elected to the Michigan State hOuse of represent- didate for renomination in 1862; one of the managersap-atives, 1962-1974; served as majority floor leader in the pointed by the House of Representatives in 1862 to conductMichigan house, 1965-1966; elected as a Democrat to the the impeachment proceedings against West H. Humphreys, Ninety-third Congress, by special election, April 16, 1974, to United States judge for the several districts of Tennessee;fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Harvey; during the Civil War served in the Union Army asa volun-reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses (April 16, 1974- teer aide-de-camp to General McClellan; moved to Boston,January 3, 1989); is a resident of Bay City, Mich. Mass.; again served in the State house of representatives 1868-1871; attorney general of Massachusetts 1871-1878;re- TRAYNOR, Philip Andrew, a Representative from Dela- sumed the practice of law; died while on a visit in Conway,ware; born in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., May 31, Carroll County, N.H., July 28, 1885; interment in Edgell1874; attended the public schools, Goldey Business College, Grove Cemetery, Framingham, Mass. Wilmington,Del., and the University of Delaware at Newark; was graduated in 1895 from the dental department TRAMMELL, Park, a Senator from Florida; born inof the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and com- Macon County, Ala., April 9, 1876; moved to Florida with hismenced the practice of dentistry in Wilmington,Del.; parents who settled on a farm near Lakeland, Polk County;member of the State board of dentistry 1918-1943, serving as attended the common schools in Florida; studied law at Van- chairman of the board since 1922; delegate to the State derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and graduated fromDemocratic convention in 1936; vice president and member Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1899; was admit- of the board of trustees of Ferris Industrial School for Boys ted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Lakeland,1938-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Fla.; engaged as a fruit grower and owned and editeda Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful newspaper; mayor of Lakeland 1899-1903; member, Statecandidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Con- house of representatives 1902; member, State senate 1904-gress; resumed the practice of his chosen profession; elected 1908, serving as president 1905; attorney general of Floridaas a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1909-1913; Governor of Florida 1913-1917; elected in 1916as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1922, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1928, and again in 1934, and served from March 4, 1917,in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; resumed the practice of until his death in Washington, D.C., May 8, 1936; chairman,dentistry at Wilmington, Del., where he died December 5, Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department1962; interment in Cathedral Cemetery. (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy- TREADWAY, Allen Towner, a Representative from Mas- third and Seventy-fourth Congresses); interment in Rose-sachusetts; was born in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, lawn Cemetery, Lakeland, Fla. Mass., on September 16, 1867; attended the public schools, Bibliography: Kerber, Stephen. "Park Trammel! of Florida: A Political and was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1886; Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, 1979; U.S. Congress. engaged in the hotel business; member of the State house of Memorial Addresses. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington, D.C.: Govern- ment Printing Office, 1938. representatives in 1904; member of the State senate 1908- 1911, and served as president 1909-1911; elected as a Repub- TRANSUE, Andrew Jackson, a Representative fromlican to the Sixty-third and to the fifteen succeeding Con- Michigan; born in Clarksville, lonia County, Mich., Januarygresses (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate 12, 1903; attended the local schools and was graduated fromfor renomination in 1944; resided in Stockbridge, Mass., and the Detroit (Mich.) College of Law, LL.B., 1926 and J.D.,Washington, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1968; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced the1947; interment in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass. practice of law in Detroit, Mich., in 1926 and Flint, Mich., in 1927; prosecuting attorney of Genesee County 1933-1937; TREADWELL, John, a Delegate from Connecticut; born elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (Janu-in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., November 23, 1745; ary 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for re-completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed theCollege in 1767; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practice of law; is a resident of Flint, Mich. commenced practice in Farmington, Conn.; member of the State house of representatives 1776-1785; clerk of the court TRAPIER, Paul, a Delegate from South Carolina; born inof probate 1777-1784; member of the Governor's council in Prince George's Parish, Winyah, near Georgetown, S.C., in1785; elected to the Continental Congress in 1784, 1785, and 1749; educated in England, where he attended Eton College1787, but did not attend; member of the State council 1786- 1763-1765; admitted pensioner, St. John's College, Cam-1797; judge of the court of common pleas; delegate to the bridge, March 20, 1766; admitted to the Middle Temple,State ratification convention in 1788; judge of probate and London, February 17, 1767; member of the Provincial Con-the supreme court of errors 1789-1809; Lieutenant Governor Biographies 1953 of Connecticut 1798-1809; Governor of Connecticut 1809-1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress 1811; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1818;(March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for died in Farmington, Conn., August 18, 1823; interment inreelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; postmaster of the Old Cemetery. Mexico, Mo., in 1898 and served until March 16, 1904; en- gaged in the music publishing business at Kansas City, Mo., TREDWAY, William Marshall, a Representative from Vir- ginia; born near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va.,in 1905; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1915 and continued the August 24, 1807; completed preparatory studies; was grad-music publishing business; also engaged in teaching and uated from Hampden-Sidney College, Prince Edward County,composing music; served as election judge 1920-1924; died in Va., in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830St. Louis, Mo., July 3, 1935; interment in Bellefontaine Cem- and commenced practice in Danville, Va.; elected as a Demo-etery. crat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, TREMAIN, Lyman, a Representative from New York; 1847); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 to theborn in Durham, Greene County, N.Y., June 14, 1819; at- Thirtieth Congress; delegate to the Democratic State conven-tended the common schools and Kinderhook Academy; stud- tion in 1850; member of the secession convention of Virginiaied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced in 1881; judge of the circuit court of Virginia 1870-1879;practice in Durham, N.Y.; elected supervisor of Durham in resumed the practice of law in Chatham, Va., and died there 1842; appointed district attorney in 1844; elected surrogate May 1, 1891; interment in Chatham Cemetery. and county judge of Greene County in 1846; unsuccessful TREDWELL, Thomas (grandfather of Thomas Treadwellcandidate for reelection in 1851; moved to Albany, N.Y., in Davis), a Representative from New York; born in Smith-1853 and practiced law; elected, as a Democrat, attorney town, Long Island, N.Y., February 6, 1743; was graduatedgeneral of New York in 1858; unsuccessful candidate for from Princeton College in 1764; studied law; was admitted toreelection in 1860; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the bar and began practice in Plattsburg, N.Y.; delegate toLieutenant Governor of New York in 1862; member of the the Provincial Congress of New York in 1774 and 1775;State assembly 1866-1868, serving as speaker in 1867; elect- delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1776 anded as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1777; member of the State assembly 1777-1783; judge of the1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination court of probate 1778-1787; served in the State senate 1786-in 1874; resumed the practice of law in Albany; died in New 1789; surrogate of Suffolk County 1787-1791; delegate to theYork City, while on a visit, November 30, 1878; interment in State ratification convention in 1788; elected to the Secondthe Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Townsend; reelected to the Third Congress and served from TREZVANT, James, a Representative from Virginia; born May 1791 to March 3, 1795; delegate to the State constitu-in Sussex County, Va.; completed preparatory studies; stud- tional convention in 1801; again a member of the Stateied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in senate 1803-1807; surrogate of Clinton County 1807-1831;Jerusalem, Va.; attorney general of Virginia; delegate to the died in Plattsburg, Clinton County, N.Y., December 30, 1831;State constitutional convention in 1820; served in the State interment in a private burial ground in Beekmantown, N.Y.house of delegates; elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress TREEN, David Conner, a Representative from Louisiana;(March 4, 1825-March 3,1831); chairman, Committee on born in Baton Rouge, La., July 16, 1928; attended publicMilitary Pensions (Twenty-first Congress); died in Southamp- grammar schools in East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, and Orle-ton County, Va., September 2, 1841. ans Parishes; graduated from Fortier High School, New Or- leans, La., 1945; B.A., Tulane University, New Orleans, 1948; TRIBBLE, Samuel Joelah, a Representative from Georgia; J.D., Tulane University Law School, 1950; served in theborn on a farm near Carnesville, Franklin County, Ga., No- United States Air Force, 1951-1952; admitted to the Louisi-vember 15, 1869; attended the common schools and the Uni- ana bar in 1950 and commenced practice in New Orleans;versity of George at Athens; studied law; was admitted to member, State Republican Central Committee, 1962-1973;the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Athens, Ga.; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Housesolicitor of the city court 1899-1904; solicitor general of the of Representatives in 1962, 1964, and 1968; unsuccessful can-western circuit of Georgia 1904-1908; continued the practice didate for election in 1972 for Governor; delegate, Republi-of law in Athens until elected to Congress; elected as a can National Conventions, 1964-1984; Republican NationalDemocrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Committeeman of Louisiana, 1972-1974; elected as a Repub-Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death; lican to the Ninety-third Congress; reelected to the threehad been reelected in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; died succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1973,in Washington, D.C., December 8, 1916; interment in Oconee until his resignation March 10, 1980, to become Governor ofCemetery, Athens, Ga. Louisiana; served as Governor from March 10, 1980, until TRIBLE, Paul Seward, Jr., a Representative and Senator March 12, 1984; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelectionfrom Virginia; born in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Md., in 1983; nominated to United States Court of Appeals, FifthDecember 29, 1946; attended public and private schools in Circuit, July 23, 1987; is a resident of Mandeville, La. New Orleans, La., and Clark's Summit, Pa.; graduated, TRELOAR, William Mitcheilson, a Representative fromHampden-Sydney College 1968; graduated, Washington and Missouri; born near Linden, Iowa County, Wis., SeptemberLee Law School, Lexington, Va., 1971; admitted to the Vir- 21, 1850; attended the common schools; moved to Mountginia bar in 1971 and commenced practice in Alexandria; Pleasant, Iowa, in 1864 and attended the high school and theserved as law clerk in the United States District Court for Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant; moved to Mis- Eastern Virginia 197 1-1972; assistant United States attorney souri in 1872; taught at Mount Pleasant College, Huntsville,for the Eastern District of Virginia 1972-1974; Common- Mo., 1872-1875; moved to Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., inwealth's attorney, Essex County, Va., 1974-1976; appointed 1875 and taught in the Synodical Female College in Fulton,to Virginia Law Enforcement Officers Training and Stand- Hardin College in Mexico, Mo., and the public schools ofards Commission 1976; elected as a Republican to the Mexico, Mo.; delegate to the Republican State convention inNinety-fifth Congress in 1976; reelected to the Ninety-sixth 1954 Biographical Directory

and Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3,ion of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers commanded 1983); was not a candidate for reelection to the House ofby Major Dudley; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Representatives in 1982, but was elected to the UnitedCongress and reelected to the four succeeding Congresses States Senate for the term ending January 3, 1989. (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on TRIGG, Abram (brother of John Johns Trigg), a Repre-Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixteenth sentative from Virginia; born on his father's estate, near OldCongress), Committee on Elections (Sixteenth Congress); was Liberty (now Bedford), Va., in 1750; completed academican unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twentieth studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-Congress; died at Trimble's Furnace, Greenup County, Ky., menced practice in Montgomery County, Va.; lived on hisOctober 20, 1842. estate, "Buchanan's Bottom," on New River; held local of- THIMBLE, James William, a Representative from Arkan- fices, such as clerk and judge, and various other offices insas; born in Osage, Carroll County, Ark., February 3, 1894; Montgomery County; served in the Revolutionary War asattended the public schools; was graduated from the Univer- lieutenant colonel of militia in 1782 and later as general ofsity of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1917; was admitted to the militia in Virginia; delegate to the Virginia ratification con-bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Berryville, Carroll vention of 1788; elected as a Republican to the Fifth and toCounty, Ark.; during the First World War served in the the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3,United States Army as a private and was assigned to the 1809); died and was buried on the family estate. Adjutant General's Office, Little Rock, Ark.; county official TRIGG, Connally Findlay, a Representative from Virgin-of Carroll County, Ark., 1920-1928; prosecuting attorney of ia; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., Septemberthe fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas 1930-1938; judge of 18, 1847; attended the common schools; studied law; wasthe fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas 1938-1944; elected as admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice ina Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the ten succeeding Abingdon, Va.; during the Civil War was a private in theCongresses (January 3, 1945-January 3,1967); chairman, First Virginia Cavalry and also served in the ConfederateSpecial Committee on Chamber Improvements (Eighty-first States Navy; elected Commonwealth attorney for Washing-and Eighty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for ton County in 1872, which position he held until he resignedreelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resided in Ber- in 1884 to become a candidate for Congress; elected as aryville, Ark.; died in Eureka Springs, Ark., March 10, 1972; Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-Marchinterment in Berryville Memorial Park, Berryville, Ark. 3, 1887); resumed the practice of law; died in Abingdon, Va., Bibliography: Rothrock, Thomas. "Congressman James Trimble." Arkan- April 23, 1907; interment in Sinking Spring Cemetery. sas Historical Quarterly 28 (Spring 1969): 76-85. TRIGG, John Johns (brother of Abram Trigg), a Repre- TRIMBLE, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born sentative from Virginia; born on his father's estate near Oldin Roane County, Tenn., February 7, 1812; pursued classical Liberty (now Bedford), Va., in 1748; received a liberal school-studies under a private tutor and at the University of Nash- ing; engaged in agricultural pursuits; raised a company ofville; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced militia in Bedford County, Va., in 1775; was commissionedpractice in Nashville, Tenn.; attorney general of Tennessee captain March 23, 1778; promoted to the rank of major in1836-1842; member of the State house of representatives in 1781, and served throughout the Revolution; served under1843 and 1844; served in the State senate in 1845 and 1846, Washington at the siege of Yorktown; member of the Stateand in 1859 and 1861, when he resigned because of the ratification convention in 1788; lieutenant colonel of militiasecession of the State; United States attorney from April in 1791; major of the Second Battalion, Tenth Regiment of1862 until August 1864, when he resigned; served in the Militia, in 1793; justice of the peace of Bedford County;State senate from 1865 to 1867; elected as a Republican to served as a member of the Virginia house of delegates 1784-the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); died in 1792; elected as a Republican to the Fifth and to the threeNashville, Tenn., February 23, 1884. succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1797, until his death on his estate, near Old Liberty, Bedford County, THIMBLE, Lawrence Strother, a Representative from Va., on May 17, 1804; interment in burial grounds on hisKentucky; born near Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Ky., estate. August 26, 1825; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in TRIMBLE, Carey Allen, a Representative from Ohio; bornPaducah, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, September 13, 1813;in 1851 and 1852; judge of the equity and criminal court of attended Pestalostian School in Philadelphia,Pa., andthe first judicial circuit of Kentucky 1856-1860; president of Stubb's Classical School in Newport, Ky.; was graduatedthe New Orleans & Ohio Railroad Co. 1860-1865; unsuccess- from Ohio University at Athens in 1833 and from Cincinnatiful candidate for election in 1868 to the Thirty-eighth Con- Medical College in 1836; taught for four years; practicedgress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, medicine in Chillicothe, Ohio; elected as a Republican to theand Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; re-the practice of law; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1879 sumed medical practice; moved to Columbus, Ohio, where heand continued the practice of law until 1889, when he re- died May 4, 1887; interment in Grand View Cemetery, Chil-tired; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex., August 9, 1904; inter- licothe, Ohio. ment in Fairview Cemetery. THIMBLE, David, a Representative from Kentucky; born THIMBLE, South, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Frederick County, Va., in June 1782; was graduated fromnear Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky., April 13, 1864; attend- the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., ined the public schools of Frankfort and Excelsior Institute; 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedengaged inagriculturalpursuits near Frankfort,KY.; legal practice in Mount Sterling, KY.; served in the War ofmember of the State house of representatives 1898-1900, 1812 as brigade quartermaster of the First Brigade, Ken-serving as speaker in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the tucky Mounted Militia, and later as a private in the Battal-Fifty-seventh,Fifty-eighth,andFifty-ninthCongresses Biographies 1955

(March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); did not seek renomination inbr of the northern district of Mississippi 1855-1857; profes- 1906, but was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate forsor of law at the University of Mississippi 1860-1862; ap- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky; Clerk of the House ofpointed circuit judge in 1866 and served until his death in Representatives from April 4, 1911, to May 18, 1919; retiredHolly Springs, Miss., March 9, 1866; interment in Hill Crest from public life and operated a plantation near Selma, Ala.;Cemetery. again served as Clerk of the House of Representatives from December 7, 1931, until his death in Washington, D.C., No- TROTTI, Samuel Wilds, a Representative from South vember 23, 1946; interment in Frankfort Cemetery, Frank-Carolina; born in Barnwell, S.C., July 18, 1810; attended the fort, Ky. common schools; was graduated from South Carolina College (now University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1832; TRIMBLE, William Allen, a Senator from Ohio; born instudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; served in Woodford, Ky., April 4, 1786; graduated from Transylvaniathe Seminole War; member of the State house of representa- College, Lexington, KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bartives, 1840-1841, 1852-1855; elected as a Democrat to the in 1811 and commenced practice in Highland County, Ohio;Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the adjutant in the campaign against the Pottawatomie Indiansresignation of Sampson H. Butler and served from December in 1812; major of Ohio Volunteers 1812; major of the17, 1842, to March 3, 1843; resumed the practice of law; died Twenty-sixth United States Infantry 1813; brevetted lieuten- in Buckhead, Fairfield District (now county), S.C., June 24, ant colonel 1814; lieutenant colonel of the First United States Infantry 1814; transferred to the Eighth United1856. States Infantry 1815 and resigned in 1819; elected to the TROUP, George Michael, a Representative and a Senator United States Senate and served from March 4, 1819, untilfrom Georgia; born at McIntosh Bluff, on the Tombigbee his death in Washington, D.C., December 13, 1821; intermentRiver, Ala. (then a part of Georgia), September 8, 1780; in the Congressional Cemetery. received preliminary education at home and in the schools of Savannah, Ga.; attended Erasmus Hall, Flatbush, N.Y., TRIPLETT, Philip, a Representative from Kentucky; bornand graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Prince- in Madison County, Ky., December 24, 1799; attended theton University) in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar common schools of central Kentucky near Franklin, and inand commenced practice in Savannah, Ga., in 1799; member, Scott County; studied law in Owensboro, Daviess County,State house of representatives 1803-1805; elected as a Re- KY.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Owensboro in 1824; member of the State house of represent-publican to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Congress- atives in 1824; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth andes (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 3, 1839-March 3, 1843);renomination in 1814; retired to his plantation in Laurens was not a candidate for reelection in 1842; delegate to theCounty; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate State constitutional convention in 1849; died in Owensboro,for the term beginning March 4, 1817; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1817, caused Ky., March 30, 1852; interment in Elwood Cemetery. by the resignation of William W. Bibb, and served from TRIPPE, Robert Pleasant, a Representative from Georgia;November 13, 1816, until September 23, 1818, when he re- born near Monticello, Jasper County, Ga., December 21,signed; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Fifteenth 1819; moved with his father to Monroe County and settledCongress); unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1819 and near Culloden; attended Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, 1821; Governor of Georgia 1823-1827; again elected to the Va., and was graduated from Franklin College (later theUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1829, to University of Georgia) at Athens in 1839; studied law; wasNovember 8, 1833, when he resigned; chairman, Committee admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice inon Indian Affairs (Twenty-second Congress); died while on a Forsyth, Ga.; member of the State house of representativesvisit to one of his plantations in Montgomery County, Ga., 1849-1852; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1852 to theApril 26, 1856; interment on the Rosemont plantation, Mont- Thirty-third Congress; elected as a candidate of the Ameri-gomery County, Ga. can Party to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses Bibliography: DAB; Fortune, Porter L. "George M. Troup: Leading State (March 4, 1855-March 3,1859); was not a candidate for Rights Advocate." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1949; renomination in 1858 having become a candidate for State Harden, Edward. Life of George Michael Troup. Savanair E J Purse, 1859. senator; served in the State senate in 1859 and 1860; Member of the First Confederate Congress; served in the TROUT, Michael Carver, a Representative from Pennsyl- Confederate Army 1862-1865; resumed the practice of law invania; born in Hickory Township, Mercer County, Pa., Sep- Forsyth, Ga.; associate judge of the State supreme courttember 30, 1810; received a very limited education; employed from 1873 until 1875, when he resigned; again resumed theas a hatter for three years and then became a carpenter and practice of law in Atlanta, Ga., and died there July 22, 1900;contractor; served as president of the Hickory Township interment in Forsyth Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga. School Board for twenty years; elected burgess of Sharon in 1841; recorder of Mercer County, Pa., 1842-1845; prothono- TROTTER, James Fisher, a Senator from Mississippi;tary 1846-1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third born in Brunswick County, Va., November 5, 1802; moved toCongress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candi- eastern Tennessee; attended private schools; studied law;date for reelection; engaged in iron manufacturing, banking, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice inand coal mining; died in Hickory Township, Pa., June 25, Hamilton, Monroe County, Miss., in 1823; member, State1873; interment in Morefield Cemetery, Hickory Township, house of representatives 1827-1829; member, State senatenear Sharon, Pa. 1829-1833; judge of the circuit court of Mississippi in 1833; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill TROUTMAN, William Irvin, a Representative from Penn- the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Black andsylvania; born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pa., served from January 22 to July 10, 1838, when he resigned;January 13, 1905; attended the public schools; was graduated judge of the supreme court of Mississippi 1839-1842, whenfrom Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1927, he resigned; moved to Holly Springs, Marshall County,and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School at Miss., and resumed the practice of law in 1840; vice chancel-Philadelphia in 1930; was admitted to the bar in 1930 and 1956 Biographical Directory

commenced practice in Shamokin; special attorney for Penn- turned to his home in Independence, Mo.; engaged in writing sylvania 1939-1943; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-his memoirs and took an active interest in the creation of eighth Congress and served from January 3, 1943, until histhe Truman Library; died in Kansas City, Mo., December 26, resignation on January 2, 1945; did not seek renomination in1972; interment in the Rose Garden at the Truman Library, 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; member of the Pennsyl-Independence, Mo. vania State senate in 1945; elected judge of the Court of Bibliography: Miller, Richard L. Truman: The Rise to Power. New York: Common Pleas of Northumberland County, Pa., for a ten-McGraw Hill, 1986; Truman, Harry S. Memoirs: The Years of Decision. year term and assumed his duties on January 7, 1946; re- Vol. I, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955. elected in November 1955 for term ending January 1966; was not a candidate for reelection; became a senior judge, TRUMBO, Andrew, a Representative from Kentucky; born and served in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Pa.,in Montgomery (now Bath) County, Ky., September 15, 1797; died in Shamokin, Pa., January 27, 1971; interment in Oddattended the common schools; employed in the county Fellows Cemetery. clerk's office; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- menced practice in Owingsville, Ky., in 1824; clerk of Bath TROWBRIDGE, Rowland Ebenezer, a RepresentativeCounty in 1830; Commonwealth attorney for Bath County in from Michigan; born in Horseheads, Chemung County, N.Y.,1830; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress June 18, 1821; moved with his parents in 1821 to Oakland(March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); presidential elector on the County, Mich.; was graduated from Kenyon College, Gam-Democratic ticket in 1848; resumed the practice of law; bier,Ohio,in1841;engaged inagriculturalpursuits;moved to Franklin County, KY.; died in Frankfort, Ky., member of the State senate 1856-1860; elected as a Republi-August 21, 1871; interment in the City Cemetery, Owings- can to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3,ville, Ky. 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March TRUMBULL, Jonathan Jr. (brother of Joseph Trumbull), 1869); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Fortieth Con-a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in gress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination; resumed ag-Lebanon, Conn., March 26, 1740; graduated from Harvard ricultural pursuits; Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1880College in 1759; member, State legislature 1774-1775, 1779- and 1881; died in Birmingham, Mich., April 20, 1881; inter-1780, 1788, and served as speaker of the house in 1788; ment in Greenwood Cemetery. served in the Continental Army as a paymaster; comptroller of the treasury 1778-1779; appointed secretary and aide-de- TRUAX, Charles Vilas, a Representative from Ohio; borncamp to General George Washington in 1781; elected to the on a farm near Sycamore, Wyandot County, Ohio, FebruaryFirst, Second, and Third Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1, 1887; attended the public schools and was graduated from1795); did not seek reelection, having become a candidate for Sycamore High School; engaged in the implement businessSenator; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Second and afterward in agricultural pursuits; editor of the SwineCongress; elected to the United States Senate and served World 19 16-1921; appointed director of agriculture of Ohiofrom March 4, 1795, to June 10, 1796, when he resigned; by Gov. A.V. Donahey in 1913 and served until 1929; unsuc-lieutenant governor of Connecticut from 1796 until the cessful candidate for election to the United States Senate indeath of the Governor in December 1797, when he became 1928; engaged in the life insurance business in Columbus,the Governor; was reelected for eleven consecutive terms, Ohio, in 1928; was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-and served from 1797 until his death in Lebanon, Conn., third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from MarchAugust 7, 1809; interment in the East Cemetery. 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 9, 1935; Bibliography: DAB; Iflcovic, John. Connecticut's Nationalist Revolution- interment in Pleasant View Cemetery, Sycamore, Ohio. ary: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Hartford: Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1977; Trumbull, Jonathan. Jonathan Trumbull: TRUMAN, Harry S., a Senator from Missouri, a Vice Governor of Connecticut. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1919. President, and Thirty-third President of the United States; born in Lamar, Barton County, Mo., May 8, 1884; moved TRUMBULL, Joseph (brother of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.), with his parents to a farm in Jackson County, Mo., in 1888;a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Lebanon, Conn., March attended the public schools in Independence, Mo.; engaged in11, 1737; was graduated from Harvard College in 1756; elect- agricultural pursuits; during the First World War was com-ed to the Continental Congress in 1774, but did not attend; missioned a first lieutenant, later a captain, and served withserved in the Continental Army as commissary general with Battery D, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery,the rank of colonel from July 19, 1775, to August 2, 1777; United States Army, with service overseas; discharged as awas commissioner of the board of war from 1777 until his major in 1919; colonel of Field Artillery, United States Armyresignation in April 1778 on account of ill health; died in Reserve Corps 1927-1945; engaged in the haberdashery busi-Lebanon, Conn., July 23, 1778; interment in the East Ceme- ness 1919-1921; studied law at Kansas City (Mo.) Lawtery. School; judge of the Jackson County Court 1922-1924, and Bibliography: DAB. presiding judge 1926-1934; elected as a Democrat to the TRUMBULL, Joseph, a Representative from Connecticut; United States Senate in 1934; reelected in 1940 and servedborn in Lebanon, Conn., December 7, 1782; completed pre- from January 3, 1935, until his resignation on January 17,paratory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1801; 1945; chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate thestudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1803 at Windham, National Defense Program (Seventy-seventh and Seventy-Conn., and commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; in 1828 eighth Congresses), formed at Truman's initiative andbecame president of the Hartford Bank and later of the widely known as the "Truman Committee," which calledProvidence, Hartford & Fishkill Railroad Co.; member of the nationwide attention to military contracting procedures;State house of representativesin1832; elected to the elected Vice President of the United States on the Democrat-Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the ic ticket with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944; inaugurat-resignation of William W. Ellsworth and served from Decem- ed January 20, 1945, and upon the death of President Roose- ber 1, 1834, to March 3, 1835; resigned the presidency of the velt, April 12, 1945, became President of the United States;bank in November 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- elected in 1948 for the term ending January 20, 1953; re-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March Biographies 1957

3, 1843); again a member of the State house of representa-1896; attended the public schools; during the First World tives in 1848; Governor of Connecticut in 1849 and 1850;War served in the United States Marines from June 1918 to again elected to the State house of representatives in 1851;July 1919; attended the College of William and Mary and died in Hartford, Conn., August 4, 1861; interment in thewas graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lex- East Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn. ington, Va., in 1921; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in South Boston, Va.; chairman of TRUMBULL, Lyman, a Senator from Illinois; born in Col-the Virginia State Democratic Central Committee in 1952; chester, Conn., October 12, 1813; attended Bacon Academy; taught school in Connecticut 1829-1833; studied law; wasdelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1948 admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greenville,and 1952; member of the State house of delegates 1924-1932; Ga.; moved to Belleville, Iii., 1837; member, State house ofserved in the State senate 1932-1942; Lieutenant Governor representatives 1840-184 1; secretary of State of Illinois inof Virginia 1942-1946; Governor of Virginia 1946-1950; re- 1841 and 1843; justice of the supreme court of Illinois 1848-sumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the 1853; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress in 1854, butEighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- before the beginning of the Congress was elected to thenation of Thomas B Stanley; reelected to the seven succeed- United States Senate; reelected in 1861 and again in 1867,ing Congresses and served from April 14, 1953, until Janu- and served from March 4, 1855, to March 3, 1873; was atary 3, 1969; was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the various times a Democrat, then Republican, then LiberalNinety-first Congress; was a resident of South Boston, Va., Republican, then Democrat; chairman, Committee on theuntil his death on June 9, 1983; interment at Oak Ridge Judiciary (Thirty-seventh through Forty-second Congresses);Cemetery, South Boston, Va. resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; unsuccessful Bibliography: Crawley, William B Bill Tuck: A Political Life in Harry candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1880; died in Chicago, Byrd's Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. Ill., June 25, 1896; interment in Oakwoods Cemetery. TUCKER, Ebenezer, a Representative from New Jersey; Bibliography: DAB; DiNunzio, Mario. ", United Statesborn at Tuckers Beach, Burlington County, N.J., November Senator." Ph.D.dissertation,Clark University,1969; Krug, Mark M. Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1965. 15, 1758; attended the common schools; served in the Revolu- tion under General Washington at the Battle of Long Island TSONGAS, Paul Efthemios, a Representative and a Sena-and other engagements; judge of the court of common pleas, tor from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Middlesex County,justice of the court of quarter sessions, and judge of the Mass., February 14, 1941; attended the public schools oforphans' court of Burlington County from 1820 to 1825; Lowell; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.,moved to what is now Tuckerton, N.J., which was named 1962, and from Yale University School of Law 1967; attendedafter him, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvardshipbuilding; postmaster of Tuckerton from 1806 to 1825, University 1973-1974; lawyer; admitted to the Massachusettswhen he resigned to take up his duties in Congress; elected bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Lowell; served asto the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825- Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia 1962-1964, and the WestMarch 3, 1929); was not a candidate for renomination; first Indies 1967-1968; deputy assistant attorney general of Mas- collector of revenue of the port of Tuckerton; again postmas- sachusetts 1969-1971; served as Lowell city councillor 1969-ter of Tuckerton from 1831 until his death in Tuckerton, 1972; Middlesex County (Mass.) commissioner 1973-1974;N.J., September 5, 1845; interment in the Old Methodist elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress, No- vember 4, 1974; reelected to the Ninety-fifth Congress (Janu- Cemetery. ary 3, 1975-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelec- TUCKER, George (cousin of Henry St. George Tucker), a tion to the House of Representatives but was elected in 1978Representative from Virginia; born in St. Georges, Bermuda, to the United States Senate; served from January 3, 1979, toon August 20, 1775; immigrated to Virginia about 1790; was January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection; is a resident ofgraduated from the College of William and Mary, Williams- Lowell, Mass. burg, Va., in 1797; studied law with Judge St. George Tucker Bibliography: Tsongas, Paul. The Road From Here. New York: Knopf, at William and Mary; was admitted to the bar and com- 1981; Tsongas, Paul. Heading Home. New York: Knopf, 1984. menced practice in Richmond, Va.; moved to Pittsylvania TUCK, Amos, a Representative from New Hampshire;County, Va., and was elected Commonwealth attorney of the born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810; attended Ef-county; member of the State house of delegates in 1815; fingham and Hampton Academies; was graduated frommoved to Lynchburg, Va., in 1818 and continued the practice Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1835; studied law; wasof law; elected to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eight- admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice ineenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1825); chairman, Exeter, N.H.; trustee of Dartmouth College; principal ofCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sev- Hampton Academy 1836-1838; member of the State house ofenteenth and Eighteenth Congresses); was appointed by representatives in 1842; elected as an Independent to theThomas Jefferson as the first professor of moral philosophy Thirtieth Congress, as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-at the University of Virginia; resigned as professor in 1845 first Congress, and as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congressand moved to Philadelphia; author on finance, economics, (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate forbanking, and historical subjects; died in Sherwood, Albe- reelection; delegate to the Republican National Conventionsmarie County, Va., April 10, 1861; interment in the Univer- in 1856 and 1860; delegate to the peace convention held insity of Virginia Cemetery, Albemarle County, Va. Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to Bibliography: DAB; McLean, Robert Cohn. George Tucker: Moral Philos- prevent the impending war; naval officer of the port ofopher and Man of Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Boston 1861-1865; resumed the practice of law and also en- Press, 1961; Snavely, Tipton Ray. George Tucker as Political Economist. gaged in railroad building; died in Exeter, N.H., December Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1964. 11, 1879; interment in Exeter Cemetery. TUCKER, Henry St. George (father of John Randolph Bibliography: DAB. Tucker, grandfather of Henry St. George Tucker [1853-1932], TUCK, William Munford, a Representative from Virginia;cousin of George Tucker, and nephew of Thomas Tudor born near High Hill, Halifax County, Va., September 28,Tucker), a Representative from Virginia; born in Williams- 1958 Biographical Directory

burg, Va., December 29, 1780; pursued classical studies; was[1853-1932]), a Representative from Virginia; born in Win- graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williams-chester, Frederick County, Va., on December 24, 1823; at- burg, Va., in 1798; later studied law under his father, St.tended a private school and Richmond Academy, and was George Tucker, and was graduated in 1801; was admitted tograduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville the bar and commenced practice in Winchester, Va.; captainin 1844; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced of Cavalry in the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to thepractice in Winchester, Va.; attorney general of Virginia Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March1857-1865; professor of equity and public law at Washington 3, 1819); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Four-and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1870; elected as a teenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures on PublicDemocrat to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Buildings (Fifteenth Congress); was not a candidate for re-Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Com- nomination in 1818; member, State senate, 1819-1823; chan- mittee on Ways and Means (Forty-sixth Congress), Commit- cellor of the fourth judicial district of Virginia 1824-1831;tee on the Judiciary (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congress- maintained a private law school; president of the court ofes); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; appeals of Virginia 1831-1841; professor of law at the Uni- versity of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1841 to 1845,elected professor of constitutional law at Washington and when he resigned; was the author in 1842 of the honorLee University in 1888, and served until his death; president system for students adopted at the university; author ofof the American Bar Association in 1894; died in Lexington, Tucker's Commentaries and of a treatise on natural law andVa., February 13, 1897; interment in Mount Hebron Ceme- on the formation of the Constitution of the United States;tery, Winchester, Va. Bibliography: DAB; Davis, J.W. "John Randolph Tucker: The Man and died in Winchester, Va., August 28, 1848; interment in His Work." In John Randolph Tucker Lectures. Lexington, Va Washing- Mount Hebron Cemetery. ton and Lee University, 1952, 11-36. Bibliography: DAB. TUCKER, Henry St. George (son of John Randolph TUCKER, Starling, a Representative from South Carolina; Tucker and grandson of Henry St. George Tucker [1780-born in Halifax County, N.C., in 1770; moved to Mountain 1848]), a Representative from Virginia; born in Winchester,Shoals (now Enoree), S.C.; received a limited education; held several local offices; member of the State house of represent- Frederick County, Va., April5,1853; attended private schools in Richmond and Middleburg, Va.; was graduatedatives; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress; from the law department of Washington and Lee University,reelected to the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Congresses Lexington, Va., in 1876; was admitted to the bar the sameand reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty- year and commenced practice in Staunton, Va.; elected as afirst Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3,1831); died in Democrat to the Fifty-first and to the three succeeding Con-Mountain Shoals (now Enoree), S.C., January 3, 1834; inter- gresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate ment in the private burial ground on the family estate west for renomination in 1896; elected professor of constitutionalof Enoree, S.C. law and equity in Washington and Lee University in 1897; TUCKER, Thomas Tudor (uncle of Henry St. George dean of the law school of the same university in 1900, andTucker [1780-1848]), a Delegate and a Representative from dean of the school of law and diplomacy in George Washing-South Carolina; born in Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745; ton University, Washington, D.C., in 1905; president of theattended the common schools; studied medicine at the Uni- Jamestown ExpositionCo.,1905-1907; president of the American Bar Association in 1905; unsuccessful Democraticversity of Edinburgh, Scotland; moved to South Carolina and candidate for the nomination for Governor in 1909 andpracticed medicine; served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary again in 1921; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventhWar; member of the State assembly, 1776, 1782-1783, 1785 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry D.and 1787-1788; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 Flood; reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeed-and 1788; elected to the First and Second Congresses (March ing Congresses and served from March 21, 1922, until his4, 1789-March 3, 1793); appointed United States Treasurer death in Lexington, Va., July 23, 1932; interment in theby President Jefferson and served from December 1, 1801, Presbyterian Cemetery. until his death in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1828; interment Bibliography: DAB. in Congressional Cemetery. TUCKER, James Guy, Jr., a Representative from Arkan- TUCKER, Tilghman Mayfield, a Representative from Mis- sas; born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Okla., Junesissippi; born near Lime Stone Springs, N.C., February 5, 13, 1943; educated in the public schools of Little Rock, Ark.;1802; completed preparatory studies; engaged in agricultural B.A., Harvard University, 1964; J.D., University of Arkan- pursuits; moved to Hamilton, Miss.; studied law; was admit- sas, Fayetteville, 1968; admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1968ted to the bar and commenced practice in Columbus, Miss.; and commenced practice in Little Rock; served in Unitedmember of the State house of representatives 1831-1835; States Marine Corps Reserve, 1964; served as free lanceserved in the State senate 1838-184 1; Governor of Mississip- reporter in Vietnam, 1965, 1967; engaged in private practicepi 184 1-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth in Little Rock, 1968-1970; prosecuting attorney, Sixth Judi-Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); retired to his plan- cial District of Arkansas, 1971-1972; member, Arkansastation home, "Cottonwood," in Louisiana; died at the home Criminal Code Revision Commission, 1973-1975; served asof his father near Bexar, Marion County, Ala., April 3, 1859. Arkansas attorney general, 1973-1977; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1972; elected as a Democrat to the TUFTS, John Quincy, a Representative from Iowa; born Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1979); wasnear Aurora, Dearborn County, md., July 12, 1840; moved to not a candidate in 1978 for reelection but was an unsuccess-Iowa in 1852 with his parents, who settled in Muscatine ful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate;County; attended the common schools and Cornell College, resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Little Rock,Mount Vernon, Iowa; moved to Cedar County, Iowa, in 1858; Ark. engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1870, 1872, and 1874; elected as a Re- TUCKER, John Randolph (son of Henry St. Georgepublican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March Tucker [1780-1848] and father of Henry St. George Tucker 3,1877); United States Indian agent of Indian Territory Biographies 1959

1879-1887; moved to Los Angeles, Calif.; engaged in the realRiverside in 1961 and 1962; admitted to practice law in estate business; president of the Los Angeles Board of Alder-California in 1963; special adviser to the President's Commit- men 1892-1896; died in Los Angeles, Calif., August 10, 1908;tee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime 1963-1968; interment in Rosedale Cemetery. elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress; reelect- ed to the two succeeding Congresses and served from Janu- TULLY, Pleasant Britton, a Representative from Califor- nia; born in Henderson County, Tenn., on March 21, 1829;ary 3, 1965, until his resignation January 2, 1971; was not a moved to Arkansas with his father, who settled in Phillipscandidate for reelection, but was elected in 1970 to the County in 1838; attended public and private schools; movedUnited States Senate for the six-year term commencing Jan- to California in 1853 and engaged in mining; resided inuary 3, 1971; subsequently appointed by the Governor, Janu- Gilroy, Calif., after 1857; studied law; was admitted to theary 2, 1971, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of bar and practiced; delegate at large to the State constitution-George Murphy for the term ending January 3, 1971; served al convention in 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-from January 2, 1971, until his resignation January 1, 1977; eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); resumed theunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976; resumed the practice of law; died in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, Calif.,practice of law in Los Angeles; is a resident of Beverly Hills, March 24, 1897; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Calif. Bibliography: Tunney, John. The Changing Dream. Garden City, N.Y.: TUMULTY, Thomas James, a Representative from New Doubleday, 1975. Jersey; born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., March 2, TUPPER, Stanley Roger, a Representative from Maine; 1913; graduated from Xavier High School and attended Holyborn in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine, January Cross University; graduated from Fordham University, New York City, in 1935, from Seton Hall, South Orange, N.J., in 25,1921; educated in Boothbay Harbor public schools, 1938 and from John Marshall Law School, Jersey City, N.J.,Hebron Academy, Hebron, Maine; Middlebury College, in 1938; admitted to the bar in 1940 and commenced theMiddlebury, Vt., and LaSalle Extension University, Chicago, practice of law in Jersey City, N.J.; professor at Seton HallIll.; served in the United States Navy September 1944- in 1940 and 1941; taught at St. Aloysius High School inMarch 1946; member of board of selectmen of Boothbay Jersey City in 1949 and 1950; served in the United StatesHarbor in 1948, and served as chairman in 1949; was admit- Army as an enlisted man in 1943 and 1944; served in theted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Maine State house of assembly 1944-1952, serving as minorityin 1949, in the Federal district court in 1950, and before the leader in 1951; assistant corporation counsel for Jersey Citybar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952; 1943-1954; delegate to the Democratic National Conventionmember of State legislature, 1953; assistant State attorney in 1952; secretary to the mayor of Jersey City in 1952 andgeneral, 1959-1960; State Commissioner of the Department 1953; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congressof Sea and Shore Fisheries, 1953-1957; elected as a Republi- (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful for reelec-can to the Eighty-seventh, Eighty-eighth, and Eighty-ninth tion to the Eighty-fifth Congress; special counsel Urban Re- Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1967); was not a newal for Jersey City in 1957; deputy mayor of Jersey Citycandidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; 1958-1960; resumed the practice of law; judge of the Superi-appointed United States Commissioner General with rank of or Court of New Jersey, 1967-1972; was a resident of JerseyAmbassador to the Canadian World Exhibition in 1967; re- City, N.J., until his death there November 23, 1981; inter- sumed the practice of law in 1968; United State Commission- ment at Holy Name Cemetery. er, International Commission for Northeast Atlantic Fisher- ies, 1975-1976; is a resident of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. TUNNELL, , a Senator from Delaware; born in Clarksville, Sussex County, Del., August 2, 1879; attended TURLEY, Thomas Battle, a Senator from Tennessee; born the public schools; graduated from Franklin College (nowin Memphis, Tenn., April5,1845; attended the public combined with Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio) inschools; served throughout the Civil War as a private in the 1900; taught in the public schools, advancing to principal ofConfederate Army; graduated from the law department of schools at Frankford, Selbyville, and Ocean View, Del., 1903-the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1867; was 1907; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 andadmitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in commenced practice in Georgetown, Del.; president of theMemphis, Tenn.; appointed as a Democrat and subsequently board of education of Georgetown, Del., 1919-1932; unsuc-elected to the United States Senate tofill the vacancy cessful Democratic candidate for election to the Unitedcaused by the death of Isham G. Harris and served from States Senate in 1924; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedJuly 20, 1897, to March 3, 1901; declined to be a candidate States Senate in 1940 and served from January 3, 1941, tofor renomination and resumed the practice of law in Mem- January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for reelection inphis, Tenn.; died in Memphis, Tenn., July 1, 1910; interment 1946; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Seventy-eighth andin Elmwood Cemetery. Seventy-ninth Congresses); banker; owned and operated a TURNBULL, Robert, a Representative from Virginia; number of farms in Sussex County, Del.; died in Philadel-born in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., January 11, phia, Pa., November 14, 1957; interment in Blackwater1850; attended Rock Spring Academy, and was graduated Church Cemetery, near Clarksville, Del. from the law department of the University of Virginia at TUNNEY, John Varick, a Representative and a SenatorCharlottesville in 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and from California; born in New York City, June 26, 1934;commenced practice in Lawrenceville, Va.; clerk of Bruns- graduated from Yale University 1956; attended the Academywick County 1891-1910; member of the State senate 1894- of International Law at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1957;1898; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1901; graduated from the law school of the University of Virginiadelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1896 at Charlottesville in 1959; was admitted to the Virginia andand 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress New York bars in 1959 and commenced practice in Newto fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis R. Las- York City; joined the United States Air Force as a judgesiter; reelected to the Sixty-second Congress and served from advocate and served until discharged as a captain in AprilMarch 8, 1910, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for 1963; taught business law at the University of California atrenomination in 1912; resumed the practice of law in Law- 1960 Biographical Directory

renceville; clerk of the circuit court of Brunswick Countydelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; from 1916 until his death, January 22, 1920; interment inelected mayor of Waverly, Tenn., in 1920; city attorney; Lawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Va. elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill TURNER, Benjamin Sterling, a Representative from Ala-the vacancy caused by the death of Lemuel P. Padgett and bama; born near Weldon, Halifax County, N.C., March 17,served from November 7, 1922, to March 3, 1923; was not a 1825; raised as a slave; received no early education; moved tocandidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; Alabama in 1830 and by clandestine study obtained a fairreturned to Waverly, Tenn., and engaged in banking and education; engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected tax collec-agricultural pursuits; served as county judge of Humphreys tor of Dallas County in 1867; councilman of the city of SelmaCounty 1924-1933; elected to the Seventy-third and to the in 1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Con-three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, gress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidateuntil his death in Washington, D.C., March 23, 1939; inter- for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; delegatement in Marable Cemetery, Waverly, Tenn. to the Republican National Convention in 1880; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Alabama; died in Selma, Dallas TURNER, Daniel (son of James Turner), a Representative County, Ala., March 21, 1894; interment in Live Oak Ceme-from North Carolina; born near Warrenton, Warren County, tery. N.C., September 21, 1796; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the United States Military Academy at TURNER, Charles, Jr., a Representative from Massachu-West Point in 1814, and commissioned second lieutenant of setts; born in Duxbury, Mass., June 20, 1760; received aArtillery the same year; served in the War of 1812 as acting common-school education at Duxbury and Scituate, Mass.;assistant engineer; resigned his commission May 17, 1815; was commissioned an adjutant in the Massachusetts Statestudent for two years at the College of William and Mary, Militia in 1787; promoted to major in 1790, and held theWilliamsburg, Va.; moved to North Carolina; member of the rank of lieutenant colonel commandant 1798-1812; appoint-North Carolina house of commons 1819-1823; elected to the ed first postmaster of Scituate, Mass., in 1800; justice of theTwentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); was not peace; member of the State house of representatives in 1803a candidate for renomination; principal of the Warrenton and 1805-1808; successfully contested as a Republican the(N.C.) Female Seminary; superintending engineer of the con- election of to the Eleventh Congress; re- struction of public works at the Mare Island (Calif.) Navy elected to the Twelfth Congress and served from June 28,Yard from September 16, 1854, until his death there July 21, 1809, to March 3, 1813; chairman, Committee on Accounts1860; interment in Mare Island Naval Cemetery. (Twelfth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirteenth Congress; served in the State senate in 1816; TURNER, ErastusJohnson,aRepresentativefrom again a member of the State house of representatives inKansas; born in Lockport, Erie County, Pa., December 26, 1817, 1819, and 1823; appointed steward of the Marine Hos- 1846; attended college in Henry, Ill.,in 1859 and 1860; pital at Chelsea, Mass.; delegate to the State constitutionalmoved to Bloomfield, Iowa, in 1860; enlisted in Company E, convention in 1820; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died inThirteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in 1864 and Scituate, Plymouth County, Mass., May 16, 1839; intermentserved until the close of the Civil War; attended Adrian in the burial ground of the First Parish of Norwell (formerly(Mich.) College 1866-1868; was admitted to the bar in 1871 Scituate). and commenced practice at Bloomfield, Iowa; moved to TURNER, Charles Henry, a Representative from NewHoxie, Sheridan County, Kans., in 1879 and resumed the York; born in Wentworth, Grafton County, N.H., May 26,practice of law; member of the State house of representa- 1861; attended the common schools; moved to New York Citytives 1881-1885; secretary of the Kansas Board of Railroad in November 1879; attended Columbia College, New YorkCommissioners from April 1, 1883, to August 1, 1886; elected City, 1886-1888; engaged in the ice business; unsuccessfulas a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses candidate for State senator in 1888; elected as a Democrat to(March 4, 1887-March 3,1891); was not a candidate for the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by therenomination in 1890; practiced law several years in Wash- resignation of Frank T. Fitzgerald and served from Decem-ington, D.C.; moved to Seattle, Wash., in 1905 and continued ber 9, 1889, to March 3, 1891; was not a candidate for re-the practice of law; retired from active pursuits in 1916 and nomination in 1890; Doorkeeper in the House of Representa-moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where he died February 10, tives 1891-1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 18971933; interment in Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Glendale, Calif. and commenced practice in Washington, D.C.; appointed as- TURNER, George, a Senator from Washington; born in sistant district attorney for the District of Columbia July 16,Edina, Knox County, Mo., February 25, 1850; attended the 1903, and served until his resignation September 1,1911; common schools; served as United States military telegraph appointed special assistant to the United States attorney foroperator with the Union forces during the Civil War 1861- the District of Columbia November 27, 1911, and served1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and until his death in Wentworth, N.H., August 31, 1913; inter-commenced practice in Mobile, Ala.; United States marshal ment in Wentworth Cemetery. for the southern and middle districts of Alabama 1876-1880; TURNER, Clarence Wyly, a Representative from Tennes- associate justice of the supreme court for the Territory of see; born on a farm near Clydeton, Humphreys County,Washington 1885-1888; resumed the practice of law in Spo- Tenn., October 22, 1866; attended the public schools, a pre-kane, Wash., in 1888; also interested in mining; member of paratory school in Edgewood, Dickson County, Tenn., andthe Territorial convention in 1889 that framed the constitu- National Normal Institute, Lebanon, Ohio; was graduatedtion of the new State of Washington; unsuccessful candidate from the law department of Northern Indiana Normal Col-for election as a Republican to the United States Senate in lege at Valparaiso in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same1889 and 1893; elected on a fusionist ticket with Silver Re- year and commenced practice at Waverly, Humphreyspublicans, Democrats, and Populists to the United States County, Tenn.; editor of the Waverly Sentinel; chairman ofSenate and served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1903; the Democratic committee of Humphreys County for fifteenwas not a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of years; member of the State senate 1900, 1901, and 1909-1912;law in Spokane, Wash.; member of the Alaska Boundary Biographies 1961

Tribunal in 1903; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for gov-1847; Commonwealth attorney 1851-1855; was admitted to ernor in 1904; counsel for the United States at The Hague inthe bar and practiced until 1861; served in the State senate the northeastern fisheries arbitration with Great Britain in1867-1871; elected as an Independent Democrat to the Forty- 1910; appointed by President William H. Taft as a membersixth Congress, as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Con- of the International Joint Commission, created to preventgress, and as an Independent Democrat to the Forty-eighth disputes regarding the use of boundary waters between theCongress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); resumed the prac- United States and Canada 1911-1914; counsel for the Unitedtice of law; died in Louisville, Ky., on January 22, 1896; States before the International Joint Commission 19 18-1924;interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. practiced law in Spokane, Wash.; died in Spokane, January 26, 1932; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. TURNER, Oscar (son of Oscar Turner [1825-1896]), a Rep- Bibliography: DAB; Johnson, Claudius. George Turner, Attorney-at-Law.resentative from Kentucky; born in Woodlands, Ballard Pullman State College of Washington, 1943. County, Ky., October 19, 1867; attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and Louisville (Ky.) Rugby School; studied TURNER, Henry Gray, a Representative from Georgia;law at the University of Louisville, and graduated from the born near Henderson, Franklin County, N.C., March 20,University of Virginia in 1886; was admitted to the bar and 1839; attended the common schools and the University ofcommenced practice in Louisville, Ky., in 1891; elected as a Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; moved to Brooks County,Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March Ga., in 1859 and taught school; enlisted in the Confederate3, 1901); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900; Army as a private in 1861, and served throughout the Civilresumed the practice of law; died in Louisville, Ky., July 17, War, attaining the rank of captain; studied law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Quitman,1902; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Ga.; member of the State house of representatives 1874- TURNER, Smith Spangler, a Representative from Virgin- 1876; delegate to the Democratic National Convention inia; born in Warren County, Va., November 21, 1842; cadet at 1876; again served in the State house of representatives inthe Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., when the 1878 and 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventhCivil War commenced, and was subsequently given an hon- and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-orary diploma; enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861; March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty-served with Gen. T.J. Jackson as drill officer; an officer of eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Expendi-Pickett's division during the remainder of the war; taught tures in the Department of the Interior (Fifty-third Con-mathematics in a female seminary in Winchester, Va., 1865- gress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1896;1867; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and resumed the practice of law in Quitman, Ga.; appointedcommenced practice in Front Royal, Va.; member of the associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia in 1903;State house of delegates 1869-1872; prosecuting attorney for died in Raleigh, N.C., June 9, 1904; interment in West EndWarren County, Va., 1874-1879; member of the State board Cemetery, Quitman, Ga. of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute for eight years; TURNER, James (father of Daniel Turner), a Senator fromelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the North Carolina; born in Southampton County, Va., Decem-vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles T. O'Ferrall; ber 20, 1766; moved to Warren County, N.C., in 1770; attend-reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from Janu- ed the common schools; engaged in planting; served as aary 30, 1894, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidatefor private in a company of North Carolina Volunteers duringrenomination in 1896; died in Front Royal, Va., April 8, the Revolutionary War; member, State house of commons1898; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. 1797-1800; member, State senate 1801-1802; Governor of TURNER, Thomas, a Representative from Kentucky; born North Carolina 1802-1805; elected as a Republican to thein Richmond, Madison County, Ky., September 10, 1821; at- United States Senate in 1805; reelected in 1811 and servedtended the Richmond Academy, and was graduated from from March 4, 1805, to November 21, 1816, when he resignedCentre College, Danville, Ky., in September 1840; studied due to ill health; died on his plantation, "Bloomsbury," nearlaw at the Transylvania Law School, Lexington, KY.; was Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., January 15, 1824; inter- admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in ment in Bloomsbury Cemetery. Richmond, KY.; Commonwealth attorney 1845-1846; served TURNER, James, a Representative from Maryland; bornin the Mexican War as a private in Captain Stone's compa- near Bel Air, Harford County, Md., November 7, 1783; com- ny of Col. Roger Hanson's regiment; moved to MountSter- pleted preparatory studies at the Classic Academy of Madon- ling, Montgomery County, Ky., in November 1854 and con- na, Maryland; captain of militia in the War of 1812; movedtinued the practice of law; member of the State house of to Parkton, Baltimore County, in 1811 and established arepresentatives 1861-1863; elected as a Democrat to the dairy farm; collector of State and county taxes in 1817;Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March served as a justice of the peace in 1824; member of the State3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the house of delegates 1824-1833; elected as a Jacksonian to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-Mount Sterling, Ky., on September 11, 1900; interment in March 3, 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; againMacpelah Cemetery. served in the State house of delegates in 1837 and 1838; TURNER, Thomas Johnston, a Representative from Illi- member of the State senate 1855-1859; engaged in farmingnois; born in Trumbull County, Ohio, April 5, 1815; complet- at Parkton, Md., until his death March 28, 1861; intermented preparatory studies; moved with his parents to Butler in Bethel Cemetery, near Madonna, Harford County, Md.County, Pa., in 1825; moved to Lake County, md., in 1837 TURNER, Oscar (father of Oscar Turner [1867-1902]), aand to Freeport, Ill., in 1838; studied law; was admitted to Representative from Kentucky; born in New Orleans, La.,the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Freeport; judge February 3, 1825; moved with his parents to Fayette County,of the probate court of Stephenson County in 1842; postmas- Ky., in 1826; completed preparatory studies; moved to Bal-ter of Freeport in 1844; State district attorney in 1845; estab- lard County, Ky., in 1843; was graduated from the law de-lished the first weekly newspaper (Prairie Democrat) in Ste- partment of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., inphenson County; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth 1962 Biographical Directory

Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,1849); member of theF, Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; member of the State house of representatives in 1854, serving as speaker;Pennsylvania National Guard 1896-1901, serving as second elected first mayor of Freeport, Ill., in 1855; delegate to thelieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain; employed as a car- peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in anpenter, grocery clerk, and a steamboat captain before grad- effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; enlist-uating from the dental department of the University of ed in the Union Army May 24, 1861, and served as colonel ofPennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1904; commenced the prac- the Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry; resignedtice of dentistry in Kingston, Pa., in 1905; member of the on account of ill health in 1862; member of the constitution-board of education 1916-1922; burgess of Kingston 1922- al convention in 1863; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for1926, and prothonotary of Luzerne County 1926-1929; elect- United States Senator in 1871; moved to Chicago in 1871 anded as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the resumed the practice of law; died at Hot Springs, Ark., Aprilvacancy caused by the death of John J. Casey; reelected to 4, 1874; interment in the City Cemetery, Freeport, Ill. the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Con- TURNEY, Hopkins Lacy, a Representative and a Senatorgresses and served from June 4, 1929, to January 3, 1937; from Tennessee; born at Dixon Springs, Smith County,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy- Tenn., October 3, 1797; apprenticed to the tailor's trade;fifthCongress; appointed assistant chief clerk, Luzerne served in the Seminole War in 1818; studied law; was admit-County assessor's office, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; died in Kingston, ted to the bar and commenced practice in Jasper, Tenn.;Pa., June 4, 1946; interment in Forty Fort Cemetery, Forty moved to Winchester, Tenn., and continued the practice ofFort, Pa. law; member, State house of representatives 1828-1838; TURPIN, Louis Washington, a Representative from Ala- elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, andbama; born in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., Feb- Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); elected to the United States Senate and served from Marchruary 22, 1849; his parents having died he moved to Ala- 4, 1845, to March 3, 1851; chairman, Committee on Retrench-bama with his sister and settled in Perry County in 1858; ment (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committeeself-educated; engaged in agricultural pursuits; tax assessor on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty-first Congress); re-of Hale County 1873-1880; chairman of the Democratic com- sumed the practice of law; died in Winchester, Tenn.,mittee of Hale County for six years; unsuccessful candidate August 1, 1857; interment in Winchester Cemetery. for nomination to the Forty-eighth Congress; presented cre- dentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-first Con- TURNEY, Jacob, a Representative from Pennsylvania;gress and served from March 4, 1889, to June 4, 1890, when born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., Februaryhe was succeeded by John V. McDuffie, who contested his 18,1825;completed preparatorystudies and attendedelection; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congress- Greensburg Academy; apprenticed as a printer; studied law;es (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice inrenomination; retired from politics and engaged in planting; Greensburg, Pa.; district attorney for Westmoreland Countydied in Greensboro, Ala., February 3, 1903; interment in the 1850-1855; member of the State senate 1858-1860 andwasCity Cemetery. elected president in 1859; unsuccessful candidate for State senator in 1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth TURRILL, Joel, a Representative from New York; born in and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879);Shoreham, Vt., February 22, 1794; attended the common again resumed the practice of law; died in Greensburg, Pa.,school; was graduated from Middlebury College in 1816; on October 4, 1891; interment in St. Clair Cemetery. studied law in Newburgh, N.Y.; moved to Oswego, Oswego County, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and com- TURPIE, David, a Senator from Indiana; born in Hamil-menced practice in Oswego; justice of the peace; county ton County, Ohio, July 8, 1828; graduated from Kenyon Col-judge 1828-1833; member of the State assembly in 1831; lege, Gambier, Ohio, in 1848; studied law; was admitted toelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty- the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Logansport, Cassfourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a County, md.; member, State house of representatives 1852,candidate for reelection in 1836; district attorney for Oswego 1858; judge of the court of common pleas 1854-1856; judge ofCounty 1838-1840; surrogate of Oswego County in 1843; the circuit court 1856; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedUnited States consul to the Sandwich Islands 1845-1850; States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion ofdied in Oswego, N.Y., December 28, 1859; interment in Riv- Jesse D. Bright and served from January 14 to March 3,erside Cemetery. 1863; moved to Indianapolis, md., in 1872 and continued the practice of law; member, State house of representatives, TUTEN, James Russell, a Representative from Georgia; serving as speaker 1874-1875; one of the three commission-born on a farm in Appling County, Ga., July 23, 1911; edu- ers to revise the laws of Indiana in 1878 and 1881; Unitedcated in county public schools, South Georgia College at States district attorney for Indiana 1886-1887; again electedDouglas, and Georgia Southern College at Statesboro; en- as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1887; reelectedgaged in farming, also as a teacher, bricklayer, businessman, in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1899;and building contractor; city commissioner, Brunswick, Ga., unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee1956-1962; mayor of Brunswick in 1958 and 1962; chairman, on Census (Fifty-third Congress); retired from public life;board of trustees, Brewton Parker College at Mount Vernon, died in Indianapolis, md., April 21,1909; interment inGa.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty- Crown Hill Cemetery. ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); unsuc- Bibliography: Turpie, David. Sketches of My Own Time. 1903. Reprint. cessful candidate for renomination in 1966; appointed as New York: AMS Press, 1975. cochairman of the Coastal Plains Regional Commission in TURPIN, Charles Murray, a Representative from Pennsyl 1967; died in Falls Church, Va., August 16, 1968; interment vania; born in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., March 4,in Palmetto Cemetery, Brunswick, Ga. 1878; attended the public and high schools and Wyoming TUTHILL, Joseph Hasbrouck (nephew of Selah Tuthill), a Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; served as a corporal in the UnitedRepresentative from New York; born in Blooming Grove, States Army during the Spanish-American War in CompanyOrange County, N.Y., February 25, 1811; attended common Biographies 1963 and private schools; moved with his parents to Shawangunk,lands 1839-1841; member of the Territorial council in 1842; Ulster County, N.Y., in 1824; engaged in mercantile anddelegate to the State constitutional convention in 1846; elect- agricultural pursuits; moved to New York City in 1828, anded as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress and served from continued his mercantile pursuits; moved to Ulsterville,March 4, 1847, until that portion of the Territory of Wiscon- N.Y., in 1832, where he engaged in business; moved to Ellen-sin in which he resided was admitted as a State into the yule, N.Y., in 1834; member of the Ulster County Board ofUnion on May 29, 1848; was not a candidate for renomina- Supervisors in 1842, 1843, 1861, 1862, 1865-1870; clerk oftion in 1848; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in Ulster County 1843-1847; served as president of the Ellen-1848; member of the State assembly in 1853; engaged in ville Glass Works; unsuccessful candidate for election inrailroad development and served as director of the Milwau- 1866 to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-secondkee & Mississippi Railroad and the Milwaukee & Watertown Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); died in Ellenville,Railroad; died in Milwaukee, Wis., November 12, 1891; inter- N.Y., July 27, 1877; interment in Fantinekill Cemetery, nearment in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Conn. Ellenville, N.Y. TWEEDY, Samuel, a Representative from Connecticut; TUTHILL, Selah (uncle of Joseph Hasbrouck Tuthill), aborn at Nine Partners, Dutchess County, N.Y., March 8, Representative from New York; born in Blooming Grove,1776; moved to Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn.; member of Orange County, N.Y., October 26, 1771; attended public andthe State house of representatives in 1818, 1820, and 1824; private schools; member of the State assembly from Ulsterserved in the State senate 1826-1828; held many local of- County in 1805 and from Orange County in 1820; elected tofices; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Con- the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821,gress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); died in Danbury,Conn., until his death in Goshen, N.Y., September 7, 1821; inter-on July 1, 1868; interment in Wooster Cemetery. ment in Riverside Cemetery, Marlboro, Ulster County, N.Y. TWICHELL, Ginery, a Representative from Massachu- TUTTLE, William Edgar, Jr., a Representative from Newsetts; born in Athol, Mass., August 26, 1811; attended the Jersey; born in Horseheads, Chemung County, N.Y., Decem- common schools; proprietor of several stagecoach lines; in ber 10, 1870; was graduated from Horseheads High School1848 engaged in railroading; president of the Boston & and Elmira Free Academy in 1887 and attended CornellWorcester Railway in 1857; delegate to the Republican Na- University, Ithaca, N.Y., for two years; was engaged in thetional Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to the lumber business in Westfield, N.J.; delegate to the Demo-Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, cratic National Convention in 1908 and 1916; elected as a1867-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congressesin 1872; president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail- (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate forway Co. 1870-1874; president of the Boston, Barre & Gard- reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed thener Railroad Co. 1873-1878; died in Brookline,Norfolk lumber business; United States commissioner to the PanamaCounty, Mass., July 23, 1883; interment in the Rural Ceme- Exposition in 1916; president of the State board of conserva- tion and development in 1919; State commissioner of bank-tery, Worcester, Mass. ing and insurance in 1921; died in Westfield, Union County, TWYMAN, Robert Joseph, a Representative from Illinois; N.J., February 11, 1923; interment in Maple Grove Ceme-born in Indianapolis, Marion County, md., June 18, 1897; tery, Horseheads, N.Y. attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; em- TWEED, William Marcy, a Representative from Newployed in foreign service by the Department of State; during York; born in New York City April 3, 1823; completed pre-the First World War served as an ensign in the United paratory studies; learned the trade of chair maker; alder-States Navy; employed by a public utility company in Guate- man in New York City in 1852 and 1853; elected as a Demo-mala, Central America, in 1919; accepted a commission in crat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3,the United States Navy in February 1941 and served until 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to theSeptember 1945; engaged in manufacturing and distributing Thirty-fourth Congress; school commissioner in 1856 andconstruction machinery; elected as a Republican to the 1857; member of the board of supervisors for New YorkEightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); un- County in 1858; defeated as the peace candidate for sheriffsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first in 1861; deputy street commissioner 1861-1870; elected toCongress; resumed business interests until retirement; died the State senate in 1867 and 1869, serving four years; againin West Palm Beach, Fla., June 28, 1976; interment in Rose- elected in 1871, but was not permitted to take his seat;hill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. commissioner of the department of public works in 1870; TYDINGS, Joseph Davies (adoptive son of Millard Evelyn tried in 1874 on charges of official embezzlement, foundTydings), a Senator from Maryland; born in Asheville, Bun- guilty, and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment; escapedcombe County, N.C., May 4,1928; attended the public in December 1875 and was captured in Spain; brought backschools of Aberdeen, Md.; graduated from McDonogh School to the United States on a man-of-war; again confined inin 1946, the University of Maryland in 1950, and the Univer- prison in New York City from November 23, 1876, until hissity of Maryland Law School in 1953; served in Army of death, April 12, 1878; interment in Greenwood Cemetery,Occupation, European Theater of Operations after the Brooklyn, N.Y. Second World War, corporal, Sixth Constabulary Regiment; Bibliography: DAB; Hershkowitz, Leo. Tweed s New York: Another Look. was admitted to the bar in 1952 and commenced thepractice Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press-Doubleday, 1977; Lynch, Denis Tilden. of law; member, Maryland house of delegates 1955-1961; "Boss" Tweed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. United States attorney for Maryland 1961-1963; United TWEEDY, John Hubbard, a Delegate from the TerritoryStates representative at the Interpol Conference in Helsinki, of Wisconsin; born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., No-Finland, and at the International Penal Conference in Bella- vember 9, 1814; was graduated from Yale College in 1834gio, Italy, in 1963; elected as a Democrat to the United and from the Yale Law School in 1836; was admitted to theStates Senate in 1964, and served from January 3, 1965, to bar in July 1836; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in October 1836January 3, 1971; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in and commenced practice; commissioner and receiver of canal1970; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia 1964 Biographical Directory

(Ninety-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for nomina-as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses tion in 1978 to the United States Senate; lawyer; is a resi-(March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for dent of Havre de Grace, Md. renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of his profession; TYDINGS, Millard Evelyn (father of Joseph Davies Tyd-again served in the State senate 1900-1904; elected judge of ings), a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; bornthe fourteenth judicial circuit of Virginia in 1904; reelected in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Md., April 6, 1890;in 1908 and 1912, and served until his death; died at "Sher- attended the public schools of Harford County; graduatedwood Forest," Charles City County, Va., September 5, 1927; from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University ofinterment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Maryland) in 1910; engaged in civil engineering with the TYLER, James Manning, a Representative from Vermont; Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in West Virginia in 1911; studiedborn in Wilmington, Windham County, Vt., April 27, 1835; law at the University of Maryland. Law School, Baltimore,attended the Brattleboro Academy and was graduated from Md.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inthe Law University of Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar Havre de Grace in 1913; member, State house of delegatesin September 1860 and commenced practice in Wilmington, 1916-1921; speaker of the house 1920-1922; served as a pri- vate on the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, Tex., 1916; enlist-Vt.; member of the State house of representatives in 1863 ed as a private in the First World War in 1917; promoted toand 1864; State's attorney in 1866 and 1867; trustee of the lieutenant colonel and division machine-gun officer in 1918; Vermont Asylum for the Insane 1875-1926; elected as a served in Germany with the Army of Occupation; discharged Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses from the service in 1919; author; member, State senate 1922- (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); declined to be a candidate for 1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of his profession ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not ain Brattleboro, Vt.; appointed a judge of the supreme court candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candi-of the State in September 1887 and served until his resigna- date for United States Senator; elected as a Democrat to thetion December 1, 1908; president of the Vermont National United States Senate in 1926, 1932, 1938, and again in 1944Bank 1917-1923; president of the Vermont-Peoples' National and served from March 4, 1927, to January 3, 1951; was anBank in 1923 and 1924; died in Brattleboro, Windham unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; chairman,County, Vt., October 13, 1926; interment in Prospect Hill Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions (Seventy-Cemetery. third through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committeeon TYLER, John (father of David Gardiner Tyler), a Repre- Armed Services (Eighty-first Congress); nominated in 1956 assentative and a Senator from Virginia, a Vice President and Democratic candidate for the United States Senate but with-10th President of the United States; born in Charles City drew before election due to ill health; engaged in theprac- tice of law in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.; died atCounty, Va., March 29, 1790; attended private schools and his farm, "Oakington," near Havre de Grace, Md., Februarygraduated from the College of William and Mary, Williams- 9, 1961; interment in Angel Hill Cemetery. burg, Va., in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Bibliography: DAB; Alexander, Holmes. "Millard E. Tydings: The Man 1809 and commenced practice in Charles City County; cap- From Maryland." In The American Politician. Edited by John Salter. pp. tain of a military company in 1813; member, State house of 124-37. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,1938; Grant, delegates 1811-1816; member of the council of state in 1816; Philip, Jr. "Maryland Press Reaction to the Roosevelt-Tydings Confronta- elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill tion." Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (Winter 1973): 422-37. the vacancy caused by the death of John Clopton; reelected TYLER, Asher, a Representative from New York; born into the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and served from Bridgewater, Oneida County, N.Y., May 10, 1798; was grad- December 16, 1817, to March 3, 1821; declined to be a candi- uated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1817; studieddate for renomination in 1820 because of impaired health; law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inmember, State house of delegates 1823-1825; Governor of Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., in 1836; agent of theVirginia 1825-1827; elected to the United States Senate in Devereaux Land Co., with headquarters at Ellicottville, and1827; reelected in 1833 and served from March 4, 1827, to subsequently served in a like capacity for the Erie Co.; heldFebruary 29, 1836, when he resigned; served as President several local offices; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighthpro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-third Con- Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); moved to Elmira ingress; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia 1846 and engaged in railroad operations; one of the incorpor-(Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on ators of the Elmira Rolling Mill Co.; died in Elmira, N.Y.,Manufactures (Twenty-third Congress); member of the State August 1, 1875; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830; member, State house of delegates 1839; elected Vice President of the United TYLER, David Gardiner (son of John Tyler), a Represent-States on the Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison in ative from Virginia; born in East Hampton, Long Island,1840; was inaugurated March 4, 1841, and served until the N.Y., July 12, 1846; completed preparatory studies in a pri-death of President Harrison April 4, 1841; took the oath of vate school in Charles City County, Va., and entered Wash-office as President of the United States April 6, 1841, and ington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lex-served until March 3, 1845; did not seek reelection; delegate ington, Va., in 1862, leaving there in 1863 to join the Confed-to and president of the peace convention held in Washing- erate Army; served as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery,ton, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the First Virginia Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia, surren-impending war; delegate to the Confederate Provisional Con- dering at Appomattox; went to Europe in October 1865 andgress in 1861; elected to the House of Representatives of the for two years attended the Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe,Confederate Congress, but died in Richmond, Va., January Grand Duchy of Baden; graduated from the law department18, 1862, before the assembling of the Congress; interment in of Washington College in 1869; was admitted to the bar inHollywood Cemetery. 1870 and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.; director of Bibliography: DAB; Chitwood, Oliver. John Tyler: Champion of the Old the State lunatic asylum in Williamsburg, Va., 1884-1887; South. 1939. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1969; Tyler, Lyon, served in the State senate in 1891 and 1892; member of theed. The Letters and the Times of the Tylers. 3 vols. 1884-1896. Reprint. board of visitors of the College of William and Mary; elected New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. Biographies 1965

TYNDALL, William Thomas, a Representative from Mis-city council in May 1889 and its president in May 1891, souri; born in Sparta, Christian County, Mo., January 16,resigning in October 1892, having been appointed to the 1862; attended the public schools, Henderson Academy atcircuit court; served as judge of the circuit court 1892-1898; Sparta, and Sparta Academy; engaged in teaching at Spartaassociate justice of the supreme court of Alabama 1898-1906, 1884-1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 andand served as chief justice from November 1906 to February commenced practice in Sparta; appointed postmaster of28, 1909, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Sparta, Mo., by President Harrison and served from MarchMontgomery, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sev- 23, 1891, to November 14, 1893; again appointed postmasterenth and Sixty-eighth Congresses, and served from March 4, by President McKinley, and served from December 8, 1897,1921, until his death in Rochester, Minn., on March 27, 1923; to January 7, 1905; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala. ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; TYSON,Lawrence Davis, a Senator from Tennessee; born resumed the practice of law in Sparta, Mo.; moved toon a farm near Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., July 4, 1861; Bartlesville, Okla., in 1912 and continued the practice of lawattended the county schools and Greenville Academy, and until his death there November 26, 1928; interment in agraduated from the United States Military Academy at West mausoleum in White Rose Cemetery. Point in 1883; took part in campaigns against the Apache TYNER, James Noble, a Representative from Indiana;Indians; professor of military science and tactics in the Uni- born in Brookville, Franklin County, md., January 17, 1826;versity of Tennessee at Knoxville 189 1-1895, and graduated pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Brook-in law from that university in 1894; resigned his commis- yule Academy in 1844; spent ten years in business; studiedsion, was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced prac- law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced prac-tice in Knoxville; volunteered in 1898 for service during the tice in Peru, md.; secretary of the State senate 1857-1861;Spanish-American War, and was appointed colonel of the special agent of the Post Office Department 186 1-1866; elect-Sixth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, which he ed as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill therecruited, trained, and took to Puerto Rico; was mustered vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-electout in 1899; engaged in the practice of law at Knoxville and Daniel D. Pratt; reelected to the Forty-second and Forty-later in manufacturing; brigadier general and inspector gen- third Congresses and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3,eral of the National Guard of Tennessee 1902-1908; member, 1875; appointed Second Assistant Postmaster General, serv-State house of representatives and served as speaker 1903- ing from February 26, 1875, to July 12, 1876, and as Post-1905; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the master General from July 12, 1876, to March 3, 1877; ap-United States Senate in 1913; volunteered for service at the pointed First Assistant Postmaster General, and served fromoutbreak of the First World War and was commissioned March 16, 1877, until his resignation on October 29, 1881;brigadier general in command of all National Guard troops delegate to the International Postal Congress at Paris inof Tennessee; later commissioned by President Woodrow 1878 and at Washington in 1897; Assistant Attorney GeneralWilson as a brigadier general and assigned to the Fifty-ninth for the Post Office Department from 1889 to 1893, and againBrigade, Thirtieth Division; trained troops at Camp Sevier, from 1897 to 1903; died in Washington, D.C., December 5,Greenville, S.C.; fought in France and Belgium and was 1904; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. discharged in 1919; resumed newspaper pursuits; was an TYSON,Jacob, a Representative from New York; born inunsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Staten Island, N.Y., October 8, 1773; attended the commonVice President in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United schools; moved to Richmond, N.Y.; studied law; was admittedStates Senate and served from March 4, 1925, until his to the bar and practiced; supervisor of the town of Castle-death in a sanitarium at Strafford, Pa., on August 24, 1929; town, Richmond County, 1811-1821; served as judge of Rich-interment in Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn. mond County 1822-1840; elected to the Eighteenth Congress Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 71st Cong., 1st (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); member of the State senate sess., 1929. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1930. in 1828; died in Staten Island, N.Y., July 16, 1848; interment in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Cemetery, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y. U TYSON,Job Roberts, a Representative from Pennsylva- UDALL, Morris King (brother of Stewart Lee Udall), a nia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 8, 1803; completedRepresentative from Arizona; born in St. Johns, Apache preparatory studies; taught school in Hamburg, Pa.; studiedCounty, Ariz., June 15, 1922; attended the public schools; law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced prac-enlisted as a private in the United States Army in 1942 and tice in Philadelphia, Pa.; also engaged in literary pursuits;discharged as a captain in the United States Army Air held several local offices; served in the State house of repre-Corps, with service in the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific sentatives; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth CongressTheater in 1946; graduated from the University of Arizona (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); died on his estate, "Wood-in 1949; studied law; began practice in Tucson in 1949; lawn," Montgomery County, Pa., June 27, 1858; interment incounty attorney for Pima County in 1953 and 1954; lecturer South Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. on labor law, University of Arizona College of Law,1956- TYSON,John Russell, a Representative from Alabama;1957; cofounder of the Bank of Tucson and the Catalina born in Lowndes County, Ala., November 28, 1856; attendedSavings and Loan Association; elected as a Democrat to the the public schools; was graduated from Howard College,Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election, May 2, 1961, to Marion, Ala., in 1877 and from Washington and Lee Univer-fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, sity, Lexington, Va., in 1879; studied law; was admitted toStewart Lee Udall; reelected to the thirteen succeeding Con- the Alabama bar in 1879 and commenced the practice of lawgresses and served from May 2, 1961, to January 3, 1989; in Hayneville, Ala.; member of the Alabama State house ofchairman, Committee on Interiorand InsularAffairs representatives in 1880; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1884(Ninety-fifth through One Hundredth Congresses); is a resi- and resumed the practice of law; elected a member of thedent of Tucson, Ariz. 1966 Biographical Directory

UDALL, Stewart Lee (brother of Morris King Udall), awith service overseas; studied law at Trinity College (now Representative from Arizona; born in St. Johns, ApacheDuke University) 1919-1921; was admitted to the bar in 1920 County, Ariz., January 31, 1920; attended the public schoolsand commenced practice in Durham, N.C., in 1921; prosecut- and the Eastern Arizona Junior College for one year; duringing attorney of the Durham County Recorders Court 1922- the Second World War enlisted and engaged in combat oper- 1926;solicitorof the tenth judicialdistrict1927-1933; ations over Europe as a gunner with the Fifteenth Air Forcemember of the board of trustees of the University of North until 1944; graduated from the law school of the UniversityCarolina; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seven- of Arizona at Tucson in 1948; was admitted to the bar inty-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-Janu- 1948 and commenced the practice of law in Tucson, Ariz.;ary 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938; trustee of School District 16 in 1954; elected as a Democratresumed the practice of law in Durham, N.C.; appointed to to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congressesthe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the and served from January 3, 1955, until his resignation Janu-death of Josiah W. Bailey and served from December 18, ary 18, 1961; appointed Secretary of the Department of the1946, to December 30, 1948; was an unsuccessful candidate Interior by President John F. Kennedy and took the oath offor the nomination to fill the vacancy and also for the full office January 21, 1961, and served until January 1969; con-term; resumed the practice of law; Governor of North Caroli- sultant; author; resumed the practice of law; is a resident ofna from January 1953 until his death in Durham, N.C., Phoenix, Ariz. November 7, 1954; interment in Mount Tabor Church Ceme- Bibliography: Leunes, Barbara Laverne Blythe. "The Conservation Phi- losophy of Stewart L. Udall, 1961-1968." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M tery in Mangum Township, Durham County, N.C. University, 1977; Udall, Stewart L. The Quiet Crisis. New York: Halt, Bibliography: Umstead, William Public Addresses, Letters and Papers of Rinehart and Winston, 1963. William Bradley Umstead. Raleigh: Council of State, 1957. UDREE, Daniel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; UNDERHILL, Charles Lee, a Representative from Massa- born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 5,1751; attended thechusetts; born in Richmond, Henrico County, Va., July 20, common schools; moved to Berks County and engaged in1867; moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who mercantile pursuits; member of the State house of represent-settled in Somerville; attended the common schools; was atives 1799-1805; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenthoffice boy, coal teamster, and blacksmith; subsequently en- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofgaged in the manufacture and sale of hardware in Somer- John M. Hyneman and served from October 12, 1813, toville, Middlesex County, Mass.; served in the State house of March 3, 1815; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 representatives in 1902, 1903, 1908-1913, 1917, and 1918; to the Fourteenth Congress; elected to the Sixteenth Con- member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the Hiester and served from December 26, 1820, to March 3,five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); 1821; elected to the Eighteenth Congress; subsequently elect- chairman, Committee on Claims (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth ed to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused byCongresses), Committee on Accounts (Seventy-first Congress); the death of Ludwig Worman and served from December 10,was not a candidate for renomination in 1932 to the Seven- 1822, to March 3, 1825; was not a candidate for renomina- ty-third Congress; engaged in real estate development in tion in 1824; resumed mercantile pursuits; died in Reading,Washington, D.C., from 1933 until he retired in 1941; died in Pa., July 15, 1828; interment in Oley Cemetery, Oley, Pa.New York City, January 28,1946; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. ULLMAN, Albert Conrad, a Representative from Oregon; born in Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., March 9, 1914; UNDERHILL, Edwin Stewart, a Representative from New attended the public schools in Snohomish, Wash; graduatedYork; born in Bath, Steuben County, N.Y., October 7, 1861; from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., in 1935; taughtattended the common schools of his native city and Haven- in Port Angeles (Wash.) High School 1935-1937; M.A., Co-ing High School at Bath; was graduated from Yale College, lumbia University, New York City, 1939; commissioned anin 1881; engaged in journalism and became editor of the ensign in the United States Navy in 1942, and served asSteuben Farmers' Advocate at Bath; presidential elector on communications officer in the South and Southwest Pacificthe Democratic ticket in 1888; became editor and publisher until December 1945; captain, United States Naval Reserve;of the Corning (N.Y.) Daily Democrat (later the Corning engaged in business since 1946 in Baker, Oreg.; elected as aEvening Leader) in 1899; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the eleven succeedingsecond and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3,1981); chairman,1915); chairman, Committee on Industrial Arts and Exposi- Joint Committee on Budget Control (Ninety-second andtions (Sixty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomi- Ninety-third Congresses), Committee on Budget (Ninety-nation in 1914; resumed the newspaper publishing business third Congress), Committee on Ways and Means (Ninety-in Corning, N.Y.; engaged in banking, serving as vice presi- fourth through Ninety-sixth Congresses), Joint Committeedent of the Farmers & Mechanics' Trust Co., Bath, N.Y.; on Internal Revenue Taxation (Ninety-fourth Congress),delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Houston, Joint Committee on Taxation (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixthTex., in 1928; died as the result of an automobile accident in Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 toCoopers, Steuben County, N.Y., February 7, 1929; interment the Ninety-seventh Congress; established a consulting firm in Grove Cemetery, Bath, N.Y. in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Falls Church, Va., until his death in Bethesda, Md., October 11, 1986. UNDERHILL, John Quincy, a Representative from New York; born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y., Feb- UMSTEAD, William Bradley, a Representative and a Sen- ruary 19, 1848; attended private and public schools and the ator from North Carolina; born on a farm in Mangum Town-College of the City of New York; engaged in the insurance ship, Durham County, N.C., May 13, 1895; attended thebusiness; village trustee of New Rochelle in 1877; elected county public schools and graduated from the University ofvillage president in 1878 and reelected in 1880; served as North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1916; taught school intown auditor; member of the board of education for several Kinston, N.C., in 1916 and 1917; during the First World Waryears; connected with the Westchester Fire Insurance Co. for served as a lieutenant in the United States Army 1917-1919,nineteen years, serving as president and treasurer; elected Biographies 1967 as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899- UNDERWOOD, Mel! Gilbert, a Representative from Ohio; March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination inborn at Rose Farm, Morgan County, Ohio, January 30, 1892; 1900; discontinued active business pursuits and lived in re-attended the public schools and was graduated from the tirement; died in New Rochelle, N.Y., May 21, 1907; inter-New Lexington High School in 1911; taught in the public ment in Beechwoods Cemetery. schools of New Lexington for several years; studied law at the Ohio State University at Columbus; was admitted to the UNDERHILL, Walter, a Representative from New York; born in New York City September 12, 1795; completed pre-bar in 1915 and commenced practice in New Lexington, paratory studies; trustee of the house of refuge; treasurer ofPerry County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Perry County New York City for several years; served on the board of1917-1921; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to Delinquents in the city of New York 1845-1866, serving asthe Sixty-eighth Congress and the six succeeding Congresses treasurer 1857-1866; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-firstand served from March 4, 1923, to April 10, 1936, when he Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); was not a candidateresigned, having been appointed a judge of the United States for renomination in 1850; president of the Mechanics &District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and served Traders' Insurance Co., New York City, from 1853 until hisuntil his retirement on June 30, 1967; chairman, Committee death in Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y., August 17, 1866;on Invalid Pensions (Seventy-second through Seventy-fourth interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. Congresses); died on his farm near New Lexington, Ohio, March 8, 1972; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. UNDERWOOD, John William Henderson, a Representa- tive from Georgia; born in Ellenton, Ga., November 20, 1816; UNDERWOOD, Oscar Wilder (grandson of Joseph Rogers completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted toUnderwood), a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Clarkesville, Ga.;born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., May 6, 1862; at- solicitor general of the western judicial circuit of Georgiatended the common schools, the Rugby School, Louisville, 1843-1847; delegate to the State constitutional convention inKy., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; stud- 1850; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1857;ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced member of the State house of representatives 1857-1859 andpractice in Birmingham, Ala.; presented credentials as a served as speaker; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixthDemocratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and Congress and served from March 4, 1859, to January 23,served from March 4, 1895, to June 9, 1896, when he was 1861, when he withdrew and joined the Confederacy; servedsucceeded by Truman H Aldrich, who contested his election; as brigade inspector during the Civil War; resumed the prac- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight tice of law in Rome, Ga.; judge of the superior court ofsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915); did Georgia 1867-1869 and 1873-1882; delegate to the Democrat- not seek renomination in 1914, having become a candidate ic National Convention in 1868; appointed by Presidentfor Senator; majority leader 1911-1915; chairman, Commit- Arthur in 1884 a member of the first United States Tarifftee on Ways and Means (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Con- Commission; died in Rome, Floyd County, Ga., on July 18,gresses); unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presiden- 1888; interment in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. tial nomination in 1912 and 1924; elected as a Democrat to UNDERWOOD, Joseph Rogers (brother of Warner Lewisthe United States Senate in 1914; reelected in 1920, and Underwood and grandfather of Oscar Wilder Underwood), aserved from March 4, 1915, to March 3, 1927; declined to be Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born ina candidate for reelection in 1926; minority leader 1920- Goochland County, Va., October 24, 1791; moved to Barren1923; chairman, Committee on Cuban Relations (Sixty-fourth County, Ky., in 1803 and lived with his uncle; attended theand Sixty-fifth Congresses); represented the United States as common schools and graduated from Transylvania College,a member of the Conference on Limitation of Armament in Lexington, Ky., in 1811; studied law in Lexington; served in1921 and 1922; represented the United States as a delegate the War of 1812 as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Regiment,to the Sixth International Conference of American States at Kentucky Infantry; was admitted to the bar in 1813 andHavana, Cuba, in 1928; retired to his estate, "Woodlawn commenced the practice of law in Glasgow, KY.; served asMansion," near Accotink, Fairfax County, Va., and engaged town trustee and county auditor until 1823; member, Statein literary pursuits until his death there on January 25, house of representatives1816-1819; moved to Bowling1929; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala. Green, Ky., in 1823; member, State house of representatives Bibliography: DAB; Johnson, Evans. Oscar W. Underwood: A Political 1825-1826; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980; Under- Kentucky in 1828; judge of the court of appeals 1828-1835;wood, Oscar W. Drifting Sand of Party Politics. New York: The Century elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and to the three Co., 1928. succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1843); de- UNDERWOOD, Thomas Rust, a Representative and a clined to be a candidate for renomination; resumed the prac-Senator from Kentucky; born in Hopkinsville, Christian tice of law; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844;County, Ky., March 3, 1898; attended the public schools; member, State house of representatives 1846, and served asgraduated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington in speaker; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and1917; started newspaper career in 1917; during the First served from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1853; was not aWorld War served in the Students Army Training Corps at candidate for reelection; member, State house of representa-the University of Kentucky in 1918; general manager of tives 1861-1863; resumed the practice of law and also en-Lexington (Ky.) Herald 1931-1935 and editor 1935-1956; gaged in agricultural pursuits; died near Bowling Green,member of the State planning board 1931-1935; secretary of Ky., August 23, 1876; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Bowl-the State racing commission 1931-1943, 1947-1948; secretary ing Green, Ky. of the National Association of State Racing Commissioners Bibliography: DAB; Priest, Nancy L. "Joseph Rogers Underwood: Nine- teenth Century Kentucky Orator." Register of the Kentucky Historical So- 1934-1948; assistant to the Director, Office of Economic Sta- ciety 75 (October 1977): 386-403; Stickles, Arndt M., ed. "Joseph R. Under- bilization 1943; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first wood's Fragmentary Journal of the New and Old Court Contest in Ken- Congress; reelected to the Eighty-second Congress and served tucky." Fil.son Club History Quarterly 13 (October 1939): 202-10. from January 3, 1949, until his resignation March 17, 1951; 1968 Biographical Directory

appointed to the United States Senate as a Democrat to fillfayette, Ind.; during the First World War served overseas as the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1955, caused bya sergeant with the Seventy-fourth Company, Sixth Regi- the death of Virgil M. Chapman, and served from March 19,ment, Second Division, United States Marines, 1916-1919; 1951, to November 4, 1952; unsuccessful candidate for elec-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1920; was graduated tion in 1952 to fill the vacancy; resumed editorial dutiesfrom the law department of Indiana University in 1923 and with the Lexington Herald; died in Lexington, Ky., June 29, commenced practice in Indianapolis, Ind.; member of the 1956; interment in Lexington Cemetery. State house of representatives 1923-1925; special judge of UNDERWOOD, Warner Lewis (brother of Joseph Rogersthe city of Indianapolis in 1923 and 1924; special judge of the Underwood), a Representative from Kentucky; born insuperior court of Marion County in 1925 and 1926; elected as Goochland County, Va., on August 7, 1808; completed pre-a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses paratory studies; moved to Kentucky in 1825; was graduated(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1829;reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; special at- studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-torney in the Bureau of Internal Revenue 1929-1933; re- tice in Bowling Green; Ky., in 1830; moved to Texas in 1834;sumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., and Wash- attorney general for the eastern district of Texas; returnedington, D.C., until March 2, 1942, when he was commis- to Bowling Green, Ky., in 1840; member of the State housesioned a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve; of representatives in 1848; served in the State senate 1849-served overseas in the South Pacific with the First Marine 1853; elected as the candidate of the American Party to theDivision, Fleet Marine Force, and was inactivated June 15, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-1945; resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., and March 3,1859); was not a candidate for renomination;Washington, D.C., until his retirement; died in Arlington, United States consul to Glasgow, Scotland, from July 17,Va., September 16, 1953; interment in Arlington National 1862, until September 30, 1864; returned to the United Cemetery. States and practiced law in San Francisco, Calif.; returned to UPHAM, Charles Wentworth (cousin of George Baxter Kentucky in 1866 and resumed the practice of law; died nearUpham and ), a Representative from Massa- Bowling Green, Ky., March 12, 1872; interment in Fairviewchusetts; born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, May 4, Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky. 1802; served as an apothecary's apprentice; worked on a UPDEGRAFF, Jonathan Taylor, a Representative fromfarm in Nova Scotia, immigrated to the United States in Ohio; born near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio,1816 and settled in Boston, Mass.; was graduated from the May 13, 1822; attended private schools and Franklin College; theological department of Harvard University in 1821; was studied medicine; was graduated from the University ofordained to the ministry and officiated in Salem, Mass., Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1845 and later from medical1824-1844; member of the State house of representatives schools in Edinburgh and Paris; practiced his profession, but 1840-1849; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits;Thirty-second Congress; mayor of Salem, Mass., in 1852; del- served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civilegate to the State constitutional convention in 1853; elected War; served in the State senate in 1872 and 1873; delegate toas a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- the Republican State convention in 1873 and to the Republi-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 can National Convention in 1876; elected as a Republican toto the Thirty-fourth Congress; member of the State senate in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served1857 and 1858, serving as president; again a member of the from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant,State house of representatives in 1859 and 1860; died in Ohio, November 30, 1882; chairman, Committee on Educa-Salem, Mass., on June 15, 1875; interment in Harmony tion and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress); had been reelectedGrove Cemetery. to the Forty-eighth Congress; interment in Updegraff Ceme- Bibliography: DAB. tery, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio; reinterment in Short UPHAM, George Baxter (brother of Jabez Upham and Creek Cemetery, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926. cousin of Charles Wentworth Upham), a Representative UPDEGRAFF, Thomas, a Representative from Iowa; bornfrom New Hampshire; born in Brookfield, Mass., December in Tioga County, Pa., April 3, 1834; attended private schools,27, 1768; attended the common schools and Phillips Exeter the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and an academy inAcademy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from Harvard Uni- Binghamton, N.Y.; clerk of the district court of Claytonversity in 1789; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1792 County, Iowa, 1856-1860; studied law; was admitted to theand commenced practice in Claremont, N.H.; solicitor for bar in 1860 and commenced practice in McGregor, Iowa;Cheshire County 1796-1804; elected as a Federalist to the member of the State house of representatives in 1878; elect-Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); declined to ed as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventhbe a candidate forreelection to the Eighth Congress; Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); unsuccessfulcan-member of the State house of representatives 1804-1813 and didate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress;again in 1815, serving as speaker of the house in 1809 and member of the board of education and city solicitor of1815; served in the State senate in 1814; resumed the prac- McGregor, Iowa; delegate to the Republican National Con-tice of law and also interested in banking; died in Clare- vention in 1888; elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, andmont, N.H., on February 10, 1848; interment in Pleasant Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1899);unsuc-Street Cemetery. cessful candidate for renomination in 1898; engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in McGregor, Iowa, UPHAM, Jabez (brother of George Baxter Upham, and on October 4, 1910; interment in Pleasant Grove Cemetery.cousin of Charles Wentworth Upham), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Brookfield, Mass., August 23, UPDIKE, Ralph Eugene, a Representative from Indiana;1764; was graduated from Harvard University in 1785; stud- born in Brookville, Franklin County, md., May 27, 1894;ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in attended the public schools of Whitcomb and Brookville,Sturbridge, Mass.; moved to Claremont, N.H., and thence to Dodds Army and Navy Academy, Washington, D.C., Colum-Brookfield, Mass., where he continued the practice of law; bia University, New York City, and Purdue University, La-member of the State house of representatives 1804-1806 and Biographies 1969 in 1811; elected as a Federalist to the Tenth and Eleventhcan to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Con- Congresses, and served from March 4, 1807, until his resig-gresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee nation in 1810; died in Brookfield, Mass., November 8, 1811; on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fortieth interment in New Cemetery, West Brookfield, Mass. Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; judge of the fifteenth circuit court from 1869 until his resig- UPHAM, Nathaniel, a Representative from New Hamp- shire; born in Deerfield, N.H., June 9, 1774; pursued classicalnation December 31, 1872; member of the commission to studies and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter,revise the State constitution in 1873; declined appointment N.H., in 1793; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Gilmantonas Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1876; mayor of the city in 1794, at Deerfield in 1796, at Portsmouth in 1801, and atof Coldwater in 1877; again a member of the State senate in Rochester in 1802 and afterward; member of the State house1880; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Cold- of representatives 1807-1809; governor's counselor in 1811water, Mich., September 5, 1885; interment in Oak Grove and 1812; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth CongressCemetery. and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses UPSON, Christopher Columbus, a Representative from (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); declined to be a candidate forTexas; born near Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., October renomination in 1822; returned to Rochester, N.H., and17, 1829; attended the common schools and Williams College, became interested in educational work; died in Rochester,Williamstown, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar N.H., July 10, 1829; interment in Old Rochester Cemetery.in 1851 and commenced practice in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1851; UPHAM, William, a Senator from Vermont; born inmoved to San Antonio, Tex., in 1854 and engaged in the Leicester, Mass., August 5, 1792; moved with his father topractice of law; during the Civil War served in the Confeder- Montpelier, Vt., in 1802; attended the district schools, theate Army as a volunteer aide, with the rank of colonel, on Montpelier Academy, and was privately tutored; studiedthe staff of Gen. W.H.C. Whiting; appointed by the Confeder- law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced prac-acy associate justice of Arizona in 1862; elected as a Demo- tice in Montpelier, Vt., in 1812; member, State house ofcrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by representatives 1827-1828; State's attorney for Washingtonthe death of Gustave Schleicher; reelected to the Forty-sev- County 1829; member, State house of representatives 1830;enth Congress and served from April 15, 1879, to March 3, elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1843;1883; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; re- reelected in 1849 and served from March 4, 1843, until hissumed the practice of law in San Antonio, Tex., and died death in Washington, D.C., January 14, 1853; chairman,there February 8, 1902; interment in Confederate Cemetery. Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-eighth Congress), Com- mittee on Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment in UPSON, William Hanford, a Representative from Ohio; the Congressional Cemetery. born in Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, on January 11, Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 33rd Cong., 1st sess., 1823; attended Tallmadge Academy, pursued classical stud- 1853-1854. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Globe Office, 1853. ies, and was graduated from Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, in 1842; studied law one year in the law UPSHAW, William David, a Representative from Georgia;department of Yale College and in Painesville, Ohio; was born near Newnan, Coweta County, Ga., October 15, 1866;admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in attended the country schools, the public schools of Atlanta,Akron, Ohio, in1846; prosecuting attorney of Summit Ga., and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; engaged in agricul-County 1848-1850; member of the State senate 1853-1855; tural and mercantile pursuits until physically incapacitateddelegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1864 by an accident; founded "The Golden Age," magazine atand 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1906; elected as a Democrat toForty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3,1873); the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresseschairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-second (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate forCongress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; renomination in 1926; vice chairman of the Scandinavianappointed associate justice of the supreme court of Ohio in Commercial Commission; nominated for President by the1883; elected judge of the circuit court of Ohio in 1884 and in 1932; unsuccessful candidate for theserved until 1894; resumed the practice of law; died in Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1942;Akron, Ohio, April 13, 1910; interment in Glendale Ceme- resumed his former pursuits as a lecturer, evangelist, andtery. writer; vice president of the Linda Vista Baptist Bible Col- lege and Seminary and member of the faculty, San Diego, UPTON, Charles Horace, a Representative from Virginia; Calif.; at the age of seventy-two was ordained a minister ofborn in Salem, Mass., August 23, 1812; attended the public the Baptist Church; died in Glendale, Calif., November 21,schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1952; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Maine, in 1834; moved to Falls Church, Va., in 1836 and Bibliography: DAB. engaged in agricultural and literary pursuits; held several local offices; presented credentials as a Unionist Member- UPSON, Charles, a Representative from Michigan; born inelect to the Thirty-seventh Congress under an election held Southington, Conn., March 19, 1821; attended the districton May 23, 1861, and served until February 27, 1862, when and select schools of Southington; taught school in Farming-the House declared he was not entitled to the seat; appoint- ton, Conn., 1840-1842; studied law at the Yale Law School ined by President Lincoln in 1863 United States consul to 1844; removed to Constantine, St. Joseph County, Mich., inSwitzerland and served from July 9, 1863, until his death in 1845; taught school in 1846 and 1847; deputy county clerk ofGeneva, Switzerland, June 17, 1877; interment in the Con- St. Joseph County in 1847; admitted to the bar in 1847 andgressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. commenced practice in Kalamazoo, Mich.; county clerk in 1848 and 1849; prosecuting attorney 1852-1854; member of UPTON, Frederick Stephen, a Representative from Michi- the State senate in 1855 and 1856; moved to Coldwater,gan; born in St. Joseph, Mich., April 23, 1953; attended St. Mich., in 1856 and continued the practice of law; member ofJoseph public schools and Shattuck School, Fairbault, Minn.; the State board of railroad commissioners in 1857; attorneyB.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975; aide to U.S. general of Michigan in 1861 and 1862; elected as a Republi- Representative David Stockman, 1976-1980; legislative as- 1970 Biographical Directory

sistant, 1981-1983, and director of legislative affairs, 1983-Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until 1985, Office of Management and Budget; elected as a Repub- his death in Westerly, R.I., November 3, 1912; interment in lican to the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-Riverbend Cemetery. January 3, 1989); is a resident of St. Joseph, Mich. UTTERBACK, Hubert (cousin of John Gregg Utterback), a UPTON, Robert William, a Senator from New Hampshire;Representative from Iowa; born on a farm near Hayesville, born in Boston, Mass., February 3, 1884; attended the publicKeokuk County, Iowa, June 28, 1880; attended the rural schools; graduated from Boston University Law School inschools and Hedrick (Iowa) Normal and Commercial College; 1907; admitted to the Massachusetts and New Hampshirewas graduated from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, in bars in 1907 and commenced practice in Concord, N.H.;1908; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1906 and member, State house of representatives 1911; delegate to thecommenced practice in Des Moines, Iowa; instructor in the New Hampshire State Constitutional Conventions in 1918,law department of Drake University 1908-1935; lecturer on 1930, 1938, and 1948, serving as president in 1948; appointedlaw, Still College, Des Moines, Iowa, 1911-1933; judge of as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill thepolice court of Des Moines 1912-1914; judge of the ninth vacancy caused by the death of Charles W. Tobey, andIowa judicial district 1915-1927; member of the Iowa State served from August 14, 1953, to November 7, 1954; unsuc-Conference of Social Work and served as chairman of the cessful candidate for nomination to fill the vacancy; resumedlegislative committee 1923-1925; served as an associate jus- law practice; member, Mixed Board, Clemency and Parole,tice of the State supreme court from December 5, 1932, to Bonn, Germany, 1956; special ambassador to Liberia in 1956; retired from law practice in 1970; died in Concord, N.H.,April 16, 1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth April 28, 1972; interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery. Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937); was not a candi- Bibliography: Upton, William "Robert W. Upton: A Recollection." His- date for renomination but was an unsuccessful candidate for torical New Hampshire 27 (Summer 1972): 108-14. nomination as United States Senator in 1936; chairman of the State parole board 1937-1940; State Democratic National URNER, Milton George (uncle of James Samuel Sim-committeeman 1937-1940; died in Des Moines, Iowa, on May mons), a Representative from Maryland; born in the Liberty12, 1942; interment in Glendale Cemetery. district, Frederick County, Md., July 29, 1839; attended the common schools, Freeland Seminary, Montgomery County, UTTERBACK, John Gregg (cousin of Hubert Utterback), a Pa., and Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa.; engaged inRepresentative from Maine; born in Franklin, Johnson teaching in his native county 1859-1862; studied law; wasCounty, Ind., July 12, 1872; attended the public schools of his admitted to the bar in 1863 and commenced practice innative city; employed in a carriage factory 1889-1892; en- Frederick, Md.; State's attorney for Frederick County 1871-gaged as a traveling salesman 1892-1905, during which time 1875; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-he resided in Jackson, Mich., Rochester, N.Y., and Winches- seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chair-ter, Mass.; settled in Bangor, Maine, in 1905 and engaged in man, Committee on Accounts (Forty-seventh Congress); wasthe retail sale of carriages and later in the retail sale of not a candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the prac-automobiles; served as councilman in 1912 and 1913, as al- tice of his profession in Frederick, Md.; became local attor-derman in 1913 and 1914, and as mayor of Bangor in 1914 ney for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in 1887; member ofand 1915; chairman of the Maine Motor Vehicle Conference the State senate 1888-1890; appointed naval officer at theCommittee in 1930; delegate to the Democratic National port of Baltimore by President Harrison in 1890; engaged inConvention in 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- banking and other business enterprises; trustee of severalthird Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3,1935); was an educational institutions; died in Frederick, Md., February 9,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy- 1926; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. fourth Congress; was appointed a United States marshal for UT'r, James Boyd, a Representative from California; bornthe district of Maine in 1935 and served until his resignation in Tustin, Orange County, Calif., March 11, 1899; attendedin 1944; resumed the automobile business and was president the public schools of Orange County, student at Santa Anaof the Utterback Corp.; died in Bangor, Maine, July 11, 1955; Junior College in 1942 and 1943; engaged in agricultural andinterment in Mount Hope Cemetery. citrus processing; served in the State assembly 1932-1936; inheritance tax appraiser in the State controller's office 1936-1952; graduated from the University of Southern Cali- V fornia Law School in 1946; was admitted to the bar in 1947 and commenced the practice of law in Santa Ana, Calif.; VAIL, George, a Representative from New Jersey; born in elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the eightMorristown, Morris County, N.J., July 21, 1809; completed succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1953, untilpreparatory studies; attended Morris Academy at Morris- his death in Bethesda, Md., March 1, 1970; interment intown; engaged in the manufacture of telegraph instruments; Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Calif. member of the State general assembly in 1843 and 1844; appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to represent the UTTER, George Herbert, a Representative from RhodeState at the World's Fair in London, England, in 1851; un- Island; born in Plainfield, Union County, N.J., July 24, 1854;successful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second moved with his parents to Westerly, R.I., in 1861; attendedCongress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and the public schools of Westerly and Alfred (N.Y.) Academy; Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); ap- was graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, inpointed February 3, 1858, by President James Buchanan, as 1877; engaged as a printer and newspaper publisher in West-consul to Glasgow, Scotland, and served until August 10, erly, R.I.; personal aide on the staff of Gov. A.O. Bourn1861; returned to the United States and settled in Morris- 1883-1885; member of the State house of representativestown, N.J., where he engaged in literary pursuits; member 1885-1889, serving as speaker the last year; served in theof the court of pardons; judge of the New Jersey Court of State senate 1889-1891; secretary of state of Rhode IslandErrors and Appeals 1865-1871; died in Morristown, N.J., 1891-1894; Lieutenant Governor in 1904; Governor of RhodeMay 23, 1875; interment in First Presbyterian Church Ceme- Island in 1905 and 1906; elected as a Republican to thetery. Biographies 1971

VAIL, Henry, a Representative from New York; born near VALENTINE, Itimous Thaddeus, Jr., (Tim), a Representa- Milbrook, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1782; received a limitedtive from North Carolina; born in Rocky Mount, Nash schooling; engaged in the retail mercantile business 1806-County, N.C., March 15, 1926; attended public schools in 1815 and in wholesale mercantile pursuits 1815-1832; electedNashville, N.C.; A.B., The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., 1948; as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-LL.B., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1952; March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838served in the United States Air Force, 1944-1946; admitted to the Twenty-sixth Congress; resumed his former businessto the North Carolina bar, 1952 and commenced practice in pursuits in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., and died thereNashville; member of North Carolina house of representa- June 25, 1853; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. tives, 1955-1960; chairman, North Carolina Democratic exec- VAIL, Richard Bernard, a Representative from Illinois;utive committee, 1966-1968; delegate, Democratic National born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., August 31, 1895; attendedConvention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- the public schools, the School of Commerce, the Chicagoeighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, Technical College, and the John Marshall Law School; 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Nashville, N.C. during the First World War served in the United States VALK, William Weightman, a Representative from New Army as a lieutenant of Infantry; engaged in the manufac-York; born in Charleston, S.C., October 12, 1806; attended ture of steel products; elected as a Republican to the Eighti-the local school and was graduated from the University of eth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessfulSouth Carolina at Columbia in 1830; studied medicine and candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress;commenced practice in Bridgeport, Conn.; served as assistant elected to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951-Jan-surgeon on the U.S. frigate Constellation; went to California uary 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952about 1849 during the gold rush; finally settled in Flushing, to the Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1954 to theLong Island, N.Y., and continued the practice of medicine Eighty-fourth Congress; chairman of the board of directors ofuntil elected to Congress; elected as a candidate of the the Vail Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill.; died in Chicago,American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, Ill., July 29, 1955; interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Worth, Ill. 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; during the Civil War was VAILE, William Newell, a Representative from Colorado;surgeon in the Second Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infan- born in Kokomo, Howard County, md., June 22, 1876; movedtry; appointed a clerk in the United States Pension Office at with his parents to Denver, Cob., in 1881; attended theWashington, D.C., in 1867 and served until his death in that public schools and was graduated from Yale University incity September 20, 1879; interment in Flushing Cemetery, 1898; during the Spanish-American War served as a privateFlushing, Queens County, N.Y. in the First Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Field VALLANDIGHAM, Clement Laird (uncle of John A. Artillery from May 19, 1898, to October 25, 1898; studied lawMcMahon), a Representative from Ohio; born in New Lisbon, at the University of Colorado and Harvard Law School; wasColumbiana County, Ohio, July 29, 1820; attended a classical admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced the practice ofschool conducted by his father and Jefferson College, Can- law in Denver, Cob.; served on the Mexican border fromonsburg, Pa.; moved to Maryland and for two years was a June 28 to December 1, 1916, as a second lieutenant in thepreceptor in Union Academy at Snow Hill; moved to New First Separate Battalion, National Guard of Colorado; elect-Lisbon, Ohio, in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar ed as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four suc-in 1842 and commenced practice in Dayton, Ohio; member of ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until histhe State house of representatives in 1845 and 1846; edited death in Rocky Mountain National Park, Cob., on July 2,the Western Empire 1847-1849; was an unsuccessful candi- 1927; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-date for election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress and in ment of the Treasury (Sixty-eighth Congress); interment in1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; delegate to the Demo- Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Cob. cratic National Convention in 1856, 1864, and 1868; success- VALENTINE, Edward Kimble, a Representative from Ne-fully contested as a Democrat the election of Lewis D. Camp- braska; born in Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, Junebell to the Thirty-fifth Congress; reelected to the Thirty- 1, 1843; attended the common schools; learned the trade of asixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from May printer; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army25, 1858, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- and served in the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteertion in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; arrested by the Infantry; promoted to second lieutenant and honorably dis-Union military authorities in 1863 for treasonable utterance charged; in the spring of 1863 reenlisted as a private in theand banished to the Confederate States; went from Wilming- Seventh Iowa Volunteer Cavalry; promoted to adjutant ofton, N.C., to Bermuda and thence to Canada, where he re- the regiment and served until June 1866; settled in Omaha,mained until June 1864; during his exile was an unsuccess- Nebr., in 1866; appointed register of the United States landful Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1863; un- office at West Point, Nebr., and served from May 17, 1869, tosuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate September 30, 1871; studied law; was admitted to the bar inin 1869; died in Lebanon, Ohio, June 17, 1871; interment in 1869 and commenced practice at West Point, Nebr.; electedWoodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. judge of the sixth judicial district in 1875; elected as a Re- Bibliography: DAB; Kiement, Frank L. The Limits of Dissent: Clement publican to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighthL. Vallandigham and the Civil War. Lexington: University Press of Ken- Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); chairman, Com- tucky, 1970. mittee on Agriculture (Forty-seventh Congress); declined to VAN AERNAM, Henry, a Representative from New York; be a candidate for renomination in 1884; Sergeant-at-Armsborn in Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.Y., March 11, 1819; of the United States Senate from June 30, 1890, to August 6,pursued an academic course; studied medicine at the Geneva 1893; resumed the practice of law in West Point, Nebr.;and Willoughby Medical Colleges and practiced his profes- moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1908 and lived in retirement untilsion; member of the State assembly in 1858; served in the his death April 11, 1916; interment in Union Ridge Ceme-Union Army as a surgeon in the One Hundred and Fifty- tery, Norwood Park, Ill. fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, from Sep- 1972 Biographical Directory tember 26, 1862, to November 5, 1864; elected as a Republi-crat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March can to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1843); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- 1865-March 3, 1869); appointed as Commissioner of Pensionspartment of State (Twenty-seventh Congress); resumed the May 1, 1869, and served until May 31, 1871, when he re- practice of law; district attorney of Ulster County 1846-1850; signed; elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con-died in Kingston, N.Y., January 16, 1855; interment in Old gresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); resumed the practiceHoughtaling Cemetery. of medicine in Franidinville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., and died there June 1, 1894; interment in Mount Prospect Ceme- VAN BUREN, Martin (half brother of James Isaac Van tery. Alen), a Senator from New York and a Vice President and 8th President of the United States; born in Kinderhook, VAN ALEN, James Isaac (half brother of Martin Van Columbia County, N.Y., December 5, 1782; attended the vil- Buren), a Representative from New York; born in Kinder-lage schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- hook, Columbia County, N.Y., in 1776; attended the commonmenced practice in Kinderhook, N.Y., in 1803; moved to schools; city clerk of Kinderhook 1797-1801; member of theHudson, N.Y., in 1809; surrogate of Columbia County 1808- State constitutional conventions in 1801 and 1803; justice of1813; member, State senate 1813-1820; attorney general of the peace 1801-1804; member of the State assembly in 1804;New York 1816-1819; delegate to the State constitutional surrogate of Columbia County 1804-1808 and 1815-1822;convention in 1821; elected to the United States Senate; elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4,reelected in 1827, and served from March 4,1821, until 1807-March 3, 1809); died in Newburgh, N.Y., on DecemberDecember 20, 1828, when he resigned, having been elected 23, 1870; interment in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook,Governor; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eight- N.Y. eenth through Twentieth Congresses); Governor of New VAN ALEN, John Evert, a Representative from NewYork from January to March 1829, when he resigned to York; born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., in 1749;enter the Cabinet; appointed Secretary of State in the Cabi- completed preparatory studies; moved to De Freestville innet of President Andrew Jackson and served from March 1778 and engaged in extensive farming operations; surveyed1829, until his resignation, effective May 1831, when he was the town of Greenbush in 1790 and conducted a generalcommissioned Minister to Great Britain; the Senate rejected store there; engaged in civil engineering and surveying; as- his nomination in January 1832, and he returned to the sistant court justice in Rensselaer County in 1791; elected toUnited States; elected, as a Democrat, Vice President of the the Third Congress and reelected as a Federalist to theUnited States on the ticket with Andrew Jackson and served Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1793,from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1837; elected, as a Demo- to March 3, 1799; member of the State assembly in 1800 andcrat, President of the United States and served from March 1801; died in March 1807. 1837, to March 3, 1841; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- tion as President on the Democratic ticket in 1840 and on VAN ALSTYNE, Thomas Jefferson, a Representativethe Free-Soil ticket in 1848; withdrew from political life and from New York; born in Richmondville, Schoharie County,retired to his country home, "Lindenwald," in Kinderhook, N.Y., July 25, 1827; attended the common schools, MoraviaN.Y., where he died July 24, 1862; interment in Kinderhook (N.Y.) Academy, and Hartwick (N.Y.) Seminary, and wasCemetery. graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1848; Bibliography: DAB; Cole, Donald. Martin Van Buren and the American studied law in Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1849 Political System.Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press,1984; Remini, and commenced practice in that city; served as judge advo- Robert. Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party. New cate with the rank of major during the Civil War; judge of York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Albany County 1871-1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuc- VANCE, John Luther, a Representative from Ohio; born cessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninthin Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, July 19, 1839; attended Congress; resumed the practice of law; mayor of Albany,the public schools and Gallia Academy, Ohio; was graduated N.Y., 1898-1900; died in Albany, N.Y., October 26, 1903;from the Cincinnati Law School in April 1861, and was interment in the Rural Cemetery. admitted to the bar the same year; enlisted in April 1861 in the Union Army and served successively as captain, major, VAN AUKEN, Daniel Myers, a Representative from Penn-and lieutenant colonel in the Fourth Regiment, West Virgin- sylvania; born in Montague, Sussex County, N.J., Januaryia Volunteer Infantry; mustered out in December 1864; es- 15, 1826; attended the common schools and Deckertowntablished and published the Gallipolis Bulletin in 1867; com- Academy; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady,menced the practice of law in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1870; dele- N.Y., in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the Pennsylvaniagate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; elected bar in 1855 and commenced the practice of law in Milford,as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- Pa.; served as prosecuting attorney of Pike County 1855-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 1859; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-firstto the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed his former newspaper Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); was not a candi-pursuits; president of the Ohio River Improvement Associa- date for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress;tion from shortly after 1877 until his death; died in Gallip- resumed the practice of law in Milford, Pa.; served as dis-ohs, Ohio, on June 10, 1921; interment in Pine Street Ceme- trict attorney of Pike County, Pa., 1893-1896 and 1899-1903;tery. continued the practice of law until his death in Milford, Pa., on November 7, 1908; interment in Milford Cemetery. VANCE, Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cat- fish (now Washington), Washington County, Pa., March 21, VAN BUREN, John, a Representative from New York;1786; moved with his father to Vanceburg, Ky., in 1788 and born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., May 13, 1799; wasto Urbana, Ohio, in 1805; engaged in agricultural pursuits; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1818;captain of a rifle company in 1811 and 1812; during the War studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-of 1812 served successively as major, colonel, brigadier gen- tice in Kingston, N.Y.; member of the State assembly ineral, and major general of Ohio Militia; member of the State 1831; judge of Ulster County 1836-1841; elected as a Demo-house of representatives in 1812, 1813, 1815, 1816, 1818, and Biographies 1973

1819; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820;Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candi- engaged in mercantile pursuits at Urbana and Perrysburg,date for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; re- Ohio; laid out the city of Findlay in Hancock County; electedsumed his former business pursuits; labor commissioner of to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected to the EighteenthConnecticut 1893-1895; mayor of New Britain, Conn., in 1896 through Twenty-second Congresses and reelectd as an Anti-and 1897; delegate to the State constitutional convention in Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1821-1902; died in Montreat, N.C., June 15, 1902; interment in March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Military AffairsFairview Cemetery, New Britain, Conn. (Nineteenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; Governor of Ohio VANCE, Zebulon Baird (nephew of Robert Brank Vance 1836-1838; member of the State senate 1840-1841; elected as[1793-1827] and brother of Robert Brank Vance [1828-1899]), a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congressesa Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born (March 4, 1843-March 3,1847); chairman, Committee onon Reems Creek, near Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., Claims (Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), Com-May 13, 1830; attended the common schools of Buncombe mittee on Manufactures (Twenty-ninth Congress); was not aCounty, and Washington (Tenn.) College; studied law at the candidate for renomination in 1846; delegate to the WhigUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted National Convention in 1848; delegate to the State constitu-to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Asheville, tional convention in 1851; died near Urbana, ChampaignN.C.; elected prosecuting attorney of Buncombe County in County, Ohio, August 24, 1852; interment in Oak Dale Ceme-1852; member, State house of commons 1854; elected as a tery. Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas L. Clingman; reelected VANCE, Robert Brank (uncle of Robert Brank Vanceto the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from December 7, [1828-1899] and ), a Representative1858, to March 3, 1861; during the Civil War entered the from North Carolina; born on Reems Creek, near Asheville,Confederate Army as a captain and was promoted to the Buncombe County, N.C., in 1793; attended the commonrank of colonel; Governor of North Carolina 1862-1866; ar- schools and Newton Academy, Asheville, N.C.; studied medi-rested and imprisoned in Washington, D.C., in 1865 for Con- cine at the medical school of Dr. Charles Harris in Cabarrusfederate activities; elected as a Democrat to the United County, N.C.; commenced the practice of medicine in Ashe-States Senate in November 1870, but did not present his ville, N.C., in 1818; held several local offices; elected to thecredentials; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); unsuc-to the United States Senate in 1872; Governor of North cessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the NineteenthCarolina 1876-1878; elected as a Democrat to the United Congress and for election in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress;States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1884 and 1890, and served was mortally wounded by Hon. Samuel P. Carson, the suc-from March 4, 1879, until his death in Washington, D.C., cessful candidate, who challenged him to a duel, fought atApril14,1894; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills Saluda Gap, N.C., because of a derogatory remark made(Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elec- during the campaign of 1826, to the effect that the latter'stions (Fifty-third Congress); funeral services were held in the father had turned Tory during the Revolutionary War; diedChamber of the United States Senate; interment in River- the following day near Saluda Gap, N.C., 1827; interment inside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C. the family burial ground on Reems Creek, near Asheville, Bibliography: DAB; Shirley, Franklin Zebulon Vance, Tarheel Spokes- N.C. man. Charlotte, NC.: McNally and Loftin, 1963; Tucker, Glenn. Zeb Vance: VANCE, Robert Brank (nephew of Robert Brank Vance Champion of Personal Freedom. Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill, 1966. [1793-1827] and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance), a Repre- VAN CORTLANDT, Philip (brother of Pierre Van Cort- sentative from North Carolina; born on Reems Creek, nearlandt, Jr.), a Representative from New York; born in New Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., April 24, 1828; attendedYork City August 21, 1749; pursued classical studies; attend- the common schools; engaged in mercantile and agriculturaled Coldenham Academy and was graduated from King's Col- pursuits; clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessionslege (later Columbia University) in 1768; engaged as a civil 1848-1856; during the Civil War was elected captain of aengineer; member of the Provincial Congress in 1775; during company in the Confederate Army; twice elected colonel ofthe Revolutionary War served as lieutenant colonel and was the Twenty-ninth North Carolina Regiment; appointed brig-mustered out of the service with the rank of brigadier gener- adier general in 1863; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-al for gallant conduct at the siege of Yorktown under Gener- third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-al Lafayette; delegate to the State ratification convention in March 3,1885); chairman, Committee on Patents (Forty-1788; served as supervisor of the town of Cortland, and as fourth through Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth Congresses); un-school commissioner and road master; member of the State successful candidate for renomination in 1884 to the Forty-assembly 1788-1790; served in the State senate 1791-1793; ninth Congress; United States Assistant Commissioner ofelected to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican Patents from April 11, 1885, to April 4, 1889, when he re-to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, signed; returned to North Carolina and settled in Alexander;1809); engaged inagricultural pursuits; was a charter member of the State house of representatives 1894-1896;member of the Society of the Cincinnati; died at Van Cort- died in Alexander, near Asheville, N.C., November 28, 1899;landt Manor, Croton on Hudson, Westchester County, N.Y., interment in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C. on November 21,1831; interment in Hillside Cemetery, VANCE, Robert Johnstone, a Representative from Con-Peekskill, N.Y. necticut; born in New York City, March 15, 1854; attended VAN CORTLANDT, Pierre, Jr. (brother of Philip Van the common schools; moved to New Britain, Conn., in 1870;Cortlandt), a Representative from New York; born at Van attended the high school; city clerk of New Britain fromCortlandt Manor, Croton, Westchester County, N.Y., August 1878 until his resignation in 1887, having been elected a29, 1762; pursued classical studies; was graduated from Representative; became editor and publisher of the NewQueen's College (later Rutgers College), New Brunswick, Britain Herald in 1881; member of the State house of repre-N.J., in 1783; studied law in the office of Alexander Hamil- sentatives in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftiethton; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice; re- 1974 Biographical Directory tired from his law practice and devoted his time managinglowship, 1956; bachelor of laws degree from University of his estate in Westchester County; member of the State as-Michigan in 1960; practiced law in Grand Rapids, Mich., sembly in 1811 and 1812; elected as a Republican to the1960-1964; Michigan State senate,Thirty-sixthDistrict, Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); presiden-1965-1966; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Con- tial elector on the Harrison ticket in 1840; founded and wasgress, by special election, November 8, 1966, to fill the va- president of the Westchester County Bank at Peekskill,cancy caused by the resignation of Robert P. Griffin, and at N.Y., from 1833 until his death there July 13, 1848; inter-the same time elected to the Ninetieth Congress; reelected to ment in Hillside Cemetery. the ten succeeding Congresses and served from November 8, Bibliography: DAB. 1966, to January 3,1989; is a resident of Luther, Mich. VAN DEERLIN, Lionel, a Representative from California; VANDERPOEL, Aaron, a Representative from New York; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 25,born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y., February 5, 1914; attended the public schools at Oceanside, Calif.; B.A.,1799; pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to University of Southern California at Los Angeles, 1937; stud-the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Kinderhook, ied journalism; served with the Field Artillery and Stars andN.Y.; member of the State assembly 1826-1830; elected as a Stripes newspaper, United States Army, as a staff sergeantJacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congress- from 1941 to 1945, with overseas service in the Mediterrane-es (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); unsuccessful candidate for an Theater; engaged in work as a newsman, 1937-1951; radioreelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a and television news editor and analyst, 1952-1961; delegate,Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839- Democratic National Convention, 1964; elected as a Demo-March 3, 1841); retired from Congress and settled in New crat to the Eighty-eighth and to the eight succeeding Con-York City; judge of the superior court 1842-1850; died in gresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful can-New York City July 18, 1870; interment in Woodlawn Ceme- didate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; professor emeritus, San Diego State University; columnist,tery. San Diego Evening Tribune; is a resident of Vista, Calif. VANDER VEEN, Richard Franklin, a Representative from Michigan; born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Mich., VANDENBERG, Arthur Hendrick, a Senator from Michi-November 26, 1922; attended the public schools; graduated gan; born in Grand Rapids, Mich., March 22, 1884; attendedfrom Muskegon High School, Muskegon, Mich., 1940; B.S., the public schools and studied law at the University ofUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, 1946; LL.B., Har- Michigan at Ann Arbor; editor and publisher of the Grandvard Law School, 1949; enlisted in the United States Navy Rapids Herald 1906-1928; author; appointed as a RepublicanJanuary 1941, served until 1946, with active duty in the to the United States Senate on March 31, 1928, to fill theSouth Pacific Theater; also served in the Korean Conflict, vacancy caused by the death of Woodbridge N. Ferris, andlieutenant (jg.), 1950-1952; admitted to the Michigan bar in on November 6, 1928, was elected to fill this vacancy and1949 and commenced practice in Grand Rapids; chairman, also for the term ending January 3, 1935; reelected in 1934,Michigan Fifth District Democratic Party, 1959; delegate, 1940, and again in 1946, and served from March 31, 1928,Michigan State Democratic conventions, 1962, 1964; chair- until his death; served as President pro tempore of theman, Michigan State Democratic convention, 1960; presi- Senate during the Eightieth Congress; chairman, Committeedent, Vander Veen, Freihofer & Cook, P.C.; elected to East on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-second Congress), Republican Con-Grand Rapids Board of Education, 1969-1974; served on the ference (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Foreign Re- lations (Eightieth Congress); delegate to the United NationsMichigan State Mental Health Commission, 1958-1963, and Conference at San Francisco in 1945; delegate to the UnitedMichigan State Highway Commission, 1964-1969; elected as Nations General Assembly at London and New York ina Democrat to the Ninety-third Congress, by special election, 1946; United States adviser to the Council of Foreign Minis-February 18, 1974, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- ters at London, Paris, and New York in 1946; delegate totion of United States Representative Gerald R. Ford; reelect- Pan American Conference at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1947;ed to the Ninety-fourth Congress and served from February died in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 18, 1951; interment in18, 1974, until January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for Oak Hill Cemetery. reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; unsuccessful Bibliography: DAB; Tompkins, C. David. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in The Evolution of a Modern Republican, 1884-1945. Lansing: Michigan 1978; member, Michigan State Waterways commission, 1984 State University Press,1970; Vandenberg, Arthur H., Jr., and Morris, to present; president, Resource Energy Company; is a resi- Joseph A., eds. The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg. 1952. Reprint. dent of Grand Rapids, Mich. West Port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974. VANDERVEER, Abraham, a Representative from New VANDERGRIFF, Tommy (Tom) Joe, a RepresentativeYork; born in Kings County, N.Y., in 1781; attended the from Texas; born in Carroliton, Dallas County, Tex., Janu-common schools; county clerk of Kings County 1816-1821 ary 29, 1926; attended public schools of Carrollton and Ar-and 1822-1837; upon its organization was elected treasurer lington, Tex.; B.A., University of Southern California, Losof the Brooklyn Savings Bank; elected as a Democrat to the Angeles, 1947; automobile dealer; insurance agency owner;Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); was elected, mayor of Arlington, Tex., 1951-1977; elected as anot a candidate for renomination in 1838; died in Brooklyn, Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress (January 3, 1983- N.Y., July 21, 1839; interment in Reformed Dutch Cemetery. January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress; resumed his automobile business; is VANDEVER, William, a Representative from Iowa and a resident of Arlington, Tex. from California; born in Baltimore, Md., March 31, 1817; attended the common schools and pursued an academic VANDER JAGT, Guy Adrian, a Representative fromcourse; moved to Illinois in 1839 and to Iowa in 1851; studied Michigan; born in Cadillac, Wexford County, Mich., Augustlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced prac- 26, 1931; attended Cadillac High School, 1945-1949; graduat-tice in Dubuque, Iowa; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- ed from Hope College in 1953; bachelor of divinity degreesixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from March from Yale University in 1955; Bonn University, Rotary Fe!-4, 1859, to September 24, 1861, when he was mustered into Biographies 1975 the Union Army as colonel of the Ninth Regiment, Iowapractice; elected commander in chief of the United Spanish Volunteer Infantry, never having resigned his seat in Con-War Veterans September 6, 1918; elected as a Democrat to gress; promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers in 1862the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and and brevetted a major general in 1865; member of the peaceserved from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington, convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort toD.C., May 20, 1919; interment in a mausoleum in Forest devise means to prevent the impending war; resumed theCemetery, St. Paul, Minn. practice of law in Dubuque, Iowa; appointed United States Indian inspector by President Grant in 1873, and served VAN DYKE, John, a Representative from New Jersey; until 1877; moved to San Buenaventura, Calif., in 1884; elect-born in Lamington, Somerset County, N.J., April 3, 1807; ed as a Republican from California to the Fiftieth and Fifty-completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not athe bar in 1836 and commenced practice in New Brunswick, candidate for renomination in 1890; died in Ventura, Calif.,N.J.; prosecuting attorney of Middlesex County in 1841; July 23, 1893; interment in Ventura Cemetery. mayor of New Brunswick in 1846 and 1847; president of the Bank of New Jersey at New Brunswick; elected as a Whig to VANDIVER, Willard Duncan, a Representative from Mis-the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847- souri; born near Moorefield, Hardy County, Va. (now WestMarch 3, 1851); declined to be a candidate for renomination Virginia), March 30, 1854; moved to Missouri with his par-in 1850; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the Répub- ents, who settled on a farm in Boone County in 1857, and tolican National Convention in 1856; judge of the New Jersey Fayette in 1872; attended the common schools, and wasSupreme Court 1859-1866; moved to Minnesota in 1868 and graduated from Central College, Fayette, Mo., in 1877; stud-settled in Wabasha, Wabasha County; member of the State ied law; professor of natural science in Bellevue Institute,senate in 1872 and 1873; judge of the third judicial district of Caledonia, Mo., 1877-1880, and served as its president 1880-Minnesota 1873-1878; died in Wabasha, Minn., December 24, 1889; accepted the chair of science in the State normal1878; interment in Riverview Cemetery. school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1889, and became its president in 1893 and served until 1897; delegate to the VAN DYKE, Nicholas (father of Nicholas Van Dyke Democratic State conventions in 1896, 1898, 1918, and 1920[1770-1826]), a Delegate from Delaware; born in New Castle and served as chairman in 1918; elected as a Democrat toCounty, Del., September 25, 1738; studied law in Philadel- theFifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congressesphia, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1765 and commenced (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); was not a candidate forpractice in New Castle County; delegate to the State consti- renomination in 1904; chairman of the State executive com-tutional convention in July 1776; elected a member of the mittee in 1904; State insurance commissioner of MissouriCouncil of Delaware in 1777, serving as speaker in 1779; 1905-1909; vice president of the Central States Life Insur-appointed judge of admiralty February 21, 1777; Member of ance Co. 1910-1912; Assistant Treasurer of the United Statesthe Continental Congress 1777-1781; a signer of the Articles 1913-1921; settled on a farm near Columbia, Mo., and en-of Confederation; served as President of Delaware from Feb- gaged in agricultural pursuits and lecturing; is credited withruary 1,1783, to October 27, 1786; died in New Castle the authorship of the famous expression "I'm from Missouri,County, Del., February 19, 1789; interment in Immanuel you've got to show me"; died in Columbia, Mo., May 30,Churchyard, New Castle, Del. 1932; interment in the Columbia Cemetery. 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VAN DUZER, Clarence Dunn, a Representative from VAN DYKE, Nicholas (son of Nicholas Van Dyke [1738- Nevada; born near Mountain City, Nev., May 4, 1866; at-1789]), a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born tended public and private schools in Nevada and California,in New Castle, Del., December 20, 1770; graduated from the and the University of California at Berkeley; was graduatedCollege of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1788; from the State University of Nevada at Reno in 1889, andstudied law; was admitted to the bar in New Castle, Del., in from the law department of Georgetown University, Wash-1792 and commenced the practice of law; member, State ington, D.C., in 1893; was admitted to practice before thehouse of representatives 1799; elected as a Federalist to the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1893; appointedTenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation by the Governor of Nevada in 1892 State land agent withof James M. Broom; reelected to the Eleventh Congress, and residence in Washington, D.C., and served until 1897; servedserved from October 6, 1807, to March 3, 1811; member, as private secretary to Senator Francis G. Newlands for fiveState senate 1815-1816; elected as a Federalist to the United years; returned to Nevada and became interested in mining;States Senate in 1817; reelected in 1823, and served from elected district attorney of Humboldt County in1898; March 4, 1817, until his death in New Castle, Del., on May member of the State house of representatives 1900-1902 and21, 1826; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Sixteenth Con- served as speaker; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighthgress); interment in Immanuel Churchyard. and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); Bibliography: DAB. was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed his mining interests until 1922 when he moved to Passaic, N.J., VAN EATON, Henry Smith, a Representative from Missis- and engaged in newspaper work; died in Passaic, N.J., Sep-sippi; born in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, tember 28, 1947; remains were cremated and the ashes scat-September 14, 1826; was graduated from Illinois College, tered on the Humboldt River near Winnemucca, Nev. Jacksonville, Ill., in 1848; moved to Woodville, Miss., in 1848; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 VAN DYKE, Carl Chester, a Representative from Minne-and commenced practice in Woodville, Wilkinson County; sota; born in Alexandria, Douglas County, Minn., Februaryelected district attorney in 1857; member of the State house 18, 1881; attended the common and high schools of Alexan-of representatives in 1859; enlisted in the Confederate Army dria; taught school in Douglas County 1899-1901; during theand served throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice Spanish-American War served as a private in Company B,of law in Woodville, Miss., in 1865; appointed chancellor of Fifteenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry; wasthe tenth Mississippi district in 1880; elected as a Democrat graduated from the St. Paul Law School; was admitted toto the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, the bar at St. Paul in 1916, but did not engage in extensive 1883-March 3, 1887); appointed by President Cleveland a 1976 Biographical Directory member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Navalfourth Congress and served from February 27, 1896, to Academy at Annapolis in 1887; member of a commission toMarch 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in examine and report upon the last completed portion of the1896; retired from editorship of the Kansas City Journal in Northern Pacific Railroad in 1888; died in Woodville, Miss.,1897; died on his estate, "Honeywood," at Evanston Station, May 30, 1898; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. near Kansas City, Mo., January 3, 1916; interment in Mount VAN GAASBECK, Peter, a Representative from NewWashington Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo. York; born in Ulster County, N.Y., September 27, 1754; at- Bibliography: DAB. tended the grammar schools and became a man of promi- VAN HORNE, Archibald, a Representative from Mary- nence in the county and State; engaged in mercantile pur-land; appointed adjutant of the Fourteenth Regiment of the suits in Kingston, N.Y.; was a captain and major in the Maryland Militia, April 18, 1798; commissioned captain May Ulster County Militia during the Revolutionary War; elected26, 1802; member of the State house of delegates 1801-1803 to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); died inand 1805, and served as speaker in the latter year; resigned Kingston, N.Y., in 1797; interment in First Reformed DutchNovember 11, 1805; elected as a Republican to the Tenth Churchyard. and Eleventh Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3,1811); VAN HORN, Burt, a Representative from New York; bornchairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eleventh Con- in Newfane, Niagara County, N.Y., October 28, 1823; wasgress); again a member of the State house of delegates 18 14- raised on a farm; attended the common schools, Yates Acad-18 16; elected to the State senate in 1816 and served until his emy in Orleans County, Hamilton College (now Colgate Uni-death in Prince Georges County, Md., in 1817. versity), Hamilton, N.Y.; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Niagara County, and later in the manufacture of cloth; VAN HORNE, Espy, a Representative from Pennsylvania; member of the State assembly 1858-1860; elected as a Re-born in Lycoming County, Pa., in 1795; elected to the Nine- publican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-teenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, March 3,1863); elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth1829); died in Williamsport, Pa., August 25, 1829. Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); was not a candi- VAN HORNE, Isaac, a Representative from Pennsylvania; date for renomination in 1868; moved to Lockport, N.Y., inborn in Tollbury Township, Bucks County, Pa., January 13, 1867; resumed farming and also engaged in the loaning of1754; apprenticed as a carpenter and cabinetmaker; elected money; collector of internal revenue at Rochester, N.Y.,ensign of a company of militia in 1775; appointed ensign in 1877-1882; died in Lockport, N.Y., April 1, 1896; intermentthe Continental Army by the committee of safety and in in Glenwood Cemetery. January 1776 was assigned to Capt. John Beatty's Company VAN HORN, George, a Representative from New York;in Col. Samuel McGaw's Regiment; held as a born in Otsego, Otsego County, N.Y., February 5, 1850; at-from November 1776 to May 1778 when he was exchanged; tended the common schools, the Cooperstown Seminary, andserved as first lieutenant, captain lieutenant, and captain the New Berlin Academy; studied law; was admitted to theuntil the close of the Revolutionary War; justice of the peace bar in February 1871 and practiced in Cooperstown, N.Y.;for Tollbury Township for several years; coroner of Bucks elected clerk of Otsego County in 1881 and reelected in 1884;County four years; member of the State house of representa- elected supervisor of Otsego, and twice reelected; member oftives in 1796 and 1797; declined to be a candidate for reelec- the Democratic county committee; elected as a Democrat totion; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and Eighth the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1805); moved to Zanes- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-ville, Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1805; receiver of the land third Congress; engaged in banking, and was vice presidentoffice at Zanesville from 1805 to December 1826 when he of the Second National Bank of Cooperstown, N.Y., until hisresigned; died in Zanesville, Ohio, February 2, 1834; inter- death there on May 3, 1904; interment in Lakewood Ceme- ment in Woodlawn Cemetery. tery. VAN HOUTEN, Isaac B., a Representative from New VAN HORN, Robert Thompson, a Representative fromYork; born in Clarkstown (now New City), Rockland County, Missouri; born in East Mahoning, Indiana County, Pa., MayN.Y., June 4, 1776; attended the common schools; engaged in 19, 1824; attended the common schools; apprenticed to amilling and agricultural pursuits; member of the State as- printer; moved to Ohio in 1844 and settled in Pomeroy;sembly 1833-1835; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- studied law; was admitted to the bar about 1850 and com- third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); resumed his menced practice in Pomeroy, Ohio; moved to Kansas City,former business pursuits; died in Clarkstown (now New Mo., in 1855; member of the board of aldermen in 1857;City), N.Y., August 16, 1850; interment in the family burying postmaster of Kansas City 1857-1861; established and editedground on his estate near Clarkstown. the Kansas City Journal; elected mayor of Kansas City in 1861 and again in 1864; enlisted in the Union Army during VANIK, Charles Albert, a Representative from Ohio; born the Civil War and served as lieutenant colonel of thein Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, April 7, 1913; attend- Twenty-fifthRegiment,MissouriVolunteerInfantry;ed the public schools; was graduated from Adelbert College member of the State senate 1862-1864; elected as a Republi-of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933, and can to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congressesfrom Western Reserve University Law School in 1936; was (March 4, 1865-March 3,1871); was not a candidate foradmitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of renomination in 1870; chairman of the Republican Statelaw in Cleveland, Ohio; member of Cleveland City Council in central committee 1874-1876; collector of internal revenue1938 and 1939; served in the State senate 1940-1942; for the sixth district of Missouri 1875-188 1; delegate to themember of the Cleveland Board of Education in 1941 and Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876,1942; enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as an 1880, and 1884; member of the Republican National Commit-ensign in 1942 and served with amphibious forces of the tee in 1872 and 1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-Atlantic and Pacific Fleets; released from active duty as a seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); successful-lieutenant in December 1945; appointed a member of the ly contested the election of John C. Tarsney to the Fifty-Cleveland Library Board in January 1946; elected judge of Biographies 1977

Cleveland Municipal Court in 1947 and reelected in 1949 for VAN PELT, William Kaiser, a Representative from Wis- a six-year term, but resigned in March 1954 to campaign forconsin; born in Glenbeulah, Sheboygan County, Wis., March Congress; served as referee with Ohio Industrial Commis- 10, 1905; moved with his parents to Fond du Lac, Wis., and sion; legal adviser to the Ohio highway director; elected as aattended the public schools, graduating from high school in Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the twelve succeeding1924; owner and operator of City Fuel Co., Fond du Lac, Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3,1981); was not aWis., 1939-1952; chairman of Fond du Lac County Republi- candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con- can Committee 1944-1950; delegate to the RepublicanNa- gress; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; is ational Covention in 1944; elected as a Republican to the resident of Arlington, Va. Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (January VANMETER, John Inskeep, a Representative from Ohio;3, 1951-January 3, 1965); was an unsuccessful candidate for born near Moorefield, Hardy County, Va. (now West Virgin-reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; is a resident ia), in February 1798; attended the College of William andof Fond du Lac, Wis. Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and was graduated from Princeton VAN RENSSELAER, Henry Bell (son of Stephen Van College in 1821; studied law at the school of Judge Gould inRensselaer), a Representative from New York; born at the Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar of Virginia inManor House in Albany, N.Y., May 14, 1810; was graduated 1822 and commenced practice in Moorefield, Va.; member of the Virginia house of delegates in 1824; retired from prac-from the United States Military Academy at West Point in tice; moved to Pike County, Ohio, in 1826 and engaged in1831; commissioned brevet second lieutenant of the Fifth agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of repre-Regiment, United States Infantry, July 1, 1831, and resigned sentatives in 1836; served in the State senate in 1838; electedJanuary 27, 1832; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Og- as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-densburg, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); was associated with to the Twenty-ninth Congress; affiliated with the Democraticmining enterprises; upon the outbreak of the Civil War reen- Party in 1856; moved to Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, intered the military service with the rank of brigadier general 1855, where he resided until his death August 3, 1875; inter-in the Union Army and was appointed chief of staff under ment in Grand View Cemetery. Gen. ; served as inspector general with the rank of colonel from 1862 until his death; died in Cincinnati, VAN NESS, John Peter, a Representative from New York;Ohio, March 23, 1864; interment in Grace Episcopal Church- born in Ghent (formerly Claverly), Columbia County, N.Y.,yard, Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. in 1770; completed preparatory studies and attended Colum- bia College in New York City; studied law and was admitted VAN RENSSELAER, Jeremiah (father of Solomon Van to the bar, but never practiced; elected as a Republican toVechten Van Rensselaer and cousin of Killian Killian Van the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-Rensselaer), a Representative from New York; born in that nation of John Bird and served from October 6, 1801, toState August 27, 1738; completed preparatory studies at the January 17, 1803, when his seat was declared forfeited, as hemanor house, "Rensselaerswyck," and in private schools in had accepted and exercised the office of major of militia inAlbany; was graduated from Princeton College in 1758; took the District of Columbia bestowed on him by President Jef-an active interest in the Revolutionary Warand was a ferson; he then made Washington his home; president of themember of the Albany Committee of Safety; elected to the second council in 1803; promoted to the rank of lieutenantFirst Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); unsuccessful colonel commandant of the first legion of militia in 1805,candidate for reelection in 1790 to the Second Congress; brigadier general in 1811, and major general in 1813; alder- member of the New York State assembly in 1789; member of man of the city of Washington in 1829; mayor 1830-1834;the first board of directors of the Bank of Albany in 1792 second vice president of the Washington National Monu- ment Society in 1833; president of the commissioners of theand president of that bank 1798-1806; Lieutenant Governor Washington Canal in 1834; president of the branch bank ofof New York 180 1-1804; curator of the Evangelical Lutheran the United States at Washington, D.C.; first president of theSeminary at Albany in 1804; died in Albany, N.Y., February National Metropolitan Bank from 1814 until his death in19, 1810; interment in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery. Washington, D.C., March 7, 1846; interment in a mausoleum VAN RENSSELAER, Killian Killian (cousin of Jeremiah at Oak Hill Cemetery. Van Rensselaer and uncle of Solomon Van Vechten Van VAN NUYS, Frederick, a Senator from Indiana; born inRensselaer), a Representative from New York; born in Falmouth, Rush County, md., April 16, 1874; attended theGreenbush, Rensselaer County, N.Y., June 9, 1763; complet- public schools; graduated from Eariham College, Richmond,ed preparatory studies and attended Yale College; studied md., in 1898 and from the Indiana Law School at Indianapo-law; was admitted to the bar in 1784 and commenced prac- lis, md., in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and com-tice in Claverack, N.Y.; private secretary to Gen. Philip menced practice in Shelbyville, md., moving shortly after-Schuyler; elected as a Federalist to the Seventh and to the ward to Anderson, md.; prosecuting attorney of Madisonfour succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1811); County, md., 1906-1910; member, State senate 1913-1916,resumed the practice of law; died in Albany, N.Y., on June serving as president pro tempore in 1915; moved to Indian-18, 1845; interment in a private cemetery at Greenbush, apolis, md., in 1916 and continued the practice of law; N.Y. United States attorney, district of Indiana 1920-1922; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected VAN RENSSELAER, Solomon Van Vechten (son of Jere- in 1938, and served from March 4, 1933, until his death on amiah Van Rensselaer and nephew of Killian Killian Van farm near Vienna, Fairfax County, Va., on January 25, 1944;Rensselaer), a Representative from New York; born in chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Depart-Greenbush, Rensselaer County, N.Y., August 6, 1774; com- ments (Seventy-sixth Congress), Committee on the Judiciarypleted preparatory studies; entered the United States Army; (Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses); intermentwas promoted to captain of a volunteer company,and later, in East Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Ind. on January 8, 1799, to major; was mustered out inJune Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 78th Cong., 2nd sass., 1800; adjutant general of State militia in 1801, 1810, and 1944. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1946. 1813; served in the War of 1812 as lieutenant colonel of New 1978 Biographical Directory

York Volunteers; elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenthtended the common schools; engaged extensively in the man- and Seventeenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1819,ufacture of glue; moved to Chicago in 1857, and to Wisconsin to January 14,1822, when he resigned; postmaster ofin 1861 and engaged in the flour-milling business in Milwau- Albany, N.Y., 1822-1839 and 1841-1843; delegate from Newkee; elected to the Milwaukee Common Council in 1871; York at the opening of the Erie Canal November 4, 1825;member of the State assembly 1873-1875; served in the State died near Albany, N.Y., April 23, 1852; interment in Northsenate 1877-1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Dutch Church Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment inCongress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); declined to be a Albany Rural Cemetery. candidate for renomination in 1886; elected to the Fifty-first Bibliography: DAB. Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate VAN RENSSELAER, Stephen (father of Henry Bell Vanfor renomination in 1890; unsuccessful candidate for State Rensselaer), a Representative from New York; born in Newsenator in 1890; moved to Catonsville, Baltimore County, York City November 1, 1764; completed preparatory studiesMd., in 1894, where he lived in retirement until his death and attended Princeton College; was graduated from Har-there August 22,1901; interment in Athens Cemetery, vard University in 1782; major of militia in 1786, colonel inAthens, N.Y. 1788, and major general in 1801; member of the Stateassem- VAN SWEARINGEN, Thomas, a Representative from Vir- bly 1789-1791, 1798, and 1818; served in the State senateginia; born near Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now 1791-1796; elected Lieutenant Governor of New York inWest Virginia), May 5, 1784; attended the common schools; 1795; served as major general of Volunteers in the War ofmember of the State house of delegates 1814-1816; elected to 1812; member of the canal commission 1816-1839, andthe Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and served from served fourteen years as its president; member of the StateMarch 4, constitutional convention in 1821; founded the Rensselaer 1819, until his death in Shepherdstown, Va., Polytechnic Institute at Troy in 1824; was a supporter ofAugust 19, 1822; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. John Quincy Adams and was elected to the Seventeenth VAN TRUMP, Philadeiph, a Representative from Ohio; Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofborn in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, November 15, Solomon Van Vechten Van Rensselaer; reelected to the1810; attended the public schools; learned the art of printing Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses andand subsequently became editor of the Gazette and Enquirer served from February 27, 1822, to March 3, 1829; chairman,at Lancaster; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- Committee on Agriculture (Eighteenth through Twentiethmenced practice in Lancaster on May 14, 1838; delegate to Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection; devoted histhe Whig National Convention in 1852; unsuccessful candi- time to landed interests and to educational and public wel-date of the American Party for Governor in 1856; delegate to fare matters; regent of the University of New York 1819-the Bell and Everett State convention in 1860 and served as 1839; died in Albany, N.Y., January 26, 1839; interment inpresident; judge of the court of common pleas 1862-1867; the family burying ground; reinterment in Albany Ruralunsuccessful candidate for supreme judge of Ohio in 1863, Cemetery. 1864, and 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth, Forty- VAN SANT, Joshua, a Representative from Maryland;first, and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, born in Millington, Kent County, Md., December 31, 1803;1873); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; served moved with his parents to Wilmington, Del., in 1807 and toas president of the Democratic State convention in 1869; Philadelphia, Pa., in 1812; attended the common schools;resumed the practice of law in Lancaster, Ohio, and died moved to Baltimore, Md.; engaged in hat making in 1817,there on July 31, 1874; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. became journeyman, and continued at that trade until 1835; VAN VALKENBURGH, Robert Bruce, a Representative unsuccessful candidate as a Jackson Democrat to the Statefrom New York; born in Prattsburg, Steuben County, N.Y., house of delegates in 1833 and 1834; delegate to the StateSeptember 4, 1821; attended Franklin Academy, Prattsburg, constitutional convention in 1836; postmaster of BaltimoreN.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced 1839-1841; member of the State house of delegates in 1845; practice in Bath, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in commissioner of Baltimore finances March 1, 1846, to March1852 and again in 1857 and 1858; was in command of the 1, 1855; trustee of the city and county almshouse 1847-1853recruiting depot in Elmira, N.Y., and organized seventeen and in 1861; commissioner of public schools 1852-1854, andregiments for the Civil War; elected as a Republican to the served as president in 1854; elected as a Democrat to theThirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861- Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855);unsuc-March 3,1865); chairman, Committee on Militia (Thirty- cessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-fourth Congressseventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses); served as colonel of in 1854; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket ofthe One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, New York Volun- Breckinridge and Lane in 1860; delegate to the State consti-teer Infantry, and was its commander at the Battle of Antie- tutional convention in 1867; director of the Maryland Statetam; Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1865; appoint- Penitentiary 1867-1869, serving two years as president;ed Minister Resident to Japan January 18, 1866, and served member of the board of trustees of the McDonough Educa-until November 11, 1869; settled in Florida; appointed associ- tional Fund and Institute 1867-1871, servingas president inate justice of the State supreme court on May 20, 1874, and 1871; member and president of the board for Bay Viewserved until his death in Suwanee Springs, near Live Oak, Asylum 1868-1870; mayor of Baltimore 1871-1875; declinedSuwanee County, Fla., August 1, 1888; interment in Old St. to be a candidate for renomination; appointed city comptrol-Nicholas Cemetery, on the south side of the St. Johns River, ler of Baltimore in July 1876 and served until January 1881;south of Jacksonville, Fla. was afterward elected to that office and served until his death in Baltimore, Md., April 8, 1884; interment in Green- VAN VOORHIS, Henry Clay, a Representative from Ohio; mount Cemetery. born in Nashport, Muskingum County, Ohio, May 11, 1852; attended the public schools and Denison University, Gran- VAN SCHAICK, Isaac Whitbeck (uncle of Aaron Vanyule, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1874; Schaick Cochrane), a Representative from Wisconsin; bornwas graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1875 and in Coxsackie, Greene County, N.Y., December 7, 1817; at-commenced practice in Zanesville, Ohio, the same year; dele- Biographies 1979 gate to the Republican National Conventions in 1884 andpresident of the town board of trustees 1844-1850; member 1916; president of the Citizens' National Bank of Zanesvilleof the Virginia State constitutional convention in 1850; 1885-1893; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and totreasurer and later president of the Northwestern Virginia the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,Railroad Co. in 1852; member of the Wheeling reorganiza- 1905); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904;tion convention in 1861; delegate to the State convention again became president of the Citizens' National Bank ofwhich framed the constitution of West Virginia; member, Zanesville, Ohio, in 1905; member of the board of trustees ofWest Virginia house of delegates 1863; upon the admission Marietta (Ohio) College; died in Zanesville, Ohio, December of West Virginia as a State into the Union was elected as a 12, 1927; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Unionist to the United States Senate and served from VAN VOORHIS, John, a Representative from New York;August 4, 1863, to March 3, 1869; chairman, Committee on born in Decatur, Otsego County, N.Y., on October 22, 1826; Pensions (Fortieth Congress); delegate to the Southern Loy- pursued an academic course; studied law; was admitted toalist Convention at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866; resided in the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Elmira, Che-Parkersburg, W.Va., where he died April 15, 1872; interment mung County, N.Y.; member of the board of education inin River View Cemetery. 1857; city attorney in 1859; appointed collector of internal Bibliography: DAB; Bayless, R.W. "Peter G. Van Winkle and Waitman revenue for the twenty-eighth district of New York and Willey in the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson." West Virginia His- served from September 1, 1862, to March 31, 1863; delegate tory 13 (January 1952): 75-89; Howard, Thomas W. "Peter G. Van Win- to the Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as a kle's Vote in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: A West Vir- Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses ginian as a Profile in Courage." West Virginia History 35 (July 1974): 290- (March 4, 1879-March 3,1883); chairman, Committee on 95. Mines and Mining (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful VAN WYCK, Charles Henry, a Representative from New candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con-York and a Senator from Nebraska; born in Poughkeepsie, gress; resumed the practice of law in Rochester, N.Y.; elect-Dutchess County, N.Y., May 10, 1824; completed preparatory ed to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);studies and graduated from Rutgers College, New Bruns- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty-wick, N.J., in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar in fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Rochester,1847 and commenced the practice of law; moved to Bloom- N.Y., and died there on October 20, 1905; interment in ingburg, Sullivan County, N.Y.; district attorney 1850-1856; Mount Hope Cemetery. elected as a Republican from New York to the Thirty-sixth VAN VORHES, Nelson Holmes, a Representative fromand Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, Ohio; born in Washington County, Pa., January 23, 1822;1863); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Thirty-sixth Con- moved to Athens County, Ohio, in 1832 and engaged ingress), Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-seventh agricultural pursuits; apprenticed to a printer for six years;Congress); entered the Union Army as colonel of the Fifty- editor and proprietor of the Athens Messenger 1844-1861;sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, and commanded it member of the State house of representatives 1850-1872 andduring the Civil War; brevetted brigadier general for serv- served four years as speaker; elected probate judge in 1854,ices during the war; elected to the Fortieth Congress (March but resigned; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1858 to4, 1867-March 3, 1869); successfully contested the election of the Thirty-sixth Congress; delegate to the Republican Na- tional Convention in 1860; entered the Union Army as aGeorge W. Greene to the Forty-first Congress and served private in 1861 and was mustered out as colonel; elected as afrom February 17, 1870, to March 3, 1871; moved to Nebras- Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresseska in 1874, settled on a farm in Otoe County, and engaged in (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate foragricultural pursuits; delegate to the State constitutional reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; died inconvention in 1875; elected to the State senate 1877, 1879, Athens, Athens County, Ohio, December 4, 1882; interment1881; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in West Union Street Cemetery. from Nebraska and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Com- VAN WINKLE, Marshall (grandnephew of Peter G. Vanmittee on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries (Forty- Winkle), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Jerseyseventh Congress), Committee on the Improvement of the City, N.J., September 28, 1869; attended the public schools;Mississippi River and Tributaries (Forty-eighth and Forty- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commencedninth Congresses); unsuccessful Populist candidate for gover- practice in Hoboken, N.J.; appointed counsel to the county and tax board in 1895, holding this position until his resignationnor of Nebraska in 1892; retired from political life to accept an appointment as the assistant prosecutor of theactive business pursuits; died in Washington, D.C., October 24, 1895; interment in Milford Cemetery, Milford, Pa. pleas of Hudson County, N.J.; unsuccessful candidate for Bibliography: DAB; Harmar, M.U. and J.L. Sellers. "Charles Henry Van election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; assistant pros- Wyck." Nebraska Historical Magazine 12 (April-June 1929): 80-129, 12 ecutor of pleas from 1902 to 1905, when he resigned to (July-September 1929): 190-246, 12 (October-December 1929): 322-73. become a candidate for Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was VAN WYCK, William William, a Representative from not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the prac-New York; born near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., tice of law in Jersey City, N.J.; advisory master in chancery,August 9, 1777; attended the public schools and Fishkill matrimonial division, 1933-1939; wrote and published lawAcademy; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected to the reference books; died in Oceanport, N.J., May 10, 1957; inter-Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821- ment in Fairview Mausoleum, Fairview, N.J. March 3, 1825); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in VAN WINKLE, Peter Godwin (granduncle of Marshallthe Post Office Department (Eighteenth Congress); moved to Van Winkle), a Senator from West Virginia; born in NewSudley, Fairfax County, Va., and engaged in planting; re- York City, September 7, 1808; completed preparatory stud-turned to Dutchess County, N.Y., and died in Fishkill, N.Y., ies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedAugust 27, 1840; interment in the Dutch Reformed Church- practice in Parkersburg, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1835;yard. 1980 Biographical Directory

VAN ZANDT, James Edward, a Representative fromgresses and served from April 24, 1912, until January 2, Pennsylvania; born in Altoona, Blair County, Pa., December1923, when he resigned; member, State senate 1923; elected 18, 1898; attended the public schools and the Pennsylvaniato the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, Railroad Apprentice School, Altoona, Pa.; served in various1923-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for reelection in departments until 1938, when he became districtpassenger1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator; agent; during the First World War enlisted as an apprenticepresented credentials as a Republican Senator-elect to the seaman in the United States Navy on April 30, 1917, andUnited States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1927, served two years overseas; member of the United Statesbut was not permitted to qualify, eventually being unseated Naval Reserve 19 19-1943 with rank of lieutenant; nationalon December 6, 1929, due to charges of corruption and fraud commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 1934-1936;concerning his election; resumed his former business and elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-sev-political activities; died in Atlantic City, N.J., August 7, enth, and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from Janu-1934; interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, ary 3, 1939, until his resignation September 24, 1943; while aPa. Member of Congress was called to active duty in September Bibliography: DAB; Salter, John. The People's Choice: Philadelphia's 1941 and served until January 1942 with the Pacific Fleet William S.Vare. New York: Exposition Press, 1971; Vare, William. My and in escort convoy duty in the North Atlantic; reentered Forty Years in Politics. Philadelphia: Roland Swain Co., 1933. the service in September 1943 as a lieutenant commander and was assigned to the Pacific area until dischargedas a VARNUM, James Mitchell (brother of Joseph Bradley captain, January 25, 1946, and retiredas rear admiral,Varnum), a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Dracut, United States Naval Reserve, January 1, 1959; elected to the Middlesex County, Mass., December 17, 1748; was graduated Eightieth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Januaryfrom the College of Rhode Island, Warren, R.I. (later Brown 3, 1947-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomina-University, Providence, R.I.), in 1769; studied law; was ad- tion in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress, but was anun- mitted to the bar in 1771 and commenced practice in East successful candidate for United States Senator; specialrepre- Greenwich, R.I.; served in the Revolutionary Army, and was sentative of the governor of Pennsylvania until 1971; residedcolonel of the "Kentish Guards" in 1774 and of Varnum's in Arlington, Va., where he died January 6, 1986; intermentRhode Island Regiment in 1775; commissioned colonel of the in Arlington National Cemetery. Ninth Continental Infantry in 1776; brigadier general of State troops December 12, 1776; brigadier general in the VARDAMAN, James Kimble, a Senator from Mississippi;Continental Army February 21, 1777, and was honorably born near Edna, Jackson County, Tex., July 26, 1861; moveddischarged March 5, 1779; appointed major general of State to Mississippi in 1868 with his parents, who settled in Yalo-militia in May 1779; resumed the practice of law in East busha County; attended the public schools; studied law inGreenwich, R.I.; Member of the Continental Congress 1780- Carroliton, Miss.; was admitted to the bar in 1881 andcom- 1781, and 1787; appointed a judge of the United States Court menced practice in Winona, Miss.; became editor of thein the Northwest Territory in 1787; moved to Marietta, Winona Advance; moved to Greenwood, Miss., where hecon- Ohio, in 1788, and died there January 10, 1789; interment in tinued the practice of law and also engaged in thenewspa-Mound Cemetery. per business; member, State house of representatives 1890- Bibliography: DAB. 1896, and served as speaker 1894; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Mississippi in 1895 and again in 1899; served in VARNUM, John, a Representative from Massachusetts; Cuba during the Spanish-American War; presidential electorborn in Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass., June 25, 1778; was on the Democratic ticket in 1892 and 1896; publisher of thegraduated from Harvard University in 1798; studied law; Greenwood Commonwealth 1896-1903 and the Issue 1908-was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Haver- 1912; Governor of Mississippi 1904-1908; unsuccessful candi-hill, Mass., in 1802; was elected as a Federalist to the State date for election to the United States Senate in 1907 andsenate in 1811; moved to Lowell, Mass.; elected to the Nine- 1910; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate inteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1912 and served from March 4, 1913, to March 3,1919; 1825-March 3, 1831); returned to Lowell, Mass., and later unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 and for electionmoved to Niles, Berrien County, Mich., where he died July in 1922; chairman, Committee on the Conservation of Natu-23, 1836; interment in Silverbrook Cemetery. ral Resources (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), VARNUM, Joseph Bradley (brother of James Mitchell Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office DepartmentVarnum), a Representative and a Senator from Massachu- (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Manufacturers (Sixty-setts; born in Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass., January 29, fifth Congress); retired from active business pursuits in 19221750 or 1751; largely self-taught; farmer; served in the Revo- and moved to Birmingham, Ala., where he died June 25,lutionary Army; member, State house of representatives 1930; interment in Lakewood Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.1780-1785; member, State senate 1786-1795; delegate to the Bibliography: DAB; Fortenberry, Joseph E. "James Kimble Vardaman and American Foreign Policy, 1913-1919." Journal of Mississippi History State convention that ratified the Federal Constitution in 35 (May 1973): 127-40; Holmes, William The White Chief: James Kimble 1788; justice of the court of common pleas; chief justice of Vardaman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. the court of general sessions; elected to the Fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, VARE, William Scott, a Representative and a Senator1795, to June 29, 1811, when he resigned, having been elect- from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 24,ed Senator; Speaker of the House during the Tenth and 1867; attended the public schools; at the age of fifteenyearsEleventh Congresses; chairman, Committee on Elections entered the mercantile business and became a generalcon- (Fifth Congress); elected as a Republican to the United tractor in 1893; member of the select council of PhiladelphiaStates Senate in 1811 to fill the vacancy in the term com- 1898-1901; recorder of deeds for Philadelphia 1902-1912;mencing March 4, 1811, and served from June 29, 1811, to elected to the State senate in 1912, and at thesame timeMarch 3,1817; served as President pro tempore of the was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress toSenate during the Thirteenth Congress; chairman, Commit- fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry H. Bingham;tee on Militia (Fourteenth Congress); delegate to the State reelected to the Sixty-third and to the four succeeding Con-constitutional convention in 1820; member, State senate Biographies 1981

1817-1821; died in Dracut, Mass., September 21, 1821; inter-for the eastern district of Pennsylvania in 1842, and served ment in Varnum cemetery. as secretary and later as president of the board of inspectors Bibliography: DAB; Varnum, Joseph. "Autobiography of General Joseph until his death; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Phila- B. Varnum." Magazine of American History 20 (November 1888): 405-14. delphia in 1842, 1845, and 1854; elected mayor of Philadel- phia in 1856; member of the board of city trusts 1859-1866, VAUGHAN, Horace Worth, a Representative from Texas;serving as president 1863-1865; elected as a Democrat to the born near Jefferson, Marion County, Tex., December 2, 1867;Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of attended the common schools of Linden, Cass County, Tex.;Samuel J. Randall and served from May 20, 1890, to March studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Texarkana, Tex., in 1886; city attorney of Texar-3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the kana 1890-1898; prosecuting attorney of Bowie County 1898-Fifty-second Congress; died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 22, 1906; district attorney for the fifth judicial district of Texas1895; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. 1906-1910; member of the State senate in 1910; elected as a Bibliography: DAB. Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March VEEDER, William Davis, a Representative from New 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to theYork; born in Guilderland, Albany County, N.Y., May 19, Sixty-fourth Congress; appointed by President Woodrow1835; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- Wilson as United States district attorney at Honolulu,ted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Brook- Hawaii, and served from December 22, 1915, to March 22,lyn, N.Y., in 1858; served in the State assembly in 1865 and 1916; United States district judge in Hawaii from May 15,1866; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1875 1916, to April 4, 1922; died in Honolulu, Hawaii, Novemberand 1877; member of the State constitutional convention in 10, 1922; interment in Nuuanu Cemetery. 1867 and 1868; surrogate of Kings County, N.Y., 1867-1877; VAUGHAN, William Wirt, a Representative from Tennes- elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, see; born in LaGuardo (now Martha), Wilson County, Tenn.,1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination July 2, 1831; attended the common schools and was graduat-in 1878; resumed the practice of law in Brooklyn; member of ed from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; studiedthe State constitutional convention in 1887 and 1888; died in law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced prac- Brooklyn, N.Y., December 2, 1910; interment in Voorhees- tice in Brownsville, Tenn.; elected as a Democrat to theville Cemetery, Voorheesville, N.Y. Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuc- VEHSLAGE, John Herman George, a Representative cessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-thirdfrom New York; born in New York City December 20, 1842; Congress; resumed the practice of law in Brownsville; one ofattended the public schools; left school to become a clerk in the prime movers in the building of the Chesapeake & Ohiothe retail grocery business; engaged in the coal and wood Railroad branch from Brownsville to Newbern, and wasbusiness; joined the Third Cavalry, New York National president of the system at the time of his death; became aGuard, in 1863 and was commissioned a captain by Gov. candidate for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress, Horatio Seymour on February 15, 1864; appointed inspector but died in Crockett Mills, near Alamo, Crockett County,of rifle practice with the rank of captain and continued in Tenn., August 19, 1878, while canvassing the district; inter-service until 1880, when the regiment was mustered out by ment in Oakwood Cemetery, Brownsville, Tenn. order of Governor Cornell; remained as supernumerary until VAUGHN, Albert Clinton, Sr., a Representative fromNovember 12, 1883, when he received an honorable dis- Pennsylvania; born in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pa.,charge from Gov. Grover Cleveland; member of the State October 9, 1894; attended the public schools in Whitehallassembly 1894-1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Township; was graduated from Whitehall High School inCongress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candi- 1910 and from Allentown (Pa.) Business College in 1911; alsodate for renomination in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; completed an extension course in business administration;died in New York City on July 21, 1904; interment in the during the First World War served as a yeoman in theLutheran Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. United States Navy; for twenty-five years engaged in private VELDE, Harold Himmel, a Representative from Illinois; industry, including engineering, administrative, and salesborn on a farm near Parkland, Tazewell County, Ill., April 1, positions; elected a school director in Whitehall Township in1910; attended rural grade and high schools; student at 1929 for a six-year term; executive assistant to the lateBradley University, Peoria, Ill., 1927-1929; was graduated Representative Charles L. Gerlach in 1945 and to formerfrom Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1931 and Representative Franklin H. Lichtenwalter in 1947 andfrom the University of Illinois Law School at Champaign in served until taking his seat in Congress; elected as a Repub- 1937; athletic coach and teacher of Hillsdale (Ill.) Communi- lican to the Eighty-second Congress and served from Janu- ty High School 1931-1935; was admitted to the bar in 1937 ary 3, 1951, until his death in Fullerton, Lehigh County, Pa.,and commenced the practice of law in Pekin, Ill.; served as a September 1, 1951; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Westprivate in the Signal Corps of the United States Army in Catasauqua, Pa. 1942 and 1943; special agent of the Federal Bureau of Inves- VAUX, Richard, a Representative from Pennsylvania;tigation in sabotage and counter-espionage division 1943- born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 19, 1816; educated by1946; elected county judge of Tazewell County in 1946 and private tutors at the Friends Select School in Philadelphiaserved until 1949; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and Bolmar's French School, Westchester, Pa.; studied lawand to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949- and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1837; secre-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on Un-American Ac- tary of legation under Andrew Stevenson, United Statestivities (Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for re- Minister to Great Britain, for one year; returned to Philadel-nomination in 1956; engaged in the practice of law in phia in 1839; member of the State house of representativesUrbana, Ill., and Washington, D.C., until May 5,1969; in 1839; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1840;became regional counsel, General Services Administration, commenced the practice of law in Philadelphia in 1840; re-Lansing, Ill., in 1969; was a resident of Sun City, Ariz., from corder of deeds of Philadelphia 1842-1849; appointed by the1974 until his death there September 1, 1985; cremated; State supreme court as inspector of the State penitentiaryashes interred, Pekin, Ill. 1982 Biographical Directory

VENABLE, Abraham Bedford (uncle of Abraham Wat-Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death kins Venable), a Representative and a Senator from Virgin-of Samuel A. Witherspoon; reelected to the Sixty-fifth and ia; born on "State Hill" farm, near Prince Edward CourtSixty-sixth Congresses and served from January 4, 1916, to House (now Worsham), Prince Edward County, Va., Novem-March 3, 1921; unsuccessful for renomination; practiced law ber 20, 1758; attended Hampden-Sidney (Va.) College and Clarksdale, Miss.; died in New Orleans, La., August 2, 1948; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princetoninterment in Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Miss. University) in 1780; engaged as a planter in his native county; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1784 and VENTO, Bruce Frank, a Representative from Minnesota; commenced practice at Prince, Edward Court House; electedborn in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., October 7, 1940; to the Second and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchattended the public schools of St. Paul; attended St. Thomas 4, 1791-March 3, 1799); was not a candidate for renomina-College, St. Paul, 1958-1959; A.A., University of Minnesota, tion in 1798; chairman, Committee on Elections (Fourth Con-Minneapolis, 1961; B.S., Wisconsin State University, River gress); elected as a Republican to the United States SenateFalls, 1965; graduate studies, University of Minnesota, 1966; to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stevens T. Masontaught in Minneapolis, Minn, public schools, 1965-1976; and served from December 7, 1803, to June 7, 1804, when heserved in Minnesota house of representatives, 1971-1976; resigned to become president of the first national bankorga-electedasa Democrat-Farmer-Labor candidatetothe nized in Virginia; perished at the burning of a theater inNinety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January Richmond, Va., December 26, 1811; interment of ashes, with3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident of St. Paul, Minn. those of other fire victims, under a stone in front of the altar in Monumental Church, Richmond, Va. VERPLANCK, Daniel Crommelin (father of Gulian Crom- melin Verplanck), a Representative from New York; born in VENABLE, Abraham Watkins (nephew of Abraham Bed-New York City March 19, 1762; was educated under private ford Venable), a Representative from North Carolina; borntutors; was graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia in Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799;University), New York City, in 1788; studied law; was admit- was graduated from Hampden-Sidney (Va.) College in 1816;ted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City in studied medicine for two years; was graduated from Prince-1789; also engaged in banking; elected as a Republican to the ton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar inEighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 1821 and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Meck-Isaac Bloom; reelected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses lenburg Counties, Va.; moved to North Carolina in 1829;and served from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1809; was not elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, anda candidate for renomination in 1808; resumed the practice Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1853);un-of law; judge of the court of common pleas of Dutchess successful candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty-County 1828-1830; died at his home, "Mount Gulian," near third Congress; presidential elector on the Democratic ticketFishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., March 29, 1834; interment of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860; delegate from the State ofin Trinity Church Cemetery, Fishkill, N.Y. North Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861; member of the house of representatives of the Confed- VERPLANCK, Gulian Crommelin (son of Daniel Cromme- erate Congress 1862-1864; died in Oxford, N.C., on Februarylin Verplanck), a Representative from New York; born in 24, 1876; interment in the Shiloh Presbyterian Churchyard, New York City August 6, 1786; pursued classical studies, and Granville County, N.C. was graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia Uni- versity), New York City, in 1801; studied law and was admit- VENABLE, Edward Carrington, a Representative fromted to the bar in 1807; member of the State assembly 1820- Virginia; born near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., 1823; professor at General Theological Seminary, New York January 31, 1853; attended the local school, McCabe's Uni- City, 1821-1824; elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth versity High School, Petersburg, Va., and the University ofCongresses and elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Virginia at Charlottesville; taught school for threeyears;and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, moved to Petersburg, Va., in 1876 and engaged in mercantile 1833); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty- pursuits; delegate to the Democratic State convention insecond Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886; presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to1832; unsuccessful Whig candidate for mayor of New York the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, toCity in 1834; member of the State senate 1838-1841; gover- September 23, 1890, when he was succeeded by John M.nor of the city hospital 1823-1865; regent of the State uni- Langston, who successfully contested his election; resumedversity 1826-1870 and vice chancellor 1858-1870; president his former business pursuits; died in Baltimore, Md., Decem-of the board of commissioners of immigration 1846-1870; ber 8, 1908; interment in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg,member of the State constitutional convention in 1867 and Va. 1868; died in New York City on March 18, 1870; interment VENABLE, William Webb, a Representative from Missis-in Trinity Churchyard, Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y. sippi; born in Clinton, Hinds County, Miss., September 25, Bibliography: DAB; July, Robert William. Essential New Yorker, Gulian 1880; moved with his parents to Memphis, Tenn., returned Cromm.elin Verplanck. Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 1951. to Clinton, Miss., in 1891; attended public and private VERREE, John Paul, a Representative from Pennsylva- schools; was graduated from Mississippi College at Clintonnia; born at "Verree Mills," on Pennypack Creek, near what in 1898, from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1899,is now Fox Chase Station, Philadelphia, Pa., March 9, 1817; and from the law department of Cumberland University,completed preparatory studies; engaged in the manufacture Lebanon, Tenn., in 1905; was admitted to the bar in 1905of iron and subsequently was a dealer in edged tools and and commenced practice in Meridian, Miss.; prosecuting at- also in iron and steel; member of the select council of Phila- torney of Lauderdale County from April to October 1910,delphia 1851-1857, serving as president 1853-1857; elected as when he was appointed district attorney; served in the lattera Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con- capacity until January 1, 1915, when he resigned; judge ofgresses (March 4, 1859-March 3,1863); declined to be a the tenth judicial district of Mississippi from 1915 until hiscandidate for renomination in 1862; resumed his former resignation in December 1916; elected as a Democrat to themanufacturing pursuits; also interested in life insurance and Biographies 1983 served as president of a company; president of the Philadel-third Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); unsuc- phia Union League in 1875 and 1876; retired from activecessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth business pursuits; died at "Verree Mills," Philadelphia, Pa.,Congress; Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, Army, 1975- June 27, 1889; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Frankford1977; director, industrial relations center, California Instit- (now a part of Philadelphia), Pa. tute of Technology, 1977-1983; secretary for industrial rela- VEST, , a Senator from Missouri; born intions, State of California, 1983; is a resident of Pasadena, Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., December 6, 1830; graduat-Calif. ed from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1848 and from the VIBBARD, Chauncey, a Representative from New York; law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.,born in Galway, Saratoga County, N.Y., November 11, 1811; in 1853; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commencedattended the common schools and was graduated from practice in Georgetown, Mo.; moved to Boonville, Mo., inMott's Academy for Boys, Albany, N.Y.; clerk in a wholesale 1856; Democratic presidential elector in 1860; member, State house of representatives 1860-1861; judge advocate with thegrocery store in Albany, N.Y.; moved to New York City, and Confederate forces in Missouri in 1862; served in the housein 1834 went to Montgomery, Ala.; returned to New York of representatives of the Confederate Congress from Febru-and settled in Schenectady; was appointed chief clerk of the ary 1862 to January 1865, when he resigned, having beenUtica & Schenectady Railroad Co. in 1836; became a railroad appointed to fill a vacancy in the Confederate Senate; re-freight and ticket agent in 1848; consolidated the many little sumed the practice of law in Sedalia, Mo., in 1865; moved torailroads of western New York into the New York Central Kansas City in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedRailroad Co., serving as its first general superintendent States Senate; reelected in 1885, 1891, and 1897, and served 1853-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Con- from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Committeegress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); declined to be a candi- on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-third Congress),date for renomination in 1862; during the Civil War served Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Fifty-fourth Congress),as director and superintendent of militaryrailroads in 1862; Committee on Public Health and National Quarantinefirst president of the Family Fund Insurance Co. 1864-1867; (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); due to illmoved to New York City in 1865 and became involved in the health, retired from public life and resided at Sweet Springs,business of steamship lines and elevated railroads; interested Saline County, Mo., until his death August 9, 1904; inter-in the development of southern railroads and South and ment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. Central American enterprises at the time of his retirement Bibliography: DAB; Holsinger, M. Paul. "Senator in 1889; died in Macon, Ga., June 5, 1891; interment in and the 'Menace' of Mormonism, 1882-1887." Missouri Historical Review 65 (October 1970): 23-36. Riverside Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. VESTAL, Albert Henry, a Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near Frankton, Madison County, md., Janu- VICKERS, George, a Senator from Maryland; born in ary 18, 1875; attended the common schools; worked in steelChestertown, Kent County, Md., November 19, 1801; pursued mills and factories; attended the Indiana State Normalan academic course; employed in the county clerk's office for School at Terre Haute; taught school for several years; wasseveral years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 graduated from the law department of the Valparaiso (md.)and commenced practice in Chestertown, Md.; major general University in 1896; was admitted to the bar the same yearof the State militia in 1861; presidential elector on the and commenced practice in Anderson, md.; prosecuting at-Democratic ticket in 1864; vice president of the Union Na- torney of the fiftieth judicial circuit 1900-1906; unsuccessfultional Convention of Conservatives in Philadelphia in 1866; candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress inmember, State senate 1866-1867; elected as a Democrat to 1908; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1914 to thethe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-action of the Senate in declining to permit Philip F. Thomas fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and servedto qualify, and served from March 7, 1868, to March 3, 1873; from March 4, 1917, until his death; chairman, Committeeresumed the practice of law in Chestertown, Md., and died on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Sixty-sixth throughthere October 8, 1879; interment in Chester Cemetery. Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Patents (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); majority whip (Sixty- VIDAL, Michel, a Representative from Louisiana; born in eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); died in Washing-the city of Carcassonne, Languedoc, France, October 1, 1824; ton, D.C., April 1, 1932; interment in East Maplewood Ceme-attended college; immigrated to the Republic of Texas; tery, Anderson, md. moved to Louisiana when Texas was annexed to the United States; engaged in literary and scientific pursuits; engaged VEYSEY, Victor Vincent, a Representative from Califor-as associate editor with several American and French papers nia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., April 14, 1915; B.S., Califor-of this country and Canada; moved to Opelousas, La., in nia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1936; M.B.A., Har-1867; founded and became editor of the St. Landry Progress; vard University, 1938; graduate work, Stanford University;editor of the New York Courrier des Etats-Unis and the New industrial relations and plant manager, Rocket Developmen- tal Project, California Institute of Technology, and worksOrleans Picayune; at the close of the Civil War was appoint- manager, private industry rubber plant, during the Seconded by General Sheridan a registrar for the city of New World War; professor at California Institute of Technology,Orleans; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1938-1940 and 1941-1946 and Stanford University, 1940-1867 and 1868; upon the readmission of the State of Louisi- 1941; member, Brawley School District Board, 1955-1962 andana to representation was elected as a Republican tothe Imperial Valley College Board, 1960-1962; advisory commis-Fortieth Congress and served from July 18, 1868, to March 3, sion, United States Department of Agriculture, 1959-1963;1869; appointed a United States commissioner under the member, California State assembly, January 1963-Januaryconvention concluded with Peru in 1868 for the adjustment 1971; rancher; delegate, California State conventions, 1960-of claims of citizens of either country; appointed by Presi- 1970; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1972; elect-dent Grant as United States consul at Tripoli and served ed as a Republican to the Ninety-second and to the Ninety-from April 5, 1870, to October 12, 1876. 1984 Biographical Directory

VIELE, Egbert Ludoricus, a Representative from Newtion of the State capitol in 1907; died in Madison, Wis., York; born in Waterford, Saratoga County, N.Y., June 17,August 27, 1908; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. 1825; attended Albany (N.Y.) Academy; was graduated from Bibliography: DAB; Merrill, Horace Samuel. William Freeman Vi ins, the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., July Doctrinaire Democrat. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954. 1,1847; commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the Second United States Infantry; served in the Mexican War VINCENT, Beverly Mills, a Representative from Ken- in 1847 and 1848; promoted to second lieutenant, Firsttucky; born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Ky., March United States Infantry, September 8, 1847; promoted to first28, 1890; attended the public schools, Western Kentucky lieutenant in 1850; resigned in 1853; becamea civil andState Teachers College at Bowling Green, and the law de- military engineer; appointed State engineer of New Jerseypartment of the University of Kentucky at Lexington; was in 1855; appointed engineer in chief of Central Park, Newadmitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in York City, in 1856; appointed engineer of Prospect Park,Brownsville, KY.; county judge of Edmonson County, Ky., Brooklyn, in 1860; appointed captain of the Engineer Corps1916-1918; during the First World War served as a private of the Seventh New York Regiment in 1860; appointed briga-in Battery A, Seventy-second Field Artillery, from August dier general of United States Volunteers in 1861; military27, 1918, to January 9, 1919; assistant attorney general of governor of Norfolk, Va., in 1862; resigned October 20, 1863;Kentucky in 1919 and 1920; member of the State senate engaged in civil engineering; appointed president of the de-1929-1933; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in partment of public parks in New York City in 1884; elected1932; attorney general of Kentucky from 1936 until his resig- as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-nation in March 1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed his former business pur-Glover H. Cary; reelected to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-sev- suits and also engaged in literary work; died in New Yorkenth, and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from March City April 22, 1902; interment in Post Cemetery, West Point,3, 1937, to January 3, 1945; was not a candidate for renomi- Orange County, N.Y. nation in 1944; pursued agricultural interests, and resumed Bibliography: DAB. the practice of law; was a resident of Brownsville, Ky., until his death there on August 15, 1980. VIGORITO, Joseph Phillip, a Representative from Penn- sylvania; born in Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio, November VINCENT, Bird J., a Representative from Michigan; born 10, 1918; attended the Erie County schools; moved withpar-near Clarkston, Oakland County, Mich., March 6, 1880; at- ents to Erie, Pa., in 1931; graduated from the Strong Vincenttended the public schools of Oakland and Midland Counties High School in Erie in 1938; served in the United Statesand Ferris Institute; was graduated from the law depart- Army from April 1942 to August 1945, first lieutenant, andment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; was awarded the Purple Heart; B.S., Wharton School ofwas admitted to the bar the same year and commenced Finance, University of Pennsylvania, 1947; M.B.A., Univeri-practice in Saginaw; assistant prosecuting attorney of Sagi- sity of Denver, 1949; engaged as a certified public account-naw County 1909-1914 and prosecuting attorney from 1915 ant in 1954; assistant professor, Pennsylvania State Univer-to 1917, when he resigned to enter the Army; during the sity 1949-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninthFirst World War served ten months in France as first lieu- and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-tenant of the Sixth Train Headquarters and in the Three January 3, 1977); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inHundred and Second Train Headquarters; city attorney of 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; taught at GeorgetownSaginaw 1919-1923; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- University, Washington, D.C., 1977-1978; unsuccessful candi- eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served date for election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; isafrom March 4, 1923, until his death July 18, 1931, on board resident of McLean, Va. the transport Henderson, while en route to the United States from Honolulu, Hawaii; chairman, Committee on Elections VILAS, William Freeman, a Senator from Wisconsin;No. 2 (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); inter- born in Chelsea, Orange County, Vt., July 9, 1840; movedment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich. with his parents to Madison, Dane County, Wis., in 1851; attended the common schools; graduated from the Universi- VINCENT, Earl W., a Representative from Iowa; born in ty of Wisconsin at Madison in 1858 and from the law depart-Washington County, near Keota, Iowa, March 27, 1886; at- ment of the University of Albany, New York, in 1860;wastended the rural schools; was graduated from Keota High admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Madison,School in 1904, from Monmouth (Ill.) College in 1909, and Wis., in 1860; enlisted in the Union Army during the Civilfrom the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa War; captain of Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, Wis-City in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and com- consin Volunteer Infantry, and afterward major and lieuten-menced practice in Guthrie Center, Iowa; prosecuting attor- ant colonel of the regiment; professor of law at the Universi-ney of Guthrie County 1919-1922; member of the Iowa house ty of Wisconsin; regent of the university 1880-1885;one ofof representatives 1923-1927; elected as a Republican to the three revisers appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court inSeventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 1875 to prepare a revised body of the statute law; member,nation of William R. Green and served from June 4, 1928, to State assembly 1885; Postmaster General of the UnitedMarch 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in States in the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland 1885-1928; resumed the practice of law in Guthrie Center, Iowa; 1888, when he became Secretary of the Interior of thedelegate to the Republican State convention in 1930; ap- United States, and served until March 1889; electedas apointed judge of the fifth judicial district of Iowa in Febru- Democrat to the United States Senate in 1891, and servedary 1945, and served until his death in Guthrie Center, Iowa, from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful candi-May 22, 1953; interment in Union Cemetery. date for renomination in 1896; chairman, Committeeon Post VINCENT, William Davis, a Representative from Kansas; Office and Post Roads (Fifty-third Congress); regent of theborn near Dresden, Weakley County, Tenn., October 11, University of Wisconsin 1898-1905; resumed the practice of1852; moved with his parents to Riley County, Kans., in 1858 law; member of the commission to provide for the construc-and to Manhattan, Kans., in 1864; attended the public Biographies 1985 schools and the State agricultural college in Manhattan,by President Franklin D. Roosevelt an associate justice of Kans.; engaged in business in Manhattan 1872-1876; movedthe United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colum- to Clay Center, Kans., in 1878 and engaged in mercantilebia and subsequently designated by Chief Justice Stone on pursuits; elected as a member of the city council in 1880;March 2, 1942, as chief judge of the United States Emergen- member of the State board of railroad commissioners in 1893cy Court of Appeals; served in each capacity until his resig- and 1894; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congressnation May 27, 1943, to become Director of the Office of (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); engaged in the hardwareEconomic Stabilization, in which capacity he served until business in Clay Center, Clay County, Kans., until his deathMarch 5, 1945; Federal Loan Administrator from March 6 to in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, 1922; interment in Green-April 3, 1945; director of War Mobilization and Reconversion wood Cemetery, Clay Center, Kans. from April 4 to July 22, 1945; appointed Secretary of the VINING,John, a Delegate, a Representative, and a Sena-Treasury by President Harry S. Truman and served from tor from Delaware; born in Dover, Kent County, Del., De-July 23, 1945, to June 23, 1946; appointed and took the oath cember 23, 1758; studied law; was admitted to the bar inof office as Chief Justice of the United States on June 24, 1782 and commenced practicein New Castle County; 1946, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., Sep- Member of the Continental Congress 1784-1785; member,tember 8, 1953; interment in Pinehill Cemetery, Louisa, Ky. Bibliography: DAB; Bolner, James. "Fred M. Vinson: 1890-1938, The State house of representatives 1787-1788; elected to the First Years of Relative Obscurity." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Second Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); was 63 (January 1965): 3-16; Hatcher, John H. "Fred Vinson: Congressman not a candidate for renomination in 1792; member, State from Kentucky, A Political Biography: 1890-1938." Ph.D. dissertation, Uni- senate 1793; elected to the United States Senate and served versity of Cincinnati, 1967. from March 4, 1793, to January 19, 1798, when he resigned; died in Dover, Del., in February 1802; interment in Episco- VINTON,Samuel Finley, a Representative from Ohio; pal Cemetery. born in South Hadley, Mass., September 25, 1792; was grad- uated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1814; VINSON,Carl (grand-uncle of Samuel Augustus Nunn), astudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced Representative from Georgia; born in Milledgeville, Baldwinpractice in Gallipolis, Ohio; held several local offices; elected County, Ga., November 18, 1883; attended the Georgia Mili-to the Eighteenth through Twenty-second Congresses, elect- tary College at Milledgeville, and was graduated fromed as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress, and Mercer University Law School, Macon, Ga., in 1902; waselected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in1823-March 3, 1837); declined to be a candidate for renomi- Milledgeville; prosecuting attorney of Baldwin County, Ga.,nation in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and 1906-1909; member of the State house of representativesto the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1909-1912, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1911 and 1912;1851); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirtieth appointed judge of the county court of Baldwin County andCongress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; served from October 3, 1912, to November 2, 1914, when heunsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Ohio in resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Dem- ocrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused1851; appointed by President Lincoln in 1862 to appraise the by the resignation of Thomas W. Hardwick; reelected to theslaves emancipated in the District of Columbia; died in Sixty-fourth and to the twenty-four succeeding CongressesWashington, D.C., May 11, 1862; interment in Pine Street and served from November 3, 1914, to January 3, 1965);Cemetery, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-second Bibliography: DAB. through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Armed VISCLOSKY, Peter, a Representative from Indiana; born Services(Eighty-first,Eighty-secondandEighty-fourthin Gary, md., August 13, 1949; B.S., Indiana University, through Eighty-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate forGary, 1970; J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resided in Mil- 1973; LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, Washing- ledgeville, Ga., where he died June 1, 1981; interment inton, D.C., 1982; admitted to the Indiana State bar in 1974 Memory Hill Cemetery. and practiced law 1974-1976; staff, United States House of Bibliography: Enders, Calvin William. "The Vinson Navy." Ph.D. disser-Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, 1977-1980, tation, Michigan State University, 1970; Walter, John C. "Congressman Carl Vinson and Franklin D Roosevelt: Naval Preparedness and theand Committee on the Budget, 1980-1982; practiced law in Coming of World War II, 1932-40." Georgia Historical Quarterly 64 (Fall Merrillville, md., 1983-1984; elected as a Democrat to the 1980): 294-305. Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Merriliville, md. VINSON,Frederick Moore, a Representative from Ken- tucky; born in Louisa, Lawrence County, Ky., January 22, VIVIAN,Weston Edward, a Representative from Michi- 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from thegan; born in Newfoundland, Canada, October 25,1924; law department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1911;moved to the United States with parents September 5, 1929, was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedand settled in Cranston, R.I.; attended the Cranston schools; practice in Louisa; city attorney of Louisa in 1914 and 1915;served in the United States Navy as an enlisted man and served in the United States Army during the First Worldofficer, 1943-1946; graduated from Union College, Schenecta- War; Commonwealth attorney for the thirty-second judicialdy, N.Y., in 1945, from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- district of Kentucky 192 1-1924; elected as a Democrat to thenology at Cambridge, Mass., in 1949, and from the Universi- Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., Ph.D., 1959; candidate nation of William J Fields; reelected to the Sixty-ninth andfor city council, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1958-1959; research engi- Seventieth Congresses and served from January 12, 1924, toneer and lecturer at the University of Michigan 1951-1959; March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928chairman of Ann Arbor City Democratic Committee in 1959- to the Seventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in1960; electronics engineer and consultant for various firms Kentucky; again elected to the Seventy-second and to theand institutions; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931,Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3,1967); unsuccessful to May 12, 1938, when he resigned, having been appointedcandidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; 1986 Biographical Directory vice president, Vicom Industries, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.,was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in November 1969 to present; lecturer, Institute of PublicDavenport, Iowa; member of the board of aldermen of Dav- Policy Studies, University of Michigan; telecommunicationsenport in 1889; served as mayor of Davenport from 1893 to consultant; is a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich. 1897; member of the board of education 1898-1901; corpora- VOIGT, Edward, a Representative from Wisconsin; borntion counsel in 1913 and 1914; elected as a Democrat to the in Bremen, Germany, December 1, 1873; in 1883 immigrated Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death to the United States with his parents, who settled in Mil-of Irvin S. Pepper and served from February 10, 1914, to waukee, Wis.; attended the public schools; employed in lawMarch 3, 1915; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 and insurance office for several years; was graduated fromto the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of his law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madisonprofession; died in Piedmont, Calif., August 25, 1930; the in 1899; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-remains were cremated and the ashes placed in a crypt in menced practice in Sheboygan, Wis.; district attorney of She-the California Crematorium. boygan County 1905-1911; city attorney for Sheboygan 1913- VOLSTEAD, Andrew John, a Representative from Minne- 1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to thesota; born near Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minn., October 31, four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1927); 1860; attended the public schools of the district and St. was not a candidate for reelection in 1926 to the SeventiethOlaf's College, Northfield, Minn.; was graduated from De- Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention incorah Institute, Decorah, Iowa, in 1881; studied law; was 1924; resumed the practice of law in Sheboygan, Wis.; elect-admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Lac ed in 1928 as a judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Wiscon-qui Parle County, Minn.; moved to Grantsburg, Wis., in sin; reelected in 1934, and served from January 1929 until1885, and in the following year to Granite Falls, Yellow his death at his summer home at Crystal Lake, near Sheboy-Medicine County, Minn.; member of the board Of education gan, Wis., August 26, 1934; interment in Forest Home Ceme-and served as president; city attorney of Granite Falls; pros- tery, Milwaukee, Wis. ecuting attorney of Yellow Medicine County 1886-1902; YOLK, Lester David, a Representative from New York;mayor of Granite Falls 1900-1902; elected as a Republican to born in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 17, 1884; attended thethe Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding Congresses public and high schools; was graduated from Long Island(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on the Medical School in 1906 and from St. Lawrence UniversityJudiciary (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); intro- Law School in 1911; in 1906 engaged in the practice ofduced the National Prohibition Act, passed in October 1919; medicine; editor of the Medical Economist; was admitted tounsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty- the bar in 1913 and engaged in the practice of law; electedeighth Congress; resumed the practice of law, and resided in as a Progressive to the New York Assembly in 1912; declinedGranite Falls, Minn., until his death there January 20, 1947; to be a candidate for renomination; coroner's physician ininterment in City Cemetery. 1914; during the First World War served as first lieutenant Bibliography: DAB. in the Medical Corps with the American Expeditionary VOORHEES, Charles Stewart (son of Daniel Wolsey Voor- Forces in 1918 and 1919; was largely instrumental in secur-hees), a Delegate from the Territory of Washington; born in ing the soldiers' bonus granted by the State of New York;Covington, Fountain County, md., June 4, 1853; attended judge advocate of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the StateWabash College, Crawfordsville, md., and was graduated of New York in 1922; delegate to the Republican State con-from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., June 26, 1873; ventions in 1920, 1924, 1942, and 1946; elected as a Republi-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced can to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused bypractice in Terre Haute, md.; moved to the Territory of the resignation of Reuben L. Haskell; reelected to the Sixty-Washington in 1882 and settled in Colfax; prosecuting attor- seventh Congress and served from November 2, 1920, toney for Whitman County 1882-1885; elected as a Democrat March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885- to the Sixty-eighth Congress; member from New York CityMarch 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888; on the American Waterways Commission in 1924; assistantresumed the practice of law in Colfax, Wash.; moved to attorney general of New York State from March 1, 1943, toSpokane, Wash., and continued the practice of law until his January 15, 1958; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 30, 1962;death there December 26, 1909; interment in Greenwood interment in Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, N.Y. Cemetery. VOLKMER, Harold Lee, a Representative from Missouri; born in Jefferson City, Cole County, Mo., April 4, 1931; VOORHEES, Daniel Wolsey (father of Charles Stewart graduated from St. Peters Catholic schools in Jefferson City;Voorhees), a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; attended Jefferson City Junior College and St. Louis (Mo.)born in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, September University; LL.B., University of Missouri, school of Law,26, 1827; moved with his parents to Indiana in early child- Columbia, 1955; admitted to the Missouri bar in 1955; servedhood; attended the common schools of Veedersburg, md.; in the United States Army, 1955-1957; served as assistantgraduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University attorney general of Missouri, 1955; in 1958, commenced pri-at Greencastle in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar vate practice of law in Hannibal, Mo.; prosecuting attorney,in 1851 and commenced practice in Covington, md.; moved Marion County, Mo., 1960-1966; served in Missouri house ofto Terre Haute and continued the practice of law; unsuccess- representatives, 1967-1976; elected as a Democrat to theful candidate for election in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Con- Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (Januarygress; United States district attorney for Indiana 1858-1861; 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Hannibal, Mo.elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty- eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); presented VOLLMER, Henry, a Representative from Iowa; born incredentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress Davenport, Iowa, July 28, 1867; attended the public and highand served from March 4, 1865, to February 23, 1866, when schools of Davenport; distributing clerk of the Fiftieth Con-he was succeeded by Henry D. Washburn, who contested the gress in 1887 and 1888; studied law at the University of Iowaelection; elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con- at Iowa City and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.;gresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candi- Biographies 1987 date for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; ap- D.C.,in 1921 and 1922; was admitted to the bar in 1923 and pointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to thecommenced practice in Columbus, Ohio; member of the State United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathhouse of representatives in 1923 and 1924; served in the of Oliver H.P.T. Morton; reelected in 1885 and again in 1891,State senate in 1925 and 1926; director of aeronautics of and served from November 6, 1877, to March 3, 1897; unsuc-Ohio in 1929 and 1930; elected as a Republican to the Seven- cessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on thety-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, Library (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Finance (Fifty-1939-January 3, 1959); did not seek renomination in 1958; third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., April 10, 1897;delegate to the United Nations Assembly in 1951; regent of interment in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, md.Smithsonian Institution 1949-1959; resumed the practice of Bibliography: DAB; Jordan, Henry D. "Daniel Wolsey Voorhees." Missis- law; died in Columbus, Ohio, August 25, 1968; interment in sippi Valley Historical Review 6 (March 1920): 532-55; Kenworthy, Leonard Greenlawn Cemetery. S. The Tall Sycamore of the Wabash, Daniel Voorhees. Boston: B. Hum- phries, 1936. VOSE, Roger, a Representative from New Hampshire; VOORHIS, Charles Henry, a Representative from Newborn in Milton, Norfolk County, Mass., February 24, 1763; Jersey; born in Spring Valley, Bergen County, N.J., Marchmoved to New Hampshire in 1766 with his parents, who 13, 1833; attended the district schools; was graduated fromsettled near Walpole, Cheshire County; was graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1853; moved toHarvard University in 1790; studied law; was admitted to Jersey City; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856the bar in 1793 and commenced practice in Walpole, N.H.; and commenced practice in Jersey City, N.J.; delegate to themember of the State senate in 1809, 1810, and 1812; elected Republican National Convention in 1864; presiding judge ofas a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses Bergen County, N.J., in 1868 and 1869; one of the organizers(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); member of the State house of of the Hackensack Improvement Commission in 1869 andrepresentatives in 1818; chief justice of the court of common also of the Hackensack Academy; organized and served aspleas 1818-1820; chief justice of the court of sessions 1820- first president of the Hackensack Water Co. in 1873; became1825; resumed the practice of law; died in Walpole, N.H., interested in banking; elected as a Republican to the Forty-October 26, 1841; interment in the Village Cemetery. sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Con- VREELAND, Albert Lincoln, a Representative from New gress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in JerseyJersey; born in East Orange, Essex County, N.J., July 2, City, N.J., April 15, 1896; interment in New York Cemetery,1901; attended the public schools; served as ambulance Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J. driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919; was graduated from the New York Electrical School in New VOORHIS, Horace Jeremiah (Jerry), a RepresentativeYork City in 1919, the Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J., in from California; born in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kans.,1922, and the New Jersey Law School at Newark in 1925; April 6, 1901; attended the public schools in Ottawa, Kans.,was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in Oklahoma City, Okla., Peoria, Ill., and Pontiac, Mich; wasEast Orange, N.J.; assistant city counsel and city prosecutor graduated from Yale University in 1923 and from Claremontof East Orange 1929-1934; judge of the recorder's court of (Calif.) College in 1928; worked in a factory, handled freightEast Orange 1934-1938; elected as a Republican to the Sev- on the railroads, and worked as a cowboy in Wyoming; trav-enty-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1939- eling representative for Y.M.C.A. in Germany in 1923 andJanuary 3, 1943); was a captain in the United States Army 1924; worked in an automobile assembling plant in Char-Reserve and on December 9, 1941, was granted leave of lotte, N.C., in 1924 and 1925; teacher in Allendale Farmabsence from the House of Representatives to go on active School, Lake Villa, Ill., in 1925 and 1926 and Dray Cottageduty and assigned to the Military Intelligence Section of the Home for Boys, Laramie, Wyo., in 1926 and 1927; headmas-War Department; transferred to the Seventy-sixth Infantry ter and trustee of Voorhis School for Boys, San Dimas,Division in April 1942; commissioned a major in Infantry on Calif., 1928-1938; lecturer at Pomona College, Claremont,July 17, 1942, and on July 18, 1942, by Presidential directive, Calif., 1930-1935; unsuccessful candidate for the State assem-was ordered back to the House of Representatives; was not a bly in 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth andcandidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-JanuaryCongress; reentered the Army on January 4, 1943, and 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to theserved two years in Australia and New Guinea; commis- Eightieth Congress; author; executive director of the Cooper- ative League of the United States of America, 1947-1967;sioned a lieutenant colonel on August 27, 1944, and ordered became secretary, Group Health Association of America, into inactive duty August 27, 1945; colonel, A.I., USAR (re- 1947; resided in Claremont, Calif., until his death there,tired); police commissioner of East Orange, N.J., 1945-1951; September 11, 1984; interment in Mountain View Cemetery,public relations officer for the Celanese Corporation of Pasadena, Calif. America 1945-1946; resumed the practice of law; died in Bibliography: Bullock, Paul. Jerry Voorhis, The Idealist as Politician. Orange, N.J., May 3, 1975; interment in Glendale Cemetery, New York: Vantage, 1978; Voorhis, Jerry. Confessions of a Congressman. Bloomfield, N.J. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1947. VREELAND, Edward Butterfield, a Representative from VORYS, John Martin, a Representative from Ohio; bornNew York; born in Cuba, Allegany County, N.Y., December in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, June 16, 1896; attended7, 1856; was graduated from Friendship Academy in 1877; the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio; duringmoved to Salamanca, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., in 1869; the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the Unitedsuperintendent of the public schools at Salamanca, N.Y., States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 19191877-1882; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881, but with rank of lieutenant; was graduated from Yale Universi-did not engage in active practice; engaged in banking and in ty in 1919 and from Ohio State University Law School atthe oil and insurance business; became president of the Sala- Columbus in 1923; teacher in the College of Yale, Changsha,manca Trust Co. in 1891, served as postmaster of Salamanca China, in 1919 and 1920; assistant secretary, American dele-1889-1893; was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth gation, Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington,Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 1988 Biographical Directory

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Hooker; reelected to the Fifty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from November 7, w 1899, to March 3, 1913; chairman, Committee on Banking WACHTER, Frank Charles, a Representative from Mary- and Currency (Sixty-first Congress); declined to be a candi-land; born in Baltimore, Md., September 16, 1861; attended date for renomination in 1912; appointed a member of theprivate schools and St. Paul's Evangelical School at Balti- National Monetary Commission, serving as vice chairmanmore, Md.; learned the trade of clothing cutter and in 1892 1909-1912; resumed former business pursuits in Salamanca,engaged in the cloth-shrinking business; member of the jail N.Y., until January 1, 1936, when he retired from activeboard of Baltimore 1896-1898; unsuccessful candidate for business; died in Salamanca, N.Y., May 8, 1936; interment inpolice commissioner of Baltimore in 1898; elected as a Re- Wildwood Cemetery. publican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Con- gresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate VROOM, Peter Dumont, a Representative from Newfor renomination in 1906; resumed his former business pur- Jersey; born in Hillsboro, Somerset County, N.J., Decembersuits in Baltimore; member of the board of managers of 12, 1791; attended the common schools and the SomervilleMaryland Penitentiary from 1909 until his death in Balti- (N.J.) Academy; was graduated from Columbia College, Newmore, Md., on July 1, 1910; interment in Loudon Park Ceme- York City, in 1808; studied law; was admitted to the bar intery. 1813 and commenced practice in Hilisboro; moved to Somer- ville in 1821; member of the State general assembly in 1826, WADDELL, Alfred Moore, a Representative from North 1827, and 1829; became a sergeant at law in 1828; electedCarolina; born in Hillsboro, Orange County, N.C., September Governor of New Jersey as a Jacksonian in 1829, 1830, and16, 1834; attended Bingham's School and Caldwell Institute 1831; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832, but againin Hillsboro; was graduated from the University of North elected in 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836; on account of ill healthCarolina at Chapel Hill in 1853; studied law; was admitted declined to become a candidate for renomination; was ap-to the bar in 1855 and began practice in Wilmington, New pointed a commissioner to adjust the claims of the ChoctawHanover County, N.C.; clerk of a court of equity 1858-1861; Indians in 1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixthdelegate to the Constitutional Union National Convention at Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candi-Baltimore in 1860; engaged in newspaper work; edited the date for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress;Wilmington Daily Herald in 1860 and 1861; served as lieu- moved to Trenton, N.J., and resumed the practice of law;tenant colonel of the Third Cavalry, Forty-first North Caroli- delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1844; ap-na Regiment, during the Civil War; elected as a Democrat to pointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Jersey inthe Forty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses 1853, but declined; appointed Minister to Prussia on May 24,(March 4, 1871-March 3,1879); chairman, Committee on 1853, and served until August 10, 1857; again resumed thePost Office and Post Roads (Forty-fifth Congress); unsuccess- ful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Con- practice of law; delegate to the peace convention held ingress; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in liter- Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means toary pursuits; editor of the Charlotte Journal-Observer in prevent the impending war; reporter of the supreme court of1881 and 1882; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- New Jersey 1862-1872; commissioner of the sinking fund oftions in 1880 and 1896; mayor of Wilmington 1898-1904; died New Jersey from 1864 until his death; died in Trenton, N.J.,in Wilmington, N.C., March 17, 1912; interment in Oakdale November 18, 1873; interment in the cemetery of the FirstCemetery. Reformed Dutch Church, Somerville, N.J. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. WADDILL, Edmund, Jr., a Representative from Virginia; VUCANOVICH, Barbara Farrell, a Representative fromborn in Charles City County, Va., May 22, 1855; educated by Nevada; born Barbara Farrell in Camp Dix, New Jersey,private tutors and attended Norwood Academy; deputy clerk June 22, 1921; attended Miss Quinn's School, Albany, N.Y.;of the courts of Charles City, New Kent, Hanover, and Hen- graduated from Albany Academy for Girls, Albany, 1938;rico Counties and of the circuit court of the city of Rich- attended, Manhattan College of Sacred Heart, New Yorkmond; studied law privately and in the University of Virgin- City, 1938-1939; businesswoman; district staff assistant foria at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and United States Senator , 1974-1982; delegate,commenced the practice of law in Richmond in 1878; judge Nevada State Republican conventions, 1952-1980; delegate,of the Henrico County Court in 1880; resigned in 1883 to Republican National Convention, 1976 and 1980; electedas aaccept the position of United States attorney for the eastern Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeedingdistrict of Virginia, which position he held until 1885; Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a residentmember of the State house of delegates from 1886 to March of Reno, Nev. 4, 1889, when he resigned; unsuccessful Republican candi- date for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; successful- VURSELL, Charles Wesley (cousin of Carl Bert Albert),aly contested as a Republican the election of George D. Wise Representative from Illinois; born in Salem, Marion County,to the Fifty-first Congress and served from April 12, 1890, to Ill., February 8, 1881; attended the public schools of MarionMarch 3, 1891; was not a candidate for renomination in County, Ill.; hardware merchant in 1904; sheriff of Marion1890; resumed the practice of law in Richmond, Va.; delegate County 1910-1914; member of the State house of representa-to the Republican National Conventions in 1892 and 1896; tives 1914-1916; owner and publisher of the Salem Republi-appointed judge of the District Court of the United States can 1916-1948; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighthfor the Eastern District of Virginia March 22, 1908, and and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-served until June 2, 1921, when he was appointed as judge of January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inthe United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the fourth 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; retired and resided incircuit and was presiding judge at the time of his death in Salem, Ill., where he died September 21, 1974; interment in Richmond, Va., April 9, 1931; interment in Hollywood Ceme- East Lawn Cemetery. tery. 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WADDILL, James Richard, a Representative from Mis-of medical jurisprudence 1895-1905; president of the Iowa souri; born in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., NovemberState Bar Association in 1897 and 1898; elected as a Demo- 22, 1842; attended private schools and Springfield College; crat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, during the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Union1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Army and served from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned,Fifty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession having attained the rank of first lieutenant; studied law;in Iowa City, Iowa; delegate to the Democratic National was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Conventions in 1904 and 1912; appointed judge of the United Springfield, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Greene CountyStates District Court for the Southern District of Iowa in 1874-1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress1915 and served until his death April 16, 1931, in Los Ange- (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); resumed the practice of lawles, Calif., while on a visit in that State; interment in St. and also engaged in mining operations near Joplin, Mo.; diedJoseph's Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa. in Deming, Luna County, N.Mex., June 14, 1917; interment Bibliography: DAB. in Mountain View Cemetery. WADE, William Henry, a Representative from Missouri; WADE, Benjamin Franklin (brother of Edward Wade), aborn near Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, November 3, Senator from Ohio; born in Feeding Hills, near Springfield,1835; attended the common schools, Grove Academy, and Hampden County, Mass., October 27, 1800; received his earlyAntioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; engaged in agricul- education from his mother; moved with his parents to Ando-tural pursuits; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union ver, Ohio, in1821; taught school; studied medicine inArmy April 17, 1861, and was mustered out April 26, 1866; Albany, N.Y., 1823-1825; returned to Ohio; studied law; wasmoved to Missouri in May 1866 and resumed agricultural admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice inpursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1881- Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Ashtabula County 1835-1837; member, State senate 1837-and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); 1838, 1841-1842; judge of the third judicial court of Ohiochairman, Committee on Labor (Fifty-first Congress); unsuc- 1847-1851; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate tocessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress; fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1851,again engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Springfield, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; reelected as a Republican in 1856 and again in 1863 and served fromGreene County, Mo., January 13, 1911; interment in Maple March 15, 1851, to March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate forPark Cemetery. renomination in 1868; served as President pro tempore of WADLEIGH, Bainbridge, a Senator from New Hamp- the Senate during the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses;shire; born in Bradford, Merrimack County, N.H., January chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-seventh, Thirty-4, 1831; attended the common schools and Kimball Union eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful Republi-Academy, Plainfield, N.H.; studied law; was admitted to the can candidate for the vice presidential nomination in 1868;bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Milford, Hillsbor- resumed the practice of law in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1869;ough County, N.H.; served six terms as town moderator; appointed a government director of the Union Pacific Rail-member, State house of representatives 1855-1856, 1859- road; member of the Santo Domingo Commission in 1871;1860, 1869-1872; elected as a Republican to the United died in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on March 2, 1878;States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, interment in Oakdale Cemetery. 1879; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878; chair- Bibliography: DAB; Shover, Kenneth. "The Life of Benjamin F. Wade." man, Committee on Patents (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Ph.D.dissertation,University of California,Berkeley,1962;Trefousse, Hans L Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican From Ohio. NewCongresses), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty- York: Twayne Publishers, 1963. fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass., where he died January 24, 1891; interment in West Street WADE, Edward (brother of Benjamin Franklin Wade), aCemetery, Milford, N.H. Representative from Ohio; born in West Springfield, Hamp- den County, Mass., November 22, 1802; received a limited WADSWORTH, James, a Delegate from Connecticut; born schooling; moved to Andover, Ashtabula County, Ohio, inin Durham, Middlesex County, Conn., July 8, 1730; received 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 anda thorough English training and was graduated from Yale commenced practice in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio;College in 1748; studied law and was admitted to the bar; justice of the peace of Ashtabula County in 1831; moved totown clerk 1756-1786; justice of the peace in 1762; appointed Unionvillein1832;prosecuting attorney of Ashtabulajudge of the New Haven County Court in 1773 and promoted County 1833; moved to Cleveland in 1837; elected as a Free-to presiding judge five years later; member of the committee Soil candidate to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected asof safety; served in the Revolutionary Army as a colonel and a Republican to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-brigadier general of Connecticut Militia, and as a second sixth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); was not amajor general 1777-1779; Member of the Continental Con- candidate for renomination in 1860; died in East Cleveland,gress 1784; member of the State executive council 1785-1789; Cuyahoga County, Ohio, August 13,1866; interment inState comptroller in 1786 and 1787; member of the State Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. ratification convention in 1788 and opposed adoption of the Constitution; died in Durham, Conn., September 22, 1817; WADE, Martin Joseph, a Representative from Iowa; borninterment in the Old Cemetery. in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vt., October 20, 1861; moved to Iowa with his parents at an early age; attended the WADSWORTH, James Wolcott (father of James Wolcott common schools and St. Joseph's College (later ColumbiaWadsworth, Jr.), a Representative from New York; born in University), Dubuque, Iowa; was graduated from the lawPhiladelphia, Pa., October 12, 1846; attended Hopkins Gram- department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1886;mar School, New Haven, Conn.; served in the Civil War as was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Iowacaptain on the staff of Gen. G.K. Warren and was made City, Johnson County, Iowa, 1886-1893; judge of the eighthbrevet major; after the war settled in Geneseo, N.Y., and judicial district of Iowa 1893-1903; lecturer in the law de-engaged in agricultural pursuits; supervisor of Geneseo partment of the University of Iowa 1891-1903 and professor1873-1876; member of the State assembly in 1878 and 1879; 1990 Biographical Directory

State comptroller in 1880 and 1881; elected as a Republicanagent; served in the Massachusetts senate in 1792; elected to to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused bythe Third Congress and reelected as a Federalist to the six the resignation of Eldridge G. Lapham; reelected to thesucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1807); moved Forty-eighth Congress and served from November 8, 1881, toto Oxford County, Maine, in 1807 to survey and improve a March 3, 1885; elected to the Fifty-second and to the sevenlarge tract of land granted to him by the Government; died succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1907); chair-in Hiram, Oxford County, Maine, November 12, 1829; inter- man, Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ment in the family cemetery at Wadsworth Hall. ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Bibliography: DAB; Wadsworth, Peleg. Letters of General Peleg Wads- 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected president of the board worth to His Son John, Student at Harvard College, 17.96-17.98; Biographi- of managers for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer cal Chapter and Notes by George and Margaret Rose. Portland, Maine Soldiers; engaged in agricultural pursuits and interested in Maine Historical Society, 1961. livestock; member of the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1914; president of the Genesee Valley Nation- WADSWORTH, William Henry, a Representative from al Bank; died in Washington, D.C., on December 24, 1926;Kentucky; born in Maysville, Mason County, Ky., July 4, interment in the family plot in Temple Hill Cemetery, Gene-1821; attended town and county private schools; was grad- seo, N.Y. uated from Augusta College, Bracken County, Ky., in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced WADSWORTH, James Wolcott, Jr. (son of James Wads-practice in Maysville, Ky.; member of the State senate 1853- worth), a Senator and a Representative from New York;1856; presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket born in Geneseo, N.Y., August 12, 1877; received preparatoryin 1860; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and education at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; graduatedThirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); was from Yale University in 1898; during the Spanish-Americannot a candidate for renomination in 1864; during the Civil War served as a private in the Puerto Rican campaign inWar served as aide to General Nelson, with the rank of 1898; engaged in livestock and agricultural pursuits nearcolonel, at the Battle of Ivy Mountain; appointed United Geneseo, N.Y., and as manager of a ranch in Texas 19 11-States commissioner to Mexico, under the treaty of Washing- 1915; member, New York State assembly 1905-1910, servington for the adjustment of claims, by President Grant in 1869; as speaker 1906-1910; elected as a Republican to the Unitedelected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March States Senate in 1914; reelected in 1920 and served from4, 1885-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomina- March 4, 1915, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate fortion in 1886; resumed the practice of law; died in Maysville, reelection in 1926; chairman, Committee on Military AffairsMason County, Ky., April 2, 1893; interment in Maysville (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses); RepublicanCemetery. whip 1915; resumed agricultural pursuits; elected to the Sev- enty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, WAGENER, David Douglas, a Representative from Penn- 1933-January 3, 1951); was not a candidate for renomination sylvania; born in Easton, Pa., October 11, 1792; attended the in 1950; appointed by President Harry Truman chairman ofcommon schools; captain of the Easton Union Guards 1816- the National Security Training Commission in 1951 and1829; engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as a Jacksoni- served until his death in Washington, D.C., June 21, 1952;an to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and interment in Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y. elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Bibliography: DAB; Fausold, Martin. James W Wadsworth,Jr.: The Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1841); chairman, Com- Gentleman From New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,1975; mittee on Militia (Twenty-fifth Congress); established the Hoithusen, Henry. James W. Wadsworth, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch. New Easton Bank in 1852 and was its president until his death in York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Easton, Northampton County, Pa., October 1, 1860; inter- WADSWORTH, Jeremiah, a Delegate and a Representa-ment in Easton Cemetery. tive from Connecticut; born in Hartford, Conn., July 12, WAGGAMAN, George Augustus, a Senator from Louisi- 1743; attended the common schools; went to sea in 1761; became first mate of a vessel and subsequently master;ana; born in Caroline County, Md., in 1782; completed pre- served as deputy and commissary general 1775-1778 duringparatory studies under private tutors; studied law; was ad- the Revolution; Member of the Continental Congress in 1788;mitted to the bar in Caroline County, Md., in 1811; served in member of the Connecticut ratification convention in 1788;the War of 1812 under General Andrew Jackson at New elected to the First, Second, and Third Congresses (March 4,Orleans; settled in Baton Rouge, La., and commenced the 1789-March 3,1795); was not a candidate for reelection;practice of law in 1813; attorney general of the third district member of the State house of representatives in 1795 and ofof Louisiana in 1813; judge of the third judicial circuit court the State executive council 1795-1801; engaged in agricultur-in 1818; assistant judge of the criminal court in New Orleans al pursuits; died in Hartford, Conn., April 30, 1804; inter-in 1819; interested in sugarcane growing; secretary of state ment in Ancient Burying Ground. of Louisiana 1830-1832; elected to the United States Senate Bibliography: DAB; Destler, Chester McArthur. "The Gentleman Farmer to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward and the New Agriculture: Jeremiah Wadsworth." Agricultural History 46 Livingston and served from November 15, 1831, to March 3, (January 1972): 135-53; Platt, John DR. "Jeremiah Wadsworth: Federalist 1835; resumed the practice of law in New Orleans and also Entrepreneur." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1955. again engaged in sugarcane planting; participated as a prin- cipal in a duel and received injuries from which he died in WADSWORTH, Peleg, a Representative from Massachu-New Orleans, La., March 31, 1843; interment in Girod Ceme- setts; born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748; attended public and private schools, and was graduated from Harvard Col-tery. lege in 1769; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kingston, WAGGONNER, Joseph David, Jr., a Representative from Mass.; served in the Revolutionary Army as an aide to Gen.Louisiana; born near Plain Dealing, Bossier Parish, La., Sep- in 1776; engineer under General Thomas intember 7, 1918; graduated from the Louisiana Polytechnic 1776 and 1777; brigadier general of militia in 1777; adjutantInstitute, Ruston, La., in 1941; served as a lieutenant com- general of Massachusetts in 1778; moved to Portland, Mainemander in the United States Navy, January 1942 to Novem- (then a district of Massachusetts), in 1784 and became a landber 1945, and also in the Korean conflict, May 1951 to No- Biographies 1991 vember 1952; elected to the Bossier Parish School Board inthrough Seventy-ninth Congresses); author of the National 1954, elected president in 1956, and again elected a memberLabor Relations Act, or "Wagner" Act, that created the in 1960; elected a member of Louisiana State Board of Edu- National Labor Relations Board in 1935; delegate to the cation (Third Public Service Commission District) in 1960;United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bret- elected president of the United Schools Committee of Louisi-ton Woods in 1944; died in New York City, May 4, 1953; ana and president of Louisiana School Boards Association ininterment in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York City. 1961; operator of a wholesale petroleum products distribu- Bibliography: DAB; Bryne, Thomas. "The Social Thought of Senator tion agency for North Bossier Parish, 1952 to present; elect- Robert F. Wagner." Ph D dissertation, Georgetown University, 1951; Huth- ed as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by specialmacher, J. Joseph. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liber- election, December 19, 1961, to fill the vacancy caused by the alism. New York: Atheneum, 1968. death of ; reelected to the eight succeeding WAGONER, George Chester Robinson, a Representative Congresses and served from December 19, 1961, to Januaryfrom Missouri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 3, 1863; 3, 1979; was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to theattended the public schools and Beaumont Hospital Medical Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Plain Dealing, La.College, St. Louis, Mo.; president of the Wagoner Undertak- WAGNER, Earl Thomas, a Representative from Ohio;ing Co. and secretary and treasurer of the H.H. Wagoner born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, April 27, 1908;Realty Co., St. Louis, Mo.; successfully contested as a Repub- attended parochial and public schools; was graduated fromlican the election of James J. Butler to the Fifty-seventh the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio, inCongress and served from February 26, 1901, to March 3, 1930; was admitted to the bar in September 1930 and com-1903; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; menced the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio; district coun-resumed business activities; died in St. Louis, Mo., April 27, sel of Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933 and 1934; 1946; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. special counsel to the attorney general of Ohio in 1937 and WAIN WRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew, a Representative 1938; city solicitor of Sharonville, Ohio, in 1938 and 1939;from New York; born in New York City December 10, 1864; member of the board of education of the Cincinnati Schoolwas graduated from Columbia College and Columbia School district 1944-1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-firstof Political Science, New York City, in 1884, and from Co- Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessfullumbia Law School in 1886; was admitted to the bar the candidate for reelection in 1950 and for election to thesame year and practiced in New York City and in West- United States House of Representatives in 1952 and 1954;chester County, N.Y.; served in the Twelfth Infantry of the resumed the practice of law; city solicitor of Addyston, Ohio,New York National Guard 1889-1903; also served in the war in 1952 and 1953; general counsel for a savings and loanwith Spain as captain of the Twelfth Regiment, New York bank in Cincinnati; is a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. Volunteers; member of the State assembly 1902-1908; served WAGNER, Peter Joseph, a Representative from Newin the State senate 1909-1913; appointed as a member of the York; born at Wagners Hollow in the town of Palatine,first New York State Workmen's Compensation Commission Montgomery County, N.Y., August 14, 1795; moved to Fortin 1914 and served until 1915; served as lieutenant colonel, Plain, N.Y., with his parents in 1805; completed preparatoryinspector general's department, New York National Guard, studies; attended Fairfield Academy in 1810 and 1811; wason the Mexican border in 1916; during the First World War graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1816;served as a lieutenant colonel in the Twenty-seventh Divi- studied law; was admitted to the bar in September 1819 andsion, 1917-1919; Assistant Secretary of War from March 14, commenced practice at Fort Plain, N.Y.; also engaged in1921, to March 4, 1923, when he resigned; elected as a Re- agricultural pursuits and banking; unsuccessful candidatepublican to the Sixty-eighth and to the three succeeding for election in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; electedCongresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1931); was not a candi- as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-date for renomination in 1930; resumed the practice of law; March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Expenditures inmember of the Westchester County Park Commission 1930- the Department of War (Twenty-sixth Congress); continued1937; died in Rye, N.Y., June 3, 1945; interment in Green- the practice of law at Fort Plain until May 1873, when hewood Union Cemetery. retired; died at Fort Plain, Montgomery County, N.Y., Sep- tember 13, 1884; interment in Fort Plain Cemetery. WAIN WRIGHT, Stuyvesant, II, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 16, 1921; moved to WAGNER, Robert Ferdinand, a Senator from New York;East Hampton, N.Y., in 1927; graduated from Westminster born in Nastatten, Province Hessen-Nassau, Germany, JuneSchool, Simsbury, Conn.; interrupted legal studies at Yale 8, 1877; immigrated with his parents to the United States inUniversity when twenty years of age to enlist as a private in 1885 and settled in New York City; attended the publicthe United States Army on January 30, 1942; attended offi- schools; graduated from the College of the City of New Yorkcers candidate school; went overseas December 30, 1943, rose in 1898 and from New York Law School in 1900; was admit-through the ranks, and was commanding officer of 0.S.S. ted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in New Yorkunits of the First Army; returned to the States June 10, City; member, State assembly 1905-1908; member, State1945, and spent the last three months of his service as senate 1909-1918, the last eight years as Democratic flooradviser on intelligence coordination in the War Department leader; chairman of the State Factory Investigating Commit- in Washington, D.C.; was discharged as a captain December tee 1911-1915; delegate to the New York constitutional con-13, 1945; lieutenant colonel in the Active Army Reserve; ventions in 1915 and 1938; justice of the supreme court ofresumed legal studies and graduated from Yale University New York 1919-1926; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedLaw School in 1947; was admitted to the bar in 1948 and States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, 1938, and again incommenced practice in New York City; elected as a Republi- 1944, and served from March 4, 1927, until his resignationcan to the Eighty-third and to the three succeeding Con- on June 28, 1949, due to ill health; chairman, Committee ongresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful can- Patents (Seventy-thirdCongress), Committee on Publicdidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Con-political science instuctor at Rutgers University, 1960-1961; gresses), Committee on Banking and Currency (Seventy-fifthresumed the practice of law; president, 1975-1979, and direc- 1992 Biographical Directory tor, 1975-1985, Miltope Corp.; is a resident of Wainscott, WALBRIDGE, David Safford, a Representative from N.Y. Michigan; born in Bennington, Vt., July 30, 1802; attended WAIT, John Turner, a Representative from Connecticut;the common schools; moved to New York in 1820 and en- born in New London, Conn., August 27, 1811; moved with hisgaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits at Geneseo mother to Norwich, Conn.; attended the common schools andfrom 1820 to 1826 and at Jamestown from 1826 to 1842; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., for two years; engaged inmoved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1842; again engaged in mer- mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar incantile pursuits; became a large landowner and stock raiser; 1836 and began practice in Norwich; State's attorney for themember of the State house of representatives in 1848; served county of New London 1842-1844 and 1846-1854; unsuccess-two terms in the State senate; served as permanent chair- ful candidate for election as Lieutenant Governor in 1854,man of the first Republican State convention held July 6, 1855, 1856, and 1857; served in the State senate in 1865 and1854, at Jackson, Mich.; elected as a Republican to the 1866, the latter year as president pro tempore; member ofThirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855- the State house of representatives in 1867, 1871, and 1873,March 3, 1859); resumed his former pursuits; appointed post- serving as speaker in 1867; elected as a Republican to themaster of Kalamazoo by President Johnson; died in Kalama- Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thezoo, Mich., June 15, 1868; interment in Mountain Home death of Henry H. Starkweather; reelected as a RepublicanCemetery. to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from April 12, 1876, to March 3, 1887; was not a WALBRIDGE, Henry Sanford (cousin of Hiram Wal- candidate for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice ofbridge), a Representative from New York; born in Norwich, his profession; died in Norwich, Conn., April 21, 1899; inter-Conn., April 8, 1801; attended school in Bennington, Vt.; ment in Yantic Cemetery. moved to Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., in 1820; studied WAKEFIELD, James Beach, a Representative from Min-law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in nesota; born in Winsted, Conn., March 21, 1825; attended theIthaca; clerk of the board of supervisors of Tompkins County public schools at Westfield, Mass., and Jonesville, N.Y.; wasin 1824; member of the State assembly in 1829; president of graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1846;the village council of Ithaca, Tompkins County, in 1829 and studied law in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio; was admittedagain in 1842; again a member of the State assembly in to the bar and commenced practice in Delphi, md., in 1852;1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress moved to Shakopee, Minn., in 1854; first judge of the probate(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for court of Faribault County, Minn.; elected as a member of therenomination in 1852; trustee of Ithaca Academy 1858-1868; State house of representatives in 1858, 1863, and 1866, serv-judge and surrogate of Tompkins County 1859-1868; moved ing as speaker in the session of 1866; member of the Stateto Leonia, N.J., in 1868 and practiced law in New York City; senate 1867-1869; appointed receiver of the United Stateskilled in a railroad accident at Bergen Tunnel near Hobo- Land Office at Winnebago City, Minn., June 1, 1869, andken, N.J., January 27, 1869; interment in Ithaca City Ceme- served until January 15, 1875, when he resigned; Lieutenanttery, Ithaca, N.Y. Governor of Minnesota 1875-1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- WALBRIDGE, Hiram (cousin of Henry Sanford Wal- March 3, 1887); retired from public life; died at Blue Earth,bridge), a Representative from New York; born in Ithaca, Faribault County, Minn., August 25, 1910; interment in Ev-Tompkins County, N.Y., February 2, 1821; moved to Ohio ergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Ohio. with his parents, who settled in Toledo in 1836; attended the public schools and the University of Ohio at Athens; studied WAKEMAN, Abram, a Representative from New York;law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced prac- born in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Conn., May 31,tice in Toledo; appointed brigadier general of militia in 1843; 1824; completed preparatory studies and was graduated frommoved to New York and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Herkimer Academy, New York; studied law at Little Falls,Buffalo; member of the board of aldermen; moved to New N.Y.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City in 1847; member of the State assembly inYork City in 1847 and continued mercantile pursuits; elected 1850 and 1851; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Con-as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- gress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful Republi-March 3, 1855); declined to be a candidate for renomination can candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Con-in 1854; resumed his former pursuits in New York City; gress; delegate to the Republican National Convention inunsuccessful Union candidate for election in 1862 to the 1856; at the outbreak of the Civil War raised the Eighty-firstThirty-eighth Congress; president of the International Com- Pennsylvania Volunteers; postmaster of New York City frommercial Convention held in Detroit, Mich., July 11, 1865; March 21, 1862, to September 18, 1864; surveyor of the portelected as a delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention at of New York City; resumed the practice of law; died in NewPhiladelphia in 1866; died in New York City December 6, York City June 29, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery,1870; interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Brooklyn, N.Y. WALCOTT, Frederic Collin, a Senator from Connecticut; WAKEMAN, Seth, a Representative from New York; bornborn in New York Mills, Oneida County, N.Y., February 19, in Franklin, Vt., January 15, 1811; attended the common1869; attended the public schools of Utica, N.Y.; graduated schools; moved to Batavia, N.Y., where he studied law; wasfrom Lawrenceville (N.J.) School in 1886, from Phillips Acad- admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law;emy, Andover, Mass., in 1887, and from Yale University in district attorney for Genesee County 1850-1856; member of1891; moved to New York City in 1907 and engaged in the the State assembly in 1856 and 1857; member of the Statemanufacture of cotton cloth and in banking; moved to Nor- constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868; elected as afolk, Conn., in 1910, but continued his business connections Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-in New York City; during the First World War served with March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination inthe United States Food Administration; president of the 1872; resumed the practice of law; died in Batavia, GeneseeConnecticut Board of Fisheries and Game 1923-1928; chair- County, N.Y., January 4, 1880; interment in Elmwood Ceme-man of the Connecticut Water Commission 1925-1928; tery. member, State senate 1925-1929, serving as president pro Biographies 1993 tempore 1927-1929; elected as a Republican to the UnitedHigh School, Willimantic, Conn., and studied two years in States Senate and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3,Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., class of 1872; studied law in 1935; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; commis-New York City; was admitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie, sioner of welfare of Connecticut 1935-1939; member of theN.Y., in 1876 and practiced in New York City 1876-1883 and advisory committee of the Human Welfare Group of Yalein Ulysses, Nebr., 1883-1889; village attorney of Ulysses, University 1920-1948; regent of the Smithsonian InstitutionNebr., for several years; for four years a member of the 1941-1948; died in Stamford, Conn., on April 27, 1949; inter-board of trustees and school director of Ulysses High School; ment in Center Cemetery, Norfolk, Conn. returned to New York City in 1889; member of the New WALDEN, Hiram, a Representative from New York; bornYork assembly in 1896; commissioner of records of Kings in Pawlet, Vt., August 21, 1800; attended the district schools;County, N.Y., 1899-1904; delegate to the Republican Nation- moved to Berne, Albany County, N.Y., in 1818 and to Wal-al Convention in 1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- denville, Schoharie County, N.Y., in 1821; engaged in theninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, manufacture of axes; major general of militia; member of1909); was not a candidate for renomination in 1908; re- the State assembly in 1836; was one of the supervisors of thesumed the practice of law in New York City; moved to Los town of Wright in 1842; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-Angeles, Calif., in 1913, to Pasadena, Calif., in 1918, and first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3,1851); chairman,continued the practice of his profession; died in Pasadena, Committee on Patents (Thirty-first Congress); was not a can-Calif., June 16, 1942; remains were cremated and the ashes didate for renomination in 1850 to the Thirty-second Con-deposited in the New Cemetery, Scotland, Conn. gress; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; was also employed in the customhouse in New York City; lived in WALDO, Loren Pinckney, a Representative from Con- retirement until his death in Waldenville, N.Y., July 21,necticut; born in Canterbury, Conn., February 2, 1802; at- 1880; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Berne, Albanytended the common schools; taught school; engaged in agri- County, N.Y. cultural pursuits; moved to Tolland, Conn., in 1823; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced prac- WALDEN, Madison Miner, a Representative from Iowa;tice in Somers; superintendent of schools; postmaster of born near Scioto, Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, Octo-Somers in 1829 and 1830; returned to Tolland in 1830; ber 6, 1836; moved to Iowa in 1852; attended Denmark Acad-member of the State house of representatives 1832-1834 and emy, Lee County, Iowa, and Wesleyan College, Mount Pleas-in 1839; clerk of the State house of representatives in 1833; ant, Iowa, and was graduated from Wesleyan University,State's attorney 1837-1849; judge of probate for Tolland dis- Delaware, Ohio, in 1859; served in the Union Army as cap-trict in 1842 and 1843; member in 1847 of the committee to tain in the Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, andrevise the statutes; a member of the State house of repre- the Eighth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, from Maysentatives in 1847 and 1848; elected as a Democrat to the 1861 to May 1865; taught school; published the CentervilleThirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); chair- (Iowa) Citizen 1865-1874; member of the State house of rep-man, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Thirty-first resentatives in 1866 and 1867; served in the State senate inCongress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to 1868 and 1869; Lieutenant Governor of Iowa in 1870; electedthe Thirty-second Congress; commissioner of the school fund as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4,of Connecticut; Commissioner of Pensions under President 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Pierce from March 17, 1853, until January 10, 1856, when he tion in 1872; engaged in agricultural pursuits and coalresigned to become judge of the superior court of Connecti- mining in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; was appoint-cut 1856-1863; moved to Hartford, Conn., and resumed the ed chief clerk in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury inpractice of his profession; again a member of a committee to 1889 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., Julyrevise the statutes, in 1864; died in Hartford, Conn., Septem- 24, 1891; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.ber 8, 1881; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. WALDIE, Jerome Russell, a Representative from Califor- nia; born in Antioch, Calif., February 15, 1925; attended WALDON, Alton R., Jr., a Representative from New York; Antioch public schools; graduated from University of Califor-born in Lakeland, Fla., December 21, 1936; B.S., John Jay nia, 1950; graduated from University of California School ofCollege, 1968; J.D., New York Law School, 1973; appointed Law (Boalt), 1953; member of California assembly, 1959-deputy commissioner, State Division of Human Rights in 1966; majority leader of the assembly, 1961-1966; elected as1975; counsel, Office of Mental Retardation and Developmen- a Democrat, by special election, June 7, 1966, to the Eighty-tal Disabilities; member, New York assembly, 1983-1986; ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth Congress in a John F. Baldwin; reelected to the four succeeding Congressesspecial election held June 10, 1986, to fill the vacancy due to and served from June 7, 1966, to January 3, 1975; was not athe death of Joseph P. Addabbo; sworn in July 29, 1986, for candidate for reelection in 1974 but was an unsuccessfulthe term ending January 3, 1987; was an unsuccessful candi- candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor ofdate for renomination; appointed to the State investigation California in 1974; lobbyist for the National Association ofcommission; is a resident of Queens, N.Y. Letter Carriers and the Recording Association of America, WALDOW, William Frederick, a Representative from 1975-1978, and the Friends of the Earth, 1975-1978, both ofNew York; born in Buffalo, N.Y., August 26, 1882; attended Washington, D.C.; chairman, Federal Mine Safety andthe common schools; apprenticed as a plumber and later Health Review Commission, 1978-1979; executive director,engaged as a plumbing contractor; elected a member of the White House Conference on Aging, 1980; member, California board of aldermen of Buffalo in 1912 and 1913; member of Agricultural Relations Board, 1981-1985; is a resident ofthe New York Republican State committee in 1916; elected Bethesda, Md. as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917- WALDO, George Ernest, a Representative from NewMarch 3, 1919); unsuccessful for reelection in 1918 to the York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 11, 1851; attendedSixty-sixth Congress; resumed former business pursuits; del- the public schools of Scotland, Conn., and Brooklyn, N.Y.,egate to the Republican National Convention in 1920; sheriff Doctor Fitch's Academy, South Windham, Conn., Natchaugof Erie County, N.Y., 1921-1923; died in Snyder (a suburb of 1994 Biographical Directory

Buffalo), N.Y., April 16, 1930; interment in Forest Lawn WALGREN, Douglas, a Representative from Pennsylva- Cemetery. nia; born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., December 28, WALDRON, Alfred Marpole, a Representative from Penn- 1940; attended the public schools of Mount Lebanon, Pa.; sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 21, 1865; edu- graduated from Mount Lebanon High School, 1958; B.A., cated in the public schools of Philadelphia; engaged in theDartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1963; LL.B., Stanford insurance business; member of the Philadelphia Select Coun-(Calif.) University, 1966; admitted to the California bar in cil 1911-1924; member of the Republican city committee1966 and commenced practice in Menlo Park; staff attorney, 1916-1936; delegate to the Republican National ConventionsNeighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1967-1968; en- in 1924, 1928, and 1932; elected as a Republican to thegaged in private practice in Pittsburgh, 1969-1972; corporate Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); didcounsel, Behavioral Research Laboratories, Inc., Palo Alto, not seek renomination in 1934; resumed the insurance busi-Calif., 1973-1975; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth ness; died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 28, 1952; interment inand to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977- North Cedar Hill Cemetery. January 3, 1989); is a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. WALDRON, Henry, a Representative from Michigan; born WALKER, Amasa, a Representative from Massachusetts; in Albany, N.Y., October 11, 1819; attended Albany Acade-born in East Woodstock, Conn., May 4, 1799; moved with his my, and was graduated from Rutgers College, New Bruns-parents to North Brookfield, Mass.; attended the district wick, N.J., in 1836; moved to Michigan in 1837 and wasschool; in 1814 entered commercial life in North Brookfield; employed as a civil engineer in railroad work; settled inin 1825 moved to Boston, where he engaged in mercantile Hillsdale, Mich., in 1839; member of the State legislature inpursuits until 1840; delegate to the Democratic National 1843; a director of the Michigan Southern Railroad 1846-Convention in 1836; delegate to the first international peace 1848; active in promoting the construction of the Detroit,conference at London in 1843 and at Paris in 1849; lecturer Hilisdale & Southwestern Railroad and served as its firston political economy at Oberlin College, Ohio, 1842-1848; president; president of the Second National Bank of Hills-member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in dale from the date of its organization until 1876; presidential1849; served in the State senate in 1850; secretary of state of elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; elected as a RepublicanMassachusetts in 1851 and 1852; member of the State consti- to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congress-tutional convention in 1853; lecturer on political economy at es (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee onHarvard University 1853-1860; again a member of the State Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-house of representatives in 1860; elected as a Republican to fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination inthe Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by 1860; elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-the death of Goldsmith F. Bailey and served from December fourth Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-second Congress);1, 1862, to March 3, 1863; was not a candidate for election to declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; electedthe Thirty-eighth Congress; lecturer on political economy at president of the First National Bank of Hilisdale in 1876 andAmherst College, Amherst, Mass., 1859-1869; author of sev- served until his death in Hilisdale, Hilisdale County, Mich.,eral books on political economy; died in North Brookfield, September 13, 1880; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mass., October 29, 1875; interment in Maple Street Ceme- tery. WALES, George Edward, a Representative from Vermont; Bibliography: DAB; Mick, Laura A. "The Life of ." Ph.D. born in Westminster, Windham County, Vt., May 13, 1792; dissertation, Ohio State University, 1940. attended the common schools; studied law in Westminster and Woodstock, Vt.; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and WALKER, Benjamin, a Representative from New York; commenced practice at Hartford, Vt.; treasurer of the Whiteborn in London, England, in 1753; attended the Blue-Coat River Bridge Co. in 1818; member of the State house ofSchool; immigrated to the United States and settled in New representatives 1822-1824 and served as speaker; elected toYork City; served in the Revolutionary War as aide-de-camp the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-to General von Steuben and subsequently as a member of March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828the staff of General Washington; naval officer of customs at to the Twenty-first Congress; resumed the practice of histhe port of New York from March 21, 1791, to February 20, profession; town clerk of Hartford, Windsor County, Vt.,1798; moved to Fort Schuyler (now Utica), N.Y., in 1797; 1840-1860; judge of probate for the Hartford district 1847-agent of the great landed estate of the Earl of Bath; elected 1850; died in Hartford, Vt., January 8, 1860; interment inas a Federalist to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 180 1- Hartford Cemetery. March 3, 1803); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1802; died in Utica, N.Y., January 13, 1818; interment in WALES, John, a Senator from Delaware; born in Newthe Old Village Burying Ground on Water Street; reinter- Haven, Conn., July 31, 1783; pursued preparatory studiesment, June 17, 1875, in Forest Hill Cemetery. and was graduated from Yale College in 1801; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced the practice WALKER, Charles Christopher Brainerd, a Representa- of law at New Haven, Conn.; moved to Philadelphia, Pa.,tive from New York; was born in Drewsville, near Keene, and continued his practice; moved to Baltimore, Md., inN.H., June 27, 1824; completed preparatory studies; moved 1813, where he remained until 1815; moved to Wilmington,to Corning, Steuben County, N.Y., in 1848; postmaster of Del., in 1815 and was president of the National Bank ofCorning 1856-1860; was a contractor and also engaged in the Wilmington and Brandywine; secretary of State of Delawarehardware and lumber business; during the Civil War served 1845-1849; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate toas brigade quartermaster with the rank of captain in the fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Clay-New York State Militia; delegate to the Democratic National ton and served from February 3, 1849, to March 3, 1851;Conventions at Charleston in 1860 and at Baltimore in 1872; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1851; one of theelected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March founders of Delaware College, Newark, Del.; died in Wil-4, 1875-March 3, 1877); resumed former business activities; mington, Del., on December 3, 1863; interment in Wilming-member of the board of control of the New York Agricultur- ton and Brandywine Cemetery. al Experiment Station from June 10, 1885, until his death in Biographies 1995

Corning, N.Y., January 26, 1888; interment in Palmyra Cem- WALKER, Freeman, a Senator from Georgia; born in etery, Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y. Charles City, Va., October 25, 1780; attended the common schools; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1797; studied law; was WALKER, David (brother of George Walker and grandfa-admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in ther of James David Walker), a Representative from Ken- tucky; born in Brunswick County, Va.; attended public andAugusta; member, State house of representatives 1807-1811; private schools; served in the Revolutionary War as a pri-mayor of Augusta 1818-1819; elected to the United States vate under General Lafayette; was at the surrender of Corn-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John wallis at Yorktown; moved to Logan County, KY.; clerk ofForsyth and served from November 6, 1819, to August 6, county and circuit courts; member of the State house of1821, when he resigned; mayor of Augusta 1823; died in representatives 1793-1796; served as major on the staff ofAugusta, Richmond County, Ga., September 23, 1827; inter- Governor Shelby of Kentucky in the Battle of the Thamesment in Spring Hill Cemetery. during the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Freeman Walker." In Senators Fifteenth Congress, reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and From Georgia. pp. 85-90. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976. served from March 4, 1817, until his death in Washington, WALKER, George (brother of David Walker and great D.C., March 1, 1820; interment in the Congressional Ceme-uncle of James David Walker), a Senator from Kentucky; tery. born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1763; attended the common WALKER, E.S. Johnny, a Representative from Newschools; served in the Revolutionary War; moved to Jessa- Mexico; born in Fulton, Ky., June 18, 1911; attended the mine County, Ky., in 1794; studied law; was admitted to the public schools; moved with family to Albuquerque, N.Mex.,bar and commenced practice in Nicholasville, Ky., in 1799; a in 1926; graduated from Albuquerque High School; attendedcommissioner of the Kentucky River Co. in 1801; member, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the NationalState senate 1810-1814; appointed to the United States University (now George Washington University) in Washing-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of ton, D.C.; served in North African and European Theaters ofGeorge M. Bibb and served from August 30 to December 16, Operation, 1942-1945; member of State house of representa-1814, when a successor was elected; died in Nicholasville, tives, 1949-1952 (majority whip); commissioner, State LandKy., in 1819; interment on his estate near Nicholasville. Office, 1953-1956 and 1961-1964; commissioner of the State Bureau of Revenue, 1960; organizer, director, and member of WALKER, Gilbert Carlton, a Representative from Virgin- the State Oil and Gas Accounting Commission; elected as aia; born in South Gibson, Susquehanna County, Pa., August Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses1, 1833; received a thorough English training and was grad- (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1969); unsuccessful candidateuated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1854; studied for reelection to the Ninety-first Congress; president of fi-law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and practiced in nancial institution; is a resident of Santa Fe, N.Mex. Owego, Broome County, N.Y., 1855-1859 and in Chicago, Ill., WALKER, Felix, a Representative from North Carolina; 1859-1864; moved to Norfolk, Va., in 1864 and continued the born on the south branch of the Potomac River, in Hamp-practice of law; also engaged in banking; Governor of Virgin- shire County, Va. (now West Virginia), July 19, 1753; attend-ia 1869-1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and ed country school on the Congaree River, near Columbia,Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chair- S.C., and in Burke County, N.C.; moved with his father toman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-fourthCon- what became Lincoln County, N.C., and in 1768, to whatgress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; settled became Rutherford County, N.C.; was employed as a mer-in Binghamton, N.Y., in 1879 and practiced law; moved to chant's clerk at Charleston, S.C., in 1769; also engaged inNew York City in 1881 and continued the practice of law; agricultural pursuits; in company with Daniel Boone andserved as president of the New York Underground Railroad others formed the settlement of Boonsboro, Ky., in 1775;Co.; died in New York City, May 11, 1885; interment in clerk of the court of Washington district (most of which isSpring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y. now in Tennessee) in 1775 and 1776 and of the county court Bibliography: DAB. of Washington County (now chiefly in Tennessee) in 1777 and 1778; fought in the Revolutionary and Indian wars; WALKER, Isaac Pigeon, a Senator from Wisconsin; born clerkof court of Rutherford County,N.C.,1779-1787;near Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), November 2,1815; member of the State house of commons in 1792, 1799-1802,moved to Danville, Ill., in early youth; attended the common and 1806; resumed agricultural pursuits and was also aschools; was employed as a clerk in a store; studied law; was trader and land speculator in Haywood County, N.C.; electedadmitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected toSpringfield; served one term in the State house of represent- the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-atives; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1840; March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1841, settled in Milwaukee, to the Eighteenth Congress; moved to Mississippi about 1824and continued the practice of law; member, Territorial legis- and engaged in agricultural pursuits and trading; died inlature 1847-1848; upon the admission of Wisconsin as a Clinton, Hinds County, Miss., in 1828; interment probably inState into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the a private cemetery. United States Senate; reelected in 1849 and served from WALKER, Francis (brother of John Walker), a Represent-June 8, 1848, to March 3, 1855; chairman, Committee to ative from Virginia; born at "Castle Hill," near Cobham,Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Thirtieth Con- Albemarie County, Va., June 22, 1764; magistrate of Albe-gress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-first marie County; colonel of the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Vir-through Thirty-third Congresses), Committee on Agriculture ginia Militia; member of the State house of delegates 1788-(Thirty-secondCongress),Committee on IndianAffairs 1791 and 1797-1801; elected to the Third Congress (March 4,(Thirty-second Congress); engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1793-March 3, 1795); died at "Castle Hill," near Cobham,Waukesha County; returned to Milwaukee and resumed the Va., in March 1806; interment in the family cemetery atpractice of law; died there March 29, 1872; interment in "Castle Hill." Forest Home Cemetery. 1996 Biographical Directory

WALKER, James Alexander, a Representative from Vir-Cobham, Albemarle County, Va., February 13, 1744; received ginia; born near Mount Meridian, Augusta County, Va.,private schooling and graduated from the College of William August 27, 1832; attended private schools, and was graduat-and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1764; moved to "Belvoir," ed from Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., in 1852;Albemarle County, and engaged in planting; commissioned studied law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesvillewith his father to make special terms with the Indians at in 1854 and 1855; was admitted to the bar in 1856 andFort Pitt, Pa., so as to retain their friendship during the commenced practice in Newbern, Pulaski County, Va., inRevolutionary War; served as an aide to General George 1856; attorney for the Commonwealth in 1860; entered theWashington in 1777 with the rank of colonel; Delegate to the Confederate Army in April 1861 as captain of the PulaskiContinental Congress 1780; studied law; was admitted to the Guards, afterwards Company C, Fourth Virginia Infantry,bar and commenced the practice of law; appointed to the Stonewall Brigade; promoted to lieutenant colonel andas-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death signed to the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry in July 1861,of William Grayson and served from March 31 to November becoming colonel in March 1862; was promoted to brigadier general and assigned as commander of the Stonewall Bri-9, 1790, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate gade in May 1863; member of the house of delegates offor reelection; resumed his agricultural pursuits; died near Virginia in 1871 and 1872; elected Lieutenant Governor ofMadison Mills, Orange County, Va., December 2, 1809; inter- Virginia in 1877; until 1893 was a member of the Democraticment in the family cemetery on the Belvoir estate near Party; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-Cismont, Va. fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); chairman, WALKER, John Randall, a Representative from Georgia; Committee on Elections No. 3 (Fifty-fifth Congress);unsuc- born near Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., February 23, cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth1874; attended the public schools; was graduated from Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died inJasper (Fla.) Normal College in 1895 and from the law de- Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., October 21, 1901; intermentpartment of the University of Georgia at Athens in 1898; in East End Cemetery. was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Valdos- Bibliography: Campbell, Edward C. "James Alexander Walker: A Biogra- phy." Master's thesis, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State Universi- ta, Lowndes County, Ga., in 1900; member of the State house ty, 1972. of representatives in 1907 and 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third,Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses WALKER, James David (grandson of David Walker,(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for nephew of John McLean (1791-1830) and Finis Ewingrenomination in 1918; moved to Eldorado, Ark., and resumed McLean, cousin of , and great nephew ofthe practice of law; returned to Blackshear, Ga., where he George Walker), a Senator from Arkansas; bornnear Rus-died; interment in the Walker family burying grounds in seliville, Logan County, Ky., December 13, 1830; attendedPierce County, Ga. private schools in Kentucky and Ozark Institute and Arkan- sas College, Fayetteville, Ark.; moved to Arkansas in 1847; WALKER, John Williams (father of Percy Walker and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commencedgreat-great-grandfather of Richard Walker Bolling), a Sena- practice in Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark.; judge oftor from Alabama; born in Amelia County, Va., August 12, the circuit court, fourth judicial district; during the Civil1783; attended a private school; graduated from The College War served as colonel of the First Regiment, Arkansas In-of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1806; studied fantry, Confederate Army; captured at Oak Hills, Mo., inlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced prac- 1861 and imprisoned for two years; resumed the practice oftice in Huntsville, Ala.; member, Territorial house of repre- law in Fayetteville, Ark., in 1865; solicitor general of thesentatives 1817, and served as speaker; president of the State of Arkansas; presidential elector on the DemocraticState constitutional convention in 1819; upon the admission ticket in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesof Alabama as a State into the Union was elected to the Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885;United States Senate and served from December 14, 1819, to declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884; resumedDecember 12, 1822, when he resigned; died in Huntsville, the practice of law in Fayetteville, Ark., and died thereonMadison County, Ala., April 23, 1823; interment in Maple October 17, 1906; interment in the Walker family cemetery.Hill Cemetery. Bibliography: Bailey, Hugh C. John Williams Walker: Life of the Old WALKER, James Peter, a Representative from Missouri;Southwest. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1964; Owsley, born near Memphis, Lauderdale County, Tenn., March 14, Frank L. "John Williams Walker." Alabama Review 9 (1956): 100-19. 1851; attended the public schools and the boys' college at Durhamville, Tenn.; employed in early youth as a clerk ina WALKER, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Massa- country store; moved to Missouri in 1867 and settlednearchusetts; born in Boston, Mass., December 21, 1829; moved Kennett, Dunkin County; engaged in agricultural pursuits;with his parents to Hopkinton in 1830 and to Worcester, moved to Point Pleasant, New Madrid County, in 1871 andMass., in 1843; attended the public schools; engaged in the engaged in transportation on the Mississippi River; engagedmanufacture of boots and shoes; established the business of in the dry-goods business at Dexter, Mo., in 1876, and later,manufacturing leather in Chicago, Ill., in 1868; member of in 1882, in the buying and selling of grain; delegate to thethe common council of Worcester 1852-1854; served in the Democratic National Convention in 1880; unsuccessful candi-State house of representatives in 1879, 1880, and 1887; elect- date for the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1884;ed as a Republican to the Fifty-first and to the four succeed- elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con-ing Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1899); chairman, gresses and served from March 4, 1887, until his death; hadCommittee on Banking and Currency (Fifty-fourth and Fifty- been unanimously nominated as the Democratic candidatefifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress on the day of his1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed his former busi- death; died July 19, 1890, in Dexter, Stoddard County, Mo.;ness pursuits; died in Worcester, Mass., April 3, 1907; inter- interment in Dexter Cemetery. ment in the Rural Cemetery. WALKER, John (brother of Francis Walker),a Delegate WALKER, Lewis Leave!!, a Representative from Ken- and a Senator from Virginia; born at "Castle Hill," neartucky; born in Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., February 15, Biographies 1997

1873; attended Lancaster (Ky.) Academy, Garrard College,Miss., in 1826 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Lancaster, Ky., and Central University, Richmond, KY.;Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected, and served studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commencedfrom March 4, 1835, to March 5, 1845, when he resigned; practice in Lancaster, KY.; also engaged in banking; pros-chairman, Committee on PublicLands (Twenty-fourth ecuting attorney of Garrard County in 1901; city attorney ofthrough Twenty-sixth Congresses); Secretary of the Treasury Lancaster 1907-1910; served as trustee of the University ofin the Cabinet of President James K. Polk 1845-1849; de- Kentucky, at Lexington, Ky., 1908-1915; judge of the thir-clined the mission to China tendered by President Franklin teenth judicial district of Kentucky in 1910 and 1911; electedPierce in 1853; resumed the practice of law; appointed Gov- as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4,ernor of Kansas Territory in April 1857, but resigned in 1929-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renominationDecember 1857; United States financial agent to Europe in 1930; continued the practice of law in Lancaster, Ky., 1863-1864; again engaged in the practice of law at Washing- until his death there on June 30, 1944; interment in Lancas-ton, D.C., and died there November 11, 1869; interment in ter Cemetery. Oak Hill Cemetery. WALKER, Percy (son of John Williams Walker and great- Bibliography: DAB; Dodd, William E Robert J.Walker,Imperialist. great-uncle of Richard Walker Bolling), a Representative Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith,1967;Shenton, James P. Robert John Walker: from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., in Politician From Jackson to Lincoln. New York: Columbia University Press, December 1812; completed preparatory studies; was graduat- 1961. ed from the medical department of the University of Penn- WALKER, Robert Smith, a Representative from Pennsyl- sylvania at Philadelphia in 1835; commenced the practice ofvania; born in Bradford, McKean County, Pa., December 23, medicine in Mobile, Ala.; served in the campaign against the1942; educated in the public schools of Millersville, Pa.; at- Creek Indians; studied law; was admitted to the bar andtended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., practiced in Mobile; State's attorney for the sixth judicial 1960-1961; B.S., Millersville University, 1964; M.A., Univer- district; member of the State house of representatives insity of Delaware, Newark, Del., 1968; taught in Millersville 1839, 1847, and 1853; elected as a candidate of the Americanpublic schools, 1964-1967; served in Pennsylvania National Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3,Guard, 1967-1973; assistant to Representative Edwin D. 1857); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856;Eshleman of Pennsylvania, 1967-1976; elected as a Republi- died in Mobile, Ala., December 31, 1880; interment in Mag-can to the Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses nolia Cemetery. (January 3, 1977-January 3,1989); is a resident of East WALKER, Prentiss Lafayette, a Representative from Mis-Petersburg, Pa. sissippi; born near Taylorsville, Smith County, Miss., August WALKER, Walter, a Senator from Colorado; born in 23, 1917; attended the public schools of Las Cruces, N.Mex., Marion, Crittenden County, Ky., April 3, 1883; attended the and Taylorsville and Mize, Miss., and Mississippi College atpublic schools; moved to Grand Junction, Cob., in 1903 and Clinton, Miss., in 1936; entered United States Army in 1944engaged in the daily newspaper business, later becoming and served in Pacific Theater; president of Walker Eggeditor, manager, and chief owner of the Grand Junction Farms, Inc., Mize, Miss., 1955 to present; owner, Walker'sDaily Sentinel; appointed as a Democrat to the United Supermarket, 1937-1963; member of the executive commit- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tee of the State Game and Fish Commission, 1960; delegate,Charles W. Waterman and served from September 26, 1932, Republican National Conventions, 1964 and 1968; elected asuntil December 6, 1932, when a duly elected successor quali- a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-fied; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1932 to fill this January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in 1966, but was an independent candidate to the United Statesvacancy; resumed newspaper activities until his death; presi- Senate; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the Uniteddential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1936; died in States Senate in 1972; engaged in farming and home build-Grand Junction, Cob., October 8, 1956; interment in Or- ing; is a resident of Mize, Miss. chard Mesa Cemetery. WALKER, Robert Jarvis Cochran, a Representative from WALKER, William Adams, a Representative from New Pennsylvania; born near West Chester, Chester County, Pa.,York; born in New Hampshire June 5, 1805; attended the October 20, 1838; attended school at East Hampton andcommon schools and Northampton Law School; was admit- Cambridge, Mass.; was graduated from the law departmentted to the bar but never engaged in the practice of law; of Harvard University in 1858; was admitted to the bar inmoved to New York City in 1832; appointed principal of a 1859 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; director ofpublic school in New York City; county superintendent of the first school district of Pennsylvania; twice elected to thecommon schools 1843-1847; member of the board of alder- council of Philadelphia; purchased the Saturday Eveningmen in 1846; defeated for reelection in 1847; served as com- Post in 1874 and was its editor for a short time; engaged inmissioner of jurors until elected to Congress; elected as a the production of oil; moved to Williamsport, LycomingDemocrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- County, Pa., in 1875 and engaged in land, lumber, and coalMarch 3, 1855); declined to be a candidate for renomination developments; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventhin 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; defeated for election Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); declined to be ato the board of aldermen in 1857; died in Irvington, West candidate for renomination in 1882 but his name was pre- Chester County, N.Y., December 18, 1861; interment in sented by his friends; returned to Philadelphia in 1890 andSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N.Y. became a manufacturing chemist; died in Philadelphia, Pa., WALL, Garret Dorset (father of James Walter Wall), a December 19, 1903; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Senator from New Jersey; born in Middletown, N.J., March WALKER, Robert John, a Senator from Mississippi; born10, 1783; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was in Northumberland, Pa., July 19, 1801; graduated from thelicensed as an attorney in 1804 and as a counselor in 1807 University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1819; studiedand commenced practice in Burlington, N.J.; served in the law; was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced prac- War of 1812 and commanded a volunteer regiment from tice in Pittsburgh, Pa., the following year; moved to Natchez,Trenton; clerk of the State supreme court 1812-1817; quar- 1998 Biographical Directory

termaster general of the State 1815-1837; member, Staterepresentatives 1846-1847; elected as a Democrat to the general assembly 1827; United States district attorney forThirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of New Jersey in 1829; elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829,James A. Black; reelected to the Thirty-first and Thirty- but declined to serve; elected as a Jacksonian to the Unitedsecond Congresses and served from June 12, 1848, to March States Senate and served from March 4, 1835, to March 3,3, 1853; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Jonesville, 1841; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Com-S.C., May 13, 1859; interment in Old Presbyterian Cemetery, mittee on the Militia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Con-Union, S.C. gresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs WALLACE, David, a Representative from Indiana; born (Twenty-fifth Congress); judge of the Court of Errors andnear Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa., April 24, 1799; moved Appeals of New Jersey from 1848 until his death in Burling-with his parents to Brookville, md., in 1817; was graduated ton, N.J., November 22, 1850; interment in the churchyardfrom the United States Military Academy at West Point, of St. Mary's Church. N.Y., in 1821, and was appointed assistant professor of math- ematics in that institution, resigning in 1822; returned to WALL, James Walter (son of Garret Dorset Wall), a Sena-Brookville, md.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1824 tor from New Jersey; born in Trenton, N.J., May 26, 1820;and practiced; member of the State house of representatives was tutored privately in Flushing, N.Y., and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in1828-1830; moved to Covington, md., in 1830 and continued 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 andthe practice of law; Lieutenant Governor of Indiana 183 1- commenced practice in Trenton; served as commissioner in1837; Governor 1837-1840; settled in Indianapolis and con- bankruptcy; moved to Burlington, N.J., in 1847; mayor oftinued the practice of law; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- Burlington 1850; was tendered the Democratic nominationseventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccess- for Congress in 1850, but declined; unsuccessful candidateful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected asresumed the practice of law in Indianapolis; delegate to the a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyState constitutional convention in 1850; judge of the court of caused by the death of John R. Thompson and served fromcommon pleas of Marion County from 1856 until his death January 14 to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate forin Indianapolis, md., September 4, 1859; interment in Crown reelection; resumed the practice of law in Burlington; alsoHill Cemetery. engaged in literary pursuits; moved to Elizabeth, N.J., in Bibliography: DAB. 1869 where he died June 9, 1872; interment in the church- WALLACE, Henry Agard, a Vice President of the United yard of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Burlington, N.J. States; born on a farm near Orient, Adair County, Iowa, WALL, William, a Representative from New York; bornOctober 7, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated from in Philadelphia, Pa., March 20, 1800; received a limitedIowa State College at Ames in 1910; served on the editorial schooling; learned the trade of ropemaking and worked as astaff of Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa, 1910-1924 and journeyman; became a manufacturer of rope; moved towas editor 1924-1929; experimented with breeding high- Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., in 1822; trustee, commis-yielding strains of corn 1913-1933; in 1915 devised the first sioner of highways, supervisor, member of the board of fi-corn-hog ratio charts indicating probable course of markets; nance, and commissioner of waterworks of Williamsburgauthor of many publications on agriculture; appointed Secre- (now a part of New York City); mayor of Williamsburg intary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Franklin D 1853; was one of the incorporators and for a number of yearsRoosevelt in 1933 and served until September 1940, when he president of the Williamsburg Savings Bank; also one of theresigned, having been nominated for Vice President; elected founders of the Williamsburg City Bank (later the Firstin November 1940 as Vice President of the United States on National Bank) and of the Williamsburg Dispensary; electedthe Democratic ticket with President Franklin D Roosevelt as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4,and was inaugurated January 20, 1941, for the term ending 1861-March 3, 1863); declined to be a candidate for renomi-January 20, 1945; was not a candidate for reelection in 1944; nation in 1862; delegate to the Loyalist Convention at Phila-appointed Secretary of Commerce and served from March delphia in 1866; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 20, 1872; inter-1945 to September 1946; unsuccessful Progressive candidate ment in Greenwood Cemetery. for election as President of the United States in 1948; re- sumed his farming interests; was a resident of South Salem, WALLACE, Alexander Stuart, a Representative fromN.Y.; died in Danbury, Conn., November 18, 1965; remains South Carolina; born near York, S.C., December 30, 1810;were cremated at Grace Cemetery in Bridgeport, Conn., and received a limited schooling; engaged in planting in histhe ashes interred in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa. native county; member of the State house of representatives, Bibliography: DAB; Markowitz, Norman D. The Rise and Fall of the 1852-1855, 1858-1859 and 1865-1866; successfully contested People's Century: Henry A. Wallace and American Liberalism, 1941-1948. as a Republican the election of William D Simpson to the New York: Free Press, 1973; Wallace, Henry A. The Price of Vision: The Forty-first Congress; reelected to the Forty-second, Forty- Diary of Henry A.Wallace, 1942-1946. John Morton Blum, ed., Boston: third, and Forty-fourth Congresses and served from May 27, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. 1870, to March 3, 1877; chairman, Committee on Revolution- ary Claims (Forty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate WALLACE, James M., a Representative from Pennsylva- for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; engaged innia; born in Hanover Township, Lancaster (now Dauphin) agricultural pursuits until his death near York, S.C., JuneCounty, Pa., in 1750; pursued preparatory studies in Phila- 27, 1893; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, York, S.C. delphia; participated in the Revolution as a member of Capt. James Roger's, Col. Timothy Green's, and Capt. William WALLACE, Daniel, a Representative from South Caroli-Brown's companies, and at the close of the war was major of na; born near Laurens, S.C., May 9, 1801; received a limiteda battalion of Associators; commanded a company of rangers schooling; moved to Union County in 1833; major general ofin defense of the frontier in 1779; became major of the State militia; studied law; was admitted to the bar and prac-Dauphin County Militia in 1796; one of the commissioners of ticed in Union and Jonesville, Union County, S.C.; also en-the county 1799-1801; member of the State house of repre- gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house ofsentatives 1806-1810; elected as a Republican to the Four- Biographies 1999 teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the declinationCongresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful can- of Amos Elimaker to serve; reelected to the Fifteenth anddidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- Sixteenth Congresses and served from October 10, 1815, togress; resumed the practice of his profession at Hot Springs March 3, 1821; declined to be a candidate for renominationand Little Rock and also engaged in lecturing for the Chau- and retired to his farm; died near Hummeistown, West Han-tauqua and for the Anti-Saloon League; moved to Magnolia, over Township, Dauphin County, Pa., December 17, 1823;Ark., where he died on November 9, 1942; interment in interment in the Old Derry Church Graveyard, Derry (nowMagnolia Cemetery. Hershey), Pa. WALLACE, Rodney, a Representative from Massachu- WALLACE, John Winfield, a Representative from Penn-setts; born in New Ipswich, Hilisborough County, N.H., De- sylvania; born near Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pa., De-cember 21, 1823; attended the common schools; engaged in cember 20, 1818; attended Darlington (Pa.) Academy, wherethe manufacture of paper; was a member of the select coun- he afterward taught; was graduated from Jefferson Medicalcil of Fitchburg, Mass., in 1864, 1865, and 1867; served in the College at Philadelphia in 1846 and commenced the practiceState house of representatives in 1873; member of the Gover- of medicine in Darlington; moved to New Castle, Pa., innor's council 1880-1882; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- 1850; held several local offices; elected as a Republican tofirst Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); was not a the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863);candidate for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-second Con- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-gress; again engaged in the manufacture of paper; died in eighth Congress; during the Civil War served as paymasterFitchburg, Worcester County, Mass., on February 27, 1903; in the Union Army; elected as a Republican to the Forty-interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed the practice of WALLACE, William Andrew, a Senator from Pennsylva- medicine in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pa., where henia; born in Huntingdon, Pa., November 28, 1827; moved died June 24, 1889; interment in Grandview Cemetery, nearwith his parents to Clearfield, Pa., in 1836; attended the Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pa. local schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- menced practice in Clearfield; also taught school in Clear- WALLACE, Jonathan Hasson, a Representative fromfield; member, State senate 1863-1875, and served as speak- Ohio; born in St. Clair Township, Columbiana County, Ohio,er 1871; member of the commission to suggest amendments October 31, 1824; attended the common schools, and wasto the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1874; elected as a graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson University), Washington, Pa., in 1844; studied law; Democrat to the United States Senate and served from was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of lawMarch 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; unsuccessful candidate for in New Lisbon, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Columbianareelection in 1880; chairman, Committee on the Revision of County in 1851 and 1853; successfully contested as a Demo-the Laws of the United States (Forty-sixth Congress); re- crat the election of William McKinley, Jr., to the Forty-sumed the practice of law in Clearfield; member, State eighth Congress and served from May 27, 1884, to March 3,senate 1882-1887; became interested in the development of 1885; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to thethe bituminous coal fields of the Clearfield region; also Forty-ninth Congress; appointed judge of the court ofserved as president of the Beech Creek Railroad; died in common pleas by Governor Hoadley on March 5, 1885, to fillNew York City, May 22, 1896; interment in Hillcrest Ceme- a vacancy and served one year; continued the practice of lawtery, Clearfield, Pa. until his death in Lisbon, Ohio, October 28, 1892; interment WALLACE, William Copeland, a Representative from in Lisbon Cemetery. New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 21, 1856; was grad- WALLACE, Nathaniel Dick, a Representative from Lou-uated from Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1873, from isiana; born in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., October 27,Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1876, and from 1845; attended the common schools, and was graduated fromthe law department of Columbia College (now Columbia Uni- Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, in 1865; returned to theversity), New York City, in 1878; commenced the practice of United States in 1867 and engaged in the commission busi-law in New York City; assistant United States attorney for ness at New Orleans, La., in 1878; twice elected president ofthe southern district of New York 1880-1883; appointed the New Orleans Produce Exchange; active in manufactur-judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Morton in ing enterprises; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for Hahn and served from December 9, 1886, to March 3, 1887;reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the was not a candidate for renomination in 1886 to the Fiftiethpractice of his profession in Brooklyn, N.Y.; also engaged Congress; president of Consumers Ice Co., New Orleans,extensively in banking; died at his summer home in War- from 1886 until his death July 16, 1894, in Kenilworth, nearwick, Orange County, N.Y., September 4, 1901; interment in Asheville, N.C.; interment in Metairie Cemetery, New Orle-Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. ans, La. WALLACE, William Henson, a Delegate from the Territo- WALLACE, Robert Minor, a Representative from Arkan-ries of Washington and Idaho; born in Troy, Miami County, sas; born in New London, Union County, Ark., August 6,Ohio, July 19, 1811; attended the common schools of Indiana; 1856; attended the common schools, and was graduated fromstudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Arizona Seminary, Arizona, La., in 1876; studied law; wasIowa in 1837; appointed colonel of State troops; appointed admitted to the bar at Little Rock, Ark., in 1879 and com-receiver of public money at Fairfield, Iowa; moved to the menced the practice of law in El Dorado, Ark.; member ofTerritory of Washington in 1853; member of the Territorial the State house of representatives in 1881 and 1882; Unitedcouncil in 1855 and 1856 and served as president of the States post office inspector 1887-189 1; prosecuting attorneycouncil; appointed Governor of the Territory of Washington for the thirteenth judicial circuit of Arkansas in 1891 andin 1861, but did not qualify, having been elected as a Repub- 1892; assistant United States attorney in 1894; elected as alican a Delegate from the Territory of Washington to the Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeedingThirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was 2000 Biographical Directory

appointed as the first Governor of the Territory of Idaho inEighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965); 1863; elected as a Republican a Delegate from the Territorywas not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth of Idaho to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from Feb-Congress; senior vice president, United States Realty and ruary 1, 1864, to March 3, 1865; died in Steilacoom, PierceInvestment Company; commissioner, New Jersey Highway County, Wash., on February 7, 1879; interment in Fort Stei-Authority, 1970-1972, and chairman, 1972-1975; is a resident lacoom Cemetery. of Maplewood, N.J. WALLEY, Samuel Hurd, a Representative from Massa- WALLIN, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born chusetts; born in Boston, Mass., August 31, 1805; attendedin Easton, Northampton County, Pa., July 31, 1856; moved the common schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.;with his parents to Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., attended Yale College in 1822 and was graduated from Har-in 1864; attended the public schools and Amsterdam Acade- vard University in 1826; studied law; was admitted to themy; engaged in the manufacture of carpets and rugs; served Suffolk bar in 1831 and practiced in Boston and Roxbury;as alderman 1889-1892; mayor of Amsterdam in 1901 and engaged in banking; treasurer of the Vermont Central Rail- 1902; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress road; promoter and first treasurer of the Wisconsin Central(March 4, 1913-March 3,1915); was not a candidate for Railroad; member of the State house of representatives inrenomination in 1914; resumed his business activities in Am- 1836 and 1840-1846, serving as speaker 1844-1846; corporatesterdam, N.Y., where he died December 1, 1917; interment member of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreignin Green Hill Cemetery. Missions 1848-1867; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candi- WALLING, Ansel Tracy, a Representative from Ohio; date for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress;born in Otsego County, N.Y., January 10, 1824; moved to unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of MassachusettsErie County, Pa., where he attended a local academy; stud- in 1855; president of the Revere National Bank; died atied medicine and practiced a short time; learned the art of Nantasket Beach, Plymouth County, Mass., on August 27,printing; moved to Ohio in 1843 and engaged in newspaper 1877; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge,work; clerk of the State legislature in 1851 and 1852; studied Mass. law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and practiced; moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was editor of the Daily Times 1855-1858; WALLGREN, Monrad Charles, a Representative and adelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856; Senator from Washington; born in Des Moines, Iowa, Aprilreturned to Ohio in 1861 and settled in Circieville, Pickaway 17, 1891; moved with his parents to Galveston, Tex., in 1894County, where he resumed the practice of law; member of and to Everett, Wash., in 1901; attended the public schoolsthe State senate in 1865; served in the State house of repre- and business college of Everett, Wash.; graduated fromsentatives in 1867 and was elected speaker pro tempore; Washington of Optometry at Spokane in 1914;elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March engaged in the retail jewelry and optical business 1915-1932;4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- during the First World War served in the Coast Artillerytion; again engaged in the practice of law; died in Circieville, Corps of the Washington National Guard 1917-1919; adju-Ohio, June 22, 1896; interment in Forest Cemetery. tant of the Third Battalion of the Washington National Guard 192 1-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third WALLOP, Malcolm, a Senator from Wyoming; born in and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromNew York, New York County, N.Y., February 27, 1933; at- March 4, 1933, until his resignation, effective December 19,tended the public schools of Big Horn, Wyo.; graduated, Yale 1940; elected November 5, 1940, as a Democrat to the UnitedUniversity 1954; businessman and cattle rancher; member, States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1941; Wyoming house of representatives 1969-1972; member, Wyo- subsequently appointed to the United States Senate to fillming senate 1973-1976; served in the United States Army the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lewis B. Schwel-1955-1957; elected as a Republican to the United States lenbach in the term ending January 3, 1941, and servedSenate in 1976 for the term commencing January 3, 1977; from December 19, 1940, to January 9, 1945, when he re- reelected in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989. signed; Governor of Washington 1945-1949; member of the WALLS, Josiah Thomas, a Representative from Florida; Federal Power Commission 1950-1951; engaged in citrusborn in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., December 30, growing in the Coachella Valley, Calif., and the development1842; received a limited schooling; engaged in truck farming; of uranium claims at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif.; died inmoved to Florida; delegate to the State constitutional con- Olympia, Wash., September 18, 1961, due to injuries sufferedvention in 1868; served in the State senate 1869-1872; pre- in an automobile accident; interment in Evergreen Ceme-sented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-second tery, Everett, Wash Congress and served from March 4, 1871, to January 29, Bibliography: DAB. 1873, when he was succeeded by Silas L. Niblack, who con- WALLHAUSER, George Marvin, a Representative fromtested his election; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third New Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., FebruaryCongress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); presented creden- 10, 1900; attended the grade schools and graduated fromtials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fourth Congress and Barringer High School, Newark, N.J., in 1918; during theserved from March 4, 1875, to April 19, 1876, when he was First World War served as a hospital corpsman in thesucceeded by Jesse J. Finley, who contested his election; United States Naval Reserve 1918-1922; graduated from theresumed his occupation as truck farmer; died in Tallahassee, University of Pennsylvania in 1922; associated with UnitedFla., May 15, 1905; interment in the Negro Cemetery. States Realty & Investment Co., Newark, N.J., in 1928, serv- Bibliography: Klingman, Peter D. JosiahWalls, Florida s Black Con. ing on board of directors and as treasurer and vice president gressinan of Reconstruction.Gainesville: University Pressesof Florida, in 1940; enrolled in Columbia University in 1941 and com- 1976. pleted courses in real-estate appraising in 1942; chairman, WALN, Robert, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born Maplewood (N.J.) Planning Board, 1946-1954; member, Ma-in Philadelphia, Pa., February 22, 1765; received a limited plewood Township Committee, 1954-1957; elected as a Re-schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits and in East India publican to the Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh, and to theand China trade; member of the State legislature for several Biographies 2001 years; member of the city council of Philadelphia and servedto the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, as president of the select council; elected as a Federalist toto March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of1924; resumed the practice of law in Boston; elected to the John Swanwick; reelected to the Sixth Congress and servedUnited States Senate in 1926 to fill the vacancy caused by from December 3, 1798, to March 3, 1801; became interestedthe death of and took his seat December in the operation of ironworks and during the War of 18126, 1926; reelected in 1928, 1934, and again in 1940 for the erected a cotton factory in Trenton; served as president ofterm ending January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for the Philadelphia Insurance Co. and as a trustee of the Uni-reelection in 1946; chairman, Committee on Education and versity of Pennsylvania; died in Philadelphia, January 24,Labor (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses), Com- 1836; interment in Friends' Arch Street Burial Ground. mittee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-fourth through Seventy- Bibliography: DAB. seventh and Seventy-ninth Congresses); retired from politi- WALSH, Allan Bartholomew, a Representative from Newcal activities and resided in Clinton, Mass., until his death; Jersey; born in Trenton, N.J., August 29, 1874; attendeddied in Boston, Mass., June 11, 1947; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Clinton, Mass. Immaculate Conception Parochial School and the public Bibliography: DAB; Grattan, William J "David I. Walsh and His Asso- schools of Trenton; employed with an electrical concern in ciates: A Study in Political Theory." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard Universi- Trenton 1900-1911; member of the State house of assemblyty, 1958; Wayman, Dorothy G. David Walsh: Citizen Patriot. Milwaukee: in 1910 and 1911; secretary of the Mercer County Board of Bruce Publishing Company, 1952. Taxation in 1912 and 1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuc- WALSH, James Joseph, a Representative from New York; cessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourthborn in New York City May 22, 1858; attended the public Congress; engaged in the real estate brokerage business;schools and St. James' Parochial School; was graduated from served as an internal-revenue agent in New Jersey and Wis-Manhattan College in 1877 and from the law department of consin from 1915 to 1920, when he resigned to engage inColumbia University, both in New York City, in 1879; was private practice as a consultant and adviser in the field ofadmitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in New federal laws; again appointed as an internal-revenue agentYork City; inspector of common schools 1889-1894; presented and served from 1933 until 1940, when he retired due tocredentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth physical disability and resided in Palm Beach, Fla.; died inCongress and served from March 4, 1895, to June 2, 1896, New York City, August 5, 1953; interment in Our Lady ofwhen he was succeeded by John M. Mitchell, who had con- Lourdes Cemetery, Trenton, N.J. tested his election; resumed the practice of law in New York City; appointed city magistrate in 1905, which office he held WALSH, Arthur, a Senator from New Jersey; born inuntil his death in New York City on May 8, 1909; interment Newark, Essex County, N.J., February 26, 1896; educated inin Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. the public schools, by private tutor, and at the New York University School of Commerce at New York City; began his WALSH, John Richard, a Representative from Indiana; career as a recording violinist for Thomas A Edison in 1915born in Martinsville, Morgan County, md., May 22, 1913; and later held executive positions with the Edison Enter-attended the public schools; was graduated from Indiana prises; during the First World War served as a sergeant inUniversity Law School in 1934; was admitted to the bar July the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919; lieutenant in the27, 1934, and engaged in the practice of law in Martinsville, United States Naval Reserve 1929-1932; colonel in the Newmd., until 1941; Morgan County attorney in 1935 and 1936; Jersey National Guard 1941-1943; member of the Newdeputy attorney general of Indiana in 1941; served in the Jersey Workmen's Compensation Investigating CommissionUnited States Army with the Thirty-fifth Infantry Division 1932-1933; New Jersey director of the Federal Housing Ad-from May 18, 1942, until discharged as a technical sergeant ministration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later as assistantJune 15, 1943; in 1943 continued the practice of law in administrator at Washington, D.C., 1935-1938; presidentialAnderson, md.; chief deputy prosecuting attorney of Madi- elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket; member of the Newson County, md., in 1945 and 1946; probate commissioner for Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942; member ofMadison County Circuit Court in 1948; elected as a Demo- the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber ofcrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, Commerce in 1943; commissioner of the Port of New York1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 and for Authority in 1943; appointed as a Democrat to the Unitedelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; resumed the States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W.practice of law in Anderson and continued in practice until Warren Barbour and served from November 26, 1943, tohis death; member of board of directors and secretary-treas- December 7, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified;urer, State Security Life Insurance Co., Anderson, md., was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1944;1953-1958; secretary of state of Indiana from December 1, chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-eighth Con-1958, to November 30, 1960; delegate, Democratic National gress); resumed his former business pursuits; died in NewConvention, 1960; county attorney of Madison County, 1964- York City, N.Y., December 13, 1947; interment in Gate of1965; was a resident of Anderson, md., until his death there Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J. on January 23, 1975; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Martinsville, md. WALSH, David Ignatius, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., November 11, WALSH, Joseph, a Representative from Massachusetts; 1872; attended the public schools; graduated from Holy Crossborn in Boston (Brighton), Mass., December 16, 1875; attend- College, Worcester, Mass., in 1893 and from Boston Universi- ed public schools in Falmouth, Mass, and Boston University ty Law School in 1897; was admitted to the bar and com-Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1906 and practiced menced practice at Fitchburg, Mass., in 1897, later practic-in New Bedford; served as a fish culturist and clerk in the ing in Boston; member, State house of representatives 1900-United States Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass., 190 1; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1913 and Gover-1900-1905; also engaged in newspaper reporting in Boston nor 1914-1915; delegate at large to the Massachusetts consti-and New Bedford, Mass.; member of the State house of tutional convention in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Democratrepresentatives in 1905; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- 2002 Biographical Directory fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedwere held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; from March 4, 1915, to August 2, 1922, when he resigned to interment in Resurrection Cemetery, Helena, Mont. accept a judicial position; appointed August 2, 1922, as a Bibliography: DAB; Bates, James Leonard. "Senator Walsh of Montana, justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in which ca- 1918-1924: A Liberal Under Pressure." Ph.D. dissertation, University of pacity he served until his death in New Bedford, Mass., North Carolina, 1952; Duddington, Miles. "Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Inde- January 13, 1946; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery. pendent Democrat in the Wilson Years." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1940. WALSH, Michael, a Representative from New York; born in Youghal, near Cork, Ireland, May 4, 1810; completed pre- WALSH, Thomas Yates, a Representative from Maryland; paratorystudies; was graduated from TrinityCollege,born in Baltimore, Md., in 1809; completed preparatory stud- Dublin, Ireland; immigrated to the United States and settledies and attended St. Mary's College at Baltimore 1821-1824; in Baltimore, Md.; learned the trade of lithographic printer;studied law; was admitted to the bar on July 30, 1832, and moved to New York City; member of the State assembly incommenced practice in Baltimore; member of the city coun- 1839;in1843 established the Subterranean, which hecil in 1847 and 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second stopped after two years when convicted for the publicationCongress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candi- of a libel; elected as a member of the State assembly in 1846date for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; and again in 1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-thirdresumed the practice of law; died in Baltimore, Md., January Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candi-20, 1865; interment in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Ceme- date for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress;tery. after his term in Congress was employed as a newspaper WALSH, William, a Representative from Maryland; born reporter; died in New York City March 17, 1859; intermentnear Tullamore, County Kings, Ireland, May 11, 1828; at- in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. tended a local school; immigrated to the United States in Bibliography: DAB; Ernst, Robert. "One and Only Mike Walsh." The 1842 and settled in Virginia; was graduated from Mount St. New-York Historical Society Quarterly 36 (January 1952): 43-65. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md.; studied law; was admitted WALSH, Patrick, a Senator from Georgia; born in Ballin-to the bar in Virginia in 1850 and commenced practice in garry, County Limerick, Ireland, January 1, 1840; immigrat-Cumberland, Md., in 1852; member of the State constitution- ed to the United States in 1852 with his parents, who settledal convention in 1867; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- in Charleston, S.C.; became a journeyman printer in 1857;fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, attended night schools, high school, and Georgetown Univer-1879); chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty- sity, Washington, D.C., 1859-1861; returned to Charlestonfifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination and entered the State military service; moved to Augusta,in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died in Cumberland, Ga., in 1862 and for thirty-two years was connected with theMd., May 17, 1892; interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery. press of that city, most of the time as manager and editor of the Augusta Chronicle; treasurer and general manager of WALSH, William Francis, a Representative from New the Southern Associated Press; member, city council of Au-York; born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., July 11, gusta 1870; member, State house of representatives 1872,1912; graduated from Most Holy Rosary High School, Syra- 1874, 1876; member of the Democratic National Executivecuse, N.Y., 1930; A.B., St. Bonaventure College, 1934; attend- Committee for four years; member of the World's Columbianed Catholic University School of Social Work, 1939-1940; Exposition Commission at Chicago in 1893; appointed as aM.A., social work, University of Buffalo, 1949; atttended Syr- Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyacuse University, Maxwell School, 1950; LL.D., St. Bonaven- caused by the death of Alfred H. Colquitt; subsequentlyture University, 1970; enlisted as a private in the United elected and served from April 2, 1894, to March 3, 1895;States Army, One Hundred and First Antitank Battalion, unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed 1941; served in Pacific Theater; honorably discharged, 1946, his newspaper interests; mayor of Augusta 1897-1899; diedwith rank of captain, United States Air Force; elected Wel- in Augusta, Ga., March 19, 1899; interment in the City Cem-fare Commissioner, Onondaga County, 1959; elected mayor etery. of Syracuse, 1961; reelected, 1965, and served until 1969; Bibliography: Millichamp, Josephine. "Senator Patrick Walsh." In Sena- member, New York State Public Service Commission, 1970; tors From Georgia. pp. 185-88. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, delegate, New York State Republican conventions, 1966- 1976. 1970; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elect- ed as a Republican-Conservative to the Ninety-third, Ninety- WALSH, Thomas James, a Senator from Montana; bornfourth, and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1973-Janu- at Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wis., June 12, 1859; at-ary 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the tended the public schools; taught school; graduated from theNinety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Syracuse, N.Y. law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced WALTER, Francis Eugene, a Representative from Penn- practice at Redfield, Dakota Territory; moved to Helena,sylvania; born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., May 26, Mont., in 1890 and continued the practice of law; unsuccess-1894; attended the public schools, preparatory school at ful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth CongressPrinceton, N.J., Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., and and in 1910 for the United States Senate; elected as a Demo-George Washington University and Georgetown University, crat to the United States Senate in 1912; reelected in 1918,Washington, D.C.; during both World Wars served in the air 1924, and 1930 and served from March 4, 1913, until hisservice of the United States Navy; was admitted to the bar death on March 2, 1933, on a train near Wilson, N.C., whilein 1919 and commenced practice in Easton, Pa.; director of en route to Washington, D.C., to accept the appointment asthe Broad Street Trust Co., Philadelphia, Pa., and of the Attorney General in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Cabi-Easton National Bank, Easton, Pa.; solicitor of Northampton net; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-thirdCounty, Pa., 1928-1933; delegate to the Democratic National through Sixty-fifthCongresses), Committee on PensionsConvention in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on the Disposition of Use-third and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served less Executive Papers (Sixty-sixth Congress); funeral servicesfrom March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., Biographies 2003

May 31, 1963; chairman, Committee on Un-American Activi-health; was again elected for the term beginning March 4, ties (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses); co-1895, and served from that date until his death in Washing- sponsor of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952; interment inton, D.C., April 21, 1898; chairman, Committee on Military Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Affairs (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Bibliography:Dimmitt, Marius Albert,Sr."The Enactment of theClaims (Fifty-fifth Congress); funeral services were held in McCarran-Walter Act of 1952." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in 1970. Holly Springs Cemetery, Holly Springs, Miss. WALTERS, Anderson Howell, a Representative from Bibliography: DAB; Helmes, James. "Edward Carey WalthallSoldier Pennsylvania; born in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., May and Statesman." Ph.D. dissertation, Peabody College, 1928; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 55th Cong., 2nd and 3rd sess., 1897-1899. Washington, 18, 1862; attended the public schools and was graduated D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899. from Johnstown High School in 1878; employed as a telegra- pher and clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 1878- WALTON, Charles Wesley, a Representative from Maine; 1880; entered the service of the Johnstown Water Co. andborn in Mexico, Oxford County, Maine, December 9, 1819; the Johnstown Gas Co., in 1881 and was assistant superin-attended the common schools and was instructed at home tendent of these companies in 1889 and general managerand by private tutors; studied law; was admitted to the bar and secretary 1895-1902; delegate to the Republican Statein Oxford, Maine, in 1841 and commenced practice in conventions in 1890, 1892, 1898, and 1904; delegate to theMexico, Maine, in 1843; also practiced law in Dixfield, Republican National Convention in 1896; chairman of theMaine; attorney for Oxford County 1847-1851; moved to Republican city committee 1896-1899; member of the Repub-Auburn, Maine, in 1855 and continued the practice of law; lican State committee 1898-1902; member of the Johnstownattorney for Androscoggin County 1857-1860; elected as a City Council 1900-1904; editor and proprietor of the Johns-Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from town Tribune from 1902 until his death; elected as aMarch 4, 1861, to May 26, 1862, when he resigned to accept a member of the board of trustees of the Johnstown Savingsjudicial appointment; associate justice of the State supreme Bank in 1907; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-thirdcourt 1862-1897; was not a candidate for reappointment; Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was not a candidateresided in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, until his for renomination; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-sev-death on January 24, 1900; interment in Evergreen Ceme- enth Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman,tery. Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); was not a candi- WALTON, Eliakim Persons, a Representative from Ver- date for renomination; elected to the Sixty-ninth Congressmont; born in Montpelier, Vt., February 17, 1812; attended (March 4, 1925-March 3,1927); was not a candidate forthe common schools; apprenticed to a printer; studied law, renomination; died in Johnstown, Pa., December 7, 1927;but did not practice; engaged in journalism and compiling; interment in Grandview Cemetery. editor of "Walton's Vermont Register"; organizer and first WALTERS, Herbert Sanford, a Senator from Tennessee;president of the Editors and Publishers' Association, holding born in Leadvale, Jefferson County, Tenn., November 17,the office of president for more than twenty years; after the 1891; attended the public schools of Jefferson County, theretirement of his father in 1853 was sole proprietor of the Baker-Himmell School in Knoxville, the Castle Heights Mili-Watchman until 1868; served in the State house of repre- tary Academy in Lebanon, the Carson-Newman College insentatives in 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- Jefferson City, and the University of Tennessee in Knox-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, ville; chairman of the board of Walters & Prater, Inc., and a1857-March 3, 1863); declined to be a candidate for reelec- prominent banker; member, State house of representativestion and returned to his editorial and literary labors; dele- 1933-1935; commissioner of the State Highway Departmentgatetothe Republican National Conventionin1864; 1934-1935; appointed as a Democrat, August 20, 1963, to themember of the State constitutional convention in 1870; United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathserved in the State senate in 1875 and 1877; trustee of the of the Estes Kefauver and served from August 20, 1963, toUniversity of Vermont and of the State agricultural college November 3, 1964; was not a candidate for election in 1964 1875-1887; president of the Vermont Historical Society 1876- to the unexpired term; trustee, University of Tennessee,1890; died in Montpelier, Washington County, Vt., December Knoxville, Tenn., 1961-1973; president, Walters & Prater,19, 1890; interment in Green Mount Cemetery. Inc.; died in Knoxville, Tenn., August 17, 1973; interment in WALTON, George (brother of John Walton and cousin of Jarnagin Cemetery, Morristown, Tenn. Matthew Walton), a Delegate and a Senator from Georgia; Bibliography: Hill, Howard. The Herbert Walters Story. Kingsport, Tenn.: born in Cumberland County, Va., in either 1749 or 1750; Kingsport Press, 1963. apprenticed as a carpenter; attended the common schools; WALTHALL, Edward Cary, a Senator from Mississippi;moved to Savannah, Ga., in 1769; studied law; was admitted born in Richmond, Va., April 4, 1831; moved to Mississippito the bar in 1774 and commenced practice in Savannah, as a child; attended St. Thomas Hall, Holly Springs, Miss.;Ga.; secretary of the Provincial Congress in 1775 and a studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commencedmember of the committee of intelligence; Member of the practice in Coffeeville, Miss.; elected district attorney for thecouncil of safety in 1775 and later president of that body; tenth judicial district of Mississippi in 1856 and reelected inmember, State house of representatives; member of the Con- 1859; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army astinental Congress 1776, 1777, 1780, and 1781; a signer of the a lieutenant; promoted to lieutenant colonel, colonel, briga-Declaration of Independence; served in the Revolutionary dier general, and major general; resumed the practice of lawWar and was captured at Savannah; colonel in the First in Coffeeville; moved to Grenada, Miss., in 1871 and contin-Georgia Battalion; Governor of Georgia 1779; commissioner ued the practice of law until 1885; appointed as a Democratto treat with the Indians and to negotiate a treaty with the to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theCherokees in Tennessee in 1783; chief justice of Georgia resignation of Lucius Q.C. Lamar; was subsequently elected1783-1789; member of the Augusta Board of Commissioners to fill the vacancy; reelected in 1889 and served from March1784-1785; represented Georgia in the settlement of the 9, 1885, to January 24, 1894, when he resigned due to illboundary line between South Carolina and Georgia in 1786; 2004 Biographical Directory elected as a delegate to the convention to frame the Federalfor renomination in 1822; judge of the fourth judicial district Constitution in 1787, but declined; Governor of Georgia 1789;of New York 1823-1828; moved to Saratoga Springs, Sarato- was appointed first judge of the superior courts of the east-ga County, N.Y., in October 1828; chancellor of the State of ern judicial circuit in 1790; appointed to the United StatesNew York from 1828 to 1848, when the office of chancellor Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofwas abolished; unsuccessful candidate for election as Gover- James Jackson and served from November 16, 1795, to Feb-nor in 1848; appointed as an Associate Justice of the United ruary 20, 1796, when a successor was elected; trustee ofStates Supreme Court by President Tyler in 1844, but was Richmond Academy and of the University of Georgia; movednot confirmed by the Senate; died in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to Augusta; again appointed judge of the superior circuit ofNovember 27, 1867; interment in Greenridge Cemetery. Georgia and served from 1799 until his death at his home, Bibliography: DAB. "College Hill," near Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., Febru- ary 2, 1804; interment in Rosney Cemetery; reinterment in WAMPLER, Fred, a Representative from Indiana; born in 1848 beneath the monument in front of the courthouse onCarriers Mills, Saline County, Ill., October 15, 1909; moved Greene Street, Augusta, Ga. with parents to Terre Haute, md., in 1911 and attended the Bibliography: DAB; Bridges, Edwin. 'George Walton: A Political Biogra- public schools; graduated from Indiana State Teachers Col- phy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1981; Mellichamp, Jose-lege in 1931 and in 1940; high school athletic director in phine. "Senator George Walton." In Senators From Georgia. pp. 37-42.Bluffton, Ohio, 1931-1933, and football coach in Terre Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976. Haute, md., 1937-1958; athletic director, Washington Court WALTON, John (brother of George Walton and cousin ofHouse, Ohio, in 1936 and 1937; served from January 1944 as Matthew Walton), a Delegate from Georgia; born in Virginiaa gunnery officer in the United States Navy, with service in in 1738; became a planter near Augusta, Ga.; delegate fromthe Pacific Theater until discharged as a lieutenant in 1946; St. Paul Parish to the Provincial Congress at Savannah, Ga.,served as commanding officer, Naval Reserve, activating in 1775; elected to the Continental Congress February 26,training center at Terre Haute, md., 1946-1949; sports direc- 1778; signed the Articles of Confederation on behalf of Geor-tor for a radio station in Terre Haute, md., 1947-1949; gia on July 24, 1778; held office of surveyor of Richmondduring the Korean conflict was recalled to active duty as County for several years; died at New Savannah, Ga., inexecutive officer aboard troop transport and served from 1783. January 1950 to March 1954; promoted to commander, United States Naval Reserve, May 11, 1960; elected as a WALTON, Matthew (cousin of George Walton and JohnDemocrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959- Walton), a Representative from Kentucky; received a limitedJanuary 3,1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in schooling; member of the conventions held in Danville in1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; appointed to the Indi 1785 and 1787; member of the first State constitutional con-ana-Illinois Wabash Valley Interstate Commission on March vention in 1792; member of the State house of representa-13, 1961, and served until his resignation May 26, 1962; tives in 1792, 1795, and 1808; elected as a Republican to theunsuccessful candidate in 1962 for election to the Eighty- Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807);eighth Congress; Regional Coordinator, Department of the died in Springfield, Ky., January 18, 1819; interment inInterior, 1963-1970; funding coordinator for state-federal Springfield Cemetery. programs, Ohio department of natural resources and trans- WALTON, William Bell, a Representative from Newportation, 1971-1976; is a resident of Terrace Park, Ohio. Mexico; born in Altoona, Blair County, Pa., January 23, WAMPLER, William Creed, a Representative from Vir- 1871; attended the public schools and South Jersey Institute,ginia; born in Pennington Gap, Lee County, Va., April 21, Bridgeton, N.J.; moved to New Mexico in 1891; studied law;1926; attended the public schools in Bristol, Va.; enlisted on was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice atMay 21, 1943, in the United States Navy as a seaman and Deming, N.Mex.; member of the State house of representa-served for twenty-seven months until discharged September tives in 1901 and 1902; clerk of Grant County 1903-1906;29, 1945; member of the Naval Reserve, V-6; resumed his delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908;education and was graduated from Virginia Polytechnic In- chairman of the New Mexico Democratic central committeestitute, Blacksburg, Va., in 1948 and studied law at the in 1910; member of the New Mexico constitutional conven-University of Virginia 1948-1950; reporter, Bristol, Va.-Ten- tion in 1911; served in the State senate 1912-1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-nessean in 1950 and 1951; reporter, editorial writer, Big March 3, 1919); did not seek renomination, but was an un-Stone Gap (Va.) Post 1951; reporter, copy editor, Bristol successful candidate for election to the United States SenateHerald Courier in 1951 and 1952; member of board of visi- in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Silver City, N.Mex.;tors of Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.; Republican elected district attorney of the sixth judicial district Novem-assistant campaign manager for Ninth Congressional Dis- ber 2, 1926; reelected in 1928 and served until 1932; contin-trict elections in 1948; president of the Young Republican ued the practice of law until 1934, when he retired fromFederation of Virginia in 1950 and served as keynote speak- active pursuits; died in Silver City, N.Mex., April 14, 1939;er and permanent chairman of the Ninth District Republi- interment in the Masonic Cemetery. can Convention the same year; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955); WALWORTH, Reuben Hyde, a Representative from Newwas an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the York; born in Bozrah, Conn., October 26, 1788; moved toEighty-fourth Congress; with Atomic Energy Commission New York with his parents, who settled on a farm nearfrom January 1955 to March 1956; unsuccessful candidate Hoosick in 1796; attended the common schools; taughtfor election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; vice presi- school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 anddent and general manager of Wampler Brothers Furniture commenced practice in Plattsburgh in 1810; master in chan-Co., Bristol, Va., 1957-1960; vice president and general man- cery and circuit judge in 1811; served in the War of 1812;ager of Wampler Carpet Co., 1961-1966; elected to the Nine- aide-de-camp to Gen. Benjamin Mooers and division judgetieth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, advocate with rank of colonel; elected to the Seventeenth1967-January 3, 1983); was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); was not a candidatereelection in 1982; is a resident of Bristol, Va. Biographies 2005

WANGER, Irving Price, a Representative from Pennsylva-on July 5, 1790; completed preparatory studies in Mount nia; born in North Coventry, Chester County, Pa., March 5,Pleasant Academy; served in the War of 1812 as lieutenant 1852; attended the public schools of North Coventry andand captain in the Twenty-ninth Infantry; studied law; was Pottstown, and Hill School in Pottstown; deputy prothono-admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Sing Sing; tary of Chester County in 1871; commenced the study Of lawdistrict attorney for Westchester County; served in the State at Norristown in 1872; deputy prothonotary of Montgomerymilitia as colonel, brigadier general, and major general; County 1873-1875; was admitted to the bar December 18,elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 1875, and commenced the practice of law in Norristown, Pa.;4, 1825-March 3, 1829); was not a candidate for reelection; elected burgess of Norristown in 1878; delegate to the Re-elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, publican National Convention in 1880; elected district attor- ney of Montgomery County in 1880 and again in 1886;and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1831-March 3, served as chairman of the Montgomery County Republican1837); was not a candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fifth committee in 1889; unsuccessful candidate for election inCongress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Con- 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; elected as a Republican togress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate the Fifty-third and to the eight succeeding Congressesfor reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; delegate to the (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1911); chairman, Committee onState constitutional convention in 1846; unsuccessful Demo- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Fifty-fifthcratic candidate for secretary of state in 1855; trustee of through Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate forMount Pleasant Academy; died at the home of his son-in-law reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; lived for ain Georgetown, D.C., March 2, 1867; interment in Dale Cem- short time in Wilmington, Del.; resumed the practice of hisetery, Ossining, N.Y. profession in Media and Norristown, Pa., in 1920; died in Norristown, Pa., January 14, 1940; interment in Mount Zion WARD, Andrew Harrison, a Representative from Ken- Cemetery, Pottstown, Pa. tucky; was born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., on January 3, 1815; attended the county schools and Transylva- WARBURTON, Herbert Birchby, a Representative fromnia University, Lexington, KY.; clerk on a steamboat on the Delaware; born in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del.,Tombigbee River for several years; studied law; was admit- September 21, 1916; attended the public schools of Wilming-ted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Cynth- ton, Del., and Reading, Pa.; graduated from University ofiana, Ky.; city attorney of Cynthiana in 1860; unsuccessful Delaware, Newark, Del., in June 1938, and from Dickinsoncandidate for election to the State house of representatives School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., in June 1941; took reserve offi-in 1861; member of the State house of representatives 1863- cers training course at University of Delaware and commis-1865; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1864 to the sioned a second lieutenant; began active Army duty as firstThirty-ninth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- lieutenant of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Antiair-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation craft Battalion in September 1941; graduated from Com-of Green Clay Smith and served from December 3, 1866, to mand and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., inMarch 3, 1867; was not a candidate for renomination in September 1945 and became battalion commander in Octo-1866; resumed the practice of law and subsequently became ber 1945; was relieved from active duty as a major in Decem- president of the National Bank of Cynthiana; died in Cynth- ber 1945; was admitted to the Delaware bar in absentia iniana, Ky., April 16, 1904; interment in Battle Grove Ceme- April 1942 and began the practice of law in Wilmington, Del., in January 1946; city solicitor 1949-1952; elected as atery. Republican to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953- WARD, Artemas (father of Artemas Ward, Jr.), a Delegate January 3, 1955); was not a candidate for renomination inand a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Shrews- 1954 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to thebury, Mass., November 26,1727; attended the common United States Senate; appointed special assistant to Secre-schools and was prepared for college by a private tutor; was tary of Labor James P. Mitchell March 2, 1955, and servedgraduated from Harvard College in 1748; justice of the peace until November 7, 1957; general counsel, Post Office Depart-in 1752; a representative in the general assembly many ment, from November 7, 1957, to January 20, 1961; minorityterms and served in the executive council; lieutenant colonel counsel to the House Government Operations subcommittee,in the provincial army during the French and Indian War; serving from March 1961 to September 1964; executive direc-appointed brigadier general by the provincial congress of tor, American Orthotics and Prosthetics Association and theMassachusetts on October 27, 1774, and was made command- American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthet-er in chief of the Massachusetts forces on May 19, 1775; ics; was a resident of Frankford, Del., until his death Julyappointed by the Continental Congress as major general on 30, 1983 in Lewes, Del.; cremated and family retained ashes.June 17, 1775; chief justice of the court of common pleas of WARBURTON, Stanton, a Representative from Washing-Worcester County in 1776 and 1777; president of the Massa- ton; was born in Sullivan County, Pa., April 13, 1865; movedchusetts Executive Council 1777-1779; member of the State to Iowa with his parents, who settled in Cherokee in 1868;house of representatives 1779-1785, serving as speaker in attended the public schools; was graduated from Cherokee1785; Member of the Continental Congress 1780-1781; elect- (Iowa) High School in 1884 and from Coe College, Cedared to the Second and Third Congresses (March 4, 1791- Rapids, Iowa, in 1888; moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1888;March 3, 1795); died in Shrewsbury, Mass., October 28, 1800; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commencedinterment in Mountain View Cemetery. practice in Tacoma; member of the State senate 1896-1904; Bibliography: DAB; Martyn, Charles. The Life of Artemas Ward, The elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress (March First Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution. 1921. Reprint. Port 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1970. in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Tacoma, Wash.; died in Boston, Mass., December 24, WARD, Artemas, Jr. (son of Artemas Ward), a Representa- 1926; interment in Mountain View Burial Park, Tacoma,tive from Massachusetts; born in Shrewsbury, Mass., Janu- Wash. ary 9, 1762; was graduated from Harvard University in 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1783 and commenced WARD, Aaron (uncle of Elijah Ward), a Representativethe practice of law in Weston; member of the State house of from New York; was born in Sing Sing (now Ossining), N.Y., representatives 1796-1800 and again in 1811; moved to 2006 Biographical Directory

Charlestown in 1800; member of the board of overseers ofDemocrat to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses Harvard University 1810-1844; elected as a Federalist to the(March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925); declined to be a candidate for Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4,1813-renomination in 1924; resumed the practice of law; served in March 3, 1817); served in the State senate in 1818 and 1819;the State senate in 1931; died in Washington, N.C., March member of the State constitutional convention in 1820; chief31, 1956; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. justice of the court of common pleas from 1820 to 1839; died in Boston, Mass., October 7, 1847. WARD, Hamilton, a Representative from New York; born in Salisbury, Herkimer County, N.Y., July 3, 1829; attended WARD, Charles Bonnell, a Representative from Newthe common schools and was privately tutored; studied law; York; born in Newark, N.J., April 27, 1879; attended the public schools and was graduated from Pennsylvania Mili-was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Phillips- tary College at Chester in 1899; moved to New York andville (now Belmont), N.Y., in 1851; district attorney of Alle- settled in Debruce, Sullivan County, in 1903; engaged ingany County 1856-1859 and 1862-1865; appointed in 1862 by agricultural pursuits; editor and owner of the Liberty Regis-the Governor as commissioner to raise and equip troops for ter at Liberty, N.Y., 1910-1928; elected as a Republican tothe Civil War; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding CongressesFortieth, and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925); declined to be a candidate for1871); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Forti- reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed agri-eth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; cultural pursuits; owner and operator of the Debruce Inndelegate to nearly all State conventions from 1858 to 1890; Club until his death; died at Liberty, N.Y., May 27, 1946;attorney general of New York in 1880 and 1881; member of interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J. the State constitutional commission in 1890; appointed and subsequently elected justice of the State supreme court and WARD, David Jenkins, a Representative from Maryland; born in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Md., September 17,served from 1891 until his death in Belmont, Allegany 1871; attended the public schools; engaged in agriculturalCounty, N.Y., December 28, 1898; interment in Forest Hill pursuits, lumbering, and the mercantile business at Salis-Cemetery. bury, Md.; member of the State house of delegates 1915- WARD, James Hugh, a Representative from Illinois; born 19 17; chairman of the Democratic State central committee ofin Chicago, Ill., November 30, 1853; attended the public Wicomico County 1918-1926; member of the State senateschools of Chicago and was graduated from the University of 1926-1934 and from 1938 until his resignation in 1939; elect-Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1873; attended the Union College of ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill theLaw in Chicago, and was graduated in 1876; was admitted to vacancy caused by the resignation of T. Alan Goldsborough; reelected to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Con-the bar in July 1876, and practiced; was elected supervisor of gresses and served from June 6, 1939, to January 3, 1945;the town of West Chicago in 1879; elected as a Democrat to was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944;the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); did resumed the mercantile, lumber, and real estate businesses;not seek renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of his died in Salisbury, Md., February 18, 1961; interment in Par-profession in Chicago, Cook County, Ill, where he died on sons Cemetery. August 15, 1916; interment in Calvary Cemetery. WARD, Elijah (nephew of Aaron Ward), a Representative WARD, Jasper Delos, a Representative from Illinois; born from New York; born in Sing Sing (now Ossining), N.Y.,in Java, Wyoming County, N.Y., February 1, 1829; attended September 16, 1816; pursued classical studies; engaged inAllegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1849 and 1850; studied commercial pursuits in New York City and at the same timelaw; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced prac- attended the law department of New York University; wastice in Chicago, Ill.; member of the board of aldermen of admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in NewChicago in 1855, 1856, 1859, and 1860; during the Civil War York City; judge advocate general of the State 1853-1855;enlisted in the Western Engineers Regiment in 1861 and delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856;served for about eight months; member of the State senate elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,1862-1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con- 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ingress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; elected to the Thirty-for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; United seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-MarchStates attorney for the northern district of Illinois 1875- 3, 1865); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the1877; moved to Colorado in 1877 and settled in Leadville; Thirty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Newappointed by Governor Pitkin as judge of the fifth judicial York City; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Commercedistrict of Colorado and served from March 5, 1881, to Janu- (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-ary 3, 1882, declining to be a candidate for election to the tion in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; died in Roslyn,same office; moved to Denver, Cob., and resumed the prac- Nassau County, N.Y., February 7, 1882; interment in Wood-tice of law; died in Denver, Cob., August 6, 1902; interment lawn Cemetery, New York City. in Fairmount Cemetery. WARD, Hallett Sydney, a Representative from North WARD, Jonathan, a Representative from New York; born Carolina; born near Gatesville, Gates County, N.C., Augustin the town of Eastchester, N.Y., September 21, 1768; re- 31, 1870; attended the public schools; was graduated fromceived a limited schooling; assessor of Eastehester in 1791; the law department of the University of North Carolina atsheriff of Westchester County 1802-1806; served in the State Chapel Hill in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same yearsenate in 1807; member of the council of appointment in and commenced practice in Winton, N.C.; member of the1809; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress State senate in 1899 and 1901; mayor of Plymouth, N.C., in(March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); member of the State consti- 1902 and 1903; solicitor of the first judicial district of Northtutionalconventionin1821;surrogate of Westchester Carolina 1904-1910; moved to Washington, N.C., in Novem- County 1828-1840; died in the town of Eastchester, N.Y., ber 1904 and engaged in the practice of law; elected as aSeptember 28, 1842. 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WARD, Marcus Lawrence, a Representative from Newdate for renomination in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; re-- Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., November 9, 1812; received asumed the practice of his profession in La Fayette, Tippeca- limited schooling; engaged in candle manufacturing; dele-noe County, md., where he died January 1, 1892; interment gate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 andin Springvale Cemetery. 1864; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1862; elected Governor in 1865 and served from January 16, WARD, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1866, to January 18, 1869; was chairman of the Republicanborn in Philadelphia, Pa., January 1, 1837; attended Girard National Committee in 1866; elected as a Republican to theCollege, Philadelphia, Pa.; learned the art of printing in the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuc-office of the Delaware County Republican, Chester, Pa.; stud- cessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourthied law; was admitted to the bar in August 1859 and com- Congress; died in Newark, N.J., April 25, 1884; interment inmenced practice in Chester; also engaged in the land busi- Mount Pleasant Cemetery. ness and banking; member of the city council of Chester and Bibliography: DAB. city solicitor; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877- WARD, Matthias, a Senator from Texas; born in ElbertMarch 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination in County, Ga., October13,1805; was raised in Madison1882; resumed the practice of his profession and his former County, Ala.; received a college education in Huntsville,business pursuits in Chester, Pa., where he died February Ala.; taught school two years; studied law; moved to the27, 1895; interment in the Rural Cemetery. Republic of Texas in 1836 and settled in Bowie, Montague County, and subsequently in Clarksville, Red River County, WARD, William Lukens, a Representative from New in 1845; engaged in trading; served a number of years in theYork; born in Pemberwick, town of Greenwich, Fairfield Congress of the Republic of Texas; moved to Jefferson,County, Conn., September 2, 1856; moved to Port Chester, Marion County, Tex.; served in the State senate; appointedN.Y., with his parents in 1863; attended Friends Seminary, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- New York City, and the school of mines of Columbia College, cy caused by the death of J. Pinckney Henderson and servedNew York City (class of 1878); engaged in the manufacture from September 27, 1858, to December 5, 1859, when a suc-of bolts, nuts, and rivets in Port Chester, N.Y.; chairman of cessor was elected; died at Warm Springs, near Raleigh,the Republican State committee for several years; elected as N.C., October 5, 1861; interment in the Old City Cemetery,a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897- Nashville, Tenn. March 3, 1899); resumed his former manufacturing pursuits WARD, Samuel, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born inin Port Chester, Westchester County, N.Y.; member of the Newport, R.I., May 27, 1725; educated privately; settled inRepublican National Committee 1904-1912; died in New Westerly, R.I., in 1745; engaged in agricultural pursuits;York City, July 16, 1933; interment in the family mausole- member of the general assembly 1756-1759; one of the um in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. founders of Rhode Island College (now Brown University), WARD, William Thomas, a Representative from Ken- Providence, R.I., in 1756; chief justice of Rhode Island intucky; born in Amelia County, Va., August 9, 1808; attended 1761 and 1762; Governor under the royal charter in 1762,the common schools and St. Mary's College, near Lebanon, 1763, and 1765-1767; trustee of Brown University 1764-1776; KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; died inpractice in Greensburg, KY.; served in the Mexican War as Philadelphia, Pa., March 26, 1776; interment in the church-major of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers in 1847 and 1848; yard of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinter-member of the State house of representatives in 1850; elect- ment in the Old Cemetery, Newport, R.I., in 1860. ed as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851- Bibliography: DAB. March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in WARD, Thomas, a Representative from New Jersey; born1852; commissioned brigadier general in the Union Army in Newark, N.J., about 1759; completed preparatory studies;and served throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-of law in Louisville, Ky., where he died October 12, 1878; tice in Newark, N.J.; served as captain and major during theinterment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Whisky Insurrection in 1794; sheriff of Essex County, N.J., in 1797; elected one of the judges of the Essex County Court WARDWELL, Daniel, a Representative from New York; in 1804 and reelected in 1809; member of the legislativeborn in Bristol, R.I., May 28, 1791; was graduated from council in 1808 and 1809; elected as a Republican to theBrown University, Providence, R.I., in 1811; studied law; was Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4,1813-admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Rome, N.Y.; March 3, 1817); was senior officer of the New Jersey Cavalrymoved to Mannsville, N.Y., in 1814; judge of the court of at the time of his death in Newark, N.J., March 4, 1842;common pleas for Jefferson County, N.Y.; elected to the interment in the churchyard of the First PresbyterianState assembly 1825-1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Church. Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3,1837); chairman, Committee on WARD, Thomas Bayless, a Representative from Indiana;Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth born in Marysville, Union County, Ohio, April 27, 1835;Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1836; moved with his parents to La Fayette, md., in May 1836;returned to Rome, N.Y., and resumed the practice of law; attended Wabash College, Crawfordsville, md., and wasdied in Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., March 27, 1878; inter- graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in Junement in Maplewood Cemetery, Mannsville, Jefferson County, 1855; clerk of the city of La Fayette in 1855 and 1856;N.Y. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced the practice of his profession in La Fayette, md.; city attor- WARE, John Haines, III, a Representative from Pennsyl- ney in 1859 and 1860; mayor of La Fayette 1861-1865; judgevania; born in Vineland, Cumberland County, N.J., August of the superior court of Tippecanoe County, md., 1875-1880;29, 1908; attended the public schools in Oxford, Pa., and elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninthMiami, Fla.; B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1930; public Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); was not a candi-utility executive; burgess, borough of Oxford, 1956-1960; 2008 Biographical Directory member, Pennsylvania senate, 1961-1970; chairman, Penn-1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in sylvania Republican finance committee; trustee, Lincoln1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; elected to the Forty- University and University of Pennsylvania; elected as a Re-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, publican to the Ninety-first Congress, November 3, 1970, by1887); was not a candidate for reelection in 1886; delegate to special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of G.the Democratic National Convention in 1896; engaged in Robert Watkins and at the same time elected to the Ninety-street railway construction in the District of Columbia and second Congress; reelected to the Ninety-third Congress, andin railroad construction in Ohio; from about 1898 until six served from November 3, 1970, to January 3, 1975; was not amonths before his death engaged in transportation and candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Con-power development in Georgia; died in Marietta, Washing- gress; is a resident of Oxford, Pa. ton County, Ohio, August 12, 1910; interment in Oak Grove WARE, Nicholas, a Senator from Georgia; born in Caro-Cemetery. line County, Va., in 1769; moved with his parents to Edge- WARNER, Hiram, a Representative from Georgia; born in field, S.C., and a few years later to Augusta, Ga.; received aWilliamsburg, Hampshire County, Mass., on October 29, thorough English education; studied medicine; studied law in1802; received a good common-school training and acquired Augusta and at Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admittedsome knowledge of the classics; in 1819 moved to Georgia to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta; member,and taught school for three years; studied law; was admitted State house of representatives 1808-1811, 1814-1815; mayorto the bar and commenced practice in Knoxville, Crawford of Augusta 1819-1821; elected as a Republican to the UnitedCounty, Ga., in 1825; served in the general assembly 1828- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of1831; declined reelection; moved to Talbotton in 1830 and Freeman Walker and served from November 10, 1821, untilcontinued the practice of his profession; moved to Green- his death in New York City September 7, 1824; intermentville; elected judge of the State superior court and served under the annex of Grace Church. from 1833 to 1840; judge of the State supreme court from Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Senator Nicholas Ware." In Sena- 1846 to 1853, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the tors From Georgia. pp. 93-95. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); de- 1976. clined to be a candidate for reelection in 1856; appointed by WARE, One Solomon, a Representative from Kentucky;Governor Jenkins as judge of the Coweta Circuit Court and born in Peach Grove, Pendleton County, Ky., May 11, 1882;served from 1865 to 1867, when he was appointed chief attended the public schools of Covington, KY.; was graduatedjustice of the State supreme court; was subsequently elected from the private academy of Prof. George W. Dunlap, atand served until 1880, when he resigned; died in Atlanta, Independence, Ky., in 1899, and from the law department ofGa., June 30, 1881; interment in Town Cemetery, Greenville, the University of Cincinnati at Cincinnati, Ohio, LL.B., 1903;Meriwether County, Ga. was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Bibliography: DAB. Covington, KY.; also engaged in banking, serving as a direc- tor of the First National Bank and Trust Co.; delegate to all WARNER, John De Witt, a Representative from New Democratic State conventions 1910-1939; served as postmas-York; born on a farm in the town of Reading, Schuyler ter of Covington from September 1, 1914, to July 1, 1921;County, N.Y., October 30, 1851; moved with his parents to Commonwealth attorney of the sixteenth judicial circuit,Big Stream (later Glenora), N.Y., and in 1860 settled in Rock serving from January 1, 1922, to February 1, 1927, when heStream, Yates County, N.Y.; completed preparatory studies; resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congressattended the district schools and Starkey Seminary, Eddy- (March 4, 1927-March 3,1929); was not a candidate fortown, N.Y.; was graduated from Cornell University in 1872; renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; servededited the Ithaca Daily Leader for a few months; professor as circuit judge, 1957-1958; resumed the practice of law inin the Ithaca and Albany Academies for four years; was Covington; resided in Fort Mitchell, Ky., where he died De-graduated from Albany Law School in 1876; was admitted to cember 16, 1974; interment in Highland Cemetery. the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and WARFIELD, Henry Ridgely, a Representative from Mary-Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); de- land; born in Anne Arundel County, Md., September 14,clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed 1774; completed preparatory studies; held several local of-the practice of law in New York City; president of the Art fices; settled in Frederick, Md.; elected to the Sixteenth,Commission of New York City 1902-1905; was president of Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-the American Free Trade League 1905-1909; special counsel March 3, 1825); died in Frederick, Md., March 18, 1839.for the dock department to advise on terminal work in 1911 WARNER, Adoniram Judson, a Representative fromand 1912; served on the commission to revise the New York Ohio; born in Wales, near Buffalo, N.Y., January 13, 1834;banking laws in 1913; also engaged in literary pursuits; en- moved with his parents to Wisconsin at the age of eleven;gaged in the practice of law until his death in New York attended school in Beloit, Wis., and New York Central Col-City May 27, 1925; interment in Rock Stream Cemetery, lege, McGrawville, N.Y.; principal of Lewistown (Pa.) Acade-Rock Stream, Yates County, N.Y. my, superintendent of the public schools of Mifflin County, WARNER, John William, a Senator from Virginia; born and principal of Mercer Union School, Pennsylvania, 1856-in Washington, D.C., February 18, 1927; attended schools in 1861; was commissioned captain in the Tenth PennsylvaniaWashington, D.C. and Virginia; served in the United States Reserves July 21, 1861, lieutenant colonel May 14, 1862,Navy 1944-1946; graduated, Washington and Lee University, colonel April 25, 1863, and colonel of the Veteran ReserveLexington, Va., 1949; served in the United States Marine Corps November 15, 1863; brevetted brigadier general MarchCorps during the Korean conflict 1950-1952; United States 13, 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Indianapo-Marine Corps Reserve 1952-1956; graduated, University of lis, md., in 1865 but never practiced; at the conclusion of theVirginia Law School 1953; cattle farmer; admitted to the war returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1866 moved to Mariet-Washington, D.C. bar in 1953 and commenced practice the ta, Ohio; engaged in the oil, coal, and railroad businesses;same year; law clerk, United States Court of Appeals for elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4,District of Columbia Circuit 1953-1954; assistant United Biographies 2009

States attorney 1956-1960; Under Secretary, United Statesyard University in 1868; was admitted to the bar the same Navy 1969-1972; Secretary, United States Navy 1972-1974;year and commenced the practice oflaw in Clinton, Ill.; administrator, American Revolution Bicentennial Adminis-elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the four tration 1974-1976; elected as a Republican to the Unitedsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1905); chair- States Senate, November 7, 1978, for the six-year term com-man, Committee on Revision of the Laws(Fifty-fifth through mencing January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the Fifty-eighth Congresses); served as Commissioner of Pensions Governor, January 2, 1979, to fill the vacancy caused by thefrom March 4, 1905, to November 25, 1909; engaged in busi- resignation of William Scott for the term ending January 3,ness in Clinton, Ill., as a banker and realty ownerand agent; 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991.died in Clinton, De Witt County, Ill., on March 31, 1925; WARNER, Levi (brother of Samuel Larkin Warner), ainterment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Representative from Connecticut; born in Wethersfield, WARNER, Willard, a Senator from Alabama; born in Hartford County, Conn., October 10, 1831; completed prepar-Granville, Licking County, Ohio, on September 4, 1826; at- atory studies; attended the law department of Yale Collegetended a country school near Roseville, Muskingum County, and Dane Law School, Cambridge, Mass.; was admitted toOhio; graduated from Marietta College, Ohio, in 1845; en- the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Fairfield County,gaged in mercantile pursuits at Cincinnati in 1852 and later Conn.; moved to Norwalk, Conn., in 1858 and continued thebecame manager of the Newark (Ohio) Machine Works; practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourthserved in the Union Army during the Civil War; brevetted Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofbrigadier general and major general in 1865; served two William H. Barnum; reelected to the Forty-fifth Congressyears in the Ohio senate; moved to Prattville,Autauga and served from December 4, 1876, to March 3, 1879; was notCounty, Ala.,in 1867 and engaged in cotton planting; a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practicemember, State house of representatives 1868; held several of law; died in Norwalk, Conn., April 12, 1911; interment inlocal offices; upon the readmission of the State of Alabama Riverside Cemetery. to representation was elected as a Republican to the United WARNER, Richard, a Representative from Tennessee;States Senate and served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, born near Chapel Hill, Marshall County, Tenn., September1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; collector of cus- 19, 1835; attended the public schools and was graduatedtoms of the port of Mobile, Ala., 1871-1872; declined the from the law department of Cumberland University, Leba-appointment as Governor of New Mexico in 1872 and also non, Tenn., in 1858; was admitted to the bar the same yearthat of Minister to Argentina; moved to Tecumseh, Ala., in and commenced practice in Lewisburg, Tenn.; served in the1873 and organized the Tecumseh Iron Co., of which he Confederate Army 186 1-1865; returned to Lewisburg, Tenn.,served as general manager; in 1890 moved to Chattanooga, and resumed the practice of law; delegate to the conventionTenn., where he engaged in banking and was a director in that framed the new constitution of Tennessee in 1870;several corporations; member, Tennessee house of represent- member of the State house of representatives, 1879-1881;atives 1897-1898; died in Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth1906; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio. Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); chairman, Com- WARNER, William, a Representative and a Senator from mittee on Mines and Mining (Forty-eighth Congress); unsuc-Missouri; born in Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wis., June cessful candidate for renomination in 1884; resumed the11, 1840; worked in lead mines as a child and sporatically practice of law in Lewisburg, Tenn.; died in Nashville,attended school; taught school and studied law at Lawrence Tenn., March 4, 1915; interment in Warner Cemetery, nearUniversity and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Chapel Hill, Tenn. was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commencedpractice in WARNER, Samuel Larkin (brother of Levi Warner), aKansas City, Mo.; enlisted in 1862 in the Thirty-third Regi- Representative from Connecticut; born in Wethersfield,ment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; was mustered out at Hartford County, Conn., June 14, 1828; attended Wilbrahamthe close of the Civil War with the rank of major; returned Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and the law department ofto Kansas City, Mo., in 1865 and resumed the practice of Yale College; was graduated from the law department oflaw; city attorney 1867; circuit attorney 1868; mayor of Harvard University in 1854; was admitted to the bar inKansas City 1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Boston, Mass., in 1854; commenced the practice of law inand Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was Portland, Middlesex County, Conn., in 1855; member of thenot a candidate for renomination in 1888; elected command- State house of representatives in 1858; moved to Middletowner in chief of the Grand Army of the Republicin 1888; in 1860; mayor 1862-1866; delegate to the Republican Na-unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1892; tional Convention in 1864, 1888, and 1892; elected as a Re- United States district attorney for the western district of publican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-MarchMissouri 1882-1884, 1898, 1902-1905; unsuccessful Republi- 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination; resumed thecan candidate for governor of Missouri in 1892; elected as a practice of law; died in Middletown, Conn., on February 6,Republican to the United States Senate in 1905 and served 1893; interment in Indian Hill Cemetery. from March 18, 1905, to March 3, 1911; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on the Mississippi and WARNER, Vespasian, a Representative from Illinois; bornIts Tributaries (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); resumed in Mount Pleasant (now Farmer City), De Witt County, Ill.,the practice of law; appointed as civilian member of the April 23, 1842; moved with his parents to Clinton, Ill., inBoard of Ordnance and Fortifications; member of the Board 1843; attended the common and select schools in Clinton andof Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Lombard University, Galesburg, Ill.; studied law in Clinton;Soldiers; died in Kansas City, Mo., October 4, 1916; inter- enlisted as a private in Company E, Twentieth Regiment, ment in Elmwood Cemetery. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, June 13, 1861; promoted to ser- Bibliography: DAB. geant June 23, 1861, second lieutenant February 4, 1862, captain and commissary of subsistence February 10, 1865; WARNOCK, William Robert, a Representative from Ohio; brevetted major March 13, 1865, and was mustered out Julyborn in Urbana, Ohio, August 29, 1838; attended the public 13, 1866; was graduated from the law department of Har-schools; taught school in Urbana 1856-1868; was graduated 2010 Biographical Directory

from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1861;in March 1889 and served until elected to the position in commenced the study of law in 1861; entered the Union1890; elected as the first Governor of the State in September Army July 21, 1862, as captain of Company G, Ninety-fifth1890, but resigned in November 1890, having been elected Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; promoted to major JulySenator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate 28, 1863, and brevetted lieutenant colonel March 15, 1865;November 18, 1890, and served until March 4, 1893; resumed chief of staff for the eastern district of Mississippi fromagricultural pursuits and stock raising; again elected to the April to August 1885; mustered out August 14, 1865;re-United States Senate in 1895; reelected in 1901, 1907, 1913, sumed the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and1918, and again in 1924, and served from March 4, 1895, commenced practice in Urbana; prosecuting attorney 1868-until his death in Washington, D.C., November 24, 1929; 1872; member of the board of school examiners of Cham-chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid paign County 1870-1876; served as trustee of Ohio WesleyanLands (Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), University for twenty-five years; member of the State senate in 1876 and 1877; judge of the court of common pleas in theCommittee on Claims (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Con- second district of Ohio 1879-1889; president of the Nationalgresses), Committee on Irrigation (Fifty-ninth Congress), Bank of Urbana; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sev-Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-ninth through Sixty- enth and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3,firstCongresses),Committee on PublicBuildings and 1905); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- Grounds (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Agriculture ment of War (Fifty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate forand Forestry (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Appropria- renomination; resumed the practice of law; United Statestions (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first pension agent at Columbus, Ohio, 1906-1910; commander ofCongresses), Committee on EngrossedBills(Sixty-third the department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, inthrough Sixty-fifth Congresses); funeral services were held in 1913 and 1914; died in Urbana, Ohio, July 30, 1918; inter-the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in ment in Oakdale Cemetery. Lakeview Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo. Bibliography: DAB; Gould, Lewis. "Francis E. Warren and the Johnson WARREN, Cornelius, a Representative from New York; County War." Arizona and the West 9 (Summer 1967): 131-42; Schuip, born in Phillipstown, Putnam County, N.Y., March 15, 1790; Leonard. "A Taft Republican: Sen. Francis E. Warren and National Poli- completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to tics." Annals of Wyoming 54 (Fall 1982): 62-67. the bar and commenced the practice of law; appointed judge WARREN, Joseph Mabbett, a Representative from New of the court of common pleas in 1841; elected asa Whig toYork; born in Troy, N.Y., January 28, 1813; attended the the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); diedlocal schools, and in 1827 entered Rensselaer Polytechnic at Cold Spring, Putnam County, N.Y., July 28, 1849; inter-Institute at Troy; was graduated from the Washington (now ment in the Old Cemetery. Trinity) College, Hartford, Conn., in 1834; worked as a clerk WARREN, Edward Allen, a Representative from Arkan-in New York for a year and returned to Troy, N.Y., where sas; born near Eutaw, Green County, Ala., May 2, 1818;he engaged in the wholesale grocery business for several completed preparatory studies; studied law;was admitted toyears; entered the wholesale hardware business in 1840; one the bar in 1843 and commenced the practice of law in Clin-of the directors of the Bank of Troy and of the United ton, Miss.; member of the State house of representatives inNational Bank of Troy, and president of the Bank of Troy 1845 and 1846; moved to Arkansas in 1847 and settled in 1853-1865;trusteeof Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute; Camden, where he continued the practice of his profession;mayor of Troy in 1852; appointed as a commissioner of the member of the State house of representatives in 1848 andTroy Water Works Company in 1855 and served until 1867, 1849, serving as speaker in 1849; judge of the circuit court ofwhen he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second the sixth district of Arkansas; elected as a Democrat to theCongress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); electedfor renomination in 1872; resumed his former business ac- to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859);tivities in Troy, N.Y., where he died September 9, 1896; resumed the practice of law; died in Prescott, Nevadainterment in the Warren Chapel, Oakwood Cemetery. County, Ark., July 2, 1875; interment in Moscow Cemetery, near Prescott, Ark. WARREN, Lindsay Carter, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., De- WARREN, Francis Emroy, a Senator from Wyoming;cember 16, 1889; pursued preparatory studies at Bingham born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, Mass., June 20, 1844;School, Asheville, N.C., 1903-1906; attended the University attended the common schools and Hinsdale Academy; duringof North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1906-1908; studied law at the Civil War enlisted in the Forty-ninth Regiment, Massa-the same university in 1911 and 1912; was admitted to the chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served asa private andbar in 1912 and commenced practice in Washington, N.C.; noncommissioned officer until he was mustered out of theattorney of Beaufort County 1912-1925; chairman of the service; received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gal-Democratic executive committee of Beaufort County 19 12- lantry on the battlefield at the siege of Port Hudson; later1925; member of the State senate in 1917, 1919, 1959, and served as captain in the Massachusetts militia; engaged in1961, serving as president pro tempore in 1919; member of farming and stock raising in Massachusetts; moved to Wyo-the State code commission for compiling the consolidated ming (then a part of the Territory of Dakota) in 1868;statutes in 1919; chairman of the special legislative commit- became interested in the real estate, mercantile, livestock,tee in 1920 on workmen's compensation acts; member of the and lighting businesses in Cheyenne; member, TerritorialState house of representatives in 1923; elected as a Democrat senate 1873-1874, and served as president; member of theto the Sixty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses city council 1873-1874; treasurer of Wyoming 1876, 1879,and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation on 1882, 1884; member, Territorial senate 1884-1885;mayor ofOctober 31, 1940; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Seven- Cheyenne 1885; appointed Governor of the Territory of Wyo-ty-secondthroughSeventy-sixthCongresses);appointed ming by President Chester Arthur in February 1885 butwasComptroller General of the United States for a fifteen-year removed by President Grover Cleveland in November 1886;term, serving from November 1, 1940, until his retirement again appointed Governor by President Benjamin Harrisonon May 1, 1954; had been renominated to the Seventy-sev- Biographies 2011 enth Congress, but later withdrew; delegate to Democraticconsul and settled in Mineral Point, Iowa County, in 1842; National Conventions in 1932 and 1940; chairman of thewas admitted to the bar the same year and commenced Democratic State conventions in 1930, 1934, and temporarypractice at Mineral Point; founder of the Mineral Point chairman and keynoter in 1938; died in Washington, N.C.,Bank in 1852; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth, December 28, 1976; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855- Bibliography:Porter,David."RepresentativeLindsayWarren, TheMarch 3,1861); chairman, Committee on Private Land Water Bloc, and the Transportation Act of 1940." North Camlina Histori- Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate for cal Review 50 (July 1973): 273-88. renomination in 1860; moved to La Crosse, Wis., in 1861; WARREN, Lott, a Representative from Georgia; born indelegate to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., Burke County, near Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., Octo-in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impend- ber 30, 1797; attended the common schools; moved to Dublin, ing war; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Laurens County, Ga., in 1816; served as a second lieutenantcolonel of the Second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Caval- of Volunteers in the expedition against the Seminoles inry, February 6, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers July 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821 and 16, 1862; major general November 29, 1862; resigned May 25, commenced practice in Dublin, Laurens County, Ga.; was1865, and returned to La Crosse, Wis.; elected to the Fortieth also a regularly ordained Baptist minister, but never filled aand Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); definite charge; moved to Marion in 1825; elected major ofchairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings the State militia in 1823; member of the State house of(Fortieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in representatives in 1824 and 1831; served in the State senate1870; Governor of Wisconsin 1872-1874; unsuccessful candi- in 1830; solicitor general and judge of the southern circuit ofdate for reelection in 1873; engaged in the manufacture of Georgia 1831-1834; moved to Americus, Sumter County, inlumber; owned and operated large flour mills in Minneapo- 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-lis, Minn.; died May 15, 1882, at Eureka Springs, Carroll seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not aCounty, Ark., while on a visit at the springs for his health; candidate for renomination in 1842; moved to Albany ininterment in Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, Wis. 1842; was judge of the superior court of Georgia 1843-1852; Bibliography: DAB; Hunt, Gaillard, comp. Israel, Elihu, and Cadwal- lader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography. New York: Macmillan, resumed the practice of his profession; died in Albany, 1925; Marquette, Clare L. "The Business Activities of CC. Washburn." Dougherty County, Ga., June 17, 1861; interment in River- Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1940. side Cemetery. WASHBURN, Charles Grenfill, a Representative from WARREN, William Wirt, a Representative from Massa-Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., January 28, 1857; chusetts; born in Brighton (now a part of Boston), Mass.,was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1875 February 27, 1834; pursued classical studies, and was grad-and from Harvard University in 1880; studied law; was ad- uated from Harvard University in 1856; studied law; wasmitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887; connected with various admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1857; asses- manufacturing enterprises in Worcester; member of the sor of internal revenue in the seventh Massachusetts districtState house of representatives in 1897 and 1898; served in in 1865; delegate to the Democratic National Convention inthe State senate in 1899 and 1900; member of the committee 1868; member of the State senate in 1870; elected as a Demo-to revise the corporation laws of Massachusetts in 1902; crat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3,delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1904 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to theand 1916; was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Forty-fifth Congress; engaged in the practice of law until hisCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rock- death in Boston, Mass., May 2, 1880; interment in Evergreenwood Hoar; reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- Cemetery. gresses and served from December 18, 1906, to March 3, WARWICK, John George, a Representative from Ohio;1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the born in County Tyrone, Province of Ulster, Ireland, Decem-Sixty-second Congress; director of the Federal Reserve Bank ber 23, 1830; attended the common schools of his nativeof Boston; president of the Washburn Co. of Worcester, land; immigrated with his brother to the United StatesMass., until his death at Lenox, Berkshire County, Mass., about 1850 and resided in Philadelphia, Pa., for a short time;May 25, 1928; interment in Rural Cemetery, Worcester, moved to Navarre, Stark County, Ohio, and became a book- Mass. keeper in a dry-goods establishment; moved to Massillon, Bibliography: DAB. Ohio, and clerked in a dry-goods store, subsequently becom- WASHBURN, Henry Dana, a Representative from Indi- ing interested in flour milling, coal mining, and agriculturalana; born in Windsor, Vt., March 28, 1832; attended the pursuits; also was a promoter of railroad construction; elect-common schools; became a tanner and a currier; taught ed as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and served from 1884 toschool for several years; moved to Vermillion County, Ind., 1886; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886; electedin 1850; was graduated from the New York State and Na- as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served fromtional Law Schools; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and March 4, 1891, until his death in Washington, D.C., Augustcommenced the practice of law in Newport, Vermillion 14, 1892; interment in Protestant Cemetery, Massillon, StarkCounty, md.; county auditor 1854-1861; enlisted on August County, Ohio. 16, 1861, and served in the Union Army as lieutenant colo- WASHBURN, Cadwallader Colden (brother of Israelnel of the Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; Washburn, Jr., Elihu Benjamin Washburne, and Williampromoted to colonel July 15, 1862; brevetted brigadier gener- Drew Washburn), a Representative from Wisconsin; born inal of Volunteers December 15, 1864, and major general July Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, April 22, 1818;26, 1865; mustered out August 26, 1865; successfully contest- completed preparatory studies and taught school in Wiscas-ed as a Republican the election of Daniel W. Voorhees to the set, Maine, in 1838 and 1839; moved to Davenport, Iowa, inThirty-ninth Congress; reelected to the Fortieth Congress 1839 and was employed in the geological survey of thatand served from February 23, 1866, to March 3, 1869; was State; moved to Rock Island, Ill., and studied law; electednot a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first surveyor of Rock Island County, Ill., in 1840; moved to Wis-Congress; appointed surveyor general of Montana in 1869 2012 Biographical Directory and served until his death; in 1870 headed an expedition toeral times a member of the State house of representatives; find the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and discoveredelected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, what is now known as Yellowstone Park; Mount Washburn,and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); Mont., is named for him; returned to Clinton, Vermillionelected as a Republican to the United States Senate and County, md., where he died on January 26, 1871; intermentserved from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1895; unsuccessful in Riverside Cemetery. candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on the Im- WASHBURN, Israel,Jr.(brotherof Elihu Benjaminprovement of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries Washburne, Cadwallader Colden Washburn, and William(Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses); resumed manufac- Drew Washburn), a Representative from Maine; born inturing pursuits and also engaged in railroad building; died Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, June 6, 1813; at-in Minneapolis, Minn., July 29, 1912; interment in Lakewood tended the common schools and was educated by privateCemetery. tutors; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and Bibliography: DAB. commenced practice in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine; WASHBURNE, Elihu Benjamin (brother of Israel Wash- member of the State house of representatives in 1842 andburn, Jr., Cadwallader Colden Washburn, and William Drew 1843; unsuccessful candidate for the Thirty-first Congress inWashburn), a Representative from Illinois; born in Liver- 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-more, Androscoggin County, Maine, September 23, 1816; at- third Congresses, as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth,tended the common schools; printer's apprentice; assistant Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served fromeditor of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta; studied law at March 4, 1851, to January 1, 1861, when he resigned, havingKents' Hill Seminary in 1836 and at Harvard Law School in been elected Governor; chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-fourth Congress); Governor of Maine in 1861 and 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1840; moved to Galena, Jo 1862; declined to be a candidate for renomination; appointedDaviess County, Ill., in 1840 and commenced the practice of by President Lincoln as collector of customs at Portland,law; delegate to the Whig National Conventions in 1844 and Maine, and served from October 31, 1863, until March 16,1852; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1848 to the 1877, when he resigned; served as president of the board ofThirty-first Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third trustees of Tufts College, Medford, Mass.; engaged in literaryCongress and reelected as a Republican to the eight succeed- pursuits; died in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 12, 1883; inter-ing Congresses and served from March 4, 1853, to March 6, ment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine. 1869, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Commerce Bibliography: DAB; Hunt, Gaillard, comp. Israel, Elihu, and Cadwal- (Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth through Fortieth Congress- lader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography. New York: Macmillan, es), Committee on Appropriations (Fortieth Congress); ap- 1925. pointed as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Grant, but resigned a few days afterward to accept a diplo- WASHBURN, William Barrett, a Representative and amatic mission to France; upon the declaration of the Franco- Senator from Massachusetts; born in Winchendon, Worces-Prussian War he protected with the American flag the Paris ter County, Mass., January 31, 1820; attended Westminsterlegations of the various German states; remained in Paris and Hancock Academies and graduated from Yale College induring the siege and was the only foreign minister who 1844; employed as a store clerk 1844-1847; engaged in manu-continued at his post during the days of the Commune; facturing pursuits in Erving, Franklin County, Mass., 1847-protected not only Germans but all the foreigners left by 1857; member, State senate 1850; member, State house oftheir ministers; served as Minister until 1877, when he re- representatives 1853-1855; moved to Greenfield in 1858 andturned and settled in Chicago, Ill.; engaged in literary pur- engaged in banking; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-suits; died in Chicago, Ill., October 23, 1887; interment in eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and servedGreenwood Cemetery, Galena, Ill. from March 4, 1863, to December 5, 1871, when he resigned, Bibliography: DAB; Hunt, Gaillard, comp. Israel, Elihu, and Cadwal- having been elected Governor; chairman, Committeeon lader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography. New York: Macmillan, Claims (Forty-first Congress); Governor of Massachusetts1925; Nelson, Russell K. "The Early Life and Congressional Career of 1872-1874, when he resigned, having been elected a Senator;Elihu B. Washburne." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Dakota, elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill 1954. the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Sumner and WASHINGTON, George (granduncle of George Corbin served from April 17, 1874, to March 3, 1875; was nota candidate for reelection; president of the Greenfield Nation-Washington), a Delegate from Virginia and first President of al Bank; member of the board of trustees of several colleges;the United States; born at "Wakefield," near Popes Creek, director of the Connecticut River Railroad; died in Spring-Westmoreland County, Va., February 22, 1732; raised in field, Hampden County, Mass., October 5, 1887; interment inWestmoreland County, Fairfax County and King George Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass.County; attended local schools and engaged in land survey- ing; appointed adjutant general of a military district in Vir- WASHBURN, William Drew (brother of Israel Washburn,ginia with the rank of major in 1752; in November 1753 was Jr., Elihu Benjamin Washburne, and Cadwallader Coldensent by Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, to con- Washburn), a Representative and a Senator from Minnesota;duct business with the French Army in the Ohio Valley; in born in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, on Janu-1754 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and ary 14, 1831; attended the common schools and graduatedserved in the French and Indian war, becoming aide-de-camp from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1854; studiedto General Braddock in 1755; appointed as commander in law in Bangor, Maine; was admitted to the bar in 1857 andchief of Virginia forces in 1755; resigned his commission in commenced practice in Minneapolis, Minn., where he hadDecember 1758 and returned to the management of his settled early in 1857; appointed as United States surveyorestate at Mount Vernon in 1759; served as a justice of the general of Minnesota by President Abraham Lincoln 1861-peace, 1760-1774, and as a member of the Virginia house of 1865, residing in St. Paul while holding that office;unsuc-burgesses, 1758-1774; delegate to the Williamsburg conven- cessful candidate for the United States House of Representa-tion of August 1774; Member of the First and Second Conti- tives in 1864; returned to Minneapolis and engaged in thenental Congresses in 1774 and 1775; unanimously chosen newspaper, railway, milling, and waterpower businesses; sev-June 15, 1775, as commander in chief of all the forces raised Biographies 2013 or to be raised; commanded the Continental armies through-sumed agricultural pursuits upon the family homestead, out the war for independence; resigned his commission De-"Wessyngton," in Robertson County, Tenn., where he died cember 23, 1783, and returned to private life at MountAugust 28, 1915; interment in the family burying ground on Vernon; was delegate to, and president of, the Federal Con-his estate. vention in Philadelphia in 1787; unanimously elected as the first President of the United States, being inaugurated April WASHINGTON, William Henry, a Representative from 30, 1789, in New York City; unanimously reelected in 1792North Carolina; born near Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C., and served until March 3, 1797, after declining a renomina-February 7, 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar in tion; again appointed as lieutenant general and commander1835 and commenced practice in New Bern, Craven County, of the United States Army July 3, 1798, and served until hisN.C.; was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress death December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Va.; interment(March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for in the vault at Mount Vernon. renomination in 1842; served in the State house of commons Bibliography: DAB; Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington, A in 1843 and 1846; member of the State senate in 1848, 1850, Biography. 7 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-1957; Washing- and 1852; resumed the practice of law; died in New Bern, ton, George. The Papers of George Washington. Edited by W.W. Abbot. 10 N.C., August 12, 1860; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. vols. to date. Charlottesville, Va.: The University Press of Virginia, 1983-. WASIELEWSKI, Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw, a Repre- WASHINGTON, George Corbin (grandnephew of Georgesentative from Wisconsin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., Decem- Washington), a Representative from Maryland; born onber 2, 1904; attended the parochial schools and South Divi- "Haywood Farms," near Oak Grove, Westmoreland County,sion High School of his native city; B.A., University of Va., August 20, 1789; attended Harvard University; studiedMichigan at Ann Arbor, 1927, and from the law department law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits on his plan-of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., J.D., 1931; was tation in Maryland; resided for the most part at Dumbartonadmitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Heights, in Georgetown, D.C.; elected to the Twentieth,Milwaukee, Wis.; served as census supervisor in 1940; elect- Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1827-ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the two March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on District of Colum-succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1947); bia (Twenty-second Congress); was not a candidate for re-unsuccessful Democratic candidate for renomination in 1946 nomination in 1832; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to theand an unsuccessful Independent candidate for election in Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); was1946 to the Eightieth Congress; delegate, Democratic Nation- not a candidate for renomination in 1836; president of theal Convention, 1948; member, Wisconsin State Central Com- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co.; was appointed by President Tyler in 1844 as a commissioner to adjust and settle themittee, 1942-1948; resumed the practice of law; resided in claims arising under the treaty of 1835 with the CherokeeMilwaukee, Wis., where he died April 25, 1976; interment in Indians; died in Georgetown, D.C., July 17, 1854; intermentSt. Adalbert's Cemetery. in Oak Hill Cemetery. WASKEY, Frank Hinman, a Delegate from the Territory WASHINGTON, Harold, a Representative from Illinois;of Alaska; born in Lake City, Wabasha County, Minn., April born in Chicago, Ill., April 15, 1922; attended the public20, 1875; attended the public schools of Minneapolis; moved schools; B.A., Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1949;J.D., to Alaska in February 1898, located in Nome, and engaged Northwestern University School of Law, Evanston, Ill., 1952;in mining; president of a mining company; director of a admitted to the Illinois bar in 1953 and commenced practicebank and also of a publishing company, both in Nome; elect- in Chicago; served in the United States Air Force Engineers,ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress as the first 1942-1946; assistant city prosecutor, Chicago, 1954-1958; ar-Delegate from Alaska and served from August 14, 1906, to bitrator, Illinois industrial Commission, 1960-1964; member,March 3, 1907; was not a candidate for renomination in Illinois house of representatives, 1965-1976; member, Illinois 1906; prospected for minerals in Alaska, fur buyer, and curio senate, 1977-1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sev- dealer, 1911-1955; United States commissioner at Fortuna enth and Ninety-eighth Congresses and served from JanuaryLedge, Alaska, 1915-1918; moved to Oakville, Wash, in 1956, 3, 1981, until his resignation April 30, 1983; elected mayor ofwhere he died January 18, 1964; interment in Shelton Ceme- Chicago on April 12, 1983; reelected in 1987 and served fromtery, Shelton, Wash. April 29, 1983, until his death in Chicago on November 25, WASON, Edward Hills, a Representative from New 1987; was a resident of Chicago; interment in Oakwood Cem- Hampshire; born in New Boston, Hillsborough County, N.H., etery. September 2, 1865; attended public and private schools and WASHINGTON, Joseph Edwin, a Representative fromFrancestown (N.H.) Academy; was graduated from New Tennessee; was born on the family homestead, "Wessyng-Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at ton," near Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., NovemberHanover in 1886 and from Boston (Mass.) University Law 10, 1851; received his early instruction at home; was grad-School in 1890; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and com- uated from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., June 26,menced practice in Nashua, N.H.; sergeant at arms, assist- 1873; studied law with the first law class organized at Van-ant clerk, and later clerk of the State senate; member of the derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1874, and was admit-Nashua Board of Education 189 1-1895, serving as its presi- ted to the bar, but never practiced; engaged in agriculturaldent in 1895; city solicitor of Nashua in 1894 and 1895; pursuits; member of the State house of representatives,president of the common council in 1897 and 1898; served in 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to thethe State house of representatives in 1899, 1909, and 1913; four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1897);member of the State constitutional conventions in 1902 and chairman, Committee on Territories (Fifty-second Congress);1912; solicitor of Hillsborough County 1903-1907; president was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; appointedof the Citizens' Guaranty Savings Bank of Nashua 1904- road commissioner and had charge of the road construction1941; also engaged in agricultural pursuits in Merrimack, work of Robertson County; member of the board of trusteesN.H., 1906-1941; alderman of Nashua 1906-1908; elected as a of Vanderbilt University; director of the Nashville, Chatta-Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding nooga & St. Louis and Nashville & Decatur Railroads; re-Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1933); was not a candi- 2014 Biographical Directory date for renomination in 1932; retired from public life inUtah 1928-1933; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican 1933 and resided on his estate near New Boston, N.H.,nomination to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936; elected as where he died February 6, 1941; interment in New Bostona Republican to the United States Senate in 1946 and re- Cemetery. elected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947, to January WATERMAN, Charles Winfield, a Senator from Colorado;3, 1959; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958; born in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vt., November 2,chairman, Select Committee on the Censure of Joseph 1861; attended the rural schools and St. Johnsbury Acade-McCarthy (Eighty-third Congress), co-chairman, Joint Com- my; graduated from the University of Vermont at Burling-mittee on Navaho-Hopi Indian Administration (Eighty-third ton in 1885; taught school in Connecticut and also at FortCongress), Joint Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza- Dodge, Iowa, 1885-1888; graduated from the law school oftion Policy (Eighty-third Congress); member of the Indian the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; was ad-Claims Commission, Washington, D.C., from August 1959, mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice inuntil retirement in September 1967; author; was a resident Denver, Cob.; elected as a Republican to the United Statesof Salt Lake City until he moved to Orem, Utah, in 1973 Senate in 1926 and served from March 4, 1927, until hiswhere he died September 1, 1973; interment in Eastlawn death in Washington, D.C., August 27, 1932; chairman, Com- Memorial Hills. mittee on Patents (Seventy-first Congress), Committee on Bibliography: Watkins, Arthur. Enough Rope: The Inside Story of the Enrolled Bills (Seventy-second Congress); remains were cre- Censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. Englewood Cliffs,N.J.: Prentice-Hall, mated and the ashes deposited in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 1969. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 72nd Cong., 2nd sess., WATKINS, Elton, a Representative from Oregon; born in 1932-1933. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933. Newton, Newton County, Miss., July 6, 1881; attended the WATERS, Russell Judson, a Representative from Califor-common schools of Mississippi, and Webb School of Bell nia; born in Halifax, Windham County, Vt., June 6, 1843;Buckle, Tenn.; was graduated from Washington and Lee moved with his parents to Franklin County, Mass., in 1846;University, Lexington, Va., Georgetown University Law attended the district schools; learned the machinist's tradeSchool, and George Washington Law School, Washington, in Shelburne Falls, Mass.; taught school at CharlemontD.C.; employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, until Center, Mass.; was graduated from Franklin Institute (later1912, when he moved to Oregon; was admitted to the Oregon Arms Academy), Shelburne Falls, Mass., where he later wasbar the same year and commenced the practice of law in professor of Latin and mathematics; moved to Chicago, Ill.,Portland; prosecutor, Oregon Bar Association, 1914-1918; as- in 1867; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 andsistant United States district attorney in 1919; during the practiced in Chicago until 1886; moved to California andFirst World War was again employed by the Federal Bureau settled in Redlands in 1886; city attorney of Redlands inof Investigation; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth 1888; moved to Los Angeles in 1894; president of the Pasade-Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candi- na Consolidated Gas Co.; treasurer of the Los Angeles Cham-date for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; un- ber of Commerce, vice president of the Citizens' Bank, andsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United connected with many public institutions; elected asa Repub-States Senate in 1930 and for nomination in 1932; unsuccess- lican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3,ful candidate for mayor of Portland in 1932 and in 1940; 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900;re-resumed the practice of law in Portland, Oreg., until his sumed banking as president of the Citizens' National Bank,death there June 24, 1956; interment in Greenwood Hills Los Angeles; president of the California Cattle Co., San Ja-Cemetery. cinto, Calif., 1903-1911; president of the San Jacinto Water Co. in 1910 and 1911; died in Los Angeles, Calif., September WATKINS, George Robert, a Representative from Penn- 25, 1911; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. sylvania; born in Hampton, Va., May 21, 1902; attended the public schools of Hampton; learned the trade of shipfitter; WATKINS, Albert Galiton, a Representative from Tennes- went to Chester, Pa., in 1920 and organized the Chester see; born near Jefferson City, Jefferson County, Tenn., MayStevedoring Co., which was sold in 1931; in 1932 organized 5,1818; was graduated from Holston College, Tennessee;with a partner the Blue Line Transfer Co., operating a fleet studied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice atof trucks to all points in the East; served a four-year term as Panther Springs, Tenn., in 1839; member of the State housesheriff of Delaware County, Pa., 1945-1948; member of the of representatives in 1845; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-State senate for three four-year terms, 1949-1960; served a first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3,four-year term as county commissioner, 1960-1964; operated 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to thea farm in Delaware County and was a breeder of thorough- Thirty-third Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-bred horses; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth, fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3,Ninetieth, and Ninety-first Congresses, serving from Janu- 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858; engaged ary 3, 1965, until his death in West Chester, Pa., August 7, in the ministry; died in Mooresburg, Hawkins County,1970; interment in Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery, Bir- Tenn., November 9, 1895; interment in Westview Cemetery,mingham Township, Pa. Jefferson City, Tenn. WATKINS, John Thomas, a Representative from Louisi- WATKINS, Arthur Vivian, a Senator from Utah; born inana; born in Minden, Webster Parish, La., January 15, 1854; Midway, Wasatch County, Utah, December 18, 1886; attend-attended the common schools and spent three years in Cum- ed the public schools, Brigham Young University, Provo,berland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; studied law; was admit- Utah, 1903-1906, and New York University, New York City,ted to the bar in 1878 and commenced the practice of law in 1909-1910; graduated from Columbia University Law School,Minden; judge of the district court 1892-1904; resumed the New York City, in 1912; was admitted to the bar thesamepractice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth and year and commenced practice in Vernal, Utah; engaged into the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, newspaper work in 1914; assistant county attorney of Salt1921); chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Sixty- Lake County 1914-1915; engaged in agricultural pursuitssecond through Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candi- 1919-1925; district judge of the fourth judicial district ofdate for renomination in 1920; engaged. in the practice of Biographies 2015 law in Washington, D.C., until his death on April 25, 1925;1955-1958 and 1961-1962; national chairman, Voice of De- interment in Murrell Cemetery, Minden, La. mocracy Program, United States Junior Chamber of Com- merce, in 1957; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth WATKINS, Wesley Wade, a Representative from Oklaho-and Eighty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1963, ma; born in DeQueen, Sevier County, Ark., December 15,until he resigned from the Eighty-ninth Congress, February 1938; moved to Bennington, Okla., 1945; attended the public1, 1965, after being stripped of seniority by House Democrat- schools of Bennington; B.S., Oklahoma State University,ic Caucus because of his support of the Republican presiden- Stillwater,1960, and M.S.,1961,also graduate studies toward doctorate; employed by United States Department oftial candidate; reelected as a Republican in a special elec- Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1961-1963; in 1963, returnedtion, June 15, 1965, to fill the vacancy caused by his own to Oklahoma State University as assistant director of admis- resignation; reelected to the Ninetieth and Ninety-first Con- sions for three years; moved to Wilburton, Okla., and servedgresses and served from June 15, 1965, to January 3, 1971; as executive director, Kiamichi Economic Development Dis- was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety- trict of Oklahoma, 1966-1968; entered the residential con-second Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Gov- struction business in Ada, Okla., 1968-1976; served in Okla-ernor of South Carolina in 1970; served as an administrative homa senate, 1975-1976; delegate, Oklahoma State Demo- law judge, Social Security Administration; is a resident of cratic convention, 1972; delegate, Democratic National Con- Columbia, S.C. vention, 1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and WATSON, Clarence Wayland, a Senator from West Vir- to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-Januaryginia; born in Fairmont, Marion County, W.Va., May 8, 1864; 3, 1989); is a resident of Ada, Okla. attended the public schools of Marion County; employed in WATMOUGH, John Goddard, a Representative fromthe coal-mining industry and later organized a number of Pennsylvania; born in Wilmington, Del., December 6, 1793;coal companies, serving as president of the Consolidation pursued classical studies and was graduated from PrincetonCoal Co., 1903-1911; elected as a Democrat to the United College; also did postgraduate work in the University ofStates Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; served in the War of 1812 asStephen B. Elkins and served from February 1, 1911, to corporal in the Fourth Company, Fourth Detachment, Penn-March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; com- sylvania Militia, from May 13 to July 31, 1813; appointedmissioned lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance Department of second lieutenant in the Regular Army September 2, 1813;the Army in March 1918 and served with the American brevetted first lieutenant August 15, 1814, for gallant con-Expeditionary Forces in France until January 1919; in 1918, duct in the defense of Fort Erie, Canada, and resigned onwhile overseas, was nominated for United States Senator, October1,1816;elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to thebut was unsuccessful in the election; again president of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831-Consolidation Coal Co., until 1928; also owned a stock farm March 3, 1835); unsuccessful Whig candidate for reelectionand training stables; chairman of the board of directors of in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; high sheriff of Phila-the Elk Horn Coal Corporation, later moving to Cincinnati, delphia in 1835 and 1836; surveyor of the port of Philadel-Ohio; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 24, 1940; interment in phia 1841-1845; discontinued active pursuits in 1854 andWoodlawn Cemetery, Fairmont, W.Va. lived in retirement until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., November 27, 1861; interment in Christ Church Cemetery. WATSON, Cooper Kinderdine, a Representative from Ohio; born in Jefferson County, Ky., June 18, 1810; pursued WATRES, Laurence Hawley, a Representative from Penn-preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar sylvania; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., Julyand commenced practice in Delaware, Ohio; moved to 18, 1882; attended the public schools and Hill School, Potts-Marion, Ohio; unsuccessful candidate for prosecuting attor- town, Pa.; was graduated from Princeton (N.J.) University inney of Marion County in 1839; moved to Tiffin, Ohio, and 1904 and from the law school of Harvard University in 1907;practiced law for twenty years or more; elected as a Republi- was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in Scranton, Pa.; during the First World War served from Sep-can to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, tember 26, 1916, as captain in the One Hundred and Eighth1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Machine Gun Battalion of the Twenty-eighth Division; pro-Thirty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; moved to moted to major and discharged May 28, 1919; awarded theSandusky, Ohio; member of the State constitutional conven- Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart Medal;tion in 1871; appointed judge of the court of common pleas after the war assisted in reorganizing the One Hundred andin 1876 and served until his death in Sandusky, Erie County, Ninth Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania NationalOhio, May 20, 1880; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Guard and served as lieutenant colonel; elected as a Republi- Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. can to the Sixty-eighth and to the three succeeding Con- WATSON, David Kemper, a Representative from Ohio; gresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1931); was not a candidateborn near London, Madison County, Ohio, on June 18, 1849; for renomination in 1930; resumed the practice of law inwas graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871 Scranton, Pa., until 1951; moved to East Orange, N.J.; diedand from the law department of Boston University in 1873; while vacationing in Puerto Rico, February 6, 1964; interredwas admitted to the bar and commenced practice; assistant in Glenwood Mausoleum, South Abington Township, Pa. United States district attorney for the southern district of WATSON, Albert William, a Representative from SouthOhio during the administration of President Arthur; elected Carolina; born in Sumter, S.C., August 30, 1922; attended theattorney general of Ohio in 1887 and reelected in 1889; public schools of Columbia and North Greenville Junior Col- special counsel for the United States in the suits brought by lege; graduated from the University of South Carolinathe Government against the Pacific railroads in 1892; elect- School of Law at Columbia in 1950; commenced practice ined as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, Columbia, S.C., in 1951; during the Second World War1895-March 3, 187); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in served in the United States Army Air Corps as a weather1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; appointed by President specialist (sergeant) in the Mediterranean Theater of Oper-McKinley as a member of the commission to revise and ations, 1942-1946; served in the State general assembly,codify the laws of the United States; resumed the practice of 2016 Biographical Directory

law; died in Columbus, Ohio, September 28, 1918; intermentrecorder in 1838; studied law at Warren Academy 1839-1840; in Greenlawn Cemetery. resumed his former mercantile pursuits until 1860; engaged WATSON, Henry Winfield, a Representative from Penn- as an operator in lumber and in the production of petroleum sylvania; born in Bucks County, Pa., June 24, 1856; educated1860-1875; organized and was the first president of the in private schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar inConewango Valley Railroad Co. in 1861; elected president of 1881 and commenced the practice of his profession in Phila-the Warren Savings Bank at its organization in 1870; elected delphia; president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesa-as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877- peake Railway Co.; director of several banks and of theMarch 3,1879);elected to the Forty-seventh Congress Langhorne Water Co.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-(March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); elected to the Fifty-first Con- fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and servedgress and served from March 4, 1889, until his death in from March 4, 1915, until his death in Langhorne, Pa.,onWashington, D.C., August 25, 1890; interment in Oakland August 27, 1933; interment in the Brandywine Cemetery,Cemetery, Warren, Pa. Wilmington, Del. WATSON, Thomas Edward, a Representative and a Sena- WATSON, James, a Senator from New York; born intor from Georgia; born in Columbia County, near Thomson, Woodbury, Conn., April 6, 1750; completed preparatory stud-Ga., September 5, 1856; attended the common schools and ies; graduated from Yale College in 1776; commissioned lieu-Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; taught school; studied law; tenant in a Connecticut regiment in 1776 and resigned as awas admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in captain in 1777; studied law; was admitted to the bar andThomson, McDuffie County, Ga., in 1876; also engaged in practiced; appointed in 1780 by the assembly as a purchasingagricultural pursuits; member, State house of representa- commissary for the Connecticut Line; moved to New Yorktives 1882-1883; presidentialelector on the Democratic City in 1786; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member, Stateticket in 1888; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-second Con- assembly 1791, 1794-1796, serving as speaker 1794; regent ofgress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate New York University 1795-1806; member, State senatefor reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress and in 1894 1796-1798; elected as a Federalist to the United Statesfor election to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the prac- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Johntice of law in Thomson, Ga.; nominated for Vice President Sloss Hobart and served from August 17, 1798, to March 19,by the Populist National Convention in 1896 and for Presi- 1800, when he resigned to accept an appointment by Presi-dent by the People's Party in 1904; published a magazine for dent John Adams as United States naval officer at Newmany years and later engaged in the newspaper business; York City; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor inauthor; unsuccessful candidate for the United States House 1801; member of the Society of the Cincinnati; organizer andof Representatives in 1918; elected as a Democrat to the first president of the New England Society in New YorkUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1921, until City, from 1805 until his death there May 15, 1806. his death in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1922; inter- ment in Thomson Cemetery, Thomson, Ga. WATSON, James Eli, a Representative and a Senator Bibliography: DAB; Crowe, Charles. "Tom Watson, Populists, and Blacks from Indiana; born in Winchester, Randolph County, md., Reconsidered." Journal of Negro Hi.story 55 (April 1970): 99-116; Wood. November 2,1864; graduated from De Pauw University, ward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel. New York: The Macmillan Greencastle, md., in 1886; studied law; was admitted to the Co., 1938. bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Winchester; moved to Rushville, md., in 1893 and resumed the practice of law; WATSON, Walter Allen, a Representative from Virginia; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (Marchborn in Nottoway County, Va., November 25, 1867; attended 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection"old field" school, and was graduated from Hampden-Sidney in 1896; elected to the Fifty-sixth and to the four succeedingCollege, Virginia, in 1887; studied law in the University of Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1909); was not a candi-Virginia at Charlottesville in 1888 and 1889; was admitted to date for renomination in 1908; unsuccessful Republican can-the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Nottoway and didate for governor of Indiana in 1908; resumed the practiceadjoining counties of Virginia; member of the State senate of law in Rushville, md.; elected as a Republican to the1891-1895; Commonwealth attorney 1895-1904; member of United States Senate in 1916 to fill the vacancy caused bythe Democratic State committee in 1901 and 1902; circuit the death of Benjamin F. Shively; reelected in 1920 andjudge of the fourth judicial circuit of Virginia 1904-1912; 1926, and served from November 8, 1916, to March 3, 1933;elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three unsuccessful candidate forreelectionin1932; majoritysucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until leader 1929-1933; chairman, Committee on Woman Suffragehis death in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1919; chairman, (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Revision of the LawsCommittee on Elections No. 3 (Sixty-fifth Congress); inter- (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-ment in the family cemetery on his estate, "Woodland," eighth Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Sixty-Nottoway County, Va. ninth and Seventieth Congresses), Republican Conference WATTERSON, Harvey Magee (father of Henry Watter- (Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses); continued theson), a Representative from Tennessee; born at "Beech- practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death there ongrove," the family homestead, in Bedford County, Tenn., July 29, 1948; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. November 23, 1811; pursued classical studies; studied law; Bibliography: DAB; Kent, Frank. "Senator James E. Watson: The Pro- fessional Public Servant." Atlantic Monthly 149 (February 1932): 183-90; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Shelby- Watson, James Eli. As I Knew Them: Memoirs of James R. Watson. Indi- yule, Bedford County, Tenn.; established and edited a paper anapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936. in Shelbyville, Tenn., in 1831; member of the State house of representatives in1835; elected as a Democrat to the WATSON, Lewis Findlay, a Representative from Pennsyl-Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, vania; born in Crawford County, Pa., April 14, 1819; attend- 1839-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for reelec- ed the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits attion in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; sent by Presi- Titusville in 1832; moved to Warren, Pa., in 1835 and contin-dent Tyler on a diplomatic mission to Buenos Aires, where ued his former pursuits until 1837; clerk in the office of thehe remained for a year; member of the State senate 1845- Biographies 2017

1847, and served as speaker; editor and proprietor of thetember 24, 1971; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Nicho- Nashville Union 1847-1851 and editor of the Washingtonlasville, Ky. Union in 1851; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- tion at Baltimore in 1860, and was a presidential elector on WATTS, John Sebrie, a Delegate from the Territory of the Douglas ticket the same year; appointed by PresidentNew Mexico; born in Boone County, Ky., January 19, 1816; Johnson as one of a commission to investigate conditions inmoved to Indiana, where he completed preparatory studies; the States "lately in rebellion"; practiced law in Washing-was graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington; ton, D.C., for fourteen years; moved to Louisville, KY.;studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member member of the editorial staff of the Louisville Courier-Jour-of the State house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; asso- nal; died in Louisville, Ky., October 1, 1891; interment inciate justice of the United States court in the Territory of Cave Hill Cemetery. New Mexico from 1851 to 1854, when he resigned; resumed Bibliography: DAB. the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); delegate to WATTERSON, Henry (son of Harvey Magee Wattersonthe Republican National Convention in 1864; took an active and nephew of ), a Representative frompart in equipping troops for the Union Army during the Kentucky; born in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1840;Civil War; appointed chief justice of the supreme court of completed preparatory studies under private tutors; attend-New Mexico July 11, 1868, by President Johnson, and served ed the Academy of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, Pa.; engaged in newspaper work as correspondent andin that capacity one year; resumed the practice of law in editorial writer; his first newspaper employment was on theSanta Fe; returned to Bloomington, Monroe County, md., Washington States, a Democratic paper, 1858-1861; becamewhere he died June 11, 1876; interment in Rose Hill Ceme- editor of the Republican Banner in Nashville, Tenn., in 1861;tery. during the Civil War entered the Confederate service; aide WAUGH, , a Representative from Indiana; to Gen. N.B. Forrest; was on the staff of Gen. Leonidas Polk;born near Bluffton, Wells County, md., March 7, 1842; at- chief of scouts in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army; edited thetended the country schools and the high school in Bluffton; Chattanooga Rebel in 1862 and 1863; resumed newspaperenlisted in the Union Army in 1861 in Company A, Thirty- pursuits in Nashville after the war; moved to Louisville, Ky.,fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served in 1867 and purchased the Louisville Journal, consolidated ituntil honorably discharged in September 1864; taught with the Courier, and served as editor of the Louisvilleschool; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was Courier-Journal for fifty years; temporary chairman of theadmitted to the bar in 1866; settled in Tipton, md., in 1867 Democratic National Convention in 1876; elected as a Demo-and practiced; judge of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit 1884- crat to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward Y. Parsons and served from August1890; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty- 12, 1876, to March 3, 1877; declined to be a candidate forthird Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); declined to renomination in 1876; delegate to the Democratic Nationalbe a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed the prac- Conventions in 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892; died in Jackson-tice of law; died in Tipton, md., March 14, 1921; interment ville, Fla., December 22, 1921; interment in Cave Hill Ceme-in the mausoleum adjoining Green Lawn Cemetery. tery, Louisville, Ky. WAXMAN, Henry Arnold, a Representative from Califor- Bibliography: DAB; Wall, Joseph Frazier. Henry Watterson, Reconstruct. nia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., September 12, 1939; attend- ed Rebel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956; Watterson, Henry. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography. 2 vols. New York: George H. Doran, ed Los Angeles public schools; B.A., University of California, 1919. Los Angeles, 1961; J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1964; admitted to the California bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Los WATTS, John, a Representative from New York; born inAngeles; member, California State assembly, 1969-1974; New York City, August 27, 1749; completed preparatoryelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the six studies; studied law; last recorder of New York under thesucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is Crown; member of the State assembly 1791-1793, serving asa resident of Los Angeles, Calif. speaker of that body in 1792 and 1793; member of the com- mission to build Newgate Prison, New York City, 1796-1799; WAYNE, Anthony (father of Isaac Wayne), a Representa- elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795);tive from Georgia; born in East Town, Chester County, Pa., judge of Westchester County from 1802 to 1807; founded andJanuary 1, 1745; attended Philadelphia Academy; became a endowed the Leake and Watts Orphan House; died in Newland surveyor and was employed for a time in Nova Scotia; York City September 3, 1836; interment in a vault in Trinityreturned to Chester County, Pa.; member of the provincial Churchyard. house of representatives in 1774 and 1775; served in the Revolutionary Army as colonel of the Fourth Regiment of WATTS, John Clarence; a Representative from Kentucky;Pennsylvania troops; commissioned as brigadier general Feb- born in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., July 9, 1902; 10, 1783; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Univer- ruary 21, 1777; brevetted major general October sity of Kentucky in 1925 and from its law school in 1927;elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1784; moved to was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced the practiceGeorgia and settled upon a tract of land granted him by that of law in Nicholasville, KY.; also operated a farm; policeState for his military service; delegate to the State conven- judge of Nicholasville, Ky., 1929-1933; county attorney oftion which ratified the Constitution of the United States in Jessamine County, Ky., 1933-1945; member of the State1788; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Second house of representatives in 1947 and 1948, serving as floor Congress and served from March 4, 1791, to March 21, 1792, leader; commissioner of motor transportation for State ofwhen the seat was declared vacant; declined to be a candi- Kentucky 1948-1951; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-date for reelection in 1792; again entered the service of the second Congress, by special election, April 14, 1951, to fillUnited States Army, as major general and General in Chief the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas R. Under-of the Army; concluded a treaty August 3, 1795, with the wood; reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses and servedIndians northwest of the Ohio River; died in Presque Isle from April 14, 1951, until his death in Lexington, Ky., Sep-(now Erie), Pa., December 15, 1796; remains were moved in 2018 Biographical Directory

1809 and interred in St. David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, WEAKLEY, Robert, a Representative from Tennessee; Radnor, Pa. born in Halifax County, Va., July 20, 1764; attended Prince- Bibliography: DAB; Wildes, Harry E. Anthony Wayne, Trouble Shooterton (N.J.) schools; joined the Revolutionary Army at the age of the American Revolution. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941. of sixteen and served until the close of the Revolutionary WAYNE, Isaac (son of Anthony Wayne), a RepresentativeWar; moved in 1785 to that part of North Carolina which from Pennsylvania; born near Paoli, Chester County, Pa., inlater became Tennessee and engaged in agricultural pur- 1772; attended the common schools and was graduated fromsuits; member of the North Carolina convention that ratified Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was admitted tothe Constitution of the United States in 1789; member of the the Chester County bar in 1795; member of the State housefirst State house of representatives in 1796; elected as a of representatives 1799-1801 and in 1806; served in the StateRepublican to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March senate in 1810; during the War of 1812 was captain ofa3, 1811); appointed United States commissioner to treat with troop of Pennsylvania Horse Cavalry, raised and equippedthe Chickasaw Indians in 1819; member of the State senate by himself, and was subsequently colonel of the Second Regi- in 1823 and 1824, serving as president in 1823; member of ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; unsuccessful Feder- alist candidate for Governor in 1814; elected to the Eight-the State constitutional convention in 1834; died near Nash- eenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); engaged inville, Tenn., February 4, 1845; interment in the family vault agricultural pursuits; died in Chester County, Pa., Octoberat "Lockland," on his estate in the suburbs of Nashville. 25, 1852; interment in St. David's Episcopal Church Ceme- WEARIN, Otha Donner, a Representative from Iowa; born tery, Radnor, Pa. on a farm near Hastings, Mills County, Iowa, January 10, WAYNE, James Moore, a Representative from Georgia;1903; attended the country schools; was graduated from born in Savannah, Ga., in 1790; completed preparatory stud-Tabor (Iowa) Academy in 1920 and from Grinnell (Iowa) ies and was graduated from Princeton College in 1808; stud-College in 1924; served as treasurer of Wearin, Iowa, rural ied law in New Haven, Conn.; was admitted to the bar inschool district 1926-1928; engaged in agricultural pursuits 1810 and commenced practice in Savannah, Ga.; entered theand also as an author and editor; member of the State house military service during the War of 1812, and servedas anof representatives 1928-1932; delegate to the Iowa State officer in the Georgia Hussars; member of the State house ofDemocratic Judicial convention in 1930 and served as chair- representatives in 1815 and 1816; mayor of Savannah 1817-man; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1819; judge of the court of common pleas and oyer and1936 and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, terminer of Savannah 1820-1822; judge of the superior courtSeventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifthCongresses (March4, of Savannah from 1822 to 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to1933-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congress-in 1938 but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democrat- es and served from March 4, 1829, to January 13, 1835, when he resigned to accept a judicial position; chairman, Commit-ic nomination for United States Senator; resumed agricul- tee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-third Congress); had beentural pursuits; member of the Alien Enemy Hearing Board reelected to the Twenty-fourth Congress; appointedas anfor the southern district of Iowa 1941-1944; member of the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesDemocratic State Central Committee 1948-1952; member of and served from January 14, 1835, until his death in Wash- Mills County Board of Education; unsuccessful for Democrat- ington, D.C., on July 5, 1867; interment in Laurel Groveic nomination for United States Senator in 1950 and for Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham County, Ga. Governor of Iowa in 1952; staff advisor to Iowa Governor Bibliography: DAB; Lawrence, Alexander A. James Moore Wayne, South- Hershel Loveless, January 1959-1961; member, Iowa State ern Unionist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943. Commission on Aging, July 1965-1969; author; is a resident WEADOCK, Thomas Addis Emmet, a Representativeof Hastings, Iowa. from Michigan; born in Ballygarrett, County Wexford, Ire- WEATHERFORD, Zadoc Lorenzo, a Representative from land, on January 1, 1850; immigrated to the United States inAlabama; born on a farm in Marion County, Ala., near infancy with his parents, who settled on a farmnear St.Vina, Franklin County, February 4,1888; attended the Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio; educated in thecommonpublic schools; was graduated from the medical department schools and the Union School at St. Marys; taught school inof the University of Tennessee at Memphis, M.D., 1914; the counties of Auglaize, Shelby, and Miami for fiveyears;served as an intern in St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in March 1873; was admitted to the1914-1916; moved to Red Bay, Ala., in 1916 and commenced bar the same year and commenced practice in Bay City,general medical practice; during the First World War served Mich.; served in the State militia 1874-1877; prosecutingfrom August 26, 1917, as battalion surgeon in the Three attorney of Bay County in 1877 and 1878; chairman of theHundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry and was discharged on Democratic State conventions in 1883 and 1894;mayor ofOctober 6, 1920; awarded the Purple Heart Medal; was sub- Bay City 1883-1885; member of the board of education ofdistrict medical officer, United States Veterans' Bureau, Bay City in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-secondMontgomery, Ala., 1922-1924; resumed medical practice in and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895);Red Bay, Ala.; also interested in banking and agricultural chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-third Con-pursuits, with farming interests in both Alabama and Mis- gress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1894;sissippi; served in the State senate from 1939 until elected to delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention inCongress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Con- 1896; resumed the practice of law in Bay City, and latergress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B. moved to Detroit, and continued to practice; unsuccessfulBankhead and served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, Democratic candidate for judge of the supreme court of1941; was not a candidate for the full term; resumed his Michigan in 1904; appointed a professor of law in the Uni-medical profession, retiring from active practice January 1, versity of Detroit in 1912; appointed an associate justice of1958; mayor of Red Bay, Ala., 1945-1948; vice chairman the State supreme court in 1933; died in Detroit, Mich.,Franklin County Democratic Committee, 1933-1937; presi- November 18, 1938; interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Baydent of the Bank of Red Bay, 1938-1970; was a resident of City, Mich. Red Bay, Ala., until his death on May 21, 1983. Biographies 2019

WEAVER, Archibald Jerard (grandfather of Phillip H.mayor of Colfax, Iowa, 1901-1903; died in Des Moines, Iowa, Weaver), a Representative from Nebraska; born in Dundaff,February 6, 1912; interment in Woodland Cemetery. Susquehanna County, Pa., April15,1843; attended the Bibliography: DAB; Colbert, Thomas Burnell. "Political Fusion in Iowa: The Election of James B. Weaver to Congress in 1878." Arizona and the common schools; was graduated from Wyoming Seminary, West 20 (Spring 1978): 25-40; Haynes, Fred Emory. James Baird Weaver. Kingston, Pa., and a member of the faculty 1864-1867; was Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1916. graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1869; was admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass., in 1869; WEAVER, James Dorman, a Representative from Penn- moved to Falls City, Nebr., in 1869 and commenced thesylvania; born in Erie, Pa., September 27, 1920; attended the practice of law; member of the State constitutional conven-public schools, Erie Conservatory of Music, and Syracuse tions in 1871 and 1875; district attorney for the first district(N.Y.) University, 1938-1941; graduated from the Medical of Nebraska in 1872; elected judge of the first judicial dis-School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in trict of Nebraska in 1875; reelected in 1879 and resigned in1944; while a student, worked on farms in Erie County and 1883; was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth andalso as a musician with orchestras; entered the United Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); didStates Army Medical Corps in 1946 and served as a captain not seek renomination in 1886, but was an unsuccessfuland as commanding officer and chief of surgery, Three Hun- candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1887;dred and Eighty-third Station Hospital, Ascom City, Korea, resumed the practice of law; died in Falls City, Richardson1947-1948; engaged in the practice of medicine in Erie, Pa., County, Nebr., April 18, 1887; interment in Steele Cemetery.1948-1962; Pennsylvania delegate to White House Confer- Bibliography: Snoddy, Donald D.The Congressional Career of Archi- ence on Aging in 1961; medical administrator, Pennsylvania bald Jerard Weaver, 1882-1887." Nebraska History 57 (Spring 1976): 83-98. Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1960-1962; elected as a WEAVER, Claude, a Representative from Oklahoma; bornRepublican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963- in Gainesville, Cooke County, Tex, March 19, 1867; attendedJanuary 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the public schools; was graduated from the law department1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; active duty, United of the University of Texas at Austin in 1887; was admittedStates Air Force, 1965-1983; is a resident of Bethesda, Md. to the bar the same year and practiced in Gainesville, Tex., WEAVER, James Howard, a Representative from Oregon; 1887-189 5; assistant prosecuting attorney of Cooke County,born in Brookings, Brookings County, S.Dak., August 8, Tex., in 1892; moved to Pauls Valley, Indian Territory, in1927; attended public schools in Des Moines, Iowa; moved to 1895 and engaged in the practice of law; moved to OklahomaEugene, Oreg., 1947; B.S., University of Oregon, Eugene, City, Okia., in 1902; member of Oklahoma City Board of1952; served in the United States Navy, 1945-1946; worked Freeholders in 1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-thirdas publisher's representative, 1954-1958; was staff director Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candi-for Oregon Legislative Interim Committee on Agriculture, date for renomination in 1914 and for election to fill a1959-1960; became a builder and developer of office and vacancy in the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1919; postmaster ofapartment building complexes in Oregon, 1960; delegate, Oklahoma City, Okia., 1915-1923; acting county attorney ofDemocratic National Conventions, 1960, 1964; elected as a Oklahoma County in 1926; legal adviser and secretary to theDemocrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the five succeeding Governor, William H. Murray, 1931-1934; district judge ofCongresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1987); was not a thirteenth Oklahoma district in 1934 and 1935; returned tocandidate for reelection in 1986; was the Democratic nomi- the practice of law; died in Oklahoma City, Okia., May 19,nee for the U.S. Senate in 1986 but withdrew hiscandidacy; 1954; interment in Fairlawn Cemetery. author; is a resident of Eugene, Oreg. WEAVER, James Baird, a Representative from Iowa; born WEAVER, Phillip Hart (grandson of Archibald Jerard in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833; moved with his parents toWeaver), a Representative from Nebraska; born in Falls Michigan in 1835 and subsequently moved to Iowa and set-City, Richardson County, Nebr., April 9, 1919; attended the tled on a farm near Bloomfield; attended the commonpublic schools of Falls City and Lincoln, Nebr.; student at St. schools; studied law at Bloomfield 1853-1856; was graduatedBenedicts College, Atchison, Kans., in 1938 and 1939; A.B., from the Cincinnati Law School in April 1856; was admittedUniversity of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1942; staff announcer for to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Bloomfield;radio stations 1938-1940; entered the Armed Services June enlisted as a private in the Second Regiment, Iowa Volun-1, 1942, and assigned to command, staff, and liaison duties teer Infantry, in April 1861; commissioned first lieutenant ofwith the Seventeenth Airborne Division, First Allied An- Company G May 27, 1861; major July 25, 1862; colonel No-borne Army, and Headquarters, Berlin District; was dis- vember 10, 1862; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteerscharged as a captain in March 1946; awarded Combat Infan- March 13, 1864; mustered out May 27, 1864; elected districttryman's Badge, Glider Wings, and Bronze Star with oak attorney for the second judicial district of Iowa in 1866 andleaf cluster; retired as lieutenant colonel in United States served four years; appointed assessor of internal revenue forArmy Reserves; engaged in the insurance and finance busi- the first district of Iowa by President Johnson March 25,ness, Falls City, Nebr., 1946-1949; director, Falls City Whole- 1867, and served until May 20, 1873; elected as a Greenback-sale & Supply, Inc., since 1946; civilian administrative assist- er to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3,ant to the G-1, Fifth Army, Chicago, Ill., in 1949 and 1950; 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, but wasestablished an automobile agency, Falls City, Nebr., in 1950; nominated at Chicago in 1880 by the National Greenbackelected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the three Party as their candidate for President of the United States;succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-eighth Con-unsuccessful for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth gress in 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con-Congress; special consultant, Department of Agriculture, gresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); chairman, CommitteeWashington, D.C., 1963-1965; deputy director, Field Coopera- on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-tions Division, Rural Community Development Service, 1966; ninth Congress), Committee on Patents (Fiftieth Congress);regional development coordinator for Department of Agricul- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-ture, 1967-1968; acting administrator, Rural Community De- first Congress; Populist candidate for President in 1892;velopment Service, 1969; deputy assistant to Secretary of 2020 Biographical Directory

Agriculture, 1969-1973; resumed business interests in Fallsand was a student in Bingham School, Oaks, N.C., 1856- City in 1974; is a resident of Falls City, Nebr. 1860; entered the University of North Carolina in 1860 but WEAVER, Walter Lowrie, a Representative from Ohio;left to enlist in the Confederate Army; returned to North born in Montgomery County, Ohio, April 1, 1851; attendedCarolina in 1865; graduated from the University of North the public schools and Monroe Academy, and was graduatedCarolina at Chapel Hill in 1868; taught at Homer's School, from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1870; studiedOxford, N.C., 1868-1870; founded the Webb School, a prepar- law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commencedprac-atory school, at Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870; moved the school to tice in Springfield, Ohio; elected prosecuting attorney ofBell Buckle, Tenn., in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the Clark County in 1874, 1880, 1882, and 1885; elected as aUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congressesof Robert L. Taylor and served from January 24, 1913, to (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); chairman, CommitteeonMarch 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection in 1913; Elections No. 2 (Fifty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidatecontinued teaching until his death in Bell Buckle, Tenn., for renomination in 1900; appointed associate justice Choc-December 19, 1926; interment in Hazeiwood Cemetery. taw-Chickasaw citizens' court at McAlester, Okla., in 1902; Bibliography: DAB; McMillin, Laurence. The Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb returned to Springfield, Ohio, in 1904 and resumed theprac- and the Bell Buckle Story. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina tice of law; died in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, May 26, Press, 1971; Parks, E.W. "Sawney Webb: Tennessee's Schoolmaster." North 1909; interment in Ferncliff Cemetery. Carolina Historical Review 12 (July 1935): 233-51. WEAVER, Zebulon, a Representative from North Caroli- WEBBER, Amos Richard, a Representative from Ohio; na; born in Weaverville, Buncombe County, N.C., May 12,born in Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio, January 21, 1852; 1872; attended the public schools and was graduated fromattended the public schools of Hinckley and was graduated Weaver College at Weaverville in 1889; studied law at thefrom Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, in 1876; studied law; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admittedwas admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Asheville,Elyria, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Lorain County 1884- N.C.; member of the State house of representatives 1907-1890; judge of the court of common pleas of Lorain County 1909; served in the State senate 1913-1915; presented creden-1900-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Con- tials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Sixty-fifth Con-gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William W. gress and served from March 4, 1917, to March 1, 1919, whenSkiles; reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress and served from he was succeeded by James J. Britt, who contested his elec-November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate tion; elected to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeedingfor renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of law in Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); unsuccessfulcan-Elyria, Ohio; engaged in literary pursuits; again elected in didate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress;1922 judge of the court of common pleas, serving until his elected to the Seventy-second and to the seven succeedingretirement in 1935; died in Elyria, Ohio, February 25, 1948; Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1947); unsuccessfulinterment in Ridgelawn Cemetery. candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the practice of law in Asheville, N.C., until his death there October 29, WEBBER, George Washington, a Representative from 1948; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Michigan; born in Newbury, Orange County, Vt., November 25, 1825; attended the common schools and the academy at WEBB, Edwin Yates, a Representative from North Caroli-Alfred, Allegany County, N.Y.; moved to Michigan in 1852 na; born in Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., May 23, 1872;and settled in Manistee County, where he engaged in farm- attended the Shelby Military Institute, and was graduateding, lumbering, manufacturing, and mercantile pursuits; from Wake Forest (N.C.) College in June 1893; studied law atmoved to lonia, lonia County, in 1858 and continued the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1893 andlumber and mercantile business; engaged in the banking 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commencedprac- business at lonia in 1870; elected president of the Second tice in Shelby; entered the University of Virginia LawNational Bank of lonia in 1872, a position which he held School at Charlottesville in 1896 and completeda postgradu-until the time of his death; mayor of lonia in 1874 and 1875; ate course; member of the State senate in 1901; appointedaelected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress trustee of Wake Forest College in 1898; appointed trustee of(March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Raleigh by therenomination in 1882; resumed his former business activi- legislature in 1899 and served two years; chairman of theties; died in lonia, Mich., January 15, 1900; interment in Democratic senatorial district in 1896; chairman of theHighland Park Cemetery. Democratic county executive committee 1898-1902; tempo- rary chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1900; WEBER, Edward Ford, a Representative from Ohio; born elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the eightin Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, July 26, 1931; attended the succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, topublic schools; A.B., Denison University, Granville, Ohio, November 10, 1919, when he resigned to accept a judicial1953; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1956; served in the United position; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Sixty-thirdStates Army, 1956-1958; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1956 through Sixty-fifth Congresses); one of the managersap-and commenced practice in Toledo, 1958; assistant professor, pointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conductToledo University School of Law, 1966-1979; elected as a impeachment proceedings against Robert W. Archbald, judgeRepublican to the Ninety-seventh Congress (January3, of the United States Commerce Court; appointed United1981-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for reelection States district judge for the western district of North Caroli-in 1982; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Toledo, na November 5, 1919, and served until his retirement MarchOhio. 1, 1948; died while visiting in Wilmington, N.C., February 7, 1955; interment in Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, N.C. WEBER, John Baptiste, a Representative from New York; born in Buffalo, N.Y., September 21, 1842; attended public WEBB, William Robert (grandson of Richard Stanford),aand private schools and the Central School of Buffalo; enlist- Senator from Tennessee; born near Mount Tirzah, Personed in the Civil War as a private in the Forty-fourth Regi- County, N.C., November 11, 1842; attended private schoolsment, New York Volunteer Infantry, August 7, 1861, and Biographies 2021 was rapidly promoted, attaining the rank of colonel of the WEBSTER, Edwin Hanson, a Representative from Mary- Eighty-ninth United States Colored Infantry; engaged in theland; born near Churchville, Harford County, Md., March wholesale grocery business; assistant postmaster of Buffalo31, 1829; received a classical training; attended the Church- 1871-1873; sheriff of Erie County 1874-1876; elected as aville (Md.) Academy and the New London Academy, Chester Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth CongressesCounty, Pa., and was graduated from Dickinson College, Car- (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate forlisle, Pa., in 1847; taught school; studied law; was admitted reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; delegate to theto the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Bel Air, Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888; grade-Harford County, Md.; member of the State senate 1855-1859; crossing commissioner of the city of Buffalo 1888-1908; com- during the Civil War was colonel of the Seventh Regiment, missioner of immigration at the port of New York 1890-Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and served in 1862 and 1863; 1893; commissioner general of the Pan American Expositionelected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty- at Buffalo in 1901; died in Lackawanna, N.Y., on Decembersixth Congress, as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress 18, 1926; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.and as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and WEBER, John Vincent, a Representative from Minnesota;Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, born in Slayton, Murray County, Minn., July 24, 1952; at-until his resignation in July 1865 when he was appointed tended the public schools; attended the University of Minne-collector of customs at the port of Baltimore, and served sota, Minneapolis, 1970-1974; copublisher, Murray Countyfrom July 27, 1865, to April 15, 1869; resumed the practice of newspaper; president, Weber Publishing Co.; press secretaryhis profession in Bel Air; was again appointed by President to Representative , 1974-1975; senior aide toArthur, on February 17, 1882, and served until February 23, Senator , 1977-1980; delegate, Minnesota 1886; in 1882 he engaged in banking, which he followed until State Republican conventions, 1972, 1978; elected as a Re-his death; died in Bel Air, Md., April 24, 1893; interment in publican to the Ninety-seventh and to the three succeedingCalvary Cemetery, near Churchville, Md. Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident WEBSTER, John Stanley, a Representative from Wash- of North Mankato, Minn. ington; born in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February WEBSTER, Daniel, a Representative from New Hamp-22, 1877; attended the public schools and Smith's Classical shire and a Representative and a Senator from Massachu-School for Boys; studied law at the University of Michigan setts; born in Salisbury, N.H., January 18, 1782; attendedat Ann Arbor 1897-1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 district schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; and commenced practice in Cynthiana, KY.; prosecuting at- graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1801;torney of Harrison County, Ky., 1902-1906; moved to Spo- principal of an academy at Fryeburg, Maine, in 1802; studiedkane, Wash., in May 1906; chief assistant prosecuting attor- law; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced prac-ney for Spokane County 1907-1909; judge of the superior tice in Boscawen, near Salisbury, N.H.; moved to Ports-court of Spokane County 1909-1916; lecturer on criminal mouth, N.H., in 1807 and continued the practice of law;and elementary law in Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash.; elected as a Federalist from New Hampshire to the Thir-associate justice of the State supreme court 1916-1918; elect- teenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3,ed as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and 1817); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1816 to theSixty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, to Fifteenth Congress; moved toBoston,Mass.,in1816; May 8, 1923, when he resigned to become United States achieved national fame as counsel representing Dartmouthdistrict judge for the eastern district of Washington, in College before the United States Supreme Court in the Dart-which capacity he served until August 31, 1939, when he mouth College case 1816-1819; delegate to the Massachusettsretired due to ill health; was a resident of Spokane, Wash., State constitutional convention in 1820; elected from Massa-until his death there on December 24, 1962; remains were chusetts to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Con-cremated and the ashes interred in the Oakesdale Cemetery, gresses and served from March 4, 1823, to May 30, 1827;Oakesdale, Wash. chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses); elected to the United States Senate WEBSTER, Taylor, a Representative from Ohio; born in for the term beginning March 4, 1827; reelected as a Whig inPennsylvania October 1, 1800; moved with his parents to 1833 and 1839 and served until his resignation, effectiveOhio in 1806, where he received a limited schooling; attend- February22,1841;chairman, Committee on Financeed Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, for a short time; editor (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); Webster'sand publisher of the Western Telegraph, Hamilton, Ohio, reply to Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina in Janu-1828-1836; clerk of the State house of representatives in ary 1830 in opposition to the principles of Nullification won1829; member of the State house of representatives in 1830 him nation-wide fame,. as did his widely-circulated "7th ofand served as speaker; elected as a Jacksonian to the March" speech in 1850, in which he argued for excludingTwenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Demo- slavery from the territories; unsuccessful Whig candidate forcrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, president in 1836; appointed Secretary of State by President1839); clerk of court of Butler County, Ohio, 1842-1846; re- William Henry Harrison and again by President John Tylersumed his former business pursuits; moved to New Orleans, and served from 1841 to 1843; again elected as a Whig to theLa., in 1863 and was employed in a clerical position; died in United States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, to JulyNew Orleans, La., April 27, 1876; interment in Lafayette 22, 1850, when he resigned; appointed Secretary of State byCemetery No. 1. President and served from July 22, 1850, WEDEMEYER, William Walter, a Representative from until his death in Marshfield, Mass., October 24, 1852; inter-Michigan; born near Lima Township, Washtenaw County, ment in the Winslow Cemetery. Mich., March 22, 1873; attended the district schools and Ann Bibliography: DAB; Baxter, Maurice. One and Inseparable: Daniel Web- ster and the Union. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Universi- Arbor High School; was graduated from the law department ty, 1984; Webster, Daniel. The Papers of Daniel Webster. Edited by Charlesof the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1895; Wiltse, Alfred S. Konefsky, Andrew J. King, and Kenneth E. Shewmaker. member of the board of school examiners in 1894 and 1895; 10 vols. to date. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1974- was admitted to the bar in 1895; county commissionerof 2022 Biographical Directory

schools 1895-1897; deputy commissioner of railroads forfrom Massachusetts; born near Lancaster, N.H., April 11, Michigan 1897-1899; commenced the practice of law at Ann1860; attended the common schools; taught school; graduated Arbor in 1899; chairman of the Republican State conventionfrom the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., in in 1903; American consul at Georgetown, British Guiana,1881; served in the United States Navy as a midshipman during the summer of 1905; member of the Republican State1881-1883; resigned from the Navy in 1883 and took up the central committee 1906-1910; elected as a Republican to theprofession of civil engineering; became engaged in the bank- Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, untiling and brokerage business in Boston, Mass., 1888-1914; his death; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection inserved in the Massachusetts Naval Brigade 1890-1900, 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; while on an official visit toacting as commander the last six years; moved to Newton, Colon, Panama, was accidentally drowned in the harbor ofMass., in 1893; member of the Board of Visitors to the that port on January 2, 1913; remains were never recovered.United States Naval Academy in 1896; served in the Span- WEEKS, Edgar (cousin of John Wingate Weeks [1820-ish-American War as a lieutenant in the Volunteer Navy 1926]), a Representative from Michigan; born at Mount Cle-1898; member of the board of aldermen of Newton, Mass., mens, Macomb County, Mich., August 3, 1839; attended the 1899-1902; mayor of Newton 1902-1903; elected as a Republi- public schools; learned the trade of printer; studied law, andcan to the Fifty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses was admitted to the bar in January 1861; during the Civiland served from March 4, 1905, until his resignation effec- War served in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Michigan Volun-tive March 4, 1913, to become United States Senator; chair- teer Infantry, and was first sergeant of the company; firstman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-second Michigan In-State (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on fantry in 1862; captain in 1863; appointed assistant inspectorPost Office and Post Roads (Sixty-first Congress); elected as a general of the Third Brigade, Second Division, ReserveRepublican to the United States Senate and served from Corps, Army of the Cumberland, in 1863; was mustered outMarch 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for in December 1863; proprietor and editor of a Republicanreelection in 1918; chairman, Committee on the Disposition newspaper in Mount Clemens, Mich.; commenced the prac-of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-fifth Congress); appointed tice of law in Mount Clemens in 1866; prosecuting attorneySecretary of War by President Warren Harding in 1921, and 1867-1870; appointed judge of probate of Macomb Countyagain by President Calvin Coolidge, and served until 1925, 1870-1876; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to thewhen he resigned due to ill health; died in Lancaster, N.H., Forty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-July 12, 1926; remains were cremated and the ashes interred sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. 1903); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Fifty-sev- Bibliography: DAB; Spence, Benjamin. "The National Career of John enth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in Wingate Weeks (1904-1925)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1902; resumed the practice of law; died in Mount Clemens, 1971; Washburn, Charles. Life of John W. Weeks. Boston: Houghton Miff- Mich., December 17, 1904; interment in Clinton Grove Ceme- lin, Co., 1928. tery. WEEKS, Joseph (grandfather of Joseph Weeks Babcock), a WEEKS, John Eliakim, a Representative from Vermont;Representative from New Hampshire; born in Warwick, born in Salisbury, Addison County, Vt., June 14, 1853; at-Mass., February 13,1773; attended the common schools; tended the county schools and Middlebury High School;en- moved to Richmond, N.H.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; gaged in the banking business in 1882; assistant judge oftown clerk of Richmond, N.H., 1802-1822; member of the Addison County 1884-1886; served in the State house ofState house of representatives 1807-1809, 1812, 1813, 1821- representatives in 1888; moved to Middlebury, Vt., in 1896;1826, 1830, and 1832-1834; associate judge of the court of member of the State senate in 1896; elected trustee of thecommon pleas 1823 and 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the State industrial school (later the Weeks School) in 1898;Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the associate judge 1902-1904; again served in the State house ofTwenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); died in representatives in 1912 and 1915, serving as speaker in 1915;Winchester, Cheshire County, N.H., August 4, 1845. director of State institutions 19 17-1923; commissioner of public welfare 1923-1926; Governor of Vermont 1927-1931; WEEKS, Sinclair (son of John Wingate Weeks), a Senator elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congressfrom Massachusetts; bornin West Newton, Middlesex (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); was not a candidate forCounty, Mass., June 15, 1893; attended the public schools; renomination in 1932; resumed his banking interests; died ingraduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in Middlebury, Vt., September 10, 1949; interment in Salisbury1914; engaged in the banking business at Boston, Mass., Cemetery, Salisbury, Vt. 1914-1923; served on the Mexican border with the Massa- chusetts National Guard in 1916; during the First World WEEKS, John Wingate (great uncle of John WingateWar served from 1917, as a lieutenant and later as a captain Weeks), a Representative from New Hampshire; born inof the One Hundred and First Field Artillery in the Twenty- Greenland, Rockingham County, N.H., March 31, 1781; at-sixth Division, and was discharged in 1919; engaged in the tended the common schools; learned the carpenter's trade;manufacture of metal products 1923-1953; alderman of during the War of 1812 recruited a company for the Elev-Newton 1923-1930; mayor of Newton 1930-1935; member of enth Regiment of United States Infantry and served as itsthe Republican National Committee 1941-1953, serving as captain; promoted to the rank of major; after the warre- sided in Coos County, N.H., where he held several localtreasurer 1940-1944; appointed as a Republican to the offices; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first andUnited States Senate February 8, 1944, to fill the vacancy Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833);caused by the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., April 3, 1853; inter-served from February 8, 1944, to December 19, 1944, a suc- ment in the Old Cemetery. cessor having been elected; was not a candidate for election Bibliography: DAB. to the vacancy; overseer, Harvard University 1948-1954; Sec- retary of Commerce in the Cabinet of President Dwight WEEKS, John Wingate (father of andEisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1958; chair- cousin of Edgar Weeks), a Representative anda Senatorman, partner, and director of several manufacaturing, in- Biographies 2023 vestment and insurance firms; retired in 1970 and resided inFisheries (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); was not a Lancaster, N.H.; died in Concord, Mass., February 7, 1972;candidate for renomination in 1954; resumed the practice of interment in Summer Street Cemetery, Lancaster, N.H. law; died in Sandusky, Ohio, November 27, 1956; interment WEEMS, Capell Lane, a Representative from Ohio; bornin Calvary Cemetery. in Whigville, Noble County, Ohio, July 7, 1860; attended the WEICKER, Lowell Palmer, Jr., a Representative and a common schools and normal academy, Caidwell, Ohio; stud-Senator from Connecticut; born in Paris, France, May 16, ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced1931; graduated, Lawrenceville Academy 1949; graduated, practice in Caldwell; elected prosecuting attorney of NobleYale University 1953; graduated, University of Virginia Law County in 1884; member of the State house of representa-School 1958; served in the United States Army 1953-1955; tives in 1888 and 1889; moved to St. Clairsville in 1890;United States Army Reserve 1959-1964; elected State repre- prosecuting attorney of Belmont County 1890-1896; electedsentative in Connecticut general assembly 1962, 1964, and as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the va-1966; elected first selectman, town of Greenwich 1963 and cancy caused by the resignation of Joseph J. Gill; reelected1965; attorney; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and served fromCongress (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1971); was not a candi- November 3, 1903, to March 3, 1909; resumed the practice ofdate for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1970, law and was solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad; died inbut was elected to the United States Senate for the term Steubenville, Ohio, January 5, 1913; interment in Unioncommencing January 3, 1971; reelected in 1976, and again in Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio. 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; chairman, Com- WEEMS, John Crompton, a Representative from Mary-mittee on Small Business (Ninety-seventh through Ninety- land; born in Waterloo, Calvert County, Md., in 1778; attend-ninth Congresses). ed St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; engaged in planting; elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused WEIDEMAN, Carl May, a Representative from Michigan; by the resignation of ; reelected to the Twenti- born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., March 5, 1898; at- eth Congress and served from February 1, 1826, to March 3,tended the public schools and the University of Michigan at 1829; resumed agricultural pursuits; died on his plantation,Ann Arbor from 1914 until the outbreak of the First World "Loch Eden," in Anne Arundel County, Md., January 20,War; attended the Naval Officers Training School at Ann 1862; interment in a private cemetery on his estate. Arbor, Mich.; enlisted in the United States Navy as an ap- prentice seaman; member of the United States Naval Re- WEFALD, Knud, a Representative from Minnesota; bornserve 1918-1922; Detroit (Mich.) College of Law,LL.B., in in Kragero, Norway, November 3, 1869; attended the local1921 but was previously admitted to the bar in 1920; com- schools and high school of his native land; immigrated to themenced practice in Detroit, Mich.; delegate to the Democrat- United States in 1887 and in 1896 settled in Hawley, Clayic State conventions 1932-1944 and to the Democratic Na- County, Minn., engaged in agricultural pursuits; also manag- er and part owner of a lumber business; member of thetional Convention in 1940; elected as a Democrat to the village council of Hawley, serving as president in 1907-1912,Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); un- 1917, and 1918; member of the State house of representa-successful candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seven- tives 1913-1915; elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket to thety-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Detroit, Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-Mich.; elected circuit court commissioner of Wayne County, March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926Mich., in 1936, 1942, and 1948, and served from January 1, to the Seventieth Congress; resumed his former business1937, to April 30, 1950; circuit judge for the third judicial pursuits; editor of a Norwegian newspaper at Fargo, N.Dak.,circuit of the State of Michigan May 1, 1950-September 15, 1929-1931; executive secretary of the commission of adminis-1968; resided in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., where he died tration and finance of Minnesota in 1931 and 1932; served as March 5, 1972; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, railroad and warehouse commissioner of Minnesota from Mich. January 1933 until his death; died in St. Paul, Minn., Octo- ber 25, 1936; interment in Hawley Cemetery, Hawley, Minn. WEIGHTMAN, Richard Hanson, a Delegate from the Ter- Bibliography: Wefald, Jon M. "Congressman : A Minnesota ritory of New Mexico; born in Washington, D.C., December Voice for Farm Parity." Minnesota History 38 (December 1962): 177-85. 28, 1816; attended private schools in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va.; was graduated from the University of Vir- WEICHEL, Alvin F., a Representative from Ohio; born inginia at Charlottesville in 1834; attended the United States Sandusky, Ohio, September 11, 1891; attended the publicMilitary Academy at West Point 1835-1837; studied law; was schools of Sandusky, Ohio; during the First World War en-admitted to the bar in 1841 in the District of Columbia, but listed on December 14, 1917, and assigned to Company P,did not practice; moved to St. Louis, Mo., and on May 28, Ordnance Training Camp, and later to Headquarters Supply1846, was elected captain of Clark's Battalion, Missouri Vol- Company at Camp Hancock, Ga., and was discharged a ser-unteer Light Artillery, in the Mexican War; he served as geant January 31, 1919; appointed second lieutenant, Ord-Additional Paymaster, Volunteers, in the Army in 1848 and nance Section, Officers' Reserve Corps, December 10, 1918, and commission terminated December 8, 1928; was graduat-1849; moved to New Mexico in 1851 and edited a newspaper ed from Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich., from the Univer-in Santa Fe; appointed agent for Indians in New Mexico in sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and from the MichiganJuly 1851; elected as a Democrat and the Territory's first College of Law in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1924;Delegate to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851- served as commissioner of insolvents for the State of Ohio;March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for reelection in 1852; prosecuting attorney of Erie County, Ohio, 193 1-1937; servedresumed newspaper work; moved to Kickapo and Atcheson, as special counsel for the attorney general of Ohio; lecturer,Kans., in 1858, and went to Independence, Mo., in 1861; School Police Administration, Ohio State University, Colum-elected colonel, First Regiment Cavalry, Eighth Division, bus, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth andMissouri State Guard, , June 11, to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January1861; promoted to command of First Brigade, Eighth Divi- 3, 1955); chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine andsion, June 20, 1861; killed while commanding the First Bri- 2024 Biographical Directory

gade at Wilson Creek, Mo., August 10, 1861; intermentoned as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the three suc- the battlefield near Springfield, Mo. ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); was not a WEIS, Jessica McCullough, a Representative from Newcandidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- York; born in Chicago, Ill., July 8, 1901; moved to Rochester,gress; engaged in the manufacture of leather and in various N.Y., in 1921; attended the Franklin School, Buffalo, N.Y.;other business enterprises in his native city; accidentally graduate of Miss Wright's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., andkilled in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., October 8, 1919; interment Madam Rieffel's School, New York City; appointed to Inter-in Falls Cemetery. American Commission of Women; vice chairman, Monroe WELBORN, John a Representative from Missouri; born County Republican committee, 1937-1952; president, Nation-near Aullville, Lafayette County, Mo., on November 20, al Federation of Republican Women, in 1940 and 1941;1857; attended the public schools; studied law at Warrens- member of the Republican National Committee 1944-1963;burg (Mo.) State Normal School; was admitted to the bar in delegate at large to the Republican National Conventions in1880 and practiced in Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo.; city 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; appointed by Presidentrecorder in 1890 and 1891; mayor of Lexington 1896-1920; Eisenhower in 1953 as a member of the National Civil De- delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900; fense Advisory Council, reappointed in 1956, and 1960; elect- ed as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventhelected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963);was not a4, 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con-in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; resumed the practice of gress; died in Rochester, N.Y., May 1, 1963; interment inlaw; died in Lexington, Mo., October 27, 1907; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. Machpelah Cemetery. WEISS, Samuel Arthur, a Representative from Pennsylva- WELCH, Adonijah Strong, a Senator from Florida; born nia; born in Krotowocz, Poland, April 15, 1902; immigratedin East Hampton, Conn., April 12, 1821; attended the public to the United States in 1903 with his parents, who settled inschools; moved to Michigan in 1839 and settled in Jonesville; Glassport, Pa.; attended the public schools; B.S., Duquesnegraduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in University, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1925 and from the law depart-1846; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847; high ment of the same university, LL.B., 1927 and J.D., 1929;wasschool principal 1847-1849; principal of the Michigan State admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice inNormal School, Ypsilanti, Mich., 1851-1865; trustee of the Pittsburgh, Pa.; director of the Roselia Maternity Hospital,Michigan Agricultural College at East Lansing; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa.; served in the State house of representativesPensacola, Fla., in 1865 and later to Jacksonville, where he 1935-1939; elected as a Democratic to the Seventy-seventhestablished a lumber mill and also engaged in orange grow- Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses anding; upon the readmission of the State of Florida to repre- served from January 3, 1941, until his resignationon Janu-sentation was elected as a Republican to the United States ary 7, 1946; elected in November 1945 a judge of CommonSenate and served from June 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869; Pleas Court of Allegheny County, Pa., for the termcom-declined renomination to accept the presidency of the Iowa mencing in January 1946; reelected in 1955 for the termState Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, and served from ending January 1966, and again in 1965 for the term ending1869 to 1883, when he resigned; commissioner to inspect January 1976; retired in 1967; president, Pennsylvania Stateforeign colleges of agriculture 1882-1883; professor of psy- Judicial Administration, 1968; died in Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb-chology and history in the Iowa State Agricultural College ruary 1, 1977; interment in B'nai Israel Cemetery. 1885-1889; was an author and engaged in educational work; died in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif., March 14, WEISS, Theodore S., a Representative from New York;1889; interment in the Iowa State College Cemetery, Ames, born in Gava, Hungary, September 17, 1927; attended theIowa. primary schools of Hungary until 1938 when he emmigrated to the United States and settled in South Amboy, N.J.; Bibliography: DAB. continued his education in the public schools of South WELCH, Frank, a Representative from Nebraska; born at Amboy; graduated from Hoffman High School, 1946; B.A.,Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Mass., February 10, 1835, moved Syracuse (N.Y.) University, 1951; LL.B., Syracuse University,with his parents to Boston in early childhood; was graduated 1952; admitted to the New York bar in 1953 and commencedfrom the Boston High School; adopted the profession of civil practice in New York City; served in the United Statesengineering; moved to the Territory of Nebraska in 1857 and Army, 1946-1947; naturalized citizen of the United States,engaged in mercantile pursuits at Decatur, Burt County; 1953; served as New York County assistant district attorney,served as postmaster of Decatur; served in the Territorial 1955-1959; engaged in the private practice of law in Newcouncil in 1864; member of the Territorial house of repre- York City, 1959-1976; member, Council of the city of Newsentatives in 1865 and 1866, serving as presiding officer in York, 1962-1977; delegate, New York State Democraticcon- 1865; register of the land office at West Point, Nebr., 1871- vention, 1962; delegate, Democratic National Convention,1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress and 1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to theserved from March 4, 1877, until his death in Neligh, Nebr., five succeeding Congresses (January 3,1977-January 3,September 4, 1878; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Ja- 1989); is a resident of New York City. maica Plain, Mass. WEISSE, Charles Herman, a Representative from Wiscon- WELCH, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near sin; born near Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan County, Wis.,New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio, October 28, 1805; re- October 24, 1866; attended the public schools and St. Paulceived a liberal schooling and was graduated from Franklin Lutheran School; in 1880 started to work ina tannery andCollege; moved to Athens County in 1828 and settled in became a partner in 1888; president of the city council ofRome Township; engaged in the milling business; studied Sheboygan Falls, Wis., 1893-1896; treasurer of the schoollaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in board 1897-1900; delegate to the Democratic National Con-Athens, Ohio,in1833; prosecuting attorney of Athens ventions in 1904 and 1908; unsuccessful Democratic candi-County 1841-1843; member of the State senate 1845-1847; date for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; elect-elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, Biographies 2025

1851-March 3,. 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomi-Moscow in 1929; was admitted to the bar in 1929; prosecut- nation in 1852; delegate to the Whig National Convention ining attorney of Washington County, Idaho; moved to Los 1852; resumed the practice of law; judge of the court ofAngeles, Calif., in 1936 and practiced law until 1943; during common pleas 1862-1865; associate justice of the supremethe Second World War served in the United States Air court of Ohio 1865-1878 and was chief justice in 1877 andCorps 1943-1944; returned to Payette, Idaho, and practiced 1878; died in Athens, Ohio, August 5, 1891; interment inlaw 1944-1950; also interested in farming and livestock rais- West Union Street Cemetery. ing in Idaho; member, State senate 1948-1950; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1950 and served WELCH, Philip James, a Representative from Missouri;from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful can- born in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., April 4, 1895;didate for reelection in 1956; engaged in the practice of law educated in the public schools; engaged in the furnitureand farming; died in the National Institutes of Health, Be- business 1916-1931; treasurer of city of St. Joseph 1932-1936thesda, Md., October 30, 1957; interment in Arlington Na- and mayor 1936-1946; delegate to Democratic National Con- tional Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. vention in 1940; assistant director of Reconstruction Finance Bibliography: DAB. Corporation, Kansas City, Mo., in 1946 and 1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses WELKER, Martin, a Representative from Ohio; born in (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate forKnox County, Ohio, April 25, 1819; attended the common renomination in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress but wasschools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and unsuccessful for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination;commenced practice at Millersburg, Ohio; clerk of the court served with the State civil defense and later with the State of common pleas for Holmes County 1846-1851; unsuccessful industrial inspection division; was a resident of St. Joseph,candidate for election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; Mo., until his death in Methodist Hospital April 26, 1963;judge of the sixth judicial district of Ohio 1852-1857; moved interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. to Wooster, Ohio, in 1857; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 1857 and 1858 on the ticket with Salmon P. Chase; declined WELCH, Richard Joseph, a Representative from Califor-to be a candidate for renomination in 1858; was appointed nia; born in Monroe County, N.Y., February 13, 1869; edu-aide-de-camp, with rank of colonel, to the Governor of Ohio cated in the public schools; moved to California in earlyAugust 10, 1861; judge advocate general of the State of Ohio boyhood and settled in San Francisco; served in the Statein 1861; superintendent of drafting with rank of colonel senate 1901-1913; harbor master for the port of San Francis-under Governor Tod August 15, 1862; assistant adjutant gen- co 1903-1907; supervisor of the city and county of San Fran-eral in 1862; enlisted in the Union Army as a private in cisco from 1916 until September 30, 1926, when he resigned,Company I, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio having been elected to Congress; elected as a Republican toVolunteer Infantry, February 16, 1865; mustered out Sep- the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thetember 21, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 death of Lawrence J. Flaherty; reelected to the Seventiethto the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected as a Republican to the and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served fromThirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, August 31, 1926, until his death in a hospital in Needles,1865-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination Calif., September 10, 1949; chairman, Committee on Laborin 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; appointed United (Seventy-first Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Eighti-States judge for the northern district of Ohio by President eth Congress); interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, San Fran-Ulysses S. Grant in 1873 and served until 1889, when he cisco, Calif. retired; professor of political science and international law WELCH, William Wickham, a Representative from Con-at Wooster University 1873-1890; died in Wooster, Ohio, on necticut; born in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Conn., Decem-March 15, 1902; interment in Wooster Cemetery. ber 10, 1818; studied medicine; was graduated from the med- WELLBORN, Marshall Johnson, a Representative from ical department of Yale College in 1839 and commencedGeorgia; born near Eatonton, Putnam County, Ga., May 29, practice in Norfolk; member of the State house of represent-1808; attended the University of Georgia at Athens; studied atives 1848-1850; served in the State senate in 1851 andlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and practiced in Co- 1852; elected as a candidate of the American Party to thelumbus, Ga.; held several local offices; member of the State Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); re-house of representatives in 1833 and 1834; judge of the supe- sumed the practice of his profession; again a member of therior court of Georgia 1838-1842; elected as a Democrat to the State house of representatives in 1869 and 1881; died inThirty-first Congress(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); studied Norfolk, Conn., July 30, 1892; interment in Center Cemetery.theology and was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1864 and Bibliography: DAB. continued in the ministry until his death in Columbus, Ga., WELDON, Wayne Curtis, a Representative from Pennsyl-October 16, 1874; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, vania; born in Marcus Hook, Pa., July 22, 1947; attendedGa. public schools; B.A., West Chester State College, Pa., 1969; WELLBORN, Olin, a Representative from Texas; born in graduate work at Cabrini College, Wayne, Pa.; Temple Uni-Cumming, Forsyth County, Ga., June 18, 1843; attended the versity and St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia; schoolcommon schools, Emory College, Oxford, Ga., and the Uni- teacher and administrator; mayor of Marcus Hook, 1977-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; enlisted in the 1982; member, Delaware County council, 1981-1986; unsuc-Confederate Army in 1861 and served throughout the Civil cessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives inWar, attaining the rank of captain in Company B, Fourth 1984; elected as a Republican to the One Hundredth Con-Georgia Cavalry; at the close of the war settled in Atlanta, gress (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofGa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and com- Aston, Pa. menced the practice of law in Atlanta; moved to Dallas, WELKER, Herman, a Senator from Idaho; born in Cam-Tex., in 1871 and continued the practice of his profession; bridge, Washington County, Idaho, December 11, 1906; at-elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the three tended public school and the University of Idaho at Moscow;succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887); chair- graduated from the law school of the University of Idaho atman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-eighth and Forty- 2026 Biographical Directory ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renominationadmitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced law for three in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; moved to San Diego, Calif.,years; engaged in banking and in manufacturing, and was a in 1887 and continued the practice of his profession for sixmember of a stock brokerage firm; retired in 1901 and trav- years; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1893; appointed byeled extensively; chairman of the State Roads Commission of President Cleveland as United States judge of the southernMaryland 1912-1916; unsuccessful candidate for governor of district of California in 1895, which office he held untilMaryland in 1915; treasurer of the Republican National Sen- January 20, 1915, when he retired; died in Los Angeles,atorial Committee 1918-1920; elected as a Republican to the Calif., December 6, 1921; interment in Rosedale Cemetery.United States Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, WELLER, John B., a Representative from Ohio and a 1921, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for reelection Senator from California; born in Hamilton County, Ohio,in 1926; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Sixty-ninth February 22, 1812; attended the public schools and MiamiCongress); resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, Md., University, Oxford, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to theuntil his death there January 5, 1947; interment in Arling- bar and practiced in Butler County, Ohio; prosecuting attor-ton National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. ney of Butler County 1833-1836; elected as a Democrat from WELLER, Royal Hurlburt, a Representative from New Ohio to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-York; born in New York City, July 2, 1881; attended the eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); was not apublic schools and the College of the City of New York; was candidate for renomination in 1844; served in the Mexicangraduated from the New York Law School in 1901; was War 1846-1847; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for gov-admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in New ernor of Ohio in 1848; member of the commission to estab-York City; assistant district attorney of New York County lish the boundary line between California and Mexico infrom 1911 to 1917, when he resigned to reenter the practice 1849 and 1850; moved to California and engaged in the prac- tice of law; elected as a Democrat from California to theof law; counsel for the Alien Property Custodian in 1918 and United States Senate for the term commencing March 4,1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, 1851, and served from January 30, 1852, to March 3, 1857;and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committeeuntil his death; had been reelected to the Seventy-first Con- on Military Affairs (Thirty-fourth Congress); Governor ofgress; died in New York City, March 1, 1929; interment in California 1858-1860; appointed Minister to Mexico in 1860Woodlawn Cemetery. and was recalled in 1861; moved to New Orleans, La., in WELLING, Milton Holmes, a Representative from Utah; 1867 and continued the practice of law; died in New Orleans,born in Farmington, Davis County, Utah, January 25, 1876; La., August 17, 1875; interment in Girod Street Cemetery;attended the common schools, the Latter-day Saints' Univer- cemetery destroyed in 1959 and unclaimed remains comin-sity, and the University of Utah at Salt Lake City; engaged gled with 15,000 others and deposited beneath Hope Mauso-in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and also in banking; leum, St. John's Cemetery, New Orleans, La. was elected a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Bibliography: DAB. Young College, Logan, Utah, in 1906; served in the State WELLER, Luman Hamlin, a Representative from Iowa;house of representatives 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to born in Bridgewater, Litchfield County, Conn., on August 24,the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917- 1833; received a common-school and an academic training;March 3, 1921); did not seek renomination, but was an un- attended the State normal school at New Britain, and thesuccessful Democratic candidatefor the United States Suffield (Conn.) Literary Institute; moved to ChickasawSenate in 1920; director of registration for the State of Utah County, Iowa, in 1859 and engaged in agricultural pursuits;1925-1928; elected secretary of state of Utah in 1928; reelect- justice of the peace in 1865; unsuccessful independent candi-ed in 1932 and served until January 1, 1937; trustee of Utah date for the State house of representatives in 1867; studiedState Agricultural College 1926-1936; regent of University of law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced prac-Utah 1928-1936; appointed by Secretary of Interior Harold tice in Bradford, Iowa; elected as a Greenbacker to theL. Ickes to make a survey of public grazing lands in 1937 Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuc-and 1938; resumed agricultural and mining operations; in cessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninthJanuary 1943 accepted war service appointment as auditor Congress; resumed the practice of law and also engaged inwith Army Air Forces and also served with the War Assets agricultural pursuits near Nashua, Iowa; for twenty yearsAdministration at Salt Lake City, Utah, until his death May was proprietor and editor of the Farmers' Advocate, a28, 1947; interment in Fielding Cemetery, Fielding, Utah. weekly paper, published at Independence, Iowa; upon the organization of the People's Party in 1890 was appointed as WELLINGTON, George Louis, a Representative and a a member of its national committee, and served until hisSenator from Maryland; born in Cumberland, Allegany death; served as president of the Chosen Farmers of Amer-County, Md., January 28, 1852; attended a German school ica; twice unsuccessful candidate for judge of the supremeand received private instruction; clerk in the Second Nation- court of Iowa; was an unsuccessful candidate of the People'sal Bank of Cumberland in 1870 and later was teller; treasur- Party for Governor of Iowa in 1901; died in a sanitarium ater of Allegany County 1882-1888, 1890; unsuccessful candi- Minneapolis, Minn., March 2, 1914; interment in Greenwooddate for election as comptroller of Maryland in 1889; assist- Cemetery, near Nashua, Chickasaw County, Iowa. ant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore 1890-1893; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-third Con- WELLER, Ovington Eugene, a Senator from Maryland;gress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress born in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Md., on January 23,(March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); elected to the United States 1862; attended the public schools; entered the United StatesSenate and served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1903; Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., in 1877 and graduated inwas not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee to 1881; after two years of service in the Navy, was honorablyEstablish the University of the United States (Fifty-fifth and discharged in 1883; employed as a clerk in the Post OfficeFifty-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate on the Pro- Department, Washington, D.C., 1883-1887; graduated fromgressive ticket for election to the United States Senate in the National Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1887; was1913; engaged in civic activities; president of two banks and Biographies 2027 interested in the electric railways and lighting companies ofcandidate for renomination in 1876; consul general at Shang- Cumberland, Md.; died in that city March 20, 1927; inter-hai, China, from June 23, 1877, to May 26, 1879; settled in ment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Los Angeles, Calif., in 1879 and resumed the practice of law; died in Santa Monica, Calif., March 21, 1909; interment in WELLS, Alfred, a Representative from New York; born inEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif. Dagsboro, Sussex County, Del., May 27, 1814; pursued classi- cal studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and WELLS, John, a Representative from New York; born in commenced practice in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y.; oneJohnstown, Fulton County, N.Y., July 1,1817; attended of the owners of the Ithaca Journal and Advertiser 1839-Johnstown Academy, and was graduated from Union Col- 1853; district attorney of Tompkins County, N.Y., 1845-1847;lege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1835; studied law; was admitted judge of Tompkins County Court from 1847 to 1851; attendedto the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Palmyra, the Anti-Nebraska Conventions at Saratoga and Auburn inN.Y.; returned to Johnstown, N.Y., and continued the prac- 1854; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congresstice of law; elected judge of Fulton County and served from (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate forJune 1847 until his resignation in December 1851, having renomination in 1860; appointed United States assessor ofbeen elected to Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- internal revenue at Ithaca in 1862 and served until hissecond Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to death in Ithaca, N.Y., July 18, 1867; interment in the Citybe a candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Cemetery. Congress; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in WELLS, Daniel, Jr., a Representative from Wisconsin;literary pursuits; died in Johnstown, N.Y., May 30, 1877; born in West Waterville, Maine, July 16, 1808; attended theinterment in Johnstown Cemetery. public schools; taught school; engaged in the mercantile WELLS, John Sullivan, a Senator from New Hampshire; business at Palmyra, Maine; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., inborn in Durham, Strafford County, N.H., October 18, 1803; 1838 and engaged in banking and lumbering pursuits; ap-attended Pembroke (N.H.) Academy; studied law; was admit- pointed probate judge of Milwaukee in 1838; member of theted to the bar in 1828 and practiced in Guildhall, Vt., 1828- Territorial council 1838-1840; elected as a Democrat to the1835; moved to Lancaster, N.H., in 1836 and continued the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-practice of law until 1846; solicitor of Coos County 1838- March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in1847; moved to Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H., and re- the Department of State (Thirty-third Congress); was not asumed the practice of law; member, State house of repre- candidate for renomination in 1856; engaged in the develop- ment of railroads; a director of the Chicago, Milwaukee &sentatives 1839-1841, serving as speaker in 1841; attorney St. Paul Railroad in 1865 and 1866; president of the Lageneral of New Hampshire 1847; member and president of Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad, the Southern Minnesota Rail-the State senate 1851-1852; appointed to the United States road, and the St. Paul & Minnesota Valley Railroad; died inSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Moses Milwaukee, Wis., March 18, 1902; interment in Forest HomeNorris and served from January 16 to March 3, 1855; died in Cemetery. Exeter, N.H., August 1, 1860. WELLS, Erastus, a Representative from Missouri; born in WELLS, Owen Augustine, a Representative from Wiscon- Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, N.Y., December 2, 1823;sin; born in Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., February 4, 1844; attended the public schools; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842;moved with his parents to a farm near Empire, Fond du Lac established the first omnibus line in that city and subse-County, Wis., in 1850; attended public and private schools; quently inaugurated thefirststreet railroad company;studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced member of the board of aldermen of St. Louis 1853-1867;practice in Fond du Lac; also engaged in agricultural pur- president of the Missouri Railroad Co. 1859-1883; elected assuits and stock raising; appointed by President Cleveland as a Democrat to the Forty-first and to the three succeedingcollector of internal revenue for the third Wisconsin district Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful can- in 1885, serving until 1887, when that district was consoli- didate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress;dated with the Milwaukee district; delegate to the Democrat- elected to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3,ic National Convention in 1888 and to the Gold Democratic 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; presi-National Convention in 1896, also to numerous State conven- dent of the Laclede Gas Light Co. 1880-1883; died in St.tions of his party; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Louis, Mo., October 2, 1893; interment in Bellefontaine Cem- Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candi- etery. date for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; de- Bibliography: DAB. clined to accept any public office and resumed the practice of law in Fond du Lac; retired in 1901 and resided in Fond WELLS, Guilford Wiley, a Representative from Mississip-du Lac, Wis., until his death there on January 29, 1935; pi; born in Conesus Center, Livingston County, N.Y., Febru-interment in Rienzi Cemetery. ary 14, 1840; attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and College, Lima, N.Y.; enlisted in the Union Army as a private WELLS, William Hill, a Senator from Delaware; born in in the Twenty-seventh New York Infantry May 21, 1861;Burlington, N.J., January 7, 1769; received a liberal school- promoted to second lieutenant in the One Hundred anding; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Dagsboro and Mills- Thirtieth New York Infantry in 1862 and subsequently toboro, Del.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and prac- first lieutenant and captain in the Nineteenth New Yorkticed at Georgetown, Del.; moved to Dover, Del.; member, Cavalry; mustered out February 10, 1865, as a lieutenantDelaware general assembly 1794-1798; elected as a Federal- colonel; was graduated from the law department of Colum-ist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by bian College (later George Washington University); Washing-the death of and served from January 17, ton, D.C., in 1867; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and1799, to November 6, 1804, when he resigned; again elected commenced practice in Holly Springs, Miss.; United Statesas a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- attorney for the northern district of Mississippi 1870-1875;cy caused by the resignation of James A. Bayard and served elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourthfrom May 28, 1813, to March 3, 1817; was not a candidate for Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); declined to be areelection in 1816; resumed the practice of law and was 2028 Biographical Directory

interested in the oil business in Pennsylvania, where theMarch 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 town of Welisboro was named in his honor; died near Dags-to the Sixty-seventh Congress; employed with Inland Water- boro, Sussex County, Del., on March 11, 1829; interment inways Association 192 1-1924; resumed the practice of law Prince George's Churchyard, near Dagsboro. until 1951, when he retired; died in Dayton, Ohio, October WELSH, George Austin, a Representative from Pennsyl-23, 1962; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Shawnee Town- vania; born near Bay View, Cecil County, Md., August 9,ship, Allen County, Ohio. 1878; attended the country schools and the public schools of WEMPLE, Edward, a Representative from New York; Philadelphia, Pa.; took business and academic courses atborn in Fultonville, Montgomery County, N.Y., October 23, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.; engaged as a legisla-1843; attended the common schools in Fultonville and Ash- tive stenographer and reporter from 1895 to 1901; graduatedland Academy in Green County, and was graduated from from the law department of Temple University in 1905;wasUnion College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1866; studied law for a admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practicetime and then engaged in the foundry business; served as in Philadelphia; secretary to the mayor of Philadelphia in 1905 and 1906; assistant solicitor for Philadelphia in 1906president of the village of Fultonville in 1873; supervisor of and 1907; assistant district attorney for Philadelphia Countythe town of Glen 1874-1876; member of the State assembly 1907-1922; secretary of Temple University 1914-1938, beganin 1877 and 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth serving as first vice president in 1938; president of the Re-Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candi- publican district executive committee 19 14-1932; attendeddate for reelection in 1884; continued his former business officers' training camp at Fort Niagara, N.Y., 1917; memberpursuits; served in the State senate in 1885; elected comp- of the Board of Education of Philadelphia County 1921-1932;troller of the State of New York in 1887, and served two elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the fourterms; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; died in Fulton- succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, untilville, N.Y., December 18, 1920; interment in Maple Avenue his resignation May 31, 1932, having been appointed judge ofCemetery. the United States district court for the eastern district of WENDOVER, Peter Hercules, a Representative from New Pennsylvania, in which capacity he served until 1957, whenYork; born in New York City August 1, 1768; received a he retired as judge to become senior judge; chairman, Com-liberal schooling; held several local offices; member of the mittee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-ninth Con-volunteer fire department of New York City in 1796; dele- gress); resided in Media, Pa., where he died October 22, 1970;gate to the State constitutional conventions in 1801 and cremated; ashes interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery,1821; member of the State assembly in 1804; elected as a Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Con- WELTNER, Charles Longstreet, a Representative fromgresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); sheriff of New York Georgia; born in Atlanta, Fulton County Ga., December 17,County 1822-1825; died in New York City September 24, 1927; attended the public schools of Fulton County, Ga.;1834; interment in the Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery. graduated from Oglethorpe University at Atlanta, Ga., in 1948 and from Columbia University School of Law at New WENE, Elmer H., a Representative from New Jersey; York City, in 1950; received M.A. from Columbia Theologicalborn on a farm near Pittstown, Hunterdon County, N.J., Seminary, 1983, and LL.M., University of Virginia LawMay 1, 1892; attended the public schools and Rutgers Uni- School, 1983; commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga., in 1950;versity, New Brunswick, N.J.; in 1918 engaged in agricultur- served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army, 1955-al pursuits near Vineland, N.J.; served on the New Jersey 1957; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-State board of agriculture 1925-1934; elected as a Democrat ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); was notto the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress;1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the unsuccessful candidate for election in 1968 to the Ninety-Seventy-sixth Congress; member of the Board of Chosen first Congress; deputy chairman, Democratic National Com-Freeholders of Cumberland County, N.J., 1939-1941; again mittee, and director of young Americans division, 1967; re-elected to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congress- sumed the practice of law; judge, Superior Court, Atlantaes (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate Judicial Circuit, 1976-198 1; justice, Supreme Court of Geor-for renomination in 1944, but was an unsuccessful candidate gia, 1981 to present; chairman, Judicial Council of Georgia,for election to the United States Senate; resumed agricultur- 1980-1981; fellow, Institute of Politics, Harvard University;al pursuits and poultry raising; also president and owner of is a resident of Atlanta, Ga. two radio stations in New Jersey; in 1945 was adviser to the Bibliography: Dimon, Joseph H., IV."Charles L. Weitner and Civil Secretary of Agriculture; elected to the State senate in 1946; Rights." Atlanta Hi8tori.cal Journal 24 (Fall 1980): 7-20; Weitner, Charlesdelegate to the New Jersey State constitutional convention L. Southerner. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1966. in 1947; on June 26, 1948, was given a recess appointment by President Truman as Under Secretary of Agriculture; unsuc- WELTY, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from Ohio;cessful Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey in born near Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio, August 9, 1870;1949; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1950 to the attended the common schools and the Tn-State Normal Col-Eighty-second Congress; was unsuccessful for the gubernato- lege of Indiana; was graduated from the Ohio Northernrial nomination in 1953; died in Philadelphia, Pa., on Janu- University at Ada in 1894 and from the University of Michi-ary 25, 1957; interment in Locust Grove Cemetery, Quaker- gan at Ann Arbor in 1896; studied law; was admitted to thetown, Pa. bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Lima, Allen County, Ohio; city solicitor of Bluffton 1897-1909; served as a private WENTWORTH, John (grandson of John Wentworth, Jr.), during the Spanish-American War; prosecuting attorney ofa Representative from Illinois; born in Sandwich, Carroll Allen County 1905-1910; lieutenant colonel in the Ohio Na-County, N.H., March 5,1815; educated in the common tional Guard 1908-19 13; special counsel to the State attorneyschools and academies at Gilmanton, Wolfeboro, and New general 1911-1913; special assistant in the United StatesHampton, N.H., and South Berwick, Maine; taught school Department of Justice 1913-1915; elected as a Democrat tofor several years, and contributed political articles to news- the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917-papers; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, Biographies 2029

N.H., in 1836; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1836, where heRapid City, S.Dak., in 1909; engaged in the newspaper pub- engaged as a clerk in a law office, and also studied law;lishing and commercial printing business; editor and pub- editor and manager of the Chicago Democrat; appointedlisher of the Gate City Guide since 1912; served as postmas- aide-de-camp to Governor Carlin in 1838; attended the lawter of Rapid City 1915-1923; commissioner of Rapid City department of Harvard University in 1841; was admitted to1927-1930; served as mayor in 1929 and 1930; unsuccessful the bar in 1841 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.;Democratic candidate for election in 1930 to the Seventy- elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the threesecond Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851); elect-and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, ed to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3,1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the 1855); Republican mayor of Chicago 1857-1863; delegate toSeventy-fifth Congress; resumed the newspaper publishing the State constitutional convention in 1861; elected as abusiness until 1965; is a resident of Rapid City, S.Dak. Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865- March 3, 1867); resumed the practice of law; died in Chicago, WERTZ, George M., a Representative from Pennsylvania; Ill., October 16, 1888; interment in Rosehill Cemetery. born near Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., July 19, 1856; Bibliography: DAB; Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. Chicago Giant: A Biog- attended the public schools, Ebensburg (Pa.) Academy, and raphy of Long John Wentworth. Madison, Wis.: American History Research the National Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio; taught school Center,1957;Wentworth, John.Congressional Reminiscences.Chicago: 1876-1884; school director 1886-1894; county commissioner Fergus Printing Co., 1882. 1893-1896; sheriff of Cambria County 1897-1901; member of WENT WORTH, John, Jr. (grandfather of John Went-the State senate 1908-1912, serving as president pro tempore worth), a Delegate from New Hampshire; born at Salmonin 1911 and 1912; organized and directed the Johnstown (Pa.) Falls, Strafford County, N.H., July 17, 1745; prepared forDaily Leader 1911-1917; comptroller of Cambria County college by private tutors; was graduated from Harvard Col-19 14-1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Con- lege in 1768; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-gress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate menced practice in Dover, N.H., in 1771; register of probatefor renomination in 1924; engaged in the real estate business of Strafford County 1773-1787; appointed on January 10,until his death in Johnstown, Pa., November 19, 1928; inter- 1774, a member of the committee of correspondence; memberment in Grand View Cemetery. of the State house of representatives 1776-1780; appointed in WEST, Charles Franklin, a Representative from Ohio; June 1777 a member of the State committee of safety; servedborn in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, January 12, as moderator 1777-1786; Member of the Continental Con-1895; attended the public schools; was graduated from Ohio gress in 1778; one of the signers of the Articles of Confedera-Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1918; attended Har- tion; member of the State council 1780-1784; served in thevard University in 1920 and 1922-1924; served as American State senate 1784-1786; died in Dover, N.H., on January 10,vice consul at Naples, Italy, in 1918 and 1919; instructor of 1787; interment in Pine Hill Cemetery. government at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 1920- WENTWORTH, Tappan, a Representative from Massachu-1922 and at Harvard University, 1922-1924; professor of po- setts; born in Dover, N.H., February 24, 1802; received alitical science at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1924- liberal schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Sev- 1826 and commenced practice in York County, Maine;enty-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); was moved to Lowell, Mass., in 1833 and continued the practicenot a candidate for renomination in 1934 but was an unsuc- of law; member of the common council 1836-1841; served incessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United the State house of representatives in 1851, 1859, 1860, 1863,States Senator; served as special assistant to the governor of and 1864; member of the State senate in 1848, 1849, 1865,the Farm Credit Administration from February 25, 1935, to and 1866; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third CongressAugust 4, 1935; appointed Under Secretary of the Interior on (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate forAugust 5, 1935, and served until May 10, 1938; delegate to reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; engaged inthe Democratic National Convention in 1936; member of the practice of his profession until his death in Lowell,United States Processing Tax Board of Review until October Mass., June 12, 1875; interment in Lowell Cemetery. 1940; engaged in private business 1940-1947; became profes- sor of political science at Akron (Ohio) University in 1947; WERDEL, Thomas Harold, a Representative from Califor-received the Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty- nia; born in Emery, Hanson County, S.Dak., September 13,fourth Congress but withdrew before the November election; 1905; moved with his parents to Kern County, Calif., in 1915;died in Bradenton, Fla., December 27, 1955; interment in attended the public schools and Kern County Union HighMound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Ohio. School; was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 and from the University of California Law WEST, George, a Representative from New York; born in School in 1936; was admitted to the bar in 1936 and com-Bradninch, Devonshire County, England, February 17, 1823; menced the practice of law in Bakersfield, Calif.; member ofattended the common schools; immigrated to the United the California State assembly from the thirty-ninth districtStates in February 1849 and settled at Ballston Spa, Sarato- in the legislative sessions of 1943 and 1945; elected as aga County, N.Y.; engaged in paper manufacturing; member Republican to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congressesof the State assembly 1872-1876; delegate to the Republican (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); was an unsuccessful can-National Convention in 1880; president of the First National didate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress;Bank of Baliston Spa; elected as a Republican to the Forty- resumed the practice of law; States' Rights Party candidateseventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccess- for Vice President of the United States in 1956; died inful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con- Bakersfield, Calif., September 30, 1966; interment in Green-gress; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses lawn Memorial Park. (March 4, 1885-March 3,1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed his former business activi- WERNER, Theodore B., a Representative from Southties; died in Ballston Spa, N.Y., September 20, 1901; inter- Dakota; born in Ossian, Winneshiek County, Iowa, June 2,ment in Baliston Spa Cemetery. 1892; attended the public and parochial schools; moved to Bibliography: DAB. 2030 Biographical Directory

WEST, Joseph Rodman, a Senator from Louisiana; bornnear Dingmans Ferry; attended private schools; engaged in in New Orleans, La., September 19, 1822; moved with hislumbering and agricultural pursuits; colonel in the State parents to Philadelphia in 1824; educated in private schools;militia in 1812; sheriff of Pike County in 1817; member of attended the University of Pennsylvania 1836-1837; movedthe State house of representatives in 1833; elected as a Dem- to New Orleans in 1841; captain attached to Maryland andocrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March District of Columbia Volunteers in the Mexican War 1847-3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1842 to 1848; moved to California in 1849 and engaged in newspaperthe Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; work in San Francisco; proprietor of the San Francisco Pricedied near Dingmans Ferry, Pike County, Pa., October 8, Current; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as 1852; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Milford, Pa. lieutenant of the First Regiment, California Volunteer In- fantry, in 1861; promoted to the rank of colonel and briga- WESTBROOK, Theodoric Romeyn, a Representative from dier general, and was brevetted major general in 1866; re-New York; born in Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., Novem- turned to New Orleans, La.; deputy United States marshal;ber 20, 1821; attended the common schools and was graduat- auditor for customs 1867-1871; elected as a Republican toed from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1838; stud- the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1871, toied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman,practice in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y.; elected as a Dem- Committee on Railroads (Forty-fourth Congress); member ofocrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia1855); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854; 1882-1885; retired from public life in 1885; died in Washing-resumed the practice of his profession at Kingston, N.Y.; ton, D.C., October 31, 1898; interment in Arlington Nationalelected a justice of the supreme court in 1873; died while Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. holding court in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., on October WEST, Milton Horace, a Representative from Texas; born6, 1885; interment in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y. on a farm near Gonzales, Gonzales County, Tex., June 30, 1888; attended the public schools and the West Texas Mili- WESTCOTT, James Diament, Jr., a Senator from Florida; tary Academy at San Antonio; served with Company C,born in Alexandria, Va., May 10, 1802; moved to New Texas Rangers, in 1911 and 1912; studied law; was admittedJersey, where he received a liberal schooling; studied law; to the bar in 1915 and began practice in Floresville, Tex.;was admitted to the bar in 1824 and commenced practice; moved to Brownsville, Tex., in 1917 and continued the prac-clerk in the Consular Bureau, Washington, D.C.; secretary of tice of law; district attorney for the twenty-eighth judicialFlorida Territory 1830-1834; United States attorney for the district of Texas 1922-1925 and assistant district attorneymiddle district of Florida 1834-183 6; member, Territorial 1927-1930; member of the State house of representatives house of representatives 1832; delegate to the State constitu- 1930-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Con-tional conventions in 1838 and 1839; upon the admission of gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of JohnFlorida as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat N. Garner; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and to the sixto the United States Senate and served from July 1, 1845, to succeeding Congresses and served from April 22, 1933, untilMarch 3, 1849; was not a candidate for reelection in 1848; his death; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-chairman, Committee on Territories (Twenty-ninth Con- fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination ingress), Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirti- 1948; died in Washington, D.C., October 28, 1948; intermenteth Congress); settled in New York City in 1850 and prac- in Buena Vista Cemetery, Brownsville, Tex. ticed law; moved to Canada in 1862; died in Montreal, WEST, William Stanley, a Senator from Georgia; wasCanada, January 19, 1880; interment in City Cemetery, Tal- born near Buena Vista, Marion County, Ga., on August 23,lahassee, Fla. 1849; moved with his parents to Lowndes (now Brooks) WESTERLO, Rensselaer, a Representative from New County, Ga.; attended the country schools and preparatoryYork; born in Albany, N.Y., April 29, 1776; was graduated schools at Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and Penfield, Ga.;from Columbia College, New York City, in 1795; studied law; taught school about four years; graduated from the law de-was admitted to the bar and practiced; elected as a Federal- partment of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1876 andist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); from the literary department in 1880; was admitted to thewas not a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Statenville, Ga.;law; died in Albany, N.Y., April 18, 1851; interment in the moved to Valdosta, Lowndes County, Ga.; engaged as aAlbany Rural Cemetery. planter and millman; also interested in other enterprises; member, State house of representatives 1892-1901; member, WESTLAND, Alfred John, a Representative from Wash- State senate 1901-1906, serving as president 1905-1906;ington; born in Everett, Snohomish County, Wash., Decem- chairman of the board of trustees of South Georgia Stateber 14, 1904; attended the local schools and was graduated Normal College at Valdosta and ex officio member of thefrom the University of Washington Law School, Seattle, board of trustees of the University of Georgia at Athens;Wash., in 1926; engaged in the cotton goods business in New appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyYork City and Chicago, Ill., 1926-1930; in the investment caused by the death of Augustus 0. Bacon and served frombrokerage business in Chicago, Ill., 1930-1936, and in Seat- March 2, to November 3, 1914, when a successor was electedtle, Wash., 1936-1941; enlisted in the United States Navy in and qualified; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in thethe summer of 1940 and was commissioned a lieutenant (jg.) Post Office Department (Sixty-third Congress); resumed hisin November 1940; was called to active duty May 1, 1941; occupation as planter and lumberman; died in Valdosta, Ga.,served in the Pacific until separated from the service as a on December 22, 1914; interment in Sunset Hill Cemetery.commander in February 1946; returned to Everett, Wash., Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "William West." In Senators From and operated an insurance agency until 1954; elected as a Georgia. pp. 208-11. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, 1976. Republican to the Eighty-third and to the five succeeding WESTBROOK, John, a Representative from Pennsylva-Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1965); was an unsuc- nia; born in Sussex County, N.J., January 9, 1789; movedcessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth with his parents to Pike County, Pa., in 1792 and settledCongress; automobile dealer, Monterey, Calif.; was a resident Biographies 2031 of Pebble Beach, Calif, until his death there on November 3,terment in Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Bristol County, 1982; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. Mass. WETHERED, John, a Representative from Maryland; WHALEN, Charles William, Jr., a Representative from born near Wetheredville, Baltimore County, Md., on May 8,Ohio; born in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, July 31, 1809; completed preparatory studies; held several local of-1920; graduate of Oakwood High School; graduated from fices; engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods at Weth-University of Dayton with a degree in business administra- eredville, Md.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Con-tion in 1942, and Howard University Graduate School of gress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the manufac-Business in 1946; enlisted in the United States Army, during ture of woolen goods; delegate from Baltimore County to thethe Second World War, discharged as first lieutenant in State convention which framed the constitution of Maryland1946; vice president of the Dayton Dress Co., 1946-1952; in 1867; retired from active pursuits in 1868 and lived on hisprofessor of economics and chairman of the department, estate, "Ashland," near Catonsville, Md., where he died Feb-University of Dayton, 1962-1966; Ohio State representative, ruary 15, 1888; interment in Greenmount Cemetery, Balti-three terms, 1955-1960; Ohio State senator, two terms, 1961- more, Md. 1966; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the WETMORE, George Peabody, a Senator from Rhodefive succeeding Congresses (January 3,1967-January 3, Island; born during a visit of his parents abroad, in London,1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the England, August 2, 1846; received his early education at aNinety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Bethesda, Md. private school; graduated from Yale College in 1867 and WHALEY, Kellian Van Rensalear, a Representative from from the law department of Columbia College, New YorkVirginia and from West Virginia; born in Onondaga County, City, in 1869; was admitted to the bar of Rhode Island and of New York in 1869, but never practiced; trustee of severalnear Utica, N.Y., May 6, 1821; moved to Ohio and attended institutions; presidential elector on the Republican ticket inthe public schools; moved to Virginia in 1842, settled in 1880 and 1884; Governor of Rhode Island 1885-1886; unsuc-Ceredo, and engaged in the lumbering business; elected as a cessful candidate for a third term; unsuccessful candidate forUnionist from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress election to the United States Senate in 1889; elected as a(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); during the Civil War recruit- Republican to the United States Senate in 1894; reelected ined several regiments for the Union Army; upon the admis- 1900 and served from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1907;sion of West Virginia as a State into the Union was elected elected January 22, 1908, to fill the vacancy caused by theas an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and failure of the legislature to elect in the term commencingThirty-ninth Congresses and served from December 7, 1863, March 4, 1907, and served until March 3, 1913; declined toto March 3, 1867; chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions be a candidate for reelection in 1912; chairman, Committee (Thirty-eighthCongress),CommitteeonRevolutionary on Manufactures (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on the Claims (Thirty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for re- Library (Fifty-fifth through Sixty-second Congresses); died innomination in 1866; delegate to the Republican National Boston, Mass., on September 11, 1921; interment in IslandConvention in 1864; collector of customs at Brazos de San- Cemetery, Newport, R.I. tiago, Tex., in 1868; returned to West Virginia and settled in Point Pleasant, Mason County, where he died May 20, 1876; WEVER, John Madison, a Representative from Newinterment in Lone Oak Cemetery. York; born in Ganges, Allegan County, Mich., February 24, 1847; attended the common schools and Albion (Mich.) Col- WHALEY, Richard Smith, a Representative from South lege; during the Civil War entered the Union Army at theCarolina; born in Charleston, S.C., July 15, 1874; attended age of sixteen and served in the Army of the Cumberlandthe Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va., and was grad- and the Army of the Ohio; at the close of the war settled inuated from the law department of the University of Virginia Plattsburg, Clinton County, N.Y., and engaged in banking;at Charlottesville in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1897 elected county treasurer of Clinton County in 1884 and re-and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.; member of the elected in 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-secondState house of representatives 1901-1910, 1913; served as and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895);speaker 1907-1910 and as speaker pro tempore in 1913; pre- was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty- siding officer of the Democratic State convention in 1910 and fourth Congress; cashier and later president of the Mer-of the Democratic city convention in 1911; delegate to the chants' National Bank of Plattsburg, N.Y.; died in Platts-Democratic National Conventions in 1912 and 1920; elected burg, N.Y., September 27, 1914; interment in Riverside Cem- as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy etery. caused by the death of George S. Legare; reelected to the Sixty-fourth,Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and WEYMOUTH, George Warren, a Representative fromserved from April 29, 1913, to March 3, 1921; was not a Massachusetts; born in West Amesbury (now Merrimac),candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of Mass., August 25, 1850; attended the public schools and thelaw; appointed commissioner of the United States Court of Merrimac High School; moved to Fitchburg, Mass., in 1882Claims in 1925; appointed judge of the Court of Claims by and engaged in the carriage business; later became managerPresident Hoover in 1930, and was designated chief justice of the Simonds Rolling Machine Co.; trustee of the Fitchburgin 1939; retired as chief justice in 1947; died in Charleston, Savings Bank 189 1-1901 and director of the Fitchburg Na-S.C., November 8, 1951; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. tional Bank 1892-1901; directorin other corporations; member of the common council of Fitchburg in 1886; served WHALLEY, John Irving, a Representative from Pennsyl- in the State house of representatives in 1896; delegate to thevania; born in Barnesboro, Cambria County, Pa., September Republican National Convention in 1896; elected as a Repub-14, 1902; attended the public schools and Cambria Rowe lican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4,Business College; engaged in the automobile, banking and 1897-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renominationcoal businesses; member of advisory board of Johnstown Col- in 1900; moved to Fairhaven; president of the Atlas Tacklege, University of Pittsburgh; chairman of Somerset County Corp. of Fairhaven, Mass., 1897-1910; killed in an automo-Redevelopment Authority and Windber Planning Commis- bile accident near Bingham, Maine, September 7, 1910; in-sion; member of Windber School Board 1935-1947; member 2032 Biographical Directory of the State house of representatives 1951-1955 and servedborn in Covesville, Albemarle County, Va., July 29, 1782; in the State senate 1955-1960; appointed by President Nixoncompleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to to serve as delegate to United Nations for the 1969 session;the bar and commenced practice in Albemarle County; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress, bymoved to Tennessee; elected as a Republican to the Tenth special election, November 8, 1960, to fill the vacancy causedCongress (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1809); appointed to the by the death of Douglas H. Elliott, and at the same timeUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- elected to the Eighty-seventh Congress; reelected to the fivenation of George W. Campbell and served from March 17, succeeding Congresses and served from November 8, 1960, to1814, to October 10, 1815, when a successor was elected; January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972resumed the practice of his profession; member of the board to the Ninety-third Congress; died March 8, 1980, at Pompa-of visitors to the United States Military Academy, West no Beach, Fla.; interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johns-Point, N.Y., in 1832; died in Nashville, Tenn., July 22, 1833; town, Pa. interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. WHALLON, Reuben, a Representative from New York; born in Bedminster, Somerset County, N.J., December 7, WHARTON, Samuel, a Delegate from Delaware; born in 1776; attended the common schools; moved to Argyle, Wash-Philadelphia, Pa., May 3, 1732; received a liberal schooling; ington County, N.Y.; appointed justice of the peace for theengaged in mercantile pursuits; speculated in western lands township of Argyle March 13, 1806, and served until 1811; and promoted the Vandalia Company; signed the nonimpor- moved to Essex, Essex County, N.Y., in 1814; was a largetation resolutions of 1765; Member of the Continental Con- landowner, farmer, merchant, mill owner, and ironmaster;gress from Delaware in 1782 and 1783; justice of the peace served as captain and major in the New York State Militiafor the district of Southwark 1784-1786; judge of the court of 1803-1814; member of the State assembly in 1808, 1809, andcommon pleas 1790-1791 and resigned in the latter year; 1811; supervisor of the town of Essex in 1818, 1819, 1827, anddied at his country home near Philadelphia, Pa., in March 1828; first judge of Essex County Court of Common Pleas 1800. 1831-1838; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Con- Bibliography: DAB. gress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee WHEAT, Alan Dupree, a Representative from Missouri; on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twenty-third Con-born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., October 16, 1951; gress); again engaged in his former business pursuits; diedattended elmentary schools in Wichita, Kans., and in Seville, on his estate at Whallons Bay, town of Essex, N.Y., on April 15, 1843; interment in Whallons Bay Cemetery. Spain; graduated from Airline High School, Bossier City, La., 1968; B.A., Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1972; econo- WHARTON, Charles Stuart, a Representative from Illi-mist; legislative aide to county executive, Jackson County, nois; born in Aledo, Mercer County, Ill., April 22, 1875;Mo.; elected, Missouri general assembly, 1977-1982; delegate, moved to Chicago with his parents in 1878; attended theMissouri State Democratic convention, 1978; elected as a public schools; was graduated from the law department ofDemocrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1896; was ad-Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident mitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Chica-of Kansas City, Mo. go, Ill.; prosecuting attorney for the town of Lake in 1899; appointed assistant city attorney of Chicago in 1903; elected WHEAT, William Howard, a Representative from Illinois; as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-born in Kahoka, Clark County, Mo., February 19, 1879; at- March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906tended the public schools of Brookfield and Chillicothe, Mo., to the Sixtieth Congress; resumed the practice of law inand Chaddock College and Gem City Business College, Chicago, Ill.; member of the board of exemption and Govern- Quincy, Ill.; clerk in clothing stores in Quincy and Blooming- ment appeal agent at Chicago during the First World War;ton, Ill.; moved to Thomasboro, Ill., in 1900, becoming en- served as an assistant corporation counsel in 1919; appointedgaged as bookkeeper and later cashier of a bank; in 1909 assistant State's attorney in 1920 and served in this capacitymoved to Rantoul, Ill., and served as vice president and until December 1923, when he resigned; resumed the prac-president of banking institutions; also interested in agricul- tice of law in Chicago, Ill., until 1929; operated a restaurant;ture; school treasurer of Rantoul, Ill., for a number of years; author of several books; died in Chicago, Ill., September 4,unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventy-fifth Con- 1939; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. gress; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth, Seventy- WHARTON, James Ernest, a Representative from Newseventh, and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from York; born in Binghamton, Broome County, N.Y., October 4,January 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C., Janu- 1899; attended the public schools of Richmondville, N.Y.;ary 16, 1944; interment in Maplewood Cemetery, Rantoul, was graduated from Union University and from Albany LawIll. School; during the First World War served with the United WHEATON, Horace, a Representative from New York; States Army; was admitted to the bar in 1923; employedborn in New Milford, Litchfield County, Conn., February 24, with the Travelers Insurance Co., 1920-1929; commenced the 1803; moved with his parents to Pompey, Onondaga County, private practice of law in 1929 at Richmondville, N.Y.; ownsN.Y., in 1810; received a limited schooling; was graduated and operates a farm; district attorney of Schoharie County,from Pompey (N.Y.) Academy; engaged in mercantile pur- N.Y., 1932-1941; elected surrogate, county judge, and judgesuits; member of the State assembly in 1834; one of the of children's court of Schoharie County 1941-1951; elected ascommissioners to build a railroad between Syracuse and a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the six succeedingUtica; postmaster of Pompey, N.Y., 1840-1842; supervisor of Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1965); was an unsuc- cessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninthPompey; city treasurer; elected as a Democrat to the Congress; engaged in real estate development, is a residentTwenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843- of Richmondville, N.Y. March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination in 1846; moved to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1846; mayor of Syracuse WHARTON, Jesse(grandfatherof Wharton Jackson1851-1853; city treasurer of Syracuse in 1857 and 1858; en- Green), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee;gaged in hardware, saddlery, and mercantile pursuits; died Biographies 2033 in Syracuse, N.Y., June 23, 1882; interment in Oakwoodin Berlin, Wis.; on account of ill health, moved to Pueblo, Cemetery. Cob., in 1870; appointed register of the land office at Pueblo on June 27, 1871, and served until his death in that city on WHEATON, Laban, a Representative from Massachusetts;September 19,1871; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, born in Mansfield, Bristol County, Mass., on March 13, 1754;Berlin, Wis. attended Wrentham (Mass.) Academy; was graduated from Harvard College in 1774; studied theology under private in- WHEELER, Frank Willis, a Representative from Michi- structor at Woodstock, Conn.; also studied law; was admittedgan; born in Chaumont, Jefferson County, N.Y., March 2, to the bar in 1788 and commenced practice in Milton, Mass.;1853; attended the common schools; moved to Michigan in judge of the Bristol County Court; member of the State1864 with his parents, who settled in East Saginaw; attended house of representatives 1803-1808 and again in 1825; elect-the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal ed as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three succeed-School; engaged in boatbuilding; moved to West Bay City, ing Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817); appointedMich., in 1876; became master of the Saginaw River Tug chief justice of the court of common pleas of Bristol CountyAssociation; engaged in shipbuilding at the Bay Cities for May 18, 1810, which position he held until appointed chiefmany years; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Con- justice of the court of sessions on May 25, 1819, for life; diedgress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for in Norton, Bristol County, Mass., March 23, 1846; intermentrenomination in 1890; engaged in his former pursuits until in Norton Cemetery. 1899, when he moved to Detroit; returned to Saginaw in WHEELER, Burton Kendall, a Senator from Montana;1917 and organized the Saginaw Shipbuilding Co., and was born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27,engaged in building boats for the United States Government; 1882; attended the common schools; worked as a stenogra- died in Saginaw, Mich., August 9, 1921; interment in Elm pher in Boston, Mass.; graduated from the law departmentLawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich. of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; was WHEELER, Grattan Henry, a Representative from New admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practiceYork; born near Providence, R.I., August 25, 1783; attended in Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont.; member, State house ofpublic and preparatory schools; moved to New York with his representatives 1910-19 12; United States district attorneyparents, who settled in Steuben County about 1800; agricul- for Montana 1913-1918; resumed the practice of law inturist and lumberman near Wheeler, N.Y.; member of the Butte; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor ofState assembly in 1822, 1824, and 1826; served in the State Montana in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United Statessenate 1826-1830; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to Senate in 1922 for the term ending March 3, 1929; unsuc- the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); cessful candidate for Vice President of the United States inunsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third 1924 on the Progressive Party ticket; reelected to the UnitedCongress; resumed former pursuits; presidential elector on States Senate in 1928, 1934, and 1940 and served fromthe Whig ticket in 1840; died in Wheeler, Steuben County, March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidateN.Y., March 11, 1852; interment in a private cemetery on for renomination in 1946; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-third Congress), Committee on Interstatethe Wheeler homestead. Commerce (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-ninth Congress- WHEELER, Hamilton Kinkaid, a Representative from Il- es); resumed the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C.,linois; born in Ballston Township, Saratoga County, N.Y., January 6, 1975; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. August 5, 1848; moved to Illinois in 1852 with his parents, Bibliography: Anderson, John Thomas. "Senator Burton K. Wheeler andwho settled near Grant Park, Kankakee County; attended United States Foreign Relations." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virgin-public and private schools in Kankakee County; studied law; ia, 1982; Wheeler, Burton Kendall. Yankee From the West: The Candid,was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Turbulent Life Story of the Yankee-Born U.S. Senator from Montana. 1962. the city of Kankakee; member of the State senate in 1884; Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1977. elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, WHEELER, Charles Kennedy, a Representative from1893-March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination Kentucky; born near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky.,in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of April 18, 1863; received his early education from a privatelaw in Kankakee, Ill.; delegate to the Republican National tutor; was graduated from Southwestern University, Clarks-Conventions in 1896 and 1900; died in Kankakee, Ill., July ville, Tenn., in 1879 and from the Lebanon Law School,19, 1918; interment in Mound Grove Cemetery. Lebanon, Tenn., in 1880; was admitted to the bar the same year through the enactment of a special grant by the State WHEELER, Harrison H., a Representative from Michi- legislature, and commenced practice in Paducah, McCrackengan; born at Farmers Creek, Lapeer County, Mich, March 22, 1839; attended the common schools; taught school until County, KY.; city solicitor of Paducah 1894-1896; elected as a1861; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventhNovember 1, 1861, as a private in Company C, Tenth Regi- Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); did not seek re-ment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry; promoted to second nomination in 1902; practiced law in Paducah, Ky., until hislieutenant in June 1862; first lieutenant of Company E, death in that city June 15, 1933; interment in Oak Grovesame regiment, in April 1863; captain of Company F, same Cemetery. regiment, in April 1865; settled in Bay City, Mich., at the WHEELER, Ezra, a Representative from Wisconsin; bornclose of the war; elected clerk of Bay County in 1866; studied in Chenango County, N.Y., December 23, 1820; received alaw; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced prac- liberal preparatory schooling and was graduated from Uniontice in Bay City; member of the State senate in 1870 and College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1842; moved to Berlin, Green1872; moved to Ludington, Mason County, Mich., in 1873; Lake County, Wis., in 1849; studied law; was admitted to theappointed circuit judge in 1874 and later elected to the bar and commenced practice in Berlin, Wis.; member of theoffice; resigned in June 1878; appointed postmaster April 16, State assembly in 1853; judge of Green Lake County 1854- 1878, and served until his successor was appointed, April 26, 1862; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress1882; resumed the practice of law in Ludington; elected as a (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); resumed the practice of lawDemocrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- 2034 Biographical Directory

March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892the board of aldermen 1895-1897; mayor of Springfield 1897- to the Fifty-third Congress; appointed United States pension1901; delegate to the Republican National Convention in agent at Detroit February 8, 1894, and served until his1900; postmaster of Springfield 1901-1913; elected as a Re- death; died at Farmers Creek, near Lapeer, Mich., July 28,publican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding 1896; interment in Lakeview Cemetery, Ludington, Mich.Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); chairman, Com- WHEELER, John, a Representative from New York; bornmittee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-sev- in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven County,enth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Conn., February 11, 1823; attended the common schools at1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; again elected to the Sixty- Cheshire, Conn.; moved to New York City in 1843 and wasninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful engaged in the hotel business with his father; became a dry-candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; goods clerk; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third andcontinued his former business activities in Springfield, Ill., Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); de-until his death there on January 8, 1932; interment in Oak clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856 to theRidge Cemetery. Thirty-fifth Congress; commissioner and president of the De- partment of Taxes and Assessments of New York City 1872- WHEELER, Nelson Platt, a Representative from Pennsyl- 1880; member of the Board of Estimates and Apportion-vania; born in Portville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., Novem- ments and commissioner of accounts of New York City; wasber 4, 1841; attended the public schools and academies in a lawyer, but did not practice; died in New York City AprilOlean and Deposit, N.Y.; became a surveyor and civil engi- 1, 1906; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. neer; moved to Endeavor, Forest County, Pa.; engaged in the lumber business and also interested in agricultural pursuits WHEELER, Joseph, a Representative from Alabama; bornand banking; elected county commissioner in 1866; held vari- in Augusta, Ga., September 10, 1836; attended local schoolsous township offices; member of the State house of repre- and the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Conn.; was graduatedsentatives in 1878 and 1879; declined to be a candidate for from the United States Military Academy at West Point,renomination; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and 1859; attended the Cavalry School at Carlisle, Pa., 1859-Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); unsuc- 1860; transferred to the Mounted Rifles June 26, 1860;cessful candidate for renomination in 1910, but the primary second lieutenant September 1, 1860, and served in Newelection being contested, his opponent subsequently with- Mexico; resigned from the United States Army February 27,drew and he was tendered the congressional nomination, but 1861; appointed lieutenant of Artillery in the Confederatedeclined; resumed his former business pursuits in Endeavor, Army on April 3, 1861; successively promoted to the grade ofPa.; owing to ill health, moved to Pasadena, Los Angeles colonel, brigadier general, and major general, and was com- County, Calif., in 1915, and died there on March 3, 1920; missioned lieutenant general in February 1865; in 1862 wasinterment in Mountain View Cemetery. assigned to the command of the Army Corps of Cavalry of the Western Army, continuing in that position until the war WHEELER, William Almon, a Representative from New closed; senior Cavalry general of the Confederate ArmiesYork and a Vice President of the United States; born in May 11, 1864; studied law; was admitted to the bar andMalone, Franklin County, N.Y., June 30, 1819; completed engaged in practice at Wheeler, Ala., and also becameapreparatory studies; attended the Franklin Academy at planter; presented credentials as a Democratic Member-electMalone and the University of Vermont at Burlington; stud- to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from March 4,ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced in 1881, to June 3, 1882, when he was succeeded by William M.Malone, N.Y.; district attorney for Franklin County, N.Y., Lowe, who contested his election; subsequently elected to the1846-1849; member, State assembly 1850-1851; member, same Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofState senate 1858-1860; elected as a Republican to the William M. Lowe and served from January 15 to March 3,Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); del- 1883; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to theegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1867 and seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1885,1868; elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding to April 20, 1900, when he resigned; chairman, CommitteeCongresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); was not a candi- on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Fiftiethdate for reelection, having been nominated in 1876 as the Congress), Committee on Territories (Fifty-third Congress);Republican candidate for Vice President; elected Vice Presi- served in the Spanish-American War; commissioned majordent of the United States on the Republican ticket with general of Volunteers May 4, 1898, and assigned to com-Rutherford Hayes in 1876; inaugurated in March 1877 and mand of a Cavalry division, United States Army; seniorserved until March 1881; retired from public life and active member of the commission which negotiated the surrenderbusiness pursuits because of ill health; died in Malone, N.Y., of Santiago and the Spanish Army in Cuba; during theJune 4, 1887; interment in Morningside Cemetery. PhilippineInsurrection commanded theFirstBrigade, Bibliography: DAB; Otten, James T. "Grand Old Party Man: William A. Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, in the Tarlaccam- Wheeler and the Republican Party, 1850-1880." Ph.D. dissertation, Univer- paign and in several other operations in central Luzon from sity of South Carolina, 1976. July 8, 1899, to January 24, 1900; commissioned brigadier WHEELER, William McDonald, a Representative from general in the United States Regular Army June 16, 1900;Georgia; born near Alma, Bacon County, Ga., July 11, 1915; retired September 10, 1900; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 25, 1906; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. attended the public schools and South Georgia College at Bibliography: DAB; Dyer, John Percy. "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler. Universi- Douglas, Middle Georgia College at Cochran, Georgia Teach- ty, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1941. ers College at Statesboro, and Atlanta Law School, LL.B., 1966; engaged in agricultural pursuits; taught school and WHEELER, Loren Edgar, a Representative from Illinois;also served as principal of the junior high schools in Bacon born in Havana, Mason County, Ill., October 7, 1862; attend- and Appling Counties 1936-1941; enlisted as a private in the edthepublicschools and GraylockInstitute,SouthArmy Air Force on May 30, 1942; was promoted through the Williamstown, Mass.; moved to Springfield, Ill., in 1880 andranks to captain and discharged on June 4, 1946; delegate, engaged in the ice and coal business until 1910 when heDemocratic National Convention, 1952; elected as a Demo- became identified with the advertising business; member ofcrat to the Eightieth and to the three succeeding Congresses Biographies 2035

(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidatereceiver for New Hampshire 1782-1784; died in Portsmouth, for renomination in 1954; employed with the Georgia MotorN.H., November 28, 1785; interment in the Old North Burial Vehicle Division in the Internal Revenue Department, At-Ground. lanta, Ga., in 1955 and 1956; engaged in sales and public Bibliography: DAB. relations; tax examiner, State of Georgia; coordinator, Feder- al programs, Bacon County, Ga., Board of Education; assist- WHITACRE, John Jefferson, a Representative from Ohio; ant director, Governor's Highway Safety Program, State ofborn in Decatur, Burt County, Nebr., December 28, 1860; Mississippi; is a resident of Alma, Ga. attended the public schools, Hiram (Ohio) College, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; engaged as a manu- WHELCHEL, Benjamin Frank, a Representative fromfacturer of hollow building tile; delegate to the Democratic Georgia; born in Lumpkin County, near Gainesville, Ga.,National Convention in 1912; unsuccessful candidate in 1908 December 16, 1895; attended the public schools; studied lawto the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the privately in Gainesville, Ga.; was admitted to the bar in 1925Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911- and commenced the practice of law in Gainesville, Ga.; judgeMarch 3, 1915); resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; of the city court of Hall County 1932-1934; elected as apresident of the Whitacre Engineering Co. and the Whitacre- Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the four succeedingGreer Fireproofing Co.; died in Miami, Fla., December 2, Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1945); was not a1938; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Ohio. candidate for renomination in 1944; resumed the practice of law; died in Gainesville, Ga., May 11, 1954; interment in WHITAKER, John Albert (grandson of Addison Davis West View Abbey, Atlanta, Ga. James), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Russell- ville, Logan County, Ky., October 31, 1901; attended the WHERRY, Kenneth Spicer, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Liberty, Gage County, Nebr., February 28, 1892;public schools, Bethel College, and the University of Ken- attended the public schools and graduated from the Univer-tucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and sity of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1914; attended Harvard Uni-commenced practice in Russeilville, KY.; county attorney of versity in 1915 and 1916; during the First World War served Logan County, Ky., 1928-1948; delegate to all State conven- in the United States Navy Flying Corps in 1917 and 1918;tions 1924-1950; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Con- engaged in the sale of automobiles, furniture, and in live-gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Earle stock farming; studied law; was admitted to the bar andC. Clements; reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second commenced practice in Pawnee City, Nebr.; member of theCongresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Pawnee City council in 1927 and 1929; mayor of Pawnee CityRussellville, Ky., December 15, 1951; interment in Maple 1929-1931, 1938-1943; member, State senate 1929-1932; un- Grove Cemetery. successful candidate for governor in 1932; unsuccessful can- WHITCOMB, James, a Senator from Indiana; born in didate for nomination for United States Senator in 1934;Windsor County, Vt., December 1, 1795; attended Transylva- western director for the Republican National Committee nia University, Lexington, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to 1941-1942; elected as a Republican to the United Statesthe bar and commenced practice in Bloomington, md., in Senate in 1942; reelected in 1948 and served from January 3,1824; prosecuting attorney for Monroe County 1826-1829; 1943, until his death; Republican whip 1944-1949; minoritymember, State senate 1830-1831, 1832-1836; appointed by leader 1949-1951; chairman, Special Committee on ProblemsPresident Andrew Jackson as Commissioner of the General of Small Business (Eightieth Congress); died in Washington, Land Office 1836-1841; resumed the practice of law in Terre D.C., November 29, 1951; interment in Pawnee City Ceme- tery, Pawnee City, Nebr. Haute, md.; Governor of Indiana 1843-1849; elected as a Bibliography: DAB; Daistrom, Han A. "Kenneth S. Wherry." Ph.D. dis- Democrat to the United States Senate and served from sertation, University of Nebraska, 1965; Stromer, Marvin. The Making of March 4, 1849, until his death in New York City, October 4, a Political Leader, Kenneth S.Wherry. Lincoln: University of Nebraska 1852; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirty-first and Press, 1969. Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings (Thirty-second Congress); interment in Crown Hill Cemetery, WHIPPLE, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from New Indianapolis, md. Hampshire; born in Lebanon, Grafton County, N.H., in 1787; Bibliography: DAB. completed preparatory studies; moved to Warren, N.H., in 1811; studied medicine in Haverhill and Hanover, N.H., and WHITE, Addison (cousin of John White), a Representative was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., infrom Kentucky; born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., 1814; commenced practice in Wentworth, N.H.; member ofMay 1, 1824; received an academic education; was graduated the State house of representatives 18 18-1820; elected to thefrom Princeton College in 1844; engaged in agricultural pur- Seventeenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchsuits and cotton raising; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); resumed the practice of medicine;second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); during the died in Wentworth, Grafton County, N.H., January 23, 1835;Civil War served in the Confederate Army; moved to Hunts- interment in Wentworth Village Cemetery. ville, Ala., and resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Hunts- ville, Ala., February 4, 1909; interment in Maple Hill Ceme- WHIPPLE, William, a Delegate from New Hampshire;tery. born in Kittery, York County, Maine, January 14, 1730; became a sailor and engaged in the slave trade; freed his WHITE, Albert Smith, a Representative and a Senator slaves and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Portsmouth,from Indiana; born in Orange County, N.Y., October 24, N.H.; delegate to the Provincial Congress at Exeter in 1775; 1803; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in Member of the Continental Congress 1776-1779; declined to1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and be a candidate for renomination; one of the signers of thepracticed; moved to Lafayette, Ind.; assistant clerk of the Declaration of Independence; commissioned a brigadier gen-State house of representatives 1830-1831, and clerk 1832- eral in 1777; member of the State assembly 1780-1784; par-1835; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1832 to the ticipated in several battles in the Revolutionary War; ap-Twenty-third Congress; presidential elector on the Whig pointed judge of the State supreme court in 1782; financialticket in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Con- 2036 Biographical Directory

gress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for21, 1816; attended the public schools and was graduated renomination in 1838; elected as a Whig to the United Statesfrom Allegheny College, Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.; Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1845;studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- declined to be a candidate for reelection; chairman, Commit-tice in Lock Haven, Pa.; was elected as a Democrat to the tee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Twenty-Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); chair- seventh Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-man, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings seventh and Twenty-eighth Congress); president of several(Thirty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection railroads; moved to Stockwell, md., and resumed the prac- in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; engaged in the lumber tice of law; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventhand coal business at Philadelphia; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination in 1862; appointed by President Abrahamon April 5, 1886; interment in Highland Cemetery, Lock Lincoln one of three commissioners to adjust the claims ofHaven, Clinton County, Pa. citizens of Minnesota and Dakota against the government WHITE, Bartow, a Representative from New York; born for Indian depredations; appointed judge of the Unitedin Yorktown, Westchester County, N.Y., November 7, 1776; States Court for the District of Indiana in 1864 and servedattended the common schools and completed preparatory until his death in Stockwell, md., September 4, 1864; inter- studies; studied medicine with his father, Dr. Ebenezer ment in Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, md. White, and commenced practice in Fishkill, N.Y., in 1800; Bibliography: DAB. elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, WHITE, Alexander, a Representative from Virginia; born1827); resumed the practice of medicine; presidential elector in Frederick County, Va., in 1738; studied law at the Inneron the Whig ticket in 1840; died in Fishkill, Dutchess Temple, London, in 1762 and attended Gray's Inn in 1763;County, N.Y., December 12, 1862; interment in the Dutch member, Virginia House of Burgesses, 1772-1773; member ofReformed Church Cemetery. the State house of delegates 1782-1786 and in 1788; delegate to the State convention in 1788; elected to the First and WHITE, Benjamin, a Representative from Maine; born in Second Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); again aGoshen (now Vienna), Maine, May 13, 1790; attended the member of the State house of delegates 1799-1801; appointedcommon schools; moved to Winthrop, Maine, in 1802 and by President Washington May 18, 1795, one of the threewas employed on a farm until 1808 when he entered Farm- commissioners to lay out the city of Washington, D.C., andington Academy; taught school for several years; during the erect the public buildings, and served until May 1, 1802,War of 1812 was in Augusta, Maine, and assisted in raising when the board was abolished; died on his estate, "Wood-troops, later serving as a noncommissioned officer with yule," in Frederick County, Va., October 9, 1804. troops stationed at Castine and Eastport, Maine; again en- Bibliography: DAB. gaged in teaching in Montville, Maine, until 1821, when he WHITE, Alexander, a Representative from Alabama; bornalso engaged in the sawmill business and agricultural pur- in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., October 16, 1816;suits; served as town selectman; member of the State house moved with his parents to Courtland, Ala., in 1821; pursuedof representatives in 1829, 1841, and 1842; elected as a Dem- an academic course and attended the University of Tennes-ocrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March see at Knoxville; served in the Seminole War in 1836; moved3, 1845); resumed his former pursuits; died in Montville, to Talladega, Ala., in 1837; studied law; was admitted to theMaine, on June 7, 1860; interment in Haildale Cemetery, bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Talladega; elected asNorth Montville, Maine. a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); moved to Selma, Ala., in 1856 and continued the WHITE, Campbell Patrick, a Representative from New practice of law; delegate to the State constitutional conven-York; born in Ireland November 30, 1787; received a limited tion in 1865; member of the State house of representatives ineducation; immigrated to the United States in 1816 and 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congressengaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City; elected as (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate fora Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; appointed anCongresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his resigna- associate justice of the United States Court for the Territorytion in 1835, which occurred before the convening of the of Utah in 1875, serving only a few months; moved to Dallas,Twenty-fourth Congress; chairman, Committee on Naval Af- Tex., in 1876 and resumed the practice of law; died in Dallasfairs (Twenty-third Congress); resumed mercantile pursuits; December 13, 1893; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. appointed quartermaster general of the State militia on Jan- WHITE, Alexander Coiwell, a Representative from Penn-uary 24, 1831; delegate to the New York State constitutional sylvania; was born near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pa.,convention in 1845; resided in New York City, where he died December 12,1833; attended the public schools; taughtFebruary 12, 1859; interment in St. Paul's Cemetery. school; attended the Jacksonville Institute and the Dayton WHITE, Cecil Fielding, a Representative from California; Union Academy; moved to Jefferson County, Pa., in 1860born in Temple, Bell County, Tex., December 12, 1900; at- where he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862, andtended the public schools of Fort Smith, Ark.; at sixteen commenced practice in Punxsutawney, Pa.; enlisted in theyears of age joined the United States Army and served on Union Army as a private in Company I, Eighth Regiment,the Mexican border; went to France as a sergeant in the One Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; moved to Brookville, Jef-Hundred and Forty-second Field Artillery, Thirty-ninth Divi- ferson County, Pa., and continued the practice of his profes-sion, 1916-1919; worked in the Los Angeles office of a cotton sion; elected district attorney in 1867 and 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-broker; associated with cotton mills in California, Arkansas March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for reelection in 1886 toand Tennessee; owner and operator of the Cecil F. White the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession;Ranches, Inc., Devils Den, Calif.; elected as a Democrat to justice of the peace for Rose Township; died near Brookville,the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); Pa., June 11, 1906; interment in Brookville Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty- second Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1966 WHITE, Allison, a Representative from Pennsylvania;to the Ninetieth Congress; is a resident of San Francisco, born in Pine Township, near Jersey Shore, Pa., DecemberCalif. Biographies 2037

WHITE, Chilton Allen, a Representative from Ohio; borntended the public schools and was graduated from the New in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, February 6, 1826; at-London High School in 1918; during the First World War tended the public schools; taught school; served in the Mexi-served as an enlisted man in the United States Navy; em- can War with Company G, First Regiment, Ohio Volunteers;ployed with a rubber company in Akron, Ohio, in 1919 and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced the practice of law in Georgetown, Ohio; prosecuting attor-1920, and also engaged in the insurance business; moved to ney of Brown County from 1852 to 1854; member of theUhrichsville, Ohio, and engaged in the dry-goods business in State senate in 1859 and 1860; elected as a Democrat to the1920 and 1921; returned to New London, Ohio, and became Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 186 1-associated with a company manufacturing regalia and uni- March 3, 1865); unsuccessful for reelection in 1864 to theforms 1921-1925; entered the newspaper business at Nor- Thirty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law inwalk, Ohio, in 1925, later becoming editor and general man- Georgetown; delegate to the State constitutional conventionager; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in in 1873; unsuccessful candidate for secretary of state in 1896; died in Georgetown, Ohio, December 7, 1900; interment in1928 and 1948; State commander of the American Legion in Confidence Cemetery. Ohio in 1929 and 1930; elected as a Republican to the Seven- ty-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1937-Janu- WHITE, Compton Ignatius (father of Compton Ignatiusary 3, 1941); did not seek renomination in 1940, but was White, Jr.), a Representative from Idaho; born in Batonunsuccessful for the Republican nomination for United Rouge, La., July 31, 1877; at an early age moved with his parents to Rankin County, Miss., and to Clark Fork, BonnerStates Senator; called to active duty in the United States County, Idaho, in 1890; attended the public schools, Metro-Navy in 1942 as a lieutenant commander; promoted to cap- politan Business College, Chicago, Ill., and Gonzaga Univer- tamand served as director of recruiting and induction until sity, Spokane, Wash.; railway telegraph operator 1897-1903,1946; director of the Citizens National Bank and president of trainman 1903-1906, and conductor 1906-1910; engaged ina broadcasting company in Norwalk, Ohio; served as execu- agricultural, lumbering, and mining work in Clark Fork;tive director of President Eisenhower's Commission on Inter- also engaged in stock raising; member of the board of trust-governmental Relations in 1954 and 1955; president and pub- ees of Clark Fork; delegate to the Democratic National Con- ventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936; unsuccessful candidate forlisher of the Norwalk Reflector-Herald and the Sandusky election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; elected as aRegister at time of death; died in Delaware, Ohio, October Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding14, 1957; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk, Ohio. Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1947); chairman, Com- mittee on Irrigation (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth WHITE, Edward Douglass (son of James White and Congresses), Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measuresfather of [1845-1921]), a Representa- (Seventy-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-tive from Louisiana; born in Nashville, Tenn., in March tion in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; elected to the Eighty-1795; moved with his father to what is now St. Martin first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); was not aParish, La., in 1799; attended the common schools, and was candidate for renomination in 1950 but was unsuccessful forgraduated from the University of Nashville, Tennessee, in the Democratic nomination for United States Senator; de-1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced feated for the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1952;practice in Donaidsonville, La.; was appointed judge of the resumed stock raising and mining interest at Clark Fork, Idaho; died in Spokane, Wash., March 31, 1956; interment incity court of New Orleans and moved there in 1825; elected the family cemetery, east of Clark Fork, Idaho. to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Con- gresses and served from March 4, 1829, to November 15, WHITE, Compton Ignatius, Jr. (son of Compton Ignatius1834, when he resigned; Governor of Louisiana from 1834 to White), a Representative from Idaho; born in Spokane,1838; moved to Thibodaux; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- Wash., December 19, 1920; attended the public schools of Clark Fork, Idaho, and Washington, D.C.; attended Georgesixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1938-1939 and3, 1843); resumed the practice of his profession; also engaged the University of Idaho at Moscow, 1939-1942; engaged asas a planter; died in New Orleans, La., April 18, 1847; inter- breeder of livestock, and also in mining and logging; duringment in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux, La. the Second World War was an analysis and experimental Bibliography: DAB. flight test engineer for Boeing Aircraft, Co., Seattle, Wash.; member of school board and Clark Fork Board of Trustees, WHITE, Edward Douglass (son of Edward Douglass White serving as chairman, 1947-1950; candidate for the Democrat-[1795-1847], and grandson of James White), Senator from ic nomination for United States Senator in 1960; mayor ofLouisiana; born near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La., No- Clark Fork, 1958-1962; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-vember 3, 1845; attended Mount St. Mary's College, near eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-Janu-Emmitsburg, Md., the Jesuit College in New Orleans, La., ary 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 toand Georgetown College, Washington, D.C.; served in the the Ninetieth Congress; consultant, Department of theConfederate Army during the Civil War; studied law; was Treasury, 1967; resumed ranching pursuits; member, Clarkadmitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Orle- Fork City Council; is a resident of Clark Fork, Idaho. ans, La., in 1868; member, State senate 1874; associate jus- WHITE, David, a Representative from Kentucky; born intice of the supreme court of Louisiana 1879-1880; resumed 1785; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit-the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United ted to the bar and commenced practice in New Castle, KY.;States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, until his member of the State house of representatives in 1826; elect-resignation, effective March 12, 1894; chairman, Committee ed to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3,to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Fifty-third 1825); died in Franklin County, Ky., October 19, 1834. Congress); appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court WHITE, Dudley Allen, a Representative from Ohio; bornof the United States by President Grover Cleveland in 1894; in New London, Huron County, Ohio, January 3, 1901; at-appointed Chief Justice of the United States in 1910, and 2038 Biographical Directory served until his death in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1921;ernor of Ohio 1931-1935; chairman of the Northwest Terri- interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. tory (Federal) Commission in 1938; vice chairman of the Bibliography: DAB; Highsaw, Robert. Edward Douglass White, DefenderMarietta College Board of Trustees; vice president and a of the Conservative Faith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, director of People's Banking & Trust Co. of Marietta, Ohio; 1981; Klinkhammer, Marie. Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the died in West Palm Beach, Fla., December 15, 1953; inter- United States. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, ment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio. 1943. Bibliography: Queenan, Thomas J. "The Public Career of George White, WHITE, Francis, a Representative from Virginia; born 1905-1941." Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State University, 1976. near Winchester, Frederick County, Va.;attended the WHITE, George Elon, a Representative from Illinois; born common schools at Winchester; engaged in agricultural pur-in Millbury, Worcester County, Mass., March 7, 1848; attend- suits; elected a member of the State house of delegates ined the public schools; during the Civil War enlisted as a 1794, 1809-1813, and 1818; elected as a Federalist to theprivate in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Veter- Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); servedan Volunteers; after the close of the war entered a commer- in the State senate in 1823 and 1824; appointed sheriff ofcial college in Worcester, Mass.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in Hampshire County, Va. (now West Virginia), on December 9,1867 and engaged in the lumber business and also became 1823, by the Governor; died in Hampshire County, on theinterested in banking; member of the board of aldermen of Capon River, in November 1826. Chicago; member of the State senate 1878-1886; elected as a WHITE, Francis Shelley (Frank), a Senator from Ala-Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses bama; born in Prairie, Noxubee County, Miss., March 13,(March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for 1847; attended the common schools and was tutored atreelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed his home; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Armyformer business pursuits in Chicago, Ill., and served as presi- as a private; after the close of the war engaged in agricultur-dent of the White Lumber Co.; died in Chicago, Ill., on May al pursuits until 1868; studied law; was admitted to the bar 1935; interment in the mausoleum in Rosehill Cemetery. in 1869 and commenced practice in West Point, Miss.; member, State house of representatives 1875, 1882-1883; WHITE, George Henry, a Representative from North moved to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., in 1886 andCarolina; born in Rosindale, Bladen County, N.C., December continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the 1852; attended the public schools, and was graduated United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathfrom Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1877; studied of Joseph F. Johnston and served from May 11, 1914, tolaw; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced prac- March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for renomination; chair-tice in New Bern, N.C.; principal of the State Normal School man, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fifty-third Con-of North Carolina; member of the State house of representa- gress); resumed the practice of his profession until his deathtives in 1881; served in the State senate in 1885; solicitor in Birmingham, Ala., August 1, 1922; interment in Elmwoodand prosecuting attorney for the second judicial district of Cemetery. North Carolina 1886-1894; delegate to the Republican Na- tional Conventions in 1896 and 1900; elected as a Republican WHITE, Frederick Edward, a Representative from Iowa;to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897- born in Prussia, Germany, January 19, 1844; immigrated toMarch 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in the United States in 1857 with his mother, who settled on a1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of farm in Keokuk County, Iowa; joined the Eighth Regiment,law and also engaged in banking; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 but was rejected on ac-December 28, 1918; interment in Eden Cemetery. count of age; enlisted in February 1862 in the Thirteenth Bibliography: Reid, George W. "A Biography of George H. White, 1852- Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out 1918." Ph.D. dissertation, Howard University, 1974. in August 1865; returned to Keokuk County and engaged in WHITE, Harry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born agricultural pursuits and stock raising; elected as a Demo-in Indiana, Indiana County, Pa., January 12, 1834; attended crat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3,Indiana (Pa.) Academy, and was graduated from Princeton 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to theCollege in 1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar in June Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life and resumed1855 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pa.; entered the agricultural pursuits; died in Sigourney, Keokuk County,Union Army as major of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Penn- Iowa, January 14, 1920; interment in Sigourney Cemetery.sylvania Volunteer Infantry, on December 13, 1861; mus- WHITE, George, a Representative from Ohio; born intered out February 22, 1865; member of the State senate Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., August 21, 1872; movedduring his military service and attended its sessions in the with his parents to Titusville, Crawford County, Pa., in 1874;winter of 1862-1863; reelected to the State senate and served attended the common schools; was graduated from the localfrom 1865 to 1874, being speaker at the close of the last high school in 1891 and from Princeton College in 1895;term; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1872; taught school for several years; mined in the Klondike 1898-unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1901; moved to Washington County, Ohio, in 1902 and set-1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty- tled in Marietta; engaged in the production of oil; member ofsixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); was not a the State house of representatives 1905-1908; unsuccessfulcandidate for renomination in 1880; elected a judge of Indi- candidate for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress;ana County, Pa., in 1884; reelected in 1894 and served until elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third1904; resumed the practice of law and engaged in banking; Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful can-died in Indiana, Pa., June 23, 1920; interment in Oakland didate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress;Cemetery. elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, Bibliography: Shankman, Arnold. "John P. Penney, Harry White and 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 the 1864 Pennsylvania Senate Deadlock." Western Pennsylvania Historical to the Sixty-sixth Congress; served as chairman of the Demo- Magazine 55 (January 1972): 77-86. cratic National Committee from July 1920 to November WHITE, Hays Baxter, a Representative from Kansas; 1921; resumed his former activities in the oil business; Gov-born near Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, on September Biographies 2039

21, 1855; attended the rural schools of his native county;State of Tennessee) in 1790, served in the house of represent- engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Jewel! County,atives of the first Territorial legislature from Davidson Kans., in 1875 and engaged in agricu!tura! pursuits nearCounty in 1794; elected as a Delegate to the Third and Mankato; taught school at Mankato in 1876; member of theFourth Congresses from the Territory South of the River State house of representatives 1888-1890; member of theOhio and served from September 3, 1794, to June 1, 1796, State senate 1900-1904; mayor of Mankato in 1914 and 1915;when the Territory was admitted into the Union as the member of the State tax commission in 1915-1918; elected asState of Tennessee; moved to Louisiana in 1799; appointed a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeedingjudge of Attakapas district in 1804 and later of St. Martin Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); chairman, Com-Parish; died in Attakapas, La., in October 1809. mittee on Election of President, Vice President, and Repre- sentatives(Sixty-eighththrough SeventiethCongresses); WHITE, James Bain, a Representative from Indiana; born election unsuccessfully contested by W.H. Clark; was not ain Stirlingshire,Scotland, June 26,1835; attended the candidate for renomination in 1928; died in Mankato, Kans.,common schools; immigrated to the United States in 1854 September 29, 1930; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.and settled in Fort Wayne, md.; a calico printer and a tailor until the outbreak of the Civil War; enlisted as a private in WHITE, Hugh, a Representative from New York; born inCompany I, Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers; elect- Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y., on December 25, 1798;ed captain of the company and served until December 1862, attended the common schools; was graduated from Hamiltonwhen he resigned; was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh April College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1823; studied law but did not prac-7, 1862; elected a member of the common council of Fort tice; entered business at Chittenango in 1825 and afterwardsWayne, md., in 1874; operated a department store; engaged at Rondout; active in the building of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad; moved to Cohoes, N.Y., inin the manufacture of wheels and was also interested in 1830; was greatly interested in the development of waterbanking; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress power from the Mohawk River; organized the Rosendale(March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for Cement Works; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thir-reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; delegate to the tieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3,Republican National Convention in 1892; commissioner to 1851); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirtieth Con-the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; died gress); resumed his business activities; died in Waterford,in Fort Wayne, md., October 9, 1897; interment in Linwood N.Y., October 6, 1870; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery.Cemetery. WHITE, Hugh Lawson, a Senator from Tennessee; born in WHITE, James Bamford, a Representative from Ken- Iredell County, N.C., October 30, 1773; moved with his par-tucky; born near Winchester, Clark County, Ky., on June 6, ents in 1785 to that part of North Carolina which now is1842; attended the common schools and the Mount Zion Knox County, Tenn.; participated in an expedition againstAcademy, Macon County, Ill.; entered the Confederate Army the around 1793; pursued classical studies inin the fall of 1863 and served in the commands of Generals Philadelphia, Pa., and studied law in Lancaster, Pa.; wasBreckinridge and Morgan until the close of the Civil War, admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice inwhen he was honorably discharged; engaged in teaching at Knoxville, Tenn.; judge of the State superior court 1801-Irvine, Estill County, KY.; studied law while teaching; was 1807; member, State senate 1807-1809; appointed Unitedadmitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of States district attorney in 1808; judge of the State supremelaw in Irvine; prosecuting attorney of Estill County 1872- court 1809-1815; president of the State bank; member, State1880; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress senate 1817-1825; elected to the United States Senate to fill(March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); continued the practice of his the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew Jackson;profession in Irvine, Ky., until his retirement in 1919; died reelected in 1829 and 1835, as a Jacksonian, and served fromin Irvine, Ky., March 25, 1931; interment in Oakdale Ceme- October 28, 1825, to January 13, 1840, when he resignedtery. because he could not conscientiously obey the instructions of WHITE, John (cousin of Addison White and uncle of John his constituents; served as President pro tempore of theDaugherty White), a Representative from Kentucky; born Senate during the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Con-near Cumberland Gap (now Middlesboro), Ky., February 14, gresses; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twentieth1802; received a limited schooling; studied law; was admitted through Twenty-sixth Congresses); died in Knoxville, Tenn., April 10, 1840; interment in First Presbyterian Church Cem-to the bar and commenced practice in Richmond, Madison etery. County, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives Bibliography: DAB; Gresham, Lunia."The Public Career of Hughin 1832; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and to the Lawson White." Ph.D.dissertation, Vanderbilt University,1943;Scott, four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1845); Nancy, ed. A Memoir of . Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin- Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twenty-seventh cott and Co., 1856. Congress); appointed judge of the nineteenth judicial district of Kentucky and served from February 8, 1845, until his WHITE, James (father of Edward Douglass White [1795-death in Richmond, Ky., September 22, 1845; interment in 1847] and grandfather of Edward Douglass White [1845-the State Cemetery, Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky. 1921]), a Delegate from North Carolina and from the Terri- tory South of the River Ohio (now the State of Tennessee); WHITE, John Daugherty (nephew of John White), a Rep- born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 16, 1749; attended a Jesuitresentative from Kentucky; born near Manchester, Clay College in St. Omer, France; returned to the United StatesCounty, Ky., January 16, 1849; attended a private school and studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania atuntil 1865 and Eminence (Ky.) College and the University of Philadelphia; also studied law; moved to North Carolina andKentucky at Lexington until 1870; was graduated from the settled in Davidson County; member of the North Carolinalaw department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor General Assembly in 1785; Member of the Continental Con-in 1872; also attended the medical department of the same gress from North Carolina 1786-1788; superintendent ofinstitution; was admitted to the bar by the Kentucky Court Indian affairs for the southern district in 1786; after theof Appeals in 1875 and practiced; elected as a Republican to creation of the Territory South of the River Ohio (later thethe Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); 2040 Biographical Directory

declined to be a candidate for renomination; chairman of theCounty, md., in 1848; attended the county seminary and Kentucky Republican State convention at Louisville in 1879;Wabash College, Crawfordsville; clerked in a store for one member of the State house of representatives in 1879 andyear; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and 1880; resigned in 1880; endorsed and reelected without oppo-commenced the practice of his profession in Crawfordsville; sition during the sitting of the legislature; delegate to thelaw partner of Gen. Lew Wallace; prosecuting attorney of Republican National Convention in 1880; unsuccessful Re-Montgomery and Boone Counties 1854-1856; member of the publican candidate for the United States Senate in 1881;State senate 1860-1864; elected as a Republican to the Forty- elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); declined tocandidate for renomination in 1878; continued the practice be a candidate for renomination in 1884 and resumed theof law in Crawfordsville, md., until 1911, and died there on practice of law in Louisville, KY.; unsuccessful candidate ofFebruary 6, 1917; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. the State Prohibition Party for Governor of Kentucky in 1903; unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive Party for WHITE, Milo, a Representative from Minnesota; born in judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1912; died nearFletcher, Franklin County, Vt., August 17, 1830; attended Manchester, Ky., January 5, 1920; interment in the familythe common schools and Bakersfield Academy; moved to burying ground near Manchester, Clay County, Ky. Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minn., in 1855 and engaged in WHITE, Joseph Livingston, a Representative from Indi-mercantile pursuits; chairman of the board of supervisors of ana; born in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, N.Y.; completedChatfield upon its organization in 1858; served in the State preparatory studies; studied law in Utica, N.Y.; was admit-senate 1872-1876, 1881, and 1882; elected as a Republican to ted to the bar, and commenced practice in Madison, md.;the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to 1841-March 3, 1843); moved to New York City and resumedtheFifty-sixthCongress; resumed mercantilepursuits; the practice of law; while on a business trip to Nicaragua,mayor of Chatfield for several terms; member of the school Central America, he was shot by a Mr. Gavett as he wasboard until his death in Chatfield, Minn., May 18, 1913; leaving the ship at Corinto (Punta Ycacos), Nicaragua, Janu-interment in Chatfield Cemetery. ary 5, 1861, dying at Corinto on January 12; interment in WHITE, Phillips, a Delegate from New Hampshire; born the cemetery at Corinto, Nicaragua. in Haverhill, Mass., on October 28, 1729; completed prepara- WHITE, Joseph M., a Delegate from Florida Territory;tory studies and attended Harvard College; during the born in Franklin County, Ky., May 10, 1781; completed pre-French and Indian War was an officer in the colonial army paratory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar andat Lake George in 1755; moved to New Hampshire; member practiced; moved to Pensacola, Fla., in 1821; one of the com-of the State house of representatives 1775-1782, and served missioners under the act of Congress of May 8, 1822, "foras speaker in 1775 and 1782; probate judge of Rockingham ascertaining claims and titles to lands within the TerritoryCounty, N.H., 1776-1790; Member of the Continental Con- of Florida"; elected to the Nineteenth and to the five suc-gress in 1782 and 1783; councilor 1792-1794; retired to his ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1837); unsuc-farm near South Hampton, N.H.; died in South Hampton on cessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fifth Congress;June 24, 1811; interment in the Old Cemetery. author of a "New Collection of Laws, Charters, etc., of Great Britain, France, and Spain Relating to Cessions of Lands, WHITE, Phineas, a Representative from Vermont; born in with the Laws of Mexico," in two volumes published in 1839;South Hadley, Hampshire County, Mass., October 30, 1770; died in St. Louis, Mo., October 19, 1839. was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and WHITE, Joseph Worthington, a Representative fromcommenced practice in Pomfret, Vt.; register of probate for Ohio; born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, October 2,Windsor County 1800-1809; county attorney in 1813; judge of 1822; attended the common schools and Cambridge Acade-Windham County in 1814, 1815, 1817, and 1820; also judge of my; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admit-probate of the district of Westminster in 1814 and 1815; ted to the bar in 1844, and commenced practice in Cam- member of the constitutional convention in 1814; served in bridge; prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County 1845-1847;the State house of representatives 1815-1820; elected to the mayor of Cambridge; delegate to the Democratic NationalSeventeenth Congress (March4,1821-March3,1823); Convention in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-member of the State constitutional convention in 1836; eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccessfulserved in the State senate in 1836 and 1837; trustee of for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; resumedMiddlebury College; died in Putney, Windham County, Vt., the practice of law; died in Cambridge, Ohio, August 6, 1892;on July 6, 1847; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. interment in the South Cemetery. WHITE, Richard Crawford, a Representative from Texas; WHITE, Leonard, a Representative from Massachusetts;born in El Paso, Tex., April 29, 1923; graduated from Dudley born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., May 3, 1767; wasPrimary School, and the El Paso High School, and the Citi- graduated from Harvard University in 1787; member of thezen's Military Training Camp at San Antonio, Tex.; attended State house of representatives in 1809; held many local of-Texas Western College, 1940-1942; graduated from the Uni- fices; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); town clerk of Haverhill; cashier ofversity of Texas in 1946 and from the law school of the same the Merrimack Bank of Haverhill 18 14-1836; died in Haver-university in 1949; was admitted to the bar in 1949 and hill, Mass., October 10, 1849; interment in Pentucket Ceme-began the practice of law in El Paso; served in the United tery. States Marine Corps as a rifleman and Japanese interpreter in the Pacific Theater, 1942-1945; was awarded the Purple WHITE, Michael Doherty, a Representative from Indiana;Heart; served in the State house of representatives, 1955- born in Clark County, Ohio, September 8, 1827; moved with1958; served as El Paso county chairman, 1963-1965; elected his parents to Tippecanoe County, md., in 1829; pursuedas a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the eight succeed- classical studies; moved to Crawfordsville, Crawfordsvilleing Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1983); was not a Biographies 2041 candidate for reelection in 1982; returned to the practice ofSilas Hamilton in Otterville, Ill., and was graduated from law; is a resident of El Paso, Tex. Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1854; entered a mercantile house in St. Louis, Mo.; studied law and was admitted to the WHITE, Samuel, a Senator from Delaware; born nearbar November 4, 1856; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1856, Dover, Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Del., in Decemberand practiced law until January 1,1865; acting United 1770; attended , Maryland; studied law;States district attorney for Iowa in 1864; moved to New York was admitted to the bar in 1793 and commenced practice inCity in 1865 and engaged in banking; member of the New Dover, Del.; served two years as a captain in the UnitedYork Stock Exchange; was an astronomer and upon the States Army; adjutant general of Delaware in 1803; appoint- organization of the American Astronomical Society in 1883 ed in 1801 and subsequently elected as a Federalist to thewas elected its first president; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a nation of Henry Latimer; reelected in 1803 and 1809 andcandidate for renomination in 1888 to the Fifty-first Con- served from February 28, 1801, until his death in Wilming-gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Brooklyn,N.Y., ton, Del., November 4, 1809; interment in the Old SwedeJanuary 18, 1913; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Churchyard. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. WHITE, Wallace Humphrey, Jr. (grandson of William WHITE, Sebastian Harrison, a Representative from Colo-Pierce Frye), a Representative and a Senator from Maine; rado; born on a farm near Manes County, Mo., December 24,born in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, August 6, 1864; attended the rural schools in Dallas County and the1877; attended the public schools of Lewiston; graduated Marionville (Mo.) Collegiate Institute (later the Ozark Wes-from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1899; assistant leyan College at Carthage, Mo.); taught school for severalclerk to the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, years; elected president of the Hickory County Teachers In-and secretary to his grandfather, the President pro tempore stitute in 1886; elected superintendent of schools of Hickory1899-1903; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- County in 1887; while a teacher studied law; was admitted tomenced practice in Lewiston, Maine; elected as a Republican the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Pueblo, Cob.;to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1892; chair-(March 4, 1917-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for man of the Pueblo County Democratic central committee inrenomination in 1930, having become a candidate for Sena- 1892; served as city attorney of Pueblo 1897-1899; publictor; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- trustee of Pueblo County 1900-1903 and 1905-1909; districtment of Justice (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Woman attorney of the tenth judicial district 1904-1908; elected jus-Suffrage (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses), tice of the State supreme court in 1908 for a term of tenCommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventieth years 1909-1919, and served as chief justice from 1917 untiland Seventy-first Congresses); served as a presidential ap- 1918, when he retired; engaged in the practice of law inpointee on a variety of commissions; elected as a Republican Denver, Cob., in 1919; elected as a Democrat to the Seventi-to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and eth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofagain in 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, William N. Vaile and served from November 15, 1927, to1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; minority March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928leader 1944-1947; majority leader 1947-1949; chairman, to the Seventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of law inCommittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eightieth Denver, Cob.; died in a hospital in Colorado Springs, Cob.,Congress); retired from political and business activities; died December 21, 1945; remains were cremated in Fairmountin Auburn, Maine, March 31, 1952; interment in Mount Cemetery, Denver, Cob., and the ashes scattered over theAuburn Cemetery. cemetery. WHITE, Wilbur McKee, a Representative from Ohio; born WHITE, Stephen Mallory, a Senator from California; bornnear Hilisboro, Highland County, Ohio, February22, 1890; in San Francisco, Calif., January 19, 1853; moved with hiseducated in the rural schools and the Hilbsboro High School; parents to Santa Cruz County, Calif.; attended private andMarietta (Ohio) College, M.A., 1914; engaged in teaching at common schools and St. Ignatius College in San Francisco;Marietta, Ohio, in 1914 and 1915; correspondent for a graduated from Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Calif., inDayton, Ohio, newspaper in 1916; served in the United 1871; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 andStates Army on the Mexican border as a private and first commenced practice in Los Angeles, Calif.; district attorneysergeant in Company H, Third Ohio Infantry, in 1916; of Los Angeles County 1883-1884; member, State senateduring the First World War served from August 15, 1917, as 1887-1891, serving as president pro tempore both sessions;a first lieutenant and later as a captain in the ThreeHun- was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Uniteddred and Thirty-second Regiment, United States Infantry, in States Senate in 1890; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedItaly and France; associated with the Toledo Times in 1919 States Senate and served from March 4, 1893, to March 3,and served as managing editor 1925-1930 and associate 1899; did not seek reelection; chairman, Committee on Irri-editor in 1930 and 1931; elected as a Republican to the gation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Fifty-third throughSeventy-second Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); un- Fifty-fifth Congresses); died in Los Angeles, Calif., Februarysuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 and for election in 21, 1901; interment in Calvary Cemetery. 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; employed in a glass Bibliography: DAB; Dobie, Edith. The Political Career of Stephen Mallo- ry White: A Study of Party Politics Under the Convention System. 1927. manufacturing concern in 1933; served as secretary and as Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1971; Grassman, Curtis. "Prologue to Pro- executive director of the Safety Glass Association 1934-1958; gressivism: Senator Stephen M. White and the California Reform Impulse, engaged in independent highway safety work 1958-1961; 1875-1905." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970. died in Chillicothe, Ohio, December 31, 1973; interment in Hibisboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Ohio. WHITE, Stephen Van Culen, a Representative from New York; born in Chatham County, N.C., August 1, 1831; moved WHITE, William John, a Representative from Ohio; born to Illinois with his parents, who settled near Otterville,at Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada, October 7, 1850; moved to the Jersey County, Ill.; attended the free school founded by Dr.United States in 1857 with his parents, who settled in Cleve- 2042 Biographical Directory

land, Ohio; attended the district schools; entered businessasborn in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pa., on January 31, a candy maker in 1869, and later began the manufacture of1762; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced chewing gum; mayor of West Cleveland in 1889; electedas apractice in Strasburg; associate judge of the Lancaster Republican to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4,1893- County Court from January 3, 1811, to February 1, 1813, March 3, 1895); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894; was first president of the American Chicle Co. andwhen he resigned, having been elected to Congress; served in later president of the W.J. White Chicle Co.; died in Cleve-the War of 1812 as major general of Pennsylvania Militia; land, Ohio, on February 16, 1923; interment in Lake Viewelected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and Cemetery. served from March 4, 1813, to September 1, 1814, when he resigned; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Strasburg; bur- WHITEAKER, John, a Representative from Oregon; borngess of Strasburg in 1816; again associate judge of the county in Dearborn County, near Fort Wayne, md., May 4, 1820;court from October 17, 1820, until his death in Strasburg, was self-educated and engaged in agricultural pursuits andPa., on February 26, 1822; interment in the Presbyterian stock raising; moved to the Pacific coast in 1849, and settledChurch Cemetery, Leacock, Lancaster County, Pa. in Lane County, Oreg., in 1852; elected judge of probate for Lane County in 1855; member of the Territorial legislature WHITEHILL, John (father of James Whitehill and broth- in 1857; Governor of the State of Oregon 1858-1862; member er of Robert Whitehill), a Representative from Pennsylvania; of the State house of representatives in 1866 and 1868, andborn in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa., Decem- served as speaker; again elected to the State house ofrepre-ber 11, 1729; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was sentatives in 1870; member of the State board of equaliza-admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lancaster tion in 1872, and served as chairman; member of thecom- mission to examine, report upon, and receive the locks andCounty; was appointed justice of the peace and justice of the canal at the falls of the Willamette River; member of theorphans'courtof Lancaster County, March 31,1777; member of the State house of representatives 1780-1782 and State senate 1876-1880, and served as president of theses- sions of 1876 and 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-1793; member of the council of censors in 1783; was delegate sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3,1881); chairman,to the supreme executive council in 1784; member of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Forty-sixth Con-State ratification convention in 1787; associate judge of Lan- gress); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880caster County in 1791; elected as a Republican to the Eighth to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed internal-revenueand Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); died in collector for the district of Oregon and served from June 20,Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa., September 16, 1885, to February 27, 1890; moved to Eugene, Lane County,1815; interment in Pequea Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Oreg., in 1889 and died there October 2, 1902; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. WHITEHILL, Robert (brother of and uncle of James Whitehill), a Representative from Pennsylva- WHITEHEAD, Joseph, a Representative from Virginia;nia; born in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pa., July 21, 1738; born near Mount Airy, Pittsylvania County, Va., October 31,attendedthe common schools;settledinCumberland 1867; attended the public schools of his native city;wasCounty; member of the State constitutional convention in graduated from the academic department of Richmond Col- lege (now the University of Richmond), Richmond, Va., inJuly 1776 that approved the Declaration of Independence; 1889, and from the law department of the University ofmember of the council of safety in 1777; delegate to the Virginia at Charlottesville in 1892; was admitted to the barState constitutional convention in 1790; member of the State the same year and commenced the practice of law in Chat- house of representatives 1797-1800; served in the State ham, Pittsylvania County, Va.; served in the State senatesenate 1801-1804, and was speaker of the senate in 1804 1899-1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth, Seventi-during the impeachment trials of the supreme court judges eth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,of Pennsylvania; elected as a Republican to the Ninth Con- 1931); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930;re-gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. sumed the practice of his chosen profession until his deathHanna; reelected to the Tenth and to the three succeeding at Chatham, Va., on July 8, 1938; interment in ChathamCongresses and served from November 7, 1805, until his Cemetery. death at Lauther Manor, Cumberland County, Pa., April 8, 1813; interment in the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church WHITEHEAD, Thomas, a Representative from Virginia;Cemetery, Hampden Township, near Camp Hill, Pa. born in Lovingston, Nelson County, Va., December 27, 1825; Bibliography: DAB; Crist, Robert Grant. Robert Whitehill and the Strug- received a limited schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits;gle for Civil Rights. Lemoyne, Pa.: Lemoyne Trust Co., 1958. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Amherst, Va.; during the Civil War served in the WHITEHOUSE, John Osborne, a Representative from Confederate Army as captain of Company E, Second Virgin- New York; born in Rochester, Strafford County, N.H., July ia Cavalry, 1861-1865; elected to the State senate in 1865, 19, 1817; received a common-school education; moved to New but did not qualify; elected prosecuting attorney for AmherstYork City in 1835 and was engaged as a clerk until 1839, County in 1866 and again in 1869, resigning in Novemberwhen he moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., and engaged as a mer- 1873, having been elected to Congress; electedas a Democratchant and manufacturer of shoes; moved to Poughkeepsie, to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1860 and continued the shoe man- was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; editor of theufacturing business; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Lynchburg News in 1876 and the Lynchburg Advance inand Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); 1880; resumed the practice of law; elected commissioner of agriculture for the State of Virginia in 1888 and served inchairman, Committee on Reform in the Civil Service (Forty- this capacity until his death; died near Lynchburg, Campbellfourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1876 County, Va., July 1, 1901; interment in Spring Hill Ceme-to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the shoe manufacturing tery, Lynchburg, Va. business; also interested in banking and railroading; owner of the Daily News 1872-1880; died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., WHITEHILL, James (son of John Whitehill and nephewAugust 24, 1881; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook- of Robert Whitehill), a Representative from Pennsylvania; lyn, N.Y. 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WHITEHURST, George William, a Representative from(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Virginia; born in Norfolk, Va., March 12, 1925; educated inAgriculture (Thirty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for Norfolk public schools; B.A., Washington and Lee Universi-renomination in 1860; again prothonotary of New Castle ty, 1950; M.A., history, University of Virginia, 1951; Ph.D.,County 1862-1867; mayor of Wilmington, Del., 1875-1878; American history, West Virginia University, 1962; served in member of commission to settle fishery disputes between United States Navy as aviation radioman in the PacificNew Jersey and Delaware in 1877; census enumerator for Theater, 1943-1946; member, Department of History, OldDelaware in 1880; associate judge of the superior court of Dominion College, Norfolk, Va., 1950-1968; member, publicDelaware from March 31, 1884, until his death in Wilming- affairs and news department, WTAR-TV, Norfolk, Va.;ton, Del., April 23, 1886; interment in Bridgeton Cemetery, elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first and to the eightBridgeton, N.J. succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1987); was not a candidate for reelection in 1986; university lectur- WHITENER, Basil Lee, a Representative from North er in public affairs, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.;Carolina; born in York County, S.C., May 14, 1915; educated television news analyst; is a resident of Norfolk, Va. in public schools of Gaston County; graduated from Lowell Bibliography: Whitehurst, G. William Diary of a Congressman. 2 vole. High School in 1931 and from Rutherford College in 1933; Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1983, 1985. attended University of South Carolina 1933-1935; graduated WHITELAW, Robert Henry, a Representative from Mis-from Duke University Law School in 1937; admitted to the souri; born on a farm near Lloyds, Essex County, Va., Janu-North Carolina bar the same year and commenced the prac- ary 30, 1854; moved with his father to Cape Girardeautice of law in Gastonia, N.C.; member of the State house of County, Mo., in 1856; returned to Essex County, Va., in 1866;representatives in 1941 and renominated in 1942 but re- attended private schools in Tappahannock and Staunton,signed to enter the United States Navy; served as gunnery Va., and the law department of the University of Michiganofficer and was separated from the service in November 1945 at Ann Arbor; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and com-with rank of lieutenant; appointed solicitor, fourteenth soli- menced practice in Cape Girardeau, Mo.; city attorney incitorial district, in January 1946 and elected in November 1873; prosecuting attorney of Cape Girardeau County 1874-1946, reelected in 1950 and 1954, and served until December 1878; member of the State house of representatives in 188331, 1956; delegate to the Democratic National Convention and 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress to1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Peter Walkerfive succeeding Congresses (January 3,1957-January 3, and served from November 4, 1890, to March 3, 1891; was1969); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the not a candidate for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Con-Ninety-first Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in gress; resumed the practice of law in Cape Girardeau, Mo.;1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; resumed the practice of retired from active law practice in 1927 and moved to Blodg-law; is a resident of Gastonia, N.C. ett, Mo., and in 1934 to Blytheville, Ark., where he died on July 27, 1937; interment in Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girar- WIIITESIDE, Jenkin, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Lancaster, Pa., in 1772; pursued preparatory studies; studied deau, Mo. law and was admitted to the bar; moved to Tennessee and WHITELEY, Richard Henry, a Representative from Geor-commenced practice in Knoxville; one of the commissioners gia; born in County Kildare, Ireland, December 22, 1830;of Knoxville in 1801 and 1802; elected as a Republican to the immigrated to the United States in 1836 with his parents,United States Senate in 1809 to fill the vacancy caused by who settled in Georgia; received private instruction in ele-the resignation of Daniel Smith; reelected the same year and mentary education; engaged in manufacturing; studied law;served from April 11, 1809, to October 8, 1811, when he was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice inresigned; resumed the practice of law; died in Nashville, Bainbridge, Ga.; opposed secession, but after the adoption ofTenn., September 25, 1822; interment was probably in the the ordinance entered the Confederate Army and servedOld Cemetery west of the Nashville sulphur spring. throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of major; member of the State constitutional convention in 1867; un- WHITESIDE, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; successful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Con-born near Lancaster, Pa., in 1773; attended the common gress; presented credentials as a Senator-elect to the Unitedschools and Chestnut Level Academy; employed on his fa- States Senate on July 15, 1870, to fill the vacancy in thether's farm; later engaged in the hotel business and operated term beginning March 4, 1865, but as the election took placea distillery; justice of the peace; member of the State house prior to the readmission of Georgia into the Union was notof representatives in 1810 and 1811; elected as a Republican admitted to a seat; elected as a Republican to the Forty-firstto the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaringMarch 3, 1819); resumed the hotel business in Lancaster, Nelson Tift not entitled to the seat; reelected to the Forty-Pa.; register of wills; again a member of the State house of second and Forty-third Congresses and served from Decem-representatives in 1825; died in Lancaster, Pa., July 28, 1830; ber 22, 1870, to March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate forinterment in Lancaster Cemetery. reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress and for election to WHITFIELD, John Wilkins, a Delegate from the Terri- the Forty-fifth Congress; moved to Boulder, Cob., in 1877tory of Kansas; born in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., and resumed the practice of his profession; died in Boulder,March 11, 1818; attended the local schools; served in the Cob., September 26, 1890; interment in the Masonic Ceme-Mexican War in 1846; moved to Independence, Mo., in 1853 tery. to serve as Indian agent to the Pottawatomies at Westport, WHITELEY, William Gustavus, a Representative fromMo., and to the Arkansas Indians in 1855 and 1856; upon the Delaware; born near Newark, Del., August 7, 1819; attendedadmission of the Territory of Kansas to representation was Bullock's School at Wilmington, Del., and was graduatedelected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress and from Princeton College in 1838; studied law; was admitted toserved from December 20, 1854, to March 3, 1855; presented the bar in 1841 and began practice in Wilmington, Del.;credentials as a Delegate-elect to the Thirty-fourth Congress prothonotary of New Castle County 1852-1856; elected as aand served from March 4, 1855, to August 1, 1856, when the Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congressesseat was declared vacant; again elected to the Thirty-fourth 2044 Biographical Directory

Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the action of theExposition in Paris, France, in 1900; resumed his former House of Representatives in declaring the seat vacant andmanufacturing pursuits; died in Holyoke, Hampden County, served from December 9, 1856, to March 3, 1857; register ofMass., January 9, 1911; interment in Forestdale Cemetery. the land office at Doniphan, Kans., 1857-1861; began his military career as captain of the Twenty-seventh Texas Cav- WHITLEY, Charles Orville, a Representative from North alry in 1861; promoted to the rank of major in 1862; commis-Carolina; born in Siler City, Chatham County, N.C., January sioned brigadier general May 9, 1863; at the close of the war3, 1927; attended the public schools of Siler City; B.A., Wake in 1865 went to Texas and settled in Lavaca County andForest University, 1949, LL.B., 1950; M.A., George Washing- engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; memberton University, Washington, D.C., 1974; admitted to the of the State house of representatives; died near Hallettsville,North Carolina bar in 1950 and commenced practice in Lavaca County, Tex., October 27, 1879; interment in Hal-Mount Olive; served in the United States Army, 1944-1946; lettsville Cemetery. actively practiced law in Mount Olive, 1950-1960; served as Mount Olive town attorney, 196 1-1967; assistant to Repre- WHITING, Justin Rice, a Representative from Michigan;sentative David Henderson of North Carolina, 1961-1976; born in Bath, Steuben County, N.Y., February 18, 1847;elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the four moved to Michigan in 1849 with his parents, who settled insucceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1977, St. Clair; attended the public schools and the University ofuntil his resignation December 31, 1986; was not a candidate Michigan at Ann Arbor 1863-1865; engaged as a merchantfor reelection in 1986; is a resident of Mount Olive, N.C. and manufacturer; mayor of St. Clair in 1879; member of the State senate in 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth WHITLEY, James Lucius, a Representative from New Congress and reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, andYork; born in Rochester, N.Y., May 24, 1872; attended the Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); re-public schools; was graduated from the Rochester Free Acad- sumed his former business pursuits in St. Clair; unsuccessfulemy and from the law department of Union University, Democratic candidate for Governor in 1898 and also forAlbany, N.Y., in 1898; during the Spanish-American War election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; chairman ofserved as a sergeant in the Seventh Battery, United States the Democratic State central committee; died in St. Clair,Volunteers; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced Mich., January 31, 1903; interment in Hillside Cemetery.practice in Rochester, N.Y.; served as assistant corporation WHITING, Richard Henry (uncle of Ira Clifton Copley), acounsel, city of Rochester, in 1900 and 1901; chief examiner Representative from Illinois; born in West Hartford, Conn.,of the Civil Service Commission 1902-1904; member of the January 17, 1826; attended the common schools; moved toState assembly 1905-1910; served in the State senate 1918- Altona, Ill., in 1850, thence to Galesburg, Ill., in 1860, where 1928; delegate to the Republican State conventions for he built a gas works; during the Civil War served in thetwenty years; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first, Union Army as paymaster of Volunteers 1862-1866; appoint-Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, ed assessor of internal revenue for the fifth district of Illi-1929-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelection nois in February 1870, serving until May 20, 1873, when thein 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; returned to the prac- office was abolished; appointed collector of internalrevenuetice of law; died in Rochester, N.Y., May 17, 1959; interment for the same district May 20, 1873, with office at Peoria, Ill.,in Mount Hope Cemetery. and served until his resignation on March 4, 1875, having WHITMAN, Ezekiel, a Representative from Massachusetts been elected to Congress; elected as a Republican to theand from Maine; born in East Bridgewater, Mass., March 9, Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; delegate to the1776; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Republican National Convention in 1884; died in New YorkR.I., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar and City, May 24, 1888; interment in Springdale Cemetery,practiced in New Gloucester, Maine (until 1820 a district of Peoria, Ill. Massachusetts), 1799-1807 and in Portland, Maine, 1807- 1852; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1806 to the WHITING, William, a Representative from Massachusetts;Tenth Congress; elected as a Federalist from Massachusetts born in Concord, Mass., on March 3, 1813; attended Concordto the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); Academy and was graduated from Harvard University inmember of the executive council in 1815 and 1816; elected to 1833; taught school in Plymouth and Concord, Mass.;wasthe Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817- graduated from the law department of Harvard UniversityMarch 3, 1821); delegate to the convention in 1819 that in 1838; was admitted to the bar the same year andcom-framed the first State constitution of Maine; elected to the menced practice in Boston; solicitor of the War Department Seventeenth Congress from Maine and served from March 4, 1862-1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-1821, to June 1, 1822, when he resigned; judge of the court of gress and served from March 4, 1873, until death in Boston,common pleas of Maine 1822-1841; unsuccessful candidate Mass., June 29, 1873; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,for election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; served as Concord, Mass. chief justice of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court Bibliography: DAB. 1841-1848; retired in 1852 and returned to East Bridgewater, WHITING, William, a Representative from Massachusetts; Mass., where he died on August 1, 1866. born in Dudley, Worcester County, Mass., May 24, 1841; Bibliography: DAB. attended the public schools; was graduated from Amherst WHITMAN, Lemuel, a Representative from Connecticut; College, Amherst, Mass.; engaged in the manufacture ofborn in Farmington, Conn., June 8, 1780; completed prepara- paper in Holyoke, Mass., in 1865; member of the Statetory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1800; senate in 1873; city treasurer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877;taught in a seminary in Bermuda in 1801; studied law and mayor of Holyoke in 1878 and 1879; delegate to the Republi-was graduated from the Litchfield Law School; was admitted can National Convention in 1876 and 1896; elected as ato the bar and commenced practice in Farmington; appoint- Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftiethed judge of the superior court in 1818; associate judge of the Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candi-Hartford County Court 1819-1821, and chief judge 1821- date for renomination in 1888; commissioner to the World's 1823; one of a committee of three to prepare a revision of the Biographies 2045 statutes of the State in 1821; member of the State senate insecond election to the same Congress on June 18, 1870, but 1822; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-the House declined to allow him to take his seat; again a March 3, 1825); resumed the practice of law; again a membermember of the State senate in 1877; resigned from the State of the State house of representatives in 1831 and 1832; diedsenate and returned to Massachusetts, settling in Woburn; in Farmington, Conn., on November 13, 1841. became a publisher; died in Montvale, Mass., on January 25, 1894; interment in the Salem Street Cemetery, Woburn, WHITMORE, Elias, a Representative from New York; born in Pembroke, N.H., March 2, 1772; completed prepara-Mass. tory studies; moved to New York and settled in Windsor; WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd, a Representative from Mississip- engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected to the Nineteenthpi; born in Cascilla, Tallahatchie County, Miss., April 18, Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed his former 1910; attended the public schools and the literary and law business pursuits in Windsor, N.Y., until his death in thatdepartments of the University of Mississippi at Oxford; was city December 26, 1853; interment in the Village Cemetery.admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice at WHITMORE, George Washington, a Representative fromCharleston, Miss.; principal of the Cowart School in Talla- Texas; born in McMinn County, Tenn., on August 26, 1824;hatchie County, Miss., in 1930 and 1931; member of the attended the public schools; moved to Texas in 1848; studiedState house of representatives in 1931 and 1932; elected law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Tyler, Smithdistrict attorney of the seventeenth district of Mississippi, County, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives1933-1941; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh in 1852, 1853, and 1858; district attorney for the ninth judi- Congress by special election, November 4, 1941, to fill the cial district in 1866; appointed register in bankruptcy invacancy caused by the resignation of ; reelected 1867; upon the readmission of Texas to representation wasto the twenty-three succeeding Congresses and served from elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress andNovember 4, 1941, to January 3, 1989; cochairman, Joint served from March 30, 1870, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessfulCommittee on Budget Control (Ninety-second and Ninety- candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Con-third Congresses); chairman, Committee on Appropriations gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Tyler, Tex., Octo-(Ninety-sixth through One Hundredth Congresses); is a resi- ber 14, 1876; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. dent of Charleston, Miss. WHITNEY, Thomas Richard, a Representative from New WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran, a Representative York; born in New York City May 2, 1807; pursued classicaland a Senator from Tennessee; born near Farmington, Mar- studies and engaged in newspaper work; member of theshall County, Tenn., April 19, 1825; attended the common State assembly in 1854 and 1855; elected as the candidate ofschools, an academy in Arrington, Williamson County, and the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4,Campbell Academy, Lebanon, Tenn.; graduated from the 1855-March 3, 1857); died in New York City April 12, 1858;University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1843; studied law interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. and was admitted to the bar in 1845 at Columbia, Maury WHITTAKER, Robert Russell, a Representative fromCounty, Tenn.; served as auditor's clerk and in other local Kansas; born in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kans., Septem-government positions until 1848, when he commenced the ber 18, 1939; attended the Greenwood County public schools;practice of law in Columbia, Tenn.; member, State senate attended Kansas University, 1957-1959; Emporia State Col-1855-1858; member, State house of representatives, and lege, summer, 1959; O.D., Illinois College of Optometry, 1962;speaker in 1859; presidential elector on the Breckinridge and optometrist; clinic director, Kansas Low Vision Clinic, 1973;Lane ticket in 1860; during the Civil War served as assistant Kansas house of representatives, 1974-1977; precinct com-adjutant general in the provisional army of Tennessee in mitteeman and city planning commission, 1970-1974; elected 1861 and in the Confederate service as adjutant general of as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeed-the State 1861-1865; his political disabilities were removed ing Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resi-by act of Congress in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the dent of Augusta, Kans. Forty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs WHITTEMORE, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative(Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Congresses); appointed and from South Carolina; born in Malden, Middlesex County,subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Mass., May 18, 1824; attended the public schools of Worces-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of ter, and received an academic education at Amherst; en-Howell E. Jackson and served from April 16, 1886, to March gaged in mercantile pursuits until 1859; studied theology3, 1887; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of(March 4, 1887-March 3,1891); died in Columbia, Tenn., the New England Conference in 1859; during the Civil WarSeptember 21, 1891; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. served as chaplain of the Fifty-third Regiment, Massachu- setts Volunteers, and later with the Thirtieth Regiment, WHITTINGTON, William Madison, a Representative from Veteran Volunteers; after the war settled in Darlington,Mississippi; born in Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss., S.C.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867;May 4, 1878; attended the public schools of Franklin County; elected president of the Republican State executive board inwas graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton in1898 1867; founded the New Era in Darlington; member of theand from the law department of the University of Mississip- State senate in 1868; delegate to the Republican Nationalpi at Oxford in 1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and Convention in 1868; upon the readmission of South Carolinacommenced practice in Roxie, Franklin County, Miss., Janu- to representation was elected as a Republican to the Forti- ary 1, 1901; in January 1904 moved to Greenwood, Miss., eth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 18,where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in 1868, to February 24, 1870, when he resigned, pending theagricultural pursuits; member of the city council, Green- investigation of his conduct in connection with certain ap-wood, Miss., from January 1,1907, to January 1,1911; pointments to the United States Military and Naval Acade-member of the State senate from January 1, 1916, to Janu- mies; censured by the House of Representatives on Februaryary 1, 1920; reelected in 1923 for a four-year term and served 24, 1870, following his resignation; presented credentials of afrom January 1 to August 16, 1924, when he resigned to 2046 Biographical Directory

accept the Democratic nomination for Representative indeath of Zalmon Wildman; reelected as a Democrat to the Congress; delegate to the Democratic National ConventionsTwenty-fifth Congress and served from April 29, 1836, to in 1920, 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1948; elected as a Democrat toMarch 3, 1839; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congressesto the Twenty-sixth Congress; moved to Pheasant Branch, (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1951); chairman, Committee onnear Madison, Wis., in 1846; resumed the practice of law and Flood Control (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Con-also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State gresses), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-first Congress);senate in 1853 and 1854; died at Pheasant Branch, Dane was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; resumed the County, Wis., August 20, 1868; interment in Forest Hill Cem- practice of law; was a resident of Greenwood, Miss., until hisetery, Madison, Wis. death August 20, 1962; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. WHITTLESEY, William Augustus (nephew of Elisha WHITTLESEY, Elisha (uncle of William Augustus Whitt-Whittlesey), a Representative from Ohio; born in Danbury, lesey and cousin of F'rederick Whittlesey and ThomasConn., July 14, 1796; attended the common schools and was Tucker Whittlesey), a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington, Conn., October 19, 1783; in early youth movedgraduated from Yale College in 1816; taught school; moved with his parents to Salisbury, Conn.; attended the commonto Canfield, Ohio, in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the schools at Danbury; studied law in Danbury; was admittedbar in 1821 and commenced practice in Canfield; moved to to the bar of Fairfield County and practiced in Danbury and Marietta, Ohio, in 1821; auditor of Washington County 1825- Fairfield County; also practiced in New Milford, Conn., in1837; member of the State house of representatives in 1839 1805; moved to Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1806;and 1840; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress practiced law and taught school; prosecuting attorney of(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); did not seek renomination in Mahoning County; served as military and private secretary1850; resumed the practice of law; mayor of Marietta in to Gen. William Henry Harrison and as brigade major in the1856, 1860, and 1862; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he had Army of the Northwest in the War of 1812; member of thegone for medical treatment, on November 6, 1866; interment State house of representatives in 1820 and 1821; elected toin Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio. the Eighteenth through Twenty-second Congresses, elected WHYTE, William Pinkney, a Senator from Maryland; as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress, born in Baltimore, Md., August 9, 1824; was instructed by a and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifthprivate teacher and attended ; engaged in Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, to July 9, 1838,banking in Baltimore 1842-1844; studied law in Baltimore when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-and attended the law school of Harvard University in 1844 first through Twenty-fifth Congresses); Sixth Auditor of theand 1845; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and practiced in Treasury from March 18, 1841, until December 18, 1843,Baltimore; member, State house of delegates 1847-1848; un- when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in Can-successful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second field; appointed general agent of the Washington MonumentCongress; comptroller of the treasury of Maryland 1853- Association in 1847; appointed by President Taylor as First1855; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate Comptroller of the Treasury and served from May 31, 1849,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Reverdy to March 26, 1857, when he was removed by President Bu-Johnson and served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1869; chanan; was reappointed by President Lincoln April 10,was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; Governor of 1861, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., Janu- ary 7, 1863; interment in the Canfield Village Cemetery,Maryland 1872-1874, when he resigned having been elected Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio. Senator; counsel for Maryland before the arbitration board Bibliography: Davison, Kenneth E. "Forgotten Ohioan: Elisha Whittle- in the boundary dispute between Virginia and Maryland in sey, 1783-1863." Ph.D. dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1953. 1874; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; unsuccessful WHITTLESEY, Frederick (cousin of Elisha Whittleseycandidate for reelection in 1880; chairman, Committee on and Thomas Tucker Whittlesey), a Representative from NewPrinting (Forty-sixth Congress); mayor of Baltimore 1881- York; born in New Preston, Conn., June 12, 1799; pursued1882; attorney general of Maryland 1887-1891; Baltimore academic studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1818;city solicitor 1900-1903; appointed and subsequently elected studied law; was admitted to the bar in Utica, N.Y., in 1821to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the and commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y., early indeath of and served from June 8, 1906, 1822; later in the year moved to Rochester, N.Y.; treasureruntil his death in Baltimore, Md., March 17, 1908; interment of Monroe County in 1829 and 1830; elected as an Anti-in Greenmount Cemetery. Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 60th Cong., 2nd Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); chairman, Com- sess., 1908-1909. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909. mittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Twenty- third Congress); resumed the practice of law; city attorney of WICK, William Watson, a Representative from Indiana; Rochester in 1838; vice chancellor of the eighth judicial dis- born in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa., February 23, trict of New York 1839-1847; justice of the State supreme1796; moved with his parents to Western Reserve in 1800; court in 1847 and 1848; professor of law at Genesee Collegecompleted preparatory studies; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in in 1850 and 1851; died in Rochester, N.Y., September 19,1816; taught school; studied medicine until 1818 and then 1851; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. law; was admitted to the bar in Franklin, Johnson County, md., in 1819 and commenced practice in Connersville, Fay- WHITTLESEY, Thomas Tucker (cousin of Elisha Whittle-ette County, md., in 1820; clerk of the State house of repre- sey and Frederick Whittlesey), a Representative from Con-sentatives 1820; assistant clerk of the State senate 1821; necticut; born in Danbury, Conn., December 8, 1798; attend-president judge of the fifth judicial State circuit 1822-1825; ed the public schools and was graduated from Yale Collegesecretary of state 1825-1829; prosecuting attorney of the in 1817; attended Litchfield Law School; was admitted to thefifth judicial circuit 1829-1831; again president judge 1834- bar in 1818 and commenced practice in Danbury, Conn.;1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress served as probate judge; elected as a Jacksonian to the(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thereelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; resumed Biographies 2047 the practice of law in Indianapolis; elected to the Twenty- WICKES, Eliphalet, a Representative from New York; ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3,born in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., April 1, 1769; during 1849); was not a candidate for renomination; president judgethe Revolution was employed as an express rider; studied for a third time, serving from 1850 to 1853; postmaster oflaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Indianapolis, md., from April 9, 1853, to April 6, 1857; adju- Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y.; elected as a Republican to the tant general in the State militia; moved to Franklin, md., inNinth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); appointed 1857, where he continued the practice of law, and died thereJuly 1, 1797, the first postmaster of Jamaica, Long Island, May 19, 1868; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. N.Y., and served until April 1, 1806; reappointed January 1, 1807, and served until April 27, 1835; district attorney of WICKERSHAM, James, a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska; born in Patoka, Marion County, Ill., August 24,Queens County 1818-1821; master in chancery; died in Troy, 1857; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit-N.Y., on June 7, 1850; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. ted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Spring- WICKHAM, Charles Preston, a Representative from Ohio; field, Sangamon County,Ill.;served in the Governor'sborn in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, September 15, 1836; guards, Springfield Militia; moved to Washington Territoryattended the public schools and the Norwalk Academy; in 1883; probate judge of Pierce County, Wash., 1884-1888;learned the printer's trade; was graduated from the Cincin- city attorney of Tacoma, Wash., in 1894; member of thenati Law School; admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced State house of representatives in 1898; moved to Eagle,in Norwalk, Ohio; enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifty- Alaska, when appointed United States district judge for thefifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, in September 1861 and was Territory of Alaska in 1900; moved to Nome in 1901, tomustered out of the service July 11, 1865; was commissioned Valdez in 1902, and to Fairbanks in 1903; served as districtlieutenant colonel by brevet; resumed the practice of law in judge until January 1908, when he resigned to run for Con-Norwalk in 1865; prosecuting attorney 1866-1870; elected gress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to thejudge of the court of common pleas of the fourth judicial three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1917);district in 1880 and 1885; resigned in 1886; elected as a successfully contested the election of Charles A. Sulzer toRepublican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from January 7 to March4, 1887-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Coinage, 3, 1919; successfully contested the election of Charles A.Weights, and Measures (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful Suizer to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served from March 1,candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law; to March 3, 1921, succeeding George B. Grigsby, who had qualified on credentials of a special election held to fill thedied in Norwalk, Ohio, March 18, 1925; interment in Wood- vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Suizer, which occurredlawn Cemetery. while the contest was pending; was not a candidate for WICKLIFFE, Charles Anderson (grandfather of Robert renomination in 1920; moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1921 andCharles Wickliffe and John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham), a resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-secondRepresentative from Kentucky; born near Springfield, Wash- Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candi-ington County, Ky., June 8, 1788; completed preparatory date for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and continued the practice of law in Juneau, Alaska; writer oncommenced practice in Bardstown; served in the War of ethnological and historical subjects; editor of Alaska Terri- 1812; was aide to General Winlock; member of the State tory Law Reports, and of Old Yukon and Alaskan literature;house of representatives in 1812 and 1813; again entered the died in Juneau, Alaska, October 24, 1939; remains were cre- Army as aide to General Caldwell; again a member of the mated and the ashes deposited in Old Tacoma Cemetery,State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1833-1835, Tacoma, Wash. and served as speaker in 1834; elected to the Eighteenth Bibliography:Atwood,Evangeline.FrontierPolitics: Alaska's James Congress; reelected to the Nineteenth Congress and reelect- Wickersham. Portland, Ore.: Binford and Mort, 1979. ed as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth through Twenty-second WICKERSHAM, Victor Eugene, a Representative fromCongresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1833); chairman, Com- Oklahoma; born on a farm near Lone Rock, Baxter County,mittee on Public Lands (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Ark., February 9, 1906; moved to Mangum, Greer County,Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination; one of Okla., with his parents in 1915; educated in the publicthe managers appointed by the House of Representatives in schools of Oklahoma; employed in the office of the county1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James clerk of Greer County, Okla., 1924-1926; court clerk of GreerH. Peck, United States judge for the district of Missouri; County 1926-1935; served as chief clerk of the board of af-Lieutenant Governor in 1836; became Governor upon the fairs of the State of Oklahoma in 1935 and 1936; engaged asdeath of Governor Clark and served from October 5, 1839, to a building contractor in Oklahoma City in 1937 and 1938September 1840; Postmaster General from October 13, 1841, and in the life insurance business 1938-1941; elected as ato March 6, 1845; sent on a secret mission by President Polk Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacan-to the Republic of Texas in 1845; member of the State consti- cy caused by the death of Sam C. Massingale; reelected totutional convention in 1849; member of the peace conference the Seventy-eight and Seventy-ninth Congresses and servedheld at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise from April 1, 1941, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candi-means to prevent the impending war; elected as a Unionist date for renomination in 1946; elected to the Eighty-first andto the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-Janu-1863); did not seek renomination; unsuccessful candidate for ary 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1956Governor in 1863; delegate to the Democratic National Con- and for the Democratic nomination in 1958; elected to thevention in 1864; died near Ilchester, Md., October 31, 1869; Eighty-seventh and to the Eighty-eighth Congresses (Janu-interment in Bardstown Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky. ary 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for re- Bibliography: DAB. nomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; real estate, insurance, and investment broker; member, Oklahoma State WICKLIFFE, Robert Charles (grandson of Charles Ander- legislature, January 3, 1971-January 3, 1979, and again fromson Wickliffe and cousin of John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham), February 9, 1988, until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla.,a Representative from Louisiana; born in Bardstown, Ky., on March 15, 1988; was a resident of Mangum, Okla. May 1, 1874, while his parents were on a visit to relatives in 2048 Biographical Directory that State; attended the public schools of St. Francisville,Minn., until May 1962, when he moved to Edmonds, Wash.; La.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., indied in Seattle, Wash., June 27, 1963; remains were cremat- 1895 and from the law department of Tulane University,ed and the ashes deposited in the columbarium of Evergreen New Orleans, La., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898Washelli Cemetery. and commenced practice in St. Francisville, La.; member of the State constitutional convention in 1898; enlisted as a WIGFALL, Louis Tresvant, a Senator from Texas; was private in Company E, First Regiment, Louisiana Volunteerborn near Edgefield, Edgefield District, S.C., April 21, 1816; Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; was musteredpursued classical studies; attended the University of Virgin- out of the service in October 1898; returned to West Feli- ia and graduated from South Carolina College (now the Uni- ciana Parish; district attorney of the twenty-fourth judicialversity of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1837; served as a district of Louisiana 1902-1906; elected as a Democrat to thelieutenant of Volunteers in the Seminole War in Florida in Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and served from1835; attended the law department of the University of Vir- March 4, 1909, until June 11, 1912, when he was killed whileginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and crossing a railroad bridge in Washington, D.C.; interment incommenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; moved to Marshall, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. Tex., in 1848; member, State house of representatives 1849- 1850; member, State senate 1857-1860; elected as a Demo- WIDGERY, William, a Representative from Massachu-crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused setts; probably born in Devonshire, England, about 1753;by the death of J. Pinckney Henderson and served from immigrated to America with his parents, who settled inDecember 5, 1859, until March 23, 1861, when he withdrew; Philadelphia; attended the common schools; engaged in ship-expelled from the Senate in 1861 for support of the rebellion; building; served in the Revolutionary War as a lieutenantonserved in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; repre- a privateer; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-sented the State of Texas in the Confederate Congress; after menced practice in Portland, Maine (until 1820 a district ofthe war moved to London, England; returned to the United Massachusetts), about 1790; member of the MassachusettsStates in 1873 and settled in Baltimore, Md.; died in Galves- house of representatives 1787-1793 and 1795-1797; delegateton, Tex., February 18, 1874; interment in the Episcopal to the State constitutional convention in 1788; served in theCemetery. State senate in 1794; member of the executive council in Bibliography: DAB; King, Alvy. Louis T.Wigfall: Southern Fire-Eater. 1806 and 1807; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Con- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,1970; Ledbetter,Billy. gress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); unsuccessful for reelec- "The Election of Louis T. Wigfall to the United States Senate, 1859: A tion in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; judge of the court ofReevaluation." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 77 (October 1973): 241-54. common pleas 1813-1821; died in Portland, Maine, July 31, 1822; interment in the Eastern Cemetery. WIGGINS, Charles Edward, a Representative from Cali- fornia; born in El Monte, Los Angeles County, Calif., Decem- WIDNALL, William Beck, a Representative from Newber 3, 1927; attended the public schools in El Monte, Calif.; Jersey; born in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., March 17,served for four and one-half years in the United States 1906; attended the public schools; Brown University, Provi-Army, Infantry, with thirty-two months overseas during the dence, R.I., Ph.B., 1926 and from the New Jersey Law SchoolSecond World War and Korea; graduate of the Univeristy of (now part of Rutgers University), LL.B., 1931; was admittedSouthern California with a degree in business administra- to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice of law intion and finance in 1953; graduate of the University of Hackensack, N.J.; member of the State house of assemblySouthern California School of Law in 1956; admitted to the 1946-1950; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968;bar and commenced practice in El Monte, Calif., in 1957; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first Congress, by spe-former member and chairman of the El Monte Planning cial election, February 6, 1950, to fill the vacancy caused byCommission, 1954-1960; former councilman and mayor of El the resignation of J. Parnell Thomas; reelected to the twelveMonte, Calif., 1960-1966; member of the California State succeeding Congresses and served from February 6, 1950,Republican Central committee and elected to the Los Ange- until his resignation December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candi- les County Republican Central committee; elected as a Re- date for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;publican to the Ninetieth and to the five succeeding Con- chairperson of the National Commission on Electronic Fundgesses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1979); was not a candi- Transfers from November 1975 to 1981; was a resident ofdate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; Ridgewood, N.J., until his death there December 28, 1983;appointed judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Cir- interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.cuit, October 11, 1984; is a resident of Reno, Nev. WIER, Roy William, a Representative from Minnesota; WIGGINTON, Peter Dinwiddie, a Representative from born in Redfield, Spink County, S.Dak., February 25, 1888;California; born in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., Sep- moved with his parents in 1896 to Minneapolis, Hennepintember 6, 1839; moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1843; County, Minn.; attended the public schools and North Highcompleted preparatory studies and attended the University School; learned the telephone and electrical trade, laterof Wisconsin at Madison; studied law; was admitted to the going into theatrical stage-lighting work; during the Firstbar in 1859 and practiced; editor of the Dodgeville (Wis.) World War served in the United States Army for eighteenAdvocate; moved to Snelling, Merced County, Calif., in 1862, months, with overseas service; in 1920 became active in theand continued the practice of law; district attorney of trade-union movement in Minneapolis and had been official-Merced County 1864-1868; elected as a Democrat to the ly a representative of the Trades and Labor Assembly ofForty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); suc- Minneapolis; member of the State house of representativescessfully contested the election of Romualdo Pacheco to the 1933-1939; member of the Minneapolis Board of EducationForty-ninth Congress and served from February 7, 1878, to 1939-1948 and the board of directors of Hennepin CountyMarch 3, 1879; settled in San Francisco in 1880 and resumed Red Cross; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and tothe practice of law; nominated by the American Party as the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, candidate for Vice President in 1888 in place of James R. 1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to theGeer; died in Oakland, Calif., July 7,1890; interment in Eighty-seventh Congress; was a resident of Minneapolis,Mountain View Cemetery. 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WIGGLESWORTH, Richard Bowditch, a Representativegraduated from Cazenovia (N.Y.) Seminary in 1879; engaged from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., April 25, 1891;in the hop business at Milford in 1879 and at Oneonta, N.Y., was graduated from Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., in 1908,in 1880; also interested in the real estate business, agricul- from Harvard University in 1912, and from the law depart- tural pursuits, and stock -breeding; twice represented On- ment of the same university in 1916; assistant private secre-eonta on the board of supervisors; vice president and direc- tary to the Governor General of the Philippine Islands intor on the Wilber National Bank of Oneonta 1883-1896; 1913; admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice intrustee of the Cazenovia Seminary; elected as a Republican Boston, Mass.; during the First World War served overseasto the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895- as captain, Battery E, and as commanding officer, First Bat-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in talion, Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, Seventy-1898; served as United States consul to Barbados 1903-1905; sixth Division, 1917-1919; legal adviser to the Assistant Sec-served as consul general to Singapore 1905-1907, Halifax retary of the Treasury in charge of foreign loans and rail-1907-1909, Kobe 1909-1910, Vancouver 1910-1913, Zurich way payments, and secretary of the World War Debt Com-1913-1915, Genoa 1915-1921, and Auckland and Wellington mission 1922-1924; assistant to the agent general for repara-1922-1923; retired in June 1923 and returned to Oneonta, tion payments, Berlin, Germany, 1924-1927; general counselN.Y., to care for his business interests; member of the Re- and Paris representative for organizations created under the-publican State committee 1924-1927; died at his summer Dawes plan in 1927 and 1928; elected as a Republican to thecamp at Upper Dam, Oxford County, Maine, August14, Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death1928; interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta, N.Y. of Louis A. Frothingham; reelected to the Seventy-first and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from No- WILBOUR, Isaac, a Representative from Rhode Island; vember 6, 1928, until his resignation November 13, 1958; wasborn in Little Compton, R.I., April 25, 1763; completed pre- not a candidate for renomination in 1958; United Statesparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Ambassador to Canada from January 28, 1959, until his1793 and practiced; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; death in Boston, Mass., October 22, 1960; interment in Ar-held various local offices from 1793 to 1800; member of the lington National Cemetery. State house of representatives in 1805 and 1806 and served as speaker the last year; Lieutenant Governor in1806 and WIKE, Scott, a Representative from Illinois; born in1807 and Acting Governor in 1806; elected as a Republican Meadville, Pa., April 6, 1834; moved with his parents toto the Tenth Congress (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1809); unsuc- Quincy, Ill., in 1838 and to Pike County in 1844; was grad- cessful candidate for reelection in 1808 to the Eleventh Con- uated from Lombard University, in Galesburg, in 1857; stud- in ied law; admitted to the bar in 1858; was graduated fromgress and for election in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; Harvard Law School in 1859 and commenced practice the1807 received a commission from Governor Fenner, appoint- same year in Pittsfield, Pike County, Ill.; member of theing him as his successor to the United States Senate for the State house of representatives 1863-1867; elected as a Demo-remainder of the term ending March 3, 1811, which he de- crat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3,clined; again Lieutenant Governor in 1810 and 1811; associ- 1877); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876 toate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island in 1818 and the Forty-fifth Congress; elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-chief justice from 1819 to 1827, when he resigned; died in second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccess-Little Compton, R.I., on October 4, 1837; interment in the ful candidate for renomination in 1892; appointed an Assist-Seaconnet Cemetery. ant Secretary of the Treasury during the second administra- WILCOX, James Mark, a Representative from Florida; tion of President Cleveland and served from July 1, 1893, toborn in Willacoochee, Atkinson County, Ga., May 21, 1890; May 4, 1897; resumed the practice of law in Pittsfield, Ill.;attended the public schools and Emory College, Atlanta, Ga.; died near Barry, Pike County, Iii., January 15, 1901. was graduated from the law departmentof Mercer Universi- WILBER, David (father of David Forrest Wilber), a Repre-ty, Macon, Ga., in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same sentative from New York; born near Quaker Street, Sche-year and commenced practice in Hazelhurst, Ga.;solicitor of nectady County, N.Y., October 5, 1820; moved with his par-Jeff Davis County, Ga., 1911-1918; moved to Brunswick, Ga., ents to Milford, Otsego County, N.Y.; attended the commonin 1919 and to West Palm Beach, Fla., in 1925, continuing schools; engaged in the lumbering trade, hop business, andthe practice of law; city attorney of West Palm Beach 1928- agricultural pursuits; member of the board of supervisors of1933; a member of the taxation committee of President Hoo- Otsego County in 1858, 1859, 1862, 1865, and 1866; director ofver's Conference on Home Ownership in 1931; elected as a the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad; director of the SecondDemocrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy- National Bank of Cooperstown, N.Y.; president of the Wilberfifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); was not a National Bank of Oneonta 1874-1890; elected as a Republi-candidate for renomination in 1938, but was an unsuccessful can to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3,candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; electedSenator; resumed the practice of law in Miami, Fla.; attor- to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881);ney general for the Dade County Port Authorityfrom 1945 was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; delegate tountil his death at his farm near White Springs, Fla., Febru- the Republican National Conventions in 1880 and 1888;ary 3, 1956; interment in Woodlawn Park Cemetery,Miami, moved to Oneonta, N.Y., in 1886; again elected as a Republi- Fla. can to the Fiftieth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-first Con- WILCOX, Jeduthun (father of Leonard Wilcox), a Repre- gress, but owing to ill health took the oath of office at hissentative from New Hampshire; born in Middletown, Conn., home and never attended a session; served from March 4,November 18, 1768; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887, until his death in Oneonta, Otsego County, N.Y., April1802 and commenced practice in Orford, N.H.; member of 1, 1890; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. the State house of representatives 1809-1811; elected as a WILBER, David Forrest (son of David Wilber), a Repre-Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses sentative from New York; born in Milford, Otsego County,(March 4, 1813-March 3,1817); died in Orford, Grafton N.Y., December 7, 1859; attended the public schools; wasCounty, N.H., July 18, 1838; interment in Orford Cemetery. 2050 Biographical Directory

WILCOX, John A., a Representative from Mississippi;tion in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress; subsequently elected born in Greene County, N.C., April 18, 1819; moved to Ten-to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the nessee; attended the common schools; moved to Mississippiresignation of John Forsyth; reelected to the Twenty-first, and settled in Aberdeen; secretary of the State senate;Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses and served served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, adjutant, andfrom November 17, 1827, to March 3, 1835; unsuccessful lieutenant colonel; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-secondcandidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Con- Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candi- gress; engaged in literary pursuits while traveling in Europe date for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress;1835-1840; moved to New Orleans in 1843 and continued the moved to Texas in 1853; member of the Confederate Con-practice of law; professor of constitutional law in the Univer- gress; died in Richmond, Va., February 7, 1864; interment insity of Louisiana at New Orleans; died in New Orleans, La., Hollywood Cemetery. September 10, 1847; interment in a vault in a cemetery in WILCOX, Leonard (son of Jeduthun Wilcox),a SenatorNew Orleans; reinterred at Sand Hill family burying ground from New Hampshire; born in Hanover, N.H., January 29,near Augusta, Ga., in 1854 and again in 1886 in the City 1799; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., inCemetery, Augusta, Ga. 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1820 and Bibliography: DAB; Tucker, EL. Richard Henry Wilde; His Life and Se- commenced practiceinOrford, Grafton County, N.H.; lected Poems. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1966. member, State house of representatives 1828-1834; judge of WILDER, Abel Carter, a Representative from Kansas; the superior court 1838-1840; bank commissioner 1838-1842;born in Mendon, Worcester County, Mass., March 18, 1828; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fillcompleted preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile pur- the vacancy caused by the resignation of Franklin Pierce;suits; moved to Rochester, N.Y., and continued mercantile subsequently elected and served from March 1,1842, topursuits; moved to Leavenworth, Kans., in 1857 and again March 3, 1843; resumed the practice of law; judge of theengaged in mercantile pursuits; delegate to the Osawatomie court of common pleas of New Hampshire 1847-1848; againconvention in 1859; delegate to the Republican National appointed judge of the superior court in 1848, and servedConvention in 1860 and elected its chairman; served as a until his death in Orford, N.H., June 18, 1850; interment incaptain in the Kansas brigade for one year in the Civil War; the West Congregational Churchyard. elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress WILCOX, Robert William, a Delegate from the Territory(March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); delegate to the Republican of Hawaii; born in Kahalu, Honuaula, island of Maui, Ha-National Conventions in 1864, 1868, and 1872; returned to waiian Islands, February 15, 1855; attended the HaleakalaRochester, N.Y., in 1865 and published the Morning and Boarding School, Makawao, island of Maui; taught school atEvening Express until 1868, when he retired from active Honuaula for several years; elected to the legislatureas abusiness pursuits; elected mayor of Rochester in 1872, but representative from Wailukua, island of Maui, in 1880; laterresigned in 1873; died in San Francisco, Calif., December 22, pursued an academic course in the Royal Military Academy, 1875, while there for his health; interment in Mount Hope Turin, Italy, 1881-1885 and became a sublieutenant of artil-Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. lery; entered the Royal Application School for Engineer and WILDER, William Henry, a Representative from Massa- Artillery Officers in Turin in 1885; recalled by the Hawaiianchusetts; born in Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, May 14, Government in 1887; moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 18871855; moved with his parents to Massachusetts in 1866; at- and engaged in the surveying business; returned to Hawaiitended the common schools; engaged in the mercantile and in 1889 and became leader of the revolution of 1889; tried formanufacturing business at Gardner, Mass.; president of the treason but acquitted by a Hawaiian jury; elected to theWilder Industries (Inc.); studied law; admitted to the bar in legislature as a representative from Honolulu in 1890 and1900; was admitted to practice before the United States Su- from Koolauloa, island of Oahu, in 1892; againa revolution-preme Court in 1909; studied the monetary systems in ary leader in 1895 in an effort to restore Liliuokalani to theEurope in 1909 and wrote many articles and pamphlets on throne; was court-martialed and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to thirty-five years; pardoned bymonetary questions; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- President Dole in 1898; elected the first Delegate fromsecond and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, Hawaii to the Fifty-sixth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-1911, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 11, seventh Congress and served from November 6, 1900, to1913; interment in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Gardner, Worces- March 3, 1903; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902ter County, Mass. to the Fifty-eighth Congress; died in Honolulu, Hawaii, Octo- WILDMAN, Zalmon, a Representative from Connecticut; ber 23, 1903; interment in the Catholic Cemetery. born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., February 16, 1775; WILDE, Richard Henry, a Representative from Georgia;completed preparatory studies; manufacturer of hats; estab- lished the first hat stores in Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, born in Dublin, Ireland, September 24, 1789; immigratedto the United States in 1797 with his parents, who settled inGa., in 1802; first president of Danbury National Bank 1824- Baltimore, Md.; received a limited schooling; moved to Au-1826; member of the State house of representatives in 1818 gusta, Ga., in 1802; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studiedand 1819; appointed postmaster of Danbury, Conn., and law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commencedprac-served from April 9, 1805, to May 26, 1835; elected as a tice in Augusta; solicitor general of the superior court ofJacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1835, until his death in Washington, D.C., Decem- Richmond County and by virtue of this office attorneygener- al of Georgia 1811-1813; elected as a Republican to the Four-ber 10,1835; interment in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); unsuccessfulConn. candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; WILDRICK, Isaac, a Representative from New Jersey; elected to the Eighteenth Congress to fill thevacancy causedborn in Marksboro, Warren County, N.J., March 3, 1803; by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb and served fromattended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pur- February 7 to March 3, 1825; unsuccessful candidate forsuits near Blairstown, Warren County, N.J.; constable from reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for elec-1827 to 1832; coroner 1829-1831; justice of the peace 1834- Biographies 2051

1839; judge in 1839; sheriff 1839-1841; director of the countyto the United States in 1850 with his parents, who settled in poorhouse 1842-1848; member freeholder 1845-1848; electedErie County, N.Y.; attended the common schools; engaged in as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-mercantile pursuits and the real estate business in Colden, gresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidateN.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1871 and 1872; dele- for renomination in 1852; resumed agricultural pursuits;gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884, 1888, again a freeholder 1856-1859; member of the State assemblyand 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress 1882-1885; died in Blairstown, N.J., March 22, 1892; inter-(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); declined to be a candidate for ment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Marksboro, N.J. renomination in 1890; appointed on April 24, 1893, by Presi- WILEY, Alexander, a Senator from Wisconsin; born indent Cleveland, consul at Bordeaux, France, and served Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wis., May 26, 1884; at- until July 31, 1897; resided in Jacksonville, Fla., during the tended the public schools, Augsburg College, Minneapolis,winter and in Colden, N.Y., during the summer months; died Minn., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; grad-in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, August 13, 1912; inter- uated from the law department of the University of Wiscon- ment in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, md. sin at Madison in 1907; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Chippewa Falls, Wis.; dis- WILEY, Oliver Cicero (brother of Ariosto Appling Wiley), trict attorney of Chippewa County 1909-1915; unsuccessfula Representative from Alabama; born in Troy, PikeCounty, Republican candidate for governor in 1936; engaged in agri-Ala., January 30,1851; attended the common schools; cultural pursuits and banking; elected as a Republican tomember of the town council for five years; chairman of the the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944, 1950,Democratic executive committee of Pike County 1884-1886; and again in 1956, and served from January 3, 1939, tomember of the Democratic State executive committee in January 3, 1963; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1888; was president of the Alabama Midland Railway during 1962; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eightieth Con-its construction, from 1887 to 1892; president of the board of gress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Eighty-third Con-directors of the State normal college at Troy, Ala.; director gress), resided in Washington, D.C., until a few days beforeof the Farmers & Merchants' National Bank at Troy; vice his death, May 26, 1967, at High Oaks Christian Sciencepresident and general manager of the Standard Chemical & Church Sanitarium in Germantown, Pa.; interment inOil Co. at Troy; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Con- Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Wis. gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofhis brother, Bibliography: Wiley, Alexander. Laughing With Congress. New York: Ariosto Appling Wiley, and served from November 3, 1908, Crown Publishers, 1947. to March 3, 1909; died in Troy; Ala., October 18, 1917; inter- WILEY, Ariosto Appling (brother of Oliver Cicero Wiley),ment in Oakwood Cemetery. a Representative from Alabama; born in Clayton, Barbour WILEY, William Haisted, a Representative from New County, Ala., November 6, 1848; moved with his parents toJersey; born in New York City July 10, 1842; attended pri- Troy, Pike County, Ala.; attended the common schools andvate schools; was graduated from the College of the City of was graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1870; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 andNew York in 1861; entered the Union Army in 1860 as a commenced practice in Clayton, Ala.; moved to Montgomery,member of the Seventh New York Volunteers; was promoted Ala., the same year and continued the practice of law; wasto first lieutenant of Volunteers in 1862 and mustered out captain of a Cavalry troop of the Alabama National Guardwith the rank of brevet major in 1864 by the consolidation of and later a lieutenant colonel commanding the Second Regi-his regiment; was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytech- ment of Infantry of the Alabama National Guard; membernic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1866; attended the Columbia of the State house of representatives in 1884, 1885, 1888, College School of Mines in 1868; engaged in civil engineering 1889, 1896, and 1897; served in the State senate 1890-1893, and also as a superintendent of a mine for several years; 1898, and 1899; appointed by President McKinley on June 9,member of the township committee of East Orange, N.J., 1898, lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Regiment, United States1886-1888, and president one year; in 1897 was president of Volunteer Infantry, and served during the Spanish-Ameri- one of the juries at the International Exposition inBrussels can War; legal adviser and chief of staff to Gen. Henry W.and a member of the superior jury; appointed by the Gover- Lawton in Santiago, Cuba, and assisted Gen. Leonard Woodnor of New Jersey a member of the commission for the in the establishment of civil government in the easternLouisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904; Province; delegate to the Democratic National Convention inelected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to theCongresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); was an unsuccess- three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1901,ful candidate for renomination in 1906; elected to the Sixty- until his death at Hot Springs, Bath County, Va., June 17,first Congress (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful 1908; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- WILEY, James Sullivan, a Representative from Maine;gress; a publisher in New York City, with residence in East born in Mercer, Somerset County, Maine, January 22, 1808;Orange, N.J.; during the First World War served as the moved to Bethel, Oxford County, Maine, in 1826; attendedrepresentative of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- Gould's Academy and was graduated from Colby College,neers on the National Preparedness Committee and became Waterville, Maine, in 1836; moved to Dover, Maine, and wasits chairman; died in East Orange, N.J., May 2, 1925; inter- an instructor in Foxcroft Academy; studied law; was admit-ment in Rosedale Cemetery. ted to the Piscataquis County bar in 1839 and commenced WILFLEY, Xenophon Pierce, a Senator from Missouri; practice in Dover; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtiethborn near Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., March 18, 1871; Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); resumed the prac-attended the country schools; graduated from Clarksburg tice of law in Dover; moved to Fryeburg, Maine, in 1889 andCollege in 1891 and from Central College, at Fayette, in continued the practice of law until his death in that city on1894; taught in Central College one year and in Sedalia High December 21, 1891; interment in Smart Hill Cemetery. School for three years; graduated from the Washington Uni- WILEY, John McClure, a Representative from New York;versity Law School at St. Louis, Mo., in 1899 and commenced born in Londonderry, Ireland, August 11, 1846; immigratedpractice in that city; chairman of the board of election corn- 2052 Biographical Directory

missioners of St. Louis 1917-1918; appointed as a Democrat 1831; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1826 to the to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theTwentieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- death of William J. Stone and served from April 30, tofirst Congress, but resigned before qualifying; elected as a November 5, 1918, when a successor was elected;unsuccess-Jacksonian to the United States Senate and served from ful candidate for the nomination to fill the vacancy in 1918;March 4, 1831, to June 30, 1834, when he resigned; chair- chairman, Committee on Industrial Expositions (Sixty-fifthman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-second Congress), Congress); resumed the practice of his profession; presidentCommittee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-third Congress); of the Missouri Bar Association in 1925; died in St. Louis,appointed United States Minister to Russia 1834-1835; un- Mo., May 4, 1931; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. successful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Con- WILKIN, James Whitney (father of Samuel Jones Wilkin)gress in 1840; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth a Representative from New York; born in Walikill, OrangeCongress and served from March 4, 1843, to February 14, (now Ulster) County, N.Y., in 1762; served in the Revolution- 1844, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on the Judici- ary War; was graduated from Princeton College in 1785;ary (Twenty-eighth Congress); appointed Secretary of War by studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1788 and beganPresident John Tyler 1844-1845; member, State senate 1855- practice in Goshen, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1857; major general of the Pennsylvania Home Guards in 1800; entered the State militia and rose through successive1862; died in "Homewood," near Pittsburgh, Allegheny grades to the rank of major general; served in the StateCounty, Pa., June 23, 1865; interment in Homewood Ceme- senate 1801-1804 and 1811-18 14; member of the State assem-tery, Wilkinsburg, Pa., a town named for him bly in 1808 and 1809, and served as speaker in the latter Bibliography: DAB; Slick, SE. "The Life of William Wilkins." Ph.D. dis- year; member of the council of appointment in 1802, 1811, sertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1931. and 1813; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Con- WILKINSON, Morton Smith, a Senator and a Representa- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jona-tive from Minnesota; born in Skaneateles, Onondaga County, than Fisk; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and servedN.Y., January 22, 1819; attended the common schools; moved from June 7, 1815, to March 3, 1819; unsuccessful candidateto Illinois in 1837 and was employed in railroad work two for United States Senator in 1815; county clerk of Orangeyears; returned to Skaneateles in 1840; studied law; was County 1819-1821; county treasurer for several years; died inadmitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Goshen, N.Y., February 23, 1845; interment in Slate HillEaton Rapids, Mich., in 1843; moved to Stillwater, Washing- Cemetery. ton County, Minn., in 1847; elected to the first legislature of WILKIN, Samuel Jones (son of James Whitney Wilkin), aMinnesota Territory in 1849; register of deeds of Ramsey Representative from New York; born in Goshen, OrangeCounty 1851-1853; moved to Mankato in 1858; member of County, N.Y., December 17,1793; was graduated fromthe board of commissioners to prepare a code of laws for the Princeton College in 1812; studied law; was admitted to theTerritory of Minnesota in 1858; elected as a Republican to bar in 1815 and began practice in Goshen; member of thethe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1859, to State assembly in 1824 and 1825; elected as an Anti-Jackso-March 3, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair- nian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-Marchman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-eighth 3, 1833); unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1844asCongress); elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Con- Lieutenant Governor of New York; member of the Stategress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate senate in 1848 and 1849; canal appraiser in 1850; died infor renomination in 1870; moved to Wells, Faribault County; Goshen, N.Y., March 11, 1866; interment in Slate Hill Ceme-member of the State senate 1874-1877; prosecuting attorney tery. of Faribault County 1880-1884; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Wells, Minn., February 4, 1894; interment WILKINS, Beriah, a Representative from Ohio; born nearin Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn. Richwood, Union County, Ohio, July 10, 1846; attended the common schools of Marysville, Ohio; enlisted as a private in WILKINSON, Theodore Stark, a Representative from Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, OhioLouisiana; born on Point Celeste plantation in Plaquemines Volunteer Infantry, May 2, 1864, and served until honorablyParish, near New Orleans, La., December 18, 1847; educated discharged August 31, 1864; engaged in banking in Uhrichs-by private tutors and attended the common schools; was ville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; member of the State senategraduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, 1880 and 1881; member of the Democratic State centralcom- Va., in 1870; engaged in sugar planting in 1870; member of mittee in 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth,the school board of Plaquemines Parish; member and presi- Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-Marchdent of the board of levee commissioners for the third levee 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on Banking and Currencydistrict; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first (Fiftieth Congress); settled in Washington, D.C.; becamema-Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); declined to be a jority owner and publisher of in 1889,candidate for renomination in 1890; chairman of the Louisi- and later, in 1894, acquired the entire stock ownership of theana antilottery convention in 1892; collector of the port of paper, serving as editor until his death in Washington, D.C.,New Orleans 1893-1898; unsuccessful candidate for Gover- June 7, 1905; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. nor in 1898; again engaged in sugar planting; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912; died in New Orle- WILKINS, William, a Senator and a Representative fromans, La., on February 1, 1921; interment in Metairie Ceme- Pennsylvania; born in Carlisle, Pa., December 20, 1779; at-tery. tended Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Pitts- WILLARD, Charles Wesley, a Representative from Ver- burgh, Pa.; assisted in organizing the Pittsburgh Manufac-mont; horn in Lyndon, Caledonia County, Vt., June 18, 1827; turing Co. in 1810; first president of the Bank of Pittsburgh;was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in president of the common council 1816-1819; member, State1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced house of representatives 1820; appointed judge of the fifthpractice in Montpelier in 1853; secretary of state of Vermont judicial district of Pennsylvania 182 1-1824; judge of the1855 and 1856; declined a reelection; member of the State United States District Court for western Pennsylvania 1824-senate 1860 and 1861; became editor and publisher of the Biographies 2053

Montpelier Freeman in 1861; elected as a Republican to theford district 1818-1825; member, State senate 1823-1824; Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses (Marchpresidential elector in 1824; elected to the United States 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Revolution-Senate for the term commencing March 4, 1825, and served ary Pensions (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); un-from May 4, 1825, to March 3, 1831; chairman, Committee successful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-thirdon Agriculture (Nineteenth Congress); resumedthe practice Congress; resumed the practiceof law in Montpelier;of law in Tolland, Conn.; died in Stafford, Conn., August 23, member of the commission to revise the laws of Vermont in1858; interment in Skungamaug Cemetery, Tolland, Conn. 1879 and 1880; died in Montpelier, Vt., on June 8, 1880; interment in Green Mount Cemetery. WILLEY, Earle Dukes, a Representative from Delaware; born in Greenwood, Sussex County, Del., July 21, 1889; at- WILLARD, George, a Representative from Michigan; borntended the public schools and George Washington University in Bolton, Vt., March 20, 1824; attended school and receivedLaw School, Washington, D.C.; was graduated from Dickin- instruction from his father; moved with his parents to Battleson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1911; principal ofGreenwood Creek, Mich., in1836; was graduated from KalamazooHigh School 1911-1915; secretary to Hon. Thomas W. Miller, (Mich.) College in 1844; taught school and also studied theol-Washington, D.C., 1915-1917; was admitted to the bar in ogy, and was ordained a minister of the Episcopal Church in1920 and commenced practice in Dover, Del.; State librarian 1848; rector of churches in Coidwater, Battle Creek, and1917-1921; deputy attorney general and prosei:uting attorney Kalamazoo, Mich., until 1863; professor of Latin in Kalama-for Kent County, Del., 1921-1931; judge of the court of zoo (Mich.) College in 1863 and 1864; engaged in newspaper common pleas of Kent County 1931-1939and of the juvenile work in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Mich.; member ofcourt of Kent and Sussex Counties 1933-1939; unsuccessful the Michigan State Board of Education 1857-1863; regent ofcandidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1940; secretary of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1863-1872;state 1941-1943; trustee of the University of Delaware, of member of the State house of representatives in 1866 andthe Elizabeth W. Murphey School for Orphan Children, and 1867; member of the State constitutional convention in 1867;of the State College for Colored Students; elected as a Re- delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872;publican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943- elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourthJanuary 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candi-1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of date for renomination in 1876; resumed newspaper work inlaw in Dover, Del., until his death March 17, 1950; inter- Battle Creek, Mich.; editor and owner of the Battle Creek Journal until his death in Battle Creek, Mich., March 26,ment in St. Johnstown Cemetery, near Greenwood, Del. 1901; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. WILLEY, Waitman Thomas, a Senator from Virginia and from West Virginia; born in Monongalia County, Va., in WILLCOX, Washington Frederick, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Killingworth, Middlesex County, Conn.,what is now a part of Marion County, W.Va., October 18, August 22, 1834; prepared for college at a private school,1811; graduated from Madison (Pa.) College in 1831; studied Madison Academy, and Hopkins Grammar School, Newlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced prac- Haven; was graduated from Yale Law School in 1862; wastice in Morgantown, Va. (now West Virginia); appointed admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practiceclerk of the county court of Monongalia County in 1841 and in Deep River, Middlesex County, Conn.; member of thelater clerk of the circuit superior court, and held both posi- State house of representatives in 1862 and 1863; served intions until 1852; delegate to the Virginia constitutional con- the State senate in 1875 and 1876; State's attorney 1875-vention in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Unionist to the 1883; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-United States Senate from Virginia tofill the vacancy second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not acaused by the retirement of James M. Mason and served candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice offrom July 9, 1861, to March 3, 1863; chairman, Committee law in Deep River, Conn., and also engaged in banking;on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-seventh Congress);delegate to the State railroad commissioner 1897-1905; died at his home inState constitutional convention of West Virginia; upon the Chester, Conn., March 8, 1909; interment in Fountain Hilladmission of West Virginia as a State into the Union was Cemetery, Deep River, Conn. elected as a Unionist to the United States Senate; reelected in 1865 as a Republican and served from August 4, 1863, to WILLETT, William Forte, Jr., a Representative from NewMarch 3,1871; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 27, 1869; attended(Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee on Patents and the the public schools of his native city and was graduated fromPatent Office (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses); again the law department of New York University, New Yorkserved as clerk of the county court of Monongalia County City, in 1895; was admitted to the bar the following year and1882-1896; retired from public life; died in Morgantown, commenced the practice of his profession in New York City;W.Va., May 2, 1900; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con- Bibliography: DAB; Ambler, Charles. Waitman Thomas Willey: Orator, gresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate Churchman, Humanitarian. Huntington, W.Va.: Standard Print and Pub- for renomination in 1910; engaged in the real estate busi- lishing Co.,1954; Bayless, R.W. "Peter Van Winkle and Waitman T. ness; died in New York City, February 12, 1938; interment Willey in the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson." West Virginia His- in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. tory 13 (January 1952): 75-89. WILLEY, Calvin, a Senator from Connecticut; born in WILLFORD, Albert Clinton, a Representative from Iowa; East Haddam, Conn., September 15, 1776; attended theborn in Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, September 21, 1877; common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar inattended the country and town schools and Tilford's Acade- 1798 and commenced practice in Chatham, Conn.; moved tomy, Vinton, Iowa; employed as chief engineerof the electric Stafford, Conn., in 1800; member, State house of representa-light, power, and water company at Vinton 1900-1907; tives 1805-1806; postmaster of Stafford Springs, Conn., 1806-moved to Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, in 1907 and 1808; moved to Tolland, Tolland County, Conn., in 1808;engaged in the manufacture of ice until 1910, when he en- member, State house of representatives 1810, 1812, 1820-gaged in the seed, feed, and coal business; trustee of the 1821; postmaster of Tolland 1812-1816; probate judge of Staf-Waterloo Public Library 1918-1930; served on the Black 2054 Biographical Directory

Hawk County Jury Commission 1922-1924; president of thepervisors of Dannemora for two years and for a number of Iowa Stationary Engineers Association forone year; presi-years represented Plattsburg in a like capacity; superintend- dent of the Izaak Walton League of America for Iowa 1927-ent of the Plattsburg waterworks 1889-1902; elected county 1929 and served as a National and State director; presidenttreasurer in 1890; reelected in 1893, 1896, 1899, 1902, and of the Waterloo Baseball Club 1923-1927; electedas a Demo-1905; member of the board of education; died in Plattsburg, crat to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, l933-JanuaryN.Y., October 6, 1907; interment in Riverside Cemetery. 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress and for election in 1936 to the Sev- WILLIAMS, Archibald Hunter Arrington (nephew of Ar- enty-fifth Congress; resumed his former pursuits in Water-chibald Hunter Arrington), a Representative from North loo, Iowa, until his death there on March 10, 1937; intermentCarolina; born near Louisburg, Franklin County, N.C., Octo- in Memorial Park Cemetery. ber 22, 1842; attended the common schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va.; enlisted as a private in the WILLIAMS, Abram Pease, a Senator from California;Confederate Army during the Civil War; served four years born in New Portland, Somerset County, Maine, February 3,in the Army of Northern Virginia, and at the surrender at 1832; attended the common schools and completedan aca- demic course at North Anson (Maine) Academy 1846-1848;Appomattox was captain of his company; after the war en- attended normal school at Farmington, Maine, 1848-1853;gaged in agricultural pursuits and in retail trade in Oxford, taught school at North Anson; moved to Fairfield, SomersetGranville County, N.C.; developer and president of the County, Maine, in 1853 and engaged in mercantile pursuits;Oxford & Henderson Railroad; member of the State house of moved to California in 1858 and engaged in mining in Tuo-representatives 1883-1885; elected as a Democrat to the lumne County; resumed mercantile pursuits in 1859; movedFifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuc- to San Francisco in 1861 and became an importer, stockcessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third raiser, and farmer; one of the founders of the San FranciscoCongress; died in Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Va., Sep- Board of Trade, serving as its first president; member of thetember 5, 1895; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Oxford, San Francisco chamber of commerce; electedas a Republi- N.C. can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by WILLIAMS, Arthur Bruce, a Representative from Michi- the death of John F. Miller and served from August 4, 1886,gan; born in Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, January 27, to March 3, 1887; was not a candidate for renomination in1872; attended the common schools of Eaton County, and 1887; resumed the wholesale mercantile business in Sanwas graduated from Olivet College, in that county, in 1892; Francisco, Calif., where he died October 17, 1911; intermentwas admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice at in Maplewood Cemetery, Fairfield, Maine. Battle Creek, Mich.; interested in agricultural pursuits at WILLIAMS, Alpheus Starkey, a Representative fromhis summer home, Gull Lake, Mich.; director of the Old Michigan; born in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Conn., Sep-National Bank, Battle Creek; vice president and general tember 20, 1810; was graduated from Yale College in 1831;counsel of the Postum Cereal Co.; president of the Michigan studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commencedManufacturers' Association; elected as a Republican to the practice in Detroit, Mich.; judge of probate 1840-1844; editorSixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Detroit Daily Advertiser 1843-1847; served in thewarof John M.C. Smith; reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress with Mexico; commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Firstand served from June 19, 1923, until his death in Baltimore, Michigan Infantry December 8, 1847; mustered out July 29,Md., May 1, 1925; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Char- 1848; postmaster of Detroit 1849-1853; commissioned briga- lotte, Eaton County, Mich. dier general of Michigan Volunteers April 24, 1861, and of United States Volunteers May 17, 1861; brevetted major WILLIAMS, Benjamin, a Representative from North general of Volunteers January 12, 1865; mustered out Janu-Carolina; born near Smithfield, Johnston County, N.C., Jan- ary 15, 1866; Minister Resident to San Salvador 1866-1869;uary 1, 1751; attended the country schools; engaged in agri- unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michigan in 1870;cultural pursuits; member of the provincial congress in 1774 elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifthand 1775; served in the Revolutionary Army as second lieu- Congresses and served from March 4, 1875, until his deathtenant; promoted to captain in the Second Regiment July 19, in Washington, D.C., December 21, 1878; chairman, Commit- 1776; promoted to colonel for gallantry at Guilford, N.C., tee on District of Columbia (Forty-fifth Congress); intermentJuly 12, 1781; member of the State house of commons in in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 1779, 1785, and 1789; member of the State senate in 1780, Bibliography: DAB; Charnley, Jeffrey Gordon. "Neglected Honor': The 1781, April 1784, October 1784, and 1786, and again in 1807 Life of General AS. Williams of Michigan, 1810-1878." Ph.D. dissertation,and 1809; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793- Michigan State University, 1983; Williams, Aipheus S. From the Cannon's March 3, 1795); was not a candidate for renomination; Gov- Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Aipheus S. Williams. Edited with ernor of North Carolina 1799-1802, and from December 1, an introduction by Milo M. Quaife. Detroit: Wayne State Press and the 1807 until December 12, 1808; died in Moore County, N.C., Detroit Historical Society, 1959. July 20, 1814; interment in the family cemetery in Moore WILLIAMS, Andrew, a Representative from New York;County, near Carbonton, N.C.; reinterment, 1970, at his last born in Ormstown, Province of Quebec, Canada, August 27,residence in Moore County, now known as "The House in 1828; received a limited schooling; engaged in mercantilethe Horseshoe," a mile and a half from his original grave on pursuits; immigrated to the United States in 1852 and set-Governor's Creek. tled in Plattsburg, N.Y.; engaged in the manufacture of nails WILLIAMS, Charles Grandison, a Representative from 1863-1865, and subsequently in the mining of ironore, inWisconsin; born in Royalton, Niagara County, N.Y., October the lumber trade, and in the manufacture of horseshoe nails18, 1829; pursued an academic course and studied law in and wagons; one of the organi2ers of the Iron National BankRochester, N.Y.; moved to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled. in at Plattsburg in 1881 and served as its president until 1888;Janesville; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifthin Janesville; served in the State senate 1869-1872; twice Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879);was not a candi- chosen president pro tempore of that body; elected as a date for renomination in 1878; member of the board ofsu- Republican to the Forty-third and to the four succeeding Biographies 2055

Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Com-War enlisted as a private in the Seventy-first Regiment, mittee on Foreign Affairs (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuc-Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in October 1861; commissioned cessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighthfirst lieutenant February 14, 1862; promoted to captain Feb- Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Watertown,ruary 10, 1863; detailed to the command ofthe military post Codington County, S.Dak., March 30, 1892; interment in Oakat Carthage, Smith County, Tenn., in September 1863and Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Rock County, Wis. remained there until the close of the war; attorney general of the sixth judicial district of Tennessee from April 1865 to WILLIAMS, Christopher Harris (grandfather of John1867; member of the Tennessee house of representatives Sharp Williams), a Representative from Tennessee; born1867-1869; moved to Troy, Miami County, Ohio, in January near Hilisboro, Orange County, N.C., December 18, 1798;1875; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first pursued an academic course and attended the University ofCongresses (March 4, 1887-March 3,1891); editor of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill; studied law; was admitted toBuckeye; died in Troy, Ohio, December 1, 1903; interment in the bar about 1820 and practiced; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh CongressesRiverside Cemetery. (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for WILLIAMS, George Fred, a Representative from Massa- reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; elected tochusetts; born in Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass., July 10, the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4,1852; attended private schools, and was graduated from the 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renominationDedham High School in 1868 and from Dartmouth College, in 1852; resumed the practice of law in Lexington, Hender-Hanover, N.H., in 1872; studied at the Universities of Hei- son County, Tenn., and died there November 27, 1857; inter- delberg and Berlin; taught school in West Brewster, Mass., ment in Lexington Cemetery. in 1872 and 1873; became a reporter on the Boston Globe; WILLIAMS, Clyde, a Representative from Missouri; bornmember of the Dedham school committee; studied law at on a farm near Grubville, Jefferson County, Mo., October 13,Boston University, Boston, Mass.; was admitted to the bar in 1873; attended the county schools, De Soto High School, and1875 and practiced in Boston; edited Williams' Citations of the State normal school at Cape Girardeau; was graduatedMassachusetts Cases in 1878 and volumes 10 to 17 of the from the law department of the University of Missouri atAnnual Digest of the United States 1880-1887; member of Columbia in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same yearthe State house of representatives in 1890; elected as a Dem- and commenced practice in De Soto, Mo.; prosecuting attor-ocrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, ney of Jefferson County 1902-1908; elected as a Democrat to1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); un-Fifty-third Congress; was an unsuccessful Democratic nomi- successful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-nee for Governor in 1895, 1896, and 1897;resumed the prac- first Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected to thetice of law in Boston, Mass.; delegate to several State con- Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (Marchventions; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions 4, 1931-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- in 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1908; Minister to Greece and Mon- tion in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; engaged in legal tenegro in 1913 and 1914; resumed the practice of lawuntil work for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Wash-his retirement in 1930; died in Brookline, near Boston, ington, D.C., 1943-1945; served as president of the JeffersonMass., July 11, 1932; interment in the Old Village Cemetery, Trust Co. in Hillsboro and president of the Bank of Hills-Dedham, Mass. boro; died in St. Louis, Mo., November 12, 1954; interment in WILLIAMS, George Henry, a Senator from Oregon; born Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Mo. in New Lebanon, Columbia County, N.Y., March 26, 1823; WILLIAMS, David Rogerson, a Representative fromcompleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to South Carolina; born in Robbins Neck, S.C., March 8, 1776;the bar in 1844 and commenced practice at Fort Madison, attended school at Wrentham, Mass., and Rhode Island Col-Iowa Territory; judge of the first judicial district of Iowa lege (now Brown University), Providence, R.I.; studied law;1847-1852; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in was admitted to the bar in 1797 and practiced for three1852; chief justice of the Territory of Oregon 1853-1857; years in Providence, R.I.; editor and proprietor of the Cityreappointed by President James Buchanan but declined; Gazette and Weekly Carolina Gazette of Charleston, S.C.,member of the State constitutional convention of Oregon in 180 1-1803; engaged in cotton planting and manufacturing in1858; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate Darlington County, S.C., from 1803 until his death; built theand served from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871; unsuccess- first cottonseed-oil mill in South Carolina; elected as a Re-ful candidate for reelection; Attorney General of the United publican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-States in the Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant 1872-187 5; March 3, 1809); elected to the Twelfth Congress (March 4,nominated by President Grant as Chief Justice of the Su- 1811-March 3, 1813); brigadier general in the United Statespreme Court of the United States in 1873,but subsequently Army July 9, 1813, to April 6, 1814, when he resigned;his name was withdrawn; mayor of Portland, Oreg., 1902- Governor of South Carolina 1814-1816; member of the State1905; died in Portland, Oreg., April 4, 1910; interment in senate from 1824 until he was accidentally killed NovemberRiverview Cemetery. 17, 1830, while superintending the construction of a bridge Bibliography: DAB; Teiser, Sidney. "Almost Chief-Justice: George H. over Lynchs Creek, Witherspoons Ferry, on the road to Williams." Oregon Historical Quarterly 47 (September 1946): 256-80, 47 (De- Georgetown, S.C.; interment on his plantation near Society cember 1946): 417-40. Hill, Darlington County, S.C. WILLIAMS, George Howard, a Senator from Missouri; Bibliography: DAB; Cook, Harvey Tolliver. The Life and Legacy ofborn in California, Moniteau County, Mo., on December 1, David Rogerson Williams. New York, 1916. 1871; attended the public schools; graduated from the pre- WILLIAMS, Elihu Stephen, a Representative from Ohio;paratory department of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in born in New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, January 24, 1835;1890, from Princeton University in 1894, and from the educated in the common schools and attended Antioch Col-Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Mo., in 1897; lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, two years; studied law in Dayton,was admitted to the bar in 1897 andcommenced practice in Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1861; during the CivilSt. Louis; judge of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis 2056 Biographical Directory

1906-1912; delegate at large to the Missouri constitutionalto fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Clifford Case; convention in 1922 and 1923; appointed as a Republican toreelected to the Eighty-fourth Congress and served from No- the United States Senate to fill thevacancy caused by thevember 3, 1953, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful candidate death of Selden P. Spencer and served from May 25, 1925,tofor reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; elected to December 5, 1926, when a duly elected successor qualified;the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964, 1970, was an unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the vacancyand again in 1976 and served from January 3, 1959, until his in 1926; chairman, Committee to Audit and Controltheresignation March 11, 1982; chairman, Special Committee on Contingent Expense (Thirty-ninth Congress), CommitteeonAging (Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses);Labor and Public Welfare (Ninety-second through Ninety- resumed the practice of law in St. Louis until 1943, when hefifth Congresses), Committee on Human Resources (Ninety- retired and moved to Sarasota, Fla., where he died Novem-fifth Congress), Committee on Labor and Human Resources ber 25, 1963; interment in Masonic Cemetery, California,(Ninety-sixth Congress); one of the congressional targets in Mo. the government operation known as "ABSCAM" and was WILLIAMS, George Short, a Representative from Dela-convicted of charges related to this effort; during Senate ware; born in Ocean View, Sussex County, Del., October 21,proceedings on an expulsion motion, he resigned his seat; is 1877; attended the public schools and Wilmington Confer-a resident of Bedminster, N.J. ence Academy, Dover, Del.; was graduated from Dickinson WILLIAMS, Henry, a Representative from Massachusetts; College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1900; instructor in Ironwood (Mich.)born in Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., November 30, 1805; High School 1902-1904; engaged in the lumber business incompleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to Delaware and North Carolina 1905-1923; also interested inthe bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Taunton, Mass.; banking; mayor of Milisboro, Del., 1921-1927; treasurer of the State of Delaware 1929-1933; president of the Statemember of the State house of representatives in 1834; served board of education 1927-1934; deputy motor vehicle commis-in the State senate in 1836 and 1837; elected as a Democrat sioner 1935-1937; delegate to the Republican National Con-to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); vention in 1940; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty- Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessfulseventh Congress; was elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress candidate for reelection to the Seventy-seventh Congress;(March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the practice of law; motor vehicle commissioner 1941-1946; administrative assist-died in Taunton, Mass., on May 8, 1887; interment in Mount ant to Senator John J. Williams from January 1947 to Janu-Pleasant Cemetery. ary 1959; died in Millsboro, Del., November 22, 1961; inter- WILLIAMS, Hezekiah, a Representative from Maine; ment in Union Cemetery, Georgetown, Del. born near Woodstock, Vt., July 28, 1798; was graduated from WILLIAMS, Guinn, a Representative from Texas; bornDartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1820; studied law; was near Beuela, Calhoun County, Miss., April 22, 1871; movedadmitted to the bar and commenced practice in Castine, with his parents to Texas and settled in Decatur, WiseHancock County, Maine, in 1825; register of probate for County, in 1876; attended the public schools;was graduatedHancock County 1824-1838; selectman of Castine 1833-1835; from the commercial branch of Transylvania College, Lex- trustee of the school fund in 1834; member of school commit- ington, Ky., in 1890; engaged in the livestock business, agri- tee in 1840; served in the State senate 1839-1841; again a cultural pursuits, and banking; county clerk of Wise County,selectman of Castine in 1843 and 1844; elected as a Demo- crat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, Tex., 1898-1902; member of the State senate from 1920to May 1922, when he resigned, having been electedto Con-1845-March 3, 1849); resumed the practice of law; died in gress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress toCastine, Maine, October 23, 1856; interment in Castine Cem- fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lucian W. Parrish;etery. reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Con- WILLIAMS, Isaac, Jr., a Representative from New York; gresses and served from May 13, 1922, to March 3, 1933;born in Goshen, Conn., April 5, 1777; received a limited chairman, Committee on Territories (Seventy-second Con-schooling; moved with his father to Otsego County, N.Y., in gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932to the1793; was appointed undersheriff of Otsego County in 1810; Seventy-third Congress; manager of the Regional Agricultur-afterward appointed sheriff by the council of appointment in al Credit Corporation in San Angelo, Tex., in 1933; also1811 and served until 1813; successfully contested as a Re- engaged in the livestock business and ranching; died in Sanpublican the election of John M. Bowers to the Thirteenth Angelo, Tex., on January 9, 1948; interment in Decatur Cem-Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William etery, Decatur, Tex. Dowse and served from December 20, 1813, to March 3, 1815; WILLIAMS, Harrison Arlington, Jr.,a Representativeelected to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Plainfield, Union1819); elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823- County, N.J., December 10, 1919; attended the public schools;March 3, 1825); unsuccessful candidate for sheriff in 1828; graduated from Oberlin College in 1941; engaged innewspa-died in Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y., November 9, per work in Washington, D.C., and studied at Georgetown1860; interment in Warren Cemetery, Otsego, N.Y. University Foreign Service School until called to active duty WILLIAMS, James, a Representative from Delaware; born as a seaman in the United States Naval Reserve in 1941;in Philadelphia, Pa., August 4, 1825; completed preparatory became a naval aviator and was dischargedas a lieutenantstudies; moved to Kenton, Kent County, Del., in 1844 and (jg.) in 1945; employed in the steel industry fora short time,engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house entered Columbia University Law School, graduating inof representatives in 1856 and 1862; served in the State 1948; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newsenate in 1866 and 1871; delegate to the Democratic Nation- Hampshire in 1948; returned to Plainfield, N.J., in 1949andal Convention in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- continued to practice law; was an unsuccessful candidate forfourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, the State house of assembly in 1951 and for city councilman1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; re- in 1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congresssumed agricultural pursuits; moved to Smyrna, Del., in 1891 Biographies 2057 and continued farming until his death on April 12, 1899;of Charles G. Atherton and served from November 29, 1853, interment in St. Peter's Cemetery. to July 15, 1854; died in Lancaster, N.H., September 29, 1864; interment in Summer Street Cemetery. WILLIAMS, James Douglas, a Representative from Indi- ana; born in Pickaway County, Ohio, January 16, 1808; WILLIAMS, Jeremiah Norman, a Representative from moved with his parents to Indiana and settled in KnoxAlabama; born near Louisville, Barbour County, Ala., May County in 1818; received a limited education; engaged in29,1829; attended the preparatory schools of Barbour agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace of Vincennes, md.,County and was graduated from the University of South 1839-1843; from 1855 was identified with the State board ofCarolina at Columbia in 1852; studied law in Montgomery agriculture for sixteen years, serving four years as its presi-and Tuskegee; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and com- dent; member of the State house of representatives in 1843,menced practice in Clayton, Barbour County, Ala.; volun- 1847, 1851, 1856, and 1868; served in the State senate inteered for service in the Confederate Army during the Civil 1858, 1862, and 1870; delegate to the Democratic NationalWar and was made captain of the Clayton Guards, later Convention in 1872; was the caucus nominee of his party,becoming major of the First Regiment, Alabama Infantry; which was in the minority, for United States Senator inelected a member of the State house of representatives in 1872; was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Con- 1872, but was not allowed to take his seat; elected as a gress and served from March 4, 1875, to December 1, 1876,Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses when he resigned, having been elected Governor; chairman,(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Committee on Accounts (Forty-fourth Congress); Governor ofExpenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-fifth Con- Indiana from 1877 until his death in Indianapolis, md., No- gress); chancellor of the third division 1893-1899; resumed vember 20, 1880; interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery, nearthe practice of law in Clayton, Ala.; member of the State Monroe City, Knox County, md. constitutional convention in 1901; died in Clayton, Ala., May Bibliography: DAB. 8, 1915; interment in the City Cemetery. WILLIAMS, James Robert, a Representative from Illinois; born in Carmi, White County, Iii., December 27, 1850; at- WILLIAMS, John, a Delegate from North Carolina; born tended the common schools; was graduated from Indianain Hanover County, Va, March 14, 1731; moved to North State University at Bloomington in 1875 and from UnionCarolina in 1745 with his parents, who settled in Granville College of Law, Chicago, Ill., in 1876; was admitted to theCounty; donated the land and laid out the town of Williams- bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Carmi, Ill.; master inboro, N.C.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- chancery 1880-1882; county judge of White County 1882-menced practice in Williamsboro; one of the founders of the 1886; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress to fillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; deputy attor- the vacancy caused by the death of Richard W. Townsend;ney general in 1768; delegate to the Provincial Congress of reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and1775; member of the State house of commons in 1777 and served from December 2, 1889, to March 3, 1895; elected to1778 and served as speaker; Member of the Continental the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth CongressesCongress in 1778 and 1779; judge of the supreme court of (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); resumed the practice of hisNorth Carolina from 1779 until his death in Montpelier, profession; died in Loma Linda, San Bernardino County,near Williamsboro, N.C., October 10, 1799; interment in the Calif., November 8, 1923; interment in Maple Ridge Ceme-family cemetery, Montpelier, N.C. tery, Carmi, Ill. WILLIAMS, John, a Representative from New York; born WILLIAMS, James Wray, a Representative from Mary-in Barnstable, England, in September 1752; received a liber- land; born in that State October 8, 1792; completed prepara-al education; studied medicine and surgery in St. Thomas tory studies; member of the State house of delegates; wasHospital, London; served for one year as surgeon's mate on speaker in 1830; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sev-an English man-of-war; immigrated to America in 1773 and settled in New Perth, Charlotte County (now Salem, Wash- enth Congress and served from March 4, 1841, until hisington County), N.Y.; engaged in an extensive medical prac- death on Prieshford farm, Deer Creek, Harford County, Md.,tice; member of the State Provincial Congress in 1775, to December 2, 1842; interment in the family cemetery onwhich body he was reelected and served until its dissolution Prieshford farm. in 1777; appointed surgeon of the State forces in 1775; colo- WILLIAMS, Jared, a Representative from Virginia; bornnel of the Charlotte County Regiment in 1776 and retained in Montgomery County, Md., March 4, 1766; pursued classi-command throughout the Revolutionary War; served in the cal studies; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of theState senate in 1777 and 1778; member of the State assembly State house of delegates from 1812 to 1817; elected to thein 1781 and 1782; again a member of the State senate 1782- Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses (March1785; appointed a member of the first board of regents of 4, 1819-March 3, 1825); died near Newton, Va., January 2,New York University in 1784; brigadier general of militia in 1831. 1786; delegate to the State ratification convention in 1788; member of the council of appointment in 1789; elected as a WILLIAMS, Jared Warner, a Representative and a Sena-Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, tor from New Hampshire; born in West Woodstock, Conn.,1795-March 3, 1799); was a large landholder; a promoter and December 22, 1796; graduated from Brown University, Provi-director of a company organized to build the Erie Canal as a dence, R.I., in 1818; studied law in the Litchfield (Conn.) Lawprivate enterprise, the project later being taken over and School; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commencedcompleted by the State; judge of the county court; died in practice in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H.; member, StateSalem, N.Y., July 22, 1806; interment in Salem Cemetery. house of representatives 1830-1831; member, State senate 1832-1834; member, State house of representatives 1835- WILLIAMS, John (brother of Lewis Williams and Robert 1836; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-Williams, father of Joseph Lanier Williams, and cousin of sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); Governor ofMarmaduke Williams), a Senator from Tennessee; born in New Hampshire 1847-1849; appointed as a Democrat to theSurry County, N.C., January 29, 1778; completed preparato- United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deathry studies; captain in the Sixth Regiment, United States 2058 Biographical Directory

Infantry 1799-1800; studied law in Salisbury, N.C.; was ad- WILLIAMS, John McKeown Snow, a Representative from mitted to the bar of Knox County, Tenn., in 1803 and com-Massachusetts; born in Richmond, Henrico County, Va., menced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; captain of regularAugust 13, 1818; moved to Boston, Mass.; attended the public troops in the War of 1812 and was colonel of a regiment ofschools; engaged in mercantile pursuits and was also a ship- East Tennessee Mounted Volunteers in the expeditionowner; member of the State house of representatives in 1856; against the Seminoles in Florida in 1812 and 1813; colonel ofserved in the State senate in 1858; elected as a Republican the Thirty-ninth Regiment, United States Infantry, in 1813,to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); and subsequently served under General Andrew Jackson inunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty- the expedition against the Creek Indians in Alabama; elect-fourth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; died ed in 1815 as a Republican to the United States Senate toin Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., March 19, 1886; fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W.interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Campbell; was subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy in the regular term caused by a recess of the legislature; was WILLIAMS, John Patrick, a Representative from Mon- then elected in 1817 and served from October 10, 1815, totana; born in Helena, Lewis-Clark County, Mont., October March 3, 1823; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair-30, 1937; attended the public schools; attended University of man, Committee on Military Affairs (Fourteenth throughMontana, Missoula, 1956-1957; B.A., University of Denver, SeventeenthCongresses);appointed by President JohnCob., 1961; Colorado and Montana National Guard, 1961- Quincy Adams as Chargé d'Affaires to the Central American1969; teacher, Butte, Mont., 1963-1969; served in the Mon- Federation 1825-1826; member, State senate 1827-1828; diedtana State house of representatives, 1967-1969; executive near Knoxville, Tenn., August 10, 1837; interment in theassistant to Rep. John Melcher of Montana, 1969-1971; First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. member, Governor's Employment and Training Council, Bibliography: DAB. 1972-1978; member, Montana Reapportionment Commission, WILLIAMS, John, a Representative from New York; born1972-1973; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to in Utica, N.Y., January 7, 1807; spent his youth and com- the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, pleted preparatory studies in Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; moved1989); is a resident of Helena, Mont. to Rochester, N.Y., in 1824 and engaged in mercantile pur- WILLIAMS, John Sharp (grandson of Christopher Harris suits and the manufacture of flour; member of the board ofWilliams), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; aldermen in 1844; mayor of Rochester in 1853; elected as aborn in Memphis, Tenn., July 30, 1854; after the death of his Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-parents moved to Yazoo County, Miss.; attended private March 3, 1857); again engaged in the milling business 1858-schools, the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort, the 1870; was major general of the Seventh Division of the Na-University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University of tional Guard at the time of his death; excise commissionerVirginia at Charlottesville, and the University of Heidel- and manager of the house of refuge in 1870; city treasurerberg, at Baden, Germany; subsequently studied law at the from 1871 until his death; died in Rochester, N.Y., March 26,University of Virginia and in Memphis, Tenn.; was admitted 1875; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. to the bar in 1877; moved to Yazoo City, Miss., in 1878; WILLIAMS, John Bell, a Representative from Mississippi;engaged in the practice of law and also interested in cotton born in Raymond, Hinds County, Miss., December 4, 1918;planting; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the attended the public schools; was graduated from Hindsseven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1909); Junior College, Raymond, Miss., in 1936, from the Universitywas not a candidate for renomination in 1908; minority of Mississippi at Oxford in 1938, and from Jackson (Miss.)leader in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con- School of Law in 1940; was admitted to the bar in 1940 andgresses; chairman, Committee on Party Leaders (Fifty-eighth commenced practice in Raymond, Miss.; enlisted as an avia-through Sixtieth Congresses); elected as a Democrat to the tion cadet in the United States Army, November 5, 1941;United States Senate in 1910; reelected in 1916 and served was commissioned as a pilot July 3, 1942; retired from activefrom March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923; declined to be a service because of injuries received in the line of duty oncandidate for renomination in 1922; chairman, Committee to April 29, 1944; prosecuting attorney of Hinds County, Miss.,Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-third Con- from May 20, 1944, to October 1, 1946; elected as a Democratgress), Committee on the Library (Sixty-fourth and Sixty- to the Eightieth and to the ten succeeding Congresses, andfifth Congresses), Committee on the University of the United served from January 3, 1947, to January 16, 1968, when heStates (Sixty-sixth Congress); retired from public life and resigned; having been elected Governor of Mississippi for thelived on his plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, four-year term commencing on that date; practiced law inMiss., until his death there September 27, 1932; interment in Jackson, Miss., until he retired January 1, 1981; resident ofthe family cemetery on his plantation. Brandon, Miss., until his death there March 25, 1983; inter- Bibliography: DAB; Dickson, Harris. An Old-Fashioned Senator: A Biog- ment in Raymond Cemetery, Raymond, Miss. raphy of . New York: Frederick Stokes Company, Bibliography: Vance, Sandra Stringer. "The Congressional Career of 1925; Osborn, George C. John Sharp Williams: Planter-Statesman of the , 1947-1967." Ph.D. dissertation, Mississippi State Uni- Deep South. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1964. versity, 1976. WILLIAMS, John Stuart, a Senator from Kentucky; born WILLIAMS, John James, a Senator from Delaware; bornnear Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Ky., July 10, on a farm near Frankford, Sussex County, Del., May 17,1818; attended the common schools; graduated from Miami 1904; attended the public schools at Frankford; moved toUniversity, Oxford, Ohio, in 1839; studied law; was admitted Millsboro, Del., in 1922 and engaged in the grain business;to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Paris, Bour- elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1946;bon County, Ky.; served in the Mexican War, first as a reelected in 1952, 1958, and again in 1964 and served fromcaptain of an independent company attached to the Sixth January 3, 1947, until his resignation December 31, 1970;Regiment, United States Infantry, and afterward as a colo- was not a candidate for reelection in 1970; died on Januarynel of the Fourth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers; member, 11, 1988, in Lewes, Del.; interment in Millsboro Cemetery,State house of representatives 1851, 1853; during the Civil Millsboro, Del. War served in the Confederate Army as a colonel in 1861; Biographies 2059 promoted to brigadier general in 1862 and surrendered in WILLIAMS, Lemuel, a Representative from Massachu- 1865; engaged in agricultural pursuits, with residence insetts; born in Taunton, Mass., June 18, 1747; was graduated Winchester, KY.; member, State house of representativesfrom Harvard College in 1765; studied law; was admitted to 1873 and 1875; was an unsuccessful candidate for governorthe bar and practiced in Bristol and Worcester Counties, in 1875; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket inMass.; town clerk of New Bedford, Mass., 1792-1800; elected 1876; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andas a Federalist to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Congresses served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885; was an unsuc-(March 4, 1799-March 3, 1805); member of the State house of cessful candidate for reelection; engaged in agricultural pur- representatives in 1806; resumed the practice of law; died in suits; died in Mount Sterling, KY., on July 17, 1898; inter-Acushnet, Mass., November 8, 1828; interment in Acushnet ment in Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Ky. Cemetery. WILLIAMS, Jonathan, a Representative from Pennsylva- WILLIAMS, Lewis (brother of John Williams, of Tennes- nia; born in Boston, Mass., May 20, 1750; completed prepara- see, and Robert Williams and cousin of Marmaduke Wil- tory studies and worked in a bank in Boston; went to Franceliams), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry as secretary to Benjamin Franklin in 1770 and served untilCounty, N.C., February 1, 1782; was graduated from the 1775, part of this time as commercial agent for the UnitedUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hillin1808; States; studied military science; returned to the Unitedmember of the State house of commons in 1813 and 1814; States in 1785 and settled in Philadelphia; was judge of theelected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress; reelect- court of common pleas; entered the United States Army ased to the Fifteenth through Twenty-third Congresses and major of the Second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineersreelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth through Twenty- February 16, 1801; commanded the post at West Point, N.Y.,seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1815, until his and was the first Superintendent of the United States Mili- death; chairman, Committee on Claims (Fifteenth through tary Academy in 1802; promoted through the ranks to colo- Twenty-first Congresses), Committee on Territories (Twenty- nel; planned and built the inner forts for the defense of Newthird Congress); died in Washington, D.C., February 23, 1842; York Harbor; resigned July 31, 1812; returned to Philadel- interment in Panther Creek Cemetery, Surry County, N.C. phia, Pa., and engaged in literary and scientific pursuits; was the author of several military and philosophical papers; WILLIAMS, Lyle, a Representative from Ohio; born in elected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from MarchPhilippi, Barbour County, W.Va., August 23, 1942; attended 4, 1815, until his death, before the assembling of the Con- the public schools of North Bloomfield, Ohio; graduated from gress, in Philadelphia, Pa., May 16, 1815. North Bloomfield High School, 1960; served in the United Bibliography: DAB. States Army Reserve, 1960-1968; barber; member, Bloom- field local school board, 1970-1972; Trumbull County Com- WILLIAMS, Joseph Lanier (son of John Williams, of Ten- missioner, 1972-1976; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- nessee), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Knox-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, ville, Knox County, Tenn., October 23, 1810; completed pre- 1979-January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelection paratory studies; attended the University of East Tennesseeto the Ninety-ninth Congress; member of the external affairs and the United States Military Academy at West Point;staff, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior, studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-1987 to present; is a resident of Warren, Ohio. tice in Knoxville, Tenn.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March WILLIAMS, Marmaduke (cousin of John Williams, of 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Tennessee, Lewis Williams, and Robert Williams), a Repre- tion in 1842; engaged in the practice of law in Washington,sentative from North Carolina; born in Caswell County, D.C.; appointed judge of the United States District Court ofN.C., April 6, 1774; completed preparatory studies; studied Dakota Territory by President Lincoln; died in Knoxville,law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the Tenn., December 14, 1865; interment in Old Gray Cemetery.State senate in 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1809); WILLIAMS, Lawrence Gordon, a Representative fromwas not a candidate for renomination; moved to Mississippi Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., September 15, 1913;Territory in 1810 and later to Huntsville, Madison County, moved to Philadelphia in June of 1922; graduated fromAla.; in 1818 settled in Tuscaloosa, Ala.; delegate to the Frankfort High School, and attended Drexel Institute ofState constitutional convention in 1819 and the same year Technology; was a commissioner, 1952-1966, and president ofwas an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Alabama; the board, 1960-1966, township of Springfield, Pa.; employedmember of the State house of representatives 1821-1839; by the Curtis Publishing Co., 1936-1966, and retired as as-judge of the Tuscaloosa County Court 1832-1842; died in sistant to the senior vice president in charge of manufactur-Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 29, 1850; interment in Greenwood ing; served in the Army Air Corps during the Second WorldCemetery. War; Delaware County's representative on the policy com- mittee on the Penn-Jersey Transportation Study, 1959-1966, WILLIAMS, Morgan B., a Representative from Pennsyl- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, and thevania; born in Rhandir-Mwyn, parish of Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority; pastCarmarthenshire, Wales, September 17, 1831; attended the president of the Pennsylvania State Association of Townshippublic schools; went to Australia in 1856; returned to Wales Commissioners; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth andin August 1861; immigrated to the United States in March to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-Janu-1862 and settled in Scranton, Pa., where he worked in the ary 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974coal mines; moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in September 1865; to the Ninety-fourth Congress; appointed by Presidentappointed superintendent for the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre as special assistant to the Cochairman of theCoal Co., which position he held for fourteen years; member Ozarks Regional Commission and served in that capacityof the school board and of the city council for twelve years; from January 20, 1975, until his death; resided in Spring-served in the State senate in 1884; member of the Chicago field, Pa.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 13, 1975; intermentWorld's Fair Commission; elected as a Republican to the in Edgewood Memorial Park, Concordville, Pa. Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuc- 2060 Biographical Directory

cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixthlands west of the Pearl River in and Congress; engaged in coal mining, and was vice presidentserved in this capacity until 1807; Governor of Mississippi and general manager of the Red Ash Coal Co.; died inTerritory from May 10, 1805, to March 3, 1809, when he Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 13, 1903; interment in Hollenbackresigned; subsequently resided in Mississippi and North Cemetery. Carolina, where he practiced law and engaged in planting; WILLIAMS, Nathan, a Representative from New York;adjutant general of North Carolina; moved to Ouachita, was born in Williamstown, Mass., December 19, 1773; attend-Union Parish, La., where he died January 25, 1836; inter- ed the common schools in Bennington, Vt.; moved with hisment on his plantation near Monroe, Ouachita Parish, La. parents to Troy, N.Y., in 1786; studied law; was admitted to WILLIAMS, Seward Henry, a Representative from Ohio; the bar in 1795 and commenced practice in Utica, N.Y.;born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., November 7, assisted in the establishment of Utica Public Library, of1870; attended the common schools, the Amsterdam Acade- which he was librarian for a number of years; president ofmy, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., and Princeton the village corporation; president of the Manhattan Bank;College; was graduated in law from Washington and Lee district attorney for the sixth district 1801-1813; elected as aUniversity, Lexington, Va., in 1895; was admitted to the bar Republican to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3,in 1895 and commenced practice the same year; city solicitor 1807); served in the War of 1812; member of the State assem- of Lorain, Ohio, 1901-1904; member of the State house of bly 1816-1818 and in 1819; regent of the University of therepresentatives 1910-1913; elected as a Republican to the State of New York from January 28, 1817, to February 13,Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); unsuc- 1824; district attorney of Oneida County 1818-1821; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; judge of thecessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth circuit court 1823-1833; appointed clerk of the State su-Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Lorain, Ohio, preme court in 1834 and moved to Geneva, Ontario County,September 2, 1922; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. N.Y., where he died September 25, 1835; interment in the WILLIAMS, Sherrod, a Representative from Kentucky; "Burying Ground," Utica, Oneida County, N.Y.; reintermentborn in Pulaski County, Ky., in 1804; moved with his par- in Forest Hill Cemetery. ents to Wayne County; received a limited education; learned WILLIAMS, Reuel, a Senator from Maine; born inthe trade of brickmaker in Monticello when about fifteen Hallowell, Maine, June 2, 1783; attended Hallowell Acade-years of age; studied law; was admitted to the bar and my; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1804 and com-practiced; member of the State house of representatives menced practice in Augusta, Maine; member, State legisla-1829-1834 and in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- ture 1812-1829, 1832, 1848; commissioner of public buildingsfourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, in 1831; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in1835-March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pen- 1836; elected February 22, 1837, as a Democrat to the Unitedsions (Twenty-sixth Congress); was not a candidate for re- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofelection; moved to one of the Southern States, where he Ether Shepley and served from March 4, 1837, to February died. 15, 1843, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Naval WILLIAMS, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylva- Affairs (Twenty-sixth Congress); manager of a railroad fornia; born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., August twelve years; died in Augusta, Maine, on July 25, 1862;28, 1806; attended the common schools, and was graduated interment in the family cemetery on the banks of the Ken- from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1825; studied law; nebec River, Augusta, Maine. was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Bibliography: DAB. Greensburg, Pa.; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1832 and con- WILLIAMS, Richard, a Representative from Oregon; borntinued the practice of law; served in the State senate 1838- in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, November 15, 1836; at- 1841; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty- tended the common schools; moved to Monroe County, Oreg.,ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, in 1851; was educated at the Willamette University, Salem,1869); one of the managers appointed by the House of Repre- Oreg.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 andsentatives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings commenced practice in Kirbyville, Josephine County, Oreg.;against President Andrew Johnson; was not a candidate for moved to Portland, Oreg., in 1865 and practiced law; unsuc-renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress, and lived cessful Republican candidate for election in 1874 to thein retirement until his death in Allegheny City, Pa., on June Forty-fourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-16, 1872; interment in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of WILLIAMS, Thomas, a Representative from Alabama; law in Portland, Oreg.; elected a member of the Portlandborn near Richmond, Greensville County, Va., on August 11, School Board in 1890 and served for twenty years; died in 1825; attended preparatory schools and was graduated from Portland, Oreg., June 19, 1914; interment in Riverview Cem-the University of East Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.; studied etery. law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced prac- tice in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Ala.; justice of the peace; WILLIAMS, Robert (brother of John Williams, of Tennes-register in chancery; appointed prison inspector in 1872; see, and Lewis Williams and cousin of Marmaduke Wil-member of the State house of representatives in 1878; elect- liams), a Representative from North Carolina; born ined as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Prince Edward County, Va., July 12, 1773; moved with hisForty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); en- parents to Surry County, N.C.; received a liberal education;gaged in agricultural pursuits and resided in Wetumpka, studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-Ala., until his death April 13, 1903; interment in the City tice in what is now Rockingham County; member of theCemetery. State senate 1792-1795; elected as a Republican to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, WILLIAMS, Thomas Hickman, a Senator from Mississip- 1803); appointed by President Jefferson in 1803 a member ofpi; born in Williamson County, Tenn., January 20, 1801; a commission to ascertain the rights of persons claimingattended the common schools; moved to Mississippi and set- Biographies 2061 tied in Pontotoc County; engaged in planting; appointed andRussia; for about eight years was engaged in the shipping subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United Statesbusiness; moved to New London, Conn., in 1818 and became Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofa prominent figure in the whaling business; elected as a James F. Trotter and served from November 12, 1838, toWhig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses March 3, 1839; secretary and treasurer of the University of(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on Mississippi at Oxford 1845-1851; known as "Father of theMileage (Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses); State University," being the first to propose it and alsomember of the State house of representatives in 1846 and aiding to secure it; died on his plantation south of Pontotoc,1847; president of the New London, Willamantic and Palmer Pontotoc County, Miss., May 3, 1851; interment in the pri- Railroad (later the New London Northern Railroad) in 1847 vate cemetery on the family estate. and for many years thereafter; died in New London, Conn., WILLIAMS, Thomas Hill, a Senator from Mississippi;December 31, 1874; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. born in North Carolina in 1780; completed preparatory stud- WILLIAMS, William, a Delegate from Connecticut; born ies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced;in Lebanon, Conn., March 29, 1731; completed preparatory register of the land office for the Territory of Mississippi instudies; was graduated from Harvard College in 1751; stud- 1805; secretary of the Territory 1805; Acting Governor 1806;ied theology for a year; engaged in mercantile pursuits; town reappointed secretary 1807; Acting Governor 1809; collectorclerk of Lebanon 1753-1796; member of a military expedition of customs at New Orleans 1810; delegate to the State consti-to Lake George in 1755; member of the State house of repre- tutional convention; upon the admission of Mississippi as asentatives 1757-1762, 1763-1776, and 1780-1784, serving as State into the Union in 1817 was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1823 and served fromspeaker in 1775 and 1781-1783; Member of the Continental December 10, 1817, to March 3, 1829; chairman, CommitteeCongress in 1776 and 1777; a signer of the Declaration of on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress); moved to Tennessee,Independence; member of the council of safety during the where he died, in Robertson County, in 1840. Revolution; judge of the county court of Windham 1776- 1804; judge of probate for the Windham district 1776-1808; WILLIAMS, Thomas Scott, a Representative from Con-became an assistant councilor in 1780 and served as assist- necticut; born in Wethersfield, Conn., June 26, 1777; com-ant and as councilor for twenty-four years; member of the pleted preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale CollegeConnecticut ratification convention in 1787; died in Lebanon, in 1794; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 andConn., August 2, 1811; interment in the Trumbull Tomb, commenced practice in Mansfield, Conn.; moved to Hartford, East Cemetery. Conn., in 1803; appointed attorney of the board of managers Bibliography: DAB; Stark, Bruce P. Connecticut Signer: William Wil. of the school fund of Hartford 1809-1810; served in the State hams. Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1975. house of representatives in 1813, 1815, and 1816; clerk of the house in 1815 and 1816; elected as a Federalist to the Fif- WILLIAMS, William, a Representative from New York; teenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); again aborn in Bolton, Conn., September6,1815;received a member of the State house of representatives in 1819, 1825,common-school education; clerk in a bank in Windham, and 1827-1829; appointed in 1829 an associate judge of theConn.; moved to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1838, and to Buffalo, supreme court of errors and of the superior court, and inN.Y., in 1839, where he engaged in banking; also served as a May 1834 appointed chief justice, holding the position untilrailroad manager and president; member of the State assem- his resignation in May 1847; mayor of Hartford 1831-1835;bly in 1866 and 1867; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- resigned from public office; president of the American Tractsecond Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful Society of New York from May 1848 until his death; died incandidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; Hartford, Conn., December 15, 1861; interment in Old Northwithdrew from public life and active business pursuits, and Cemetery. lived in retirement until his death in Buffalo, N.Y., Septem- Bibliography: DAB. ber 10, 1876; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. WILLIAMS, Thomas Sutler, a Representative from Illi- WILLIAMS, William, a Representative from Indiana; nois; born in Louisville, Clay County, Ill., February 14, 1872;born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., May 11, 1821; attended Willis district school, Louisville High School, andattended the common schools and received a very limited Austin College, Effingham, Ill.; studied law; was admitted toeducation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Louisville; citycommenced practice in Warsaw, Kosciusko County, md.; attorney 1897-1899; member of the State house of represent-treasurer of Kosciusko County in 1852; resigned the office of atives 1899-1901; mayor of Louisville 1907-1909; prosecutingtreasurer in order to become a candidate for Lieutenant attorney of Clay County 1908-1915; became the owner andGovernor; unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor publisher of the Clay County Republican at Louisville inin 1853; managed the Bank of Warsaw for several years; 1920; moved to Harrisburg, Sauna County, Ill., in 1926; elect- director of the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway 1854-1856; ed as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the sevendirector of the Michigan City prison 1859-1862; served in the succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, untilUnion Army as commandant of Camp Allen, Fort Wayne, his resignation November 11, 1929, having been appointed amd., in 1862 and as paymaster of Volunteers, with head- judge for the Court of Claims of the United States andquarters at Louisville, Ky., until the close of the war; elected served until his death in Washington, D.C., April 5, 1940;as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofCongresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman, Com- Commerce (Sixty-sixth Congress); interment in Cedar Hillmittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fortieth Cemetery. through Forty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for WILLIAMS, Thomas Wheeler, a Representative from Con- renomination in1874; resumed the practice of law in necticut; born in Stonington, Conn., September 28, 1789; at-Warsaw, md.; appointed by President Arthur as Chargé tended the public schools; at the age of fifteen was employedd'Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay April 12, 1882, and as a clerk in New York City, and before he was twenty-oneserved until February 14, 1885, when he resigned; returned was employed on a business mission to Norway, Sweden, andto Warsaw, md., in 1885 and retired from active business 2062 Biographical Directory pursuits; died in Warsaw April 22, 1896; interment in Oak-term; resumed the wholesale hardware business at Ashland, wood Cemetery. Ky., with residence in Catlettsburg, Ky.; also interested fi- WILLIAMS, William Brewster, a Representative fromnancially in various other business enterprises; died in Cin- Michigan; born in Pittsford, Monroe County, N.Y., July 28,cinnati, Ohio, June 23, 1941; interment in Ashland Cemetery 1826; attended the common schools and received an academ-Mausoleum, Ashland, Ky. ic education; was graduated from the State and National WILLIAMSON, Hugh, a Delegate and a Representative Law School, Ballston Spa, N.Y., in 1851; was admitted to thefrom North Carolina; born on Oterara Creek, in West Not- bar the same year and commenced practice in Rochester,tingham Township, Pa., December 5,1735; attended the N.Y.; moved to Allegan, Mich., in 1855; judge of probatecommon schools; prepared for college at Newark, Del., and 1857-1865; member of the State senate 1866-1870, serving aswas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at president pro tempore in 1869; member of the State constitu-Philadelphia in 1757; studied theology, and was licensed to tional convention in 1867; appointed by the Governor in 1871preach in 1758; resigned, owing to ill health, in 1760; profes- a member of the State board for the supervisory control ofsor of mathematics in the College of Philadelphia; studied the charitable, penal, and beneficiary institutions, which po-medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Utrecht, Holland; re- sition he resigned upon his election to Congress; elected as aturned to Philadelphia and practiced; engaged in business; Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancymember of the American Philosophical Society, and was a caused by the death of Wilder D. Foster; reelected to themember of the commission to observe the transits of Venus Forty-fourth Congress and served from December 1, 1873, to March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for renomination inand Mercury in 1773; at the time of the "Boston Tea Party" 1876; railroad commissioner of Michigan 1877-1883; resumedhe was examined in England by the privy council regarding the practice of law; died in Allegan, Mich., March 4, 1905;it; returned to America in 1776 and settled in Edenton, N.C.; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. engaged in mercantile pursuits; during the Revolutionary War was surgeon general of the North Carolina troops 1779- WILLIAMS, William Elza, a Representative from Illinois;1782; Member of the State house of commons in 1782 and born near Detroit, Pike County, Ill., May 5, 1857; attended1785; member of the Continental Congress 1782-1785, and the public schools and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill.;1788; delegate to the Federal Convention in 1787; member of studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practicedthe State ratification convention in 1789; elected as a Feder- in Detroit and Pittsfield, Ill.; State's attorney of Pike Countyalist to the First and Second Congresses and served from 1886-1892; member of the board of aldermen of Pittsfield;March 19, 1790, until March 3, 1793; moved to New York member of the board of education; became trial lawyer forCity in 1793; engaged extensively in literary pursuits until the City Railway Co. of Chicago in 1903; elected as a Demo-his death in New York City, May 22, 1819; interment in the crat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3,Apthrop tomb in Trinity Churchyard. 1901); resumed the practice of law in Pittsfield, Ill.; elected Bibliography: DAB; Potts, Louis W. "Hugh Williamson: The Poor Man's to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, Franklin and the National Domain." North Carolina Historical Review 64 1913-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in (October 1987): 371-93. 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for election in 1918 to WILLIAMSON, John Newton, a Representative from the Sixty-sixth Congress; continued the practice of law untilOregon; born near Junction City, Lane County, Oreg., No- his death in Pittsfield, Ill., September 13, 1921; interment in vember 8, 1855; attended the country schools; attended Wil- Pittsfield West Cemetery. lamette University, Salem, Oreg.; moved to Prineville, Oreg., WILLIAMS, William Robert, a Representative from Newand engaged in livestock raising; sheriff of Cook County York; born in Brookfield, Madison County, N.Y., August 11,1886-1888; member of the State house of representatives 1884; moved to Cassville, Oneida County, N.Y., with his1888-1898; served in the State senate 1900-1902; elected as a parents in 1891; attended the public schools of Bridgewater,Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses N.Y.; salesman with Standard Oil Co., of New York, 1907-(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); declined to be a candidate for 1910; engaged in farming at Cassville, N.Y.; member of therenomination in 1906; engaged in stock raising and agricul- State assembly 1935-1943; sheriff of Oneida County 1943-tural pursuits; appointed postmaster at Prineville, Cook 1951; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to theCounty, Oreg., March 21, 1922; reappointed on May 18, 1926, three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3,and served until June 30, 1934, when he retired to his farm 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958 to thein Central Oregon; died in Prineville, Oreg., August 29, 1943; Eighty-sixth Congress; chairman, Oneida County Republicaninterment in the Masonic Cemetery. Committee, 1959-1961; resumed and continued his interests WILLIAMSON, William, a Representative from South in farming at Cassville, N.Y., where he died May 9, 1972;Dakota; born near New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa, Oc- interment in Sauquoit Valley Cemetery, Sauquoit, N.Y. tober 7, 1875; moved with his parents to Plankinton, Aurora WILLIAMSON, Ben Mitchell, a Senator from Kentucky;County, S.Dak., in 1882; attended the public schools and the born in White Post, Pike County, Ky., October 16, 1864;Wayne (Nebr.) Normal School; engaged in agricultural pur- attended the rural schools of Kentucky and Bethany (W.Va.)suits and also taught school for several years; was graduated College; engaged in the wholesale hardware business at Cat- from the University of South Dakota at Vermilion in 1903 lettsburg, Ky., 1886-1924 and at Ashland, Ky., in 1924; alsoand from the law department of that university in 1905; was engaged in banking and in the mining of coal; one of theadmitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice in founders of the Kentucky Crippled Children's Commission,Oacoma, Lyman County, S.Dak.; founder, with his brother, serving as president 1924-1941; member of the board of char-of the Murdo Coyote and the Prairie Sun; prosecuting attor- ities and correction for the State of Kentucky 1929-1930;ney of Lyman County 1905-1911; circuit judge of the elev- director of the International Society for Crippled Children;enth judicial district 1911-1921; delegate to the Republican elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on No-National Convention in 1912; elected as a Republican to the vember 4, 1930, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationSixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March of Frederic M. Sackett and served from December 1, 1930, to4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Expendi- March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for election to the fulltures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-eighth and Biographies 2063

Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in Ex-dent of the Bank of the United States 1791-1811; resumed ecutive Departments (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress-mercantile pursuits; died in Philadelphia, Pa., January 19, es); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Sev-1821; interment in Christ Churchyard. enty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Rapid Bibliography: DAB; Slaski, Eugene R. "Thomas Willing: Moderation City, S.Dak.; special assistant attorney general of South during the American Revolution." Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State Univer- Dakota and assigned as general counsel for the Public Utili- sity, 1971. ties Commission 1939-1951, and also the Department of In- WILLIS, Albert Shelby, a Representative from Kentucky; surance of South Dakota the last five years; officer with anborn in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky., January 22, 1843; insurance company, 1950-1972; member of the Mount Rush- more National Memorial Commission 1928-1972; died inattended the common schools, and was graduated from the Custer, S.Dak., July 15, 1972; interment in Pine Lawn Ceme-Louisville (Ky.) Male High School in 1860; taught school four tery, Rapid City, S.Dak. years; was graduated from the Louisville Law School in Bibliography: Williamson, William William Williamson; Student, Home- 1866; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice steader, Teacher, Lawyer, Judge, Congressman & Trusted Friend; An Auto- of law in Louisville; prosecuting attorney for Jefferson biography. Rapid City, S.Dak.: the Author, 1964. County 1874-1877; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March WILLIAMSON, William Durkee, a Representative from3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Forty- Maine; born in Canterbury, Conn., July 31, 1779; moved in boyhood with his father to Amherst, Mass.; attended theeighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate common schools and Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.;for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; ap- was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., inpointed Minister to Hawaii by President Cleveland in 1893 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedand served until his death in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 6, practice in Bangor, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts),1897; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. in 1807; State's attorney for Hancock County 1808-1815; Bibliography: DAB. postmaster of Bangor, Maine, 1810-1821; member of the WILLIS, Benjamin Albertson, a Representative from New Massachusetts State senate from 1816 until the separation ofYork; born in Roslyn, Queens County, N.Y., March 24, 1840; Maine from Massachusetts in 1820; served in the Mainewas graduated from Union College in 1861; studied law; was State senate in 1820 and 1821 and was elected its presidentadmitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in New both years; as president of the senate he became GovernorYork City; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army upon the resignation of Governor King in 1821; elected toin 1862; captain in the One Hundred and Nineteenth New the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823);York Volunteers, and subsequently colonel of the Twelfth was not a candidate for renomination in 1822; judge of pro- bate for Penobscot County 1824-1840; bank commissionerRegiment, New York State Volunteers; honorably dis- 1838-1841; died in Bangor, Maine, May 27, 1846; intermentcharged in 1864; resumed the practice of law; member of the in Mount Hope Cemetery. State assembly 1872-1878; elected as a Democrat to the Bibliography: DAB. Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4,1875- March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in WILLIE, Asa Hoxie, a Representative from Texas; born inthe Department of the Navy (Forty-fifth Congress); unsuc- Washington, Wilkes County, Ga., October 11, 1829; attendedcessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth private schools and pursued an academic course; moved toCongress; engaged in the practice of law and also in the real Washington County, Tex., in 1846 and settled in Brenham;estate business; died in New York City on October 14, 1886; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commencedinterment in Friends Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island; rein- practice in Brenham; district attorney of the third judicialterment in Woodlawn Cemetery. district of Texas 1852-1854; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army under General Gregg with the rank WILLIS, Edwin Edward, a Representative from Louisi- of major; moved to Galveston, Tex., in 1866; elected associateana; born in Arnaudville, St. Martin Parish, La., October 2, justice of the Texas Supreme Court the same year but was1904; graduated from St. Martin Parish public schools and removed in 1867 by the military commander; elected as afrom the law school of Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-Marchin 1926; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced the 3, 1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874;practice of law in New Orleans, La., and in St. Martinville, resumed the practice of law in Galveston; elected chief jus-La., since 1936; law lecturer in evening classes 1926-1936; tice of the Texas Supreme Court in November 1882 andowner and operator of a plantation in St. Martin Parish; served until his resignation March 3, 1888; resumed theelected to the State senate in January 1948 and served until practice of law; died in Galveston, Tex., March 16, 1899;elected to Congress; delegate to Democratic National Con- interment in Episcopal Cemetery. vention in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Bibliography: DAB. and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949- WILLING, Thomas, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; bornJanuary 3, 1969); chairman, Committee on Un-American Ac- in Philadelphia, Pa., December 19, 1731; completed prepara- tivities (Eighty-eighth through Ninetieth Congresses); unsuc- tory studies in Bath, England; studied law in London at thecessful candidate for renomination in 1968 to the Ninetieth Inner Temple; returned to Philadelphia and engaged in mer-Congress; legislative consultant and author; operated a cantile pursuits until 1793; member of the common council1,000-acre farm near Arnaudville, La.; died in St. Martin- in 1755; alderman in 1759; associate justice of the city courtyule, La., October 24, 1972; interment in St. Martin of Tours October 2, 1759; justice of the court of common pleas Febru-Catholic Cemetery. ary 28, 1761; mayor of Philadelphia in 1763; associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania 1767-1777; member of WILLIS, Francis, a Representative from Georgia; born in the committee of correspondence in 1774 and of the commit-Frederick County, Va., January 5, 1745; received a liberal tee of safety in 1775; served in the colonial house of repre-education; served as captain and colonel in the Revolution- sentatives; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775 andary War in 1777 and 1778; moved to Wilkes County, Ga., in 1776; president of the Bank of North America; first presi-1784; elected to the Second Congress (March 4, 1791-March 2064 Biographical Directory

3, 1793); moved to Maury County, Tenn.; died January 25,1860-1872; appointed postmaster of Monroe January 1, 1863, 1829. by President Lincoln, and removed by President Johnson WILLIS, Frank Bartlett, a Representative and a SenatorOctober 15, 1866; member of the commission to revise the from Ohio; born in Lewis Center, Delaware County, Ohio,constitution of the State in 1873; elected as a Republican to December 28, 1871; attended the common schools; graduatedthe Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses from the Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1894; studied(March 4, 1877-March 3,1883); chairman, Committee on law; was admitted to the bar in 1906; professor of historyExpenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-seventh and economics at Ohio Northern University 1894-1906; pro-Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; fessor of economics and law 1906-1910; member, State houseprincipal of the State normal school at Ypsilanti 1883-1885; of representatives 1900-1904; was elected as a Republican topresident of the Michigan Agricultural College 1885-1889; the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served fromFirst Assistant Secretary of Agriculture from March 23, March 4, 1911, to January 9, 1915, when he resigned, having1889, to December 31, 1893; continued the practice of law in been elected Governor; Governor of Ohio 1915-1917; electedWashington, D.C., until his death there October 22, 1896; as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 for theinterment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Monroe, Mich. term commencing March 4, 1921, and subsequently appoint- Bibliography: Bald, F. Clever. "Edwin Willits." In Michigan and the ed in January 1921 to fill the vacancy in the term ending Cleveland Era. Edited by Earl D. Babst and Lewis G. Vander Velde. Ann March 3, 1921, caused by the resignation of Warren G. Har- Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948. ding; reelected in 1926 and served from January 14, 1921, WILLOUGHBY, Westel, Jr., a Representative from New until his death; chairman, Committee on Territories andYork; born in Goshen, Conn., November 20, 1769; moved to Insular Possessions (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Con-Newport, N.Y.; studied medicine and engaged in practice; gresses); died in Delaware, Ohio, March 30, 1928; intermentappointed judge of the court of common pleas of Herkimer in Oak Grove Cemetery. County in 1805 and served until 1821; president of the Her- Bibliography:Ridinger,Gerald."ThePoliticalCareer of Frank B.kimer County Medical Society 1806-1816 and 1818-1836; Willis." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957; U.S. Congress. Me- served in the State assembly in 1808 and 1809; president of morial Addresses. 70th Cong., 1st sess., 1927-1928. Washington, D.C.: Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1929. the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the Western District of New York 1812-1844; member of the medical staff WILLIS, Jonathan Spencer, a Representative from Dela-of the militia and served in the War of 1812; successfully ware; born in Oxford, Talbot County, Md., April 5, 1830;contested as a Republican the election of William S. Smith attended the district schools and studied under privateto the Fourteenth Congress and served from December 13, tutors; taught school seven years and then entered the min-1815, to March 3, 1817; founded the town of Willoughby, istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church; served charges inOhio, and also Willoughby College (now a part of Syracuse Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, Pa., New York City, andUniversity); died in Newport, Herkimer County, N.Y., Octo- Stamford, Conn.; retired from the ministry in 1884; settledber 3, 1844; interment in the First Baptist Church Cemetery. on a farm near Milford, Del., and engaged in fruit growing; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1892 to the WILMOT, David, a Representative and a Senator from Fifty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-Pennsylvania; born in Bethany, Pa., January 20, 1814; com- fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessfulpleted preparatory studies in the academy at Aurora, N.Y.; candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress;studied law; was admitted to the bar of Bradford County, engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Milford, SussexPa., in 1834 and commenced practice in Towanda, Bradford County, Del., November 24, 1903; interment in Barrett'sCounty, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth, Chapel Cemetery, near Frederica, Kent County, Del. Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; was WILLIS, Raymond Eugene, a Senator from Indiana; bornthe author of the "Wilmot Proviso" relative to slavery in in Waterloo, De Kaib County, md., August 11, 1875; attend-newly annexed territory; took a leading part in the founding ed the public schools and graduated from Wabash College,of the Republican Party in 1854; presiding judge of the thir- Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1896; learned the printer's trade inteenth judicial district 1851-1861; unsuccessful Republican Waterloo, Tad.; moved to Angola, md., and engaged in thecandidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1857; elected as a newspaper publishing business in 1898; postmaster of AngolaRepublican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy 1910-1914; during the First World War served as chairmancaused by the resignation of and served of Steuben County Council of Defense 1917-1918; member, from March 14, 1861, to March 3, 1863; was not a candidate State house of representatives 1919-1921; unsuccessful candi-for reelection in 1862; member of the peace convention of date for election to the United States Senate in 1938; elected 1861, held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940, andto prevent the impending war; appointed by President Abra- served from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1947; was not aham Lincoln a judge of the United States Court of Claims in candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the publishing1863 and served until his death in Towanda, Pa., March 16, business as president of the Steuben Printing Co.; trustee of1868; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Tn-State College at Angola; died in Angola, md., March 21, Bibliography: DAB; Going, Charles. David Wilmot: Free-Soiler, A Biogra- 1956; interment in Circle Hill Cemetery. phy of the Great Advocate of the Wilmot Proviso. 1924. Reprint. Glouces- WILLITS, Edwin, a Representative from Michigan; born ter, Mass.: P. Smith, 1966. at Otto, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., April 24, 1830; moved to WILSHIRE, William Wallace, a Representative from Ar- Michigan with his parents in September 1836; was graduat-kansas; born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill., on Sep- ed from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Junetember 8, 1830; educated in the country schools; spent three 1855; settled in Monroe, Monroe County, Mich., in Aprilyears in California in gold mining, from 1852 to 1855, when 1856; editor of the Monroe Commercial 1856-1861; studiedhe returned to his home in Port Byron and engaged in the law; was admitted to the bar in December 1857 and com-coal mining and mercantile business; studied law, and was menced practice in Monroe; prosecuting attorney of Monroeadmitted to the bar in 1859; entered the Union Army as County 1860-1862; member of the State board of educationmajor in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Illi- Biographies 2065 nois Volunteer Infantry, and served from July 16, 1862, to WILSON, Earl, a Representative from Indiana; born on a July 16, 1864, when he resigned his commission on accountfarm near Huron, Lawrence County, md., on April 18, 1906; of ill health; after the war located in Little Rock, Ark., andattended the public schools and Purdue University, Lafay- commenced the practice of law; appointed solicitor generalette, md.; was graduated from the Coyne Electrical School, of the State in 1867; chief justice of the State supreme courtChicago, Ill., in 1928 and from Indiana University at Bloom- from 1868 to 1871, when he resigned and resumed the prac-ington in 1931; taught high school in Dubois, White, and tice of law; presented credentials as a Republican Member-Decatur Counties, md., 1931-1938; high school principal in elect to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4,Jackson County, md., in 1939 and 1940; elected as a Republi- 1873, to June 16, 1874, when he was succeeded by Thomascan to the Seventy-seventh and to the eightsucceeding Con- M. Gunter, who contested his election; elected as a Democratgresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1959);unsuccessful can- to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);didate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; engaged inelected to the Eighty-seventh and to the Eighty-eighth Con- the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he died unsuccessful can- August 19, 1888; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery, Littlegresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); Rock, Ark. didate in 1964 for reelection to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected to the State senate, ninety-sixth and ninety-seventh WILSON, Alexander, a Representative from Virginia; sessions; is a resident of Bedford, md. born in that State; completed preparatory studies; member of the State house of delegates in 1803 and in 1804; elected WILSON, Edgar, a Representative from Idaho; born in as a Republican to the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancyArmstrong County, Pa., near the city of Pittsburgh, Febru- caused by the resignation of Andrew Moore; reelected to theary 25, 1861; attended the public schools; wasgraduated Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from December 4,from the law department of the University of Michigan at 1804, to March 3, 1809. Ann Arbor in 1884 and admitted to the bar; moved to Idaho WILSON, Benjamin, a Representative from West Virgin-in 1884, settled in Boise City and commenced the practice of ia; born in Wilsonburg, Harrison County, Va. (now Westlaw; elected city attorney of Boise City in 1887 and district Virginia), April 30, 1825; attended the Northwestern Virgin-attorney in 1888; member of the constitutional convention ia Academy at Clarksburg and the law school in Staunton,that framed the State constitution in 1890; elected as a Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced prac-Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895- tice in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virgin-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for reelection, having ia); Commonwealth attorney for Harrison County 1852-1860;been nominated as a candidate for the bench; unsuccessful member of the State constitutional convention in 1861;candidate for justice of the State supreme court in 1896; member of the State constitutional convention of West Vir-elected as a Silver Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress ginia in 1871; delegate to the Democratic National Conven-(March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); resumed the practice of law tion in 1872; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 toin Boise, Idaho, where he died January 3, 1915; interment in the Forty-third Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Morris Hill Cemetery. fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3,1883); Assistant Attorney General of the WILSON, Edgar Campbell (son of Thomas Wilson of Vir- United States 1885-1893; died in Clarksburg, W.Va., Aprilginia and father of Eugene McLanahan Wilson), a Repre- 26, 1901; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. sentative from Virginia; born in Morgantown, Monongalia WILSON, Charles, a Representative from Texas; born inCounty, Va. (now West Virginia), October 18, 1800; complet- Trinity, Trinity County, Tex., June 1, 1933; attended theed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar public schools; graduated from Trinity High School, 1951;June 24, 1832, and commenced practice in Morgantown; while a student at Sam Houston State University at Hunts-elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress ville, Tex., was appointed to the United States Naval Acade-(March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); was an unsuccessful candi- my and received a B.S. from the Academy in 1956; served indate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; the United States Navy, with rank of lieutenant, 1956-1960;resumed the practice of law in Morgantown; appointed pros- engaged in the lumber business; elected to the Texas houseecuting attorney in the circuit court of Marion County in of representatives, 1960-1966; elected to the ,1842; died in Morgantown, Va. (now West Virginia), April 1966-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to24, 1860; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January WILSON, Emmett (grandson of Augustus Emmett Max- 3, 1989); is a resident of Lufkin, Tex. well), a Representative from Florida; born during the tempo- WILSON, Charles Herbert, a Representative from Califor-rary residence of his parents at Belize, BritishHonduras, nia; born in Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, February 15,Central America, September 17, 1882; moved with his par- 1917; with his parents, moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1922ents to Chipley, Fla.; attended the public schools and Florida and attended the public schools there and in Inglewood;State College at Tallahassee; employed as a railroad telegra- employee of a bank, 1935-1942; served as a staff sergeant in pher and later as a stenographer; was graduated from the the United States Army from June 1942 to December 1945,law department of the John B. Stetson University at De with overseas service in the European Theater of Oper-Land in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and ations; in 1945, established an insurance agency in Los An-commenced practice in Marianna, Fla.; moved to Pensacola geles, Calif.; served in the State legislature, 1954-1962, as assemblyman from the Sixty-sixth Assembly District; electedin 1906 and continued the practice of law; appointed assist- as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the eight succeed-ant United States attorney for the northern district of Flori- ing Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1981); censuredda February 1, 1907, and United States attorney for the by the House of Representatives on June 10, 1980, for finan-same district October 7, 1907, holding theposition until cial misconduct; unsuccessful candidate for renomination inMarch 1909; State's attorney for the first judicial circuit of 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; was a resident of Tan-Florida 1911-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third tallon, Md., until his death in Clinton, Md., on July 21, 1984;and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); interment in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916; resumed 2066 Biographical Directory

the practice of law in Pensacola, Fla., and died there MayN.Y., and was graduated from Yale College in 1867; taught 29, 1918; interment in St. John's Cemetery. in a preparatory school four years; was graduated from the WILSON, Ephraim King (father of Ephraim King WilsonColumbia College Law School, New York City, in 1875; was [1821-1891]), a Representative from Maryland; bornnearadmitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in New Snow Hill, Somerset (now Worcester) County, Md., Septem-York City; one of the founders of the Union League Club ber 15, 1771; received instruction in private schools andwasand its president in 1888 and 1889; elected as a Republican graduated from Princeton College in 1790; studied law;wasto the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced practice infrom March 4, 1895, to September 30, 1897, when he re- Snow Hill, Md.; elected to the Twentieth Congress andre-signed to become postmaster; appointed postmaster of Brook- elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (Marchlyn, N.Y., and served from October 1897 until December 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); was not a candidate for renomina- 1901; resumed the practice of law; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., tion in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress; resumed theSeptember 25, 1910; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. practice of law until his death in Snow Hill, Md., on Janu- ary 2, 1834; interment in the Makemie Presbyterian Church- WILSON, Frank Eugene, a Representative from New yard. York; born in Roxbury, Delaware County, N.Y., December 22, 1857; attended the public schools and the Poughkeepsie WILSON, Ephraim King (son of Ephraim King WilsonMilitary Academy; was graduated from the Jefferson Medi- [1771-1834]), a Representative and a Senator from Maryland;cal College, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1882; practiced medicine in born in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md., December 22,Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N.Y., until April 1888; 1821; attended Union Academy at Snow Hill and Washing-moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1888 and continued the practice ton Academy, Princess Anne, Md.; graduated from Jeffersonof medicine; senior physician, a director, and member of the College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1840; taught school for sixboard of governors of the Bushwick Hospital and visiting years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 andphysician to the Swedish Hospital, both of Brooklyn, N.Y.; commenced practice in Snow Hill, Md.; member, State houseelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and of delegates 1847; presidential elector on the DemocraticFifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); un- ticket in 1852; because of impaired health abandoned thesuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth practice of law in 1867 and retired to his farm; examinerCongress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in and treasurer of the school board of Worcester County in1900; elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress(March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); declined to bea candidate forrenomination in 1914; resumed the practice of medicine in renomination in 1874; judge of the first judicial circuit ofBrooklyn, N.Y., until his death there July 12, 1935; remains Maryland 1878-1884; elected as a Democrat in 1884 to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1885, untilwere cremated and the ashes deposited in Roxbury Ceme- his death; had been reelected in 1890 for the term beginning tery, Roxbury, N.Y. March 4, 1891; died in Washington, D.C., February 24, 1891; WILSON, George Allison, a Senator from Iowa; born on a interment in Makemie Presbyterian Churchyard, Snow Hill,farm near Menlo, Adair County, Iowa, April 1, 1884; attend- Md. ed the rural schools; later attended Grinnell (Iowa) College Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 52nd Cong., 1stsess., and graduated from the law school of the State University of 1891-1892. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893. Iowa at Iowa City in 1907; was admitted to the bar the same WILSON, Eugene McLanahan (son of Edgar Campbellyear and commenced practice in Des Moines, Iowa; assistant Wilson, grandson of Thomas Wilson of Virginia, and great-county attorney of Polk County, Iowa, 1912-1914 and county grandson of Isaac Griffin), a Representative from Minnesota;attorney 1915-1916; district judge 1917-1921; member, State born in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Va. (now Westsenate 1925-1935; Governor of Iowa 1939-1943; elected as a Virginia), December 25, 1833; attended thecommon schoolsRepublican to the United States Senate for the term begin- and Morgantown Academy; was graduated from Jeffersonning January 3, 1943, but was not sworn in until January College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1852; studied law;was admitted14, 1943, continuing as Governor during the interim, and to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Winona,served from January 14, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuccess- Minn.; United States attorney for the district of Minnesotaful candidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of with residence in Minneapolis 1857-1861; continued thelaw; died in Des Moines, Iowa, September 8, 1953; interment practice of law in Minneapolis; served in the Union Armyin Glendale Cemetery. during the Civil War as captain of Company A, First Minne- sota Mounted Rangers; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- WILSON, George Howard, a Representative from Oklaho- first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3,1871); was not ama; born in Mattoon, Coles County, Ill., August 21, 1905; candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice ofmoved with his parents to Oklahoma and attended the law; elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1872 and 1874;unsuc-public schools of Enid; graduated from Phillips University, cessful candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourthEnid, Okla., in 1926; student at the University of Michigan Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention inLaw School in 1926 and 1927, and graduated from the law 1876; member of the State senate in 1878 and 1879;unsuc-school of the University of Oklahoma in 1929; was admitted cessful candidate for Governor in 1888; died whileon a visitto the bar in 1928 and commenced the practice of law in to regain his health in Nassau, New Providence Island, Brit- 1929 in Enid, Okla.; deputy district court clerk of Garfield ish West Indies, April 10, 1890; interment in Lakewood Cem-County, Okla., in 1928; special agent, Federal Bureau of etery, Minneapolis, Minn. Investigation, 1934-1938; city attorney of Enid, Okla., 1939- 1942; served as a colonel in Judge Advocate General's De- WILSON, Francis Henry, a Representative from Newpartment, United States Army, with overseas duty in the York; born in Clinton, Oneida County, N.Y., February11, South Atlantic Theater of Operations 1942-1946; elected as a 1844; lived in Utica, N.Y., until tenyears of age, when heDemocrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-Jan- moved with his parents to the Westmoreland farm; attendeduary 3,1951); unsuccessful for reelection in 1950 to the the district school, Dwight's Preparatory School, Clinton,Eighty-second Congress; director of Oklahoma State Crime Biographies 2067

Bureau in1951; State judge, Superior Court, Garfield WILSON, Isaac, a Representative from New York; born in County, Okia., 1952-1968; chief judge, State AdministrativeMiddlebury, Vt., June 25, 1780; served in the War of 1812 as Zone No. 1, 1967; president, Oklahoma Judicial Conference,captain of Cavalry; moved to Genesee County, N.Y.; member 1968; district judge, 1969 to date; chief judge, Division No. 1, of the State assembly in 1816 and 1817; served in the State Judicial District No. 4; was a resident of Enid, Okla., untilsenate 1818-1821; judge of the Genesee County Court from his death there July 16, 1985; interment in Memorial ParkMay 9, 1821, to February 10, 1823; presented credentials as a Cemetery. Member-elect to the Eighteenth Congress and served from WILSON, George Washington, a Representative fromMarch 4, 1823, to January 7, 1824, when he was succeeded Ohio; born in Brighton, Clark County, Ohio, February 22,by Parmenio Adams, who contested his election; again judge 1840; attended the common schools and Antioch College,of the Genesee County Court from February 2, 1830, to Yellow Springs, Ohio; enlisted in the Ninety-fourth Regi-January 23, 1836; moved to Batavia, Kane County, Ill.; ap- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 8, 1862; commis-pointed postmaster of Batavia on February 6, 1841, and sioned second lieutenant and later first lieutenant; first lieu-served until July 21, 1846, when his successor was appoint- tenant in the First Regiment, United States Veteran Volun-ed; died in Batavia, Ill., on October 25, 1848; interment in teer Engineers, July 2, 1864, and afterward captain; mus-East Batavia Cemetery. tered out October 1, 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar August 7, 1866, and practiced in London, Ohio; prosecut- WILSON, James, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in ing attorney of Madison County 1866-1870; member of theCarskerdo, near St. Andrews, Scotland, September 14, 1742; State house of representatives 1871-1874; served in the Stateattended the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Ed- senate 1877-1881; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-thirdinburgh; immigrated to the United States in 1765; resided in and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897);New York City until 1766, when he moved to Philadelphia, resumed the practice of law in London, Ohio; delegate to thePa.; tutor in the College of Philadelphia (now the University Republican National Convention in 1896; mayor of Newof Pennsylvania); studied law; was admitted to the bar in London; prosecuting attorney of Madison County; died in1767; practiced in Reading and Carlisle, Pa., and for a short London, Ohio, November 27, 1909; interment in Kirkwoodtime, during Howe's occupation of Philadelphia, in Annap- Cemetery. olis, Md.; also engaged in literary pursuits; member of the Provincial Convention of Pennsylvania in 1774; Member of WILSON, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania;the Continental Congress 1775-1777, 1783, and 1785-1786; born in Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pa., in 1778; completedchosen colonel of the Fourth Battalion of Associators in preparatory studies; studied law in Harrisburg, Pa.; was ad-1775; advocate general for France in America and guided mitted to the bar December 21, 1812, and commenced prac- tice in Allentown, Pa.; prothonotary and clerk of Lehighthat country's legal relations to the Confederation; member County Courts 1815-1821; elected to the Eighteenth andof the board of war; brigadier general of the State militia; a Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, untilsigner of the Declaration of Independence; a delegate from his death in Allentown, Pa., August 14, 1826; interment inPennsylvania to the Federal Convention in 1787 and a dele- Union Cemetery. gate to the State ratification convention; settled in Philadel- phia in 1778 and resumed the practice of law; Associate WILSON, Henry, a Senator from Massachusetts and aJustice of the United States Supreme Court 1789-1798; first Vice President of the United States; born Jeremiah Jonesprofessor of law in the College of Philadelphia in 1790 and in Colbath in Farmington, N.H., February 16, 1812; worked onthe University of Pennsylvania when they were united in a farm; attended the common schools; had his name legally1791; died in Edenton, N.C., August 21, 1798; interment in changed by the legislature to Henry Wilson in 1833; movedthe Johnston burial ground on the Hayes plantation near to Natick, Mass., in 1833 and learned the shoemaker's trade;Edenton, N.C.; reinterment in Christ Churchyard, Philadel- attended the Strafford, Wolfsboro, and Concord Academiesphia, Pa., in 1906. for short periods; taught school in Natick, Mass., where he Bibliography: DAB; Smith,CharlesPage. JamesWilson,Founding later engaged in the manufacture of shoes; member of the Father, 1742-1798. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956; State legislature between 1841 and 1852; owner and editor of Wilson, James. Selected Political Essays of James Wilson. Edited with an the Boston Republican 1848-1851; unsuccessful candidate for introductory essay by Randolph G. Adams. New York: Knopf, 1930. election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1853; unsuccessful candi- WILSON, James (father of James Wilson [1797-1881]), a date for governor of Massachusetts in 1853; elected in 1855Representative from New Hampshire; born in Peterboro, to the United States Senate by a coalition of Free-Soilers,N.H., August 16, 1766; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Americans, and Democrats to fill the vacancy caused by theMass., and was graduated from Harvard University in 1789; resignation of Edward Everett; reelected as a Republican instudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced 1859, 1865, and 1871, and served from January 31, 1855, topractice in Peterboro, N.H.; member of the State house of March 3, 1873, when he resigned to become Vice President;representatives 1803-1808 and 1812-1814; elected as a Feder- chairman, Committee on Military Affairs and the Militiaalist to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, (Thirty-seventh through Fortieth Congresses), Committee on1811); was not a candidate for renomination in 1810; re- Military Affairs (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); insumed the practice of law; moved to Keene, Cheshire 1861 he raised and commanded the Twenty-second Regi-County, N.H., in 1815 and continued the practice of law; died ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; elected Vice Presi-in Keene, N.H., January 4, 1839; interment in Woodland dent of the United States on the Republican ticket withCemetery. President Ulysses Grant and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in the Capitol Building at Washington, D.C., WILSON, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania; November 22, 1875; interment in Old Dell Park Cemetery,born in Millerstown (now Fairfield), Pa., April 28, 1779; at- Natick, Mass. tended the common schools; learned the trade of cabinet- Bibliography: DAB; Abbott, Richard. Cobbler in Congress: The Life ofmaker; engaged in mercantile pursuits and also interested in Henry Wilson, 1812-1875. Lexington University Press of Kentucky, 1972; the real estate business; justice of the peace 1811-1822; elect- McKay, Ernest. Henry Wilson: Practical Radical, A Portrait of a Politi- ed to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses cian. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971. (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); again a justice of the peace 2068 Biographical Directory

1830-1859; engaged in the real estate business; died in Get-attended the public schools and Weatherford (Tex.) College; tysburg, Adams County, Pa., July 19, 1868; interment inwas graduated from the law department of the University of Evergreen Cemetery. Texas at Austin in 1896; was admitted to the bar the same WILSON, James (son of James Wilson [1766-1839]), a Rep-year and commenced practice in Weatherford, Tex.; assist- resentative from New Hampshire; born in Peterboro, N.H.,ant prosecuting attorney of Parker County 1898-1900 and March 18, 1797; attended the academies at New Ipswich,prosecuting attorney 1902-1908; chairman of the Democratic Atkinson, and Exeter; moved with his parents to Keene,county executive committee 1908-19 12; moved to Fort Worth N.H., in 1815; was graduated from Middlebury College inin November 1912 and served as assistant district attorney 1820; member of the State militia 1820-1840 and successivelyof Tarrant County until July 1913; United States attorney promoted from captain to major general; studied law; wasfor the northern district of Texas from July 1913 to March admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Keene, Cheshire County, N.H.; member of the State house ofCongresses and served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1919, representatives 1825-1837, 1840, and 1846, and served aswhen he resigned; appointed by President Woodrow Wilson speaker in 1828; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1835as United States district judge for the northern district of and 1838; delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1840;Texas, serving from March 13, 1919, until his retirement in surveyor general of public lands in the Territories of Wiscon-1947; died in Fort Worth, Tex., August 3, 1951; interment in sin and Iowa 1841-1845; elected as a Whig to the ThirtiethRose Hill Cemetery. and Thirty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1847, to September 9, 1850, when he resigned; chairman, Commit- WILSON, James Falconer, a Representative and a Sena- tee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Thirti-tor from Iowa; born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, Octo- eth Congress); appointed one of the commissioners to settleber 19, 1828; pursued an academic course; apprenticed to the private land claims in California in 1851 and served in thisharnessmaker's trade; studied law; was admitted to the bar capacity until 1853; settled in San Francisco and remainedin 1851 and practiced in Newark, Ohio, 1851-1853; moved to there until 1867, when he returned to Keene, N.H.; again aFairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1853 and resumed the member of the State house of representatives in 1871 andpractice of law; member of the constitutional convention of 1872; died in Keene, N.H., May 29, 1881; interment in Wood-Iowa in 1857; member, State house of representatives 1857, land Cemetery. 1859; member, State senate 1859-1861, and was its president in 1861; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Con- WILSON, James (father of John Lockwood Wilson), a Rep- resentative from Indiana; born in Crawfordsville, Montgom-gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel ery County, Ind., April 9, 1825; was graduated from WabashR. Curtis; reelected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and College, Crawfordsville, md., in 1842; studied law; was ad-Fortieth Congresses and served from October 8, 1861, to mitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Craw-March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renomination in fordsville, md.; served in the Mexican War from June 17,1868; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-eighth 1846, to June 16, 1847; during the Civil War was appointed through Fortieth Congresses); one of the managers appointed captain of Volunteers November 26, 1862, and honorablyby the House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the discharged December 6, 1865, as brevet lieutenant colonel;impeachment proceedings against President Andrew John- elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixthson; was tendered the position of Secretary of State in the Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); Minister to Ven-Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant but declined; subsequent- ezuela from 1866 until his death in Caracas, Venezuela,ly appointed by President Grant as government director of August 8, 1867; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfords-the Union Pacific Railroad and served eight years; unsuc- ville, Ind. cessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1872; elected as a Republican to the WILSON, James, a Representative from Iowa; born on aUnited States Senate in 1882; reelected in 1888 and served farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 16, 1835; immigrated tofrom March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate the United States in 1852 with his parents, who settled infor reelection in 1894; chairman, Committee on Mines and Norwich, Conn.; moved to Iowa in 1855 and located in Traer, Tama County; attended the public schools and GrinnellMining (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Expenditures (Iowa) College; engaged in agricultural pursuits; taughtof Public Money (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Revi- school; member of the State house of representatives 1867-sion of the Laws of the United States (Forty-ninth through 1871, serving as speaker in 1870 and 1871; regent of theFifty-second Congresses), Committee on Education and Labor State university 1870-1874; elected as a Republican to the(Fifty-second Congress); died in Fairfield, Iowa, April 22, Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-1895; interment in Fairfield-Evergreen Cemetery. March 3, 1877); member of the Iowa Railway Commission Bibliography: DAB. 1878-1883; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the WILSON, James Jefferson, a Senator from New Jersey; Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1883, untilborn in Essex County, N.J., in 1775; attended the common the closing day, March 3, 1885, when he was succeeded byschools; editor and publisher of the True American of Tren- Benjamin T. Frederick, who contested his election; directorton 1801-1824; clerk in the State general assembly in 1804; of the agricultural experiment station and professor of agri-judge advocate and captain, Hunterdon Brigade, New Jersey culture in the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames 189 1-1897;Militia, in 1806; surrogate of Hunterdon County in 1808; was Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinets of Presidentsmember, State general assembly 1809-1811; brigadier gener- McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, and served from March 5,al and adjutant general of New Jersey 1810-1812; reappoint- 1897, to March 3, 1913; editor of the Agricultural Digest;ed brigadier general and adjutant general of New Jersey in died in Traer, Iowa, August 26, 1920; interment in Bucking- ham Cemetery. 1814; captain in the Third Regiment, Hunterdon Brigade, Bibliography: DAB; Wilcox, Earley Vernon. Tama Jim. Boston: The 1814; captain in the New Jersey Militia 1814; brigadier gen- Stratford Co., 1930. eral and quartermaster general of New Jersey 1821-1824; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and WILSON, James Clifton, a Representative from Texas;served from March 4, 1815, to January 8, 1821, when he born in Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, Tex., June 21, 1874;resigned; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair- Biographies 2069 man, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Fourteenth WILSON, John Haden, a Representative from Pennsylva- and Fifteenth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Sixteenthnia; born in Nashville, Tenn., August 20, 1867; moved with Congress); appointed postmaster of Trenton, N.J., in 1821his parents to Harmony, Butler County, Pa., the same year; and served until his death in that city July 28, 1824; inter-attended the public schools; was graduated from Harmony ment in the First Baptist Church Cemetery. (Pa.) Collegiate Institute, Zelienople (Pa.) Academy, and from Grove City (Pa.) College; studied law and was admitted WILSON, , a Representative from Indi- ana; born near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, Novemberto the bar in Butler, Pa., in 1893; taught school; commenced 25, 1828; completed preparatory studies; studied law; wasthe practice of law in Butler in 1896; member of the Penn- admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Indiana andsylvania National Guard for three years and served during settled in Connersville and continued the practice of law;the Homestead riots; was solicitor for the city of Butler judge of the court of common pleas 1860-1865; elected judge1906-1934, except while a Member of Congress; delegate to of the circuit court in October 1865 and served until histhe Democratic National Conventions in 1916, 1932, 1936, election to Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3,to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative- 1875); was not a candidate for reelection in 1874; resumedelect Edward E. Robbins and served from March 4, 1919, to the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., where heMarch 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 died September 24, 1901; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; served as judge of the several courts of Butler County, Pa., WILSON, John, a Representative from South Carolina;1933-1943; died in Butler, Pa., on January 28, 1946; inter- born at Wilson's Ferry (now Peizer), Anderson County, S.C.,ment in North Cemetery. August 11, 1773; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Anderson County, near Golden WILSON, John Henry, a Representative from Kentucky; Grove, S.C.; also operated a public ferry across the Saludaborn in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Ky., January 30, River at what is now known as Peizer; member, State house1846; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Tus- of representatives, 18 12-1817; elected to the Seventeenth,culum College, Greeneville, Tenn., in June 1870; studied law; Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4,1821-was admitted to the bar in September 1871 and commenced March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826practice in Barbourville, Knox County, KY.; was also greatly to the Twentieth Congress; died at his home near Goldeninterested in agricultural pursuits and the construction of Grove, in Anderson County, S.C., August 13, 1828; intermentthe Dixie Highway; member of the State senate 1883-1887; in the family cemetery on his plantation, which is now aelected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second part of the industrial city of Pelzer, S.C. Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful can- WILSON, John, a Representative from Massachusetts;didate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; born in Peterboro, N.H., January 10, 1777; was graduatedresumed the practice of his profession in Barbourville, KY.; from Harvard University in 1799; studied law; was admitteddied in Louisville, Ky., January 14, 1923; interment in Bar- to the bar in 1802 at Peterboro, N.H., and commenced prac-bourville Cemetery. tice in Belfast, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts); WILSON, John Lockwood (son of James Wilson of Indi- served as a captain in the State militia; elected as a Federal- ana [1825-1867]), a Representative and a Senator from ist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3,Washington; born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1815); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed the practice of his professionmd., August 7, 1850; attended the common schools; messen- in Belfast; was elected to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4,ger during the Civil War; graduated from Wabash College, 1817-March 3, 1819); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Crawfordsville, md., in 1874; studied law; was admitted to tion in 1818; engaged in the practice of law until his deaththe bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Crawfordsville; in Belfast, Maine, August 9, 1848; interment in Grove Ceme- member, State house of representatives 1880; appointed by tery. President Chester Arthur as receiver of public moneys at Spokane Falls and Colfax, Washington Territory 1882-1887; WILSON, John Frank, a Delegate from the Territory ofupon the admission of Washington as a State into the Union Arizona; born near Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 7,was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress; re- 1846; moved with his parents to Alabama; attended theelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and common schools and Rhuhama (Ala.) College; served in theserved from November 20, 1889, to February 18, 1895, when Confederate Army as a member of Company B, First Battal-he resigned to become Senator; elected as a Republican to ion, Volunteer Infantry, and later on staff duty under Gen-the United States Senate on February 1, 1895, to fill the eral Hindman until 1863, after which he served as lieuten-vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1893, but did not ant colonel of a regiment; studied law; was admitted to theassume his senatorial duties until February 19, 1895; served bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Fayetteville, Ark.;until March 3, 1899; was an unsuccessful candidate for re- member of the State house of representatives in 1877 andelection in 1898; chairman, Committee on Indian Depreda- 1878; prosecuting attorney for the fourth judicial district intions (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); published the 1885 and 1886; moved to the Territory of Arizona; settled inSeattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Wash.; died in Washing- Prescott in 1887 and continued the practice of law; memberton, D.C., on November 6, 1912; interment in Oak Hill Ceme- of the constitutional convention in 1891; probate judge oftery, Crawfordsville, md. Yavapai County 1893-1895; delegate to the Democratic Na- Bibliography: DAB. tional Convention in 1896; appointed attorney general of the Territory of Arizona by Governor Franklin and served WILSON, John Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; during 1896 and 1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-born in Bell, Highland County, Ohio, April 16, 1811; received sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); elected to thea limited schooling; engaged in mercantile and agricultural Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); waspursuits; during the Civil War was appointed first lieutenant not a candidate for renomination in 1900 and 1904; resumedof Company E, Seventieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- the practice of his profession; died in Prescott, Ariz., April 7,try, November 2, 1861, and was discharged as captain No- 1911; interment in Mountain View Cemetery. vember 27, 1862; member of the State senate 1863-1866; 2070 Biographical Directory

elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and WILSON, Pete, a Senator from California; born in Lake Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3,1873); Forest, Lake County, Ill., August 23, 1933; attended private chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Forty-first and Forty-school in St. Louis, Mo.; graduated, Yale University 1956; second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ingraduated, University of California School of Law, Berkeley, 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; engaged in the handling of1962; served in the United States Marine Corps 1955-1958; loans and mortgages; died in Tranquillity (near what is nowadmitted to the California bar in 1963 and commenced prac- known as Seaman), Adams County, Ohio, on October 6, 1891;tice in San Diego; member, California legislature 1966-1971; interment in Tranquillity Cemetery. mayor of San Diego 1971-1983; elected as a Republican to WILSON, Joseph Franklin, a Representative from Texas;the United States Senate in 1982 for the term ending Janu- born in Corsicana, Navarro County, Tex., March 18, 1901;ary 3, 1989. attended the elementary school at Corsicana; at the age of twelve moved to Memphis, Tex. (in the Panhandle), and WILSON, Riley Joseph, a Representative from Louisiana; attended the public schools until 1916; during the Firstborn near Goldonna, Winn Parish, La., November 12, 1871; World War enrolled at Peacock Military College, San Anto- attended the public schools and Beeson College, Arcadia, La.; nio, Tex., from September 1917 to June 1918 and at Tennes-was graduated from luka (Miss.) Normal Institute in 1894; see Military Institute at Sweetwater from September 1918 toprincipal of Harrisonburg High School 1895-1897; studied June 1919, advancing through the grades to first sergeant;law; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced prac- graduated from Baylor University Law School, Waco, Tex.,tice in Harrisonburg, La.; member of the State constitutional in 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-convention in 1898; edited the Catahoula News 1898-1904; menced practice in Dallas, Tex.; delegate to the Democraticmember of the State house of representatives 1900-1904; National Convention in 1936; chairman of the Dallas Countydistrict attorney of the eighth judicial district from Decem- Democratic Executive Committee 1942-1945; district judge ofber 1, 1904, until his resignation on May 1, 1910, to accept a the criminal district court of Texas in 1943 and 1944; electedjudicial appointment; judge of the eighth judicial district as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the three succeedingfrom May 1, 1910, until his resignation on December 1, 1914, Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1955); was not ahaving been elected to Congress; delegate to the Democratic candidate for renomination in 1954; appointed judge ofNational Convention in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Criminal District Court No. 1, Dallas, Tex., in 1955, in whichSixty-fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, capacity he served until September 1968, when he retired1915-January 3, 1937); chairman, Committee on Elections due to illness; died in Dallas, Tex., October 13, 1968; inter- ment in Hillcrest Memorial Park. No. 1 (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Flood Control (Seventy-second through Seventy-fourth Congresses); unsuc- WILSON, Joseph Gardner (cousin of James Willis Nes-cessful candidate for renomination in 1936; unsuccessful can- mith), a Representative from Oregon; born in Acworth, Sulli-didate for Governor in 1928; retired from public and political van County, N.H., December 13, 1826; moved with his par-activities; died in Ruston, La., February 23, 1946; interment ents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1828 and later to a farm nearin Greenwood Cemetery. Reading, Hamilton County; attended the district schools until 1840 and Cary's Academy from 1840 to 1842; was grad- WILSON, Robert, a Senator from Missouri; born near uated from Marietta (Ohio) College in 1846; professor inStaunton, Va., in November 1803; moved to Howard County, Farmer's College, near Cincinnati, in 1849; was graduatedMo., in 1820; taught school; probate judge of Howard County from the Cincinnati Law School in 1852 and was admitted toin 1825; clerk of the circuit and county courts 1829-1840; the bar; moved to Oregon Territory in 1852 and commencedappointed brigadier general of the State forces in 1837 and the practice of law in Salem, Oreg.; clerk of the Territorialserved during the so-called Mormon war; studied law; was legislature in 1853; first secretary of the Willamette Woolenadmitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1840; moved Co. when it was established in 1854; prosecuting attorney ofto Huntsville, Mo.; member, State house of representatives Marion County 1860-1862; associate judge of the State su-1844; moved to Andrew County, Mo., in 1852; member, State preme court 1864-1866 and 1868-1870; unsuccessful candi-senate 1854; Union delegate to the State convention called to date for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; re-determine the attitude on secession in 1861 and elected vice sumed the practice of his profession; elected as a Republicanpresident of the convention, later acting as president; ap- to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873,pointed as a Unionist to the United States Senate to fill the until his death in Marietta, Ohio, July 2, 1873; interment invacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo P. Johnson and Pioneer Cemetery, The Dalles, Oreg. served from January 17, 1862, to November 13, 1863, when a WILSON, Nathan, a Representative from New York; bornsuccessor was elected; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Bolton, Worcester County, Mass., December 23, 1758;in Marshall, Saline County, Mo., on May 10, 1870; interment moved with his family to Greenwich, Hampshire County,in Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo. Mass., where he attended school; served two enlistments in Massachusetts regiments during the Revolutionary War in WILSON, Robert Canton, a Representative from Califor- 1777 and 1780; moved to New Perth (now Salem), Washing-nia; born in Calexico, Imperial County, Calif., April 5, 1916; ton County, N.Y.; enlisted as a private in the Sixteenthattended California public schools, San Diego State College, Regiment, Albany County Militia; appointed by Governorand Otis Art Institute; during the Second World War operat- George Clinton in 1791 adjutant in Washington County Mili-ed Conship Commissary and served as a private in the tia Regiment; town collector in 1801 and 1802; sheriff ofUnited States Army; lieutenant colonel, United States Washington County 1802-1806; elected as a Republican toMarine Corps Reserve; partner in two advertising agencies the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-in San Diego; chairman, Republican Congressional Cam- tion of David Thomas and served from June 3, 1808, topaign Committee, 1962-1966; elected as a Republican to the March 3, 1809; justice of the peace 1808-1816; engaged inEighty-third and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (Jan- agricultural pursuits; died near Salem, Washington County,uary 3, 1953-January 3, 1981); was not a candidate for re- N.Y., July 25,1834; interment in Evergreen Cemetery,election in 1980; chairman, Washington Industrial Team and Salem, N.Y. 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WILSON, Robert Patterson Clark, a Representative fromgates in 1816 and 1817; resumed the practice of law; died in Missouri; born in Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., August 8,Morgantown, Va., January 24, 1826; interment in Oak Grove 1834; moved with his parents to Platte County; attendedCemetery. William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1853; studied law; was WILSON, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylvania; admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice inborn near Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1772; Seguin, Tex., in 1855; returned to Missouri in 1858; moved toattended the common schools; had the contract for supplying Leavenworth, Kans., in 1860; was a member of the firstthe western forts of the United States from Niagara to New State house of representatives of Kansas from March toOrleans; engaged in shipbuilding in Erie, Pa., in 1805; built June 4, 1861; returned to Missouri in 1861; member of thevessels for commerce on the Great Lakes; burgess of Erie in State house of representatives of Missouri in 1871 and 1872 1807; town clerk in 1808; treasurer of Erie County 1809- and served as speaker both years; member of the State1812; county commissioner in 1811; justice of the peace; senate in 1879 and 1880; delegate to the Democratic Nation- elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill al Convention in 1888; president of the school board of Plattethe vacancy caused by the resignation of Abner Lacock; City, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congressreelected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from May to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James N. Burnes;4, 1813, to March 3, 1817; member of the State house of reelected to the Fifty-second Congress and served from De-representatives 1817-1820; prothonotary and clerk of court cember 2, 1889, to March 3, 1893; chairman, Committee onof Erie County 1819-1824; died in Erie, Pa., October 4, 1824. Pensions (Fifty-second Congress); resumed the practice of his WILSON, Thomas, a Representative from Minnesota; profession in Platte City, Platte County, Mo.; died in Kansasborn in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, May 16, 1827; City, Mo., December 21, 1916; interment in Marshall Ceme-attended the common schools; immigrated to the United tery, Platte City, Mo. States in 1839 with his parents, who settled in Venango WILSON, Stanyarne, a Representative from South Caroli-County, Pa.; was graduated from Allegheny College, Mead- na; born in Yorkville (now York), S.C., January 10, 1860;yule, Pa., in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar in attended Kings Mountain Military School and WashingtonFebruary 1855 and commenced practice in Winona, Minn.; and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; studied law; was admit- member of the Minnesota constitutional convention in 1857; ted to the bar by an act of the legislature in 1880, then beingjudge of the third judicial district court 1857-1864; associate a minor; settled in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, S.C.,justice of the supreme court of Minnesota in 1864; chief in 1881; practiced law and was also interested in cottonjustice from 1864 to July 1869, when he resigned; resumed manufactures, gold mining, iron works, and agriculture;the practice of law; member of the State house of represent- member of the State house of representatives 1884-1886 and atives 1880-1882; served in the State senate 1882-1885; elect- 1890-1892; served in the State senate 1892-1895; member ofed as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887- the State constitutional convention in 1895; elected as aMarch 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuc- Democrat to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Con-cessful candidate for Governor in 1890; delegate to the gresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901); continued the prac-Democratic National Convention in 1892; general counsel for tice of law in Spartanburg, S.C., and later in Richmond, Va.,the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad until where he moved in 1913; returned to Spartanburg, S.C., inhis death in St. Paul, Minn., April 3, 1910; interment in January 1928, and died there February 14, 1928; intermentWoodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minn. in Church of the Advent Cemetery. WILSON, Thomas Webber, a Representative from Missis- WILSON, Stephen Fowler, a Representative from Penn-sippi; born in Coidwater, Tate County, Miss., January 24, sylvania; born in Columbia, Pa., September 4, 1821; received1893; attended the public schools of his native city; was an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bargraduated from the law department of the University of and practiced; held several local offices; member of the StateMississippi at Oxford in 1913; was admitted to the bar the senate 1863-1865 and served in one session after he hadsame year and commenced the practice of law in Laurel, been elected a Representative to Congress; delegate to theMiss.; prosecuting attorney of Jones County 1915-1919; dis- Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as a Repub-trict attorney for the twelfth judicial district of Mississippi lican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4,1919-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty- 1865-March 3,1869); appointed additional judge of theninth, and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1871 to fill a va-1929); was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 but was cancy; elected additional judge and served ten years; ap-an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for United pointed associate justice of the supreme court of the Terri-States Senator; engaged in the private practice of law 1928- tory of New Mexico by President Arthur on October 16,1933; appointed a Federal judge for the Virgin Islands and 1884; president judge of the fourth judicial district of Penn-served from 1933 until 1935; member of the Parole Board in sylvania from 1887 to 1889; resumed the practice of histhe Justice Department, Washington, D.C., 1935-1947; died profession in Welisboro, Tioga County, Pa., where he diedin Coldwater, Miss., January 31, 1948; interment in Magno- March 30, 1897; interment in Wellsboro Cemetery. lia Cemetery. WILSON, Thomas (father of Edgar Campbell Wilson and WILSON, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; grandfather of Eugene McLanahan Wilson), a Representa-elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth tive from Virginia; born in Staunton, Va., September 11,Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819). 1765; studied law in Staunton, Va.; was admitted to the bar September 21, 1789, and commenced practice in Morgan- WILSON, William, a Representative from Ohio; born in town, Va. (now West Virginia); member of the State senateNew Boston, Hilisboro County, N.H., March 19, 1773; attend- 1792-1795; served in the State house of delegates in 1799 anded the public schools and was graduated from Dartmouth 1800; again a member of the State senate 1800-1804; elected College, Hanover, N.H., in 1797; studied law in Johnstown, as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-N.Y., and was admitted to the bar; moved to Ohio and March 3, 1813); again a member of the State house of dele-settled in Chillicothe about 1805; engaged in the practice of 2072 Biographical Directory

law; moved to Newark, Ohio, in 1808, having been appointedWest Virginia), May 3, 1843; attended Charles Town Acade- chief judge of the court of common pleas, and served untilmy; was graduated from Columbian College (now George 1823; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and TwentiethWashington University), Washington, D.C., in 1860 and sub- Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his deathsequently studied in the University of Virginia at Char- in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, June 6, 1827; chairman,lottesville; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office DepartmentArmy as a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry; taught (Nineteenth Congress); interment in the Old Cemetery; rein-for several years in Columbian College, during which time terment on March 23, 1853, in Cedar Hill Cemetery. he was graduated from its law school; was admitted to the WILSON, William Bauchop, a Representative from Penn-bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Charles Town, sylvania; born in Blantyre, Scotland, April 2, 1862; immi-W,Va.; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in grated to this country with his parents, who settled in1880; chosen president of the West Virginia University at Arnot, Tioga County, Pa., in 1870; attended the commonMorgantown and entered upon the office September 4, 1882; schools; engaged in coal mining 1871-1898; international sec-elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the five retary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of Americasucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1895); chair- 1900-1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first,man, Committee on Ways and Means (Fifty-third Congress); and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1913);Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Cleveland chairman, Committee on Labor (Sixty-second Congress); un-and served from April 4, 1895, to March 5, 1897; president of successful candidate for reelection in 1912 and for election inthe Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; died in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; appointed Secretary ofLexington, Rockbridge, County, Va., October 17, 1900; inter- Labor in the Cabinet of President Wilson and served fromment in Edgehill Cemetery, Charles Town, W.Va. March 5, 1913, to March 5, 1921; during the First World War Bibliography: DAB; Summers, Festus P. William L. Wilson and Tariff was a member of the Council of National Defense; member Reform. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953; Wilson, Wil- of the Federal Board for Vocational Education 1914-1921 liam Lyne. A Borderland Confederate. Edited by Festus P. Summers. Pitts- and also chairman of the board in 1920 and 1921; appointed burgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962. on March 4, 1921, a member of the International Joint Com- mission, created to prevent disputes regarding the use of the WILSON, William Warfield, a Representative from Illi- boundary waters between the United States and Canada,nois; born in Ohio, Bureau County, Ill., March 2, 1868; at- and served until March 21, 1921, when he resigned; unsuc-tended the public schools of Ohio, Ill., and the University of cessful candidate for election to the United States Senate inMichigan at Ann Arbor; was graduated from the Chicago- 1926; engaged in mining and agricultural pursuits nearKent College of Law in 1893; was admitted to the bar the Blossburg, Tioga County, Pa.; died on a train near Savan-same year and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; elected nah, Ga., May 25, 1934; interment in Arbon Cemetery, Bloss-as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeed- burg, Pa. ing Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful Bibliography: DAB; Gengarelly, W. Anthony. "Secretary of Labor Wil- candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; liam B. Wilson and the Red Scare, 1919-1920." Pennsylvania History 47 elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Con- (October 1980): 311-30; Wilhelm, Clarke L. "William B. Wilson: The First Secretary of Labor." Ph D dissertation, , 1967. gresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); was not a candidate for renomination in 1920; appointed general counsel of the WILSON, William Edward, a Representative from Indi- Alien Property Custodian of the United States in 1922, serv- ana; born in Mount Vernon, Posey County, md., March 9,ing until 1927; resumed the practice of law; died in Chicago, 1870; attended the public schools and the Evansville Com-Ill., July 22, 1942; interment in Union Cemetery, Ohio, Ill. mercial College, with which he was associated as teacher, principal, and owner from 1888 to 1904; retired from school WINANS, Edwin Baruch, a Representative from Michi- work and engaged in the insurance business at Evansville,gan; born in Avon, Livingston County, N.Y., May 16, 1826; md.; deputy auditor of Vanderburg County, md., 1910-1912;moved with his parents to Michigan in 1834; attended clerk of the circuit court of Vanderburg County 1912-1920;Albion College, Michigan; went to California and engaged in unsuccessful candidate for election in 1920 to the Sixty-mining on the North Yuba River, near Placerville, in 1850; seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighthworked in different parts of the State until 1857; returned to Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candi-Michigan in 1858 and settled in Hamburg, Livingston date for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; en-County, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits; member gaged in banking and was later employed by the Chryslerof the State house of representatives 1861-1865; delegate to Corp.; died in Evansville, md., September 29, 1948; inter-the State constitutional convention of May 15, 1867; probate ment in Oak Hill Cemetery. judge of Livingston County 1877-1881; elected as a Democrat WILSON, William Henry, a Representative from Pennsyl-to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 6, 1877; attended1883-March 3, 1887); resumed agricultural pursuits in Liv- the public and high schools and was graduated from the lawingston County, Mich.; Governor of Michigan 1891-1893; department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel-died in Hamburg, Mich., July 4, 1894; interment in Ham- phia in 1898; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and com-burg Cemetery. menced the practice of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; served as WINANS, James January, a Representative from Ohio; assistant city solicitor 1900-1909; member of the State houseborn in Maysville, Ky., June 7, 1818; moved with his parents of representatives 1913-1915; served as director of publicto Greene County, Ohio; attended the common schools and safety, Philadelphia, 1916-1920; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3,the University of Lexington, Kentucky; studied law; was 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to theadmitted to the bar in Lexington, Ky., in 1841 and com- Seventy-fifth Congress; died in Santa Barbara, Calif., Augustmenced practice in Indiana; moved to Xenia, Greene County, 11, 1937; remains were cremated and placed in Forest Lawn Ohio, in 1843 and continued the practice of law; clerk of the Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. Greene County Courts 1845-1851; served in the State senate in 1857; member of the State house of representatives in WILSON, William Lyne, a Representative from West Vir-1863; judge of the court of common pleas 1864-1871; elected ginia; born near Charles Town, Jefferson County, Va. (nowas a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869- Biographies 2073

March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 WINFIELD, Charles Henry, a Representative from New to the Forty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law;York; born in Crawford, N.Y., April 22, 1822; completed died in Xenia, Ohio, April 28, 1879; interment in Woodlawnpreparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Cemetery. 1846 and commenced practice in Goshen, N.Y.; district attor- ney for Orange County 1850-1856; elected as a Democrat to WINANS, John, a Representative from Wisconsin; born inthe Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, Vernon, Sussex County, N.J., September 27, 1831; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855; moved to Janes-1863-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination ville, Rock County, Wis., in 1857 and practiced his profes-in 1866; resumed the practice of his profession; died in sion; member of the board of aldermen of Janesville in 1861;Walden, N.Y., June 10, 1888; interment in Walikill Valley city attorney 1865-1875; member of the State assembly inCemetery. 1874, 1882, 1887, and 1891; delegate to the Democratic Na- WING, Austin Eli, a Delegate from Michigan; born in tional Convention in 1864; served as colonel on the staff ofConway, Hampshire County, Mass., February 3, 1792; in Governor Taylor in 1874 and 1875; mayor of Janesville 1885-early youth moved with his parents to Marietta, Ohio; at- 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congresstended the common schools, the academy at Chillicothe, (March 4, 1883-March 3,1885); was not a candidate forOhio, and Athens College, Ohio; was graduated from Wil- renomination in 1884; engaged in the practice of law inliams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1814; moved to De- Janesville, Wis., until his death January 17, 1907; intermenttroit, Mich.; elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Con- in Oak Hill Cemetery. gresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); moved toMonroe, WINCHESTER, Boyd, a Representative from Kentucky;Mich.; elected to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, born in Ascension Parish, La., September 23, 1836; pursued1831-March 3, 1833); affiliated with the Whig Party after its preparatory studies; attended Centre College, Danville, Ky.,formation; member of the State house of representatives in and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was grad- 1842; served as a member of the board of regents of the uated from the law department of the University of Louis-University of Michigan from 1845 until 1850; appointed ville, Kentucky, in 1857 and commenced practice in Louis- United States marshal for the district of Michigan on Febru- ville; member of the State senate in 1867 and 1868, when heary 24, 1846, and served until 1849; died inCleveland, Ohio, resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-on August 27, 1849; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); was not a Monroe, Mich. candidate for renomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law in Louisville, KY.; president of an insurance company WINGATE, Joseph Ferdinand, a Representative from 187 5-1877; president of the Democratic State convention inMaine; born in Haverhill, Essex County, Maine (until 1820 a 1884; appointed Minister Resident and consul general todistrict of Massachusetts), June 29, 1786; received a limited Switzerland and served from 1885 to 1889; died in Louisville, schooling; engaged in the mercantile business in Bath, Ky., May 18, 1923; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Maine; member of the Massachusetts house of representa- WINDOM, William, a Representative and a Senator fromtives in 1818 and 1819; collector of customs at the port of Minnesota; born in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 10, 1827; Bath 1820-1824; elected to the Twentieth and Twenty-first pursued an academic course at Martinsburg, Ohio; studiedCongresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); moved to Wind- law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced prac-sor, Maine; died in South Windsor, Kennebec County, tice in Mount Vernon, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of KnoxMaine; interment in Rest Haven Cemetery. County in 1852; moved to Winona, Winona County, Minneso- WINGATE, Paine, a Delegate, a Senator, and a Represent- ta Territory, in 1855; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ative from New Hampshire; born in Amesbury, Mass., May sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-14, 1739; graduated from Harvard College in 1759; studied March 3,1869); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Thirty-eighth through Fortieth Congresses); appointed as atheology and was ordained a minister of the Congregational Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy inChurch in 1763, holding a pastorate in Hampton Falls, N.H., the term ending March 3, 1871, caused by the death ofuntil 1776; moved to Stratham, N.H., in 1776 and engaged in Daniel S. Norton, and served from July 15, 1870, to Januaryagricultural pursuits; member of the State constitutional 22, 1871, when a successor was elected to complete the term;convention in 1781; member, State house of representatives elected to the United States Senate in 1871; reelected in 1783; Member of the Continental Congress in 1788; elected to 1877 and served from March 4, 1871, to March 7, 1881, whenthe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; appointed Secre-March 3, 1793; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793- tary of the Treasury by President James Garfield and servedMarch 3, 1795); member, State house of representatives 1795; from March 1881, until his resignation, effective Novemberjudge of the superior court of New Hampshire 1798-1809; 1881, having been elected Senator; elected to the Unitedwithdrew from political life and resumed agricultural pur- States Senate on October 26, 1881, to ifil the vacancy causedsuits; died in Stratham, N.H., on March 7, 1838; interment by his own resignation, and served from November 15, 1881,in Stratham Cemetery. to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for' reelection in Bibliography: DAB; Wingate, Charles. The Life and Letters of Paine 1883; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-second Wingate. 2 vols., Medford, Mass.: Mercury Printing Co., 1930. Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Forty-fourth and WINGO, Effiegene Locke (wife of Otis Theodore Wingo Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relationsand great-great-great-grandaughter of Matthew Locke), a (Forty-seventh Congress); moved to New York City in 1883 and practiced law; appointed Secretary of the Treasury inRepresentative from Arkansas; born in Lockesburg, Sewer the Cabinet of President and servedCounty, Ark., April 13, 1883; attended public and private from March 1889, until his death in New York City onschools and Union Female College, Oxford, Miss.; was grad- January 29, 1891; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Wash- uated from Maddox Seminary, Little Rock, Ark., in 1901; ington, D.C. moved to Texarkana, Ark., in 1895 and to De Queen, Ark., in Bibliography: DAB; Salisbury, Robert S. ", the Republi- 1897; elected as a Democrat on November 4, 1930, to the can Party, and the Gilded Age." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minneso-Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the ta, 1982. death of her husband, Otis Theodore Wingo, and on the 2074 Biographical Directory

same day was elected to the Seventy-second Congress andCounty from 1876 to 1890, when he resigned; elected as a served from November 4, 1930, to March 3, 1933; was notaDemocrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4,1891- candidate for renomination in 1932; co-founder in 1934 ofMarch 3, 1893); did not seek renomination in 1892 to the National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.;en-Fifty-thirdCongress; resumedagriculturalpursuitsin gaged in educational and research work; wasa resident ofGreene County, Ga.; died in Atlanta, Ga., on June 5, 1925; De Queen, Sevier County, Ark.; died September 19, 1962, in interment in Ridge Grove Cemetery, near Greensboro, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, while visiting her son; inter-Greene County, Ga. ment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. WINSLOW, Samuel Ellsworth, a Representative from WINGO, Otis Theodore (husband of Effiegene Wingo),aMassachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., April 11, 1862; Representative from Arkansas; born in Weakley County,attended the public schools; was graduated from Worcester Tenn., June 18, 1877; attended the public schools, BethelClassical High School in 1880, from Williston Seminary, College at McKenzie, Tenn., McFerrin College at Martin,Easthampton, Mass., in 1881, and from Harvard University Tenn., and Valparaiso (md.) University; taught school; stud- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commencedin 1885; engaged in the manufacture of skates; appointed as practice in De Queen, Sevier County, Ark.; member of thea colonel on the staff of Governor Brackett in 1890; chair- State senate 1907-1909; resumed the practice of his profes-man of the Republican city committee of Worcester 1890- sion in De Queen, Ark.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-1892; chairman of the Republican State committee in 1893 third and to the eight succeeding Congresses and servedand 1894; delegate to the Republican National Convention in from March 4, 1913, until his death in Baltimore, Md., Octo-1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the ber 21, 1930; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washing-five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1925); ton, D.C. chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses); was not a candi- WINN, Edward Lawrence, Jr. (Larry), a Representativedate for renomination in 1924; appointed by President Coo- from Kansas; born in Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo.,lidge in 1926 as a member of the United States Board of August 22, 1919; attended public schools in Kansas City,Mediation, for the disposition of disputes between carriers Mo.; B.A., University of Kansas, 1941; two years with a radioand their employees, and was subsequently chosen chair- station in Kansas City, Mo.; two years with North Americanman, serving until 1934; moved in 1935 to Worcester, Mass., Aviation; two years as a private builder; vice president,where he died July 11, 1940; remains were cremated and the Winn-Rau Corp., 1950 to present; national director, Nationalashes interred in Hope Cemetery. Association of Home Builders, fourteen years; past president, Home Builders Association of Kansas; electedas a Republi- WINSLOW, Warren, a Representative from North Caroli- can to the Ninetieth and to the eight succeeding Congressesna; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., January (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1985); did not seek reelection to1, 1810; was graduated from the University of North Caroli- the Ninety-ninth Congress; is a resident of Prairie Village,na at Chapel Hill in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the Kans. bar and commenced practice in Fayetteville; member of the State senate, and served as speaker; Acting Governor of WINN, Richard, a Representative from South Carolina;North Carolina in December 1854; elected as a Democrat to born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1750; attended thecommonthe Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses schools; moved to Georgia and then to Fairfield County in(March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); died in Fayetteville, N.C., South Carolina in 1768; served as a clerk in a countinghouse;August 16, 1862; interment in Cross Creek Cemetery. engaged in cotton buying and other mercantile pursuits, and was a land surveyor; entered the Revolutionary Army as a WINSTEAD, William Arthur, a Representative from Mis- lieutenant and attained the rank of colonel of State militia;sissippi; born near Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Miss., after the war was promoted to the rank of major general ofJanuary 6, 1904; attended the public schools, Clarke Memori- militia; member, State assembly, 1779-1786; appointedsu-al College, Newton, Miss., and the University of Alabama at perintendent of Indian affairs for the Creek Nation in 1788;Tuscaloosa; was graduated from Mississippi Southern Col- elected to the Third Congress and reelectedas a Republicanlege at Hattiesburg in 1931; engaged in agricultural pur- to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); elect-suits; superintendent of education of Neshoba County, Miss., ed to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the1935-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and resignation of Thomas Sumter; reelected to the Eighth andto the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the 24, 1803, to March 3, 1813; moved to Tennessee in 1813;Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; auto- became a planter, and continued in the mercantile businessmobile dealer; commissioner, Mississippi department of until his death on his plantation at Duck River, MauryPublic Welfare, 1968-197 1;is a resident of Philadelphia, County, Tenn., December 19, 1818; interment at Winnsboro,Miss. Fairfield County, S.C. WINSTON, Joseph, a Representative from North Caroli- WINN, Thomas Elisha, a Representative from Georgia;na; born in Louisa County, Va., June 17, 1746; moved in 1766 born near Athens, Clarke County, Ga., May 21, 1839; attend-to that part of Rowan County which later became Stokes ed Carrollton (Ga.) Masonic Institute, and was graduatedCounty, N.C.; participated in expeditions against the hostile from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1860; studiedfrontier Indians; member of the Hillsboro convention in law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commencedprac-1775; member of the commission that concluded a treaty tice in Alpharetta, Milton County, Ga.; solicitor of thewith the Cherokees in 1777; appointed entry taker for Surry county court of Milton County; entered the ConfederateCounty in 1778; chief ranger of Surry County; served as Army as a first lieutenant in 1861; promoted to captain,major in the Revolutionary Army; member of the State afterward, a major, and finally a lieutenant colonel, Twenty-senate in 1790, 1791, 1802, 1807, and 1812; elected to the fourth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, and served with Lee'sThird Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); elected as a army until the close of the Civil War; engaged in agricultur-Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4, al pursuits in 1868; county school commissioner of Gwinnett1803-March 3, 1807); died near Germanton, Stokes County, Biographies 2075

N.C., April 21, 1815; interment in the family burial ground1850, when he again resigned to become Senator; Speaker of near Germanton; reinterment on Guilford Battle Grounds,the House of Representatives during the Thirtieth Congress; N.C. appointed as a Whig to the United States Senate on July 27, Bibliography: DAB. 1850, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and served from July 30, 1850, to February 1, 1851, WINTER, Charles Edwin, a Representative from Wyo-when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for ming; born in Muscatine, Iowa, September 13, 1870; attended the public schools and Iowa Wesleyan University at Mountelection to the vacancy in 1851; was an unsuccessful candi- Pleasant; was graduated from the Nebraska Wesleyan Uni-date for governor of Massachusetts the same year; presiden- versity at Lincoln in 1892; studied law; was admitted to thetial elector on the Whig ticket in 1852; engaged in literary, bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr.;historical, and philanthropic pursuits; died in Boston, Mass., moved to Encampment, Carbon County, Wyo., in 1902 and to November 16, 1894; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Casper, Natrona County, Wyo., in 1903; delegate to the Re- Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. publican National Convention in 1908; judge of the sixth Bibliography: DAB; Winthrop, Robert, Jr. Memoir of Robert Charles judicial district of Wyoming 1913-1919; resigned from the Winthrop. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1897. bench and resumed the practice of law at Casper, Wyo.; WIRTH, Timothy E., a Representative and a Senator from elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, andColorado; born in Santa Fe, N.Mex., September 22, 1939; Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929); wasgraduated, Harvard University 1961; received a graduate not a candidate for renomination in 1928, but was an unsuc-degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education cessful candidate for election to the United States Senate;1964; received a doctoral degree from Stanford University attorney general of Puerto Rico in 1932 and 1933, and served1973; United States Army Reserve 1961-1967; White House as Acting Governor; resumed the practice of law; died infellow 1967-1968; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education Casper, Wyo., April 22, 1948; interment in Highland Ceme-1969-1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Con- tery. gress in 1974; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses WINTER, Elisha I., a Representative from New York;and served from January 3, 1975, to January 3, 1987; was born in New York City, July 15, 1781; moved about 1806 tonot a candidate for reelection to the House of Representa- that portion of the township of Peru, Clinton County, whichtives in 1986, but was elected to the United States Senate for was later included in the township of Ausable, and engagedthe ending January 3, 1993. in mining ore; was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth WISE, George Douglas (cousin of John Sergeant Wise and Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); unsuccessful candi-Richard Alsop Wise and nephew of Henry Alexander Wise), date for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress;a Representative from Virginia; born at "Deep Creek," the moved to a farm near Lexington, Ky., and engaged as aWise estate in Accomack County, near Onancock, Va., June planter; was also instrumental in building the first railroad 4, 1831; was graduated from Indiana University at Blooming- in that locality, and subsequently became president of theton; studied law in the College of William and Mary, Wil- Lexington & Ohio Railroad; died in Lexington, Fayetteliamsburg, Va.; was admitted to the bar and commenced County, Ky., June 30, 1849; interment in Lexington Ceme-practice in Richmond, Henrico County, Va.; captain in the tery. Confederate Army during the Civil War; Commonwealth at- WINTER, Thomas Daniel, a Representative from Kansas;torney of the city of Richmond from 1870 to 1889, when he born in Columbus, Cherokee County, Kans., July 7, 1896;resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to attended the public and high schools; during the First Worldthe three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, War served as a private in the United States Air Corps in1889); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-ninth 1918 and 1919; court reporter of the district court of Craw-Congress); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the ford County, Kans., 1921-1927; studied law; was admitted toFifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to April the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in Girard, Kans.;10, 1890, when he was succeeded by Edmund Waddill, Jr., assistant county attorney of Crawford County, Kans., in 1927who contested his election; elected to the Fifty-second and and 1928 and county attorney in 1929 and 1930; commission-Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); chair- er of public utilities of Girard 1933-1935; commissioner ofman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Fifty- fmance of Girard 1936-1938; elected as a Republican to thesecond and Fifty-third Congresses); died in Richmond, Va., Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu-February 4, 1898; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. ary 3, 1939-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for re- WISE, Henry Alexander (father of John Sergeant Wise nomination in 1946; returned to Girard, Kans., and contin-and Richard Alsop Wise and uncle of George Douglas Wise), ued to practice law; died in Pittsburg, Kans., November 7,a Representative from Virginia; born in Drummondtown, 1951; interment in Park Cemetery, Columbus, Kans. Accomack County, Va., December 3, 1806; was privately tu- WINTHROP, Robert Charles, a Representative and a Sen-tored until his twelfth year and then entered Margaret ator from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., May 12,Academy, near Pungoteague, Accomack County; was grad- 1809; graduated from Harvard University in 1828; studieduated from Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1825; stud- law with Daniel Webster; was admitted to the bar in 1831ied law in Winchester, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and practiced in Boston; member, State house of representa-and commenced practice in Nashville, Davidson County, tives 1835-1840, and served as speaker 1838-1840; elected asTenn.; returned to Virginia in 1830; held several local of- a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancyfices; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and caused by the resignation of ; reelected toTwenty-fourth Congresses, as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from November 9,through Twenty-seventh Congresses, and as a Democrat to 1840, to May 25, 1842, when he resigned; subsequently elect- the Twenty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1833, ed to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy causeduntil his resignation on February 12, 1844; chairman, Com-

by the resignation of his successor, ; re-- mittee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth elected to the Twenty-eighth and to the three succeedingCongresses); was appointed Minister to France in 1843, but Congresses and served from November 29, 1842, to July 30,was not confirmed; Minister to Brazil 1844-1847; delegate to 2076 Biographical Directory

the State constitutional convention in 1850; Governor of Vir-to Arizona and engaged in cattle raising; consular agent at ginia 1856-1860; delegate to the Virginia Convention, 1861;Nogales, Mexico, from February 20, 1888, to May 31, 1900; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;re-died in Coraopolis, Pa., on April 13, 1903; interment in sumed the practice of law in Richmond, Henrico County,Greenmount Cemetery, Waynesburg, Pa. Va.; served on the commission to fix the boundary line be- tween Virginia and Maryland; died in Richmond, Va., Sep- WISE, Richard Alsop (son of Henry Alexander Wise, tember 12, 1876; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. grandson of John Sergeant, brother of John Sergeant Wise, Bibliography: DAB; Simpson, Craig M. A Good Southerner: The Life ofand cousin of George Douglas Wise), a Representative from Henry A.Wise of Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Virginia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 2, 1843; at- Press, 1985; Wise, Henry Alexander. Seven Decades of the Union. Philadel- tended private schools in Richmond, Va., Harrison's Acade-- phia: J.B. Lippincott, 1872. my, Albemarle County, Va., and the College of William and WISE, James Walter, a Representative from Georgia; bornMary, Williamsburg, Va., for two years; during the Civil near McDonough, Henry County, Ga., March 3, 1868; attend-War served in the Confederate Army as a private in Stuart's ed the common schools; studied law at Emory College,cavalry and as assistant inspector general of Wise's brigade, Oxford, Ga.; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commencedArmy of Northern Virginia; was graduated in medicine from practice in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Ga., in Januarythe Medical College of Virginia in 1867 and practiced; pro- 1893; member of the State house of representatives 1902-fessor at the College of William and Mary 1869-1881; dele- 1908; was mayor of Fayettevile 1904-1906; solicitor generalgate to all Republican State conventions from 1879 to 1900; of the Flint judicial circuit 1908-19 12; elected as a Democratsuperintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia to the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses1882-1885; member of the State house of delegates 1885- (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925); declined to be a candidate for1887; clerk of the circuit and county courts of the city of renomination in 1924; owing to prolonged illnesswas unableWilliamsburg and county of James City 1888-1894; delegate to qualify for or attend the Sixty-eighth Congress; died into the Republican National Conventions in 1892, 1896, and Atlanta, Ga., on September 8, 1925; interment in McDon-1900; successfully contested as a Republican the election of ough Cemetery, McDonough, Ga. William A. Young to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from April 26, 1898, to March 3, 1899; was again successful WISE, John Sergeant (son of Henry Alexander Wise,in contesting the election of William A. Young to the Fifty- grandson of John Sergeant, brother of Richard Alsop Wise,sixth Congress and served from March 12, 1900, until his and cousin of George Douglas Wise), a Representative fromdeath in Williamsburg, Va., December 21, 1900; interment in Virginia; born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 27, 1846, while his father was United States Minister to that country;Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. attended preparatory schools in Goochiand and Princess WISE, , Jr., a Representative from West Anne Counties, Va., and the Virginia Military Institute atVirginia; born in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1948; attend- Lexington in 1862; participated with the institute cadets ined public schools in Charleston, W.Va.; B.A., Duke Universi- the Battle of New Market during the Civil War; subsequent-ty, Durham, N.C., 1970; J.D., Tulane University School of ly became a lieutenant in the Confederate Army;was grad-Law, New Orleans, La., 1975; admitted to the West Virginia uated from the law department of the University of Virginiabar, 1975 and commenced practice in Charleston; elected, at Charlottesville in 1867; was admitted to the bar thesameWest Virginia senate, 1980-1982; elected as a Democrat to year and commenced practice in Richmond, Henrico County,the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses Va.; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-seventh(January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Clen- Congress in 1880; United States attorney for the easterndenin, W.Va. district of Virginia from May 1882 to March 1883, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; electedas a Read- WISNER, Henry, a Delegate from New York; born near juster to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3,Florida, Orange County, N.Y., in 1720; completed academic 1885); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884;unsuc- studies; invested in real estate and built a gristmill near cessful Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia inGoshen, N.Y.; assistant justice of the court of common pleas; 1885; moved to New York City and engaged in the practicemember of the colonial assembly 1759-1769; delegate to the of his profession; died near Princess Anne, Somerset County, New York provincial convention in 1775; Member of the Md., May 12, 1913; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich-Continental Congress 1775-1776; voted for the Declaration of mond, Va. Independence, but was absent at the time it was signed, Bibliography: DAB; Campbell, Otho Carlino. "John Sergeant Wise: Aattending the Provincial Congress in New York, to which he Case Study in Conservative-Readjuster Politics in Virginia,1869-1889." had just been elected; member of the Provincial Congress in Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1979; Davis, Curtis C. "Very1776 and 1777; erected three powder mills in the vicinity of Well-Rounded Republican: The Several Lives of John S. Wise." VirginiaGoshen, Orange County, N.Y., and supplied powder to the Magazine of History and Biography 71 (October 1963): 461-87. Continental Army during the Revolution; one of the commit- WISE, Morgan Ringland, a Representative from Pennsyl-tee that framed the first constitution of New York in 1777; vania; born in West Bethlehem, Washington County, Pa.,member of the commission to provide for fortifying the June 7, 1825; attended the public schools; taught school;Hudson River in 1777 and 1778; served in the State senate crossed the Plains and engaged in gold mining in California 1777-1782; established an academy at Goshen in 1784; in 1850; while there volunteered, under Major Stammins,tomember of the first board of regents of the University of the defend the miners against the depredations of the Indians;State of New York 1784-1787; served as a member of the returned to Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Waynes-State ratification convention in 1788; died in Goshen, N.Y., burg College, Pennsylvania, in 1856; engaged in agriculturalon March 4, 1790; interment in the Old Walikill Cemetery, pursuits; member of the State house of representatives from Phillipsburg, N.Y. 1874 to 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Bibliography: DAB. Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); WITCHER, John Seashoal, a Representative from West chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-sixth Con-Virginia; born in Cabell County, Va. (now West Virginia), gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; movedJuly 15, 1839; attended the public schools; elected clerk of Biographies 2077 the circuit court of Cabell County in 1861; enrolled in thevania County, Va., in 1858; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a first lieutenant, Third Regiment, WestConfederate Army as major of Infantry in 1861 and was Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, December 13, 1862; promoted topromoted to colonel of the Eighteenth Virginia Infantry, captain September 8, 1863, major May 23, 1864, lieutenantwhich he commanded until retired in consequence of numer- colonel May 6, 1865; honorably mustered out June 30, 1865;ous disabling wounds; appointed to commandthe post at member of the State house of delegates in 1865; secretary ofDanville, Va., which position he held until the close of the state of West Virginia 1866-1869; elected as a Republican towar; moved to Lynchburg, Va., in 1866and established the the Forty-first Congresè (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); un-Lynchburg News, a daily paper devoted to the interests of successful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-the Conservative Party; nominated for governor by that second Congress; appointed by President Grant as collectorparty, but withdrew; presidential elector on the Democratic of internal revenue for the third district of West Virginiaticket in 1872; elected lieutenant governor in 1873; elected as and served from April 1, 1871, to October 1, 1876; served asa Democrat to the United States Senateand served from United States pension agent at Washington, D.C., from JulyMarch 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; unsuccessful candidate for 7, 1878, to October 3, 1880; major and paymaster, Unitedreelection in 1881; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Forty- States Army, from October 5, 1880, until he retired Septem-sixth Congress); appointed by President Grover Cleveland as ber 8, 1899; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1891, and diedUnited States consul at Hong Kong, China, 1885-1889, when there July 8, 1906; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.he resigned; returned to Wytheville, Wythe County, Va.; WITHERELL, James, a Representative from Vermont;died at "Ingleside," Wytheville, Va., September 21, 1907; born in Mansfield, Mass., June 16, 1759; completed prepara-interment in the East End Cemetery. tory studies; served in the Revolutionary Army as a member Bibliography: Withers, Robert E. Autobiography of an Octogenarian. Roa- of the Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment 1775-1783; studied noke: The Stone Printing Co., 1907. medicine and was licensed to practice in 1788; moved to WITHERSPOON, John, a Delegate from New Jersey; born Hampton, Vt., in 1788 and to Fair Haven, Vt., in 1789 andin Gifford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5,1723; continued the practice of his profession; member of the Statecompleted preparatory studies; was graduated from Edin- house of representatives 1798-1802; associate county judgeburgh University in 1739; studied theology at Edinburgh; 1801-1803; judge of Rutland County 1803-1806; executivewas licensed in 1743 and ordained ministerof the parish of councilor 1802-1806; elected as a Republican to the TenthBeith in 1745; was the author of various religious pamphlets; Congress and served from March 4, 1807, to May 1, 1808,installed pastor at Paisley June 16, 1757; moderator of the when he resigned; appointed United States judge for thesynod of Glasgow and Ayr in 1758; became president of the Territory of Michigan in 1808 and served until 1828, whenCollege of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1768; he resigned to become secretary of the Territory; during themember of the committee on correspondence from Somerset War of 1812 was in command of the troops at Detroit in the County July 28, 1775; member of the Provincial Congress of absence of General Hull, and was taken prisoner when theNew Jersey from June 10 to June 22, 1776; Member of the latter surrendered; lived in Fair Haven, Vt., while on parole;Continental Congress from 177 6-1782; a signer of the Decla- was exchanged and returned to his duties in Detroit; secre-ration of Independence; member of the secret committee of tary of Michigan Territory by appointment of Presidentthe Congress on the conduct of the war and member of the John Quincy Adams 1828-1830; died in Detroit, Mich., Janu-board of war in 1778; member of the State council in 1780; ary 9, 1838, interment in the Russell Street Cemetery; rein-drafted the instructions of June 1781 to the American peace terment in Elmwood Cemetery. commissioners; served in the State general assembly in 1783 WITHERS, Garrett Lee, a Senator and a Representativeand 1789; member of the State ratification convention in from Kentucky; born on a farm in Webster County, near1787; after the war returned to Princeton, where he contin- Clay, Ky., June 21, 1884; student of Providence M. and F.ued his duties as president; died on his farm near Princeton, Academy and Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, KY.;N.J., November 15, 1794; interment in the Princeton Ceme- was admitted to the bar in 1908; practicing attorney intery, Princeton, N.J. Webster County, Ky., 1911-1953; clerk of Webster County Bibliography: DAB; Collins, Varnum Lansing. President Witherspoon, A Circuit Court 1910-1912, and master commissioner 1913- Biography. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University, 1925. 1917; member, Kentucky Highway Commission 1932-1936; WITHERSPOON,Robert(great-great-grandfatherof referee in bankruptcy 1941-1945; appointed commissioner,Robert Witherspoon Hemphill), a Representative from South Kentucky Department of Highways 1947-1949; appointed asCarolina; born near Kingstree, Williamsburg County, S.C., a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyJanuary 29, 1767; attended local schools; elected State treas- caused by the resignation of Alben W. Barkley, and served member of the from January 20, 1949, to November 26, 1950; was not aurer in 1800 and served one term; was a candidate for election to the vacancy; member, KentuckyState house of representatives, 1792-1794, 1802-1804, 1806- house of representatives 1951; elected as a Democrat to the1808, 1816-1817; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Eighty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by theCongress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); declined to be a death of John A. Whitaker; reelected to the Eighty-thirdcandidate for reelection; had large planting interests in Congress and served from August 2, 1952, until his death inSumter County, S.C.; opposed the nullification act in 1832; the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., April 30, 1953; inter-died near Mayesville, Sumter County, S.C., October 11, 1837; ment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Clay, Ky. interment in the Salem Brick Church Cemetery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 83rd Cong., 1st sess., WITHERSPOON, Samuel Andrew, a Representative from 1953. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1953. Mississippi; born near Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., WITHERS, Robert Enoch (cousin of Thomas WithersMay 4, 1855; attended the public schools; in 1872 moved with Chinn), a Senator from Virginia; born near Lynchburg,his mother to Oxford, Miss.; was graduated from the Univer- Campbell County, Va., September 18, 1821; attended privatesity of Mississippi at Oxford in 1876; professor in the Univer- schools; graduated from the medical department of the Uni-sity of Mississippi 1876-1879; studied law; was admitted to versity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1841 and commencedthe bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Meridian, Lau- practice in Campbell County; moved to Danville, Pittsyl-derdale County, Miss., the same year; elected as a Democrat 2078 Biographical Directory

to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congressescremated in Paris, France, and the ashes interred in Wood- and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Meridian,lawn Cemetery, New York City. Miss., November 24, 1915; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Dawson, Thomas. Life and Charcwter of Edward WITHROW, Gardner Robert, a Representative from Wis- . 2 vols., New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911. consin; born in La Crosse, Wis., October 5, 1892; attended WOLCOTT, Jesse Paine, a Representative from Michigan; the grade and high schools; after two years of legal trainingborn in Gardner, Worcester County, Mass., March 3, 1893; engaged in railroading as a fireman and conductor 1912-attended the common and high schools at Gardner, Mass., 1931; member of the Wisconsin assembly in 1926 and 1927; and the Detroit (Mich.) Technical Institute; was graduated served as State representative for the railroad brotherhoods 1928-1931; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-secondfrom the Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Mich., in 1915; was and Seventy-third Congresses and asa Progressive to theadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 193 1-in Detroit, Mich.; during the First World War served over- January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inseas as a second lieutenant in a machine gun company of 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress, and for election in 1940the Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division, 1917-1919; after to the Seventy-seventh Congress and in 1942 to the Seventy-the war settled in Port Huron, Mich., and resumed the eighth Congress; resumed activities as State representativepractice of law; assistant police judge of Port Huron in 1921; for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; electedas a Re-assistant prosecuting attorney of St. Clair County, Mich., publican to the Eighty-first and to the five succeeding Con-1922-1926; prosecuting attorney 1927-1930; elected as a Re- gresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1961); did not seek re-publican to the Seventy-second and to the twelve succeeding nomination in 1960; was a resident of La Crosse, Wis., untilCongresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1957); chairman, Com- his death September 23, 1964; interment in Oak Grove Cem- mittee on Banking and Currency (Eightieth and Eighty-third etery. Congresses), Joint Committee on Economic Report (Eighty- WITTE, William Henry, a Representative from Pennsylva- third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in nia; born in Columbia, Morris County, N.J., October 4, 1817;1956; in 1958, appointed a director of the Federal Deposit moved to Springtown, Bucks County, Pa., and attended theInsurance Corporation by President Eisenhower and served common schools; moved to Philadelphia in 1840; engaged inas chairman until January 1964; resided in Chevy Chase, mercantile pursuits and the real estate business; electedas aMd., until his death, January 28, 1969; interment in Arling- Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4,1853- ton National Cemetery. March 3, 1855); engaged in newspaper work and resumed real estate interests; died in Philadelphia, Pa., November 24, WOLCOTT, Josiah Oliver, a Senator from Delaware; born 1876; interment in Durham Cemetery, Durham, Bucksin Dover, Del., October 31, 1877; attended the public schools County, Pa. and Wilmington Conference Academy, Dover, Del., and grad- uated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in WOFFORD, Thomas Albert, a Senator from South Caroli-1901; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and na; born in Madden Station, Laurens County, S.C., Septem-commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; deputy attorney ber 27,. 1908; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia 1928, and fromgeneral of Delaware 1909-19 13; attorney general of Dela- Harvard University Law School 1931;was admitted to theware 1913-1917; elected as a Democrat to the United States bar in 1931 and commenced the practice of law in Green-Senate and served from March 4, 1917, to July 2, 1921, when ville, S.C.; assistant solicitor of thirteenth judicial circuithe resigned to accept a judicial position; chairman, Commit- 1935-1936; assistant United States district attorney 1937-tee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty- 1944; member, board of trustees, Winthrop College1944- fifth Congress); appointed chancellor of Delaware in 1921 1956; appointed as a Democrat, April 5, 1956, to the Unitedand served until his death in Dover, Del., November 11, States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of1938; interment in Lake Side Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. and served from April 5, 1956, to Novem- ber 6, 1956; was not a candidate for electionto fill the WOLCOTT, Oliver, a Delegate from Connecticut; born in vacancy; engaged in the practice of law; member, StateWindsor, Conn., November 20, 1726; was graduated from senate 1966-1972; changed party affiliation to Republican;Yale College in 1747; commissioned a captain by the Gover- resided in Greenville, S.C., where he died February 25, 1978;nor of New York in 1747; raised a company of Volunteers interment in Woodlawn Memorial Park. and served on the northwestern frontier until the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle; returned to Connecticut and settled in WOLCOTT, Edward Oliver, a Senator from Colorado;Litchfield; studied medicine, but did not practice; elected born in Long Meadow, Hampden County, Mass., March26, sheriff of the newly organized county of Litchfield, Conn., in 1848; attended the common schools; served in the One Hun- dred and Fiftieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during1751; member of the State council 1774-1786 and at the the Civil War; attended Yale College; graduated from thesame time judge of the county court of common pleas; judge of probate for the Litchfield district many years; major gen- law department of Harvard University in 1875;moved to Colorado; taught school and practiced law; elected districteral of militia; appointed by the Continental Congress in attorney in 1876; moved to Denver in 1879; member, State1775 as one of the commissioners of Indian affairs for the senate 1879-1882; elected in 1889 as a Republican to thenorthern department, intrusted with the task of inducing United States Senate; reelected in 1895 and served fromthe Iroquois Indians to remain neutral; Member of the Con- March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidatefortinental Congress 1776-1778 and 1780-1783; a signer of the reelection in 1901 and again in 1902 and 1903; chairman,Declaration of Independence; commander of the fourteen Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-firstConnecticut regiments sent for the defense of New York in and Fifty-second Congresses), Committeeon Post Office and1776, and divided his time between Army service and service Post Roads (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses);re-in Congress; commanded a brigade of militia which took part sumed the practice of law in Denver, Cob.; died in Montein the defeat of General Burgoyne in 1777; Lieutenant Gov- Carlo, Principality of Monaco, March 1, 1905; remainswereernor of Connecticut 1786-1796; elected Governor in 1796 Biographies 2079 and served until his death in Litchfield, Conn., December 1,the practice of law in Baltimore; also engaged in the real 1797; interment in the East Cemetery. estate business and hotel property investments;member of Bibliography: DAB; Bland, James E. "The Oliver Wolcotts of Connecti- the State house of delegates 1906-1908; elected as a Demo- cut: The National Experience, 1775-1800." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard Uni- crat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3,1909); versity, 1970. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty- WOLD, John Schiller, a Representative from Wyoming;first Congress; resumed the practice of his professionand born in East Orange, Essex County, N.J., August 31, 1916;other business interests in Baltimore, Md.; died in Balti- attended St. Andrews University, Scotland; A.B., Union Col-more, Md., February 17, 1944; intermentin Hebrew Friend- lege, Schenectady, N.Y., 1938; M.S., Cornell University, 1939;ship Cemetery. consulting physicist, Bureau of Ordnance, Department of the WOLF, Leonard George, a Representative from Iowa; Navy, 194 1-1942; gunnery and executive officer, destroyer escort duty, Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, during theborn on a farm in Dane County, near Mazomanie, Wis., Second World War; elected to the Wyoming house of repre-October 29, 1925; attended the public schools of Mazomanie, sentatives, 1957-1959; Wyoming Republican State chairman,Wis.; served in the United States Navy 1944-1946, with serv- 1960-1964; chairman, Western States Republican Stateice in the Pacific Theater; graduated from the University of Chairmen's Association; member, Republican National Com-Wisconsin in agricultural economics in 1949 and moved to mittee, 1960-1964; executive committee, Republican Nation-Elkader, Iowa, the same year; retail feed dealer in Elkader, al Committee, 1962-1964; Republican nominee United StatesIowa, 1952-1958; also public speaker and lecturer; unsuccess- Senate from Wyoming in 1964; geologist, specializing in oil,ful candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Con- gas, coal, and uranium exploration, 1939-1968; elected as agress; elected as a Democrat to theEighty-sixth Congress Republican to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, 1969-(January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection, but wasfor reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; in an unsuccessful nominee in 1970 to the United States1961 was appointed special assistant to the director, Interna- Senate; president of an oil and gas company, 1969 to present;tional Cooperation Administration Mission in Brazil and is a resident of Casper, Wyo. served until 1965; in 1966, coordinator for the child feeding program for ; in 1967,coordinated famine WOLF, Frank Rudolph, a Representative from Virginia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 30, 1939; attended therelief activities in India following drought; in 1968, appoint- public schools; attended the University of Mississippi, 1957-ed executive director of the American Freedom From 1958; B.A., Pennsylvania State University, University Park,Hunger Foundation; died in Washington, D.C., March 28, 1961; LL.B., Georgetown University Law School, Washing-1970; interment in St. Barnabas Cemetery, Mazomanie, Wis. ton, D.C., 1965; served in the United States Army Signal WOLF, William Penn, a Representative from Iowa; born Corps Reserve; admitted to the Virginia bar in 1966; execu-in Harrisburg, Stark County, Ohio, December 1, 1833; at- tive, trade association, Washington, D.C., 1963-1968; legisla-tended the public schools and Holbrook Seminary; moved to tive assistant to Representative Edward G. Biester, Jr.,Cedar County, Iowa, in 1856; studied law; was admitted to 1968-1971; assistant to Secretary of Interior Rogers C.B.the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Tipton, Cedar Morton, 1971-1974; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congres- County, Iowa; superintendent of public schools; member of sional and Legislative Affairs, Department of the Interior,the State house of representatives in 1863 and 1864; served 1974-1975; practiced law, 1975-1980; elected as a Republican in the Union Army as captain of Company I, Forty-sixth to the Ninety-seventh and to the three succeeding Congress-Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry;appointed assistant as- es (January 3, 1981-January 3,1989);is a resident ofsessor of internal revenue in 1865; memberof the State Vienna, Va. senate 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first WOLF, George, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William in Allen Township, Northampton County, Pa., August 12,Smyth and served from December 6, 1870, to March 3, 1871; 1777; pursued preparatory studies; studied law; was admittedresumed the practice of law in Tipton, Iowa; again a to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Easton, Pa.;member of the State house of representatives 188 1-1885, and postmaster of Easton in 1802 and 1803; clerk of the orphans'was chosen speaker in 1884;elected judge of the eighteenth court of Northampton County 1803-1809; member of thejudicial district in the fall of 1894 and continued in this State house of representatives in 1814; elected to the Eight-capacity until his death in Tipton, Iowa, on September19, eenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation1896; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. of Thomas J. Rogers; reelected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served from December 9, WOLFE, Simeon Kalfius, a Representative from Indiana; 1824, until his resignation in 1829 before the convening ofborn near Georgetown, Floyd County, md., February 14, the Twenty-first Congress; chairman, Committee on Revolu- 1824; attended Floyd County schools, and was graduated tionary Claims (Twentieth Congress); Governor of Pennsyl- from the law department of the University of Indiana at vania 1829-1835; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelec-Bloomington in 1850; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and tion in 1834; first Comptroller of the Treasury of the Unitedcommenced practice in Corydon, Harrison County, md.; States from June 18, 1836, to February 23, 1838; appointededited and published the Corydon Democrat from 1857 to collector of customs of the port of Philadelphia in 1838 and1865; member of the State senate 1860-1864; delegate to the served until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 11,Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Balti- 1840; interment in Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.more in 1860; moved to New Albanyin 1870 and continued Bibliography: DAB. the 'practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third WOLF, Harry Benjamin, a Representative from Mary-Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate land; born in Baltimore, Md., June 16, 1880; attended thefor renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law; judge public schools of Baltimore and was graduated from the lawof the Floyd and Clark circuit court 1880-1884; died in New department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore inAlbany, Floyd County, md., November 18, 1888; interment in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedFairview Cemetery. 2080 Biographical Directory

WOLFENDEN, James, a Representative from Pennsylva-didate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; contin- nia; born in Cardington, Delaware County, Pa.,on July 25,ued the practice of law in Columbia, Ky., until his death 1889; attended the public schools, the Friends' Centralthere August 2, 1895; interment in Columbia Cemetery. School, and Penn Charter Academy, Philadelphia, Pa.;en- gaged in the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, Card- WOLPE, Howard Eliot, III, a Representative from Michi- ington, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the SeventiethCon-gan; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., No- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas S vember 3, 1939; attended the public schools of Los Angeles; Butler; reelected to the Seventy-first and to the eightsuc-graduated from University High School, Los Angeles, 1956; ceeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1928,toB.A., Reed College, Portland, Oreg., 1960; Ph.D., Massachu- January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for renomination insetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1967; associate pro- 1946; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 8, 1949; intermentinfessor Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, 1967-1972, Friends Cemetery, Upper Darby, Pa. regional representative to United States Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan 1976-1978 member, Michigan State leg WOLFF, Joseph Scott, a Representative from Missouri;islature, 1972-1976; Kalamazoo City Commissioner, 1969- born on a farm in Westmoreland Countynear Greensburg,1972; delegate, Michigan State Democratic conventions, Pa., June 14, 1878; attended the public schools; servedwith1972-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the Fourth United States Cavalry in the Philippine Islandsthe four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, during the Spanish-American War 1899-1901; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1901; was graduated from the dental depart-1989) is a resident of Lansing Mich ment of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1905 and WOLVERTON, Charles Anderson, a Representative from practiced his profession in St. Louis and Festus, Mo.;mayorNew Jersey; born in Camden, N.J., October 24, 1880; attend- of Festus, Jefferson County, Mo., 1907-1911 and 1915-1917;ed the public schools and was graduated from the law de- member of the State house of representatives 1913-1915;waspartment of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia graduated from the St. Louis College of Law and Financein in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and began practice 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedin Camden, N.J.; assistant prosecutor of Camden County, practice in Festus, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-N.J., 1906-1913; special assistant attorney general of New eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessfulJersey in 1913 and 1914; member of the State house of candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress;assembly 1915-1918, serving as speaker in 1918; Federal food moved to Kansas City in 1924 and continued thepractice ofadministrator for Camden County 1917-1919; prosecutor of dentistry and law until retirement in 1957; died in Kansaspleas of Camden County 1918-1923; elected as a Republican City, Mo., February 27, 1958; interment in Gambel Ceme-to the Seventieth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses tery, Festus, Mo. (March 4, 1927-January 3, 1959); chairman, Committee on WOLFF, Lester Lionel, a Representative from New York; Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eightieth and Eighty- born in New York City January 4, 1919; attended thepublicthird Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in schools of New York City; student at New York University;1958; resumed the practice of law in Camden where he died on May 16, 1969; interment in Harleigh Cemetery. lecturer at New York University, 1939-1941; head ofmarket- ing department of Collegiate Institute, 1945-1949;major, WOLVERTON, John Marshall, a Representative from public relations officer, and squadron commander intheWest Virginia born in Big Bend, Calhoun County, W Va Civil Air Patrol, United States Air Force Auxilliary,1945-January 31 1872 attended country schools and Glenville 1950; colonel, commanding Congressional Squadron,Civil and Fairmont State Normal Schools; was graduated from Air Patrol, United States Air Force Auxiliary, 1968-1980;the law department of the West Virginia University at Mor- chairman of the board of Coordinated Marketing Agency,gantown in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same year and 1950-1964; member of the board of Noramco (Dugan's), 1963-commenced practice in Grantsville, Calhoun County, W.Va.; 1964, and of the Madison Life Insurance Co., 1963-1968;moved to Richwood in 1904; mayor of Richwood in 1918 and engaged in television as a moderator and producer, 1948-1919; prosecuting attorney of Nicholas County 1913-1917 1960; member of the United States Trade Missionto theand 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Philippines in 1962 and to Malaysia and Hong Kong in 1963;Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candi- chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Subcommitteedate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; elect- on Consumers Study by the House of Representatives ined to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1957; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth andto the1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, l965-January 3,Seventy-second Congress, and for election in 1932 to the 1981); chairman, Select Committee on Narcotics AbuseandSeventy-third Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Con- Control (Ninety-fourth through Ninety-sixth Congresses);un- gress; resumed the practice of law in Richwood, W.Va., successful candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-where he died August 19, 1944; interment in the Odd Fel- seventh Congress; chairman, Pacific Community Institute,lows Cemetery. 1984 to present; television commentator; isa resident of Great Neck, N.Y. WOLVERTON, Simon Peter, a Representative from Penn- sylvania; born in Rush Township, Northumberland County, WOLFORD, Frank Lane, a Representative from Ken-Pa., January 28, 1837; attended the common schools and tucky; born near Columbia, Adair County, Ky., September2, Danville (Pa.) Academy, and was graduated from Lewisburg 1817; attended the common schools; studied law;was admit-University (now Bucknell University), Lewisburg, Pa., in ted to the bar and commenced practice in Liberty, 9aey1860; principal of Sunbury (Pa.) Academy 1860-1862; studied County, Ky.; member of the State house of representdtiveslaw; was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced prac- in 1847, 1848, 1865, and 1866; during the Civil Warserved astice in Sunbury; during the Civil War raised a company of colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry 1861-1864;emergency men, of which he was made captain in 1862, and adjutant general of the State of Kentucky in 1867 and 1868;served in the Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninthteers; chosen captain of Company F, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessfulcan-Pennsylvania Volunteers, in June 1863; member of the State Biographies 2081 senate in 1878, 1880, and 1884; Democratic nominee for theeditor and publisher until his death; chairman of Democratic United States Senate in the joint convention of 1884; electedEditors in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congressesand Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); was not a candidate formember of the State senate in 1866 and 1867; elected to the renomination in 1894; continued the practice of law; died inForty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); died Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., October 25, 1910;in New York City February 21, 1900; interment in Calvary interment in Pomfret-Manor Cemetery. Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. Bibliography: Mushkat, Jerome. "Ben Wood's 'Fort Lafayette': A Source WON PAT, Antonio Borja, the first Delegate from the for Studying the Peace Democrats." Civil War History 21 (June 1975): 160- Territory of Guam, born in Sumay, Guam, December 10, 71. 1908; educated in Guam public schools; became school teach- er in 1926; principal in the school systems of Piti, Inarajan, WOOD, Benson, a Representative from Illinois; born near and Sumay, 1934-1939; taught school at George WashingtonBridgewater, Susquehanna County, Pa., on March 31, 1839; High School, Agana, Guam, from 1940 until end of theattended the common schools, Montrose (Pa.) Academy, and Second World War; first elected to the Advisory Guam Con-Wyoming (Pa.) Seminary; moved to Illinois in 1859 and for gress in 1936; reelected in 1948 as speaker of the Guamtwo years was principal of a village school in Lee County; Assembly; speaker of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth,enlisted as first lieutenant of Company C, Thirty-fourth and seventh Guam Legislatures; elected in 1965 as Guam'sRegiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 7, 1861; first representative to Washington; reelected to the samepromoted to captain May 1, 1862; honorably discharged Jan- position in 1968; delegate, Democratic National Convention,uary 29, 1863; was graduated from the law department of 1972; elected as a Democrat Guam's Delegate to the Ninety-the University of Chicago in 1864; was admitted to the bar third and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3,in 1864 and engaged in the practice of law in Effingham, 1973-January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate in 1984 forEffingham County, Ill.; member of the State house of repre- reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress; was a resident ofsentatives in 1872; delegate to the Republican National Con- Sinajana, Guam until his death May 1,1987, in Silvervention in 1876 and 1888; mayor of Effingham 1881-1883; Spring, Md.; interment in Veterans Cemetery, Piti, Guam.elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March WOOD, Abiel, a Representative from Massachusetts; born4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was an unsuccessful candidate for in Wiscasset, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), Julyreelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the 22, 1772; attended the common schools; engaged in mercan-practice of law in Effingham, Ill.; president of the Effingham tile pursuits; member of the Massachusetts house of repre-State Bank 1903-1912, and chairman of the board of direc- sentatives 1807-1811, and again in 1816; elected as a Repub-tors 1912-1915; died in Effingham, Ill., on August 27, 1915; lican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3,interment in Oakridge Cemetery. 1815); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the WOOD, Bradford Ripley, a Representative from New Fourteenth Congress; delegate to the constitutional conven-York; born in Westport, Conn., September 3, 1800; attended tion of Maine in 1819; State councilor of Maine in 1820 andthe common schools and was graduated from Union College 1821; resumed mercantile pursuits and also engaged in ship-at Schenectady, N.Y., in 1824; was engaged in teaching and ping; bank commissioner for Maine until his death in Bel-lecturing; studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; fast, Waldo County, Maine, October 26, 1834; interment inwas admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine. Albany, N.Y.; on May 29, 1827, was made solicitor in the WOOD, Alan, Jr. (nephew of John Wood), a Representa- court of chancery of New York State, and on June 6, 1830, tive from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 6,rose to the position of chancellor of the same court; became 1834; attended private schools; employed in his father's millcounselor in the New York Supreme Court in 1835 and in at Delaware Iron Works, near Wilmington, Del.; moved tothe United States Supreme Court in 1845; member of the Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1857; engaged inAlbany County board of supervisors in 1844; was elected as a iron manufacturing and banking; elected as a Republican toDemocrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845- the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);March 3, 1847); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed histo the Thirtieth Congress; president of the Young Men's former business activities and also engaged in agriculturalTemperance Society in 1851; trustee of Union College, Wil- liams College, and the Albany Law School; vice president of pursuits; president of the Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co.; diedthe Albany Medical College; one of the founders of the Re- in Philadelphia, Pa., October 31, 1902; interment in Wood-publican Party in New York State in 1856; vice president of land Cemetery. the American Home Missionary Society; founder of the First WOOD, Amos Eastman, a Representative from Ohio; bornCongregational Church in Albany; United States Minister to in Ellisburg, N.Y., January 2, 1810; attended the commonDenmark from 1861 to 1865;. died in Albany, N.Y., Septem- schools; moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1833 and en-ber 26, 1889; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house ofCounty, N.Y. representatives 1840-1842; served in the State senate in 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress to WOOD, Ernest Edward, a Representative from Missouri; fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rudoiphus Dickinsonborn in Chico, Butte County, Calif., August 24, 1875; attend- and served from December 3, 1849, until his death in Forted the public schools and was graduated from the Stockton Wayne, md., November 19, 1850; interment in Woodville(Calif.) High School in 1892; appointed as a cadet to the Cemetery, Woodville, Sandusky County, Ohio. United States Military Academy at West Point in 1893 and remained two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in WOOD, Benjamin (brother of Fernando Wood), a Repre-1898 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; presented sentative from New York; born in Shelbyville, Shelbycredentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-ninth County, Ky., October 13, 1820; moved to New York City withCongress and served from March 4, 1905, to June 23, 1906, his parents; attended the public schools; entered the ship-when he was succeeded by Harry M. Coudrey, who contested ping business; purchased the Daily News in 1860 and was itshis election; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1907 and re- 2082 Biographical Directory

sumed the practice of law; died in Los Angeles, Calif., Janu- February 16, 1784; town clerk of Clarkstown 1809-1812; in- ary 10, 1952; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood,spector of schools in 1815, 1823, 1829-1831, 1835-1836; elect- Calif. ed to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); WOOD, Fernando (brother of Benjamin Wood), a Repre-again inspector of schools 1829-1831, 1835-1837; surrogate of sentative from New York; born in Philadelphia, Pa., JuneRockland County in 1837; delegate to the State constitution- 14, 1812; attended the public schools; moved with his fatheral convention in 1846; died at New City, Rockland County, to New York City in 1820; was engaged in business as aN.Y., May 20, 1874; interment in Old Wood Burying Ground. shipping merchant in 1831; elected as a Democrat to the WOOD, John M., a Representative from Maine; born in Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); un-Minisink, Orange County, N.Y., November 17, 1813; attend- successful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-ed the common schools; engaged in railroad construction in eighth Congress; appointed by Secretary of State John C.New Jersey; moved to Portland, Maine, in 1846; was one of Calhoun dispatch agent for the State Department at the portthe contractors in the construction of the Atlantic & St. of New York; reappointed to the position by Secretary ofLawrence Railroad; also engaged in banking; member of the State James Buchanan and served from 1844 to 1847; unsuc-State house of representatives in 1852 and 1853; owner and cessful candidate for mayor of New York in 1850 and inpublisher of the Portland Daily Advertiser 1853-1857; elect- 1867; retired as a shipping merchant in 1850; mayor of Newed as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth York City in 1855-1858, 1861, and 1862; elected as a Demo-Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); contractor for crat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3,building the Air Line Railroad between Woonsocket and 1865); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to theNew Haven, Conn.; died while on a visit in Boston, Mass., Thirty-ninth Congress; elected to the Fortieth and to theDecember 24,1864; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1867, until his death at Hot Springs, Ark., February 14, 1881, Brooklyn, N.Y. before the beginning of the Forty-seventh Congress, to which WOOD, John Stephens, a Representative from Georgia; he had been reelected; chairman, Committee on Ways andborn on a farm near Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Ga., Means (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); censured byFebruary 8, 1885; attended the public schools and the North the Fortieth Congress on January 15, 1868, for use of unpar-Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega; was graduated liamentary language; interment in Trinity Cemetery, Newfrom the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., York City. in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- Bibliography: DAB; Anbinder, Tyler G. "Fernando Wood and New York menced practice in Jasper, Ga.; member of the State house City's Secession from the Union: A Political Reappraisal." New York His- tory 68 (January 1987): 67-92; Pleasants, Samuel A. Fernando Wood ofof representatives in 1917; served as solicitor general of the New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Blue Ridge judicial circuit of Georgia 1921-1925, and as judge of superior courts of the Blue Ridge judicial circuit WOOD, Ira Wells, a Representative from New Jersey;1925-1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on June 19, 1856; was graduatedSeventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); from Princeton College in 1877; studied law; was admitted tounsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Trenton, N.J.;the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the was a member of the city board of education 1894-1896;three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, served in the city council 1896-1900; president of the Board1953); chairman, Committee on Un-American Activities (Sev- of Trade of Trenton 1896-1900; member of the State assem-enty-ninth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses); was bly in 1899 and 1900; commissioner for New Jersey to thenot a candidate for renomination in 1952; resumed law prac- Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Mo., intice in Canton, Ga., until failing health forced his retire- 1904; delegate to the Interparliamentary Peace Union atment; died in Marietta, Ga., September 12, 1968; interment Brussels, Belgium, in 1905; elected as a Republican to thein Arlington Cemetery, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga. Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of William M. Lanning; reelected to the Fifty-ninth WOOD, John Travers, a Representative from Idaho; born and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromin Wakefield, England, November 25, 1878; immigrated to November 8, 1904, to March 3, 1913; declined to be a candi-the United States with his parents in 1889 and settled in date for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress; resided inWoodridge, N.Dak.; naturalized in 1901; attended the public Trenton, N.J., until his death there on October 5, 1931;schools; taught school for six years; graduated from Detroit interment in Mercer Cemetery. College of Medicine in 1904 and practiced medicine in Hannah, N.Dak., for one year; moved to Coeur d'Alene, WOOD, John (uncle of Alan Wood, Jr.), a RepresentativeIdaho, in 1905 and licensed to practice medicine in 1906; from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 6,surgeon for Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad 19 10- 1816; attended the Friends Society schools of Philadelphia;1950; mayor of Coeur d'Alene in 1911 and 1912; founder and employed by his father in the manufacture of tools andfirst president of Coeur d'Alene Hospital in 1908; during the agricultural machinery 1832-1840; engaged in the manufac-First World War served as a lieutenant in the Medical ture of iron and steel near Wilmington, Del., 1841-1844;Corps; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second Congress moved to Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1844(January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953); was an unsuccessful can- and engaged in the milling of iron and steel; first burgess ofdidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; Conshohocken, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-resumed the practice of medicine; died in Coeur d'Alene, sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not aIdaho, November 2, 1954; interment in Forest Cemetery. candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; died in Conshohocken, Pa., May 28, WOOD, Joseph, a Delegate from Georgia; born in Pennsyl- 1898;interment in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown,vania in 1712; moved to Sunbury, St. John's Parish (after- Montgomery County, Pa. ward Liberty County), Ga., about 1774; served in the Revolu- tionary War as major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the WOOD, John Jacob, a Representative from New York;Second Pennsylvania Battalion, which later became the born in Clarkstown (now New City), Rockland County, N.Y.,Third Pennsylvania Regiment, and was on duty in Canada Biographies 2083 in 1776; returned to Georgia and engaged in planting; and commenced practice in LaFayette, Tippecanoe County; member of the State council of safety; Member of the Conti-prosecutingattorneyof Tippecanoe County1890-1894; nental Congress 1777-1778; died on his plantation near Sun-member of the State senate 1896-1914, and served as presi- bury, Ga., in September 1791. dent pro tempore 1899-1907; Republican floor leader of the State senate for four sessions; delegate to the Republican WOOD, Reuben Terrell, a Representative from Missouri;National Conventions in 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924; chair- born on a farm near Springfield, Greene County, Mo.,man of the Republican National congressionalcommittee August 7, 1884; attended the public schools and received1920-1933; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to private instructions; apprenticed as a cigar maker in Spring-the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, field, Mo., in 1898; employed as a labor organization officer1933); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-first 1902-19 12; served as president of the Missouri State Federa-Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to tion of Labor 1912-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- ty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedthe Seventy-third Congress; died while on a visit in New from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1941; chairman, Commit-York City March 7, 1933; interment in Spring Vale Ceme- tee on War Claims (Seventy-sixth Congress); was an unsuc-tery, LaFayette, md. cessful candidate for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Bibliography: DAB. Congress; resumed office as president of the Missouri State WOODARD, Frederick Augustus, a Representative from Federation of Labor until his retirement in May 1953;North Carolina; born near Wilson, Wilson County, N.C., Feb- member of the Missouri Constitutional convention in 1944;ruary 12, 1854; attended private schools in Wilson County; died in Springfield, Mo., July 16, 1955; interment in Green-studied law at the law school of Chief Justice Richmond lawn Cemetery. Mumford Pearson; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and WOOD, Silas, a Representative from New York; born incommenced practice in Wilson, N.C.; vice president of the West Hills, near Huntington, Suffolk County, N.Y., Septem-First National Bank of Wilson; elected as a Democrat to the ber 14, 1769; pursued classical studies; was graduated fromFifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1893- Princeton College in 1789 and during the five succeedingMarch 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the years was a teacher at that institution; studied law; wasFifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wilson, admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Huntington,N.C., and died there May 8, 1915; interment in Maplewood N.Y.; was appointed district attorney of Suffolk County inCemetery. 1818 and 1821; elected to the Sixteenth and to the four WOODBRIDGE, Frederick Enoch, a Representative from succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1829); chair- man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofVermont; born in Vergennes, Addison County, Vt., August State (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses); unsuccessful29, 1818; was graduated from the University of Vermont at candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress;Burlington in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in died in Huntington, N.Y., March 2, 1847; interment in the1843 and commenced practice in Vergennes; member of the Old Public Cemetery on Main Street. State house of representatives in 1849, 1857, and 1858; mayor of Vergennes for five years; State auditor1850-1852; WOOD, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Indi- prosecuting attorney 1854-1858; engaged in the construction ana; born in Athens County, Ohio, September 30, 1844;of railroads; member of the State senate in 1860 and 1861 moved with his parents to Vigo County, md., in 1853; attend-and served as president pro tempore in the latter year; ed the common schools; taught school two years; studied lawelected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, in Terre Haute, md., and was graduated from the law de-and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); re- partment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor insumed the practice of his profession; died in Vergennes, Vt., 1867; moved to Crown Point, Lake County, md., in Novem-April 25, 1888; interment in Prospect Cemetery. ber 1867 and practiced law; corporation treasurer 1870-1872; prosecuting attorney of Lake County 1872-1876; member of WOODBRIDGE, William a Delegate and a Senator from the State senate 1878-1882; elected as a Democrat to theMichigan; born in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1780; studied Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuc-law; moved to Ohio in 1799; was admitted to the Ohio bar in cessful candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law;1806 and commenced the practice of law in Marietta; died in Crown Point, md., October 13, 1908; interment inmember, State house of representatives 1807; prosecuting Maplewood Cemetery. attorney for New London (now Washington) County, Ohio, 1808-1814; member, State senate 1808-1814; moved to De- WOOD, Walter Abbott, a Representative from New York;troit, Mich.; collector of customs, Michigan Territory, 18 14- born in Mason, N.H., October 23, 1815; moved to New York1829; appointed secretary of Michigan Territory in 1814, and in 1816 with his parents, who settled in Rensselaerville;served until appointed judge of the Territory in 1828; elected attended the common schools; moved to Hoosick Falls inas a Delegate to the Sixteenth Congressand served from 1835; became an inventor and manufacturer of reapers,March 4, 1819, to August 9, 1820, when he resigned; judge of mowers, and binders; elected as a Republican to the Forty-the supreme court of Michigan Territory 1828-1832; delegate sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3,to the State constitutional convention in 1835; member, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination; returned toState senate 1838-1839; Governor of Michigan 1840-1841; Hoosick Falls, N.Y., and resumed his former pursuits; diedelected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., January 15, 1892; interment in Maplefrom March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1847; was not a candidate Grove Cemetery. forreelection;chairman, Committee on Public Lands Bibliography: DAB. (Twenty-eighth Congress), Committee on Patents and the WOOD, William Robert, a Representative from Indiana;Patent Office (Twenty-ninth Congress); retired from public born in Oxford, Benton County, md., on January 5, 1861;life and devoted his time to horticulture; died in Detroit, attended the public schools of Oxford and was graduatedMich., October 20, 1861; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. from the law department of the University of Michigan at Bibliography: DAB; Lanman, Charles. The Life of . Ann Arbor in 1882; was admitted to the bar the same year Washington, D.C.: Blanchard and Mahun, 1867. 2084 Biographical Directory

WOODBURN, William, a Representative from Nevada;delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 and born in County Wicklow, Ireland, April 14, 1838; immigrated1872; assistant attorney for the United States in New York with his parents to the United States in 1849; attended St.City in 1861 and 1862; during the Civil War served in the Charles College, Maryland; studied law; was admitted to theUnion Army; lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and bar in 1866 and commenced the practice of law in VirginiaTwenty-seventh New York Volunteers September 8, 1862; City, Nev.; district attorney of Storey County, Nev., in 1871colonel of the One Hundred and Third United States Colored and 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Con-Infantry March 3, 1865; brevetted brigadier general of Vol- gress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); elected to the Forty-unteers May 12, 1865; resigned August 23, 1865; was first ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3,Union military commander of Charleston, S.C., and of Sa- 1889); resumed the practice of his profession in Virginiavannah, Ga.; Lieutenant Governor of New York 1867-1869; City, Storey County, Nev.; unsuccessful candidate for elec-unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1870; elected as a tion in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; died in Carson City,Republican to the Forty-third Congress and served from Nev., January 15, 1915; interment in St. Theresa Cemetery.March 4, 1873, to July 1, 1874, when he resigned; United WOODBURY, Levi, a Senator from New Hampshire; bornStates attorney for the southern district of New York from in Francestown, N.H., December 22, 1789; graduated from1877 to 1883; appointed United States Envoy Extraordinary Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1809; studied law inand Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain on June 19, 1897, and Litchfield, Conn., Boston, Mass., and Exeter, N.H.; was ad-served until September 20, 1898, when he resigned; resumed mitted to the bar in 1812 and practiced in Francestown,the practice of law in New York City and died there Febru- N.H., 1813-1816; judge of the superior court of New Hamp-ary 14, 1913; interment in Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, shire 1816-1823; moved to Portsmouth, N.H., in 1819; Gover- Conn. nor of New Hampshire 1823-1824; member, State house of Bibliography: DAB. representatives 1825, and served as speaker; elected to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1825, WOODHOUSE, Chase Going, a Representative from Con- and served from March 16, 1825, to March 3, 1831; chair- necticut; born March 3, 1890, in Victoria, British Columbia, man, Committee on Commerce (Twentieth and Twenty-firstCanada; attended the public schools in San Francisco, Calif., Congresses); nominated for the State senate in 1831 butAberdeen, S.Dak., and Science Hill School, Shelbyville, KY.; declined; Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of Presidentgraduated from McGill University of Montreal, Canada, in Andrew Jackson 183 1-1834, when he was appointed Secre-1912; took graduate work at the University of Berlin and the tary of the Treasury 1834-1841; appointed chief justice of theUniversity of Chicago; taught economics at Smith College in superior court of New Hampshire but declined to serve;Northampton, Mass., 1918-1925, and at summer sessions at elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat andTeachers College of Columbia University in New York City, served from March 4, 1841, to November 20, 1845, when heUniversity of Texas at Austin, and the University of Iowa at resigned; chairman, Committee on Finance (Twenty-ninthIowa City; professor of economics at Connecticut College in Congress); declined the British mission; appointed AssociateNew London, Conn., 1934-1946; managing director, Institute Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States andof Women's Professional Relations at Connecticut College, served from November 1845 until his death in Portsmouth,1929-1946; personnel director, Woman's College, University N.H., September 4, 1851; interment in Harmony Grove Cem-of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1929-1934; senior econo- etery. mist, Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department Bibliography: DAB; Capowski, Vincent. "The Making of a Jacksonian of Agriculture, 1926-1928; consultant, National Roster of Sci- Democrat: , 1789-1851." Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham Uni. entific and Specialized Personnel, War Manpower Commis- versity, 1966; Woodbury, Levi. Writings of Levi Woodbury. 3 vols. Boston: sion, 1942-1944; chairman of New London Democratic Town Little, Brown and Co., 1852. Committee in 1942 and 1943; secretary of state of Connecti- WOODCOCK, David, a Representative from New York;cut in 1941 and 1942; president of the Connecticut Federa- was born in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Mass., in 1785;tion of Democratic Women's Clubs 1943-1948; elected as a attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to theDemocrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945- bar and practiced; moved to Ithaca, Seneca (now Tompkins)January 3,1947); unsucessful candidate for reelection in County, N.Y.; commissioned postmaster of Ithaca November1946 to the Eightieth Congress; executive director, women's 19, 1808; appointed master of the court of chancery in 1808;division, Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C., member of the State assembly in 1814 and 1815; appointedfrom February 1947 to April 1948; visiting expert on the district attorney of Tompkins County in April 1817;surro-staff of Gen. Lucius Clay, Allied Military Governor of Ger- gate and assistant attorney general of the State in 1817;many, in 1948; elected to the Eighty-first Congress (January president of the Cayuga Steamboat Co. in 1819; elected to3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823);tion in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; special assistant president and trustee of the village of Ithaca in 1823, 1824,to the Director of Price Stabilization 1951-1953; member, and 1826; resumed the practice of law; again a member ofConnecticut State Constitutional Convention, 1965; was a the State assembly in 1826; took a prominent part in theresident of Sprague, Conn., until her death at New Canaan, Anti-Masonic Crusade and State Convention at Utica, N.Y.,Conn., December 12, 1984. in 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827- March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 WOODMAN, Charles Waihart, a Representative from Illi- to the Twenty-first Congress; resumed the practice of hisnois; born in Aalborg, Denmark, March 11, 1844; was educat- profession; died in Ithaca, N.Y., September 18, 1835; inter-ed in the schools of his native country; followed the sea ment in the City Cemetery. 1860-1863; arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1863 and immedi- ately enlisted in the Gulf Squadron of the United States WOODFORD, Stewart Lyndon, a Representative fromNavy; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1865; graduated from the New York; born in New York City September 3, 1835;was law department of Chicago University in 1871; was admitted graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia Universi-to the Illinois bar the same year and commenced practice in ty), New York City, in 1854; studied law; was admitted to theChicago; appointed prosecuting attorney of the lower courts bar in 1857 and commenced practice in New York City;in 1877; appointed justice of the peace by the judges of Cook Biographies 2085

County in 1881; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourthUniversity College of Medicine (now combined with the Med- Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candi-ical College of Virginia), Richmond, Va.; became a registered date for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; en-pharmacist and engaged in his profession in Roanoke; stud- gaged in the practice of his profession until his death; diedied law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; in Elgin, Iii., March 18, 1898; interment in Rose Hill Ceme-was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in tery, Chicago, Ill. Roanoke, Va.; Commonwealth attorney of Roanoke 1917- 1919; judge of the Hustings Court of Roanoke 1919-1922; WOODRUFF, George Catlin, a Representative from Con-elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the eleven necticut; born in Litchfield, Conn., on December 1, 1805; wassucceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until graduated from Yale College in 1825; studied law; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1827 and began practice in Litchfield;his resignation on December 31, 1945, to become president of postmaster of Litchfield from January 4, 1832, to Januarythe American Plant Food Council, Inc.; died in Washington, 27, 1842, and from September 2, 1842, to September 28, 1846;D.C., October 6, 1950; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Roa- noke, Va. member of the State house of representatives in 1851, 1866, Bibliography: Sargeant, James E. "Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia: A and 1874; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Con- Southern Progressive in Congress, 1923-1945." Virginia Magazine of Histo- gress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate ry and Biography 89 (July 1981): 341-64. for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; contin- ued the practice of law until his death in Litchfield, Conn., WOODS, Frank Plowman, a Representative from Iowa; November 21, 1885; interment in East Cemetery. born near Sharon, Walworth County, Wis., December 11, 1868; attended the public schools and the Northern Indiana WOODRUFF, John, a Representative from Connecticut;Normal School, Valparaiso, md.; moved toEstherville, born in West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., FebruaryEmmett County, Iowa, in 1887 and worked in a newspaper 12, 1826; received a limited schooling; moved to Catskill,office for two years; engaged in the mortgage-loan business Greene County, N.Y., in 1835; returned to Connecticut inand private banking; chairman of the Republican State cen- 1841 and settled in Bristol, where he worked in a clocktral committee in 1906 and 1907; elected as a Republican to factory until 1845; moved to New Haven in 1845; elected athe Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March member of the common council in 1848 and served several 4, 1909-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- terms; member of the general assembly in 1852; elected as ation in 1918; chairman of the Republican National Congres- candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Con- sional Committee 1913-1918; resided in Altadena, Calif., gress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; elected asuntil his death there April 25, 1944; interment in Mountain a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- View Cemetery. March 3, 1861); upon establishment of the office in 1862 was WOODS, Henry (brother of John Woods [1761-1816]), a appointed collector of internal revenue for the second dis-Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Bedford, Bedford trict of Connecticut and served until his death in NewCounty, Pa., in 1764; received a limited schooling; attended Haven, Conn., May 20, 1868; interment in Evergreen Ceme-the subscription schools of Bedford County, Pa.; studied law; tery. was admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced practice in WOODRUFF, Roy Orchard, a Representative from Michi-Bedford, Pa.; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth and Sev- gan; born at Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Mich., March 14,enth Congresses (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1803); engaged as a 1876; attended the common schools and the high school ofland speculator; died in Bedford, Pa., in 1826. Eaton Rapids; apprenticed to the printing business 1891- WOODS, James Pleasant, a Representative from Virginia; 1899; enlisted as a corporal in Company G, Thirty-thirdborn near Roanoke, Roanoke County, Va., February 4, 1868; Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-attended the common schools; was graduated from Roanoke American War; saw active service and was mustered out;College in 1892; studied law at the University of Virginia at was graduated from the dental department of the College ofCharlottesville in 1892 and 1893; was admitted to the bar in Medicine, Detroit, Mich., in 1902 and practiced dentistry inthe latter year and commenced practice in Roanoke, Va.; Bay City, Mich., 1902-1911; mayor of Bay City 1911-1913;mayor of Roanoke 1898-1900; elected as a Democrat to the elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (MarchSixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses to fill the vacancies 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for renomina-caused by the resignation of Carter Glass; was reelected to tion in 1914; served for two years in the First World War asthe Sixty-seventh Congress and served from February 25, an Infantry officer, acquiring the rank of major during his1919, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for renomina- service in France; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-tion in 1922; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- seventh and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4,tion in 1920; president of the board of trustees of Roanoke 1921-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renominationCollege; member of the board of trustees of the Randolph- in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; died in Washington,Macon system of colleges; rector of the board of visitors of D.C., February 12, 1953; interment in Elm Lawn Cemetery,the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; resumed the practice of Bay City, Mich. law; died in Roanoke, Va., July 7, 1948; interment in Ever- WOODRUFF, Thomas M., a Representative from Newgreen Burial Park. York; born in New Jersey, May 3, 1804; elected as a candi- WOODS, John (brother of Henry Woods), a Representa- date of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congresstive from Pennsylvania; born in Bedford, Bedford County, (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); employed as a cabinetmakerPa., in 1761; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Wash- and later engaged in the furniture business in New Yorkington County, Pa., in December 1783, in Westmoreland City; died in New York City, March 28, 1855; interment inCounty and Fayette County in 1784, in Allegheny County on the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Newark, N.J. December 16, 1788, and in Bedford County in 1791; practiced WOODRUM, Clifton Alexander, a Representative fromextensively in those counties; assisted in laying out the city Virginia; born in Roanoke, Roanoke County, Va., April 27,of Pittsburgh in 1784; member of the State senate in 1797; 1887; attended the public schools of his native city and theelected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 2086 Biographical Directory

1815-March 3,1817); owing to illness never attended orParty ticket to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses qualified; died in Brunswick County, Va., December 16, 1816,(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for while on a journey to the South to regain his health. renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of his profession WOODS, John, a Representative from Ohio; born inin Independence; became affiliated with the Democratic Johnstown, Dauphin County, Pa., October 18, 1794; movedParty; was judge of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit of Mis- with his parents to Ohio, where he attended the commonsouri from March 1875 until his death in Independence, Mo., schools; served in the War of 1812; after the war operatedaJune 23, 1881; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. school near Springborough for two years; studied law;was WOOD WARD, George Washington, aRepresentative admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced the practice offrom Pennsylvania; born in Bethany, Wayne County, Pa., his profession in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio; prosecutingMarch 26, 1809; attended Geneva Seminary (now Hobart attorney of Butler County 1820-1825; elected to the Nine-College), Geneva, N.Y., and Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Academy; teenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to thepractice in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; delegate to the State constitu- Twenty-first Congress; became editor and publisher of thetional convention in 1837; president judge of the fourth judi- Hamilton Intelligencer in 1829; State auditor of Ohio fromcial district 1841-1851; unsuccessful candidate for United 1845 to 1851; president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indi-States Senator in 1845; nominated in 1845 by President Polk anapolis Railroad; died in Hamilton, Ohio, July 30, 1855;a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States but was interment in Greenwood Cemetery. not confirmed by the Senate; associate judge of the supreme WOODS, Samuel Davis, a Representative from California;court of Pennsylvania 1852-1863 and chief justice 1863-1867; born in Mount Pleasant, Maury County, Tenn., Septemberunsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1863; 19, 1845; moved with his parents to Stockton, Calif., in Feb-elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth Congress to fill the ruary 1850; attended the public schools; studied law; wasvacancy caused by the death of Charles Denison; reelected to admitted to the California bar in April 1875 and engaged inthe Forty-first Congress and served from November 21, 1867, practice in Stockton and in the city and county of Santo March 3 1871; was not a candidate for renomination in Francisco; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Con-1870; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion1868; unsuccessful candidate for president judge of the elev- De Vries; reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and servedenth judicial district in 1870; moved to Philadelphia in 1871 from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903; was nota candi-and continued the practice of his profession; was a delegate date for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress;re-to the State constitutional convention in 1873; traveled sumed the practice of law in San Francisco, Calif., and diedabroad in 1874 and died in Rome, Italy, on May 10, 1875; there December 24, 1915; interment in Mount Olivet Ceme-interment in Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. tery, San Mateo County, Calif. WOODWARD, Gilbert Motier, a Representative from Wis- WOODS, William, a Representative from New York; bornconsin; born in Washington, D.C., December 25, 1835; educat- in Washington County, N.Y., in 1790; receiveda limiteded in the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the schooling; moved to Bath, Steuben County, N.Y., in 1813;bar in 1861 and commenced practice in La Crosse, Wis., in studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Bath,February 1860; served more than three years in the Union N.Y.; member of the State assembly 1823-1825; elected toArmy during the Civil War as a private, first sergeant, the Eighteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thesecond lieutenant, first lieutenant, and adjutant in the resignation of William B. Rochester and served from Novem- Second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; district at- ber 3, 1823, to March 3, 1825; resumed the practice of historney of La Crosse County 1866-1873; mayor of the city of profession; surrogate of Steuben County 1827-1835; died inLa Crosse in 1874 and 1875; city attorney 1876-1882; elected Bath, N.Y., August 7, 1837; interment in Grove Cemetery.as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883- March 3, 1885); unsuccessful for reelection in 1884 to the WOODSON, Samuel Hughes (father of Samuel HughesForty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in La Woodson [1815-1881]), a Representative from Kentucky; bornCrosse, Wis.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Gover- near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., September 15,nor of Wisconsin in 1886; delegate to the Democratic Nation- 1777; completed preparatory studies; studied law;was admit- ted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Nicholas-al Convention in 1888; died in La Crosse, Wis., March 13, ville, Jessamine County, Ky.; clerk of Jessamine County Cir-1913; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. cuit Court 1803-1819; elected to the Seventeenth Congress WOOD WARD, Joseph Addison (son of William Wood- (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate forward), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Winns- reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; resumed theboro, Fairfield County, S.C., on April 11, 1806; received an practice of his profession in Nicholasville; member of theacademic training and was graduated from the University of State house of representatives in 1825 and 1826; died atSouth Carolina at Columbia; studied law; was admitted to "Chaumiere," Jessamine County, Ky., July 28, 1827; inter-the bar and practiced; member of the State house of repre- ment in the Crocket Burying Ground. sentatives, 1834-1835, 1840-1841; elected as a Democrat to WOODSON, Samuel Hughes (son of Samuel Hughesthe Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses Woodson [1777-1827]), a Representative from Missouri; born(March 4, 1843-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., October 24, 1815;reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; moved to attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre Col- Alabama and resumed the practice of his profession; died in lege, Danville, Ky., and the law department of TransylvaniaTalladega, Talladega County, Ala., on August 3, 1885; inter- University, Lexington, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1838ment in Oak Hill Cemetery. and commenced the practice of law in Independence, Jack- WOODWARD, William (father of Joseph Addison Wood- son County, Mo., in 1840; member of the State house ofward), a Representative from South Carolina; member, State representatives in 1853 and 1854; delegate to the State con-house of representatives, 18 18-1823; elected as a Republican stitutional convention in 1855; elected on the Americanto the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817). 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WOOD WORTH, James Hutchinson, a Representativeto March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in from Illinois; born in Greenwich, N.Y., December 4, 1804;1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; elected to the Sixty-ninth received a limited schooling; moved to Fabius, OnondagaCongress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate County, N.Y., and taught school; engaged in mercantile pur-for reelection to the Seventieth Congress; resumed his suits in 1823; inspector of the common schools in 1826;former business pursuits; died in Spencer, W.Va., on June moved to Erie, Pa., in 1827; justice of the peace 1829-1832;21, 1929; interment in Spencer Mausoleum. moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1833 and engaged in the dry-goods business; served in the State senate 1839-1842; member of WOOMER, Ephraim Milton, a Representative from Penn- the State house of representatives 1842-1847; owner andsylvania; born in Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pa., January manager of the Chicago Hydraulic Flouring Mills for ten14, 1844; attended the common schools; during the Civil War years; member of the Chicago City Council 1845-1848; mayorenlisted in Company A, Ninety-third Regiment, Pennsylva- of Chicago 1848-1850; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-nia Volunteer Infantry, in September 1861; promoted to ser- fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); retired togeant; taught school until 1869; engaged in mercantile pur- private life until appointed by Governor Yates to serve onsuits; clerk of the orphans' court of Lebanon County 1869- the board of auditors on war claims; served as president of1872; cashier of the People's Bank of Lebanon; member of the Merchants & Mechanics' Bank of Chicago and was presi-the council of the borough of Lebanon 1884-1886; president dent of the Treasury Bank of Chicago at the time of hisof the select council of the city of Lebanon 1886-1890; dele- death; one of the founders of Chicago University; died ingate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; elected Highland Park, Ill., March 26, 1869; interment in Oaklandas a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congress- Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. es (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessfulcandidate for renomination in 1896; again engaged in banking; died in WOOD WORTH, Laurin Dewey, a Representative fromLebanon, Pa., November 29, 1897; interment in Mount Leba- Ohio; born in Windham, Portage County, Ohio, Septembernon Cemetery. 10, 1837; attended the common schools, Windham (Ohio) Academy, Hiram (Ohio) College, and the Ohio State Univer- WOOTEN, Dudley Goodall, a Representative from Texas; sity at Columbus; studied law at Union Law College, Cleve- born near Springfield, Greene County, Mo., June 19, 1860; land, Ohio; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commencedmoved in infancy with his parents to Texas during the Civil practice in Ravenna, Ohio; member of the Portage CountyWar; attended private schools in Paris, Tex., and was grad- Board of School Examiners; served in the Union Army asuated from Princeton College in 1875; attended Johns Hop- major of the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer In- kins University, Baltimore, Md., and was graduated from fantry from July 1862 to December 1862; moved to Youngs-the law department of the University of Virginia at Char- town, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1864 and resumed thelottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practiced in practice of law; elected to the State senate in 1867; reelectedAustin, Tex.; prosecuting attorney of Austin 1884-1886; in 1869 and served as president pro tempore; elected as amoved to Dallas, Tex., in 1888; judge of the Dallas County Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congressesdistrict court 1890-1892; member of the State house of repre- (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was an unsuccessful candi-sentatives in 1898 and 1899; delegate to the National Anti- date for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress;trust Conference at Chicago in 1899; member of the execu- continued the practice of law in Youngstown, Ohio, until histive council of the National Civic Federation in 1900; dele- death there on March 13, 1897; interment in Windham Cem-gate to the National Tax Conference at Buffalo in 1901; etery, Windham, Portage County, Ohio. elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert E. Burke and WOODWORTH, William W., a Representative from Newserved from July 13, 1901, to March 3, 1903; unsuccessful York; born in New London, Conn., March 16, 1807; moved tocandidate for renomination in 1902; continued the practice Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1834; received a limit-of law in Seattle, Wash.; served as special judge of the ed schooling; supervisor of Hyde Park in 1838, 1841, andsuperior court at various times; delegate to the National 1843; appointed judge of Dutchess County in 1838 and reap-Rivers and Harbors Congress in 1912; delegate to the Na- pointed in 1843; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1842tional Conservation Congress in 1913; appointed a member to the Twenty-eighth Congress; elected as a Democrat to theof the State board of higher curricula by the Governor in Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); un-1919; professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, successful candidate for renomination in 1846; held interestsNotre Dame, md., 1924-1928; died, while on a visit, in in Cuba and formed a stock company of the Hudson RiverAustin, Tex., on February 7, 1929; interment in Calvary State Co. at Clinton, N.Y.; contractor for building a sectionCemetery, Seattle, Wash. of the Hudson River Railroad; moved to Yonkers, N.Y., De- cember 1, 1849, and engaged in the real estate business and WORCESTER, Samuel Thomas, a Representative from banking; elected president of Yonkers in 1857 and 1858;Ohio; born in Hollis, Hillsborough County, N.H., August 30, elected receiver of taxes in 1870; died in Yonkers, N.Y.,1804; attended the common schools and was graduated from February 13, 1873; interment in Oakland Cemetery. Harvard University in 1830; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began practice in Norwalk, Huron WOODYARD, Harry Chapman, a Representative fromCounty, Ohio; member of the State senate in 1849 and 1850; West Virginia; born in Spencer, Roane County, W.Va., No-served as judge of the court of common pleas in 1859 and vember 13, 1867; attended the common schools; engaged in1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress the wholesale grocery and lumber business; member of theto fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sher- State senate in 1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-man and served from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; re- eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,sumed the practice of law and engaged in literary pursuits; 1903-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection indied in Nashua, N.H., on December 6, 1882; interment in the 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourthSouth Cemetery, Hollis, N.H. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hunter H. Moss, Jr.; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and WORD, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Missis- Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from November 7, 1916,sippi; born in Surry County, N.C.; member of the State 2088 Biographical Directory

house of commons in 1832; moved to Mississippi and settledcommenced practice in Jersey City, N.J.; elected as a Demo- in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County; contested the election ofcrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, Samuel J. Gholson to the Twenty-fifth Congress, and the1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the election was set aside by the House; subsequently electedasThirty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; trustee a Whig to fill the vacancy caused by this action, and servedof Rutgers College 1862-1868; president of the water board, from May 30, 1838, to March 3, 1839. Jersey City, 1860-1868; president of the Riparian Commis- WORKS, John Downey, a Senator from California; bornsion of New Jersey 1865-1868; delegate to the Democratic near Rising Sun, Ohio County, md., March 29, 1847; attend-National Convention in 1868, died in Jersey City, N J No- ed private schools; during the Civil War served in the Tenthvember 7, 1868; interment in the Dutch Reformed Church Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, of the Union Army;Cemetery, Park Ridge, Bergen County, N.J. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced WORTHINGTON, Henry Gaither, a Representative from practice in Vevay, md.; member, State house of representa-Nevada; born in Cumberland, Md., February 9, 1828; com- tives 1878-1880; moved to San Diego, Calif., in 1883 andpleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the continued the practice of law; judge of the superior court of-bar and commenced practice in Tuolumne County, Calif.; San Diego County 1886-1887; associate justice of thesu- traveled in Central America and Mexico and upon his preme court of California 1888-1891; moved to Los Angelesreturn settled in San Francisco, Calif.; member of the State in 1896; president of the city council of Los Angeles 1910;house of representatives in 1861; moved to Nevada in 1862 elected as a Republican to the United States Senate andand settled in Austin; upon the admission of Nevada as a served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917;was not aState into the Union was elected as a Republican to the candidate for renomination; chairman, Committeeon Ex- penditures in the War Department (Sixty-second Congress),Thirty-eighth Congress and served from October 31, 1864, to Committee on Fisheries (Sixty-second Congress); resumed the March 3, 1865; collector of the port of Charleston, S.C.; practice of law for a short time; died in Los Angeles, Calif.,served as United States Minister to Uruguay and the Argen- June 6, 1928; remains were cremated and the ashes deposit-tine Republic in 1868 and 1869 by appointment of President ed in Inglewood Cemetery. Andrew Johnson; United States district judge; major general Bibliography: Works, John D. Man's Duty to Man: A Study of Social of militia, defeated by two votes for election to the United Conditions and How They May Be Improved. New York: Neale Publishing States Senate, served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Presi Co., 1919; Works, John D. What's Wrong With the World? Boston: Thedent Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D C July 29 Stratford Co., 1922. 1909, interment in Congressional Cemetery WORLEY, Francis Eugene, a Representative from Texas; WORTHINGTON, John Tolley Hood, a Representative born to Lone Wolf, Kiowa County, Okia., October 10, 1908;from Maryland; born at "Shewan," near Baltimore, Balti- moved to Shamrock, Tex., in 1922; attended the publicmore County, Md., November 1, 1788; received a limited schools, the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College atschooling; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a College Station in 1927 and 1928, and the law school of theJacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831- University of Texas at Austin 1930-1935; was admitted toMarch 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in Shamrock, Tex.;to the Twenty-third Congress and for election in 1834 to the member of the State house of representatives from 1935 toTwenty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the 1940, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837- served as a lieutenant commander in the United StatesMarch 3,1841); resumed agricultural pursuits; died at Navy from December 1941 to August 1942, whilea Member"Shewan," Baltimore County, Md., April 27, 1849; interment of Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventhin a private cemetery on his farm; reinterment in St. John's Congress; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and EpiscopalChurchyard,WorthingtonValley,Baltimore served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation April 3, County, Md. 1950; chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Seventy-eighth Congress); WORTHINGTON, Nicholas Ellsworth, a Representative appointed an associate judge of the United States Court offrom Illinois; horn in Brooke County, Va. (now West Virgin- Customs and Patent Appeals, Washington, D.C., and servedia), March 30, 1836; was graduated from Allegheny College, from April 4, 1950, to May 4, 1959; appointed chief judgeMeadville, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 May 4, 1959; resided in Arlington, Va., until his death inand commenced practice in Peoria, Ill.; superintendent of Naples, Fla., December 17, 1974; cremated; ashes interred atschools of Peoria County 1865-1872; member of the State Columbia Gardens, Arlington, Va. board of education 1869-1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- WORMAN, Ludwig, a Representative from Pennsylvania;March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 born in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pa., in 1761;re- to the Fiftieth Congress and for election in 1888 to the Fifty- ceived a limited schooling; learned the tanning business;first Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected circuit moved to Earl Township, Berks County, Pa., in 1784 andjudge of the tenth judicial district of Illinois in 1891; reelect- established a tannery; elected as a Federalist to the Seven-ed in 1897, and served until his retirement June 15, 1915; teenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, until hisappointed by President Cleveland a member of the commis- death; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to thesion to investigate labor strikes in 1894; died in Peoria, Ill., Eighteenth Congress; died in Earl Township, Berks County,March 4, 1916; interment in Springdale Cemetery. Pa., October 17, 1822; interment in Earl Township Cemetery. WORTHINGTON, Thomas, a Senator from Ohio; born in WORTENDYKE, Jacob Reynier, a Representative fromJefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), on July 16, 1773; New Jersey; born in Chestnut Ridge, near Hackensack,completed preparatory studies; went to sea; studied survey- Bergen County, N.J., November 27, 1818; completedprepara-ing; moved to Ross County, Ohio, in 1796; member of the tory studies under a private tutor; was graduated from Rut-first and second Territorial legislatures 1799-1803; delegate gers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1839; taught school forto the State constitutional convention in 1803; elected as a ten years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 andRepublican to the United States Senate and served from Biographies 2089

April 1, 1803, to March 3, 1807; member, State house ofand Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, representatives 1807; again elected to the United Statesuntil his death in North Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofAugust 14, 1897; chairman, Committee on Mileage (Fifty- Return J. Meigs, Jr., and served from December 15, 1810,fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); interment in Hinsdale until December 1, 1814, when he resigned, having been elect-Cemetery. ed Governor; Governor of Ohio 1814-1818; canal commission- er from 1818 until his death; member, State house of repre- WRIGHT, Augustus Romaldus, a Representative from sentatives 1821-1822; died in New York City June 20, 1827;Georgia; born in Wrightsboro, Ga., June 16, 1813; attended interment in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County,the public schools at Appling, Ga., the grammar school, Ohio. Franklin College, and the University of Georgia at Athens; Bibliography: DAB; Sears, Alfred. Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohiostudied law at Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admitted Statehood. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1958. to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Crawfordville, Ga., moving the following year to Cassville; served as judge WORTHINGTON, Thomas Contee (nephew of Benjaminof the superior courts of the Cherokee circuit from 1842 Contee), a Representative from Maryland; born near Annap- olis, Anne Arundel County, Md., November 25, 1782; re- until he resigned in 1849 to resume the practice of law; ceived a limited schooling; served as a captain in the War ofmoved to Rome, Ga., in 1855 and continued the practice of 1812; brigadier general of the Ninth Brigade, Maryland Mili-law; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress tia, 1818-1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1817(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); delegate to Georgia Secession and commenced practice in Annapolis, Md.; member of theConvention (opposing secession) and to the Confederate Se- executive council in 1830 under the first State constitution;cession Convention; offered provisional governorship of Geor- moved to Frederick, Frederick County, Md., in 1818 andgia by President Lincoln, but declined; served as a member continued the practice of law; member of the State house ofof the Confederate Congress; during the Civil War organized representatives in 1818; elected to the Nineteenth CongressWright's Legion, which was mustered in with the Thirty- (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed the practice of laweighth Georgia Infantry; after the Civil War resumed the in Frederick, Md., and died there on April 12, 1847; inter-practice of law at Rome, Ga.; member of the Georgia Consti- ment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. tutional Convention of 1877; died March 31, 1891, at his home "Glenwood," later a part of the Berry School, near WORTLEY, George Cornelius, a Representative fromRome, Ga.; interment in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. New York; born in Syracuse, N.Y., December 8, 1926; attend- ed St. Lucy's Academy, Syracuse; graduated from Tully Cen- WRIGHT, Charles Frederick (brother of Myron Benjamin tral School, Tully, N.Y., 1944; B.S., Syracuse University, Wright), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Forest 1948; attended Kings Point Academy, 1945-1946; cadet mid-Lake Township, Susquehanna County, Pa., on May 3, 1856; shipman, MMR-USNR, 1945-1946; president of publishingattended the public schools and was graduated from the company; publisher-editor, Eagle Bulletin; director, Bank ofMontrose (Pa.) Academy in 1874; teller of the First National New York (central region); director, Wortley Drug Store,Bank of Montrose, Pa., 1875-1881; was assistant cashier, Inc.; National Editorial Foundation, president, 1968-1973;cashier, and president of the First National Bank of Susque- New York Press Association, president, 1966; National Com-hanna Depot 1882-1899; delegate to the Republican National mission on Historical Publications and Records, 1977-1980;Conventions in 1896, 1904, and 1908; elected as a Republican director, Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, 1979-to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses 1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to(March 4, 1899-March 3,1905); chairman, Committee on the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3,Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Fifty-eighth 1989); is a resident of Fayetteville, N.Y. Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1904; WREN, Thomas, a Representative from Nevada; born inState treasurer 1911-1913; commissioner of public service in McArthurstown, Ohio, January 2, 1826; received a common-1915 and 1916; resumed banking pursuits; died in Susque- school education; moved with his parents to Illinois; crossedhanna, Pa., November 10, 1925; interment in Evergreen the Plains to California in 1850; engaged in mining for threeCemetery. years; deputy clerk of Eldorado County, Calif., 1855-1857; WRIGHT, Daniel Boone, a Representative from Mississip-- studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-pi; born near Mount Pleasant, Giles County, Tenn., Febru- tice in Downeyville, Calif.; moved to Nevada in 1863, whereary 17, 1812; attended the common schools and was graduat- he resided successively in Austin, Hamilton, Pioche, Eureka,ed from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1837; and Reno, being engaged in the practice of law at eachstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced place; city attorney of Austin 1874-1876; president and attor-practice in Ashland, Benton County, Miss.; moved to Salem ney for the Richmond Mining Co. in Eureka; member of the(later Hudsonville), Benton County, Miss., in 1850 and con- State house of representatives in 1875; elected as a Republi-tinued the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural can to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3,pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and 1879); resumed the practice of law; died in Reno, Nev., Feb-Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); was ruary 5, 1904; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. not a candidate for renomination in 1856; resumed the prac- WRIGHT, Ashley Bascom, a Representative from Massa-tice of law at Ashland, Miss.; during the Civil War was chusetts; born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, Mass., Mayappointed, on April 16,1862, lieutenant colonel of the 25, 1841; attended the public schools and Lincoln AcademyThirty-fourth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry in the Con- at Hinsdale; moved to North Adams, Mass., in 1861; appoint-federate Army; appointed colonel of Cavalry to take effect ed chief deputy collector of internal revenue for the tenthJune 6, 1864, and served as a judge of military courts in district of Massachusetts in 1861; resigned in 1865 and en-Gen. N.B. Forrest's Cavalry Division; resumed the practice gaged in mercantile pursuits; elected selectman; commission- of his profession in Ashland, Miss., and was also interested er for the county of Berkshire 1884-1887 and chairman forin agricultural pursuits in Benton County; died in Ashland, one year; member of the State executive council in 1890 andMiss., December 27, 1887; interment in the McDonald (pri- 1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,vate) Cemetery, near Ashland, Miss. 2090 Biographical Directory

WRIGHT, Edwin Ruthvin Vincent, a Representative fromand 1876; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Thirty- New Jersey; born in Hoboken, N.J., January 2, 1812; com- second Congress in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the pleted preparatory studies; engaged in newspaper work inThirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuc- 1835; editor of the Jersey Blue in 1836, a newspaper pub- cessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth lished in Hoboken, N.J.; studied law; was admitted to theCongress; elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Jersey City; subse-vacancy caused by the death of George W. Scranton and quently settled in Hudson City and continued the practice ofserved from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863; resumed the law; member of the State council in 1843; district attorneypractice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to the for Hudson County 1851-1855; mayor of Hudson, N.J., inForty-fifth Congress and reelected as a Greenbacker to the 1855; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth CongressForty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); chair- (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); owing to ill health, was notaman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-fifth Congress); un- candidate for renomination in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress;successful candidate for reelection in 1880; died in Wilkes- elected Governor of New Jersey in 1869; died in Jersey City, Barre, Pa., September 2,1881; interment in Hollenback N.J., January 21, 1871; interment in Hoboken Cemetery,Cemetery. New Durham, Hudson County, N.J. Bibliography: DAB; Curran, Daniel J. "Hendrick B. Wright: A Study in WRIGHT, George Grover (brother of Joseph Albert Leadership." Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 1962. Wright), a Senator from Iowa; born in Bloomington, Monroe WRIGHT, James Assibn, a Representative from Pennsyl- County, md., March 24, 1820; attended private schools andvania; born in Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pa., on August graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1839;11, 1902; attended the public schools; was graduated from studied law in Rockville, md.; was admitted to the bar inHoly Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in 1923 and from the 1840 and commenced practice in Keosauqua, Iowa Territory;law department of the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, prosecuting attorney of Van Buren County, Iowa, 1847-1848;Pa., in 1927; was admitted to the bar in 1927 and com- member, State senate 1849-1851; justice of the State su-menced practice in Carnegie, Pa.; served as assistant county preme court 1854-1870; served as president of the Iowa Agri-solicitor of Allegheny County, Pa., 1935-1941; elected as a cultural Society 1860-1865; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, inDemocrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Con- 1865; one of the founders of the College of Law, Universitygresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful can- of Iowa; professor in the law department of the State univer-didate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; sity 1865-1871; elected as a Republican to the United Statesresumed the practice of law; died in Scott Township, Pa., Senate and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877;November 7, 1963; interment in Holy Souls Cemetery, Car- was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee onnegie, Pa. the Judiciary (Forty-second Congress), Committeeon Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-third Congress), Commit- WRIGHT, James Claude, Jr., a Representative from Texas tee on Claims (Forty-fourth Congress); resumed the practiceand Speaker of the House of Representatives; born in Fort of his profession in Des Moines and also engaged in banking;Worth, Tarrant County, Tex., December 22, 1922; attended president of the American Bar Association 1887-1888; diedthe public schools of Fort Worth and Dallas, Tex.; student at in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 11, 1896; interment inWeatherford (Tex.) College, 1939-1940, and the University of Woodland Cemetery. Texas, 1940-1941; enlisted in the United States Army Air Bibliography: DAB. Force in December 1941; commissioned in 1942 and flew WRIGHT, George Washington, a Representative fromcombat missions in the South Pacific; was awarded the Dis- California; was born in Concord, Mass., on June 4, 1816;tinguished Flying Cross; partner in a national trade exten- attended the public schools; employed in the business de-sion and advertising firm; member of the Texas State house partment of the Boston Courier in 1835 and later engaged inof representatives, 1947-1949; mayor of Weatherford, Tex., mercantile pursuits in Boston; moved to California and set-1950-1954; served as president of the League of Texas Mu- tled in San Francisco in 1849; again engaged in mercantilenicipalities in 1953; delegate, Democratic National Conven- pursuits and also became interested in banking and mining;tions, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and Convention chairman one of the founders of the banking house of Palmer, Cook &in 1988; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to Co. in San Francisco; upon the admission of Californiaas athe sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January State into the Union was elected as an Independent to the3, 1989); majority leader (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-ninth Thirty-first Congress and served from September 11, 1850, toCongresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (One- March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for renomination;hundredth Congress); is a resident of Fort Worth, Tex. affiliated with the Republican Party; moved to Washington, Bibliography: Wright, Jim. You and Your Congressman. New York: D.C., and served as attorney of the Choctaw Indians; en-Coward-McCann, 1965; The Coming Water Famine. New York: Coward- McCann, 1966; Of Swords and Plowshares: A Collection of the Best Short gaged in private scientific work; moved to Dorchester, Mass., Writings of Congressman Jim Wright. Fort Worth, Tex.: Stafford-Lowdon in 1880 and retired from active pursuits; died in Dorchester, Co., 1968; "Legislation and the Will of God." In Congress and Conscience. Mass., April 7, 1885; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Edited by John B. Anderson, pp. 23-50. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. 1970; Reflections of a Public Man. Fort Worth: Madison Publishing Com- pany, 1984. WRIGHT, Hendrick Bradley, a Representative from Penn- sylvania; born in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa., April 24, WRIGHT, John Crafts, a Representative from Ohio; born 1808; attended the Wilkes-Barre Grammar School andwasin Wethersfield, Conn., August 17, 1783; completed prepara- graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1829;tory studies; learned the trade of printer; moved to Troy, studied law; was admitted to the bar November 8, 1831, andN.Y., and edited the Troy Gazette for several years; studied commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County; ap-law in Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar and com- pointeddistrictattorney for Luzerne County in1834; menced practice in Steubenville, Ohio, in1809; United member of the State house of representatives 1841-1843 andStates district attorney in 1817; elected to the Seventeenth served the last year as speaker; delegate to the DemocraticCongress, but resigned on March 3, 1821, before the begin- National Conventions in 1844, 1848, 1852, 1856, 1860, 1868,ning of the congressional term; reelected to the Eighteenth, Biographies 2091

Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4,1823-of the Fifty-third Congress; had been reelected to the Fifty- March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828fourth Congress; died while on a trip for the benefit of his to the Twenty-first Congress; elected to the Ohio Supremehealth in Trenton, Canada, November 13, 1894; interment in Court in 1831 and served until February 2, 1835, when hethe Grand Street Cemetery, Susquehanna, Pa. resigned; moved to Cincinnati in 1835 and engaged in news- paper work, and for thirteen years published the Cincinnati WRIGHT, Robert (cousin of Turbutt Wright), a Senator Gazette; director of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Rail-and a Representative from Maryland; born at "Narbor- way Co.; delegate to and honorary president of the peaceough," near Chestertown, Queen Annes County, Md., No- congress held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort tovember 20, 1752; attended the common schools and Washing- devise means to prevent the impending war, and died whileton College, Chestertown, Md.; studied law; was admitted to serving in that capacity at Washington, D.C., February 13,the bar in 1773 and commenced practice in Chestertown; 1861; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.served in the Revolutionary War as private, lieutenant, and WRIGHT, John Vines, a Representative from Tennessee;later as captain; member, State house of delegates 1784- born in Purdy, McNairy County, Tenn., June 28, 1828; com-1786; member, State senate 1801; elected as a Republican to pleted preparatory studies; attended the University of Ten-the United States Senate on November 19, 1801, for the nessee at Knoxville, where he pursued courses in medicineterm commencing March 4, 1801, and served until his resig- and law, graduating from the law department; was admittednation on November 12, 1806, having been elected Governor; to the bar and commenced practice in Purdy, Tenn.; electeddelegate to the Farmers' National Convention in 1803; Gov- as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-ernor of Maryland 1806-1809; clerk of Queen AnnesCounty sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); during the1810; elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses to fill Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of thethe vacancy caused by the resignation of John Brown; re- Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, in 1861; elected toelected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and the First and Second Confederate Congresses; judge of theserved from November 29, 1810, to March 3, 1817; unsuccess- circuit court of Tennessee; chancellor and judge of the Stateful candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Con- supreme court; practiced law in Nashville, Tenn., 1865-1886;gress; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821- unsuccessful candidate as an Anti-Repudiation Democrat for Governor of Tennessee in 1880; was chairman of the North-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for renomination in west Indian Commission in 1886 and member of the commis-1822; district judge of the lower Eastern Shore district of sion to treat with the Great Sioux Nation in Dakota; ap-Maryland from 1823 until his death at "Blakeford," Queen pointed to the law division of the General Land Office inAnnes County, Md., September 7, 1826; interment in the 1887 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., Juneprivate burying ground of the DeCourcy family at "Cheston- 11, 1908; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. on-Wye," Queen Annes County, Md. Bibliography: DAB. WRIGHT, Joseph Albert(brotherof George Grover Wright), a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born WRIGHT, Samuel Gardiner, a Representative from New in Washington, Pa., April 17, 1810; moved to Indiana aboutJersey; born in Wrightstown, N.J., November 18, 1781; was 1820 with his parents, who settled in Bloomington, Monroemainly self-educated; engaged in mercantile pursuits in County; attended the common schools; graduated from Indi-Philadelphia, Pa., with a country place near Imlaystown, ana University at Bloomington in 1825; studied law; wasN.J.; owned several iron furnaces in New Jersey and Dela- admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice inware; was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress Rockville, Parke County, md.; member, State house of repre-and served from March 4, 1845, until his death near Imlays- sentatives 1833, 1836; member, State senate 1840; elected astown, Monmouth County, N.J., July 30, 1845, before the a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-assembling of Congress; interment in the East Branch Ceme- March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; Governor of Indiana 1849-tery, near Imlaystown, N.J. 1857; appointed by President James Buchanan as Envoy WRIGHT, Silas, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia 1857-New York; born in Amherst, Mass., May 24, 1795; moved 1861; appointed as a Unionist to the United States Senate towith his father to Wyebridge, Vt., in 1796; graduated from fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Jesse D. BrightMiddlebury (Vt.) College in 1815; moved to Sandy Hill, and served from February 24, 1862, to January 14, 1863; wasWashington County, N.Y., in 1816; studied law; was admit- not a candidate for the succeeding term; appointed United States commissioner to the Hamburg Exhibition in 1863;ted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Canton, again appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-St. Lawrence County, N.Y.; surrogate of St. Lawrence tentiary to Prussia in 1865, and served until his death inCounty 1821-1824; member, State senate 1824-1827; appoint- Berlin, Germany, May 11, 1867; interment in New Yorked brigadier general of State militia in 1827; elected to the City. Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, to Feb- Bibliography: DAB. ruary 16, 1829, when he resigned; successfully contestedthe election of George Fisher to the Twenty-first Congress, but WRIGHT, Myron Benjamin (brother of Charles Frederickdeclined to qualify; comptroller of the State of New York Wright), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born at Forest1829-1833; elected to the United States Senate in 1833 as a Lake, Susquehanna County, Pa., June 12, 1847; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course; taughtJacksonian to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of school; clerk in the First National Bank of Susquehanna inWilliam L. Marcy; reelected in 1837 and served from Janu- 1865 and 1866; elected assistant cashier of the bank in 1867 ary 4, 1833, to November 26, 1844, when heresigned, having and cashier in 1869; interested in several financial, business,been elected Governor; chairman, Committee on Finance and manufacturing enterprises; elected as a Republican to(Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses); declined the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses andthe Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United served from March 4, 1889, until his death before the closeStates in 1844; Governor of New York 1844-1846; unsuccess- 2092 Biographical Directory ful candidate for reelection; died in Canton, N.Y., August 27,tice in Philadelphia, Pa.; member of the State house of rep- 1847; interment in Old Canton Cemetery. resentatives in 1817; served in the State senate in 1820; Bibliography: DAB; Chanceloor, William A Life of Silas Wright, 1795-elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1847. New York: W.C. O'Donnell, Jr., 1913; Garraty, John. Silas Wright. 1827); was not a candidate for renomination; United States 1949. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1970. district attorney 1827-1831; member of the city council of WRIGHT, Turbutt (cousin of Robert Wright), a DelegatePhiladelphia; president of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. from Maryland; born at "White Marsh," near Chester Mills1831-1858; went abroad for his health in 1859; died in Rome, (now Centerville), Queen Annes County, Md., on February 5,Italy, on April 23, 1861; interment in the family cemetery at 1741; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Gen-Pleasant Mills, near Batsto, Atlantic County, N.J. eral Assembly of Maryland in 1773 and 1774;one of the signers of the Association of Freemen of Maryland July 26, WURZBACH, Harry Mcbeary (uncle of Robert Christian 1775; member of the Maryland constitutional convention inEckhardt), a Representative from Texas; born in San Anto- 1776; appointed February 3, 1777, by the council of Mary-nio, Tex., May 19, 1874; attended the public schools, and was land as a member of the council of safety to fill the place ofgraduated from the law department of Washington and Lee James Lloyd Chamberlaine, resigned, and served until theUniversity, Lexington, Va., in 1896; was admitted to the bar dissolution of the council on March 21, 1777; commissionedathe same year and commenced practice in San Antonio, justice of Queen Annes County in 1779; register of wills ofTex.; during the Spanish-American War volunteered as a Queen Annes County in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Con-private in Company F, First Regiment, Texas Volunteer In- tinental Congress in 1782; again served in the State generalfantry; after the war moved to Seguin, Tex., in 1900 and assembly in 1781 and 1782; died on his estate, "Whitecontinued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Gua- Marsh," near Centerville, Md., in 1783; interment in thedalupe County 1900-1902; judge of Guadalupe County 1904- family burial plot on the homestead. 19 10; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); WRIGHT, William, a Representative and a Senator fromsuccessfully contested the election of Augustus McCloskey to New Jersey; born in Clarksville, Rockland County, N.Y.,the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy-second November 13, 1794; attended the public schools and Pough- Congress and served from February 10, 1930, until his death; keepsie Academy; was a volunteer for the defense of Ston-delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924; ington, Conn., in the War of 1812; learned the saddler'sdied in San Antonio, Tex., November 6, 1931; interment in trade and engaged in business in Bridgeport, Conn.; moved to Newark, N.J., in 1821 and ran a saddlery and leatherMilitary Cemetery. business; mayor of Newark 1840-1843; elected asa Whig to WYANT, Adam Martin, a Representative from Pennsylva- the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4,nia; born near Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pa., Septem- 1843-March 3, 1847); unsuccessful candidate forgovernor ofber 15, 1869; attended the public schools, Mount Pleasant New Jersey in 1847; affiliated with the Democratic Party inInstitute, and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.; was 1850; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andgraduated from the University of Chicago in 1895; moved to served from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessfulGreensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1896; studied candidate for reelection in 1858; chairman, Committeeonlaw; was admitted to the Westmoreland County Bar in 1902 Manufactures (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses),and commenced the practice of law in Greensburg; interest- Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenseed in coal mining and other business enterprises; elected as (Thirty-fifthCongress),Committee onEngrossedBillsa Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding (Thirty-fifth Congress); again elected as a Democrat to theCongresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); was an unsuccess- United States Senate and served from March 4, 1863, untilful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third his death in Newark, N.J., November 1, 1866; interment inCongress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Greensburg, Pa., on January 5, 1935; interment in St. Clair Bibliography: DAB. Cemetery. WRIGHT, William Carter, a Representative from Georgia; WYATT, Joseph Peyton, Jr., a Representative from Texas; born on a farm in Carroll County, Ga., January 6, 1866;born in Victoria, Victoria County, Tex., October 12, 1941; moved with his parents to Newnan, Coweta County, Ga., inattended the Victoria County public schools; attended Victo- 1869; attended the common and high schools of Newnan;ria College, 1964; B.A., University of Texas, 1968; graduate studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commencedwork, University of Houston Law School, 1970; served in the practice in Newnan, Ga.; also interested in banking andUnited States Marine Corps Reserve, 1966-1970; served on agricultural pursuits; city attorney for Newnan 1892-1895;the staffs of Texas State Senator William N Patman, United solicitor of the city court of Newnan 1894-1903; member ofStates Representative Clark W. Thompson, and Vice Presi- the board of education 1910-19 18; chairman of the Demo-dent Lyndon B. Johnson; auditor, Texas Alcoholic Beverage cratic State executive committees in 1910 and 1911; electedCommission, Austin, Tex.; director of community affairs, pri- as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancyvate firm, Victoria, Tex.; member, Texas house of represent- caused by the resignation of William C. Adamson; reelectedatives, 1971-1979; served on, Southern Legislative Confer- to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses andence and National Conference of State Legislatures; dele- served from January 24, 1918, to March 3, 1933; did not seekgate, Texas State Democratic conventions, 1968-1978; dele- renomination in 1932; died in Newnan, Ga., June 11, 1933;gate, Democratic National Convention, 1964; elected as a interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Democrat to the Ninety-sixth Congress (January 3, 1979- WURTS, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornJanuary 3, 1981); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980; in Flanders, Morris County, N.J., August 13, 1792; after hisspecial projects consultant; is a resident of Victoria, Tex. father's death in 1793 the family resided in Montville, WYATT, Wendell, a Representative from Oregon; born in Morris County, and subsequently moved to Philadelphia,Eugene, Lane County, Oreg., June 15, 1917; attended the Pa.; was graduated from Princeton College in 1813; studiedpublic schools; graduated from the Jefferson High School in law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commencedprac-Portland, Oreg., in 1935 and from the University of Oregon, Biographies 2093

Eugene, Oreg., in 1941; studied law; was admitted to the barHarvard University Law School in 1941; was admitted to the in 1941 and commenced the practice of law in Portland,bar of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1941, and of Oreg.; served in the Marine Air Corps, 1942-1946; chairmanFlorida in 1957, and commenced the practice of law in of the Oregon State Republican Central committee, 1955-Boston, Mass.; during the Second World War served in the 1957; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress,Alaskan Theater as lieutenant in the United States Naval by special election, November 3, 1964, to fill the vacancyReserve 1942-1946; general counsel to a United States caused by the death of Walter Norblad, and at the sameSenate committee in1946; secretary to Senator Styles time elected to the Eighty-ninth Congress; reelected to theBridges in 1947; counsel, Joint Congressional Committee on four succeeding Congresses and served from November 3,Foreign Economic Cooperation 1948-1949; attorney general 1964, to January 3, 1975; was not a candidate for reelectionof New Hampshire 1953-1961; president, National Associa- in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; is a resident of Laketion of Attorneys General 1957; legislative counsel to Gover- Oswego, Oreg. nor of New Hampshire in 1961; memberand chairman of WYDEN, Ronald Lee, a Representative from Oregon; bornseveral State legal and judicial commissions; elected as a in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., May 3, 1949; attendedRepublican to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963- the public schools of Palo Alto, Calif.; A.B., Stanford Univer-January 3,1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in sity, Stanford, Calif., 1971; J.D., University of Oregon Law1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected to the Ninetieth School, Eugene, 1974; director, Oregon Legal Services for theCongress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses and Elderly, 1977-1979; public member, Oregon State Board ofserved from January 3, 1967, until his resignation December Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators, 1977-1979;31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection, but was a candi- elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and to thedate in 1974 to the United States Senate for the six-year three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3,term commencing January 3, 1975; certified elected by the 1989); is a resident of Portland, Oreg. State of New Hampshire by a two vote margin; subsequently WYDLER, John Waldemar, a Representative from Newappointed December 31, 1974, to fill the vacancy caused by York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 9, 1924; attended Westthe resignation of Norris Cotton, for the term ending Janu- School of Long Beach, Long Beach High School, and Brownary 3, 1975, and served until that date; due tothe contested University, Providence, R.I.; enlisted as a private in theelection of November 5, 1974, the United States Senate de- United States Army Air Corps November 16, 1942, was pro-clared the seat, for the six-year term commencing January moted to staff sergeant in a chemical weapons company and3, 1975, vacant as of August 8, 1975; unsuccessful in a special assigned to the China-Burma-India Theater, and was dis- September election to fill the vacancy; associate justice, New charged in November 1945; served as a lieutenant in theHampshire Superior Court 1978-1987; is a resident of Man- judge advocate's office, and in Air Force Reserve, 1945-1955;chester, N.H. resumed studies at Brown University until 1947; LL.B., Har- Bibliography: Tibbetts, Donn. The Closest United States Senate Race in vard University Law School, 1950; was admitted to the bar History. Manchester, N.H.: J.W. Cummings Enterprises, 1976. in October 1950; served in the United States attorney's office, Eastern District of New York, 1953-1959; entered the WYNKOOP, Henry, a Delegate and a Representative from private practice of law in Mineola, N.Y., in 1959; delegate,Pennsylvania;bornin Northampton Township, Bucks Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republi-County, Pa., March 2, 1737; completed English and classical can to the Eighty-eighth and to the eight succeeding Con-studies; member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1760 and gresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1981); was not a candi-1761; associate justice of Bucks County Courts 1764-1777 and date for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress;president judge 1777-1789; member of the committee of ob- chairman, Long Island Development Agency; was a residentservation in 1774; delegate to the provincial conferences of of Garden City, N.Y., until his death in Washington, D.C., onJuly 15, 1774, and June 18, 1775; major of Bucks County August 4, 1987; interment in Holy Rood Cemetery, GardenAssociated Battalions; member of the general committee of City, N.Y. safety in 1776 and 1777; Member of the Continental Con- high court of errors WYLIE, Chalmers Pangburn, a Representative from Ohio;gress from 1779 to 1782; justice of the born in Norwich, Muskingum County, Ohio, November 23,and appeals from 1783 to 1789; elected to the First Congress 1920; attended Pataskala public schools, Otterbein College,(March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); appointed associate justice of and Ohio State University; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1948; Bucks County, Pa., and served until his death in that county enlisted in United States Army as a private, attained rankon March 25, 1816; interment in the graveyardof the Low of first lieutenant and served with Thirtieth Infantry Divi-Dutch Reformed Church, Richboro, Pa. Bibliography: Beatty, Joseph M., Jr. "The Letters of Judge Henry Wyn- sion in Europe during the Second World War; lieutenant kóop, Representative From Pennsylvania to the First Congress of the colonel in Army Reserves; assistant attorney general ofUnited States." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 38 (Janu- Ohio, 1951-1954; assistant city attorney of Columbus, Ohio, 1949-1950; elected city attorney of Columbus, Ohio, 1953- ary 1914): 39-64, 183-205. 1956; administrator of Bureau of Workman's Compensation WYNN, William Joseph, a Representative from California, for the State of Ohio in 1957; appointed first assistant to theborn in San Francisco, Calif., June 12, 1860; attended the Governor of Ohio in 1957; elected president of Ohio Munici-public schools of San Francisco; apprenticed to the machin- pal League in 1957; practicing attorney, 1959-1968; servedist's trade and subsequently worked in the principal manu- three terms in State Legislature of Ohio, 1961-1967; electedfacturing establishments of San Francisco; member of the as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the ten succeedingboard of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1989); is a residentfrom January 8, 1902, to March 4, 1903; elected as a Demo- of Worthington, Ohio. crat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, WYMAN, Louis Crosby, a Representative and a Senator1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the from New Hampshire; born in Manchester, HilisboroughFifty-ninth Congress; engaged in the insurance business in County, N.H., March 16, 1917; graduated from the Universi-San Francisco, Calif;, until his death in that city January 4, ty of New Hampshire at Durham in 1938 and from the1935; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Calif. 2094 Biographical Directory

WYNNS, Thomas, a Representative from North Carolina;the Post Office Department (Twenty-first Congress); unsuc- born near Barfields, Hertford County, N.C., in 1764; receivedcessful candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-second his education in England; captured at sea ona vessel calledCongress; died in Barren County, Ky., in April 1838; inter- the Fair American in 1780, and with several other colonistsment in that county. was carried to London; returned to North Carolina and set- tled as a planter in Hertford County; one of the first trustees YANCEY, William Lowndes (uncle of Joseph Haynsworth of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; memberEarle), a Representative from Alabama; born at the Falls of of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1787; delegatethe Ogeechee, Warren County, Ga., August 10, 1814; attend- to the State conventions for the ratification of the Federaled preparatory school and Williams College, Williamstown, Constitution in 1788 and 1789; served in the North CarolinaMass.; studied law in Sparta, Ga., was admitted to the bar in State senate 1790-1802 and 1807-1817; elected asa Republi-1834 and commenced practice in Greenville, S.C.; moved to can to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused byCahawba, Ala., in 1836; temporarily abandoned the practice the death of Charles Johnston; reelected to the Eighth andof law and became a cotton planter; editor of the Cahawba Ninth Congresses and served from December 7, 1802, toDemocrat and the Cahawba Gazette; moved to Wetumpka, March 3,1807; resumed planting in Hertford County;Ala., in 1839 and resumed the practice of law; member of member of the North Carolina Executive Council 1818-1824;the State house of representatives in 1841; served in the brigadier general of militia; died near Winton, HertfordState senate in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- County, N.C., on June 3, 1825; interment in Maneys Ceme-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation tery, near Maneys Ferry, N.C. of Dixon H. Lewis; reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from December 2, 1844, to September 1, 1846, WYTHE, George, a Delegate from Virginia; bornnearwhen he resigned; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1846; dele- Back River, Elizabeth City County, Va., in 1726; privatelygate to the Democratic National Convention in 1848, 1856, instructed by his mother and attended the College of Wil-and 1860; member of the State constitutional convention liam and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; was admit-which convened in Montgomery January 7, 1861; appointed ted to the bar in 1746 and commenced practice in Elizabethchairman of the commission sent to Europe in 1861 to City County in 1755; moved to Williamsburg about 1755;present the Confederate cause to the Governments of Eng- member of the house of burgesses 1758-1768; appointeda member of the committee of correspondence in 1759; movedland and France; elected to the first Confederate States to his estate in Elizabeth City County in 1783 and returnedSenate February 21, 1862; died at his plantation home, near to Williamsburg in 1768; clerk of the house of burgessesMongtomery, Ala., July 26, 1863; interment in Oakwood 1768-1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1776; Cemetery. a Bibliography: DAB; Draughon, Ralph Brown, Jr."William Lowndes signer of the Declaration of Independence; speaker of the Yancey: From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852." Ph.D. dissertation, Uni- house of delegates in 1777; judge of the Virginia Chancery versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968; Mitchell, Rexford S. "Wil- Court in 1777; appointed sole chancellor of Virginia in 1778; liam Lowndes Yancey: Orator of Southern Constitutional Rights." Ph.D. professor of law at the College of William and Mary from dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1937. 1779 to 1791, when he resigned and moved to Richmond, Va.; conducted a private school in Richmond and continued YANGCO, Teodoro Rafael, a Resident Commissioner from teaching until his death; delegate to the Federal Conventionthe Philippine Islands; born in San Antonio, Province of at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1787; a member of the State ratifica- Zambales, Philippine Islands, on November 9, 1861; attended tion convention in 1788; died in Richmond, Va., June 8, 1806;the Ateneo de Manila (Jesuit College), and was graduated interment in St. John's Churchyard. from the University of St. Thomas in 1881; pursued a com- Bibliography: DAB; Boyd, Julian P "The Murder of George Wythe."mercial course in London, England, 1882-1886; engaged in William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., 12 (October 1955): 513-42; Kirtland,the construction and repair of vessels, in the operation of a Robert B. "George Wythe: Lawyer, Revolutionary, Judge." PhD disserta-line of ferries, and also in mercantile pursuits; director of a tion, University of Michigan, 1983. life insurance company and interested in various commer- cial and charitable organizations in Manila; elected as a Nationalist a Resident Commissioner to the United States, Y and served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1920; was not a candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed his former YANCEY, Bartlett (cousin of John Kerr), a Representativebusiness activities in Manila, Philippine Islands, until his from North Carolina; born nearYariceyville,Caswelldeath on April 20, 1939; interment in the Cementerio del County, N.C., February 19, 1785; attended a private schoolNorth. and Hyco Academy in Caswell County; student at the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1804-1806; studied YAPLE, George Lewis, a Representative from Michigan; law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and practiced; electedborn in Leonidas, St. Joseph County, Mich., on February 20, as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congress-1851; moved with his parents to Mendon, Mich., in 1857; es (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); chairman, Committee onattended the common schools and Albion (Mich.) College; Claims (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses); declined towas graduated from the Northwestern University, Evanston, be a candidate for renomination in 1816; member of theIll., in 1871 and completed a postgraduate course in 1874; State senate and served as its presiding officer 1817-1827;studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872, but was en- died near Yanceyville, N.C., August 30, 1828; interment ingaged in agricultural pursuits until 1877, when he com- the family cemetery upon the homestead. menced the practice of law at Mendon, Mich.; unsuccessful Greenback candidate for election in 1880 to the Forty-sev- YANCEY, Joel, a Representative from Kentucky; born inenth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Albemarle County, Va., October 21, 1773; member of theCongress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candi- State house of representatives 1809-18 11; served in the Statedate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; un- senate 1816-1820 and 1824-1827; elected as a Jacksonian tosuccessful candidate for election as Governor in 1886; dele- the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888; re- March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Expenditures insumed the practice of law in Mendon, Mich.; circuit judge of Biographies 2095 the fifteenthcircuit of Michigan 1894-1911; became aAugust 10, 1776, and as president August 28, 1776; member member of the Republican Party in 1916; retired from activeof the council of appointment in 1777; member of the first pursuits and resided in Mendon, Mich., until his death De-and second councils of safety May 3, 1777, to January 7, cember 16, 1939; interment in Mendon Cemetery. 1778; served in the State senate 1778-1790; receiver of Albany in 1778 and 1779; first postmaster of Albany in 1783; YARBOROUGH, Ralph Webster, a Senator from Texas;Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; born in Chandler, Henderson County, Tex., June 8, 1903; June 30, attended the public schools of Chandler and Tyler, Tex.;mayor of Albany 1790-1796; died in Albany, N.Y., attended the United States Military Academy, West Point,1796; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery. N.Y., in 1919 and 1920 and the Sam Houston State Teachers Bibliography: DAB. College, Huntsville, Tex., in 1921; taught school for three YATES, John Barentse, a Representative from New York; years in Delta and Martin Springs, Henderson County, Tex.;born in Schenectady, N.Y., February 1, 1784; completed pre- spent one year working and studying foreign trade andparatory studies and was graduated from Union College at international relations in Europe, mostly in Germany asSchenectady in 1802; studied law; was admitted to the bar in assistant secretary for the American Chamber of Commerce1805 and commenced practice in Schenectady; served in the in Berlin; served in the Thirty-sixth Division, Texas Nation-War of 1812 under Gen. Wade Hampton on the northern al Guard, from private to staff sergeant, 1923-1926; graduat-frontier and was subsequently appointed aide-de-camp to ed from the University of Texas Law School in 1927; wasGov. Daniel D. Tompkins; elected as a Republican to the admitted to the bar and commenced practice in El Paso,Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); chair- Tex.assistantattorneygeneralofTexas1931-1934;man, Committee on Expenditures in theDepartment of member, board of directors of the Lower Colorado RiverState (Fourteenth Congress); did not seek renomination in Authority 1935; unsuccessful candidate for State attorney1816; aided in the construction of the Welland Canal; found- general in 1938; lectured on land law at University of Texased the Yates Polytechnic Institute in 1825; moved to Chitten- Law School in 1935; elected and served as district judge of 1835 and 1836; the Fifty-third Judicial district, Austin, Tex., 1936-1941, andango in 1816; judge of Madison County in for three years was presiding judge for the third administra-elected a member of the State assembly in 1836 and served tive judicial district; during the Second World War served inuntil his death in Chittenango, N.Y., July 10, 1836; inter- Army ground forces in Europe and Japan from 1943 untilment in Walnut Grove Cemetery, near Chittenango, N.Y. discharged as a lieutenant colonel in 1946; author; member Bibliography: Aitken, Hugh G.J. "J. Yates and Mclntyre!s Lottery Man- of Texas Board of Law Examiners 1947-1951; unsuccessful agers." Journal of Economic History 13 (Winter 1953): 36-57. candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1952, 1954, YATES, Peter Waidron (nephew of Abraham Yates), a and 1956; elected as a Democrat to the United States SenateDelegate from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., August 23, in a special election April 2, 1957, to fill the vacancy caused1747; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced by the resignation of for the term ending Janu-practice in Albany; member of the committee on correspond- ary 3, 1959; reelected in 1958, and again in 1964, and served ence in 1775; resigned and was reelected,but declined to from April 29, 1957, to January 3, 1971; unsuccessful candi-serve; regent of the University of the State of NewYork in date for renomination in 1970 and for nomination in 1972;1784; served in the State assembly in 1784 and 1785; chairman, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Ninety-Member of the Continental Congress in 1786; resumed the first Congress); member, Interparliamentary Union Grouppractice of law; died in Caughnawaga, N.Y., March 9, 1826. 1961-1970; member, board of directors, Gallaudet College 1969-1971; member, constitutional revision commission of YATES, Richard (father of Richard Yates [1860-1936]), a Texas 1973-1974; member, State library and archives com-Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Warsaw, mission of Texas 1983-1987; practices law in Austin, Tex. isGallatin County, Ky., January 18,1815; attended the a resident of Austin, Tex. common schools; moved to Illinois in 1831;graduated from Bibliography: Phillips, William G.Yarborough of Texas. Washington, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill, in 1835; studied law at D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1969; at 80: A Collection of Trib- Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.; was admitted to utes By His Book-Loving Friends. Austin, Tex.: Wind River Press, 1984. the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Jacksonville, Ill.; YARDLEY, Robert Morris, a Representative from Penn-member, State house of representatives 1842-1845, 1848- sylvania; born in Yardley, Bucks County, Pa., October 9,1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty- 1850; attended public and private schools in Yardley andthird Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccess- Doylestown; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872ful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con- and commenced practice in Doylestown, Pa.; district attor-gress; Governor of Illinois 1861-1865;unsuccessful candidate ney of Bucks County 1880-1884; delegate to the Republicanfor election to the United States Senate in 1863; elected as a National Convention in 1884; elected as a Republican to theRepublican to the United States Senate and served from Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3,March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871; was not a candidate for 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- reelection; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims ment of War (Fifty-first Congress); declined to be a candidate(Thirty-ninth and Forty-first Congresses), Committee on Ter- for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of law inritories (Fortieth Congress); appointed by President Ulysses Bucks County; member of the Doylestown School Board; di-Grant as a United States commissioner to inspect a land rector of several financial and public service corporations;subsidy railroad; died suddenly in St. Louis, Mo., November died in Doylestown, Pa., December 8, 1902; interment in27, 1873; interment in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jackson- Doylestown Cemetery. ville, Ill. Bibliography: DAB; Reavis, Logan. The Life and Public Services of Rich- YATES, Abraham (uncle of Peter Waldron Yates), a Dele- ard Yates. St. Louis: J.A. Chambers and Co., 1881. gate from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., August 23, 1724; completed preparatory studies; sheriff of Albany County YATES, Richard (son of Richard Yates [1815-1873]), a 1755-1759; deputy to the Provincial Convention in 1775; del-Representative from Illinois; born in Jacksonville, Morgan egate to the Provincial Congress 1775-1777, and served asCounty, Ill., December 12, 1860; attended public schools and president pro tempore of that body November 2,1775, Illinois Woman's College, Jacksonville, Ill., 1870-1874; city 2096 Biographical Directory

editor of the Daily Courier in 1878 and 1879, and of theconstitutional law at Columbia College; president of the Daily Journal 1881-1883; was graduated from the IllinoisMedico-Legal Society of New York; died in Jersey City, N.J., College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1880 and from the law depart-February 23, 1908; interment in Webb Memorial Chapel, ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1884;Madison, N.J. commenced practice in Jacksonville, Ill.; city attorney of Jacksonville 1885-1890; private in Company I, Fifth Infan- YEATES, Jesse Johnson, a Representative from North try,Illinois National Guard 1885-1890; county judge ofCarolina; born near Murfreesboro, Hertford County, N.C., Morgan County 1894-1897; United States collector of inter-May 29, 1829; attended private schools and Emory and nal revenue for the eighth internal revenue district 1897-Henry College, Emory, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the 1900; Governor of Illinois 1901-1904; member of the Statebar in 1855 and commenced practice in Murfreesboro; pros- public utilities commission 1914-1917; assistant attorneyecuting attorney of Hertford County 1855-1860; member of general of the State of Illinois in 1917 and 1918; electedas athe State house of commons 1860-1862; solicitor of the first Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Con-judicial district 1860-1866; served in the Confederate Army gresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful for re-as captain and major of the Thirty-first North Carolina In- nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress but wasfantry during the Civil War; member of the Governor's later appointed nominee and elected in place of Henry R.council during Governor Worth's administration; declined Rathbone, deceased; unsuccessful for reelection in 1932 toappointment by Governor Holden as judge of the first judi- the Seventy-third Congress; resided in Harbor Springs,cial district in 1868; delegate to the Democratic State con- Mich., and Springfield, Ill., while engaged in writing hisvention in 1871; member of the State constitutional conven- memoirs; died in Springfield, Ill., April 11, 1936; intermenttion in 1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill. Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); suc- Bibliography: Yates, Richard. Serving the Republic . . . An Autobiogra. cessfully contested the election of Joseph J. Martin to the phy. Edited by John H. Krenkel. Danville, Ill.:Interstate Printers and Pubs., 1968. Forty-sixth Congress and served from January 29 to March 3, 1881; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880; YATES, Sidney Richard, a Representative from Illinois;resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., born in Chicago, Ill., August 27, 1909; attended the elemen- and died there on September 5, 1892; interment in Glenwood tary and high schools in Chicago; graduated from the Uni- Cemetery. versity of Chicago in 1931 and from its law school in 1933; was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced the practice YELL, Archibald, a Representative from Arkansas; born of law in Chicago, Ill.; assistant attorney for Illinois Statein North Carolina in 1797; moved to Tennessee in his youth bank receiver 1935-1937; assistant attorney general attachedand settled in Bedford County; took part in the Creek cam- to Illinois Commerce Commission as traction attorney 1937-paign; participated in the War of 1812 and served under 1940; served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy 1944-General Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans; studied law; 1946; editor of "Bulletin of Decalogue Society of ,"was admitted to the bar of Tennessee and commenced prac- in 1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to thetice in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., and continued six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963); until 1832; declined the governorship of the Territory of was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-Florida; appointed judge of the Territory of Arkansas by eighth Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate forPresident Jackson in 1832, with residence at Fayetteville, United States Senate; United States Representative to theArk., and served until 1835; upon the admission of Arkansas Trusteeship Council of the United Nations with rank ofas a State into the Union was elected as a Jacksonian to the Ambassador, 1963-1964; elected to the Eighty-ninth and toTwenty-fourth Congress; reelected as a Democrat to the the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-JanuaryTwenty-fifth Congress and served from August 1, 1836, to 3, 1989); is a resident of Chicago, Ill. March 3, 1839; Governor of Arkansas 1840-1844; resigned in 1844; elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from YATRON, Gus, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born March 4, 1845, to July 1, 1846, when he resigned to take part in Reading, Berks County, Pa., October 16, 1927; graduatedin the Mexican War; served as colonel of the First Regiment, from Reading High School, 1946; graduated from KutztownArkansas Volunteer Cavalry, and was killed in the Battle of State Teachers College, 1950; entered politics in 1955 witha successful bid for a six-year term on Reading School Board;Buena Vista February 22, 1847; interment in Fayetteville elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives, 1956,Cemetery, Fayetteville, Ark. reelected 1958; elected to the State senate, 1960, reelected Bibliography: DAB. 1964 and 1966; engaged in the manufacture of icecream YOAKUM, Charles Henderson, a Representative from with other members of his family in Reading, Pa.; electedasTexas; born near Tehuacana, Lincoln (now Limestone) a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the nine succeedingCounty, Tex., July 10, 1849; attended Larissa College in Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1989); is a residentCherokee County and Cumberland College; studied law; was of Reading, Pa. admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Emory, Rains County, Tex.; served as prosecuting attorney YEAMAN, George Helm, a Representative from Ken-for Rains County in 1876; moved to Hunt County in 1883 tucky; born in Hardin County, Ky., November 1, 1829;com-and continued the practice of law in Greenville; district pleted preparatory studies; studied law;was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Owenshoro, KY.;attorney for the eighth judicial district 1886-1890; member judge of Davis County in 1854; member of the State house ofof the State senate 1892-1896; elected as a Democrat to the representatives in 1861; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); contin- seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofued the practice of law in Greenville, Tex., until 1900, when he moved to Los Angeles, Calif.; returned to Texas in 1904; James S. Jackson; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congressdied in Fort Worth, Tex., January 1, 1909; interment in and served from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1865;unsuc- cessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninthMyrtle Cemetery, Ennis, Tex. Congress; United States Minister to Denmark 1865-1870; YOCUM, Seth Hartman, a Representative from Pennsyl- resigned in 1870 and settled in New York City; lectureronvania; born in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa., August 2, Biographies 2097

1834; attended the rural schools; went to Philadelphia inserved in the State senate in 1876 and 1881; elected as an 1850 and learned the printer's trade; taught school for sever-Independent Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March al years; was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle,4, 1883-March 3, 1885); did not seek renomination in 1884 to Pa., in 1860; during the Civil War entered the Union Armythe Forty-ninth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate as a private and was promoted to first lieutenant of thefor Governor of North Carolina in 1884; resumed agricultur- Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry; studied law; was admitted toal pursuits; died in Traphill, N.C., January 28, 1916; inter- the Schuylkill Count bar in 1865 and commenced practicement in Traphill Cemetery. in Ashland, Pa.; moved to Bellefonte, Center County, in 1873 and continued the practice of law; district attorney of Center YORKE, Thomas Jones, a Representative from New County 1875-1879; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-Jersey; born at Hancocks Bridge, Salem County, N.J., March sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a25, 1801; attended the common schools and the Salem Acade- candidate for renomination in 1880; moved to Johnson City, my; during the War of 1812 served as a scout for the United Tenn., and engaged in the tanning business; mayor of John-States forces; studied law, but did not practice; engaged in son City, Tenn., in 1885; moved to Pasadena, Calif., andmercantile pursuits at Salem; county collector of Salem became engaged in the orange-growing business; died inCounty in 1830; judge of the Salem County court of common Santa Monica, Calif., April 19, 1895; interment in Mountain pleas in 1833, 1834, and 1845-1854 and for a portion of the View Cemetery, Pasadena, Calif. latter term was presiding judge; member of the State gener- al assembly in 1835; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth YODER, Samuel S., a Representative from Ohio; born inCongress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); presented creden- Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, August 16, 1841; attended thetials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but common schools and Wooster (Ohio) University, and wasthe House declined to seat him; elected to the Twenty-sev- graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;enth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3,1843); chairman, enlisted in the Union Army in the One Hundred andCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 19,(Twenty-seventh Congress); director of the West Jersey Rail- 1862; rose to the rank of lieutenant and served until the endroad Co., serving as secretary and treasurer in 1853 and as of the war; studied medicine and practiced in Bluffton, Ohio;president 1866-1875; also president of the Cape May & Mill- mayor of Bluffton 1868-1878; moved to Lima, Ohio, in 1878;yule Railroad Co.; served as director at various times of the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commencedSwedesborough Railroad Co., Salem Railroad Co., Camden & practice in Lima; member of the Democratic State executivePhiladelphia Ferry Co., and West Jersey Marl & Transporta- committee 1883-1885; judge of the probate court of Allention Co.; died in Salem, N.J., April 4, 1882; interment in St. County from February 1882 to October 1886, when he re- John's Episcopal Cemetery. signed, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Demo- crat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, YORTY, Samuel William, a Representative from Califor- 1887-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renominationnia; born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebr., October 1, in 1890; Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives 1909; attended the public schools of Lincoln, Nebr.; moved to from December 8, 1891, to August 7, 1893; continued theLos Angeles, Calif., in 1927; completed prelegal work and practice of law and also engaged in the real estate businessstudied law at Southwestern University and La Salle Uni- in Washington, D.C., until his death, May 11, 1921; inter-versity; also studied at University of Southern California ment in Arlington National Cemetery. 1946-1950, and extension courses at University of California in 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1939 and commenced the YON, Thomas Alva, a Representative from Florida; bornpractice of law in Los Angeles, Calif.; member of the State near Blountstown, Calhoun County, Fla., March 14, 1882; atassembly 1936-1940; served as a captain, Combat Intelli- the age of five years moved with his parents to a farm ingence, United States Air Corps, with service in New Guinea Jackson County, Fla.; attended rural schools, and was grad-and the Philippine Islands 1942-1945; again a member of the uated from Lanier Southern Business College, Macon, Ga., State assembly in 1949 and 1950; elected as a Democrat to in 1903; returned to Blountstown, Fla., the same year andthe Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1906; engaged as a1951-January 3, 1955); was not a candidate for renomination traveling salesman at Tallahassee, Fla., 1906-1927; delegatein 1954 but was unsuccessful for election to the United to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; elected as aStates Senate; unsuccessful for Democratic nomination as Democrat to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-United States Senator in 1956; resumed the practice of law; second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); unsuccess- elected mayor of Los Angeles in May 1961 for a four-year ful candidate for renomination in 1932; special and commer-term; reelected in 1965 and again in 1969; unsuccessful can- cial agent in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com-didate for reelection in 1973; returned to the practice of law merce, United States Department of Commerce, Washington,in Los Angeles; host of a radio and television show; unsuc- D.C., 1933-1940; assistant investigator, Division of Investiga-cessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the tion, General Accounting Office, from 1941 until his retire-United States Senate in 1980; unsuccessful candidate for ment in January 1946; engaged in development and sale ofmayor of Los Angeles in 1981; is a resident of Studio City, his Florida real estate holdings after retirement; died in Calif. Tallahassee, Fla., February 16, 1971; interment in Oakland Bibliography: Bollens, John C., and Grant B. Geyer. Yorty: Politics of a Cemetery. Constant Candidate Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Palisades Publishers, 1973. YORK, Tyre, a Representative from North Carolina; born YOST, Jacob, a Representative from Virginia; born in in Rockford, Surry County, N.C., May 4, 1836; attended theStaunton, Augusta County, Va., April 1, 1853; attended the common schools; studied medicine at the Charleston (S.C.)public schools and Mossy Creek Academy; learned the print- Medical College and commenced practice in Traphill, Wilkesing trade and was associated in publishing the Valley Vir- County, N.C., in 1859; also engaged in agricultural pursuits;ginian; engaged in civil engineering; unsuccessful Republi- served during the latter part of the Civil War as surgeon ofcan candidate for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Con- the Wilkes County Home Guards; was a member of the Stategress; elected mayor of Staunton in May 1886 and served house of representatives in 1865, 1866, 1879, and 1887;until January 1887, when he resigned, having been elected 2098 Biographical Directory

to Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congresssentatives 1821-1824, 1826, 1828-1830, and 1832; State's at- (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate fortorney for Orleans County 1824-1828; judge of probate in reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; elected to the1830 and 1831; served in the State senate 1836-1838; elected Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); declinedas a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841- to be a candidate for renomination in 1898; engaged in theMarch 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for renomination management and development of iron ore and coal lands;in 1842; resumed the practice of law and engaged in literary moved to Palo Alto, Calif., in 1925 and lived there in retire-pursuits; moved to St. Albans in 1847; assistant judge of the ment until his death on January 25, 1933; interment inFranklin County Court 1851-1854; died in St. Albans, Vt., Thornrose Cemetery Staunton, Va. June 17, 1857; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. YOST, Jacob Senewell, a Representative from Pennsylva- YOUNG, Bryan Rust (brother of William Singleton Young nia; born in Pottsgrove Township, near Pottstown, Montgom-and uncle of John Young Brown), a Representative from ery County, Pa., July 29, 1801; attended the common schoolsKentucky; born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., Janu- and Fourth Street Academy, Philadelphia, Pa.; engaged inary 14, 1800; attended the common schools and was graduat- agricultural pursuits; publisher and editor of the La Fayetteed from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.; studied (Pa.) Aurora; member of the State house of representatives medicine and practiced his profession in Nelson County, KY.; 1836-1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth andmember of State house of representatives in 1858-1859, Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3,1847); chairman, Committee on Engraving (Twenty-ninth Con-1861-1862, and 1863-1864; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- gress); resumed agricultural pursuits near Pottstown, Pa.;ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); resumed the United States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylva-practice of medicine; died in Elizabethtown, Ky., May 14, nia at Philadelphia, Pa., by appointment of President James1882; interment in Elizabethtown Cemetery. Buchanan and served from 1857 until his resignation in YOUNG, Charles William (Bill), a Representative from 1860; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Pottstown, Pa.,Florida; born in Harmarville, Allegheny County, Pa., Decem- on March 7, 1872; interment in Edgewood Cemetery. ber 16, 1930; attended the public schools of Pennsylvania YOUMANS, Henry Melville, a Representative from Michi-and Florida; served in the Army National Guard, 1948-1957, gan; born in Otego, Otsego County, N.Y., May 15, 1832;with honorable discharge as master sergeant; elected to Flor- attended the common schools; was in the employ of the Yorkida State senate, 1960; reelected in 1964, 1966, 1967 (special & Erie Railroad Co., on the Susquehanna division, for tenelection), and 1968 and served as minority leader in 1966; years; moved to East Saginaw, Mich., in 1862; engaged in thenational committeeman, Florida , 1957- manufacture of lumber and salt 1863-1878; moved to St.1959; State chairman, Florida Young Republicans, 1959- Clair County, Mich., in 1878 and engaged in farming and1961; member, Florida Constitution Revision Commission, lumbering until 1884 when he returned to East Saginaw;1965-1967; Pinellas County Republican Executive Commit- mayor of East Saginaw in 1886 and 1887; served four termstee, 1958-1966; chairman, Southern Highway Policy Commit- as alderman; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Con-tee, 1966-1968; delegate to Republican National Convention, gress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee1968, 1972, 1976, and 1984; elected as a Republican to the on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fifty-second Congress);Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (Janu- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-ary 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); is a resident of St. Petersburg, third Congress; member of the State senate in 1896 andFla. 1897; engaged in agricultural pursuits at Bridgeport, Mich., YOUNG, Clarence Clifton, a Representative from Nevada; until his death in Saginaw, Mich., July 8, 1920; interment in Brady Hill Cemetery. born in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., November 7, 1922; attended the public schools of his native city; B.A., Universi- YOUNG, Andrew Jackson, Jr., a Representative fromty of Nevada in Reno, 1943; during the Second World War Georgia; born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., Marchserved in the United States Army ground forces from May 12, 1932; educated in public schools of New Orleans, Gilbert1943 to October 1946, with twenty months' overseas duty in Academy, and Dillard University; B.S., Howard University,the European Theater with the One Hundred and Third 1951; B.D., Hartford Theological Seminary, 1955; ordained byInfantry Division, and was discharged as a major; LL.B., the United Church of Christ; served as pastor in Marion,Harvard Law School, 1949; was admitted to the Nevada bar Ala., and in Thomasville and Beachton, Ga.; associate direc-in 1949 and commenced practice in Reno, Nev.; public ad- tor,Department of Youth Work, National Council ofministrator of Washoe County 1950-1952; State president of Churches, 1957-1961; executive director, Southern Christianthe Young Republicans of Nevada in 1952; delegate, Republi- LeadershipConference,1964;executivevicepresident,can National Convention, 1950; delegate to each State con- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967; chairman,vention since 1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- Atlanta Community Relations Commission, 1970-1972; elect-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953-Janu- ed as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the two succeed-ary 3, 1957); was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 ing Congresses and served from January 3, 1973, until hisbut was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United resignation January 29, 1977, to become United States repre-States Senate; engaged in the practice of law in Reno; sentative to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassa-member, Nevada State senate, 1966-1980; president, Nation- dor and served in that capacity until his resignation Septem-al Wildlife Federation, 1981-1983; elected associate justice of ber 23, 1979; elected mayor of Atlanta, Ga., October 27, 1981,the Nevada Supreme Court for the six-year term beginning for the term commencing January 4, 1982; reelected in 1985;January 1985, chief justice, 1989-1990; is a resident of Reno, is a resident of Atlanta, Ga. Nev. YOUNG, Augustus, a Representative from Vermont; born YOUNG, Donald Edwin, a Representative from Alaska; in Arlington, Bennington County, Vt., March 20, 1784; com-born in Meridian, Sutter County, Calif., June 9, 1933; attend- pleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to theed the public schools of Sutter, Calif.; B.A., Chico (Calif.) bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Stowe, Vt.; moved toState College, 1958; teacher; mayor of Fort Yukon, Alaska, Craftsbury, Vt., in 1812; member of the State house of repre-1960-1968; river boat captain, 1968-1972; member, city coun- Biographies 2099 cii, Fort Yukon, 1960-1968; member, State house of repre-Cavalry and on the brigade staff Assistant Inspector Gener- sentatives, 1966-1970; member, State senate, 1970-1973; dele-al, First Division of Cavalry, in 1864; elected as a Democrat gate, Alaska State Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, 1968,to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses and 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Con-(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for gress, by special election, March 6, 1973, to fill the vacancyreelection in 1880; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress caused by the death of Nick Begich; reelected to the seven(March 4, 1883-March 3,1885); chairman, Committee on succeeding Congresses (March 6, 1973-to January 3, 1989); isExpenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty- a resident of Fort Yukon, Alaska. eighth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination; re- YOUNG, Ebenezer, a Representative from Connecticut;sumed the practice of law; died in Memphis, Tenn., August born in Killingly, Windham County, Conn., on December 25, 17, 1899; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. 1783; was graduated from Yale College in 1806; studied law; YOUNG, Horace Olin, a Representative from Michigan; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in West-born in New Albion, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., August 4, field (now Danielson), Conn.; engaged in the manufacture of1850; attended the common schools and high school of cloth at East Killingly, Conn.; elected as a Federalist aAlbion, N.Y., and Randolph (N.Y.) Institute; moved to Ish- member of the State house of representatives in 1810, 1811,peming, Mich.; engaged in accounting; studied law; was ad- 1816, and 1817; served in the State senate 1823-1825; again amitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Ish- member of the State house of representatives 1826-1828,peming, Mich.; member of the State house of representatives serving as speaker in 1827 and 1828; elected to the Twenty-in 1879; prosecuting attorney of Marquette County 1886- first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4,1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the 1829-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Expendituresfour succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); on Public Buildings (Twenty-second Congress); died in Westpresented credentials as a Member-elect to the Sixty-third Killingly, Conn., August 18, 1851; interment in WestfieldCongress and served from March 4, 1913, until his resigna- Cemetery, Danielson, Conn. tion, effective May 16, 1913, while a contest for the seat was YOUNG, Edward Lunn, a Representative from Southpending; president of the Miners' National Bank in Ishpem- Carolina; born in Florence, Florence County, S.C., Septembering; died in Ishpeming, Mich., August 5, 1917; interment in 7, 1920; attended the public schools; B.S., Clemson College,the City Cemetery. 1941; served in the United States Army Air Corps as a fighter pilot in Southwest Pacific, 1942-1946; awarded the YOUNG, Isaac Daniel, a Representative from Kansas; Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with nine oakborn near Pleasantville, Marion County, Iowa, on March 29, leaf clusters; discharged as major in the Reserve; engaged in1849; attended high school and Oskaloosa College in Iowa; farming and real estate; member, State house of representa-began teaching at the age of fifteen and continued in that tives, 1958-1960; delegate, South Carolina State Republicanprofession for ten years; moved to Mitchell County, Kans., in conventions, 1968, 1970; delegate, Republican National Con-1874 and settled on a homestead in Turkey Creek Township; vention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-thirdengaged in agricultural pursuits for eleven years; superin- Congress (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1975); unsuccessfultendent of public instruction of Mitchell County, Kans., candidate for reelection in 1974, and for election in 1976 to1876-1880; member of the State senate 1884-1888; moved to the Ninety-fifth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for elec-Beloit, Kans., in 1885; studied law; was admitted to the bar tion as Governor of South Carolina in 1978; unsuccessfulin 1889 and commenced practice in Beloit, Kans.; again a candidate for nomination in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con-member of the State senate 1904-1908; elected as a Republi- gress; is a resident of Florence, S.C. can to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful for reelection in 1912; resumed the prac- YOUNG, George Morley, a Representative from Northtice of law in Beloit, Kans., until his death December 10, Dakota; born in Lakelet, Huron County, Ontario, Canada, 1927; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. December 11, 1870; when a boy moved to the United States and settled in St. Charles, Mich.; attended the public schools; YOUNG, James, a Representative from Texas; born in was graduated from the law department of the University ofHenderson, Rusk County, Tex., July 18, 1866; attended the Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1894; was admitted to the barpublic schools; was graduated from the law department of the same year and commenced practice in Valley City,the University of Texas at Austin in July 1891; was admit- N.Dak.; member of the board of aldermen in 1898 and 1899;ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in member of the State house of representatives 1900-1902;Kaufman, Tex.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second served in the State senate 1904-1908 and was president proand to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March tempore during the entire term; elected as a Republican to3, 1921); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1920; the Sixty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses andagain engaged in the practice of law in Kaufman, Tex.; served from March 4, 1913, to September 2, 1924, when heunsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial resigned to accept a judicial position; appointed as a membernomination in 1930; moved to Henderson, Tex., in 1931, and of the United States Customs Court at New York City incontinued the practice of law until 1937, when he moved to 1924; served as associate judge until 1932 and as presidingDallas, Tex., where he died April 29, 1942; interment in the judge until his death in New York City, May 27, 1932; inter-Kaufman Cemetery, Kaufman, Tex. ment in Woodbine Cemetery, Valley City, N.Dak. YOUNG, James Rankin, a Representative from Pennsyl- YOUNG, Hiram Casey, a Representative from Tennessee;vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 1847; attended born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Ala., December 14,the common schools and Philadelphia High School; enlisted 1828; moved with his parents to a farm near Byhalia, Mar-in the Union Army in June 1863 in the Thirty-second Regi- shall County, Miss., in 1838; attended the local schools andment, Pennysivania Volunteer Infantry; one of the founders was tutored by his father and also attended Marshall Insti-of the Philadelphia Evening Star in 1866; attended all Re- tute in Marshall County, Miss.; studied law; was admitted topublican National Conventions 1864-1908; served as chief of the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Memphis, Tenn.;the Washington bureau of the New York Tribune from June served in the Civil War 1861-1865 as lieutenant colonel of1866 to December 1870; chief executive clerk of the United 2100 Biographical Directory

States Senate from December 1873 to March 1879; chief YOUNG,John Smith, a Representative from Louisiana; clerk of the Department of Justice from September 1882 toborn near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November 4, 1834; December 1883; again chief executive clerk of the Unitedmoved with his father to Fayette County, Tenn., in 1836, and States Senate from December 1883 to April 1892; elected asto Columbia County, Ark., in 1848; was graduated from Cen- a Republican to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventhtenary College, Jackson, La., in 1855; moved to Homer, Clai- Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); chairman, Com-borne Parish, La., in September 1855; studied law; was ad- mittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-mitted to the bar in 1860 and practiced in Homer; enlisted seventh Congress); superintendent of the Dead Letter Officein the Confederate Army as a private May 3, 1861, and was of the Post Office Department 1905-1913; superintendent ofsuccessively promoted until he attained the rank of lieuten- the postal savings depository in Philadelphia until 1915; wasant colonel; returned to Homer at the close of the war and a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death December 18,resumed the practice of law; judge of Claiborne Parish Court 1924; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. 1870-1872; member of the State house of representatives YOUNG,John, a Representative from New York; born in1872-1876; judge of the eleventh judicial district of Louisiana Chelsea, Orange County, Vt., June 12, 1802; moved to New1876-1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress York State in 1806 with his parents, who settled in Conesus,to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John E. Leonard Livingston County, where he attended the public schools;and served from November 5, 1878, to March 3, 1879; was studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commencednot a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the prac- practice in Geneseo, N.Y.; member of the State assembly intice of law in Homer, La.; moved to Monroe, La., and later to 1833, 1844, and 1845; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourthShreveport in 1880, where he continued the practice of his Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofprofession;sheriff of Caddo Parish 1892-1900; died in Philo C. Fuller and served from November 9, 1836, to MarchShreveport, La., October 11, 1916; interment in Oakland 3, 1837; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1836;Cemetery. elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841- March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for reelection in 1842; YOUNG,Lafayette, a Senator from Iowa; born near Eddy- Governor of New York 1847-1849; delegate to the Whig Na-ville, Monroe County, Iowa, May 10, 1848; attended country tional Convention in 1848; appointed assistant treasurer ofschools and night school in St. Louis, where he learned the the United States at New York June 28, 1849, and servedprinting trade; founded and published the Atlantic (Iowa) until his death in New York City April 23, 1852; intermentTelegraph 1871-1890; member, State senate 1874-1880, 1886- in Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y. 1888; established the Des Moines Capital in 1890 and was Bibliography: DAB. editor until his death; during the Spanish-American War was in Cuba as a war correspondent in 1898; presidential YOUNG,John Andrew, a Representative from Texas; bornelector on the Republican ticket in 1908; appointed as a in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Tex., November 10, 1916;Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy attended the Incarnate Word Academy and Corpus Christicaused by the death of Jonathan P. Dolliver and served from College-Academy; B.A., St. Edwards University, Austin, Tex.,November 12, 1910, to April 11, 1911, when a successor was 1937 and from the University of Texas School of Law, LL.B.,elected; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill this vacan- 1940; was admitted to the bar in 1940 and commenced thecy; war correspondent for four months in Europe in 1915; practice of law; volunteered for service in the United StatesChautauqua lecturer in 1915; chairman of the State council Navy in 1941, before Pearl Harbor, served in all theaters offor defense for Iowa during the First World War; was made war, and was separated from the service in 1945 as a lieu-a knight of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium in recognition tenant commander for physical disability incurred in line ofof his work in raising funds in Iowa for the children of duty; awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for serviceBelgium; died in Des Moines, Iowa, November 15, 1926; in- beyond the call of duty; assistant county attorney of Nuecesterment in Woodlawn Cemetery. County in 1946; assistant district attorney of Nueces County Bibliography: DAB. 1947-1950; county attorney in 1951 and 1952; county judge of Nueces County 1953-1956; elected as a Democrat to the YOUNG,Milton Ruben, a Senator from North Dakota; Eighty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (Januaryborn in Berlin, La Moure County, N.Dak., on December 6, 3, 1957-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for renomi-1897; attended the public schools of La Moure County; at- nation in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed thetended the North Dakota State Agricultural College at practice of law in Washington, D.C.; consultant; is a residentFargo, and Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; engaged in of McLean, Va. agricultural pursuits near Berlin, N.Dak.; elected to the North Dakota house of representatives in 1932; member, YOUNG,John Duncan, a Representative from Kentucky;Dakota senate 1934-1945; appointed to the United States born in Owingsville, Bath County, Ky., September 22, 1823;Senate on March 12, 1945, to fill the vacancy caused by the attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted todeath of John Moses; subsequently elected as a Republican the bar in 1854 and practiced in Owingsville, Ky., and laterto the United States Senate, by special election, on June 25, engaged in agricultural pursuits; acting marshal of Ken- 1946, to complete the six-year term ending January 3, 1951; tucky during the administration of President Pierce; electedreelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968, and again in 1974, and judge of the quarterly court of Bath County in 1858 andserved from March 12, 1945, to January 3, 1981; was not a served four years; again elected in 1866 and served untilcandidate for renomination in 1980; served as President pro 1867 when he resigned having been elected to Congress;tempore of the Senate during the Ninety-sixth Congress; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fortieth Con-resided in Sun City, Ariz., until his death on May 31, 1983; gress in 1867, but was not permitted to qualify; elected as ainterment at Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, N.Dak. Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March

3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; re-- YOUNG,Pierce Manning Butler, a Representative from sumed agricultural pursuits; State railroad commissioner ofGeorgia; born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, S.C., on Kentucky 1884-1889; again served as judge of the quarterlyNovember 15, 1836; moved with his parents to Georgia in court of Bath County 1890-1895; died in Mount Sterling, Ky.,1839; studied under private tutors and was graduated from December 26, 1910; interment in Machpelah Cemetery. Georgia Military Institute at Marietta in 1856; studied law; Biographies 2101 entered the United States Military Academy, West Point,member, Missouri Legislature, house, 1957-1961, senate, N.Y., in 1857 and resigned two months before graduation to1963-1976; delegate, Missouri State Democratic conventions, enter the Confederate Army as a second lieutenant; served1952-1976; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1960, throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of major gen-1964, 1968, 1972, 1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- eral; settled in Cartersville, Ga., after the war and engagedfifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, in agricultural pursuits; upon the readmission of the State of1977-January 3, 1987); was an unsuccessful candidate for Georgia to representation was elected as a Democrat to thereelection in 1986; is a resident of Maryland Heights, Mo. Fortieth Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty- YOUNG,Samuel Hollingsworth, a Representative from first Congress, but the House decided he was not entitled toIllinois; born in Casey, Clark County, Ill., December 26, 1922; the seat; subsequently elected tofill the vacancy thusgraduated from Urbana High School, Urbana, Ill.,1940; caused; reelected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Con-LL.B., University of Illinois, 1947; J.D., University of Illinois gresses and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3,Law School, 1948; served in the United States Army Para- 1875; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1874; dele-troops, 1943-1946, attained the rank of captain; admitted to gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1872, 1876,the Illinois bar in 1948 and commenced practice in Chicago and 1880; resumed agricultural pursuits; appointed Unitedwith the S.E.C.; private practice of law, 1949 to present; States commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1878; consulinstructor in economics, University of Illinois, 1947-1948, general at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1885-1887; envoy Extraor-and business finance, Northwestern University, 1949-1950; dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Hon-securities commissioner of Illinois, 1953-1955; assistant sec- duras by appointment of President Grover Cleveland 1893-retary of State, 1955-1957; financial vice president, secre- 1896; died in the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, Julytary, and treasurer, hospital supply company, 1965-1966; del- 6, 1896; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga. egate,IllinoisState Republican conventions,1951-1973; Bibliography: DAB; Holland, Lynwood Mathis. Fierce MB. Young: The elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress (Janu- Warwick of the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1964. ary 3, 1973-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for re- YOUNG,Richard, a Representative from New York; bornelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; unsuccessful in Londonderry, Ireland, August 6, 1846; immigrated to thecandidate for election in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; is United States in 1851 with his parents, who settled in Phila-a resident of Glenview, Ill., and Marco Island, Fla. delphia, Pa.; attended the public schools and was graduated YOUNG,Stephen Marvin, a Representative and a Senator from Crittenden's Commercial CollegeinPhiladelphia;from Ohio; born on a farm near Norwalk, Huron County, moved to Flatbush, N.Y., in 1866 and engaged in an exten-Ohio, May 4, 1889; attended the public schools and Kenyon sive leather trade in New York City; member of the board ofand Adelbert Colleges; graduated from the law department school commissioners of Brooklyn 1895-1902; park commis-of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1911; was sioner for the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in 1902 andadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice 1903; engaged in banking and also interested in numerousin Norwalk, Ohio; member, State house of representatives corporations and business enterprises; elected as a Republi- 1913-1917;assistantprosecutingattorneyof Cuyahoga can to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March 3,County 1917-1918; served as a private in Company F, Third 1911); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1910; re- Ohio Infantry, on the Mexican border in 1916, and during sumed his interest in the leather industry, also engaged inthe First World War served in the Field Artillery; chief banking and various business enterprises in Brooklyn andassistant prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County 19 19- resided in Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y., until his death there1920; unsuccessful candidate for attorney general in 1922; June 9, 1935; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial YOUNG,Richard Montgomery, a Senator from Illinois;nomination in 1930; member of the Ohio Commission on born in Fayette County, Ky., February 20, 1798; attended theUnemployment Insurance 1931-1932; elected as a Democrat country schools and ForestHill Academy, Jessamineto the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March County, Ky.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomina- Kentucky in 1816; member of the Kentucky Militia; movedtion in 1936, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the to Illinois in 1817 and commenced the practice of law ingubernatorial nomination; special counsel to the attorney Jonesboro; appointed captain in the Illinois Militia; member,general of Ohio 1937-1939; elected to the Seventy-seventh State house of representatives 1820-1822; circuit judge of the Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful fifth circuit 1825-1837, when he resigned, having been elect-candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Con- ed to the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to thegress; during the Second World War was commissioned a United States Senate and served from March 4, 1837, tomajor in the United States Army in 1943, served in North March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Roads and CanalsAfrica and Italy, and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses); member of thein 1946; resumed the praetice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, and mission to England to negotiate a loan for the State ofWashington, D.C.; elected to the Eighty-first Congress (Janu- Illinois in 1839; associate justice of the State supreme courtary 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for re- 1843-1847, when he resigned; appointed by President Jameselection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; in 1956 was Polk as Commissioner of the General Land Office 1847-1849;defeated for attorney general of Ohio; elected as a Democrat Clerk of the United States House of Representatives 1850-to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964, and 1851; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; was not a where he died November 28, 1861; interment in the Congres-candidate for reelection in 1970; was a resident of Washing- sional Cemetery. ton, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., December 1, 1984. Bibliography: Young, Stephen M. Tales Out of Congress. Philadelphia: YOUNG,Robert Anton, III, a Representative from Mis- J.B. Lippincott, 1964. souri; born in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Mo., November 22, 1923; attended the primary schools of Vinita Park, Mo.; YOUNG,Thomas Lowry, a Representative from Ohio; graduated from Normandy High School, St. Louis, 1941;born in Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland, December 14, pipefitter; served in the United States Army, 1943-1945;1832; immigrated to the United States with his parents in 2102 Biographical Directory

1847; enlisted in the United States Army as a musician and YOUNGBLOOD, Harold Francis, a Representative from advanced through the ranks to first sergeant of Company A,Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., August 7, Third Artillery, and served from March 25, 1848, to January1907; attended the public schools; was graduated from St. 28, 1858; settled in Cincinnati and was instructor in theJoseph's Commercial College in 1927; employed in Detroit State reform school; during the Civil War was captain ofoffice of the secretary of State of Michigan in 1927 and 1928; Benton Cadets, Missouri Volunteers, September 6, 1861; re- member of staff of Wayne County Board of Auditors 1928- signed December 10, 1861; commissioned major of the One1935; engaged as a plumbing and heating contractor in 1940; Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan-elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January try, September 17, 1862; lieutenant colonel April 17, 1863; 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- colonel April 11, 1864; resigned September 14, 1864; wastion in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; special assistant to graduated from the Cincinnati Law School; was admitted tothe Director of Foreign Operations Administration in Berlin the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio;area in 1954 and 1955; engaged in construction contracting; assistant city auditor of Cincinnati in 1865; member of thewas a resident of Tucson, Ariz., until his death there on May State house of representatives 1866-1868; elected recorder of Hamilton County in 1867; appointed supervisor of internal 10, 1983; interment in East Lawn Cemetery. revenue in 1868; delegate to the Republican National Con- YOUNGDAHL, Oscar Ferdinand, a Representative from vention in 1868; member of the State senate 1871-1873; Lieu-Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Minn., October 13, 1893; tenant Governor in 1875; Acting Governor of Ohio in 1877;attended the public schools and Hamline University, St. elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventhPaul, Minn.; was graduated from Gustavus Adoiphus Col- Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Com-lege, St. Peter, Minn., in 1916; principal of Ortonville (Minn.) mittee on Patents (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessfulHigh School and instructor of dramatics and public speaking candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of1916-1918; during the First World War served as a seaman law; member of the board of public affairs of Cincinnatisecond class in the United States Navy in 1918 and 1919; 1886-1888; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 20, 1888; intermentengaged in the sale of bonds and securities 1919-1925; was in Spring Grove Cemetery. graduated from the Minnesota College of Law at Minneapo- YOUNG, Timothy Roberts, a Representative from Illinois;lis in 1925; was admitted to the bar the same year and born in Dover, N.H., November 19, 1811; completed prepara-commenced practice in Minneapolis, Minn.; unsuccessful tory studies; attended Phillips Exeter (N.H.) Academy andcandidate for attorney general in 1936; elected as a Republi- was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, incan to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses 1835; studied law in Dover, N.H., and was admitted to the(January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate bar; moved to Marshall, Ill., in the spring of 1838 and prac-for renomination in 1942; resumed the practice of law until ticed law for ten years; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-his death in Minneapolis, Minn., February 3, 1946; inter- first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); moved to Mat-ment in Lakewood Cemetery. toon, Ill., and became interested in the manufacture of plug YOUNGER, Jesse Arthur, a Representative from Califor- tobacco, in which he continued for ten years; engaged innia; born in Albany, Linn County, Oreg., April 11, 1893; agricultural pursuits near Casey, Clark County, Ill.; died atmoved to Kirkland, Wash., in 1904; attended the public Oilfield, near Casey, Ill., May 12, 1898; interment in Mar-schools; graduated from the University of Washington at shall Cemetery, Marshall, Ill. Seattle in 1915 and served as graduate manager of athletics YOUNG, William Albin, a Representative from Virginia;until 1917; during the First World War was called into Fed- born in Norfolk, Va., May 17, 1860; attended the publiceral service in August 1917 with the Washington National schools and St. Mary's Academy at Norfolk; studied law, butGuard; served overseas for ten months with the Forty-eighth abandoned it before obtaining a license and devoted himselfCoast Artillery Corps, and discharged as a captain in June to mercantile pursuits; clerk of the circuit and corporation1919; officer and president of loan companies in Seattle, courts of the city of Norfolk for six years; delegate to the1920-1934; appraiser with the Home Owners Loan Corpora- Democratic National Convention in 1892; presented creden-tion, the Home Loan Bank Board, and Chief of the Savings tials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress andand Loan Division of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board served from March 4, 1897, to April 26, 1898, when he was1934-1937; moved to San Mateo, Calif., in 1937; executive succeeded by Richard A. Wise, who contested his election;vice president of Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Associa- presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-sixthtion in San Francisco 1937-1952; elected as a Republican to Congress and served from March 4, 1899, to March 12, 1900,the Eighty-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses and when he was again succeeded by Richard A. Wise, whoserved from January 3, 1953, until his death in Washington, contested his election; engaged in the real estate business atD.C., on June 20, 1967; interment in Cypress Lawn Memorial Norfolk, Va., where he died March 12, 1928; interment in St.Park, Colma, Calif. Mary's Cemetery. YULEE, David Levy, a Delegate and a Senator from Flori- YOUNG, William Singleton (brother of Bryan Rust Youngda; born David Levy in St. Thomas, West Indies, June 12, and uncle of John Young Brown), a Representative from1810; at the age of nine was sent to the United States to Kentucky; born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., AprilNorfolk, Va. to attend a private school; studied law in St. 10, 1790; studied medicine with Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield,Augustine, Fla.; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and prac- and was graduated from the University of Louisville, Louis-ticed in St. Augustine, Fla.; delegate to the State constitu- ville, KY.; commenced practice in Bloomfield, Nelson County,tional convention in 1838; clerk to the Territorial legislature KY.; moved to Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky., in 1814in 1841; elected as a Whig-Democrat, a Territorial delegate and continued the practice of law; elected to the NineteenthtotheTwenty-seventhand Twenty-eighthCongresses Congress; reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served(March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); did not seek renomination, from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, Sep-having become a candidate for the Senate; upon the admis- tember 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentiethsion of Florida as a State into the Union was elected as a Congress; interment in Elizabethtown Cemetery. Democrat to the United States Senate and served from July Biographies 2103

1, 1845, to March 3, 1851; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-nomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed tion; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-the practice of law; died in New York City, February 23, ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on Naval Af-1979; interment at Sharon Gardens, Valhalla, N.Y. fairs (Thirty-first Congress); by an act of the Florida Legisla- ture and at his request his name was changed to David Levy ZENOR, William Taylor, a Representative from Indiana; Yulee in 1846; again elected to the United States Senate inborn near Corydon, Harrison County, md., April 30, 1846; January 1855 and served from March 4, 1855, until hisattended the common schools and the seminary of James G. withdrawal January 21, 1861; chairman, Committee on PostMay; studied law in New Albany, md.; was admitted to the Office and Post Roads (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Corydon; moved to gresses); president of the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad; served inLeavenworth, Crawford County, md., in 1871 and continued the Confederate Congress throughout the Civil War; was athe practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Crawford and prisoner at Fort Pulaski in 1865; moved to Washington, D.C.,Harrison Counties 1879-1885; judge of the third judicial cir- in 1880; died in New York City, October 10, 1886; interment cuit 1885-1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, Bibliography: DAB; Adler, Joseph. "The Public Career of Senator David 1907); resumed the practice of law in Corydon, md.; moved Levy Yulee." Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve, 1973; Thompson, to New Albany, md., in 1910 and continued the practice of Arthur. "David Yulee: A Study of 19th Century American Thought andlaw until his death there June 2, 1916; interment in Cedar Enterprise." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1954. Hill Cemetery, Corydon, md. ZIEGLER, Edward Danner, a Representative from Penn- sylvania; born in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., March 3, z 1844; attended the common schools, and was graduated from ZABLOCKI, Clement John, a Representative from Wis-Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in 1865; engaged in consin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 18, 1912; attend-teaching in the York County Academy; studied law; was ed parochial school and Marquette University High School;admitted to the bar on November 4, 1868, and commenced Ph.B., Marquette University, 1936; taught high school inpractice in York, Pa.; commissioner's clerk in 1871 and 1872; Milwaukee in 1938 and 1939; organist and choir directorcounsel to the board of commissioners; district attorney of 1932-1948; member of the State senate 1942-1948; chairmanYork County 188 1-1883; delegate to the Democratic National of the Democratic State convention in 1948; delegate, Demo-Convention in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth cratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, andCongress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candi- 1968; was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of citydate for renomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law; controller of Milwaukee in 1948; United States delegate toappointed by the judge of the court of common pleas of York the fourteenth session of the United States General Assem-County; auditor of the offices of prothonotary, register of bly in 1959; lieutenant colonel in the United States Airwills, clerk of the court, treasurer, and recorder of York Forces Reserve; in 1957 was unsuccessful for the senatorialCounty and served from 1923 to 1925; resumed the practice nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate;of law in York, Pa., until his death there on December 21, elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the sixteen1931; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, ZIHLMAN, Frederick Nicholas, a Representative from until his death December 3,1983, in Washington, D.C.;Maryland; born in Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pa., October chairman, Committee on International Relations (Ninety-2, 1879; moved to Maryland with his parents, who settled in fifth Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ninety-sixthCumberland in 1882; attended the public schools; entered a through Ninety-eighth Congresses); interment in St. Adal- glass factory in 1890 and apprenticed as a glass blower; bert's Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. president of the local flint-glass workers' union 1904-1909 ZEFERETTI, Leo C., a Representative from New York;and was a member of the national executive board in 1905 born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 15,1927; attended publicand 1906; president of the Allegany Trades Council 1904- schools in Brooklyn; attended New York University, 1963;1909; president of the Maryland State Federation of Labor in City University of New York Baruch School, 1964-1966;1906 and 1907; member of the Maryland State senate 1909- served in the United States Navy, 1944-1946; corrections1917, serving as Republican floor leader in 1914 and 1916; officer with the Department of Correction, New York City,engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Cum- 1957-1974; member, New York State Crime Control Plan-berland, Md., in 1912; was an unsuccessful candidate for ning Board, 1972-1974; representative to President's Confer-election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected as a ence on Correction, 1971; elected as a Democrat to theRepublican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Con- Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu-gresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1931); chairman, Committee ary 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); chairman, Select Committee onon Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-sixth Narcotics Abuse and Control (Ninety-seventh Congress); un-and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on District of Co- successful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-lumbia (Sixty-seventh Congress and Sixty-ninth through Sev- eighth Congress; is a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. enty-first Congresses), Committee on Labor (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate ZELENKO, Herbert, a Representative from New York;for reelection in 1930 and for election in 1934 to the Seventy- born in New York City, March 16, 1906; attended publicfourth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits in schools; graduated from Columbia University in 1926 andCumberland, Md., where he died on April 22, 1935; inter- from Columbia Law School in 1928; was admitted to the barment in St. John's Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md. in 1929 and commenced the practice of law in New York City; lecturer, Practicing Law Institute and Law Science ZIMMERMAN, Orville, a Representative from Missouri; Institute; former assistant United States attorney for theborn on a farm near Glenallen, Bollinger County, Mo., De- southern district of New York; elected as a Democrat to thecember 31, 1880; attended the public schools and Mayfield- Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu-Smith Academy, Marble Hill, Mo.; was graduated from the ary 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for re-Southeast Missouri State College at Cape Girardeau in 1904 2104 Biographical Directory

and from the law department of the University of Missourithe public schools; attended the University of Minnesota at Columbia in 1911; principal of Dexter (Mo.) High School 1945-1946, and Creighton (Nebr.) University 1946-1948; 1904-1908; was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commencedgraduated from the University of Nebraska in 1949; pursued practice in Kennett, Mo.; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Army in 1918; member ofgraduate work at Harvard University 1966; engaged in the board of education of Kennett, Mo., 1928-1936; memberwholesale tobacco and candy business 1950-1973; served in of the board of regents of Southeast Missouri State Collegethe United States Army Reserve 1949-1962; mayor, Omaha, 1933-1948; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth andNebr., 1973-1977; member, Nebraska Judicial Qualifications to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,Commission 1968-1971; member, board of directors, Omaha 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1948;Public Power District 1969-1973; elected as a Democrat to interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Kennett, Mo. the United States Senate in November 1976 for the six-year ZION, Roger Herschel, a Representative from Indiana;term commencing January 3, 1977; subsequently appointed, born in Escanaba, Delta County, Mich., September 17, 1921; December 28, 1976, to fill the vacany caused by the resigna- attended public schools in Evansville, md., and Milwaukee,tion of United States Senator Roman L. Hruska for the term Wis.; B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1943;ending January 31977, reelected m 1982 and served from attended Harvard Graduate School of Business Administra-December 28, 1976 until his death in Omaha, Nebr March tion, 1944-1945; served in the United States Navy, 1943- 6, 1987; interment in Beth El Cemetery, Omaha. 1946, in the Asiatic-Pacific area and was discharged a lieu- tenant; became associated with Mead, Johnson & Co., even- ZSCHAU, Edwin Van Wyck, a Representative from Cali- tually becoming director of training and professional rela-fornia; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., January 6, tions, 1946-1965; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth1940; attended public schools in Omaha; A.B., Princeton Uni- and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-versity, 1961; M.B.A., 1963, M.S., 1964, and Ph.D., 1967, all at January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inStanford University; professor, Graduate School of Business, 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; president, Resources De- velopment Inc., Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washing-Stanford University, 1965-1969; visisting professor, Harvard ton, D.C. Business School, 1967-1968; founder and president of Sys- tems Industries, Inc., a computer equipment manufacturer; ZIONCHECK, Marion Anthony, a Representative fromelected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the Washington; born in Kety, Galicia, Poland, December 5,Ninety ninth Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1987), 1901; immigrated to the United States in 1905 with his parents who settled in Seattle, Wash.; attended the publicwas not a candidate for reelection in 1986, but was an unsuc- schools; attended the University of Washington at Seattlecessful candidate for the United States Senate; became a from 1919 until graduated from the law department in 1929;partner of Brentwood Associates in 1987; is a resident of Los was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedAltos, Calif. practice in Seattle, Wash; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1932 and 1934; elected as a Democrat to the ZUBLY, John Joachim, a Delegate from Georgia, born in Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and servedSt. Gall, Switzerland, August 27, 1724; immigrated to Amer- from March 4, 1933, until his death in Seattle, Wash.,ica and settled in South Carolina; was engaged as a clerk in August 7, 1936; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Wando Neck, ordained to the ministry in 1744, was the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Savannah (later the ZOLLICOFFER, Felix Kirk, a Representative from Ten- nessee; born in Bigbyville, Maury County, Tenn., May 19,Independent Presbyterian Church) in 1760; served in the 1812; attended the "old field" schools and Jackson College,Provincial Congress of Georgia in 1775; Member of the Con- Columbia, Tenn.; became a printer; engaged in newspapertinental Congress from July 4, 1775, to November 1775, work in Paris, Tenn., 1828-1830, Knoxville, Tenn., in 1831when he resigned; was accused of having furnished informa- and 1832, and Huntsville, Ala., 1835-1843; elected Statetion to Sir James Wright the royal governor, and narrowly printer of Tennessee in 1835; served as a lieutenant in theescaped severe punishment, was banished from the State war against the Seminoles in Florida in 1836; owner andand one-half of his property was confiscated; resided in editor of the Columbia Observer and the Southern Agricul-South Carolina 1777-1779; returned to Georgia and resumed turist in 1837; editor of the Republican Banner, the Statepastoral duties in Savannah, where he died July 23, 1781; organ of the Whig Party, in 1843; comptroller of the Stateinterment in what was later known as Colonial Park. treasury 1845-1849; served in the State senate 1849-1852; Bibliography: DAB; Martin, Roger A. "John Joachim Zubly: Preacher, delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852; electedas a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a can- Planter, and Politician." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1976. didate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth and ZWACH, John Matthew, a Representative from Minneso- Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); de-ta; born in Gales Township, Redwood County, Minn., Febru- clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858; memberary 8, 1907; attended the public schools and graduated from of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., inMilroy High School in 1926; received teaching certificate an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war;from Mankato State College in 1927; graduated from the during the Civil War served in the Confederate Armyas brigadier general; died from wounds received near MillUniversity of Minnesota in 1933; served in Minnesota house Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862; interment in the Old Cityof representatives, 1934-1946; Minnesota senate, 1946-1966, Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. majority leader, 1959-1966, Interim Agriculture Commission Bibliography: DAB; Parks, Edd. Winfield. "Zollicoffer: Southern Whig." 1955-1957; school teacher and superintendent for fourteen Tennessee Hietorical Quarterly 11 (December 1952): 346-55; Stamper, James years; active farmer since 1940; elected as a Republican to C. "Felix K. Zollicoffer: Tennessee Editor and Politician." Tennessee Histor-the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu- teal Quarterly 28 (Winter 1969): 856-76. ary 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); was not a candidate for reelec- ZORINSKY, Edward, a Senator from Nebraska; born intion in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; is a resident of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., November 11, 1928; attendedLucan, Minn.